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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19

sure upon employers in behalf of any
reasonable-and, If circumstances ia
vor it, even of very unreasonable--de-
niands. Yet many persons see no dis
tinction between opposition to the
closed-shop principle and opposition
to the whole system of labor organi-
cation. They do not stop to think
eitherof the large possibilities of united
action of which union labor can avail
itself without prescription of nom
union labor. or of the intolerable SIT
uation which would arise il such pro-
scriPtion were complete. In that sit
uation. We should all be at the abso-
lutte mercy of the labor unions; they
could at any moment enforce any de-
mand they might think fit to make by
the threat of paralysis of the whole
activities of the community.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19
Questions-.Anspers

:, O.. Are there still cedars on Lebanon:-
range Of Lebanon in southern syria. there
still exists small groups of trees in several
places, the largest consisting of about $50
trees.
Q. What is meant by Pandects TT. N.
A. "Pandects" is derived from the Greek
and means "all-containing." The Pandects
Of Justinian is collection of Roman civil
law, made by the Emperor Justinian in the
to witch tie 'e emperoT gaVe the
piiation, of so books, is the most important
of the body of the Roman civil law.
@. What is a Dorking &C. c.
A. This is long-established breed OF
domestic fowls; DISTINGUISHED chiefly by
IS specify f wa variable for the table. 's'
Q. When does a fiscal year end:-G. z.
A. Unless otherwise stated. the fiscal
year ends December 31st- The government
s1st; In France, Deeember sist. While
in the United States it ends June 30th.
@ is there any foundation for the stery
Z. 8. oaA anu ms afA 'eA'usS Inc 0'D'e =
A There are interesting traditions in
lonian and American indian lore. ali sub
Stimulating the theory of a prehistoric flood.
g; Are the yitamines DESTROYED in eyap-
A The Department Of Agriculture says
that the vitamines are not destroyed IN
the process Of evaporation in preparing
eyaporated milk.
Q. Can yeu tell me whether the English
or the Metric System OF measurement is
used in South America Nv. f.
A. The Pan American Union says that
the Metric System is in general use IN
South America.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19

more individual and the more sympa-
thetic and the more DESTROYS for serv-
ice q man becomes, the truer is it that
he becomes q thousand. or a million
individuals bounded as one. And SO he
thinks in the terms OF them.
IT am only one-but there has never
been anyone eactly like mel" You
may say that with sincere thankful
ness.
Think of your opportunity. Take an
invoice of your abilities. And then
go ahead and do what you do better
than it has ever been done before. Let
that be your ideal.
I came across g. very apt Quotation
from Edward Everett Hale the other
day. It fits the idea of this brief Talk.
Here It is:
II am only one.
But still 1 AM one.
I cannot do everything,
But still / CAN do something;
And because cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something
that I can dol"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19
JUST FOLKS
AT THE PICTURE SHOW.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

AT THE PICTURE SHOW.
Isn't it fine when the night cSraes on
And the girls have all Of the dishes done,
And the floor is swept and the table spread
And I've got all of thes paper read,
When mother says, Come along, let's go
Out to lock at q picture shew:'
lock up the kitchen door, an then
I look at the furnace fire again,
And put out all of the lights save one,
Coz there's no use burning 'em while wei
gone;
And we start away to a place We know
Is having a first-class picture show.
buy the tickets and give grin
To the man who takes 'em and lets us in,
But first 1 get 'em come chocolate drops
Or something they want from the candy
shops;
Then Bud he whispers out loud to me,
If don't mind he'll sit on my knee.
"whats he kissin' her for?" says he,
And what's he doin'?" he questions me.
81 wish it was funny, instead of this,
It's always the end when you see 'em kiss. v
There's nothing that starts the talk to
flow
Like taking boy to picture show.
All together, Yes that's the way
For a family to close abe day
Dad and Mother and girls and boy,
Ending the day with a common Joy,
Keeping together, and glad to go
Out to look at picture show
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19
Dorothy Dir Talks

NJ DOROTHY DIX
la's HighesA Paid Woman Wrss.


