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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10
LITTLE BERNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY IEE PAPE

was setting out on our frunt steps
jest setting there and suddinly all of a
suddin I smelled a smell like Nora
cooking biskits back in the kitchin,
1T was. and stood in the kitchin door
a vile watching her taking them out
of the pans, saying, Can have one,
please, Nora?
You can not. you'll wait for your
meels the same as everybody elts in
mad at me for making a noise like a
sad cat outside the kitchin window
last mite vile she was setting in there
with her fello. And I kepp on stand
ing in the door looking and smelling,
and after vile L thawt, G.. I know,
I'll make her mad and she'll throw a
biskit at me and I'll catch it.
Witch I started to do, saying, Dwell,
wouldent eat one of your old biskits
anyway, thyre ony made out of saw
dust and turpentime and old shoes.
You'll wish you was made of saw
dust if you don't cleer out of heer, sed
Nora starting TO look mad
If you handed me one of your old
biskits rite this minnit Id throw it
out of the window. sed.
Sumthing besides biskits can be
throwed out the window, sed Nora.
Meaning me, and I sed, I've saw funny
looking biskits before. but bleeve me
those are the funniest looking biskits
ever saw.
II you catch one in the eye It will
be funnier looking still, sed Nora. Me
thinking, o boy, she's going to throw
one in a minnit. And 'sed, Well Id
drather catch it in the eye than on
the foot aniEbe lame the rest of my
life.
Take that, sed Nora. And wat did
she pick up and throw at me but a
old wet dish rag, and it hit me rite in
the middle of the face feeling fearse.
Proving if everything happened the
way you thawt it would you would
never be serprized.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10

y There is a great shoPtage of houses.
This shortage can be relieved only by
increased building. But there can be
little building until there be a better
return to capital invested in houses
and apartments. Almost any other
kind of business pays better than
housebuilding. Either rents must go
higher, or the cost of building must be
lowered. Men will build houses when
It pays them to do so, and not before.
One of the reasons why there is so
little building, doubtless, is the pen
atty in the form of taxes assessed
against the man who improves his
property. While land lies idle it in
cFeases in value with little added ex-
pense to the owner, but when a house
is built on it the state, county and
municipality promptly assess fine
against the proprietor. Unless the
shortage of houses be relieved legisla-
tors may find it necessary to take cog
nizanee of this condition and change
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10

In wave OF tenderness and gratitude
he caught her hand.
my deal Constance, how can ever
thank you7 You must have ruined
your summer waiting on me. II
didn't deserve it. Why, you gave up
everythingi You shouldn't have done
it," He still held her hand, and it
came to him that she made no effort
to release it. He looked at her face
and saw the tears in her eyes.
TIT wasn't anything" she said,
turning away to hide her tears. II
just couldn't help it. II wanted to
more than anything in my life" She
was frankly sobbing now. and trying
to free her hand. But he chung to it
and drew it toward him.
why, Constance, dear-Constance
u didn't know didn't think you
cared like that. Dearest girl, I've
wanted to tell you all along, but I
thought you only pitied me-"
"Oh, it is more than that" she cried
Ever and ever so much more-so
much more than that"
But it was so much more that she
couldn't say it, Her arms around his
neck told him.
Copyright 1920 by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10

The opponents of japanese immi-
grafton on the Pacific coast urge that
the Orientals can make money in ag-
rieulturs and fruit growing, because
they work from sun to sun and all
members Of the family, male and fe-
male. engage in regular work, from
early childhood to senility. Ameri-
cans, it is said, cannot compete with
them and maintain American stan
dards. Probably the real trouble is
that the californians cannot separate
the Asiatics from their money so easily
as they can perform a similar service
for arrivals from other parts of the
werld.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10
Dinner Stories

The civil service commission re-
euires that every seeker after govern
ment employment shall fill out reg
ular printed application form The
following was received from a south
ern backwoodsTnan:
Question In what state or ter
ritory do you claim actual bona fide
Nxesidence?"
Answer-"Alabama-"
Question 2-"Length of residence in
such state or territory
Answer - ''Forty-two feet nine
inches"
How did you enjoy the sermon -
Too short"
That so? never heard anyone
complain that sermon was too brief
before"
We'll you see, it was this way: IL
hardly dropped asleep before the thing
was over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10
Dorothy Dix EdLks
Marrying Mother.
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
WOxld's HIghess Paid Woman Wriv1=.


