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The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-29
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Good Manners.-1.
1t is announced that we are to have
"a Good Manners week. For the
space of seven days every one is ex-
pected to be courteous, and polite. and
speak to others as they would like to
be spoken to, and be considerate of
other peoples feelings. and otherwise
do their bit towards ushering in the
millennium.
Fine idea, Push it along for all it
is worth But why putraS time limit
on good manners? Why not make
them a continuous performance why
keep good manners, as provincial peo-
pie do<their Sunday clothes, just for
occasional wear, and for dress up oc, +,
casions?
1t is curious how little attention we
pay to the cultivation of good man
ners when we all realize what a great
asset they are, for there is no one so
ignorant as not to know the value of
good manners. There is no one such
an insensible clod as not to feel and re-
spond to the attraction of good man
ners.
The reason playwrights and novel
lists depict their villains as having pol
ished manners is because. a man with
good manners can get away with any
thing short of murder. Every conf
dence man has good manners, as his
stock IN trade, 'or else he would never
persuade us into buying his gold
bricks, and wild cat" stocks. Every
one of US is helping to support some
lazy ne'er-do-well simply because we
cannot resist his or her good manners
A husband who continues to treat
his wife with the gallantry that he
showed her before marriage; who re-
members to pay her compliments and
pull out her chair for her at the table.
and pick up her handkerchief, may
beat her and starve her and she will
consider that Lady Luck was her
bridesmaid when she got married.
man considers in hiring a new en-
ploye is his manners, and he figures
that good address covers multitude
of other shortcomings.
On the other hand, the man and
woman who have brusque, unpleasant
manners have a handicap against
which they struggle in vain. They
may have a hundred times the ability
and the sterling wortlhe of the good
nlannered, but they never get their
just dessert, because kissing goes by
favor, and people do a good many
things for us because they like us that
they would not do for US because it is
our due.
The ill-mannered antagonize us at
the moment of meeting. They~tread
all over our delicate sensibilities with
their brutal feet. They wound iour
steer clear of them, and hate them
for offenses against US that they do
not even know they have committed.
1t may be that at heart they are good
and kind, and tender and loving, but
the outside of the fruit is so prickly
that we don't bother to get at the in
side of it.
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Jesus in the lives OF his followers. The
Christian principles leavened de-
cadent political situation. The ideals
of Jesus gradually became dominant
until all the Near East and Northern
Africa and all of Europe were nom-
snally Christian In the present
emergency. it is necessary that public
men and privat7 citizens put first the
standards of Christ
The church's great task now is tc
coustrain nations and individuals to
give precedence to principle, rather
than to prudence or policy. We must
Righteousness exalteth a nation, but
sin is a reproach to any people," This
IS the crux of the worlds woe today;
it has departed from the mastershIp
of Jesus. And there will be no get
ting back to peace and orderIiness
Until there is a penitent return to the
Will and way of Christ Not in state
papers or conferences reports. but in
the Sunday School Lessons from the
old Book, is the one sure program
for world reconstruction.
Germs-Or God.
a seif-confident professor in Le-
land Stanford university gave utter
ance last month to one of the gravest
aspects of the worlds religious life
and thought during the past year,
when he declared, in a study of hered-
ity, It's in The germ cell, and nothing
that we can do to the individual dur
ing his life will alter those cells
That is blunt putting of the worse
than oriental fatalism that is wrapped
up in much current Interpretation of
revolution" This notion that the hu-
man character iSSin the inflexible grip
of an all powerful protoplasm is the
worst heresy of our day. 1t eXalts the
germ above God himself 1t leaves
man hopeless amid the mesh Of all the
inclinations of his lower nature. 1t
provides no remedy for what is wrong,
and leaves the wrong-doer without
either blame or hope In word, it
eliminates the spiritual from life.
We should be grateful to even the
fndiscreet and sensational scientists
who put the proposition so badly; FOR
thereby every sensible person who
knows himself to be a living spirit.
with divine possibilities, is awakened
to revolt. Thank God. our own
consciousness bears witness that we
are not the helpless victims OF pri-
mordial germs; but children of God
into whose spirits Divine grace may
breathe forgiving and transforming
power. This is the Magma Charta of
the soul: God made us to be his sons,
with power to grow in grace and to
become saints, even unto the image
mony of Professor Terman, 1 put this
word of witness from Robert E. Speer.
lately home from the Orient, who is
writing about India:
1--WE spent most of l our time
watching the effects of the Gospel
on the highest and lowest levels of
human life; seeing there just what
the Gospel can do. If had never
believed in the Resurrection before i
1 should believe in it now. 1t is the
greatest living power in the world.
We saw this power which raised
CHRIST from the dead operating to-
day"
copyright, 1922, by The Ellis
Service.)
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-29

