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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28
A SENSIBLE MOVE.

Kansas and Topeka will have a
taste of the back to normally" policy
of the national administration when
the district attorneys office comes
back to Topeka after an absence of
eight years. There was never occa-
sion for moving the office. Now that
it is to be restored to it's proper loca-
ton, few Kansans will be misled by
the political dust storm in the editor
ial columns of a Missouri newspaper
which enjoys prescribing remedies for
all Kansas ills
Lawyers and persons with business
before federal departments have al
ways recognized Topeka's just claim
TO location of branches of state gov
eminent here. This is the capital city.
The supreme court is here. 1t brings
the lawyers naturally to Topeka,
where they may combine business be-
fore state and federal departments.
More than that, the district cleVk's Of
flee is here. The marshal's office is
here. The land office is here. From
every standpoint of reason and logic
the district attorneys office should be
in Topeka.
Senators Curtis and Capper and D.
w. Mulvane, Republican national
committeeman. deserve praise and
commentator for their efforts to re-
store the office to it's proper location.
1t is good, sound judgment combined
with courage. Nor will the average
sane and practical Kansan be misled
He will give little thought to the edi-
torial and manufactured news column
uprising. He will merely smile in reali-
cation of the fact that there are Kan
sans who are not afraid to do things
Nor will he lose sight of the fact most
of the noise is inspired by the Missouri
publications. political hatred of Null
vane and a sudden animosity for SEN
ator Capper since he established a
competitive paper just across the
river.
Kansas City, Kan, is showing fine
home pride. 1t is commendable. But
restoring of the office to Topeka is
only good business and for the con-
venience of the state instead of a COM
munity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
DIZZERT.
By LEE PAPE


The most important part of a meel
comes last being the dizzert. The
reason it don't come ferst is because
there's genrelly sutch a little bit of it
that you haff to fill people up ferst
so they wont feel like eny more.
1t is always safer to leeve too
mulch room for dizZert than wat it is
not TO leeve enuff, on account of you
can always fill up on bred or some
thing in case there is still eny room
after the dizzert, but il you're all
filled up before you finish your diz-
zert there's nuthing you can do.
If you get End helping of dizzert
you're lucky, and if you get q 3rd
helping you must be dreeming.
Wen there's compinny for dinner the
dizzert is genreily better but on the
other hand there is genrelly not so
mulch of it to go GROUND, on account
of the compinny hardly ever saying
they don't wunt eny.
Some bum Excuses for dizzert are
rice pudding, corn starteh and taffi-
oca. Somebody must of sed they was
dizzert once and people have had TO
eat them for dizZert ever since. This
proves bad news travels the ferthest.
Amung dizzerts are apple pie, ice
GREEN. apple pie under ice GREEN,
other kinds of pie, straw berry short
cake, other kinds of cake and apple
dumplings.
If we had or dizzerts at a meel
insted of jest one we proberly would
ent Appreciate them so mulch. but
many fellows would be glad to take a
chance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28

The senate and house are in receipt
of petitions from a committee of law
yers representing every state in the
Union urging the appointment of a
joint committee of senators and rep
resentatives to consider and report to
congress ''sHeh legislation as may tend
to facilitate the dispatch of public
business by the federal courts and to
make such other suggestions affecting
the courts and the federal Judges as
the joint committee may deem advis-
able" The long delays that have
crept into federal court procedure in
the past few years have been the OBJ
ject OF much criticism among lawyers
and the public generally. There also
is need Of similar reforms in connec-
ton with the operation of the state
courts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28

Conferences of railroad managers
with their employees for the purpose
OF agreeing on new wage schedules
are being held and adjourned without
result. Probably this is what the rail-
road labor board, which ordered them'
expected. Everybody knows what Will
take place but nobody is willing to
shoulder the responsibility. The pres
ent wage agreements constitute bur
den to the carriers, and an injustice
to the great body of railway employees.
They do not "equalize' wages. They
merely "standardize" them. When
the blanket increase went into effect,
the employees of the Pennsylvania
railroad in metropolitan districts,
where living costs were high, found
themselves with wages increased 100
ner cent, while the railway men in the
rural districts of Maine had their pay
boosted 1879 per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28
Questions-Answers

