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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PARE

Pop played tennis this afternoon
with Mr.. Jones, and after suppir he
lit his pipe with a match saying. We'll,
I certeny played classy tennis today.
I'm I,roud of myself and I don't care
who knows it.
Who beet? sed ma.
There was quite a crowd standing
GROUND watching, and I CESS you
know if there hadent of bin some
thing to see they wouldent of bin
standing GROUND, 1 CESS you know
you're pritty good Wen you get to the
stage ware you attract a crowd, sed
POP.
Maybe they were watching Mr..
Jones, sed ma.
They were watching me, could sec
them following every stroke, some
people seem to appreciate my good
points even If you don't, sed pop.
Did you beet? sed ma.
We had some mitey close games, its
certeny CRATE exersize. and yeu awt to
take it up, sed pop.
Well I'm willing, goodniss knows, all
you haff to do is teetch me, wen are
you going to teetch me? sed ma.
Eny time, eny time at all, sed pop.
Tomorro, sed ma. and pop sed. Not
tomorro, that's too soon, Ill teeteh you
some time.
You sed ehy time, sed ma, some
time and eny time are 2 different
places.
Its a great game. there's no doubt
about that, sed pop.
Did you beet Mr.. Jones or did he
beet you? sed ma.
I think Ill take a bath, sed pop.
WITCH he got up and went out to do,
proberly proving Mr.. Jones beet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20
MARKING TIME.

Attention is called by the ST. Louis
Times to the fact that the Kansas
mine fight has experienced a change
of aspect. 1t is no longer a dispute
between the state and district No. IA
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea. The struggle has become one of
the district with the parent organiza-
ton itself, for President Lewis of the
latter body has suspended all the dis
trict officers and named a new head
of a provisional district orga nization.
To be sure, the contention is not the
same as that which arrayed Alexan-
der Howat against the state of Kan
sas. Howat has arefused to obey
mandate of the international order,
issued at Indianapolis, that he ,rescind
a strike order which the Indianapolis
conference held TO be in violation Of
contracts between the miners and the
operators. So the present dispute is
as to the power Of a contract of this
character, and it is good to see Presi-
dent Lewis declaring that the miners
must keep their agreement.
without doubt" says the Times,
the international union will be vic
torious over Howat and his fellow Of
ficials of the suspended district. a
distinct advance will thus have been
made in the industrial employment
field. Whenever violation of a con-
tract between employers and workers
is penalized-no matter which side is
at fault-the welfare of both capital
and labor has been advanced"
Since there appears to be no emer-
gency demanding action by the state
it can well afford to let matters take
their course. There seems to be no
immediate danger of a scarcity Of
coal. But should such a danger arise.
there can be little doubt that the in
dustrial court will find a way to meet
and overcome it. At present Kansas
is marking time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20
Dorothy Dix TALKS
ChaIity-1.~
By DOROTHY DIX
Worries Highest Paid Woman writes.

ChaEity-1.~
When we think of giving we think
of. it in terms of money. We stamp
the dollar mark on all charity. The
only people who rouse our pity are
the poverty stricken, and we only feel
it a duty to help those to whom we
can donate food. and clothes, and
shelter
We dig down into our pockets when
we want to help cur fellow creatures
and hand out a few dimes to the poor
wFetches who are in physical need,
but 1t never occurs to dig down into
our hearts, and give Of it's treasures
to the men and women who are starry
ing for sympathy. and cafnpanionship.
and shiveHng in the icy blasts Of lone
liness.
Yet Christ himself set US this ex-
ample of the higher charity. He gave
love to the unloved. He gave back
the dead to those that mourned them.
He gave sympathy and understanding.
He gave wine to make the wedding
feast gayer. He gave health to the
sick, but He never gave any one
money.
1t is a great pity that we put the
price tag on suffering and its allevia-
ton because it keeps us from doing
so much good that we might other
wise do Because we can't build hos
, pitfalls, or endOw clinics, or erect model
tenements, or pay the rent of needy
widows with seven small children, we
feel that there is nothing we can do.
And because we don't know anyone
who is starving to death, or is on the
point of being evicted from their
homes by a cruel landlord, we think
that nobody really needs any as
sistance from u.s. and so our philan-
thropic impulses are strangied in the
cradle. a79 -tftt
We have not vision enough to see
that there are needs of the spirit just
as there are needs of the body, and
| that It is just as true charity to re-
| lieve the one as the other. The poor
rich" is no idle phrase. Some of the
most needy people in the world are
those who have everything that money
can buy. There are men and women
who sit down every day to feasts who
/ are so hungry for little appreciation
| that they grab at kipd word as a
starving dog does at a bone. There
are men and women riding about in
limousines, and paying for expensive
seats at the theater, who are just IS
forlorn and alone in q big city as
Robinson Crusoe was on his desert
island.
| It is these calls upon our charity
that we are too dull to perceive.' Be
cause the rich, and well-to-do don {
tin cup, we do not realize that they
are ready to kiss our feet in gratitude,
and call down all the blessings OF the
saints upon us if we hand them out a
| little friendliness. IL we give them a
little of the gold of our time and at
tention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
RECoNSIRUCToN-OF MEN AND
WOMEN.

