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Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-31

A man never realizes how little
confidence he has in boys until his
daughter gets into her teens.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-31

Russia needn't be so boastful of
her red guards. Other countries have
blackguards.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-31

If the one-big-union idea works, we
might try it on the more or less Unit
ed States.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-31

The early bird also gets some re-
markably intimate views of people on
sleeping porches.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-31
rHh in Paragraph

| s reactiOnary is one who
N '0'e Of liberty the root of
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-31

SlSephLS poICueS.
The dove won't build in the can
mons mouth until something is pro-
vided to fill the other mouths.
At any rate, an unpopular law can't
be enforced while it is violated by
those with whom it is popular.
The money to care for disabled SOL
diers may be appropriated in time to
build them a beautiful monument.
Look up an old chap in Rradstreets
and you will know whether he is
playing golf or pitching horseshoes.
A moratorium is just the high
brow way of admitting that there
doesn't seem to be any blood in the
turnip.
just when we are willing to con-
cede that women have real intelli-
gence, another of them marries that
kind of man.
Mud baths may be good for the
skin, as that doctor says, but poll
tician's hide is so thick that mud
singing doesn't affect him much.
The world may forgive Germany in
the course of time if it isn't forced
to forgive her now as matter of
eXpediency.
The idea of a soldier at the work
er's elbow is horrible, but we confess
that we'd like to see it tried on a
plumber.
A feminine writer says it isn't fair
to place all the blame on the flapper.
Well, it's a good idea to have some
thing on her.
A French scientist says the jaws
grow weaker as the brain grows, and
we print the information for the ben
eft of the rag chewers.
Our physician has violated the eth
les of his profession. He has maya
zines in his waiting room that are
three months old.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-31

The dove won't build in the can
mons mouth until something is pro-
vided to fill the other mouths.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-31

At any rate, an unpopular law can't
be enforced while it is violated by
those with whom it is popular
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-31

Our physician has violated the eth
les of his profession. He has maya
zines in his waiting room that are
three months old.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-31

The money to care for disabled SOL
diers may be appropriated in time to
build them a beautiful monument.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-31

A French scientist says the jaws
grow weaker as the brain grows, and
we print the information for the ben
eft of the rag chewers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
Mayor COrwine Plans to License
Motor Car Drivers.
Persons Must Be Qualified Be-
fore Examining Board.
RAISES THE AGE LIMIT TO 18
Do Away With Kid Operators of
High Powered Cars.
To Go Before City
Commission Soon.

Mayor Corwine took the most i'm
portant step in Topeka'S effort to stop
reckless motor car driving today when
he announced a plan for the licensing
Of persons who drive automobiles
within the city limits. In addition to
the requirement for a drivers license
the mayor has suggested that the age
limit of drivers be extended from IS
to 18 years.
The many accidents on the streets
of the city due to reckless operation
of motor cars and the refusal of cor
oner's juries to take any action on ia
talities have brought about the strin-
gent plans by Mayor Corwine.'
Thousands of cars are driven daily
on the streets and of this number
hundreds are persons who know little
or nothing of the operation and
mechanism of the powerful machin-
cry they are operating.
1t is the mayors plan to appoint a
board composed of the sheriff. the
chief of police and the police judge
for the purpose of making examina-
tions and issuing licenses. This board
would work without compensation,
thereby making it unnecessary for the
motOrist to pay a fee for his privilege
of driving a car
Suspend n License.
In case of a discovery of reckless
driving on the streets of the city the
police, thru the examining board,
could suspend a persons license for
certain period of time as an added
punishment to the fine inflicted.
Raising the age limit from 16 to IS
years would eliminate many of the
youngsters who race thru the streets
at night-cars loaded down with boys
and girls who speed without regard 10
! themselves or others. There has been
a demand. the mayor said today, to
raise the age limit to 81 years but he
rather favored the 1S-year-oId rule at
i this time.
1t is anticipated that an ordinance
creating the board, giving it power
and placing it in operation will be
presented to the city commission IN
a few days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
MOTORIST MUMBLINGS

