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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04

= In his campaign for election to the
United States senate, Albert ]. Bever-
idge is telling the voters of Indiana
that the trouble with the country, is
that too many restrictive laws have
been adopted in the last two decades
laws that have hampered and para
( lyzed business and industry. The great
need, he says, is to free the hands OF
honest business, to clean house. to
repeal foolish and unnecessary laws
that penalize enterprise and stand in
the way of healthy prosperity. Trade
and commerce have been made timid,
half-hearted and spasmodic by fears
of meddlesome interference, dema-
gogicaI attacks and actual law-pre-
scribed penalties for innocent trans
Z actions. Confidence can be restored
only by the acceptance of a new policy
that of repeating harmful legislation
and of refraining from interference
with legitimate activities. Much of
}this sounds reasonable, but could not
Mr.. Beveridge be a little more speci-
ific? Just which are the laws that
he plans to repeal?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04

period. but immediately before the
war and shortly after it was pro-
durable at from to 10 cents a pound.
What the economists point out is
that the American standard of 1iv-
ing is so high that it nisleads many
people. Our people spend a lot but.
they get a lot. Recently two Scandi
nayian-born Americans met. One
had been to his old home and was
telling the other of the good fortune
that had befallen one of their mutual
friends. He said that the man had
become rich. He had done SO well,
the man explained. that he had
bought himself bicyclei
There is a concrete example of what
is meant bf saying that the cost of
livfngl has not increased in America.
so much as the scale of living has in
creased. Americans have more than
any other people in the world; they
are surrounded with a bewildering
variety of goods. most of which are
within reach of the comparatively
deep purses, of the wage workers. It
is an old adage that he who pays the
piper is entitled to call the tune.
Americans call an expensive tune. 4,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04
HEART AND HOME PROBLEMS.
Written for The StatelJournal
By ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs Thompson: am in love
with a boy eighteen. I am fourteen
1 go out twice a week and come home
at $3.50, butt go, with my sister and
her fellow. Do you think / am doing
wrong? My other sister causes trouble
for me-.
Tell me what 1 can do.
LUCILLE
Yes. you are doing wrong. Par
ents who are careful of their daugh-
ters reputation do not let her stay
out until 2:30. and in fact they do
not let their fourteen year old daugh-
ter go out with boys even in company
with her older sister. Your parents
love you Just as much as any other
parents, but they want you to have
good time and they do not realize
the seriousness OF letting you stay
out this way. From self-respect I
would advise you to stop going out
nights and to wait about two years
before you have any boy callers If
you are careful, little girl you will
be respected and loved by a better
class of people than you can hope to
claim as your friends IL you 60 on
running wild"
From the standpoint of health YOU
cannot afford to keep such late hours.
In few years you will look old and
worn out and tire easily. II you want
to be beautiful and fresh for years
to come, go to bed early nights. Don't
throw away the happiness and. ad-
vantages of a lifetime for a few un-
wisely chosen pleasures. e-iH ~ fce-
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Dorothy Dix Tails
The second Best Bet-2.


1t is only too true that mans ro-
mantle love for a woman lasts only
very short time. Passion inevitably
burns itself out. and daily life gears
illusions to tatters. 1t is also true
that time inevitably takes its toll OF n
woman's looks, and she who was a
raving beauty at twenty is no living
Women know this, but the mistake
they have made has been in thinking
that the way to keep a husband is by
dangling before his eyes the same bait
with which he was caught.
This is an error from every point
of view. 1t is a blunder from the wo-
mans side because she no longer car
rfes the same line of charm in stock
that first ensnared her husbands
fancy. No middle aged woman has
the slimness, the peaches and cream
complexion. the CLINT in her hair, the
dewy freshness, and the high spirits
of youth. and her efforts to camou-
flage them are mere caricatures of
the real thing.
And it's a mistake from the mans
point of view because the man is mid
die aged himself. He has long since
ceased to take any particular interest
in his wife's looks, and doesn't care a
rap whether she's a perfect thirty
eight, or comfortable forty-siX. Nor
does he take any interest in the
ingenue tricks that he fell for in his
salad days. He no longer thinks it
cute for her to roll her eyes and be
helpless and babyish. He thinks she
is acting like a fool when she does.
So, as a plain matter of fact, the
middle aged woman who wants to
hold her husband has got to cut fresh
bait, and nowhere will she find a bet
ter. or such a never ending supply,
as in the daily newspaper. for no man
ever gets tired of the woman who in
tereStS him, who knows the things that
he knows and can talk and listen in
diligently.
Women have been slow to realize
that the greatest foe to domesticity,
the real enemy to the home Is bore
dom. Men leave home and seek COM
panionship elsewhere because their
wives have nothing on earth to talk
about except the high cost of butchers
meat, and the babies teething and
their complaints because they have
to work so hard and can't have ey-
erything some ether~woman has. Chil7
dren leave home because home is the
dullest spot on earth.
But where you find a bright and
entertaining woman, a woman who
keeps up with|the times, woman
who can keep her family amused and
interested, you invariably find a home
staying household.
So read the papers, ladies, because
it's about the only thing your hus-
bands read and if you keep him you
must keep his step. The newspaper
is your best ally, and the most relia BILE
safeguard against. being a deserted
wife, even If no law is ever passed
making nonreading of the papers a
cause for divorce.
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Observation-Disclosures
!. Where is Tanganyika2 t. H W.

