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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-10

An English judge has just decided
that a doctor has a right to charge
well-to-do people more than he would
demand for the same services rem
dered to those who are poor. This
has been a common practice among
physicians in this country. but prob
ably never before has it been given
sanction by any court. Applied to any
activity other than healing the sick
the system might be called "robbing
Peter to pay Paul" In effect It forces
the rich. willingly or unwillingly. to
pay for services rendered to the poor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-10
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.

I was late for suppir agen yestidday.
making the srd time this week and
pop getting madden each time, me
thinking on the way home, G, know,
Ill think up some Exciting news to tell
pop and take his mind off of me being
late.
witch I started to do, going in the
dining room ware they was all eating
alreddy and saying, Hay pop, watts you
think. watts you think, pop?
think you're late agen. pop sed.
know, pop, but watts you Think? i
sed. Watts you think happened to
Pubs Simkinses unkle? I sed.
He dident make you late for suppir,
did he? pop sed-
No sir, but watts you think, pop.
something fearse happened to him, I
bet you cant CESS wat, I sed.
can CESS wy you're late, though,
through meer- obstinacy and contrari-
Miss, that's my CESS on that subjeck,
pop sed.
Ne thinking. Gosh, G wiz. I wish
he'd keep his mind on Pulses unkle.
And I sed. Well what do you think
happened TO Pulses unkle, pop?
never met the man or even herd
of him before and haven't the slight
est interest in wat happened to him
of eny nature whatsoever, but have an
Exceedingly strong and persinil inter
est in your getting home in time for
meels, and Jest to prove it heerby
invite you to refrain from eating dig
zert and to remain in the house after
suppir, pop sed.
Witch I did, not even having
chance to say wat happened to Pulses
unkle. Wat happened to him being
that he started to slip on something
slippery and dislocated his shoulder
trying not to sprane his ankle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-10

Prof. R. d. George of the Univer-
sity of Colorado is reported as saying
that at least rs per cent of the peo-
pie of our country have lost money
the last few years-the only ones who
have made money being the money
lenders who often get as much as
from IL to IS per cent" The pro-
fessor apparently takes no account of
the great number OF bank failures
that have occurred. When 75 per
cent of the people lose money the
money lenders suffer along with ev-
erybody else. They may charge %
per cent but this rate is OF little bene-
fit If they fail to collect interest or
principal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-10
JUST FOLKS
sLUMBER BANDITS.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

%
Sleep was once a gift Of mine,
But they've taken 1t away.
Robbed me Of my treasure finep
Pillaged me ut break of day,
Stolen in on silent feet
Like a plumber seeking crew.
And my gift of slumber sweet
Taken, Just as bandits do
Long before they came I slept
Till the morning sun was high,
And my drowsy couch Kept,
Hearing never a passer-Dy
Cracking wagons on the etreet,
Shrieking call of man or boy,
Banging doors or noisy feet
Slumbers charm could not Destroy
But my precious gift is gone,
They have stolen it away.
Furiously Pm bounced upon
At the breaking of the day,
I who once could sleep till nine,
Now am wide-awake at six,
Pillaged Of my treasure fine
By outrageous blows and KICKS.
On my helpless sform they leap.
Battering me with chubby FISTS
All In vain the will to sleep
Such swift attack resists -.
And know that sleep il done
For I've not the heart to rout
Bandltry In love begun.
Sleep was once a gift Of mine;
But they've stolen 1t away
When the sun begins to shine
I'm the sIumber bandits PREF
But I'm richer far than those
Who may sleep the morning thru
Never robbed Of their repose
By SO glad q pirate crew.
Copyright. 1872, By Edgar A. asestJ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-10

know little ABOUT handling money and
therefore are easily imposed upon.
A curious psychological mystery
about the whole profession of counter
feiting is that a really good counter
feiter requires skill of such a high or
der that he could earn a better living
by honest employment of his talents
than by the manufacture of spurious
currency. Counterfeiting is a long
tedious process, beset with hard work
and difficulties and it is rarely indeed
that a counterfeiter makes as much
money before he is apprehended as he
could from regular honest employ
mentfas an engraver.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-10
TIME FOR SERIOUS THOUGHT.

