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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
az LEH PARE


Last Sundey me and Pubs Simkins
was taking wawk jest for the wawk.
and we came to a place ware a lot of
awtum leeves had fell off and was
laying all GROUND. me thinking, G.
Mary Watkins is crazy about awtum
leeves, she thinks. they're wonderful.
wish Pubs wasent with me and I
pick some up(and take them GROUND
to her.
WITCH Jest then I had good ideer.
saying. Well. l think 1 wawked enuff,
think Ill go home.
1 think will too, my legs is all out
of breth, sed Pubs And we started 10
wawk nome in different direcktiohs
and wen 1 got Ground the corner
waited there about 10 minutes and
then I went back to pick up some
leeves and who was there already
picking them up but Pubs. me saying
Heck, 1 thawt you was going home
l thaWt you was, sed Pubs. and
sed. So was, and Pubs sed. So was J..
And we keep on picking up awtum
leeves me saying, Watts you going to
do with the leeves?
My mother likes them, I thawt Id
pick some up and take them home for
a declaration, sed Pubs.
G that's a pritty good of a ideer.
think 1 will too. I sed. WITCH l. did
picking up a big handful and saying,
! Well, I'm going home now, and PUBS
seq, 30 am Ony think Ill WawlS
home with you ferst, 1 think 1 need
the eXercize.
| Gosh, 1 thawt you was so tired. I
sed. and Pubs sed, ! was but / amt
And he started to wawk alongside of
me, so 1 had to wawk home, and 1
started to go in the house, saying, Are
you going home now?
Yes, sed Pubs. And I went in and
quick ran and looked out the parler
window and saw Pubs terning GROUND
! the corner lords Mary Watkins house
insted Of his, me thinking, The darn
story teller, Ill never trust that gdy
agen.
! WITCH Jest then. ma. came in the
parler, saying, o, the lovely awtum
leeves wy Benny it was reel thawtfill
of you to bring them home, thank you
very mulch.
You're welcome, sed.
Proving you're libel to get credit wen
you least ixpect it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18

''If tolls on the Panama canal were
eliminated it would create a lower
basis for rates via water routes,
which in turn would compel the low
ering of the rail rates and place an
additional burden on the western
railroads and on western manufacture
ing interests" declares Edward
Chambers, vice president of the Santa
Fe. Elimination of tolls probably
would do nothing of the kind. The
actual result would be that the ship
owners would pocket the amount of
the tolls and the taxpayers would be
called upon to maintain the added
cost of operating the canal. The rea-
sons for opposing free canal tolls are
abundant without the one offered by
Mr.. Chambers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18

tendance upon the officials. The in
fluential citizens of Caesarea were
present, arFayed in their best. Apart,
and distinctly clad, were the group
of Jerusalem ecclesiastics and other
Jews. DR.. Luke and a few ineon-
spicuous Christians, wearing on their
faces a peace that surpassed all
pomp, stood by the little old man who
was defendant.
There was a fanfare of trumpets,
and much professional splendor, and
a general craning of necks, as roy
atty arrived. All the stately trap
pings were soon forgotten, as the
travel-w0rn missionary began his de-
fense-which quickly became a ser
mon. What strange and wonderful
pulpits God erected for this preacher
Paul! With eIoquence beyond the
compass of trained Roman oratory,
Paul held the mixed company thrilled
and enrapt by his testimony to Christ
and the resurrection. He was less con-
cerned about his own liberty than
about preaching the Gospel. Festus
his responsibilities as host of the oc-
casion weighing upon him, his Roman
imperturbab ility shaken by this I'M
usual demonstration, interrupted with
a phrase that was half tribute and
half apology. With the skill of a
really great orator, Paul converted
the governors words into a brilliant
passage.
Then-such Is the mastery OF true
eloquence-he turned the tables upon
tn king and became the judge, with
Agrippa in the role of defendant. He
made the direct appeal for a decision.
What>audacity! The royal guest. con-
fused, self defensive, sputtered,
What! Are you trying to make a
Christian out of me, a Roman kingl"
Yes, Asrippa, you poor. debauch-
ed, incenstuous fruit of a rotten tree,
this man in the dock was giving even
you, by Gods royal bounty, a chance
to become what you had never been.
For Paul could say-as he offered the
only road to a new world order,
namely, the way of individual CONVEX
sion-"I would to God that not thou
only, but also all that hear me this
day, might become such as I. except
these bonds"
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back into the car. He had lost all
reason.
you had better let the lady CO."
said a quiet voice. as Seth johnson
stepped into the scene. holding a gefa-
MUM plant in one hand.
With the other hand he calmly re-
leased Susan from Melvin's grasp and
started walking with her toward the
house. Melvin stared in Infatuated
silence, then let in, the clutch and the
car leaped away.
Ten minutes later Susan was spad-
ing in the garden with Seth.
Flowers are wonderful she
agreed, as he packed the earth about
a plant he had ust imbedded. Then
he added. rather wistfully:
"And you are just like a flower. The
difference Is this: One can love flow
ers and can have them for his own,
when he knows how"
Susan jabbed the point of her trowel
theoretically into the dirt.
We'll" she said demure1y, lone can
often do things he never suspected
if he only tries"
Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
JUST a LITTLE BETTER.

