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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-20
Dorothy DIX Tails
The Gentle Grafter.-f.
By DOROTHY DIX
Wsr;A's Highest Paid Woman WFissg.

INC OSnuC
'well," said woman to me the
other day, 1.-The housing shortage, and
the altitudinous price of rent, have
one good thing about them, anyway.
They furnish an abb that We can
hand out to our relatives and friends,
and the people we used to know back
nome, who have the pleasing habit OF
grating their annual visits to the city
on us.
For years / have been the victim
of these holdup artists. and I've played
in no worse luck than everybody else
II Know; for the minute you acquire
a place in a city where you can fur
nish free board and lodging. every
body that you ever knew who lives out
of town, conceives a passionate afrec-
ton for you.
your own forty-ninth cousin. and
your husbands cousins in the seventy
second degree; girls that you went TO
school with when you were In the
kindergarten and haven't heard OF
since; folks who have no claim on
YOU except that you used to live IN
/ the same town with them, all are
smitten with a longing to see you that
they can no longer resist, ana they
write and tell you SO. and that they
are coming on the 5:45 a m. train on
Wednesday. and won't you please meet
them at the station because a city Is
so confusing to one who is not USED
to it.
why, if / were TO recite what
| I have suffered at the hands of these
/ bandits, it would sound like chapter
out of Fox's Book of Martyrs. When
Jim and L were married and he
brought me to the city to live. we went
to housekeeping in a little four-room
| apartment. Before we got settled and
our bridal presents unpacked. a dis
| tant relative whom 1 hadn't seen since
| 1 was a little girl in pig tails. descend
| ed Apon us, bag and baggage.
! She said she was passing thru tho
| city and she felt she just couldn't go
| by without taking a peek at dear
| little Elsie in her new home. 1t took
her two weeks to peek, and she hadn't
| been gone n day when another flock
| bunch of vultures. came to roost on
have hardly had a day that we have
been free from some self-invited guest.
! Boys hunting for a job arrive with
4, letters from their parents. whom we
| had the accused luck to know at some
previous state of our lives saying that
they know we will be so glad to take
darling Jim in until he finds some
thing to do: or the mother of some
girls to whom We have the misfortune
to, be kin in some faint degree drops
! us a missive informing us that she Is
/, sending Mamie and Sadie by the next
! train for a little visit to the city as
F, she has been promising the dear child
| rem treat for a long time, and would
we mind letting, them stay with us for
a month. they are such lambs. and
it's so nice to have young people about
/ the house
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-20

Some merchants are inclined to ar
que that retail prices in their partic-
uiar lines will not come down until
after high priced stocks are disposed
Of Naturally there will be an effort
on the part of tradesmen to work off
old stocks before reducing prices, but
the wise trader will hasten to get rid
of his high priced goods before he
faces the competition of rivals who are
now able to obtain goods at lower
prices. Cut prices and judicious ad-
vertising will help to accomplish this
and'the sooner the readjustment can
be made the better it will be for the
business man and for the public. Also
the merchant should remember that
he enjoyed an extra profit at the time
prices were advancing, and this should
serve as an offset for reduced profits
while prices are declining. The enter
prising merchant who leads in re-
adjusting his retail prices to conform
with the lower wholesale prices will
get the cream of the trade, while the
merchants who stubbornly resist de-
clining prices may be left holding the
sack.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-20
OUR FINANCIAL PROBLEM.

