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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-14
LABoR,s REsPoNsIBnITY.

Samuel Gompers says that those
who are in commercial, industrial and
political control of our country are
responsible for 100000 workers be-
ing out of employment. The real rea-
son for unemployment is the excessive
wage demands melted by Mr.. Com
Pers himself and made by his follow
ers. Employers simply refuse to hire
men at prices which would prevent
their making a profit. They will not
pay 50 for work on the proceeds of
which they cannot realize more than a
dollar. They, know what wages are
justified by the state of the market
and they will not pay more. They
close their plants in preference to
operating them at loss
Cheaper coal, which would mean
cheaper power, and cheaper trans
portation, which would mean a re-
duction in the living cost of every hu-
man being in the United States, can
be soundly effected only thru a re-
duction in the cost of producing this
commodity and this service. No one
believes that the cost can be substan-
TALLY reduced without concessions on
the part of labor. -
Two countries in particular have
no unemployment problem. These
are Germany and Japan. No one will
suggest that the American working
man accept the wages and the living
conditions of those countries. Never
theless, the German artisan is at work
and the Japanese artisan is at work,
simply because production costs in
both these countries have been re-
duced to a basis that makes the whole
world willing to buy their products.
We are confronted by the necessity
of reducing our production costs and
our transportation costs. Organized
labor lost its head during the war,
and for year. or so afterwards. Like
the rest of us, it must get back to
earth. Manual labor does not perform
all the work in the world, nor even a
half or quarter of it. The labor
! saving devices perfected, financed, de-
veloped and installed by capital ac-
! complish today ten times as much as
bare human hands could turn out.
Capital and labor are servants of So
ciety. At present, capital is getting a
small return. If labor be willing 70
reduce its demands. it will find sew
eral beneficial results Forthcoming.
One is full employment. the second is
larger aggregate wage payments, and
the third is general prosperity.
! Unemployment" says the WoIlman
Review, sis social malady that can
not be cured by covering up the in
fected portions by such court plaster
devices as split employment in
creased expenditures for public works,
or pleasing academic suggestions
about arriving at a basis that is fair
to both capital and labor Unfor-
tunately, the issue involved in unem-
ployment is not between employer AMI
employe, but between one group OF
producers and another whose products
have to be interehanged. or between
J one country and another whose prod
ucts have to be interchanged."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-14
JUST FOLKS
MARY WATKINS.
81 EDGAR a. GUMsT.

MARY WATKINS.
1.
The sky is fair to gaze. upon
And the ocean is plezzant to see,
But site that's got them skun mile
Is the site of Mary Watkins, o, G.
Her hair is long and yello
Her teeth are short and white.
Her eyes are round and BLUSH
And she's small Ground the height.
She's bewty looking on week days
And on Sundays even more,
And if you like to see boys on door
Look on hers and you'll see or 4.
She looks wonderful in her wife dress
And absilootly CRATE in her pink,
And when she puts on her blue one
You don't hardly know wat to think.
The stars are certeny a bewtifill site
Wen they come out all together at
But so is Mary Watkins,
The sun looks CRATE as it sets in the
West
But bleeve me boy wen she's washed
and dressed
So does Mary Watkins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-14

Hugo SHINES, the German capital
list and industrial magnate, says he
will deliver newsprint paper to At
lantic or Gulf ports at III cents 4
pound. That price is 1 II cents below
the best quotations of American man
ufacturers, and is l cent lower than
the offerings from Norway, Denmark
and Finland. But there remain IN
this country the exorbitant freight
and postal rates as a handicap to the
publishing business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-14

Chiefs of the railroad brotherhoods
find themselves in the possession of a
white elephant in the form of author
ity to call a strike. They announce
that the time is inopportune for Il
walk out In this they doubtless are
well advised. But they may find it
difficult to convince their followers,
should the demands of the unions be
refused. The fact is that the time is
not opportune for calling a strike in
any line of industry. There are too
many persons out Of employment.
The railway unions all have big war
chests, but there may be an unwilling
ness to spend their money on losing
fight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-14

always is subject to the temptation to
use it. Individuals and nations do not
differ greatly in this regard. If the
conference fail to produce results
satisfactory to the people of the world
the latter are certain to seek the rea-
son for the failure. The world =
workers are tired of paying taxes for
preparations for war no less than for
war itself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-14
unemployment

