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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BIZ TEE PAPM

I was setting on my frunt steps
and Sid Hunt started to go past, say
ing; Hay Benny, come on Ground to
the store with us. will you?
don't 1now, maybe, sure, 7 sed.
And started to go Ground with him,
saying, Watts you going for?
Ferniture polish, sed Sid.
WITCH We got it and started to go
back with it, and there was a auto
mobeel standing in frunt of a cigar
store jest standing there with mud
all over it as if it had never bin
cleened and never Expected to be, me
saying, Hay Sid, heers a swell chance
to use some polish and maybe make
some money besides. Let's quick start
to polish up this car and wen the man
comes out and sees it all polished in
sted of all muddy he'll be so glad and
serprized maybe he'll give us dollar
before he realizes wat he's doing.
maybe.
G, that's a peetch OF a ideer, sed
Sid. And me and him quick started
to scrape the mud off of one side OF
the car and then we pored some ferni-
ture polish on our handkerchiffs and
started to polish it, making our hand
kerchiffs look fearse but making that
side of the automobeel look CRATE,
and jest then the man came out of
the cigar store with one cigar in his
mouth and about 10 more sticking out
of his pockit, the ferst thing he
noticed being the difference in his
automobeel, and he jest stood there
serprized without saying enything as
if he couldent think of wat to say.
and sed, Hay mister. do you wunt us
to do theNother side and the back for
you jest like this?
Wich the man took the cigar out
of hfs mouth, saying. You con-
fownded ignorent little imps of SATAN
jest rode that car 5000 miles and
got the prettiest coat of mud on IL that
it ever had, and Aow look at the darn
thing, my hole trip has bin wasted, for
2 pins I'd kick you both in the pants,
get out of heer quick before 1 change
my mind. @
WITCH we did Sid saying. Gosh, that
was a heck of a ideer. And he took
the rest of the ferniture polish home
and dident come out agen all day.
proving his mother must of noticed
how mulch wasent In the bottle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14

market and it must be sold. The
packer is~fn much the same plight.
His product Is ready for distribution,
and the retailer is. his only buyer.
The retailer is in no such position.
He can buy when or what he wants
to, and he has steady, constant de-
mand. His risk is small, and he is
believed to be entitled to no such
profits as he now receives.
If the packers are not to be per-
nitted. or are not willing. to go into
competition with retail butchers, it
might be just as well to have some
state supervision of meat retailing, for
it undoubtedly would be productive
of results as beneficial to the public
as ths regulation of the packing in
dustry that has been so widely advo-
Gated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14

meal he told her his story--hoW he
had tried to draw and had struggled
on. his money getting lower and lower,
till at last he had landed the splendid
position that had come almost too late
how pride had prevented his asking
for an advance, and he had set himself
to sticking 1t out till he should be paid.
You're an awful IDIOT, observed
Mary. but you can fix gas stoves.
And tell me- she remembered at
last his opportune appearance.
MY door on the dumbwaiter shaft
was open and I heard you," he con-
fessed. ST thought you wouldn't
mind If helped you"
81 should say I didn't mind!' said
Mary. land I'm glad for your sake
that you came up. You might have
starved to DEATH"
1T won't starve now" remarked the
young man as he attacked the food.
when have my job and can pay you
back" ..
Mary bfushed. @"You can see me
again if YOU want to- she said. But
DON'T starve yourself for an excuse.
You won't need to, YOU see"
II seei" cried the young man joy
ously.
And he evidently did; for it was not
many months till he had asked Mary
a certain question which had great
deal to do with eating-at the same
table; and the answer seemed to be
such as to remove fear of starvation
either of the body or of the heart
entirely from him.
Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndieate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
Dinner Stories

Mary came in from recess chewing
gum for dear life. The teacher noticed
her and said sharply:
MARY. come here and put your
gum in the waste basket"
Mary took the gum from her mouth.
but did not put it in the waste basket.
And again the teacher said:
Mary. 1 told you to put that gum
in the waste basket"
This time Mary started TO cry and
replied:
, Miss J.. Won't chew the gum any
more. but 1 can't put il in the basket.
It's my sisters gum and have to give
it back at noon"
The husband looked up from the
newspaper he was reading to say: Il
see Thompson's shirt store has been
burned out"
Whose ?" asked his wife. who was
slightly deaf.
"Thompsqn's shirt store" said the
husband.
Dear me-" said his wife sympa-
thetically, who tore it,"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
HUNTING A GOAT.

