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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-07-31
TO DECIDE ON VALUATION
. AND DYE EMBARGO PLANS
Whether Measures VIII BE Re-
stored in Tariff bill, VIII BE Re
ported by FiJnncc Body.
rENRosE URGES MORE SPEED
declares Committee Must Work
Fast or Country VIII Not Have
New TuriT Before "Considrrablc
Snow Is on the Ground"
lEy Associateh rress |


WASHINGTON, July 3O-The qucs-
tons OF whether the American vaiua.
,"n provision shall be retained in
n" fordncy tariff hin ana whether
me dye .mha,E" section shall bc re
stored in the measure. viii be d.
cidcd by the senate Finance Com
initt"" bcfur" hearings are held on
we proposed duties Two days more.
Monday ANA Tuesday. wlii be- given
OYER To discussion nt domestic val
Hi'ion plan ana IN" dye cnDareD
question VIII be considered Wedncs-
ddy' after which tn" committee viii
meet 'Nccutivcly 20 thrash out it,
program.
Agreement as To- the course on
noun of IN" controversial questions
was reached today. after morning
or discussion had made H. cvid"n, in
In" opinion ~ committee members
that the two subjects would cror, IN
Continuously ana delay The hearings.
Chairman pcnrhsc had said earlier in
tho week that the COMMITTEE" prob.
ABLY would decide tho policy ON
American valuation next week. and
the agreement today was made to
ihclud" tho Disc ban as a measure co..
speeding up action.
I'cnro-r Irgcs speed
senator l"nrnsc. earlier In the day
had warned that unless more speed
was Injected into the committees
work the country would no; have It
Lew tariff before Considerable snow
is on Tho ground He added that oGs
persons have requested hearings. AZ
a result 81 tn" agreement. tho 500
ond week Of tn" committees cousii
tration 81 the ON Is allotted non- or
ihc COMMITTEE" mcmNorS would fore
cast tho Length OF time which would
b. given 10 details ~ rates After the
open hearings arc completed III"
committee Still viii have hcfor. u
The actual work 81 rewriting sucn
rates and provisions as were found
necessary For that reason. leaders
on all s.i"s regard tho time 81 re-
turn Of The bill to the Senate as
highly uncertain.
An of tho rates in tho measure
were computed by tho House Wage
md Means Committee on tho basis of
assessing duties on the American.
rather than tho foreign wholesale
market value OF the commodities ~
the plan is rejected by tho Scnat.
committee, II would require complc,"
revision - all rates. according to
senator Pcnrorc
Wnnt Dye Embargo.
Although the dye embargo section
VAS eliminated hy the House after :.
fight. witnesses appeared today urc.
ing It's restoration. and telling III"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-07-31
Studying Canadian system.

be FOUND.
Studying Canadian system.
,,,,, . ..jh coda, a.. yeas
Sl6h!lhG tht 'hh'u'"h SSa''"i "i ''H-
ing IuAuri.a. particularly in their re-
ln,iun 90 the so-callcJ luxury taxes
,,uros.d nv tn, present American
i.,, IIu.,r,,inr rho din.renc. ne
- 80 u t,r, y,jJ
49, - - am. Of,
'''' 80 go
"'"''"N "''"' ~
inhos'd on INC cost above Spec'-
ned sum. whereas IN Iahhda TAX
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-07-31
FORDNEY BELIEVES
HAlF-BILLl0N CUT
IN TAXES POSSIBLE

fOntfnued From FIrst FlEcD
and Mr. Fordney is OF the belief that
some new sources OF taxation will
be found.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-07-31

oooh'Ihued From First PaEc.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-17
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY HER PAPE

