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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-05
RAISE MONEY FOR PLAY
GROUND EQUIPMENT

For the purpose of raising funds
with which to purchase playground
equipment, Central school, Dist No. 3,
town of True, put ON the farce-comedy
us Marriage Failure?' last Friday
night.
The playlet was presented in the
schoolhouse and the house was jammed
with people who thoroughly enjoyed
the entertainment.
Cast of Characters
Billy Blake, popular college boy
..........-....--.... ....-..-...LOuie JakOubek
Jupiter Jackson, a black trump.
.-...-............-....... Harry Lenton
Mrs. Iona Ford, some mother-in-law
.........Ms Noble Bastad
Zoie, her charming daughter.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Louise Stingie
June Graham, a little freshman-.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Helen Griglak
Rosalind Wilson, college reporter
-....................... Anna Griglak
Between the first and second acts
Miss Louise Stingle sang a solo: Il
Want My Nanny
Reading and Maggie at the
Golden Gate" ---....-.---.... Doris Stingle
Between the second and third acts
reading "Epaminondas and His
Auntie," was given by Ethel Kaiser.
Solo-"Drowsy Baby" Louise Stingle
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-05
WILL BUILD RESIDENCE

c. e. Cole has sold his dwelling at
First-st and Corbett-av to Len Lozier
and after the building is moved off the
lot will have built thereon a modern
brick bungalow this summer.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-05

C. f. Wittmayer, who recently re-
signed his position as manager for the
Lampert Lumber Co., in Ladysmlth,
departed for his new. location at Slay-
ton, Mimi, on Tuesday. A new man.
ager for the Lampert business here is
yet to be appointed.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-05

Lieut.. Ed Kennedy is taking two
weeks lay-off from paper mill duties
and is devoting some time to Troop B
recruiting services.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-05
MARRIAGE APPLICATION

John Pugel and Antonia Kladnik, of
Sheldon. made application for a mar
riage license April %.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-05

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BIZ LEE PAPE.

Pop and ma was going out last mite
and ma was still getting dressed and
pop was wawking up and down in the
hall down stairs with his hat on, look
ing at his watch every once in a vile
to see how much later it was than the
last time he looked. saying to himself
zee gods-wat a sex, the later it is the
longer they take.
WITCH after a vile ma came down
stairs in her blue dress, saying, How
do look, Willyum?
Like along lost ship mate that the
rest of the crew had given up for lost.
pop sed, and ma Sed, Wy, was 1 long
wunt to know how this dress Jocks,
does it make me look thin she said
Not too thin, let's go for Poets sake.
pop sed.
Willyum, this dress makes me look
fat, can reed It rite throo your words,
I'm not going cut in eny dress that
makes me look tat, I'm going back and
change it, ma sed.
Wait, stop. who sed it makes you
look thin, mean fat, zee gods how do
you wunt it to make you look? pop
sed, and ma sed, Thin, of corse, and
pop sed, Well that's how it makes you
look.
Then wy did you say Not too thin,
wen I asked you? ma sed, and pop
sed, You don't wunt to look too thin,
do you? ard ma sed, Certeny I do, be-
cause 1 know its impossible
Well then it makes you look too
thin, it makes you 10 k like a shad-
ow without its sUbstants. pop sed, and
ma sed, Well anyway. guess it will
my hat
Your hat, 2 more hours, pop sed,
and ma sed, Now Willyum, Rome
wa@ent bilt in a day, and pop sed, No,
and if a woman bilt the darn place it
wasent bilt in 1900 yeers. In fact it
proberly wouldent of kin started vet,
he sed. Ind he kepp o. wawking and
looking at his watch till she came
down agen, not being so long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05

have been earning only about per
cent return on the valuation which the
interstate commerce commission eS-
Inmates will be shown.
The wage angle which recently has
been agitated so much by the railroad
labor board comes into the equation
Wages are the big expense of railroad
operation. Rates cannot be raised
higher with success, it is argued; to
do so would kill off the traffic 50 that
less. rather than more, money would
come to the railroad Golfers To iow-
err wages invites strikes This is a
birdseye view of the quandary in
which congress finds itself in taking
up anew the, railroad question
More and more, students of the
question and officials at Washington
believe that government ownership
looms for the United States and that
the general public, thru taxation, must
support the common carriers so that
good wages may be paid and reason
able rates charged While the gov
ernmept would have to pay the rail-
road companies for the properties, ul-
tinately they would save the profits,
slight as they have been.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05

