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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-17
PARENTS TO DAUGHTERS AID
Arrested for Shop Lifting Former
Ames Coed Admits Her Motherhood.

Ames Coed Admits Her Motherhood.
Chicago, Jan. 17.-Parents of Miss
Ruby Ara, of Ames. Iowa, who con-
fessed yesterday after being arrested
in a department store, that she had
abandoned her baby on a~doorstep the
night before, telegraphed police they
would reach Chicago to assist her to-
day. Miss Ara was connected with
the baby abandonment when detec-
tives who arrested her for shoplifting
found an unfinished letter addressed
to an Iowa State college student at
Ames, who she told police is the
habys father.
The letter declared she was penni-
less and out of work and had been
forced to abandon the baby, because
she could no longer buy food for it.
The baby was weeks old.
Mrs. Mabel Muldoon, friend with
whom Miss Ara lived. visited her at the
police station today and told the police
she had helped the girl for several
weeks after Miss Ara lost her position
as a designer.
Ames. Ia, Jan. 17.-According to
Iowa State college officials, the girl
held by Chicago police on a shop
lifting charge and in connection with
the abandonment of a five-weeks-o
baby, is a divorced woman who at
tended Iowa State college for two
years after her divorce. She left school
last spring for Chicago. The man
mentioned as the father of the aban-
doned child is no longer attending
school here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-17
MAKES SAILORS PARTNERS.
Wooden Ship Owners Sign Crew oil
Shares for Voyage,

Newport News. Va, Jan. 17.-After
signing it's officers and some of the
crew on a profit sharing basis, the
wooden steamer Corvallis left Hamp-
ton Roads today for Cuba with a cargo
of coal.
The steamer is enc of the five
wooden craft recently purchased from
the shipping board by Pendelton
Brothers. The officers and men shar-
ing profits receive a small flat wage
and take their chances with the OPP
orators in making a profit on the
voyage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-17

hams V eye table
when l
was a girl for pains
and before and after
my marriage. / now
have a sweet little
baby boy and will
send you his picture
if you wish to publish
it. My sisters also
take your medicine
and find it a great
help. and l recon-
-A-I - - Al.-1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-17
DYNAMITE MEAT TRUCK.
h. c. Driver Uninjured But His
Cargo Scattered Rroadcast

Kansas City, Jan. IA stick of dy-
Mantle! tossed into a Swift & Company
meat truck, exploded, dana ging the
truck and scattering meat, J. L. Bren-
nan, superintendent of the Swift plant
in Kansas City, Kan, said today.
The explosion occurred yesterday.
Earl Raymond. driver of the truck,
was not injured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-17
DIES MONIES BANDITS BUSY.
Three Men Get City Railways Payroll
Amounting to $4,000.

Des Moines, Ia, Jan. 17.@Three
men at 5 o'clock this morning held
up and robbed the Des Moines City
Railway company's pay car, taking
approximately 80. O0O.
After robbing the collector, the ban
dts forced the motorman TO drive the
street car to a stop five blocks away.
where they got off
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-17
TO CONTINUE MARTIAL LAW.
Texas Governor Unwilling to Restore
Mexia Officials to Power

Fort Worth, Tex, Jan. 17.-Gov-
ernor Neff on his arrival here this
morning indicated he had no intention
of lifting martial law regulations az
Mexia for the immediate future
THE place will not be turned back
to the civil authorities until every foot
of the district is cleaned up" he said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-17

Burlingame, Kan. Jan. 1.-THE
Auburn high school team defeated
Burlingame in a game of basketball,
played here last night, by a score of
SO to 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-17
A SWEET LITTLE
BABY BOY
Makes a Bright Spot in Every
Home. A Comfort In
Years to Come

Park Rapids, Minnesota have
taken your medicine - Lydia E. Pink
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-17

Diamond Engagement Rings. $50 TO
$500. Easy terms. Harris-Goar Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-17
NORTH TOPEKA

