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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-21

Arcadia --- Eugene O'Brien tries his
hand nt light comedy In 'Chivalrous
Charley" and makes q more interest
ing and enjoyable film than any he has
been seen in long time.
"Chivalrous Charley IS about an
over polite youth who is hero in the
eyes Of a girl, but boob to his uncle.
Although the comedy is distinctly not
slapstick, there is chase across coun-
try that is for all the world as hair
raising as any of Sennett's.
Nancy Deavcr, n comparative new
conner, plays opposite the star, and
dcpcndable old George Fawcett Is n
delight as the uncfe. Huntly Gordon
and ID. J. Flanagan are other members
of the cast. Robert Ellis directed
capably.
Palace-Styles in stars and beautiful
screen ladies change every week or so,
but William :. Hart goes on forever
His new vehicle, "Travelin' On" is
an interesting, smoothly constructed
yarn, without undue originality or sub
tlety.
Hart has the role of an unbelicver.
who only learns of the Word of God
through the love of good woman,
Throughout the greater part of the
picture he is known only as u. b."
Lambert Hillyer directed this pic
ture, which has Ethel Gray Terry in
the leading feminine role. Brinsley
Shaw is the heavy, and there are the
usual child actors, sufficiently "cute."
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-21
MADRlGAL CLUB IN FINE
PERFORMANCE OF "MlKADO"
vocalIy Impressive Rendition Of Gil.
bert.suIIivan Opera by Local Talent
The Madrigal Singers. an organiza.
THE CAST

Conductor-Henry E.otz.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-09
LITTLE BENNy'S NOTE BOOK
BY fEE PAPE

We got a new setting room clock
yestidday, being a big round one that
plays a tune every Is ninnits so every
body can tell its 5 minnits later, and
ma dident say enything to pop about
it SO he would be serprized, and after
suppir he started to reed the spoaFting
page in the setting room and the clock
played a. tune, pop saying, Hello, wat
the dooce? Wieh jest then ma came
in with>-her hat on waiting for Mrs.
Hews to come and go to the movies
with her, saying, Izzent that beWtifill,
WilIyum? ? 1 got that this morning
with my tobacco kewpons, aren't you
glod you saved them for me?
Its quite a>clock, sed pop. And he
started to reed agen and pritty soon
the clock played another tune, pop
saying, Hello, the darn things out of
order allreddy.
1t is not, certeny its not, its Supposed
to do that every Is minnits, that wat
you call the chimes, sed ma, and pop
said, Do you meen to say I haff to
lissen to them every 5 minnits? and
ma sed, Certny, they're bewtifill.
They're all rite, ony wen you've herd
them once you don't feel like heering
them agen 15 minnits later and so on
indefinitely, sed pop, how am 1 going
to keep my mind on wat I'm reeding ?
Now, Willum don't be abserd, they're
the chimes, Sed ma
Well don't need eny chimes ringing
over me, I'm not sick or enything, sed
pop, and ma sed, Now Willyum, that's
a perfeckly bewtifill clock and they're
perfeckly bewtifill chimes and its GER
teny disappointing to have you carry
on about them after I stood in that
dredfill mob hours to have my kew
pons redeemed.
I'm not saying enything. wat am
saying. the clocks all rite, sed pop.
And he got up and started to look at
it close, saying. Hello, heers little
gimmick to make the chimes stop
ringing, o that's a fine ideer, that
swell, it's CRATE clock.
Now Willyum, don't you dare tam
per with that clock, don't you toutch
it, you'll have it out of order, sed ma,
and pop sed, Who's toutching it, I'm
not toutehing it. And he started to
reed agen and Mrs. Hews came and
ma went out and the chimes rang 2
more times and then pop got up and
termed them off and keep on reeding
with a happy Expression.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-09
STANDING IN THEIR OWN LIGHT

