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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-09
LITTLE BEHAY'S NOTE BOOK
By LRln PAPR

Yestidday me and Mary Watkins
was mad at each other, her being
madden at me than wat was at her,
and after suppir was wawlking past
her house with 10 cents that I was
going to buy different kinds Of candy
with, and I herd her mother call her,
saying, Mary wunt you to run
erround to the drug store and get this
prescription filled M.
WITCH jest then / had a crate ideer.
thinking, G. know wat, Ill quick run
and get there ferst and get a soda
with this 10 cents insted of candy and
drinking it and I wont even look at
her and she'll soon find out abe wont
wunt to get mad at me soon agen,
all rite.
And I quick ran GROUND TO Whites
drug store and got up on stool and
Meening wat flavor, and sed,
Chocklit.
Witch he made it and put straw
in and started to drink 1t slow on
account of wunting to have it still
look Like a lot. wen Mary Watkins
and L put another straw in and started
to take a little suck out OF one straw
and then little suck out of the other
one to make it go slower, and she
ulQenp come IN, me tnlnKlnBs II ecksz
And I Put in another straw, Mr..
Wife saying, Hay. wat are you doing
there. using up all my straws on me d?
Me thinking, q. l get she went to tho
other drug store. And / sed to Mr.
Wife, Hay Mr.. wife, ony drank about
half of this, will you buy back the
other half? T
wy, watts the matter with it? sed
Mr.. Wife, and Ised. Nuthing, it's all
rite for you to buy back.
Ony he wouldent, saying he dident
make enything on it anyway on ac-
count of all the straws 1 used, and
finished drinking 1t so as TO have my
moneys werth and then I started to go
back and on the way who passed me
but Mary Watkins going back from
the other drug store with the perscrip-
ton raped up. and she wawked rite
by as if / wasent there and she
wouldent of saw me If I was. me
thinking, Aw wat do care. its a darn
good thing for her she don't know wat
she missed.
And / went and sat on my frunt
steps feeling Verse insted of better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-09

The building trades strike in Chi
cago, which has been in existence sew
eral months, has been settled. The
losses to workers. employers and the
city must have been tremendous
while nobody has anything to show
for the fight. In this respect it has
not differed greatly from other strikes
If the conference which is to be as
sembled on Armistice day in an effort
to stop war succeed it may be that
later a way to stop labor wars can be
found. One kind of war is about as
senseless and unnecessary as another
and every kind is expensive. Some
times the strong triumphs over the
weak and sometimes peace comes thru
intervention of an outsider, but Meth
err party ever is convinced that 1t has
been wrong. Nobody should be COM
PEELED to fight for his rights nor make
sacrifices to maintain them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-09
Dorothy Dix Talks
Personal Liberty.

PERSONAL IADerLy-Z.
A man has been accustomed to be-
ing his own master. to going and com
ing as he pleased, to eating what he
liked, to having his hair cut the way
he fancied, and to wearing the clothes
he preferred. He gets married, and
the very first thing his wife does is
to take his latch Key away from him,
and to put him thru a third degree
about where he has been, and what he
has done, and whom he has seen every
time he comes home.
She sits in Judgment on his food and
tells him how bad everything he likes
is for his stomach. She turns his old
friends out of the house and installs
new ones. She buys his neckties and
makes him wear his hair the way she
thinks is becoming, and he finds that
he has just as much liberty as FidO
has when his mistress takes him out
on the end Of leash.
A girl gets married. She, also, has
been free to follow her own inclina-
tons. Perhaps she has been a bust
ness girl. She has had he r own
pocketbook. She has been esteemed
of sufficient intelligence to join such
clubs as appealed to her, and to gen.
orally order her twn life along the
lines she desired.
But she finds that husband thinks
that home is a combination harem and
work house. She must beg his per-
MISSION 10 go 10 places Sne must ask
for what money she needs. She can't
have any innocent friendships with
other men. She can't even go to the
movies if he augustly disapproves.
Is it any wonder that these two peo-
pie rebel against the intolerable oon-
ditions they force on each other? Is
it strange that they come. to hate each
other because each sees in the other
tyrant who is trying to reduce him
or her to slavery? Is it a marvel that
those who have the courage end such
prison sentences by divorce.
Look at the widows and widowers
about you. How often they are al
most indecently reconciled to their
loss. 1t is because, for the first time
in fifteen or twenty years, they are
enjoying the privilege of doing single
thing the way they wanted to, or of
going to a place without asking some
ones permission, or having to offer an
explanation afterwards of why they
did IL.
Parents are equally tyTapnicaI to
their children. In the majority of
homes a battle royal RACES peFpetually
in which the parents fight tooth and
nail for absolute dominion over their
children and the children struggle
frantically for self-determination
OF course little children must be
controlled, but parents never realize
that their sons and daughters grow up
ana come to have right to their own
lives, and SO father and mother never
give them an inch of personal liberty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-09
JUST FOLKS
By EDGAR a. GUEST.

