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Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-06
PARCEL POST
MUST PAY ITS
UPKEEP HAYS
Postmaster General Says Rates
Will Go Up if Loss Is
Due to Service.
SYSTEM IS COMMERCIAL
Years Deficit in Postal Re
ceipts to Approximate
$84,0O0,0OO.

WASHINGTON Aug. 6.-Parcel
post rates must be increased if an
investigation shows that this service
is responsible for an expected deficit
of $7O,OOOOO0 in the postal revenue
this years Postmaster General VIII
H. Hays said today.
Accountants and postof1ce en-
gineers are checking through the en-
tire country to learn if the parcel
post is, as suspected, one Of the two
big losing ventures Of the depart
ment.
Until 1920 postal revenues exceeded ex-
penditures for several years, but now
deficits are showing, due to business de-
preston, increased wages and increased
compensation to railroads for carrying
mail
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-06
DEADLOCK
L SHARP ONE.

Members Of Congress, with an eye to
the coming congressional elections, on
which their political lives depend, es-
innate that these figures can be trimmed
by al least 5000. 900 900. perhaps more. So
far they have refused TO figure on a ma
tional spending bin OF more than four
and a half billion Of dollars.
And there the deadlock exists. Both
sides are standing pat, apparently wait
ing for some word from on high.
The political difficulty Is difference
iu policy between the Treasury and Con
gress The Treasury fay0rs a pay as
you enter policy with current bills
paid on the spot from current revenues.
Many leaders in Congress contend this
Is unnecessary, that it is putting too
heavy a burden on the public this year
10 expect the already weary taxpayer TO
take up the wartime slack in single
year
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-06
HARDING TO
FACE SHARP
TAX REVISION
Congress and Treasury De-
partment DeadIOcked Over
Program for 1922.
EXECUTIVE MUST ACT
BOrah Again to Front With
Proposal for Further Cut
in Army.

WASHINGTON, Aug. S.-Presi-
dent Harding is coming home from
his vacation to find another conflict
in progress between the executive
and legislative branch of the Gov.
ernment
1t appeared certain today that
only Presidential Intervention can
straighten out the tangle over the
1922 taxes and end the dispute be-
tween Congress and the Treasury
Department over how much is neces-
sary to keep the wheels of the Gov
ernment turning for another year.
Secretary of Treasury Mellon and has
advisers. with an eye to the spending
needs Of the Government, estimate the
Government will need $3.50 100000 and
they have put up TO Congress the job
OF proving it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25
Dinner Stories

Tomorrow" announced 5-year-old
Frank proudly to his Sunday school
teacher. sis my birthday"
why" returned she, lit is mine.
too
The boys face clouded with per-
plexity, and after a brief silence he
said:
How did you get so much bigger'n
me?'
We have communicated with the
spirit of Diogenes.
Ask him. we requested the me-
dunn. TASK him il he really lived in a
tub,''
The table moved nervously, the me
dunn snored, and from her lips came
the very voice of the great Athenian:
At owned a yacht, you call it house,
boat" said the sage. Il lived on It.
The Jealous yachtsmen of the times
called It a tub. Gimme a drink /
say. gimme
The voice died away, but We had
solved mystery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25

Great Britain is reported to have re-
turned to a protective tariff policy.
This report is heralded with great glee
by protectionists of this country as a
e"hard slap at the free traders" When
the United States shall have captured
tent that England has done it may be
that we can profitably extend our
protective tariff. 1t should not be for
gotten that England became the
.greatest commercial and maritime
nation in the world without protec-
tive tariff. What England has done
we should be able to do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25

violent love to the few wall flowers
as he whirled past them or now and
again Selling some sQuealing small girl
and literally carrying her In triumph
thru a number. He was the life of
the crowd-everybody said SO. Until
midnight, with the second spread
satisfying hunger and thirst, he did no
more than smile at Emma Palmer
Brice stuck to her like a leech-they
danced nothing but the one-step-in-
termediates they sat out, even the
basket cotillion. Yet the stranger
sank gratefully into seat aside from
the supper throng, saying hushedly:
"Pardon-but I'm bit tired. Got up
at daylight, did my days work so as
to get my evenings play
"Just like you. Prexy," Billy said,
approaching them with q laden tray.
Conscience will be the death of you
yet unless you take me for a guar
dian. Don't break my heart by saying
you've forgotten Bad Billy. How 1
did devil you-when you were cram
ming me to save me from flunking."
"T-you-why, yes-I do remember"
Prexy suffered. Billy set down the
tray with a flourish and somehow
managed awkwardly to dislodge the
scratch. And one look Emma's eyes
told him all he cared to know. So.
until homing time he kept on being
the life of the party.
.(Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25
THE srREEr RAILMAY.

