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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-17
George MatthewAda
Daily Talk
WHY BE IGNORANT?

understand why it is that -knowl-
edge and intelligence are SO often pic
tured as a light. For the one who
knows-sees ahead
To be ignorant is always to be
handicapped in some way or other.
There are more mistakes made in
this world thru ignorance than thru
any other way. Most people are sorry
for their mistakes and regret them.
Many learn by them-and grow big
ger and better.
But to be continuously ignorant is
to live a tragic life.
| Why be ignorant?
The mind is much like a sponge.
It Absorbs. But unlike the sponge, it
retains what it absorbs, and thus lays
/ up for emergencies and the proverbial
days of rain, that which is able to COM
fort and inspire. For a well stored
brain is something that increases in
value as the years accumulate.
Friends may leave you. Material
failure may come. But the sweetened
memories of the yesteryears and the
thousand and one things which have
helped to make you appreciative of
beauty about you cannot be effaced
from the mind.
And how remarkable the brain be-
comes when once stimulated to
dcIlV1Iy! q
The farmer boy becomes the bust
ness giant, the literary marvel, the
political leader, the skilled engineer
the chap who everybody thought
never would amount to anything
looms as an inspirer of his time. Why
Because he sought to know-because
he didn't want to remain ignorant.
The trained mind may win thru a
score of lanes. If one job is lost, an
other stands in waiting.
Why be ignorant? Why not learn
all that you are able?s You never
know at what moment the particular
thing you learn today may come in as
an important link in some great
scheme of achievement.
Idleness is the father of ignorance.
And time is more precious than gold.
Why be ignorant?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-17
Cuesfions-eAnstoers

Q. What is the present value Of Russian
rubles: A F. X.
A. All Russian bonds and currency have
been repudiated by the Boisheviki, who
have issued a currency Of thir own
Q. In the test given immigrants, is it
necessary that they be able to read and
write English? A. G.. n
A. 1t is merely stipulated that imni-
grants read and write a certain amount
of some language, not necessarily English.
O. What was the first steamship to
cross the Atlantic? c. Z NJ
A. The American Steamship Savannah
inaugurated transatlantic steam navigation
in 1919.
Amy reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-17
WHEN TRUTH HIDES OFT.

One of the greatest difficulties IL
the way of solving any problem of
public interest is and always has been
attainment of the truth. Interested
parties on both sides of a question
distort and misrepresent the facts.
The unemployment situation appears
to be no exception to the rule.
In preparing for the forthcoming
national unemployment conference.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover, it Is
said, finds at the outset that no gov
eminent agency can furnish him an
accurate estimate of the volume Of
unemployment. Part of the four, bill
lion dollars being expended upon ma
tional government in this country this
year goes toward the support of a de-
partment of labor, which includes
within its precincts a federal en-
ployment service, yet these sources
are barren of reliable information;
they are wholly out of touch with the
situation.
Early in the war this employment
service was set up but its usefulness
was impaired when it became more an
agency of organized labor than of the
great bulk of 'unorganized Nworkmen
and the public at large. The congress
that came into power in 1918 scotched
this evil by drastically curtailing the
services appropriation. At present
the service. under new management
is putting out monthly comparisons
of employment in representative in
dustries. These comparisons are valu-
able as far as they go. but they do no;
show the drift from industry to the
farm. the shifting from one industry
to another. and the status of farm
labor. Secretary Hoover differen-
tiates between the humber of unem-
ployed and the number of actual
breadwinners in distress. This process
Of separation greatly reduces the
number of bona fide workers who are
jobless.
Considering that the war induced as
high as three and four in one family
to enter Industry in order to gain the
high wages offered, says the Iron
Trade Review. it is unfair to include
these luxury seekers along with bread
winners. But nowhere within the
federal government are there any rec
ords upon which safe conclusions as
TO the number of prewar bread
winners may be predicated.
II the conference which Secretary
Hoover has called at the instance Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-17

