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Rockingham post-dispatch., 1922-02-16

A delightful affair was thatoll
Monday afternoon when Mrs.
W, P. Webb entertained at
Bridge, in honor of Mrs. Arthur
Douglas, of Detroit. The home
was attractively decorated in red
and green hearts carrying out
the Valentine idea; on each table
at each place being placed a lit
tie basket of assorted white and
red hearts. Score cards direct.
ing each guest to her place at
one of the five tables, were heart
valentines. Mrs. Douglas was
presented with a box of Azurea
powder, and to Mrs. Matthew
Foster, of Virginia, she presented
a box of stationery. Then all
cut for the prize which was won
by Mrs Henry D. Ledbetter--a
deck of cards. A course of
chicken salad, sandwiches, bran
dy peaches, olives, celery. hot
biscuit, coffee, followed by ice
cream and cake was served to
Mrs. Webb's guests: Mesdames
Arthur Douglas, Matthew Eos.
ter, Henry Ledbetter, Corpening,
w. C. Leak, Willie Fowlkes, ! M.
Ledbetter, French, Frank Leak,
Bynum, w. N. Everett, Henry
Wall, Purvis, Simmons, London,
June Diggs, Eugene Payne, Tom
Egerton, w. N. Ev-
erett, Jr.
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Mrs. Washlnaton,s Levee.

Mrs. Washington held her levee, as
on other Friday evenings but on no
previous occasion hadone been graced
with so much respcctabllity and. ele-
gance. The air was almost as gentle
as i should be in May, ard the full
moon sh0ne SO brightly that the streets
to d late hour were filed with de-.
Iiei0ns twilight 1t was net the Gus
tom for visitors Of the President to-
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Last Friday was the seventh
anniversary of the wedding Of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. K. Waddill, of
Cheraw. The event was made
the occasion for an oyster roast
at the John L, Everett cottage, on
Everett Lake. Mr.. and Mrs
Waddill had a score of Rocking.
ham and Cheraw friends as
their guests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16

George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
AT THE GRAVE OF JOHN BROWN.

