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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27
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Ouesfions-Answers

Q. What is the religion of Herbert
4. Mr.. Hoover grew up in the Society Of
Of the quarterly meeting of Highlands,
Q. How many workers did the Salvation
Army have in France at the time of the
signing of the srmistice IA. N. 2.
were women The rest we're men
for military service because of age or
physical disability: The salvation Army
many invaded Belgium.
g; At the time of the signing Of the
unted siat wsa da NE war costing the
Sam over 81. 100000 a day to send his
w asans Z the the Gee IN
your opponent overlooks a jump?-M. n.
A. According to the Huff rule. If play
er has chance to jump and does not see it
the other player has the right TO remove
his man from the board, or retract and
Q. What Is the motto of the state of
a: It is '.Fatti msschi. parole femme"
words. women"
e: what va. the Boxer Uprising in
A. The Boxers were a Chinese secret
society. whose principal object was to ex ::
clude the foreigner: from China: They were
tue Audih clcment Al Ine attdCk upon tne
foreigners and the native Christians in
China during the years 1so9-1000.
9. Was Vicente Blasco Ibanez, the Span
ish writer, who Is at present touring and
lecturing in the United States, ever in
prison ~. T.
A. In his youth. Blasco Ibanez. who
was born in the year 1867 was a leader Of
a liberal political group in Spain. and was
frequently arrested and condemned to i'm
prisonment for his politics. He is still In
tensely interested in the political affairs
Of Spain. and has been elected Republican
deputy from Valencia to the national con-
gress.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.
A CREED.

A CREED.
Let me be brave turnout this day
And bear what burdens come my way,
Let me not whimper nor complain
That I must face the wind and rain,
Or, If the sun Is pleased to. shine
Let me rejoice in what is mine.
God grant that from my lips shall fall
No careless word, however small,
To wound another. May my voice
Cause all who hear it to rejoice:
This day, from start unto the end.
May ali men find in me a friend.
I would not spoil this day with greed
Or hate of any selfish deed.
But I would fill It with my best,
And conscience-clear lie down to rest;
God grant that when this day shall go,
No honest man shall call me foe.
In all say and all I do
To God and man l would be true;
1 would be helpful here and kind.
And clean of heart and broad of mind;
Surely for this brief day l can.
Whatever happens play the man.
Copyright 1920 by Edgar A. Guest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
The Park Ave. News
BY LEE PAPE.

weather. Thawts of Spring
Spoarts. Sam Cross spent all la
Satidday aftirnoon trying to teech his
black and yello baby fertile Sam. Jr..
to say Tertle wunts a cracker in vane.
but Sam says that jest because It don't
tawk that don't say It cant.
Skool Notes. Ed Wernick saws If
his fletcher don't stop leeding him into
temptation by making him set in back
of gerls with pig tails and then max
ing him stay after skool for pulling
them he is going to complane to the
principle.
Pome by Skinny Martin
Herray for the Sun
o see the rain splashing the window,
o izzent it pritty and sweet?
Maybe it is IL you're 80 yeers old
And don't wunt to play in the street
Sissiety. Mr.. Charles (Puds) Sim
Sins was visited by his kid cuzzin Os-
ker last Sundey. Mr.. Simkins taking
advantage of the oppertoonity by put
ting him on top of the piano and Civ
ing him a bottle of soft glue to. play
with. thin king maybe he mite spill it
into the insides OF the plano so Mr.
Simkins wou1dent half to pracktice
eny more till the man came to fix it,
but Osker dident do enything but try
to drink it and the ideer failed.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. Artie Alexander can puntch
bis punching bag a hour and a half
in succession without getting tired. but
every time his mother makes him dry
the dishes for 20 minnits he gets so
tired he cant hardly stand up strate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27

