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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Looking Blackboard In Society
Columns of The State Journal
July 80, 1901.

July 30, 1901.
Miss Elsie Valentine will return the last
of the week from a two weeks trip TO
Ludington, Mich, and other northern
points.
Mrs. r. T. Herrick and little daughters
went to Hiawatha today for a several
weeks visit with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Barnard of Oklahoma are
in Topeka visiting Mrs. Barnard's son, Mr..
c. G. Colburn and wife at their home on
Tyler street.
Mrs. J. S. West spent Sunday with
friends in Lawrence.
Miss IIlla Scoville of Seneca is the
guest of Miss Mabel Knowles. After
Wednesday she will spend a short time
with Miss Bessie Hayden, after which she
will go to Kansas City for a short visit
before leaving for the northern lakes.
Mr.. Hugh Mcfarland has gone to Texas
to join the surveying party that his
brother. Mr.. John Mcfarland is with.
Mr. and Mrs James Il. Hayden and
daughter. Bessie, will leave Friday for
Maekinac to spend the remainder of the
summer
Miss Vera Low returned Monday from
Colorado Springs where she spent a few
days with her mother.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Auerbach returned
Monday evening from their wedding trip
in the east and will be at home to their
friends at the Hotel Throop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Perry are hav-
ing as their guests at dinner tonight
at the Country club. Mr.. and Mrs
Arthur Peine of Manhattan, Miss Ruth
Wood, Miss Frances Perry, little Miss
Harriet Perry and Mr.. James Perry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Some people connect the word "de-
Iicious' only with something to eat;
something to tickle the palate and
then pass into the Land of Joy-That-
Has-Been.
To me, something delicious is a bit
OF verse that fingers in the memory;
the pink of an apple orchard against
the lowlying purple hills; the soft
clasp of baby arms.
It is the tang of a camp fire in
autumn white breakers whipping d
rocky cliff; the song of a meadow
lark on spring day; rose tree-tops
at dawn, outlined on leaden skies; a
cIump of redbud along the river bank.
was comparing notes with a friend
recently, and learned that she had
gone thru the same experience that
had narred several years of life for
me; that of being put under obliga-
tons to a woman who never let one
forget it, and who had forced the OBJ
legation in the first place.
In my own case-and that of my
friend was similar-the woman, an
older and more experienced house
keeper, had been brought up on a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

A number of years ago a dozen or
more, teen age girls in a Sunday school
class taught by Mrs. Ford Robinette
organized a club known as the G. G.
club. AS the years have gone by the
girls have become scattered and the
club diSbanded.
Thursday Mrs. Ford Robinette had
reunion of the club members at her
home west of the city complimentary
to Miss VIENNA Bartleson of Santa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Mrs. Leonard Woods and Mrs. Nor
ris Woods were hostesses at a card
party this afternoon at the w. 1. Mil
Ter home, 1925 Topeka boulevard, for
number of their friends.
Those playing included: Mrs. Wal
ter Beers, Mrs. Clyde Mills, Mrs. Jay
Hughes, Mrs. Hugh McLain, Mrs.
Frank Holloway, jr., Mrs. Taurus
Magill. Mrs. Dale Burdick, Mrs.
Churchill Sargent, Mrs. William Par
IRISH, Mrs. George o. Boone, Mrs. A
NJ. Officer, Miss Ella Kanipp, Miss
Helen Gresser, Miss Margaret Rust,
Miss Lillian Larson, Miss Helen
Leeper. Miss Mildred Clary, Miss Lu-
ellie Mcguire, Miss Marjorie Petro,
Miss Helen Lewis, and Miss Peggy
Monteith of California.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Announcement has been made ir
Peoria, ILL.,, by Mr. and Mrs. David
w. Norton of the engagement of theii
daughter. Lenna Marie, to Mr.. Lake
Churchill of Ga1esburS, Ill.
Miss Norton is the granddaughtel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Topeka, Kan, July 81, 1921.
Dear Grace: Just think of it, we
are TO have at least three weddings in
August that I know of, and perhaps
more. One of the girls is to marry a,
ranchman and make her home on one
of our big Kansas ranches, and another
of the brides will make her home in
Chicago. Then in addition TO all this,
one of our Topeka girls who has been
attending K. U. will not return this
fall-reason, engaged to. be married.
All in ALL things are becoming more
interesting.
And then, too. there's another case
which may eliminate in an announce
ment, a man in our town who appar
emily has fallen completely in love
with a handsome young business
woman, of the slender brunette type.
From all reports and appearances has
nearly won out. but there is still one
serious difficulty to overcome, the man
is Democrat, an admirer of Wood
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

