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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-24
LADIES'! DARKEN
YOUR GRAY HAIR
Use Grandma's Sage Tea and
Sulphur Recipe and Nobody
Will Know.

The use of Sage and Sulphur for re-
storing faded, gray hair to it's natural
color dates back to grandmother's
time. She used it to keep her hair
beautifully dark, glossy and attractive.
Whenever her hair took ron that dull,
faded or streaked appearance, this
simple mixture was applied with won
derful effect.
But brewing at home is mussy and
out-of-date. Nowadays. by asking at
any drug store for bottle of ''Wyeth's
Sage and sulphur Compound you
will get this famous old preparation,
improved by the addition of other in
gradients. which can be depended
upon to restore natural color and
beauty to the hair.
A we1-known downtown druggist
says it darkens the hair so naturally
and evenly that nobody can tell it has
been applied. You simply dampen a
sponge or soft brush with it and draw
this through your hair, taking one
strand at a time. BY morning the
gray hair disappears, and after an
other application or two, it becomes
beautifully dark and gIossy.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-24
Is YEARS AGO IN Topeka
From the columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
November "a, 1897.

Within the past week there have been
five burgIaries in Topeka. Hib Cases resi-
dence on West Tenth street entered
and a gold watch and a silver watch and
a gold breastpin taken. The Blower House
robbery, in which $500 worth of jewelrX
was taken. The residence of Mrs. L. l..
KelIam, 415 Topeka avenue, was burglar
lied. Several pieces of valuable jewelry
were taken. Jonathan D. Norton's house at
61S West Eighth was entered, but the
burglar was frightened away before much
was taken; $2.S5 was taken from a servants
room. At 515 Huntoon street a rare collec-
tion of coins was taken. All these
burglaries have been in daylight.
Master Willie Sherman celebrated his
eighth birthday anniversary by inviting a
number of little friends to spend Sat
urday afternoon with him. The afternoon
was spent in games and Rotations. Those
present We're: Matte Barnes, Elizabeth
Holiday. Esther Rodgers. Jennie Sharp,
Lizzie Wilson,, Hazel Danley, Mabel Gard
ner, Mary Cunningham, Ray Collins,
Claude Aldridge, Robert Hall, Charlie
Seller, Leslie Lair, Frank De Armor, Ivan
Campbell, Walter Hopkins, Adelaide and
Charlie Metzsker, Florence and Arthur
Wilson, Hazel and Raymond McGirk.
Russell and Clarence Hopkins, Irene and
Robert Gal1ety.
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
.BATTLEL|KELY
At CAPITOL ON
AL|V|MG WAGE
Cummins Announces He Will
Ask Proposition Be Defined.
Favors Strike Legislation.
By j. BART CAMPBELL,
international News Service.

