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fact is problematical, but all workers
agree that prohibition played n large
part in effecting this result.
Mrs. Don c. SeitZ, who finds homes
for children in New York City, says
that it has long since ceased to be the
point to find a home for child. but
the object is to find a child for the
home offered and pray for the wisdom
of Solomon to decide which home is
best for the child in question This in
ability of the child-placing agencies to
supply the extraordinary demand for
Adaptable children@has evidently led
impatient foster parents to turn else
where for assistance. They see an ad-
vertisementS "fine baby boy, six
months old, good disposition" in the
newspaper, and they rush after him.
willing to pay a tidy sum and to avoid
all embarrassing questions concerning
the chiid's parentage, before some
other eager adopter comes along and
gets him.
More often than not, they them
selves are approached by parents with
a hard-luck story and a baby they are
willing to relinquish for slight con-
sideration. It is possible that some of
these parents dispose of their children
by such methods only under the great
est duress or in a spirit of noble self
sacrifice but experience has shown
that this is seldom the case Usually,
it is the interest OF the adults alone
which is considered-not the welfare
of the child.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-20

flashed into Mary Webb's mind
Avery Wilson whistling as he fol-
lowed the horse around with the
spraying machine in the south orchard
with its spring blossoms. The train
was now passing a municipal park.
where boys and girls were roller
skating on a dirty patch of concrete
In the station Mary Webb stopped
at the telephone booth and called
her aunt's number. Sad1 was out
of town. shes gone up to Annals.
Spring is such a disagreeable sea-
son here in the city" complained
her aunts voice.
when will, a train leave for Rose
mary Junction." asked Mary Webb at
the ticket window a moment later.
She knew it would be at $3.50, but she
wanted to make sure. How her
mother would laugh! And Avery Will
soni Well, ne would be surprised
AS she jumped off the train at
Rosemary Junction the first person
she saw was Avery Wilson coming
out of the freight house. He was
whistling. Mary Webbs heart con-
tracted as she looked at him. She
had been doing at lot of thinking.
BE up after supper" called Avery.
''Y-yes, of course" answered Mary
Webb. And Avery, be sure to come
early so we'l1 have a nice long eve
ming. Mothers got Inarshmallows for
us to toast"
And all the way down the road t.
the Webb place Mary's eyes were on
the spring blossoms.
Copyright, 1922, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
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CAUSES OF CRIME.

A committee OF the American Bar
association has been investigating the
causes of crime. The committee finds
that among other things crime in vol
ume in large cities is largely due to
years of moIlycoddling and sympathy
by misinformed and ill-advised med
dIers'' which has ''disintegrated the
administration of Justice 1t has also
been found that crime increases or
decreases in community IN step with
the swiftness or slowness of the ad-
ministration of justice. Where the
courts act quickly, crime decreases:
where there are the proverbial laws
delays between arrest and trial,
crime increases.
What no committee from a bar as
ISOLATION could be expected to report
is called to attention by many who
have the best interests of the law at
heart; that much crime is caused by
inequalities and injustices within the
body of the law itself. A case of this
nature IS reported from Chicago, in
volving the committal to jail on con-
/ tempt of court sentences three years
old of a number of women. During
( the interval between the offense and
the punishment the women have mar
ried and have babies. and four moth
ers with children in arms were incar-
cerated.
Governor Small, taking cognizance
of their changed conditions, promptly
pardoned them, but the jailer could
not turn them loose, even tho he had
/ - 1N
from his own pocket, because the law
yers held the pardoning power. of the
governor does not extend to contempt
of court offenders. They were finally
released by action of the Judge.
Law which makes innocent children
suffer, and which finds difficulties in
| correction of its injustice, It isSpointed
out. is bad law, and bad law makes
for crime.
A further cause for crime is stated
to be the intolerance and fanaticism
OF the reformer. which brackets an
offense against law of man with an
offense against a law of Nature and
makes no differentiation between the
! two offenders AS an instance of this.
congressman in Washington point to
the statement of a well known sena-
tor that the offender against the dry
law is as criminal as one who commits
murder, a sentiment which finds no
echoes in any judicial mind.
That the United States government
is not by any means free from the
faint of unnecessary delays and in
justices has been pointed out with an
interesting example. Chairman Ford
ney of the ways and means committee
told the house that he was threatened
with arrest for failure to pay a bill
of 70 cents in his 1917 income tax
He mSde the point that If the govern
ment was four years behind in audit
ing and could find no better method
Of correcting errors than by arresting
men who had done their best to meet
the laws of the country, it was time
the laws were revised.
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THE GENOA CONFERENCE.

