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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

tertainment, the bathing. suit 5ape
classes with the happily obsolete
mother-in-law joke. 1t hasn't inspired
chuckle in thirty years.
Fortunately for capitalism. the Eng
lish sparrow cannot talk. If it could.
labor's arraignment of the leisure
classes would be considered mild ana
feeble.
We have read Mr.. Gompers's speech
about the German labor unions, but
we do not intend to act hastily. his
application for membership in the So
ciety of Aching Hearts must follow
the regular course.
The Brentwood Country club. of Los
Angeles, will give President Harding
a new set Of golf clubs The dag
nosis seems to be all right, but the
prescription is wrong From what we
hear of his game, what he needs is to
keep his head down.
You probably noticed that the A. T.
L. talked about everything but work.
Hagen" says the esteemed cable,
| was unable to do better than 81.
What we wish to know in the connec-
| ton is whether, in this section or the
| country, it is customary to speak OF an
| 81 in careless and deprecatory FASH
| ion? If it is, we haven't been LIVING
up to the ethics of the community.
| AS Jeff Bransford once remarked;
! "a quick move by the enemy VIII
! jeopardiZe six fine gunboats."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

camps and community centers. It is
Interesting to note that stores and fac
tories that took up the idea as an aid
to morale during the war, and later
dropped it, are starting recreational
singing again to promote industry and
good feeling. People have lost their
circumstances and are beginnine
to take group singing as matter of
course
Mr.. Lawrence believes that an awak-
ening interest in musical expression
will lead to the development of
folk music for A m g ri ca. We
are young as nation. and have no
folk songs except perhaps some negro
dialect songs. There is no group of
songs expressing the emotions-the
loves, sorrows, national hopes, and war
spirit-of the American people. But
when people take to singing they
want songs, and there is encourage
ment for the composer to produce
something. Singing makes people I'M
bottle their emotions, and that too
stimulates the creative impulse.
The process has already begun. AL
most every day some one stuffsSa lyric
into Mr.. Lawrence's hand or his pocket
when he Is conducting a music week
event. He has received as many as 500
songs in a short time. Most of them
are crude; few are worthy of being
sung. But they are a hopeful begin
ming toward a musical America.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
LITTLE BERNY'S NOTE BOOK

BY IEIE PAPE


Weather Better. cit couldent be
verse;.
Spoarts-Some yello cat ran up q
tree last Wensday and Sid Hunt tried
to teetch his fox terrier Teddy to be a
pointed dog by standing underneath
and pointing at it with his nose and
one foot, but Teddy was too biszy try
ing to cline up the tree to pay eny at
tention. Sid Hunt saying he was too
ambitious to be good pointer dog.
Business and Financial-The wacky
partnership between Sid Hunt and
Sam Cross to divide up half of every
thing they each got to eat has bin dis
banded on account of Sid having
found Sam with the core of a apple,
proving he had ate both halls.
Pome by Skinny Martin
Home Sweet Home.
This is the only life for me.
Cried the fish as it leeped thru the
foam,
It may be wet to other foxes
Blu. to me its Home Sweet Home.
Sissiety-Miss Loretter Mincer Is
| taking singing lessins and she sang a
song at Mr.. Leroy Shoosters party last
| Therscay taking about twice as long
as ordinerry songs, and everybody
clapped but it made her sing another
one so nobody clapped eny more.
| Facks You Awt to Knowles
| wont sting unless they are annoyed
but its best not to tempt them because
| it takes a expert to tell jest wat ixact
second they are going to feel annoyed.
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for the necessaries of life, the labor
Of twenty thousand men for an entire
year can Ill be spared. The economic
loss to the nation would be consider
able at any time, but it is especially
great in an era of scarcity and in
f1ated values. And those who caused
the loss felt It most keenly. The
sooner employers and employees real-
ize that this is always the inevitable
result of strikes and lockouts, the
sooner will they arrive at the general
establishment and acceptance OF some
method of settling their differences
other than strikes and Iockouts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
Dorothy Dix Tails
The stoop-To-Conquer stuff-1.
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

