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The Dolores star., 1920-04-30
Pumpkin Eaters Spoil a Record.

Cynthia. Ky.-J l.. Garnett has Just
had cut and made into pies pump.
kin which he kept for two years. II
was in Il prime state of preservation
and h" says it would have lasted much
longer If rats had not gnawcd it.
The Dolores star., 1920-04-30
SIX MONTHS !
COULD NOT WORK
lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Made Me Strong and
Able to Work. Recommend
1t To All My Friends.

Bayonne, N. IL had pains in back
and legs so that could not stand caused
The Dolores star., 1920-04-30
Russ Tells of
Soviet Horrors

as break on the part OF the whole
liusSian people for liberty"
Andreiev explains the title OF his
appeal thus:
Like wireless operator on sink
ing steamer that through the night
and the darkness sends the last calls.
Quickly to our aid. We are sink
ing. Save our souls SO also |, moved
hy my faith in human clemency. throw
into the dark spuce my prayer of per
,stlinS human beings If you but knew
how dark the night is around us !!
here are no words 10 describe this
darkness"
Worse Than Death.
AT another point lie writes:
'lt is not assistance for the rus
sian people that implore of you. But
here are these thousands. more or
less. who have but one life. which
is but an instant, and who are perish
ing every hour in unbcarable suffer
Ing. or who live. but in Il way worse
than death. II is of no imporfance
that they are called Russians. but it
Is Of Importance that these human
beings, whose sufTerings began 50
long ago and continue endleSSly, CON
tInuc without CLEAN of light. as in
The Dolores star., 1920-04-30
"Gee-Whizl How
it Hurts-The Pal,
in My Foot

Sometimes it is in my arm. M.,.,
Heaven, how my back hurts in ths -
The Dolores star., 1920-04-30

No really good complexion comes
out in the wash.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-22

great mercantile marine is prepared
to transport them; this country has
not been over-built or over-extended
in any of its underlying activities, and
faces no program of readjustment
along these lines such as usually pre-
cipitates panic conditions. We are in
the soundest financial, industrial and
political condition of any important
nation in the world.
Mr.. Sabin says further:
"These are the simple fundamental
facts of our business situation, and to
consider the present reaction as any
thing but a temporary setback from
the destruction. initiation, extrava-
gance and unsound economic condi-
tons precipitated by the war is sim
ply not to reckon with the truth. 1t
remains true today. as it has since this
country was first settled. that any
man who sells the United States of
America short is in the long run GER
tain to lose"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-22
LITTLE BENHY's NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE

Me and Skinny Martin was wawk--
ing along jest wawking along and I
stepped on a loose brick and a squert
of muddy waiter went all over my
stocking, me saying, Hay, look at that.
gosh shang it, heck that's a heck of a
note, heck.
Holey Moses, holey C, sed Skinny
l dare you to step on it, l sed, and
Skinny sed, CESS you do. Meening it
wouldent have eny influence on him
weather 1 dared him or not. and sed.
Aw go on step on it, nuthing mite
happfn.
Then wy don't you step on it agen
yourself if you're SO anxious? sed Skin
ny, and 1 sed, Aw watts the use getting
up a argewment, lets stand heer and
on it
l. WITCH we started to do, and we
waited a fearse long vile and nobody
dident come past and we waited
fearser long vile and nobody still
dident. Skinny saying. Gosh, ware is
everybody? Ded? and me saying.
Heck. this is only wasting time, that's
all this is.
I'm going to count up to 100 and II
nobody don't come before 100 that's all
tbs longer I'm going to wait, sed Skin
ny. WITCH wen he got up to "a some
man started to come up the street,
being a fat man and looking like a
heavy stopper, and jest as he was al
most up to the brick he stopped. say
ing. I'm afraid I've gone too far, do you
boys know ware Mr.. Pringle lives?
1 think its down fertilizer. I don't
think you've came to it yet I sed. Ne
never having herd of Mr.. Pringle and
Jest saying that to influence him to
step on the brick, and he sed. No, It's
back fether. And he started to go
back and me and Skinny kepp on go
ing. feeling disguised. skinny saying.
Aw well anyways. maybe he would of
stepped over II insted of on il. and me
wing. And even il he had of stepped
on ii we wouldent of had eny ritten
guarantee il would squert-
Wick We wouldent Of.
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formal proceeding, and SO is it in col
leges. The best college society is the
most formal in the world. and has the
most rules and regulations which it
is social suicide to break. Many a
college career has been ruined by the
wrong kind of necktie, just as, a Pu-
eblo warrior might damn himself for
ever by wearing an owl feather at the
buffalo dance.
Naturally all of this leaves the stu
dent very little time to study The
more money, personality and athletic
prowess he has. the more he is con-
strained to look upon the classroom as
an unfortunate interference with the
real business of his life. The greasy
grind is either the poor boy, or the
boy who lacks the grace and strength
for social or athletic conquest.
1t should not be concluded from all
this that college is useless. On the
contrary, it develops the students in a
way. Perhaps it is an excellent train
ing for many phases of American So
cial and business life. But it certainly
is a blow to the theoretical function of
college to impart knowledge of sci
ence, literature, and art.
What is the remedy? Maybe there
isn't any, but it seems to one alumnus
that if the professors would make
study a little more interesting. it
would help.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-22
Dorothy Dix Talks
Mems Ideas About Women-1.
NJ DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman Wrisex.

