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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

It is refreshing to find occasionally
e candidate for office who proposes
10 run upon the platform OF attending
strictly 10 his own business, and the
statement OF Jess w. Miley of Girard
who is a candidate for the Republican
nomination for state superintendent
Of public instruction, TO the effect
that II nominated and elected he will
devote his whole time to the improve
ment of the Kansas schools and will
leave the matter of public and private
morals 20 the. kindly mercies of the
local constaGe and police force,
doubtless win be approved by a large
number Of conservative citizens. Mr.
N ley seems to be we'll within the pro-
prieties when he says that police
duties may be left TO police authori-
ties
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

Resolutions adopted by the Missis-
sippi Valley association at the Kansas
City convention included a statement
favoring the sale of the government
nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals to
Henry Ford This action is assailed
by the Chicago Tribune on the ground
that Mr.. Ford would supply only a
small percentage OF the fertilizer
needed by the American farmers. II
the Tribune be correct. how does II ex-
plain the persistent fight which the
fertilizer trust is making against the
Ford proposal?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

came. You have enough money.
thought just keeping track of that was
enough to keep you busy. T.
Let me explain interrupted Fred.
II think it is very important for a man
to do the kind of work he is best
suited for, but I think that very often
he doesn't know what he is best suited
for. Often it is chance, often he fol-
lows the work of his father before him.
The important thing is to be thoroly
trdlne1 and to make up his mind to
make success. There's another inn
p 1rtant thing for a man, and that is
to marry the girl he Ioves-especiai
said Fred, looking very intently into
the eyes OF Eliza. IF that girl really
loves HIM.
Well continued Fred, you'd set
your heart on marrying a doctor and
set my heart on marrying you.
After you explained that, / arranged
my affairs so that 1 could neglect
them little and 1 started studying
medicine. I have been working at
medical college ever since. I have
sometimes seen you in the extension
lecture rooms. I've done extra work
all winter to make up for lost time. I
have still a good many years to go, but
there is no rule in the medical col
before he graduates. And fortunately
1 can afford to marry when 1 choose.
AS far as you are concerned-you
could cut out that course in dress
making and housekeeping and motor
driving I guess we wont have to
economic as much as that. I don't
want you for a chauffeur or cook or
a housekeeper. Don't you think that
I've gone half way? You wanted to
marry a doctor and I've started out to
be one so you could marry me in
stead of some one you might not love.
And you do love me. don't your"
Love you-of course do said
Eliza. But she didn't say that the
reason she had taken courses in m edi-
cine and the facts behind all her little
plan were that she thought Fred Titus
ought not to content himself with
merely looking after his own money,
and that after careful consideration
she had decided that what he was best
suited for was the career of a doctor. .
Copyright, 1922, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

make the round of the stacks in the
building at this rate would take three
years.
Books in this library do not collect
dust SO rapidly as books on shelves in
a home. The stacks are as nearly
dust proof and damp proof is possible
Windows in the stacks are never
opened. A ventilating system keeps
the air fresh.
Because of the dryness. the library
has no trouble with ants nor book
worms. Insects of this sort sometim es
when they are brought over in the
generally disinfected before being
placed on file and in the dry and un-
congenial atmosphere of the stacks
any survivors would soon die.
The cockroach is the only insect
that has ever annoyed the library Of
ficials by sinsistant vitality. At one
time cockroaches got into some of the
books and developed an enormous ap-
petite for the glaze in the buckram
covers They also ate the gold Oft
the titles and decorations because of
the albumen it contained. The library
got rid of these expensive boarders,
however, and now it uses a kind OF
buckram that is guaranteed to offer
no attraction to insects.
The weather. insects. action of sun
light, and dust, are all guarded
against in the governments big book
collection. Only the human element
the wear and tear of handling the
books-defies regulation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

Certain moneyed interests in this
country continue reluctant to aban-
don the idea of cancellation of our
foreign debts They argue that the
amount would be more than made up
to US by increased business and that
II the cancellation Of the allied in
debtedness should result in an in
crease of business in the United States
that would carry an increase in the
average yearly income OF the people.
the United States government would
receive greater return in taxes with
out increasing the rates OF taxation,
and larger net income would be left
to the people for expenditure and in
vestment But the masses OF the peo-
PIE appear to regard a bird in the
hand as worth two in the bush and
will continue to insist on collection of
the debts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

the result OF the washington confer
ence. hence it wants the government
to allow these plants to compete in
the furnishing of equipment TO all
branches OF the federal government.
They foresee opposition, however,
they declare, from 'Ieeches who want
no interference with their opportunity
to suck juicy profits from government
extravaganza" charge Outrageous
protiteering by private industry in
selling supplies TO the government"
and term government contractors
'militarists and 5ingoists.H
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15
Dorothy Dix TALKS
Taking a Vacation-a.
By DOROTHY DIX
wcz4S's Highest PAID Woman writ


