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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29
1.-THE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
The Park Ave. News.

weather. Good.
spoarts. Pubs Simkins tried to stop
a fife between 3 red hedded kids
Wensday AFTERNOON because Mary
watkins asked him to, and his nose Is
still sore and he says he wouldent try
it agen no matter who asked him.
Sissiety. Mr.. Sid Hunts uncle sent
him to a taller to have a suit made to
order for a berthday present, and he
had to go 8 times altogether once TO
be mezzured and twice to have IT
fitted on him like q lady, and last
Thersday the suit came, being prftty
good of a looking suit but Mr.. SID
Hunt says it don't fit rite.
Pome by Skinny Martin
The Hite OF Pleasure.
Its a CRATE sensation to coast on a
bike,
And watching a fire is slick,
But the hite of pure injoyment
Is sucking lemmins throo lemmin
stick.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. Sam Crosses baby sister Udeen
eckonizes her bottle now but still
looks at Sam as if he was a perfeck
stranger she never saw before.
Household Hints. The best treet-
ment for suddin stanes on the table
cloth. Quick slide q. plate over them.
Literary Notes. Leroy Shooster is
thinking of writing a book. all he is
waiting for being a subjeck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29

$ S Mcclure has published in the
magazine which bears his name an
article descriptive Of conditions in
ireland. 0Ir. Mcclure IS a native OF
the Emerald Isle and has been spend
ing six months on the old sod. Ac-
cording to the story he tells Ireland
is the most prosperous and the most
favored country in the world and her
people should be the most happy and
contented- She is less burdened by
taxation than are England or Scot
land She has a larger representa-
ton in the British parliament in pro-
portion to population than any other
division of the United Kingdom. Her
farmers own their own homes and
have the best market in the world
for their products right at their doors.
Apparently Ireland's only real afflic-
ton consists in having too many poll
ticians. These should come to Amer
lea, where there are enough offices
TO go around and where If a scarcity
arise We make more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29
JUST FOLKS
TIE WAY OF LIE.
Rx EDGAR A. GUEST.

THE WAY OF LIFE.
The tulips have come and gone
And the hyacinths are done,
But the peonies, one by one,
Burst open in the sun
And the peonies shall go
With their loneliness too soon
But the roses then shall blow
Their beauty into June.
Asters and marigolds
Shall come when the roses fade,
And thus do our lives unfold
And thus are our memories made
The flowers Of our springtime pass
And we think that they fade too soon;
We grieve and we sigh, a1asi
Then come to a fragrant June.
Then with the June in our hearts
Comes sorrow's biting cold.
And the rose OF our joy departs
And leaves the marigold.
Birth and the passing on
This is the way Of earth.
Yesterdays beauty gone,
And a new joy come TO birth.
Copyright. 1922, by Edgar A. Guest-l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29
Dorothy Dix Tails
Why Mon pon't NIarry-2.
~ DOROTHY DIX
Wsaaa'e Mighess Paid Woman wR4t3R.

Another reason why men don't
marry is undoubtedly to be found in
the decline of domesticity among
women. Far more men marry for a
home than for any other cause. Every
mans secret dream is of coming home
J at night to smiling and cheerful
wife, who has been happy and con-
tented pottering about in her kitchen,
hot, home cooked viands, and bread
and cake like mother used to make.
| But men have found out that mar
riage now doesn't often mean that
kind of home, or that kind of food.
Girls grow up with the idea of being
good stenographers, or good sales
women, not good cooks. Women are
more interested in clubs and causes
than they are in their homes, and
when they have to do their own
homework only too many of them
rush home at the last minute. and
heat up something out of a can that
they set before their hungry hus-
bands, and call it dinner. There is
nothing in living out of paper bags
that lures a man to putting his neck
into the matrimonial moose.
Still another reason why men don't
marry is because men and women see
too much of each other. Neither sex
has any illusions left regarding the
other. No man any longer imagines
a woman to be an angel. No woman
worshfps a man as a demi-god, and
of the other. If they should marry,
they wonder how they can stand each
other.
In olden times, there was little or
no social intercourse between the
sexes, and a man who was attracted
to a girl had to marry her in order
to enjoy the pleasure of her company,
but now, when men and women work
side by side in business. and play to-
gether, he can get all he wants of a
woman's society free gratis for moth
ing. without assuming her bills.
Perhaps, after all, the chief reason
that men don't marry is because
women themselves are not so keen
about marriage as they used to be, for
as Mr.. Bernard Shaw has conclusive
ly pointed out, it is invariably the
woman who puts the idea of marriage
into a mans head. Certainly in the
days when every woman was obliged
to have a husband, very few men
escaped, and it is only now, when
women are coming to regard mar
riage as a superfluous luxury instead
of necessity, that there is a. closed
season, so to speak, for bachelors, and
the species increase.
The whole public attitude toward
the unmarried has changed, anyway.
Formerly old bachelors and old maids
were regarded with pity. as those who
had been unfortunate, and passed over
in life. Now they are looked upon
with envy and awe as those who have
been too foxy to be caught. and while
we may deprecate, their selfishness,
we also reflect that they have escaped
a. lot of trouble.
The truth is that both men and
women are afraid to marry, and that
is why the tribe of old bachelors and
old maids gets bigger every year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk

THE END OF THINGS.
There are those who dread to face
old age. I am not one of them. To
me, the end of my days is something
to look forward to with distilled
pleasure.
There is so much of beauty in the
end Of things
am a lover of art. And am re-
minded of the titles of so many of
my treasured pictures. Here are some
CT them as they come to me from the
framed friends turnout my home:
twilight" Evening" The End of
the Day" Sunset" Autumn"
''Moonrise.'' The Failing Leaves
There is to the end of things q
satisfying sense of completeness!
He only need fear the end of things
who has not done-or at least at
tempted to do-his best.
And he who never thinks of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29

Commenting upon what it terms the
record building operations now I'M
der way in the cities and towns the
American Lumberman' says; a
powerful influence in stimulating de-
1nand for lumber. and one which has
attracted but little comment so far,
is the great expansion in retail lun-
Der advertising in newspapers The
advertisements now run are not the
old stereotyped affairs, seldom
changed and ineffective. Today's re-
tail lumber advertising is doing much
to create desire for homes and to pro-
mote building for it compares favor
ably with that Of other lines OF bust
ness in makeup and attractiveness-
Besides such regular advertising
which occupies large space in daily
papers. lumbermen all over the coun-
try are also promoting and boosting
home building shows. The improved
methods bring results.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29

that-just a whole lot of kitchen uten-
sils-7
Herbert put his hand on bers,.a as the
waiter lowered over them VIII you
have nesselrode pudding?' he asked
plain ice cream-the piainess KIND
they have" she insisted as II intend
ing to throw away even the suggestion
of luxury.
And when they were alone Herbert
put his hand on hers again and told
her about the man. Peters, who
wanted to sell his little shop and
home.
"Ah, why didn't you buy it.
Herbert" she exclaimed.
II did" he said calmly, land
thought, say in March, when the frost
is. out of the ground, we might be
married, and go there"
Hurry urged Julia, for we are
not growing any younger-and I want
to get home and look at that cata-
logue of kitchen things once more"
And l." said Herbert, doomed to
be a small-town shopkeeper. and
happy as a schoolboy for this cher
ished ambition. must make out q list
of garden seeds"
Copyright, 1922. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29

Senators stm are floundering
around in a search for way out of
the slough into which the bonus pro-
posal has placed them. The latest
plan for providing money is thru the
issuance OF treasury certificates-in
other words borrowing the money.
Also they still cling TO sthe hope of
getting a payment on the European
debt in time to meet the emergency.
Meanwhile the election is coming
nearer every day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29

The United States government, act
ing as a city council for the city of
Washington. has extended the law by
which rents are regulated and the re-
lations Of tenant and landlord fixed
for further period OF two years.
Originally enacted as a war measure
to prevent profiteering in rental prop
erty during the period when enormous
demand sent rents skyward. the act is
now to be continued as an experiment
in peace time regulation OF CONNER
cial relations. The Individual renter,
it is said, is not so jubilant over the
passage OF the act as might be e..-
pected. Real estate men are report
ed to be frankly pessimistic over leg
islation which, they say. prevents in
vestment in new rental properties. II
the government can fix flair rental'
for property and forbid one to ash and
another to pay a higher amount. what
can be urged against the governments
also fixing what is a fair price for
coal, or fair wage for a days work?
In what, fundamentally, does the diff
ference consist between the price ut
which a dwelling may be rented, the
price at which it may be sold. the
price at which it may be built. the
price at which it may be heated or
liRhted9 ------
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29
THE COMING BATTLE.

