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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-01
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE

I delibritly told Mary Watkins big
compliment vile I was setting on her
frunt steps Sunday aftirnoon, her
starting it by saying. Say Benny, who
do you think is the prettiest gerl er-
round heer. I jest wunt to know out
OF curiosity?
WITCH 1 started to say, You are. but
I got too bashful. and 1 sed, o don't
know, do you mean the best looking
one?
Yes. do you thing Loretter Mincer
is? 1 think Loretter Mincer is very
pritty, do you think she's the prettl-
est? sed Mary Watkins.
Well. 1 don't know, no. don't think
so, I don't think / do, 1 sed.
Well then who do you think is? I'm
jest asking you out of pure curiosity,
sed Mary Watkins. Haven't you eny
got a preferentS. l know who the
preferents is. 1 sed. Feeling like say
ing You but not saying it, and she
sed, Well then wich gerl Ground heer
do you think is the best dressed, do
you think Maud Jonsin is?
o don't know. no, don't think so,
no, not Maud Jonsin, sed.
Well who then, I'm ony asking out
of plane curiosity. sed Mary Watkins.
Do you think Loretter Mincer is the
best dressed? she sed.
No, not her, I sed. and Mary Wat
klns Sed, Wen WhoE Have you eny
preferents for the best dressed one
and I sed. Yes. the preferents is the
same as the preferents for the best
looking one.
Well I cant CESS, I simply cant CESS,
I jest simply have no ideer, sed Mary
watkins
:. You, I sed.
Wy Benny Potts, you big nattering
thing you, 1 never herd sutch brazen
face flattering in all my life Wv Benny
Potts, sed Mary watkins sounding
more diskusted than wat she looked.
Being how 1 delibritIy told her a
big compliment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-01

Promising signs of business i'm
provement are seen by the National
City bank of Chicago which says jr
its November 1 bulletin: "The coun-
try is getting into. better shape and
slowly but surely the complicated
problems of the readjustment period
are being solved satisfactorily. The
undertone to business is good and in
various lines there are gains over .ass
year. There has been considerable
Roadway made within the last six
weeks in liquidating long-standing in
debtedness. People are feeling more
hopeful than they did and there is 40
doubt that the country is making sus-
tanned Roadway in directions where a
year ago very great uncertainty pre-
vailed"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-01
JUST FOLKS
IMITATION.
ny EDGAR A. GUEST.


It's good to hear a glad hello
And get smile from men you know.
| like to feel. in times Of doubt,
That there are friendly men about.
And some who care. and some who'll stay
To help me on my troubled way.
/ know that oft my blood is stirred
To hear kind and cheerful word.
It's good to feel within your hand
A grip which makes you understand.
Far more than words which leave the lip,
The depth and warmth Of fellowship.
know my heart has oft rejoiced
To hear a friendly greeting voiced,
And / have hummed a cheerful song
Because a friend has come along.
II others mean so much to me.
What must l mean to those I see7
If what they say and what they do
Has power TO thrill me thru and thru,
Then why should l not, as go,
Give every map glad hello"
And try to cheer his life the way
That mine is cheered from day TO day?
Since frieadllness makes me rejoice.
To friendly words III lend my voice:
.;ince kindness warns the heat of me,
A kindly man III try to be:
Since I prefer the man who gives
A portion of the life he lives
To others, I shall also try
To be like him as time goes by.
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A Gaest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-01

department. We promise you to talk.
and well not talk booze. And we're
not reforming anything. I should say
mott We're rather young. some of us
there's quite a mob-just out of the
flapper stage, but we like to sing BE
lieve Me if All Those Endearing
Young Charms" So if the remarks
in your column about wanting dates
were anything more than filters, this
is a bona fide invite. /. H. S.
We leave it to you. Did we or did
we not accept the invitation?
The difference between the east and
the middle west is thar II takes n little
longer to stir the east to white heat.
The controversy over the spelling of
Muscle Shoals" which was closed,
as far as this column was concerned,
early in September. is just getting a
good start in the New York papers.
1t may interest you to know there
now is much support of our conten-
ton that it should be ''Mussel Shoals"
We suppose the credit for writing the
first note of dissent eventually will
be taken away from US and given
to some New York man. 1t is the way
of the world.
Years ago we wrote the first des-
senting note against the Saturday AFTER
noon haircut. 1t was a crusade cele-
bre and we finally drove the Saturday
afternoon haircut out of the old home
town. But we derived no permanent
glory from it. Walt Mason got credit
for it, altho Walt did not get into the
fight until we had it won.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-01

