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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-17

materials could be rendered resistant to
fire, by several eoatings Of silicate OF soda,
commonly called water glass.
q. Are steam automobiles allowed to
race with gas earsf-H. d. H.
A. Steam cars are in different class
and are not allowed to race in contests
with gasoline cars
O., Hoy much does quart Of milk
A. A quart of cows milk weighs about
q. viii a cedar chest absolutely keep
moths out of furs? w. N ID.
A. All furs and wooden goods will be
protected from moths when kept in real
cedar chest If there are no moth eggs or
worms in the garments when bsing packed.
Q. Who are the Gold Sticks? q. L. ID.
A. This name is applied to officers in
the English Royal Bodyguard, and cap
tains in the Corps of Gentlemen -at-Arms.
They are so called because of the fact that
on state occasions they carry gilded batons.
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THE TAX PROBLEM.

Somehow and somewhere the gov
eminent must obtain money. 1t is
desirable, of course, to make every
body pay in proportion to his posses
sions but attempts to do so outside Of
the income and inheritance taxes have
failed. The proposed plan of taxing
bonds and other interest bearing Sc
curities would prove no more effec-
tive. The tax would be passed on 10
the debtor. The most promising So
luton OF the tax problem lies in the
direction of a general sales tax.
In an editorial on the proposed tax
on sales as a means OF raising reve-
nue. the New York Herald says:
"There is one fountain which always
flows with a vast volume. This is the
sales that are made every day of nee
essaries of life and other articles of
consumption which a national popula-
ton buys and uses in good times as in
slack times, whether people are feel
ing rich or poor. whether business and
industry, are coming money or scoring
deficits.
"A very small sales tax on general
articles of use will bring no hardship
to anybody. 1t will mean only a few
cents a week to the man of small in
come, and only a few dollars a weel
to the man of comfortable income
while the man of large resources ans
expenditures will yield a very consid
cradle sum on the sales tax and viii
still have his heavy income taxes t.
pay.
This is the tax of all taxes for con
eress to adopt at this time. not onl,
because It is a fair tax, just tax an
q light tax per capita, but becaus
under present conditions 1t is the onl
tax that can be relied upon by tn
government TO put into the treasur
the barrels of money that it mus
have"
There are many glaring examples !
shifting or ''pyramiding' of taxes un
der the operation of the present ia
laws. High excess profits taxes ar
made the excuse for adding somethin
TO the price Of almost every commod
aty, at every stage along the rous
from the producer to the last pun
chaser who buys for his own use.
Under the present system no bus
ness house can tell what its taxes al
going to be until the end of the ia
year. So this shifting of the tax he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-17
Ouestions-Answers

O. How many sub.treasuries are there
In the United States7-G. E. y.
A, The sub-treaSurfess of the United
States have been discontinued and the work
taken over by the federal reserve banks.
There were nine sub treasures, located In
5 York ,I New Orleans, Boston ST. Louis Bal
timore, Chicago. Cincinnati and San Fran
cisco.
Q. Can radium be seen under micro
a. The geological survey says radium
Is found in such small quantities that the
scope will not reveal its presence. ordi-
narily. radium ore carries only q small
fraction of grain Of radium to the ton
and 9ecays ise IF and Changes ssn to other
elements so rapidly that 1t does not &C.
cumulate in an amount that is visible;
O. How much money does the United
States lose annually thru Injurious insects
4. The bureau Of biological survey says
lost annually by the United States thru in
furious insects have been compiled since
a loss Of Of s., 1of SEQ. 800 from this cause.
Q. How can 1t be said that the sacred
bo tree at Anuradhapura is the oldest tree
tree tine must wer 5. TS sst soa seaas
A. The eges of the giant sequoia.. Gen
and this tree Is the Oldest living thing In
the world. The sacred BIO tree at Anurad-
hapura, however, is the Oldest tree of whose
age there f. authentic historical record.
Q. How 10 Russian tea served Wv. g. r.
A. Russian tea is served with sugar and
lemon, either hot or iced. Cloves are some
times used with lemon or instead OF lemon.
Q. Can fish open oyster H w N.
A. Both the black drum fish and chan
mel bass can and do open oysters
Q. Is there product similar TO ISM
glass, only more flexible 2-F. d. J.
A. The bureau of standard says It is
possible to obtain flexible substitutes for
ising1ass or mica sheets, but such substi-
tutes do not possesses the fire resistant
qualities Of isinglass. CelluIose acetate
may be obtained in transparent sheets, is
not infIammable. but Is combustible- Wis.,
cosea in transparent sheets. known as cell
lophane Is combustible. but either of these
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-17

