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Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-12-17

WRAY PENNsY CAPTAIN.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. I.-Rex ID.
W~av of Monmouth, Ill, was, Thurs
day, elected captain Of the University of
Pennsylvania football team.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-12-17

Make some man happy with an extra
heavy, long, comfortable overcoat of
the quality that always goes with the
Kahn label These coats are in double
breasted and conservative models.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-12-17

Woody Machines took two games from
the Jones W bittaker team in a special
match.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

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LITTLE BENNY's NOTE BOOK
BY UEE PApE

This AFTERNOON ma was up in her
room crowshaying, and 1 was looking
out the window wondering weather 10
go out or jest keep on looking out
and ma sed, deer, o shah. Benny.
run GROUND to the store and get me
a spool of red silk.
Aw G, ma, ! was jest going out.
sed.
Well. you're going out. aren't you?
sed ma, and I sed, Yes, mann. but
ment Jest out.
Heers a peece OF thred to match.
and please kindly remember I'm heer
waiting for you, sed ma. Meening not
to take too much longer than / had
to, and wen 1 got down to the corner
n man started to CLINE up the telegram
pole to fix the wires, me stopping to
watch him in case he mite fall off or
enything. wich after vile Pubs Sim
kins came along and stood there and
helped me watch him. and after vile
I remembered 1 was on a errand. say
ing. Hay Pubs. come with us vile get
a spool of silk, will you
/ I will IL you come with me ferst.
got to go about places, sed Pubs.
Witch / went with him, and then he
went with me, and wen 1 got home it
was pretty necr dark, ma saying, Did
cnt tell you I was waiting for that
silk. now cant finish the tie, you Jest
wait TIL your father gets home.
WITCH pritty soon pop did. and ma
showed him the start of the tie, being
red and green as enything. ma saying.
1t was to of bin serprize so you
| could wear 1t tonite wen we go to the
show.
The doose I could, sed pop. and ma
sed, Yes, / could of had it all finished
and the only reason I dident was be-
cause Benny stayed out about hours
wen I sent him for more red silk and
1 wunt you to scold him for it, too.
L certainly will. sed pop, Benny, that
was mitey queer thing for you to do.
o my goodniss. scold him, scold
him. sed ma, and pop sed, Benny.
don't you ever let that happin agen.
I'm very very mulch pleased, I meen
isoffended. And he winked at me. say
| ing Now run along, cant bare to look
at you. d.
/ Sutch a scolding sed ma. Me quick
going out of the room for safe keep
| ing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
TOUCHING ALL THE WORLD.

1t was once said of the great artist
Legros< that s'he touched nothing
which he did not improve by his touch
and he touched everything"
No wonder recent writer wrote
of this man that 'if ever a painter
destroyed masterpieces. it was this
Master''s And what he did leave re-
mains so great that lit will endure SO
long as art itself shall endure" says
another writer.
To touch the atmosphere of the
world with influence that inspires and
helps to build, is in itself to be great.
When Lincoln died. Secretary Stan
ton exclaimed: NOW he belongs TO
the ages!' Lincoln touched the very
heart of-all humanity.
The touch of the hand we love
warns and sweetens every fibre of our
being. How great, them. is that touch
of our invisible feeling and character
which hourly goes out from what we
are. to play its part IN the move and
stir of daily life
We are alI-a1l the time-touching
around in the world,
Everything touches. The beautiful
picture, the colored landscape, the
song of some bird, the play of a CHILD
these things touch
We can none Of us live 10 ourselves
alone.
1t Is our glad chance to- touch each
day-to make it better!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25
Dorothy Dix Tails
wonnanIiness in Business-f.
BY DOROTHY DIX
wsria's Hishesa Paid weman WF1sez.


If could say one word more earn
est than another to the young woman
who is starting out to make her own
bread and butter, it would be to cut
out the sex stuff, and exercise her
womanliness in business.
Most women reverse this procedure
That is why so many of them fail.
Many girls try to vamp their employ
ers, and to make googoo eyes and
sentiment take the place of industry
and efficiency. Many others attempt
to hide behind their skirts, and to
make the fact that they are women
protect them from office discipline,
and for being censured for turning out
poor work.
Tears ever time their work is crit
icized; nerves and hysteria always on
most inopportune moment, chronic
hardness; lack of grit that makes
them coddle ever slight ailment and
give in to 1t: family claims that come
above business necessities; touchy
dignity that is always demanding par
lor gallantries in an office: helpless
ness that requires some man to sharp
en- their lead pencils-aN these are
the defect of the women who play up
their sex in business.
And they form a blanket indictm ent
against female labor, that causes many
men, and that keeps many good wo-
man from being advanced to the post
to which she is entitled.
The woman who puts the loud pedal
on sex in business makes mistake.
So does the woman who ignores it al
together, and who tries to make an
initiation man of herself. She never
gets far, because all limitations are in
ferior to the genuine article and no.
body wants one if they can get the real
thing. A lady longshoreman,t for in
stance, may get headlines in the pa
per because it is remarkable for wo-
man to be a longshoreman at all, but
when it come to lifting things, and
really loading a ship. she wouldn't be
able to hold her own with even the
most ordinary male longshoreman.
n The women who write, and paint,
and who try to be what Is called virile,
nearly always fails. TNey miss their
point, because the thinG3that is inter-
esting in their work is the feminine
outlook, the intuitions that make one
woman get under another woman's
skin as no man can. And the same
thing may be said of the woman mer-
chant The thing we like about her
shop is it's difference from mans, the
coziness, the nominees. that she some
how manages to give it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