Delay in passage of the pending
revenue bill improves the chances of
the sales tax in the view of Henry
Clews, who says: "A notable feature
of the congressional situation has been
SmOot sales tax proposal. There are
many who believe that it may yet gain
at least a partial foothold in the bill
during the conference between house
and senate" If Mr.. Clews's judgment
be correct the people can we'll afford
to walt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-01
Questions-AnsDers

Q. How large is the furniture industry
in the United States? R. H. J.
A. The annual output of this industry
averages about 300000000.
O. Who originated the fresh air move
ment to give city children summer vaca-
tipns II The fhf Re e0nprd VIM Mub,enberg of
New York is credited with having started
the first fresh air movement in 1919.
9. Was Whistler. the famous artist, a
A. james Abbott Mcneil whistler was
born at Lowell; Mass. July 10. 1884 His
Q. What is the dress of the Scotch High
landers? What are the coIors of the
Campbell and Maclachlan clans? t P.
A. Scotch Highlander's costume con-
sists of a kilt; sporan or purse: filthy
or bag. jacket; plaid and bonnet. The
blue and black. The Campbell coiors are
blue, green and yellow.
O. What is the difference between an
A. The main difference between the
vuitures is that the former will attack Iiv-
other respects, the eagle is not far removed
from vultures in either structure or dis
position.
o. Please give the names Of the late
Theodore Rooseyelt's brothers and sisters !:
A. Eliot Roosevelt. the only brother of
the late Theodore Roosevelt. is dead. His
two sisters are Mrs Corinne Roosevelt
Robinson, and Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Cowles
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-01

The fight over the tax. bill in the
senate seems to make possible a de-
lay sufficient to render the bill mop
erative' for the current year. Collec-
ton nEust begin shortly after the new
year and if changes shall be made
probably new forms must be printed.
Unless there be speedy action the peo-
pie may expect to hear that it is too
late to make any change in the sched-
ules this year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-01
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-01

The president of the State Fedora
ton of Labor is calling upon the
unions to put up a large amount of
money for the purpose of maintaining
the miners of the Pittsburg district IN
idleness. How long does Mr.. Free
man thing employers will be willing
to pay scale of wages which enables
Their employees to support the en-
ployes of others in idleness?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-01

Congress could do much toward
helping the transportation situation by
removing the tax on freight and pas
scnger business. 1t is not necessary
to wait for the passage of the pending
revenue bill. Repeal of the transpor-
tation taxes could be accomplished at
once thru enactment of a separate
rllnns.irn-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-01
Dorothy Dix TALKS
The sporting Attitude-f.
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worries RIShest Paid Woman Writer,

