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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04

Announcement that the United
States had ordered deportation of the
soviet ambassador has been met by
the Russian government with def
mite order for his recall accompanied
by instructions to him to cancel all
contracts placed in the United States.
This. coupled with the increasing ap-
proach toward an establishment OF -
understanding between Great Britain
and Russia on the trade question, mas
created. the impression in many minds
that a good deal of business which we
might have obtained here will be
transferred by the Russian authorities
TO British dealers. But what England
sells to Russia she cannot sell to any
body else and as both supply and de-
mand in reference to goods are lin
tied there seems no ground Tor rear
that Uncle Sam will not obtain his
share of the worlds business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04

That the prohibition business is
growing dull is indicated by the fact
that William H. Anderson, secretary
of the Anti-Saloon league in New
York. has become the head of an or
ganization called the "Allied Citizens
of America The objects of the ''al-
lied citizens is to amend the federal
constitution in way to make repre-
sentation in the national house of
representatives dependent upon cit
izenship and not population.
congressional sponsor who will intro
duce the resolution FOR such an
amendment, has already been OBJ
tanned. it is announced. Mr.. Ander-
sons new job should and probably
will add materially to the income
which he derives from making war
on the demon Rum. Beyond this,
probably nothing will be accomplished
that might be regarded as of real
benefit to anybody.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04
JUST FOLKS
THE CHILDREN.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

I never see them in throng. glad little feet
that race and run,
But what j wonder who Is there and what
shall be when youth is done.
Here is the futures race of men, here are
tomorrow's women fair,
And they shall stand where we have stood
and bear what We have had to bear
oh, glorious children; God alone knows
what is held in store for youl
What heights of glory you shall climb, what
deeds of splendor you shall do!
Little you've learned as yet Of life, little
you know of hurt or woe,
Yet Caesar and the heroes dead were like
you in the long ago.
Tutor be careful as you teach; parents, be
watehful night and day,
You know not what great soul is hid be-
meath the robe of common clay;
You know not which of them is marked for
service in this world OF strife,
And 1t may be your lot today to shape a
truly noble life. -
1 never see them at their play, the chill
dren clear of cheek and eye
But what | wonder who is there and what
shall be as time goes by.
Perhaps this boy or that today who bends
above his book and slate.
Holds in his little breast soul which God
has destined to be great.
1Copyright 1920, by Edgar - Guest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04
Household Hints
For the Cookie Jar.

Cream Cookies-Two eggs, one cup
sugar. one cup thick cream, three
cups flour. three teaspoons baking
powder, one teaspoon salt, one tea
spoon vanilla.
Beat eggs; add sugar, cream and
flour mixed and sifted with baking
powder. Chill, shape and bake. One
half cup caraway seeds may be sub
|stituted for vanilla. Use high flame.
Peanut Cookies-Two tablespoons
butter, one-quarter cup sugar. one
egg, one teaspoon baking powder, one
half cup flour, two tablespoons milk,
one-half cup chopped peanuts. one
half teaspoon lemon juice, one-Quar-
ter teaspoon salt.
Cream butter. add sugar and well
beaten egg. Mix and sift flour, bal-
ing powder and salt: add to first mix
ture, then add milk, nuts and lemon
juice Drop from teaspoon on but
tered sheet far enough apart to allow
for spreading. Bake twelve to fifteen
minutes over a high flame
German Stuffed Cookies Four
|eggs, two cups sugar, two cups but
ter. one teaspoon cream tartar, one
teaspoon soda, one-haf cup milk
(scant}, one teaspoon vanilla, jelly.
chopped raisins and walnuts, flour to
roll out.
Combine ingredients and roll out:
Spread on one-half, first layer OF
ielIy. second one of chopped raisins,-
third one of chopped walnuts. Turn
the other half over the portion spread,
pat or roll slightly, and shape Bake
lin usual way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04

Secretary Houston says the govern
ment will require $4,000, 000,O 900 an
nusliy during the next three or four
years. The government may require
that sum but the indications are that
it will not get it. This talk of spend
ing $4,000, 100000 year proceeds as
if it were solely a question of how to
extract the money from the people.
The obvious necessity of adopting a
saner system of taxation may have led
us to overlook the fundamental fact
that we cannot pay the government
$4,000, 100000 a year for three or four
years if we want to. that is. not un-
less we are prepared to go on max
ing sacrifices on the scale required by
the war. 1t is doubtful If we could
do it if we were disposed to make sac
rifices. The diversion of saved cap
ital from productive employment
would ultimately SO cripple produce
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04

