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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK

was wawking home from sixool to-
day, being kind of monotoniss, and 1
thawt. G, 1 think Ill wawk backwards
for a change.
Wich 1 started to do, wawking 20
steps backwards and then looking err
round to see how strate was wawk
ing and then wawking 20 more steps,
and I kepp on doing that till all OF a
suddin 1 bumped into something and
quick termed GROUND and it was
some man. being a kind Of a fat man
with thin legs.
Excuse me, sed.
Excuse my eye, wy the mischiff don't
you wawk fruntwerds like a regu1eE
human being instead of wawking
backwards and tramping into peoples
Excuse me, I sed and keep on waw-
ing fruntwerds as quick as possible,
and down at the corner l looked err
round and the fat man was still brush
in goff his shoes with his hankerchiff.
and wen I got in the next block I
started wawlxing backwards agen, and
pritty soon bumped into something
elts, being a thin lady with a natural
mad Impression looking even madden
on account of being bumped in to.
Excuse me, sed, and she sed, Ill
give you a smack in the face, that's
wat Ill do, have you got the sents you
were born WITH wawking like clown
in a circus?
No mann, meen yes mann. Excuse
me, I sed. And 1 kepp on wawking
fruntwerds agen as If that was the
ony way 1 ever wawked, and wen /
got in the next block I thawt, Well
Ill try il once more and if I bump
into one more thing that's the last III
do it.
WITCH I hadent hardly started agen
wen I bumped into something elts.
being a tree and giving myself sutch
a fearse bump on the he'd ! could feel
lump ware it hit, and wen / got
home I gave ma the lump to feel and
she started to get sympathetic but as
soon as / told her how it happened
she stopped and started to get mad
insted.
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THE STACKER LIST. d.

The war department is preparing
and will post in the principal postof-
fices thruout the country so-called
Stacker list" AS this list Is COM
piled, it will be made available for
publication by the newspapers, and it
has been expected by the department
and those who have urged the COM
pilation that it will be published by
the newspapers 1t is expected that
the parts for the several states, or
group of states, will be given out in
convenient installments.
The Minneapolis Tribune announces
that it will not publish this list. Its
reasons for refraining from doing so,
it says, are not alone that it does not
regard the matter as privileged, but
chiefly and sufficiently because it has
reason to believe, and In fact knows,
that the list is not accurate. If it were
the names of those who had eyaded
their obligation to render military
service and none others, the Tribune
asserts it would be ready to print it
as a legitimate piece of news as a part
OF its obligation to the public and as
a means of aiding in bringing slack
ers' to justice. 1t is true, however,
and it is greatly to be regretted, it
adds. that this list is full of mac
curacies.
The department itself admits that
it has been unable to verify the charge
of desertion in every instance, but it
seeks to justify its publication of an
inaccurate list on the ground. that it
will induce those wrongly accused to
clear up their clouded military rec
ords and imposes upon individuals
this obligation.
The newspapers position was amply
justified by the fact that the first
name sent out proved to be that of a
volunteer soldier who rose to the rank
of lieutenant colonel, while fighting
for his country in the Great War. 1t
will be quite apparent that the exist
ence of these Inaccuracies, if given
publicity thru the press, would inflict
grievous wrong upon many individ-
uals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
III MRS ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

| Dear Mrs. Thompson: am a mar
ried woman about thirty-six years old
and have been married fifteen years.
put so much confidence in my hus-
band for a year or two, but when our
second child came. another woman
came into his life. I looked over all
THAT trouble and was willing to for
give him and live on without think
| ing of the past. He would promise to
get me things for the house, and then
time would go on and he wouldn't get
anything and the money would be
spent.
We live on farm, and I do as
much work as he does. I raise chick
ems and have seven cows to milk in
the summer. ! don't mind working as
hard as I do, but I think I ought to
have nice things to put in the house
like other women. My husband owed
| 5000 three years ago and I worked
and helped him out of debt. I would
rather work out for myself because
then could do what ! pleased with
my money. have had a boss over
i me ever since I was married.
, There was young man I dearly
| loved before I married my husband.
We were engaged, but he went away
from this town. He promised to write
to me and I think he did write, but
my folks destroyed my mail. I nearly
went wild because / didn't hear from
him. This went on for a year and
couldn't get any word from him. I
was sick and wanted to die. 1t
seemed as if I lost all control of my
self. I would try to read and l
couldn't remember anything. I just
couldn't get my mind together and
married my husband in this condition.
| After my first baby was born /
remembered everything. Then 1 asked
my husband all about when we were
married and how I happened to marry
him. told him of the other young
man. He said he knew all about it
and didn't care.
When my husband isn't around I
think of this other fellow and cry. I
know I love him yet. see him once
in a while when am in town. and
| he always speaks. but we have never
had conversation about our love af-
fair.
! There was something said about his
car and taking a ride. Do you think
would do right if would accept and
never broken. He never broke it and
1 wouldn't have for the world.
A WORRIED HEART.
| You have certainly been swept along
by fate. I believe you should make
the best of your life with your hus-
band for your chi1drens sake. Let
faith in the hereafter be your comfort
and trust that some time, somewhere.
your problem will be worked out.
Do not go for a ride with your
| former sweetheart unless you have
told your husband the circumstances
and go with his permission. Endless
trouble could result from taking ride
secretly.
| In regard to money, your husband
lis not fair to you. Probably you could
gain your end if you refused to be a
slave around the farm without COM
Ipensation. Tell your husband that in
the future you viii expect pay of some
sort for the work you do. Unless he
will give you money or buy the things
you want for the home, do not milk
the cows and do not feed the chickens
You can refuse to do things just as
well as he can. : So far he has refused
to improve the home and now it is
your turn to refuse to improve the
farm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14
Ouesfions-Answers