The unemployment conference
which is being held in Washington has
adopted set of resolutions setting
forth the causes of existing economic
conditions and what is needed to re-
move them. But it has not offered a
fact or a suggestion that is new.
What the conference has found out
Everybody else knew already. 1t is
easy to tell people what they should
do to alter existing conditions but
what is needed is some way to make
them do it. This has not been sup
piled by the conference.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-14

Word comes from st. Louis that a
St2,OOO,oOO industry in that city. en-
gagged in the manufacture of iute bag
ging, will soon abandon its plant and
remove to Calcutta, India The rea-
sons for the change are that labor is
cheaper in India, and that raw ma
terials for the industry are produced
there. An added reason also may be
that there are no Gomperses or How
ats in India Seven hundred men will
be thrown out of work, and 700 fam
HES must seek new means of liveli-
hood. 1t may be difficult for them to
find employment elsewhere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-14

The leader of the peoples party in
Germany warns his countryme1
against undue joy over the ratification
of the peace treaty between his coun-
try and the United States. 1t looks
as tho the Germans will have ample
time to think over the advice. Ratifi-
cation appears to be as far off as ever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-14

The agricultural bloc" should get
soIidly behind Senator CUMMINGS de-
mand that the railroads be forced to
combine into rate making groups and
eliminate the wasteful competition
that il flattening pocketbooks.-Sio
City Tribune.
Sounds funny, doesn't it, after all
the years spent by the agricultural
bloc in fighting combinations of rail-
roads and trying to enforce competi-
ton?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-14

II the world can get along with a
limited armament there appears to
be no good reason why it cannot get
along with no armament. This
thought should commend itself to the
conferees who will assemble in Wash
ington on November II. There
would be little serious fighting in the
world if everybody were deprived of
weapons. Anybody who carries a gun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-14
What the World Lives BY.


What the unvocaI bulk of people
think is really the ultimate measure
of life. The world lives by the ideals
of ordinary folk statecraft never gets
very far ahead of popular convictions,
nor long lags very far behind them.
That is why even the most eminent
of Old World officials are glad to
speak or write for the press of the
western world: they know that pub
lie opinion is the crowned king of the
new day. Behind all the vfciousness
of propaganda, to the power of which
the war introduced u.s. lies this conVic-
ton that the mind of the masses is
the court of last resort in the world.
Therefore we must rate, as above
the deliberations of parliaments and
congresses and legislatures, the influ-
ences which shape common thought,
such as the daily newspaper, the pub
lie school. the pulpit, the Sunday
school, the chautauqua and lyceum
system and the ma jor fraternal orders.
Frankly, one reason why some strong
men give the very essence of their
lives to the Sunday school is the con-
viction that to shape the standards OF
these oncoming millions of youth is
the most fundamental way of serving
the world. It is no small responsibility
that rests upon those men and women
who select and write ana teacn sun
day school lessons ------. -.
Farther back, and more potent in
influence, of course, are the writings
which are the basis of the weekly
studies by thirty million Sunday school
members, and of hundreds of thou
sands of sermons, and of books and
articles and teaching and conversation
beyond all computation.
When that versatile and amazing
man. Paul of Tarsus, the first Chris
tian missionary, wrote his letters TO
the converts in. his new churches, he
little dreamed that he was determin-
ing the standards of thought and life
for countless tens of millions of Chris.
tians who were to follow, many OF
them in lands of whose very existence
he had no knowledge. We are obliged
to larry here for brief consideration
of the unique personality of this peer
less Ietter-writer. What DR.. James
Stalker says in his Life OF ST PauI
is better worth reading than anything
7 can pen:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-14

don't want to interfere in the new re-
lationship. They don't want to burden
the new home with their presence, but
they do want to be let into their chill
dren'S new lives on a friendly human
basis. They want to be confided in,
advised with, taken into the new lodge
as a member in good and regular
standing, instead of being regarded
as stranger who must be held at
arms length, and whose every sug-
gestion is regarded as an insult
oh, there is plenty of need for a
School for In-Laws for both Ma and
the children, to say nothing of Pa.
A~ ~ 49,
GCcpyright, 1925. by the wheeler C1ndica:A
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-14
International
SundaySchoolLessor
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

For October 16 is, Paul Writes to
the Christians at Corinth.''-I Cor.
l3-1-13
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-14
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Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31

who is stolen by modern piratical young man, she excels her previous efforts.
 The story tells of Ardita Farnam, young, rich and beautiful, whose heart has gone to a scheming foreign CT who 'cleverly plots for her money. Her relations realize what a. rogue he is, but Ardita is adamant and in tends to marry him. In despair, they contrive a plan. Toby Moreland a happy-go-lucky young fellow, boards Ardita's yacht with a handful of cut throats, and seiZes the vessel, Out of this a romance springs-but unex- pectedly and after thrilling happen ings.
 "The Offshore Pirate" was adapted for the screen by Waldemar Young, Dallas M. Fitzgerald directed, and the cameraman was John Arnold. The art interiors and effects are by A. F.. Mantz.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31
Weekly Theater Programs
LYRIC

