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The Topeka state journal., 1922-01-28
Dorothy Dix Talks
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
.FEa'a Rlghess Paid Weman WIZ.

Play F'air--2.
have known women who kept
their husbands terrorizeds with theiI
nerves so that the poor men entered
their own door on tfptoes, and never
dared vary an iota from the program
their wives had laid down for their
daily conduct, because if they did as
sert the slightest independence friend
wife went into spells of hysteria.
1 have known women who denied
their own children every advantage
of education, and dress, and asso-
citation because they spent every cent
of family income that could be spared
from the actual living, on hospitals
and sanatariums, and every new
tangled, fake cure.
I knew one woman who kept her
family in abject slavery to her for
twenty years because of Her poor
heart, She couldn't do any work.
be excited because of her poor heart,
and then it was found out she didn't
have any trouble with her heart at
all.
The pity that the strong feel for
the weak makes them defenseless
against the, Eelfishness OF the feeble.
They cannot strike one who is down.
They are too brave to fight back, and
that is what make invalidism such a
paying, if nefarious. profession to fol-
low. 1t is to be noted that nearly all
lady invalids get well Immediately
if their husbands die, and their chill
dren go off and leave them.
Old people openly trade on the rev.
erence and respect, the pity that their
children and their grandchildren have
for age, to enforce their tyrannies on
their families, and get their own way
They hold the threat of their deaths
like a hangman's whip over all about
fhona IN Ra0rl tho VcFdfohR= i'm
order.
Think of all I have done for you,
how 1 nourished you in infancy, and
cared for you in childhood. It is
your duty now to take care of me in
my old age" ST shall not live long.
When I am gone you win be thankful
that you made my last days happy"
"I am too old to move. I would be
miserable away from the old home. I
could not bear to be waited on by
hired hands, so you must stay and
take care of me-
How many old people have cruelty,
brutally, heartlessly wrecked the lives
of their children with these cowardly.
selfish pleas for their own comfort!
How many talented boys-have hao
their parents shut the door of oppor-
tunity in their faces! How many girls
have been kept from following love, or
fame, by some old mother or father
who liked the kind of biscuits they
made, and was willing to doom them
to a barren life in order to get them.
Perhaps none OF US are very easy
to live with, but it especially behoovss
those of US who have misfortunes that
appeal to the sympathy of others, not
to take advantage Of them to gain
our own ends. AS We are weak, let
US be merciful.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-01-28
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
LETTERS.

An italian gentleman wrote me
very beautiful letter. I have been
carrying it around in my pocket tor
days. / have read and re-read it.
cause he didn't usA very good Ian
guage-that he had worked with his
hands for SO long his mental educa-
ton had been neglected.
But this is what I thought as I read
the letter-~that his heart education
had been enriched every day of his
life. And he has passed some of that
richness on to me.
He came to America when but 9 boy
of 15--ail alone, and not knowing a
word of English. Yet his letter was
beautifully worded and penned with
great neatness. What impressed me
among SO many things, howeveb, was
his sincerity and thoughtfulness..
That readers letter. and hundreds
of others which have received. are
food to my soul. I prize them above
everything I possess.
How letter is able to thrill one!
A love letter-wouid the recipient
part with it for any price? The letter
your mother writes you--isn't' 1t sat
urated with that which nothing on
earth could supplant2 And the letter
of encourag agement-how much it
means.
If your day hasn't gone very well.
write a letter of he1pfulness to some
one you love. You will sleep happy.
In many of the books I prize I have
pasted the letters written me by those
who wrote the books, and the volumes
take on new beauty and value.
I often read the little pack of let
ters my mother wrote to me when I
was fighting for a place in the world.
They tighten up my heart.
Nothing is SO encouraging as a let
ter.
I have a small volume of Lincoin's
letters that / read very often. 1 keep
it on the little stand next to my type
writer. No one ever yrote a more
beautiful letter than did Lincoln to
Mrs. Bixby who had given her five
sons to the cause of her country.
want to give you the last sentence of
that letter:
II pray that our heavenly Father
may assuage the anguish of your be-
reavement, and leave you only the
cherished memory OF the loved and
lost, and the solemn pride that must
be yours to have laid so costly sacri-
flee upon the altar of freedom
1t isn't how you word your letters
it's how you feel them.
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By TEE rAPE
The Park Ave. News