THOUGHTS OF A RETURING SCHOOL
BOY.
1 used to think my Pa was wrong
When he would say, the years fly by;
/ thought the weeks an months were long
An when"I wait for Christmas, l
Am sure the days will never go,
An weeks seem just like years right then,
But now time does go fast 1 know,
I've got to go to school again.
It seems a dreadful time between
Ny birthdays. but my Pa says: WALT,
When several more of them you've seen
They'll come around rapid rate"
don't believe that can be so,
And yet I've got new suit on
And back az school I've got to GO
Vacation time has been an gone
used to count the weeks and say
That there were 10 of them that /
Could spend all by myself in play
And now the last of them's gone by.
1t doesn't seem 10 weeks ago,
Since school let out, they've gone so fast
But Pa Just grins and says: "Oho,
You've learned that time does fly. at
last"
Ten weeks to Christmasi that seems long.
Ten weeks to school days an the fall.
An teachers an the study gongi
That isn't any time at all
The fun you want seems far away,
The fun you've got goes whizzfn by,
An my VACATIONS done today,
III bet the school days, tho, won't fly.
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-09
LABOR's NEW PLAN.

The announcement of the executive
council of the American Federation
of Labor at its Atlantic City meeting
that a permanent nonpartisan politi-
cal campaign organization will be
formed to take paft-in all local, state
and national elections, with state fed
erations and locals naming campaign
committees to cooperate with a CEN
trail committee is a step in the right
direction. If there be laws bearing
unfairly and unjustly upon labor, the
place to obtain redress is at the ball
lot box. 1t is a much better plan
than that which includes the strike.
The council plans to form commit
tees in communities ito familiarize the
public with corporate tendencies, with
particular reference to reactionary
legislation, and to judicial decisions
which destroy the workers rights and
opportunities" The council does not
deny the propriety of government
grants of corporate charters, but /:
protests discrimination against the
workers in favor of corporate inter
ests. It points to the function of the
government to administer its affairs
impartially and in humane manner
and says:
THE organized wage earners dc
not alone protest against this intoler.
able and inhuman discrimination. but
assert that If preference is to be given
to any element or factor in our social
and Industrial life, labor. not capital
service, not wealth, man, not the do,-
lar. should receive that higher con
sideration, encouragement and pro-
lection"
The council protests against mis-
use and abuse of conspiracy and anti
combination laws as seriously impair,
ing, the rights of the workers.
The council proposes to investigate
the methods used by banking institu.
lions and insurance companies II
handling fapds entrusted to them fol
investment ana safe-keeping by wage
earners. It intends that 1.-The say.
ings OF the workers shall no longer b
used to deprive them OF their legisla.
tional and economic rights and oppor
tunities.'
In carrying out such a program la
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-09
RARGAIN SAFE or sH1Ps.

