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The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-02-08
"NOTnINC BUT THE TRUTH"

Presentd by the American Ie-
gion and Ladies' Auxiliary at
the Rex Theater, Tuesday Ev-
ening, February n.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-02-08
WEATHER REPORT

For the week ending February
1872.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-02-08
Call Special Meeting

The motion to endorse the pro-
posal included the calling of spec
ial meeting in order that the plan
might be explained to greater
number of people. The meeting will
be held in the chamber of commerce
rooms Monday night, February 20.
c. b. Hall later explained that
the stock of the company would be
eight per cent cumulative pre-
ferred stock.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-22
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
RooKs. MOONS. BooKs!

Just imagine a world without books.
Take a home, for instance, without
Booksellers is something lacking in
such a home-somethtng that might
transform, beautify and rebuild it.
Imagine an Ignorant mankind and
you have a picture of chaos.
1t is fully as necessary that the
mind be fed as the body. And books
are food to the mind, to stimulate it,
to shape it, to build and make it big
and useful in the largest. degree.
How wonderful wnen you realize
that all you have to do is to step
across your room, ta.se from one of
your book shelves a book-and there
read what was enacted thousands OF
years ago, and-right down thru the
steps of time to the day in which you
live. Also to read of what every kind
of people thought and wrote ages ago
And these books today are SO small
in price that no one mas an excuse
for not owning or reading the best
For there are opened, free to ALI great
public libraries where any one may go
for reading and informarIon.
Every bit of information or knowi
edge you gain at once becomes a part
of the background you daily construct
for broader thinking and greater ap-
probation.
The world is at the feet of him who
reads and thinks-and knows.
The mere reading or n brief his
tory of the world is enough to stimu-
late man sufficiently to change the
entire course of his life.
A college classmate once told me
that his reading of Les Miserables''
by Victor Hugo had placed life be-
fore him in an entirely new way.
A book to me is far more precious
than mere money.
AS the new year looms before you.
why not make a resolution to asso-
ciate more with books? Select a
dozen or so that will give you a va
riety of reading-and go thru each
one carefully. thinking as you read.
Books transform nobodies into
Somebodiesi
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-22
lust FOLKS
rNrs az a MIIIInN DOLLARs.
AZ EDGAR A. GUEST.

LINES On "A MlLLAON OOAAeAR1.
A million dollars would be nice to own,
To earn a million would De glorious
Yet counting up the pleasures I have
Il am Content to fall a little short.
Not for a million, eagerly desired
Would 1 give up the comradeship snow:
The joy OF resting when I'm worn and
tired.
Or playing with the lad who loves me so.
Not for million would I scorn my friends
And bid them wait until I've reached my
1 would nc not be slave to selfish ends
And to the beauty round me blind my
soul.
Some of my time must go to birds and
The few jung roses growing neas my
The children that are climbing to my
For these bring .peace-Of mind if nothing
more.
Not for a million would I spend each day
From dawn to midnight at my dreary
task;
That is too big a price for me to pay,
Too big price for such sum to ask
Rather I'd chose to earn sf>little less,
To miss the money selfishness might
That to give Up for such a cheap success.
The joys enriching every day 1 live
Copyright, 1922, by Edgar A. Guest.)
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-22

THE country is on its way to an
era OF industrial prosperity such as
has never been seen before" is the
opinion of First Assistant Postmaster
General Bartlett In substantiation of
his opinion Mr. Bartlett says: mo
better proof of this can be found than
our postal business. The mails are
running heavier than at any time in
history. Receipts at our poStoffices
from the sale OF stamps are going up
ward. The amount Of parcel post
matter going thru the mails is taxing
the capacity of the entire system. The
postal service is widespread. extend
ing into the most remote corners of
the republic. and feels more readily
than any other business organization
both the blight OF commercial stagna-
ton as we'll as the flourish OF its re-
vival"
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-22
THE FIGHT AGAINST LIQUOR.

