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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BY MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.


Homeless Helen You must learn
to control your feelings and your
thoughts. With will power you can
putaside one thought and replace it
with definite thinking along a diff
ferent line. OF course your thoughts
will wander back to the forbidden sub
ject at first, and then you will have
to put them aside again for thoughts
which do not cause unhappiness.
Keep your love in control or you
will lose the objects of your affection
time and time again. I would not adj
wise your to go to another church
s ssny where you are ana conquer your
One reason you are so unhappy is
Because of the extreme youth. AS you
grow older you will see things with
more sanity and control and will not
be so much a victim of your feelings.
You must try, however, to exert self
control or you will always be lacking
it at critical times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07
Dinner Stories

The superintendent of a Sunday
school out west thought it would be
a good idea to have the children quote
Scriptural texts as they dropped their
pennies into the contribution box. On
the first Sunday this plan was tried
one little fellow as he dropped in his
coin quoted: 1.-The Lord loveth a
cheerful giver." The next boy said:
Charity covers & multitude of sins. !"
and the next, at is more blessed to
give than to receive"
All went well until it came to the
turn of the seventh boy. who, evident
ly with thoughts of other uses for his
penny bawled out as he dropped it
into the box: "a fool and his money
are soon parted
Bacon-Do you believe a college
career is an aid to business?
Egbert-I certainly do.
why do you think sop
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07
Questions-Ans,ueH

Q. Is the stone which served Jacob as q
pillow when he had his vision still in 'ex-
A, This stone is said to be in existence.
1t is known as the Liza Fail or Stone of
Destiny, on which the old Scotch kings
were crowned. 1t is now in Westminster
Abbey resting beneath the Coronation chair
which has been used at the Coronation of
English kings since Edward /. This his
Tara, in Ireland, in the fifth century. B.
c., then to Scotland and finally to Eng
land.
O. Has it been estimated what the rail-
road strike cost the railroads in earnings:
A. 1t is estimated that the railroad
strike of 1919 cost the roads over 00,0o0,-
coo in earnings.
e. What Is Do1gola lid ". X:
from Dongola in Egyptian Sudan, is sheep
skin or goatskin tanned with semi bright
mn rs So as To the apket by
of GfoversTiIle, n. Y, and caused a revolu-
ton in certain branches of the leather in
Q. Who or what. was first known as Ell
Dorados-H. o. W.
A. This is Spanish word. meaning. ..the
gtlded, and was first applied to a South
American king said to cover his body an
nually with gold dust. and battle in
golden city; and finally to a tabled country
Astounding to an almost uncomfortable de-
gree in gold and precious stones. The
name has since been applied to any place
Astounding in gold or opportunities for
acquiring sudden wealth. and more specific
ally. to county in California, and city
in Colorado.
tAny reader can ger the answer 10 any
question by writing The ToDeka State
Journal Information bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin. Director, Washington. ID. e. This
offer applies strictly. to Information The
bureau cannot give advice on legal. medical,
and financial matters II does not under
take to settle. domestic troubles. nor to
undertake exhaustive research on any
subject Write your question ptainiy and
briefly. Give full name and address and
enclose e-cent stamp for return postage.
Ali replies are sent direct to the inau1rer.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07
rRAp1NG IN FUTURES.

The violent fall in the prices of
foodstuffs has led to sudden opposi-
ton from the agricultural sections to
trading on the grain exchanges. and to
a group of radical bills now before
congress seeking to eliminate trading
in futures thru a prohibitive tax,
and to confine all grain speculation
TO persons actually in the trade.
What this antagonism and the re-
sulting legislative proposals overlook,
says bulletin issued by the Mechan-
les and Metals national bank, is that,
except for the less important move
ments of prices over short periods.
speculation does not cause the great
swings of prices. it merely records
them. To seek to restore prices to
their former levels by restricting
speculation and eliminating future
trading, it says. is somewhat compar-
able to attempting to break a cold
wave by smashing the thermometer,
or trying to catch a train by turning
back ones watch.
In general, a Spectator is success
as he tries to make prices, but in so
far as he is correct in guessing what
prices will be. He may buy and bid
prices up, but unless he can find per-
sons willing to take the grain Off his
hands at the higher price, he has ac-
complished nothing. He may sell
short and depress prices, but unless
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07
JUST FOLKS
THE JOYOUS PAST.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

