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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01

| should never touch liquor or a card,
and that they should beware of temp
tations that other men might safely
! daily with. The man who realized
! that he lacked energy did not argue
from that that he must make his will
power force him into perpetual high
gear. Those who came into the
world with weak constitutions did not
make study of hygienic living so
they might ward off disease
The high-tempered woman, and the
fextravagant woman, never dreamed
/ that the knowledge of the sins to
which they were prone should make
them put ten times the guard on their
good-natured thrifty woman needs to
put upon herself.
Just how much there is in heredity
not even scientists know. Certainly.
we see it work out in strange ways in
real life, because just as often children
rents have not got, as they inherit the
faults they have. If you will run
over the list of rich and successful
men IN your acquaintance, you will
find that about three-fourths of them
are the sons or ne'er-do-we1l fathers.
The fathers shiftlessness forced the
boy out to work and made a man in
stead of a loafer of him.
And it is a common proverb that no
account mothers have capable and eff
ficient daughters If mother is too
trifling to keep a clean house, and
make Vic children's clothes, daughter
is mighty apt to qualify for the job.
The most rabid prohibitionists
have ever met were the children of
drunkards.
All of which goes to show that he
redity is mostly an excuse for Self-in-
diligence, and that we can exercise
whatever evil spirits our ancestors
have handed down to us by the use of
a little will power. 1t doesn't matter
what is in the blood as long as there
is enough strength i'm the backbone to
fight it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01

1t is related that a herd of several
hundred cattle recently reached Den
Yer from a ranch hundreds of miles
away, by the same method that cattle
were brought to market in the days
before the railroads were built. These
cattle were driven to market for the
reason that they were in that way
brought to their destination for about
one-fourth of what it would have
cost to ship them by rail. The cic-
cumstance serves to illustrate the con-
tention that the people will find a way
to beat the high cost of transporta-
ton whenever possible. They are do
ing it in many ways besides driving
cattle to market. They will do 50
increasingly until rates shall be low
cred. 1t seems strange that the rail-
roads persist in their refusal to take
cognizance of these hints. Instead
they insist people will ship when
ready, regardless of rates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01

An innocent third party-the pub
lic-must be protected in golf. Gov
ernor Allen accepted this theory of
the cow pasture game today when he
became possessor of the first and per-
haps the only indemnity insurance
policy to protect the public against
injury from his game.
Persons not familiar with the tech
nique of golf may view Governor AL
lens game with absolute security and
with the knowledge that they are ade-
quately protected. The governor is
the owner OF a $4,000 policy protect
ing innocent bystanders. neighbors and
spectators against injury from the lit
tie gutta percha pills which take the
wrong english.
Recently Governor Allen made a
phenomenal shot on the Topeka Coun-
try club course. He made a three
cushion billiard for the green with a
mashie. The ball hit a tree and
bounded on the green within easy
putting distance of the cup. The shot
has attracted state wide attention
among the golfists. Governor Allen
has fatty and firmly denied that it
was a chance or random shot. He
contends the shot was just as he in
tended it.
Frank S. Groves. a wichita ;nsur-
ance friend. has felt that the public
has a right to protection in cases of
such drives and approaches. In con-
sequence he today sent the governor a
policy protecting the general public
in the amount of $4,000 against in
jury or damage from such shots in the
future
Governor Allen will play under
terms of his new policy-the first as
surance of protection to innocent vot-
ers and taxpayers of the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01
Local Mention

