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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
ON RUBBING ELBOWS.

We taste of contentment only as
we find it-and take it.
But in order to do this, it is neces-
sary that we. rub elbows with the
varying experiences of everyday life.
Thru bodily and mental suffering as
well as thru the joys of the body and
spirit are we made fit for happy COM
partnership with those we love as our
friends.
People are what make the world
both livable and possible for each
of us.
And so we must rub elbows with
people. All of them we will not like.
And many will not like us. But the
contact with all helps to make us
what We are-possible companions for
the few.
The traveller is usually s. very
broad-minded observation-disclosures he
has rubbed elbows with all kinds OF
people in all parts of the globe.
And when such a person settles
down at his work in his comparatively
and his mind has q thousand unique
experiences toNdraw upon. From Hthe
Shelves. of his well stocked memory
he can draw a volume for almost any
mood or moment.
~Besides, rubbing elbows is very in
teresting proposition.
The man who rubs elbows with all
SUI - anu Iii CALOiAdC0 ySoAo COA4Ate
into his middle age rich in mind and
heart.
1t was Ulysses, coming into the
white winter of his declining years
who exclaimed: Il am a part of al
that have met"
To feel the throb of another earnest
life, to be warmed by its touch OF
sympathy and love, to walk in ever
step with it and know that an eternal
silent understanding is embodied
these are some of the blessings that
follow in the path of elbow-rubbing
Even the dumb brute longs for com
partnership. Somebody or something
| must be around.
But let US rub elbows with those
able to help us see ourselves in better
light and for more useful service.
We are all in a crowd. But the
| crowd radiates worth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30
THE 1922 OUTLOOK.

Every business man-and all are
business men in some sense-is inter-
ested in what the new year is to bring
in the way of personal and general
prosperity Those whose occupations
keep them in touch with the CONNER
cial and industrial pulse always are
ready to express their views regard
ing the future of business. Sometimes
they are right and sometimes they are
wrong. But these views always pos
sess an interest for the average man.
Conditions in the United States to-
days. says the New York National
Bank of Commerce, indicate that the
year 1922 as a whole will be more sat
isfactory to business than the year
Just ended. Profits will depend more
on economy of operation than on ex-
pans: 4 of volume. With the many
favorable factors now operating, bust
ness men should not fear to make
plans for the new year, but they
should plan with care and conserva-
tism, and with constant effort toward
reduction of costs.
Financial Improvement continues.
Progress has been made in reduction
of excess stocks of manufactured
goods. Accommodations of raw mater
ials have been reduced. The rate of
production in4he major industries has
shown little change during the clos
ing weeks of the year. Losses in some
lines have been offset by gains in 9TH
ers. the net result being that the gains
over the low level of the earlier
months of 1921 have been held.
B. c. Forbes, financial and business
writer. takes an optimistic view of
Americas business outlook for 1922.
Says Mr.. Forbes, in his magazine:
THE winter months cannot be ex-
pected to bring any notable expansion
in business, but starting in the spring.
the forward movement ought to gain
momentum, with business on a salts
factory basis and in full normal vol
ume by fall,
1.-The railroad outlook, to my mind,
is today better than it has been in
many years. AS business revives earn
ings should increase at least to the
minimum named in the transportation
act. Labor troubles are a possibility.
Among industries which should do
better in 1922 are iron and steel, cop
per, building materials in general
| coke, oil. rubber. automobiles, agricuI-
tural machinery, electrical, leather
clothing, mail-order, packing. canned
goods, exporting and importing, ship
ping. public utilities and, in the mat
ter of volume, coal"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BO0K
By LEE PAPE