What aiIs prohibitions In his mes
sage to congress and in other ways
President Harding has let it be known
that he is grieved and shocked by the
accommodating evidence of the open
violation of the Volstead act in vari-
Gus parts OF the country.
1t is notorious that the Concurrent
power OF the states to enforce the
prohibition amendment along with
congress has not been working eff
-ciently This is the explanation Of
the conference between the president
and several governors at the White
House recently
It is pointed out by the New YoTR
Times that some states do their best
to, execute the law :-others pay little
attention TO its unconcealed evasion:
still Others that have enacted rigid
statutes OF their own confess a la
mentable failure in carrying them out
by TIE police and the sworn officers
Of Che law. That a scandaIous state
of affairs exists in many places is not
denied even by the AEti-SaIoon
league. There can be no dissent from
the presidents view that the contempt
publicly shown forethe prohibition
Jaw is most disheartenins-
Many OF the difficulties in the way
OF enforcement OF the Volstead act
were foreseen. Others which were
unpredfetable have arisen. 1t was
maintained that with rigid eontro!
over the manufacture OF liquor the ex-
isting supplies, even il sold -sIlicitIy
here and there. would soon become
exhausted This expectation has been
frustrated in two ways. one is the
large scale and apparently speeding
manufacture of alcoholic drinks in
private homes The other is the
great and unchecked flood or impOr-
taticns. T6gether~the two sources
seem 90 be furnishing supplies almost
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-22
Dorothy Dix Tails
A Problem in Hearts,.
BY DOROTHT DIE
Wszsars 1lshsss PAia WamaA WsAsas.

A very young girl fell in love with
a man who diden't love her, and who
married another woman.
Ever since the party of the first part
has gone about carefully cultivating
a secret sorrow, and nursing what she
believes to be broken heart. Now a
fine man has really fallen in love
with the bereaved lady, and wants
to marry her, and make her happy
She admires and esteems the man, and
is very fond of him, but she can't
bring herself to marry him because
she doesn't feel towards him just ex-
actly as she did towards her first love.
And she wants to know what to DO.
Anybody with a grain of common
sense in their heads would tell her to
stop acting like goose, and grab the
good thing that is offered her before
it gets away from her.
OF all the idlotic crimes that women
have ever committed, the most abso-
lutely assinine is the cult they have
made of faithfulness. Somehow
woman accounts it unto herself for
righteousness never to get over a sorT
hear women speak with positive rev.
erence of a woman who has wept over
the same old grief for forty years, and
they universally regard one of their
own sex who isn't a good mourner as
light minded creature who is no better
than she should be.
Why this is thus, nobody knows.
Certainly, to put the past behind you,
to forget old sorrows, old mistakes,
old disappointments, and to make the
most of today seems not only the part
of wisdom, but the brave attitude to-
wards life. Few women feel this way
about it, however. The porous plaster
is their ideal of the highest hUman
achievement.
So you see women booming them
selves to lonely spinsterhood because
of some blighted romance of their
youth; and women breaking their
hearts over husbands who have mis-
treated them in every possible way,
and these poor, foolish sisters actually
take credit to themselves for their
adhesiveness, a virtue in which they
are only exceeded by a sticky fly
paper.
A morbid minded lady, like my cor
respondent, will probably say that our
hearts are unruly members, and that
we cannot bid them either to cease
from loving one person, or make them
love anot. er. To a degree this is true,
but there is ore sovereign cure for an
old love that practically never fails.
And. that Is to meet and see the be-
loved one after he, or she, has. been
married a number of years
Other married men / and women
have their fascinations for us, but for
some stRange and inexplainable rea-
son the nan or woman whom we
loved before he, or she, was married,
are SO absolutely stripped of all illu-
sions to US that our one impulse is to
rush home. and get down on our
knees, and thank God that we escaped
getting our early sweethearts.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-22

