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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28
Observation-Disclosures

This column has received a request
for information as to the tanning of
hides and milking corn beef. Mr..
Haskin, Director of The State Jour
nails Information Bureau, has for
warded to The State Journal booklets
containing the desired information.
This request was signed by 'B. r., !"
North Topeka, Kan. If 'B. r. will
call at The State JouFnal office he
may have them.
Q. Is there any benefit in draining and
filing with fresh water the system of hot
water heating plant? G. B. N.
A. The Bureau of Mines says that it IS
best not to drain the hot water system as
new water put in contains free oxygen
which is the active agent corroding the
boiler and pipes. After this free oxygen
O. What was the first ship built of
A The first iron sea going steamer was
the Bangor, built at Wilmington, Della
ware, in 1874.
CAny reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin, Director, Washington, d. c. This
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Dorothy Dix Tails
Mind Your own Business.
BIZ DoROTHf DIX
Eeradrs dlghess Paid Woman Wi

Mind Your Own Business.
One of the great tragedies of life
is that millions of homes that would
otherwise be happy, are made per-
them of either the wife'S mother or
the husbands mother. Statistics show
that the mother-in-law causes more
divorces than drunkenness, infidelity,
or any other cause of domestic strife.
The most fiendish home wrecker
could do no more harm. than those
women accomplish, and yet ninety
nine times out of hundred they are
the very salt of the earth. They are
good, kind women. They have been
and they adore their children, and
would cheerfully die to secure their
happiness.
There is just one sacrifice too big
for them to make, and that is to let
them live ieir lives in their own way.
There is just one height to which
they <cannQt rise, and that is to let
them manage their own business. For
the joy of interfering, and bossing
their children's homes, they are will
ing to break up that home, wreck a
marriage that would have endured
but for them, and orphan their help
less little grandchildren.
This is putting the matter brutally,
but it is the brutal truth and it's pitt
fully true because it need not be true.
If mother could only make UP her
mind to keep her hands off her chill
drenS affairs, she would be a well
come, and not an unwelcome inmate
in their homes. But she can't do it.
She is bound to interfere. She can
not see lighters husband eat what
he likes without telling him how bad
it is for his stomach. She can't per-
NIT him 20 smoke without warning
him that he will wreck his nerves
She can't let him go out nights with
out asking where he is going
She can't let SON wife cook the
way she wants to, nor run her house
after her own :ieas. Daughter-in-law
can't buy new dress without mother
in-law saying something about ex-
travagance. She can't go to a bridge
party without mother-in-law, remind
ing her that she is neglecting her
children. Shs can't bring up her
children in her own way, nor do a
single thing on earth without hav-
ing to combat endless objections of
mother-in-law, and offer endless eX-
plantations, and it gets on daughter
in-law's n YES, and there are fra
cases that leave both women miser-
able and bitter, and makes the son
and husband feel as if he were a bono
that two cats were fighting over.
In countless homes today old wom-
en- are weeping because they know
their children don't want them. To
these L offer a sovereign remedy for
the situation. 1t is: Mind your own
business. Quit interfering in your
children's affairs. That will settle the
wh ole problem.
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ury and had been taken to the poor
house. He had followed her here.
1T was Caliiope who took ME away,
and she was going to keep me like a
daughter. We thought you were
dead" whispered Mrs. Mumford in
his ear.
Calliope was setting place for All
ner next to his mother, and the long
lost man was welcomed by the other
guests. Calliope sat in a happy dream.
eating nothing and avoiding the de-
voted eyes Of her lover. So many
things to be thankful for,
at was a wonderful Thanksgiving
party" said Miranda Larrabee to the
interested group that awaited her re-
turn to the poorhouse. ITO cap it
ALL she concluded, "Abner Mumford
came home well-to-do, and is going
to settle down on the land. And
what do you think? The parson mar
ried him and Calliope then and there,
and so the party ended up in we'd
dingl'
Copyright. 1922, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
Newspapers.
BY LEE PAPE-


