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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-28

Questions-Answers

Q. How many two penny nails are there
A. Smooth wire two penny nails run
almost exactly 1000 to the pound.
Q; Where is the largest telescope in the
A. The largest rejecting telescope in
the world is the one at the Canadian Gov
eminent Laboratory on Little Sanitch Hill,
six miles from Victoria, B. c. The glass
for this telescope was made in Belgium, but
was polished in Pittsburgh, Pa. The cb-
Jective has measurement of ~ inches.
The largest refracGng telescope is at the
Yerkes Observatory Williams Bay. Wis.
@ When were the first jury trials in
America: A. II. D.
a. The first jury trials were those
when Jehu Robinson and John Smith sued
the deposed President Wingfield Of the
jamestown colony September II. 1907,
Q. Please give information on the
Chesapeake Bay dog; I. l. NJ
American retriever pure and simple. The
origin is problematic: but he derives his
name, like the Newfoundland, from the
home where he first became famous He is
the finest retriever in the world. No sea
too boisterous, no water too cold, no. bird
too big, from Canada goose to swan,
and no wounded bird, be he diving duck
or crippled woodcock, can escape his nose
and swimming skill He is a large dog,
weighing Go pounds, with a thick, short,
coarse, sedge- grass colored coat about 111
inches in length and with a tendency to
wave over the shoulders. back and loins
covering the whole skin His legs are
we'll webbed feet
Q. Where do electric light bugs come
from? +. D.
A. Electric light bugs are water bugs
the correct name of which is fish killers
They come out of the water in early sum
mer and fly in swarms at night, gathering
about lights. and in some places so throng-
ing the street lamps that they have be-
come known electric light bugs
9. Did n citizen of this country ever
conduct successful revolution or war in
Central or South America? NJ. B.
A. William Walker raised a California
company in 1855. and attacked Nicara qua
successfully, setting up government,
recognized by President Pierce. which re-
established slavery and invited southern
immigration Walker was driven out of
Nicaragua in 1857, made unsuccessful ef-
forts to reinstate himself. and on landing
with an expedition in Honduras in 1850
was defeated, court-martiaIed and shot.
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Dorothy Dix Talks
why Men Don't Marry.
BY DOROTHY DIE
Worlds lzlghest Paid Woman Writer.

According to the recently printed
census report there are thirteen mill
lion bachelors in the United States.
Uncle Sam views this state of affairs
with alarm, and asks why so many
men should pass up the joys of do
mesticity, and evade their duty as
good citizens by not establishing
homes and families.
There are many reasons why men
are not so much given to matrimony
as they used to be. Doubtless the
chief explanation of the bumper crop
of bachelors is financial. Men don't
marry because they lack the price. for
wedding rings have gone up sky nigh
in common with other luxuries.
In former times, not only were food,
and rent, and ciothes the actual neces-
sites of life. much cheaper than they
are now, but all life was lived on a
well. They didn't travel so much.
They didn't go to so many places of
amusement. They didn't have SUCH
good furniture. Children didn't have
no automobiles, no movies around the
corner. No cabarets in the next block.
A young couple who got married ex-
pected to spend their evenings sitting
around the parlor lamp instead of put
ting on their stepping-out clothes, and
going to a dance, or a show
1t is folly to say that We should go
back to the simple life of other days.
and live as our parents and grand
parents did. 1t can't be done. Those
who are used to electric lights can't
read by candle light Those who are
accustomed to high powered automo-
biles, can't journey in an OK cart. The
luXuries of the past have become the
necessities of the present
Therefore, instead OF saying to
Juliet that love is enough, and Wen
HE away to the parson. Romeo does a
little figuring on the back of his pay
check, and reaches the Inevitable con-
zone, by no miracle can be enough
for two, or three, or more. So he
decides that single blessedness in COM
fort is better than double wretched-
ness in poverty and rags.
Because it takes so much money to
support a family nowadays makes a
man put off marriage until he gets
The early twenties, when one is full
of enthusiasm and optimism, is the
time mans thoughts turn to natri-
mony. 1t is then that he believes
that he has found the one Incompar-
able She, without whom life will be
cinders, ashes, and dust. and ninety
nine out of a hundred youths who in
wives while they are at that romantic
age.
Let a man defer marriage ten years.
and he looks upon it with a cold eve
He has seen too many Only Women.
His heart has healed, without leaving
scar, from too many of Cupid's
wounds. He can never reAcapture the
balance the advantages of bachelor
hood against the troubles of domes-
ITCHY. and he is very apt to decide to
let well enough alone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-28
LITTLE BEHAY'S NOTE BOOK
IY LEE PAPH

