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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-08
JUST FOLKS
THE ADVENTURE
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.


Columbus never would hive sailed
Westward, wondering if he failed,
Had he feared mems bitter ieers
Ringing loudly in his ears;
Had he dreaded what men say
When a fond hope goes astray,
And Of knocking been afraid,
Safe at home he would have stayed.
Few among the wisest men
Stood to help Columbus then:
Many there who waved goodbye
Thought he journeyed out to die,
And Columbus didn't know
To what land his ship would go,
But he bravely set his sail,
Caring not that he might fail.
1t might be that he must Gene
Homeward. sick at heart and glum.
With mems scornfHl jests and jeers
Ringing, burning in his ears,
But he'd brave the hurt and grief
And the hate for his belief;
Even tho he went to die,
He was not afraid to try.
II some worthy dream you hold,
Be adventurous and bold.
Brave the bitter scorn and jeerg
That shall howl about year ears,
But press forward, calm of soul,
Till at last you reach the goal
For your dream must soon grow stale
If you are afraid to fail.
Copyright, 1921 b. Edgar A Guest.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-08

The editor OF the local labor paper
calls attention to the fact that corn is
selling at IT cents a bushel while the
for it, and asks for an answer. At
first glance it appears that the labor
cost involved in digging the tin, max
ing the can, filling it with corn and
getting it to market is out of all pro-
portion to what the farmer receives
for his work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-08

The employer of labor occupies an
unenviable position. If he make a
profit in his business his employees
fe Il that it r.ghtfully belongs to them
and that they have been robbed of the
product of their labor. On the other
hand his customers maintain that this
same profit has been fi1ched from
their pockets and he is charged with
''profiteering" Neither party ever
seems to consider that the opportun-
ity of becoming a successful business
man is omen to all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-08

Wheat has dropped below a dollar
in Chicago. When the emergency tar
iff law was passed, wheat was selling
in Chicago at $1.5s a bushel and corn
at So cents. Prices have been slip
ping ever since. Yet congress seems
intent on keeping up the farce by vot-
ing an extension of this law, which
would expire on the 27th of this
month. It may be that some of the
people can be fooled all the time, but
it is open to doubt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-08
WE KNOW BETTER. NOW.

A correspondent of the Washington
Herald declaims against a class of
property owners whom he calls rent
profiteers" who are charg-
ing rents which he deems exorbitant.
AS a remedy for such charges he as
serts that in Argentina the president
issued a decree forb:dding landlords
to raise rents above the pre-war level
for the next two years and he wants to
know "w'ly can't our government do
as much for the people, or, still better,
why can't our government go into the
landlord business"
The reason our government cannot
go into the Landlord business IS
that thesT eople would not stand for It.
They are passing thru an era of gov
eminent in business and the expert
ence does not justify an expansion of
the policy or even its continuance on
existing lines.
The party which was elected to
power last November was pledged to
interfere less with private business 1t
promised less government in business
a war emergency the United States
government has authority under the
constitution to regulate prices OF es-
sential commodities and services.
There was enacted by congress a rent
regulation l-w applying to the District
of Columbi., and this was held con-
stitutional as a war emergency. Pos
Eih1U n
out of war there might be constitu-
tional authority for similar action.
Even if the president of the United
States had authority to proclaim, as
is alleged to have been done in Argen-
tina, that no rents shall be raised
above pre-war rate1 for a period of
two years, this would undoubtedly
have an effect the opposite of that in
tended. Men who have money to invest
will not put it into new buildings, new
residences. new office structures, if
they are to be subject at all times to
changing notions of an executive as 10
what constitutes a reasonable and
proper rental 1t is possible to limit
one mans right to collect rents but
it is not possible to force another man
to erect buildings. Therein lies the
fatal weakness to the whole price
fixing scheme.
The problem of excessive rents will
be settled only in one way-by holding
out inducements which will cause men
of means to erect a sufficient numb er
of dwellings and apartment houses so
that there will be an adequate supply,
when competition will bring rents
down to a prope~ rate.
AS to the suggestion that the gov
eminent become a landlord owning
the land and erecting the dwellings. it
is sufficient to say that all human ex-
per;ence shows that government man
agement of business is excessively
costly. wasteful and inefficient. This
was demonstrated in every instance
where the government erected dwell
ings during the war emergency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-08

ton with the attitude of the admins
tration, but the bill as now before
congress has departed SO widely from
what had been planned by the admin
istration that the hope of obtaining
the adoption of anything like the
original measure has long since been
given up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-08

The fact that the Bull Moose con-
tingent and the Democrats followed
the lead OF Penrose in the senate vote
on the sales tax affords ground for
ed by political considerations rather
than by consideration for the well
fare of the people. 1t is worthy Of
note that nearly all the Republican
senator's voted for the sales tax
amen|-'-~---
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-08

