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The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27
FOR YOUNG FOLKS
Kansas Boys and Girls Will At
tend S. S. Conferences.
To Be Held at Golden, COIO.,
and Lake. Geneva, Wis.

Several hundred young people in
Kansas will be in attendance at the
older boys and older girls conferences
to be held this summer under the
auspices of the Kansas Sunday School
association at Golden, Col, and Lake
Geneva, Wis.
This will be the first season the as
sociation has conducted a, camp in
Colorado. The older boys conference
will be held June 81 to July and the
older girls conference will be held
July 25 to August 6.
Five Topekans to Attend.
Five Topekans, who will attend the
Lake Geneva conference are: Helen
Louise Steele, 712 Horne street; Emma
Lou Peterson, 522 Fillmore street;
Edith Peterson, 514 Monroe street;
Minnie Macauley 1858 Western ave
nue.; Hazel Flanagan, 1900 Tyler
street.
other persons, who will attend the
Lake Geneva conference are: Hazel
NJ. Kinds, Broughton; Mary Ellen
Henderson. Atwood; Kyral Hamilton,
Wichita; Laura NJ. Hall, Lincoln Cen
ter; Zelda F'ossey. Nickerson; Naomi
A. Sappington, Pratt; La Verne Stu
gard. Lawrence: Charlotte Roehr,
wichita; Catherine Schriver, Halstead;
Dorothy J. Loveless Marion; Marian
Wheeler, Salina; Mildred P. Swan
son, Clay Center; Orren c. Ewbank,
Nickerson.
Jamie Dodge, Abilene; Ruth Bax-
ter. Clay Center; Martin Hoffman,
Lakin; Paul S. Henshaw, Winfield:
Edwin Henry, Jr., Dodge City; Law
renee Nicholson, Newton; E. J. Nc
Creight, Quenemo; Charles Lsely, Jr.,
Dodge City: Robert Farrier, Salina;
Arthur J. Rymann, Atchison; Asabel
Burt Eustace, Wakefield; Porter L.
Bower, Winfield; Ernest Bockoven.
Norway; Earl D. Bellman, Wichita;
Barton Walter, Norway; Raymond
Ramsey, Dodge City; Albert Schriver,
Halstead; Homer J. Armstrong, Atchi-
son; Alan Cheney, Newton; Ed Nc
Burney, Newton; Sam S. Weatherby,
Jr., Lawrence, and Glen U. Richard,
Goff.
To Colorado Conference.
Persons, who will attend the Gen
eva Glenn conference in Colorado are:
Edwin Henry, Dodge City; Paul S.
Henshaw, Winfield; Martin Hoffman
Lakin: Raymond Ramsey, Dodge City;
Alan Cheney, Newton; Ed McBurney,
Newton; Eugene Mcfarland, Lincoln;
Harold Soulen, Galena; John Fitzger-
aid. Marysville; Ruth Baxter. Clay
Center; Dorothy Loveless, Marion;
Charlotte Roehr, Wichita; Naomi Sap
pington, Pratt; Marie Crocker, White
City; Opal Hickson, Wichita; Fanny
Martin, Caddoa, and Helen Greene,
Beverly.
Miss Bonita Ferguson. who is in
charge of the registration for the
camps has selected the following
camp leaders: Miss Mary Longecker,
Lawrence; Miss Lillian Brinkman,
Great Bend; the Rev. Cyril D. Plome,
Kansas City, Kan; Frank E. Made,
Salina; Mrs D. S. Jackson, Wichita
and Miss Laura Jackman. Wichita.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27
A SPRING PARTY
Meet at Huron
Home In New York.
They Danced, Dined and Played
Games in Kansas Style.

New Rochelle, n. Y, May 27.-
Thirty-two ex-Washburnites had a
spring party here Saturday night at
the home of George B. Huron. 'O1,
president of the New York Washburn
club. and Mrs. Huron. 1t was the
final blowout m what has been the
most successful year the Washburn
organization in the east has ever had.
Besides dancing and dining, the
crowd played games in true Kansas
style, drank punch even better than
mother used to make, listened to Will
liam c. Gordon sing-he is a profess
sional. highly regarded in the east
and then danced some more.' 1t was
a great party. even if most of the
crowd did miss the last train back to
the city.
Among those present were: Ar
thur S. Kane and Mrs. Kane. Ralph
d. Kingsley. and Mrs. Kingsley. DR..
Charles Haynes, Clarke G.. Daley,
Philip C. Daley, Edwin A. Menninger
and Mrs. Menninger, Miss Florence
Rowles, Sapt Arthur S. Champeny,
Miss Geneva Seybold, William C. Cor
don, DR.. Judson Fisher and Mrs.
Fisher Miss Frances Lindsay, James
Lindsay wallace Thompson and Mrs.
Thompson, Miss Ida Hardy, Harry
Robinson, c. Benjamin Franklin.
Miss Marian Lerrigo, Miss Josephine
Tice, Sam Wood, Harold H. Tice. Mrs.
Nell McKirahan Scott, A. Roy Myers
and Mrs. Myers. and George B. HUI
ron and Mrs. Huron.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27