Us fellows was standing GROUND the
lam post tawking about different sub
jocks sutch as Reddy Merry, Skinny
Martin saying. Aw that big stiff, tell
you wat I think of that big stiff, ]
think he's a CRATE big stiff, and if he
was heer now Id tell him the same
thing to his face.
Yes you would, sed Sam Cross
Meening he doubted 1t, and Skinny
sed, certeny would, and if there's eny-
body heer says I wouldent, jest step
rite up ard say so.
Which nobody stepped up and did
on account of Skinny being better
filter than anybody except Reddy
Merry, and jest then who come err
round the corner but Reddy Merry him
self, me saying. Heer he comes now,
tell him now, heers your chance to
tell him.
Sure. tell him now. heers your
chance, all the fellows sed. And
Reddy came up and all US fellows
waited ixcited to heer wat Skinny was
witch he dident say enything. and
Reddy Merry said, Watts the trubble,
watts a matter, watts you all so quiet
about?
Skinny Martin wunts to tell you
something, sed Sid Hunt. and Reddy
sed, Well, heer I am, tell me-
WITCH Skinny started to speek twice
and dident and then he started to and
did, saying, I sed Id call enybody a
big stiff that I thawt was a big stiff
but I dident think you was one and
never did.
WITCH US fellows all started to yell
as If that wassent wat he sed at all,
wich it wasent, and Skinny sed. Watts
you yelling about. do you meen to
call me a liar. does enybody heer meen.
to call me a liar2
WITCH nobody sed they did. and we
all stopped yelling for safety first
Proving it all depends on whose the
best filter.
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and he said. Council Bluffs, now go
ahead and laugh" And said, Man.
1 don't want to laugh, 1 want TO cry
on account of me not being abie 70
think of any excuse to get out there
this spring"
We'll, Warren, it was a good show,
but you missed the best part of IT,
After the dinner was over me and Col.
Shower and Roy Roberts and Buck
HAYDEN and Wilmot Lewis and Ken
meth Roberts and young Dick" Oula-
han and some more of us got together
in room $40 and organized a male
quartet They was too many for a
male quartet, but we called it that
anyway. And I want to tell you some
thing about this Kenneth Roberts II
you don't know it. If there ever was
a fellow who wrote a smooth melodiA
Gus bass it is him, and ne sings tenor
he sings tenor. And another thing:
If this fellow Lewis of the London
Times ever comes in to see you ask him
will he sing for you don't know
what he writes on account of me not
seeing his stuff, but 1 know what he
sings. Man, he steps on it! And he is
the only Englishman I ever have knew
who could sing American songs, altho
maybe that is not saying much. Well.
I do not know how long it has been
since I helped sing That Watermelon
Hangin' on the Vine" but we sung
that and we sung Use Been Workin,
on the Levee," and tSilver Threads
Among the Gold" and "OId Kentucky
Home and "Oh Dem Golden Slip
pers," and when You and Were
Young Maggie and Down In Coal
Nine" and a lot of others. We might
of been. singing yet but the hotel
caught fire and we had to get out.
You would of liked that Warren, be-
cause they say you have a kind heart
and that sure is the stuff that warns
the heart. -
Probably you thought it was funny.
Warren, that 1 did not come around
and visit with you awhile, but I says
to myself If 1 take up his time likely
will make somebody mad on account
of so many being jealous of his favors.
and I don't want to make anybody
mad on account Of you having a hard
enough row to hoe as it is. But il
you want me to come down quiet-like
for little visit at the White House
L could get away most any Saturday.
DODD.
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JUST FOLKS
RY EDGAR A. GUEST.
THE OLD-TIME LILAC BUSH

A lilac bush is lovely thing
Wherever it blossoms in early Spring.
But have n tenderer regard q
For the oldtime bush in an oidtime yard,
With the house nearby and the young
And the eet old Folks folks living there all alone.
For always fancy can see
The visions that cling to the lilac tree.
The house still stands, but the walls are
still,
And the storms have battered each window
There's a tired, worn look on the humble
place,
Like the weary look on the mothers face,
Yet somehow or other 1 seem to know
That joy reigned here in the long ago,
And somehow or other / seem to
The dreams which cling to the lilac tree.
Time was those feeble hands were strong
And the faltering footsteps danced along
Time was youth romped in that lonely
But never the years will halt their pace.
And the young must go, but the old will
To the home they've loved to the final
For they hear the laughter that used to be,
When the bloom comes back to the lilac
tree.
A lilac bush is a lovely thing
Wherever it blossoms in early Spring.
But, bent with age and the smiles and
which come to all with the passing years.
1t seems to me that it wears the glow
For all that remains of the youth long
Is the lilac tree still blossoming on.
Copyright, 1922, by Edgar Al Guestl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-28

According to reports from various
contracting concerns, construction
work for 1922 has reached the pro-
portions OF BOOM II is estimated
that il building continues during the
rest OF the year at the same rate It
started in March construction for the
current year will be s5,0OO.oOO.O 900.
Contracts for the month of March
showed an increase of 65 per cent
over those OF February. Topeka IS
keeping wei up in the front of the
procession The buildings already
erected. contracted and projected in
this city promise to make this the
biggest year for improvements it ever
has known.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-28
HENRY FORD. AUTHOR.

