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The Washington herald., 1922-01-06
HilItoppers Start
Track Work TODAY

Track activities will be re-
stunned today mt Georgetown Uni
versity when Coach Jinimy Null.
gan and Capt. Jimmy Connolly
will look over the squad OF cinder
path performers for the hrst time
since the former assumed charge
Of this branch Of the sport mt
the Hilltop.
Starting next week, the ath-
ietes will get down to hard work
To condition them for the big in
door events planned by the HILL
TOP emciais, Including the carai-
val scheduled for March . mt
Convention Hall. which promises
10 be one Of the biggest athletic
Affairs ever held I'm the District.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-06

Additional Sports on Page 2.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17
HEART AND HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
By ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: am a widow
lady SO years of age and have very
bad health. 1 have two sons. My
older son is the only one who is any
help to me The younger is not much
help. He throws his money away. I
keep house and do the washing and
all the work. I have two boarders and
they are not muh help. They only
pay board half the time. I have
notion to break up housekeeping.
Please advise me what to do.
Since you have poor health I do
not think you ought to keep on with
such hard work. If you are finan-
cial1y able to give up keeping board
ers I would advise you to do SO. You
have not mentioned the ages of your
sons and I cannot, therefore. know
whether they are old enough to be
deprived of their home. Perhaps you
and the boys could get smaller quar-
tiers where your work would be less
strenuous. They should certainly
give you money to help keep up the
home if they are working
Dear Mrs. Thompson: Please tell
me what is good to remove warts?
p.
Get small quantity of nitric acid
at the drug store. Apply it to the
wart by means of a toothpick, care
fully avoiding the healthy skin aroun&
the wart The nitric acid does not
hurt if it touches only the wart, but
if It is spilled elsewhere on the hand
it burns deeply. Two or three appli-
cations, a day or two apart, will dry
up the wart and 1t will fall off.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17

child" Can we imagine the rejoieing!
A few months ago the newspapers
carried a dispatch from Hawaii, de-
scribing the wonderful scenes of re-
ligious thanksgiving and 'ejoicing that
accompanied the release from a leper
colony of a large group of: farmer
lepers, who had been cured by the new
form of treatment with ehalmoogra
oil. The reading of the article
brought tears to the eyes; it almost
from the doom of sin. Such was the
excitement by Jordan's banks over the
miraculous cure of Naaman, by the
power of Jehovah.
The Religious CRATER.
In all lands, and of all creeds and
eolors and conditions, we find gentle
men born. Naaman was one such,
and a contrast to the nine lepers
whom later Jesus healed. He return-
ed humbly, gratefully, to Elishats
door. ready to reward nagniftcently.
But Elisha would have none of his
gifts. Let God have the glory. The
incident was too sacred and exalted
for it to become a matter OF profit.
There is a stern lesson here for all
conmercialized evangelists. No min
lister can honorably grow rich by the
preaching of the Gospel. AT least once
a year there should be a brave sermon
in every theological seminary upon
the story of Naaman's experience with
Elisha and Gehazi.
Gehazi was a CRATER. He sue
cunlbed to the OrientaIs deep bedded
love of money; and to the temptation
which always attaches to office-hold-
ing, to profit pecuniarily. Gehazi was
Elisha's disciple and probable success
sor More prophets are wrecked by
love of money than by all the other six
deadly sins combined. Gehazi could
not bear to see this opportunity for
gain disdained. so he followed after
Naanaan and got two suits of clothes
and two talents of silver. Of course
he had no deliberate intention of COM
promising his masters honor or of
furnishing, in the eyes of this Syrian,
the luster of the name Of IsraePs God i;
or of cheapening a holy transaction.
He thought only of the moment and of
the money; and so yielded to the
tempter's voice.
'.Bekmine and sins for one short hou=;
Be ell thy life the happiest man of men.
Poor fool! He was playing the old
est, stupid<st and most futile game of
alI-that of trying to deceive God.
The price he paid was the ruin of all
his present and his future, plus the
leprosy of Naaman. AS one common
tator writes, 90 heavy talents of &C.
hazi! Oh, the horror of the one, I'M
changeable suit! How much better
would have been a light purse and a
homely coat, with a sound body and a
clean SOUL
Copyright, 1922, by The Ellis Service.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17
JUST FOLKS

By EDGAR A. GUEST.