The maintenance of way employees
Of the railroads appear to have
reached a conclusion that it is a mis-
take to inaugurate a strike that Is
sure to fail in the end. All the
1000, 900 rail employees may refuse to
work, butsa nation of 100, 100000 peo-
pie will not be denied necessary trans
portation anerely because 2 per cen.
OF their number wish it. That is a
fact that the rail workers must con-
slider. and they have at hand also the
records OF a long list of strike fail
ures in the past where a minority at
tempted to bend the majority to its
will
Menaclng gestures have been made
many times in the past by those who
assume to act as spokesman for the
railroad workers. Each time the in
telligence of the men has asserted it.
self and never has there been strike
that seriously threatened a general
tieup. There have been sectional
disturbances that have temporarily
embarrassed some of the roads. but
they have quickly succumbed to the
verdict of an outraged public, and the
| trains have run as before There IS
no reason to believe that the outcome
of the present movement will be any
different.
Should the rail strike succeed in its
purpose it would mean the end of
government by law in this country.
and the substitution of a government
by force, the strongest group of citi-
zens being able to compel the rest of
the country to accept their own inter-
probation of economic principles.
Congress might as well abdicate, at
least so far as attempting to carry out
the interstate commerce clause of the
constitution is concerned, ana courts
and other judicial bodies would better
consult the brotherhood leaders be-
fore handing down their decisions.
Despite the fact that the reduction
in wages ordered by the railroad labor
board will still leave the rail clerks
with a rate of pay SO per cent higher
than the pre-war levels, the station
airy firemen and oilers 127 per cent
higher, and other classes of employees
in proportion, the country Is threat
ened with a general tfe-up of its
transportation system to force a con-
tinuance of the war wage schedules.
The decision of the labor board ap-
parently has behind it every element
OF justice and fair play, but the
authority of the board under the law
is undisputed; nevertheless, it is seri-
ously proposed to make an innocent
public suffer until the people are
willing to see the law set aside, the
decisions Of the labor board nullified.
and artificial wage scales provided for
one group of employees that are not
enjoyed by any other similar workers
in the country.
Beginning with the Adamson law,
the government has given many addi-
tional benefits to railroad labor-ben-
efits denied to other classes of work
ers. The railroad men are counting
a loss Of their preferred standing with
the supreme power of the land. They
may easily find themselves worse off
in the end than they were before the
strike. The strikers are injuring the
railroads and the public but they are
not helping themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-10

In his recent speech, made before
his neighbors in his old home town
of Marion, President Harding took
occasion to make clear his views on
one OF the matters now attracting
public attention by reason of the rail-
road strike. The president said:
Men must be free TO live and
achieve. Liberty is gone in America
when any man is denied by anybody
the right to work and live by that
work. It does not matter who denies.
A free American has the right to la
Dor without any others leave. It
would be no less an abridgment to
deny to men the right to bargain COL
lectively. Government cannot toler-
ate any class or group combination
thru force. It will be q sorry day
when any group domination is reflect
ed in our laws. Government, ana the
laws which government is charged
with enforcing. must be for all the
people. ever aiming at the public
good"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-10
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-10
Dorothy Dix Tails

What Is the Ideal Husband-f,

What Is the Ideal Husband.
The judge of Domestic Relations
Court has laid down the following
rules as to what constitutes a good
husband, in the legal sense.
He must:
Take care of the children an hour
each day.
Help his wife prepare the family
breakfast every morning.
Support his family.
Stay at home five nights a week
Take his family out walking at
night, and on Sunday, and to such
places of amusement as he can afford.
Wait on himself instead of making
his wife wait on him.
Repeat to his wife at least once a
week his marriage vows.
Wash the dishes every night.
Allow the wife to handle the fl
nances of the family.
Go to church every Sunday and
take his family with him.
Be sober. And have a savings bank
account.
think most women would like TO
amend, and change this list of vir-
tues, IL they were engaged in the
pleasant pastime of trying to construct
an imaginary perfect husband, instead
of endeavoring to put up with the
faulty and imperfect real husband
they have got.
For instance, only a woman who
- anu I6eDIop OF else lazy ana
shiftless, and selfish, considers it a
mans duty to get the breakfast before
he starts off to his days work, or to
wash the dishes at night after his own
hard toll is over. The right sort of
wife does not superimpose her work
on husbands work, nor does any wo-
man who is even a fair housekeeper
want to have any man messing around
in her kitchen.
A woman has also to be pretty bossy
and henpecky If she grabs all the
money that a man makes. All that a
fair minded woman wants is a definite
allowance for the house and for her.
self, paid into her hand without argu-
ment or question, so she can know how
to manage her finances.
1t is only when man makes SC
little that every cent is important, OF
when he is a spendthrift, that a wo-
man feels that she should handle all
the money. Otherwise, she prefers
that her husband should have the
dignity and the power that pertains to
the purSe-bearer.
What, then, are the qualities the
ideal husband should possess? ]
think:
He must be able to support his fam
lily in decent comfort, for there can be
no peace or happiness in a household
where the wolf is always bowling al
the door.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-10

