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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-12
FoRDNEY's THREAT.

Congressman Fordney, chairman or
the house ways and means commit
tee. has threatened to keep congress
in session until snow flies unless it
adopt the American valuation feature
OF his tariff bill. Mr.. Fordney may
get his way but il he does what the
people will do to his party two years
from now probably will be sufficient
10 prevent any action Of a similar ma
ture for several years
The American valuation clause is
nothing else than a domestic prices
clause. Il absolutely eliminates. IN
respect 10 ordinary competing i'm
ports. any consideration whatever of
their intrinsic value. or their cost.
Il assesses the duty on the domestic
wholesale pr.ce absolutely regardless
OF the merit or fairness Of such whole
sale prices.
Recent years have taught the
American people the difference be
tween prices and values. Farmers
are selling below cost at the one ex-
treme. while farmers and all others
. have found that domestic prices.
wholesale and retail. have little mere
relation TO value than a gold brick.
We have had a general buyers strike
because prices for three years have
had no relation to values. And Mr..
Fordney would shift the basis of all
duties TO this fact. Many business
men have lost millions OF dollars be
cause they followed prices into the
clouds and then fell with them to
financial destruction.
There is price-fixing everywhere by
common knowledge Every price
Tixer's price would be the basis Of
duties under the domestic prices
clause. Our own factories often show
the unreasonableness OF this provision
by making their export prices much
less than their domestic prices. For
instance: a pipe filters tool is export
ed at IS per cent less than the price Of
the same tool to American consun-
ers. The domestic prices clause
would assess the duty on the high
American price instead Of the low
price 20 the foreigner.
Files used to be exported at 40 per
cent off the American price, now 20
per cent, and one maker refuses to
discount further, saying that his fac
tory would be swamped with orders
II he would make his American price
as low as his present export price. SO
Waitham watches used 20 be sold
abroad ut less than half the American
price. Wood screws were sold at Just
half the American price. steel at from
80 per cent to 30 per cent off the
American price. Common shovels are
bsirE exported freely at $3.50 a dozen.
while 1881 is the bottom American
price Aluminium made by an Amer
lean trust that he accumulated sT0.-
oss.o0o in a few years is held at "a
cents n pound against Is cents in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-12

England. where it costs as much to
produce.
Furthermore, there are great ad-
vances in prices due TO fluctuations in
demands On seasonable goods prices
are often a third higher at one time
OF the year than another, with no diff
ference in cost of production After
DAN times ike the present come years
of over demand and under supply
with excessive prices. The domestic
prices clause would agEravate every
such condition by putting the duties
higher with each price advance.
The American valuation clause
would make excessive prices against
American consumers the very basis
OF the tariff. When we see that the
clause doubles and trebles existing
tariff rates. and adds three billion
dollars to the cost of living, we know
exactly why it was framed up. who
wanted it. and whether the people
should stand for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-12
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
81 LEE PAPE

