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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16
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Q. What is the history of the Sword
of Damocles" ?-J. H. S.
a P "a zoe o, was courier ritter and syco-
the tyrant of Syracuse His praises OF
the lot of kings were sung until Dionysius
silenced him by inviting him to q luxurious
banquet, at which he found suspended over
his head by n single hair, a keen-edged
sword. It was meant to typify the actual
Q. Should one say 81 feel bad" or "I feel
badly" 60 F.
A. The correct form is 81 feel bad"
q. What is white gold made of?-C. G.
A. White gold contains fine gold, fine
silver, pure nickel and iridium
Q. What is tobacco dust, which is used
as fertilizer, made from, and how much
nitrogen and potash does it contain IF.
R. E.
A. Tobacco stems consist of the waste
stems or ribs of the leaves, and parts
of the leaves themselves, which result from
the stripping of tobacco for the manufac-
ture of cigars, or for smoking and chewing
tobacco. The stalks include the main stem
and branches of the plant. The stems are
and the product is valuable for its nitrogen
and potash. The nitrogen content ranges
from to per cent and the potash from
6 to 1osper cent.
Q. r am the daueht of an old soldier
Can obtain pension?-B. B.
A. 1t would depend upon your age. The
Pension Bureau says that there is no law
granting n pension to u soldiers child
who is over 16 years of age.
(Any reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau, Frederic J.
Haskin, director, Washington, d. c. This
offer applies strictly to information. The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal, medical
and financial matters. It does not attempr
take exhaustive research on any subject
Write your question plainly and briefly.
cents in stamps for return postage. All
replies are sent direct to the inQuirer.)
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16
Dorothy Dix Talks
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
The Sugsester Devil.


Ny idea of Heaven is a place with
out a single suggestion in it. 1 ask
nothing better when die than to pass
into a realm of peace where 1 shall
be permitted to do what want to do,
in the way I want to do it, without
dozen people asking me why 1 don't
do it in some other way. 1 am aware
that l shall never attain this bliss
while I ren.ain on this sad old earth,
which is made a vale of tears chiefly
by the demoniac suggeSters with
their maddening interference with
your every act.
You know how it is. for nobody is
lucky enough to escape these pests,
Adam was the only human being who
ever enjoyed a paradise in which no
one told him where to get on, aud
where to get off, and even his respite
was brief. For as soon as Eve ap-
peared on the scene, she began sug-
costing an apple diet to him because
she liked apples, and, bling! The gates
of the Garden of Eden banged to be-
hind him.
Ever since then where two or three
are gathered together, the curse of
the suggester is upon them. No one
is allowed to do their work, to follow
their pleasures, or to rise up or lie
down, or eat, or sleep, or dress, or
marry. or do anything whatsoever
without being showed under by gra-
tuitous and undesired advice from all
about them
This torment of our days begins
with our earliest waking moment
when those of our household demand
to know why we don't take hot bath
if we take a cold one or a cold bath
if we take a hot one, or suggest a
shower if we take a tub. 1t contin-
ues while they suggest that we should
have put on light clothes if we have
donned dark ones, or a different neck
tie from the one we are wearing, or
another pair of shoes from the one
we have elected to wear.
At breakfast it rises to the full
strength of a chorus, and we eat to an
accompaniment of suggestions as to
how much sugar we should put on our
cereal, and how We should drink our
coffee, and how we should eat our
eggs, and wether we should breakfa st
heartily or sparingly, and with the
newspaper or without it.
What meal would be without a
single suggestion as to how we ate it,
and without being told how bad every
thing we like is for our digestion and
how wholesome everything we loathe
is. we can only imagine. It is an
ecstasy that no one who lives with
their family ever experiences. Nor do
you achieve it at a hotel, for the
waiter invariably hangs about you
with his Internal suggestions of every
high-priced thing on the menu.
And it is worse still with your
clothes. When a woman buys a new
frock, she takes into consideration her
purse, her age, her figure, the pur-
pose for which she expects to use the
garment, and her taste. Inasmuch as
she pays for the garment and is going
to wear it, and it pleases her, it would
seem that it is her own affair, and no
body else's business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
The Park Ave. News.
BY LEE PAPE

