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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-18
LITTLE BEAHY's NOTE BOOK
BY IEH PAPE

Last mite after suppir ma went out
to the movies and was doing my les
sins at the setting room table and
wish I wasent, and pop had his feet
up smoaking a long seegar with a in
joyable' Impression, saying, As Shake
speer says in his greatest play, King
Gillette the Bird, this is some segar.
And he took it out of his mouth and
looked at it as if he thawt it was crate
and then he took some more big puffs,
and Jest then the doorbell rang. pop
saying, Hang and bubble hang, I bet
dollers thtats some simp to bore me
to deth jest as I'm all fixed to injoy a
perfeck segar in peece and quiet.
Witch jest then the bell rang agen,
pop saying. bubble hang and triple
hang.
Well G. pop, wy don't you jest keep
wasent ringing and then maybe they'll
think nobody amt home, I sed.
Its wise child that tips off its own
father, sed pop. And he kepp on
smoaking and the bell kepp on ringing
and pops Impression kepp on getting
less and less Enjoyable. me saying. I
tell you wat, pop, wy don't you have a
contest to see if you can make the
segar last as long as they make the
bell ring?
Your Ulcers are getting verse insted
of better, cant stand this eny longer,
go down and open the door, sed pop.
WITCH went down and did. and who
was it but ma looking mad as pos
sible, saying, Wat do you meen by
keeping me ringing the bell for 10
minnits, anser me? 1zzent it bad
enuff that couldn't get in the movies
without having to stand on my own
frunt steps half an hour, anser me?
Gosh, ma, 1 thawt it was somebody
elts, / sed, and ma sed, Well then
think this is somebody elts. And she
gave me a fearse smack and went up
stairs. and pop tried to ixplane and
ma got so mad she went rite out to
the movies agen to see if she could
get in the End show.
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TALK GOOD ROADS

Continued from Page onel
ifieation a member Organization of the
Kansas Engineering Council constitution.
Election of representative and alternate
Report of auditing committee
Ballot on proposed amendments to con-
stftutfon of the association
l ELECTION OF officers for ensuing term
1880 a. m-"ExpIanation of Manhattan
Road SCHOOL,, Professor Conrad.
Probate Judges.
a. m.-Probate Court Round table. Gen
eral discussion
10 a m.-Reports of committees. I'm
finished business.
IL a. m.-Adjournment, to Kansas Off
cial Council session.
County Tfeasurers.
g A. m--Reports OF committees on nomi-
nations AMI resolutions.
question box and discussion.
Election of association officers.
introduction of new officers.
appointment of committees by new presi-
II a, m.--Adjournment. to Kansas ON
cial Council session.
District Clerks.
a. m--Report of committees on resolu-
Report of committee on onmination of
Election Of association officers.
Unfinished business.
Introduction of new Officers.
dent. ''' ''''en' " e''""'''ees '' ne" pfeN'-
eial Council session.
Registers OF Deeds.
8 a. m.-Reports of committees on nomi-
nations and resolutions.
Election of association officers.
Introduction of new officers.
dent.
II a. m.-Adjournment, TO Kansas OFF,
cial Council session.
County Commissioners. y
o 0 a. m-"Roads That Lead to Kansas
City" William Blodgett. wyandotte county.
Gravel Roads" Guy Call Labette county.
county.
Brick Roads," w 81 Henrion, sedgwick
county.
"All Kinds of Roads," by the county
commissioners in general discussion.
Final reports OF committees.
Election Of association officers.
Introduction of new officers.
Appointment of committees by new
president.
IL a. m.-Adjournment. to Kansas official
County Clerks.
a. m.-Reports of committees on nom
nations and resolutions.
Question box and general discussion.
Election OF association officers.
Introduction of new officers,
appointment of committees by pew presi-
IL a. m.-Adjournment to Kansas official
council session.
Final Sessions Friday.
At 1880 o'clock tomorrow. the final
session of the convention will be held,
at which all the associations will be
represented, and at which officers of
the council for the coming year. viii
be elected.
Tho general session will be held in
Representative hall at the state house.
A program will be given at the
Chamber of Commerce tonight by the
boys of the State Industrial school.
followed by : short talk by Captain
W. P. MacLean. of the school. The
Officials will attend the Novelty thea
ter tonight in a body. and a special
bill is to be presented for them.
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Ouesfions-AnsOers
O. when will the Pan-American College

