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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04
Dorothy Dix Tails
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worries Highest Paid Woman Writer.

In the Interests of the Public Peace
One of the most curious things in
the world is that so many married
people, who are otherwise we'll man
nered and obscrvant of the decencies
of life, apparently choose the most
public places they can find in which
to have their fights.
Wherever they may happen to be
is good enough battle-ground for
them, tho their favorite places in
going to the mat with each other. are
automobiles, and small lunch or dinner
parties. They do not disdain, however,
the Hobbies of theaters, or the decks
of steamships or summer hotel veran-
das or any other spot in which they
are sure of an audience.
Probably no one is so lucky as not
to have taken motor rides with hus-
bands and wives on which the quarrel
between them waXed so fierce that it
seemed that bloody murder must be
done before it ended, nor are many
of US fortunate enough not to have
been forced TO become the unwilling
referee in matrimonial fights where
both parties threw craftsmanship TO
the wind, and bit, and gouged, and
Kicked and used every foul tactic.
And in such fracases We, who were
the innocent bystanders, were the ones
who suffered. We were the ones whose
sensibilities were outraged, whose dig
nifty was affronted. We were the ones
who were Inundated. Not the doughty
warriors, who retired from the battle
ground battered and bruised. but with
the air of those who have come to the
end of pleasant day.
OF course we all know that the
theory that getting married makes
man and woman two souls with but
single thought is a myth. AS
matter of fact, the difference of sex
makes 1t impossible that any woman
and any man can ever think exactly
alike on any matter, or see 1t from
the same angle. Nor can any man
and woman, born with different tenn
peraments, brought up in different
environments. with different tradi
lions and ideals, agree on every sub
ject. If every husband and wife were
as much alike as two peas in a pod
they would bore each other to death.
Furthermore, as the general run of
humanity does not tend to produce
long-suffering Jobs and patient Girl
seldas. it is inevitable that husbands
and wives should disagree in many
up for his or her own opinion, and
that there should be many family
argument. Likewise, it is compre-
hensible that in $he heat of debate a
man might tell his wife that she had
a jellybean for a head, and a wife
assure her husband that he was solid
ivory from the shoulder up, and make
other uncomplimentary personal COM
ments So much for that.
Perhaps if married couples could
agree to disagree, and concede to
each other the right to hold individual
views unmolested, it would usher in
the domestic millennium. Apparently
it Is impossible for people to rise to
the height of canning the family
argument but, this being the case,
surely it is not too much to ask that
it should be kept strictly for home
consumption.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04
JUST FOLKS
~ EDGAR A. GUEST.

TWO CLERKS.
Two there were in the self same store
Side by side the busy floor,
Each with ribbons and silks TO sell,
But one Of them rose while the other fell;
One moved mp while all year long
The other was merely 4 part of the throng.
Here's the story. so oft reto1d
In the busy shops where life's wares are
sold
One sold silk from n crowded shelf.
And quite forgot he must sell himself;
One was cheerful and liked his work,
The other gloomy and just a clerk.
The cheerful one with his ready smile
Had people flock to his crowded aisle-
They'd ask for him. and thus advertise
That he was patient and also wise;
For this was his plan, to the long days
end,
To make sale and to make a friend.
It wasn't long ere the chief found out
He had a clerk being talked about;
He heard it from women but poorly
dressed.
He heard it. too from the city's best:
And he learned it from something which
never fails
The growing sum of the young mans sales.
Oh. boy, whatever your job may be
Go to il bravely and cheerfuly;
Over the counter and from the shelf
Remember always 10 sell yourself
BE at your best till the long day ends
For that is the secret Of making friends.
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar a Guestl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04
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FIFTY YEARS AFTER.