was setting on our frunt steps this
AFTERNOON wishing it would snow. and
some lady stopped going past, saying,
Are you Mrs. Potteses little boy?
Yes nam, wy? 1 sed, and she sed,
Go in and tell your mother Mrs. Kelly
is heer to see her. Being a funny face
lady with wife gloves and a gold tooth.
and she went in the parler and sat
down and I went up and told ma, and
ma Sed, o, all rite, III be rite down,
you go down and tawk to her a vile.
. Wich 1 did, saying, She'll be rite
down, Mrs. Kelly, and Mrs. Kelly say
ing, That's good, how old are you?
8 going on 10, I sed. and she sed.
Tzzent that nice, do you Tern a lot in
yskool?
A pritty lot. sed. and she sed L.
gent that nice, heers 8 pennies for you.
I'm not Supposed to be allowed to
take money from visitors, I sed, and
she sed. o, izzent that nice, that's quite
rite. And she put the 3 cents back in
her pockitbook, me standing there
hoping she wouldent, and L sed. OF
corse nobody ever told me if some
body put some money in my pockft
vile 1 wasent looki1g, nobody ever
told me couldent keep it wen found
out it was there.
Being Supposed tc be hint, ony
Mrs. Kelly dident seem to notice it
and I sed. And nobody ever told me ]
wasent allowed to hunt for money in
case somebody hid some and told me ]
could keep 1t if l found it.
Being Supposed to be another hint
and Mrs. Kelly sed, Its too bad I did
emit think of doing it that way. izzent
it and 1 sed Yes mann. And stood
there a vile longer to give her time
to still think of it, witch she dident
and ma came down and I went out
and sat on the fruit steps agen dis
kurted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30

One naval expert estimated that
the adoption Of the Hughes limitation
program will mean an annual saving
TO the United States of over s450,0OO,-
600. Were the Hughes plan to be
abandoned and ouk present naval con-
struction program completed, the an
nual cost OF upkeep and replacement
construction would be s1,000,00O,0oO,
but with our navy reduced the cost
will be almost cut in half. When it
is considered that similar figures
hold good in other countries, it will
be difficult to explain to the world a
failure of the Hughes plan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30
TSFoRMATION FOR ALL READERS OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL.

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The war forced 50 many changes IN the
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lynchers. Concerning the cases of
lynching. there were 10 instances in
which prisoners were taken from the
Jail and 16 instances in which, before
reaching a Jail, they were taken from
officers of the law. There have been
63 persons lynched in 1921. OF these.
GO were in the south and 1 in the
north, This is two more than the
number 81. for the year 1920. OF
those 1ynched So were negroes and 4
were Thites.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30

parents Would it be all right for a
boy to bring me home from the show
BROWN EYES.
You are too young to give so much
thought to boys, Walk home from
school with your girl friends and en-
joy them for a few years longer You
will grow old soon enough. Your
parents are right in. thinking you are
still too young to go with boys.
Yes, you are too young to let a boy
take you home from the show. Be
satisfied to have your sister with you.
Some girls of your age are not allowed
to go to the movies as often as once
week and you should appreciate
your parents leniency rather than to
criticise them because they object to
boys.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30

Tsoads built, under construction or
under agreement for construction.
thruout the United States in conjunc-
tion with federal-aid funds distrib-
uted among the states by the bureau
of public roads, United States depart
ment Of agriculture, since July 1,
1915, total 2s,135 miles. according to
a summary of the work just complet-
ed by the department. The mileage
in Kansas is COLL, at a total cost of
S2S,076.667, and the amount of fed
era3 aid. z6.56O,915.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30
Dorothy Dix Talks
keen Hubby Depen1ent-t
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
worries Htghest PAid weman writes.

