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The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-09-17

CHICAGO, Sept. 17-Whca, opened
y 20 y cents lower on the Chicago
Board OF Trade today with December
u2st TO N.2s and May si.52A TO
t1.32A.
There was fair trade at the start
BON moderate buying. Selling for
eastern account found the market
unsupported and prices sagged 10
around = cents under yesterdays
finish. The market then turned dull
n r~ccoyeries were slow.
Corn was dun and slightly easier nj
the start and dropped with wheat
when the eastern selling was extended
10 the oarse grains. Opening prices
were Y TO y cent OF with September
at 30 cents. December. sax TO SO y
cents and May. bsh cents.
Oats followed corn. December
opened at s9h cents. advanced n
traction and then saggcd TO SSS
cents.
Provisions were strong. A fair
cash rad and support OF lard options
by packers werc irhief factors. Shorts
were inclined TO cover on the ad-
vance which ranged from 5 TO I.h
points at the opening.
Increased pressure from ctmmis-
sion houses forced further declines
In wheat and the close was at the low
point OF the day with September
si.43 y December ti.2bA to si.ss
and May S1.2sA to s1.29h.
Corn followed wheat throughout
the session. prices being close to the
low point OF tho session. The close
found september at 52L cents. De-
cember at .s.A M = Il 52h cents.
and May syn to 57h cent?.
Gloss.
wheat-Dcc.. sI.25z; May. si..s4
Corn-Dec. b1ikc: May, 67+c.
Oats-Dec., asAc. May. 42hc.
Pork-Septembcr. sis.4b.
lard-Oct., si0.97. Jan. soc.
Ribs-Oct.. tT.s2: Jan. 1875.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-09-17
BEFORE AND after
CHILDBIRTH
Mira. Williams Tells How
Lydia E. Pinkham'sV Vegetable
Compound Kept Her
in Health

overpeck, o." Lydia E. Pinkbam's
Vegetable Compound helped me both
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-09-17

KANSAS CITY. Sept. i7.-Cattle
receipts. 1900. for week: Heavy
beef steers steady Il 20 cents lower;
other kinds mostly 10 to rs cents
higher: she stock and bulls steady 20
% cents higher; me strong
stockcrs. feeders and stock cows and
heifers steady; veal calves stoauy 10
so cents higher; heavy calves 10 cents
to 81 lower. tock calves, so to 20
cents lower.
100 to 80 pound weights $500
S.25 bulk Of sales. $500 s.2b; full
load. ST.2bs butcher sows. $500,
weighty stock pigs. 1896.
sheep receipts, none, for week
Sheep. st91.5O higher; lambs. slef
i.2b higher.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-09-17
Livestock

CHICAGO, Sept. iT.-Cattlc re-
ceipts, 500; compared with week ago:
fat yearlings and good choice light
and medium weight steers mostly "a
to 40 cents higher; plain heavy and
northwestern steers uncvc mostly rs
cent? lower. spots off more; COMMON
light steers about steady. tat haife =
generally 20 cents higher. other she
stock uneven, mostly steady. amer
strong. bulls mostly 30 cents higher.
veal calves, 800 higher: stockers. rs
TO rs cents higher. feeders steady.
Hog receipts, $500; steady IA
strong; hold over light: top. $3.50,
bulk light aud light butchers. tS.25 n
$50; bulk packing sows. S6.75mT.25,
pigs steady; bulk desirable. f7.25 ~
$50.
sheep receipts. s.O00: compared
with week ago Fat lambs arOund q
cents higher. fat sheep and yearling'
rs to 30 cents higher, feeding classcl
firm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-05
WHERE CONGRESS CAN HELP

