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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-19
TOO MUCH SPEED.

It is a fine feeling to know that
should an emergency demand it, ones
car is capable of reaching a high rate
of speed. but the most sensible mo-
torist will agree that there is little
real pleasure in fast driving, especial
ly over the rough pavements We have
in Topeka and over the most of the
roads and highways in, the vicinity of
this city.
That speed is injurious to any car
is shown by the ready entry into the
TOO Much Speed Week" the Topeka
Automobile club is staging this week.
The men who sell cars and who know
them best are aware that speeding
over just any kind of road will ruin
the best car in much shorter time than
ordinary wear and tear.
We have some beautiful scenery in
and about Topeka but no one can see
it by going past at forty to fifty miles
an hour, especially if one must cling
to his seat with one hand and his hat
with the other. One cannot enjov
anything unless he be comfortable at
the time.
The only excuse for the ordinary
brand of speeding is an attempt on
the part of the driver to show off,
while as a matter of fact, such \
driver is really only. showing off his
utter disregardN~of the rights and
safety of others.
The Topeka State journal COM
mends the Topeka Automobile club
for fits stand against speeders and
hopes the good work will continue
The chief fault with>>our country at
this time is the failure OF the individ-
ual to recognize the fact that laws and
regulations were made for individual
observance. Let US hope that the ac-
tivities of this week and the unfortu-
nate accidents of the past few weeks
will drive home the TOO Much
Speed" lesson so that it will be re-
membered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-19
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-19

she had feared, the thoughts OF the
peaceful little village possessed her.
The day was sultry and the heat ana
noises of the city tired her. Boys tax
ing sheafs of papers te different rooms
in the great building clattered past
her on roller skates with a deafenang
c1amor. No.,
thought the girl, pushing back her
curly black hair that was damp from
the heat, ebut I'd rather be fixing up
a house, putting up freah white cur
tains and getting flowers from the gar
den for the supper table than to De
writing letters all day about farm I'M
elements or rubber boots
At the door of the correspondence
room she stood a moment thinking.
EMPLOYER. ana she wondered IL the
owner of the pleasant voice would be
hard to please. 81. U. p" she muir
Inured. The letters were the only
tangible title she had for him.
As she stood before the big desk
she saw that the man bending intentiy
over a paper had red hair. "I am Miss
Gordon. Mr.. BlatchIord told me e
report to you" Her sentence wac
left unfinished as she met Fred
s'Emma,~[ he cried radiantly.
AS they walked toward her boarding
house after work he suddenly asked:
"You have been taking my letters.
Why didn't you let me know you were
here?"
er depressed and lonely, 81 only knew
you as the man with the j. U. P. lee
tiers of complaint"
(Copyright, 921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-19

It is reported that western farmers
are planning to burn corn instead of
coal for fuel the coming winter as a.
matter of economy. Here is where
the railroads will lose both ways.
They will lose the freight on the corn
that is not sent to market and the
freight on the coal that IS not sent to
the farmers. Lover rates would en-
able farmers to sell corn and buy coal.
It looks as tho the railroads are sac
rificing opportunities for present gains
for something bigger that they expect
to get in the future. They seem to
have forgotten the lesson given them
q decade or so ago. 1t may become
necessary for the public to repeat it.
Previous anti-railroad legislation was
ushered in by the farmers burning
corn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-19
Just FOLKS
THE MENACE OF FAME.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

THE MENACE OF FAME.
He went to bed a humble man,
: Content with all that-ke- possessed,
He thought himself no better than
His neighbors living east or west;
His hand was out to all he knew,
From no one near was he estranged-
Fame honored him ere night was thru.
And in the morning he was changed
The cheers Of men were in his ears,
Some little dream he had achieved;
They praised as men have praised for
years,
He aiadiy heard and he believed
The drug Of flattery turned his brain.
And those who had been friends before
Could never go to him again
And find a welcome at his door.
The old-tinne neighbers he forgot.
The little house was closed for good,
Henceforth he felt that he could net
Be seen in such a neighborhood;
Yet. such a little time ago
Both peace and joy had crowned him
there,
And until fame was his to know,
The little street seemed wondrous fair.
Oh. why is 1t that fame should spoil
The man and turn his love TO hate2
Why should the brother used to toll
Fame's but an outer garb TO wear
And honOrs which reward the fair,
The map is really JUST the same
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. Guestl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-19

