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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14

stood by their leaders to insure its
passage.
A dangerous aspect of the effort to
reorgapize the membership of con-
gress, from the standpoint of old lead
ers. is the fact that many of the
groups will be interlocking, having
many members, for instance, who
would belong both to the irrigation
group and to the farm group. While
the ambitions and aims of many of the
groups are widely divergent, yet a
combination of some of the larger mi
norities by common Interest and by
log-rolling'' might control congress
and legislation.
BY '1og-rolli2g'' is meant the trad
ing of support between groups. La
Dor will support certain farm meas
ures and the farmer bloc in return
will support labor legislation.
1t is largely by such agreements be-
tween individuals and unorganized
groups that legislation is passed now.
After all, our congress is nothing but
a hodge-podge of more or less diver
gent interests and almost every law
that passes is a product of much trad
ing and compromising. To organize
each of these interests separately and
clearly, it is argued, so that the voter
may know just what each man and
each group represents, is to throw a
beam of logical light into the haze of
buncombe and intrigue which clothes
the political scene.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14

1t is announced that the federal
treasury is about to issue another lot
of certificates of Indebtedness bear
ing an interest rate Of So per cent
and maturing in three years. Prob
ably this would be unnecessary if We
could collect interest on the $780,
O00, 900 due this country from the al
lies. for money loaned. Meantime
those allies appear to have money for
everything except to pay Uncle Sam
A rate of y per cent is a high one
TO pay on the best security on earth.
If the certificates were offered to the
common people in small denomina-
lions they probably would be taken up
promptly. There are few if any nom
taxable and absolutely safe invest
ments on the market bearing so high
q rate of interest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14
Dorothy Dix Tails
By DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Fathers Day..


We are about to celebrate Fathers
Day, and on the nineteenth of June,
everyone is requested to PIN a rose on
their breasts, to commemorate the
fact that they have a father, o.
near-father, or had a father.
We don't hear so much about
fathers as we do about mothers.
press ACCENTED to the extent that
mc<her has. There hasn't been so
much sob stuff written about a
fathers love, and a fathers sacrifice,
and a father keeping the home fires
burning, as there has been about
mother; but none the less the old
Man delivers the goods, even If Mother
does get the spotlight.
1t is a good idea to celebrate
Fathers Day for two reasons. First.
because it will call to the attention of
a lot of men a fact which they have
forgotten. Which fact is, that they
are fathers, and have an equal share
in their children with mother. Most
men act as if their children belonged
exclusively to their wives. and they
had no responsibility whatever in the
rearing of their progeny. This Is
great mistake. Bringing up a family
is two-handed job that takes the
combined brains and backbone OF a
man and woman. Neither. one can
turn out a successful job alone, and
when a man ducks his share of the
work, and stunts it all on his wife,
things are pretty sure to be badly
bungled-
If you will look over the families of
your acquaintance, in which the chill
dren have turned out badly, where the
BOYS grew up to be idle, and worthless,
and dissipated, and the girls silly, self
conferred selfish MASTERS and spenders,
YOU will find that in almost every case
the children were to all fntents and
PURPOSES fatherless.
There was a human machine that
they called by that name, but he was
too busy making money. too much alb
sorbed in his own affairs. to take any
interest in them, or to get acquainted
with them, or guide or control them.
and SO they missed the steadying hand
mother wasn't strong enough to hold
them. and they bolted. and went to
smash.
I can't remember a single case of a
prodigal son or daughter who had a
father who chummed with him or her,
can you? So it's a good thing to OBJ
serve Fathers Day, because it will
make lot of men have heart-to-
heart session with themselves, in
which they will ask themselves wheth-
err their children are entitled to put
any pep into the occasion.
1t is good to Celebrate Fathers Day
because it will impress on children the
debt of gratitude they owe to the pa
tent, accomplishing beast of burden
who tolls so silently. year in and year
out. that they may be fed and
fine clothes, and travel. and have a
million luxurfes and indulgences that
he never had, and never aspires to
have.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14
George Matthew Adams
Daily. Talk
IN SILENCE.