@. When will the Pan American College
of Commerce open IF. f. II.
A. This school, under the special patron
age of the Republic of Panama, will open
on January 1, 1921, in the city of Panama.
It's Inauguration will mark the quadri-
centennial anniversary of the founding of
train the. youth of the two continents.
North and South America, in practical
purses in commerce. shipping, banking
md International trade relations generally
1.-TWO complete stx-month courses of in
tensive study have been outlined.
Q. Are wild animals scarcer during open
season for hunting. or do they merely seem
A. The Department of Agriculture says
that wild animals seem to know where they
can find protection. In places where there
to them at the beginning of every open
hunting season.
O. Did Germany have to replace the
shipping destroyed at Scapa ow?-R. E.
A. The PREPARATIONS committee has de-
cided that Germany unjust deliver 2T5,00O
ton fol-. sinking of the German fleet-in
9: What languages are spoken in Swift
A. The principal languages spoken in
Switzerland are German and French, and
newspapers are published in both. The
census of 1910 showed that German was
spoken by the majority of the people
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-18
MAY CHANGE TO WYANDOTTE
Kansas City, Kansas, Seeks to Change
Her Identity.

Kansas City, Kansas, Seeks to Change
Her Identity.
. With prospects of a daily paper and
a new metropolitan air. Kansas City,
Kan, will this winter seek to change
her identity. 1t was reported in To-
peka today that the town at the
mouth of the Kaw will ask the law
makers to change the city's name to
Wyandotte.
Several times bills have been intro
duced in the legislature providing for
change of the .city's name. Always
they have been lost in committee
rooms. But this time the town is in
earnest. Business men on the Kansas
side declare their town has the big end
of the Kansas City industrial activities.
But under the tx. c., q. S. A" STAN
dard, all the credit goes to the Mis-
souri, side. Now the Missouri town
may be forced TO provide her own
laurels.
Senator Arthur Capper is, expected
to establish a daily paper in Kansas
City, Kan. in a few weeks. After a
three days campaign. it was reported
today that more than $4,000 worth
of advertising contracts had been Sc
cured. An annual advertising pledge
OF 100000 and $4,000 subscribers
had been asked by Senator Capper.
He has contracted for machinery and
equipment for his new daily paper
plant.
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three-the arresting officer, the prose-
cutting officer, and the trial judge.
And they want no PAROLES granted pc,
fore the expiration Of the minimum
time stated in the sentence.
More stringent laws governing the
licensing of automobiles, and especial
~ their transfer. were recommended
by the peace officers.
1t was voted this afternoon to cease
the offering of rewards by the asso-
citation, for the arrest of criminals by
its members. thus making members
of the association ineligible to draw
a reward offered by the body Itself
The peace officers also voted not to
offer a reward in any case other than
the murder of a member of their asso-
citation in the course of his duty.
An assessment fee of 81 per menu
Der was levied this afternoon to pro-
vide a fund for the immediate relief
of the family of any officer killed in
carrying out his duty.
The officers elected at the final
meeting this afternoon were: Presi-
dent, WV t. Clark. sheriff of Reno
county, reelected for his third term;
Vice presidents. five in number. L. T.
Hussey. state fire marshal of Topeka:
Ben Judkins. of Topeka, special agent
for the Rock Island: John Madden,
sheriff of Ford county: Robert c. Mi
Ter. undersheriff of Shawnee county;
Charles Peak. chief of police of Ar
kansas City. Kan: northumberland,
r. M. Clary, of Wichita.
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on you for some time--on your fire.
quent trips out of town-on your noe
turnal visits to the bank. In fact, l
sent Bennett here one night for some
papers when felt sure he would STUN
BILE upon you. I let suspicion rest tenn
porarily on an innocent man, hoping
TO see you make a clean breast OF it.
If you had things might have gone