Before the war Germany's huge ar
mament drove the other nations into
competition with her in navy buil2
ing. She now may force them to the
opposite course. When the nations
which participated in framing the
Versailles treaty compelled Germany
to disarm, they placed in her hands
a club with which to beat them over
the head. With little or no expendi-
ture for army or navy the Teutons are
able to make their Preparations pay
ments and at the same time carry on
a campaign of production and selling
which threatens seriously to cripple
the commercial activities of otnel
countries. After all, business takes
preference over war when it does not
lead to war. II when the disarma-
ment conference meets, the delegates
find that the maintenance of big ar
maments is about to make Germany
the mistress of world commerce, It
may be that makers of munitions and
builders of battleships will be COM
PEELED to take back seats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-19

In view of President Harding's
promise of LESS government in bust
ness and more business in govern
ment." there was room for hope that
he would veto the packer control bill
but he has signed it and it is now a
law. However, it is said to be devoid
of teeth, and probably will serve no
purpose except to afford an excuse
for advancing the price of meat and
furnish a number OF additional jobs
for the faithful. An increase in the
cost of meat to the consumer at an
early date may be confidently ex-
pected
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-19

Democrats in congress are report
ed to be preparing to oppose the reve-
nue. bill framed by the majority party
The minority made so great \ mess of
things while it was in control of the
government that good taste seems to
demand that it should stay out of the
game and permit the party in power
TO adjust matters in its own way. II
the Republicans fail to improve con-
ditions, they can be made to answer
for such failure next year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-19

An Oklahoma congressman has in
troduced a bill making it INSIDE
meanor punishable by imprisonment
ard a heavy fine to sell or buy lib
erty bonds at a price below par. The
proposal is so absurd that it probably
never will get out of the committee
room. Such a law, instead of serving
the purpose intended. would force ev-
cry holder of these bonds to keep
them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-19

If congress would devote more time
to devising methods of curtailing ex-
penditures and less to searching for
new sources of income, says the Woll-
nan Review, we would be at the be-
ginning of the end of our fiscal trou-
bles. tits about two years and nine
months since the armistice was signed
anG yet the July expenditures for the
army. navy and shipping board
amounted to s147.Ooo.Oo0. consider
ably more than the average monthly
cost OF government for all purposes
before the war, The army has on its
payroll over $4,000 officers. about
one-seventh the numerical strength CT
our standing army eight years ago. 1t Is
much easier to save than to get more
money to spend. A curb should be
placed on the costly bureaucratic reg
ulation or control of private enter
prise. Such devices seldom result in
benefit to any but the'salaried officials.
The shipping board should be liqui-
dated as soon as possible. This must
come some time, the earlier the better.
Congress should abandon its plans to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-19
Dorothy Dix Talks
the Psychology of cIothes--l.

