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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04
TAX LAW REVISION.

It is estimated that the government
next year will need 100000 for
running expenses and interest. The
question of how to raise this money is
one with which congress must deal.
The Republican party is pledged to
revise the federal tax system. BUSH
ness men have been voicing their OBJ
jections to the inequitable tax burdens
since the signing of the armistice. The
excess profits tax has been arraigned
as one that imposes a fine on energy.
efficiency, and enterprise. Certain
features of the income tax have come
in for severe criticism on similar
score, with the added indictment that
they have diverted capital from in
vesting in the taxable securities of
private corporations, thus checking
commercial development.
Proposals are being made to modify
the income and inheritance taxes, and
it has been suggested to substitute for
the excess profits tax any one of three
plans. These plans are: First, gross
sales or turnover tax; second, a retail
sales tax. and third, an upward revi-
sion of the surtaxes on income, as
now enacted in the income tax law.
1t might be well for the people to
study these plans and let their con-
gressmen know what conclusions they
reach.
The first thing for the public to rec
ognize, says the Sioux City Tribune,
is that all taxes, no matter how re-
mote or hidden the connection may
SEEM, fall ultimately upon the public
itself. The demagogic doctrine that
only 10 per cent of the people pay
taxes is a fallacy. Our present sys-
TEN of taxes appears to favor the
poorer classes, but the taxed manu-
facturer passes on the tax in the high
er prices of his product, and the taxed
merchant passes on the tax in the
higher price of his merchandise. The
public pays its share when it buys.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04
JUST FOLKS
THE STORY TELLIN' MAN.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

THE STORY TELLIN' MAN.
Sometimes there is funny man comes to
An when we've finished supper he just
takes me on his knee
An tells all sorts of stories about pirates
Or cowboys that go walking with real
pistols on their hips,
An the Indians who used to scalp their
All night / am a cowboy KILN Indians
in my dreams.
When I know that he is comm you bet
l don't go out
To race around the streets an play, but
/ just wait about
TIL he's finished with his supper, then
1 climb up in his chair
An ma says I'm nuisance, but he says
An starts another story an before he's
Ny insides get excited coz it seems SO
real an true.
The story -tellin' man just knows the tales
like the best,
With men and horses in 'em an the
mountains way out west,
An the prairies an the fightin' an the
stars that shine at night,
With the red skins in the distance fixin'
up to start fight
Once 1 asked him where he learned 'em
an he grinned at me an said:
He couldn't tell exactly-they just popped
into his head.
I'm trying to remember all the things he's
or the cowboys, an the pirates, coz some
day 'praps it may be
When I'm grown up just like he Is, l
may meet some little chap
Who will want to hear some stories an
will climb into my lap
An tease the way l tease bim-then III
To be that little fellows happy story
Copyright, 1920, by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04

Kansas farmers, with grain and
livestock at present low levels, will
not take kindly to the proposition to
raise salaries of state officers and en-
ployes. Having weathered the period
of high prices at present salaries, they
had better stick along now that the
cost of living has begun to slump. If
they can do better at other employ
ment their places can be readily filled.
High taxes and low prices are what
made Populists some years ago in
Kansas. and will make them again I'M
der that or some other name.-Atchi-
son Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04
R. r.. RATES AND OTHER PRICES

