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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25
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S. Davies Warfield, president Ma
tional Association of Owners of Rail-
road Securities, testifying before the
senate committee on interstate COM
merce now investigating railroad con-
ditions, declared that only thru far
reaching economical methods for con-
Quoting transportation and oblitera-
ton of old-time prejudices, can rates
and fares be made satisfactory to the
people, compete with other forms of
transportation and produce the return
essential to enable the roads to finance
their obligations. All this sounds we'll,
but how and by whom shall the pro-
gram be carried out? 1t is all very
well to have a correct diagnosis of a
disease, but the diagnosis is worthless
unless an effective remedy be applied.
The question for the moment is"
said Mr.. Warfield, "can sufficient rev.
enue be obtained from rates and fares
that will be considered reasonable by
the public and the shippers, and VIII
these rates bear a relation to the price
obtainable for the articles transport
ed that will not impede commerce; or
will part OF the money required to
meet the necessities of transportation
have to be supplied, in the public in
terest, by taxation" The latter, he
said, means government operation and
eventual government ownership, and
unless effective railroad organization
is consummated to introduce rigid
economies this could not be avoided.
Discussing freight rates he said the
war produced abnormally high prices
and high rail operating costs. When
deflation set in prices broke precipi-
lately and the unprecedented and I'M
foreseen era of business readjustment
was the real cause of the loss of bust
ness 10 the railroads.
The exhaustion OF general credit
was manifest before the increase in
railroad rates." said Mr.. Warfield.
There had been a progressive decline
in the reserve ratio of the federal re-
serve banks from the peak OF August,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25

1917, caused by the expansion of bank
credits of over so per cent to below 40
per cent in the early part of 1920. The
increase in railroad rates was not
made until August, 1920, when the
exhaustion of credit showed its effect
on commodity prices. The increase IN
rates cannot be held accountable for
the contraction in business from
which the railroads have suffered
acutely. There may be specific cases
but not so generally"
Mr.. Warfield truly says that "the
increase in rates cannot be held re-
sponsible for the contraction in bust
ness" but the failure of the roads TO
reduce rates when all other prices
were declining is largely responsible
for continuation of the contraction
in business. Prices of commodities
and cost of transportation got out of
q proper relationship to each other
and from this situation the railroads
and the country generally have suf-
fered. Conditions will not change
greatly until rates come down or
prices go up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25

settlement from the traction company,
and shortly afterwdrd her arm readily
funcIioned in pre-a accident style. The
doctors explained that subconsctously
the woman had anticipated a financia.
settlement for the supposed injury,
and that once settlement had been ac-
complished there existed no longer the
belief that such impairment was an
advantage.
A fraud? No, say the doctors, for
the woman was SO situated that the
use of her arm would have meant
much more to her than the sum she
collected. 1t was merely a sub-con-
seious belief that would not be ban
ished until all chance for future
financial gain was removed.
It would be easy, of course, to ex-
aggerate this idea into a superstition.
What these cases really show is that
a person can be functionally injured
by an idea, and that the injury can
be cured by substituting another idea
for the damaging one. If the vocal
chords of REM had been actually i'm
paired, the doctors say, airplane flights
would have done nothing for him.
But this power of ideas to injure
and aid US is interesting. There are
probably few of us who are not being
bullied and weakened by some idea
or other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25
JUST FOLKS
GARDENING.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

GARDENING.
Ny neighbor has a garden fair and all the
beds are neat and trim.
But he has hired q strangers hand 70 come
and do the work for him;
He walks among his shrubs and vines and
proudly be adnires them there,
But he who'd come to know the flowers
must give a garden constant care
Ny patch Of ground is not so large but
know every rose by name.
And I have watched the peonies grow since
first the pink shoots upward came :;
No strangers hands have raked my beds
and jostled these few plants Of mine,
For 1 have nurtured every shoot and
guarded every trailing vine
My-neighbor has a garden fair and all his
beds are neat and trim.
But all the blossoms that are there are
merely pretty flowers to him;
He never knows the fight for life strug-
Cling little rose bush makes
Nor sees the new shoots spring up, because
he never hoes or rakes.
I have no hired man to toll or trim my
garden beds for me,
It's mine to break the sun-baked ground
and water every plant and tree,
It's mine to fight the weeds and pests and
give my roses constant care,
But / get more than blossoms gay, for ]
know every flower that's there.
Copyright, 1921, By Edgar A. Guest1
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chusetts, now gray and elderly. stu
are waiting for the free sewing ma
chimes Mr.. Bryan promised them IN
1896.
We do not go as far as to say MT.
Holt was not well within his rights
when he asked Mr.. Harding exactly
what he intended to do about an assoc
citation of nations. Mr.. Harding is MI:
Hollis president. as he is yours and
ours. But the question in our mind Is
whether Mr.. Holt was looking for IN
formation or trying to embarrass
somebody.
We have no opinion as to the view
expressed by DIR. Wilbur f. Crafts TO
the effect that motor cars are foster
ing vice all over the land. What we
do think about it is that when the Rev
Mr.. Crafts asked Henry Ford to stop
it he wrote to the right person.
It has reached the point in this
country at which everybody feels his
cause is won when he succeeds In IN
teresting Mr.. Ford in its behalf.
The excruciating laughter induced
by Lady Astor's most recent witty re-
mark having died away, S. x. suggests
that Lady Astor make another.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25

