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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30
THE RUSSIAN ExANIPLE.

Until they had witnessed an actual
demonstration of the fact, probably
nobody in the world would have be-
lieved that a population of $50, 900, 900
could have been held subservient TO
the will of a handful of thieves. muir
derers and cutthroats for five years.
Yet that is what has happened in
Russia.
The department of commerce has
collected some statistics concerning
Russian foreign TRADE. which, tho
Briefly, from 1918 to 1920, inclusive,
and tIlree-quarters of 1921, Russia
imported $4,000 tons of commodities
and exported $4,000 tons. About IS
per cent OF the imports are accounted
for during the first three-quarters of
1921, as well as 20 per cent of the ex-
ports. The-imports consist almost
wholly of foodstuffs and the 1921 fig
ures have been swollen by RELIEF pro-
visions.
No doubt these figures are only ap-
proximate. The Bolsheviks have been
too busy counting corpses to waste
much time on so sordid a matter as
foreign trade statistics. But scant as
the statistics. they show what applied
socialism will do in a country which
in its possession of natural resources
and capacity for agricultural produc-
ton is perhaps unsurpassed by any
country in the world. Such exports
as have found their way into the ar
teries of world trade have been pre-
duced with little profit and at great
risk
Today millions of Russians are
starving to death in a land which, II
labor and agriculture could reap their
Just rewards, would spout plenty
Dismantled mills, lands run to weeds
a naked. sodden. sickly. hungry, bru-
talized peasantry. filthy streets, a ma
ton of disease and misery-snch are
the rewards of that system OF govern.
ment which declares, BY the sweat
OF thy brow shalt thy tyrants eat. Il
is a terrible lesson, and the people:
Of more enlightened lands should fee
thankful that they were not called
upon to supply the example which
condemns socialism for all time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30

But, Clare, please stop throwing
yourself so openly at his head. Re-
member, the name is mine same as
yours"
That's the way you spoil every
thing" Glare shot back thru angry
tears, running away. But she clutched
James check eagerly an hour later,
and drove away smiling in FOOLS
paradise to select that which she felt
sure would c1inch her victory.
As they went out of sight Major An
stey said bowling over grandma s hand:
Madam, may I speak TO you of-a
private matter? Outside? had
rather not be overheard
Fiuttered, yet beaming grandma
went outside. She beamed still more
when she understood that the private
matter was the asking of her grand
daughters hand in marriage for his
nephew, Edward Fofsythe. A good
boy in spite of the froth on top. said
the major-a wife of the right sort
would be not merely his making. but
his salvation. Hadn't courage to
speak for himself unless the ice was
broken bit; said he had never been
the least afraid ora girl until he saw
Miss Jane
There grandma tainted opportnnely.
Jane came rushing 10 help her, so the
major had q chance to explain. What
she said in answer is immaterial in
view of the fact that she has been for
several years past Mrs. Edward For
sythe Anstey. yet is stili as plain as an
old shoe.
! Copyright. 1922, by the Mcclure
| Newspap per Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LER rAPM

Pop.
My father is a ordnerry size of man
And not eXter wide or tall,
But you awt to see how quick I start
The minnit 1 heer him call.
He likes to smoak with his slippers on
And think in his morris chair,
And then if you stand rite behind him
You can see ware he has the leest hair.
8
He is married to my mother
And has bin for meny yeers.
And wen he puts his hat on
His bald spot disappears.
Each morning he goes to the office
And each evening he promptly reterns,
o he hates corn beef and cahbidge
But for stake under onions he yearns.
8
Wen ma asks him to go out on Sundey
Ie~makes a face as If 1t bert,
And there's nuthing that he hates to
find
Verse than buttins off his shert.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30

Within year and half the treas
ury will be called upon to retire about
$500, 600, 600 of the public debt. The
sum is made up of victory notes
amounting to $s.50OOOO.O 900. treasury
certificates totaling s2,2OO,O99.O 200,
and 800. 600 900 of war savings GER
tificates. It will be the biggest 0per-
alton ever undertaken in time of
peace. but already it is said plans are
being worked out by treasury Off
Gals that will bring the least posi-
BILE disturbance to the country's
finances. Victory notes are being re-
tired as fast as the sinking fund viii
permit, and new issues of treasury
certificates will spread some of the
maturities over a longer period. The
fact that the victory notes, altho they
bear but ~ per cent interest and will
mature in about a year, are selling
above par is one of the anomalies of
the financial situation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30
Dorothy Dix Tails
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worla's Highest Paid Woman wrsteR.
Lest We Forget.


