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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.
THE GOLFER AND HIS cADDIE.

THE GOLFER AND HIS CADDIE.
It was little caddie boy one pleasant
summer day
Who drew a well known business man to
bear his clubs away,
And oh, the little lad was proud to think
that thru the game
He'd be a partner of man SO widely
known to fame.
The man was noted in the press, and many
tiny Tim ~
Would dream the pleasant dreams of youth
when he would be like him,
And likewise did this caddie boy who
The way to make n great success when 1t
should come his turn.
The business man was off his game, 1t
grieyes me sore to say,
He was not honest with himself nor with
the boy that day;
He nagged and cursed the little chap until
his heart was sad,
And roundly blamed him every time a shot
he made was bad
He did not truly count his score, nor fairly
play the game,
The boy discovered he was false, despite
his business fame,
And when the boy got home that night, he
said manner grim:
~ hope when / grow up won't be any
thing like him"
oh man, IL you would know yourself and
get an honest view,
Go out and learn just what it is your
caddie thinks Of you.
The sign of shame is on your brow, to stay
foreyermore,
II you're the kind of man the boys don't
want to caddie for.
+ Copyright, 1921. by, Edgar A. Guest1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06
LITTLE BENNY's NOTE BOOK
By LEE PARE

This AFTERNOON ma was IN her room
introducing Embroidery, and I stood
there looking at her, and after . vile
I sed. G, that looks all rite. ma, watts
it going to be wen its done?
Wat do you wunt. you dident come
in heer to find out wat I was i'm
broidering, sed ma.
Witch l dident, and I sed, Wen can
have money for the movies this
Don't you ever think of enything but
the movies? sed ma.
Not saying / couIdent, and pritty
soon sed. Well can I. MAJ
Go out and play. It will do you
saying I couldent, and I sed, Well
gosh, G., ma, I don't wunt to be did
eny good And / kepp on standing
there looking at her imbrcidering,
thinking, G, I know wat, III tell her
a crate compliment and then the next
time I ask her she'll say yes And /
sed, G ma, you certeny are looking as
Thank you. sed ma, and sed, aint
the ony one thinks so, either. l got a
trade last for you, ma.
Yes2 Rely? Wat is il? sed ma,
and I sed, You know those ladies
was heer yestidday. well wen you
went to anser the fone the one with
the blue dress sed to the one with the
red hat, My. Pawieen Is certeny get
ting stout. izzent she?
speek to her agen, she must be blind.
never herd of sutch thing in my
| life, wy everybodys bin saying how
slender I've bin looking heer lately. jest
wait till / get hold of her, Ill tell her
. thing or ?. sed ma mad as enything.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06

Its almost like being back home with
my chum, Mary. I miss her so.'
This little admission quite touched
Hazel, ana the two girls worked to-
gether for an hour.
When Hazel Foster, returned from
her vacation at the shore she found
that something warmer than friend
ship had developed in the relations
between her brother and Helen.
"And I'm so glad" she whispered
said. Tive been wanting to tell a
certain man that I'd marry him, but
I did not know what on eafth to do
with Tom IL did"
'.I'l take care of him IL he asks
me-" Helen confided.
Hell ask you, all right. He may
be waiting to know what to do with
me"
(Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06

that time. the April number showing a
recession of 40 per cent below the
previous month and q drop of 43.4 per
cent from the high point of last year.
1t appears further that the average OF
those 2ss commodities is now only 81
per cent above the average level for
1913. Yet there are many who con-
tinue to stand out for the maintenance
of war prices on what they have to
sell and are disappointed and indig-
nant when they fail to get away
with it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06

