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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-04
LIGHT on SOCIALISM.

Whatever the outcome of the in
quiry now being made by the New
FORK legislature to determine wheth-
er it's action in respect to the five
elected Socialists has violated consti-
tutional rights, the controversy will
fail in its larger educational possibili-
ties, says a bulletin issued by the Ma
tional Civic Federation, if a clear pre-
sentiment be not made of the character
and purpose of the Socialist party and
the effect of an application of its doc
trines upon the political integrity and
the economic and social well-being of
the nation.
If at the hearing now ordered by
the legislature it be proven that these
five men represent a movement which
seeks to overthrow this government.
not alone by the ballot but also by
force or by industrial action" then
all good citizens would say that their
suspension should be made perma
nent. If, on the other hand, it is
proven that it is not thru the paralysis
force or "bloody revolution" at the
"opportune time" that they propose to
overthrow 'overturn' and de
stroy" our form of government, but
that their proposal to effect that end
means that this shall be done alone
thru the ballot box-the legal method
provided by our constitution-then
these five Socialists would be entitled
to take their seats in the legislature.
Even shoulG the Socialists disprove
the charge that they advocate illegal
and unconstitutional methods, it is i'm
portant for the people, me- only of New
York, but of the nation, to learn just
what it is that the Socialist party pro-
poses to do thru the ballot box. Just
what does it propose to substitute for
our Overturned" "overthrown" or
destroyed" government? Because,
while the Socialists and any other
group of citizens could even destroy
the constitution and undermine all our
cherished institutions, provided they
do it thru lega! and constitutional
methods, it is the right. as well as the
duty, of all loyal Americ- ms to protect
themselves, by legal and constitutional
methods. against the would-be de-
stroyers.
II the inquiry now in progress bring
the whole question into the open a
distinct service to the country will
have been erformed regardless of
be permitted to take their seats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-04
CAR SHORTAGE.

The farmers of Kansas are not alone
In suffering from a shortage of cars
Similar conditions prevail in the east
Car shortages pronounced to be the
most severe experienced in years have
passed into the acute stage during the
past week, says the Iron Trade Re-
view, and now are clogging the move
ments of the iron and steel industry in
alarming fashion. Tho all Producing
districts are affected. the situation
has assumed its worst form at Pitts
burgh and in the. IIahoning and
Shenango valleys. Both outgoing
product and incoming material, es-
pecially fuel. are being blocked on an
increasing scale and production is be-
ginning to yield to this factor. Many
of the mills have continued to pile on
their yards a rapidly rising accumula-
ton of finished steel which they are
unable to ship. The leading producer
in the Pittsburgh district now has col
lected $1,000 tons of material at its
mills and independent companies at
Youngstown have about 10000 tons
waiting to be moved. Another large
finished interest is being handicapped
in its operations because of the slow
arrival of semi finished material, hav-
ing at present about 10000 tons of
steel in transit. How a prolongation
OF this condition will affect consum-
ers already struggling to obtain suffi-
cient supplies of steel to maintain
their operations is not difficult to pic
ture.
Embargoes are being placed in vari-
Gus directions on importing consum-
ing centers. the Cleveland and Buffalo
districts coming under this base the
past week except as to freight origi-
mating and delivered on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad. This follows an en-
barge on the Toledo gateway covering
the Detroit district which has been in
effect for several weeks.
There appears to be no hope for re-
lief while government operation of
the railroads continues nor thereafter
unless congress so legislate as to per-
NIT the roads to rehabilitate them
selves. Even then the process neces-
sarily must be slow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-04
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HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
By MRS. ELIZABETH THOMSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a. girl
sixteen years of age and deeply in
love with a boy two years my senior.
We wish very much to marry, but
our parents will not give their con-
sent. Would it be all right for us to
go away and get married.? Do you
think we would be happy2
DOTTY AND JERRY.
Your marriage would not be legal
IL you ran away and got married.
Young people of your age cannot
marry without the consent of their
parents
II you did such a thing, Dotty's
reputation would be ruined. 1t is not
worth while to be disobedient Wait
until both of you are old enough to do
such a thing. You probably haven't
even thought of the high cost of liv-
ing. There is no possible chance that
such union would turn out right
"Jazzy Baby: Your parents are
quite right in not allowing you to at
tend dances. At the age OF f5 you are
very much too young. Do not worry
about the future. You will have in
vitations then and 1t will be better
for you If you have not cheapened
your reputation by attending dances
when you were too young.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-04