AT THE GRAVE OF JOHN BROWN.
About two miles south of Lake
Placid. New York. you come upon a
stretch of beautiful rolling country.
fenced in by necklace of gray blue
mountains. 1t is in the heart of the
Adirondacks. and part of it is known
now aS "the John Brown Farm"
In the center of a rather fiat space
stands an unpretentious frame build
ing which was for ten years the home
of John Brown. 1t was to this place
that they brought his body after he
had been hanged by the United States
government for his attack upon and
seizure OF the arsenal at Harpers
Ferry, Virginia.
They called this man a fanatic and
murderer. but John Browns own
words~are offered in his defence: 81
pity the poor in bondage that have
none to help them. That is why am
here. The cry of distress of the OPP
pressed is my reason. and the only
reason that prompted me to come
here"
John Brown was shot down by the
troops, called out by the state, and so
A writer in the Atlantic Monthly
stated that John Brown, wounded,
haggard, bleeding, and defeated. and
expecting death with more or less
agony as it was more or less near, was
the finest specimen of a man that 1
ever saw And Governor Wise. of
Virginia, said on seeing him: 81 can
liken his attitude to nothing but Il
broken-winged hawk, lying upon his
bac4, with fearless eye, and talons set
for further fight if need be-"
Just before John Brown stepped
upon the gallows, he handed this
prophetic saying to one of the guards:
st, John Brown, am now quite certain
that the crimes of this guilty land will
never be washed away except with
blood. I had, as I now think, vainly
flattered myself that without much
bloodshed it might be done"
And here are some words written by
John Brown himself in Jail before his
execution:
mot in vain is the lesson taught
A great souls dream
Is worlds new thought,
For death sublime
Is Throne ordained
For coming time"
I thought of these last lines as
looked upon the grave of this hero
marked by a great rock with his name
cut simply across its top. The flag of
the government which hung him floats
calmly from a staff at the side of the
grave, towering like a guardian above
the natural grave stone and trees at
its base.
wiped a few tears from my eyes,
that wouldn't stay back, and went
away-thinking
Copyright, 1922, by George Matthew
Adams)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16
HEART and HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: My heart
my troubles. 1 have no mother or
haven't any one in this great wide
uncle who doesn't care for me.
I had the most wonderful mother in
the world. but she died about six
months ago. 1t is all too terrible
when I see other young girls who talk
and plan things with their dear
mothers and then know that haven t
any. 1t doesn't seem fair, does it?
Ny friends tell me I am cookbook
ing. but it seems that all the nice
young men do not want to go with a
girl who hasn't a home. Before
will go with the other kind who would
ruin my reputation I am content to
stay single.
Please tell me how I can make my
life happier If there is a way
ONE WHO is TRYING TO DO
RIGHT
You can make your life happy by
thinking happy thoughts and making
friends thru loving service to other
people. It is only natural that you
should feel lonetly and hopeless after
SO great loss. but nothing can be
gained by going on in this sad state.
If you believe that your mother is
her feel to see you so unhappy. She
would want you to brace up, smile
bravely, and add what sunshine you
can to a life which is very gray for
a great number of people.
Try not to be selfish in your grief
Instead OF envying other girls who are
happy with their mothers, think how
happy you are that they can have
their mothers. At present you are
thinking in a negative way, while if
you change your thought to positive
thoughts of happiness you will find
your spirits much lighter. Go about
looking for beauty and sweetness in
life, and when you see it (Which will
be often) say to yourelf: How happy
1 ami
Other people are so in need of good
cheer. that you can do much good
in the world by bravely helping them
to find happiness. Fill your heart
with love and you will get plenty OF
1t in return
Your worry about finding the right
man is useless because you are SO very
young that marriage would be unwise
at present. Keep your high ideals, and
some day the right kind of man will
come your way and love you because
you have not cheapened yourself
Courage, little grill Show a brave
spirit.
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Dorothy Dix Talks
ono OF Iafe,s Little Ironies-2.
BY DoReTHT DIX
Re Hsxhsss Paid wcman Wxiee

OltC "a AAAC A%ALeAO
In theory. men admire sensible
women. Educated women. Intelligent
women. Women who are competent
and self reliant. Self controlled
women.
Alas. in real life the less sense a
woman has, the bigger hit does she
make with men. Any little Fluffy
Ruffles with big. childish eyes with
an adoring look in them, can marry
three times to a college graduates
once. 1t is not the lady who can hand
out intellectual companionship. and
discuss the theory of relatively that
men flock about. It is the silly, little
goose who chatters along about moth
ing like babbling brook.
1t is helplesSneSs, not helpfulneSS,
that appeals to a man in q woman.
The woman who is utterly incapable
of taking care of herself always finds
some man to take care of her because
she appeals to all, that is most chiv-
alrous in his nature. Also, it tickles
his vanity to feel how superior he is
to her. but the woman who can take
care of herself generally has to do it.
Men don't even care for their wives
to be sensible, and act like reasonable,
human beings. That's why a woman
who really wants anything cries for it
instead of wasting her time trying to
prove to her husband that she is
logically entitled to have it.
Men sing paeons of praise in honor
of the dear, domestic girl who stays
at home, and helps Mama, and darns
the stockings, and makes angel food,
and fits herself to be a thrifty, eco
nomical help-mate to some lucky man.
But the dear, domestic girl never
has a beau, and she is left to the fate
of a perpetual understudy to Mama
at home. The girl that the boys run
after is the frivolous, little mink whose
only knowledge is the latest dance
step, who is far more at home in cab
arets than she is in a kitchen.
Furthermore, altho men glorify, in
song and story, the woman who is
nailed to her own fireside, common
observation teaches us that the. home
keeping woman is seldom the hus-
band-keeping woman. The woman
whose husband takes an interest in
holding her hand is the one who keeps
it>in a nice, squeezable condition, not
the one who has made cornS ~on her
fingers working for him.
Every man believes that he wants
a wife whose devotion he can never
question, and whose affection for him
is SO great that nothing that he can
do will ever kill it, yet the woman
who keeps her husband a. lover to the
end is one who always keeps him
guessing.
In nothing are mems theory and
practice SO at odds as in regard to
women. That is what makes them SO
that every woman wants
one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16