If you will do your work just a little
better than 1t has ever been done be-
fore. you will be a grand SUCCESSFUL
matter what you do.
That is what I told writer, who
asked me the other day for my recipe
for success.
There are too many people In thi.
world who are doing the mediocre
thing-trying to get by" But I no
tice that the biggest people are those
who never think they are good enough
in what they do.
The great artist Is never satisfied.
The inventor invents-and invents |
know of a scientist who made nearly
thousand experiments before he
would let the world know anything
about what he was doing.
Do your work just a little better
than it has ever been done before
and you will have no need for worry
Life is extremely hard and quite
cruel at times-no matter how you
figure it. But it is fairly aglow with
congregations that smooth the rough
est path and make the ascent toward
ones ideals and great purposes far
from unbearable.
There is satisfaction only in doing
ones best.
And then you may leave the rest.
History takes the achievements ora
man and Sits them as the thrashing
machine does wheat. The chaf Is
removed from the ripe grain. And the
grain nourishes the multitude.
If you are discouraged in your work
do it just a little better.
Failure always increases climbing
ability. Incentive comes from lost
ground.
Never tllirk that you are very good
in what you debut that you are
GOING to be better.
Thinking and working will bring
you to the, turn in the longest lane.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18
Dorothy Dix Talks
Independent Old Age.
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman WFitaE.

We have all seen this happen a
hundred times. Not one ofus but can
tell stories of some old man who
turned his business over to his sons,
and was then kicked entirely out of
it, and made to feel an interloper
every time he came around. Not one
of US but knows some old woman who
decided her house, or her farm, to her
son Or daughter, and was afterwards
made slave in it, nothing but a nurse
for the grandchildren or an unpaid
cook. None of us but can tell
of old people who have given their
sons, or sons-in-law their money to go
in business on, and are now ill-treated
dependents, begrudged the very food
they eat.
1t is a sad commentary on human
nature that very few relationships
stand the money test, but it is true
that the love of the dollar among the
great majority of people IS stronger
than any family affection.
The children that parents are proud
est of, and fondest of, are their sue
cessful children. The best loved father
and mother, the most honored and re-
spected are those who are independent
of their children, who have their own
homes and their own income.
1t is because this is absolutely and
universally true that men and women
who wish for a happy old age should
begin saving in their youth ana MD
die age so that they may not be de-
pendent on their children when they
are old. It is not enough for them
to trust to their childrens sense of
duty. 1t is their own duty to pro-
vide themselves if they possibly can
do SO.
And having acquired this COM
petence they are fit subjects for a
lunatic asylum if they do not keep
it in their own possession. What
they can afford to give to their chill
dren should be given freely. but moth
ing should ever induce them to part
with the sacred sum that guaran-
tees their own independence
So far as ones children are indi-
viduaRy concerned they might pos
sibly be trusted. but there is always
the complication of the in-laws.
Many an affectiopate daughter is
married to a grating husband who
would rob his mother-in- law or
father-in-law without compunction,
and then cast him or her into outer
darkness. Many good son has a
shrew for a wife who would not hest
tate to strip her mother-in-law to
the skin to get finery in which to
flaunt around in herself.
The moral of all of which is: If
you want to have a happy and respect
ed old age, and to keep your chill
dren and your in-laws affectionate
and dutiful to you, keep your own
money and make it worthwhile for
them to cherish you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18
WHY BUILDING STILL LAGs.