post package addressed to Laurel had
been quickly opened. There were
shouts of laughter, and then the voices
of Laurel and Muriel drew nearer.
Muriel pushed her classmate into
the dining room and Laurel, blushing
very prettily. looked at Fred.
'-Why didn't you have breakfast
with us2" asked Laurel, looking dis
appointed. Just then the tactful aunt
found excuse to summon Muriel to the
pantry. She was anxious to quiz her
concerning Fred's report of her en-
gagehaent-
Z didn't think you would care
whether 1 did or not" Fred answered,
rising from his untasted breakfast and
walking toward the window.
The candy is lovely" Laurel con-
tinued.
Perhaps ought not to ask you to
you are engaged"
you know very well I'm not en-
gagged" said Laurel with a pout.
II am sorry" continued Fred, t'but
overheard your plans. happen to
know that you are making plans for
your Wedding"
without kPowing who the bride
groom will be-"
Laurel looked teasing1y at Fred "a
bridegroom is very unimportant at a
wedding" she said. Il hadn't had
time to think of him-yet."
Fred was very near to Laurel and
now he dared put two hands on her
shoulders.
''If hes so Spnimportant." he said.
perhaps I'd dO&
And Laurel said he would.
Copyright 1922. by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-22
QuestionS-Answers

q How long have we had travelling
Ibrariesl G. +. NJ.
A. Travelling libraries were known in
England early 1917, while the first
American travelling libraries supported by
public funds were authorized by the New
York state legislature in 1892.
Q. Was the treadmill devised as mode
of punishment? u. s.
A. The treadmill was invented by Sir
William Cubic as n mill to be operated by
man power and was later adopted as Il
means Of punishment and introduced into
the prisons of England about 1870. 1t has
been generally abolished.
Q In the battle of the Alamo were all
the Texans killed. J. H.
A. All the Texans were killed in the
Battle Of the Alamo except the commander,
William Barrett Travis, and four of his
men, who were taken prisoners, only to be
put to death later by order Of Santa Anna.
(Any reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Hnskin. Director, Washington. ID. c. This
offer applies strictly to Information. -he
Bureau tannot give advice on legal medical
and financial matters. 1t does not attempt
TO. settle domestic troubles. nor to under
take exhaustive research on any eubject.
Give full uane and address and enclose two
cents in stamps for return postage. Al
Write vour question plainly and briefly.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-22

unhmit ted-certainly to an extent
never dreamed of by, the trainers of
the prohibition law. The unquestioned
result has been not only a failure to
enforce abe law as it was intended
that it should be enforced. but so Gym
icaI and unblushing a disregard for it
as finally stertled the president into
seeking some form OF. joint action
with the governors Of the states.
Doubtless they will not consider, or
at least will not propose, relief by
modification of the Volstead act The
law, being on the statute book, there
fore, and having been sustained as
constitutional by the supreme court,
must be enforced and obeyed.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-22
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE

This aftirnoon pop sent me erround
to the cigar store for some Queen
Billie cigars, me getting there all rite
but having a site axsident on the way
home, and 7 handed the bag to pop
and he took a cigar out, saying, Hello,
wat the dooce, watts the ideer selling
you a cigar in eny such condition as
this? Watts the matter with that berd =?
he sed?
Meening the man in the cigar store,
and sed, Well, I guess maybe he did
ent notice it, pop.
A blind man awt to of noticed that,
pop sed. The darn things all frayed
on the end. 1t looks like something
awt to be hanging on Crissnas tree,
he sed-
And he looked inside of the bag say
ingy Yee gods, I wont stand for this,
there's not a perfeck cigar in the bag.
that fello must think I'm some kind of
an easy mark or something.
Well. he just put them in the bag
without looking at them, maybe he
was thinking of something elts, I sed:
He'll think of something elts wen
get throo with him, I'm going rite
erround there and raise cane with that
berd- pop sed-
Ne thinking, G, good mite. And I
sed, Well hay, pop, maybe that ice
waggin had som ething to do with it
Are you allooding to that-pin he'd
in the cigar store or is this a. new angle
to the story2 pop sed, and L sed, Yes
sir, 1 mean reel ice waggin. I cawt
hitch on the back step of one on the
way home SO L could get back sooner
with the cigars, and Wen I jumped off
I kind of'nocked the bag agenst the
waggin, sort of.
Wat a sweet little tale. sfppose you
stay in after suppir tonite- for jump
ing on wagons and sippose you go to
pop sed-
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-22

