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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-28

1t is announced that a Frenchman
has perfected a practical airplane
which rises in the air from a standing
start and can be made to stand still in
midair, to hover or descend in the
same way. The long run or a landing
field is entiIely unnecessary. The ma
chine has Winged wheels on either
side and the spokes of these also have
air surfaces that revolve in any direc-
ton at the will of the operator. These
furnish an efficient stabilizer and per-
NIT the machine to rise sloEly in the
air in its own track. When the plane
is at proper height the clutch is
thrown in and the machine speeded as
desired. II the apparatus answers
specifications it removes at once so per
cent OF the hazards of airplaning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-28

public generally. 1t has been unsatis-
factory to the column for the reason
that. altho we have tried several times.
we have been unable to write a really
snappy paragraph about 1t. 1t has
been unsatisfactory to the public be-
cause, despite the customary display
OF enterprise, no newspaper has been
able 10 print a picture of the woman.
The people are patient. slow to an
ger and meek and submissive in the
face of discomfort and annoyance But
upon one point they are insistent;
they demand picture of the woman.
After a woman is married she at
tracts less attention. After a man IL
married he attracts no attention.
As a man grows older he uses the
moonlight less and less and a lantern
more and more.
The average mans initials are IA
miliar to the people of his community,
but nobody ever knows his full name
until his daughter gets married.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-28

It is reported that a threatened gen.
eral railroad strike has been temper
arilv averted. 1T should not even have
been contemplated. 1t seems never
vet to have occurred to the average la
boring man that when another labor
body strikes under present conditions,
It is increasing his own cost of living
exactly as 1t increases the cost of liv-
ing of other labOring men when he
strikes. In other words, the whole Ia
Dor world today is actually fighting
the interests of every individual Ia
borer. The So called radicals, seeing
how easy it has been to get men to
strike. regardless of any contracts that
may have been in force. and not haV-
ing in mind the general good, encour-
age men to strike, and then strike
again, and then with the utmost In
consistency calmly object to the right
Of those whose costs have been raised
to incorporating such costs in their
own charges. II the carpenter and
the plumber and the factory hand
raise the costs to the farmer of keep
ing his house and farm tools in order,
the farmer must receive more for his
produce in order to meet such costs.
II instead of the farmer and the la
borers who supply his wants each
charging the other indirectly 100 per
cent for their service. they each charge
200 per cent, neither will be better
off. but the burden OF the world will
be that much greater.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-28

An estimate made by statistician
Of the census bureau shows that the
population of the United States is
about 100000 short of what was ex-
pected. II the count everywhere else
has been as defective as it was in
Topeka. the discrepancy Is easily ex-
planned
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-28

Any American Croesus who shares
Nthe ambition to die poor expressed by
the late Andrew Carnegie, might cas-
lily attain his desire by entering the
race for a presidential nomination and
paying the expenses out of his own
uOcket
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-28

The principal industry of Mr. Hard
ing's home town, it is announced, is
the manufacture of steam shovels.
Well, nobody has had reason to sus-
pect that It was steam. rollers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-28

Probably the Democrats could not
do better than nominate Cox of Ohio.
He has been three times elected gov
ernor of his state. the last time run
ming $4,000 ahead of his ticket. The
vote of Ohio might easily decide the
election. At any rate there would be
a pretty fight. There is more politics
to the square inch in the. Buckeye
state than anywhere else in the Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-28

Senator Harding is said to have
been a member of a cornet band in
his youth. He has nothing on Nc
AdoO there. The presidents son-in-
law warbled on the bass drum in a
college band
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-28

Los Angeles had just reached a
high pitch of enjoyment over the CEN
sus returns when along came the
earthquakes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-28

Boies Penrose probably will be COM
PEELED by illness to turn over further
campaign activities to the Penrose
Roles
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-28

Carnegie's Peace Palace at The
Hague may yet have a tenant. 1t has
been decided to locate the interna-
tional court at the Dutch capital.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-28

The suggestion is made by the Sioux
City Tribune that Kansas change her
name-from the sunflowsr state to the
wheatflour state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-28

Copyright. 1920. by the Wheeler Syndicate.
Incl
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29
FARMS AND FARM WORKERS.

