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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18
1HE PEopLE,s yERp1cr.

Senator Cummins says the railroad
situation calls for two things: Reduc-
ton of wages and lowering of the cost
Of equipment and supplies. He has
omitted the third and most essential
thing, which must go along with the
other two: A lowering of freight and
passenger rates.
IAN increase in business must be
realized before railroad rates can be
reduced" declared the president of
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad a few
days ago.
But, says the Sioux City Tribune,
the public decided, some months since;
that there must be a decrease in rates
before there could be an increase in
business. The president of the B. &
o. seems to be overlooking the fact
that the matter has already gone to
the last court, and a verdict has been
handed down.
The Tribune points out that Cali
fornia cabbages will not sell because
by the time they reach Iowa the
freight rates have made their cost
prohibitive; and the court of last re-
sort has quietly made up it's mind to
wait for the home grown product.
Rhubarb is being used in place OF
oranges as a result of rates, and the
growers OF the cabbages and the
oranges are looking about for other
activities.
When the annual family vacations
have been turned into automobile ex-
cursions, and 1t has been decided the
nation over to explore recreative op-
portunities near home, a whole lot OF
possible railroad business will have
been lost, which will never be fully
regained.
In the court of necessity the In
dividual must" is the first one cared
for. The Citizen Family is going tc
buy where It must to buy most eco.
nomica1ly and go where it can best
afford to go. Its mad orgy Of excited
spending has passed. There are sui
ficient relics of it about every house
hold still to stimulate caution.
In Railroad Patronage versus TIT
Citizen Family the ethics of the cas-,
can not be questioned. 1t is the on,
| whose needs are the most pressing tina
will capitulate first. And the either
| family seems to be doing very wei
and becoming quite contented in cul
tivating its various varieties of HON,
grown opportunities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BIZ IE1E PARE

Mary Watkins was setting on her
frunt steps looking exter CRATE, and
me and Pubs Simkins was setting
there tawking to her, and she sed, o
boys, I jest thawt of a perfeckly love-
ly game for you to see witch one can
tell me the biggest compliment.
WITCH we started to do, Pubs saying,
G, you look so wonderful today its
q wonder you don't carry a big mirrer
erround with you to get the benefit
of it yourself.
O. that's a perfeckly bewtifill one,
now its your turn, Benny. sed Mary
Watkins, and sed, You look SO Won
derfill today its impossible to realize 1t.
That's PERFECTLY lovely. now its your
tern agen, Pubs. sed Mary Watkins,
berd setting on a cloud way up in the
air.
o how perfectly sweet, your tern
agen, Benny, sed Mary Watkins, and
1 thawt awhile without thinking of
enything better than Pulses berd and
then I sed, You look as eileen as Sid
Hunts fox terrier Teddy Jest after Sid
gave him bath.
Well of all the PERFECTLY terrible
things to say, Benny Potts. I'm SER
priced at you to insult lady like
that, sed Mary watkins.
Wat, how? I sed. G WIZ CESS you
never saw Teddy rite after he had a
bath, he looks CRATE.
don't care how he looks, its a in
suit and I don't wunt to look like a
dog any time, sed Mary Watkins. and
I sed, Well gosh. G, you thawt it was
all rite to look like berd. and a dog
Is more intelligent than a berd eny
day.
1 dident say wunted to look intel
ligent, and I'm going rite strate in the
house if you don't apologize, sed Mary
Watkins.
WITCH I did. Proving a compliment
is wasted unless its appreciated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18

AS a justification of existing freight
rates it is set forth by railroad Off
Gals that the labor cost alone of trans
porting almost any commodity on the
railroads today equals or exceeds the
total freight rate in 1917. In 1917
the freight rate on a bushel of wheat
from Kansas to New York was ~
cents At present, they point out, the
labor cost alone of transporting a
bushel of wheat from Kansas to New
York is 81 cents, or the same as the
entire cost of the operation in 1917.
But if the roads are not getting the
81 cents or any otlter price, what is
the object in maintaining existing
rates. If high rates would solve the
problem, they might be excused, but
they do not. On the contrary, they
put a stop to the business of the rail-
roads and the entire country as well.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18
Questions-Ansucers


O. How should mail be addressed in or
der to catch a boat going thru the Panama
Canal III. H. W.
a. Mails for ships passing thru the canal
or touching at either of the terminal ports
should be addressed to "Cristobal, Canal
Zone
Q. Does the palate assist in talking? II
SO. how?-O. p. S.
A. The teeth. the hard palate, and the
interior walls Of the cheeks merely serve
as resonating surfaces in the process of
language formation, and hence are some
times termed the passive organs OF speech,
in contradistfnctfon to the active organs,
which properly include only the tongue, the
lips, and the soft palate.
q. How many states have Indian names!
ID. F. G..
A. Twenty-three of the states have
names derived from the Indian tongue
Q. How many people in the United
States keep house servants III s.
A The last census on occupations show
ed that in 931z per cent Of American homes
no servants were empoyed- The census that
is being compiled at present will probably
show an increase in servantless homes
O.. Is a mile longer than a kiiometer ,
A. An English mile il longer than 4
kilometer, being equal to Loo kilometers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18

money to build when she comes to
visit them, and his wife says she can't
come if he don't bring some one home
from the city to help her do the work.
and he saw me in the window and
likes the way I work; and he says he
can use you, too. And there's q little
house we can live in. and we'll go day
after o m w-Johnny"-Ma
paused for breath.
But we can't live together in a
little house, Mary, until" Johnny's
voice was trembling with the hope of
supreme happiness.
"Of course not. Johnny" Mary an
swered his unspoken question.
Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18
WAGE ADJUSTMENTS.

It seems to be the intention of the
railroad labor board to compel both
parties to the wage controversy to lay
their cards on the table. The railroad
labor board was created to bring JUS
tice as between employers and en-
ployes. II its decisions prove grossly
unjust, a way will be found, either
thru the courts or by means of ad-
ditiona1 legislation, to correct the fault.
1t is certain that present railroad
wage rates are far higher than con-
the reduction process as conducted by
the roads, they will be fixed too low.
But readjustment to a proper level
is necessary If the roads are to con-
tinue to render transportation. If
the roads quietly acquiesced in present
wage rates nothing would have been
done. BY announcing a program of
reductions they have taken step in
the interests of justice and the public
welfare.
But here is where the public in
terest enters. The roads were granted
a big increase in rates for the express
purpose of enabling them to pay the
existing scale of wages. If they insist
on reducing wages, they must also re-
duce their rates, or the public may
find itself justified in making common
cause with the employees.
1t is certain that congress never
intended to enact a statute that placed
one class of workers in the United
States in a position. where they could
receive rates of wages out of all pro-
portion to the wage schedules in other
similar lines of industry. A labor
board was created and given certain
Jurisdiction over wage rates, but that
jurisdiction does not extend to the
point of making a specially favored
class of railroad employees, and COM
pelling the roads to pay them wages
higher than similar work elsewhere
and not warranted by the factors that
should govern railroad pay.
IT. apparent that the matter of
preached by the board with a de-
termination to fix rates that will fairly
reflect the economic conditions that
now prevail. who is there among
those not directly affected by the cut
but will admit that the standards to
govern the decreases are not eminent
ly just? Certainly those workers in
other industries whose wages have
been adjusted by the law of supply
and demand have no desire to have
special privileges accorded to the rail-
road employees.
| The factors to be considered in ar
irving at new wage rates are: The
scale of wages paid for similar kinds
of work in other industries, the rela-
| ton between wages and the cost OF
! living, the hazards of employment, the
degree of responsibility, the training
and skill required, and the character
and regularity of employment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18
with total score of a.ass miles. eight


with 4 total score of 2.2ss miles. eight
laps.
Journalistic enterprise always en-
chains us. The quarrel the New York
world is having between President
Harding and the senate is inspira-
tiona1.
Fifty per cent of the trouble springs
from various unidentified sources.
The other half results from the quarrel
the husband had with his wife before
he started downtown in the morning.
Women who wish to torture their
husbands should do it after the days
work is over. The hours between
and o o'clock in the evening are best
and are recommended. The casuga-
ton should cease by 10 o'clock, giving
the husband a chance to get his sleep
and rfersh himself for the succeed
ing days work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18
Chairman Edgar E. clark o

Chairman Edgar E. Clark of the
interstate commerce commission
states in a recent letter to Senator
Harris of Georgia that nothing in the
railroad situation at present justifies a
reduction in freight rates such as has
been suggested in various sections of
the country as a means of lowering
production costs. But lowering Of
freight rates is not so much a ques-
ton of Justice or reducing production
costs as it is one of bringing down
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18

It is expected that revision of the
revenue laws will be the first task
undertaken by the congress which will
meet in extra session next month. 1t
will be well for that body to remem-
Der that the public will not be salts
fled with a revision which means
merely a readjustment of the burden.
Any revision undertaken must be a
revision downward or the representa-
tives will hear from their constitu-
ents in 1922
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18
Dorothy DIX Tails
Don't spread soul sickness-2.