The pretty young girl who waits on
me at little restaurant / frequent,
was very much perturbed. Red spots
of excitement burned on her cheeks.
Her eyes were full of unshed tears.
Her hands shook as she putmy food
before me.
What is the matter?" I asked.
"Oh," she said, her voice trembling
with passion. IT have just had a run
in with the head waitress. I was late
this morning and in hurry, and I
got another girls apron, and she
Nbawled me out about it. didn't take
anything off her. and told her some
things she won't forget in a hurry.
wouldn't you?"
NO" I said, st should have said
something to hen that would have
made her feel so small, and cheap,
and unladylike. that it would have
made her sorry she spoke to me as
she did"
Gee" exclaimed the girl hope
her when she got after you about a
thing that was an accident, that
might have happened to anybody
who was in a hurry?"
ST should have told her. I said,
shat I knew she had a perfect right
to scold me for my carelessness in
making the mistake, and that I was
sorry for 1t, and that I wouldn't let
it happen again.
The girl thought a moment, and
then she said gravely, "Well, 1 guess
that would have held her for a while.
Scrappy thing she is. Always looking
for a fight
"Right-o,' I replied, 1.-The soft ans
wer not only turns away wrath, but
nothing else leaves your enemy so
completely at disadvantage. There's
nothing more that you can say to those
who admit their faults and regret
them"
Just try it the next time anyone as
sails you, and see how foolish it makes
them feel and look. They could match
tempers with you. They could pit
anger against anger, and hurl invec-
tives and abuse, perhaps with reader
thought and a deadlier aim than you
can, but they are helpless before you
when you are master of your own tenn
per, when you oppose their force with
gentleness, and when you meet their
coarse abuse with the restrained
speech of lady
Somehow the soft answer always
puts the angry one into the wrong.
You may richly deserve the scolding
you are getting, but If you will meekly
accept the blame that is your due, and
not furiously justify yourself, you will
invariably find that the offended one
begins to baekwater, and ends up by
making more excuses for you than
you would have dared to offer your
self
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE
The Park Ave. News.


Weather Various winds.
Spoarts. Ed Wernick had argew-
ment with Flatfoot the cop last Satid-
day on the subject OF weather Flat
foot had eny rite to keep Eds baseball
jest because he was playing with 1t
out in the street, the argewment con-
sisting of Ed Wernick saying, Hay,
that's mine, and F'latfoot saying, May
be it was but it amt now.
Sissiety. Mr.. Skinny Martin and
Mr.. Skinny Mullin have bin saw to-
gether so mulch lately that now wen
ever they start to come up the street
next to each other some member OF
sissiety says, All, heer comes num-
Der IL.
Financial Notes Pubs Simkins
wunts to announce that he wont loan
eny more money to anybody till Sid
Hunt and Artie Alexander each pay
him back the cent they owe him.
Pome by Skinny Martin
Herray For Nature.
The Chinese are a yellow race
Like buttercups. and not blue IKE
And all you haff to do is see their
face
To know how they look all over.
Intristing Faeks About Intristing
People. Lew Davises father ana
mother wunt him to take violin les
sins off of violin teeeher. ony Lew
thinks the violin is sissey and Wunts
to lern the drum, the result being
he hasent started enything yet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19

THE Weekly Review" an indie
pendent publication of general criti-
cism. has published an editorial in
which it must appear to many minds
that it states the issue in the indus-
trial world today clearly, concisely,
and fairly. Union labor leaders, it
says. constantly have as their objec-
tive. the universal closed shop. They
regard non-membership in a union,
in any trade in which there is a union
as treason to the cause of labor. The
attitude is quite Ineligible. But there
is no reason why intelligent persons.
looking at the matter from the stand
point of the general public. should as
sent to the nation that the labor
unions must be either everything or
nothing. A union may be powerful
without being omnipotent. If it sue
coed in bringing into it's organization
a preponderatin6 or even a very
large, body of the workers in the
trade, it can exercise powerful pres
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
1T AM ONLY ONE.

What a big world We live in-eyen
tho 1t is but a speck in comparison to
other heavenly bodies.
How small we look and seem as we
go down the crowded street-but one
of thousands
But when you stop to think and re-
member that the very vehicle on which
you ride, the elevator in which you go
to your office, the electric lights
which enable you to read and improve
your mind in the midst of ease and
convenience. the telephone at your
elbow with which you may hear your
friends voice across a thousand miles
that these and scores of other inven-
tons are the products of individual
units like yourself, you may take heart
and strive anew.
You may say that yau are "on1y
ope''-hut Jesus, Cromwell, Lincoln,
Franklin. were only one.
1t just happens, however, that the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19
Moulton Musings
BIZ ROY X. MoULTON.

The Lady Bandits.
When a gentleman is held up by a lady
on a lonely country highway late at
night.
And she aims an automatic at bis eady
When she frisks him for his watch and
chain and Doodle
land this may happen any night to youl,
If he does not want bullet thru ms
Pray what is any gentleman to do1
For you cannot beat lady. even slightly,
And If you strike woman you're no
You must stand and take your medicine
politely.
No. You cannot bang a lady on the beezer,.
And you cannot fell flapper with clup
You must treat her as the fauitiess wife
And remain a gentleman, aItho a dub.
Haiti is boasting of a brand of Ii
quor sufficiently powerful to drive a
motorcycle, but there are brands il,
New York sufficiently powerful to
bring a patrol wagon fifteen blocks at
high speed.
The electoral college, may heaven
be praised, has no yell.
The newlinternational problem is as
slippery as Greece.
And then a married man is used to
having some lady go thru his clothes.
There's really nothing new about 1t.
Don't tell my husband.' screamed
several ladies simultaneously when
pinched by the police in gambling
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19

President-elect Harding is reported
as saying that "Our navy is the great
wall of America" He is for the main
tenanee of our fighting strength on
the seas AT a point where it will con-
stitute a real defense. Mr.. Harding
holds that a navy which is almost
good enough" is likely to prove more
costly in the end to the United States
than no navy at all. In other words,
a navy that is not powerful enough
to defeat an opponent might as well
not have existed. OF course we have
the money and can keep in the lead
Of the naval construction procession,
but do we want to spend our money
in that way? England has not the
money she would like to invest in
ships, and has announced that the
battleship and big cruiser are things
of the past, and the next naval war
will be waged by other forces. We
should not forget that other nations
have the same chance at a choice of
weapons that we have.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19

For many months the country has
been told that necessary building was
being retarded because material costs
were prohibitive. Now, it is reported
that foreign made brick, lumber, glass
an. cement are being. offered in
American markets at prices much be-
low those which have prevailed up to
this time. The Manufacturers Rec
ord is led to exclaim: with Ger
mans rushing cement to break down
the American market with European
brick offered at lower prices than
American, we are beginning to see the
movement which, unless checked will
! ramp the industrial interests of this
country" So it appears that as soon
as 4 reduction in the prices of build
ing material approaches, objection
arises to the manner in which it is
brought about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19

In the first nine months of munich
pal ownership. it Is reported. the troll
10y system of Berlin showed a deficit
of 100000 marks; this despite the
fact that fares increased from 80 to
so pfennigs. But. might not the cause
of the deficit be traced to that very
increase in fares? When trade is bad
with the merchant and he sees total
profits diminishing, he does not in
crease prices. He strives to do a
greater volume of business thru re-
duction of prices
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19

IT couldn't help it, teacher. Honest.
I couldn't replied the boy. Tommy
Higgins said his father could make
better home brew than mine could"
paper?"
About a man getting a divorce be-
cause his wife went thru his pockets"
What are you go ng to do with It ?''
Put it in my pocket"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19
%~% IT
copyright, 1920. by the Wheeler Syndicate
4nc.s
Household Hints
Tasty Sauces.

Tasty SAUCES.
Foamy Sauce-Beat the whites of
two eggs stiff and mix with cup of
graduated sugar. Beat again and add
the Juice of a good sized lemon. Mix
this in, add a cup of boiling milk and
serve at once.
Diplomatic Sauce-Boil two cups of
water with one cup sugar until they
are well mixed, but not a syrup.
Thicker with flour, mixed smooth in
a little cold water. Simmer until clear
strawberry, raspberry, grape or red
plum juice-and the juice of half a
lemon. Sprinkle in biz of mace and
serve.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19
Dinner Stories

Instructor Cat the woman's train
ing camp-Reveille win sound each
morning at $50. Every lady must
turn out at that time. The only eN-
ceptions will be in favor of those who
have bad compilations and need their
beauty sleep.
willie jones' said hts teacher ae-
cusingly, you've been fighting again"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19

raid the other day. And now the
husbands are all puffed up about it
to think, after all that has happened
in the way of equal rights, they are
still afraid OF us.
One New. York minister married
ten couples on Monday. eleven on
Tuesday ana twenty-one on Wednes-
day, and still some people think the
era of strife is declining.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19

1t does not seem to have occurred
TO the Texas mob that drove Mexican
laborers from Ranger, to visit its dis
pleasure on the men who hired the
foreigners. 1t is the way of the mob
to attack those who are incapable OF
putting up a defense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19

The railroad employees demanded
ten hours pay for eight hours work
and got il. The railroad managers
now complain that the employees do
not give the eight hours work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19

We don't pretend to know what the
metric system is, but, since every
thing else has been tried, we urge
upon congress the enactment of q law
making the metric system obligatory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19

Nearly everybody 10 willing to ad-
nit that the country is in a bad way.
1t is of general interest, therefore, that
H. Richards. Jr., has a plan Tor saving
it. Mr.. Richards believes the thing
can be accomplished by the adoption
Of the metric system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19