BY selling 2o5 of its fleet OF ass
wooden ships at $2,1O0 each the ship
ping board has changed what were
liabilities into assets. OF course the
price is ridiculously low when COM
pared with the cost of the boats to
the government, ranging as they did
from 100000 to 100000 each.
Truly has it been said that when q
government touches a private indus
try, the contact is leprous. The only
cure is to remove the cause of infec-
ton before the whole system is poi
soned. For the salvation of American
shipping. now and in the future-for
the protection of all American indus
tries-for the sake Of all American
citizens, the government should get
out of all business.
On several occasions under the di-
rection of the old shipping board bids
were asked and received for the wood
en- ships, but each time were rejected
because they were considered too low.
Foreign interests evinced desire to
buy the boats, and doubtless a sale
could have been contaminated If a
reasonable price had been acceptable
to the board. But on a steadily fall
ing market for ocean tonnage. the old
shipping board continued to hold out
for prices that nobody would pay un-
til the entire wooden fleet lost prac-
tically all value.
Chairman Lasker has done the only
practicable thing he could do under
the circumstances-seI them for
what they would bring. The transact
ton represents a tremendous loss to
the government but 1t must he
charged up, first, to the unsound pol
icy of sinking tens of millions of dol
lars in wooden hulls never of great
value. and, second, to the failure of
the old shipping board to take advan-
tage of good market prices to dispose
of the fleet.
When the armistice came, we had
completed 553 ships. Effective can
collation. at that time would have end
ed the program with not more than
$50 Ships Instead we went merrily
along until we have completed 1889
ships over and above the $50 actually
constructed in the war period. And
with 1889 excess ships built under a
policy of winning war already end
ed, we now have 1000 vessels laid up
in idleness because of no market, ann
no ability to find a market. The
wooden boats cost $4,000 a month
to keep in idIeness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-09

A, F. Cleveland, assistant freight
traffic manager of the Chicago e
Northwestern Railway company, tes-
tilted before the commerce committee
that should the request of the western
states for a reduction in the rates on
grain and grain products be granted
the amount saved would only be ap-
prOximately 10 cents on each bushel
Of wheat; "a cents on each bushel
of corn and 1900 cents on each
bushel OF oats. The amount is so
small that the railroads should not
hesitate to grant the request. They
can easily make up the difference
thru increased business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-09
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Ouestions-AnslDeB

O. Which has the greater effect on the
rate at which sound travels wind, fog or
4. Wind reduces the velocity OF sound
much more than fog. or rain does.
Q. Has Poland been recognized as an
independent country? G. u. A.
A. P6land became an Independent coun-
try in November, 1918. and has been rec
ognized as such by all the great powers.
and the other dark7 l.. s. W.
A The halibut lies it's left side,
which is white, the right one, which Is up
permost, being dark brown and bearing
both the large eyes.
q. Please advise how ordinary cotton
can be made absorbent NJ. A. D.
A. Boil best quality of cotton with 5
per cent solution of caustic soda or potash
for one-half hour. Wash thoroly,. press out
all water as far as possible, and immense
in a per cent solution of chloride of lime
bleaching POWDER for Is or 20 minutes !;
acidulated with hydrochloride acid, then
with water. Boil once more for Is minutes
with caustic soda solution and wash with
Q. s Manuel Anaullo. the new chief
Justice of the Philippine supreme court,
the first Filipino to hold this positionf
A. Judge AnaulIo succeeds victorini
Mapa as chief Justice of the Philippine
supreme court curt, Judge MHapa was the first
O.. How many states celebrate Labor
LAY a. Labor 6av-september 5is recog-
ritory with the exception Of Wyoming and
e 3. What does the Hawaiian word
aloha" mean? NJ. P.
A. Aloha may be translated in many
ways-as welcome greeting, friendship,
love brotherhood, mutual understanding
and goodbye until we meet again.
O.; Which state had the first llsgisslation
A. Massachusetts was the first state to
declafe her soil free. Her constitution,
adopted in 1850, had a bill of rights pre-
fixed to It which s negro d named 3uqhGe 9
favor and slavery was abolished.
@. What will cure pellagra II person
| A. Penagra is not Catching disease.
lean meat. milk, eggs, vegetables and fruit.
Fresh, whole milk is the most important
single article of food with which either to
prevent or cure this disease.
during the Reign of Terror of the French
Revolution? W. g. n.
A. There are no exact figures, but up
to June, 1874. there had been 1,220 execu-
tons and during the next seven weeks there
were 1876. 1t IS estimated that about 1000
ing the entire period
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-09