Admiral Teal Ting-Kan. senior ad-
wiser to the Chinese delegation OF the
Washington armament conference,
made a speech to women the other
day in which he told them how to
maintain a strangle hold on their hus-
bands.
He said that the way. to keen. a
husband was to keep him on a leading
string, to keep him dependent, and
looking to his wife as the source from
which all of his material comfors
fowed. and he warned wives against
the folly of ever permitting their hus-
bands to learn how to cook, or sew.
This is good advice which 1 have
frequently given, myself, in this coll
umn, for it is far more dangerous
to women for men TO get out of their
sacred sphere than it ever was te
men for women to break out of theirs
As have more than once pointed out,
the man who has mastered the art of
frying an egg without scramblinR It
and who can sew on a button without
Jabbing the needle thru the fleShy
part of his thumb rs an emancipated-
creature over whom woman has no
real hold.
Heaven knows, men are far too in
dependent of women, anyway. Clubs,
and bachelor apartments, and visiting
Wallets, are already responsible for
what Mr.. Wegg would call the decline
and fall off in matrimony among the
| guided youth of today. Happily, most
young men lack the price of this sort
! of single blessedness de luxe, so they
are still forced into matrimony TO get
1 somebody to take care of them but
goodness only knows what would hap
! pen if every man were a good free
hard cook, and an expert darner.
| Probably the wedding bells would
cease to jangle at all.
Undoubtedly, most men marry for a
| home, and to get some one to shelter
| and protect them. or course. they
! don't admit this even to themselves.
/ They think they have. fallen in love
with some particular fair one. and thai
| she has so taken possession Of theft
hearts that they cannot do without
, her.
But If they would psyehoanaiyze
! themselves they would find out that
the exact moment in which matrim6ny
sold itself to them, so to speak, was
| in an hour when their stomachs re-
volted at the boarding house pru1es.
| or they found out that they could read
I a.restuarant menu as long as your arm
backwards, and forwards, and cross
ways without finding one single dish
on it their appetites craved, or when
| they started to dress in n hurry, they
! discovered tha1 they didn't have a sin
! gle shirt that wasn't buttonless. or q
pair of socks that wasn't as full OF
| holes as a sitter.
1t is in this moment Of despair
when man realizes his inability t.
cope with the laundress, or provide
himself with decent food the way
he likes it, that he feels the need OF
having a wife to protect him, and
stand between him and the cruel
| world. and it is then that he up and
asks the woman who is handiest to
him to share his pay envelope.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30

According to the records compiled
At Tuskegee institute. there were ~
instances in which Officers of the law
prevented lynehings this year. OF
these were in northern states and "a
were in southern states. In 1920 there
were SIS such cases. 4e in southern
and 10 in northern states. In Sc of
the cases, the prisoners were removed,
or the g-ar6s were augmented. or 9TH
~ precautions taken. In s instances
hrmeI force was used 10 repei the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30

Clearing house reports for the first
week in December showed business
gains over the corresponding week in
uary. It has been a long pull from
the depression of last summer, but the
business records are now exceeding
those of last year, and it is hoped will
rapidly return to complete normally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
lFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.l
Personal and Social Items.


A delegation representing the Idle
rich called at this desk yesterday
morning to thank the column for the
bold and fearless, not to say the mas
terly, manner in which it has been
standing up for wealth and society.
You have no idea" said the spokes-
man of the delegation, how your able
defense of wealth and social position
has buoyed us up. 1t is. so far as our
observation has extended, the first
kindly word we have ever received In
a newspaper"
1t may interest you to know that
on yesterday we paid the final INSTALL
ment on the carpet-sweeper. Vendors
of portable typewriters might hear
something to their advantage by call
ing at this desk.
Cullen Cain and Milford Baker met
at luncheon yesterday for the purpose
of replaying the Harvard-Yale game.
The game resulted in Yale losing tl;s
bali on its own 15-yard line in the
first ten seconds of play and never
subsequently recovering it.
Fullerton L. Waldo is wearing one
of the cravats he received for Christ
mas, proving that it is sometimes
done.
A West Philadelphia piquet game
adjourned at 1880 o'clock Wednesday
night, thus breaking all records.
He having previously eluded all
pursuit, bloodhounds were yesterday
placed on the trail of the Philadelphia
bootlegger who is reputed to have a
stock Of Scotch
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30

