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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-06
HOUSE HUNTING.

The shortage of houses in Topeka
is being more acutely felt as the sum-
rner season departs and people make
an effort to get into permanent quar-
tiers before the arrival of cold weather.
Local real estate men declare there is
an urgent demand for houses and
apartments, and the keenest kind of
rivalry in bidding for places that are
vacant, or likely to be vacated soon.
The result has been an appreciate
increase of rents in many instances, a
thing that is certain to have q stimu-
lating effect on all rent property.
The unfortunate phase of the situa-
ton is that many families will find it
impossible to obtain the accommoda-
tions they need. which may cause not
a few to move to some other locality.
Some families. on the other hand. will
manage to solve the problem by re-
sorting to the process of doubling
up" that is to say. by sharing a house
or apartment with another family.
1t is a matter for regret that Topeka
lacks the housing to accommodate all
these home-seekers, for not only
would a sufficient number of houses
prevent removals, but it would mean
n considerable influx of strangers
from other places where similar con-
ditions prevail. The local situation,
/ in fact, practically is the same as that
which is faced in most other cities.
and many OF them are even worse off
than is Topeka.
The solution of this housing prob
/ lem of course rests on the building OF
more homes. and another season may
see more activity along this line. High
prices OF materials and high labor
costs have been a deterrent to such
work this year. but there is hope that
next year will see different conditions
more favorable to construction pro-
jects. And this is all that is needed to
start up building plans and construc-
ton work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-06

sect would be a tremendous blow, yet
that would have happened inevitah bly, if
vigorous measures had not been taken
in the regions already affected.
Only this spring two shipments of
broom corn from Europe were found
to be badly infested with the corn
borer. OF course they were not al
lowed to enter, but for years before
the war shipments. clean and infested
alike. came into Our ports and scat
tered to broom factories everywhere.
Farmers rarely complain about an
insect until it begins to affect their
pocketbooks, so that a bug may be at
work several years before it is Brought
to the attention of the authorities. As
many kinds of pests produce over 100
eggs at a time, and as some species
multiply at the rate of two generations
in season, the increase may be over
whelminsly swift.
Poisons, sprays of burning oil, de-
struction of the infested crop, and
other heroic measures have to be
taken to reach the vulnerable spot of
the apparently nine-lived bugs. In
some cases-the gypsy moth for ex-
ample-enemies of an insect pest, have
been successfully introduced to ex-
terminate it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-06
HELPING THE FARMERS.

For many years thoughtful and
progressive farmers have been seek
ing a plan by which they could rem
They have sought so to organize their
industry that they would not be at the
mercy of dealers in their products
Every plan has been based primarily
on the theory that prices were toe
low.
Bernard Baruch has brought to the
farmers of Kansas a new idea. 1t is
that of eliminating the waste that is
found all along the line between pro-
Queer and consumer. 1t should meet
with degree of public favor which
any proposal to increase prices nee
essarily lacks. Prices of all food prod
uets already are so high that any at
tempt to increase them would be GER
tain to meet with serious opposition.
II the farmer can find a way to in
crease his income without doing so at
can object.
One of the first attempts to organ
ize the farmers of the country on a
business basis was made more than
thirty years ago by the late Walter n.
Allen, lawyer, politician, financier and
farmer. of Jefferson county. Mr.. AL
len at his own expense brought to-
gether in this city prominent agricul-
turists from a number of states. and
the Farmers Trust of the Mississippi
Valley was formed and a charter was
taken out. The object was to hold
wheat out of market until prices be-
came satisfactory. No attempt to put
the plan into operation ever was made,
probably because it was found that too
other. were forced to sell their wheat
as soon as it was threshed.
Later, the Farmers Alliance sought
to remedy this condition thru the es-
tablishment OF bonded warehouses in
which the producer could store his
wheat and borrow money on it from
the government. When the Alliance
died its plan died with 1t.
a new experiment in the direction
of helping the farmers is being tried
out in North Dakota. where they have
combined business with politics. 1t is
being watched with much interest,
generally accompanied by belief that
it will fail.
No plan which helps one class OF
long survive. Mr.. Baruch's plan OF
taking up the slack does not seem tc
! be of that kind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-06
WHY NOT DAM THE KAw?

