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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-09
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
ONLY A FARMER.

One of the finest letters of encour-
agement 1 ever received, was signed,
only a Farmer"
To my way of thinking, the farmer
is one of the worlds greatest benefac-
tors. 1 like farmers. For three years
1 worked with them out on the farm,
and L learned to admire their fine and
sturdy characters, their splendid quail
ties of patience and patriotism.
I place a farmer and carpenter
ALONGSIDE of each other-one is a
creator and the other a builder.
No matter what comes up, the
farmer is always ready to do his part.
He keeps no office hours. His job is
to do the days work. And we owe a
lot to the farmer for the way in which
he does that days work-because,
without him. what kind of a breakfast
would we sit down to? What would
we do at the close of our workday
were we not to be rebuilded daily by
the fruits CT his toll?
Only a farmeri l wish they would
put more of them into the halls of con-
gress and as advisers to those who
rule. Their common sense and prac-
teal straight-forwardnes would help
along.
1 envy the farmer his playground,
the smell of the soil, the fragrance OF
And 1 envy hins his daily toll with the
dumb beasts which help him to per-
form his work so faithfully.
1t was a farmer wh) took the helm
at one of the most critical periods in
the history of England-Oliver Crom-
we'll. They were farmer boys who
rallied at Lexington and Concord.
Oh yes, farmers h; We done their part
nobly in the building of the nations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-09

presses the very spirit of our energy"
Walter L. Moody, managing director
of the Chicago plan commission, Is
another warm aGnircr Of the river.
Chicago is potentially richer in the
possession Of it's river than any old
world city according to Mr.. Moody.
The geographical strategy makes it
open to intensive development as well
as beauty. Chicago hasn't begun to
use it's possibilities. But the Chicago
plan commission has many ambitious
intentions toward this stream and
when they get thru with it it will
hardly recognize itself as the humble
wild onion river of yore.
And so it goes. What with poets
and artists and improvement people
llsbusily celebrating the glory of this
once unprepossessing stream, the
Rhine, the Colorado and the beauti-
full blue Danube soon won't be in it
with the beautiful Chi-Kang-Ong.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-09
ISFoRNIATIoN FOR ALL REAREkS of
THE TOPEKA STATE JoO h ny

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-09

rose with a smirk. coughed and
began:
occasion, for Miss Glare is to an
nounce her choice in matrimony. or,
rather, I am to announce it for her.
So hereby make known her engage
ment to"
Glare slipped a folded paper to Mrs.
Hendricks. who opened 1t and read
aloud: MIR. Samuel Hilton, of Clear
brook"
Then Mrs. Hendricks gasped, seemed
to choke and sank dazed into the
nearest chair.
Copyright, 1920, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-09

From week to week for the past
nine months the department of JUS
tice has been issuing statements in
tended to convince the people OF the
country that something was being &C
compiished in accordance with the
purpose of the large powers conferred
ana the large appropriations made to
enable Mr.. Palmer to conduct a cam
paign against profiteers for the pur-
pose of reducing prices of the neces-
saries of life. 1t is announced in re-
cent dispatches from Boston that after
a. thoro Investigation the national in
dustrial conference board had ascer-
tained that the cost of living has ad-
vanced 81 per cent in the last twelve
months. If the boards figures be cor
rect. there is indicated here a wide
margin between promise and perform
ance,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-09
A BILL THAT FA11.LD.

