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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-31
Questions-Anstuers

Q. How much land did, Great Britain
acquire In East Africa from Germany p
A. Great. Britain was given the mandate
over 366O0O square miles Of former Ger
man territory, or an area greater than the
been named the Taneanyka Territory.
g. Does the 16T holes Of golf recently
aSe IN the one fec asy S1 INKS
A. Edward E Stiles Washington, d. {.
golfer. holds a record for $50 holes played
| in one day On the Old Pike Road Country
club course near Philadelphia. STILES made
f his f rsToT don on Tagsr that he could play
his wager.
Q. What are the average wages paid in
automobile factories?-H. II.
A. The average weekly wage in the auto
mobile industry in the United States last
year was 1854.
Q. Is grain dust explosIve?-G A. s.
A.. Grain dust is dangerous explosive
grain dust explosions which killed seventy
people and destroyed 100000 worth Of
property aside from the grain;
z. Is there river of ink 1T. E Y.
a There is such river in Algeria. 1t
! is formed by the union Of two streams, one
flowing from a region Of ferruginous soil.
and the other draining a swamp. The wa
ter Of the former is strongly fmprennated
with iron, and the latter with fgnliic acid.
nnites with the iron OF the other and forms
ink
Q. A claims that leather winged bat is
not bird. Is he rightl-O. T. S.
A. The Bureau Of biological Survey says
that bats are not birds. They are mann
mails. tho adapted to life In the air by the
possession of wings formed of a membrane
stretched between the greatly prolonged
bones Of the arm md hand:
Q. How did they get the Great Lakes
steamers thru to the ocean for use during
the war?-A. r. D.
by means of the st. Lawrence river. As
the locks were not large for the largest
steamers, these ships were cut in half and
! Q. Are there any eolered women in the
United States who are lawyers? -F. ]. w.
A. There are five colored women who
have passed the examinations and been adj
nlttted to the bar.
Q. What was the production Of the silk
industry In the United States in 1912
A. The proddetion of silk in the United
States has new grown TO $500. 000. 600 year,
as compared with only $1O0,O0O.OOO in 1900
Q. What was the cost of Christopher
! Columbus trip to the New Word PC.
A. A noted Chicago antiquary has ascer-
tanned that the famous first voyage of
Columbns' cost only $4,000 pesetss or a little
Q. Is it unlawful to work extra time
under another employer. providing the per
son works full time at hfs regular employ
A. So long as he fuifiIs all the require
ments Of his regular employer. his spare
time is his TO do with as he chooses.
tAny reader can get the answer to any
journal Information Bureau, Frederic J.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-31
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
Defeating THINGS TO TIME

DEDlCAF1NG THINGS 10 TIME
In my reading the other day, 1 came
man who now is dead. but from whose
pen fell diamond dust for the ages
to hunt out and pick up.
The men who stand out before a
cropping world as beacon-lights were
men of great faults and unequal per-
formances."
The figure referred to was Henry
D. Thoreau. The writer. however, did
not Elorify this particular mans fail
ings. but only emphasized his great
ness in spite of them.
During Thoreau's day. there were
many famous writers who wrote what
they thought other folks-who bought
books-thought. Bpt Thoreau only
wrote what he thought That's why
today he is increasingly read and
revered-and why those who laughed
at him then, are forgotten now.
Thoreau wrote for the heart of all
time. Lowell, Emerson, Alcott,
Greeley whitman. Hawtho rne-were
all his friends. But everybody loved
him, for he loved everything. Little
children used to follow him and hang
to his coat tails. He used to white
tention to the flight of time, because
he thought this was a fine way IN
which to use it.
Those who dedicats things to all
time. have a peculiar way of placing
values. For down the shadow of their
lane, the great God walksl
We look at the representations OF
the great Lincoln. We scan the fur
rowed lines of the masterful face
hid in swcetness-but we don't often
remember that while he lived. he was
one of the loneliest men who ever
breathed.
When men dedicate things to time,
they spend no effort in advertising
the fact.
Though. y the thing" said this
ThoreaH. VIII died at the age Of but
A.. u is the only thing. too. of which
we may say immortality is formed
And thru thought alone are we able
to become great. useful and enduring.
This is why 1t is so useless for us to
borrow other mons tools with which
to work.
Let us live. 5st us think. Let US
not be urgen0Soue but genuine. And
let US R1Sclyo s&ew each day that our
chance Is here and now-that it has
arrived And that nothing is lost
which we choose to keep. And then
to give away.
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HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BIZ MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am en-
another town to work about a year
ago. He said he was going to
work hard SO that he could come
back. marry me, and take me with
him. At first 1 got a letter from
him every day. Then he said he was
working so hard he would have to
write less often. but should continue
to write because my letters would give
him encoura cement. ! wrote and
wrote just as he asked me to. Then
he stopped writing every week, but
he asked me to keep on writing. That
was the last time he wrote to me when
he said 1 should keep on writing just
as much as ever l wrote every day
for six weeks or so without hearing
word from him. Then I stopped.
I thought when he no longer heard
from me he would write again. but he
has not. I asked his mother about
him and she says he is well and doing
fine. What can 1 do2 Would you
advise me to keep on writing as he
requested? Do you think he is angry
because / stopped? WORRIED.
1t appears as if the separation has
caused the man TO forget his love for
you. To write again would be use
less. Try to forget just as he for
gotten Go out with young people
and as far as possible hide your feel
ings for the young man. 1t may seem
now as if you can never get over your
hurt. You will find, however. that
time is a great healer. Before many
months you will think of him less and
you will take more interest in others
or another young man.
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Dorothy Dix TALKS
Arc You One of Theses.

