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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09
JUST FOLKS

By EDGAR A. GUEST.

The little petty jealousies, If we could but
get rid of these,
The world would be happier place with
less of hate and strife;
II we'd but do kindly deed, and let the
credit go TO seed
Wed lose a thousand frowns and signs
which mar the joys Of life.
II only We would plod along, regardless Of
the little wrong,
Or having done a worthy thing not stop
to reap the praise.
II only we could come to see the shallownes
OF vanity
And value service more than pride, we'd
come to happier days.
But no, we feel that we must be rewarded
oft by glory's fee,
For all we do we must demand the little
gifts OF fame;
Love turns to hate, and peace to strife, and
bitterness comes into life
Because We seek the petty praise and fear
the petty blame
Oh, let the fame and glory go. It is
enough for US to know
That We have done q worthy thinz-why
seek for mems applause!
And even tho the world goes by unheedIng,
ii is vain to sigh.
The credit is lesser joy than having
served q cause.
tcopyrights 1874, by Edgar A. Guestl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09
LET US HAVE ACTION.

There are indications that the two
houses of congress are about to get
into a squabb1e with each other over
the manner of adjusting the debt
owed to the United States by the al
lis.
If all the money owed the treas
ury by foreign governments were to
be paid, about AZ per cent of our en-
tire national debt would be wiped out,
and the amount of revenue required
to be raised from internal taxation
could be cut in half. The total for
eign debt is $1o,14o,o0O,oo0, all but
about $500, 100000 of which repre-
sents money loaned direct from our
treasury. The balance represents
sales on credit of surplus war sup
plies, American relief administration,
and obligations due~the Grain Corpor-
alton. These miscellaneous debts are
evidenced in variety Of ways. Ger
tificates of indebtedness of differing
rates of interest, maturity dates and
terms of payment are held In the
treasury. all bearing the signatures OF
individuals representing the govern
ments receiving the money or sup
plies.
The former administration made no
move to reduce those promises to pay
to the form of bonds of the debtor
countries, nor to make more certain
in any other way their ultimate liqui-
dalton. President Harding has been
impressed with the importance of Sc
curing the debt in some more sub
stantial form than at present, and
with that end in view he has instruct
ed Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
to prepare a bill, which Senator Pen
! rose has introduced in the senate, CIV
ing the secretary, with the approval
Of the president, authority in dealing
with all the different classes of debts.
| The measure gives wide latitude to
the executive. Under it the secretary
will proceed to fund all classes of the
foreign obligations into bonds with
/ definite provisions as to their rates of
| interest. maturity dates, and condi-
tons of payment Not only would the
taxpayer know when receipts from
abroad may be expected to lower his
tax bill. but the officials OF the gov
eminent could lay their financial
plans over a period OF years, with a
certainty as to the outcome.
| Regardless of the urgency OF such
Legislation. there has appeared in the
house a spirit of jealousy over the
fact that the initiative has been taken
/ In the senate. What the country
| wants is action and it is not particular
regarding the method OF procedure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09
Dorothy Dix Talks
BY DOROTHY DIX
worlds highest Paid Woman writeF.
To the Sweet Girl Graduate.

10 the Sweet Girl Graduate.
You have just graduated in all the
ologies and isms, and perfectly
peachy white .frock, and as you con-
template your blue-ribboned diploma
you heave sigh to think that the
late Mr.. Solomon is no more. You
feel that your intellectual attachments
fit you to be his seventh hundredth
wife, and his real affinity and soul
mate, and you could weep with pity
for him to think what he missed in
dying a few thousand years before
you came along.
1t is a great and glorious feeling
while it lasts, little girl. Make the
most of the fleeting hour, for it is only
in the months following graduation,
while the school plaudits still ring in
our ears, that we are perfectly certain
that we know all there is to know,
and that wisdom will perish off of the
earth with us.
Pretty soon experience will begin
shaking your confidence in yourself.
You will find yourself making mis-
takes, and blunders, and acting like a
fool, until the time will come when
you will have such an humble opinion
of yourself that you will wonder how
they come to let you be at large with
young and very old-when we are In
the two childhoods of life-that we
enjoy perfect dissatisfaction in our
own att&inments.
Now this education of which you
are so justly proud has cost you a
good many years of hard work. II
has also cost your father a good MANY
thousands of hard dollars. Suppose
you sit down and check 1t up, and see
how it figures out in practical terms
Just how far has it fitted you for
the rough and tumble fight of life ?
H. today, you were thrown out on the
world alone, to sink or swim, would
you win a long distance endurance
medal. or go to the bottom like a
stone?
Think It over.
You have graduated in chemistry.
Can you make a loaf of bread that
would not be first aid to the under
taker?
You took honors in higher mathe-
mates. Can you tell what sixteen
yards of muslin at thirty-nine and
three-fourths cents a yard, plus the
war tax, and with one per cent dis
count for self-delivery, comes to
without figuring all over a sheet OF
paper. and getting different result
each time?
You were the star pupil in the
trigonometry class. Can you work
out perforated paper pattern for q
kfmona-sleeved one-piece suit al
sight.
You spent years studying dietetics
and you can discourse glibly about
calories, and carbohydrates and pro.
TENS. Can you translate them into
meat, and potatoes, and pie. in a way
that would keep q man in fighting
trim, without superfluous nerves. OF
fat, or thinness, and with the calm
mind of one who is properly nour.
ished without knowing how?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09

