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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-20


Secretary Melons success in han
ding the financial affairs of the gov
eminent and keeping Uncle Sans
head above water emphasizes the i'm
portance of having a man fitted for
the Job. Mr.. Mellon has made a big
success of his private undertakings,
and that, probably, is why President
Harding chose him for the most diff.
ficult position in the cabinet during
the reconstruction-p period. The secre-
tary has had occasion to make numer-
GUS short time loans to meet treasury
needs as previous loans come due, and
in every case he has fixed the rate of
interest at a point which later expert
ence demonstrated to be in accord
ance with the ruling money market
Not in any instance has any one crit
icised the terms of the loans. His
latest loan-the $500. 900 or more
of Az per cent bonds to take up Sc
curities now bearing Az per cent,
promises to be the most popular of all.
By the terms of the loan, the. bonds
will be exempt from ordinary taxes
but not from surfaces. Thus they are
made attractive investments for small
investors rather than for men of large
income, who must pay high rates of
surtax.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-20
LITTLE BENHY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.
Fred Feernot Amung the Piotters

Fred Feernot Amung the Piotters
Scene, a dark mite.
Fred Feernot. Wat are those men
wispering about behind yonder tree?
wouldent be a bit serprized if some
mischiff wasent afoot. Well, Ill take
a chance and 1issen.
Ferst plotter. All rite then, Bill
at the stroke of midnite wen put the
bomb under the Queens bed and the
next thing she knows will be nuthing.
End plotter. Don't forget, Mike.
Fred Feernot. (sneezing) Chewi J
Ferst plotter. Grab him, Bill.
End plotter. I got him, Mike. He's
nothing ony a meer boy.
Ferst plotter. I dont-care how meer
he is, If he don't sware not to breathe
a Werd of wat he herd tonfte Wen
clorifoam him with this c1orofoam and
then drop him into that neerby river.
Sware, young fello.
End plotter. Sware.
Fred Feernot. All rite. seeing you
have me at your mersey Ill sware not
to breethe awerd.
Ferst plotter. It's the luckiest sware
for you that you ever swore. Now
be gone.
Fred Feernot. I will. thanks. And
now that I'm about block away l
mite as well tell you I won't breethe
a werd but Ill TELEGRAPH all the words
I wunt to the poleece in about S
minnits.
Ferst ana End -plotters. Fooled.
baffled, tricked.
The end.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-20

he took the first train for New York,
where. the morning paper informed
him. Polly's steamer had arrived.
Clarence and Polly had been mar
ried two 1onths when one day. on
Broadway. he met a native from Lux
port who, after greeting him effu-
sively, told him the local news by
the way" said the native, your old
flame, Ruth Parkman,-is married.
suppose you know?"
Il expected she would be-" replied
Clarence; ito George Taylor, of
George nothing!" exclaimed the
native; George married tkat fluffy,
red-headed Myers girl, who was al
ways chewttg gum on the hotel pi-
azza. ruth married Willie Carpenter
a month after you left:S'
And does Clarence still think he I'M
derstands women? Oh, no-you for
get; he is married now!
copyright, 1922, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-20

vve are permitted to write a story Of
some moving 81 ctacle or epic OF life-
That is one OF the wallops existence
for us, and we cnerish IT,
Big league baseball is entertain
ment. but of its patrons not more
than 10 per cent know whether II Is
good baseball or bad oasebaH. me
crowd turns out to see the Rome team
win and because ticket OF ADMISSION
is full license to abuse the umpire
and the visiting players. Its knowl-
edge of what is good and bad in the
game itself is exceedingly superficial.
And we have come to believe that
about half the sporting writers enjoy
the same distinction. In the first in
nine of sundays game, Ruth, with q
man on first and one out. hunted the
hall toward third. He advanced the
runner to second and was himself
thrown out at first. In the box score
he was, very properly. given credit
for sacrifice hit. But Ruth wasn't
irving to sacrifice: he was trying to
beat out a bunt. He hoped to cross
the Giant infield and catch 1t fiat
footed. Had he been trying merely
to sacrifice 1t would have been q
sucker play. But none of the sport
ing writer's whose stories we read saw
anything but the superficial aspect or
the incident.
AS for the balance OF Ola Arts snort
the phase OF his complaint in which
his thinker was derailed-if New
York, by reason of a larger, potential
patronage and infinitely greater fin
anciai resources, is permitted to go
out, year after year, and buy the PEN
nants in its respective leagues, what
eventually becomes of the game Old
Art processes to like?
Meanwhile, we promise readers of
the column brief respite. The bright
minds of the University of Pennsyl-
vania student body will collaborate
on it in the near future.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-20
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-20