The Cedar Rapids Gazette explains
why the hired man is disappearing
from the farm. 1t says:
Better pay, better living condi-
tions, the broader life Is causing and
has caused him to leave the farm for
the city in shoals. Because of this
desertion the farmer is sorely per-
picked as to how to get the farm
work don. Few are spry enough to
do all OF the work on a 2OO-acre
farm" The Gazette suggests that
higher pay for the young men is the
way to bring them back to the farm.
| 1t is not altogether the lure of the
town and the apparently higher wage
paid in cities that sent the old time
| hired man" 70 join the buffalo and
the emu as an extinct or disa appear
/ ing type Time was when every farm
sought its hired man and contracted
with him at so much a month until
| after cornspicking." When labor saw
/ ing machinery offered opportunity to
get along with DAY work" the farm
/ naturally figured the lower cost
| There were day hands" then in the
village and here and there in the
countryside. So the hired man met
much the same fate as the old time
/ Jour" printer. Many of them found
their occupation gone. They sought
/ other employment. They had to.
/ The question of better wage re-
| quires analysis as between the wages
on the farm and those in town. The
! Gazette quotes a farmer who says he
is paying s65 a month, board, room
and washing to farm hands. He is a
| thrifty worker who can live for less
! than $50 month in town. If he gets
/ $3.50 a day and works p days out Of
! the month his monthly income will
! be $ll2.5O. or $3.50 net. On the farm
at $G5 and expenses it would be s65
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29

OF course getting old Hi Cost into
a corner and talking him to death
may work but so far the old pirate
seems to grow taller on il.
Dye s'pose when the railroads and
coal mines are nationalized that some
of the leaders will have private
trains like Trotsky and take over ell
the anthracite and Virginia Spl"t
for their own bins. That's the way IL
worked out in Russia.
The soldier didn't worry much
a bout money or opportunity when he
didn't know whether or not he was
coming back or going to he buried
in trench but he knows he's going
to stay in the United States a long
time now that he is back and wond
ers why the man who stayed at home
and copied the coin finds the pro-
posal to even things up a little so
Objectionable.
So far no candidate has bobbed up
to run on a 3 per cent beer platform
for an Iowa office.
If it's so that the need causes new
muscles to grow and Darwin was
right a few generation hence the
human race will carry their own por-
table houses on their backs like
snaiIs and turtles.
When the roads torn up for re-
pairs folks that are anxious to get
somewhere simply detour ami heep
on going. Why not detour around
the busted Wilsonian treaty and get
somewhere?
We haven't changed much with the
war. Georges Carpenter draws more
attention than would me president
same ship. And II. G. Wells wouldn
draw a corporals guard TO meet him.
Speaking OF the crea. need of farm
help why not switch a few thousand
OF these idle clerks from government
employ at the fields and kitchens?
The league of nations will not 10
an issue in the campaign 1t has
ceased to be an issue. Indeed il never
was an actual issue but a possiI lie
way to get the thing over.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29
BRooKHARr PIERcE's CANDIDATE?

