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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-13

if he fails to report money in the
bank March /.
Trumping a partners ace has be-
come common since the bridge whist
horror-hunters began discussing the
widely known Topeka statesman who
has been seen "out with a working
girl"
In his life's story now running in
Golfers, Melville Z. Stone, general
manager of the Associated Press, tells
of the beginning of his great news
paper career. He carried a paper
route. Don't the boys reared in lux
ury=ever become famous?
If the city water doesn't clear up
Topeka will go back to the wet and
dry" issue in the next municipal
campaign. "a.
. 1t isn't very often that neighbor-
hood gossip reaches the court stage
but when it does it brings out the
prairie fire speed in which tell-taie
whisperings may race from one house
to the other, in most cases increas-
ing in violence as it extends. Whether
true or not, the charges brought out
in the local district court this week
are not for across-the- back fence con-
sumption. Character is woman's
greatest asset When she loses that
altogether in the hands of her friends
or acquaintances. Furthermore, a
woman once under suspicion Is ever
suspected.
All of which brings out the need for
the elimination of the telephone
"party-line" and the installation of
the ''pay-as-you-talk' system
Topeka's most successful he-vamp
;- al hi IN II a p
fairs.
The Topeka Street Railways ac-
ton in repainting and remodeling
some of it's cars, thereby innocently
new equipment was in operation, is a
good suggestion for some people we
know-just between you and me.
Booze has been under cover for
eight months now but the divorce
court records still speak of men beat
ing their wives. Apparently men and
are willing to submit to legal cruelty
rather than run the risk of not being
able to convince the judge.
Spring is near and the trees are
preparing to hide their limbs. Not
SO with a certain part of the human
species.
Bringing to mind the case of a To-
pekaE couple. The husband, a demure
little soul, is exceedingly irksome to his
wife, a large muscular woman weigh
ing about 225.- Cruelty on his part
is out of the question and he simply
won't desert. She cannot find legal
charge that would be effective.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-13
BOY, IT'S A Gem!
Annual Report Ottawa MethO-
dist Church Snappy, Breezy.
CONSERVATION Fills Ranks of
Brethren as Result.
CLERK kids" GOOD MEMBERS
Mexican Coins in Collection
Pastor a Missionary There.
Says % Lord, Give Me Srength,'
Following Sisters Call.
CLERK kids" GOOD MEMBERS
Here is an envelope cont

ing a quarter with a
hole clear thru IL and
It's Of no value at
all. The clerk sadly
deposited 1t alon 6
with a leaden dime
and a Mexican quar-
ter (someone gave be-
cause the Pastor was
one time a mission
airy in MeIlco) and
other such souvenirs
in a box labelled :
OFFERED TO THE
LORD, II U T N o T
ACCEPTED BY THE
Is A n X. - From an
nual report of First
Methodist Church OF
ottawa, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-13
BACK TO PRE-WAR RANK.
Orders Issued for Return of 500 OFF,
GERS to Former Duties.

Washington, March 1S.-Return of
more than 800 officers of the regular
army on staff duty in Washington to
their pre-war rank is provided in or
ders being issued by direction of Cen
eral March, chief of staff. Among the
officers are Lieut.. Col. John NJ. Milli-
ken and Maj ]. NJ. Swing, aides to and
son-in-law of General March Under
the orders effective Monday both will
revert to the rank of captain. Colonel
Grant 3rd will return to his regular
rank OF major.
Orders for return to permanent
rank also are being prepared for more
than a hundred officers with the
American forces in Germany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-13

Oklahoma City. okla.-L- Howell Lewis,
filed suit against the Oklahoma News for
$4,000 damages. said damages alleged
caused by limerick published in tie
newspaper N a recent contest which b,
alleges referred TO him as"L. Howllng
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-13

he won't be suspected of tax lodging
if he fails to report money in the
bank March l..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-13

Moral-when your master fiirts
hire a lawyer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-13

Now that high prices have pune
tured the skies there is nationa
movement for STERILIZATION" VIVA
we want is reduction, not Sterilization
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-13

Trumping a partners ace has be-
come common since the bridge whist
horror-hunters began discussing the
widely known Topeka statesman who
has been seen "out with a working
girl"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-13

