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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19

3 Tho government at washington
Shows no signs of departing from its
,olicc of keeping out of conferences
held for the alleged purpose OF re
Storing Europe to an economic equi-
librium. The administration appears
40 realize that what Europe wants is
10 get money out of this country. APP
pareutIy Europe will be forced to
work for what it gets. The peoples
OF that continent are as capable OF
earning as ever they were We can
get along without that market If It
Become necessary to do so but it will
not. This. primarily, Is an agrieultu-
sTai country. From the standpoint OF
soil. climate and methods which in
sure a high productive efficiency per
man. the farmer of the United States
is placed more advantageously than IS
the agricultural producer of any other
country. The domestic market is the
greatest single market. with the high
est consuming standards of the world,
and whether or not business in Eu-
rope revives. our agricultural surplus
Will find a market there. Exports
from the United States OF grains and
pork products and other main classes
OF agricultural products, except cot
xon. made new high records in 1921, if
the abnormal shipments during and
Immediately following the war are ex-
cepted. Europe must buy food and
raw materials and it will find the
nioney this year as it did last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
JUST FOLKS
THE BETTER MAN
By EDGAR A. GUEST.


l didn't understand it then.
When I was eight or nine or ten
And little troubles came my way
My kindly father used to say:
sorrow must come to man and boy.
Don't cry about broken toy.
Don't fret too much because you lose,
Don't whimper over every bruise;
Remember when they knock you flat.
You'll be a better man for that
When l had older grown. he'd say:
''Life's not a constant round OF play
And there is work for all to do
And many an irESome task for you.
The time will come when you will find
That duty often seems unkind;
You will be told to work when you
Have something else you'd rather do,
But just forget your ball and bat.
You'll be a better man for that
This is a lesson you must learn
Joy is a thing which all must earn,
And it's beneath the heavy blows
That courage at its finest shows.
When you have something hard to do,
Don't quit until you've seen it thru;
Never from duty run away.
Then. tho you sprawl on failures mat
You'll be a better man for that.
Now am older grown and
See with a somewhat clearer ere
Just what my father saw back then
In all the troubled lives of men
Hardships are builders OF the race.
Strength grows by what IL has to face;
He only meets lffe,s sternest test
Who gives the irKsome task his best.
Care does what pleasure never can
In fnshioning the better man.
Copyright 1922. By Edgar A Guest.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
Dorothy Dix Talks
BIZ DOROTHY nIx
Democracx I'M Love-1.

A girl of good family is in love
with a young man of no family at all.
Her ancestors came over to America
in the Mayflower, or with Lord Balti-
more, or in some other highly proper
manner. His parents arrived in
America, via the steerage of an i'm
migrant ship.
The young man is himself unexcep-
tionable. He is intelligent, well edu-
Gated, well hammered, a gentleman
Also he is a climber who is already
making a place for himself in the sun,
but the girl does not know whether
to marry him or not because he does
not belong to her own caste.
Suppose he doesn't, what of it? It's
the man himself. and not his pedigree
that concerns his wife, and surely it
is better to have a husband with a
future than one with a past. Like
wise, a woman can be million times
more proud of a man who is doing
things himself, than she can of one
whose grandfather, or great, great
grandfather did something.
OF all forms of futile vanity surely
the most pitiful is that which is
founded on ancestor worship, and
chest, and struts around, basking in
the glory of others. 1t is too weak
and feeble to achieve anything itself.
1t is too dull, and stupid, and lacking
IN energy ana purpose 10 40 anyInlnS
on its own account, but it lives on the
reputation of dead and gone men and
women who had the ability to carve
out a fortune for themselves.
Yet how many of these weaklings
we know! Poverty stricken people
who are too proud to work at any
thing but mahogany desk jobs, be-
cause their families used to be rich
and important before the Civil war!
insignificant people who never let you
forget foF-an instant that their great,
great, great grandfather, or grand
uncle was a governor, or a judgei
Down-and-out people who have never
seen the opportunities that came their
way because they were always looking
back on the past grandeur of their
forebearsi
Cultivating a family tree IN Amer
lea, where we are all constitutionally
born free and equal, is merely a hobby
that is interesting to the cuItivator,
and amusing to the on-looker as long
as it remains merely an occupation for
an idle hour. If it makes the Adams
and Ewes happy to claim that they
were the original family that settled
the Garden of Eden, by all means let
them have that pleasure, and paint on
their motor cars a coat of arms COM
prised of a fig leaf couchant, and
a serpent rampant on an azure field.
If a rich bootlegger wants to spend
his newly acquired money in a mytho- |
logical ancestry traced back to the
Norman Conquest, let no one be-
grudge the price she pays heraldry
shark
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE

Yestidday after suppir pop took Off
his shoes and put on his slippers say
ing. All, now for a cigar and IA car
rot solid comfort.
And he put his feet up and started
to smoak with a satisfied IMPRESSION.
and ma sed, 1 should think you d be
tired of staying home every mite, L
should think you'd feel the need of a
little amusement and reckreation-
Jest sitting heer on my 4th from the
last vertebra and drawing good clean
smoak into my lungs is amusemint
and reckreation enuff for me, sed
3 Vvaeh he kepp on doing, and ma sed.
wy don't you call up Mr.. Lewis and
see If he wunts to bowl or play bill
yerds or something?
Well. well, 1 thawt you dident like
that fello, sed pop, and ma sed, Well,
nobody can be as black they're
painted and there's no use being mario
minded, do you wunt- me to call him
up for Pou?
No, I wunt to stay home and take it
easy, my feet are tired, my backs
tired. my beds tired, in other words
I'm tired, sed pop.
That's impossible, sed ma.
The dooce it is. whose rect are they,
whose he'd is it? sed pop.
L meen its impossible for you to
stay home tonite, SEQ ma. the Pass
werd Committy of the Dawters of
mite and everything is Supposed to be
very secret and everything, so for
goodniss sakes don't get roo. comfort
able.
To repeet the blind mans famous
remark, I see, sed pop, we'll. far be it
from me to wish to be the sole roper
of the male sex in eny gath
ering of the Dawters of Cleopattera.
And he took his feet down and took
his slippers off and pun MS shoes on
and took me to the movies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19

pie by Josiah brought to light the
Scriptures, which created a. national
revival and rejoicing. We get light
as we go forward
IF only we strive to be pure and true.
To each of us there will come hour.
when the tree of life shall burst into
And rain at our feet glorious dover.
OF something grander than ever We knew.
There is a promise that the word
of God shall be a light unto our
feet; that is. a step-by-step illumina-
ton of the individual path. Yet that
mere footlight has become a beacon
for nations and for the ages; the one
that mankind needs-even in such
an hour of dark confusion-is to be
found in the Bible. Discover the re-
lation of the Law of God to the life
of man, and all social and political
and economic problems are solved. A
widespread study of the Bible Kill
bring the only religious revival ade
quate for our days need.
20 word of God incarnate.
o Wisdom from on high.
o Truth unchanged. unchanging,
o Light of our dark sky;
We praise Thee for the radiance
That from the haIlowed page,
lantern to our footsteps,
Shines on from age to age.
at foateth like a banner.
Before Gods host unfurled
1t shineth like a beacon
Above the darkling world.
IT is tina chart and compass,
That DER life'S surging sea.
Mid mists and rocks and quicksands,
Still guides, o Christ, to Thee
Copyright, 1922. by The Ellis service)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19