of Col. and Mrs. ]. D. Norton of West
Eighth avenue. She left kere about
eight years ago with her parents to
make her home in Peoria. Mr.. Norton
was formerly assistant cashier of the
Merchants National bank here and is
now cashier of a bank in Peoria.
Miss Norton has attended Bradley
college for several years, last year at
tending Knox college. She is a Tri
set. but will probably take place this
fall.
Mrs Bernard Goldsmith of New
York City, who is visiting her sister,
Mrs. Henry V. Stearns, was the guest
of honor at q morning party given
Friday by Mrs. L. D. Whittemore at
her home, 1915 College avenue.
y y y
Mrs. A. C. Nash, Ills West Second
street, has announced the marriage of
her daughter Stella to Mr.. George C.
Smith. the wedding taking place Fri
day evening at $50 o'clock at the
home of the bride. The Rev. e. w.
Allen. grandfather Of the bride, per-
formed the ceremony in the presence
of only the immediate members of the
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith left Friday eve
ming for Toronto, Canada, and New
York City, and on their return will be
at home in Topeka.
Mrs. Smith, who resigned her posi-
ton as editor of the woman's page of
the Capper Farm Press last fall, at
tended Kansas State Agricultural col
lege last term. Mr.. Smiths former
home was in Edinburgh. Scotland.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30
FEMININE OBSERVATIONS
By MYRA WILLIAMS FARRELL.

7 farm, where the day began at about
the time I had been returning from
parties when I was young. She had
known hard work and more hard
work, and it had made her merciless.
| I had known fun and pleasure. 1
| had a blessed memory of a girihood
home where I had no more response
bility than the bird which Weakened
me every morning with its song. I'm
not defending the system, tho I love
every moment of those hours.
This woman, who had no children,
! could make no excuses for the mother
| of several little ones. who. part of the
| time, was also cook and laundress for
not having her house always perfect
ly imma culate. And she believed in
being frank in her criticisms. Also,
she could not be happy in her own
spotless home, thinking that a baby
| shoe might have been kicked off in
play, and be reposing on the floor of
! her neighbours house; it spoilt her
repose of mind to wonder if the dust
1 ing had been done thoroly that day
in the little house of love across the
way.
| Worrying about these things, she
| would come over and insist upon help
ing with the work. 1t was an unpar-
| donable intrusion. and only the fact
| that had been reared to be polite in
my own home, prevented my telling
| her what 1 thought of her methods.
| ~ SAl-S Odys ludL women mas not Iall6Q
| TO remind me when We have met, that
am under obligations to her.
1t was a joy to me to find that there
was no foundation for my secret fear
that 1 was an migrate for not loving
| this woman for the ministrations she
forced upon me. My friend is big and
| fair and just, and she feels the same
way about. her early benefactor.
a Topeka woman is so expert as
| conversationalist that when her vic
| Tins are forced to break away, she is
| able to pick up the thread where it
was broken off, when next they meet
And that reminds me of a story told
me, by a friend,-a true story, too.
| This friend was at a morning meeting
| of the Woman's club one day and got
| into conversation with a woman who
| sat next to her. The talk turned on
| children not wanting to eat breakfast
before going to school.
| Il always beat up an egg with some
| milk and sugar, and meet my boy at
| the front door with it as he starts to
| school," this woman volunteered. I'm
| that way know that he has some
thing to stay him during the morn
| ing"
My friend said she thought that a
| good suggestion, and would try it with
her own son. Then she went home to
! lunch. When she came back for the
afternoon session, the music depart
ment was starting the program, so
she slipped into seat without observ-
| ing her neighbor. It was the &C
| quaintance of the morning, and lean
ing over, she whispered, put nutmeg
in it."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Miss Ann Sweet entertained the
Alpha Phi alumnae bridge club this
afternoon at the Country club. The
guests of honor were Alpha Phi mem
bers who were graduated from Wash
burn this spring: Miss Orpha Baugh-
man. Miss Esther Thomas, Miss For
restine Blank, Miss Georgia Neese,
Miss Mabel Howard.
Members of the club, who will play,
include Mrs. Tinkham Veale, Mrs.
Clyde Schenck, Mrs. George Allen, Mrs.
]. E. Logan, Mrs. Fred Beerbohm, Mrs
Winifred Van Horn, Mrs. Frank Rip
ley, Mrs. John Long, Mrs. Forrest
Harold Nelson, Mrs. C. w. Meredith,
Miss Annetta Nicoll, Miss Juliet
Hughes, Miss Virginia Kitchell, Miss
Mildred Lewis. Miss Frances Olander,
Miss Ruth Graham, Miss Maurine
Williams. Miss Opal Chase, Miss Eliza
beth Culver, and Miss Gwendolyn
ShakeShaft
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

