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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23
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Ouesticns-Answers

O. Who introduced modern improve
ments such as electric lights into korea?
A. The first railroad, the first electric
light plant, and the first waterworks in
Korea were constructed by Americans.
Q. What kind of wood are spools made
of that thread is wound on &c. W. G.
A. Poplar is usually used for these
spoois:
and cannot find out what it is. Please en-
tighten NET. L. o.
A The Didache- or Teaching of the
Twelve Apostles was a didactic work for
use in the early church. 1t was discovered
by Bryennius at Constantinople, and pub
abo9 1 1o5e ga s. nah # Is IS If great Value for
the stdy Of organization, belief and wor-
ship of the early church. and was held in
Two Ways-ef life ard of death-in the
form of rules for Christian conduct.
Q. What has become of the German
A; The Imperator is now the cunarder
q. What is the number Of letters sent to
the Dead Letter Office yearly ?-H- N. c.
more than 10000, 900 pieces Of mail reach
the dead letter office annually due t. the
bly, addressed that they cannot be deliv-
Q. Who was the father Of the modern
art of fertilization "A. H.
A John Ziska, famous leader Of the
Hussite party in Bohemia gained this title.
Prague on IN eminence since known as
Ziskaberg, and held 1t with few thousand
men against an army Of 10000.
Q. What does radium look like TX. d.
A. The geological survey says that "a
dunn is ordinarily obtained from its ores in
the form of hydrous sulphate, chloride, or
bromide and it is in the form of these salts
that it is usually sold and used. These
are all white or nearly white substances,
whose appearance is quite similar to COM
mon salt or baking powder.
Q. Is there such q thing as an 'Irish
language!" A NJ. c. K.
A. There is in existence a distinct Irish
! language. Originally the language was
spoken almost universally in Ireland, but
| gradually its use died out tho 1t has Of
late been revived to a certain extent
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DrsoRDERED MARKETs.

Before the war this country owed
to European countries about three
quarters OF billion dollars, now Eu-
ropean countries owe US in excess af
ten billion dollars. Before the war
we had in this country approximately
one-fifth of the worlds total gold
supply. now we have approximately
one-third of the worlds gold. In
other words, We now have both the
goods and the money, and we are
paying the penalty of this seeming
prosperous condition in low prices of
basic commodities and idle workers.
Decreasing exports and increasing
imports add to the problems of keep
ing the national Industrial machinery
in complete operation. Altogether
the larger part of American produc-
ton is consumed by the American
people. Only a small percentage Of
the total output is ever shipped to for
eign countries. An investigation made
few years ago indicated that bust
ness conditions in this country are
usually considered unsatisfactory
when we are shipping but s per cent
of our total production to foreign
markets; when we are shipping ia
per cent OF total production to foreign
markets business is fairly good; when
we are shipping 10 per centnto for
eign markets business is brisk, all pro-
ductive machinery is in operation and
every man desiring work is employed
| at good wages. 1t IS the business of
statesmanship to make 1t possible for
this condition always to exist.
Why are exports decreasing and inn
ports increasing in all commodities
and why are imports of gold continu-
ally piling UP a gold supply which IS
needed by foreign nations to maintain
their credit and to furnish to them
the machinery of industrial life ?
These conditions appear to be due to
the effort OF business to reach a nor
NAL basis. Europe is trying to pay
her debts with goods and is using her
gold to buy what she needs because
credit Is exhausted. The situation Is
moving toward an adjustment and
promises to work out all right unles:
congress shall throw a monke,
wrench into the machinery by enact,
ing a ruinous tariff law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23

place in your proper home and eat
your suppir, I don't care how meny
suppirs you've had outside, sed pop.
Me thinking, G herray. And / set
down and started to eat suppir, being
stake under onions and mash pota-
toes and shelled peas insted of canned,
and started to eat as if I was hungry
as enything. wich was, and 1 ate
everything off of my plate and passed
it to ma for more, and pop sed. Say,
look at heer, wat do they genreiiy have
for suppir GROUND at the Simkinses, a
little berd seed or something of that
description?
No sir, they have good suppirs,
they're all fat like Pubs, sed, and
pop sed,. And do you meen to sit there
eating like steem shovel and tell me
you jest had a good suppir?
No sir, I dident say wen, sed.
Well wen? sed pop, and I sed,
About munths ago. WITCH it was.
and pop sed. Not another bite, not
another morsil.
Well G. gosh. pop, wy? sed.
No arguments. please. sed pop, and
I sed, Cant I even have eny dizzert?
No. sed pop.
WITCH dident. not being mulch of a
sacrifice anyways on account of ony
being rice pudding-without raisins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
THE SALESMAN.