The proposal to finance the build
ing of houses in Topeka made by a
KanAas City firm does not appear to
have met With entire approval by the
business men OF this city. The reason
Is apparent. There is sufficient money
available in Topeka to permit any
body to build a house who desires to
do so. What this city needs is an or
ganization that will erect homes for
the people, rather than one which will
lend them money for the purpose of
erecting their own homes. A majority
OF homescekersf prefer to buy a house
ready built at a known price to build
ing for themselves at a cost which they
can not fully detc-mine until the work
is completed. Topeka needs houses
not money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

strong men. armed, with the law back
of them. They raided the hall. break
ing in upon furious gamblers. some of
them amateurs or dupes, some profess
SIGNALS, some others criminals badly
wanted in sundry parts OF the earth.
And right in the thick of them was
'B'Gee the sanity, with the professor.
no longer petticoated, at his elbow.
Futilely they turned off the lights and
tried to scuttle--the law has its own
lights no less its ways. But the intend
ing bishop, had a friend at court-one
he did not dream of. Denzii in the
fuilness of happy and perfect love.
begged his freedom of Bruce. 1t was
her atonement to a lone and harsh OLD
woman for many unkind things she
might well have left undone.
tCopyright, 1920 by the Mcclure News
plper Sypdicate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

1t is Md by the Magazine of Wall
Street that the lowering of commodity
prices will .stimulate buying, and that
this removed buying by a public that
has lRen holding aioof for some time
will cause the merchant to replenish
depleted stocks. The writer seems to
lose sight of the fact that usually there
is reluctance on the part of the public
to buy beyond pressing needs on a
falling market. Always there is man-
Tested q disposition when prices are
declining to wait for them to hit bot
tom. There is little evidence that buy
ing has been stimulated up to this
time. In fact people bought most ex-
travagantly when prices were highest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

Those profIteers ana others who
have been explaining that it is the ex-
cess profits tax that caused prizes to
reach such peaks, may explain now,
with the profits tax still in effect, what
causes prices to come down again.
says the morning paper. The prices
are coming down because the people
are refusing to pay the prices demand
cd by the 'profiteers." Because they
can no longer collect 'excess profits
many concerns are closing their plants.
Whom the excess profits tax law shall
be repealed, as it doubtless will be.
these plants will be reopened. if re-
newed demand for their products shall
not cause them to reopen sooner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25
JUST FOLKS
PLEASURES.
By EDGAR A. GUEST.

God intended us to smile So ~
An enjoy ourselves the while. = I'D -
He knew we'd come TO sorrow
An our eyes would I'll with tears,
He knew we'd get upset
An find cares TINT make us fret,
So He strewed the flowers o,splensure
Down the valley of the years.
Since he gave us different minds,
He made pleasures OF all kinds,
And there's no one ever lived here
But could find his special joy:
This old world is crammed so full
OF the glad an beautiful,
That whatever quits our fancy
We can find 1t, man or boy. =
Some of us 1t seems there are
Who prefer to travel far,
Seeking wonders an excitement
An strange scenes. An So they roam
But the world Is just as bright,
Just as full of true delight.
An there's just much of gladncss
For the ones who stay at home.
I'm happier, think.
With the roses red an pink
An my little patch O. pansies
An the vines along the wall.
An the youngsters at my side
An my few friends true and tried,
Than / would be sailin' ocenns
Followin' fancy's beck an call.
Oh. I've had my share o. woe,
An the hurt Of grief I know
But thank the Lord above me
When my sky shows bright and clear,
For the pleasures l can find
An the rest hn' peace o. mind
That are always waitin, for me
As | live my life right here.
Copyright, 1920. by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