In its order granting the street rail-
way permission to reduce the wages OF
its employees, the Industrial court. calls
attention to a situation that exists in
many other cities. The court points
out that the revenues of the company
have been reduced thru the competi-
tlon of the jitneys.
1t might be pointed out in this con-
nection that this sort of competition
DID not become serious until after the
price of fares had been advanced. It
is doubtful that there would now be
much competition of this sort were
fares restored to the old rate.
Under the former rate the street
cars would get the patronage not
only Of those who now ride in jitneys,
but also the patronage OF many who
now walk or ride in their own cara.
1t matters not how much the company
needs the money II the public will not
pay it. 1t might be better for the
street railway to haul more persons
at a lower price. The plan works in
most lines of business. Volume is
what counts.
In a number of cities fares have
been placed higher than they are IN
Topeka and generally with more dis
astrous consequences to the roads. In
some cities the high rates have been
reduced in an effort to win back lost
business. In others. the railway man.
}agement has tried to maintain the ad-
vanced rates. The public is familiar
with what happened in Des Moines.
Theory and sentiment both may be
and possibly are on the side of the
to patronize the cars. there seems to
be nothing left to do but to make Z
price which win attract business. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25
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Frank Morrison. secretary of the
American Federation of Labor,
charges that Gigantic lockout plot"
is responsible for the widespread I'M
employment that now exists. Mr..
Morrison undoubtedly is wrong but
it should not be surprising if he were
right 1t is conceivable that employ
ers might grow tired~of paying high
wages and at the same time seeing a
considerable percentage of those
wages flowing into war chests to be
used in fighting those same employ
ers for still higher wages. The policy
pursued by the labor unions in the
past calls to mind the old story, of the
farmer who bought more land~to raise
more corn to feed more hogs to buy
more land to raise more corn and SO
on. They demand more wages to
build up a larger war chest to fight
for more wages to create bigger war
fund to force higher wages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25

lords do not care to turn these over
for such purposes il they can avoid
1t, as the wear and tear of the prop
erty is a large item. Then again.
there is the trouble of completely fur
nishing a whole apartment house for
temporary tenants, as the disarma-
ment conference may not last more
than six months at the most.
There has been some suggestion of
having some of the delegates live in
Baltimore. but this has been discard
ed because of the worry and annoy
ance of having to commute daily to
Washington, forty miles away. So
Washington, small as it is in COMPARE
son with other capitals and i'll
equipped to handle such a large gath
ering, has got to spread itself out in
some way and assirnilate 10000 peo-
pie who will stay here until spring.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25

people are demanding lower prices
and are no respecters Of persons or
conditions.
of the late Grover Cleveland. is con-
fronted by condition and not a the
DRY. theoretically, higher fares
should bring bigger profits. In actual
practice, it seems. they have not
done SO.
Reference is made by the court to
the amount of taxes paid by the COM
pany but the Jitney owners probably
pay more in proportion to value If
property in use than does the railway.
They are taxed on their investment
and must pay various license charges
besides
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25

Some persons seem disposed to
make light of Henry Ford's success in
operating a railroad and suggest that
he cannot know more about railroad
ing than do men who have grown up
in the business. The secret of Mr..
Ford's success probably lies in his ap-
plication of principles which have
succeeded in other lines of industry to
the railroad business. Men who have
grown up in the railroad business are
prone to stick to the old theories.
They seem to fail to realize changes
that have taken place in conditions.
For instance, it would never occur to
them to dispense with the services of
any high salaried employees, or to con-
vert private cars into money making
passenger coaches. Such things sim
ply have not been done until Mr.. Ford
did them and he is not a railroad
man. Not being a railroad man he of
course will be regarded by the Initial
ned as not knowing what he is abour.
But he is making his road pay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A GUEST.
THE TRUANr SPIRIT.


/ have no he&t for my tasks today
My soul has fed to the far away,
And now it is playing the tramp some
where
Where the breezes blow and the hills are
fair,
And it mocks at me when I'd call It back,
And bids Inc turn from the beaten track
To the moss-grown woods and the cooling
To spend a day in the land OF dreams.
Strangers come to my door and speak
And quit my room in a fit of pique,
But little they guess that the flesh they
see
Is merely a photograph of me;
Here is my form in the garb wear,
This is my head with the tousled hair,
But l have fled to the far-away.
For the soul Of me is a tramp today.
Oh fools. who. think in their gift of power
They can chain a man for a single hour
Little they gain If the body stays
And only the flesh of a man obeys;
So far as the eye can sec, sit
At my desk today-but I'm far from II,
For my truant spirit has wandered far
To the summer hills where the giories are
Copyright, 1921 by Edgar A. Guest.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
MUNKEYS~
BY LEE PAPE.

