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The Washington times., 1921-05-19
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THE LANGUAGE or wINkIl

! snE LhNoSAo1 W "sNNsNN'
I "CSvPoD" gives this as '.the eye
Irritation:
Right Eye-I love you.
! Left Eye-I hate you.
Both Eyes Slowly tone at time)--
Follow, me.
Both eyes quickly tone at a time)--
We are watched.
The only trouble about the forego-
ing is that there are many people
who can not wink both eyes with
or the other well.
prof" FRED VETTER remarks:
There is no authoritative Language
of winks. Like kissing, winking goes
by favor. Winking is a near rela-
tive Of kissing except that, like near
beer. is has not the same authority
as the real stun"
And this by Blinking Bill
You ask about the language Of the wink
Well. it's often risky. III decry.
Especially IL the wink is by bold gink
Who hasn't noticed the husband nearby
Teacher-what's your idea of alb
sc mt mindedness?
Pupil-The fellow who forgets his
watch, and then takes ii out of his
pocket to see IL he has time to go
back for 1T. MARCELLA WAVES.
TO-DAY.
Der hill, and dale. athwSrt the way.
greet this season vernsi
with horal panorama gay
which wish might be eternal
X. SMITH.
TRIANGLE PROBLEM
w p L inouires: "Counting the
The Washington times., 1921-05-19

But as Harry Gusack
heard someone remark of
prohibition, when do IL
begin?"
The Washington times., 1921-05-19

) Illicit speakeasies will
spring up everywhere and
works viii be Hooded with
spurious brands of unreliable
elixir.
The Washington times., 1921-05-19

Effectiveness of prohibi-
ton force will prove-up at
about one-hslf OF one per
cent from now on.
The Washington times., 1921-05-19
TRIANGLE PROBLEM

w. p. L. inquiries: Counting the
triangle itself, how many three-cor.
nered figures are in it?
The Washington times., 1921-05-19

Where he ~ss once the
emblem OF drouth and fear.
he Is now the token of froth
and beer.
The Washington times., 1921-05-19

| A new Life of Lenin" is an
nounced by a New York book
house. IL will not be near as
popular as the recent announce
ment OF his death. +. o S.
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Good work. boys. only
got 90 y par cant to 60.
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Buy only at authorized FILL
ing stations.
The Washington times., 1921-05-19
TODAY.

Der hill. and dale. athwart the way.
greet this season vernsi
With horal panorama gay
which 1 wish might be eternal.
X. SMITH
The Washington times., 1921-05-19

Show Commissioner kra-
nfer. that failure of his clock
TO tick will not make ma
tion Of inebriates out Of us.
Live UP TO the principles of
getting the best no matter
what the cost may be.
1t will be forty days be-
fore the Revenue Bureau
viii be skipping on schedule
again.
4 Forty nights OF unrefned
liberty when we won't have
to pull the shades nor indi-
cate the fire-cscapes by red
lights.
The Washington times., 1921-05-19

3 The csmels back is
busted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05
Dorothy Dix Talks
~ DOROTHY DIX
wesiRs Highest Paid Woman Wrasx,
Each to His Trade-1.