The Park Ave. News
Weather. Fair in spots.
Spoarts. Last Satiddy Benny Potts.
Puds Si1nkihs and Leroy Shooster
wawked erround looking up in the air
and yelling Hay get off the roof, MAX
ing everybody look up in vane.
Sissiety. Miss Loretter Mincer has
stopped taking singing 1essins, and
some people think it would be still
more useful of her il. she stopped sing
ing even without 1essins.
Pome by Skinny Martin
Selfishniss
Id like to, be a sharp shooter
With a gun behind a tree,
But Id certeny get mad at enybody
That took a shot at me.
Things You Awt to Know. Crickits
make their noise with their wings in
ste9F of their voice, ony the other in
seeks proberly don't know that, show
ing the value of education.
Dogs washed. Rates according to
size and disposition. The Ed Wernick
and Lew Davis Dog WashabIet Dog Co.
(Avvertisem ent.)
Lost and Found. Nuthing.
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much to growI at. Bolsheviks all of
them.,,- Or on politics: we should
worry about Europe. We have
enough troubles of our own 4 man
who finds a, symphony q bore and to
whom the theater means merely Ed
Wynn or Al Jolson. What wonder
that the college woman finds more
conEenia1 companionship in her own
sex and prefers to make her own liv-
ing rather than to marry a man she
cannot respect.
Professor Holmes should divide his
responsibility for the trend or the
race He should not place it all on
the New Woman but hand half of it
to the Old Man"
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Time was when the policy of our
government was TO shut out the prod
uet of cheap European labor by a
high tariff, while at the same time
permitting that cheap European la
bor'' to enter this country in unlim-
tied amount Recently a limit has
been placed on immigration, while
thrift prohibition is in -abeyance.
American manufacturers now are said
TO be solving the whole problem by
taking their work to the cheap Euro
pean labor" If American industries
be transferred abroad, the blame can
be placed on. the effort to overcome
economic laws by legislative enact
ment,
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ing to the show and he need not go
unless he wants to, but you would
like money for it. Perhaps am over
iy optimistic in thinking that he will
give it to you, but I believe that>if you
are skilfui in getting him into a good
humor and then use tact in asking for
what you want, he will not refuse you,
Anxious: You will have to talk
to a lawyer in regard to divorce. I'm
less your friends has a very good rea-
son to divorce his wife in Italy 1 do
not believe he will be able to obtain
a divorce. The lawyer will state the
terms of payment he will be willing
to accept
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JUST FOLKS
LITTLE FEET.
~ EDGAR a. GUEST.