WOMEN.
Reconstruction is a very big word
full of meaning. To reconstruct is
really to begin all over again and make
something new out of that which has
been destroyed or worn away.
We hear this appeal on every hand,
reconstruction-of finance, of govern
ment; of industries, and of almost
every phase of activity.
But the greatest and most important
reconstruction process must be of men
and women. Get a man to think right
and he will work and produce right.
watched a workman the other day.
Only about five minutes more and his
job of many days would be finished.
But it was 5 o'clockSso the tools all
dropped and the unfinished work re-
manned. When he took up his work in
the morning, I noted that it took this
same workman about half an hour
just to get his tools and materials
ready to complete the task he had left
the night before.
What is needed in this wcrkaday
world is that every man, woman pnd
child shall take PRIDE in the thing
they do-and that they do it as well as
it can be done. -
On every hand I hear employers
complaining of the fact that they can
not get GOOD workmen-those who
do not have to be watched. This
seems to be a universal condition
with millions out of work as WE'LL
Reconstruct men and women, and
the world will take care of itself
Reconstruct your heart, and your
thinking and your acts will stand out
like the lonely peaks of towering
mountains secure above storms and
stress.
A man must feel right in his Throne
Room if he would invite the outside
passersby to pause about his doorstep
And after all. isn't it worth while
to feel that no one need follow you tc
patch up that which you have
neglected or done in an inefficient
style?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20

Lloyd George is said to be opposed
to the creation of public work for the
benefit of the unemployed, feeling
that it is but a postponement of the
day of reckoning. He feels convinced
that the unemployment problem in
England is not temporary, but that it
will extend over a period of years.
Artificial stimulation of work tends
to make unemployment more perma-
.nent. Just as soon as specially Gre
ated projects are completed, the work
ers relapse into idleness, and it be-
comes increasingly. difficult for nat
ural economic laws to rouse them to
activity. OF course the same is true
in the United States, but here we have
the advantage of not having distrib-
uted cash doles to the unemployed or
created unnecessary public work for
them to do. A proper and lasting So
luton of the unemployment problem
must necessarily take into considera-
ton the natural law of supply and
demand for labor. Any unnecessary
work provided by the state must be
paid for by the workers in the form
of taxes and higher living costs, just
as is the case with work that is need
ed. Building roads IS in a different
class from building battleships.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20

If you are going on an automobile
trip and want to avoid all possible
traffic you should go on Tuesday or
Wednesday. Such is the conclusion
reached from study Of a traffic CEN
sus taken recently by the bureau of
public roads, on one OF the post trav-
eled roads IN the United States. If
you want to go at an hour when there
will be the least traffic, start between
2 and o'clock in the, morning. Traf-
Wednesday to g .urday. the census
shows, and then jumps into big vol
gme on Sunday. The volume on Sun
day is about twice that on Tuesday or
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20
THE NEW
GENERATION
By JANE PHELPS
FREEDOM.
Chapter 46.

For days Margaret wandered about
like a lost soul.
II can't stand it, Hannahi" she said
more than once. ct shall have to give
up and go 10 New York"
But Miss Joan didn't want you to
do that"
II know-but I am so lonely. The
house is so quiet"
Margaret, after Joan had decided to
go to New York, had proposed going
with her, taking a small apartment
and keeping house-thus making Joan
day scholar Joan objected strenu-
/ ously. She said: mo, Mumsie! 1 don't
want you. I want to be alone, depen-
dent upon myself. I want to meet the
students, not as your daughter, but as
Joan Hayden. Then 1 shall probably
do many things that would make you
unhappy If you were with me-"
st don't understand, dear. What
things?'
"Oh. everything the people do who
want to learn, who want to try out
things for themselves. I expect shall
be Socialist perhaps an Anarchist if
1 feel like II. I am sure / shall be
quite unconventional I want to visit
all the queer out-of-the-way places
| Greenwich Village, the Italian restaur-
ants one reads about, the gay resorts.
Oh, I know you would be in a con-
J tinua1 state of shoekl'
Your studies will not give you time
to do all you are planning" Margaret
returned, smiling and unafraid. Joan
was to be trusted Had she not proved
! it in all the years that had passed.
But alone, all these things Joan had
said required to her. Would Joan be-
come enamored of the Bohemian life
of the Metropolis? Things new and
strange often held an unaccountable
fascination for the young. Joan while
L. 1,Ni
never before left an environment of re-
finement. She knew absolutely moth
| ing of the views of the extremists
whom she might meet save what she
had cleaned from books
She was an anomaly. A girl who
as far as she knew-influenced, yet
as innocent, and in some ways al
| ignorant, as baby.
"The foundation is there. She never
will go far wrong" Margaret said Il
herself. needing comfort.
But as the days passed and letters
came from Joan, bright gay letters de
scribing her new environment, tht
people she met, Margaret grew more
reconciled. Then there followed {
feeling which she fought to submerge
yet which grew daily-a sense of free
dom she had never before ex
perienced. For the first time in hel
life Margaret could do exactly as sh'
wished without question or argument
This feeling went to her head, i
was like wine to one needing a slim
ulant.
At first old Hannah was amazed
almost frightened. Had her mistress
i become just a bit weak in the heat
because of Joan's departure? TheI
she commenced to understand, ans
Il approve She loved Margaret onl!
next to Joan. Perhaps more than am
other had she realized Margaret's un
selfishness, Joan's demands. Then sh'
had a glimpse of Margaret's longing
when she dressed for Craig Forester
She had been delighted when her mis-
I tress changed her manner of dres
which was still modest and simple
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20
QueStionS-Ansyers

