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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-03

ceiver to her ear and gave the oper-
ator Larry's number. In reply to her
invitation he promised to be there in
an hour.
lisa met him in the hall.
Larry Fillmore came in his usual
brisk, matter-of-fact way, but he
stopped and stared at lisa. then he
drew her slowly toward him and kiss
ed her very tenderly. II really did
not know how much I missed you.
until now" he said softly. She led
him gently to the library davenport.
lisa" he confessed after while, st
took Molly Davis out a rev times when
you were away. I thought she was so
smart looking admired the way her
hair looked, but dear, now that see
you I know what a fool 1 was! Why.
your hair-Ilsa. queer I never noticed
before, it waves SO beautifully and
shines-it's exquisite! lisa, I can't
miss you again-couldn't we surprise
our friends, dear? There's the Little
Church Around the Corner"
And when he released her from his
ardent embrace, Dear, what makes
you so attractive today, your pretty
hair? Are you doing it a new way.
what makes. it ripple so?"
ct think lied lisa softly, at was
the country air.
Copyright. 1919, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-03
Dorothy Dix Tails
The Value of Appearances.

Many a good girls reputation has
been ruined in this way, because she
dressed too well for her station in life.
Many a girl has missed a good hus-
band because she wore such expensive
looking clothes that no poor young
man, with his own way to make, dared
tackle her dress bill. So the poor girl,
who wants to look like a million dol
lars, should he there with her alibi of
how she does it on so cents. or else
her bluff at putting up the appearance
of Miss Million Bucks will be her un-
doing.
1t is equally important that a young
man should appear to be the thing he
wishes to be. Among my acauaint-
ances is young man who\really has
plenty of ability and industry and am
bition. He has no money and a very
poor job that pays him an insignificant
salary, but he is handsome and agree
able and well bred and a good dancer.
and he is in much demand among hos
tesses who need that sort of a man to
fill in their parties.
The result Is that this chap is seen
out night after night at theaters and
dances and running with a gay, rich
crowd, and he's got the reputation of
being lounge lizard and business men
think he is no good.
And you can't blame them. There
are no records of eminent financiers,
or merchant princes, who were con-
spicuous for their social success in
their youth. The men who are at the
head of things, and hold the money
bags now, were not hopping around
ballroom floors and pursuing the elus-
i've golf ball, even at somebody else's
expense, thirty years ago. They were
putting up a lfe-Hke appearance of
industry, and frugality that attracte
the favorable attentions of employ
ers who had good Jobs to hand out,
and of people who wanted to deal
with merchants who were looking
after their business.
Nothing QueerS a mans chances OF
success quicker than to live beyond
his means. The house a little better
than he ought to live in; the automo-
bile he is paying for on the install
ment plan; the country club with the
sporty set whose pace he hadn't the
money to keep; these have been the
stop to many a promising career.
For once let people commence ask
ing the fatal question; How can he
afford it? and it is all over with a
man. He is under suspicion of either
being crooked or a fool, and when
men begin to discount another mans
honesty or his intelligence, he is done
for so far as getting along is con-
cerned.
On the other hand when a young
couple registers industry, and thrift,
and Independence; when they dress
within their means, when both of
them work, and save. and show that
they have an eye to the future, every
body gives them hand up.
After all, it is quite impossible to
overestimate the value of appear
ances. Right or wrong.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-03

Not many months ago legislators
were considering plans to punish
"profiteers' and restrict business prof
its. Now they are considering how
10 enlarge business profits and compel
consumers to pay higher prices
whenever the economic processes are
not thoroIy clear there is wide
spread belief that all ills can be cured
and the consequences of maladjust-
ment escaped by legal enactment.
The generally prescribed remedy Tor
every i'll is: Pass a law. The pro-
posai to extend government help to
enable producers to hold goods back
from market is one phase of this.
The purpose OF such proposal is
ayowedly 10 raise prices. If success
full, every consumer in the country
would virtually pay tax, not in pro-
portion to his ability to bear, but in
proportion to his necessity for con-
sumption; and the proceeds of this
tax. instead of being paid over to the
government. would go to favored
class of producers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-03
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST. =
INTRosPEcTIoN.
BY EDGAR

have the substance of man,
The possibilities of good,
know his fashion and his plan,
And could be manly II l would.
Both Drawn and braip were given me,
Then why should I a hireiing be?
see the self sun and sky
That every man of greatness sees,
He cannot see in walking by
More beauty in the flowers and trees,
I can as clearly hear as he
The song birds morning melody.
NY hands are strong, my muscles trim,
/ have the strength for every test;
I have no crippled spine or limb!
OF what are other men possessed
Who rise to fame which l must lack?
What is it that has held me back?
Reason? I have the power to think,
learned the self same things at school
! know the use of pen and ink,
Life has not dubbed me yet fool;
And yet a hireling / remain
While others wealth and fame attain
As others think you have not thought
As others dared you would not dare
With what God gave you have not wrought
Or in lifes glory you would share
You would have come to greatness. toe,
Had you but willed great deeds TO do.
Copyright. 1920, by Edgar A. GuestA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-03
THE PRIMARY AND THE BOSS

