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Evening journal., 1921-08-12
BY CHAS. MCCAIN.

Omitted Press stan Correspondent
LONDON.-England at present is
the worlds battle-ground for movie
magnates.
SO far, the United States produc-
ers are easy victors. But ever since
the end OF the war, European pro-
ducers have been hammering at the
American lines Now, the British
producers themselves have entered
the field strongly.
Americas start in the picture in
dustry, the amount OF money spent
on films and the excellence Of the
photography are helping Americans
to keep down European competi-
tors.
American moving picture direc-
tors, however. despite their lovely
names, pretty faces and flowing neck
ties, are doing all they can to crab
the American game. For years. be-
cause OF the lack Of serious effort
over here to go into the movie-ex-
porting game. British movie patrons
have squirmed as young Lord Algie.
clad In a slightly too small pinch
back kute-Kut suit. bounced down
the ancestral stairs and. a cigarette
dangling lightly from his lips. blew
smoke In pater's face and remarked
how bloomin' hot 1t was
The British movie. patrons are
still squirming; but they don't have
to, and II daily attacks in the news
papers on this type of American film
are an Indication. they won't very
long. British, French. italian and
scandinavian and-as soon as the
slight remaining haze OF smoke from
the late war blows away. German
film producers are trying to wean the
British public from the American
films They haven't reached the
American standard OF mechanical
production, but they do know a lot
OF things that viii go far to help
them In their fight.
They know that young Lord Aigie
doesn't wear a Kute-Kut suit: that
neith- hi vale nor the man who
car awa~ the family ashes would
Evening journal., 1921-08-12
King PROTECTS
DEATH MONKEY
Animal That Killed Alex
ander of Greece is Pam
pered Pet
LIVES IN MODERN
LUXURIOUS CAGE

WASHINGTON-(United Press)-
The monkey which bit King Alexan-
der OF Greece, causing the monarch's
death. is alive and the pampered pet
of royalty instead Of pickling in a
surgeons vat. as claimed. according
to John Poulos. American Greek.
just returned from Athens
MY father Is a palace official, and
from him 1 learned the true story Of
b the simian regicide." said Poulos.
Poulos said that the guilty monkey
was a Weeping Capachin After #
bit the king it was turned over to a
court physician for observation.
The monkey was a little round
headed. human-faced fellow. and ex-
cept for a moody eye did not appear
TO be vicious" narrated Poulos.
when the doctors called in CONSUL
tation decided to kin the monkey to
determine II it was suffering from
rabies. King Alexander himself in
tervened and asked that the life Of
his pet be spared IL possible As the
doctors were confident their diagno-
sis OF the kings illness was correct.
without proof. and that he did not
have rabies. AleKander's request
was granted. although the world
= was told that the monkey was killed.
Alexander died. Constantine re-
turned one day the reinthroned
king asked OF the fate Of the mon
key which had killed his son.
"'He is Gagged in an unused room
p in the palace. sire informed a re-
tainer.
"I will see him said the king.
He went and gazed silently at the
monkey. Maybe It was a flea on the
monkeys head that made him raise
his hand as though in salute 10 the
lSinE. Constantine thought not.
The instrument Of the gods he
muttered. He shall live Then
turning TO servants Of the household.
Constantine ordered that the mon
key be put in a more luxurious cage.
He detailed a special servant 20 look
after its wants and ordered that no
harm should come 10 a single hair
on its body"
At the Greek Legation here # was
said that the monkey assassin was
dead
Evening journal., 1921-08-12
Canned Horse Meat
StirS Up Senate