inSi-R. q. -
4. Basing an estimate on n report from
Indiana, the number has nearly trebled in
five years. In 1913, there was one siIo TO
every % farms. In 1918 there was one silo
o. Who wrote Sweet Alice Ben Boltf'-
A. W. NJ
A. Thomas Dunn English, an American
poe hin in wiIliss New York Mirror in 1s4s'
As set to music by Nelson Kneass 1t became
widely known both in England and Ameri-
Q. What was the first real news sent by
telegraph an. W.
A. The first news ever carried by tele-
line extended only from Warrington to Bal
Q. What are the dimensions of the Lib
A. The measurements of the Liberty Bell
in Independence Hall are: Length around
the lip-12 feet: Sngth around the crown-T
feet. inches; from lip to crown around the
in-curve-S feet; over the crown feet 3
inches; length Of the clapper-3 feet, =
inches: weight--2,aS0 pounds.
Q. Do Army officers have TO pay ten
dollars FOR passport when going abroad
A. The fee for executing an application for
passport Is always one dollar. If the
officer is proceeding abroad in discharge
Of his official duty, there is no further
lars viii be charged for issuance Of the
passport
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

financiers need not worry. The United
States will not sign the Versailles Gov
enant a. it stands no matter who shall
be eieoted to the presidency. II am
bound TO agree wholly with Senator
Hardings position as outlined in his
speech of August %, and further elab-
GRATED in his Des Moines speech on
October T." says Mr.. Kahn. This is
interesting in consideration in consid-
interesting in consideration of the fact
that the senator's October, speech is
wholly at variance with his August
speech on the matter of the league.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25
Moulton Musings
By ROY *. MoUUDN. :

No. Thank You.
wouldn't be president,
I'm just common lob.
L couldn't be a president
And keep my present JOB.
I'd rather sit and criticise
And knock to beat the band
Than travel down to Washington
And rule this mighty land.
I'd rather sit and nurse my schemes
For modest gobs of wealtli;
And smoke my pipe and dream my dreams
And keep my robust health.
It is now a crime to make home
brew. but is a greater crime to give
some of it to friend ana expect him
to drink it.
Extravagance besets extrava gapce.
a man hates to walk in hfs s2s shoes
and wear them out, so he takes
taxicab.
NO Racc-SuicIdc Here.
POSITION as housekeeper; lady of
% years, with 2 children. ages. and
8. have no objection to other children
A r. 22-Want ad. in N. Y. Times.
The EIwell murder investigation. is
making headwayss Already it has been
discovered that his wife wrote his stuff
and that some man shot him with a
revolver.
A man sold a lot of New York
chorus girls fake perfume at IS a
bottle Getting so you can sell almost
by the bottle these days.
The Democrats may try TO put the
country under the Marshall law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

The decline of twenty-three million
dollars below legal requirements in
the bank reserves reported last week
may make necessary a further 'eurtail-
ment of, credits. This, should it take
place. may in turn cause q further
slump in prices. It is unfortunate, to
say the least, that the government con-
tinues to be borrower when the bust
ness of the country seems to need the
money. Especially Is this true when
the treasury is paying per cent and
fedeeming outstanding bonds bearing
butS4L per cent interest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

George r. Lunn. mayor of Schenec-
tady n. Y, in telegram to Senator
Harding. asks that the Republican
candidate state in the press whether
Ehhu Root or Senator Hiram John
son correctly gives your position"
That's easy. The senator hss declared
over and over that his pos lon is the
same as that occupied by Jolnson. al
tho he hAs'not referred to the Caiifor-
nlan by name
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

a..4-
worth while to note the fact that the
gentisn1an is stealing bis stuff a
Wisconsin laundryman beat him oSh
by a margin Of five years.
but the searchers, " quote ffon
the esteemed Norristown Times, -onE
ira implied the ground that affled
bloedhounIs put on the trafz the next
day" Now. what 40 you make Of
that, Watson? $50 ~
E., E. s. wants to know why the
BARRED bloodhounds put ground on
the trail. You tell him.
We read Mr.. Harding's letter to Mr..
Wilson with an interest quickened by
conviction. If Mr.. Harding wrote@it,
and we are willing TO give him the
benefit of the assumption. ne Is a
newspaper man, all right. all right. No
mere statesman could have written
such a letter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25
WHAT FAILING pRfcEs MEAN.

