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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-14
Dorothy Dix Tails

Sending Maud Geraldine to College,

Sending Maud Geraldine to College,.
I have recently received a great
many letters from mothers asking me
whether they should send thier daugh-
tiers to college or not.
To this 1 would reply that it de-
pended altogether on what was inside
and outside of the girls head, and
also, more particularly on the state of
the family pockethook.
If it had pleased heaven to bestow
upon my daughter a peaches and
cream complexion, and hair with a
natural wave in 1t, and a ussome
figure, and straight nose and dreamy
eyes. and made her otherwise easy to
contemplate, should not bother about
superimposing a college education
upon her other charms unless I had
money to burn.
For should know that matrimony
was daughters predestined career, and
that while being able to write NJ. A.
after her name might possibly help
her to be q better ma, it wouldn't
help her to become one. No honest
observer will deny that being a COL
lege graduate is handicap rather
than a come-on in securing a husband.
This is the case because the man is
yet to be born who doesn't yearn to
know more than his wife does and to
be able to pose before her as an
oracle, and this is difficult to do with
lady who is a Phi. D. Likewise it is
the case because the college bred girl
spends IN academic halls the years
euline taste. And furthermore, the
college girl. having passed thru the
impresSio enable years when she could
love anything in trousers that danced
well. is pretty hard to please, and
choicey about husbands.
- L. y. fe-
yourself about men. After all, women
have to wait until they are asked to
set married, and 1t doesn't always pay
to look a gift horse too closely in the
mouth.
Therefore. sending a pretty girl to
college belongs to the superfluous
luxury class of things. Indulge in it
il you can have the price, and desire
it, and she begs to go because the
other girls are going. What she
learns won't do her any harm, and in
later years when she comes running
to you to know how to make cake
that won't fall, and weeping over the
way the butchers bill won't tally with
her budget, you can, at least, wonder
what would have happened IL you
hadn't given her all the blessings of
the higher education for women.
If, however, daughter is one of
those who wasn't around when nature
handed out to the girl babies born her
day the prize packages of pu1chritude;
If daughter has a complexion like a
salaratus biscuit, and a pug nose, and
stringy hair, and is flat-footed, and
slab-sided, send her to college if you
have to mortgage the house to do it.
She will always have to be her own
meal ticket and you owe it to her to
fit her to earn not only bread and
butter, but jam and pie. In all hu-
man probability she win never have
the happiness OF having husband and
children. and you must give her the
best substitute for them you can by
filling her life with the absorbing in
terest of some profession or trade by
which she can find a never-ending
source of pleasure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-14
STOP COAL PROBE.
No Evidence of Monopoly in
Price in Topeka.
Court Finds That Organization
Did Not Fix Price.

The retail coal Investigation held
by the Kansas court of Industrial rela-
tions apparently failed to develop any
evidence Of q monopolistic control of
retail prices. The hearing did bring
out the fact that the local dealers have
some kind OF an organisation. But
there was nothing to show that the
organization fixed a uniform price and
there was much evidence that the or
ganization was little more than a So
ciaI affair. One dealer, Charles Little,
said the organization was so weak and
amounted to so little he had never
gone to the trouble to join it
A woman, Mrs. Cora Major Croft,
manager of the local Jackson Walker
yards. bore the brunt of the gruelling
of Baxter d. McClain. attorney for the
court, and the judges She testified
that a gross profit of SO q ton was
made on the local sales of coal :. nd
that this margin of profit was the
same as that fixed by the fuel admini-
stration during the war. An effort
was made by the questioners to make
much of the fact that she testified
the prices for Topeka were fixed in
Kansas City.
c C. Nicholson testified that prof
its for the Gillette 6 Nicholson yard
Out of this profit the company pays
Is cents a ton for delivery, Is cents
a ton for shoveling the coal out of
freight cars and absorbs the shrink
age. Last year the companies paid
81 ton for delivery but this spring
the price was cut to rs cents, it was
said.
Estimating that the average gross
profit of the local dealers on a ton of
coal is IS and that the average ex-
pense of unloading and making de-
liveries and absorbing shrinkage is
from 80 cents to $1.15, the profit made
ranges from $1.85 to $2.10 per ton.
May Abandon Hearings.
Members of the Industrial court
We're unable to say today whether or
not there would be a further investi-
cation of retail coal prices here The
investigation was abandoned today in
order that the court might hear an an
piication of the street car company for
a reduction of the wage scale nut into
effect last year for street car employees.
and the court was planning to so to
Wichita for a. similar hearing there.
However. it was said there would be
other retail coal Investigations in the
other large towns of the state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-14
Raymond chiropodist, orpheum Bldg.-A