LITTLE FEET.
There is no music quite SO sweet
AS patter of q bahy's feet.
Who never hears along the hall
The sound of tiny feet that fall
Upon the floor, so soft and low
As eargerly they come or go,
Has missed no matter where he be,
Life'S most inspiring sympathy.
There is a music of the spheres
Too fine to ring in mortal ears,
Yet no more delicate and sweet
Than patterins OF baby feet;
Where'er L hear that pit-a-pnt
Which falls upon the velvet mat,
Out of my dreamy nap l start
And hear the echo in my heart.
'Tis difficult to put in words
The music of the summer birds.
Yet far more difficult a thing
A lyric for that pattering:
Here is a music telling me
OF golden joys that are to be
Unhera1ded by horns or drums,
To ME a regal caller comes.
Now on my couch I lie and hear
A little teddler coming near.
Coming right boldly to my place
To pull my hair and pat my face,
pndaunted by my age or size,
Nor caring that am not wise,
A visitor devoid Of sham
Who loves me just for what am.
This soft low music tells to me
In Just a minute / shall be
Made captive by n Thousand charms,
Held fast by chubby little arms,
For there is one upon the way
Who thinks the world was made for pla
Oh, where's the sound that's half SO swe
AS pattering Of baby feet?
Copyright 1922, BY Edgar 4. Guest-)
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In defense of the emergency tariff
it is being. pointed out that Canadian
exports of wheat to the, United States
during period of four months ended
December last. amounted to 9,367,000
bushels. worth 10,550,O0O. compared
with SO,G4s,oOO bushels valued at
s69.475,OOO for the corresponding pc
riod of 1920. There appears to be
little encouragement for the Ameri-
can farmer in these figures. in view
of the lower price at which he has
been forced to sell. He could well
afford to meet Canadian competition
while he, was getting the prices pre-
vaillng before the tariff act was
passed.
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In a final desperate attempt to ere
ate public sentiment in favor of a
ship subsidy. friends of the scheme
are circulating a report that foreign
nations are opposed to an American
subsidy. It may be that some of them
are opposed to it. but if they are it is
unlikely that they would openly object
10 any purely domestic policy which
the United States may choose to pur-
Erc
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THE lower house of congress has
passed the anti-Iynching bill. But
while the statesmen were talking over
the lynching problems, Oklahoma
took steps toward, an immediate and
effective solution by sending three
lynchers to prison. If state and local
authorities generally had adopted this
plan earlier there would have been no
call for a federal law. Much COM
plaint is heard from time to time re-
garding federal Interference in state
affairs but not infrequently the states
bring it upon themselves by not dis
charging their duty to the public.
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The dispatches indicate that those
attending the agricultural conference
in Washington have no definite pro-
gram upon which any considerable
number of the delegates can agree
Probably there are too many political
farmers present and not enough
dirt farmers. Usually that is the
situation in all similar gatherings.
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.DISGUSSPLAN TO
'CHANGEGBLENDAR
Convention c outsiders
Dividing Year Into
10 Months

WASHINGTON. Feb. IA ma.
tional convention OF business, pro-
fsssional and scientific men to dis.
cuss the question Of calendar re-
forms with q view to endorsement
Of a bill now pending in congress
to substitute for the present time
calendar one dividing the year into
Ii months OF 20 days each, con-
vened here today at the National
Museum auditorium under the aus.
spices Of the Liberty Calendar rs.
ISOLATION OF America. The liberty
calendar" bill which has been In
troduced in the house by Represen-
.tatiye Shall of Minnesota with the
endorsement OF the association,
would put the new time schedule
Into effect In 1928 to give the
other nations an opportunity to
follow.
The bill is advocated by the as.
ISOLATION as aftord.ng a standard
time schedule for every year which
would definitely fix for all time the
dates OF every day OF, the week by
the uniform Is day month diyis-
ion and thus dispense with the
need Of yearly calendars and the
Inconvenience OF having to refer
to these to establish the coinci-
dence of days and dates" On
1856 day years the odd day remain.
Ing would be disposed OF as New
Years Day." The first day Of the
year to be given no other designa-
ton and re aimed as a legal holi.
day. On leap year day" the addi.
tional one day lap would be dis
posed of by. creating a "leap year
day" between the months OF June
and July as a legal holiday. The
extra month OF the calendar would
be called Vern to include the EVER.
nal equinox" and begin spring.
The would begin with Monday
instead OF Sunday thus 1928 is
selec ed for installing 1t, advocates
explained, because the next day
after the first Is a Monday. The
same date for every month tim
would be fixed for each day Of the
week until the end OF time. This
would mean a saving OF $4oO. 900 .
GOO a year now spent on calendars.
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WoRTHINGToN
Interest in s. s. Work