There is no doubt that the country
is on the way to economic recovery.
That this could be enormously assisted
by governmental action is attested
constantly by thoughtful students of
the situation. In an address on
Pressing Problems and Some Sugges
tions" recently, Otto H. Kahn said:
There is one element which more
than any other single cause stands in
the way of our economic recovery.
That is the improvident, disingenuous
adopted in 1917. Leaving aside its
appalling completely. its irritating and
obnoxious cumbersomeness, the I'M
fairness of it's incidence, and its man.
field actual and moral implements to
effort and enterprise, it has produced
two effects of fundamental destruc-
tiveness: 1t has prevented the aecu-
violently interfered with the normal
flow of existing capital"
In outlining the remedy, he advocat-
ed abolition of the excess profits tax,
reduction of sur-taxes. and the elimi.
| nation of minor irksome taxes. To
fill the gap in revenue thus created
he urged broadening the basis of inai-
rect taxation. BY SO doing, he said:
I'VE shall greatly reduce the bur-
den of high costs and other evils re-
sulting frem the existing tax system
which now weigh upon the masses OF
the people, althe they were meant
and mistakenly calculated and expect
ed to weigh upon a small minority ]
know of no measure which will better
and more certainly attain that pur-
pose and bring that relief than a sale:
tax in some form"
! And, after listing the material ad-
vantages to be obtained thru a sales
tax. he asserted his conviction that q
sales tax lis approved and demanded
by the rank and file of business thru
out the country"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-05

I've been thinking so much about him
that I've started having visions of
him.
But no, there could be no vision
about this face. It was human, flesh
and blood. even to a tiny. mole that
belonged to John The situation was
so ludicrous that she could not help
smiling. when once her astonishmen Mt
wore off, and the face on the other
side of the glass smiled in response.
OF sudden the face vanished, there
was noise at the door of the store,
and John came out.
."Window shopping?" he asked
pleasantly.
yes" she replied, very meekly, and
quickly tucked the small package into
a pocket. ''Wha-what are you
doing here2'
Il work here" he returned quietly.
Pm the window trimmer. 1 neglected
to tell you that I changed jobs a
month ago. You see, window trim
ming is my regular profession. but /
get tired of it now and then and try
printing. I was offered special in
ducements to take this job and fix up
this surprise window, and I've been
working so hard at it 1 can't bear to
think of window trimming when off
duty. I feel like taking a walk right
now; what do you say?"
And Ruth did not demur.
Copyright, 1921. by the Mcclure
Newspa per Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-05
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
REASONS FOR LIVING.

The more complicated civilization
becomes and the more confusing the
affairs of the world the greater is the
Fer it is at such times that things
are in motioni
There is impetus where there are
problems te be solved and construc-
ten to e put under way. People
grow careless and lag when things are
running too smoothly.
1t is only under great stress that
men strive and sweat.
Be glad if you have to work hard
and long. Everyone who has ever
risen high has had to go thru just
that. Historic times are those that
have tried mems souls. The big char
acter is he who has come up out of
the fire.
With much to do, there is much to
live for
We all have our aches, our discour-
agements, our times of deep loneliness.
our bitter appointments-as well as
our fine instances of inspiration and
happiness. We are each of us about
as human as the other fellow.
But all of these are our reasons for
living and playing cut the game brave
ly to the end. u b4s
1 am not a believer that this life is
nothing but "a vale of tears, land. that
we are going to be handed haPPin ess
in some heaven that is absolutely per-
feet after we have left our tasks here
and now. 1 believe that both heaven
and hell are right in our midst. Hap
piness is heaven. He'll is unhappfness,
Each has its degree of bigness:t The
more we serve. the happier wei are.
The more we hinder. the iinha4piel
we are. =.
When you do the right thing. you
feel good. And that feeling is God
working out His heaven in the world!
Great things are in motion just now.
You and I are living at time that
our forefathers would have. given ten
or more of their lives to have lived in.
And just remember that whenkt there
are SO many things in motion. you
have dozens of chances to pick out the
tasks that best suit your ability and
your desires.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-05
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-05
THE NEW FARMER MOVEMENT

