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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07

The armament conference called by
President Harding. has completed its
work. 1t now remains to be seen
what it, has accomplished. That It
has made progress in the direction Of
world peace and a reduction in the eX-
peuses incident to preparedness for
war there seems little room for doubt
The, value of the work of the confer
ence now rests largely with the
United States senate. IT the senators
can subvert political considerations to
the welfare OF humanity, the world
wilt take the greatest forward step in
its history. The disarmament treaty
probably win appeal to the people
more strongly than did the League OF
Nations, because it saves them money
now, while the league was formed for
the distant future. The conference
promises to stand as a monument to
President Harding.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07

do, just what sort of future life she
was going to lead.
"a AS she sped down the road she turn
ed and looked back. Tom was follow
ing cIose-behind her. A grim, set look
came into her face as she made this
discovery.
A mile she sped down the road. then
another mile and a half mile farther
before she stopped with a rafting of
the cars brake-bands directly in the
middle of a concrete bridge over a
little stream. As she stopped she saw
Tom draw up beside her
Without looking at Tom, Agnes
jerked the six cases of liquor from
the tolneau of her car. Then, quickly
efficiently, she threw each bottle over
the bridge to the rocks in the river
below, where each bottle smashed to
bits as it fell. When she had fin
ished with this she dumped the cases
themselves over the bridge into the
water.
Then she turned tragically to Tom.
I'm thru with -it-an thru she
| cried. I'm going to turn over every
cent I've made by bootlegging to the
governmen
For a moment she stopped as an in
finite sorrow came into her face.
''Oh, Tom she cried, I'm so sorry
so terribly sorry you've skidded- I
never loved GreenIeafAI can see that
now. 1t was simply infatuation. And
I could never, never love a man who
wasn't perfectly square and honest
and upright
To Agnes's great surprise a smile
came to Toms face at this.
81 knew It'll" exulted Tom. 81 knew
| you were o. K. at heart even if you
| did make a mistake. I knew you
couldn't love a man who was a law
breaker. So, lookr'
| From the car Tom jerked one of the
booze cases. Quickly he broke one of
| the bottles on the bridge.
eSmell it! Taste it," he cried.
"Colored water! That's all it is.
There's no booze in my car I'm not
a bootlegger. filled up the car with
| this fake stuff to wake you up. And I
| did-thank heavenr'
For just a moment Agnes gazed at
| Tom in amazement. Then a great joy
rushed into her heart. She flew into
| his arms.
Tom was still square and honest and
! upright-the one man she really loved
the only kind of a man she could
| lovei
Copyright. 1922. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07

Turkey it is avoided as far as possible
in conversation. 1t is thought that
thirteen acquired its unfortunate repu-
tation at the Lords Supper when thir-
teen men sat at table. The last to
take his place is supposed to have been
Judas. Yet there is no proof that
Judas was the last to be seated. and,
furthermore, there is considerable evil
denee to show that the evil thirteen
existed long before the Christian era.
1t is generally accepted. however. that
Friday is held to be unlucky because
Christ was crucified on that day.
The history of superstition, indeed.
presents some fascinating aspects, but
it is not at all flattering to the race.
1t shows that in spite of all our rail-
roads and motor cars and gas bombs
and aeropIanes, we are emotionally
just about, as primitive as we were
when the race was young. We still
gaze cautiously at the new moon over
the proper shoulder and we still cher
ish a half-ashamed belief in the power
of charms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BIZ LEE FAPE