We further urge the appointment OF
a commission composed of seven radi-
cal thinkers and an appropriation of
$10,000,00o for the purpose of erforc-
ing the law after it has been enacted.
That is the customary procedure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19


"The growing of Pima cotton
successful and permanent industl
the valley" he says. ''It canno
grown so we'll anywhere else and
staple that will be highly appre
ed by the public at large as soon
becomes better known. Our p'
have rushed in and grown q
ahead of the real market for it.
will create that market, or rathel
public will do so for us.
Our farmers put 60 per Ger
our irrigated land into Pima c.
last year. If the automobile tire
pie had kept on buying at high s
and there had been no extra in
tation of Egyptians we would pei
have disposed of the $4,000 bale
produced and the lesson would
have been SO severe on us.
''In the excitement caused by
high prices offered for cotton, j
inexperienced men planted the
on land that was not adapted or I
for it. We now have their tro
also which could have been fore
Cotton-growing, like all other
nesses, should be done by those
| have learned 1t in a practical w
with the adjustment of worl
dustry our cotton should be wor
the lowest figure SO cents per pt
Practical men in thoro touch wit
local conditions. and expecting &
Ginning labor cost in production
| harvesting, are convinced that
Pima cotton in the Salt River v
can be grown at SO cents per D
with a fair profit.
Farming is no longer q gan
| chance on these irrigated lands
a manufacturing proposition.
turn sunshine, water and soil
food and clothing with the qua
depending almost entirely on
cheney and capacity"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19

The request OF the Sunday editor moi
to write another common-sense
column for a month will be needed
1t was a considerable strain.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-27
MRS RAYMOND BROWNS OPINION

Mrs. Raymond Brown. prominent Buffargette and manager director of the Woman Citizen. a suffrage organ, does not think the eternal maternar should be wasted.
 Two million extra womeni" Mrs.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-27
DOCS AIRING IN AUTO
 PROVED VERY COSTLY
(By International News service)

tBy International News Service)
 ARKANSAS CITY, Kan, Aug. 27.- 1, It cost Mrs. Harold Pack the loss of a diamond ring valued at $500 to take her pedigreed bull pup" for motor car ride.
 A stout cord was attached to the dogs collar. When Mrs. Pack entered her car she wrapped the other end of the cord about her hand. As the car approached the Packs residence the dog leaped from the car. jerking the rope off of Mrs Packs hand and, with it. the diamond ring.
 The pup" has been found, but Mrs. Pack is still searching for her dia- mond ring.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-27
WHY EDITOR CLAIMED
 MINNESOTA "HOME'
(By International News service)


 NEW YORK, Aug. 27. - Wickham Steed. editor of the London Times. who is in this country with Viscount Northcliffe, British peer and publisher, expressed while in this city a desire to visit different parts of the nation, especially Minnesota
 But why Minnesota?" he was asked
 Because" he replied blandly, q come from there; that is my native state"
 Before his astonished audience could protest, he added That is, once during the course of the war found it very advisable in talking to certain Hungarian in Switzerland to represent that came from Ameri ca, and in my improvisation hap pened to think of Minnesota and adopted 1t as my own; so I should like to see it now"
The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-27
ACREAGE PLANTED
 IN RYE INCREASES
(By International News service)

(By international News Servtce)
 ST. LOUIS. Mo, Aug. 27.-While two factions of St. Louis County of. ficials are engaged in the bitterest "liquor war" in the history of Mis. souri, farmers have been going com. placently on their way of planting the where with of white mule."
 The rye acreage in Missouri. ac. Icording to statistics made public by the Census Bureau of the Depart ment of Commerce, shows an in. crease since 1909 of s7,421 acres.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-27

There was blowup in the fire department this week, the result ot differences between certain members of the council and Chief Charles Samsan over the employment of ex tra help at the fire hall. Samson and Fireman Barnett have rendered their resignations, to take effect or the first of September,
The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-27

John Moe returned to town this week, after an absence of several weeks along the Yukon river
The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-27

Charles Gius has received a large shipment of hydraulic pipe which he will use in his mining operations.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-27
ASK COURT TO DECIDE
 WORTH OF REPUTATION
tBy International News service)

(By International News Service)
 ST. LOUIS, Mo. Aug. 27.-Alleg, ing that his reputation was injured. J. A Johnson asks a court to de- eide what a reputation is worth. His arrest was caused. he charges, by shoe company, and he was forced to make bond and pay $150 attorneys fee for his false imprison- ment. His petition asks the court to make the shoe company pay him s, 900 actual damages and $5,000 puni- tive damages.
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