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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

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G. lllrnortittlf Sricroigt o.i.p.?
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IT lfriillts at II, buuruist Seres fan bru.
fcS, tsr nj bar lrit bet. @i nustar
mango here Sistc, enb ri bar Ylass til
, ginoet.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21
oIoben K~orreiponoance.

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t.s,Ua Srrog.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

"Siemmst Saa Yrerisr" al "Nrns
let, ION siorhe itur Sptse, ba ben iiss
re Var on | "Yoiteu". ~furelisser | en-
tattert usitsrst goe, sea stSer. Vris
t1,2b, &bs Gmansien gubIiNbins Co.,
Tecorab. Snlpa,
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

Ssis Se baF en- aph Ven stfer eisaiNiHa.
fem De eH'fer al heiRHie pleh en- hase,
bpsrisr ,faa life isHse 9sbfsHHsEhe '6eeesat'
QsfteH- tsr ct HmS
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

IN On apinSs Far %uoppropeb 8omcz
...-S ! Yfprtand. Nadr bun glitter Jig
r'.n III. iom har proueo op iii Come
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sH,r fan &c lepe pna bans?
ennr: Snn maa lepe paa ~
.,rr,trne pcn fpreifrepnc Sib itSe!t
comm til sG~steifabct.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

Sp,: 9oorrnan8c uoritc @Iuol 3orp
or Der / Ell Ncrc?
Spnr: SmtrCnt 1 Maal.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

zp.: Seq bar pGret hos mine
zlcotniuqcr, iibeu jeg bar eli Itoen vi:
:, Qan Dc tpiuse mig at uGre bent
N, MI. a a leg er is Iar?
ennr: Niet.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

g%ysSclasenes Worscsfarb "aauitus
MIA" 2eeu Wat. Strib iii g. 8. Slitac,
2O1s 9prcalc Gbe., 60, Rtrneapolis.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

op:: Nanr Saru foor intitiom Sn9s
ponn Stolen, er BET ga Statcu, Stoe
len eucr .SorrI0rcnc, iom III betnIe
Que Tighter, iom ser blir mco oct?
Soar: 6DrGlbrcne b%etalcr, buiS DC
or iituuo til bet.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

la. gilei %
kr ri urhnn
Rtnn.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

Sp.: Soab Far mani at siere, naar
man bil 9aa fanit / q. Sat?
Spar: Jalttlppen er en- Ssberals
Ion % sielber aItiaa for bcle 9anoct.
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tnsen eli 2snsarbciher o. en-, buis Sps
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ct bt erflrret falit. glanbt be Hes.
ltr, man CT unberfaitet or fB1serSe:
Wan ifal, buis sfitauben life cr pper
100 Dtil, uGre tilitebe peb ct 0ssbe af
Sreottprcrne, mar man iaar Srore Der.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

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|ior fig ieIp.
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per e,ri:
bsts Briier.
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bette gSlss
uubsrips
bOe 9tdbosr.
Building,
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

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:, 6ou life s%pbpiais uperlerercr Selps
~. Get nepnte 5Drbulo er 5priss
srn seoraaeri ps itrafbart, bpis Srauet
r. uberettiset.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21
SpGr: Garoempnt.

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lar foot en- Sarm og betaIt enbcl puo
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inn Tantebaucren bar tiIsuSe, bar ban
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ban iaar 1um (Snbsment) mob bam,
Tan han ia 9ant | ben Gel at hans St.
rtgc Gicnbuut, ium life or fritat for llbs
pantntna.
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kar Wins
til at bare
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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

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7,u Nurife gntcrtfalinie, Spbe & 90,
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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

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a. foa CpIu3niu9, uanr man oil rciic
iii 2ourarf?
Spar: Scandinavian .Nrtesicn Cine,
1O2 2no auc., SeGttle, @aib.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

2rIerc opei lluScrtcgneoe aSrcsien paa
noesr al Samilicn SoImrait.-6. o.
9erqb, q. 4, @or Of, @alfou, Soipa.
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mine @Irbcr ttapt fan ifiulc mig. Sss
iaa Den Gang, iom fables "Gtiitas
gsn". Seg pil oGrc tafremntelis, ON
roacn fan ienSe en- 4fifriit Ri gtrs.
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Winu.
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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

! ser han
eipGrret.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-02-21

zo Min Some hepe o.i.p. Get Sen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-19

grain. and fruit farmers have lost
millions with their fruit rotting on
the ground,
But possibly the federation plans to
unionize the farmers. In such case 1t
10 set forth by the Carthage (Mo.)
Press: at would not be possible for
a farm hand to hitch up Bess and
Frank to go to the field for a load of
hay. Instead. member of the team
sters' union and his helper would har-
ness the nass: q member of the driv-
ers' union and his helper would drive
to the field; there a member of the
hay-pitchers' union and his helper
would pile the hay onto the frame and
the driver and his helper then would
take It back TO the barn lot, where
the hay pitcher and his helper
would put 1t into the NOW; then the
teamster and his helper you'd put
away the horses and all hands could
cali it day."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-19
Among the minor economies in gov

