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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05
Dorothy Dix Talks
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Choosing a Wife,.

A young man asks me to give him a
few tips on how to select a wife.
The best advice that 1 can offer any
youth contemplating matrimony is to
go off to some quiet spot and have a
heart-to-heart session with himself,
and honestly try to find out what
manner of man he really is, and what
he aspires to be and to do in the
world.
With these data in hand it is easy
enough to pick out the right girl in
stead of one who will keep a man
wondering to his dying day what made
him do it. and where the fool killer
was wien he led the lady he did to
the altar.
Know thyself'' is never such a
good slogan as when a man is choos-
ing a life partner, for the trouble with
most unhappy marriages is merely
that they are misfit marriages. The
wife who drives one man to drink
would have lifted another into the
Seventh Heaven of connubial bliss. She
who rasps the nerves of one husband
at every turn would make a soothing
and congenial companion to another.
And these uncongenial marriages
are more the mems fault than the
women's, for men do the picking and
choosing. and 1t is their poor judg-
ment, and lack of knowledge of what
they need, and what will suit them in
the WIG lIS lHdL KEEPS IhcllO OA1 lAlS
map, and the divorce court busy.
Therefore, son, when you think
about marriage, don't waste any time
worrying over the girl. Worry over
yourself a little. Consider your own
character, disposition, finances, am
billions and prospects and let this
knowledge be a lamp to your feet
when you go a-wooing.
Suppose, for instance, you are of a
nervous, irritable disposition, with a
temper that is hung on a hair trigger
and liable to go off at any moment.
Can't you see that matrimony for you
will be nothing but a dark and bloody
battle ground if you marry some
beautiful slender creature with thin
lip, and quivering nostrils, and lovely
auburn hair?
Whereas it will be one grand sweet
song if you have gumption enough
to pick out for a wife some plump,
placid maiden with OK like eyes and a
nice. fat laugh.
Woman for woman, the two girls
may be equally models of all the vir-
tues, but the high strung one will
keep you always up to concert pitch,
while the good Stature of the other
will poultice your sore nerves and
sooth them, and her optimism be a
perpetual tonic to you. With one you
will live scrappily. With the other
happily, for there is only room for
one set of nerves, and one case Of dys-
pepsia in any house.
Suppose when you look into your
own soul you admit to yourself that
while you are not in the least vain.
or egotistic, still you can not deny that
YOU are a man of most unusual in
tellect, and of judgment as profound
that it is entitled to respect on every
| occa sion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

performance had begun, two couples
walked down opposite aisles. directed
to four seats vacant in the center of
the row.
On adjusting themselves Geraldine.
amazed. saw Randolph with his
stenographer," and tie look that en-
tered that young mans eyes brought
Mr.. Burton to the edge of his chair.
1t was the snappiest show in town.
but for some inexplicable reason none
of the four enjoyed it.
AS il nothing out of the ordinary
had occurred which was the occasion
for a sleepless night for both, Ran
dolph accompanied Geraldine to their
customary haunt for luncheon.
They ordered. Neither ate.
Its no use, Jerry" he abruptly
began, sit can't be done"
Geraldine pretended not to under
stand What can't be done, RAM"
"Oh, this just friends business. :"
He leaned across the table and took
possession of her hand. viii you'let
me be something more? Say, Jerry.
will you marry me?''
And evidently they came to some
understanding about being Just
friends" because Ferry & Co. have
had to find new purchasing agent.
Copyright, 1920, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

three to six horses and a knowledge or
machinery, plus experience in operat-
ing a gasoline engine. And binder
or tractor gets out of order with
alarming frequency. the old-fashionedf
gasoline engine having little on them
in that respect.
And so it goes down the line of farm
work The town man would require
instruction in the plebeian matter of
Stopping the hogs. We figure that for
every white collared worker sent to
the farms two able-bodied and skilled
tutors will be required. II said tutors
are available and faithful to their
task, the town men will have at the
end of their vacations faint glimmer-
ing of the broader outlines of farm
work. The average farmer can per-
form the work he wants done in half
the time 1t takes him to tell the town
man how to do it. And the probabili-
ties are the town man won't be able
to do it right then. All town man
can do on a farm is get in his own
way. The cost of feeding him would
be five times as great as the value OF
the service he would be able to per-
form We name no names, but some
body is kidding"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