Items for this column may be Iefs
At Petro's drug store. or telephone
Eleanor KImbnli. 1881 after o'clock.
Other hours. $3.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-17
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses were issued in the pro-
bate court during the last twenty-four
aours to the following:
Lohn p Dietz. Topeka ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
caroline Artzer, Topeka. 10
flames NJ Barnes, Holton. ..........3I
Ann NJ. jenkins. HavensviIle. 10
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out ovsr heavily rouged cheeks from
either side of q very bsak OF a nose.
Helen half expected her to go peck-
ing at the wax cherries under the
glass globe on the center table. She
came In with a motion half flying,
half dancing; her feet. clad In the
highest of white slippers, seemed
scarcely to touch the floor.
II bog pardon" said Helen starting
up II wished TO see Miss La Tour
/ We'll. my dear, You see her-aH
that's lef: of her. anyway. There was
for seats to see Fife Ia Tour. But
that was years and years ago. One
can't be young forever. tho do pretty
well at 1t, don't you think, my pretty
dear?"
DO you know" stammered this. be:
wiidered Helen, "a young man. named
Philip Holt?''
Know him." cried the old lady.
why. he's my nevvy:"
.You-you can't-be Aunt Kate?"
gasped Helen.
might you be. you little ducky?"
Tim Helen, he's going to
marry" faltered the girl. And then
she just broke down and shed tears
tears of repentance for her own mis-
trust of her lover and tears OF pleas
ure that Philip was guiltIess--and
told her whole little story. The funny
little old woman fairly cracked with
laughter; she picked up her skirts ana
executed sthe most astonishing pas de
souls; Helen was really afraid she
would come to pieces. Then sinking
into a clair and catching her breath
she said: This Is just too delicious
It's years and years since Fife La
Tour has been mixed up in a love af-
fair befores but in my day, my dear.
thousands of women were frantically
jealous of me, / am sure La. la
And here am over eighty and still
suspected of being 8 siren" Then, in
serious tone. she went on: You
see. my dear was once a ballet
dancer-La Tour was my stage name.
and / still keep ii for general use and
have all my letters so addressed.
know I am an old fool, but 1t helps
me to pretend to myself that I am
still young.
Philip has never told you that
used to be a dancer at courts That
was subject tabeoed among the
Hoits and the Geeghans-when they
were alive, / mean. All dead now.
All gone and under the sod. All but
Philip" And a great tear slid down
one of the rouged and wrinkled
cheeks.
! When Philip reached his lodgings
| thai night he found a telegram from
| Helen awaiting him, saying: Am on
a visit to Aunt Kate. viii be homo
| tomorrow"
He could scarcely wait for the NOR
row to know what it all meant. But
| the morrow came, and with Il Helen
and her explanation and confession.
| She forgave him, of course. In these
/ matters 1t is always the man who gets
! jockeyed into the position of being
forgiven, and the course of their trHe
| love went running smoothly on again.
Among the wedding presents was a
beautiful silver tea service from
Miss Fife La Tour"
| Copyright, 1922. by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-06
Questions-Answers

O. Is it correct to pronounce luxury
as tho the word contained gs instead an
n R. x; E.
A. While many people give the word
this peculiar pronunciation dictionaries
agree that the sound of Is ks and not gs.
o. Was baseball game ever postponed
because there was no one to witness it?
l. NJ. c.
A Agame between the Allentown and
Lancaster clubs. scheduled May %. 1885,
was postponed on account of no one being
on the grounds. A large parade kept the
people away.
O. What states have two United States
senator's from the same city? c. L. A.
A Kansas is the only state represented
in the senate by two men from the same
city. Senator Capper and senator Curtis
are from Topeka
there in New York Cityl J. z
A The New York City classified direc-
tory lists 1900 apartment houses on Man
haitian Island and in the Bronx There
are thousands Of other apartments in
fAny reader can get the snswer 70 any
question by writing The Topeka State
journal Information Bureau. Frederic J
Haskin. Director. Washington. d. c This
nffer applies strictly to informa lion. .rhe
Burpau cannot give advice on legal medical
and financial matters II does not stteTnpt
ia settle domestic troubles nor to under
take exhaustive research on NV subjecf.
Give fun IA me and address and enrIsse two
cents in stamps for return postage. Al
Write yoHr question plainly and briefly,
REPLIES are sent direct 20 the fnauiref.D
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both parties in that it affords what
may be te@ned a tryout both for
speakers and issues. After they have
heard from Maine the party leaders
know what issues to emphasize and
what ones to minimize IL they hope
to get the people with them, and they
also get line on what speakers are
their most effective spellbinders.
Candidates in other states are al
ways ready to go into Maine to assist
in the oratorical bon1bardment in this
first battle of the biennial war They
know that it will be excellent pre-
liminary training for their own battles
later on and they have learned that
speakers who can hold and enthuse
Maine audiences can usually get by
anywhere else in the country.
Incidentally, after Maine has been
heard from next week the public may
be sure that whatever the result there
the leaders, of both parties will issue
statements claiming that it was en-
tirely satisfactory and altogether en-
couraging. Old General Buncombe is
still in command!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-06
MINIMUM AND OTHER WAGES