Somebody always is worrying over
the immigration problem. A United
States senator is quoted as saying re-
Gently: big as the United States is,
you can't continue to pour the scum
of Europe into it indefinitely and not
in the end fill it with dregs of hui
mainly" And. yet, with our gates
standing wide open. we have grown
to be the greatest, the richest, the
most prosperous nation in the world.
1t is pointed out that New York City
has doubled her population in the last
few years. Her foreign-born popula-
ton is 35.5 per cent. A study of the
1920 census figures made by DR.. Wal
ter Laidlaw. executive secretary OF
the New York City 1920 census COM
mittee. shows that New York City has
a foreign white-stook population as
large as the whole population of Chi
cago, Detroit and Boston; that the
Russian element is larger than the
population Of Warsaw ana that there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-20

are 100000 more Italians there than
in Naples. The leading foreign ele-
ments in New York City in 1920. ac-
cording to DR.. Laidlaw, are as fol-
lows: Russian, 994,356; italian, s02,-
sea; Irish, 637.744; Austrian and
Hungarian. 6o2,167; German. 593.19s."
Probably it would be found. on inves-
tigation, that a similar situation pre-
walls in London, but the English are
not bowling about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-20
HEART and HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State Journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a boy
of twenty. I am IN love with a girl
sixteen years old. am very jealous
of her. She writes to another boy
and I wonder If she likes him better
than she does me. Tell me how to
win her. BROWN EYES.
You are too young to win" the
girl. Think of her as your friend and
do not expect anything more than
friendship from her because she is too
young to think of love. You will be
very foolish if you express your jeal-
ousy. because she will only like you
the less for II. 1t will flatter her
VANITY hut nothire more
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-20

It is remarked by the Marshall
town, Ia, Times-Republican that be-
fore Mr. Gompers can establish his
desired farmer-labor party he must
show some good reason why the
farmer should pay wartime wages to
railroad men while getting peace-t time
prices for his wheat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-20
Dorothy Dix Tails

BH DoROTHT DIX
wersa.s Hfshsss Fnid wNmsa WSitss.

There is one text in the Bible that
every woman should have framed and
hung above her dressing table where
she will see it every time she powders
her nose.N It's that one which tell US
on Divine Authority that we are not
heard for our much speaking.
Which means that saying the same
thing over millions of times doesn't
get US anywhere, or add one iota to
the strength of our proposition, or
to listen attentively to us.
OF course women will never believe
this because they have got an I'M
shakable faith in the multiplicity or
words, and they. firmly believe that
the continual drip. drip, drip of the
same advice, or the same reproach,
will wear away the stoniest resistance.
This is far from being true. On the
contrary, we will all listen once with
an open mind to anybody's statement
of a case, but when they thrust it
upon US in season, and out of season,
we get our back up, and get just as
stubborn as any balky mule.
1t is because mothers correct their
children too much, and too often that
they never succeed in correcting their
faults at all. You will oftn hear
woman say peevishly. II don't know
what l am going to do about Johnnys
table mannc-~. There isn't meal
that don't tell him a dozen times
not 10 eat Will 4lAo hhAACs VI 81
will say Heaven knows how I will
break Mary of snifflingi ] am at her
all day long about it"
I. That's the trouble. She has nagged
her children about their bad habits
until she has made them stubborn, or
else they have heard the same criti-
cism so often that it has ceased to
make the least impression on them.
Yet one real, quiet, heart-to-heart
talk with Johnny, in which he was
made to understand that gentlemen
doSnot perform the sword swallowing
act at dinner, would have cured him
forever. Nor would Mary have sniff
fled another sniffle If mother had
taken her aside, and made her under
stand. once for all, that she was maxi
ing herself an object of ridicule.
Some children once explained to me
that the reason they never paid any
attention to what their mother said
to them was because she always said
don't to everything they wanted to
do, and was always after them about
what they. did, anyway, SO they had
figured it out that they might just
well do as they pleased. After all,
maintaining ones authority over chill
dren is very much like maintaining
discipline in an army. 1t is the crisp,
short command that Is obeyed. Not
the eternal arguing and pickering.
But mothers haven't found this out.
A~@ A
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Five persons riding in automobiles.
were killed in Chicago yesterday,
while trying negotiate a railroad
crossing ahead of a train. The grade
crossing must go.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-20