=
1t is a matter of common knowledge
that when a woman really gives her
mind to being business woman, ana
takes the same heart interest In her
job that she does in her hair or her
complexion, that she is a crackerjack
at it. SIS
All of us know saleswomen who lay
a spell upon US that causes us to buy
things we don't want and can't afford-
We know women buyers who can
wiring the last cent out of seller in
the way Of discounts and terms, we
know private secretaries around whom
a whole office functions as absolutely
and dependently as home does around
mother, and, this being the case the
wonder has always -seen that SO few
of tie many thousands OF girls who go
into business make a success # 1t.
Most of them are just q so-rans.
They fill small places incompetently.
They have no interest in their work,
no ambition to attain to a more re-
sponsible position, no desire to learn
anything about the thing they are try
ing to do, no pride of craftsmanship
Business to them means doing as little
labor as they can to draw pay en-
velope while they wait for some man
to come along and take them out or
the store or office, and put them in
kitchen or a parlor, as Lady Luck
ordains.
1 have always maintained that the
curious phenomenon of the business
girl who gave one brain cell to her
| lob and the balance of such gray mat
tfer as she possessed to trying to look
and act like a society debutante was
to be explained by her clothes Fur
thermore, have contended that
women would never be worth their
salt, even to themselves. In the conn
merciai world until they quit going to
work in fluffy ruffles and learn TO
dress the part, as theatrical people
say, of the business wonaris
So 1t is with great interest that 7
learn that the big business men in .
number of northern and eastern Of
! fees have put the ban on the baby
doll in stores and offices and have
given instructions to their employ
ment bureaus to take en- none but
plainly and suitably alfred women,
with cleanA implanted faces
IT do not trust any made up wom-
an" said one OF these large employ
ers of female labor, land no girl
decked out in a transparent waist, and
with fancy shoes, and knee length
skirts and socks on need apply for
work here. 1 want none but business
women, and women who look like
business women"
If this is true, and employers are
going to force women to give up their
friyolity in dress in working hours 1t
means a revolution in woman's whole
position in business and it means fur-
Their that women are going to amount
to something worth while in the COM
mercial field.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-19

A man. driving home on very wet
night, wished to give the cab driver
something TO keep out the Geld Find
ing nothing at hand but a liquor stand
with its tiTiy glasses, he filled up one
and handed it to the driver. remark
ing: You'll think none the worse of
this because it was made by the holy
monks
God bless the holy monksi" ex-
claimed the driver. as he drained the
glass: its themselves that can make
good liquor, but the man that blew
that glass was very short of breath"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-19
SHALL WE SAVE RUSSIA?

Having saved western and central
Europe with billions of loans and the
gift of hundreds of millions in food
stuffs and other supplies, while those
people, remained in comparative IDLE
ness and the highest of prices pre-
vailed in our own country, we are
now asked to repeat the process with
Russia. Under certain conditions it
has been announced America Will
send foodstuffs to Russia to tide the
people thru a winter made desolate
usual drouth. The condition is that
the Russian government release a few
Americans who were foolish enough
to enter that country and tempt fate.
Why is it that the United States
must fly to the aid OF every country
of the old world that insists on de-
stroying its substance by rushing
recklessly into war or experimenting
with forms of government that CEN
turtles of experience have demonstrate
ed always bring ruin in their wake
The World War was due solely to the
refusal of the people of Europe to
assert themselves and proclaim free
dom from self-appointed rulers who
sought to exploit their subjects for
personal giorification. The situation
in Russia can be blamed only on the
absurd government that prevented the
people from accommodating a surplus
to tide them over unusual weather
conditions that have prevailed this
summer.
There may have been some salts
faction in extending reconstruction aid
to central Europe as the peoples of
those Countries were in the throes OF
breaking away from their traditional
rulers and setting up governments of
their own. There was some prospect
that, once relieved of their present
distress. they would see to it that I'M
provoked war did not come again and
that they would busy themselves with
peaceful pursuits. But in Russia
there is no suggestion of a change in
government
The Russian people have been i'm
poverished while the Russian govern
ment has made war upon about every
nation within reach, and carried its
communistic propaganda and sent it's
agents of revolution into every coun-
try in the world.
1t is quite possible that the
war would have ended without the
entrance of this country had not the
soviet government compelled the
withdrawal of Russia, and the United
States might have been saved the ex-
penditure of $4,000 lives and 100000 =
0G0,0O0. Now We are asked to per-
petuate that same government with
enormous gifts of foods and supplies.
The United States demonstrated its
affection for the Russian people in the
famine of 1891 when millions were
saved from death by food sent them
from America. We are asked to re-
peat that contribution, but one of the
conditions should be that the soviet
armies be disbanded, the soldiers re-
turned to productive occupations, and
a stop put to the requisitioning of food
supplies to continue war against the
Poles, the overawing of the Armen-
ians and war-like threats in Siberia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-19