The tenth of this month has been
designated as fire prevention day. 1t
will be the semi-centennial anniver-
sary of the ending of the great fire
in Chicago. Fifty years ago on the
eighth of this month a fire broke out
In that city which, by the time it was
ended, had destroyed over 1900
buildings and property valued at near
ly 5000, 100000. A hundred thousand
people were made homeless and $50
lost their lives.
1t is estimated that the fire loss in
the United States amounts to almost
half a billion dollars a year. Seventy
five per cent of all fires are believed
to be preventable. Fifteen thousand
people are killed by fire and sixty
thousand others MANNED every year
A fire breaks out on the average Of
every minute. Here's what the presi-
dent of the National Fire Protection
association says about it:
"The 1920 fire loss figures of twenty
states have now been completed by
the Actuarial Bureau of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters, and are
found to be so per cent greater than
those of 1919. An estimate upon this
basis will bring the nations figures 70
$4O4. G0o,OOO; and to this must still be
added the 25 per cent that is deemed
a conservative estimated for unreport-
ed fires.
THUS from present indications the
1920 fire waste will run in excess Of
100000, 900. There has been no sin
gle conflagration, and yet out OF the
accumulated carelessness has grown a
fire waste that is almost equal to that
of 1905. the year of the San Francisco
fire, and greater than any other years
total in our history"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

It is announced that Senator Smoot
will offer his sales tax plan on the
floor of the senate and in a form
which will be both effective and pro-
ductive of revenue sufficient to take
the place of the taxes which it is 20
supersede. According to computa-
tions, the plan proposed by Mr.. Smoot
will be capable of producing revenue
up to $4,000, 100000 per annum; while
far from it's falling upon the Shout
ders of the rank and file of the pub
lie, it would probably relieve the gen.
eraf mass of the population by elimi-
mating the indirect burdens. that fol-
low from the excess profits tax ami
the high rates of income taxation.
''while there is opposition to the adop-
ton of a sales tax at present" says
Henry Clews, there can be no ques-
ton that it is gradually gaining ad-
herents and that eventually there is a
good chance of it's becoming a law;
based on necessity and on merit, 1t
ought to. as it is a simple form Of tax
alton, fair to ALL"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

like Charlie Chaplin, saying. Do you
know who this is a imitation of?
My, you eerteny are comieaI.. sed
Mary Watkins laffing like enything
you awt to go on the stage, you RELY
awt.
got a ambition to, heers a imi-
tation of clown, sed. And started
to make the worst possible fac-s and
termed about 5 cartwheels making
clown noises at the same time. Being
a pritty good of imitation and Mary
Watkins sed, My goodniss. Benny, wy
don't you go on the stage?
Maybe 1 will, heers a imitation of
a train coming into a station, sed.
And I started to make sounds Ike a
fast train going slower, and then I
Sed Hers the sln4e train leeviag the
same station. And 1 made sounds like
a slow strain going faster, being all
most as good as the clown imitation
and some people mite of thawt 1t was
better. Mary Watkins saying, Well you
certeny take the cake. wen are you
going on the stage?
Eny day now, 1 sed. And I started
to get reddy to ask her if she wunted
to take a wawk ard jest then who
came came up but Pubs Simkins look
ing even hummer than usual, and
Mary Watkins s. /, o Pubs, you awt of
giving the most wonderful imita-
lions, wy don't you co thinks like that,
Pubs?
I don't feel like it, sed Pubs. Being
a good Excuse for not saying he iident
know how, and 1 started to get reddy
agen to ask her to go for a wawk. and
Pubs sed, Hay Mary got 20 cents, do
you wunt to go GROUND and get some
ice GREEN soda?
o wat a PERFECTLY wonderful ideer,
sed Mary watkins, Benny will Excuse
me, wont you, Benny? And she
jumped up without waiting for me to
say weather I would or not,
Proving il you got money that's
enuff.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