Apparently Uncle Sans only hope
of maintaining dirigible airship for
any considerable length of time lies
in using helium for initiation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-20
International
SundaySchoolLesson
Characters Acid Tests.
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

For October % is Jesus Tempted
i
New-York tribune., 1922-04-11
Mrs. s.HarlanCharges
Actor Husband Lied
"A b out Film Date
Sues for Divorce, Alleging
He Did Not Appear in
Picture, but His Writing
Appeared on Hotel Ledger

MIS- Florence c. Harlan, of $50 West
lllth street, an actress, filed a suit for
divorce in the Supreme Court yester-
day against Kenneth D. Harlan, mo-
oh ZION picture actor, who, his wife said,
IS regarded as star" and receives a
salary of S26,500 a year. Harlan will
be served by mail in Los Angeles $.
where he now lives.
Prlor to bringing the present action
NJ Mrs. Harlan sued for a separation.
ohe explained that she is bringing the
u'Vorce SUIT because a discovery made
Dy her has convinced me that he is
lncorrlglble in his falsehoods as we'll
as his conduct"
The discovery and one alleged false
hood referred to by Mrs. Harlan was
ms presence in Atlantic City on Memo
rial Day. 1921, and also the next
Day hen Harlan left his home for
tne seashore resort said Mrs Harlan,
ne told me he was going aboard a
Facnt there which was to figure in a
motion picture for which Alice Brady
was posing"
Returning from Atlantic City, Mrs.
Harlan relates, her husband was en-
thusiastc over the success of the pic
ture taken on the yacht. Then one day
the Famous Players Corporation put
on the screen the i'm "The Dawn of
the New World" which was the one in
which Mr.. Harlan was supposed to
have posed. Mrs. Harlan went to see
the picture. but the yacht scene was
not in it. She asked her husband about
the omission and his explanation, says
his wife, was that the photography
was so bad the scenes could not be
used.
That ended that so far as Harlan
was concerned, but not so with Mrs.
Harlan. She and her mother went to
Atlantic City. They visited the Hotel
Alamac and there, on the register un-
der the date of May 80, was the entry
Mr.. and Mrs. X. Brady 1t is alleged
the handwriting was that of Harlan.
Mrs. Harlan also charges that her
husbands companion was Peggy Brady,
said to be an actress.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-11
Scarlet Fever at Rutgers
Three Cases at College Bring
Early Easter Vacation

Academic activities we're suspended
at Rutgers College, New Brunswick,
N. j., yesterday morning and students
sent to their homes when three cases
Of illness in Winants Hall were dag
nosed as scarlet fever.
The Easter vacation was not sched-
uled to begin until tomorrow after
noon. A lacrosse match scheduled for
this afternoon with Cornell was can
celed. The Cornell team was notified
at Princeton, where it played yester-
day afternoon.
No member of an athletic team has
contracted the fever, but. college
authorities ordered that practice for
all teams be suspended indefinitely as
precautionary measure.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-11

Inc Senator replied that he hod
TAXED the matter over with the Police
commissioner, but that he had not rot
seen copy of the bill. O| %
mrs. Hoffman declared after the
meeting that the Republican, won, y y
intended to put UP an intensive car,
palgn on behalf of the measure. and
that they proposed to get it introdncoJ 4
IN both houses of Congress as soon &C
possible e''" "s
The national clearing house is or
old project of Commissioner Enr;ght
which he has talked about off anG
on for at least two years. At the
conference attended by police official
from all sections of the country. he
advocated the plan publicly. One fea.
ture OF it, national police bulletin
giving the latest news Of criminal
affairs, has already been put into on.
Grafton by the Metropolitan Police Bu.
reau, which sends out informati for
the police of all large cities.
commissioner Enrght's proposa'
calis Tor the creation of national
rosues gallery and finger print bu.
reau, and information as to the his.
TORY and habits of all criminals known
TO the police Of all cities. He also has
proposed that the scheme be made in.
tefnatlonal, with the criminals Of
Europe and Asia included as we'll.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-11
$4,000 in Uniforms
For Police Reserves