Oh something wonderful occurred at our
house Just the other day
And there's n constant troop of boys and
girls to see this new display.
Tho Mothers not so very pleased, to things
like this she has to bow,
The children dance around with gtee Dc
cause our cat has kittens now
Old folks. know. are seldom pleased when
such a glad event oecars,
To them it is no source of joy to hear the
way the mother purrs- -.
They'd much prefer single eat-but little
children think 1t fine
To find one cat they had before has grown
to seven or eight OF nine.
When Z went down to fix the fire she
mewed to rue TO come and see
The lovely babies she possessed and
proudly showed them all TO me-
New kittens are an added care. especially
if some must dros H.
But somehow felt differently when / ha1
called the youngsters down
Their ewes were wide with glad surprise
they danced around the cellar floor,
Here was 4 glorious bit Of joy they d not
experienced before.
What matters all the extra care.a The
kids are happy anyhow,
Here's something new far them to boast
our old gray Neat has kittens now
Copyright, 1922. by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17
HOLES IN THE saIEKMAN Law.

HOLES IN THE SHERMAN LAW.
Labor unions, as is wen known. are
exempt from the operations of the
Sherman antitrust law. There is a
bill pending in congress that exempts
farm organizations from the opera
ton of the same law. Senator Bran
degee OF Connecticut declares that
congress is going far astray when it
undertakes to say that an act by a
farmer, or by q member of any other
special class of our people. is not a
crime but becomes a, crime when done
by a manufacturer or by any other
citizen.
II do not know" said the senator,
whether the Sherman law should be
maintained, but I do know that no
amount of apologizng, explaining or
attempts to justify. can satisfy me
that we should not have laws which
are uniform in their operation.
have always insisted that our laws
should be general and we either ought
to keep the Sherman law or discard
it, one or the other. We can not make
a thing fish for one citizen and fowl
for another"
The concluding sentence of the
foregoing statement calls to mind the
old story of the man who had been
placed in a Jail cell and was told by
his attorney: They can't put you in
Jail on the charge that has been pre-
ferred against you.T The Sherman
law is fish for one and fowl for an
other whether it can be made so or
not.
New York has law of its own
corresponding to the federal Sher-
man antitrust law. 1t Is known as
1918 so as to permit farmers and
dairymen to organize to fix uniform
selling prices and to pool their prod
ucts. The amendment is similar in
the main to the cooperative market
ing act which the United States SEN
ate has passed.
A New York supreme court Justice
recently handed down a decision rela-
tive to the Donnefly act which on &C
CouAlt VI It's Ahpl4callons Is OF interest
to farmers generally. He held that
the Donnelly act is unconstitutional
because of the amendment exempt
ing farmers and dairynen from the
penalties fixed by the act for all COM
binations in restraint of trade The
judge declared that this exemption
denied to other business men and-citf-
zens the equal protection of the law
Appeal is to be taken to higher
courts. II they uphold the decision it
may be premonitory of what the
United States supreme court will do
with regard to the cooperative mar
keting act. Legal principles in New
York are not different from those
elsewhere in the Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17
Dorothy Dix Tails
Curing a Knocker-1.
~ DOROTHY DIX
worsaas EIghess Paid WornaH Writes.


