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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22

and as It was his day to call at Bry-
ants. he would not tell it until eve
ming.
Jane herself let him In She was
as matter-of-aft as If he had called
regularly every Tuesday right along.
fully cataloged and laid by. Glenn
slowly drew forth the locket. "Oh,
it didn't get lost after ALL" smiled
Jane, thea she blushed as she thought
of the picture.
at have wondered a good many
times what was in that locket," he
said softly.
you didn't dare" began Jane.
her eyes flashing.
But Glenn dropped on one knee be-
side her chair. caught her hand and,
opening the locket, laid 1t in her palm.
"Of course, I opened it, and I approved
the contents. He's not much for looks,
Jane, darling but he is all yours,
politics or no politics, If you'll only
have him."
He knew she'd been wearing his
pictured And there was no place to
hid her shamed face except on his
shoulderi
Later Jane would have adjured
politics forever, but Glen said firmly:
i've been doing some thinking. Some
of those flighty sisters are not to
The Lord knows they need diversion.
But I'm going to try to make our
little house and your husband so dear
to your that we will keep our hearts at
home OF course, we will take enough
interest in politics to be desirable and
patriotic citiZens-won't we, dear?"
And Jane, her cheeks the color of
the pink Bingham, agreed.
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paper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22
Dorothy Dix Talks
A Double Order of wives-1.
BIZ DORoTHY DIX
WeraA's Highes4 Paid womaA WEasaR

l
! A man in Colorado is trying to get
a law passed to permit farmers to
have two wives. He says that It takes
two women to do the work properly
| on, farm, and inasmuch as it is i'm
possible for a man to hire female
help in the country he should be per-
| mitted to marry it.
This rural statesman also believes
| that nothing would stimulate the
, back-to-the-land movement like polyg-
amy, and that with the boom that this
| would give our infant industry we
should no longer have to import farm
| labor from Europe. We should raise
| it on the premises.
! OF the practically of the plan there
| can be no doubt The Mormons tried
| it out a good many years ago, and it
worked beautifully. Much of their
prosperity is due to the fact that every
| faithful and Industrious wives work
| ing for him without pay.
Nor can anyone say that those times
are past, and that man cannot hire
| a woman with wedding ring to do
the thing she couldn't be persuaded to
do for money, for we seen women
making that sort of curious and lop-
| sided bargain every day of our lives.
Let man wave a marriage certificate
| at woman, and it hypnotizes her so
that she will get up and follow him
| to the ends of the earth.
| OF course when it's just half mar
riage certificate that he flashes before
her dazzled eyes she may not be quite
| so fascinated by it, but the mans
plan for marrying a cook and a laun-
dress because he can't hire them, and
| it saves their price anyway, is a prac-
| tica! solution of the great servant
problem. Thousands of men can testi-
| fly that they have tried it, and that
the results were entirely satisfactory.
Why, the reason that widowers al
most invariably remarry as soon as
they decently can, is because they find
that a wife is money in their pockets.
| By the time a poor man has paid an
army of women to do his cooking, and
marke citing, and washing, and sewing,
and mending, and baby-tending, and
all the thousand other things that his
wife did as a mere matter of course,
he is bankrupt.
| Leaving aside. tho, the practical
and economic advantage of a mans
| having one wife, to say nothing of two
of them, who are willing to work for
their board and clothes, and precious
little of either, we can but speculate
upon certain other aspects of the sub
ject.
For one thing, it. makes US wonder
| if matrimony is stin, as it was in the
beginning, a female partnership in
stead of a one-woman job.
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Copyright. 1920. by the wheeler cyndicate
Incl
Questions-Answers

