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The Topeka state journal., 1921-07-29
George Matthew Adams
Daily Tolk
NEVER GIVE UP.

A thrilling story was published in
the metropolitan papers of New York
recently.
A very poor, foreign artist who
worked in a little room in Greenwich
Village at his art, was suddenly ad-
vised that even for his humble abode
rent money was necessary. But he
had none to give! So he was showed
out
He was poorly nourished. His
clothes were all on his back. And
not any too much at that.
1t was a dark day indeed for this
young chap. I can imagine all he
felt. But on the very day that he was
put out, he received letter. The let
ter stated that his painting which he
his birth, had won a scholarship
which included three years study with
all expenses paidi
You never know when the thing
you most desire is going to come
around.
The important task for US all is to
keep getting ready. It's the uaready,
the non-prepared, that are showed
aside, and place given to him who
knows-who has served his soul
Alright thru all the varying conditions
of want, encouragement and failure.
know that it is trite and old ad-
vice, but-never give up!
The blacker and fiercer the storm,
the more serene and fresh is the earth
afterwards. Never has it been other
wise.
You never know when you are go
ing to need sorely the training of sor-
row, failure and want.
I recently visited a little boy in a
hospital. The nurse told me that he
had no chance at all. But the mother
said that after losing a husband and
facing two serious accidents in which
her other children had been, she was
steeled for anything And so she
smiled and buoyed her pale, suffer-
ing boy. 1 never saw such magnifi-
cent nerve and strength of character.
A week later they told this mother
that the boy would livei When he
gets grown I hope someone will tell
him how great a mother he has. But
no one will have to, I suspect.
You never know. If you did, you
would maybe give up-and lose.
SOMEBODY is always caring, waiting
and expecting. People who under
stand. have come to know that God
is always kind-that he always holds
out a chance.
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
~ LEIE PAPG

Wa had suppir late today on ac-
o,,rt 81 non not coming home on
time. our cook Nora being mao as
envthing like she generliy Is Wen suppir
is late. and she started to oring the
things in and hang them down on the
tahIe as if she dident care weather
thew broak or not apd hoped tney
would. and she went out in the kitcnln
to get some more and pop wispereo 70
ma For the love or Inud wy uoht YOU
speek to that gerl?
and pop sed, I will, this is my house
and IL enybodys going TO siam oishes
erround in it its going to be me, II she
does it agen Ill tell her ware she gets
Wich Jest then Nora came back
with a thing full of mash potatoes
and she slammed 1t down so hard It
would .pritty neer of mashed them II
they hadent bin mashed alreddy, and
pop sed, Nora
Nora.
Of those dishes? sed pop.
am not, and if I did 1t wouldent
be mutch harm because by the looks
of them they aint werth mutch' SEQ
Nora.
And she wawked back to the kitchin
as if she thawt she had won the ar
geWment, wich she had, and ma sed to
pop, You spoke to her all rite, nee nee:
1 dident wunt to hert her natural
pride in frunt of the intire family,
sed pop, Ill go out in the kitchin and
speek to her and bleeve me Ill be
severe this time. that gerl must be
tawt her place.
And he got up and wawked out in
the kitchin with a fearse Expression
and pritty soon he came back agen
with a even fearser one, saying, If
she don't behave herself now she must
have a hide like a rynoceriss, I gave
her a balling out that she'll remember
to her dying day and maybe week or
2 later.
Wich Jest then Nora came in agen
with the gravy thing full of gravy,
and she put it down so easy 1t couldent
of broak if it wunted to, and then she
wawked out on her tip toes as If she
| thawt we was all asleep, and ma sed
to Pop, Willyum Potts. how mutteh
did you give her2
I fale to get your meening, Sed pop.
And he started to cat his suppir as IL
he thawt he was one of the greatest
mem in the werld and maybe the
greatest.
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Dorothy Dix Talks
How the other Halr Lives-2.
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer

I1OW DA10 ObhIer f1dII LIVES.
And there you are, with two people
each thinking the others occupation
is picnic, and their own job grinding
work because neither has ever tried to
shoulder the others burden. Further
more. it is perfectly logical that they
should take this opposite point of view
because they have always seen each
others lot from different angles.
Home means to the man a place of
rest and relaxation, of good food, and
cleanliness, and order-the most de-
sirable and comfortable spot in the
world in which to be, and he has no
conception of the endless labor it takes
to produce this result. He never stops
to think of the hours it takes to pre-
pare the dinner that is eaten in half
an hour, of the WEAKNESS that has gone
into the washing of dishes and clothes,
and the sweeping of floors that are
soiled and Uttered up again as soon as
cleaned.
Nor can his widest flight of fancy
picture what drain on the vitality
is the care of even the most angel
children with their incessant activities,
their fights and quarrels, and wailings,
and ceaseless call on mo-o-o-ther. He
knows that a single Sunday afternoon
alone with a two-year-old kiddie
wears him to a frazzle, but he labors
under the y illusion that a woman
QOeSn ever weary Oh ileT DdblSSI anu
that it is just fun for her to be on the
jump with them all day and half the
night.
And women have the same halluci-
nation about a mans work being all
beer and skittles because going down
town means a spree to them. 1t means
the thrill of shopping, of being in
crowds. a lunch, and perhaps matt
ness or picture show, and they have a
vague idea that business man
passes his time in a round of pleasure.
They know nothing of the wearing
grind of the daily treadmill, where,
sick or well. a man must toll on or
lose his job. They never dream of the
overbearing insolence of the man
higher up, or tho evaporation of en-
ployes who have no interest or loyalty
in their work, of the heart breaking,
nerve wearing anxiety of the man
who sees his whole fortune trembling g
in the balance in some trade. They do
not know that every dollar is bought
9Th blood and sweat.
Business women, who have been in
the thick of the fight themselves,
know this. and that is why they make
the best wives, and the most consider
what men have to endure, and they
sympathize with them. but men have
never had a chance to find out how
hard is woman's lot, and that is why
the average husband can not make
the proper allowance for his wife
when she is nerve tagged and fearful.
or cross.
Certainly men and women would
pity each other more. and be more
patient. and gentler with each other
if one half knew how the other half
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of which Daniel Webster was the first
president.
The evolution of the lyceum into
idea of the late Bishop John H. Vim
cent OF the Methodist Episcopal
church. It is interesting to note in
this connection, that Bishop Vincent,
like Abraham Lincoln, who was a
friend and admirer of the bishop, was
self-educated by a cabin fireplace. His
motto was Education ends only with
life" Doctor Vincent was responsible
for the first meeting on the shores of
Lake Chautauqua, New York, of what
has become known as the Mother
Chautauqua of the World" in 1870.
Doctor Vincent undoubtedly had a
deep understanding of America and
her people. Uncounted homes have
felt the influence of his life. Millions
of people who had been financially or
hotherWise denied the PRIVILEGES of a
college education had the sting re-
moved from their regret when Lake
Chautauqua, under the supervision of
Doctor Vincent, opened possibilities of
achieving concentrated" wisdom. Both
the summer school and the home read
ing courses offered thru this medium
have proved exceedingly popular.
Many, also are the distinguished
men and women who have spoken
from chautauqua platforms all over
the country. The American sense of
humor has made much of the fact that
statesmen. returned travellers, writer's
and other professionals temporarily
out of a job have taken up chautauqua
llecturing in homeopathic doses. Most
of them have been successful in inter-
esting the public or they have grati-
fled that innate curiosity which always
invests the human spectator when
viewing a. much-talked-of specimen of
more or less geological oddity. In the
lfafRSf faEhinnG n n a T1f a HO
ever, in addition to the especially pre-
pared mental menus, there are some
lchautauQua systems which choose
their men and give them assignments
to go out into the wide, wide world and
manufacture material to interest the
chautauqua of the future.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was the first
famous professional lecturer on a
lyceum program. He spoke in one hall
ninety-eight times without pay for his
services. but before he finished. he
was getting $500 a night. Henry Ward
Beecher, another of the pioneer
lyceum and chautauqua lecturers, was
fond of telling the story of how "once
down east 1 was paid for my services
with twelve bushels of potatoes"
Other famous chautauqua speakers
are: Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, James Russell Lowell. Louis
Agassdz, Henry James, Matthew
Arnold, Julia. Ward Howe Irv n S.
Cobb, former President Taft. w. J.
Bryan, Rear Admiral Cary I. Grayson,
physician to three presidents. Stephen
Leacock. Senator W. S. Kenyon, DR..
Harvey Wiley and Edna. Ferber.
Larger each day is the number of
talented individuals who are coming
to realize that if they have a real,
sincere message to get over to the
American public, the chautauqua is
one of the happiest mediums available.
No one has ever yet attempted to dis
pute the fact that we may be young,
but we're perfectly willing to learn
anything that comes our way. The
American public can be depended upon
to stop, look and listen whenever it
pays to enter a undiscovered college.
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Kansas soon will be paying the
same freight rates that other states
are paying. The public utilities COM
mission. by its persistent fight against
tho advance in rates. saved the people
OF the state considerable sum of
money. But it is doubtful that the
amount thus saved would equal what
the commission has cost. The extra
gas bill paid. owing to the commIs-
'sion's meddling, probably would equal
all that has been saved in freight and
passenger charges. The commission
has cost the taxpayers heavily in va
.rious ways, with nothing to show for
the expenditure except the saving
lmade on freight and passenger
icharges. How the rate advance was
STAYED off may never be known. Com
missions in other states tried 1t and
failed and it was inevitable from the
start that the Kansas commission
finally would be overruled. 1t would
be interesting to know why it was
left to the last.
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JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR a. GUEST.
THE aoopY-GoopY Mas