Opposition to existing primary cleo
ton laws appears to grow with each
succeeding application of them to the
nomination of candidates for office,
not only in Kansas but in many other
sections of the country. While the
law primarily was designed to rid po-
litical parties of boss control, its ef-
fectiveness in that direction is being
questioned.
Senator Wadsworth of New York,
in the Forum, points out what he
deems to be the weakness of the di-
rect primary system and advocates the
election of delegates to state conven-
tions by the primary system.
81 am convinced" he says. ''as. the
result of interesting personal expert
ence and pretty extensive observation,
that a system of direct nominations,
covering a constituency as large as the
state of New York, is unnecessarily ex-
pensive to the taxpayer, confusing to
the enrolled party voter and conducive
to a state of affairs in which it be-
comes increasingly difficult to per-
suade strong representative men to
present themselves as candidates for
high public office. The system, when
applied to a large constituency, be-
comes a hit or-miss affair, liable to
control by selfishly inclined propagan-
tfists and by utterly fortuitous circum-
stances The great mass of the en-
rolled voters. in the very nature of
things, cannot possibly know much
about the qualifications of each of a
large number of candidates for a
lengthy list of offices. The enrolled
voter has little or no chance to select
the man he thinks best qualified to
represent the party as a candidate.
Men present themselves as candidates
publicity in a desperate attempt to
prove that they are the best fitted
Often these same candidates are sup
ported by groups whose motives and
methods of operation are a mystery
to the enrolled voters of the party"
President Nicholas Murray Butler OF
Columbia university holds, in an ar
ticle in the same magazine, that pri-
mary elections are an anomaly in
democratic governments and distinct
ly reactionary in character and effect
He says:
government that is quickly re-
sponsive to public opinion and that
truly represents the will and the pur-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-03
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Questions-Answers

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What is its origin?-C. NJ. S.
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is used for hunting in Europe, especially
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out of holes. as it is great digger and
a relatively small hole 1t has an excel
lent nose, and will trail rabbits, foxes and
other game with great tenaeity. but IL is
little used for hunting in this country be-
cause it is hard to train and manage pay
ing little attention to orders and doing rs
1t pleases. If the game goes to earth. it
away until it has been dug out This
breed is of great antiquity, one of its kind
being painted ON an Egyptian monument
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-03

The value of the total mineral pro-
duction of Alaska increased from $19.-
100000 in 1919 to $22,070,000 in
1920, according to estimates by AL
fred H. Brooks of the United States
geological survey. This brings the
value of the total mineral production
Of the territory up to s46O,o0o, 900,
over half of which is to be credited
to the last decade. The apparent pros
perity OF the Alaska mining industry
during the year is due solely to the
increase in the output of copper from
47,22O.O0O pounds. valued at ss,7Ss,-
600, in 1919, to about 100000
pounds, valued at s12,400,eO0, in
1920. Alaska has now produced 616,-
100000 pounds of copper, worth
$127,00oo0o. The output of gold in
Alaska fell from $s,426,00O in 1919
to about $S.00O,00o in 1920, bringing
the total gold output up to a value of
$500. 100000. This decline is, how
ever. not due to any marked deple-
ton of the gold deposits, but since the
purchasing power of gold has de-
creased it has been impossible to ex-
plot profitably many II the gold de-
positss so that the miner and pros
pector has been forced to leave. The
purchase of Alaska is among the best
real estate deals Uncle Sam has made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-03

