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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-07
JUST FOLKS
THE COMMON anYs
ny EDGAR A. QUEST.

THE COMMON JOYS.
When everything is said and done
And Time, the master f-us all,
Has fixed us SO we canot run
Or race or romp or throw ball;
When high ambition turns away
For stronger hearts and hands than ours,
Well learn in life's declining day
How lovely are the common flowers.
When age comes on and We have ceased
TT struggle for some distant goal,
When from the battle we're released,
No more to heed the drums that roll.
Well no doubt smile at those who fight
For fortune and the nod Of kings,
And tell how much Of real delight
There is in all the common things.
Well some to know and understand
How vain we're all the pOmD and show.
The pressure of some little hand
Which trusted us long years ago,
VIII mean far more than gold and fame;
The love of old friends, tried and true,
VIII long outlast the worlds acclaim
And we shall live them over, too.
Oh. when our hot ambition cools
And we have fought our noblest fight.
Wen learn what isn't taught in schools
Just what has brought the most delight
And we shall find that memory clings
Not to the glories We have won,
But to the simple common things
Which fill the years for every one
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. GuestD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-07

There remains less than three
weeks in which to do Christmas shop
ping. Despite frequent warnings
some will go rushing around the day
before Christmas. indignant that there
is a certain depletion in the Christ
mas stock from which they desire to
select; annoyed that the clerks who
wait on them may not show so much
enthusiasm as may be desired; irri-
tated as they realize that even if they
succeed in getting what they want the
articles will in all probability fail 20
arrive in time to go into the Christ
mas stockings o6 the persons who arc
to be made glad by them. Yet there
has appeared from year to year much
improvement in this regard. There
can be found many persons at this
time who have their Christmas pres
ents already bought and tied up. How
they must be envied by the procrasti-
majors!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-07

Announcement by the labor board
that new working rules to replace the
national agreements which for a long
slime have been excessively costly to
the railroads will be ready soon indi-
Gates that the subject Of further wage
establishments can be taken up at an
carly date. During the first seven
months of this year, according to the
interstate commerce commission sta
tistics, the railroads paid their en-
ployes s1,671.349,536 in wages, which
was 61.S per cent of the total operat-
ing expenses for that period. In July,
according to the commission, the car
riers paid out $12,O39.154 in over
time compensation. OF this amount
$5,439,168 went to trainmen and en-
ginemen engaged in the transporta-
ton service. OF the remaining
s6,599,9s6, a total of $S,S71,61O was
paid as punitive overtime. 1t is ex-
pected that the roads will be freed
from much of this extra compensa-
ton by the new rules.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-07

One hundred and thirty-six laws
were enacted in the six month of the
first session of the present congress
and scores Of others are pending in
various stages of legislation ready TO
be taken up again. The more impor-
tant bills enacted into law are as fol-
lows: Internal revenue act, budget
act, emergency tariff extension act,
peace resolution. veterans bureau act,
immigration act. anti-beer act. S25,-
600, 600 farm loan act.-navy and army
appropriation acts, grain futures act,
packers control act, war finance ag-
ricultnral loan act, S75,000,000 state
highways aid act, maternity act, ship
ping board act, export aid act, cable
control act, Indian bureau act. Sew
erai OF these might have been omit
ted without injury to the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-07
LITTLE BENNY'S ROTE BOOK
TREES.
BY LEIB PARE


TREES.
Trees have their good points and
their bad points. They give shade to
everybody that wunts to stand under
neeth of them but they also give them
a fearse crack on the he'd in case a
suddin storm comes up and they get
noeked down by lightning. They bare
froot but they also bare splinters.
They are good things to climb. up but
on the other hand they are bad things
to fall off
The most Exciting of trees to have
GROUND is froot trees. If you know
ways tell wat kind OF froot to ixpect.
because the most serprizing thing a
froot, tree could do would be to give
some other kind Of froot- One Of the
most useless looking sites there is IS
a apple tree with nuthing on it but
leeves. The hite of luxury is to lay
under a apple tree and have a apple
drop ncer you but not on you.
Some people can tell all the different
kinds of trees by the different leeves,
vile others jest know they are meer
trees by their shape and seem salts
fled to even know that mulch. The
greener a tree is the better it looks
and the better it proberIy feels.
Every tree has a lot of roots down
under the ground doing all the werk
vile the tree sticks up and get all the
credit.
Squirrels jump erround in trees
like other people jump GROUND on
the ground, proving il all depends on
wat you're used to.
Some of the things that come from
trees are rubber. switches, acorns,
maple sirup and toothpick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-07
INFORMATION FOR ALL READERS OF
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United States government.
It can answer practically any question
you want to ask, butt can't give ADVICE
or make exhaustive research
The war forced so many changes IN the
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keep in touch with your government at
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-07

