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The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19
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Q. What could buy for a grade teacher :?
A. A book such as Marie Chapdelaine, or
This Freedom, which you can secure in your
leading Topeka book store; or a pair of
graph of a famous painting, would be a
suitable gift for a grade teacher.
O. Was Andrew Carnegie wounded in the
Civil war? n. +.
A. Carnegie had charge of the eastern
military railroads and telegraphs at the
outbreak of the war and was the third man
wounded on the Union side, while remov-
ing distractions from the Washington
O. How much radium is there in the
A The bureau of standards says that there
may be. eight or ten ounces OF radium In
the world today, but they have no definite
figures Practically all radium produced
in the United States comes from Colorado.
O. How ;arge city was ancient Car
A Carthage is said to have had about
700 900 inhabitants in 149 B. c.
O. How many members are there in the
British house of lords and how many of
A. The house of lords consists of $50
members as follows: Three princes of the
blood royal, two arch-bishops, twenty one
forty-five viscounts, twenty-four bishops,
353 barons sixteen Scottish representative
peers, twenty eight Irish representative
peers.
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REvIvING THE BONUS.

Congressman Fordney has an
nounced his attention of reviving the
soldier bonus bill. He plans 60 offer
it in a new form. There are those
among the service men who profess to
believe that a majority of their fel-
lows are opposed to a bonus.
A nationwide poll of all veterans
of the World War on the bonus ques-
ton will be undertaken, it is an
nounced by the Ex-Service Mems
Antt-Bonus League. whose headquar-
ters are in New York. Plans for the
poll are now being perfected, accord
ing to Edward L. Allen, chairman OF
the board of trustees, and will be
taken as rapidly as thoroness will
permit
In announcing the plans, the league
made public a letter to Representa-
tive Fordney, asking that no bonus
legislation be enacted until 1.-The re-
suit of this poll is known and the YER
dict of the veterans themselves is
placed on record"
The letter, which is signed by W.
Allen, says in part:
We respectfully ask you to refrain
AAoAAA any Dill carrying
gratuities of any nature for the able
bodied eX-service man. In considering
our request we earnestly urge you to
take careful note of the following
pertinent facts:
1. There are over 1000, 900 ex-serv-
ice men in the United States At this
writing only few more than 700, 900
are members of the American Legion,
with an immense shrinkage in sight
largely due to the legion's stand on
the bonus, when dues for next year
fall due on January 1.
2 Altho repeated efforts have been
made by posts and members of the
American Legion to get its leaders to
take an individual poll of it's members
as to their stand on the question of a
bonus for the able-bOdied ex-servfce
men, all such efforts have been
frowned upon and not even given Of
ficfal consid Grafton.
3 over 100 posts of the American
Legion thruout the nation have gone
on record as being opposed to a cash
bonus for the able-bOdied ex-service
man.
Aftho the ex-Service Mems Anti
Bonus League has not yet established
divisional organizations in all states in
the Union. it nevertheless has sounded
the sentiment of ex-service men thru
eut the nation on the bonus issue. and
we can state with the utmost asSur-
ance that it is not true that a majority
of The able-bodied veterans want a
bonus 4
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HEART and HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: 1 am a girl
eighteen years of age and am consid-
cred very popular among the young
people. I have been going with a
young man two years my senior for.
about two years We went to school
together when we were in the grades
and we always had a strong liking for
each other. We wrote notes to each
other during our school years and con-
ltinued writing until we started going
together.
have wanted me to go with them but
as 1 thought he was true to me never
would go. Finally discovered he had
been going with different girls on the
said he wouldn't be angry at me II L
wished to go with some one else, Do
you think it was correct for him to
do and say this?
older than 1 am but seems to think a
good bit of me. He says he doesn't
want my friend and me to- haze
falling out.
as if he thought a lot of me and again
he is Indifferent. Do you think
should STICK to my first boy friend or
go with different ones? Please don't
tell me to forget him as 1 never can
but I am willing to do anything else
you advise. Do you think he cares
for me?
What would you suggest getting him
for a Christmas gift? Tell me some-
thing nice because he always gets me
beautiful gifts. CLUB.
Since you and the young man are
not engaged it is all right for him 10
go with other girls and for you to go
with other young men. As long as he
admitted that he had been going with
other girls and gave you the privilege
of going with other men, it seems to
me what he said and did was all
right. You may be sure he likes you
or he would stop going with you.
If you feel that he is growing in
different, L would advise you to send
him a Christmas greeting and not give
him a present But If you want to
give the present very much, 1 would
suggest a book.
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JUST FOLKS
THE CHRISTMAS LETTER
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