The almost forgotten project of
building a power dam across the Kaw
river has shown signs recently of TAX
ing on new life. Much time and some
money were spent in organization and
surveys twenty-five years ago and at
one time it was believed that the work
of construction was about to start.
But like many other schemes for bene-
fitting the city. the whole thing failed
s to materialize and was relegsted to the
collection OF subjects forgotten.
The cause OF failure probably was
the same that has resulted in the
breaking down Of many other projects
for the upbuilding of the city-reluc-
tanee of Topekans to turn loose their
money.
winnipeg, Man, claims to furnish
It's citizens with the cheapest light and
power on the continent. The Winni-
neg power plant shows a net profit TO
the taxpayers of S1So.2s during the
last fiscal year. A new $4,000. goo
aqueduct, which conveys water from
Shoal Lake. eighty miles distant. has
netted the taxpayers q profit of $751;
OF during its first fiscal year Of OPP
GRAFTON.
A new impetus to water power de-
velopment thruout the country is
promised as the result of law on this
subject passed by the last congress
The movement may extend to Topeka
October I and the Water Power
League of America will hold a con
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-06
Questions-Answers

@ A sugar maple in front of my house
seems to be dying. 1t has not been struck
by lightning or hurt In any way. What
A. 1t may be that the roots of the tree
are TOO near the surface and are being
damaged by traffic. Loosening the earth
| thoroly might help. Otherwise. you
should consult tree surgeon
that will beat four tens than there are that
will beat four aces. Docs he win Nv. 1.
A. A loses There are 90 hands that W.T..
beat four aces and only ~ that will beat
four tens. Only straight-flushes will beat
four and there are - in which aces
the possible combination.) There are only
20 straight flnshes that can be made with
Der four sets of fours that will beat the
four tens, and the result is that you have
only p hands that will beat four tens.
O. What docs the name kangaroo
A. when Captain Cook discovered Aus
tralia he saw some natives on shore with
a dead animal in their possession. lie senr
some sailors to buy il. When it was
brought on board he saw that Il was All
familiar. Ho sent the sailors back To- find
out the name of the animal. The natives
could not understand what they desired TO
guage-"Kan- ga roo" meaning In English
II don't know" Therefore. the name OF
water f-P. (. NJ
A. Corn is SO buoyant that &c per cent
| is above water.
Q. Are degrees allowed 10 ride in the
same cars and trains with whites in the
District of Columbia Nv, NJ. A.
a. There is discrimination made on
| the public conveyances in the District OF
Columbia between the negro and white
races
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III 49,
Copyright. 1870. By the Wheeler Syndicate.
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
ON INVESTING.

would not give much for the man
or woman who didn't make the nrac-
tice of saving. 1 would not apply this
solely to money, either.
I read an inch announcement of a
man who died in my town the other
day who left a fortune of something
heard his name before. And / doubt
whether any excepting his closest ac-
quaintances had either. He had
saved a great sum. largely thru in
vesting.
But / have in my library the-won-
derful thought of a man-yes. dozens
OF them-who died so poor in money
that you couldn't buy many potatoes
today with what hesleft. But oh, how
rich he wasi
He invested all that he was and
had-in ideas And the dividends go
into my brain-and yours. And our
hearts beat richer blood for such in
vestors
wouldn't this be a very sordid.
poverty stricken world without such
as Emerson, Whitman, Stevenson,
Kipling. Irving, Twain, Shakespeare,
Browning. Thoreau, and such kindred
fortune-builders?
The greatest investment in the
world is to put something back into
the WORLD.
And that means doing something all
the time for human beings. But don't
expect to get ALL your dividends at
what you are and do.
But KIP investing
The only success worth going after,
is what you do for other people
The more you learn, the more IN
telligent you become, the more abls
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-06
JUST FOLKS
rALKIN. OF cAILDREN.
RY EDGAR A. cUEsT.