The Wisconsin federation of wo-
mems clubs, at its annual convention,
launched a campaign against bill
fin resolutions addressed 10 the state
highway commission and members of
the legislature that the roads are not
the place for advertising signs, be-
cauce Of their detriment to natural
beauty, and it is suggested that the
newspaper IS the more legitimate me-
dunn thru which the retail merchant
should seek patronage. Probably a
large majority of the inhabitants of
the entire country agree with the
Wisconsin club women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-07

and holding the goal he set out to gain.
If more people would scrap their
grouches when entering upon each
day, this would be a much more Iva
BILE world.
The office which is regularly ex-
amined for accumulated matter. to see
that everything that doesn't con-
tribute is done away with, proves the
most efficient and smoothest running
office.
Examine your own character. Learn
what is keeping you back Get the
scrap it, habit. for a time at least.
Settle down to essentials.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-07

But. papa" tearfully protested
Alicia Hortense, poker playing is not
such an awful habit. why, at your
own club"
That's where I got my informa-
ton, daughter. I'll have no daughter
of mine bringing home a man that I
can't beat with a flush a full house
and fours."
Senator Borah was talking about
a lobbyist.
'sThe fellow" he said, lis as re-
sourceful and persevering as the At
lantic City girl who wanted q husband
50 That girl out there an old lady
said excitedly to a young man, pointing
with her parasol out to sea-that
girl out there is drowning. Why don't
you swim out and rescue her7s
THE young man addressed gave
an embarrassed cough.
Well. you see, maam,' he said,
it would hardly be good form I
rescued her yesterday. "
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-07

men are continually flying and seek
ing to develop aeronautics of a mill
tary character. However. the services
are not large IN their personnel The
only other governmental move toward
training flyers is in the maintenance
of the aerial mail service of the post
office department. And of these fly
ers, the only governmental service out
side of the army and navy, there are
today but As actual flyers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-07

About a billion dollars of the new
budget is for interest on the public
debt. That figure could be cut in half
if the European nations that owe US
money would make regular payments
of their interest. But congress prob
ably would find some other way TO
spend easy money like that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-07

An observer in Montreal estimates
that American tourists brought
$1,000, 900 u week into Canada this
year. and word comes from Quebec
that S35.OOO,OOO was left in that prov
ince alone. It will be seen, therefore,
that despite prohibition this country
still is paying a heavy liquor bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-07
Dinner Stories

Daughter" said the old man,
sternly, Il positively forbid you mar
rying this young scapegraee! He is
an inveterate poker player!"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-07

Probably that is true; but there is
one thing we never have been able to
understand: Why can't a woman let
her husbands old clothes alone? An
old suit or a pair of discarded shoes
in a closet is as great a temptation to
a woman as drink to a drunkard.
Evening star., 1921-07-25
'CONCILIATORS DROPPED
BY LABOR Department
Small Appropriation Available for
Year Seriously Interferes
With Efficiency.

