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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

ing. Heck, we cant have eny fun with
that darn kid sticking in back OF US.
And Sid termed GROUND. saying, Go on
rite home, do you heer? III tell IA
Their on you If you don't, do you heer?
Go ahed and tell him. wat do
care? sed Bert
Proving it dident do eny good to
thretten him, and he kepp on follow
ing US, like somebody that cant take
hint, and pritty soon Sid termed err
round agen. saying. Ill give you a cent
if you go home.
Wares the cent? sed Bert.
Proving 1t mite of did some good
to bride him, and Sid started to feel
in all his pockets with a Expression as
If he would of bin serprized IL he
found cent in one, witch he dident,
saying to me, Hay Benny, have you
got a cent?
Wat? I sed, and he sed. Got a cent i?
and sed, Yes, wy? and Sid sed, Loan
it to me minnit. will you? and sed,
Like fun, and he whispered, Come on,
jest second, jest wunt to show it
to him and then Ill give 1t rite back,
and I sed. Like fun. Thinking, Safety
ferst, and Sid got mad and turned err
round agen. saying, o, all rite, come
on with us If you wunt.
WITCH Bert kepp on doing, and wen
we got to the next corner he sed, Aw,
wat do wunt to go with you for?
And he termed GROUND and went
homo by himself
Proving sometimes the best thing
to do is nuthing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

An effort is being made to start a
crusade against Topeka laundries be-
cause of the high prices they charge.
Possibly there has not been a thoro
investigation of the conditions in To-
peka. It may be that water costs
more in this city than it does in other
places. Topeka laundries charge 20
cents for a shirt and cents for a COL
lar. In Colorado Springs, where tho
inhabitants are supposed to fatten of
the tourists, the charge is 1S cents for
a shirt and 4 cents for a collar. But
perhaps it should be remembered that
the Springs is near the source Of wa
ter supply. Before we proceed far
Their with criticism of the Topeka
1aundries let US have a commission
to investigate the cost of water. OF
course they may be no laundry COM
bine in Colorado Springs, but that is
another story.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12
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Prohibition is a great factor for
prosperity, the Importance of which is
not fully realized, says Roger N. Bah
son in Forbes Magazine. Previous 70
July, 1912" he points out. about 3d.
600, 100000 a year was being spent by
people of this country for drink.
About 20 per cent of this money has
gone into the savings banks; but the
balance has gone into building homes.
buying merchandise raising the STAN
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to take no account of the money which
has continued to go into liquor at $50
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observation-disclosures

O. What is the worlds record for walk
ing a mile III. ].
A. The worlds record for walking a
mile was made by W. Murray. Melbourne
Vic, on February "a, 1912. The time was
6 minutes, % As seconds.
Q. What accounts for what seems to be
thousands of small frogs hopping about
after hard rains Nv. c. d.
A. The Smithsonian institution says
that these creatures do not come down In
the rain, as many people believe, but are
already existent upon the earth in cracks
and crevices. The rain washes them out
upon the ground.
new United States commissioner of educa-
tion-M. o. H.
A. John James Tigert was born in
tended school in Kansas City, Nashville,
Webb school at Bellbuckle, Tenn, Wander
bilt university, and Oxford, Eng. Has
Served abroad during the war with Y. NJ.
c. A. and army educational corps. Mr..
Tigert married Edith Jackson Bristol in
1909. He entered on duty as United States
commissioner of education. June 1, 1921.
Q. What states haye the largest Indian
A Arizona has more than 10000 square
miles in Indian reservations. New Mexico
is SECOND with about $500 square miles,
square miles.
Q. How much time IS spent In the re-
hgioqs instruction OF American children
A An estimate made shows that Pro-
testant religious instruction averages 81
hours per year, Catholic 200 hours per year,
and Jewish $50 hours per year.
Q. What per cent Of the total number
of persons who take civil service examina-
tons pass them ?-H. L.
A. Sixty nine and five-hundredths per
cent Of those taking civil service examine
tons within the past so years have passed
them.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12
THE DUTY ON HIDES.

