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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01
SECTION MEMS WAGES.

In discussing the most recent wage
award of the railroad labor board, B.
NJ Jewell, head of the railway divi-
sion of the American Federation OF
Labor, has continued to place strong
emphasis on the schedule fixed for
maintenance of way men as a glaring
example of the injustice of the boards
ruling. Ben W. Hooper. chairman
of the board, has made public a re-
ply to Mr.. Jewell, which, in part, fol-
lows:
Your continual isolation and accen-
tuation of the fact that a minimum
rate of % cents an hour, $1.S4 a day.
was established for section men is en-
tirely misleading because it overIooks
or suppresses so many connected facts,
among which are the following:
Cd The rate for section men
ranges from % to 80 cents per hour.
Cd A comparatively small number
of them receive % cents per hour. A
vast majority of them receive the
higher rates. This is shown by the
fact that the average rate per hour
is 32.7 cents
CD The 23-cent rate is found on a
comparatively small number of ddvi-
sions on a few roads in the south and
southwest 1t is not even found on
the Southern and Illinois Central,
which cut completely thru the south.
(4) Where this minimum rate is
found, the cost of living is usually
low and the men in many instances
are furnished zee living quarters.
(5) In 1915 this class of labor re-
ceived an average hourly rate of Is
cents, and in 1917. an average hourly
rate of 1913 cents.
co The hourly rate of this class of
employees has therefore increased
under the present decision, 69.4 per
cent over 1917, and lis per cent over
1915.
CD Based upon the cost of living.
the purchasing power of the hourly
wage of section men under the present
decision is AS per cent greater than
it was in 1917, and S7.S per cent
greater than in 1915
(S) If it be said that the 10-hour
day prevailed n 1915, and the S-hour
day now, it may likewise be said that
the man either gets the benefit of the
extra two hours for his own purposes
or in many instances he will now be
permitted to work the two hours, since
punitive overtime has been abolished
for this class of employees for the
ninth and tenth hour.
CD Even comparing the present
S-hour wage with the 10-hour wage
OF 1915, the purchasing power of the
new wage is 9.S per cent greater than
that of 1915, and the man has, on top
of This. the gift of two hours time for
other activities.
(10) 1t must also be clearly under
stood that the 23-cent rate will exist
only in territory where the railroad
administration, after careful investi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01

The lower house of congress has
decided to take a rest until August
Is. in order that its members may go
home and look after their fences. 1t
may be remarked that the people do
not pay them for that sort of thing
but the congressman can be excused
on the ground that they have piled
up enough work to keep the senate
busy during their absence from Wash
ington. Two-thirds of the senators
are not especially interested in the
approaching election. so they can con-
tinue at work, while the remainder
of the senators join the congressman
in the old home states. When the
absentees return they probably will
find almost everything ABOUT as they
left it. Nobody ever has accused the
senate of being a glutton for work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01
HEART And HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
By ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am
young girl II years of age. 1 have
Dark bobbed hair and brown eyes.
My friends tell me I am very attrac-
tive Several weeks agb 1 met n
young man who seemed to pay a great
deal of attention to me. a young gill
friend of mine tells me that he does
not like me very much. Should 1 be-
Heve her? Please tell me how 10
make him love me.
BROWN-EYED BOBBIE.
Judge the young mans regard for
you by his actions and not by what
people tell you. If he likes to be with
you and tries his best to please you, e
is evident that he enjoys youI COM
paly. Simply be yourself and do not
try to make him love you by any
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01

President Harding has called the
mine union leaders and the coal oper-
ators into conference, in an effort to
bring about an agreement on a wage
scale. He may succeed in obtaining
a solution of the existing problem in
that way, but 1T promises to be only
temporary at best. What the indus
try and the country needs is that the
strike be settled in a way that it viii
stay settled. A mere adjustment of
wages will not bring such a result. A
contract that cannot be senforced is
next to worthless.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01