The real trouble with matrimony is
that most husbands and wives are alb
sent minded about it.
They forget to be good husbands
and wives.
Not one man in a million takes a
girl away from a good home and her
Toying family with the deliberate pur-
pose of neglecting her, and making
her life drab and dull. On the con-
trary, his intentions are honorable
and when he swears at the altar to
love and cherish her, he means every
word of it, and he fully expects to do
all in his power to make her the hap
piest woman in the world.
But when the honeymoon ends he
gets absorbed in business He has q
thousand cares and anxieties pressing
on him. He is often overworked. and
nerve-racked, and his time is so taken
up with a multitude of other duties
and interests that he forgets all about
being a good husband.
At the bottom of his heart he knows
that women are foolish creatures
about the men they love. He knows
compliment, telling her that she looks
good to him, or that her new dress is
becoming, will make his wife's face
light up with rapture, and put a song
on her lips. He knows that she is as
grateful for little appreciation of
nat GIG 0OCO IO1 INN DIS d starved
dog is for bone thrown to it by a
careless hand.
He knows that she is almost hysteri-
cally joyful over a box of candy or a
bunch of flowers. He knows the fet-
ish women make of anniversaries. and
that they are ready to overlook any
other shortcoming in a husband if he
will only remember their birthdays,
and the anniversaries of the time they
first met and their wedding day.
He knows that a worlaa MS bea TT
starves to death without love and
sentiment just as surely as her body
would starve to death without food.
Yet the man does not take the
trouble to say the word of praise to
his wife. He never notices what she
has on. or what she does, unless it
is to knock at. He acts as if the mar
rage ceremony extracted every sweet
tooth in her mouth. She has to re-
mind him every year that Christmas
comes on the twenty-ftfth day Of De-
cember and when it does roll around
he thrusts some money into her hand,
and tells her to get something that
will be a surprise gift for her from
him. that he doesn't know what she
wants.
He is just about as romantic and
tender, and lover-like, as the washing
machine or the kitchen range, and he
wonders why his wife is SO peevish
and dissa tisfied.
And he never dreams that he is
| making his wife miserable simply be-
cause he has forgotten to be a good
husband to her. F8F
In fact, every man who isn't leading
the double life. and who does not beat
his wife, is perfectly convinced that he
is a model husband. and that his wife
ought to spend most of her time on
her knees thanking God for him. He
simply can't understand a woman's
not being satisfied with man who
| provides her with a roof over a head
and three square meals a day, who
pays her dressmaking bills with only
/ a reasonable amount of grumbiing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30
Qt1estions-Answers

Q. What rating does 20" stand for in
examinations for postal positions? NJ. C.
A. The Civil Service Commission says
30" in Civil Service examinations stands
for zero.
Q. Why do wills use both the words
devise and bequeath? L. r.:
A. In modern usuage a discrimination
has been made between the two words, and
devise is used for the conveying of real
property and bequeath for the conveyance
o, What city is the largest cotton
port in nj the world T. W "
merciaIIy as the greatest cotton port in the
world.
q. when were the words ammo Doniini'
a The expression I'm the Year of Our
Lord" (Anno DominD was first used by
Charles III of Germany in the year 80: 1t
has reference to the Christian Era which
was invented by DioHysius Exiguus in
o. Who was the first white man to enter
A. Probably Escalente de Fontenada, a
Spaniard who was shipwrecked in the
Straits of Florida and taken prisoner by
Carlos, the powerful cacique of the Ever
q. What causes ocean currentse ]. c.
A The concensus of enlightened opinion
is to the effect that there are two indie
pendent calculations involved in the cur
has its source in the energy supplied by
the wind; the other, the vertical. is sus-
tanned by differences in temperature.
(Any reader can get the answer 10 any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin. Director, Washington. D. c. This This
Bureau cannot give advice on legal med
tcal and financial matters. It does cot at
tempt TO settle domestic trouhles. nor to
undertake exhaustive research on anv sub
jeets Write your question plair'y and
briefly GiFe full name and address and
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postage al replies are aent direct TO ths
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30