easier with you. AS it is His look
was significant as he frightened his
during his words had appeared TO
shrink perceptibly into his clothes. The
door closed upon them both.
Left alone. the man and girl were
for moment at loss Then it oc-
CURED to Roger that Virginia was TAX
ing very easily this startling news
about her fiance. I'm sorry about
Wilbur-on your account" he began
hesitantly.
'You may be for him. but not on
heightened color. Every one seems
to be laboring under a mistake. Last
night Uncle Will called and asked me
if Wilbur and I were engaged. When
I denied 1t he said he was glad. Then
he told me, of the accusation against
you and well. wouldn't believe
it and was so-indignant, 1 guess
that Uncle VIII Observation-Disclosures
mean
Roger rose suddenly. What was
giving Virginia those wonderfully rosy
cheeks, and why was she laundering
so helplessly?
Anyway the girl was continuing.
uncle said that yesterday when you
were questioned you were not as en-
phatic in your denials as he thought
you ought to be and he decided you
were being quixotic and shielding
somebody for some reason or other"
virginia" cried Roger suddenly,
bending down to her. Since there is
no one else may I hope that some
Virginia lifted love-lit eyes to his.
Sooner than that!' she said, and as
Roger drew her into his arms. II guess
know why uncle wanted me to come"
she whispered happily.
(CoDyright 1920, Dy the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
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The habit of looking TO the gov
eminent for everything, engendered
by the war, appears to have spread
all over the world. The movement
of the farmers in this country to get
assistance in holding their wheat for
higher prices, is partially paraIleled
by the wool-growers of South Africa,
according to a report of our vice con-
sui at Cape Town. The war brought
the trade of the South African WOOL
growers into position of prominence
and great profit, and this continued
after the armistice and until early in
h920. when the wool market in South
Africa was given a temporary setback
by the action of the banks in refus-
ing to negotiate shippers drafts. In
June. resolutions were introduced in
the Union parliament by members
representing the wool districts callins
upon the government to lend finan-
cial assistance to growers to enable
them to realize on their unsold stocks
of last years wool and the new cir
which is shortly expected to come into
the market. These resolutions, how
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-18
TWO YEARS FOR GUN TOTERS
Kansas Peace Officers Ask Legislation
Against Carrying Gun.

1ASuiuSl SdEEy tifg 1uD.
Denying thru their president the i'm
putation that Kansas officers are
hard boiled" and hard hearted, the
Kansas State Peace Officers associa-
ton in the final session of their con-
vention this afternoon, voted several
legislative proposals which will make
the path of the Kansas evil-doer hard
er, just the same.
The officers voted to accept a report
of the committee on resolutions which
recommended that legislation be
passed making the carrying of a con-
cealed weapon a felony, and punish
able with a minimum sentence of two
years imprisonment. A committee
consisting of Ben Judkins, of Topeka.
special agent for the Rock Island. and
Emmett Gregg. chief special agent for
the Santa Fe, was appointed to work
for the passage at the next session of
the state legislature of such a law.
The recommendation that the state
establish an institution for the de-
tention of maynard girls and women,
which would not carry with it the
also carried in the resolutions.
The making of burglary by an
armed man an offense punishable by
life Imprisonment, was included in the
resolutions, on the ground that the
man who goes out, armed, to commit
a robbery, is in a frame of mind to
commit murder.
More stringency in the parole sys-
tenn of the state is also to be sought
at the next legislative session.
The peace officers want paroles
made impossible unless they are rec
commended by at least two officers of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-18
Dorothy Dix Tails
To Propose or Not to Propose.
NJ DOEoTHY DIX
WeslA's Hishesa Paid Wsnaz writes