They don't know that all that is the
matter with mother is that she is over
worked, and worn out, and that her
nerves are raw. and she is fed up
with an overdose of family life. All
that she needs is to get away from
Then she would be their adorable
m other again, and able really to do
her duty as a mother.
Every woman knows in her secret
soul that there are times when she
wonders why she ever was fool enough
to marry, and have babies when she
almost hates her children, and when
she feels that she wishes that she
never could hear again another little
voice calling, "Mo-o-ther,' or feel an
other little hand clutching at her
skirts. Then it is that her exhausted
nerves make her treat her children as
if she were the cruel stepmother of
tradition.
Even one weeks absence from them
changes her whole perspective, and
makes motherhood the most glorious
career that any woman can achieve,
and the cry of "Mo-o-other'' becomes
the music of the spheres in her ears.
Therefore, for her chi1dren's sake,
if not for her own, every woman
should separate herself from them
every now and then, for time long
enough to enable her to get herself
together, and to be able to deal with
them with a mothers loving heart,
instead of a mothers rasped nerves.
Employers find that-it pays to give
their employees a vacation because the
employe comes back to his job after
change and rest with fresh inter-
est, and new pep. Surely mothers who
have the most important job in the
world in their hands to perform would
benefit by the same remedy.
2 That married people should take
their vacation separately is too obvi-
Gus to need insisting upon. No mat
ter how much a husband and wife love
each other, they pail upon each other
in the course of a twelve month, and
come to be as tiresome to each other
as a. twice-told tale.
You cannot look at the same face
across the breakfast table for three
hundred and sixty-five days without
perceiving every defect in it. You
cannot hear the same person talk for
three hundred and sixty five days and
nights, hand running. without getting
bored, and the one and only remedy is
change. It's absence that makes the
heart grow fonder, and that is the best
known preventive of divorce
Hence, 1 urge every woman who
values her own health and happiness
and the welfare of her family, to take
her vacation alone, but I add a word
Of caution. Go, but do not stay too
long Stay Just long enough for your
husband and children to realize that
they need you, but not long enough
for them to find out that they can
get along without you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE

Yestidday we was eating suppir and
my sister Giaddis sed to pop, Father,
hope you're not forgetting this is the
mite Mr. Parkins is going to take you
and mother and 1 to the theater
All rite, I'm all reddy for the big
show, sed pop, and Gladdis sed, You
are nuthing of the kind all reddy, the
ideer, don't you realize you haff to put
on your evening clothes.
The dooce j do, sed pop, and ma sed,
Certeny you do. the ideer.
Do you neen to tell me that fellow
Parkins is coming GROUND heer laid
out in q full dress suit2 pop sed, and
Gladdis sed, Absilootly, Mr.. Parkins
can always be trusted to know the
rite thing to- wear at the right time.
You'd look fine in a plain bizniss
suit with Mr. Parkins all dressed up
like gentleman, the ideer, ma SEQ,
and pop sed, All rite, Geese firing, 1
serrender. And rite after suppir he
went up to put on his full dress suit
and rite after he went UP he called
out of his room, Wares my perl studs.
somebody's taken my perl studs, I hate
this stiff shert enway, why should I
suffer like this, and anyway my perl
studs are gone.
L bet 1 can lay my hands rite on
them the very ferst thing, sed ma.
WITCH she went in and did, pop saying.
Well of Corse if you deliberately hiIs
them its no wonder you're the ony one
can find them, and ma sed, You've had
those studs years and they've never
bin in eny other place. And she
started to tie pops tie, pop keeping
on saying she was choking hipa and
ma keeping on saying she waserft, and
Jest them the bell rang and it was
Mr.. Parkins in his reguler clothes and
yello shoes, Gladdis coming up all tx
cited and saying to pop, Father. may
be you better not wear your evening
clothes after, all, it mite make Mr..
Parkins look too conspicuous.
. Not to speak of how it would make
me look. sed pop mad. And he quick
put on his ordnerry clothes and they
all went.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