Us fellows was setting on my frunt
steps waiting for something to happin,
and nuthing did and nthing looked
as if it was goin to, and we all tried to
think of something to do and none Of
US couldent, and 1 sed, I tell you lets
wat, lets all go GROUND to Pubs Sim
kinses and stand outside his parler
window and see if we can heer him
taking his music lessin.
Sounding like pritty bum of a ideer
but better than nuthing, so some of the
fellows sed they would go and some
sed they wouldent, the ones that went
being me and Skinny Martin and
Reddy Merry and Sid Hunt, and Pud-
ses parler window was open little
ways and we could easy heer him tax
ing his piano lessin and his Germin
piano fletcher sayin, Yum, tree, T.
yum, 2, tree, 4.
Hay, 1 tell you lets wat, lets per-
tend we are in the army and Pulses
fletcher is a officer counting for US
to martch by. sed Sid Hunt. Being the
best ideer yet, and we all got in back
of each other and started to wawk up
and down Pulses pavement stamping
our feet as hard as we could keeping
time to Pulses Germin music fletcher
saying Vun. 2, tree, 4, vun, 2, tree, 4.
and pritty soon he came and looked
out the window to see wat was making
all the noise stamping and wen he saw
US he started to shake one fist and say
a hole lot of stuff in Germin taking
him about minnites.
And then he started to go back
and 1 yelled, I bet you wouldn't of
sed that If the war wasent over.
Sprecking see doytch, yelled Sid
Hunt.
Hook der 1ooey, yelled Reddy Merry.
Vass ISIS lose, va, yelled Skinny Mar
tin.
Limberger sourkraut Elm swhy dry,
yelled.
Being all the Germin we could think
of to yell, and we went back to my
house and the other fellows was still
setting there and we got up a game
Of -prizzners base, the side I was on
winning easy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-17

From a life drab and dull, without
in which golf, tennis, baseball, music,
the theater and other forms of amuse-
ment help tighten their inevitable bur
den of care is the experience of the
4, 500 patients Of United States Public
Health Service Hospital No. 25, Iocat-
ed at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas.
Recreation for the disabled man is
one of the most vital factors in assist
ing his recovery, medical authorities
agree, and providing this recreation is
the responsibility of the American Red
Gross at this hospital. How the Red
Cross puts this essential factor into
the life of the disabled veteran in such
Institutions is shown in a statement
outlining this important phase of Red
Cross service to veterans of the World
War. Before the Red Cross workers
entered the hospital at Camp Logan,
there had been possible no organized
effort to provide recreation for the
patients. Not even an automobile to
take them thru the beautiful country
around the hospital was available.
Only small proportion of the pa
TENTS were in such condition that a
"trip to Houston, tx miles distant, was
possible, But why should the Red
Cross be called upon to perform a
Service viii I is so clearly the duty of
the government to perform? What
ever makes for the comfort and hap
piness of disabled soldiers should be
Supplied by that government in whose
service they Were disabled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-17
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
I AM A TRAVELLER

1 pack up my grip I tell those
whom I love, goodbye. I leave home.
am traVelerl
How wonderful it is to go-to move
around-to see. And how much more
fascinating and interesting when you
go away to get work done. For is not
work pleasure, as well as a kind of
art?
I am a traveller. I enter strange
cities. L see people by the thousand
whom have never seen before. They
look like the people in my home town
"a little. They have homes like
mine. They have about the same feel
ings. desires, ambitions, I have. 1 feel
akin to them all-tho do not speak
TO any of them.
Many times I feel like walking right
up to many folks 1 see, for would
like to talk with them. Some of them,
I have an idea, might like to talk to
me.
But how very lonely a traveller gets
at times!
am in a hotel tonight. I look out
of the window and see crowds pass.
There is laughter in the voices of
many. Everybody seems to be going
somewhere. I often wonder where
each one is going. How interesting it
would be to know.
A traveller sees many things that
impress him that he would not see
at nome
Sometimes we have to go away
,a-traveling in order to see ourselves
lat our best-and sometimes at our
worst. 1t is quite easy to take per-
sonal invoice when one is out of ones
usual environment. Travellers are
much broader, 1 am inclined to be-
lieve, than those who never go far.
To see much of the world is to I'M
derstand more about everything. And
everybody.
What an absorbing study different
cities are! Each one seems to have
a character all its own. Many cities
love upon entering them. They are
just composite individuals, after all.
The buildings and streets and cars are
only trimmings. You feel at home in
some towns the same as you have a
comfortable time in the presence of
many people-even tho you may not
have met them.
A traveller does a great deal of
thinking.
But where the traveller gets the
most is out in the openscountry, where
the farms are and the little towns and
vilIag es-where great hills and noun
tains rise and rest in feathery, filmy
clouds-where trees touch each other
and streams ripple past banks, busy
and happy. eT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-17
BUYING AT HOME