Commercial agencies and other OBJ
servers of the trend Of business ap-
pear generally to be agreed that the
decline in Wholesale and manu-
facturers' prices has about reached
bottom, yet living costs remain high,
especially those of food. This condi-
ton is causing special attention to be
directed toward the retailer, and the
butcher is being made to bear the
brunt of the attack.
Altho retail butchers may deliver
plausible arguments and back them
up with-an imposing array OF figures,
they find 1t difficult to convince the
average householder that meat prices
as a general thing do not represent
profiteering to the point OF extortion.
This view may not be correct.
In defense of the retailer the claim
is made that labor is high. rents
are higher and supplies. such as
Irvine. ice, etc, have not de-
elined much. There is a smaller
volume of business which has in
creased the overhead. It is also con-
tended that the public will not buy
the cheaper cuts OF meat, such as the
chucks and plates and that it con-
centrates its purchases on about 16
per cent of the carcass. This entails
much waste. and thus raises the price
of what the public buys. Delivery
costs have increased with a CORE
spending rise in overhead. The over
head of the average retail butcher
ranges from rs to so per cent. ac-
cording to. we'll Informed opinion in
the meat trade.
However, none of the claims set up
in defense of the retailer seems TO sat-
isfy the consuming public that the
margin between the wholesale price,
the sale price of the packeP, and the
price paid by the householder is not
unreasonsbly wide. The problem of
reducing this margin is one OF serious
interest to everyone.
At present a peculiar situation ex-
lists in the meat industry. The live
stock raiser virtually must sell on an
auction basis. His product arrives at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
George MdtthetpAddn1
Daily Talk
ON HOLDING HANDS.

If I were to be asked what senti-
ment really meant, I would hesitate as
to my definition. But I would say
that it is one. of the most useful forces
in life.
When you come into a warm room
with a fireplace in it, burning brightly.
after being out in the cold, you at
once feel comfortable and glad.
That's what sentiment does to ones
soul. It makes one happy.
once heard a president OF the
United States state in a political con-
test that the greatest things in life
were those of sentiment
A young man and a girl walk along
the street. They are holding hands.
Sentimental you say. But how happy
they look
When the child is afraid 1t PUSHES
to get a grip on the mothers or
fathers hand. And then il feels con-
fident that no I'll can come
There is something in the touch Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14

A Kansas corporation has been
granted permission by the public
utilities commission to issue a block
of preferred per cent stock to re-
iEnbufse it for improvements and bet
terments paid for from earnings. The
circumstance illustrates the difference
between individual and corporate en-
terprise. An individual expands his
business from profits, as matter OF
course, whereas the corporation, after
collecting from its patrons profits
which enable it TO spread out, then
proceeds to make them pay again
thru dividends on capital stock issued
on the basis of those same profits.
Under such a system, public service
charges must always remain high.
Another anomalous condition in fl
nance is seen in connection with the
postal. savings banks. They pay the
depositor 2 per cent, lend his money
to the banks at III per cent, and the
banks lend it to the government ut
and 6. One might think that the
government would borrow from its
own banks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
Questions-Answers
Q. In what mine explosions were most