raud-caked boots and without a dol~
lar, he stopped at the well in grand
mothers yard and asked for drink
of water.
In November of that year grand
mother for the first time since her
widowhood, figuratively speaking,
folded her hands in her lap and
ceased from striving. Thereafter she
knew only peace and comfort. The
''Englishman" ran the farm with
skill, to which he added Industry ana
thrift. Under his care 1t came to
blossom like a rose He drained the
swamp, replaced old. fences with new
and planted orchards. In the early
seventies he built for grandmother a
new house, which was her pride and
that of the neighborhood, new barns
and outbuildings. Everything he
Particularly he had a way with ami
mails His horses and cattle invariably
were the latest and sleekest in the
country He came to be man OF
munity; his probity and integrity were
traditional. AS he gathered substance
and his investments increased he
bought adjoining acres. And thru all
the years grandmother house was
this wanderers port of call-an an
choraEe in which he always found a
welcome.
One day in August, 1884, there
came to US in the newspaper Office
in which we were employed a tele-
gram from Cousin Perry. 1t read:
"Graudpa is pretty bad off; he wants
to see you" We bridged the 400
miles that interviewed in a night and
found Grandfather Harrison in high
good humor on his front perch. He was
living his youth over again. To him
the orchard he had planted on the
hillside was a fleet of ships-his ships.
A Grimes Golden at the lower end
of the orchard was "a schooner. a
peach tree in the garden was a bril-
gantine., And he told us why he
wanted us to come. You know
bought the Kennedy place." he said.
II did it because there's gold there.
When 1 am gone want you to pros
pect that ledge of rock above the
branch in the woods pasture There's
gold enough there to keep your
grandmother from want forever" We
stayed only day. 1t was all SO
pathetic and we were so helpless to
change it in any way. We never saw
| him again; he passed on in October.
| And while his relatives had sought
| him out in his later and prosperous
yeahs, they found, when they read
the will, that he'd left everything to
grandm other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01

cation, found a justification for and
did establish a lesser rate than paid
the same classes in the balance of the
country, which condition has not been
disturbed by decision of this board.
In view of these facts, not a one
of which you can yourself dispute.
there is no ground for the fierce as
saults which you make upon the action
OF the board in this matter.
For your information, Will say
that recently made some limited in
vestigation, personally and on the
ground of the wages of common labor
in one southern state, and found the
new rate for section men appreciably
higher than the rates being paid to
similar labor in other employments.
1t may also be noted just here that
the average pay of section foremen
under the new decision is 1877 per
cent higher than it was in 1915, and
that the purchasing power of the Sec
ton foreman's wage is 1873 per cent
greater than it was in 1915, His aver
age hourly rate in 1915 was 23.3 cents.
and under the new decision IT 10 51.2
cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01

One of the opponents OF Senator
Hale in the Maine primaries received
a petition with 1000 signers request
ing him to run At the primary he
got less than that number of votes.
Predictions based on prediction in
cidents are not always trustworthy.
The Democrats profess &c see an anti
Harding sentiment in some of the
state primaries, but the probability is
that what there is of rebellion in ex-
istence is directed against congress
and not against the president. Con-
gress has been playing horse with
the tariff, the bonus and the ship sub
sidy until the people in some sections
seem to have lost faith in its willing
ness or its ability to deal conelusiveIy
with these matters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01

The New York newspapers recent
ly contained IAN interview with an
English advertising man, who made
the remark that mo politician can
last five minutes, If the newspapers
want him out" Yet Mayor Hylan got
his job with almost the entire press
of the city against him. Many other
cities have had a similar experience
thru electing mayors opposed by all
the newspapers. Apparently the ways
of the English are not our ways,
when it comes to politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
The Park Ave. News
BY LEE PAPE.

Weather Bum.
Exterl MYSTERIOUS Trail! Leroy
Shooster was coming home from the
store with q bag of flour and it started
to leek without him knowing it and
Benny Potts, Artie Alexander and sid
Hunt followed the MYSTERIOUS wife
trail about a block in back of him
making bleeve they were detectives,
and he went in the back way and the
detecktives climbed up on the tents
and lissened to him getting heck from
his mother for coming home with the
bag ony half full.
Pome by Skinny Martin
Swat Them!
Some people like spinitch and roobarbs
And some injoy bred wen its dry,
Some even get plezzure from washing
their necks,
But nobody like a fly.
Sissiety. Mr.. Persey Weever came
GROUND last Sundey with his hat over
one eye, saying it was the latest etile,
but with the assistants of Mr.. Sid
Hunt, Mr., Ed Wernick and Mr.. Reddy
Merry he ran home with 1t over both
GERS and hasent came GROUND with IL
over one eye sints.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. Sam Crosses baby sister Udeen
is starting to tawk, being kind of hard
to understand on account of making
up all her own verbs.
Lost and Found Nuthing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01
Dorothy Dix Talks
Signs of Age.
HY DOROTHY DIE
Wog1a'O Rfghess Paid Woman Wr4eaR.