Mayor Corwine's plan for a motor
car license examining board is in fit
ting with the wishes of the. careful
drivers and the pedestrians of the city
of Topeka.
If a person is not acquainted with
the mechanism that sweeps his pow
erfuI car thru the streets he should
not be allowed to operate it. Persons
learning to drive cars should not be
allowed the streets without an expert
enced person with them. Hundreds Of
accidents have been brought about by
men and women who became con-
fused in pinch and were helpless in
the control of their cars.
The mayors plan to grant licenses
free meets with the approval of the
motorists who are taxed now at every
turn in the road but The State Journal
is under the impression at this time
that possibly a small fee would be
advisable. With this fee the board
could be reimbursed-a, board COM
posed of men who could take the time
to make examinations. The sheriff,
Si44CA "a POAA(C anu POiA%C J00S al I
weighted down with duties that might
interfere with the issuance of licenses
and the proper time with drivers ap-
plications.
The mayors plan, tho, is sensible
for a beginning and if it is successful
it could be continued without cost.
Raising the age limit from 16 to IS
is another good move. Kids have no
right, morally or legally, to sit behind
a steering wheel and operate high
powered cars thru the street foot and
/ motor traffic. Nor do they have a
right to engage in the wild orgies that
have resulted so disastrously at night
Keeping kids out OF motor cars will dc
more to reduce accidents, crime and
youthful delinquencies than any other
move on the part of city officials.
The mayors entire plan is most
commendable and should be encour-
aged by the entire city. 1t means
protection to the motorist, the pedes-
/ trian and the worried mother.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
TWO BANDITS Die
Third Surrenders When Pals
Slain in Battle.
Had Escaped From Kansas City
Municipal Farm.

Kansas City, Feb. SACK Young.
2S, and Hans Jansen, rs. two of three
men who escaped yesterday from the
municipal farm at Leeds, were shot
and killed in a revolver battle with
H B. Wright a patrolman. about five
miles south of Lees Summit, Mo.
early this morning. Fred Bundy. the
third man. also said to be known as
j. w. Lander. surrendered.
Wright was off duty. and was visit
ing relatives near Lees Summit When
he learned of the escape of the pris-
oners, he offered his services to VIM.
Parish. constable at Lees Summit.
Parish and Wright were driving south
of Lees Summit in a motor car when
they saw camp fire. around which
three men We're seated.
Two men ran as they approached
Wright followed. They ran over a hill
and into a ravine. When Wright
reached the top of the hill the two
men opened fire on him with revolvers
Wright dropped to the ground and re-
turned the fire. Several shots were
fired. Wright crawIed to point
where he could see the men and shot
one of them. The other fired at
Wright but missed. Wright then shot
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
TO RAISE $4,000
Kansas State Historical Society
Starts Drive for Funds.
To Purchase Material Now
Going to other States.

A campaign to raise an endowment
fund of $4,000 for the Kansas State
Historical society has been inaugural
ed. 1t is proposed to establish the
fund by obtaining 5000 life members
to the society at $40 each. The in
terest would be used to purchase col
lections of historical material now
going elsewhere because of lack of
funds
Sam F. Woolard, of Wichita, nresi-
dent, and William E. Connelley, of
Topeka, secretary, are pushing the
movement which is also intended to
increase the number of annual mem
bers. W. Y. Morgan of Hutchinson,
Mrs Effie Hiatt van Tuyl of Leaven-
worth, and Frank L. Travis of To-
mittee.
Membership of f,6OO.
The total membership of the society
; is now between l, 500 and 1000, ac-
cording to Secretary Connelley. The
membership is composed of about
four hundred life members, four hun
4 dred annual members and seven hun
dred or eight hundred newspaper men
who are automatically elected to
membership.
Letters have been sent to some 49,
600 Kansas teachers urging them to
join the historical society.
Have you ever realized that in
! Topeka, KAN" says the letter to the
teachers there is an institution call
ed the Kansas State Historical society,
a part of the machinery of the state
| government. which is and should be a
part of your every day equipment as
a teacher, to be drawn upon by you
for the information not available in
I the text books used by you in your
/ profession, and this, as the occasion
demands.
1T Is your duty to advance the in
/ terests of the Kansas historical So
ciety. It is not a charita BILE
4 institution. 1t belongs to the people
I of the state
/ I'VE are especially anxious that the
teachers of this state become inter
( ested in this institution so that the
! history and the folklore of this state
/ gathered up by this society will be
passed on to the little men and wo-
men in the schools, so when they be-
come voters the problems of good
/ citizenship will be solved in so far as
i Kansas is concerned"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
Wave of Fighting, Raiding and
Kidnapping in Ulster.
Worst Disorders Since Irish
Armistice Was Declared.
RAIL STRIKE REACHES CRISIS
Employees Threaten to Seize
and Operate Roads.
UniOnist Chiefs Carried Away
by Bands of Raiders.
lBv the Associated Presg.l