Q. Please tell me how to clean, feather
beds and pillows?-C. P:
A: Choose bright day when a good
cheesecloth or thin flour sacking, closed
except where the feathers are put into it.
good quality of bar soap. Shake the
feathers into the soaped bag. This is best
done by ripping a hole in the pillow the
the two edges ogether. After shaking ha St the
feathers into the bag, rip the two apart
and sew, up the bag. The bag should not
not have room to expand Fill a wash
boiler with cold water; immense the bag of
feathers feat and ID slowly bring to a boil; Lift
clothes stick. Boil for or ! minutes. Re-
move and rinse thoroly in plenty Of cold wa
ter d:s;, Drain and squeeze out all the water
the shade to dry, which will require about
two days. Do not try to shake the down
clinging to the inside of the ticking; i'm
merse right side out in water and the down
will roll up in balls and can be removed
2. What is the categorical imperative
A. The terms was applied TO rule OF
conduct enqneiated by tmmanuel Kant the
in such way that can at the same time
Will that my maxim should become uni
what it would be safe e and 0 prop pc 0f fog
everyone to do. This ideal of conduct, with
its sweeping denial OF Individual right and
PIlNiASSfs mas Detu HUGH Ila1Culed DIV later
philosophers, and especially NietZsehe.
q. What is the origin of the name cop
for policeman "A. NJ. p.
A. The origin of this slang word Is nm.
certain, but quite possibly it Is formed
from the initials for Central Office Police
Q. What kind of oil is used in oflinn
baseball gloves IN. f.
A. Liaseed oil is used for this purpose
O.; Who invented the wagon wheel I'M
A. The present day wheel fer vehicles
/ is an evolution from the wheels roughly
made from solid blocks of wood and at
/ tached to carts which were used centuries
before the Roman conquest;
! Q, How many eggs do Plymouth Rock
/ Leghorn and Wyandotte hens lay per an
mum ?--J. Il =.
! A. The Department Of Agriculture say.
that the average number eff eggs laid 81
+ the Plymouth Rock and Wyandotte Is
probably not more than 150 per year. al
1 tho there are instances when 800 eggs hayf
been laid by individual hens OF these breeds
The Leghorn should average at least IT'S 4
year. The highest record for a Leghorr
| is 31S eggs in SOS days.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28

lunches. OF Sc cities of $4,000 or
more population, ~ are now offering
lunches in their schools
An idea of the Importance of this
provision may be gathered from the
records of visiting nurses working in
the tenement neighborhoods OF New
York, who find that s per cent of the
children in these districts drink tea
and coffee in place of milk, and that
very large number, in the absence of
n wage-earning mother, prepare their
own scanty meals. These are the chill
dren whose undernourished brains
and bodies provide the ever-increas-
ing materials for our prisons. hos
pitfalls and various asylums.
Good food would go far toward re-
ducing this extensively maintained
scrap heap. But the provision of
bodybuilding food for children is not
only beyond the income of the very
poor, it is task requiring modern
scientific knowledge knowledge
which even the conscientious middle
class mother seldom possesses. The
schools can furnish it at very. small
cost. Large sums are already being
spent on special classes for dull and
backward children. Would it not be
better economy to feed these children
three well-balanced meals a day, as
does the Brooklyn school, and see
what happens?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28

such as rent, clerk hire, etc. In other
words, while he cannot add one per
cent to the price of the lead pencil, he
could make the price of the suit of
clothes large enough to cover the tax
of one per cent on the clothes plus the
uncollected tax on a whole gross of
lead pencils. each of them sold sepa-
rately; in reality. amounting in all, we
should think, to about eight cents ex-
ira on the price of the suit. This
would be perfectly fair method, and
as it would be incumbent upon all re-
tailers to pay the same percentage of
tax. it should not affect any one of
them adversely because of competi-
ton"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28
A GAIL FOR HELP.

The editor of the lola Register,-F For
mer Congressman Charles +. Scott,
who claims to be the original advo-
cate of a sales tax. has encountered
opposition which he finds it difficult
to meet. So Mr.. Scott has called upon
one OF the ablest supporters of the
plan, the Bache Review. for aid. He
is quoted by the Review as follows:
''In talking among the retail mer-
chants here in my town, l find most
OF them against the tax on the score
that they would pay it all. The man
ufactureF and jebber and wholesaler,
they say, can pass the tax on to their
customers. for they sell in bulk But
how can a retailer add one per cent to
the priceeof a spool of thread or a pa
per OF pins or bottle of ink or lead
pencil or a tube of, tooth paste, etc,
etc, They declare it can't be done
and insist the tax is unfair and in
equitable for the reason that it will all
be collected from the retailers.
DOUBTLESS you have come in con-
tact with this objection and I should
be greatly obliged. for your opinion of
the most satisfactory answer"
To this request e~Review replies:
Regarding the inquiry you make as
to the objection of your retailers who
claim that they cannot add one per
cent to the spool Of thread, paper OF
pins or bottle OF ink. eee.. we beg to
say that WIEN the tax gets to the re-
taller. he has to treat it as a fixed ad-
dition to his overhead expenses. and to
add it to the price of such goods as
are able to bear the strain, just as he
dees In any other overhead expenses
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28
BRING ON THE ECONOMIES.