If you wunt to know watts happen
ing all over tie werld all you half to
do is buy a 2 cent newspaper and
save all those travelling Expenses. If
somebody loans you their newspaper
it wont even cost you that mulch.
No matter how bad the weather is
you can always tell il Its going to get
better by looking at the paper, the
only danger L ing that you are libel
sted. ony then you don't half to be-
leeve it if you don't wunr to- proving
its a free country
Newspapers are more useful than
books because they can be took apart
so different parts of the family can
reed different parts of the paper at
the same time without preventing it
than you can say about a book in case
you-eTeE. did that to a book. Thus
your father can be reading the spoart-
ing page vile your mother is reeding
the ladys page and you are looking at
the funny page, unless your father
don't wunt to seperate it, witch he gem
orally don't. This proves the best way
to avoid axsi6ents is to always have
newspapers even if they are the
same paper.
No matter how much you are in
joying a newspaper it always makes
you feel funny to look at the date
and find out it is yestiddays 5nsted
of todays. If a -persin is looking at
a paper the werst thing you can do to
start to look at it with them, espe-
shilly If you don't know them
Even if a paper is in a forrin lang
widge you can still use II to rapp
things up in and set on il case you
mite catch cold and don't wunt to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28
JUST FOLKS
THE STORM
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

THE STORM
winters hammering at the door, bang
ing at the window pane
Seeking to get in at US, bat 1t bowls and
beats in vain;
Here the logs upon the hearth blaze and
chuckle gleefully,
It's a stormy night outside, but we're safe
safe can be-
Out of doors the tree tops moan and a
dirge the wires sing,
bruised and beaten thing.
But indoors the children play all I'M
mindful of the storm,
Here We have no care to dread, here are
%Aappy hearts and warm.
So before the fire 1 Sit thinking as the
storm goes by
Filled when bfttkrness the world, but
conteRted here am /;
Now the North wind bowls along, and
the snow is drifting deep.
But serene the house remains by the blaz-
ing fire keep
So our faith is like the fire glowing
brightly in the CRATE,
Keeping warm the heart inside when
descend the storms OF fate.
Bitterly the winds may blow round the
place where we abide,
But our faith shall keep us safe till the
tempest shall subside.
Copyright, 1872, by Edgar A Guestl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28

Advocates of a ship subsidy con-
tinue to repeat the statement that for
eign nations are making strenuous eff
5 forts, largely thru propaganda to pre-
vent the passage Of the bill That
sort of talk is too much like playing
the baby act to win any support from
the American public. American ship
ping is not an infant industry. but
whatever handicaps it is under, in
meeting foreign competition, are due
TO laws passed by congress in years
gone by. Congress can not now rea-
sonabiy expect that the people will
be willing to tax themselves to pay for
its plumbers. President Harding in
his address to congress declared that
the United States needs an American
merchant marine. that the present eff
fort in that direction is costing the
government about $4,000. 900 a year.
that under a subsidy plan half OF our
ocean commerce can be carried in
American ships at a cost to the gov
ernment of not to exceed $50, 100000 a
year. But saving s2O,OOO,OO0 a year
Will not satisfy the people. They want
to save the entire $50. OeO. 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28

Advocates of a ship subsidy tell us
that we can not prosper without an
export trade and that we can not
have that trade unless we carry it on
in our own ships But the truth is we
will have an export trade as long as
We have a surplus of anything that
somebody else wants, If the price be
satisfactory and the other party have
the money with which to buy. re-
CARELESS OF who carries the goods. If
American ship owners desire to do the
carrying nobody in this country will
object to their doir 8 so. But when it
comes to paying them a bonus for
carrying on a business for their own
profit the taxpayers protest. Nothing
could be more humiliating to the
American public Shsn the thought that
we can not hold ou- own with the rest
of the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28
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trouble is that most people who have
guns have no place to shoot them. A
man keeps a gun for an emergency,
and when the emergency comes he
knows too little about shooting to
handle the weapon effectively.
ct believe that as target shooting
becomes more popular the gun will
lose its bad reputation as a cause of
accidents. and what is more there
will be fewer crooks. The gunman is
not afraid of the amateur shot and
his rusty gun. but he does fear the
trained marksman. and if the aver
age citizen were a crack shot there
would be fewer thugs and second
story men"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28

the railroads than the present high
rates. which discourage such distribu-
ton. In view OF the fact that the
roads already are offered more bust
ness than they can handle it is
difficult to see what benefit could
accrue to them at this particular time
When hundreds OF thousands of
freight cars were standing idle on sid
ings, The State journal urged rail-
roads to reduce rates and thus stimu-
late business. Now that situation has
been reversed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28