her particular swain, she can place a
tea table in a corner of the clubrooni
or conservatory and service him tea
or oyster stew prepared in the club
kitchen. If she wishes to emphasize
the domestic note, she can even invite
the young man into the kitchen and
let him wipe the dishes for her.
But-Xhile many such admirable en-
terprises have recently been started
for the benefit of our city girls, out
side counting is becoming increasingly
difficult. hotel managers are Begin
ming to protest against the presence
of SO many strange, devoted couples
in their Hobbies; the postoffices COM
plain that their popularity as meeting
the efficiency of the mails, and the
movie theaters are becoming antagon-
istic to counting couples on the
grounds that real love-making in the
audience distracts attention from the
lovemakfng in the reel. Then, there
are the city police, who are SO mild
when 1t comes to rebuking crime, but
are SO fiercely resentful of spooning
in the yarks.
Only the other day, Cupid was
chased from one of his strongest
refugees by the police. while a great
jewel robbery was taking place around
the block. In proud triumph, a group
of young couples were hailed into
court, finger-printed, and required to
explain how they dared to embrace in
SO righteously respectable place as
q park. However, in this case the
arrest came, in the majority of in-
triumphed. for most of the girls
showed the judge their engagement
rings as excuses for their unseemly
behavior.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
CAN YOU SURRENDER
GRACEFULLY?

z The world is full of movement.
Nothing stays very long in one place
OR with any one person. We are
being constantly called upon to- give
up things. And many times we are
asked to surrender what is very dear
to us.
Can you surrender gracefully?
1t is easy enough to give up what
you no longer desire. but are you able
to give up what you want or what you
have worked long to secure?
The story of every truly great man
or woman is one of giving up.
The one who can accept defeat and
smile has already won.
Our daily lives must OF necessity be
filled with surrenderings. That is>one
Of the prices we pay for life. And life
has u be paid for the same as any
thing else.
1 was once told the story of a great
educator and his son. The big man
called his boy to his study one even
ing and asked him what he desired
more than anything else. The son told
him. II want you to give this up. my
boy" said the father. The boy prom
ised. In after years, he remarked that
he owed to his father his ability to
put his will to whatsoever he desired.
1t is a wonderful thing to be able
to surrender with grace and sweetness
of spirit.
The game fighter and good loser
is made of heroic stuff.
You may be hungry-and out of a
job-and you may think that no one
cares at all what becomes of you. But
think Of the scores of men and women
who have made up history who were
once in the very position in which you
find yourself.
Take heart. Be strong.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04

In these times of unrest, there IS
heard much talk of a Giving wage"
But after all a living wage is what we
can live on and one can and does live
on what he receives, Every man IS
justified in obtaining as high a rate
of pay for his services as he can get.
Having done this if he will live with
in his income and lag by a small part
thereof every week or month. he will
be certain to be reckoned among the
well-to-do in a few years. There are
those who rear families and live COM
fortably on wages which by others
would be regarded as wholly made
auate. All of, this goes to prove that
a "living wage is only a relative
term. With some persons it means
enough to eat and wear, while with
others it means an automobile and
talking machine. n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK

We was having joggriffy in skooi to-
day and Skinny Martin started to
make make different faces at me as
if he was trying to say something, me
making different faces back at him
as If I dident know wat he was tawk-
ing about, witch dident,, and Skinny
started to wave his hand, saying to
Miss Kitty, Can I go over and say
something important to Benny Potts a
mint?
I Suppose you meen, may you. sed
Miss Kitty, and Skinny sed, Yes nam,
can /?
How meny times must-I tell this
class the diffrents between can and
may? seq Miss Kitty. is th4re eny-
body in>the room who can ixplain the
Wich Ed wernick waved his hand
saying, Wen you wunt to be polite
you say May II, but wen you Jest
meeriy want to know, you say Can {?
Very brilliant but intirely rong.
surely somebody in this class knows
the diffrents between can and, may.
sed Miss Kitty.
WITCH Sid Hunt waved his hand,
saying, Wen a persin asks whether
they may, 1t means future. but if they
ask whether they can. it meens past
It meens never If happen to be
the one that's asked, sed Miss Kitty,
now Ill Explain the difference once
more, may signifies permission, while
can signifies power or ability to do
a thing, now who can give me a sem
tence using both words correctly?
WITCH Skinny Martin waved his
hand, saying, May 1 have the permits
sion to have the power to go over and
say something Important to Benny
Potts, now can I speak to him?
You may not, sed Miss Kitty.
Meening he couldn't, and we kepp on
with the 5oggriffy lessin and after
skool 1 asked Skinny wat he wunted
to tell me important, but he cou1dent
remember.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04
Observation-Disclosures