An old man, looking back across
the long stretch of more than eighty
years, said to me:
II have eaten what was set before
me. and asked no questions"
Could any philosophy be broader or
more comprehensive than that? Could
any attitude towards life be Drawer
than that? Isn't it the very quin-
tessence of the sporting spirit, to take
fate as it comes, without whining
when things so badly, without boast
ing when things go we'll?
All of us would ike to be born
with the traditional gold spoon in our
mouths. and to have life to perpetual
banquet at which every dish was
masterpiece of the culinary art, pre-
pared by a chef.
Unfortunately, the dish that fate
sets before most of us in youth is
poverty, garnished by self denial, and
favored with hard work, and whether
we get joy, and strength, and health
out of the eating of that. or whether
it sours upon our stomachs and gives
us the bilious dyspepsia that we call
socialism and anarchy, depends alto
gether on the spirit which we bring to
the meal. We can make it either
feast or famine.
We can rail at the destiny that cast
our lines in hard places. We can rage
because others have automobiles,
while we have to walk. We can be
filled with envy of those who are bet
ter off. We can turn the whole life
into wormwood and gall, that so en-
bitters the very breath we draw that
we are ready to curse God and die.
Or we can eat what is set before
us and ask no questions. We can ac-
cept our portion of poverty, and find
in it much of sweetness and goodness,
much that nourishes soul and body.
Or, if we crave finer fare we can still
eat with gratitude the humble food
that gives us the huskiness and the
spiritual vitamines that enable us 20
climb the ladder of success. For there
is no education like the education that
poverty gives. There is no spur to
ambition like the desire for better
things than one was born to. 1t is the
men like Andrew Carnegie, and
dred others you might name, who ate
oatmeal, and mush and milk in their
boyhoods, who feast on turtle soup
and vintage wines in their middle age.
How much of scandal and divorce
and domestic misery might be pre-
vented. how many children might be
saved from being half-orphaned, and
how many homes might be kept to-
Gether, if only husbands and wives
would make up their minds to eat
what was set before them at the do
mestic table, and ask no questionsl
OF course every young couple that
gets married believes that for the next
angels food. The husband thinks that
marriage is going to be nothing but a
love idyll with a woman who is going
to remain perpetually young and beau
tiful. and eager to please him, and full
of joy and gaiety.
4 II
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-01

1t is reported that provisions by the
carload are being shipped into the
Pittsburg mining district to supply the
miners with food. free of cost to them.
Could anything be more absurd than
furnishing free food to men who
could go into the mines ana earn their
living If they would
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-01

assist the teacher to make well, chill
dren-heaithier.
Not until the schools begin to spend
some time and money on the bodies
as well as the brains of the children
can we hope to reach the govern
ment's aim to have 90 per cent of the
children of the country well nourished.
strong, alert and clean,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-01
Even the FInppers Arc Intrigued.

Sir-How do you like football as
a topic of conversation? We have a
representative of almost every college
not necessarily a graduate-and
things hum. We also have an irreg-
ular, quartet, pianist mandolinist and
two voices of indefinite range. The
point is, if you really would like to
take a chance we would love to have
you come out to dinner 1 consulted
the boss. and she says either Thurs
day or Friday suits the commissary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-01

Sir-Some weeks ago, as 1 recall it,
you spoke of singing during shaving.
Since then I have set a watch on my
unconscious self during shaving and
find that the song sing most often is
Silver Threads Among the Gold.
The words are not appropriate, unless
one wishes, to make an atrocious pun;
but the tune certainly resounds won
derfully in a small bathroom. What
is yours, as they used to say?
A
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-01

It will. we fancy, take quite a while
to Settled all of the various phases Of
the negro question. But most of the
solutions are brought in by gentlemen
who are not afraid of the given prob
lem.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-04-14
DOUr| RODEO. ROlD WILL .BE ! FINISHED SO0N
$ t a te Engineer Declares Link Should Be Ready
 For Use July 1

PHOENIX. April I3.-Thomas Mad dock. state engineer, today returned to Phoenix after having travelled over the state, inspecting state highways. On his return he announced some of the work that will be undertaken by the state highway department in the near future.
 Contractors again are working on the Douglas.Rodeo road in Cochise county, according to Maddock, and the road will be completed by July i. he said. and then there will be a first class highway from the New Mexico state line to within 20 miles of Flor. ence.
 The state highway department will open bids on Friday, Maddoclo said. for construction of another section of the Superior-Miami highway in the re- zion of Pinto creek, in Gila county.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-04-14
Jim LOndOs Loses Spectacular Match
 To StrangIer Lewis