In the view of the Minneapolis
Journal "the problem of the Stacker
voter that has perplexed other coun-
tries appears to be facing this nation"
other countries, faced by the same
problem, have resorted to various
ways OF meeting it, according to sam
uel Spring. writing in Harper's of
The Voter Who viii Not Vote"
Belgium has had compulsory voting
since 1S9.- Absence from the polls is
punished in Belgium by fines and by
posting the names OF negligent voters
spain also publishes the delinquent
voters name, and if the offense' is re-
peated adds two per, cent to his tax
In five cantons IN Switzerland COM
puIsory voting is enforced, and even
this measure gets out only from 90 to
so Per cent of the possible vote. Yet
it may be doubted that these countries
have any better government than
ours. Probably more American citi-
zens would vote if a custom OF giving
the majority what it votes for were
established. Frequently the voters
elect somebody who promises a reduc-
ton in taxes. but do they get. it?
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-22

than the diplomats; and their wisdom
must prevail In all the chancellertes
of earth there is no project SO work
able as that which first came to man
at Christmas
Better Than Politics.
or late many =. clergymen have
shown n marked tendency to ''go
into politics. They seem restive un-
der their purely spiritual mission.
Misled by a few men in conspicuous
place. they have gone in rather en-
ergetically for the enterprise of in
structing the government. Recently
there has been a strangely unin-
formed and illogical driver upon
national officials to declare war
"a gafnst the Turk. There is much to
place seek only to indicate the great
truth that in the hands Of the
preachers of the Gospel is a power
vaster than that of legislatures, par
naments or cabinets. For this very
tragedy which confronts US in the
master word.
His it is, along with all Bible
teachers, to cry aloud just now, so
that all men may hear and under
can get peace only in Gods way:
and that the good will which has of
late been, so conspicuously lacking
in the relations of nations and peo-
pies can be supplied only as the Christ
mas gift of the Father of us all.
world needs-and it is the clear task
of Christians to say SO, urgently, as
befits the present emergency.
Then we may learn that while the
Christmas Land holds today the great
est possibilities, of world discord, it
also holds the only program of peace
that has been left untried.
Copyright, 1922, by the Ellis Service.)
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-22

Senator La Toilette has-enlisted all
the discontented ana radical ele-
NESTS in the country in his following
with the purpose Of upsetting the or
derry process of American business.
Radicalism of the La Toilette type
never cleared a farm Of rocks or
stumps. ne"er planned or constructed
a railroad, never launched a merchant
fleet. never opened or operated mines
Tor the production of useful metals.
never developed latent water power,
never created a new industry, never
provided employment for labor.
never successfully operated n factory,
never established a dependable bank
ing system, never built city OF add
ed TO its beauty. never endowed a
great university
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-22
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1t should be noted that the advo-
Gates of a tax on securities are mainly
persons who already are in possession
of large holdings of the exempt kind,
which of course could not now be
taxed. The tax which they advocate
is designed to enhance the value of
their holdings They are loaded up
and probably do not desire to make
further investments in bonds.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-22
HEART and HOME PROBLEMS
Written foa-The State Journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a girl s
years of age. Would it be proper to
write to a boy friend2 He went away
and before he left he asked me to
write to him. PINkY-
Yes, IL would be all right for you
to write the first letter under the cir
cumstanceS.
E. T. A: Do not go with the young
man any more Since he diSregards
his promises TO you and keeps on
drinking. you may be sure that re-
lationship with him wiz only bring you
continued unhappiness- At the age of
sixteen you are foolish to think you
can't forget him.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-22

