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TO OPEN HARRINGTON
MILFORD ROAD SEPT. Is

Special to The Evening Journal.
MILFORD, Sept. 6-According TO
ROOMS FOR RENT.
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FURNISHED ROOMS-Light houss
keeping; running water. References.
1874 w. Fourth ST. septe-3t.
FOR RENT-Furnished room: all con-
veniences; rent reasonable. 226 West
stree5. sepr6-2..
FURNISHED FRONT BEDROOM. also
smaller room In private private home. near q.
RooMs-Two, furnished. CAN evenings.
sos Washington st. sept6S-s.
RooMs-Two, front. reasonable rent.
s21 Madison St. septe-4t-
RooM-Furnished. private family; lady
or gentleman. Phone 404s-W. sept5-St.
RooM-Nicely furnished. s1s West St
sep2-9t
RooMs-Three and bath. cheap. second
hoor' llO4 Walnut St septl-ot
RooMS-Three, furnished. electric light
1900 Market ST. aug26-1m.
w. Fourth ST. aug51-et.
RooMs9Three. unfurnIshed rooms
and bath. ia f Second St augS0-u
RooMs-Four. on third floor. 1909 Mar
ket st. aug29-6t.
RoOM-Large, front, furnished: use OF
bath, porch, SO per week. Inquire 617
jackson ST. Phone 7032-J. augSl-et-
private family;
lady or gentleman. Phone 4046-W.
sept5-St
ROOAIS-Two, furnished for light
housekeeping. Apply evenings, 32t E.
sixth 81. septo-zt
nicely furnished for light
housekeeping. Phone 7032-W.
sept5-bt.
gas and electric. !
for light housekeeping. 51s West st.
septS-St.
furnished; private fam
lily; all conveniences. Ill W. 18th
street sept2-tf
private family. W. /
gath St., near Market. Phone S42s.
augSI-ot
unturnlSneQs SecOnu
floor, for light housekeeping. 1905 w.
Fourth st. aug31-1m.
ROOMS-Nicely furnished; hot water,
electric lights. 1901 Market St
aug30-1m.
front; private
home. 1910 West st. Phone 3203-M.
aug24-1m.
ROOMS-Two, for light housekeeping;
all conveniences. GA Washington st.
Call after $50 p. M. aug10-1m.
aoOMS-Furnished. light housekeep-
ing: conveniences; free telephones;
3011a West st. feb23-1yr.
2OOMS-Two. communicating. next to
bath. furnished for light housekeeping;
,rivate family. 1121 Chestnut St
sOOMS-Two, front, communicating,
for light housekeeping; electric and
,as. Apply 1907 Washington st. Phone
636 aug1Stf
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MILFORD, Sept. according to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-31
THE BONUS PROBLEM.

If congress persist in the announced
intention, as voiced by party leaders,
to vote a soldier bonus, it must also
provide money for payment of such
bonus. This has been made plain by
both the president and the secretary
of the treasury. Provision for pay
ment cannot be shunted off onto the
interest to be derived from our for
eign debt. The bonus. bill must in
clude the levying of additional taxes.
The bonus situation is commented
upon by the New York journal of
Commerce as follows:
Controversy about the soldiers
bonus seems to be almost immortal.
1t might have been expected that when
once the plan had been accepted by
the administration discussion would
have been laid to rest, the legislative
leaders being contented with the vic
tory they had won.
Instead of this. the old struggle is
still raging around the question
whether congress shall or shall not
make provision for paying the bonus.
Many legislators want to provide the
bonus by pretending to settle it out
of the interest on foreign debts-an
imaginary source of revenue. They
are not willing to take the needful step
of providing new taxes for the pay
ment of the obligation Yet President
Harding insists upon such taxes, and
seems, by implication, to threaten a
veto if they are not included in the
bill.
In some ways the policy advocated
by the president is the most effective
way of opposing the bonus-laying the
responsibility for new taxes exactly
where it belongs. A vote for the bonus
must and should be simultaneously &
vote for further taxation. Congress-
men will naturally hesitate somewhat
as to how they vote when such an
alternative is offered. The proposal is
statesmanlixe and fair. If bonus
hunters have the votes to take money
from the treasury, they must also use
their votes to put it back again. since
there is no available surplus
Apparently congress will not be per
mitted to play horse with the soldiers
as it did with the women when t
passed the majority bill without pro-
viding funds for carrying out its pro-
visions.
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HEART and HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State Journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am girl
II years of age. I am in love with a
boy six years my senior. 1 love this
fellow and 1 don't think I could give
him up. He treats me with respect in
every way. We are engaged and are
expecting to be married next year If
everything works well, but I would
like to get advice from you to satisfy
myself Is it proper for him to talk
to other girls while he is with me or
while I am not with him, since we are
engaged? 1t makes me feel worried
when he does it.
BROWN EYES.
1t is perfectly right for your fiance
to talk to other girls, and it is all
right for You to talk to other young
men. Marriage does not mean that
either party should give up friend
ships and ignore acquaintance. I'm
less you give your fiance more free
dom and keep your jealousy in con-
troll you will never be happy.
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LElE rAPE

