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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-29
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In a letter to the Manufacturers
Record. W. NJ. Mccormick. a leading
manufacturer and banker of Balti-
more, writing on the food situation and
the difficulties OF farm work, says:
Cannot something be done to start
movement to bring in $4,000 or 100.-
900 Chinese laborers II this is not
done, and done promptly. don't know
where we will be this fall.
The farmers turnout Virginia and
Maryland, also up in Pennsylvania, are
sorely pressed for labor, and /. am told
that op/one of the biggest farms in my
old county (Loudoun) there are sew
eral hundred acres of corn yet I'M
shucked. shocks in the field, and they
cannot get labor under $3.50 a day to
do this work; and even at this price
they can seldom get help.
We are simply building home to go
up in smoke If this condition contin-
ues much longer, and unless we bring
in a large number of Mexicans or i'm
port other foreign labor, I don't know
what we will do.
The prejudices of certain classes of
our citizens and the selfishness of 9TH
ers are SO great that probably they
would prefer to see the country face
starvation rather than an influx OF
Chinese.
Commenting on Mr. Mccormick S
letter the Record says:
Mr.. McCormick's statement that
there are several hundred acres of
corn yet standing in the shocks in one
county Of Virginia because labor can
not be had to shuck the corn. merely
serves to throw little sidelight upon
. the farm situation in the entire coun-
try. The portion of Virginia to which
he refers where farm labor cannot be
had even for $3.50 day is not unlike
large part of the entire country. A
few weeks ago we published a state
ment from q Texas farmer who has a
thousand acre farm OF rich land, in
which he said that the entire farm
would be allowed to lie fallow this
at a price which would permit any
profit. and that he and his son who
had operated the farm would this year
turn their attention to road building
| in which they could make far more
money than they could in cultivatins
their farm.
That letter was merely typical OF
others that are constantly coming to
the Manufacturers Record from all
ton Is an extremely acute one. The
food supply of the nation is in danger.
So, il not the Chinese, then what
They are greatly to be preferred to
Mexicans or any European cheap la
Dor. They work and do not attempt
to interfere with our politics or our
religion. They are iaw-abiding and
do not ask for charity or special priv
ileges.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-29
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE.

Ma was darning holes out of stock
ings this AFTERNOON and l was march
ing GROUND the house like fife and
drum core playing tunes with mas
comb and peece of tissue paper. and
all of a suddin the comb aXstdently
broak in half on account of me drop
ping it, me thinking. G, gosh, holey
smoaks.
And l took the halffs into ma s
ROOM and snuck GROUND on the floor
and hid one peece under the bewTo
and the other peece under the rug,
saying Ma?
I'm bizZy. sed ma.
bet you cant find your comb. 1 sed-
bet I cant either, because l don't
intend to look. sed ma.
Well ware<you think it is ma? I
sed, HI give you 8 gesses.
Keep them, dident 1 tell you was
bizZy? sed ma
And she keep on darning holes out
of stockings, and 1 sed. Ill tell you
ware it is. ma, do you wunt to know?
No, sed ma.
All rite. III tell you. sed. its under
the bewro and under the rug.
How on erth can it be under both
wy don't you tawk sensibly? sed ma.
am ma I sed, its under the bewro
and under the rug, that sounds inn
possible. don't it, MAJ
1t serteny does. sed ma. and 1 sed
Well it amt, ma, because half Is under
the bewro and half is under the rug.
Being how ma found out it was
broak but the effect ON me was Jest
the same as if she had found out in
a. ordnerry way.
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MORE CARE IN BUYING.