The disputed question OF what
constitutes IA living, wage" which
the United States Railroad Labor
Board has just reopcned. is certain
TO plunge Congress this winter into
q. turmoil OF controversy. Republican
and Democratic leaders here agreed
today.
While stumping his home State OF
Iowa in defense of the transporta'
ton act which he helped To write,
senator Cummins. Republican. chair
man OF the Senate Interstate Com
merce Committee, has notified
friends here Of his intention Ia offer
an amendment 10 the act In the next
session which viii clearly define and
establish living wage" Cor rail.
road workers.
II am In favor OF anti strike legls'
lation with respect to every industry
wherein IN" government undertakes
to do Justice 10 the employees by
/ establishing fair and r"asonabl"
wages" said Cumm.ns. Il am not
in favor OF anti-striko legislation un.
less the government attempts 10
substitute something better tnan the
strike"
Considerable significance was at,
taChed to Cumu'ns' statement In
view Of his close relations with
President Harding who consulted
him Frequently during the rail and
coal strikes last summer. The de-
CisiOn OF the President 10 call Con
grcss back November 20 for a
special session prior to the regular
one b"g,nn!ng in December is eH'
rrctcd 70 H.. followed by r"ssage
from him ia which he Will not
only urC" the enactment OF the
proposed ship sul s,dy iii, but will
offer a number Of important ana
Concret" suggestions AS 10 railroad
legislation.
The Horticultural Bloc" in both
branches Of Congress Is already
planning t. take ."ading part In
whatever efforts are made To amend
/ the transportation act, and II Is
known that Senator Cappcr Nfep.I
of Kansas Is determined 10 force
nmendatOry Legislation which he and
his associates from so called agri
cultural states hope will bring down
freight rates for the farmers.
Thor" are ample indications that
he farmers group in the Senate
and IIous" will answer organized
labor's demand for living wage
Nv declaring that the farmer Is also
entitled 20 one. and that the wages
N Of railroad workers cannot b" fairly
or economically boosted AZ the ex'
p.nse Of the agriculturaliat who is
now paving almost proh!bltiVe
freight rates.
Clashes between spokesmen FOR
N" farmers and for labor in Con
lross ar" alr,ad" anticipated once
'h- battle 10 alu'ni the transpOrta
rion act gets under way, ana II Is
cons!dcr,d OF special interest that
powerful interests affiliated with the
4 T'r~td states Chamber OF Commerce
have singled Ou: Congressman
sydney Anderson, Of Minnesota
chairman OF III" Joint Congressional
Commitrc of Agricultural Inquiry
and one Of the Farm Bloc" leaders
/ Of the House, 10 start a COngr"ssiOn
al inquiry into railroad conditions
/ looking toward legislation which viii
he helpful to the agricultural in
terests.
The Washington times., 1922-11-01

must be guaranteed a decent stand
ard of living.
PAUL SCHARRENBURG, secre.
tary California State Federation Of
Labor-Any attack by the Railroad
Labor Board on any suggestion or
opinion based on the premise that a
living wage" and "A good living
wage" is essential 70 any Country's
prosperity is a disCredit to the board.
Just SO is the recent increase Of 2
cents an hour granted To members of
the brotherhood of Maintenance Of
Way Employees a disCred,t. Whar.
ton is right in his opinion that the
increase is not sufficient and does
not give the workers living wage,
and Hearst is right in his contention
that the country is never going to
rise in world estimation through eff.
forts to keep down the pay of its
workers.
PAUL TAYLOR. instructor in la
Dor economics at the University OF
acknowledgements productivity
of the nation should rightfully bring
about n rightful standard of living
TO allow all classes TO participate In
bringing about increased productiv.
ity The standard OF living should
be maintained al high mark. AS Mr..
Hearst says. to strike at the stand
ard of living of the American lahorer
Is to strike at the very base OF all
his superiority"
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
Large Employers in
New York Favorable
to High Wage Scale
Nv CosmopolItan News Service.

NEW YORK, Nov. John A.
Richie, former president OF the
Fifth Avenue Coach Company and
the New York Transportation Com.
pany and recently appointed presi.
dent of the Chicago Motor Bus Com
pany, today said:
"1t Is only right that labor should
have not only enough wages TO meet
he bare costs of living, but wages
sufficient for some recreation and
pleasure. The employer who at
tcmpts to increase his profits by de.
creasing wages ignores one OF the
most firmly established rules OF
economies"
George w. Gerlack, Eastern
manager Of Butler Brothers of New
York, largest wholesale merchandise
house in the world, said:
Workers industry must be re-
warded and % pay the highest wage
possible is not only the A. B. C.'s
Of economies, but the only way a
loyal organization can he developed
which is the greatest asset Of any
industry"
The Washington times., 1922-11-01

carpenters wage advanced from
cents day to s. n day. There was
not a period of fifty years in this
cycle of seven centuries and a half
in which there was not a wage ad.
vance of 20 per cent.
''In one or two periods there was
a wage advance OF as much as 80
per cent, but the most important
fact is that in all this period there
was never a retrograde movement.
During the same time there We're
many wars in which the wages ad-
vanCed more than 40 per cent. After
the war there was a slight drop, but
in no instance did II go back so as
to disturb the steady rate of 20 per
cent increase.
Taking it over long period Of
years in the United States, the
average annual advance in wages
in the building trades, for instance,
has been per cent. In other
words, If there had been no war at
ALL the advance would now be Is
per cent higher than in 1913.
"A board Of arbitration recently
allowed l per cent as the normal
increase in the standard Of living TO
be expected each year.
THE worker has gone up a step.
He Is strong enough and numerous
enough to cling to his position on
this higher level. 1t is to be sup.
posed that the rung next lower down
on the ladder has been sawed off.
The worker has mounted and will
never climb down"
The Washington times., 1922-11-01