American-made silk goods are be-
ing exported TO England now and are
underselling there English-made silks.
But some of the silk manufacturers
have asked. and the Fordney bill gives.
e. duty OF SIS per cent on silks. A yard
Of silk that costs 81 would pay a duty
Of $i-1O. Why should American wo-
men be asked to pay this tax? Uncle
sam will get almost no revenue from
it. but the women of America will pay
the sir manufacturers millions of
dollars on account OF it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19

with a huge deficit staring it in the
face, and with the demand for a SOL
der bonus pressing. congress contin-
aes to balk at a sales tax. the prin-
ciple of which is endorsed by a ma
iority OF the business men of the
country. 1t has been advocated by
leaders in both political parties. It is
so simple of application and coIIec-
ton. so exceedingly small In it's indi-
viduaI incidence. and so easily re-
called if no longer wanted. that it
can not possibly involve any notice.
able hardship upon any one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19

The recent lynching of four negroes
in Texas. all charged with the same
crime. will tend to focus public at
tention on the anti-Iynching bill which
has passed the house and is pending
in the senate. The state and local
authorities appear power1ess or I'M
willing to enforce the law, and it is
one of those cases which the federal
bill is designed to meet. That the
federal authorities are more success
full than the state officers in catching
and Furnishing criminals long has been
apparent But in connection with the
enactment of law of this kind there
is always the chance that the supreme
court will declare it to be invalid on
the ground that it interferes with the
police powers of the states. The old
doctrine of states rights still is alive
and kicking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19

Among the many evidences OF re-
turning prosperity now visible the
Manufacturers Record enumerates
the following: Railroads are order
Ing material to greater extent than
for a good many years. Building con-
tractors are finding an increasing and
almost an incessant demand for their
work. Building materials are tending
to- higher prices and an increas-
ing scarcity OF supply. The demand
for lumber grows apace and the trend
OF. prices is upward In some sections
the supply of skilled labor IS scarcely
equal to the demand. Highway I'm
Proyement is proceeding at q rate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19

The Bull Moosers are again in the
saddle. The nomination of Beveridge
In Indiana and of PinchOt in Penn
sylvania probably will serve to give
the standpatters something TO think
about When Beveridge, Pinchot and
their following returned to camp, 1t
was merely to help in rescuing the
country from the hands of a common
enemy. Having accomplished that
purpose they now are ready to resume
their rough riding
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
FOR WHAT DO WE PAY?

| IIliteracy in this country is shown
| by census figures to bear a percen-
! tage to population much higher than
! that of several European countries,
yet it is doubtful that those countries
spend so much on education as we
do. Added TO the enormous cost of
our public schools is an income from
fabulous sums with which our col
leges and universities are endowed.
And the cry always is for more.
Campaigns for funds conducted by
the alumni of American colleges.
either now in progress or recently
completed. total $11s.76O.SOO. One
hundred colleges report the amount
actually raised to date IN their cam
paigns as $S9,7s6.525.
Nearly every state and private in
stitut.on has raised a fund. The only
three endowed colleges in the country
which have not INDUCED in a large
campaign for funds, it is reported, are
Reed college. Portland. Ore. Rice In
stitute, Houston, Tex, and Drake uni
versity. Des Moines, Ia.
Twenty-six universities and col
Ieges are now building war fmemor-
iaIs. Georgia is erecting a $500. 900
war memorial hall; California, Iii
nois. Kansas, Ohio State, Nebraska
and Indiana are each building a me-
mortal stadium; Lafayette, New
Hampshire, Williams, and Pomona are
building memorial athletic fields or
gymnasia; Kansas. Missouri. Wiscon-
sin, Iowa State, and Purdue are
building memorial student unions; Lee
high is building a memorial admins
tration building; Union a memorial
chapel; Kentucky a memorial audi
torium; Johns Hopkins a memorial
dormitory.
Among the most successful recent
campaigns reported are those con-
Quoted by the University of Georgia
which raised S1,2s7.soo in a cam
paign for 100000; Colgate univer-
sity. which sought $1,3oo.OoO and re-
ceived $1,6O9.2e6; and Wesleyan uni
versity OF Connecticut, which raise i
S3.172,54T in a campaign for $4,000
900. Thirty institutions report that
their funds had been oversubscribed.
The people must be educated. but
are we getting our moneys worth?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19

which must soon tax the facilities OF
highway contractors and the people
who supply road-buiIding equipment.
With the certainty that the country
has entered upon an era of highway
building of which as yet we have seen
only the beginning. there is vast vol
ume of business ahead for highway
workers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19


