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Fair play., 1920-09-18
2Jth day of October,

next, and on or before the third day Of said
term. II tire term shall so long continue, and
If not then on or before the last day II said
term. answer or plead to the petition In said
cause. the same will be taken as confessed
and judgment will be rendered accordingly.
And IL IL further ordered that u copy
hereof be published according to law in the
FAIR PLAY, q newspaper published in said
county of Ste. Genevieve for fonr weeks
successively. published at least once a
week. the last insertion to be at least thirty
days before the first day OF said October
term of this court.
Given under my hand this 2ith day OF
August, 1920.
FELIX j. RTGDON. Clerk.
/, FEIIN j. EIGDDN. Cleck OF the Circuit
Court, hereby certify that the above and
foregoing is n true and correct copy of the
order of publication as the same appears ut
record in my Office this oath day of August.
1920.
Witness my hand and seal of the Circuit
Court of ste. Genevieve County, Missouri.
IL. s. FELIX j. RIGDON,
September I, 1920 Circuit Clerk.
Fair play., 1920-09-18

Thanks to Tennessee, the WO-
men of Vermont and Connect
cut can now express their
opinion at the ballot box of the
administration that refused to
allow the elected representatives
of the people in their legislatures
to vote upon suffrage.
Fair play., 1920-09-18

!. FELIX J. RIGDON. Clerk OF the Circuit
Court. hereby certify that the above and
foregoing is true and correct copy of the
order of publication rs the same appears of
record in my office this 9th day of August.
1920.
Witness my hand and seal of the Circuit
Court of Ste. Geneyieve County, Missouri.
a.. 81 F'EIIX j. RIGDON,
September 4, 1920 Circuit Clerk.
Fair play., 1920-09-18

Every good Democrat should
welcome the final victory of Wo,
man suffrage with open arms.
Fair play., 1920-09-18

next ana on or before the third day of said
term. II the term shall so long continue, and
If not, then on or before the last day of said
term answer or plead to the petition in said
cause, the same will he taken as confessed
and judgment will be rendered accordingly
And IL is further ordered that COPY hereof
hc Published according to law IN the FAIR
PLAY. Il newspaper published in said county
of Ste. Geuevieve. for four weeks successive
~. Published Mt least once II week, the last
insertion to be ut least thirty DAYS before the
first day of said October term of this court.
Given under my hand this 2ith day of Aug
Fair play., 1920-09-18
21th Day of October

next, and ON or before the thir'l day q said
term, if The term shall so long continue, ami il
net, then on on before the last day Of said term,
answer or plead tn the pet tition in said cause.
tle same will be taken a r>srd and judg.
meni viii ne rendered accordingly.
ANA II Is further ordered that a COPY hereof
be puhl shed arcurdiug to law in the FAIR
PLAY, newspaper published in said county
OF ste. tenevieve, for four weeks successfully,
NIB ! al least incea week. the last inscr-
ION in he ~ least thirty days before the first
day of sar October term of IhiH court.
Given under my hand this 24h day of Aug
ust, 1920
FELlX !. HIGDON. Clerk
l. Felix Rigd0n, Clerk of the Circuit
Court. hereby certify that the above and fore
going i II true and correct copy of the order of
publication as the same appears Of record in my
Office this eth day Of August 1920
Witness NV hand and seal Of the CirruIt
Conrt oi Ste. Geneyieve County Missouri
IT,. S.) FELIX }. RiGDON,
Sept 4ih, 1920. Circuit Clerk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-22
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
THE NICETIEs.

The big traits of human character
we admire and are inspired by. But
the little full-of- thought, often for
cotton niceties of action that many
people have a way of bringing out.
are what we love.
I know man of great talent and
ability. He is known all over the
country for his genius. But to me his
little kindnesses and generous i'm
pulses, that are foreVer-cropping out
all the time that I am with him, mean
more than anything else.
It's the niceties of life which make
1t beautiful and wonderful.
What are some of the niceties ?
Well. to think of the other fellow first
is a very extraordinary nicely. To do
little out-of-the-way things for folks
you like. to be considerable, to forgive
unintentional hurts, to try to conform
to the pleasures and wishes of those
with whom you may be thrown-to
help, to cheer, to be game, to be cour-
teous, to keep step-these are a few
of the niceties which help to make our
little lives happier.
Mothers are ali wrapped up in
niceties.
Niceties are the trappings of service.
Without them, there would be little|to
service. For as 1.-THE gift without the
giver1s bare" so Is service without the
heart and feeling of the man EXPRESSED
in his own peculiar niceties, stripped
and barren.
Cultivate the niceties. Appreciate
them in the characters and actions of
those you love. And try to spread
them around. Lots of people are look
ing for them!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-22
Dorothy Dix TALKS
Safety First.
By DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid woman wxisre.