The Industrial conference convened
by President Wilson on December /
has issued its report in which It
enumerates long list OF causes of in
dustrial unrest. Among these are in
eluded: The rise in the cost of liv-
ing. unrestrained speculation. spectacu-
lar instances OF excessive profits
excessive accumulation and misuse Of
wealth. inequality in Establishments OF
wage schedules. release of ideas and
emotions by the war, social revolution
Rry theories imported from Europe.
the belief that free speech is restrict
ed, the intermittency of employment.
fear OF Unemployment, excessive hours
OF work in certain industries. lack OF
adequate housing. unnecessarily high
infant mortality in industrial centers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27

The experts are agreed that the
system OF federal taxation now in
force is unscientific, creates gross in
equalities and is needlessly burden
some They declare that 1t is paralyz-
ing business to a very serious extent,
and is responsible for much of the
high cost Of living. Besides discour-
aging enterprise. the excess profits
taxes are being passed along thru
many hands, with cumulat tive effect,
from producers to consumers, causing
the latter to groan over abnormal
prices for necessaries OF life. Every
body thus feels the effects of a wrong
method OF raising revenue for the gov
eminent. AS a substitute for the ex-
cess profits taxes. it is proposed, in
quarters deserving respect, to enact q
consumption tax This would involve
a slight additional charge for articles
actually purchased, but would not,
eventually. it is argued, make the cost
so high to the consumer as under the
present plan. But whether this or
come other expedient should be re-
sorted to. the main consideration is to
remove from the back of business a
handicapping weight. Relief of that
sort says a writer in Leslie's, would
be felt by all members of the COM
munity. It would be reflected in i'm
petus TO prosperity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27

loss of personal contact in large indus
trial units and the elimination of a
growing belief on the part of both en-
ployers and employees that a readjust-
ment is necessary to & wholesome con-
tinuity of their united effort. For the
most part causes of unrest, the report
says, are not the result of the war;
they have been accumulated by it. II
the commission plans to provide rem
edies for all these troubles it has a
large amount OF work cut out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27
The Woman Who Lovcd-and
Earned Modem s.e:z q Home .nd Ra.ins..
Blu JANE PHELPS

MY fault--what do you mean
Il mean Roberts condition. He is
unhappy, reckless. Marion likes him,
is sorry for him, and tries to make
up to him for all you refuse to do for
him.
You're talking in riddles as usual"
You have told me-so has he, for
that matter-that he hates that board
ing house. and loves a place u his
own. Or rather. he would love one
IL he could have 1t. You want too
nice q home. Gerry. II you'd just let
live simply,-like do, l don't think
Marion Hovey or any girl could get
him away from you"
stop talking such nonsensei II a
man wants to stay out, he is going to
do it. OF course you understand I
I don't believe in a wife doing those
things"
ct know, Gerry, you are too easy
with him. perhaps But, my dear,
don't you know there amt a man liv-
ing who can resist a girl who feeds
them the things they like. then sym
pathizes with them while they are eat
ing 1t? II amt human nature-man
nature. I don't think Marion realizes
, she is making trouble for both you
and Robert. But no man can stand
sympathy and the eats that he likes
girl who gives him both them things
do wish, Gerry, you'd have a good
talk with Robert, ask him right on!
II he wants you to give up and live al
home. and II ne is willing to try to
support you If you do"
II shall do no such thing, wed
starve to death on his salary. He
doesn't earn as much as you do now
Perhaps he would hustle and carr
more IL you'd try him-try giving him
a home" she said rather wistfuily. 81
am awfully fond Of both OF you. Ger
ry. and I hate to see you making a
muddle of your lives
had laughed at Mary. But all that
day there ran thru my mind what she
had said:
mo man can stand sympathy and
the eats he likes very long before ht
begins to like the girl who gives him
them things"
(To be continued.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27