The Genoa conference has ad-
journed without accomplishing its prin-
cipal object, the restoration of bust
ness relations between Russia and the
rest of the world. On the surface of
things the failure is due to the refusal
of the soviet delegation to surrender
the principle of government owner
ship of all property.
Yet there is not so great a differ
ence between Russia and other coun-
tries as may at first appear. In this
country, for instance, while the gov
eminent permits theoretical private
ownership of property. IN fact there is
no such thing. The American citizen
can rest happy in the thought that he
owns his own home, but let him fail
to pay his taxes for a specified length
OF time, and the government takes il
away from him.
Furthermore, if his home become
desirable for public use he is de-
prived Of it by condemnation proceed
ings. To be sure. he is paid for it IN
cash, but money is not property.
1t may be said that Russia took all
private property without compensat-
ing the owners. But that. even, has a
counterpart in American history. The
federal government confiscated the
slaves in the south without regard to
the fact that they were property
which had been bought and paid for.
While the Genoa conference has ad-
journed, it will assemble again in a
new form at The Hague. The United
States and France are to be given one
more chance to accept Russia as she
is or retire and leave the Russian
field of trade to England and Ger
many. It is apparent that whatever
America and France do. England and
Germany are determined on entering
into business relations with the Mus
covites. They would like to have us
come in because we have money.
France has declared that she will not
go in unless America does.
After all, the outcome of The Hague
conference probably will be deter
mined by the oil interests of the
world. Russia has oil and no money.
Other countries have money and no
oil. Russia is playing her oil against
the worlds needs and seems likely to
win the game.
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Dorothy Dix Talks

WX DOROTHY DIX
WOxaa's Riehes8 Paid W@na@n WIRES


Nothing adds to the gaiety of life
more than the newly aristocratic, but
when people begin to take the color
of their blood seriously, the matter
ceases to be humorous and becomes
tragic. Boys arc kept from going into
the trades for which their natural
aptitudes fit them, and in which they
could make fortunes, and are thrust
into professions for which they lack
the qualification, and where they
fail because they belong to families
in which the men have been doctors,
FOR lawyers, or teachers.
Matches are broken off and hearts
wounded, and lives wrecked, because
silly, old, caste bound women are
still pinning their faith to tn We're de
We're stuff Therefore, John, one of
whose remote ancestors was a signer
of the Declaration of Independence,
must not marry Sally Jones who is
good, and pretty, and sweet, but whose
father never signed anything but "a
check where his name was mighty
highly respected at the bank.
And Mary isn't permitted to marry
Tom Smith whom she loves with all
her heart because Tom is nobody, and
doesn't go with her set, and Mary lives
to see the day when Tom is United
States senator. and his wifes
limousine splashes mud on her as she
walks to and from her daily work.
1t is right that a girl should con-
slider the blood that runs in the veins
of the man she n4arries, and know
something of his family. She should
find out If he has clean blood, free
from the faint of hereditary diseases
and she should know the stock from
which he springs, whether they are
honest, decent people, who have
taught their children to go true and
straight or to be thieves and crooks.
But that is about all that a mans
family amounts to, so far as his eligi-
bility as a husband comes to. The
balance is all up to the man himself.
The pretense of aristocracy is a joke
because there are mighty few Ameri-
can families in which you can go back
three or four generations without
stumbling over a wash tub or a spade.
Position is a farce, because the wheel
turns around, and those who are up
today, are down tomorrow. 1t does
not even pay to marry for money. be-
cause the youth who was a catch at
twenty-five is often a pauper at fifty,
while often the poor boy has become
a millionaire by middle gaze.
Therefore, a girl is foolish who lets
the dead rule her, and pick out hus-
band for her, or who is bound by the
snobbery of her family. Let her mar
ry the man she wants, irrespective OF
who his grandparents were. 1t is a
mans future that matters, not his
past, and there is more profit in max
ing a name for yourself than there is
| in Dragging about one that somebody
else made.
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HEART and HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: My sister is
IA years old and she has come to live
with US. Mother died a short time
ago and my father has been dead for
several years. Ny husband does not
make a lot of money by any means
but he is willing to add my little sister
to his burdens and to provide for her
since she has no money
We have three little children and
they take a great deal of my time.
Sister seems busy with her school
work, but it seems to me she ought
to be able to spare time from it to
help me with the dishes, ironing and
cleaning. Do you think would be
unfair to her if I insisted?N She likes
to sit around and read and it makes
her cross when / ask her to do things.
1 get very tired doing things alone
and it would be a great help if she
spent only an hour or two a day help
ing. Do you think it would be wrong
for me to ask it of herr
1t would be a good thing for your
sister to learn to help. Talk to her
in a. nice way and let her see that
IL is only right she should do some
thing for you in return for. what you
are doing for her. Children are senti-
tive and kindness goes a long way in
getting them to do what they should
do. Probably she does not realize the
situation. Confide in her and I think
you will have less difficulty.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am trou-
bled with an oily skin, especially in
warm weather. What can I do for
this? GERTRUDE
There is usually an inward cause
for an oily skin. such as indigestion
If no material effect is gained by the
following treatment. it would be well
to get your physician to give you
treatment. Apply the following To-
ton:
SuIphate of zinc. two grains; COM
pound tincture of lavender, eight
drops; distilled water. one ounce
Danish all rich and greasy foods.
because diet has a great influence on
the condition of the skin
Wiping off the face occasionally
with diluted alcohol (25 per cent
strength) is beneficial in the case of
an oily skin. A few drops of am
monia or a pinch of borax in the wa
ter with which the face is washed is
also helpful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-20