Some large meat packing concerns
are planning n merger and there Is
violent protest. Perhaps a few years
hence we shall be trying to force them
to merge, so that they can operate
more economically and so that their
operations can be the better scrut-
nized to prevent improper dealings,
just as is being done in the case of the
railroads. a few years back we were
engaged in a campaign to prevent
mergers OF railroads, or to. dissolve
mergers already effected, but now We
are trying to force roads into mergers
against their will. The agitation re-
suited in the dissolution Of one trans
continental system Now the people
living along the systems lines want
the old arrangement restored Many
schemes for the benefit of the public
turn out to be beneficial only to the
politicians.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05
HEART and HOME PROB EMS
Written for The State journal
By ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I have been
going with a girl about eight months
and am sure love her. L requested
her not to go with any other boy
and she says am selfish to ask this
of her. Do you think I am?
She requested me not to go with
any other girls and I do not, but
nevertheless she goes with other boys.
Do you think she loves me since she
goes with them when I asked her not
20? BABE.
What is fair for one of you is fair
for the other, and if the girl wanted
the privilege of going with other boys
she should not have requested you to
give up other girls. 1t is not wise
for girl to stop going with other
young men unless she is engaged. If
you love this girl so much, the way for
you to settle the matter is to Ask her
to marry you; if she loves you she will
accept and will stop going with other
young men. Unless you are in your
twenties, however, it would be very
unwise for you to become engaged,
and would be far better to let the girl
go with other young men until you
are old enought to be sure your love
is lasting.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a boy
in my teens and am very bashful In
fact I am afraid of girls. Please tell
me how to get over my bashfulness-
BASHFUL.
Don't let yourself be cowardly when
you want to talk to girls or to invite
them to go some place. The hardest
part will be in getting courage TO
say something. After you have once
spoken you will find the matter was
easier than you anticipated, and you
will be able to do so even more easily
the next time. Jump into converse
ton with a girl as you would into
cold-bath. Once the plunge is taken,
the ordeal is over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05

A favorable opinion of the merchant
marine bill. as viewed by a representa-
tive OF an interior state, was presented
recently in an address to the house by
Congressman James T. Begg of Ohio.
Mr.. Begg asserted that 90 per cent of
the opposition to the bill comes from
states that would be required to pay
only 10 per cent of the subsidy. Those
states are, now paying 10 per cent of
the $5O,000,OOo deficit in ship opera
ton, and would be required to pay
only 10 per cent of the 100000
which the merchant marine bill would
require annually as a subsidy. Mr..
Begg seems to overlook the fact that
much of the opposition to the ship
subsidy is based on principle rather
than on the expense
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
BARGAIN COUNTERs

In the store of Success there are no
Bargain Counters.
Each article is placed by itself. each
marked in plain figures as to price,
and at one price to iaH.
In the store of Life. however. there
are many Bargain Counters And il
is at these that the Failures con-
tnually shop-always purchasing for
the cheapest price, and always paying
too much.
The mediums of exchange in the
store of success are work, faith. gift,
vision, patience, and their Nyarious de-
nominations
The ideal of him who will not paw
the price of Success. is to get for little
what cannot be bought for less than
much-in time, energy and tireless at
tention to details.
Perhaps that is just what is the
matter with you. Perhaps you are
spending your time at Bargain Coun-
tiers when you should be shopping at
the one-price Store of Success. How
about it?
If you would grandly win, you must
pay as you go-and pay cash-and a
BIG price, too!
But it's worth it. And no matter
who you are, you can afford it.
For no price is too great to pay for
usefulness, high excellence. great
service, and an immortal example.
Jesus didn't think so. Gladstone
didn't think so, Peary didn't think SO,
Washington didn't think so.
Usually things are offered at the
Bargain Counter that they may be
quickly sold to make way for those
things which can be offered at a pay
ing price.
Be not deceived. You cannot take a
shortcut to Success and expect TO get
there before the honest. day-in-and-
day our pIugger and pIodder. Even the
law of compensation is bound to trip
you up. And like as not. long before
it does even, you will have lost your
way. and become one of that vast
army of searchers trying vainly to find
the bargain for which YOU first set
out.
In the store at Success there are no
Bargain Counters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05
JUST FOLKS
THE SIDE STREET.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.


oh. I've been up and down the town,
I've walked with men Of high renown-
I've tramped the busy therefores where
many a fortunes made,
I've swung my eager way along ana JOS
tied with the motely throng
And stopped at wonder windows where the
riches are displaye ed
know the thrills the strangers seek,
I've lived with them week after week,
I've heard men utter Obs and Abs at
sights grown commonplace,
But 20 past the buildings tall and never
notice them at all,
Go past che great stone giants and never
turn my face
But there's a spreading maple tree can al
ways get smile from me,
And there's one street in all the town the
strangers never find.
A little street. cut East and West, where
kindly folks come home to rest
A gentle modest thorofare, with friendly
houses lined
There's nothing there to stretch the eyes
of visitors in glad surprise,
No marTels wrought in steel and stone at
which n man would stare,
It's lust n quiet. gentle street. where chill
dren race on flying feet
But it's the street love the Destiny little
home is there
Copyright, 1922, by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05
Questions Answers

