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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12
TOPEKA A HEALTH CENTER.

The importance of the work being
done by organizations for the conserva-
ton of the public health is well il
Illustrated by the fact that one big life
insurance company last year dis
bursed nearly forty-seven million dol
lars in the payment of death claims
Over three-quarters of this amount, IT
reports, was paid On account of deaths
from ten causes which are largely
preventable or postponabIe.
More money was disbursed on &C
count of tuberculosis than for any 9TH
er disease. Despite the fact that the
death rate for tuberculosis diseases in
1920 was the lowest in the history of
the company and was two-fifths be-
low that of 1911, more than six and
one-half millions were paid for death
claims resulting from tuberculosis.
Pneumonia ranks second in impor-
lance in amount paid for death
claims. The sum was more than five
million dollars. Many of these pneu-
monia deaths were due, primarily, to
influenza which continued to be. on its
own account, one of the principal
causes of death; it was responsible for
the disbursement of well over three
million dollars. One dollar of every
fifteen disbursed was paid on account
OF deaths definitely reported as due 70
irfi'I"rZa. The total Cor influenza
AID pneumonia combined is even
higher than for tut erouiosis. The
amount was mora ti1a atoT- opd oao
quarter millions of dollars.
Over five million dollars was paid
on account of organic heart disease
Over three and one-half millions was
paid in the settlement of death claims
from cancer. One death in every
eight of women and one in every four.
teen of men over the age of forty
years is from cancer,
The amount disbursed on account OF
the various diseases and condi-
tions arising from Collaborating was
nearly one million dollars.
Topeka is especially fortunate IN
being able to have at her disposal
seven public health clinics conducted
by the city board of health, the Pub
lie Health Nursing association and the
Topeka tuberculosis association.
Thru these clinics persons with dis
ease suspicious, may, without cost, un-
dergo thoro examination. This
city should soon become the health
center of the country. No other
city has paid SO much attention to
matters of Health and happiness
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

The railroads thru what appears to
be united action have inaugurated a
general reduction in wages. Their
course would meet with more extend
ed approval from the public and
from the employees affected If It
reached the full length of the payroll
instead of applying only to that class
of labor already the poorest paid
There is another matter that the rail-
road managers should not overlook
and that is that they must reduce
their transportation charges at the
same time that they reduce wages If
they expect to retain the favorable
consideration of the public which
they have won at so great a cost.
They should not begin to shout until
they are out of the woods. They will
not be permitted to return to the
practices of years gone by. The rail-
roads have been permitted to increase
rates to enable them to pay wartime
wages. A reduction in these wages
calls for a corresponding lowering of
rates. This is a proposition that can
not long be ignored.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12
Dorothy Dix Tails
The real Beauty CuIture-1.
~ DOROTHY DIX
WsslA's HisAsss Paid Wsnaa Ws1eaR

The Real Beauty Culture.
The other day a woman killed her
self because she had lost her good
looks. She had been a noted beauty;
but ill health, and grief over the death
OF her child, and the approach of mid
die age had robbed her of her pulchri-
tude, and she ended her life because
1t was uncomfortable to her when she
was despoiled of her physical charms.
A pitiable and paltry tragedy, this. Yet
perhaps there is no more bitter ordeal
than the one the beauty endures who
sees her good looks fade. She knows
the agony of gazing into her mirror,
and watching the gold of her hair turn
cheeks, the light fade from her eyes.
the grayness and the wrinkles creep
into her skin, the slenderness of her
form change into scrawniness or fat.
It Is as if one watched oneself slow
ly dying; for to the woman the charms
are dissolving that gave zest. to her
life. No more will she be a queen in
her little world, no more will she see
a tribute of admiration in every eye.
No more will she be courted, and flat
tered. and sought after. Perhaps she
will even no longer be able to hold the
love she has won by her beauty, for
with her good looks gone, her wand
of enchantment is broken.
The pretty woman's beauty Is gen.
orally all the stock she has on her
| shelves, and when it is gone, all is
gone. She is bankrupt. That is why
women hang on so frantically to the
last vestige of their good looks, why
they dye their hair. and paint their
cheeks, and try to camouflage their
| lost charms. That is why they spend
| fortunes on salves, and unguents, and
fall victims to any charlatan who pre-
tends that he can restore their youth
! and beuaty.
Such a miracle is, also, impossible.
| No mortal hand can ward off the raw
| ages of sickness, or anxiety. or stay
| the passage of the years that take
| their inevitable toll of a woman's
looks. Age and the fading of her ply
| steal charm are bound to come to
every woman. and then her beauty de-
| ponds upon the kind of soul she has.
| 1t is strange that women do not
think of this oftener. and realize that
| il they spent half as much time, and
| effort, and money, in cultivating an in
ward beauty. as they do In vainly try
ing to keep their outward beauty. they
| would have no reason to fear age,
| for they would achieve an imperish-
| able charm.
| Suppose. for instance, woman
spent as much time cultivating the in
side of her head as she does the out
| side. Suppose she gave as much time
| to study every day as she does to
brushing and fiddling with her hair.
Suppose she put in as many hours
| reading new books as she did in hav-
/ ing a permanent wave, or doing 1t up
on crimpers herself, to say nothing of
the forty-1even branches of literature
she might explore in the time It takes
| her to executive a first-class hand
| made complexion. What an interest
| ing companion she could make of her
| self How wide and varied would be
| her conversational repertoirei What a
! responsive listener she would become!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
THE PARK AVE. NEWS
BY IEE PAPE