A Topeka woman is so expert as d
onversationalist that when her vic
Tins are forced to break away, she is
able to pick up the thread where it
was broken off, when next they meet
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-02-18
DEAD LETTER LAWS.

Arkansas has followed the axam.
pie OF Tennessee and bill to repeal
the anti.cigarette law has passed both
houses of the Legislature. The law
was just as dead on the statute books
OF that state as it had proved to be
In Tennessee. There was no senti-
mint behind it and of course little. eff.
fort was made by the machinery OF
the courts for its execution. That Is
always the case. The law makers
realized that not only was this an i'm
justice to the law abiding dealer in
tobacco but that it was producing O
condition that brought other and nee.
essary laws into disrepute. 1t Is al.
ways better to repeal dead laws than
to keep them on the statute books to
be used as an excuse for the violat
tion Of worth while laws. There may
be all manner of evil in smoking fci-
garettes, but only an infinitesmal por.
tion OF the population believes that
1t is of such magnitude that 1t should
be made crime and therefore refuse
TO demand legislation of such charac.
ter. II agencies that are demanding
the elimination of cigarettes would
turn their energies and activi.
ties into really worth while chahnels
they would achieve some wonderful.
ly beneficial results for America.
Thare are conditions In our social and
commercial life that cry loudly for
reform.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-02-18

years ago One farmer In writing OF
MS recent experiences IN moving
ar load of feeders declared that the
ost OF transportation ran around
cent pound This was not big
ium when cattle were worth fifteen
ents, but when they are down to
ine-third that sum, twenty per cent
# their value for. transportation is a
iery severe and burdensome tax and
wipes out all semblance of profit.
Not only is the farmer hard hit by
he excessive transportation charges,
)ut building operations are likewise
partially paralyzed. Nearly everything
hat enters into buildings is bulky
md the cost for transportation adds
enormously to the original cost. Al
.hough the materials have declined
1t place of production and union car
oenters have voluntarily reduced
their pay twenty to twenty-five per-
1ent over the country the incubus of
high transportation charges remains.
II is one Of the reasons why costs
IN manufactured articles have not al.
ways followed the decline in the cost
Of the raw material.
There can be no relief from this sit
NO lnnn CO
agreement between the railroads and
their employees remains in force That
agreement added largely to the cost
Of transportation Likewise the nu-
merous wage advances, the lase one
just as the cost of living started on
the toboggan slide, have imposed a
burden that the public must bear.
Railroad workers SO far have not
shown any disposition to have their
wages and salaries adjusted to the
lower values that obtain everywhere
else. On the contrary there are
threats OF strikes II any of the tribute
extorted by the unions is threatened.
But the arrogant union leaders are
about to kill the goose that lays the
golden egg Already thousands of
their members, contributors to the
huge funds at the disposal of the
walking delegates and high salaried
chiefs, have lost their jobs because
the roads could not stand under the
load that shorter hours
and increased wages had imposed on
them. The public has likewise gone
on strike and there Is less traffic than
the roads have known in generation
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-02-18
FIXING A SALARY.

