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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-12
PRICE SLUMP GAINS HEADwAY

In September, as in August. prices
went off heavily. more sharply indeed
than they did either in August, in May
of this year, or in the January follow
ing the armistice, according to Brad
streets. In the latter month they
dropped 40 per cent, in May of this
year Al per cent, and in August As
per cent. The index number as of Oc-
tober 1 marks q decline of SO per
cent from September /, is 10 per cent
off from the high peak of February 1,
is 13.s per cent below October 1, 1919,
AZ per cent below October 1, 1918, is
almost Identical with that ruling on
October /, 1917, but is "a per cent
above that ruling on August 1, 1914.
As regards the September decline,
says the same authority, it may be said
that ten groups of commodities de-
cllned while only two advanced. Those
declining were led by the textile group.
which fell heavily, mainly because of
cuts in cotton goods, assisted by de-
clines in raw cotton, wool, hemp and
jute. Breadstuffs. livestock. hides and
leather. metals, vegetable oils, naval
stores, building materials, chemicals
and drugs and miscellaneous products
also wont off. Provisions and gro
ceries went up slightly. mainly because
| OF seasonal but large advances in eggs
and butter and additional gains in hog
products offsetting declines in longer
list of food products.
| In all, forty-eight products went off.
only fourteen advanced and forty-four
remained unchanged. The coal and
coke group showed a net advance on
the month.
A continuation of the fall in prices
probably win result in the frequent
recurrence of items like the follow
ing:
/, Lowell. Mass, Oct s.-Inability to
find a market for goods at present
high prices will result tonight in the
| closing of the underwear departments
OF tho Lawrence Manufacturing com
pany. throwing $500 persons out of
work. The entire plant, including the
! hosiery department, will clos edown in
/ the Immediate future for the same
reason, according to Officials of the
company.
| The heavy fall in the price of raw
cotton has resulted in a hold your
cotton" movement in the south and. as
a means of enforcing it night riders
are beginning to burn cotton gins.
II, Lower prices are not an unmixed ben
eft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-12
EDITORIAL F,AULr-FTND1NG.

Readers Of newspapers frequently
criticize the press because, as they say,
It finds so much to condemn and so
ply to these critics has appeared than
that found in a recent issue of the
Manufacturer Record, which says:
II we should try to describe all that
is good and true and holy and reassur-
ing and inspiring inSAmerica, our hand
would palsy before the task could be
white paper. on which to print the
facts There Is so much more good
than there 10 bad; so much more to
commend than there is to condemn.
gist, and that which is bad can never
find enough denunciators.
BECAUSE he is compelled TO see the
things that are bad, the editor. above
all other men, knows the good that is
in the world. That is why he is a
great optimist. He, more than any
other, appreciates the magnificence of
the treasure he Is called on to guard,
and that is why he Is SO keen to keep
the treasure clean.
Men have said that editors are al
ways AlH0lIlB SOAA0SnhhS IhC AHGbeCA
with things. It 10 pity that the ale
CATION Is not more generally true. 1t
is an easy task to sleep on duty. Nor
is the trained and skilled sentry apt to
waste his time in calling out at the
midnight hour that the stars are twin
king and that all is peace and quiet.
1t is not his duty to note the usual
and identify the harmless. He is at
his post to look for trouble and report
it when it comes. What the sentinel
is to an army the editor is, or should
be, to civilization and to national in
stitutions.
THE editor who is true to his pro-
fession and dedicated at heart to the
full performance of the function his
calling ds1nands of him." says the
Record, "4s inevitably a shining mark
for the arrows of those who love sham
and hypocrisy and hate truth He is a
fighter, battling today against hypo-
crisy and tomorrow against the rattle
snake. He Is no cynic and no pessi-
mist, altho his pen is forever pointing
out the weak spots and excoriating the
corrupt. The doctor does not bother
with the well; his place of business Is
the sickrooni. The editor, unfortu-
nately, must spend most of his time
also at the operating table"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-12
LITTLE BENNy's NOTE BOOK.
BY LEE PAPE