0. Kindly explain what is meant by the
following sentence - christmas is uni
ressaiE ns d u sb nohJ p NJ Of dies
juridicus'-a phrase meaning not court
day. that is,, day on which the courts
cannot lawfully administer justice. The
actual suspension of the operation of JUS
tice gives Christmas the character of dies
non.
9; What is the strength of the British
A. The annual report of the British
army: issued In March, 1921, is the first rs
World war 1t states that the regimental
strength of the army Including the Terri
oSl. 74s. In the year Immediately preceding
the war the regular army numbered 247.-
$50 OF all arms, and on october 1, 1914, the
territorial Force5 was 1.s27,s7..
Q. What is the name of the method to
treat treat internal diseases by reactionary chem
! A. Chemotherapy is the name given the
treatment of internal diseases by chemical
reagents that have a specific and imme-
date toxic effect upon the micro ganisms
that cause the diseases, without seriously
poisoning the patient, Malaria is treated
with quinine in this way
Q. Is it best to remove water from a
hot-water heating system in the summer
Attic Bureau of Mines states that it is
best to leave water in heating systems
during the summer months, as the oxygen
has all been boiled out of the water and
is drawn out the moisture will remain and
this will be injurious to the system.
2. Do the people of Alaska have vote
for president of the United States p
d. Mem.
A. The speople of Alaska do not have a
vote for president. being at the present
time under a territorial form of govern
ment. Alaska has a legislature composed
of senate and house of representatives
but the action of these must be confirmed
by congress.
Q. Under what rules is the open geli
Championship of the United States played
A. The entire field will play an 1s-hols
qualifying round on the two days preced.
ing the event, the ~ best scores winning
entrance 10 the great contest. The qualify
| ing scores do not count except to enter ths
contestants in the championship proper
This years open championship will be tn,
| 18th meet held in this country. and it will
| be played over the beautiful course of tn,
Columbia Country club, Chevy Chase
Maryland, beginning July 10.
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question by writing The Topeka State Jour
nal Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06
THE ROUGH ROAD TO NORMALLY.

Strikes and lockouts, it has been
workers nearly 100000 daily lin
wages lost. and costing employers ap-
proximately 100000 a day, largely
as a consequence of the refusal of
some workers to accept revisions IT
wage scales. Such resistance to the
operation of economic forces which
are governing and compelling the
present readjustments in, industry is
only natural, but it is also futile.
Lower production costs, which coa-
sist chiefly of labor costs, are absoy
lutely essential to economic stabiliza-
ton and renewed prosperity. Accord
ing to the most reliable estimates, be-
tween three and four million people
are without work in America. Early
in May nearly half a million were re-
ported idle in New York state alone.
No element of the arrangement in
industry better illustrates the cumula-
tive effects OF local maladjustment
than involuntary idleness. The cessa-
ton of earnings is promptly felt in the
curtailed buying power of the groups
directly affected and the reduced con-
sumption which this entails means
lessened demand for the products of
the labor of other groups of workers,
some of whom in turn are added to
the list of the unemployed. The eco
nomic loss to the country, of course. is
incalculable.
All of these conditions might easily
have been foreseen wnen. prices began
to fall. The situation is not greatly
different from what it always has
been in a period of declining prices
It was certain to come. There was no
way to avoid it. Prices cannot go son
advancing forever. and rarely do they
stand still for any considerable length
of time
There was a general hue and cry
thruout the country, joined in by
both workingmen and capitalists, en-
ploye and employer, that prices were
too high. There was but one way to
reduce them and that was by curtail-
ing credit and reducing the amount of
money in circulation. This the federal
reserve board did.
Much of the prevailing idleness IS
due to the fact that few will invest in
new enterprises on a falling market,
or will buy anything beyond actual
| needs. When it shall be felt general
ly that the bottom has been reached
buying will be resumed, prices will
begin to rise again and the whole
, country will boom. When this will
| take place none can foretell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
HEART CLEANING.

There are few things that home
woman delights in more than a clean
house. No wonder. Its her realm.
She is Queen there.
Il have~been thinking about the
greatest home in the world-the hui
man heart. Our real life is lived
there. For tho our minds may carry
us far-into mysteries and wonders
that thrill and delight-it's our hearts
that take the love of the world into
themselves and make US feel COM
Portable and happy.
So that they ought to be very clean
places, hadn't they?
The Psalmist prayed for a clean
heart. He wanted a place where he
could think the right thoughts
Every morning and every night i
believe that we should clean out our
hearts.
The coming on of the dusk should
find us softened and tolerant, just
minded, and with no wraths to cobweb
the serenity of our spirits.
God to US should be the sum total
of all the good that we are. And hap
piness should come out of the divi-
dends which our daily service renders
= When you wzeik out into a sunny
day, there is something in the world
that seems unconsciously to make you
feel good. And that's the way you
should approach the lives of those
you go out each day with a clean
heart. There is something that peo-
| pie should feel In You that they can't
explain but which makes them glad
| to have you around.
Heart-cleaning should be as regular
a task as washing your facet
The sun, as it streams into your
sleeping room in the morning, should
be allowed to enter your heart. And
| the unkind and ungenerous feelings OF
all the days that are behind should be
swept out
That which harms you most L. that
which harms someone else. The heart
of each of us must bear its own suf-
| ficient pain. and thru its refinement
we shall grow better and stronger. But
ino heart was ever constructed to hold
or carry hurts or uncIeanIiness.
How about heart-cIeaning today
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06