William G. McAdoo launched his
own boom for the presidential nomi-
nation in 1924 in Newton Wednesday
of this week. It is notable that the
former director general of railroads
had nothing to say on the Transports
ton muddle in which his administra-
ton involved the country. On thar
matter probably he thought the less
said the better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-09

An extremely polite voyaeer had
been for a walk along the deck
When he came to his deck chair he
found a very buxom woman in
possession of it.
He approached her timidly and
said: Excuse me, madam, but could
you tell me-er-without-
out getting up, whether you are sitting
on my hat?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-09

Dor Is well within its rights. In pros
ecuting its investigations it may not
find what it is looking for. but the
knowledge gained may be OF great
benefit to all concerned if properly
t1sed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-09

Those members of congress who
returned home for a vacation may
have gained information which will
be of service to them when they are
called upon to decide upon a course
of legislative action. 1t is good to get
near the grass roots occasionally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-09

until the children achieve it By leaving
hons.
You could stop divorce. you could
stop family spats, and pickering. you
could keep the children at home If
you would only accord to other people
the right to do as they please, and
hold their own opinions-if you would
only give them little personal liberty.
Try it and see it work!
A14 H. +
copyright. 1sRO. By. the wheeler syndicats
Irc-s
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International
SunddySchooLLessor1

A City That Was Too Religious

For Sept. II is, paul In Afhens."-
Acts 17:16-34.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-02-18
JOHN n. P|GG TO
II. +" GO W|TA |. A. c,
SUCCEEDS BEN LATTA WHO GOES
WITH CHARLESTON MINING
CO., OF MT. PLEASANT.

(From Wednesdays Daily Herald)
John NJ Pigg, for the past two years
with the Phoenix National Bank, will
sever his connection with this insti-
tuition within the next few days to
take a position with the Internation-
al Agricultural Corporation. Mr. Pigg
will take the place that has been fill
ed for a number of years by Ben Lat
ia, Mr.. Latta having accepted po-
sition with the Charleston Mining Co.,
of Mt. Pleasant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Latta and their at
tractive little daughter are quite popu-
lar in Columbia, and this change will
take them to the Phosphate City,
much to the regret of their friends
here, and will be valuable addition
to Mt. Pleasant, their new home. Just
when Mr.. and Mrs. Latta will move is
not known, but it is supposed that the
change will. take place between this
and March.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-02-18
WATER SUPPLY is
NOT YET NORMAL
WORK CONTINUES.
WoRkMEN MAKING SLOW PRO.
GREss IN REMOVING SEDIMENT
FROM BIG INTAKE PIPE.
SUPPLY NOW BEING CONSERVED
Suggested by One Of City Fathers
That Water to Suburban Sections of
City BE Cut OFF Until supply Is Once
More Normal

