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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-02

man must grasp his own Joke. No
ether hand, however friendly. can do
it for him. The fact that he can't
see it with his own eyes is no inoiea-
ton it isn't there. 1t may be. But
he must see it himself before he can
effectively project il. In the last ming
teen years something like 1s.Ssl,36i
suggestions locking to hilarious and
side-sPlitting paragraphs have reached
this columnist by mail. by wire and
by word of speech. Probably all OF
them were funny. But of the lot, net
more than three were available for
use in the column. We couldn't see
them as their authors and originators
saw them. In our hands they would
have been mildew in the halls Of
mirth and jollity DO not condemn
the eolumnist for failure to use your
joke. It is no reflection on the joke.
It is only that the eolumnist doesn't
want to ruin it.
The most difficult thing about write
ing a column is finding something to
write. Life is so dull and nonoto-
nous that its ability to inspire the
Tighter vein. the gayer mood, is limit
ed. Whereat. we have on this dull
day written a dun column about esf-ss
uuining.
It is $40 o'clock by the sentinel
which sits within the tower of indie
peEdeRee Hall. If we have no i'll luck
We shau shortly pay homage to Lu-
cullus. Just beyond the perilous pass
age at Walnut and Forty-sixth streets
there is fried chicken, new peas and
cherry pie. =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-02

Current Affairs" the Boston mer-
camille weekly, which is gegarded as
authoritative on matters concerning
the shoe and leather market, makes a
definite prediction as to the future
trend in the price eff shoes In a re-
cent issue Current Affairs says: 1T
may be taken for granted, that the
retailers cannot dispose of high grade
goods for next season at prices exceed
ing SIS to SIS. In other words, the
$40 shoe has vanished from the hori-
zon." Current Affairs also states,
in the same discussion: General
opinion thruout the trade appears to
be that the peak of leather and foot
wear prices has definitely been
reached, and that from now on there
will be at least a gradual decline
In other words, it looks as if
everyone, from hide dealer tie shoe re-
taller. would have to adjust himself to
the new conditions arising from the
refusal of consumers 60 buy any more
footwear until they find where they are
getting Off 4"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-02

the GeFmanized Socialists. the anar-
chist, the foolish creatures who al
ways protest against the suppression
of crime. the pacifists and the like
under the lead of the Bergers. the
Hillquists and Amos Pinchots who are
really the great danger" The Repub-
lican party probably has nothing
whatever to fear as a result of a third
party movement that may be organ
ICED by Amos Pinchot. Only the ex-
IRENE radicals will enlist under the
Pinchef banner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-02
OUTDOOR FOR LOWER PRICES.


The rush of general price cutting
which tarted a few weeks age seems
to have subsidized and people are Won
deriug what will happen next and
when. When the first slashes came
in retail department store prices. fea-
tured by startling headlines in the
newspapers. there was an undercur-
rent of fear in business circles that a
crash was imminent, or that a price
panic had arrived.
Very shortly. however. assertions
were common that the cut prices were
meaningless. that they were made by
the stores whose prices had already
been above the general level that they
were the customary seasonal reduc-
tions played up IN new way, that
they, were due solely to temporary
conditions, a shortage of credit and
freight congestion, and that when re-
tail stores were compelled to restock.
prices would go back to where they
had been.
Time is showing, says a bulletin is
sued by the Mechanics & Metals Ma
tfonal bank of New York. that neither
of these two views was correct. Re
ports from leading European countries
indicate that the decline in prices has
been worldwide. Prices in Great
Britain, which reached their highest
point at the beginning of April. fell
during both April and May, and there.
as here, textiles led the decline.
Bradstreet's compilations show an
average decline during May of Al per
cent in wholesale prices of 106 repre-
sentative commodities in this country.
This decline brought prices to the
level of last November; it was the.
greatest fall in any single month since
January. 1919, a month or two after
the armistice. With that exception.
in fact, there has been no decline to
approach it in any month even if one
go back for the past ten years This
should effectually dispose of the con-
tention that this was a mere seasonal
decline"
Moreover, it was not confined to tex
tiles. but was noteworthy in metals,
hides and leather, livestock, oils.
fruits. provisions and naval stores.
NOT QlQ the movement sup III NAY
Reports from over the country indi
cate that since June 1 in many lines a
sagging tendency has set in. The
break begun in retail lines is extending
backward. Fewer orders have come
into wholesalers, to jobbers or to man
ufacturers; in some instances price
quotations have fallen, in others they
remain at previous levels emily be-
cause there is not enough trading
really to establish a market. Inac
tivity has set in in raw wool, hide and
leather, cotton and wooden piece goods
lines. The demand for new autemo-
biles is reported as less keen
The marketing OF the new crop is
almost certain to bring a revival of
price cutting. Patience on the part of
buyers viii be rewarded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-02