IN SILEN CE.
In the garden of the soul beauty
reigns There it is that the divine per-
fume of love intermingles with the
mystic though of God.
It is therein silence-that a man
is most himself.
For in crowds, during the busy bur1y
of the day. or wherever talk or noise
may gather, the heart thinks in con-
a man a garment with which he covers
his Utmost secrets and conceals his
true self from view.
Those to whom greatness beckons,
retire into the silence that they may
hear the betterl
Love moves about In silence. About
its friend it wraps its mantle. And as
a Mother hugging a child. so does
Love find a quick and meeting re-
sponse-in silence.
You will never know your friend
to his depths until you have sat with
him in silence
1.-The great silent men," wrote Car
lyle, silently thinking, silently work
ing; whom no morning paper makes
mention of, They are the salt of the
earth"
In the darkness. with no light to
from all wrangle. deep in the silence
Of night. alone with ones own-all
ones own-from where else can great
growth come?
Walk into some huge reading read
ing room-your public library. for ex-
This sign: SILENCEi But before you
see it. yeu fee it-nniles of thoughts
piling timber for useful structures in
the world.
I would much rather be judged.
loved and understood from my silence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14
Ouestions-Anstoers

Q. By what sense do buzzards determine
the location of carrion? w. w. B.
A. The Biological Survey says authori-
ties disagree with regard to the sense
which enables buzzards to determine the
location of carrion. 1t is the opinion of
of smell rather than the sense Of sight
Q. What Is the name of the first electric
starter used on automobiles, and what car
A The National Automobile School says
that the first electric starter put on an au-
tomobile was called "Deaco" electric
starter). 1t was first used on the Oakland
car and Immediately after the Cadillac and
other cars used it.
Q. Did the term whip" for member
with this body? c. F. w.
A. This term was first used in English
tive whose duty it is to notify members of
parliament belonging to his party of the
near approach Of a division and to compel
breviation of .whipper-in' of the hunt.
Q. Will an object weigh as much at the
equator as at the pole F. S. w.
strictly speaking "the weight of an OBJ
ject should not include any magnetic attrac-
ton, just as the buoyant force of the air
should be eliminated or corrected in de-
termining the true weight of an object.
Aside from any possible magnetic attraction
or any variation in the buoyant force of
at the North or South Pole. This is using
meaning. The so-ealled weight measured
on an equal arm balance, or on any ordi-
nary scale using weights instead of springs,
would be the same at all places. because
the weights used on the scale change their
true weight in exactly the same ratio as
the object weighed.
Q. Please state the color of the eyes and
hair Of President and Mrs. Harding and
Vice President and Mrs. Coolidge. G. Mex.
A President Harding has gray hair, and
blue-gray eyes, and Mrs. Harding has gray
hair and blue-gray eyes; Vice President
Coolidge has reddish hair and light blue
eyes, while Mrs. Coolidge has very dark
hair and grayish-blue eyes.
(Any reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State Jour
nal Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has
kin, director, Washington. D. C. This Of
fer applies strictly to information. The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal medical
and financial matters. 1t does not attempt
to settle domestic troubles, nor to under
ia Ike exhaustive research on any subject.
Write your question plainly and briefly.
Give full name and address and enclose
two cents in stamps for return postage.
AL replies are sent direct to the inquirer.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14
LITTLE BENAY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE

l was wawking past Mary Weaknesses
mouse slow in case she mite come out,
wien she dident, SO l started to wawl1
back again even slower, and her
mother opened the parler window to
look up and down the street, and she
saw me out there, saying, How do you
40, Benny, you're not waiting for
Mary are you?
Not espeshilly, not partickilly. sed.
wy? / Sed.
Because she has quite bad Stun
mick AXE, SO its proberble she wont
De out this AFTERNOON, sed Mrs. Wat
kins. And she looked up and down
the street agen and then shut the
window, and 1 went home feeling sad,
thinking, Gosh, G. a stummick AXE, L
wonder how mulch it herts.
And after suppir I went GROUND
agen and Mary Watkins was setting on
her frunt steps not looking as if envy
thing bert, me saying, Hello Mary,
hows your stummick AXE?
think you're PERFECTLY dredfiil and
I'm going rite IN, sed Mary Watkins.
WITCH she started to act as If sho
was going to do, and I quick sed, Wy.
watts the matter. wy?
How dare you use sutch a wer6
about me in frunt of my very face?
sed Mary Watkins.
Wy, gosh, watts the matter. wy? I
sed. Your mother told me you had
one. Its no diskrace to, have a stum-
mick AXE, is it2- Gosh. Gswizz, sed.
Its a diskrace to mention it in frunt
of my face weather 1 had one or not
and I never sed I had one and I'm go
ing rite in. sed Mary Watkins. and I
sed, Well waite a minnit, holey smoaks,
G winnikers. wunt to ask you some
| thing.
Wat? sed Mary watkins.
Hows your he'd AXE? I sed.
Mulch better, thank you. sed Mary
Watkins. And she sat down agen and
kepp down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14
THE 1ApoR PRoRLEM.

There is no more important or diff
ficult problem today than the contro-
versy between capital and labor.
Force, thru the strike or the lockout,
provides no solution. So-called 'set-
Elements" won by that method simply
widen the breach between the two
sides and intensity the conflict. to the
injuring of society and the endanger-
ing of civilization itself.
A system of arbitration is the ideal
of all who wish to see Industrial con-
ditions established bn the basis of
Justice. They hope for the time when
arbitration tribunals. supported by
public confidence and obedience as are
courts of law, will settle promptly and
peaceably all disputes between capital
and labor. whether the opposing forces
are organized Or unorganized.
But while the world waits, some
thing in the nature of the Kansas
court of industrial relations is neces-
sary to protect the interests of the
people in the continuous operation of
essential industries. The decision of
the state supreme court in the Howat
case, therefore, will be welcomed by
all lovers of industrial peace and the
orderly conduct of business.
But the Kansas law does not extend
to industries outside of those regard
ed as essential to the public welfare.
For those remaining outside its opera
ton some system of arbitration is
necessary in ordey that the business
of the country and the rights of Meth
er labor nor capital shall suffer.
The railroad labor board is oper-
ating along lines similar to those Of
the Kansas court but its powers ex-
tend no farther than the railroads
The principle of arbitration already
has behind it vast weight of public
sentiment. Labor, during the years
when it was at the mercy of capital,
was an insistent advocate of arbitra-
ton. while capital, relying upon con-
tinuance 'of its dominating position.
antagonized the principle. Then, as
the preponderance of power swung to
the workers side, labor not only lost
interest in arbitration, but became its
opponent. and capital became an ad-
vocate of the system Now that cap
ital once more has the advantage. It
scornfully turns from arbitration,
while 1t may be expected that organ
lied labor will invoke it in losing
fights.
1t is an historical fact. declares the
Philadelphia North American, that the
cause of arbitration has made head
way only when neither side was in a
position to impose its will upon the
other by force; just as soon as either
gains a preponderance of power, 1t re-
Jects the system. But a sound ana
just principle, once widely proclaimed
and understood, can be suppressed or
thrust aside only temporarily. Its I'LL
innate triumph is assured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14
Dinner Stories

A bra ggart chess player played
three games with a stranger and lost
them all. Next day a friend asked
him how he had come off. "Oh." said
he. IT didn't win the first game. and
my opponent didn't lose the second.
AS for the third, / wanted to draw 1t,
but he wouldn't agree"
He had just married. He had been
popular indeed. but had now resolved
to settle down. His bride and he were
dining out. A very lovely lady passed,
gave him look of recognition and a
dangerous smile. So dangerous was
the smile that the bride asked:
Horace, who is that woman?"
Horace held up his hand.
BE reasonable" he protested.
Don't go bothering me about who
she is. I'll have trouble enough ex-
planning to her who you are"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14