Q. Who invented football? &C. P. G.
A. Football has been known since ancient
times; To the Greeks, it was harpaston,
calling At harpaston. The first travellers
to the Polyneslan Islands found the natives
bamboo. Italy knew the game in the Mid
die Ages as ca1cio, while the name football
was known In England as early as 1175. =.
come into use?-I. NJ.
A. The term sentence hymn" came
from the practice of earlier days when
all the congregation might be able to join
in the singing, the pastor would read aloud
the first two lines, which were sung, and
the reading and singing would continue al
ternately to the end of the hymn. This
practice is still continued in some of the
rural churches of the South.
Q Is it true that some foreign country
Is replacing its paper money with metal
A. 1t has been announced that a new
form of money Is about to make its appear
ance in France. This new currency will
during the war. and wifi PI be coins made Of
a composition and aluminium.
Q. WHAT does "Rubaiyat'' mean?-K. d.
A. "Rubaiyat" is the plural Of "rubai'.
The "rubai is quatrain or stanza com,
is construed as singular and means a poem
composed in such style of stanza.
O. In what year since 1900 has there
been the greatest number and the smallest
number Of failures in the United States :?
4. The greatest number of business
failures between 1900 and 1919 was 22.156,
which occurred in 1915 In 1919 there were
but s,451 failures, this being the smallest
number since 1900.
Q. What is the best kind Of hunting
knife IF. J. W.
A. In a hunting knife the qualities need
ed are Inability, Hghtness. power in the
handle grip. The sheath should come far
enough upon the grip to insure the knife
stickin fast in its unless pulled out forci-
bly,. No. Is to S inch blade. weight about
6 o., and No. 2-41s inch blade, o.. 6
inch blade OF. These are considered
among the best models for hunting knives.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
The Park Ave. News.

The Park Ave. News.
Weather. Gerls wishing they had
pockets to put their hands in.
Spoarts. Skinny Martin and Skinny
Mullin had a argewment last Sundey
about witch one could eat the most
hard berled eggs, both saying they
dident know how menny they could
eat on account of nobody never having
offered them that menny, the argew-
ment ending in a tie.
Sissiety. Mr.. Benny Potts, Mr.. Ar
tie Alexander, Mr.. Charles (Puds)
Simkins, Mr.. Sid Hunt and others
had a meeting last Satidday to try TO
get up their annual minstril show. witch
they try to get it up ever yeer but
haven't ever got it up yet so far.
Pome by Skinny Martin
Equality
No matter if you're man or berd
Or fish or foul or camel.
You will never Geese to regret it
If your teeth start to lose their enamel.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. Pubs Simkins wunts to say
he can tell whenever its going to rain
by a funny pain in the elbo. ony no.
body ever saw him start to feel 1t till
it was almost starting to rain alreddy
and nobody would need a pain in the
elbo.
Lost and Found. None.
Advertisements. None.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22

When the apartment house building
campaign gets under way, some
builder should consider the needs OF
scores of unmarried working women
who would like two or three room
apartment at price they could pay.
They cannot afford to pay a return to
the landlord on brass door knobs, ex-
pensive chandeliers and things of that
sort. Just plain, livable quarters is
what they demand-somethin they
can occupy for from SIS to $40
month, with parlor, bedroom. little
kitchen and bath. Some perhaps
would be satisfied with the parlor left
out,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22

Formation of a holding corporation
and the pooling of 100000 bales Of
long staple cotton to be sold thru a
central marketing committee by Mis-
sissippi planters, at the same time is
suing to the farmers of standardized
receipts upon the pooled cotton. which
receipts will be accepted by the lead
ing banks in the territory affected as
collateral, IS a step in the right direc-
ton. 1t is the sort of thing that grow
ers of every kind of farm product
must do before they can get their just
due.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22

Section 2, Article XIV of the fed
eral constitution, provides that: rep
resentatives shall be apportioned
among the several states according to
their respective numbers, counting
the whole number of persons in each
state. excluding Indians not taxed" 1t
long has been held by Republican
leaders that the exclusion feature
should have included negroes not vot-
ing, as well as Indians not taxed. But
when the constitution was passed no
body supposed that negroes ever
would be enfranchised and, besides,
the southerners had much influence
in framing that instrument.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22
NEED OF TAX REFORM.