The labor outlook is brighter than
It was and if the country can be given
freedom from strikes. the probability
is that business will show a marked
Improvement. Figures Just given out
by the bureau of labor statistics at
Washington show an increase in the
number of workers employed in ten
out OF thirteen important industries,
the largest gain being 26.9 per cent
in manufacturing. Eleven industries
show an increase in payrolls, mems
ready made clothing coming first with
almost $3.50 per cent increase in De-
cember over the same month of 1918.
There is less restlessness. -altho it is
still difficult to obtain competent help
in some quarters even at the much
higher scale of wages which now pre-
walls. Various movements have been
organized to bring about a better feel
ing between employers and employee
and while these efforts have not been
successful in all instances. there are
Indications of a growing desire to CO.
operate in the effort to increase pro-
duction and obtain the benefits which
come from intelligent teamwork at a
time like this.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-04

The Los Angeles Times has come
out in an editorial article printed in
larger type and wider column than
that of the New York Worlds Hoover
announcement in which it favors that
gentleman's nomination for the pres
idency by the Republicans. With the
Murderer of the east coast pulling for
the Democrat nomination and the
thunderer of the west coast pulling
for the Republican nomination, 1t
looks as tho Mr.. Hoover can hardly
escape. The Times hastens to declare
not only that the food director is Cali
fornias favorite son, but that he also
is a Republican. 1t appears to be intent
on killing two birds with one stone.
1t would not only deprive the World
of ascandldate but would crafty its
hatred of Hiram johnson at the same
time. The country may lose sight of
other candidates while watching to
see who will get Mr.. Hoover.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-04

destiny of every living organism is to
struggle against overwhelming odds
and then to die. Most of us have even
forgotten that we are going to die.
and feel that we have then attended
to the matter of death once and for
all. We do not like to hear the UNI
dertaker mentioned.
But men who have gone into far
wild places, provided they are strong,
have realized this law of struggle in
its utmost simplicity and nakedness.
They have learned that clean-cut
struggle and perfect freedom are the
best that any man may hope for, and
that whether the struggle ends in
death or success does not matter be-
cause death is always just a few jumps
ahead of US anyway. That is why
men who have once been to the polar
regions always want to go back, even
tho they have left a frozen toe or the
body of a friend there. You can't get
them to talk or think of anything else.
1t is not primarily a love of science,
nor yet a barren desire to look at a
spot which no~one else has seen that
leads them on their brave quests. 1t is
love of the freedom and the struggle
which such a quest gives. Anyone
who reads carefully the personal
stories of explorers in the arctic or
any other great wilderness will be con-
tilGls any Aidu VIII has
known the freedom of a wilderness
can understand it.
Not long ago a young man who had
been on several arctic expeditions
made a speech before number of
newspaper men in behalf of another
expedition which he hoped to lead into
the north. He blushed and stammer-
ed and made nothing clear except that
he was a good fellow and could not
talk on his feet. But afterward. a
couple of the scribes had lunch with
him and he really unlimbered.
Il want to get back there" he said
IT don't like it here-it's hot and
stuffy and there's nothing to do worth
doing. I'll be happy when my ships
frozen in. and L can get to work"
And the incredible fact was borne
in upon his listeners that this man
who had seen a ship crushed between
icebergs, who had known frost bite
and starvation and night six months
long and had seen creyasses swallow
men and dog teams, wanted to get
back to the scene of these disasters,
wanted to face them again simply
for the sake of doing it. And they
shook their heads and went back to
their game of dominoes.
The polar explorers may bring back
proof that the antarctic is all one big
continent, and that will be fine. But
they will bring back, above all, what
they have always brought-proof that
the human spirit is the biggest thing
on earth. that it dares to attempt the
impossible and holds death a minor
hazard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-04

