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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-10

ployment under difficult conditions.
would be made the casual or inter
mittent employees OF the railroad in
dustry, while those who had struck
would hold the great majority of po-
sitions insurinE permanent and regu-
lar employment.
From the foregoing it is easy to see
why the railroads object to the full
restoration of seniority rights no mat
ter how DESTROYS they might be of do
ing so. Doubtless they would be glad
to have the old and tried men back
but they feel that they owe It to the
new men, to those who refused to go
out and to themselves 20 keep their
word
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-10
HEART AND HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am twenty
four years old and deeply in love with
young man who is a puzzle to me.
We have been going together two
years and he has not shown any IN
tterest in another girl. He only comes
to see me about once a week ana
sometimes when he comes he seems to
be thinking of other things and some
times he really enjoys me.
1 have gone with other men. but
have grown tired of them or they
have grown tired of me. The man
1 love has a fascination about him.
He is quiet and gentle and different
every time 1 see him.
My mother says that 1 should not
give so much thought to a man who
does not settle things by asking me
to marry him. I don't know why he
doesn't unless it is that he is not
making as much money as he wants
to.
Another young man I have been
going with loves me very much and
he has asked me to marry him.
Mother thinks I am very foolish to
turn him down completely but can't
see any reason for encouraging him
when 1 am in love with some one else.
What would you advise me to do
in this matter? MOLLY c.
1t seems to me the only thing for
you to do is to wait for the man you
love. To marry some one else with
out love would spoil your life. By
all means however, continue to go
with other men.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: 1 am a girl
IA and I look old for my age. I have
long hair and have started to do it up.
There is a boy Is years old who has
asked me to keep company with him
and I would like to do it. but my
mother and older sister say I am too
young. Every one takes me to be Is.
Do you think am too young?
ALICE.
You are certainly too young to
keep company" Probably it pleases
you to be considered older than you
are, but in reality it is very sad that
your girlhood should be cut short.
You will grow old soon enough, little
girl. I would advise you TO wear your
hair down your back or bob it, and be
IA years old in appearance.
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George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
THE STARRY SKY.

Billions of people have looked into
the face of the heavens and wonder
ed and wondered. Men have spent
years and years seeking to fathom
the secrets behind the stars.
And yet these wondrous stars keep
shining on, saying nothing and un-
Outstanding all!
The earth is closed in mystery. No
man is able to tell when the first pansy
poked its gypsy face into the sunlight.
We must teach ourselves the lessons
of the stars.
We sea the same stars as our faith
ers saw. And our children's children
will look into the faces and deep into
the hearts of these same stars with
all the wonder and mystification that
we have looked.
The stars offer nothing of them
selves, make no excuses. do no COM
planning. They. just shine and shine
and shine. And probably will continue
to shine for another billion years or
But we folks of the earth below.
with only an hour or so to stay. pro-
portionately speaking, fume around
and fuss our little lives into unhappy
moods over details that the stars can't
even see
No wonder the ancient poet-singer
exclaimed as he looked into the
heavens: What is man that Thou art
mindful of him 20
often before 1 retire for the night,
put my nead out OF my WINDOW ana
look up into the sky to see If the stars
are shining that night OF course
they are always shfning-tho often
they are clouded away. But just the
minute I see the starry sky, say to
myself that 1t is good night in which
to- sleep in peace
All of us pay too little attention to
the big-things. 1t never discourages
me to look to the top of the great
Woolworth tower in New York City.
I say to myself that here was man
who did bigger job than have ever
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-10
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.