\ dispatch from Rome announces
that the Fascist have decided to raise
"A fund of approximately $3.50. 100000
by popular subscription thruout Italy
10 cover this years deficit in the na--
tionAI budget 1t is hoped thus to re-
turn to >solvency. and so to prosperity
and strength. Assuredly this is "a
new way to pay old debts"
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-22

Tariffs are not onny passed on to
the consumer. but they are passed on
with intercst--Grand Rapids News
Quite right, And that is exactly
the ground of complaint on the part
OF those who do the paying.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-10-28
who can think; but thousands can
think, for one who can see. To see
clearly is poetry, prophecy, and re-
Hglon; all in one.-John Ruskin.
Kansas Rep. Convention
Endorses Dyer Bill
Twelfth Such Endorsement, Besides
Il Three From Democrats

4 The twelfth Republican state con-
vention has put into it's platform a
plank endorsing the Dyer anti-lynch-
ing bill, according to announcement
today by the National Association
ter the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie, 70 Fifth avenue, New York,
This latest endorsement comes from
Kansas and is due to the efforts of
JAS. H. Guy, member of the Exec
utive Committee of the Topeka
Branch, N. A. "A. C.. p. " 81
. The states in which Republican
conventions have endorsed the Dyer
bill are: Colorado, Indiana, Ohio
West Virginia, New Jersey, New
YORK, Massachusetts,, Rhode Island
Kansas. In three Of these states
New Jersey, New York and Massa.
chusetts - Democratic conventions
have also endorsed the Dyer bill.
The text Of the Kansas state Re
publican plank on the Dyer bill is
as follows:
!. 1--WE commend the Kansas delega-
ton in the national congress for I'M
divided and untiring efforts in sup
port Of the Dyer anti-lynching bill
and recommend a continuation of
their efforts for its enactment into
law" @.:.' B. ).
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-10-28
C0LORED VOTERS
OPPOSE REP. 0PP0-
NENT OF DYER Bill

Delaware's sole congressman, C. R.
Layton, Republican,, is threatened
with defeat by colored voters be-
cause he opposed and voted against
The Dyer anti-lynching bill in the
House of representatives, according
TO announcement today by the Ma
tlonal Association for the Advance
ment ct Colored People, 70 9Th ave-
nue., New York. Colored votes may
go instead to the Democratic nomi-
nee, former Judge William H. Boyce
Of Dover. "s.:s
At mass meeting held in Will
mington, Del, on Sunday, October
Is, James Weldon Johnson, Secretary
Of the N. A. A. C. P, said: -,
"DelaWare's representation in con-
gress voted one hundred per cen,
against the Dyer anti-lynching bill
when it was in the lower House, and
therefore, the colored voters of Del
aware ought to vote one hundred pei
cent against that representation
You have the political power, the
vote, and you ought to use it for
your highest and best good. q IF there
ever was an opportunity for colored
voters to show that they fully ap-
preciate the power which they have
in their hands, it is the opportunity
which the colored citizens Of Della
ware now have You should do your
utmost to defeat Congressman Lay
ton. The issue upon which you stand
is not one of petty politics, but a
fundamental issue involving life
common safety and the good name
OF America. If you defeat Layton
you will show that you deserve the
ballot and that you have manhood
and common sense enoug h to use it.
Furthermore, you will achieve your
political emancipation in the state OF
Delaware" =: = :
The Wilmington mass meeting was
held under the joint auspices Of the
Anti-Lynching Crusaders, the indie
pendent Citizens League, and The
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
Walter F. White, Assistant Secre-
tary of the N. A. A. C. P, is to speak
on the same subject in Wilmington
at mass meeting planned for Sun
day, October 20. ~ -