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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-22

sponsibie for every inch OF progress
the world has ever made.
They finance such SCIENTIFIC re-
search as is ever under way. and they
meet the bills for education, for Gull
ture and for sanitation. They lay tne
rails, build the bridges. plan and erect
the hospitals. plant the desert, DE-
velop the natural resources ana IN
tertainment. They stand for civiliza-
ton. for law and order and decency-
If they haven't got the right to run
this country, who has?
We have known many apostles OF
the various new days. We have met
and discussed the state of the nation
with advance agents of all the pana-
many of them Intimately and have
studied them at short range.
We never knew one who was not
either mental inefficient of a moral
bankrupt.
We never knew one who had con-
tributed anything to his own home or
to his community. We never knew
one who had produced concrete
thought of any value to mankind or
who had performed a constructive
service to himself or his community.
We never knew one who was worth
a tinker's dam to himself or anybody
else.
Probably we do not rightly know
what class consciousness is. We never
had it. But If it is the sort of thing
that converts the steady. reliable
work;ngman into a wilmer and a
drooler. it is a bad thing. It has new
err been able to do anything for him;
it can't do anything now, nor at any
future time.
Mr.. Cornick says the battle has
been going on 100000 years. If he
will indicate it, we shall be glad to
print the name and date of any en-
gagement class consciousness has ever
won.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-22
THE x. %. NIEMoRIAL.

The permanent memorial of 125
former students of the University Of
Kansas who died in service (seven
being Topekans), the development OF
higher education in Kansas and school
loyalty are linked together in the
cause of the K. U. Memorial. Friends
of the university in Shawnee county
this week are working to obtain
pledges of $4,000 toward the $1,000
600 goal for, the Memorial fund.
Chancellor Lndley has described
the significance of the two Memorial
structures, the Stadium and the Kan
sas Union building. The Stadium.
seating $4,000 persons, will be situated
less than thirty miles away from To-
peka with hard surface roads inter-
vening in less than a year. The Sta
dunn will have more than local value
as the great outdoor amphitheater of
Kansas.
The Kansas Union will have the
double purpose of serving visitors and
students. Visitors at the university
will find rooming and dining accom-
modations on the campus. Students
will find a general meeting place. with
rooms for organization gatherings and
recreation. The Union will be an in
valuable asset for the highest devel-
opment of the flower of youthful
Kansas, Chancellor Lindley has de-
clared.
A third feature of the Memorial will
be the Daniel Chester French statue
of Uncle Jimmy Green. loved dean
of the K. U. law school Dean Green
has been described as ''Lincolnlike in
his devotion to men," His friendship
for his hundreds of students and his
support of athletics have given him
permanent place in the hearts of X.
U. people.
The pride felt by Kansas people
generally and Topeka people particu-
larly in the states big school doubt
less will bring a hearty response 20
the appeal for subscriptions to the
Memorial fund.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-22
Ouestions-Answes

O.. Can a copy Of Chief Justice whites
will be obtained &C. NJ.
A. A certified copy of this will may be
obtained from the order department OF the
words. 1t reads: This is my last will
I give bequeath, and devise to my wife,
Leita NJ. White in complete and perfect
ownership, all my rights and property
of every kind and nature, whether real. per-
pointing her executrix of my estate. with
out bond and giving her seisin thereof"
Q. How has the membership in churches
compared with the increase in population
in the United States ?-J. L. W.
A. The bureau Of census says that the
first religious census was taken ID 1890.
At this time 32.7 per cent of the popula-
ton of the United States were church mem
bers. In 1906, 391 per cent. and in 1916,
Al per cent were church members.
Q; How is the reach OF boxer meas
A. boxers reach Is measured from
the tip of one hand to the tip of the other
O. What is implied when q person is
said to be shedding crocodile tears"?-D-
W. P.
grief The Crocodile was tabled to weep
as it ate its victims
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-22