Me and Pubs Simkins was standing
down at the corner and Mary Watkins
was Standing on her frunt steps look
ing Ground and not waving to us, and
l sed, Look at her, she knows were
down heer-aH rite, she's jest pertend-
ing she don't, look at her.
Sure, lets wawk rite past her with
out speaking to her jest to show her
we're as good as she is and maybe
better, G., who's she, anyways? sed
Pubs.
Sure. who's she, wat the heck, I
sed, come on, lets walk rite past her as
if We dident know she was living, come
on.
Well wait a nlinnit, wait a minnit, I
tell you lets wat, you Wawk past her
ferst without even looking at her, and
then III walk past her rite in back of
you, that will make it even stronger
than if we wawked past her both to-
gether, sed Pubs.
Sounding like the best ideer yet, and
I started to wawk up the street and
Mary Watkins kepp on standing on
her frunt steps in her red coat and
hat looking even more bewty looking
than usual, and / wawked rite past
her looking up in the air as if dident
care who she was, thinking, G, she
wont think she's so CRATE after me
and Pubs wawk past her like this.
And I wawked all the ways to the
corner without looking GROUND anC
then 1 looked GROUND to see if Puds
had wawked past her yet and wat was
he doing but standing there tawkine
to her as if he never had eny ideer o.
wawking past her. WITCH he proberly
never had, me thinking. G wiz. hole!
smoaks, watts you know about that
good mite, heck.
Proving all may be fair in love anc
war but that don't make it eny mor'
cheerful
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07
HEART AND HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I noticed i'll
your column where a girl of seventeen
asked for some advice in regard to
going out for good times after she is
engaged. In your reply YOU seem to
favor the girl by saying it is right that
down to home life without diversioR
and pleasure. l am sure there arc
many engaged girls in this vicinity
who are willing to disagree with you
in the advice given above.
am a girl twenty-three years of
age and have been engaged over d
year and am very, happy. In my esti-
nation l think girl should have her
good times before She is engaged, and
then after she engages herself TO
someone, it would be better for her to
keep away from the street as much as
possible; this would give her more
time to remain at home, acquainting
herself with sewing. cooking, clean
ing and other necessaries which mar
ried life will require of her.
wouldn't the latter type of girl be
more worthy of a nice husband than
one who finds most of her pIeasuI e
on the streets?
ANXIOUSLY WAITING.
You have misunderstood the girls
letter and have therefore placed the
wrong Interpretation on my answer.
The little seventee2-year-old girl de-
PAOAC0 TIE 1dCI lllon4 uGE nance was
no longer willing to take her any
where. She sincerely loved him. but
she felt too young to stay at home all
the time. She did not ask to go every
night, but she felt she should go oc-
casionally.
My dear girl, your willingness to set
tie down and sew and cook and clean
and only devote yourself to the neces-
saries in life is dangerous. The. fact
that a woman finds time to go to
Mothers club, the League of Women
Voters, musicals, theaters. etc, is no
reason why she is not good cook
and housekeeper, a good mother and
companion to her husband. To stay
at home all the time almost always
| makes a woman nervous, irritable and
! narrow minded. She does not see how
/ other women dress and she does not
keep up with the times. Only too
/ often a man deserts his home loving
wife, who has no time to play, for a
frivolous type of woman who dresses
well, has laughter in her heart and
feels that it is as important to be an
| intellectual companion as TO be a cook
and housekeeper-\
I absolutely disapprove of the Wo-
man who drags her tired husband to
the picture show and dances night
after night and who negIects her home
4 good time. But there is a happy me
dunn. The successful wife knows how
to work and play.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07
DO STRIKES PAY?