The Tribune, a labor paper, pun
Iished at Cedar Rapids in its issue
Of March %. under the headlines
Him Pierce Joins With Labor For
Rrookhart" tells of a conference in
that city where Brookhart was form
ally brought forward as candidate
in opposition to Cummins. In small
Ter headline the Tribune says Mr..
Haines Guides Candidates" and goes
on to relate:
'Brookhart, so it is said by men
from DeS MoineS, who were cor
versant with the situation, was finai-
" determined upon as the man best
adapted to carry on the night in
Iowa, his chief sponsor being, &C
cording to these men. jim PIERCE
who claims the ability and the pow
ers to deliver" the farmer vote OF
the state to the labor candidate.
That there is basis for this state
ment as to Pierce influences is found
in the fact that Austin Haines, his
chief political writer on the lowt.
Homestead, the man who is accredi'-
ed with possessing the brain power
! in Pierce's attacks upon whom re
/ dislikes. was very mucn in evidence
! at the conference Sunday. Brook
/ hart, who was present, gave strict
! attention TO all suggestions offered
! by Haines to whom he is undoubted-
7 ly indebted for his choice to lead the
! labor forces as their candidate at
the primaries in June"
! Among those present" and
active as noted by the Tribune, were:
James Steadman of Eagle Grove
! legislative lobbyist for many years
! Of the Engineers. The Mine workers
were also represented by SHADY"
| Lewis, president of District No. 10.
! the Iowa sub division of the United
| Mine Workers of America"
! A clear statement Of Mr.. Brook
! hearts platform is given by the
/ features that Mr. Brookhart will ad-
/ vocate if nominated and elected are
/ Standardization Of the Coal Mines
/ and Government Ownership of Rail
! roads"
| Concluding its news story the Trib-
/ une says under the headline Much
/ Depends on Pierce"
! Pierce is expected to deliver tre
! larger part of the vote that must
come from the farmers Of Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29
INDICTED FOR CONSPIRACY.

A epecinl grand mry has indicted a
large number of coal operators and
mine labor leaders charging con-
splracy to increase the price OF coat.
Conspiracy Is charged in the sew
eral counts Of the indictments. II IS
scarcely to be credited that spe-
claI grand Jury would have been call
ed and that il wouId have returned
those indictments unless the gov
eminent had evidence convincing to
tbo f,,r,. What tr,, c,ider,o il and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29

net, outside work In the city means
more than the loss of one day a
month on account of weather. There
Is no weather loss to a month hand
on the farm. The honest fact Is that
for the young man who Is anxious to
make a stake for college or for any
other purpose the farm Is the best
bet. The wage Is better.
However the way out for the farm
that needs man regularly Is the
neat, comfortable tenement house,
well built and well located and at
tractive to live in where IL can house
a family man and offer him a better
living and better chance than the
average worker can make for himself
in the city. That seems to be about
the only way to establish perma-
nent class Of farm workers which can
he depended upon. The better the
community treats such workers and
their families the better class of peo-
pie il will attract. II 1t chooses TO
snobbishIy ostracise and segregate a
decent man and decent woman and
nice family because of their status
as hired people" than it will get
what it deserves and If it chooses to
make those people part OF the com
munity and honor them for their
thrift and integrity it will also get
what it deserves.
1t is going to be mighty hard TO
establish a peasant class in Amerl-
can farm districts. The American,
worth while looks forwards to bet
tering his condition and sees his chill
dren better off than himself II he
can not have recognition as an equal
he seeks a residence and occupation
where he feels an equality with his
nelghbors as man to man.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29

II Is significant that the Tribune
in its editorial columns makes not
the slightest reference OF the Pierce
Brookhart candidacy.
Just how far Messrs. Pierce and
Brookhart will get with the farmers
of the state on a platform OF nation
alization OF coalmines and railroads
isn't at all problematical. But why
didn't they include naturalization OF
farms? Or Is that to come later?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29
HANDY DIRECTORY
of THE
MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Meetings
itors Always Weleome

MARSHALL LODGE NO. ios a
Al NJ. wednesday, March ~ AT .
lock sharp. First Degree. 9, 4,
innings. w. NJ; John W. "e'''
lcretary.
sreSET CHAPTER NO. IS, II. n
THURSDAY night. March 90 on,
r.. drill Monday night, gsth; M', VIZ
as,ers' degree. Frank T. NoN'S' -
|. John w. Wells, secretary
-rc SOLOMON COUNCIL. ""
~....- oasewn,v Monday. MarcA
business sessions. O, {. Fun
~. John w. Wells, recorder
Nrr,AvF ST. ALDEMAR cow
rnrpy No. 20 x. r, TnesoNV'
!, 40 4 o'clock; Red Cross, sup.
!. s,so order Of the Temple AZ
rIyde u. stewart, commander
w. Wells, recorder.
rNTRAL CHAPTER No. 81 q "
Regular meeting WednoSdnV'
"a NJ 6 for business and init,a-
Mrs. w. J. Richards, w NJ
Archer Walton. secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29
Ripping Rhymes
By WALT MASON
BACK TO NORMAL.