The principle of speaking softly
and carrying a big stick apparently
has not departed from the White
House It merely has been out of use
for a time. That it has been revived
by President Harding was shown
when he called the steel magnates
into conference. The president told
the steel men that he did not desire
to interfere with the natural and legit-
innate progress of business nor to do
anything except to assist industry to
Meet if possible, what is apparently
strong public sentiment" He then
pointed out to them that public sem
timent appears to be opposed to the
continuation of the twelve-hour work
ing day in the steel plants. The oper-
ators are reported promptly to have
accepted the hint and steps have been
taken by them looking to the aboli-
ton of the situation called to their at
tent.on by the president. Probably
the change never could have been &C
complished by a strike.
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JUST FOLKS
RY EDGAR A. GUEST,

WIFE AND CHILDREN
Wife and children Day by day
That's an easy phrase to say.
Hear it spoken everywhere,
Failing lightly on the air,
Wife and children left behind
That's the way of humankind.
Always wife and children bear
All the shame and hurt and care.
This is what reporters find
Wife and children left behind
Accident by rail or sea
Weaves this ancient tragedy.
Takes the man. and at the end
of the story this is penned;
"Wife and children vainly wait
For his hand upon the gate
In the prison dock there stands
One that sin and folly brands:
For n term of years he'll dwell
In n bare and narrow cell,
And the law, with judgment grim,
Gives the punishment to him,
But the wife and children share
Every stripe he has to wear.
Wife and childrenl Oh, take care,
They must suffer all you bear;
There is nothing you can do
But they share its burden, too.
One you are in thought and deed,
One in every hour Of need,
Make no pitifuI mistake
For your wifes and children's sake
Copyright, 1922, by Edgar A Guestl
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Not since the boom days of the
late SOS perhaps have there been so
many dwelling houses in process of
construction in Topeka as there are
today. Building of any kind sets the
wheels of industry in motion. Mucn
of the Improvement in iron and steel,
glass. lumber, hardware and other in
dustries is directly ascribable to the
expansion of building. Gains IN these
lines in turn increase demand for the
equipment required to produce them.
From the standpoint of increased
purchasing power on the part or the
ultimate consumer. the building move
ment is of the greatest Importance.
The industry is said to be second only
TO agriculture as measured by the
number of persons dependent on it.
Employed men are able to buy not
only the bare neceSearies but increas-
ing quantities of the comforts of life.
Building and construction, which per-
sisted in fair volume even at the
worst stages of the depression and
which are now establishing new rec
ord, have probably contributed more
than any other single factor toward
the gradual breaking of the deadlock
which resulted from the disorganized
state into which industry and finance
had fallen at the end of the war
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George Matthew Adams
- Daily Talk
WORK AND'LIFE.


Someone has given utterance to this
thought and I am giving 1t to you;
Work as tho you were to live for
ever-live as tho you were to die to-
morrowi"
1t is only as we find in work some
thing to spur US on, something to feed
our minds and souls, that we become
worthy to share in the honor and
dignity that is inseparable from work.
And it is only we find in work
richness of life that we are able to
find happiness at all
You who work merely for the ma
terial advantage that results from
work are a very poor worker indeed
Outside my window I note a laborer.
He is digging in the soil. He is whis-
Ting. I note perspiration on his brow.
He does not take one dig and then
look over the andscape-beautiful as
it is-but he works right on. When
the days work is finished he will go
happily tired to his home.
1 am amused at the employe in a
good concern who is always wonder
ing whether or not there is to be any
future for him.
There is always bright and sub
stantial future for the Worker-no
matter where he works-if he keeps
the future he desires in mind and sets
his entire energies TO the task of at
tanning it.
But there can be no sighting OF
details. no counting of time. no COW
ering up of that which should be done.
Work is life onlyia as life is work.
There is to high position and to
large accumulation of money heavy
responsibility, whereas there is always
satisfaction that is bound to dccure
from work well done, no matter how
mental or seemingly unimportant.
And where is there in all this world
anything to compare with the hap
piness that conscientious effort is able
f-r1 fx-ap
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The effects OF sovietism in Russia
attract so much notice in this country
as to obscure the workings on a small
er scale of a similar system in North
Dakota The state of North Dakota.
which was less than $500. 600 in debt
at the time Townley went there. finds
itself today over s7,oOO.OOO in debt.
and in the same period taxes of the
people there have been increased
more than threefold. But this coun-
try is more fortunately situated than
Russia, in that its people live under a
democratic form of government.
when the people of North Dakota
woke up to what bolshevism meant
they rose up and threw out the whole
gang OF grafters.
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE
The Park Ave. News