Senator Harding has declared that
! if elected he will use his best endeavor
to bring the liberty @Jnds to par.
Up to this time he has made no sug-
gestion as to the method to be EN-
ployed.
From the declaration of war on Ger
many by the United States. this gov
eminent practically financed the war
expenses of the allies in this country
This was accomplished by taking am
bassadors' notes from the. allies and
advancing those countries credit for
the purchase of war material and sup
plies. at the same time issuing liberty
bonds, from the proceeds of which
these advances were made. The ex-
tent of the ambassadors notes in
round figures amounts to ten billions
of dollars. and owing to the straight
ened financial conditions abroad, 1t
was deemed inadvisable to press pay
mept for interest for q period of three
years. at which time the interest was
to be funded as part of the principal
due this government.
The United States government is
sued in it's various liberty loans and
victory notes approximately twenty
billions of dollars, which bonds were
bought by over ten million individual
subscribers in the United States, who
were urged, if they did not have the
money to borrow the money to buy
these bonds. Consequently, when the
war was over, large number of these
purchasers were forced to sell their
liberty bonds at whatever market
price they would bring to pay off their
loans. The purchasers of these liberty
bonds on the decline were, first-the
United States government for the sink
ing fund.- second-some new investors.
and third-the banks thruout the
country, who in turn took the liberty
bonds and were forced to go to the
Federal Reserve bank and discount
their notes with the liberty bonds as
collateral.
To take care of the interest on this
large debt, in addition to the expenses
of the government, occasioned very
heavy taxation, and now that the war
is over, we are faced with two propo-
sitions which cannot be put off indefi-
nitely, namely what disposition is to be
made of the ten billion advances to
foreign governments against ambassa-
doris notes and the reduction of taxes.
1t has been suggested by Joseph w.
Hartman. president of the Hartman
National bank. that an arrangement
should be made whereby this debt
should be placed in .saya fifty-year 6
per Capitalization. with sinking fund
and that the United States government
should guarantee these bonds and Of
fer them in exchange for our outstand-
ing liberty bonds to an equivalent.
amount. Naturally, financial under
taking of this magnitude would re-
quire congressional legislation and
time to carry it out. but if in the form
as above outlined or in some modified
form, such a proposition could be con-
summated, he holds that it would re-
suit in, first-the reduction of our
taxesA and. second-an advance in the
market value of our liberty bonds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-20

greater than those in fulI-time weekly
earnings because of reductions IN
hours of work schedules. The range
of increases in average hourly earn
ings was from 90 to 1872 per cent. The
conclusion to be derived from these
figures seems to be that the pay of
labor is much higher than the amount
of money it receives appears to indi-
cate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-20

Hiram johnson has added the
weight of his testimony to that of Sen
ator Harding to prove that the Re-
publican presidential candidate IA
vors rejection of the League of Ma
tions covenant with or without reser-
vations or interpretations. Now what
viii Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Hoover do or
say about this?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-20

There seems to be general impress
sion that Uncle Sam has money to
burn. Cuba wants to borrow in order
to maintain the price of sugar, the
cotton growers are asking for loan
in order to maintain the price of their
product, and the wheat farmers are in
the same boat. Why do they think
Mr.. Palmer has been making frantic
efforts to force down prices?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-20

cine the people of central Ohio are
taking nowadays.
without illumination, the point or
the preceding paragraph may be
trifle obscure and we place candle
at its feet. We visited central Ohio in
the interest of a certain nerve tonic
in the late summer of 1898. At that
time a certain blushing pill COM
pounded for anemic people was hay
ing grand rum
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-20

Good roads will save more time and
money than it will take to build them.
On November the people will have
a chance to give their approval to n
measure designed to. further highway
improvement in Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-20

Peter gathered her close in his shell
tering arms and kissed her.
Besides" added Peggy. when she
had the chance, the kind of man you
want to spend your life with is the one
who takes being beaten better than the
other man takes being victorious
81 WISH said Peter, softly, that
every defeat of my life could be turned
into such a glorious victory!''
tCopy right, 1920, by the Mcclure News.
paper Syndicatsl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-20

If the Bolsheviki had none but ex-
ternal enemies to contend with they
might rely upon the early approach
of winter to tide them over into an
other year, but opposition has reared
its head behind the lines. Even snow
and ice do not prevent Russians from
fighting among themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-20

1.-THE latest was the first great war
the United States ever was in, in which
its money did not depreciate," says the
Sioux City Tribune. And yet we have
heard much said of the 81 cent dollar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-20

We have never seen the Dayton
News nor the Marion Star. We should
esteem it a favor IL some friend would
end US a copy of one or both. We
are curious as to the kind of medi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-20

Those who desire to meet promi-
nent people should not make the mis-
take of going to bed too early.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-20

We wish to revive a previous esti-
mate of Sir Phillip Gibbs and ask per
mission to do so- In his recent book
People of Destiny" Sir Phillip speaks
almost respectfully of America.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-24