When she refers to anything that
happened farther in the past than ten
years, she always says. II barely can
remember it, for 1 was such a tiny
girl at the time it happened" And
she invariably informs you that she
was simply nothing but a child when
she married, and leads you to infer
that She and her oldest child are prac-
tically twins.
There's only one thing on earth
more affecting than the silly, BRAIN
less chatter of a sixteen-year-oId girl,
and~1hat is the imitation line of six
teen-year-old chatter handed out by
the woman of sixty who is under
studying sixteen.
The fourth among bores is the Wo-
man Who Brags.
She is one OF the pests of pleasure
resorts. and travel, for she gets in
her fatal work best on people who do
not know her rating in Bradstreet. and
her home address. She talks grandly
about her social position, and says
that of course it is foolish for people
to speak of her as the Queen of So
ciety in Speedunk. where she lives. but
there does have to be Some Arbiter.
doesn't there, or else all sorts of new
rich people would be getting in. and
of course as she belongs to one of the
Old Families. and has had Such So
cldi AQN8ntdEeSs etc. StC-s CtS-
And then she refers casually to her
Gold Ballroom. and her butler, and
second man. and says such and such
thing happened when she was out in
her Packard-no, was 1t her Imported
French Car-no. not that either. II
must have been the Rolls Royce.
Or perhaps she has written a story
that got in a magazine, or. picture
that somebody bought. o. she got a
bit of ribbon for Red Cross work. and.
alas, you never hear the end of her
achievement. And the worst of the
Dragging bore is that you not only
have to listen. you have to give her
the glad haPd. and thus encore her.
which is like making a martyr fetch
the faggots for the fire on which he
is to be roasted.
The most common<bore and the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-31
WHERE THE LEAGUE FAILED.

WHERE THE LEAGUE FAILED.
Lloyd George has given a reason
why the machinery of the League of
Nations has not been used in the Pol
ish crisis The league the British
premier told the house of commons.
cannot operate where there is no
unanimity. and it is quite clear that
the allies have not the same views re-
garding Russia and Poland"
The league covenant in form binds
the league members. when dispute
arises between a league member and
a montague member, to summon the
non-members, in the present case Rus
STA. to join for the purposes of the
controversy. If it does not respond,
then the league members agree to
take common action in regard to the
non-member. The language is plain,
yet not a hand was raised to apply it
10 Russia's invasion of Poland. "As a
working organization" says the New
York Tribune. 1.-THE league blew up
the covenant became a mere string of
barren words"
Failure OF the league TO function
probably is due largely to the failure
Of the United States to enter it at its
inception. This country. occupying a
position of disinterestedness as regards
the quarrels of Europe, might have
exerted an influence in the direction
Of preserving world peace. But that is
all past now and 1t is improbable that
we shall soon have another similar op-
portunity. By the time we get around
to an agreement on the subject. if we
ever do, the league probably will have
become only a memory. 1t may be,
however, that Senator Harding's plan
OF organizing new one can be worked
out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-31

