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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11
TRANSPORTATION DEADLOCK.

While the railroads and their en-
ployes are engaged in a contest over
the question of wages. the business
of the country is experiencing some
thing in the nature of deadlock.
The assumption that rates could be
placed at any figure. according to the
revenue required, and be productive,
has been proved absurd. The business
is not offering; the tonnage does not
brackets in the income-tax section are
too high to be productive of the max
imum revenue. just so the railroad
rates are too high to bring in the
requisite return. Yet. under lower
rates, under rates that would attract
traffic. the earning of sufficient reve-
nue. would be impossible while the ex-
listing wage agreement is maintained.
A point appears to have been
reached where both wages and rates
must come down, in order to make
commodities move to market. The
men engaged in railroading should be
we'll paid. 1t is an industry which
should attract intelligent workmen.
men of spirit and ambition. The ma
ton cannot afford to have an under
paid personnel on the roads. The
employees should be paid the maxi
mum that it is possible to pay them,
with due regard to efficiency and the
place of transportation in the eco
nomic equation. But it is absurd to
attempt to maintain a wage scale that
reflects itself in a rate scale SO high
that business is discouraged and will
not move.
While wheat was near So a bushei,
and corn near 50, hogs and cattle
around $40 hundred, they could pay
the rates charged.
The 'Manufacturers' Record, which
usually voices the sentiments of the
south, says:
Railroad rates that were feasible
with cotton at 40 cents the pound be-
cotton at Is cents. The traffic can
bear so much, no more. The cost of
railroading must be kept within the
economically permissible limits. No
legislation can change that fact.
Western stock raisers are COM
planning that they cannot sell their
product for enough to pay the cost of
transporting it to market. At the
same time there are in the railroad
yards of the country 100000 idle cars
idle because nothing is being Of
fered for them to haul.
At a time when prices of all COM
modities are coming down: when
wages in many industries are declin-
ing, it seems unreasonable that rail-
road workers should expect their ex-
isting pay schedules to be maintained
at the expense of the producers and
the consumers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11

Livestock producers apparently be-
lieve that all their troubles are due to
control of the meat industry by the
packers. AS a means of relief they
should take steps to get the control
into their own hands. They create
the business; they should be able to
run it and do so without aid from the
government. Whatever power. the
packers possess has proceeded from
organization. The government has
been a hindrance more often than a
help.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11
JUST FOLKS
By EDGAR A. GUEST.


GOOD EOLkS.
Good folks abide in every place
All cities know the friendly face
There is no dusty village street
But what is glad with little feet,
And feels the tread of kindly men
Who walk to work and home again
Good mothers everywhere abide.
Travel the country far and wide
And you shall find,s where'er you CO.
Their gentle eyes with love aglow,
And hear the sweet old lullabies
Which once brought sleep unto your eyes
However far the road(you plod,
You still will find belief in God,
CHEEKY hand will wave yen on,
A friend remain when you have gone:
From fellowship you cannot stray
Good men are everywhere today.
There Is no city wholly base.
No village that Is commonplace.
Beneath the humblest roofs you'll find
Nobility of humankind.
And wheresoe'er the night you spend,
You can be sure to meet friend.
Copyright. 1921, by Edgar A Guest1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11

The president, it is reported, is pre-
pairing to write a book on what took
ence. Thus the senate may be able to
obtain information that it long has
sought. Colonel House has written a
book on the same subject, and former
Secretary Lansing is said to be pre-
pairing one, but the presidents may
be regarded as official since he has
the documents in his possession. By
the time the average citizen has read
all these books, If he should do SO.
which is doubtful, probably he will
know less regarding the matter than
he knows now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11

Hasn't much money, but he did bring
something back"
what was that?" asked Harriet.
feeling sorry for Agatha.
"A wife and seven children--keep
him hustiin' for their bread and butter
well, goodnight, Harriet, and Agatha
this has been grand supper, the
best have ever eaten!"
wait till next year-we'll have the
biggest harvest supper and ask all the
folks around" declared Harriet as she
and her sister stood in the doorway
and watched the workers vending
their way down the road. The storm
was over and the smell of the wet
earth was pleasant. Then they turned
and faced each other with guilty eyes.
Nathan here with a wife," breathed
Agatha Imply.
And seven children" added Har-
riet. So, vi
wen have to see them every day.
Harriet
Expect they'll overrun the neigh
borheod, but We haven't got to worry
about 'em, except to hand them flow
ers over the fence" said the stern Har-
.riet with a wonderful smile lighting
her strong features
And apples" added Agatha, then
with little burst of affection, she put
her arms around her stronger sister.
I'm SO glad. Harriet!'
Glad? When / was worried be-
cause I thought you'd be marrying
Nathan and going off and leaving mel"
''And thought the same of your
The sisters whom romance had
passed by kissed each other joyfully
and a great peace and happiness set
tied down over the old house where
two women had just learned that an
old flame had burned out, and that
the haying storm had blown even the
ashes away.
Copyright. 1921. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11