Mems Ideas About Women-f.
~ Isn't it funny what queer ideas men
have about women?
For instance, it never occurs, to a
man that it makes any difference how
he looks. He is strong for the beauty
stuff himself, and he passes up with
scorn every woman who can't qualify
in the living picture class When he
takes a girl out, she has to be a good
locker, and dolled UP in the latest
fashion. and at party nothing short
of a gattling gun could induce him to
ask a fat bald-headed, freckled face
lady, verging on old maidenhood, to
dance with him.,
But the first fact that he possesses
"a figure built along the architectural
lines of a bay window, and a face
homely enough to stop a clock, does
not prevent man from picking the
peachiest peach in the basket and
blithely making her his own if he
can. And after the couple are mar
ried it is the husband who demands
that his wife shall always be spick
and span. while he arrogates to him
self the right to slump into slovenliness
if he is more comfortable in old
clothes than new.
Curious, isn't it, that men think that
women have a less keen aesthetic sense
than they have, and that women care
less for appearances, and are less easily
disillusioned?
Queer, too, isn't it, the masculine
theory that a woman never wants to
talk about herself, and the things she
is interested in, or to tell her hopes
and plans, and ambitions. and disap-
pointments to a sympathetic male ear?
All sensible women read up on the
subjects in which their husbands, and
brothers, and sweethearts are inter-
ested so that they may be able. to
talk intelligently to them. but did you
ever hear of a man reading up on the
fashions or baby culture, or studying
the cookbook SO that he could have
a heart-to-heart talk with the women
of his family on the proper lengths OF
skirts, and the best way to. sterilize
milk, and how to make Hollandaise
without its curdling? 11T 81
whom he talks endlessly about what
he is going to do, and what he SAID
to the boss, and what the boss said to
him, but the minute woman begins
to tell a man of-what she is planning
to do, and the little run in she had
with the cook, or the forelady at the
store, he suddenly remembers press
ing engagement that calls him hence
And a man expects a woman to
consider it a, privilege to listen to his
tale of woe, and to bind up with her
dealt him, butt let a woman try to tell
a man of her troubles. and he flees
from her as tho she was a leper.
Odd, too, isn't it, that a man never
realizes that a woman finds it just as
Notwithstanding a thing to give up a
career in which she is making a sue
cess as he would?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-22
DON'T SELL AMERICA SHORT.