American farmers are getting to-
gether as they never have done before.
There is entirely too wide a margin
between the prices they receive for
their products and the prices paid by
consumers and the farmers are deter
mined. if it be possible to do so, to
find out the cause of this condition
and remove it. If they succeed both
classes should derive much benefit
from the procedure.
Figures issued by the United States
bureau of labor statistics show that
during March. 1921, wholesale prices
for farm products were only Is per
cent higher than in 1913. while met
ais and metal products were SO per
cent higher; food (wholesale), so per
cent higher; all commodities, So per
cent higher; miscellaneous, 81 per
cent higher; chemicals and drugs, II
per cent higher; cloths and clothing
90 per cent higher; fuel and lighting,
107 per cent higher; building mater
ials. 112 per cent higher; house fur
nishings, IT'S per cent higher.
What it is that happens to the
farmers products on their journey
from the farm to the city consumer
the farmer wants to know. The farm
er is organizing to find out. He is or
ganizing to seek the remedy. He is
organizing to obtain economic justice
for himself and to assure economic
justice to the consumer-the customer
on whom his economic life depends.
Farm organization is not new. AS
early as 1855 a society for the promo
ton of agriculture was organized in
Pennsylvania. In the economic dis
turbances following the Civil war was
born the Grange. organized on Decem-
Der 4, 1867, and still flourishing. The
Farmers Alliance movement came in
the early '90s. The Ancient Order of
Cleaners was founded in 1894. The
California Fruit Growers Exchange
was organized twenty-five years ago.
The Farmers Union began in 1902.
The American Society of Equity was
incorporated in 1911. The Nenparti-
san league movement began in 1915.
But the giant among the farm or
CARNATIONS today, the one to which
the farmers are looking with greatest
hope, the one which they are said to
be joining in greatest numbers, is the
Farm Bureau. The American Farm
Bureau Federation now claims to have
more than a million and half men,
bers in forty-three states.
The Farm Bureau began only ten
years ago. The American Farm Blu
reau Federation is only one year old.
1t is the mother organization of the
new farmers cooperative marketing
movement, the first fruits of which
are expected to be seen in the market
ing of this years wheat crop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-05
Dorothy Dix Talks
How to please the Men-1.
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

How to Please the Men.
A young woman asks me to give
her some reliable receipt for pleasing
the men.
what peculiar quality in a woman at
tracts men or repulses them. Even
the Bible declares that the way of a
man with a maid is one of the mys-
teries that human wisdom cannot
fathom.
Generally speaking, a girls first aid
to popularity is beauty. Every mas
culfne eye is caught by pretty face.
Every man likes to be seen out with
a peach, who makes other men rubber
and ask the next day who was the
little queen. Undoubtedly, Heavens
best gift to a woman is a peaches and
cream complexion, a straight nose.
and hair with a natural wave in it;
for if her good fairy has endowed her
with these gifts, she can get all the
balance herself.
But let not the girl who is not a
living picture despair. Nothing is
easier to camouflage than <peachiness.
Handmade compilations are usually
better than the real article. Marcel
! artists perform on every corner, and
there are very few men. thank God.
who have ever learned to distinguish
between a woman and her clothes.
The next aid to popularity is to
| learn how to dance, how to play cards.
how to play tennis. and golf. Espe-
cially how to dance, for in these days.
| if a girl wants attention from men.
| she must be able to tread a measure
with them without stepping on their
| toes. Heels are even more important
| than heads just at present and tho a
| girl were as beautiful as Venus, and
as clever as Aspasia, she would line
the walls if she could not toddle. and
| shimmy, or shake a nimble foot in
the latest dance steps.
As for games; the girl who wishes
! to be popular with men must play
well enough to make the game inter
esting, but not SO we'll that she beats
! her partner. If she can keep herself
in the perpetual amateur class who
begs the man she is playing with to
teach her that wonderful stroke of
| his, or explain that marvellous lead at
| bridge. she will never look for in
structors, or have to sit on the Coun-
try club yeranda with the golf wind
ows.
Nothing has more to do with the
| hit that women make with men than
the line of conversation they carry.
| This should be selected with great
care, and with strict Difference to the
! slowed. Some men like chatty women
| who will work like coal beavers TO
| entertain them. Others want to mo-
| nopolize all the talking themselves.
But there are certain things that
| all men abhor. One is Sarcasm. No
man can abide a woman who says
sharp and bitter things; and in an ef-
fort to be brilliant and witty. many a
| girl cuts her own threat with her
| tongue. No man likes a scandal mon
gering woman. or girl who says
| little catty things about other girls
No man likes a woman who laughs at
| other people. He is afraid he will be
the next figure of fun to her. No man
| likes a woman who babbles on and on.
1t makes him tired, if he is a quiet
man, and if he is a talker, he wants
| the floor himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-05
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
Inventions.
BY LEE PAPE.