The condition of Timothy Long.
who has been ill at his home. S2l
Taylor street. remains unchanged, 1t
was said today.
The federal board of vocational ed
ucation has sent out transportation to
moro than one hundred men In the
vicinity of Topeka this week who will
attend the various colleges in the state
and receive training. They will attend
cultural college, Salina Wesleyan and
Pittsburg normal.
Raymond Chiropodist. Orpheum Bldg.-Adv.
The Merchants display service
opened for business this week at 216
East Sixth street. w. J. Eitel is man
ager. The firm offers its services in
window trimming. interior decoration.
decorating for dances, booths and
floats and sign card painting.
Charles Schick, a farmer living near
Berryton, was arrested today on n
state warrant charging him with com
uniting statutory offeuse against his
two daughters, Mary and Anna Schick
The latter is II years old, the former
much younger, officers said today.
He was released on bond after he
pleaded not guilty when arraigned in
the city court. His wife has been
dead for several years, officers said
Watch for ':Barreled Sunlight
Adv.
The only girl he ever loved he did
not marry. This is the statement Will
liam Ricketts, delights in making to
her in the presence of her friends. Mrs.
Minnie Ricketts, asserts in a divorce
petition filed Wednesday in the dis
trict court. They were married in
1911 and have two children.
DR.. F. o. Miller, grand master of
the United Brothers of Friendship.
and Rev. George McNeai, will address
the United Brothers OF Friendship
and the Sister of the Mysterious Ten.
at their nall at Thirteenth and Quincy
streets. Saturday night, September 8.
at 8 o'clock.
The state highway commission to-
day approved plans for an eight-mi1e
road between the towns of Belleville
and Scandal, Republic county. Tho
road is Of dirt construction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01

Chicago ILL.,, Sept. l.
WHEAT-The action of the market to-
tertaining bullish ideas, not only because
the market advanced, but on account of
the remarkable Improvement in buying
large volume of profit taking took place
and the offerings were absorbed in I'M
pressiye fashion: Cash premiums in Min
but considering the amount of cash pres
sure on those markets, the tone in reality
Local spot offerings were in demand at
firm prices Private estimates cut the crop
down to 740 million bushels and the trade
seemed to take the reduction very serious
", approaching that with approximate ly
10 million bushels already cleared from
-the seaboard, or sold for shipment abroad,
an acute situation is likely to develop after
the initial movement of spring wheat is
out OF the way. At any rate, it is very
evident that the bullish situation. is going
to assert itself earlier than generally ex-
pected
CORN-There was also more interest In
this market than there has been in long
time. with a strong tone displayed under
the stimulus of the advance in wheat and
further strength in the cash article. Spot
prices were &c to PIC higher and the basis
was about 1c better than yesterday. The
fact that no deliveries were made this
morning on September contracts was con
sidered Indicative of strong underlying
position. A leading crop authority estf-
mated the new crop at 3,145,000,000 bushels,
based on condition OF So, but added that
actual examination discloses poor filling.
which will not show up until the crop is
husked. The small cotton crop this wear
looms up as strong bull argument in
corn, because of the increased feeding of
grain that will be made necessary by the
scarcity Of cotton seed ordinarily used for
feeding purposes We consider the market
on an attractive investment basis
OATS-Hedging pressure by northwest
ern interests and local cash houses was
well taken and the market responded to
the strength in-other grains Cash prices
were about lie higher and the trading basis
firm The bHllish feature of a local esti-
mate of 1090, 100000 bushels was the state
ment that on basis of weight the crop this
year will be about SsS, 100000 bushels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01

The shipping board having made n
deal to sell more than 200 wooden
ships at $2,1OO each, some people will
criticise because the ships are sold at
SO much less than cost. But the loss
is not incident to the sale-the loss
has been sustained already and the
$2,100 may really be counted as a
gain-a salvage from a wreck. Any
thing we get out of those wooden
ships is so much to the good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01

In England. where the government
has also turned back th@ railroads to
private operation. the railroad en-
ployes are working on q sliding scale
by which wages come down automati-
cially with the decline of prices of
certain staple commodities. 1t might
be better to reduce wages in accord
ance with the decline in transporta-
ton charges. To such a plan there
should be no objection on the part of
the roads or their employees and there
certainly would be none offered by
the public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01
NEW ORLEANS COTTON MARKET,
New Orleans, Sept. 1.-CoTTON-Sp
steady; middling, $780,
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET

New York, Sept. 1.-MoNEY-Prime
me mercantile can paper; s@eA per cent; Ex;
commercial, 60 day bills on banks, 3.70A I;
Commercial. 60 day bills, 3.70b; demand,
Sl4 cables, 544h FraScs. demand, 1856;
I61 cables, 1914. Marks, demand 116Ja /;
cables, LII Greece. demand, 5-63 Sweden,
demand, 21-I5s Norway, demand. 1893. Ar
II %. Montreal. o 1915 per cent discount
Government bonds. irregular: railroad
80 days and months. 5al@6 per cent
Call money, firm; high, low. ruling rate
and last loan, 51a per cent; closing bid 5;
ance, per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01
Dorothy Dix Talks
Heredity-2.
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
worlds highest Paid Woman Writer

Heredity-2.
have seen women give full rein to
their tempers, and go into spasms of
rage over every trifle because their
grandmothers were viragos- / have
seen women ruin their husbands by
their mad extravaganza because they
said they took after some ancestor
who was a waster and spender.
All of these people visioned heredity
simply as a paIliation of their weak
nesses. 1t gave them leave to do as
they wanted to do. Not one OF them
saw in their heredity q red light of
warning.
The boys. who believed they were
born with a thirsty throat and a
yearning for games of chance. did not
deduce from that a tip that they
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01
LAUNCH SUPER DREADNAUGHT
One of Four Largest OF Q. S. Navy
Christened With River Water.

Camden, N. J., Sept. 1.-The SUPER
dreadnaught Washington, one of the
four largest and most powerful bat
tleships of the United States navy,
was launched today at the Gloucester
plant of the New York Shipbuilding
corporation.
Miss Jean Summers, 10 year old
daughter of Representative ]. W. Sum-
mers of Walla Walla, broke a bottle
of water taken from the rivers of
Washington over the PROV of the big
fighting machine as she christened 1t
for her native state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01

Those who have cherished the de-
fusion that the sales tax is dead prob
ably are doomed to disappointment.
Senator Reed Smoot will be heard
from on the matter when the upper
house takes up the revenue bill. And
Senator Smoot is a power in congress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01

An interesting exhibition ar the Pageant
Of Progress in Chicago Is one showing the
evolution of corn from the wild grass feo-
STINT. Which botanisfs decided was its early
ancestor Burbank achieved the evolution
in Is years that IL took nature, aided by
the crude agriculture Of the Indians un-
told centuries to achieve.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01
HUNT FOR SWEETHEART.
Idaho Girl Slain and Mother Badly
wounded When He Visited.

Twin Falls. Ida. Sept. 1-Miss
Dolores Weighall, Is, was shot dead
and her mother. Mrs. Frank Weig-
hall, was seriously wounded today at
the Weighan home at a mine five
miles from Contact, New. according
to meager reports reaching here to-
day.
SeIby Van Eaton, 81, said to have
been engaged to marry the girl. Is
sought He left here Tuesday, going
to Contact to see her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01
TOPEKA BANK CLEARINGS.
Total This Week Was $2,17O,021.55-
Decrease From Last Week

Topeka bank clearings during the
week, ended today, again showed a
decrease from those of last week and
the corresponding week a year ago,
according to the report OF Theodore
Mueller, manager of the local clearing
house. The clearings this week to-
tailed s2,17O,o21.55 as compared with
$2sSs.727.5o for the same week in
1920 and s2,422,924.75 last week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01
INCREASE INTEREST RATES
Banks and Trust Companies Can Pay

-Four Per Cent on Savings.
In an order issued today by Frank
II. Foster, state bank commissioner.
the interest rate on savings accounts
was Increased from " to 4 per cent.
The rate is a maximum which banks
and trust companies operating under
the state bank department may pay
Not since 1915 has the maximum
savings account interest rate been
changed. At that time IL was estab-
Iished at Sh per cent. Today's ruling
increases the rate TO per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01

July 81 recorded 526.177 idle
freight cars in the United States. Of
these idle cars 2O4,Ss6 were in need
% repairs. leaving S21.7s1 cars idle N
excess of current requirements. Bus
mess waits on rate reductions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01
PROTECTION AGAINST GOLF

Governor Allen Takes Out
$4,000 Insurance Policy to
Shield General Public From In
jury When Golf Pills Take
Wrong English.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01
LATE MARKETS
xANsAs CITY CASH SALES.