For years the building industry of
san Francisco it is said has been han
dicApped severely by the serious and
growing shortage OF skilled craftsmen
particularly plasterers. plumbers,
bricklayers, tile-setters, steamfitters,
sheet-metal workers and finish car
penters. This. despite the fact that-in
these crafts wages have increased
steadily and working conditions have
improved constantly. This situation
is declared to be due to the fact that
union labor regulations have prohib-
tied apprentices; in some cases en-
tirely and in all cases almost entirely,
in order to keep the union ranks so
depleted that wages would be artifi-
cially kept up In order to relieve
this condition in the field of labor the
Industrial Association of the city has
begun the establishment OF trade
schools The first one to be set up
was for the education Of plasterers.
1t proved so successful that the asso-
citation has started a school for the
training of plumbers apprentices
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19

Nebraska hogs, sold at Omah a.
average fifty pounds heavier than
Kansas hogs marketed at Kansas City.
The reason for the difference is Ia
the larger. bigger boned type of boar
used by Nebraska stockmen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
HEART And HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a mar
ried woman twenty-seven years old
and my husband is twenty-siX- We
have been married three years and
part of that time I have been very
happy, but part of the time I have
suffered terribly because my husband
has not been true to me, L really
think he loves me, because he comes
back to me after he has grown tired
of other women and he is so good and
wonderful to me until some new per-
son infatuates him.
For several months he had been just
as good as any ono could be, but now
he is off again and scarcely stays at
home at all. He is cross to me and
nothing 1 do suits him He is also
drinking moro than he should.
am so unhappy, but 1 don't know
what to do. L love my husband with
my whole heart and 1 don't want to
leave him, but my father thinks
should He wants me to pack my
things and go home
Would you advise me to do this, or
would you advise me to stand by my
husband and take care of him even
when he drinks and is untrue to me?
ELIZABETH
would advise you to go home to
your father FOR a while. Your nus
band may need something to awaken
a realization Of his love for you. You
can gain nothing by staying at home
and telling him the right thing to do.
but you might gain much by giving
him taste OF life without you.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am greatly
troubled with an oily skin What can
1 do for this? l. A B.
For oily skin Danish all rich and
greasy foods, for diet has a great in
nuence on the condition of the skin
Wiping off the face occasionally
with diluted alcohol (25 per cent
strength is beneficial in the case of
an oily skin
A few drops OF ammonia or pinch
of borax in the water with which the
face is washed is also helpful
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19

There is a widespread feeling that
Efhe business of the world can not get
on an even keel until Europe settles
down. But this country would like to
see il settle up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19

France has informed this country
that she is ready to sign a note for
What she owes US. Are there any
others?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19

Apparently. there were some who
did not share our feeling of resigna-
ton in the thought that Miss Gish
might fsome day ride the ice over the
falls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY z. HOUSE
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

Our interest in the matter of select
ing the most popular motion picture
actress. now under way, is very cas-
ual. We did pay enough attention TO
the enterprise to note that so tar as
the ballots have been countd. Lillian
Gish has sass votes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
International
SuradoySchoolLeSson
BY WILLIAM r. ELLIS.

For May 81 is "Hilkiah's7 Great Dis
covery.'-II Chron., 34:14-33.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-01-27
TAFTVILLE