"Dollar wheat appeals to the
farmer in a way vastly different from
what it did a few years ago. Yet
many believe that stability of prices is
the greatest public need. However,
there never can be any general agree
ment on where to stabilize them, if
sterilization were possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-08

A cable dispatch tells this country
that the Vatican will call a council of
astronomers at Rome for next April
with the object of reforming the cal
endar and fixing Easter" If the
council can arrange the Easter date
so it will not fall on day. when It
SHOWS, its efforts will be appreciated
in Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-08

fully. THE rebellious feeling came
over me because you were near. oh
Mark, dear, I've wanted SO to see
you" Just then the clock struck five.
copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-08
Dinner Stories

A stout woman hired the same
driver to take her out for a drive
every fine day. He had some diff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-08
IRENE CASTLES GRIFFoN

Tho Story of a Trying Experience as
Related I'm the New York Tribune.
BY Irene Castle fireman.
A few days ago, at about o'clock
in the morning one of my little Belgian
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-08

The League would need a thousand
earnest members TO make it a success,
but hundred can make a start.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-08

For one thing, it would save the
citizenry the trouble of going to the
paymaster's after their pay checks.
And they would be spared the annoy
ance of making and waiting for
change.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-08

Mr.. TumuIty quotes Mr.. Wilson as
saying: II am sorry, but 1 do not
care a D. for the opinion of the
country" We pretend to no intimate
knowledge of Mr.. Wilson's habits of
speech. But we noted, in our one
chance meeting with him. that he
Ieanned but lightly upon the lhree- EN-
dash for his physiological effects.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-09
Victor Victrola No. 80
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Your choice Of Golden Oak, Fun
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07
The Telephone In Americ:

France has not as many tele-
phones as Chicago. Greece has Tot
as many telephones as some Of the
largest American Office buildings.
All Europe has only one-third of the
telephones that the United States
has. In twenty years the number of
Bell owned and connected tele-
phones in the Bell System has in
creased fourteen-fold. In 1880
there was one telephone TO one
thousand persons. Today there is a
telephone to every nine persons.
During the past year and half
more new telephones were installed
in American homes and Offices than
are in use throughout Great Britain.
America has only one-sixteenth of
the worlds population, but nearly
two-thirds of the worlds telepb on
ing is over the 24,OOO,0OO miles of
wire in the Bell System:
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07
ROYALTY FEELS HARD TIMES
King Of England Parts With His War
Bonds and Prince Of Wales
Takes In Roomers.

However disseminating may be this
postwar period of adjustment and its
era Of painfully high prices. we may
all take some comfort in the thought
that they spare nobody, observes the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Prince and
pauper, rich and poor, high and low,
they all go deeper into their purses for
their needs, and their protests and
lamentations have striking similar
ity. limiting that there are not so many
differences among men as their raj
ment and bank accounts might sug-
gest.
Some of US have succeeded In keep
ing our incomes within hailing dis
tance of our expenses and In nudging
up the one as the other assembled; but
not all Of us-certinly not all Of us.
Many good man is still toiling away
on his job at the old scale, with his
living expenses increased about $50
per cent since the good old days be-
fore the war;
For instance. there is George V of
England. George is still pounding away
on his old job at the pre-war scale.
and far from being able to pry a
raise out of his employers, the peo-
pie, he has lost several valuable emOlu-
ments.
And the young prince of Wales, that
clever and likeable boy, the empires
greatest salesman, he Is in the same
situation as father; living away up
and wages at the same old mark, with
the revenue of his estates considerably
lower-why, the prince is raising the
wind by renting rooms in Kensington
palace at matter of $40 to $50
month. Things are pretty bad for
royalty when it gets to that. The
prince was intending to buy a shoot
Ing estate on his return from Aus
tralia and hibernate for time, but
that plan had to be given up.
Feathers and long trains have been
cut off Of evening court requirements,
the kings cellar is running low, and
he has had to sacrifice some Of his
war bonds. He took over a generous
block Of bonds at a time when q dol
lar was as big as a cart wheel to
Britain, and now he has had to I'M
load at a sacrifice.
Thousands of formerly wealthy citi-
zens are similarly situated, though
many have not the great merit Of per-
sonal service that George of England
is rendering. Revenues from invest
ments have petered out or shrunk to
such proportions as no longer to fur
nish an independent living. A lot of
the old boys are sailing pretty close
to the wind-the newly poor as differ
entiated from the purse-proud newly
rich. Whatever partially fate may
have shown in placing men in their
inches in life, certain the postwar sea-
son has been rigidly and unbendingly
all men are being jolted in
the one spot-the pOcketbook.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07
Government Savings Securities.