Wichita, Kan, May 27.-The police,
tho much mal1gned, are vital to the
welfare of the community and are too
little appreciated, Earl c. Elliott, city
manager of Wichita, said in an ad-
dress of welcome to the Kansas Peace
Officers association in semi-annual
session here today.
Someone has wondered what would
become of society if the churches and
schools were removed" said Mr.. Ell
lott Il am wondering what kind of
an awful confusion we would have
without the peace officers.
"Oh, we folks all growl about you,
but that is natural because you inter
fere with what we are pleased to call
our personal liberty our right to do
as we please without regard to its
effect on the other fellow. We folks,
a good many Of us, say that you are
inefficient, unintelligent and without
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27
Do Topeka He Happers
Insist on |Petting" When
They Go Out With a Girl?
The Worst Part of 1t Is That They Have No Originality
in Their Love Making One Girl Points Out-Motoring
Just Series of Loves and Kisses in True Movie Style.

I see them coming on. I sure wish I
could find someone with different
! line. They are always so affectionate,
and they are just starving for some
in return and want to shower on
you what little they have left over
from the last girl they took riding.
Then too. they take it all as a mat
ter of course. part of the evening 8
program.
"Humph," snorted the school teach
er, you may have all of that sicken-
ing kind of stuff you want to, but not
in mine. They credit the average
school teacher with being an old maid
before she is one, and having old
maidish tendencies but I'd a lot rather
have them than act like a perfect
fool. To be sure I don't go any
where, 1 don't have a chance. That's
really the first time 1 have admitted
it right out tho. for I generally act
like Miss Lulu Bett, and say that I
stay 'dateless' from choice
Mothers High Ideals.
you girls have all said what you
thing" spoke up the third business
girl, land 1 want to tell you what 1
think. Mother gave me much high
ideals that have always felt it wrong
to permit my person to be touched.
To me a kiss should mean something
not a silly exchange of for-the-min-
ute sentimentality, but a deep feeling
of respect and love for some one l
have never acted in such way that
the men I've gone with would think
that 1 was inviting them to begin
some of the sentimental stuff. and of
all the men I have had dates with,
there have been just three who
haven't tried some such Stiffness 1t
usually comes up some time during
the evening and then he is shocked
panied and surprised that I am saving
that sort of thing for the one man
when he does come To my surprise
the other night, one man admitted
that he thought times were changing
and for his part it didn't matter to
MIN that the woman he married had
been kissed by every man in town
You girls have made him lower his
ideals like that, for if you hadn't per-
mitted it he wouldn't have tried it"
Say now, that's all very well"
broke in the first business girl "and
started out that way too but I'm
not responsible for what my sisters
before me have been doing It's not
altogether the flappers who are per
Inlttlng things like that and 1 know
It Just the other night for instance.
out on the East Sixth avenue road,
tnere was car after car parked along
the side of that 1876 miles of paving
and more than three-fourths of tho
girls IN those cars who were permit
ting the spooning parties, were in
Ihelr tWentleS and 1 saw several who
were at least thirty years old. Men
In their forties don't as an average do
things like that, for they were raised |
with different value of things. but
these men of today
Well still say what said at /
Llrst, she added rising and reaching
for her lunch check I wish to good7 |
ness you'd introduce me to just one
Iopeka man, not in his dotage, who 1
would take me riding and not be ,
spoony.'"
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27

strong and can do every bit of my work
and not pain in my back now. rec
ommend your medicine and you can use
this letter as a testimonial. " - Mrs.
PHIL. MAsER, S01 Winslow St., st. Paul,
Mimi
Just another case where a woman
found relief by taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. Many
times these tired, worn-out feelings and
pains about the body are from troubles
only women have. The Vegetable Com
pound is especially adapted for just this
condition. The good results are noted by
the disagreeable symptoms passing
away-one after another.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound is Woman's Medicine for Wo-
mems Ailments. Always reliable.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27

