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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-06
Dorothy Dix Tails
Take an Interest in Your Job-2.
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worlds highest Paid Woman Writer.


"I have found by actual expert
ence," continued this sucressful man,
that can dictate twice as many let
tiers, and twice as convincing ones to
a stenographer who is interested in
her job, and who is as keen about the
business as if it were her own, as L
can to a lackadaisicaI young lady, who
yawns in my face every time 1 pause
to think, and who plainly shows that
she doesn't care a boot whether the
whole work goes to pot or not. She
can get a job somewhere else, so she
should worry
mot only is taking an interest in
your work the secret of success, it is
the magic that turns toll into play.
Having a good time is just doing the
things you enjoy doing, and when you
love your work, when you find your
chief pleasure in putting into it every
bit of the energy and brains God gave
you, and when you see the results
come back in solid achievement why
you have got the best fun that's GO
ing;
You are sitting in the big game
where you are matching your skill,
your finesse, your knowledge of men
and events against the shrewdest men
In the world, and that's real sport, il
you want sport. And If you are seek
ing adventure and romance, where
else will you find more of it than in
the commerce that sails the seven
seas. and establishes its tradingSpos
on the very outskirts of the world?
"A great deal is written about why
women do not Oftener succeed in bust
ness, and rise to higher places in Of
fices. The real answer is that women
seldom take any interest in their
work. Their real interest is in catch
ing a husband, and they are only
working until they can marry. u
Ihats why they are more later
ested in how they look than in the
KIND OF work they turn ont Whenever
you find a girl who takes the same
heart-interest in her spelling, and the
neatness of the letters she turns out
as she docs in the way she combs her
hair, you will find that she is some
podys priced private secretary. And
Wnen you lind a saleswoman who is
as interested and enthusiastic about
selling you the right hat as she would
pc IN picking out one for herself, you
find a potential head of a department
And it's because women don't take
any interest in homework that they
lind 1T such drudgery. Cooking is
really one of the finest arts, and a
fascinating occupation If one goes
ABOUT 1t intelligently. Thrift can be
made sordid. or an interesting and ex-
citing game, just as you view it Surely
no woman could desire a higher or
nobler career than developing the
minds and souls of her children. Yet
women complain of the dullness of
domestic life. It's because they have
not learned to interest themselves in
their work.
They have got to learn that we
must put the best of ourselves into our
Jobs to get the best results"
Copyright. 1921. Dy tbe Wheeler cyndicats.
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-06
JUST FOLKS
THE PRICE.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

THE PRICE.
What price will you pay for the goal you
And the fame you hope to winl
Will you barter your comfort, week by
week,
Keep faith when the doubts begin?
Will you stumble and fall and rise once
more
In spite of each scar and bruise?
Are you willing to try as you've tried be-
fore
Forgetting the times you Iosei
Are you willing to work when the crowd
goes by
On merriment gayly bent?
VIII you give up pleasure with never q
And Stick to your task, contentf
VIII you stand the jeers of care-free few
And patiently toll and waltz
For these are the things you Will have to
If you would be counted great.
How much of your strength will you give
How much of life,s joys forego?
Are you willing to fight with a stern-set
Nor Whimper too much alta blow,
For the dreams men hold there's a price
to pay
Ere victory swings her doors.
You cheris a dream? Well, how much to-
Are you willing to pay for yours?
Copyright, 1921, By Edgar A Guest1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-06
LABOR SEEING THE LIGHT.

Reports from Germany are to the
effect that laborers in Wurttemburg
have objected to the eight-hour day,
not because they believe in a forty
four hour week. but because they think
eight hours out of twenty-four con-
stitute too short a working day. The
reports have it that the workingmen
have absolutely refused to admit that
there are any advantages in the short
day, and cases have occurred in which
the employees of plants have signed
petitions to the government protesting
unanimously against the Limitation OF
the hours of industry.
A reaction has set about in Eng
land. The president of the Miners
Federation is quoted as saying that
the great strike was a serious mis-
take. For years the workers did less
and less work and asked more and
more pay and British officials encour-
aged them in this attitude, so that the
production of three hundred and
twenty tons per man in 1892 had de-
creased by March of this year to one
hundred and seventy-four tons per
annum.
Now that the strike has been won
It is said the workmen, are beginning
to realize it was an empty victory. A
flooded mine means loss OF profits tc
the owner, but it may mean the depri-
walton of the means of livelihood fol-
the worker. Lost production 1:
showing its effect in high prices which
are felt keenly by those primarily re-
sponsible- A state of society depend
ing upon big pay for little work Il
resting upon an insecure foundation.
American labor is the highest pait
IN the world. Working days arr
shorter and work is more continuou,
the year around and is performed un,
der more healthful conditions thar
anywhere else. Possessing better
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-06

