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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05

News dispatches note the arrival at
milwaukee of 4 carload of butter
from Denmark. This Danish product
has been arriving in considerable
quantities for several months at At
lantfc seaports, but this is the first
time that any of this imported butter
has penetrated so far inland. But
when one carload arrives in Wiscon-
sin, 20 compete with the home prod
net, it is fair presumption that more
will follow-at least if prices remain
high enough to make it profitable to
ship butter 5000 miles and sell it in
open competition with home butter.
1.-The solution of this problem" says
the Oshkosh Northwestern, rests on
one of two things-either a reduction
in prices that will make it unprofit-
able to import butter from distant
Denmark. or tariff that will shut
out the Danish butter from Ameri-
can markets" The principle of the
greatest good to the greatest number
seems to indicate the first course. II
Wisconsin dairymen cannot compete
with Danish dairymen who have a
handicap of 5000 miles freight
charges, they should enter some other
line of business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05

window 1t was the face of Helen's
father. He opened the door.
Bob Trimmer-are you mad y ne
asked.
Mr.. Moore looked at the horse, then
back into Bob's scarlet face. "Helen,
he called. Then he burst out laugh
ing. well, we'll; this is regular NOV
ing picture iovemaking. Bob. But
where can we put the horse z"
In the garage" ventured Bob
entering the doorway and seeing the
picture outside. "How - where =
Never mind about that now. my
dear" said her father. Lets get him
in and have his steed attended 10.
You can why-where-how later.
After they were comfortably seated
by the big log fire and Bob had been
fed as IL he were an invalid and petted
as il he were an actor of heroic
drama, Helen ventured to ask him
why he attempted such a trip on such
a night.
81 knew you had an enga cement
with Snyder. 1 figured he would not
be able to come and-I saw my
chance. 1 have been discouraged about
you-Helen. 1 was about to give uR
when-the blizzard, together with
remark of a friend about men often
paying their best games after they
were apparently beaten-gave me my
cue. I decided to prove to you how
nearly 1 shall try always 20 overcome
any obstacle in order to be with you
to have you for my own always, dear"
Helen reached out her hand and
put it in his. You did not need to
do this, Bob, to make me believe II.
You needed only ordinary courage.
and you had failed to have even that
of late. 1 was beginning to be afraid
you did not care if-if Fred stepped
into your place"
IF you could have seen me strug-
ging for my very existence up on West
Alley road between the cutter and the
back of old Dixie the horse. you would
never have doubted me, dear. Dur
ing that few minutes, 1 learned that
you are dearer to me than anything
else in the world-that you are-my
world. / love you"
Helen ;ould not reply in words.
Copyright. 1912. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
KNOWLEDGE.

kNOHLEDCsE.
The more you know the more you
will always be able to do.
knowledge is better than to be fully
armed-for wits work faster than
swords(and shoot straighter than any
bullet.
II you know, you can go ahead!
It's the one who doesn't know who
hesitates-
The greatest hobby in heswerld is
to keep learning.
Enrich your mind from the expert
ences and works of those who have
spent years and great labor in finding
out. Tuck treasures into your heart.
so that when you are alone and far
away, you may feast as does the king
with no one about him but obedient
servants. But with this difference
you shall drink life, whereas he who
can call but some 1aclSy shall know
nothing but irritation and poverty
In knowledge there is an everlasting
spring of water that is ever bubbling
new sensations of beauty and happi-
ness.
knowledge helps . man to walk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05
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under a process which is unnecessarily
bungfesome. burdensome. inequitable
and, since the war. inadequate.
The advantages of a general sales
tax are set forth as follows:
1t will undoubtedly produce all the
revenue needed.
Under it the flow of revenue will be
prompt, constant and dependabie,
1t will be paid by the whole body OF
the people, but in infinitely small
amounts by each individual.
1t is simple in operation and will be
promptly, completely and economic
ally collected without burdening any
one.
When supplemented by moderate
income tax it will rest equitably on all.
It will abolish the present harmful
method of class taxation and business
will promptly get back on its feet and
prosperity return.
1t will reduce the high cost of living
without reducing the profits OF the
producer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05
FIRST DUTY OF CONGRESS.