There is appearing in Mcclure
Ma gazine an article entitled: NV
Life and Work" by Henry Ford in
collaboration with Samuel Crowther.
Probably Mr.. Ford furnishes the ideas
and Mr.. Crowther does the writing.
The automobile manufacturer is not a
literary man but he is a deep thinker
and good judge of human nature.
He has given evidence that he knows
little history but he has a keen in
sight into what he observes to be
taking place from day to day. Hence
it is not surprising to find him say
ing:
Law never does anything construc-
tive. 1t can never be more than a no
liceman. and so it is a waste of time
to look to our state capitals or to
washington to do thar which law was
not designed to do. AS long as we
look to legislation to cure poverty or
to abolish special privilege we are go
ing TO see poverty spread and special
privilege grow We have had enough
OF looking to Washington and we have
had enough-not so much, however.
IN this as in other countries-of legis-
lators promising laws to do that which
laws cannot do.
Sentiments similar to the above
were set forth by the Kansas state
board of agriculture at its recent
quarterly meeting when it said:
We must not place too much reli-
ance on any remedies other than those
developed by the farmers themselves
Legislation can be expected to do lit
tie more than enable the farmers to
help themselves individually and thru
organization and cooperation. Meth
ods resulting from years of experience.
under which the country's business is
Systematically conducted, cannot be
replaced in day or a year with some
thing better.
Self-styled economists, professional
friends of the farmer, and propagan-
ulsts nave seized upon the depression
IN agriculture as means of access
to press and platform. to expound
widely different methods of rescuine
the industry from the direfu. fate
which they profess to see impending.
Many have been visionary; some vi
cous. This has been most harmful
and d1sconcerting to thL-e who have
been faithfully working the land. to
say nothing of fits baneful effect upon
business. In short. it Lakes a bad
situation worse.
As the problems of markets. trans
portation, finance and taxes are
worked out, the individual farmer as
the individual in other industries. can
rest assured that the degree Of his
success, hereafter, as heretofore, will
depend upon the brains mixed with
the business In the avalanche of
panaceas. cure-ails and remedies that
has descended upon US to confuse
mystify and disturb. we must not lose
sight of the most essential thing of all
Individual responsibility in improv-
ing conditions thru matters largely I'M
der individual control.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-28
HEART and HOME PROBLEMS
written for The State journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am twenty
one years old and am deeply in love
with a young man with whom I keep
company. ! cannot understand him.
Altho he seems to care for me and
would do anything for me, he does
not talk of love and he goes with
other girls, too.
What can I do to find out just how
much he cares for me and if he does
love me, to make him propose2
IN A HURRY.
love needs TO be handled with deli
cacy To try to catch it and analyze
itA would kill it. Be satisfied to have
the young man as q, friend. Since he
does not talk of love and marriage, it
is evident he wants you to think of
him as a friend only. I would advise
you to go with other young men as
well since he goes with other girls.
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we strive to be what we should be.
Every vision constitutes a cali.
When Isaiah saw the Holy One he
heard a voice crying, Whom shall 7
send, and who will go?"
Instant was his answer: Here am
I, send me- That is the only right
reply to the call that is wrapped up
in the vision Truth is peremptory: it
challenges and summons every one to
whom it shows its face. We wonder
how God can have any patience with
persons who are forever saying what
ought to be done, and never doing it
themselves. Whatever we discern, we
are bound to do Duty, seen and
ignored, imperils the soul.
Only when God is answered with
Here am I, send me-" does He get
effective servants. And the Christian
who counts for the kingdom of heaven
is the one who never says No to God.
BY assent and acceptance we go on
to larger and ever larger work for
Him whom we have seen and there
fore serve.
Copyright. 1922. by the Ellis service.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-28
RUSSIAN BARGAINING.

