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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01
WE NEED THE MONEY.

One of the most important duties
before the incoming administration is
the reform of the tax laws, and fea-
ture of that reform that should de-
mand immediate attention is the mat
ter of foreign interest, a source of
revenue now dormant. In a letter
dated March IS last, Secretary Hous-
ton stated that about $433,000,o0o of
the accrued interest had been paid.
but that on the interest date in May,
1920, there would have ACCRUED fur
Their interest amounting to apprexi-
mately SAGA, 100000.
There has been no report that any
substantial part of that sum has been
paid. In the six months that have
elapsed since May. $3.50, 100000 more
or less of additional interest has ac-
crued, and it is safe to say that by
the end of the calendar year 1920 the
total interest owed the United States
by foreign governments will be close
to s775,OOO.OOO.
1t is understood that an agreement
has been reached whereby the United
States is not to charge interest on the
deferred interest. but the deferred in
terest itself will eventually be paid to
the treasury. Discussions between
this country and the debtor govern
ments have been going on for months
looking to an arrangement not only to
exchange the promissory notes now
held in the treasury as evidence of the
debt for longtime obligations, but
also to determine upon a time when
interest payments shall begin with a
regularity that can be depended upon.
1t is in the prompt outcome of those
discussions that the American taxpay-
ers are interested. The annual in
crement from foreign sources of half
billion dollars. not to mention the
three-quarters of billion arrears of
interest which we are to- get. would
afford a real relief from the tax bur-
den that the American people now
pay. 1t may be that the treasury de-
partment is pursuing the negotiations
with all the dispatch that can be given
to such matters. On the other hand
1t may be that dilatofiness is result
ing in the imposition of hundreds of
millions of unnecessary taxes on a
heavily burdened body of taxpayers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01
INCREASE IN CHILD LABOR.

Child Labor day is to be observed
January %. % or "a, 1921, in
churches, synagogues, schools, colleges
and clubs turnout the country. The ma
tional child labor committee calls at
tention to the fact that in spite of
increasing adult unemployment, more
children have left school to go to
work in 1920 in many Industrial CEN
ters than in 1919. Fourteen states re-
port an increase in child labor during
the first six OF eight months of 1920.
Taking this into consideration with
the increase in adult unemployment,
we have a very serious situation"
says the committee in its Child Labor
day announcement. In Detroit the
supervisor of compulsory education
has offered to revoke the permits of
1000 children if the city will give
their families aid so that they may be
returned to school and their places
in factories be taken by the men now
unemployed in that city.
But it is not only because of adult
Unemployment that children should pc
taken out of industry. The place for
every American child up to 1e, at
least, is in school. and it has been
proved by mothers pensions. child la
Dor scholarships and other devices for
public aid, that even poor children
may be kept in school. The child who
goes to work alta, it Is estimated, has
an earning capacity at rs just half as
great as the child who stays in school
until he is IS; and the child who goes
to work at IA is twice as liable to sick
ness and disability as the child who
stays in school. In fact the loss to the
nation in health, efficiency and hap
piness, created by premature employ
ment, is hard to calculate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

drug campaign, was handicapped in
its work by the illegal activities Of per-
sistent peddlers, many of them doc
tors. When the drug clinic was OPEN
ed by the city health department, with
the announcement that every drug ad-
diet must come there for his supply of
drugs. a great and indignant wall arose
from several New York doctors. 1t
was an outrage, they asserted, to bring
HES would be broken up when hus-
bands found their wives at the clinic,
and vice versa. One prominent physi-
clan made particularly eloquent
speech in this connection which
brought tears of sympathy to many of
his auditors eyes, And meantime in
the clinic at least SO per cent of the
drug addicts were recording on their
registration cards the name of this
same physician as the source of their
drug supply.
What New York did for its drug
addiets, San Francisco is Just Begin
ing to attempt. That is, it is making
an effort to treat them as sick people
and to put them into hospitals instead
of filming them and putting them in
in Jail, it is true, because there is not
sufficient hospital space to accommo-
date them, but it is at least signifi-
cant that they are being treated. Most
of the women are being placed in an
isolation hospital, where every possible
precaution is taken to see that no
drugs are smuggled in from outside
sources. Meanwhile the state is con-
sidering the blishment of an iso-
lated drug addict colony on one of the
Pacific coast islands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01


