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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21

The Topeka Railway company re-
ports the. loss of 1888 passengers in
the first five months Of 1920. Did the
company expect to carry as many pas
sengers at 6 cents as at cents? If
the suggested increase to 10 cents to
meet wage advances be put into effect
another big decline in the number of
passengers carried may be. expected
and ultimately fewer cars will be need
ed TO handle the traffic. Under such
conditions some of the men who are
to recsive an advance of 80 per cent
in wages may find their services not
needed in Topeka. The cost of living
continues to keep several laps ahead
of all pursuers and will maintain its
lead as long as present methods of
trying to overtake it are employed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21

senaIity. and not the people them
selves. Somewhat the same thing was
seen at the Democratic convention,
where MeAdoo was undoubtedly the
man most In the popular eye. Here
again. the candidate chosen may be
great man, and there is much in his
record to prove that he is. but the fact
remains that he was not nationally
known as a man of proven high
ability.
This all seems to indicate that the
people perhaps have better sense or
at least sounder instinct, than they
have been given credit for They try
to follow the born leaders, but those
who hold power will not let them.
The tendency then on the part of these
men in power to play up little hemely
facts about their candidate, and their
Complementary attempt to find irrele-
want scandalous facts about the oppo-
sition candidate. look like nothing so
much as an attempt to divert the aver
age man from his search FOR a real
leader by working on his emotions
his syInpathies and prejudiees. These
efforts are so much sand thrown in
our eyes.
This idea might be strongly sup
ported by study of the history of the
presidency in this country, and by ex-
ampies from other walks of life than
said, by way of conclusion. that the
average man stands in about the sa me
relation TO the political powers-that-
be as a small boy to a severe but kind
ly mother who offers him his choice
between a pretzel and cracker but
keeps the chocolate creams on a high
shelf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21
Dorothy Dix TALKS
Company VS.. Home FoIIxs.-f,
81 DOROTHY DIX
d's Highest Paid wemnn W

company VS.. Home H'olks.-1.
The small boy had sinned the ever
besetting sin of childhood. He had
spotted the tablecloth. His mother
reproved him sharply and sent him,
shamed and crushed. from the room.
why don't you treat me like l was
company" walled the little culprit,
why don't you tell me that it doesn' Z
make a bit of difference. and not TO
mention it, as you did to Mr.. Sniff
last night when he spilled his cof-
fee?"
The mother tried to camouflage her
sense of guilt by saying sternly, THAT
will do, Benny I don't want any inn
pertinence from you" and the balance
of us kept our abashed eyes on our
plates. None of us dared look his
neighbor in the face for all of US knew
that we fell under the child's uncon-
scious condemnation:
None of US could answer Benny's
riddle Why do we not treat those
near and dear to US, those whose hap
piness lies in our hands, with the
kindness. the courtesy, the torbear-
ance. we show to the stranger?
None of US could say why we are
more tender of the feelings of a
chance acquaintance than we are OF
the susceptihilities of those of our
own household.
We only know that we are. and that
none of us would dream of saying the
brutal things to outsiders that We say
to our own families. NO woman
speaks to her chauffeur or her butler
as She does to her husband. No man
hands the cook the same uneensored
criticism of her bread that he does TO
his wife. Ne employer vents his i'm :
ma tience on his stenographers ana
clerks in the unbridled way he does
upnn his daughters.
II men and women treated each
I -fae 1e aftRr-
wards there would never pc announcer
wedding, hut they don't. Before mar
riage thew treat each other as II they
we've company. They flatter eacn
ether: they defer to each others opin-
ion; they listen enraptured 70 leach
other. The woman makes the man
believe that he is hero and an oracle
IN her ewes. The man cenvinees the
woman that he regards her as the EN-
bodinent of every feminine charm and
1t is to get this admiring audience,
with the perpetual glad hand that
people marry. A man takes upon
himself woman's board bill and
shopping ticket to secure himself the
society of the one human being he has
ever met who can properly appreciate
him. The woman comes in out of
society, or business, and goes into the
kitchen so that she may have the con-
tinuous happiness of listening TO man
whose greatest joy is in singing her
praises.
And then--bloeeyl each finds the
other took off his or her company
manners with the wedding clothes, and
that whatever virtues the other may
possess. poIiteness and common court
esy are not among them.
For it is sadly true that in the aver
age family consideration for the feel
ings of those of the household is no
more for every day use than the best
china and the hand en- broidered
| doilies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21