O. Where is Tanganyika? T. H W
A This is East African territory
formerly known as German East Africa. 1t
is now administered by Great Brithfn.
Q. Can a tobacco barn be used for stor-
ing sweet potatoes? W. o.
A. A f1ue-heated tobacco barn can be
so modified that 1t viii serve a dual pur-
pose. The curing season for tobacco is
over before sweet potatoes are harvested.
SO one building will serve for both uses.
Q. What was the first encyclopedia? j.
"A. The first encyclopedia written in
English aad with the articles alphabetically
arranged was a Universal English Diction-
airy Of Arts and cciencee, by John Harris,
a London clergyman. published In 1Io4
(Any reader can get the answer TO any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau, Frederic J.
Haskin, Director, Washington, d. c This
offer applies strictly 20 Information The
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and financial matters II does not attempt
to settle domestic troubles. nor to under
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Give full bame and address and enclose two
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town is practicing on Miss Pedeau's
information and -enunciation.
Mrs. Slim Possett tried to read IT
Winter Comes one night last week,
but got in over her head and had to
lowed ashore.
The Everett Dabneys have closed
their home on Crosson Heights for
the summer and are living at the Lit
tie Gem motion-picture>t heater.
Every other institution in town hav-
ing failed to do so. the Bon Ton de-
partment store is now making an ef-
fort to get some work out of Jim Pet
tifish.
Mss Annable Musser's city beau was
here last sweek, and the consensus Is
that Tom Musser soon will have an
Abel Grayson win attend the law
department of the state university this
winter. Jake Grayson, Abefs father.
thinks his son will be thru the uni
versityS by Christmas. but Abel him
self Is less optimistic about il. Abel
thinks he will Be doing pretty web II
he learns all the university can teach
him by the end of the winter semester.
In order that no false hopes may
be raised the Star and Argus will state
that the new pharmacist at McGar-
rigle's drug store Is a married man
with wife and three children.
The Star and Argus doesn't know
whether there is any truth in the story
that the engagement between Muriel
Dabney and Everett Harniss has been
broken off. Neither of the parties
Immediately interested will discuss the
matter. What it does know is that
! the Dabney dog still IS following Ever
EFT around
The incident, however, is suffi-
GENTLY unusual to justify another
paragraph concerning 1t. 1t is the
n a h Sfn of an hof
anybody who had an opportunity to
| talk has refused to do so.
Ike beagle has quit the government
! again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04
An example of how wages may Il

An example of how wages may fol-
low economic lines when uninflu-
enced by strikes. lockouts or coercion
of any kind is seen in the wage fluc-
fuations in the steel mills. In the
UNITED States Steel Corporation in
1915 the. basic wage was 50 for ten
hours On February 1, 1916, the
wage rose to $2.20; on May /, to
$3.50; December Is, s2.f5; May /,
1917, SO; October 1. $3.50; April 1s,
s191S. $3.50; August l, s4.2o; October
I. $4.62; and at this time the eight
hour basic day was established with
stfme and half paid for overtime;
February 1, 1920, s5.0s-the peak.
Then came the subsistence to normal
conditions. On May 16, 1921, the
wage was made s4.O5; July 1s. $3.50:
August 20, IS, and time and one-haif
abolished. On September 1. 1922.
ne wage was made $3.50. This is an
increase of 20 and so per cent over
1915, and was made voluntarily by
the steel industry. 1t is as much, if
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.
TOMORROW

TOmarrow's standing on the hill,
Watching field and shop and mill,
Looking over me and you,
And the sort of work we do
Searching for the ones she needs
Who shall do her bigger deeds
Tomorrow's looking for a man,
Best designed to serve her plan.
And she overlooks the earth
Seeking him who's proved his worth.
And perhaps when this days thru
She may send a call for you.
Tomorrow's hunting eager youth,
Brave men who wifi serve the truth,
Strong men who will carry on
When the faintest hope seems gone.
And she's calling them away
From the forces of today.
Tomorrow's watching. Never fear,
She is standing very near,
And her heart will leap with Joy
II she only finds n hoy
Clean Of hand. and bright of face,
Ready for a bigger place.
Keep tomorrow in your mind,
She is never far behind,
And her eyes are keen to see
Merit wheresoeer It be.
She'll be quick to summon VOW
When you've proved what you can do.
Copyright, 1922, by Edgar A Guest.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04