Apparently the preliminary efforts
at mediation between the coal oper-
ators and miners have not produced
encouraging results, and events are
drifting toward a general coal strike.
Officers Of the United Mine Workers
say they vii not consider a reduction
OF pay, but. on the contrary, will press
for an increase. Furthermore, they
will not permit any of their members
TO work in nonunion or open mines.
Hence the situation seems to be dead
locked at the very start. Meantime
the public is clamoring for lower cost
OF fuel, shippers are demanding re-
duced railroad rates on coal and
miners allege that with slack work
they are not earning living wage
even at the present rates of pay.
Operators in the central competitive
field have shown no disposition to
meet with officials of the miners
union for conferences. They declare
they are not eager to make a new
wage scale for two reasons: First, that
the existing rate of pay must be mate
rally reduced, and second, that they
have suffered so severe competitor
from the nonunion fields that they are
placed at a great disadvantage by en-
tsring into a contract with the union.
There are approximately $4,000
union miners in the United States,
and if they all go out on strike they
Will sacrifice in earnings-estimati
the average wage at IS a day-a total
of $2,75o,0o0 each day that the strike
lasts. 1t is estimated that the cost OF
transporting a ton Of coal from the
mine to the consumer is sara on the
average, so that, figuring production
at 100000 tons a week, the strike
would mean a loss in revenue to the
railroads OF about $s.25O,OOO a day.
This sum added to the loss in wages
makes a total sacrifice of s6,OOO.OOO
day to the miners and the carriers
What the loss of the operators and OF
the Industries of the country would
amount to can only be guessed. but
1t would be very great.
The government, after carefully
compiling the figures OF wages lost
in this country last year to men or
strike, finds it to be $1S, 100000 for
every working day, after allowing six
national holidays and 50 Sundays. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07
observation-disclosures

Q. How much water content is there in
A. Cordwood from living trees contains
from % to 40 per cent water. 1t taxes
from nine to twelve months TO season cord
wood thoroly, but the moisture content can
be reduced Go per cent in about three
months.
o. What is the origin of the word wheat
and where was it first grown? T. T.. S;
A. The word wheat can be traced back
TO the old English word hwaete, allied TO
hwit. meaning white The most ancient
languages mention wheat and the fact that
it has been found in prehistoric lake dwell
ingS of man is proof of its antiquity. Tbe
Chinese cultivated it 5000 years i. G, and
it constituted the chief crop of ancient
origin is somewhat uncertain. hut the best
existing evidence seems to point to MesO-
potamia the original source. At least
there is rather wide acceptance OF the be
lief that wheat grew wild in the Tigris and
Euphrates valleys and that it spread from
there TO the rest of the world.
Q. When did New York City reach
million in population? T. F. s.
A. The census of New York City in 1850
was something over 100000. while in 1860
a million.
(Any reader can get the answer TO any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. FREDERIC J.
Haskin, Director, Washington, d. c. This
Bureau cannot give advice on legal med
teal and financial matters. 1t does cot at
tempt to settle domestic troubles. nor to
undertake exhaustive research on anV sub
briefly. Give funl name and address and
enclose two cents in stamps for return
postage. All replies are sent direct to the
inQuIFaPA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07
JUST FOLKS
PIRATE DAYS.
by EDGAR A. GUEST.


We're reading tales of Captain Kidd
and Old Swashbuckling Captain Brand
We re deep in all the deeds they did
Upon the seas and on the land.
AND Bud and l set out each night
TO sail the rolling Spanish main.
Two youngsters with the old delight,
Back In the pirate days again. y
We fight with Morgans buccaneers.
The black flag flying at the mast;
Inc clash of steel is in our ears
Ihe pistol lire is harsh and fast.
hough and adventurous and bold.
We take our stand with honest men,
battllng the cruel lust for gold
And L wide-eyed boy again.
Last night We found man parooued
and saw another walk the plank
we helped the lady who had swooned
ana watched vessel as it sank.
BUG learned the pirates all by name,
nile thru him have come to know
me old delight used to claim
hen was young so long ago.
l haven't read for thirty Years
The pirate tales that thrilled of old
but now another lad appears
VINO wants to have these stories told
ana mere We are-two eager boys
Nading the decks that swim with gore.
Claiming adventures many lows
back IN the pirate days once more
copyright, 1922 by Edgar A. Guest1
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total for the year is $4,000. 600. 900.
almost enough to run the government
itself in these times of expensive gov
eminent.
The striker seems to take an mex
plainable sense of independence in go
ing on strike, says Popular Mechanics,
but if those who have been INDUCING
in the occupation of striking, or are
thinking of doing so, would take a
pencil and sit down to figure out the
net result with their wives, they would
then be in a better position to answer
to themselves. the somewhat essential
question-"Does it pay?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07
Dorothy Dix Tails
MI DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman VFE4tax.
Funny Man..


