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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-16
FORCE VS.. REASON.

When the conference OF railway ex-
ecutives recently voted unanimously
against President Harding's proposal
for the ending of the shipments strike.
the Southern railway. which was not
represented at the conference, accept
ed the settlement, offering to take its
strikers back on the terms proposed.
The shopmen have refused, saying
that the strike is national and
must be settled nationally" In this
they followed in the footsteps of the
striking miners, who have been refus-
ing every overture that did not include
a national agreement.
The labor union. first of all, Is n
militant organization. to get results
by force. Whatever may be the mo-
tive, there is the purpose to compel.
Force need not necessarily be physi-
cal; but reliance upon pressure or
force, of one sort or another, underIies
the unions effort.
The labor union makes it's own de-
cisions regarding policies and STAN
dards. and. as far as possible, compels
employers to accept these decisions.
The strike is the great weapon of
the labor union. This is the economic,
and often the physical. force which
the labor union brings to bear upon
an employer, to compel him to act.
Always the labor union seeks to make
the strike weapon more and more ef-
fective
Wherever the labor union can es-
tabIish the closed shop, a shop where
only union members can be employed,
the strike weapon is obviously more
effective. Therefore. the labor union
seeks the closed shop.
The very nature and basis, there
fore, OF the labor union movement ar
rays employer and employe In battle.
The organization is for struggle-to
compel an adversary to act against his
will Turnout the whole movement Is
the thought OF class antagonisms
For generations the campaign has
been organized in this spirit and for
this purpose. There must be no fra
ternizing with the enemy. An efforts
20 develop n common enterprise are
opposed. The campaign is for contest
and struggle. The weapon is the
strike.
The struggle between the employer
and the labor union is not constructive
on either side.
The labor union struggles for power
to compel action by the employer; the
employer struggles for power upon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-16
HEART and HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: Would 1t be
ALI right for me to give my boy friend
A photosraph? He has asked me for
one BROwN-EYED Babe.
Unless you are engaged would not
advise you to give away your photo
graphs.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: have heard
that rain water is good for the skin.
A friend of mine says It is a good
thing to go walking in the rain and
let it fall on the face. Is that true?
DOUBTFUL.
Rain water is soft and soft water
is good for the skin If you go WALK:
ing in the rain just once you will no
tice that your skin is softer and clear
er afterward. OF course one applica
ton of rain would not do any per
manent good, but if you washed fn
soft water. I think you would see an
Improvement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-16

at intervals of half a mile or less. But
such is human-water nature that the
vender probably is doing a profitable
business If he can disseminate the
idea that it isn't just the thing for
tourist to use free water in the radia-
tor of his car, the vender will rapidly
grow rich. We saw one farmhouse
this afternoon which bore no sign or
legend to indicate that barter might
be had with its occupants. Suisse
quently we discovered it was vacant
Those along the route from Della
is light. For time one hotel in Sara
toga maintained a retinue of 500 serv-
ants TO serve twelve guests. A better
proportion has since been established.
At breakfast this morning the walters
did not -outnumber the guests in a
ratio of more than three to one. They
explain it on the ground that every
body has gone abroad. That's as
good an alibi as any. Every man who
has to do with catering to the tastes.
necessities, whims and fancies of the
public needs an aIibi and has one.
Just before we left Philadelphia
Adelaide had a sewing-giri in the
house. The sewing-giri was making
up some things to wear with plaid
skirt 1t was warm when we left and
Adelaide wore light summer gown
on the first leg of the voyage. But It
was much colder this morning and she
reached for her plaid skirt. 1t was
then she discovered that she hadn't
packed it, What she had brought
along were the things the girl had
made to wear with it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-16

It may be that before many months
arrangements will have been made
with both Great Britain and France
for the payment of interest on their
debts to the United States, and for
eventual liquidation of the principal.
Their combined obligations total about
IS, 200. 100000, and the interest on
that sum at Az per cent would
amount to s34o.OOO,OO0 a year. An
nual receipts of that amount would
reduce the interest on our own ma
tional debt by a third, and, when
principal payments begin, the retire.
ment of liberty bonds will go forward
rapidly. At the rate of Liquidation
maintained by the treasury up to this
time it is estimated that our war debt
will be wiped out by 1916. But with
this help from Europe the date, of
course, would be much earlier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-16

violets?" May asked, lifting a pair of
shy, soft eyes.
Il chose that gold and brown ribbon
myself and had those violets sent to
the girl who would not let me meet
heri"
But now that we have met. don't
you think-don't you think" Mary
stumbled, backing away.
i think you are the most elusive
and charming person I have ever
wanted to know he cut in, land if
You will just let me try I'd like to
show you I'm not the unpleasant per-
SON you have evidently heard I was!"
Mary still hesitated.
But u
ooh. say, Miss Martin" he begged
boyishly, eff you'd just give me a
chance! know I'm only a duffer, but
I'd like to show you that 1 could be
your friend
Down the block a street organ was
grinding Tnelodiously. The faint green
of the maple was a blur before Marys
eyes.
Spring again.
There was something strangely
poignant in life as John Northrop fell
into step beside her.
Copyright. 1922. by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-16
JUST FOLKS
I'D FASHIONED REMEDIES.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.