WASHINGTON. Aug. 10 Omitted
Press) s)-The Senate turns the ear OF
ennui to talk Of pork barrel" bills.
but it showed a lively interest when
canned horse meat" was injected
into the debate on the soldier bonus
bill by Senator Watson Of Georgia.
In taking a fling at Senator Myers
for his four-hour speech in opposl-
ton to the gratuity for the veterans,
the Georgia firebrand referred TO
Montana as the "canned horse
meat State"
Montana" declared the Georgian
kills wild horses and packs the
meat and sells II to the effete East
to eat as beef
Myers leaped to his feet bristling
with wrath.
81 am always ready TO stand up
for Montana at any time and at any
place" shouted Myers.
And at anye length" interposed
Watson. barking back to the four
hour speech.
Perhaps the effete State OF
Georgia, too. may sell canned horse
meat" suggested Myers.
"Oh. no." replied Watson, "of all
the effete States. the effetest is the
State Of Georgia"
"I do not know where the Senator
gets his information that we can
horse meat in Montana" said
Myers. 1T may be that he has been
eating some OF our canned meat, and
il is so good that he cannot tell
canned horse meat from canned
beef"
"Quite likely" assented Watson.
"I am almost sure of It. You never
con tell wha you eat in some Of
these restaurants. You go by the
bill Of fare. and when the words are
in French you do not know what
you are eating until after you have
eaten IT,"
Evening journal., 1921-08-12
What London Does
In the Heat Ware

BY DAVID Il BLUME,N -ELD
Omitted Press stan Correspondent)
NEW YORK-"By Jove. it's hot"
That Is what they are saying in
London now. They think It's hot.
IL isn't really over here we should
say. what a glorious day" and rev
el In the cool breeze.
But in London. It's a jolly hot
day, by George.
OF course. to Londoners. what we
call cool day seems like a furnace.
Ihey never get what We are having
now. still that does not prevent thou
sands OF perfectly good Englishmon
moppins their perfectly dry brows
ana groaning on omnibus tops and
Evening journal., 1921-08-12
Br1tons Resent Lord ALgfe as
Shor0n by american Film

wear one as a gift: that young Lord
Algie doesn't have his hair mar
celled or spring about the great hall
among the tons of furniture the
British public would have been
taught. II IL could be. are always in
great halls; that when he is talking
to the girls among the weekend
party he doesn't always stand with
his hands in his coat pockets and
his legs spread apart; that he
doesn't talk either TO men or wo-
men with a cigarette-or a pipe
in his mouth; that ne never says
"bloomin'," though he may get by
with damn" or hell" that he
doesn't say "pater;" and that there
isn't much more than one chance
In a thousand that his name will be
Algie or Algernon.
Also British critics have pointed
out that Lord Algie's father, the
Marques. isn't always tall and thin
and doesn't always wear a monocio
and IL he does wear one. doesn't al
ways play with il when IL isn't In
his eye. He may wear a monocle
and not play with IL always: he
may be short and anemic or short
and fat or tail and heavy. He
doesn't even always have a hooked
nose.
spurred by the pressure OF COM
petition, several American COM
panies have invaded England In per-
son. and are here filming things as
they really are; except that there
are still some Kute-Kut suits. There
is no doubt that the films will be
popular here; the only fear the
magnates have is that II at home
they show Lord Algie as ne is. there
will go up a hoarse cry Of derision
He amt no lord"
Evening journal., 1921-08-12

in tube trains against the awful heat
There are no such things as Palm
Beach suits in England People
wear slightly thinner clothes in the
summertime--thats an. Why. II a man
were to stroll past the Ritz Hotel
In a white Palm Beacher. or walk
up Bond street al noon in a mohair
suit he would have a procession In
his wake in less than no time.
Good Lord" people would say:
'just look at that fellow. Must be
mad-what? And they would go
home and tell their wives about H.
In the evenings the people sit out
In the parks. No. they do not take
or their coats. They tilt their hats
Evening journal., 1921-08-12

will all be making for selfridges
store on oxford street 10 get an
American ice cream soda"
Selfridges Is the only place in
London where they can get a real
sundae. and going 60 Selfridge's in
the heat wave" is an event-things
date back from the last visit TO that
emporium.
Let me see" mother win say.
when did Jack come homer Oh.
yes, OF course. the fifteenth Just
the day after that ice cream we had
at Seifridge's-"
Evening journal., 1921-08-12