The young man was raving to me
about the charms and graces Of his
fianeee.
She seems a miracle of perfection, -
said. but what sort of a mother
oh" he replied airily. "her mother
is about everything object to in the
female sex. but then, you see. am
marrying the girl. I am not marrying
her mother
"Ah." I said sadly. there's where
you are making a fatal blunder. son.
You are not only marrying the girls
mother, but you are marrying HER
mother, and HER mothers mother
and HER mother, and all of her fe-
Eve.
And am not talking about hered-
ity. either. tho the call of the blood
seems stronger in women than it does
in men. 1 am talking about the en-
vironment in which a girl is reared
the form of whatever ideals and prin-
ciples her mother cherished"
For the mother makes the home,
and all the plastic years Of her life.
the little girl is shut up within the
confines of the home. Her mother is
her oracle and what her mother
teaches her by word of mouth and
example is ingrained into every fibre
Of her being. A mother and daughter
are far more intimate than a father
and son ever are. A mother influences
her daughter far more than a father
influences a son.
In every family there are certain
traditions and precepts that are handed
down from mother to daughter thru
generations, and these form the code
of the women of that family-a code
whose laws are as unbreakable as the
law of the Modes and the Persians.
Home and early influence put nc
such indelible stamp upon a boy as
they do upon a girl. You often see
a man who is no more like his family
than if he had not a drop of their
blood in his veins. and who thinks
and acts entirely differently from his
father, but a girl nearly always runs
true to form. What her mother is
she becomes; what her mother made
her, she stays.
Therefore. son. give mother the
once-over very carefully before you
propose to mothers daughters. Also
cast an appraising eye on mothers
husband For as mother is, the girl
will be, and as mothers husband is
so will be your fate unless some mir
acle happens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10

mother and follow her everywhere
She. in tura, shows great affection Tor
them.
Fresno. CAL. Sept. s.-AIl OF the
raisin vineyards in the san Joaquin
valley struck today. The trouble re-
suited from the refusal OF the yeast.
employed in connection with the prod
uct of the vineyards TO observe union
hours. Those who know the vineyards
say they are firm in their determina-
ton not to resume production until
the yeast quits working overtime and
observes the union regulations limiting
output.
G.. u M.-writes in to say that in as
auming seven-eard piquet, deaces wild.
with a ten-cent limit, to be Philadel-
phia's ultimate fling in sport. we do
the town no injustice. But he int-
mates that our search for excitement
has been neither well planned nor ably
conducted.
He is the sort of fellow" said Eph
Wiley yesterday in discussing one Of
his aversions, who always neglected
to replace the fork in its glass of water
after he had sampled the free lunch"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10

and non-taxpayers, but the
truth is that all consumers are tax
payers whether or not they own prop
erty. But when they pay taxes on
shoes, for instances, that the manu-
facturers and dealers have added to
the price. they do not realize it, and
do not receive credit for it. They are
called non-taxpayers and rank lower
in public estimation than citizens who
pay direct taxes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10
lust FOLKS
THINGs HAPPEN ZOE III nEsT.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