or in upbringing. or in anything else.
just disappear. don't you think
Mother saws dad and are, both OF
US, Just celebrating our seventeentn
birthday when we are at it, why
was it, she wondered, that this good
Looking man didn't brighten her or
make her self-consciocs? 1t must De
because they both liked chessi
81 say, it must be great to see YOU:
said George. II don't suppose you q
let me come over some evening anu
watch a game p
bright with friendiiness and pleasure
"Do come" she said. Come to our
next seventeenth birthday party to-
morrow night"
dance tomorrow night and Diana knew
it. 1t was rather mutually understood
that he was to claim her for at least
five dances out of every ten His re-
ply to Isabel Townley was as unpala-
table as it was unexpected.
Come, of course, I'll come. WIN
you have a birthday cake?"
Eyes. indeed" laughed Isabel, radi-
ant IN your honor. with seventeen
candles on it."
She rose to go and for the first time
in her life addressed Margaret Ellis
without, awkwardness or self-con-
seriousness. I've had such a nice
time" she said. "Good-by"--and to
DIANA, 80 glad to have seen you
again."
Like. an echo came George FORESTS
voice after hers. "Good-by," he was
saying, i've had a perfectly bully
time"
And together the best known flirt in
New York and the girl whose skirt
was too long and who was about as
modern as the mid-Victorians left
Margaret Ellis's house.
We'll. what do you think of that ?"
gasped Margaret, as she and Diana
found themselves alone and beauless.
He really seemed to like her!"
Diana didn't say a word as she
threw her half-finished cigaret into
the fire and lit another
Copyright. 1921. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicateo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14


Herbert Hoover in. pointing out
that this country is short a million
houses. is quoted as saying: I'VE do
not get any houses by crying over
spilled milk, and if we are to have a
restoration of our housing capacity
one of the first and most constructive
things that can be done would be for
the great economic organizations in
the country, such as chambers of COM
merce, the building trades organiza-
tions, the material trades organiza-
tons, and the labor organizations to
get together and arrive at some sort
of cooperative basis by which they
can induce the public to start building
on terms of such reasonable order and
under such assurance as will re-estab-
fish their interest" A man so well
informed as Mr.. Hoover should know
that the only thing standing in the
way of house building is the excessive
cost and that this will never be re-
duced in the way he indicates. Ma
terial organizations. for instance, will
not reduce prices while labor cost of
production remains at the existing
level and labor Organizations will not
accept lower wages, voluntarily, I'M
til living costs come down. Mr..
Hoover, however, should have includ-
ed the railroads in his get-together
program.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14


Announcement is made that the st.
Louis Home & Housing association.
organized with a capital of $2,O0O,OO0,
to help solve the housing problem by
building homes and selling them at
approximate cost, has suspended
building operations. because there IS
no demand for the houses. Since its
organization, a year ago, the associa-
tion has erected 127 houses, it is said,
of which twenty-six remain unsold.
The cause is simple. People will not
buy houses at the prevailing high
prices. These houses were offered at
cost but the cost was too great. 1t
seems that always there can be found
those willing to buck the law of supply
and demand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14
THAT POWERFUL LOBBY.

Somebody years ago, when asked to
define the term crank" said: sit
is anybody who does not believe as I
do" A similar definition might fit
the term lobbyist As a rule, any
person who journeys to the capital of
state or nation to-oppose legislation
which we favor. or promote legisla-
ton to which we are opposed. is pro-
nounced a lobbyist.
This thought is suggested by the
charge that has appeared to the eff
feet that a powerful lobby is backing
up the proposed sales tax. But If any
person or group of persons desire the
enactment of sales tax law, why
should not that desire be made known
in Washington? What is there in
herently wrong in telling a legal rep
resentative of all the people just what
you-one of the people-think he
ought to do in a given set of circum-
stances?
We have in Washington more than
five hundred senators and congress
men, Each of them halls from a par
ticulRr state, but all of them are sena-
tors and congressman of and for the
whole United States. No one of them
can possibly know all there is to be
known about any one question upon
which he is expected to cast vote, let
alone all that there Is te be known
about all of the issues which come be-
fore congress. The only manner in
which they can arrive at the knowI-
edge required in casting an intelligent
vote is by acquiring Information from
persons who possess the facts, and
naturally they are the interested
parties, pro and con.
In actual practice every bill is re-
ferred to a committee. The committee
makes thoro investigation and re-
ports its conclusions. upon which the
average member of congress largely
mittees frequently call upon organiza-
lions representing the several indus-
trieg to furnish the facts upon which
their conclusions are to be based.
1t should not be forgotten that for
every person who wants congress TO
do certain thing there are others
who oppose its being done. Under a
Republican government which pro-
fesses to grant bona fide representa-
ton wherever 1t imposes taxation,
each and every one OF them is entitled
to be heard. And the best way to
make themselves heard is to go direct
to headquarters and talk face to face
with the men who have the deciding
voice.
There are IN Washington more than
fifty organizations and. at times, thou
sands OF individuals, looking after
their own interests as affected by gov
eminent. Included among them are
the miners, the school teachers. the
lumbermen, the prohibitionists, fed
Grated religious bodies, the merchants
the laboring men, the manufacturers
the soldiers. the consumers. the wo-
men and the farmers. Nearly every
class which adds to the health. wealth
or happiness of the nation is repre-
] sented. To condemn one of them is &c
condemn all. for they are all lobbyists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14

