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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

The stores as a rule, do everything
within their power to present, well in
advar Of the holidays, the widest
variety of holiday merchandise. 1t is
a service to the public that costs real
money in addition to much thought
and care. Early investment OF CAPT
tai, requisite for early display of
goods. represents direct expense and
one felt in ways beyond mere loss of
interest on the funds employed. There
is also an obvious encroachment of
holiday merchandise on the advertis-
-ing and store display space. on the
time of the working forces. on the
whole conduct of the business, at the
expense of other merchandise that IS
casually regarded as more seasonable
sfor fall and early winter than for the
actual Chr.stmastide. The public is
afforded every possible opportunity to
enjoy. for its distinctively holiday
purchases, the broadest range of Sc
lection and the best possible service.
It could show its appreciation in no
better way than by buying early
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
THE BLESSING OF CHILDREN.
BY LIZZIE PARE
Short Story by Benny Potts.


It was a bitter cold day and the
snow flakes was falling by the hun
dreds as a poor begger sat on the cold
pavement hoping somebody would
drop something in his tin cup to keep
skin and bones together.
Alas, he sighed internally, this is a
heck of a day to be out in with no
clothes to speak of.
Jest then a bewtifill lady full of furs
and dimonds suddinly got out of her
automobeel saying, All my poor man,
take this dollar bill, you look fearse-
No thanks, I never take charity
from relations, sed the begger
haughtilly.
Ny Husband! cried the lady stag
gering backwards and forwards to
keep from fainting. Come on home
with me, Wen be jest in time for
Never, sed the begger proudly but
wy not? Come home and argew
afterwRrdl sed the lady.
Never, respected the begger SILVER
ing rapidly
But think of the children, they are
starvingi Exclaimed the lady.
Wy dident you say so, Ill come rite
home and support them, sed the beg
ger
WITCH he did, vile the bewtif1ll lady
thawt happily as she steered the auto
mobee1 for home, Wat a blessing chill
dren are!
The End
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

of the stuff under the impression that
it was water was natural enough
Other than grape juice, Mr.. Bryan Is
unschooled in the beverages. The net
result is that Mr.. Bryan will be more
strongly opposed to beer and light
wines than ever before, for his IN
tractable mind will at once reach the
conclusion that all intoxicating bever-
ages taste alike.
If it were deemed desirable or polite
to tempt Mr.. Bryan, both caution and
wisdom would have dictated a lighter
and more tantalizing weapon. A silver
fizz might have done it; a Glover Club
cocktail would have painted his day
for him and made it memorable. But
no man with nothing but the memory
of a mouthful of raw gin to sustain
him is going to be much of a buiwark
for personal liberty.
It all runs somewhat deeper than
the furrow piowed in the foregoing
paragraph. A policy which seeks to
compel a man to drink liquor is un-
sound. A law which compelled him to
do so would be one to be depiored.
We doubt that any man should by
law be compelled to drink liquor. play
golf. keep dog. raise his own vege-
tables. knit socks, dance the ''toddie"
or perform in a brass band. We be-
lieYe omething-not much, of course,
but something-should be left to in
dividual taste and inclination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14
r. r. RATEs AND PRICEs.

TT has been, and still is, being
widely charged" says the Railway
Age, that the present freight rates
are preventing the movement of large
amounts of traffic, but the prices
charged for any class of commodities
must have a much greater influence
upon the amount of them that can be
marketed. and which therefore can be
shipped, than is exerted by the rail-
way rate, which in most cases is only
=. relatively small percentage of the
total price"
The average railway rate, the paper
points cut, is not at present quite so
high compared with where it stood in
19O0-191O as the average wholesale
price of all commodities. 1t is higher
u latively than the prices of farm
products, foods and metals and nipple
ments. but lower relatively than the
average price of any other groups of
commodities, and much lower rela-
lively than the prices of fuel and
lighting, lumber and building mater
.ials, and house furnishings. It then
is led to inquire: Are not some
group of producefs and shippers who
are still charging prices from 100 q
$50 per cent more than in the ten
years prior to 1910 getting on rather
thin fee when, upon the ground that
the traffic cannot bear them, they de-
mand reductions in railway rates
which are relatively much lower than
the prices they are charging?"
The age" begs the question. The
railroads and the country are cons
sronted by a condition, not a theory
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

