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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09

that's positively Observation-Disclosures
what you know you have no money
for and then throwing it back, Mrs
Horne cried acridly.
Sarah interposed with a sour smile;
I'VE won't let that happen. Ma, draw
a check for the gentleman An
orchard will add a bit to our security,
tho I must say I think planting it is
foolish extravaganza.
You reedn't," said the tree man,
the shark game; I can make it right
with them to wait till this young lady
is good and ready to pay.
.M'litter! Will you let perfect
stranger do that for you?" Mrs
Horne demanded. Melitta nodded;
in: II thought the wheat was to
put on a new roof. 1 don't intend to
stay under this Ieaky ones another
winter" This time It was Malitta who
said: You needn't" The words We're
barely spoken when there was a lusty
hail from the yard gate. Doctor
Phipps shouted from his flivver:
Mind Melitta; men are coming after
options; oil in next county; they want
acreage all round about Ask 'em five
hundred at least for this place; they'll
pay it. but offer you. maybe. twenty
five if they think you are not wise to
their game
A1elitta glowed into sudden beauty.
I'D give an option on my soul, doctor.
right now" she said, "for even a hope
of one day getting free
The Hornes flounced off in hight
dudgeon. Alone with Mcclure Me-
Iitta felt herself suddenly unaccounta-
bly, happy. She chartered with him
eagerly as to his errand and her adj
venture; ran to show him the orchard
side she had chosen and rejoiced 10
find he approved it highly. They came
back to find the truck waiting. Will
ing hands summoned by the jowl of
the big farm bell, quickly set the
young trees in place with due care
and ceremony, Melitta herself, happy
as a child, kneeIing to sift fine earth
among their roots and later treading
! smooth and firm the mounds about
the trees.
You're lucky-the wind is blowing
up rain-April rain, just what the
| trees need" Mcclure said as they
stood together surveying the last row.
Then very low he added: Don't you
worry about-anything Money least
of all. Happens I've got stock in the
company-enough to carry you till the
| trees come into bearing. And If you
| like, you can double or treble this
planting. Your land is made for such
use. I see you love it-and know
what to do with it,
''You-you are-too kind. I can't
|
you know" Melitta faltered. ION is
such a long chance" stopping and
swallowing hard. "But-but it seems
to me I'd die two deaths to get rid
| Of
'Tll take over the mortgage-if
| you'll come along with it," the young
fellow said boldly, possessing himself
of her hand. Never mind our being
strangers. I think this was ordered
from the beginning"
Option money was all Melitta's share
| of the oil boom, but she did not mind
/ greatly. Fer orchards, stretchin,;
wider year by year. left her nothing
to wish for in the way of prosperity
And one August Mcclure left her as
| little to wish for in the way of a hus-
| band.
Copyright, 1922 by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09

An American visiting Germany has
written to the home folks a letter COW
ering several features of living costs
in that country Here are a few sam
pies: A ride from Hanover to Ham
burg. six hours, first class, % cents.
Lunch for two on the dining car, con-
sisting of asparagus soup, a good
drink of Schnapps, a good portion of
fish. roast veal, vegetables. coffee,
pudding, bottle of good red wine, two
liqueurs, at total cost for two of
about 10 cents in American currency.
A taxi for two hours cost in American
currency 40 cents. Dinner for three,
including poultry, everything from
soup to nuts and bottle of wine, at
a total cost of so cents. Laundry bill
for ten handkerchiefs. seven collars,
five pairs of socks, one suit of under
wear, one pajamas. 10 cents. Until
recently a handsome suit of clothes
could be bought at about $40. Derby
hats. 55 to rs cents, and so, all along
the line, he writes. 1--WE hear much in
this country about the American stan
dard of living. but if the American
workman could obtain the things
enumerated above at the prices quot
cd we could undersell every country
in the world, not excepting the rice
eating Orientals
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
RUTH DRAPER.