this. During that year, 1o2 babies
less than year old died. Twenty
two of them were less than a, day old
when they died. Forty of them were
more than a day and less than a
month old. Thus. in the first month
of their lives. sixty-two, or 60.7 per
cent of all the infants who died, sue
cumbed to ills and dangers of this
and three months, eleven more died.
Between the ages of three months and
six months, thirteen died. After they
had passed the age of six months, only
sixteen babies-15.6 per cent-died.
The reporting of births is a matter
of the greatest importance in the pub
lie health work of the city and of the
state 1t gives, as has been said, the
closest possible check, and is the most
sensitive index. to general health and
living conditions, which it is possible
to secure
But there is another side to the de-
sire of the health department to have
the births registered. 1t is for the
sake of the baby. Up to 1911 there
was no law requiring the registration
of births in Kansas. The health de-
partment is being continually asked
to supply birth certificates for army
purposes and the like. Records going
as far back as 1885 are on file in the
office of the health department, but
they are incomplete because report
ing births was a matter of whether
the parents desired to do it or not.
And more than half the requests for
birth certificates cannot be supplied,
because the births were never re-
ported.
Must Report Births.
There is now a law which makes
it compulsory for the physician, mid
wife or parent. to report the birth of
every baby. There is a penalty at
tached.
But even yet, tho conditions are i'm
proving, many births occur in Topeka
which are not reported to the health
department
The tiny, squirTning, squawling, in
eXpressibly dear atoms of humanity,
need the best of care in the coming
They cannot voice their
needs and feelings, nor Tell Mama
where it hurts" If there clothing is
not suited to their needs, or the diet
on which they are being fed is causing
internal dissension as troublesome as
Russia'S internal disorders. they are
unhappy, and the care of their parents
must be Intelligent and well informed
if the very life of their baby is to be
All these things are understood and
will be dealt with for the benefit of
any parent and any baby, at the free
clinic which is held at the
city hall every Thursday afternoon be-
tween the hours of 2 and 4 o'clock.
There are experts in the debate
mechanism of a baby's body, who will
be glad to find out why baby suffers in
the summer, and suggest the proper
remedies and treatments.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27

| into the tank are already completed.
The line which will run from the
tank to the Edison company's power
plant at Seventh and Jackson streets,
will be 1000 feet in length and six
inches in diameter. 1t has been COM
pleted as far as Eleventh street, one
and half blocks west of the Santa
Fe tracks.
At the tank there will be two cleo
trio pumps, one for pumping oil from
tank cars into the tank, and the other
for forcing fuel oil thru the feed line
to the power plant.
There is also installed at the tank
a $50 horsepower steam boiler, whose
sole purpose is to furnish steam for
heating the oil in tank cars to a de-
gree of fluidity which will make it
easy to handle, and to heat a coil in
side the big tank, to warm oil which
can be then forced thru the feed
line to the power plant The boiler
will not be necessary in SUMNER
only in winter. when the oil becomes
viscous and thick, with the low tenn
perature.
The maximum daily requirement of |
the power plant in fuel oil. can usually
be pumped thru the feed line in about !
four hours-at the approximate rate |
of one tank car full to the hour.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27

Construction has been completed on
fuel oil storage tank with a ca
pacity of fifty-five carloads-a whal-
ing big trainload-of oil, by the To-
peka Edison company. The tank is
between Eleventh and Twelfth streets,
east of the Shunganunga creek, on
land which was given for the purpose
by the city.
The tank IS thirty feet high, and
115 feet in diameter It's $4,000 barrel
capacity, translated into gallons.
means 100000 gallons, for the use
of the power plant of the Edison
company.
1t is of steel plates, and six carloads
some $50 tons-of material went in
to its construction. The floor of the
tank, also of steel plates, is laid flat
upon a most carefully graded earth
foundation.
When the floor and the first tier
of side plates were put together, they
were set upon supporting scaffolding.
Then the shallow basin thus made,
was filled with water, to test it for
leaks. before it was lowered to the
earth. The roof of the tank is of
wood.
The pipe lines from the railroad |
station thru which the oil is unloaded
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27
Summer Time Means Much
Discomfort and Suffering
For Babies of Topeka
Is Hardest Season of Year for Babies Says Report of
Earle C. Brown, City Health Of6cer-They Need Most
Careful Attention in Feeding and Clothing.