The Allied Shoe Trade association
of Maryland furnishes a pamphlet
with each pair of shoes sold by its
members. in which it declares that it
is possible for any person to be cor
rectly and comfortably shod at a rea-
sonable price. 1t says: When val
ues are leaping upward, it is always
the newest styles that are made from
the highest cost materials and every
good shoe man has practical. good
looking shoes on his shelves at old
prices The time has arrived when
the public must buy with care and
thought OF shoe service and must curb
the desire for the new and ultra"
II the sentiment for saving become
widespread enough, says the Bache
Review, the example set may be bene-
earners, less desire to buy extravagant
things. By releasing labor from the
manufacture of luxuries. larger man
force will be available in the produc-
ton of necessities.
One main reason why prices are
high is the willingness to pay what
ever is asked. 1t is encouraging to
note some reaction from this attitude,
and this, after all, is the most impor
tant deduction from the overall and
Their similar movements-namely
that the American public is awaking
from it's torpor as to extortionate
= 'ces, will no longer stand for them,
and will take drastic means, if neces-
sary, so that it need not.
Part of { e price rise has been due
to the fact that the people. when the
American part &C the war began and
prices commenced to go up, at first re-
sisted a little, but finally yielding, as if
to the inevitable. paid the advancing
prices without protest. All sense of
resistance disappeared. That is why
the merchant has been able to put any
price he pleased upon a reputedly
scarce article and find people eager to
get it. If this all stop and people will
carefully rcrut.nize prices. and if they
are too high, refuse to take the arti-
Gle, it will go a long way toward bring
ing down prices. Merchants, in buy
ing of manufacturers. should use the
sa me methods
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-29

same idioms. and has the same favor
lite players" she went on.
This gave Roscoe a new lease on
hope. II she loved this other man,
and the other man was like him, he
felt that he had some chance of beat
ing him in . matrimonial duel
t''You should meet him. Eyes con-
tinued. The next corner is where I
live. please. Yes. you should meet
him, but could never bring it about
And why not?" he inquired, slow
ing down. ~
Because / never met him myself.
Probably you'll think I'm a foolish lit
tie girl: but for a year I've been in
love with a man I've never seen. He
gives me the baseball scores over the
telephone every day, and-but, of
course. it's all useless IN never meet
him."
The roadster came to a stop in front
of her home with such violence that
their heads struck the top.
Thank you SO much" she said. as
he helped her out. May be 1 can do
something for You some day."
Roscoe gulped and CROPPED for words,
finally managing TO say:
You can do something right now.
Let me come up and see you tonight,
and I'll bring this telephone man of
yours along. I'm we'll acquainted with
him"
And Eyes's eyes smiled at him and
answered in advance of her.
Copyright, 1920. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate9
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-29

London. April 2s.--Are sermons in
dispensable? This is one OF the qaes-'
tions on which a decision may be
taken by the bishops OF the Anglican
church at their meeting in Lambeth
in July.
A section of church men are de-
clared to be of the opinion that the
day of the sermon has passed. They
hold that If a man has not the gift OF
preaching. il would be better for every,
one that he should not preach. The
two sermons each Sunday" custom.
they say. imposes great strain on the
clergy strain equally If not more
quired to listen to these effusions.
The unpopularity of published
volumes OF sermons once in great de-
mand is cited by this faction as evil
dence of the sermon waning effective
ness
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-29
Household Hints


Scanoped Potatoes With Bacon and
Eggs-Four medium sized potatoes.
two hard cooked" eggs, one cup white
sauce, bacon.
Slice potatoes one-eighth inch thick
and boil until soft. Cover the bottom
of baking dish with potatoes, add the
eggs sliced and another layer of pota-
toes. Pour over the white sauce and
cover the top with bacon. Bake until
bacon is crisp, about twenty or twenty
five minutes.
\ Cream Dressing-Mix one-quarter
tablespoon salt, one-half teaspoon
mustard and one tablespoon sugar;
then add one egg, slightly beaten.
then two and one-half tablespoons
melted butter. one small can milk and
one-quarter cup vinegar very slowly.
Cook in doub1e<tbo until thick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-29
UP TO GERRY.

