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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07
Dorothy Dix Tails
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Do You PIcad Guilty, or Not Guilty?-1

10 on 1-lgsuu 0uIAtyS OF &NOt ooAAtS
Listen Family:
oppressed, downtrodden slave that is
left in the world. 1t is plea for wife
and mother. Not for wives and
mother, but for YOUR wife and
YOUR mother. and it is addressed to
YOU individually.
mother. Treat them with a little con-
stderation. Show them little mercy.
Have a little pity on them Try to re-
member that they are made OF flesh
and blood that wearieS just as yours
does: that they have nerves that over
as it does yours, and that they can be
worked to death just like any other
patient, dumb beast of burden.
This will be a brand new thought to
you. You have always looked upon
your mother or your wife as a sort OF
perpetual motion machine that was
started to running by your birth, or a
wedding ceremony, and that goes on
automatically functioning because she
is built that way and can't help it.
spare her than you would an auto
mobile truck, or a steam hoist, or any
other piece of machinery constructed
for hard service and lifting heavy
loads.
OF course you will deny all of this
anu tell IIlc HOW yOd tONS Wis anu
mother. and how you would die for
them, and SO or. Easy talk. And
unconvincing, because nobody is called
upon to die for another, but how do
you live for wife and mother? Are
you killing them by inches by your
selfishness, and laziness, and by your
exactions? Do you wait upon your
self, or do you make some worn and
weary woman wait upon you?
In this country only one family IN
forty keeps a maid. Yet the other
thirty-nine families expect to be as
deliberately fed, and as carefully tidied
up after, and mended, and buttoned,
and washed, and pressed, and valeted
as if they had a whole retinue of SER
wants to slave for them.
They know perfectly well that it is
wife and mother who must combine
in her one person cook, and chamber
maid. and laundress. and seamstress.
and butler, and do the work of all for
| them, yet it occurs to neither husband
nor children to do anything to even
try to tighten her labors. and lift some
of the crushing burden from her
shoulders.
When the men of the family read
the newspapers they scatter them
from one end of the house to the 9TH
err. tho they know poor, tired wife or
mother will have to pick them up
When they smoke they drop their ci-
gar ashes on the floor, and scatter ci-
garet stubs all over the place, tho
! they are perfectly aware wife and
mother has got to sweep up after
them.
When hubby battles he wrecks the
| bathroom, and uses half a dozen tow
els that wife and mother has to wash
| out the next day. When he puts on a
clean shirt he messes up two or three
others that she has spent half a day
over a sweltering tub and ironing
board doing up. He hangs up his
clothes on the floor, and wife and
mother gives the time to brushinp
| and pressing them that she ought tc
| spend in trying to rest a little.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07

Just when the country is calling
loudly for relief from taxation and
high transportation rates, Senator
Lodge makes proposal that the SEN
ate stop work for month. The fact
that there were enough senators op-
rosed to his view to vote down his
resolution gives promise or action in
The direction of relief from existing
conditions. The country at least Will
have a better feeling if congress shall
continue at work. All realize that the
business conditions of the country are
not so good as they should be. The
Industrial side of American life is de-
pressed. Men are out of work. The
agricultural sections of the country
are not so prosperous as they might
be and every element of our citizen
ship is looking forward with hope to a
change in conditions. But until we
find lower level in cost, in wages
and material and supplies of all kinds,
that enter into the life of the nation
we are not going to be able to realize
the benefits that we are hoping for.
Nothing will tend so greatly to restore
normal conditions as a reform in the
tax system and reduction in the cost
OF transportation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07
George Mdtthew Adams
Daily Talk
FILLING THE REGIMENT.

Events pass. Friends come and
go Fortune and misfortune often
hold hands. Life is primarily a piano.
rama of change.
But everything starts at scratch!
It's after you get on your way that
the thinning process of life takes
place. The regiment goes into battle
full-and 1t comes out fuIi-but
changed.
A gentleman with the beauty of
winters snow upon his head, was
asked If he didn't find old age bereft
of the joys that came with the friends
Of his youth, and he replied that age
had its compensations quite as won
derfu1 as youth-that tho friends
went on. the regiment was kept full
by the adding of new friends.
No healthy heart should give room
to regret.
kept fi1led-as each idea, developed
to its maximum, signals for its place
to be given over to those which are
new.
Every minute all things change
While you read this brief Talk, the
cells of your brain are intermixing.
The call Of the soul is-1On. on. on
ON, and up!"
Keep your regiments (fiiled-for no
sooner is one battle over than a new
one Is sure to be on.
Victory is survival. It's letting the
unirhportant, the trivial, the cant
helps" slide. And going on to bigger
and better thingS-ahead
You may be deeply discouraged to-
day-but today is passing-right now.
Arise with the tomorrows-and go
forth with your fresh regiment,
happy in hope and strong in faith.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07
INSTALLING THE BUDGET.