The qualities he admires in his
sweetheart he abhors in his wife. He
chooses a girl because she dresses like
a fashion plate, and is outraged when
she asks for a new frock after mar
riage.
He will work himself into nervous
prostration for his family, and give
them money with both hands, but he
won't give them his society, or let his
children get a chance to get ac-
Quainted with him.
Before marriage he remembers
every within and fancy of the girl he
is counting. After marriage he never
can remember her birthday, or ami
versary, and she can slug him with
hints about the things she wants with
out ever making a single dent in his
consciousness.
He spends hours holding a girls
hand before MARRIAGE and uses Up
all the words in the dictionary telling
her how he loves her. and after mar
riage he never notices that she has a
hand, or mentions the state of his at
fections to her.
He considers that no woman has a
right to expect her husband to be
Economically in love with her after
she gets fat, and grizzle headed, but
he expects to remain the hero of his
Wife's SirliSh dreams no matter how
He likes to spend his money buying
champagne and jewels for a woman,
but he begrudges having to pay her
bills for bread, and meat, and every
day clothes.
He trusts his wife with his name
and his honor. but not his pocket
book.
At twenty, he falls in love with a
woman old enough to be his mother
and it flatters him to be addressed as
"old man." At sixty, only a flapper
is young enough for his taste, and he
likes to be called my boy"
He complains of the matrimonial
yoke, yet as soon as death or the di-
vorce cuts his halter, he sticks his
neck back in the moose.
H derides woman's logic, but
adopts her conclusions.
He bemoanS the senselessness of the
way women dress, yet he hangs
around the chicken with the fluffiest
feathers.
In theory, he admires a woman who
is sensible and self-controlled, but he
marries that little goose who weeps
on the second button of his waist
coat.
He calls a woman an angel and
treats her as if she were an idiot.
He spends his time and money seek
ing love, and trusts to luck to keep it.
He Gamble as strong as a hero, as
wise as seer, as patient as a saint,
yet fly into a rage. and curse the
world if dinner is five minutes late,
or his collar button rolls under the
dresser. 4
Who can guess a man?
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Attorney G General Daugherty' 5
charges against retailers and retail
trade associations are likely to
destroy public confidence in an impor-
tant agency of distribution, according
to The Nations Business. In sub
stance, the attorney general has de-
clared that retailers, backed by their
associations, have been guilty of col
fusion in fixing extortionate prices.
The department of justice seems, it
says, inclined to try the case of the
retailers in the newspapers rather
than in the courts. To this method
there is a direct advantage for it does
not require the marshaling or disclos-
ing of facts. If the department of
Justice has facts, or can find them, it
has a duty to set legal machinery in
motion that the laws of the country
may be enforced. If the department
has no such facts. its duty is equally
plain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07

There has been a reduction of ap-
proximately one-third in the death
rate in this country in the past eleven
years. due largely, it is believed, to
the public health service. But the
deaths from automobile accidents con-
tinue to increase in number, despite
the accident prevention work that has
been carried on. Curtailment of one
menace to human. life is quickly fol
lowed by the appearance of another.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07
THE FARMER's NEEDS.