In a statement prepared for the
Guaranty Trust company's publica-
ton. The Guaranty News, Charles H.
points out that the process of de-
flation now under way must include
all the elements in the body economic
sooner or later and there can be no
escape from the memorable law which
directs it. Dodging the facts or at
tempting to postpone the inevitable.
he says, will not bring immunity to
production or distribution, capital or
labor. Continuing, he says:
1.-THE unfortunate effect in such a
situation is always that many innocent
parties are made to suffer thru ig-
norance and MISUNDERSTANDING and
also thru the spread of false and ma
licious rumors which such conditions
always inspire, with a resulting loss
OF confidence and panic sales. There
is SO much in the present situation to
inspire confidence and hope for the
future that it is little short of criminal
for any one to paint the picture so
blackly. either thru ignorance or in
tent. that these vital facts are OBJ
scured."
He cites as pertinent facts that:
This country will harvest this year one
of the largest crops in its history; its
transportation congestion has been re.
lieved and its railroad system is for
the first time in a decade on a sound
financial and operating basis; we have
passed thru a national election and
are assured four years of sane admin
istration of public affairs; our bank.
ing system has withstood the greatest
credit strain in its history and is or
a sound and workable basis; the ac-
cumulated surplus of five years oil
prosperity is stored in many ways foi
our continued use; the markets of the
world demand our products aud {
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boyhood 1 have fought for confidence
in myself. Suppose we return"
He talked in a quiet way on the re-
turn; and he left her with farewell
word that he had to return that night
Under the soft light of the corridor
globe. his face was white and drawn;
She went to her room and stood
thinking. with a queer sensation OF
hurt and pain within her. He had
evidently come all those miles just to
ask her. But he had not denied the
wager.
The sky broke and fell about her
the next morning. Lucy came gaily
up. MY dear. made a mistake.
Now that he's gone and no harms
done 1 want to tell you the chap MAX
ing that wager was Evert. one OF the
men told me. Their voices are SO
much alike
With a cry Ruth rushed away 10
the shelter of her room. What to do
what to do. She must reach him.
Dizzily she sought out her brother VINO
had Joined them that week. He list
ened, his cold gray eyes heating Then
he said in a frank, brotherly way;
You darned little fool He's one OF
the finest chaps here. You write
what you want and I'll get 1t TO MN
or bust. And If you ever pull off such
a deal again I'll spank you myself
In the evening Ruth saw dusty
roadster that bore evidence of hard
driving glide to a stop with squeallng
brakes in front of the inn. A tall fig
ure rose from It, mounted the steps
ana came toward them. She heard
her brother say: "Get inside, sis" But
she was powerless TO move. Anyway.
she was willing that the whole world
soc and knov-and some of it did in
the next moment
downright. 1920, ny the Mcclure News
piper Syndicate)
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Ouestions-Anstoers

O. Hasxany step been taken to erect a
bridge of monumental character across the
Potomac from Washington to Arlington
A. A bridge was included in the plans
for the Lincoln Memorial This monument,
situated in Potomac Park. is nearing COM
pIetion, but work on the bridge has not
commenced.
Q. What are the highest national bank
notes issued !? Z. T.. s.
A. The Treasury Department says that
there is no authorization for national bank
notes of larger denomination than $780,. !.
Q. What does a probation officer do?
A. In municipal criminal court, pro-
baton officer is one appointed by the mag
istrate TO exercise supervision over and re-
ceive regular reports from offenders whose
sentences are suspended.
Q. Who was the first Secretary Of the
Navy? J. a L. >
lished in 1883, and benjamin Stoddart of
Maryland, was the first secretary.
O.. What is the name for the insect called
Child of earth? A. NJ. P.
A. The Bureau of Biological Survey says
that in the Southwest the ide click beetle
is locally known as child of earth"
some of them? c. A. c.
A. A free port is harbor where ships
of>all nations may enter to load or unload
for accommodation. Goods may be stored
without duty at first. and either reshipped
for export, or admitted for home eonsump-
ton upon tire payment of the usual custom
duties. England never had any free ports
and there are none today in the United
States or France. In Germany. Hamburg
and Bremen. and Copenhagen in Denmark.
are still practically free ports. In earlier
times. there were a number of ports Of this
nature.
Q. Are marines permitted to play cards
and gamble? G. K.
A. Marines are allowed to play cards.
but are not permitted to gamble.
O. Is the Homer pigeon ever kept for
squad breeding? A. S. Il.
A. The Department OF Agriculture says
that the Homer is a good SQUAD producer.
altho these squads are rather small The
homing trait makes it necessary to keep
these birds confined if they have been pur-
chased The Honers kept for racing and
carrying messages are usually of different
breeding from those kept for SQUAD produc-
ton.
(Any reader can get ths answer to any
question By writing The Topeka State
Journal Information bureau, Frederic J.
Hnskin, Director. Washington. d. c. This
offer applies strictly to Information The
bureau cannot give advice on legal. medical.
and financial matters. 1t does not under
take to settle domestic troubles. nor TO
undertake exhaustive research on any
subject Write your question plainly and
briefly. Give fun name and address and
enclose o-eent stamp for return postage.
AL replies are sent direct to the inaairsr.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-22
JUST FOLKS
THANKSGIVING.
By EDGAR A. GUEST.