Taking medicine today isn't what it used
to De.
Castor oil is castor oil, but they've Danish
ed SIENNA tea,
And they've sugar coated now all the bitter
things we took,
Mother used to brew for us from the family
doctor book.
Now tell that boy OF mine when he starts
to make fuss,
He is lucky not to be taking what they
gave to as.
Seems the kitchen stove back then always
had n pan or two
Brewing up a remedy for the ailments
which we knew.
Something mother said we'd need surely in
a little while,
SIENNA tea for stomach Ills and its brother,
canomile;
But / vow the worst Of all remedies they
gave to me
Was that gummy. sticky stuff known and
served as flaxseed tea.
Boy. put down that little pill, take your
powders and be glad
You're not getting what they gave when
your father was a lad.
Mothers nand was gentle. but rough and
hard IL seemed to be
When she sat beside my bed rubbing
goose grease INTO me.
Getting well IS easy now. Take your medi-
cine and smile.
You are lucky that it's not SIENNA tea or
Copyright, 1922, by Edgar A. Guest1
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-16
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.

I was going past Mommy Simminses
store with cent and there was box
of small size gum drops in the window
saying, Special today, for a cent.
Me thinking, o boy. On account of
gum drops being my next favorite
went in saying. 1 wunt gum drops
mostly red.
They come all mixed and that's the
way you'll get them. Mommy S;mmins
sed. Being more meen than wat she
is obligfng, and she put the gum drops
in bag and wen 1 got outside I
counted them and there was tnsted
of s, me thinking, G herray.
And 1 started to wawk home eating
them, and all of a suddin I thawt.
Gosh, II she put the exter one in by
axsident 1t mite be stealing il ate it.
And I kepp on eating them feeling
sorry I thawt of it, and wen I was
half way home there was ony left,
me thinking. o well, I CESS 1 better go
back and tell her about it and then If
she says all rite wy then its all rite.
And I started to go back still eating
them and by the time 1 got there ony
one was left, being the exter one, me
looking at it and thinking. o well.
watts the use of steeling, maybe she
will say can have it anyways jest for
bringing it back SO honest. And then
1 thawt, Ony maybe she won't And L
took a little bite out of it just for luck
and went in saying, You gave me b
gum drops for a cent and the sine ony
saws 5, you can have the exter one
back if you wunt it. it's all rite ony
its got a small peece bit out of 1T.
WV dident you eat it all up and then
come in and tell me. you mite as well
keep it now Mommy Simmins sed.
WITCH 1 did. Proving honesty is the
best policy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-16
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
BRUNO.

BRUNO.
Bruno has been with me for thir-
teen years. He began as an office
boy. His salary to start was IS a
week. He was then 20 years old.
And because he never bothered
about hours, salary, or a tired body,
he is today the owner of a fine home
in Yonkers. New York. has wife and
two beautiful children, boy and a
girl, plus a host of friends and a posi-
ton in business of great trust and
responsibility.
Bruna's father is a barber-and l
am told a very good one. He has the
splendid luck to have a wonderful
named after the great Giordano
Bruno.
In all my business experience 1 have
never known anyone more gifted with
sense of loyalty, more true to his
trusts, or more enthusiastic in his
work.
AS boy, Bruno sold papers on the
streets of Chicago and then took his
earnings home to his mother.
The distinguishing trait about the
rise-to be someone in the world of
affairs thru conscientious work.
Bruno thinks as he works. He is
always looking ahead. He has gotten
all the ideas he could from those
about him, and then he has plussed
fund of ideas that have been born of
ihs own efforts and initiative.
Another thing about this Bruno
whose honest, tireless efforts have not
placed him among the complainers-
he has a smile almost a mile wide.
Sometimes it makes you think of an
exceedingly rich sun. just born. And
he carries this smile home with him
at night He puts it into his work
and hands it over to those about him.
When Bruno first applied for job
with me / was not very much i'm
pressed with him. So he immediately
began to impress himself upon me by
applying for the same job three times,
with increasing earnestness and deter
minatton, until 1 had to hire him.
That's also a part of his cahber-go-
ing after the thing he wants and
sticking to it until he gets it.
And hes faithful-so very faithful.
The days are all too short, the vaca-
lions too numerous, so suit his appe-
tite for work and service.
So this is just a simple tribute to
Bruno-because 1 love him and ad-
mire him and because he is an in
spiration to me.
And by way of example, am
hoping that this brief Talk will help
to create other Brunos in this world
that is so filled with ease and lack of
desire for real service.
Bruno-God Bless you!
Copyright, 1922. George Matthew Adams
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-16

