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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-27
HUNT FISH IN FIELDS
Flood Waters in Kansas Streams
Provide Popular Sport for Fish
ermcn-Attorney General Takes
Action to Prevent Use of Pitch
forks and Shotgun.

Flood waters of many Kansas rivers
and creeks which caused fish in gem
eral, or at best those at all affected
with wanderiust, to frequent places
where fish ordinarily do not travel,
has brought about a demand of the
attorney general for information as
to the provisions of the new Kansas
fishing law enacted by the last legis-
lature. Incidentally, in a number OF
places, men not particular as to the
contents of the law, have come to
grief and deputy wardens thruout the
state have caused many arrests of men
caught spearing, hooking or otherwise
capturing specimen of the finny tribe
in violation of the law.
The past month, 1t appears, hunting
fish in fields and back water of the
flooded streams has been a popular
sport. After such a flood season many
large fish become marooned in waters
either partly or entirely cut off from
the rivers and streams. AS these
places become drained with the reced-
ing of the flood waters, the fish are
easily taken with fish gigs, spears, or
even pitchforks or shotguns. Such
less the fish are entirely cut off from
the stream. Furthermore, it is q viola
ton of the law to place barriers which
would prevent their natural return to
the stream with the receding waters.
In Manhattan a number of men
have been fined for violating the fish
law. The warden found them using
spears and shotguns in overlooked
fields. Two of these offenders hadn't
even captured any fish when they were
hailed into court and fined $1S.15.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-27
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By Ike PAPE

Us fellows was setting on my frunt
steps this AFTERNOON tawking about how
hot it was and the different differences
between winter and summer, and Sid
Hunts little brother Bert came up,
saying, Sid, mamma wunts you. she
wunts you to go a errand.
Wy does she, the dooce she does,
who sed she did? sed Sid.
She did, sed his little brother Bert.
And him and Sid went away, and Pubs
Simkins sed, That's one thing 1 don't
haff to do. I don't half to go eny err
and its good thing she does too be-
cause if they waited for me to go them
they'd never be went
Neither would ours, sed Skinny Mar
tin, my Kid sister goes all our errands,
that wat gerls are for, you don't catch
me going eny errands.
Me neither, sed, If enbody wunts
me to go eny errands I Jest say. Aw
call up on the telfonei and have it sent
Ground and then they call, up on the
telefone ana have it sent GROUND.
WITCH Jest then Skinny Martins little
sister Milderd came up saying. Mamma
Wunts you to go a errand rite away.
You're crazy. wy dident she tell you
to go? sed Skinny.
Ask her and find out, sed his little
sister Milderd. Aad him and her went
away, and in about a minnit Pudses
mother looked out her parler window
and wisseled for him, Pubs saying.
Heck. wat the dooce. If its a errand
II Amt going TO go. And he went home
and came out agen a cupple of min
nits later and went up the street like
somebody going a errand, me think
ing. Herray for me. all those poor guys
half to go errands and I'm the ony one
don't
WITCH jest then ma opened the frunt
door, saying, Benny, I wunt a pound
OF corn starsch and wunt 1t quieas.
Aw c. ma. sed, cant you call up
on the telefone and have il sent err
round? and ma sed. can but wont
] jump up off those steps.
Wich Ssl-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-27