THE GOODI-0OOO1 MAN
I do not mind the man who rides his
hobbies,
I can abide the faddist now and then,
think the creatures found in hotel lobbies
= Some day perhaps may change and grow
to men;
I eau put up with him who merely bores
me
And be polite to pests of every kind,
But one there fs who positively floors me,
The gentleman who's overly refined
do not mind the man with worn-out
stories,
At least he wants to cheer me up a bit +;
The boastful man who magnifies his g1ories
May some day see his foolishness and
The grouehy man is hard to get along
with,
But even him l would not wholly ban:
There's only one am forever wrong with,
The ever-perfect goody-good man.
The game of life is rough and men must
play it,
To be a man one has to stand the brunt
A spades a spade-why be afraid to say it
The meanings clearer when the speech
is blunt:
A man can be a man and act politely,
Can I've with men and keep a polished
AH>eyes at times must look on things un-
And vigor dies that is too-much refined.
Copyright 1921. by Edgar A. Guest)
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cooking. Aunt Cynthy exclaimed over
it to such an extent her sister was
moved to say, pretending to sigh:
"Yes-we've got a fine cook-but, my,
up on US a dollar a week-with wages
tumbling all round u.s.
"And the worst is-we can't dis
charge her-you see she owns us
and the place" Mr.. Lane said with a
twinkle. Maria frowned at him, but
he went on: "Fact-holds a mort.
gage on everything-for the rest of
our lives-so we can look the sheriff
in the eye and make faces at the tax
gatherer. Still-I'm a little afraid
she'll prove rather tyrant."
Maria? You never?" Joe cried, a
choke in his throat. How could you
-when-when? There he had to
Aunt Cynthy finished for him. Maria
had stood up, her eyes downcast-now
she ran behind her father. put her
arms around his neck and said clear
ly: Cant I love them better?"
After that the visit was a ioyous
riot. Maria, the informing spirit of it,
petted everybody. Even Aunt Cynthy
who ended by staying a fortnight.
Two days before she left came a won
der-trunk for Marfa-one which dis
gorged rainbow miracles of silk and
satin. lace and linen cambric I'm
derneath there were some heavy bro
cades, stiff and gorgeous enough for
coronation robes. Mrs. Lane gasped
at sight of them, but her sister said
proudly, holdingN a creamy gold-shot
fabric next to Marfa's glowing face:
Here's the wedding gown, chiId--and
don't you wait too long to wear it,
Thanky. madam won't" Maria
said, blushing rosy-red.
Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
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a hard time answering the questions
put to him. Finally, one of the pro-
fessors asked, How would you sweat
a patient for the rheumatism 2"
Il would send him to be examined"
said the student, mopping his brow.
The wife of the profiteer was hav-
ing great difficulty over the furnishing
of the large house. She did not know
the names of ordinary articles of
furniture, and the more ornamental
things completely puzzled her.
One day a woman said to her:
Have you read Lambs Tales?'"
She thought for a while and then
answered, nervously, "No, but I've got
a gray sheepskin rug"
The Topeka state journal., 1921-07-29
THE THEATRIcAL OUTLOOK.

