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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-10
Dorothy Dix Talks
The Moment of Hysteria-2.
By DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

There is also the letter we write in
anger, in which we say bitter and
cruel things that stab to the sheart
those who love US, and that ALLEVIATE
friends If we would only wait until
our moment of hysteria had gone, it
would go into the fire instead of the
mail box, and we. would be spared
many a pang Of Conscience that we
have to endure when we remember
the things we wrote that we shouldn't
have written. It's a safe rule never
to post letter that you write in any
emotional stress until you have cooled
down from fever heat to normal.
The main danger to women, how
ever, is what they tell in their mo-
ment of hysteria. Every woman in
her sane hours knows the value OF re-
serve. especially with men. and more
especially with her husband. She
knows that no man ever tells his wife
all of his past life, or confesses to her
all of his little weaknesses and
plumbers, and she knows equally well
that a woman is an idiot who doesn't
keep her cwn counsel about her own
private affairs.
Notwithstanding this. nine women
out of ten blab everything they have
ever done, or thought OF doing, to the
men they love, often thereby wreckine
the mems faith in them, and filling
them with causeless Jealousy. Hys-
terra is the mother of confession, FOR
as long as we are in our sober senses
we have judgment enough to know
that our presents alone belong to those
about U.S. Our pasts are our own, and
there is no good accomplished by dig
ging up the dead, and holding post
mortems.
Most of all, should women beware
of their moments of hysteria in which
they confide their private affairs tc
others. This would be bad enough Il
the indiscreet woman involved only
| herself, but she does not stop at that
| She tells things about her family that
cover them with shame and disgrace
and she does it with no more provoca-
| ton than because you happen to be
with her on a moonlight night on q
hotel veranda, or you are seatmates ir
a Pullman car on a long journey; and
| the hour, and the place, and the seen
cry have made her emotional.
The summer season is now upon us
when hordes of women will foregathel
| in resort hotels where they will have
| nothing to do but talk. To these I say
| emphatically, beware the moment Of
| hysteria in which you let your bach
hair down in another woman's room
and the flood gates of speech are
| down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-10
BUSINESS IS BUSINESS.

During the war the American peo-
pie stinted themselves in the consump-
ton of food. They wore their old
clothes; they denied themselves all
sorts of comforts as we'll as luxuries
and practically discontinued their nor
NAL construction program. Improve
ment of highways was neglected, con-
struction of houses was deferred, the
railroads were permitted to decline in
maintenance of way and equipment,
and the improvement of our rivers and
harbors was practically abandoned.
Money that would ordinarily have
been spent in Keeping up the normal
increase in activity in these lines Of
enterprise was diverted to war ex-
penditures and loans to the allies. All
this deferred work must now be IN
dertaken by the United States at the
same time that the people of the coun-
try are taxing themselves to pay off
the war debt.
The United States accumulated a
national debt of some $26, 900, 100000,
on which there is an annual interest
charge totaling in the neighborhood
of a billion dollars. The American
people must tax themselves to pay a
billion dollars "a year in the form of
interest--an amount approximately
I. equal to the entire expenses of the
government for all purposes before the
war. Not only must this enormous in
terest charge be met. but, thru some
form of taxation, there must even
tually be raised a sufficient amount to
pay offethe principal OF the debt.
Presumably We shall receive from
Great Britain, France and other ma
lions approximately $4,000. 900, OoO
owed by them to US. but is it not about
time to remind them that we need
the money? OF course it is useless
to expect cash but there seems to be
no good reason why they should moi
hand over interest bearing bonds as
Germany has been forced to do ir
payment of reparations. At present
we have nothing but their notes OF
hand on which no interest is being
paid.
We have been generous with our
money but debt is a debt and should
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knows? But whatever It was. 4 was
enough for PhiIip. He leaped out Of
the cab and lifted her in, as If she
had been a feather. His erstwhile
gloomy face was aiight. his voice vital
and ringing as he called TO Pat:
Hey. there. old sober-sides, drive
on. 1t doesn't matter where-just
drive on" and he jumped back into
the cab beside the girl.
Yes sor," said Pat. who made for
Central park,-where he saw the green
distances beginning to turn to dainty
ling thru the dusk.
And some folks say the country
beats New York." he unused, forlornly
st. Patrick! How we'll hate it, the
nag and mel"
Three hours later he opened the lit
tie trap door in the roof. Sure. it's
not lookinr am. sor." he called, hut
how much longer do you want me
It's a hard day I have ahead of me
tomorrow and it's no dinner I've had,
sor."
He heard laugh below and-'Din-
ner! the poor old thing wants din
nerP' came up thru the trap door.
Then the young man got out and came
up close to Pat.
"Say, driver" he said, smiling at
the girl who was leaning around the
side, 1--WE both think this is the incest
reasons for liking this old bus. What
would YOU say to engaging yourself to
us as our own and particular driver
at the rate of $50 month? Would
that cover things for you?"
There was a silence thru which Pat
looked at all the little blinking lights
of Central park and the brilliant
length of Fifth avenue beyond. The
young man, not understanding, con-
tinued:
""we're going to be married next
week-and-well, We like your style
that's all. What do you say?"
- Good God, sor-I. well. make II
eighty-foive and I'm wild you," said
Pat huskily.
Copyright, 1921. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-10
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE

We are intrigued by the communi-
cation Of William Arde. who thru
the columns of the Public Ledger, has
undertaken to dispose of the Box
award. We think, of course, that it
is all right for Mr. Arde to relieve the
trustees of all work in the connection.
We believe his willingness to spend
Mr.. Bok's money is commendable.
The gent who is distributing the other
fellows money is more liberal with it
than the guy who has to dig it up:
But Mr.. Arde practically has counted
us out in the distribution of the Box
award, and we do not intend to stand
for such summary treatment.
1t may be a selfish view to take of
the matter. but we hereby announce
our candidacy for the Box award.
And no outsider can bar US from the
competition.
Something In the Carburetor.
Sir-One of our set thinks that
LIES essentials, such as foodstuffs and
clothing, should be free as air and
that all luxuries, including art objects,
should be earned and paid for. An
other positively declares the better
the reverse. What shall we do? Or
does this merely illuminate opposite
characteristic the rest of us?
P. H. 8.
The lesson of the ages is that the
only things worth anything to us are
those for which We must strive. Lies
dividends are paid on industry, good
behavior, honesty, generosity, kindli-
ness and love. Sometimes the divi-
dends are paid in satisfaction, some-
| times in other coin. Humanity needs
something to do and something to
| love. The finest thrill is that of per-
sonal achievement. The greatest fall
| ure is the man who believes somebody
should do something for him.
The person who believes that in
some mysterious way, either by the
workings of economic law or by the
| legislative process, he can be or should
! be relieved of his obligations to ex-
istence has something in his car
| buretor.
! In the first place, the thing can't
be done. In the second place. it would
be of no value to him if it could.
Since our reactions seem to interest
a few, we take the liberty of bestow-
| ing a. tardy mark on James Brown
Potter, father of Mrs Stillman, who
| the announced intention of looking
after his family.
It seems to us, and we speak only
as a disinterested onlooker, that had
| Mr.. Potter had the welfare OF his
family properly at heart he would
have been here two weeks ago.
The story that Mr.. Ford has pro-
duced only 5,000,0 600 Henrys seems a
gross underestimate. Any fairly alert
citizen residing in a rural community
adjacent to a city, can count more
than that any fair Sunday.
AS an educator Mr.. Ford has fallen
somewhat short OF the mark he sci
for himself. But we give him credit
for one thing. He is primarily re-
sponsible for more of the people who
"hog" the middle of the road thar
any other one man.
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LITTLE BEERY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE

Yestidday in skool Miss Kitty told
the class we would have a ixamina-
ton in joggriffy today, joggriffy be-
ing one of my weakest things on &C.
count of the names of the places and
the boundries, and this morning I
Woak up thinking. Aw heck. kan
ination in joggriffy.
And vile I was getting dressed
noticed the mark from my sore toe
that had last week, thinking, G,
gosh, bet If I put ALI my weight
on wen I wawked 1 bet it would still
make me limp, darn that joggriffy
Examination.
WITCH tried it to see, and I limped
easy as enything. thinking, Holey
srnoaks, sthis sore toe amt half bet
ter yet.
And limped, in the bathroom ware
pop was shaving his face. saying, Hay
pop. watts you know, do you remember
that sore. toe I had?
My life has bin rich In events sints
that time but have no doubt I could
recall it to mind IL concentrated for
vile. sed pop keeping on shaving.
Well I'm still limping on account
of it. pop. look at me, pop, I sed.
A sore toe stubbed and limped away
will live to limp another day, sed pop
keeping on shaving, and sed, Maybe
all 1t needs is q good rest, pop. maybe
| IL stayed home from joggriffy, I
meeh from skool, this morning. maybe
the rest mite do it so mulch good
maybe it mite never bert eny more
maybe
Maybe is as maybe does, It sounds
like a very brite ideer, sed pop keep
| ing on shaving. Me thinking, G.
herray. WITCH jest then all of a sud-
den pop stopped shaving, saying. Well
can you beet that, I left bag OF
candy out on the frunt steps last mite,
I put it down vile was getting out
my door KEY and then eileen forgot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-10
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk

One of my lifelong idols has been
Wendell Phillips. America has not
produced in. all its history a man so
ruled by ideas. All progress he
He believed in smashing institutions
in order to make way for ideas!
And those ideas he believed should
come from the masses. 81 go out with
no faith whatever in institutions" he
once said. And on he fought present
ing ideas to the people. A half a cen
fury later finds them doing business.
The great question of the future
he long ago said, sis money against
legislation. My friends. you and will
be in our graves long before that bat
tie is ended" Had this great man but
lived, he would now observe that truth
only just beginning to creep under the
skin of the masses.
But what shall this great battle be
fought with? What weapons? 1.-THE
answer is-ideasi
Ideas are what make democracy
possible. Inertia may be temporarily
throttled-but ideas will inevitably
sieve thru the thickest tyranny.
And if this world is. to be made q
very good place in which to live, ideas
must rule.
The things that we seem the mos
alarmed about are usually those af.
fairs which are invested with the larg'
est number of impregnated ideas. AND
yet within them lies the creates
source of latent power.
The pulse of the world is felt II
| ideas.
But with ideas you must risk much
| You must at times become merely Z
lonely truth teller"
After one of his great and stirrins
| addresses in which he had not minced
words. Henry Ward Beecfer was nae
at his hotel by a man and told that il
he did not take back what he had said
| the man would shoot him. ":Shoo
away" replied Beecher.
you must. Iook down the moutl
| OF q revolver" once wrote George Ed
ward Woodbury., ito learn how oftel
l it misses the mark"
Travel with ideas and you may b
lonely-but you viii never be in
significant
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be paid or placed in negotiable form.
Business Is business.
Up to the present the most concrete
suggestion on this subject has come
from the president himself when he
expressed the hope that we might be
able within a reasonable period to
change the form OF these obligations,
distribute them among the people.
and in this way release a great vol
umeL of. wealth and credit from the
burden that government has been i'm
posing"
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JUST FOLKS

BIZ EDGAR A. GUEST.

PEACE OF MIND.
Life has no richer joy than peace OF mind.
This is the common goal Of great and
low,
know .
If happiness on earth be Is to find:
To live his days and never leave behind
Shame or regret or hatred's drifted snow,
Taking the pleasures as they come and go,
Nor asking others Of a greater kind.
Who wears this lovely Jewel on his breast
Has none to envy, for no man can be
Happier with all his treasures than is he !;
To come to nightfan or gray, wrinkled
age,
Content with what Is written on the page.
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A Guest)
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1t has been discovered that the eff
fects of the emergency tariff law as
regards wool have been discounted.
The. information is given out that
heavy foreign buying has been already
done on American account and there
have been heavy importations of
clothing woods. All the protectionists
can do now is to blame the whole sit
uation on the Democrats There can
be little satisfaction in this course be-
cause the Democrats received their
punishment last November and have
nothing more to lose.
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miracles aren't over somebody must
have it by this time.
Ill run down and look. pop. Ill run
down and look, I sed all ixcited. WITCH
I did. running down stairs as If never
had limp and never Expected to, and
opened the frunt door and looked
and there wasent enything out there,
me thinking, Holey heck. I bet pop jest
made that up to see weather 1 had
a limp or not. So I dident say eny
more to him about the candy and he
dident say eny more to me about my
toe, and went to skooi and the ixam-
ination could of bin verse. but not
mulch.
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GETTING BACK TO NORMAL.

VEL 41IN0 41<ASAA ~ ~NO4h4A<AAAs
In the month ended June the per
capita circulation fell off SO cents, TO
s55.43 a person, according to an an
nouncement by the treasury. This
shows conclusively that prices are
falling" says James Mccoy. actuary
of the treasury. It would have been
nearer the exact truth to have said
that prices are being forced down
ward
Probably this trend of prices will
be regarded as an evidence of a nearer
approach to normally by those who
have looked forward to a return of
former times and conditions.
But there seems to be no normal
standard which is generally accepted
as wholly desirable. Most persons,
perhaps, would describe normal as
the good old days. when a dollar
was worth one hundred cents. others
might define it as a state of prosper
ity when every one was satisfied with
his job and willing to work for the
pay he received. Others might say it
pertained to a time when the cost of
living was not SO high that the family
income could not meet it.
Normal Is described by the VOL
man Review as a condition under
which commodities and services are
produced by. and distributed among,
various groups of society on a basis
that permits the greatest freedom of
exchange.
People say they want a return to
normal conditions, but practically all
the measures now being advocated,
says the Review, operate to delay a
return to the balanced state that is
an essential requisite. There is moth
ing suggestive of normality, it points
out, about ten-cent cotton and coal at
$14 ton; or labor at a dollar an hour
in the building trades and a dollar a
day on the farms. Farm products
are being sold today on the basis of
dollar labor. and that is the reason
the farmer is not buying automobiles,
household furnishings and countless
other products turned out by indus
trial labor. The output of his farms
will not buy enough of the output of
the factories to keep the factories
supplied with orders. There must be
a better balance. Either farm prod
ucts' must go up or factory products
and factory wages must come down.
| 1t might be said that it would be a
great thing to have farm products go
up to a point that would balance the
industrial price, but here we must
| consider Europe There is a world
balance also that must be restored.
If we only had to consider the domes-
tic situation it would be simple, the
oretically at least, to balance the buy
: ing power of our own groups SO that
/ products would flow from one to an
other with reasonable freedom. But
we produce more food products. raw
materials and manufactured goods
than we can consume. We cannot
get high prices abroad for our exports
because the rest of the world canno:
afford to pay them. A state of nor
NAL would mean either that we CONS
down to Europe's ideas of prices OF
that they come up to ours.
| In all probability there will be. con-
cessions on both sides Just as there
must be between different domestic
groups. Something approaching 6
balance must be struck in order to ge.
back to normal.
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Those who urge a reduction of
w es on the basis of a decline in liv-
inS costs are not wholly justified by
the facts. Many living expenses in
Topeka remain at the highest point
ever known. Among these are rent,
carfare and taxes. Besides. the costs
of light water and telephone have not
declined. A reduction in wages is nec-
essary in order to bring down these
expenses. but it can hardly be said
that an extensive cut Justly can be
based on reduced cost of necessaries
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-10