The Fordney tariff bill places
protective duty on hides, ostensibly to
help the farmer. The effect OF this
duty, if the bill become a law, will be
to enable those who now hold large
accommodations of hides in this country
to unload at big price. Incidentally
it will keep up or advance the already
high price of shoes.
The hope of those who favor the
high tariff is. of course, that the
high prices in the United States will
allow the selling OF goods in foreign
markets at extremely low prices. In
such a case, the consumer In the
United States actually pays a part Of
the cost of the surplus goods that are
sold in other parts of the world. The
equivalent of the import duties is paid
by the consumer. not only on goods
actually imported, but on those pro-
duced within the country. The main
demand for a high tariff comes from
the great business interests which are
unwilling to face = general reduction
in prices. due to foreign competition.
In other words, the demand indicates
a continuation OF the greed which has
been called profiteering. The smaller
business concerns hope to realize some
subsidiary advantages from that
which gives their larger competitors
tremendous opportunities for gain.
Whoever heard of any considerable
body of farmers asking for a protec-
tive tariff? They know who it is that
pays the duty. Because a high tariff
Is an obstruction to free competition
in commerce between nations, it also
operates to prevent honest COMPETE
ton within the country that estab-
fishes it. In the end. therefore, Il
serves to initiate prices. build up huge
fortunes at the expense of the aver
age man. and protect only the few
established interests that need no pro-
lection.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12
Dorothy Dir Talks
Loneliness.
By DOROTHY DIX
Worlds highest Paid Woman writs.

AOHCAAAAec6-ls
Isn't it queer how poor company
most of us are for ourselves?
The most common complaint in the
world is loneliness. The thing that
most people find hardest to endure Is
their own society. The thing that
most men and women dread more
than anything else is being by them
selves.
This is the stranger because mono
of us are SO lacking in vanity as to
regard ourselves as pests and bores
in society. On the contrary, we be-
lieve ourselves TO be entertaining and
amusing, and that our fellow creatures
listen with bated breath to our views,
and have thier funny bones tickled by
our stories.
Why. then, should we not be able
to divert ourselves by thinking some OF
the scintillating thoughts with which
we believe that we entertain. other
people? IT We can interest others;
why do we fail to interest ourselves!
Nobody knows. The fact merely re-
mains that most of US bore ourselves
to extinction, and that we will hunt up
the dullest, the stupidest, the most
tiresome person alive for company
rather than be left alone.
The chief of police of New York
once told me that loneliness sent
more girls to the bad than all other
causes combined. He said that the
girl from the country, or village,
would come to the city and get work
in a store or factory She would live
in a little hall bedroom and eat her
meals by herself. She would have no
one to talk to, or go about with, and
in a little while the loneliness would
get her. She couldn't stand being her
only company. Then she would fall
an easy prey to the evil men and
women who are looking out for just
such victims as she.
1t was not that the girl had any
natural inclination towards the down
ward road. On the contrary she
would have preferred the straight and
narrow path, but the broad way was
the gay road with lots Of people on 1t,
and any company was better than no
company, so she went with the crowd
because she couldn't bear to be by
herself. poor thing!
1t is this fear of loneliness that
makes thousands of women plunge
into the hells of miserable marriages.
Let a woman get well along into her
thirties without having gotten mar
ried and unless her guardian spirit is
working over time. and performs
some special miracle in her behalf, she
flies into a blind panic, and will marry
anything in trousers that asks her.
That is when a woman marries the
old sutton whom she doesn't love, and
whom she has refused hundred times.
That's when a woman marries a
widower with seven small children
and a shoestring income. That's when
a lady college professor marries man
who has never read anything but the
price of salt Goldfish in his life. That's
when the rich old maids marry spend
thrift loafers who are young enough
to be their grandsons. That's when a
woman will rob the cradle, or the
grave, to get anybody to bear them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

Tourist business in Colorado is re-
ported to be bad this year. 1t is a
condition that was certain to come.
Vacationists simply cannot pay the
actly double what they were five years
ago. While wages, salaries and prices
generally remained at war figures. the
rates were paid with little complaint
but the public now has rebelled.
Those who do not possess motor cavs
are not going to the mountains in any
considerable number.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12
MUST DELAY BONUS.



solved before. There can be no solution
unless we face the grim truths and seek
to solve them in resolute devotion to duty.
After a survey of more than four months.
contemplating institutions which would
stagger all of us were 1t not for our abid-
ing faith in America. am fully persuaded
that three things are essential TO the very
beginning OF the restored order Of things.
"These are the revision, including reduc-
ton Of our internal taxation, the refund
ing OF our war debt and the adjustment
Of our foreign loans. 1t Is vitality neces-
sary to settle these problems before add
ing to our treasury any such burden as is
contemplated in the pending bill.
st is unthinkabIe to expect a business
revival and the resumption OF the normal
ways of peace while maintaining the ex-
cessfve taxes Of war. 1t fs quite as IN
thinkable to reduce our tax burdens while
committing our treasury to an additional
obligation which ranges from three to
five billion Of dollars
'sThe precise figures no one can give.
but it Is conceivab1y true that only two
hundred millions a year will be drawn
annually from the treasury in the few
years Immediately before MS The be-
stowal is too fneoBsequential to be Of
real value to thA nations defenderss and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

when President Wilson proposed
that the government take over the
railroads. he declared as the first IF
the governments purposes the main
tenance of the properties '1n as good
repair and as complete equipment as
when taken over by the government"
This purpose was repeated in a mes
sage to congress and when congress
passed an act providing for federal
control a provision was inserted
which required expenditures to be
made "as may be requisite in or
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12
TRUTH IN FABRIC.