Weather Berds thinking about
coming back from the south.
Spoarts. Last Satiddy Pubs SIM
kins was coming back from the store
carrying a duzzen eggs in a bag, and
some of the other fellows saw him and
started to follow him to see If he
genrelly dropping everything at leest
once, ony he dident, even wen the
fellows yelled Hay there. Heds up.
Look out. etc, among those following
him being Benny Potts, Artie Alixan-
der, Ed Wernick, Skinny Martin and
Skinny Mullen.
Sissiety. Members OF sissiety have
noticed a site change in Lew Davises
appeerants lately. proberly being due
to missing teeth.
POEM BY SKINNY MARTIN
So Keep Bizzy
o summir is coming back agen
With vacation and grass and flowers,
But no matter how CRATE of a day
it is
1t ony has "a hours.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. Sid Hunt says he can drink
glasses of wattir without stopping
but watts the use.
Public Auction! \ Come one come
all! Reddy Merry will auction off his
old roller skates on his frunt steps
next Wensday after skool. Ball barring
skates and well broken in. (Avver-
tiZement.)
Lost and Found. Nuthing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12
WHY COAL is HIGH.

Not all of the huge sum paid for
coal by the consuming public is rep
resented In profits and actual cost of
production, as might be supposed.
Figures which illustrate the amount
of money annually contributed by the
coal-consuming public, toward the
maintenance of the Miners union, have
been furnished by the West Virginia
Mining News. These figures, it is
said, are based upon an examination
of the payrolls of coal companies in
several states.
Where part of the money paid by
goes Immediately IS shown; where
this money finally goes certain anti
open-shop manifestations in various
quarters might possibly, upon investi-
cation. more clearly reveal.
There is, it seems, as part of the
agreement made between the Miners
union and the operators of the coal
mines, a plan known as the check
off," under which the companies must
hold back or check off a proportion
of the wages due the miners, which
check-off is paid by the company di-
rectly to the union.
Union leaders claim that there are
100000 members of their organiza-
ton among the coal miners. During
1920 the average annual check off,
according to the West Virginia Min
ing News. was between $40 and $50
per man. or about SIS per member of
the union. 1t appears, therefore, that
the public paid into the union Golfers
during the'l last year thru the medium
of the check-off system, the total of
approximately sS3,750,0O0. 1t repre-
sents a heavy tax on the people who
are compelled to buy coal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

ply served to change the lukewarm
and haIf-hearted among its own ranks
into ardent defenders, and to attract
thousands of new members to its ban
ner.
After all q governor makes an ex-
cellent press agent" unused q New
York Woman Voter, the other morn
ing, as she checked a long list OF new
subscriptions. IF this rush of new
members keeps up. the next thing you
know we will be presenting him with
a loving cup
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

IN. T. Jones, of the South Mound
neighborhood, called at this office
Saturday and advanced his subscrip-
ton another year. Mr.. Jones was re-
turning to his home from the Kephart
sale in Big Creek township. While
here he informed us that him and mis-
brother had purchased Mr.. kepharts
fine flock of sheep"
We know now that it was no liter
airy gem. We do not defend thu
phrase him and his brother" Blu.
for thin, stoopshouldered, fifteeI-
year-old boy, busily engaged in pick
ing long primer out of dirty case,
1t wasn't so bad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12
JUST FOLKS
By EDGAR A. GUEST.
CONSOLATION.
By EDGAl

