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The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

ALL IN THE GAME.
So you've scraped your shin and you've
bumped your knee,
And you're just as sore as a boy can be,
And they roughed you there when you
tripped and fell;
But all of the hurts VIII soon get well,
So don't fret over bumps you've had,
For they are all in the game, my lad.
They were stronger than you? Well,
guess that's true.
For your little body is black and blue.
And they tackled hard when you had the
bail
And your shoulder hurts where you
CHANGED to fall,
And some Of them eheated-wel1, that's too
But that hat is all in the game, my lad.
And you lost the game. but your dad won't
care
If only YOU tell him your play was fair.
Why. the little hurts viii soon be gone,
But the scar Of the cheat stays on and on,
It's better to lose than to cheat, my lad.
Some day when you're older grown, you'll
You must stand to hurts Of a sorer kind
Men will batter and bruise-and cheat you,
too.
And they'll stoop to things that you
mustn't do,
But you stiII must smile when your heart
For that's ali part of Iife's game. my
Copyright, 1921. by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10

Q. Which of Thomas Moran's paintings
are in the Capitol of the United States
A 1.-The Grand Canyon of the Yellow
are the Moran paintings hung in the Cap
itol. The United States government paid
$4,000 each for them.
.. Is it compulsory to carry a wireless
operator on a merchant ship whose crew
is 40 or less? A. b.
A. The Department of Commerce says
that if there is an apparatus on the ship,
unless it is plugged up, there must be a
licensed operator on board If the crew
consists of 90 or more it is necessary for
the ship TO have a wireless apparatus and
two licensed operators
Q. Has all the silver money that was
sold under the Pitman Act been replaced
A total of s27o, ,232, 900 was sold
Since the price of silver has reached level
that has made it expedient to purchase
silver for this coinage the treasury has
purchased about third of the silver
that will be required.
the Philippines W. G.
A. While there are no compulsory
school laws. in the philippines, the school
agricultural schools in the islands, 10 farm
schools, and 1853 settlement farm schools
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The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10

Another long step toward bringing
the railroad situation back to a state
of efficiency has been taken by the
railroad labor board in its order an
nouncing new working rules for the
shop crafts. The special privileges
granted by the government during the
war emergency have been revised, and
only those retained that have been
sanctioned by long experience. The
net result of the boards order is to
cut about $5O,OOO,OOO from the pay
rolls of the roads, and remove most of
the ground for the complaint of the
roads that cit takes ten men to do
four mems work" 1t is about time
that some of the benefits being hand
ed to the roads were shared with the
public in the form of lower transpor-
tation rates for both passengers and
freight.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10
SENATOR KENYoN's BILL.

1.-The Agricultural bloc" declares
Senator Kenyon, sis doing nothing to
injure any industry" He might have
added, truthfully. that it has done
nothing that has benefited any indus
try. An example of the bloc's ac-
tivities is seen in the senator's public
works bill.
Under its provisions, plans for pub
lie works and projects would be re-
vised periodically in order that they
could be undertaken on short notice.
The department of commerce would
issue a monthly statement of the
trend of business, the approach of
periods of depression or over-exten-
sion. Then, when the danger signals
are flown, congress could make the
necessary appropriation or hold back
projects under way, as the case might
be. State and municipal governments
would take their cue from Washing
ton.
without considering public works
paid by current taxation, the govern
ment's expenditures on public works
avera $S25,O0O,0 annually. Fig
uring on a recurrence of acute unem-
ployment once in ten years, the plan
is to compress three years work in
this one period. This expenditure of
STATS, 900, ,O0O-of which 80 per cent
would be paid in wages-in one year
would do much to relieve tie strain
If Senator Kenyon and his col
leagues ould permit business to take
no excuse for such legislation. But
if STATS 100000 were made available
to a federal bureau in emergency
there would always be an emergency
in existence.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10
Dinner Stories

PLEASE tell me the names OF your
visitors" said the editor of the Petunia
Argosy over the te1eph0ne.
How did you know we had vfsi-
tors?" asked the social lloness.
Why, there's some foreign clothes
out on yopr line this morning" re-
piled the observing editor
1t was visiting day at the Jail and
the uplifters were on deck
My good man." said one kindly
lady. Il hope you have had time for
meditation and have decided to cor
rect your faults.''
Il have that, mum" replied the
prisoner in heartfelt tones. Believe
me, the next job I pull, this baby
wears gloves"
Mrs Smith was on her first ocean
voyage.
whats that down there?" she
asked the captain.
That's the steerage, madame" he
replied.
Really" exclaimed the woman in
surprise. And does it take all those
people to make the boat go straight?'
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10