TALklNf OF CHILDREN.
Their noise doesn't worry me half So
much as their silence daes
As long as ] hear 'em shoutin' out there
am glad. beeoz.
can tell you the way
They shrek in play
Just what they're doin' an where they are
An whether or not they're goin' too far
leave 'em alone TO romp an run
But the minute the noise dies out an
can't hear the patter of feet go by
An the place gets still
As ii sometimes will,
Then it's time for me
To go out an
JUS what's the matter an where they be.
Their noise doesn't bother me half as much
as their keepfn' STILL
amt disturbed by the shouts an shrieks
of theiF voices shrill,
Let me hear the noise
of the girls an boys
An can tell from the sounds I hear
dhat they re all right an are playin' near,
But my work l drop
The minute they stop
P pIa, SUI aittie boys are apt to be
An I've noticed this
When their shouts you miss
its time to learn what the matter Is.
Let 'em blow their horns and hang tbe,r
. drums an I'll never care
80 long as the racket is .'oing on, I'll know
For never their din
Starts me worFyin'
but the minute it stops l wipe my brow
An wonder jus what they are up to now.
| only fear em
When can't hear EN-,
An 1T seems to me
That its come to be
Ihat 1 notice tine silence more an more
I IN, all the shrieking beside my door
It's time to doubt
When the noise dies out
But know what the racket is all about
Copyright, 1920 by Edgar A Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-06

On Monday. September IS. the festi-
val of the New Year will be observed
BIZ the Jews Like all other Jewish
holy days, the festival commences at
sunset on the preceding day. ortho-
dox Jews observe two days, whereas
Reform Jews keep only one day. The
festival of the New Year is the first
of series of holidays lasting nearly a
month It. is likewise the beginning
of the Jewish year and one of its prin-
cipal features is the blowing of the
Shofar or rams horn. The fact that
it is the beginning of the New Year
lends it special sacredness, 1t is the
time of higher resolves. the turning
point of the year. 1t is the day which
brings home to the Jew with great
force the lesson that the time Is short
and the work is great, and that, as
each year rolls quickly by, the task
must be accomplished within shorter
period. The festival is a gentle re-
minder of the brevity of human exist
ence but it optimistically stresses the
doctrine that man. far from being q
plaything in the hands of fate. can
realize his life's work if he but take
advantage of the swiftly fleeting mo-
ments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-06

Both the men who have money and
the men who want to take it away
from them have their friends and
their enemies. For the benefit of
those who are neither capitalist nor
red, Ed Howe in his magazine submits
the following:
There is, of course, much truthfully
to be said of the bad habits of capital
lists; but more may be truthfully said
against the reds. There is always
something TO be said in favor of a
capitalist: he usually pays his debts,
works, is saving. and. in making mon
ey for himself, is frequently of use to
others; but there is nothing to be said
in favor of the red. The capitalist is
never rioter: if he is a drunkard, So
Der men soon gain possession of his
money. I never heard of a capitalist
who did not believe in the lessons OF
history and experience; he is a school,
church, factory and home builder, and
believes in pavements. sewers, water
works good roads, libraries, orches-
tras and welfare work. He at least
has something to tax for the support
of government in its campaigns
against capitalists. His note or his
word is better than that of the red
and he has invented most of the sys-
TENS and improvements We boast of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-06
Dinner Stories