Weather More and warmer.
Spoarts. Lew Davis has a new pair
of britches half way between brown
and green and red, not matching eny
of his other clothes and weneyer he
starts to come up the street somebody
says Heer comes Lew Davises new
pants.
Skool Notes. The fernace got out
OF order last Munday morning, and
the hole skool got full of smoak and
had to be dismissed, but it was all
rite agen the next day; spelling meny
plans.
Pome by Skinny Martin
The Thawtless Father
My father gave me a derty krack
For sticking my fork in the bred
All he will be sorry and miss me
fearse,
Wen L am ded.
sissiety. A unixpected party took
Crosses house caused by some mem
bers Of sissiety going past jest wen
a ice GREEN freezer full of ice GREEN
was being delivered and then going
GROUND and climbing up on the back
tents and setting there till Mr.
Crosses mother gave them all some,
being peetch and chocklit. Amung
those present was Mr.. Sid Hunt, Mr..
Charles (Puds) Simkins, Mr.. Ed
Wernick and Mr.. Reddy Merry.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. Artie Alexander has one side
of his room papered with magazine
covers, being all the fertilizer he had
got wen his mother found out wat he
was doing,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16
POCKETING THE LOSSES.

A man who recently returned from
the south reports that conditions down
there are deplorabie owing to the low
thought a tariff would help them he
replied emphatically: NO"
The United States is preparing for
exports on a grand scale. It wants
to get rid of surplus cotton, surplus
wheat, surplus cepper-raw materials
and foodstuffs. 1t also has an enor-
nous industrial capacity far in excess
of domestic needs, partly the result of
activities stimulated by the war.
England, according to reports, is
preparing to abandon her century old
policy of free trade and raise a tariff
wall of 33 u per cent in the form of a
specific duty on competitive products.
1t is also proposed to give the board of
trade authority to impose duties to
prevent dumping" by certain other
countries, presumably Germany.
If Germany is to pay any indemnity
of consequence she must export. Ev-
cry other nation now in debt expects
to discharge its obligations thru the
medium of exports. This means
France, Belgium, Spain. Italy, Poland,
Czecho- Slovakia and other countries.
Who is to do the buying, if every
body wants to sell? A world full of
sellers. who refuse to become buyers,
says the Wollman Review, or who
place obstacles in the way of imports,
is a good deal like the community
which proposed to earn<its living by
having everybody do everybody else's
washing.
The trouble with the cotton grow
ers is that they produced cotton, now
worth cents, with labor based on a
Accent price. Wheat and corn grow
ers of Kansas are in a similar predica-
rhent. All are in the same fix as
manufacturers and merchants who
have stocks on hand which cost them
more than present market prices.
Each interest must pocket its share of
the general loss. There is no other
way. No kind of legislation will help.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

The United States senate is wasting
much time in a fruitless debate over
the Colombian treaty. Probably
there are few persons who are not
conversant with the facts regarding
our acquisition of the canal zone. Tho
United States and the rest OF the
world wanted a canal dug across the
Isthmus of Panama, and wanted it
dug promptly. France had been
working on the project for years and
had failed. Satisfactory terms could
not be made with Colombia, which
country owned the land. Spanish
countries are proverbialIy slow in
matters of business. A revolution
arose in the province of Panama. It
may have been connived at by certain
in the evidence. Our government
promptly recognized the new repub-
lie. promised it protection and bought
from it a canal site. Thru the con-
struction of the canal Colombia has
gained more than she lost. We don't
owe her cent. Her claims are based
on sentiment and the fact that she
needs the money. The proposal to
give her $25,00O,OOO is based by some
on a plea of justice; by others on n
desire to obtain her good will. ( But
aside from these considerations it
probably includes a certain amount of
graft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

The average citizen is puzzled as he
scans the market quotations on hides
and leather to understand how it is
that the price of shoes does not come
down, especially when the wages of
factory workers have been reduced.
Certainly it is hard to reconcile pres
ent prices with a recently recorded
transaction of an Iowa farmer in calf
skins. He is reported to have turned
in twenty-five skins and with the pro-
ceeds bought a pair of shoes-and had
st.2O left. 1t is perhaps a long way
from the back of calf to the foot of
a man, says the Buffalo News, but it
will strike the average person that the
fare exacted is unduly heavy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

power by public-utility companies in
1919 was SO billion kilowatt-hours,
according the United States geolog-
zeal survey. department >Uf~the inter-
Tor. OF this power 81 per cent was
produced by fuels-S5 million tons OF
billion cubic feet of gas-the remain
der by water power. Here is shown
a tremendous consumption of fuel
much of which doubtless could be
saved by a further extension of the
use of water power. But so long as
fuel remains cheap and plentiful per
haps conditions will not be greatly
changed. It is the American way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

Genator Ladd of North Dakota, in
? recent address. told his audience
that were it not for the advance in
land values, farmers would go bank
rupt. 1t would be interesting to know
what causes the advance in land val
ues. Farm land is/valuable for what
can be produced on it. Is it not rea-
sonable to believe that if farmers were
making no money out of their business
that land values would decline instead
OF increasing?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

willingness to pay. 1t is not tax
against the living wage, and can be
defended on the ground of social JUS
tice. The tax rate is small and can
be shifted and is not heavily accumu-
lative. 1t is easily assessed and fully
collected at a reasonable expense and
without harassing the taxpayers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

