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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-15
Dorothy Dix Tails
The Love Game-1.

A man says:
I'VE all admit that the man is a
cad, whose attentions to a girl are
without intentions, who takes up her
time and monopolizes her society with
out ever asking her to marry him.
But what about the girl who plays
with the heart of an honest man who
is in love with her, who let's him
fetch and carry for her, who encour-
ages him to spend his money on her,
and who keeps him dangling on, year
after year, while she waits for a bet
ter catch to come along?"
She also is q cad, but the feminine
cheat in the game of hearts is never
quite so despicable as the male, be-
cause the cards are all stacked against
her. and that makes some small ex-
cuse for her taking what advantage
she can.
No man can realize how terribly
the matrimonial odds are against a
woman, because convention does not
permit her to frankly seek her mate.
She can't go out in the open and pick
out man she likes and ask him to
be her husband She's got to do the
thing stealthily, and by hook or crook,
and often by resorting to tactics that
are repungnant to her, and this has
made her feel that anything is fair in
love and the war of the sexes.
Now one of the things that nearly
all women know is that men are like
sheep; they follow the leader about a
woman. They admire the women that
other men admire. They go to see the
girl that other men go to see. They
want to marry the girl that other mel
want to marry. That is the reason /.
girl is either a belle or a wall flower
for to her that hath beaux other beauS
shall be added even more abundantly
and from her that hath none shall be
taken away even the one solitary one
that she hath. 1t is this prediction
OF men for worshiping in a crowd that
makes women bind every man they
can to them. in order to have a come
on for the man they really want And
sometimes it inflicts cruel fate or
the bell wether.
for girl playing with an honest
heart, but after all, MISREPRESENTATION
Is the first law of nature.
Certainly woman is selfish to the
core, and has lump of ice in heI
bosom instead of a heart. when she
agency for herself, and capitalizes hi.
love for revenue
Yet we have all seen that kind OF
thing done scores of times. We have
seen a splendid man break his alabas-
ter box at the feet. of some greedy
anu SraSplng girl VINO mad, not SOU
enough even to SAVIOR the incense thai
was offered her. Still less did she
have conscience enough and sympa-
thy enough to stop his sacrifice of the
best he had to give.
She had no intention Of marrying
the man, vet she let him waste on her
all the treasure Of his youth, and ro-
nance. all of his power to love purely
and passionately and deeply, any wo-
man, because it flattered her vanity
to be SO adored, and to have one more
in her string of admirers.
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JUST FOLKS
BIZ EDGAR A. GUEST.

AT THE TOP.
whenever you see someone up at the top,
Don't imagine he got there by luck,
For back of his glory lies many a story
OF battle and struggle and pluck;
He may seem to be taking things easy to-
day
And lodging the trials which irk,
But the years Of his past, from the first
to the last,
Were q constant succession of work.
Whenever you see someone crowned by
success.
Don't fancy he won it by chance;
Tho he's walking today on an easier way,
And you cannot behold with a glance
The scars of his battle, just keep this In
mind
Life's Iaurels don't go TO the shirk,
And If you but knew his life history thru,
You'd know that he once had to work.
Success doesn't come to the incident hand,
With busy men life is concerned;
Be the man who he may, he will find on
the way
That its prizes win have to be earned.
So whenever you gaze on a leader OF men.
Up on top where the glory L. fair,
You can know with his luck there were
courage and pluck
You can bet that he worked to get there.
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. Guest-)
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are now diverting their vessels to other
ports, notably Boston and Phila-
delphia- From these points the immi-
grants come to New York by rail, thus
making it necessary for the city health
department to keep inspection squads
also at the railway stations. Forum
ately. here the New York Travellers
Aid Society has come to the rescue,
and is taking care of family groups
while their various mem bers are re-
moved for examination and fumiga-
ton.
away to be freed from vermin," one of
the Travellers Aids told the reporter,
''the wife thinks he is being dragged
off to Siberia. Then we have to rush
our interpreter to the scene to explain
the matter to her. So many of the
people are war refugees. who have al
ready suffered so much that their
anxieties are easily aroused"
If the man is detained for any
great length of time, the Aids see that
the children get food and that the
family obtains proper lodgings. Some
times as many as Is such families
must be taken care of out of a group
of a hundred or more who come thru
on one train
While precautions against the
typhus cootie are ever becoming more
systematized, the congestion remains
unrelieved at the port of New York.
The health authorities are putting up
a valiant fight against tremendous
'handicaps. They need more men, and
more facilities. Congress. they say,
could solve the whole typhus emer-
gency at once by ordering a cessation
of immigration until the disease sub
sided in Europe, but congress has its
own reasons for desiring immigration
to continue. The least, then, that it
can do is to authorize an increase in
the size of the force and working ma
terials at Hoffman's and Ellis Island.
and thus help to prevent the spread
Of the plague.
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the Leaguers as disloyal-and not
without some show of reason. The
League numbers in its membership,
especially among its officers. many
Socialists. and radical Socialists al
ways are against the government
any government of which they are
unable to obtain control.
Persons who know Stevic intimate
ly probably will find it hard to believe
that his heart is In the work he is
doing. But the Nonpartisan League
needed brains in carrying on its work,
and Stevic was ready. for considera-
ton, to meet the demand.
why will persons engage in a bust
ness that causes them to go where
they are not wanted?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-15
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
PoMPs AND PRIVILEGES.