Cunningham, Edna Davis, Minnie
Gregousky, Annie Mae Parker, Chris
tine Padgett, Gladys Pearson. Made
line Rice, Shirley Sierra, Amy Stock
Jessie Way, Essie White.
Grade 4, Section A.
Miss Margaret Anderson, teacher.
Doris Burleson, Johnnie Mae Hay
den. Nadine Miller, Madge Newton,
Myrtle Redd, Carrie Salvant. Edra
Smith, Beatrice Whitwell, Carl Arm
old. Murphy Chancey, Henry Gros-
bend, Herbert Latham, Brydon Nc
Clellan, Richard Wills, Joe Bombay,
Gulbert Lybrand.
Grade 4, Section q.
Miss Erma Graham, teacher.
Dorothy Carroll, Eta Crumpler,
Vera Holland. Mary Lawrence, Gladys
Padgett, Gladys Smith, Gladys Tuck
er, Lucille Whence, Otis Atwell, J. c..
Boylin, Fred Brown, harrington Bur-
row, L. K. Clarke, Frank Hail.
Charles Miller, Aubrey Pruitt.
Members faculty. Miss Evelyn
Thornton, principal; Miss Margaret
Anderson, Mrs. Ida Andrews, Miss
Fannie Henderson, Miss Oneida Hoyt,
Miss Erma Graham, Mrs. Claudia
McCurley, Miss Eula Padgett, Mrs. j.
". Price, Miss Kathleen Van PeIt,
Miss Clara Stokes.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-24

Mclean, Viola Pate, Mary Ellen Redd,
Doris Richards, Beatrice Wells, Bob
by Jean Williams. Joseph Bradley,
William Houghton, Melvin Kimmons,
Napoleon Lazelle, John Henry Law
renee, James McLeroy, Albert Pear
son, Dan Redenback, Henry Whitwell,
Harold Williams.
Grade 1, Section q, Second Division
Miss Oneida Hoyt, teacher.
Moyce Bryan, Frank Wise, Ida
Briggs, Myrtle Hinson, meta Moore,
Mary Ellen Mullinnex. Essie Zuker-
man.
Grade 2, Section A.
Miss Eula NJ. Padgett, teacher.
Otis Giddens, Myrtle Gulsby, Lena
Lee. Augusta Pledger, Eunice SUIT
man, Hazel Woody, Fletcher Broo
Lawrence Kimmons, Karl Mayer, Ed
ward Merlin, Quintus Richards, NAL
colin Pate.
Grade 2, Section 3.
Mrs. C. G. McCurley, teacher.
Carrie Bell Bishop, Athalene Bled-
soc, Velma Campodonica, Marie Co
miniti, Nellie Dunn, Viola Mae Dyson,
Eva Lee Eyeritt, Viola Fillingim, Ella
Mae Gibson, Lucy Gregousky, Hilda
Miller, Eva Mae Mcintosh, CIeona
Richards, Loretta Sclease, Hilda
Ward, Kellie Bicker, Harold Dimin-
try. Harvey Lee Gray, Henry Golden,
James Hendrix. Ira Huekaby, Leroy
Joseph, Clyde Miller. Frank Nize.
Fred Padgett, Clayton Pate, Edward
Way.
Grade 8, Section A.
Mrs. Ida Andrews, teacher.
Allena Staples, Mary Peterman, Ma
bel Hannah, Dixie Mize, Doris Croft,
Ida Mae Simmons. Myrtle Ruth Will
iams, Ferret Sierra. Ella Benson.
Emily Miller, Lottie Villa, Mabel Flu
qua, Margaret Barbiri, Marie Bar
biri, Ethel Fleming, Lucille Shafter.
Allena Edgar, Grady Fugua, Eugene
Marshall, Jack Parker, Gordon Ken
nedy, r. c. Williams. Fairy Lee, A.
G. Simmons, Wilbur Kersey.
Grade 8, Section 3.
Miss Kathleen Van Pelt, teacher.
Louis Layland, Eugene Miller.
George Mullen, Emil Pfeiffer. Leroy
Scott, Myrtle Briggs. Oracle Can't
niti, May Belle Chavers. Artie Mae
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-24
ELIZA JANE WILSON.
SCHOOL CELEBRATES.