The North American Newspaper al
lance has requested representative
men in all branches of activity to an
swer certain questions covering the
coal and railroad strikes and thus in
dictate their views as to ways Of pre-
venting henceforth SO costly and dis
turbing industrial dislocations. The
answers thus far received it is re-
ported point to no agreement even on
essentials, tho the majority favor fact
finding commissions and some form
Of arbitration. 1t may be well to
note in this connection that outside
interference of any sort, usually fails
and settlement finally is reached thru
q conference of the contending inter
ests uninfluenced by anything except
a mutual desire to end the fight.
One wonders why they will not pur-
sue this course before resorting to a
trial of strength in which neither
wins a complete victory.
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Louis w. Hill, former business ad-
wiser for Mrs. James ]. Hill. testified
recently that beginning in 1915 and
continuing until 1919. he disposed of
heavily taxed securities held by his
principal, substituting therefor tax
free holdings and in this way in
creased her annual income from
$ss5OOO to s7sO.OOO a year. Here"
remarks the Detroit Free Press. .Ts
a concrete example of the working of
the tax exempt bond evil anybody can
understand at a glance. In a single
instance. in the case of a personal
fortune a little shrewd readjustment
has withdrawn $365,0O0 annually
from the reach OF the tax gatherers."
Here also is another example of the
loose argument INDUCED in by those
who would tax the peoples indebted
ness. The conversion of Mrs. Hills
capital into tax-exempt securities by
no means increased the amount of
such securities in existence. Neither
did the transaction diminish this total
OF taxable property. The result OF
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men out OF employment and bankrupt
the factory owners.
Another curious reversal in tariff
alignment which the war prodiced
was the placing of Representatives of
farming communities and of certain
southern jurisdictions in the high pro-
tective tariff column. When the
price recession came, congressman
received complaints from farm con-
stituents That their prices were cut in
two because of lack of tariff protec-
ton. Industry has crept into several
southern states. There are cotton
mills in the Carolinas, a sugar industry
in Louisiana, steel in Alabama, naval
stores in Georgia, oil in Texas and
Oklahoma. These old time free trade
communities are experiencing
change of heart on the tariff and de-
manding protection from foreign COM
petition.
1t seems that the country is under
going change which is producing the
remarkable situation where the north
ern banker will be the free trader and
the southerner the protective tariff adj
vocate. This is just another of the
economic wonders the war has worked.
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.


The Park Ae. News =
Weather. Crate.
Spoarts. Skinny Martin is trying to
teetch his fertile Spoart not to go fer
Their than certen chawk marks, on ac-
count of his mother saying she would
drop it rite in the soop If she found
it in the kitchin agen.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. Sam Crosses baby sister Udeen
is starting to crawl and wenever eny-
body misses enything they look in
UdeeDs mouth ferst.
Pome by Skinny Martin
Unresistahle
Wen my mother makes chocklit cake
1t certeny looks enticing,
And she genrelly knows 1 thawt so
By the finger marks on the icing.
Sissiety. Miss Loretter Jonson
scrubbed the frunt steps last Thersday
morning and every time anybody went
past she told them she was doing it
for the exercize and not because she
had to.
Lost and Found. Lost-smalI size
tin box montaining IA pencil stumps
all sizes from inches down Site
reward if reterned to Sid Hunt.
Found-nuthing.
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The tense reparations situation IN
Europe has been considerably relieved
by the Intervention of Belgium in the
controversy between Great Britain and
France. France has also made ar
rangements with Germany whereby
German industry will contribute TO
the rehabilitation of the devastated
regions. 1t is apparent that where
there is will there is a way, even in
Europe, and if all the problems that
are vexing that continent were ap-
preached with determination to find
a settlement there would be a speedy
end to them.
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fered the unlimited use of the largest IN
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This Service Bureau is located in the
national capital where it is In immediate
touch with all the great resources OF tine
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Won want to ask, butt can't give ADVICE
or make exhaustive research
The war forced SO many changes IN the
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Keep in touch with your government az
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Last week the Canadian dollar
reached parity with the dollar of the
United States. The statesmen and
business men of the dominion public
~ exchanged gratulations over the
event. In the words of one Canadian
banker. Canada is the first of the
countries that fought in the war ana
suffered currency depreciation to get
back to normal Several explana-
lions of this return to normally have
been offered but probably the pur-
chase of Canadian whisky by Amer
leans is one of the important factors,
even tho it is not mentioned.
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JUST FOLKS
By EDGAR A. GUEST.