We getba had
the We
be galley
braided tail will land
and
while alive Then we'll quit
Of
ali
he cuts oosef from a ime
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29
TObn Burroughs
s Nss's:s:::

1. VIII wild creatures welcome
one of their number escaped from
captivity?
?. What violets are uniformly
fragrant? .
3. What is the first egg OF spring Z
Answer to Previous Questions.
1. How does the physiological
structure of the bees differ from that
Of the animals'
The bee breathes and yet II mas
no lungs: 1t smells. and yet 1t has no
offactories: It sees. and yet it's eye
has no part analogous to retina, the
crystalline lens, and the aqueous hu-
NOR: it has form and structure, anu
Yet II has no bones, and II Is only os
courtesy that the anterior ganSiioh
to which run the nerves OF the eye
can be called a BRAIN" and yet be-
hold the wonderful intelligence of the
bees
9. Will wild animals ever get lost
There may not be such a thing as
the "homing instinct" in the sense III
which we used to believe there was
in Revolutionary days-a bliho
impulse that carries an animal bach
home unerrlngly, and that acts inde-
pendently OF sight or sense. Tho TINS
is still a mooted point. | do not be-
lieve that wild animal ever gets
lost. tho we know domestic ones do
8. Do the same kinds OF birds
build the same kind of nests In the
south and in the north?
The same birds breeding IN
southern climate construct far less
elaborated nests than when breeding
in the northern climate, Certain
species of water fowl, that abandon
their eggs to the sand and the sun
in the warmer zones. build nest anu
SIT in the usual way in Labrador III
Georgia. the Baltimore oriole places
its nest upon the north side or the
tree. in the middle and eastern
states 1t fixes it upon the south OF
,as; side, ana makes i much thicker
and warmer.
,Rights reserved by Houghton Mitf-
f. lin Company
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29
SMALL TOWN HOSPITALS.
burlington Hawkeye.I

A number of the leading citizens Of
odebolt are busy canvassing the
town and neighborhood for subscrip-
tions for stock in fine modern hos
pital that is to be erected AT the ear
Hest possible time. They are meeting
with success and there seems little
doubt that the hospital will be built.
Some years ago II was held that
none but the larger cities could
maintain hospitals. But It was found
later that the small town has the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29
GoMPERs' BLACKLIST.
fCedar Rapids Republican,

Mr.. Gompers says he Is going to
persist in his policy Of blacklisting
all men who have not obeyed his will
! in congress. He can probably do so
for there Is no law against political
blacklisting but Mr.. yGompers's own
labor crsani zatton has q" s.s$$ pro
tested against employers having the
right 70 blacklist men, even those
who hayegbeefl on destructive strikes
That II another blackllst Hut Al \,
GoHf,ei;s NH assd Hint
Ur0 wheat ArnArica II tilnSnt
rs,I19 MAJ hin solf h NJ A 9t1 III n 4h6el
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29

&c where no came from. for he came
from Galicia by way OF England,
The American people with an Ameri-
can form OF government were here
before no thought to emigrate to
America, where he has Jared 80 well
and prospered so greatly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

The friends of Mr.. Hoover in the
east, among them are many million
aire publicists-like the owner of the
Curtis publications. would be sacri-
ficing IA whole American system. the
party system. the responsible system
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29

which is as old as the republlc-'o
win a temporary victory for one
man. saws the Cedar Rapids Eepuh-
Iican. 1T is not worth 1t, ME-
Hoover is good man, without
doubt but ne is not the one man nee
essarv TO the existence Of this gov
ornment. America ran along while
he was making millions out OF Att
can mines. And as long ago as
Thomas Jefferson that veteran poll
tician made the statement that in
America - even then 1890 there were
many men big enough to run TINS
government. We have not yet been
reduced 10 the status of a one man
nation"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29

announcement is made that Smlth
Brookhart will contest the senator
ship to succeed Senator Cummins in
the coming primary. He hopes to
capitalize the disappointment OF
some men who wanted the Plum bill
adopted instead of the Cummins
bill. He will not succeed and ought
not to-" says the Mason City Globe
Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29

song OF MANY HOPEFULS.
I've never seen a dark horse,
! never hope to see one.
But at a presidential course,
I'd rather be than see one.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29