1 like to write about and praise peo-
pie who now live, while yet they are
pouring out benefits for the better
ment of the word. I like people to
know that 1 appreciate them and their
art or work.
Draper, whom I consider one of the
greatest artists it has been my privi-
lege to hear. They call her an Imper-
senator. But that is not what she is
at all. She is an Interpreter-and
even more than that.
She is the granddaughter, I believe,
Of Charles A. Dana, the great founder
of the New York Sun. And surely the
genius of that wonderful understander
of human character has descended to
this woman, for she actually flows
into and becomes one with the char
asters she depicts.
She gives you a New England char
acter in one of her sketches. You
see the very porch where the farm
er's wife sits. You seem to hear the
creak of the old chair. the hens
cackle and the dog barking as the
appears and the characters, as they
actually are, walk and talk before you.
Real tears come and roll down
your cheeks before you know il when
she leads you into an old western rail-
way station to see them bring in the
wounded from a wrecked train And
as you catch the humor and pathos of
one character after another, you
know that this artist has brought
you a clearer understanding of hu-
man nature and of Iife-that she has
brought lot of sweetness into your
life that mad been all too dead before.
Ruth Draper etches characters on
the stage as Whistler did on copper
And with as infinite skill And one of
the first things you note about her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09
JUST FOLKS
SAD CASCADE MeNABR.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

san AAGb0OE AG4NaDD.
81 am the fellow" said Old Man MeNahb.
"All for myself must hustle to grab,
All that do in this land of the free
Must have something tangible in it for me
am the fellow that's out for the gold,
Out for the stuff l can gather and hold.
Let others pirate of their service for Man,
I'm on this earth to get all that l can
Broken in spirit and broken in health.
~'CoId is the world" he declares, all alone;
Never a friend he can trust he's h" Known.
Nobody stops at his door day by days
Nobody pauses n kind word to say
Now he discovers. with life near its end.
One can grab money but can't grab
friend.
He wanted it all for himself, did McNabb.
Greedy and selfish ana eager to grab,
Working for others he thought was
crime.
Seeking the profit. he went on his way
Making his world what he finds it today.
Now, Mt the end Of his road. he has learned
He who spurns others shall some day be
spurned.
II am the fellow" thought Old Man
McNab.
"All for myself must hustle to grab
Pitiful doctrine and horrible creed,
Fashioned in selfishness, builded on greed
Turn from yourself Just as fast as you can.
Think less OF profit and more of the man.
Make il n good world for others. and they
VIII make it a good world for you every
Copyright. 1922, by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09

is that she is so simple. so modest.
so very honest. She has no tricks.
Tho=it has been weeks since heard
this extraordinary artist, her charac-
ters are following me everywhere.
They rise before me as / go to work,
and often I find them coming into my
room at night, after the lights are out,
and into my library when the lights
are on. You see, they were real
and somehow L like real folks
1 have heard no woman artist to
compare with Ruth Draper since
Bernhard And 1 am wondering
whether the Divine Sarah, at Miss
Diapers age, could nave been so
great.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09

Despite the very pronounced de-
cline in the mortality from tuberculo-
sis which has taken place during the
last decade, the disease is actually in
creasing among girls between the ages
Of is ana 20 years, according to fig
ures compiled by the Metropolitan
Life Insurance company, which re-
late to the ten-year period 1911 to
1920. Adolescent girls, it is pointed
out, constitute the only group in
which the tuberculosis death rate has
not declined. During the same time
that the tuberculosis death rate of
adolescent white girls was increasing
5 per cent. the mortality among ado
descent white boys was decreasing 25
per cent. Up to this time the COM
pany's Investigations have revealed no
apparent reason for this situation.
Possibly the trouble lies in the fact
that girls are going to work at a
much earlier age than formerly and
in larger numbers. There seems to
be opening up an additional field for
the labors of the public health organ
izationA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09

vention call refers to "the treachery
OF reactionary leaders" and says the
purpose of the new organization is ''to
combat the intensified attacks of en-
ployers b. organizing the workers into
industri; unions managed thru shop
delegates committees, and to estab-
lish a closer means of cooperation
among exiting unions which sub
scribe TO these principles; to merge
unions of allied crafts into industrial
organizations. and finally. to amalga-
mate all existing progressive labor or
CARNATIONS into one body for the mu-
tual protection of ALL"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09

Labor unionism appears to have
forgotten the adage about a house di-
vided against itself. Plans for the
formation of a new federation of in
dependent labor unions and groups, to
be known as the United Labor Council
OF America, in opposition to the
American Federation of Labor, have
been announced. A call for a general
convention in New York City this
week. at which a permanent organiza-
ton VIII be effected. has been issued
by a provisional executive committee
and a number Of local unions. 1t is
claimed there are 100000 employees
that are members of unions which
have been outlawed by the A. 2. OF L.
All of these unions have been asked to
join the new organization. The con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09
HEART and HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: 7 have been
troubled with pimples as long as / can
remember. have tried cold creams
and everything else, but they do not
seem to help. What would you rec
Ommend? BLUE BELLE.
Eruptions on the face generally de-
note. an impure condition of the blood.
First consult your physician and take
a good blood purifier and tonic. Then
treat the skin with what he recon-
mends. The cause must be removed
first if permanent results are ex-
pected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09
Is YEARS leo IN Topeka
From the columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