"If under present conditions farm
ers and business men find themselves
burdened by excessive costs of doing
business they cannot successfully
maintain that one of these excessive
costs is railway freight charges" de-
clares the Railway Age.
The statistics of the bureau. of la
Dor, it points out, indicate that on No.
vember 1 the average price of farm
products was only 81 per cent higher
than in 1913 and the average price of
metals and their products only "a per
cent higher. Taking into considera-
ton all the advances in freight rates
which have been made, it is probable
that the average rate per ton per mile
of the railways is now about 81 per
cent higher than in 1913. The aver
age wholesale prices of foodstuffs on
November 1 were still 104 per cent
higher than in 1913, and those of
clothing 157 per cent higher. Those
of building materials were 214 per
cent higher, those of fuel 1872 per cent
higher, those of house furnishings 271
per cent higher. and the prices of mis-
cellaneous commodities 129 per cent
higher. 1t will be seen therefore that
there apparently are only two large
classes of commodities whose whole
sale prices are not relatively much
higher, as compared with railway
rates, than they were before the war.
From the standpoint of both the
railroads and the public. says the Age,
it is unfortunate that the large ad-
vances in rates made necessary chief
ly by increases in operating expenses
under government control were not
made until the prices of many COM
modities began to decline. The ex-
tensive reduction in the prices of COM
modities and the cost of living which
have occurred since the advances in
! freight rates were made at the end OF
August have at least had the effect OF
Completely refuting the argument
made by some opponents of advances
in rates that they would cause a five
times greater increase in the cost OF
living.
A.more recent contention is that be-
cause the advance in rates was made
| just when prices began to decline il
has imposed a heavy burden upon
farmers and business concerns. 1t is
a fact now generally conceded. how
ever, that before the war railway
rates were too low. They were so low
that the new investment in railway ia.
cilities was rapidly declining.
Since rates before the war were rel
atively too low, and since statistic.
show that as compared with prices il
general they are relatively much low
er now than they were before the war
continues the Age. it is difficult to Sc,
how it nationally can be contendet
that they are imposing an unfair bur
den upon business. Comparisons will
existing wages in almost all industries
would show that advances in railwa,
rates have not made them anywher,
near so high relatively as wages. II
the railroad industry itself the aver
age advance in rates has been les
than two-thirds as great relatively a.
the average advance in wages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04

oftener than not. inexpressibly tire
some.
my wife," William Barrow Is quot
ed as having said to the judge rs q
sister of Jack Dempsey and can
forget she has fighting blood In ner
veins.'
1t is gratifying to note that otner
members of the Dempsey family are
more layishly endowed with the gi1t
of restraint Mrs. Barrow's most IA
nous brother once forgot his fightins
blood for a period of nearly two years.
You may imagine. having finished
the writing of the column. that our
immediate worries are over. TX So
Won LITTLE reck the task which faces us.
we still have the debris of the Thanks
giving turkey to subdue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04

The time for buying Christmas gifts
is here and it calls for much thought
and consideration if the presents Sc
lected are to bring real and lasting
pleasure to those who receive them.
Christmas gifts are neither more nor
less than translated thoughts. A
selfish or a careless Christmas gift is
worth no more than a selfish or a
careless thought to the receiver, no
matter what its cost in money may
have been. How then can we give the
care We should in making selections
if we wait until the final hours of the
shopping season? Do your Christmas
buying now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04

having steady incomes. This class has
been hard hit by the war. The man
who in 1914 possessed an income suf-
ficiently large to enable him to sup
port his family comfortably. later
found the purchasing power of his
dollar cut in half without any cor
responding increase in the returns on
his investments. 1t is persons so stu
ated who have worn their old clothes
and practiced rigid self denial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04

1t has been pointed out by certain
observers of public matters that for
at least two years the responsibility
for the conduct of the affairs of the
nation will be centered upon a single
party, and passing the buck" will be
impossible. This responsibility, it is
thought, is bound to result in efforts
to win approval of the electorate thru
assiduous work upon the problems
that confront the country. But these
optimists may have overlooked the
capacity of men like johnson and
Borah for stirring up trouble in the
ranks of their own party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04
Ouesficns-Anstoers