Truly. wonders never cease. Now
we find August Busch, the one time
big brewer Of st. Louis. complaining
that the prohibitory liquor law is not
being enforced. Mr.. Busch's chief
grievance is that the government per-
nits the sale OF liquor on it's steam
ships. Would he have all Americans
travel on foreign ships? Prohibition
is for the folks who stay at home.
But nothing perhaps has ever so
greatly promoted travel as the Vol
stead law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15
Heart And HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State Journal

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a
girl twenty-three years of age and
altho have gone with a good many
boys have never met one that
loved. I have refused several pro-
posals, thinking that later on I might
find my ideal man. but I am afraid
I never will. I do not want to be an
old maid and so do you think would
be happier to marry some one or to
remain single?
There are two that I think quite a
bit of. One is thirty-seven years old
and the other is twenty-four. The for
mer has proposed marriage but I re-
fused as 1 thought he was almost too
old for me. I believe I think more
of the other one. He has not pro-
posed yet. but he seems to think quite
a bit of me Please advise me.
TOPSY.
You probably consider yourself
quite aged, but in reality you are
very young woman. Do not marry
some one just for the sake of marry
ing. If you wait two or three years
longer I feel confident you will meet
some one you can love. OF the two
the younger man would be preferable.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: My son is
engaged. Would it be proper for me
to call on the girl and her mother?
MRS. F. H J.
Yes. it would be proper for you
to call I am sure the girl will ap-
preciate your coming. It is a small
thing, but VIII mean much to bring
about q feeling of closeness between
you and your future daughter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

The American Federation of Labor
on Wednesday found something else
10 criticise in the United States SUI
preme court and that is its decision
on the child labor law. It has long
been said that the power to tax is the
power TO destroy, and congress at
tempted to exemplify this when it lev
led 10 per cent tax on the products
OF child labor entering into interstate
commerce. The court held that while
congress had power to regulate inter
state commerce it could not do it thru
the taxation method.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15
Questions-AnSwers

Q. Who was the first woman called to
the bar in England H. A. D.
A: Miss JOY Williams, lecturer at OK
ford, was the first to receive that honor.
She was called to the bar on May 10 OF
this year.
tory in this country? S. X
A. Charles II. Hitchcock, while geologist
of New Hampshire, maintained during the
winter of 1870 a meteorological station or
Mount Washington which was the earliest
high mountain observatory in the United
States
Q. Where is the quotation "A little
knowledge is a dangerous thing" found 2
S. P.
A. The correct wording is a little
learning is a dangerous thing. It Is in
Pope's Essay Criticism.
Q. What are the Four Horsemen Of the
Apocalypse supposed to represents n. S.
A The Four Horsemen Of the Apoca-
Iypse symbolic Pestilence, Death, War
and Famine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15
Just FOLKS
HERE ON THE EARTH.

HERE ON THE EARTH.
Here is where the blows are struck,
Here is where the wrong is done,
Here are toiIers in the muck;
Here beneath the shining sun
Pain and hurt and sin abide,
Here is where our souls are tried
What's beyond cannot say,
Save my faith that all is Weili
There the wrongs are cast away,
There is peace the Angels uWeil'
But this life on earth and sea
Holds so much that need not De.
I would Lot remain afar
Thinking only of my soul;
Here where hungry children are,
Here where hatred mars the scroll.
Thought and time and strength Ia SlVS
lettering this life we live.
Not tomorrow, but today
l would serve anotheris need,
1 would smooth another's way,
Bind the cruel wounds that bleed;
Death VIII soothe the weary brow,
But my hand would smooth it now.
Life has need of kindly men,
Just, courageous, true and brave,
But that need is ended when
Comes the sexton to the grave;
Let me, than, my duty face
Making earth happier place.
Let me serve the living here
Not the dead across the bar.
Let me carry hope and cheer
Where the sad and hopeless are:
Angels wait upon the dead,
Let me smooth the path men tread
Copyright, 1922, by Edgar A. Guestl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

Iowa may like Senator Cummins
but apparently It does not like his
works. All the half dozen can iIdates
for the United States senatorship in
the recent primary were avowed op-
ponents to the railroad law which
bears the senator's name.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

The fruit canning season is here
with its accompanying advance in the
price of sugar. The coal dealers al
ways have operated on a different
plan They have begun advancing
prices as soon as the winter demand
siackened
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