/
When a woman begins to tell every
! body what they should eat, and how
| many hours they should sleep, and
what they should wear, and to feel
| that she is generally called upon to
regulate the universe, she is getting
| old, no matter if she looks sixteen
and can dance from dark to day.
| light. The real reason that men de-
| sert their old wives is not because
their faces have grown old and ugly,
! but because they've got tyrannicaI old
souls, that make life with them I'M
endurable.
Another sure sign of age is when a
woman begins to knock all young
women. When you hear a woman
criticising the way the girls dress and
dance, and chase down the boys, and
see her hold up her hands in horror
because young people joyride and
go to theaters, and cabarets, you NAV
know that what ails the poor thing is
age There are women who grow
green-eyed and crazy with jealousy
every time they see a beautiful young
face, and think of the admiration a
young girl excites. and the love that
is made to her, and realize that that
chapter Of their own lives is ended.
1t is a sure sign of age in a woman
If she is catty about girls, and If she
Is full of scandalous gossip about
young people. For it is only age that
makes us believe that our own was
the golden age of virtue. and that
generation from what is in another.
It's sign of age when a woman's
interests began to narrow down to
her own family, and her conversation
becomes a monologue about her
children and her household. When a
woman finds herself telling what John
said, and John did, and how impudent
the cook was, and how many beaux
her daughters have, and what the cap
tain of the football team said to
Freddie, she had better watch her
step, for she is on the down grade
Heaven knows why egotism should
be the hall mark of old age, but it
is. As long as we are young, we are
interested in the world at large, and
want to hear about other people, but
when we grow old we are so self
conferred we care for nothing that does
not pertain to ourselves.
the final test of age is the inability
TO changes one point of view, or to
accept new ideas. AS long as we can
change and grow, we are young, but
the minute we become set in our
pre1udices and opinions, we are old
therefore, the woman who wishes
to keep young, must keep an open
mind. She must keep herself per-
petually interested. She must avoid
becoming arbitrary, and egotistic.
In word, she must look out for
wrinkles in her character, rather than
those on her face, and be more afraid
of telling hoary stories, than having
gray hair. For age shows in the soul
quicker than it does in the body.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01

Quebec probably has become the
most popular oasis on the dry and
parched American continent, accord
ing to a writer in Vanity Fair" who
says: There is one part of Canada,
at least, which needs no advertising
in these days. The i'll wind of pro-
hibition has waited into Quebec an
annually increasing stream of thirsty
travelers-to such an extent that the
government, which has monopolized
the liquor traffic, is Sc id to anticipate
writing off the whole provincial debt
at an early date on the proceeds of
this business venture"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01

tears raining down her working face.
Joe half smiled; Jake rushed at him.
an open knife in his hand. Molly
caught the CLEAN of the blade in the
moonlight. Instantly she flung her
self in front of Joe, thus a free round
arm caught and blunted the deadly
blade, but not before the owner of the
arm had thrown the other about Joe's
neck. Joe held it there, looking after
his fleeing adversary, and said with a
laugh, "Jake, he's bound to have ex-
element; can't get a fight, so he
makes it a footrace." There he stopped
short, for Molly hung on him in a
dead faint-her first and last.
Copyright 1922, by The Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01
BUSINESS TO DATE

A general improvement in the eco
nomic situation in the Tenth federal
reserve district, which includes Kan
sas, is shown in the monthly review
bulletin of the Federal Reserve bank
of Kansas City. A summary of this
review shows that the beginning of
the harvest season finds the banks
amply supplied with funds with which
to finance the harvest OF grain. In
dications are that the banks in this
district and in the Southwest are in
better condition now TO meet all re-
quirements than they have been at
any time since the years preceding
the World war.
The volume of business in twenty
nine cities, measured by bank debts
to Individual account in four weeks,
totaIed s977,s19,0OO an increase of
period in 1921. Wholesale trade was
larger in volume than last year, ex-
cept dry goods and drugs. There was
also a further Improvement in retail
trade. Business failures in May to-
tailed 20, with liabilities OF $1,294,56O.
being the lowest record IN any federal
reserve district. Industrial conditions
are improved and employment in All
establishments on June Is was Ss.S
per cent of normal. an Improvement
OF 4 per cent in one month.
Building permits issued in twenty
cities in May totaled $11,S96,49S, be-
ing an increase of 69.3 per cent over
May, 1921. Wheat and corn receipts
showed an increase ana the produc-
ton Of flour in May was an increase
of sos per cent over the same month
year ago. Receipts of all classes
OF livestock in May. in six markets,
were larger than in April, except
horses and mules, and larger than a
year ago except sheep. Meat pack
ing in May in six centers was the
largest of any month in the year.
Petroleum production in Kansas,
Oklahoma, Wyoming and Colorado
averaged 539.446 barrels a day dur
ing May, compared with 555,234 in
April and 501,25s in May, 1921. Zinc
and ore shipments in May were the
largest of the year. Soft coal mines
in the district in May were operating
at the following per cent of capacity:
Colorado, 64.S; Kansas, II; Missouri,
OIL; Oklahoma, lis; New Mexico,
ass; Wyoming, 0.3.
All crops show an Improvement
since the last report. The June wheat
forecast for the district is approx
mately 5o.6o6.000 bushels, being
decrease of 30, $4,000 bushels from
last year.
Gross deposits in the seventy-nine
selected member banks of the district
as Of May 81 aggregated $500, os1, 900.
which was $17.ss3.OOG more than the
gross deposits reported four weeks
previous to that date. The accumula-
ton of funds reached the high peak
by the end of May and the banks are
found to be amply supplied with funds
to provide the currency and credit
needed to move the 1922 crops to
market centers without heavy Dor
rowings from outside the district.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01
Questions ANSWERS
Who invented life preservers7 c. F