New 1921 government savings Sc
curities may now be had from post
offices and through banks. In all,
five savings opportunities are offer
ed. For instance, there are the 81
Treasury Savings Stamps and the
$25 Treasury Savings Certificates.
These are in addition to the regular
savings securities which have been
offered by the United States Treas
ury Department for several years.
The 25-cent Thrift Stamp and the
SIS War Savings Stamp and the 500
and $1,000 Treasury Savings Ccl il
Gates will be issued as before.
The 81 Treasury Savings Stamp
and the 25-cent Thrift Stamp are
not interest bearing. They are is
sued to help people save money m
small amounts, and when enough of
these stamps have been bought, they
may be exchanged, in proper ratio,
for IS War Savings Stamps which
bear interest at the rate of per
cent compounded quarterly il held
until maturity.
During January of the new year
the SIS stamp may be had for $412.
1t will increase in value l cent each
month. The January price OF the
$25 Treasury Savings Certificate
will be $1,000, the price increasing
at the fixed rate of cents a month.
The $100 Treasury Savings Certifi-
cate may be bought during January
for $82.40. It's monthly increase
in value will be 20 cents.
1t is the hope of the United
States Treasury, the announcement
from Washington says, that the
1921 savings securities will he
bought by even more investors than
took advantage of recent and cur
rent offerings. The 81 issue will
be especially for school children,
and it is hoped that it will be bought
n large quantities by members of
school savings societies, of which
many thousands have been organi-
Zed in this district.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07
Ninety.three Cents OF Every Dollar
Goes For War.

According to an expert in the
United States Bureau of Standards,
SO cents out of every dollar Of Uncle
Sans money this year goes for war,
past, present or to- come.
Only one cent out Of every dollar
goes for education and the imroVe-
ment of the public health.
Copies of this remarkable analysis
of our national budget may be Sc
cured on application to DR.. E. b.
Rosa, United States Bureau of
Standards, Washington, D. c
Whereas the cities spend an
average of Sc per capita for educa-
ton per year, and the states and
private agencies about So per capita
per year for education, Uncle Sam
with his huge billions spends only 6
cents per capita for education, and
some of that goes to the land
grant" colleges for military drill!
without anybody in the country
realizing it, your Uncle seems 10
tarism to the exclusion of the nor
NAL, balanced interests of the 1eo-
pie.
The army and navy have devei-
oped a technique" for adroitly ex-
tracing from Congress huge appro-
priations denied to all other depart
ments.
According to the analysis quoted
above, the national budget this year
represents a tax of $50 upon every
man, woman and child in the United
States, and of this amount $3.50
goes for war and militarism.
Now on top of it, Congressman
Julius Kahn, of California, genially
proposes a system of universal, mill
tary training which would cost the
country, according to Congressman
Mondell, the Republican floor leader
Md watchdog of the treasury, in
neighborhood of one billion dol
IS a.year!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07
For a Persistent Cough.

Some years ago H. P. Burbage, a
student at law in Greenville. S. c..
had been troubled for a long while
with a persistent cough which he
says, greatly alarmed me, causing
me to fear that / was in the first
stage of consumption. Having seen
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy adj
vertised he concluded to try il. Il
soon felt remarkable change and
after using two bottles of the small
size was permanently cured"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07

Following appeals from officials
and citizens of Cuba that the United
States intervene and supervise cleo
lions so that a stable government
can be established, President Wilson
has dispatched Major General Enoch
Crowder, aboard the battleship Min
nesota,, to that island. The avowed
purpose of General Crowder's visit
is "a conference with President
Menocal" regarding conditions in
Cuba.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07

John G.. Woolley, former cardl-
date for President of the United
States on the Prohibition ticket,
warns the temperance people not TO
think that victory has been won for
all time, as the liquor interests
never tire of endeavoring to destroy
what has been accomplished.
lowing to the increased popula-
ton sixty new Congressman will be
elected two years hence and, as the
drift of population has set strongly
toward the large cities, most OF
these new congressman will come
from the cities. There is sreat
danger that the liquor men viii do
what they hope to do.
IF we can hold what we've got
for the next five years the liquor
traffic will not have friend among
the decent people of this country"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07
Japanese Eager for Education.

School days have commenced again
In Toxic and 1t is more noticeable than
ever how inadeQuately the country is
provided with institutions of higher
learning. Waseda is said to have re-
ceived eighteen hundred applications
for which there are $50 places in one
Of the higher courses. They have over
three thousand applications each for
several of the departments In prepare.
tory courses where there are places
for about one hundred. KeiO has three
thousand applications, excluding the
medical college. and other educational
institutions, such as MeiJi university,
Chuo university. and Nihon university,
all have the same story.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07
Marriage Licenses.