There seems to be a consider
able increase In the Sunday school
work In Worthington at present.
There was a record attendance at
the Christian Sunday School on
Sunday last, reaching 103 as COM
pared with So one year ago. The
school has shown an increase Of
over 100 per cent for several
months. A good sized contribution
was made to a des .itute person
who is sick at the present time and
without funds to employ a physic-
ian.
Removed Blacksmith Shop
D. o. Robinson, who owned and
operated a blacksmith shop on
water street for several years and
who recently sold the building.
has removed his tools to the build.
ing at the east end Of town near
the street car line where he will
conduct the business hereafter.
Taking An inventory
Isaac Mc1ntire, the merchant,
has been taking an inventory OF
his stock Of goods on hand for the
past few days, and completed e on
Monday morning.
49, Personals
George W. Morris Of Downs was
a business caller. here on Monday
James r. Tetrick OF Enterprise
was a visitor In town on Sunday
Mrs. s. A. Lowe OF Salem,
Harrison county, Is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Jesse NJ. Wood al
present.
Mss Doris Parish, who Is a
student at the University, spent
the week end with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ch1s. q. Parish. al
the Ark Hotel here.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. q. Freeman
have removed from Annahelle &c
worthington and occupy rooms
with Mrs. Frank M. Sharpe. Mr..
Freeman Is principal d the Anna.
belle schools. r
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse N.
Wood on February 3rd 1922. o Cor
Jas. l.. Bararck was q visitor
In Shinnston on Sunday.
Howard Shaver Of Enterprise
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WINFIELD

Mrs. H. F. Summers. Avery An
derson and Miss Mamie Baker
were guests at the home of D. c,
Baker on Sunday,
Mrs. Aaron Morgan and dalgh-
ter, Minute, were calling on Mrs,
H. F. Summers one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Bisett Of
Littleton were calling on D. c.
Baker recently,
Mrs. WILDER Hall has ret,i.ned
home from a few days visit with
her son, Ray Hall.
Leslie Satterfeld was the guest
Of his sister. Mrs, D. c. Baker,
recently.
Aaron satterfeld was visiting at
the home of L. R. Hawkins Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Wright and
David Baker of Fafmont were
calling on H. s. Baker over Sun
day.
Miss Fannie Baker is confined
to her home in Winfield by illness.
Miss Rachel Baker. who has
been Ill. Is Improving now.
Miss lea Vincent was the guest
of her sister, Mrs. Phoeba Nuzum,
one day recently.
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tchanpes Hands.

The Darrah brothers, Who until,
recently were owners Of q variety,
store In Fatryiew, have purchased
the meat market formerly owned BY
James Harker, and have introduced
In connection q large up date gro.
Gerry department. These brothers
are well known locally, and have
already established a large trade.
Residences Needed.
Fairvtew's greatest need Is not
in business houses, factories, or i'm.
proved streets. although these
would be helpful TO any town, but
! In every day dwellings. Most Of
the houses advertised for rent are
those which were built In the ante.
diluyian age. Houses suitable for
rent are few and far between, and
the price on these Is almost prohibi.
tive, comparing fayorably with
apartments on Riverside Drive.
Families here are forced to pay as
high rs $50 per month for houces
which In normal times would bring
$40. Unless some OF our progress.
sive and philanthropic citizens in.
augurate a building program
shortly, many would.be citizens will
be forced TO, take up their abodes
elsewhere. All eyes are turned ito
1.-THE Marion Construction company
In hopes that as soon as It gets
the Dakota school building complet.
ed. 1t will develop on large scale
here. With sufficient number OF
houses the population would double
IN less than a year. It would also
furnish employment for the many
unemployed who are walking the
streets and loating in public places.
Selma Lenhart Next.
The last two attractions. on the
high schools lecture course will be
staged in the local NJ. E. church
auditorium, February 81 and March
II: Monday night, February ~,
Miss Selma Lenhart, noted mono
logtst, will render her program.
while on March II, Charles R. Tag.
CART, the man from Vermont who Is
known as the man who puts music
into his fun, and fun into his mu.
Sic" will entertain local folks.
With the Churches
One Of the largest crowds of the
year gathered at the Bap list
church Sunday evening to hear
Rev. R. L. Names, pastor OF the
local M. e. church, deliver a we'll
prepared sermon on the theme.
"Seryice." In his discourse, he
pointed out how each one Of what.
ever occupation or profession, had
a certain work to do, and that his
success In life depended upon how
well that person did the work In
which he was engaged. The ser.
mon throughout was call for
more and better service especially
among the churches. This was the
first meeting nthe Bap list build.
ing since It underwent repairs and
practically the entire population
turned out. Many were unable
even to find standing room and
were turned away. The union re.
viyal, It was announced last night,
would be held in the M. E. church
and would begin Sunday, Febru.
airy rs. Services, however, would
not be held on Monday, February
2, for on that date the third Ly-
ceum number, put on by the local
high school, would be given in the
auditorium Of the same church.
Contract let
The contract for placing a furn.
acc In the Dakota school building
was let To- 2. W. Morgan and
Brothers OF East Side, Fairmont,
by the school board at its last
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Revenue Source for
Bonus to Be Decided

