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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-07

have his dream shattered he did not
pursue the subject further, Then It
dawned upon him that this was the
girl he was to rescue-sureiy he would
know theni
He played his part extremely well
and found a strange fascination In the
work. the girl loked al him once or
twice with a faint show of interest.
but the grease paint disguised him
we'll. Then came the moment when
Dick, the bad man. was to kidnap the
hero's sweetheart. Dick mounted his
horse. dashed up to the cabin door.
shot the hero with a blank cartridge
and, sweeping down. gathered the
girls slight form in his arrns and
dashed away to the big tree, where he
had been told to wait the blare of the
directors megaphore. THAT was fine"
said the girl, cordially. as they
stopped rnder the tree. set me
down, please"
Findings keeps" grinned Dick.
looking her straight in the eyes.
''Oh!" she cried, then dick" and
she was hugging him tightly,
"Hii' the megaphone blared at
them angrily. Quit that--it's not in
the picturet'
ITS in our picture" grinned Dick
as he rode up to the director. 81 just
found my girl after five years, and
"Excusedl" beloved the director:
stay out for awhile and come back
when you get over it-rAeanwhile
we'll do something else. Shoot"
| Copyright, 1921. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate)
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BIZ LGE PAPE

This AFTERNOON in skool Miss Kitty
told the class the different meanings of
suggestion, saying, And then there is
the Expression known as@the power OF
suggestion. For instance IL you keep
on telling a persin he is pale, even if
he's not, that persin mite axuilly be-
gin to feel sick Jest from the power
of suggestion.
Sounding like a good thing to try.
and tonite after suppir- me and pop
and ma was going to the movies, and
pop was waiting Tor ma to get reddy
and singing to himself as If he thawt
he felt wonderful. and said. @ pop,
do you feel pale or enything?
No, do you? sed pop
And he kepp on singing to himself.
and pritty soon he stopped. saying. Wy
the misehiff should l feel pale, wat
do you wunt to ask suteh nonsenslcal
questions for2
Well gosh. pop, maybe you Jest look
pale without feeling pale, maybe it's
Jest ceineidents. pop, l sed.
Maybe you're jest eonversing thFoe
your hat. sed pop And l kepp on
locking at him and he sed, Stop that
gawking at me, dident you ever see me
befores and 1 said. Not that pale,
holey smeaks. g, pop Wich jest then
ma came in saving, Are you ready
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ing sets in it causes initial revival OF
industry. This causes buying of raw
materials and gives the first impetus
to the buying power of this class OF
producers. The injection of this buy
ing power further helps industry, and
a fresh demand for raw materials
arises and prices begin to improve.
This causes additional demand for
goods and industry in general begins
to get increasingly active. Unemploy-
ment decreases, payrolls mount. up
and business in all quarters ap-
proaches the condition so widely de-
sired.
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HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
81 MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: am widow
sixty years old. My husband died
several years ago. leaving me with
seven children. They are all grown
and have left me.
There is a bachelor friend who has
paid attention to me ever since l was
left alone. But my children object to
my marrying him for fear he will get
my money. could live with my son,
but his wife leaves too much of the
work for me to do.
Shall I marry my friend or live
alone? MOLLlE.
You will have to decide such a
problem for yourself. Consider the
character of the man and decide
whether or not he is marrying you for
love of you or because he wants a
home and some one to care for HIM
Is he industrious? Is he considerate
of you? Or is he a selfish, indolent
man?
You will be far happier alone than
married to a man who takes you for
selfish reasons and lets you support
and care for him. Look into the
mans life record before you decide.
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Dorothy Dix Talks
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Mother seIfishness-1.

Mother SeIfishness-1.
A woman's husband died. leaving
her with a little girl baby and no mon
ey. BY almost incredible labor and
little daughter, educated her. and had
her taught a good profession
The girl well repaid her mothers
sacrifices. She grew up into beauti-
full and intelligent young woman. de-
voted to her mother, and deeply APP
preciative of all that the mother had
done for her.