Last night I found upon my bed,
A letter in q childish hand,
And opening Ii l, smiling. read:
Dear Dad: l want snare drum, and
A pair of skates, another sled,
A wrist watch with leather band.
'sId like to have an airship. too.
Get one that has little speed;
A nashlight and a game that's new,
A set of books that / can read,
And anything to wear which you
And Mother think / really need"
chuckled as I read each line
Put down with such childish scrawl,
Yet better far than writing fine
Where never blot was known to fall,
Better than poetry divine
For joy was lavished thru it all.
Oh sad, thought I. that man must be
When cnce again the note I'd read
Tho great his wealth of luxury,
Who has no little curly head -
To leave. where he shall surely see-
A Christmas letter on his bed
Copyright. 1922, by Edgar A Guest)
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19
Dorothy Dix Tails

Ell DOROTHT DIX
a's MIEhess PnAa WnmnM Wr4eI

Look at the girls who go astray.
Not one of "the sorrowful sisterhood"
as the japanese pitifully call them,
but who is what she is because her
mother did not teach her self-controi
Did the girl sin because she was so
weak and so in love with Soma8 vicious
libertine that she listened to her heart
could have saved her from a fate
worse than death If she had taught
her to control her emotions, instead
of being ruled by them.
Did the girl sell her soul for fine
clothes, and good times? Again the
mothers fault for not teaching the
girl self-control, and to do without the
things that she could not honestly get.
Look at the poor old people who
are dependent on their children, or
the grudging charity of relatives and
friends. In how many cases is their
unhappy fate simply the result of
their lack of seIf-controli They have
had their chance of fortune. AS long
as the man was able to work he made
plenty of money, and they lived lux
uriously, but they spent everything as
ing for their rainy day, and when it
came, it found them pauperS and
parasites. The difference between de-
pendence and independence, between
depends upon how much self-control
you had in your youth.
Look at the ever increasing number
of divorces. Look at the forlorn half
orphaned children, and broken up
homes. Look at the unhappy married
couples you know. What is the real
cause of all this domestic trou bleS
Merely that mothers do not teach
their children self-control. They raise
up spoiled, selfish daughters who
have never considered a thing in life
but their own pleasure.
They raise up spoiled, selfish sons
who have never considered another
human being but themselves. These
two, with undisciplined wills, unre-
strainted tempers. undirected i'm
pulses, marry each other, and they
fight like cats and dogs. Observation
shows that either a husband or a. wife
who can control himself or herself
can save almost any marriage. and it
takes no prophet to foretell that
mothers could insure their children's
domestic happiness by teaching them
iron-bound self-control.
You can teach a baby three weeks
old self-control by refusing to give it
the thing it howls for. Say to the
toddIer that falls and bumps its nose,
Mothers brave Uoy doesn't cry" and
it will bite back the sobs, or it viii
yell the roof off if you pity it. A
child of three will be- obedient, cheerS
full, respectful of the rights of others,
to the way its mother has brought it
up.
If she has taught it seIf-controI,
she has given it the magic that works
all the miracles of life, and If she
hadn't. she has done it the greatest
wrong that any human being can pos
sibly do to another human being.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19

A joint conference of national and
state executives OF the Veterans of
Foreign Wars has given its approval
to a resolution indorsing sales tax.
with foodstuffs exempted, as a means
OF raising the necessary revenue to
finance the bonus. Thus the sales
tax continues to make progress in
public favor. But it would be mis-
take to make exemptions, since they
would only complicate the process of
collection without benefiting anybody.
Exempting anything from taxation
merely compels the levying of a high
er rate on the things taxed. Since
everybody eats it is only fair that
everybody should pay. The man who
pays SO for meal would pay ten
times as much tax as the man who
pays 80 cents.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
BISAGNO,

This is the name of a human being
of whom l was not aware until today
when read of his remarkable exam
pie in my daily newspaper.
For years and years Bisagno toiled
in San Francisco. He saved and in
vested his small earnings
He never lost an opportunity to say
a happy word or to give expression to
his appreciation of a kindness.
My attention was called to his life
by his death. He left a fortune of
something like s25O,000. and he willed
it all away to those VINO had during
his life said a KIND word to him or
who had even in the smallest way be-
friended him. There were over a
hundred people who were named ben
eficiaries in his willard among the
number were noted bootblacks, IA
nous actresses. society women. clerks
and many in other active walks of
life.
A quarter of million dollars
given away for kindn-sses!
It seems TO me that Bisagno's city
should erect a statue 10 the memory
of this fine appreciator of one of the
most commonly neglected virtues of
our daily lives, so that all who m ght
pass would immediately be Quickened
to act as he acted
The greatest little traveller in exist
ence is a kind word, a kind act,
kind impulse put into expression in
some way.
It is such a simple thing to thank
people, TO say please" to smile ap-
proval. to lend a hand
Bisagno made a fortune by it-and
then he gave it all away in apprecia-
ton of than same thing that had been
given to him
The first line of beautiful senti-
ment by Stevenson comes to me: ITO
be honest-to be kind -
Copyright. 1922, George Matthew Adams-j
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19