The Topeka Saturday Night clui
and the Topeka Press club may be ex
pected to blossom forth in customar,
comedy any day now. Frank farrell
the funniest Roman of them all, Il
back again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-13

They're whispering some fearful
warns over town about the cavorting
of a few of the>young married couples
of the exclusive set. Imitators Of
Baccaccio have some excellent ma
terial right here at home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-13

a well known Topekan is Boosting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-13

Young brother. and small sister
came stomping up the stairs unusually
early one evening. why to bed so
early?" mother asked as she tucked
away the last wisp of hair before the
mirror. Daddy has the 'don'ts' re-
piled brother mournfully.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-13

Daniel G. Reid. the Western fl
nancier. who gave Wall street such
a shock baees, in 1909 when he amass-
ed a fortune out of Rock Island
stock, has been divorced from his
third wife after a sensational scandal
dealing in lingerie and fashion models.
The late Mrs. Reid was given &2.5e
a month alimony. That's lot mora
than the Rock Island got
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-13

In his lifes story now running in
Golfers, Melville Z. Stone, general
manager of the Associated Press, tells
of the beginning of his great news
paper career" He carried a paper
route Don't the boys reared in lux
urXseNer become famous?
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-02
NO PEACE DECLARATION IF COX
is ELECTED.

1t is quite apparent that Governor
Cox intends to do one thing if he is
elected to the presidency even
though he may fail in everything else.
That is to keep this country in a
state of war until the moment shall
arrive when the senate will consent to
acceptance of the Wilson league COW
enant as a part of treaty of peace.
His Characterization of Senator Har-
dlng's suggestion for an immediate
peace with Germany leaves no doubt
on that point. Mr.. Cox refers to the
Harding proposal as "a perfectly
perfidiOus act" an "unthinkable, mon
strous proposal" this dishonorable
deed" and an insult" to the veterans
OF the war. All those extremes of de-
he applies to the promise
of Senator Harding to make a matter
of official record that which every
sensible person knows to be a matter
OF fact-that the United States is at
peace with Germany.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-02
COX AND ZINC

peace and absolutely necessary in
time of war Free zinc would destroy
one of our great industries and would
drive those formerly engaged in it to
other lines. When our domestic in
dustry has thus been ruined and do
nestle competition destroyed, the
price of the important product is GER
tain to be raised That's the way it
goes for free trade means that we
lower our own earning capacity and
at the same time raise the prices of
products which we must buy.
Free zinc would be a staggering
blow to Butte's chief industry. Yet
the affable Mr.. Roosevelt faces an in
telligent Butte audience and tells us
that the tariff is a dead issue; he tells
us that when Mr.. Cox is on record
as advocating free zinc. On the 9TH
er hand the republicans of the house
OF representatives have agreed to re-
impose the rates of duty upon zinc
which obtained under the tariff act of
1909. The United States senate can
be depended upon to fall in line and,
with republican president we can
look forward to a period
Of prosperity for our zinc producers.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-02
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM ON d.
RECT PRIMARY.

The republican convention at Poca-
tello seems to have taken a middle of
the road course on the direct primary
question, the platform declaration ap-
parently favoring the present law
with some notifications to make it
more workable This law was passed
By the last legislature and is a com
bination of the direct primary and
the convention system. Candidates
for county offices are nominated by
direct primary and at the same pri-
mary delegates are elected to a coun-
ty convention which in turn elects
delegates to the state convention for
the nomination of candidates for state
office. The direct primary plank fol-
lows:
THAT the republican party, in re-
Spouse to the demand of the people of
Idaho did in 1909 pass a direct pri-
mary law, and thereafter, at subse-
quent sessions, did attempt to
strengthen said law and bring it to
perfection; Notwithstanding the hon.
est and intelligent legislation TO this
end, the direct primary law was large
~ unsatisfactory in it's operation as
a statewide measure, and was, by the
Of both republican and
democratic members, repealed at the
last session of legislature: that the
present mixed primary law. passed in
its place, has developed defects and
must be amended and improved so as
to preserve all that is conducive to
airy law, while absolutely protecting
the rights of our people to party or
ganization and responsibility. We |
concur in and heartily endorse the |
statement made by our candidate for |
president Hon. Warren G.. Harding, |
n his address of acceptance, wherein /
ne said: The abandonment of govern
nent through political parties means
he same instability for the United
States which characterizes many Lat
lutocracy or dictatorship which spells
he end of our boosted republic Par
isanship can be put aside for great
rational emergency when the menace
ZONES from without, as the great war
las proved, but party sponsorship is
he guaranty of accomplishment in
Meeting the problems of peace"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-02
COOLIDGE is QUALIFIED FOR
THE PRESIDENCY.