John u. Rockefeller. Jr.. Is exhibit
ing tendency toward following in
the footsteps OF his illustrious father,
in the matter of bestowing his mil
lions upon public service. He has
given 100000 to the Museum. of
Natural History in New York and
100000 to the American Academy in
Rome. His course for the moment
stands out in marked contrast to that
which characterized his Uncle Will
Fam, who, apparently, never realized
the joy of giving. Uncle William died
without experiencing, so far as known,
the greatest pleasure that can come
to mortal man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-10

for two or three little things you
would like to tell him. Impress 1t
upon him that his faults are minor.
but you know he wants to get rid of
them just as you want OF get rid of
yours. Do not mention this when at
the table. Wait until a propitious OPP
portunity presents itself during your
evenings together.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-10

Senator Capper is reported as say
ing that it may ee necessary to invent
new taxes to meet the governments
expense account. Yet the senator has
indicated that he is opposed to the
sales tax. the only form of new taxa
ton that would tighten the burden of
the taxpayers while at~the same time
Increasing the federal revenues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-10

Sunday baseball in Wellington has
been barred by popular vote. Those
who desire to play games on Sunday
must confine themselves to golf, ten
mis-, horseshoes. seven-up, dominoes
and other quiet games. Baseball was
regarded as too noisy, it seems.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-10

Copyright. 1922. by the Wheeler Syn
dictate Inc.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-10

The news that Walter Hagen starte,
as a caddy prompts US to send out I
tracer for the old-fashioned great maj
who started by carrying water to tn
construction gang.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-08-09
EARggI!ssssHa gg!ss HaH'|l!I[Elg H'|el!IE pR0 I Rob 0B E1Y

; After that he went to see my girl
friend some, but he came to see me
more, and now he goes with me
and doesn't go with her at all. I
have told her | didn't do anything
to get him away from her. but she
is angry anyway and says that she
learned a good lesson and would
never trust me again.
I don't know what to do about
this. l certainly loved my girl
friend and hate to give her up, but
1 also hate to give up the boy be-
cause l like him so much. You
may not believe me but I didn't do
"a single intentional thing to get
him away from her. He said he
liked me from the minute he saw
me.
Do you think I should stop going
with the boy and try to make up
with the girl friend? PEGGY.
Circumstance has made condi-
tions as they are and you are not
to blame. or course. 1t was natural
attraction which turned the boys
interest from your girl friend to
you. Even il had had voluntarily
tried to make him like you, unless
there had been natural attraction
he would have cared nothing fol
you.
l would advise you to be pleas
ant to your girl friend and ready to
resume a pleasant relationship
when she Is willing. but do not
give up the boy because she is
angry. Put yourself in her place,
however, and imagine how you
would feel. Perhaps this will make
you more sympathetic with her at
titude.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-08-09
Women's Daily Magazine Page

talking America as well, refers to
anything pleasing as the berries.
The weird natural history allus-
ions-that's the frogs eyebrows,
or the bees whiskers. or the
ducks quack. or the snakes hips,
and the rest-used to express
approval, are also epidemic. Any
thing unpleasant Is appropriately
blaah. blaah being one OF those
senseless words that express an
idea clearly by sound. A well es-
tablished substitute for yes is
Il hope to tell you"
These tags are amusing for
only a short time. They are soon
a phrase has q meteoric career
and sputters ou, IS seen by re-
calling the same type of slang
expression, such as the now his
toric II should worry" and 'Tl
tell the world"
Occasionally one OF thes
shelved sayings stages come
back. We note in the latest flap
per vocabulary printed in The
Flapper magazine the ancient
word whangdoodle. Our grand
mothers used this word humor-
ously to describe mournful, whin-
ing music, or rauting speaker.
Modern youth has adopted the
term and made it a synonym for
jazz band. 1t is rare, however,
that the slang or a generation ago
can be busted OFF and applied to
current topics. Generally there is
nothing more conspicuously life
less than a defunct slang phrase.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-08-09
SUMMER SCHOOL WILL
END SESSION FRIDAY:
REOPEN SEPTEMBER 5

The ten weeks session of the
summer school will end on Friday,
the public schools then to take re-
cess until September when the
fall term will begin. The first
term Of the summer school which
ran only six weeks. closed about
a month ago.
There is no possibility OF the new
school buildings under construc-
tion being ready by the time school
opens. according to John Milne,
superintendent of the public
schools, The grades will be organ
lied in September in the present
buildings and will work in close
quarters until the new buildings
are available.
New teachers are being added to
the staff daily. Mrs. ella M. La
Bar, principal of the high school,
will return from her vacation spent
at Long Beach. Calf, on August
20 to prepare for the opening Of
the high school. Registration for
high school students will begins.
as is customary, three days before
school opens.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-08-09