If the Republican campaign orators
insist on fighting the present admins
tration instead OF the Democrat poll
cies as declared in the San Francisco
platform, and the candidates nominal
ed on that platform. they should at
least confine themselves to the facts.
To illustrate: President Wilson is be-
ing charged with responsibility for the
defeat of budget legislation. 1t is true
that the president vetoed the budget
bill setting forth his reasons therefor.
Put the house concurred in the presi-
dents view and repassed the bill with
the Objectionable features eliminated.
1t was then sent over to the senate in
time for that body to act on it before
adjournment. but it was allowed to
die. The defeat of the budget bill,
like the defeat of the Versailles
treaty. was due 10 a fight between the
president and the senate. 1t is as well
to keep the record straight. Little If
anything can be gained by misrepre-
senting the facts. If the Democrat
record will defeat the party there is
enough available that is true.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-31

Postmaster General Burleson has is
sued a circular in which appears the
following: During election years
criticism of the postmaster general
and the postal esta blishment is always
INDUCED in by the opposite party. the
hope being that it will serve partisan
purposes" 1t might be we'll to call
attention to the fact that criticism of
Mr.. Burleson's administration of postal
affairs antedates the opening of the
presidential campaign several years.
In truth it has been going on continu-
ousiy almost from his entry into the
cabinet and has not been confined to
members of any party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-31

The federal reserve board promises
that food prices will drop during the
winter and slump in the spring. There
is no power in the country in so good
a position to make its forecast come
true as is the board. All that is neces-
sary is for 1t to continue its policy of
curtailing bank credit and If it desire
to expedite the fall in prices it Inight
begin contraction of the outstanding
volume of its currency issue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-31

The public service commissions Of
ten states have authorized advances in
intra- state freight and passenger rates,
in full accord with the decision Of the
interstate commerce commission. They
are Pennsylvania, Maryland. Michi-
gan, Massachusetts,. New Jersey.
wyoming. California. New Hampshire.
Rhode Island and Oregon. The COM
missions of seven other states-New
York. West Virginia. Wisconsin. iowa.
Ohio, Minnesota and Montana-have
allowed the full freight increases. at
the same time denying or postponEns
action on passenger fares because of
limitations of state laws. It is plain
that all must act in accordance with
the I. c. c. regulation in time. The
federal law is supreme
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-31
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
THE HARE AND THE ToRTrss
BIZ LEE PAPE


A Play
Ack
Scene, part Of the country.
Hare. Hay Tortiss. III run you
race.
Tortiss. Watts the use? I'm satisfied
ware ] ans
Hare. Ill even give you a handycap.
Come on. wat do you say we run a
race to the old crick.
Tortiss. l say no.
Hare. Aw. you old ice Vaughn. You
old push cart. You old funeral. You
old stick in the mud. You old woman.
Tortiss. Who. me?'
Hare Yes, you. Don't you like 1t
Tortiss. No I don't and Jest for that
jest for spite Ill race you jest to prove
you amt as CRATE as wat you think.
Hare. Haw haw!
Tortiss. Get reddy get set 60.
Ack 2
Scene. another part of the country.
Hare. G. I'm going like the wind
I'm going like Tightening. This is a
crate life.
Scene, another part of the country.
Hare. o boy. If 1 went eny faster Id
catch on fire. / bet I'm the fastest
runner in this country. I bet I'm the
fastest in the werld. Nobody could
beet me exsept myself, and even I
couldent hardly. Wen I think 1 got
time to lay down and take a little nap
and as soon as 1 heer myself snore III
wake up and finish the race
Ack
Scene, the old crick.
Tortiss. 1 win.
Hare (haIf an hour later). Aw
heck. forgot to snore.
Tortiss. Haw haw!
The and
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from fatigue and loss of sleep. Blu:
the caporai had saved half of his herds
where others had been wholly lost, and
he had lived up to the one high prin-
cipIe of his life-to stay with the herb
Many other such feats might be
recorded. less dramatic, perhaps, but
no less heroic.
Many of thsse Mexican herders are
as picturesque as you could wish
often you see one clad in a long,
ragged cloak and carrying a long
crook of his own manufacture vino
looks like a figure out of the Bible
Some of them even carry sIing-shots
like that with which David slew
Goliath.
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cent in automobiles. The greatest de-
crease, 55.3 per cent, is shown in the
wooden industry. In comparing July
with June, one industry shows an in
crease in the amount of money paid to
employees. while thirteen show a de-
crease The increase is g per cent in
cotton manufacturing. The largest
decreases, 45.s. 1871 and 15.1 per cent.
are shoEn in wooden. car building and
repairing. and silk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-31