Jim ?'''
She appeared indignant.
why, I've been coming to see these
people for some time.~~ It started by
your calling me selfish. That very
day came into this district to see if
could discover a way to become I'M
selfish, and I found Little Jim and
his father. I love the little fellow,
and I am going to take him home
with me-"
mot much you AREN'T Fred said
firmly. 81 am going to be his father"
You are wrong" she declared
firmly. 81 am going to be his
mother"
Little Jim smiled thru his tears.
SIT will be nice" he said softly, ito
have two nice people like you for my
father and mother. 1t makes me al
most happy
He reached out with one arm and 1t
encircled the girls neck, while the
other clung to Fired. 1t brought the
two very close together.
First they looked at Little Jim, and
then they gazed f6olishly into each
across their countenances, a smile
that seemed to light up the hallway
as tho the sun finally had succeeded
in forcing an entrance.
Eva" said Fred, clearing his
throat, 'I don't believe I dislike you
after all. You are not selfish, and
and after all, our parents wishes
YES" she agreed, ''our parents
wishes"
Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09

Opponents of the sales tax allege
under the existing system not all taxes
are paid by the consumer and cite the
income tax as an example. 1t would
be interesting to know, therefore, how
payers of the income tax obtain the
money or property from which the
income is derived and from which the
tax is paid. The big ones do not earn
it. The salaried man or wage earnar
who pays an income tax probably
would be willing to pay a consump-
ton tax instead. 1t would cost him
less money, owing to the fact that no
body could dodge it. Every dollar the
government loses thru tax dodgers
must be and is paid by somebody else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09
George Matthew Adams.
Daily Talk
A BABY.

A BABY.
Whenever I look into the face of a
small baby, I see all the civilization
of the world centered there for in
depreciation.
A mother sees very much more
than this. She sees unborn worlds
there!
am always attracted by babies. I
like them.
The other day I received a letter
from a woman who said that she was
1.-The mother of ten, and a grandmoth-
er in addition" 1 have been carrying
that letter around with me in my
pocket. Mother of ten! And she says
that she wants to do something in the
world
is one of the elect great in this world
already.
A baby-with its soft, bubbling
body. Chubby hands that sometimes
look like tight rosebuds. WEIGHING
toes that keep saying something all
the time. A skin that the smoothest
velvet could not compete with. Eyes
that see all that you are-wfthout tell
ing you. Cheeks like the halves of
large ripe peaches, and a laughing
mouth that keeps giving off new kinds
of smiles all day long.
No wonder that Roman lady re-
ferred to her babies as her Jewels!
L never see a 1nOIner pushing mex
baby in its carriage without envying
her In their very helplessness, babies
continue to inspire strong men and
women, and always will. I have seen
poor, i'll kept men with all the despair
of failure written across thier faces
and in their ways, smile at the sight
of baby playing or in the arms OF
it's mother.
1t was about the romping baby in
a field that the cast-out Peri, in
Moore's beautiful poem, Paradise and
The Peri" found the secret that open
ed the shut gates of Heaven to it once
more.
A baby is like a drop of fresh dew
let fall from the sky with all the pure
clements of a mysterious love melted
into every atom of its life.
believe that God tucks in every
baby at its sleep-time IN the same way
as He does His stars!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09

The government is about to offer
at sacrifice sale job lot of ships, es-
timated to have cost it approximately
$4,000 100000. It has discovered, it IL
announced, that it cannot carry on
the shipping business without sus-
tanning a heavy loss. 1t has been
asked why, If the government built
the Panama canal where private en-
terprise failed, it cannot successfully
manage the shipping industry. There
are two reasons for this, if not more.
Cne is that the building of the canal
did not conflict with private business
interests Another is that the army
built it under the direction of one
man, who happened to be an honest
one. It may be that the navy could
operate the merchant marine at a
Profit to the government, but it is GER
tain that the politicians could not or
would not do it. So we probably will
feE the ships, give them away or sink
them to save expense of upkeep and
the taxpayers will foot the bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09

