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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08
10, MRS. HIRAM
Farm Women From All Parts
Kansas Here Today.
Movement Started in Shawnee.
To Be Extended.

Methods OF securing cooperation
among women engaged in farm work
were discussed at the Chamber of
Commerce at noon today by the
women attending the luncheon and
found table, of the Kansas Womans
Farm and Garden association, which
is holding a two-day convention in
Topeka
Those who participated in the in
terchange of ideas included Mrs
Theodore Saxon, of Topeka. president
OF the Kansas branch of the Women's
National Farm and Garden associa-
ton; Miss Elsie Arthur, Of Rantonl.
secretary; Mrs. Ella Brill Nelson. OF
Topeka; corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Mabel Pomeroy, of Holton, treasurer,
and Mrs. A. T. Modlin, of Topeka, d.
rector of Shal.nee county.
Organization of local branches TO
hold exhibits and, conferences and to
aid in the sale of farm products. aid
for women interested in agricultural
and horticulture. encouragement OF
school and vacant-lot gardening, and
methods of solving the Agricultural
problems of the nation, are among the
principal aims of the organization. as
outlined in the opening meeting at 10
o'clock this morning
Welcomed by Mayor.
Mayor Corwine welcomed the WISH
tors, following the general business
meeting. Organization plans were
discussed during the business session.
in charge of Mrs. Theodore Saxon. OF
Topeka, president The state organi-
cation is anxious to have every county
form organizations of women inter-
ested in the farm and garden activi-
ties. Shawnee county is the only
county of the state now organized.
This aTtQrnOOn'G rnpnffnC followed
Immediately after the luncheon and
round table discussion. THE com
munity sewing school" was one Of
the chief topics for discussion this
county demonstration agent in home
( economies. Hardy Flowers and
Shrubs for the Home" will be dis
cussed by w. L. Lux.
There will be no session of the con-
vention tonight. as a change in the
program combines that intended for
the evening meeting with the after
! noon session.
Mrs Fanny NJ. Klink. president Of
the Farm Woman's National congress.
will be the main speaker at the BAN
quet Tuesday evening at $50 O'Clock,
the closing event of the convention.
i~Mrs. -klink won high premiums on
J products of her farm in a recent ex-
hibit in Kansas City.
| Delegates from the Kansas farm
WomenS organization to the meeting
of the National Federation of Wom-
ems clubs will be elected Tuesday The
public is invited TO attend all meet
! ings of the convention which will be
held at the Chamber of Commerce
Fand to be guests at the reception at
s. O'Clock Tuesday afternoon and at
I the banquet that evening. Mrs. Ella
Brill Nelson. of Topeka, will make
banquet reservations for any person
calling her before o'clock Tuesday
morning.
I + An important feature of Tuesday g
program will be an address by Prof
| w. A. McKeever, OF Kansas university.
on Children in Agriculture" IN
sects and Beauty Unseen" will be the
subject of lecture by Perry A. Click
of Lawrence, instructor in the ento-
molopy department of the state uni
versity. at tomorrow afternoons meet
, ing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08
TWO ACCIDENT DAMAGE SUITS.
q. E. Banks, Wichita, Asks SIC, 900
John Gibbons t. Seeks 81 2nn

Damage suits growing out of auto
mobile and motorcycle accidents were
tried today in the first and second di-
visions of 1.-The district court
In the first division. Z. E. Banks
Wichita. was endeavoring to convince
jury that he was entitled to $4,000
for damages sustained when he was
struck by an auto driven by J. B.
Banta, SOL Quincy street. in the day
light hours on May Is. 1919. Banks
alleged that Banta was exceeding the
speed limit on a rainy, dark day when
he struck him with the machine. caus-
ing the loss of an ear and permanently
Gripping one leg.
In the second division. John Glib
bons. IL, thru oscar Gibbons, his next
friend, 911 East Sixth street, was ask
ing a jury to grant him a judgment for
$500 damages against Arthur
Schaefer. Is, Route Is, Tecumseh.
The lads parents a1lege that when
Schaefer. riding a motorcycle, ran into
the boy, injuries sustained caused
permanent shock to his nervous sys-
tenn, weakened his physical condition
and made him an easy victim to con-
tagious diseases. The petition sets
forth that. on account of the lads con-
dition. he became ill with influenza
The accident occurred between Fifth
and Sixth streets on Chandler street
September II, 1918 1t is charged
Scha efer was exceeding the speed linn
1t when his machine struck the Glib
bons boy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08
The Woman Who Loved-and
Earned A Modem Sto.y Of Home and Business
n.
By JANE PHELPS