L
When Mary snapped that short SEN
tence at me, it fairly took my breath.
She had Ainted, ever since she grew
to know Robert, that he would be
happier with a home of his own. She
had implied at various times that she
thought perhaps it would be best for
me to think about living differently.
But never had she come out in such
startling fashion.
Don't go back?" I repeated after
her. why. Mary!"
Yes, / mean just what 1 say. Don't
go back! See here, Gerry Meredith.
haven't you proved in just three weeks
that If you gave Robert a home and
then. instead OF working until you
were SO tired you couldn't think. you
you more? Perhaps not more money
for a few years. but more of the other
things. the worthwhile things, as
Gardner calls them?"
But Mary"
Take it sor leave it. Gerry. but ms
advice is good. Then there's another
thing. I hate TO make you feel bad,
to worry you, but you have got to take
Marion Hovey and her cooking into
consideration. Robert is more than a
take many more Of her dinners. and
her sympathy thrown in TO season
them. to make him belong to her.
guess you realize things were getting
pretty bad for you because OF Marion
But so>far, no harms done Marion is
a good girl. She wont do anything
wrong. But Roberts a man. and if
you don't hang on to him in the right
way, he'll find some way to get Mar
ion. He'll make YOU divorce him or
something so he can marry her"
But Mary"
Il guess don't express myself well.
Gerry. but I guess you tumble to my
meaning all right. If you love Robert
Meredith and want to spend the rest
OF your life with him stay with him
now. Take a little flat-you can live
on what he earns-anyway you won't
starve on it. And give him a chance
to show what he can do now that you
have got him started. Then you can
help him. There's them windows to
keep changing, and lots OF things ne
will bring to You now that you've
started"
MADAME will be furious if I de-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-29
JUST FOLKS
THE HOUSE WHERE THE CHILDREN

BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

w N l.
PLAY.
On every street there's a certain place
Where the children gather 10 romp anu
race,
There's a certain house where they meet
In throngs
To play their games and to sing their
songs.
And they trample the lawn with their
tireless feet
And they scatter their piaythings about
the street.
But tho some folks order them off, say.
Let the house be mine where the children
play.
Armies gather about the door
And I'LL the air with their battle roar,
Cowboys swinging their larlat loops
Dash round the house with the widest
And old folks have to look out when they
Are holding an Indian tribe Mt bay,
For Ginger may find them on flying feet
Who pass by the house where the children
meet.
There are lawns too lovely to bear the
weight
OF a troup Of boys when they roller skate
There are porches fine that must never
know
The stamping of footsteps that come and
But on every street there's a favorite
place
Where the children gather to romp and
race,
And I'm glad in my heart that it's mine to
say.
Ours is the house where the children play
Copyright 1920 by Edgar A. Guest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-29
"RADIUM RAY HEARING TODAY
Court to Determine Sanity of Mrs.
Van Orsdoi OF Topeka.

The hearing TO determine the sanity
of Mrs. Sarah Van Orsdol. 7e7 Polk
street, Topekars ''radium ray" woman,
IVES begun this afternoon in the Shaw
nee county probate court.
Mrs. Van Orsdol told the Jury that
every time she came down town, she
was followed by a prominent Topeka
business man, who threw radium rays
upon her throat from a continuance he
carried in his poCsct. The rays caused
her intense anguish. she declared. At
one time. she asserted. he threw the
rays upon her from Topeka while She
was visiting in California
Mrs. Van Orsdol declared she felt
better since her temporary confine-
ment and treatment in the state hos
pital. She was taken there following
her act in pouring a 16-ounce bottle
of ch1oroform over her face in her
apartments few days ago. The in
sanity complaint was filad by her
brother George Harper.
The woman requested that she be
sent to Colorado.
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Dinner Stories

After looking at all the rugs in the
shop, the lady customer decided that
she Thought she liked the pink> one
with the purple roses best.
But I'd like to see it in my room" "
she said. 81 suppose you'll send it on
approval?"
We'll. madam, its-er-hardiy
usual" demurrej the shopman. But
in the circumsta noes. perhaps
The customers five-year-old daugh :
ter, who had stood silent during the
long inspection, now tugged violently
at her mothers skirt.
"Oh, mummy" she piped in her
fatally clear treble, hadn't you better
warn him to be sure and get it there
in time? Our party's tomorrow, you
know
The operate has given~ me the
wrong number" said the mans voice.
THE numbers all right" said the
woman's voice. 1.-The operator has
given it to the wrong person"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-29
Dorothy Dix Talks
Be a Good Fairy.
NJ DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest, Paid Woman Writer.