Patterson and others, is not their i'm
mediate effect upon rents They
mark the beginning of a middle class
union whose political Importance Is
hard to foretell. The movement is
almost worldwide altho 1t started
only since the war. East Prussia was
the birthplace of the first middle class
union, when the professional and
clerical workers united to protect
themselves from the Sparticides The
movement quickly spread to England
where there are now five million
now all over our own country these
tenants protective associations are
organizing; and, being organized, are
realizing that their power can be used
in many ways. The Rogers Park So
ciety, for instance, is already planning
to send a member to the next state
legislature.
Perhaps of even more Importance
than the practical good these unions
can do is the new spirit they are
bringing into the lives of a great mass
of the people. Many a small clerk
is feeling for the first time that life
can be a more spacious thing than the
regular routine of office and home,
he is tasting the exaltation of battling
with his fellows for a good cause, he
is feeling the supreme Importance of
one who makes speeches at his neigh
bors in public assembly and is spoken
at in return In fact he is consciously
Identifying himself with his class and
his time. and for once playing an
active part in his own life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05
Dinner Stories

We noticed a dozen or more young
gentlemen of the crap-shooting class
engaged in their favorite outdoor sport
on a Brooklyn street corner yesterday,
when suddenly a cop swooped down
from nowhere upon them In two
jumps the whole outfit was half way
to the East river.
The cop didn't bother to pursue. He
stopped down and scooped up the
change and as it jingled into his
pocket he favored us with a wink:
Seven come eleven" says he, and
win dinner money"
A small boy came to the Brightwood
library and soleHnly asked for cottage
cheese. The librarian thought a
moment and asked if he did not mean
the book Scottish Chiefs"
Yes" he said pleasantly, 81 knew 1t
was something like cheese"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05
THE MINIMUM WAGE.

w. Jett Lauck. who styles himself
consulting economist" appeals for
a minimum wage of $4,000 for I'M
try. He would have track walkers,
section hands, bridge watchmen and
the like, paid three or four times what
they received few years ago. Mr.
Lauck bases his argument on figures
of the bur au of --atistics of the de-
partment of labor, which are intended
to show that family OF five cannot
live properly on a smaller amount.
Mr.. Lauck's deductions may be true.
but II is also fact that no family in
the country can maintain it's former
standards of wing on the amount of
former expenditures. Economies
must be practiced by all, and If one
class of citizens is to have income in
creased to keep pace with the rising
cost of living. it only means that the
other classes must suffer more than
their share of privation. But Mr..
Lauck goes even farther than that.
The cost of living has gone up about
hundred per cent in the past few
years. He proposes not only to dou-
BILE the wages OF common laborers but
TO quadruple them. Had there been
no increase whatever in living costs
Mr.. Lauck's theory would call for a
doubling of wages of the lowest grades
of labor.
Carried to its logical conclusion the
Lauck theory would call for an equal
advance in wages for all other classes
Of workers, with the result that living
costs would. be SO increased that no.
body would be a b,s-er off. 1t at
fords just one more illustration of the
futility of an attempt to elevate one
self over a fence by his own boot
straps. 1t is the wage Garner who
pays for every increase in wages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05
WILL HISTORY REPEAT?