Same needs that the larger city has
and Is just as able to supply those
needs as Is the larger city. And
among the foremost of such needs Is
the modern hospital with allN the
equipment necessary to fight Nall
manner OF disease with success.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29

Evidently the westward course Of
the empire of Lenine doesn't lie thru
Poland.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29
The Windmill
BERLIN, SPRING. 1890.
The Wilhclmstrasse.

The cruel sabers clink and CLEAN
Within the tinselled halls of state;
The junkers still proclaim the'r
might.
They chant their ferveut songs of
hate;
They dream "a Prussia over all
And mock the beckonings or rate
Unheeding of the youth that sprang
To arms to meet the kaiser's boast,
Unheeding Of the valiant foe
That stood and turned the German
host,
| They prate of bloody years to come,
Der Tag is still their braggart
toast.
While thru the sounding corridors
There stalk The ghosts OF all the
| The children in the ocean depths,
The women killed by leaden rain,
The men that poison vapors choked-
They cry: 1--WE have not died in
r. vain"
Inter Den Linden.
u
And shouts n welcome to the
spring.
What tho the state be torn by strife?
The soul that's drunk with lust
must sing;
Todays today. dance while YOU can,
No matter what the morrow bring.
The pirates of the iron cross plot
To keep the Hohenzollern breed;
They scheme to save u garish throne
Tho all the German nation bleed;
And still the revelry goes on,
The rout of ribaldry and greed.
While underneath the swaying trees
There stalk the ghosts of all the
slain
The children in the ocean depths,
The women killed by leaders rain.
The men that poison vapors choked-
They cry: 1--WE have not died in
vain! L T.. $.
Despite prohibition there are still
many brewers CO trouble and dis
tillers Of iniquity-not to mention
the Washers.
WEEKLY THOUGHT.
We're tolerant of Tuesday, OF
Wednesday, Thursday. Friday:
We're very fond of Saturdays and
fonder still of Sunday:
But there's a day we fully hate, a
dull. bleak. a dry day,
The day when we go back to work
Oh curses on thee! Monday.
We're for the :. A. M.-meaning
the Society for the Abolition of Mon
days.
Edna says that most of the he
men" she knows are hee-h ee men.
II went to one of these modern
plays the other day" said the lady
in the row behind. but my seat was
so bad that l couldn't even see the
bed"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29
L THOUGHT.

POLITICAL THOUGHT.
Possibly it's the house shortage
that impels so many folk to seek
lodgings in the White House.
The number % candidates is ex-
ceeded only by the number of cam
paign managers.
Lots of aristocrats are shaking
hands with one and all these days.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29

And the serpent would probably
give out a cheer-up interview to the
effect that the country was facing
unparalleled prosperity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29

Or as Byron might have said:
The soviets came down like vol
on the fold.
Bump! FEW.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-29
EASTER MEANS GIFTS

"She", at least. demands special no.
tice on Easter; she expects you to
send her some little token of your
love for her. Such tokens are best
illustrated by candies and perfumes,
large stock OF both Of which we
have, in ptcktges selected particular
~ for Easter. She'll love such gifts
as these and love the lover who sends
them.
CANDY
Candies. chocolates. bon bons, all
mixtures and assortments, plainly
and decoratively packaged. Wonder
full qualities. clever gifts and are not
at great cost. Place orders early.
PERFUMES
Perfumes In fancy bottles viii
make wonderful little Easter gifts
representative as they are of the nat
ural flowers of which they are made.
Dainties to the dainty giri--gifts that
she will adore. See that she gets
them.