London. June 27.-"The hour for
peace in Ireland has struck" said the
Times today, in commenting upon
Premier Lloyd Georges invitation to
Eamonn de Valera and Sir James
Craig to come to London to discuss
an Irish settlement with the British
governemnt. Virtually all of the news
papers approve OF the premier's course.
The opposition newspaper, the Daily
News, which has been an outspoken
critic of the governments Irish policy.
declares that the country is confronted
with the appalling prospect of intensi-
fled warfare in Ireland If the confer
ence fails.
1t has been proposed that England
administer Ireland as a crown colony,
beginning July IL, unless the south
ern Ireland parliament (created under
swears allegiance to England and
King George.
Armies Expect War.
The view held in Ireland, said the
Daily News, is that this account would
be tantamount to actual declaration of
war. This newspaper pointed out that
both general staffs English and Sim
Fein) have plans completed for a great
campaign. The irish Republican army
CONSUMPTION in additional districts.
els this the twilight or the dawn ?"
queries the Daily News, in commenting
upon the latest peace move.
The Daily Telegraph referred to the
premier's invitation as a state docu-
ment of first class importance which
will be closely scanned turnout the
world"
THE letter was put forward as a
final appeal for reconciliation in the
spirit of the kings words at Belfast"
said the Daily Telegraph.
H. a. 1T to
conditions but for a wholehearted at
tempt to bring the deplorable situation
to an end and conclude q handsome
peace" said the Daily Mail.
Object to Ulster.
"For the moment, an attitude OF
caution and restraint from criticisms
of the Irish is necessary" said the
Irish Independent, adding. IF the
elected representatives decide to accept
they may be trusted to do everything
possible to secure terms satisfactory
to the Irish people"
I'VE must take exception to the at
tempt of the premier to drag Ulster
| into conference with the Sim Fein,"
said a dispatch from Belfast quoting
the Northern Wing" The newspa-
! per continues:
"sWhat have we to do with de Va
lera's absurd claim to get up a re-
public? The premier is not treating
Sir James Craig fairy in asking him
| to meet de Valera, whom the loyalist
of Ulster regard with adherence. His
hands are STEPPED in the blood of
hundreds of innocent policemen, SOL
diers and civilians. One shudders at
| the very idea of being asked to sit in
| the same room"
The Manchester Guardian, a con-
slant critic OF the governments Irish
| policy, suspends judgment on the pre-
4 mier's peace move. A column of nom
tcornmittal news beginning with the
/ caption, 'Ts 1t Business?" and closing
with the question, us there wisdom
and statesmanship enough to prevent
the opportunity from being lost? ?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-27
PLAN BIG ROAD PICNIC
Celebration on East Sixth Avenue. tt
Be Held August 2.

Celebration on East Sixth Avenue To
Be Held August 2.
Elaborate arrangements are under
way for the celebration of the opening
of Shawnee county's first real hard
surface road. The big celebration will
be held August 2. and plans under way
contemplate the making Of the biggest
picnic in the county's history.
Some suitable site will be selected
out on the East Sixth avenue road,
which is now completed and will be
opened just as soon as It sets firmly.
At a meeting of the general COM
mfttee. appointed to arrange for the
big affair, it was decided to '.go the
limit" in entertaining the farmers
who live in the eastern part of Shaw
nee and western Douglas counties.
Free eats, drinks, speaking, dane
ing, games and everything else that
goes toward making a big country pic
mic a success will be a part of the
program. H S. Putney is general
chairman of the committee. Sub
committees to have charge of the va
rious parts of the arrangements were
named at today's meeting, which was
held at the Chamber of Commerce I
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THE MASSACHUSETTS WAY.

Some months ago Massachusetts,
sent a man to Kansas to take notes of
our court of industrial relations law
and its workings. For reasons best
known to itself, the legislature of the
Bay state did not adopt our formula
for dealing with the labor problem
but instead worked out a plan of its
own.
On May Governor Cox of Massa-
chusetts signed a measure passed by
the recent session of the legislature,
providing for suits by and against
voluntary associations in their COM
mon name. In signing the bill the
governor issued statement in which
he said:
The bill recognizes the true Mas
sachusetts principle that in the eye OF
the law the most powerful organiza-
ton stands on an equality with the
humblest individual. An individual is
responsible for his acts, and If a group
of individuals desire to act as a col
lective unit, then they must assume
collective responsibility.
Thirteen other states, including
such great industrial states as Con-
necticut, New York, New Jersey
Michigan and Ohio, have similar laws
and no one has suggested that the
laws in those states have caused any
injustice or embarrassment to any in
nocent party. If any of our citizens
feel that they have won a great VIC
tory in the passage OF the laws, UI
3 l.
Iplaced upon them 1 believe both
groups will be disappointed. The act
relates merely to procedure. and II
no way changes any Fundamental
rights
This measure was bitterly protested
by the labor unions and it was an.
nounced on May IL that the legisla.
tive agent of the American Fedora
ton of Labor filed with the secretary
of state in Massachusetts a petition
for a referendum on the measure. II
$4,000 signatures petitioning tn,
referendum are obtained the law will
go before the people at the next gen.
eral election.
This activity on Nthe part of labol
is part OF its policy of refusal to sub
NIT the question of the rights of Ia
Dor organizations to the courts which
the people have established AM
maintain for determining the rights o.
all men and securing the protection
Of organized society. 1t is a part o
their fight, not against employers O
labor, but against society itself.
Every step which subjects the &C
tivities OF men to the scrutiny of tn,
law and makes it easier for those wht
have been wronged to be protected o.
compensated, is step IN advance to
ward the greater security of the state
the encouragement of business trans
actions. and the peace of men.
homes.
But everywhere. as in Kansas. labo
fights an attempt to make it amen
able to the Jurisdiction of the courts
It is this opposition to submitting dis
yntes to an impartial tribunal tina
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Ouestions-Answers