4nO SIUl1-ls
I know a woman. young, beautiful.
and charming, who is losing the hus-
band she adores because she will not
humor his little weaknesses. And she
realizes the situation and is breaking
her heart over it. but she Will not
change her tactics.
There's nothing fundamentally the
matter with the man, except that he
is a little too human. He has made
money little too rapidly, perhaps,
and perhaps he is little too plea sure
loving, but he is the kindest and most
generous soul alive, and one OF the
sort who wants everybody to like him,
and pat him on the back, and share
in his good times.
That type of man can no more live
without the accompaniment of the
glad hand, than flower can live
without sunshine. He is as naively
vain as a child. He wants to be told
at every turn how good-looking, and
wonderful he is, and he turns as in
stinctively towards those who feed
him on sugar plums, as the needle
turns to the north pole.
The wife understands the elemen-
tary principle of masculine psychol-
ogy that every girl baby is taught in
the cradle, and that is that vinegar
never catches the male fly. Also, she
is perfectly we'll aware that If 1t is
true that every man has a sweet tooth,
her husband was porn Win q 'uOuOIS
row of them. but in spite of her ex-
pert information on the subject, she
has c1amped the lid down hard ana
fast on the candy box, and refuses 10
hand him out even single bonbon.
ST will not minister to my husband s
vanity" she SAYS with a -virtuous air.
"I will not pander to his weaknesses.
Nobody realizes more than do what
a noble nature he has, but he has
faults that I feel it my duty to cor
rect"
which she does in season and out
of season. She belittles her husband S
achievements. When he comes to her
beaming with joy over some big trade
he has just put thru, she drenches his
enthusiasm with ice water by telling
him anybody else could have done 1T,
and that it only takes mediocre IN
tellect to make money. anyway. When
other people praise him, she points
out to him that they are trying to
work him, and that the men and Wo-
men he thinks are his friends have a
motive in their professed pleasure in
his company.
In all the husbands little world
there is just one discordant voice.
Everybody else he knows tells him
how clever and marvellous he is. ex-
cept his wife. The only criticisms he
has to listen to come from his wife.
| Everybody, so far as he knows, ad-
mires him, except his wife. It's only
when he goes home that he finds what
| a poor, miserable worm of the dust
he is.
The result is exactly as one would
expect it to be. The easy-going, good
! natured fellow, who likes to be jollied
along, is following the line of least re-
sistance and drifting farther and far
| Their away. every day from his stern
mentor. He finds business excuses for
being away from the home where he
hears unpleasant things, and he basks
| in the society of women who do not
! feel any obligations to remind him OF
/ his shortcomings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
Senator Penrose is quoted as saying

Senator Penrose is quoted as saying
that it would probably be october be-
fore the tariff is done with. He
strongly hoped. he said, that taxes
could be revised promptly thereafter.
but he did not deny that final action
may go over until the December ses-
sion. But why does congress put off
the most important legislation-that
in which the people have the greatest
interest-to the last? Nobody except
the politicians and a few special In
forests cares about the t1fiff, while
everybody is interested in a revision of
the tax laws.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.
THE fAUGHfNG BOY.

THE LAUGHING BOY.
Always seeing the funny side,
That's the glorious way of him.
RoIlin' his head, with his mouth
stretched wide,
As quick to laugh as a duck to swim !;
Whatever you say or whatever you do,
He'll answer you back with chuekle or
4. two.
Laughing from mornin' till night, it seems
Just chock full of the gift O. fun,
An the angels send him their comic dreams
Sos he can grin for 'em every one,
An his grandma says when he laughs her
He's the disrespectfullest boy in town
Laughed at the prayer that the preacher
spoke
The nigat ma asked him to come for tea /;
Seemed to think it was all a joke,
An he actually winked his eye at me.
His ears are keen an his mind is quick
An his grin is ready for every trick
'swhat1l we dog" says ma to me,
with boy like that who won't be-
haveg"
An answer back: "we'Il let him be-
Old folks faces are far too grave,
An it's good for US all to have the Joy
An the roIlickin' mirth of a laughin' boy
Copyright, 1921, By Edgar A Guest}
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A CoMNIENDABLE APPOINTMENT

IEr0m the memphis news oclmltaI.I
President Harding has made com
mendable selection in his choice of AL
bert LAsker, of Chicago, as chairman
of the shipping board.
The appointment of Mr.. Lasker is
an assurance to the country that the
affairs of the shipping board which
have been subject to much adverse
vigorous and business-like manner.
Nothing less can be expected from
Albert Lasker, for wherever he is
known he is pointed out as one of the
most successful young business men
OF the country.
Lasker is a native of the south.
Born in Texas and of wealthy parents,
he went to Chicago as a youngster and
| without permitting any one to assist
| him in his business career, he built up
| the advertising agency of Lord 4
Thomas, which, If not the largest. is
at least one of two or three largest
| concerns of its kind in the country.
Interested in various manufacturing
| industries he has also given his energy
and support toward their success, but
1 thruout all his busy business hours
the human sentiment in him was
| never lost, and so it is not strange to
know that it was he. who. associated
with Ogden Armour and two or three
Lother charitable men in Chicago
planned the building of homes which
would house the poor people at rea.
sonable rent.
! In charities he is a most liberal
giver, and in addition he is the type OF
man who is usually on the committees
| which do the work.
Just as President Harding, he is also
a baseball fan and became one of the
owners of the Chicago National team
1t was he, who during the recent un.
'savory revelations of dishonest base
ball. planned the REORGANIZATION of the
baseball commission which was called
the Lasker plan, and which placed
Judge Landis at the head Of the com
mission.
Albert Lasker is in his early fortiea
and yet is today recognized as one o
the big men of the country. Tn,
country, as well as President Harding
is to be congratulated in having $,
4 capable man in so important Pc
sition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