1t was only a year or two ago that
industrial concerns seeking to enlarge
their facilities were forced to put
bonds on the market at a price that
would yield the investor about per
cent. In keeping with the other ten
dencies of the times there has been
a return to normalcy in the price of
money. One of the most recent offer
ings of bonds was by a Philadelphia
concern which sold an issue totaling
$12,50O,00O and bearing per cent IN
terest at a price of SO, yielding only
about COS per cent to the purchaser.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10
LITTLE BENNY''S NOTE BOOK
THE PARK AVE. NEWS.
BY LEE PAPE
Weather. Crate.

Weather. Crate.
Sissiety and Spoarts. A sudden stag
party took place last Satidday aftir-
noon in Mr.. Charles (Puds) Sink
inses house on account of it starting
to rain vile the fellows was all setting
on the frunt steps but it broak up al
go home vile it was still raining on
account of the thing that holds back
the parler curtains breaking in half
vile they was playing tug of war with
it. Amung the guests was Mr.. Benny
Potts, Mr.. Artie Alexander, Mr.. Reddy
Merry, Mr.. Leroy Shooster and Mr..
Sid Hunt.
Bizzniss and Financial Sam Cross
wunts to sell his old roller skates for
S5 cents but will sell them for less if
necessary.
Pome by Skinny Martin.
Watts the Use?
I saw 1000 yeer old mummy
Wen went to the museum one day,
But Id rather be a baby in a baby
coatch
Than 1000 and looking that way.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. Ed Wernick is only 10 yeers
old altogether but he has broak his
arm twice, his leg once. his nose once
and ribs once apeece.
Sissiety Miss Maud Jonsin says
that Miss Loretter Mincer is libel to
get sued for libel If she keeps on
speeding jellis reports about her.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10
Dorothy Dix Talks
Why They Do It-z.
BX DOROTHY DIX
worlds highest Paid YFOmaA WFite1.

Why They Do tt.
When you look at the matter dis
passionately you wonder that human
being has the nerve to dare fate by
making a second marriage. You
would think that those who had been
happily married the first time would
feel that they had had their portion
of good fortune in life, and that they
could not expect that Lady Luck
would again bestow upon them her
choicest favor. You would think that
those who. had been unhappily mar
ried would be like the burned child
that breads the fire, and that they
would no more enter again into the
matrimonial fold than the freed soul
would voluntarily plunge again into
purgatory-
Strangely enough, neither OF these
contentious hold. Experience sets up
no warning, and teaches no lesson IN
matrimony. Both the happily and the
unhappily wed plunge with undated
optimism the second, and even the
third and fourth times into matri-
mony.
And the world asks why do they
do it?"
The main reason that people marry
the second time is because matri-
mony becomes habit, and one that is
hard to break. While a man ana
woman are married they chafe at
times under the bonds, and their necks
are CALLED under the yoke or wedlocks
and they imagine they long for moth
ing so much as they do for freedom.
But break the bond and remove the
yoke, and give them the freedom they
crave, and they are miserable. They
find that without knowing 1t, they
have been domesticated, and that they
have lost their taste for the wild.
Moreover they ascertain that stolen
waters are no longer sweet, but just
like any other flat and tasteleSs water
n rp
Staying out with the boys has no pep
to it when nobody cares whether you
come home or not, and life generally
loses it's interest when you lose your
sparring partner.
Men and women who have had
home and lost it, marry again to get
a home. The man who is accustomed
to home cooking, to his own fireside,
to the thousand little comforts of do
mesticity, is miserable in hotels and
clubs. No hired hands can make for
him that intangible atmosphere that
his wife gave to their abode and that
turned four walls into a home.
No woman who has ever been at
the head of her own establishment is
ever satisfied anywhere else, and,
somehow, no matter how much money
she has, she cannot make a real home
for herself without a man in it. You
have to have both tides on the chairs
and pipe smoke in the curtains to give
flavor to a home, and make it the
real thing.
People marry the second time be-
cause they are lonely. They want
somebody that belongs to them, some
body with whom they have a right to
squabble, and to whom they don't
have to be polite and mind their P's
and Q's.
And finally. people marry the sec
ond time just because they do. God
helm us all
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10