The budget system in national
finances, for which the country has
waited so many years. is getting under
Charles G. Dawes. .t
General Dawes's first duty will be
the preparation of the budget that the
president is required to submit to con-
gress when it convenes in regular ses-
sion next December. 1t will include
an estimate of appropriations for the
fiscal year 1923; estimates of treas
ury receipts under the revenue laws
as they may be revised by the con-
gress now in session, and also under
such new revenue changes as may be
proposed in the budget; the balances
available in the treasury, and the es-
timated condition of the treasury at
the close of the ensuing fiscal year;
all facts with respect to federal in
debtedness; and any other financial
information that it may be well for
congress to know.
Director Dawes will work in close
cooperation with a representative
appointed by each executive depart
ment to give data concerning the spe-
cial wants of his division of the gov
eminent. For the first time the ap-
preparations committees of congress
will have before them a concrete
statement of estimated receipts and
expenditures, and will be able to
frame the appropriation bills with
some assurance that the totals will
come within the available resources,
and deficiencies will be avoided.
Director Dawes began by calling
into conference officials of the vari-
Gus departments and the meeting was
attended by President Harding and
his cabinet.
So many good things deserve to be
said about the manner in which the
budget system starts off as a feature
of the government at Washington,
says the Christian Science Monitor, as
to cause increasing wonderment that
the system was not adopted long ago.
Certainly the country has good reason
to feel something akin to enthusiasm
, over the spectacle of almost 500 de-
partment officials gathered into one
room with the president and his cab
met for discussion of the ways and
means of effecting economies under
| the leadership of the director of the
budget. Such a meeting portends
much for the elimination of wasteful
expenditures, continues the Monitor.
but it is to be welcomed no less as a
sensible effort to get the factors Of
government pulling together for de-
sired end. practical method of in
Producing into the humdrum of Off
cial routine little of the saving es-
senea OF inspiration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07

come over and look at it, Gladdis?
Certeny not, keep still, I've barely
started, sed Gladdis. And she kepp
on drawing me by putting some lines
on the paper and then looking up at
me and then drawing some more lines
and then looking up at me agen as II
she wunted to make sure I hadent
changed eny sints the last time she
looked, me thinking, G, I know wat,
III surpirze here the next time she
looks up.
And 1 quick termed GROUND in the
chair so wen Gladdis looked up agen
all she saw was my back view, saying,
If you ixpect me to draw you kindly
remain in one position please.
WITCH position? sed, and Gladdis
sed, Tern GROUND the way you were
immeeditly. WITCH I did, saying, Can
1 come over and look at it now. Glad
dis?
No YOU cant, and now for mersey
sakes keep still, you're about as mulch
fun to draw as flee. sed Gladdis.
And she kepp on drawing me, and the
next time she looked down at the pa
per agen quick got off the chair and
the next time she looked up to see my
face she saw it upside down on ac-
count of me standing on the floor on
my hands, saying, Hello Gladdis, can
you see me all rite?
And l quick got off my hands to
keep from falling off, saying, Can
look at it now. Gladdis?
Neither now or at eny future time,
sed Giaddis. And she took the page
off the pad mad and tore il up, in
clooding my picFzture on it. me saying,
o well, 1 bet it dident look mulch like
me anyways.
And went out to see If eny of the
fellows was out, witch about 4 was.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07
JUST FOLKS
a SONG IN EVERYTHING.
az EDGAR A. GUEST

4 SONG IN EVERYTHING.
There is & song in everything.
In every little cara that comes.
In babies as they suck their thumbs,
The tunes the brave canaries sing.
The mothers patient gentle smile,
The glory of the after-while.
There is no sadness but is sweet
With fragrance, and there is no day
But spreads some duty on LIES way;
The dusty and the weary feet
Upon their homeward tourney bring
Delights which loving hearts may sing.
The high chair and the cradle, too,
Have ever set brave lips to song,
No grief has ever lived so long
But turned TO music as IL grew,
And every hour of strife and pain
Leaves In the heart some sweet refrain
Lord. teach me this, from day to day,
To find beyond the hurt and care 5
Thy mercy shining everywhere;
Let me rejoice that children play,
And know when bitter tempests sting
There is a song in everything.
Copyright, 1921. by Edgar A. Guestt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07

From all over the country come re-
ports of idle men returning to work.
As rule with unemployment has
come reduction in wages. This was
inevitable. Perhaps if the lowering Of
wages had come when other prices
began to fall, there would have been
little idleness. But few people can
see into the future and all are dis
posed to hang on to what they have as
long as possible. Blame for the in
dustrial situation that has prevailed
during the first half of 1921 cannot be
properly laid at the door of individ-
uals. They simply lacked vision. The
close kinship between the prosperity
OF the working man and his employer
was never more clearly demonstrated
than today, when working man and
employer alike are being called upon
to meet changed conditions. Wage re
auctions and unemployment, follow
ing hard upon price reductions and
business losses. are restoring to mems
sight better perspective of their
place in the general economic scheme.
The majority of people in this or any
other country are wage earners, yet
it was among the majority that dur
ing the war. and afterward. sight was
lost of the fundamental laws of eco
Monies. All of US were told that out
of the war was to come a new world;
many of US had interpreted this 70
msan that our entire system of labor
pleasure, religion, finance and govern
snent was to be transformed. But
everything is slowly but surely drift
ing back to the old established prin-
ct-'Aa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07
REGULATING COAL.