One of the big universities an
nounces that it has established de-
partment of domestic science. and that
henceforth it will instruct young men
in the fine art of darning, and patch
ing, and sewing on buttons, and cook
cry. both plain and fancy.
Whether this addition to what has
been heretofore considered a liberal
education for man, is rendered nee
essary by the feminine movement, is
not stated. Perhaps it is because so
many women kave gone out of the
kitchen, that it is thought advisable to
fit men to go into it, and the time
may yet come when a girl will boast,
not that she is going to marry a mil
lionaire, but a .first-claSs cook.
my dear" Maud will say. Sam is
the handsomest thing, he has perfect
Greek profile, and the longest and
Slickest hair you ever saw, and you
should Just taste his filet mignon! 1
thought Papa was some cook, but be-
lieve me, he simply isn't in 1t with
Sam. He shakes a wicked saucepan,
I'll tell the world. And as for the
way he can darn stockings! Perfect
dreams oh, tell you, I'm lucky
girl to get him, and I'm sure we are
going to be perfectly happy, tho I
know you have to keep your eye on
a husband who is a treasure like that,
to prevent some other woman from
snatching him away from YOU
women are SucH cdls' anu VI Sou1oe'
most men are just self-made~ cooks,
but Sam took the full domestic
course at the university"
And we can picture Maud's audi
ence of debs and sub-dehs perish1ng
on the spot thru sheer envy, for what,
after all, are lmousines ana strings
of pearls, and country places, to a
husband who is a good free-hand cook,
and who cannot give notice and leave
but has to stay on the job?
OF course, to teach men how to
cook is, in a way. a work or super
rogation, and its cruelty unnecessary
Heaven knows, that as they are, hus-
bands are desirable enough, and hard
enough to get, and we can only shud-
der when we think of how fierce the
man hunt will be when every woman
will look forward to matrimony to as
suage not only her heart throbs. but
to solve the servant problem. for at
the altar she will acquire both soul
mate and a ladys maid.
To the unthinking, this new educa-
tional move will seem highly desira-
BILE They will see in it a new unity
| and sympathy that will be brought
about by husbands and wives having
common object, for the great trou-
| BILE with married couples is that they
/ have no mutual interest. no topic of
conversation over which they can jab-
| Der for hours at a time, as men do
with other men, and women with
other women.
! But in a household in which the
husband is an expert cook and dress
maker, there will be no dull evenings,
with long dreary silences. Husbands
and wives with two souls with but a
single thought about the amount of
paprika that should go into a goulash.
or who can plan out together perfectly
ravishing frocks and hats, will never
q,
go away from their own fireside for
companionship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05

Ralph Stone, prohibition director Of
Illinois. suggests there is one sure
way to bring about bone dry condi-
tions, and that it can be accomplished
in short order-if the people really
want it. "All the people have to do"
he says, lis to boycott dishonest
druggists and physicians. 1t takes a
carload of whisky daily to supply pre-
scriptions written in Illinois alone
And he goes on to explain that if the
people who believe in strict observ-
ance of the law simply will stop pa
tronizing dishonest dealers and ply
sicians who aid in law evasions, the
problems of prohibition enforcement
will be solved" But if the people de-
cline to follow this course, is it to be
understood that they do not want a
''bone dry condition? Or shall it be
set down that they prefer to leave en-
forcement of the law to those who are
paid to perform that service?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05
George MatthewAda
Daily Talk
ON BEING LED.


In the Bible there is reference made
to the leadership of a chiId-"and a
little child shall lead them"
Great leadership is stripped of all
heral6lng, all glamour, every insincere
intention.
Look into the honest eyes of child
and who can resist its appeal?
And SO the child leads us all on to
better things and higher resolves.
The great leader of men in battle
has to forget his own ambitions and
remember only the welfare of the
country he serves. I often think Of
the heroic figure of General LAYTON
who was killed while leading his men
in the Philippine Islands He fell NOR
tally wounded right out in the front
line
1t was a northern general who in
sisted that victory was not yet COM
plete over his southern adversary
for" said he, there stands General
Jackson. like a stone walt"
The direct path of the leader is al
ways forward.
We are all the time being led by un-
seen forces-the silent things of beauty
with which We surround ourselves. our
books, our hobbies, the many by
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05
TOO MUCH LAWNf4KING.