around at the comfortable dining
room. which began to seem ike noI Ss
with IFS brazing fires on the Wlov
hearth. This is a good beginning,
thought John Thatcher II tney VII VIZ
come now. they can see tnat 1 ia S'o
ing as q good provider, anyway:
Then he heard the horn OF the eA-
nensive car that brought the MAINS.
and suddenly overcome Dy tne ~e1 Ir
and position of the girl ne loved, ~
place seemed poor and snapDy a1o r,ss
efforts fruitless. But it was his nome;
and he squared his shoulders. looked
at the lovely table with its flowers lts
crimson and purple fruit. ana the
bright hearth fire
1T is perfectly WONDERFUL Helen
said over and over again, while her
parents nodded approval. They smli-
ingly watched the two young people az
thew hurried to and fro putting tas
meal on the table--they investigated
the house and asked the souTce "a
When they had finished and Were
gathered about the fire, Mrs. MAIN
touched her husbands arm. len
him, father-teH John all about H.
I'VE all came out here yesterday
morning-got here petore you . S,u,
and think you've got a discoura61ne
job, but it will do you good, and your
neighbors good, to have you bring
back the name of the Horn or Pienty
farm. You've shown what you can &c
with a very little, and you've made the
most of what you've got. What you
need now is a good wife-well come
into nv office until March and save
your money. Then you can marry
Helen, and we will come and dine with
you next THANKSGIVING day If you viii
promise to provide the entire dinner
from the products of. your farm.
my grandfather did it and so can
l." declared John Thatcher, and he
did.
Nowadays If you should ask for
Horn of Plenty farm every one Will
eagerly point the way: The biggest
white house on the street. the place
with the flower gardens, the big farm
wonder" and they might add. The
happiest home in the village-that S
Horn OF Plenty farm!"
Copyright, 1910 bv the Mcclure News
paper Syndieate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

The Mexican department of indus
try, commerce and labor estimates the
potential oil lands in the republic at
about ISL. 100000 acres, of which only
about $4,000 acres are being devel-
oped. according to reports reaching
washington. In view of these fig
ures, it is not surprising that Ameri-
cans are anxious to get into that
country. Incidentally this estimate
should go far toward removing all
alarm regarding "a supply Of oil for
many years to come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
JESUS, HUNGRY BABIES-AND

YOU.
Every Christmas time is a period
when the whole worlds thought is
turned to the birth of a baby called
Jesus. The prophets had told long of
His coming, and of the beauty and
happiness He was to bring into the
world because of His lovely character.
And so, in memory of such a great
event. we have Christmas. 1t is g
universal time of giving and of think
ing of others.
Jesus loved babies very much. He
was always wanting them around Him
once He told company of His
friends that "of such was the King
dom of Heaven"
Thousands of little babies are starv-
ing in Europe right this minute.
Christmas is very near They need
food-worse than they want toys,
own Christmas may be so much hap
pier if you help to feed these babies
NOW. Winter is fast approaching.
You must act at once.
Herbert Hoover recently made an
appeal for these babies thru The Lit
erary Digest of New York City. Any
one may send in any amount to this
publication and just say that they
want it to help feed the babies in Eu-
rope-and you may be sure that the
money will get to the babies.
A friend of mine who has Just re-
turned from Vienna says that 1t is pit
iful to the extreme. 1 am told that
merely a few pennies of American
money for each baby daily will go far
toward helping these innocent victims
of war.
So won't TOU send something to-
day? The world can't be very happy
with hungry babies in it. / have sent
my little help already. Won't YOU
do 1t, toe?
Your Christmas will be SO much
happier.
America ought to be greatest when
it helps hungry babiesi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
Hcrray for the North Pole.
BY LEIE PAPN
A Play.


Scene, ice all GROUND,
Captin. If we don't see the North
Pole pritty soon wy I don't believe
there is eny.
LIST saiIer. Lets toss up to decide
weather we go back or not. I'm tired
looking at Eskimees.
End sailer. Nobody cant say this
amt a cold climate.
3rd sailer. Wat lattytude and lengi-
tude is this captin?
Captin. Wat do you always wunt
to know that for?
Srd sailer. o jest for the sake of
joggriffy..
GROUND heer for the simple reason
because we've looked everywares elts
o look at the big vale, lets chase it,
End sailer. This is a Dizziness trip
Srd sailer- Wat lattytude and longi-'
tude are we how, captin?
Captin. I'm bizzy thinking.
list sailer. There goes lot of more
Eskimoes. If they dident look so
mulch alike there mite be more va
riety of them.
End sailer. If it's as cold GROUND
the South Pole as wat it is Ground
heer, they're welcome to it.
3rd sailer. Would you mind tell
ing me wat lattytude and longitude
it is now, Captin?
Captin. 1 eerteny would.
list sailer. lee, ice nuthing but ice
and the people GROUND the equator
that RELY need it haven't hardly got
10 cent hunk.
End sailer. Pole pole spy the pole.
Bird sailer. Does it look like the
north pole? Holey smoaks who knows
wat lattytude and longitude this is?
Everybody. Herrayl
The end
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01
JUST. FOLKS
THE PEAKS OF vALeR.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