The proposed legislation. designed
to regulate the operations Of the meat
packers, failed of enactment before
the adjournment of congress. One OF
The charges brought by the federal
trade commission against the meat
PACKERS is that they pu. part of their
Pr. tits back into the. business, thus
u duaily extending it and bringing it
to its present immense prop ortions.
TIE same accusation misht he made
against the owners of the telegraph
and telephone systems. railroad sys-
TENS and all other Large enterprises.
without accumulated profiIs there
clearly could not be any accumulation
of funds with which to carry on large
undertakings. No dollar could be
more useless than the idle dollar. Re
investing the saved dollars is what
makes the world of industry and trade
move on and up in its development.
If Theodore Vail and his co-laborers
in the construction of telephone lines
had earned no net profit, or, having
earned it, had failed to put 1t back
lIlO buSAllCSof l4iC ACACPiAOllC SS stem VI
the United States could now be oper-
ated from one switchboard.
The only alternative open to the
meat packers or to other men of en-
terprise is to waste their savings or
cut their profit so that there shall be
nothing to save. lima CINE what the
United States would be today if in all
l. - To- he
policy had been pursued of cutting
profits until there were no profits to
save. Our railroads would not have
been built, our mines would not have
been developed, our oil wells would
not have been drilled, immense fac
tories would not have been construct
ed, large department stores and office
buildings would not be in existence,
there would be no steamships in our
ocean carrying trade, we would still
be in the primitive condition which ex-
listed in the days of colonial settle
ment.
If the meat packers have accumu-
lated profits by dishonest methods
that is a fit subject for criticism
There is much reason to doubt wheth-
er they have done so, however, for II
is agreed that their methods are far
more economical and have been OF
far greater benefit to the country
than the wasteful and expensive meth
DDS previously pursued by the indi-
viduai local slaughter houses that pre-
pared meat for consumption. The
methods of many big business enter
prises have demonstrated by their sue
cess that they are superior, in some
respects. at least, to those which they
succeeded.
The fact that large branches of in
/ dustry have been financially success
| full is not in itself an evidence Of
wrongful methods. The criticism OF
the federal trade commission seems
therefore, to be a criticism of the
practice of saving. and re-investing the
| savings in the business from which
they were obtained. In other word:
to be more successful than your com
petitor and retain and re-invest th'
rewards of success is reprehensible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-09

There has been much speculation
regarding the causes of the recent cut
in prices. The federal treasury de-
partment offers the following: prices
are being reduced Because the prof
iteer is scared to death He is fright
ened of the only thing that he or any
merchant fears-that people will not
buy" If the department be right. it
follows that the thing for the people
to do is to keep them scared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-09

Organized labor is demanding lower
living costs. Also. 1t is demanding
higher wages. The two demands are
incompatibie The thing simply can
not be done. Samuel Gompers
figures that the cost of living
has gone up SO per cent and
wages only SIS per cent. and urges
immediate adjustments of wages to
meet the living costs" Based on the
Gompers estimates of relative in
creases in wages and living costs, that
means that wage increases are TO be
practically doubled. Then he would
have immediate effective action to
prevent continued increase in the cost
OF living" Just how that prevention
could be brought about in the face OF
a sudden so per cent general wage IN
crease he does not specify.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-09

1t only took a minute.
OF course. the first three or four
patches may not be so good. but along
toward the end of the summer you
ought to be able to make it on the
cook stove>so that it will be at least
slightly reminiscent of the old stuff.
Columbus discovered America and
he died. Balboa, discovered the Pa
cific and he died. De Soto discovered
the Mississippi and he died. NOW"
asks Frank Cleary, what is going to
happen to the man who is going in a
rocket to discover Mars?"
Mems trousers are being cut with
the flask flare, /. e, with more full
ness about the hips. However, it's
just as well to remember that there's
many a slip between the hip and the
lip. In the face of the eighteenth
amendment, tailors have done what
they could to accommodate the de-
mand for storage facilities. But even
with the most skillful fitting it is
next to impossible to maintain an in
nocent front with a bullying rear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-09

Governor Allen, in his advocacy of
tha Kansas plan for adjustment of in
dustrial relations by a regularly con-
stituted court. denied that this took
away the workers privilege of coll
lective bargaining. He said rather
that It also protected the sanctity of
contract. THAT phrase" comments
the Detroit News. will fall pleasingly
upon millions of ears. The sanetity
of contract is much older and more
venerable than the sanctity of 'collec-
tive bargaining If the state of Kan
sas has hit upon a method of giving
security to the sanctity of contract in
these troubled Industrial affairs. it has
indeed made a notable contribution to
the peace and safety of the world"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-09
JUST FOLKS
NOT A DoUBTER.
ny EDGAR A. GUEST.