GOMfO AMI I'M " lLE1ES.
Only as we are adjudged dependable
do we become worthy.
We must stand steady in the path
of circumstances And we must learn
the art of solving ourselves. Others
can't do 1t for us-tho they may some
times try.
Those who sit in the seats Of Gus
tom" surrounded by pomps and privi-
leges, are not the pathfinders, the
blasters of fate, nor the creators of
new worlds. You who keep to your
seats as the show goes by, are some
day going to be in the show!
Try to fete on courage. Try to feel
the pull of ideas. And somehow try
to get in the way of important events
so that you may be partaker in them.
You can't get far by idling on the
sidelines. If you would reap a har-
vest, rich in realizatiorfs,, you must
spend a large amount of toll and sweat
in the sowing.
Spurn the easy way.
The strong man must give his mus
cles something heavy and virile to feed
upon. He must keep pushing them to
their near limits.
You never know what kind Of stuff
you are made of until you begin to
take yourself apart.
And then most people are amazed
and inspired by what they findi
The great ideas of the world are
Matched in corners, in garrets. in lit
tie rooms and out-of-the-way places
where the mind may find quiet and
where 1t may play in perfect abandon.
For the mind is jealous master.
Get into the crowd to learn. But
get out Of it to think and to build!
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By IE,E PAPE.

Skinny Martin and Skinny Mullen
neerly had a fite at recess today on
account of Skinny Martin calling
Skinny Mullen q old bean pole and
Skinny Mullen calling Skinny Martin
a bubble jointed clothes prop, and
they stood there sticking their. noses
into each others face like Dutch come
1t, and us fellows got all GROUND them
and started to cheer them both, Skin
ny Martin saying, Come on then. Ill
fife you rite now the dickins with
waiting till after skool.
Aw go on, do you, think I want to
be kepp after skool and maybe sis
pended Jest to oblige you, you wait till
after skool and Ill show you, sed
Skinny Mullen.
After skool nuthing. rite now,
bubble dare you up and down, sed
Skinny Martin.
Us fellows, yelling for them both
neutral, being easy to do on account
of all we had to do was yell, Hit him
Skinny, don't take no back tawk off
him, Skinny. mock his block off Skin
ny. and they could both take it per-
sonal, Skinny Martin saying, Aw you're
afraid to fite. that watts the trubble
with you, you got cold feet, you got
so meny cold feet you cant count
them.
o is that so, well jest for that darn
If I dent fife you rite now, the heck
with after skool. come on, put up your
fists, sed Skinny Mullen.
Well 1t took you a heck OF long
vile to make up your mind. gosh. we
wont have time to finish 1t now be-
fore recess is over after you taking all
day to decide about it, Ill fite you
after skool il you wunt to fife, sed
Skinny Martin.
You will like fun. now or never,
that's NV motto sed Skinny Mullen.
And US fellows kepp on cheering them
neutral, and pritty soon the bell rang
and we all had to go back to our
room, and the 2 Skinnys made up dur
ing joggriffy and the hole fite was
called off.
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STEVIC.

1t is reported that a coat of tar has
been applied to our former townsman,
]. o. Stevic, by opponents of the Non
partisan League in Barton county. It
is a poor way to stop the League prop
uganda. and a fragrant violation of
Mr.. Stevic's rights as an American
citizen. On the other hand he is u
man of education and brains, a good
mechanic and capable of earning good
pay at a kind of work that would not
subject him to the chances of such
treatment. So
The people cannot be greatly
blamed il sometimes they resent the
activities of hired agitators. Mr..
Stevic is not a farmer and it is not
surprising that farmer folk should OBJ
ject to his telling them what they
should do.
The method of resentment in this
instance was dastardly. The Nom
partisan League is an organization
against which this paper is bitterly
opposed, but the outrageous, brutal
treatment of Stevic is a disgrace to
Barton county and the state of Kan
sas. The governor Is Ito be COM
mended for his prompt action looking
to investigation and punishment for
the lawless and inhuman acts of the
perpetrators.
The American DICTIONARIES with
promptness repudiated the violent
means taken to show resentment.
Ae raOorda tho raDartad nartio{Da
ton of American Legionaires in the
demonstration. this may be accounted
for on the ground that they regard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-15