The Provinces of Flanders. Bel
GUM, comprising the Client district,
exported to the United States $1,000
600 worth of merchandise during
1920, compared with s5,s56,oO0 dur
ing 1913, the goods being mainly rab-
bit skins and hatters' fur, old bag
cling, chicory roots, cotton goods, hops,
thread and flax waste. This district
Imported from the United States 14e,-
eco bales Of cotton worth $29,000,090,
and $4,000 tells of rock phosphate
from Florida Approximately 10000
bales of raw cotton will be consumed
in 1921, about one-half of which is
expected to come from America. 1t is
sneeringly suggested by protective
tariff advocates that it would probably
suit the flee trader to have this cot
ton paid for by Belgium with manu-
featured cotton goods. But If Bel
GUM do not pay in goods of some
sort, how is she to pay? We have her
money already. and she is in debt to
us besides.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-22
George Matthetp Adams
Daily Talk
TO MY FRIEND IN SORROW.

I am sure that no words of mine
are able to take from your heart the
loneliness that has crowded out the
laughter that was SO recently there.
But I sorrow with you The love
that had for her beautiful and happy
soul I give to you who loved her
and who now miss her so.
I can understand a little. for 1 have
always wanted a little girl to love.
And because she never came with her
as she might have BEEN But you
think of the one who was so dear to
you as she was.
I have thought of you thru your
days and nights and wished that I
might comfort you Just little.
But as the lovely sunset must be
felt as well as seen, so are words of
sympathy colorless and gray to one
who has had the little sweetheart of
his heart taken away. One must be
father and mother in one to under
stand adequately.
The best that I can do is TO loan to
you some of the beautiful tall angels"
that have been so good to me. And
ask them to stay pretty close to you.
You are much to me. Your fine
and generous spirit is constant in
spiration to me. And your fame and
success in the world are links of my
own happiness, that make the world
much moro splendid.
The sweetness of the smiles that are
now stilled will go out thru your no.
BILE influence to bigger lands and to
more people-and the scent of the
newer fragrance will be felt deeper
than ever.
The song OF your heart will radiate
into SUMMER heavensi
Her play was so happy. So you
mustn't begrudge God having her in
His garden-playing where the flowers
are always blooming.
Remember that love is melting all
around her-where she is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-22

1t is reported on. good financial
authority that federal reserve notes
are selling in Europe above gold value.
This is because they can be moved
less extensively than gold and are ex-
changeable for the yellow dollars on
demand American money rapidly IS
becoming the money of the world and
there is in progress a general scram-
BILE for dollars. Time was when Eu-
rope would not look at our paper
money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-22

The farmers relief bill recently in
troduced by Senator Curtis has been
passed by the senate, and there are
said to be assurances that it will re-
ceive favorable consideration in the
house. The measure authorizes loans
to federal farm loan banks of sums
up to s5O.OOO.oO0 for distribution
among farmers at annual interest of
not more than 51z per cent 1.-THE
government will lose no money what
ever" declared Senator Curtis in ex-
PLANTATION of the bill. TT is simply a
loan, or an advance, in the discretion
of the secretary, to the federal land
banks, and is bound to come back.
The security is the very best; and Il
there is a class of people on earth
needing relief now it is the farmers
of this country" The assurance that
"the government will lose no money
will be welcomed by the public. but
what it would like to know, further, is,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-22

1t seems that the amendment to the
federal constitution comforting upon
women the right to vote does not in
ciude the right to smoke cigarets in
public places. At least this is the
view of Representative johnson of
Mississippi, who has introduced in the
house a bill prohibiting such indul-
gence. Mr.. Johnson's proposed en-
actment is so clearly class legislation
that it is doubtful that it would stand
a test in the United States supreme
court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-22