@. Why are turkeys so-ca1led? And
how did guinea fowls get their name IT
H. H :.
A Turkeys were SO named because 1t
was believed that they were native OF Tur-
key. Their original home was North
America. The guinea fowl was native
of the West coast of Africa as Its name
q. How does the number Of immigrants
admitted in 1914 compare with the figures
A. There were in 1914, 1,21s,4s0 immf-
grants admitted to the United States, ana
In 1920 there were 400,001 immigrants ad-
o. OF the boys and girls of college age.
how many attend college w E. z.
A. According to the latest statistics avail
able which are for 1918, there are ,293, 1877
boys and girls Of college age, (19-23) and
375. 600 of these attend college.
Q. What is the price of radlum? What
are its principal uses ?-F. A. G.
A The price of radium is about $90,oOo
to 100000 a gram. Radfum is employed
successfully for the removal and preyen-
ton of certain forms of cicatrices, removal
of hairy and pigmented moles, corns, warts,
rodent ulcer, and some forms Of goiter and
of cancer.
(Any reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka state
journal Information Bureau. Frederic j.
Haskin, director, Washington, d. G. This
offer 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
take 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 All
replies are sent direct to the induirer)
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organ outside the house of Mascagni,
the famous composer. Mascagni is
often driven wild by hearing his music
5rnurdered' ON piano-organs, and on
this occasion he left his house and
interviewed the street musician.
He did not send him away. He
merely took the handle of the instru-
ment, turned 1t around faster and
Quickened the time.
The organ-grinder smiled his
thanks. Next day he again appeared
in the street This time his organ bore
a large placard on which was in
scribed: Pupil of Mascagn
"Are you going to take the children
out today, Henry" asked Mrs. Co
| than.
mo, dear, I'm not. I'm going hunt
ing" replied Mr.. Gotham
well, can't you take them hunting
with you2'
mo; I'm afraid"
Afraid of WHAT"
| Afraid I won't get what Pm going
after il I take them. I'm going fiai
hunting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14
Dorothy Dix Talks
Look Pleasant. please,
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

LOOK peasant, Please,
These few words are addressed to
the old, and to those who are growing
old.
1 begin by asking you a point blank
question:
How do you make life for the mem
bers of your family?
Are your children and your grand
children waiting with what patience
they can summon for you to die, so
please about their own affairs?
Are you a burden, and an affliction
that it takes the courage of a martyr
to bear?J
Or are you gentle, and mellow, and
tolerant, end wise, a benediction on
the home wherein you dwell?
You are one, or the other. In the
many long hours in which you sit with
folded hands, search your conduct,
and see to which class you belong.
And if you find that you belong to
the class of old people who are pests
the young, reform yourself. 1t is never
too late to mend, you know.
Listen, grandma and grandpa. Dc
you every think of the significance OF
this when you hear a woman say, "Oh,
yes, I am perfectly crazy to have 8
colonial porch built on the south side
/ of the house, and some day am going
to do it. But mother is old. and she
doesn't want anything changed, and 80
we viii make no alterations as long al
| she lives?"
| Or perhaps you VIII hear a woman
who is herself middle-aged, say: THE
dream Off my life is to travel and tc
/ I can never do it as long as mother
lives She won't hear of having &
maid to wait Oh, her, so can not leave
her; but some time when I have tbs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14
TWO TALES OF WOE.