What he first saw was the dropping
form of Nellie Melbourne propped In
the arms of a stalwart young man in
a snow-covered ulster. What he saw
when he looked a second time was that
this stalwart young man was his son.
Miss Polly Samson rescued Nellie
and the old man, with tears in his
eyes, embraced his son. But Nellie
did not spoil the Christmas fun by
really fainting. She came to almost at
once and took her part in the general
calculation that followed.
The hardest thing for them all to
understand was that Mr.. Robinson
wasn't really Mr.. Robinson at all. he
was natural. since he was Tom Hilton's
father.
He had changed his name when he
had met with business reverses, and
had to sell out his business and star,
all over in an effort to earn enough to
keep his son in law school. Meantime
the son, far away from home. finished
his studies and began his uphill work
as lawyer, never dreaming that the
monthly remittances he received had
been the return for watching at night.
jeremiah Hilton had been very clever
about it and only one old friend, the
one who had vouched for his honesty
in the little town of Thatcher, knew
| the truth of the matter.
Now young Hilton had made good
he Io0nd himSelr suddenly one OF the
foremost young lawyers in the town
he had chosen as his stamping ground.
He had come back a thousand miles or
so to find his father, and, railing to
find him at the address to which his
letters had always been sent, used
every means to find him. Thru the
lfelp of the old friend he had traced
him to Thatcher, and found he was a
night Waterman. From the humble
cottage where the father had his room
the son had traced him to the Mel
bourneS' by tracks of his arctics in the
snow. And those tracks had led right
into the kitchen, where he met, face to
face, Nellie Melbourne, whom he had
loved without ceasing for ten years
since his freshman days in college.
SO Tom Hilton was the fifteenth
guest at the table.
1t surprised no one when Nellie was
married to Tom Hilton a few weeks
later. The surprise came wnen Mr.
Hilton, Sr., grown very spruce ana
courageous and younger by the day,
made it known that he was going to
marry Polly Samson. Nellie, who coulG
Wen afford it, gave the old Melbourne
house to Polly as a token of apprecia-
ton for long service. Polly's Invest
ments ana regular remittances from
Mrs. Tom Hilton tided over the time
before jeremiah Hilton got on his feet
again as business man in Thatcher.
Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14
JUST FOLKS.

~ EDGAR A. GUEST,


He hadn't any mother-he was just a
little lad,
And the kindly neighbOrs round him shook
their heads and said, too bad"
And they tried their best to cheer him, but
the gentIest of them knew
She couldn't take his mothers place with
all that she could do
They talked about him often just as tho
he we're their own,
He was SO young and small a boy to face
the world alone.
And 1 began to wonder as I heard them
whispering low
At just what age a mans prepared to see
his mother 60.
Oh. now and then 1 hear it said that
Erewn-ups do not mind
The hurt when mother goes away and
leaves them all behind,
But never have 1 met man so old and
bent and gray
Who didn't seem to want and need his
mother every days
The oldest of the motherless still wishes
she were here,
Whate'er Of joy the day may bring, he
wants her standing near:
And tho the lonely children emphasize oul
grief anew,
Somehow I'm always sorry for the grown
up orphans. too.
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. Guest.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

Q. What is the natural color Of the
flower known as everlasting or immortelle?
A. The natural color of immortelles is
elbow They retain their color for months,
sometimes even for years.
Q. What is meant by the 5-5-3 and 10
1917 ratio for the navies? G. l. 7.
A The Navy Department says that 80
5 is the proportion of naval strength based
United States and Japan in an effort to
limit ornaments. This is taken on q basis
of 100 for Great Britain, 100 for the United
States, and 60 for Japan. Japan asks that
their request upon the representation that
her|present naval strength is in this pro-
portion.A
Q. Is it true that voting is compulsory
in Argentina? W. B.
A The Argentine Embassy says that
every man on reaching army age in the
Argentine is given book with a registra-
ton number and other statistics. Every
vote is recorded in this book and if not
recorded or If the man does not vote, 4
fine is imposed varying according to the
Judgment Of the court. Women do not
vite in Argentina.
given to Lafayette by this country? S.
G. c.
A. History records that tract of land
which was given to Lafayette was later
sold at the time of his great financial en-
barrassment and the money was placed in
bank to his credit.
(Any reader can get the answer TO any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. This
offer applies strictly to information. The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal med
teal and financial matters. 1t does rot at
tempt to settle domestic troubles nor to
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1ect. Write your question plainly and
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4nouiraE-1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