Senator kellogg of Minnesota has
introduced a bill that confers upon
the federal government the power to
enforce, even against states, treaty
rights that may be given to aliens m
the United States. Under the terms Of
the measure. when in his judgment a
state statute contravenes treaty
rights of aliens, the president may de-
fend prosecutions brought by state Of
ficials, and obtain the transfer of
cases to federal courts for trial.
United States marshals and the army
and navy would be placed at the dis
posal of the president to enforce de-
cisions. 1t has been suggested that
the anti-alien land laws OF California,
directed at the Japanese, might be
affected by the new bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-22

similar intent are to be introduced
into the state legislatures.
The feminists seem to differ greatly
as to just what part woman should
play in life. Some OF them seem to
think that she should be primarily
wife and mother and others that she
should have the whole world of work
open to her. But on one point they
seem to agree and are hard to refute
The woman who has to work for her
living. and perhaps for the livings of
her children, should not be deprived
of her Job or paid q lower salary be-
cause of her sex.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-22
Dorothy Dix Tails
By DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
The Effect Of Absence on Lowe

The Effect of Absence on Love-.
We often wonder how a man can
endure to live with a fretty, naggins
wife, who complains about the same
things every day. and who warns him
every morning when he goes out not
to be run over by the street car, and
to take his umbrella, and to wear his
oyershoes, or to be sure to walk on
the shady side of the street. We mar
vel that a woman does not commit
suicide who has to endure a husband
who spends his time monologuinS
about how wonderful and great he is
Tie reason is that these husbands
and wives are SO accustomed to each
other that they have ceased to notice
each other or listen to each other, and
their salvation lies in their never being
separated long enough to get good
clear view of each other Absence is
fatal to them because when they come
together again they see each other as
they are, and without any of the soft
eninE veil of romance thru which they
beileld each other in their youth.
II is as disillusioning to go back to
your own family after a long absence
ae it is to go back home, and just as
the one recipe for being contented in
the village in which you weresborn. or
SO the only way to keep the fires
burning on the altar of love is to stay
and tend the furnace.
We never stay still. As long as we
live we either grow ana 1lnpTOVe, or
we shrink and deteriorate, and If a
husband and wife hope to keep to-
gether spiritually they must be shaped
by the same environment, and this IS
why those who risk a long separation
jeonardize their love.
The man who roams far afield.
who has strange adventures, and
broadens, and polishes, thru contact
with the world, cannot help but grow
away from the little, provincial wife
he has left behind him. And like
WISE she is weaned from him. and he
| becomes a stranger to all her modes
of thought.
When they meet. they have nothing
| in common. They are as constrained
and as dumb with each other as we
are when we meet our old school fell
; low and find that we cannot take up
again the old intimacy.
Yet husbands and wives get on
each others nerves when they are
z: continually together. They talk out.
! and get to boring each other, and
even the most devoted couples find
that they are happier and better for
an occasional vacation from each
other
| All of which seems to indicate that
absence is like certain potent medi-
cines. curative in broken doses. dead
| ly in big doses. and should be taken
with discretion.
A short absence makes the heart
grow fonder of a husband or wife, but
a long absence makes it grow fonder
of the other fellow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-22
THE TAX REFORM PROGRAM.