Average living costs, according TO
the national Industrial conference
board, advanced 1T per cent in Aug
ust Average OUTLAWS for the wage
earner's family on September l
showed u decline of 19.4 per cent since
July, 1920, which was practically the
peak level. 1t is evident that the high
cost of rentals is figuring largely in
the high cost of living. The fact that
the Bradstreet index number of aver
ages for the third consecutive month
advanced during August. the figure on
September l being S11.0S as against
s11.05 the month before, indicates
that merchandise prices thruout the
nation have probably been fairly well
stabilized. This does not mean, how
ever. that prices for certain commodi-
ties may not be lowered. The in
creased activity in building construc-
ton which has set in is certain 20
cause a lowering of rents at an early
date.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

under for a second, then as he came
up painting bore him resistlessly away
from the others.
He heard MADDEN shout, Back!
For your life. The mill race has been
opened" but ii sounded far off. The
whelming current tossed him. buff
feted hin-took its will of him-he
fought it with set teeth, with labor
ing breath to the end of strength and
stay Then with blackness about him
his head was above water-Marjorie
was beside him. doing her best to
draw him into calmer water. with
Hadden crying huskily, Marjorie. this
way? I'll save you or die!"
Save both" Marjorie called clearly,
clinging to Kenton's shoulder. Her
touch brought new strength-sone-
how they drew from the widest rush,
tho not to safety. Hadden met them
together the three were swept
toward the bank, where a giant syca-
more dropped a huge half broken
Blue-lipped, barely conscious, Kenton
could not clutch it. Hadden had
shouted for help-a skiff was racing
toward them from the upper. pond.
Butt would come too late unless
Marjorie looked up at the branch al
weight, Hold his head" she said
family to Hadden, unclasping her
hands as she spoke. Save yourself
the guilt of the murder you planned.
You knew the race was to be opened"
Hadden looked into the eyes of an
accusing angel, then YEARLY at the
boat 1t seemed to stand still, despite
frantic rowing. He tore the handker-
chief from about his throat-deftly
swiftly he bound Kenton's wrist to the
dripping hranch-then loosed his own
hold, and with one word, Forgive"
let the Water bear him where it would.
Miraculously it spared him. sweep
ing him in toward a jutting rock,
whence he was rescued, senseless.
bruised and broken. He was hope
lessly scared and hated badly in his
gait, but Marjorie knew that in losing
a mans strength and comeliness he
had gained a mans SOU.
Copyright. 1921. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04
That and death.


O. How was the American Commission
on Conditions in Ireland selected? Il. {.
A. This committee was selected from
members of The Committee of One Hun
dred and Fifty on Conditions I'm ireland.
brought together the zone Hundred AMI
Fifty" by extending invitations TO every
United States senator every Governor,
Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish de
nominations. and Leading educators. jour
nalists, editors. mayors and publicists Tie
personnel of the committee includes prac-
! tically all of these varied interests
q. How can | prevent my kitchen sink
stopping up! When ] use causte I've tie
odor around the kitchen is disagreeable.
A. r.
washing soda should he placed in the SINK
and plenty of hot water poured il.
This will Obviate the danger of stoppnge
Q; Was Covent Garden ever written Con-
A Covent Gnrden is a corrupted form Of
Convent Garden and was originally the
Q. Please give a recipe for milking pep
! A Wash small cherry or Chile red an
with good cider vinegar and cork. 1t VIII
he ready for use within few days. As
the sauce is used more vinegar may be
added to the peppers from time to time
q. Why Is court plaster so cnlledt II.
A. Ceurt-plaster was thus named b.
/ cause it was first applied by ladies of the
court as beauty patches on the fave.
o. Was Davy Crockett ever in Con-
A David Crockett was in Congress
from 1896 to 1880 and from 1892 to ISL.
representing n Tennessee constituency. Al
the end of his last congressional term he
Joined the Texans In their war against
Mexico and helped defend the Alamo In
1886 He one of the six survivors who
surrendered and was shot by order OF
Santa Anna.
(Any reader can get the answer 10 any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information bureau Frederic J.
IIaskin, Director, Washington. ID. {. This
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lnqulrer,l
A special fish is bred in Siam md kept
as pet for its fighting propensities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

During the fiscal year ended June
80, last, 2,s92 ships passed thru the
Panama canal. of which 1912 were
exclusive of government
owned and chartered vessels. Great
Britain was our nearest competitor,
with $40 ships carrying 3,722.0O0 tons.
against $4,000 tons freighted under
american colors. Yet an effort Is
about to be made to gut off more than
half of the tolls by making the pas
sage of American vessels free.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04
Fifth Reader pupils have improved er
deteriorated. who shall say?