Spokesman for the railway labor
unions continue to insist before the
railway labor board that the present
depleted condition of railroad treas
uries is due to a lack of proper econ
omy in operation. 1t may be noted in
this connection that the employees
have evinced no disposition to aid the
roads in bringing about the suggested
economies.
The lowered cost of operation which
the employees suggest, and to which
they now are asked to contribute,
would lead to lower freight rates and
lower living costs, from all of which
railroad employees would benefit along
with everybody else. Normal living
costs can result only when everybody
contributes his share toward bringing
this about.
There is no more potent factor in
the maintenance of high prices than
that of expensive distribution of food
products.
Recently there nave been reports of
immense acreages of early vegetables
| in southern states left unharvested or
yloWed under because prices can not be
obtained which would justify ship
ment to northern markets. At the
same time consumers who go to north
ern markets to purchase vegetables
find prices higher than they feel able
to pay. Last season hundreds of thou
sands of bushels of apples rotted IN
der the trees in orchards in New York
and Michigan while residents of cities
and rural districts where apples are
not grown stinted themselves in con-
sumption of that healthful fruit be-
cause of high prices. AT the same
time that producers of cattle and
sheep are unable to obtain prices that
cover the cost of production, the con-
sumner of beef and mutton finds the
price he must pay only a little less
than during the wartime period.
1t is undoubtedly true that however
small the proportion of cost the
freifht rate may represent, yet it is a
factor, and both producer and con-
sumner are interested in the effort now
being made to discover means by
which the cost of transportation may
be reduced. Failure to pay the agri-
cultural producer something more
than the cost of production and trans
pertation will inevitably result in di-
minished production with consequent
scarcity and still higher prices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28

crate a shop for repairing. refinishing
and duplicating antique pieces. She
was so enthusiastic that Mr.. Sinclair
was moved to ask:
do you suppose such q shop could
be run in conjunction with a lumber
yard?" Bert beamed. "Oh, MIR. Sin
clair, I'm sure it could, and I've a lot
of other ideas, too"
Save 'em and report to me in a
month" he urged
At the months end Bert had found
where they could get their initial lot
of period furniture, an expert wood
finisher and the best market for ce-
dar, declaring that not another bill of
house lumber should be sold unless
enough cedar went with it to line at
least one closet.
Good work! Ny wife was scold-
ing me this morning because she had
no cedar closet" declared Mr.. Sin
clair.
So Bert's dream became reality.
and she was happy, till one day her
employer laid a letter on her desk.
Lawrence wanted to come home and
go into business with his father.
Then you'll not need me-" her
white lips commented
Couldn't run without you!" ex-
claimed Mr.. Sinclair But Bert was
not convinced, and cried herself sick
when she got home, so for two days
she did not go to work The second
evening she had a caller-Lawrence
Sinclair.
Father sent me to see how you
were and to ask if you'd take me in
your department. II not, I'm out of a
job" he pleaded, He says you're the
only girl he ever knew who always
knows the difference 'twixt hawk and
handsaw. L always knew it. but was
too stubborn to admit. Forgive me
and-take me-win you?"
isis this a business proposi-
eloh stammered Bert as he tried to
take her hands.
'Surest thing YOU know, I'm
pleadlng for life job. / might not
have been so hasty. but your white
face upset me entirely" and I.awrence
took the old-time lovers method for
eoaSing the color back to white
cheeks.
| Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate)
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Dorothy DIX Tails
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Renlorse-1.