@. / wish to drive into Canada for a
visit. Would l have to pay feef-M. g.
"A The American Automobile Associa
ton saws that you may tour thru the coup-
try for a period of 80 days without giving
for the et1 af enrv the and Terer to
secure the necessary permit
o. Hoy can anyone. test a diamond TO
see if it is genuine. OF what materials are
Imitation diamonds made?-D. f. Y.
A. The Geological Survey says that there
lis no way anyone except an expert can
are synthetic white sapphires: others are
rhinestones or other white coioriess min
erals.
of tuberculosis ?-H. ]. X
A. The Public Health Service says that
no known medicine has has any any ten Tha f TO
consists Of bui" tnst Up the sfnera
may overcome the infection.
O. What is the latest date that Easter
has come on. and how is the date of Easter
ae 4. Tine 1stest date that Faster has fallen
on since 1900 was April %. 1888. Easter
Is determined as the first Sunday after the
full moon after the 21st of March
Q. How >much Irish territory is under
martidI Iaw?-C. W. S.
A. The counties of Cork. Kerry. Limerick
nation Of martial law. This group com
prices approximately the southwestern
Ireland and sS9as in the
Q. How. lid Russia stand as wheat
raising country before the warf-E S. w.
A. Before the outhreak Of the war,
Russia produced more wheat than any
country in the world, save the United
States, which It had even surpassed in good
years. 1t exported on the average of 100,-
100000 bushels per year.
O. In game Of Five Hundred. the bid
der forgot to discard and had two cards
left at the end Of Of play Does the hand
A. According to Hoyle in Five Hundred.
II the bidder has a wrong number OF cards
after playing the first trick the bidder loses
his game and must be set back: but IL both
adversaries have their right number of
cards the hand must be played opt In order
that they may score for tricks.
O. Can you suggest an Indian name for
a suburban home: It stands on a hill,
overlooking the cityAT. E. /.
Sas,., ishP pei meaning 1t is high ~
land" w2uid Be appropriate indian names
O. Would like to know how the signs of
the Zodiac affect vegetatioHs-H. K. N
A. Both the Naval Observatory and the
United States Department. Of Agriculture
nothing whatever TO do with the planting or
harvesting Of crops
fAny reader can GET tns answer 70 any
Question % writing The Topeka State
Haskin. Director. Washington. q. C. This
offer applies strictly to information The
bureau cannot give advice on legal. medical
and financial matters II does not under
take to settle domestic troubies. nor to
subject Write your question plainly and
briefly Give fuu name and address and
enclose 2-cent stamp for return postage.
An replies are sent direct to the inaulrsE.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04

any kind this year should lose ne
time in getting their plans under way.
Prices of most kinds of building ma
terial have been reduced and a read
justment of wages seems near at hand.
Now is the time to complete plans ami
make arrangements for construction
work to be done this season. The
late conner may find it hard to sup
ply his needs in the way Of material
and labor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04

will find out some day., he cried tri-
umphEntly.
Mr.. McPhee breezed thru the room
on his way to the kitchen.
Happy New Yeari" he called to
the two. whose heads were SO close
together, and the two lifted faces were
so radiant with joy that worldly MT.
McPhee vaguely wondered il having
clothes and everything WAS the only
thing in the world. For instance. there
was Miss Dreer of the 1acesA
This was the beginning of Mr.. Nc
Pieces happiest year.
(Copyright, 1919, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndifate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04

mansion by her titled hostess, and as
they passed along a corridor the latter
lady paused before a marble bust.
loose that Off" asked Mrs. Nuricf1,
with an air of great interest.
That is Marcus Aurelius,' replied
her hostess.
"Oh! Is it ?'' exclaimed Mrs. zurich.
But wish you'd tell me-" she went
on confidently, whether it's the old
marquis or the new one? 1 do get ,em
mixed up So
Griggs-When 1 don't catch the
name of the person I've been intro
duced to. 1 ask if it's spelled with
ste'' or an a. It generally works, too.
Briggs-I used to try that dodge
myself until I was- introduced to a
young lady at a party. When 1 put
the question about the "e'' or .i's she
flushed angrily and wouldn't speak
the whole eveing.
s.Whatswas her name p"
.Tfound out later 1t was Hill r,'--z
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04

ton that we would be forced TO de-
fault. There are in congress enough
men who place the public welfare in
advance of other considerations, prob
ably. to put an end to the extrava-
gance that has prevailed for the past
three years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04

Everybody has wished everybody
else a happy new year. Just suppose
all should join together in trying 20
make it come true and reflect what u
fine old world in which. to live this
would be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04

If there be anybody who thinks we
do not have a sufficient number OF
holidays in~fhis country he should re-
side in Turkey, where they have
in d year. On the other
hand if it be thought that we have
too many there is Scotland with only
five
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04

A distinction claimed for Missouri
by the ST. Louis Times is that it has
the poorest primary law in the United
States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04
Dinner Stories

Wealth had carried Mrs Nurich into
exalted circles, of which she had
hardly dared even to dream.
At a big Dinner party she was being
shown the glories of an ancestral
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04

Has the reading public, of which we
have the honor to be an integral part,
been "gulled" again?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-04
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAZZ =. HOUSE
(rrom Philadelphia Psblic Ledssf.,