Me and pop and ma was up in the
setting room reeding different things,
and ma Sed to pop, Well, 1 CESS you
know. Willyum enybody that wunts to
fool me has to get up pritty erly in
the morning.
wy don't you make them stay up
all mite vile you're about it? pop sed,
Well, I was out with Mrs. Hews and
some man came along with a lot of
bulbs he was trying to sell, and he
sed they were Chineez apricot bulbs
and all you had to do was put them
in waiter and the next day flowers
would brake out, and Mrs. Hews took
2 jest from wat the man sed but as
for me 1 told him 1 was from Miz-
zoury and If he had eny with flowers
on already I mite consider the mat
ter but as 1t was he could keep his
bulbs as FAR as I was CONSERVED, 1 told
him.
And you dident buy eny? pop sed,
and ma sed, Certeny not in the ferst
place who ever herd of Chineez april
cots and in the End place the man
dident even look as If he knew ware
China was on the map eny more than
the man in the moon, and in the 3rd
place don't you think I was rite?
I SHOULDN'T be serprized, pop sed.
Meening maybe. and ma sed, They can
fool Mrs. Hews and other people but
I'm different, and o by the way, did
book come to me today in the mail,
they sed they would send it inn
meeditly.
Who did. wat book? pop sed. and
ma sed. Wy. I saw about it in an av-
vertisement how to reduce your weight
from 10 to rs pounds in SO hours. they
ony wunted dollers apeece for them
SO thawt I mite as well send for
one, there must be something in it
or they would hardly go to the trubble
and Expense of writing book about it.
Yee Gods, help. aid, sucker. you're
hard one to fool, all rite, o yes, o no,
pop sed.
The cases are intirely different. ma
sed. WITCH jest then the telefone rang.
being Mrs. Hews to tell ma her Chi
neez apricot bulbs was starting to
grow CRATE.
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patients, then there wouldn't be any
excuse for speaking of money-and
things could just be put Off"
/. But aren't you impatient? Don't
you want to marry her?"
mot especially" said Laurence
Montresor. "Oh. wen get along
genial and all that. Only-well, 1
guess I'm not the marrying Sort
The next afternoon Mr.. Lidley, Doc
tor Montresor's uncle, arrived with
ting in the young doctors. waiting
room to observe his patents as they.
arrived for evening office hours.
He consented reluctantly. "Oh. you
can't expect a beginner to have
many" he said.
But when Doctor Montresor and
his party arrived that evening there
were already four patients awaiting in
the corridor. Ten or eleven arrived
shortly. There were not enough
chairs. Some of the younger ones
propped themselves against the win
dow sills or on the arms of the chairs.
The thing that struck Doctor Mon
treSor with surprise was that five of
them were members of Laura Bellies
immediate family. The rest were cou-
sins or aunts. Their maladies seemed
to be of an indefinite nature, but they
came in separately and ali seemed to
take the thing seriously. The last one
of the patients was Laura Belle, who
had slipped in after the rest. She
renamed IN Doctor MOntreSOrS pri-
vate office for some time, and when
she went the doctor saw her to the
door.
Goodbye, Laura Belle" he said,
but nothing more. because Kathaleen
and her uncle were sitting there wait
ing.
Without further ado KathaIeen ex-
planned. This settles it," she said.
IF I had found you mere fighting
against bad business, and friendless, I
was going to stick it out. But I find
you with a practice any doctor might
be proud of. Then there is this little
Laura person. I know from the way
she looked at you she loves you, and 1
dare say you love her, too. Honest,
Laurence" said Kathaleen putting her
hand on the young mans arm, I'm
in love with some one else. I want
to be released-and I dare say you
do. too
And that night, after the uncle and
his ward had departed by a night
train, Doctor Montresor sought Laura
Belle out at her home and told her
what he had not felt free TO tell her
before, and Laura Belle looked very
happy.
Copyright 1922, by The Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
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OuestionS-Ans0ers