We shall be comforted in time.
Tho now the heavy shades are drawn
And solemnly the church bells chime.
From darkness we shall come to dawn.
Death is the bitterest blow that falls.
Yet all who live are born TO die
Somewhere the solemn courier calls
With every hour that passes by.
Yet are We brave and are we true,
And would we try to please our dead,
We must not mourn the long days thru,
But by our faith be comforted.
The loneliness is hard to bear.
The silence seems to chill us thru,
And missing them that were so fair
There seems no Joy In all We do.
No speech can lift this weight of grief
As solemnly the church bells chime,
Now must we turn to our belief
We shall be comforted in time
Copyright, 1921. by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

A Baltimore publication is very
much exercised over an assertion that
Germany is endeavoring to influence
legislation in the United States by de-
laying tariff legislation. If Germany
really is so greatly interested in de-
laying tariff legislation, how did 1T
happen that the Germans in this
country voted the Republican ticket
last November? Is it reasonable to
suppose that they would vote for
something that the mother country
did not want?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

buy" says the Age, 'is the present
prices. They are lower than those of
a few months ago, but still high. The
main reason they stay so high is the
excessive wages being paid to the
miners" But why leave the freight
rates charged by the railroads out of
the consideration? Don't they have
something to do with the public's re-
fusal to buy coal that It doesn't need?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

4 IF present tendencies in the pro-
duction and transportation of coal are
Not speedily changed" says the Rail-
way Age, 1.-THE American people with
n a few months will be confronted
with the most serious danger of a coal
famine ever known" 1t points out
that there has been a decline of AZ per
cent in production and that $4,000
coal cars are standing idle because
consumers and dealers are not buy
ing and the mines are not producing
coal with which to load them. Prob
ably the main reason why they won't
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12
Observation-Disclosures

@. Where is the coolest place OF WHICH
II T. temperature has bee" recorded "A. H.
A. The Weather Bureau says that the
Antarctic temperatures are very low; put
the place of the lowest observed tempera-
ture is in northeastern Siberia. with rec
ord of 80 degrees below zero ana q an aver
q. when was a Civil Service Commission
first appointed, and how long did II lastf-
A. In 1871 congress included a clause in
the general appropriation bill authorizing
the president to prescribe rules for admls-
sion to civil service and to appoint com.
mission for that purpose. President Grant
the Wifi Gv caetis as
This operated until the winter of 1870. when
congress omitted the annual appropria-
president suspended the operation Of the
civil service rules.
Q. In ancient times. what was the orches-
A. In the Greek theaters. the orchestra
was the place allotted to the chorus OF
O. What IS the origin or meaning of
the expression "Bedlam let loose"?-M. V.
A. l"Bedlam'' is the popular name for
the Hospital of st. Mary Of Bethlehem.
London insane asylum This is now a wen
equipped, well conducted hospital; ,i but IN
the public, and the convalescent patients
we're sent out on the streets to beg, in or
needs 20 Of the institution. This surely must
have been "Bedlam let loose"
O. What city in the United States Is
known as the Electric City"?-I. NJ C.
4. This name has been applied to
pie are here employed in the manufacture
O. Please publish an answer to the ques-
ton where did the Indians come from!
A. The Office of Indian Affairs states
that no one knows exactly where Indians
originated and how they got TO America.
Some say, they originated in China; some
say Egypt: and some say India. They
Behring Strait, or via Atlantis, the lost
O. Please give me the date Of the con-
struction of oil toll road from Phil
adelphia to Harrisburg and on west?-J.
c. B..
A The road you have in mind was
called the old Lancaster Turnpike: it was
started in 1872 by the Lancaster Turnpike
company; was completed in 1894, l. e., COM
pleted az far as HaIrisburg or thereabout.
continued from there west to Pittsburgh
The final date of completion is unknown.
This Lancaster turnpike is the Oldest toll
road in the United States.
(Any reader can get TIE answer 70 any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information bureau. Frederic J.
IIaskin, Director. Washington. D. c. This
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bureau cannot give advice on legal. medical.
and financial matters. II does not under
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

The retiring secretary of agricul,
t1re. e. T. Meredith, is quoted as de-
ciaring that the $4,000. 100000 which.
Mt a conservative estimate, the farm
ers of the country have lost as a re-
suit of the trade slump, combined
with the heavy cost of transportation.
has created such discourageme in
agricultural sections that the outlook
is exceedingly dubious. Recent sur
voys by his department show, he says.
that the country is consuming the
largest volume of 'foreign-grown food
stuffs in its history. and that the value
OF the foreign imports of food greatly
exceeds the value of exports from the
farnE Are we to understand that
foreign food products can be hauled
to market more cheaply than home
PRODUCTS?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