The necessity of putting tax revision
to the front has become so, obvious to
many of the political authorities that
il is now announced that hearings will
be begun almost Immediately before
the senate finance committee in order
that action may not be delayed by
waiting xhe conclusion of tariff legis-
lation in the lower house. Altho the
sales tax is evidently gaining in sup
pest. says Henry CIews, there is still
Ia ekine a definite programme with re-
spect to- the measures to be substi-
tuted for the existing income and ex-
cess profits tax scheme.
Plans for a vigorous campaign of
education in every congressional dis
trict of every state on behalf of a
general sales or turnover tax, as a
substitute measure for the present
burden of "unwlse taxation" are an
nounced by the Tax League of
America The president of the league
says:
"Effectively TO aid the return OF
prosperity in this country we must
promptly lift from the shoulders of
business the blight or the present
method of taxation by substituting
therefor general sales tax. 1t has
been calculated by some of our sound
est thinkers that a sales tax of one
per cent on all business turnovers
would return at least two billion dol
lars in revenue annually. This amour.
plus tina. derived from a moderate in
come tax and other existing sources of
revenue would furnish more than the
four billion dollars required each year
by the government"
Attic, four billions OF revenue from
taxes is now necessary each year for
government operation. this in itself
need not cripple business or stifle
Initiative provided the method of
evying and collecting this amount is
improved. At present we pay taxes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05
Dorothy Dix Talks
reaching a child Dcceit-1.
NJ DOROTHY DIN
worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

A woman I know is very fond of
going to the movies, and frequently
spends an afternoon in that harmless
diversion.
Her husband doesn't care for the
silent drama. and, like a great many
other people, he highly disapproves Of
everything he doesn't enjoy himself.
The result is that when the woman
goes to a picture show, she has to do
it is on the sly, and impress her little
10-year-old daughter that she mustn't
tell papa. The woman's conscience IS
beginning to trouble her about this,
and she is wondering if, in teaching
the child to hide things from her
father, she is not teaching her to lie
and deceive.
Not a doubt about it, I should say.
To a little child, its mother is the
embodiment of the whole code of
ethics, and things are right or wrong,
just because mother says they are
right or wrong. The child cannot rea-
son, or argue, or weigh values IT can
only blindly accept mothers standards
Early childhood is the plastic per-
iod of life. 1t is the time when a
child's character is clay in the moth
ers hands,, when she can fashion it
into thing of /straightness and
beauty, or else make it a hideous mon
strosity of twists and turns, and moral
obliQuities.
Most of us are neither consciously
good, nor deliberately bad. We have
no carefully thought out plan of con-
duct. We are truthful and honest,
and frank, or we lie, and cheat, and
deceive, according to the way we
nave been brought up. In the great
crisis of our lives the thing that de-
71r7n
the things that We have been taught
at our mothers knee, of bedtime
stories, and little prayers, and cradle
songs. Then We react to Mothers
ideals. If she has taught us truth
and purity and courage, we stand. If
she has taught US to be cutters and
towards and liars, We fall.
Now, there are mighty few
mothers in the world who do not de-
sire to {nstil high principles into
their children. When they do other
wise, it is oftener thru lack of realiza-
tion or the lasting effects of the i'm
preston they are making on their
boys and girls minds, than thru any
deliberate intention of imposing a
dubious code OF ethics upon them
And euriousiy enough,a child's
first instruction in the Tricks that
are dark and the ways that are vain
is nearly always in connection with
its father. Father. the one person on
earth with whom a child should have
the most candid and open re-
lationship, Is the very one. whom he
is taught to hoodwink and deceive.
Nor is the fault the woman's half
SO much as it is the mans. He brings
the curse upon himself, ninety-nine
times out of a hundred, by being so
overbearing, and tyrannical, and I'M
reasonable that the/only way to get
along with him is to pull the wool
over his eyes as much as possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.
IN THE RECISNI-