THINGS HAPPEN FOR THE BEST.
Things mostly happen for tAe best
However hard ID seems today
When some fond plan has gone astray
Or what you'd wished for most was lost
An you aft countin' up the cost
with eyes haIf-blind by tears o. grief
While doubt is chokin out belief
You'll find when all is understood
That what seemed bad was really good
Life can't be counted in q day,
The present rain that will not stop
Next autumn means a bumper crop.
We wonder why some thRgs must be,
Cares purpose we can seldom see
An vet long afterwards we turn
To view the past, an then we learn
That what once filled cur minds with
Was good for US as it worked out
I've never known an hour of care
But what I've later come to tee
That ID had brought come JOY 10 me-
Even the SORROWS l have borne.
Leavin' me lonely an forlorn
An hurt an bruised an sick at heart
In LIES great plan have had part
An tho l could not understand
Why 1 should bow 10 Deaths command,
AS time went on I came to know
That it was really better 50.
Things mostly happen for the best.
So narrow is our vision here
That We are blinded by tear
An stunned by every hurt an blow
Which comes today to strike US low.
An yet some day we turn an find
That what seemed cruel once Nas klnd
Most things l hold, are wisely planned
II we could onlv understand.
Copyright, 1920, by Edgar A. Gucst)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10

great diminution of public revenue
will. of course. result; but the govern
ment will have borrowed, perhaps a
year in advance. relying on the tax on
business profits TO meet these public
loans. A general era of bankruptcies
such as has been known in the past
and cannot be regarded as impossible
in the future, would sprove a very
serious matter for the federal treas
ury
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10

God credit, and admitted His superior
!ty to her native gods. Jewish tradi-
ton has it that she became a proselyte
to the religion of Jehovah
It is as a parable that the Lesson
has its greatest significance. When APP
piled to a Greater than Solomon, it
represents His munificence and riches.
concerning which THE half has not
been told" All who seek Jesus, find
Him more than they anticipated. and
they find themselves laden with His
royal bounty"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10

There are several serious objections
TO the excess profits tax, some of
which have already been realized
while others relate TO threatening pos
sibilities. Under the latter head may
be considered the fact that the gov
ernment borrows in anticipation of
the collection Of the tax and the tax
payers are always in debt to the gov
eminent If business prosperity de-
creases and bankruptcies occur. a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10

Farmers who have been meeting in
Salina this week declare that it costs
frem s2.75 to $2.77 TO produce a
bushel of wheat. Yet they are willing
to sell it. delivered in Kansas City, for
So. The margin between production
cost and proposed selling price seems
hardly sufficient TO make wheat-rais-
ing a profitable business. especially
since freight rates have been in
creased.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10

Wheat growers complain that they
are losing money on their product
Live stock raisers and feeders declare
that their business is being ruined by
low prices. The citrus fruit growers
say that foreign fruit dumped into
American ports, is running them. The
wool growers say that government
sales and British government sales in
America have driven the price of ma
tive wool to far below the cost of pro-
duction. The peanut growers point
out that they had never expected to be
brought into competition with
Oriental labor. But the government
answers that prices are going down,
and rejoices. Meanwhile the con-
sumner continues to pay the same or
higher prices for everything he buys.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10

The American Economist urges Sen
ator Harding to drop the League of
Nations and begin talking tariff
Whatever the senator's views on the
tariff may be, he is too wise a poll
tieian to make it an issue in the cam
paign. 1t always has proven disas-
treus to the Republican party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10

II American manufacturers be dis
turbed by the increasing flow OF
fereign-made goods to our shores,
they need but to reduce their prices
in order to eliminate competition.
This they could easily do except for
the excess-profit tax, and probably
they could do it as matters stand
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10
observation-disclosures