Congress has been in session a great
part OF the time since the close of the
war, more than two years ago, yet
there has been apparent no deter
mined effort to reduce taxes or to re-
arrange the revenue system SO as to
render it less burdensome to the peo-
pie.
1t Is safe to estimate that we must
pay in taxes for some time to come
at least s3.o00.0o0,oo0 a year. This
means about $40 a year for every
man. woman and child in the United
States; and as the number of persons
in the average family is five the tax
burden Is about $3.50 a year for each
family.
The people are told that the most
OF this burden will be borne by the
wealthy classes. and that the 1aboring
classes will be relieved of much of
their share Of it, but they have learned
by experience, from the recent high
cost Of living. that the concerns of all
classes of the American people, the
poor with the rich, are SO Intimately
related and connected that an onerous
burden imposed on one class, finally,
in the natural law of adjustment, is
thrown upon all classes. We have
furthermore learned that success and
prosperity of any one class. in the
final adjustment is shared by all
classes.
The situation therefore seems to call
70 he 80
would bear evenly upon all. The man
who spent the most money would paw
the most taxes.
mo tax that penalties efficiency"
says the Manufacturers Record, ais
a good tax. 1t withers and destroys.
No tax that penalties accommodations
Of capital unduly is a wise tax be-
cause the savings of the one genera
ton build the civilization of the next -
This gross sales tax, in addition to
it's other manifold advantages, has
this advantage also: 1t encourages
efficiency. If one man can make a
cough drop to sell at five cents, pay a
tax on his gross sales and make good
profit therefrom, he is entitled to and
should have it. But under the exist
ing system, the efficient producer
thus able to make a good profit on
sales at five cents has larger part of
that profit confiscated by the state,
whereas his less efficient competitor,
able at the five cent rate, perhaps, to
earn but a meager profit, is compare
lively untouched by the tax-gatherer,
and may. in the net return, receive al
most as much as the efficient person.
Under a sales tax, each pays on what
he sells, on absolutely equal terms.
There is left the incentive for low
cost of production; there is left the in
centive for efficiency.
We have a sales tax now on auto
mobiles, and it has worked well. 1t
has led to no pyramiding of the tax
Can anybody estimate what the excess
profits tax has caused in the way of
pyramiding?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22

Frank Morrison. Secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, re-
Gently declared to the senate commit
tee on immigration that his organi-
cation objected ito throwing the doors
wide open. flooding the American Ia
Dor market with cheap European la
Dor and denying the American work
er the same protection you give his
products under the tariff laws" II
there be an american labor market =
what becomes Of the declaration OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22

The bill to repeal wartime laws,
which already has passed the house
of representatives has been approved
and soon will come before the senate
for final action. But nothing has
been done toward putting an end to
the war itself. Evidently the kind of
war we are carrying on with Germany
does not require special legislative
enactments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22

the federation that Tabor il not a
commodity?" And may it not be
found as easy to compete with this
Cheap labor here as to compete
with its products while employed
abroad? These men are certain to
work somewhere. II they work here
they will enlarge the home market.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22

The supporters of the bill increas-
ing the tariff on farm products are
trifling with the farmers. There is
no reason to expect that a duty of
80 cents a bushel on wheat will raise
the price of the grain in the produc-
ers' hands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22

Expert statisticians estimate that
England has profited thru the war to
the extent of 100000, 100000. This
might be a good time to call her at
tention to that little bill. on which the
interest is due and unpaid. Uncle
Sam could use the money to advan-
tage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22

Belgium has negotiated a loan of
s3O,O0O,0OO with American bankers.
This will do more to enhance the value
of rarm products in America than
any kind of legislation that can be de-
ViSed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22

blackened by the cruel tread of the
forest fret To this minute I zee the
dead hearts OF mammoth pines. as
their charred bodies stand out in the
soft sunlight of the western coast,
like mute monuments appealing Tor
life again.
On the other hand, how beautiful
is the tiny tree, looking up into the
face of the Sun and asking to be-
come great
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22

The effort made by legislatures to
discover new sources of taxes always
seems to exceed greatly the effort to
find ways to get along with less reve-
nue.. The rate of taxation seems ever
to advance regardless of every addi-
ton made to the sources of income.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22

In New York City the number of
horses. it is reported, has decreased
in the past three years from 108, 900
to 10000. The loss may be due to the
fact that the city has abandoned the
use of horse cars for transportation
of passengers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22

