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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-10
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.

1 saw Ed Wernick and Reddy Merry
sneeking up the alley yestidday-aftir-
noon, me saying, Watts up, fellows?
Shh, we're going to kidnap Sid
Hunts dog AMI hold him for a ransom,
,sed Reddy. And they kepp on sneek-
ing, me following them to see wat
happened, and the Huntses back gate
was unlocked and Ed Wernick opened
it and Sids fox terrier Teddy came run
ming out and Reddy Merry picked him
up and they both ran like the dickins,
me- running after them, to see wat
elts happened, and they ran GROUND
to Reddys back yard and put Teddy
in, and after suppir the fellows was
standing GROUND the lam post and Sid
Hunt came GROUND the corner wissel-
ing as loud as he could as if he was
wisseling for something and looking
in all direcktions as if he was looking
for the same thing, and he came up
and Reddy Merry said, Watts the mat
ter Sid did you lose something?
Teddy ran away, he opened the back
gate all by himself and ran away,
that dogs too darn brite, that's watts
the matter with him. CESS he
watched me open the gate and did it
the same way 1 did it, Sed Sid Hunt.
All the fellows saying, Aw. aw, watts
YOU giving us, and Reddy Merry say
ing, Wat will you give If 1 find him
for you, how mulch ransom will your
father pay2
He wont pay eny, I don't even know
if he'll leeve me take him back if 1
find him. he's all the tim edigging
holes in the yard, but he's a smart
dog all rite. look how he opened the
gate by himself jess by watching me,
sed Sid.
Aw heck, sed Reddy Merry. And
he wawked away and pritty soon who
came running up barking but Teddy,
and he jumped up and kissed Sids
face. Sid leeving him do it as if he
was some relation, and1 went GROUND
and looked over Reddy Merfys back
tents and there was 9 big holes dug
in the yard. and Reddy wasent allowed
out last mite, that proberl ybeing the
reason.
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Ouestions-Answers

O. What was the real name of Bertha
A Bertha NJ. Clay was the pseudonym
Of Charlotte Braeme.
@. What is kaoliu Pc. A.
A. This is soft. clay Of variable. but
pure White T color. and is of high refrac-
toriness. The chief use of kaolin is Tor
the manufacture of white earthenwa war, t ana
being mixed with varying amounts OF
quartz. feldspar. and ball clay.
a.. 2; How low, many different sounds has the
4. "a shas approximately nine SCUM, sound
o. Why is snow white?-E. ID. II.
A. The wbiteness of snow results from
1.-THE fact that the snow crystals are so
eye receives n general impression produced
by the combination sof different wave
lengths reflected from innumerable tiny
facets
O. Did the Thirty Tyrants rule over all
Greece, or over the City Of Athens only p
A. These men. appointed rulers OF the
City Of Athens by their Spartan con-
querors, at the close Of the PeiopSn t ,snr
among the few who favored an oligarchy
rather than n democracy.
O. What presidential campaigns brought
out the most nominees "A. A, Il.
A. In 1900, and again in 1908, there were
eight men, nominated by as many different
@, How much is a cubic inch of gold
A. The Treasury Department estimates
that a. cubic inch Of gold is worth S362.
Q. What is alsike clover &C. T. II.
A. Alsike clover is a native of northern
Europe, and is known also Swedish or
hybrid clover. The word hybrid was
applied to it because It was thought to
be a cross between red and white clovers.
The flowers of this variety are pink or
white, or pink and white mixed. This
clover prefers a cool climate, and will
grow on low, wet lands, and soils low I'm
lime content, where red clover will not
thrive.
Q. What causes moisture to collect on
the inside Of window panes, and what
will prevent tic. ".
tween n warm room and the cold air out
side will cause the moisture inside to con-
dense on the window pane. A good circula-
ton of air thru the house will stop this.
A kitchen window should be opened slight
ly from the top when food is cooking. TO
prevent such condensation OF windows ana
walls.
lAny reader can get The answer TO any
question by writing The topeka State
Journal Information bureau, Frederic j.