LYRIC
 .. Today Marguerite Clark in Scrambled Wives"
 Monday Frank Mayo in "The Blazing Trail'
 Tuesday Roy Stewart in "One Shot Ross" "Wednesday Bernard Burning in Seeds of Vengeance" Thursday Elaine HammerStein in "The Girl From Nowhere" Friday Pauline Frederick in Roads of Destiny"
 Saturday Richard Kipling's Midnight. Riders
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31
"The Blazing Trail
 Good Mayo Picture

There are two imDortant requisites for success as an actOr-personality and histronic ability. some directors say that for the screen the former es- sential is the most important, while on the stage it is the latter that counts the most The history of the screen actually reveals a number of stars who have met with great measure of success who possessed but one of these qualities to any consid- erable degree. A closer investigation however. discloses the fact that these stars rose meteorically, blaZed for a while on the horizon of the silent drama, and as swiftly disappeared from view.
 The permanent successes of the screen have been scored by actors who possessed both personality and the ability to act, and foremost among these stars is Frank Mayo. who has appeared for the past three years in Universal films. His latest produc- ton, ''The Blazing Trail,' is probably the best story in which he has ap- peared in many months. Directed by Robert Thornby, it is said to be dra- matic masterpiece. Local theatre goers will have an opportunity to judge of its merits at the Lyric thea tre on Monday.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31
Trumpet Island'
 Coming This Week
 To Local Theatre

The picture of pictures, Trumpet Island" will be shown at the Central theatre Friday and Saturday and the Eagle theatre next Sunday. It is a masterpiece in a film production. Even the titles are different from those in other pictures. They are al legorical and tell the story of the action in a strange manner. This adds to the beauty of an already ar tistic story in which contrast is the chief aim. Industry, poverty, wealth love, debauchery, simplicity, vim and the spectacular are blended and wov- en into the fabric of human life.
 Gouverneur Morris is responsible for the story and it measures up to his highest efficiency. Those popu- lar fiction writers, Lillian and George Randolph Chester, made the adapta- tion and supervised the production. Tom Terriss, whose work has placed him in the rank with the best direct ors. made it into picture form.
 Three lives. widely different and each picturesque in it's environment form the basis of the document One a young girl, follows a path of roses, intermingled with thorns. The sec ond, a youth. starts along a rocky road and finds at the end flowers growing among the stones due to the influence of the third way which is filled with mire and mud. The love interest is well handled. It is, the type of love story that holds the at- tention and keeps one in suspense. Comedy is introduced at various points to color the production and to detract the attention from the stern realities of life as shown in the his tory or the wretched Valinsky.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31
Pauline Frederick Coming To Lyric In
 Roads of Destiny

Nothing that within you lies can change the plan which you are tiny part of. Choose any road, go east, go west, or north or south and meet the thing from which you ran away
 That mans life is governed by fate and that he is not allowed to work out his own destiny is vividly DOT trayed in the new Goldwyn starring vehicle for Pauline Frederick, Roads of Destiny" which comes to the Ly- ric theatre on Friday.
 It is a screen version of the fam ous story written many years ago by the equally famous writer, O. Henry. The scenario for the picture was written by Charming Pollock. In the adaptation, the story has undergone a change, inasmuch as the play cen .ters around a heroine instead of a hero. Pauline Frederick portrays the part of Rose Merritt who finds tra- gedy and disillusion awaiting her no matter what road she takes. This production necessitates combining of what one might term four separate pictures each in itself complete, and all dealing with the same characters who work their destinies out in four different ways showing what results might have been in each case, and in each Miss Frederick plays an en- tirely different role, which reveals her wonderful versatility and gives her many opportunities to display that splendid dramatic ability that has brought her to the fore as one of the best known dramatic actresses.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31
ROBERUON-oLE

its decidedly original plot. Robert Martin, interpreted in magnificent style by William H. Tooker, a well known actor, is a young clergyman, devoted to his avocation as well as to his pretty, young and charming little daughter. During an enforced absence from home, a former rival succeeds in influencing the young minister's wife to desert her husband and baby and elope with him.
 When Martin returns and learns of his wife's unfaithfulness he swears vengeance against God. He organ iZes a robber band which operates under the cloak of his false minis trations as travelling evangelist How he and the other members of his dissolute gang are regenerated through the force of divine love and faith is the crashing climax of the story, made more vivid by the excel lent portrayal of storm scene re- markedly realistic.
 The picture is spectacular. There are a number of monster scenes in which more than 5000 persons ap- pear. "The Stealers' is perhaps one of the greatest pictures since Grif- fith's Firth of a Nation"
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31
5cLNE FROM UlM. cHFISTY CABANNE,s l0VERrVL
 HUMAN DOCUMENT THG STEALERS