In deciding upon the application Of
the 100000 maintenance f-Way en-
ployes of the railroads for the adop-
ton of minimum wage rate of 48
cents an hour the federal railroad
labor board held that it would not be
necessary to deal with the theoretical
point raised by the petitioners-name-
~, that the Esch-Cummins transport
tation act, in prescribing Just and
reasonable wages" intended to direct
the ! board to grant at al times
living wage" The board ruled
that the phraseology OF the law must
be followed.
One trouble with the phrases "a liv-
ing wage" "a saving wage" and IAN
American wage" is that, as currently
used, they make no calculation of
family budgets as involved, in the
minimum requisites in food, clothing.
housing, education, amusements. The
living American wage Is the wage
upon which Americans actually live,
save and make the country what it is.
w. Jett Lauck demands for the way
men and shopmen a wage of $1,000 a
year; as compared with a wage of ST.
600 a year the sum is munificent; yet
according to the income tax return
those who receive $1,000 and up
ward number only 5,332,760, or about
5per cent, of the population, and on
ly 25 per cent, of the statistical heads
OF families. Millions and tens of mil
lions manage to live on the smaller
wage, to save on it and generally ia
thrive as Americans.
What. Mr. Lauck and his kind de-
n1and." says The New York Times. sis
in plain terms, a privileged wage"
Mr. Gompers lately boosted that, In
the face of period of general de.
flation and a decrease in the cost Of
living OF some 40 per cent, organ.
lied labor has suffered wage cuts av.
eraging only 5 per cent. THE claim. .
continues the Times. was ,probably
incorrect. but whatever the precise
figure the fact is obvious that the mr..
ganized laborer is a profiteer agains,
ther-iaborers who have accepted re.
auctions Such an increase of wages
as .Adr, Lauck demands masks a raid
not so much against the employer as
against fellow-workmen"
AS in all cases of privilege, the uIti.
mate and most damaging injury is to
tine nation as a whole. Industry al
present does not admit of the wage.
organized labor demands. strikes for
ana Tar toe often obtains. The argu-
n1ent OF labor leaders is that only as
sequence Of their demands has the
general level of wages risen even to
its present height. This may he
granted. Objection is made not n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-06
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
LOOK AT LIFE IN A BIG WAY.


Some people merely live in an
apartment, or house-or a town.
There are others. however, who live
IN world. and they see and think in
terms of this world
Only as we measure all questions in
terms of the whole are we able to
come justly to the right conclusions.
If you look at things in a big way,
small conclusions will have no place
in your mental makeup. And it is
the small conclusions that people
come to that keep them narrow and
bigoted.
Life is a spread-out affair 1t en-
bodies an earth with a great history.
The farther we get from our own
viewpoints and learn to compound the
viewpoints of others from all points
of the earth, the better are we able to
appreciate the SPIRITUAL and moral
worth Of those nearest to US,
1T is serious business to start a
soul voyaging toward Eternity" said
a noted speaker to whom 1 listened
when a boy. and 1 have never for
gotten this line and/how the speaker
spoke it. It made a great impression
on me at the time, and as I think of
IL now / am still more impressed with
its vast meaning.
Responsibility is what makes any
man or woman The greater the re-
sponsibiiity, the greater the one who
carries it
You can easily recognize a great
man by the way he handles response
bility. The point is that he actually
handles it. Others load II with worry
and thus break down all possibility of
its handling.
Look at life in a big way and you
tackle the big Sobslwith zest and en-
/ thusiasna-carfying them thru to COM
pleteness.
And with greater vision comes a
1irmer grasp on all affairs, a keener
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-06
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.