Probably everybody has heard of
the man who said he could not see a
certain town because there were so
many houses. Similarly. we seem to
be approaching a situation where we
shall be unable to see the law because
there are so many statutes.
Senator Thomas declared in con-
gress recently that during the last
twenty years the states and the con-
gress together have placed 10000 laws
upon their statute books, all of them
designed to produce a better social
and political condition by legislation.
Continuing he said:
The nation is not so happy now as
it was twenty-five years ago. We are
more discontinued, more dissatisfied
with our condition and that of the
body polite, and therefore we are
clampring for more statutes like the
inebrfate who, prior to the 18th day
of January, 1920. was prone to cure
his malady by prolonging his debauch.
The general public appears to have
the notion that all manner of ills will
yield to legislative enactment, and 1t
may be said that they are encouraged
in their belief by many legislators.
The American people seem to have
lost the element of self-reliance.
Whenever they come upon problem
of whatever kind, they throw up their
hands and run with it to congress OF
the state legislatures.
Are prices too high or too low, is
credit too easy or too tight, the people
call upon the law makers to set them
right. Recently a petition found It's
way to congress from wives and
mothers of Industrial workers" OF
Brooklyn, praying that the condition
of 1.-THE overworked, under-paid, dish
washing housewife" be improved. and
as means. to this end urging 1egisla-
ton requiring childless women under
60 years of age to do homework three
days a week for mothers of children
The present session of the Kansas
legislature has witnessed the intro
duction of the usual number of bills
embodying legislation hardly less alb
surd than that proposed by tho
Brooklyn housewives. Happily, many
of these proposals have failed tC
emerge from the committee rooms
But they needlessiy consume the time
of the members and make the state
ridiculous in the eyes of the country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05

doing it, as we did. But 1t VOICED.
Major Hoke was assigned by the war
department to the bureau of standards,
and there, with the help of the govern
ment men and in the government
shops, he worked out his machine He
gave the government the use of the
machine, but he was allowed to take
out the patent in his own name. He
has now made an ARRANGEMENT with
the Pratt & Whitney company of Hart
ford. Conn.,, for the manufacture OF
these gauge blocks. They are being
manufactured in large numbers, and
each set is tested by the bureau of
standards. The arrangement is said to
be very profitable both to the inventor
and to the manufacturers. Moreover,
America no longer goes to Sweden for
it's gauge blocks And American shops
which could never before obtain or
afford a set of gauge blocks, now have
Them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05
Ouestions-Ansoers

O. What are the flower and gem SYM
boIs for February? A. G. b.
A. As authorized by the American Jew
elers' association, the birthstone for Feb
ruary is the amethyst The flower symbol
for this month is the primrose.
Q. What president was known as Sir
Veto? J. F. g.
A. This title was applied to Andrew
O. = Who first suggested the idea of a
canal across Panama? L. 3. P
A. The project of a canal across the
Isthmus of Panama is about 400 years old.
Balboa and other Spanish explorers urged
such construction before the Emperor of
Spain. and made surveys in search OF
feasible line as early as 1925.
@. l have four tons of coal in my base
ment which has been there three years. Is
there any danger of spontaneous combus-
ton? V. N.
A. The Bureau of Mines states that as
small a quantity of coal as four tons is not
in danger of catching fire from spontane-
GUS combustion.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05

There seems little probability that
wheat prices can go much lower than
they are today during the next twelve
months. Wheat production in the
United States in 1920 exceeded that
of any other nation, amounting to
7s7.OOO,OOO bushels, or 100,00O,0oo
bushels more than the pre-war aver
age and twice as much as was raised
by any other country for which sta
tistics. are available. The total out
put of other countries declined H.
100000 bushels below pre-war aver
ages, while at the same time this
countrys crop was nearly 150,op0.O 900
bushels less than the 1919 record.
Before the war, Russia led the
world both in acreage planted in
wheat and in total production. Little
is now known of the actual situation
in the grain growing areas of Russia,
but political uncertainty and disor-
Eanized transportation apparently
make the conclusion certain that Rus
STA cannot become a factor in the
grain market during the next year.
Recent reports from India are to the
effect that the crop is suffering from
a lack of rain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
TIE Par KAYE. News.
By LElE PAPE