A young man is very much in love
with a girl, but he is poor and in no
position to marry. 1t may be years
before he Is able to undertake the
support of a family, and he is torn in
the conflict between his heart and his
head.
He feels that it is not quite fair to
bind the girl to him by long engage
ment and yet he also feels that it is
right to let her know that his heart
is hers. and that he has not been just
philandering with her, so he asks
shall he pop the question or not.
l say, yes. It is question that the
girl has a right to decide, and how
ever she does it, it will always be an
other bead on her rosary of happiness
to know that the man cared for her
For with women it is always better
to have loved and lost than never to
have been loved at all.
Many a man who thinks IT dis
honorable to bind a woman he loves
TO his uncertain fortune dooms her to
a far worse fate than poverty. She
does not understand his silence, nor
guess why he loved and rode away
without speaking, and SO she grows
into n bitter, hard cid maid who rails
at the faithlessness of man because
she believes that the one man to
whom she gave the priceless jewel of
her maiden heart trifled with it and
flouted 1t.
Women are not pikers in love, nor
are they afraid of hardships as men
imagine them to be. So If they would
prefer to risk their all on the great
adventure rather than spend their
days safe and dull and knowing never
a thrill OF love or danger. certainly no
man has the right to deny them the
privilege of making the choice, and
deciding the question for themselves.
agree with the young man in
thinking a long engagement is one OF
the most unsatisfactory phases OF all
the relationships between men and
women. for II is neither the one thing
nor the other. It has neither the free
dom of the celibate nor the security of
the married. 1t is neither fish, nor
flesh, nor good RED hsTring.
1t wears out romance as not even
marriage does, because it is full of the
iealousies and chickering's of those who
belong, and yet do not belong to each
other. and the couples who eventually
marry after they have waited years for
each other, almost always find when
they come to drink their cup of rap
ture at being together at last. that it
has gone stale and flat at having stood
too long. 1t is like last nights cham
payne served up for breakfast.
The long engagement is even more
disastrous when a couple are parted
and live in different places. Then it is
inevitable that they should grow apart
because environment develops them
along different lines, or one develops
and the other stands still.
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JUST FOLKS
RY EnCAR A CHEST.
GOLF EXPERIENCE.
by EDGAR A


I have golfed thruout another year,
The drifting SHOWS will soon be here,
And now 1 view with discomfort
The season that so soon was spent;
Once more I've dubbed the whole veal
thru.
Nor did make an eighty-two.
High hopes were mine that glorious day
The time / started out to play;
This year" said I, I'll keep the line
And surely make a seventy nine;
I'll play as Ray and Vardon do,
And show the gang a thing or two"
blundered on thru early June,
could not use my trusry spoon.
But hope still stayed-ere summer fell
knew 1 should be playing we'll;
Then by the fourth day of July
lost my drive and knew not why.
August still round me keeping on
With scores unfit to look upon;
felt that possessed the skill
To do my bidding with the pill,
And then one day l summed the score
And found I'd made one hundred four.
The same old dub that was am I,
don't improve howeer I try:
Lessons and practice all are vain,
With me the hook or slice remain:
But stin to hope / fondiy cling.
1 know I'll play the game next spring.
Copyright. 1870. by Edgar A Guest)
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:ks st AS ItWuz
AtRe heayter''
BY Ii.
At the Grand.