Richard H. Coleman, of Chestnut
Hill, Del, and Mrs. Mary Frances
Walstrum, of Iron Hill.
Earl Rice, of Perryville, and Lucy
Epley, of Roanoke, Va.
Marshall E. Pryor and Louisa NJ.
McNeal, both of North East.
When sour-tempered woman
talks we are reminded of picked
tongue
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07

A Christmas gift of twelve mil
lion tree seeds, to be used in refer
esting the war-devasted areas OF
France and Belgium and also GER
tain sections of Great Britain, was
shipped to those countries last week
through their embassies in this
country by the American Forestry
Association. The seeds were Of the
Douglas fir collected from the west
ern coast, a species which grows
rapidly and which are in great de-
mand by foresters.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07
Had Cold and Cough Cured by
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.

Several years ago C. D. Glass,
Gardiner, Me-, contracted a severe
cold and cough. He tried various
medicines but instead of getting
we'll he kept adding to it by con-
tracing fresh colds. Nothing ne
had taken for it was of any perman-
ent benefit until druggist advised
him to try Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy. He says II was compile
tely cured by this remedy and have
since always turned to it when /
had cold and soon find relief"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07

President Wilson has closed a
deal by which he acquires the
Henry P. Fairbanks home, brick
and limestone structure, at 2340 S.
street, northwest one of the most
beautiful pieces of Colonial arcni-
lecture in Washington, as his home
after March 4 The price is under
stood to be between 100000 and
$150,0O0.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07
When You Are Bilious.

To promote a healthy action of
the liver and correct the disorders
caused by biliousness Chamberlain s
Tablets are excellent. Try them
and see how quickly they give you
a relish for your food and banish
that dull stupid feeling.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07
Foreign Advertising Representative
THE AMERICA AN PRESS ASSOCIATlON
State Legislatures Will Consider Tax
and Enforcement Laws.

and Enforcement Laws.
Tax reform and new means of
raising revenues will take first place
for discussion in at least fifteen
state legislatures now about to OPEN
Dry law enforcement acts are con-
templated in not less than six states
California, Connecticut, New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South
Dakota-whle anti-blue laws will
be fought pro and con on the floors
of the legislatures of New. Hamp-
shire, Pennsylvania, South Dakota
and Vermont.
Revision of state constit 4tions
will be undertaken in the Pennsyl-
vania assembly. which convened
Monday, and in the Colorado and
New Hampshire legislature, whose
sessions open next Wednesday.
Soldier bonus bills come up for
discussion or action n~Connecticut,
Delaware, Iowa, Pennsylvania, South
Dakota and Montana.
Labor legislation, including in at
least one instance the question of
industrial courts, will be pushed in
California, Connecticut and Iowa.
Public welfare bills have strong
sponsors in Arkansas, Connecticut,
Colorado, Delaware, New York,
West Virginia, Wyoming and OKLA
homa. California will take UP the
question of combating radicalism.
Programs of economy, involving
the consolidation or abolition Of
state departments and budget sys-
TENS will be considered among
many of the forty states, notably by
Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Indi-
ana, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Ne
vada, New Mexico, Ohio and Okla
homa.
Legislators of Wisconsin and
Texas will wrestle with radical tax
alton measures. In Wisconsin, the
legislature of which opened Monday,
the state division of marketing has
proposed a tax on unused land, in
effect single tax.
The Texas legislature, which
meets January IL, will consider the
conservation of natural resources in
connection with taxation reform.
Other states that are to take up the
question of tax reform are Indiana,
Iowa, Maine, Missouri, New f1amp-
shire, Nevada, New York, New Mex
leo, Ohio, Tennessee, Vermont, Mon
tana and Oklahoma.
Repeal or revision of state pri-
mary laws are slated to occupy
much of the time of the lawmakers
of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ne
braska, New York, New Mexico,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont
and Wyoming.
Six state legislatures, at least,
will have before them bills provid
ing for a stricter regulation Of auto
mobiles and increased license fees,
namely, Delaware, Maine, Massa-
chusetts, Nevada, Montana and Ok
lahoma.
Four states, Colorado, Kansas,
Montana and Wisconsin, will discuss
proposals for cooperation, market
ing and aid for farmers
|
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07
Foreign Advertising Representative
THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOClATlON

Establishment of central markets
for perishable food products in all
large cities and the setting up OF a
federal licensing system applicable
to all dealers in such foods at those
markets is proposed by the Federal
Trade Commission in its annual re-
port to Congress.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07

A self-made man and a tailor
made man can both learn something
Jm each other.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07

If it were as easy to do as it is
to criticise, there would be more
done and less to criticise.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07

II you can't laugh at the jokes of
the age, you can laugh at the age of
the jokes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07

Things don't turn up in this
world until somebody turns them
up.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07

The idle man is like an idle ma
chine. 1t destroys itself very quick
ly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07

After a man has been once pub
licly cheered he is never the same.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07

If man is both bad and worth
less, there isn't much hope for him.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07

No woman knows the secret of be-
pN\hle to keep secret.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07

To the wise an ounce of hint is
worth a pound of subsequent advice.