Now, alas, comes the tragedy. The
girl has gone the way of all feminine
flesh. She has fallen in love with a
worthy young man, and the mothers
heart is. broken. She thinks the girl
her. and complains of her loneliness
because her daughter and her beau go
off by themselves
My daughter and I have been ev-
erything to each Other for twenty-five
years walls the mother. why
should she desert me now for a man
she hasn't known six months?"
That is the riddle of the ages. It is
the question that each successive gen
Grafton of parents have asked, and to
which life gives no answer except to
say tha. it IS just nature. Just the
mating instinct that is stronger than
anything else in the world. Comes a
stranger whistling thru the corn
fields" and some girl gets up and fol-
lows him to the ends of the earth, and
she really knows no more why she
does it than her mother knows.
Perhaps there is no other thing in
the world that is so hard for parents
to realize, as the fact that while their
children are all-sufficient~ to them,
they are not enough for their children.
| herself in her daughter that she liter
ally has no life outside of the girl.
She hasn't thought. or wish. an
aspiration, an interest that is not cen
tered in Mamie. She desires no COM
paniouship save Mamie's. She wants
with Mamie. Herr idea of a perfectly
hilarious evening is spending the
hours between dinner and Bedtime in
heart-to-heartg talks with Mamie.
But does Mamie entertain the same
sentiment towards mother? Far from
it. She may be a good, dutiful daugh-
ter. who gives mother a good deal OF
her time, and drags mother round
with her to places of amusement, but
no matter how much she loves mother.
the society she Graves consists of the
! boys and girls of her own age. She
has a million interests apart from
mother, and when she pictures her
| future, it doesn't consist of a tete-a-
| tete with mother. At the most
mother is just side issue with her
Mother is not the whole, thing to her
as she is with mother.
And when Mamie falls in love,
mother takes a seat very far back.
| indeed. 1t is not that Mamie loves
mother any the less. 1t is only that
she, is fulfilling, her destiny as wo-
man, which makes the vital interest
of her life the building of her own
nest, instead of remaining in the home
nest where she was mothers cher
| ished little birdie.
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in this respect. 1t is our one distinc-
rather doubtful compliment paid US by
our foreign visitors
When questioned as to what he con-
sidered the most striking features of
this country, a recent celebrated Eng
lish visitor promptly replied: Those
of the young women. 1 have not seen
one actually homely girl"
Paul Helleu. a noted French por-
trait artist, whose specially is paint
ing beautiful women, has a similar
view.
There are no girls of any other
country, even my native France,
whose beauty equals that of the
women of America" he says, land I
have found the most beautiful among
what you call your middle class.
Above the middle class beauty is rare.
You will find it, to be sure, among
society's elite, but it is long. tire
some search.
I'm all my travels on the continent
have yet to find any class of women
to compare favorably with the Amer
lean girl. The great melting pot may
be an answer to that. but whatever
it is beauty may be found in Amer
lea where it cannot be found any
where else. There seems to be an in
exhaustible supply of beautiful
women in this country"
Thus, before we take from the flap
per her rouge, and her henna and her
lipstick and other aids to corneliness.
let us pause, listen to the praises of
our foreign neighbors, and-review
the old family album.
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TIE RETURN TO "NoRMALcY.,

\ return to normally seems gem
ierauy to be desired. but few there
iaFe willing to contribute to bringing it
about. Labor, for instance. demanded
and received big advances in wages to
meet the increased cost of living Incl
dent to the war, not seeming to real
lie that it was contributing to a still
greater increase in living. costs. Now
the order is being reversed and labor
lis trying hard to hold on to what It
gained. This can't be done.
Normal and stabilize conditions
can be attained only thrr the accept
ance of wage reductions by labor and
smaller returns by capital and these
must go hand in hand.