My Ant Sue had a berthday yestid-
day and ma went down town yestiiday
aftirnoon and bawt funny looking
glass pitcher to give her for a present,
and after suppir pop and ma started
to go to Ant Sues house, and ma sed,
% shah, I've gone and left the pitcher
UP stairs. Benny, run up to my room
and bring down that packidge on my
bed and for n1ersey sakes If you were
ever careful be careful this time.
Yes mann, bet I wont drop it once,
wat do you wunt to bet, ma, wat dc
you wunt to bet. pop? I sed.,
Go up and get the pitcher, sed pop.
WITCH went up and did, and there
was a loose rug in the hall rite out
side mas room and I fell down hard
as enything, ony held the pitcher up
high like a life saver saving somebody
frum drownding, and ma called up,
Benny, o my goodniss, that doIler
pitcher.
The confownded clown. sed pop.
Meening me. and 1 called down, II
ain broak, pop, I dident brake It, ma,
Better luck next time, sed pop.
Meening it sourcastic. and started TO
was almost panefill, thinking, Holey
smoaks, If 1 trip agen, good mite. WITCH
Jest then wat did I do but trip agen,
and 1 fell the rest of the way down
oray being about steps, me thinking
vile I was falling, G, its a good thing
1 was neer the bottom insted of the
top. And left go of the pitcher on
account of needing my hands to help
me stop falling, and it hit the carpit
insted of the wall more by good luck
than good Intentions, and pop and ma
ran and picked me UP first, showing
they thaWt more of me than wat they
did of the pitcher, and then ma quick
took the rapping off and the pitcher
was still the way it awt to be, me say
ing, Herray for me, it dident brake.
You go rite up to bed, sed pop.
wy, pop? G. 1t dident brake, I sed,
and pop sed, You better go up before
you're~helped up. s9Hl.
Wich I quick did. Proving 1t AIM
always necessary to do eny axual
darnidge. 90
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all grades and in, the income of cor
porations whose returns have been so
Plethorfc for several years past
AS a matter of fact, says the Dry
Goods Economist, every price decline
means . loss Of earning capacity
somewhere. and this Is certain to make
itself felt in revenues collected by the
government. From the viewpoint of
the treasury. the outlook Is not pleas
ing.
Congress probably viii find Itself
under the necessity Of resOrttns to the
tax on sales which already is widely
endorsed by financial experts, in order
toNTneet the requirements Of the treas
urA Apparently no more equitable
form Of taxes could be devised where
30 large a return is needed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-12

Down deep in the fleht that is be-
ing waged over the League of Ma
tions runs an undercurrefit of the CEN
tury-old tariff controversy. 1t rarely
reaches the surface but its presence is
undeniable. Among the strongest OPP
ponents of a league are those who fear
that 1t will tend to the establishment
of free trade and their alarm per-
haps is not without reason. On the
opposing side are ranged those who
do not believe in the principle of pro-
lection. Many things are carried on
in this country in the suise OF patfiot-
ism which are in fact intended to
serve special interests. Proteetionists
sircady are complaining that the ball
Ance in world trade is turning against
us and that European nations will pay
their debts to US in goods instead of
kold unless we stop them by if1creas-
ing duties. 1t might be suggested that
pay in goods is better than no pay and
it is certain that they have not the
gold ant. cant get it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-12
Questions-Answers

Q. Can you tell me how, when and where
the idea of daylight saving originated ?
Was it ever used In European countries
before it was tried in the United States
: A. Daylight saving was suggested as
early as 1907, by IN Englishman named
of Daylight" The following year bill
for daylight saving was introduceJ into
the House of Commons, but failed Is pass.
The subject was brought up in Germany
in 1916, when the German Federal Council
passed n measure to set the clock one
hour ahead. Within three months twelve
namely; HOLLAND, Australia; Turkey. Eng e.
Nova Scotia introduced daylight saving
into America. The measure was brought
forward in the United Stntes in 1915; On
on March 10 the president approved. a
bill providing daylight saving for the conn
try.
A. The photographic office says that
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great circle of a sphere whose surface as
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Q. Was there ever time in American
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-12
FALLING PRICES AND TAXES

Congress may be forced to under
take a revision of the revenue laws
earlier than has been planned by party
leaders. owing to the fall in prices now
under way.
Treasury experts who have been
studying the question with a view to
ascertaining its effects upon the rove
nues. are convinced that II prices con-
tinue to decline in proportion to the
descent of the last month there will be
a serious deficit in the revenues. Ex-
pert Mccoy, of the treasury depart
ment. Who altho dealing with an en-
tirely new subject. came within frac-
tlon of estimating the revenues that
would be derived from the excess
profits taxes. is now wrestling with
this new problem. The conclusion is
reached that with the present rate Of
decline in prices continuing thruout
the coming year the revenues fram .ex-
cess profits taxes will be cut practical
~ in half.
This general reduction is expected
to have an effect also in wages and
salaries. for with price reductions on
merchandise, salaries and wages must
also be reduced in some measure, it ia
believed.
Hero, too. officials see the probable
loss in Income taxes from the huge to-
tai to which this source OF revenue has
grown as a result of wartime earning
capacity of employees and officials of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-12
Dorothy Dix Tails
Paying the Price,.
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Wori@s Highest Paid weman Wrisss.

