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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18
George Matthew Adams
Daily Tak-
You'll. b.

You'll. B.
As the Old Year crept silently out
of the back way of my life, 1 told it
Goodbye. And then 1 turned to the
way-and shook hands with it and
told it how glad I was to see so rudy
and happy a young fellow.
Then to the great God I said this
prayer: Please make me a better
Human Being this year!
If we aren't good Human Beings,
we can never hope to be good citizens
or good workers or good friends. The
greatest art in the world is to prove
yourself a good Human Being. And
it's the simplest, too.
Just be yourself with all your heart.
That's all.
But use your heart a great deal.
have noticed that those who are the
worst in the affairs of every day are
those who are not good Human Be
ings.
Think what a world this would be
IF each of us, on awaking in the morn
ing, would repeat this brief prayer to
the Father of all: Please make me a
good Human Being today.
Good Human Beings are SO simple
and sincere, so true blue, so anxious
to help and to serve. And they are
ward everyone-seeming always to
keep brightly burning an open fire
place, warming all who come near
with their love.
1t is sad to see high talents wasted
on the highways, but it is sadder to see
great hearts chilled by wonderful in
tellects. For after all we are every
one of us seeking after heart COM
panionship-that which alone is able
to nourish our Human Being souls.
Walk with me in my heart o
friend, 1 can show you so many in
teresting and beautiful places. 1 can
lead you to where natural springs are
trickling their cool waters, ready for
your thirst. I can point you to where
flowers are brilliant in color and
sweet in perfume. L can even tell you
a little about how God thinks.
You-Human Being! You mean so
much to me. I would try SO hard to
make you happier
| But the only way for us all to grow
more and more human and full of
understanding is to study and emulate
every human ideal wherever we find
it. And then pass it along.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18

fore she could stop him Inside the
house a preacher was awaiting them.
1t was a preachers house to which
Jack had taken Molly. With flourish
Jack drew out marriage license and
a wedding ring.
Then he looked at Molly with his
heart in his mouth. Would he be sue
cessful in this desperate endeavor
Would she go thru with this surprise
marriage, or-or-
All Jacks soul was in his eyes as
he gazed fixedly at Molly. For just a
moment her eyes were inserutable
Then into them leaped the light that
Jack ionged to see, and all the world
turned bright.
Some few minutes later Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Hoffman returned to the
flivver
'I knew I'd have to do something
desperate" confided Jack to his wife,
las long as you were living by that
Beware of Man slogan I was right
about what your slogan is, wasn't %
But Molly simply smiled.
'I'lI never TELL" she said.
And she didn't.
And who can blame her? Her
slogan-the principle on which she
had guided her life-was this: Worry
em if you want 'eml"
Copyright, 1922. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate9
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18

Secretary OF the Treasury Mellon Is
urging the amendment of the federai
constitution so as to prohibit further
issuance of tax-exenpt securities. DE
NAL of the privilege of issuing tax eN-
empt securities would curb the eN-
travagance Of some municipalities ana
local governments" Mellon declared
Undoubtedly it would Some OF tnelil'
and probably all of them. Inc inter
est rate which it would be necessary
to pay would render public borrowing
prohibitive and would go far TOWARD
stopping public improvements. The
benefit which would be derived from
such an amendment remains prob
IematicaI. But there is no cause Tor
immediate worry since it is improb-
able that the measure could be made
effective inside of six or perhaps a
dozen years, if ever
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18
HEIPING THE NEEDY.

The department of commerce has
made public a partial list of funds
authorized or raised by various cities
thruout the country to relieve distress
caused by existing unemployment.
These do not include municipal ap-
propr,ations for Immediate public
works, as recommended by the presi-
dents conference on unemployment,
which run far up into the millions
New Haven, Conn, is raising a
community chest of 100000, which
includes an item of $4,000 for an
emergency fund for the unemployed.
In Hartford. Conn, small sums are
advanced to unemployed persons on
their notes in favor of the city for re-
payment. In Detroit, 100000 has
been appropriated to meet the unen-
nloyment situation.
indianapolis has had an audit of
city funds and with $16S,00O avail
able. has commenced work on parks
and streets, with a constantly increas-
ing payroll of deserving men which
now totals 1900. In addition $780,
600 was raised in four hours for the
relief of the unemployed,
Cleveland's community chest organ
ization raised it's quota of $3,50O,0O0
in one week and it reports that
enough more will be forthcoming to
prevent extensive suffering in the
present emergency. In Cincinnati the
city council has appropriated $4,000
for the mayors unemployment com
mittee.
The finance committee of the
chamber of commerce, Poughkeepste,
n. Y. VIII lend up to 500 to any I'M
employed man of reputable. character
and accept his note for ninety days at
reasonable interest charged to make
up for any loss which may occur thru
failure to pay. In Lima, o., when
able bodied persons apply for RELIEF.
they are required to perform labor in
the service department and receive
the necessaries of life in return for
work done.
The city council of Racine. Wis. has
turned over $4,000 from its general
fund to the central association for the
needy. sick and unemployed. Appn-
eants sign notes and are expected to
repay when they get job.
There is in process OF organization
IN Topeka an association for the relief
of the down-and-outers which prom
ises to be an improvement on the
plans enumerated above. 1t contem-
plates the lending to the unemployed
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without interest and to be repaid in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18