There is no use in angling in a
stream in which there are no fish, nor
is there any use in fishing for a whale
with a fly nor attempting to harpoon
a brook trout. So the woman who is
her own matrimonial good fairy goes
out into business where men are
plentiful, and she finds the bait that is
most aliuring to the poor fish that she
desires, and before he knows it she
has landed him.
The third gift that a maiden asked
of her fairy godmother was money, so
that she might adorn herself in glad
raiment and ride in a coach and four
The woman who is her own good fairy
doesn't waste any time in wishing for
money nowadays, She goes out and
earns it, for she has found out that
if women put in half the time, and
the labor, and the energy in work
ing that they do in wanting things.
they could buy them for themselves.
The fourth gift that the maiden
asked of her fairy godmother was
happiness. The woman who is her
own good fairy bestows this upon her
self. She fills her life full of so many
interests that there is never a dull
moment in it. The days are too short
to do all the things that she has
planned to do, and there is always
something excfting to look forward to
in tomorrow.
She has found out that there is no
happiness save in unselfishness, and
so she does not try to drug herself
into a state of sensuous bliss with
riches, ease and softness. She finds
happiness in being of service to others,
and doing a worthy work in the world.
She loves and gives herself She
broadens her mind and her heart. She
possesses her soul in calm and peace,
for she knows that IL we find happi-
ness at all we must find It in ourselves.
No one can give it to US from the out
side. No circumstances OF Life can as
sure it!
And that is all there is to the fairy
wins out in life. IF We win what we
want We must be go-getters. not stay
wanters. Nothing is so futile as to sit
with idle hands wishing for the good
things of the world. and believing that
somehow, someway they are going to
be dropped from the clouds into ones
lap. Nothing comes that way but
envy. jealousy and bitter disappoint-
ment.
Yet that is the way many women
spend their lives wanting things they
might have If only they had the energy
to go after them. = Eating their hearts
out in dreary waiting for some miracle
to come and change their lots when
they have the magic wand in their
own hands that would work the mir
acle If they only had spunk enough to
wave it.
Believe me. sisters, the only per-
fectly reliable fairy godmother that
any woman ever has, is herself. So
don't wait for your good fairy any
Copyright. 1919. by the Wheeler Syndicate
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-29

The farm loan banks established
under federal law have proven so sue
cessful that there has been up before
congress for almost a year plan
seeking to create a system of home
loan banks somewhat similar to the
present farm loan banks. Briefly
stated. this bGl proposes that only
building and loan associations may
purchase or hold stock in the home
building banks. The home loan banks
TO begin business must have paid in
capital of at least 100000 in shares of
81 900 each. The designation of what
a building and loan association is is
very broad and takes in all the agen-
cies which normally extend aid to
home builders, provided such societies
or organizations are subject to super
vision by the banking departments of
the states in which they are located.
The building and loan associations
forming the bank can then discount
their first mortgages and obtain funds
Immediately for: einvestment in home
building. 1t is urged that such series
CT federal home loan banks can be
made useful in experimenting and as
sisting in the extension of loans to
those who must have them in order to
build homes. The farm loan banking
system has encountered much opposi-
ton from farm mortgage loan corpor-
atoms and it may be that objections
from like sources are holding back the
enactment OF the proposed law.
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Senator Penroee has placed the dou-
BILE cross on the candidacy of Herbert
Hoover. His denunciaf1on of the Cal
ifornian is so bitter that 1t seems more
indicative of alarm than anything else.
The senator should not let his con-
fidence in Republican success lead him
into attempting to jam any candidate
down the throat of Republican voters.
He may be able to boss Pennsylvania,
but when it comes to the whole coun-
try, that is a big undertaking.
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ion. between employer and employe.
1t provides justice for the employer.
Justice for the laborer and justice for
the public. When the law was passed
a large number of labor leaders agreed
with Governor Allen that it was a
good law. and there were evidences.
and still are, that the wage-earning
class appreciate the protection af-
forded in the new tribunal.-Mining
Congress Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-29
Ouestions-Anstoers