asked them Fit was real nice in them
tho to treat their clerks"
What a funny girl you arei' I re-
piled a bit impatiently. Talking
the Calding company. Do be sensi-
BILE, Nary"
"Ain't sensible? thought 1 was.
You see Lnu want Robert to do good
work. don't your
"Of course do. Any wife does,
guess"
Wen he, no man can't unless they
is contented. And no man amt con-
tented living like you and Bob lives.
THAT flat has turned your head.
returned, now really annoyed at
Mary. Ever since she rented it she
had preached the joys of home to any
one she could get to listen to her. All
the girls in the shop teased her about
"Mary's getting ready to take care
of a husband one of the girls
Knocked.
Not on your life, Lucy, guess
againi Little Bright-eyes don't take
care of no man-not unless he's sick or
something. Not even husband. But
there's one thing sure. If l ever find
a man who can be fooled into marry
ing me, I'll know how to make a home
flor him.
kids and all! 1 suppose"
home without a baby? Now if you
girls think you can razzledazzle me by
poking fun, you're mistaken. I am
going to learn to cook, and to keep
house. I may never have any chance
| to show off what I've learned; but If
do, just watch OUT
I used to listen and smile at Mary
when she talked this way. She was
so earnest, so honest. Once I repeated
some of her nonsense to Robert, and
he said:
"Mary's got the right idea. Shell
make some man a fine wife
But I said nothing to Robert OF
what she had said about his taking
Marion to the picnic. nor did tel
him what she had called me. That
night he didn't get in until after mid
night 1 was in bed, and he said he
was too tired to talk: had had a lovely
time, and would telkme all about il
in the morning.
! (Tomorrow-The picnics aftermath
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08
MARY TELLS GERRY PLAIN
TRUTHS.
CHAPTER 40.


Mary. while often using slang. had
never before been profane. was SO
astonished when. she called me a
damn fool" that for a moment 1
could not gather my wits to answer.
Then said:
IF I am. you needn't swear. and
you might tell me in what way am
such foof?"
Why didn't you go to that picnic %
Because 1 didn't want to- 1 would
have been bored to extinction
Was that all the reason you stayed
home? Honest Injun?
Gross my heart! 1 don't know any
one in the store, and SO of course
knew none of their wives or sweet
hearts. So told Robert to go with
out me. My vacation comes next
week, too, and hated to ask madame
for whole day off only week be-
fore I go away"
so you sent your husband off to
spend blissful day with another wo-
man. No wonder I said you was
Don't say it again! But just the
same, can't see why you always talk
as if ought to do things 1 don't want
to do, because of Robert. He doesn't
want me to go to places or do things
that bore me-"
1T would be better if he did. I mean
you would be safer"
Safer"
Yes. No woman is safe whose hus-
band don't care what she does. Take
little Mary's word for that. If YOU
had gone, Robert wouldn't have asked
Marion Hovey. Then they couldn't
have spent that long blissful day to-
gether. Them days amt safe for a
married man. Gerry, honest to good
ness they ANTI
Nonsense! Didn't I tell you Bob
urged me to go? It was only because
he didn't want to go alone that he
asked Marion. 1t didn't cost him any,
thing you see; the firm paid for every
thing"
81 wonder, did they? I wonder If
they paid for the heartaches some of
the wives of them clerks will have
later because they was too selfish to
go with their husbands when they
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08
PASS ALONG GAS CASE
Attorney General and Industrial Court
Yield Authority.