1t is estimated that each year the
American people consume 100000.
100-pound bags of roasted peanuts.
In addition hundreds of thousands of
pounds are made into butter or oil, or
are shelled and sailed. The depart
ment of agriculture has issued a re-
ceipt for bread made from peanut
flour that is claimed to contain four
times as much protein, eight times as
much fat and nine times as much min
eral ingredients as wheat flour. There
are few products of American soil that
exceed in Importance the peanut, yet
it is planned by the tariff reformers TO
raise the cost of this popular article
of food to the consumer by increas-
ing the duty on its i-nportations. The
ultimate end to be attained, of course,
is the exclusion of the foreign prod
uct from our market. One of the
anomalies of the American character
is that we will give millions to keep
foreigners from starving, but there
are those among US who are unwill-
ing to aid them in earning their own
living. They are unalterably opposed
to buying anything that these foreign
ers have to sell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

Q. What is the largest artificial de-
Tense Structure on the face of the earth
A. The Great Wall of China is the great
est barrier built by man and extends for
about 1900 in the north Of China proper
of which it partly formed the boundary.
Q. Who started using cartoons or fanci-
full pictures to illustrate titles in moving
pictures &C. L. B.
novation, having drawn such cartoons to
illustrate titles for movies of which he was
both director and star.
n, g; Can IN you giEye recipe for potato
A. Such pinoche is made as follows: boil
y cup milk, ~ eup, corn syrup and u cup
hot potatoes (Which, have been put thru
ricer) to firm ball stage; add u teaspoon
full vanilla: 3 tablespoonfuls marshmallow
Cd or e6opped
Allow mixture to cool ten minutes, beat
vigorously and pour into butter pan. When
firm mark off in squares.
4 s: B. what is meant by Dutch courage"
A. The phrase dutch courage" means
intoxicating spirits. There are no sturdier
fighters than the Dutch as history shows
Dutch courage however, is an expression
It arose from the enmity which existed be-
tween the English and the Dutch during
the 18th century.
trimming and topping Of the Boieanna
Poplar Tree?-D. F.. +
A. The Bureau or Plant INDUSTRY says
that the Boleanna poplar tree is a hor.
ticultural form of the white poplar and
can be trimmed and topped as severely as
one wishes. This tree is treated as a hedge
o. Where is "sThe Temple Of the SUM-
ID. H n.
A This is an immense temple in Ancient
Rome on the site Of the early Pulvina1
Soils on the Quirinal Hill It was erected
by Aurelian after the taking OF Palmyra
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

If the bakers are profiteering, as is
alleged, the situation is not wholly
without remedy. There is nothing to
prevent hotels, restaurants and pri-
vate families from baking their own
bread. And If they can produce it at
a cost below what they are paying it
might be advisable to do SO. Bakers
then would be compelled to lower
their prices or go out of business. 1t
is certain that they will not be driven
to do either the one thing or the other
by legislation or by bawling them out.
The truth is there is nothing equal
to the old law of supply and demand
to bring about a proper adjustment
of prices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
Is YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the Columns Of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL


The West Side Circle railway win soon
pass into history. Workmen are busy tax
ing up the track on Eleventh, street and
that is all that remains of this suburban
railroad. The West Side Circle was distinc-
lively q boom enterprise. 1t was built when
il was supposed the limits of Topeka would
soon reach four miles east and west of the
present boundry. Work was commenced
at Improving Martins hill where the
wealthy residents of Topeka were to spend
their summers. Boulevards were laid out
and trees planted. A big hotel was to be
built on Martins hill and it was then that
the West Side Circle was built to serve the
purpose Of easy and rapid transit to the
vicinity of the hotel. The hotel never ma
terialized but the road was opened mp.
1t was used for several years and was OPP
Grated by steam locomotives. 1t never
paid operating expenses.
Miss Marian Kenderdiue will leave satur-
day to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Mills at
Las Vegas, N. NJ.
Mrs. w. F. Roehr and daughter Helen,
have returned from visit to Leavenworth.
Miss Matte Valentine has gone to the
Chautauqua assembly at Ottawa.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bradley have issued
Invitations to the marriage of their daugh--
ter, Marguerite May, to Mr.. Carroll Burn
ham Merriam, to be solemnized Wednesday
evening, July 1, at 80 at Grace cathedral.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
THE RAILROAD 14AYoFF.