CHICAGO, April 13. - Ed "Strang- Ter" Lewis. heavyweight champion wrestler, defeated Jim Londos in a one-fall match rere tonight in one hour and 52 minutes with the head lock. It was one of the most spec tacular matches ever seen in Chicago. both using every known hold in wrest ling. Through sheer strength and gameness, Londos :withstood six snc- cessive head locks, one lasting five minutes. before he succumed. Lon dos was outweighed 35 pounds.
 Stanislaus Zbyszllo defeated John Pesek, of Ravenna, Neb, in one fall match in one hour and 22 min utes with a crotch and half Nelson. During a tussle for a hold. Pesek was thrown to the floor and dazed. making it easy for Zbyszko to apply the winning hold.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-04-14
A GARDEN OF YELLOW
 LIKE GLORIOUS BLAZE

You never grow tired of yellow flowers-they are like the sunshine whose glorious color they reflect. The following collections offer a wide range of shades in this cheerful color:
 CALENDULA-a hardy annua! known and loved as Pot Marigold.' Germain's improved strain produces mammoth blossoms. often four inches in diameter Three l0c pack ets-Orangc King. Lemon Yellow and Fine Mixed-25e postpaid
 AFRICAN MARIGOLD-bcars profusion of immense ball-shapcd flowers. It is not only a most show garden flower but is also highly prizcd for cutting. Two l5c packets Orange Ball and Lemon Queen- Z5c postpaid.
 Cailiardias and Coreopsis-you'll love them both. The Gaillardia for its striking effect in yellow and brown. the Coreopsis for its beauti- tul blossoms with gracefully lanced petals. Three l0c packcts-Gsillar- dla in Grandinora Mixed and Double Mixed and Coreopsis Lanceolata- 25c postpaid
 Get GerB'oits Garden Gtside
Bisbee daily review., 1921-04-14
CONGRESS GE TS BUSY ON. G.O.P.
 LEGISLATION
Emergency Tariff Bill Ex- pected To Be Passed By
 House On Friday

WASHINGTON, April 13. - Con gress squared away, today on the administration program outlined in President Harding's address.
 In harmony with the presidents recommendations the house arrang. ed to expedite the emergency tariff bill, whose passage is expected Fri. day, while in the senate the resoiu- tion to end the state of war was in troduced by Senator Knox.
 Many bills in both houses. design ed to meet legislative proposals of President Harding also were intro duced. In the senate. Senator Borah Republican of Idaho, re-introduced his naval disarmament resolution, proposing conference of the Unit ed States, Great Britain and Japan.
 The house received the formal re- port on the emergency tariff bill and. after an 11-minute session. adjourn ed until tomorrow. which was set aside for general tariff discussion. Debate Friday is to be limited and a final vote is hoped for before ad- jouTnment
 Discussion of the $25, 1000. 900 Co lombian treaty was resumed today in the senate. which also took up it's committee organization. preeipitat- ing the first partisan clash between ReDubiicans and Democrats.
 Opposition of the latter, who
Bisbee daily review., 1921-04-14
TARIFF PLANS
 ARE: DENOUNCED
,coNrlNuED FROM PAGE oNE1

visions of the bill for fixing the value of foreign money, the report says:
 The present German mark is quot ed as being worth I.62 cents. If this provision becomes a law the secre- tary of the treasury would be com pe.led to calculate the German mark as worth cents, for the bill says that the depreciation in no case can be es- timated at more than 66 2-3 per cent. Duties on goods from Germany there by would be increased 4SO per cent; from Italy 200 per cent; from Aus tria 2,S00 per cent; from Czechoslo- valda A per cent; from Finland 2 per cent; from Hungary 1,7O0 per cent; from Jugoslavia 95 per cent; from Poland 6,100 per cent; from Ru. mania APO per cent; from Serbia 270 per cent, and from Russia 4,3OO per cent.
 The report charges Republican lead CTS with having betrayed consumers ot the east and breaking faith with the farmers of the west.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-04-14
F Physiological Action Of Principal Ingredients Of Celebrated Medicine On the Human System Is Explained.
SUPREMACY CLAIMS
 WELL SUPPORTED
Many eff the Medicinal Ele- ments Have Been Known and Used Since Civiliza- tion First Began.