The New York World asks why, If
the federal farm loan act is a good
thing, we should not also have a
home loan act. 1t is suggested by the
Sioux City Tribune that when the
World gets ready to draw up plans
for the home loan bank it investigate
the law to help town and city jewellers
passed by the recent legislature of
South Dakota. South Dakota found
its rural credits law worked success
fully, and so has provided an urban
credits law. There seems to be no
reason why a federal home loan bank
system would not operate just as well
as the land banks do. The latter re-
quire proper security for loans and
the home building law as enacted by
South Dakota also eliminates oppor-
tunity for wild eating" Yet while
the security demanded is sufficient,
the terms are such that the average
man can build and pay for his home
with more ease than he can now pay
rent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-15

at the gaping Waldo. I'll see you
later, Wally, go and look at the moon,
that's a good fellow
Waldo stayed an hour and when he
came back the two who had been re-
united had only reached the point
where Tommy was fitting his mother
engagement ring upon Robins slim
finger.
I'VE missed each other a lot" ex-
planned Tommy. but we never knew 1t
till Just this minutei"
us this house for sale?" asked the
real estate man.
Never" cried Tommy and Robin
together.
Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-15

1t was a sharp hike which railway
rates took last August. Many an in
dividual who viewed the pronunciation
Of the new schedule with complacencv
found himself in a different mood
when called upon Unexpectedly to pay
the charges. The man or woman who
seldom travels by rail does not WORRY
much over the fare. The man or
woman who has no shipping to do is
not inclined to go deeply into the eff
feet of freight costs upon every in
dividuars interests. But the one who
felt unconcerned begins to show live
ly interest in the matter of transporta-
ton costs when called upon to pay
them. Moreover, when the new rates
were put into effect everybody was
working at high wages and everybody
with anything to sell could get a big
price for It Now all Is changed ex-
cept the rates, and they must conform
to the general trend. The public no
longer is in a position to pay them.
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Dinner Stories

The world never moved 30 fast
before" unused Mr.. Simmons. I'VE
have winter ice on the Fourth of July.
spring vegetables on Christmas; we
buy our straw hats in February and
our felt hats in August; we get our
Sunday paper on Saturday night and
our magazines month ahead of time.
II we telephone a man in San Fran
cisco from New York he hears our
voice about four hours before we
speak; and II someone in Japan sends
US a cablegram tomorrow we get it
today"
A young theological student was
being asked some questions by a
bishop. who was what is generally
termed "a good sportsman" what
were the names of the people liv-
ing in the house into which st. Peter
went after his escape from prison ?"
The student thought a moment, and
then said: 'T can remember the name
of the girl who opened the door for
him." "Ah. Mr.. -" replied the
bishop with a smile. you would re-
member that!'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-15
Is YEARS AGO m TOPEKA
From the Columns Of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

March Is, 1895.
Otis Hungate, chairman of the Republic
can city central committee, is taking box
ing lessons and has developed wonderful
muscle.
The Ingleside Charities have mapped
North Topeka into districts and assigned
them to the oversight Of the following wo-
men: Mrs. Thomas Page, Mrs. Kate Il.
Smith. Mrs. ]. +. Buck, Mrs. Kate Sproat,
Mrs. NJ. V. Bardsley, Mrs Ella NJ. Park
hurst Mrs. L. e. Riordan.
On Tuesday afternoon Mrs. p. l. Bone
brakes home IN Harrison street was
thrown open to fifty ladies who enjoyed
for the afternoon the hostesss hospitality.
Misses Margaret MuIvane, Nellie McClIn-
took. Henrietta Thompson, villa Rogers
and Mary Thompson, assisted Mrs.
Wednesday afternoon Mrs Bonebrake en-
tertained fifty more friends, assisted this
time by Misses Anna Bartholomew, Mary
Roberts, Mary Thompson and Gertrude
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known. He received fewer reflections
Less often did the printed slip appear
to discourage him. OFTEN there came
requests from editors to send them
something. Then he was as pleased as
a child and worked so enthusiastically
that feared ne would overdo, and
make himself Ill again.
1t was at times such as these, or
when he was discouraged. that rea-
liked his wisdom in asking me not to
start the shop again. He needed me.
And as long as he did 1 knew IT. was
my duty to put everything else aside to
meet his needs.
Tomorrow new acQuaintanceO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-15