AUTUMN -Q
It's getting on to Fall again.
The Crows begin to call again
And gather inxhe nearby woods
In strangely busy flocks:
The mist Is in the hills once more.
And lavish Nature spills once more
A flood Of shining gold upon
The humbest of the stocks.
The woods are in their best today.
In bronze and scarlet dressed today,
They seem a patchwork counterpane
Or color and design;
We wake to find at dawn agnin
Rich diamonds on the lawn again,
For every nights n jeweier
With gems SURPRISING fine.
Tho walk you west or east today.
Your eye will have n feat today,
For there is beauty all about
And splendor everywhere;
And IL may be when strife is done
And all the toll OF life is done.
The charm of peace shall settle down
And hide the lines of care.
Oh, always with the Fall again,
When beauty covers all again,
The thought returns: II God rewards
The humblest vine and tree,
II splendor crowns their days at last
Shall We not hear His praise at last,
Shall men not wear glow Of pride
For what they tried TO be?
Copyright, 1922, by Edgar A. Guest.)
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Questions

Q. What kind Of an exhibit will the
United States have at the Brazilian Ex-
a The sum of s., 100000 was appropriate
ed by congress for suitable building and
exhibits at the Brazilian Centennial Ex-
position at Rio Janiero which will represent
the progress and activities of the United
States in SO far as the government itself is
concerned. Private enterprises will also be
represented at the exposition, but they will
not be housed in the government building
Firms doing business in South America
formed a company and raised funds to in
sure that the business interests of this
country would have adequate representa-
American Industrial Exhibition Building
has been erected and practically all the
space IN It mas neen take ken II expected also,
Rio during the exposition that will com
pare more than favorably with the naval
Q. Is Yellowstone National Park one
ofhhe Seven Wonders Of the Worldr p. Z.
A This park is not numbered among
but It is included among the Wonders of
America The others are Niagara. Nam
YOSEMITE valley, the Giant Trees Ire Of Cali
fornia and Natural Bridge in Virginia.
q When were Italics first used2 G.
A Manutius Venetian printer, first
used them about 1900 A D.
finding cures for tubercuIosis, cancer and
other diseases? H. E. s
the Houses Of Representatives. 1t provides
for a payment of rewards after investiga-
tions Of claims by the Public Health Ser
vice.
fAny reader can get the snswer TO any
question by writing The Topeka State
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sighed deeply. well" he said,
arthur had to go home, anyway"
-Harper's.
A farmer who owned q large cattle
ranch was Dragging to a passerby
about his cows. Why" he said, I
have one COW that gives seventy-five
gallons of milk in one day."
What do you call that cow asked
the stranger.
81 call that cow, Peg"
why, I should think that you'd
call that cow something large. very
large. like, well, Hke-United States %
Call that COW United States? I
should say not. Do you think I want
that cow to go dry on meg"
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ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAY =. HOUSE.
(rrom Philadelphia Publie rsdsssJ