Pop was smoaking and thinking and
was jest thinking. wishing / was
sliteiy sick and the doctor. gave me a
diet of ice GREEN and cake and lem
minade and candy, and pop sed, Well
Benny. wat did you lern today. You
day al your age. he sed. 80
Making me remember something
and I thawt. G. good mite. And 1 sed,
Termed some metals is soft and
some's hard and the softest metal
that comes is gold.
Its hard enuff to get. lord knows.
pop sed. tns
not ony Termed IT. but proved it.
1 sed.
All, the young scientist himself. pop
sed, and ! sed. Do you wunt to know
how 1 proved it. pop?
Well, yes. pei haps I'm not too old
to lern a thing or 2 myself, pop sed.
and 1 sed. Well. do you know your
big gold ring that you don't hardly
ever wear?
The ,dooce. wat. my signet ring?
pop sed.
Is that the name OF IT? sed. and
pop sed, Perseed, please. Meening to
keep on telling him. which / did. say
ing Well, at ferst the ring was round
as enything and all had 10 do was
hammer it easy to make 1t square, and
all had to do to make II obIong was
hammer it Jest a little easier, its GER
teny soft metal all rite, and then Z
hammered the corners little more to
make IL round agen and now Its as
round as IT was at ferst, almost
Almost, how lovely. how sweet. and
speaking of almost. 10 smacks with a
slipper are almost a duzzens aren't
they? pop sed. and l sed, Yes sir, and
he sed. Well that's ixackly how meny
you're going to get.
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The issue today is industrial free
dom versus industrial slavery thru en-
forced labor" declared Samuel Com
pers in his rabble rousing Labor Day
address. Yet Mr.. Goinpers knows as
does everybody else that nobody is
trying to force men to work. The
coal miners quit work April i and re-
manned idle all summer but there was
no effort 10 force them to return to
their Jobs. The railroad shopmen quit
July 1. Has anybody tried to compel
them to return to wo<k? Yet Mr..
Gompers says: THE coal mine own
ers and the railroad managers enlisted
in the fight on labor" The Federation
president truly says: "All right think
ing men and women had hoped that
the end of the war would bring OPP
portunity for constructive effort in
the rebuilding of a shattered world.
They had hoped to see a great edi-
fee of progress reared upon the ruins
of war and upon the grave of de-
feated autocracy." And the public has
no difficulty in placing the RESPONSE
bility for the failure of this program
where it belongs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-06
Dorothy Dir Tails
81 DORoTHT DIX
Wess4's Highsss Pasd Waaaa Wfiese.
The Art Of Friendship.