The Cambria Steel company has
progressed a long way in the direc-
ton of normally. 1t has reduced the
wages of it's employees to the figure
which prevailed in 1917. Wages are
falling because prices of commodities
are declinings commodity prices have
sluniped because the federal reserve
board willed it so. When the board
began to curtail credits and the banks
began to retire their note issues prices
began to drop. The cumulative theory
of money still is in good working or
der. An increase or a decrease in the
volume of currency brings about a coT-
responding increase or a decrease in
the purchasing price of the dollar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06
rs YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the Columns Of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

June 6, 1896.
Prof. Edward Stevens Industrial and
Educational Institute for Negro Children
has removed from its little two room build
ing in Washington street to rooms at III
Kansas avenue, donated by the Y. NJ. G. A.
The institute will open tomorrow at 10
o'clock and in the evering o reception will
be given and Jackson's band will play.
Prof. Stevens's school began July last with
fifteen pupils. The number Is now eighty
seven. There is sewing class Of forty five
for girls over 10 years of age, and other
domestic duties are taught. A class of
boys is also instructed in carpenter work.
The school is under the direction of Prof
Stevens and Miss Reddick.
Miss Belle Bennett, who was once
teacher in the public schools of Topeka, but
is now teaching in an English academy at
Cope Town, Africa, has been very i'll with
fever and has lost her hearing and speech.
Miss Bennett will go to England for treat
ment and from there will come to Topeka.
A fourth hand coaching party of pretty
girls in gay and gorgeous gowns attracted
attention last evening all over the city.
Miss Josephine Dietrich was hostess, the
turnout McCurdy's, the occupants being
Miss Florence Mitchell of Minneapolis
Mimi, in whose honor the affair was given !;
Misses Lillian Tefft, Grnce Jilson, Mamie
Hambleton. Edith Thacher, May LANCE aud
Miss Dietrich, the hostess.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06

The recent advance in the price of
wheat coming as it does on the eve
of the beginning of the new harvest,
has given rise to some speculation re-
garding the cause thereof. Among
the reasons advanced are: Demand
and supply. the legislation at Wash
ington to regulate grain exchanges,
the organization of the 100 million
dollar Finance Corporation of the U.
S. Grain Growers Inc, and the belief
that the wheat growers are getting in
position to handle their crop this sea-
son. But nowhere up to this time has
there appeared any suggestion that
the advance is due to the passage of
the emergency tariff bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06

The New York Sun" remarks that
the imagination of the average bright
than the impulse to go and sell some
thing to somebody. This may be par
TALLY due to the fact that the young
man while in school devotes a great
part of his time to the study of COM
mercial arithmetic. If THE time spent
in solving problems in percentage, in
terest, partial payments and profit
and loss were devoted to something
more useful his inclinations might
take a different direction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06

Fresh massacEes of Armenians are
reported. AS conditions now are it
appears that the giving OF food and
shelter alone will not SUFFICE for flu
ture protection of these peoples.
What seems to be impending disaster
10 the unprotected Christian minori-
ties under the control of the Turks
must be ayerted, or the wards of
American philanthropy and care may
be destroyed under conditions of sur
passing cruelty. The time has arrived
when the nations that overcame Ger
many should Command her late ally
Turkey, to keep hands off in Armenia
A word would be sufficient.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06