There are meny new inventions
nowadays that people used to miss
without knowing they was missing.
This is one of the lucky things about
living in the goth Century insted OF
the 1st or End Another lucky thing
about living now insted of formerly
is that you are still alive.
One of the most important inven-
lions is the telefone, witch rings eny
heur of the day or mite so you can
tawk to somebody that maybe you
never even saw and maybe you
wouldent even wunt to see. You can
also tawk to your trends jest as easy.
Wen enybody in the olden days had a
long peece of wire they jest used it to
fix things GROUND the house insted of
wasting time thinking about trying to
tawk three it, vile now all you haff
to do to tawk throo the telefone wire
is Jest call up and if you get the rite
number you know fxactly who your
tawking to, and if you get the rene
number you don't.
Another important invention is the
e1ecktic lite which saves us the trub-
every time we wunt lite and also
makes the matches last longer. Ever
since the invention of the elecktric
lite all you half to do to make dark
room disappear is jest bush button.
Another important invention is the
| camera, WITCH takes your pickture and
shows you ixackly how you 1eoked
that minnit no matter how muteh you
change later. Thus wen you are all
grown up you can look at a piekture
I of how you used to look wen yeu was
| a baby and realize how mulch you
| have improved.
| 2 other important inventions are the
| LOGON olive. witch does all the weFk in
| a trane of cars, and the fonegraff,
witch gives US the privilege of terning
off music wenever we don't feel like
|
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-05

Q. What is diamond dust worth and
what is it used for?--J V. s.
an a. ounce. G and us is used for r. Cutting and
polishing diamonds and other stones.
@: Was Herodotus the great historian, a
Greek or a Persian?-T. X. h
A. Herodotus, the Greek historian, was
a subject of Persia. He was born at Hall
carnassus in Asia Minor. At the time Of the
carnassus was ruled by queen under the
sway of Che Persians.
Q. How many senators and representa-
tiyes re there in the new congress? F. q. o.
A. There are 435 members of the house
of representatives, and 9G senator's in the
o. With oats one hundred pounds to the
bale, what per cent is oats and what per
cent straw? n. A. E.
A. The proportion of straw to grain is
comparatively high in oats, generally esti-
mated as two to one. There is no constant
relation, but, in general. medium or late
varieties usually have about two pounds of
straw to one pound of grain, while early
varieties produce a somewhat less proper
ton of straw
the United States? I. III. c.
A. The posteffice department says that
secerding to the latest available figures
offices in the United States.
Q. what is the difference between a
;aree. a comedy and farce eomedy2-
A. The difference between a comedy and
farce is chiefly in the plot In comedy
the plot Is SuDOFQlnaIeu 10 the characters
while in a farce the working OF the plot
makes the characters what they are. Farce
comedy" is q <ulearism applied to nea riy
any type of light plays in which the comic
situations go to prepesterous lengths
Q. Is Washington. D. c, south OF the
Mason and Dixon Line M. 3.
A. Washington lies south OF the Mason
and Dixon Line. whose latitude is 80 de-
grees 43 &c 81 \.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-05