Among the minor economies In gov
eminent expenditures recently ef-
fected Is a reduction In hotel rates
at certain places to government en-
p1oyes while travelling on official bust
ness. The director of the budget has
succeeded in obtaining substantial re-
auctions in hotel rates at a number OF
cities, the reduced rates being enjoyed
by government employees upon proper
Identification and. in turn, being re-
Elected in the employees expense &C
counts. The reductions vary from Is
per cent to rs per cent on room rates.
In other words the government has
found q way to make the expense ac-
counts of its employees correspond
with the amount of money actually
paid out for hotel accommodations By
these employees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-19
Quesfions-Answers

O. How many British war medals have
been distributed to Canadian soldiers? A.
o. Nee.
A OF the authorized issue Of 100000
British war medals for Canadian soldiers
rs $50 have been distributed to date, and
Of the authorized issue of $4,000 victory
medals, 200S91 have thus far been distrib-
uted. according to a statement of the
Honors and Awards Department of the
Militia.
/ o. OF the three elarinets C. fiat and
A which is regarded as the richest in tone?
r. B. r.
A Langrac says that B fiat has the
finest tone 1t is almost universally adopt
ed by the great yirtuosi who are able, by
force or skill, to execute upon this one
instrument whatever Is written for the 9TH
ers, with the exception, of course. of the
lowest note of the A clarinet, which re-
mains beyond reach.
O. VIII it kill a fish to scale it? L. C.
A. fish cannot live after it has been
scaled.
fAny reader can get the answer TO ,any
question by writing The Topeka State
journal information Bureau. Frederic /
Haskin, Director, Washington. d. c. This
offer applies strictly to information The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal medical
to settle domestic troubles. nor to under
take exhaustive research on any subject
Give full uame and address and enclose two
cents in stamps for return postage. AL
Write your question plainly ana briefly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-19
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
ANXIETY

1t is well to live in preparation
but not at the expense of today.
For your todays are the promises
of your tomorrows. Clean your desk
and program fer today. There will be
plenty of problems that will call for =
clean desk and quickened energies
when the morrow comes.
courages. It blows out lights by wEici
you are made able to see your way
ahead.
Calm, restfuI thinking will do more
to build up a substantial reserve for
you than anything else.
And how we ell need this reserve,
Even the wisest Teacher who ever
mental working plan when He said to
give no thought for the morrow-for
no one ever knew what a day might
bring forth.
Anxiety burns out the best that is
in you-Ieaving nothing but bare
waste and unhappy memories
What a stamp of fear is seen on
anxiety. On the other hand, what
beauty Is seen on the face of him who
trusts to the working of right thoughts
as an end worth while.
When YOU are right, you fear no
evil end or wrong turn of events.
Think upon this condition of
serenity! How it smooths. What
thoughts void of all anxiety
Freed from all anxiety. the entire
world takes ON q different hue. You
are bound to see the good In ali things
and in all people.
And like the beautiful fall of the
autumn leaves, life win neither seem
too short nor too Iong-but just right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-19
uITLE BENNY's NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE-

the barber gave Reddy Merry
fearse hair cut yestidday AFTERNOON.
making it all stand up strate as If it
was trying to wawk out of his he'd in
sted of laying down satisfied, and
me and Pubs Simkins was standing.
GROUND the lamp post and Reddy
started to come up me saying, G. did
you see Reddy's hair cut, lets kid
him about it.
Wat If Suppose he gets mad. Pubs
sed. and sed, Aw wat IL he does, he
amt any better than anybody elts. is
he? We're agenst one, amt we?
sed.
Yes, but not a ordnerry one, Pubs
sed, and sed. Aw watts you afraid of?
and he sed, Who sed anybody was
afraid? All rite lets kid him about it.
he sed-
witch I started to do as soon as he
came up. saying. Hello Reddy, heer
you got a hair cut.
Wat of 1t. dident you ever get one.
wat the heck about it? Reddy sed.
Nuthing, cant I mention it? I sed.
No, Reddy sed. Me starting to wink
at Pubs meening it was his tern to
say something. which about the 4th
time I winked he sed. Hay Reddy,
sed, and Pubs sed, Nuthing, cant L
mention IT? Not having mentioned
enything yet and Reddy sed, Aw you
kids are hatty. for Q pins I'd give you
each a good stiff kick in the stats
jest for good mcclure.
And he kepp on going and me and
Pubs had about a 10 minnit argew-
ment about not having kidded him
more on his hair cut. me saying I
was waiting for him to say something
and him saying he was waiting for
me to say more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-19

