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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18
Consumption OF Cigarets Shows
Big Decrease in U. S.
North Carolina Leads in Pro.
ductiOn of Smokes.

Washington, Oct. 1S.-A billion
more cigars, almost two billions fewer
cigarets and $4,000, 900 pounds less of
manufactured tobacco were produced
during 1920 than during 1919. census
bureau statistics compiled from inter-
nal revenue reports show.
Pennsylvania leads in the manufac-
ture of large and small cigars, pro-
ducing more than one-quarter of the
total which was S,057,792 large cigars
and 642, 640,90 small cigars in 1920.
North Carolina leads in the produc-
ton of small cigarets. producing more
than half of the countrys total out
put, which was 51,192. 762,70S.
New York Leads in Cigarets.
New York leads in production of
large cigarets, producing almost % per
cent of the country's total of 1,051,-
217.
North Carolina leads in production
of smoking tobacco, proucing more
than one-quarter of the 22S,566,655
pounds manufactured in 1919.
Missouri leads in the production of
plug tobacco, producing Al per cent
of the 41,037,S95 pounds manufac-
tured in 1919, and also leads in pro-
duction of twist of which 1890, ass
pounds were manufa ctured in 1919.
Illinois leads in the production of
fine cut tobacco, producing more than
80 per cent of the country's total Of
8,165,S65 pounds.
Tennessee leads in production of
snuff, producing more than "A per
cent of the country's total production
of 35,007,SS2 pounds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18
Dorothy Dix Tails
The Right to Jilt-t.
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds highest Paid Woman write

An English judge has just handed
down a decision in a breach of prom
Use suit in which he aff1rrns that a
matrimonial engagement is not
binding contract, and upholds a mans
or womah's right to change his or her
mind anywhere between the betrothal
and the altar.
Good. The breach of promise case
has always been q disgrace and
scandal. For when it was not a po-
tent weapon for bIacknlail, it was the
ultimate expression of sordidness, and
of a lack of every sense of delicacy,
and it should have been long ago
thrown out of the law courts, as well
as Cupid's court.
1t is to the shame of the feminine
sex that it is nearly always a woman
who is the plaintiff in this obnoxious
form of litigation. Men apparently
have a finer sense of decency in the
matter, for it is only emi-occasional-
~ that you hear of a man who tries
to make the law force a. woman to
keep her promise to marry him, or
else pay him for her release.
What makes these breach of prom
Vulnerable cases in which the alleged
victims have sought damages for in
jury done to their affections. there is
probably not one who has suffered a
real heart pang. Those who have
trusted and been betrayed; those who
have really loved and lost; those
whose hearts are really broken do not
drag their agony out in public for the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18
NOT BROKEN Down
Judge Higgins Denies Weak
ness in Industrial Court Act.
Majority viii Win Out, He Tells
Washburn Students.

News from the Pittsburg coal fields
should not be accepted as evidence
that the industrial court has broken
down, Presiding Judge w. L. Higgins
today told students in the department
of economics at Washburn college.
He reiterated former statements to
the effect that where law is to be en-
forced against large bodies of violators
that the state must resort to use of
police or military power.
There is nothing in the present
situation that in any way can be in
terpreted as indicating weakness or
inefficiency of the industrial act
Judge Higgins asserted. He pointed
to the fact that supreme court de-
cfsions already rendered by unanimous
opinion of the supreme court uphold
the law and opposition to its enforce
ment should not be construed as
weakness of the enactment. He
pointed to the fact that similar con-
ditions existed during the early en-
forcement of the prohibitory laws.
In his talk today Judge Higgins
said in part:
There is nothing in the present
situation, that in any way can be in
terpreted as indicating the weakness
or inefficiency of the industrial act.
Be assured of one thing-the govern
ment of the majority in Kansas will
prevail in the end. No group or or
ganized minority, no matter how
powerful, will be permitted to super
Sede the government of the state"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18
AN EPOCH IN ENERGY.

