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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02
Observation-Disclosures

O. What can be done for prickly heath
A. The following cooling lotions are
recommended: weak carbolic acid or So
Q. What are the worlds records for
running broad jump and running high
A. The running broad Jump record Of
"a feet, 11A in. was made in 1901 by +.
o'cmnof (Englandl. The running high
by L. E. ,Beeson (California), in 1914.
Q. Why is man who is given a years
sentence, sentenced for "a year and day ?"
A The Department of Justice says that
there is no federal statute making it COM
a day. This was the time fixed by am
cient law to which certain actions were
limited. A stray horse or other animal had
to be claimed within this period or 1t be-
came the property of the lord of the manor
A person wounded had to die within this
period in order to make person infitcting
the wound guilty Of murder.
Q. What is the difference between the
red and pink salmon of commerce? J.. c. Y.
is in amount of fat or in the amount Of
distribution Of oil in the tissues
g. What is meant by the expression %,
A. The middle aisle Of old st Paui's in
London, where the tomb of Duke Humph-
reg Is said d to be- Is called Duke HnmIphreys
Humphrey was in allusion to persons who
walked there during dinner time?
Q. When vas the final destruction Of
A. Jerusalem exists today, but TIE an
Client city of Jerusalem was finally de-
in 20 A. D. Modern Jerusalem was planned
GO years later, altho little is knewn of its
history before the time of Constantine the
Great.
o. Was William Howard Taft candi-
date for the presidency at the, time he
A. Chief Justice Test was candidate
for the Republican nomination for the
presidency when in August. 1907, he started
on the trip around the. world.
Q. When will there be a readjustment
Of wages paid coal miners? n. c. B.
A New wage scales for the coal indus
O.: What kind ofA bird is the guidguid
A. In tropical America this name is
given to any small bird having a quickly
repeated cry, particularly to those which
seek their insect food on the floor OF the
@. How can dry cells be reloaded?
A. The bureau Of Standards SAYS there
is no satisfactory process for reIoading dry
30. g , What z I, are the largest arc. lights
A The largest arc lights in terms Of
candlepower are probably those used in
the candiepower Of the arc without the
reflector is OF the order Of 100000.
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YIELDING TO HUNGER.

By offering to trade food to Russia
for the release of American prisoners,
Secretary Hoover has afforded to Lee
min and Trotzky an opportunity to
save their faces. Secretary Hughes
already had demanded the release of
our citizens held in soviet prisons.
Reports that the rule of Lenin and
Trotzky is about to collapse have been
repeated so often that they no longer
command attention. Having since
1917 succeeded in crushing all at
tempts at counter-revoiution, the So
Wet rulers seem today to be more
firmly established than at any time
before.
OF course, our intelligence. coupled
with such knowledge as we have of
the failure of the communistic exper-
iment, will not permit US to entertain
the belief that Russia's present rulers
can go on Indefinitely with their ruin
alton of a people more numerous than
those of the whole North American
continent. = Even the most casual re-
view of their career shows how alb
jectly these men have.failed in every
thing save the quenching of counter
revolutions. They have failed in their
promise, made to the peasants. to So
cialize the land. They have failed In
their promise. made to the workers,
to establish industrial communism.
They have failed in their promise,
made to the soldiers, to bring peace.
Indications are multiplying that
events in Russia are moving to n eli
max, and following that climax, a
people shut off from the outside world
since 1917 Swill strive to take a place
again in the social and economic sys-
tenn.
II anything be-clear about Russia, it
would seem to be that the party of
which Lenin Is the head, and which
Is made up OF only 100000 members
in Russia, cannot much longer go on
imposing its political will upon a des-
perate people. The ground has for
some time been giving way under
their feet; how much longer they can
hold out is an open question This
much is sure; COMMUNISM has failed
in Russia because it defied imnutabIe
basic economic laws, and now that
what Secretary Hughes calls an "eco-
nomic vacuum" is the result. a mere
modifying or yielding OF communistic
principles by Lenin will hardly suf-
flee. The damage done has been toc
absolute, and out of an utter economic
collapse it remains for a whole people
to build anew, in every sense of the
lwcrd.
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the ranks of the Republicans supon
whom the mantle of Fuller might well
fall Taft had determined upon White,
however, and insisted upon the ap-
pointment.
White held state offices in LOUISE
ana, and was elected United States
senator in 1891.
President Harding set a precedent
by appointing a former president as
chief justice Taft's father was Sec
rotary of war and attorney general in
the Grant cabinet. and was American
minister to Austria under the Ar
1itical office was that of prosecuting
attorney for Hamilton county. Ohio.
He was made a collector of internal
revenue by President Arthur When
he was only 29 he was appointed to
the superior court bench of Ohio by
Governor Foraker, and the next year
was elected to this office by, a SUBJ
stantial majority. President Harri-
son made Taft solicitor general of the
United States in 1890. and when the
federal court of appeals was ere
ated, Taft was named as one of it's
members. In 1900, President McKin-
ley appointed Taft chairman of the
Philippine commission, and later he
President Roosevelt made Taft his
secretary of war. He Strengthened
out the tangled affairs of Cuba in
1906. and again in 1907 he went to
Havana to quiet the revolutionists in
the island republic.
The next year Taft was elected
president, serving one term, the split
in the Republican ranks occurring in
1912.
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George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
YOUR PRESENCE.