Haskin, Director, Washington, ID. C. This
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Dinner Stories

Presidents Secretary Tumulty said
the other day:
Its astonishing how many thou
sands OF requests for army commits
sions come to the White House with
every mail. A good many men seem
to think that an army commission is
safe and highly paid sinecure.
Yes. a good many men are like the
chap who was after a consulship.
q So you're after the consulship to
Tobaga. eh2' a friend said to him
Yep. with both feet the chap
answered.
=" is eonsulship hard work."
" Not after you get it. ="
Two Chicago children were visiting
their grandparents on a farm north
east ON Muncie. 1t was their first
experience of the kind and they were
interested in everything they saw. The
milking operation was especially abb
sorbing. Hitherto their only knowI-
edge of the origin of milk was that it
came in bottles from the grocer's.
Discussing the milking a little later
with his sister, Arthur, who is Z, con-
cluded:
But I amt got much respect.
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Mary. then as regularly eonsigneo
them to the waste paper basket IN nis
official but one.
Janice hal been teasing him as t9
the kind of letter he wrote.
just love to seen one some time, shs
begged. and Tom, painfully writing
under three pairs of eyes his regular
Sunday letter, held it our for inspss-
ton.
don't know how 1 wish I could see
you again. 1 miss you more every day
and my business is getting to the
point where can think of starting our
little home. Always your Tom.
ITS sho.t-but beautiful, COM
mented Belle, then watched him as he
addressed the envelope carefully,
Miss Mary Smith, Kent avenue. phil
adelphia. Pa"
A week later Tom, arriving from the
office, found three eager girls wait
ing him. Here's your answer! they
ITO what?" asked the unsuspicious.
:sWhy, to the one to Mary that you
forgot and 1 mailed" cried Janice
holding out a small, pale blue envei-
Gingerly, as one would handle
package in which he feared a bomb,
Tom received and opened it. Then ne
smiled happily. Whats it about!
they asked.
"Tm afraid" and Tom beamed
gently upon them, sit was meant for
my eyes a1one"
Many times he reread it.
Dear Mr.. Morse:t
your letter came as surprise, al
/ tho I had hoped you would write
And / think a letter must have pre-
coded it which did not get. This one
seemed so very definite from person
whom I had thought a little bit shy.
1 can't say for sure what I think OF 1t
| until / see you. When will business
bring you this way again? Mary
1t was after Toms sisters returned
| from the wedding and from seeing
Tom and his bride off on a tour thru
( the Berkshires that Janice said Won
| deringly: "Why do you suppose Tom
told us her hair was brown"
And her eyes were blue?" asked
Elsie.
/ "And her father was a shoe mer-
chant?" added Belle.
But none of them found out.
| (Copyright. 1920. ny the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.l
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Dorothy Dix Tails
The ChiIdren's Earning-1.
NJ DOROTHY DIX
Wezld's HiRhesa Paid Woman WriszH.


'"What proportion of my earnings
should 1 give my parents? Have they
a right to take everything I make
away from me?"
These are questions that I am con-
tinually asked, and in reply I can only
say that it seems to me>that the finan-
ciaI obligation of children to their par
ents depends altogether upon the par
ents' necessity.
IN the parents are poor, and old,
and feeble, the children should sup
port them, even if it takes everything
they make. If the parents are not in
dire straits of want, and are able to
work, then, if the children pay their
board, they have done everything that
their parents should expect or ask of
them.
For nature lays the responsibility of
providing for the children upon the
parents. 1t is those who have thrust
life upon helpless creatures who are
bound by every law, human and divine,
to cherish them. They have no right
to feel that in having children, they
have merely propagated a lot Of slaves
to toll for them.
A great many parents do hold this
view, however, and we continually see
men and women who are husky and
strong, and perfectly able to support
themselves who knock off work and
begin to coddle imaginary ailments
just as soon as their children get old
enough to be sent out to labor for
them. They set up rheumatic knees,
and lame backs, as an excuse for turn
ing slackers. just as fashionable ladies
develop nervous prostration whenever
they want to spend the season at Palm
Beach.