CONTINUED from Page Eleven.)
J. C. waseman, Miss Evelyn Thorn
ton. principal of the school. Miss
Oneida Hoyt. On the committee on
decoration. Miss Kathleen Van Pelt.
and Miss Erma Graham. Refresh
ment committee. Mrs. J. v. Price.
Miss Clara Stokes. Miss Eula Pad
gett. Entertainment committee. Miss
Margaret Anderson. Mrs. Claudia
McCurdy, Miss Fannie Henderson,
and Mrs. Ida Andrews. Each COM
mittee will be assisted by several la
dies. Plans for the entertainment
will be further completed at a called
meeting of the Association to be held
Monday afternoon at o'clock. The
Association bought a splendid piano
for the school last year and hopes to
accomplish even more this year.
The school has had the same jani-
tor for the past II years. an old col
ored man who is as keenly interested
in the school as any of the teachers
or patrons.
OCTOBER HONOR ROLL
Grade I, Section A, First Division
Miss Fannie Henderson, teacher.
Lucille Croft. Thelma Crumpler,
Annie Lervis, Willie Ruth Munsey.
Cora Lee Petrie. Inez Russell. Cecil
Boykin. Lloyd Clark. Willie FilIingim,
Ben Gulsby. Jack Lindsay, Joe McLe-
roy. Leslie Olsen, Gordon Pierce, Joe
Rivers, Ernest Woody, Thomas Wise.
Grade I, Section A, Second Division
Mrs. j. ". Price, teacher.
Marie Mize. Mildred Palmer, Marion
Peterson. Cecilia Shafer. Myrtrilla
Faust. Berkeley Baldwin. John Co
burger. Leonard Craig, McDavfd Cid
dens. Harry Hale. Albert Hannah,
Woodrow Morgan. Ernest Nowling,
Marvin Nowling.s Robert Watson, Ell
more Staples.
Grade I, Section 3, First Division
Miss Clara Stokes, teacher.
Norma May Berry, Agnes Chaneey,
Alta cruickshank, Opal Hunt, Lucille
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Continued from Page EIeven.)
supervision of Miss Golez. with Miss
Eyrs as asitant, there are 81 men,
Thee men are taking bookkeeping
stenography or general education
courses. Eight men have enrolled in
the higher mathematics courses, un-
der the personal supervision of Mr..
Reeves. These courses consist of
algebra, geometry and trigonometry.
Any man at the post may take up
any of the courses offered and if as
many as eight men apply for any
other one course that one is provided.
A general education test is held for
certain courses and if the man is
qualified for the special course he is
given an opportunity to take 1t up.
He is given one week in which to dis
cover whether or not he wants to
keep up with the course. If he does
not he may drop it. but if he wants
to continue then he is required to at
tend the course until it is completed
DIR. Lischkoff has returned to
the city.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-24

believe that the
attractive buying basis and recommend buying while stocks
the time make appropriate purchases and get the utmost benefit
the full
discounts
Fall in
might
33 1-3 20 equal
emphasize BUY NOW NOW NOW
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-24
'NoW is THE TIME, AND NOW is THE HOUR
CAN EDITORIAL BY 7. L. CANT & COZ

We are indeed gratifed at the stand taken by many
Pensacola merchants to help in the pledge made by us to
debate the high price of merchandise and their hearty
cooperation in endeavor to take the "ay out of in
flation.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-24

snow is THE TIME, AND NOW IS THE HOUR"
GAN EDITORIAL t. L. CANT & COZ
We are indeed gratifed at the stand taken by MANY
pensacola merchants to help in the pledge made v us to
debate the high price of merchandise and their hearty
cooperation in endeavor to take the ay out of in
flation.
And here let us say once and for al-et there be no
misunderstanding any and all discussions and re-
marks made by in this connection appertan to- and
have reference strictly to line of businesses No
reference suggestion here made intended to be
made for Others
With that understanding fully in mind let us say that
when announced months ago that not then an
opporune time to buy fall goods that the season was not
timely that the prices not fair that the fashions
not xed that in fact Of the conditions at that
time warranted any but the necessary buying some
merchants looked at askance and thought advice
unjustable and that later conditions would not bear
statement.
The public however needed our advice and put off
buying We promised them then great saving in price
and we are keeping the faith with them.
The merchants of Pensacola however, are as class
fair and as as the trend of lower prices became
certainty prediction they acknowledged the
wisdom of course and conceded to the correctness of
our foresight by reducing prices their merchandise
their advertising in the daily papers bears undsputed
testimony
In entering in hearty cooperation with to reduce
prices the merchants of Pensacola have strengthened
their position with the buying public and while they add
testimony to the foresight and initiative of the Cant
store in taking the bold step did at the very begin
ming of the season. when could easily have kept quiet
and reaped of the advantages of the early high
priced Sales nevertheless proud of their coopera
tion for it brings to and stamps Pensacola trading
point in which lowest prices always be reckoned
upon.
At this point it may be appropos to cite Of the very
many instances Pensacola prices, and why should
bring trade from other sections to this city On Friday
October 18th, 7. L. Cant & Company in advertise
men in the Daily News, among many other lower level
prices Hope sheeting was quoted at Soc yard-it
having been reduced from 35c sometime before tee-
gram from Mr. Cant, who was then in New York, adj
vised that Hope sheeting again lowered to a
basis and advised it be offered to his customers at PC
yard. Saturday morning, in The Journal and Satur-
day afternoon in the News the quotation from L. Cant
& Company on Hope Sheeting given at 22c yard.
On the Sunday following the Mobile Register ads of
sheeting special at 35c yard or 13c more Der
lar stock This is only of several instances but is
here noted because such well-knoWn staple article
This and like acts of manifest value to Pensacola
buying center and will and should have the effect
of quoting the minds Of buyers to the satisfaction that
merchandise be bought here and at prices COM
mensurate with the value Of the articles purchased
Company against buying at
their The and conclusions that
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against buying
Company with the
waiting
their
the and the public to refrain
early Fall advise prompt buying by the public
NOW.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-24
Grade 8, Section 3.