There have been 2S presidents of
the United States. Four of them
were vice presidents and became chief
executives following the deaths Of
their predecessors in Office. There
fore. the chances for a vice president
becoming president before the expir-
alton of his term may be set roughly
at 1 in Z. Which shows the import
ance of electing a man to that Office
who can discharge the duties of pres
ident with ability and dignity should
circumstances necessitate. Compare
the republican and democratic candi-
dates. Governor Coolidge is a man of
mature experience and judgment, 4S
years old, and has been elected IA
times by his fellow citizens to offices
OF public trust, never knowing a de-
feat. Franklin d. Roosevelt is a lit
tie more than youth, SS years of age
Only once was he elected to office,
when he served a term in the New
York state senate. Since 1913 he has
been serving as assistant secretary OF
the navy by appointment of the pres
ident where he has obediently acqui-
esced in every move of Mr. Daniels
toward the debilitation of that branch
OF the country's defense. Governor
Coolidge is -blooded fighter, of
proved ability to meet situations and !
decisively dispose of them to the best
interests of the people Mr. Roosevelt |
is dealer in empty platitudes, of an
negative character, and |
utterly lacking in that force of per-
so necessary in a president.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-02

a strong hand" Let us see about
that. Last summer the president. Mr..
Baker and all the rest of them were
quite confident that the league COW
enant would be ratified and the Unit
ed States would become a member.
Whereupon the secretary of war be-
came very urgent in his recommended
lions to congress for an army of about
100000 men. The senate refused to
ratify the covenant and congress
promptly reduced the proposed army
to about $4,000 men. Which is the
cries now propounded by Mr.. Baker
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-02
AGE AND MENTALITY.
anaconda standard.)

(AnacOnda Standard)
To say that a man is as old as he
feels or that woman is as old as she
looks is to but half tell the story. MANY
famous men have demonstrated that
they are as old as they wish to be; no
doubt many women have additional
facilities for proving the truth of the
same theory.
Speaking by and large, old age is
the result of a desire to live. An alert,
active mind dominates a sluggish or
tired body. It is the brain, the mind
the soul, if you will, that lives. Album
dant examples may be found to show
that men whose minds were strong and
active lived to a ripe age regardless
of physical infirmity.
Sir Isaac Newton lived to the age
of SO and gave proof of his intellectual
vigor to his dying day Walter Savage
Landor wrote his Imaginary CONVEX
sations" at IS and lived seven years
after John Wesley swayed multitudes
With his eloquence up to the age of
50; Washington Irving worked at his
Life of Washington" in his seventy
ninth year; Browning was nearly so
'efore he ceased to write; Tennyson
Crossing the Bar" at So;
'ictor Hugo did much of his work
fter he was rs; when he was SO Vol
aire composed his tragedy, Irene"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-02
Quite Daily Post)