FledS LOT enactment OF lne frSncu-
Capper truth in fabric bill are re-
ported to be coming to the senate
committee from retail cIothfers and
wool growers.
In a hearing before the house ag-
ricultural committee, a spokesman of
the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton declared that two-thirds of the
United States are "shoddy," that is,
made in part of reworked wool
1.-The wool grower, of course is not
asking that shoddy be not used" he
explained, but he does insist upon
the manufacturer being required to
pass his wool on the public in honest
form, labeled so the buyer may know
what he is purchasing. Take away
the virgin wool and the shoddy would
not last long. The farmer has seen
the shoddy business advance by leaps
and bounds in the last few decades.
Figures just made public by the CEN
sus show that in 1919 there were sew
enty-eight establishments manufac-
turing shoddy cloth, whereas in 1914
lAACAS nCAS OAAl- cAAtJ ~AO0As WIN LAAC
rapid rise in the use OF shoddy, the
sheepman has been growing poorer
and poorer. Right now. in the west,
the herdsman is in a deplorable con-
dition, hit by an unprotected slump
in the market, high freight rates, and
greatly reduced and out-of-gear
buying power. He has Jared worse
e.
ucts have dropped 60 per cent in
value in the last year, while the things
he buys have only lowered 20" Con-
tinuing the speaker said:
At this time we have in this coun-
try about 1000 100000 pounds of
wool and a new clip at hand. In nor
nal years we can not use more than
500, 100000 pounds, and it is the be-
lief of the farmers that the buying
public should have the benefit of this
great supply of wool and that they
should be able to buy properly labeled
fabrics showing the amount of virgin
wool they contain. The Farmers think
the passage of this bill is even more
important than a tariff on wool.
The seller of a suit of clothes made
of short-fibered. reworked, old-wool
shoddy. but calling it an "all WOOL
suit, thus making the customer be-
leVo he IS buying virgin WOOL gar |
ment, is in the same category as the
merchant who pinches the coat to-
gether in the back so as to make the
customer believe it fits him perfectly
about the chest.
We do not allow the manufacturer
of rebuilt auto tires to sell them as
new; we don't permit oleomargarine
to masquerade as butter; we have
pure food and pure drug laws, and
the farmer, along with the consumer
and the merchant, wishes to see a
truth-in-fabric law which will pro-
tect him.
Explaining the purpose of the bill, |
the representative of the farmers as
serted that "only one-third new or |
virgin wool is used annually to mix |
with two-thirds shoddy, which is COM
posed OF old rags, cast-off worn cloth |
ing. waste and clippings. Yet the
wooden garments usually are sold to
the public as all WOOL which term |
is taken to mean new or virgin wool |
1t is this ;ll-wool alias or substitute |
for virgin wool which the French bill
seeks to expose by requiring that fab
RIGS purporting to contain wool shall |
be labeled to show the amount or
percentage of virgin wool, shoddy,
cotton or silk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12
KANSAS CITY HAY MARKET.

Kansas City, July 12.-HAY-Timothy
hay. 80 cents to 81 lower. other grades
steady.
Aifalffa-Choice, $1,000 1000; No. 1, $3.50
CISCO; standard, S1I00M1G00; No. 2, $1,000
Q13.O0; No. 3, $6.50M0.50
Prairie-No. 1, $13.50@1450; No. 2, $4,000
1900; No. 3, $5.50679.O0
New Timothy-No. L SD. 50614.00; stan
dard, $12.00@13.00; No. 2, $950d11.50; No. .,
$1.O00c.0O.
old clover mixed light, SIG O0617Oo; No.
1, $14. 006I1550; No 2. $1,000 1880.
New clover. mixed light, $I3.00@14O0; No.
1, $10.50@12.50; No. 2, $T.00@10.00.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

der that the property of each carrier
may be returned to it in substantially
as good repair and in substantially as
complete equipment as it was in the
beginning of federal control" Has
the government carried out its part
of the contract? There are many in
dicahons that it has not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE

Me and Sid Hunt was Jest starting
to take a wawk. and all of a suddin
Sid sed, Heck, heer comes this darn
Meening his little brother Bert run
ming up and saying. Hay Sid. ware
you going2 Can go with you?
No. sed Sid.
I win anyway. sed Bert.
And he started to folio US. me say
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

Almost two years and eight months
after the actual cessation of hostili-
ties, the war. so far as the United
States is concerned. has been Off
cially declared at an end. But moth
ing yet has been heard from the other
party to the fight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

st. Louis Republic: "a tariff,
while it is merely on paper, can be
hotly debated without either side be-
ing able to prove its case. The test of
a tariff is like that of q pudding"
And after tasting each new Republi-
can tariff the public has invariably
voted for a change at the earliest
opportunity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

