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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-13
MouHon Musings
BY ROY *. sfoULToN.
LIVES OF GREAT MEN.
Francisco villa

At the age of ten, after only a super
ficial education, Villa led his first revo-
luton. and in the battle of Tobasco he
lost his first leg. To show the won
derful versatility and endurance of the
Ian is only necessary to call atten-
ten to the fact that he has been
dropping them occasionally ever since.
During the campaign of 1915 he lost
five legs in as many important bat
ties. In the early days it was often
said that Villa was on his last legs,
out he has always had one or two left.
Having brother and two uncles In
the undertaking business in Chihua-
hua, little Francisco started out to
help make their business a success.
He was unique in the realm of polite
banditry in that he never murdered
man If the man gave up his money
without struggle. NJ
Villa is a self-educated man. Ee
always uses a typewriter. He places
the typewriter on the ground sits on
his horse and shoots at the keys. His
especially after capturing a Sonora
ginmill and pulque dispensary.
Villa has started seventy-nine rero-
lutions, and has finished sixty-six of
them, thirteen still being in allegiance
with no winner announced When he
has time he goes back and tries to
win one of the thirteen that he
dropped. Just now he is believed to
be engaged in trying to win the revo-
luton of 1907.
Villas chief characteristic is his
strong love for everything American.
He particularly likes American beef
and American money. At times, being
unable to buy American beef. he has
crossed the Rio Grande and run It off.
1t is difficult to predict what the
future holds in store for this great
man.
villa is Mexican thru and thru,
which fact alone should give a cor
rect insight into his character.
Switzerland hasn't had war in 400
years. She must have her last ono
about paid for by this time.
who is forgotten sooner than an ex-
delegate?
Well, they even got the census
wrong.
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LITTLE BENNY's NOTE BOOK

Us fellows was standing GROUND the
lampost tawking about different sub
jecks, and Skinny Martin came up all
lxcited, saying, Hay fellows. holey
smoaks, watts you think. Sam Crosses
cuzzin frum the country has come to
see him and they're erround in Sans
yard now and jimniny Krissmas, watts
you think, he's a funny looking kid
and his hair is parted rite in the mid
die, holey srioaks fellows.
The darn sissey, well watts you know
about that, G wiz can you beet that,
he must be reguler mama's boy, the
darn sissy. all us fellows sed, and
Pubs Simkins sed. Lets go Ground
and initiate him, we don't wunt eny
darn sissies GROUND heer. the darn
sissey.
Lets duck him under the hydrant.
the darn sissey. sed Leroy Shooster.
Sounding like a pritty good of a
ideer, and we all went erreund to Sam
Crosses back yard making noises like
tuff guys, and the gate was locked and
we all climbed up and sat on the tents
and some freckle face kid was in there
fetching Sam Cross how to box, Sam
lest standing there trying to keep from
being hit and the freckle face kid
jumping erround quick as lightning
and making his fists go jest like a
prize fighter, us fellows thinking. Gosh
G wiz, holey smoaks.
WITCH as soon as the freckle face
kid saw US setting on the tents he
came oyer and started to jump err
round rite underneath, still making his
fists so, saying. Well, watts you guys
wunt? If eny of you guys wunt a
fife come down heer and Ill show you
thing or 2, and if you don't wunt a
fife get the heck down off of that
tents before I pull you down.
WITCH we all got down /agen, laffing
as If we thawt we was jest getting
down because We felt like II and ,,,a
went and started to stand GROUND the
lampost agen, and nobody hadent even
noticed weather his hair was parted in
| the middle or not.
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RAILROADS HELP PRICE SLUMP.

Price reductions ranging UP to s3A
chiefly characterized the progress of
readJustment during the last tive
weeks. according to a bulletin issued
by the Guaranty Trust company of
New York. Beginning with announce
ments of cuts in the manufacturers
prices for cotton and wooden fabrics,
the movement toward lower levels has
been spreading steadily.
Leather and rubber goods prices are
down. Raw cotton has sold down to
20 cents per pound. Wheat prices
have dropped below 81 a bushel and
corn and oats have fallen off in SYM
pathy. In a dull market copper is be-
ing sold at Is cents per pound, with
offers below that being made to slim
ulate business. There have been re-
cessions in a number of food products,
notably sugar. coffee. flour, potatoes.
beans, condensed milk and beef.
There is every reason to believe.
continues the bulletin. that the cur
rent reductions in commodity prices
have been due in part to the very
great improvement in the transporta-
ton situation. In a statement dealing
with the efforts which twenty-seven
of the principal railroads are making
to increase the average freight car
mileage and tonnage, the Association
of Railway Executives says that mere
freight is being moved more miles
ha the nf
cars in bad order is being steadily re-
duced, and that the roads are not only
getting heavier loading per car, but
are obtaining, thru the cooperation
OF the shippers. quicker loading and
unloading.
In August of this year these roads
moved more than 1900 car loads in
loads moved in August, 1918, totalled
Z per cent more than had ever been
handled in that month. The state
ment goes on to. say that when the
government returned the railroads the
mileage per day gas about 23h. To-
day it is about 26. By this increase in
efficiency during the past few months
the executives have in effect added the
equivalent of approximately 10000
new freight cars to the service of the
country. and by increasing the average
load per car to nearly ton have add
ed the equivalent of perhaps 10000
cars. Not content with this they have
set before themselves the goal of rails
ing the average mileage per car per
day to 80 and the average load to 80
tons-records in railroad operation
which have never been achieved else
where"
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Copyright. 1929. by the Wheeler Syndicate
Incl
JUST FOLKS
ON DINING WITH eUARRELseME
CnfrT3T.TcS
Ex EDGAR a. QUEST.