In a recent editorial discussing the
benefits to be derived from the con-
sistent maintenance of the policy of
patronizing local industries, the Hav-
erhill. Mass, Record" gives as one
reason why this policy should be pur-
sued: 'Tho community that spends
most of its money abroad for sup
plies soon finds that it has but little
left for the purchase of additional
supplies" But if this principle were
carried to its ultimate possibility it
would put an end to commerce. No
community or nation can hope to
prosper unless it produce something
to sell. Neither can any community
or nation hope to sell unless it also
buy. When all become sellers and
none is buyer business stops.
1t should be the aim of every COM
munity and every nation to produce
those things which it can produce at
a lower cost than can others. 1t IS
poor economy to pay for the home
product more than it would be neces-
say to pay for the same article made
somewhere else.
If somebody can produce something
that we need and lay it down at our
doors at a price cheaper than we can
produce it, common sense would die
tate that we buy from that some
body and confine our efforts to the
production of those things that we
can produce at lower costs than can
anybody else.
OF course, all the foregoing is con-
trary to the views of those who advo-
cate a high tariff. They maintain
that a community that is always
buying supplies from the outside Is
soon deprived of money and there is
little employment for its people. Ev-
cry dollar kept in the community
they say. continues to circulate in that
community, and furnishes employ
ment for local residents who become
purchasers OF supplies produced In the
community
The reply to this is that people can,
not eat or wear money and that mon
ey is useful only as a medium thru
which we are able to supply oul
needs. The United States at this tins
has most of the gold in the world bu
It is not apparent that possession o
the yellow metal is doing the peopl,
much good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-17

Q. At what time in the fan is it safe
A. Soft maple trees may be trimmed
late in the fall after the growth has
stopped for the winter.
@. How long do cats live? NJ. L. n.
A There are no authentic statistics
available in regard to the average longevity
of cats. but they often live from 10 to
O. How is the name of Sir Arthur
CUTLER Couch pronounced? Fl. J.
A. Quiller-Coueh is pronounced Kwiller-
Cooeh-the double with the same sound
Q. How hot should an oven be for
bread, pastry, etc. z. W. F.
A. CustaFd pies and puddings/ should
have a heat Of from $50 to $50 degrees
Fahrenheit; sponge cake, bread, ginger
bread, plain cake and cookies, $50 TO 400 ;
Parker House rolls 450; biscuit, $50 to $50
Q. What kind of gas was used for in
nating the dirigibIe ZR-2? W. H
A The navy department says that by
drogen was the gas used for initiating the
tiirigible ZR-2- The failure of this dirigi-
Bile was not due to the gas but to faulty
construction Of the skeleton itself.
(Any reader can get the answer 20 any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. This
offer applies strictly to Information. The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal med
zeal and financial matters. 1t does not at
tempt to settle domestic troubles. Dor to
undertake exhaustive research on any sub
briefly. Give full name and address and
enclose two cents in stamps for return
postage. All replies are sent direct te the
iRquirerl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-17
Dinner Stories

Mr.. Blake entered his office rather
YEARLY one morning, and in response
to a CHEEKY greeting from his part
ner he grouchily replied:
81 certainly had a shock last night
A young fellow telegraphed me he
had married my youngest daughter
at Grants Rock"
''Heavensl" returned his partner.
well, the only thing you can hope
for now is that he may turn out to be
a practical business man.
oh interrupted the fond par
ent, Il guess he's practical enough
He sent his message Collect -
A certain senator has had a great
deal of experience in telling disap-
pointed constituents he couldn't get
them a government job. But the SEN
ator sends most Of them away in
more cheerful frame of mind than
you'd expect
He does this by keeping a chart on
his desk to show them they couldn't
live on a government salary, anyhow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-17
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It can answer practically any question
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JUST FOLKS