In a bulletin urging the public to
buy coal in summer the National Coal
association points out that the rail-
roads are short 10000 coal cars. But
why do not the coal operators buy
cars OF their own as is done by other
industries? Doubtless the railroads
could find the necessary locomotives
to haul them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

Attention has been called to the
fact that Andrew Carnegie gave away
$3.50, 100000 when he might have
kept it. But here enters the refIec-
ton that he could not have taken it
away with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

Dispatches from Mexico indicate
that the long expected trouble in that
country has started. Mexico has been
In comparative state of quiescence
for an unusual period of time. Pres
ident Harding probably will be af-
torded an early opportunity to try
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

President Harding is beginning ut
the right end of the peace problem.
Nothing is more likely to stop fight
ing by individuals or nations than de-
priving the belligerents of their arms
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses were issued in the pro
pate court during the last twenty four
hours to the following:
Ennis W. Talley, Topeka %
Marguerite Busse, Kansas City......1S
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

Diamond Engagement Rings, $50 to
$500. Easy terms. Harris-Goar Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

icepyright, 1920. by the wheeler Syndicata
E-ssf% lDc.a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

Meanwhile, we renew our inquiry
as to the identity of the gentleman
who Is paying the mileage and per
diem of those who induce the only
laugh America has been able to wiring
from the fight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

Jay c. not only expresses the con-
centrated and calculated wisdom of
the ages. but he wraps the package
with deft fingers and ties 1t neatly
with blue ribbon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

It is not, we desire to say to w. H.
E., the Henry car to which we object.
It Is the Henry person.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

It is interesting to know that In
Brooklyn on Tuesday a saxophone
Mayer was sentenced to three months
in the county Jail. But that wasn't
the only reason: He also tried to steal
q motorcar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

The fight is over and the books are
closed. but the well known reformers
who sought to stop it still potter
about the premises. The moral. as We
see it, is that reform will make little
progress so long as its proponents in
sist on making themselves ridiculous
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

It is probable that saxophone
player who has committed no other
offense is safer in Brooklyn than any,
where else in the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

But, in either event, what is de-
him? 1t has all the appear
ances of a fight anybody could get
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
Sporting News
COTTONS IN TWO
GAMES TOMORROW
Clash First with TOymakers and Then
with Lasters-Battles Royal on
Valley Fair Grounds.

In the local league tomorrow afternoon
at the Valley fair grounds the Fort Dunn
mer team plays two games. taking on the
s. A. Smith Mfg. Co. for the opener and
the Last & Wood Heel Co. team as the
second attraction.
Last week these three teams furnished
some mighty good baseball. playing 1872
innings af fast, snappy stuff. Both games
were tight and the winner was in doubt
up to the time the last man was out.
Should Fort Drummer by any chance
take both of these games they would go
into a tie with the LasterS for first place
and the TOymakers would be shaken from
the present tie into last place, which
they have decorated most of the season.
Losing to the s. A. Smith Mfg. Co. and
winning from the Last < Wood Heel Co.
would complicate the situation consider
ably, LAS both the Cottons and TOymakers
would then be but half a game behind
the leaders. Naturally, the Last & Wood
Heel team plans to retain the advantage
which it now holds and the Toymakers
expect to vacate the cellar position, so if
Fort Drummer gets both of these games it
will not be without a battle royal.
This ought to be temptation enough
for any fan. Anyhow, there will be some
good games, and it might be mentioned
that the season is not far from over, so
put away the garden tools for one Satur-
day and go up. The first game starts at
p. IN.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL

Mrs. Louis Hen&sel Of Portland. Me-, is
visiting her mother, Mrs. G. X. Jones
Miss Irma Rate is assisting this week
in HoughtOn & Simonds's drygoods store.
Kenneth +. Morse has gone to Benning-
ton, where he is working for the Fuller
Brush company.
Mrs. Ernest Young of Boston is visiting
her parents, Major and Mrs L. W. Childs,
at their summer home on Ames hill.
Mrs. Nellie Spafford, who had been Wis
iting at III. g. f. Pratts on Putney road.
has returned to her home in Springfield,
Mass
Mrs. T. W. Owens of Portland. Me-.
who is spending the summer in Northfield
Mass, spent yesterday in town with
friends.
Edward Reed has returned to his work
in the wholesale department of the Dun
ham Brothers company after vacation
spent in Springfield, Mass.
Miss Elizabeth Hennessy, formerly
night superintendent at the Memorial hos
pital, is spending a vacation with Miss
Mary Schumacher at Miss Schumacher
bungalow on Ames hill.