children, it was a large photograph,
but Mrs Hinkson says that ism ( u
turkey by any manner of means.
The Pleasant Valley boys have run
Semper McGrew out of the neighbor-
hood, and he is living indeterminatess
in a boarding house in Grigsby CITY
The story is that Semper appeared az
a social atethe Pleasant Valley Church
wearing a derby hat. Pleasant Valley
won't stand for that kind of hat and
everybody started to chase Semper.
thus breaking up an enjoyable social
function. Semper says hereafter he is
going to live where proper sartoriai
investiture is appreciated All the
Pleasant Valley boys say is that he
can't come back to that neighborhood
Chef Sample still is talking about
adding a saSophone to his orchestra,
but the people hope it will go no fur
Their
Margot Asquith's book is having
quite a run in Shaw. Nearly every
body in town has read it, and the
women are crazy over it. The peo-
pie of this town are broadminded and
liberal in their attitudes. So long as
a woman doesn't live in Shaw she can
do anything she likes.
Harley Sample and his wife. who
have been married sixteen years. still
talk to each other.
Avis Mcknight, who for more than
a year has been begging the boys at
the Good Luck Garage to do it. has
finally got his car creased. Avis hopes
he win be able to persuade somebody
, to pour some alcohol in the radiator
before another winter sets in.
John Stoneking says we live and
learn. Mr. Stoneking. who was mar
ried to Miss Mabel Schumtsch last
/ fall, was downtown alone for the first
time last Thursday night and sat in
the poker game behind the prescrip
ton case in Bragg's drug store for
couple of hours. He told Mabel all
about it when he got home, and she
didn't object in the least until he hap
pened casually to mention that he had
dropped sS.5O. Then she went crazy.
Everybody is giving John advice.
and some of it is good. Art Beeze,
who has been married twenty-three
years says as far as his wife knows
anything about 1t. he is the best poker
player in tho world.
There is some talk of running Henry
Myers for mayor next spring, but, so
Tar as we have been able to ascertain.
1t was all started by Henry.
Seth Bradley who stopped his sub
scrlpuon to the Star and Argus last
spring because we wouldn't fire the
reporter who writes the Buncom Cen
ter items, was in last Friday to again
enroll his name. He also sent the
paper to his cousin in Wisconsin and
to his former minister, who now lives
in Pennsylvania, paving cash I'm adj
vance for all three subscriptions.
TaVis McPeague has worn out five
: Henry cars and is talking of buying
+ another. Travis is said to be the
! hardest man on motor car in this
; town. Let the good work go on, say
/. We
There is some talk of a home
talent show, and lille many fear the
; worst, everybody is hoping for the
best.
Horace Peyton and Eben White look
so much alike that Horace's dog fol
lowed Eben home one night last week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30

Within the past few months there
has been a spontaneous and nation
wide demand for a reduction in
freight rates upon the products of the
soil and for the other fundamental
requirements of the public, including
lumber and wood products. Lumber
men declare that the chief element IN
the cost Of building materials is
freight In many places builders de-
clare that freight rates have. enhanced
v'stsrial costs to prohibitive levels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30
JUST FOLKS

BIZ EDGAR a. GUEST.

T NE hINDLL NLIUhBVh.
have a kindly neighbor. one who stands
Beside my gate aud chats with me awhile
Give me the glory of his radiant smile
And comes at times to help with willing
hands
No station high or rank this man com
maDds,
He, too. must trudge, as I, the long
days mile;
And yet. devoid of pemp or gaudy style.
He has q worth exceeding stock or lands
To him 1 60 when sorrows at my door,
On him | lean when burdens come my
way.
And there is warmth in each goodnight
say.
A kindly neighbor,. Wars and strife shall
end
when man has made the man next door
his friend.
(Copyright, 1922. by Edgar A Guest.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30

A bulletin issued by the United
States bureau of education announces
that courses for home reading free
of charge are being GENT out and re-
marks that this is the time to get
back to the evening lamp. In Mis-
souri, there is a "Stay-at-Home" cam
paign being carried on. why not
stay at home and gather around the
evening lamp again." inquiries the
bulletin. There is little probability
that a stay-at-home campaign viii
make much progress while motor cars
can be bought on credit and gasoline
remains at the existing price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30
A prominent Uruguayan has written

A prominent Uruguayan has written
a book on the war in which he has the
following to say on his country's atti-
tude toward the Monroe doctrine:
South Americas policy toward Flu
rope must be that of the United
States. We must not forget that the
Monroe doctrine, proclaimed upon the
threshold of our independence, was
the only measure which saved us from
becoming European colonies. With
out the United States. the South
American republics could not exist"
II this be the attitude OF Uruguay as
a nation, it becomes apparent that she
does not owe us any money. About
the only enemies or even critics that
Uncle Sam has are those that are in
debt to him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30

Opponents OF the League OF Ma
tions now urge that the organization
serves no good purpose, and has ac-
complished nothing in the way of ad
justing international disputes. Yet
when the Versailles treaty was before
the senate, it was charged that the
league would constitute power dan
gerous to the peace of the world and
would involve the United States in all
sorts Of trouble il this country Joined
it. How that league has changed!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30

W. J. Burns, head Of the secret
service, it is reported, completed his
investigation of the difference be-
tween wholesale and retail prices in
less than two weeks, and at relatively
little cost. Now that the work has
been finished what is to be done about
his report?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30
Dinner Stories

The politician rushed past the Of
fetal Cerebus into the editorial sane
tum.
"What do YOU mean by insulting
me as YOU did in last nights Clamor7"
lust q minute" replied the editor.
Didn't the story appear as you gave
it to us-namely, that you had re-
signed as city treasurer?"
ut did" admitted the politician
But you put in under the head, Pub
lie improvements"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30

1t is reported that American capt.
talists are making large investments
in industries abroad, particularly in
Germany. Apparently they are plan
ming to take advantage of that cheap
European labor that we hear so much
about. This movement on the part of
American captains OF industry may
account for a lack of insfstence on a
protective tariff that has appeared
recently
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30
rHE TARIFF on HIDEs.