In a broad sense we are all sales
men. For We all have something that
someone else wants. And the task OF
each of us is to make it possible for
our wares to get into the possession
OF the ones who can use them best.
The great salesman is the man who
believes most in the thing he sells.
Selling is transferring faith and
belief
If you have never sold yourself. YOU
can never hope to sell another man.
Most people buy thru instinct. They
feel honesty, even before they have
heard it talked about. And whether
it is talked well or ill, one is sold in
proportion to the enthusiastic faith
back CT the talk.
the people who make them a reality
believe that their country is going tc
take care of them. In other words
the people have faith in the selling
sense of those who rule them.
When salesman looks into the
eyes of his prospective buyer and
makes that buyer feel that his words
come from his heart, the buyer i'm
mediately lets down the bars and from
then on they talk as partners.
Often the objection that the pros
pective client makes is the very reason
why he should buy. Remember that
But In selling. don't boast. State
facts. Tell the truth. And dom
knock-you have your hands full in
pounding home every merit that your
product possesses.
Be courteous. Never lose your tenn
per. Stick to your subject. And never
give up!
Put your whole heart and soul int
what you sell. And if. you can't dc
that, every hour that you work, find
a new job and something new to sell
that you can put your heart and sou
into.
Selling is a great profession. The
world would freeze in its gears with
out it's statesmen!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23

The Manchester IN. HI Mirror
calls attention to the fact that two
thousand years ago the Roman en-
pire put down stone roads that its le-
.gions might. disregarding weather,
march to war, Some of these roads
are there now and in good condition.
-Four or five years ago, or less, New
Hampshire put down roads of other
forms of material and construction
and they are not there now. The
auto and the truck have plowed and
narrowed them, the contracting firms
and profit-taking alone endure" In
what the Mirror says there is food for
reflection by the projectors Of i'm
proved highways in Kansas. With
sand, cement and crushed rock it is
possible to make a durable quality of
stone on the ground where needed. A
road of such material is expensive at
the start but it is likely to be cheap
& est in the long run. In building roads
the taxpayers will do we'll to beware OF
I the promoter who has something "jusi
as good"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23
JUST FOLKS
THE PEOPLE.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

THE PEOPLE.
Living with the people. the good, the brave,
the strong,
Glad to pass the time Of day with all who
come along.
Lord, it's good to meet your children as
they .rudge Iife's thorofare
And learn the hopes they cherish and the
dreams they see out there.
Living with the people here upon the kindly
earth
For many stirring tale Of life the passer-
by can tell,
And every man is worth your while If but
you know him well.
Living with. the people. the rich, the poor,
the wise,
The same breeze blowing over them, the
same sun IN their eyes.
And this you learn from high and low,
turnout hfe's stretch of years,
We're brothers in the joys We take and
brothers IN our tears
I'm sorry for the naughty man who holds
his head in air
And passes by in cold disdain the garbs
of toll and care,
For tho he may be rich and great tbs
lonely he must live.
He misses all the glorious Joys his fellows
have to give.
oh. walk with them and talk with them and
hear the tales they tell,
The passers-by would be your friends II
but you knew them well,
The children Of the Lord are they, aud
they come aud go,
There is OF one among them all that ID
not good to know.
Copyright, 1921, By Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23

could be enlisted in the enterprise
There is nothing in 1t for Jess.
The reason the average american n
subjects himself to the discomforts OF
travel is that he wants TO be able 10
say he's been there
The attitude of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor toward the courts Is
natural enough. Time and again the
courts have stepped in and prevented
members of the A. F. of L. from run
ming non-union worknen off the 1oo.
And lust a week ago the supreme
court OF Kansas sustained the deci-
sion OF an inferior court which had
sentenced a union man to jail Tor q
violation of the law.
We crave but one boon OF those
who. after it is over, prattle in print
of the fight. 1t is that they shall re-
frain from characterizing the loser as
mere she'll" AS one who faithful
hate to have to go thru with that
again.
One thing about the fight that In
trigues us almost as much as the ac-
tual clash OF the gladiators is the form
and substance OF this abb which must
be framed in the event the champion
loses. 1t is easy enough to compile an
alibi for Carpenter. His failure to
win can be attributed to the hardships
and rigors of war. But no such easy
task lies fallow to the hand Of the
man who is called upon to write of a
vanauished Dempsey.
ct note your reference to the old
| time recipe for a picnic" writes A. L.
Have you seen the new one? 1t calls
| for silver mounted flask, quart size,
and dozen bottles of ginger ale"
| The old time recipe for q picnic. let
us repeat. was a jar of mustard and .
dozen bottles of beer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23
Attorney General Daughert,