The funeral f William West was heid
Thursd1y morning at the home Of his
daurhre-. AIRS John Carol on Merchants
avenue. Services at the home were al
$50 o'cloci- and requiem high mass at
ne Sacred Heart church at ten. Rev. L.
%. Belieruse officiated assisted by Father
Cha=uou. There were many floral tri-
hutos and a large attendance. Friends
rcted as bearers. Burial was in the fam
rs pot IN 81. AIary's cemetery. Grant was
the funeral director
The funeral Z Mrs Napoleon Moileur
was held THURSDAY morning from her
late home on South A street at $50 witt
q requiem mass in Sacred Heart church
81 O'Clock Father Chasnon oficisted.
There were many relat1tes and frienls
present and many beautiful flowers. Rel
atives acted as bea1 ers. Burial was in
Sacred Heart cemetery. George G.
Grant had charge Of the funeral arrange
fnents-
John D. Nolan net with slight acct
dent while coming down Providence
greet Thursday morning. He was driving
down Providence street in his wagon
and he had a bag Of -four on the hack. L
heran 20 slide of and TO save his -four
Re Grop1ed the reins, the wagon hitting
g tree fin front Il the Sacred Heart rec
tory ard overturned Mr.. Nolan was
ts1-ovn 20 the ground but was not Hurt
He got u1 ard turned the WAGON back
Rgain ard started of. He didn't lose his
no-r.
Charles Laporte and Ernest Bazinei
have been discharged from Camp Devens
where they have been stationed.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-01-27
NORWICH TOWN

The First CONGREGATIONAL Home Mis-
EiorarY society is to meet for work this
fF-l1ayl aftern- on. in the chapel Mem
hers are 20 come early as it is the plan
Of the soc.ety to tie two quilts during the
afternoon. An invitation was extended
the women Of this church to attend the
m~-ing this afternoon at three ocfcck.
he Community House, Norwich, to hear
The address By Mss Helen Calder
Or. Charles Il Lamb is TO have charge
% the sheiterins Arms service Sunday
nfie-uocn when the Norwich Town quin-
tet-e VIII provide an hour Il vocal and in
ftruuental selections There is to be a
rehearsll this lFriday) evening at DR..
lambs home on Town street
The sunday afternoon service at the
12aczgs hospital Will be in charge Of
Taiuhow Circle OF the Kings Daughters.
under general supervision Of Mrs. John
&. Atterbury Of GreeIeville.
Child Labor Day. is te be observed the
last sunday Of this month January 20
An annual appeal is made by the National
Child Labor committee for Inc co-opertion
- all churches and schools. It is neces-
say. 20 EDUCATE men and women regard
1nr child labor what il really is. and how
yearly IL Is costing the human race
( When me FIRST Methodist Episcopal
md the First Congregational churches
unite for The monthly union service at the
tafser church Sunday evening, at 1870. the
Lse--uon VIII be by Rev j. B Aldrich, pas-
tor Of tie visiting church. Rev. Gurdor
T. Bailey. pastor Of the Congregational
churca VIII conduct the service
Having passed a week with mis- family
~ hiss home on New London turnpIke
,Orrin = Merry. returned this week ID
presume his duties at Stratford lighthouse
.a~Hrr eel 80 ~ Trf5
4 While on a recent business TRIP to New
york. DR.. and Mrs John II. Evans who
Rave been passing a few months wifi
Ehe formers parents in Norwich, wert
entertained over the week end at tn,
hone OF Mr.. and Mrs Walter Groth. o.
brentwood. y. ].
J Mrs. Evans was caller Tuesday after
roon at the home of Dr.. and Mrs
Charles II. Lamb.
Win reference TO the present cold
wave. Il IS interesting to note that Jan
nary . 1921, the mercury registered on.
ldegree above zero with wind, the mex
day Il stood al nine degrees above ger,
Innd the following day January 27, a
zero.
Harold Geer aged five, Of Norwics
Town IS visiting his grand parents, MI
md AIRS. Hazard Tucker Of Scotland. Sun
DAY. hearing the watch dog which wa
rhained barking furiously the little bo-
gvent 70 investigate and found strang
Visitor in the yard. Calling to his grand
Enother. Mrs. Tucker went into the var,
prd found a woodchucll sitting on hi
fauaches, cliatte-Ing as II to chaIlerg
fne doc 20 a fight Not being prepared r
fneet the unexpected visitor, Mrs. Tucke
picked 10 a stick and when the anima
-Anoed for It. she quickly picked II Vi