In a few short weeks that time of
year will have arrived when strong
men use strong language about the
temperature; when honest sweat and
euphemistic 'perspiratiOn" will spring
alike from the forehead of the hod
carrier and the Hly-white brow of
the dilettante; when appetites that
gave the supply sergeants of the A.
E. F. nightmares grow picayunish and
persniczetty; when dispositions which
are like those of the angels. and di-
gestions like those of the rhinoceros
alike go wrong.
That's summer. in Kansas.
The young son of a Topeka man.
aged Z. was the brother of a newly
arrived infant. He was allowed to
bring some of his playmates into the
house to see the new baby.
Their verdict was unfavorable.
"He bawls too much" was the criti-
cisn rendered.
The elder brother Indignantly de-
Tended the new arrival
Il guess if you didn't have no hair,
nor no teeth. and couldn't eat moth
ing, nor talk, you'd bawl, too" he
declared
You'd BawL Too.
And the youngster was right. II
you were facing a Kansas summer.
with no vocabulary to specify your
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27

All the digestive diseases, as a rule
are the result of wrong diet for the
baby. They include diarrhoea and
enteritis, gastritis, summer COM
pIaint'-under which the layman
classes the entire lot-and cholera in
fantum.
Malforations. congenital, resulted in
eleven deaths last year. They included
misshapen heads, hearts, and spines.
Sometimes limbs are also misshapen.
Babies born with malformations usu-
ally do not live more than a short
time.
Respiratory diseases include bron-
chitis, ana broncho- and lobar-pneu-
monia-
The acute infections, which in the
past two years have resulted in the
deaths of an unusually large number
of infants, include whooping cough,
measles. influenza and tubercular
meningitis. 1t is significant that
whooping cough, which is often re-
garded as one of the ills which "all
children have to have resulted in the
death of eight babies during 1920.
Due to the prevalence of the acute
infections, which are for the most
part winter Diseases" and which
have taken an unprecedented toll OF
baby lives in Topeka during the past
two years, a classification of infant
deaths by months for the last three
years, shows a result which is not true
to the general statistics for the United
States over the same period.
Dividing the year into two periods
CHASING June, July, August, Septem-
ber and October as the summer
months, there have been log baby
deaths during the past three years.
In 1919, the death list for these
months was only fourteen; in 1920,
forty-five; and in 1921, forty-seven
On the other hand, during the
winter months. when Topeka babies
have been dying of the acute infec-
tions. there have been 1856 deaths dur
ing the past three years, divided as
follows: in 1919, forty-five; in 1920,
fifty-six, and in 1921, fifty-five.
List of Deaths.
The complete list of deaths by
months of the year, for the past three
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27
BILLS IN A SHOE BOX.
$4,000 in Five and Ten Dollar Bills
Carried to Pay Note.

Wichita, Kan, May 27-When
Charles F. Waldorf walked into the
offices of c. F. Edwards. Colorado i'm
migration agent, here recently. he car
ried under his arm a pasteboard box
the size of a shoe box.
Waldorf united the string which
held the lid in place and drew out
$4,000 in bills, only six of which were
of larger than $40 denomination. The
money was in settlement of a note
Edwards said it took him thirty
minutes to count the money, but the
amount was correct, and he Cancelled
the note.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27

Total ..---..-...........-. .59 lO1 1O2
Consideration Of these figures would
seem to disprove the statement made
earlier, that summer time is a time
of death and discomfort among the
babies The explanation is found in
the abnormally high number of To-
peka babies who have died from the
acute infections of winter. during the
comparatively short period studied.
Statistics. covering a long period of
time, and a greater territory, would
reverse the figures from the Topeka
health department office.
The death rate of babies is much
higher during the first few weeks of
their lives, than at any other time.
The longer the baby lives. the better
chance it has for continued life.
Study OF 1921.
A study of the figures of 1921 shows
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27

honor. but the moment we get into
trouble or are frightened, we rush to
you with our tales of woe confidently
expecting and almost always receiving
aid and comfort.
Il do not know why a man should
want to be a peace officer, unless it
is because he has a larger sense of his
responsibility to the community than
the rest of us have. I can explain in
no other way the phenomenon of a
man offering for the service of his
community his time, his energy and
his Iife''
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27
~ NormaIites Make Delta Pi.