protest OF ~ Chilean delegation.
The latter aileng 50 rely the
competency OF the League TO under
take the revision Of such a treaty
as that Of 19O4-a treaty which. ac-
cording 10 the Chilean delegation
has already demonstrated its efficacy
as a means for maintaining peace.
AS the next step in her fight the
Chilean delegation has just pro-
tested 10 the Secretariat Of the
League Of Nations against the man
ner in which the question is in
scribed on the agenda-
According to the latter. the As
sembly will be called upon to pass
up the whole question in dispute.
Evening journal., 1921-08-12
BOUNDARY DISPUTE
PUT UP TOLEAGUE
BY HENRY WOOD.

Omitted Press staff Correspondcnt)
GENEVA-Chile has already
launched her fight TO prevent the
September Assembly Of the League
Of Nations from undertaking TO re-
wise 1904 Ancon peace treaty be-
tween Bolivia and Chile.
Bolvia's request that the League
take up this question was put on
the agenda for the Second General
Assembly Of the League over the
Evening journal., 1921-08-12
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

Pastry puhs are delicious filled
with vanilla ice cream and served
with a sauce Of fresh Strawberries
and whipped cream.
II your cake frostng Is too hard
TO hold nuts and raisins. put aside
a little Of IT, heat II, dip each raisin
in It and stick on the cake.
Evening journal., 1921-08-12
Doctors Recommend
Bon-0pto for the Eyes

Physicians and eye specialists pre-
Icribe Bon-Opto as safe home remedy
n the treatment of eye troubles and to
strengthen eyesight- Soldun money
refund guarantee by all druggists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-05
Dorothy Dix TALKS
By DOROTHY DIX
Worries Highest Paid Woman Writer.

In the Interests OF the Public Peace
None of US really desire to know our
neighbours private opinions of their
life partners. When Simpkins berates
Mrs. Simpkins for her extravaganza,
and tells her that she is running him, or
when Jones knocks his wffe's cooking
and compares it inVidiously with his
mothers; when Mrs. Simpkins retail
iates by accusing SimpkinS of being a
tightwad, and Mrs. Jones retorts that
| if she doesn't know how to cook, it
was because her father made enough
money to hire servants, and that she
never would have married as she did,
| if she had even dreamed she would be
put in the kitchG n, why, we who are
forced to listen to these disclosures of
family discord feel as if we were as
sisting to dig up a fostering corpse for
! the second post mortem.
It isn't our idea of spending a pleas
ant hour listening to a, family quarrel
over things that don't concern us. and
which we have neither the desire nor
the right to know, and whether we are
host or guest at the party we re-
sent being trapped into such an IN
:! pleasant situation.
Undoubtedly, the reason that most
husbands and wives fight is because
married life is monotonous, and they
get bored, and they find that a good,
stiff scrap puts pep and ginger into it
If they didn't enjoy a rough and
tumble tussle. they would get along in
peace, because no two people who are
not dwelling idiots, can possibly live
with each other even twelve months
without finding out just exactly how to
step on each others prejudices, and
how to get around each others angles
For all of us have got our Keep Off
the Grass signs put up SO distinctly
that even d, blind person can see them.
fhnrPfnTo de n
! wives go around with chips on their
] shoulders. it is because they are
simply spelling for a fight, and, as
long as they do their scrapping in pri-
own, and they've a perfect right to
| take their pleasure as they find it.
| But when they fight all over our par
Tor floors. and muss up our dinner
| tables. it is a different matter Then
| they become general nuisances- that
/ ried couples who cannot keep the
peace in public should be ostracised
until they come to their senses.
Surely these people do not realize
what they do when they open their
| skeleton closet, and force us to look
do not appreciate the embarrassing
situa ton they put US in when they
make US listen to their criminal tons
and recriminations Of each other,
and then appeal. to US to take sides in
a controversy thet is none of our af-
fairs. Surely they have no conception
of how lacking in taste, in breeding,
in everything that lifts humanity out
of the mire, they show themselves
/ when they rage at each other before
a third party.
AS long as human nature is what 1t
| is, husbands and wives will have their
domestic spats, but decency demands
that they retire to their own fire
sides when they do it, and shut the
doors and pull the window shades,
and plug up the keyholes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-05