Not long ago the country was told
that Henry Ford was hard up and was
trying to negotiate a huge loan. Now
advices from Wall street state that he
has been paying off loans, amounting
to few millions. before maturity.
Possibly both stories are true. How
ever this may be, he continues to
brew&
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

Senator Smoot is reported to favor
a gross sales tax instead of the ex-
cess profits tax, on the ground that
there will be no reason for the con-
sumner bearing any more than the ex-
act tax A similar law is being sue
cessfully administered in the Philip
pine. Islands and is the biggest reve-
nue. producing item. The whole tax
burden is distributed among all and
to each according to his ability and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

Great Britain, Spain, Argentina,
Australia and number of other coun-
tries have been reported as increasing
the duties on imports, in some in
stances on specific articles, in others
by way OF general tariff revision. At
this rate the world soon will be de-
void of buyers. 1t looks as tho the
home market idea is being over
worked
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

Aside from the federal treasury
there is nothing like an insurance
company to keep money moving.
During the past year the companies
have paid out in the settlement of
claims more than a million dollars for
every day of the whole year. And it
is predicted that even this record will
be surpassed during the year to come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16
Mouhon Musings

BY ROY X. MOULTON.

Renewal.
Time keeps its old accustomed round;
The year renews itself once more;
In yearning sky and quickening ground
Life throbs and Dungeons as before.
The bluebird swells his throat with song,
And small wing'd creatures without name
Stir and mount upward, as along
The pastures cowslips run like flame.
The challenge of proud chanticleer,
The mellow lowing of the kline,
Make jocund music far and near,
While singing runlets glance and shine.
The keen, damp scent of fresh-t turned mold,
The buds with vernaI showers wet,
Still waken memories, as of old,
All poignant with a wild regret
Doris Kenyon.
We like to see the newspapers go
into a matter thoroly and to picture
a news stony to the limit, but.
In the Stillman case, one paper pre-
scented nine or ten pictures of the Still
man hunting estate in the Canadian
woods, the lodge. the caretakers, etc.
the Stillman family COW. 1t is fairly
good-looking COW, but then why show
partiality? Why leave out the gold
fish, the family cat, the carpet
sweeper. the coffee percolator and the
wire dishrag?
A lady out our way was very much
| incensed when she found her ten-year-
old son smoking cigarets in the garage
back of the house, and she took him
in and gave him a good hiding. The
trouble was that he was using up her
own monogrammed, gold-tipped ones
A mass meeting of thieves, to de-
mand share in the new regime in
Russia and a chance for a fresh start
was recently held, 1t is reported, al
osoff-on-the-Don. Speeches were
made by leading thieves, outlining the
difficulties and beseeching the help Of
the community.
This appears to us to be a particu'
larly pathetic situation, and it is g
distinctly sad commentary upon con-
ditions in the Trotzky community. 1
proves more than ever the sad physi
cal condition of tie country. WheT
the burglars. yeggs. porch-climbers
| stick-ups. second-story workers and
dips can't make a living, what chance
has anyone else?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

A statesman writes for history. A
newspaper man writes to beat the
dead line" The fact that President
Harding barely caught the last edi-
ton fixes his status; he's newspaper
man, all right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

That ought to start the argument,
and such, we may add, is its purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

1.-THE initiative. referendum and re-
,all," saws the argumentative and pro-
found New York American, Twill re-
store to the people power to register
promptly thier own mental and social
orOgresS"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

The fact that Mr.. Drinkwater "flub-
bed' his photography and that he
failed to realize Lincoln's surround
ings and his time may be passed over
lightly. The author admits as much.
But Lincoln belonged to the idiomatic
school and Drinkwater makes him
almost "a ranter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16
A THINNER Word Is Preferable.

STANDARDIZATION I have just
finished reading 1.-THE Enchanted
Canyon" by Honore Willsie, and find
the word intrigue" used in one form
or another at least six times. Stokes
is the publisher and you may be right
in your conjecture that Harper's will
get it yet. What do you think of the
''pIash ?" Isn't it too fat a sound for
water? l.. /. F.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

We doubt the initiative, referendum
and recall would have that effect. But
the possibility exists and, for that rea-
son, the country can't afford to take
the chance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

If the people. we go on to say, had
been given the power to register
promptly their own mental and social
country would now be >levying addf-
tional taxes to pay the German in
demnity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

parents have threatened their
children bodily HARM" says an A. p.
story from -Westfield, ''if they give
school authorities further information
on ether-drugging that has now be-
come popular among many residents
here, according to Investigations made
today by School Superintendent Ches-
ter N. Stiles"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