Cuts in personnel of the concilia-
ton division of the Department of
Labor and consequent lessening of
the efficiency of the department in
thwartfng potential labor troubles
have been necessary sr account of
the small appropriation available for
carrying on the work of the division
for the remainder of the fiscal year,
Secretary Davis announced today.
Already about eighteen concilators
have been placed on furlough or
have been permanently removed from
the pay roll of the division, the Sec
retary said. and several of the per-
sonal friends of Mr.. Davis are giving
him reports on industrial situations
in several cities.
The appropriation for the current
fiscal year for the division Of con-
Citation, which former Secretary
wilson said was one of the most i'm
portant branches of the Department
OF Labor, is 100000. At present the
division is expending one-twelfth of
THIS amount each month in order to
Keep within the appropriation. Sec
retary Davis said much larger ap-
preparation Is necessary If the work
OF the. conciliation division is to be
properly carried out. He did not in
d1cate whether an emergency appro-
prlation would be asked.
Enlargement Of the work of the
cancellation division fits in with Sec
retary Davis scheme for appointment
OF key man in each industry to
keep in touch with conditions in that
industry and nipping in the bud con-
troversies involving labor. The Sec
dustry, under his scheme. would be
under Hugh L. kerwin, director of
conciliation, and would Immediately
report to him any trouble.
Evening star., 1921-07-25
A Roundup of Americans.

From Leslie's.
In such a movement as is now on
foot in the country to destroy every
thing English. it is clear that the
English language must not be spared.
The English Bible will have to go,
especially the King James version.
which on account of its nome must
be most obnoxious to all who believe
in self-determination for everybody
but Americans and EnglishmSn.
Then there is the common law.
therefore, like Carthage of old. must
be destroyed. Plymouth Rock! We
almost forgot that, but as it has a
crack in it already. it won't be much
of a job to put it out of business.
New England. that synonym of des-
potism, must change it's name. il not
it's nature and history. New York
and New Jersey likewise.
But the question still remains, what
shall be done with the few Americans
who are left in these United States?
They might be shot or chloroformed;
but there is small chance of this. Our
new rulers are interested only in
wholesale slaughter. 1t would clear
ly be infra dig for them to start a
retail practice.
Our proposal is that roundup be
made Of such few Americans as may
be unearthed; that they be interned
for the present on one of our vacant
indian reservations and, when con-
venient. they be deported to the
Island Of Georgia in the south At
lantic, which, being the smallest.
loneliest and most remote habitable
place in the world. would make a
suitable asylum and graveyard COM
bfned
Evening star., 1921-07-25
EDWARD F. SEDAN LOSES
HIS LIFE IN POTOMAC
Optical Company officials Body
Found in Ten Minutes, But Eff
forts at Resuscitation Futile.

Edward F. Sedan, forty three
years old, former resident of Balti-
more and secretary of the Clafiin
Optical Company, 9O7 F street, the
past eighteen years, was drowned in
the Potomac river about one mile
above Cabin John bridge yesterday
afternoon His body was recovered
in about ten minutes.
Several friends of the drowned
man and others made futile efforts
at resuscitation. They had no pull
motor to assist them, however, and
a physician, who reached the scene
some time later. pronounced life ex-
tinct
Siedam, who was unmarried, spent
much of his time at a shack on the
Virginia side of the river and on the
water. Yesterday he was accom-
panied by three boys, Edwin Paul,
1850 Park road; Richard Squire, 1349
Parkwood place, and Herman Jones,
III 18th street northeast. Paul and
Squire made an unsuccessful attempt
to save their friend and came near
being dragged down with him.
The deceased was only a fairly good
swimmer. He was an enthusiastic
bass angler and fond of camping,
spending much of his spare time about
the river. He is survived by two
sisters, Mrs. Viola Owens, Baltimore,
and Mrs. Gertrude McCreery. New
York, and niece residing in Los
Angeles, Calf. Burial will be in Bal
timore.
Mr.. Sedan was a member of Co
lumbia Chapter. Royal Arch Masons:
Columbia Commandery, knights Tenn
piar; Il. B. French Lodge, F.. A. A. NJ.
and the knights of Pythias.
Evening star., 1921-07-25
Revival of Classic Greek.
From the Minneapolis Journal