One would think that the last per-
son on whom fathers and mothers
would graft would be their own child,
but so far from this being the case, it
| is the exceptional parents who do not
think that they have a perfect right
| to everything their children make.
OF course, it isn't SO easy to hold
| up boy, and take his earnings away
from him, as it is a girl, SO most par
ents are satisfied if their sons pay
board, but the poor daughter, in the
great majority of cases. simply has to
stand and deliver. Mother takes her
pay envelope away from her. and woe
! to her if she has distracted a penny
! for herself, for mother considers that
she has been robbed.
| Mother even thinks that she is being
| generous in giving back to the girl
who earned the money. a few cents for
car fare and a moving picture, and
when she buys her such clothes as she
thinks the girl needs.
| Mother justifies her conduct on the
ground that she has better judgment
land it never seems to enter her head
that the girl who has sense enough to
make the money. probably has intel
! ligence enough to spend 1t, and, in any
event, the mere fact that she has
earned the money gives her the right
to do with it as she pleases. The dol
/ larsthat we have made with toll and
sweat are OURS.
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SENATOR CAPPER,s BILL.

The main feature of Senator Cap
per's bill to prevent gambling in grain
apparently is a tax of 10 per cent on
future trading in grain and cotton. ex-
cept by actual owners. Farmers,
dealers and manufacturers buying or
selling grain or cotton for actual de-
| livery would not be restricted. Vio-
lation of the bill, that is failure to pay
the tax, would involve penalties of a
fine of $1,000 and one years impris-
onment
1t is. of course, to be expected that
the Chicago board of trade will object
to any bill that may be suggested as
help in eliminating speculation on
foodstuffs. Thus, before Senator
Capper has even sent out copies of
his proposed anti-speculator law Wig
6rous opposition develops.
A 10 per cent tax, says the Sioux
City Tribune. undoubtedly would
eliminate bucketshops and lot of
little spectators. But the man who
desired to play for big stakes would
not be hindered. One who made a
KILLING" for 100000 could well af-
ford to give the government $4,000
tax on the deal and pocket the $780,
900.
But who is to say that sales of grain
for future delivery are not bona fide?
The buyers have a right to insist on
delivery and this has been done in the
past. OF course this is not done if
they think the sellers can deliver the
goods. They tried this on Armour a
few years ago on a wheat deal, but he
was prepared and poured wheat into
Chicago by boat loads and train loads.
When a dealer cannot meet his OBJ
| legations he confesses his inability to
do so and pays the other party to the
| deal for losses incurred thru failure to
keep his contract.
Commenting further on the bill the
Tribune says:
The Capper tax. in fact would legal
ize gambling in grains. and that is ex-
actly what is not wanted. If the SEN
ator would make it worth one years
| Imprisonment for any one to be caught
taking flyer" in foodstuffs. and the
| courts would enforce the law. it would
be better. There is no valid excuse
| for the existence of buyers" and
sellers whose only actual purchase
of wheat is the loaf of bread that
squats on their well loaded dinner ia
bles. The bona -fide dealers can fur
nish all the marketing facilities
needed.
| Why should we permit men to gam
BILE with corn and wheat and cotton
bolls when we send them to Jail if
| they are caught using dice?
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THE NEW CRISIS.

Henry Ford's newspaper, the Dear
born Independent, continues its til
rades against the Jews. 1t must be
that the Jews went back on the
Democrats in the recent campaign.
The Hartford Courant finds the Ford
propaganda a source of innocent
merriment' and refers to it as fol
lows:
Newspaper men generally will well
come the appearance of a new crisis.
1t comes by way of Detroit, Mich,
and arrives at time when the old
crises were so worn that it was well
nigh impossible to become alarmed at
them. After one has wintered and
summered with a crisis it becomes
stale and tiresome.
The new crisis has not reached that
point, in fact. its grisly features are
not fully outlined, but from what we
can see of it it is the equal of any
crisis which the. republic has met of
late years and consists, in brief lof the
fact that the Hebrews have perfected
plans for world dominion and, as a
sort of side issue the details of which
have not been fully worked out as yet,
the Free Masons are working with
| them and may go $3.50 on the domin-
ion business.