The majority members of the rail-
road labor board have been severely
criticised by the minority because they
did not set forth reasons for reduc-
tons in wages. Probably their chief
reason was that the railroads need tbs
money and the public needs the rail-
roads,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

1t seems that the government can
not do anything for the general good
without stepping on somebody's toes.
The machinists' union has thousands
OF members now IN the government
service who viii be obliged to look
Elsewhere for work should navy yard
and arsenal activities be reduced as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

Ten thousand persons took passage
FOR Europe on ocean steamships in
one day this week. Following the
disclosures made by August Busch, re-
sarding the wet condition OF these
vessels above the water line, passen-
ger traffic probably will show a
heavy increase
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

After months of waiting Henry
Ford finally has been given permits
sion by the interstate commerce COM
mission to reduce coal freight rates
on his railroad. The next thing is to
find the coal to haul.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

A twenty-four hour air service be-
tween Chicago and Munich is pro-
5ected- This look. like another blow
at the volstead law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15
Utility.

Jinks: What did Marjorie do with
that shiftless cave-nan she was en-
gagged to?
Binks: Tilted him. I believe on the
grounds that a chap like that ougKt
to be useful as well as elemental
Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

Old memories crowd upon us as We
assemble the days work into orderly
lines and paragraphs. We found Il
letter from Laura Jean Libbey in the
paper yesterday morning. We can re-
member when Miss Libby was as
famous as Harold Bell Wright.
And, if you care to leave it to us,
a blamed sight more interesting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

Our Console Uutflt -
Our Console Victrola
Outfit 4 includes Vie
trola Style 300, with IL
10-inch Double Face
75e Victor Records ga
selections), SIS cash,
SO monthly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15

This, you will observe, is our day to
be serious. We set out upon it in light
and frolicsome mood, but Eyed
Connolly came in to tell Cullen Cain
the detail of his trip to the Pacific
Coast and made US disconnected with
our lot.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-10-01
Auto Trade Benefit Seen
In Tariff Export Clause
Increase of U. S. Automotive
Sales in Other Countries,
Is Predicted

"The newly agreed upon export fea-
lures of the United States tariff, as
surfing equality of treatment in non
manufacturing as well as industrial
countries, will stimulate American
automotive trade abroad" according to
J. Walter Drake, chairman of Foreign
Trade Committee of the National AGto-
mobile Chamber of Commerce.
Under the general export feature
the newly lowered automobile rate Of
% per cent, if conditions warranted
could be increased by one-half, bring
ing it up to a maximum of 371a per
cent. II some manufacturing country
were unwilling to allow a duty as low
as 25 per cent on American vehicles in
return for all equally low rate on its
automobiles brought into the United
States, steps could be taken to have a
higher rate up to 371a per cent apply.
in the extension of our trade with
non-industrial countries, the general
export feature of the tariff will also
prove helpful. Finland is one of these
countries. At the present time Amer
lean manufacturers are at handican
there, because French exporters paw a
duty of 10 per cent compared with 40
per cent assessed on United States
automobiles"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-10-01
Festivities Will Open
Harlem River Speedway
Plans Laid for Automobile and
Civic Celebration ON
October "

The Speedway from 155th Street to
Dyckman Street alonE the Harlem
River will be opened formally to auto
mobile traffic on Thursday, October IL.
This thoroughfare, previously used
solely for horsedriyen traffic, has been
paved with asphalt and is a wide boule
ward that will serve every driver of a
pleasure car travelling north and south
on Manhattan, enabling him to cut five
to fifteen minutes from the time pre-
Siously required.
The opening of the Speedway will be
observed by celebration under the
auspices of the city in conjunction
with the Harlem Board OF Commerce,
Washington Heights Chamber of Com
merce and other associations in upper
Manhattan. The opening of the Speed
way comment crates a six years fight
! by the Harlem Board of Commerce to
have this roadway turned over to the
use of automobilists.
The principal feature of the celebra-
zion will be an automobile parade in
which fully 5000 decorated cars will be
i'm line, starting at 1880 a. m. at Sew
enth Avenue and 10th Street and COW
ering the principal streets of Harlem,
Washington Heights and Inwood, turn
/ ing into the Speedway at the northerly
end at Dyckman Street and being re-
viewed by the Mayor and other city
4 officials.
One Of the committeeman has sug-
gested that as the automobile has
&driven the horse from the Speedway a
Especial grandstand should be erected
Apn which the horses which formerly
M'raced on the Speedway could be placed
10 review the automobile parade,