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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05
THAT TRoURLEsoNrE BoNUs.

1t is reported from Washington
that senate leaders are planning to
pass the soldier bonus substantially
as it came from the house and that
they will try to win the presidents
endorsement of it in that form.
The passage of the bill by the SEN
ate will not abate by ever so little
the force of those considerations
which Secretary Mellon of the treas
ury has laid before the people of the
country in his analysis of the bill. Vol
umes might be written that would say
less than his simple assertion that the
bill has presumably been framed
with a view to reducing the apparent
cost to the. government" but that
there is no way by which the Amer
lean taxpayer can avoid the burden. ;"
There is room for sincere differ
ences of opinion as to whether or not
a bonus ought to be paid. Passage or
rejection of the bill by the senate will
not settle those differences. but the
economics of the problem seem to ad-
nit of no such dispute. II the money
shall be paid to the soldiers the peo-
pie of the country, including the SOL
diers, must supply it, and the sound
business opinion OF the country will
support the contention of the treas
ury that IF a bonus is to be imposed
it is far better for all concerned that
it be placed upon a direct and definite
basis and paid for each year out of
current revenue" To do this. as Sec
rotary Mellon says. will necessarily
mean the imposition of additional
taxes for the purpose"
Up to this time the views of the
president on the matter have seemed
to be in full accord with those of his
secretary of the treasury. If the
whole subject could be Invested of its
political features a clearer view of its
merits might be obtained as well as a
greater degree OF satisfaction with the
results of congressional action among
the people.
The whole proceeding in the bonus
matter seems to be a continuous per
Torrance of passing the buck" The
house, without regard to the attitude
OF the executive department of the
government, enacts a bill and hands it
to the senate. After vain attempt to
find a satisfactory way out of its di-
lemma. the senate decides to send it
along to the president and let him
shoulder the condemnation of the
public or win its approval as the case
may be- In any case congress will
have the feeling that 1t has done the
wisest thing politically.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05
Dorothy Dix Tails
They Never Take a Tip.
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
WozsA's Iz1Ehess Paid Wemaa WraeaR.

IneY Never Take a Tip.
A curious illustration of the fact
from the experience of others has re-
Gently been given in Paris. An editor
wished to find out if women had been
taught any lesson concerning the dan
ger of answering matrimonial adver-
tisements by the fate of the many
serted by big artist, and had been
lured that way to their doom.
So the editor inserted the very same
advertisement. word for word in the
same papers that the bigamist had
used, and hundreds of women an
swered it, yet every one of them must
have read the pitiful tale of their sis
ter women who were hoaxed into a
bogus marriage. robbed and then MUIR
dered.
That this should be the case will
surprise nobody who has made the
slightest study of the feminine tenn
permanent. Woman has always snapped
her fingers in the face of experience,
ana refused to sit at the feet of wis
DOM To erect the red lantern of
warning before her eyes is to lure her
on, instead of turning her back from
a dangerous pathway. Because other
women have met disaster pursuing a
certain course does not deter her from
attempting it. She always believes
that she can achieve the impossible
Especially is this true in sentimental
matters. Abstractly, every woman
knows what are the hazardous riffs
IN matrimony. Any girl child is per-
fectly aware that a woman takes her
life in her hands if she marries a man
who is a philanderer, a drunkard, or
who is lazy and shiftless, or surIy
and grouchy, and stingy.
She also knows that matrimony is
Tar more likely to intensity a mans
faults than it is to cure them, and
that it is only in novels that the love
of a pure, good woman changes a
brute into a domestic angel. On the
contrary, she knows that if a mans
own sense of manhood doesn't make
the trick
She has seen girls marry roues,
and land in the divorce court. She
has had friends marry drunkards, and
she has seen them dragged down to
the gutter. She has seen women
abuse of high tempered men. She
has known girls to marry charming
ne'er-do-wells and take in boarders to
support them.
But the experience of these other
woman have taught her nothing when
on, and marries the rounder, the alco-
holic, the loafer. the tightwad, because
she believes that she possesses some
magic charm that will work an in
Simultaneous change in the mans char
acter. and make him what she wants
him to be instead of what he is. There
is no living woman who doesn't Sc
cretly believe that she has some hyp-
motto power that she can exercise over
her husband, that will make him clay
in her hands, and the fact that mil
lions of other women have also
thought the same thing about them
selves, and failed, doesn't shake her
faith in herself one iota.
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Questions-AnssUes