Q. In what mine explosions were most
A. In the United States the greatest loss
Of lives occurred in the explosion at Mon
ongah, W. Va, December g. 1907, when SoS
m men MsIe rest Britain. in 1e1Sa when 4s
lives were lost; at Radbold, Ruhrrevier,
Germany. in 1908, where the loss was $50;
and at Courriers, France, IN 1905, when
q. What is the salary of General PERISH
Pershing receives a yearly salary of $13s500
and allowances. The allowances for quar-
tiers is 5000 for heat and light Sl,S0o, ana
o. What should be included in q. first aid
a. A nail brush, soap, bandages, Iodine,
absorbent cotton, roll of gauze, toothpiek
swabs and adhesive tape, are the most I'M
may be added a medicine dropper, borlc
acid solution, new skin, listerine, scissors,
safey pins. aromatic spirits Of ammonia and
q. How is tomato paste made? z. P.
A. Mix spices about as follows: One
namon, Cloves, crushed celery seed. and
bay leaf, one-quarter teaspoonful of whole
black pepper. and one spri go OF !, mace lie ne
water with one quart Of thick tomato pulp,
slice Of onion, y teaspoonful OF salt, and
teaspconfIll Of paP nf sooI until bs td diS
ped out. Pack and seal.
O. Give the meaning and origfnation OF
"Simon Pure"7 4. H d.
A. In Mrs. Centiivre's comedy a Bold
Stroke for a Wife, (1717), Simon Pure is
the name Of a Quaker who is impersonated
by another character during part Of the
play. We say 1.-The real Simon Pure" mean
Ing the real, genuine or authentic thing or
person. AS an adjective it means, authen-
tic, genuine, real.
(Any reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau, Frederic J.
Haskin, Director, Washington, ID. c. This
offer applies strictly to information. The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal. med
ieal and financial matters 1t does not at
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
MIR. GoMPERss BoGEY.

Members OF the building trades
unions in Chicago are showing a dis
position to repudiate the award made
by Judge Lands in the long drawn
out controversy with their employers.
Possibly they are influenced in their
present attitude by Samuel Gompers.
Mr.. Gompers says that If the
workers submit to. any wage reduce
lions at all they win have to submit
to further reductions. 1t may well be
that legitimate employment is in some
cases dependent upon still further
wage readjustment. The motto, What
we have we hold" is really as imprac-
ticable for the employed, in all cases,
as it is for the employers. Manufac-
turers and employers in general have
been unable to hold the advantage
that the war initiation gave them.
When times were flush, they were
glad to get labor at Iabor's own price.
Then the bottom was knocked out Of
the initiation. The result was the dis
appearance of the demand-and the
wheels stopped. 1t is time they
started again, but they cannot start
on a IdISe or lnllaI9Q OASIS.
There is unusualness in the present
industrial situation, for some phases
it presents have not been found in
earlier periods of business readjust-
ment. One peculiar feature is con.
tanned in the fact that an army Of
abIe-bodied men is seeking eagerly
for some means of making a livell-
hood by its labor. while another army
Of considerable size is seriously con-
sidering giving up steady employment
because wage and work conditions
are not up to the abnormal standard
of war times.
In recent address at Atlantic
City, Mr.. Gompers said. in part, sit is
not fair, it is not wise, to attempt To
crush the labor movement, so thoroly
humanitarian. so thoroly patriotic. so
willing to give serviLe-to attempt to
crush that movement between the up
per milestone of employers antagon-
ism and Misrepresentation and the
neither milestone of revolution and
sovietisnn."
Mr. Gompers knows well that there
is no effort to crush labor or any
movement of labor that is humant-
tartan. patriotic and willing to give
service. The laborers Of the country,
taken as whole, are humanitarian,
patriotic, and willing to give service.
Mr.. Gompers seems to assume that
what he calls tAe labor movement is
the only humanitarian, patriotic and
serving movement in the United States.
He overlooks the farmers. He over
looks the hundreds OF thousands of
small householders. He overlooks the
producers and consumers. All these
are just as humanitarian, patriotic
and willing to serve as are the 4,000.-
600 for whom Mr.. Gompers assumes
to speak. If there is any crushing
done, it will be done by the 100 ,OOo,-
900, and it is safe to assert that they
will not use their ultimate power to
impose unjust terms upon the 4,o0O.-
900. All that the 100. 100000 ask is
a square deal. Every Just demand
of labor will be upheld, but there will
be no permanent dictatorship by men
like Mr.. Gompers, who happen to be
in positions of power.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
Dorothy Dix Talks
III DOROTHY DIX
worId,s Highest Paid Woman writer.