From Wednesdays Daily Herald)
Work of unstopping the intake pipe
at the pumping station, Of the Colum-
bia Water & Light Company was
continued today, but the water sup
ply of the city was still not normal. 1t
Is hoped and believed by officials,
however, that the pipe will be unstop-
ped within the next few hours.
During certain hours the water sup
ply in certain sections of the city
has been cut off in order to conserve
the supply in the reservoir in case of
emergency, and with the intake pipe
now partially unstopped small
stream is being secured from this
source. 4,
1t was suggested this morning by
a member of the board of mayor and
aldermen that the water supply to the
suburban sections of the city be cut
off until the plant is once more oper-
ating up to full capacity: In discuss.
ing the matter the city official said, 1t
is nothing but right that the interests
of the people living inside the corpor-
ate limits OF the city be served first,
for they have made it possible to have
both water and lights, and the city
must have fire protection.
Divers have, now been at work at
the light plant for week, but have
been unable to make much Roadway
/ in opening the pipe. This work has
been done at considerable cost, and
officials of the water and light compa
ny have decided to take steps to pre-
vent, similar emergencies in the fu
ture.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-02-18
HUNDRED DOLLARS i
PAID FOR BIRD DOG
FLEM THOMAS SELLS ONE OF
BEST IN THE STATE TO Will
LIAM p. RIDLEY. -

(From Wednesdays Daily Herald)
Former Trustee A. Elem Thomas
this morning received a price for his
fine bird dog that will make the own
ers of registered hogs and some 9TH
er domestic animals turn green with
envy. Mr.. Thomas sold this highly
bred bird dog to William p. Ridley
for 500 and at the same time reserv-
ed certain rights in the dog. This is
not by any meansa recold price for a
local dog, but there are few instances
in this section where a bird dog has
sold for as much. During the past
season Mr. Thomas, with the aid OF
this dog, established a record for bag
ging quail. 4 On several occasions he
averaged almost bird for every shot
during the entire hunt. Mr. Thomas,
is, however, one of the best shots In
the state.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-02-18
LARGE SUM is
GIVEN RELIEF
OF EUROPEANS
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL AND THE
CITY SCHOOLS ADD $145 TO
THE TOTAL.
JUNIOR GRADE GETS HONORs
Twenty Dollars Given by the Children,
OF this Class But All Manifested
Fine Spirit In Sacrificing For
Waits of East.

(From Wednesdays Daily Herald)
Through, the city schools and the
county high school of Columbia dona-
tions aggregating $145.67 were this
morning reported by Superintendent
Harris for the relief of the starving
children of Europe. This report was
made TO County Superintendent Ora
ham who is chairman for schools Of
the county for this fund.
With the funds reported from Gull
leoka, Mcdowell, Sullivan and other
schools the aggregate through this
source already runs to around $500
and there will be several additional
reports to come in that will still fur
Their swell the totaf.s
Z, The Ave grades of the city schools
at the Andrews building reported con-
.tributions of $40.26. The seven grades
at the high school building raised a
total of $10541. The aggregate for
all the grades was $145.67. 70 the
junior grade of the high school goes
the honor of being secured the largest
sum. This grade raised $40.
Superintendent Graham is highly
gratified at the reports which have
been made to him by the schools,
His expectations have been more than
realized but he knew from the rec
ord that the schools made In war
work that he could expect a generous
response to this appeal for the little
children of the European countries
who are the innocent victims of the
great war.
A number of entertainments over
the county will be given in the near
future for this fund and when the re.
ports are all in the aggregate above
reported will be most substantially in
creased. The gratifying feature of
the resuonse has been the fine atti-
tude of the little children and their
Willingness to sacrifice for the waits
of Europe.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-02-18
TAX COLLECTIONS ).
FOR MONDAY GOOD

(From Tuesdays Daily Herald. }
Up until this time the extension OF
time for the payment of taxes has had
little effect upon payments at the of.
flee of County Trustee j. Ross Burns,
and yesterday at his Office was one
of the best yet reported, scores Of tax
payers from all sections OF the county
dropping In to pay up.
oficials are still up in the air as to
how to meet teachers salaries, and to
defray other necessary expenses of
the county without the collections.
The act which provided for the ex-
tension of time to pay taxes at the
same time did not make provisions au-
thorizing the county to borrow money
in the emergency which. has been Gre
ated by this bill.