Yestidday in skoo1 Miss Kitty told
the class all about ventilation and wat
a fearse thing it is to go to sleep with
out having your window up far enuff
and the different things that's libel to
happin to you in case you do. and last
mite it got cold as enything and started
to get even colder and l only put my
window up about a intch and a half
wen I went to bed, and all of a suddin
I weak up, thinking, Holy smoaks I
forgot all about ventilation, G WIZ
And I quick jumped up and opened
the window as far as IL would go,
thinking, G, 1 wonder If pop and ma
have got theirs up, they're lible to get
sick If they haven't.
And I went down to their room and
they was both asleep and one window
was ony up a little and the other one
wasent up at all. me thinking. Good
mite, I jest came down in time And
opened them both all the ways and
went back up to my room and quick
got under the covers on account of it
being so cold allreddy. and it kepp on
getting colder and colder and things
started to mock over and blow GROUND
the room on account of all the wind.
me thinking. Good mite. gosh. ventil
lation may be all rite, but not this
mulch.
And got I'D and closed the window
all the ways and then 1 went down
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George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
WINDOWS.

I am looking out of window, high
above the street. Hundreds of other
windows spot the city buildings as far
as can see.
Behind all these windows human
beings sit and work and dream-laugh
and weep.
I see moving figures pass in shad-
ow before many of these windows.
The drama of life is being enacted.
Some of these people are at meals.
Some are in conversation. see
girl at a piano. A mother is rocking
her baby in her arms. A man sits a t
one window smoking his pipe. Two
children are at another window look
ing out. 1 wonder what they arc
thinking about?
Never do I pass a building or
home with windows but L wonder what
is going on behind them.
Today 1 rode for hours in a train
came to the edge of great cities
where little homes were crowded like
the bricks in a wall-roofs and win
dows, for miles and miles, And each
roof and every window represented all
the home in the world to those who
| lived beneath and behind them
Windows are for light. And ye,
| how small a light gets into the lives
of many of the workers of the world,
! look into peoples eyes and 1 say.
| What wonderful windowsi
My bedroom window faces the east.
! Great trees tower outside. Branches
reach almost to the very stills. Bird
come early to sing their morning
songs. And sunrises of gorgeous hues
greet me at break of day. ] lean
against the sills and Nature filters my
thoughts.
The world is outside of every win
| dowl
Too many people merely look out OF
their windows-seeing nothing.
4 Yet there isn't q window in the
| world that God doesn't come up 90
and look into. He is always interested
in knowing how folks are getting on
4 AS an employer, 1 wouldn't have an
| office or a building that didn't have
plenty of windows, so that light might
i come to all who worked therein Nn
vital life can live in darkness. People
! only grope in darkness. They climb
\ in the light
! Copyright. 1922. George Matthew
/ Adams)
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Dorothy Dix Talks
Lest We Forgot
BX DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman WEi