place the coal mining and packing IN
dustries under federal supervision.
Competition will settle the problems
involved much more quickly and eff
GENTLY than red tape. There has been
curtailment of army and navy ex-
penses. There should be.more of SIM
liar kind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-19

has worked out answers. to every dues-
ton that can be asked about the.
proper trees to plant in any section
or community, and this information is.
at the disposal of individuals or or
CARNATIONS undertaking tree plant
ing program. But officials of the for
estry organization say that it is safe to
follow the course of planting trees
which already are thriving in the
neighborhood in which the trees are
TO be planted @Fs
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-12-17
N55EHESS L 5777E3

Harry c. Palmer is sporting a brand
new, nifty Jordan roadster.
William G. Mcdonald has purchased
from Mrs. Ezra Lake the house at 20
w. Verona avenu now occupied by
Councilman Harry Umbrine and will
make same his home.
DR.. Leland Madden has purchased
from Mrs. Mary f. Steelman the for
mer Mark Wesley Blake property on
East Verona avenue. He has altered
same by the building of an Office and
has removed his family there.
The p. H. S. basketball team will
inaugurate its season Friday, Dec. 90,
with the strong Alumni five. The
game will start at S.15 p. m. Further
information in regard to the game will
be given in next weeks Pleasantville
Press.
Our towns folk have thoroughly en-
joyed the Shakespearean plays given
this week at the Apollo Theatre. The
two most popular evenings were Mac
beth" on Monday and Merchant of
Venice" on Thursday. On Monday
evening about one hundred per cent.
of the teachers of the schools and
many pupils were in the audience and
or Thursday about sixty of the High
School pupils and many teachers at
tended.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-12-17
SCHOOL NO. I WINS TROPHY.

On Thursday, Dec. Is, representa-
tives from the twenty-three classes in
School No. l were assembled in one
of the eighth grade rooms for the pre-
sentation of the trophy won by them
in the Fly Campaign conducted by the
o. w. l.. Society of the Atlantic City
High School for the Schools of Allan
tic City and all the cities and towns
in the vicinity.
Principal William F. Richards, in
introducing the speakers, said that the
school was glad to aid this society in
its laudable work of educating the
pupils of Atlantic City and vicinity to
the dangers of our enemy, the fly,
which to some is simply an unavOid-
able pest, but to others as n writer
stated, lis the most dangerous wild
beast in America and causes more
deaths annually than war Except the
Great War;, flood and famine"
The society was represented by
three of its number-Misses May
Lloyd, Vera Joslin and Dorothy Hewes
who gave very interesting and in
%structive talks on the following topics:
What We Owe in Return for Our
Education Miss Mary Lloyd.
Another Wan (Mosquitoes)," Miss
Vera Joslin.
Presentation of Trophy, 1.-THE Pla-
que" Miss Dorothy Hewes.
This trophy will be held by the
school for one year, when 1t must be
again won in order to hold it, as ii
must be won twice in three years to
keep il permanently.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-12-17
D. A. r. EXITING.