ers do not give sixty-minute hours
when not well paid.
MAYOR GEORGE CRYER-The
living wage principle Is good, sound
logic. / am not sufficiently in.
formed TO state at this time,
whether the maintenance OF way
workers are receiving sufficient
salary hut I will say that from
the standpoint of the country, and
the welfare OF the employees that
they must have a living wage. One
that is sufficient to maintain them
in a decent manner. 1t is vital 70
the safety OF the general public
that railroad employees he contented
and well paid. Mr.. Hearst's edi.
torial on the living wage, In which
he states that good pay will bring
prosperity, sounds like real logic
to me.
]. 9. HORNE. secretary Central
Labor Council-The boards stand is
absolutely ridiculous If the rail.
roads would base their returns on
their actual value and squeeze out
the watcred stock they could pay
a living wage. This commission
disagreed with former President
Wilson in most things. but when
Mr.. Wilson stated at one time dur.
ing his incumbency that a business
which could not afford to pay n
living wage should not and had no
right to be in business. we agreed
with him entirely. Mr.. Hearst Is
right when he said that living
wage would bring better conditions.
A laborcr generally spends his
earnings in his own community and
merchants depending on his trade
should have sense enough to pay
him a reasonable wage. The pub.
lishers editorial on the living wage
principle hits the most vital prob.
lem before the country tonight
right on the head.
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
No Sympathy in Los Angeles.

Los ANGELES, Nov. when
the United States Railroad Labor
Board condemned the living wage"
principle in published opinion 1t
found few sympathiZers in Los An.
geles.
Among those most aroused by the
Labor Boards statement was Seth
Brown, president Of the local Inter.
national Typographical Union.
II am entirely out OF harmony
with the opinion Of the ma jority OF
the board" he said. II am entirely
in harmony with Mr.. Wharton and
Mr.. Hearst. The quicker a living
wage is paid, not only by the rail.
roads, but by all other institutions,
the quicker will he the return to
peaceful prosperity and the ending of
labor disputes. There can be no
prosperity when laborers are not
peaceful and contentcd with their
lot. Too many make the mistake of
thinking that labor is against pcople
getting rich. That is not so. We
are always ready to congratulate
even those that get rich overnight.
What we want Is for these to pay
their employees a living wage. One
thing stands out In the boards opin.
ion. and that Is that the board is not
In harmony with the thought of
the nation. They are falling to
recognize the signs OF the times"
JOSEPH SCOTT, prominent attor.
ney-I do not agree with the boards 3
opinion. For prosperity we must
have living wage. To protect and
continue the ideals of the great
American home we must have a liv.
ing wage. A man ought to have
the right and the means to support
his family and employers must be
educated to recognize their obliga.
tions TO their employees.
HARVEY T.. GARMAN, secre.
tary Of the Allied Printing Trades
Council-The opinion of the major.
ity of the board is a stigma on the
intelligence OF the Congress who
created IL. To say to a man that
he cannot be accorded living wage
because the railroads and ultimately
the public will have to meet the
bill--that does not satisfy him nor
is II just and reasonable.
FRANK II. PETTENGIL, presi.
dent Los Angeles stock exchange
To have proficient labor, which Ia
contented labor, concerns must pay
their help well. Prosperity comes
from sixty"minute hours and work.
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
Living Wage Essential
to u. S. Prosperity,
View of Coast States
By UnixersaI Service.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. l.
Among those who today expressed
themselves in full accord with Mr..
Hearst's opinion on q ''living wage"
are the following:
State Labor Commissioner - For
anyone who has the best interests
Of the workingman and the country
at heart, there Is but one way TO
feel about wage reduction, and that
is it's all wrong. Experience has
proved time and again that wage
reduction only tends to disrupt con.
dltions generally without resulting
in any good to anyone. Wages
should be increased California of
all States, Is on record by hundreds
OF thousands Of votes In favor of a
proper wage for its workers. Ger.
tainly the major report of the Rail.
road Labor Board will meet with
no favor in this Stete.
DR.. JESSICA PEIxoTTO, Pro.
fessor OF Social Economies at the
University OF California; believe
the action Of the Railroad Labor
Board to be due to It's failure 70
read history and to recognize the
essential factor Of modern life--the
necessity for living wage.
heartily endorse Mr.. Hearsts edi
torial. cannot understand the
opinions Of some members Of the
labor board. One OF them said the
matter Of a living is guesswork
The more we try to determine the
living wage, the less It will be
guesswork. Any such findings OF
the wage board as the one an
nounced will not prevent further
investigation to determine the llv
ing wage.
Public Opinion Should Decide.
JOHN T. THORPE, international
Vice President OF the Machinists
Union.-There Is a higher law than
that Of the labor board. That law
Is the law OF public opinion. We
believe that II the people could
obtain the facts In the controversy
a speedy adjustment would be the
result. Public opinion long age
reached the conclusion that labor
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
by WICKWIRE.