Treasury experts estimate that tax
dodgers beat Uncle Sam out of more
than a billion dollars each year.
Thousands of persons, in other words,
contrive in one way or another to
cheat the government of taxes that
rightfully should be paid. while other
thousands, belonsing to the wealthy
class. resort to the expedient of in
vesting in tax-free securities and thus
accomplish the same end. The latter
plan cannot be termed dishonest, but
it has the bad effect of providihg
both example and an excuse for those
who try to evade their honest taxes
by resort to trickery and downright
deceit. Also it increases the tax bur
den of other classes and thereby
causes discoltentS for the average tax
payer is inclined to remember that
his own taxes would be somewha;
lighter if-t the, rich would stand their
fair share without taking advantage
Of technical Ioopholes. The remedy
for all this lies in the substitution of
general sales tax for most of the
other forms of taxation now in ex-
istence. 1t could not be evaded, AMI
everybody would pay his just proper
: tion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-17

work before and after college hours
extremely dangerous for many of the
students. The method of self help,
again, cannot be applied properly to
meet the needs of most of the So
called foreign students" in whose
assistance the federation Is actively
engaged. These foreign students, of
whom thousands are now scattered
over central Europe, are one result of
the reformation of the map of Europe
and the Russian revolution. There
are Hungarians who nave fled from
provinces annexed to Roumania; Aus
TRANS who have fled from provinces
annexed to Hungary; Germans from
provinces annexed to Poland; Georg-
fans cut off from home by the soviet
occupation of their country, and every
where Russian student refugees
These men and women were friend
less, homeless and in many cases were
progressively drifting nearer. starva-
ton until the organization of relief
work in their behalf. Should this re-
lief work be discontinued now they
would very shortly be in as bad con-
dition as ever.
The Significance of the work is H.
Illustrated by quoting a letter from DR..
Friedrich Hertz, of the American de-
partment of state:
Thousands of young people are
being saved thru your work from ex-
IRENE misery which otherwise would
probably break their mental and
moral energy he writes. ''If they
succumb, this would mean the dis
appearance of forces indispensabl bic for
any reconstruction in our country. 1t
would lead to a tremendous break
Austria which would react on other
countries -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-17

Just when a settlement Of the Irish
question seemed almost within hailing
distance, Lloyd George spilled the
beans" by calling off the proposed
Inverness conference. Knowing we'll
that he was in possession of the sub
stance while De Valera was but
clinging to a shadow, it does seem
that he might have permitted tho
Irish leader to save his face in the
only way open to him. And he could
have done this without sacrificing the
dignity of the empire. Sparring for
position has gone on too long already.
The time for a decision has been
reached. ireland should be free, o:
course, just as any country that de-
sires freedom should have it. But
Ireland will not be permitted the sort
of freedom that she demands. Both
Lloyd George and De Valera know
this. so why continue the contention?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-17
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
THE ELEVATOR
By LIZZIE PAPE


The elevator goes up and down
Depending how the elevator man
werks it.
He starts it slow when he feels all
And wen he don't he Jerks IT.
1t saves you wawking meny steps
Or If you're downadreddy and wunt
1t jerks the other way roun.
Some like to go up and down suddin
And some like to go gentle as a rose,
and quick
But watever your likes and dislikes
are,
You haff to go like the elevator goes.
All you haff to do is push the bell
And stand down there by the gate,
And If 1t comes rite down you steb
rite in
And II it don't you Jest stay there and
waite.
The elevator man has a uniform
Vile plane passengers have none,
Thus everybody can tell he's the ele-
water man
And not somebody Jest riding for fun.
o IA like to be a elevator man
Getting free rides for nuthing all day,
If I dident think il mite get monoto-
Miss
Doing it 20 continuous that way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-17
Dorothy Dix TALKS
As Regards Romantic LOVE-.
By DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer

As Regards ROmant1C Love-.
A middle aged woman, who is a sue
cessful and highly paid teacher. said
the other day:
ct regard poets and novelists as
the greatest enemies to the feminine
sex because they have made us slaves
to the delusion of romantic love. From
our cradles up we are taught to look
forward to romantic love as the very
crown of our existence, and to believe
that if we have it, we have everything,
and that If we have it not, we have
missed everything, no matter what
other blessings we may possess.
$50 imbued with this false doctrine
are women that they are willing to
sacrifice a whole life time of common
place comfort, and peace. and well
being for an hour of romantic love,
and when it is over they spend the
balance of their days beating on their
breasts, and bemoaning their loss. Or
else they start out on a still hunt for
a second supply of romantic love, and
they generally seek it along devious
ways that get them into trouble.
Now take my own case, for in
stance. L am very warm hearted
and affectionate individual, with well
marked domestic tendencies. like
to keep house. and cook, and fuss
over people, and the only reason that
1 haven't got hot =, and husband,
and children instead of a kitchenette,
and cat, and roomful of books, is
because am victim Of the romantic
love fallacy.
when was a. girl had plenty of
beaux. and many opportunities to
marry good, fine men. One or two
of these merf liked tremendously.
respected and admired them, and
found them congenial and sympa-
thetic. felt the warmest friendship
for them, but didn't have thrills and
chills every time they came near me.
were out of my sight, and feel that
I wou1d> commit suicide IL anything
happened to one Of them.
Therefore, because I experienced
none of the symptoms of romantic love
as set forth in my favorite novels and
poems, decided that 1 was not in
love- and said No. when they popped
the question. I was waiting for the
Tightening to strike me, and to have
that be-still my beating heart he
comes feeling which all the lady loves
in the Six Best Sellers experience, and
which is the earmark of romantic love.
But the wild appeal never came. My
heart never skipped a beat over any
man, and the years drifted by, and
presently 1 found myself out of the
zone of romance, for good and all.
Then I realized that / had been
following a will o. the wisp- I was of
the phlegmatic. common sense type
that is not given to Mysteries nor
emotional appeal. and I had wasted
my life in waiting for something. to
happen to me that could never pos
sibly occur. For 1 hadn't a thrill in
my system I couldn't palpitate over
any man. but what could have given
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-17
: Dinner Stories

Writing to the editor of the Pa
limpsest, John P. Irish recounts some
of the hardships of Iowa pioneer life
and tells the story of one of those
pioneer women and her granddaugh-
ter, who asked:
Grandma, you were here in the
early days?'
Eyes, was a pioneer"
''Well, were you poor?"
Eyes, we were all poor"
Couldn't you have what you
wanted?''
mo, I could not
did you have no meat?"
mo. nothing but venison, wild
turkeys, prairie chickens and quail"
Did you have no sugar?"
Nothing but maple sugar"
What did you want that you
couldn't get?"
TT was New Orleans molasses and
salt mackerel."
The older boys were playing mar
bles. Three-year- Bobby wished
some agates like his brother had and
asked father for two cents to buy one
with. The money Awas given to him
and he Immediately wished to go to
the store to make the purchase. So
persistent did he become that father
IF you don't keep still about that
agate I will take those pennies away
from you"
what will you do with the pennies
if YOU do take them away?" he asked.
why, III put them back in my
purse"
''WiI you take them uptown when
you go to the officer"
Yes; 1 will"
After a few moments reflection, he
came back with:
"And will you buy me an agate with
them 7s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-17

The Montreal Gazette reads its
lapse of the Grand Trunk railroad.
It sums up the situation in the single
statement that the mistakes were in
separable from the primary mistake
of attempting to operate a Canadian
railway from London. The people of
the United States can. sympathize with
the Canadians. They know some
thing about the operation of their
railroads from Washington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-17

the president gives birth to a real
employment service-one that'will act
as a Thermometer and register the
rise and fall of employment so that
accurate statistical information will
be compiled and danger signals
hoisted in time-then it will be doing
at least one constructive work, and it
may escape being classified with the
two industrial conferences of infer
tain result since the armistice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-17
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The population OF Japan, according
to census taken last year, is 1880
per square mile OF habitable area, and
yet the other nations Of the earth
seem determined to confine the Japa-
nese to their own little island or force
them to jump into the sea. The total
population of the empire. including
Korea, Saghalien and Formosa, was
77,OO5,61O.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-17

That the public can do its own
censoring of moving pictures is shown
by its present attitude toward those
in which Fatty Arbuckle may be seen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-17

some man was a warm, loyal devoted
friendship that would have been a
mighty comfortable thing for both of
US.
And wonder If there are not lot
of other women in my class, who are
making the same mistake that 1 did,
and who are refusing to marry men
who come up to their ideals because
they don't strike some romantic chord
that they are expecting to break into
heavenly music. They forget that peo-
pie whose feet are planted solidly on
the ground are very seldom swept off
of them.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-06-26
Lower Discount 8;
Rates To Into
Effect on July |
Change Announced by Omaha ma
Federal Reserve Bank
Manager Indicates Re-
turn to Normal.