NOT A DOUBTER.
There are times | get to douhtin' that there
is God above
Who is rulin' us in mercy an forgivin' MS
thru love
Now an then some awful sorrow shakes
my faith in Him bit
An" ! wonder If He's gentle, why such
hurts He will permit
Then | hear the song birds singin out their
choruses of glee,
An Know no mortal ever made the robins
in the tree.
oh, the humblest daisy bloomin' is
proof Of power divine,
For the hand o. man has never fashioned
anything so fine.
Could a man replace 4he roses II the last
frai bush should die,
Or start the grain to CROWN II there was
no seed supplyl
Why, the very gold an silver, which we
fight for Just 10 lose,
Are the products of His wisdom which
He made for us TO use.
Every star (which holds its station is n
proof of power divine,
Men may read the books Of nature but
they cannot change a line.
They may learn the laws established, they
may argue an explain,
But they cannot hold the sunshine when
the skies are set to rain.
oh, the petals Of a blossom an the checks
of those we love
Are the proofs beyond all doubtin' that
there is God above.
Copyright. 1920 by Edgar A. Guest)
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-09

An unusual amount of enthusiasm
seems to prevail at Chicago. The del
egates even eheered the speech of SEN
ator Lodge. which he read to the con-
vention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-09

Fl Paso-Matty Matsuda, mlddleweight
wrestler. slammed Jack Reynolds during
the second fall and Reynolds could not
continue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-09
Moulton Musings
By ROY II. MOULTON.

when Eve held forth in Paradise,
She Sound much pleasure in II.
For when she did her Monday wash
1t only took a minute.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-28
CONCERNING BARNUM'S
WHITE ELEPHANTS

Gaylord was an expert animal
man-probably the best Informed in
the show business-and had been P.
T. Barnum's confidential agent for
years. He had travelled the world
over, time and again.
1t WIS Gaylord who negotiated
with the Siamese officials for one Of
the famous white elephants of Siam.
Barnum had his heart set on having
one of them for his show and he sent
Gaylord out with instructions to go
the limit. The stumbling block in
mese believe the spirits of the an
cestors of the royal family are trans
ferred to the white elephants. The
animals lived in the royal palace and
were cared for with all the ceremo-
ny given to. any members of the
reigning family. Of course. Barnum's
plan was just as unthinkable to them
as If he had offered to exhibit the
king in his sideshow.
There was a hot exchange of ca
York and Gaylord in Siam. Finally
Barnum offered the government one
fourth million dollars for the privi-
lege Of borrowing one of the ele--
plants for just one year. He agreed
to support a retinue of priests and
tation charges. The government
would not even consider the PROPOSE
ton, and so Gaylord gave up in dis
gust and cabled that the deal was off.
But Barnum was not discouraged.
When Gaylord returned to this coun-
try, he found that the old man was
advertising a white elephant from
the royal palace Of Siam. Barnum
had simply used whitewash brush
on an ordinary elephant, with the re-
suit that he had a whittier elephant
than the Siamese ever dreamed of
seeing. The animal was so covered
with velvet robes and surrounded by
attendants that the audience could
not detect the fraud; the general eff
feet was good nd the trick brought
in a lot of money
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-28
A WOMAN'S CHIEF BUSINESS
Rv Dr Frank Crane