The most lurid of the Mexican war
correspondents cannot hold a search5
light to the man who tells this one in
the Potter Kansan:
Some one had told him about the
tarantulas and centipedes. and ever
thereafter he was greatly worried.
Awakening one bright moonlight night
and noticing what he supposed was a
bunch of terrible tarantulas perched
on the footboard of his bed, he
grabbed his gun, took deliberate aim
and fired.
"A shrek. leap from the bed and
blood trickling from his foot told
what had happened. He had mistaken
his own toes for a tarantula family
and had blown one of them to atoms.
THE worst part Of it was. it did
not happen to be the one that had-the
corn on it."
Have you said your prayers2"
asked Willie's mother.
of course" replied the child
And did you ask to be made a bet
ter little boy?"
Yes. and I put in a word for you
and father, too"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-06

vention in Washington, D. c.. to fur
Their the interests of the manufactur-
ers of the country in the matter of wa
ter power development With the
transportation systems of the country
crippled. with the rising cost of fuel,
with the Industrial war that is open
ing all over the world, there is no
more important subject for considera-
ton on the part of the American BUSH
ness man today than more and cheap
er power.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-06

According to reports of the commits
sioner OF the league of Red Cross So
cieties, made in a signed statement to
the American government, wholesale
starvation is threatened in Poland UNI
less she can procure food supplies in
large quantities. The food situation
in Poland might be relieved if her
people would stop fighting and go to
work. Why should the American peo-
pie be called upon to support the in
habitants OF nation that spends its
time in warning on its neighbors?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-06
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY e. HOUSE.
tFrom Philadelphia Pubic Lsdssr.l

The columns London correspondent nj
reports that Lady Decies-the otheI
one-has gone bankrupt keeping 1
hotel. Women are successful in manS
lines, but they have always failed
when they have attempted the politeI
forms of brigandase. Likely they will
always do so.
There. ladies and gents. is a joke
that should elicit the hilarity in a
the tradition and form of American
humor and expresses its substance.
More than that its motif has been en-
ployed by every vaudeville actor in the
patron of vaudeville art. We shall be
greatly disappointed if the columns
clientele does not respond TO 1t.
However, we confidently expect this
community will be rocked by gale of
laughter.
We don't know how the other old
timers take it, but Melville z. Stones
current number of Golfers are disap-
pointing to us. Mr.. Stone says that.
far from being a lush" Mr.. Field
was a teetotaler in precept and by
practice.
1t seems to be our fate that every
time we set up hero somebody
comes along and makes him com
monplace.N
Mr. Stone. however, despite his
long-continued connection with the
Associated Press. does not strip his
story of all OF its color. He does not
pretend Mr.. Field was thrifty or a
progressive citizen greatly interested
in the good Of his community.
The confessions of Handsome
Jack" Geraghty touching his first
matrimonial experience buttress a
theory long entertained and many
IS that marrying money is the hard
est way 10 earn it.
Mr.. Ceraghty. however. underes-
Inmates his opportunity in his inten-
tion~to write a book concerrfing his
experiences in a marital role. Il can
not be done in one volume.
We construe it as a hopeful sign
that MOLE OF the sports writer's has
discovered that Willie Miske is to
fight Jack Dempsey somewhere in the
middle west early next week. The dis
position to permit the Hon. Dempsey
to consume his ham and eggs in semi
privacy Is one which we would en-
courage.
We should not go so far as to say
the thing is a ''frame-up." A more
! plausible explanation is that Miske
hasn't silk shirt to his back A
I 'pork-and-beans" fighter grows des-
perate when he wears out his silk
/ shirts.
Strick Gif1iIand's name staring at ux
from newspaper Iage stirs us to
"reminiscences. The week we arrived
In Philadelphia, now some fifteen
months ago. we had a letter from
( strick. In 1t he expressed the hope
| that, since we were living near each
other on the eastern wheel, we might
regularly and Otter. engage in the in
terchange of intimate and confident
tai communications. We answered
the-letter very promptly and at some
length. We haven't heard from Mr..
Gilliland since.
II you care Ito leave it TO US. Striclx
is a helnva correspondent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-06
Dorothy Dix TALKS
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid weman Wr4ssz.
4 Mans Ideal Woman.-1.

