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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31
THE MORNING AFTER
PTER 50

Come dear. you will be late at the
store if you do not get up at once"
said after several Intellectual attempts
to rouse Robert sufficiently so that he
would realize the time.
II don't care If I am"
But Robert, they might be an
noyed. And you cannot afford that
just now. you know"
II know I can't afford anythingi
But you needn't keep rubbing it in.
You can afford to do as you please
even to bossing your husband, because
you think you wear the pants on ac-
count of what you earn
Il had no intention of 'bossing' as
you say, dear. L wanted you to
be on time I tried not to be angry
with him. I realized that he probably
had a headache,-and felt miserably
fore. He was pale. and as he raised
himself in bed 1 noticed his hands
were shaking.
ooh. I'll get up! You need't stand
over me like that!"
moved to the other side of the
room and didn't speak again until he
was dressed. Then 1 asked:
Shall we have breakfast brought
up?"
IF you want to eat with me, you
will. L have gone into that blamed
dining room for the last time. I told
you so last night. and I meant it."
I made no reply. but rang for the
maid, and told her to serve our break
fast in our room.
BE sure everything is nice and hot,
Mary, especially the coffee L slipped
a QGarter into her hand.
Yes. ma'am."
While waiting I thought it might
arouse Robert to tell him something
of the conversation Mary and I had
had about her lack of education
'She said she was ashamed before
Gardner Kenyon" told him.
There's a lucky chap if he gets
Mary Ryan
why so lucky? OF course am
fond of Mary, but socially she isn't
Gardeners equal"
"Society be damned! What a man
wants when he gets married is a
home, And the man who gets Mary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31

The federal reserve board has
raised the discount rates to member
banks to 5 4 per cent. The board in
siAts that commodity prices are too
high and that by making money dear
er 1t can force SPECTATORS and other
holders OF commodities to put goods
on the market and thereby cause de-
fiation. This plan, like every other
one that has been tried in an effort to
reduce prices up to- this time. has
failed. Costs of almost every neces-
sary of life continue to advance.
Many thoughtful persons still believe
that increased production alone will
bring down living expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31

Q. How long did the children Of Israel
live in Egypt A. c. D.
A. Four hundred and thirty years, most
of which time they were in bondage. EA.
o. What was the number of the aero
plane in which Quentin Roosevelt met his
A, The air service department says that
the aeroplane in which Lieutenant Roose-
welt was flying when he was killed was
o. Could there be rainbow at noon, or
before sunset III G..
SAYS that this is possible. In latitude forty
degrees. there might be a rainbow at noon
between the middle of October and the first
of March. The upper portion of a rainbow
may be formed a few minutes before sun
Q. When was the swsstlka first known?
4. 1t first appeared in the Bronze Age
It's original significance is unknown. but IT
has been used as a symbol Of good fortune
O. Where is the stone quarried that Is
used in photographic work:-T. ~. NJ
comes from Soienofen-- Bavaria. The variety
quarried there-is of the best quality and OF
the most practical coior-a light gray:
rates had on the price OF mems clothing: =
A. Very little. The Association Of Rail
as the pre-war cost Of transporting q suit
of mems clothes more than 1000 miles
was lbr2 cents tne present. cost Is DuL -
cents, an increase of only 81 cents
Q. How many Americans gave their
lives to gain independenee for America =
NJ. A., s.
A. During the Revolutionary War, 71s4
Americans were killed or died of wounds
received in action The English lost 9,073
troops
O. Did General Robert E Lee own
slaves IF. II. F.
A. At ole time he owned slaves. but
ten years before the war he set them all
free. They remained with General Lee
after they were given their freedom, and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31

The former pacifists have changed
their name but not their spots. They
now call themselves "activists." I'm
der the caption: "Activists Enlist for
November Campaign" the American
Union Against Militarism announces
its decision actively to enter the con-
gressionai and presidential campaigns
with its fight against compulsory mill
itary training. In a statement issued
from the headquarters and signed by
oswald Garrison Willard of New Y ork
City chairman; Amos Pinchot vice
chairman; Charles +. Hallinan, secre-
tary. and others, the executive COM
mittee asserts its intention of forcing
every aspirant for the White House
and every candidate for congress to so
clearly on record regarding peace-time
military training. If the organization
succeed in it's plan, it probably will
find something that it is not looking
for. The idea it represents may be
found hardly less popular than it was
when this country entered the war.
The name of Willard will not appeal
strongly to public favor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
A TIP TO EMPLOYERS.