1t has been apparent to any casual
observer ever since railroad passenger
rates were advanced that the roads
were losing heavily in the amount of
this class of traffic carried and con-
sequently in the cash returns from the
business. But Chairman Clyde. NJ.
Reed of the public utilities commits
sion has made the first estimate of
the extent of the decline that has ap-
peared. He places it at % per cent
in western territory.
If the financial loss sustained by
the roads, due to diminished traffic,
had been offset by lower expense ac-
count, their maintenance of the IN
creased rates might be excused. But
it has not. They have continued to
operate approximately the same trains
but with fewer cars, and thoss half
filled.
1t is pointed out by Chairman Reed
that the roads are beginning at last to
recognize their error. AS an evidence
Of this he cites the increasing number
of excursion rates granted. Northern
transcontinentaI lines this week an
nounced a considerable reduction in
tourist rates to the Pacific coast.
The automobileS owing to the high
fares charged by the roads, have been
making heavy inroads on the business.
AS the highways are improved and
cars become cheaper the competition
is certain to increase unless the rail
roads reduce their charges.
1t is no unusual occurrence for
parties to make the trip from To-
peka to either coast m motor cars.
Probably nine times in ten this is
done for economy, rather than for the
pleasure of operating one's ows4 means
of locomotion. If the railroads desire
to win back this lost business and in
crease their revenue they should no
longer hesitate about reducing fares.
They have been standing in their own
tight.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-09

where Jim and she were standing. she
gave a very little scream and chung to
Jim as If the Gleasons' front stairs
were the slippery side OF an Alpine
chasm.. The Gleasons, fearful lest
harm had come to the twins above,
hurried to the hall and snapped on
the electric light that showed Grace
being upheld with rather unnecessary
tenacity by Jim.
I'VE didn't mean to overhear you"
said Grace. But We did near every
word you said
Mabel Gleason's face registered
hauteur. She didn't know how it hap
pened that these young people should
be IN her house clinging to each other
on the landing of her stairway. At
the moment she couldn't recall what
she had said, but she remembered it
was personal. She chose to cover her
embarrassment by appearing offended.
1T is too bad you slipped, Grace,
she said, looking as icily at her as she
could, because if it hadn't been for
probably have said a good deal more
that would have interested you"
I'VE heard all we needed" JIM
laughed. I'VE heard enough to know
that you and Tom are home folks,
after all. Somehow think that what
we heard is going to make big diff
ference in our lives" He hadn't alto
gether released Grace, in spite of her
little jerks to be free, and now he held
two strong arms on her shoulders
and looked into her eyes. 1T will
make a difference, won't it9" he ask
ed her, as if no one had been by and
quite regardless of Helen's gasps of
surprise.
Perhaps they whispered something
or perhaps they said it aloud for per-
haps they understood each other just
by an exchange of glances. No one
of the quartet just remembered how
it happened later. But there on the
landing Grace told Mabel and Jim
told his brother Tom, and there were
general congratulations and a few
tears, and Tom and Jim shook hands
and Mabel kissed Grace and then
kissed her husband and kissed Jim,
and it was not until later that they
remembered that ten minutes earlier
Grace had quite definitely told Jim
that she had no intention of marrying
any one
Copyright, 1922. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-09
FoREsTAII1NG THE SENATE.

President Harding appears deter
mined to make the disarmament ac-
ton of the Washington conference ef-
fectlve without waiting for the senate
to ratify the treaty that has been
signed Work on warships has been
ordered stopped and a halt has been
called in the construction of fortifiea-
tions in the Pacific.
1T will be especially interesting" ."
says Leslie's. ito watch the adaptable
Mr.. Lodge lead his skittish colleagues
up to the international conventions
for which he is sponsor. and with a
gently stroking hand and soothing
words coax them not to shy away"
Undoubtedly the covenants coming
out Of the conference represent in
their essence the popular will. The
national acclaim which greeted Mr..
Hughes's initial disarmament propos-
al shows that Americans are willing
to meet their neighbors more than
half way in any reasonable arrange
ments which will insure peace. A ma
tion-wide referendum today probably
would give our delegates an over
whelming vote of confidence.
And yet what they have done has
been done in secret negotiation. It is
noteworthy that the Washington con-
ference has been no more "open" in
The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-09