The idea has received considerable
currency that no drastic or prolonged
decline in prices can come while the
basis for scarcity demand exists. The
high cost OF coal. the stiff tax rate
and high wages, it is urged, will act as
sustaining factors until production has
turned the balance of the scales. At
the same time, and in the face of
these conditions. prices have declined.
Shoes. clothing. hides and leather.
wool and silk. as well as cotton goods.
are well below the levels current ear
iier in the year. All markets have re-
Elected uneasiness because buyers have
known that prices were at unpreee=
dented heights. and it was only a mat
ter of time before they would so low
err Nobody expects to see shoes,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21
Moulton Musings
When Gabriel Blows His Trump.
By ROY K. MoULroN.

When Gabriel Blows His Trump.
There will be fifty-three investiga-
tions going on
They will be selling a pound of sugar
with a dollars worth of groceries.
Eggs will be advancing from $3.50
to sass a dozen.
Some people will still be looking for
Mesopotamia on the map.
Ten motion picture companies will
be announcing a new drama Of the
Villa will just be organizing new
instruction.
Dave warfieId will be playing THE
Music Master"
There will be theatrical war with
barbed wire entanglenents and much
poison gas
The skirts will be getting shorter.
Gabriel had better blow soon.)
A lot of motion picture stars will be
kicking because they get only s2,so0
a week.
Some circus clown Will be trying TO
star in Hamlet"
Pirates robbed two American women
on a French ship in the Mediterranean.
However. If they had stayed at home
the land pirates would have got them.
Modern Nursery Rhymes.
LUKE McGluke.)
Tom, Tom Tittlemouse
Doesn't have to leave his house;
He has liquor in his cellar,
Isn't he a lucky felleri
Many farmers are so fond Of the
eight-hour day that they crowd two OF
them into the twenty-four.
Alta Boy.
NASHVILLE Tennesseean.A
Thirst in war. thirst in peaee."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21

Under the existing system of fed
eFaI. taxation, the taxpayers always
are in debt 10 the government and the
government is in debt to the banks. If
business. prosperity decrease and
ton of public revenue will, of course,
result; but the government will have
borrowed, perhaps a year in advance,
relying on the tax on business profits
to meet these public loans. All such
evils, present and prospective. could be
removed by a tax on sales.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21
JUST FOLKS

BY EDGAR A. GUEST.


Drowsy old summer. with nothing to do,
I'd like to be drowsin' an dreamin with
I'd like to stretch out in the shade of
An fancy the white clouds we're ships
An conjuTe up pictures of treasures an
All peopisd with pirates an princes an
An just H"s dreneh by soul with the glorious
joy
Which. was mine to>possess as bare
footed boy.
Drowsy cid summer. your skies are as
As the skies which a dreamy.eyed young
An fancy today all the pictures are
.Ithe ships an the plrstes an princesses fair.
The red scenes Of battle. the gay. cheering
which sfeetea~ the hero who rlghtea all
But somehow or other. these old eyes of
CAN'T see what they did as a youngstsF Of
nine
Drofvsy old summer, Id like to forget
Some things Which I've learned an some
I'd like the old vision Of splendor an Joy
Which were mine te possess a. bare
when / dreamed eft the glorious deeds !
As .oen mas as ia "a rsllsped my brief boyhood
thru;
ia NE to come back an look into your
With that wondrous belief an those far
seeing eyes.
Drowsy old summer, my dream days have
gone
An the ;hings whieh, are real must now
look upon;
No longer I see in the skies overhead
The pictures that were, for the last one
has fled:
have learned that not all Of our dresns
can come true,
That the toiiers are many and heroes are
few.
But I'd Ike once again to look up there an
The man that fsncisa some day I might
be.
Copyright, 1870. By Edgar A. Guest.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21
THE WAGE AWARD.

