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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14

William Allen White, of Kansas,
says the farmers will stage a political
reaction in 1922. unless their needs
are better attended to. But how about
the manufacturers and the wage earn
ers? Their needs may become as
pressing as those of the farmers.
The plan to extend credits to the
farmers, thereby to aid them in hold
ing their crops for higher prices, is
not meeting with universal approval.
Opposition to this proposal already
has cropped out in the senate. When
Senator Gronna introduced a resolu-
ton directing the federal reserve
board to extend more liberal credits
TO the farmers, Senator Lodge, Re
publican leader. Immediately objected.
He told the senate that in the New
England states many mills were be-
ing closed and thousands of employees
thrown out of work, largely because
these concerns could not obtain addi-
tional credits to enable them to carry
accumulated stocks of goods. And he
suggested that If measures for the re-
lief of the farmers were to be passed
they should be amended to provide
also for aid to manufacturers. Other
senators in private conversation
strongly supported this suggestion.
An extension of credits to the farm
ers, whether made directly by the gov
eminent or thru the federal reserve
system. of course would aid the farm
ers in meeting the present emergency
of lower prices. But any bill or resp
luton to accomplish this is sure to
arouse the criticism of "class leglsla-
ton" and before any such plan re-
ceives the sanction of congress it very
likely would have to be enlarged to
furnish similar financial aid for other
classes of business. Moreover, this
plan would afford only temporary re-
lief for the farmers, at best. For
while it would aid them in carrying
over their surplus crops until another
season, their troubles might increase
in the face of accumulated supplies
and another bountiful harvest.
The only effective way to solve this
farm products price problem. says the
Oshkosh Northwestern, is to enlarge
the markets for such products and
bring about improvement in market
ing and distribution facilities, thereby
to Increase actual demand for and
by the farmers. The larger credits
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14
Ouesticns-Answers

O. who traced out the y signs of the
Zodiae?-W. ]. r.
A. The idea of dividing the Zodiac into
y signs seems to have originated WIN
the Chaldean astronomers about 2100 d. C.,
but there is no positive record of this.
Q. When was the word brainstorm rirst
a. This term was first employed at the
second trial of Harry X. Thaw In NUS,
and was used to indicate sudden, impulslVe
" q. What will remove old varnish from
a hardwood fioor?-E H
paints and gasoline. benzine, ether chloro-
q. What Is meant by silent part
A This name is applied to one who
furnishes capital but whole name does nos
ap g. where is the City of churches?-L
This name is Ropyla5ly give given to to tn, the
usually large number of churches located
o. Do you know Of any way to peel
A. Peel the onion in a pan filled. with
the surface of the. water, or turn on the
cold water tap and hold the onion IN the
stream while peeling.
piled to Lower California 20. r.
A. The name was originally applied to
Lower California. which was visited by the
was extended to the whole western coast Of
North America to the 42nd degree of iati-
tude, and the distinction Of Upper and
Lower California was introduced
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14
LITTLE BENHY'S NOTE BOOK
MONEY
By LEE PAPE


No matter wat peoples different likes
and dislikes are, everybody injoys BAY
ing money. People that have a, lot of
money wish they had more and people
that ony have a little are glad they
haven't got less. This proves there is
always something to be ambitious
about.
II you have a hole lot of money
sutch as a million dollers you don't ap-
preciatA it as mulch as you would If
you dident have hardly eny, sutch as
2 cents and a collar button. but most
people would drather have a lot with
out approaching it than have hardly
eny and appreciate a lot, the result be-
ing that the people without hardly eny
do all the appreciation. This proves
that everything has to be done no mat
ter who does it.
The main cheef ways of getting
money are finding it, working for it
and having somebody remember you
in their will. 1t is more Exciting to
find money than wat it is to work for
it, and people think they are greater if
they find dime than wat they are If
they werk for dollers. Nobody hard
ly ever remembers you in their will,
the main cheef reason being because
they haff to die ferst and they wont
If they can help it.
The leest Enjoyable thing to do with
money is lose it. No matter how
mulch you hate to spend money. you
would always rather spend it than
lose it. This proves every cloud has
a silver lining.
You can never tell wich people have
the most money Jest by watching them
wawk along, because somebody mite
have all their pockets full of hundred
doller bills without making a sound
vile somebody elts mite sound like
millionair jest on account of a buntch
of keys and pen nife.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14

plan, in other words. merely would
prove stop-gap, so far as helping the
farmers to resist declining prices,
while what they really need is reason
able aid in finding and taking advan-
tage of the best markets, whether at
home or abroad. and reasonable pro-
lection against the operations of the
spectators and middlemen, who too
frequently manage to deprive the
farmers of legitimate share of prices
and profits. And if the farmers will
direct their efforts along this line they
will be more apt to get what they
want, and with more satisfactory re-
suits in the end, than by pressing
demand for an extension of credits to
aid them in holding their crops
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14