Belfast, Feb. S.-A large number of
the leading unionists of Counties
Fermangh and Tyrone, in the Ulster
area, were kidnapped from their homes
early today and taken to unknown
destinations. Fifteen arrests have
been made in connection with the
kidnapings.
Crisis in r. r. Strike.
Cork, Feb. S.-A crisis in the Cork
railway strike is expected to be
reached tonight, the strikers having
announced their intention of taking
charge of the line and running them
themselves. South Munster is vir-
tually so.ated from the rest of the
country, and the fairs and markets are
hard hit.
Unionists Kidnapped.
Belfast, Feb. 8.-A violent wave of
fighting, raiding and kidnapping rolled
thru the Ulster counties of Tyrone and
FePmangh toCay.
Ten Unionist leaders and eight con-
stables were reported to have been
seized and carried away. Jocelyn
Booth. father of Countess Markiewicz,
was kidnapped.
Worst Since Armistice.
These were the most serious disor-
ders in ireland since the armistice
The armed bands of raiders came
from County Longford. Among the
prisoners taken by them were Ankle
tell Montray, grand master of the Ty-
rome lodge of Orangemen, and Ivan
Carson, former sheriff at Fermangh,
who was badly wounded.
When the raiders started on their
return journey they were chased by
the police. After a running battle,
eleven of the armed men were cap
tured as well as three automobiles
laden with bombs and rifles.
Police Are Ambushed.
A police party was ambushed near
Newtown-Butler, on the Great North
ern railway in County Fermangh.
There was heavy firing and the cas-
ualt!es are said to have been severe.
A number of houses were raided by
republicans who carried off Orange
residents as prisoners.
The attacks were widespread.
There was heavy fighting near Rossly
and Newtown- Butler, where police
merous casualties were reported.
Ulster to Take Action.
Special detachments of constabu-
larry are being mobilized to repel at
tacks of republicans and Sim Fein
sympath;zers in the southern part of
Ulster province.
The raiders are believed to have
come from Counties Cavan and Long
ford, near the border. Teh forces
known as the "B. Specials were mo-
bilized today in Tyrone and Fer
managh and rushed to the scene of
the kidnapping. The Ulster govern
ment announced it's intention of TAX
ing drastic measure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
HIS FATHER
Wichita Youth Says Money
Cause of Staying.
Attacked Parent From Behind
Beat Head to Pulp.

Wichita, Kan, Feb. S-Declaring
he and his father quarreled over the
expenditure of money on the boy's 5
fiancee. Charles Ratzell, age 10. con-
fessed today to detectives that he at
tackled and killed his father in their
home here a week ago.
He attacked his father age 68. from
behind, and beat his head into a pulp,
detectives sad the boy admitted.
Ratzell was arrested following the
inquest, when detectives thought they
noticed conflicting details in his story.
How the boy killed his aged parent.
and then left home, meeting a boy
friend and taking girls to a picture
show, was detailed in the confession.
His companions, have insisted on his
innocence because they said his de-
meanor on that night was perfectly
natural.
He stayed all night away from
home and returned twe.ve hours
after he had killed his father, to
spread the news, he said.
The boy and his father had been
deeply attached for years and lived
alone, the mother being dead. The
differences over the money had
caused. the quarrel to brood for weeks.
however Several thousand dollars in
cash was. uncovered in the Ratzell
basement following the murder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
shippers' Forecast.