From the Minneapolis Journal.
Were one to judge from the fuss
made from time to time. one would
suppose there was real need of an
International language. In the golden
age of the English language the
great queen addressed the ambas-
sador at her court in Latin, and all
diplocatic conversation and corre-
spondence of Europe was in Latin.
Erasmus the great scholar and
writer, who visited the court of
Elizabeth's father. Henry VIII, wrote
Latin works that produced an effect
comparable to that produced by the
writings Of Voltaire two centuries
later.
Much pains have been expended in
fabricating artificial languages. such
as Esperanto, to serve as the me-
dium of communication. But such
constructions have no chance of
practical adoption, nor could they
answer as well as actual language
whether dead like Latin or living like
English.
There is a, language. however,
which is gradually becoming again a
living one, and which as world
language would be ideal The Greek
universities and Greek men Of cul-
ture, including Venizelos himself, are
engaged in an attempt to restore
classical purify anu perfection 10
modern Greek. 1t is said that the
endeavor is by no means vain. and
that gradually the ancient model is
being approa ched. We may yet have
the speech of Pericles. the written
language Of Plato. employed in social
intercourse and commercial trans
actions. in contracts. in courts of
law. In houses of assembly.
There is no modern language to
compare with the ancient Hellenic
tongue. There never was language
it's equal. AS scholars have said.
every other speech compared to the
ancient Greek is stammering. Other
tongues have their merits and de-
fccts. but the Greek has all the
merits combined and none of the de
fects 1t is the perfection of speech.
AS a language for affairs it is as
direct as the English or Latin; as "a
language for philosophy it is as good
as the German and for science is bet
ter: as the language of polite society
it is as elegant as the French: and it
is more melodious than the best Tus-
can Italian. This is no eulogy
(eulogy. by the way. is a Greek
word. of our own. but a summation of
the dicta of scholars.
Evening star., 1921-07-25
NINE. BAKHMETEFF, WIFE
OF AMBASSADOR, DIES
Husband, Recognized Envoy From
Russia, Absent in West-Had
Lived Here Since 1917.

Nine Helene Bakhmeteff. wife Of
Boris Bakhmeteff, recognized Russian
ambassador to the United States, died
Of heart disease Saturday at Owego,
N Y, where she hda been for the
past month.
News of the death of Nine. Bakh-
meteff was received here by Henry
de Bach. counselor of the Russian en-
bassy, today. Nine. Bakhmeteff has
been in poor health for some time, Mr..
de Bach said. The ambassador has
been advised OF the news and he is
expected back from California, where
he is on business. Thursday. He will
go directly to Owego, where an in
formal religious ceremony will take
place Friday morning. Further dis
position Of the body will be taken by
the ambassador upon his return.
Nine Bakhmeteff has been in this
country since 1917. when she arrived
with the ambassador, but she spent
comparatively little of her time in
Washington. Before her marriage she
was Mile Helene Speransky. She
leaves no children.
Evening star., 1921-07-25
DESOLAT|ON.
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.

(Copyrlgut, ioSi.J
There are words that are mere SOUNDS
until some experience comes along ana
fills them with meaning.
"Desolation' was little more than a
sonorous term from the dictionary tlll
saw Ypres, on June II, l9zl. Now
whenever / shall hear the WORD again
those anguished fragments OF waiis,
thrust gauntly UP from the ruined heaps
like spiintered bones. will always appear
before my minds eye.
l have seen the wreck of a town after
fire, and once | saw place where
tornado had passed and smashed houses
as kindling. Here and there 1 nave seen seen
destruction, but never real, utter ana
complete desolati till Ypres:
The big public square OF Ipres was
called the Grand place. On the north
side of it stood before the war the Ia
mouth Cloth Hall. for the people of this
mart Of Belgium were great weavers and
cloth merchants. and back in the thir-
teenth century this region was one OF
the wealthest spots Of the world. anu
the cloth merchants put up a buiidlne
that was the marvel OF the age 10 iiouse
fitly their meetings.
This Cloth Hall was the most beautl-
full Gothic structure in Belgium and one
of the architectural gems OF Europe.
Now all that is left of it is jagged
upthrust of shattered stone. like black,
eneQ tOOtH iioiii 'ii> SN.-S
an old crone.
And YOU remember reading the names
LENS Warneton and Poelkapelle-ln
the war news? / rode through tnese
places yesterday, and that is all they
are-places. Not one stone was iei'
standing upon another.
1t is as if some angry monster had not
only murdered the towns, but tramped
them under his heavy hoofs till he had
ground their bones to pulp.
Shacks and temporary houses stano
clearing up the debris. but they only ac-
centuate the awful waste.
Some Of the fields are smoothed out
and the lush crops are growing, Tor tnls
is a most fertile soil. and nature is QUICK
TO begin her healing, but rpany parts OF
the land are still but acres of deep holes
where the shells have upheaved 1t as the
waves of the sea.
Along the edges of the fields are win
drows of tangled and rusted barbed
wire, and here and there Drowned piles
of shells. The shell crop was tnick ABOUT
here.
pictures of desolation. but still more
perfect picture is dead forest.
Such is the Forest Of Houthulst. not
far from Ypres.
Imagine a thick wood composed of
trees. without leaves and with only
stumps of branches. only trunks. and
many Of them splintered, lifting them
selves gray and dead into the sky.
It seemed as though were looking on
some forest Of hell, SO lonely and spec
tral and ghastly it was. I half expected
some fire-breathing dragon to come
crawling out.
AS go along this battle front.
through this Avenue of Perdition, ! find
it hard to believe the hideouS tale of
what happened here. The sky is so
smiling and the earth SO green.
Evening star., 1921-07-25
GHOST COAST OF EUROPE.
Phantom Lights and Death Ships
Off Shores of Cornwall,