The Committee of As, which is IN
dertaking the organization Of a new
party is headed by Amos Pinchot. He
should not be confused with his
brother. Clifford Pinchot. who was a
great friend Of Roosevelt. In Colonel
Roosevelt's letter of December 19.
1917. to Fe''~ Frankfurter relative to
the Mooney murder case, Colonel
Roosevelt said, among other things,
'At this moment it Is the I. w. W,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-02

Delicious Fruit Filling for Cake
-Four tablespoons finely chopped
citron, four tablespoons finely chopped
seeded raisins, one-half cup blanched
almonds chopped fine. one-9uar ter
pound finely chopped figs
Beat the whites of three eggs to
a stiff froth. Add one-haIf cup sugar,
then mix in the chopped ingredients.
Place between layers OF cake and on
top while cake IS hot 50 as to cook
the egg a little.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-02

Chicago finds that new Industrial
enterprises are turning elsewhere
when seeking locations for factory
sites. because of exaeting demands of
labor. and that thirty factories have
left the city in recent months because
of tax laws and ether legislation that
are considered exceptionally burden
some. It is a way that business has
of resisting entertainments on its
RIGHTS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-02

As an exhibition of political strad-
ding, the action of the Democrat
resolutions committee at San Fran
cisco regarding the peace treaty sell
dom has been equalled. It leaves
every voter free to construe the party's
attitude on the treaty to suit himself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-02

The Catholics. the Protestants and
the Jews have been recognized by the
Democrats in selecting persons to pray
FOR their convention. They might ap-
peal to another large class of voters by
inviting a Mormon to offer a petition
to the Throne of Grace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-02

One year ago this week the treaty
of peace was signed at Versailles but
we still are at war with Germany and
wars are in progress over a large part
of Europe and Asia. Was the Great
War, after all, fought in vain?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-02

senator Harding might strike
new note in American politics." says
the Sioux City Tribune, by taking the
horn he played in the village band and
making his tour musical" The sug-
Eestion calls II mind that Bob Tay-
Tor once campaigned for the governor
ship of Tennessee with a fiddle, and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-02

The Democrat platform committee
lSft nothing unsaid that might have
been said for the purpose of attract
ing the women voters to the support
ef the party
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-02

It may be that the clue to the Ell
we'll murder lies in the fact that he
was reported to be boarding large
amount of whisky.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-02
International
SundoySchoolLesson
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
A Champion of a Forloqn Hope.

For July is David in Camp and
Court Sam. 17:40-49; 1859.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-02
When to Live, When to Die.

David the youth, was possessed of
real courage. He was ready to cham
pion a forlorn hope, after the buster
ing giant had turned the whole army
of Israel yellow. Fear he knew not.
1t was the spirit of young manhood
Astounding in his heart: not without
reason are our armies made up Of
young men. What a host of Davids
saw, rudy of cheek. fair to look
uponA dauntless in battle, during the
great days in Francei Like Isra els
great hero, they fairly ran into action,
regardless of the odds. The story of
the British and Colonial troops on
Gallipou is one OF fadeless glory; the
authorities higher up may have bun
gled, but these young heroes wrote a
new chapter of daring, dauntlessness
and devotion upon their eeuntry's
records.
Once sure of a cause. fight! Mill
fancy in the realm of mdrals is might.
Courage of heart is the foundation of
victories father wrote his son:
Never take an ignoble chance to live.
and do not miss a noble chance to
die" For life is worth while only
as it is risked for some greater end
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-23
ASK A REHEARINC QUIT STATE Mill
City Files Application in Phone
Rate Case.
Uncertain Whether or Not Court
VIII Reopen Case.

