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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19
TAXPAYERS REBEL.

The formation of numerous tax
clubs in Kansas indicates that the
people are planning to call halt on
provements. No better way to pre-
vent investment in tax-free securities
can be found than to stop issuing
them, but no relief can come from
continuing the issuance of bonds even.
tho they be made taxable. In either
event the borrower continues to pay.
The movement in the direction of
tax reduction is not confined to Kan
sas. Five hundred taxpayers of
Storey county, Iowa, held a mass
meeting a few days ago to protest
against local high taxes. They were
farmers, and business men who de-
pend upon farmers for trade, and they
agreed unanimously that public ex-
penses and taxes must be lowered to
meet the decline in prices of farm
products. Similar mass meetings have
been held in nearly a score OF other
Iowa counties.
In many of these meetings concrete
proposals for the lowering of public
expenditures were recommended by
curtailment of salaries of public Off
Gals and school teachers and the re-
duction of the expense of road build
ing by at least rs per cent.
The boards of supervisors of seven
northeast Iowa counties held con-
vention at Dubuque a few days ago
and agreed to reduce prices paid for
road work to nearly SO per cent less
than the peak prices paid during war
time, and to make many other impor-
tant reductions IN expenses.
In Montana a state convention has
been called to devise methods for re-
ducing public expenses, and other
western states are expected to follow
suit.
Several OF the conventions went on
record as opposed to the issuance of
any more bonds by their states or
counties, and it was the general senti-
ment that all bond issues in the future
shall be passed upon directly by the
voters.
The fact that over a billion dollars
in state and municipal bonds were is
sued in 1921, bearing an interest
charge OF approximately $4,000. 900
year, which must be met by taxa
ton, was a potent factor in inducing
action by the meetings, and several of
| them took initial steps, by resolution.
to require legislative candidates to
] nledee rose1vas 10 r,o4a Fa, ya---
prohibiting further bond issues unless
authorized by direct vote Of the peo-
pie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19
'Questions-Anstoer

Q. What and where are the Seven Seas
mentioned in literature? c. l.. ~ i
A. The Seven Seas include the North
and South Atlantic, the North and South
Pacific, the Indian, Arctic and Antarctic
Oceans.
@. Is water mineral2 L. w. X.
A. Water is a chemical compound Of
hydrogen and oxygen and since a mineral
is substance of definite chemical compost
ton, water would be considered mineral
Q. Does Japan have motion picture the
aters? Il. p A.
Z A. In Japan there are COO theaters giving
Irregular motion picture performances. and
1000 more which give occasional shOwings.
One company owns or controls about $50
of the coo and also operates two studios
with a force of 100 actors and 30 Gamer
ameo.
O.. What ruler said Il am the state
A. Louis XIV is accredited with the re-
mark "L'etat c'est moi. He was probably
not the first nor the only ruler who gave
expression to such a sentiment.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19

from. the boy, blushing furiously as
he caught sight OF himself in the
mantel-mirror: 81 know I better go
home" He ran on. But if I can
keep at this till round o'clock I think
1 can make the rifle"
mot a doubt of iti'' quoth Losing.
sIapping him on the back. May Bios
SONS cooking ought to make a wooden
Indian dance"
Maybe it did. At any rate before
shutdown the boy went joyously away,
saying naively as he shook hands all
round: It'll be here bright and early
tomorrow, but you won't get rid of
me before dinner time" AS Hero's
eyes followed his car away she sank
down crying: AT last my name is
justified. Fetch on your medals and
things. After this I'm entitled to all
there are-and then some"
Three P's-patience, practice, per-
severance-most commonly spell sue
cess They did for the boy Next
noon he danced without counting He
passed to Losing for Hero ten twenty
dollar gold pieces, smiling like a
cherub. incidentally next week ne
proposed to May Blossom. They were
married New Years and the boy ac-
tually danced with Hero, to the scan
dal and delight of his happy parents.
copyright, 1922. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
LESSER LIGHTS.