Lower discount rates will be put
into effect July |, L. H. Earhart,
manager of the Omaha branch OF the
Federal Reserve bank, announced
Saturday. Noh0.H'.
The new rate will be figured on
6 per cent basic line. established on
the standing of the individual banks
approved by the board OF directors
Of the reserve bank. fN"''NlF
The change is looked upon ast tevl--
dence that the country'ss financial
condition is improving. -,
1.-THE normal basic rate will apply
on all direct borrowings Of member
banks or rediscounts secured by
treasury notes, certificates d, :of, IN.
debtedness or Liberty bonds" said
Earhart. "Such paper will. however,
be considered part of the. credit
structure for the purpose of deter
mining the progressive rate (which
will apply Oh eligible paperR9s 'sf,
An additional charge of per ferit
will apply on advances to any mem
Der bank which may be approved. II,
excess of its basic amounts Zip to. and
including 200 per cert thereof4 aub-
sequent advances wit be ,subjent to
a rate OF per cent. : 4Iii5yoJ
Omaha daily bee., 1921-06-26


Cattle--only about 100 head Of cattle
were on sale this morning and the mar
ket was nominally steady with yester- :
day. The weeks receipts OF 21.soJ are
sold higher at the start of the week. but
declines that set in Wednesday, carried
the market on both beef and butcher
stock back to the low point OF last week,
cases cas 'prS more too. Feeders supplies were
limited throughout ths week nut tne
d d.mard is very light and the market
ruled duh at bare,y steady pficss.
s7sOdI7,s0: fair to good beeves. 1880
7b0; common to fair beeves. S6.7eg7'ss;
choice = to prime y.sIna. ysaslnfs fsr
to sS0a soad 10 Sesrinss Seorfe to
fair yearlings, $6.7507.25; choice to prime
heifers. s700GD7.75; good to choice heifers,
s55O@ZOo; choice to prime c9ws, g Wa sso3sc ~:
fair to good cows, Sl5o@6.25; common
to fair cows, s1.5o@9.75; good to choice
feeders, $67517.25; fair to GOOD feeee,aS; ~
sG25@6.75; common to fair ieeders; SU sc%
725. fair to good stockers. :s.SS :SS gs'SSSS: 80:
common to fair stockers, so.so Q@e.uu' @
stock heifers. ss.6o@5oe ssoes sx cows; osa;
s8oo@s.7s; stock calves; s,'. soOog staas etc.,
s35006.00
Hogs-The week is closing Win roa
rather liberal run Of hogs, about S,5ov
head showing up. Trading was featured
by lower bids, but demand appeared to ps
fairly broad and most Of the supply SOLO
at prices hardly more than dime lower;
Some steady business was reported AMI
extremes Of the market were quoted AZ
steady to 15o lower with trade closing at
the full decline. Packers bought anon.
3 000 head and shipping demand was
limited, Best light hogs topped at $500
and bulk moved at $7.s5@s.4o little
Improvement has occurred in prices es.. our, nn
ing the past week ana slr sarlehs h,shar ya, with
the average trade showing an advance OF
Omaha daily bee., 1921-06-26

Omaha Produce
Fruit and vegetable quotations furnished
hy Cilln.ky Erutt compauy.

