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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-10
Benny Sokolonski.

Chicago. Jan. 10.-Benny Sokolon-
ski, 12-year-old Chicago lad, when
confronted recently with a problem
that would have taxed the tact of a
much older and more reSourceful
Romeo. gave it up and tried to COM
init suicide.
Tossing on his cot in the hospital.
this youthful sage has now made up
his mind to return to his .old love"
Il was foolish" he confessed 81
did care 4 little for Florence, but I
never thought she would come be-
tween me and Annie. When 1 saw
what 1 had done and how my loving
girl felt about it, decided to end it
ALL"
Annie Barzyk, IS. Benny's loving
girl. received a spanking. but she still
insists she loves Benny. and that #
she was older she would marry him
Florence Moeller, II, "the other
woman" received few firm parental
remarks and was put TO bed, where
she will remain for some time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-10

Iowa L. Beaten e1-19.
Minneapolis. Mimi. Jan. 10.-Min-
nesota university beat Iowa university
at basketball here last night 21-1s.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-10

LIES brit n means unto an end: that end.
Beginning, means, and end to all things
cd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-10

Impatient people water their miseries
and hoe up their comforts.-Spurgeon-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-10

Sharp wits, like sharp knives, do oft
cut their owners fingers.-Arrowsmith-
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-04
the four walls Of he home

the four walls Of he home
it became mans work.
"Now homework is diminishing to
such an extent that many women, if
they are to work at all, must go to
the office or the factory" said Miss
Laughlin.
''In the beginnings of the profess
sions women did not make much of
a showing. They practiced medicine
in the actual care of the sick. But
medicine, as a profession, was linked
In primitive times with tribal leader
ship and with priestcraft to such an
extent that it belonged almost entirely
to men.
at has been only in the last few
years that women were admitted to
our medical schools of any standing
And the few women physicians before
the war had little or no real practice.
Take it in our own time, out in some
neighborhood where there is no doctor.
If some one is i'll or baby comes, do
we send for a man? Certainly not;
it's a woman who is called in to help.
"The law? There isn't q mother,
never has been a mother, who didn't,
at times, have to act as judge and
jury In the disputes of her children.
Father may be the court of appeals,
but she is on the bench all day.
Every day mother has to decide and
act according to her decisions. And
woe unto her if she is an unjust judge.
"In the New England town where
I was brought up" continued Miss
Laughlin, "the progress of modern in
vention did not touch us for long
time. The Industrial revolution, which
took from the home so much of It's
drudgery, had not reached there when
I was a little girl.
eve made our own soap, our own
candles, cured our own meats, and
wove the cloth for our clothes. That
is, the women did this work.
EVERY man who is working in an
electric light plant is doing the work
that was once done by women-mak
ing the lights. Every man who Is
working in a weaving mill is doing
the work formerly done by women.
Every man working in soap fac
tory is doing work formerly done by
women.
1.-THE great canning factories, plants
for preserving food, even some of the
work of the meat packing industries,
are built upon work that was formerly
III 5oro Ir, yr,ov,op
''In the Philippine islands, where the
basis of the family system was the
matriarch, the mother was head Of
the family. She handled all the funds
and budgeted her household. In Eu-
rope, among the small shopkeepers espe-
cially. women are the cashiers Of the
family and of the business"
Cooking, homemaking and dress |
making are Still done in the homes
all over the country to such an extent
that they are still considered women's
work, Miss Laughlin pointed out. But
with community housekeeping and
community kitchens and ready-made
clothes, the day may come when the !
men in charge Of the machines that |
make the home go round will say:
Imagine those women applying for
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-04
important to Mothers
SOMETHING TO WORK WITH
Young Man Perfectly Willing to Prac-
tce Economy If Old Gentleman
Would Supply Materials.