IN THE BEGINNING.
o, wish had stood in the chaos
And had watched the Creators hand
As He brought peace out of confusion
And spread order over the land.
o, what cons of untold rapture
There would have been in the sight
OF old Sol stepping form in his glory
And the flowers springing up over night.
Would that could have heard the first
carol
That the birds all sent up in the air
'Twere an anthem rising and swelling
o, wish that / had been there.
The first man must have viewed it with
rapture,
Which flower did he pluck the first
thing?
Or did he just stand still in wonder
And watch the birds carol and sing?
What is spring but q great Recreation?
There are thousands of new flowers to
see
o, let me but hear the. birds carol
And spring is Creation to me-
FLOSSIE L. HUTTON.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05

steady, and tells him which way to
roads eo'''ss ~ ''s
If you have acknowledgement are able
to see the simplicity in small Begin
nings and attempts, thereby entering
upon big things with confidence and
assurance.
Only those who have never learned
tho mastery OF easy affairs fail in the
doing of great things.
Keep adding to your knowledge.
Hunt for new things. See something
personal in the appeal OF every human
being and in everything in nature. I
am sorry for the one who cannot see
O better<view of God in every blade
of grass he plucks.
But IL you would know much, try to
learn the art OF emptying your mind
of what it accumulates-that there
may be room to learn more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05


Altho we are at war with Germany,
the total figures of direct foreign
trade for 1890 show that our exports
to that country were valued at $751;
437,s77; in 1918 they were only $685.
eso,541. Our imports from Germany,
in 1920, were around $SS,000,00o; in
1913 they were something over 1884,
100000. Exports to Germany during
1920 increased progressively during
the last half of the year. But it is a
notable fact that exports of manu-
features do not figure in last years
record. In 1913 we sent 511,46S
pairs of Shoes s1.697.427 pounds of
tobacco. and large amounts of manu-
featured steel articles. None of these
appear in the list of exports to Ger
many from this country for 1920.
Our exports of cotton to Germany last
year were s76.071.26s pounds, valued
at $110,631, 41s- In 1913, we sent to
Germany 519,342.062 pounds, valued
at $47.41e,150. We sent, in 1920, T.
o07.eT5 barrels of flour; in 1913, our
shipments were only 165,2O5 barrels.
The respective values were, in 1929.
st1.s5s.s7s. against ss2s.1ss in 1918.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05
HELPING THE NEEDY.


sion next week and already there AFRO
indications that it will be besieged for
special legislation by numerous in
terests which feel that they are not
D ros eri n as they should. The
farmers, the railroads, the exporters,
the shippers, the soldiers, all feel that
they are getting the worst of it. !
Whenever a class in the community
finds itself suffering under the pres
sure of economic law, it always plays
upon popular sympathy thru an or
ganized appeal to public opinion.
The purpose is always to obtain
ameliorating legislation which shall
relieve the economic pressure; the
good to the few is so~pronounced and
the evil to the many so diffuse that
the many pass it over by reason of the
mere inertia of their mass. Thus
arises tariff legislation and labor
union legislation, banking legislation
and pension legislation. The welfare
of the whole is powerless before a
welI-organized lobby of the minority.
The class varies, but the principle Is
the same.
1t is proposed, for instance, that the
War Finance corporation shall make
loans that shall be based on the ex-
portation of raw materials to Euro
pean nations. In this way the farmers
having surplus supplies will realize
upon them, the western banks holding
agricultural paper. cattle and sheep
lot Il
all wiz be happy. Such an eventuat-
ity. however, involves the fact that the
War Finance corporation can get the
capital with which to make the loans.
The mere exchange OF farm prod
ucts for War Finance corporations
obligations will help neither farmer
nor bank. There are but two sources
of such capital, the accumulated saw
ings of the people and the initiation of
the currency. In the former case the
War Finance corporations loans must
compete with all other enterprises in
need of capital and pay the current
market price for short-time loans. In
case it should be successful in obtain
ing part of the capital fund saved
by society, its activities would repre-
sent merely the DETECTION of a por-
ton of this fund from productive en-
terprise to the export business. 1t is
certain that as soon as the artificially
stimulated demand for export begins
to reach cotton and cereals in the
farmers hands and at the primary
markets the prices of these will rise.
And the prices will rise not only for
those portions of the agricultural CON-
modities offered for export, but also
for~that portion consumed within the
United States. Increased prices for
agricultural products already grown
will not stimulate production nor will
it increase wages, for these products
stand for labor already expended and
paid for. But such increases mean q
rising living cost for 1aborers in all
industries, since these agricultural
products constitute the backbone of
the things for which they expend their
wages.
Any increased production of farm
products, by reason of the enhanced
exports OF the War Finance corpora
ton, will be realized. if realized at all
only after the expiration of a Iona
period of time. In other words, sucl,
stimulated demand for agricultural
products will increase the cost of Ia
boris living without increasing wages
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05