The claim is made by the lumber
industry in many producing sections
of the country that it is being bur-
dened almost to the point of extinc-
ton by the incubus of unreasonable
freight rates that serve to hold back
from the American people a plenti-
full supply of cheap lumber that is
stacked in the yards of thousands Of
sawmills waiting only an opportunity
for utilization in the building of a
million needed homes At one end of
the scale, it is pointed out. are those
who want lumber and are eager to
build. At the other end are the saw
mills with abundant supplies of lum-
Der that are eager to ship at low
prices. In between are the railroads
that plead the necessity of taking an
excessive toll in freight rates to pay
operating expenses that have not been
lowered to anything like the level to
which sawmilI owners have reduced
their costs.
OF all basic industries the element
of transportation is most vital to the
lumber and coal trade. In regard to
coal there is a certain seasonal con-
sideration, and quite properly coal has
the right of way when people are suf-
fering from cold weather. Lumber
claims no special consideration. 1t is
not perishable, it is not a commodity
dependent upon seasonal demand, it is
a compact and dependable load and 1t
can be handled by the railroads more
or less at their convenience. In ad-
dition to these shipping qualifications
lumber in proportion to it's bulk is
comparatively cheap and freight
rates, it is urged, should take this fact
into account.
An automobile pays freight in the
ratio of about one-fiftieth of its value.
Lumber of equal weight and bulk is
charged for freight almost as much as
it's price at the sawmiu The trans
portation hazard on an automobile is
fifty times greater than the freight
hill, whereas a carload of lumber
might be burned in transit and the
replacement cost would amount to lit
tie more than the original freight bill.
Aside from these considerations Ium-
Der is a basic necessity almost as vi
tai to our national life as food and
clothing. There would be plenty of
lumber available at low prices for
home building in America, 1t is said,
if freight rates on lumber were every
where lowered.
LAS long as it costs more to trans
port lumber from the sawmill to the
consumer than it costs to make the
lumber in the first place, conditions
in the lumber industry will never be
satisfactory" This opinion was ex-
pressed by a prominent lumberman
in Washington a few days ago. This
manufacturer cited the instance of a
car load of 2x4's sent from Tacoma
to Buffalo, N Y. The freight bill
amounted to just one and a half times
as much as the lumber cost at the
mill. Another 1umberman in the
south told of having shipped a car
load of dressed lumber to Cleveland
and after he had paid the freight he
realized just S6.75 from the transact
| ton. These. it is alleged, are nos
isolated or exaggerated cases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18

The congressional status of the sur
tax question affords another instance
Of the tail wagging the dog. Both
tho president and the house favored
80 per cent maximum, while the sem
ate stood out for so per cent. The
president sought to bring about a
compromise on 40 per cent. The sup
porters of the high rate are proceed
ing on the theory that they are soak
ing the rich, but the rich are not
worrying.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18

In the closing hours of the senate
fight over the internal revenue bill
the soldier bonus proposition was de-
feated several times in the rejection
of amendments providing various
methods for bonus payment. 1t is
probable that the movement for the
bonus at the present time will be
killed in the upper house. mo matter
in what form It may be presented to
that body. The political possibilities
in connection with the bonus PROPOSE
ton are tremendous and certain OF
our statesmen seem determined to
make the most Of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18

Income. war and excess profits
taxes collected in 1919 totaled So
159,OO0.oOO. This was SO per cent
ST the total net income of our BIZ
$40 American corporations While
war thus Communicated virtually 40
per cent of the fruits of American
industry and commerce, yet the three
billions thus levied were scarcely
enough to pay our current war, navy
and pension appropriations in 1920,
and to satisfy the interest of our ma
tional debt in the same year of peace.
1t is this enormous drain on the coun-
try's pocketbJok that the Washington
conference is designed to stop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18
OuesfiOns-Answers

Q. What will improve the looks, of
celluloid in automobile curtains: A. ]: M
A. The way TO clean isInglass, which
Is used in automobile curtains, is to wash
it with vinegar.
Q. When should "if'' be followed by
the subjunctive form were? NJ. o. G.
A. In modern English the use of the
subjHuctive form is becoming rare except
in the past and perfect lenses in state
ments contrary in fact and in wishes,
which are really statements contrary TO
fact; as IF were king (but l am noD
Ia see that my laws were 9beyed," and
Q. How long has butter been known?
A. Butter has been used from early his
toric days as you will note by consulting
Genesis XVIII, Sth verse, where occurs the
first Biblical mention of the product. Its
Christian era, when it used to some
slight extent as food, but its chief fune-
ton was to serve as an ointment to be
used after bathing and for burning in
lamps in place of oil.
Q; Give short biography of the life
A. Charles T. Russell was born at Pitts
burgh, Pa, February 16. 1852, died Oc-
tober 81, 1916, In early life he was a
pendent preacher and advanced a new
theory of Bible teaching concerning the
punishment Of the wicked and the immi-
in the Book of Revelation. 1t is said that
he had over 10000 adherents to his doc
trines, and 5000, 900 copies Of. his writings
on the Bible were sold.
(Any reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin, Director, Washington, D. c. This
offer applies strictly to information The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal med
ical and financial matters. 1t does not at
tempt to settle domestic troubles nor to
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| tnouireF.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18