]. L. Brady, editor of the salina
Union, has announced that he will
run for governor. He not only ia
vors reduction of taxes but he declares
that he will paramount that issue.
Clyde Reed continues to occupy the
position of being the only aspirant for
the office who does not promise to re-
duce the taxes. Meantime the voters
are forming taxpayers leagues in var
ious parts of the state. The candidate
who Is promoting the leagues should
be a leap or two ahead of the other
entrants. Every man who has been
elected governor in the past quarter
of a century has run on a tax reduc-
ton platform. The taxes at the same
time steadily have mounted higher,
but nobody pays any attention to that
except just preceding the biennial
election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18
Just FOLKS
HORsE ANp CUTTER DAYS.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

HORSE AND CUTTER DAYS.
Winters are not what they used to be in
the cities Of haste and rush;
The snow is white for little while, then
turns to an ugly slush.s
grind all of its beauty down,
But l long for the horse and cutter days
We knew in the little town
Then the world stayed white for month
or two and the snow drifts higher
grew
And cheeks were pink with the glow OF
health and the joys We youngsters
knew,
Then sleigh bells added n merry Tilt to the
cold and crispy air
And youth and maid in an open sleigh were
always a happy pair
We hitched n ride TO the runners strong
and the snow flew from our feet.
But it's dangerous now to hitch a ride on
the dark and crowded street
And the raucous honk of the motor horn
has banished the sleigh bells song
For winter days are cherries now and
winter nights are long.
Perhaps. it's well that our customs change
and good that we travel on.
But blent with the smiles of our newer Joys
are signs for the pleasures gone.
And / sometimes long for the drifted snow
and the white and frosty ways.
With the cheeks of pink and the laughter
gay of our horse and cutter days.
Copyright, 1922 by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18
QuestiOns-AnsUers

9, Are harps strung with wire or gut?
A. Harps are strung with catgut; except
the lowest strings. These are usually com
bined with light wire.
@. was Lord Northcliffe born to his
title, or was it conferred upon him? A.
4. Alfred Harmsworth was made a bar
onet in 1901 and made Baron Northcliffe a
Q. What distance did the naval and
marine airships travel last year: T. P.
4. 1t is estimated that the mileage flown
by naval and marine aircraft for the fiscal
year was 2,511 ,005 miles.
O. Since the Constitution of the United
emit aats biiIs Of credit it Would Seem to the
Iayman that bonds issued by states would
be illegal. How about it? J. J. S. c.
A. In very early case decided by the
supreme court of the United States (Bfiseoe
V Bank of Commonwealth of Kentucky. s
XI Pet. 31S at p. 31sl. Bills of Credit
bill of credit within the Constitution it
must be issued by a state on the faith of
the state and be designed to circulate as
money" Obviously, state bonds are not
designed to circulate as money and there
fore are not within the definition. In the
e Hill SO, 40 Am. Dec. -3Ts) the supreme
court of the state of Indiana expressly
held that state bonds were not BILLS of
Q. Did General Pershing and General
Wood have West Point training? G. NJ. S.
A General Wood did not attend West
Point. while General Pershing is a gradu-
ate of the Academy.
Q. 1 have some brown sugar which has
become very hard How can it be soften
ed? A E.
A Brown sugar that has become very
hard may be grated on a common fruit
CRATER If kept in a dry alright reeep-
taele, this sugar will not harden
(Any reader can get the answer to any
question By writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic T.
Haskin, Director, Washington, D. c. This
offer applies strictly to Information. The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal med
ical and financial matters. 1t does cot at
tempt to settle domestic troubles, nor to
undertake exhaustive research on any sub
jeet. Write your question plainly and
briefly. Give full name and address and
enclose two cents in stamps for return
postage All replies are sent direct to the
ineuiraz.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18

