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Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-06-12
DARES DEPUTIES TO
SHOOT: MAKES ESCAPE

"WouId you shoot If | would run?
Queried Robert Nugont. OF South OF
taWa, as he chatted to two deputies
at the Rock Island station this morn
ing
The officers were taking him to
BartonyIle, where he had been or.
dered committed to the stale hospit'
al.
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d "'o' NJ ran 10 '''' i,'''lo'9 Hi'' -
ig''i cahIi an" aoNn tile canal oaiiN
IN q southern ulf'clioh.
deputy SherIH George stephens
jumped ana was on the chase al
most as soon as Nugent but the lu-
gitiyo proved to be too swift Of foot
for him.
Contrary to(thoir threats the Of
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-06-12
TRIO Of UNNAMED
WOMEN ACCUSED IN
BILL FOR DIVORCE
MADAMES "X," "Y," Y" ARE
CHARGED BY OTTAWA WIFE
WITH HAVING BEEN OVERLY
FRIENDLY WITH RESTAURANT
HELPER.

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Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-06-12
15 500 LINE ENGINES
LOST IN S1.00O.OOO FIRE

Glad tone. Mich, June y Fire last
night destroyed the 500 line rouri.
house. fifteen locomotives. machine
and blacksmith shops and supply
houses. causing a loss of 81. .u01u
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-06-12

i he death toll Of the
lie that swooped down on
passed the sixty
mark today with indica-
tons that the total num-
Der of dead might go
much higher.
, The death list leaped ahead when
an incoming tide returned eighteen
more bodies that had been swept out
to sea last night Four more bodies
were recovered at Hunters Island
and two We're reported to have been
picked up at Travers Island
Northern New York Hit.
Albany, ~ Y. June 1.-Two were
killed scores injured and probably
$2,000,00O in damages caused by an
electrical storm that swept over this
section yesterday. Flood conditions
prevail thruout the Mohawk Valley.
In Syracuse it is estimated $l,000,000
in damages was done. From six
inches to foot of water covered tho
streets A New York Central train
was marooned in the lowlands at the
height OF the storm and the cars
flooded Passengers were rescued by
iiremen,
Await News of Dead.
Now yorl .Iuna - ~ CRv the A pl
nav hreak this morning found hum
rods of narants children and rela.
tives stiIl standing vigil at the docks
at Citv island awaiting the arrival of
nolica hoate which during the hours
| nf darI,ness had searched the waters
of Long Island sound for additional
victims of Yesterdays terrific storm,
Powerful search lights plaved over
! tbe water as the gbastlv auest went
IN
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CIV ,nd ,hon eeemod to confer it's
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21
RAIDING THE CONSTITUTION.

There has been started in congress
another raid on the FEDERAL copstitu-
ton. There is pending IN the house
a resolution to amend that document
so that it shall forbid the issuance OF
tax-exempt securities The proposed
amendmen. should be entitled: IAN
amendment TO prohibit progress in
this country
our wars have been fought. our
schoolhouses and other public build
ings have been erected and our roads
have been improved on the proceeds
OF tax-exempt bonds. Who would buy
these bonds If they were subject to
varying rates of taxation? A bond
taxed at one rate one year might be
made to pay double that rate the next
year.
Those who favor the amendment
make the plea that the money of the
rich is being tied up in tax-exempt Sc
curities. They take no account of
. the millions of investors OF small
means. But the money invested in
bonds. IN fact. is not tied up but
passes Immediately into circulation
and starts the wheels Of industry in
motion.
The pending amendment is com
mented upon by the Hartford Cou-
rant as follows:
The proposal to pass a constitutional
amendment to prohibit tax-free securi-
ties is in effect a proposal to raise the
rate of interest in the country. 1t is
another evidence Of the wild idea some
people have that laws OF man will
supersede the inexorabIe law of nature.
II a constitutional amendment were
passed forbidding water to run down
hill it would scarcely affect the rivers
OF the country.
The effect OF abolishing tax-free
bonds would be to make borrowers pay
more for the use of money. Indeed, it
IS amusingly noted that already
back-fire has started among the very
advocates Of the reform The farmer
element has discovered that. if there
are no tax-free securities. then the
farm bank securities viii nos he ex-
empt and the farmer will have to pay
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21