The Russians are using the Genoa
conference for the purpose of driving
separate bargains with individual ma
tions wherever an opportunity deveI-
ops. Having concluded a treaty with
Germany, they now have turned their
attention to Italy. They propose to
trade oil for whatever Italy has that
they want.
What Russia wants particularly. of
course. is money. but it IS doubtful
that Italy has any available cash. She
is heavily in debt herself. without
much prospect OF paying at any early
date.
In the year,before the war Russia
had a favorable trade balance of
about s75.O0O.O0O. but in her trade
with Germany alone the balance
against her and in Germany's favor
was about $10O.OOO.OoO. APPROX
mateIy "a per cent of Russia's ex-
ports were either foodstuffs. raw ma
terials or half-manufactured articles
to be used in further manufacture in
other countries.
Russia not only formed the habit OF
sending practically an her raw ma
teriaIs abroad but, failed to develop
within her own boundaries skilled
workmen capable of conducting man
ufacturing enterprises. The training
of men not merely to do the manual
labor but to take supervision of man
ufacturing enterprises and the sale of
manufa products is something
that cannot be done in a short period
Thru many generations Germany has
built up the unexcelled manufactur-
ing system which was the basis Of her
prosperity.
Russia has the natural~resources-
the raw materials. the fuel. the water
power, the man-power-au that she
lacks is that long course of training
which will give her the skill to make
use OF her own resources.
II this latest treaty shall prove to
the restoration of the former close
commercial relations between Ger
many and Russia, the greater benefit
probably will be reaped by the former.
Lenin and his associates are sworn
enemies OF capitalism. and capitalism,
of course, is necessary for the devel-
opment Of large enterprises. Ger
many is the friend of capitalism and
under the protecting assistance of the
government has encouraged any sort
of combination that would tend to in
crease the foreign commerce of the
German empire.
Under the policies of the soviet
regime Russia must continue to be-a
producer of raw materials com
mon laborer-while Germany will fur
nish the skill which turns the raw
into highly manufactured
products at the far higher compensa-
ton which the skilled. Iaborer receives.
The new treaty holds out little prom
Use for Russia, but it promises much
for Germany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-28

The council OF a southern city has
passed an ordinance barring Jazz
from the stage and public dances. It
is said that the question now has
arisen where does ordinary music
leave Off and jazz begin? Is Jazz
caused by cymbals and drums? wag-
merriam music in such case would come
under the ban. Is it caused by pic
colo notes, high and shriH? Church
crgans would be among the offenders.
Is it jazz when a saxophone means ,
Almost every band in the country has
a saxophone choir in its instrumental
ton. However. what is and what Is
not Jazz may be determined later by
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-28

Opponents of a sales tax are show
ing a disposition TO compromise on
what they call a tax on Injuries. This
attitude is assumed in pursuance of
the popular notion about making the
rich pay Any attempt TO levy a lux
ury tax would arouse immediate dis
cussion regarding what are luxuries.
II It be honestly desired to make the
rich pay there is no better way to do
IL than thru general sales tax. I'm
der a levy OF one per cent. the man
who bought $1,000 car would pay
$50, while the man who bought a
flivver would pay So. The man who
bought a $1Oe overcoat would pay 81
while the man who bought a SIS coat
would pay Is cents. Everybody would
pay according TO his ability to spend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-28

Russia opened the Genoa peace
series with demand for 5o.OOO,OOo.-
200 gold rubles- If she be compelled
to wait for the money until the allies
discharge their other obligations. she
VIII need to operate her printing
presses long time to come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-28

The wages OF city employees in St.
Joe are being reduced. The circum-
stance leads TO the conclusion that no
city election is near at hand Wage
schedules frequently get mixed up
with politics as they did in 1915 at
Washington
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additional ordinance. Every new law
seems to call for another to make its
provisions clear
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International
SundaySchoolLesson
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
A Vision and a Message.

For April 80 is, 'Isafah's Summons
and Response. lisa. 6:1-13.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-12
LONE NEGRO
ROBS TRAIN
Passengers on California
Limited Relieved of
Perhaps $500
BANDIT JUMPS,
ESCAPES IN NIGHT

KANSAS CITY. oct. ~ Omitted
Press). - The California limited
crack passenger train OF the Santa
Fe railroad. was robbed by a lone
Negro. who escaped at the city
limits. police we're advised early to-
day. The bandit boarded the obser-
vation cars in the yards here. secured
valuables OF all passengers and then
prowled through two other coaches,
advices from the conductor said.
The Negro ieaped from the NOV
ing train as It neared the city limits
but no report OF the robbery was re-
ceived here until nearly two hours
later when dispatchers at Lexington
Mo-. forty miles east, ad-
vised the conductor. c. F. Sargent,
had thrown of brief note telling
OF the raid.
The train left Kansas City shortly
before IL o'clock. The Negro board
ed the observation car as the train
pulled out OF the station. He forced
passengers 10 place their valuables
on a chair, then scooped them into
his pockets and backed through the
car into the next two Pullmans
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