January 9, 1897
The Equal Suffrage association Of To-
peka will not take up the extended course
Of study. prescribed by the national asso-
citation, but has organized for the pur-
pose of studying municipal government
This decision was reached yesterday after
noon at a meeting in the Hotel Throon,
parlors.
George Benham, of Elmont, had the mis-
fortune last week to drop q pin in his
ear, and it disappeared within that mem
Der before he could recover it The aec1-
dent has developed into a serious injury.
Miss Mary French Field. daughter or
the late Eugene Field, who is to give. a
reading soon Of her fathers stories. in To-
peka. under the auspices of the ladies OF
the Episcopal church, will be the guest OF
Miss Theresa Rossington-
Mrs Charles Sessions viii go to Kansas
City next week to visit her father.
Mr. Frank willard and Dr. F. II. Smith
of Goodland. were initiated into the Elks
club last night
Miss Kate Thatcher has returned to her
home in Lawrence after spending a week
with Miss Margaret Dudley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09

Confronting on the life and char
acter of the late Senator Penrose the
Sioux City Tribune says: His faith
lay, not in democracy as it is COM
monty understood, but in the rule of
the few who are, in the opinion Of
those few, qualified to rule" But
what public man does not believe in
the rule of the few provided he can
become one of the rulers?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09

France may build her 10000 tons Of
submarines. bet it will not be an in
ducement to the United States to
grant her exceptionally lenient terms
in reaching a settlement of the three
Observation-Disclosures debt she
owes the treasury. She should make
some move toward paying for the last
war before preparing for another.
She might not find it so easy to Dor
row money next time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09

IF the farmers bloc continues
growing in power" writes Arthur
Brisbane you may see serious
changes in the country. You might
even see railroads run partly for the
benefit of farmers instead of seeing
farmers run for the benefit OF the
railroads, as in the long past" To
tell the truth the railroads had been
run by the farmers bloc for several
years, until the government took over
the job, and that is what ails the
railroads. The political farmers
wrecked the railroads without con-
ferring any substantial benefits on
anybody except themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09

1t is announced that the Illinois
miners have withdrawn financial sup
port frolL the striking coal d.ggers in
the Kansas field. The Howat fol-
lowers it seems. must now find other
means of obtaining the wherewithal
to procure a drink. Everything seems
to be eonspiring to compel the Pitts
burg miners to go to work It is a
sad world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09

1t is being urged that q successor
to Senator Penrose be appointed
speedily in order to insure the reten-
ton of 4 seat in the senate by New
berry. If Newberry be justly entitled
TO bis seat his tenure should not de-
pend upon the vote of a single sena-
tor. The anxiety that is being dis
played over the matter indicates that
there is serious doubt regarding the
legal or the moral title of the senator
to the seat which he is occupying.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PARE

was setting on Mary watkinses
frunt steps tawking to her, and so was
Pubs Simkins, and I was making her
laff and Pubs wasent, and Pubs sed,
Watts you think. Mary. I dremed about
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09

Miss Kate Thacher has returned to her
home in Lawrence after spending a week
with Miss Margaret Dudley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09

Mr. Frank willard and Dr. F. II. Smith
of GoodIand. were initiated into the Elks
cIuh last night
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09

Mrs Charles Sessions viii go to Kansas
City next week to visit her father.
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Evening journal., 1922-12-30
TO
OPPOSE WAR
DEBTPARLEY
Equal Membership on Repa'
rations Body One Reason
for Objection
FEAR B0RAH MAY
BREAK OUT AGAIN