II the results of the Washington
conference shall be commensurate
with the desire of the civilized world.
the gathering will go down in history
as the most important ever held. The
conference was designed to lessen the
chances of another war. Whatever it
may accomplish in that direction will
be welcomed by a public weary of
fighting. Even tho the delegates
meeting in the capital of the United
States from day to day fail to agree
on anything. the fact of the confer
ence itself, and the willingness to dis
cuss disarmament that has been
shown, augurs well for the future
peace of the world. A precedent has
been set. Nations called together for
the purpose OF preventing wars not
row impending can be induced to meet
again when wars are looming on the
political horizon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18

small installments when earning ca
pacity has been restored. It is held,
and justly, by the promoters that a
man out of work cannot afford to pay
interest and should not be asked to
do so.
Taking interest from one who Dor
rows for profit is all right, but taking
interest from a man who borrows to
live does not seem to be in accord
with Christian ethics. Probably it
would be found cheaper to help the
needy in the way suggested than to
help them thru the medium of the
Provident Association
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18
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you want to ask, butt can
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18
HEART AND HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a young
girl of sixteen. One night while walk
ing with a boy friend he asked me if
would be offended if he kissed me.
OF coursesI didn't let him and told him
he would be the first to break my
praiseworthy record Since then
have been with a number of different
boy and they have all asked practically
the same question. What would you
advise me to do in the future
SWEET ONE
would advise you to cling TO your
"praiseworthy record" You are very
young and should have boy friends
and not sweethearts. Kisses should
not be- given without deep love.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18
Dorothy Dix Tails
The Dominant Personality
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
vorIa'a Highest Paid WomAn yyr:te<.

The Dominant PersonaIity-1.
Why do women have so much more
Influence over their husbands than
their husbands have over them?
They do, you know Legally the
man is the head of the house. but in
nine homes out of ten it is the woman
who stamps her personality upon it
and who fixes its status mentally,
morally, socially, and even financially
More than that, the wife makes over
her husband according to her own
little paper pattern, and changes him
to suit her taste, so that in the vast
majority of marriages what a woman
is, the man ends in becoming himself.
Men have no such influence as this
over women. What a woman is by
birth, and breeding, and her mothers
teaching. she stays. And her husband
finds it easier to induce the leopard
to change it's spots than to alter her
a single iota.
OF course, there are exceptions to all
rules, but in wide acquaintance 1
know only two women who married
men above them who climbed to their
husbands level instead of pulling their
husbands down to theirs. In one of
these cases. the wife was a girl of
humble parentage who had had little
education. and no social advantages
Her husband was brilliant scholar.
I and a scion of an old and aristocratic
family.
AS soon as the wedding ceremony
was over, the wife began fitting herself
to be a cultured woman. able to shine
in any society. And. like Ruth in the
Bible. she said to her husband. '"rhy
people shall be my people" She
maintained affectionate personal rela-
lions with her own family. She helped
them, but she did not foist her I'M
!,
married She accepted his circle of
friends in place of trying to force hers
upon him.
This instance of a husbands in
fluence upon his wife is noteworthy
because it is so rare. In most such
cases the man who marries an unedu-
Gated woman finds her so enamoured
of her own ignorance that she refuses
TO learn. His attempts to educate her
by reading to her, by taking her to
see good plays, by tFotting her around
to art galleries are pathetically futile.
because it all bores her stiff She has
10 desire for culture, or the finer
things Of life. All she is interested
in is cabarets, and dancing. and silly
I@plays. and new clothes, and small beer
gossip.
Worse still. she resents her hus-
bands intellectually. She regards
books as her deadly rival, and nass
him so about reading that unless he is
book fiend he is apt to slump even
in that, and to give up the serious
subjects in which he was interested.
For women interfere far more with
the personal habits of their husbands.
than men do with their wives. Nearly
every man lets his wife enjoy her in
dividual tastes in peace, but a wife
thinks that it is her sacred duty TO
make her husband like the things she
does.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18
BUYING MORE. NOT LESS.