A woman wants 70 know how to
cure husband who is afflicted with
the knocking habit. She says that she
is married to a good man, who pro-
vides her with a nice home and all
the comforts of life. but he makes her
Tl4ae miserable by his perpetual fault
finding. She further deposes that she
is a thrifty manager, and good COOK.
but that no matter how she tries to
please her husband, she never sue
ceeds in doing it.
The minute he puts his key in the
door is the signal for the anvil chorus
or too cold. About a million things
are the matter with the children. If
they have mutton for dinner. he de-
mands to know why it wasn't beef. If
it is beef he wants to know why they
can't have mutton sometimes. When
the wife buys a new dress or a hat,
he criticises 1t until he destroys all of
her pleasure in it. He sneers at all of
her opinions, and derides her judg-
ment, and the poor wife spends her
life mentally on the jump, trying to
dodge the brick bats with which he
amuses himself by hurting at her.
And she is tired of it, and wants to
know some way of curing him. don't
believe there is any way of curing a
genuine, born knocker who puts real
heart interest in his work, because
knocking is the outward and invisible
expression of a mean, little, envious
soul that is SO greedy it is forever
fearful that it is not getting all that is
coming to it, and SO niggardly it be-
grudges even a word of praise for IA
vors granted.
More than that, Your chronic
knocker is a coward who never hits a
person of his own size. His victims
are invariably those who are in his
power. You never hear of knockers
lambasting those above them. They
confine their attentions to those below
them.
Now the only way to deal with a
coward is thru fear. So the only ad-
vice 1 can offer to the woman with a
fault-finding husband is to terrorize
him SO completely that he won't dare
open his mouth to protest even when
the roast is burnt, and the bread like
lead, and she has taken the rent
money to buy an imported French
model spring hat. Beat him to the
hammer, and begin by pounding
everything he does and says with such
vim and vigor that he will not have an
opportunity to get in a single word of
criticism of your faults
When it comes to a verbal battle.
no man is the equal of a woman. She
outclasses him in swiftness of tongue,
and staying. powers, and therefore it
is wife's own fault if she lets her
husband nag her to death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
~ LEE rAPE

I was going down town with ma
Sattiday AFTERNOON, and we was wawk-
ing to the trolley car and Pubs Sim
kinses mother Mrs. Simkins went past
saying, How do you do. Mrs. Potts.
my grayshiss but. aren't you getting
plump.
Meening fat, and we kepp on wawlE-
ing, ma saying, Wat nonsents. that
woman shasent got the seHts she was
horn with and never had, plump. wy
she don't know wat she's tawking
about, I always stay ixackIy the same
weight. I never did like that Mrs.
SiTnkins anyway.
Maybe you jest look as if you was
getting plump, ma, I sed-
Ne, don't even look that way, that's
how muteh you know. sed ma.
Wieh pritty soon Skinny Martins
mother Mrs. Martin went past saying.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17
Questlons-Anst0eD

O.. How large should the cakes be, when
cutting ice on ponds ID. E.
A. The size Of ice cakes should deperd
somewhat on the thickness Of the ic,.
Farmers. who harvest ice for their own
use, and have limited equipment are adj
O.. What is meant by false earding2 z.
A. This is a term used by card players,
and means the playing Of a card meant TO
/ deceive the opponents as to the players
holding in that suit
@. When were metal caskets first made
in this country? L. c. c.
A. A patent for the manufacture OF
metal Baskets in this country was granted
about the year 1850, and they were first
made in Cincinnati and Providence, II. l.
Q. Has the wearing Of feathers by In
dams any special significance? c. d. u.
A. The Bureau of Indian Affairs says
that the wearing of a feather means brav-
cry and there aresahree grades Of bravery
which are denoted by the position of the
q; How did the Dead Sea get its name,
A. The Dead Sea was so,ealled because
no living thing can exist in Il on account
Of the saltiness Of its waters,
O. How much money would pc required
class condition? L. c. o.
A. Estimates as to the amount of new
capital required for the financial rehabili-
tation Of the railroads Of the United States
range from four to six billions, of which
about one half is needed for. additional
tracks and equipment with which to handle
increased traffic and the remainder to be
devoted to bringing the present plant and
equipment up to pat standard.
Q. What was the occasion for the say
ing. ut is magnificent but It is not war.
Il. Z. G.
A. In commenting on the charge Of tho
Light Brigade at the battle Of Balaklava
General Pierre Bosquet said. 1T is mag
nifieent. but 1t is not war"
Q. Who received the first American
Medal of Honor given in the late war;
II. L r.
A. The first American Medal OF Honor
was presented to Lieut.. Col. Whittiesey.
Q. VIII moths eat thru rubber, that Is,
a very thin layer Of rubber upon wool
backingg Ii. NJ.
A. Moths win occasionally eat thru
very thin layer Of rubber.
(Any reader can get the answer to any
questions by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J..
Haskin, Director, Washington, d. c.. This
offer applies strictly to Information. The
Bureau caAnot give advice on legal medi-
cal. and financial Matters 1t does not at
tempt to settle domestic troubles. nor to
undertake exhaustive research on any sub
tect. Write your question plainly ard
briefly. Give full name and address AMI
enclose tive cents in stamps for return
postage All replies ere sent direct to the
inquirerl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17
HELPING THE RAILROADS.