Q. If I spoil an envelope bought ready
stamped can L cut out the stamp and paste
it on another envelope? q. 5. NJ.
A. The Postoffice Department says that
embossed stamps cut from embossed
stamped envelopes are not accepted for
postage. A spoiled unused embossed en-
Veope may he redeemed at postage value
when presented by the original purchaser.
Q. Are any cargo vessels sailing that
have crews entirely American bornI H. +.
II.
A. The "Western Maid" sailing for Russia
with grain is the first American cargo yes-
sci to sail the high seas with crew that
is 100 per cent American.
Q. What scores are impossible to make
in crihbaEe? II. II. $.
A. The best hand counts % go II dealer
has 4 fives and turns a jack, aud 1t is
not possible to count 10, 2j, % and n
(Any reader can get the answer to any
questions by writing The Topeka state
journal Information Bureau, Frederic j.
Haskin. Director. Washington, ID. &. This
offer applies strictly to information. The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal, medi-
cal, and financial matters II does not at
tempt to settle domestic troubles, nor TO
undertake exhaustive research on any sub
teot. Write your question plalnly and
briefly. Give full name and address and
enclose two cents I'm stamps for return
postage. All replies are sent direct to the
inQuirer1
The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-09
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
WALKING THE TRAIL.

Our lives are made up of trails.
Trails are fascinating things. The
other day I rode in a train over an
old Indian Trail of a century or so
ago. And drc,,saed pictures OF
poetry as we rushed over the plains
and thru the valleys.
1 could see the Redskins, in all their
magically wonderful existence, long
before the White Man came-doWn
rail fences, to thel towns, copcrete
roads, automobiles and trains oHAthe
present.
If you have ever walked over an old
trail, you know the thrill it gives to
you-something of the past coming
up to tell you how to walk it just a
little betterl
How many of us start out on trails
with those in whom we believe and
trust-only to end our trail alone!
He who walks the trail to the end
must be of steady, sturdy stuff.
Trails are often very lonely affairs
full of testing, and sometimes a
maze OF despair. But the strong in
heart endure-WelI deserving their
sleep under the stars when the night
comes on.
There is nothing that fills life with
ardor like walking the trail with a
friend.
Climbing over the rocks, hearing
the crackle of the dead, fallen
branches, catching the odor of the
woods, and moving thru and on with
the melodies of the wild songsters of
the forest-who would not glory in
walking the trail in Nature?
However, our little lives may find
bigger trails than those thru the trees
or across broad plains-trails thru
peoples hearts!
You in whom I believe, in whom
you belieVe-shall We lot trail to-
gether and catch just a little spirit of
the Infinite as He smiles to US thru
silences?
So that at the end of the trail we
may bow-made happy by the best
that we tried to do.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-09
THE TRADE BAROMETER.

There is an old saying in financial
and commercial circles that the steel
business is the barometer of trade II
the state of the steel trade can be ac-
cepted as an indication of the future
the outlook for prosperous year is
bright The Iron Trade Review. un-
der date of February 2, says:
Better bookings and a large volume
of inquiry are reported from various
quarters of the steel market this week.
January for many companies, particu-
larly the larger interests, registered a
considerable gain over December in
tonnage entered for rolling and the
February outlook is that this improve
ment will be carried farther. Tho
weaker prices have accompanied heav-
Ter tonnage negotiations in some lines,
general sentiment is better. Produc-
tlon Is again turning upward. Chica go
works have put additional steelmaking
and mill capacity in commission with
further increases scheduled. A lead
ing Pittsburgh independent is starting
two more blast furnaces. Independent
Steel works in the youngstown ter
ritory have increased operations to SO
per cent this week.
Construction work of building. ma
Fine. oil field and miscellaneous char
eeuFaging prospects. Structural awards
this week total $4,000 tons, outstand-
ing among which has been $500 tons
for a department store addition in
New York. Bids went in this week
on the 1900 tons for the union sta
ton, Chicago. At least eight vessels
in addition to the eight reported last
week are up before coast builders.
Canadian yards have taken four coal
vessels for lake traffic. About fifteen
to twenty additional tanks for various
oil fields have been placed the past
week, Seattle again is figuring on a
>66-inch water line requiring IL, 700 to
$4,000 tons of plates and Portland for
I a 60-inch line of about as much ton
mage. Gas holders placed at Los
Angeles and Oakland call for 4,300
tons.
Additional rail buying for 1922 de-
livery has marked the week. The Illi-
nois Central placed $4,000 tons, and
the Florida East Coast, $500 tons. The
Baltimore & Ohio is figuring on IL, 900
tons and the Western Maryland on
1000 tons. A development of interest
in the rail market is the offering to
American roads of 900 tons of Ger
man rails by the SHINES interests at
$3.50 Hamburg. 1t is reported this
an American road and subsequently
cancelled.
A further fall to sS2.s2 in composite
steel products is shown this week.
This compares with s33.27 one week
ago. sSS.45 for all January and $2s.05
for oh
The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-09
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.
THE BOY AFRAID OF HIS DAD.