Is history to repeat itself at Chicago
this year, with merely a change of
names of the actors? asks the Sioux
City Tribune. And then the Tribune
proceeds to recite an interesting bit
of the history referred to as follows:
Forty years ago. in the Republican
national convention at Chicago, James
A. Garfield, head of the Ohio delega-
ton, made the nominating speech for
John Sherman as the partys selection
for the presidency. On the. thirty
sixth ballot Garfield himself was nom
mated.
This year in the same city Governor
Henry J. Allen, of Kansas, will pre-
sent the name of Gen. Leonard Wood
for nomination by the same party for
the same office. Political wiseacres
are saying General Wood cannot be
nominated and everything indicates
that this is so. This being granted,
who will be his residuary legatee?
From the first ballot, which gave
Grant 306, Blaine 2s4. Sherman 80,
George F. Edmunds "a, Elihu B.
Washburne 80, william Window 10,
and Garfield 1, there was little change
of note until Wisconsin gave the sig
nal on the thirty-fourth ballot by
throwing her sixteen votes to Gar
field. Indiana followed oR~the next
roll call and then came the avalanche,
nominating Garfield with 500 votes,
while Grant retained his steadfast
1905" and the fifty others were divided
among Blaine, Washburne and Sher-
man.
THE public career of Governor AL
lem" says the Tribune, gives album
dant proof that he shoots as he talks
and that as sponsor for General Wood
he will be for him to the last ditch.
He has shown his sterling American
ism in many tests; he is like Garfield.
a gifted orator. 1t is still a moot ques-
ton as to whether the friends or OPP
ponents of General Wood will organ
ize the Republican national conven-
ton this year, but whichever it is. If
the lines are drawn that way and the
predicted break from Wood comes,
Henry ]. Allen may be struck by
lightning
blaine writes OF Garfield as the
nominee in 1880: He represented the
liberal and progressive spirit of Re
publicanism without being visionary
and impractical, and his nomination
was accepted as placing the party on
advanced ground This liberalism
and progressivism. exemplified by
Roosevelt, is the true spirit of the in
sistent cry arising on all sides from
the rank and file of the Republican
party and it is embodied in Henry J.
Allen, the man who nominated Colo
mel Roosevelt for president in the Re
publican national convention of 1912
and is now drafted to place General
Wood In nomination"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05
LITTLE BENHY'S NOTE BOOK
The Park Ave. News.
BY LEE PAPE-


Weather. Plentlflll.
Spoarts. A contest was started on
Benny Pottses frunt steps last Satid-
day to see who could count up to 5000
the fastest by Sid Hunts new watch,
Sam Cross going ferst and getting up
to 31S when a fire engine went past
and everybody ran after 1t and broak
up the contest. Among those who
would of counted IL the contest had
lasted was Benny Potts, Artie Alixan-
der, Sid Hunt, Leroy Shooster and Ed.
Wernick.
Sissiety. Mr.. Sid Hunts fox terrier
Teddy was 3 years old last Thersday
and a dog party was held in the back
yard to celebrate the occasion, lasting
until 2 of the guests, a Airdale and a
Frentch poodle, got into a fearse arge-
ment and Teddy got a pite one the
ear wen he tried to find out wat it
was about.
Intristing Facks About 1ntristing
People. Lew Davis considers he has
better chance of going to heaven than
other people without having TO be so
exter careful, on account OF his unkle
being a minister.
Pome by Skinny Martin.
Everything Elts Wasted
Even if your coat and pants are new
And your hat and tie are fine,
You hardly ever feel dressed up
If both shoes need shine.
Art Notes. Miss Kittys class dident
have as mulch froot to draw in the
! drawing lessin last Wensday as they
Expected, on account of 4 OF the fell
lows that was bringing froot frum
home to draw ate it on the way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05
JUST FOLKS
THE SICK MAN.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

THE SICK MAN.
Stretch out 4 hand to him! Tho poor he
seems,
Time was he cherished youthful hopes and
dreams,
Time was he woke at morning, Just as you
To think of splendors that his hand might
do,
And tho the outer garments shows sins
stains.
Perhaps some beauty of his soul remains
Stretch out a hand to him: To be his
May be your own great tribute at the end !;
Kindness to sinners does not breed dis
grace
More shame to him who turns away his
Help him to rise who falls beside the wav
As you to God for help are moved to
pray.
stetch out a hand to him! Were he in
Or sorely hurt, with him you would re-
main:
Did some mischance strike him stunning
blow
without delay unto his side you'd 60;
Well, he is sick at heart or stunned by
fate
And needs your help, but 10. you hesitate
Copyright 1890, by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