President Harding in his annual
message sounded the keynote of the
existing unrest among the people.
when he said: Everyone. speaking
broadly, Graves readjustment for
Everybody except himself" This is
especially true as regards prices OF
commodities and services. The farm
er demands higher prices for his
products and lower prices for what
he buys including transportation. The
railroads want lower wages for their
employees and object strenuously TO a
reduction in freight and passenger
rates The wage Garner insists on
bigger pay but demands that the cost
OF living be reduced. Nobody will he
satisfied until some way can be found
TO make all prices move up or down
An unison and then it Will not matter
what price anybody pays.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-29
CoNrMUNITY CHESTS

The subject of community chests.
that is, a common local fund to care
for all local charities. to be subscribed
at one time and thus to make sew
eral drives and appeals at any time
of the year unnecessary continues to
come up. New Haven. Conn, it is re-
ported. had a great success in filling
her chest and boasted about il
short. tho it had been successful in
previous years
Congressman Merritt of the Bridge
port, Conn, district was asked his
opinion Of community chests. He
pointed out as an objection that even
if successful it killed the spirit of
giving by making it a momentary ef-
fort instead of q matter of steady
thought. The good that giving does
the giver was lost in the more ma
terial idea of the good it does the re-
ceiver.
The objections made, says the Wa
terbury American, are all good ones
and Springfield's example shows that
the spirit OF giving does die down
under this method. New Haven may
find it not so easy always to fill the
chest as it was this year.
There is one other objection of
which little is said, and that is that
people who give for charity are con-
cerned about who gets it and who dis
penses it. They have a choice among
institutions and organizations and pre-
fer to give to some and not to others
They do not like to have their money
put into a common pool In (which all
share equally, those in whom they
are interested getting no more of it
than those whose condition does not
appeal to them. They also have
choice in the almoner of their gifts.
They like to have their money dis
by someone they know, and
who they know is in sympathy with
the special lines OF charity that in
terest them.
Still another objection Is that the
plan makes of charity business
rather than a~pleasure. There are
few occasions in life in which one ex-
periences a feeling OF satisfaction
equal to that %ich comes from hav-
ing bestowed help where help is
needed. Public charities should be
provided from the public treasury.
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Westchester County. New York
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a burlesque epic, written by John Trum-
buH. American jurist and poet, in I7s2
n q; Is truffle-hound" "a slang phrase? :?
A. In France truffes are located and
dug out Of the ground with the aid of
dogs and pigs. The latter are commonly
used IN Perfgord, their roofing instincts
and fine nose for scent being turned to ac-
count A trained SOW will sniff the peculiar
pervasive odor exhaled by the ripe tuber
with an acorn or chestnut Dogs are used
In the same manner. especially by poachers.
Q. What part of the food that farmers
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20 per cent OF their food is raised by
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10 per cent could be produced economically
O What states produced the most gold
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A California stood first with a gold
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.