The teachers will find in Topeka
some things worthy of notice which
were nothere on the occasion Of their
latest previous visit. There are for
instance the Masonic temple, active
work on the new hotel, to say moth
ing of the large number of new fill
ing stations. When they come again
we hope to be able to show them a
higher Mills building, a 100000 Of
flee building at Seventh and Harrison,
a Completed new M. E. church, two
new Catholic churches, two handsome
new buildings at Sixth and Kansas
avenues and a fine bank and office
building on the site of the Farmers
National and George Stansfield's store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-19

power of the United States. only three
sections.
An interesting possibility in event
Of any serious clash over the question
of the respective functions and powers
of the three divisions of the govern
ment is as to what would happen if
congress undertook to curb the execu-
tive and the judiciary and those two
branches sought to nullify any such
action of congress by the exercise of
the veto power and the power of the
courts to declare a law unconstitu-
tional. Congress can pass a law over
the presidents veto. but up to the
present time it has been helpless
when the courts have been adverse
to any of its acts, save only that it
may brig about an amendment of
the constitution If the several states
take kindly 20 such proposal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-19
The government has recently hand

The government has recently hand
ed down an order which prohibits for
eign ships from entering our ports
with liquor aboard. One bottle of
liquor locked in a ships safe would
make that ship answerable in q fed
eral court. The order has created
considerable resentment on the part
of many foreign nations. and retalia-
tons have been threatened In its ef-
fort thus to win support for the ship
subsidy the administration seems like
" ultimately to find itself involved
in an unpleasant situation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-19
THE PROPOSED THIRD PARTY

1t is the announced intention of the
American Federation of Labor to start
a third party movement for president
in 1924. which shall include the
farmer and labor vote. But fedora
tien leaders may be called upon to do
some explaining to the farmers before
the latter can be induced to join in
the movement. For instance, the
farmer complains that he cannot mar
ket his crops under favorable price
conditions. owing to a shortage of
result of the strike of railroad shop
men. When the shopmen struck,
therefore. they were working against
the interest of the farmers.
Mr.. Gompers congratulated his fol-
lowers on Labor day that labor's war
wage had not been reduced on an
average more than per cent during
the past two years of deflation, and
that it stood at somewhere near $50
per cent of its pre-war level.
This is fine for the A. F. of L., but
IL order to interest the farmer some
thing must be proposed which will
restore the price of corn to $50 per
cent OF its pre-war level.
It-must be presumed that the power
Ofvast organizations of labor. such as
the coal miners union and the rail-
road shop crafts union, to resist re-
adjustment If its wages has had much
to do with the maintenance of so near
ly The war wage of which President
, Gempers congratulates, and so long
as~this success for labor comes out
of-the farmer in war prices for coal
and abnormally high freight rates,
something must be done to harmonic
the interests of the farmer with that
OF organized labor before he can be
interested in the farmer-labor coaIi-
ton.
When wages went up on the rail-
roads freight rates went up TO pay
tas bill. When farm prices went
down and it was necessary to get
freight rates down. the government
labor board attempted to readjust
wages, but was met with a strike.
Since then, farmers elevators have
been unable to get cars to move their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-19

in agriculture 1T the State college
Father has agreed. Then I'll come
back and buy a farm of my own; and
when I do that-Letty. If you were
Mrs Tom Dawson it Wouldn't be 50
bad as being Dawson's hired girl.
would it?''
There was trying pause and Lefty
kept her head turned from Toms.
Lefty, I love you," Tom said with
more bravery than he knew he pos
sessed. st know you have ambition
and didn't want to be called a hired
don't want to be an old-fashioned,
laundering farmer. That's why I've
worked so hard on that correspond
ence course. I want to marry you
But I'd have to love you" Lefty
began.
Don't you-a little?"
Il don't know. I'll have to think
said Letitia under her breath. when
I have had time to think things over
I'll tell you. Goodnight, Tom, and
thank you for-for understanding"
With that Letitia went back into
the house and upstairs to her little
ROOM For an hour she sat in her
single upright chair thinking. Then
she took up a pencil, and wrote on
a piece of writing paper
Dear Tom,
ct love you.
'IETITIA"
Then Lefty unlocked a drawer OF
her bureau, took from it a book and
started out OF her room. She slipped
the note under Toms door and went
down stairs. There she opeEed the
stove that was closed for the night
She dropped the book on the Goals an
left it to smolder there thru the dark
Copyright 1922 by The Mcclure News.
paper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-19
HEART AND HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
By ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs Thompson: We are two
girls fourteen years of age. Are we too
young to go machine riding on Sunday
afternoon with q group of boys and
girls?
We both have curly hair. but II is
uneven and. short Would you advise
us to have it bodied?
PETE AND PEGGY.
Yes, you are too young to 60 ma
chine riding unless an older person
accompanies you
The question of bobbing hair should
be decided by the person possessing
the hair. You are SO young that ! SEQ
no reason why you should not bob IL
and make it more even in that way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-19
THE INTENDING SUBSIDY