Mrs Estelle May Matley, who shot
at a man in New York on Monday. is
also an elocutionist. The possibility
of convicting a woman for the alleged
offense of shooting at a man is very
remote, but they might be able to
stick" Mrs. Matley on the other
charge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-16

There has been some discussion as
to whether President Harding is q
man or merely the proprie-
tor of a newspaper. He has con-
WINGED the column that he is a news
paper man, and will hereafter be
classified as such. Late Monday night,
lead pencil in hand and a bunch of
copy paper in front of him, he was
still grinding away on his message.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-10-28

destruction, wrought by a war that
has never ended and that today Is not
even ended. 1t is starvation following
pestilence, and stalking hand in hand
with death from exposure, from VIC
lence or from disease.
I'm the mountains between Kars
and Alexandropol there are PCS, 900
human beings without clothing, food or
shelter In the bitter winter, who are
wandering from place to place like
people in a nightmare. Unless they
are succored before the end Of an
other month. they will all be dead.
In southern Persia, the remnant of the
ancient family of Chaldean Christians
have been forced to renounce forever
all hope of ever returning to the home
land where they have dwelt and flour
Ished for 1000 years, and to become
pItiful fugitlves, dependent upon the
generosity of strangers for life itself
In Clllcia, 1900 Armenian refugees
have crowded into the coast regions
seeking safety from the anarchy which
reigns In the interior, in terror for
their lives. They live from day to
day on the food which Is given them
In the soup kitchens established by
the Near East Relief. Scattered
throughout the Near East, there are
some 7,700,400 Armenlans, the re-
malnder Of a nation Of 100000, who
have neither government country,
homeland, shelter or hope Of regenera-
ton, save that which lies in the great
heart of America.
at is a tragedy so stupendOus that
It is difficult for Us to grasp Its mean
ing. A whole nation. living, Christian
i AsSFwmE~wmr@~s
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-10-28

people, face 10 face with extcrlnlna.
ton today, unless we help We shall
see an entire nation disappear from
the face OF the earth before our eyes
II we withhold our hand now, when
the call comes TO US to save by giving.
or by inaction to condemn TO death.
Save the chlldrenl
Perhaps we cannot save all the
grown people Of this Oldest Christian
nation In the world But Mt least we
can save the little children who hold
the future In their hands. They have
wronged no one. They have harmed
no one. And they have suffered
through the precious years of child
hood calvary of agony and wretched-
ness For three years the Near East
Relief, an American organiEa ton, In
corporated by Congress, has built up
the nucleus Of new generation In the
Near East, with the little children
that II has taken In from the roadside
and barren places, and nursed back 20
health, fed. clothed, housed and edu-
Gated, IN the name of the American
people who have furnished the funds
TOT THIS great WORK,
This has been our signal contribu-
ton to the worlds future peace-that
tens OF thousands of these little ones
shall oil their lives look 10 us with
gratitude and faith. II In a seed OF
world brotherhood that We have sown
Shall we let Il die nowf
'"The Near East Relief Ia appealing
to the American people for the money
to so on with this work-to keep these
little ones alive and to save this
martyred Christian people. Sixty dol
lars per year-$l0 per month--feeds a
child We have taken this great re.
sponsibility upon Va. A whole nation
looks to us In faith and trust.
''We cannot betray them now"
Contributions may be sent TO ClevO
land H. Dodge. Treasurer, Madison
Avenue. New York City.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-10-28
THE LAND OF sEoINNINo AGAIN.

I wish mat there were some wonderful
place
Called the Land Of Beginning Again.
Where all our mistakes and all our heart
aches
And all our poor selfish grief
Could 10 dropped like q shabby coat as
the floor
And never be put on again.
I wish we could come on Il unaware.
Like the hunter who finds lost trail.
And wish that the one whom our blind
ness had done
The greatest injustice Of all
Could be At the gatea. like an old friend
that waits
For the comrade he's Siaddeat 20 hail
We would md all the things we intended
70 do.
But forgot and remembered too late
Littls praises unspoken. little promises
broken,
And all the thousand and one
Little duties neglected that might have
perfected
The day for one less fortunate
II wouldn't be possible not to be kind
In the Land of Beginning Again;
And the ones we misjudged and the ones
whom we grudged
Their moments OF victory here
Would find in the grasp OF our loving
hAndclasp
More than penitent lips could explain.
For what had been hardest we'd know
had been best
And what had seemed lost would be
gain;
For there isn't sting that win not take
wing
And think that the laughter Is most
what we're after
In the Land of Beginning Again.
Frankfort State Journal