Paying the Price,.
No man. for instance can be bona
and free at the same time. He cannot
have both the perquisites of the bach
e1or and the married man. AS long as
he is single, he has right to stay out
as long as he pleases of an evening.
and to spend his money upon such di-
versions as appeal to him.
But he forfeits these rights at the
altar. When he vows to cherish a wo-
man, he undertakes to keep her happy
and contented. and to bear her COM
pany. Cherishing woman certainly
doesn't mean leaving her to spend
lonely and anxious evenings wondering
where her wandering husband is and
suspecting the worst.
Also when a man endows his wife
with all the worldly goods, he signs
away his income in favor of his fam
lily. He has no longer any right to
blow in the money that should go for
groceries. and rent, and shoes. in
poker game, or to spend it for his own
| sole behoof and benefit
Therefore, a man commits a griev-
Gus wrong against any woman by
marrying her until he gets to the place
| where he wants to settle down and sit
| by his own fireside. and where he han
kers for the domestic hash instead of
| the flesh pots of Bohemia. As long
as he wants to run around with the
boys at night. and prefers golf to push
| ing a baby carriage on his afternoons
off. let him stay single. So shall he
escape curtain lectures, and keep n
monopoly on his own pocketbook. and
preserve some poor unfortunate wo-
man from being a neglected wife who
has to put up with a grouchy hus-
| band.
Exactly the same thing may be said
! to women. The woman who merely
| gets a bill payer. and a dancing part
ner, and fiatterer, and a purveyor OF
amusements when she marries, is a
myth. There isn't any such husband.
Marriage for the average girl means
sacrifice, and self denial, and doing
without the pretty things she has been
used to, and hard work; and unless
she is ready to take upon her shoulders
these responsibilities, she is dishonest
and dishonorable to marry.
| She has no right to marry IL she
wants to be free to flirt around and
play around with other men. She has
no right to marry unless she is willing
to make her husband a comfortable
and thrifty home. She has no right
to marry unless she is willing to bear
children.
Both mon and women can easily
enough figure up the cost of matri-
mony. especially to people in moderate
4 circumstances, and unless they are
willing to pay-the price. they should
stay single. Love. the peace of home.
the JOY that comes of a man and
woman working and striving together,
! the clinging arms of little children,
these are the rewards of marriage. but
they must be paid for. You Cannot
have them and the freedom of the
! bacheSRr man and woman at the same
4 time.
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JUST FOLKS
HIS PHILOSOPHY.

Don't want to complain, too much,
When I'm put to sorrows touch
Or am weighted down with care
Reckon must have my share.
Things can't always go my way:
Now an then there comes n day
When It seems that Fates are all
Drivin' me against the wall,
KILN every JOY I'd clutch,
But / never grumble much.
Don't know any reason why
eare should always pass me by;
Others grieve and others weep.
Lose the joys they want 20 Keep,
An the burdens ] must bear
Are not any bigger than
Those that come to every man,
So reckon 1 should be
Patient when mine come to me.
Patient. that's the very word!
When your soul by grief is stirred,
Or the road is rough an you
Scarcely know what next to do,
Jes' be patient. BY an by
God will sort o. clear the sky
An bring out the sun. or send
You a strong an cheerful friend.
Seems that when I've stood In doubt, =.
God has always helped me ont.
Lord. T fancy. I've not met,
Half lffesE disappointment yet:
I've had troubles, hurts an woes
Like everybody knows,
But when l run down cares list
There's a lot that I have missed;
Maybe my shares really small
When you come to count ft all.
So when it's my time for rain
Lord, III try not to complain
Copyright, 10eD, By Edgar A. Guest
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George Matthew Adams
Z Daily Talk
THE BIG TASK OF BEING HONEST,