Miss Kathleen Van Pelt, teacher.
Louis Layland, Eugene Miller,
George Mullen, Emil Pfeiffer, Leroy
Scott, Myrtle Briggs. Oracle Can't
niti, May Belle Chavers. Artie Mae
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-14

committee that it had retained the
services of Mr.. Hughes to help the
shorts in Stutz out of their predica-
ment said that the committee now rep
resents majority Of those under con-
tract to deliver the stock. Rumors
were current yesterday that overtures
had been made by the committee to
Mr. Ryan to effect settlement out Of
court, but they were not confirmed.
The committee on business conduct
of the exchange continued it's investi-
cation of dealings in Stutz on the ex
change by calling upon members to
state the position they had in the stock
at the opening of business on February
/, March l, April / and April IL.
Mollie ]. Katzen. through Dos Passos
Brothers. attorneys, yesterday began
suit against the Stock Exchange firm
Of Chisholm & Chapman in the Bronx
County Supreme Court for $8,412. Her
action was based upon the alleged fail
ure of the defendants to deliver twelve
shares Of Stutz stock which she says
came into their hands as her repre-
sentatives by purchase on 20 per cent
margin some months ago, and by the
declaration and distribution in March
Of 20 per cent stock dividend. At the
Offices of the brokerage firm it was
stated that "Mollie j. Katzen no longer
has an account with u.s."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-14
De Mott Was Slain
|. After Arrest as
|. "Red,' - Says Berlin,
Charged With Aiding Ruhr
Revolt; US. Commission.
er Orders Inquiry Into
Shooting of American

BERLIN, April 13.-Paul Roome de
Mott. of Paterson, N. j., the American
who was shot dead recently at Vessel
while attempting to escape from mill
tary custody, had been taken prisoner
while in company with "Red" troops
in the Ruhr district, according to an
official statement issued here to-day.
He was charged with being in posses
sion Of arms and aiding in the rebel
lion, the statement said.
United States Commissioner Dresel
has dispatched member Of the Ameri-
can commission at Berlin to Mulheim
to investigate the killing of De Mott.
The German government has instructed
Commissioner Severing to present the
facts in the case. Herr Severinc ar
rived in Berlin this morning, but it
no definite statement could be made for
q day or two.
De Motifs passport was not regis
tered with the American commission
here, which is also without record Of
it's having been vised. 1t is supposed
that it was issued in Paris.
The whereabouts Of de Mott since his
arrest had not been known here, al
though he was generally believed to be
safe, despite the fact that he was re-
ported as sentenced to death by a
military court This belief was due to
the governments declaration, reiter-
ated only last Saturday, that no death
warrants would be issued unless APP
proved by President Ebert.
De Mott is said here to have claimed
that he was a newspaper man who re-
ceived an American passport because
he was engaged in relief work. Among
the credentials found in his posses
sion, it is said, were papers indicating
he was about to leave for Russia.
Americans who learned last week of
de Motifs capture we're assured by the
German military authorities in the
Ruhr district that no drastic action
would be taken against him.
The killing of de Mott is caustically
commented upon to-day by the indie
pendent Socialist newspaper "Die
Freiheit." The newspaper describes
the incident as case of murder by