One of the most interesting phases
of the readjustment thru which indus
try is passing, says Armour Magazine,
has to do with labor. During No
vember, it points out, there were a
great many instances of reduced wages
actual cash reductions; there were
many lay-offs, and there were a great
many instances where the discharged
workman was replaced by another
man who was willing to work for less
money. Reports from industrial or
CARNATIONS turnout the nation show
almost without exception that the in
dividuaI efficiency of their laborers is
increasing materially. The Ford Mo-
tor company is cited as an example
operating with 5000 fewer men than
1t had ninety days ago, the production
records of the Ford plant were broken
during the week ending November 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14

lover-how strong he was, this Lem
Barker-like a young bronze god, his
hair blowing back from his handsome
face. breaking into smile at sight Of
her slim loneliness.
"Oh, Nelliei Is 1t your" he said.
hoarsely, as he 1eaped ashore.
"Yes-Lem-you are safe, my
DEAR
well, darling?" he asked after q
long silence.
She lifted her wonderful eyes to his
sea-blue ones. My ship has come in
at last" she sighed contentedly, and
forgot all about the golden galleon she
had dreamed of.
copyright, 1919. bv the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14
THE PRICE PENnrIT-N

Only short time ago there was n
loud clamor on the part of he public
for lower prices. Now there is a gen
eral search in progress for some
means of keeping prices up so that the
factories will not close, that labor will
not be forced into idlcness and that
producers of agricultural staples will
not be driven into bankruptcy.
1t may be that there is too much
propaganda in this country. 1t might
be better if business were permitted
to follow it's natural course. Rarely
has there been an instance that an at
tempt to interfere with the law of
supply and demand has not resulted
disastrously for somebody.
The people have been urged to buy
less so as to force a drop in prices,
now they are being urged to buy more
in order to prevent a further decline
which it is declared will prove ruin
Gus to many interests.
As an example of the effort shat is
being made to arrest the slump in
flour and wheat prices the following
letter from the editor of a farm Jour
nal in Minneapolis. Mimi. is sub
mitted:
Business is rapidly approaching
stagnation. Factories are shutting
down and unemployment begins to
loom as a problem, during the next
four or five months.
The shrinlSage of nearly five billion
dollars in the price of agricultural
products since last July is the one big
factor in this situation.
This reduced purchasing power of
farmers is what is stopping factories.
Consumers have been led to be-
lieve there was no bottom to the wheat
market and have held off on pur-
chases of flour.
From July to November 10 the
mills of this country have ground in
round numbers 100000 bushels less
wheat than a year ago.
The people of the United States
have not stopped eating wheat bread.
They have merely been buying from
degree forcing lower wheat prices, and
consuming reserve stocks of flour
For every cent the American peo-
Lie have saved on flour by this policy
they have lost dollars in wages and
profits.
Normal buying would have done
much to have prevented the disastrous
and ruinous drop in wheat. Would I
think have prevented the price going
below $3.50 in MINNEAPOLIS
The world situation is such that I
feel wheat has seen its lowest point.
Now if every daily paper in the United
States will start a Buy a Barrel of
Flour campaign it will put wheat up
to a price where farmers can afford
to sell. They can pay their bank loans
thereby reducing the credit strain,
buy needed goods and start the wheels
of commerce and industry turning.
This is not selfish proposition as
you may think, judging merely from
its source.
Restoration promptly of as much of
the purchasing power of the farmers
means money to us all.
But lower prices for flour is what
the wage Garner wants, or thinks he
wants, and lower wages is what the
farmer wants, or thinks he wants, so
there you are. How would 1t do to
yuit advising the public for awhile
and let it work out it's own salvation
1t knows more than it generally is
given credit for knowing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14