These are the peaks of valor: keeping clean
your fathers name.
Too brave. for petty profit to risk the brand
Adventur ing for the future, yet mindful
of the past,
Fer God for home and country being
vaiorous to the last.
These are the PEAKS OF vaIor: speech that
knows no lie,
4 standard of what's right and wrong
which no mans wealth can buy,
All unafraid of failure to venture forth to
fight,
Yet never for the victor's sake to turn away
from right.
Ten thousands times the victor is be who
fails TO win,
Who could have worn the -eendueror's
crown by STOPPING low to sin:
Ten thousands times the drawer To he who
turns away
And seorns to crush weaker man that he
may rule the day.
These are the peaks of valor: standing firm
and staading true
To the best your father taught you and the
best you've learned anew.
Helpful to ali who need you, winning what
joys you can.
writing in triumph to the end your record
Copyright. 1920. By Edgar A. Guest.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01
Dorothy Dix TALKS
An Unfair Bargain-1.


In the course of a year get han-
dreds of letters from girls who wall
out that during the past two or three
years they have let some particular
youth menopolize their time, and camp
on their parlor chairs, until he has
driven all other beaux away, and now
he has loved and ridden away, and
they are left lamentins.
My first impulse is to say to these
deserted damsels, And it serves you
jolly we'll right, too" for any girl who
has little enough sense to burn all her
matrimonial bridges behind her before
she knows whether she is really head
ed for the altar, or the Spinsters' Re-
treat. deserves to have to wear the
willow.
OF all the hard bargains that men
drive with women, none is SO cruel
land unfair as that which prevails in
certain circles, and which is called
keeping company
BY it young man cuts out some
particular girl from the general herd.
land puts his brand on her. This gives
him an option on her time. and atten-
ton. ana affections. which he can take
uD, or not. as he chooses. She may
not GO out with another man, or have
other men call upon her. At party
she may not even dance with another
man without the kind permission of
her STEADY"
By Haunting his possessorship, he
keeps all other men away, and blocks
the girls chances for anyone else. but
he does not commit himself to any
thing definite, and there is nothing to
prevent him from quitting whenever
he chooses.
Certainly any girl who would enter
into that sort of an arrangement with
a man ought not to be let loose in the
world without a guardian, for she
takes all the risk and he takes none.
The love game between men and
women is one in which the man has
the advantage, anyway, but surely
woman should protect herself as far
as she can by refusing to play with
marked cards
That men are tickle; that their
fancies roam from flower to flower;
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01
Questions-Anspers

Q. What is the address Of the Railroad
Labor Board, created under the Esch- Cum
minis Act Pr. E. NJ.
A. This Board has offices at Wabash
avenue, Chicago. Illinois. &. P. Carrithers
is the secretary of the board.
what nat green f f sn9nia ps given TO
A. The Department OF Agriculture says
that sprouted oats, alfalfa meal, chopped
mangeI beets are good kinds of green feed
for hens during the winter. Cabbage may
be hung up in the poultry house. aud. the
the floor, to keep the feed clean.
:. Q. How did coffee get its nameE-P- 4
A. Coffee derives its name from Kaffa
in Abyssinia, in which country ii is be-
lieved that coffee originated. The botanical
it was in Arabia that coffee was first cuI-
tiyated and used as 2 beverage.
Q. As, the speed Of the revolving record
the piece, why does the pitch remain the
same when the needle reaches the inner
Tb @h Bnrea u 1r of stan9Seds
the pitch of a monograph record depends
upon the. number Of vibrations per second
attached. The vibrations are caused by
the irregular depth Of the grooves on the
record. The number Of these waves is
near the center. for the same sound The
mum of grooves passed over 10 a given
needle is near the edge or near the center.
O.. In the days wien the senate held its
sessions in the room now occupied by the
supreme court, where did the supreme
A. The room now occupied by the su-
predme court was the senate chamber until
1853, and the supreme court then used the
room immediately beneath, now used as a
law library.
&c g B.. What is meant by the term Bub-
A: The Mississippi Bubble was
banking and commercial scheme projected
in France at the beginning Of the reign
or louis XIV by a Scottish financier named
John Law. 1t resulted in the panic OF
Q. When was the first block signal used
and what railroad used it?-E. j.
"A. The actual operation Of the block
signalling system dates from the wear
1888, when it was used on the Great West
ern railway Of England. Sykes system
Of block signalling, Invented in 1875 came
States and in England.
g Are children born in this country OF
foreign parents. citizens "A. O. B.
A. The Constitution of the United States
PROVIDES that all children born In .he
United States are citizens thereof.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