The Indiana house has rejected a
bill to forbid women from working
more than six days in a week or more
than fifty-two hours in a week and
also to forbid them from working
between 10 p. m. and a. m. This
attempts at regulatory legislation looks
like an effort to usurp the prerogative
of the labor unions. These generally
can be depended upon to say how
long anybody may work. But why
should not woman put in such hours
as she may choose, either day or
night? Political equality should
carry with it. equality in the field of
labor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

1t has been said that it is the i'm
perative duty OF every man to plant
fruit trees and educate his children.
To these might be added the building
OF good road@ Deny a people good
roads. and we deny them modern civ
ilization. We cut all the sinews of
their growth and power. Denying
men touch with the world condemns
them to stagnation, decay and death.
People are greatly wise who tax them
selves freely for the construction of
good roads. Good roads are not only
e social. civil, industrial and patriotic
duty, but they are profoundly moral
and strictly religious obligations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

The legislative program for the ex-
FRA session of congress. said to be
Agreed upon by Republican leaders.
places tariff legislation ahead of tax
teform. This renders remote the
probability of tax revision. When
congress settles down to discussion
of the tariff there is little chance for
anything else; also little chance of
Bringing the matter to a conclusion.
The Fordney. bill would not have
PASSED If it had not been certain that
Mr.. Wilson would veto it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12
MouHon Musings
Looking Forward.
By ROY X. MOULToN.

From the n. Y. American: Every
sinner is going to be punished with an
overdose of his own sin. A tobacco
smoker will be locked up in a den full
of tobacco smoke. A chewer of the
filthy weed will be immersed to his
neck in a vat of tobacco juice. A.
drinker will pass his term of purifica-
ton in a natatorium filled with beer,
wine and whisky"
oh death, where is thy sting?-R G.
Rich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

1t is reported that Trotzky's soldiers
are leaving him in large numbers and
going over to the rebels. If this be
true it marks the beginning of the end
for the soviet government A govern
lnent of that sort can endure only
thru force
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

ais. 'And henceforth we shall be try
ing to do it every way and every
where" Griswold ended: I'VE want
you to help US in the helping, and let
US adopt ma. II we can make you any
return, name it," Henry blushed a bit
but answered.: "A1l I ask is to have
you tell all this over to my wife,
Copyright. 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

Collective bargaining never can be
an entire success until either party
can be Brought into court for viola
that OF contract. Agreements between
Employers and employees too often are
ire. ted as scraps of paper"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

copyright. 1890. by the wheeler Cy indicate.
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

1t appeared, we go on to say, in the
columns OF the Grigsby City Weekly
Clarion and-ran something like this:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

For the Authors League Bulletin
Carolyn Wells, James Forbes. Alice
Duer Miller and others have been
writing OF My Maiden Effort" Their
"reminiscences brought back recollsc-
tions of our own maiden effort and set
us to searching the files of memory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12

The three-weeks-old newspaper is.
however, more interesting than one
would suppose. 1t is a compendium
of prophecy and fact-of things that
never came to pass and things that
were not true.
The St. Johns herald., 1921-09-01
CONCRETE FLOORS ARE BEST
Promote and Protect Health of All Farm Animals and Increase Prof.
 it's for Farmer.

A concrete barnyard makes a fine exercise lot In all kinds of weather and always affords a dry spot for the animals bed. Every shower washes the surface clean and fushes the dropplngs into the manure pits. Con. crete yards tighten the work of the housewife, as there is no mud to be tracked on the walks and kitchen floor. The use of rubber boots is un- necessary. On concrete floors not a particle of grain need be wasted. The way to the water trough is always dry. smooth and passable. Concrete floors promote and protect the health of farm animals and increase the profits of farming, stock raising and dairying.
The St. Johns herald., 1921-09-01
THIN ROADS ARE EXPENSIVE
Ordinary Rock Surface Under Motor Traffic Coming in Next
 Few Years.

MacAdam was years ahead of his age and years behind this one. The builders of the Appian Way knew more about building road for mo- tOrtruck than MacAdam, strange as it may appear. It Is the general opinion among road builders-an opinion greatly Quickened and altered by the war-that the light stone road, be it surfaced or oil treated in what way you will, is not the road to build in the face of an avalanche of motor trucks that is coming in the next few years. The mOtOrcar brought oil to the road as a necessity. The water bond, which worked so we'll with iron tires and iron shOd hOOfs, Is useless against the suction of the pneumatic tire. But the oiled stone road that holds the 3,OOO-pOund car with ease will not carry the ive-tOn truck-and last.
 The railroad builders have found that for heavy traffic 1t pays to use the heaviest steel rails, the finest wood for ties and the best broken stone. and plenty of 1t, for ballast.