WHEN THE SOAP GETS IN YOUR EYE.
Ny father says that I ought TO be
A man when anything happens TO me-
An he saws that a man will take a blow
An never let on it hurts him so;
He'll grit his teeth an he'll set his chin
An bear his pain with manly grins
But I'll bet that the braFest man would
cry
If ever the soap gets in his eye.
I'm brave enough when I'm playin' ball,
An 1 can laugh when I've had fall
With the girls around I'd never show
That, was scared If the blood should flow
From my banged up nose or battered
knee.
As brave as the bravest can be.
But it's different pain, an l don't know
Whenever the soap gets into your eye.
can set my teeth an I kin grin
When 1 scrape my cheek or bark my shin,
An once 1 fell from our apple tree
An the wind knocked right oat Of me,
But never cried an the gang all said
That they thought for sure l was really
But it's worse than thinking you're going
to die
Whenever the soap gets in your eye
When your mothers holding your neck.
Couldn't get away if you wanted to.
An she's latherin' hard with her good
right hand.
It's more than the bravest man could
If you open your mouth to howl. you get
But YOU got to yell till your face gets
dry
Whenever the soap gets in your eye.
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-17

soldiers, which so mysteriously disap-
peared. 1t is the basis of the Cali
fornia land and colonization plan,
which has worked well. and it has
been put into practice in some form
by several other states.
The second method is a form of
taxation on unimproved land which
would make it improbable. to hold
such land for speculative purposes.
Such q tax has always been held
sound by students. A bill providing
for such tax was introduced in the
last congress by Representative Nolan
and re-introduced in this congress by
representative Keller.
1t has attracted as much attention
as a pin falling into the Atlantic
ocean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-17

reward-the sick man seeing her
against the dawn-glow, murmured: Il
am coming up-from hell-by help of
an angel"
In a month he was we'll enough to
be moved-there was hope that in a
year he might walk. freely, tho full
strength was too much to hope for.
His father and mother besought Dor
othy to go home with them-the
savior-wife of their son, for whom all
the world was not sufficient reward.
But the son himself had learned wis
donnie had seen the faces of Dor
othy and the young doctor answer
each other across his sick bed. She
had given him back 1ife-he would
give her happiness. So at last, pale
but illumined of face, he Joined their
hands firmly. saying as he smiled at
them: You are to let me play fairy
godfather, for being a good patient
Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-17

The head of the Farmers Union Is
severe in his denunciation OF theSfor-
mer secretary of the treasury and the
head OF the federal reserve board, on
account of their deflation policy. One
might be led to believe that only the
farmers suffered from that policy, but
the fact is that every industry in the
country was adversely affected. How
ever, it was something that must come
sooner or later. 1t was a disagree
able task and one certain to bring
condemnation at any time. Harding
and Houston happened to be the
goats. Any other men in their posi-
lions. with sufficient courage, would
have done as they did.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-17

f Between 1899 and 1920, in twenty
one years, there has been expended in
Greater New York, for building con-
struction of all kinds, a total of 49,
i95,O58, 900. This sum has built prac-
tica1ly every modern building in the
worlds greatest city. During the
same perio- the United States has
paid out S3,131,147,O0O for war pen
sions alone. The time for doing
something to prevent future wars
seems opportune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-17
Dorothy Dix Tails
Inh.nendent OId Age-f.
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worsd's Highest Paid Woman Writer.