Quite Daily POsD
Franklin d. Roosevelt, democratic
candidate for vice president, told a
Butte audience last week that the
tariff was a dead issue. He said that
Candidate Harding had resurrected it.
and that the republicans couldn't pro-
fit by parading the corpse, which the
Ohio senator had dressed in a new
suit of store clothes" Mr.. Roosevelt
didn't make it plain what he meant
by that; it was intended to be humor.
If that wasn't funny, at least his at
tempt to belittle the tariff as an issue
in Butte should be amusing For this
city has a direct and first-hand in
terest in the tariff, such as is advo-
Gated by Harding
Butte has the largest zinc mine in
the world. Moreover, it produces nor
mally more than 100000 pounds of
spelter yearly. Next to "copper" zinc
is the chief product of this district
and, if given the protection to which
it is entitled, it will increase in i'm
portance every year Without the
protection which republicans are
pledged to give it, it will continue to
decline until there is nothing left of
it,
Prior to the tariff act Of 1897 zinc
ore was not dutiable under our law.
Butte had no zinc industry in those
days. republican congress in the
tariff act of 1909 set about to provide
adequate protection and zinc ore was
for the first time enumerated in the
tariff. The rates of duty under that
law cut down the importations fully
one-half the average annual importa-
tons from both free and dutiable zinc
ores during the life Of the tariff act of /
1909 being. in round numbers, 300 J
tons. In those years Butte began to |
command real attention as a zinc pro- !
Queer.
The tariff act of 1913. enacted after
Wilson got control of congress. made J.
ores dutiable at the rate
IF ten per centum on the zinc they 4
contained. During the life of the first
six years of the present tariff act, the
mportations of zinc bearing ores have
lveraged, in round numbers, 10000
ons. The total importations in 1916
mounted to 100000 tons The duty :
# ten per centum imposed by the I'm
erwOod tariff affords no protection y
or zinc producers. Consequently, i,
nth the close of the war; zinc mines
Il over the country began to close :,
own, while importations, chiefly from
lexico, continue to come in.
That Candidate Cox is for free zinc
shown by his statement on the d
cor of congress in 1909, while the u
bill was under consid-
alton. On page 562 of the Congress
onal Record for March 30, 1909, he ito
ivocates free zinc ifo
Zinc is a metal useful in time of lea
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-02
DEMOCRATS COMBINE WITH
NoNPARTlSAN LEAGUE.

If any evidence was lacking 10 sup
port the belief that Senator Nugent
was accessory to the theft Of the
democratic party by the nonpartisan
league two years ago. it is supplied
by the action of the democratic con-
vention at Idaho Falls last week when
w. r. Whitaker and Ross Bates, both
Of Pocatello, We're nominated for rep
resentative in congress and attorney
general respectively. Both these men
had previously been nominated for
the same positions by the nonparti-
san league and as the law forbids
the appearance Of the name of can
didate more than once on the ballot,
there can be no other conclusion than
that their names will be dropped from
the nonpartsan league ticket. In
fact the action of the democratic
convention under the guiding hand of
senator Nugent, appears to have been
the fulhllment of an agreement with
the Townley organization, and that
the only purpose of the nonpartisan
league in nominating a ticket was to
be in position to enforce the terms of
the contract Having accomplished
that purpose in the nomination of
Whitaker and Bates, the next move
will probably be to withdraw the non
partisan league ticket and transfer the
support of the discredited organiza-
ton to the democratic state ticket
This will include the withdrawal of
III. f.. Samuels, the nOnpartisan league !
for United States senator,
who viii of course not compete with
senator Nugent the man who is
'redited with having had Samuels |
as a special representa-
i've Of the labor department to visit
'arious countries of Europe following
he close of the war
1t was believed that the limit of
POLITICAL depravty had been reached
wo years ago when. the nonpartisan
eague literally stole the democratic
rganization in Idaho and nominated
Is own candidates under the demo-
ratio name. But now the democrat
= party itself. under the leadership
1 Senator Nugent seems to have
ropped a little lower than the league
n its disregard of political morals,
y becoming a partner of the burglar
hat committed the theft. The peo-
lie of Idaho will not return a man to
he senate who is responsible for this
ase combine and who relies upon the
upport of the radical and vicious ele-
tent for success.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-02
"coMPLETE ACCORD"
(Boston Herald.O

Boston Herald.)
The dispatches from Washington
tell us that Mr.. Wilson and Gov. Cox
are in complete accord" Both the
gentlemen in question assured the re-
porters, after the White house con-
ference, that such was the happy sit
uation. In view of Gov. Cox's fate at
the conference and the well known
simie OF the president-the situation
inevitably suggests the famous lin
erick:
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-02
THE OUTLOOK FOR ZINC GROWS
BRIGHTER.