THE BIG TASK OF BEING HONEST.
Honesty is much more than a poll
icy-it is big businessI
Dishonesty is to steal-not money
especially-but something. And to
steal, you don't have-to take from
from somebody else. People steal ev-
cry day from themselves.
When you do less than your best in
anything, you are dSshonest with your
self. And when you cheat yourself
the entire world. For we all are in
termeshed as a body spirit about the
general good and happiness of the All.
- It is a big task-just to be honest.
Where folks fall down heaviest in
this great Job of being honest, isiin the
attitude they take toward themselves
and their, work. The very act of
carrying on ones fight, shifting no
burden or responsibility, of playing
the game according to the rules
whether anyone is looking on or not
here in themselves are suggestions to-
ward becoming more fit in honesty.
The complainer is a very dishonest
person. Not the protestor mind you
but the whineri
We are all born with the instinct
of honesty within our hearts. We
drift from our best as we seek de-
tendency.
There is a sort of regal splendor
about the mind that has vision--with
the courage to back it. Most of US
are able to dream: but to execute the
things we see-that Is one way of
playing honest with our inside eyes.
Nature doesn't cheat. 1t is honest
to the core!
So that the nearer we consult the
natural leanings and bearings of our
nature the more honest we are sure
to become, as well as be.
Guard the things that belong to you
alone-your honesty most of all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-12

Following out the custom of 1egiS-
1atures, which is to strive to remedy
every evil by passing a new law, the
legislature Of Indiana has enacted q
law designed to regulate the price of
coal, a law which creates a commits
sion empowered to fix tho price of
coal at the mines of the state, in the
hands Of jObbers and in the retail
trade. BY this method the lawmakers
hope to eliminate the prOfiteets and
TO insure an adequate supply of this
basic necessity at prices fair both to
producer and consumer. OF course
the validity of this law is challenged.
In the first test OF 1t. before three
judges of the United statdB district and
circuit courts, the right Of the state
to enact and enforce such legislation
was unanimously sustained, under its
police powers. Presumably the ques-
tlon will be taken to the supreme
court for final determination. Let us
suppose that the legislation Is sound.
then what benefit will accrue to the
consumer? Higher wages and higher
freight rates will continue to bring
higher prices just as they do now and
these are things which the law cannot
control. Profitecring will be elimi-
mated by competition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-12

In his Omaha speech Senator Hard
ing forsook Lodge and Taft and went
over to the Johnson Borah camp.
This course should make him solid
with the Bull Moose. but at that there
are indications that it will not increase
his total vote. But the election is only
three weeks away and then we shall
see what we shall see. The Johnson
Borah states were safe and It was
hardly necessary to make the League
Of Nations an issue within the party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-12
rhe aAo over what presIdent wilson |

The ado over what President Wilson
did or did not say to Rumania and
Serbia seems to have been brought to
an end by the production of tran
script OF his actual language on the
occasion in question. But what mat
tiers it? No one man can commit this
Country to anything and deliver the
goods
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~ %sns rs
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to extend his activities to the notion
picture world, we have a list OF names
we should like to submit to hirA-
And we should esteem 1t a privilege
to be present when Mr.. &cGraw
shakes hands" with Doug. Fairbanks.
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MouHon Musings
BY ROY x. MoULToN.

chemists believe that chlorine gas
is an influenza preventive. but any Of
the boys who shifted 1t overseas will
just as soon take their chances with
the flu.
Washington report says the gasoline
supply will not last more than twenty
years. 1t WHY not last more than
twenty minutes in some cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-12

WORK WANTED-Capable and eff
ficient bank president wants work as
coal HEAVIER, gardener or ash collector.
Would like eight-hour day and half
day Saturday. Willing to work hard,
but Just as willing to stall so as not
to Kill the job. Thoroly conversant
with pay envelopes, but little knowl-
edge of contents. References fur
nished. Apply X. Y. white Plains
Journal.
American cIockmakers are swamped
with orders from Europe. Well, we
seem to have lot of time to spare.
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Copyright, 1920. by the Wheeler syndicate.
Incl
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tAny reader can get the answer to an,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-12

There IL good stuff in the newspa-
pers. One has only to search for II.
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:. The Whispering Post.

1t has been a dull day as days go.
Its one intriguing moment came when
we read, in the esteemed Waco Times
Herald, that the many blunders made
by the Republicans have been so nu-
merous as to preclude the possibility
of Democratic defeat"
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The newspapers have decided that
the league of nations is the issue. In
asnuch as there Is nothing else. they
probably are right about 1t. 1t has
been our purpose all along to make a
small contribution to the. campaign
fund. But we wish to do it in our own
way. We have. therefore, decided to
renew every shirt torn by the sover-
eign voters between now and election
day.