Diamond Dust from Topeka, Kansas • 3

December 30, 1922 PageS Diamond Dust OUR OPPORTUNITY. Through this toilsome world, alas, Once and only once we pass; If a kindness we may show, If a good deed we may do To out suffering fellow men, Let us do it when we can, Not delay it, for tis plain We shall not pass this way again. f.w. to pay certain bills. The story goes that instead of liquidating his indebtedness he joined in the merry tumbling of the spotted ivories, and lost his steen simoleans, in some manner unknown to the D.D.

reporter. Those acquainted with the game, declare it is impossible to lose money at indoor golf, but the aforesaid wiser but sadder hubby will refute this claim, and wifey is wondering yet if it is possible. SEND IT IN. If you have a bit of news send it in. Or a joke that will amuse send it in.

A story that is true an incident that is new, We want to hear from you send it in. Dont wait a month to do it send it in. Something serious or a jest just whichever you like best The Ed. will do the rest SEND IT IN. When new leaves are being turned over for 1923, it is recommended that Frank Porsch resolve to cut out his cussograph attachment; that Vet cut down the number of sweethearts to seven, at least, as nine at a time is too many for one auto; that any others contemplating marriage tell D.D.

first. Secretary Clem Seely is contemplating a tour with Salesman Charles R. Ruff el attending the bankers district meetings in Oklahoma. He will carry the big sample book that is set up in the office as evidence that Halls can deliver as fine work as can be had anywhere in the universe. CARELESSNESS.

I am more powerful than the combined armies of the world. I have destroyed more than all the wars of the world. I am more deadly than bullets, and I have wrecked more homes than the mightiest of siege guns. I steal, in Canada and the United States alone, over $500,000,000 each year. I spare no one, and I find my victims among the rich and poor alike; the young and the old, the strong and the weak, widows and orphans know me.

I loom up to such proportions that I cast my shadow over every field of labor from the turning of the grindstone to the moving of) every train. I am relentless. I am everywhere in the home, on the street, in the factory, at railroad crossings, and on the sea. I bring sickness, degradation and death, and yet few seek to avoid me. I destroy, crush or maim.

I give nothing, but take all. Im your worst enemy. I AM CARELESSNESS. Some of the boys received neckties enough Christmas to allow a change every day and twice on Sundays. Some got sox by the box with fancy clocks, and others got a lotta things, in fact everything under the sun except liquid Christmas cheer.

The Christmas rush in the store, followed by the inventory, has given the retail sales force a touch of high life up to now. The crowds were so big that it became necessary to detour the factory forces via Jackson street, at noon and night. Bill Usher seems to think that the D.D. biographical department is simply a space filler, and we can wait for photographs until some time when we are short of copy. Miss Louise Applegate has been permanently installed as time clerk in the factory, vice Miss Moxley, who quit to get married.

Louise has had experience on this desk, having been understudy for some time. Her watch will now govern the ringing of the gong, and they do say it keeps such accurate time that she gets a telegram from Washington every morning for the correct time, by which to set the Western Union clocks over the country. Weve discovered why so many new leaves (good resolutions) turned the first of the year fail to stay turned. The contrite has used loose leaf books and the leaf is yanked out. Charles R.

Ruff ell, Oklahoma representative of Halls, resident in Oklahoma City, was in the house this week, on his semi-occasional correspondence inspection. Daisy DeHaven, she whom we were wqnt to welcome as paymaster on Saturdays and as a most genial office mate every day, and whom we bade goodbye with regret when she left the counting room, passed through Topeka about the 15th enroute to the Pacific coast. Wednesday we received a Christmas card with her vuletide seasons greetings to the Hall family, dated Oakland, California. Remember when we started out to enforce the rule that none of the tops of the office desks should be used for storage? Wish youd look at them now. Said the shoe to the stocking, I wear a hole in you.

Said the stocking to the shoe, Ill be darned if you do. Once upon a time in a factory where African golf was the regular noonday diversion a young man, fresh married and possessed of a frugal wife, was given steen dollars by said.