It IS pointed out by the st. Louis
Globe Democrat that 1t is due in no
small degree to the operation Of the
seamen's law, fathered by Senator IA
E'oliette and strongly supported by or
ranized labor. that American shipping
IS placed at a disadvantage in compe-
tifson with the ships of other nations
This law established rigid regulations
Is to the character, treatment and pay
OF seamen that add largely to the cost
OF operation and, with other condi-
items. make American shipping I'M
profitable. Then why not repeal that
law. instead OF asking the American
people TO supply profits to the ship
owners by taxing themselves for the
purpose?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21
HEART and HOME PROBLEMS
Written, for The State Journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: When the
barn dances were open I got intro
duced to a nice fellow by my girl
friends. From that time on he has
Always taken me car riding and dlf-
ferent places and showed me good
time. He said he loved me and l
loved him the same He also said 1
would be his wife some day.
He is a nice dresser and he doesn't
use dirty language. I was with him
a good many times alone and he never
acted mushy. He is also goodloolxing.
But he has a habit of cursing and he
gets drunk once in while, but he
has never been out with me when he
The girls don't want me to go well
him. They say that he is tough, but
1 know better.
About four months ago gave a
party in honor of my girl friend. let
all the girls invite their boy friends
and invited hi mtoo. but he did not
come until after lunch was served. ana
most of my guests were going home.
Then he came with a boy that wasn't
invited and he was drunk as-he could
be. The girls laughed and said 1 had
"some boy friend"
About two months ago my girl
friend gave a party and invited all the
same boys except mine. 1 asked her
the reason and she told me he would
come drunk. When the party was over
my boy friend found that he wasn't
lnNlleu- ne dSkeu IllG why dAuAA
invite him and didn't have the heart
to tell him what she said and so told
him I wasn't giving the invitations.
From that time on he hasn't taken
me out, but when he sees me on the
street he always speaks and tips his
hat. I don't know whether he is angry
or not. but he has another girl. 1
know her. She told me he often men
toned my name and said we got along
nicely together.
Do YOU think ,he is angry? Please
advise me what t0Ndo. Should write
and tell him it would break my heart
to think that he is angry?
BROK N-HEA RTED MOLLY.
The boy is not really angry; he is
indifferent. If he still loved you he
would not let the fact that he was not
invited to a party stand in the way OF
seeing you. Speak to him in the
friendly way he speaks to you when
you meet. but do not write to him or
ask him if he is angry. Since he drinks
it is really fortunate that he has tired
of you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21
&~Z7 IT
Questions-Answers

Q. II cannibalism is practiced anywhere
In the world today please state where
A. Today cannibalism exists among iso.
lated South American tribes, in West Equa.
dne in some fF 6f tbg s s6
Islands and in parts of Australia.
Q: Do quail hatch young more than
A. The Department of Agriculture says
that they do not usually do so, but that
@. What will soften rubber that has
hardened with age? G.
rubber Which has become n hardened dy Cannot mot
be restored to its original condition The
han hardening is due chiefly to oxidation of
substances, which are not like rubber, are
couch and lounge? f J. r.
A. Often in the furniture trade a couch
is distinguished as having SDdpg one arm, or
having one arm and a back; a sofa, as hav-
ing two arms and back
Q. Does a racOon make a noise similar
to a scheeeh owol? S. B. H.
A. The Department of Agriculture says
that the sound is not similar. A raccoon
Q. Who carried the news of the Boston
Fa PaIl 70 New 1aEtic,6ated in u and
afterwards carried report Of it to New
his ceebrated Ta mdnigst tF rde year
o. Is blood TRANSMISSION new idea
A. The TRANSMISSION of blood from the
veins Of one living animal to those of an
other, or from those OF man or one
of the lower animals into a man, is a very
old operation, having been performed in
1892.
O., In a second. growth forest, should
the trees be thinned pruned2 F.sW. c.
A. The Forest Service says that it would
be advisable TO thin the trees to increase
their growth
tAny reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic
Haskin, Director, Washington. ID. c This
offer applies strictly to Information ~he
Burea u 'annot give advice on legal medical
and financial matters 1t does not attempt
to settle domestic troubles nor to under
take exhaustive research on any subject
Give full name and address and enclose two
cents In stamps for return postage Al
Write your question plainly and briefly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21