We was eating suppir tonite and all
of a suddin pop looked at me, saying,
o, by the way, young man, wat the
dooce did you meen by tying notts in
all my things?
Notts? sed.
You herd me, pop sed, and ma sed,
o, those notts, I did that, Willyum.
You the dooce you did, pop sed, and
ma sed, Yes you know how you're all
ways forgetting things, well, Mrs.
Hews was telling me about a wonder
fill sistem she Las of helping her hus-
binds memory by tying notts in his
o, the plot thickens, not to say
solidifies, pop sed. So this morning,
wen 1 pritty neer froze my hands off
untying my gloves from each other.
that was Supposed to remind me of
something, was it?
Yes, tha- vas to remind you not to
forget to get yourself some new socks
ma sed.
How intristing, and in the trolley
car wen 1 made a public spectacle of
myself by pulling out handkerchief
that looked as if it was all dubbed up
with the cramps or something, wat
about that? pop sed-
o yes, that, that was to remind you
of something elts, let me see, 1 reely
forget wat that was Supposed to remind
you OF, ma sed.
Marvellis sistem, pop sed. Wen, wy
dident you prepare me beforehand so
wen ran across your signals Id know
what they were all about? he sed
Well to tell you the truth I forgot
to speak to you about it, ma sed.
Yee gods, pop sed.
And we kepp on eating suppir, being
corn beef and cabbidge, of my most
unfavorite things but me eating more
than enybody elts enyways just out of
habit.
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turned. looked back, and waved By
Jove, that wave of farewell may mean
anything but that. I must look heE
up"
stopped at his door. He went out. ana
ran into his second shock of the day
The girl of tie canoe was at the
wheel, as pretty as a white rose IN
some twilight garden.
She spoke rapidly. 81 wonder what
you do think of me? a man called at
the house, sad he was leaving the
lake and did not, want to take his ma
chine. 1 waited one, and 1 bought
it. Then he said if 1 would call at
your cottage, where he had been
spending a week with you, l could
get the table. So went. Then father
told me about your notice this evening
and he made, me come over and apollo
gize and try to explain. You see, you
keep so much by yourself, I've don't
really know you. and I didn't know
but what the other man really-oh,
dear! You see, don't you?"
'I understand fully. 1 was a bit
dazed this afternoon-"
Il thought your acted funny-but---
but we want You to come over this
evening, and let me make amends
Won't you-ride over with me?'
II certainly wiHI" he answered with
fervor. Whel. he returned, properly
garbed, and climbed into the seat be-
side her. he remarked, "I am inclined
to be grateful to that salesman. He
wrought better than he knew"
She smiled, and said with some
hesitation. Well. to be honest. I'm
rather glad I bought the machine
and went after the tablet"
Copyright, 1922, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
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When the existing federal revenue
law was passed it was designed 20
make the rich pay the bulk Of the
taxes. II It had worked that way, it
might have met with widespread ap-
provaI regardless OF the injustice of
making any class pay more than a
Just proportion of the taxes But it
did not work that way. The Eich put
their money in tax-exempt securities.
Now it is proposed to do away with
any future issue of tax-exempt secur-
ities. This plan is approved, by the
rich. whose present holdings of tax
exempt bonds would be vastly in
creased in value by such course
Taxable bonds necessarily would bear
a much higher, rate Of Interest or the
rich would let them alone or buy
them only at a considerable discount.
In either event, the wage earners
would continue to pay the tax just
as they now are doing. The only
tax that makes everybody Pay his
Just share is the sales tax
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-29
THE PACKING HOUSE MERGER.

The charter of the Armour-Morris
merger has been filed in Delaware and
the making OF two big packing canS
cerhs into one may be regarded as
having been consummated. For the
purpose of getting for themselves
credit for guarding the rights OF the
farmer. certain members of congress
have been charging Secretary Wal
lace and the Harding administration
with approving the merger.
1t was charged that Secretary Wal
lace and the administration were
guilty of usurping power and author
ity in giving their approval to this
proposed merger. 1t was charged that
the merger would be a violation of
antitrust laws and that the admins
tration was playing into the hands of
big business by giving It's consent in
advance to a consolidation that would
be in violation of the law.
The members of congress referred
to first assumed and then charged
that Secretary Wallace and other ad-
ministration officials were conniving
with the interests that were desirous
of violating the law. They then pro-
ceeded 10 use their own assumption as
a base for a campaign for the pur-
pose OF arousing agricultural inter
ests against the administration. That
the whole propaganda was baseless
from the. beginning is shown in a
formal statement which Secretary
Wallace has Issued. This statement
sets forth that while the Secretary
wass apprszed \of the desire OF the
packing concerns to form a merger,
the Secretary did not give his approval
of the merger. neither did he express
any opinion regarding the legality of
r. His statement sets forth the fact
that Mr.. Armour did not even make
application for an expression OF opin-
ion by the Secretary.
1t appears that the matter is none
OF Secretary wallace'S business. In
his statement he says:
such authority as I have in the
matter is found in the packers and
stockyards act. which carries also the
authority which tire federal trade
commission previously had over the
packing industry. There IS nothing in
this. act which specifically prohibits
the purchase by one packer of the
physical assets of another"
If at any time the law shall be vio-
lated and Secretary wallace shall fail
to take cognizance OF such violation
then will be the time for political
farmers to get busy.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-29
A~o@ 81
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
GATES