A picture drama which stirs the soul pitomizes "The Stealers," Will, liam Christy Cabanne's powerful story of the humaniHes, which closes its four days engagement this after noon and tonight and Monday at the Eagle theatre. The photo-play, a Rob ertson-Cole super-special in eight reels, holds the attention from the very opening until the final fareout through the sheer beauty and inten- sity of its dramatic appeal and the artistic finish of its technical details
 The story possesses a strange, in triguing power, possibly because of
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31
Viola Dana Plays EngrOssing Role
 In Pirate Picture

Delightful Viola Dana, the efferves- cent little actress, will soon be seen by local theatre-goers in the stellar role of "The Offshore Pirate" the Metro production which comes to the Eagle theatre Tuesday and Wednes- day and the Central theatre Thurs day. as the feature attraction.
 In this unusual picture, which was adapted from the story of F. Scott Fitzgerald, as published in The Sat urday Evening Post, Miss Dana has a part that brings out all her unusual gift. As Ardita Farnham, the girl
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31

Saturday, and is said to be an unusu- al combination of rapidly moving melo drama and beautiful romance in set tings that abound in magnificent views of Wyoming's valleys, with sheep covering hill and dale as far as the eye can reach.
 The story gets it's name from se- cret society, the members of which venture forth only at night, and, close ly masked and heavily armed, take the law into their own hands without regard to the rights of property own CTS and spread terror throughout the country. Thrills and suspense abound while a beautiful romance is cleverly woven into the unusual plct, keeping the one woman in the cast, popular Carolyne Wagner, prominently in the foreground.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31

Matthews and Martha M. Stanley, and has to do with the laughable trials and tribulations of Miss Mary Lucille Smith, a girl who just can't make her ideas behave" portrayed by. Mar guarite Clark. The plot hinges around the desperate efforts of Mary Lucille to keep from an ardent suitor the fact that she has an eX-husband living and the equally desperate ef- forts of the ex-husband to prevent his wife from learning the identity of the young woman with whom he had once eloped and from whom he had been promptly parted by an annulment of the marriage.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31
Scrambled Wives"
 Is Latest Film For
 Marguerite Clark

Scrambled Wives" the screen pro duction by Marguerite Clark, released by Associated First National Pictures. Inc, and booked at the Lyric theatre, today, was one of the successes of the recent Broadway season and had d considerable run both in New York and Chicago.
 The play was written by Adelaide
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31

is created an air of wealth and dis tinction that is to be found only at the affairs of society's 400" Over two hundred extras were engaged for the scene.
 Prominent members of the support
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31
"Girl From NoWheren

What is said to be one of the larg- est and most colorful costume ball scenes that has ever been staged was filmed for the forthcoming Elaine Hammerstein production, "The Girl From Nowhere,' a Selznick picture, which begins one day engagement at the Lyric. The big scene repre- sents the day when booted cavaliers paid homage to barekneed girls, and Corsican bandits ran wild with Nor man peasants.
 In this scene Miss Hammerstein, as Mavis Cole, holds the center of the stage in a quaint Colonial gown and powdered wig, while about her
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31
Sunday Morning, July 31, 1921

ing cast include William B. Davidson in the leading male role Louise Prussing, Colin Campbell and Al H. Stewart. The story was written by Bradley King and the picture direct ed by George Archainbaud.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31
Midnight Riders"
 Filmed In Wyoming

"The Midnight Riders,' Richard Kipling's new production, is an elab- crate screen version of the story of that name by Alvin J. Neitz, which is laid in Wyoming and deals with the sheep raisers of Paradise Valley.
 ''The Midnight Riders will open an engagement at the Lyric theatre on
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31

A bucket of claims is always one of the gifts at every Japanese we'd ding.
 The Norwegians are the longest lived of Europeans; the Spaniards shortest.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31

In Burmah wild elephants are pit ted in a contest against horse-men and elephants riders.