Ma took me down town yestidday TO
get me a new pair of shoes on ac-
count of my last new ones looking like
old ones alreddy, and we was wawk-
ing along passing different swell Look
ing ice GREEN places. and 1 was just
thinking of asking ma to take in one
and wondering weather she would if
did, and some big fat lady went past.
being one of the biggest latest ladies
I ever saw and maybe the biggest, me
saying. Holey smoakes. ma. do you
think you'll ever get that fat?
Being a unlucky thing to say on
account of ma wunting enybody to
think she's getting fat, and she sed,
How can you tawk so silly, anybody
heering you tawk wouldent think you
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-12
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HEART and HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: am seven
teen years of age and deeply in love
with a girl of sixteen. She has ex-
traordinary musical ability, playing
well both the piano and the violin.
As 1 show no appreciation for her
music she cannot understand me. How
can I cultivate an appreciation for
classical music?
She is in the hospital at the present
time with scarlet fever. What gifts
would be appropriate for me to send :?
A. p. MUTT.
The more you hear classical music
the better you will like it, 1 believe.
If you have a phonograph, buy rec
ords which are recommended to YOU
by your girl friend and other people
of musical taste and instead of firing
of them quickly they will grow more
and more beautiful to you. Also at
tend concerts and encourage your girl
friend to play for you and to help you
to understand the better class of
music.
Send her flowers while she is seri-
ously i'll, and when she begins to con-
valesce send her a book.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: My girl
friend is to be married and 1 want
to buy her a wedding present. L have
only 81. Is there anything nice 1 can
buy her for that amount?
ANXIOUS.
You might get your girl friend a
cheese knife, lemon fork, pickle dish,
or salt and pepper shakers.
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itself in mind and assumes the guise
of truth. The World will keep on say
ing Mr. Harding Is weak and pia PIE
president until it finally comes TO De-
lieve it.
We write no partisan brief FOR the
president. They say, he is a good edl-
toriaI writer; let him do his own stutf.
Nor are we advised as to the matter
of his pliability. But no weak man
goes out and kicks obvious orifices IN
the sacred civil service.
Eph Wiley, we note, will soon have
another mouth to feed. The youngest
WI:ey girl is to be married next
month. Mr.. Wiley was discussing this
prospective addition to his family yes
terday HE is the sort Of chap" he
said. who would paint his own floor
il he had one to paint.
Mr.. Wiley has five sons-in-law. but
he put his home in his wife's name
wears ago. and has managed to keep
his business running in spite OF every
thing.
Life. as we have hitherto observed.
breaks about fifty-fifty. For US the
discovery. yesterday. that the Blue
Swallow has a leaking radiator was
offset by the news that the New York
Yanks had lost another game TO
Brooklyn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-12
JUST FOLKS
APRIL.

APRIL.
April. and the showers are falling,
April. and the birds are calling
To their kin of song and feather,
Quite regardless of the weather
From the ground the cold is going,
Now the Yiolets are showing.
And the constant pitter- patter
of the rain seems not to matter.
April, and the birds are humming
Everywhere that Nav is coming
Plant and tree are not complaining
That this morning it is raining.
All around US there IL beauty.
Smiling. faithful to Its duty,
And the dandelioa humble
Seems too big and brave to grGmble.
When it's April in our dreaming
And the storms Of care are teeming,
May we see beyond our sorrow
All the beauty of tomorrow.
Copyright, 1922, By Edgar A. Guest.)
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ventor plans for the use of her heat
ing arrangement in plants using from
plants naturally would require the at
tention of shifts of men, and Mrs.
Shaw prefers that. Like a true pa
triot, Mrs. Shaw has given her gov
eminent the first opportunity to take
of her revolutionary deVel-
opment, and there is every reason to
believe that the government is not go
ing to let the thing slip thru its fingers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-12
Dorothy Dix Tails

BIZ DORoTHT DIX
Worries highest Paid woman WR4tne,

A man claims that he has invented
a serum that compeis the individual
into whose veins 1t is injected to tell
the truth, the whole truth, and Moth
ing but the truth.
This is interesting, if true, as the
newspapers say when printing an i'm
probable story, but IL is safe to say,
there are few that will ever test the
powers of the truth serum. To be
inocu.ated against smallpox, or rabies.
or the flu. or typhoid, Is one thing.
To be rendered immune to white lies
is another pair of sleeves altogether.
For in our secret hearts we all know
that we have neither the nerve to tell
the exact truth to others. or the cour-
age to hear It about ourselves. 1t is
only the pleasant little taradiddles
that we toss back and forth between
each other that makes human inter
Imagine state of society in which
everybody had had a shot OF the
truth serum! Picture an evening
party with everybody standing around
looking as bored as they feel
There is no amiable looking hostess
wearing the smile that won't come
off Instead there is a weary woman
who calculate from time to time
Thank God, this is nearly over. and
when I've fed these brutes I will have
paid off the last of my dinner debts"
Nor when Miss Smithers consents to
oblige with few recitations Is there
a 1ieAlACAAlt6 AAulAtI ol mana ClaDS from
an outwardly admiring audience In
place of it a hollow groan of despair
goes up from the assembled company
for experience has taught them the
awful ordeal they are about to un-
dergo. Neither when Miss Smithers
finishes numbering Little M-a-aabel
with her face a-against the window
pa-a-ane." is there a chorus of voices
demanding to know why. with her
marvellous talent, she doesn't go upon
the stage. Instead she is told plainly,
and fatty, and truly that she hasn't
a Vestige of talent, and that she is
perfect figure of fun trying to do the
heavy pathetic.
Nor when Mr.. Jiggs begins TO sing
do people crowd around the piano
and beg for more, and tell him that
he makes John Mccormack sound
like a cracked photograph record.
clamation that it is time 70 go home
If that Bull of Bashum is. going to
below, and everyone beats it,
Fancy the closing scene of the eve
ming with no guest smiling sweetly
and saying, Il have had perfectly
wonderful time" and the hostess re-
plying amiably that you make any
party success. Instead the veracious
guest, who cannot tell a lie because
he or she has had a shot of the truth
serum, says, Il have had a perfectly
rotten evening, and how you ever got
so many tiresome people together
passes me, and il you call the little
dab Of bird seed you gave us for sup
per feed, you've got another guess
coming. It's me for a steak and
onions on the way home. I'm that
hungry" To which the truthful
hostess retorts. II just invited you be-
cause I had to, and if you had any
sense you would see that this as a
cleanup party that anything is good
enough for"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-12
And there are $50 pages of it.
The Curse of Tobacco.
RY HAROLD GOSS