without the rich heart, says
Emerson, wealth Is an ugly Peggar.
In what other way would anyone
want to be rich. anyway And yet
sad as it seems, this sort CT wealth
goes a-begging every day.
There are not many men. Of grea
money wealth, in whose presence an
any too happy. There seems too muci
an atmosphere of apology there, o'
uncomfc rtableness. But in the pres
ence of a person whose total ant
greatest wealth lies in richness OF
heart, YOU feel melted into all that ne
is. You want to be near hm-ane
quite near at that
One of the servants in the househoR
of Wendell Phillips used to say ina.
there was more music in the footsteps
of this noble man than in the striHgf
of a beautiful instrument.
The physical frame. of a, man OF
woman is a wonderful affair. VIZ
know all too little of its power ano
| influence, its possibilities and Won
ders.
whom YOU Instantly are attracted
even before a word is spoken. Then
very presence has brought that some
| thing which words are unable aoe-
| quately to explain.
And there are those on sight, whom
you would not trust or want around.
You can make your presence real
| benediction in this world. You can
! make people glad that you are alive.
All you have to do is to plant the gar
den of your soul with the right seeds
| l have a friend in whose presence
| I always delight. He rarely has
nickel to his name. He isn't any too
particular about his manner OF dress.
| But he has mind that climbs! And
so like to be with him. His presence
| is always welcomed. Sometimes he
! comes into my office when l am ex-
| ceedingly busy. But / just stop every
| thing and tell him to take a chair and
make himself at home-and then go
right on about my work-happier that
he came.
"A woman once told me of a man
| whose personality was Immediately
felt on entering a room, but that you
sort of shuddered knowing that he
wcs there.
You never see lot of big dogs fol-
lowing a little dog on the street. And
yet you often see a whole community
of little dogs flowing Zig dog as ne
saunters along. The idea is that
strength is always looked UP to. Biz
presence demands attention ana ad-
miration.
i Attain the rich heart--and your
4 presence will be advertised for far and
wide!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE

Me and Pubs Simkins was taking a
wawk Jest taking a wawk, and PUBS
sed, Hay look at that kid. would you,
he put a cent in that chewing gum
slot and nuthing dident come out.
Meaning some kid standing in frunt
of a segar store. shaking chewing
gum machine with a hopeful fxpres-
him, me saying, Watts the matter. wont
it come out?
No, sed the kid.
Watts the matter. is it stuck in
there2 Sed Pubs.
Yes. sed the kid.
And he kepp on shaking it and me
and Pubs kepp on watching him, Pubs
saying. Hay kid. if me and him gets 1t
out for you will you give US each
SURE, sed the kid. Being a small
size kid with big size freckles, and him
and me and Pubs grabbed hold OF
the chewing gum lachine and started
to shake 1t all together. and the segar
man came running out of the segar
store all ixcited, saying. Hay, hay.
that's a chewing gum lnachine, not a
rasseling machine, cut that out.
WITCH we did, Pubs saying. Well IL
wont werl-. this kid cant get enyschew-
ing gum out
That funny, it's always worked SO
far, sed the segar man. And he took
a cent outof his poclit and put it in a
of chewing gum came out. the segar
man saying, Well it werks now ny
way. And he handed the hunk of
chewing gum to the kid, saying, Maybe
you dident put in good cent
dident put in eny cent sed the kid.
Watt sed the segar man. And he
grabbed the hunk of chewing gum
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02
JUST FOLKS
PAS INSTRUCTIONS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.


II it's dinner or a dance. a wedding or
small affair,
Ma tells Pa what to say an do an how to
act when they get there;
She wouldn't think of starting out to
mingle with the social swim
Unless she'd taken Pa aside an properly
instructed him.
Remember please" she says to him. ''the
hostess has some claims on you,
Do not stay in the smoking room the way
you very often do.
An oh, hope for goodness sake tonight
you will not start to tell
Those very old an silly Jokes you some
how seem to like so we'll.
"If Mrs. Ponsonby is there, I hope to her
= you will be nice.
Pay her some slight attention please, altho
ii is sacrifice,
An don't forget you're getting old an al
most ready for the shelf.
Don't moon around the pretty. girls an
make fool out of yourself
There will be many strangers there, be
careful Of your speech an take
customary foolish break
Just one word more-if there Should be
some women there you think too fnt,
To dance with her you're duty bound,
want you to remember thatl'
Pa says he hopes that Ma an he will die
together so that when
They start for heaven she'll be along to
properly instruct him then;
He says II he must go alone to mingle with
the angel throng,
In spite Of all he's learned ON earth, what
e'er he does 1t will be wrong.
Copyright, 1921. by Edgar A. 0uestl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02