A large number of businesses fail,
not because of the lack of brains or
capital of the employer. but because
he puts too high a value upon his cap
ital and too low a value upon his en-
ployes.
It's the employees that make every
business successful.
OF course they must have guidance
and leadership, but not foolish domi-
nance. From the office boy up. every
enploye is a possible employer.
Leave your employees alone as much
as possible. TRUST them. Give them
reins. If they make blunders. do not
discharge them, but teach them. Every
time a blunder is made by anyone, it
acts as 0 lesson in betterment.
Enlist the intelligence of those
whom you employ in the service of
your business. 1t means a great deal
to them, because it is as much pro-
portiona tely to them as to you.
Many a merchant prince is running
errands today.
Teach every one of your helpers to
cooperate. L is the law of business
success. Every business is an indi-
vidual machine and each worker
vital and necessary part. And no ma
chine should ever be driven-it should
be handled, and that with care and
consideration.
Listen to the suggestions of those
who work in your organization. Adapt
them-and remember to give full
credit.
: We all work for a certain kind of
fine compensation-and that mostly
packed into the word appreciation"
1t is not for money alone-or even
foremost-that we strive. but for the
simple thing of adequate service to
the height of our ability.
Your employees are each one OF you!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31

even stayed on his plantation until after
the close of the Civil war.
Q. Who was responsible for the behead-
Ing Of John the Baptist?-M. c.
A. Salome of dancing fame, requested
his head. At the birthday banquet of her
step father, Herod Antipas, she induced
him to make vow granting her anythiu 6
she wanted. She asked for the head OF
John the Baptist on platter. Herod kept
his vow, and had John the Baptist put to
death.
Q. Who first used the words "Cleanli-
ness is indeed next to Godliness7'-M. o.
r.
A. They were first used by John Yves
ley in his sermon on Dress"
(Any reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau, Frederic j.
Haskin. director. Washington D. c. This
offer applies strictly to information The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal, medi-
cal, and financial matters. 1t does not
attempt OF settle domestic troubles, nor to
undertake exhaustive research on any sub
ject. Write your question plainly and
briefly. Give full name and address and
enclose two cents in stamps for return
postage. All replies are sent direct to
the inquirer) 1es
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31
The Woman Who Lovcd-and
Earned 4 Modem sto:y .. Home and Bushes.
Blu JANE PHELPS

Ryan will have nifty one or I'm mis-
taken. 1 hope she lands Kenyon.
They will make a great pair"
Robert, what ais you? You never
used to swear, or to be careless in
your speech. 1 can't imagine what
has come over you lately. Do you
know you have"-
Never mind finishing what you
have to say. know it all. Here
comes that girl. Give me my coffee
and I'll get OUT
Fortunately the coffee was fairly
good, and hot. He gulped down two
cups. but refused to eat anything. Sim
ply made a wry face when / asked
him to please eat little toast.
Come home early, Robert" said
goodbye as usual. / was hurt at the
omission. but 1 was also proud. l
would not ask for a caress.
I'll get my dinner before I come
in
ooh, don't do that! Come home
and we will both go out"
Every well. but I'll pay my share
and you can pay yours"
Anything to please you. Robert. so
long as you don't leave me alone"
He flung himself out of the room.
and I heard the front door slam when
he vert out. Here was a new Robert.
one scarcely knew. 1 wondered
what had come over him. 1t couldn't
be that his position made him so I'M
happy that he had to take to drink.
Could 1t be possible that he had meant
what he had said about being thru II
he could not have a home of his own
My heart almost stopped beating as
I thought what that would mean
thruI Thru with me! Perhaps to go
to Marion Hovey. The thought was
torture But he had not been himself
when he said it. I would wait until
he was feeling better. then talk to
him. All day 1 heard:
"If I can't have a home of my
own--if it is only two rooms-I am
thru" Even when selling hats could
hear him repeat that sentence, unit
felt as if L would scream.
"a home of his own'-why he
didn't earn enough to pay for one
room in a good locality.
| (Tomorrow-Gerry is discouraged
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.