N ManS Ideal NOman,-1
She must be beautiful, preferably
tail and slender, tho an occasional man
leans to what was once called the
pocket Venus" and is now spoken of
in the vernacular as the "euddIe pup"
size. No matter what her height or
weight, however, she must have
peaches-and-cream complexion, Gin
derella feet. large ox-nke eyes, and
hair that curls.
Furthermore, the beauty of a mans
ideal woman must be of the adaman-
tine kind that can stand the kicks and
cuffs of late without getting its paint
scratched off, or being dented. For
the ideal woman never grows scrawny
nor fat. Her hair never gets grizzled
OF thin. She never grows old, for she
has not only tasted the waters of the
Fountain of Perpetual Youth. She
has picked herself in them.
A mans ideal woman is always ex-
quisitely dressed in soft fiimy things
OF delicate, pastel shades and her hair
is waved and curled in that ratlessly
fartful way that only requires a couple
of hours to do, if you are a quick
worker. A man may be a tightwad
who howls with agony, as if she had
gotten his life blood, every time his
wife strikes him for a hand-me-down
iroCk, ou hohe-tie-lesS MS dream Wo-
man is always clothed in Paris crea-
tons.
He may expect his wife to cook
and scrub, and wash, and tend baby,
but he never looks at her bungalow
apron and work-roughed hands with
out thinking how different she is from
his ideal, and that, somehow, a woman
ought to be able to b. good cook
and look like q lady love at the same
| time.
A mans ideal wman is the clinging
vine. She is as spineless as shoe
string, and all that she asks of her
husband is to BE- permitted to cling
to him, echo an of his opinions, and
have no mind of her own whatever.
But she must be able to reverse
roles and become the sturdy oak IL ne
capable woman in the family. Also
the clinging vine, even in her limpest
moments, must have decision of char
acter enough to deal with a family of
self willed children and fight prof
iteering tradesmen toi a stand-still.
In a word. a mans ideal woman is
a Towering vine which festoons itself
gracefully about him in public, and
so calls attention to his strength, while
in private he expects 1t not only to
stand alone and avoid becoming
burd eu>tIpon him. but to prop him up.
In intelligence a mans ideal woman
knows just a little less than he does
She follows at his heels like his dog
and devours hungrily and gratefully
whatever bones of his thoughts he
throws to her. And she gazes rever-
emily up into his eyes and takes her
cues from his looks convinced that
he is the real fountain of all wisdom.
~
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are you to giye-by investing. And
the larger the returns to yeu-thru
others.
It is an inspiring thing to live with
the knowledge that your ideas are
entering the lives of many all the time
and that. in turn. they enter the
lives of still others by a never-ending
chain process which We know as in
fluenee-and which itself has no end.
Do handsome things. Invest some
thing every day in somebody eise's
happinesal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-06
Is YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the Columns OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
September 6. 1895.

Swift Holiday have changed their firm
into a stock company, and have taken soy
eral of their employees into the firm The
charter of the Swift & Holiday Drug com
pany was filed this morning with the secre-
tary of state. The capital stock OF tine
company is placed at $4,000 and the shares
are 800 each. The directors and incorpora-
tors are w. L. Swift. F. E. Holiday, Fl. l..
Robinson, Martin O'Donnell and W. II.
Gunther. Under the charter the company
Is organized for the transaction Of a manu-
featuring, chemical and mercantile bust
ness
Mrs g H. Sampson Of Topeka, startled
and interested visitors at the Kansas tity
horse show when she appeared riding
astride. The Kansas City Star comph
mented her on her appearance
Mrs J. p. Lewis entertained a number m
friends in honor Of Miss Celeste Nplifs
Tuesday evening. before her return 10 CHI
cago. where she will resume her musicai
studies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-06

This Is the year when what Josh
Billings called the agricultural boss
trot" is relegated to second place by
the political spell binder at many of
the eountrv's fairs.