= &ONAANG D44 AE@s
There has been formed in New
York an organization styling itself:
THE Institute of American Business -
designed, according to its announce
ment, "for the importial study and
dissemination of economic facts bear
ing on the relationship OF business to
the public.
A perusal of some of their printed
matter put out by the institute tends
main objects is to combat the carry
ing out OF the st. Lawrence-Great
Lakes tidewater plan.
That the development of water
transportation facilities affords the
only certain escape from rail conges-
ton and rate inequalities it is pointed
out, is a conclusion being reached by
a constantly increasing number of
transportation authorities. Attention
is called to the contest on the floor OF
the house in which the appropriation
for river and harbor Improvement
was increased from $1s.000,OOO, as
approved by the director of the bud
get. to s42. 900. The United States
our waterways need $62,OOO,OO0 dur
ing the coming year. The cost of the
St. Lawrence project has been vari-
ous1y estimated, the figures ranging
all the way from $3.50, 900, 900 to ST.
45O, 900, 900.
The ISSUE" says the institutes
propaganda. has therefore been
squarely Joined. On the one hand are
our own internal waterways. On the
other, there is the St. Lawrence prof.
ect-a waterway venture on foreign
soil in which the United States is
asked to become an equal partner
with Canada. The public must even
tually decide which cause it will
serve
Probably the public will find little
difficulty in deciding. 1t has seen the
rivers and harbors pork barrel rolled
thru the halls Of congress once every
two years for a half century and
has seen no beneficial results in the
way of increased interior water trans
portation. The railroads and the in
terests of New York and other Allan
tic ports always have stood in the
way of a restoration OF river traffic.
These same interests are opposed 20
the st. Lawrence project.
In an effort to win the aid of the
farmers in opposition to the Great
Lakes waterway scheme it is urged
that Canada will receive larger direct
benefits from the proposed waterway
connecting the Great Lakes with the
ocean than the United States.
The opening OF the waterway it is
pointed out would bring into the
world market more than 250.0O0,0OO
acres of unimproved Canadian land
which by reason OF its low price would
possess overwhelming advantages
against the American farmer since the |
average price of farm land in Canada
at present is only s4s an acre as
against sos an acre in the United
States.
This argument manifestly is q
weak one. There is naught but an
imaginary boundary line between this |
country and Canada, therefore any
thing that would benefit her must
necessarily benefit US. The advan-
tage to the farmers and everybody |
else in the United States that would I
result from the settlement and i'm
provement of 25O,OO0.OOO acres of land
at our very door would be too great to
be computed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29

It f. manifest from the evidence we
have secured that the purchaser and
the farmer arc dependent to a marked
degree upon the transportation
charges of farm products"
It is enlightening of course to be
told by the commission where our
troubles lie and what is needed to
remove them. but where rests the
remedy? II the farmers dollar be
worth but ~ cents how or by whom
is it to be made worth more2
The public is inclined to agree with
the commissions view that freight
rates are too high but how or by
whom are they to be lowered? A
physician who correctly diagnosticates
a. disease and does not prescribe a
cure. has performed<a service OF lit
tie value to the patient.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29

The Republicans OF the Fifth con-
gress district of North Carolina have
nominated n woman as their candi-
date for election to the national house
of representatives. But it is doubt
full that this appeal to southern chiv-
airy will bring success for their candi-
date. The average southerner is a
Democrat before anything else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29
Dinner Stories

The rector was on his way to
church when he met the gamekeeper.
"Ah," said the rector, chow is It,
my friend, that I never see you at
church,"
"Weli,'' said the gamekeeper. "you
see, sir, don't want to make your
congregation smaller
What do you mean" the rector
said sharply.
.sWelI, you see, SIR the keeper
said, "if came to church some of the
others would go poaching."
Senator Lenroot from windswept
pier waved his cigar with an approx
ing gesture over the glittering beach
of Atlantic City. sgt
'.AII these pretty girl bathers down
there" he said, ARE clad in modest
bathing dresses. That pleases me. In
California now"
The senator frowned and shook his
head.
I'm California" he went on, ''the
girl bather wears a maillot, a one
piece suit of black silk, skin tight,
cut without arms and practically
without legs. don't deny that such
suits are very convenient for swim
ming and that they set off a fine fig
ure admirably, but-but what would
our grandmothers say?
"A beautiful Chicago girl came out
on Il California beach in a black silk
maillot one day and gazed tinidly at
the tremendous Pacific breakers.
" rs it safe?' she said to an atten-
dant. That wild surf makes me ner-
vous.'
Don't be nervous lady said the
attendant, as he studied the girls
figure with respectful admiration. All
the young fellers'll be keepin' an eye
on We all the time"
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29

"Ah, bunch of beautiful roses
from Mr.. Jobson," exclaimed Miss
Peach6r. II wonder what is on the
dear boys mind"
probably the price Of the roses"
said her sarcastic friend.-Birming-
ham Age-HcraId.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29
Even Use Cats and Goats.