think We should not mind this Idle
chatter about old fogies,' but insist
resolutely upon the great integrities
of human character and conduct as
laid down in Scripture"
That is sound sense. There Is moth
ing brilliant or Smart about it: but
it is as true as the poet's:--
And bend our conscience to our deal
The Ten Commandments will not bulge,
And stealing still continues stealing"
Because the pulpit and the Sunday
school proclaim the eternal verities of
God, they are the one sure hope of an
eventual social order that will be not
only just and humane, but also Chris
tian. The shortest and best road to
social service for most Christians is
by way of the Sunday school. For it
is the Bible program that is the hope
of the world. We look with alarm
upon waves of radicalism and of re-
action: but between. them both, and
an unsuitable refuge for mankind,
stands the impregnable rock of Holy
Scriptures. Every man who is
alarmed about the spread of Bolshe-
vism in the world, equally with every
one who fears that special privilege
is. entrenching itself in. high places,
should lend his support to whatever
movement translates the Bible into
life.
A Cure for 'sThat Tired Feeling.p
And the Bible is the best cure for
that tired feeling which so often
overtakes reformers and social work.
ers. Much zeal for welfare work
shrivels up and dies when it is first
struck by sthe. cold blasts of ingrati-
tude and Indifference. The young
person who takes up this alluring ca
reer, anticipating appreciation and ap-
plause on the part of those served, is
destined to experience tragic disillu-
sionment: What bitter discourage
ment has overtaken many great souls
who have given their lives to the bet
terment of their kind!
Only the Bible offers an adequate
motive and incentive and reward for
social service. 'Inasmuch' is the
philosophers stone that transmutes
the base metal of mans ingratitude
into the golden guerdon or the King.
We are to serve and love, and love
and serve, in all lowIy and difficult
ways, because our Savior identified
Himself with every object of His dis
cipleS' ministry: "Inasmueh as We
have done it unto the least of these,
We have done it unto Me-" If only
for mans sake we labor. then we soon
faint and fear and fall by the way;
but for the Masters sake, to show our
love for Him whom having not seen
we love- the Christian will dare and
endure anything.
This is the real reason and hope for
making the social order Christian
it is for the service and glory of Christ
as well as for the good of humanity
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George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
on BIDING YouR TINfE,

There is one thing that we can all
afford to do-and that is to wait for
the time when our value can be APP
praised at its true worth.
Sometimes appreciation comes very
late-son1etimes long after theAear is
able to listen and the heart to- under
stand. s.
But to most of us just to have the
feeling of having done our best and
rendered service napplly. is.to be conf
scioqs on being priviegsd ip ne
The. other evening I sac At iiaassa
given to DIR. Frank Crane. 1t was a
most notable gathering OF MEN
| scuiptors, artists, authors, business
men, actors, seditors-men who came
| to pay honor to one whose editorials
and other writings are now being read
| by more people than the like writings
| of any one living.
1 listened with interest to the praise
| shoWered upon the guest OF the even
ing. And my thoughts went back to
| only eight years ago when no editor
could be found In New York to accept
| the writings of this mani 1 thought
| OF the dozen or more great editors OF
4 magazines in that room who now vie
with each other for what they cam gel
from his gifted and wise pen.
/ looked upon the man himself
when he arose to speak. his voice I'M
steady with emotion at the tribute
paid him. And recalled the years
| and years of patience and courage
and work-that made that tribute
possible ana so well merited. e
I also recall that it was the news.
papers that had taken his messag tC
Che people.
The most impressive thing of all, tc
me. however, was that this man had
come to the after-dinner time of life
before real appreciation stepped up
You see, he was willing to bide hi.
time. And IL you were to talk will
him and ASK him If he considered the
long waiting worth while, am SUR
that he would tell you 1t was.
For the message of every man 4
great largely in proportion to the
length of time he Is willing to prepar'
and wait.
| Don't be afraid to hide your time.
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Senator Capper finds a wide mar
gin between the reduction in the price
OF flour and the reduction in the price
of bread. He fails to take into ae-
count, however. that there has been
little If any lowering of manufactur-
ing costs and none in rents, taxes ami
other overhead. One swallow does
not make summer; neither does a
reduction in the cost of one item in q
manufactured product justify a cor
responding per cent OF reduction in
the selling price of that product. For
instance, II the cost of flour have de-
clined 20 per cent, as set forth by the
senator, a decline Of 20 per cent in the
price of bread cannot be reasonably
expected until other items entering
into the production of the loaf also
have declined 20 per cent. If there
could have been found some way by
which a horizontal lowering of all
prices on the same day could have
been brought about, everybody might
have been happy and contented. But
it cannot be done, either by legislation
or otherwise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-17
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By TElE PAPE.