Weather. Plentiful.
Bizzniss Notes. Ed Wernick and
Lew Davis are thinking of going in
the lumber bizzniss starting with 5
boards they found last Sattiday, but
Ed Wernick wasent allowed to keep
them in his back yard and now it all
depends on weather Lew Davis will
be allowed to keep them in his.
Theater Notes. There's a bum pick
ture at the Little Grand this week.
Spoarts. A contest was held last
Sunday aftirnoon to see who could
make their chewing gum last the
longest and still enjoy it, Pubs Sim
kins winning by making his last 5
hours but the other fellows claiming
a fowl on account of saying Pubs kepp
on putting sugar in his mouth agenst
the rules. Amung those in the contest
was Benny Potts. Artie Alexander, Le-
roy Shooster and Reddy Merry.
Pome by Skinny Martin.
Watts Fare for One Is Fare for All.
Cheer up, 1aff harty,
The werst is yet to come,
never felt better in all my life
So wy should you feel bum?
Sissiety. Mr.. Skinny Martin and
Mr.. Skinny Mullin are SO mad at
each other they don't speek, the most
they do being to make signals and
they don't even do that unless its abb
silootly necessary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.
UNFORGETABLE THINGS,


They amt much, seen from day to day
The church spire, an the meetin place
Lit up by many a friendly face.
You pass 'em by dozen times
An never think o. them in rhymes,
Or fit fer poets singin'. Yet
They're all the things you can't forget,
An they're the things you'll miss some
II ever you should go away.
The people here amt much to see
Jes' common folks like you an me,
Doin' ordinary tasks
Old DIR Green, still farm round
To where his patients can be founnd,
An Parson Hill, serene o. face,
Carryin' Gods message every place.
An Jim, who keeps the grocery store
Yet they are folks you'd hunger for.
They seem so plain when close to view,
Bill Barker. an his brother too.
The Jacksons-men of higher rank
Because they chance to run the bank,
Yet friends to every one round here,
Quiet an kindly an sincere,
Not much to sing about or praise,
LiFin' their lives in modest ways
Yet in your memory they'd stay
If ever you should go away.
These are things an these the men
Some day you'll long TO see again.
Now it's so near you scarcely see
The beauty o. that big elm tree,
But some day. later on you will
An wonder If it's standin' still.
An, il the birds return TO sing
An make their nests there every spring.
Maybe you scorn them now. but they
Will bring you back again some day.
Copyright, 1921. by Edgar A. Guest.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05
Dinner Stories

whenever anybody is i'll at our
house we always call in the doctor
right away" said man to his neigh
Dor.
Don't you wait day or two to see
how things are going to turn out ?'
mo, stree. The cemeteries today
are filled with people who weren't
sick enough to call in a doctor"
In the departed days some-be-
fuddled guest appeared unsteadily be-
fore the desk of a smart hotel and
demanded in thick but firm tones
that his room be changed.
I'm sorry" the clerk humored
him. But all the rooms are taken"
''Mush have mother ROOM" in
sisted the guest
whats the matter with the room
you have, now?"
well, if you mush know" ex-
planned the dissatisfied tenant, tish
on fire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05

The rapid decline in oil prices no"
in progress leads a representative In
the Oklahoma legislature to express
a. suspicion that there is in existence
a conspiracy among the pipeline COM
NAMES to hammer down prices. The
law of supply and demand no longer
is given credit for anything. II
prices go up manipulation by speclai
interests is charged. The same Is true
when prices go down. Yet, IN 1ac''
this world-old law is always on the
Job and nobody can beat it for any
considerable length of time. 1t may
be submerged temporarily but it Will
come to the top sooner or later IN
good working order and as rule long
before legislation or investigation
commissions get into action.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05