Topeka's definite step toward pro-
test of the increased rates granted the
Southwestern Eell Telephone company
by the court of industrial relations
tCrney d. M. Branaman filed the city S
application for rehearing of the case
ia the court.
1t is uncertain whether or not the
industrial court will grant the re-
hearing. City officials are not con-
fident that an opportunity will be
given for reopening the case. 1t will
be decided in an early conference of
the three court judges. The vote of
Judge Clyde Reed in favor of the re-
hearing is considered certain by the
city officials because of the judges
dissenting opinion when the court or
der was made.
Similar to Great Bend Case
That Topeka has a chance for a re-
hearing is indicated by the fact that
the city of Great Bend was granted a
re-hearing in the court on a telephone
rate case under similar conditions.
The mayor, other city officials, and
many citizens of Great Bend protested
to the court over the increase granted
the telephone company operating
there. Judge George Wark. in whose
1division of the court cases of tele-
phone companies are classified was in
favor of granting the re-hearing for
Great Bend.
The application for rehearing, as
written by City Attorney Branaman, is
as follows:
Comes now the city of Topeka, thru its
board of commissioners and d. II. Brana-
man, city attorney, and makes it known to
the court that there exists a wide spread
dissatisfaction among the patrons and users
Of the telephone service rendered in the
cityeof Topeka and vicinity. due to the
recent increase in rates allowed by the
of the Southwestern Bell Telephone com
pany, a corporation located at Topeka,
Kan.
part of the patrons of said company that
the increased rates recently allowed by the
court to said company are excessive, ex-
orbitant and too high for the service rem
dered by said company at said exchange
"That said increased rates are unneces-
sary for the protection of said company
that the rates heretofore existing have been
and were high enough to furnish said COM
pany Il reasonable rate Of income on its
investment.
.sThat the court erred in allowing the
application of said Southwestern Bell Tele-
phone company for permission to increase
said rates and put in force new schedule
and issuing an order permitting said COM
Wherefore, on behalf Of the City of To-
peka and the patrons and users of the serv-
ice rendered by said Southwestern Bell
Telephone company at its Topeka exchange.
We respectfully petlflon your honorable
court to set aside the order heretofore
granted and grant a rehearing in said
case, and that this application be set for
rehearing at such time as may be con-
yenient for the court"
Committee Urges Action
Chief among the citizens who have
protested the increase granted the
telephone company are H H Lewis,
W. w. Eden. F. L. Loveless and W. H.
CONTINUED on page six.J
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-23
URGES new LAWS
Legislative Program for Con.
gress Offered by Sen. Calder.
Wants Serious Attempt Made to
Start Construction.

Washington. Dec. 23.-Construction
during the four past years has been
less than in any pre-war year, Senator
Calder. New York, told the senate
today in urging a program of legisla-
tion to relieve the serious housing
shortage.
Calder made the folIwing recon-
mendations for legislation:
1. Establishment of a construction bu-
reau in the department of commerce to be
to secure information on building materials,
study new building methods to decrease
cost, and work out Standardization of ma
terials.
? Authorization for so per cent of 81
0O0000,OOO savings deposits in the national
banks to be loaned on real estate mort
8 Exemption from taxation of the in
come from mortgages when in the hands of
individuals, provided that no individual
shall own more than $4,000 worth.
This is provided in a bill already intro
duced by Calder.
4. Legislation exempting for five years
the profits on the sale of new buildings
erected for dwellings, provided these prof
its are reinvested in new dwellings.
5. Creation Of home loan banking sys-
tenn in line with the fa-m loan bank.
g. Establishment of trade schools where
young men could be trained In the building
trades.
4 Amendment Of the transportation to
check the issuance by the interstate COM
merce commission of 'ill-advised ex parte
orders" on the ground that priority orders
for coal retarded business and discouraged
building.
s. Supervision of the coal industry by
OF complete government control, or even
the licensing system"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-23
7lUelUe Prisoners Receive
Freedom For Christmas
Governor Allen Grants Holiday Paroles Eleven Mer
and One Woman-AH Will Be Free From
Tomorrow Until January 15