Now a tariff is asked on tree leaves
by manufacturers who treat them
chemically in making Christmas
wreaths," says the Sioux City Tribune.
Before this tariff matter is finished
some one is liable to ask. and get, a
tariff on the air we breathe The
suggestion regarding a tax on the air
IS not so far fetched as it may at
first appear. 1t is related that an
ancient eastern ruler granted taxing
privileges on everything in sight until
apparently there was nothing left on
which he could raise revenue. Then
there came along a man who offered
him a considerable sum for the con-
troll of the air. This looked like easy
money so the deal was promptly
closed. The industries of the country
were carried on by the use of wind
mills. The establishment of the ma
tives may be imagined. therefore,
when the cOncessionaire appeared
and ma61 them pay for using his air.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30

Congress seemed to find little diff
Guilty in raising more than twenty
billions of dollars to lend to foreign
ers and to carry on the war but it sees
no way TO raise a few hundred mil
lions to pay the men who did the
fighting. However, the old adage that
2 where there is a win there is a way is
as true today as ever it was The pro-
posal to raise the necessary amount
by taxing wine and beer probably is
a bluff. But there remains the un-
tried sales tax.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30

A London scientific journal states
that medical men after long research
have concluded that talking adds to
longe ity-that thoAe VINO talk the
most live the longest. If that be true
some members Of congress should live
to be as old as Methuseiah.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30

Til secretary of agriculture coun-
sells the farmers to raise less corn.
While he does not say so, possibly the
secretary favors. in its entirety. the
program advocated by Mrs. Mary
Elizabeth Lease thirty years age.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30
HEART AND HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The state journal
By ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a girl
fifteen years old. Would it be all
right TO walk home from school with
boy? My parents object to my GO
ing with boys. / 90 to the show We'd
nesday night and my sister goes with
me. II she sees anything out of the
way she comes home and tells my
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30

at the time; but thinking it over after
ward she came to the conclusion that
Farquharson was a very nice name,
which was fortunate, as she soon sub
stituted 1t for her own.
Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30

Ireland's total area is a little more
than $4,000 square miles, while that
OF Iowa is 56,147; South Dakota, H.
cts; Nebraska, 1880, and Kansas a
little more than any of these. The
amount OF trouble that ireland can
stir up might easily create an impress
sion that it is a much larger country
than it is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30
JUST FOLKS
ZOE ne NEM YEAR.
q EDGAR q. GUEsT.

I'm HI - = " IL n
This would like to be-braser and boider.
J ust little bit wiser because am older,
Just bit kinder to those ] may meet.
Just bit manlier taking defeat:
This for the New Year my wish and my
plea:
Lord, make regular man out of me.
This would like to be-iust a bit finer
More OF smiler and less Of a wilmer
J ust bit quicker to stretch out my hand
Helping another who's struggling to stand
This is my prayer f~r the New Year to be
Lord, make regular man out Of me.
This l would ike to be-just bit fairer.
Just bit better ana just a bit squarer,
not quite so ready t. censure and blame,
quicker to help every man in the game
Not quite so eager mems failings to See
Lord, make regular man out OF me. 81
This would like to be-3ust a bit truer
Less OF the wisher and more of the doer
Broader and bigger. more willing to give.
Living and helping my neighbor to live;
plea:
Lord, make regular man out of me-
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30
QuesHons-Answers