ON in favor of full rights and. eaualltles
for women before the law am III i"rol
of allowing her to do any snare OIL tiI1
worlds work she chooses, and of paying net
fairly for il. I have no objection to woman
-typewriting, nursing, practiclng law OF nlsui.
cine singing or dancing or actlng Oh ln7
tape.a Moving corn or jumping througn CHI
Gus hoops. She also should be permltteo ~
keep house for husband and orlng up 'nAA-
dren for the United States o.
pu+ al this is aside from the one great
business of ,womankind the business OF max
ing herself lovable , =. ov,on,,
The high calling and election OF every
woman-soul born upon this planet IS 10 llsnt
the flame and keep burning the altar lire
of love EVERYTHING else is a side issue
IN do This she should make herself at
tractiye. She does not need to be beaut1ful.
Strangely enough, the best loved women OF
history have not been the beautiful.
A plain girl can win from peach-olo"
pretty one every time, If she understands Tue
game ,r -.
no competitor.
There she is more wonderful than any
mans masterpiece of painting or carving;
more mysterious than the stars; more NOV
ing than the golden sunset; sWeeter than
the dawn, and altogether, more awful, ra-
diant and love-producing than anything on,
over or under the earth. Because she is hu-
man.
In, these days of Anglo-saxon reticences.
of Puritan leanings, when all that is sweet
and pleasant is still looked on with faint
of suspicion, it is we'll to remind the world
Of womankind that the greatest thing In
the world continues to be Love.
What. about those to whom love never
comes? What about the apple never picked
the rain that falls in the lake. the babies
that never grow up and the flower that never
blooms?
They all have their uses, careers and pur-
poses; but it still remains true that the plan
of nature is that apples are to be eaten, rain
to nourish the land, babies to grow to men.
flowers to bloom and women to be loved.
1t would be wrong to say that woman
whom no man has loved is failure; but 1t
is right to say that any woman who has
caught and held the love OF one man, no
matter what else she does, is success.
The universe owes a debt to every woman
that has ever kindled pure love in man S
heart; double debt to any woman who has
brought child into the world.
And the universe pays its debts.
Copyright 1920, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-28
THE BUSINESS MEN OF THE BIBLE
BY REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

/ and other parts of war-stricken e
rope. The splendid way in whic
Mr.. Hoover performed the hercules
| task is the talk of the world, and Wi
be the admiration and wonder of al
mankind for thousand years t
| come. Hoover, the man who ken
| Europe from starving--that is al
anybody cares to know. Other parts
| of Hoover's history fall upon the at
| tention like a "twice-told tale, veX-
ing the dull ear Of a drowsy man"
In the same same way, only to a much
and navigation of the ARK" eclipse
whatever else the patriarch may have
d'ouvre, his masterpiece, in comparl
son with which the other facts about
, him are of no particular interest to
anybody.
A few reflections may be In order
| here.
While Jehovah made up his mind
to drown out the whole human breed
and start over again, he selected
Noah and his sons the seed corn"
first thing that Noah did after the
flood was to raise grapes and manu-
facture wine not "unfermented
Wine" but real wine, with kick"
enough in it to make a man drunk.
Not only so, but Noah's business
ala NOT prevent JouOVdQ lTOIn I1th-
ing holy covenant with him--a COW
enant which invested him with the
Premiership of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Head Man on EARTH
These facts have long been a stun
bling-block to thousands of good
Christians, especially If they have
happened to be not only Christians
but Prohibitionists, and their only
refuge has been the lines of the poet
Cowper as familiarized to US all in
the glorious old hymn,
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-28
Tales Yet to Be Told
-HE "Grandfathers' Tales of Nathaniel
Hawthorne were wondrous, no doubt,