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE
problem of selecting revenue
sources to defray the cost OF SOL
diers' bonua measure rested today
in the hands Of the majority mem
bers OF the house ways and means
committee and the senate finance
com.ttee. informing the major.
ity members Of the two commit
tees at q White House conference
late yesterday that whatever bonus
bill was enacted should carry a
revenue provision, President Hard.
ing Joined Zin an agreement that
they should confer Jointly on the
question OF how the revenue should
be raised, with the understanding
that when q decision was reached
It should be submitted to the Presi.
dent with q view TO his conscious
ness. H
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vices nrc especially lntereItir
worth while, These s
everyone else. arc busy n
many things ot interest e
their time, hut they want u .gty
some service 20 God.
Williams Memorial Church.
An Important meeting Of n
board Of stewards Will be bed
4 O'Clock Tuesday night ~
meeting WIN promptly ~ Z o'cloe
and viii close q 7:2s o'clock q
FREQ Methodlst Church.
Rev, 6, r. Johnston. eSsngeiis
OF Kittannlng, Pa, viii arrive her
"Wednesday 10 assist In the rcviv1
campaign, which Is being held q
the Free Methodist church IN MOI
gantown avenue. The meetlng
have been In progress for the pas
week.
The Social brotherhood win med
at the church this evening ~ "a
o'clock. All the men Of the chnrc
and their friends are urged 70 q
tend. Harry Engie, OF this eityI
Will address the men on the aNlh
feet, "The Humorous Side OF
Bankers Life" A Dutch lunch VIII
be served. "a
The Ladies' Aid society vii
meet at the home OF Mrs Joh{
CIaybour in Oliver avenue at 7:3t
Thursday night.
]. F. Shafterman's class OF yottn
men will hold an indoor 'Sundaj
school picnic on Friday evening q
1880. Everything is being dong
the class to make this IN ,ento5 ~
evening for all.
The Wednesday evening church
sermon subject will be "The Trans
fguration Of Christ" This Is mi
second sermon from the same sub
First NJ. p. Church.
The Christ Loyal Workers. Ci1fIl
will meet at 1880 tonight, 1t IN |
, church. M
First United Brethren Church. |
There will be a meeting OF III
Sunday school teachers and otfi
GERS at 1880 tonight at the church,
A teacher training class will b orl
ganized.
Thursday night at 1850 q Nom,
hership social will be held al thd
church for the new members.
Mrs. D. d. Cutright's SUNDAY
school class WIN meet at $3.50 FriI
day afternoon. A
First Presbyterian Church.
The Woman's Missionary society
will meet at 1880 Friday atternociI
In the church parlor.
The mems Bible classes OF tho
various churches will meet at thc
First NJ. z. church at 1880 Wednes
day night, and attend the scyipscl
istic service In a body.
N. p. Temple.
The Kings Daughters wi1I have
an all.day sewing on Wednesday al
the homo Of Mrs. r. Z. Cunningham
At Monroe street.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
society will meet at the church ID
$3.50 o'clock Friday atternoonf SHE
subject to be studied Is Chinas and
the members have been asked 10 III
view this subject in the Literary
Digest.
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confined to her home the past few
days and is quite sick at this time.
Walter w. Putnam. who has
been spending some time with his
parents at Petroleum, w. Va, Is
expected to return here in a few
days.
Mrs. Charles Ables and little
daughter, Eloise, have been on the
sick list the past few days.
Mrs. A. B. Moore was at Glover
Gap the last Of the week where
she visited her father. W. Il. Sell
ers, who had been i'll for a few
days.
Mrs. James Davis of Baxter was
the guest Of her daughter, Mrs.
Delbert Diamonds, is Murray Nv
eHue yesterday.
Mrs. Jimmy Glasscock, who has
been quite sick for some time, is
improving now.