This is what he used to say:
Take your laughter while you may,
Love the sky when it is blue.
Let the sunshine warm you thru,
Take your fill of earthly joy.
Play the lover and the boy,
Soon, too soon, glad lips grow dumb.
Soon euoagh will sorrow come"
Then TO him the SORROWS came,
Quenehed was summers gentle flame.
Round his homeN the tempest blew,
Chilling all the joys he knew.
Grief and age were his to share.
winters snow was in his hair:
Even then he'd smile and say:
Life was lovely yesterday.
Battered is this heart or mine
And these eyes have lost their shine,
FROM the garden i have known
Many tender blooms have flown,
But how rich I've been and glad
Thru the summers I have had:
From the joys of long ago
Come these scars of hurt and woe
Lips of beauty / have pressed
Caused this hurt within my breast
Poor am l today and sad.
But the joys of life I've had;
Life has given what death must take.
Love has built what time must break.
And tho now the joy has flown,
All GODS blessings / have known"
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A Guest }
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07

The latest travellers out of Russia
report that, instead of money, hours
of work performed are being taken as
a basis for all economic negotiations
in Petrograd. Every one carries
around a small notebook wherein So
Wet commissioners stamp the hours
OF work done. When the worker goes
TO store, he finds things priced in
hours of work and the salesman
crosses off from his little book enough
hours to correspond with the pur-
chase. Since this has been the sole
function Of money, since it was in
vented, it is difficult to see where any
improvement has been made. Money
is an evidence of labor performed by
somebody and stored up. 1t is Moth
ing more. 1t is draft on the general
store of commodities. Its possession
denotes that the holder is entitled to
an undetermined amount of the prod
uct OF labor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07

1t is pleasant to be assured by the
secretary of the state board of agri-
culture that, after all, the farmers are
not in so bad a way as they have been
declared to be by certain newspapers
and politicians. Perhaps there will
now be a relaxation of efforts to ex-
tend assistance to the agriculturists
to the exclusion of persons engaged
in other lines of endeavor. In the
matter of taking care of himself there
is nobody that excels the farmer. In
this connection it may be noted that
those potato growers in the Kaw val
ley who had not already Joined the
association of men engaged in that
line of business are joining it. The
future prosperity of those who pro-
duce other crops lies in the direction
of the formation of organizations SIM
liar to that of the potato men. A mar
keting plan is the thing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07

The Milwaukee Journal reports that
representatives of the United Textile
Workers appeared at a high tariff
hearing in Washington and asked that
if the duties on manufactured goods
are to be raised, there be some guar
antee that wage earners shall profit
These representatives had heard that
high tariffs on factory output, with
consequent higher prices to consunl-
ers, are necessary ito protect the
wage earner's standard of living
The politicians, some of them on the
comnsittee before whom the labor
representatives were appearing, had
said that. And SO these textile rep
resentatives asked the congressman to
take pencil and paper and figure out
just how much in dollars and cents
factory labor was to get from the in
creased profits to manufacturers. The
farmers are less inquisitive than the
textile workers. They never thought
to ask how much they would get out
of the tariff on wheat proposed in the
Fordney emergency tariff bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07
THE POWER OF ECONOMIC LAW