The General Lafayette Chapter, ID.
A. r., held their December meeting on
Saturday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Muir j. Collins, 5 S. Brighton ave-
nue., Atlantic City. Most encouraging
reports We're given by the various
committees, and much business of in
terest was transacted. After the bust
ness meeting the following program
was given: Piano solo, Valse, Chopin,
Miss Ada Thomas. Vocal solo (a)
1.-THE Herdsman's Song" CD THE
Last Rose of Summer by Mrs.
Samuel Barbash im%personating Jennie
Lind, and accompanied by Mrs. A.
Sachse i~mpersonating Clara Shuman.
Reading, selected, Miss Gladys Smith,
a pupil of Mrs. H. Conrad. Vocal solo,
"Chanson Undue from the Legend of
Sadko," Miss Ada Thomas, accom-
panied by Miss Mida c. Blake. Among
the Shore people attending were: Mrs.
John f. Ryon, Mrs. Samuel Johnson,
Miss Mae F. Cordery, Mrs. MARTHA
Ketchum, Mrs. T. George Middleton,
Mrs. Charles w. Blake, Miss Mida
Blake, Mrs. j.. G. Thomas, Mrs. Ada
Thomas, Mrs. |. G. Adams, Miss Mabel
Adams, Miss Pauline Reed, Mrs. M. V.
B. Soul and others.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-12-17
AGRICULTURISTS MEET
AND ELECT OFFICERS.

DR.. w. p. Thompson, of English
Creek, was reelected president of the
Atlantic County Board of Agriculture
at it's annual meeting held Tuesday in
the Court House at Mays Landing
Other officers chosen were Vice-presi
dent, John Casazza, Buena Vista; sec.
rotary, Howard Mcconnell, Mortified
treasurer, H. C. Lee, S~teelmanville
executive committee, William H. Gar
wood, Bargaintown; Henry Tapken,
Mullica; Harry V. Rogers, Estelville
John B. Slack, Hammonton; J.. l.
Purzner, Cologne; George Adams, Port
Republic; J. B. Tomlin. Atlantic City;
William Hauenstein, Pennington; II
L. Packard, Hammonton; Henry Goss,
Germania.
At the same meeting the ladies of
the county formed a temporary organi-
cation under the name of the Woman's
Home Bureau, which enrolled fifty
members. 1t is to cooperate with the
Agricultural Board in improving farm
activities which come directly under
the supervision of the wives, mothers
and daughters.
President Thompson reported that
agriculture in Atlantic County is being
steadily placed on a surer footing by
reason of the application of more
scientific methods in farming. The
farmer in this county is growing more
educated in this direction and is get
ting better results.
The keynote of the meeting was the
need of better farming and better
marketing"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-12-17
BOYS EYE INJURED
BY BATTED BALL.
Werner c. keucher, of lakewood, Vic
tim of Accident at School.

Werner G. keucher, eight, a pupil
of the fifth grade of the lakewood
school, was struck in the eye by a ball
batted by another pupil OF the school
on Wednesday. Dec. Z, and so seriously
injured that it was necessary to take
him to the Atlantic City Hospital. His
glasses were smashed by the blow,
and he suffered severe injuries to his
left eye, which was badly cut by the
jagged glass. Two blood vessels burst
and clots formed over the eye, which
was greatly swollen.
Miss Welton, the principal of the
school, with wonderful presence OF
mind, Immediately made arrangements
to transport the boy TO the hospital,
and made assurance doubly sure that
he would receive prompt and expert
medical care when he arrived there,
by ~telephoning an eye specialist to be
in attendance upon the boys arrival
at the hospital.
Upon his arrival there Miss Welton
made all arrangements for the child's
comfort, and by her kind, motherly
comforting, greatly decreased the
child's fear of his first hospital visit.
She stayed with the boy all that night
and the following day, until his
mother. who had been in Philadelphia,
was able to reach the hospital.
Due to the prompt action of Miss
Welton and other kind persons of the
community, who co-operated with her,
a permanent injury to the eye of the
patient has been prevented, and al
though the child will necessarily be
under medical care for some time yet,
his condition is considerably improved.
But had the matter not been SO
promptly attended to very serious con
sequences might have resulted.
1t is certainly a great comfort for
the parents of a community to feel
that the mental, moral and physical
well-being of their children are in
charge of such a capable, efficient and
kind-hearted person as Miss Welton
has shown herself to be, and the resi-
dents of this particular community
may well congratulate themselves in
having her in charge of the school at
Cardiff.