If, then, we would keep our friends
we must bear these things in mind.
First, to be more punctilious in OBJ
serving the conventions with our
friends than we are with our enemies.
No friendship ever long survived back
door visiting. Each household has its
kitchen secrets, its garbage can mys-
teries, and its skeleton closet, and they
who poke their noses into them do so
at their peril. Nor do we want any
other human being popping in and
out of our houses at will, and we soon
come to dread and detest those from
whose presence We are never safe
and secure.
If you would keep your friends then
come in to their homes formally by
the front door, and never come as a
self invited guest. The post. the tele-
phone. the telegraph, to say nothing
OF the word of mouth will afford your
friends ample .cilities for asking you
to come when they want you.
Secondly, respect your friends
privacy. Because someone has en-
riched your happiness by the gift of
his or her affection Is no reason why
you have a right to pry into~his or
her private affairs. and ask questions
yours. The honorable thing in friend
ship is to seek to know nothing that
is not voluntarily confided to you.
And If you really value a friendship
keep your friends who are in trouble
from confiding their bitter secrets to
you. Once people tell you something
that reflects upon themselves they
visit their weakness upon your head.
They grow suspicious of you. afraid
that you will be as indiscreet az they
have been and soon draw away from
you.
Thirdly, do not make your friendship
a tyranny. Most people think that
because they like you they have some
sort OF divine commission to boss you.
They dictate to you about your
clothes, your politics. your religion,
what doctor you shall have, and what
plays YOU shall see. And especially
they supervise your lists of friends. =
When you look back most of us can
see the way, strewn with the friends
we have dropped when we got tired
of being told where we got on eand
off. We have to stand enough of that
sort of thing from our families with
out taking on any more czars frem the
outside. ~ 49,, j.
Fourth, never make the mistake of
thinking that friendship gives you the
privilege of critic;sing your friends
and telling them home truths. 1t
doesn't. All of us have had the ex-
pertence of friends who kept our hearts
and our vanity sore and bleeding by
the cruel things that they said thai
they felt 1t their duty as friends to
tell US. And all of US recall how very,
very short = time such friendships
lasted.
Fifth, never borrow money or lend
| it to a friend if you want your friend
ship to last, and have as few business
| dealings as possible with your friends.
Heaven knows why, but affection
never seems able to stand financial
| strain.
t 1t takes self control and forbear-
ance, and tact and diplomacy to keep
| friendship alive, but it's worth the
| trouble.
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JUST FOLKS
THE oLD-FAsHIoNED FATHER
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

THE OLD-FASHIOEED FATHER
They tell me I'm old-fashioned.
And L fancy that am,
But when meals are four hour rationed
Just little in between 'em,
And declare it with a cry,
Then want to contravene 'em,
Let her eat her fill" say 1.
Oh. knoY the rules of science,
And its edictS just and terse,
And bow in meek compliance
To the doctor and the nurse,
1t is wise, there's no denying,
To be thoughtful in her care.
But when hunger starts her crying
/ would feed her, then and there.
Now they tel, me that a baby
Cries to get her exercise,
And must admit that maybe
Infant science very wise,
But when she is exercising
For a full straight hour or more,
And her yells are louder rising,
Then it's time to walk the floor.
Oh. they tell me must never
Swing her gently to and fro,
Or I'll be her slave forever
And she'll keep me on the go,
Now they seldom let me hold her,
For they're fearful as can be
That I'll ride her on my shoulder
Or viii bounce her on my knee.
I'm an old floor-walking father.
And bouncing dad am /,
I'm old fashioned and I'd rather
Take her up than let her cry,
And l feel an urge compelling
Tho they tell me it's unwise,
To do something when she's yelling
And to feed her when she cries.
Copyright, 1922, by Edgar A Guest.)
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''The American producer" says the
National Republican, cannot COM
pete on equal terms with, the Ger
man, Austrian. French. English. ItaI-
ian. Japanese or Chinese producer so
long as the wages paid in these indus
trial nations are from one-half to
one-tenth those in effect In the United
States" Yet the American producer is
competing successfully both here and
abroad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-06
HEART And HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State Journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: We have
had quite a discussion as to what is
the correct thing to do when at q
hoseS handkerchief or miscellaneous
shower for a bride-to-be. Should the
person who received the high score
prize or other prizes that are given
present them to the honor guest?
YOURS VERY DOUBTFUL
The persons receiving prizes should
keep them. The bride-to-be receives
her gifts from the shower.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-06

1t long has heen the custom, when
anything goes wrong In this country
to place the blame on Wall street. The
Street was blamed for our entry into
the Great War; and it is being blamed
for existing labor disturbances. Yet
there is no class of citizens, in the
world. so greatly interested in seeing
business and industry move forward
undisturbed, as are the denizens of
Wall Street.
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Labor leaders have expressed a be-
lief that tn injunction obtained by
Attorney General Daugherty will not
work But IL it not, probably the
government will try something else.
President Harding has manifested a
determination to see that the lines of
Transportation shall be kept open.
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insight into heretofore hidden mean
ings, and a calmer attitude toward all
misfortunes and unforeseen caiamities.
Look at life, in big way. If you
consider yourself mere worm, you'll
be one all right. And people win have
no thought otherwise than to step on
you. But If you think and act big.
they viii follow you and be inspired
by your example and power.
Copyright, 1922. George Matthew Adafns.)