Q. What other ruler was assassinated
the same year as President Garfield? A. b.
NJ
A. Alexander II, Car of RUSSIA, was
assassinated on March 13, 1881, and Prest-
dent Garfield on July End of the same
year.
Q. Is the Indian population of the Unit
A. Since 1903 the number of Indians in
this country has increased slowly but
steadily. In that year there were 263, 233
while in 1920 there were 336,337
Q. How can newspapers be preserved in
libraries? W. +.
A. The paper upon which modern news
papers are printed becomes brittle when
exposed to air for. a long time. Some
libraries have solved the problem of pre-
serving newspaper files by mounting each
sheet between two sheets of thin japanese
tissue This seals the paper from the air,
reducing its legibility but Slightly, and
STRENGTHENING the page
Q. How many postmen are there in the
United States? H. r. W.
A The postoffice department says that
according to their figures for April 4.
1922, there are 44,004 rural carriers and
1885 city carriers in the United States. ?
(Any reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau, Frederic j.
Haskin, Director, Washington, DC. This
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Bureau cannot give advice on legal, medical
to settle domestic troubles, nor TO under
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK

Me and Pubs Simkins was wawking
home from skool tawlxing and argew-
ing, and we started to have a fearse
argeWment about WITCH is the most in
telligent, munkeys or dogs, me saying
dogs and Pubs saying munkeys. him
saying, wy certeny munkeys is the
most intelligent. Men came from
munkeys, dident they If dogs was
the most intelligent wy men would
have came from them, wouldent they?
They natcherliy picked the most in
telligent to come from, dident they?
If munkeys was so darn intelligent
they'd of bin people theirselfs insted
of staying munkeys and leevinE people
come from them, certeny dogs is tho
most intelligent, I sed.
And we kepp on argewing about
wat dogs could do that munkeys
couldent, and wat munkeys could that
dogs couldent. Pubs saying, All right.
bet you doller munkeys is the most
intelligent.
sed.
bet you a hundred dollers munkeys
is, sed Pubs.
1 bet you a thousand dogs is, sed.
bet you a million munkeys is, sed
Pubs
I bet you a trillion dogs is. I sed.
Wich Jest then a. hot waffle Vaughn
started to go past, the man blowing
his horn and yelling hot waffles, and
I sed, G. I wish I had one, loan me a
cent, will you Puds?
amt got one, 1 was Jest going to
ask you. sed Pubs.
Proving tawk is cheep.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05

Another step IN the direction of OBJ
literating state lines is about to be
taken, this time in an effort to render
protection to that class of individuals
of whom Barnunl-aid one is born
every minute The lower house of
congress has passed without roll call
a bill which specifically prohibits the
shipment from one state to another of
securities of a character prohibited in
the latter state. The bill supplements
existing state laws and provides for
federal cooperation with the states in
suppressing a recognized national evil
TO the extent of forbidding the use of
federal interstate commerce agencies
for,the purpose Of evading and violat-
ing the state laws. The amount of
money of which the American public
is annually swindled is appalling. Oil
stocks. motor stocks and a hundred
other stocks are disposed OF to gullibl=
purchasers, which are worth no more
than the ornamental paper on which
they are written. The victim not only
loses his money, which is bad enough.
but he becomes wary of investments of
any kind. and that reacts on the COM
mercial progress of the entire country.
The law makers are kept busy trying
to protect the fools from their own
folly. Warnings by the government
and by the newspapers appear to have
little effect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05

The effort to launch a new political
partv- which was made in this city
this week. appears to have encoun-
tered a frost. An unbiased observer
seems to be warranted in the conclu-
sion that already there are enough po-
litical parties to satisfy the most fas-
tidious. Starting a new political party
is much like starting new mercan-
tile establishment in a city The pro-
iector of the enterprise finds the field
already occupied by thoroly organized
concerns with machinery in good
working order. Unless. therefore. ne
can enter the territory backed by cap
ital sufficient to enable him to COM
pete successfully with his rivals he
will find great difficulty IN winning
the patronage of the public. Some
persons there always are who are will
ing to try a new thing but the great
majority prefers to stick to long es-
tablished firms
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.


ONE-SIDED
He wanted money. Cash he made
The reason for his daily trade,
He worked for money, spent his time
Seeking the dollar and the dime,
And raked them in-but found at last,
Altho he owned q fortune vast,
His days were far from being glad,
For gold was everything he had
He wanted fame. Both day and night
His was a self-advancing fight
He would be great by right Of skill.
His feet would climb the topmOst hill
What tho another's JOY must fall,
He would be master of them all
He rose to fame, but in the end
He found he hadn't made friend.
Not by a single plan we live
Who takes, must also learn to give
Who would be glad must now and then
Make glad the lives of other men;
Who would have friends when old and
gray,
Must play the friend with all today.
The selfish goal were better lost
Than purchased at too great a cost
Copyright, 1922, by Edgar A Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05