Readers of The State journal are
invited to peruse the statement by
julius Kruttschnitt and Secretary
Mothers report on the questionnai4 e
sent out by him. both appearing in
the issue of May 10, and draw their
own conclusions. 1t may be that they
will be able to discover where rests
responsibility for the conditions there
in decribed.
The chairman of the Soutnern-Pa-
cific board points out that the earn
ings of the railroads are eaten up by
high costs of operation. The farmers
assert that their earnings are eaten up
by the high cost of transportation.
Whatever is wrong with the country's
nected in some way with the railroads.
The railroads refuse to take steps
to remedy existing conditions unless
permitted to do so in their own way.
This the government will not let them
do.
The public is blameless. in the mat
ter; it has done it's utmost Does
pldAIiS AeSl UpOIl the Id1lIOduS OF uDOI
the government? If upon the govern
ment the people have the remedy in
their own hands. 1t is their govern
ment.
If congress be honestly DESTROYS OF
doing something to help the farmers
it can accomplish more in that direc-
ton by relieving the transportation
situation than by all the tariff meas
ures it could pass in a generation.
! Not only are the railroads and the
farmers suffering from existing con-
ditions but the taxpayers of the en-
tire country are Threatened with be-
ing compelled to shoulder the burden
of making the roads financially whole
Who will make up the farmers deficit
does not appear. At present they arc
pocketing their losses with no pros.
pect of relief.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14

A distinguished political economist
suggests that if labor desires more of
the proceeds of, its toll than it is get
ting, it can obtain it by saving capital
for itself and risking it in industry,
thus becoming its own employer and
provider. A few dollars per head
from the working class, it is pointed
out, would quickly raise the necessary
capital to make a trial of democratic
management in any industry. The la
Dor unions in this country claim a
membership of 100000. If every
member laid aside one dollar each
week. the available sum at the end OF
one year would amount to 234 million
dollars. This is a pretty good fund
with which to start business insvarious
lines. Probably the unions could
raise that amount outright at any time
by tapping their war chests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14

Most of us have grown to believe that
we are the equals if not the superiors
of any people in the world, that we
are able to hold our own in any sort
of contest, physical. mental, financial
or commercial. Nothing has occurred
or is likely to occur. to alter this esti-
nation of ourselves by ourselves.
There has appeared a tendency
among a limited number of persons in
this country to regard every act of
England, Germany or Japan as direct
ed at the United States and it's bust
ness interests. Let us see if we cannot
hold our own in an open field and not
cry out before we are hurt.
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could not believe that he was not
making fun of her.
ssoo YOU know I've found out who
YOU were and where you 1--we ms
S5rangers told me that you teach the
district school down the road, and that
you live with your aunt in the white
house in Chestnut lane. =,
-sBut I don't know who you are!"
Martha said.
Jimmie Gorton, lawyer. age II, ut
teriy cynical and disillusioned-unt
Martha looked up at him and her
eyes fell beneath the look in his.
Could he mean
her, at the tiny cur1s that nestled at
the white nape of her neck, and the
smooth, mouse colored hair and the
white clear skin. thought she was
lovely as some wild flower that hides
in the woods
81 know 1t isn't done, but I'm going
to do it, Jimmie Gorton went on. L
was tired and bored when I came to
the Changers for the week end. l
bored as Until met you. You had
the sweetest laugh and the softest
voice and the shyest way in the world.
But was afraid, OH, if you knew how
afaid was, that you were like all the
rest-just a pretty painted doll. when
=
l find you like thisi"
Like what?" Martha asked.
He broke a tiny spray from the
pear tree, and Martha saw a white.
ha1f-opened blossom.
Like thisl'' he held it to her.
She looked up into the blue eyes
looking down into hers: into the plain.
candid face that was so serious now,
and then she said softly. II think I'll
go back now"
do you think could come around
and see-meet Aunt Emma % the
young man asked.
Perhaps" she said,
do you think we can be friends?"
he said when they had come to her
own doorstep.
| She looked down again from the
| step above him, into those blue mag
netic eyes, and she knew he was ask
| ing more than friendship.
| Perhaps
! She watched him as he went strid-
| ing down the lane, and her eyes were
misted with happiness.
/ HE didn't mind my being plain
at ALL" Martha said. 81 don't think he
even knew it," She Rugged her
arms ecstatically.
4 Copyright, 1921 by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
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Moulton Musings
By ROY x. MOULTON.