From THE Merchant of Venice
Act Fifth, 1 take this dialog between
Portia and Nerissa:
PORTIA-
That light we see is burning in my hall
How far that little candlethrows his beams !!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
NERISSA-
When the moon shone, we did not see the
candle.
PORTlA-
So doth the greater glory dim the less.
substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by; and then his state
EmptieS itself, doth an island brook
Into the main OF waters.
That which makes this place in
which we live real world, is it's lesser
lights. We would tire OF a heavenly
sky with but a single moon enjeweled
within it.
If every man and woman in a town
were famous and distinguished, there
would be no one to point any of them
out to the visitors.
When you can but press button
and have electric lights flood their
rays to every corner of your home. a
candle in comparison seems worthless
and out of place. But let the electric
wires get out of order, a fuse be burnt
out, and your little candle takes its
place in honor and serves well.
Everyday folks will always be in the
happy majority And thank God for
that, for He meant it that way
The lesser lights of life are far the
most interesting-for more people can
understand and appreciate them.
And no matter how high any may
some time get in station. there Will
always remain but one medium OF ex-
change between us and heaven, and
that will be the lesser complon
people, the simple things in Nature
the dumb, but understanding animals,
the stars, the ground feeling under
meath our footsteps.
Never feel unhappy over being a
lesser light. By smiling and render
ing a worthy deed, you become a
GREATER light a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19
HEART AND HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: am a girl
nineteen years old and am very I'M
happy. I am engaged to a young
man of twenty-one who is good-look-
ing and of whom I think the world.
He is the only boy 1 ever cared for
and the only one who can make me
happy.
My parents say that I am too young
to marry. Do you think I am? 1
know that if L lose this one that
will never love another. He says that
I am the only one he ever loved and
he will never love another.
Mother says that if We marry now
we will lave to live with his people.
He says we will not. know that we
will be happy If we marry now. Do
you think I should listen to my par
ents always and not listen to this
man? ANXIOUSLY WAITING.
You are of age and old enough to
make your own decision. If the young
man has enough money saved so that
you can start housekeeping by your
selves, I do not believe you would
make mistake by marrying. Youth
full marriage usually fail because the
man cannot provide his wife with the
bare necessities of life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19
JUST FOLKS
81 EDGAR a. GUEsT.


LET'S GO.
There isn't any business" walled the
sad and gloomy man,
Il haven't made dollar since the armi-
stice began
But I couldn't help rejecting, as 1 heard
his story thru.
That the hopeful, cheerful hustler seems
to have a lot to do.
I've been in business places where the
air was thick with gloom
And the men were sad and solemn like
the mOurners at q tomb.
And there wasn't any business or an
der coming in
And, what's more. there never viii be till
thosesfellows start to grin.
There isn't any business''-arent you
weary of the cFyz
Men have caught the gloomy habit and
they sit around and sigh.
But the hustler, / have noticed, who has
quit his easy char
And is confidently working, seems to
gather in his share.
It is time to get to business. it is time to
hustle out
With a mans faith IN the future-much
too long we've scattered doubt
Much too long we've sobbed and Whim-
pered, much too long we've talked Of
voc.
Now i:'s time for optimism and the hopeful
Copyright 1922, BY Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19

The Chinese are said to be the most
honest race in the world. This is at
tributed to a custom they had. in
China for centuries of taking off a
mans head when he stole as much as
S25 worth of property. But we would
hardly be willing to pay such a price
for honesty in this country. Besides
the reason given for Chinese honesty
probably is not the true one. The
principles of a people are based on a
foundation broader and firmer than a
fear Of punishment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19
PRICES SLOW TO FALL.

What is declared to be the latest
comprehensive information on changes
in the cost of living in the United
sentative communities all over the
country, has been made public in a re-
port issued by the national industrial
conference board. This report is the
eleventh in the boards studies of the
cost of living, and is based upon ma
terial gathered from a large number
of representative retail dealers in
clothing furnishings. and fuel, AMI
from authorities representing a wide
variety of interests in many sections
Of the country in connection with
rents and carfares.
The total increase in the cost of liv-
ing from the beginning of the war to
November. 1921, the investigation
shows. was 6S per cent. The rise in
cost of the major items in the wage
earner's family budget during this
period is estimated to have been as
follows: Food, So per cent; shelter,
GO per cent; clothing, 81 per cent; fuel
and light, 70 per cent; sundries, IS
per cent.
The report shows that the peak of
the cost of living in the United States
was reached in July. 1920. Since
then, the total cost of living has de-
creased EOS per cent. Food has de-
creased 81 per cent; clothing, SO per
cent; and sundries, 4 per cent; while
shelter has INCREASED Z per cent, ana
fuel and light, per cent.
The change in the cost of living be-
tween July, 1921, and November,
1921, the report shows, was almost
negligible, averaging only O.06 per
cent. During these four months the
cost of shelter and fuel and light
showed no change, while the cost Of
clothing decreased per cent. and
tat of sundries, 4'per cent. The only
item in the age-earner's budget
which, since last summer, has shown
a tendency to increase, is that of food,
the cost of which has gone up per
cent since July, 1921.
No explanation of the increase in
the price of food is offered. 1t is
generally known that prices of nearly
all farm products declined in the pc
riod mentioned. Since November
these declines have continued and
have included butter and eggs. APP
parently these declines have not been
fully reflected in retail prices.
The increase in building all over the
country with the reduced cost of ma
terial entering into construction has
had no perceptible effect on rents. It
will be seen, therefore, that many
things entering into the family budget
still are held at wartime prices. No
table among those not previously
mentioned are laundry and restau-
rant prices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19