Governor Allen today sent Christ
mas cheer to twelve inmates of the
state penitentiary at Lansing. He ex-
tended Christmas paroles to eleven
men and one woman. All will leave
the prison Friday morning and will
be free until January IS, when they
are bound under honor-and the state
paro.e law if necessary--to return to
the prison.
Two of the twelve convicts are serv-
ing time for second degree murder.
Pearl Sturm of Rice county, the one
woman permitted to leave the prison
during the holiday season, is serving
the longest sentence. She has served
nine years of a twenty-five year SEN
tence for second degree murder. Pc
dro Mayo, also, a second degree murder
prisoner, has served five and a half
years of ten-year sentence. He went
to prison from Atchison county.
One Shawnee County Man.
One Shawnee county man is on the
list of lucky convicts. He is Warren
Scott, sent to Lansing in March of this
year for term of one to five years
for felonious assault.
Warden Codding were not approved
by the governor. In fact state house
rumors are to the effect that refusal
of the state board and the governor
to act faYorably on the Codding rec
lamentations occasioned the war
dens recent statement that he would
leave the prison as soon as his sue
cessor is named. The paroles grant
ed are in recognition by the state of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-23
NOnpartisan League Scheme in
North Dakota Halts.
Lack of Funds Causes Cessation
of Work Started.

Bismarck, N. D., Dec. 23.-At the
end of the present week, or as soon
thereafter as practicable, work on the
state mill and elevator building at
Grand Forks is to be discontinued, ac-
cording to a resolution passed by the
state industrial commission.
The resolution stated that the finan-
cfal situation is such that it appears
the enterprise should be discontinued
until further funds can be obtained
thru sale of mill and elevator bonds.
When completed the mill was PLAN
ned to have capacity of two thou
sand barrels of flour daily and the
elevator to hold 100000 bushels of
grain.
The state of North Dakota is en-
gagged in four lines of activity usually
followed only by private interests.
These are: Insurance (For public
building and for crops). Operation of
mill and elevators. Operation of a
bank. Operation of home building
association.
duStrial program. backed by the Nom
partisan League. The last three
named are under the control of the
Industrial commission of the state.
Possibly the most ambitious of the
four programs is that for a chain of
state owned mills and elevators. A
state owned flour mill with capacity
of 125 barrels a day, sin operation
at Drake. A 5000 barrel a day mill
being built. by the state under one
roof at Grand Forks. These will be
ready in time to handle wheat of the
1921 crops, it is expected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-23
TODAYs TEMPERATUREs.

Kansas is in the grip of the first
real cold of the winter. The lowest
temperature of the fall was recorded
here this morning, and zero weather
obtains from the northwest portion of
the state to as far north as weather
readings are given.
The record for cold weather on this
date was approached and missed by
only one degree, this morning. There
has been no snow or rain reported in
the state in the past twenty-four
hours, with the exception of flurries
at Topeka, st. Joseph and Kansas City
which did not leave enough snow to
be measured.
The temperature tonight is expected
by Meteorologist Flora to drop to zero.
This afternoon it will not go above 1S
degrees, and Friday afternoon to 25
degrees.
The unsettled weather which struck
this end of the state Monday has
moved on to the east, and there was
a heavy snow in Chicago this morn
ing, with cloudiness from st. Louis to
the Atlantic coast Kansas skies. with
(Continued on Page TWo.I
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-23
EIGHT SPEECHES ON TODAY
Insects, Potatoes, Bees and Fairs HoC-
ticulturaI Society Topics.