Our ancestors descended from mum
Millions of centuries ago,
But judging by the looks of some
people
It was ony last yeer or so.
All rnunkeys make the same kind of
And look like one another,
Proving even if nobody elts did,
At leest they descend from each other.
8
The tame ones eat peanuts in cages,
But deep in their jungle lair
They drink the milk out of coconuts,
Proving they knew it was there.
Monkeys like to travel like a squerrel
throo the trees
Insted of on the ground like a rabbit,
And they spend their spare time
scratching, which may be part
Iy fleaS
But is proberly partly habit.
o they hang by their tales from
brantches
Swinging neer and far
AS if they thawt they was champeen
= ackrobats
On the hortzontle bar.
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gone so far as to say there is no such
word as ''tenderer." know you like
to start something; that Is why
thought I would drop you a line.
J. L. H.
We don't pretend TO know. Our
system is familiar to most readers OF
the column; we shall arnplify it for
J. L H. When we need q word we
take one. If it. happens to fit. well
and good. II it doesn't. somebody
writes in and tells US about it.
BY consent we shall refer the ques-
ton propounded by ]. L. H. to the
Executive Board OF the Plumb Plan.
It isn't busy and 1t has nothing else
to do.
Since we asked that the courtesy be
extended to it, we are frank to say we
are disappointed in the fit thrown by
the New York World over the appoint
ment of Senator Lodge to head the
delegation to the Disarmament con-
vention. To our notion. the fit the
World threw over Chairman Lasker. of
the shipping board. was a much more
intriguing and effective performances.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25

from an escutcheon? w. NJ. o.
"A. This mark in heraldry cannot be
it, and not even then unless It is replaced
! by some other mark assigned by the king
Of arms. or unless the coat is changed.
G. d. "nen Is SAINT O'0seS DaS' d.
A. This is term used by. English
gust, the day upon which the shooting
q. what is meant by higher criti-
A. Higher criticism is criticism OF the
Biblical writings with the aim of ascer.
tanning their authorship, dates. and general
peculiarities of style, historical illusions
and dominant ideas. The. term is used to
lower criticism, which aims to. reconstruct
| the autograph texts of the Bible.
Q. Has the number Of foreigners in this
country increased since the 1910 census !?
A. The foreign born white population
in IL 1920 20 was 12069S1, while in 1910. 1t was
ulation of the United States, however, the
percentage of such foreigners has de-
+ o. Please describe the Lamona chicken =?
H. D. c.
A The Lamona is a new breed of fowl
developed by the department Of agriculture.
The fowls are white. larger than Leghorns,
with long deep bodies, well feathered,
comb and wattles of medium size, red ear
=
| breed is not ready yet for introduction to
| poultry farmers.
Q. In which one Of Shakespeare's plays
does the character Cobweb appear: ]. +. S.
A. Cobweb is one of four fairies that
anpeaE in shnkespeare's midsummer
and later in act 4. scene 1.
O. Who was the Man with the Iron
a. Opinions still differ as to the iden-
tity of the prisoner confined in the Bastile,
who was known as the Man with the Iron
/ Mask. He was buried under the name OF
Marchial and has been said to be the
Duke of Vermandois; son Of Louis XIV
| an elder brother of Louis XIV; a twin
o coa0f MattSo apd o 81
| O. How much money was spent on the
! air service during the war? r.. F. w.
penditure re has been GEMS 81 500. 900 900 Figures
recently compiled show that the entire cost
of the air service during the war, including
the building of airplanes. the aecumulating
of material, and the maintenance OF the
| service abroad. amounted to $722 900 600
| This did not include the pay of officers
O. Please state the values Of United
| States postage stamps printed with Wash
ington's head and those bearing Frank
A. The postoffice department says that
1-cent to T-cent stamps are printed with
f'6-doflar stamps. inclusive, are printed with
| the picture of Franklin.
| (Any reader can get the answer to any
| journal Information Bureau, Frederic J.
!. Haskin, Director, Washington, d. c. This
| offer applies strictly to Information. The
| Bureau cannot give advice on legal. med
| zeal and financial matters. 1t does not at 4
tempt to settle domestic troubles. nor tol
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25
Dorothy Dix Talks
Be Natural, GirIs-2.