The weather up to this time having
been such as to make little coal neees-
sary for heating purposes, the people
probably are less Interested than they
might otherwise be in the announce
ment that there is an abundance of
fuel in sight. What would appeal to
them more strongly would be infor-
nation that the price is to come down.
But possibly the law of supply and
demand does not work in the market
ing of-coal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

tax is still in effect but prices have
dropped" MIR. Kitchin's mere assertion
does not prove anything. Leading fl
nanciers hold that prices would never
have been so high or had so far to fall
except for the excess profits tax.
Prices are falling in spite of the tax
because the people are refusing to pay
the prices demanded by those who
have been collecting excess profits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

John wanamaker. Philadelphia
merchant, does not believe that CO.
operative buying by farmers will re-
chants can not be replaced success
fully by hired managers without inter-
est in the business" Cooperative
selling is the farmers greatest need
and not Cooperative buying.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

The campaign for funds for sup
port of the Bertha Hampstead Me-
mortal clinic to combat tuberculosis
differs from previous drives" for
funds. in the fact that all the money
will remain in Topeka and be spent
here in fighting the white plague.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

The Indiana man who has sued his
doctor because the latter sewed him
up without removing a quantity of
cotton gauze from his inside, was care
full to cause the doctor to remove said
gauze before filing the suit. The life
of a Doctor is not happy one. Some
body always is finding fault with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

1t is reported that Secretary Tum-
ulty will write some books about the
president after March 4. Mr.. Wilson
it is said also will write some books.
rrasfdeut
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

Mexican bandits are overlooking a
golden opportunity If they fail to cap
ture Col. Charles L. Mitchell and hold
him for ransom. Topeka would pay
almost any price to get him back.
But the Mexicans do not know the col
onel as he is known here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

Mark Sullivan says: Everybody in
washington has been painfully aware
that the business of the United States
has not been very we'll run during the
past two years." Basing an estimate
on the way the people voted last
month, the whole country felt the
same way about it. :
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

The citizen paying his taxes this
year can have I'm mind that 1t is not so
bad as it will be next year. But, after
all. that may not make. it easier.
Taxes are the one item in the cost of
living that never declines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

The fact that Mississippi showed no
gain in population in the latest CEN
sus returns may be due to the lynch
ing of so many of her inhabitants in
the past ten years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

At last the decline in prices appears
to have reached the retail dealer in
meats and groceries. When will it ex-
tend to the restaurants? Topeka eat
ing houses continue to charge the
maximum prices established when
food costs were at the peak.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

Germany has begun payment of war
indemnities to the allies reparation
commission. but none of that money
is being used by said allies in liqui-
dating their debts to Uncle Sam.
However, it may come to us thru
England, since she says she will pay
when her debtors pay her. All Of
this may be the proper thing among
nations but it isn't business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

THE excess profits tax during the
war has been justified by the fact that
the current preston shows that the
tax was not responsible for the era of
high prices" says Representative
I6itehin, author of the tax law. 1.-THE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

There was a time when the farmers
looked forward hopefully to the COM
ing of dollar wheat" Apparently
dollar wheat is again on the way, but
there are no signs of rejoicing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

The work of picking a cabinet for
Senator Harding goes merrily on. Up
to this time nobody has suggested a
man for postmaster general who could
by any possibility be worse than Burle-
son.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

1t is announced that the fifteen
failed banks in North Dakota will pay
out But when was there ever a bank
failure that was not followed by a
similar announcement?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

Next week President Wilson again
will have congress on his hands. but
probably by this time he has aban-
doned the idea of reforming It,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

that the harder it is to get woman
the more they desire her, and that
nothing takes the edge off their inter-
est so quickly as does the sense of
proprietorship, are axioms that it is
not necessary to repeat here. Every
girl baby cuts her teeth on these
bromiGic truths, and how any daugh-
ter of Eve can be reckless enough not
to apply them to her own case, passes
all human comprehension.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

There is a good deal of grumbling
about high prices. but 1t Is going to
be good deal of blow to a lot Of US
when We can't pay more than $12 for
a pair of shoes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

And we pity the first miserable
wretch who is forced to confess he is
wearing a SIS overcoat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-01

The column does not advocate d.
vorce, except for certain reasons, but
1t seems to US the fact that she is
married to him constitutes ample
grounds for Mrs. Hal Chase