like to pass thru gate. I like
to open and shut a gate. 1 like to
look at beautiful gates.
Gates have great meanings
But do not like cold, big gates that
shut out human sympathy and en-
phasize ownership and superior world
ly reward. L like to see an open gate,
an unlocked gate-a gate easily
opened.
When I was boy I used to see
gates that were opened by pulling a
rope and adjusting a long pole that
made the gate almost talk as it swung
open for you.
A winding path-often trod by
many feet-passfng thru a gate or
series of gates. can you think of any
thing moro romantically restful and
appealing%
1 like to think of my life as a little
journey thru many gates Every once
in a while, like to retrace my foot
steps and go back to gates that have
ence the thrill of youth or of past as
sociation-and then come back again
to the task at hand, beyond the last
gate.
I don't like locks on gates, tho. Il
want anybody to come into my life at
any time and ask me questions, talk
to me, exchange thoughts and thereby
help me better to mingle as a human
traveller in the world.
The happiest people are those with
the most people in their lives.
How many troths have been made
at gates! There the little toddIers
from the home door have waited for
the father or the mother.
Gates should never be made TO
keep people out-but to let them in.
Copyright, 1922, George Matthew
Adams.)
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-29

Secretary Mellon has let it be
known that according TO present
prospects the fiscal year will close on
June 80 next with a surplus instead
OF a deficit. Furthermore the budget
estimates now before the congress for
The fiscal year ending June so. 1924.
it is said. clearly Indicate a surplus
for that year. 1he secretary should
have kept the Information under his
hat Giving 1t away may lead con-
sress into greatly enlarged expend-
sures of the public funds. As nature
abhors a vacuum so does congress
abhor a surplus.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-29

and with his usual air of courteous
firmness he bespoke the fish. open
WIDE" he said.-New York Evening
Post.
An applicant for a part ofce asked
the late Sir Beerbohm Tree to engage
him solely on a newspaper report
Il enclose you newspaper cut
ting about myself" he wrote. ito show
The cutting ran as follows:
The prisoner, who denied the>as-
sault. conducted his own case. and de-
Tended himself in somewhat dra-
matte manner."-Answers (London).
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-29

To correct "intolerabIe conditions"
IN the transportation industry, Sen
ator Hiram johnson of California Of
fers an extraordinary bill, the terms
OF which forbid the payment of divi-
dends by any railroad corporation
until after public hearings on the mat
ter before the interstate commerce
commission and the issuance of
specific permits by that body. No such
dividend permit could be granted II
there Eemained any doubt in the minds
or the commissioners as to the ade-
quacy of the equipment or service of
the petitioning company. The bill
should be entitled; AN act to compel
the government to take over the rail-
roads"
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JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

WHEN THE BABY CRIES.
There are mysteries profound
Bothering the sages,
Problems that have gone around
Since the early ages,
But one mystery remains,
Battling all the wise:
Is it teeth or stomach pains
When the baby cries?
Men have learned some curious things
Since the world was started,
Solved the mystery of wings,
Stars are weighed and charted,
But no man can truly say
Where the trouble lies.
What it is that's gone astray.
When the baby cries.
Scientists may delve and probe
In their laboratories,
They may strip the ancient globe
OF its hidden glories,
But they cannot answer this,
When the calls arise:
What it is that's gone amiss
When the baby cries
Men may read the stars Alright,
Science asters yearly
Problems once as dark as night,
Wisdom's light shines clearly,
But the gravest. wisest brow
Ever this defies:
What it is she's wanting now
When the baby cries.
None has ever IookeI behind,
Skillful tho he may be,
That deep mystery of the mind
OF little baby;
None can say beyond a doubt
Why those fearful sighs,
What the Iacket's~a about
When the baby cries.
Copyright, 1922. by Edgar A. Guest.)
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-29
HEART and HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State Journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: am a young
man deeply in love with girl one
year younger than I. We have gone
together steadily for over a year, but
We have not got along well. She says
that she loves me more than anyone
in the world and sometimes I believe
her, but most of the time L am doubt
ful because she does not act as if she
loved me- Sometimes she does things
that are not fair to me and when 1
tell her about it she just laughs.
She never seems glad to see me or
sorry to see me 60 Sometimes think
she pays more attention to other
young men than she does to me.
When 1 tell her about these things
she says she doesn't know why she
does them, but she loves me just the
same. 1 do everything in my power
to please her, but she doesn't want to
go to the least inconvenience to
please me. She writes letters full of
love, but her actions contradict her
words.
really loves me or is she just making
a fool out Of me? 1 love her and it
would break my heart to lose her, but
If she doesn't love me 1 win quit
DUBIOUS DAVIS.
You seem to be in love with a cold.
would ever make you very happy since
she treats you with such Indifference.
Probably she would not say she loved
you, however. unless she felt she did.
Doubtless she loves you as much as
She can love any one. Unless she can
you, my advice is to drop her.
Dear Mrs Thompson- Some time
ago / was introduced to a gent leman-
but have never talked much with
him Therefore 1 am not well ac-
hi