The senate has recommitted Sena-
tor Frelinghuysen's bill to encourage
seasonal buying OF coal by establish
ing seasonal rates for its transport
tation. The senator's object may have
been praiseworthy. but the method Is
Objectionable
The senator thinks that his bill was
killed by propaganda against it. The
Frelinghuysen bill was rejected, says
the New York Times, because it regu-
lated private industry as tho it were
public, and because it regulated SELL
ers without assuming control over
buyers
It could not be made compulsory on
buyers to buy coal when inconvenient
to them because freights were made
less in one month than another. 1t
ought not to be made. compulsory on
sellers to sell coal more cheaply than
it can be produced. including the pro-
ducer's estimate of profit. Cheaper
ing of commodities is not a function
of the government. FrofiE which are
extortionate thru conspiracy or mo-
Consumers of coal remember what
regulation did to them last winter
Like everything else. coal was cheaper
when unregulated. and the enthusi-
asm for regulation has abated.
It would be well, says the Times, If
coal consumers were sufficiently ex-
cited to inform themselves Of the facts
which the senator wishes to investi-
gate, altho they have been investi-
gated almost as often as the question
OF railway rates and wages. The
wages paid the miners are under con-
tract and should not be reduced with
o agreement. Congress has put the
regulation of freight rates on coal in
the hands of the interstate commerce
commission, which is of the opinion
that the rates should not be altered,
tho it has the power to alter them IL
it deem best. The margin above
wages and rates must bear the cost
of cheapening coal, and it is not suf-
ficient to warrent belief that the sis-
uation can be changed by the mere
publication of statistics.
Coal will not be cheaper until costs
are lower, and costs are fixed high by
regulation. Consumers were told not
to overbid during last years shortage,
but their fears were excessive. This
year their confidence is excessive.
There is no rail blockade this year
and the sections which were clamor-
Gus last year are better supplied this
year.
It would be better If consumes
would buy their coal in a manner
more convenient to producers, but
any idea that they can be compelled
to do so by the statute Is a mistake.
Senator Frelinghuysen's bill probably
is dead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07
Observation-Disclosures

Q. How many negro registers of the
negroes: - Blanche X Bruce. ISL. 1ssS, and
VIM. T Vernon, 16Oo-isii; James c.
q. Please tell me what is meant. by
pieces of eight when nsea in speaking
Of PRIZE The q Expression Upqe pieces Of eight
has reference to the Spanish dollar. the
peso duro,. whose value was s reals. it
was so-called because OF the figure tS)
s. why aren't clouds frozen when in
an atmosphere below 80 degrees?-H Il.
a. The weather bureau says that clouds
in an atmosphere whose temperature Is be-
low 50 degrees generally do consist Of par
O. Do the reformers who object to prize
fights object to boxing as sport:-
A. boxing is generally recognized as n
harmless, character-building sport. usu-
ally it is not condemned by those who pro-
O. What state bofdsrs on most Great
Lakes Pr. w.
A. Michigan borders on four of the five
Great Lakes, Superior. Michigan, Huron
and Erie. No other state borders on more
than twO.
A. Three or four inches Of damp earth
should be put in the bottom Of box Z; %, o,
in next and may consist of hay, chaff or
straw. This should be packed down firmly,
and a circular nest shaped, slightly
deeper in the center than at the sides
This shape prevents the eggs from rolling
out from under the hen, but care should
be taken that the nest is not deep enough
for the outer eggs to crush those In the
center.
O. In poker, is it a good practice to hold
up n side card when drawing to pair!-
+. II.
A. This is a bad habit, since It lessons
the chance of making three Of a kind.
Q. Where can / reach the manager OF
the Girl Scouts re. q.
A. The headquarters for the Girl Scouts
Of America is located at 527 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
(Any reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau, Frederic J.
Haskin, Director. Washington. DC. Thit
offer applies strictly to Information. Tho
bureau cannot give advice legal medi.
cal. and financial matters. 1t does not at
tempt to settle domestic troubles, nor Ia
undertake exhaustive research on any sub.
ject. Write your question plainly and
briefly. Give full name and address Qnd
enclose two cents in stamps for return
postage All replies are sent direct to the
inquirer-l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07