O. where are the deepest oil wells in
the world &C. r. T.
a. The Geological Survey says that
country and one in Germany: The J. Il
Lake near Fairmont. West Virginia, is u
West virginia. is 1856 feet deep, the well
at Czuchon, Germany. has depth or 1912
feet, and the II. A. Geary near Mcdonald
O. Is colored hearing disease? If so,
is it a common one f-F. H.
A. Colored hearing or chromaesth.e e. II,
and nd is no 10 indication Of illness. The as
soSnds is found in about one person in
q. What is the weight of a million
tventy-dollar bills ?-J. L. @.
A. The Treasury Department says that
n million paper bills, whether one-dollar
or twenty-doilar bills, would weigh about
q. what is the speed limit for automo-
biles in Buenos Ayres &C. r.
regulations require motorists to keep to
the left of the road and drive not more
than II kilometers, or 81 miles per honr
o. was the tower on Madison Square
Garden modelled after come old world tow
4. This tower, over 300 feet in height.
was copied from the Giralda at Seville,
beIfry of the cathedral at Seville, was bnilt
between 11s4 and 1855 as minaret Of
mosque
O. What does Madonna" mean?-T. B.
A. Madonna is an Italian word dignity
ing MY lady" II Is especially applied
to the virgin Mary and has become in
corporated in other languages. particularly
when used to describe the Mother of Christ
in works of art.
CAny reader can get the answer 20 any
! question by writing The Topeka State
journal information bureau, Frederic J.
Haskin. Director. Washington. D. C. This
offer applies strictly to Information. The
bureau cannot give advice on Iegal-medicai
and financial matters. II does not under
| take to settle domestic troubles. nor to
undertake exhaustive research on any
subject Write your question plainly and
| briefly. Give full name and address and
enclose 2-cent stamp for return postage
All replies are sent direct to the inouirerJ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
CREDIT AND CHARACTER.

A house or great building is built
upon a very solid foundation. have
always been interested in watching the
start of such an affair. There is a
fascination to seeing big rocks or con-
crete blocks sunk deep into the earth.
Because, you see, for years the
foundation must bear the greatest
strain-holding up all the rest.
It's the same with a man and with
his business. The man must have a
strong foundation in the right sort of
character-and his business must be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04

The fact that men in the steel mills
have been working twelve hours day
long has been pointed 20 as a horrible
example of injustice to labor. The
further fact that they were receiving
time and half for the extra four
hours was rarely if ever mentioned.
Now. these men are being placed on
an eight-hour schedule. Probably
this will be noted as a reduction in
wages. which it is. altho the pay by
the hour remains the same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04

1t was fourteen years after the close
of the Civil war before the price level
of 1851 was restored and economists
contend that many years must elapse
before the price level of 1914 can be
re-established. Others feel that that
level can never be restored as produc-
ton costs the world over are higher
and the present scale of living and do
ing business has changed radically
within six years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04

The purchasing power of the wage
Garner may be diminished in the proc
ess of readJustment of the nations
business. but this lack, as far as it
concerns the merchant and the pro-
ducer. will be made up largely by the
Increased ability to buy among those
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04

Again there is trouble in Cuba and
there is talk of the possible necessity
of American intervention. The prob
ability is strong that if ever the flag
of the United States goes up again in
the island, it will stay up. The Cuban
long ago were given hint to this ef-
feet but it seems impossible for them
TO go straight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04
PASSING OF THE CLOUD.

When the dark clouds overhanging low
Silently rise and float away,
And the sun peer forth from an azure sky
Like the morn OF another day;
And the sunbeams that dance on the rain
drops
clear,
And the rainbow 'gainst the eastern sky
Is a symbol of lasting cheer.
When the solemn and hopeless thoughts
Spreading our spirits like a shroud
Are driven away by Lies sunshine
Like the passing Of the cloud;
The smiles and sunshine of our thoughts
Make our sad tears glisten and shine
And the common things that we knew be-
fore
Are filled with a thing divine.
Allen p. Dasher, Dwight, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
THE PARK AVE. NEWS.
BY LEE PAPE

Weather Ice holding its shape
longer in the ice box.
Spoarts. Pubs Simkins saw pid-
gins hopping GROUND last Satidday
looking like loose pidgiIs not belong
ing to enybody, and he started to try
a Experiment to see If its RELY true
you can catch herds by putting salt on
their tale, and after about half a hour
his mother called him in and gave him
HEX for using up her hole new bag OF
salt and the pidgins was still hopping
GROUND loose.
Sissiety Mr.. Ed Wernick had q
fearse stummick AXE last Sundey aftir-
noon but he felt better in the eevning,
the main reason being because he
copldent of felt eny verse.
Pome by Skinny Martin.
A BIG SERPRIZE.
A little dog sat on her tale,
Answering to the name of Mag.
But her tale dident know it was sat on
Till it started to try to wag.
Big collections of sines for all per-
poses rented out cheap, inclooding
Bell Out of Order, No Admission, Car
Stops Heer. Post No Bills and Wawk
in Without Ringing. The Ed Wer-
nick and Lew Davis Sine Renting Coz
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. Sid Hunt gets dime every
time he don't make his mother mad
for a week, ony he hasent got eny yet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04