States and municipalities have re-
Gently sold bonds to the amount Of
$40, 100000 for new public improve
ments. In some measure this will
help the unemployment situation, but
It will also have its i'll effects. The
state and municipal bonds are nonA
taxable for federal purposes, hence
many men are taking their capital out
of industrial investment and putting
it into the state and municipal bonds.
At the same time that the money is
providing more employment on public
works, it is very likely diminishing the
employment in private industry.
Public work must always be a small
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18

Eastern railroads seem to be going
right ahead with their wage reduction
programs and are notifying employees
to meet them in conference. The
railroad labor board did not promise
the brotherhoods that no further
wage decreases would be considered
for a year. What the board did say
was that applications from the roads
for more reductions would take their
places at the foot of the docket, and
await adjudication of disputes pre-
viously filed relating to conditions of
employment. The board makes it
plain that its work will be expedited
in every proper way, and the wage
disputes may be reached long before a
year has passed.
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worrying.

Secretary Weeks has requested the
American Legion to give him all the
facts that may be in possession of its
members regarding alleged illegal
bangings of soldiers in France. The
charges brought by Senator Watson
Of Georgia have been denied by every
person now connected with the gov
eminent, and by officials of the for
rher administration. It is considered
impossible that such occurrences
could have been kept secret in the
midst Of the army had they really
taken place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18

factor IN employment, for public
funds must be raised by taxation of
private industry, and private indus
try cannot pay unless it is operating
at a profit The first problem is to
make industry so profitable that it
can employ large numbers of men,
and. when that has been accom-
plished industry can pay the taxes
imposed. But at the same time, the
unemployment problem will have
been solved. The way to make in
dustry profitable is for the govern
ment to stop taking the big end of
the profits in the form of taxes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18

sentence no follower of Penn State
can misinterpret.
THE mail" says Secretary DENLY.
must be delivered or there must be
a marine dead at the post CT duty
How would you like to be a marine?
The New York Tribune is consider
ably disturbed about it, but our atti-
tude toward the Nobel prize in liter
allure is much the same as was our
attitude toward the most recent battle
for the heavyweight championship. 1t
is all right with us for the Frenchman
to win it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18
JUST FOLKS
THE GLORY OF FRIENDSHIP.
BY EDGAR a. GUEST.

There is no greater glory than to claim
you well:
To be a kindly neighbor where you dwell,
And keep your humble doorway free from
shame;
To make high example Of your name
And let your worth each days perform
anee tell;
To freely give what heHer wsuId not sell
For base advantage or the pomp of fame.
Some things there are which have no pur-
chase price,
Yet rich or poor of these have daily
need
The comfort of some true friends sacri-
flee,
His trust. his love and every kindly deed.
God grant I may be worthy while / live
OF an the Joys nav friends are glad to give.
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar a Guestl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18

Before the United States entered
the World War it was generally as
serted and believed that we could
raise an army overnight. 1t has since
been pointed out that those who held
to that belief were wrong. But it
should be said in their defense that
they never contemplated an army of
so great magnitude nor one to be used
outside the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18

A monument to Theodore Roosevelt
is to be erected in the Panama canal
zone. But no greater or more appro-
pirate monument to the dead presi-
dent can ever be devised than the
cannl itself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18

1t is estimated that there are ap-
proximately 100 new houses in proc
ess of construction in Topeka at this
time. There should be 500. There
are no good houses for rent and de-
sirabIe ones offered for sale at rea-
sonable price are snopped up quickly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18

Up to September of this year we
exported to Mexico $3.50 passenger
automobiles, valued at s41O4,OOO. and
1,145 commercial autos. valued at ST.
$4,000. Mexico leads in both, with
Canada second. General use of the
motor car may tend to teach the
Mexican nation how to get out and
get under"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18

China and Russia, two of the lars-
est and most populous countries in
the world, have no navies worth men
tion:ng. Germany also is without a
navy. other countries should be able
10 get along without any considerable
nnnlher OF fishting ships.
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A~|7 T

Copyright, 1890. by the Wnselsr Syndicate.
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-18

with great pomp" the sycophan-
tic Governor Festus staged this
scene for King Agrippa and his sis
ter-wife. Bernice. Imagination cas-
lily paints the scene. The Roman
soldiers, in their most brilliant ar
NOR, we're the background, thanking
the thrones at the center of the mar
BILE praetorium. Slaves were in at