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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-21
GERRYS FAILURE.
CHAPTER 113.

1t was only to be expected that
when he first became manager of the
store Robert should feel the added
responsibility enough to make him re-
main later than he formerly had done,
and also engage his thoughts to the
exclusion of other things.
Gradually, tho, began to resent his
long hours.
rs it absolutely necessary that you
stay SO late?' 1 asked. 1 had prepared
my dinRer-a nice one-for Z O'Clock.
1t was o'clock when he came in,
nearly a quarter past by the time he
was ready to sit down, and the dinner
consequently spoiled.
IF it were not 1 wouldn't stay"
But, Robert, it makes the time
hang very heavily for me; then, too,
SO hate to have my nice meals spoiled.
especially when l prepare the things
1 know you especially like"
IT'S toe bad, Gerry, but it can't be
helped. BY and by perhaps I shall get
home earlier. But just at present
have to make a record, you know"
Il know. and 1 don't mean tie, be sell
fish. Perhaps if 1 added an hour to
my outside work the time wouldn't
hang so heavily"
You're a queer girl. Gerry. Most
women would be glad of time to fuss
around and read, or visit their
friends"
II like to do those things, too Bit
I'd rather visit when you can go with
me. And you know I never was much
of a reader. 1 didn't get the habit
when 1 was young"
wouldn't have you infer that Rob
ert and I were not still happy, for we
were. He, I think, was absolutely so.
He was so interested in his work, so
pleased with and so happy in his home
that he seemed to wish for nothing
more. Most of the time I, too, felt
contented. Yet thoughts of the shop
came to me more frequently. remem-
ORANGES of the expert saleswoman
had been.
There was a reason for this outside
of anything connected with Robert
was falling backward in my work No
one had yet said so. as far as l knew,
but was almost painfully aware of it.
Disgruntled. thought of the old say
ing, There is no standing still-one
eithef goes forward or Sins back
ward" I was slipping backward in
my work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-21
Dorothy Dix Talks
Our Loved and LOST.
By DOROTHY DIX
worlds highest Paid Woman wsiteV.


The friend whom we have lost is
the one who forgot old times, and
old ties, and old favors when he made
money or achieved some place of
power. for the men or women who
move from Poverty Flat to Easy Street
are often farther away from us than
the distance between the two worlds.
The friends whom we lose are those
who show the yellow streak under the
stress of life; who turn traitor: who
prove dishonest, and who shatter our
ideals of them. Those whom we have
once loved and honored and can no
longer love and honor we have in
deed, lost tho they still be living, but
the noble dead we never lose. They
are part and parcel of our lives until
the very end.
No one would underestimate the mis-
fortune of the wife whose husband is
taken from her by death. To be be-
reft of the strong arm that sustained
ker, and the tenderness and love that
EMBODIED her is truly a sorrows crown
to a woman.
But the woman who has known a
good mans love and faith, and who
can count over the happy days of her
life with him, and live in the blessed
memory of the joys she has known
can never really lose her husband even
tho he has passed the veil. Tho unt
seen, he abides ever with her. His
wisdom still guides her. His presence
hovers about her fireside, and she has
only to sen her thoughts after him
into the far country to which he has
voyaged, to summon him back, and to
hear once more the caress of his voice.
to see the love light in his ewes, and
to kno~ that dead or alive he is still
hers
The woman who loses her husband
is the wife whose husband tires of her,
Who ceases to care for her, and whose
heart strays off after another. The
woman who has lost her husband is
the fat, grizzled, commonplace old
wife who sits alone of nights, eating
her soul out in impotent jealousy as
her husband philanders with girls
young enough to be her granddaugh-
ters,- and spends on them the money
she shaved in the early days of her
wifehood to help him make. She is a
million times more to be pitied than
the widow who weeps above the cof-
fin of a faithful husband because she
has lest both husband and her respect
for MIN. She has not even memory
to console her.
And the mother whose children
grow up to be selfish and cruel and
negfectful. who show her that they
consider her a burden and that she
is unwelcome in their homes-are not
licoe hioIS truly lOSt 10 her than the
dead babes whose clinging arms she
can always feel about her neck and
whose warm little mouths are forever
in memory clinging to her breas :?
Many and many a time the only child
a mother has left to her is the one
that lies in the little mound in the
churchyard
Happy those who are only sepa rated
from their loved ones by death. for
they shall never lose them
$40 Ill., @-L
(Cnnvri0hf 1910 ~ tho u-h.s1n~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-21
The Woman Who Lovcd-and
Earned 4 Modern ste.y Of Hons and Business
D.. DR. nc
By JANE PHELPS