The frequently repeated assertion
the business is stagnant because the
people are not buying is contradicted
in the January review of retail trade.
issued by the National Retail Dry
Goods association, which demonstrates
that for months past, the American
people have been buying more, at low
err prices-have, in fact, been living
much more generously-than they did
in the latter part of 1920.
During November, 1921, retail
trade fell off 1871 per cent in gross
value as compared with November,
1920, says the review, but prices de-
clined to far greater extent. in typical
dry goods staples more than one-third
and in many other instances as much
as 40 per cent. The 1877 per cent re-
duction in gross value OF sales, taken
in connection with the very much
greater reduction in merchandise
prices. represents almost double the
volume of goods purchased by the
consumer for November, 1921, as
compared with November 1920. This
very great increase in consumption,
it points out, progressed further dur
ing December. when retail stores in
many large centers of population re-
ported sales value as weel as sales
volume in excess of December, 1920.
and few stores anywhere in the United
States experienced demand smaller
than that of December, 1920.
Figures have been. assembled in
connection with the distribution of the
gross value of retail trade for Novem-
Der. 1921, as compared with that of
November, 1919, when public extrava-
gance in expenditure was at its height.
The decline in gross value of sales for
November. 1921, as compared with No
vember, 1919, for 145 selected depart
ment stores thruout the United States
was AS per cent, while the four lead
ing mail order houses suffered a de-
crease of 63.S per cent. Increases are
recorded for several other classes of
retail enterprise, ten chains of gro
Gerry stores gaining 1876 per cent; five
drug store chains gaining 1911 per
cent; four 5 and 10-cent chains. % per
cent, and three cigar store chains, 23.1
per cent.
The relatively slight decrease sus-
tanned by the department stores is at
tributed to their exceptional facilities
for showing the goods, their courage
Gus adherence to the policy of extern
sfve advertising, and their very gem
eraI response, even at the cost of large
direct losses, to the popular demand
for lowered prices, a policy which re-
suited in public confidence and very
marked good will. The astounding
decline in mail order trade is attrib-
uted to inherent Inability to show
goods, combined with restriction of
purchasing power in rural districts.
The increase in chain store sales has
been due, in marked measure, to in
crease in the number and the extern
sion OF enterprises of this class.
The simple explanation of the ex-
tremely large volume of merchandise
purchased by the American people,
during the period when the outcry
against high prices was 1oudest, ap-
pears to be that in practice the public
fully realized the extent of price re-
ductions and bought to the extent of
it's purchasing capacity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18

The price of a seat in the United
States senate, like almost everything
else, is much higher than It was IN
former times. Half century ago one
was bought in Kansas for $4,000.
In 1907 Uncle Isaac Stephenson OF
wisconsin paid 100000. In 1918
Truman II. Newberry of Michigan, or
those acting for him, Are said to have
paid 1852, 900. 1t seems TO be about
time to get back to pre-war prices on
senatorial seats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18

to set forth impartially, is that the
transfer is intended to. be. and will be
to some extent if it takes place. q
change of policy toward the national
forests from that of scientific con-
servation in the Roosevelt tradition in
the direction of free use' in the pio-
neer sense. The fact that Secretary
FAN would have charge of the forests.
in view of his expressed. policy with
regard to all NATURAL resources, seems
sufficient proof of this.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18

A Wilson hour" has been an
nounced for noon next Monday. The
public should be thankful that it is
not a Wilson week. 1t has long been
the custom to set aside a week fer
the starting of every movement of
public character.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18

A young farmer in Massachusetts
has fallen heir to million dollars
That sum should enable him to carry
on his chosen occupation for several
years, even in Massachusetts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18

II you care to leavgit to us. this is
a mighty poor column.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18

An Independent Newspaper
By FRANK p. MAC LEHMAN
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RECOGNIZE VALUE OF TREES
Psopis q Canadian Provinces said &c
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lion = Wear

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Alberta
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the rruIr.e generally tfh groves ~
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~ n ~ The result OF hther
thnn intent ns definite efNf,- 10 make
70 have generally resulted in failure
and great deal ~ loss Certain con
billions. hHar,rr. are essential Do MAX
ms brown has n should be- pui 49, ln
snud..ifei stacks us ii mnlis and
char. Zoo such Hn extent in small lo'se
siarss tIni n Is NOT m for feed
From rrpuIts that have been col
.trtDi from different alfalm-sfusiug
irpu-. ihr United States Department
H Agriculture concludes ihui suui
brown alfalfa hes b. rquai ur su.lr
.iHf superior iu mNinhllity to Euoi
..i.urd hl, huf GOO superior o. 70
u 0.rHHs tH'Ur tHr mribul uf mak
ns nuuId h' ImpoHHHi uouId 20 Boz lr
pended upHu fpf saving hni u r..
."I.a uhrI. frIr s sn much rain.
HI ihHt o. 0. dif,ulf o. .ur he lay
100 fIr nrIl Hruuse ~ dnugrr frum
,fuutauruu- combustion % o. lot 80.
fahi, tu tp Co uIaAo brown hay 10
Hus nf muus