In revising taxes. says the Omaha
Bee, it is hoped congress will drop
the transportation taxes. These bring
in S3OO,OOO,OOO a year, but they add
just that much burden on shippers
and travellers who are already bowed
down with high rates. If the public
can't induce the railroads to reduce
rates, it still might bring sufficient
that body to relieve railroad patrons
of this $500. 100000 annual burden.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02

In bill recently introduced in the
house, Congressman Homer Hoch IT
the Fourth district seeks to save to
the states the powers they heretofore
have possessed in the regulations Of
railroad rates. Recent decisions of
the interstate commerce commission,
especially in the Kansas case, lately
decided, he points out, nave stripped
the state commissions practically Of
all control of rates within the borders
of their respective states. 1t would
be advantageous to both the public
and the railroads If the total elimina-
ton of the state commissions from
the railroad problems could be
brought about. The railroads are bur-
dened with too many bosses. A still
greater benefit to the public would
accrue from centering all regulation
of railroads in the interstate COM
merce commission and then abolish
ing the commission for "A few years
until transportation could get back on
a business basis. Regulating COM
missions of one sort and another have
cost this country almost if not quite
as much-as the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02
Dinner Stories

An economical housewife told her
husband that she would have to ask
him for 81 more a week on account of
the high cost of living.
TN try and give you 81" he
grumbled. That's the best can do.
You're pretty extravagant. Amelia!"
ME extravaganza" And Amelia
laughed bitterly. ''Well, James,
don't see how you can call a woman
extravagant who has saved her we'd
ding dress for over thirty years on the
chance that she may make a second
marriage"
The butcher gruTnbled angrily to
himself as he put the ten-cent meat
order up. Cheap skate he NUT
tered. IF she ever let loose of a
dollar-'s
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Just then small boy burst ex-
citedly in the door.
Hey" he shouted, ARE you put
ting up mammals order of cat
meat?"
yeah" replied the butcher, land
all gotta say is"
"Unwrap it right away" announced
the boy. 'Kittys caught mouse.a
In a western town they tell a story
Of a woman newly come into money.
who on one occasion while Visiting
the house of a friend gazed long and
thoughtfully at a plaster cast of
Shakespeare. Then she sighed and
remarked:
Poor man! How pale he looked.
He couldn't have been well when
that was taken"
He wasn't" agreed her polite
hostess. He was dead"
oh" continued the woman. draw
ing a sympathetic breath, that ac-
counts for it."
At a provincial cinema the follow
ing notice was shown on the screen
during the performance:
Lost between - Rd. and this
theater a purse containing $40.
Finder rewarded"
Almost Immediately a simple
minded man presented himself at the
booking office.
"1t's found" he said.
The manager>was brought.
Have you got it?" he was asked.
"Oh, no." came the reply, but
I've only just come along that way
and It. wasn't there then"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02

The editor of the Jewish Forum
is of the opinion that President Hard
ing may have gone into the absurd
''wilds" with Henry Ford in order 20
show him his error in attacking the
Jews. and he adds this reflection
ut is difficult to conceive of our pres
dents association with a prejudiced
isnoramus on any other grounds"
But what the president probably did
was ask Mr.. Ford If his attack on the
Jews had proven to be a good circu-
lation builder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02
UNCLE SANS WHITE ELEPHANT.

The government has 2S7 wooden
ships for which there is no use. They
are costing Uncle Sam $4,000 a
year for care and maintenance. These
ships never should have been built
General Goethals told the authorities
so when our ship building program
was inaugurated. But the lumber inter-
ests were insistent in demanding a
grab from the public money bag and
Goethals was displaced to make room
for a man that could be handled.
The president is said to have given
much time and thought to the mer-
chant marine problem and he seems -
realize the impossibi1ity. ~under pres
ent or any future conditions which
may be expected, either of operating
the fleet so as to earn even interest
on the capital invested-about $780,
Oo0.o Oo-or of selling the vessels at a
figure approximately near the cost CT
building under war conditions. Ships
which we built for about 5000 a ton
are selling today on basis of about
$40 a ton, and the market value of
the Nentire fleet of 100 ships Is estI-
mated at less than one billion dollars.
Sooner or later the government will
be obliged to write off the cost of
building a merchant marine as a loss
chargeable to the war. This fact has
been pointed out by experienced ship
ping men ever since the armistice was
signed; but other than economic con-
siderations and failure on the part
of public opinion to recognize the ten
dency of conditions in ocean trans
portation SO far apparently have pre-
vented action by the government.
Press reports quote Chairman Las
ker as saying, after conference at
the White House between Mr.. Hard
ing and the n W shipping board:
THE president told US that the
future had to be built, solidIy on the
development of private initiative and
operation. He said that we were to
dispose of the boats at the right prices
and not to sacrifice them to bring
this about" Some sacrifice, however,
seems unavoidable if the ships are 10
be disguised of. The shipping board
has been endeavoring to sell it's YES
sells for some time, with but slight sue
cess.
There appears evident an intention
in the mind OF the administration to
get the government out of the field of
private business so far as possible, and
the sale Of the ships may be actually
accomplished. Should the vessels OF
our Poverrfg,eut merchant ,,,or;,a l,a
sold to American citizens, it would
probably mean, by reason of the low
capital costs to steamship companies.
aid rendered by the government COM
parable to the great land grants I'M
der which so many of our railroads
were built
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02