tide turned along the shore OF their
lives. Elton and Mother Graves were
at supper when a carriage drove INTO
fha ward. They thought it was the
doctors, so did not go out When the
door opened, a slim girl stood before
them: her bright hair waving away
from under small dark hat shs
was smiling.
gently.
touched with the light that must be
some suggestion of the light on the
faces of those who meet beyond the
doors of death: then she quietly
tainted in the strong girlish arms that
vere onened 10 her. The silent room
would be silent no more, the little slip
pers so patiently waiting would De
when Mr.. Graves lifted his weary
ewes to the face of the girl whose
cool hands had left soothing memories
during the hazy hours OF his suffer-
ing and he saw her for the first time
Elton. looking on. was fearful, but
the old man was conquered at last.
He drew her hand to his cheek.
A little later he looked up with
faint smile. Mercy, 1 don't care who
you marry or have married, but
wish he was q good a chap as Elton
She laughed. Daddy. you're the
wouldn't marry him unless you and
mother were glad; so he planned II
come over here and win you over. but
the accident-oh, you don't believe
it? Well, you just watch me kiss
him"
Copyright, 1921. by the Mcclure
Newspaper SyndicateO
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10
MUST BE NO BACKWARD STEP

MUST BE NO BACKWARD STEP.
Net railroad earnings for October
amounted to $105,196,283, the largest
total in many months, according to
figures compiled from the interstate
commerce commission reports by the
Association of Railway Executives.
The earning rate thus demonstrated,
the association said, however, would
be but 54 per cent on the railroad
property involved and was accompan-
led by reduction of maintenance to
the lowest standard consistent with
safety"
The figures indicate that the roads
are getting back to where they were
before the grand onslaught made
upon them by congress and forty
eight state legislatures. But the re-
turn journey is beset with difficulties
and the spirit of antagonism is not
dead.
There was introduced at the special
session of congress a bill for the res
toration of rate making power to the
states. Thomas B. McAdams, presi-
dent of the American Bankers asso-
citation. speaking at the Chicago
Bankers club dinner recently. char
acterized the bill as a backward
step" He said in part:
OF the many domestic problems
which remain to be solved. the prob
lem of transportation is the most i'm
portant. 1t has been the popular
thought for a long time that any rail-
road organization was an octopus
whose income was derived from some
other source than transportation and
that every dollar taken away from
the roads meant one dollar of benefit
to the nation. AS a result the roads
have been subject for many years to
regulation without responsibility; they
have been forced to retrench and have
been subjected to so drastic reforms
that their credit has been grievousIy
injured AS this credit was under
mined by regulation and persistent
reform, the roads were forced to OBJ
tain money for additions and better
ments and new development work, not
from the proper source but from those
who insisted upon liens upon their
property rather than a partnership
therein. It is time for the investor to
be given fair play with relation to
railroad securities.
This is not a plea for the railroads:
II is plea for the American public;
American industry, and the prosperity
of our farmers. Probably the most
serious phase of the transportation
problem now is contained IN the So
called Capper bill, which aims to re-
store rate-making power to the indi-
vidua1 state regardless of the rulings
of the interstate commerce commission.
The bill Is fraught with serious con-
sequences for both the railroads and
their ability to meet the legitimate
transportation needs OF the country.
Legislation of this character is a
step backwards. 1t may be argued
that state authorities should have con-
troll over intrastate rates which do
not affect interstate commerce, and
there seems but slight legal doubt that
the states have such authority with
out any additional legislation, but the
fact is, there are practically no intra-
state rates which do not affect inter-
state commerce, and particularly no
intrastate rates which placed upon a
permanently lower basis than inter-
state rates would not be a discrimina-
tion against interstate commerce on
fair, equal terms.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10

The most of the important legisla-
ton enacted by the congress in the
special session was in behalf of the
proportien of the rate reductions or
dered by the interstate commerce
commission in the past year have been
reductions which were intended to
benefit farming communities. Agri-
cultural interests have been given
financial aid and extension Of credit
by congress and the present admins
tration to a degree never before ap-
preached in the history of this or any
other country. In fac it is difficult
TO see what has been left undone to
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10
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The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10

It was about fifteen years ago that
the annual sale of Christmas seals
vas inaugurated. 1t is said that be-
cause of these seals something like
twenty million dollars has been col
leeted to aid in the war against tu-
bercuIosis, and that at least $4,000
lives have been saved. Anybody who
feels any hesitation about buying
these little stickers should think over
these figures.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10