The business interests Of the coun-
try are reported to be disturbed over
the resolve to enact the soldiers bo-
nus legislation. 1t comes as a distinct
disappointment, says the Wollman
Review, that the president has yield
ed to the bonus advocates and agreed
TO the inclusion of the measure in the
legislation program. The point is
made that this is not a reversal of
y w, and that the presidents former
opposition was more in the nature of
Considering the time inopportune than
to a feeling that the bonus plan was
unsouHd in principle. 1t is doubtful if
conditions have improved to a degree
that would make the granting of a
bonus to ex-soldiers any more advis-
able at this time or at any time in the
near future than last summer when
objections were raised to taking up
this legislation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19

lars. Fifty thousand dollars, to Con-
stantinopIe, is the largest sum sent by
the committee to one place during the
two years of its work. Poland has re-
eeived the next largest, $35, 700. Be-
sides $50 cases of clothes, tools and
tributed by the committee has been
around 100000. Yet relief workers
find that an American dollar can be
stretched surprisingly in countries
where the currency has deprecated in
value.
Princess Cantacuzene explains that
her work is urgent because no other
organization is especially concerned
with the scattered and needy Rus
slams. There is no duplication of
work in this field. The recent don
gressional appropriation of 100000
600 for Russian relief was limited to
Russian territory. Since the bill ex-
pressly authorizes the money to be
used for those in Russia, none of it
left the the country.
One fact which this committee
points out is of interest to Americans
who have been besieged so often by
relief organizations. That is, every
cent of the money that is being do
mated goes to some Russian family
There is no deduction for upkeep of
headquarters, as this overhead is paid
by members of the board of directors
of the committee
The new headquarters of the COM
mittee is in an ola building across
the street from the war department.
General Grant had his headquarters
here during the Civil war, and the bay
window where Princess CantacuZene
now works every day was Grant S
favorite corner when he was the sec
rotary OF war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19
Dorothy Dix Tails
The Dominant Personality-s
III DOROTHY DIX
worsa's Highest Paid Weman wrstzR.

In6 DOIn1f1anB IeESOI1antN-@.
1t is a tragic and pitiful spectacle
to watch an inferior woman drag
down a big man. but we have all seen
1t done a thousand times. We have
seen an ambitious and gifted man who
married a clod of woman lose pep,
and energy, and slow down in his
speed. We have seen brilliant and
scintiIlating men grow as dull as the
stupid women they are married to. We
have seen generous men married to
mean, little women, develop into small
souled tightwads themselves Indeed,
if a man continues to be after mar
riaee what he was before marriage,
it is because he has married in his own
class.
The wife's influence dominates all
of a mans social relations. 1t is even
strong enough to separate him from
the mother who bore him, for if his
wife does not like his mother, she
makes it so unpleasant for him to see
her that he follows the line of least
resistance, and is alienated from her.
It is almost invariably the wife's fam
lily who fill up a mans home, and it
is her friends who are perpetually
about Practically every woman re-
CARDS with suspicion everybody her
husband knew before he married her,
anG she makes them feel that they
have scant welcome in her home
The reverse of this is also true, and
a woman's influence for good over her
husband is as potent as it is for evil.
Women build up, as we'll as pull down.
We have all seen ambitious women
push commonplace men, with no mi
tiatlve of their own, into success. We
have seen clever women polish rough
diamonds into gems. We have seen
women turn Doors into elegant men of
the world. We have seen cultivated
women educate illiterate men. We
have seen women broaden, gentle, and
humanize, narrow, hard. cold men.
And we have wondered why women
influence men so much more than men
influence women. Perhaps the reason
is that women. as a rule. are too vain
ever to accept criticism in the right
spirit, no matter how kindly it is
meant. or how helpful it might be.
Especially does a woman resent criti-
cism from her husband, because her
egotism demands that he shall think
her perfect. 1t is intolerable for her
to realize that he desires to improve
her. Likewise, the average woman is
indolent and lazy. She does not want
to make the exertion of sloughing off
| her old skin and putting on a new. So
she sticks to her old ways, her OLD
ideals, and the old friends who
| thought her good enough as she was
Perhaps women influence men more
| than men do women because a man
| exhausts his energy on his days work.
and has none left to expend on i'm
| proving his wife. He'd rather be the
clay, than the potter, If he has to fight
for the potter job.
But nobody knows why the wife
| influences the husband more than the
husband influences the wife. She just
does
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19