| Despite all efforts of those inter-
ested in maintaining prices and profits
at wartime levels. prices and profits
are proceeding downward and with
out the aid of legislation. 1t was
| said, in many quarters, as late as last
June that no depression would follow
the rising tide of prices. No less than
five elements in the economic situa-
ton were relied upon by business ad-
ministrators and by labor to maintain,
unimpaired, the inflated structure of
wages, profits and prices, built up as
an incident of the great war. Any ono
of these alone was considered entirely
adequate to support the structure; in
the aggregate they created a system
of props which rendered it impregna-
BILE before the attacks of all the ma
lign forces which have, in the past.
produced panics and depressions.
These elements Of the situation
were: The ready acceptance of the
large laboring and middle classes of a
general level of prices radically high
err than that which prevailed before
the great war; secondly, the empty
shelves of domestic retail merchants;
by neutral nations, which had been
forced by the war to import manufac-
tured commodities from the United
States rather than from Europe; the
enormous requirements Of European
belligerents for American products
particularly raw materia1s-in order
to enable them to rehabilitate their
sttfled industries; and finally, the de-
termination of labor not to accept a
general reduction of wages, without
which there could be no appreciate
decline in prices.
All these alleged pops to the eIe-
waited economic structure have
broken. The public, instead of COM
placently accepting the elevated price
level clamored for lower prices and
backed up it's cIamor by Withholding
purchases. Retail merchants found
themselves face to face with a "buy-
ers' strike" which put such brakes
on retail trade that the merchandise
already on the shelves, inadequate tho
it might have been for past demands.
was more than sufficient to satisfy a
public determined to hold back its
purchases until radical reductions
were evident. The neutral nations
had themselves very little buying
power remaining after the great war;
many, like Cuba and Argentina, were
paralyzed by the cessation of the
worlds demand for their chief sta
pies. High interest rates and abnor-
NAL rates of exchange acted as heavy
brakes to all trade with the United
States. The belligerents had nothing
to give US in exchange for our sorely
needed necessities and were forced to
rehabilitate their homes and factories
with little outside aid. And finally la
Dor found itself, whether it would or
not, subject to the same great law of
demand and supply as all else that is
bought and sold.
1t could no more maintain its own
wages at high levels while the whole
economic structure was falling down
than could the old English king halt
the incoming tide. For there stands
cut one simple truth and that is this
of man, whether con-
gress or labor unions, boards of poll
ticians or trusts, to arrest the sequen-
tial order of economic law. 1t is a
simple truth, but seemingly never
learned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07

A period of rising prices always
brings prosperity and business expan-
sion. Failing prices cause business to
halt and, if long continued, to stag
nate. A stabilized condition of prices
is the greatest need of the country, so
that the producer, the wage Garner
and the merchant can know where
they stand
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07

these lands was to add to our arabic
territory, and to increase the wealth
and productivity of the United States,
it would still be a splendid business
for the government" says Mr.. Lane
But it means also that thousands of
citizens will be made independent
workers, contributing handsomely to
the general welfare. without any cost
to the national government. It would
seem to be our imperative duty to get
started at once and get some Of the
idIers out of the cities. to work on
these projects"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07

1t is being pointed out that the tide
of European immigration still is run
ming heavy despite the fact that there
congress is urged to put up the Bars.
But it may be that the federal law
makers feel that we can feed the
strangers more cheaply( here than in
their former homes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07

The supply of liquor in this coun-
try is disappearing so rapidly down
the sewer pipes and the threats of the
people that the amount on hand soon
must become exhausted. If the pro-
hibition enforcement officers can but
succeed in preventing further manu-
facture their problem should be solved
at no distant date.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07

glance of suspicion at Uncle Jim.
But how on earth did you guess ?"
"Oh, I dunno" responded Uncle
Jim innocently. 81 may be an old
codger from the country, but human
beings are the same the world over
Then he chuckled reflectively.
Copyright. 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07