THE TARIFF ON HIDES.
Miss Alice Robertson. congresswo-
man from Oklahoma, appears to be
out of accord with her Republican
colleagues from the agricultural states
on the matter of tariff on hides. In
a recent interview she said:
Eyes, firmly believe in free hides.
We are obliged to import 40 per cent
of our hides, and if a duty must be
paid. it win surely add to the cost of
the leather, which will eventually be
product-the shoe. am thinking es-
pecially of the poor people of the ma
ton. When the agricultural bloc
made its big fight in the house against
free hides, I voted for free hides. be-
cause I believe that free hides mean
cheaper shoes for the farmers chill
dren Of the country. They cannot af-
any more. at least, than at the present
time"
The one and only obstacle to the
free hide schedule. it is reported, is
the agricultural bloc, which told the
committee of shoe and leather men
that there would be a tariff on
hides and this declaration. it is said,
came after an implied acknowledge
ment that "even if the farmer did not
benefit directly or indirectly as long
as he thought he did, the tariff would
go on"
If, therefore. the farm bloc insist
on a tariff on hides it probably will
stand. The bloc in both houses has
grown steadily in strength and in
fluence frem the date of its organiza-
ton.
There now are twenty-five senators
from the south and west who are ex-
pected to stand for agricultural legis-
lation regardless of party lines. SEN
ator Kenyon of Iowa, Republican, is
regarded as the leader in the senate.
The other members are Smith of
North Carolina, Democrat; Capper Of
Kansas, Republican; Norris of Ne
braska; Caraway of Arkansas: Good
ing OF South Dakota; Ladd of North
Dakota; Harold of Oklahoma; Bur
sam of New Mexico; Fletcher OF
Florida; La Toilette of Wisconsin,;
McNary Of Oregon; Harris of Geor-
gia; Kendrick of wyoming; Harrison
of mississippi; Spencer of Missouri;
Helm of Alabama; Stanfield of Ore
gon; Norbeck of South Dakota; Shep-
pard of Texas; Jones of Washington,
and Watson of Georgia.
The list of the agricultural bloc in
the house as issued by the farm bu-
reau consists of Nelson of Wisconsin;
Clague &c Minnesota; Strong of Kan
sas; Sinclair of North Dakota; Shae
of Illinois; SteagalI of Georgia; Hoch
of Kansas; Gernerd of Pennsylvania;
Summers of Washington: Smithwick
of Florida; Swing of California; Dick
inson of Iowa; Hudspeth of Texas;
Evans of Nebraska; Elliott of In
diana; Clark of New York; Taylor of
Arkansas; Swank of Oklahoma; Tay-
lor of Colorado; Bartmess of North
Dakota; Williamson of South Dakota;
Brooks of Illinois; Rhodes of Mis-
souri,; Landlord of Georgia; French
of Idaho; Christopherson of South
Dakota: Ketcham of Michigan; Pat
terson of Missouri; Lazaro of Louis
lana, and Faust of Missouri.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30

But despite the handicap a large
amount of building is in progress.
People must have shelter, whatever
the cost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30

The vote of striking meat cutters to
continue their strike may have been
due to the fact that no jobs were
waiting for them. The packers insist
that they are running on regular
schedule without the services of the
men who are out.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-02-23
HOW LIGHT AND SHADOW ROCK
THE MOVIE BOAT.

Some new wrinkles in stage me-
chanics were worked out in the Laslzy
studio at Hollywood during the filming
of George H. Melford's new Paramount
production of Moran of the Lady Let
ty," featuring Dorothy Dalton and Ru-
dolph Valentino.
After the exterior scenes aboard a
schooner had been made at sea off San
Francisco, the company returned to the
studio to make cabin interiors. The
cabin was erected on the lot on rockers,
so that the supposed ship could be
made to roll" in the seas by the ac-
ton of several husky extras on rocks
ing beam.
To get the proper effect of rolling
ship with the camera clever handling
of shadows was used. Light was thrown
from a stationary spotlight down one
of the ships ventilators. Reflected on
the cabin floor, this light and its al
ternate shadow on the deck produced
a better illusion of rocking ship than
can be secured by ordinary means, in
the opinion of Director Melford.