Epitaphs.
oh, passing stranger, drop a tear
Upon the grave of Oswald Greer.
He took a drink of homemade beer
That's why you find him planted here.
Here lie the bones of Gloomy Gus,
Who drank his .hootch' nor cared cuss
Its kick" was guaranteed to stun;
1t still has kick, but Gus has none.
&C. T. Barr.
Columbus discovered America, but
as somebody has said, How could he
have missed it ?" A real discoverer
is a man who can find a vacant house.
A man who recently came back to
his old home town, says the Howard
"Courant," said one of the things he
noticed was that some of the dreams
that used to disturb his sleep now
weigh around two hundred pounds.
Papers say an old master has been
found hanging in cafe on the east
side of New York city. We wonder
what could have been the cause of his
suicide.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

Josephus Daniels is quoted as say
| ing that as secretary of the navy he
| had four years of quiet and four years
of hell. But, at that. Mr.. Daniels hRd
| had a peaceful moment after he came
into the greater public service.
The wife of naval officer once
navy for U.S. Madame" we retorted.
quick as flash. your characterize
| ton of the situation is inadequate; he
spoiled it for everybody"
| The judiciary committee of the
senate has drawn a bill designed to re-
buke Judge Lands. We have devoted
some time to long-distance observa-
| ton of Judge Lands, and reach the
conclusion that the judiciary commit
| tee is on a dead card. The thing can't
be done.
! It having developed that David H.
Blair, of North Carolina. disregarded
Hiram johnson for the Republican
nomination for president, we suggest
that a collection be taken and that the
fund thus derived be used in the pur-
chase of a memento which shall be
suitably inscribed and presented to
Mr.. Blair.
| II others are reluctant to accept the
commission, we shall be pleased to act
as custodian of the fund and we would
make the presentation speech.
Mayor Hylan's fool friends are
likely to do him irreparable injury.
They are circulating the story that he
neither drinks nor smokes.
| A private citizen may do as he
Ichooses, but a man who wants to be
reelected Mayor of New York, and
who needs the votes Of thousands of
his fellow citizens. must have. certain
manly traits.
But Whom Is He?
Sir-Having just been fitted out in
"a new suit of sackcloth, 1 look around
for ashes. My hero has fallen. II
Ibis untiring search for the futile he
has neglected the most important OF
1.-THE unimportant. Eleven chess
matches in Cuba to a draw.
The story that the Rev. DR.. Percy
lStickney Grant supervised the feedins
lof the founding left on his doorstep
Ills intriguing. but leaves som ething tt
the Imagination. We insist on the
particulars. What exactly did the
Rev. DR.. Grant do in the circum
Istance?
/ The outlook continues to be hope
Ifu1. The Philippine constabulary has
Just killed ninety Moros.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14

From the largest corporations qQ"h
IL the smallest one-man storekeeper'
American business has been for the
last two or three years subjected 70
unnecessary and troublesome detalis
in connection with tax records and tax
pavments. from which the adoption
Of the general sales tax would reneVe
them From the worried, president
and overworked bookkeepers of the
,dsr concerns, whose annual task OIL
making out excess profits tax sched-
MES has in many instances redoceo
the efficiency of the entire organlza-
tion for months, down to the retall
druggist who has to stick a stamp on
every bottle or package of proprietary
and toilet articles. keep a. duphcate
set of records or issue double cheeks
cor every glass of soda sold, and &C
count for all Of these, often at the
cost of. one or more clerks, the present
taxation system has produced as much
nerve-strain, worry and trouble as 1t
has revenue to the government me
general sales tax would do away WIN
all OF this bother More important
still. the general sales tax would play
no favorites.
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JUST FOLKS
FATHER SONG.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.


It's oh, my little laddie. IS you're romping
at your play
There's an old heart running with you
every minute of the day;
And tho YOU cannot see me when you re
wrapped up in game,
But it's / that am beside you in your
striving just the same
1t is oh, my little laddie, there is much you
cannot know,
But it's 1 that follow proudly everywhere
you chance TO go;
There's hand upan your shoulder where
soeyer you may be
That would help you out of danger, and
that hand belong to me.
1t is oh, ny little laddie, tho you cannot
hear me call,
I am always there to help you every time
you chance to fall;
4 am with you IN the school room ana m
with you on the street.
And tho you may not know it. l am dog
giBg at your feet
It's oh, my little laddie. all my life belongs
to yous
All the dreams that I have cherished thru
the years depend On you,
And tho now you cannot know 1t, you
shall some day come to see
How this old heart loved TO hover round
boy that used to be.
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. Guest)
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Dinner Stories

An English temperance enthusiast
was giving a lecture on his pet subject,
and, when well waHned up to his
theme, some one asked hiRa- how he
could account for the miracle of the
turning of the water into wine.
His answer was ~given in all seri-
business. It was as follows:
That" replied the lecturer, was
the one act performed by the Foun-
der of the Christian religion which He
ever after regretted"
Some men never let an opportunity
slip. They make the most of every
chance, as, for instance, a certain
organ grinder who once = played his