9TH" .Ight of all workers, in.
clud.ug common labor. to living
wax" j. hereby declared.
"a minimum wage shall be estah
l'Shyd 20 ensure the subsistence OF
workers and their families in heal;h
and reasonable comfort"
II thcs" words he "mellifluOus
phraseoIoEy,' make the most Of
them.
They ar" tho phrascolocy OF Chi'f
Justice W.llium II. Tar. then JOIN.
chairman of the War Labor board
with Frank /. Walsh. adopted 10y
tn" fu!l board consisting Of repre-.
scntativ"s of both employers and
employees. and proclaimed by form =
President Wilson April u, 1915. for
the government of all engaged III
war industries for the period Of thu
war.
They were hailed by labor leaders
throughout the country, at the time
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
in the living wage Of the poor
fellow who has to pay II directly
or Indirectly

fellow who has to pay II directly
or indirectly.
Il think that we all agree that
an equal number OF hours OF labor
performed by one man ought TO
purchase an equal number OF hours
of labor performed by another re-
quiring like skill, intelligence. etc.
The trainman, the engineer, the
conductor. and the brakeman
should have a living wage. So. too,
should the farmer, whose products
are carried by their tains, and II
the living wage of the tainmen is
such that il produces a freight ex-
pense to the farmer that practical
ly deprivcs him Of n living wage,
then there is a great maladjust-
mont of wages.
IF the hricklayer, carpente-.
plasterer, mason, and paperhanger
demand sl0.a.day scale of wages
as necessary for proper living, and
thereby double the cost of homes,
which must he paid for by people
who earn, say. SO per day, there is
another maladjustment OF wages.
Should Apply to All.
Applying these two propositions
to conditions of today, the freight.
age in moving the farmers products
eats up all his profits. while the
rent which must be paid for all
character OF buildings, including
homes. takes about every cent that
the average breadwinncr can scrape
together.
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
PROGRESS
Of LABOR
IS CITE
History Of Seven Centuries
Shows Advance and No Steps
Backward, Says Bureau.
By Universal Service.

There can be no reduction in
wages to the working man without
great economic loss, the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor, declared today in citing the
record of progress in the advance
of the pay envelope toward the
living wage.
This is the answer of the Gov
ernment's greatest specialists in
labor and industry to the majority
ruling of the Chicago Railroad
Labor Board deriding as imprac-
ticable the theory of "a living
wage" to all workers.
Gain For Seven Centuries
During the last seven centuries, II
was pointed out, there has been a
steady. invariable gain in wages and
never a retEograde movement.
Sound economic reason for this, II
Is cited, Is that there can be no cur.
tailmcnt OF wages without seriously
affecting every industry, notably
those OF manufacturing and mer.
chandising American business. II
It is to continue, can not afford TO
break the backbone of the buying
public, it is declared.
''Of the Al 5000 persons gain.
fully employed in the United States,
~ 500 .000 or nearly go per cent, are
actual wage earnors." the report Of
the Bureau OF Labor Statistics says.
"In this class are skilled workers.
semi.skiled workers, laborers, and
servants.
IF TO these ono adds tho nearly
IA per cent engaged IN clerical and
kindred work, we have practically
thirty ana a half million, or 73 per
cent. Of all those Eainfully ON.
piOyed. on wage, or weekly salary
basis.
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
Living Wage Principle
Strongly Endorsed BY
McCumber and Swing
Nv Cnlrersai Service.