O. Is 4 man that was married in April,
1920, required to pay income tax for 1920!
A. A man whose status on December 81,
1920, was that Of a married man, may
claim $1,000 exemption when filing in
o. What are some of the distinguishing
marks of the different breeds Of beef cat
tle7-F; A; W ,,. - r,,..
en- legs, and under side of body, the bulk
So s see s sfea sSesn sns
the largest, have the best developed hind
quarters. and may be red, red and white.
polled, solid black, tho occasionally some
brown is shown and has a long, curly,
silky coat.
Who what was he?LF. +. +.
A. Belphegor was a certain arch demon,
by " lot to live on earth Tor 10 years
with a wife, to test the statement that
wives brought their husbands to hell: Dis
married state
q. How did pictures called silhouettes
get that name?-F. H
A. The name was derived from ode Sill
houette'' the name Of an unpopular Min.
lister of Finance of France. On account Of
the Parisians applied the name to any
thing incomplete, or imperfect. particular
ly to the outlined profile which became
q. Who are eligible to soldiers homes?
II. NJ C.
A. The regulation covering this subject
provides that only those who have had some
service as enlisted men in the Regular
Army are eligible for admission to United
States Soldiers Homes. These include ev
cry soldier, active, retired. or honorably
discharged. who has served 20 years or
more in the army, which includes the
Regular. Volunteer or National Army. U.
s. Guards, or National Guard called or
drafted into the Federal Service; every SOL
der of the same units who fs rendered in
capable of earning his own livelihood By
reason of disease or wounds incurred in
the military service Of the United States.
of similar units who were enlisted men In
the Army during the war, who have had
service where the armed forces of the
United States have been employed and
their lives hazarded in military operations.
or who have contributed to the support
wounds. sickness. old age. or other dis
O. was Moliere the real name Of the
famous Frenchman who bore IT'D. L. H.
|. A. Moliere was the stage name Of Jean
Baptiste Poquelin. Like yoltaire. whose
name was Francois Marie Arouiet. he Is
ed for himself
ability, unable to earn their own livelihood.
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Daniel willard, president Of the B.
& O. is quoted as saying: IAN in
crease in business must be realized
before railroad rates can be reduced"
To the man on the side lines 1t looks
as tho Mr.. willard has placed the cart
before the horse. In other words
rates must come down as prelim-
mary to an increase in business. Sup
pose everybody had waited for an In
crease in business before reducing
prices. In that case, it must be ap-
parent that prices would not have de-
ciined. These facts are understood by
Mr.. Willard as well as by anybody
else. Why, then, should he try TO
mislead or deceive the public? If
business increases under existing rates
there will be no cause to lower them.
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when the questions were duli,
wrote the reporter who attended her
at home in witherspoon Hall, Miss
Lowell made up for them with clever
replies"
AS, for instance.
Yesterday was national fish day.
and we assume that some comment
on this sad and somber festival will
be expected and required of JUS. Our
reaction is that a reporters salary is
such nowadays he isn't compelled to
eat fish.
Paul Potter, who dramatized 'Tril-
by is dead. But many are still alive
who at the time regarded his exposure
of the lady's ankles as daring, If not
indecent
So far as we have observed. how
ever, President Hardings real distinc-
ton has not been touched upon. He
is the only editor in the world with a
daily circulation of 107.0o0,0o0 copies.
The women continue to make prog
ress. Aunt Dolly" Spencer, who
served last year as chief of police of
Milford. O., is a candidate for mayor
this spring and has no opposition.
The paragraph referring to Mrs.
Spencer is printed in the hope that it
will correct the impression, enter
tanned by certain readers of the col
umn, that we do not like women and
try to give them the worst of it.
BARRIERS with whom we have dis
cussed the incident do not resent the
fact that President Harding shaved
himself on the morning of his in
auguration. They say as long as Pres
ident Harding refrains from publicity
work for the safety razor they will
stand by his administration
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-15

The big slump in our export trade
IS declared to be wholly due to lack
of credit facilities. A large part Of
the world is eager to buy from US II
the purchasers can be given sufficient
time to pay. Plans for financing for
eign trade are under way. and when
they are completed there should be a
marked Improvement in the market
situation for the producers.
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Local meat dealers did not even
wait for the threatened strike of pack
ing house employees to get under way,
before advancing the price of meat.
Perhaps they feared that the strike
might not materialize.
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ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAZZ e. HOUSE
(Hron Phiiadsiphia Psbie Lsdsss.)

when the questions were dull"
wrote the reporter who attended her
at home in Witherspoon Hall, Miss
Lowell made up for them with clever
replies