Reports from London state that the
unemployment which has followed In
the train of the gigantic coal strike
has bankrupted the state unemploy-
ment fund, and the reserve of $780,
100000 which the treasury had ac-
cumulated for this purpose has been
exhausted, the fund continuing to
operated by virtue of $40. 100000 paid
out weekly in the way of special treas
ury grants. The government has an
nouneed that it must reduce the un-
employment dole, which has been
supporting over a million miners in
their strike against the state. A
marked contrast to the British situa-
ton is afforded in this country. where
the labor unions pay their own strike
benefits. True, our government
bribed the railroad men not to strike
when congress passed the Adamson
law. but it has not yet begun paying
strike benefits.
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Q. What is the income from the Panama
canal and the expense of keeping 1T up !?
Panama canal Is $S,13o.ooo The receipt
from tolls from the date of its opening to
July /, 1920, was $33,35O,04s. During the
1T the wa cost e %6ether
the Panama canal will pay for itself de-
ponds upon commerce in the future.
way? A. E. II
A. The length of the Trans-Siberian
railway. from Petrograd to Vladivostok is
Q. What viii take paint spots off limo
leum? P. r. o.
4: To remove paint from linoleum sat
urate the spot with equal parts of turpen-
tine and spirits of ammonia, then wash
with warm soapsuds.
@. Wthen a hand is called in Poker, is 1t
necessary that the calling hand be shown ?
A. C.
A Both hands must be shown. and If
final call, all must be shown to the table.
The rule of showing all hands is a safe
guard against collision between two
players, one of whom might have fairly
good hand and the other nothing; for by
raising each other back and forth they
could force any other player out Of the
and shown, the confederate simply saying
That is good" and putting his hand In
q. what animal sleeps the deepest while
alternating? c. A.
A. The jumping mouse. or kangaroo
mouse, is a common wild rodent which
laws up no store for winter, but constructs
a warm nest in which it spends the win
ter in a state of dormancy more profound
than that of any other American animal.
Q. Is the medical museum part Of the
Smithsonian Institution al. II. NJ.
A The medical museum lie not part OF
the Smithsonian institution. It comes IN
der the surgeon generals office OF the war
department.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25

The news which is received from
day to day concerning the pending
tariff bill, it is said, gives assurance
that it is being framed along lines
far more scientific than have ever
heretofore characterized tariff legis-
lation. and should amply repay those
impatient ones who are insisting on
speed. No tariff bill which was
speeded thru congress, it is pointed
out, ever gave satisfaction to the
country This assertion might truth
fully be amended by eliminating the
words, (which was speeded thru con-
gress" No tariff bill, "speeded" or
otherwise, ever gave satisfaction to
the country and never will. The rea-
son is that any sort of a tariff duty
always favors one class of citizens,
one locality or one industry at the ex-
pense of others. 1t has just been
shown that a tariff on lemons. while
possibly helping California lemon
growers slightly. has doubled the
price of the fruit to the consumers.
A tariff on wool might help the sheep
men but it would cause everybody to
pay more for clothes.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25
Dorothy Dix Talks
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
worlds highest Paid Woman Writer.
Literature as a Remedy.