Since the first of the year there has
been filed in New York City alone
plans for new buildings totaling
$421,OOO,OOO in value. Sixty per cent
OF that new construction is for hous-
ing accommodations, sufficient to care
for over $4,000 families. What is
taking place in New York is typical
of the revival in construction that is
becoming evident all over the coun-
try.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10

assist the agricultural interests over
their financial crisis and to put their
feet on the solid road of business
prosperity and insure their future
against a lack of necessary finances
or credit. Yet there has been no ces-
sation of the complaints from the
farmers friends and the prices of
farm products have continued to de-
cline
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10

ITS proving harder to earn money
now that it is cheap than it was when
it was dear" says Forbes Magazine.
But money is not nearly SO cheap AS
it was year or two ago. On the
contrary money is growing dearer all
the time. 1t takes more wheat, more
corn and in many cases more labor
to obtain a dollar than it did at the
close of the war.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10

The Russian relief commission is
reported to be readJ to ask congress
for an appropriation of $50,00O,0OO to
extend its work so as to include all of
tie 100000 people now suffering
from lack Of food. The government
,af Russia is more responsible than
any other single influence for the de-
plorable condition in which the Rus
sian people find themselves today.
Are we to support those people and
permit those who have brought them
to their extremity to continue their
power over them? It was predicted
by some observers recently that the
money saved thru the scrapping of
battleships would soon be absorbed by
renewed raids on the treasury. Is this
Russian appropriation to be the fore
runner of a new extravaganza?
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10

That continued high prices Of
many commodities are exerting fully
as much influence on general business
conditions 5 high railway rates. is
argued in an editorial in the current
issue of the Railway Age. And It
might truthfully have added that a
reduction in railroad rates would go
far toward bringing about a reduction
IN the high prices of many commodi-
ties"
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10

The attentions of an admiring pub
lie are being heaped upon Marshal
Foch wherever he goes. Nearly a
century ago another Frenchman was
receiving a similar tribute from the
American people. The friendship be-
tween the two nations seems to grow
stronger with the lapse Of time.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10

actress talA to the agent who was out
ahead of her show last year.
There was a good deal of excite
ment at our house yesterday. In un-
packing some clothing Adelaide dis
covered moths had got into an over
coat twelve years old which we per-
manently discarded seven years ago
this fall.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10

carefully and scientifically as an oil
well or a ra dunn deposit is examined.
He will be recognized and treated as
what he is--the most important. or
all natural resources. He will then
be trained and developed so as to at
tain the highest possible usefulness to
himself and to the state.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10

tCcnyriGht. 1920. by The Oneelar EyudIcass
IDc.S
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-02-07
GENERAL ATTACK
MADE BY SHORTS
Stocks Open Firm, but Decline
Under Selling Orders; Time
Money Scarce.

Ry Associated Press to Every Dvening.
New York. Feb. T.-(Wan Street
10 30 A. m)-The same issues which
have served the purposes OF speculative
Interests for the last fortnight were
AGAIN most prominent AT the opening
OF today's stock market. oils. shippings
and local utilities were the outstanding
features. General Asphalt. Atlantic Gulf
and Manhattan Elevated soon record
ing gains of | to almost points. Last
Saturdays inquiry for Reading shares
was tentatively resumed. the first pre-
forred gaming a large fraction. Heavi-
ness Of Mexican Petroleum gave the
list an irregular setback within the FIRST
half hour.
Noon-President Wilson's rejection OF
the plea of the railroad unions for q re-
hearing and rumors of possible hitch
in the Reading plan provided the shorts
with material for a general attack dur
ing the morning. Several Reading is-
sues fell 10 "a points, other rails also
becoming heavy. Leading oils. particu-
larly Mexican Petroleum. Royal Dutch.
Shell Transport and Houston. fell back
10 3 points and Crucible Steel forfeit
Ell lis early gain of Ia and more be-
side Baldwin. Studebakcr, American
International and International Paper
yielded To points under pressure,
Cal money was available at per cent
but time funds were in scant supply
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-02-07

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where he is daily meeting the local public
and introducing and explaining the
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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-02-07
DIIIDENDS DECLARED.

Casein Company Of American. quar-
1, + oi ptr cent. payable February
central National Bank, quarterly OF
RS cent payable February g.
t4ustou Monotype Machine Com
Iaus quarterly Of L per cent paya-
b., February 5.
Pittsburgh steel Company quarterly
per cent on preferred payable
i
Porto Ricau- American Tobacco Com
-. quarterly ot ; per cent payable in
S .s- cent convertible scrip. March s
ST. o1is and san Francisco Railway
company, s,mi-annual interest of 3 per
.r cumulative adjustment bonds.
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