The state may not be able to put
Howat in Jail but it has shown that it
can beat him in a lawsuit every time.
1t is not improbable that he would
continue to call strikes even if he were
in eprison. Howat's attorneys promise
to appeal to the federal supreme court
if he be denied a rehearing in the
state supreme court. If they were
seeking justice instead Of delay they
would appeal at once.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14

than by anything I might be able to
say.
The silent man--alnost always the
strong mani
This modern silent drama of ours.
how much 1t has to say that no spoken
act can find words to ciothe.
You will never be held to account
for the things which you do not
speak.
Whereas In silence you may fathona
the thoughts of the wisest sages, and
thus breed in your own mind the chill
drep of wisdom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14
JUST FOLKS
HERE'S MI SUCCESS.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

HERE'S MI SUCCESS.
Here's my success-the roses by the gate
way.
The children running gladly up to me.
A simple street of friendship, not great
A bird house and It's tenants in tree.
Here's my success-the kettle singing
gayly.
The living room alive with songs and
A place 10 fiji that needs my presence
The children growing stronger year by
year.
Here's my success-not fame or high posi-
ton,
A little home where laughter oft Is beard,
A happy table-fhere's glorious mus<ion--
A meal that's favored with the merry
Here. my success-a SLID wife at the door
Rest and contentmsnt When the day Is
done;
And tho you find iife's splendors lining
your way~
Here loEing lips tell me my battles won.
Copyright. 1871, By Edgar 4. Guests
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14

A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Public Ledger contributes to his paper
the information that revolts against
Obregon's government are brewing
thruout Mexico. The improbability
that the Mexicans unaided ever can
establish a stable government seems
not greatly to have diminished. The
revolutionary elements merely have
been taking a rest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14

The program arranged by Chicago
in honor of Nine. Curie Is notable for
the absence of a visit to the stock
yards. This probably is the first in
stance on record where the city has
failed, to exhibit its chief Industry to
a distinguished visitor. Explanations
are in order.
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copyright. 1920. by the wheeler Syndicate
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger1

A correspondent presses US to indite
a wallop directed at the street parade.
We intend to do nothing of the kind.
The street parade is a matter of per-
sonal taste; it is none of his business
nor ours. We do not wish to march
down Chestnut street to the music of a
brass band, but there are those who
like that sort of thing, and they are
well within their inalienable rights in
doing so.
Metaphorically speaking, every man
wants to wear a red sash. The street
parade is one of the manifestations of
the red-sash motif.
Due to the protests OF certain
American clergymen, France will not
send an officer representative to the
Dempsey fight. Havin g
demonstrated its ability to be polite
and courteous under trying conditions,
France will now retire to the rear of
the chateau and laugh its head off at
this country.
Evening star., 1921-12-10

Appearance Of for Rent" signs in
many cities is a sign of housing re-
lief, declares Irving B. Hiett, presi-
dents Of the National Association OF
Real Estate Boards.