Not many years ago we were
taught that all substances were COM
posed Of molecules and that these IN
turn were composed of atoms. Mod
ern scientists have gone further and
have divided the atom into electrons.
Tho the atom is small. about one hun
bred millionth part of an inch in d.
ameter, the electron is much smaller.
being about a hundred thousand
times less
The theory is that these electrons
are the same in matter of all kinds
and that they ar all in motion. That
is that the electrons of iron, coal. cop
per, lead and other elemental sub
stances are Identical but are arranged
differently in the atoms and revolva
and rotate in different relations to
each other and at different speeds.
That this is true is already proved
in the case Of radium. which is known
to emit continuously radiation of
active properties.
And It has been shown that radium
alone does not possess this property.
Electricity probably has its origin in
this property of the electrons. So,
after all, it would seem that the me-
dieval alchemists had the right bunch
when they tried to change the baser
metals such as lead and iron into the
precious gold and silver. If the cleo
irons Of all substances are identical It
is to be expected that in time scien-
lists will be able to split up any sub
stance into its component electrons
and then rearrange them to make any
desired result.
Another promise Of the laboratory
men is that when they solve the rid
die Of the atom and harness the
energy known to be within it, an
epoch in the world will have begun.
Then, they promise US, a small pack
age will hold enough energy to fly
across the continent and a man will
carry on his back enough power to
move trains and warships.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18
President Harding was elected by an

President Harding was elected by an
overwhelming majority on the defi-
mite promise, reiterated over and over
again, in behalf of a protective tariff.
This promise was made to the people
of the south as to their specific inter
ests. He is endeavoring to fulfill that
promise. 1t 'behOoves the south to
bend every energy to the accomplish
ment of this purpose. knowing full
well that never will the prosperity of
New England, and of Pennsylvania,
and Ohio, and other western states, be
found in the south until this section
utilizes a protective tariff system
which will safeguard it from destruc-
tive importations and which viii en-
able it's industrial interests to be in
creased MANIFOLD. - Manufacturers
Record.
And when every interest demanding
protection has been satisfied it will be
tiiae for the consuming public to take
to the woods.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18

The Topeka Good Government club
demands that two of the elective state
offices be given to women. VIII the
ladies be kind enough to say what Of
fees they want so that the voters may
know what to do? When they have
made their selection, it will be APP
parent that there is nothing in the law
or constitution to prevent women from
becoming candidates for the offices
designated. Neither does anything
stand in the way of the voters casting
their ballots for women candidates.
The whole thing is extremely simple.
Fetch on your candidates. But it has
not been made apparent yet why wo-
men should have two state offices.
Is it because they are better qualified
for filling positions Of honor and trust
within the gift of the people, than are
men? Before the matter goes any
farther there seems to be need Of
more light.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18
FIND BOLIN GUILTY

tContfnuen from Page One-t
morning. This story he stuck to ever
since.
But Mrs Wiscombe while admitting
that she had been with him the pre-
vious Friday night and that she had
immoral relations with him, denied
that she had seen him at all Sunday
night. Three witnesses who lived at
the rooming house at $40 East Fifth
street, where Mrs. WiscOmbe was the
housekeeper testified that she did not
leave the building that night. Three
others testified that while in a restau-
rant near the Santa Fe depot about
8 o'clock they heard Bolin call UP
woman named Kate and make a date
with her.
Evidence showed that Bolin sold
most of the property in his shack near
Berryton, where he lived as a bache-
Tor, a few days before the fire, re-
ceiving $96 for it. He admitted that
and gambling. The evidence showed
that he was broke Sunday night and
had a meal charged at Tony Clicks
Monday he was back in Topeka gam
bling, and displayed a wad of money,
the amount of which never was ascer-
tanned.
Saw Him in Moonlight.
John Heberling, a farmer living
between Pauline and Berryton, testi-
fled that he saw and recognized Bolin
in the moonlight crossing a plowed
field from the direction of Pauline to-
ward the direction of the Owens home
about $50 o'clock Sunday night. Of
ficers took his shoes to the scene and
compared them with the tracks.
Testimony was to the effect that they
corresponded in every way.
The testimony also showed that
Owens, at least some time before the
fire, was in the habit of keeping con-
siderable money about his place; that
Bolin had talked of it and that he was
well acquainted with the premises,
having worked there at various times.
Evidence showed the fire started very
suddenly and burned very rapidly.
from the direction of the southwest
corner of the building toward the
kitchen, where the only stove which
had, to all accounts. had a fire in it
that day was located.
The body of the old man was found
on the kitchen floor, where it had
been his custom to sleep. The bed
clothing over his body had not been
disturbed. In his head, just behind
his right ear. was a hole in the skull
about three inches in diameter. His
face was turned UP and that part of
best preserved and most protected of
any part of the head in its relation to
the fire and falling timbers.
Mrs. Owens had fallen apparently
just as she had arisen from her bed.
In her head also was a hole CORE
spending to that in her husbands
head. The open top Of Owens's purse
was later found in the ashes. as was
the broken bolt of the door lock A
pet dog was burned up by his masters
side, apparently in just the position he
had been sleeping. With the excep-
ton of two copper pennies no money
was found in the ashes when they
were carefully searched and sifted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18
KANSAS GIFT TO WASHBURN
Western Towns Show Loyalty
Schools by Subscriptions.