KANSAS CITY CASH SALES.
Detailed report of cash sales at Kansas
City, Mo-, September 1, 1921. Furnished
by Empire Commission Co., 201 New
England BidgD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01
GRAIN MARKET LETTER.

(Evening letter by Logan G Bryan. Fur
nished by b. c. Christopher, 226 New
England Bldg. L. c. Herwig, Mgr.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01

RANGE OE~ STOCKS.
FURNISHED by The Empire Commission Co.
2o1 New England B1dg.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01

The condition of Timothy Long.
who has been ill at his home. 321
Taylor street. remains unchanged, 1t
was said today.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-03-15
Welfare Worker
Resigns Here as
Red Cross Sec'y

Mrs. Blanche Freeman has resign
ed as executive secretary of the
Grady county Red Cross chapter.
Her resignation submitted several
days ago, became effective today.
The office of executive secretary
and welfare worker has been COM
bined with the chapter secretary's Of
flee. Mrs. A. E. Rishel, chapter sec
retary, will be in charge of the com
bined office.
Mrs. Freeman will continue as
field Secretary of the Chickasha
United Charities until April 1. Mrs
Freeman is a trained Red Cross exc
cutive and welfare worker, having
taken course in this work at the
University Of Oklahoma. She has
been executive secretary of tht
Grady county chapter since October
1902.
Mrs. Rishel has been secretary o
the chapter since October, 1918. She
| has ben identified with Red Cros,
work since three months after th'
local chapter was organized in 1917
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-03-15
Contract Author
Is Not to Attend
Meeting at Enid

That Aaron Sapiro, author of the
Oklahoma Cotton Growers associa-
tion contract, probably win not be
able to attend the wheat growers
meeting in Enid Saturday, is the re-
port received by c. L. McNutt, field
representative of tie association.
"Mr. Sapiro now is in Chicago at
tending a wheat growers conference
and, in all probability, will not at
tend the Enid meeting" Mr.. McNutt
said yesterday after returning from
Oklahoma City.
MANY Grady county wheat grow
ers' he continued, "were planning
to attend the Enid meeting just for
the purpose of hearing the Californ.
ian discuss the contract now being
offered by the Oklahoma Cotton
Growers association. "A similar con
tract will be the foundation for the
organization of the Oklahoma Whea
Growers association, which is now
being discussed"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-03-15
Union City Bridge
viii be Completed
Within FiUe Months

Completion of the new steel bridge
over the South Canadian river south
of Union City, should be arrived at
within the next five months, accord
ing to the contractors who have the
work in charge.
The north abutment of the bridge
has been practically completed, and
work has started on the south one.
In order to get the machinery across
the river it was necessary to drive
pilings and build false bridge over
the stream, over which was run a
railroad track.
When the south abutment has
been completed, the bridge will be
started from both ends simultaneous
ily, two crews being used. The work
is being pushed as rapidly as posi-
BILE, in order that it may be com
pleted before the time for the com
ing of rise in the middle of th,
summer.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-03-15
Nan Found Dead in
EL Reno Hotel Was
Bro. of Grady p. NJ

w. r. Crittenden, age 60, man who
was found dead in room in the
Southern hotel, Eel Reno, several
days ago, was brother Of Geo. II.
Crittendon, postmaster at Rush
Springs, 1t was learned here today.
The man is believed to have commit
ed suicide.
A muffled shot, it is said, was
heard in the mans room, but no at
rention was paid to it. The dead
body was not discovered until the
Rush Springs postmaster, who was
in El Reno, went to the room.
The deceased was said by his bro
ther to be we'll established fina.. .cial-
ly, being rated at about 100000. He
conducted mercantile business at
Altheimer, and is survived by mar.
ried daughter, and a second wife
The body was taken to his home fol
burial.
The killing was accomplished by
using a 3S-calliber revolver, the bul
let penetrating the head just above
and behind the right ear
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-03-15
Placed Before Chief Executive al
Cabinet Meeting: Labor seere.
tary Talks over Plans
For Arbitration
COMMISSION SLATED
TO HEAR BOTH SIDES
Hoover. Wallace and Davis to Form
Mediation Commission; Pack.
ers Agree to Plan; On
Hand with Attorneys
by United Press.