THE BOY AFRAID OF HIS DAD.
Bill Jones. who goes to school with me,
Is the saddest boy l ever see.
He's just so 'fraid he runs away
When all of us fellows want to play
An says he dassent stay about
Coz il his father found it out
He'd Wallop him. An he can't go
With us to see a picture show
On Saturdays, an it's too bad,
But he's afraid to ask his dad.
When he gets his report card, he
An once 1 saw him when he cried
Becoz altho he'd tried an tried
His best, the teacher didn't care
An only marked his spelling fair,
An he told me there'd be a fight,
When his dad saw his card that night.
1t seems to me it's awful bad
To be so frightened OF your dad.
Ny Dad ain't that way-I can go
An tell him everything 1 know,
An ask him things, an when he comes
Back home at night he says we're chums
An we go out an take a walk,
An. all the time he lets me talk
I amt scared to tell him what
I've done today that 1 should not
When 1 get home I'm always glad
To stay around an play with Dad.
Bill Jones, he says, he wishes he
Could have father just like me,
But his dad hasn't time to play
An so he chases him away
An seoldS him when he makes noise
An licks him If he breaks his toys
Sometimes Bill says he's got to lie
OR else get whipped. an that is why
1t seems to me it's awful bad
To- be so frightened Of your dad,
tCoDyright. 1872 by Edgar Guest.)
The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-09

Eight separate and distinct govern
ment police forces are reported to be
operating along the Mexican border.
The customs service, the immigration
service, the prohibition enforcement
service, the narcotics section of the
department of justice, the Iuplic
health service. the department. of as-
rioulture, the army intelligence serv-
ice and the secret service, all main
tain squads along the international
line. The situation is as tho the city
of Topeka employed one policeman
to look after speeders, another to ar
rest burglars. another to handle dis
turbers of the peace, and so on thru
the whole list of common violations
of the laws. Yet, if reports from the
border can be believed, wholesals eva
sions of customs duties are prdcr'ced,
oontraband liquor is brought il in
huge quantities, thousands of undesir-
able aliens steal across the :ine. tons
of dope are imported. and criminals
fit back and forth. While this is an
age of specializing, the application of
this system to law enforcement seems
to leave much to be desired.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-09
Dorothy Dix Talks
A Marriage Con,ract-a
BY DOROTHY DIX
worlds H1ghesa Paid Eoman WrsbaF