The wall Street Journal" in COM
menting upon the proposal of Secre-
taries Hoover and Mellon that the
government assist the railroads to pre-
pare for the return of normal traffic
by guaranteeing new issues of equip
ment trust certificates says that the
roads are again placed in the position
of having to bewail the good inten-
tions of their sincere friends. The
time has gone by, says the journal"
for administering oxygen to the rail-
roads in the shape of government
credits. 1t adds that it will be quite
as easy and far safer for them to re-
habilitate themselves as other indus
tries must do. To accomplish this,
the paper asserts, they must be given
the same freedom to meet the bust
ness conditions Of the day in a COM
mon sense business fashion.
A somewhat similar program is pro-
posed for the farmer, by his friends
in high places. Many farmers al
ready are deeply in debt and in order.
to help them Qua it Is proposed 10
afford them added facilities for going
deeper into debt.
The most effective form that help
for the railroads could take lies in
removing government restrictions
which prevent them from making the
money needed for equipment and ex-
tensions.
The most efficient help for the
farmers lies in such measures as will
reduce the costs of what they are
compelled to buy and among those
existing heavy costs is transportation.
The railroads have suffered from
the apparent prejudice of the govern
ment. Wilson and congress surren-
dered to the threats and demands of
the railroad unions ana the roads and
the country in general suffered.
The railroads have not been with
out faults and in the past they fire.
quently seemed little concerned about
obtaining the good will Of the public
they served and from which they
made their money. But that is all
past. The railroads are of so vital
necessity to the prosperity of the
whole country that until they are
again functioning properly the
chances for the return of prosperity
are not so rosy as they should be.
The roads are handicapped by gov
ernmental rules and regulations which
were made to cover business and wage
conditions that have greatly changed.
They place upon the roads a severe
strain, says the journal" in conclu-
sion;
Any scheme to help the railroads
to go deeper into debt. when for years
past their glazing weakness has been
inability to finance themselves other
wise than by .piling their debts higher.
must be regarded as a counsel of
desperation.
The reasons why the carriers are
not keeping up current repair, and
have not done so for a year past,
should be thoroly understood by this
time, even in Washington. Not only
in their repair shops but in the
handling of traffic and purchase of
fuel the railroads are still held, by
arbitrary outside authority, to a scale
of operating costs wholly out of line
with the general average among in
dustries upon which they must de-
pend for their revenues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17

President Harding has come around
TO the plan for raising revenue advo-
Gated by The state Journal during the
past year or more. He has given his
endorsement to the sales tax as n
means of obtaining money to pay
soldier bonus. The sales tax not only
is the best, the most equitable and the
surest way of raising revenue for the
bonus, but for other expenses of the
government as we'll Everybody would
pay and there could be no evasion.
The man who spent most would pay
most. 1t would tend to encourage
economy. The poor would pay little;
the rich much. The man who bought
a $4,000 car would pay ten times as
much as the man who bought $500
car. The man who bought a $3.50
theater ticket would pay five times
as much as the man who bought
5D-cent ticket just as he does today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17