High wages resulte in high prices
High prices checked buying of fin
ished products. This caused curtail-
ment of manufacturing. Curtailment
caused unemployment and reduced
demand for raw materials. The re-
suit of this W, lessened buying power
from Industrial labor and producers OF
raw materials, especially the farming
eemmunity.
The resistance to the economic ten
dency imposed by industrial labor
thru demand for maintenance of OLD
wage scales keeps up production cost:
where operation continues. This re
tards the price drop and aceentuates
underconsumption of finished goods
This makes the demand for raw ma.
terials still more slack and reduces
the buying power of those producer.
still further. AS a result of this cor
tinued shrinkage in buying power W;
have a further falling off in the de
mand for finished goods and an in
crease in unemployment.
The return to ''normalcy'' will be
gin with the lowering OF production
and distribution costs thru reduction
Of industrial wages and the accept
ance OF smaller profits. Raw mater
lais have already completed their re
adjustment. When investment buy
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Restoration of the railroads to pri-
vate management seems to have been
should not be unduly restricted in
their attempts to solve their labor
problems. The transportation act was
designed to restore private operation.
If the provisions surrounding the
functions of the railway labor board
fetter intelligent initiative in dealing
with these questions, they should be
modified or eliminated Otherwise
we merely have private operation with
a string attached to it. The railroad
wage question should be settled with
out delay. and the labor board should
prove it's right to existence or it should
go out of business.
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for the movies? and pop sed. Mother.
do or do not look pale? -
Wy. 1 don't know now you mention
it I believe you do. little, don't you
feel we'll? sed ma
Yes. I mean no, confownd it I don't
know wat I meen. I don't believe I
care to go to the movies. sed pop. Me
saying, Aw pop. you feel all rite, you
don't look pale, Miss Kitty told us
about the power of suggestion this
afternoon and / was Jest trying it on
you.
II enybody asks for us tell them
we're at the movies. sed pop. Being
a hint he wasent going to leeve me go
with them.
Wich he dident
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O.. Who discovered Rochelle salts ?--r.
A. Rochelle salt was discovered in 1s7.
nette. 1t OCCURS. when pure, in eolorless,
transparent prisms, generally eight.sided.
Q. Which animals hibernate: How 90
they, exist during thir period Of hiberna-
4. Among the mammals which hibernate
are the bear, dormouse, badger, bat ana
hamster; a number are incomplete hiber-
majors. as the prairie dog, while. squirrels
fall into wiRter sleep during the coolest
weather, but may be seen in warm spells In
with different. animals and with climate.
supply of food, as do Intermittent opes Ike
squirrels. During this period the AimGi
WSs gre t hSsay o tho wor
a. The population of the world in 1918
was approximately 1905, 100000.
Q. When, Is Mothers Day? w. A. Nee.
A The second Sunday in May has beef
legally fixed as Mothers Day by pEocla ma
May o, 1914 Prior to that a resolution had
passed the house and senate commencing
ps IN hsls tbe egsssturs
bay. In 1914, Honorable J. Thomas Hef.
lin at the request of the founder sef
Mothers Day, Miss Anna Jarvis. intro7
duced the joint resolution, which was
agreed to, whereby the president should
designate by annual proclamation the Sec
request tie display Of the American is lag 3
on all government buildings. homes. and
other suitable places The United States
is the first nation IN the world to give such
a national patriotic honor and tribute to
the mothers of a nation.
Q. What planet is the star that Is called
the North Star? W. A. T.
A. The North Star is not a planet. 1t is
a solar star and its name is PolaKis.
Q. Please tell us what tong war Is
e. Ga. NJ II.
A. A Tong is a Chinese form of secret So
ciety. The word is derived from the Chin
ese word meaning "hall'' or private meet.
ing place" The Tengs are widely repre-
scented among the Chinese population in
America and trouble between two or more
OF them y designated tong war"
square and square feet. ". e. F.
A. There il no difference IN the area OF
sauare foot and foot square. Each has
N area of IA square inches.