The other day an old woman
brought suit to compel her son to sup
port her and in the trial of the case
it was proven that he had persuaded
his mother into deciding him all of her
property, and had then turned her out
of house and home.
The woman had been left COM
fortably well off by her husband, but
her son had wheedled her into Civ
ing him every penny she possessed by
telling her how much money he could
make if he only had little more capt.
tai, and how he would take care OF
her, and love and cherish her, and
how she would always be the most
honored guest in his house. He and
his wife gushed and gurgled over her
and overwhelmed her with attentions
until they got her money in their
greedy hands, and they then made a
servant of her, and finally wearied OF
her altogether and sent her to an old
Womans home.
1 hope all the old ladies in the coun-
try with a bit of money of their own,
will read the story of this trial. and
then cut it out and put it between the
leaves of their Bibles where they will
see it every day of their lives. 1t
ought to go along with the proverbs
of Solomon, for the wisest man who
ever lived could give them no more
sagactous counsel than they will find
in this little incident
Indeed, one does not need to be a
Solomon to say to all parents and es-
pecially to all old mothers, to keep a
strangle hold on their own pocket
books, and never to turn them over
to their children. If they want to
keep their children on their good be-
havior, and be PERSONA grata with
their in-laws, let them keep their own
money. For beAgEeen mother and
father who are independent, and
mother and father who are dependent,
between mother and father who have
gifts to give, and mother and father
who have to be taken care of. there is
great gulf fixed.
OF course parents who are tempted
to impoverish themselves for the sake
of their children, delude themselves
byNthinking that Mary and John will
repay them by their gratitude. A
cynic has defined gratitude as "A
lively sense of favors to come" and
this is just as true of ones children as
it is of strangers.
As long as there is more to come,
Mary and John do give a spirited ex-
[ hibition of thankfulness, but when the
old hands are empty, and there Is
nothing more to look for. Mary and
John quit registering gratitude with
a suddenness that takes away mothers
and fathers breah- No matter how
they come by it, the property is now
theirs, and they have no hesitation
ABOUT letting mother and father see
that they feel them burdens, or that
they are unwelcome in the very houses
they have given away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-17
WE BusrNEss REVIVAL.

THE BUSINESS REVIVAL.
The current record of freight car
loadings is reported to show that the
gross tonnage of freight in motion to-
day is only slightly below the high
mark established when business was
much more active than at present.
The official report shows that in the
week ending October % the railroads
loaded 962,292 carloads of revenue
freight. BY way OF comparison, the
preceding weeks record was 9O6,OS4
carloads and for the corresponding
week in 1920. it was 1,OO8,81s. The
high peak of weekly freight loading in
history is 1000 cars. The week of
october % this year showed the larg-
est tonnage moved of any week since
the last week of October, 1920. In a
percentage way the present activity
represents approximately 90 per cent
Of that of one year ago and "a per
cent of the high record.
It is worthy of note in this connec-
ton that railroad net earnings have
been increasing along with growing
traffic while many reductions in
freight rates have been put into eff
feet. These facts seem to sustain the
contention OF The State Journal that
a lowering of rates would stimulate
business generally and at the same
time result in an increase in the reve-
nue. of the roads.
1t is declared in some quarters that
the sharp increase of freight car load
ings shown in the most recent report
has been due to shipments of coal
stimulated by the approach of winter
and apprehension over the outlook for
strike disturbances in that industry
next February with their consequent
restriction of production.
The most acceptable explanation
for the present freight activity which
has been steadily rising for weeks, in
the opinion of the Iron Trade Review,
is that fundamental business condi-
tions in the country are not so bad as
many have led themselves to believe.
1t tends to demonstrate that the mere
maintenance and wear and tear needs
of this country are tremendous and
tIlaL VIII OillJ q MINIMUM VI new ell
terprise and extension added such as
has applied during the past year, the
resulting freight movement repre-
sents a very comfortable operation
for the railroads.
SHOULD the railroads now lend
themselves earnestly to a program of
substantial rate reduction as newt
ably they will be forced to do by
mounting public sentiment" continues
the Review, sit is a serious question
whether they have the motive power
and equipment facilities for handling
the increased traffic thereby effected.
One reliable estimate is that of the
approximately 175,0OO bad order cars
reported by the railroads, only about
10000 are fit for repairs. The pres
ent situation of freight car loadings
and the prospect for returning bust
ness drive home the truth that CO.
ordinate with freight reduction such
steps must be taken to enable the
railroads to finance a great program
of equipment and plant betterments.
A long step in this direction would be
the passing by congress of the rail-
road funding act which too long has
been the subject of political jockey
ing and unsee1lly delay"