At the Grand
9sThe Old Homestead was not advertised
as a remarkable new production In fact.
the producers seemed proud of that their
show was one of the oldest on the boards
and still going. The company they sent
ia Topeka was about one OF the best TO
come here with show so old. In addition
to two or three really good actors. there
were eight of the best singers here this
fall.
The show was staged as eiaborately as
II 1t was the first year of Its run and the
third act in particular. showing the Grace
Cathedral OF New York City, tire
menduously effective The story of the play
Is one of the oldest, being the same as
sway Down East except that IL is a boy
instead of a girl who Is the Maynard one
1t has every bit as much genuine comedy
and heart fhrob interest the other old
timer now being screened by Griffith and
includes a whole lot of better singing. To
be exact the singing made tOid Home
stead" Like the rest of the productions
the songs all old ones but songs that
have come to stay and mean something.
William Lawrence in the leading role lives
the part Of Uncle JOSH
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WAR TAXES MUST GO.

The chairman OF the Republican
ment to the public, AYERS that the peo-
pie who have elected great Republic
can majority of office holders did not
do so in the interest of any party, bu:
demanded devotion to the country s
welfare rather than to the success of
the party itself.
He further states that the first duty
of the Republican party is to obtain
relief from war taxation, and that the
taxation must be reduced by reducing
the cost of government, to begin with.
The executive and legislative branches
must cooperate to cut this cost to
the bone. He believes that If the
short session of congress can save
what was saved in the earlier session
OF this congress, that probably the
excess profits tax can be repealed
and that it may be possible to reduce
the upper ranges of the surtax. with
out the substitution of any new form
of tax. He suggests what he thinks
will most likely be done-namely, the
creation OF a commission composed
of members of congress and others.
possibilities of tax revision.
Any program which includes a re-
peal of the excess profits tax will be
welcomed by the country.
The manner in which this tax some
times works indirect injury to bust
ness is illustrated by a statement of
the experience of a saw mill owner
who tried to buy some timber land.
The owner of the timber land ac-
quired title prior to 1913. If he sold
1t now, he would pay an excess prof
its tax on the difference between the
value in 1913 and the value today.
He was offered what the land is
worth in the market at this time, but
on figuring up what the excess prof
Its tax would be, he found that the
government would absorb so much of
the price that he could not afford to
sell. He declined~to let the saw mill
owner have the timber, the lumber
manufacturer could not operate, and
the lumber supply was curtailed ac-
cordingly
The excess profits tax had several
effects in this instance-it diminished
the demand for labor, by keeping the
saw mill idle; it enhanced the price
of lumber to the consumer by restrict
ing the supply; 1t hindered building
operations, thus lessening the demand
for carpenters, and it prevented a
would have resulted indirectly from
the employment of men in the mill
and in construction.
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THREE HURT IN ACCIDENT
Harold Carrier and Francis Dcrring-
ton Are Rendered Unconscious.

Three youths were injured in an
accident at Fifth and Western ave-
nues about 1880 o'clock this morning,
when a motorcycle collided with hi
cycle.
Ralph McGibben. who lives on Lin
denwood avenue, was driving the<mo-
torcycle and had with him Harold
Carrier, of 403 Shawnee street.
Francis Darlington was riding the BIZ
cycle.
In the collision the boys were thrown
to the pavement and Carrier and Der
rington were rendered unconscious
All three suffered bruises and cuts.
They were taken to Stormont hos
pital, where il was said this afternoon
that they would recover
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Don't put off your framing too long
Cut rate prices at Woicott's.-Adv.
Liberty Bonds - Kleinhans, 2761-J.
-FAdv.
Millions now living will never die
ADV.
Home cooking just like mothers
can be had at the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
Cafeteria. We bake our own pies
Adv.
The Kansas School of Chiropractic
Clinic now open. p. m. CPS Kansas
avenue. Patients welcome. Anna NJ.
Foy, president.-Adv.
DR.. Lyngar. Dentist. 500 Kansas Ave.
ADV.
DIR. H. II. Raymond, Foot Specialist,
Orpheum Bldg. Phone 3960.-Adv.
List your property with the Shaw
nee Investment Company. Phone
5050.-Adv.
Window glass. K. Jones Paint
Co, 115-117 East Tth St.-Adv.
Safety razor blades sharpened better
than new, 25c-35c dog. Culver Hard
ware Co.--Adv.