Emporia, Kan, May 2T.-Twelve
members of the senior class in the
Kansas State Normal school have been
elected to membership in Kansas Delta
Pi. national honorary scholarship fra
rernity with chapters in eighteen
teachers colleges and universities.
William Allen White will deliver the
annual Kappa Delta Pi address to-
morrow evening. Mr.. White will talk
on The Scholar in Politics"
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27
BY FRANCES JONES.

'I wish I knew of a man. said a
good looking girl the other day as she
deposited a tray filled with food on
a table at one of the down town cafe
teriaS. and prepared to eat her lunch,
Il wish 1 knew of just one man,
she continued, between the ages of
twenty and thirty-five who would
take me driving and not attempt to
interpret the passionate lover part in
the movies, in the first five minutes of
our date. using me for the feminine
lead"
what do you say about it," she
asked, turning to another girl at the
table where a group of girls were eat
ing lunch.
In the group were three business
women, one school teacher, one stay
at home girl and one who works be-
cause she wants to and not because
she has to (there's difference usually
in the type, you knowl.
''Wel as far as 1 am concerned -
said one of the business girls, a blonde
stenographer, I've quit trying.
used to fend 'em off. and argue with
'em but they wouldn't quit. So 1 be-
gan to think the thing out. It's just
this way girls. If you suffer in si-
Ience permitting yourself to be a tar
get for all their huggings and kiss
1ngs, they take you places. If you
don't they don't. What girl wants to
stay at home every night, or if she
Of girls always? I didn't so I just be-
gan permitting a little of the soft
stuff. and it works quite we'll"
Must Know Their Berries
Yes" broke in another of the busi-
ness girls, they all take it for granted
that the girl is dying to accept all of
their attentions and it doesn't make
any difference to them whether or
not she returns their misplace
caresses or not, just so she's there. To
be sure one has to watch her step
and know how to handle a spooning
party for two, tactfully. otherwise you
might have to do a little bit of slap
ping and then your chances for an
other date with that particular person
would be gone"
"Oh. I don't know, I think you all
are just a little bit hard on them,'
spoke up the stay at home girl. For
instance now I have been going places
with John for almost two months ana
he has never offered to kiss me- I
don't like him for that reason.
sure wish he'd show a little more pep.
I tell you some day I'm going to lose
patience with that man and I'm going
to try out a little scheme on him. I'm
going to sit beside him on the daven-
port some night, and all of a sudden
1 IN going TO fall right over on his
shoulder and gasp. My what a ter
rible pain IN ny hand, Oh my head.
it aches so bad and then see what he
does. The old stick. I'll bet he doesn't
do thing but fan me.
Men Pet Alike.
The only thing I object to-" began
one of the girls. in this loving bust |
ness. is that men are all alike They /
haven't the least bit of originality. |
they go at il the same way. You can
always tell the symptoms when you
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27

urea, WOrn-OuJ 1eel-
ing and painful peri
DDS. l used to get up
with a pain in my
head and pains in my
lowerparts and back.
Often l was not able
to do my work. /
read in your little
book about Lydia E.
Pinkham's We ge-
table Compound and
! have taken it. I
Ill n
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27
HE'S FOR The COPS

They Have More Trials Than the
Average Person, Earl c. Elliott
Tells Peace OFFICERS, Meeting at
Wichita.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27

infant deaths is increasing, and the
percentage of all deaths represented
by the infant deaths, is also growing,
yet infant mortality is slightly lower
in 1921 than in 1920.
There was an unusually heavy
death rate from the acute infections
and also from the diseases of early in
fancy. both in 1920 and in 1921, to
cause the increases which were noted
Five General Causes.
Five general causes of infant deaths,
and their relation, are shown in the
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27

Some of these causes require eX-
PLANTATION. The diseases of early in
fancy include premature birth, afro
ply, marasmus, and inanition-aH of
them due to improper feeding-umbil-
ical hemorrhage, injury at birth and
failure of the lungs to expand.
The three which result from i'm
proper diet forced upon the tiny sys-
tenn, are the most productive of baby
funerals.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27
WOMAN COULD
NOT WORK
Made Strong and Well by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound

St. Paul, Mimi took Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for a
The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27
Huge Fuel Oil Storage
Tank Is Constructed By
Topeka Edison Company

1t Is Thirty Feet High and 115 Feet in Diameeras
Capacity of 100000 Gallons Tank Located Between
Eleventh and Twelfth Streets, East of Shunganunga
Creek