Profits from liquor sales in the
province of Quebec will pay off the
public debt in twenty years, maintain
roads and. provide funds for educa-
ton, according to a report prepared
by Premier Tasehereau for submits
sion to the legislature in its present
session. Much of this sort of talk was
heard in this country a few years ago.
It was put forward by opponents of
prohibitions But it is doubtful that
any city, county, state or nation ever
actually made profit out of the liq-
uor business. Always it has been the
dealers that have made the profit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By HEB PAPE

Pop came home today acting as If
he dident feel very cordial, and he ate
his suppir as if he still telt the same
way, and after suppir he went up in
the setting room and started to smoak
and think by himself and me and ma
stayed down. in the dining room eating
our dizzert, being rice pudding with
some raisins but not enuff. and ma
sed, I feel like going to the movies
tonite, som chow
G ma, SO do I, I sed. Wich 1 did,
on account of me always feeling that
way, and ma sed, Your father duzzent
seem to feel very sociable tonite or
elts Id ask him if he wunted to take
us GROUND, but maybe he feels better
now.
Well Suppose go up and see how he
feels, ma, and then l can tell you and
then you can ask him, I sed.
All rite, you've had verse Ulcers than
that, sed ma.
WITCH 1 have, and went up in the
setting room, saying, Hello pop. Pop
not saying enything, proberly not see
ing enything to say hello about, on
account of jest having saw me at sup
pir, and I sed, Watts you doing, pop,
smoaking?
Do I look as if I was ffshing2 sed
pop. Meening certeny he was smoak-
ing. AMI he kepp on doing it, and
pritty soon I sed, Have you saw envy
movies, lately, pop?
No, thank heaven, sed pop.
Sounding verse instead of better,
and after a vile I sed, Do you wunt
me to do enything for you, pop?
Yes, take wawk, sed pop.
Meening leeve him alone. Wich 1
did, going down stairs and saying to
ma, don't think he wunts to go, ma.
I'm positive he don't, was lissening
at the bottom of the steps, sed ma.
Being the main reason we all stayed
home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19

Not only is news print paper being
shipped to this country from Norway
but it is entering thru Pacific ports.
Yet there is in Alaska raw material
sufficient to supply the entire demand
of American newspapers for many
years Some day, perhaps, the red
tape with which Alaska is' bound will
be removed and it will become one Of
the most productive regions of this
continent. If private enterprise were
given a chance in Alaska the govern
ment would snot find it necessary to
build railroads. Private capital would
take care OF the transportation prob
lem just as it has in the States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19

That deeayed teeth are strong pre-
disposing causes to the catching of
measles, scarlet fever, pneumonia,
mumps, or other childish diseases Is
urged by the United States public
health service, which cites very con-
siderable reductions in those diseases
in cities where dental clinics have
been established in the schools. At
Bridgeport, Conn, It is reported. diph-
iberia has been lessened s per cent. At
an orphanage in Boston these dis
eases, which had annually afflicted
about one-third of the S25 inmates
practically disappeared after eight
months dental work. The absorption
OF pus from deeaying teeth had
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weakened the children, it is declared.
and made them easy victims to disease
germs; and the cleaning up of this
condition increased their powers Of
resistance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19

A hurry-up call for enactment of
the soldier bonus bill has gone out to
representatives and senator's in con-
gress. But unless that body move
with more than its accustomed rate of
progress, it will hardly succeed in
passing the measure in time to help in
the coming election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19

Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is
reported to be strongly opposed to a
soldier bonus. But the secretary is
not dependent upon the popular vote
for his position. He probably views
the matter entirely from the stand
point Of the condition of the treasury,
present and prospective.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19

II there be anything worse than
owning an elephant it is owning two
elephants. But that seems to be the
predicament in which King Boris of
Bulgaria finds himself. 1t might be
that the Republican national commit
tee could use one of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19

High rates OF exchange are driving Ru-
manian students from French universities
to German schools.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19

undoubtedly will be raised, we frank
1y admit the late Hugh ISeough said
if first. The motive that impels us is
that every good thing should be per-
petuated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19

The man with unusual mental and
physical equipment is not always
found in the front rank, but that is
the place to look for him.