was wawking along yestidday Jest
wawking along and 1 saw a loose
horse shoe out in the street. thinking,
Gosh, some horse must of lost that
without knowing it. And 1 picked it
up and started to take it home on ac-
count of loose horse shoes being good
luck, thinking, This is a good chance
to prove weather they RELY are or
not.
WITCH jest then wat did do but trip
over stuck up brick, and fell down
holding on to the horse shoe for good
luck, and it gave me a fearse crack
on the nuckles wen it hit the pave
mint, me thinking, Owtch, heck.
And wen l got home got a ham,
mer and a male and put 2 chairs on
top of each other in my room and
climbed up to male the horse shoe
over my door for good luck, and every
time missed the male I hit my thum,
being about every other time, think
ing, Heck. owtch, wens this good luck
going to start?
Witch jest then the chairs fell off
of each other and 1 fell off of both OF
them and landed in a setting position
on the floor with a fearse bump
thinking, o well. the horse shoe is up
anyways
WITCH it was. but not very good. the
male ory being in little ways on &C
count Of being. missed SO awffen, and
pop came up stairs TO see wat made
the fearse bump and he opened my
door and the male came out and the
| ferst thing pop knew something hi
| him rite on top of the he'd. being the
horse shoe.
wat in the name of blinking blazes
sed pop.
Its ony a loose horse shoe, pop, IT.
Supposed to be good luck, sed-
You don't tell me, sed pop. And
| the next thing I knew / was being
shook and smacked both at the SAINT
TIME, ard pop still gets mad every
| time he feels the top of his he'd.
l Proving loose horse shoes may bt
good luck for some people but mine Il
out in the alley.
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Dempsey's apparent nervousness
may very well be explained on otns
GROUNDS. Dempsey. you VIII renae
Der. was married once neiore.
"I have been reading your column
in the paper writes +. r. H., any
think the Public Ledger would pe
much better off without It WY c9nv
tfnually harp on DempseSs
record in the late war
IT nrobabiy f. true the Public Ledger
would be better off without the cor
unn. but. <pn the other hama, We
should be much worse OFT. we elain.
that a fair and equitable decisioh -
to the column can Dc renoereo o ss
have been considered.
1t is, however, always interesting 70
know the particular in when we haVe
offended.
Deponent's Motorcar Was Held Up.
sir-Nobody questions the right OF
a man to wear red saslF and fnareh
behind a brass band. provided ne
picks some secluded road In the coun-
try to exercise said right.
But when he collects in dense null
titudes and converts the ehief htsn.
way of a large city into 9 provincial
Main street and arrests the business
of all others who are properly entitled
to the use of the same, then differ
ent question is presented and IS
time for the application OF "Salus
Populi supreme est lex" or something.
@. c. s. w.
We quarrel with the contention that
| nobody questions the right of a man
| to wear a red sash and march behind
a brass band. provided he picks some
secluded road in the country to exer-
else such right Such an act would
] create Juror and stir. the countryside
to- opposition. The offender weuid be
tried in court of lunacy and prob
ably would be adjudged insane.
! Philadelphia is no more provincial
| than New York or Gopher Prairie.
Last year in New York we heard a
| great hullabaloo proceeding from
| Fifth avenue. Casting about for the
| cause of it, we discovered brass
band leading a parade of four motor
| cars up the avenue. Douglas Fair
banks and Mary Pickford~ had come
home. Sophisticated New York, re-
spending to one of the fundamental
emotions of the provincial breast, was
giving them parade.
/ Every town is provincial. It be-
comes so when it responds to any fun
damental emotion to which its critic
objects.
AS a last paragraph w. E. A. sug-
II gests: He kept vexing me by fran
tic Journeys hidden with quiet zeal.'
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JUST FOLKS
WHEN THE CAR WAS NEW,
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

WHEN THE CAR WAS NEW.
When the car was new and shiny Pa was
careful as could be. rr4
He'd polish up the window glass each eve
ming after tea,s
glossy door,
He'd get a piece of underwear and shine
1t up some more. l.fl-s.-
He'd sweep the carpets every day and oil
zach separate part,
He'd always rub and shine a bit before
he'd make a start
And twice a week In rubber boots and
overalls of brown
He'd work for hours so he might have the
cleanest car in town.
But that was in the long ago. and now
There's mud upon the running gears and
in the manifold,
The axles now are thick with grease, for
Pa declines to soil
His hands or scrape his knuekles bare to
give it dope and oil.
The bus has lost the shine It had, its
stylish days are done,
Pa doesn't care now how 1t looks so long
as 1t will run.
And nevermore he'll wash the gears and
shine the body, too,
Pa seys he'll leave that work for those
whose motor cars are new.
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. Guest)
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II the investigation of war contracts
announced by Attorney General
Daugherty shall result in the recov-
cry of money filched from the treas
ury 1t will meet public approval. 9th
erwise it may be regarded as making
political medicine and a means of
maintaining a lot of the departments
useless employees in their jobs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-17
Dorothy Dix TALKS
By DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman writer.