Attorney General Daugherty is
planning to start civil ana criminal
action against certain of the big war
profiteers. to compel them to make
Restitution to the government OF un-
reasonable and illegal profits which
they made on contracts for war sup
piles. But who will look out for the
Common people who have been
srObbed as the result of the govern
ement's meddling in business? Who
will restore to them the outrageous
profits they paid to dealers in sugar
and coai2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE

1 was late for suppir agen last mite,
being one of the werst things I do. to
make pop mad, and I opened the
frunt door and saw them all eating
alreddy. thinking, Heck, Ill pertend
had my suppir alreddy.
And 1 went in and called out, Never
mind me, everybody. I had suppir err
round at Pubs Simkinses.
Come back heer, sed pop.
WITCH I did, and pop sed. Haven't
you bin told you're not to take eny
meels outside without permission?
Yes sir. sed.
Wen then sit down at your proper
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23

s Having obtained from the railroad
labor board authority to reduces the
wages OF their employees. the railroads
now are putting out figures designed
to show that there recently has been a
marked increase in freight business.
If this freight business be growing It
follows that the roads are making
more money than formerly. They
may in the end prove that there IS no
necessity for a reduction in the wages
of their employees. In attempting 10
prove / case. there always is dam
ser of proving TOO much.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23
THE ONE UNrRIED TAX.

ONE
The only feasible method of taxa
ton not yet tried inithis country is the
general sales tax. Whether or not It
will yield sufficient revenue to offset
the inevitable loss of revenue from ex-
listing taxes that are shrinking rapidly
in productive powers whether it will
in addition fill the gap left by the
complete abolition OF the unavoidable
and annoying taxes which the business
men of the country want discarded
these are questions that depend, en-
tirely upon the rate or percentage at
which the sales tax is levied.
II it do not yield sufficient revenue
at the rate proposed. that rate can be
raised without becoming as burden
some and troublesome as the present
tax system, A years. experience viii
tell the story. The important thing
now IL to establish the principle. by
levying = low-rate sales tax in the
next revenue law.
At any rate that has been consid-
cred. the general sales tax will yield
more than anything else that is pro-
posed except an upward revision of
the income tax on individuals and cor
porations.
The most ardent advocates of high
tariff conoede that the complete res
toration of the Payne tariff
law would add only three hundred and
fifty million dollars year to the ma
tional revenue.
In aNrecent issue of Golfers Week.
Iy, Prof. Stephen Leacock of McGill
university. called by Golfers Can
ada's Gbiest economist" presented an
article entitled "A Painless Tax" in
which, thru Canada's experience, he
demonstrates that the sales tax, sue
cessful far beyond expectation in that
country, is likely in the future to form
the leading item in the Dominion rev.
enue,s and that it is bound to march
around the world to the exclusion and
abolition of all other taxes. OF its
operation, he said:
"And the wonderful thing about the
Canadian sales tax is that the con-
sumner is practically unaware that it is
there. Ask him about the income tax
and he will get eloquent at once; ask
him about the business profits tax
and he will weep; ask him about the
luxury tax and he will swear. But
question him about. the sales tax and
he will look puzzled and say that he
thinks there is one, but can't remem-
Der just exactly what 1t is or who
pays it,
| In other words. the Canadian sales
tax is, up to the present at least, q
painless tax. This alone recommends
it to suffering world. There is just
the same demand today for painless
taxation as there is for painless den
tistry. The collection of the income
tax has proved itself about as agree
able a process as the operations OF
the dentists chair.
In one of his conclusions, Professor
Leacock says: There are many peo-
! pie, of whom the writer Is one, who
believe that as far as a solution fol
the tax problem can be found, it il
found precisely in this kind of tax
who believe that the much 0pplaude6
income tax is failure and who are
| convinced that the simple and old
fashioned method of taxing consump,
ton, tho derided by two or three gen.
erations of economists. will prove te
be. after all, the sound basis of ma
tional defense"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23

while her mother at the front window
was conversing with Mrs. Hooley.
MY daughters music" said Mrs.
Callahan, with proud glance in the
direction of Angela. cost US a lot of
money"
What talk have ye?" returned Mrs.
Hooley. Did some ne:ghbor sue ye? ?"
they had been engaged to be mar
ried fifteen years and still he had not
mustered courage to ask her to name
the happy day. One evening he
called in a peculiar frame of mind and
asked her to sing something tender
and touching, something that would
move him. She sat down at the piano
and sang:
Darling, am growing old.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23

1t long has been realized that the
pedestrian has no rights which the
-automobilist is bound to respect, but
fined man who. while walking across
a street bumped into motor car.
The evidence did not show that the
ear was damaged. Some insurance
company might do good business by
Issuing policies covering cases of this
Sort.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23

k Scientists assert that there are on
record seventy authenticated cases of
human beings with tails. Observant
persons probably are convinced that
a considerable number has been over
looked by the investigators. But the
rabbits probably outnumber the mon
koys
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23

The Frenchmen having been denied
an opportunity of seeing Dempsey
fight over there are coming to this
country in considerable numbers for
the privilege of seeing him in action.
Incidentally they will find thousands
of Americans ready to unite with
them in the hope that the champion
will receive a beating.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23
Dorothy Dix Talks
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
The Idcal Woman-f.