Growth of interest in Washburn
college among the towns of western
Kansas is taking tangible shape in
greatly increased subscriptions to the
100000 addition to the endowment
fund, according to President P. p.
Womer.
In Dodge City, where several Wash
burn graduates live, he obtained last
week 50, 100 for the college, compared
with $500 in the endowment subscrip-
ton five years ago. In Garden City
he got $4,000, compared with 1900
in the previous campaign. Eakin, a
small town a few miles west of Gar
den City, gave $500, compared with
$40 five years ago.
I'VE found business conditions in
Garden City very unfavorable for our
campaign" President Womer said in n
letter received at the college today.
Garden City depends to a great ex-
tent upon the cattle industry, and the
cattle industry is now at a very low
ebb. The increased contribution is
due entirely to the increased interest
in our college.
George Finnup, one of our trus-
tees, lives here, and he has been do
ing great work in promoting Wash
burn interest. There are several grad
yates at Garden City. Clifford r.
Hope, Ray Calihan and Forest Foster
represent our law school and they are
all taking prominent places in the
life of the community"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18
ORAN LAYTON FOR POSTMASTER
Register of Deeds Enters Race to
Succeed w. o. Rigby.

,Oran Layton, register of deeds and
secretary of the Kansas Day club, has
entered the race for the office of post
master in Topeka. Layton's candidacy
has aroused considerable interest as
he is a popular figure in Republican
circles here and has many strong sup
porters.
The fact that the law requiring APP
plicants 70 take the civil service ex-
animation will be adhered to leaves
the situation in somewhat of a turmoil
pending the rating of the papers and
the determination of the highest three
applicants. It is not known yet just
when the civil service examination
will be held. The vacancy is sup
posed to occur in September, 1922.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18
TO HOLD FIGHT OCTOBER Is
Final Arrangements Made for Glib
bOns<O'DOwd Bout in Tulsa,

Tulsa, Okla. Oct. 1S.-With the
Gibbons-O' Dowd middleweight fray
clinched for this city the night of Oc-
tober %, and with legal action against
the boxers, promoters and Referee
Jess Willard dropped at Wichita,
PREPARATIONS are going ahead for what
is easily considered the most impor-
tant boxing card ever staged in Okla
homa.
Gibbons-O'Dowd. their managers
and the promoters are scheduled to
leave Wichita tonight for Tulsa, the
fighters to begin public workouts here
Wednesday, according to information
received here over the telephone
Deprived of having the bout staged
in their own city, several hundred
Wichita enthusiasts have already made
arrangements fox a special train to
bring them to Tulsa for the battle, it
is announced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18
COMES TO A STOP
Fire Insurance Rate Probe Con-
tinued Indefinitely.
State and Companies Had No
Facts on Tenant Risks.