O. What did the bicycle policeman of
!, aSr DO 70 get the name Miie-a-min-
uts. % Iisg- min. minute M Murphy was mem.
Der of the Motorcycle Corps in Brooklyn,
who was so named because he was paced by
a railroad train, riding mile in 60 sec
a.. Is there anything to put on tools that
will keep the rust off Wv. B.
A. Dissolve "a OF. of camphor in 1 lb. of
melted lard; remove scum; add enough fine
black lead (graphite) to give an iron color.
Clean the tools and smear with this mix
ture. After "a hours rub clean with soft
linen cloth. In ordinary circumstances the
tools will not rust for months.
wiggle till the sun goes down ?-F. H c.
A. The Biological Survey says that IN
lower animals such as the snake and the
frog the spinaI cord IL Of more importanee
of animal life, since in the former it in
fluences the body motions more than the
brain does. 1t is because of this fact that
the heart of the snake will continue to beat
after the head Is severed from the body. In
fact there have been cases when the snake
was kept in a cool moist place that the heart
was found to be beating "a hours after the
lhead had been severed from the body. On
the other nand, II the snake were to be left
in the hot sun, the heart would stop beat
ig within few minutes.
@. Should q man playing golf alone,
allow other players to pass him 20. f.
A. The United States Golf association
rules provide that "a single player has no
standing and shall always give way to
O. Where is tigerwood found ?-D. s.
A. There is a wood found in British
Guiana, richly striped with black and
brown. which is giveE the name tigerwood.
In Guiana it is called Lakewood.
Q. Where was Goliath, the giant, born
A. Goliath was born in Gath--one of
the five confederate cities Of the Philis-
q. what is meant by the expression
"Paddy's hurricane" al. w. NJ.
A. When there Is no breeze and pen
nant hangs against the mast. 1t Is said
that Paddy's hurricane is blowing, or that
the wind Is up and down the mast.
Q. What state has the most silk mills
A. New Jersey has the most silk mills,
but the 1920 census shows that Pennsyl-
vania produced 1856 per cent Of the total
value of silk produced in the United
States and New Jersey 31.2 per cent.
(Any reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau, Frederic J.
Haskin, Director, Washington, DC. This
offer applies strictly to Information. The
bureau cannot give advice on legal, medf-
cal. and financial matters. 1t does not at
tempt to settle domestic troubles, nor TO
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-14
She TRIES SUICIDE
Wealthy Chicago Woman Was
Caught as "Raffies.s
Husband Gave Bond-May Re-
cover From Poison.