Every business man in the country
should look upon the Gronna bill for
control Of the packing industry and
the Calder bill for control of the coal
industry as indications that it may be
his turn next in the program which
apparently is under way to make the
government the guardian and director
of every line of endeavor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05

ways of nature, but most of all, our
human friends. Each and all of these
mix their inspiring influences with
what we have to give, and the product
is finer service rendered to the world
We must understand leadership. But
we must net forget the splendid cour-
age necessary to the follower-for the
leader always comes from among those
who are led.
And there is such a dearth of leaders
everywhere,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05

It is said that Great Britain reduced
her national debt last year by $780,
100000. If she would pay this coun-
try what she owes it. Uncle Sam might
be able also to show a substantial re-
duction in his Indebtedness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05

In the usually level headed Manu-
faeturers' Record is found the fol-
lowing, in egard to tine question of
Panama canal tolls: at is generally
understood that Japan has threatened
war by reason of California's legisla-
ton and that England promised to
persuade Japan not to go to war
against the United States if we would
eliminate the free tolls on American
ships" Let all who believe this hold
up their hands. Not a hand in sight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05

TheN most encouraging thing about
the railroad wage situation is the
declaration of labor leaders that they
will abide by the decisions of the rail-
road labor board. The roads will of
necessity do the same. So there Is
nothing further to do but wait. 1t
was for the purpose of adjusting such
differences that the board was estab-
lished.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05

Copyright, 1920. by the Wheeler Cyudicat,
Jnc.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05

Nothing annoys us SO much as the
gay laughter and wild abandon to
mere secular joys of those who make
a holiday of the Sabbath. Time and
time again they have thrown us off
our game and beat US out of a pro-
bable 60
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-08-08
Ellensburg Traffic Measures

Editor The Star.
Sfn communication which APP
peared today In another Seattle pa.
per. one signing himself Henry ".
siszler, complains Of having recent
ly been fined IS upon a conviction
OF having violated the traffic ordi.
nance OF Ellcnsburg In that he
parked his automobile parallel with
the sidewalk instead OF at an angle
OF about 30 degrees as required. He
also states that on the same day
five other 'innocents abroad" were
similarly fined. The article carries
a clear imputa ton OF bad faith on
the part of the city towards tour.
lists. and for that reason calls for a
statement OF the facts.
A search of the records Of the
Elicnsburg police court shows that
the only time five or more persons
were fined In one day for violations
OF the traffic ordinance was on
July 20. 1921. on which day seven
persons were 90 fined. and every
one OF them was either a resident OF
the city or of It's immediate vicinity.
The records also show that by far
the majority Of persons so fined
were local people. No one giving
the name OF Sisler has even recent
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-08-08

We've done lot of talking about the last six month";
And considerable cussng.
The thing do focus all the accumulated talk and
all thought and all the accumulated feeling
have the subject where it may do good.
Where that? Why, the governors investigation
When? Tomorrow, 1880 m. Where? At the
mittees headquarters, 512 Hinckley building.
of organizations and individuals invited
by present their facts their ideas and their
plans.
Out of all the material gathered it 10 hoped to work
ommendaton that shall reform
quilt and equaize the burden Of An
devouy be wished. Anything that YOU do help
realize it ought be done promptly and cheerully.
Remember the place and the hour.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-08-08

'iy been arrested here: 40 that II
your communicant was fined. II was
under an assumed name.
The traffic ordinance Of Eriens.
burg Is based upon the state law
and Ii consistent herewith, and is
In harmony with similar ordinances
existing In practically all of the
municipalities Of the state. Its
provisions are fair. sensible and for
the protection of the public. and
have been and win be enforced
against all violators without dis.
elimination. and regardless Of
whether they reside here or abroad
Ellensburg and its people welcome
tourists and have provided free
camping ground which is unsur.
passed, but we cannot and will not
countenance violations OF law even
upon the part of tourists. Fortu.
nately. practically all tourists are
law-abiding and reasonable.
II Is to be hoped that, should
your commitment again run afoul
OF our ordinances. he will at least
confide his name 10 us.
Very respectfully yours.
ALvA TUCKER,
Chief OF Police.
Ellensburg. Wash.