You never see the young afflicted
with the advice habit. They are will
ing for everybody to play the game
off of their own bat. It's only the old
who insist on your doing everything,
from winding the clock to running
your business, like they say, and are
hurt and offended if you don't do it
Another vice of old age is believing
that its point of view is the only point
of view, and that the only proper way
to do anything is the way it was done
in it's youth.
That's why it's an ordeal in SO many
families to have Grandma around.
Every time one of the girls gets a new
dress there has to be a fight with the
old lady because it isn't seven yards
around the bottom, because it doesn't
come up to the ears, and under the
feet, as did the frocks when she was
a girl. And as for the modern dances
and automobiling, what Grandma s
got to say about them, and those who
engage in such pastimes, sounds like
the utterances of the ancient prophets
about Sodom and Gomorrah, for they
didn't shimn1y and joy ride in Grand
mas day.
And it's because Grandpa is set
against all new-fangled ways of bust
ness that drags many firm down to
bankruptcy or keeps it marking time
while his sons wait for the old man to
die.
Therefore, as another prevention
against the horrors of age, we do well
to cultivate a shifting viewpoint, and
when we find we are getting mentally
stiff to force ourselves to. quick-step.
We are never old as long as we can
change our opinion, and learn new
ways of doing things.
Perhaps the greatest vice of old age
at least the one that is most afflict-
ing to the general public-iS the habit
old people fall into of telling the same
stories over and over again, and of
reminiscing about their past. OF
sepile dementia. and cannot be con-
trolled. But short of that. the. gar
rulous monolog about ones own pri-
vate affairs is simply a bad habit,
which increases with age because we
all feel that we must listen with a
certain respect to the boring stories
of the old that we would cut short
from the young.
Surely, however, no one can yearn.
to be a bore, and we would do much
to avoid that phase of age by train
ing ourselves. from our youth up, to
keep tab on our stories, and refrain'
from repeating them, and by always
remembering that no human being,
save ourselves, thirsts for information
about the details of our little Johnny
cutting his teeth, or the time we went
fishing in 1906.
Talierand advised everyone to learn
to play a good game of whist while,
they were young so they might not
pass a miserable old age. It IS equally
advisable to cultivate while one is
young the amenities that will keep
one from affecting the other with
ones society when one is old.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14

There has been called to assemble,
at an early date, a national conference
to consider the prevailing condition
OF unemployment. Such conference
will be unproductive Of results unless
it provides work for the idle. Nobody
is in a position to do this except the
government. and it has no money. II
the cost of building one battleship
could be devoted to some useful pub
lie improvement it would afford
work for large number of persons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14

hand that reassures-that explains
without the use of any words, be they
ever SO well meant or well said.
1 have seen the press of hand
seem to do more than the best skill OF
the doctor in the sick room
When have been particularly dis
couraged and in need of spiritual up
lift, I have said to the kind God !
know-Father, hold my hand little
while, won't you please? And then
something happens-and go to sleep,
Or arise strong for the day.
Hands were made for a large num-
Der of purposes. But one of their
best uses. shall always believe. is that
they should be -held-by someone able
to make love run thru them and warm
them. =
Don't be too proud, or too afraid to
hold somebody's hand occasionally.
The gain of happiness viii be largest
to you'll
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14