In a discussion of the farmers reIa-
ton to the business slump attributed
% detlation, the Sioux City Tribune
says: The farmer, because OF his
exposed condition. was the first to be
struck. When ne wanted cars to ship
his products, in order to take advan-
tage of high prices, he could not get
them. But, almost overnight, once
he railroads got higher rates, cars
became plentiful. In the meantime.
however, prices had been driven
Down It does not seem to have oc-
surred to the Tribune that the higher
ssates had much to do with the in
crease in the supply of cars, owing to
he fact that those rates were prohibit
i've.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17

It can be said on behalf of the Bull
Moose senator's that they are impair
tial in their opposition to all treaties
designed to promote world peace.
They have started fight on the pacts
negotiated at the Washington arms
conference and have enlisted the aid
OF tho Democrats. Senator Lodge
seems destined to receive a dose of
the medicine he dealt out when the
Versailles treaty was before the SEN
ate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17
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wy. Mrs. Potts. how thin you're get
ting, RELY
o, have you noticed it? sed ma.
And we kepp on wawking. ma say
ing, Now there's a woman of some in
te1ligents. there's a woman with eyes
in her he'd.
wy. ma? I sed. was she rite about
you getting thin?
Certeny she was rite, sed ma. and
sed, Well how can she be rite, ma :?
How can you be getting thinner if you
always stay the same weight?
1 always stay the same weight as
far as getting stouter is concerned,
sed ma.
How do you meen, ma? I sed. and
she sed, That's enuff questions for one
AFTERNOON.
Proving she proberly dident know
how she ment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17

The laboring men OF America have
not forgotten the depression that fol-
lowed the election of Il Demo-
crat administration in 1892, says
a. hired political writer. Neither.
perhaps, have they forgotten the
conditions which brought about
the election OF a Democrat president
and congress. The desperate condi-
ton OF the farmers was reflected in
the Alliance movement and the equal
~ desperate condition of labor was
reflected in the Homestead riots. The
pot may call the kettle black, but it
rarely deceives anybody by so doing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17

The action of Danish industry man
agers IN locking out their employees
thruout the kingdom shows that para
lying the industries of a country is
a game at which two can play. In the
United States. the labor unions have
considered themselves the only quail
fed nlavars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17

sIf Secretary Mothers views on the
state Of the agricultural industry may
be accepted at face value they indi-
cate that the farmer will be back on
his feet before the government gets
around to the point of actually doing
anYt hing TO helm him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17

Since the Irish no longer have cause
% fight the English they now are
lighting among themselves. Freedom
o ireland seems to mean the liberty
% fight, without restraint.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17

Despite many protests that they
could not afford to reduce passenger
fares and that the public would not
increase its patronage if they did the
railroads are cutting rates east and
west.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17

,.4..4 va,ortx the heroine in
Marie Chapdelaine" hadn't pee"
kissed.
rha xxYa,.ld has been a rock in a
80 ~, land we'd h&Ie to see it turn
to putty.
rrta ,,ar;o,7 M disclosure seems TO
~ 80. end anne with. Nora Bayes is
. De -, ss-, considerably longer and
hiseb ip the hack. and the theater sell
dom is uItra-conservat
possib1v, we are expected to write
- s@ranb about vyah- ha- gun-ta. the
fns3ian gentleman who died the other
day at the age of 1s7 years.
Very well, here it IS: We do not
regard his decease as untimely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17

The only possible merit in thespro-
posaf to tax federal, state and mu-
nfeipal securities is that it might re-
suit in stopping public borrowing.
Whether this result would be desir-
able still is open to debate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-17
Dinner Stories

A lady stopping at a hotel on the
Pacific coast rang the bell the first
of her arrival and was very