Zinc producers. zinc smelling men
and others who are in position to ad-
vance an opinion upon the situation
are decidedly optimistic regarding
the outlook for the metal a fact that
is very gratifying to zinc producers
OF the Occur d'Alene district. Last
week we quoted the opinion of a man
who is interested in several smelling
plants in Oklahoma, who expressed
the opinion that the next six months
would witness a strong demand for
zinc on account of the steady reduc-
ton of zinc stocks on hand and the
probable improvement in the trade re-
lations with Europe The Mining and
Scientific Press of August "a has this
comment on the zinc situation:
zine stocks in the hands of the
smelters on June 80 amounted to
29,S92 tons only, as compared
with S6.79S at the beginning of
this year and 500 tons on June
80 of last year This shows a SO
per cent decrease i'm stocks during
the twelve months. and is decid-
eddy reassuring, for even in nor
NAL times a surplus of $4,000 tons
is not unusual Eighteen months
ago the market was staggering
beneath the big stock of zinc ac-
cumulated at the mines and the
smelters under the stimulus of
war prices. The surplus at that
time was as much as $4,000 tons,
and constituted a real menace to
current production. Since then
operations at the mines and the
smelters have been severely cur
tailed, so that on June 80 last
only $4,000 retorts were in action
as against 1075OO on January I.
Later, strikes and shut-dOwns
have caused a further contraction
i'm the scale of operations. Export
business is insignificant and is
likely to continue a negligible
factor"
Even more optimistic is the follow
lg comment of the Engineering and
lining Journal OF August p in its
larket review:
THE feeling in the zinc market
is decidedly more cheerful De-
mand is much more active at the
higher prices now prevailing,
though business is not yet what
might be termed strong Those
who are selling now are, in gen.
eral. resellers. who bought at SIC
and less and are willing to take a
reasonable profit Producers are
not anxious to get rid of their
metal, for they believe that prices
viii so still higher. Production
continues to be curtailed. and one
western smelter bought outside
zinc to fill his contracts"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-02
After the Play
(Sylvester Baxter in New York
Sun and Herald)

you liked it, then?'
1T ended happily; you know
That is the way
| like a play"
quite So my dear; I see
The way the play
To please you had to be;
All pleasantly its course began
With cloudless skies; and then
AS on it ran
Came manifold vexations;
A maze of complications
Induced suspicion. jealousy;
So hate from love was bred
And all this trouble led
1C keenest agony
Your sympathetic soul
How could it bear such narrowing
distress? '
mot bear all that? Why yesl
You see, the way things came to pass
They led to happiness"
But after that?
What of the day
That lies beyond the play?
The same life onward flowing.
Forever coming, going
Now golden and now gray?
And though the reel in shadow stops.
Or ends in sunlit play.
What difference is there after all?
The moving pictures yet to come
Must run the usual way.
Yet speaking of your Play?
1.-The lovers came together
Like birds in Maytime weather"
And after they we're mated ~
"Of that the play
Had nothing more to say"
Not even of the wedding day?
Yet life means something more than
this
And marriage more than honeyed
bliss;
The children come; some die
And some go wrong;
And beauty fades while other beauty
blooms;
And Pleasure ever sings her song
Where Pain must sound the under
tones;
While farther on there ever looms
The shadow of the unknown morrow
That brings to every man his sorrow.
SO, whate'er the play itself may say,
The life of it goes ever on,
And passing day by day,
Makes one incessant blending
That merges every ending
Into a new beginning. -
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-02
BAKER SAYS LEAGUE WOULD
REDUCE ARMAMENT.

Secretary of War Baker tries to
create the impression that with the
United States in the league of ma
tons American ornaments could be
materially reducer. IF we do not go
into the league of nations" he de-
clares, 1--WE must continue to arm. If
we are to play a lone hand it must be
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-02
HARDING'S PROGRAM TO CUT
DOWN LIVING COSTS.

First-Revise or repeal the excess
profits tax.
Second-AbOlish the government
tax on freight and passenger traffic
Third-Increase the tariff schedules
Fourth-Materially modify the in
come tax schedules.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-02

An ordinance against driving an
auto with one hand is asked in De-
troit. And yet they say, "All the
world loves a lover."-Louisville Post
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-02

A poor man has trouble enough
finding a house to live in. Goodness
knows what it must be like to be rich
and observation-disclosures City Star.