One of the best evidences of the
turn toward a more stable condition
of affairs, says Henry Clews in his
Financial Review, is seen in the fact
that prices have evidently been ap-
preaching a \more fixed condition.
The commercial indexes for the
month of August now show that a
slight average advance has taken
place during that period. The ad-
vance is still less than a point, but is
significant for what it indicates.
There will still be adjustments to be
made in some branches of business
where the level has not accom-
nodated itself to general conditions.
On the average, however, the current
price level has evidently touched bot
tom on this Movements fact, no
points out, which should give much
greater assurance in the making of
forward purchases. In some lines,
goods have already been distinctly adj
vanced where the low level previously
reached was manifestly out OF har-
mony with costs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14

The condition of the railroads is
steadily improving. With the blight
Of. government operation. removed,
and the war level of wages somewhat
reduced, there has been a change for
the better. With further economies
in operation and reductions in rates
the business of the roads will be we'll
advanced towards normally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14

Henry Ford makes more money
than any other manufacturer of aus
tomobiles in the world. He also sells
more cars and probably at a smaller
percentage of profit. His policy seems
worth the consideration of persons in
all lines OF business. It should COM
mand the attention Of the railroads
particularly. A larger business at q
smaller profit might do as much for
them as it does for MI. Ford.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14

There has been much complaint
that high income and surfaces tend
to keep money out of the industries.
But the blame for tagging business
probably is shared equally by the
treasury which continues to lure in
vestors with issues of treasury GER
tificates bearing a high rate of inter
est
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14

copyright, 1920. bf tbe wheeler cyndIcats
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14

We do not question Mr.. Godkin,s
conclusion. Doubtless he knows all
about it. But we must ask him to be
more explicit. What is the consolation
to which he refers2
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1921-01-13
Shorthand Long in Use

From references made 10 skilled
writers In ancient literature IA. infer
ence Is drawn that shorthand was
known long before The thr stan era.
The FIRST authentic know 'r'lre II thu
arr dates 10 a.. .,ri .~ufury before
Christ. The pion,,i lf Roman short
hand was Marcus ttIiu~ Trio. secre-
tary and librarian tu 'usrn Alto de-
ylsed system which wa. little more
than a list OF asbrc, int'nu~ Later Il
was improved 10 surh au extent that
reporters of the tim. couii Leep pace
with the speakers hy Nritlnr In relays
The system Of the I.aiiu. fvll into dis
use between the fifih aud Ninth CEN
turtles. and modern -irhusrHIhy dates
from ihSs
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1921-01-13

A privileged party 30 uftug con-
dueied through the stale rr"ms % the
white House In Washington had their
attention directed Ia the handsome
ciock upon the mantrl oi the blue
room. presented by the French to
President Andrew Jackson In ls2L
III WAS running then" proclalmcd the
chief usher of the mansion boastfully.
"and ~ been running ever since"
Louis Nlv's own clock. by the way.
Mt Versailles. has been running regu-
lariy since l1lt
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1921-01-13

Tho Laramie mountains ARE a sange
OF tn Rockies In southeastern Wye
ming n begins on ia. south bank %
the North Platte river. In Nairona
county. somewhat southeast 81 the
center % the state. aud extends In q
south"auerly direction through Al
hany and Laramie counties. being cut
By ,hs Laramie river and ~ north
branch The range Is mostly q broad
up'ard - from seven 10 eight thou
sand Feet elevation. With no outsiand-
Ing snmmlts
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1921-01-13

Upton. John r.. 23% acres 7i.75
Warren, W. A.. 20 acres 24.95
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1921-01-13
MARKSBURY

Mr.. Ben Dunn. Of Beuna Vista,
has been visiting Mr.. Gordon Doty.
Rev. Manley. Of Georgetown will
preach at the church next Sunday
afternoon at 2:30.
The friends Of Mrs. Foster are
sorry TO learn that she is very III in
the hospital at Danyille.
Let u, book your order Tor best
Northern clover and timothy seed.
Hudson and F.rnau.
The Ladies' Working society will
give a candy pulling at the parsonage
on the evening Of Jan. 10Th. hours
from =. NJ. to o. Everybody in
vited.