Q. Why was Henry clay's wife buried
erosswise at his feet? j. K. D.
Cemetery says that owing to the space In
the vault and in accordance With M the
Q. When one calls telephone number
and gets a response; is It impOlite to say
A. 1t is considered rude to inquire the
identity of the person answering the tele-
phone call. The person calling should ask
ask for the person with whom he desires
o. Is Mount Everest in Tibet or India
A. Mount Everest is on the frontier be.
tween the Independent state OF Nepal and
Q. How can organdy be made stiff and
A. Organdy may be stiffened with gum
arabic. A teaspoOnful of gum arabic is
used to each quart of boiling water.
Q. Where is Major Andre buriedf c. l..
A Major Andre was originally buried
the second Of october. 17se. II 1871 his
monument which had been erected to his
memory in Westminster Abbey, London.
o Is it trne that the government has
approved new paper milk bother l..
a. The department of agriculture says
that no statement of approval or disap
proval has been made regarding any spe-
ciflc type of milk container, from either
the sanitary or the economic standpoint.
(Any render can get the snswer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin, director, Washington. D; c This
offer applies strictly to Information. %he
Bureau cannot give advice on legal medical
and financial matters. II does not attempt
to settle domestic troubles. nor to under
take exhaustive research on any subject.
Give full name and address and enclose two
cents in stamps for return postage Az
Write your question plainly ana briefly.
replies are sent direct to the inouirer.l
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Another solution of the farmers
problem has appeared under the au-
thorship of Edwin Mcknight. He
sets forth how the farmer can make
his business as certain of profitable
return as is any other business. His
plan consists in finding a practical
way to obtain a cost plus a reasonable
profit price for farm products in each
and every year. The cost of all labor.
of transportation, of storage, of in
terest on investment, taxes. insurance
against the elements. an allowance for
depreciation. and a reasonable profit.
he says, are the principal items which
in the aggregate make up cost plus
a reasonable profit price. The most
important item in this list probably is
that of insurance. The farmer may
have all his calculations made to a
penny, but he cannot tell what the
weather will be. In this respect his
business differs from tnat of every
other Weather conditions may at
any time upset his entire program. The
manufacturer. the railroad. the pack
ing house. take little account of the
vicissitudes of climate. which are,
however, the farmers chief handicap.
and insurance affords his only means
of escape
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Dorothy Dix Tails
Stand ON Your Own Feet-2.

Stand on Your Own Feet.
No dependent person can ever know
the pure joy in living of the independ-
ent. And SO if you want-your children
to be happy, you must bring them up
TO rely upon themselves. You must
teach them that they are the archi-
tects of their own fortune, and that
they will have just whatever they
have the ability to get for themselves.
You must breed in them a shame of
being a leaner instead of litter.
And if you want your children to
be successes in the world, you must
teach them to stand on their own feet.
Nothing else paralyzes energy and eff
fort SO completely as for young people
to expect someone else to push them
up the ladder of success and to de-
pend upon some pull to get them the
reward that they are too lazy to win
by their own sweat and labor.
Everyone who has, achieved any
success is tormented by these para
sites, who think that they climb into
fame and fortune on somebody else's
shoulders. Every rich man is be-
sieged by poor men who beseech him
highly paid positions. Every mail
brings a writer letters from amateur
authors asking him or her to get their
effusions into the magazines. Actors
and singers, who are stars, literally
have to barricade their doors against
think that all they need to become
great actors or singers is to have some
one with a pull bring them to Belas-
cos notice.
1t never seems to occur to these
poor weaklings that they have got to
win their way up by hard work, and
patience, and years and years of
drudgery, just as did those on whom
they are calling for help. For. alas.
there is no royal road to achieving.
Everyone who arrives has toiled foot
sore and weary up the same rocky
path.
And we may well teach children to
stand on their own feet because. in
the end. it is what they have to do If
they amount to a row of pins. After
can do for another. Sometimes we
can indicate to boy and a girl what
we think are the doors of opportunity,
but they must open them for them
selves. and push forward on their own
power If they get anywhere.
If you have influence you can put
a boy and girl in a good position,
but it avails little unless they have
the energy and the industry to hold 1t
down, and the initiative to go forward.
Nobody can supply that to them, and
it is significant that the young people
who do succeed are nearly always the
ones who have not asked anybody to
get their jobs for them. 1t is those
who are go-getters themselves who
reach the heights.
Teach children to be Independent,
to rely on themselves, to stand on
cret of happiness and of success
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A resolution has been introduced
by Senator Caraway (DemocraO, of
Arkansas, to ascertain If any senator
voting for the tariff on wool owned
sheep. Senator Caraway's resolu-
ton" says the Republican Publicity
association, raises the issue as to
whether It is a crime for a man who
sits in legislative halls to be possessed
OF property. Does the fact that he
has by industry. thrift and application
to business accumulated something
disqualify him from participating in
an official way in the conduct of his
government ~ The answer to this
question. of course. must be in the
negative. but what kind OF legislation
could the country expect IL congress
were made up with a majority of rail-
road owners. bankers, manufacturers
or farmers? Would not these men
vote in the interest OF their own bust
ness. regardless of how others might
be affected? That is what the sheep
senators and the sugar senators have
been doing.
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JUST FOLKS

BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

VACATION
The boys are on their holidays,
AS brown as berries they are burned,
But grown-up age on duty stays,
Still finding lessons to be learned.
Youth romps the vacant lots in play,
From books and studies wholly free,
But age must go from day to day
Still seeking manhood's high degree.
Youth puts its lesson grim aside.
But age must meet a sterner test;
With man life's never satisfied,
He must do better than the best
Thus while the children romp and play
And from the path of duty turn,
Age never puts life's books away.
Each page has lessons it must learn
No glad vacation ever dawns
When age has come and youth has fled,
Old feet must shun the velvet lawns
To trudge the road which lies ahead.
So let them romR the while they may
And let them think their lessons done,
They shall discover down the way
The work of man is just begun
And they shall find when they are grown
And reach the highwayss distant turn,
How very little we have known.
How very much there is to learn
Copyright, 1922. by Edgar A. Guest.)
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THE INCREAsED SUGAR DUTY

The American people are asked by
the tariff makers of the senate to pay
! tariff bill of approximately $1S4.-
600. 900 a year on the sugar they con-
sumo. That is what the rate of $1.S4
hundred pounds on Cuban sugar.
adopted last Tuesday, will work out
when applied to the country's normal
consumption of approximately 10000
900. 200 pounds a year.
But the tariff extremists on the
committee really wanted to do worse
than that to the sugar consumers of
the country. They thought they
might as well pile an even 100000
900 of extra sugar cost upon he
American consumer.
The original finance committee pro-
posal was a duty of two cents a pound
on Cuban sugar, which not only is
virtually all the sugar imported into
this market but is. the bulk of the
sugar consumed by this country. In
strenuous objection to such treatment
of the public an amendment was Of
fered in the committee to make the
duty $3.50 a hundred pounds. This
would have saved the American con-
sumers S7O.oOO.OOO from the $780,
100000 sugar tariff cost at the pri-
posed rate of two cents.
But the tariff makers would not
listen to such a benefit for the public
as cutting their sugar bills $70,0O0.-
900 a year; and they voted that
amendment down, six to three. Then
they voted down an amendment to
-
pounds and save American sugar con-
sumers $60.o00,OOO a year out of the
proposed tax of $2OO,0O0.o0O. And
then they voted down an amendment
to, make 1t a cent and a half a pound
and save the American sugar consum-
ers 5O.OOO.OOO.
At last. after bitter opposition by
some members of the committee. a
duty of $3.50 a hundred pounds was
voted five to four. Even then the
tariff makers could not reconcile
themselves to letting the American
sugar consumers off sac. OOO,o 900 of the
the very day before the McCumber
tariff bill was reported TO the senate
still another effort was made to drive
the rate on Cuban sugar up to two
cents a pound. but this was defeated,
altho only by the narrow vote of five
to four.
The tariff makers are not yet will
ing to let the American public escape
with a sugar tax of $160.00o,000 a
year instead of s2OO.OOO.OOO. They
have put the Cuban rate up to 1874
cents a pound and the total tax on
American sugar consumers up to
S1S4,0O0. 900 a year by forcing thru
an amendment on the floor of the
senate. with the aid of what the New
York Herald calls ''some of McCum-
ber's Democratic shock troops"
And who will reap the benefit of
this enormous tax on the people? The
are a few sugar planters
in Louisiana and those engaged in the
beet sugar industry. which already is
one of the most prosperous industries
in the United States and is confined
to a few persons in half a dozen west
ern states.
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While one advocate of a high pro-
tective tariff declares that imported
goods are sold at enormous profits
another calls attention to the fact that
these goods are sold at about half
the price of the American product.
so the. store keepers and the consum-
ers both are benefited The only suf-
terer therefore is the American man
ufacturer who wants these profits for
himself and is willing to let the con-
sumner go hang.
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william q. Foster, who engineered
the steel strike. has been driven out
OF Colorado for spreading bolshe-
visit propaganda. Yet Samuel Com
pers some time ago assured the pub
lie that Foster had reformed. APP
parently the reformation was not per-
rnanent
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ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY e. HOUSE.
CFrom Phiiadelphia Public LedSsr.l