I freely. confess there are good friends of
mine,
With whom We are often invited to dine,
Who get on my nerves SO that cannot
eat
Or stay with my usual ease In my sea,
For l know that IL something should
chance to occur
Which he may not like OF which doesn' t
please her,
That wen have to try to be pleasant SOME
how
While they stage a fine little family row.
Now a family row is a private affair.
And guests. l am certain, should never be
there;
have freely maintained that man and
his wife
Cannot always agree on their journey thru
life,
But they ought not to bieker and wrangie
and shout
And show off their rage when their friends
are about:
It takes ali the joy from a party. VOW.
When some couple starts up family row.
Its a difficult job to stay cool and polite
When your host and your hostess are stag
ing a fight;
It's hard to talk sweet to q dame with q
frown
Or smile at man that you want to knock
down;
You sit like a dummy and look far away.
But you just ean'S help hearing the harsh
things they say.
1t ruins the dinner. I'm telling you now.
When your host and your hostess get mix
ed in 4 row
Copyright. 1890. By Edgar A. Guest-l
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Dorothy Dix Talks
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
world. Highest Paid Woman wEivss.
Mother jealousy.

have received a letter from a
man who writes:
when I was a small child my faith
err died, leaving my mother with a
helpless babe and no money. By al
most incredible labor and self sacri-
flee she brought me up decently, gave
me a good education, and enabled me
to get a fair start in the world. I
have tried to be a good son to her,
and thus far have devoted my life to
her.
But now 1 am forty years old. I
want to marry. I want a home of my
own, I want a wife's love and COM
partnership. and the feel OF little child
ren's arms around my neck. For five
years 1 have been engaged to one of
the sweetest and noblest women in
the world, but my mother will not
hear of my marrying. When I speak
of it, she almost goes mad. She weepS
and tells me that I will break, her
heart, and reminds me of all the, sacri-
fees she has made for me, and i'm
plores me never to marry while she is
alive.
"I cannot endure the thought of
hurting my mother, yet I must choose
between doing that, and wounding the
woman I love and who loves me, for
cannot ask her to wait indefinitely
on the within of a jealous mother. My
mother is only sixty-two years old. and
in perfect health, ana Will 1--we LOT
many years I trust, so if defer mar
riage until her death I put 1t off for
ever, for I shall myself be then too
old to think of such a thing.
What shall I do? Has my mother
the right to exact the sacrifice of my
life as the price of her care of me
when I was a child?"
No. A thousand times no. Children
owe much to their parents, but not a
thousandth part of the duty that par
ents owe to their children. None of us
ask to be born, and when our parents
thrust life upon us, they are morally
bound to do every possible thing they
can to make it tolerable for us. There
are plenty of selfish and self-centered
mothers like this one, who are willing
to wreck their children's happiness in
order to crafty their own morbid
jealousy, and their sons and daughters
dc a wrong and foolish thing in giving
in to them.
A woman who is not willing for her
son of forty to marry a nice girl is
a meglo- maniac, and should be dealt
with gently but firmly, as one who is
not quite sane, and incapable of judg
ing clearly of the nature of her acts.
There is something even abnormal in
her affection for her son. that makes
her want to isolate him from the
regular life of man. 1t is a love that
Is strangling, blighting, suffocating
and unhealthy, instead of wholesome
mother love.
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George Maftllew A dams
Daily Talk
A MAN WHO WAS BORN TO LIVE
FOREVER.