Another scoundrel, with a get-rich-
quick scheme, has succeeded in con-
| juring millions out of the pockets of
the credulous with a proposition that
was so palpably a fake that it would
seem that even a blind baby could
have seen thru it.
And, as usual in such cases, a large
| proportion of his victims were women;
for If a sucker is born every minute,
las the homely old adage alleges there
| is, the most of these suckers are of the
| feminine persuasion. And they are
| always the first to nibble at a gilded
hook, and swallow it, line, bait and
| sinker.
one would think, considering how
| important money is to a woman, and
| how helpless and forlorn she is with
| out it, and how hardly the average wO-
man earns what few dollars she pos
scsses. that she would hold on to her
peck etbook with death grip, and that
| you would have to chloroform her to
| get 1t away from her. So far from
J this being the case, however, women
| are the champion easy marks of the
world. and a living illustration of the
| truth that "a fool and his money are
| soon parted"
For women are the widest Specula-
| tors, and the most reckless plungers
on earth. They will risk their all on a
blind chance in a game whose first
! rudiments they do not understand. No
] proposition can be too wild, too pre-
/ posterous, too visionary to attract
J them If it only promises some miracu-
| lous profit.
| 1t is said that women never look
| before they leap, and this is particu-
larly the case when they go into bust
ness ventures. They do not even stop
| to investigate the thing they are asked
to buy, if only some glib talker pre-
sents the matter to them in pictuT-
esque and optimistic light, or some
| alluring prOpectuS lays before them
some utopian dream
Boarding house keepers whose every
penny is red with their life blood !;
school teachers who have sweated out
few dollars thru long years of nerve
racking slavery in forcing unwilling
children down the paths of learning;
! women clerks and stenographers
whose tiny savings bank accounts
| have been built up thru a sacrifice of
| proper food, clothes and heat; all
| these women will take the money that
stands between them and the poor
| house and buy corner lot in some
| Garden of Eden that exists only in
| the sellers ina gination, or sink it in
| a hole in the ground where the only
prospect of gold or silver that ever ex-
| listed came from the coin of the idiot
| investors.
When Il woman thinks about invest
| ing money, she never asks whether
| the thing she is going to put her
money in is safe or not. Her only in
terest is the size of the dividends she
| is going to get for it, and anybody who
| will promise her SO per cent can take
| her roll away from her as easily as he
can g. stick of candy from sick child.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-22
JUST FOLKS
THE LITTLE HOMES OF LAUGHTER
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

THE LITTLE HOMES OF LAUGHTER.
The little homes of laughter can be found
on many street,
And it's there that men ana women in
bonds Of friendship meet;
Oh. the mansions on the highway may be
handsoIher to see,
And the rich mans lawn be lovely with
the bloom of plant and tree,
But the glory of the nation and its strength
from day to day
Are the little homes of laughter where the
children romp and play.
There are millions of them smiling under
meath the flag at morn
The homes that know the bedroom where
the little ones were born,
The homes without pretension, very clean
and neat inside.
That know the scars of sorrow, and the
room where one has died:
It's beneath these roofs of kindness and
within these walls of love
Where abide the strength and courage
that shall keep the flag above.
The little homes of laughter, homes the
thousands know and keep,
Where the mothers Groom at evening as
they rock their babes to sleep -.
And the fathers in their shirt sleeves find
some little task to do
oh, it's there you'll see the glory of the
old red. white and blue;
In the little homes OF laughter, standing
North, South. East and West.
1t Is there youll see the nation at its finest
Copyright, 1890 by Edgar A. Guest.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-22

Today is the fifty-sixth anniversary
of the Battle of the Blue. 1t is an
important date in Kansas history. On
october %, 1854, little band of 240
militiamen from Topeka and vicinity
placed itself in the pathway of Gen.
Sterling Prices Confederate army of
4. OOO-men, bent on an invasion of this
state. The little Kansas army was
commanded by Col. Geo. w. Veale.
grandfather of the man who is assist
ant county attorney at this times The
fight was a short and bloody one. The
Kansans retired in considerable haste
but the check they had given to the
invaders probably saved the state
from being overrun by the Confeder-
ates. In Topeka cemetery there stands
q monument erected to the memory of
the nIen who fell on that occasion.
Few If any are living who participated
in that fight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-22
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LElE PAPE