The proceeding facts should con-
vince the most skeptical that tobacco
sive to be used. Tobacco is generally
known as a luxury, but considering
the harm it does this seems to be a
misleading word. A luxury ought to
be justly enjoyed. But this would
seem to be impossible unless one were
contemplating suicide. Besides filling
the system with poison, the nerves are
so harmed they can not properly do
their work. One who uses tobacco is
generally very nervous and tobacco
heart is not unusual. President Nc
Kinleyis death was attributed indi-
rectly to the use of tobacco. It re-
quires a tobacco user longer to get
over an illness or accident because of
the poison in his system. Merchants.
manufa cturers, railroad corporations
and life insurance companies do not
act from sentiment when they refuse
employees who use tobacco or intoXi-
eating liquors. Tobacco and liquors
go together. The one leads up to the
other. Excepting the most notorious
ones who are blinded by the excessive
indulgence in the devilish vice. all to-
bacco users will admit that it is a
harmful habit.
(To be continued.)
Probably 1T is no more. desirable
that the operators should have too
much power than it is that the miners
be given too much power. But the
issue is clear enough, and no smoke
screen should be permitted to envelop
it.
We are grateful to the publishers for
the opportunity they have afforded
US to read Mr.. Oppenheim's THE
Great Prince Shan" It was a kindly
and courteous thing to do. But they'll
have to offer some additional induce
ment.
The New York World, we note quite
incidentally. has again discovered that
Mr.. Harding is a weak and pliable
president. The danger in an oft-re-
peated phrase is that it finally fixes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-12
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY z. HOUSE
tFrom philadeIphla Public Ledger.1

It is in the news that Mr.. ziegfeld
will close the 'Foilies" on April 10,
throwing 1875 actors out of work and
inflicting hardship on other super
numeraries of the stage. Probably
there are communicative have par
ticularly in mind the one centering at
Broadway and Forty-second street-in
which this unhappy ending will be
looked upon as calamitous. But. we
make bold to say we regard the loss
as negligible.
The thought embodied in the fore
going para graph ran in mind as VIC
sat in a Philadelphia theater the other
night and watched the Duncan sisters
take the show away from Fred stone
and his cohorts. Here is a pittering
active diminutive damozels of I'M
certain age singing oid-time elemental
songs in small, melodic voices, project
ing elemental hometown humor in a
perfectly natural way and cutting SIM
pie dance steps that have never known
the influence of the Russian school of
terpsichore- And sophisticated au-
dience cried for them.
One of these days a revue will be
predicated on the honest heartbeat.
1t will take INTO account the public's
yearning for melody and rhythm and
its boundleSs reaction to the simple.
honey stuff. And the producer will
never. thereafter. be able to count
his money.
Rose Petals From Rahab.
He leaves me alone, he does not
touch me. I am myself. We move
marvelously into myself. He is con-
tent there merely talking with me, a
woman, of small matters. :
Trees do not think. 1 try to think.
Thinking is bad for winter. Thinking
is bad for spring. Thinking chills
spring. Thinking calls sap to winter,
which winter kills. Trees swing for
ever. so they are thoughtless. But I
am broken curve, a splintered part
of circle cannot see. Her
ears did not count. yet her ears did
for they had given her a label to stick
on him so he could pass thru the door.
You make me feel that 1
have roots" she told him. She found
that she had been buried in a cor
rodent silence. She was lifted forth.
She had WordsA
And there are $50 pages of it.
We shan't bother to read them ALL
or further. Our ambition, as the bib
ulous Scotchman put 1t, expends itself
in other fields. What we want is a
photograph of one of the dinner par
ties at which, according to it's pub
fishers, "Rahab" is being heatedly dis
cuSSed
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The New York World. we note quite
incidentally. has again discovered that
MT Harding is weak and plia BILE
president. The danger in an oft-re-
peated phrase is that it finally fixes
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-28
CASE
SET FOR FRIDAY
Until Then Sand Springs
Must Get Along With
Two Chiefs