II the truth could be known it prob
ably would be found that for every life
saved by relief work in Russia, Ar
menia and China, dozen are lost as
the result of the prolongation of exist
ing conditions. No relief measures
which do not extend to the source a
the trouble can do much real and sub
stantial good in those countries. The
system may be likened to pouring wa
ter into a rat hole. The water disap-
pears but the rat is not drowned. 1t
may seem cruel to permit the children
of Russia and Armenia to die but it is
less cruel than to let them grow up
and be killed by the Bolsheviki and
the Turks. The burden of Armenian
relief falls on the United States and
has done so for years. What has
been accomplished? We now are
asked to take on Russia and China.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14
Dorothy Dix Tails
The Moving Picture ProbIem-2.
BIZ DORoTHY DIX
Wsx4a'a Highest Paad Wor,an Wrisss.

| The Moving Picture Problem-2
And if, as she looks at her good,
kind, Woodworking husband, she finds
! that she is contrasting him unfavor-
ably with some ox-eyed, iily-handed
movie hero, with a thirty-dollar per-
manent wave in his hair; and If she
catches herself wondering how she
happened to marry a plain business
man. even if he does bring home the
bacon, instead of picturesque, film
robber: and If she has ceased to reg
| lister thrill when her John gives
bread and eggs peck on the cheek
when he starts to work of morning
instead of pulling the cave-man stuff
as they do in the movies. then let her
| bewareI
| She's drugged upon lurid romance,
and she is in just as much danger of
wrecking her life as she would be If
she had acquired the opium habit
| She's got to have the nerve to give it
all up until she gets back to normal.
The real secret of enjoyment of any
thing is to take it in moderation, but
if there are some women who have
been hurt by an over indulgence in
the movies, there are millions upon
millions of women who have got moth
ing but good out of them. They have
been saved from themselves. saved
from becoming morbid and dis
to live with, by the genii of the films.
l can think of no other one thing
that has done as much to brighten the
life of the great mass of womankind
as moving pictures have done. 1t is
only the fortunate few wemen who
have money enough to go to the thea
tiers, to have automobiles, to spend
their afternoons at tea parties and
luncheons, and in other forms of more
or less expensive amusement, because
a woman must have proper clothes for
these diversions, as well as the price
thereof.
Thus far the majority OF women
there was nothing but the dull. mo-
notonous road of work, with no fun
thrown in, no amusement, nothing to
stir the imagination, or rouse the emo
itions, nothing new for a woman to
think about as she made her beds, or
seWed long seams.
Then came the movies, and opened
up a new world to her, full of romance
and adventure, sentiment and laugh
ter. It was world to which the price
of admission was so cheap that she
could go and take the children along
with her, and it gave the whole family
something Of mutual interest to talk
about instead of quarreling with each
other.
So, taking it by and large. the NOV
ing pictures have been a benefaction
to those who needed help the most;
and a woman can have far worse
faults than to be a movie fan, and
spend her evenings for less profitably
than in getting little sip of romance.
a little laughter and fun, and a deal
of solid information at the movies.
For one thing your woman who is
la film fan is never a back number.
She's always strictly up-to-date, and
knows just exactly all about the last
big thing that happened in the world.
For she has seen it with her own eyes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.
THE HELPFUL MAN.

THE HELPFUL MAN.
Seems like he lived his life to see
Just how much use man can be.
A helpful feller-that's his style.
Maxim things easier all the While.
Even the dogs would limp to him
With splintered foot or broken limb,
As tho they understood an knew
That something for 'em he would do.
Trouble? He never spoke the wordf
At least nobody ever heard
Him utter one complaint that he
Was overta sked. He seemed to be
Delighted if you asked for aid.
An il he knew that he had made
Your path q little easier, then
He was the happiest of men.
His purse was open all the time.
We often said 1t was q crime
The way folks borrowed day by Jay
What very seldom they'd repay,
But he'd just smile an tell us all
His loss was really very small.
An he would rather lose than feel
His heart was gettin' cold as steel.
When folks were sick, to him we'd go
Because We knew that he would know
Just how they were. He'd been to sect
As we'd have done. IL only we
Were halfway. like him; But we foune
Life easier with him around.
We let him do the things we knew
Down in our hearts we ought TO co.
AM now he's gone. an never more
Well find him smilin' at our coor,
Or hear his voice. Now all our care
Without him we shall have to bear.
When trouble comes or things go wrong
] wonder how we'll get along
How shall we stand to sorrows touch
without the friend who did so much?
Copyright, 1920, by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14
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The inadequacy of our transporta-
ton facilities was described, less than
a year ago, by Samuel o. Dunn, editor
of the Railway Age. Mr.. Dunn is re-
garded as the best authority on trans
portation problems in the country. He
described the railway situation as fol-
lows: ''If every locomotive plant in
the country should operate at capac-
ity for three years. If all the railroad
material shops should work at top
speed for three years, at the end of
that time, they would enable, the rail-
roads to do no more than catch up
with the demands of business made
upon them. The railroads at this mo-
ment are three and one-half years be-
hind in equipment and other facili-
ties. With the country spending a
billion dollars additional every year
for three years. and with the best and
most efficient management obtainable
and imaginable. they could not handle
the business" How times have
changed Recently 1t has been an
nounced that the railways could ham
die more business than they are get
ting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14