The effort that is being made TO
send good money after bad for the
purpose of continuing the work of
building a dam acros sthe Tennessee
river in Alabama is being strongly re-
sisted in the lower house of congress.
The necessity for cutting down gov
eminent expenses is apparent to ev-
erybody and probably there is no bet
ter place to begin than on that pro-
jected nitrate plant in Alabama.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-03

ment of Mud Creek, and the member
from Florida agrees to vote for the
building of a dam across Dry Wash,
and everybody is happy-except the
taxpayer.
In a-word, our congressional system
not only fails to hold men properly
accountable, but it insures that our
legislative programs shall lack unity
and shall be formed by barter and
compromise between local interests
rather than by a consciousness of the
needs of the nation as a whole
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-03

markable literary feat of the year. In
his novel, 1.-THE Guarded Heights
Mr.. Camp has assembled a line of
characters everybody can despise.
To nearly every author is given tho
ability to create a character or two
that everybody wants to kill. But no
other writer has succeeded to the ex-
tent Me. Camp succeeds in assembling
twenty or thirty such characters in
one book.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-03

In certain parts of Russia the mail
is carried on buffaloes.. In this coun-
try there is suspicion that frequent
Nv it is carried on turtles or snails.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-11

Your mopey Will be refsnded By the ma,
ufaetnrers " you do not obtain persertI
satisfaetory results Al all dfureixfs
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-11
An 0. HENRY Story a Day : ;'s#ss
ea... |. N yosr hanAer-

casa = IN pour handsr-
1T Ia
-rhsnh y - Das& a. ! s~
saved"
The omy wssf e.rsfuIy adjusts
the climbers on his feet and desoends
the spira.
rteioca takes cut his notsbsoh sn1
writes In Il
al iass.' ;. .y~ = AAvs . qua
Mensisur u compts CHsnaignoia
cusheau. enes known ~ the Gray
Wolf, stands IN The magnificent
driving room Of his palace on East
nth st.
Thres days aftw his confssrion
20 Tictocq. he happened 20 look In
the pockets OF discarded pair Of
pants and found 10000. eos francs In
gold.
Suddenly tho doos opens and TN
ctocq, the detective. with q dozen
Eensd'auae. enters the room.
you are my prisoner" nayp the
deteetivs.
"on what charger
The murder Of Marie cusheau on
the night Of August i7th."
Your proofs?"
y shw you do H. ana your own
confession on the spire Of fotadarn. e
Tho count laughed and took q
paper from his pockst.
"Hsad this." he said. ''herc In proof
that Marie cusheau died Of heart
failure"
1ictoca looked NJ the paper.
II was ehock for 100, 900 francs.
Tictocq diafniansd tho, grnsd'arrnc
with IA wave 81 HIS hand.
Wa have made . mistake. mon.
rieu~." he said. but as he turns 20
leave the room. Count carnaignoic
mtors him.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-11
MOTHERS, Do THIS
When the Children Cough,
Rub Musterole on Threads
and Chests

No telling hov soon thu symptoms
may develop into Group, or worse. And
then's when you're clad you have .
jar Of Musterols at hand to siye
prompt. sure reflex. II doss not blister.
A first aid and q certain remedy,
Musterolc is excellent. Thousands OF
mothers know II. You should keep .
jar IN the house, ready for instant use.
II Is the remedy for adults, too. Re-
iieves core throat, bronchitis, tonsilitis
Group. stiff neck. asthma, neuralgia,
headache, congestion pleurisy. gheu.
matism, iumbsgo. pains and aches Of
back or joints spraina sore muscles
chilblainA frosted feet and colds of the
chest Ut often prevents pnsumonia).
35c and CSC jars hospital sise $500
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-11

catlons set . regular service from
the bureau. The organization II also
furnishing Seattle and Shipping
news TO u papers 10 the ori~tt.
South America. Australia and other
foreign Countries.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-11

LOUISVILLE. ny, Jan. u.-Josin
Dcnsford. ~. Of Jcnersonyslie. and
Mira Catherine Denxford. his sister.
in1law, wcnc marid here. Hts
brother. Ernest pensford. IL the hus-
hand Of the brides daughter.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-11

Then. sprfnxing forward. be
snatcher a wig and false eyebrows
from his visitor, and the Gray Wolf,
grinnine In rage. stands before him
The murderer Of Mario Cusheau
was never discovered
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-11

zone moment. monAieur."
The Count carnaignoie tears from
his own face false beard and re.
veais the flashing eyes and well.
known features Of Tlctocq tbe dstec'
tive
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-11

tissue but u can m
carry oIyges TO you
Without oGrgssyeas
brain tsecospes dun
and heavy: youf
memory ssori veQr
viii po~< ~esh ysu
pake bad decisions:
hings always ssssn
to turn out wrong.
Won are sftsn osef-
CONC ~ IN e.espsv-
srins Wsss Of fear
and fsiiurs. Az the
hrht" and geshel
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-11