RMS was only natural when 1 came
10 inquire it out; to ask myself the rea
SON For over a year 1 had been
using up my ideas gained in the shop.
l had no way of getting new ones OF
the same class, so / was degenerstiny
into the ordinary trimmer such as any
one could hire fer 81 a day instaad
of 50 an hour.
OF course l had not yet quite ar
rived at that point, but / was fas
approaching it, One or two of my
customers dropped off I found nav,
ones to take their place. but it showed
which way the wind was blowing. l
was glad to get the new ones hut If
didn't mNch help the diseoure..d feel
ing l had at losing those with whom
had worked satisfactorily for a year.
How in the world could | expeet
to keep up with the smart shops2" /
grumbled. | knew that at Madame
Leets we had had all the latest ideas
from Europe as well as at home. Our
imports were very heavy. and she
never hesitated to spend any amount
models.
had gone stale.
suppose it is so with all kinds of
work. Away from the atrnesphere.
away from the place where we see
new ideas worked GUT daily, eur Frerk
cannot help deteriorate = as com
go - WIN mat dOnC unuGI Inherent
Now spent some time in the shops.
But the exclusive shops do not well
come people who simply look, and l
could learn nothing of help tie me or
my clientele in the ordinary stores
I lost two more customers Mrs.
Black was one of them. had learned
to like her very much, and ives sorry
that could not please her I knew
that was 1t. altho she made excuses of
different sorts. She was trying not
to hurt me
Had L not been business woman
had ! not really loved my work. I
would have given 1t up then and there
and LET Robert take care of me as best
he could-which now was very we'll
indeed. But living was high. clothes
cost more than before the war. as did
everything we needed We would have
to give up the idea of little home
in the suburbs unless I could help.
l must find some way to keep my
home just as was keeping it. and
still do the work loved IL I was to
make our dream of home OF our
own come true
fTonorrew--A promising pIan.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-21

Col. George Harvey in an editorial
IN his Weekly designed to point out
what he evidently regards as an evil of
the attempt TO select presidential can
didates by statewide primaries saysi
III one OF the principal Republican
candidates should be nominated for
the presidency next month, his most
truculent Democratic opponent could
say nothing worse against him than
has already been said by another of
his own party colleagues, and the bulk
Of the Democratic campaign mater
iaf used against him would infallibly
be Of Republican origin. In such cir
cumstanees 1t would not be surprising
IL the nominating convention should
decide that It would be inadvisable to
choose any OF the leading candidates.
who had been thus nnaIigned and dis
credited BY their own party rivals. and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-21

to select instead some dark horse
who had been SO obscure as to escape
vilification." He points out that this
situation is a direct outgrewth of the
present System of primary elections
preceded by popular campaigns which
in many cases are almost as elaborate
and pecuniarily expensive as the ac-
tual electoral campaign, and which.
this year at any rate. are marked with
fully as bitter attacks by. rival leaders
within the party ranks as we have
been accustomed to see made by one
party against the other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-21

It Is indicated from Washington
that President Wilson may refuse to
recognize the new Mexican govern
ment If that government recognize
villa. 1t is difficult to see wherein
villa is worse than Carranza. The for
mer robbed and killed Americans in
person. while the latter permitted his
hired men to do 1t. Our meddling in
Mexican affairs in the wrong way and
at the wrong time has brought on
most OF the troubles in that country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-21