The signs point to Harry Daugh-
erty as Mr.. Hardings attorney gen.
eral. 1t should be well understood
that if Mr.. Harding does appoint Mr..
Sullivan's protest, and the column
gives the matter its utmost in pub
licity.
Who is Mark Sullivan? He is the
gentleman who won fame and renown
thru the simple artifice of turning his
old suit inside out and then learned,
thru the tailors, that the thing could
MT be done.
We don't know how Mr.. Harding's
tentative cabinet appointees suit Da-
vid Lawrence. We are deprived of
the pleasure of reading much of Mr.
Lawrence's stuff; it is only occasion
ally that We are able to avail ourself
of that privilege. But We should not
be surprised to see both Mr.. Sullivan
and Mr. Lawrence deeply disap-
pointed.
Here's Swell Dream.
Sir-My recurrent dream is that :
am back in my old home on Seven
teenth street near Jefferson, trying to
make the fire burn in the kitchen
range, in addition to which 1 frequent
iy dream / have left my children in
our home here without food or care.
My grandmother always believed my
grandfather had hidden some .1loney
in the house, but we never could find
it. Can this be a psychic urge telling
somewhere? Too late! The house no
longer belongs to us. If any of the
people in that neighborhood find
money under thier ranges 1 donate it
to Herbert Hoover. E. NJ. F.
Aside to anonymous correspondent:
We cannot make to Mr.. Chesterton the
or four days ago that we were called
down" by an earnest reader for flout-
ing our distinguished visitor.
The talk of Broadway this season is
of Brock Pemberton, who, in his fiEst
year as a producer, has two successes
running in and adjacent to that thoro-
fare and acknowledges a moderate
proprietary interest in a third. We
are less sanguine as to Mr.. Pember-
tons future than others who have
made predictions concerning 1t. we
heard him make a speech in New York
the other night. In it he pledged him
self to the task of keeping the drama
clean and promised he would never
engage in the insidious projection of a
bedchamber or Turkish bath.
i Ihe trouble with MT. rem DeftOn, ds
we see it, is that he is shooting over
the heads of the people and will live
to regret it. No man can flout the
people and keep it up Indefinitely.
Our admonition to Mr.. Pemberton
springs from the kindliest of motives.
We knew him when he was the most
active and widely known "fusser" at
the state university. We knew him
when he was a reporter on. the En-
pory Gazette and kept that newspaper.
in a state of turmoil with its readers.
His next row will be with an indignant
populace, and he is going to lose it.
Ralph w Stone, prohibition director
for the Chicago district, says some OF
the patent medicines contain almost
as high a percentage of alcohol as
When We run across a news
item which we think will interest the
people we give it due publicity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07

''Well my sons in college and he
smokes about 1000 cigarets in a
year."
'I don't follow you
isn't he helping along the tobacco
business2"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07
Here's a swen Dream.

Aside to anonymous correspondent:
We cannot make to Mr.. Chesterton the
suggestion Sou urge. 1t is only three
or four days ago that we were called
down. by an earnest reader for f1out-
ing our distinguished visitor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07

Who is Mark Sullivan? He is the
gentleman who won fame and renown
thru the simple artifice of turning his
old suit inside out and then learned,
thru the tailors, that the thing could
MT be done
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAY Z. HOUSE.
tFron Philadelphia Public Ledssr)

The signs point to Harry Daugh-
erty as Mr.. Harding's attorney gen.
eral. 1t should be well understood
that if Mr.. Harding does appoint Mr..
Daugherty he must do it over Mark
Sullivan's protest, and the column
gives the matter its utmost in pub
licity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07

s Ralph w. Stone, prohibition director
for the Chicago district, says some of
the patent medicines contain almost
as high a percentage of alcohol as
whisky. When We run across a news
item which we think will interest the
people we give it due publicity.
The Coconino sun., 1921-04-29

See Paramount's special picture, What's Worth While" Orpheum Sunday, 25c-35c-50c. It
 Walter Bennett, who had been nurs- ing the grip for several days, is back at his job in the furniture department at Babbitts'.
 Miss Lucille Etter began teaching this week at Harrington Lake, her father bringing her in from their home in Dead Mans Flat on Saturday to take the train.
 For good eats, go to Bender's. MT. and Mrs. J. Link Smith arrived in their car Monday night from their home in Humboldt for a visit with Mir. and Mrs. George c. Becker. Mrs. Becker is their neice.
 Sullivan & Taylor, in their very in teresting advertisement this week, tell of big reduction in price on all Co., lumbia graphaphones. Back to pre- war prices, with six months to pay.
 Jeff Williams, foreman at the Flag staff Lumber Co.,, may be little easy on the men these days, because he's feeling pretty good over the arrival of little son at his home on Sunday
 New 1921 Flagstaff city directories, residence and classified, with many in teresting and valuable facts and sta tistics about Flagstaff and Coconino county, now on sale at The Sun office at s1.00 each. Supply is limited. Get yours now.
 | Little Charlie Borum was directly under a good-sized rock that one of his playmates dropped off the top of the town stone-crusher, and received a deep scalp wound and headache that kept him indoors for a while. l, happened Wednesday.
 |! John Kerley, of Tuba City, gave us a little illumination Wednesday after. noon, but extinguished the light long before the rest of us were ready by jumping on a Phoenix-bound train that night on his way to transact a little bushes in the southern metrop. oils.
 Mir. and Mrs. w. NJ. Wilson return. ed Tuesday evening from Vicksburg Ariz., where they have been spending the winter. Mir. Wilson has been do. ing development work on number of valuable mining claims he has own- ed in that section of the country for a number of years. He says times were exceedingly dull down south but the weather had been fine.
 Mrs. F. o. Allen, Miss Ethel Comp ton and Arthur Perry furnished the music last Friday night at the Par ent- Teachers association dance at the school house, Grand Canyon. It was happy affair. those attending having a jolly, good, get-together time. Many compliments were paid the musicians, who were told they had given better satisfaction than any that had ever played at the Canyon.
The Coconino sun., 1921-04-29
Those eggs, how ?-Bender's.