The bill of Senator Norris of Ne
braska to establish a $10O,OOo.ooo
government corporation to finance
sale of agricultural products has been
ordered reported favorably by the
senate agricultural committee If
congress shall decide to make so large
an appropriation to aid the farmer in
mSFketinS his crops, it viii fail in its
purpose, unless it so use the money
as TO enable him to name the price.
The farmer already has a market at
tie other fellows price. When he
can fix the price himself he will need
no help from anybody.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19
THE CoDDLIM ACE

President Harding in his message
to congress on shipping made tbs
| following statement: '''I believe in
I government aid becomingly bestowed
We have aided industry thru our tar
ifs We have aided railway trans
portation I'm grants and loans We
have aided the construction of market
roads and the Improvement of inland
Waterways We have aided reciama-
ton and irrigation and the develop
for seed grain in anticipation of har-
vests We have expended millions in
7 investigating and experimentation to
promote a common benefit, tho a linn
tied few are the direct beneficiaries
We have loaned hundreds of millions
to promote the marketing of Ameri-
can goods. 1t has all been commend
able and highly worth WHILE
Aviation in making a plea for the
particular industry in which it is in
terested points out that the pioneer
railroads received land grants that
made transcontinenta1 lines possible.
Shipping has been given government
aid in innumerable ways. The light
house and life saving services have
aided in making sea going less haz-
ardous. Huge appropriations have
been made for the improvements of
harbors, rivers and lakes.
And more recently with the over
whelming flood of automobiles. both
of the pleasure and Industrial types.
the government has given aid of the
most direct kind. 1t is reported that
there will be spent for road building
during the present year a sum equal
ling one hundred dollars for each car
that is operated in this country. over
a period of years. government aid be-
slowed in this form becomes so large
that it is one of the major expendi-
lures of our people.
In view of the governments record
in the aid business, it was about the
most natural thing that could happen
for a Bull Moose senator to offer an
amendment to the shipping aid bill
providing that the farming industry
should be included among the objects
of the governments beneficence. But
when each and every class of citizen
has been made a ward of Uncle Sam
and everybody is paying taxes to help
everybody else we shall all be back
about where we started except that
we may find ourselves in possession of
a lot of junk that We do not need and
cannot use.
Another feature of the federal aid
program, that is generally overlooked
is that every new phase OF it calls
for an additional bureau of admin
istration and an additional regiment
of office holders who live off the tax
payers.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19

Declaring in a resolution that asif
any project cannot survive on its own
merits. without being bolstered up by
subsidies of any kind. we are opposed
to it." Butler county farmers, mem
bers of the farm bureau, not only
condemn the ship subsidy but the
tariff as well. No class of citizens
is acquiring wisdom more rapidly
than tho farmers. This is further
evidenced by another resolution in
which they declare that individuals
should have the right to the same
credit facilities as municipalities.
banks and loan companies. and urged
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19

cisco. Mrs. Beacl ey spoke and ex-
planned at Il was not for her son
Lincoln alone but in honor of all the
aviators and their mothers"
In 1921 the project was still grow
ing Captain Eddie Rickenbacker led
the formation flight and President
Harding sN1t a telegram Afterwards
1900 letters were received. many of
them from mo s.-ers of foreign aviators
who wanted to know If their boys
were honored by the ceremony of
tribute.
This year the tribute may be for
mally nationalized. Miss Gat1in says,
1--WE plan to have a national ceremony
of tribute every year. In keeping
faith with the mother we keep faith
with the son, anG SO mother, son, and
their ,achievement-wil all be kept
alive"
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19

School children deposited five and
one-half million dollars during the
school year 1921-1e22 in their school
sayings banking systems. This is an
increase of 40 per cent over the pre-
ced.ng year and of 100 per cent. over
the year 191e-192O. A tabulation
giving the full record for s94 systems
is published by the American Bank
ers' association. Only one Kansas
town, Atchison. appears in the list
This seems to indicate that Kansas
children are engaged in a pursuit of
knowledge rather than in chasing the
shining nickels and dimes.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19

The advantage of having Christmas
fall on varying dates is seen in the
fact that sailing from New York on
Christmas day, the shipping board
steamer. ''Sabatowan," with a Christ
mas cargo OF American food, clothing
and other supplies for war refugees
and orphans IN the Near East, will
deliver its cargo in Piraeus also on
Christmas day Its arrival at the
Greek port of Athens is scheduled for
January 19, the date of the Armenian
ChriStmas
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE

Me and Sid Hunt both had 2 cents
each, and we was taWking about the
different things we could buy and the
different things we couldn't and
wished we could, me saying, Let's go
erround to Mommy Simminses and
look in the window and see if there's
eny specials.
Wich we did and wich there was.
being a sine saying. Large sour balls,
special today, 8 for a cent.
boy, for a cent for big sour balls.
this is our lucky day, Sid sed.
G, 8 for a cent, that's the cheapest
I've ever saw them, G wiz 1 wish L
had about n dollar to invest, 3 for a
cent, o boy that's CRATE, herray sed-
e. And we started to go in with our
cents apeece, and Sid sed, Hay, waite a
minnit, watts hurry. wat do you say
we go to the High Glass candy store
and see how meny they're selling for
cent, maybe they're selling 4. -H
G, let's go and see, 1 sed. And we
wawked to the new High Glass candy
store, being about 8 blocks, and we
wawked in and wawked all the ways
back to the end of the store ware you
can buy things by the cent instead OF
are you going to buy the store out to-
day?
How mutch is big sour balls? L sed.
A cent apiece, the man sed.
C wiz, holy smoaks, good mite, n
cent apeece, Jmminy Crissmas, G,
good mite me and Sid sed.
Is that so? the man sed. And me
and Sid went out and went back to
Mommy Simminses and asked for 2
cents werth of big sour balls apeece
and Mommy Simins sed, If you had
of come in jest one minnit sooner you
could Of had them, but some boy Jest
bawt 5 cents werth and they were the
last I had.
So we bawt Jelly beens insted. not
injoying them mutch on account of
keeping on thinking of the sour balls.
Proving there's no time like the pres
ent.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19

Minnie Maddern Fiske wires The
State Journal asking that it use its
Influence to prevent the staging of a
bun fight which she hears is to take
pace at Wichita or somewhere else
in the state in January. 1t will hard
lN be necessary for this paper - Iake
any action in the matter Thu attor-
ney generals office doubtless will
take care of it, should occasion arise.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19
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President Harding has called a ,oa-
ference of governors to see what can
be done about prohibition. During
the deliberations, and afterward,
probably a large part of the popula-
ton will continue to make its own or
patronize the bootlegger. The pro-
hibitory law cannot be enforced
merely by talking about it.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19

The plan to elect the president by
popular vote continues to attract at
tention. There is no reason for chang
ing the existing method unless it be
desired to permit New York to select
the chief executive. If the states are
to elect as they now do, the present
system can hardly be improved. The
federal constitution is entitled to a
rest
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19

tax free. Apparently the agriculturists
know much better what they want
than do a number of gentlemen who
profess to speak for them.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19

and His Daughter" There isn't an
improbable person in the book nor q
single incident that tries the crednlity
of the reader.
Not only that-we say not only that
but Mr.. Aferwin has deliberately re-
fused to correct a single wrong,
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19

Nobody, in short. had suffered but
Ernest and Gertrude. and they had
come into such happiness in the end
that they did not have the heart to
begrudge their friends and relatives
the pleasure they took in q romance
SO entirely delightful to everybody ex-
cept the victims.
Copyright, 1922, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-19

France lets it be known that she is
ready to Listen to any suggestions
from the United States on the subject
of reparations. The truth seems to
be that France is ready to listen to
anybody that VIII tell her how to get
money from somebody else. prefer
ably Germany,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-08
TEN YEARS AGO
Happenings in Carter County ana
Ardmore as told by the files
Of the Ardmoreite.

X. l.. Dulap, who is in the city from
Enid went wolf hunting at an early
hour Saturday morning. He visited the
country north of the city lake short
distance and succeeded in killing foul
wolves. returning to town by nine
o clock. He challenges all wolf hunters
in the country to beat his record.
Mrs. l.. y. Murdoch has returned
from an extensive business trip TO Ada.
Poteau and Sallisaw. She says that
she had a profitable trip and the busi-
ness conditions are good.
Dan Blackburn. candidate for sheriff
returned yesterday from Hewitt.
Frank Pierce has rc.urroi tom Flor
do and Georgia. where he srent III"
months. He says tina; alfalfa hay IN
that region is unusual, and sells for si(
q ton.
c. Wilkes has dissolved partnershii
with Jim Lathrop and is now connected
with the Pantatorium.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-08
THE CHAUTAUQUA

The Ardmoreite cannot too
strongly urge citizens OF this city
to take advantage OF the Chautau-
qua program which is offered here
next week.
Chau,auqua offers, We think, a
remarkable opportunity for people
living in the smaller cities, to come
in. contact with some OF the finer
thought OF the world. In music, in
drama and in platform lectures, the
Chautauqua is the open season
to educational progress.
The Ardmoreite is no. boosting
some commercial organization IN
urging Ardmore people TO attend
this Chau,aueua-we are actually
asking our own people to help
themselves.