Acquiring Sense of Humor-2.
My first duty is to teach that child
how to laugh" said the step-mother.
But you can't do it," said the
child's relatives. "You couldn't make
her see Joke with telescope. She
has absolutely no sense of humor
whatever
I'll Develop one in her." replied
the new mother. II can't let her miss
the best in life. 1 don't see how any
one can have the courage to carry on
thru life II they haven't a sense of
humor. There's so much that one
must either cry over, or laugh over.
and to be able to laugh is the brave
attitude"
So this wonder-woman took the
funny; papers and diagranimed their
jokes for the little girl, and explained
their quips. and dissected their humor
ana showed her where. the laugh came
IN, and why certain things were
Ipnny. 1t was slow work, but at last
OF humor in the little girls soul, and
from it dubbed up full-throated
laughter, and today that child, now a
woman, has an almost abnormal APP
probation of the ridiculous, and lis
noted as an exceptionally good story
teller.
This tip is passed on to other pa
rents and teachers. Don't let children
Tor whom you are responsible, grow
up without sense of humor 1t is as
CRIMINAL a thing to do, as it is to let
| them grow up cross-eyed, or bow
legged, or knock-kneed, when a little
judicious treatment would save them.
For sense of humor is more than
| Just an added enjoyment in life. 1t is
| a sword and buckler against the slings
and arrows of outrageous fortune.
Fate cannot down those always who
come up laughing after every fall
| 1t is the serious people, the intense
| people, who break under strain. The
| merry-hearted have the residence OF
| India rubber. The men who commit
suicide when things go wrong with
their business, the women who are lit
by their children and their servants
are those who take life as a tragedy
| instead of seeing 1t as a comedy. The
men and women with a sense of hui
NOR never despair, because they al
ways see something SO diverting and
| interesting even in their n1isfortunes
| that they fight on until their lucl
changes.
Also, a sense of hufnor will do more
| to keep us from making fools of our
selves than anything else. 1t is onl,
those who have no appreciation O.
pretentious, the Dragging, and thu
vain are, that strut about like pea
cocks. When you can. laugh at your
self, you keep other people from
laughing at you.
A sense of humor keeps us humble
and brave, and cheerful. 1t makes III
easy to live with, and pleasant com
pany for our fellow creatures; and FOL
these, and a thousand other reasons
1t is worth cultivating in ourselves
and developing in our children.
| -
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Isn't It about time that Uncle Sam
set an example in enforcing obedience
to his commands? About six years
ago Mexico was ordered TO salute the
stars and Stripes. She has not done
It. About six months ago the lord
mayor OF Cork was ordered to leave
the country. He has just gone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-17

President Harding's Marion Star
expresses the opinion that there is lit
tie danger of a general strike, because
thoro would be nobody to pay the 10
per cent assessment for strike bene-
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1t is announced that the United
States will withdraw troops from
Santo Domingo, probably in about
eight months. Thus will end a chap
ter in our history very similar to 9TH
ers that have gone before. The world
will be assured once again that the
United States is not a land grabber.
Cuba, Haiti. Santo Domingo and
Mexico could have been ours long ago
on half the pretext that other nations
have added to their territorial hold
ings. But Cuba and the Island of
Haiti have been set on their feet po-
iitically and economically and then
permitted to govern themselves with
perfect freedom Probably a similar
course toward the Philippines will be
pursued at no distant day.
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1t is reported that an agricultural
'tbloc' has been formed in congress.
If the senators and congressman from
agricultural states deem it best to
work in accordance with a common
understanding in order to get the leg
islation they consider necessary for
the promotion Of the interests of
farmers. they are merely planning to
advance the welfare of the nation fin
general, for this is primarily an agri-
cultural country and our prosperity
depends largely upon the financial
success of agricultural production.
But it IS improbable that they will
be found trying to advance the inter
ests of their constituents by means of
tariff on farm products.
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International
SunddySchoolLesson
By WILLIAM r. ELLIS.

For June 10, is, Making the Social
Order Christian. Luke 4:16-21;
Matt. 25:34-40.
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1t is, however, always interesting 70
know the particular in which we nave
offended.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-17

Deponents Motorcar Was Held Up.
Sir-Nobody questions the right OF
man to wear red sash and Hareh
behind q brass band, Provided ne
picks some secluded road In the eoun-
try to exercise said right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-17

Every town is provincial. It be-
comes so when it responds to any fun
damental emotion to which its critic
objects.