O. How many acres of land can be ir-
gated by the Elephant Butte dam -. e; >.
approximately 10000 acres can be irrigat-
ed by this DAM
e: Why is a king as Of England gaver the
A. This title has been borne by reignin g
sovereigns of England since the time of
him BY the Pope because of book against
Luther called .Assertio Septem Sacremen-
forum" (which Henry VIII wrote in 1921
O. Isfit true that Samuel j. Tilden left
a large fortunel II so, to whom did he
leave it?-A. c. F.
A. At his death Tilden's wealth was es-
He bequeathed the greater portion ~ to
philanthropic purposes Of which the til
den foundation fund of the New nork pup
O. What Is meant by saying that re,
serve officer in the navy has re-entered
the service ia confirm his rank &c. L. b.
A. The navy department says that many
officers having temporary or provisional
rank in the reserves re-enter the regular
sary TO entitle them to permanent rank
This carries with it a much higher rate
Of pay. when retired to the reserve, since
Q. Why do Scotch soldiers wear skirts
and socks?--5. H.
by Scottish soldiers is a relic of the native
form of dress of the highlanders Of Scot
land. This includes the kilt and the tartan:
Scottish dress, while other wear the khaki
with the kilt skirts.
O. What is the longest distance base
ball has been thrown?-C- J. H
A. The worlds record for long distance
throwing of baseball was broken at Gin
cinnati, o.. October 10. 1910, when Sheldon
Lejeune of the Evansville, Ind, club Of the
Central League, threw the sphere 426 feet,
6A inches.
@. Please publish recipe for ice cream
with fruit in It's. NJ. T.
A 4 simple foundation for fruit ice
cream is 1 quart of cream, to which Y
ID. OF sugar and an egg have been added.
Remove peelings and seeds from four large
very ripe peaches Press thru sieve, add
to cream and freeze. Three bananas may
be substituted, or a scant quart Of straw
berries. taking care to strain thru sieve.
The egg may be omitted IL preferred.
Q. What are ships papers?- d.
A This name Is given TO papers which
a vessel must carry. such rs register; sea
| letter; log book; bill Of health; shipping
Q: Can stars be told from planets by a
novice IL s. b.
| A. One of the noticeable differences be-
tween stars and planets Is that stars
twinkle while planets do not
| (Any reader can get the answer to-any
question by writing The Topeka State
| Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin, Director, Washington, DC. Thin
| offer applies strictly to Information The
bureau cannot give advice on legal, medi-
| cal. and financial matters. 1t does not at
| undertake exhaustive research on any sub.
tect. Write your question plainly and
! briefly. Give full name and address and
| enclose two cents In stamps for return
postage AL replies are sent direct to the
inqufrer.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-27

Secretary Mellon has worked out a
plan for refunding our 100000
900 loan to the allies. At present
this debt is in the form of notes bear
ing per cent interest. The plan as
worked out by the secretary of the
treasury calls for the conversion of
these notes into bonds maturing IN
thirty or forty years and bearing a
somewhat higher interest. These
bonds are to be issued by the debtor
nations and given to the United
States. The secretary of the treasury
will then place them on the market
from time to time in an attempt 70
dispose of them to the people. If
Uncle Sam will guarantee principal
and interest the bonds doubtless will
find a ready market and could be
used to take up outstanding govern
ment obligations. If used in this way
the government could lose nothing,
even in case of default, except the
difference in interest rates.
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INFORMATION FOR ALL READERS OF
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This Service Bureau is located In the
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The war forced so-many changes In the
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JUST FOLKS
By EDGAR a. GUEST.