Q. who Is the header Of the United
States Marine band7-N. F. g.
A. William H. Saptelmann has been the
leader of this famous organization for the
past twenty two years. He enlisted thirty
years ago as violinist and clarinetist. when
John Philip sousa was director Of the
Q. Who discovered the North Poie'
a TThe late Admiral peary reached the
North Pole in 4T5riI, 1909. DR.. Cook claim
ed to have discovered in on April n. 1908,
but leading stienttsts decided That t,n nrs
that be had reached the pole.
Q. Can liquid air be seen?.J. Y. La
pearance of water witty a trace Of biueine
in 1t. 1t cannot be kept longer than
day or two, and should be placed in a
heavy felt or other poor-conducting ma
terial. Liquid air cannot be warmed in
the open. above a very low temperature-
Piled pit the liquid air evaporates and be
comes oyiinary air again.
ea & w9 W Tas Z i possible to deport Emma
\ A. Emma Goldman was deported as an
undesirable alien, on account OF public
garded as n menace to our form of gov
eminent. She attempted to claim citizen
ship on account of marriage but !, was
to the man whom she claimed as her hus-
band.
United States was at one time glacisted: p
AZ Biologists agree that there was
glacial period in the northern United
States. The rocks In this part Of the coun-
try bear evidence OF having been glaciated
Small remains of glaciers are found IN the
high Sierras on the volcanic cones OF the
Cascades and in Montana and Colorado
The presence Of mcraines also bears WIZ
ness to a glacial period.
q. When was the first cotton exported
from the United Statesf-B. I. L.
A. In 1854. the first bale of cotton ex-
ported from America was shipped from
o. What is touean?-R NJ. d.
A. This is a name for birds with enor-
nous bright-colored bills, inhabiting South
America and ranging as far north as Mex
leo. The bills are light, as they are filled
with air cavities. These birds feed on
bananas. insects. and reptiles They fire.
uuent lofty trees. They are sometimes con-
fused with the hornbills Of Africa. birds
with large bills, but belonging to dh-
ferent family.
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The holding of a worlds fair to
mark the victorious conclusion of the
war is under contemplation among the
business men Of Japan. The EXPOSE
ton, to be held in 1922 in Kyoto,
would be made up of exhibits from the
four corners Of the globe. The expen-
diture involved is roughly estimated at
&l5.OOO,OOO. which would be obtained
in the form of subsidies from the gov
ernnent and local authorities.
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CUPID is CROWDED OUT
British Courts Find Housing Stun
ton Makes Trouble for Lovers
Who Have No Place to Go.

London, April 29.-London's acute
housing shortage presents another
Observation-Disclosures young cou-
pies are declared to have no suitable
counting places.
This phase of the situation mani
tested itself in court proceeding at
Willesden, where a man living in a
tenement house complained of court
ing couples sitting on the stairs.
He was granted a summons against
a sutton. who. the complainant said.
had assaulted him when he fell over
him
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Washington. April 29.-Proposals to
license meat packers and create a
commission to enforce laws affecting
the industry were rejected today by
the house agricultural committee.
With these Examinations agreed upon
a subcommittee headed by Chairman
Haugen was appointed to draft COM
promise legislation for the regulation
of the packers.