thank Willoughby Bougllton for try
ing to talk Adelaide out OF buying a
fur coat. Mr.. Boughton's argument
is that everybody has one.
A number have written in to express
their pleasure and qualification in the
retribution that has overtaken Erwin
Bergdoll. We join with them, but
doubt that We should be the subject
of their Fluctuations
We had almost nothing to do with
Erwin Bergdolfs surrender TO the Of
ficials of justice or with his subse-
quent conviction.
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Manufacturers. like many other per-
sons. appear to be waiting for the de-
cline in prices that generally is
expected. Comparative data for July
and June. 1920. show that IN three
industries there was an increase in the
number of persons on the pay roll in
July as compared with June. and in
eleven. a decrease. The increases in
the number of persons employed arc 3
per cent in paper making, is per cent
in cotton manufacturing. and IL per
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JUST FOLKS
By EDGAR A. GUEST.
LONELY.

LONELY.
They're all away
And the house is still.
And the dust lies thick
On the window sill.
And the stairway creaks
In a solemn tone
This haunting phrase:
You are all alone
They've gone away
And the rooms are bare.
l miss his cap
From parlor chair,
And l miss the toys
In the lonely hall
But most of all
l miss his call.
/ miss the shouts
And the laughter gay
Which greeted me
At the close Of dag.
And there isn't a thing
In the house we own
But sobbingly says:
You are all alone
It's only a house
That Is mine to know,
An empty house
That is cold with woe.
Like a prisou grim
With its bars Of black.
And Il won't be home
Till they ell come back
Copyright, 1870, by Edgar 4. Guest-)
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New York was the last city of inn
portance in the country to abandon
horse cars. 1t now has given up the
use of horses IN the fire department.
Civilization travels slowly but it
reaches the Atlantic seaboard in the
course of time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-31

The morning pape- makes refer
ence to a speech in the senate by In
gals of Kansas. in which the senator
declared that the publication of poll
tics is an iridcscent dream" The fact
is that Ingalls, did not use those words
in a senate speech but in an interview
granted a reporter on the New York
World It Is just as well to keep our
history straight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-31

President Wilson has warned the
Poles not to proceed beyond their
country's boundary in the direction of
Moscow. In treating with Russia they
probably will fix the boundary a little
in front of the advance guard of their
army
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easiest to forgive because she is so
human. is the Woman Who Talks
About Her Children.
She is a continuous performer. and
there. is no stopping her and we do
get frightfully weary of hearing all
about the smart things little Mary
said, and Johnny's whooping cough.
and Sadie's beaux. and how Tom is
getting on at college. but the mother
love that aarrows the world down
into just her own nestlings. and that
has no interest outside of its own. is
so touching in its abnegation, that
we will grit our teeth and endure it
in patience.
Chief among the things that recon-
cile US to the shortness of life. are the
female bores who infest society I
wonder IL 1 am one. Are you? And
to which type do we belong?
A~@X1 ~
Copyright. 1920 by the Wheeler Syndicate.
Incl
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Carrying the subject little fur
Their and approaching il from a diff
ferent angle, we wish publicly IL
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In a country in which mechanics
attend greasy machinery clad in silken
garments, a pair of $3.50 shoes is no
great shock to anybody's circulatory
organs.
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As one who knows the care with
which news is gathered and clarified.
we strove earnestly TO accept the story
of the Chicago man who dropped dead
while observing the spectacle of a pair
of $3.50 shoes on display in a show
window. But it surely tried our
credulity.
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Pearl Beads In princess length. with
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beads In coral. blue. green. brown. in
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