O. Are there any steamers leaving New
York City carrying passengers at present,
going via Panama Canal to San Francisco
a. The International Mercantile Marine
line says that there is no passenger line
going directly from New aork to san Frah-
O. What colors would be most appro-
pirate for decorations for second wedding
A. The second wedding anniversary Is
the cotton wedding. so the decorations
should be white, combined perhaps with
the cotton blossom which Is pink in the
morning and a deep lavender by late after
noon, they would be attractive with white
plant with the cotton attached.
Q. What is an agony column Pr, C.
column i IN newspapers set aside for adver-
tisements Of missing or runaway persons,
appeals for help and other personal COM
q. What countries have fnrpished the
most immigrants to the United States p
4. The British Isles stands first. nearly
one-fourth Of the total immigration foRthe
last 100 years coming from England. Ire
lard Scotland Hand AND wslsS Is
and Scandinavia follow in the order named.
O. How large stream Is the Gun
4. Yearssof observation have established
the fact that all the great rivers Of the
world turned into. one channel would not
Stream. Its breadth in its narrowest por-
tion is about 50 miles, and its depth about
?, 600 feet
(Any reader can ger the answer 20 any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
HaSkins- Director. Washington. D. c
This offer applies strictly . Information.
The Bureau cannot give advice on legal
medical. and financial matters It does
not attempt TO settle domestic troubles
nor TO undertake exhaustive research on
any subject. Write your question plainly
srd briefly. Give foil name and address
and enclose two cents In stamps for return
postage. AL replies are sent direct to the
inquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10
A1 A-EA4

Copyright. 1890, by the Wheeler Syndicate,
1nel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-10
International
SundaySchoolLesson
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

For September IL is THE Glory of
Solomon's Reign."-I Kings 1o.1-1s,
23-25
The Washington herald., 1920-12-03
Shop IN Washinston.

The police authorities of New York are getting
positively cruel. They have served notice that any
crook thief, pickpocket, pilferer or hold-up man
seen in the downtown district will be arrested and
thrown into Jail. Is there no longer to be a sense
of comfy between comrades?
The district named extends all the way from
Twenty-third to Fifth-ninth streets and from Sew
enth to Madison avenues. The order holds good
until January This the entire holiday
season, with its aftermath 1t is the time of crowds
of having money and spending it. 1t is period
when purse-snatching and pocket-pickng is safest
and most profitable
Of course, the police know all these crooks or
they could not arrest them on sight. They know
them well in one part part of the city in an
other, and knowing them, why compel them to hang
over the fence it were, almost within reach of
the rich but forbidden fields?
Why is it so much more lawless to snatch two
purses than one, to steal from three than from two
to take $40 than 81, to be crook downtown than
uptown, or in December than in November? Know
ing the classic features of these who live by
crime, whose sole occupation is theving, one might
think they would be put where they would not
make walking any OF the streets of New York so
dangerous.
Anyway the warning should be sufficient to
those outside New York to induce them to stay out
and do their holiday shopping at home. In Wash
ington all the streets safe all the time. The
crooks stay in New York, where they are on friend
ly terms of intimacy with the police. So long as
they have this notice that it is safe to steal outside
the comparatively small restricted district they will
not venture here when there is no safety zone for
their kind. The moral is: Do your Christmas buy
ing in Washington
The Washington herald., 1920-12-03
Dnutias ! Typs.


determined effort will be made to halt the
how Of immigrants at the coming short session of
Congress 1t is not probable that this will succeed
1t IS more apt to have wait for the extra session
But the waiting if this is necessary will not lessen
the earnestness of the effort.
There is much more in this movement than the
labor aspect; there is to it than keeping out
the more radical and turbulent elements under the
blanket name Of Bolsheyists or Communists. 1t has,
as The Herald sees it, still more important side,
that of preserving the American type. 1t is ques
ton as to how much Slav blood, for example, this
Country can absorb and preserve its American
identity 1t is Sav blood in its various degrees of
purity and pollution that is flooding to these shores
These people more or less segregate in city and
rural sections. Many are tenacious of their national
ideals, customs and tendencies. 1t is SO huge a
problem to even teach them our national language
that the record is far one of miserable failure
almost hopeless task. There is no organization as
yet worthy of the name, in a national sense, to
do this.
The query then, and it is a vital one, is whether
more millions of these people than now have
will not have more influence in lowering the quality
Of our citizenship than the present population can
have in elevatng them. Will it not become case
of Misunderstanding America rather than in any
adequate sense Amercanizing this great current Of
the less desirable Of foreign blood.
There are as yet great sections of this coun-
try populated by nationals of the origin such
as are in Russia, in several of the smaller Near
East states But such groups in comparatively small
numbers found in cities, counties and townships,
They maintain all their national characteristics and
to all ntents as foreign as if in their own
homeland
Many. if not most of these people, have con-
cepton of America or American institutions. This
country means to them more than a meal ticket.
They have other use for it than what is eco
nomic. Politiez social ahiliation has attrac-
ton to them, do they comprehend what this
may mean to them They always FIRST" of their
own nativity.
This country may need their labor. They may
have a great labor value On the contrary, they
may not be needed in the field Of labor and only be
used to lower the present labor level, in its inte
gence its manner of living. and in its quality of
citizenship They may, too, permit the inhltration
of menacng additions to the extreme radical ele-
ment whose only objective is to pull down.
But whatever differences of judgment, from
selfinterest otherwise, there may be to these
aspects of the immigration problem, there would
seem to be little room for question that until the
foreign blood have is absorbed that it is made
American, further TRANSMISSION is anything but
desirable.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-03
CorneRs Unsallant Men.