O. How can Jet beads be cleanedi-
A. Remove all dust with very soft
moistened with little good oil, then polish
with wash leather. Clean with great care
as jet is often brittle
court are older than Justice Day ?-L. e. R.
A Justice Holmes is so, and Justice
third. being r. Years old. Justice Van
deventer is e., Justice Pitney. 93, Justice
McReynolds, Sc, Justice Brandeis. 81, and
O. How long has the motto "In God
We. Trust" appeared on our coins?-
A. l. United States coins prior to the year
1864 are without I'm God We Trust" The
2-cent piece was the first coin to bear this
o. VIII you please tell me the signifi-
canoe of the third beam, slanting, often
seen on the spire Of Russian churches p
A. The third beam represented as
oblique on Greek and Russian crosses is so
placed because of a legend that one foot
higher than the other. This beam is called
a "suppedaneum'-a projection sup
port under the feet of person crucified:
It is used with especial reference to Christ
Q. Is Wang. one of the Gilbert and
Sullivan operas?-J. f; T.
tributed to Gilbert and Sullivan, but It was
written by Theodore Morse.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
THE PARK AVE. NEWS
RY LEE PAPE
:. Rane sooner or later.

Weather. Rane sooner or later.
Spoarts. The Invis.b1es was wawk-
ing to the park last Satidday to play
Sid Hunts little brother Bert follow
ing them and they rGn about blocks
to get away from him and they all got
out OF breth and was still out of it
wen they got to the park, the result
being the Park v nders beet them,
score "A to, IL.
Sissiety Mr.. Charles (Puds)
Simpkins had a / thday last wens-
day, among the presents he got be-
ing stockings. books. neck ties, shoes
and deckorated post cards with good
wishes on them and among the bres-
ents he wishes he got but dident being
new skates, a pen knife. bound
box of candy, or even less if necessary,
a tennis rae : and a camera.
Pome by Skinny Martin
Meening t Opposite
o see the little muskeeto
Buzzing gently to and fro;
Could enybody wish hirn eny harm
o no! o moi o
Business and Financial Benny
Potts found a dime vile he was taking
wawk with Lew Davis, and Lew
kepp on claiming haff on account
of being with him, the result being
Benny had to spend the dime mulch
quicker than wat he would OF If he
hadent of had enything IN his mind
to worry him.
Lost and found. Nuthing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09

definite lessons in manners, Just as in
spelling. Situations are described by
the teacher and acted out by q few
pupils before the class. other schools
use moving pictures to show how
courtesies and discourtesies really
look
In still other schools formal les
sons in manners are not approved.
The children are taught incidentally
whenever a situation arises. Some of
the school officials think that children
cannot be expected to learn how to
deal with one another courteously so
long as schools are conducted like
penitentiaries. They think, for in
stance, that school children should
not be herded into lines when the bell
vtcts with teachers watching to see
that no one speaks to his neighbor.
The ideal, the say, 1t to have the
children come up quietly in groups as
they would enter a theater, or church
or any other place where people gath
err. This is practice for situations
which occur in daily life, while march,
ing in a set line is not. In this con-
nection the teacher is supposed to
stress the idea of courtesy to others.
This lesson is being taught in differ
emit ways and to different extents in
almost every school system. Mostly it
is an incidental subject brought up
only when the occasion demands.
The effect on the class depends en-
tirely on the teachers personality.
One educational expert with whom
we have talked thinks that teachers
should themselves be given courses in
personal acknowledgements cour-
tesy, how to teach 1t, and what to do
in all sorts of situations not covered
in the course on pedagogy. He also
thinks that the parents should be
urged to cooperate with the teachers
by instilling some of the fundamentals
of courtesy in the home. With both
teachers and parents setting an exam
pie for@the children. this educator
thinks we should no longer need to
worry over a possible return to prini-
tive selfishness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09

Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman, of
the board of directors of the Southern
Pacific company. told the senate in
terstate commerce committee that the
railroads had for years been trying to
make congress and other regulating
bodies understand that railroads were
subject to the same inflexibie eco
nomic laws to which all industries are
subject. That is just exactly what
the country is trying to tell the rail-
roads now, says the Mining Congress
Journal. The greatest of all economic
laws is the law of supply and demand.
II a merchant with a surplus stock
see his trade growing smaller. he
stimulates demand by reducing prices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09

Railroads are business concerns deal
ing m one commodity. transportation,
and their supply of this commodity,
as measured by their ability to fur
nish 1t, is at present much greater
than the. demand. Inflexible eco
nomic law DEGREES that the railroads
must create a demand for their sur
plus product by cutting rates to a
point which the traffic can bear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09

Advocates of a protective tariff
urge that it is necessary in order to
maintain the American standard of
living, when IN fact it is the American
standard of profits that they want to
see maintained. What shall it bene-
fit the country to repeal the excess
profits tax and substitute therefor
high productive tariff tax?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09