Napoleon once stood in an attitude
of great reverence-so it is told in one
of his histories-and REL arked:
Jesus Christ-a marvellous Figured"
There have been more words written
and spoken about this simple and
lovely character than about any figure
in all the hi2tory of time.
Born in a manger, of humble par
entage. He grew up naturally and
worked at a trade, even as other men.
He was 'tel-pted in all points," it is
written, eve.- as we. And yet there
was never recorded one single word of
unkindness or evil report during His
entire life. 1t is said that He was "a
man of sorrows, acquainted with
grief
He was loyal to His friends and
loved them-this characteristic being
extended even to His enemies.
No one ever understood people and
the human heart as Jesus did.
But He never played with wrong.
He called it by its name and faced it.
He never lost courage in the midst of
unfriendly numbers, or great criticism
To PLATE who accused Him, He an
swered not a word" And when they
told Him that He was to be crucified.
He took up His cross and carried it to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-13

1t is notable that all the prominent
campaign orators of both parties are
keeping out of New York. Empire
state politicians have way of settling
the vote of that member of the Union
among themselves and it may be that
they have suggested that there be no
outside interference Probably no
amount of ordinary campaigning
would affect the result. The politics
of New York is run by the party ma
chimes on a give and take basis. The
country in general probably will not
know what has been decided upon I'M
til the counting of the votes begins.
tho Indiana, Connecticut and New
Jersey already may possess inside in
formation
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Questions-Answers