Reports received by the bureau of
railway economies from IT'S Glass I
railroads turnout the country. it re-
ports. show that during the first three
months this year those carriers re-
duced the number OF their employees
by about 225,000 or approximately 10
per cent? Compared with the first
quarter in 1920, the reduction was
about is per cent.
In taking this action, which the
railroads allege has resulted from the
necessity Of cutting operating expenses
owing to the slump in traffic and de-
cline in revenue, the carriers have not
only reduced their operating forces
but have also reduced the personnel
OF their repair shops. Much. of the
work which has been stopped, how
ever, they say will be resumed as soon
as the earnings of the railroads will
permit.
Reports show that the total conf
pensation paid by the It's railroads
during the first quarter IN 1921 was
l$717. 425,173 compared with $754,653.-
744, before the wages were increased,
or decrease of 4.93 per cent. Even
at the reduced total for the first quar-
| ter the railroads wage bill is at the
rate of $3.50, 100000 a year, as COM
pared to $l,739, 100000 in 1917.
If the railroads had reduced freight
and passenger rates to a point that
ably it would not have been found
necessary to discharge so many men.
| The discharged men of course cease
| to be purchasers of anything more
than bare necessaries. Reduction in
the volume OF purchases tends still
farther to reduce the volume of traf-
fic and the income of the roads. Main
tenance of any industrial plant at ca
pacity operation, with a full compile
ment of hands, when not at an actual
loss. is better than permitting the ma
chinery to stand idle. 1t will hardly
be claimed that the railroads have
been losing money. Most of them
have been making some money. By
doing more business they would make
more money.
The leaders of the labor unions
charge that the troubles Of the rail-
ways are chiefly due to financial mis-
management-that the railways have
| issued excessive amounts of securities
which are largely fictitious, and have
paid. excessive amounts of interest and
| dividends on them. Every dollar that
is paid to railway capital is paid in the
form of interest and dividends. In
the year ended on June 80, 1912, the
total interest and dividends paid was
$716, 500, 900. the Railway Age points
out that this sum has varied little
since that date. While the amount
possibly is not what it should be it is
sufficient to indicate that the business
has been worth keeping up.
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Would you care to go out and explore
and eat in little joint I've found ?'
he begged boyishly.
She turned away. for her eyes were
full of tears.
81 thought I was the only lonely
person in the city," she said irrele-
vanity.
But you haven't>told me your name
yet?" he begged. -
Jamie Taylor" she answered.
As he let himself into the room that
had a pleasantly familiar look he
thought, Funny. Jane Taylor's so
much prettier a name than Rosamond
Schuyler"
Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

Approximately four hundred thou
sand mine and metal workers were
involved in strikes in the United
States last year. The total number of
days spent in idleness was in round
numbers six million. Counting three
hundred working days as a year, the
strike loss of one branch of industry
during 1921 amounted to twenty thou
sand years. In period of high prices
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

Crude oil has been reduced to 81 a
barrel in the Mid-Continent field. The
low price is said to have started q de-
mand for a protective tariff on inn
ported crude. Since there are about
100, 900 users of'crude oil and its prod
ucts to every producer the tariff pro-
posal probably will encounter much
opposition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

The first effect of making future
issues of federal and municipal bonds
taxable would be an advance in inter-
est rates. Any advantage to be at
tanned would be all on the side of the
holder of these securities, who could
successfully dodge the tax collector.
He is doing well enough under exist
ing conditions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

Germany. if she pay in full for a
war that has been fought, will expend
$33, 100000 in about forty years.
The United States will spend, at the
present rate of cost for maintaining
a military and naval establishment,
an equal amount in a corresponding
length of time. 1t will be seen, there
fore. that peace may be made as ex-
pensive as war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

A French woman, 1913 years old. at
>tributes her long life to the fact that
she never married. But of what use
is longevity with the chief joy OF iiy-
ing left out?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

If all the bills for the regulation. of
business, now pending in congress,
shall be enacted into law commercial
life in this country will be hardly
more free than it is in Russia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

Congress apparently is trying to
find a way to end the war. How
would it do to withdraw our troops
from German territory? Wouldn't
that tend to put an end to hostilities?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

Considered either as humor or en-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

A number of the columns contrib
utors labor under the impression that
we wish to jest of, bathing suits and
are fecund of suggestions along that
line. We don't know how the story
got started, but we never wrote a quip
about a bathing suit in our life and
have no intention of doing so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

Unfortunately, it is our own driving
and not Adel3ide's that will be on
trial a woman has implicit conf
dence in her son, her grandson, her
father, her uncle, her nephew or her
neighbor. But you can't make her
believe her husband can do it.