According to latest reports there
are nearly 400, 900 idle freight cars in
the United States. Assuming the
average value of a freight car to be
$500. this represents a capital in
vestment of one billion dollars in this
single phase of railroad activity which
is not earning a cent, but which Is
actually turning in loss due to de-
terioration. There should be enough
business in this country to bring all
these idle cars into service and some
thing should be done speedily to start
the wheels to turning. A reduction
in freight rates probably would go n
long way in that direction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05
LITTLE BENNY's NOTE BOOK
SPRING.
BY LEE PAPE.

! SPRING.
o bark to the big herds singing
To show the little herds how,
1t used to be Fall and Winter
But Spring is wat it is. now.
The grass is short and greenish
The days are long and warm,
And skool seems verse than usual
Even if you're on the ferst form.
The zcocoons try to tern into butterflies,
The buds try to tern into leeves.
And the fellows play ball without
coats on
And ferthermore ron up their sleeves.
The seeds are springing from the
ground
All diskized like trees and plants,
And put away in camphor till next yeer
Are millions of short winter pants.
The 2Ist of Martch is the ferst of
Spring,
The same as il 5as last yeer.
But the date is not neer as important
As the fact that now its heer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05

DR.. Henry Hill of Panama has a
plan for an All-American league of
nations, to be made up of the free
republics of this hemisphere and, it
is to be assumed, of Ks adjacent
islands. If the United States enters
such league it probably will find the
South American nations a liability in
stead of an asset.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05

Dollar wheat is reported to be
playing return engagement on the
Pacific coast, after a long absence.
A bushel of wheat for an hours work
by a mechanic looks to be out of pro-
portion. when the amount of labor
necessary TO produce the wheat Is
-onsidercd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05

future. use with ease. A tramp re-
ported that he could learn at any
water tank where to get a supply of
dynamite. All the gentry of the
underworld keep themselves, well sup
piled with high explosives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05

copyright, 1920. by the wheeler Eynoicats
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05

Since the newspapers are the source
of our crackers and canned salmon,
we try to stand by them. But they
go too far when they ask US to be-
iieve Emp Charles is leading his
troops mounted on white charger.
The New York herald., 1921-01-06