Protect all thirty six hour shipments
north and west against a temperature
of 81 degrees. East and south above
freezing.
A temperature of So degrees was
recorded in Topeka at o'clock this
afternoon. This was only degrees
below the highest temperature ever
recorded on this date. which was 81
degrees in 1918. The temperature av-
eraged 10 degrees above normal dur
ing the last twenty-fOur hours.
The Marchlike weather will con-
tinue, says Meteorologist Flora. The
strong wind from the south is forcing
the temperatures above normal. The
sky was clear in eastern Kansas today
and cloudy in western Kansas. The
sky will be partly cloudy in Topeka
Thursday.
No fall of moisture was reported in
Kansas or adjoining states during the
last tWenty-four hours.
The highest temperature in Topeka
during the last twenty-four hours was
So degrees at o'clock this afternoon
and the lowest was 33 degrees at $50
o'clock this morning.
The highest temperature in Kansas
(ConCfnued on Page TWoJ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
(By the Associated Press.l

Los Angeles, Feb. s.-The Los An
geles Examiner today published an
other unsigned letter found among the
effects of Taylor 1t was written in
a simple code. upon the stationery of
a local hotel. 1t deciphered as fol-
lows:
What shall call you. you wonder
full man. You are standing on the
lot. the idol of an adoring company
You have just come over and put your
coat on my chair. I want to go away
with you up in the hills or anywhere
just SO we'd be alone-au alone
I'm a beautiful little woodland lodge
you'd be cook Gas I can only make
tea) and fetch water and build the
fires.
wouldn't it be glorious to sit on a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
ONE KILLED IN MOB FIGHT
Union Picket Slain When Ohio Steel
Plant Is R,opencd.

Yorkville, O., Feb. Sat least one
man was killed and number of 9TH
ers wounded in a fight this morning
at the plant of the Wheeling Steel cor
poration here.
The plant resGmed operations yes
terday after being shut down since
last July. when the company and the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel and Tin Workers were unable
to reach an agreement
The dead man. Elmer Fox, was a
resident of Tiltonville, near here, ana
was said to have been on duty as a
union picket when the shooting oc-
CURED. At the. mill were number
of deputy sheriffs under command of
Sheriff Lucas of Belmont county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
THREATEN NATIONAL TREASURY
Fire on Roof of Building in Washing
ton Holding Many Millions Dollars.

Washington. Feb. s.-The fire broke
out on the roof of the treasury late
this afternoon but after few min
utes of efforts by all the fire fighting
apparatus in the downtown portion Of
the capital. the blaze was believed to
have been brought under control.
The fire was caused by overturning
of some sort of heating apparatus.
used by workmen who have been en-
gagged in repairing and raising the roof
of the building which holds millions on
millions of dollars in currency. En-
ployes numbering several thousand
were released from their work and
left the building without disorder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
DEATH OF CHAS. C. EVANS
Former Member of Legislature and
Widely Known Kansan Dies.

Charles C. Evans of GoodIand, Kan,
for many years a widely known Kansas
farmer and politician, died this morn
ing at 212 West Eighth avenue in
Topeka, where he has been residing
for the last few months during medi-
cal treatments.
Mr.. Evans for many years was re
ceiver of the land office at Goodland.
He was in the house of representatives
in the 1913 legislature and in 1914
was second high man in the race for
state treasurer when Walter Payne
won the nomination on the Republican
ticket.
He was 81 years of age at the time
of his death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
Passionate Letter Found
In TayLorApartn1ents Tells
HolU Director Was LoDed
Unsigned and in Simple Code, Unknown Woman Pro-
posed Love Tryst in Woodland Lodge in
Most AlIuring Terms.

big comfy couch by a cosy warm fire
with the wind whistling outside try
ing to harmonic with the faint strains
of music coming from our Fictro.a?
And then you'd have 10 get up and
take off the record. OF course I don't
mean that. dear. Did you really sup
pose L intended you to take care of
me like a baby?
"Oh, no; for this is my part. I'd
sweep and dust (they make the sweet
est little dust caps, you knew. and tie
fresh ribbons on the snowy white cur
tains and feed the birds and fix the
flowers, and. oh. yes. set the table and
help you wash the dishes, and then in
my spare time I'd darn socks; I'd do
my room and put on something soft
and flowing. and then I'd lie on the
couch and wait for you"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
EMPLOYERS Of WOMEN MEET
Conference VIII Be Held at Chamber
of Commerce Tonight.