There is a big temptation to pass
the buck in the gas pressure contro-
versy. The court of industrial rela-
lions is willing to yield to the action
of Richard J. Hopkins, attorney gen.
eral. Hopkins is equally complacent
in rendering all honor in the case to
the new Industrial court.
Judge Clyde NJ. Reed of the indus
trial court returned to Topeka today
after attending a conference in WITCH
ita Sunday. All of the cities except
Arkansas City were anxious that the
court provide a special engineer to
direct distribution of gas. Arkan-
sas City preferred to leave the mains
open-giving that town a greater
pressure.
In offices of the Industrial court to-
day there was a feeling that the at
torney generals office should handle
the problem. Any prosecutions. it was
urged. would be thru the attorney
generals office. On the other hand
Hopkins didn't want to tread on
sacred ground of the court.
II don't know that there is any
thing for me TO do" he said. 1T
appears that the matter should be
settled blythe court of industrial re-
lations. / have not been asked to act.
Naturally I do not want to take a
hand in matters that apparently be-
long to the industrial court"
1t is reported. tho, that requests for
state action will be filed with the
court or attorney general in a few
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08
NEW CARS ARE NOT HERE.
Topeka Railway Rebuilt Equipment
Shiny Enough To Fool Public.

Topekans have been commenting
for several days on the good appear
ance of the new automatic safety
cars, running now on the Country club
line.
As a matter of fact, according TO
Albert NJ Patten, assistant general
manager of the Illinois Traction COM
pany, the public is deceived These
bright new cars are simply equipment
that has been rebuilt and equipped
with safety devices in the company
shops in Topeka.
THE new cars ordered from the
American Car company OF St Louis,
will not be delivered for two months.
In the meantime We have equipped
several cars with the automatic air
doors and brakes The rebuilding and
redecorating of this old equipment
makes il appear like new"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08
Dorothy Dix Talks
The Wife and Her Money!.
BY DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer

If the husband is all that he should
be-generous, kind, and faithful, 1T
may make no difference to the wife
who holds the purse strings. But
suppose the reverse OF this is true,
and the husband is niggardly. and
withholds even her own money from
philanderer and the wife sees him
spending her money on other women?
Could any drop in the cup of Jealousy
be bitterer than that for a wife to
drink?
Nor need a man be guilty of any
crime to dissipate his wife's fortune.
Many of the best men in the world,
many of the most lovable, many of the
men who are the most devoted hus-
bands are poor business men. They
have no financial acumen. The very
gentleness, the very sunny optimism
that make them SO delightful to live
with unfit them for stern, hard prac-
teal. unsentimental graphing with
commercial problems.
1t is always a temptation to a
such a husband because she loves him
so, and because he's always about to
make a million on some chimerical
scheme, but money runs thru such a
mans fingers. like water thru a sieve,
and the end of the family is in bank
TuplCS anu WANT lIldt COolu So edS1Ay
have been prevented If only the
woman had had enough sense and
firmness to hold on to her fortune.
The woman who turns her property
over to her husband robs her children
of Just so much in case of her death,
for il is notorious that second wives,
and the second set of children, almost
inva ably come into the bulk of the
property in a mans will. no matter
from what source the money came.
There is not one of US who does not
know of some case in which the chill
dren of the first wife have been denied
the education they should have had,
and have had to get out and scuffle for
themselves. and live poor hard
existence, while the children of the
second wife have gone to fashionable
schools, and lolled around IN automo-
biles on the money that came thru
the first wife.
This is not to say that a woman who
has property should not help her hus-
band She should. She should be
generous with him. She should use
her income for the upkeep of the fam
lily. but she is a foolish woman who
turns over her property to him, and
takes the control of it out of her own
hands.
For one thing is certain. If a man
is the right sort of man he will be glad
to feel that his wife is protected from
the horrors of poverty. Independent of
And If he is not the right sort OF a
man, then she will need more than
ever the protection that money gives a
woman.
Copyright. 1919. BY the Wheeler Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08

thirty years. the coal miners have been
idle ninety-three working days in the
year. The national interest is meas
ured by the fact that we have an ex-
cess mine capacity of at least $50 mil
lion tons and an excess labor force OF
perhaps 10000 men. In terms of
man-days, universal military training
of our young men for three months
would cost the nation less than the
idleness in coal mining. it is estimated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08
CONVENTION NOTES.