Hearing on the temporary injunc-
ton sought by Larry HIM. mayor
OF sand Springs. against the two
commissioners to restrain them from
Interfering with his duties as police
and fire commissioner which the
charter OF the city delegates Into
his hands, was continued by Dis
trict Judge Remond 3. Cole S1tur-
day afternoon to afford the defend
ants an opportunity to file nm answer
to the charges of the mayor. The
date for hearing Of the case was set
for Friday morning AT 0 o'clock.
A temporary restraining order to
be In effect until the hearing Fri
day was denied by Judge Cole. Only
n few spectators, among whom was
George r.. Gilmore, county commits
sloner, who resides in Sand Springs,
were In the court to hear the
chse. Commissioners r.. II. Hub
bard, w. II. Cash. Judge Grove. the
city attorney, Judge Sheaferbusch.
and Chief OF Police w. u. Brinkley.
all OF Sand Springs, were spectators
In the court room.
Following the adjournment of
court. Him. and the two commits
sioners shook hands and talked to-
gether In n friendly
The injunction proceedings are
more of friendly suit between the
mayor and commissioners TO decide
certain points OF law than an acri'
monious controversy" COMMISSIONS
Hubbsr d stated,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-28
RECALL OLD CRIME
Enid Man Believes the "vlctim" OF
Mob IN 1887 still Alive.

ENID, May 27.-The story carried
by tho Associated Press May "a In
which an aged man in Tacoma,
wash. In said to have written TO a
newspaper there to learn II a man
whom he knew can still be tried
for robberles "in which men were
Killed" and for which he was
hanged near Joplin. Mo, In 1887,
but cut down before he was dead. Is
the story Of Elihu Parrish in the
opinion OF A. NJ. McEwen OF this
city who remembers an incident OF
his boyhood the details OF which
coincide with the story told the
Washington newspaper.
In 1887. according to McEwen. a
man named Parrish. then rs years
old. worked for his father on a farm
near Paola, Kan. Parrish left and
went TO Missouri whore he was ac-
cused OF numbering his employer
there and robbing him Of $4,000. II
was said he committed the deed in
order 10 obtain money to get mar
ried. A vigilance committee caught
Parrish and hanged him to a tree.
He was left for dead but parrish's
sweetheart Is said to have cut him
down and helped him to escape.
While in Oregon IL years later,
McEwen met a man In a lumber
camp on the Cowlitz river who upon
learning he lived at Paola, asked
him n number OF questions concern
ing the bandit who was hanged for
robbing and numbering a csttleman
of $4,000. This Is the man McEwen
| believes In Parrish. He would be
over 20 years old, now, according
to McEwen's story.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-28
STUDENTS REHEARSE.
Uniyersity OF Tulsa Players Present
Morality Play With Cast OF ~
Plnycrs IrldnY Night.