A slump in corn in the Chicago mar
ket this week was attributed to the
failure Of two banks in Kansas. Gam
blers in grain and stocks seize upon
the slightest excuse to "bull' OF
bear" the market. Many years age
before yellow fever had been eradi-
Gated. there lived in Topeka a man
who always bought pork futures fol-
lowing a report OF an outbreak of the
fever in the south. He said the ap-
pearanoe OF the disease in New Or
leans or Memphis was certain to be
followed by rise in the price of mess
pork, and he appeared 10 be right
About II.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-21

The packers have issued a state
ment declaring that wholesale meat
prices have declined cents a pound
the past year. 1t should be noted in
this connection that the prices of live
stock have declined approximately 10
cents pound in the same time while
the price of meat on the table has not
declined at all and at the restaurants
is higher than ever before. The con-
sumner must work out the answer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-21

The meat packers have been driven
out Of the grocery business by the gov
eminent. Has anybody noticed a de-
cline in the price of groceries? Elim-
ination of the packer competition
should increase the grocers volume of
business and enable then' to conduct
It on a smaller margin, but no benefit
suniers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-21

The financiers have decided en- de-
flation of the currency as a remedy
for high prices. But initiation of pro-
duction would produce the same re-
suit with less danger of harming BUSH
mesa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-21

Copyright, 1919, BY the Wheeler Syndicate.
Inc.)
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-11-05
Colorado Labor Urges
Health Insurance Law
To Combat Sickness

Puebla, Colo, Oct. 22.-Declaring
that 'the long-neglected sickness
problem of the wage earners is now
receiving marked attention in the
various states as result of the
agitation for workmen's health in
surance legislation" resolution
adopted by the Colorado State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor at its recent silver
anniversary convention pledges "re-
doubled efforts in support of health
insurance legislation" and invites
"the cooperation of other organiza-
tons in thus promoting the health
of the people"
The resolution asserts that con-
tinued discussion of the ravages of
sickness among the workers. pre-
paratory to the enactment of health
insurance laws, "has already dis
closed to public attention and con-
demnation selfish opposition of COM
mercial and insurance interests
which have long opposed adequate
workmen's accident compensation
and sickness insurance laws.
"The facts gathered by official
commissions, as we'll as recommen-
dations following their impartial
Studies" the resolution continues,
"have been in the majority of in
stances overwhelmingly in favor of
this legislation, and more than so
state and national trade union or
CARNATIONS in the United States
have endorsed it."
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-11-05
"CANT-STRIKE E" LAW is
A COSTLY VENTURE

Topeka, Kans., Oct. 24.-The pub
licity bureau of the trade union
farmer nonpartisan political cam
paign in this state is enlightening
Kansas voters on the cost of Gov
ernor Aliens "cant'strike" law and
it's power over every citizen.
1t is claimed that the law has been
in existence a little over seven
months and vouchers on file at the
state house show that the industrial
court, whic henforces the act, has
spent 54,950.99. During that pc
rood increased rates were granted to
81 corporations and 10 industrial
cases were reviewed. Five of the
industrial disputes were individual
employees of the Joplin & Pittsburg
railway. One of the cases ives the
unorganized employees of the Great
Bend Flour mills, and on whom the
court took compassion and recon-
mended a work day of less than II
hours; no wage increase was grant
ed.
The jurisdiction of this court ex-
tends beyond stopping strikes. 9th
err powers of these irresponsible
three judges are:
preserving the public peace, pro-
tecting the public health and morale,
the general welfare, private secur-
ity, preventing industrial strife, dis
order and waste, and securing regu-
lar and orderly conduct of the bust
hesses directly affecting the living
conditions of the people,"
GAS thus SEEM" continues the
trade union-farmer press bureau
"the powers of this court are al
mighty-civil and criminal, secular
and piritual-nothing is exempt
not even our conscience, superced-
ing every other tribunal, board
commission or department of our
state government, with preference
give nto it's matters over all others
Of al things, God alone could be
imagined to have more power, but
in Him we would expect to find JUS
tice tempered with mercy"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-11-05
"WALL STREET CONTROL"
SEEMS A GRIM REALITY