Those who are responsible for the
admission of an importation of 16o.-
900 quarts of Chinese wine at San
Francisco on the theory that 1t is unfit
for white persons to drink. are taking
a long chance. The drouth has
reached a stage where some white
persons win drink almost anything If
it have a kick"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22

The Indian appropriation bill this
year carries s12.0OO,OOO. Apparently,
there still are red men who have not
grown wealthy on oil leases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22

Nor do we seek such experience.
We findSpleasure in a certain amount
of controversy, but we prefer fussing
with the women to almost any other
form OF recreation.
Middletown transcript., 1921-09-10
DISTRICT CATTLE SHOWS

The district shows of the New Castle
County Boys and Girls Dairy Cattle
Clubs were held last Thursday and Fri
dav on the farms of B. V. Armstrong,
of Middletown,. and J. I. Dayett, of
Cooch.
The purpose of the shows was to Sc
ect the heifers which were to go to the
State Fair. The provision OF the show
was that the twelve champions were to
he taken to the State Fair where they
constitute an important part OF tn
Farm Bureau exhibit. Prof. R We
Helm was the main speaker at each
event. Prof. A. E. Tomhave, of the
University of Delaware, judged the
heifers at the Middletown show, and
Mr.. j. R. Danks, of Winterthur Farms,
Judged at the show on Mr.. Dayett's
farm. R. O. Bausman, County Agri-
cultural Agent. spoke briefly reviewing
the work of the boys and girls in de-
veloping the dairy cattle industry in the
State.
Ths following are the awards:
SOUTHERN SHOW
Class-Heifer "a to 36 months. lst,
Irwin Armstrong, Middletown. I'd, Ed
gar Spicer, Odessa.
Class-Heifer IL to "a months. 1st'
Boyd Armstrong, Middletown. I'd,
John Bingnear, Jr., Odessa. Sd, Harry
Pierce, Townsend.
Get" of club heifers-12 to q
months. Daniel Bingnear, Middletown
Class-Heifer 6 to IL months. 1st,
Howard Crothers, Mt. Pleasant.
Class-Bull to 18 months. 1st, S
J. Daniels, Jr., Middletown.
Class-Bull under 6 months. 1st
Irwin Armstrong, Middletown.
Class-Guernsey Heifer. 1st, Lester
Burge, Middletown.
NORTHERN SHOW
Class-Heifer "a to Sc months. 1st
Raymond Davis, Fairview I'd, Johr
Kirk, Newark.
Class-Heifer 18 to "a months. 1st
John Dayett. Cooch. I'd, Robert Con
nell, Corner Ketch. Sd, Henry Beebe
Caymont.
Class-Heifer IL to 18 months. 1st
Leroy Davis, Newark. I'd. E)izabet
Milliken, Cooch. Sd, Ernest Milliken
Cooch.
i Get" of Club heifers-6 to l
months. 1st, Clarence Davis, Fair
view. I'd, John Kirk, Newark.
i Class-Guernsey heifer. 1st, Rober
Jaquette, Newark.
Class-Bull IL to 18 months. Isl
Robert Connell, Corner Ketch. &c
4 Herman Conner, Jr., Corner Ketcf
Sd, Lee Richards, Bear.
Middletown transcript., 1921-09-10
TOWNSEND

Frank Hutchison and wife visited his
father on Labor Day.
Miss Anna Hobson, of Rockland, is
the guest of Miss Clara Unruh.
Miss Georgia Wiggins is visiting Miss
Caroline Fouracre in Middletown.
D. B. Jones and wife left town Fri
day for a weeks stay at Mt. Pocono,
Pa.
Miss Helen Scone, of Marcus Hook,
Pa, visited Miss Pearla Wells the past
week.
James and Frank Lamb, of Camden,
N. j.. spent the weekend with friends
in town.
Walter Scott and wife, of Whining
tea, spent Sunday with his mother,
Ms. Mollie Scott.
Aaron Reynolds and wife, of Camden,
N. j., were weekend guests of Johr
Townsend and wife.
Miss Hilda Stephens, of Wilmington
is visiting her aunts, Mrs. Eva Latto
mus and Mrs. Sallie Raison.
Frank Collins and wife, of Whining
ton, spent Labor Day with his grand
parents, B. G. Lockerman and wife.
Walter Gill and wife visited Samue
Tow nsend and family and Miss Maym
Townsend, in Philadelphia, the pas
week.
Middletown transcript., 1921-09-10
WARWICK