twinkling stars now, and the sun had
completely disappeared. Barbara felt
rather than saw John Trumbulls ex-
preston as he leaned toward her and
spoke over the whirring of the en-
gines.
Five years is a long time. and I've
tried everything in the hope that I
could forget. But never could, Bar
bara.'
She laid a little trembling hand on
his sleeve. There never was anybody
else in the world but you. really, John
ny. I was a little fool five years ago,
and 1 -"
She never finished her sentence, for
up there, many hundred feet above old
Mother Earth, John Trumbull kissed
her. And the little new moon twinkled
merrily as she saw it and noticed that
the solitary figure on the steps below
had disappeared into the gayly lighted
clubhouse.
Copyright, 1920, by the Mcclure News.
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-04
Moultor Musings
BY ROY K. MOULTON. ?

Requiem.
Old Corn is dead,
That poor old soul,
You'll see his like no more.
They've taken his
Remains and sent
Them to foreign shore.
Old Corn is dead;
They've shipped his corpse
Across the raging main.
But in old Englaud's
Crowded pubs.
He'll come to life again.
How does Lucy Page CASTOR, the
enemy of tobacco, expect to be elected
president of this country without pass
ing out the cigars?
V. T. S. slips US the info that since
we are assured the high prices won't
go down until the treaty and covenant
are ratified. the final definition of
H. C. L. is Henry Cabot Lodge.
Asked by Frank Wilstach to define
& bachelor, Walter Pulitzer replied:
"a bachelor is a man who lives alone
with the one he loves
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-04

The village photographer was losing
patience with his woman patron.
Just a little smile, please he said,
dwelling somewhat on the last word.
"a smile adds so much to the artistic
effect
The woman shook her head.
''Of course, IL you'd rather" COM
menced the artist.
IT would not came from the di-
rection of the headrest. "Our one
layin' zen died this morning, bacon's
gone up tuppence a pound. mothers
had a couple O. fits. my boy George
has just broken a plate-glass window,
and my husband is in a military hos
pital with four or five pounds O. lead
inside him. If you think I'm goin' to
grin like a Cheshire cat when I'm up
against that shower o. blessings you're
scratchin' the wrong pig. You git on
with it, natural, mister
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-04
Dorothy Dir Talks
By DOROTHY DIX
worlds uirhest Paid Woman Writer.