Chicago. July 14.-Mrs. Eta Perry
He'll, wife of wealthy broker. whose
arrest several weeks ago as a
woman "Raffles." caused q sensation,
is in a serious condition at a hospital
here today after an attempt at suicide.
Mrs, He'll swallowed poison iE the
waiting room of railway station.
Physicians said today Mrs. He'll has
a chance for recovery unless the after
effects of the poison prove unexpect-
eddy fatal.
Earlier in the week, Mrs. He'll made
an unsuccessful attempt to kidnap her
two children, who have been in the
custody of their father, Joseph F. He'll,
since Mrs Heirs arrest for looting
the homes Of wealthy residents where
she had obtained employment as a
maid.
Mrs. He'll has been at liberty under
bonds Of $40, 200 furnished by her hus-
band. He'll also restored more than
$50. 900 worth of valuables alleged to
have been stolen by his wife. When
the news of his wife's attempt at sui
eide reached him, He'll hurried to the
hospital and spent the night at his
wife'S bedside
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-14
WEATHER


dry days would be fatal but there are
no such things on the local program
now and it looks as If the corn crop
in this immediate locality was nearly
safe
Only the northeast territory came
in for the rain. Lawrence reports
1.02 inches. Horton "a, Manhattan
Is, Kansas City rs, Wamego 40, and
AS of an inch fell at st. Joe, Mo.
The effect of the rain on the tenn
perature means that COOLER weather
will prevail until Saturday at least, the
weather bureau says. The tempera-
ture reached "a at Topeka at 3 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon which was
within one point of the high mark
for the number.
The warmest places in Kansas We'd
nesday were Mcpherson and Dresden,
each reporting 100. and Scott City was
the coolest spot with 81. Phoenix.
Ariz., usually the hottest place in the
country, fell from its perch Wednes-
day when the temperature only went
to 9S. Winnemucca, New, reported a
temperature of SO Wednesday.
The highest temperature ever re-
corded at Topeka on this date was 104
in 1901 and the lowest was so in 1891.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon the
wind was blowing at the rate. of six
miles per hour from the northwest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-14
President Obregon to Rescind
Heavy Export Tax.
Decree RevOking 25 Per Cent
Duty Being Prepared.
WASHINGTON TO COOPERATE
Assurances U. S. Won't Impose
Import Tax Received.
First Decree Caused American
Producers to Shut Down.

Galveston, Tex. July 1t.-The obre-
gon government mas eapituiated it's re-
cent order imposing an added rs per
cent export tax on crude oil. according
to dispatches reaching here today from
Mexico City. A presidential decree Of
fieialIy revoking the tax Is about to
be issued.
Decision to reseind the order. which
had caused foreign oil producers 10
lodge vigorous protests with their
home governments and later caused
the American producers to close down
the great wells around Tampieo. is re-
ported to have been reached by Obre-
gon in an all-night session with COM
mittae from the chamber of deputies.
Gets Assurance From u. S.
Obregon has received .semi-official"
assurances from Washington that the
American government will not impose
an import duty on Mexican oil, accord
ing to advices from Mexico City to-
day.
The presidential proclamation re-
scinding the tax order will. 1t is I'M
derstood. urge an immediate resump-
ton of production in all fields to re-
lieve unemployment
Thousands of men were thrown out
of work when the foreign producers
decided to shut down rather than pay
the % per cent tax and the unemploy-
mcnt situation has become acute. This
is particularly true of the Tampico
district. where all the big wells shut
down.
President Obregon has invited the
foreign producers to meet with him
in conference and endeavor to work
out an equitable plan which will per-
petuate good will and stimulate pro-
duction. according to Mexico city
advices.
Washington Has No Word.
Washington. July 1.-THE state
department has not been notified of
an intention on the part of President
Obregon of Mexico to rescind the 20
per cent export tax upon oil. it was
stated today.
Representatives of oil concerns here
were without information but were
inclined to be skeptical. They point
ed out that dispatches stated that
Ohregon has been assured the pending
tariff bill will not lay tariff on oil.
while this question is still one of heat
ed debate in congress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-14
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.
THE GREATER PEACE