This country always has something
to worry about. Just now, it is the
tide of European immigration which
is about to break on our shores.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04

Copyright, 1920. by the Wheeler Syndicate.
Incl
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-03-01
TRADE OUTLOOK GOOD
BY SPRING, SAYS BOARD
Outlook Generally Favorable, Re
serve Members Find; Specu-
lation is Checked.

Washington. March That check
has been placed on the era oi speculation
which NAV have beneficial effect Is the
belief expressed Yesterday by the Federal
Reserve Board in Il review Of general
business and financial conditions Of the
nation.
There is evidence, the report states,
that financial and banking authorities
all over the country are looking seriously
tn the situation in credit and are beginning
TO urge the adoption OF conservative
policies. Ia the New York district dur
ing the last thirty days there has been
reduction in bank loans, more than two
thirds of which has been In loans secured
by stocks and bonds.
The general prospects at the close OF
February. the board says, are favorable
TO an active, prosperous spring season IN
the principal manufacturing, wholesalng
and retailing lines Wages continue very
high and labor in strong demand. AgrI-
cultural prospects are good, and the cur
taiment in exports due to foreign ex-
change conditions, while undoubtedly
beginning to make itself felt, is beliexed
By many 10 be beneficial TO the consumer
rather than injurious.
a tendency TO resist the advance III
prices and some increase In care IN pur-
chasing are regarded as favorable symp-
toms. The credit and money situation
continues strained, and there is scarcity
Of funds both for long and short term use.
One unfavorable symptom found in
some districts is the inclination Of labor
to produce less, although receiving lngh
wages. Plants in some instances have
reported falling off in production despite
an increase in the number Of employees.
High living costs and the upward move
ment of prices apparently havenot been
checked IL Is stated.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-03-01

wVEN the most casual
eye is struck by the
Ia freshness of appear
ance, and the variety and
beauty of style, of these
Wanamaker lamp-shades.
But going up for a closer
examination. il is perceived
that no small part of the
beauty and the smartness
il due to the exquisite
workmanship of the shade,
be il made of silk or hand
painted on parchment.
Our finer silk shades do
not come from big factories
where art is stifled by COM
mercialism, and shades
turned out" by thousands
like sausages from a ma
chine.
They are mostly made
(by fingers not forever in
a hurry in smaller estah-
lishments, supplying an
exclusive clientele. Some
indeed seem like fine priv
ate studios; and their
workers, whether with the
needle or the brush, are
artists, often of high
attainments.
Our shades being indi-
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-03-01

variety and originality are
displayed in colors and
shapes.
A single example: gee
that splendid table lamp
made of a vase of Chinese
pottery in powder blue"
in the shape Of the
sacred dog Foo? (sale
price 1850.
In itself il is a wonderful
thing, even TO the beautiful
carving on the edge and
tiny feet of the platform,
of wood, richly lacquered in
gold, which sustains the
vase.
Another ond erful
thing, though, is the hand
painted parchment-paper
shade which crowns it: a
very simple affair, priced
in the Sale at but s10; but
in the clouds and quirls
which suffuse its white
surface, the strong, pure,
blue color of the pottery
is almost perfectl
matched
One might speak, too, Of
the shades that are set on
two of the most superbly
ornamental table lamps in
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-03-01
ii Takes Fine Fingers To Make Fine Shades!