Chcer-O-2.
Yet we all know from, experience
how true this is All of US have &C
ouaintances whose visits we read as
We do a scourge, because we know
that every minute they are with us we
will have to listen to their lamenta-
tions, and they will weep on our
breasts until we are as limp asa wet
dish rag with their tears. Likewise
we all have correspondents whose let
ters we dread to open because we
know beforehand that they Will be
nothing but a record of one tribuiaton
after another.
These determinations of gloom para
lyze every energy and Stay all courage
and initiative because they make us
feel that the whole world is going to
the bow-bows, and everything is fore
doomed to failure. and there is no use
in making an effort.
On the other hand the cheerful and
optimistic people are missionaries or
light and hope. They are like clean
wind that sweeps the miasma from
our souls. They are like a sunshiny
day that floods the earth With glad
ness. They are the incarnation of
courage and hope, and the thing
within us that makes us dare and do.
If we knew that we had a deadly
disease, such as. smallpox or leprosy.
common humanity would make US
isolate ourselves so that we would not
communicate it to our fellow crea-
lures. The germ of pessimism is just
as catching. and just as fatal as any
other-microbe. and we should be just
as careful not to inoculate others with
it.
For this reason we should keep our
TROUBLES to ourselves. We should re-
count to others only the pleasant and
agreeable things that have happened
to US. . We should feel it on our con-
sciences to send everybody with whom
we come in contact away from us
cheered up instead of cast down.
As for talking health instead Of
sickness, 1t is a psychological fact that
to a large extent we can make our
selves sick or well by the way we think
and talk. By dwelling upon it you
can develop a slight pain into rag
ing agony, or you can cure 1t by for
getting it, as we have all proven, times
I out of number, by arising from a sick
bed to go on a frolic when somebody
came along and suggested something
enticing to do.
Therefore. there is no doubt that a
great hygienic movement can be start
wasting their systems to see IL, by any
chance, they have a headache, or q
| few nerves, or a sensation of lassitude
every time any one pefunctorily asks
them: How do you do?"
And oh JOY of joys, think of the
| blessed relief it would be not to have
| to listen to all the CORY details of any
, body's operation, nor the mysterious
| symptoms of those who make a pro-
fession of invalidism. and whose favor
tie topic is the conditions of their live
and the peculiarities of their stom-
| achs,
But if you bar trouble and sickness
| from polite conversation it is going to
leave a lot of people absolutely dumb.
There is nothing but whine in them.
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CHAPTER q.


my, what a whopperi" Mary Ryan
said as We went up stairs together.
What do you mean?" 1 had for
gotten what had said about expect
ing a friend.
Il like ito know who you expect
this evening! 1 was sort of planning
to invite myself to visit YOU"
We'll, you are the friend I meant,
SO we are both satisfied, and it WASH
such whopper after ALL" Then: II
have a new magazine. Wen read
aloud" felt I couldn't talk, even
to Mary. Roberts action. so unlike
him. made me uneasy. Why didn't he
tell me who he was going with:
Thatll be bully! L will read and
you can listen. 1t will be as good as a
lesson in English for me.
readily agreed. Mary would not
notice it if I were a bit inattentiye.
Here's what looks like a good
story" Mary judged the merit of a
story by the amount of diaIogue~and
the length of the paragraphs. II the
latter were long, she discarded the
story as prosy, and would have none
Mary had pleasant voice, and her
reading had a soothing effect upon me
sltho 1 was not listening. Really ]
had not heard a single word when she
stopped and said
Amt that true?''
Read it over again, Mary. I did NOT
quite catch it,
"A man doesn't like a divided af-
lection" she repeated. Then: "Ain't
it true They are selfish, that is most
men L ever heard of are. They don't
want to divide up with another man,
or with hat, or anything"
You queer girl. The idea of diyid-
ing an affection with a hat
I mean it, The only thing a man
don't object to dividing up with is the
dish pan and the stove. Them he
amt never jealous of no matter what
happens. Now listen to this" she
picked up the magazine and COM
menced to read.
John Mercer was a domestic man,
yet he never had been domestic. He
had lived in boarding houses prac-
ucally all his life. He envied the
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The liar said: Its a bitter world and it's
hard to get along,
Men don't play fair with their fellow men
and they're cruel when they are
strong;
They sneer and jeer in a vicious way and
they hinder all they can,
And there's no such thing as fellowship In
the selfish heart Of man."
Then 1 thought to myself-it is no doubt
true that rough is the world. and cold,
To the men who have bartered the truth for
gain and are known by the lies
they've told.
The cheat exclaimed: ats vicious world
and nobody cares at all
Whether you live or whether you die or
whether you rise or fall;
Let poets and sageS write fine words and
sing of the joy Of life
I tell you the days on earth are filled with
hatred and scorn and strife"
And / thought to myself-it Is no doubt
true that little of joy you'll meet
IL your path IS strewn with your broken
< faith and you've played the game as
a cheat.
But the honest man, with his head erect,
will tell you that men are fair,
That the world is peopled with honest
friends who love him and really care,
That smiles await him whereer he goes,
and there never comes a day
But someone offers friendly hand to help
him along his way.
Oh, the world is hard IL you lie, or cheat,
but it's gentle and Kind and true
If only you've lived as an honest man,
and do what a man should do.
Copyright 1920 by Edgar A. Guest.
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Observation-Disclosures