Fruit and vegetable quotations furnished
by Gilinsky Fruit company:
Bananas--Per pound, 10c.
Grape Fruit-4ss, $500; sts $500; 81
'0cSgs 0oSransss~sunki.,. 1ss.. $500; .!so..
ss.a5; i7s-aO0- -2Iss $3.50; 2Sss. ss.'s;
3sss. 5000; a2&s. ss.76. - .,o.
eolssn s%.ai sos!:. sS ;isss. % so SILVER Cords %
. Applss-.i,lIss.iiss, ils: naS; i".is0-ls''
apricots, crate. 1900; large, red plums'
crate ss.sb; Lug Lge. black cherries.
&C ';csssnteloupe.-..s..ndard'. n.'S; Ponies
Watsrme melons--Crated, per pound. shc
Berries--Hood River pints. $50; Lo,
ganberries, $3.50; blackberries, N.W: nail
boxes GRIP. Frt. Lemons ana oranges ioo
extra. .,ro
New Triumphs, per cwt. Ssab; virginia
$500: Hamper Sweets. s2.5o. 49,,
f0fS,ni ooaiioas@Y.llow. sme, low era.. ,.7s; Crystal
Wax, crate. S2.25.
Peanuts-salted. lo-posnd &C can, o.udan M;Sv;
cartons, per pound, 11he; barrels i7b
pounds. per pound, 11c; No. ! raw sc;
No. / roast, llhc; Jumbo raw. lac:
: 't'eS Sgetables-cucumbers. II. g.. basket,
. dozen market: Hpr. wax beans mar
ket: Hpr. green beans. market; tomstoes
a basket Texas) s1.75; turnips. per dozen,
rots. per dozen, market: eggplant, per
dozen. market head lettuce. per dozen
Repaek Bssket.-per crate tsso eas-
NE New Dates--Dromsdary cas- packages)
Checkers and Cracker Jack--Prize, 1oo
tsr noa n
prize. SO to case, $3.50; no prize. 30 to
case, $340.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-06-26
Financial
Gbe Nem pork Gimes.
BY ALEXANDER MOVES.
,hIcaro Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wir

Chicago Tribune-OMaha Bee Leased wire.
New York, June 25.-A weekend
stock market is always watched with
interest as an indication of the specu-
lativc position. When continuous
liquidation is visibly in prospect, as
it was in the markets of last Novem-
Der. professional spectators direct
their effort to forcing down prices
at the close of the week. But if the
pressure of real sales has suddenly
relaxed, the "bear operator" will usu-
ally be busy withdrawing from his
speculative commitments, because he
does not know what may happen
over the holiday. This was clearly
enough what happened today. Open
ing quietly. the market moved up
steadily with the progress of business
and ended with something like a
burst of strength. Advances of l
to 4 points were numerous and prices
pretty uniformly closed at the days
highest.
At the end of week marked in an
unusual degree by the change from utter
dependency to reviving cheerfulness,
gains and losses are evenly divided on
the stock exchange as compared with
the closing prices Of week ago. There
are net advances for the week of to
points and net declines of to 7. The
fact of largest Significance, however. is
the extent of recovery from the low
prices reached in Mondays and Tuesdays
liquidation. This recovery has ranged be-
tween and IA points in the dozen most
active industrial shares and has averaged
more than per cent in the leading rail-
way issues 1t may be worth while TO
point out again that no such rapid and
general upward reaction was witnesstd d
after any OF the spasmodic declines pc
tween March. 1920. and April 1921.
whether it signifies less confidence In
their own position by speculators for the
decline or greater confidence In theirs
by purchasers Of stocks. and whether Q:
not it is anything more than temporary
phase the facts are there
Foreign exchange was inactive today
and 1t is apt to be of a summer SATURDAY;
The weekly statement of the. associated
banks reported only $14.400,000 reduction
in the loan account following the $ll5,-
500, 900 increase Of the preceding Week.
the tax-paying period.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-06-26
Judge Decides to Let Boys
DIG as They Want-With Hoe

Virgil Wilson, Is; Charles Thode,
IA, and George Connell, IA, were sent
to Riverview home by Judge Sears
in juvenile court Saturday for steal
ing automobile tools.
Marcy Williams, negro, a fourth
member of the crowd, was allowed to
20 home. He explained that they
took the tools to dig holes.
"These three boys can dig all they
want to at Riverview home" said the
judge. well supply them with the
tools. These tools are called hoes
and they can dig the weeds all day
long"