us the more sensible plan of having
the stairs to the upper floor inside the
entrance. Especially in a country
where winter is a long siege of snow
and ice, a flight of fifteen or twenty
steps to be kept in condition for use
must be a discOuraging institution.
How the children keep from falling
down the steep flights. too, is a mys-
terry. Children scarcely more, than
babies Chamber up and down them I'M
guarded. Apparently the head of a
family considers front steps no draw
back in selecting a home. Houses
with this feature are passed for block
after block turnout the typically
French districts.
Life in this city involves a good
deal of elm bling everywhere. Montreal
is on a hiliy island where St~Lawrence
and Ottawa. rivers join. Mount Royal
rises directly back of the city. and the
city itself is on anything but a level
grade. In one railroad station the
, third floor at one end of the building
is the street floor at the other, and
: this is not an unusual instance.
The people of the city climb the
hills and the stairs without apparent
effort or complaint. Montreal is the
New York of Canada. The joy of
merely living in so great a metropolis
seems to be sufficient to make up for
any trifling discomforts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-05
JUST FOLKS
WORK.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

u + WORK.
You don't fancy work and the drelriness
of it:
There's nothing about 1t can make you
to love it,
You nate it, you tell me, it's ugly and
And sets you to fretting and gruml ling
and signing.
You work. not because you are eager and
But merely because you know well that
you've got to.
Just suppose that an ugly old man came
and told you
IF in my arms now and then 1 may hold
you.
III leave you my fortune. If you will
walk my way
You shall lind friendship and fame on
lifes highway.
am ugly and churlish and not verv
tender.
But If YOU. will love me I1l crown you
with splendOr."
Now suppose that that ugly old man often
bored you,
Yet always at night was the first to re-
ward you.
And helped you to win. Would you hate
him or love him?
Well, Work is the ugly old friends Of this
story
Who gives US our chance both for riches
and glory.
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. Gucst->
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-05

One of the results of debated prices
can be seen in the resumption of gold
mining in the Cripple Creek district
of Colorado. While the war was in
progress the price of everything ex-
cept gold advanced. The price of the
yellow metal was fixed by law and
could not bulge. But the cost of Ia
Dor, powder and tools advanced and
the miners were forced to cease oper-
atoms. Cripple Creek, the center of
the greatest gold mining region of the
world. became a dead town. With the
return of prices more nearly normal
I \ district is beginning to show signs
life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-05

The foreign trade of the United
States is still flourishing notwith-
standing the obstacles encountered in
the foreign exchange market and pre-
vailing depression abroad. The gov
ernments August return discloses q
$4,000. 600 gain in exports for the
month, while imports increased ST.
100000. The net result for the month
was an excess of exports over imports
Of $751;, 900, 900, and for the eight COM
pleted months of $1,546, 900, 600, the
latter figure being some $56.000,000
greater than the export balance
shown in the same period last year.
Receipts of foreign gold in these eight
months equared about one-third Of
our export balance, so that the move
ment has been partially covered by the
metal remittances. Heavy shipments
of cotton. wheat and other commodi-
ties figured largely in the August ex-
port return. In view of these figures
it is not surprising that the senate hes
itates to upset conditions by passing
the Fordney tariff bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-05