There is well-knOwn banker
whose only son does not, his father
contends, appreciate the value of a
dollar by about 90 cents A short time
ago the youth approached the old gen.
tleman with a request for consider
able sum in addition to his regular al
lowance.
Look here, my boy" the father
said severely. "You do not seem to
realize that you spend great deal OF
money-throw it away, in fact. Don't
you think it about time that you be-
gan to economic a bit?'
"Yes, 1 do, father" the young man
responded earnestly. "Been thinking
just that-fne thing, economy; pro-
vide against rainy day, and all that
sort of rot. I'd love to start right in
economizing, but can't, because !
haven't cent to economic. If you'll
just pass over that thousand, how
ever, will begin, right awayl"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-04

nave seen in our great war the way in
when men and women naturally lined
up on the primitive basis. The men
OF the nations, in this country, Eng
land, France and the others, went into
military service. The women took up
the industries.
Now the surprise attendant upon
the news that women were working
in munitiOn factories, were running
streetcars and doing mems work in
offices wouldn't have been so great,
perhaps, if we had all remembered a
little more of our pre-history."
Miss Laughlin reminds us that in
his account of primitive races the late
Otis L. Mason, curator of ethnology
in the United States National Museum,
points out some of the industries which
began as woman'S work. He says:
"The slain deer lying before her cave
or brush shelter or wigwam! She
strikes off a sharp flake of flint for
knife. By that act she becomes the
first cutler.
WIFI IIllo hullS sic
moves the skin, little dreaming that
thereby she is making herself the
patron saint of all subsequent
butchers.
"She rolls up the hide, then dresses
1T with brains smokes 1t, currieS it,
breaks it with implements of stone
and bone until she makes her reputa-
>tiOn as the first currier and tanner.
with needle of bone and thread of
sinew and scissors of flint, she cuts
and makes the clothing for her lord
and family; no sign is over the door,
but within dwells the first tailor and
dressmaker.
'From leather especially prepared
she cuts and makes moccasins for her
husband, thereby beginning the shoe
industry.
"She was toymaker for her chill
dren, mOdiste, milliner, uphOlsterer,
wall decorator for her family.
"She was at first and is now the
universal cook. From the grasses
around her cabin she constructs the
floor mat, the mattress, the screen, the
wallet, the sail.
"She is the mother of all spinners,
weavers, upholsterers, sailmakers."
Again he says;
"To the field she goes with the
basket or wallet strapped across her
forehead. BY the sweat Of her face
she earns her bread and becomes the
first pack animal"
"Home again with her grain or
acorns. she thrashed and ground them
into flour or bran, thereby mothering
the thrashing industry and the mill
ing. Where it was impossible to find
caves or natural shelter for her family
she designed and built the first wig
vans and forerunners f houses, thus
being the first architect.
"All the peaceful arts Of today"
continues the account, "were once
woman's peculiar province. Along
lines of industrialism she was pio-
neer. inventor, author and originator"
AS conditions became more settled
for primitive tribes, men gave up their
warfare and entered women's indus
tries. Gradually they cook nearly all
of them. As work was taken from
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-04

jobs in cooking! Cooking is a mans
job and woman's place is the parlOr."
AS a matter of fact there probably
are highly paid chefs today who feel
just that way about it.
The situation was getting TO the
point where there was no place for
the women in the working world TO
go but out. There are even some ex-
tremists who believe that the care Of
children should be taken out Of the
home and away from the mothers
hands.
ut is here the cinging vine gets
into the picture" said Miss Laughlin.
"She developed as a dollhouse plant,
because there was nothing much for
her to do. Industry had been moved
from the home. WOman's place was
still in the home, but there was moth
ing for her to do. Often the mothers
their parasitism, because they had had
to work so very hard themselves that
their ideal for their daughters was a
condition which would make it pos
sble for them to do nothing harder
than sit on q cushion and sew fine
seam.
But the swing backward toward
primitive standards, when woman was
a worker, to the cave man period, If
you choose, made a long sweep during
the war. Women had been seeping
into the professions and businesses
before that time, but their progress
had been almost imperceptible.
"Thus old-time efficiency. inherited
from their industrious grandmothers,
no doubt, asserted itself with their new
wartime jobs Employers were Salts
fed and clients made happy. SO the
women are staying with their new
work"
According to Miss .Laughlin. there
isn't anything disastrous in the situa-
ton. She believes that there is plenty
of work to be done for both men and
women in industrial and professional
lines.
Efficiency and work are not mat
tiers of SEX" is her dictum.
Miss Laughlin Is far from the "cave
woman" in looks, but she is endowed
with a vigor Of mind and spirit which
would do her cave grandmOthers
credit. Miss Laughlin practices low
in San Francisco. She was born in
New England. Her college education
was secured at Wellesley and she was
graduated in law from Cornell uni
versity, one of two women in her class.
Later Miss Laughlin went to Colo
RADIO, where she was active in politics,
women having been granted the right
to vote in that state while she was
in college. A number of years ago
Miss Laughlin went to San Francisco
and there she has built up large law
practice. At first her clients were
nearly all women. But the war added
men to the list. And these men, who
went to her first because their former
counsel had gone TO war, have found
the woman lawyer so competent that
they retained her even when the men
returned to their Offices.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-04
WAS GONE BEYOND RECALL
Headgear for Which Young Wife Had
Pined Adorned Head of One
More Fortunate.