Mr.. Parkins gave my sister Gladdis
a buntch of roses last mite, and this
AFTERNOON I was tawking to Mary Wat
kins and I sed. think L know ware I
can get a rose if wunt one. Do you
wunt one?
o yes, my, Id jest love to have a
All rite, are you coming out tonite ?
and she sed she was, and I sed, Wen
Ill see if 1 can get one, and she sed,
o Benny, L think you're PERFECTLY
wonderful.
wich maybe I am, and wen I went
home Gladdis was in her room and
the roses was in a vase, and 4 sed, G.
Gladdis. if you gave sumbody one of
those out of that big buntch you
would hardly know the diffrents,
would you2
Never mind limiting, there ony a
duzzen there, sed Gladdis, and I sed,
Wen watts one out of a duzzen. its ony
one fwelft, and Gladdis sed, o l mite
as well give you one and save myself
an argewment. Wich she did, being a
pritty small one but smelling like a
big one, and after suppir I went out
with it looking for Mary watkins. and
pritty soon who did 1 see insted but
Loretter Mincer in a new wife coat
looking twice as pritty as enything,
saying, Hello, Benny, ware you going
Noware speshll, l SEQ, and she sed-
Then watts you doing with the rose
Nothing speshil. I sed, and she sed,
Wat bewtifiIl gorgeous rose. can
smell it once?
Sure. I sed, and she sed, o. TITS the
most wonderful rose / ever smelt. and
that reminds me. I haven't had a rose
sints my cuZzins wedding, can 1 smell
1t agen?
Sure, sed. And she smelt it agen.
and I sed, How would you like to
ware il on your coat? and she sed.
o Benny, how nice of you. bet Mary
Watkins will be perfeckly furious be-
cause I've got a rose and she hasent.
G, heck, 1 thawt. On account of
jest seeing Mary Watkins coming
down the street. and / quick wawked
away. saying. Well, L half to go now.
And Mary watkins hasent saw me
sints, on account OF me being sutch
a good dodger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31
WHY NOT LET HOOVER ALONE?

The politicians are finding the
Hoover nut a hard one to crack Mr..
Hoover continues to decline to be re-
garded as a candidate for the presi-
dency. Asked regarding campaign
financing he replies that having no
campaign he has no financing prob
lem. 1t has been charged that Mr..
Hoover wants to be nominated and
elected president without any action
on his part that could be construed as
an expression of desire for the posi-
ton; that he wants the certificate of
election handed to him on a silver
people to commit their destinies to his
care without his indicating the policies
he would pursue in shaping those des-
TIMES; that he wants the millions of
voters of the country to take him on
faith. But suppose all this to be true,
he is only exercising the privilege
OF any American citizen. He is not
asking for anything at the hands of
the voters and they are under no com
pulsion to offer him the presidency.
Why can't the politicians let Hoover
alone? 1t might prove the best way
to eliminate him from public attention.
Having established to its own salts
faction that Mr.. Hoover is a candidate
for the presidency, the st. Louis Times
says:
His cool assurance, his teeter- board
, maneuvers and his manifest hypocrisy
concerning his hot-house candidacy
are irritating to Americans with prop
er regard for the presidency OF the
United States.
No irritation is observable among
the voters of either party out in this
part of the country, whatever the con-
ditions may be in the Times office.
Kansas people, with the possible ex-
ception OF a few politicians, seem con-
| tent to let Mr.. Hoover carry on his
campaign-if that be what he is doing
in his own way. Nobody will be
compelled to vote for him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST. SO
OUR COUNTRY.