Owing to a misconception OF one
of the provisions of the new road law
I has been subjected to undeserved
criticism. The impression prevails
among many that the salary OF the
county superintendent of roads is fix
ed at $4,000 year together with au.
tomobile, clerk and other expenses.
As matter OF fact the law does not
fix the salary of the superintendent
but very properly leaves that to the
quarterly court. 1t does. however, pro-
.hibit the court from paying more than
$500 year.
Before the court elects the superin-
tendent in April 1t will have to fix his
salary. That is an important matter.
The Herald believes In ample com
pensation for public officials. but 1t
does not believe that extravagant sal.
aries should be allowed. There
should be some equitable relation be-
tween salaries paid various officials.
The county judge, who Is given great
ly increased duties under the new
law, receives $1,000 per annum. He
must be aqualiiied official and learn
ed in the law. The county superin.
tendent, who annually disburses near
ly 100000 and is directly responsible
for educational facilities for 10000
children, and who likewise must be a
competent, educated and qualified
man, is paid $1,000 year. 1t is pre-
sumed that in fixing the salary OF the
county superintendent of highways
salaries paid officials whose duties, re-
sponsibilities and qualifications are
somewhat similar, will be given con-
sideration.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-02-18

But the jnnketing at public expense
has grown until II is a scandal in Ten
ncssee. Every two years thousands
OF dollars are paid out OF the public
treasury for investigations that do not
really go to the bottom or which are
really necessary. 1t is altogether
proper for the general assembly I'M
der certain circumstances to appoint
committees and look into the activ.
tiles of various departments of gov.
eminent. But very seldom are the
members qualified for this task and
usually they make perfectly per
functory investigation and a sterotyp-
ed report. = Generally enough of these
recess committees are created for the
'avowed purpose of taking care" OF
all the members who want to have a
trip over the state without cost to
themselves.
The taxpayers will not grieve over
the absence of the committees this
year. 1t means savings Of from $780,
900 to $4,000 without any sort of COM
pensating benefits The legislature
has so far done very little construc.
tive legislation, but it has at least
shown some regard for the overbur-
dened taxpayers of the state.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-02-18
ABRAHAM. LINCOLN,

Nothing could be more profitable
on this the l12th anniversary of the
birth OF Abraham Lincoln, the martyr
ed president, than the reading of his
Gettysburg address, one of the noblest
ntterances recorded in the English Ian
g,Iage. It's message Is just as vital
today. more than half century after
Its delivery. as it was on that bleak
November day in '63.
Let every patriotic American read
ponder and profit by these eloquent
words
fathers brought forth on this CONT
nent new nation, conceived in liber-
ty. and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal. Now
we are engaged in great civil war,
testing whether that nation, or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated,
can long endure.
w tic mot ou q Situl DutttCHt1u
OF that war We have come to dedi-
cate a portion OF that field as the
final resting-place for those who here
gave their lives that that nation might
live. II is altogether fitting and prop.
er that we should do this. But In a
larger sense we cannot dedicate. we
cannot consecrate. we cannot hallow
this ground. The brave men, living
and dead. who struggled here have
consecrated it far above our power to
add or detract The world viii little
note, nor long remember. what we
say here; but it can never forget
what they did here.
III is for us, the living, rather to be
dedicated here 10 the unfinished work
which they who fought have thus far
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-02-18
THE SALARY GRAB.