Fifth Reader pupils have improved er
deteriorated. who shall say?
The feaR~that Mr.. Harding may win
some popular approval as result OF
the disarmament parley which mum
dated the office of the New York
World weeks ago finally has engulfed
the Democratic party.
1t would be a sad thing, a most dis
tressipg thing, if anything pleasant
should happen during Mr.. HardinG's
incumhency of the presidential office.
The case of Mrs. Bertha KubaI in
trigues US mildly. Mrs Kubal was
cognizant of the fact that her hus-
band, with whom she had been living
in a state of amity, had committed
murder. She turned him up to the
authorities and he is now on his way
to the chair. The authorities have de-
cided Mrs. Kubaf is entitled to the
reward, and yesterday paid her $500
in cash for her share in apprehendtTg
the guilty person.
Marrying money is the hardest way
to earn it. but collecting il as a re-
ward for turning up a husband prob
ably enlists smaller following than
any other occupation in the world
There was time when the seor-
StsNb0 HeA49N was NSA-SAHSAS- q NeeA ms
garment.
1t Was an Empty Boast.
Sir-Either you think we'll of you
by putting yourself above the average.
| or else Adelaide hasn't noticed that
you put her below the average. II
! you are going to try to show the other
guys up 1 mean to do the same to
/ you. You might get away with it once
using the guest towel. but my advice
I to you is not to try it often. j. L. H
As a matter OF fact, we didn't get by
with it once. Adelaide read the para
graph in which we gloated over the
achievement with curling lip express
| i've of the closely allied emotions of
soorn, contempt and disdain. Then
she said: Il knew you'd used a guest
i towel; intended to speak about it at
the time. but in the contemplation Of
your table manners and your other
crudities and idiosyncrasies, it slipped
my mind"
| But we shall have our great mo-
ment. never fear. Some time when
Adelaide is visiting in the dear Middle
West or at some other point of the
compass, we intend to use every
quest" towel in the house To the
married man of middle age that is
about the only great adventure left.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

As partial solution of the prob
lem of unemployment it might be
mentioned that there are several thou
sand untitled jobs for coal diggers an
southeastern Kansas. The condition
OF unemployment so widely heralded
is not so much due to the times as it is
to men like Alexander Howat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

The composer appeared in the Of
flee of the publisher one morning,
and with calm assurance returned a
check for 5000. You can destroy
that" he told the publisher, and
make out one to my credit for s5Oe.''
Nonsense" came the reply.
That's your royalty to date for your
last song
"oh. no, it isn't" said the com
poser.
DO you mean to insinuate that the
firm is
Il insinuate nothing I make the
simple statement that I want $500 in
royalties. For the first time in my
life can be positive as to the amount
I married your bookkeeper yester-
day."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

The'third anniversary of the signing
OF the armistice is almost here and
still we are at war with Germany.
The senate continues to refuse to RAJ
ify a treaty of peace. Do the sena-
tors desire to go on fighting forever?
Must we always maintain an army in
Europe?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

No union can repeal the mathe-
matical law that when 100 is divided
by 10 there is a quotient or 10, while
divided by 20 there is a quotient of 5.
The surest and quickest way to bring
wages down is to increase the number
OF workers without corresponding
increase in the product.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