away with a finger that left a choco-
late smudge in its wake.
II don't see why you took them all
away, she said reproachfully. I've
got to go on because we've got all this
equipment, but I'd rather teach school
"a great deal rather-and--"
Il thought you were tired of teach
ing" said Mr.. Hayden, drawing very
near to the fearful Jean.
Il was, but"
Suppose find some one to buy the
business as it stands. The small
amount I invested hardly matters.
Still we could cover that and quite a
little more. Suppose then I made an
offer for you that met with your ap-
prevail"
But I'm not like Maud and Matilda
and Jane" said Jean.
mo, you're not" agreed Mr.. Hay
den. 81 watched you all and studied
you carefully. There is one vocation
for which you are far better fitted
than the rest-and it isn't sellinG
stock or experimenting schools or
managing a recreation center and
lunchroom or even running a candy
business"
"Oh." said Jean, smiling thru her
tears, sis there anything you think 1
really am fitted for? Really, would
mt care how small the salary was If
I felt that was really suited for it.
Then Mr.. Hayden, confirmed old
bachelor that he was, held two arms
out and took the startled little Jean
to him. you are best suited to be
my wife. I need you, dear little girl.
I must have you. Will you marry
meg"
And Jean, like the rest, did not
hesitate to accept Mr.. Hayden's propo-
sition.
Copyright, 1922, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05

Department of labor statistics in
dictate that living costs are steadily de-
creasing. The fall in the cost of liv-
ing in principal cities between June,
1920. and March, 1922. the depart
ment estimated. was greatest in De-
trost. where it amounted to &c per
cent In New York the decrease was
22-5 per cent in the same period. and
In Chicago 2s.1 per cent. The small
est decrease found was in Los An
geles, where it was las per cent The
decline noted, however. is confined
chiefly to food and clothing. There
has been no general reduction in rents
or in-the cost OF heat. water. light and
car fares. Whq should these neeessa-
ries remain at wartime prices while
food and clothing are coming down ,
The farmers and the factory workers
appear TO be getting the worst of it
in the journey toward normally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05

rounded by warlike Assyria and
Egypt, and He dweit in a time of
alarms and periIs; but His vision
leaped ahead to a wireless, warless
Christ-ruled world, freed from. its
ancient thralldoms and limitations,
radically reconstructed by the reign
of the spirit of Christ, whose follow
ers are brothers of one another and
of all men.
Mere disarmament is not the way to
peaee-men and tribes fought when
they had only stones and clubs for
weapons-but a result of peace. Read
peace comes by way of the Peace
maker; and Isaiah foresaw what our
troubled but transformed world is be-
ginning to glimpse, that unto Him
shall the nations seek Already He
hath put all things under His feet
including the new highways of the
heavens.
Copyright. 1922. by the Ellis service.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05

one. But he was rum-hound ana
couldn't get out. He was always saw
ing money against the day of his dis
charge, hoping thus to get into some
nice, respectable business But in
Variabiy when discharged. he took
the money and got drunk again. only
to find when he sobered up that he
had re-enlisted. This went on for
more than seven hundred pages. At
its conclusion the soldier had again
re-enlisted for a period of seven years
and it is doubtful if he ever got out
of the army.
The fourth book was pleasing
volume describing Indian warfare on
the Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia bor-
ders. Daniel Boone, Lewis Wetzel
and Captain Sam Brady were about
the. only whites who emerged from It
alive. Some of the others were killed
with tomahawks, many with bow and
arrow; a few were burned at the
stake 1t was a good book, bound in
red. and filled US with a praiseworthy
ambition to exterminate every indian
in the country.
It was thus we laid the foundation
of a broad and comprehensive knowl-
edge-that we achieved our keen
sense of literary values. Perhaps it
is Just as we'll we never read Mick
Carter" Mick" might have cramped
our outlook.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05
THE NEW DAY DAwNs.