@, What were the names of Mary Ball
four half sisters Elizabeth married the
Rev. John Carnegie; Hannah, Mr.. Travers !;
Anne, Col. Edwin Conway; Easter, Mr. Ra-
g. Is it a crime to draw a postoffice
money order under an assumed name? E.
a. The Postoffice Department says that
there is no law prohibiting the use of an
assumed name in making out money orders
so long as it is not done for fraudulent
or unlawf4l purpose. Trouble mighrSoee
assumed name and could not prove iden-
tity when trying to cash the order.
committed only at night? T. c. -' -
A At common law burglary is the
breaking and entering of the house of an
init felony therein In New York and in
some other states in which the New York
statute has been adopted burglary in the
first degree must be committed at night,
but burglary in the second and third de-
grees may be committed in the daytime.
O. / would like to know something abort
where the ChristiaR-EndeavOr organization
A. The Society of Christian Endeavor
was organized by the Rev. Francis L.
tionaI Church in Portland. Maine. on Feb.
., ISL Fifty boys and girls met in the
attend and take part in the weekly prayer
meetings and to hold monthly meeting OF
ship now Is estimated at over 100000 and
there are Christian Endeayor societies prac-
tically all over the world
fAny refder can get the answer TO any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau Frederic J
Haskin, Director. Washington. D. c. This
offer applies strictly 70 infDrma ton -he
Bureau cannot give advice on legal medical
and financial matters 1t does not attempt
to settle domestic troubles. nor to under
"a ke~ ex Exhaustive rcsearch on any subject
Give full pame and address and enclose two
cents In stamps for return postage. AL
Write your question plainly and briefly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05

The gross debt of the United States
on November 1 had been reduced
IS. SIS, 917.712 since August 81. 1912.
when the total debt was at the peak
level of $2s.596,7O1.s4s. The treas
ury has paid off s4.5OO. OOO.o 900 of its
short dated loans within the last eigh
teen months. leaving a balance of
S3.oO0.ooo.oO0 to be nquidated during
the present fiscal year ending June 80
next. But the decline in revenue re-
ceipts has been so great that another
bond issue OF at least this amount
seems inevitable. Government Dor
rowing in time Of peace never has
been popular in this country. There
still is time for congress so to amend
the tax laws as to render unnecessary
SO large loan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05
Dorothy Dix Tails
The Secret of Popularity.
BIZ DOROTHT DIX
re- HEhSsa PAID Woman "


The first requisite of those who
would be popular is to be q tireless
listener. The next requisite of popu-
larity is an ability to maintain a rapt
ing to driVvle- You must be able to
never let your eyes wander from the
face of the lady who, is giving you all
the CORY details of her last ajor
operation. on must harken breath
lessly while a golf fanatic holds post
mortem on every game he ever played.
You must look as if you took a real
heart interest in the automobilists
der Blue Devil to a twelve cylinder
Red Dragon. You must grow excited
when mothers tell you about NAMES
beaux, and Johnny's whoopinG cough.
1t isn't easy to do this. 1t takes the
courage of a hero, and the self-abne-
CATION of a martyr, but the men and
women who can do it have made their
calling and election sure in society,
and may dine where they choose.
The chief thing to guard against is
the temptation to retaliate. Nothing
is more fatal to popularity. When
Smith relates the smart thing his lit
tie Percy did, it is a hopeless mistake
to expect to charm him by repeating
the infantile bonmots of your little
Bobby. He wonders why you should
drag that brat into the conversation.
adventures killing ducks on Long
Island, be sure it isn't for the purpose
of hearing the particulars of the time
you shot big game in India. You
might have killed every tiger in the
British empire without interesting him
in the least.
Perkins squirms while you describe
how you broke the bank at Monte
Carlo, but he will sit up half the night
telling you how he beat Schmidt at
pinochle.
And if the rewards of the patient
man listener are great, the woman
who can listen intelligently simply
takes the pot. It is the women who
listen alphabetically to other wom-
ems tales of woe, who lend their ears
while other women monologue about
their husbands, and their children. and
their servants. and their clothes, and
their ailments. and who never -tell
their own troubles, or talk about their
own affairs, whom their own sex conf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05