Fire insurance rate Investigations
came to sudden end today and were
indefinitely continued. A thirty-day
postponement was taken in the mats
ter of farm tenant rates in an effort
to gather records as to tenant and
farm losses. No date was fixed for
taking up the general fire rate case
before the state insurance depart
ment.
Many exhibits and figures covering
fire insurance business in Kansas
were offered both by Frank L. Travis,
state superintendent of insurance, and
representatives of the fire companies.
In the matter of farm tenantry rates
neither the state nor the companies
were in a position to offer exhibits as
to relative hazards between tenant
and owner risks, The tenant rate is
the highest. Travis asked that IL pos
sible a showing be made later as to
relatives losses.
Earnings Are Small.
Heads of the fire companies claimed
that their business in Kansas mas
earned a net profit of but IL or
per cent during the eleven years since
the present rate law has been IN
operation. The state department ad-
mitted that a per cent reserve Tor
general CONFEDERATION losses was rea-
sonable. This amount, added to gem
eral expense and loss records totaHing
96.SS per cent of the premiums
brought the total expense for busi-
ness in Kansas to 9S.SS per cent
Commissioner Travis complained OF
methods of accepting hail business. 1t
is probable, insurance officials ana at
tornevs indicated, that his proposal
NAV be adopted without controversy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18

sIeep-so do all the rest of you. Let's
go get it-and wake up thinking all
this Is q bad dream"
The Bobtails were proudly rough,
more proudly tough. but as one man
their hats went off and they dashed
away cheering like mad. A hundred
yards off they halted so Red might
shout back: "Bobby-if she'll have
ye, count on the last vote in three
deestricts long Postum Trot."
"You see what depends on you'll"
Bobby said gravely. Philippe smiled
whimsically, lingering her six-shooter:
"This is a funny campaign document,
she laughed: "But so convincing 1
must let it help you win"
Copyright. 1921. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18
HOLD INSTITUTE AT Y. W. C. >.
Voluntary Workers to Receive Infor-
nation Thursday and Friday.

An institute will be held Thursday
and Friday at the Y. w. C. A. for the
voluntary workers of the association.
Miss Margaret Williamson. national
secretary of the city work of the Y.
w. c. A, will conduct it and give a
lecture at each meeting.
The opening session will begin at
10 o'clock Thursday morning. Mics
Williamson will lecture on the sub
ject, "Our Job and How We Can Best
Do It." At 2:3O o'clock in the after
noon she will speak on THE Associa-
ton as an Educational Institution"
Her subject at the Friday morning
session will be 1.-The New Spirit in
Membership" The institute will close
Friday afternoon with a talk on
Finance" and Assisting in Club
Work"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18
new SANTA FE ROAD
California Southern, Rice to Ripley,
Cal, Under Control.

washington, Oct 1s-Permission
was granted to the Atchison, Topeka
&c Santa Fe railway by the interstate
commerce commission today to take
control of the California Southern
Railroad company, a line extending
from Rice to Ripley. Cal.
The California Southern railroad
was built by private interests before
the war to serve a territory in east
ern California known as the Palo
Verde Valley. according to E. L.
Copeland, secretary and treasurer of
the Santa Fee railway.
This valley formerly was a great
cattle ranch OF 100000 acres COM
pletely surrounded by mountains, and
watered by the Colorado river, which
is the boundary between\ California
and Arizona. The valley is under ir-
rigation. The war interfered with the
development of the project, and the
owners of the railroad found some
difficulty in continuing the work.
The Santa Fe lately decided that the
project was worth developing, so it
has leased the line with an option to
purchase within a year. The property
is in fair condition.
The California Southern connects
with the Santa FEES main line at Rice,
Cal, running south seventy miles TO
the town Of Ripley. The principal
town on the road is Blythe, which has
about 200 population. IS
The PaIo Verde valley raises cotton,
alfalfa. melons. cranes and .vepeta hles
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18