Several instances of advances in
rents of both residence and business
properties in Topeka have been re-
ported recently. Nothing except a de-
cline in the prices of labor and build
ing material could do more in the way
of inducing persons with the neces-
sary capital to erect new buildings
than rising rents. When it is discov-
cred that property owners are max
ing substantial profits others will wish
TO get into the business. and will not
be deferred from doing so even by the
high cost Of construction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BY MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: Ny hair is
thin What will help to make IL
grow? T F.
Faseline is one of the best hair
growers, and will help to get rid of
dandruff
It depends on the dryness of the
scalp how often the vaseline should
be applied. Once or twice a week,
however, should be often enough.
Make a part straight from the front
to the back of the head and rub the
vaseline in thoroly. Be careful not
to let it get on the hal itself. When
you have finished that part of the
scalp. make another part. and con-
tinue thus until you have massaged
the whole head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

pense of an introduction fund. There
are Henry Allen and Herbert Hoover.
for example. The voters are looking
at the facts being brought out by the
senate investigating committee with
certain degree of suspicion, which may
be increased as the sources from
which the money comes develop. Big
business has not yet so far regained
It's standing with the people that it
can afford to try to tell them how to
cast their ballots.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

Our partners in the Great War, hav-
ing appropriated all the rich German
colonies to their own use, now offer
us the scraps, in the form of Armenia.
The United States was never at war
with Turkey, and there is no logical
reason why we should accept a man
date over a part of her territory, even
tho 1t should be very much to our in
terest to do so. But the fact is that
of all the territory surrendered by all
the central powers as a result of the
allied victory, Armenia is the least to
be desired. The territory taken over
by the allies can be made to pay a
profit, while that offered to us would
be a dead expense for all time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

In 1915 the United States Steel cor
poration, it is reported, produced
eishty-four tons of steel per man en-
f;loyed in manufacturing it. Up to
that date production per man had
Shown a gradual tho irregular in
crease. In 1917 production had fallen
to ssventy-six tons per man. and in
1919 to siXty-fOur tons. In the mean
time the average wage and salary per
man had risen from 1925 in 1915 to
st.905 in 1919. Attention frequently
has been called to similar conditions
in other industries. Here is shown
one OF the many causes of the high
cost OF living
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

The spending of large sums of
money in the interest of various pres
idential candidates is being justified
by the spenders on the ground that
the people are entitled TO know some
thing about the persons for whom they
NAV be called Gpon to vote. But there
are several gentlemen Of presidential
caliber 'whc already are well known to
the American people. without the ex-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

When Frank L. Polk asked Presi-
dent Wilson to relieve him from duty
on the ground of ill health the presi-
dent felt compelled to let him go. He
knows how it is himself but there is
no one to whom he can tender his
resignation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

BY the time the brotherhoods get
all the money they think they want
out of the railways the roads won't
be needed and they won't have the
money anyhow. If the freight rates
be raised to the point where the lines
can make money they will be so high
that many shippers will take to using
motor trucks for their deliveries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

The arm of the law reached out
and grabbed two "jitney" drivers re-
Gently on a charge of loading eight
passengers into a e-passenger car.
why IS it, when ninety persons are
crowded into a thirty-six passenger
street car. nobody is arrested?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

Thousands of department clerks in
Washington will be dismissed during
the current month in an effort to
economic on government expenses, it
is reported. Just in time to help in
the harvest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

Instead Of accepting a mandate for
Armenia. why not bring the Armen-
cans over here? It would be cheaper,
would involve no bloodshed. and be-
sides we could use them in building
roads. mining coal and raislng crops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

Reports from Chicago indicate that
Nicholas Murray Butler is actively in
the running for the presidential NOM
nation. Is it possible that the Ameri-
can people are willing to try another
school teacher in the White House?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