It is being pointed out that there
fare probably scores of expert medical
men in our own cities who are as COM
petent to cure abnormalities of the
limbs and. diseases of the joints as
doctor Lorenz, but their work is done
squietly, and scarcely anybody ever
hears of the benefits they are bestow-
ting on their fellow men. 1t may be
sthat their work is done quietly but
Fit is safe to say that it is not done free
4of charge as is that of Doctor Lorenz.
1T will be recalled that the doctor
taught his art to a number of sur
geons in this country during his pre-
-vious visit. If there had been any
Ebody in this country previous to that
.time who could do what he does,
sprobably Armour would have found
ssuch -erson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

nine years of struggle, marked by sew
eraI victories and defeats, that the
New York garment workers finally
succeeded in securing the same system
vogue in The other markets. At this
time there was a tremendous shortage
of labor, because of the war, and the
garment industry was enjoying uIlpre-
cedented prosperity The manufac-
turerB were willing to pay enormous
wages in order to get help, and the
garment makers union was often put
in the embarrassing position of keep
ing wages down.. In some cases it
actually forced union members to re-
less than other employers had offered
them.
The manufacturers, on the other
hand, met the workers half way, thru
the arbitration board, by granting
their demands that the piecework sys-
tenn, long the chief bone of contention,
be abolished in favor of a straight
weekly wage. This concession. as well
as a shortening of the 54-hour week,
was made in an agreement which was
to last until 1922.
Last spring, however, the manufac-
turers began to show signs that they
regretted their bargain. The public
Mad ceased it's extravagant buying Of
clothes and it seemed probable that
it would continue. to exercise thrift in
that direction. Prices would nave TO
60 down Production costs would
have to go down first. They remem-
bered the good old days. when work
ers were paid by the piece. and kept
working frantically on that piece until
it was done.
But the arbitration board, together
with the impartial chairman, refused
to countenance a return to piecework.
Instead, it suggested that a committee
be appointed to study the matter of
productivity, which would make its
report on November /, 1921. The
manufacturers representatives agreed.
But several days before November /,
the ma Rufacturers themselves formed
a national organization in Atlantic
City which DECIDED to install piece
work and longer hours without regard
to the committees report and with
out further consultation.
Thus, it appears that Industrial ar
bitration can be used as a cloak to
protect employers in time of labor
shortage and contemptuously discard
ed as soon as the shortage is over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14
Dorothy Dix Tails
Be Warned in Time-1.
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman WFitsS,


Ayoung man is in love with pretty
and attractive girl who keeps him on
the anxious seat.
If he is a minute late in keeping an
engagement she goes into a state of
frozen silence that sends his heart
into his boots. IF they have a discus
sion and differ on any point, he has
to back down and apologize all over
the place, even if he was in the right,
in order to placate her, and get things
on a cheerful footing once more. If
he fails to show her any attention she
thinks is due her, she sulks and has
to be propitiated by offerings of flow
ers and candy, and having her adorer
grovel before her.
Often the poor young swain doesn't
even know how he has offended his
divinity, and her moods keep him so
bewAdered that he appeals to me for
help in solving the problem of how to
avoid wounding the sensibilities of one
whose feelings are spread all over the
place.
know no reliable recipe for coping
successfully with the temper of tenn
peraWentaI lady, but I can give the
young man one piece of advice that
will be money i'll his pocket and peace
in his life, if he takes it. And that is
to make his getaway from the girl
while the going is good. and before
to her.
For of all wives under the sun, none
is so hard to endure as the selfish,
egotistic, unreasonable woman who is
always going into a tantrum every
time anything displeases her, and be
fore whose outbreaks of temper the
boldest man cringes in terror.
The one absolute necessity for a sue
cessful marriage is for both the hus-
band and wife to be willing to give
and take. and to make excuses for
each others faults. No happy home
has in it a woman who is she-who-
must be-obeyed. and who makes OF
her husband a bond slave to do her
bidding.
What a man wants in a wife is a
pal. a companion, a friend. somebody
who Will understand, and sympathizee
and make allowances for his short Z
comings and for the particular cir
cumstances in which he is situated At
the time. He doesn't want wife who
is a Ilerciless judge, who holds him to
the =. let letter of the law. and SO
when he finds girl who refuses to
understand why he had to break an
engagement with her on account of
business. why he could not be at her
beck and call; why he had to pay
some attention to some other woman.
he does well to refrain from marrying
her, no matter how good looking she
is. or how she fires his fancy for the
moment.
For a man does not stay long N
love with that sort of a wife. TIE
woman who holds her husbands af-
fections to the end is the good-fellow
woman who is pleasant to live with,
and T-4o makes a cheerful home. No
man looks forward to returning of an
evening to a home where n grouchy
sullen wife is waiting to haul him over
the GOALS about everything he has
done, and forgotten to do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