The many current manifestations OF
the downward trend in prices are like
ly to have very much more important
ticles of every day consumption. These
savings are naturally very agreeable TO
the consumer; so much SO that most
of the effort in the past eighteen
months toward price reductions has
been directed against retailers. Per-
haps that is why they were SO inef-
feetiye.
The outstanding difference between
the present recession of prices and
those heretofore heralded. says a bull
letin issued by the Liberty National
bank of New York, is that many of the
present price reductions begin at
sources of supply. October 1 COM
modify price indexes showed very few
that had not decreased in price. In
the wholesale markets lowered prices
applied to almost everything-food,
clothing and metalss
1t would be reckless to prophesy,
continues the bulletin, how far the
downward movement will go. But the
practical as well as the psychological
factors OF the situation indicate that
the movemsnt will go far enough and
be sufficiently comprehensive ulti-
mately to invite normal buying. And
to bring about an era of prices which
permit people to obtain the necessi-
ties and some of the Injuries, and still
enable them to set aside part of their
earnings for investment.
In most cases the reason for reduc-
lions in prices was mainly absence of
demand. People simply would not buy
at prices that were asked. Nor are
they buying now; they are rather
waiting to see how much lower prices
are going.
The downward trend of prices, it
seems, is not peculiar to the United
States. A similar. trend is reported
from other countries.
1t is not beloved by persons COM
petent to judge that the downward
price movement can long continue, or
have really fundamental results, until
the labor Cost of production begins to
go down.. A manufacturer who re-
duces the price of product in the
making of. which he has paid peak
prices for materials and labor may for
time lose money. 1t is not suppos-
able that he wi" go on losing money.
He will demand recessions in prices
of the raw and sernf-finished materials
he uses, and ne will lastly effect re-
duction in his labor costs,
The period between which prices are
reduced and costs are corresponding
ly reduced is Inevitably one of hard
ship. But it appears to be an newt
able incident of getting back to a rea-
sonable price iavel--not that of pre-
war days-but materially below that
of the present. This much at least
seems to be certain, that the era dur
ing which prices were freely advanced
20 cover every prospect of increased
cost of production, and to approximate
what it was believed the people would
pay. is at an end.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

Senator Hiram johnson is quoted as
follows; II was never in doubt about
Hardings position on the League of
Nations His position is exactly that
Of the irreconcilables, nothing more
and nothing less" The Californian
thus places his brand ION Senator
Harding and 1t is doubtful that Taft.
loot, Wiokpfsham and Hoover can
remove it without the aid of Harding
himself, and that he seosns in no rnood
10 accord
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

1t is reported that in many parts of
tho country the job has ceased to seek
the man aPd that order has been re-
versed. ~ this be true, prices may
confidently be expected to continue
on their downward course. and strikes
VIII be less frequent and prolonged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

Wisconsin politics this year presents
an Unusual situation, due to the fact
that candidates on the Republican
state ticket are urging members of
the party. to vote for the Democrat
nominee for governor, The complaint
against the head OF their own ticket is
that he has gone over TO the Nonpar-
tisan League.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

Apparently there is no occasion for
serious alarm regarding a prospective
scarcity of turkeys for Thanksgiving
and Christmas since the birds are SELL
ing for 80 cents pound In the Kan
sas City market. High price propa
ganda promises to be less effective
than it has been in the recent past.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

There now appears to be a sufficient
variety Of Photographs on the market
to enable every store to sell differ
ent make. Talking machine makers
are running the automobile manufac-
tuners close race in variety of output
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

Judge Kcnesaw Mountain lands is
after the Chirnso bootlesgers with a
sharp stick. II he catch them, he may
fine every one of them sa9, 200, 900 as
he did the staRdard oil company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

Otto II. KahH whose opinions may
be considered fassis representative of
the views of big business" has come
out with an attack on the League OK
Nations. The making public of his
views at this particular time probably
is designed to affect the course OF the
voters. But Mr.. Kahn and his fellow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

IT is pointed out by the st. Louis
Times that fourteen Democrat sena-
tors voted for the Lodge reservations.
II should so on and toll what has hap
pCnod to those senators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

1t Is reported that the camel as
desert carrier is, being superseded by
the automobile, which is built to carry
ten times as much water as the camel
can GARRY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

for the same reason has lost It's sig
nificance. The sectional line of poIiti-
cal cleavage in the United States, so
far as there is one, has turned at right.
angles and now approximately COIN
cides with the Mississippi river
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

State aid will help many a county
over the Hill OF expensive road con-
struction. The good roads amendment
is necessary to get that aid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

The daN of the successful drive"
it seems. has not yet passed. Buffalo
has just nut over a campaign for s5,-
oo0. goo for her universally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

Copyright, 1920. by the Wheeler cyndicate
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

DIAL, the plan for throwing the 1919
worlds series was formulated by the
gamblers. But the idea of taking the
money should be credited to the ball
players. y
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

Professional wrestling, we shall add.
being by "fatheads' and for them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25

The Democrats may try TO put the
country under the Marshall law.