The Cleveland Trust company. in It's
1nid-month business bulletin for De-
cember. says that all the necessary
conditions for a period of prosperity
exist at the close of f922- Crops are
good. interest rates are relatively low,
prices are rising. and business profits
are increasing. The present pros
Tects," the bank says. "are that bust
ness viii continue to gain in profit
able volume for some months to come.
The duration OF this period OF pros
perity cannot be definitely foretold.
The time for business activity is here
IT is the part of wisdom to take ad-
vantage of its opportunities and to
bear steadfastly in mind the realiza-
ton that later on it viii decline as
definitely as it has increased, and
probably more rapidly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21
Dorothy Dix Tails
The Woman's Burden-2.
By DOROTHG DIX
W0ESa-s Hlshess PAlA ESmAa WF4taR.

The Woman's Burden.
Every man wants his wife to give
him a. comprehension, and a sympathy
that he seldom even dreams of be-
bear her part of the burden of matri-
mony, and in addition to assume about
half of his load. Above all, he ex-
poets her to be the little ray of sun
shine in the home, ready to make a
place where the most pessimistic dys-
peptic can take his glooms, and have
them charmed away.
1t is utterly unjust and unreason-
able. Theoretically. there is no more
reason why Mrs. John should have to
acquire the difficult art of walking on
eggs so as not to rifle Mr.. Johns peev-
ish disposition, than there is why Mr.,
John should not study Mrs. Johns pc
culiarities so AS to be able to side
step her little idioSyncracieS. Nor is
there any reason why Mr.. John should
not read up on the subjects that in
terests Mrs John, and spend the even
ing regaling her on the snappy stories
he has heard during the day in order
to make himself fascinating and in
teresting to her. Neither is there any
count his calories, and do without
everything he likes to eat in order to
retain the boyish figure that originally
captured Mrs. Johns fancy.
But can you see Mr.. John doing any
of these things in order to make do
mesticity a grand. sweet song for his
wife? Not in a thousand years. Mir.
John considers that being married to
a woman gives him a RICH to say
what ahe pleases to her, and that every
mans home is his grouchery, and thar
If wives don't like a three-days' stub
BILE of beard and old pipes, and old
coats, they can lump it.
While as for making home enter
tanning for those who have to live in
1t, he no more considers that his job
than darning the baby's socks.
In society, a man may be the life
of the company. He may be a wit and
a raconteur who can make any dinner
party go, but at home it is his wife
who has to monologue along to keep
the conversation going, and prevent
her own dinner table from being like
a feast of deaf mutes.
When you find a peaceful home in
which there are neither spats nor ar
guments, you will find that it is the
wife who steers the talk safely past
the danger points. When you find
married couple who get along har-
m onioVsly together, you will find little
wife deftly stroking husbands fur the
right way. When you find albright
and cheerful home you will find wife
wearing the smile that won't come off
And husband accepting it all.
1t isn't fair, but it's>life. 1t is the
condition, and not the theory of mat
rimony.
And that's that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
THIS LITTLE SPACE.