Insects, potatoes, bees, local fairs
and market conditions occupied the
time of the Kansas Horticultural So
ciety at its final sessions in Topeka
today. Eight speeches were on the
days program. Sessions will close
with an hour of queries and answers
this afternoon.
Prof. George A. Dean of Manhattan
this morning told the fruit growers
and warned berry and small fruit
growers as to safeguards necessary for
successful crop production. IAN
Ounce of Prevention was the subject
of a talk by Prof. s. J. Hunter of the
state university. He talked of safe
guards which should be taken by hor-
ticulturists in caring for fruit before
maturity.
Potato Diseases Prevalent in Kan
sas and Their Control" was the sub
ject of discussion by Prof. L. E.
Melchers of the state agricultural COL
1ege. Bees for the Horticulturists''
was the subject assigned E. v. Wake
man of Wathena, prominent northern
Kansas bee man. He told of the sue
cess to be met in combining the bee
and fruit growing industries
In a speech today ]. NJ. Butler of
Kansas City, Kan, urged continued
activities for community market CEN
ters. The Importance of vegetables as
food supply was offered as a sub
ject for general discussion at the after
Fairs" was the subject for a talk by
A. L. Brooke of Granville, state sena-
tor-elect.
W. B. vining of Piper has been
elected president of the state society
for the next year.
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ho4o byJ.c.wokeff.

Probably Topeka, has never had a
larger Christmas tree than the one the
Elks will have at the. Christmas tree
party at the city auditorium Christmas
morning from 10 to IL O'Clock. The
tree is forty feet high and about half
as wide, and is said to have taken
forty years to grow to its present size.
1t grew on the farm of Henry McAfee,
near Gage park, and was discovered
when the Elks were casting about to
purchase the largest tree obtainable.
Biggest Party in History.
Never before has the big Christmas
party at the Elks been held at the
auditorium, and because it is in the
big city hall community gathering
place, the party probably will be the
largest the Elks have ever given. or
the largest of the kind ever held in the
city. The Elks and their families and
all children Of the city under IL years
of age who come will occupy the first
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-23
VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Pertinent Question and Answers
Given and Gathered Today by
State journal Reporters.
ToDAY's QUESTION.
What do you want for Christmas?
THE ANSWERS.

The ANSWER
JUDGE CLYDE NJ REED. court of in
dustrial relations-"Pve always wanted a
pair of suspenders for every pair of
trousers. / have two pairs of trousers
one pair of suspenders. I've limited at
home for ten years. This year l go into
the Christmas celebration with low hope
MALCOLM GRAY. secretary state board
of administration-"All season I've DELAYED
buying a red tie. Was sure would get one
for my birthday. But II didn't come. II
just get red tie Christmas will be q
success"
WALTER L. WILSON, state bank com
missioner-"Green sox are my passion.
bought pair when l was in Chicago dur
ing the national convention. But they al
ways seem to be-in the wash on the days
l would most like to wear them. don't
know of anything that would make me
". H WAsSON. city finance commits
sioner-'I can't ask much for Christina
after getting a premium of Si,TOo on city
BLANCHE WEIR, city hall-"I can tell
you easier what l don't want. l want
everything"
hall-"Ahll take anything. cigahs pre-
fuhed."
]. w. F. HUGHES happy as it is
What l want l can't have"
1 would take an automobile and sack o;
popcorn"
BERT LEMPENAU. attorney-'A box Of
cigars. please"
about six inches of snow to start with"
w. W. EDEN, manager of the kresge
store-"It's impossible. ] know, but wish
that l could get complete and correct ad-
vance copies of the invoices I'm going to
have to take, and then about two days
sleep"
newspaper man-"Nothing. have every
thing in the world / want, right now.
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floor at the party. and others will be
allowed on the second floor. The Elks
are providing a Christmas party for
colored children at a colored public
school.
Jackknife for Boys.
Each child at the party will receive
gifts. the boys pocket knives and a
book. the girls a doll and a handker-
chief, and each child will also re-
ceive a sack of candy. an orange, an
apple and an ice cream sandwich.
Fifty gallons of ice cream have been
offered
The Christmas joys the Efks will
furnish do hot end with the Christmas
tree party. A moving picture show
will be given for the children from 2
to 4 O'Clock Christmas afternoon by
the Elks thru the courtesy OF G. II.
Hooper, who has offered the picture
play and machine for the purpose.
Tickets for the show will be distrib-
uted at the Christmas tree party.