WASHINGTON. Dec 80 united
Press) The Administrations plan
for dealing with the world economic
crisis will be bitterly fought IN Con,
gress
Though the Harding Hughes pro-
posal for an inter-Allied comm ls-ion
Of experts 10 solve the reparations
problem as revealed by Secretary
Hughes in his New Haven speech
and by Mr.. Harding himself. does
not contemplate any request 10 either
house OF Congress within the near
future for further legislative author
ity In both houses. the plan will he
criticised in way calculated TO
arouse public opinion against IT,
Inevitable. i'm the opinion OF ad-
mlnistration spokesmen IN the Sen
ate. Mr.. Harding must ask for
broader grants or power from Con
sress before his plan can be fully
carried out. when he does this
he vii face probable defeat. ad-
ministration leaders admitted today
unless IN the meantime the country
has been won over 10 his plan as
the only possible solution
In the meantime battle NJ
propaganda comparable to the de-
tContinued on Page Fourteen)
Evening journal., 1922-12-30
ALL READY FOR
KING ST. FROLIC
Mummers to Make Merry
Monday Night Under
New Lighting
MAYOR HARVEY
TO BE SPEAKER

Everything is ready for the King
street celebration on Monday night
by the King Street Merchants Asso-
citation. Final plans were completed
last night by the executive commit
tee. for the affair. which will mark
the official turning on OF the new
lights on King street.
The program for the evening was
adopted last night II will open with
an address by Frank W. Mccoy.
president Of the King Street Mer-
chants Association. He will intro
duce A. l.. Johnson. president OF the
Street and Sewer Directors. who will
speak OF the improvements 10 King
street. Mayor Harvey, the principal
speaker OF the evening. will follow.
Upon the completion OF his ad-
dress, Mayor Harvey will turn off
the old lights. There will be mo-
ment OF darkness. during which a
patriotic air will be played. Then
the new lights will be turned on
The parade will then begin. 1t will
form at Tenth and King streets. un-
der the direction OF Colonel Stover.
who will be marshal, and will be
aided with a number OF assistants.
The parade viii march to Front
and King streets and then counter
Continued on Page Nine)
Evening journal., 1922-12-30
{. R. CHURCHMAN Is
PNEUMONIA VICTIM

Charles r. Churchman. vice
president and director Of the Cont
mental Life Insurance Company died
at his home in Ridley Park. Pa. yes
terday afternoon from pneumonia.
after one weeks illness. He was a.
years old on December %.
Mr.. Churchman was born in Will
mington and lived here until about
three years ago. when he moved to
Ridley Park He was associated
with the Continental Life Insurance
Company about Il years. almost
since its inception. He was first en-
ployed as a clerk and rose to secre-
tary, actuary and vice-president,
which Office he assumed three years
ago. He was elected a director of
the company last summer.
Mr.. Churchman is survived by his
wife and sour children. The funeral
will take place from his late home
Monday afternoon with !nterment
in Wilmington and Brandywine
Cemetery.
Evening journal., 1922-12-30
.HUGHESPUTS
PREPARATIONS
WITHEXPERTS
Secretary Intimates u. S. Is
Willing to Aid World
Reconstruction Plan
LAYS TROUBLES ON
EUR0PE'S POLITICS

WASHINGTON. Dec. 30-0nl-
ted Pressl The long looked Tor
American plan for Intervention IN
Europe finsily has been officially pc
vealed by President Harding
through Secretary Of state Hughes
in an address az New Haven last
night. and Senatorial debate.
Its outstanding feature is a COM
mission OF business men and eX-
perts representing the principal Eu-
ropean government and the Uni
ted states which shall make an ex-
haustive study Of the reparations
problem. This commission which
would be free from instructions by
premiers and secretaries OF State in
order to take the problem out OF
politics would recommend a revised
figure up to the limit Of
Germanys ability to pay. This rec
ommendation then would be sub
mitted to the respective govern
menrs for approval. Outstanding
business and dna ancial experts would
be selected for the commission in
the hope - the peoples and gov
ernments OF the world would favor
acceptance OF their findings
Should this be successful the ad-
(Continued on Page Fourteen)
Evening journal., 1922-12-30

handled during the year OF which
$50 were accident cases, and 1927
sick cases. In making these runs the
ambulance Travelled 6.OS7 miles.
The police patrol hauled 3.sO7
persons, including prisoners. wit
nesses and sick.
Mileage made by all police cars.
not including the ambulance. was
42.317 miles.
The Bureua OF Fires report a to-
tai loss by fire OF approximately
S250.O00 less than half that FOR the
previous year; number or calls to
which they responded. SOS: chemi-
Gals used. 5000 gallons: water
pumped 100000 gallons
The Street and Sewer Department
laid 1O7.1O6 square yards Of new
paving during the year and resur-
faced 1880 square yards Of other
CONTINUED on Page Nine)