The program of reform at Wash
ington appears to have become lost
in the fog of politics, declares the
Bache Review. This evidently is true
of, the promise to relieve the country
of dangerous and destructive tax
methods. The hubbub and stress of
the hearings before the senate COM
mittee on finance have come and
gone, and for the moment there is a
dead silence on the tax horizon.
A great show of fairness to both
sides before the committee was made,
continues the Review, but apparently
from the very start, almost, the leaders
had made up their minds that no mat
ter how beneficial to the country q
reform of taxation on sound lines
might be, political expediency would
not permit them to do the right thing.
Accordingly. they allowed the cry to
go out to the country, that congress-
men were unalterably committed
against anything which would take
the burden off the backs of the rich
and load it upon the stomachs of the
poor. This has been repeatedly
proved to be a piece of misleading po-
litical humbug. 1t must react event.
ually as the public becomes aware OF
the truth, which is that the present
taxes are almost universally shifted
and that everybody is already paying
them.
During all these sessions not one
vital objection was presented against
the sales tax. The stock arguments,
carefully formulated and outlined
originally by Professor Adams, and
taken up and elaborated and made
more and more untenable and ridicu-
lous by his political and other follow
ers. have, in effect, been swept aside
by their own weakness. Not one hon
est, knockdown argument was pre-
scented before the committee; that is,
any argument that would make the
sales tax impossible or inadvisable, or
anything but expedient, necessary and
inevitable.
The strong arguments in favor of
the tax are making their way deeper
and deeper into the psychology of the
whole people. The hearings at Wash
ington and the endeavor to make
them appear extremely unfavorable,
have had no more effect than the
beating of a drum in the distance. A
few days ago Harold Young, secretary
of the National Retail Dry Goods as
ISOLATION, declared in an address that
the sales tax measure is inevitable
! and that the sooner merchants put
their shoulders to the wheel and
showed it across, the better off the
entire country would be.
This sales tax is almost too good
to be true" he said, and charged that
all other tax measures destined to aid
the small merchant had been beaten
by the rich men and that the poor
man had helped them thru ignor-
ance."
AAd the Atlanta merchants, before
whom he spoke. were reported to be
unanimous for the sales tax, and ap-
plauded Mr.. Young when he said;
The politicians ara constantly on the
job and the merchant is not, and
therefore the latter is seldom consid.
cred when legislation is to be enact.
ed that concerns his business. But
the merchants want only that &c
which they are Justly entitled They
are entitled to this sales tax and will
get It."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-22

who is to make money out of the
transaction. 1t can hardly be the
farmers. At the existing prices of
agricultural products. producers
thereof can hardly be justified IN pay
ing Y per cent for money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-22

It is announced that striking To-
peka printers, pressmen and binders
will go to the harvest fields. There
was time when the demand for
binders in the wheat fields was great,
but binding now is done by machinery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-22

The Irish situation probably will
remain in its present acute stage for
some time. to come. The American
Federation of Labor seems to be I'M
able to agree on the terms of settle
ment. If the federation fail it might
turn the matter over to the Nonparti-
san league.
The Dolores star., 1921-05-13
CROSS ROAD

We forgot to mention in our items
last week the death of Mrs. Marie
Perrsult. Mrs. Perrault was Mrs. A.
c. Corbetts mother.
Dragging the roads is the order of
the day in our community at present.
Mrs. Charles Melvin received word
Monday of the death of her sister,
Mrs. Haak of Denver. Mrs. Haak will
be remembered in our neighborhood as
Phebe Hill. Mrs. Melvin left on the
train Tuesday for Denver.
Mrs. VIM. Peel was called to Man
cos Saturday by the illness of her
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Hollis Peel.
Club met last week with Mrs. Edna
Longenbaugh. lovely time was had
by all present. Everybody come out
next meeting as it will be election of
officers.
Will Dennison was Dolores visitor
Tuesday.
Chas. Melvin went to Dolores Friday
and had some much needed dental
work done,
The Dolores star., 1921-05-13
Mr.. Bob.