FROM the National Marine.
| All along the Cornish shores the
phantom ship is throughly believed
n. as also are the phantom lights.
Some years ago a schooner rigged
vessel made signals of distress to the
west OF St, Ives bay. A coble that
! put out reached her, and one of the
seamen made grasp at her bulwarks
, in order to jump on board; but his
hand met nothing solid, and as ne
| tumbled back into the boat the
schooner and her sailing lights dis
appeared in the darkness. Next
| morning schooner out of the port of
London was wrecked within the
the same vicinity. and all on board
her perished. The phantom lights
are seen generally before gale; the
Cornish seamen call them Jack
resembles the one that is subsequent
ly wrecked.
The death ship is a superstition pc
culiar to Cornwall. With black hull
and stumpy bowsprit. she comes in,
with all her canvas set, against the
reach to seaward again the doomed
person dies. Most famous of the
traditional stories grouping around
the death ship is that Of a wrecker
who lived at Tregaseal. beguiling
vessels with false lights and doing to
When he lay dying a black ship full
rugged with all sail set was noticed
coming in upon the land against the
wind and tide. and as the man died
she bore out to sea again in a half
gale.
PorthcuIno Cove. near the Logan
Stones, has also ship of doom.
Sometimes there is seen when
the mists are rising off the marshes
black, square rigged craft, which
stands over to Bodelan and Chyg-
widen and suddenly vanishes. Upon
whoever see her i'll luck and death
are sure to fall
Near St. Ives, too, is a churchyard
haunted by an apparition. sight of
which entails disaster to seamen. In
the sixties of the last century ves-
sci was wrecked on the coast here.
The men who went off to the rescue
found on board a lady with a child in
her arms. She refused to part with
her charge, and in drawing her by
a rope from the wreck to the boat
the child was lost in the raging seas.
The lady died through shock and eX-
posure and was buried in the local
churchyard. Today her wrath is said
to haunt the shore. whether the day
or the night is tempestous or dark. or
clear or fine. And on whoever sees
her. be he a seafaring man, disaster
falls.
Evening star., 1921-07-25

American Physical Society and the
Physical Society Of France and fell
low of the American Association for
the Advancement of Sciences. past
president oe the Philosophical Society
of Washington and secretary, since
it's organization. of the National Con-
ference on Weights and Measures
He was member of the Cosmos Club.
known aw Athlete.
Maj. Fischer has been prominently
identified with athletics in the Dis
trict since his early youth. He was
a leading oarsman in the Potomac
and Analostan Boat clubs and helped
to win many honors in those organi-
cations in local and national regattas.
Later in life he became one of the
leading tennis players Of the District
and at various times was member or
the old Bachelor Tennis Club. Dunn
barton Club and the Columbia Coun-
try Club.
His is survived by his wife and a
brother, Frederick G. Fischer, a
lawyer of Kansas City. Mo. The
funeral, arrangements.for which have
not been completed. will be held Wed
nesday afternoon. Burial will be in
Arlington cemetery.