~ THANKSGIVING.
is the time when we
Give prayers of thanks for nll we see,
For all the joy that's come our way
With every week an every day;
An Just to show our gratitude
We load the table down with food
An go to work to eat our fiji
Till mother says we'll all be ill.
I've stuffed myself dozen ways
Thru forty-two Thanksgivin' days;
guess I've eaten cranb'ry sauce
Enough to kill ploughman's horse,
If turkey hurts a man l vow
/ wonder how I've lived to nowi
OF helpings I've had three or four.
An longed to pass my plate for more
'Twould make a stack full six feet high
To measure ali the pumpkin pie
I've rlsked my life to put away
In real observance of the day:
If good things which the Lord provides
And f.xed up by a cook besides,
Can deel man a fatal blow.
should have died long years ago.
I've ct preserves an candied yams
An Hubbard squash an sugaPed hams
Enough 20 feed regiment;
I've ct unto my hearts content.
An spite OF all the doctors say,
never suffer much that way,
So / just let 'em eat their fill
Tho mother says they'll all be ILL
Drum sticks or wings or piece o. breast,
W hichever part they like the best
load upon their plates an say.
Now get that back here right away.
Send up your plate TO me again.
Let out your belts--that is the way
To celebrate Thanksgiving Day"
Copyright, 1920 by Edgar A. Guest)
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INFORMATION FOR ALL HEADERS OF
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Each reader of The state Journal is Of
farinatfOn bureau In the world. -
This Service Bureau is located IN tne
national capital, where 1t is In lmmenln A. {
touch with all the great resources OIL Ins
United States government; ....L -
ii can answer practically any question
YOU want to ask, butt can't give do-
vice. or make exhaustive research. -
Tie war forced SO many changes In the
daily life of the American people that the
service of this information bureau WILL De
Invaluable to all who use It .. -.
Keen in touch with your government I
ALI times 1t san help you in thousand
ways II your. wants are only made knoTh;
service in order that every one OF Its
readers may tats free advantage o. ~:
You are welcome to use 1t as otten as you
Write your request briefly, sign your
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myriad tints and colorings. And birds
fayorite strains. But before the sum-
ner came the spring, and before the
spring camc the winter-each in its
turn, just little while ago.
We fought, sorrowed, loved, lost,
won-just little while agoi
In the thought of the great Gilbran,
the long shadow stretching before you
at sunrise shall gather under your feet
at the noon hour. Yet another sunrise
shall lay another shadow before you,
and that also shall be gathered at an
other noon!
So let us treasure our yesteryears.
gain from our experiences, climb over
our failures, and try very hard 20 keep
step all the wagon to the best pos
sible end.
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Dinner Stories

One of the very substantial men of
a thriving town in the west is named
Garry Mcintyre. One day in conver-
sation with a number of soldiers from
a military post near by he said
II understand you lads are going on
hike. When you reach Snake river
take a good look at it. 1t is full of
undercurrents and eddies. Boys, am
the only living man who ever swan
that river"
Several days later the men crossed
the Snake river on cable ferry. The
ferryman CHANGED to inquire quito
casually of a waiting soldier:
do you know a man down In your
country by the name of Garry Nc
Intyre? They tell me he has accumu-
lated lot of money
Twas talking to him only the other
day." said the soldier. He told me he
swan Snake river once
That's right, he did" said the
ferryman. HE sure did; but we were
all shooting at him."
A little fellow. aged five, arrived
home from school while the family
was at the lunch table. With a dis
gusted look on his face he said. Say
ma, some of the kids in our class didn't
know how to spell sarcastic
well, dear replied his mother
''how do you spell it?"
Me-" he asked. "Oh, 1 was one of
them"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-22
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
JUST A LITTLE WHILE AGO.