Lest We Forget.
''Why does my wife want me to tell
her that I love herr" he demands.
Don't L prove my love by spending
my life toiling to keep her in ease and
comfort? Why does she want me to
bring her home flowers? Isn't a beef
steak just as much a token of affec-
ton as bunch of violets? What does
she want me to lug home boxes of
candy for? Hasn't she got a charge
account at the confestioner's where
she can buy chocolate by the ton if
she Graves it so much?
why does she expect me to clut-
ter up my mind with all sorts of an
niversaries? 1t is all 1 can do to re-
member the date my notes become due
in the bank, and as for my picking out
presents for her, how do I know what
she wants, and what is the use of
wasting good money in getting some
foolishness she won't like?
Women certainly are the limit, and
no man can be expected to remember
all of their whims and peculiarities."
And yet the remembering marks the
line between the good husband and
the bad husband. For with women it
is the little things that count. No
woman is grateful to a man in these
days for providing her with a home
She can earn a living for herself, and
generally with less work than she does
as wife and mother who makes her
family comfortable.
The thing that pays her for stand
ing hours over a gas range, and
wrangling with butcher and baker, and
spending cold nights walking the
collie, and ceaseless cleaning, and
mendfng, and darning, is for her hus-
band to give some visible sign that he
sees what she does, and that he never
ceases to be appreciative of it. When
a husband takes his wife's work
hardened hand in his, and kisses it,
she is repaid for all her toll, but if
he never even notices that she doesn' t
sit with white hands folded in her lap
all the time, then her work becomes
a slavery that she hates and loathes.
The average husband seems also to
labor under the delusion that his wife
is a mind reader, that altho he never
says a single word of affection to her
after they are married, or indicates in
any manner that he admires her or
approves of her, yet she will know,
without being told, that he is still de-
voted to her. Unfortunately, few
women are gifted with psychic pow
ers. Most of them hail from Missouri,
and have to be shown. So when their
husbands drop the love making and
on them in the days of courtship, the
ladies naturally draw the conclusion
that they are no longer loved.
OF course, this isn't true. Their hus-
bands have merely forgotteh to be
lovers. That's all. but it turns matri-
mony into cinders, ashes, and dust for
the poor wives.
Therefore, I urge all husbands to try
to remember to be good husbands. 1t
will pay them the biggest dividends
on the smallest Investment they ever
made.
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Treasury department records indi-
cate that thrift has found a firm foot
hold in America. Figures made pub
lie by the savings division show that,
despite the economic depression and
unemployment the savings of small
investors thruout the Omitted States
total approximately s27. 600, 900. 900 or,
taking the population at 100000.
. per capita savings OF about $3.50 for
every man. woman and child in the
nation. OF this sum of Working dol
lars $4,000, 0O0,0 600 is invested in gov
eminent securities, while the other
$4,000, 600, 900 is represented by de-
posts in more than 80. 900 savings
banks. To the holders of third lib
erty loan bonds. included in the in
vestments referred to, the government
is today paying semi-annual coupon
interert amounting to more than
$1,000. 600. At the same time the hold
ers OF these securities are being in
vited by the savings division to re-
invest their interest money in thrift
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Dinner Stores

Mrs. Feddup was burning with
righteous Indignation as she bounced
into her neighbours house.
"Graciousi Now what's the mat
ter?" was the anxious inquiry.
You might well ask what's the
matter" cried Mrs. Feddup in a voice
of choked rage. why, it's that brute
of a husband of mine again. He's
gone a bit too far this time. I won't
put up with him another day"
my gracious! What has he done
now"
''Donei Why, last night he actually
complained that my mustard plasters
were not as hot as those his mother
used to makei"
An old. old road mender sat on the
shafts OF his wheelbarrow, proudly
surveying the few yards of the country
lane he had swept and garnished in his
days work. The sun shone the robin
that shares his crusts OF bread sang to
him blithely, but there was still an
other good reason why his weather
beaten, rugged old face wore a look OF
good content
81 be a-going TO be married sir.
was the amazing confession he made
to US, as we passed the time Of day.
And / be happy 70 say. SIR he added.
that 1 be a-going to be married with
the full consent of all the children, on
both sides"
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observation-disclosures