OUR COUNTRY.
oh, the Lord has blessed our country In a
thousand different ways,
He has lined its shores with water whera
the sun each morning plays;
He has crowned its hills with slpendor, and
has sown its fields with grain.
And j wonder with such beauty why the
lips Of men complain.
We've a land Of silver rivers, we've the
palm tree and the pine,
And beneath our starry banner we have
every plant and vine;
oh, ] don't know how to say It, but the
Lord has lavished here
All that mortal man could wish for, for bis
comfort and his cheer.
In our mines are gold and silver and the
more enduring steel,
And there's not one lighted cottage but
contentment should reveal:
Here the children wake to laughter and the
men, whoe'er they be,
Find their every task the gateway unto
opportunity.
oh, the Lord has blessed our country IL is
rich with happy fires,
1t is rich with every treasure which the
soul Of man desires
Here his soul may find expression in the
joys he would attain.
And wonder in such beauty why the lips
of men compain.
Copyright 1920 by Edgar A. Guest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31
Dorothy Dix Talks
The Wage Earning Wife,
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writes.

Most women who have been in bust
ness regret giving up their work. They
are accustomed to the pleasant routine
of store, or office, with its gossip, its
comeraderie, it's excitement big deals,
and they are bored and lonesome when
they change it for the solitary toll of
their own little homes. Moreover,
they are trained to sell goods, or do Of
flee work. and they are bungiing and
incompetent cooks, and washwomen,
and they infinitely prefer performing
on typewriter to performing on gag
range.
For the poor man, when he takes
his wife out of her place of employ
ment, does not sit her down on cush-
ion of ease. She has to work about
ten times as hard as she ever did be-
fore, with no pay envelope on Satur-
day night as a reward for her labors.
In many ways it makes for domestic
happiness for a wife to be s. money
Garner. For one thing, it eliminates
the financial problem which is the
ever present source of friction in most
households. For another, it gives hus-
band and wife something to talk
about. Both have had experiences
and adventures during the day that
furnish them food for conversation
that makes them perpetually inter-
esting to each other. For it cannot
be denied that the woman who goes
out into the world and rubs wits
against it every day, keeps mentally
more alert and wide awake than her
dom este Sister whose interest and
knowledge is bounded by fines four
walls of her home. 1880 a
OF course the coming of children
makes a complicatfsn, but even this
objection to the wife working outside
of her own home is not insuperable
since in practically every family there
is a grandmother, or aunt, or cousin
who knows far more about raising
babies than any young mother does,
and whose empty hands ache for just
such a job.
And at its worst, will not the extra
food, the superior environment, and
the additional advantages of educa-
ton that the mothers earning will
give the child be a far greater ad-
vantage to it than IL she had person
ally cooked its food, and washed its
little face, and blown its little nose
Undoubtedly the ideal state is when
man shall make cough to support
his family in comfort. and when the
husband and father shall come home
to a vine wreathed cottage where his
wife and children await his return,
but between a no wife, no cottage, and
no kiddies, and wife who goes fifty
fifty with the man in earning the
money to pay the bills-I say, let
Mary do it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31
AN UPHILL BUSINESS.

The steady advance in prices of
necessaries indicates that production
has not yet come in sight of consump-
ton. Increased production alone can
bring down the cost of living As
goods become more plentiful there will
be a greater desire on the part of the
producer to sell them. and the buyer,
seeing that plenty was being produced,
would not be so anxious to buy for
fear that he would not be able to OBJ
tain the goods on account of the scare
ity of them. This changing attitude
of seller and buyer. the seller being
more anxious to sell and the buyer
more Indifferent about buying would,
if production continued to increase,
gradually. thru competition. bring
about reduction in prices. The rem
edy Is simple and certain.
But increasing production is called
upon to battle with the extravaganza
of the people. This is one of the OBJ
stacles to conservative success in
Fighting the economic situation. Pro-
duction in essentials is what is desir-
able in the producing world and the
cutting down the making of none essen
tials and luxuries, which absorb vast
amounts of credit and OF labor use
lessly. But the public will not hear
OF it. 1t wants high priced silk shirts
and velvets and jewelry and automo-
biles.
We read of the great annual influx
of visitors to New York which the ho-
tells are preparing to cope with and
which is already under way. Hotel
bars are being fitted up with tiers of
berths like Pullman sleeping cars
bathrooms are, being turned into dor
mitories. and writing rooms and other
luxury space changed into use for
travellers. 1t is expected that the num-
Der Of visitors will surpass the record
of last year, when the soldiers re-
turned from across the water.
THE great prosperity of the coun-
try and not any special event." says the
Bache Review. 'is bringing travellers
here. and trains from all quarters
steamers from Europe and South
America, and motor cars from every
direction, are carrying transients in
this direction.
What are these vast crowds think
ing and talking about? listener in
any hotel lobby hears constant, cease
less, ever-rising talk between groups
and individuals about what they have
bought. how much they paid. what
they still intend to buy. This is the
ruling subject OF conversation rising
above all other topics-a sure sign of
a newly-rich crowd, a recently created
torrent of spenders Boosting of their
purchases, bidding up prices, and alb
sorbing all offerings, unconsciously do
ing their utmost to swell the tide of
rising prices"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31