of twilight sank slowly over the ocean
that Bill and Charley, who had pre-
ferred lazy swim TO a hot row ashore
caught a glimpse of the returning
dingy. As it neared, Bill rose and
made telescope of his hands
Charley" he exclaimed. For the
love of heaven. Charley, what's Sam
bringing us?"
In the bow of the Seaweed's tender.
under<a rose pink parasol her piquant
face uptilted to the two open mouthed
men projected over the stern, sat q
slim young thing all smiles and dim
pies. At her feet. topping what ap-
peared to be load of groceries. were
two suitcases. Resting on his oars
was Sam-a radiant, joyful, laughing,
reJuvenated Sam.
Congratulate me. boysI" he cried.
Peggy and 1 are married. This after
noon. Somewhat hasty but perfectly
legal You sec
Married.
Married."
mother forced us to it. Didn't APP
nRove, you know. and carted her off.
No red-blooded fellow could stand
that. 1 was just wondering what the
deuce to do when-presto-com
your invitation. We made our plans
door to Bay Harbor, of course. where
Peggy was. So here we are! And
here's where you come in. Trot along
back in the dingy here break the news
20 Peggys mother. and lend us the
Seaweed for a two weeks honey
mooni"
! A little later pulling into Beech
Cove. Bill and Charley discussed it
from all angles.
Being aware of this pleasant little
] intrigue, why. may I ask. was Sam so
consistently grumpy all the time ?"
, BIZ put the question not without sar-
casm.
That's easy" returned Charley.
| Afraid if he showed how tickled to
death he really was. we'd have got
( wise something was up and put
about"
II see" assented' Bill. I'm other
words, we did just what we were try
| ing not 10 do. Poor SAINT"
"Oh. 1 don't know" said Charley,
dreamily, recalling the smiling and
happy pair. Sam seems satisfied"
And out on an opal tinted sea two
figures stood close at the wheel and
gazed blissfully at p far horizon.
"A wonderful honeymoon!" whis-
pered Sam tenderly, thanks tc dear
old Billl''
/ Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-05
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
THE NEW OWNER.

He drove up to the front, got out
of his car and walked into his new
home. The old owner had gone. The
walls were silent in the house that
character of the man who had just
sold
The new owner walked in. Walls
changed color, this room broadened
and heightened, that one became so
new in design that it wouldn't be
recognized by the old.
And there were places where neg
lect and time had taken away charm
and beauty. The new owner saw them
made over again.
The old owner thought of a house
as a place in which to exist under cir
custances of fair comfort. The new
owner sought out the Interpretation
of life under his new roof-that he
might the better and more truly live.
| And so he changed what he had
bought and made it truly his own.
We arrive in this world under no
advice or suggestion from ourselves.
But as we come to understand that it's
our world as much as it is the world
of those who gave US, then may we
! quicken our bodies and our minds to
the best sort of stay while we are
here.
Try to become a real owner of all
that comes so freely to you.
1t is not the number of variety of
talents that we possess that makes us
the most useful-but the way and
extent to which we develop what we
have.
| Life as a big proposition should be
started afresh every morning,
If we live in the past. We are the
past.
If worry over mistakes or troubles
possesses us, then we become a real
manufac curing plant for the produc-
ton of more worry and trouble in the
world
Seek to become a new owner each
minute-each today. OF ideas, chances
fresh friendships, new determinations
and set resolves
God walks with folks who pass
right aIongl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-05


The American Red Cross has turned
bver more than 100000 worth of
medical and hospital supplies from its
European stocks and from stores on
this side of the Atlantic. which are not
needed at home, to be used in the fam
inc districts of Russia, as the initial
step of the Red Cross to provide medi-
cal assistance needed in that section.
-Four tons of medicines and drugs,
thirty-five carloads of hospital cloth
ing valued at $63O,OOO are from the
European stocks of the Red Cross.
other shipments include $4,000 worth
of towels and blankets for hospital use
and thirty-five cases of surgical dress
ings. In contemplating these figures
one can scarcely avoid rejecting on
how needless it all has been. Had the
Russian people maintained a decent
and effective government the country
kiWFMMgsc- 4xu 5nrrh ?-ti4 chmdurln
would have been amply able to pro-
vide for its own distressed citizens, If
there HAD been such, which there
probably would not. The world is
called upon to go to the relief of con-
ditions brought upon the Russians by
themselves. They are not the victims
Of misfortune but of the deliberate vio-
lation of economic laws.