The other day a youth of nineteen
was convicted of lettering on the
streets, and, as punishment, the
magistrate before whom he was tried
sentenced him to read so many chap
tiers of Dickens and Scott every day
for six months.
Probably the type of young man
who holds UP street corners and leers
at the flappers who go by would just
as soon serve thirty days in jail at
hard labor as six months in a library
at hard reading. but there can be no
doubt as to which discipline would
have the most beneficent effect. The
jail term would leave the boy brutal
lied. The library sentence will leave
him made over, If there is any good
material in him.
Certainly the cure for about three
fourths of the moral ills that all
society is to teach the young to read.
The idle youths who loaf on the street
because there is the only place they
know in which to seek diversion; the
girls who parade up and down in front
of the store windows, and who find
their greatest thrill in imagining how
they would look in the gorgeous gar
ments displayed in the shops; the mar
ried women who are bored to death
because they have to stay at home
with their husbands and children, all
are victims of not having been taught
how to read.
For people who like to read never
know dull moment. They never
lack for good company. They never
need an occupation. They have only
to take down a book. and they can
summon a genie to bring them
romance, sentiment, laughter or tears,
adventure, or to spread for them the
magic carpet that will take them~to
the uttermost parts of the earth, and
open for them every door, from the
hnT- 0I ne he TO -
the king.
Boys and girls who like to read are
seldom gangsters, and hoodlums, or
among those youngsters who stumble
into the downward path in bad COM
pany, for books make a mighty wall
of defense between the young and
temptation.
The wise magistrate who sentenced
the street loafer to read a certain
number Of hours day believed that
he could turn the boys punishment
into a never ending blessing to him,
and that the lad could not fail to get
an inspiration towards a better life
from the new characters with which
the book would bring him in contact
The idea is one that parents with
unruly children will do well to adopt.
When Johnny and Mary do the things
they should not have done. and leave
un6one those things they should have
done, instead of thrashing them, or
sending them to bed without their
suppers, why not try the literary cure
all on them?
They may look upon having to sit
in the house and read a certain num-
Der of pages in a book, when they
want to be out playing, as cruel and
| inhuman punishment. but if you en-
forced it, you will fasten the reading
habit upon them, which is one of the
most unbrcakable habits in life, and
/ ~ ic 70 nd ~ ~
more. you will subject your child to
the subtlest and most powerful in
fluence in the world, which is the in
fluence of the printed word.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25

The American Federation OF Labor
showed wisdom in voting down a pro-
posal to amend the constitution OF
the United States, SO that the power of
declaring war would be taken from
congress and given to the people.
Congress never declared a war until
the public wanted it. Every declara-
ton of war has been in response to
public clamor. Without public de-
mand there would be no war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25
Dinner Stories

1t all happened in a southern court
room.
Young man." said the magistrate
severely, the assault you have COM
mitted on your poor wife was most
brutal. Do you know OF any reason
why should not send you to prison?"
'If you do, your honor" replied
the prisoner at the bar, hopefully,
cit will break up our honeymoon"
The> teacher asked the class to
write down eleven Antarctic animals.
Jimmy Jones quickly wrote down his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25

not a recluse at heart; Pansy tells me
that you actually borrowed some ta-
blecloths from her. I don't want a
naughty princess, Mary, but do want
a wife The gates are open now.
Want to conner"
Aunt Chloe, approaching with
question on her friendly lips. stopped
short, looked a moment with joyful
on her loyal face, then
tiptoed away.
Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25

Summarizing the progress made to-
ward normal business conditions in
the past six months, the National
Bank of Commerce of New York, in
a bulletin just issued, says:
Business. at the beginning of 1921.
faced three primary obstacles to the
conduct of affairs on anything like
normal plane. Commodity prices
were still in many cases grossly in
flated. Wages were still on a war
basis. The banking position was OBJ
viously strained. These obstacles ate
not to be regarded as entirely over
come. but nGDGh progress has been
made. Six HAonths ago 1t scarcely
seemed possible thai by this time
prices for many raw materials would
have reached a point of approximate
sterilization; tina. wage reductions
would have been accepted by work
ers in widely diversified Industries in
the realization that thcys were just and
necessary. and finally that the bank
ing position as a whole could have
improved to the extent indicated by
the substantial reduction in the Dor
rowings OF reporting member banks
at the federal reserve banks. Such
borrowings havo declined nearly 40
per cent from the maximum reached
last fall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25
TRADE BALANCES.