world to jeer at: they do not make a
spectacle of their suffering. Still less
do they estimate their bereavement in
dollars and cents, and whenever you
find that all that hurt heart needs
to heal it is a poulttce of greenbacks
you may be very sure that its wounds
are only skin deep.
Those who have known a great love
that failed them, those whose very
souls have been torn in twain by the
perfidy of one they trusted, hide way
like a stricken animal. They do not
seek the market places in which to
pine away and die of broken hearts,
or seek to capitalize their tears.
OF course it is easy to understand
that it hurts ones vanity to be Tilted.
It is never a pleasant experience to
realize that we have lost our charm
for anyone, and that another is pre-
ferred before us. One can also appre-
ciate that it may be a keen disappoint-
ment to a woman who thinks that in
marrying she is getting someone to
support her instead of having to earn
her own bread and butter, to see her
meal ticket slip thru her fingers, as
it were. Likewise it may be embar-
RAISING to have to explain to ones
friends why one has suddenly decided
that single blessedness is better than
double wretchedness, after all.
But these are mere pinpricks on the
surface of life, and amount to moth
ing compared to the deadly and last
ing wrong of putting thru a marriage
in which either the man or the woman
enters unwillingly. This is view of
the matter that should appeal espe-
cially to women for, Heaven knows,
the average man wearies of domes-
ITCHY soon enough even when he is
so eager for it that he fairly drags
a woman by the hair of her head to
tbs altar
tCCpyright. 1920. Dy tbe wheeler Eyndlcate
Inc1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18
BEN BEAR BACK IN Topeka
Winfield Manager to Have Charge of
Bell Telephone Stock Sales.

Ben H. Bear, who has been district
manager for the Southwestern Bell
Telephone company at Winfield, Kan,
for the last two years, has been trans
ferred to Topeka in charge of the sale
of the issue of z per cent preferred
stock which the Southwestern COM
pany is offering to the public. H NJ
Cowan, manager at Chanute, sue
ceeds Mr.. Bear at Winfield.
Bear is well known in Topeka He
began his service with the Bell com
pany in this city and has advanced
rapidly. When the company recently
decided to offer the public its per
cent preferred cumulative stock, Mr.
Bear was selected to take charge Of
the sales in Kansas. His headquarters
will be in the general offices in the
Central National Bank building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET

New York. Oct. 1s-MoNEY-Foreign ex-
change, irregular. Great Britain, demand,
3.9012; cables, 6.91; 60 day bills on banks,
3.S1 IA. Francs, demand, 7.1SM; cables,
Germany. demand, IS; cables, .5S15. Nor
way, demand, 1925. Sweden, demand,
23O0. Denmark, demand, 1915. Switzer-
land, demand, 1878 Spain, demand, 1921.
Greece, demand, 4.24. Argentine, demand,
226. Brazil, demand, 1887. Montreal,
91A.
Call money, easy; high. 8: low. 4 rul-
ing rate, .; closing bid 313 offered at 4 !;
AZ time loans. steady: so DAYS, DO days
and 6 months, 5A@51a; prime mercantile
piper, 51sM6 per cent.
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS

Funeral services for c. II. Dyal, age 81,
who died Sunday at his home, HOS North
Quincy street, will be held at o'clock
Wednesday afternoon at the Kansas Ave
nue. Methodist church. Burial in Topeka
cemetery.
Funeral services for George o. Boone,
age 60, who died Sunday in Kansas city
noon at Penwelrs chapel Burial in To-
peka cemetery.
Funeral services for Margaret Miller, the
4mOnths- old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Herman Miller, nos Quincy street, who
died Sunday, were held at o'clock this
afternoon at the residence. Burial in
Mount Auburn cemetery.
Lords Flowers satisfy. Tel 2261-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-18
BILL WHITE WON HIS FIGHT


William Allen White won his fight
for appointment of his candidate Tor
Justice of the peace in Emporia.
Whether peace will reign as a result
of Whites triumph isn't entirely de-
termined.
Recently White, who has been one
ofthe close advisers of Governor Al
len, endorsed Rolla Evans for Justice
of the peace in Emporia to fill va
cancy. He was supported by Henry
Ganse, former state senator and
warm friend of White and Governor
Allen.
On the other hand, Warren Finney,
also on most intimate terms with the
state administration, urged selection
of L. NJ Carter. The men headed pc
titions for the two candidates. Today
White and Ganse won their fight
when Evans was named for the office.