We was having the langwidge lessin
in skooI today and Miss Kitty was tell
ing the class about certain words that
people awt to use correckly and don't
jest out of pure ignorants, saying, Now
take lie and lay for instants, perfect
ly simple verbs and yet so many
people have no ideer how to distin-
guieh between them. Now who thinks
they can give me sentence in witch
the words lie and lay are used cor
reck1y?
Wich Pubs simkins waved his hand
and Miss Kitty sed. Well. Charles?
Some people lie like the nischiff
but it takes a hen to lay a egg, sed
Pubs.
Well, that's not ixackly the kind of
lie and lay / ment, sed Miss Kitty, L
will give you a good hint. lie is present
and lay is past, now who can give me a
sentence?
Wich Leroy Shooster waved his
hand, saying The boy lied about the
present he got for his BIRTHDAY and
his father gave him sutch a licking
he couldn't hardly lay on his past.
o my, Ill try to make it palmer, I
lie in the present but in the past 1 lay,
now surely some one is brite enuff to
give me a correck sentence sed Miss
Wich Lew Davis waved his hand.
saving, The present was a bewtiful
folding bed and lie in the present,
but If 1t had went past I would lay.
This is feerfill, sed Miss Kitty now
lissen, lie down. that's present, now
Suppose was tawking about lying
down yestidday, how would I say it,;
Wat would I say, Sidney Hunt?
You'd say, yestidday is past so I
think I'll lay down, sed Sid.
O., lets go on to the joggriffy lessin,
sed Miss Kitty.
Witch txe did
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-22
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-22
THE LAW AND THE CHILD.

While the fight for the rights of
women has been going on in this coun-
try, eliminating in the adoption of the
Susan B. Anthony Amendment which
will enable woman better to look out
for herself and her children, the in
terests of her children have not been
neglected.
A generation ago the relation of the
father to his childNpartook of the ma
ture of property right. The courts
could enforce this right, but on the
other hand they were often powerless
to enforce the duty of the father to
his child. Since 1899 every state in
the Union has passed juvenile court
laws except Connecticut, Maine and
Wyoming, and these three states have
passed laws dealing with some of the
problems usually included in the
Juvenile court law itself.
Juvenile court legislation deals. with
a complicated group of problems; that
law; the adult offending against the
child; the neglected and degraded
parent; the incompetent and unfaith-
full guardian; and the family that is
simply poor.
Under the old law the delinquent
child was dealt with in the same man
nor. with certain restrictions of age,
as the adult offender. He was tried
before o criminal court with all the
formality and notoriety of q jury.
sworn testimony and confronting wit
nesses. II found guilty the child
suffered the penalty. If mot guilty
he went free. In no case did the law
extend any constructive help.
In recent years, however, the law
has recognized the right of the child
to a reasonable minimum of care, of
decency and of well-being. Consider
alton has been given to the naturalim-
pulses of youth and to the adverse
conditions under which the child may
have been brought UP.
Because of the differences in the
structure of their judicial systems. the
states have had to meet the problems
by various methods of legislative at
tack. In every state, however, the at
tempt has been made thru legislation
to solve the difficult problems involv-
ing the unfavorable conditions-do-
nestle, social and economic-under
which children are living and develop
ing today. Much more may be ex-
pected along this line now that woman
has the ballot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-22

1t is a thousand pities that Senator
Harding, with victory in his hands, did
not defy the johnson group of tradi-
tional traitors. Harding could have
won without them. The man who is
given the credit OF Staying Hughes
could not have stopped the triumphal
march OF the Republican hosts this
year. And it would have been fine
opportunity to prove to him, his
friends and to the nation their essen
tial impotence in national politics. We
have had too much Johnson">fn our
political cosmos since 1916.-Phila-
delphia Public Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-22
LET US HAVE PEACE.

Sporadic attacks on the CLOSED
shop" appear from time to time in
various parts of the United States.
recently where a convention of the H.
linois Manufacturers association
passed the following resolution:
Resolved by the members OF the IL
linois Manufacturers association here
assembled, That it is the sense of this
meeting that the principle of the open
shop be commended and approved;
and that the moral support of this as
| ISOLATION in all its relations should
be given freely to any and all menu
bers Of the association or to any COM
munites In this state which are seek
ing to put into actual effect the prac-
tice and principle of the open shop.
The industrial situation in the coun-
try is vastly improved over what it
was few months ago. 1t will be a
great misfortune should employers of
labor generally start an agitation and
reopen a question which seems tenn
porarily at least in state of compar-
alive quiescence. 1t may be better to
let sleeping dogs lie.
Collective bargaining and the closed
shop are two principles to enforce the
adoption of which millions in wages
have been lost. millions in property
destroyed and hundreds Of lives sacri-
feed. Collective bargaining, where
the transaction embodies the real es-
sentials of bargain. namely, the
meeting of minds in agreement, has
not and would not receive any sub
stantial opposition from employers.
But. collective bargaining frequently
has meant contract which is entered
into by the employer under the threat
that unless he does so contract, or
ganized labor will not only refuse to
work. but will obstruct the operation
OF his plant with unorganized labor.
Collective bargaining in such case be-
comes collective extortion, and as such
does not meet the approval of employ
ers and will and necessarily must al
ways meet with their opposition.
The closed shop is objected to by ems
ployers not because of any objection to
properly organized labor nor any OPP
position to a perfect cooperation for
proper purposes among their EN-
ployes, but because it takes from the
employer the right to direct his oper-
ations. to discharge incompetent men
ana to replace them with men who
are competent and willing to perform
the service required. When these OBJ
jections have been surrendered by
employers they are met with still an
other difficulty namely. that organ
lied labor does not always keep its
contracts; that collective bargains
made with organized labor are con-
tracts which in many cases bind
one side only. and the workmen feel
at liberty to violate these contracts,
and do SO without hesitation whenever
in their belief such strikes will bring
advantage to them.
These objections to the closed shop
on the part OF employers could be re-
moved by organized labor without loss
to itself and such q course would go
far toward establishing and maintain
ing that Industrial peace SO greatly
needed by the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-22