District of Columbia. What one state
will unhesitatingiy pronounce a legal
divorce, may by another court q few
miles away, over q state line, be pro-
nounced invalid. Hence an imported
divorce is perhaps as good a risk as a
domestic one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14

The fourth annual report of the
federal shipping board is out. but
chief public interest perhaps will cen
ter in the report of the congressional
committee which is investigating the
shipping board
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14


Continuing declines in wholesale
prices of food products are reported
without corresponding fall in the
price charged the consumer. This
condition seems to point to the re-
taller as the guilty man. Bradstreet's
index number shows a decline in
wholesale commodity prices of APP
proximately 25 per cent from the peak,
on February 1, 1920, to November 1,
1920. Bradstreet's figures show a So
per cent decline from the peak to De-
cember l, 1920. Dun's index number
has moved more slowly, while the
bureau of labor statistics index num-
Der has declined still less. On the 9TH
er hand, the index number of the New
York Federal Reserve bank, which
rests on twelve most important basic
commodities, shows a decline of about
Sc per cent from the middle of May,
1920, to the end of November, 1920.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14
Oklahoma Notes.

From the Colony (Okla.) Enterprise
Arthur McElroy was hauling corn
Wednesday and Thursday for Black
bird Washee. B1ackbird he raise heap
corn crop.
Dan Holly, like patient old Jobe, has
beer. suffering from carbuncles TO-
several days. He had fifteen on his
neck at one time.
] H. }Thiessen expects to live TINS
winter. He has 500 hens ana i've
cews.
The Gilger and Jones families diRp
nered on Cobb creek Sunday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14

two musical experts on this newspaper
are locked in a harmless joint deDate:
One of them contends 1t is all risne
for Geraldine Farrar to employ such
nasal tones as she has been giving
The other holds that it do it is poor
artistry.
Unfortunately, we cannot utter tne
authoritative word that would settle
the controversy All we know about
music is that, years ago. when we spent
a great deal of otherwise not very
valuable time looking for a second
tenor for the male quartet, we had TO
have one who didn't sing thru MS
nose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14

The newspapers treated Mrs. Hard
ings call on Mrs. Wilson as a socia
episode. And, specifically speaking
that is what 1t was. But it really
carried a much deeper significance
AS a result of it the Blue Room viii
have to be redecorated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14

Caught!
Sir-I find this item In the Public
Ledger: Mr.. and Mrs. s. Fish and
daughter Miss Shirley Fish, passed
the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. I.
Fischer and family"
HUGH MERR.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14

1t may interest you to know that the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14

The esteemed New York Tribune in
sists that Mr.. Harding shall have a
Lincoln cabinet. The plan is entirely
agreeable TO the column. Whom does
the Trib suggest as the Edwin. M.
Stanton of the Harding administra-
ton?
The Holbrook news., 1920-07-30
(SEAL)

5. Said bonds, when prepared and executed, shall be delivered by the common council to the lawful pur- chaser thereof in accordance with law and the contract of purchase made to that end, and, the amount of bonds sold, their purpose, numbers and dates shall be entered upon the record of the proceedings of the common council of said town, and the proceeds derived from the sale of said bonds shall be used exclusively for the purposes recited in said bonds as hereinbefore set forth; but the purchaser of said bonds shall be in no wise responsible for the application of the proceeds of said bonds by said town or any of it's officers. The in terest due on said bonds on January l, 1921 shall be paid out of the gen eral fund of said town, and for the purpose of reimbursing said general fund for the amount of interest so taken from it, and for the pupose of providing necessary funds to pay the installments of interest on said bonds after January l, 1921, as the same become due, and to provide for the ultimate payment of said bonds when they shall mature, there shall be levied upon all the taxable pro- perty in said town, in addition to all other taxes, the following direct annual taxes: