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The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-24

Q. Where did the Indian get his idea
of happy hunting ground and Great
Spirit who rules the world? c. H. Il.
A Records do not exist that tell when
the Indians conceived this idea of religion.
They had their deligion before the white
men discovered this hemisphere. 1t deals
with an almighty, a hereafter, and has
many similarities to the old Jewish re
ligion- They have legend of the deluge.
Some authors >say that the Indians are
connected with the Ten Lost Tribes OF
Israel.
Q. Are bananas transported in refrig
A The fruit is carried in refrigerator
cars which. in most cases, are equipped
with fa4Se floors or flor racks, providing
load: During the warm season the cars
: Q; what is the origin of the name holly !:
A The name holly is said to be derived
from the use of the branches and berries
to decorate churches at Christmas time,
from which the tree was called holy tree.
Q. Why are high heels on shoes called
French heels? 1. W. X
in court wearing high wooden heels on his
shoes He was not tall man, and adopt
impressive. The term French heel was ap-
piled to high heels and finally to a certain
type of high heel.
Q. Why do fish swim upstream? e. D.
A. The Bureau of Fisheries says that
generally speaking fish swim upstream as
they are then heading against the current
and it is easier to get food.
Q. Is there underground passage
from the Capitol to the White House? f. b.
A. The Capitol and White House are
one mile apart. and are not connected by
underground passage. THE house and
senate office buildings and the library of
congress are connected with the Capitol
by subways.
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to bring twice their export price; files
SO per cent more than their export
price. Now and thru the Fordney bill.
which is higher than the Payne, such
produces as elect to join in price
fixing are invited to make such prices
as these the basis of their competi-
tors customs charges upon entrance
to the markets of our country
farming out of the taxing power,
pouring many billions of dollars an
nuaIly of the consumers money, not
into the treasury, but into private
pockets. The treasury will not get 81
to 500 that the consumer will pay
the domestic producer.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-24
Dorothy Dix THlks
The Chnrm That Endurcs-2.
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
woFfa,s highest P~id wemnA Writes.

Inc AnAFKu lDdt
$50 there we rich girls are. Wa
want to be loved, we want the sort
of husbands who do things, and cf
whom We can be proud We want
real homes, with men in them whose
whole hearts are ours and We 1lnd
that not the richest of us has got mon
ey enough to buy that. For you can'c
purchase the greatest thing in the
world over the counter, and many ana
many a poor woman who hasn't a
second dress to her back. has got
something that dozens of million
airesses would give their all to have.
and that is the absolute certainty that
she is loved for herself alone, and
that the man who married her wanted
just her. and not her bank account.
Have you ever wondered why there
are so many rich old maids? 1t is
because the woman with money is
afraid to marry
81 think you exaggerate the dan
GER" replied the woman with whom
the rich girl was speaking, for one
thing American men are not fortune
hunters as rule. There are too many
opportunities in this country for a
man to make money for himself. fo-
him to be tempted to sell his birth
right for a mess of pottage.
The man who marries for living
pays the highest board on earth, and
there are mighty few American men
who wouldn't rather work at some
less nerve wearing job than being the
poor husband of a wealthy wife So
generally are men of this opinion that
1 have never known a very wealthy
girl who was a belle. not even with all
the chromos in the shape of feeds, and
theater tickets and automobiles, that
her family handed out with every
ticket of admission.
But suppose a man is influenced
in marrying you for your fortune?
Every woman is married because OF
some particular charm that attracts a.
man. One woman is married because
of her beauty. In a few years she is
bound to lose that. Another allures
man by her willowy figure. In ten
years it is gone, and she is either a
feather bed or a living skeleton.
"A man is lured into matrimony by
a girls vivacity and gaiety. Life
sobers and saddens the most joyous
of us. A girl may be married for any
one of a thousand fugitive charms
that are bound to fade away in the
stress of matrimony.
But if a man marries a girl be-
cause of her money she has got r
charm for him that age cannot wither.
nor custom stale. She's got something
to conjure with, for the time will never
come when he will grow weary of the
things that money buys, and as long
as she keeps her money in her own
hands, she is sure of holding her hus-
bands interest, and keeping him al
ways on his best behavior towards
her.
so marry your man. and keep a
strangle hold on your pocketbook, and
while you never know for certain that
your husband loves you for yourself
alone, you will be certain of a devo-
ton that other women will envy. and
she is a foolish woman who looks a
gift horse in the mouth"
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-24
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
i CAN,T-NOT,


Some words irritate me very much.
One of these words is-can't
wish that it irritated everybody 10
the extent that it would be banished
from the language of the world
But since this is quite a task to
expect in such a world as ours, ] have
a suggestion for its use, suggested TO
me from the reading of a very helpful
author. Here it is:
When you say Il can't" add this
"I can't NOT!''
Some of US save money because we
cannot afford to spend it. And some
of US do things because we cannot
afford NOT to do them.
Fire is often fought with fire. Why
is it not possible to fight many of our
troublesome negatives with a mega
tive?
can't NOT. If you say it loud
enough-and feel it deeply enough,
the thing which you think that you
can't do. will be done.
The greatest successes in history
have not been those of the most re-
narkable inte1lects. but those into
whose souls no can't of any caliber
could enter.
Small plans, abbreviated ideals and
visions. walking in the woods of Don't
Care Land-this is what keeps that
little word cant" around.
Napoleon took the word out of his
dictionary. Lincoln paid no attention
to it. Fulton burned it in the firebox
of his first steamboat. And Edison
has it framed as a curiosity in the
laboratory of his heart.
I. can't NOT,
OF course you can't NOT-if you say
it like that. Which means that you
CAN-and you WILL.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-24
TARIFF sTUNBLING BLOCKs

Opposition to the pending tariff
measure is readily traced" declares
Mr.. Fordney, mot to the American
producer, not to the man who deals
chiefly in American made products,
but to the man who produces abroad
and the man whose chief interest IS
in bringing the product of cheap for
c:gn labor to the American market"
If that be the only opposition to
the proposed tariff, why doesn't Mr..
Fordney and those back of him go
ahead and pass the tariff bill? The
importers are not so many as to make
their vote of much account.
The Democratic party has gained
power only twice in the last thirty
years. and both times because the
public believed that the trainers of
so-caIled protective tariffs had aban-
doncd the true fundamentals of pro
lection and had attempted to cover
a surrender to privileged interests and
exploitation of the public by deceptive
means.
1t was generally accepted that these
laws were made so as to deceive the
public, to look fairly low, but with
great increases upon the apparent
rates hidden in clauses not readily
understood. These hidden phrases
are called "jokers." The Fordney
bill differs, however. from its prede-
cessors in having one great and in
ol .sive joker called the American
valuation clause. This clause re-
quires that all imported merchan-
disc at whatever prices purchased
shall pay duty on whatever is the
wholesale price of such merchandise
sn the United States. including in this
price the wholesalers cost of doing
business. profit, etc. For one hundred
years and under all former protective
tariffs our ,ad valorem duties have
been assessed upon the price of i'm
ported merchandise in the foreign
market
As many American products are
sold under price-fixing agreements,
this American valuation clause vir-
tually surrenders the making of rates
OF duty on competing articles to these
price-fixing aggregations.
Wherever any combination sets its
domestic prices they become automat-
ically the basis of the importers duty
The DingIey and Payne laws enabled
the borax interests to charge Tx c
per pound in America while 25sc per
pound abroad. the plate glass inter
ests to double their domestic prices;
certain chemicals to bring in the
United States three times their export
price; screws made in New England
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-24

Gus of a grand little rememberin'
tell we, Miss Mason, this sendin' home
Christmas beats all the trees ever
trimmed up in anybody's church. It's
plantin' the right seed-showin' poor
folks you want to help 'em, yet leave
'em be their own ways. Ever you want
to do it again, count me in-and for
half the profit I'm maxim now"
''The bill was comfortable" but
Margarets fingers trembled happily
as she passed over the crisp notes
Gardner had supplied. She had barred
cIecks-cash somehow looked so
much more real and heartening.
Trippet took his due almost in silence,
but maybe that was because he. had
something troublesome in his throat.
Outside. walking to where Gardner
had left his car, Margaret sighed hap
PLY. saying softly: Il hope you don't
mind all this I've let you in for
He pressed her hand lightly. ans
wering: at pleases me SO much Pm
going to ask for the job of paying
your grocery bills the rest of our
lives"
Newspaper Syndicate.)
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JUST FOLKS
CHRISTMAS EVE
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.


It's Christmas Eve, and he's in bed
While here my patient watch L keep,
Waiting for him to fab asleep,
And oh, what thoughts race thru my hea,
OF Christmas Ewes long years ago
- When / hung up my stocking so.
Now that's his stocking hanging there
In just the way that mine was hung
On Christmas Eve when l was young.
But l am in my easy chair,
Knowing the things 1 couldn't know
In boyhood's happy long ago.
would tonight that I might go
To bed as blithe and glad as he.
And have such visions come to me
OF Santa driving DER the snow
That little chap will even hear
The sound of sleighbeIls tinkling clear.
He'll dream of whiskers. long and white
And see the Jolly saint who comes
Loaded with horns and noisy dF4ms:
And tho he'll spend n restless night
Around him kindly folk will flock
To let him revel in their stock
And here I sit with tear -dimmed eyes,
For somehow / have come to know
Too many things that are not so,
But am old and gray and wise
Wishing that ! might still believe
And share his joy on Christmas Eve
And yet, when he shall older grow
This is my prayer for him so young
That where his stocking now is hung
Another little boy shall go
And hang his stocking up and he
Shall know the joy he gives to me.
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-24
LITTLE BENNY'S- NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE
HE PARK ave. News

THE PARK AVE. NEWS
Weather. Loose.
Exteri Big Reward Puds Simkins
offers cents reward for the ded on
alive capture of whoever plugged NJ
the holes in his mouth organ with
puddy. Among those Suspected of the
crime are Reddy Merry. Ed Wernick.
Lew Davis and Artie Alexander.
Sissiety. Mr. Leroy Shooster wawk-
ed with site left handed limp last
Sundey on account of his new Sundey
shoes and Expects to do the same neat
Sundey.
Pome by Skinny Martin
Fizzeology
1 feel strong and athaletic
Like the statue of a Greek
But If somebody mentioned a errand
Id suddinly grow very weak.
Wimmins Notes. Loretter AIincer
made a lemmin merrang pie all last
Wensday aftirnoon and the family ate
it without enybody gessing wat kind 1t
was.
Do you wunt enybody followed day
or mite? Absilootly confidential Sid
Hunt. private and publick detecktfve.
Advertisement
Lost and Found Neither.
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door, saying that she wouldn't be
home that afternoon and that I should
come back some other time. She has
a telephone and so have we.
I didn't bother her by going back
another time. Now I have heard
from a friend that she is very angry
at me and says I haven't treated her
right.
Don't you think she was the one
who didn't treat me right? I never
intend to go back. Do you blame me
JOHN.
I do not blame you in the least for
not going back. The girl was to
blame.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a boy
in my teens and 1 am in love with a
girl one year my junior. She attracts
me by her ways. altho she acts very
cold toward me- 1 have heard that
she has big ideas and only cares for
boys older than she. Please give me
some advice. KURLY II.
You are very young to decide that
you are in love. 1 would advise you
to try to put her out of your mind
for a while and when you are older
il she still interests you, ask permis-
sion to cali or to take her somewhere.
1t might be that she would go to
school parties with you now.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-24
THE MENACE OF THE BLOC.

The New York congressman who
has introduced a bill intended to put
the "bloc" out of business may have
been actuated by the best intentions.
but his bill probably never will be
heard of again. The bloc" however.
is no Joke. The agricultural bloc was
mainly responsible for maintaining
the surtax rate at so per cent instead
of 80.
One of the objects of this class of
law makers seems to be rather to re-
duce incomes. no matter whence de-
rived. than to produce revenue and
advance business.
The taxation of incomes, which is
merely wealth in motion, solely be-
cause those incomes are big, hurts
the poor rather than the rich, be-
cause, in any case, short of absolute
left to support them, but not enough
left to support them, but no tenough
remaining to invest in productive in
dustry which alone gives or can give
employment to the poor Will self
appointed guardians of the poor tell
how jobs can be provided except by
the investment of capital in industrial
concerns?
Exorbitant 1evies on big incomes do
not hurt the idle inheritors of great
fortunes nearly so much as active
business men whose earnings come
chiefly from their personal intelli-
gence energy and effort Yet the law
makes no discrimination between the
few lounging heirs and the thousands
of business men whose brain and en-
terprise are the motive power of in
dustry.
When the sales tax comes before
congress, as it probably will do at an
early date, the agricultural bloc will
be found lined up against It on the
theory that it would transfer the tax
burden from the shoulders of the rich
to those of the poor.
The fact is that it would be a ger
uine and an honest tax on wealth.
The buyer of a Rolls Royce, a Loco
mobile, Crane-Simplex, or any other
eXtravagant car, would pay thirty or
forty times as much tax as the buyer
a suit of clothes would pay only one
third as much tax as the man who
pays $12O for a suit of clothes; the
woman who wears expensive gowns,
rich furs and costly jewels would pay
a -hundr I and a thousand times more
taxes than her sister of humble
means.
1t is said that to repeal or reduce
taxes on business and, instead, dis
tribute the tax burden over the whole
Iimitless field of consumption gener-
ally, would release the rich and op-
press the poor. If that statement is
true, the resulting argument IS
weigh-y. But that statement is not
true.
The present business taxes bear
Lore heavily on consumption than a
non-cumulative sales tax possibly
could bear. The income tax. the sur
taxes. the corporation tax and the en-
tire brood of taxes on business are all
added to prices whenever possible
This does not result in amassing prof
its, regardless of the tax, as some con-
tend; it merely raises prices so high
that business is thereby penalized-
or else, of course, destroys investing
capital if business absorbs the tax.
The only way TO deal with a bloc
is to lt-taIk it, out-vote it, or both.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-24
HEART AND HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State Journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: A young
lady friend of mine asked me to teach
her how to run her fathers automo-
bile. The father also said il would
oblige him If 1 could teach her be-
cause he didn't have time. We made
plans TO meet on Sunday afternoon
at two O'Clock. That day my father
was using our car and I walked three
miles TO get to her house When I
reached there at ten minutes of two
found a note tackled on the front
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-24

Russia will find in her Christmas
stocking $4,000, 600, placed there by
the American Santa Claus. It. is a
tidy sum and should enable the people
Of that country to refrain from work
for some time longer. This is free
country and all that, but the people
seem to have little to say about how
their money is spent.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-24

A group of alleged workers in the
cast are planning the organization of
a workers political party. One of the
notable features about a workers en-
try into politics is that he quits work
ing, Russia has been brought to her
present deplorable condition by the
refusal of evervbodv to work
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-24

As the holiday season approaches
business always picks up for the
peace officers. 1t is the period Of
greatest activity for bank robbers and
bootleggers.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-24

While the United States is feeding
Russia's starving people that country
is reported to be preparing to embark
in a war with neighboring states.
our Russian. policy seems likely to
make us more ridiculous in the eyes
of the world than has our 'watchful
waiting in connection with Mexico.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-24

There is said to be a stack of armor
plate worth $7.5OO,OOO in one eastern
shipyard. The owners are wondering
what they will do with it in case of a
naval construction recess. Can't it be
beaten into plowshares?
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-24

After a long. tedious and expensive
investigate of the sugar trust, it
appears that the government has
learned that it is not trust.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-24

creased il to. six months The second was
given six months because he, too, was
abusive. The turn of the third man came
Now" said the judge, what have you
got to say:"
Il sure amt got muffin to say Judge"
he said. Three months plenty nOuf for
dis niger
7 he road to hell is paved with good in
tentiens," says the proyerb. but as a mod
ern politician has remarked. the beauty of
the pavement does not improve the destina-
ton
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Dinner Stories

Three negroes got mixed up in a quarrel
and were locked up. Next morning they
given three months. and becoming abusive
upon hearing his sentence, the Judge in
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-24

copyright. 1920. by tbe ThseIsr cyudicats.
The mirror., 1921-04-21
MAKING DECISIONS

Many people live in daze all their
lives, struggling futilely with their daily
problems, choosing and deciding only
when forced to do so, and then usually un-
able to give any reason for their choice.
Much of their time is consumed in trying
to arrive at decision and much more
regretting it afterward,, for not having
based it upon any semblance of reason or
feeling sure of their intuitions, the result
is often contrary to their expectations.
There is only one rule to follow in the
solving of problems simple and complex.
Ask yourself always this question: Does
this seem right and good to me? If all
your being afirms the rightness of your
choice, 60 ahead fearlessly, regardless of
the condemnation or criticism of Others
If doubt and hesitancy pervail in the
mind and decision at the moment is i'm
guidance, choose quickly and trust in God
to make it all come right. Assert that all
things work together for good and waste
no time in futile regrets, even if the result
proves disappointing. Practice makes per-
feet, and the next time you show greater
wisdom in your choice. Our inner guide
is ever ready to instruct us and if the
willingness to do the right is always with
us, we will soon find ourselves choosing
fearessy and wisely, deciding quickly and
intelligently upon all points. The fear
of public opinion, of the possible evil re-
suits of our choice, often restrain us from
following the dictates of our heart, but
if we can overcome these fears, trust God
and stick to our intuition, which is the
voice of God, only our best good will fol-
low.
The mirror., 1921-04-21

Seven years later, in 1881, John Ireland
Howe, doctor in Bellevue Hospital, New
York, invented machine for making per-
feet solid-headed pins. A company was
organized and factory started at Derby,
Connecticut.
The modern automatic pin machine
completes the pin in all details except the
coloring and polishing.
Samuel Slocum, of Connecticut, invented
the first pin sticking machine. DR.. Howe
utilized it in his factory in 1S41. This
machine is almost human in its workings.
One workman feeds it with pins and an
other feeds it with papers. The pack
ages come out at the other end of the
machine exactly as Sfhe ladies buy them
at the dry goods stores.
The Chinese were the first people in the
world to use steel needles. The Chinese
needles slowly made their way westward
until they were brought into Europe by
the Moors.
The earliest needles known to history
did not have eyes, but were like avis, and
were used for making holes in the skins,
through which long roots of plants, or
leather thongs, were passed and then tied.
Later hole was bored through one end
of the stone or bronze needle, through
which the root or leather was passed, and
thus dragged through the hides as
punched Such needles are found in the
remains of the stone age. Bone needles
with eyes are found in the reindeer caves
of France and the lake dwellers of Cen
trail Europe.
1t was not until after 1885 that needles
were made and finished entirely by ma
chinery.-Ex.