II representative group of seniors at Cornell
University really speak for the men of the student
body, then what is called "coeducation is failure
there, and so believing. the want official action
looking toward ultimate exclusion of women from
the institution, so that they may be educated if
need be, in women's colleges. To the argument that
eo-education succeeds in the Western educational
institutions the petitioners reply that, even so it
does not alter the situation. The ideal of mixing is
indigenous to the West The East is traditionally
exclusive. Women clutter up academic halls and
Laboratories that, since they are not likely to be
expanded soon, are needed for the ever-increasing
number OF men who want education. Unchecked
by some restrictive rules, Cornell they claim, bids
fair to become womans institution, with men in
minority, and getting less and less recognition on
student publications.
There is usually FIRE where there is so
much smoke, and apparently the new president of
Cornell is going to inherit very brary issue which
he must meet soon after his Inauguration. Cornell
is virtually the State university for Western New
York 1t has large number of alurnnae who are
not quietists Ezra Cornell and Andrew D. White
have living friends who will not see their liberal
theories of education knitted The only hope of the
critics is in their finding donor willing to give
enough money to create and endow woman's col
lege on the Cornell campus; and even that scheme
would have to be stfly fought for to get indorse-
ment from the alumni and trustees.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-03
Naval Orders

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November -, 1870:
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bernaooo; 20 Navy Yard. Charleston. q. {.
knsien vieter v. Blakeslee-Det RS
Boston, hsss.; to Destroyer Force. Atlartie
F1e~t.
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Det. Naval Deuchment In Adristic: 10 duty
with Asistie Fleet
knsiss william ButIer-Det U.ss Kei,s
Herceaes; TO C.s.s. Pennsylvshia
Lieut.. Charles W. A. Csnpbeli-D~t O.
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etsf Capt. wm. V. Pratt Condr Destroyer
Force Pscife Fleet
Lieut. lfl John W. Cunulnfhan-Dst
U.s.s. hsllard: to U.s.s. Bsrsduce
Lieut.. Comdr. Rush s. Fay-Det uss
ksinbov; 20 C-s-s. Beaver ss Nsvifttor
Lieut.. U-ED LEO v. FIsvem (supply Co-psl
Diet. U.s.s. Zrinyi: TO duty Naval supply
Depot spalsto. Dslmatis.
Bo-n. Herbert n. Gib~on-Det Us6
Wtdreon: 70 U.s.s. Potomae.
bnsifn Edward 4. Haase-Det. Nsvsl
TraInihf Station. Newport, R. l.. I2-l-'2o;
to U.s.S. Tennessee.
Mach. william II. Hystt-Det Uss Bar
aduct; to C.S.S. Eider.
Lieut.. lJarrsrd y. Jones-Det U.ss Mis-
sissippl: TO U.s.s. willlsnsou ts Entineer
officer.