worry, Doctor Lane. I'm on my way
to the office for a call-down."
mot about our rider" asked the
doctor, anxiously.
"'Fraid So" admitted Sally.
The doctor was silent a minute.
Then, Sally" he said, 1T hadn't meant
to speak SO soon, but if you tell Miss
Bagley you are engaged to me it will
make all the difference in the world,
and what a difference to me, my
darlingi"
Little shivers of joy were chasing
each other up and down Sally's spine.
Was this wonderful thing really true?
Come, dear" said the mans voice
tenderly, as, screened from view by the
twilight and shade of the naples he
drew her close. viii you marry me ?"
Yes, doctor" said Sally Peters, and
lifted up her lips
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27

large engineering project. When pay
day came around and the mon filed up
for their money, our client presented
his labor check and was told that it
and an investigation was made, which
showed that the money had been paid.
to the wrong laborer, but he could not
obtain his money. We finally had to
start suit to get 1t for him, and we did
-forty-eight hours after the suit was
filed"
After spending a morning in the
offices of the New York Legal Aid
society and listening TO the incessant
tale of woe from all types and ages
of impoverished citizens whose only
hope of justice is thru the efforts OF
the organization. you feel as Mark
Twain did when he first found out
about his work. ut stirs ones blood
and compels ones deep homage. -
was what he said. All the more SO,
very philanthropy only tends to en-
phasize the awful truth of Mr.. Regi-
nald Heber Smiths statement in his
recent report on Justice and the
Poor" issued by the Carnegie founda-
ton.
1.-THE administration of American
justice Is not impartial" says Mr..
Smith. The rich and the poor do not
stand on an equality before the law.
The traditional method of providing
justice mas operated TO close the doors
of the courts to the poor. and has
caused a gross denial of justice in all
parts of the country.
Nothing rankles more in the hu-
man heart than the feeling of in
justice. 1t produces a sense OF help
lessness, then bitterness. 1t is brooded
over. 1t leads directly to contempt
for law, disloyalty to the government,
and plants the seeds of anarchy. The
conviction grows that law is not JUS
tice, and challenges the belief that
justice is best secured when admins
tered according to law. The poor
come to think of American justice as
containing only laws that punish and
never laws that help. They are
against the law because they consider
the law against them
While the New York Legal Aid So
ciety, as well as the other forty or so
legal aid societies in existence thruout
the country, are doing their best to
remedy this condition, one cannot help
feeling that American justice should
not be provided entirely by charity.
AS Elihu Root says in a foreword to
Mr.. Smiths report, at is time to set
our own house in order" And II such
famous conservative as Mr.. Root
takes this view of the judicial branch
of our government, you can be per-
fectly sure that something immediate
and drastic should be done.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27

II is reported that large quantities
OF food. particularly pork products,
have been shipped across the Atlantic
and reshipped to the United States
because the buyers in foreign coun-
fries were unable TO pay for the goods
~ the high prices made necessary by
the difference in monetary value. The
rate OF exchange makes the American
food products so high in cOste to be
prohib9ive. With large quantities OF
food returned and with the export
market largely curtailed, there should
certainly be a reduction in the cost
Of such articles TO the people of the
United States. But the only effect APP
parent up TO this time is decline in
the price OF livestock on the hoof.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27

A decided drop in exports is noted
in the February foreign-trade state
ment issued by the bureau OF foreign
and domestic commerce. February ex-
ports amounted to $646.O0O. 900. the
Smallest since October of last year.
against see. 100000 in the preceding
month of January and 1886. 10000 in
February OF last year. But exports
during the eight months ended with
February were S5.251,oOo. 900, against
s4.3Ss,0 100000 in the eight months OF
last year. II the amount of goods go
ing abroad shall continue to decline,
lower prices at home insult follow in
time. Manipulators cannot always
Keep them up in the face of an in
creasing supply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27

1t is set forth by a Topeka newspa-
per which is opposed to military train
ing and was numbered among the
pacifists before the war that the four
months of training proposed is not
enough. 1t points out that after an
average training period of eleven
months our young men who went to
France were unprepared to make
good soldiers. This contention how
ever. is upset by the fact that one of
the best fighting units and one of the
best trained divisions. the seth was
assembled and sent into the field in far
less time than eleven months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27