It is reported that Big Bill Hay
wood is preparing to return to the
United States and serve out the prison
term to which he has been sentenced.
1t is easy to see how a man would
rather be in Jail in America than free
in a country like Russia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09

Alexander rHowat has acquired an
other sentence to jail to add to his
collection. If Howat ever shall be-
gin to serve out his various Jail SEN
fences, he will have a long period of
such activity or inactivity before him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09

Professional pronibitionists are ex-
cited greatly over the "wet" parade
held in New York on the Fourth, but
millions OF ordinary busy citizens do
not seem to have noticed it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09

Our claim for monetary remunera,
ton from Mr.. Ford, we may say to
those who do not read this palladium
OF thought closely, is based on our
contention that man who is COM
PEELED to look at a Henry car should
be paid dollar for the annoyance to
which he is thus subjected
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09

Our own FLASHING" about has not
brought us into contact with much of
Mrs. Willsies stuff. But we shall
look her up. We get some solace
from those who burble with their
verbs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09

If the rate Of compensation which
we have fixed is sustained by the
courts, Mr.. Ford owes us $739 addi-
tional. That number of motor-pro-
PEELED vehicles bearing his mark
passed our house in the thirty min
utes preceding the storm wednesday
night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09

Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09
Let It Go to Conference.

We trust there is nothing in the
story that Governor Edwards appeared
at the fight wearing derby hat. We
had begun to like the governor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09

The feat of the Public Ledger in
Hosting a gentleman "by His Own
Petar' has attracted the attention of
Stunning to discuss the matter with
the Tribune, we suggest that 1t have
one of its bright young men look it up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09

We know the remainder of It. It's
fragrant language fingers ever in
memory. But 1t is unsuited to publ
cation in family journal.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-02-09
Shoes and Rubbers

Hills Best Heavy Work Shoe, $3.50, Februar.
Mems Heavy Tan Packard Shoe, was $1,000, Februar
Mems Shoes in odd sizes, 81 So $500 and $780, TO
February ..................... poe
Extra Value Heavy Bass Work Shoes, were 5000, 70
Boys Low Lace Lumberman's Rubbers sizes to {
worth $3.50, February price ............. 81 81
February price Observation-Disclosures. Sd. 81
Boys Walton Shoes $50 value for February So 81
Mems Low Lace Lumberman's Rubbers, Februar
price ..............>......... $17s
Mems AllRubber, S-inch top Rockhill, was $780, TO
Mems Red Rubber, 1O-inch top Converse No Hee
Cruisers, were $3.50, February price .... S.. So
Ladies High Cut Walkover Shoes, $11OO and $500
values, February price Observation-Disclosures SIS. on
Ladies' Black High Cut Shoes, $500 value, February
price ~
Ladies' and Chdren's Felt Slippers, 81 80 value fo
FEBRUARY .........................9 S&
Youths Best Quality Leather Top Rubbers II to 2,
$3.50
Boys to Leather Tops, bargain, February, So .O(
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-02-09
Ladies Jackets and Gowns

IA Silk Gowns, sizes 1878 $685. street or evening
These samples and no two alike. Priced
$500 and $27 90; for February each. ..... $500
Order these via parcel post approval. We pay
charges way.
Wooden Dresses navy blue SERGE just n big bar
gains P1<.OO
20 Ladies' Jackets, were $500 and $4,000 each,
mdikeu OOWH 10 @1O.UO
Several Sample Jackets less than cost for February
Ladies' Wool Plaid Dress Skirts velours etc., nice as
sortment, this entire stock marked down to
$3.50, $1,000 and $1,000
Ladies' Trcotne Gowns, new styles,
$1,000 and $21. 90
Ladies SlipOn Sweaters $500 and $500, Febru-
airy price 1898
Beautiful Navy Serge Gowns, marked
$1,000 and $1,000
Wonderful bargains February
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-01-25
Woman Speaker is Secured
For Short Course Program

Is probable that exhibits will be ar
ranged by the merchants to show labor
saving conveniences and household
helps. The exhibits will be built up
on the ideas of Better Health" and
Making Mothers Work Easier" One
will show all the foods which baby
might or should have for it's best
health indicating times of feeding and
the proper amounts. Others will
show properly arranged kitchen that
will save steps and work over ineffic-
lent arrangements.
Home Cooking.
1t is possible that exhibits may be
arranged and prizes awarded for home
cooking also. If that is done, classes
will probably be opened for entries of
pies, cakes, breads. candy and cookies
with women's and girls divisions in
each class.
This subject will be considered at
the meeting of the committees called
for Wednesday evening when reports
will be presented from each commit
tee on it's accomplishments. At that
time final arrangements will probably
be completed and action taken on this
division OF the Domestic Science ex-
hibitS.