Mrs. Mabel Pomeroy OF Holton.
treasurer of the Kansas Woman's
Farm and Garden association. is one
of the most efficient and experienced
women in the state in agriculture.
For six years she has been an officer
OF the Kansas state grange and is in
terested in everything leading to prog
ress in agriculture. She also is enthu-
siastic over poultry raising, being the
possessor of $50 Barred Plymouth
Rock hens.
Perry A. Click. who will lecture to-
morrow before the convention of the
Kansas Woman's Farm and Garden
association on the subject. insects
and Beauty Unseen" is a student who
is doing advanced work in entomology
at the state university. He will dis
cuss bad bugs and good bugs" show
ing that many insects are not detri-
mental to success in crop raising
Click owns one of the largest and most
rare collections of insects and moths
in the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08
TAXI DECISION WITHHELD
Judge Whitcomb Wants to Look Into
Authorities Cited First

A decision in the fight of the. indie
pendent taxi drivers against the Rock
Island, the city administration and
the Payne Taxi Baggage company for
the same right to park along the Rock
Island right-of-way as that given to
Payne's drivers will be withheld for
several days by Judge George H.
Whitcomb.
I'm the arguments which occupied
all of Saturday, there were a number
of court decisions cited" said Judge
Whitcomb today. II wish to study the
proposition for several days before
rendering a decision"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08
PLACES SIXTEEN IN JOBS.
New State Employment Bureau Here
Gets Good Start

Fifteen men and one woman found
employment thru the medium of the
new state free employment bureau
during the first week of its existence,
according to H. c. Erickson. examiner
in charge, today. Seven of the men
were ex-soldiers.
Sixtyfour men and four women ap-
piled for work. Thirty of them were
referred to employers. During the
week forty-nine employees made ap-
plication to the office for help. Most
of the registrations were by unskilled
labor.
The report for the first week indi-
Gates the success which faces the new
bureau. The local office is in the To-
peka hotel at Sixth and Jackson
streets
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08

There was a time when it was re-
Earded as beneath the dignity of the
presidential candidate to stump the
country in furtherance of his claims
TO the suffrage OF the people, even
after his nomination. But now as
pirants for the nomination begin their
speech making campaigns far in adj
vance of the meeting of the national
conventions. 1t is the advertising age.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08

Opponents Of the peace treaty
charge that the president is trying to
force it into the campaign. In that
case they know how TO stop him. They
have but to vote for ratification. =.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08
Minnesota Wins Boundary Suit.

Washington, March S.-Minnesota
today won its suit in the supreme
court against Wisconsin to determine
the boundary between those states
along the upper and lower 81. Louis
bays. and also the St. Louis river.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08

WE INSURE EVERYTHING
FOR ANYTHING
THE CLARENCE E JORDAN
INSURANCE SERVICE
Adv Phone 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08

as your husband improving
Il think his health is, because hi
language isn't"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08

The women are all right, HEAVIER
bless EN-, but those who have room!
to let prefer to let them to men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08

The man who eats with his knife
creates comment in some localities ant
the one who eats with his fork create!
comment in others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08

Men are given medals for heroism,
but a woman is forced to content her
self with a plain gold ring for the
third finger of her left hand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08

In the matter of preparing poor
meat with an alibi no method seems
SO satisfactory as that of converting
it into hamburger steak.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08

1t is not surprising that young men
go in for football and other athletic
sports. The field of athletic sports
is the only one in which a man can
achieve distinction without having it
said of him that his wife made" him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08

A man can get along all right with
a hero, but if he is going to amount to
much he must have a heroine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08

Eph Wiley says he never worried
much about the japanese. Mr.. Wiley
says it is his custom to worry very
little about any race, the masculine
members of which are willing to do
housework for q living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08

Every artists conception of Father
Time seems to be that of a somewhat
slatternly elderly man with two but
tons off his undershirt. We. there
fore, suggest that the next artist who
draws a picture of the old gentleman
replace the two missing buttons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08