the Store, which are at the
same time two Of the
simplest.
One, in silver finish, is a
slender, rather tall lamp of
coiumnar or spindle effect,
standing on a plain square
base, (price S38).
The dome-shaped shade
which blends with it so
marvellously is made of a
brocaded metal cloth in
gold, that in itself cost $50
a yard. There's a lining
Of rich cerise satin, there's
a border of royal purple.
there's gold galloon and
deep gold fringe mingled
with royal blue. and the
whole is pervaded by a
strangely subdued, yet
s tr a n g e y fascinating
golden-silvery light.
The. other shade is Of the
same shape and style, but
the more gorgeous color
effects are those Of gold
and deep crimson, to accord
with the lamp-another
gracefully shaped. slender
pedestal in gold finish
which it adorns.
The Sale price Of each
OF these shades is S45.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-03-01
The Chandelier Returns Regal and Radiant!

their gracefully curved or
twining branches, or their
swinging chains; their soft,
rich finish of gold or silver
or bronze or wrought iron;
their glowing bowls or
splendid clusters of radiant
lights, enhanced by every
aid to beauty that art can
bring-even jewel-like eff
fects in flashing pendants
of cut-glass, and balls and
tear-drops of crystal, trans
lucent or in deeply glow
ing colors of ruby and
amethyst.
This is your opportunity
to furnish your home
IMMEDIATELY, at reduc-
tions of one-fourth to one
third below regular prices,
with any hanging fixtures
it may need; from a one
light pendant, suitable for
hall or vestibule, at So; a
two-light bedroom chande-
lier, at $40; a beautiful
swinging bowl, creating
splendor wherever you
choose to put it, at S15 to
S25: to the finest chande-
liers, whose range of Sale
prices runs from $50 to a
respondent six-light fix
ture adorned with dozens
of lustres, priced $3.50.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-03-01

today, instead of in this
Store, it would cost Just
about seven times 500 TO
buy them and bring them
over herel
Another rare piece in the
Sale is a sconce of richly
wrought metal, in bronze
finish, and in a Gothic de-
sign showing a grotesque
figure playing a flute. Two
lights, sale price $40.
While haUing light, rChy
not haze it ia a style q bit
different from your next
door neighbours?
Some one said recently
of these superb clusters of
overhead lights:
Its like haUing a party
every time you glance up
at them"
Good lights are great
0Dip0Hg. They can DC
turned OF Tcften they tire
you, are instantly present
on summons, and neUer
interfere ,CitIa any other
things you may ICdIst TO
do.
When tCe sag that a man
liUes according to his
lights, zoe may say some
thing deeper than zoe
meant.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-03-01

vidual creations, rather
than stereotyped products,
you can range over the
whole stock and scarcely
find two alike, but you can
scarcely range over it with
out finding an affinity" for
the lamp you have in mind,
whether it is the daintiest
of night lights or the most
magnificent of floor lamps.
During the Sale the re-
auctions viii be 10 to 40 per
cent. The larger styles
range in sizes from 8 to 26
inches, and in prices from
80 TO 800.
In addition there are
hundreds of the smaller
lamp-shades, small candle
shades and candle-shields
all priced most interest
ingly!
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-03-01
HIGH LIGHTS i'm THE LAMP SALE |
Ia That Opens the Month of March IN !
AT WAMAMAKER'S @

under the handicap Of
poor light, but It is liter
ally short sighted TO
skimp on lights in. the
home.
Why should the next
generation become as
universally specialized
az is the present one?
This Spring Sale,
opened on March LIST, is
your chance to get light
the best lights and the
handsomest that we
know of; and every
piece reduced in price.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-03-01
Beautiful
Side Brackets

but the Sale opens with
abundance of them, too.
They will, of course, be
shipped Immediately on or
der, whether the purchase
be a simple little brass
finish combination bracket
priced $3.50, or a high
grade one-light, ivory fin
ish side-light at $3.50, or
the pair of marvellous
Louis XIV brackets which
are priced 500 each.
These two brackets are
imported goods, made of
solid bronze, chased by
hand, as fine as jewelry in
their workmanship; and if
they were back in France
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-03-01

our own fresh, new and
h a n d som e Winter
stocks, we know they
are the right lights and
the right shades. Those
who see the display will
declare it a eritable
sight for sore eyes"
As a matter Of fact,
more eyes are hurt by
insufficient Ii & h Tin <
than by over-lighting.
You cannot always
help it if you must work
in shop or office, or pur-
sue studies in school,