The appearance of Ponzi in a court
of justice leaves us In speculative
much time the sheep who followed
him will require to grow a new crop Of
wool and the identity of the gentleman
who will shear them next timcJ
1t is the consensus that Sam Lee, of
Mount Vernon, Texas, went too far,
1t was all right, perhaps, for Mr.. Lee
to shoot the woman he loved But
many are inclined to criticize him for
shooting her father and mother and
only brother.
An Ensuing Detail.
Sir-In your criticism of Mr. Hard
ing you undertake to describe the
dress-up raiment of q middle west
erner. and thereby disclose the fact
that You havesbeen kidding, us about
the place of your origin. Better call
in the dope" you have spread. You
never were west of the Alleghenies.
NO man who can see and who has
made one trip west would describG
the garb of the westerner and leave
out the silk handkerchief, one corner
OF which protrudes from the left
breast pocket of his coat. 1 spent
forty-two years in the middle west.
II you ever do make trip west and
I hear of it in time I will put the boys
wise and let them set you hunting
snipe with a sack. asst they used to do
when they caught a tenderfoot from
the saltwater belt. They would have
a good time with you. W. G. B.
IT W. G. B. were as familiar with
the middle west as he pretends to be,
he would know that the badger fight
long ago supplanted the snipe drive
as, the accepted method of entertain
ing unsuspicious strangers. The last
snipe drive in the Missouri valley
country was given in honor of a sporty
visitor from New York in the winter
of 1886.
The fact is, we doubt the legitimacy
of w. G. BIS knowledge of the flat
country. If he really knows anything
about it. let him tell us what the sec
ond native replies when the first ma
tive says, How are ye?" If a man
knows a country, he should be fami-
liar with the sprightlier forms of its
repartee.
In an interview given after his re-
turn to France, Georges Carpenter
says he didn't meet Jack Dempsey.
We seem n recall that pretty nearly
every newspaper in the country print
ed a picture of the matchmaking de-
picting Jack and Georges sitting side
by side at a mahogany table.
Connecticut western news., 1921-01-13

people help to support. It is hu- initiating, and we'll nigh intolerable. I want the best interests of my town served first. I want that town windfall expended, every last cent of it, on either the schools, and the library, or the town roads, it's bridges, and the many other needs that are the legitimate matters for which the voters pay their taxes to maintain.
 The taxpayers should never be called upon to help support any ex- traneous organization, no matter how worthy, nor is any extraneous organization, in the slightest degree. entitled to slice of the town money. Any one who is not feeble minded, will see the reasonableness of this statement. Good heavens, look at the number of organizations in the town and one born every minute like the proverbial sucker! Suppose they all asked for a slice of that windfall |! Yet every one of them is just as m lch entitled to ask it as another Boiled right down to cases it comes to this.
 Is this town under any obligation to support or help support any or ganization or pay for services the
Connecticut western news., 1921-01-13
Pretty Chinese Legend.

One of the prettiest legends of Chl- nese mythology Is that Of the weaver girl and the herd laddie who are said to be two stars in the sky.
 In far off days, love took pity oa their loneliness and married them They were so happy fin their conrHl- bial biss-this proves the date to baFe been very long ago in the days CT "once upon a time"-that they neglect ed their tasks and were bonishcd 10 opposite sides of the Milky Wv where thcr wink at each othrr ell the vear round. but are only allowed to cross for brief spell Of hHpu'n"ee 0H thc seventh day of the seventh r'o@n-
 O.. tLu' ght shy maidene p'arc q f,v. stick, incense with s0f," sW,ffs and r.,'t ., " tuhIr Tn the irr.. .~f- y@-G a. r. ~"crinr to the 'v'~ -'"rS ro;'., ,'.' an uncxprcS"c' ' tll;, .. Y WI case the cor" ct trr.' ~1n more smoot'''r 'Naa fl dIL r.. E .usuortul lovcrs ID 3 sky.
Connecticut western news., 1921-01-13

taxpayers have never asked for? Is it possible, is it even probable that this town is going to expend money on a private organization, and neg lect the needs of it's schools, library a safe town hall, and other needs that the people are calling for? Legitimate needs that the town is obliged by laws to support. Are the people and the best and most impor- tant interests of the town going to stand for this sort of thing? What under heaven has the c. s. A. ever done that it should take precedence over our schools, our town library, our town indebtedness? Come, let us know.
 Are the towns people going to let their throats be cut? Gentle men and ladies, the issue is just this, minority rule, or majority, which shall it be? That majority vote was square honest open one. There were no trickeries employed, no de- vices to gain a strangle-hold, nor an attempt to gag the other voters. A cleaner, more decisive vote was never given in this old town hall, and it is the business of the defeated party to accept it's defeat in a sportsmanlike manner.
 If the recent majority vote is to