A PLACE.
Young man, eager to rise in the world,
Hark to the tale I tell:
Never put hand to the least command
Unless you will do 1t well.
You must strive for speed. but speed is
Lain
II p6orly the work be done,
And the time you take for a good jobs sake
Is time well spent, my son.
1 have known the world and the ways of
men
And the things 1 ten are true:
You must build your fame on an honest
And the work that you can do.
Whatever you promise you must perform.
Never utter . pledge absurd;
By the faith you keep you shall SOW and
reap,
You must stand to your given word.
The signs of the road are posted clear
But the wrong ways thick with doubt.
And day or night If you keep to the right
You never need face about
II you gladly toll and you give your best
To the tasks You find to do,
If your records clear, YOU need have no
fear
The world has a place for you.
Copyright, 1921, By Edgar A. Guestl
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Dorothy Dix Talks
Literature AS a Rcn,edy-2.
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
. highest Paid Woman

OF course to get the greatest bene-
fit from this mode of disciplining the
young the punishment must be made
to fit the crime, and the book the
child is given to read should be some
thing that deals directly. or indirectly.
with the fault the small sinner has
committed.
Suppose, for instance. a child is
given to telling falsehoods, and seems
to lack a high ideal of honor and hon
esty. Can you imagine any youngster
being put thru a course of Tom
Brown at Rugby" and Kipling without
being cured? No average boy will
ever tell a falsehood, or whine after he
is thoroly imbued with the spirit of
heroes, who scorned a lie as some-
thing unclean, and who shut their
teeth and carried on, no matter how
hard was the task to which they had
set their hands.
Suppose a boy is constitutionally'
lazy and inert, can anything rouse him
from his lethargy more effectively
than to be made to read fifty pages of
red blooded literature a day about the
men who started from the bottom and
fought their way up, or the bold adj
venturers who Jared forth into the
wilds to seek their fortunes? Ger
tainly such tales must put pep and
vim into the soggiest human vegetable,
and make it want to do mans part
in the world.
Suppose a boy is an Impractical
dreamer Could you do anything bet
ter to wake him up than to make him
read about Mr.. Macawber and Colonel
Sellers until every episode in their ca
reers is a red lantern of warning to
him?
Suppose your daughter is silly, and
frivolous, and vain. See to it that
lei, de Nd Dickens
Thackeray until it is ground into her
consciousness how the Becky Sharps
! come to grief in the end, and the but
terfly Doras are broken on the wheel,
and that>it is only the true, and stead
fast, and womanly Agnesses and
Lauras to whom men turn at the last.
Suppose your daughter is overly ro-
mantle, and is one of those misguided
girls who pirate of freedom in love and
the right to follow their hearts. Make
them read the stories that show that
the wages of sin is death to a woman
and that no guilty love ever endures
Try the book cure on your wayward
children. They may not listen to you
They cannot choose but listen to the
voices that have been echoing down
the corridors of time. Besides which
printers ink puts upon us a spell that
none of us can resist.
Books are little mirrors in which we
see the whole of life reflected. We see
the ideals we admire triumph. We
see our faults work out to their logical
conclusion, and drag people down into
the Dit, so what we read becomes ar
| inspiration and a warning, and It's ef-
fects upon a child are incalculable.
That is why we should teach our
| children to read, and see that they
read the>books that will correct their
weaknesses, and strengthen their viz
tues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-27
OPEN NEW CITY CLINIC.
Underweight and Undernourished
Children VIII Be Treated,

The new city clinic for children who
are underweight and undernourished
will open Tuesday morning at Bu-
chaRan school in charge of DR.. r. J.
Miller, city physician, it was an
nounced today by Miss Mary Alexan-
der, supervisor Public Health Nursing
association.
The clinic at the school. together
with the weekly clinic of similar ma
ture at the city hall, is designed to
make as many children as possible
normal before the beginning of
school.
Wednesday morning nutrition
clinic for children will be held at Rip
ley park under the direction of DR..
w. K. Hobart. The Ripley park clinic
was held successfully last summer,
Miss Alexander said
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EXCUSED FROM HOWAT TRIAL
Justice Burch Told 20 Remain With
Sick Daughter ut Salina.