At the request of President Hard
ing. Eugene Meyer. Jr., managing di-
rector of the war finance corporation.
recently made a trip thru the agricul-
tural and livestock sections of the
United States which carried him to
the Pacific coast. The trip was made
in order that he might make a first
hand investigation of conditions and
report to the president. Mr.. Meyer
has filed his report in which condi-
tons in the agricultural and livestock
districts are covered in detail. His
conclusions are that the severe and
unprecedented depression which dealt
such a blow to the agricultural inter
ests is in some sections of the country
a thing of the past; in other sections
it is rapidly passing; and everywhere
hope and confidence are taking the
place of despair which six months ago
was so widely prevalent
The Importance of Mr.. Meyers dis
covery is readily apparent in view
of the fact that prosperity of the en-
tire country primarily rests on the
well-being of the agricultural interests.
To illustrate:
The United States department of
agriculture has just completed a sur
vey of the manufacture and sale OF
larm equipment. The results of this
survey clearly demonstrate the value
OF this market to American manufae-
turers. During the year for which the
survey was made, farm machinery to
the value of $536. $4,000 was manu-
featured in the United States and all
but 500, $685. 900 worth was sold in the
UuIted States. The data upon which
these figures were based were collect
ed from 5s3 manufacturers whose
products included all kinds of ma
chinery used in planting. cuItivating
and harvesting, as well as machines
for preparing crops for the market,
and horse-drawn vehicles.
This report shows that So per cent
Of all farm machinery and vehicles
manufactured in this country are con-
surned by the American farmer. This
is significant when considered in CON
necIion with a report just made by the
5cint congressional commission of ag-
riculturaI inquiry. This report shows
farming interests to be the second
largest consumers of steel in the
United States, being outranked only
by the railroads. and the consumers
of one-fifth of the coal produced in
the United States. and 46 per cent of
the country's lumber production.
These figures emphasize the fact
which has been forced upon the
attention of the business and indus
trial world in the past eighteen
months; namely. that agriculture is
the basic industry. and when it is in
distress all other Industrial and COM
merc1al interests of the country suffer
in corresponding proportion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05
HEART AND HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: used to have
a girl friend who is very selfish and
she would like to have all boys for
herself She and I were very good
friends at one time and when my boy
friend would say he was going to
bring another boy over I would invite
her to come and then she would flirt
from me. She did this with two diff
ferent boys and then I got angry and
never invited her again.
I have been invited to a May party
and told r. bring my boy friend.
happen to know that this girl will be
there and I know that if she likes the
boy I go with she will do anything to
20 go to the party, but L don't want
to lose this boy friend.
Do you think it would be safer to
stay away from the party because of
the way that girl acts?
1t would be very foolish to stay
away from the party. Unless the boy
to other girls when he sees them, you
might as well let him go. Just be-
cause the other two boys preferred the
other girl is no sign this one will.
Have more self-confidence.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: My girl friend
wants me to come to her house for
dinner and to meet young man, her
boy frien is going to bring over in
the evening. I am seventeen years old.
Do you think it would be all right to
go? She also wants me to stay all
night.
ANXIOUS.
Yes, I think it would be all right
for you to 60
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05

Judge Pollock is quoted as saying
that the legislature has the right to
delegate rate fixing powers and it ap-
pears to me that carries with it the
right to fix wages" If so, reasons the
Sioux City Tribune, then it also ap-
pears that a legislature has the right
to fix the profits of manufacturers,
merchants, bakers and candiestick
makers, and-the fees of professional
men. All OF this may be true in fact,
but there are in existence many rights
which it does not pay to exercise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05

The Bull Moose appear to have
staged a comeback in Indiana, re-
sulting in the nomination of Albert ].
Beveridge as the Republican candi-
date for United States senator. Mr..
Beveridge is a scholarly and an able
man, and will be a credit to his state.
should he be elected. His value to the
state will be enhanced by his past ex-
perience in the upper house of con-
gress. The people of Indiana can
hardly do better than elect him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05

The widely prevailing habit among
women of bobbing the hair. it is re-
ported. has resulted in a remarkable
decrease in the sale of combs, and
hair pins, thus throwing out of en-
ployment many men and women who
worked in the factories where they
were made The comb makers should
so to congress and demand protection
for their industry.
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International
SunddySchoolLesson
BY William 4. ELLIs.

For May Z. is "Isaiah's Ideal for a
World at Strife.'-Isafah 2:2-4;
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TO slip some time. Bocbo is more
than 40 years old and was the won
der OF the league last season, when
he kept Wichita In the race by his
mastcrful Wop kthc first Of the sea
son. Musscr suffered all last year
with "a bad arm and was OF little use
to the team. hut insists 10 will stage
q comeback this year. Gregory was
the stcadie5t hurler on the staff In
1921.
Sellers, the young soutnpaw, had
n nice season in 1891 and looks like
Il conner. Mauu also IS youngstcr
who is apt to find himself ON the
right trail this summer, Bob Berg
or, brother of Joe Berger. is another
young hurlcr who undoubtedly will
bo retained. as he showed up well Ia
the closm gmonth OF last season
There are a half-dozen recruits try
ing out who will probably be re-
leased, or farmed, IL they show
enough promise.
Frank lsbell and his field general
Joe Berger, are not predicting an.
other pcnnant. hut do state that
their club win be strong enough to
give them all another race this year,