An idea of what good roads and
good camping grounds for motorists
mean to city may be gathered from
the experience of Chillicothe. Mo.
This city with a population of 1885
has no fewer than twenty-eight ma
tional, interstate and state highways
passing thru it; $3.50 tourists cars
carrying over 100000 persons visited
or passed thru Chillitothe in 1921.
purchasing merchandise and supplies
amounting to more than S241, 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04

1.-THE shipping bill will be taken up
in the House In November, the week
after election, and will be passed by
an overwhelming vote. President
Harding's letter consenting to tenn
porary delay until after election, clar-
lilies the situation and assures quick
and speedy passage" This is the
summary of the legislative situation
OF the ship subsidy made by the chair
man OF the house committee on the
merchant marine and fisheries in a
statement to the National Merchant
Marine association. Perhaps it is just
as we'll for the future of several con-
gressmen that they were not forced to
vote on the bill before election.
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being as essential as proving to the
entire satisfaction OF those good people
just how he had felt about the whole
matter. Recalling his engagement at
the club. he rushed to the telephone
to call STAN
Tell him to jump into a taxi and
run on over .here!" Alice urged at his
elbow. Then we can ask
THAT you. Stan? This is Bill. Want
to know If you can be my best man
at noon tomorrow? Trying to get her
to say eight o'clock, but she insists on
having her beauty Sleep" He smiled
and slipped the receiver to Alice's ear.
Quite distinctly she heard STAINS ex-
cited voice. by George, old man,
you've found Alice. Haven't you"
Copyright 1922, by The Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04

One of the current moving pictures
identifies the old Schuyler family of
New York with the people who came
over in the Mayflower. There always
seems TO be a tendency to overwork
the Nfayflower business. Mention of
the Pilgrim ship recalls a popular
play, of a generation ago, in which
one of the characters boosted that her
ancestors came over in the Mayflower.
whereupon, the family servant in an
aside remarked: Indeed they didn't.
They came over in the steerage."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.

was down town with ma yestidday
and some lady stopped in frunt of us
saying, Well well Pawleen Potts, 1
haven't seen you for ages, this is a site
for sore eyes.
Being a long lady with things on
well this is a plezzant serprize Id
hardly of known you. not that you've
changed so mulch Of corse.
don't see how 1 ever reckonized
you, either, though I must say you
look about the same, ony 1 meen you've
gotten so tremendously stout, sed the
lady.
Who me, not at all, I'm jest ixackly
the size I prefer to be so that's wy I
remain this way, but don't you find IL
very Embarrassing to be SO thin? ma
sed.
Who, me, wy wat an ideer. IL I
wasent slender Id be PERFECTLY miz-
cradle, there certen wonderful
freedom of motion in being slender
that I Suppose you fat people don't
know enything about, the lady sed.
o, don't know, plump people all
ways seem to have SO meny more
trends than thin people, nuthing per-
sinai of corse, and Id hate to have
the feeling wen I went to call on some
body that 1 wasent injoying their hos
pitallity because I took up SO little
room on the ferniture wen I sat down,
ma Sed.
o well, its all in the way you look
at it, perhaps that's better than taking
advantage of their hospitality by
weakening the legs of the chairs that
were only intended to support normal
people, If you know wat I meen, well
I'm so glad to of seen you, Pawleen
wy don't you call me up some time ?
the lady sed, and ma sed, I will,
thanks, will.
And me and ma kepp on wawkine.
ma saying, If she waits for me to call
her up she'll be even SKINNER. if sutch
thing Is possible, how I detest that
woman, and 1 sed, Maybe she don't
like you either ma.
Wieh maybe she don't.
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TOPEKA VS.. GAS COMPANY