There will be a meeting of Topeka
employers of women at the Chamber
of Commerce at 8 o'clock this evening
At this time there will be considered
some of the aspects of the state laws
governing the employment, working
hours and condition of women en-
ployes.
The hearings on these laws and the
rulings of the welfare department of
the state court of industrial relations
which are being held over the state,
may result in changes in the rulings.
The hearing at which employers in
Topeka are to present their side of the
case in discussion with the representa-
tives of the industrial court will be
held February "a and 25.
The meeting tonight is for the pur-
pose of crystallizing the opinions of
Topeka employers into suggestions or
protests which may be presented to
the state officials at the hearing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08

Chicago, Feb. s.-Pollce Captain
Joseph Smith answered the tele-
phone today and heard an excited
voice. All he could distinguish
was the word robin and the
address. 1905 Kimbark avenue.
The address was his own. RevoI-
yer in hand. he fastened 10 his
home to find-an early robin
perched on his lawn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
Fredonia High Wins Trophy.

Fredonia, Kan. Feb. 8.-The Fre-
donia high school won the loving cup
in the recent Verdigris valley decla-
nation contest Miss Mildred Russell
represented the local school. Other
schools represented were Cherryvale.
Independe Neodesha, Caney. Alta
mont and Oswego.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
Wheat Prices Advance in st. Joe.

st. Joe, Mo, Feb. g. Following
telegraphic reports from Kansas that
sand storms were sweeping the state.
and causing great damage to the
wheat, the local market took a jump
today. Features in July wheat, most
affected, took a rise of six cents, while
in May wheat rose four cents. Cash
wheat is practically steady.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
WIND HITS WHEAT
High Wind Blowing Across
Central and Western Kansas.
Reports Cause Advance in
Prices ON Chicago Exchange.

THE high wind blowing across CEN
trail and western Kansas today is the
worst thing that could happen to the
wheat crop" said S. D. Flora, meteor
ologist for Kansas. TT is what mas
been feared might come before the
arrival of sufficient moisture to bind
the soil.
The winter has been, especially ir
central and western counties where
the largest wheat areas lie, one of the
driest in the history of the state. The
wheat in the greater part of the wheat
areas is barely showing above the
ground and in other areas is not
hasn't sufficient root to Withstand any
wind stormt 1t. simply is liable to
blow away"
High Wind at Hutchinson.
Reports from Hutchinson. SaIina
and other points west of here indicata
that the wind IS strong and heavily
laden with sand and dirt swept up
from the cultivated farm lands which
have not had good soaking since
ported to be drifting like so much
snow and automobile traffic on the
highways has been rendered almost
impossible because of the high wind
and the dirt drifts.
Thus endangered, the Kansas wheat
crop was the center of attraction on
the big Chicago grain exchange to-
day. Reports of the wind damaging
the crop caused wheat to jump five
cents a bushel. 1t means that proba =
bly, millions of acres of the planted
wheat areas, out of a total Of H.
900, 900 or about one-fifth of the total
winter wheat area of the United
States. is in serious danger of destruc-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
BIG STILL CONFTsCATED.
Raiding Party Headed by Geo. WarIk,
Prohibition enforcement Officer.

A 5o-galIon still. fifteen barrels OF
whisky mash. a barrel of wine ead
twenty gallons of raw "moonshine"
whisky were confiscated Tuesday
night in a raid on the house at 22l4
Lane street. The raiding party was
headed by George H. Wark, federal
prohibition enforcement officer, and
Frank Leech, chief of detectives. It
was probably the biggest haul ever
made in the city.
Russell NJ. Collier and Clifford John
son were arrested and taken TO the
county Jail. According to officers they
admitted q joint ownership Of the still
and also admitted that they had op-
Grated it and sold fifty gallons OF
booze during the last two weeks.
Get your Did" bank free. Shaw
nee Building & Loan association. IFS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-08
FRANCE WOULD DELAY FARLEY
Three Months POstponemcnt of Genoa
Economic Conference Asked.
(By the Associated Pre-

London, Feb. S.-Official confirma-
ton was given today of the report
that a note had been received from
the French government making strong
for three months of the Genoa eco
nomic conference. The British gov
ernment reply has not yet been formu-
lated.