In his address before the farm con-
ference held in washington, recently,
President Harding pointed out that
the great industrial corporation sells
its bonds in order to get it's fixed or
plant capital, just as the farmer sells
a mortgage on his land in order to
get at least a large part of his fixed
or plant capital. Both the manufac-
turer and the farmer, said the presi-
dent, still require provision of work
ing capital. The manufacturer, whose
turnover is rapid, finds that in the sea-
sons when he needs unusual amounts
of working capital he can go to the
bank and borrow on short-time notes.
His turnover is rapid, and the money
will come back in time to meet his
short-term obligation. The merchant
finances his operations in the same
way.
But the farmer is in a different
case. His turnover period is a long
one his annual production is small
compared to the amount of invest
ment For almost any crop the turn
over period is. at least a year; for live
stock it may require two or three
years for a single turnover. Yet the
farmer is compelled, if he borrows his
working capital, to borrow for short
periods, to renew his paper several
times before his turnover is possible,
and to take the chance that if he is
called upon untimely to pay off his
notes he may be compelled to sacrifice
growing crops or unfinished livestock.
Obviously the president declared the
farmer needs to have provisions,
adapted to his requirements, for ex-
tension of credit to produce his
working capital.
Mr.. Harding, however, seems to
have overlooked an important feature
of the situation and that is the I'M
certainty of the farmers. business.
Those who lend him money must take
chances along with the farmer on
crop. failures, due to drouth, insects,
stotms and floods. If the farmers
crop fail and his farm be already
mortgag ed, how is he to pay? Under
these conditions the only safety for
ulll anu loE his CIC0AlOIo SGGillo " lA6
in crop insurance.
This protection for himself and his
creditors already is available and
agents for companies selling such in
surance report that they are doing
an extensive business in this line in
Kansas.
! The president said further: "There
should be developed a thoro code of
law and business procedure, with the
proper machinery of finance, thru
some agency, to insure that turnover
capital shall be as generously sup
piled to the farmer and on as reason
able terms as to other industries"
| This suggestion is a good one, but
if the farmers business can be made
as safe as other businesses, the needed
capital probably will be forthcoming
without resort to legislation. Capital
always recognizes a good and safe
/ thing when it sees it. But it can not
be blamed if it shy at investing in a
business so uncertain rs the pro-
duction of crops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07

1t is a curious commentary on our
standards of lie and property that
the male person is not old or wise
enough to make contract until he is
q. but quite old enough, after he
passes 16, to go 10 Jail for life. This
comment is suggested by the recent
Oklahoma case, in which two boys
of IS and 10 have been sentenced to
life imprisonment. for participation in
a lynching.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07

Senators are said to agree that the
senate's action on the armament
treaty will be governed by public
opinion That is more than can be
said for the Versailles treaty. Such
public opposition to that treaty as
finally developed was worked up by
the political opponents of President
Wilson in and out of his own party,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07

Already there have been suggested
three ways for raising money for the
soldier bonus, none of which would
prove effective. They are a tax on
u per cent beer, an additional tax
on inheritances, and the sale of Brit
ish bonds. There is no "a per cent
beer and is not likely to be any; an
increased inheritance tax would be
evaded and we have no British bondN
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07

Apparently the arms conference
does not agree with the late General
1Iancocks declaration that the tariff
is a local issue. 1t has taken up the
revision of the tariff schedules of
China.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07

There are indications that they will
continue to try Fatty Arbuckle in Cal
ifouia as long as the film stars bank
roll holds out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07

Notes of the contest: There is some
mail at this desk for Mr.. Crabb. 1t
breaks about fifty-fifty; it will make
Mr.. Crabb feel good and bad. We
have Fhislaid his address. If he will
renew it we'll be pleased to forward
the usufruct-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07

L. f.. NJ is mistaken in tho assump
ton that We have a copy Of the Red
Book at hand. We told Adelaide last
month that if in future she wanted II
she might buy it, but that we had
sunk our last penny in it. We couldn't
stand it any longer. For that reason
we refer the matter directly to Mr..
Oppenhein1.
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nus anu
Sir-When you first announced the
contest of January so laid down four
rules which, if followed, ought to win:
1. Knock Babe Ruth.
.. Pat Adelaide on the shoulder.
5. Mention when Winter Comes"
1. Knock the big three"
I batted $50. w. S. II.