Q. Are there sixty-fourth notes in
music? F. W. R.
A. There are sixty-fourth notes in
music. They are called hemidemisemi-
quavers or Observation-Disclosures Such
a note is written with a stem and four
remnants.
@ Who are the civil service commits
sioners and their political affiliations {?
J. H. W.
A. The present civil service commits
sioners are: former Gov. John H Bart
lett of New Hampshire appointed in 1921 :
Mrs. Helen Gardener, District of Columbia.
appointed 1920, Independent; and George
K. Wales, Of Vermont, reappointed 1919,
Republican.
Q. What Roman used the expression
Carthage must stand in the conclusion
of his speeches? 1. T S.
A Scipio Nasica who realized the i'm
pcrtaRee Of Carthage to the welfare Of
Rome. parodted Cato's famous "Carthag e
must be destroyed" and ended his speeches
in the senate with the sentence, -Carthag &c
must stand"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20

Protectionists find it difficult TO I'M
derstand why representatives OF
southern states voted almost solidly
against the Fordney tariff bill. Prob
ably most Of them did so because they
are Democrats but some may have
been impelled to such action by the
reflection that they were elected by
the entire people and not by the man
ufacturers and producers of sugar and
peanuts alone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20


One Of the chief difficulties in the
way of averting railroad strike is the
seeming fact that the railroad man
ayers are as eager for a trial of
strength as are their employees, per-
haps more eager. While willing to
promise a reduction of rates to cor
respond with reduction in wages,
the executives declare the suggestion
made by the public group of the rail-
road labor board to be impractical.
The National Industrial Traffic
league, which is said to represent
large manufacturing concerns and
commercial organizations numbering
about 1000. put itself on record, at a
meeting in Chicago, September so, as
to what business thinks about adjust
ment of wages and rates In its reso-
lutions the league declared itself
against the railroad labor board as an
agency preventing the employer and
the employee from dealing directly
with each other; that any condition of
this kind is bad and produces a fertile
field for dissensions.
The resolutions declared and con-
tended that sit is not fair to the car
riers nor to the public that the rail-
way employe should be given prefer
ence over other employees performing
work of similar nature in private in
dustries, and until the railway en-
ployes are placed upon a correspond
ing basis with those of private indus
tries, it cannot be said that the rail-
roads are efficiently or economically
operated
The league urged a readjustment of
wages on a just and equitable basis
concurrent with a general reduction
in freight rates equal, at least to a de-
| crease in operating expenses thus
brought about-these two things to
take effect simultaneously. Railroad
labor is practically about ITS per cent
above pre-war levels, while other in
dustries outside Of building operations
are down to an average of 125 per
cent.
What the league urged is about
what the public group of the board
has suggested, but it seems to have
failed to meet the approval of either
side. As is usual in labor contro-
versies the public stands to become
the greatest sufferer.
| The railroad situation was bad
enough when the roads were bossed
| by the interstate commerce commits
sion, but since they were given anoth-
| err boss in the railroad labor board,
matters have grown steadily worse.
The country still awaits that condi-
ton of 'less government in business
promised by President Harding.
| Samuel Rea, president of the Penn
sylvania system, said, in an address
| recently: THE railroads recognize
that notwithstanding heavy loss in
traffic. economic readjustment de-
mands a reduction of rates. The chief
obstacles to that are that the roads
lack the power to reduce wages and
change working conditions, which
continue the high cost of operation
and contribute to the fall of rs per
cent or more in traffic, compared with
1920.
THE men out Of work must see that
the national agreements and the clas-
sification of employees which restricts
men to a single line of activity. are 7
cost they are carrying, so that the men
still retained can continue to enjoy
high paV and wartime privileges"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20