Workers in the big steel mills ac-
cepted a cut of 20 per cent in wages
without complaint. The deflation of
railroad wages probably will be made
without disturbance. A reduction of
coal miners wages promises to be next
in order. Deflation plays no favor
ites
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-10

Just as it is frequently alleged that
the north fought to free the slaves
in the Civil war, so it now is urged by
some that this country fought Ger
many in the Great War to free the
world. The truth is that in both in
stances our country was fighting for
the preservation of the nation. Free
ing the slaves and making the world
safe for democracy were incidental.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-10

The census bureau reports that
there were nearly three and one-half
million goats in this. country in 1920.
There are times when 1t seems as tho
there are about 10O,0O0,OOO.
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Copyright. 1926 by rbe wneeles Syndicate
Incl
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International
SundaySchoolLesson
By WILLIAM II. ELLIS.

For June IL, is Making the World
Christian. 11:1-10: Acts
1:1-9
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-29
c. c. HOLIDAY
ALBANY ELEVEN
MING OCT. 7
Local Football Season To Open
On That Date At Playground
HI Spirit High

Interest in football at the Ameri-
Gus High school has started in high
gear. Thirty candidates for positions
on the team have turned out for prac-
tice, forming a squad containing a
good supply of promising material
and Coach Sullivan announces that
a snappy team is in prospect if the
lads keep up the high spirits which
they have now.
The local season will be opened
Friday, October Z, when the Albany
High school team comes for a game
that should be one of the best to be
staged this season despite the fact
that it comes early. 1t is announced
that the Americus team will be main
tanned strictly high school students
team, with no ringers tolerated. AL
bany is expected to play the same
kind of team here, and a good clean
game is anticipated Albany will
have bit the edge, as she hooks up
with cambridge this week, giving
the Albany players the advantage of
the experience of one Tame. However,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-29
new CRAINRATE
AID TO FARMERS
Transit Arrangements, Reducing
transportation Charges, An
nounced BY Railroads

In order to take proper care Of
the great corn crop now maturing
railways operating in this territory
have agreed to establish at once
transit arrangements covering the
shucking, shelling and milling in tran
sit Of Southern grown corn. This
concession on the part of the trans
portation companies will enable the
grower and miller to handle the
great crop economically. Moreover,
it will enable the farmer to take adj
vantage of storage and milling fa-
cilities at central points, without adj
ditional freight charges.
This action means that the farmer
can find a reader market for his corn
I'm large centers; of if he prefers that
he can avail himself of storage ware.
houses secure from the weeyil. The
smaller communities lack facilities
and even if investors were ready to
supply the necessary funds the grain
elevators could not be built in time
to handle this years crop.
The Central of Georgia Railway
was one of the prime movers in this
matter, and its freight department
gives out the following statement:
''The agreement of the railroads
simply means that the farmer san
ship his corn to some central point
have it shucked, shelled or converted
into corn products at the mills there,
and continue it's shipment to destina-
tion at the through rate that would
apply from the original shipping point
TO the final destination; instead OF
having to pay the local rate to the
milling center and then another local
rate from the milling center to the
destination.
"For instance the rate on corn
from Millen to Macon is 10. cents per
and the rate on corn
products (such as meal, flour, grits,
hominy, etc. from Macon TO New
nan is II f-2 cents, total of 36 12
cents. Under the transit privileges
which the roads will grant the far
mer can avail himself of the through
rate of 25 cents per hundred, saw
ing Of IL 1-2 cent per hundred.
Formal notices of this action viii
be sent out within the next few days
and details may be obtained from
any freight agent Of the Central of
Georgia Railway"