y0D GRT TIE STRENGTH AND NoDE.
ISifnEsT OUT on II. In fact it ofisn hap
pms that the more you eat the more yea
stArye - your digestive organs ere ansbie
70 handle u'Beh food. when your blood
stomach trouble when " iss't that at all
SIMPLY EAT LESs AND TAKE IRON.
OUR FOREFATHERS ATE COARSE
FOODS: the busks Of grains. the skins Of
serefsDses. and ffuits which are RICH IN
litDk bat modern cookery throws all these
things sway--hence the alarming increase
In IRON STARVATION Or THE BLOOD
and its attendant sus.
Without iron your blood pa snlv io>es It,
The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1921-07-13
EDITORIALS
PUEBLO's APPEAL.

month the sufferings of fellow citizens
Pueblo each heart During
which have elapsed help has been extended to
and temporarily sufferers but little nothing has been
of rehabilitation The suffering from
this increasing Every facility should be extended these
circumstances to again take their places in
the ranks of citizens The memories OF those who
do notably almost mpera
retail the horrors Of the situation to keep it
before the of other cities.
again being made behalf of Pueblo. They
should needed Denver is too close to the stricken
city help do both from humanitarian and
economic
asking charity but for loans They,
old want cean to build to start again and have
supporting themselves and reesabshng the prosperous
community of which they were vital parts.
number of needing this assistance is large They
lived places in the affected Their
very heavy should help them generously and
help them quickly.
The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1921-07-13
THE PASSING OF NORRIS JAsTRow.

of Jastrow Philadelphia recently has
removed of the aest and versatile scholars from the
ranks American universities Dr. astrow tho student of
Jewish lore affairs had identified himself largely with
matters noewish He authority semitic languages
literature He professor Semitic languages for al
most 80 the University of Pennsylvania and besides this
prolific one-hundred and fifty publica-
his several invest
cations Asran Arabic Hebrew Old Testament the history
of religions and publications of miscellaneous character in
other fields such library educational prob
Iems biographical sketches and the like.
His contribution to Jewish thought and literature
his studies of the Bible He has the English speak
world books of the Bbe Eccesiases which he called
Cync' and 1.-THE Book of job" whick de-
books
brilliant lucid style his scholarly integrity his
ability subject interesting and attractive
manner placed his literary productions unique class
nvestigaedand they covered
invested with special interest thru his treatment
only sixty of and his death
to his family and the University he had
ably Jewry and the world Men of scholarly at
tanents ancient subjects who continue be
with present life and its problems all too few
The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1921-07-13

SERVICE which should have been existing oganiza
ton to make it stronger factor diverted and
weakened.
This matter is also strongly Mr. Max Abel
executive director of the Brooklyn of Jewish
Charities paper pleads for the
Formation of Board of Charity Contribution Control
AS Mr. Abelman rightly at is the contributing public
which foots the bills should know what organization need
how much they need and when This
Board should not dictate CONTROL but guide and advise for
charab disposed people flooded appeals for
they loss when and where This made for
cities of Brooklyn and idea apple
smaller communities we'll Their people, should be
guarded against the mdscrnnae appeals of unworthy
Unworthy charities their recipients and
the worthy tend to build character place their bee
plane where they will sef-sustaning
bers of the community.
The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1921-07-13
CHANGING VIEWS ON CHARITY.

Rosenwald speaks
the methods of doing charity Few qualified
than he speak, At the Jewish Social Service convention
Mr. osenwad urged the elimination of giving charity and the
substitution of loans wherever possible In bringing this subject
before the convention Mr. Rosenwad probably suggest
that the time had the loan feature
of social than it had had Every well
organized Jewish Soca Service has loan branch 1t is
usually Of the subsidiary features tho the organization in
variaby with special pride to its functionng 1t is the
heartenng department 1t fails
develop the best in it's benefcarie One proof is
the fnema these departments suffer by the
nent borrower lifted of class of
ficiares the class Of sefsustainn individuals 1t me
datey him opportunities well responsibilities The
department wholly constructive and the wider its operations
will be benefited by usefulness
Rosenwad made smother excellent suggesonnay
not to attempt spread their social
thin" by adopting form OF it which nonews
This most mporant and should
the chaotic conditions prevailing in phan
social activities most cities in this
try.
another distress Instead of helping the who needs
figures that there must be similarly situated so he
provide for them by enistng the sympathy of
other people organization possibly be
than likely covered by of the existing
social agencies The energy the funds, the personal