nicely during the entire trip In the
daytime he moved fearlessly about the
deck and chatted pleasantly with the
other passengers During the first
day he had appeared in the dining
room and was assigned to a table as
politely as II he had paid his passage
money. Not until the ship reached
this side and the passenger list was
checked was the young stowaway de-
tected, and then, so agreeable had he
made himself. that the passengers
Clipped in and paid for his passage
across.
Women stowaways are much more
numerous than one would suppose
They. come boldly across in ali the
usual hiding places, occasionally dis
guised as men, but generally in their
own clothes. During the war women
simply couldn't be kept off the troop
ships, two of them even slowing sue
cessfully away on battle cruiser.
Since the war there is the recent case
of freighter which put into a south
ern port with more than fifty women
stowaways on board.
Heretofore, the treatment of stow
Always on this side has been rather
lenient. They did not have a great
deal of difficulty in smuggling their
way thru, and, if caught, kind friends
were apt to come to their rescue or
the authorities were disposed to give
them every opportunity to make good.
The new ruling, however, providing
that no stowaway can be landed at an
American port who does not possess
an authentic passport, has put a de-
cided crimp in the stowaway traffic.
Ships are making a careful search for
unknown passengers before leaving
port on the other side. as the carrying
Of stowaways back and forth is not a
remuneratipe occupation. Ellis Island
authorities already notice falling off
in the stowaway business, and it is
thought that the next month or so
will see its complete cessation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-05

1t has boone evident that building
costs must be further reduced before
a nationwide resumption OF activity
in this industry can take place. The
cost of building is still excessive
Judged by the standards of normal
years and the conditions surrounding
the building industry. Strenuous eff
forts are being made to obtain such
wage reductions as shall make it pos
sible to resume building operations.
Further reductions are being sought
also in material prices and 1T is hoped
that with the lower quotations for
steel it will be possible soon to under
take new building operations on Il
large scale. The situation is urgent
as the country is still heavily short Of
dwellings, apartment houses. factories
and business buildings and it is evi-
dent that heavy investments could be
made to excellent advantage in such
ventures. Much building already
started or contracted is being held up
in various localities by refusal OF me-
chanics to accept reduction in wages.
Such of these as do not own their
homes must therefore continue to pay
high rents with an ever present pros
peet that the rents will go higher.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-05
Dinner Stories

1t was dark night at Camp Grant.
Footsteps of a horse were heard APP
preaching.
Halt. who's THEREOF barked the
rookie.
"Regimenta1 commander
"Dismeunt. colonel, and advance to
be recognized"
The colonel dismounted and came
over to the rookie, who presented
arms with a snap.
proceed, colonel" he said.
AS he laboriously got back on his
horse the. colonel asked by the way,
who posted you there?"
"oh, nobody" replied the sentry
I'm just practieing."
THAT gorgeous woman with Thrill
luIn. the authors she his wife 2"
Heavens, mol You see,s one of the
principal sale features of ThFillum's
books is that people think he lives the
life he writes about. SO he has to
choose carefully for his public appear
ances-"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-05

paid off. Only per cent of farms
has changed hands since 1915. There
are plenty of banking funds for farm
credit, only small percentage of
country banks being unable fully to
satisfy needs. In brief, farmers gen.
orally have plenty of cash resources
and credit; they will have more than
normal crop money this spring and
they will buy their one-third of the
nations manufactured product this
year and in the years to come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-05

The fact that the steel workers ac-
cepted a reduction in wages without
complaint must have proven disap-
pointing to the walking delegates OF
the American Federation of Labor,
and probably an effort will be made
to stir up a rebellion among them.
Aequiescence in the wage cut appears
TO have been based on the fact that
the workers will earn more money At
the new scale than they did at the old,
altho they will work more days to do
it. Even so. to the disinterested out
slider. it looks as tho their action is
based on common sense and consider
alton for the welfare and happiness
of themselves and their families. Few
sensible laboring men, probably, be
lieve that they can go on indefinitely
drawing war wages while prices of AL
commodities continue to fall. All
prices in this country might be main
tanned at war level without serious
hardship to any class if it were not
for the fact that we produce large
SURPRISES of many commodities. which
SURPRISES must be sold in the com-
petitive markets of the world.