When Police Commissioner En-
right took over the home defense
organization established by Police
commissioner Woods, he not only
renamed it the Police Reserves
but discarded the cheap uniforms
the Woods volunteers had BOUGHT
and ordained that the uniforms
OF his Police Reserves should be
dark blue in color and of more
expensive material.
In order to have the uniforms
for the police parade Special
Deputy Police Commissioner Rod
man Wanamaker advanced the
money to buy them. About $50
600 was taken later from the pro-
ceeds of the Police Field Day
games to reimburse MIR. Wana-
maker.
Then interest in the Police Re-
serves began to wane, and for
months the uniforms have been
stored in the cellar of the former
Greenwich Street police station.
Some of them never have been re-
moved from the cases in which
they were delivered.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-11

from Manhattan in order to maintain
the schedule arranged,
Among banks sending delegations of
employees are the Bank Of Man
haitian, the Bankers Trust Com
pany, the National Bank Of Commerce
the Bank of America, the Chase Ma
tIonal Bank and eleven corporations
The Bank of America and the Bank
OF Manhattan are sending fifty en-.
ployees each, some of them women.
Major General Robert l.. Bullard.
commanding the I'd Corps Area,
announced yesterday that the full re.
sources Of the army will be placed at
the disposal of those attending the
classes. General Bullard said:
Whether there is crime emergency
or not. men who are ntrusted with
the guardianship of money and who
carry arms, should be able to use their
weapons accurately-not only for their
own protection and that of the valuables
IN their care, but also for the benefit
OF those innocent persons who NAV be
about If necessity arises for using
weapons. In fact, every good American
ought to know how to shoot we'll. Few
sports are so attractive
II am glad that the army can be of
service, because it permits us to give
one more indication of the armv's
ability and Willingness to serve the
public welfare in peace as we'll as in
war"
New-York tribune., 1922-04-11
$50 Bank W0rkers Of
To Pistol Range Thursday
Women Join Ranks Of Those
Who WM Take Up Target
Practice fO Thporf Bandits

More than $50 employees of Manhat-
tan banking houses will begin instruc-
ton in pistol practice Thursday after
noon on the small arms range at Gov
ernor's Island, which has been offered
for the purpose by army authorities.
The pupils will be instructed by First
Leutenants John G. Domminey, L. l..
Reece and John R. Guiteras, all of
the Twenty second Infantry, who will
be aided by ten n-commissioned Off
GERS.
The classes are open to bank and
corporation employees of both sexes.
The first woman to join the class was
Miss Bessie NJ Reiss, treasurer of the
Nutlock Corporation, 30 Church Street
She filed her application yesterday
Officers in charge of instruction an
nounced yesterday that pupils must
give one days notice If they intend to
take part in Thursday practice. All
pcpi,s should arrive on the 12:45 boat
New-York tribune., 1922-04-11
Won't Quit,
Speyer Tells
Miss Booth
iContinued from page ons)