Q. what is feterita? W. VIC.
s. Feterita is a variety of grain native
to the Sudan, introduced into the United
States by the Department of Agriculture
O. What part of the cocoon is embroid-
4. The silk fiber from the finest part
Of the cocoon. after all that can be reeled
off has been removed, is earded and spun.
texture and is known as embroidery floss.
Q. l hear that II man claimed exemp-
ton for being foreigner he must wait
five years before he can become an Ameri-
can citizen. Is this true? G. s.
A. The Naturalization Bureau says that
if an alien surrendered his declaration of
intention to the Draft Board in order to
evade military service, he would forever be
debarred from citizenship. If he merely
claimed exemption on the grounds of be-
ing an alien, he would not be forever de-
barred, but under the courts ruling he
must wait five years from the date he
claimed exemption; In case man got his
first papers after the war and after he had
claimed exemption, he can go before a
naturalization court in two years, but
whether or not he will get his final papers
in that time depends on the decision of the
Q. Was John L Sullivan ever eIassed as
world championt c. C. R.
. A. John L. Sullivan was never a world
champion. He was, however, heavy weight
champion of America. Jim Jeffries was the
first heavyweight world champion.
(Any reader can get the answer TO any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin. Director. Washington. D. c. This.
Bureau cannot give advice on legal med
teal and financial matters. 1t does cot at
tempt to settle domestic troubles. nor to
undertake exhaustive research on anv sub
ject- Write your question plainly and
briefly. Give full name and address and
postage. All reDlies are sent direct to the
tnQuirsz.l
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JUST FOLKS

By EDGAR A. GUEST.

HIS PLAN.
he seemed to be tFifIe queer
The neighbors living round him here
Observed ne had a curious way
OF hiring men from day to day
To wash his windows and to sweep
The sidewalk and the ground to Keep;
When one man had the back yard cleared
Another man next morn appeared
And diligently there and then
Tinkered around the yard again.
The windows washed the. day before,
The new man shined a little more,
And with the morning there would come
Another man to polish some;
Each day beneld a strange. wan face
Doing odd chores around the place,
Until the neighbors, as they do,
Fell into gossip. wondering who.
This regiment of men might be-
And why this tinkering endlessly.
But yesterday upon the street
This curious man 1 CHANGED to meet,
And asked point-black, the reason for
Such diligence around his door.
DO you believe" sdared to say
windows need washing every day?
Tho tidy should a home be kept.
Sidewalks should not be hourly swept;
What is the purpose of your plan.
And why each day a different mani"
He looked at me and smiled and said:
1.-THE men must earn their daily bread,
They come for Jobs by which to live
And I've no job that can give,
But windows can be washed, you see,
BY different men repeatedly.
And so I formed this little plan
Each day to help some needy man"
And then to me he whispered low:
Il hope these fellows never know
Copyright, 1922, by Edgar A Guestl
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to be sporting, as Roger Betty
Roger. would say.
CONGRATULATIONS, Bill" she mar
aged with a brave smile and held. OUT
her hand. us it some one I know
KNOW? Why. who should 1t DC
but Betty Lane?' Bills tone was rap
turous.
i''But-but-" the girls heart was
bounding.
.'She told me little while ago that
she almost let the cat out of the bag
this afternoon and would have only
well, she knew 1 was coming tonight
to tell you myself"
you're in luck and she's a darling!
and there was no doubling the enthu-
siasm in Francesca's voice.
But several nights later, as. in the
arms of Roger, Francesca told the
whole story. she finished with vow
that was solemn if brief. Never
again for me. Roger! I'm thru with
flirting"
THANK Heaven" said Roger fer
vently Its promise I'll see you
@Copyright. 1922, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
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INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS.