In a survey Of the general building
situation thruout the United States. s.
W. Stratus * Co. says: with a con-
tinuation of building operations at the
rate which now seems probable, the
year 1922 will stand as the greatest
period in the annals of the building
industry. having to its credit a-total of
about three and three-quarter billion
dollars or more than twice as much
as the year 1916. generally accepted
as the prewar normal period" Prac-
ticaliy every state and city of impor-
lance in the country has. during\the
eleven months of the present year.
surpassed its total of building for the
entire year of 1921. The seasonal de-
cline, which is usually pronounced in
November. has this year been excep-
tionally light thruout the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28

the initiation fee and annual dues In
a private club. y.
our desertion of Cobbs Creek was
almost dramatic. We had gone out
very early-immedia after lunch
one afternoon in tn hope that we
might play five or six holes before
darkness interviewed. By o'clock
were threading the path thru the
woods which leads to the tee on
number four. When we reached it
we found it encumbe-ed by two
women foursomes waiting to get thru
the two women foursomes searching
for lost balls in the creek ahead. 1t
was then we quit Cobbs Creek pronto,
and we're never going back
And this seems as good place as
any to print the communication from
''Tormented'' which follows.
AS others See 1t
Sir-You've got me wrong, Kid.
1t is my favorite column because 1
have found no better one. If on first
or second thought you. fancy it is
your column, you wander IN error
All you have to do is write it. Where
as, upon paying the ridiculously inap-
propriate sum of two cents IL pc
comes my property. None the Tess
chase of a pig in a poke, or, as the
Youngsters say, sight unseen. AFTER
a bad night with Ben Hecht's Fan
tazius MaIlare" Cet it alone), 1 turn
to my column for the morning tonic
of cheerful WITNESSES, wheezes ana
whim whams, and 10 and behold! IN
their accustomed place L find a pes
tilentiaI stray from the sporting page
and the prospect of a pleasant day
dissolves into a vista OF insupport-
able gloom. Being a malignant
golfiac. YOU are not able to COM
prehend that the inchoate gibberish
of the ritual is saddeninF to the SO II
per cent of the populace that has
escaped infection. TORMENTED.
We concede one point to Torment
ed'': his advice to let Ben Hecht,s
stuff alone is good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28

Out in Saline county it is reported
petitions are being circulated for a
hard surfaced road between SaIina
and solomon. which would necessitate
tunneling under a railroad at one
point but which would eliminate fifteen
other railroad crossings. Elimination
Of fifteen grade crossings should be
worth all the road would cost. when
measured with the probable saving of
human life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28

In view Of the Volstead law and the
anti-narcotic law, probably it would
seem strange to foreign visitor look
ing over Kansas City ordinances to
find the following: NO person shall
operate a motor vehicle .shile in an
intoxicated condition or when under
the influence of drugs under penalty
OF a fine of S25 to $500 or by impris-
onment not to exceed six months. or
by both fine and imprisonment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28

Several high class railroad stocks
have been falling in price ever since
the election. The decline probably
results from the increase in the Bull
Moose membership in congress. with
: the consequent probability that the
railroads will not be permitted to
make any money. It will be a sad
time for the country should the old
days of railroad batting return. The
Progressive idea seems to be to
make the roads work for nothing and
board themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28

Some wiseacres of the majority
party attribute the political setback
this month to the activities of Wilson's
friends who We're permitted to retain
their places in the government service.
Esut the Wilson men seemed powerless
to defeat Jim Reed in Missouri. The
gentlemen first referred to above are
entitled to another guess.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28
Write Your own Ticket

Sir-The most domestic woman and
faithful mother / know is the girl
Fred Stone used to send around on
the old mill wheel in 1.-The Red Mill'' i;
the only person of my acquaintance
who never leaves home, even for a
weekend, was leading lady in trav-
ing stock company for fifteen years;
the only girl who ever frankly wished
right out loud that she had a chance
to meet some eligible beauX played
Frivolity in Experience" the one
woman in the U. S. A. who never
yields to the temptation to wear gaudy
clothes was once San Toy through a
long, long run; the only man I know
who walked around for two weeks
with a broken toe because he couldn't
get up nerve to show it to a doctor, is
doctor; the gentlest person with lit
tie children that 1 have ever seen has
been welterweigut champion of the
world for nearly twenty years. Now,
all this seems to prove something
but, what is it? DAISY BELL.
you spoke" writes D. C. s., "of the
average golfer being 'cowed.' I be-
lieve you have, in stating your case,
| made one of your remarkably few
misstatements. Shouldn't the gender
be changed?'
No, our Judgment is that it should
ride as originally written. The amend
ment offered by D. C. S. presupposes a
recognition of the dub" golfers in
herenet rights and a desire to Salve his
wounded feelings. They don't go to
that trouble.
81 should like to ask you" be-
seeches S. M, sc you have ever teed
off from the fourth or sixth tees or
played the sixteenth hole at Cobbs
Creek" We have, in a manner of
speaking, surmounted the impede
ments thus inadequately described.
We played a part of one season at
Cobbs Creek, visiting the course regu-
larly three or four times week. Pos
sib1y our experiences would prove en-
Tightening.
During the three or more months
that we devoted to Cobbs Creek course
we twice succeeded in playing eighteen
holes. We played the first nine holes
five times, the seventeenth and
eighteenth holes seven times. The
remainder of our incumbency of the
course was devoted to the first three
holes. During the period to which
we have alluded we lost 733 golf balls.
The expense of trying to play Cobbs
Creek three months was greater than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28