Continued from page one)
pathy for the wet" cause sufficient
ground to debar.
But there is no hint thus far that the
citizens committee, which, besides Mr..
Speyer, is composed of Frederick Hous-
man, George Gordon Battle William
Il. l"Big Bill") Edwards and Walter
H: Guiterman, will allow the difference
of opinion existing between the Army
commander and its chairman to bring
on such showdown. There is deep
sympathy among all so-caled "wets''
Tor the Army and its work, but wha
form this feeling will be allowed to
take by Miss Booths drawing of the
line in the case of her chairman is a
matter for speculation until after the
committee meets to-day. Miss Booth
chooses to leave the matter in the
hands of the committee, so she sal
yesterday in making public the telc-
grams, but her Salvation Army work
ers are of the opinion that she won't
concede that a wet" should head the
campaign committee.
Doesn't Change Her Mind
Miss Booth is not in the habit of
changing her mind on vital issues" an
official of the Army told Tribune
reporter yesterday. "It is virtually
certain that she won't stand for Mr.
Speyer's retention as chairman, even
If the committee should so vote"
Asked what Miss Booth intended to
do about Kermit Roosevelt, another
active wet" whose name appears on
the Army's 1922 campaign stationery
as member of the drive committee
but whose name does not appear on a
list given out at the West Fourteenth
Street headquarters of the Army yes
terday, this official would venture no
comment The omission of Mr.. Roose-
velts name from the committee list
that reporters were permitted to see at
headquarters is interpreted to mean
that he has decided not to serve on
the body.
If Mr.. Roosevelt's name was elimi-
mated from the committee as a result
of the publicity attendant upon the
BoothSpeyer difference, the Army has
only partly saved the day. for on the
general committee of several score
prominent New Workers are at least
dozen known "wets."
Meanwhile, Miss Booth is receiving
congratulatory messages from "dry"
leaders supporting her in her stand
in the Speyer controversy These may
have the effect of definitely drawing
line as to the future complexion of
campaign committees. Among those
commencing her stand by telegraph
Yesterday. were H, A. volstead, who
needs no Identification; Senator Morris
Shepherd, of Texas, the author OF the
much discussed Eighteenth Amend
ment, and Wayne B. Wheeler, attorney
for the Anti-Sa loon League in Wash
jnpton,
New-York tribune., 1922-04-11
Bar Committee Suggests
Drastic War on Crime
Quicker Trials. Less Coddling
and Complete Ban Or Pistols
Urged by Members

CHICAGO. April 10. - The commits
slon on law enforcement of the Ameri-
can Bar Association met here TODAY
70 discuss legislation to meet the wave
o. crime sweeping the country.
rrancls ID. Hanna, assistant director
" tne chicago crime commission, urged
quicker trials and punishment IS the
best solution.
Judge John ". o'Connor. of the Ap-
pe'iate Court Of Chicago. advocated a
ieoerai law prohibiting the manufact
u ure and sale of revolvers and pistols.
i. lie expressed the opinion that such
law would be held constitutional.
Eowin W. Sims, president of the
me me commission, blamed the crime
eve eve on years OF mollycoddlng and
SS!npathy by misinformed and iIl-ad-
of MfSed meddlers.' He proposed bureau
% % elllmlnal .l records, stopping the abuse
-, the habeas corpus writ increased
pena,ues t., In cases where guns or auto
r;ops r'ooiies play part, withdrawal of the
~ gnt or trial judges to put criminals
W. PROBATION, and repeal of statutes
making Juries the judges of the law.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-11
women Uphold Enright's Plan
For National Bureau ON Crime
~''uer ies Republican Committee of 100 He VIII
'" 'n'o bill After Mrs. F. b. Hoffman, Sister
OF A. r. Shattuck, Questions Him

me recent crime agitation has re.
newed the activity of Police Commits.
s'0ner tnr'ght for his national nolic,
bureau which would function as
Gearing house for the prevention -
crime throughout the country. II hol ~.
SC"me khown yesterday that the Police
lo'"l' lss'oner asked Senator Ca]der
enIee weeks ago to introduce a Xiii
e'eat'ng such a bureau.
senator Calder told nicotine ot a..
hnepuoiican Women's COMMITTEES of Cme Ine
hundred at the home Of Mrs Ed,e r., me
n Peaslee, II North Wash;nasau, una az
Square, that he had agreed to lool evon e,on
tne Dill and to sound out the Attorno,, or
Generals Office as to its legality ana a'G y
an a. were we'll to have it introdncod ,r1 ~ j.,
Congress. ''' ouuced IN
MRS. Francis Burial Hifrman. s;s-
ter OF Albert r. Shattuck, whose honso
at ls North Washington Souarc 1,e ua.
robbed at noon April of Jewels vala wde
ued at $4,000, brought up tho snh- -
Ject of the bureau at the meet;rc
we women of Washington SQUARE f,
sne said to Senator Calder, when the
hour OF asking questions arrived, "Are
most anxious to know what YOU arc
gong to do about the national clear
ing mouse tor crime. which has been
proposed by Commissioner Enrirht."