Topeka is proud of her culture and
strives for recognition as a center OF
art and music. but she will buy every
seat in the opera house far in advance
for a minstrel show. and permit a
grand opera company to play to a
half filled theater.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27

The former emperor OF Germany is
now said to be in same box into which
he put the rest of US. He is finding
difficulty in paying his rent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27

The word is that the fountain in
Square still is playing.
The column admits repufse, the
most serious It has sustained since its
crusade against the Saturday after
noon haircut.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27

While a number of communities
have bid for the distinction. Eph
Wiley says the woman who wouldn't
go motoring because she had no bou-
doir cap lives in his town.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-25

To be "sculped" is one of the latest fads in
Washington. Many maids and matrons of
society are having their likenesses made in
tiny statuettes by Mrs. Lithrow Osborne. wife
of attache Of American legation at Copenhagen,
Denmark Photo at left shows Mrs. Osborne
at work on statuette of son Of Mr. and Mrs
Newbold Moves. At right: Group Of Mrs.
Osborne's statuettes. l., >a,inal rn",y ..
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-08-05
Live Stock
Facts
SHEEP RAISING IS PICTURED
Film Shows Treatment Of Flock at
cuIIing Time in Fall and on TO
Selling of Lambs.

A motion picture film dealing with
sheep on the farm has recently been
completed by the film laboratories Of
the United States department of agri-
culture in cooperation with the bu-
reau of animal industry. The film is
now available for use by county
agents, county or state sheep-breed.
ers' association. agricultural colleges,
and other department or cooperative
workers or agencies.
The film is in three sections and
four reels. About As minutes is re-
quired for the showing of the whole
production.
The subject treated in the first and
second reel is a year with the flock on
the farm, beginning in the fall at the
time that the eve flock should be
culled prior to breeding, and carrying
it on through until the lambs are sold.
Each seasonal practice is brought out
and educational points are featured.
The third reel deals with the co-opera-
tive marketing of wool and lambs, and
the fourth reel with the Strengthening
of a mutton sheep, dressing the car
cass, and then cutting it up for meat
consumption.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-08-05
SHEEP BUSINESS PROFITABLE
Study Being Made of Specialized
Raising With Complete Reliance
on Forage Crops.

Results of farm sheep experiment
reported by the United States depart
ment of agriculture show clearly the
possibility of a profitable sheep-raisina
business upon eastern lands. At the
government farm, Beltsville, Nd, 3
study is being made Of specialized in
tensiye sheep raising with complete
reliance upon forage crops for sum
mer pasturage.
In 1915 a 30-acre area did not pro
duce forage enough to feed satisfac
torily A Southdown ewes and IS
lambs. This field is now capable OF
furnishing sufficient summer feed fol
100 ewes with their lambs. The i'm.
provement is due In part to the appli
cation of manures, lime, and phos
pilates, but chiefly to the fact that legu.
minous crops were largely used and
all crops were fed upon the ground
Under the system followed forage
crops are seeded in rotation and the
sheep are allowed such frequent
changes of pasture as are necessary
to prevent troubles from parasites.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-08-05

RoUGHAGE AIDS FAMOUS cow
Helen UiIIeje Calamity Gained in Milk
Production When Switched From
Grain Ration.