The award of the railway labor
board for which the railway employees.
their employers. the Interstate COM
merce commission and everybody else
has been waiting has been handed
down and is about what generally was
expected. That the board would not
concede all that the men asked was
taken for granted; also that it would
allow a substantial increase in wages.
Much time has been spent in inves-
tigation and it may b. assumed that
the conclusions are fair and just.
They probably will be accepted by the
railway employees. CERTAINLY by the
managers. who will proceed TO. collect
the amount of the increa se-estimated
at $500. 600. 600 a year-from the pub
lie and by that public itself. because
it has no means Of escape.
1t now is UP to the I. c. c. to provide
the railroads with the means for pay
ing the increased wages. The money
will be collected from the shippers and
the travelling public. The process OF
raising the needed s6oo.O0O.OOO a
year necessarily-wiII increase the cost
of living to everybody, the railway
workers included. Probably in a short
time they will find themselves little
better off than they were under the
existing wage scale. Thus will the
vicious circle" Of higher wages and
higher prices continue to operate.
But it should be worth much to the
business interests OF the country to
have things settled. The award of the
I. c. C. in the matter of increases in
freight rates Is expected by Septem-
Der 1. It has been awaiting the action
Of the railway labor board. Probably
sll parties concerned have known all
along approximately what would be
done.
The new railroad law authorizes
short-time loans of sso0.0oO,OoO but
additional funds will be necessary.
which must be raised by other means
ITO accomplish this end" said Sena-
tor Cummins recently. the interstate
commerce commission is directed to
adjust rates of transportation so that
the railroads will, as nearly as prac-
ticable, yield an income equal to x
as determined by the commission. In
order to guard against excessive in
comes any railroad earning in any
year more than 8 per cent upon the
value of its property must pay one
half of the excess above per cent to
the government, creating fund from
which the commission may make
loans to railroad companies upon
proper security for the purpose of pur-
chasing the equipment and facilities
Of which the country is in so great
need. As
The. act specifically provides that
the commission must take into ac-
count honest. efficient and economical
management of existing transportation
facilities, and, further. it gives the
commission authority TO make rules
controlling expenditures for Inainte-
nance. The railroad labor board ad-
Indicates disputes respecting wages,
so the public is supposedly protected at
every point but it will pay all the
bills
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21

To meet the wage advance awarded
their employees the railroads are plan
ming to ask the interstate commerce
commission for an increase in pas
Every increase in passenger rates will
he welcomed by the automobile max
ers. Millions of persons already travel
about the country in their own cars.
If the railroad rates go higher other
millions will do the same thing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21
rs YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the Columns OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL


July Fl. 1895.
W. F. Roehr's latest song, eth all For
You" has been published In Leipzig, Ger
many. 1t gives both tire German and Eng
lish words and the cover design Is very
pretty. 1t is dedicated to James Moore Of
this city.
Mrs. Charles Curtis has retuned fom Man
itou. and our congressman has been re-
lieved from the care Of the babies.
Mrs Ben Payne and daughter Jessie Of
North Jackson street went TO Kansas City
today TO visit Mrs. Paxne's daughter. Mrs.
s. t. Fulton
Mrs. A. D. Quinton will entertain tomor-
ment 10 NJ. ana Nrs'R- AZ Alien 81 81.
Louis. After making the tour Of the line
the company will be entertained at the
home Of Judge and Mrs Quinton.
Mr. and Mrs. A. ". Dana, who returned
from their wedding trip last Thursday. will
be at home on Tuesdays after August 10,
at Ills Topeka avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21