I'VE have learned from Europe to
initiate" said our friend, the fur
dealer, so that the furs OF the ami
mails of warmer climates, which are
less difficult to procure than those
of the north, can be used to great
profit Remodeled abbit can be sold
for erIniEe, or remodeled muskrat as
seal at ten times the original value.
In our laboratories lCfor the modern
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-08-10
SCRAP OUR LAND NAVY.
minneapolis JournaD

minneapolis JOurnaD
Congress has moved to check the
growth of the navy on land. 1t has
appointed a joint committee to in
vestigate the pork" in some 300 nav
al stations ashore
The investigation is we'll worth
while. 1t has the backing of the ad-
ministration. Already the Charleston,
S. C. navy yard has been closed, and
indications are that some 200 stations
elsewhere will be similarly treated.
All such steps will be to the advan-
tage of the navy The need for the
flock of naval ammunition depots
proving grounds. torpedo stations and
the like which dot our coasts from
Kittery to Key West and from Key
West to Puget Sound. was never very
pressing.
The Washington conference having
agreed to scrap the superflous war
ships at sea, Senator Medill McCor-
mick of Illinois. now proposes that
the superfluous navy on land be like
wise cut down. The reduction should
be greeted with approval not only by
taxpayers but by the real sea- going
navy. More than a hundred million
dollars can be saved by the process
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-08-10
NOBODY TO BE PUNISHED FOR
HERRiN MASSACRE.

According to newspaper reports.
which are doubtless correct nothing
has been done by the governor of I'LL
nois TO run down and punish the per-
sons guilty of the horrible massacre
at Herrin some two months ago No
more brutal and hendish crime was
ever committed. and yet the governor
of the great state of Illinois. through
personal fear, political cowardice. or
some other equally unworthy innu-
ence has authorized no Investigation
to unearth the facts and fix the re-
sponsibility for this awful crime in
order to bring the guilty ones to trial
The victims of this shocking outrage
had committed no offense unless it
be an offense in the view of the gov
ernor Of Illinois for men to exercise
their constitutional right to work
when and for what and for whom they
please. They were assaulted by the
mob and murdered In broad daylight,
and certainly there must be some
people in that terrorized community
who are not devoid of all sense of hui
man rights and justice who can be
prevailed upon to tell plat they know.
But whether they will or not, there
can be no excuse for inaction upon the |
part of the governor II is his duty to
exhaust every means at his command |
md bring every pressure to bear to
get the facts. II he fails he will at |
east have accomplished something
oward freeing his official record from
he dishonor now resting upon it and
n removing the blot that rests upon
he state through his failure to per-
orm his sworn duty.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-08-10
EYE CLINIC.
annually

Miss b. 5. Holes public health
nurse for Shoshone county makes the
following announcement regarding
the eye clinic: 1t will not be possible
to have the Red Cross eye clinic at
Wallace until the latter part of this
month as DR.. Anthony will not be
back from his vacation until the 18th
The exact date will be published lat
er in all the papers. but anyone wish
ing special notification will please let
the Red Cross know.
Many questions have been received
as to the cost of the examination and
glasses. These are free only in such
cases as have been carefully investi-
gated by the Red Cross and found I'M
able to pay. This is another reason
why appointments must be made at
the earliest date possible. In many
cases it is found that the patient can
pay only a certain amount of the to-
tai cost. The examination fee is $40
and the price of the glasses depends
on the kind of lens found necessary.
The above information is given in
order that it may be generally under
stood that the clinic is for everybody
those that can pay. those that can
pay in part and those who can not pay
At all. If there is not time to attend
10 all cases. patients who could NOT
have attention or very ur-
gent cases will be given preference.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-08-10
6ALFoUR'S SNORING DlsTURBs
LEAGUE OF PEACE.

Associated Press dispatch from
London: 1.-The afternoons proceedings
of the council of the league of nations
were singularly spiritless and devoid
of public interest The Earl of Bal
four frequently fell asleep. and his
breathing could be heard above the
drone of the discussion. Other mem
bers were kept awake apparently on
ly by frequent draughts of tea The
council finally adjourned out of sym
pathy for Lord Balfour's WEAKNESS"
Such is the inspiring picture of the
league of nations in action. With an
imminent economic collapse in Ger
many. with Russia defying all laws of
civilized government, and with war
about to break out almost anywhere
at the slightest provocation, the lead
ing spirits of the league sit around
the table and doze. This is the or
ganization into which the United
States was expected to put animation
the moment it should become mem
Der. Fortunately we are free from the
facilitating influence of such an at