In an article written for The Ma
TONS Business, Under-Secretary of the
Treasury Gilbert gives official ex-
preston to what every student of the
present fiscal situation at Washington
knows when he says that 'ff there is
persistence in s-ly program of expen-
diture beyond the limits Of the gov
ernment's income there would be no
other course open than the introduce
ton of new taxes to restore the bal
ance" of the national budget. He
adds that the sound way to balance
the budget in 1928 and 1924 is to
reduce expenditures and to avoid
new avenues of expenditure to such
an extent as may be necessary to
wipe out the indicated. deficits"
1t will not be possible even to hold
the tax. reductions that have been
made, Mr.. Gilbert says, land GER
tainly not to make further reductions
that are SO necessary to the restora-
ton of normalsconditions in business
and industry unless all hands unite to
keep the government expenditures
down to the minimum and to avoid all
manner OF useless and extravagant ex-
penditure."
IAN hands" as used by Under-Sec-
rotary Gilbert does not mean the ad-
ministrative agencies of the govern
ment alone, nor yet congress, but all
the people, in particular those who
have it in mind to shower congress
with appeals for local or sectional
aid, for the support of projects with
which the federal government should
have nothing to do. The program of
economy must begin with those whom
unnecessary and extravagant expendf-
lures are designed to serve. The fact
that these people also pay the costs
OF such extravagance ought to help
the program along.
The words of the under-secretarv
should be borne in mind by every citf-
zen and every member of congress
when the ship subsidy bill comes
up for consideration, at the extra ses-
sion, next month.
At a time when the treasury faces
deficit Of nearly q billion dollars
on the current years operations and
when efforts are being made to avoid
deficit of similar proportions in the
year to follow, the president did well
to point out IN his message vetoing the
bonus bill, that 'the public credit is
founded on the popular belief in the
defensfbility OF public expenditure, as
well as the governments ability to
pay" Where the money to meet
them comes out Of the pockets of
men and women, the vast majority of
whom spend their lives in trying to
keep those pockets from becoming
empty, public expenditures can be de-
Tended only on the ground of neces-
sity. To add to the nations pledges
to pay. except as necessity compels,
is therefore not merely governmental
folly, as the president says. but it is q
perversion OF the purposes for which
democratic governments are estab-
lished.
The defensible costs of government
are limited by the activities which
promote the general welfare. When
they 60 -yond that and are assumed
in behalf of a particular section, or
class, or interest, the taxes levied to
meet them. whether many or few,
whether light or heavy, are oppres-
sive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-19
Religious bigotrx could scar

Religious bigotry could scarcely be
carried farther than it is being car
ried thru the spreading of propa-
ganda designed to bring into disrepute
the Knights of Columbus by charging
that the Genoese navigator did not
discover America If the people Of
this country choose to accord the hon
or to him rather than to Left Ericsson.
what difference can it make to those
dead and gone personages or to any
body elss7
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-19
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

THE FIRST LITTLE HOUSE.
The little old house that we went into debt
for,
Worried and struggled small trinkets to
Pinchfng the pennies to save for tomorrow,
Always in need and still too proud to Dor
That, when the shadows Of nighttime shall
fall,
Shall glow as the happiest house Of them
all
The first little house, with the mortgage
And the few hundred dollars we braveIy put
on it
With the long years Of debt on our backs
The house Of cur own we had planned when
we married,
That we shall treasure and gladly recall
As the brightest and happiest home Of
them ALL
Lean was the purse in those days long de-
Many our needs. but we faced them light
hearted.
But there's no joy when the wallets fat
Pleasure Feeds striving for this thing or
that thing,
Striving and saving for dreams great OF
For those are the happiest days of them
all.
The little old house. with its garden Of
And babies whose cheeks were as pink as
the posies,
Just drank in the sunshine and reveIed In
laughter,
And wept with the sorrows that came
flooding after,
And sheltered rs bravely-but little we
knew
The best of our lives we were hurrying
thru.
Oh, the little old house has been changed
for another.
Much bigger and finer. yet often the
mother
Set free from the pinching and scraping
and saving,
Goes back with smile to the days Of her
shaving.
And says.-as she looks at the tapestrsed
wall
That first little house was the best. after
all
Copyright, 1922. By Edgar A GuestJ