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AS chairman of the senate COM
mittee of finance, Senator Pen
rose speaks with authority when
he says that improper levies, such
as the excess profits tax, will be
abolished and income taxes re-
duced all along the line to a collection
point. A collection point" is defined
by Senator Penrese- as the rate which
will yield an adequate revenue without
hampering business men or other tax
payers. The chairman has made Il
clear that members of his committee
and their associates on the house COM
mittee of ways and means recognize
the need for an accurate and scientific.
determination of a collection point
The senator seems to think that it
would be practical to determine the
rate in a manner similar to that prae-
ticed in the older days. when the in
ternal revenue collectors defined the
tax on whisky almost TO a mathemati-
cal point. 1t was argued that beyond
this point less revenue would be re.
eeived under a higher percentage thar
lower. The same principle might
apply to railroad transportation
charges. Since the rates were ad-
vaneed beyond the "colleetien point,
traffic and freight receipts have de-
elined. A reduction of rates probably
would bring more business ana more
money.
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srAGNATIoN IN TRADE.


commerce in Mr.. Wilson's cabinet,
told an assemblage of business men
in Chicago last night that American
goods to the value of forty millions lie
undelivered at Buenos Aires, among
them 800 automobiles; that in CAL
lao. warehouses, cars and scows are
filled with American products for
which payment is not made. This but
pictures a situation, he said, existing
in every South American port. An
acquaintance has just returned from
Constantinople, he continued, whence
he shipped back to America goods to
the sales value of thirteen hundred
thousand dollars. On his return the
business liquidated and ceased to ex-
list. Another acquaintance caused
goods to the value of a million to be
returned to New York with a like
result.
Said Mr.. Redfield; II look out of
my office window upon idle ships at
anchor, and upon warehouses file
with American products that cannot
be shipped for lack of paying power
abroad. This condition backs up into
factories, farms and mines all over the
land, where the inability to pay for
goods shipped abroad causes idleness.
unemployment and distress"
In the face of such conditions wha.
can congress expect to accomplish
thru an increased tariff or financial
aid of American producers beyond
raising the prices 10 American con-
sumers?
At a time when foreign markets are
slowly but certainly closing to Ameri-
can products because of the inability
of customers to pay cash for our
goods. and when careful thinkers are
urging that American markets be
opened to foreign goods in order that
people may sell here and thus estab-
lish a sound trading basis. we are
threatened with duties on foreign
products designed to keep them out
of our markets. The inconsistency
should be plain to all.
1t is to be expected, of course, that
industries which were built up during
the war. and require protection, will
have sufficient influence to establish
tariffs on a higher basis than those
OF the present, but speaking generally,
wholesale revision of our tariff laws
in way to jeopardize the future of
our import trade, at a time when it is
imperative for foreign people to sell
Extensively If they are to go on buy
ing extensively, would be deplorable.
Producers of feodstuffs and other
raw materials. together with manu-
ffaeturers in every part of the country,
continue to suffer from the partial
paralysis that has overtaken the coun-
try's export trade. Thru the inability
of foreign buyers to pay cash for our
goods. and thru the inability and I'M
desirability of our banking system to
provide longtime credits. exports
have fallen severely. and the conse-
quent embarrassment is more pro-
nounced than it has been at any time
before Il
Foreign demand had much to do
with bringing high prices to American
producers. Lack of foreign demand is
largely responsible for the slump of
which many are complaining. =
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George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
OTHER MEN.

MEM
Confucius, who lived about five
hundred years before Christ, once
wrote: when You see a good man,
think of emulating him: when you
see bad man, examine your own
heart.
We really learn more from those
who lack what we have than from
those who have what we lack.
The accomplished man reviews the
general achievements of the one
gifted and trained in llke manner to
himself-but to see the one in crude
ignorance, or in duh stupor is to
push the Llood of ones veins that his
ears may be priclSed to listen and
his brain to think.
other mon are our teachers. They
are our examples of conduct and
achievement.