Scalloped Eggs and Onions
Hard cook the eggs allowing one
egg for each serving. Cook me-
dium sized onions until soft, but
not until they fall apart, allow
ing two onions for each serving.
Make a we'll seasoned white sauce
and add finely chopped parsley.
Butter crumbs by melting one
fourth cup of butter and stirring
into it p cup of crumbs. The in
gradients are now ready to as
semble. Butter a casserole. cut
the eggs in halves, lengthwise,
and place in the buttered dish,
place in the cooked onions and
pour over both the parsley sauce.
Cover with the buttered crumbs
and cook in a moderate oven un-
til heated through and the
Crumbs and cook in moderate
oven until heated through and
the crumbs are brown.
Cheese and Rice Omelet-Thrce
eggs, one cup cooked rice, one
green pepper. finely chopped,
one-half cup grated cheese, salt,
pepper, half cup milk. Beat the
whites and yollis separately, add
the rice, seasoning, cheese, chop
ped pepper and milk to the yolks
and carefully fold in the stiffly
beaten whites. Melt butter in
frying pan or in omelet pan, pour
in the mixture and cook over a
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-08-09

| Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am "a
years old and deeply in love with
a young man who is a puzzle to
me. We have been going together
two years and he has not shown
any interest in another girl. He
only comes to see me about once
week and sometimes when he
comes he seems to be thinking of
other things and sometimes he
really enjoys me.
have gone with other men, but
| have grown tired of them or they
nave grown tired Of me. The man
love has fascination about him.
he Is quiet ana gentle and differ
ent every time / see him.
NY mother says that I should
not give so much thought to man
who does not settle things by ask
ing me to marry him. / don't
know why he doesn't unless it is
that he il not making as much
money as he wants to.
Another young man l have been
going with loves me very much
and he has asked me to marry him.
Mother thinks I am very foolish to
turn him down completely, but l
can't see any reason for encourag-
ing him when l am in love with
some one else.
What would you advise me to do
in this matter? MOLLY c.
1t seems to me the only thing
for you to do Is to wait for the man
you love. To marry some one else
without love would spoil your life.
BY all means, however. continue
to go with other>men.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: My girl
friend is angry at me because she
thinks I have got her boy friend
away from her. I was over there
one night when he and another boy
came and we played games and
made candy and had a fine time.
The next night without even tele-
phoning me her friend came over
to see me. After we had sat on the
porch while he asked me TO go to
the movie. = wanted TO go and SO /
said I would
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-08-09
FOUR DANCING feet
BY JANE PHELPS.

household, a self-denying one.
Lilly was sympathetic with Tim,
but found fault with Gertie be-
cause she denied herself clothes.
You'll never get q beau if you
don't fix yourself up" she told her.
You look all right dancing, but
just think how you look in the
street! 1t amt fair for you to go
without everything for the rest of
them. 1 see Jennie's got a new
|dress."
1T don't make any difference
about me, as long as l look all
right at Fagins," Gertie replied.
Not even to Lilly would she confess
her longing to look nice for Tom
Norris. But Jennie's in school,
land some of the girls aren't nice
to her if she looks too shabby.
Her dress was cheap. When she's
"a teacher she will help out o lot"
well, all l can say is you're a
goose, Gertie. Jennie's got educa-
ton enough. She ought to be
helping now. I feel like telling her
so every time l see her playing the
lady while you work"
Don't you ever dare!" Gertie
blazed forth. "I'll never speak to
you again if you do! She's always
feeling bad because she can't help,
and it might make her give up the
idea of wanting to be a teacher if
anyone said anything like that to
her. Remember-don't you dare!"
ooh, we'll, l won't. But it don't
change my mind any. Ma and me
was talking about it the other night.
Ma said that now Tim was hurt
Jennie ought to go to work"
Your mother don't know any
thing about it! I earn enough to
keep her in school and she is 60
ing to stay there. She's only got
about three years more before she
can take the regents. Then she can
teach"
Three years. And you'll be an
old maid by that time"
mot a very old one, Lilly. And
I. expect to be one always. Tho
kind of a fellow 1 would want to
marry, wouldn't want me-"
you're too high and mighty!
One would think you expected a
prince or something, q millionaire.
perhaps. Remember, / told you
I'd stead George Murphy if you
didn't want him. He's awful nice"
"All right Lilly--but you remem-
Der, too, what I told you, Don't
try to work George, or you'll lose
him."
Tomorrow-Gertle studies the
calendar.