hCIliOESS-ls
A woman writes me: 81
Il am suffering the torments of
the damned because I feel that I vir-
tually murdered my husband, Whom L
dearly loved. He was of a delicate
and sensitive disposition, and 1 know
that 1 fastened his death by my ex-
actions, and selfishness, and bad tenn
per. What shall do to find peace p"
The best remedy for remorse is
atonement. OF course we can do moth
ing to make up to the dead for the
/ injury We have done them. but we
have the living with US, and we can
pay our debts to those who have
passed beyond our reach by making
life easier and p1easanter to those
about US.
Perhaps there are very few men
and women who ever bend above the
collins of their wives and husbands
without being torn by the pangs of
sinped the big sin. but they have been
guilty of the little ones that made the
road that might so easily have been
made soft and pleasant, SO hard to
travel.
Who, at such a time, has not looked
at the shut eyes and remembered how
little gladness he or she has brought
into them, and how often a stabbing
speech has filled them with tears ?
Who has not looked at the pale lips,
narrowed Into the straight line of
death. and wished that he or she had
kissed them into smiles oftener? Who
has not gaZed upon the folded hands,
and wept to recall how much needless
labor he or she had imposed upon
them?
1t is proverbial that second mar
riages are almost always happier than
first; that there are no husband spoil
ers like widows who remarry, and that
the man who has been harsh and mig
gardly, and tyrannical to his first wife
is lavish to his second wife and putty
in her hands.
1t would amaze these Number Two
husbands and wives to know that they
are reaping the fruits of reEnorse.aand
that conscience-stricken woman Ser
man is trying to square herself or him
self with the dead. but such is often
the case.
When we dc wrong, it is Just that
We should suffer for it. and whole
some to the soul for us to clethe our
selves in sacScloth and put ashes on
our heads but repentance is virtue
only in SO far as it makes us do better.
All tbeyond this is sheer naorbidity.
After all, what is done, is done That
cannot be changed, and to spend ones
| life deploring a sin, or regretting a
mistake, or wishing that one had acted
differently, is a wickedly futile en-
| ployment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
By MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.


Dear Mrs. Thompson: What is the
cause of poor blood circulation?
Would bad tonsils cause me to have
pains in my back, as / know / have
very bad ones?
Should one go on a diet for consti-
patton? If so, what should one eat?
THREE PERSONS.
There are so many reasons why the
blood circulates poorly that a physi-
clan would have to make an examina-
ton to determine the cause.
The tonsils are at the seat of many
disturbances. If they are diseased.
the physical condition would be much
improved by their removal. Il physi-
clan should be consulted.
A diet is advisable when one suf-
fers from constipation. Again,f would
advise a physician to recommend a
diet.
James c.: 1t would be disastrous
to marry the young lady unless you
are of her race.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28
JUST FOLKS
THE LITTLE THINGS.
ny EDGAR A. GUEST.

THE LITTLE THINGS.
It's the little thugs that make
Happy lives, and no mistake
Pride eff home and smiling eyes
Isn't born of being wise,
Great or famous. Skill can be
Desolate with misery.
Married folks turnout their days
Need the good old -fashiened ways.
Be as thoughtful as you were
When you first were eogrting Der
Now and then be glad TO stop
At the nearest candy sLep
Aud take meme q dollars worth
Te the finest girl on earth
Such a little glad surprise
Keeps the love light III her eyes
More important far than fame
Is to keep loves fire afisme,
And her gentle nature needs
Net Sc much your splendid deeds
As the tender, thoughtful ways
Which were yours in by-geBe days
Happiness forever springs
From a web OF little things.
Little seems the welcome kiss,
But it's oh, SO big to miss
And forgotten birthdays grew
Into griefs you never know
Let your love for. her be told
In the tender ways Of old
BY the little deeds you do
Happiness shall come to you.
Copyright, 1921, By Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28

There has been started recently an
agitation for making future issues OF
municipal and federal bonds subject
to taxation. The plan should not pre-
vail because the system of taxing the
people on what they owe is wholly
wrong. Instead of extending it to
bond issues it should be entirely elm
mated by making it imperative as re-
CARDS real estate mortgages. The
movement to tax bonds grows out oi
the false notion that the creditor car
be made to pay the tax on his security
holdings. 1t can't be done. The
debtor always has paid it and always
will pay It. Then why add to his bur
dens?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28

else. Maeterlinck's Bluebird may de-
liver the goods, but bluebirds are
scarce. Fortunately, diamonds are
not.
The Sheriff Needs a Gun,
The following notice, taken from
the New Cumberland CIV. Va.) In
dependent" indicates that it must be
very tough neighborhood. indeed:
The undersigned sheriff of Han
cock county residing in Weirton. West
Va, hereby gives notice that will
apply to the circuit court of said
county for license to carry a revolver
and other weapons that may be
deemed necessary in the discharge
of my duties as sheriff of the said
county of Hancock
H. L. BROOKS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28

North Cardinals direct federal tax
bill of s16a,6eT.S2O in 1920 was sew
eral million dollars more than its to-
and lower public and private, for the
ESQ years of its existence as colony
and state. This huge sum mainly is
collected to pay for past. present and
future wars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28

Present day economic conditions
seem to be due largely to the exist
ence of many persons who do not yet
realize that the war is over. They
expect to continue earning and spend
ing the same amount of money while
doing no more work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28

If Lenin and Trotzky set Big Bill
Haywood at work he probably will
conclude that the federal prison is not
so bad a place. He could depend on
Uncle Sam to give him enough to eat.