y Senator Capper indicates that it is
not that the railroads can not afford
TO make substantial reductions in
rates, but that they cannot afford not
70 make such reductions, and speedily.
What he wished to emphasize prob
ably was that a scale OF charges that
would encourage the shipment of
Egoods would be of greater benefit to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY n. HOUSE.
tFrom Philadsiphia PnbIic LsdesE.D

What NJ. Clemenceau says is very
interesting The manner IN wnlch II
says it is intriguing. But before ne
begins his journey into the great wide
open spaces somebody should place
him in juxtaposition to the fact tI1at
he is invading a section of the country
in which they don't care what ne
thinks.
The west is as insular in its attitude
toward European affairs as the east
in its attitude toward football To the
west Europe is an-academic toplc.
The western man who comes east Is
always amazed to learn that atonS
the eastern seaboard, news of Europe
is considered vital and significant
We are not, v understand, defend
ing the insularity of the westerner we
are merely FASTING up another fact
Speaking of insularity. as we have
been for a couple of paragraphs past
we have yet to learn from any eastern
football commentator that Michigan
hasn't lost a game this year. SO FAR
news of football circles, Michigan
hasn't been mentioned. And so, as
matter of information, we note here
that Michigan has what is possibly the
best football team in the country II
has crashed thru western conference
competition as clearly as a ten-ton
truck thru grated cheese.
And, as Yale and Princeton can
testify, western conference football is
a stiff order.
BY way of explanation. we desire to
say we are not one of those who view
the ruins of great edifice merely
that he may carp at the architecture,
but there was a gentleman in this Of
free Yesterday who irving TO give
away tickets to the Harvard
game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28

Copyright. 1922. by the Wheeler Syn
dictate Inc.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28

We concede one point to Torment
ed: his advice to let Ben Hechtl,s
stuff alone is good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28

We are not, v understand, defend
ing the insuIarity of the westerner- we
are merely FASTING up another fact.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28

And this seems as good a place as
any to print the communication from
',Tormented' which follows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28

"You spoke" writes D. c. S., "of tho
average golfer being 'cowed. be-
Iieve you have, in stating your case
made one of your remarkably few
misstatements. Shouldn't the gender
be changed %
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-10-18
Ferdinand and Z.
Marie Crowned
Thousands of Rumanians Wit
ness Solemn Ceremony

Albajulia. Rumania, Oct. To-
King Ferdinand and Queen Marie
were soIemnly crowned today in the
vast public square. amid the plaud-
it's Of thousands Of pictureseuely
dressed Rumanians.
On conclusion of the church ser
vice a procession was formed, and
the sovereigns, escorted by the
Duke OF York, Prince Paul, of Jugo-
Slavia: the Duke of Genoa. the In
fanta Alphonse, Marshal Foch and
the foreign delegations, and. pre-
ceded by the metropolitan and bish-
ops, marched from the church to
the richly decorated dais in the CEN
ter of the square. ).
AS soon as the sovereigns had
taken their places on the dais the
President of the Senate received
the crown from the President of the
Chamber and placed it on the head
of the King. The King in turn
crowned the Queen, who knelt be-
fore him. The. King and Queen
were then clothed in the royal man
ties and other insignia.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-10-18
HOLDS /
CONVENTIONAL
new ORLEANS
Thousands Of Former
Fighting Men At
tend National Con
vention of Ameri-
can Legion

New Orleans. October 16-The
fourth national convention of the
American Legion met here in a
large converted warehouse ON the
Mississippi river front, with several
thousand, former fighting men pres
ent and more pouring into the city
by regular and special trains.
steamers, airplanes and automo-
biles. The opening session was fea-
tured by reports of the national
commander and adjutant, covering
their activities during the last year
Distinguished soldiers of seven
nations, bearing visible evidence of
the sacrifices they made on behalf
OF their countries. were on the
platform as the Legion's guests.
They were delegates to the conven-
ton of the inter-allied Veterans
Federation which has been in ses-'
sion here the last two days, which
is tonight scheduled to conclude its
deliberation with an open session
for the purpose of forwarding.
world peace.