Q. Who invented life preservers? C. F.
D.
A. The life-belt commonly in use was
designed by Admiral Ward of England.
O. When was the first stone theater
built? r. B T.
A. Pompey's Theater in Rome was COM
pleted in 81 B. c. This was the first
building of such construction designed as
a place of amusement The more famous
Colosseum was finished in so a. D.
O. What state leads in the manufacture
Of hosiery? B. B.
A. Hosiery and other knit goods were
manufactured in "a states in 1914, New
York leading in value Of product with
total Of SIS, go .23J. and Pennsylvania rank
ing second with So, 153, 449.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01

Ireland has earned the right to be
called the Mexico of Europe. Doubt
less England could put an end to the
conditions prevailing in the Emerald
Isle just as we could put Mexico in
order, but she doesn't like to do it.
Both England and the United States
are actuated to refrain by reasons
that are similar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01
Her Vision.

a wealthy woman of fifty Was told
that her husband was in love with his
stenographer. you can see 1t your
self" they told her.
She replied: INC, I cannot see It.
A young woman or a blind woman
might see it; but am fifty and am
not blind. 1 know what not to See
Charleston News and Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01
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naud-caked boots and without doa-
lar. he stopped at the well In grand
mothers yard and asked for a drink
of water.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-06
TO MEET SUNDAY PLAN BIC SYSTEM
Maintenance of Way Employees
to Consider Situation.
Strike Held in Allegiance Pend
ing RecOnsideratiOns.

There will be an open meeting of
maintenance of way employees of the
Santa Fe at the Labor hall at o'clock
Sunday afternoon when the status of
their union in relation to striking will
be discussed.
E. z. Clark of Kansas City, inter-
national representative of the Santa
Fe division Of the maintenance of way
employees, will be one OF the speakers
and Joseph Avina, Detroit, Mich, rep
resentative of the Mexican mainte-
nance of way men, will be the princt-
PAL speakers.
Charles FrfedIer will act as Spanish
interpreter. Local union leaders will
also be on the program. 81.
Strike Held in Allegiance.
A telegram from the head OF the
union has been received in Topeka,
announcing that the walkout Of the
maintenance of way employees is be-
ing held in abeyance pending a recon
sideration by the United States labor
board. of the questions of reduction
of wages, the order for the discontinue
ance of contract work, and other
grievances. 1t is understood that the
strike is only held in allegiance during
the reconside Grafton of these questions.
Maintenance of way employees are
notified that they are expected to re-
main at their posts, and perform only
the work which comes under the
scope of their present agreement-in
other words that they are not to take
the places of the shopmen and ma
chanics now on strike.
The men who are asked to attend
the meeting at Labor Hall Sunday af-
ternoon include: firemen and oilers,
railroad shop laborers, flue borers,
fire knockers, station bridge and
building mechanics. all material yard
men, railway trackmen and bridge
workers, and Shopmen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-06
DROPPED FROM POLICE FORCE
Dennis Sanderson Took Too Much
Interest in Santa Fe Strike.

Dennis Sanderson Took Too Much
Interest in Santa Fe Strike.
Dennis Sanderson, a patrolman. has
been suspended from the police force
by Chief Morris Leonard pending an
investigation of charges that he has
been guilty of misconduct as an Off
GER in connection with the strike at
the Santa Fe shops.
Officials of the Santa Fe. who made
the complaint, charge Sanderson has
taken an active interest in behalf of
the striking element with which he is
alleged to be in sympathy, and that
he had his motor car in the parade
following the walk out from the shops
last Saturday.
Chief Leonard refused to discuss the
charges this afternoon. but said that
in riding in the parade Saturday San
derson claims lie did so as patrol Of
ficer only and has explained that If
his car was decorated the work was
done without his knowledge.
Sanderson has been a member of
the police force for eighteen months.
Prior to that time he was employed
at the shops, it is said.