Those eggs, how Blenders.
 Union Taxi Company, phone 75. If
 Bender's restaurant for square meals.
 A. J. Sullivan and Ralph Davis spent most of Wednesday in Williams.
 See Paramount's special picture, What's Worth While" Orpheum Sunday, 25c-35c-50c. It
 A. c. Neff, piano tuner, is in town. Leave orders at the Commercial Hotel or with Sullivan & Taylor. 4-29-1t-pd
 Judge J. F.. Jones spent the first of the week in Prescott, holding court, returning to Flagstaff Tuesday night.
 c. B. Wilson, who went to Long Beach, Calif., last week to get his wife and kiddies, who had been spending the winter there, returned with them Tuesday.
 The cleanup and paint-up cam paign has brought results to George N. Baty, the pioneer painting con- tractor of Flagstaff, who has just fin- ished painting Billy Rudd's residence and is now repainting and decorating ! M. 1. Powers residence.
 Three Mexicans, the Valla brothers and Garcia, working on section 6, cut ting wood, failed to put out their campfire the other day. It spread. They were arrested and Justice R. J. Kidd fined each of them $10 and gave each sixty day suspended sentence. | The Sun office does job printing.
 MT. and Mrs. D. S. Roome, c. Wilson and the Misses Pancake and Strange drove to the Sedona rim on Sunday, where they discovered mag nificent scenery that few of our peo- pie know anything about. Mir. Roome spent Tuesday in Winslow, and says the best way to go is through Tol- chaco.
 Miss Virginia NJ. Lockett, county superintendent of schools, announce that the University of Arizons. an nual county scholarship examination will be held at her office the first Sat urday in May. This examiation will l determine who is the fortunate stu | dent to get this years scholarship from this county to the university. c. w. Bright, manager of the J. c. Penney store, left on Wednesday for Salt Lake City, to attend gathering of managers of the western Penney stores and buy a lot of new goods from factory representatives, whom they will meet there. Mrs. Bright left that morning, for Kansas, where her husband will go from Salt Lake After short visit with their respect. i've home folks they will return to. gether.
 Home of steaks and chops--Bender's
 Additional Local News page 2. So. ciety and Normal School page 6.
The Coconino sun., 1921-04-29
LOCAL BREVTTlES
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Back to feed you-Bender.
 Dr. Boeddinger, the veterinarian, and his wife are back in Flagstaff again for the summer, after spending the winter in California.
 The forest service office has all the fire lookouts stationed, and are all set to respond whenever called upon to fight, forest fires. There have been several small fires in the last few days, and all campers are asked to be very careful not to cause any.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1921-01-30

Mrs. Paul II. Boese charningly en-
tertained the members of the Pirate
Bridge Club Wednesday afternoon. Mrs.
g. =. Hickey and Mrs. George a. White
ley had high score. Those present We're
the Mesdames Il. A. Bowdle. Raymond
II. Holtzman. George l.. Hickey, Watt
II. Bishop. George A. Whitley and :.
+. Deylin.