"Every day for week." the young
wife said wistfully, 'Tve gone down
to look at hat in show window
a wonderful hat, Tom; the kind Of
hat woman dreams of but sees only
once in years. OF course, knew that
could not hope to buy it, as it was
far more expensive than we could af-
ford. The price was"
perhaps we could manage 1t, dear,
if you wish it so much" Tom inter-
rupted fondly. Business has been a
little better the last month. have
two new contracts for large apartment
houses. How much is the HAITI"
"That is dear of yon, TOm," she
responded with grateful smile,
though her eyes grew sad, "but it is
too late. Our cook happened to pass
the store. saw her wearing it home"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-04
ouIls of the Pacific Coast.

Along the Pacific coast there are
three common species, the glaucous
winged, the western and the California
gulls, which are not found in the East.
They are white-headed species, not
strikingly different from the herring
gull.-A. A. Allen, in American For
eStry.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-04
Something Missed.

"Do you remember the first balloon
you ever saw"
"Quite WELL" replied the elderly
gentleman. "Those were the happy
days, but I've always felt that fate
cheated me out of thrill that was
my due"
"How so?"
81 never saw helper get tangled
in the balloon ropes and 90 soaring
toward the sky, suspended by one leg,
while the blood of 5000 spectators at
the country fair froze in their veins
with horror. birmingham Age-Her
aid.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-04

ton. And If the modern man is go
ing to have visions of the good old
days of the cave man he must be con-
sistent and include in his delectable
dream the real cave woman"
Later, in her apartment in hotel,
Miss Laughlin went into the subject
with a New York Tribune reporter in
a manner which showed that she has
given much study to the domestic ar
rangements of the man and the woman
whose wooing consisted of footrace
and a blow on the lady's head with
some hard, blunt instrument.
eff the men insist on delving into
the secrets of those mOnolithic prede-
cessors of the New York apartment
house." said Miss Laughlin, 'then they
must take the consequences and an
swer by what right they can call any
work the work of meA, unless perhaps
it is hunting and fishing. Back in that
ideal period for which the modern man
pines practically all of the work be-
ionged to the women. So when our
men talk about mans work I'd like to
know just what they mean"
Kipling is one of the few men who
really understand what the relation
ship of the cave man and the cave
woman was, according to Miss Laugh
lin. AS proof of her contention she
cites his "Just So stories, which he
told to his "best beloved" You will
remember the place where it says:
"The man was wild, too. He was
dreadfully wild He didn't even begin
to be tame until he met the woman,
and she told him that she did not like
living in his wild ways
You will remember how 1t was. She
picked out a nice, dry cave (proving,
by the way, that there was cave
woman before there was cave mani,
and she cleaned house properly and
hung q dried wild horse skin across
the opening of the cave and said:
"Wipe your feet, dear, when you
come in, and now well keep house"
And the man came in and lay down
beside the fire that the woman had
built and went to sleep.
"But just before he dozed Off" said
Miss Laughlin, "he probably threw
out his chest and remarked that he
was cave man himself and believed
that a woman's place was in the
home"
And Miss Laughlin agrees with Mr..
Kipling in the theory that the motive
for keeping house was the protection
of the baby. Long periods without
food, which were bound to be part of
the life Of a nomadic people, were
hard on the young, and that is the
reason the woman decided to keep
house.
"In the beginning, women did all the
work" says Miss Laughlin. "If we're
going to say that such and such is
thp work of one of the sexes we might
as we'll admit that every man in in
dustry is doing work which was orig
InalIy woman's work.
SThe real cave mem were con-
cerned with war and hunting. And
tbe cave women had the industrial
field to themselves. Only when war
became less important did the men 60
in for industries, and even then they
did 80 on about a 25-75 basis. We
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-04
{ aNeN1en- ard W01net>
Il Feminine Anszver !
the Contention That a
\ W0man'S Place Is J
\ in the H0me 4

H." SAYS the perfumed youth.
shivering slightly and edging
closer to the radiator, "Tm a cave
man myself. l believe that the
old practice of wooing a woman
with a club and dragging her home
and making her stay there when
you get her, really better than our
modern practice. We red-blooded
men are still really cave men at
heart, and would prefer that our
women be clinging vines, as in the
ancient times, instead of getting
out and working at mems work"
New York State Federation of
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-04
Jud Tunkins.