Washington, Oct. 23.-In a state
ment issued by Comptroller of the
Currency Williams it would seem
that the term oval lstreet control"
is more than a figure of speech.
The comptroller exercises general
supervision over national banks. He
declares that a group of New York
bankers have the nation by the
throat, and that this "hold up"' pol
icy hampers railroads, industry and
even country store keepers, and is
followed by a shut down of factor
les and unemployment.
The treasury official says that ev-
cry day in New York a group of
from fou rto eight men set the rate
of interest for call loans, and that
this rate is posted on the stock
in that city and elsewhere. Some
exchange an dis accepted by banks
times the group arrange matters
owe rthe telephone.
Between October l, 1919, and sAu-
gust l, 1920, loans fo ra total of
$600,000,000 were made at rates of
10, 20, %, and 80 per cent per an
mum, he says. Much of this money
had been loaded to the banks by
tn governments federal reserve
banking system at interest rates
than ranged from IL to per cent.
The comptroller declared that the
power exercised by this small group
sis grip on the heart of our COM
MERGE"
at permits" he says, "such inter
ference as fallible human Judgment
whim or interest may direct with
the natural and orderly movements
of money, the life blood of bust
, ness"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-11-05
THE ENGINEERS
BANK Is OPENED

Cleveland, O., Nov. 1.-(Unitcd
Press - The cooperative bank Of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers opened here today. It is
the first cooperative bank in the
country with a national charter.
Warren S. Stone, grand chief of
the Brotherhood, is president of the
institution He said the organiza-
ton had been doing a banking bust
ness for its members by mail of
about $75,O00,O0O. The bank will
soon erect a 20-story building.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-11-05
Smoke OLYMPIC 10e Cigar.
STAGE EMPLOYEES GAIN

San Francisco, Oct. 16-A wage
scale that ranges from $45 to $50
a week and an eight hour day has
been negotiated by the Theatrical
Stage Employees Union.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-11-05
W0rlimen's Health Insurance Near
Adoption in Sweden

AuOptiOn Ill DNcuen
Social insurance against sickness
together with maternity insurance
are unanimously recommended by an
official commission in Sweden in it's
report recently issued preparatory
to legislative action.
1t is estimated that eighty per
cent of the total population will De
protected by the compulsory health
insurance measure now advanced by
the Swedish government with pros
poets of early adoption.
More than two-thirds of the in
dustrial map of Europe is now COW
cred by health insurance laws. In
the United States-the only great
industrial nation still remaining
without workmen's health insurance
recent reports of nine official
state commissions have disclosed an
appalling burden of sickness among
wage-earning families and lack of
adequate medical care, the majority
of the commissions strongly recon-
mending compulsory health insur-
ance laws as the only effective rem
edy. More than fifty state and ma
tional labor organizations have al
ready gone on record in favor of
the adoption of health insurance leg
islation.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-11-05
SEE WHERE UNCLE
SANS MONEY GOES

According to the United States
Bureau of Standards, 90 cents out
of every dollar of Uncle Sans
money this year goes for war, past,
present or to come.
Only one cent out of every dollar
goes for education and the improve
ment of the public health.
Copies of this remarkable analysis
of our national budget may be Sc
cured on application to DR.. z. B.
Rosa, United States Bureau of
Standards, Washington, D. C.
Whereas the cities spend an av-
erage of $6 per capita for educa-
ton per year, and the states and
private agencies about So per year
per capita for education, Uncle Sam
with his huge billions only spends
6 cents per capita for education
and some of that goes to the Gland
grant" colleges for military drill!
Without anybody in the, country
realizing it, your Uncle seems to
ism to the exclusion of the normal,
balanced interests of government.
Of course the truth is merely that
the army and navy have developed
technique" for extracting from
Congress huge appropriations where
as the other departments have not.
According to the analysis quoted
above, the national government is
levying a tax of $50 this year upon
every man, woman and child in the
United States, and of this amount
$46.50 goes for war and militarism,
Now on top of it, that ex-actor,
Congressman julius Kahn of Cali
fornia, genially proposes a system
of universal military training which
will cost the country, according to
Congressman Mondell, the Republi-
can flood leader and watchdog of
the treasury, in the neighborhood of
one billion dollars a year!
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-11-05
No. 1883
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Superior Court of the State Of Washinl
ton in and for Snohomish County.