deemed advisable that we witness the
debacIe in person. The ceremony at
the Broad Street station is postponed
indefinitely.
on one point, however. we are de-
termined: G. B. E. is going ITO buy
that hat. If he doesn't, We intend TO
ride him to death.
We have G. B. Els full name and
address If he doesn't come thru
wen set the Main Liners after him.
He lives on the Main Line We have
no great >gift of imagination, but We
can visualize the pack chasing him
every time he ventures outside his an
cestrai halls.
Eph wiley says despite the fears
expressed to that effect the Volstead-
noxious to him. Eph says he beat the
Volsteaders to it by margin of near
ly twenty months.
The refreshing thing about Mr.. WI
ley is his frankness. He says he is
against the Volstead act because it in
terferes with his drinking.
What Henry Has Did.
.Sir-What has Henry done to you
What has Newberry done for the
world at large in comparison to the
debt we all owe, both as individual
and industrial units, to H. F.? Sup
| pose he can't answer who is the fifth
| president of the United States or any
other useless question, he can make
a Henry" and, as you write, make
it to carry nineteen there and back.
| He may be a fool, as reported by the
| envious, but it's a great pity we
haven't a few more fools. We GER
| tainly have the nastiest way of knock
| ing benefactors, no matter in what
like they benefac- NJ X
! We have no grudge against Henry.
| In fact, we incline to the belief that,
| like the lady in the song, he is more
| to be pitied than censured- His was
! the fate of most of the fictitious he
roes created by the newspapers: he
blew up under pressure. But the ex-
| plosion hurt Henry a great deal worse
than it hurt the rest of us. Mans
most vulnerable point is not the heel,
but his self-esteem.
Upon one point. however. We are
as adamant: we don't owe him any
thing. If the account were balanced.
it would be found that Henry owes
us money If it is worth dollar
apiece to look at his cars, and 1t is,
he owes US s9,00O.000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07

While shippers and travellers are
complaining of the excessive rates
charged by the railroads, it should not
be overlooked that the government it.
self is in on the deal. 1t levies a tax
of 3 per cent on freight bills and per
cent on passenger fares. This per
cent levy on freight amounted in
1920, according to the Railway Age,
to S129,75O.OOO. and the per cent
collection on passenger fares gathered
in $103, 100000, or a total of $685.
100000. But the new traffic rates did
not go into effect until September Of
1920, so that the full force of the
transportation tax was felt for only
one-third of that year. The tax al
ready has made it's collections for hiatt
OF the current year. If it should re-
main in operation thruout the rest Of
the year, other things being equal, it
would, exact many millions of dollars
more than the heavy toll of last year.
The railroads do not get a penny Of
this, say, a quarter of a billion of dol
lars a year. They collect it from the
shipping and travelling public on top
of the freight and passenger charges,
but they turn it all into the United
States treasury. And congress seems
contented to permit the public to go
on paying it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEIE PARE

Ny sister Gladdis was up IN her
room looking at some of the paintings
and things she did in Art Skool, and
I sed, Hay GIaddis. do drawing OF
me. will you Gladdis, wont you Glad
dis?
o CESS you'll do to practice on,
sed Gladdis. Proberiy rneening my
looks wasent enything wonderful to
draw, and she got out a pehci1 and a
pad of drawing paper and ! sat down
in chair and she started to draw me.
and after about q minnit ! sed. Can
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07

In almost every assemblage CO edu
Gators somebody makes an attack on
the teaching of the classics. A Har-
ward professor who is attending a
meeting of the National Education
Association is the latest. 1t is a cheap
way of attracting notice, but the
schools of the country go right on with
the teaching of Latin and Greek and
probably will do so for many years
to come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07

and adoption by congress of the Long
worth bill may have had something TO
do with the killing of the measure.
There is a feeling on the part of
many members of congress that the
executive departments of the govern
ment having in their power many APP
pointments have failed to act as speed
lily as they might in ousting Demo-
Gratis and installing Republicans. This
feeling is becoming evident in many
ways. and may have had some influ-
ence on the fate of Longworth's in
tended legislation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07

/ The refreshing thing about Mr.. WI
Hey is his frankness. He says he is
against the Volstead act because it in
| terferes with his drinking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07
A Gala Event Is Postponed.

Sir-Might it not be a happy ar
rangement to combine with your re-
ception to your following at Broad
Street station on Saturday morning,
July 2, the formal presentation of the
hat by G. B. E.? AS of additional
interest to your public, will Adelaide
be with your? L. S. M
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-23
PROSPERITY IN THE
f'lsOSSER DISTRICT

In and around Prosser there II
prosperity. Tho orchards are won.
derful this year. Tho alfalfa crops
have been wen up 10 the best OF
past years. tho the universal
complaint II that she hay price Is