Jud Tunkins says that if any Of his
folks actually looked like some of the
pictures in fashion magazine he'd
send 'em to hospital to get cured,
no matter what it cost.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-04
Handy srrayer.

A new pump for spraying flowers or
fruits is operated by attaching it to an
ordinary fruit jar, several Of which
can be provided to hold different
spraying solutions.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-04
WHY Daniel Eacaned.

The Teacher-When the lion found
Daniel in his den why do you think he
didn't eat him up?
The Bright Pupil-'Cause he was so
glad it wasn't Mrs. Lion usin' his den
for SEWN room.-Dallas News.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-04

A torpid liver prevents proper food as.
sanitation. Tone up your liver with
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills They act
gently
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-04

AS we grow older our prejudices be-
come mellowed and our judgment
ripper.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-04
Loyalty mistaken.

Waiter lin Germany)-Wasser2
American Girl (fustered) No, Wei.
leSIey.-The Bun.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-04
The Cost.

"Does 1t cost much to put up a skel-
eton structure?" 81 should think il
would cost lot of bones"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-04

Gus c'uDs was holding a banquet a few nights
aso ana a certain gentleman whose name is known
Aioh one end of the land to the other made a
speech IN which he told the women present he
uiuht IN the least sympathize with their being
BUSINESS and professional women In fact he de-
cared 1T his belief they all ought to be at home
hooking after the children instead of being gath
cred about a banquet table listening to speeches
by him or anybody else.
The speaker didn't use the exact language of
the perfumed youth, but he implied most of it.
DID he get away with it? He did not Paraphras-
ing popular song of pre-war days, 'Where there
are cave men there must be cave women" And
there was at least one of them at the banquet
She was Miss Gail LaughIin of San Francisco,
national president of the organization that was
holding the banquet.
She followed the speaker just mentioned, and
she said she was pretty well fed up on all this
talk about cave men and clingng vines and wOm-
en- having no place in industry; and fguratively,
oh, very fgurativey, of course, she proceeded
a few scratches.
"Often." said Miss Laughlin "to stop an argu-
ment in public for womans entering this or that
line Of mans work the men will smile in a SUI
peri0r manner and admit they are afraid they
have something of the cave man in them. That
means they can't see any reason why women
should be anything except clinging vines.
"But their history is slightly mixed when they
put the cave man and the clinging vine in the
same picture. The clinging vine is a plant of
later growth 1t is far cry from the cave wOm-
an to this delicately nurtured product Of civiza-
The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-09-15
South DakOta To
Have Great Corn
Crop This Year

SIOUX FALLS, S. D.-South Da-
kota's corn crop this year will be
the second largest ever raised in this
state. according to the monthly crop
report issued by H. C. Herbrandson,
field agent for the South Dakota
branch of the bureau of crop esti-
mates. The corn crop figures this
year are placed at 0 1,l36,000 bu-
shsls. This is a loss Of 2,O6s, 900
since the August report, due to I'M
favorable weather. The indicated
average yield is 81 bushels to the
acre.
The estimated spring wheat yield
is placed at 25,067,oOO bushels; oats
64,102, 600; barley, "a, 10000 pots
toes, 7,955,o0o; fax, l,5s0,0O0; tame
hay, 1,621,000; wild hay, 900:
wool, 4S67,eoo pounds; Alfalfa, i.
$4,000 tons.
The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-09-15
new ROCKFORD
JAIL HOLDING
5 FOR KILLING
Men Admit Killing Of
An Italian Last
Week