In addition to the other unpleasant
things that have been said about MN.
Bouck White. it appears, also drives
a Henry car.
You probably noticed the absence
of a familiar feature IN Tuesoay
mornings papers and you have been
trying to remember what It was. we
can tell YOU It was the list of vic
TINS killed or injured in the lndian-
apolis speedway races.
Elsie Janis, who is to return in
August, will be surprised to meet a
lot of people who didn't know she
had been away.
The experience of Bob Smith is a
case in point Bob had been born in
the town. He went thru the grade
and high schools and subsequently
became a reporter. He was good
mixer and a familiar figure; every
body knew him. Because he was
eternally engaged in some wild adj
venture his name. was always on
everybody's lips. The newspaper winch
he served finally decorated him with
the order of the battered tinware and
Bob went away. When he came
back. six years. later, he was manag-
ing editor of an important metropoli-
tan newspaper. AS such he was en-
titled to q good story in both of the
hometown papers, and ne got II.
After he had visited around in the To-
cal room and editorial offices he went
out on the street to bask in the adu-
lation of the populace.
That which follows is his own story
of the basking: II went down to tho
corner of Main and Jackson streets,
where could be in the full glare of
publicity and posed for my welcome
The first two persons to come along
were old and intimate friends They
didn't know me. The next two to
come along were equally old and inti-
mate friends. They asked me II Ia
been away
The Socialists, We note incidentally,
| have again been insulted. Peter
| Green, of Tolland, Conn, has willed
his farm to them. The only provision
| is that those who can and viii work
| may make a home upon it.
| We fear Mr.. Green, in misunder-
standing the Socialists, has unwilling
| " offended them. The Socialists we
| know don't want to do it themselves;
they want the government to do IL for
them. We should not be surprised to
hear that Mr.. Green's gift, metaphor
| ically speaking. had been flung back
| into his teeth.
/ We don't know whether the New
| York World is correct in it's assump-
ton that President Harding got the
Inspiration for his Memorial Day
speech from Mr.. Wilson. What we do
know is that it was largely thru Mr..
Wilson that he got his office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06

If it should prove true. as is charged
by the head of the State Federation of
Labor. that the Santa Fe is discharg
ing men in order to replace them with
non-union men, it would show mere
ly that the road is having its 'in-
nings." Its employees have had theirs
for the past four years. But when the
Santa Fe begins to put on more men
it is improbable that it will ask wheth-
er they belong to the union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06

The chairman of the federal reserve
bank at Boston tells the public that
commodity prices continue to drop
and in support of the statement quotes
the reports of the federal bureau of
labor statistics which averages quota
lions OF s26 commodities, This index
reached its high point in May of last
year and has declined steadily since
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06

Me thinking, Gosh. that must of bin a
heck of a compliment.
Wich it must of and wen I asked
her agen about money for the movies
she sed No, SO suddin there wasent
eny doubt about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06

One woman says she would rather
do without her husband than to give
mp her telephone, but it is hard to
irnagine how any husband can be as
punk as the AVERAGE telephone is.
Roy K MouIton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06

Copyright, 1920. by The wheeler cyndicate.
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06

Elsie Janis, who is to return in
August, will be surprised to meet
lot of people who didn't know she
had been away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY E. HOUSE
tFrom philadelphia Public LedgerJ

In addition to the other unpleasant
things that have been said about him.
Bouck White. it appears, also drives
a Henry car.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06

You probably noticed the absence
of familiar feature in Tuesday
mornings papers and you have been
trying to remember what IT was. we
can tell Won. 1t was the list of vic
Tins killed or injured in the Indian
apolis speedway races
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06

The Socialists. We note incidentally,
have again been insulted. Peter
Green, of Holland, Conn, has willed
his farm to them. The only provision
Is that those who can and will work
may make a home upon it.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1921-02-10
CENT1MEs and CENTS

France. say returned travellers, II
barren soil for Bolshevism. It's people
are CONCERNING themselves with re-
habflitattng the nation. American
economists ascribs the incredible
progress OF the French toward restore
ton to the universally Of property
ownership, the determination to work.
to live on something less than they
produce and devotion OF the surplus
to making France its glorious self Of
prewar days.
Whatever America may have, 4
should possess those French virtues
more sbundantly. Tho nation should
perpetuste itself. Since poverty.
growing out OF waste. Industrial, in.
dividual and financial ineniciency.
creates dissatisfaction. the soil In
which anarchy and communism thrive
IKE the noisoms weeds they are, II is
Wise. patriotic and foresishted
statssmanship that plans 10 prevent
their recurrence in the next ssners.
tion.
Such is tho basis of the soysrn.
ment's EARN. SAVE AND INvDsT'
campaign. II socks to make each boy
And girl in school this year a convert
to the doctrine that all must work.
live within their income and invest
their ssvings to aid the nation and
themselves. French millions who saved
few confines . day, rather than
French millionaires. are responsible
Tor Frances strength in peace - 1.
war.
, They have, for generations, invested
In government securities. and when
American millions have that habit. the
future OF the United States will he A.
sured more incoatsstably than throu rh
any other means. And the United
states has made easy the formation OF
such habits. as II offers securities Of
fs own in denominations within thu
reach OF all