Members of the legislature are not
conscripted or drafted. No one is
forced TO serve as senator or rep.
resentatiye. When they seek the Of
fees they know what compensation is
allowed by the constitution they are
sworn to uphold and defendy so that
regardless of the meagre pay they re-
ceive there is no sort of justification
for extra compensation. Five hun
dred dollars additional is not an ex-
travagant sum for expenses for the
members, but 1t is any compensation
whatever, over and above that al
lowed by the constitution, against
which The Herald protests. This pa
per believes in cnmpensating public
officials reasonably, 1t is not for a
beggardly policy, but it is more inn
portant that the organic law of the
state be held in respect by it's sworn
defenders than that they shoald re.
ceive pay commensurate with their
services. sat
But 1t is not one whit worse to VIC
late the constitution by voting addi
tional pay to the legislators than It
was to set aside and scorn that docu.
ment when the woman's suffrage
amendment was ratified. How can we
expect the average citizen of the state
TO have a proper respect and venera.
ton for the constitution and laws
when the lawmakers themselves show
only contempt for the constitution
which they solemnly obligated them.
selves to uphold and defend?
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-02-18
IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Nothing more gatifying has occur
red recently than the Triumph of the
imperialists or loyalists in the South
African elections. The issue was
squarely drawn between the adyo
Gates of secession from the British
empire and those who desired that
the union should continue to be a
part of the British empire. Ii, atty
to the home country won q complete
and overwhelming victory at the polls,
and the residents of South Africa will
continue to be partners in that mar
velous structure known loosely as the
British empire. Already South Africa
has a completely autonomous govern
ment; 1t pays no tribute to the Brit
ish empire; it makes its own laws
and circulates its own currency. It is
as Independent as 1t would he were it
in fact republic, except so far as
foreign affairs, Fare concerned. It's
partnership m the British empire is a
distinct advantage in foreign rela.
tons.
Wherever the British flag has been
carried, to whatever cline the thin
red line has gone, there the arts of
civilization and the liberties cherish
ed by Anglo-Saxons have followed.
The British have been the greatest
eolonizers that the world has ever
known. They have been equally at
home in the frigid, the torrid or the
chimes. They have over.
come every danger and conquered ev-
cry obstacle and always and ever civ
ilization has been the beheficiry of
their tolls and efforts and sacrifices.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-02-18
SCHOOLS RESPONSE.

Nothing could be more gratifying
and heartening than the response that
the schools of the county are making
to the appeal for succor for the starv-
ing children of Central Europe. The
spirit with which the girls and boys
large and small, have responded to
this cry of distress from the innocent
victims of the terrible war, is some.
thing for which all should indeed be
thankful. 1t is a good augury for a
fine citizenshoip in the future. Many
children in the county have quite
cheerfully and with evident pleasure
given up their meagre spending mon
ey that they might be parties to the
greatest work OF body salvation" that
the world has ever known. The mil.
lions of victims, pinched, starved,
helpless, despairing children, who call
to us thousands Of miles away, have
the right to live. Theyz were in no
sense responsible for the devastation
of war; the loss OF their natural quar-
dams and protectors; the destruction
of the ordinary means of support The
of prosperous, bountiful and
blessed America not only do the world
a service in their measures of relief,
but they confer a blessing upon the
generation of Americans that will fol-
low them. The children who respond
to this appeal will get their first prac-
teal lesson in the great school which
teaches that the life that is really
worth while is the life given to the
service OF ones fellows.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-02-18
HERBERT HOOVER.

President-elect Harding will prob
ably not appoint Herbert Hoover to a
cabinet place, the politicians will not
give their permission, but the incom-
ing president and the nation will be
the losers, not Mr. Hoover The for
mer food administration is probably
utterly indifferent to the suggestion
that he should have portfolio in the
cabinet. He is too busy serving hui
manity at large to think Of his own
personal or political fortunes.
In many respects Mr.. Hoover is to-
day the worlds foremost citizen. His
record Is unique. Although thous-
ands of new chapters of valor and he
roism were witten In the more than
four years of world war, ii is not a
soldier, but civilian who is today
the real hero of the world HoOyers
services In restoring the devastation
OF war, In saving the wrecks of that
titanic struggle and in repairing the
losses of the holocaust, have made
him pre-eminently the first citizen of
earth. He helped to save the people
of the allied nations, but no sooner
had peace come than he turned his eff
forts to- saving those of the enemy ma,
lions, the little, unfortunate, innocent
victims of the war gods lust. His
humanity is. as broad as the world
His career epitomizes John Wesley's
famous saying THE world is my par
ish."
Mr.. Hoover is the best equipped
statesman in America for place in
the presidents cabinet He has bet.
ter understanding of the great world
problems that must be solved by the
incoming administration than any
American in public life. His views
are always broad and catholic. He
looks at nothing from the narrow pa
tisan or even national viewpoint. He
appreciates as probably no other
American statesman, that problems
that vitality affect the welfare and
saftey of one nation inevitably effect
the safety of every other civilized
county. 1t is greatly to be regretted
that this truly wonderful genius is to
be denied place in the official family
of the new administration where his
advice and counsel will be so greatly
needed.