n atIO.
Just a little while ago the Earth was
very young. Great and gigantic ami
mails of the wild, floating masses of
ice and stone and metal, strange men
and women as well, forests thick and
big, these things were but touches of
magnificent -youth-just a lit
tie while ago.
Just a little while ago we were but
babies. Each one of us warmed by a
mothers heart and fondIed by her
fingers of running love. Just little
while agoi
Just a little while ago we could
hardly wait until the o'clock bell, so
that We could run quickly thru the
back lots to where the old creek held
q thousand thrills. dear to every boy.
And geel the walnuts, and ehestnuts,
chkpmunks, and woodpeckers, and the
rabbits-they all held some special in
terest that drew US to them-just a
little while ago.
Just a little while ago we walked
out of a big building. which was one
of many in which We had spent four
years of happiness. And we had a
long roll to take home with us-which
we have not looked at, 10 these many
years. but which represented long toll,
and little sacrifice, and lots of love
mixed in It was just a little while
ago.
1t is always but just a little while
ago. We daily work and strive. Life
can never be figured by letters on a
DIAL
Just a little while ago summer was
here in its garb Of green and its
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-22

While banks all over the country
have been prospecting as never before
an exception is noted in North Da-
kota, where five of these institutions
recently have closed their doors.
Those conversant with the kind OF
government existing there and its in
innate connection with the business OF
the people will experience no surprise.
1t has been freely predicted from the
time the Nonpartisan League came
into control of the North Dakota state
government that disaster for about
everybody except the league leaders
would follow. 1t seems to have ar
rived. Money may be ACQUIRED by a
few thru sharp practices, but the
masses must work for what they get.
Prosperity cannot be snatched from
the air. If there be Kansas farmers
who think that the league is>a good
thing let them keep their eyes on
North Dakota for the next two years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-22

Topeka today pays final tribute to
all that is mortal of one of her most
popular and best beloved citizens.
Col. L. NJ. Penwell. Roy" we all
called him, lacked several years of
living the time commonly accorded to
man, but measuring his life by what
he was able to accomplish, he lived a
century. The extent of his activities
in civic, social, religious and charita-
BILE work was the wonder Of all who
lSnew him. His private business was
sufficiently extensive to have occupied
fully the time of most men. While his
public services were recognized wide
~, the great good he did in quiet and
transformations ways was known but
to his intimate friends and probably
only to a limited number of them.
He will be missed as would be few
men in the community.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-22

Kansas has a rate case pending
before the interstate commerce COM
mission similar to the one from New
York which that body has just de-
cided. She can scarcely hope for a
ruling differing from that already
made. The correctness of the prin-
ciple enunciated by the I. c. c. can
hardly be questioned. The collection
of one rate of fare on mile of rail-
road and the collection of another
rate on an adjoining mile in another
state approaches the absurd.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-22

The old battleship Massachusetts, is
to be made a target on which land
ordnance will practice and OF course
she will be sunk. 1t cost millions to
build her and there is no salvage.
This is but a small jtem in the enor-
nous cost of always being prepared
for war. 1t looks now as tho another
titanic struggle similar to the one
which began in 1914 may be neces-
sary before the world will find a bet
ter way for Settling disputes among
nations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-22

Senator Harding's position as re-
CARDS Mexico is said to be that as long
as American rights and lives are re-
speoted there will be nothing to fear.
1t differs from that Of the present adj
n1inistration, which has been that no
matter what Mexico did she had moth
ing to fear. Mexico has taken advan-
tage of this attitude to great degree.
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Athletes Are Warriors.

The barbarlc TIDE always has It's
special class of warriors who go out
and do battle against other tribes,
and these are of course represented by
the college athletes, and the college
football Hero is the exact prototype
of the harbaric war chief. just as the
man who belongs to five different
secret societies has all the mysterious
dignity of a medicine man.
Among barbarians the associata ton
OF the sexes is very elaborate ana