Inc 1lctA ttOlfian-l.
A young girl. who has been assigned
''The Ideal Woman" as the subject
for her graduating essay, asks me if
will give her a closeup of this para
gon.
OF course, there is no such animal
as an ideal woman. Even the most
seraphic of the angel sex are far
away from perfection. They have
faults, and blemishes, and defects.
They have amazing weaknesses, and
curious ways, and strange peculiartties,
which not only enable US to love
them but to endure them, for nobody
could possibly live with an ideal
woman. Even the extra good ones are
hard to stand.
Still, the notion of an imaginary
super-woman is an alluring one, and
intrigues the fancy, and here is the
way that 1 would paint the picture of
my ideal woman.
She should be beautiful. Not with
the surface prettiness of youth, that
is a matter of a peaches and cream
complexion, and glistening hair and
teeth, and a willowy figure, all of
which are bound to go into the dis
card in n few years time. j would
add to them the beauty that comes
from kindliness, and intelligence, and
that time only intensifies. Some
women are better looking at sixty
than they were at sixteen. and that is
the sort of ever-wear beauty with
which I should endow my ideal
woman. se
/ should further make her easy on
the eyes by clothing her in lovely and
appropriate garments. There is no
virtue in frumpiness, nor is there any
merit in skimping on hair pins. 1t is
everybodys duty to their fellow crea-
lures to create in themselves. and
about them, as much beauty as they
can.
The prettiest woman has her looks
enhanced by pretty frocks. The
,homeliest woman can camouflage her
defects and produce the illusion OF
beauty with a few yards of chiffon.
when she doesn't do it. No woman
need be as ugly as Godemade her in
these days. and if she sits down in
Mother Hubbard wrappers and bou-
doir caps and accepts her fate without
a struggle, she isn't the sort of a wo-
man she should be.
My ideal should have plenty of
brains. both plain and fancy style.
She should be well educated, well
read with a mind stored with the wis
dom of the ages. but she should know
so much that it would make her hum
bile. and she shouldn't feel the neces-
sity of Haunting her attachments in
everybody's face. Still less should she
pose as an oracle.
>~I7 r
Copyright. 1920. by tbe wheeler cyndIcats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23

~ The packers control bill, as it now
stands, should be entitled. "A bill to
Increase the cost of meat" II enact
ed into law. it will add greatly to the
packers overhead without comforting
"a corresponding benefit on any part
of the public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23

= The. Nonpartisan leaguers. like the
@l1bor unionists. refe; to those outside
the ranks as enemies" Why do the
members regard all who hold views
differing from lhtir as enemies?
Members of churches or of political
parties do not regard as enemies
those who belong to other organiza-
tons of like character.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23

Delegates to the Federation of La
Dor convention have gone on record in
favor of the retention of beer among
the nations beverages. But they
probably are too late. They would
better confine their efforts to hang
ing on to their tobacco.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23

or his dresser and brought forth a
paper-cpvered book.
This Arabella Anderson has the
right DOPE" he murrnured. "Only she
forgot to mention that Il works both
ways. Maybe she didn't know It when
she wrete this Keep Them Guessing
volume"
Copyright, 1921. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23
Dinner Stories

Miss Angela Callahan was perfornl-
ing her usual stunts on the piano
Imperial Valley press., 1921-09-23

canon will sing "Come unto Me- (by
King).
The evening service will be con-
tinuation of the "Open Forum" me-
thod of work. The subject for. dis
cussion viii be "The World Confer
ence for the. Limitation of Anna
ments, called bv President Harding
ifor November 11th." Several repre-
sentative people VII sAesks on thssyb-
ject.- AN open and free d5Sys,sSiopr is
invited, Senator BofaG says: Wis
now up to the people of-this country
to make their wShss known and
opinions felt. ,WjthopE the rmobil-
jzed forces of those upon whom these
crushing burdens are falling, there
lis little hope that the load Will be
lifted. Hit is not Lifted, who can
| tell what lies beyond Jesus said
Blessed are the Peace Makers. fol
they shall be called the Children OF
| God"