Q. What Is the nature OF the bloodless
operation that DIR. Lorenz performs7 {.
A. DR.. Lorenz speciaIizes in offhopaedie
surgery. After years of study he develop
ed his so-called 'bloodless" method Of re-
ducing congenital dislocation 1of the hip
joint. This consists of the forcible stretch
ing of all the soft parts about the hip IN
til the head of the bone can be brought tp
the place where the socket should be (the
acetabuluml and then holding it in that
position and rotating the joint to secure
it in the depression of the acetabulum. A
plaster of Paris case is worn by the patient
from six to nine months after the opera
ton.
O. We have several drilled wells in this
locality, from which cold current Of air
comes at times. Pumps in these wells
freeze in winter when the air comes up.
What causes this? F. L. Fl.
A. The Division of Rural Engineering
says the type of the well mentioned in your
letter is known as a freezing well. The
changes in the pressure Of the atmosphere
outside. and of the air in the ground. This
: is quite n common phenomenon
|, Q. VIII honey keep a. long timer T. s
A Honey does not spoil. 1t 5 pre-
O. What was the size of the United
States army when the Republic was form
A. The strength of the United states
army in 1883 was one regiment of infantry
and one battalion Of artillery. numbering
| Q. What monume; is the tallest in The
/ world E NJ
A. The Washington Monument.-555 feet
in height, is ~tallest monument in the
world.
@ Who first used mahogany for fHrni-
ttnre? c. A. @.
A. 1t is said that Thomas Chippendale
discovered the possibilities. of mahogany
and made it the king Of cabinet woods.
| (Anv reader can get the answer to any
| question By writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Eureau, Frederic J
| Haskin, Director, Washington, D. e. This
offer applies strictly to information The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal mess-
1 teal and financial matters. II does cot at
tempt to settle domestic troubles. nor 10
undertake exhaustive research on ans CUB.
4ect Write your question plain and
enclose tive cents in stanips for retsirn
postage. All repIies ara sent direct to the
tnouIEsr.l
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Dinner Stories

The swain and his swainess had Just
encountered a bulldog that looked as
if his bite might be quite as bad as
his bark.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30
Another Penlsent.

Another Penltcnt.
Sir--In my efforts to secure red flan-
mel underwear in the leading stores of
your city was viewed as being slightly
insane. Is it possible, sir, that the
curative and thermal powers of the
red flannel undershift are no longer
recognized in this era? 1t is with in
dignation that castigate the ridicule
accorded a garment that is a symbol
of solid institutions. r. L. b.
Merchandising m t IDS have
changed in the quarter of a century
last past Modern merchandising does
p1ent, of punishment or torture. Likely
that's the reason Philadelphia stores
do not carry red flannel underwear.
Altho the day of red flannel under
wear happily is over, it must be con-
coded that it served a purpose. A red
flannelshirt, you will remember, was
the oriflamme with which the horine
invariably tagged the train.
Many will write of "Marse Henry
Watterson, but none of them will say
it as "Marse Henry would have said
it had he been permitted to do so.
The esteemed telegraph forecasts
a crowd of 10000 persons to greet
Eugene Debs on his return to Terre
Haute. Terre Haute has accommoda-
tons for about 500 spectators. We
shall watch the attempt of the es-
teemed telegraph to take care of a
crowd of 10000 persons with a good
deal of interest.
AS we have hitherto indicated, Mr.
Harding's action in the Debs case is
entirely satisfactory to the column
But we are disappointed in Mr.. Debs
He gave it out a time ago that he
would accept nothing less than a parS
don at the hands of the government.
We ask very little of our heroes,
but one who boasts that he will &C
cept nothing less than a pardon must
not subsequently take a communication
of his sentence.
The column is in favor of the test
proposed for Senator Newberry. upon
condition. 1t is that those who insist
| that Senator Newberry go upon the
floor of the senate and explain in de-
| tail the manner in which his cam
paign fund was expended and the sum
total thereof agree to do the same
thing
| We do not know Senator Newberry
and our interest in him is so remote
as to be negligible. We deprecate the
expenditure of tremendous sums of
money in politics. But we know, a
senator who, some years ago, diffused
in excess of $4,000 in his campaign
and subsequently filed a sworn state
ment showing expenditures in the sum
of $3.50. There may be others.
In other words, and since nobody
else has shown disposition to speak
up for the. in a manner of speaking
senator from Michigan, we protest the
plan to make him the goat of a sit
uation which is tainted in many of its
ramifications
The plea that othetssare not on trial
before the senate and the bar of pub
lie opinion may be interposed. Very
well, wen put them on trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30

Rub the nickel trimmings on stoves
with kerosene oil and whiting ana then
polish with a dry cloth