OF course we are familiar with both
classes. Many Hebrews have bearded
faces, that is, of course, the males and
| the Masons invariably put ON cute but
wholly inadequate white aprons when
Masoning, tho what Interior motive
| they have for this custom remains one
of the secrets of the craft. At any rate
| this race and this brotherhood are to
rule the world and now is the time for
all good men to join a lodge or a syna-
gogue. We shudder at the prospect
which appears before usi
But, upon second thought, this crisis
| disposes of another crisis that has
been staring US out of countenance for
| ever so long and upon which Senator
elect Watson of Georgia. has an eye
and that is, for short, the Pope. II
| the Jews and the Masons are to rule
the United States and the rest of the
world, the Roman Catholics cannot
| place the pope in the White House
| and give him temporal power because
| 1t simply cannot be done; hence a few
weekly publications with more circu-
lation than intelligence may conserve
newsprint by suspending publication
| because our new crisis simply pushes
the Roman Catholic one off the map
| There is no place for it, it disappears
Just now we are enthusiastic fol-
the new crisis tho it's real novelty lie.
in the combination of Hebrews ant
| Masons, and We want to see it tried
out and learn If possible how the two
win manage the world when they ge
around to it. Perhaps the world viii
become moral as the Jews have {
working knowledge of the Ten Com
mandments and the Masons take {
Bible along upon ceremonial occasions
Who knows but the new combination
will contrive to make a success o
world government?
At any rate we are not alarmed
we decline to be at this point becaus'
Christmas is not far away and we hop
to see the 1921 crop of calendars ant
the Inauguration of Harding in Marcel
and a coupon on our $50 Victory LOAF
bond is almost ripe enough to pick
lIn December the heart of man incline
to optimism and We are not down
hearted. We think we are going t.
like this new crisis.
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treasure secreted in q field, making
the entire property worth buying.
It is like the merchants pearl of
great price, supremely desirable. IT
is like a net, gathering in the good
and the bad, for the subsequent sep
aration. Naturally, SO vast a con-
ception as that of the kingdom of
heaven is susceptible of endless in
depreciation and comparison
The kingdom is made by the
King. Christ kingdom is Christ's
dominion over the hearts of men
who give allegiance to Him. As men
do His will, His kingdom comes.
Where His sway goes and grows, there
His dominion is extended.
1t is a spiritual kingdom, knowing
neither boundary of time nor boun-
dairy of space. The --ingdon of God
interpenetrates and overlays all
eath1y Kingdoms. As people be-
come subject to Christ, they are so
made over in their characters that
the truth and love which are the
marks of citizenship in the heavenly
kingdom inevitably tranform earth
ly conditions.
All things desirable come with the COM
ing Of the kingdom Of heaven
If Jesus Christ is a man
And only a mani say
That of all mankind 1 cleave to Him
And to Him will 1 cleaYe Away.
II Jesus Christ is god
And the only God, / swear
will follow him thru heaven, and hell,
The earth, the sea, and the air!
Richard Watson Glider.
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George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
ON THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS.

A really great critic, speaking of
the writings of a famous man., said
that there were times when he wrote
''on/the side of the angels!'
And what he meant by this, / be-
lieve, was that there were times when
that writer became so intensely sincere
and beautiful in thought that what he
said was beyond criticism.
We are all the time doing things of
which we are ashamed. We make
many mistakes. But just the minute
that We feel sorry in our hearts. we
walk over on the side of the angels
The average mans capacity for good
and kindness is much greater than
that for wrong and error-and one
reason for this is that he gets so much
more for good than for evil The one
who does wrong never feels comfort
able. whereas the One who does a
worthy thing at once is thrilled with
the desire to do a better one.
like to think of my angels as very
human and loveable. / don't like to
think of their wings-if they have
any.
like to think of them as the invisi-
Bile figures of my better self-the self
that is righteous a1together'-vital,
gentle, full of understanding,
not free to anger, wholly unselfishi
clean-a working self.