When Helen Uilkje Calamity 145S57
was switched from a grain to a purely
roughage ration, it was thought that
she might object to this change Of
diet and drop off in milk production,
but she didn't. In fact, this cow actu-
ally increased her flow of milk and
surpassed any of her previous years.
production records by more than 2,4OO
pounds Of milk.
Helen, who comes of a good old fam
fly, and is a granddaughter of Home
stead Girl De Kol-Sarcastic Lad, was
sent by the dairy division of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture
from Beltsville, Nd, to Huntley, Mont,
in May, 1918. When she freshened on
June q it was decided to run her on a
semioficial yearly test without any
grain in her ration.
Her ration consisted entirely Of al
falfa hay, silage, and pasture, and she
was MIXED three times a day. The al
falfa hay was of fine quality, and most
of the silage was corn silage, although
she received a little sunhOwer silage
in December, January and February.
The pasture was an irrigated tame
grass mixture and was Of good quail
ity.
At four years of age Helen had pro-
duced at Beltsville 1,476.6 pounds Of
milk, 3S2.05 pounds of butterfat, on
two daily milkings, and grain, hay
and silage ration. Again, at six years
Of age she produced 11,77S.2 pounds
Of milk, $500 pounds Of fat, on two
milkings and grain, hay and silage
ration. She was eight years and three
months old when the test on roughage
alone began, and her production for a
year on that feed was 14,210.1 pounds
of milk and 470.24 pounds of fat.
Helen is now being run on a sec
ond test, three milkings a day, with
the same roughage but with a grain
mixture in addition. She has MIXED
as high as 81 pounds day, and prom
ises to increase considerably her rec
ord made on roughage alone. The
dairy division, in cooperation with the
Montana experiment station, will run
other cows on roughage alone. and
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-08-05
LABOR UNIONS
in new BODY
Organizations in New York Anal
gamated as United Labor
Council.
CLAIM LARGE MEMBERSHIP
Secretary Asserts. That 10000 Workers
Already Have Joined the Movement
Says They Are Dissatisfied
With A. FL.

The labor unions in New York not
affiliated with the American Fedora
ton of Labor. including clothing, tex
tile and metal workers, have formed
a central body to be known as the
United Labor council. David Glenday,
secretary of the International Carpen-
tess union, one of the organizers of
the new central body, said that about
% locals, representing about 10000
workers, already had joined with the
movement.
Among the unions connected with
the new central body, he said, were
the AmaIgamated Clothing Workers of
America, the Amalgamated Textile
Workers Of America, Amalgamated
Metal Workers Of America, Hotel
Workers federation, Journeymen Bak-
ers' International union, International
Carpenters union, international Fur
niture Workers union, United Auto
mobile, Aircraft and Vehicle Workers.
Mr.. Glenday said that the main groups
represented and on which the council
intends to concentrate its efforts are
the building, metal, food, needle and
transport industries.
Mr.. Glenday said that many unions
had withdrawn from the American
Federation of Labor and had Joined
the independent group and that with
the amalgamation of the Brooklyn and
Manhattan central bodies of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor there would
be other assertions from the ranks Of
that organization. He declared the
American Federation of Labor central
bodies had been for years only rubber
stamp organizations.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-08-05
Deeeney.

We don't know any better way Of
getting along in this world than by
just doing the decent thing. Success
experts may go right along preaching
the doctrine of skill and application
and energy and efficiency and what
not, but when you get it all boiled
down the fact remains that success is
nothing more than doing the right
thing because it's the right thing to do.
There never was a decent chap who
wasn't a success. nor an indecent one
who was. Cheats sometimes get rich
and bull-necked selfshness now and
then gets TO the top, but they don't
succeed. Nothing but deceney wins
friendship and appreciation and a well
come anywhere. and that's all that
counts 10 the end.-Detroit Free Press.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-08-05
LIVE STOCK NOTES

Practically all range-bred lambs are
locked and castrated.
Hogs on pasture are not so liable t.
be troubled with intestinal worms anS
are usually in thrifty condition.
Horses teeth demand an examina,
ton at least once a year. AS the
horse gets some age. his teeth need
rasping oftener.
The success of the hog bushes.
hinges on the fact that the most eco
nOmical gains are made when the pil
is in a growing condition.
The calf will start to eat grail
when about two weeks old and it Il
a good idea to start out with ground
oats, barley or corn meal and wheat
bran.