back and pushed the kid In the face
and went back in TIE segar store. and
me and Pubs kepp, on wawking dis
kdsted. Pubs saying. Gosh, I'm glad
-aint Nas dunn as that kid.
Not saying weather he was dunn for
not putting a cent in or weather he
was DUN for telling the segar man he
dident wen the segar man thawt he
did.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02

1t is something anomalous in the
history of nations that the United
States finds itself under the necessity
Of bargaining for the release of its
citizens from foreign prisons. It
seems that we are about to swap food
for freedom in Russia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02

The Rev. H. A. OFT writes to the
owner of The State Journal to make
it known that he is deeply offended
because the word Huns appeared in
a recent editorial paragraph. OF
course Mr.. OFT could lot realize thai.
like the man in owen Wistar's ''vir-
ginian," the writer smiled when he
wrote it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02

Senator Reed Smoot advocates q
constitutional amendment that would
prevent the issuance of tax exempt
securities by the nation, the state or
municipalities. The property on
which these securities are issued al
ready is taxed, so are the proceeds Of
these securities, following their sale.
What more than this double taxation
can the senator want?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02


The Fordney tariff on sugar. it is
pointed out by the New York Post.
viii lay a tax of $3.50, 900. 900 a year on
the American people, half of which
will go to the government and the
other half as a subsidy to the sugar
growers. Every man, woman and
child in the country will pay his or
her proportion OF that tax. No one
can escape it, as every one uses su-
gar. The price of domestic sugar has
long been recognized as the price of
foreign sugar plus the duty. The
price of foreign sugar laid down IN
New York today is three cents a
pound. The Fordney tariff puts a
duty of one and six-tenths cents a
pound on Cuban sugar and two cents
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a pound on other foreign sugar. Amer
lean sugar is consequently four and
six-tenths cents a pound laid down az
the refiners', corresponding with the
price of Cuban sugar. So. the Ameri-
can people win be called upon to pay
this huge sum for the benefit of few
sugar producers in this country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02

A strong sentiment against any
more war is reported to have devel-
oped in Germany. But without such
manifestation It might be inferred
that the Germans had enough Of fight
ing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02

A scarcity of bottles is reported.
But why does anybody want a bottle ?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-02

Melville Weston Fuller was ap-
pointed chief justice by President
Cleveland in 1883. 1t was under his
leadership that the income tax was
rejected. despite popular opinion, be-
cause the constitution did not then
permit of such a tax being levied.
Later the constitution was amended to
allow incomes to be taxed. Chief JUS
tice Fuller remained as chief justice
until 1910.
President Taft, now himself chief
justice, appointed the man whose
death left the vacancy which made
possible President Harding's appoint
ment ofNhim. Taft appointed Edward
Douglas White, and raised a storm of
protest all thru the Republican party.
White was a Democrat, a southerner
and Confederate veteran, and it was
argued that there were able iurists in
La prensa. [volume] (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1912-1924, 1921-02-12
~ROMANONES PIDE QUE Sc
HAGAN ALGUNAS REFOR-
MAS EN- CORREOS Y TE-
LEGRAFOS.

Madrid, Febrero Gel EXPIRE
sidente del Consejo de Minister'S,
Condo de Romanones, demanda
en- una declaration, que Sc implan-
ten mejoras en los sistemas de
Correos y Telegrafos de Espaha y
que a este efecto la mejor MEDIA
seria entregarlas en- manos de
companies particulars que pro-
porcionaran una participation en-
las utilidades a todos los emplea-
dos de esos servicios.
Declare Ell Condo de Romano
mes que este es el unico medic de
obtener un servicio satisfactorio.
Tambien pide la creacion de un
Ministerio especial de Comunica-
clones y declara que tiene la inten-
Icion de presentar en- las Cortes IN
|proyecto en- que Sc piden las ante
riores reformas.