An increasing number of hopeful
indications for the future of business
are noted by Henry Clews in his
Financial Review. Chief among these,
he points out, continues to be tho
much better net revenues of the rail-
roads. 1t would seem likely that the
July Improvement over last year
would hardly be less than $75, 900, 900;
and while for the half year the net in
come is by no means up to the 6 per
cent level of profit named in the
transportation act, it is much better
than had been expected. Favorable
also as an index of business conditions
he regards the steady and early move
ment of many crops to market at re-
munerative prices. The early mar
keting movement, Mr.. Clews says, is
furthered by the belief that farm
prices as a whole will not advance
very greatly, while producers are nat
urally DESTROYS of getting funds with
which to liquidate back debts; but,
whatever the cause, it naturally faciI-
itates the restoration of buying power
and curtails the burden of credit
strain which would otherwise be felt.
The outlook for a good fall business in
many lines is considered excellent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-06

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-06

THE import trade for 1921" says
the Republican Publicity association,
emphasizes the fact that industry has
suffered, and it is the assertion of
many business men that the chief
cause for this is the Democratic sys-
tenn of taxation which, when discard
ed. will permit enterprise to function
in trury American fashion" The pub
lie probably will feel relieved to learn
that industry has suffered from Dem
ocrat taxation instead of from the
Democrat tariff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-06

The labor department at Washing
ton recently reported the total of the
jobless in this country at 100000,
or nearly one in every twenty of the
whole population. This is said to
break all previous records in that re-
spect. But later reports from various
sources indicate that there has been
a marked change for the better. In
creased employment in a number of
industries has been recorded since the
government report was issued.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-06

education, and having more time for
recreation and reflection, than the
workman in any other country, the
American workman is manifestly the
most intelligent IN the world And
every intelligent man knows that
prosperity cannot be created by fiat;
that no one can eat his cake and still
hav it; that wage scales cannot be
sustained at peak levels while work
ing days become fewer and shorter
Is It too much to hope. that labor will
translate this knowledge into action
and cooperate with management in
bringing about readjustment without
unnecessary loss of time?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-06

Friday afternoon. 1t was only a mat
ter of Weeks--during which Elizabeth
always found certain letter on her
breakfast table-before >tall, pale
young man presented himself at 5
o'clock on Thursday afternoon to keep
dinner engagement with the young
author of Freedom She had been
ready and waiting for an hour.
The love story which he told over
the coffee cups was the sweetest
Elizabeth had ever heard.
But 1 don't care at all about free
dom for youself," she insisted again
and sgain, land the only name I want
isis Harrison"
(Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-06

The tempest in a teapot in West
Virginia has not been surpassed in this
country since the days of the Crazy
Snake rebellion. When the fog IN
which events in that state have been
enveloped has cleared away. probably
it will be found that the situation
never~Was so serious as it has been
made to appear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-06

are once more waxing prosperous on
the profits of a small lingerie shop
in one of New York's most exclusive
shopping thorofares. When they first
started this enterprise two years ago,
they lived in one tiny, dark room at
the back of their store. and the gem
eral spent his evenings delivering
packages of lingerie TO customers.
Now a neatly uniformed delivery boy
has taken over this end of the work
and the tiny, dark room has been
abandoned for charming studio
apartment on the floor above the
store
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-06

Germany paid another installment
of $15O,OOO,OOO on her reparations
debt on August 81. But no foreign
nation seems to be making a move to-
ward paying this country what they
owe if
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-06

Henry Ford is being urged to take
hold of the Frustrated North Arkan-
sas railroad and set it on it's feet.
Well, Henry can if anybody can.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-01-23

Athenian basket al the mocker lie re-.
membercd one who had sympathiZed with
him i'll his troubles. a certain Monsieur
bourbon, who had once been member Of
his fathers colony, but had gotten sense.
lie had said that If Menalkas ever wanted
To get out of that classic mess he'd help
NM He knew his address Bending his
Fare head against the wintry blast Menat
kas girded up his chlamys and set forth for
Monsieur Bourdons abode
M bourbon helped him. He admits It.
The first place Menalkas went to aftor
this was clothing shop. Mr. Bourbon aid.
Ing and abotting him.
Pants! he said briefly. and stood
breathing deeply while the clothier meas.
ured him and brought ont neat plaid
Ihatll do" said Menalkas, and hastily
drew the trousers over his sandals Grudg.
inGiy he took them off long enough to put
on the underwear he was persuaded was
necessary. Vt last shoed and eloyed, but
not yet hated he sought n barber.
iair cut. he ordered. iaconically.
How short?' asFed tho barber
Short as it'll co." commanded NIcnn,.
kas.
When the barber was through and Men.
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Papa Duncan at His Ancient Greek Hand Loom