1t is related by the Railway Age
that the Virginian railway discharged
q car repatrer. When his turn came
to be re-employed in accord with his
seniority, the company refused to re-
instate him on the ground that he was
afflicted with very poor eyesight and
was therefore in constant danger in
the shops. The mans brotherhood
took up his case and obtained ruling
under one of the clauses of the shop
crafts agreement that inasmuch as he
was not advised at the time of his dis
charge that the company would not
reinstate him, he should be re-em-
ployed and paid not only for the time
lost from the date his seniority would
have required his unemployment,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11

The first round of the encounter
between the railroads. and their en-
pIoyes, staged before the labor board,
vast a draw, Both sides were made
to understand that the board cannot
be rushed and that it will proceed
with an investigation of the contro-
versy in its own way. The public,
which is chiefly concerned can afford
to wait results with a feeling of as
surance that justice will be done all
around. The board is composed of
nine members, three chosen by the
workers, three by the employers,
and three, representing the public. Sc
lected by the president. A board so
constituted should inspire a feeling of
confidence thruout the country. 1t Is
not a body easily to be swept off It's
feet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11
The Chicago Federation of Labor

The Chicago Federation of Labor
proposes shorter hours as one method
for relieving the present condition of
unemployment. This is based on a
theory that persistently is pushed and
agitated by union labor. the theory
that the less work done by each indi-
vidual, the more jobs there will be for
other workers. With it goes a COM
panion theory that the actual product
of workers should be limited to fixed
scale. The whole idea. in fact, is that
the less that is accomplished by work
ers, the better it will be for labor as
a whole, because more workers must
be employed to meet the requirements
of those who furnish employment.
Always labor seems to lose sight of
the fact that in the proportion that
production is limited prices of COM
modities will be advanced and the
cost of living increased. thus neutral
izing whatever advantage may accrue
to the workers by reason of increased
pay
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11

Altho the United States has only 6
per cent of the population of the
world and only per cent of the land,
bank deposits and resources in this
country exceed the combined bank de-
posts and resources of the whole
world. We have one-third of all the
gold coin and bullion in the world.
In addition, we produce "a per cent
of the worlds wheat; 60 per cent of
its cotton; rs per cent of it's corn; 27
per cent of it's cattle; rs per cent of
it's dairy products; 40 per cent of all
its iron and steel; 20 per cent of it's
gold; 40 per cent of it's silver; 81 per
cents of it's coal; so per cent of it's
copper; &C per cent of its oil; 85 per
cent of it's automobiles. We contrib
ute one-quarter of the worlds agri-
cultural products; one-third of its
manufactured goods, and more than
one-third of it's mineral products.
And, from a debtor nation owing
other countries five billion dollars
prior to the world war, we are today
the second greatest creditor nation on
earth, with foreign peoples owing us
in excess of twelve billion dollars. In
view of these facts we have but to
make full use of our opportunities to
insure many years of prosperity such
as we have not hitherto known.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11
Dorothy Dix Tails
The Four Ss-2.

Inc -Four SS-2.
Il should hate a wife who was a
thief and liar. I could never look
at her without such a contempt for
her that I couldn't endure her society
a single day. oh, 1 know that many a
woman who is guilty of petty larceny
Is driven to it by her husbands stingi-
ness. But they need the money is
the excuse that everybody who steals
makes, and in these days when any
woman can make her own living, it
seems to me that really square wo-
man would get out and earn money
before she would sneak it in under
handed ways from her husband.
And I must know that my wife is
so square that there can be no place
for jealousy in my scheme of life.
None of the harem stuff for me.
want my wife to go about, to be adj
mired. to enjoy the society of interest
ing men, and 1 must know her to be
SO straight. SO loyal, SO true. that it
would be as impossible a thing for her
to betray me, or to do anything to
bring a sniirch on the name 1 have
given her, as it would be for fire to
turn to ice.
And my ideal girl must be sincere.
hate pose and pretense as the devil
hates holy water. I don't want to be
jollied and eajoled. and worked.
81 like a girl who doesn't pretend
to have read books that she has never
heard of. or to have a passion for
classical music when her real taste is
for jazz, and who makes out that she
is domestic. when she couldn't boil
water without burning It.
And doubly hate the kind of
women who have long scratchy claws
concealed in their nice little soft paws.
and who are always giving you a
scratch when you least expect 1T. You
know what 1 mean. the kind of women
who purF, and gush. and gurgle, and
tell you how wonderful you are. and
then say something meaner about you
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11

but for. all the overtime his shift had
worked during this period. The total
payment made under this interpreta-
ton for work not done was over
$1,000. Instances like this one doubt
less have aided greatly in bringing
ished condition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11