day does not county for very much
but your unuttered aspirations do
count for very much. There is no
reason why yoIt should become un-
duly discouraged. Just keep aspiring
on.
Dreams do come true, Not all of
them-or in the way that you most
desire them to come true-for all
dreams are enveloped in a haze. But
come true they do.
Look into the faces of those whom
you pass from day to day, but whom
you do not know. Instinctfvely you
know that they are good or bad-fer
their very faces tell you more than
their words could hope to.
Our unuttered aspirations stream
from our eyes and sit upon our very
cheeks. We are mostly what we want
so much to be.
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UNUTrERED ASPIRATION.

Which is greater-to do, or to be
Not everything that We do forms an
indelib1e part of the world, but most
of what We think surely does enter
the force of the world and become
material part of it.
1t was Emerson who said that
what you are speaks SO loud that 1
cannot hear what you SAYi"
1t is the great and fine things that
keep circulating thru a mans soul
that stamp him as substantial and a
happy contribution to the success and
glory of the world
The very fact that you think right
that you aspire highs in itself a
creative elements in making up in
f1uence.
You may think that your life each
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-04

The New York Worlds selection of
Mr.. Hoover for the presidency is be-
ing criticised by the opposition on the
ground that the World has shown poor
Judgment as regards the present oc-
cupant of the White House. In
connection with the Hoover boom it
is noted that Colonel House is for him.
Whether the colonePs support be an
asset or liability remains to be de-
veioped. However all this may be,
the fact remains that the Hoover and
the Wood campaigns are the only
ones that appear to be making any
Roadway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-04

Last Safidday mite I was setting up
in the setting room, not feeling like
taking a bath,-and ma was imbroid-
ering and pop was smoking and reed
ing the spoarting page with his feet
up. and 1 sed, 6. pop. G, ma.
Wy the suddin berst of oratory?
sed pop.
Think L better not take bath to-
mite, even il it is Satidday, 1 sed.
Have you eny good reasons for that
conclusion? sed pop, and / sed, Yes
sir.
Well would you mind sharing them
with your family? sep pop Meening
wat was they, and I sed, Well, in the
ferst place, 1 was running like eny-
thing vile 1 was out. and my pores is
proberiy too far open.
objection overruled, sed pop.
Meening it wasent a good enuff OF
reason. and L sed, And in the End
place I bleeye I'm getting a cold
And cawffed about small cawffs.
pop saying, You can put those cawffs
back agen, the objection is overruled.
Me thinking, Heck, G. And sed,
And in the 3rd place I'm pritty sleepy.
and once red about sumbody going
to sleep in the bath tub and drowning
before they weak up
objection overruled, sed pop, how
about in the 4th place, is there eny
4th place?
No sir, I sed.
Then go and take your bath. sed
witch I did.
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The taking of the census wiilvbe fol-
lowed by reapportionment of repre-
sentation in congress. As prelude
to this Senator Moses of New Hamp-
shire has revived the tin1e-worn at
tempt to cut down the number of
southern congressman to a figure
which will accord with the number
OF votes cast in that section of the
country. 1t is pointed; out as it has
been many times before, that the ne
groes of the south are counted In the
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census. but not in the vote. Probably
the senator will accomplish no more
along this line than has been accom-
plished in the past. And if the south
should find it necessary to permit the
negroes to vote it probably would find
way to cause them to vote the
fright" way. Senator Moses's action
may be productive OF campaign ma
teriaI. but is unlikely to bring other
results.