NEW ROCKFORD, N. D.-sherin
n. C. Stensby and States Attorney
Jas. A.. Manly secured confessions
from the five men held in the New
Rockford Jail since Monday, Septem-
Der 9th, on charge Of robbing and
killing Angelo Meggo, transient Ia
borer, on a freight six miles east Of
this city, early the previous Sunday
morning.
They at first denied all knowledge
Of the crime, but when confronted
with the corpse Of the dead Italian,
one at a time, the first breakdown of
their bravado came.
Thomas Campbell was the first to
confess, ;nd said H. Jackson and
Geo. Latham did the deed. A. F,
Burnett confirmed Campbell's state
ment. jackson, Latham and Geo.
Bohen later confessed to participa-
tion in the murder, either personally
Or as witnesses of it. Four made
written confessions and the fifth
promises to give all the facts to the
judge.
They will be taken to jamestown
rs soon as preliminary matters are
heard by Justice Frank Collins, for
sentence to the p~enitentiary by Judge
Coffey.
The crime for which the five men
will be punished was a particularly
cowardly one. They were riding. in
4 gondola car when they espied Meg
90 on top of a lumber car. Mcgee
is alleged to have left New Rockford
in the same car with the five but
moved up to the lumber car, evident
~ wishing to avoid their company.
Jackson, ian assumed name, as he is
an apparent cross between an Italian
Or Spaniard and a Jew and Latham
went up and took his watch and
money and then jackson shot him
with a 80 calibre revolver, notwith-
standing he had offered no resistance
to superior numbers. Jackson claims
they were searching him for a red
card and that he did not intend to
shoot. They also said they thought
he would receive medical aid sooner
BY being thrown from the train,
which they did about a quarter of a
mile from Dundas. He managed to
reach the Johnson store and gave a
description Of his assailants before
dying in a hospital in this city, Sum-
day afternoon.
The men, four of whom were arm
cd, were promptly arrested at Casssl-
ton, by Chief of Police C. e. Bunker
and Edward Smith, night y1dmaster
Of the Great Northern there. These
men and Deputy Sheriff A. j. Man.
,Aers OF Cass County, were here We'd
1ssday to appear in the case.
Hsggo was buried in the Catholic
senetery here.
The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-09-15
Durum Wheat Most
Rust Resisting

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. N.
D., Sept. 15.-The Durums have
proven the most rust-rssistant Of the
spring wheats. DR.. H. L. Walter of
the North Dakota Agricultural col
lege has gathered the data on the
1ust-reststance Of the wehats. At the
experiment station at Fargo, Of the
hard spring wheats, Marquis rusted
30 per cent; Powers Fife, rs; Blue
Stem, 80; Velvet Chaff, 80; Of the
Amber Durums: Kubanka rusted IS
per cent; Arnaulka, 40; Monad (D4)
trace; Acme, 2, and of the red du-
runs DIS showed only a trace of
rust. At the Edgeley sub-station
Marquis rusted 70 per cent; Powers
Fife, 80; Blue Stem, IS; Velvet Chaf,
90; Kubanka, go; Arnastka, 60; Mon
I'd (D1), 80; Acme; Acme, 80 and
DIS, 8. At the Dickinson sub-station
Marquis rusted Is per cent; Powers
Fife, 1876; Blue Stem, IS; Velvet
Chaf, 10; Kubanka, 8.5; Arnautka,
1O.5; Monad (D1), 2; Acme, 2; DIS
trace. At the Langdon sub-station the
figures are, Marquis, 20; Power.
Fife, 20; Blue Stem, rs; Velvet Chaff,
%; Kubanka, 4; Arnaulka, 10; Monad
(D1), trace; Acme (not grown)
D5, none. DR.. Walster concludes
that '"The evidence from North Da.
kota warrants the conclusion that
this State q produce more wheat
Per acre through growing the bet,
Ter durum wheats. than by growing
tie Hard. Red Spring wheats."
The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-09-15
C~ampaigners To
Plea For Soldiers

CHICAGO, ILL.-Sanction Of the
National Republican committee is be-
ing sought by the. Ex-Service Mems
Cooperative League to have the big
speakers who will. take the issues. Of
the campaign before the voters Of the
country, say a word in the interest
Of the soldier bonus. The men will
not be asked SO much to appeal for
aid for e~x-servfce men as they will
be to present the subject in such 1
way, that an expression will be gain:
ed from the pepole which will. guide
the incoming Congress in dealing
with the matter. It is understood
that a similar request will be taken
before the Democratic National Com
mittee after the formal notification
of Governor Cox.