Marshal Won Hindenburg has raised
his voice against yielding to allied
reparations and disarmament de-
mands. Is the German field marshal
looking for another licking?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11

England began trying to obtain con-
troll of Palestine about 700 years ago.
She finally has reached the goal of
that ambition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11
Dinner Stories

Teacher-Where did the Pilgrims
land?
JOHNNY don't know whether It
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11

One Topeka jeweler is displaying a
window full of alarm clocks. He
must be looking forward to a busy
season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11

"What did you do with that man
you caught dealing off the bottom OF
the deck?''
Committed him to the asylum" re-
marked Cactus Joe. Anybody who
would try a trick like that in Grim
over his sanity to be worth arguin'
over"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11

Copyright. 1920. by the wheeler cyndicate
Inc.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11

The moral of it all, as we see it, Is
that a Greenwich Village motif cannot
be successfully imposed upon a Mid
die West background.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11

We can understand that one might
grow tired of Broadway. But we
doubt that the sacrifice proposed was
justified in the circumstance. If our
attitude seems cynical, we regret it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11

Meanwhile, we can't help thinking
the plan of the New York young man
who tried to kill himself in Philadel-
phia because he was tired of Broad
way was much too drastic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11

You don't remember the Spikers i?
Well, it doesn't matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-11

Meanwhile, our main reaction to the
seasons literature is that, with the ex-
ception of Booth Harrington. only
those who know nothing about life
are trying to write of it.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-03-31
HIGH SCHOOL NEWS

Mrs Spratley sang several groups
Of solos and Mrs. Don Gray read two
monologues which were met with re-
peated applauses from the students at
Assembly, Friday.
The Seniors entertained the Soph-
ignores at delightful easter Kid"
party Friday evening in the high
school gymnasium.
Some time ago the first team of
basketball players were promised two
chicken dinners-one from Mr.. Fish
err and one from Mr.. Hockey, pro-
vided that they would capture the
championship title. On Saturday ev-
ening began the fulfllment of these
promises, when Mr.. Fisher gave a
chicken dinner to the boys of the
first team and Miss MacKinnon enter
tanned the girls.
Wayne Smith, a graduate from
Lynden high school, who is attending
the University of Washington this
year, visited here Monday, and gave
us a talk on what Person Should
Do After Graduating From High
School"
The Girls and Boys Glee Clubs
will give recital, Thursday. P. NJ,
at the High School Auditorium. Adj
mission will be only 15c. A splendid
program is offered.
The school board has recently pass
ed an ordinance which will oblige any
individual or group of individuals
breaking a window or windows to
pay one-half the cost of same.
Season tickets for the baseball
games this year are being sold by
the students at soc for adults and Acc
for students. The first game will be
played here with Ferndale, Friday,
April 1.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-03-31
WISER LAKE

Miss Beatrice Dahlquist, who has
been in Seattle for the past month
under specialists care ,returnsd
home Friday very much improved in
health.
Miss Josephine Dahlquist of Hazel.
Wash, spent the weekend with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. F. Dahlquist.
Mrs. Prather of Mount Vernon is
helping Mrs. John Postma while she
is recovering from an operation.
Carl Nelson of Bellingham spent
several days last week visiting with
friends in this neighborhood.
Many new families have recently
moved into this vicinity. Among
them are Mr.. and Mrs. Curl of Bel
bingham, who have located on the
Tom Bye place, Mr.. and Mrs. Matth-
ews of Laurel, who have located on
the Lewis place, and Mr.. and Mrs.
McCully, who are living temporar-
lily in tent in Mr.. Phineas Belling-
ar's yard.
Ursula Dorr of Bellingham is stay
ing with her uncle, Mr. Wesley Dorr,
and family.
Eight new pupils were enrolled at
the Wiser Lake School Monday, ma
king an enrolment of thirty-seven
pupils.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Rosenhall and
daughter, Anna, visited in Bellilg-
ham Sunday.
Mrs. George Rosenhall gave par
ty Saturday afternoon to nine little
girls in honor Of her daughters 9th
birthday.
Mildred Andersen has returned to
school, after an absence Of week
on acd cunt of illness.
Misses Ethel and Alta Walsh WIS.,
tied with relatives in Sumas over the
weekend.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-03-31