ances, and business associates. Some
times it make trouble.
81 know a case where two firms
almost came to blows. An official in
one of the firms changed his name.
Soon after he called at the office of
the other firm and sent in his card.
The president glanced at it. Never
heard of him. Tell him 1 am busy,
he told the office boy. The visitor re-
garded the message as an insult to
his firm, and it was months before
the matter was Strengthened OUT
Besides the chance of losing a few
of your friends, the chief danger of
taking a new name is in connection
with property and other legal matters.
OF course, If the court grants a decree
of change, the new name is legally
erty is not affected. But if you change
your name in a flash of inspiration
over night, you may find yourself
some day trying to prove that you are
the man you used to be. in order to
save your share of the family Jewels.
This sounds like a 'far-fetched movie
serial. but it has been known to occur.
Most immigrants who wish to
Americanize their names do so when
they obtain citizenship papers. At this
time a man is permitted to make any
alterations desired, and his name
signs on the papers. These changes
are legal, just as if made by petition
to a court.
There are no statistics to show how
many people yearly Americanize or
shorten their names. Figures would
undoubtedly be astonishing. Names
are occasionally altered by law in
other countries, but America is the
only field where this pastime is con-
Quoted on a large and f1ourishing
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always let me drive when I was with
him-I only expected to ride around
the block-and then when 1 saw Ned
in his own car l got all fussed--and l
ran into another auto-then I tainted
and after I got better they told me
it was your car"
Did Dick forgive her? Every day
thereafter until Aline was well found
him at the hospital, and then he took
her away in the low, gray roadster.
After the engagement was announced
he received a card from police head
quarters bearing this query:
How about that tidy little reward
for rounding up the daredevil who
stole your carr"
Copyright, 1920, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31

Figures covering the first year fol-
lowing the war give an indication of
the facility with which France will~rs-
turn to peace-time trade and find in
the United States her normal market
for her products. When the United
States is ready to spend $4,000. 900
for French antiques. there ought not
be much difficulty in the restoration
OF French trade with this country.
Looking back over a period OF six
years 20 pre-war conditions. it is found
that in 1913 our importations from the
Paris district amounted TO $4,000. 900.
while in 1919 they amounted to $685.
100000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31

$1,000. The United States census for
1910 revealed 1s,ssS.ooO horses and
4,210,oOo males on farms; and the
department of agriculture estimates
for January 1, 1920. show 21,1Os. 900
horses and 4.es5.OO0 mules on farms
or an increase of 1,276,00O horses and
$4,000 mules in the last decade. Be
sides thisfwe exported during the nine
years ending June 80. 1919, 1,14e,75S
horses and 376,SS6 mules.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31

President Wilson is manifesting a
desire to sit in the European game
without taking out chips. We are not
in the League of Nations, the French
treaty has not been submitted to the
senate and we are still at war with
Germany. BY what right DOGS he at
tempt to interfere with Frances ac-
tiop2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31

Those persons who think that the
automobile is driving the horse out OF
business may be surprised to learn
that the highest prices ever paid for
draft horses bought in the open mar
ket At Chicago have just been placed
on record. One pair sold for over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-31

The Pullman company is asking for
higher rates but it may be noted that
Governor Lowden is not making the
demand a part of his platform. The
governor might make hit with the
voters by promising both lower berths
and lower rates.