Professional courtesy and an -izsti-
mate touch of human consideration,
entered into the Eowat trial at Column
bus today when Jake Sheppard, attor-
ney for the mine leader. excused Jus
tice Rousseau A. Burch of the supreme
court as a witness. Justice Burch is
in Salina, where his daughter. Mrs.
La Rue Royce is dying.
Justice Burch was called to Sal1ua
when a wire announced that Mrs.
Royce. his only daughter. was seri-
ously sick. He wired to Sheppard stat
ing he would go to Columbus to testify
il the attorney would notify him when
he would be called. The supreme
court judge had been summoned as a
witness in the contempt case against
Howat in the Cherokee county district
court. Today Sheppard excused JUS
tice Burch from attending the trial.
Give no thought to attendance
here" wired Sheppard from Column
bus. but stay in>attendance with sick
daughter. We will not call you at all,
but will get along without your testi-
mony."
In reply Justice Burch wired: Doc
tors tell mo that there is practically
no hope that my daughter will i've
1 cannot at this time express fully my
appreciation of your Kindness"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-27
WEST GUEST OF LUNCH CLUB
upremc Justice Talks to Topeka
Fire Insurance Men.

Supreme Justice Talks to Topeka
Fire Insurance Men.
Justice J. L. West, of the state su-
preme court, was the guest of the
Monday Lunch club at the luncheon
today at~the Chamber of Commerce.
The Monday Lunch club is made up of
fire insurance men.
Justice West made humorous and
instructive talk to the insurance men,
expressing his admiration for men who
could conceive and carry thru bust
ness which has become an absolute ne
cessity in every other line of business.
II hope your business will increase
and your rates will Decrease" he said
in Closing.
J. A. Braswell, representative of the
Fire Insurance company of North
America, presided at today's luncheon,
which was attended by more than
thirty insurance men.
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Milk fed broilers. Phone 591s-J.-Adv.
Mrs. Harmon Drum, operated on for
appendicitis a week ago today at Stor-
mont hospital, is convalescent.
Razor Blades Resharpened; 25c-35c
per dozen. Tromp Annex.-Adv.
Mrs. Sazie Bettinger today filed a
petition in the district court asking a
divorce from e. d. Bettinger, who
she says has refused to make a home
or care for her. She asks that she be
given their property at 1917 Van
Buren, street, upon final disposal Of the
case.
Cash for Liberty Bonds. Kleinhans.--Adv.
MI Bone Corset Shop, e1s Kansas
avenue. Phone Red 6156. Open from
100 to 600. except on Saturdays.
ADV.
Raymond Chiropodist. orpheum Bldg. ADV
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IN FEAR OF MOB VIOLENCE.
Precautions Taken to Protect Negr
Who Killed and Assaulted,

Caldwell, Tex, June 27.-Precau-
tons against possible violence had
been taken by officers when Charles
Sanders, negro, was brought here
preparatory for trial today on a charge
of criminal assault on Miss Ella Rich
ardson at her farm home near here,
June IA. :
The negro attacked the girl after he
had killed her father, Samuel Rich
ardson, according to the indictm ents.
Richardson was beaten to death with
a club. Sanders is to be tried later
for murder.
Sanders has been closely guarded
since his arrest and his whereabouts
in a nearby county kept secret because
of threatened mob violence.
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rHE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JoURNA-MoNDAY EVENING" JUNE q

eyes lifted to the serene face of John
Dixon's daughter, who was sewing in
the sunny window.
"Doreeni" she said softly.
The girl looked up guiitily fOh-
you knowt she breathed. .1 had to
come after Mittie wrote to me and said
you were Ill and alone-we did not
know-and I have taken your only
son away from you, and I hoped you
would learn to love me-
Mrs Taylor's arms were around the
slender young form. 81 need you, my
daughter" she whispered. "and I need
Robin-and poor Mittie in the kitchen,
I need you alli''
In some unaccountable manner Miss
Mamie Smith took the entire credit
for the reconciliation.
Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
II Newspaper Syndicate