President Harding has demonstrated
his admiration OF the services rem
dered the country by the late Maj
Gen. Frederick Funston. capturer of
Aguinaldo, and later in command OF
the punitive expedition into Mexico.
by designating his son, Frederick
Funston, Jr.. to Take the West Point
entrance examination to be held on
March 6, for the term beginning July
?. 1928 The president may designate
candidates at hrge and has taken ad-
vantage of this privilege under the law
to honor the memory of the fighting
son of kansas. General Funston.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05

low, who's been house breaking here
abouts. Him with the blue eyes and
the brown skin and the pleasant way
with him. 1 amt had light nor sight
of hint
Hope lowered her face over her
plate. Her cheeks were blazing hot:
she lifted her fork with a hand that
trembled. Blue eyes. Brown skin.
A pleasant way with him.
The ocean Numbered like drums in
the wilderness. She caught up her
shabby little coat and went down to
the beach. Sunset still fingered in
the sky, but she was not looking a.
the sky, but at a figure, tall and strong
and brown, that came walking to her
across the sand.
She held out her hand with a be-
seeching gesture.
They're looking for you, the con-
stables she said; her throat was very
dry; she could scarcely make the
words come cut. "Go-now-Tn put
them Off"
He studied her with hooking eyes.
why should I go?" he said. Let
'em come here and get mel"
Hope gave little despairing cry.
you must go. I'll send you money.
You can begin again. 1 know how
hard it is. I work. I'm often des-
The knocking light had left his eyes;
something new and strange lighted
them.
Il don't know your, name" he said,
his voice was almost husky.
Hope"
He came up closer to her and took
both her hands in his. We've only
known each other. five days. is it?
Less? But I've found something new
Hope. No, I'm not going to let you
pull away your hands, I'm not going
to let YOU run away. I'm not young
NARROW, as You think but just an
ordinary man who's come away from
all the sham and unreality of life
back therein the city"
Her cheeks were poppy-red. She
could not lift her eyes. Her breath
came brokenly from her parted lips
Il suppose we've got TO know each
others names and what we do; but
all that comes later. Nothing matters
much now except that I've found
Hope"
Twelve got to co. she whis-
pered.
but this time I'm coming with
YOU"
She gave him a s,d6en exultant
look.
Copyright. 1922 by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05

For many years the public has been
accustomed to hear about the debt
burdened farmers. Yet Woe Presi-
dent william H. Kingsley of the Penn
Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Philadel-
phia. at the sixteenth annual conven-
ton of the Association of Life Insur-
ance Presidents, held this week. de-
clared that the total farm mortgage
in the United States had
been estimated at but ~ per cent of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05

Discussing a 900 per cent stock div
idend declared by the Atlantic Refin-
ing company. one editor says: What
with stock dividends and tax-exempt
securities there will soon be nobody to
pay taxes but the poor" But when
was there a time when anybody ex
cept the poor paid taxes? There is
but one way to get taxes out of the
rich and that is thru a sales tax.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05

The supreme court of New Jersey
has confirmed a judgment OF $4,000
won against the Central railroad by a
man for the death of his wife. The
woman and her sister were killed
when the automobile in which they
were riding was struck by train. 1t
you'd not take many such awards to
amount to enough to eliminate all the
grade crossings on the Foad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05

ings and that 90 per cent of the farms
are unincumbered. Mr. Kingsley said;
agriculture is thep carrying much
smaller burden of Indebtedness than
any other business and has withstood
hard times better than any other
American industry on account OF this
smaller burden of debit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05

The Panama canal last month
broke all previous records for the
number of vessels traversing the wa
terway and the amount of tolls col
lected. This fact should put an end to
the agitation for making passage free
to American vessels. 1t is evident
that ships can pay tolls and make a
profit or the business would not grow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05

san Francisco reports export ship
ments so great that cargo space is sold
weeks ahead and is at a premium.
Several coastwise shipping companies
are preparing to put on their largest
vessels to take care of the business.
Yet the American people are asked
10 tax themselves TO pay a bonus to
ship owners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05

Senator Couzens. says the New York
Times. seems to be an independent
citizen. who has the courage of his
opinions" But almost anybody with
$50, 100000 could be that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05

Eight soldiers attached to the French
army on the Rhine were recently con-
victed of being German spies All CON
fessed to having operated within the
French ranks since 1921.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05

about them.
No woman was ever spell binder
enough to lure man with her tongue
to the altar. but a silent woman whose
repertoire consists of "how interest
ing" 'how wonderful" DO tell me
that story about so and so again. can
marry any man she chooses
The recipe for popularity is sim
plcity itself. We have only to re-
member that society is made up of
the borers and the bored. and that
whether people like us or not depends
on whether We do the talking or the
listening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05

Mr.. Hungerford gets the bird. We
don't think SO much of his stuff, but,
at any rate, he had the heart to try.
Everybody else quit cold.