North Dakota's state owned and
operated flour mill lost only about
s21,0fo in the first nine months of
this year. This is an unusually good
showing for a state operated utility.
If it had been a cooperative concern
the loss probably would have been
tgreater.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

The fact is that freight has not been
r ing. 1t Is the general public that
is complaining and not the groups of
producers and shippers which have
not learned that the. war is over. 1t
does not hep matters for the spokes-
man of the railroads to say to these
groups: You're another"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

Another strike of long duration has
seuded in failure, which is the usual
sway Nearly all the miners in the
sPittsburg district have returned to
work and Howat still is in Jail. AS a
means Of freeing him cessation of
work has been found to be inaffec-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

Partisan politics defeated ratifica-
ton of Mr.. Wilson's League of Ma
tons. 1t may do the same thing for
President Harding's league. A COM
.bination of the Bull Moose and the
Demo~ra,s might easily do it to death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

Henry Ford intfmates that as re-
suit of his proposed operations at
Muscle Shoals he win be able to revo-
lutionize agriculture in the south. He
foreshadows the upbuilding of a va
riety of manufacturing enterprises.
including production of aluminium on
a huge scale, and promises to upbuild
in the environs of the power develop
ment an Industrial area that, If his
plans are carried out, would quite OBJ
viously fval any similar area in any
other place on the face of the earth.
Basing Judgment on Mr.. Ford's past
record there is little room for doubt
that he can deliver the goods if the
government will give him the oppor-
tunity, He is no dreamer, where bust
ness is concerned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

That we have not hitherto protested
the indignity heaped upon Mr.. Bryan
is due to the fact that the news of II
has just reached US. We take occasion
to do so row. It was poor strategy
to fill Mr. Bryan's glass with Holland
gin That he swallowed a mouthful
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

We notice. quite incidentally, of
course, that Henry Ford is having
another battle with the windmills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

Mr.. Bryan has been around Wash
ington a good deal lately. He has eX-
pressed his reaction to raw gin. AS
one who didn't learn much about it
until it was too late legally to do So
we'd like to know what Mr.. Bryan
thinks of Scotch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

When he began writing his story we
assumed Mr.. Tumulty knew what had
gone on in the White House. We re-
cast the conjecture and return to our
original position. 1t is that nobody
knew.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

We strive to serve. If the sales
man attempts to sell you the new
tangled pajama, don't let him do it,
This is the advice OF one he did sell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

an the first place, two-thirds of
all the work in the New ork market
is done by contractors. The signifi-
canoe of this is that the employer is
usually a small employer running a
small shop with little knowledge of
modern manufacturing. In busy
times he pays any wages his people
ask. He can make the firm for whom
he works pay the price in order to
get the work. In slack time. however.
the firm squeezes the contractor down
to the very lowest price possible be-
cause hundreds of contractors are
competing for work then. Having
contracted to do the work for a very
low price. the contractor squeezes
down the wages of his employees or,
as it is known in the trade. 'sweats'
his profits out of the wages of the
workers"
Thus. it was not until 1919. after
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14

Speaking of awards. as we were a
time ago, it may interest you to know
that the hand-forged desk blotter
stays right here in Philadelphia.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-04-18
BEFRIENDED DOVE
is LOYAL CRONY

One of the constant visitors to the
Cummings print shop before the re-
cent fire, which damaged the building
so badly that it had to be RACED, was
q dove, which Mr.. Cummings has
named Charlie. He came every day
to be fed and would enter through
the window and fly about the shop
with perfect freedom. Since the
building was burned Charlie has had
to forego the pleasure of these daily
visits but has fingered IN the vicin-
ity. One morning when Mr. Cum
mings was on his way down town to
his new quarters, he stopped in front
of the old building and called to
Charlie, who appeared from some
where and seemed glad to see him
again. And now every morning
when Mr.. Cummings reaches the
same place he calls to the dove, who
comes from somewhere out of the
ether to welcome his benefactor. The
last morning that this happened,
Charlie followed Mr.. Cummings as
far as Temple street and it probably
will not be long before Charlie will
be calling at the third story window
over the Allen drug store, where Mr..
Cummings now has his shop.