- HE "GrandfatherS' IaleS OF NaCnanleI
Hawthorne were wondrous, no doubt,
to the children of that generation. but
they will be as nothing to the yarns to be
spun in the twilight of seventy by grand
fathers not so many years from now.
Let us take them. the fathers of today
who will be the grandfathers of tomorrow
let us take them at the average age OF thirty
five and consider for a moment what novel
"reminiscences they will be able to recount
at twice their years.
In those thirty-five years what have they
seen come to pass?
To children as familiar with street cars,
motors and flying machines as with hills and
houses, they will be able to tell of the ex-
tinct horse-car, of their first ride in an au-
tomobile and their first sight of an airplane.
They will be able to describe. if they can but
recall the details. the first air flight across
the Atlantic, the first aerial mail service, the
advent Of the submarine and it's perfection
to the point where it all but drove fighting
ships from the sea.
They can say they have witnessed the ar
rival Of the wireless telegraph and the tele-
phone, the inauguration of the monograph
in the homes of the people, the common usage
of electricity instead of gas. the acceptance
of the tractor and the electric mixer on the
farm, the birth of the motion picture and it's
sudden rise to popularity.
Science cursed their generation with poi
son gas warfare and engines of destruction
that killed forty million men in battle and
burned up sixty. per cent of the wealth of
the. world 1t blessed them with discovery Of
the X-ray, radium, and anti-disease treat
ments that have all but wiped out yellow
fever and successfully checked the typhoid,
malaria and any number of other scourges
1t has been an age Of wonders, these past
thirty-five years, and who knows what other
marvels the next thirty-five may bring forth
If for no other reason, one is tempted to live
a long time for the simple satisfaction of
Tales" of 1855
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-28
Editorial Echoes

One of the last strongholds of mere man
has fallen. Oxford University has decided
to throw it's doors wide open to women. IL
is doing this at the very moment when the
males clamourous for admission are more
numerous than it can conveniently accom-
modate Before the war many students
we're attracted to the German universities
from England as we'll as from America, but
as Germany is now in extreme disfaVor, the
logical result is that more and more asp1-
rants to the higher learning are croWdlng
the two great English national centers of
student activities, oxford and Cambridge. 1t
is under such circumstances that Oxford has
come to it's momentous decision, and it is
only a question of brief time when Cam
bridge will follow suit.
Naturally this almost revolutionary step
on the part of the governing body of stored
Oxford has given rise to much misgiving and
has evoked spirited protests throughout con-
sentative England, but, for veal or woe, the
die has been cast. The country which has
already sent one woman to parliament and
will soon send several could scarcely with
hold any possible favor from the fair sex.
The entrance of Lady Astor to the house Of
commons broke down many barriers and
made co-education at the universities we'll
nigh inevitable corollary- Washington Post
Ind.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-28
SCIENCE SHOWS
WHO'S A LIAR

Science is not unsympathetic.'
Newspapers are slightly more so:
They have duties to perform that
are sometimes lrksome. ana a.
though the latest unsympathet1c IN
strument of science has not as yet
been made applicable to newspapers,
but only to spoken words, 1t does not
REQUIRE much imagination to foresee
situations that will be at least pa
thetic.
For an English physician has dis
covered a continuance that will de-
tect, through the accent Of the per-
son speaking, whether or not he is
telling the truth. 1t is called the
the Royal Society of Medicine
that the epidiascope records
speech infection on blackened re-
volving drum in such way. that alb
normalities are seen long before they
can be distinguished by the trained
The instrument is one of the med
ical achievmnts of war time, de-
vised to ascertain whether or not the
men who asked exemption because
they had fits, Or some SUCH
cation, were telling the truth or not.
After it's Introduction it was the
word of the epidiascope that was
finally taken.
The doctor has satisfied himself
IndC Lnere are SeeCn peCulldrlLleS
for various maladies and also result
ing from varying emotions-fear, ex-
element, enthusiasm, doubt-a1l of
which are distinguishable and can
be recorded by the epidiascope.
In the future it is evident the
epidiascope will be as necessary to
the household equipment as the meat
chopper. Mounted in silver, It will
be a fine present for the brides
mother to choose. Or, what fine
compliment to their son it would be
if it were to be given by the groom's
parents.
And, outside Of the household, they
would be wonderful. Equipped with
an amplifier, for the courtroom, for
instance, jury trial, now becoming
so often difficult, and extremely
costly, might be done away with. All
that would be needed is one large
sized epidiascope, equipped to throw
it's record on screen, and one nor
mallV observing judge.
And then again, during .presiden-
tial or gubernatorial campaigns, they
would quickly classify fund raising
witnesses, and with them out of
Jobs the campaigns themselves would
be much more economical affairs.