the Better Day. which He called the
Kingdom of God, is to come along
democratic lines, by the changed
minds of the many, rather than by
any edict or law of king or council or
congress. During and since the war
the center of world power has shifted
from the thrones of royalty and
thrones of wealth and thrones of
privilege to the will of the big crowd.
The things which count that are hap
pening today all spring from popular
impulse, popular movements, popular
power. This is democracy's day, altho
to many it seems more like the mob S
day. The great business man, or pub
lie official, really has less influence
than the poor man with a gift for
reaching and influencing his fellows.
Tomorrow is in the keeping of the
multitude, and of the new leaders who
adhere close to the commonalty.
This state of affairs may seem alto
gether bad to those who are of the
old order: really. tho, it is the IN
puts the possibility of shaping the
sovereign minds of the massee square
ly UP to the teachers of religion. There
is nothing so plastic as thought. Con-
ceive the possible effect of world
wide revival of the Christian religion
upon the present program OF an
aroused and militant and conquerine
democracy
Jesus erected His kingdom upon
new minds in ordinary men and
women. His kingdom is an everlast-
ing kingdom because IL is thus spirit
ual, and so beyond the mutations OF
the years. which destroy all Temporal
thrones and palaces and kingdoms
Once let the full impact of the life
filled principles of Christ come upon
the newly-plastic minds of the masses
of mankind and we shall have such a
wonderful realization of the practical
bilfty of the program of the kingdom
of heaven as will stagger even the
most ardent disciples of Jesus.
To sum it all up, our world obvi'
ously needs a new common mind ii
every department of life: and that
mind must be the brotherly. loving
pure mind of Christ. ProvidentiallS
prepared by cataclysm in our own era
humanity is strangely ready. and even
eager. for the principles and spirit OF
Jesus The link between the need ane
the remedy is the Discipleship, or in
other words, the Church. whom tht
Lord made custodian of His truth ane
of His cause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-22

Q. Is there a point during :, cycle when
the piston is not in motion M. h.
A. The Bureau Of standards says that at
tionary for a very short time.
O. Would like to know the date the first
A. i. r troops landed in Europe, and at
AZ, a. The war Department says that the
first military unit to leave the United
No A. which sailed from FIT. Totten. n. y,
OIL May 8, 1917, on the steamship oriuna-
and arrived at the port OF st. Nazaire on
q. iiow many anarchists were deported
last year?-A. &. c.
that Of the s7O3 aliens. deported during
the fiscal ye2r ending June so, 1920, 81
were of the anarchhtic or kindred classes.
Q. Who said Better to wear out thae
" A. This is attributed to Bishop Cumbcr-
land who lived from 1852 until HIS. When
a friend told him that he would wear him
self out by his incessant application he
replied, Better to wear out than to rust
o. Are thunderstorms more likly to
occur at certain hours Nv. A.
A. On land, thunderstorms occur most
and night, particularly 3 to In the after
noon. 9 to 10 in the evening and sometimes
at to 3 in the morning; Tins Is not true
at all hohrs of the day aud night win
Q. In cutting cards in Auction Bridge
Suits ts :~c. a =. n IL 'He '1'D
A In cutting. the ace is the lowest
card: between cards of otherwise equnl
value the lowest Is the spade next the
heart, next the diamond, and highest the
club.
O. What does the term "histe the tur-
key" mean w. A. NJ.
A. This is an expression used in lumber
camps. A turkey is bag containing
luniberjack's outfit. To "histe the turFey'
is to take ones personal belongings and
leave camp
o.~- Has the postal money order rate OF
exchange been adjusted?-C. e. NJ.
A. The Postoffice Department. says that
ton Of international postal money order
business went into effect August 10. This
applies only to money orders Issued in the
United States for payment in foreign conn
tries. All international money orders is
sued I'm foreign countries for payment In
the United States payable at their full
face value in United States currency
certified on corresponding advises, as here
tofore.
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