The city commissioners will find
they have the support of the citizens
behind them. If they refuse to pass,
under coercion, a gas company fran
chise which will tie the hands of the
citizens and the municipal govern
ment, for the next twenty years.
The franchise is under close scruz
tiny by the members of the commits
sion. Ralph T. O'Neil, city attorney,
has postponed his vacation in order
to give his whole time to a careful
study of the ordinance, before 1T is
passed.
O'Neil has already inserted two
clauses in the franchise which mean
much as weapons for self defense in
the hands of the city. There has never
before been a penalty clause" in the
franchises under which the company
operates. In the new ordinance as it
now exists, there is a penalty clause
which makes the gas company guilty
of a misdemeanor and liable to a fine
OF 500 per diem for failure to COM
ply with any of the terms of the ordi-
nance Previous franchises, which
have not assessed any penalties, have
left compliance by the gas company a
matter of conscience. The penalty
clause in the present ordinance puts
teeth in that ordinance.
The commissioners will do well to
abide by the penalty provision in the
| face of the opposition of the company
which opposition might wei. be ex-
pected. The ordinance without the
penalty clause is very much a one
sided affair
Another valuable clause is that I'M
der which the company is bound to
pay over to the city a portion of it's
net profits, over and above 10 per
cent on the value of its investment.
| Granting the the company may never
make more than 10 per cent profit,
it is also true that the franchises I'M
der which the company has previously
acted. were FIRE, gifts to the company,
without any return to the city. The
rate charges away. when the city
commission, which is shorn of its rate
making powers by the state law, is
unable to do SO. p, fe
Residents in the outer additions to
the city want gas. and want it now,
they have told the commission. The
| city commissioners will make every
effort to see that they have gas this
fall, but the commissioners will not
allow the issue of gas for the outlying
additions to overshadow the welfare
of the entire city for the next twenty
years, and for the sake of it. throw
the gates wide open for any abuses
which the gas company may choose
to perpetrate.
Even assuming that Tom Doran's
bluff about stopping construction
work on the extensions unless the
franchise is granted Immediately. is
solid, and tie gas company does stop
work on the extensions, the general
welfare Of the city supersedes
the inconvenience to the outlying dis
tricts
i With the passage of the ordinance
as the commissioners want it passed
the outlying districts will get gas, and
get 1t on better terms, than would be
the case If the gas company were
given, a carte blanche franchise at this
time.
If the gas company doesn't want
the franchise which the city commits.
sion will pass, it is probable that g
successor to the company can readily
be found WHO will want it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04

Damage done by the Underwood
tariff law to agriculture has been re-
haired by the new Republican bill
which has the support of the admins
tration. Wheat will have a duty of
80 cents a bushel as against rs cents
in the Payne-Aldrich bill. Under the
Underwood bill it was free.-Wichita
Beacon.
Yet it Is doubtful that the farmers
will or can borrow any money on the
strength of what the new tariff law
will do for them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04

When congress decided to postpone
the enactment of new legislation. in
connection with the strike, Attorney
General Daugherty proceeded to uti-
lie the laws already on the statute
book A diligent search of the law
books will reveal a statute covering
almost any kind of situation that is
likely to arise. This country has not
been making laws for a century, for
nothing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04

not more, than is paid by the German
steel plants to their workmen for a
weeks work. 1t would be interesting
to know which one II any Of these
varying amounts paid to steel workers
would be regarded by 3. M. Jewell or
w. Jet Lauck as a ''living wage"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04

The matter of keeping our soldiers
on the Rhine, it is reported. has
reached a point where nobody cares
whether they go or stay. except Ger
many. She wants them to remain.
In that case the Teutons should ,begih
to. hquidate the expense bill which
now amounts to more than $780,
O0O. 600.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04

The week from Oct to Il has
been set apart as Seven Days for
Safety The travelling public just now
would like even one day of assured
safety from bombing, bridge burning
and train wrecking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04

Money is reported to be scarce and
high in Germany. Yet that country
more money than any nation in the
world except Russia. Both these
countries are examples of the anoma-
lous condition that the more the VOL
ume of a thing increases the scarcer it
becomes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04

Everybody is familiar with the say
ing that one cannot have his cake and
eat it. This idea has, been elaborated
,to>some extent by Attorney General
,Daugherty, who holds that man can
mot quit his job and keep it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04

There is another strike of coal
miners at Herrin, Ill. This time the
trouble has arisen over refusal of
the operators to permit the miners to
park their automobiles inside the
companys enclosure. Hasn't labor
any rights that capital is bound to re-
SDect
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Herbert, aged 4. had just been
bathed and dressed in an immaculate
white suit preparatory to attending
Sunday school. and grandma had cau-
toned him to keep out of the wet
grass. Immediately he ran out into
the yard end sat down in the mud.
Patient grandma again dressed him
and gave him a lecture on cleanliness
In a few minutes Herbert came back
again. soiled. and was sent out after a
stick. Herbert came back with a
stick not very clean Just as grand
ma was about to administer the rod.
Herbert said: That's a pretty dirty
stick, grandma"
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Copyright. 1922. by the Wheeler Syn
dictate Inc.) Dr.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04

Miss Susie Pedeau, who has re-.
turned to her home in Memphis after
a visit with Miss Gussie Folsom, GER
tainly left her imprint on this COM
munity. Pretty nearly every girl in