The San Francisco municipal street
railway system, which collects g.
cent fare, announces a surplus from
earnings totaling s1,2O0.OOO. Here is
hint to all transportation lines which
have reduced patronage and earnings
by charging rates higher than the
public is willing to pay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

A London pastor has hit upon new
way of increasing church attendance
by giving dances which only members
Of his congregation are allowed to at
tend. When the movies fail the dance
may bring desired results.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

Wall street reports that recent ar
rivals of gold at New York have car
ried the total amount in the United
States above the SS,s77, $50 that
previously held the record. We could
buy much with all this gold II any
body had anything to sell that we
want but under existing conditions I
Is comparatively useless. We not only
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

can not use it to buy from other coun-
tries but they can not use it to buy
from us. Being the richest country
in the world is not all that It appears
to be at first glance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

The football classic in Topeka Sat
urday between Washburn and K. L.
was fountain of youth to the capital
city. The city was turned over to the
students from Washburn and Law
renee and the enthusiasm was catch
petuaI hostess to this annual contes..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

The long pending question of which
is the bigger, the state of Kansas DR.
Alexander Howat, appears to have
been. settled in favor of the state.
Howat is in Jail. Apparently he chose
his own tine for entering upon a
prison term, but he went.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
81 LEE PAVE

Last Sundey I wawked GROUND to
see if Mary watkins was setting on
her frunt steps. witch she was on .
pillows. me thinking. Ferst III make
her think I'm CRATE and then II ask
her if she wants to take a wawk.
And 1 wawked up TO her wawking
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

If so many people who had never
worked before hadn't learned to work
during the war days, there wouldn
be so many idle people now. says the
Dubuque Times-Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

The Hartford Courant advocates
limiting by law rental charges to 10
per cent Of the value of the property
as returned for taxation. That looks
fnir enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

special fish is bred in Siam and kept
as pet for its fighting propensities
Washington telegraph., 1921-05-27
GRIM lNAL.

Giuseppe de Filippo, charged with
conspiracy to destroy the United
States assay office in New York in
connection with the Wall street ex-
plosion last September, was held with
out bail for u hearing on May 26 by
United States Commissioner Charles
L. Hendrickson.
Ten individuals and nine corpora
tions, all members of the New York
Association of Dealers in MasOns'
Building Materials, pleaded guilty to
violations Of the state antitrust law.
Gordon c. Thorne, a son of the for
mer president Of Montgomery, Ward
& Co., and his mother, Mrs. William
c. Camp, were robbed of jewelry
which they said was worth 5000,
by a masked robber at Chicago.
Firing point-bank at his wife with
shotgun, Tony Valinsky, Of Cadillac,
Mich, tore away ypart Of her hand
and killed his 5-year-Old baby in her
arms. He then killed himself.
Miss Billie Moore was shot and
killed by John NJ. Morris, a wealthy
planter living near Collieryille, a Mem
phis (Tenn) suburb. Morris, after
shooting Miss Moore four times,
slashed her throat with Il pocketknife,
as she lay dying in the yard Of the
Morris home, according to witnesses
Private Charles Leesman, a soldier
of the Third Division, stationed at
Camp Pike, surrendered at police head
quarters at Little Rock, Ark, saying
that he is wanted at Carthage, Mo, for
completely in the killing Of william
Spain, a taxicab driver there.
Washington telegraph., 1921-05-27
LABOR.

As an outgrowth of the job printers
strike in Buffalo, n. Y, 80 printing
shops announced an agreement by
which they hereafter will operate only
on the open-shOp basis and also de-
clared for the 4S-hOur week.
Full power was given Secretary of
Labor Davis by representatives of the
Seaman Radio Operators and Marine
Engineers at conference to make a
settlement for them with the ship
owners and the United States Shipping
Board in the marine wage controversy.
The anthracite mine workers will
Join forces with the bltuminous miners
at New York in formulating policies
which will govern the negotiations Of
new wage agreements with the coal
ojerators, to take the place OF the
present contracts, which expire on May
81, 1922.