Take the very common case of the
quiet, demure little girl who tries to
be vivacious because she thinks men
admire girls with lots of pep to them.
In trying to be gay and merry she is
merely loud and vulgar. She doesn't
laugh. She screams. She is SO afraid
she won't be chatty that she talks an
incessant stream. She desires to be
friendly with men, so she's too IA
miliar. She is noisy, tiresome. bore
from whom men flee, but she would
be charming II she would be her own
natural gentle self.
Then. there's the big girl who thinks
that cunning little kitten girls, who
CURL up in the corners of divans, and
sit on tables and swing their feet.
make a nit with men. So she tries it
with the result that she looks like a
performing elephant. But she might
be daughter of the gods. admired by
all beholders, If she would only dress
and conduct herself on the splendid
dignified lines that nature laid down
for her.
Girls are even silly enough to affect
vices that they do not possess. know
one young girl who is the talk of her
set because of the brazen way she gets
herself up. and the barely decent
clothes she wears. Conservative peo-
pie do not like to be seen out with
her. but the girl is in reality sweet and
dear, with honest principles, a de-
voted and helpful daughter. She brings
all of this criticism down on her foot
ish little head by thinking that she
ish little head by thinking that she
makes herself attractive by looking
like a sport
Many poor girls injure their chances
of marrying by pretending to be bet
ter off than they are. Young men
money, and they see the girls dressed
like fashion plates. and hear them
talk largely of cheap little hats that
only cost 800, or bargains in French
models at three and four hundred.
So far as the men know these girls
have on their expensive garments, and
they shy away from wives whose mil-
linery bills would make their salaries
loolS sick. They don't know that the
girls are clever with their needles and
sleuths at hunting down bargains. and
that they make every garment they
possess.
1t doesn't pay to pose. girls. Espec-
tally with men. None of us can give
a life-like imitation of qualities we do
not possess or understudy another.
When we do, we are as ludfcrous as
the ass who tried TO disguise himself
in the lions skin. And we are always
found out. A million little things be-
tray us, so the only safe way Is just
to be ourselves.
After all, the poorest article, II 1t is
.
finest imitation, and this is true OF
people as we'll as things. We laugh
at those who pretend to know things
that they don't know. but we sympa-
thize with honestly confessed ignor-
ance and try to enlighten It. We re-
spect the girl who is a working girl
and proud of 1t. blu TIVE have contempt
for the girl who pretends that she
is working just for a fad, or a queer
experience.
So be sincere. Be natural. Be
yourself. And IL one type of man
doesn't admire you. another will
There are millions of men and they
all have different ideals about women.
except in one respect. None of them
likes an artificial. affected one.
Av~ 49,
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Financiers are growing alarmed
over the rate at which the public is
rushing into debt. 1t is pointed out
that for the first five months of this
year $500, 667,901 of public bonds
were issued. But no account seems
to be taken of the bonds that are paid
off eYerY wear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25

The people of this country are told
that the allies are unable to pay their
debts to us and it is known that they
are not even paying the interest. Yet
Germany is rapidly discharging a
much larger debt and is paying the
money over to those same allies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25

Saving money thru disarmament
will begin with the spending of $780,
600 on the conference.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25
Business of stepping on the Gas.

Business of Stepping on the Gas
Sir-Last week at luncheon one day
was eating some shrimp salad and
in a needless moment passed the re-
mark that I thought shrimp much
tenderer than lobster" started
something. The discussion whether
much tenderer or more tender" is
correct isn't fairly started. and have
been howled at ever since. Some have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25

Hereafter, when we want a fit
thrown we shall not ask that the
World be accorded the privilege of
throwing it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25
Eoening Story
The Life of the Party.

BY MARTHA NC. WILLIAMS.
III give you a paper Of pins II that's
the way love begins,
If you will marry meme! II you viii
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25

The average girl gets about the same
response from a ukelele that she gets
from a piano. and it is unnecessary. to
employ an expensive teacher to give
her lessons. She can pick up every
thing she needs to know about it.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1921-01-13

H " Gates, president Of the Hepp-
ner Light O. Water Co. came over from
Terr.bonne Monday ana is assisting
ln Che work of readjustIug rates for the
electric juice users OF Heppner. Lex
iugton and lone. as per the order re-
Gently issued from the office Of the
Public Service Commission
Dan Collins. who was seriously hurt
la few days ago by a premature dis
charge Of powder while at work on tn.
county road. is reported by his physl
clan, Or. c. c. Chick, 10 be doing well.
Collins is at the Moore hospital in this
city and should be fully recovered from
his injuries within a few days
Wade Carpenter, who has been quite
sick at his room adjoining the Elkhorn
restaurant for which institution the
old gentleman works. was removed to
the Moore hospital Monday, where he
is under the care Of DR.. Chick, county
physician He was threatened with
pneumonia but the doctor states he is
out OF danger from that source now
and viii be able to be about again in a
few days
r. j. Merrill got in Monday evening
with load Of wheat from his plac.
near Hardman. Mr.. Merrill is a sheep
and cattle raiser as well as a wheat
grower and with his many neighbors is
enjoying prosperity" based on a bum
market Cattle won't bring anything,
wool will not sell and cannot be given
away and what a man can get on the
present wheat market won't set him
ahead much. However. Ed is not COM
planning and is as optimistic as ever.
While coming in from the country
late last Friday evening, County Agent
Hunt had the misfortune TO run his
Lizzie into the ditch some eight miles
out from town. The car plunged its
nose into the mud at the bottom of the
ditch and stood up with the hind