Charles Ecker, who was crushed
between two logs at the Imperial Fir
Lumber Company Wednesday of last
week, is improving rapidly.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-03-31

The Imperial Fir Lumber Mill of
LINDEN started up Monday for run
of several days.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-03-31

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The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-03-31
TONIGHT
PARTNERS OF
THE NIGHT"
LEROY SCOTS
GREAT
DETECTIVE
STORY

A picture of the mysterious
underworld and the detec-
tives who trail it's crooked
places.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-03-31
| 1|f'||| MzSSllIS SUITS
The Choice of a Nation

Add to these sterling qualities, the Munsing
wear habit Of outwashing, outwearing, outlasting
expectations and you have the reason why Mum
singwear gives such all round satisfaction and SER
vice.
Because of it's unusual durability, instability
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Our store is headquarters for Munsingwear,
our stock shows wide variety of selection. If you
have been unable to get satisfaction in undercoth-
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no matter the size of your person or purse
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-03-31

Millions of discriminating men, women, chill
dren prefer and wear perfect Munslngwear union
Suits.
Thew ask for Munsingwear and never say un-
derwear.
The name -Munsingwear-is house
hold saying of the Nation.
One reason for this national popularity is be.
oo,eo ;n M1nsingwear you find all the things you
expect of good underwear and none OF the o'sap-
pointments.
Into each garment is woven or knit fine quail
;+v narfection of fabric finish and fit
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-04-28
TULA SCHOOS CLOSES

The Tula High School has just
completed a most successful term Of
eight months Every Individual SEEM
ed to regret to turn their minds from
thoughts of school for a while, but
are looking forward to next session
with eager expectations Of beginning
school in a new building. Through
out the past session the patrons have
shown q keen interest in school af-
fairs and are planning to erect a
splendid new building and have IN
animously reelected a man, wide
awake to the interest of every
child entrusted to his care and
always seeks to bring every possible
advantage of education in reach Of
his students.
The commencement exercises were
enjoyed by every one who took an
interest
On Wednesday afternoon Mr.. R.
@. Leavell, who is pastor Of the First
Baptist Church, OF Oxford, preached
the commencement sermon, which was
appreciated and enjoyed by all pre-
sent. On Wednesday evening at eight
o'clock "Anderella in Flowerland"
was rendered by the intermediate and
primary departments under the aus
pices of Misses Wright and Everett.
This operetta was so well acted
that one could easily see that the
teachers had trained each child to do
his best.
On Thursday evening the Senior
class play entitled "Lone STAR was
staged and was much enjoyed, the
personality Of each character was
shown to an advantage, Miss Dun
lap, the assistant high school teacher
Continued on page 81
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-04-28
No SHIFT TING Of ISSUE
GOVERNOR DEMANDS FACTS
Governor Russell Demands That Facts And Figures Furnished
To Justify Special Session OF Legisature-Pus Up
Straight To II. III. Weir

yourselves on record, whether you
want the suits abated, modified or
molested and put in writing That
is the reason this gentleman is here
/ (the stenographer) to make a record
of this. | will say frankly to. you
my position on that: That | would
not for anything in the world attempt
by word or act to interfere with any
other branch of the government at
all in those suits. Those men, so far
as | am concerned, and | have no i'll
will against them, must stand trial
/ just like any other man in the state.
If you are going to dismiss the suit
or modify the suits, or do anything to
handicap the suits in the least, then
would say in fairness to every man
who has a suit filed in Mississippi that
the Legislature should dismiss that.
"You should then go one step fur
ther and place statue in Mississippi
saying no man should ever be sued
again, and then to be fair and just I
think it would be we'll to require the
plaintiff in the case, as far as the
statute goes back, to make reparation
at the hands of the defendant. But |
will be glad for you to go on record
this afternoon as TO how you stand. |
think that is fair and just in this case.
"You men are agents. AS | under
stand, this is fire insurance agents
procedure, in other words, the agents
are appealing. You are the agents of
the insurance companies. l want to
ask you then why-or if you have |
win be glad to put it in the record
way you have nos appealed to your
bosses, or your superiors, to come
back and do business in the state, If
you have done that make a record of
that. Are you willing to do that? Are
you willing to require them to come
back and stand trial and get a speedy
trial? If not, why not? l want to see
how you stand upon that. AS l un-
derstand it, you men have done the
business. These insurance companies
have never invested a dollar in Mis-
sissippi except as made by you. If
am wrong, correct me. You have made
them money, and you have made out
of policies in Mississippi paid to the
insurance companies last year about
six and one-half million dollars. In
the years gone BY do not know
whether this is exactly correct or not,
Continued on page 81