Chlet among these carriers" Gas
doctors call those who have an abnor-
NAL facility for harboring germs) are
women, and this makes it of vital i'm
portance that every woman who Is az
the head of a household, should be
very careful that she disseminates
beneficent- bacilli instead of the deadly
kind that Stays all the peace and JOY
of a home.
For it is the wife and mother whose
moods are most catching. Did you
ever see nice, jolly, easy-going wo--
man who laughed instead of scolded
over the little inevitable domestic mis-
haps, who didn't have pleasant,
genial, amiable and affectionate hus-
band and children? 1 have never
known that kind of a woman to have
a husband who gloomed around the
house, or knocked everything that ev-
erybody did, or whose children were
afraid of him.
Nor have 1 ever known the children
of such a family to be always fight
ing with each other, and complaining
that they couldn't have the things
that richer children had, and the rea-
son is that they are all infected by
their mothers sane outlook on life,
and her good cheer and philosophy.
And when you find a woman who is
the reverse of this, who Is peevish and
discontinued, and irritable, and high
tempered, you will invariably find a
1
war. The husband is gloomy and
grouchy and brutal to his wife and
| children. The children quarrel among
| themselves. and defy their parents.
and leave home the first chance they
| get.
That woman has soul sickness, and
her whole family have caught it from
her, and there is no health in them.
A woman has to be very ignorant in
these days who does not -sterilize her
H. IL H. 80 At-4r %
protect her children against infectious
diseases. What a pity that more
mothers do not realize that the mi
crobes OF temper, and discomfort. and
envy are just as contagious as the
Imeasles, and are far more dangerous
to the young.
And what double pity that women
don't realize that IL they want to keep
their families placid and calm and
reasonable, they have only got to be
calm and placid and reasonable them
selves, for that kind of a mood Is just
as catching as the disgruntled mood.
In former years it used to be con-
sidered a mark of refinement and ele-
gance for a woman to be a semi
invalid. All the heroines of old -fash-
toned novels spent their lives reclining
on couches and fainting. Now we have
a plying contempt for invalid ladies:
a woman is ashamed of being sickly.
And II she has contag ious disease.
she has decency enough not to want
to give it to Others
} Without doubt, the same change is
taking place in our attitude towards
melancholy. People used to parade
their sorrows, and cherish them, and
talk about them. Now they Keep them
to themselves, and affect q cheerful
ness they often do not feel, for we are
getting humane enough not to desire
to pass on our spiritual diseases any
more than our physical ones.
For soul sickness is contagious. 1t
is a: nalady that the prudent avoid
giving and taking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18

The grounding has been so thoroly
discredited as a weather prophet this
from business. Besides, he has missed
the enjoyment Of six weeks of delight
full weather. There is but one way
open by which he may bolster up his
reputation and that is to attribute his
failure to the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18

1t is reported that France is about
TO recognize the Obregon government
in Mexico. But the French have
known little about Mexico since they
were chased out of that country by
Uncle Sam in the late sixties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18

After hard fight the house saved
the state $500 on the salaries OF the
P. U. C. members, but unless the COM
mission differ from its predecessors,
It will cost the people a sum that will
make the salary saving look like 30
cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18

marketing costs and increasing the
business of the railroads. High rates
and little work have been tried and
have failed to pay. Lower rates and
lots of traffic might and probably
would do better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18

The turmoil and the bitter language
incident to the closing hours of the
legislative session may create in the
minds of the people belief that there
entered into the proceedings interests
other than the welfare of the public
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18

England has just concluded trade
treaty with representatives of the
Russian government. Her next move
probably will be to find the Russian
government.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18

Having forecast it, we point with
pride to what seems to US to be a
triumph of the fitting and appropriate.
At the end of the 140th hour of the
six-day bicycle race in Madison Square
garden, Oscar Egg led all competitors
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18

Young John D. Rockefeller stood up
in the Fifth Avenue Baptist church in
New York on Sunday and told the
Gus about it, which fixes his status as
a thinker with tolerable accuracy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18
The Whispering Post.

J. e. M.-You are right in your con-
lecture. McDonough county, Illinois,
and Stark county, Ohio, respectively.
G.. T. A.-The boon of knowing NJ.
Masters has not been vouchsafed us,
but we once took thirty-two bass out
of a pool in Spoon river, just below
Bernadotte.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-06-09
FRIENDS GATHER AT SERVICES
FOR LATE ALEXANDER HOLMES