II
1 have lived long enough to learn
The things which are of great concern,
And I would write them down today
For him who follows in my way:
I would impress upon his mind
The peace that comes Of being kind.
And l would teach him there's no fame
That can excel an honored name.
Unto the eyes Of youth it seems
That most important are its dreams,
Yet high-flown dreams come tunbling
down
And few attain the worlds renown,
And even those who rise to power
Must live thru many a troubled hour:
The thing that counts thru peace and strife
Is, above all, weii-lived life.
Better by far than glory famed.
Is to meet all men unashamed;
Greater than fortunes glittering gold
Is love Of friends when man is old;
Who earns his neighbours high esteem
Need never mourn some broken dream,
Who knows true friends are standing by
Has peace which wealth cannot supply.
As Time, the great teacher of Us all,
Shows us her gIories. large and small,
Much that we once thought splendid. pales
And the great joy Of conquest fails;
Richer than days victorious glow
The kindlier days of long ago,
He knows true glory at the end
who's played the man and played the
friend
Copyright, 1921. by Edgar A. Guestl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-14
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SET new HEALTH RECORD
FEWER Deaths In juno Thnn In any
Month In Slx Years

Month fu Slv Years.
Fewer persons died in Topeka in
June than in any months time for
more than six years, according to the
monthly report issued by Commits
sioner r. D.. McGiffert of the city
health department. The least num-
Der of contagious diseases for any
month since September, 1919, was re-
ported in June.
No deaths resulted In June from tu-
bsrculosis. In every previous month
this year deaths have occurred from
that disease.
There were 1s1 less cases of COM
municabie diseases in June than in
May, the report shows. Chickenpox
led In number OF cases with as.
There were IL cases of scarlet fever
In June and IL cases of smallpox, 4
cases of wheoping cough, and cases
of diphtheria and cases of measles.
The total of deaths for June was
thirty-nine, only seven of which were
among persons less than thirty years
old One hundred births were re-
ported, ninety of which were white,
five colorcd and five Mexican.
The health report, with it's thoro
statistics and comparisons, is pre-
pared by DR.. Earle G. Brown, city
health officer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-14


A1tho the crop moving season has
barely begun, already complaints IF
a shortage OF cars are being heard.
But whatever blame exists for this sit
uation attaches to the government
more than to the railroads. Techni-
cally, the railroads were returned to
their private owners on the first o.
March, 1920. AS a matter of fact,
the return was coupled up with the
retention of certain national agree
ments" which had been made by the
director of railroads and which were
burdensome to the private operators.
Some of these agreements had been
made in 1918, but many more vera
made just on the eve of the return of
the roads to their owners, and with
full knowledge that they would be a
handicap to the managers. The pri-
v3.te managers are not, therefore,
fully responsible for conditions that
have existed since they took over the
operation of the roads on March l,
1920. There has been no opportunity
to get the operation of the roads back
to normal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-14
SOCIETY WOMEN ON GRILL
Federal Attorney Wants In Know
Where They Got Booze,

Chicago. July 14-Three prominent
society women of Chicago will be in
terviewed today by Assistant United
States District Attorney Roy F. Egan
booze ring investigation, he indi-
Gated today.
They will be questioned concerning
the alleged activities of Mr.. and Mrs
James w. Walsh, alleged heads of the
conspiracy to bring liquor here from
Canada by way of Detroit. iE
The list of customers kept by
Walsh in book. now in the possess
sion of the authorities, shows the
names of many prominent Chicagoans,
officials stated today. Federal agents
are keeping many of these names Sc
cret for the present
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-14
Is YEARS AGO m TOPEKA
From the Columns OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL,

July u, 1895.
At 2 o'clock the Thermometer registered
oS above with the wind blowing from the
southwest at the rate of II miles an hour.
Frank Merriam has bought the Eckart
farm, seven miles southwest of Topeka. 1t
is one OF the Oldest and best improved
farms in the county and consists OF 16U
acres. The price paid was $3.50.
Dr. and Mrs. George p. Ashton entertain
ed large number Of guests last evening ut
musicale complimentary to Miss Mabel
Day OF Manitou, Colo.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. McClintock entertained
a few friends at tea last evening compliment
tary TO Mrs. Herrick of Hiawatha. Their
guests were Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Lyon,
Mr. and Mrs James Walker, Mr.. and Mrs
J. P. Davis, Mrs. J. B. Thomson Mrs Robt.
Herrick and Mrs. Herrick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-14
U. S. WILL HELP CUBA
General Crowder Assures President OF
Economic Assistance.