Governor Allen favors the estab-
lishment of a national tribunal before
which the laboring man can obtain
justice without warning on the pub
lie. But the laboring man seldom has
found it difficult to obtain justice #
he could convince that same public
that justice is all he wants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20

wednesday, On Monday there is a
decided drop from the Sunday figures
and on Tuesday the lowest ebb is
reached. Ninety per cent of the days
traffic, the census shows. rolls over
the road between a. m. and Q p. m,
D. M
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20

The condition of unemployment N
the country may yet prove to be a
blessing in disguise. So many per-
sons seem inclined voluntarily to quit
work that an army of others who pos
sibly will be willing to take their
places. may come in handy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20
DINNER STORIES

Department OF anatomy notice in
University of Wisconsin Bulletin:
'.AII students who are thru with
their bones please check them as soon
as possible. Those who still require
their use hand in a slip stating the
bones you have out so as to check up
with or records
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20

It Is reported that many of the So
diers in the United States army of oe-
equation prefer to become permanent
residents of Germany to coming back
here to live. 1t may be that some are
Influenced in their choice by the
drouth now prevailing in this country,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20

The surrender of Bergdoll might
have been made a part of the treaty
with Germany, but let that go. Peace
is welcome even without him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-20

To me Mr.. Howe always has been
the typical American. Most of those
of US who have the leisure to think it
over visualize a certain type and place
a seal upon it. Howe comes nearer
to my own INSTALLATION of the type
than any other man I have known.
He came out of obseurity to a definite
place in the sun. Always he has prac-
tieed and preached the simple virtues
of industry, frugality, temperance,
thrift, honesty, politeness and eour-
Itesy. He grumbles about taxes and
the expense of running the govern
ment, and is disposed to believe that
officeholders and politicians are a
trifling, useless lot. He>is little care
less. sartorially speaking, and year
after year remains addicted to the
same brand of collar and the same
style of cravat. He believes in law and
order and doubts the potency of all of
the varied panaceas of government.
And he doesn't believe in Santa Claus.
That is the type 1 have visualized.
Howe comes near to its manifestation.
| As editor of the Globe, Howe had
more influence with his constituency
than any other man I have known.
F., Bill Bowen. the druggist, once COM
mented on Howe's hold on Atchison in
this wise: IT." said Bill, The Globe
should come out with three-line item
advising every man. woman and child
in town to gather on the vacant lot
back OF Turner hall at O'Clock to-
hight and stand on their head. two
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And Is due and payable in five
yearly installments. The first INSTALL
ment to became delinquent on the
3rd day OF November, 1929 and each
year thereafter on the same date I'M
til paid. Each installment bears In
terest at the rate of six per cent per
annum from the date of levy until
delinquent and eight per cent per an
mum after delinquency until sale OF
property.
ONE OR MORE OF SAID IN
STATEMENTS IN THE ORDER IN
WHICH THEY ARE PAYABLE OR
THE WHOLE SPECIAL TAX MAY
BE PAID AT ANY TINE WITHIN
80 DAYS AFTER NOVEMBER BIRD,
1921, WITHOUT INTEREST.
In the event of any instaIlment
or the interest thereon not being
paid on the date the same becomes
due, the whole amount of the spe-
cial tax unpaid at the time said in.
stallment and interest are due, shall
become Immediately due and paya-
BILE; and the City Treasurer may
proceed to foreclose the lien OF said
tax In the same mannar as near as
may be, as is provided by law for
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GEORGE JENSEN

Part of Block %; Begin
ming at a point $500 feet
North of the intersection
of the East line of Main
Street and the North
line of 9Th North Street,
as now located, running
thence, North $3.50
feet; thence East 1880
feet; themes South $3.50
feet; thence West 49,
so feet, to point Of be-
ginning, Frontage, $3.50
teeC -.............----.....
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NOTICE OF SPECIAL
TAX
CONTINUED from preceding page)

North Street, as now lo-
Gated, running thence
North 61.90 feet; thence
West 1850 feet, thence
South 61.90 feet; thence
East 1850 feet, to
point Of beginning
Frontage 61.sO feet go.
)TTo WOLF
Part of Block %: Begin
ming at the intersection
of the East line Of Main
Street and the North line
Of 9Th North Street, as
now located, running
thence, North $500
feet; thence East 1880
feet; thence South $500
feet; thence West 49,
80 feet to point of begin
ming, Frontage $500
feet .........-..........-
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GEORGE HEIDELBERG
The West 500 feet of
the East 21S.6O feet Of
the South 1880 feet of
Lot 1, Block 81, Front
age 56.10 feet ..............