Mrs. Joseph Delaney, of Baltimore
was a visitor in town Sunday.
Harry Manlove and friend, of Smyrna,
visited his mother, Mrs. b. S. Hall, on
Sunday.
Misses Lillian Poore and Lulu Hus.
felt, Of Middletown, spent Sunday with
relatives in town.
Miss Evelyn Everett, of Baltimore, is
visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Alfred
James, this week.
Miss Mabel Walmsley. Of Whining
ton, spent Sunday and Labor Day with
Miss Josephine B. Stearns.
Sunday School Sunday morning Al
$50; Christian Endeavor at 7.3O P. M.
preaching at 8 2. M. Everyone wei
come.
Miss Marie Devine was rendered ,
urprise variety shower by her friend
t her home, near town, last Saturda.
evening.
Rodney Price and wife and Haze
Price, Of Wilmington, were week-en
visitors at the home of ]. R. H. Pric
and wife.
The ladies OF the M. P. Church wer
quite successful with the dinner held q
the sale of Mrs. Walter Buckworth las
Thursday, making net profit o
$1O3.5O. They wish to thank all who s
kindly contributed in any way towar
its success.
Middletown transcript., 1921-09-10
STATE AND PENINSULA

Milford's firemen's carnival will be
from September II to "a.
1t is said that Dover has Ku Kiux
branch with $50 membership.
New Castle county and city funds for
helping the needy are nearly exhausted.
The Deibert shipyards at Havre de-
Grace, Nd, have closed for three weeks
for repairs.
Joseph Warrington, a Georgetown
farmer. is selling large crop of canta-
loupes which weigh nearly ten pounds
each.
The Benjamin F., Shaw machine
shops, in Wilmington, announced that
10 big contracts have been made which
will insure the operation of the plant
for year.
Someone has been scattering large
tacks on the boulevard near Milford,
-ausing annoyance to automobilists, and
a reward has been offered for the arrest
of the culprit.
Senator T. Coleman DUPONT has con-
tributed $4,000 toward the building Of a
contagious disease unit in connection
with the Physicians & Surgeons Hos
pital, Wilmington.
Middletown transcript., 1921-09-10
ODESSA

Miss Mabel Walls, of Church Hill,
Md, is visiting Mrs. George Davis this
week.
Thomas Ford has returned from a
trip through the southern part of New
Jersey.
The Girls Club was entertained on
Thursday last at the home of Mrs.
Joseph Heller.
Wallis Nowland and wife, of Smyrna
spent part of last week with J. X.
Orrell and wife.
Amnion Heller and wife, of Whining
ton, were Sunday guests of William
Heller and wife.
Paul Decker moved his family to Will
mington last week. where he has &C.
cepted a position.
John Kumpel and wife, of Delanco,
N. j., are visiting her mother, Mrs.
Catherine Gremminger.
Misses Charlotte Zimmerman and
Ella Zwieg, of Philadelphia, are guests
of Mrs. Hartley Thornton.
Otto Muhlberger and Andrew Miller
and wife, of Philadelphia, were Sunday
guests of P. T. Wallace and wife.
Miss Lillian Aker, Of Wilmington,
has returned as Principal of the public
school. The school will open Monday,
Sept. 18th.
Miss Helen Sparks entertained a
number of her friends at luncheon last
Friday. Guests were present from
Smyrna, Wilmington, Middletown and
Odessa.
Mrs. Howard Othoson, of Philadel.
phia, and Mrs. George Swain, of st.
Georges, were guests of Henry Krone.
mier, wife and sister, Mrs. Mary
Shoule, one day last week.
Alfred J. Banks, Edward l. Mills anc
wife, Mrs. Bessie Whitecraft and SON
Raymond, and Miss Alice Banks, all Of
Wilmington. have been visiting j. O
Council and wife, near town.