n Marriage Contract.
The fly in the ointment of millions
| of marriages is the daily spat over
money at the breakfast table. 1t
MAKES a woman mad all over to have
| to so to her husband, like a beggar
rafting tin cup and beg for a few
dollars to pay the butcher, and baker.
and candle stick maker. and keep the
home going. Still more does il in
furiate her never to have a cent OF
her own that she can spend as she
pleases when she knows that if she
did the work in any other house than
in her own she would draw down a
fat pay envelope every Saturday
And it gets on the nerves of the aver
age man to be asked for money. He
likes to make his family presents but
he hates to pay the bills. The gray
diSillusionment OF matrimony TO him
is that families cannot be fed on air.
and that wives are not miracle work
ers who can conjure good meals out
of nothing instead of having to get
the materials from the butcher and
the grocer.
A marriage contract in which the
man agrees to turn over a definite per-
centage of his earnings TO his wife
would eliminate this never ending
cause of friction. If the woman didn't
consider the terms liberal enough she
needn't sign up, and if the man wasn't
willing to pay the price lie could with
save himself trouble and alimony.
Certainly no one can deny that it
would help tremendously to settle the
in-law question before the wedding
day instead of fighting over it after
wards. 1t could be written in the
bond that neither party was to be sac
rificed to the others mother, and that
each of the aforeherinsaid parties was
to be entitled to have his or her reia
tives camp for a specific and equal
number of days in the spare bedroom
and no more.
As for the extravagant wife, surely
it would be a check upon her spend
ing to be confronted with her own
signed agreement to live upon a GER
tain amount of money. No woman
who had that matter written into the
bond before marriage, could regard
her husband as a mere cash register.
as 90 SO many other wives who seem
to consider matrimony in the light OF
a graft.
A man would also have a right to
| demand in this contract that a woman
should fulfill her part of the duties of
the joint partnership by making him
a comfortable home, and reserve for
himself the privilege of having some
time to himself, in which he would
not be expected to punch the home
timeclock at the specified hour or else
go thru a scene.
Anu lhe woman might demand that
her husband should treat her with as
much consideration as he would a per
feet stranged; THAT he would take care
of the children one evening a week
and let her go forth to .amuse herself
unhindered by crying babies.
And they might mutually covenant
together TO try to make as great
success of the partnership of matri-
mony as they would of any other
| business Which would make mar
riage a success instead of the failure
it so often is.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-09

have been bringing their own children
offered their service to help other
peoples boys and girls. Eight wo-
men who regularly take their families
to school said they would come early
and stay until nine o'clock. One
mother coppet brings her 2-year-old
baby in his carriage and leaves him
on the sidewalk while she helps other
children across the street"
Tho the coppet project is only a
couple of weeks old in Washington it
is already being suggested for other
places. The wife of the mayor of
Toronto who was in the city last week
became interested in the plan, and de-
clared that she would try to have it
introduced in Toronto.
The ambassador from the Argen-
tine republic also is interested. He
tails from Mrs Logan with a view to
having the plan put into effect in
Argentina
The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-09

The platform endorsed in a resolu-
tion adopted at a meeting of the new
progressive party launched in Ne
braska says that the violent deflation
of our currency during the last two
years by the federal reserve banks is
the principal and Immediate cause of
the present industrial depression. The
remedy lies, the resolutions say. in
''ousting from power. on the reserve
board the tools of capitalism and
forcing into vigorous and healthy cir
culation these billions of cornere1 and
idle money" If the members of the
new party can lay hands on those
same billions or any portion thereof,
they can he depended upon to place
the cash in circulation. In the mean
time capitalism is ready to put its
money in circulation on approved Sc
curity at the current rate of interest.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-09

There is pending in Washington \
proposal for the issuance by the rail-
roads of mileage books, providing a
lowered rate of fare. If it be put in
to effect it will provide cheaper rides
for those able to invest in the books,
while the poor man will make it up
to the railroads by continuing to pay
the regular rate. The plan is a re-
vival of the pass evil in an amended
form
The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-09
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There was attending it nothing like
the publicity which the senate let's in
upon it's proceedings.
1t seems to be generally expected
that the senate will ratify the treaty.
There does not exist. on the part of
the majority. the same incentive TO
reject it that there was when the Yer
sailles pact was pending.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-09

That the budget is working is egi-
denced by the reduction in the size OF
the interior department appropria-
ton below the figure for the current
year and below amount asked by the
department. The ways of saving pub
lie money are legion and General
Dawes seems to be utilizing a num-
ber of them.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-09

A United States senator recently
urged the members of a college class
in Washington to avoid a public ca
reer if they wished to attain success
in life. But the chances of success in
public life are about as good as they
are in any form of endeavor. Some
win and some lose. Besides success
does not have the same meaning to
all
The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-09

The great amount of building now
going on in the country should tend
10 lower living costs. The rent prob
lem enters into the cost of things be-
cause it helps to keep labor, which
pays it, high. 1t enters also into the
price of goods directly, because the
merchant must figure it into his costs.