Tanlac, the celebrated medicine which has been accomplishing such remarkable results throughout this country and Canada, is composed of the most beneficial roots and herbs known to, science. The formula is purely ethical and complies with all National and State Pure. Food and Drug Laws. Altogether, there are ter ingredients in Tanlac. each of which is of recognized therapeutic value.
 Many of these ingredients have been individually known and used since civilization first began, and some of them have been used and prescrib- ed by leading physicians everywhere, but until they were brought together in proper proportion and association. as in the Tanlac formula. humanity had not heretofore realized their full value and effect.
 In referring to one of the more inn portant ingredients of Tanlac, the En- cyclopedia Brittanica says: "It has been the source of the most valuable tonic medicines that have ever bee discovered" In referring to others Of the general tonic drugs contained in Tanlac, the 18th Edition of Potter therapeutics, standard medical text book, states that They import general tone and strength to the en- tire system, including all organs and tissues"
 This same well-known authority, in describing the physiological action of stlii another of the ingredients of Ianlac, which is of value in treating what IS commonly known as run down condition" uses, the following expression; Tt is highly esteemed n
Bisbee daily review., 1921-04-14
3 ARE INDICTED
 BY GRAND JURY
Texas Rancher And Two Sons Held For Staying
 U. $. Dry Agent

FL -PASO. April 1S. - The United States grand jury today returned in dictments against c. P Shearman and his sons, John and Neil Shear man. charging them on two counts with resisting with firearms S. E. Beckett. federal officer. in dis charge of his duty. The Shearmans are in jail without bond under an indictment brought in the state court charging them with the murder of Beckett and c. A. Wood. prohi- ton officers. who were killed March 21 when they attempted to search the Shearman ranch near here for alieg- ed smuggled liquor
Bisbee daily review., 1921-04-14
LEADING, AUTHORITIES NOW SHOW JUST WHAT
 TANLAC REALLY IS

loss of appetite during convaiescence rom acute diseases"
 There are certain other elements m Taniac winch, because of theIr infIu- ence upon the appetILe, digestion, as- SlnIiaIIon and eiImlnaaion, improve the nutrition and vital activity of the tissues and more important organs or the body, and produce that state O: general tonIcity which is called Health.
 The United Staaes Dispensatory makes the following comment regard. ing another ingredient: 1t may be used Ill all cases of pure aeblhJy oi the digestive organs or where a gen eral tome impression is required Dys- pepsia, atomic gout, hysteria and in. termittent fever are among the many affections in which it has proven use full"
 There are certain other ingredients described in the Dispensatory ana m other standard medical text books as having beneficial action upon the organs of secretion, whose proper functioning results in the qualification of the blood streams passing through them. In this manner objectionable and poinsonous ingredients of the blood are removed and the entire sys. tenn invIgorated and vitalized.
 Tanlac was designed primarily for the correction of disorders Of the stomach, liver and bowels. At the same time, however, it is a powerful reconstructive tonic and body builder. for 1t naturally follows that any med icine that brings about proper assim- ilation of the food and a thorough elimination of the waste produc-s must, therefore, have far-reachins and most beneficial effect upon tIe entire system.
 Although Taniac's claims for su. premacy are abundantly supported by the worlds leading authorities. it is the people themselves who have real. ly made Tanlac what it is. Millions upon millions have used it with grat- flying results, and told other millions what it has done for them. That is why Tanlac has become ahe real sen sation of the drug trade in this coun- try and Canada, and that it also why 1t is having the largest sale of any medicine of its kind in the world to- day.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-04-14
Cigarette

charged excessive committee repre- sentation was being grabbed" by 'an autocratic Republican majority forced over final action.
 Committees plan to begin work i'm mediately on the long program of do mestic legislation. The army and navy appropriation bills are to. have preferred status. Fiscal and agri- cultural legislation also are 70 be given prominent places with the tenn porary immigration bill an early measure to. be- pressed, S4