Strong endorsement OF a living
wage. denied by the Railway Labor
Board in it's decision dealing with
the maintenance OF way men, was
expressed by Senator Porter j.
McCumber Rep) of North Dakota,
chairman OF the Finance Commit.
toe, and Congressman Phil ID.
Swing Rep) Of California. here to.
day.
The statements OF both Senator
McCumbcr and Congressman Swing
echo the sentiment of William Ran.
dolph Hearst's editorial of Septem-
her II, which was rejected as evi.
dence by the Labor Board. that II
In an economic error and false
economy to attempt to lower the
wage standard and consequently
the standard of living of American
workers.
All Believe In Living Wage.
Senator McCumber said
I'VE all believe In a living wage.
The man who doesn't believe In 1t
must n tyrant indeed.
The great trouble with this sub
iect, however, Is that there are
quite a number Of people who be
lieve In q living wage for them.
selves, but are not Ut all interested
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
TAFT IN 1918 PROCLAIMED
JUSTICE OF A LIVING WAGE

OF the pronOu?Cement. as labOr's
magma Churta, new hill OF rights,
long s,riven for, but for the tir@t
time officially recognized as just
hv an official group rcpros"ntatl;"
of the employers of the Un.t"I
States.
As a declaration Of principle they
have remained uucnall, nG"d, even
by am considerable group OF en-.
plUy"rs until this time: and II has
remained for the railroad Labor
Board. n Government body. TO dis
pute their wisdom as, inf"rcntially,
at least, i has attacked the recent
urOuounCcmcnt to III" same pur.
pose by their chief, President Hard
ing.
Labor leaders here are curious TO
So" what Will result from the
Labor Boards ChallenG" of the
wisdom Of Congress. two Presidents
and the man who now heads tn"
supreme Court of the United states
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
Form Great Buying Public.

"Our workers are the great buy.
Ing public. If they are enriched
they ar" better buyers and so are
stimulant 10 both production and
consumption. The manufacturer him
self is prosperous only as his and
all other wage earning employees are
prosperous. The man who pays
good wages is only paying himself
good dividouds
"If wages were such that every
one of the 7,097,2S3 women clerks
and the wives and daughters of the
z3, 3,346,373 men clerks and wage
earners in the United States could
buy another cotton dress. another
woolen dress. another silk dress,
the question of unemployment in
the textile industry would be
solved. as well as the question of
better wages there.
cut the standard OF living in the
American family in half. and in
stead of mining 50O.00O.000 tons Of
coal to keep up the factories and
run the railroads, YOU would mine
200, 600. 900 tons. with the loss OF
the investment in present equip.
ment and the loss of the profits
from industry upon which the
other q per cent of those gainfully
employed live.
Products Show Big Increase.
"Since 1899 and up to 1919 the
white population OF the United
States has increased 39.7 per cent,
while manufactured food products
increased OIL per cent, textiles 90
per cent, tobacco IS per cent, stone,
clay and glass products 1873 per
cent, iron and steel 1927 per cent.
chemicals 1922 per cent, metal
products l96 per cent, vehicles, in
cluding automobiles 1898 per
cent and mining 1884.
This increase in production over
populations means added comforts.
conveniences. and luxuries to tho
people. The stability of our inst
buttons our social and political
structure depends more upon the
maintenance Of our power to alb
sorb the products OF our toll and
this means a wage which permits
the worker to buy the things our
workers make.
1.-THE most complete study or
wage advances in history has just
teen completed in Great Britain.
II covers period OF 75O years.
The cycle of American wages Is
considerably higher, but records are
During the $50 years the British
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
PHYSICIANS TO HAVE
EICHT-STORY BUILDING

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Nov. IAN
eight.story building for physicians
offices exclusively Is to be built here
on Garfield place.