A smile minute for two hours will
make one hundred and twenty smiles.
One hundred and twenty smiles in one
evening makes q pretty fair record,
even for the most amiable person.
"Mr. Bob. the play to be given at
the X. P. Hall May 20 by the Dolores
High school, guarantees "a smile q
minute.
Synopsis: Miss Becky is secretly
planning to turn the house into a
winter home for destitute cats. Every
body is expecting some one to come,
and when Mr.. Brown. q total stranger,
arrives he is mistaken for three differ
ent men and the situation grows re-
diculousiy complicated. There are mis-
understandings. masqueradings, q yacht
race. smothered cats. and a missing
codicil.
The part of Philip Royson, q young
M. D., who is reckless yachtmsn. is
Newell Musgraye.
Robert Brown is so bewildered by
his mistaken identity and SO harassed
by their telling him constantly not to
be Brown that he feels more than
Brown, done to q crisp" Ronald
Mair plays Mr.. Brown.
Jenkins of noble and dignified blood
is the butler in love with Patty who
calls him her Romeo. The butler is
acted by Llewellyn Brumley.
Alice Morgan plays Patty, a stage
struck maid who divides her time be-
tween dancing, playing practical jokes
on jenkins, and rehsarsing scenes from
Shakespearean tragedies.
Rebecca Luke. maiden lady, plans
to spend fortune on a winter home
for destitute cats. OF course her plans
are opposed by those interested in the
family fortune. This character in
portrayed by Erin Plumlee.
Katherine Rogers, the niece Of Miss
Becky, is full of ginger and pep and
enjoys the excitement immensely
Rowena Drury Is katherine.
She is supported by Mary Belmear
in the part of Marion Bryant, nick.
named Bob" and "just dying for a
lark" She has one.
The Dolores star., 1921-05-13
YELLOW JACKET

MRS. Eva Stevenson is moving back
on her ranch after having spent the
winter on the Sheldon place. Mr.,
Reed is expected from Kansas in short
time.
Jack Rose, of Sylvan, hauled load
of hay from the Duncan place near
Lewis, Sunday and incidentally brought
Miss Lola Stevenson home.
George Lowry of Sylvan, made a
business trip to Cortez Tuesday and
returned Thursday.
Ben Schelidler was in Dolores last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. G. Mari and child
ren have returned to their home at
Sylvan after an absence of several
months spent in the German settle.
ment near Dolores.
Miss Hazel Campbell came from
Sylvan on horseback Tuesday to visit
her sister, Mrs. Clinton Woods,
Misses Ruth Jones and Iva Marr
spent Friday night with Marian Willis
at the Sylvan camp.
Will Gilliland is home with his family
having resigned his position with A. A.
Rust at Dolores.
Chas. Make and Lawson Bowling
hauled hay from the Lybar place Sun.
day stopping on the way to eat dinner
with Prof. and Mrs. Clyde Rombourp.
Miss Opal Tracy spent Sunday and
Monday with Uncle Jake and Aunt
Mae Moody.
The Dolores star., 1921-05-13

WE notice by our exchanges
that most towns have a cleanup
day, and we believe that such a
day would be benefit to Dolores
The weather will probably be set
tied by the first of June so that it
would be safe for the mayor to
designate day and request all
citizens to clean up their yards and
alleys. He might 60 farther and
request them to clean up their bus
mess, their conversation, their
recreation and their lives in gen.
eral.
The Dolores star., 1921-05-13

MANCoS has taken steps to re.
duce the tax in the school district
in which the town is located by
doing away with the manual train
ing and domestic science depart
mentS of the Maucos schools. We
are sorry to learn that the patrons
of the schools of our sister town
have thought it necessary to take
this step. Mancos has always
been at the head of the good
school procession in Montezuma
county. She was the first to build
an up-to-date school building, the
first to adopt the modern way Of
transporting Children from rural
districts to town and giving them
the advantage of graded schools
and efficient teachers. She was
the first to introduce athelets into
her schools, and her basketball
teams have advertised the town to
good advantage throughout the
Western slope. The fact is that
Mancos owes her prominence
among the towns of Montezuma
county to the fact that she had
excellent schools. Homeseeker
from other states and from other
parts Of this state have settled in
Town of Mancos and in the sur
rounding country simply because of
the advantage the schools with their
transportation of country children
offered. The increase in real value
that the schools of Mancos have
added to the property of that town
and the surrounding country is
greater than the cost of the build
ing erected and money spent to con-
duct the schools in the twentieth
century way. Do not kill the
goose that lays the golden eggs.