his part. II he be forced by the union.
he gives in as little as possible. and
bides his time.
Later. when economic conditions IA
vor him instead of the union, he re-
covers. If he can, what he has given
up, and gains, if possible, additional
advantage in order to prepare for the
next onslaught.
Under such conditions it must be
apparent that there can be no end to
these periodic struggles unless both
sides shall become willing to submit
voluntarily to the rule of reason or
there be established q power superior
to both of them and one which will
act promptly in advance of strikes and
lockouts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-16

against the idea that a worker does
possess some kind or degree of right
to his job it is unquestionably true
ployers are coming to realize that it is
good business policy to accept and
act upon that idea unless they are i'm
posed upon by their employees, indi-
vidual1y or collectively. They regard
this as giving expression to the prin-
ciple that capital and labor are part
ners in industry, and they know that
partners never get along or succeed
unless each is considerate of the other.
In such a relationship it should not be
necessary for either partner to be on
guard constantly against possible in
vasions of his "righs' One partner
can become unduly selfish or asser-
tive only at the expense of the other.
and in the long run at his own ex-
pense az well.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-16

There has been an excellent basis
for the belief that business, if it could
be given a chance to develop undis-
turbed. woull shortly resume a nor
NAL position. Foremost among fac
tors tending in this direction has been
the excellent crop report issued by
the government on august 8. and
pointing to high yields IN most lines,
some OF them reco-d-b-~ aking. On
the basis of present prices. it is esti-
mated by Henry Clews. the seventeen
principal crops have value of about
$7,1S4.S54.0 200, which is an increase OF
81. 200. 100000 owe 1921. While the
price of grain is not so good as the
farm populat,oa had hoped. It is, new
ertheless, sufficient, he points out, to
give a comfortable margin in most
cases at present cost OF production.
while the southern cotton planter is
better off than for some time past
An excellent condition of retail trade
is reported in most OF tie growing
districts. and this is regarded as re-
flecting the prevailing point Of view
concerning the farm outlook.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-16
Dorothy Dix Talks
Watch Your Step, Boy-1.
ny DOROTHY DIX
WOsad's IzIshssa Paia wSman Writes.

"dtCA AOuE 0t(Bs OOy-As
This is the time of year when the
average young man, with two weeks
vacation to his credit, blithely takes
his single blessedness in his hands
and tackles the Adamless Summer re-
sort. 1t is feat of heroic daring that
meets with its own reward, for while
it lasts he has the center of the stage
and all the limelight. He is the little
tin god of the shop, and breathes in
the incense of feminine adulation and
flattery that is the most Intoxicating
thing on earth.
He is king with nobody to dispute
his kingdom with him. He may bask
not only in the smile of one wo-
man. but a hundred. He finds that
Amaryllis, who was an iceberg in De-
cember is in a melting mood in Au-
gust; that Gwendolin the proud, has
become Gwendolin the humble, and
that the man a woman wouldn't look
at in the winter she will pay out
money to behold in the dog days.
Probably no other human being ever
so completely has the world in a sling
as the solitary representative OF his
sex at a summer resort; but, alas.
every pleasure has string to 1t, every
rose thorn. and the situation is as
full of danger as it is of delight.
There is, of course, the awful
chances that the summer young man
will be danced into nervous prostra-
ton, or golfed into a home for incur
not to wind and limb, but to his heart.
Many men go annually to summer re-
sorts. Few return unengaged. Still
fewer know how it happened. Senti-
ment was in the air, they caught it.
This would be an ideal state of az
fairs if every man was prepared to
marry. Unfortunately this is far from
true and, while the summer engage
rnent is as brittle as the proverbial pie
crust, it is still much easier to get into
an engagement than it is to get out
of one.
Nor is the summer engagement to
1t is entirely the girls for being go
With the man it is a case of Scylla
and Charybdis. He lodges one fasci-
nator merely to fall into the wiles OF
another, for the summer produces its
own peculiar type of girl, and many n
man escapes matrimony in the winter
merely to embrace it in the summer.
Advice is, OF course. generally
wasted, especially on men. Still one
cannot behold the unprotected sum
mer man going on to meet his fate
without desiring to call his attention
to some of the perils he will encoun-
ter, and warning him of his danger.
First, he will meet the picnic girl.
who knows just how to fix up a lunch
1t will cool She is very dangerous.
A man will get to thinking what IA
dear little housekeeper she would
make before he knows it. Beware or
her. Like as not her mother made
the sandwiches. and the cook con-
cocted the cake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-16
IMPARTIAL JURY is NEEDED.