A@report complied by the federal
treasury shows a constantly widening
diffusion of wealth in this country.
on May 4, 1920, the number of de-
post accounts in national banks alone
reached the unprecedented total of
20,38O,S50 an average of one deposit
account for every five and one-half of
our population. This is an increase
OF 12.6s9.SS2 or 165 per cent in ten
wears.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
II uEB PARE
A HECK OF A LIFE


a HELM OE n Lit
A Play
Scene, boy on his frunt steps.
Boy. I wonder ware all the fellows
are? G, this is a heck of life.
bleeve Id like to de sumthing famous
and get my pickture in all the papers.
o well, there's no time like the present.
l bleeve Ill stop a runaway horse.
Aek
Scene, 4 miles away.
. Boy. l bin looking for a heur now,
and / havsp even saw a horse try &c
run away I haven't even saw one
iookinE-&s IL it wunted TO. This is 8
heck of life. bleeve III change my
mind and carry a lady down a ladder
out of a house on fire.
Scene, miles away.
Boy. This is a heck OF life. My
feets tired wawking and even if ! did
find house on fire there mite not be
eny lady in it, and even IL there was
ware would get the LADDER bleeve
III change my mind agen and rescue
a man frum drownding.
Ack
Scene, II miles away.
Boy. Wen, heers a river, but wat
good is 1t with nobody drowHding In
it? This is a heck OF life, and me
with all that distance to wawk back.
bleeve Ill go and set on my frunt
steps agen-
The End.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21

Already a campaign story has been
started to the effect that Senator
Harding once said that "a dollar a day
is enough for any workingman." Few
persons will be found, even among the
senator's opponents, who will believe
he ever said anything of the sort. Ly-
ing about the opposition is a poor way
to conduct a campaign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21

ana his chest forward and smiled with
superio-itq.
''The robber got only 5000" the
neighbor woman continued. HE got
only what was on Mr. Smartlox's desk.
The vault was jkull of money--thou-
sands of dollaRs-but Felix spriggins
backed up against the vault door and
hid it from view"
Copyright. 1920, by the Mcclure News
paper SyndicateD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21

In times past 1t was the custom at
about this time of year for somebody
to appeal to the farmers with the cry:
Hold your wheat" For such urge
there no longer is occasion. The
farmer could not get his wheat to mar
ket if he desired to do so. The neces-
sary cars cannot be obtained.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21

which sold at IS per pair before the
war. permanently established on a SIS
basis. Shoes may be scarce. but the
time is coming when they will be
lower.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21

The Pennsylvania railroad appears
to have been preparing for the wage
increase granted its employees when it
laid off several thousand men this
week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21

The federal bureau of labor statistics
reports that the price of food is ad-
vancing. Bradstreet's says it is de-
clining. The public will be inclined
to agree With the bureau.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21

1t is always the gentleman who
takes a digestive tablet with his meals
who fears other people eat tooNTnuch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21

His friends noticed that the dentist
was looking blue and inquired,
Whats the matter. Joe?'
.Why, I've had an liberated tooth
ana yesterday 1t got so bad 1 had to
pull it myself
*Did you get relief"
oh. yes"
Then why this grouch?"
why this crouch? Because. you
idiot. once got s4o0 for treating a
tooth like that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21

Next to the photographer. the corset
probably does more for woman thar
any agency working in her behalf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21

At any rate. while we have little
doubt as to the election of Mr.. Hard
ing, we fancy his success at the polls
would be attributed by impartial his
torians to some other reason.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-21

NASHVILLE Tennesseean.9 -
Thirst in war, thirst in peaee."
The Washington herald., 1920-04-13
MIDNIGHT SUN CAPTURES Mt ROYAL PURSEGRIFFS AWAIT GOl
.Bowie Race Course
VIII Undergo Vast
Improvements Soon