Here in these inches 1 do much of
my living. But if it were not for you,
who gather around, who cheer, who
applaud, it might as well be desert
space.
Not that you must agree with me.
not that I am always right-but that
I may stimulate, that I may stir
that I may held. Many times simply
suggest.
This small life of our is but a body
working and breathing out its span
in a small place.
Responsibility gathers, however
when I realize that thousands may
come to these inches-and each of
US must fare~in thoughts worthy of
larger area than the little one in which
we stand, when we know that the
world is our stage.
Wherever human hearts beat to
beauty and kindness, there billions
of world atoms are warned and waited
to all corners of the earth.
I press a little button and a voice,
sweet and full. fills the room in which
is able to go thru thicker things and
to futher points than sound waves
thru ether.
My tf1oughts-and your thoughts
are all the time influencing the turn
of the entire world
The materials in your living body
respond to the pictures from your
Imagination as tho they beckoned with
hand-and~ you saw those hands
This is your little space-and it is
mine. May our minds mix here May
our hearts warm here when It is cold
everywhere else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21
LITTLE BENHY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE

Pop was washing his hands for sup
pir last mite because he felt like it and
was washing mine because I had to,
and pop sed. zee gods, that rite, 1
lest thawt- of it
Wat, pop, G.? I sed-
This is your mothers berthday, pop
sed. IA tell you wat Wen do, vile
we're eating suppir Ill ask you II you
know what day it is, and you CESS ronG
and Ill tell you its your mothers berth
day
WITCH we went down to suppir and
pritty soon pop sed, Benny. bet you
cant guess wat day this is2
The university of the discovery of
the werld. sed-
Certeny not, pop sed. That may be
a holiday. on Mars but not Ground
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21
JUST FOLKS
a PRAYER FOR LOYALTY.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.


Oh, God, bring back the violent hands
To service in our troubled lands;
Teach those who preach 4 selfish creed
The splendor OF each loyal deed
And grace those hearts now filled with
hate,
With love of country and OF state.
oh God who hears mems discomfort,
Endow them with all sentiment;
Teach them to see with eyes of love
The beauty OF the flag above
So they may reEerently stand
Before the affairs of our land
Bring them to laughter and to peace,
That all disIoyalty may cease;
Open their eyes that they may see
The precious gifts of liberty
And make of them who would destroy
Sure builders Of q greater joy.
Teach them to use their talents well.
To grace the homes wherein they dwell
To train their children to be Just.
Brave. true and steadfast to a trust,
God fearing men in every test.
Giving their country all their best.
oh God. endOw US all. we pray,
With patriotic hearts today.
Let all who share Thy kindly sun
Stand to the tasks that must be done.
Undaunted when the clouds descend,
Patient and loyal to the end
N(Copyright, 1922. by Edgar A Guest.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21

According to the Farm and Home,
one of the leading farm publications
in the United States, the buying power
of the farmers OF the country during
the coming year viii be over $780,
100000 to OO.OOO.OOO greater than
last year This estimate is based upon
current prices quoted on leading
crops of the country. Attention is
called to the fact that hay is selling
higher than since 1920, that corn is
selling at 90 per cent over the low
figures touched in the fall of 1921.
oats 40 per cent higher than 1921.
barley SO per cent higher and hogs
% per cent higher.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY Z. HOUSE.
tFron PhiiadslpAia Public LsdsAs.l

One of the books on this desk is
The Morals of the Movies, by Ellis
Paxton Oberholtzer. We haven't read
fit; we haven't the slightest intention
of doing so. To our way of thinking,
no question of morals is involved in
the projection of the motion picture.
knowledge as to what is moral or i'm
moral is inherent in the individual.
Those capable of being led astray by
a motion picture could not be saved
in any event.
The only public question involved in
the PRONUNCIATION of the celIuloid
drama is that of good taste, and bad.
Uniform good taste would solve most
of the problems of civilization. The
individual is insistent on setting up his
own moral standards; but, if he knows
what it is, he is reluctant to do the
thing that isn't done. Many motion
pictures are in bad taste. To that eX-
tent they restrain the growth and
either as inherent or an acquired fac
ulty.
OF course. if you don't care for our
airy dismissal of the motion picture
as moral problem, you have the
privilege of writing your own prescrip-
ton. Or, you can read DR.. Ober-
holtzer's book.
There is also on the desk a serious
Arthur Crabb. 1t is well written, but
too long for publication here. For the
reason that we don't believe it can be
stopped in that way, We do not care
to yield space to a diatribe against
football. If we wanted to eliminate
football from the category of sport and
believed a couple of para graphs in this
column would do it, we'd write them.
We should not delegate the task to
Mr.. Crabb and permit him to take the
credit for it's contamination. But we
like football and we do not intend TO
print anything calculated to under
mine it.
Apparently, Mr.. Crabb doesn't care
for football Therefore, he wants to
abolish it. Most of the great moral
and social crusades are predicated on
somebody's prejudices.
Which reminds us that one of our
editorial colleagues says our is a
doctrine of acceptance. We are dis
posed to quarrel with that definition.
Ours is a doctrine of proper proper
ton And we seem to be the only
gent who is at the moment, working
that side of the street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21