Somehow or other, always get very
near to discouraged folks-because, ]
guess, I have been there so many
times myself. But still more because
fancy that the angels are Just a little
nearer them than anybody else And
the big business of angels is to inspire,
So let's get on the side of the angels
as often as we Can.
When Lincoln spoke those immortal
words-''with malice toward none
with charity for ALL" he walked ovel
and stood on the side of the angels
And every time the business mar
feels a human soul working with hin
instead of a mere employe. he too as
sociates with the ideals of angels
We can all be SO much better thar
we are. Let US keep trying!
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The wisdom of providing govern
ment revenues by means of sales tax
has been frequently discussed unoffi-
cially but has never been given serious
consideration by our law makers.
Nevertheless. this system of taxation
is being successfully operated in such
countries as France. Germany and
Canada and it is probable that a very
large majority of the business people
here favor it Taxing sales in the
various channels of trade would be
equitably distributed all along the line
the rich man and the poor man each
standing his proporIonate share OF
the added cost of purchases made. 1t
will be argued that this would in
crease the cost of living. which is al
ready high. and while at first glance
this would seem so there is another
way of looking at it. Few people
doubt that in the purchase of house
hold supplies and of wearing apparel
dealers generally have added the
amount Of their own taxes to the
prices Of the goods sold and this also
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ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY e. HOUSE
eFrom Philadelphia Public Ledgsr.l

Personally, we are willing that
Hiram shall be brought into camp I'm
der guard But he must slake his
thirst from some canteen other than
ours.
Inasmuch as we shall be involved in
it only in an abstract way, we are not
greatly interested in Mrs. Hardings
social administration of the White
House But we should love to hear
her express her opinion of the wall
paper.
A woman's opinion of the decorative
effects OF the house into which she is
about to move is the same as her opin-
ion of the rugs belonging to her neigh
bors. And it is always interesting.
Dealers say the demand for cell
larettes is unusually small, considering
that this is the glad Christmas season.
But roulette layouts, they say, are SELL
ing well.
the fire will be put out before he gets
to it.
We have read the lucubrations of
the Boston chap who refused to inherit
a million dollars. Here is hoping he
has to sleep in the streets.
This, we observe, as we scan the
sporting pages, is the season of the
year when Yale fires it's football coach.
The slush has no terrors for US. We
intend to read the last chapter of
Wadworth Camps 1.-The Guarded
Heights if it chokes us. Not for
worlds would we miss the killing of
the hero of that tale.
We assume Mr.. Camp intends to kill
him in the Ia Sf oh x1yn. he
a calamity to permit him to live.
So far as the other characters in the
book are concerned we are less blood
thirsty. Penitentiary sentences for the
lot ranging in length from seven to
twenty-five years would satisfy the
columns sense of justice.
Meanwhile, it may interest you to
know that the Kelley Institute, estab-
lished many years ago in Dwight, Ill.
still is a going concern, and that it ad-
vertises, in the Chicago Tribune, "a
system designed not only to, remove
the craving for alcohol, but also to
restore the individuals self-reIiance
and will power"
Prohibition seems again to have
| fallen somewhat short of its pros
pectus. 1t was claimed, you will re-
member, that prohibition would put
tile hS0lSy CURES Out u business.
The story gees that Chicago saloon
| keepers are supplying their whisky
trade with pure alcohol colored to re-
semble the real article. But it is only
those who have been kicked by pure
alcohol who can realize the enormity
| of this offense.
We have had a little experience
with alcohol in the old days in the
original aqua pura belt. The custom
was to purchase a flask of alcohol
dope" it with rock candy and dilute
it with water in the proportions OF
| fifty-fifty. Three drops of this mix.
ture rubbed on the nozzle of a jack
rabbit would put that timid anima
in mental condition to fight bulldog
| The story is that Dempsey and Will
lard are to fight again. If this spec.
ulation in gullibility goes thru dom
say we didn't warn you. Mr.. Willard
| for all his bulk, is an indifferent fight
er, but he is the best business mar
who ever set dragging foot into q
prize ring.