expense upon the local governments. I
do not say that an inflexible rule can be
adopted ON this subject, but certainly q
plain case Of public necessity should be
established, to warrant the exercise of
such legislative power.
The same observation applies to the
practice which. If indulged in. always
grows. OF passing legislation involving
additional expense to the State without
any reference to the States revenues.
The practice seems to have been first
to pass the law committing the State to
some new activity then to pass the ap-
preparation, ard last, to find the money.
/ earnestly recommend that that prac-
tice be reversed, and l suggest that any
bills which may commit the State to
additional exense should be passed on
by the finance committees before they
are brought up for final passage.
The Executives ResponsibiIfty.
The financial condition of some of the
municipalities of the State, notably the
city Of New York. raises the query
whether there are not grave defects of
local organization and administrator.
The grave increase In crimes, especially
crimes Of violence. and the large proper
ton Of cases Of failure to discover and
apprehend the perpetrators also suggests
the query whether there are similar grave
defects in the administration OF the GRIM
inal law and the enforcement of law by
peace officers. The Executive of the State
has a responsibility in these matters
which he cannot escape, and think he
should be clothed with powcr to investi-
gate without the necessity OF having
charges preferred.
l recommend that section of the
executive law be amended so as to ex.
tend the power of examination and
investigation which the Governor now
possesses Of State departments. boards
bureaus and commissions. to all county
and municipal officers and departments
i shall deal with other subjects re-
curing particular attention in sub
sequent messages.
/ invite the same spirit of coopera-
tion which intend to accord. and / am
confident that, working together In tina,
spirit. we shall accomplish our task.
(Signed) NATHAN l.. MILLER.
The New York herald., 1921-01-06
POLICEMAN BITTEN
RESCUING CHILDREN
Shoots Himself in Thumb and
Animal Escapes.

Attempting to rescue children from
big dog that snapped at them as they
were leaving the Paullst Fathers School
at Fort Washington avenue and 193d
street. Sergeant Francis Kear of the
Wcss nth street station shot himself
in the thumb yesterday and was bitten
on the wrist.
The officer fired one shot as he ap-
preached the dog which wounded the
animals right foreleg. The dog leaped
and got a grip on the officers right
wrist. pulling him to the ground. The
revolver went off second time, the
bullet tearing through the fIeshy part
Of the thumb. Kear then kicked the
dog away and the animal ran into a
wood near by. Sergeant Kear was at
tended at Columbus Hospital annd went
home
The New York herald., 1921-01-06
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AMERICAS FOREMOST

M A N II AT T A n 2rTsf 2ousff
GERMAN COMIC oPERETTA SEASON
sINCtT Where the Lark sinKsl Ton ~ eve
&sst. Mat .&Eve DER BETTEL STUDIO
(T'he Beggar Student. Prices DOC 70 sS.5o'
The New York herald., 1921-01-06
ADJUSTMENTS.
S0ypE;s1, S0PEgx

TONIGHT ia. .oBERoN. Ponseile. Gordon.
sundeiius: Kingston, Diaz, Dua-Bodanzky.
FRI Z :45, TRISTAN. Matzenauer, Gordon; !;
Semhach Whitehiil, Cugta afson-Bodnnzky.
SAT. at Z. BUTTERFLY. Farrar. Fornia :
Crlrhi. Scottt. Dua-Moranzoni.
SAT- at =, Special PERI. MEFfSTOFEfE.
Aida. Peraltn Howard, Perini: Gigli. Mar
dones, Dada, Paltrinieri-Moranzoni.
SUN, = 80 (Tjc to So, GRAND OPERATIC
CONCEItT Ponselle. 4undelius, Ellis, Cor
don, Telva; Chsmiee. Kingston. Amato,
Dldur, Rothicr. Ananian. Chorus. Orch. and
Stage Observation-Disclosures
MON MAT. at (sf to SO, LORACOLO.
pcraita Chamiee. Scott. Didur. PAGLIACCf.
sundelius: Crinl, De Luca-Moranzoni.
MON. at =. nI.UE BIRD. Easton. Gordon.
Ellis, Delaunols: Ro;hier. Chalmcrs--Woiff.
WED, 3, DON CARLOS. Ponsclle. Matte
naupr: Call. Martinelll. DE Luca. Didur-Papi.
THURS. \. AIDA. Muzio. Gordon; Crimi,
panise. Mardunea, Gustaf fson--Moranzoni.
HARpMAN PIANO Used.