Ihen the boy was taken TO a shoe store
ana bought pair of modern shoes. Ana
then, two days later, this friend returned
the boy 10 his home-ba; Menalkas was
no longer The Joke anu laughing stock
Of the community
Mena!ias mas now Il sclf.respccting
american boy with long pants and real
SHOES ana his courage backed IN hy these
modern garments. he was ready to punch
me nose Of any Of the boys of The ncgn.
horhood who reminded him OF the days OF
his curls and Crock togn
bni ne blow almost killed Papa Dun.
can Mr. Duncan'S long hair nearly
stood Oh end For nf,non long years he
had guarded those flowing locks Of Menal.
Eas and had tried 10 keep tho boys
thoughts from such irartis,ic things as
pants and shoes And nov all was swept
away MouaiEas was "lnnucipaica Never
again. II" chllf wore. would me wear hong
mar or lltc foolish Greek clothes Of the
aemi.ciNIliz"G anci"nts who did not know
any better
II Is hard % tell just when Mcnalkas
mrs: began 20 brood over his w.oncs He
never did have a chance il bchayn or dress
Tx, nh We ordinary hoy The nnnca7s, Isa
dora and Raymond had acquired thor
Greck ideals years oefor" he was born
Incy do not believe II modern civilization
ihcy do not Ike modem customs or arr
ana IS tor modern clothing well. 1t Il lust
hidcous So Acy drcs- and "udpavur 10
work and eat and play jus, like ancient
Greeks
They settled down in Non,ma1,rc. whcr.
MY Eihd 81 CUT can dnd home and he
gan TO preach thciy EDspci Of nc antique
ne ~ The same time they grated on
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-01-23

so on. And Mcnalkas learned how to work
hand loom and to do other things that
would have been useful thirty centuries
ago Wherever the Duncans went out, no
matter what the weather might be. they
wore the pcplum or tua!c or chlamys and
sandals. and that was I'LL. except now and
then illei around their brows. II wasn't
50 bad for the lille hos in Monlmartrc.
where they were used 4. the costume, but
when Mcnaikas was iai:cn down into Paris
the ra'nins would gor around him and
shout out the French equivalents for Get
your hair CUT" Sissy "IIcy. put on your
pants" and other unpleasant remarks
Nor could he play with other children,
because all he knew how TO play or was
allowed 10 play were the games OF ancient
Greece. Nor could nc talk to them. be
cause his way of talking and thinking wa-
supposed 10 conform ID that 500 b. &.
model.
And al This wen, on FOR seven years
more.
1t is perfectly plain now that Menalkas
hroo!cd How could he help 1t? While
he was being taken home he admitted II.
i was tho matter OF pants that bothered
him most. he said The frequent asper-
"ions cas-; upon Ms bare legs so, under his
skin where the cold winds couldn't.
For seven years Mrnalkas Duncan, real
hoy despite his extraordinary parents and
aunt. Ind dimly realized all this. IIe han
concealed these longings. these ambitions.
Just like any other real hoy. And all those
years he had watched scores OF other boys
graduate from pinaforcs into shorts" and
oni Of shorts" into long pants" while
during all those years he had possessed
neither.
tc> 1921. International F.a,ur. Service. ,so
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-01-23

alkas regarded himself in the glass he
saw nm entirely new boy Gone was that
Grecan youth who had been his parents
pride. There pecred back at him a good.
looking. up.todate youth with not the least
suggestion OF the archaic. lie bought n
felt hat and then sauntered out upon
the boulevards. And for the first time in
his life nobody paid any notice OF him!
IT appears that his next call was at a
restaurant where for the first time lie
tasted meat Not vegetable would he
order.
But in the meantime what OF the Dun.
cans! Anxiously thcy had awaited the
poys return. AS the hours went By con
sternation grew and was registered as tho
movie people say. both I'm classic and nm.
classic ways. When evening came and
still no Menalkas the Paris police were
a.ked to find him.
The next day went by and the police
found Menalkas. They carried him home.
protesting. When first his parents saw
him they did not know him. This defiant,
trousered lad with a felt hat on his
shorn mead Gould neve: be their Menalkasi
AT last they were convinced that he was
and loud were the lamentations
II was some joke on Papa RAYMOND
Duncan all right! He mt once made ii plain
that he did not appreciate It.
The following day Paris was again IN.
terested ana amused by scores of shrek
Ing posters over all the bilboards These
had Deen printed by the outraged Mr. Dim.
can, and they warned citizens 10 "Boware
of one Robert Bourbon. who is .uiltv of
receiving hospitality, eating at nv table
yet betraying ME against all the LAYS ~
ciVlliZatioh. as we'll as of savage modes.
by employing all means of alternating NV
boys afection and Disgusting MIN nv cut.
ting OF his curly locks and secre,inp tho
youth as well as spreading infamfes about
myself" ""'"'
This was pretty strong talk. None;cur
Bourbon conntered promptly by stnr,inr
suits against Mr.. Duncan for Gefama lion
OF character and for personal threats ="
Certainly ! helped Mcnakas Ieavo
home" said Mr.. Bourbon. ~ did II be.
cause his father had never .augh, him 10
read or write and persisted IN keoping him
In featherwefght robes in Tho deanest Win.
ter. causing danger to The bows health
Resides. Mcnaias didn't want TO he an
ancient Crock lie wanted 20 be real
boy. | was getting him q job in n factory,
When this case comes In court intend
to bring out certain details in regard 10
Duncan'3 domestic life that will astonish
Paris"
In tho meantime Menalkas clings to his
trousers. protesting anachronism I'm tn !,
little bit OF ancient Greece his parents
have reconstructed on Montnartre.
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Little Mcnalkas When He Was a
Baby with Papa and Mamma Dun
can Beside tlis Carriage and
Member of Their Ancient Creek
Colony Pushing 1t.