Our trade with Asia shows $47e,-
100000 in exports to, and $72S,000.-
900 in imports from that continent
in the ten months ending with April.
Japan had a hard year, and her bal
ance against US was about $50, 100000.
compared with $50, 100000 the year be-
fore. This is the territory from which
the most acute competition for the fu-
ture may be expected and for which
adequate tariffs must be devised, ac-
cording to the advocates of protective
duties on imports. But why should a
tariff on farm products, wool, steel
and other commodities which we ex-
Fort be demanded? We get none of
these things from Asia, hence there is
no competition from that source.
Trade with Europe for the ten
months period totaled. exports, s3,-
o5S,00O.e0O. imports, $S22,OOO,O0o.
The largest balance was recorded
against the United Kingdom, which
has been in the throes of an indus
trial strike for some months, neces-
stating a large dependence on out
side sources for merchandise normal
ly produced at home. The ex-
ports from the United Kingdom dur
ing the first five months of the pres
emit year totaled 100000 pounds
sterling, compared with 100000
pounds for the same period of 1920
During the ten months period in
question we exported to the United
Kingdom $1,1s1, 100000 worth of
goods, and imported from that coun-
try 900 worth.
France ranks next as a purchaser
from US during this period. We ex-
ported to France $4,000, 900 worth
of goods. or about half the value of
those exported during the similar ten
months of 1919. while we imported
from France $127,ooo.0oo worth of
goods for the 1921 period, nearly
three times the value of our imports
from her during the 1919 period.
Our exports to Germany display a
remarkable increase when the handi-
caps to that trade are considered.
During the similar ten months of 1919
we exported sos worth of goods to
Germany; this year, $330,00O, 900
worth, while importing from Germany
$77,o00,oo0 worth of goods. We are
already ahead of our pre-war normal
in sales to this nation.
Our exports to the South American
countries continue to show increases.
They totaled $4sS.000,00 during the
1921 period, an increase of 800, 0o0,-
900 over the 1920 period. Imports
from those countries for the 1921 Pc
Rod totaled s442,oOo,oo0 in value,
evidencing that this trade is well bal
anced and that we could still handle
more of the raw materials of that di-
vision without detriment to ourselves.
In view of the foregoing figures it is
not remarkable that the committee IS
having a hard time framing a tariff
law that can be defended before, the
people. Our export figures doubtless
would be much larger If Europe could
find the means with which to buy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25

There may be those who still think
the rich pay the excess profits tax
but the st. Louis Times IS not one OF
these. It says: "Any consumer who
is still impressed with the name of the
so-called excess profits tax has over.
looked the fact that he has not only
paid it. but several times over. 1t is
the sort of tax that is passed on with
a liberal charge for Insurance"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25

answer and took up his slate to the
teachers desk. This was what she
read: six seals. four polar bears and
one walrus"
A lady writing in answer to house.
maids advertisement received this
missive: "Madame-You have a good
name and address, but you write on a
meesly half-sheet of paper which
shows me you are no lady. and as
such, and considering the paper you
write on, the place wouldn't suit me,
being accustomed to things being diff
ferent."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25

Mr.. Bryan believes the various loans
to our late allies should be Cancelled.
Mr.. Bryan probably has given away
more things that never belonged to
him than any other American citizens.
And that reminds US we heard not
long ago that many of the women in
the manufacturing towns of Massa-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25

Mr.. Gompers is quoted as saying the
real rulers of Russia do not exceed
5000 in number. Still. II that is the
point, 1t is possible to carry the CEN
tralization of government much far
Their The period during which Mr..
Wilson and Mr.. Gompers ruled this
country is so recent that everybody
remembers 1t.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-12-17
OAKLAND

At the Methodist church Sunday
morning the pastor Rev. Weston +
Holman. VIII have for his subject "The
Spirituality of the Church" Sunday
school at Has. Fred A. Wyman super.
intendent: evening service at Z c'cloci
with short address by the pastor
subject. 1.-THE Washington Conference
Preaching service at Sidney Sunday
afternoon at 2.3O o'clock. All are cor.
daily invited to attend.
At the United Baptist church Sun.
day, Rev. Howard G. Kennedy pastor
the topic of the morning sermon al
1890 will be Spiritual Emancipa.
tion." Sunday school at IL oclock
under direction Of Arthur Greeley, 81.
perintendent; Christian Endeavor at
o'clock; subject, Conscience, Teach.
ing 1t, Quickening 1t. Obeying It,
evening service. at z o'clock; subject
Temptation"
Prof. Henry w. Brown of Colby Col.
lege has been engaged by Sergeant
Wyman Post, G. A. r., as speaker next
Memorial Day.