The morning paper editorially an
nounces that public ownership of
street car service has been defeated in
Detroit. This viii be news to the peo-
pie of that city, who voted by a two
thirds majority in favor OF the propo-
sition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

The American Wooden company has
been indicted by a federal grand jury.
If the case can be tried in the court
-of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands
probably the fine assessed will be
about s29. 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

shall we save oil?" is headline
in the Detroit News. We shall not; at
least so long as we can buy motor
cars on credit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

Time was when the man who was
compelled to work for wages had the
sympathy of his fellowmen. and fire.
sauently deserved it. Now it is the sal
aired man who needs consideration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-05

Copyright 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate.
Incl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-23
Bessemer manager of

Bessemer, September 22.-(Specia1)- The city council met Tuesday evening and number of matters were brought up for discussion, chief among these being the purchase of the waterworks of the city of Bessemer from the Ala bama Water Company. Mayor Jones has been in communication with the arbitrators in the matter. who are J. F. Cannon for the city of Bessemer, Mich oils Hill, Jr, of New York, for the Ala bama Water Company, and Clinton s. Burns of Kansas, and reported to the council that they would be in Birming- ham on October 4, at which time they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-23

would fix the price that the city would be required to pay for the plant
 The option held expires September 90, mad Mayor Jones states that the city would not be able to make the finan- cial arrangements in that time and the council passed a resolution authorizing the mayor to arrange for further eX- tension of time until December 30.
 A number of property owners were present and complaints were made in regard to the concrete base which is being used in the paving of the streets and a discussion followed in which the resident engineer, E. B. Robinson, and the aldermen assured the council that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-23
CODered With BOilS
Interesting Case of Georgia Man, Who Says He
 Found Relief By Taking Ziron

spent for it. Ziron certainly helped me a lot.
 "When I began taking Ziron was covered with blood boils, and felt so bad and tired all the time. It was all I could do to go. Now feel good and am also well of the boils, and Ziron is what did the work"
 How about your blood?
 Does it lack iron?
 If so, take Ziron Iron Tonic. It will put iron into yeur blood. help tone up your nerves and help build up your system.
 Buy bottle of Ziron today.
 At your druggists ZN 42-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-23

OILS, pimples, sores and other Ik skin troubles usually denote 0 impure blood. People with red, iron-saturated blood generally have clear, healthy skin, good com plexiens, rosy cheeks and feel as well as they look.
 If your blood is bad, weak in iron, the experience of this Whitfield County, Georgia, man should interest you. Mr. Frank Armstrong writes from Varnells Station:
 sI wish to say that I have taken Ziron Iron Tonic and never have re greeted one cent of the money that l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-23

Hattiesburg, Miss, where they will visit relatives.
 Friends of Miss Rose Hawkins will regret to learn that she is i'll at her home on Second avenue.
 Mrs. F. o. Hellier and Mrs. R. L. King, who have been spending some time at Blount Springs, have returned home.
 Mrs. Charles Hager and children are the guests of MT. and Mrs. G. H stevenson for several days before going to Maxine, Ala, where they will 1 make their home. l Mrs T. T. Huey returned Tuesday | evening from Tuscaloosa, where sh,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-23
KIWANIS CLUB

The Kiwanis Club met Wernesday at their weekly luncheon at the Grand hotel. The attendance at this meeting was the largest since the organization of the club, owing perhaps to the att tendance campaign which has been car ried on by two of the members, George Houston and Guy Wilson.
 There was no special speaker present at the meeting but short insprational ta Ks were made by several members of the club, George Stevenson. Judge I. c. B. Gwin and J. P. Haffner on topics of interest along the Kiwanian work. The only visitor present was Thomas Bragg, former director of athletics at Auburn.
 The barbecue which was planned for Thursday by the BeSsemer Shrine Cluo has been postponed, the date to be an nounced later. The committee in charge has not been, able to make all the nec- cessarv arrangements for Thursday and decided to postpone the affair