the ancient Greek
ideal Il stern vegetari-
anism. There is no re-
cord that the old
Greeks were vegctari-
ans.
So little Mcnalkas,
besides being an an.
elect Greek, had 10 b.
n vegetarian. There
is n curious point 10
the vegetable end OF
this. as will be seen
iatY.
About the time he
was seven il began to
get pretty lonely for
Menalkas. The col.
ony supported itself
by selling hand-woven
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-01-23
Menalkas as He Is Described
When He Ran Away.
PARIS Inn

PARIS. Jan IA.
~ course, everybody knows lsadora
duncan the American girl who
does Greek dances lsadora makes
her living very prctlily and gracefully
wearing a Greek flowing robe without
shoes, corse's OF much of anything in The
way of clothing lsadora Duncan lives
and dresses very nearly the way she
imagines Greek women aid five hundred
years before Christ was born
isadora has Il brother named RAYMOND
pWcaM. t.Rrothcr Raymond lives in Paris
'anh- lie also makes a living out of the
same Greek idea Raymo,d puacan walks
'hron&h the streets OF Paris with long
nan and beard and a Greek robe. He
wears Greek sandals on his bare feet.
!'rothcr Raymond has an ancient Greek
loom and wcayes cloth like the poor un.
fortunate Grccl,s did centuries ago who
hadn't anything better
Raymond is married and has son
whom ne named Mcnalkas Duncan-a good
Greek name. Mcnalkas is now fifteen
years old and his father has always KEEP,
!i|i" IN Creek robes. bare feet and sandals
and long hair
Poor Monalkas. What rod-bloodcd
American boy OF fifteen would stand for
being made 4 gUy OF IL this way?
When MemaiEas was a baby it did moi
mater what his father made him wear.
i'At as the ooy 20. old enough td see ina,
~ was the Laughing stock ot everybody
h1i MS ia'hcr and mother he resented
such nonsense
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-01-23

' e"''s' Deans. II basket of some peas
a''houeh mere is no record OF peas having
been raised in At,ca But 90 no, near the
e'"'iS o. me sellers Of meat, lest tain,
eiiiis 10 your garments"
-ie''a'Kas went forth. wicker baske.
''"i ih'sht nave marketed in Athens on his
nih, " was cold and the wind tossed
ms ms hlacih'hinc locks Tapped his robe am
or ~ MS ankles. II could have been
noao''s' zero and Menalkas would not
Nave ret II. Hot rage and passionate
,ssoit was snrging within him. What did
thoy lhcah--a feast? feast OF beans and
greens and peas! What kind OF n fenst
was that? ''s
hcVuision seized him MS he looked mt thn
alsplay OF Tho green grocer The sight of
me Deans hllcd him with loathing the can.
pages with hatred. He never wanted to
look vegetable In the face again. And
as ne stood there, hating them, he heard
the old familiar cry:
pants!" 49,
II was then that Menalkas came 10 n
head. Very well--he wouldn't come ON
again without en-! Down with Perlcies.
Alcibiades. NIiltiades. Minerva and tho
whoie goldarned bunch. He wasn't going
TO be freak any longer Iio cast tho
Gfeai britain Rights deserved.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-01-23

1t Is an axiom OF
physics that n con.
slant force. confined.
will burst forth with
= violence in direct
ratio to the time OF
It's repression. Men
alkas Duncan didn't
have n single safety
valve, and that is
undoubtedly why he
blew up completely,
wiping out a; one
stroke all The fifteen
{! = Il ) OF ancient
Greek culture that
mad been spent on
him, just as the vo..
cano wipes out the
vineyards around it.
The time OF his
explosion came a few
days ago II was
timed close upon his
birthday.
Go, my son." said
his father, and pnr.
chase the makings