The only obstacle to a settlement Of
the railroad strike appears to be the
question of seniority rights. On this
question the interests of the roads and
the workers are diametrically opposed
and there seems to be no possibility
of an agreement. The need of an UNI
pire, therefore, is imperative. Presi-
dent Harding essayed the role but his
decision has proven unsatisfactory.
The determination of the dispute.
therefore. should be put up to the
railroad labor board. the Kenesaw
Mountain Lands of the transportation
industry.
The board might make a mistaken
or an unfair decision. but if it did its
action could and would be corrected
later. Nothing ever remains settled
until it is settled right. The board
presents the only avenue to peace in
the transportation industry.
President Harding personally went
before congress last December and
urged the writing of a federal indus
trial code. He said, in part, at that
time:
LAS we have great bodies of law
carefully regulating the organization
and operations of industrial and
financial corporations. as we have
treaties and compacts among nations
which look to the settlement of diff
ferences without the necessity of con-
flict in arms, so we might well have
plans of conference, of common coun-
sci, of mediation, arbitration and ju-
between labor and capital. To accom-
plish this would involve the necessity
to develop a thorogofng code of prac-
tice in dealing with such affairs
To what extent the operation of
such a code would have warded off or
mitigated the present railroad and
coal strikes is, of course, undetermined.
Certain there would have been some
federal handle to the situation, which
now there is not. When capital or la
Dor becomes obstinate, the public,
whose interest is paramount. is wholly
helpless. The economic loss of the
present strike situation is appalling,
but short of actual seizure of the rail-
roads and the mines the government
cannot interfere, beyond. of course.
the exercise of its moral suasion.
which has failed.
There should be some bar before
which the contending parties can be
hailed and whose decision would be
final The Iron Trade Review holds
that 1t would be preferable If this bar
or commission would not include the
representatives of either capital or la
Dor, as such. No one is disposed to
deny labor the right to organize or
capital the protection of collective
safeguarding of it's interests. In his
message to congress the president
specifically dwelt upon the recogni-
ton and preservation of this right
But the public has the right to insist
that both sides be reasonable and be
mindful of other interests than their
own.
Permitting either side to be repre-
scented on an adjustment board is too
much like allowing relatives of plain
tiff and defendant to sit on a jury.
II representatives of the railroads and
Of labor had been kept off the railroad
board results of the boards action
might have been more satisfactory.
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long has been regarded as the most
difficult feat to perform. Squeezing
money out of Germany seems entitled
to be ranked second in the list.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-16

One Of the surest indications yet
seen that the coal strike IS about to
end is the fact that prices are being
advanced. And Mr.. Hoover confesses
that he can't stop the raise.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-20
BAKERY
TO Build ANNEX
Proprietor Has Wrought a
Good Trade During Eight
Years in BrGiMess in
The City.

The foresight OF w. H. Estes, pro
prietor Of the Estes Bakery, is respon.
sible for the place that bears his name.
Just little over eight years ago Mr.
Estes WAS in the bakery business In
Holdenville. After l3 years OF bus
iness there one day when a good prop
osition was put to him he sold out
and started looking for another site
Though only a small town then, Mr.
Estes says he saw the making OF a city
In Carter county, so here he settled.
No better evidence of the kind OF
business success the baker has met
with could be asked than the fact that
next week he starts the erection OF an
annex 20 his plant. Increasing bust
ness demands for an enlargement OF
the quarters and additional machinery
ne declared a continuous baking oven
and other modern machinery will be in
~talled wh.r the place is enlarged
s. Butter Kist" bread and complete
line of the sweeter pasteries are in.
cluded among the Estes Bakery prod
ucts. Special orders are handled daily
and are given special attention. the
proprieto. says All baking is carried
on under Mr. Estes personal super
vision.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-20
HOARD REM0DELS
STORELAST week
Company Claims to be Pioneer
Clothiers in Southern Ok
lahoma, Established
Here % Years.

Budd j. Hoard claims the distinction
Of being Ardmore's pioneer clothing
man. Something like ~ years aso he
started into the gents furnishing bust
ness on the south side of West Main
street. He blazed the trail. has been
in three locations. and this month has
seen fit to start In on another remodel
ing program, which viii when COM
pleted put his entire store under glass
cover. The display windows are being
deepened and refinished
Handling the best known brands OF
merchandise and seeing that every man
who goes out OF the store is at'sfied
has been the practice Of the selling
force al Hoard's. according TO sales
men. The management pointed out that
effort has been made to cultivate the
better class of patronage and in every
instance to give a dollars worth or
value for q dollar Two pairs of pants
with every suit is policy OF Tie store.
Mr.. Hoard left last week for eastern
markets where he VIII purchase new
stocks for every department o. his
| store. Word was received from Inn
| 10 the effect that complete and snappy
! line of furnishings and accessories vii
he sent here in a few days. MI. Heard
is visiting the St. Louis, Chicago and
New York markets during his trip.