In the Superior Court of the State of Washing
ton in and for Snohomsh County.
In the Matter of the Estate of Bertha X
Erikson, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned.
Andrew Fjerie, has been appointed and has
qualified as administrator of the estate of
Bertha X. Erikson. deceased. and all creditors
of said deceased, and all persons having claims
against her estate, required to serve such
claims upon this administrator or, George W.
Louttit. his attorney of record, at Room 225,
Realty Bldg, corner of Hewitt and Colby Ave
nues, Everett, Snohomish County, state of
Washington. and file the with the clerk
of the above entitled court, together with proof
of such service, within six months after the
date of the first publication of this notice. If
a claim be not filed within the time aforesaid,
it shall be barred.
Dated this 9th day of October 1920.
ANDREW FJERLIE,
Administrator of the Estate of
Bertha X. Erikson, deceased.
GEORGE w. LOUTTIT,
Attorney for Administrator,
Room 225, Realty Bldg,
Everett, Wash.
First Publication, October Is, 1920.
Last Publication, November 5, 1920.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-11-05
WOMEN WORKERS.
IN CONFERENCE
Pledge Aid to Health, Insurance.
Minimum Wage and Eight Hour
Bills and Condemn Misrepresenta-
ton of Women Organized in OPP
position to Protective Measures.

Albany, N. Y, Oct. ga demand
for the final passage at the next
legislative session of the workmens
health insurance bill and bills for
the eight hour day and minimum
wage for women and girl workers is
made in a resolution adopted at the
recent meeting here of the Inter
State Working Women's Conference
called by the New York Women's
Trade Union League.
The resolution states that the
working women of New York have
for years tried to get legislation
for the eight-hour day and minimum
wage and, for the past two years,
a health Insurance bill, and that
certain organizations of women have
not only worked against these bills
but have attempted to misrepresent
the attitude of the bona fide work
ing women's organizations and wo-
mems trade unions.
"This conference composed of del
egates from trade unions and work
ing girls organizations" says the
resolution, declares itself in favor
of the eight hour day, the minimum
wage commission and health insur-
ance by law; it condemns the wo-
mems organizations who, for selfish
reasons or through being unfamiliar
with industrial conditions, oppose
this legislation, which would lessen
the burden of multitudes of work
ing women; and we pledge our ac-
tive support and work with renewed
enthusiasm for the establishment of
these laws which help to standardize
industry and give a chance to all
who work for a fuller life"
The Jasper news., 1920-12-09
DEAD WAIT SHIPMENT

parents and wives of dead soldiers
come to France to remove the re-
mains of their relatives. hut upon see
ing the cemeteries here and learning
OF the extreme care taken OF them
have decided upon France as the final
resting place for the raIlen.
The exhumation Of bodies within
the war zone began on September 10,
and since then work has been com
pleted IN IT cemeteries. Operations
at BOny. the first Of the big American
cemeteries, has begun. and 55 per cent
OF the men buried there Will be sent
TO the United States.
Nearly 1000 men will work all win
ter IN order TO complete The removals
by next summer. The task OF ex-
huming the bodies OF soldiers buried
in Great Britain has been finished. 80
per cent OF them being shipped to the
United States.
Removal OF bodies from occupied
areas In Germany and Luxembourg
has Just been completed, and all Of