IT is the columns habit to consult
the editorial writers here and else
where upon matters that puzzle ana
befog its mental processes what We
want now to find out is whether the
denomination of Jim Reed was an
other progressive victory. Ana we
should also like to know whether the
women did it.
When an outsider beats an old timer
it is the custom to say either that the
people were aroused, or that the
women did it. What, we should Ike
to know. is the plausible explanation
when an old timer beats an outsider?
1t is very likely that, as far as Mr..
Wilson is concerned, the worst news is
the probable reelection of Henry
Cabot Lodge as senator from Massa-
chusettS.
Anodyne for an Old wound.
Happy Hustling Huntsville" We
quote from q brochure that presently
Will find oblivion on this desk, lis
sixty miles east of Mussel Shoals and
ninety-eISht west OF Chattanooga.
Like other cities in the Mussel Shoals
district, it is supplied with hydro
electric power over transmission lines
With a population of 10000 within n
three-mile radius it is the largest city
in the Mussel Shoals district.
And there is something additional
to say for Happy Hustling hunts
Vile" 1t knows how to spell "MusseI
Shoals" And that is more than can
be said for the Associated Press or the
newspaper copy and proofreaders.
ct don't at all agree with your Field
correspondents" writes J. NJ. MY
first thought after reading Genes COL
umn was to characterize you as a sly
dog. With one or two exceptions. you
selected the worst you could find or
eight years of Field fun as a foil for
own"
your own"
Perish the thought that our fun
should need foil, but that, too, is an
academic phase of the matter at issue.
Mr.. Fields publishers thought it worth
while to preserve only a few of his
shorter paragraphs. There are only
about twenty in the two bound vol
umes of "Sharps and Flats" OF the
twenty we used thirteen.
"Altho don't care much for your
views" volunteers II. S. L., Il am
curious to see what you can do with
the brilliant opportunity afforded in
the news item that Henry Ford was
fined for violating the speed limit"
Well, now that III. S. l." has seen
it. what does he think of it? We are
always, so to speak, on the anxious
seat. The fear that somebody won't
like our reactions to events makes or
our pillow a weary vigil.
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done-and with no great advantages
The tower of this gigantic building,
than any business structure ever
erected in the history of the world
The starry sky says nothing-but
tells much-and understands all A
good statement of fact to remember
and to emulate so far as we are able.
Copyright. 1922. George Matthew Adams)
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The pending tariff bill. if it should
be enacted into law would act as a
two edged sword. 1t would reduce
revenues from customs, thus increas-
ing other forms of taxation and at
the same time it would increase prices
TO the consuming public.
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Probably not one person out of a
3 thousand of those who voted against
Judge Porter and Judge West could
give u logical reason for his action.