by united irc8s.
Washington. Mar. 1.-THE wage
dispute staged between the packers
and their employees was put up to
the president Of the United States
today.
Secretary OF Labor James ]. Davis.
an hour before the scheduled cabl.
net meeting called at the White
House with portfolio OF papers
bearing on the case. He went A.
once to the prlya c office OF presi.
dent Harding.
II was stated later that Secretary
Davis and President Harding agreed
that a commission composed OF Sec.
retary Davis. Secretary OF Commerce
Herbert Hoover aud Secretary Of
Agriculture Wallace would act as a
mediation commission TO hcV both
sides Of the controversy.
Secretary Davis stated that the
packers have agreed to this form Of
mediation.
Two representatives of the "big
five" packers arrived in Washington
Monday to take part in the confer
ence called by Secretary OF Labor
Davis to settle the dispute between
the packing companies and their en-,
ployes relative to 12 IL percent in
crease in wages which became effec.
tive Monday.
Representatives OF the packing
house employees have not yet arrived
The packers are represented by
two Chicago attorneys, James G. Con
don and Carol Meyer. One of the rep
resentatives of the packing house
employees is expected to be Dennis
Lane. The other has not been desig
mated.
Senator Medill- Mccormick of Chi
cago, was in conference with Secre-
tary Davis for half an hour this af.
ternoon. AT the close of the interview
he told newspaper men that tie had
called on a personal matter which
did not concern the packing house
wage controversy
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-03-15
EFFORT IS MADE
To LAND ACTION
ON NATURAL CAS-
Vice President Of Oklahoma Natural
Asked TO Come Here for Par.
ley; Local Gas Company
Makes Survey

In an cffor, Ia take another step
toward procuring natural gas for
chickasha. the Chamber OF Com.
merce has written viye.President
sharpe OF the Oklahoma Natural at
Tulsa. inviting him to come TO
Chlckasha for conference with
local officials and citizens with a
view TO making a survey OF the situ-
alton.
The attitude OF the Oklahoma Nat
ural is believed to be that. In the
event n connecting line is laid from
the distributing lines of the local gas
company to the Oklahoma Natural
mains. south OF the city. the city
viii be supplied with gas from the
Oklahoma Natural mains. II has been
intmated that the corporation com.
mission would bring no pressure 10
bear on the Oklahoma Natural to
force them TO build the connecting
line. owing to the great expense in
volved, and the element Of uncertain
t. as TO the life Of the wells In the
Duncan field. from whence comes
the bulk of the gas through the
nearby main.
The Chickasha. Gas and Electric
company. has through its engineers.
completed survey of the distance
and probable route. from the city
to the nearest point the Oklahoma
Natural mains come to this city.
finding it to be five miles. Estimates
OF the cost of building the connect
ing line are now being made by the
local gas company.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-03-15
Baptist University
Mems GLee Club to
GiUe Recital Here

The mems glee club of the Okla
homa Baptist University, of Shaw
nee, which will begin its tour of
the state and northern Texas in
April, probably will visit Chickasha,
it was announced this week.
The name of this city appears in
the proposed itinerary which includes
Ardmore, Hugh, Sherman, Dennison,
Waurika, Duncan, NARROW, Chick
asha, Lawton, Frederick, Cordell
Weatherford, Guary and Oklahoma
City.
Kenneth Watkins, son of Mrs
Edna T. Watkins, former Grady
county court clerk, is member Of
tho o. B. U. glee club.