Funeral services were held at the
Baptist Church in Lynden Thursday
for the late Alexander Holmes. Rev.
Ed. Cofer Of Blaine officiated. and
interment was made in the Lynden
cemetery.
The following is from the Blaine
Press:
Alexander Holmes died at the home
Of his son, j. w. Holmes on Dakota
Creek near Blaine, Tuesday night.
May 81, 1921, at the age of IS years,
8 months, and 23 days. While he
had not been we'll for few days, his
death was wholly unexpected having
been up only few minutes before he
passed away.
Mr.. Holmes was born at Truskat,
Maine, September 8th, 1885. came to
the coast country eleven years ago,
and resided with his eldest son, C.
E. Holmes, at Lynden, and during
the past two years has made his
home with j. w. Holmes, near Blaine.
The deceased leaves a brother,
Stephen Holmes, of Everson, three
sons and one daughter, C. E. Holmes
of South Bend, WASH, Guy Holmes,
of Easton, Penn, ]. w. Holmes of
Blaine, and Mrs. Ed. Thomas, of Lyn-
den.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-06-09

Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned administrator of the es-
to te of Gerrit Bierlink, deceased. has
filed his Final Account and Petition
for Distribution and Discharge as
such administrator, and Dena Bier
link, the surviving wife of said de-
ceased has filed her petition praying
that certain property of said estate
be awarded to her in lieu of all fur
Their homestead and exemptions,
with the clerk of the above named
court; that the court is asked to
settle said account, distribute the es-
tate to the persons entitled thereto,
and discharge said administrator.
and that Monday, the 18th day of
June, 1921, at $3.50 A. M, at the
court house in the City Of Belling-
ham, Whatcom County, Washington.
has been fixed as the time and place
for hearing the same, when any per-
sons interested in said estate can pre-
sent or file exceptions and contest
the same.
Dated this 18th day OF May, 1921.
First publication May 10, 1921.
Last publication June 8, 1921.
B. MEENDERINCK,
Administrator of the estate of Ger
rit Bierlink, deceased.
R. B. LIE coco,
LINDEN, Washington
Attorney for Administrator
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-06-09
]. C. BALCH GIVES ADVICE TO
BEE MEN OF LYNDEN DISTRICT

have just been making a survey
of the country between Lynden and
Ferndale and to the coast north and
south of Birch Bay, to know where
to look for bee diseases when the bee
inspector came. He is expected to
be here at the June meeting of the
Whatcom County Beekeepers Asso-
citation, which will be held on June
7th at the farm of w. H. Baker, one
half mile north of the Birch Bay
School House, and he will spend the
week inspecting bees for foul brood
and any other Diseases they may
have.
find that nearly all the hives that
were extracted last summer are at
fected with some disease of the brood
carried and scattered by the extractor
on account of those doing the work
not knowing the disease when they
saw it, and going from one apiary to
another to extract the honey, the
disease is terribly scattered. So now
we are up against a problem and l
think one that will be pretty hard
to solve. We may and think will
get some light on the subject from
the Bee Inspector, but my advice (if
it is worth anything) is for those
that have bees that are clean to not
have them extracted, unless you get
an extractor of your own and never
extract for anyone else. Then If your
bees get the disease it will not be
carried to other yards. For the rest
we will try to thrash it out at the Bee
meeting.
J. G. BALCH,
Bee Management Project Leader
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-06-09

of America, published bi-weekly by
Malcolm H. Gardner, Delavan, Wis,
which reports the milk and butter
fat production of cows under official
supervision. Three pure-bred regis
tered Holstein-Fresian COWS are list
ed.
The cow, Pompey Nudine Dione, is
reported as having made at the age
of four years and eleven months, a
record of 538 ID of milk and FL ID
of butter fat in seven days, equiva-
lent to % ID of butter. Her record
for fourteen days is 1041 ID of milk
and AZ ID of butter fat. equivalent to
SO ID of butter.
Lizzie Pietertje Burke, at the age
of four years ann six months, pro-
duced 564 10 of milk and 81 ID of
butter fat in seven days, equivalent
to 26fb of butter. Her record for
fourteen days is 1880 ID of milk and
40 ID of butter fat, equivalent to SO
ID of butter.
The other cow, Maple Lane Pontiac
Lady Eleanor, at the age Of two years
and four months, is credited with 426
ID of milk and 16 ID of butter fat in
seven days, equivalent to 2OA 10 of
butter. Her record for fourteen days
is SIG ID of milk and 80 ID of butter
fat, equivalent to 4O% ID of butter.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-06-09
BENSON COWS LISTED AGAIN
IN HOLSTEIN HONOR ROLLS

For the second time within
month, A. Benson. of Lynden, WASH,
is mentioned in the official bulletin
of the Holstein-Fresian Association
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-06-09
NO. 411b

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF GERRIT BIERLINK, DE-
CEASED
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-06-09

NOTICE OF HEARING FINAL AC.
COUNT, PETITION FOR DlSTRlBU-
TION AND AWARD OF PROPERTY
TO SURVIVING WIDOW