We are in doubt as to what road to
take, whereupon we see strong man
unhesitatingly make his turn---and
we say, Let us, too, travel that way"
Each of US has his Other men"
But no others. we are the other
men"
And yet each of us may evolve his
own plan or philosophy of life. And
each of us must defend it at the
common bar of right and Justice. We
are not answerable to books, however,
controlling forces of the universe
| whose influence is vital part of
every time and age.
People reward and punish them
selves.
Behind every experience, however,
| like a great curtain, is hung the in
fluence of other men--ready to teach,
admonish, and point out.
But we must use our eyes and our
Judgment We must think!
Other men must not know that we
are using them to make ourselves
more useful and supreme. They must
learn their value to US in the serv-
ice we perform to them uneenseiously.
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Dinner Stories

is greatly interested in eeal mining.
He decided to subscribe to q press
clipping bureau. 20 get every new
slant on eeal. He said to the clip
ping bureau: Il want everything you
can find about eoal,, The first clip
ping he got was an article about a
man who was suing. his wife for a
separation because she hit him in the
head with lump of coal
"HeleH, | really cannot permit you
to read novels on the Sabbath
But, grandma, this one is all right;
it tells about d girl who was engaged
to three Episcopal elergymen all at
once.
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lust FOLKS
THE SILENT IMAM.
BIZ EDGAR A. GUEST.

THE SILENT MAN. los
We never guessed the woes be, had.z
Nor how he suffered when alonesz
That now and then bis heart was sad
To very few was ever known; ON
He'd hear us tell our tales OF care
And utter words of kindly cheer,
Yet of the griefs he'd had to near
No word from him we'd ever hear.
That he had grieved and he had wept
To us 1t never once occurred;
Unto himself his hurts he kept,
Tho many a sympathetic word !
He spoke TO us to soothe our woe;
He'd let US tell our sorrows thru,
Yet very seldom did he show
That he was deep in trouble, too.
BY chance We learned behind bis smile
And patient way we'd grown TO love,
Despair was gnawing all the while;
A grief he'd made no mention of
Was his to carry and his heart
Wore deeper scars than we had known
And still as Que who plays a part,
He braveiy bore his cross alone,
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. Guest)
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In an analysis of the railroad situa-
Zion. Senator Cummins, one of tho
iauthors of the new railroad law, takes
.the ground that more legislation is not
necessary at present His point is that
ahe unsatisfactory showing of the
hraads can be improved only by getting
u II increase of traffic or by cutting
Abe costs of operation, and he does not
Sec that their finances will be helped
kby an act of congress. This is the
fnnost encouraging utteranee by a pub
bic man in some time. Government
Interference with economic law al
,Feody has done mischief enough. 1t is
time to get politics out of the rail
roads and to let the managers deal
with the men and arrive at equitable
agreements as in the adjusting of diff
ifercnces tr~ihdustries free from politi-
cal domination
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q In a discussion of the various forms
Of taxation. present and prospective:
David F. Houston former secretary OF
Ifhe treasury is quoted as saying:
s,'The excess profits tax falls on cor
sporations The sales tax would, with
sput much question, be, paid by con-
ssumers." Assuredly it would but 1t
would be interesting to hear from Mr.
Houston where the corporations get
the money with which to pay their ex-
tcess profits taxes if not from the con-
isumers For that matter where does
anybody obtain money for taxes ex-
eept from. returns on something he
sells 10 others? 1t may be his labor;
ID may lie the product of his labor or
st may be the product of the labor OF
others. The truth is that those who
tturn money into the public treasury
ilnerely are tax collectors. Tax money
smay pass thru many hands before 1t
Breaches the government but it starts
from the consumers Locket.
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plumber in New York was fined
$4,000 for participation in the build
in. trades graft. But what is a little
matter of $4,000 to a plumber?