Economic Assistance.
Havana. July 1.-THE United
States is disposed efficiently to aid
the Cuban government in the solu-
ton of its present economic difficult
ties. Maj. Gen. E. H. Crowder told
President Alfredo Zayas and mixed
parliamentary commission last night.
General Crowder attended the meet
ing to offer information on questions
pending between the United States
and Cuba in connection with eco
nomic aid and revision or the reci-
procity treaty.
The commission agreed that Presi-
dent Zayas's first message to the ex-
ira session of congress called for July
IS should ask approval for q budget
which could be met from the govern
ment'S present income. Other mes
sages it was agreed should request
authority for the chief executive to
reduce tariff duties so per cent on ar
ticles of prime necessity and increase
80 per cent the duties on imports
from countries discriminating against
Cuban products and propose an agri-
cultural credits law authorizing banks
to lend money on crops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-14
THE PoKER's HOT END.

The haste being displayed by the
house in disposing of the tariff bill
indicates a disposition to pass it along
to the senate as quickly as possible
and let that body wrestle with it.
This move on the part of the house
seems to be due to an eleventh hour
discovery that a revision of taxation
must be made before December in or
der that the fraYsas-z &c the budget
may know where they stand. The in
come from import duties under any
tariff law is too uncertain to be de-
pendable as a basis of expenditures.
The whole situation indicates a dis
position on the part OF majority lead
ers to back away from the tariff. 1t
is being pointed out that the tax sit
uation in the United States continues
to hold business in leash. No large
undertaking may be expected under
the present tax system; all are mark
ing time until they learn what tax
policies are to be. Any tariff law
based on present conditions, it is
urged. must be revised again within a
year, and six months from now many
changed ard changing conditions will
afford additional data for a more sci
entific revision OF the tariff.
It seems. Therefore. that after The
lower house has PASSED the tariff bill
now before it, it might well take up
tax revision and pass it on to the SEN
ate, where it. can take priority over
the tariff bill. The senate having put
thru the tax law could then turn its
attention to the tariff. perfecting it to
accord with the changed conditions
which three months will have brought
about.
The difficulty OF the situation ap-
pears to arise from the fact that I'M
der the constitution 'all bills for rails
ing revenue shall originate in the
house of representatives" Earlier in
the present session some controversy
arose in the house as to which leg:s-
lation should take precedence. tax or
tariff legislation. Congress was at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-14
NEW .. S. ENVOY IN PARIS.
Myron T. Herrick ut Once Holds Con
ference with RrInnd.

Paris, July 14.-Myron T. Herrick.
the new American ambassador to
France. arrived here today and imme-
diately afterward held a lengthy con-
ference with Premier BRAND.
A large crowd welcomed the am
bassador at the station and gave him
"a rousing reception. All the news
papers printed eulogistfc articles
welcoming Mr.. Herrick \ back to
France IN his own ambassado
post.
Mr.. Herrick said that, on account
of the intense heat. he would remain
in the suburbs until Monday, when
he will formally present his Gre
dentials to the foreign office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-14

The telegraph announces the sink
ing Of a German warship anchored
sixty miles out by bombing planes.
President Harding has just signed a
bill appropriating approximately
half billion dollars. much of which
will be used for the construction Of
new warships. 1t will be But a short
time until these, too, will become tar
gets for bombers or marksmen. a
world which cannot stop such waste
seems still to have a long way to go.
Sinking of a German warship while 1t
is stationary seems easy, but it may
be recalled that not many of them
were sunk during the war. Real war
rarely follows the rules by which it is
played.