Q. What is meant by the term "wheel
base "A. G. V. d.
A. The wheel base is the distance from
the center of the front axle to the center
@. Can you tell me who wrote "But the
man worth while is the man who can
smile when everything goes dead wrong?
A. The lines are from the poem worth
While by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 1T is
easy enough to be pleasant when life flows
along like a song, but the man worth while
is the one who Will smile when everything
@. How many horsepower can a propel-
Ter stand without flying 70 pieces Re. R.
A. The Air Service says that engines
are now built for aircraft up to 1890
horsepower, and that these drive screws,
tractor or propeller direct or indirect, as
when hit or when they are defective or
become defective.
Q. Is much of the silk goods manu-
featured in America made from pure silk
A. great part of the silk goods manu-
pure silk The manufacture of artificial
silk is increasing steadily. This silk is
pFodaFeed dsSm ce Tha or Cotton OF pup
ficial silk In this country in 1918 amounted
to nearly six million pounds while about
six six were re used during " similar Period.
Q How did the cup which is the prize
in the. big yacht race come to be called
England &C. K.R-
A In 1851 an American schooner called
the America was visiting in English
waters at the time Of the Royal Yacht
Squadron races. This vessel entered the
regatta and sailed without time allowance
around the Isle of Wight The America
finished first out Of large fleet nf yes
sells She was awarded the prize of cup
valued at $500 The owner took this cup
to the New York Yacht club to establish
a perpetual challenge trophy for competi-
ton between yachts of the different
countries Therefore the cup became
known as -America's Cup"
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men call on him to show the country
that the Protestant ministers of New
York trusted him. Mr.. Blaine received
the delegation on the grand stairway
at the old Fifth Avenue hotel. The
address on the part of the delegation
was delivered by Doctor Burchard, an
aged Brooklyn preacher. At its close
came the fatal phrase in describing
the evils against which Blaine stood:
Rum. Romanism and Rebellionl"
Beaten by Three Words.
Rum, Romanisrn, and Rebellion!"
slant, altho Mr.. Blaine delayed a
whole day in disclaiming sympathy
with this speech. There were but two
days until election, then, and the dis
claimer did not reach the voters. In
New York there were certain unscrup-
ulous ward-workers who told the tale
that Blaine himself had denounced the
triple evils of Rum, Romanism and
Rebellionl"
Despite the frantic efforts of the
Republican 1egions. despite their bit
ter denunciation of the Democrats. the
fatal ALTERATION got in it's work. Many
good Catholics who had been per-
suaded to turn from their Denfoeratic
leaning to vote for Blaine changed
their minds again and voted the
straight Democratic ticket. 1t was in
the days of the ascendancy of the
Irish vote IN New York.
Either the Conkling detection in
Oneida county, the Burchard break,
the st. John Prohibition vote, or the
Butler vote was sufficient to turn the
scale. If any one of these things had
not happened, if the vote lost by any
one had been saved to the Republic
cans, Blaine would have been elected
and Grover Cleveland never would
have been heard of in national af-
fails. BY such trifles, accidents and
animosities are the affairs of a re-
public influenced.
An amusing feature of the reception
of the somewhat startling news that a
Democrat had been elected president,
was the wailing of the ignorant ne
groes in the south. Republican poll
ticians had taught them that Demo-
cratic president meant an instant re-
turn to slavery. The same politicians
had promised each negro forty acres
and a mule in the event of Republic
can success. The forty acres and a
mule story hadn't come true in the
past, but the negroes feared the woe
Of political prophecy might be true.
In some sections it required weeks to
reassure darkies and to make them
understand that Cleveland would do
them no harm.
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Buck Kilby says while Mr. Tumulty
is, so far as he knows, a good enough
private secretary, it is his opinion that
he is poor president.
The probability that the voter will
make a mistake always is imminent.
But the chance that he will do so is
not quite SO pronounced if he knows
what he is voting for or againstH
We are frank to say the provision
of the Wisconsin elections law ,requir-
ing that the legs of voters shall be
visible to height of eighteen inches
might have interested us once. But
that was long ago AS one who roams
ularity, we now consider the Wisconsin
law an anti-climax.
We cling to life tenaciously, but it is
not because we believe it has any
further revelations to make to us.
We regard it as a hopeful sign that
the American people witnessed the.
auction sale of the late Mr.. Elweli's
personal effects with a complacency
equal to thatswith which they regarded
his summary removal The rug most
intimately connected with the tragedy
brought only s27.
AS people we have travelled far and
in the right direction since the days
when Harry Thaw was hero.
Meanwhile. we continue our efforts
to extend the Little Napoleon's'' list
of acquaintances. Mr.. McGraw, shake
hands with Mr.. Harold Bell Wright!
We make some progress. There was
time when an attempt to eat a quail
a day for thirty consecutive days was
considered a sporting event.
The communication from a SUBJ
scriber at Havre de Grace who writes
to ask whether the column has been
permanently discontinued absorbs us.
But it would have been more comfort
ing had he added: That's all l take
the paper for
That. we add. was what they used
to say out in the flat country. And
some Of them meaRtit The paper lost
Most of you remember Mr.. Roose-
velt's wish that every American could
have been a witness to the meeting
between these two great men, And
his remark that their splendid accord
and their high purpose is an inspira-
tion." OF course you do.
| Well, we have always wondered
what they said to each other and, for
some reason, Mr. Roosevelt never told
| We, therefore, assume the response
| bility of asking the question. Whai
did Mr.. Wilson say to Governor Cox
and vice versa?
If it is to be an inspiration to us
we've got to know what they said.
| One tenet of Mr.. Harding's creed
appeals to US. We have always be
lieved that no matter to what extern
this country NEEDLES with the Irisr
question Great Britain should not bt
permitted to have anything to sa,
| about the government of the. Philip
pines.
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Mr. Taft says there will be no league
If Cox shall be elected because neither
the people nor the senate viii stand
for Article TX. Senator Harding de-
clares that If he be elected there will
be no league either with or without
Article X. He could work his will in
the matter since the treaty is pigeon
holed at the White House. The league,
therefore, appears to be done for as
far as this country is concerned. so
why continue to talk about it? Taft
still insists that Harding will give US a
league but Harding says he will not
and he should know.
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THE great outstanding fact" says
Senator Spencer, lis that the president
led the Rumanians and Serbs to be-
lieve as clearly as language can do it
that an American army and navy was
available to them in case there was
any fresh trouble" On the contrary,
the great outstanding fact" is that if
the president said anything of the
sort he was talking thru his hat and
the Rumanians and Serbs were foolish
II they believed him.
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at seems a pity remarks the
morning paper, that politicians, par
ties and people can not agree on other
questions with the ease and dispatch
with which they get together on such
a question as the budget system"
But If they get together so readily,
Why is the country deprived of a
budget system?
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Wheat growers complain that Cana
dian wheat is coming to this country
and is helping to force prices below
the actual cost of production. In that
case the Canadians must be losing
money, so why not let them alone and
they will go broke? Then we can
have control of the market.
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the place where they crucifiea Him"
Even as He hung there in deep agony.
He turned to one of the conde mined
thieves at His side and told him that
He wanted him to be with Hmm
Paradise"
Let us take up our problems and go
into the heart of our work with re-
newed spirit as we think of the ex-
ample that this man Jesus set nineteen
hundred and twenty years ago!
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Attic the country never was more
prosperous than it is today. the list
of those who are losing money is
steadily being heightened. To the
wheat raisers, the corn raisers and the
livestock producers have been added
the cotton growers. They declare that
It costs 40 cents a pound to produce
cotton and they are compelled to sell
their crop for about 20 cents. With
er are we driftinE7
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Defeat of the good roads amend
ment to the state constitution will not
prtnit US to escape road building;
neither will it increase the federal aid.
The roads must and will be built and
the people must and will pay for them.
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came forth with eyes still dizzy with
surprise.
1.-THE world is small" he rnuttered.
Its big enough" said Elsie meekly,
because there're only two people in
it Just now -
(Gopyright. 1920 by the Mcclure Ne1s-
paper Syndieate.B.
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The leaguers have failed to accent
the challenge to name a single nation,
situate as happily as the United States,
that would consider entering the
League of Nations.-St Louis Times
But the failure may be due to the
fact that there is no other nation '.sit-
nate as happily as the United States.p