simple. fundamental performances
compared to the more Elntricate
"brother'' actarranged by A. Hamilton
Gibbs, Cosno Hamilton Gibbs anu
Phflip Hamilton Gibbs. We claim
that's trick for the ages.
We see by the papers that Captain
Road Amundsen has arrived in Nome
by dog team. 1t seems to us Captain
sary trouble. We, for one, would
have been willing to concede the en-
tire plausibility of the feat in advance
of it's performance
In his proposal that the government
shall return 10 per cent of all freight
charges to the farmers. Senator
Brookhart reveals only detail of his
program. What the senator really
wants the government to do is to milk
their cows for them.
Speaking Nof Husbands.
Sir-The Chicago gentleman who
was griIled for 100 hours by thirty de-
tectives and made only a few unim-
portant charges in his story (what-
ever it was) should be the husband
de luxe. Ell. what? I'll bet Adelaide
will o. X. that
tudes of husbands, we allow as how
we should get the Grand Prix about
this time of year. Hank! Thanksgiv-
ing, Christmas and New Years on the
regular dates; our Adelaides birthday
anniversary on January z: wedding
anniversary January II. Ffve-count
'en-fivei
Doesn't this calendar make us the
National Doubles Champion?
III. L. NJ.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21

this part of the universe. Don't you
know wat day this is? he sed.
The day the Charlie Chaplin pick
ture is going to be at the Little Grand.
I sed.
Nuthing like it, pop sed.
Speaking of days reminds me OF
something. ma sed. This day next
month will be my birthday, she sed.
Next munth? pop sed.
Yes, duzzent time fly? ma sed. Wat
day are you asking Benny about? she
sed.
Was asking him? o yes, that so.
but hang if I don't forget wat I was
thinking about now, pop sed.
And he started to look like some
body that jest ixcaped and was glad
of it, and we kepp on eating suppir
being stew with too mulch jooce and
not enuff dumplings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21

For more than a century our enor-
nous and profitable trade, extending
to every shore of the high seas, was
built up by efficiently operated ships
without a penny's subsidy. There is
nothing to indicate that a subsidy is
essential now, except the clamor of
the shipping interests for easy money
from the public treasury.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-21
In Which Mr.. Gibbs kids" the
Column.

Sir-As one of your discriminating
readers who likes to be in on a good
thing, 1 write to thank you for your
recommendation to read Sam Merwin' s
Joseph Greer and His Daughter"
I'd be awfully grateful if you'd en-
tighten me as to where 1 can get it.
AS an ardent admirer of Sam Merwin,
both as philosopher and writer, it was
with no little pleasure that 1 read
what believed to be his last publish ed
work, "Goldie Green" 1t occurred to
me at first that as the difference be-
tween Greer and Green" is nothing
but the difference between a good
proofreader and a bad one, you might
have been referring to Goldie Green
and her male parent. On referring to
the volume, however, 1 find that
Goldie's father is named Henry c.
Can it be the compositor took liber-
ties with your copy and that Mr.. Jo-
seph Greer has written a book, Sam
Merwin and His Daughter On sec
ond thought I don't see how that can
belief Sam Merwin has two sons-un-
less, indeed, christening mugs are in
order once. If such is the case, Mr..
L shall welcome information as to the
prove a most delectable volume.
A. HAMILTON GIBBS.
We have hitherto explained the cir
cunStance of our confusion thru the
brother" act staged by Mr. Merwin
and Mr.. Webster. But that was a