HfnNHTAAl IUT Inc Ou'NI IDI
Happiness Is filllng In all the spare
moments In the busy young lives. of
20 University of Tulsa students who
form the cast. Indeed. life Ia just
one rehearsal after another for
them. AZ Is made necessary by the
size OF the cast, difficulty OF .he play
and nearness OF the time for produce
ton, Juno 2.
A modern morality play by Allen
Davis, The quest FOR Happiness"
tells It's story In three acts and eight
scenes. AZ in all morality plays,
II will be produced with no scenery
oxcep. "A Set OF curtains and neutral
toned hangings, though the actors
costumes Will be colOrful. The action
viii successively take place in the
home OF happiness, the palace OF
droa ms, tho halls OF expectation. the
golden tide. the market place. the
fields OF hunger and back again In
.he home OF happiness. In brief. the
plot tells how the girl Happiness led
by Dreams goes TO the city TO win
fame and what befalls her In the
search.
The role Of Happiness VIII be
played by Josephine Laymsn and
that Of her lover, Strength. by VIII
Ham II. Thompson. Other actors will
be: tho master Of .he show. Ray
Fleak. gossip. Dorothy Harris; the
influential citizen, Lloyd West: the
mother. Jennie Price. the father
Ray Young: dreams, Everett John.
son. money. L. H.. Wilder: vigilance
Cary u. Ffnke; = false hope. Betty
Hunt; career, Linden knight, celeb.
ri.h, Coleman Jackson; good time
Lillian Randall. disbursement
Evelyn Eaks; avarice, Hawley Kerr
desperation, Allen Dixon; hunger
Annie Laurie Lockwood; death
Hawley Kerr; temptation. Loi
Brooks; passion, Ray Fleak; intern
perance. X. $. Wilson; dishonesty
Stanton Rowley: defeat, william
Hoey. true hope, Telma Lee: pru
dence, Lucy Mae Marquis.
Miss Margaret Wyndham, head o
the department OF exIyession an,
public speaking, Is directing IN.
play.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-28
Boosters Turn
Vacation Funds Into
Fund for NeW Temple

Cooperation Is the middle nams
Of Akdar temples band. pa'roi
and drum corps.
these three bodies, after plan
ming for many months on a TRIP
10 the imperial councll Ueet
Gan Francisco next month. ana
after raising money for this pnr-
nose through various enterprises
have just decided to abandon me
trim and turn the expense funds
and their engeries TO the new
Akdar temple TO be built at Fourth
and Denver, The spirit OF self
sacrifice shown In this foregoing
OF cherished plans and prospects
OF personal pleasure Is appreci-
ated by other Shriners and has
served to knit tho membership
more closely together In interest
in their building project. II Is
expected that the ground Will be
broken about September first.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-28

An organization OF Belgian sell
ehtists has renewed an offer OF 4
prize worth about $4,000 for the
best original work on the scientific
advancement and technical appnea'
ton Of eieetr,citv-
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-28
High Taxes for rs Years
Predicted BY Officials
Unless Europeans Pay Up

WASHtNGTON, May III
American taxes will remain high
for 20 years longer. chiefly be-
cause Europe will be slow In
llduldntlnR tho debts for war
loans made by this government.
high administration officials said
today.
Foreign debtors offer no hope
that they will be able 10 begin
c~urtalling tho principal % their
obligations until many years have
elapsed, Officials thus far have
not folt confident that any Of tho
European governments \
copt Great Britain, can pay even
the interest on their debts for
many years 10 come.
American taxpayers are paying
about $1,000, 100000 ~. year In
interest on tho country's public
debt. More than half ~ this debt
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-28

represents borrowings from the
people. later loaned 10 Europe.
Europe's debts. therefore, will
keep tho tax burden heavy until n
considerable proportion Of tho
total Of $4,000, 100000 due the
United states Is paid.
Treasury officials said today
that taxes necessary TO pay inter
est on the public debt constitute
about one-third 81 tho govern
mcnt'H entire revenue.
The hope OF officials now In that
American Investors may find II
profitable to divert enough capi-
tai abroad IN sound securities to
help rcctify some OF the disorders
In foreign exchange and eventual
~ improve tho fiscal status Of the
countries listed as debtors for
war borrowings from the United
EtufpR.