1t has been noted by theater pa
irons that during the past five years
each succeeding season has seen
offerings in the local play house. 1t
has been suggested that the falling off
is due TO lack of patronage brought
rbout by the inroads of the movies on
the business of the spoken drama.
The true reason for the change
that has taken place probably lies III
the high cost of transportation. Man
ayers Of travelling attractions say that
they cannot afford to send companies
on tour in the numbers that they used
to send. Salaries are SO high, they de-
clare, and production costs have so
increased that it is practical to send
only plays with small casts and not
more than two sets of scenery on Wis
its to a dozen or twenty of the larger
cities. Only in rare instances, accord
ing to their statements, is it possible
to send an elaborate production on
tour; such cases being entertainments
that have proved unusually popular
and capable of filling the largest the
aters. The number OF travelling dra-
matte companies have diminished so
greatly during the past five years that
the smaller cities are left with only
motion pictures as a source of dra-
matte entertainment, unless those
cities have stock companies. At least
fifty cities, it is reported, are to have
local companies, giving plays that
have never been brought to those
cities by travelling players.
Atchison is said to be the only town
Of its size in the United States sup
porting a resident stock company. A
return to pre-war prices has just
been announced. The Atchison house
is believed to be the first in the mid
die west to make the reduction. The
admission was reduced from IS and SO
cents to 10, 20 and 80 cents.
Some cities, like indianapolis and
Los Angeles. have had summer stock
companies in recent years, made up
not of routine players but of players
who were in demand for the best
Broadway companies in the winter.
Prices charged by the big travelling
companies already are as high as the
public will stand. It follows, there
fore, that unless they can reduce cost
of operation they must stick to Broad
way. in which case there is nothing
left for the provinces but stock.
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JUDGE lands. ARB1TER.