Baltimore, Nd, April 12.-Im-
provements involving an expendi-
ture Of about 100000 will be un-
dertaken at Prince Georges Park.
Bowie, Immediately after the finish
Of the current meeting. The work
will be superintended by General
Manager James +. O'Hara. Supt
Richard Pending will be Mr..
o'Hara's principal helper.
The grandstand. which has been
found to be wholly inadequate for
the comfortable accommodation Of
the increased and increasing Bowie
attendance. Is to be heightened at
both ends by a matter of 1ls feet
and made 40 feet deeper. The
bleachers are to be extended be-
yond the lower end of the length
ened grandstand down to a point
abreast of the last furlong pole. The
present executive building Is to be
moved away on rollers and convert
ed into track kitchen and dining
room. On the site from which the ex-
ecutive building will be removed q
commodious clubhouse will be built
A new executive building will be
constructed on the opposite side of
the saddling shed. which Is to be
made longer and deeper. These i'm
provements will have been complet-
ed before the beginning of the No
vember melting at Prince Georges
Park. and 'fn the future there will
be comfortable shelter for consid-
erably more than twice as many
persons as have been taken care OF
through past meetings.
The Washington herald., 1920-04-13
Present Day Light-weighb
-. Not Like BaHler of Old

A Western sport standing at
New York. the other day took a
lusty fall out of the present-day
crop OF light weights and feathers
and the big purses they fall heir TO
after a few rounds of work with
the upholstered mittens. Said sport,
it developed. had some sort OF Ii
cense to criticise. for he claimed to
have witnessed the Harry Sharpe
Frank Crosby fight in Nameski, ILL.,
back in '92. The Sharpe-Crosby af-
fair. lasting seventy-seven rounds
Give hours eight minutes). is one of
the longest and most brutal fights
on record. Here Is the way the
sportsman from the West describes
the encounter:
sharpe and Crosby were as evenly
matched as a pair of horses picked
out for a team. They entered the
ring about o'clock. Both stripped
weighed about 126 pounds. There
Finally one of the Shareholders Of
fered to judge the bout and was ac-
cepted by bith principals Some
time around 4:3o. when the sun was
almost down, the men received the
first gong.
Sharpe Comes Back.
"Crsby cut Sharpe up SO badly
that II seemed the thing couldn't
last more than ten rounds. In the
tenth round Sharpe was practically
done for. but by a superhuman rail-
ly he managed to toe the mark for
the eleventh. At this stage of the
battle dusk had set in and the lads
could barely see each other. Two
special trains had conveyed the
crowd to the fight, and the head
lights from the engine were soon
transferred to the corners of the
ring where the men didn't sit. The
mob learned where a bunch of
torches were stored, and they fetch
ed them, too. BY dark. about twen-
ty kerosene torches, such as are
carried in fried ham towns at po-
litical rallies, were glowing bright
ly. The train crews contributed
some lanterns, and Sharpe and Cros-
by continued their argument.
I'm three hours 1t was hard to tell
one fighter from the other. Once
both were so badly dazed they stag
gered to the wrong corners Rival
seconds worked over the wrong
fighter until it was too late to ex-
change for their own man, and the
men toed the mark refreshed by
The Washington herald., 1920-04-13
Roosevelt Named
Referee Of Boat
Race on Seuern

Annapolis. Nd, April 12.-Frank-
lin d. Roosevelt Assistant Secre-
tary Of the Navy. has accepted the
invitation to referee the race on May
between the Naval Academy crew
and the crew OF the Union Boat
Club. of Boston.
This will be one Of the most spec
tacular races of the year, because
there will be the usual Navy crowd
and also over 1000 Harvard grad
yates who are coming over from
their annual convention in Wash
fngton to view the race, as Roose-
velt's guests
The race viii also be important
from the fact that It will probably
determine whether or not the Union
Club sends its crew to compete in
the English Henley this year. II
q good showing is made against q
crew as strong as that OF the Mid
shipmen, the trip will be taken