A comprehensive picture OF indus
since 1914, as reflected in wages,
hours OF work, and employment, is
shown in a report issued by the
National Industrial Conference board.
This report, entitled, Wages and
Hours in American Industry: July
1914-July, 1921" makes sur
vey OF average hourly and week
1y earnings, average hours of work
and employment, covering twenty six
major industries. 4,4O0 industrial es-
Establishments and $4,000 wage earn
ers, and presents a record of wage
changes from pre-war period to the
middle of 1921
According to The report the inves-
tigation, covering over 100000 wage
earners, shows in June, 1921, aver
age actual hourly earnings ia per
cent, and average actual weekly earn
ings IS per cent above July. 1914.
Hourly earnings fell 1875 per cent and
weekly earnings 2s.2 per cent from
the peak il. 1920 to the middle of
1921. -otal employment fell 81 per
cent from June. 1920, up to July,
1921.
Real wages of American workers
are shown to be considerably higher
in the middle of 1921 than before the
war, despite extensive wage reduc-
lions and curtailment of operation.
due to industrial depression.
Composite hourly earnings of all
wage-earners increased 156 per cent
between July, 1914, and September.
1920. The decline from the latter
period to the middle of 1921 amount
ed to 1915 per cent. At that time, the
net increase over July, 1914, was ia
per cent. The actual decrease in
money in average hourly earnings for
all wage-earners from June, 1920, up
to July, 1921, amounted to 91s cents.
Hourly wages show a we'll sus-
tanned level to the end of 1920. Be
ginning in. January, 1921, sharp de-
clines occurred which increased thru
out the first six months of the year.
By September, 1920. the hourly
earnings of common labor had in
creased 1913 per cent over July, 1914.
In the same month, those of skilled
labor showed an increase of 149 per
cent, while the high point of hourly
earnings for women was reached in
June. 1920, when there was an in
crease of III per cent over the 1914
level.
The percentages of decline for the
three groups from the peak months
up to July. 1921, were as follows:
Common labor, 17.3 per cent; skilled
labor, 1872 per cent; women, 14.6 per
cent; and relatively, the amount of
decline for women was less than that
for the male group. The percentages
of increase in June, 1921, over 1914
for the three groups were respective
ly III per cent, Ill per cent and 13l
per cent.
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Hearings before the ways and
means committee of the house of rep
resentatfves on the proposed constitu-
tional amendment to make state and
municipal bonds subject to taxation
has closed. The proceedings will be
printed for distribution. Early favor
able acton by tho committee is ex-
pected, it is said. street car fares
would be lower and electric light and
gas cheaper if public utilities were not
compelled to compete with tax ex-
empt securities in the money mar
1ets," said P. H. Gadsden of Phila-
delphia, representing utility associa-
items. He stated that some companies
had been obliged to pay IL per cent
for money becaus- investors who had
formerly purchased their bonds now
prefer per cent tax exempt securi-
ties. The lure of cheaper fares and
lights may appeal to those in the
cities who pay no direct taxes, but it
is unlikely to influence the mind of
the country resident, whose taxes
would be greatly increased by the ne
cessit. of paying higher interest rates
on bonds issued for schools and other
public improvements. If the amend
ment should be adopted it would he
the public that would pay the II per
cent interest rate and the utilities
would be borrowing at and 6.
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stairs thinking I better close the win
dows in pop and mas room in case
they mite wake up and think it was
funny. ony when I got outside their
door L herd them tawking, proving
they was awake allredIy, pop saying,
But confownd it to blazes, dident I
tell you 1 never touched the con-
mownded windows, you opened them
yourself, that's wat you did, you
opened them yourself weather you re-
member it or not.
Willyum. 1 did not, you must of
done it and you're the ony one that
could of, so you'll know whose fault it
was if I've cawt my deth of cold,
thawt I was sleeping on the roof or
somewares wen woke up, sed ma.
Me thinking, G, they must of closed
them already. I CESS the best thing
for me to do is sneex back to bed.
Wich 1 did
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which are not very hard and give
them the necessities of life. Usually
they do not live In we'll chaperoned
boarding houses, but club together
and rent flats. They have a month
OF vacation a year. They enjoy a
measure of freedom and independence
which is known to few girls living at
home with the folks. and to still fewer
married women. An of them probably
are willing to marry if a sufficiently
brilliant offer comes along, but bril-
liant offers are few and freedom is
sweet when once you are used to it.
Probably the SO per cent of Washing
ton women who are unmarried in
cludes a considerable numbes of that
new type--the spinster-by-choice.