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands
has taken time off from his duties as
director of the baseball business of
the country to adjust the building
trades dispute, which has tied up con-
struction in Chicago since May 1. It
is reported that the judges findings
have been accepted by both sides ana
work will be resumed.
Judge Landis has laid down a set
OF principles and rules which, If OBJ
served by the building trade thruout
the country would go far toward re-
lieving the housing shortage. The
judges principles and rules follows
Article L Monopolistic elements of
associations or uni MS are intolerable
unless:
1.-The public is served more eco
nomically with them than without
them.
Unless any one qualified may
join them without hindrance or dis
elimination.
Sunless they serve any one on
demand without discrimination.
4-Unless sufficient apprentices
be taught to supply enough skiQfuI
managers and workers.
5-Unless working rules and con-
ditions eliminate waste of time, ef-
fort and material, increase quality and
quantity of product; encourage i'm
proved methods, materials and appli-
contentment of the workers; and help
to preserve peace in the community.
Article 2. Other things being equal,
trades should have higher wages, or
wages above the average:
If the work is more hazardous.
2-If greater skill is required
S-If longer term of apprentice
ship is required to become proficient.
If the work is intermittent or
unsteady. due to weather or season
able demand.
Article 5. other things being
tions that produce or permit waste
should have a lower wage, or a wage
lower than the average rate:
RULES that limit or curtail in any
way the amount of work per man, con-
sistent with reaso' able comfort and
well being.
2-Rules that require ordinary
travel to or from the job to be on em-
ployers' time, or otherwise waste time
paid for
S-Rules requiring skilled men or
high rate men to do work that less
! skilled or lower rate men could do or
other trades could do more economi-
eally.
4-Rules that exp Z .ly or by infer
! ence interfere with the manager or
| foreman in the dispatch of the work
or the use of new or improved meth
DDS, materials or appliances.
5-Rules that require work to be
| done by hand that could be done bet
ter or more economically by machin-
| cry, tools or other improved methods
! 6-Rules that require work to be
done on the building that could be
/ done better or more economically in
the shop.
RULES requiring excessive rates
for overtime, or overtime rates for
/ shift work.
| S-Rules requiring unnecessary
foremen, shop or job stewards or pay
for men or the time of men who dc
/ not render corresponding services
9-Rules requiring unnecessarS
helpers or assistapts
10--Rules that limit the number oi
members in the associations or unions
or unFeasonably limit apprenticeships
The outstanding feature of tn,
agreement is that in the future there
shall be no strike over wages unit
the matter in dispute has been sub.
mitted TO Judge Landis.
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aloud. covering my eyes with my hand.
Tom had sent me flowers and books
s,nce had been i'll. had told Keith
from whom they came. and he had
made no remark. Had margaret let
Le,th think / cared for Tom Bene-
5;cto 7 concluded not. That IL she
had he would have spoken to me
Trene's confession did me good in
one way. II made me rouse myself
to get about, to be with Keith Also
I must stop. accepting flowers ano
o+bar things from Tom. All was grist
tbat came to Margarets mill,s 1t
seemed, when she wanted TO use 1t
(Tomorrow-The last straw
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One of the flimsiest arguments
against the sales tax is that it's psy-
Geological effect would be to hinder
the restoration of the public's buying
power. Therefore, foV the psychologi-
cal effect, the tax should be hidden,
collected, say, from the producer.
However, all such taxes would show
up on the price tag; and they are eer-
tain to be added several times when
they are hidden" Furthermore, re-
storing the buying power OF the pub
lie is no longer a matter of psychology.
1T is a question of having the money
to spend.-T-Sioux City Tribune.
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Chairman Lasker of the shipping
board is asking for $125, 100000 to see
the board thru the next five months.
The board sank $3.50, 900, 900 last year.
Probably it would be money in Ua-
Gle Sans pocket in the long run if he
would sink the ships or give them
away, if anybody can be found to take
them. Why is it necessary for the
government to continue to send good
money after bad?
The Topeka state journal., 1921-07-29

The monthly review by the Federal
Reserve bank at Kansas City shows
that in the first six months of the
year there was an increase of 1895 in
the number of building permits issued
in the Tenth district while there was
a reduction of 40 per cent in total
cost This seems to indicate that the
people are building more garages than
they were last year.
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The Hoover relief commission an
nounces that it will reduce its food
contribu utions to Europe by so per
cent. CoincidentaIly with the an
nouncement comes the report of the
sinking of a British steamer with a
cargo OF cattle $and graiu from the
Danube country to Rotterdam. The
nations thru which the Danube flows
have been reported as the hungriest
in Europe, but they appear to be able
The Topeka state journal., 1921-07-29

Grain and grain products are NOV
ing in greater volume than at any
time within the past three years, de
spite the increase in freight rates.
says the American Railway associa-
tion. Certainly the producers are not
willing TO let their grain rot on the
ground as it did last year. 1t did not
move at that time because the rail-
roads did not furnish a sufficient
number of cars. But it need not be
supposed that the shippers are ignor-
ant OF the fact that they are paying
the increased rates.
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The general commanding the Greek
forces in Asia Minor has announced
his intention of annihilating the Turk
ish army. UP to this time no protest
has been recorded. If he carry out
his intention it may be that the Arme-
mans will obtain a much needed rest;
also the charitably inclined portion OF
the American population here at
home. Several centuries have elapsed
since the Greeks previously cut a
swath thru Asia, but there is a pop
ular belief that history repeats itself
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to export shiploads of foodstuffs TO
Holland for profit 1t is the China
situation over again. American relief
societies are said to be losing some
of their enthusiasm. No wonder.
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Dinner Stories

This story is told by one OF the doc
tors attending a convention. A can
didate for medical honors was having