Weather. All rite if it don't rain.
Exterl Big Heroi A lady told Pubs
Simkins he saved her life last Satidday
aftirnoon. He was setting on his frunt
steps and she stopped going past and
asked him If he would please go in
and get her a glass of waiter on ac-
count of her being so thersty- Wich
Pubs did and she drank it all the way
to the bottom and Pubs asked her if
she felt like another glass on account
of her looking like another one And
he got her another one and she drank
that all the way to the bottom and
sed Thank you, you have saved my
life.
Pome by Skinny Martin
Honest but Foolish
George washington chopped down a
cherry tree
And sed, I cannot tell a lie.
did it with my little hatchit
But I RELY don't know wy.
Sissiety. Mr.. Artie Alexander had a
berthday party last Thersdey and
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everything was going on wen Mr.. Ed
Wernick and Mr.. Lew Davis. being
amung those not invited, rang the
frunt bell and asked for Mr.. Artie
Alexander as if they dident even
know there was a party. and Mr.. Alix-
anders mother invited them in out of
politeniss and they stayed the 2 latest.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. Sam Crosses baby sister
Udeen neerly has a tooth, Sam saying
everybody in the family being jest as
stuck up as if she RELY had it alreddy
but the baby keeps on crying as if she
was ashamed of the ideer.
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Attorney General Daugherty holds
that United States senators are not
longer legally bound under the fed
eral corrupt practices act to report
their campaign spendings. Probably
it is just as well. 1t is known to the
public that the price of senatorships
has advanced along with everything
else but why should anybody bother
about the cost. except the person who
pays the money? That knowledge of
the amount paid makes no difference
in the result was shown in the case
of Newberry. The method of electing
senators by popular vote is RESPONSE
BILE for the added cost. Buying a leg
stature rarely was so expensive as is
buying a majority of the electorate.
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When public opinion once becomes
thoroiy aroused in this country, Moth
ing can withstand It. Public opinion
in Chicago seems to be thoroly stirred
by the labor situation and will no
longer tolerate defiance of the law.
No individual and no class IN this
country enjoys special privileges be-
fore the law. We have sent rich men
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to prison, and we have impeached a
president. Arrogant defiance of the
laws that regulate the common con-
duct meets with public condemnation.
There is something in this country Of
ours that is stronger than the strong
est organization, and that Is the might
of public opinion.
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The Russian government seems
disposed to repudiate its debts in
CURED under the reign OF the mon
archy. We bought Alaska from one
of the cars Lenin and Trotzky may
decide to take it back
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As you have gathered, we don't
think much of the Rev. Mr.. WaIsh's
plan And we shall also oppose his
selection as the authority to fix the
moral standards of a people
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Well, suppose it were? Who then
would decide what is highly moral
and what isn't? There are, among
deeply religious folk, very decided diff
ferences of opinion on that score Who
is to decide and how would it bind
the man or woman who disagreed
with the decision?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-20

Suppose" said the Rev. William T.
Walsh, of New York, in a-sermon on
morals, that part of our religious
service were the taking of an oath to
do whatever the highest moral STAN
dard would demand
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Demand Exceeds suppIy.

On the other hand. there has been
a great falling off in the number of
children available for adoption Jus.
what hes contributed to make this so
is difficult TO say but undoubtedly
the mothers pension bill has much to
do with it Figures show that $4,000
children were cared for in their homes
IN New York state by the aid of the
mothers pension who would other
wise have become public charges
Whether the high wages OF the last
few years helped TO bring about this
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And of what value would an oath
be in the circumstances? A man in
violably committed to the higher
moral standards wouldn't need to
take it. The one who is sIipshod in
his observance of them probably
would also be slipshod in mis- observ-
ance of his oath