The column returns to its quest of
the unimportant after having tenn
porariiy diverted its attention to the
larger affairs of state and nation. We
derived a good deal OF pleasure from
discussion of the larger affairs. We
cease sucn discussion reluctantly. 1t
is q sense of unfitness that drives Us
back into our accustomed corner.
We had occasion. a time ago. to buy
some insurance. The representative
of an insurance agency called and
took our small order. A little later
check in payment therefor. but fell
into the purely social error OF making
the check payable to the repressn-
tative instead OF the agency. The rep
resentative 'pouched" the coin, ana
the agency now threatens to cancel
the policies unless we pay the prem
iums q second time.
We don't know what our rights ara
in the matter. Probably we have no
rights But we are convinced that q
man who pulls that sort Of "boner" Is
incompetent to advise the people, and
we voluntarily relinquish the task.
Our reading of Bill Whites piece
on prohibition in Kansas in the cur
rent number of Golfers was perfume
tory and casual. We've read Bits
piece on prohibition in Kansas so
many times in ,the quarter century
last past that we know 1t almost by
heart and no longer extract q wallop
from it. Doubtless there are those
who will take it more seriously. To
them IL may be well to say that, where
prohibition is concerned, Bill lives in
perpetual sunshine. For him the trees
are always green, the birds ever lit
ing thir matin song. the soft south
wind eternally redolent of rare per-
fumes.
&c
well. But he doesn't know anything
about prohibition in Kansas. He does
not personally engage in wassail and
song, is not in the confidence or much
in the company of those who do, and
spends his leisure hours under a fig
tree on North Exchange street, EN-
poria, Kan. A man who thus orders
his life can't know anything about the
processes or extent of fabrication in
, community bound BY, a prohibitory
liquor law.
STILL Bill has his points. No insur-
ance agent could gig" him. He is
much too smart for that.
Two readers whose zeal seems out
of proportion to their judgment insist
that we should read 1.-THE Brass
Check" Wed like to know why. AS
we get it by word of mouth. 1.-THE
Brass Check is a fictitious yery
MISUNDERSTANDING concerning news
papers and the men who make them.
| We've probably forgotten more
about what goes on around a news
paper office than Upton Sinclair ever
knew. Why should we read his book
about 1t, particularly at the inevitable
expense of being annoyed by it?
| Readers of the column are always
picking out something for us to do.
Almost invariably it is something we
don't want to do. Why can't The,
consult our wishes once in a while?
II they'd ask us to sing frs. bacs in a
male quartet we'd be only too happy
| to oblige.
Crime seems to have gone back
| nome. They're trying to inject a
blonde woman into the latest murder
mystery.
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War in the Near East again threat
ems. Now is the time for the League
Of Nations to get in its work. If it
cannot stop a genera outbreak of
hostilities it may as well disband.
If, however, there is to be fight, and
the allied powers will withhold sup
port from Bulgaria and Turkey. the
Balkan states probably can success
fully handle the situation.
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Further investigation OF the charges

Further investigation OF the charges
brought by the British authorities
against the American consuls at New
castle including Fred Slater of To-
peka, indicate that the canceling of
their eSequaturs is but another mani
festation Of the intense rivalry that
is developing between American and
British shipping interests. The con-
suls are accused of abuse of authority
in their zeal to find cargoes for Amer
lean vessels, but thus far there has
been no evidence presented to the
state department to warrant the ac-
tioh of the British officials. There
is a growing suspicion that the con-
suls are more entitled to comrnenda-
ton than to a reprimand.
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The JewelI-Willard plan for settling
the shipments strike is said to call
for separate peace with each of the
affected railroads, with committees
of five in each case adjudicating diff
ferences, questions of seniority of
strikers to be settled by these boards,
and men now employed as strike
breakers to remain. 1t looks prom
Using and persons who have nothing
better to offer should keep quiet.
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Dinner Stories

Arthur and Willie were playing
noisily, though peacefully. when
Willie's mother came out to tell the
visiting Arthur that he had better
go horne to dinner. She had Just
turned to re-enter the house when
her offspring threw a stone that sent
Arthur bowling in the direction Of
home
willie" she demanded, sternly.
why did you throw that stone at
Arthur?''
For a moment the inhospitable
Willie stood abashed. watching the
flight OF his playmate. Then he