We feel Mr.. Hoover's insult to the
Republican party less keenly than
Senator Penrose. We do not recall
that Mr.. Hoover ever pretended he
had to hold his nose when in its pres
ence. And that is more than can be
said for certain gentlemen who are
now asking for the nomination for
president at the hands of the senator's
party. The senator's and ours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08

Due to the fact that there is bot
tie of liquor hidden in many of them.
the interest in cornerstones never was
so acute as it is at the present mo-
ment. The time is coming when men
will cheer a cornerstone as they now
cheer the flag.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-22
WEATHER

For Bridgeport and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday.
 For Connecticut. Generally fair to- might and Friday: gentle shifting winds.
 Weather conditions: Showers were reported during the last "A hours from the Southern districts and the Eastern portion of the Lake region Warm, muggy weather prevails this morning in all the Northern districts east of the Rocky Mountains. A well defined area of low pressure is cen tral over North Dakota. This is caus- ing unsettled weather in the upper Mississippi Valley and western por> tion of the Lake region. The tenn perature is generally above normal in the Lake region and New England.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity partly cloudy weather and not much s-,aAnGa in temDerature.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-22
STANLEY GETTING
 STATEMENT READY

President John c. Stanley of the Board of Police Commissioners. has as yet prepared no statement in answer to the allegation made yester- day afternoon by ex-Assistant Super intendent Charles S. Suckley, in which the former officer declared that it was "a commissioner" and not "the commissioners who ordered him to "get'' Captain Edward O. Cronan.
 MT. Stanley said this morning that he is preparing statement, but it is not ready to~be made public as yet The commissioner refused to com ment on the situation. No definite date has been fixed for a meeting of the commissioners, but it is expected that the Suckley matter will be taken up at the first session of the board. Suck1ey could not be located this morning,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-22
WOMEN OF COUNTY
 SIGN
Fairfield County Pledges Against the Republi- can Party on Suffrage Announced-One Gift of $1,OOO is Withheld.

The following Republican women of Fairfield County have signed the pledge not to help the Republican party until the Suffrag- Amendment is ratified:
 Mrs. James Stokes, Ridgefield; Miss Mary Olcott, Ridgefield; Mrs. John Adams Thayer, Westport; Miss Dotha garet S. Wilson, Norwalk; Mrs. Percy Brooks, Norwalk; Mrs. Spencer S. Adams, Norwalk; Mrs. J. Milton Co., burn, South NorwaJlk; Miss Louise B. Bigelow.. Newtown; Miss Alice c. Jud- son, Stratford; Mrs. Nellie M. Camp bell, Stratford; Mrs. A. E. Kingsbury Bridgeport; Miss Edna Schoyer, Ridgefield; Miss Nellie J. Leslie, Stratford; Miss Helen Louise Peck, Ian gzettel, Westport; Miss Caroline w. Lawrence, Glenbrook; Miss E. Frances Phillips, Glenbrook.
 Litchfield County-Mrs. John L. Buel, Litchfield; Mrs. Frank B. O"Neil1, Woodbury; Mrs. John c, Brinsmade. Washington; Mrs.. Lester ID. Brown, Lakevi1Ie; Mrs. c. B. sel, Litchfield; Miss E. w. Hartland, Woodbury.
 New London county-Mrs. George Maynard Minor. Waterford; Mrs. William Norton, Norwich; Mrs. AL bert H. Chase. Norwich; Miss Louise B. Meech, Norwich; Mrs. H. w. Jacques, Waterford; Mrs. Harry B. Hunt; Mantle; Mrs. Arthur H. Myers, Mystic.
 A well known Republican, to show his approval of the woNen's course, has signified that he is Withholding a $1,00O contribution to the Republican party until the Anthony amendment has been ratified.
 Mrs. George Maynard Minor of Waterford, who was recently chosen president-general of the National D. A. R., and Mrs. John Laidlaw Bue1 of Litchfie1d, leader of the Connecti- cut D. A. R., are among the signers of the pledge. Wives of several mem bers of the General Assembly are also included in the number. By coun- ties some of the well known signers