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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03
! HEART and HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a
married woman twenty years old
and love my husband dearly. He is
so good to me that sometimes I think
there is not another husband in the
world like him. There is only one way
in which he is unreasonable and that
is that he tries to govern the choice of
my friends. Before 1 was married I
had several girl friends who were very
dear to me and because he did not like
any of them I have had to give all of
them up. Perhaps he is jealous of
my women friends because just as soon
as become attached to a woman it
seems to me he begins objecting to her
and treating her coolly.
My husband has had a friend ever
since they went to school together
and I have always been very glad to
have him come to our home and I
have done everything possible to make
him happy. and at home. A few
months ago he married and now 1t is
different because 1 hate his wife.
When she comes to our house she
seems to think 1 am a servant to cook
and wash dishes and she is simply
a guest OF course I wouldn't expect
her to do much, but since I do my
own work I do think she ought to help
some. When nay husband and I are
entertained in their home I always
help a great deal and she seems to
take it for granted.
All my married life I have tried
but this time I have about made up
my mind that I should consider my
self little too. I am not going to
invite my husbands friend and his
wife to our house any more
Do you think am wrong in making
such a decision?
MRS. JACK T.
It seems to me you can stop invit-
without interfering with the friend
ship between the two men. Circum-
stance may make it necessary for you
to have them occasionally and at such
times would advise you to be cordial,
but I would not advise you to work
for them. When you go to their house
just sit around and do not offer to
| help in any way. Perhaps the mans
wife will get your point of view then
and will realize how hard it is to have
an idle guest who makes extra work
for her hostess and does not help in
any way
Dear Mrs. Thompson: Ny fiance
has a sister who is two years older
| than I am. I have never met her,
but we have corresponded. I would
like to have her come and spend two
weeks with me. Do you think it would
be correct to invite her or would she
! think I was running after her broth
err BETROTHED.
1t would be perfectly all right to
invite the sister to visit YOU. Since
you are engaged she would not think
that you were running after her
brother.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03

That he have. SIR" replied Mrs
Hodge.
Rather a cursory examination.
Suspect?"
'Oh, dreadful, sir! Such langwidge
1 never heard-never!"
And the dame held up her hands in
horror as the huntsman withdrew.
"You recall the story of David and
Goliath, 1 hopper?
Il have a hazy recollection of hav-
ing heard it somewhere" said the race
track frequenter. 1T must have been
when L was a small boy and went to
Sunday school. David was the little
chap who upset the dope by killing
tho big fellow. wasn't he?"
"Yes.'
"Ah That's one of the few cases
on record where a hundred-to-one
shot brought home the bacon"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03

The federal government has just ne
gotiated a new loan of $500. 100000 at
a rate of Az per cent interest an
nually. This offering of short time
treasury certificates was oversub-
scriJed about four times. This eager
ness to invest money in non-taxable
securities at so low a rate of interest
may be regarded by some as an evil
dence of an over abundance of money
or desire to avoid paying taxes. But
more than to anything else it is due
TO the fact that there is nowhere else
TO put money, with any assurance of
profits while industry remains in its
present unsettled state. If every
worker now on strike would resume
his job. production would be so in
creased and living costs so reduced
that he would not need to bother
about his wages. They would be am
pie to provide him with all ordinary
comforts of life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03
srIFLNG INDUSTRY.

a serious effect of the strikes on
industry is seen in the steel business.
1t is illustrated by the Iron Trade
Review as follows:
Resort of the government to prior
ity regulations of car and coal supply
in the present emergency promises to
Increase the operating difficulties for
the iron and steel industry already
sorely pressed for fuel and transporta-
ton. Under the declaration of the
interstate commerce commission. iron
and steel Is grouped in the unpre-
ferred fifth class along. with general
industry. Except as special exemp-
ton is granted, as likely to be in the
case of tin plate and certain other
lines of public necessity, the indus
try's needs are to be subordinated to
those of a more vital nature. This as
best construction. added obstacles to
the procurement by iron and steel
producers and secondary manufactur-
ers as well of their essential needs OF
fuel and raw material
Curtailment of production in the in
dustry as the result of the combined
strikes now has been extended to a
total of fifteen banked blast furnaces
and increasing irregularity of mill
and steelworks activities. A number
of plants, especially in the east, are
resorting to the use of fuel oil at
greatly increased cost of production.
The mills are declining tonnage on
all sides both on account of their
filled-up condition and the present
doubts over raw steel supplies. These
conditions are adding to the strength
of prices and premiums are easily OBJ
tainable where definite delivery can
be given.
Coke prices again have been bid up
for prompt shipment. Coal has sold
at IS to SO. The Iron Trade Reviews
European cable shows 200, 900 tons of
Welsh coal sold to this country and
much more under negotiation. Under
a growing scarcity and the more I'M
certain position of the furnaces, pig
iron for prompt shipment has ad-
vanced 81 to 81 per ton.
Equipment needs of the railroads
brought more sharply to the front by
the shipments strike, are a conspicu-
Gus feature of the situation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03

All thru the duration of the coal
strike and the railroad strike, both
sides have tried to win the favor of
the public by issuing statements. But
the public has learned to accept these
statements with grain of salt. In
fact it does not believe all it hears,
especially when these statements are
so at variance. The public is more
interested in getting coal than in how
the coal mines are run. The public is
more interested in getting its freight
and in reliable travel than in the con-
diticns in railroad shops. Strikers
know that, and the former employers
OF strikers know it. In the coal and
railroad strikes employers and en-
ployes are anxious to have work re-
sumed. Both sides know that the de-
mands of public comforr-more than
that of public safety-win constitute
such pressure that one side or the
other will have to give way. It IS a
test OF endurance, to see which side
can hold out the longer. and to see
which can get the greater amount OF
concessions before resumption.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03
QueStions-Answers

flating automobile tiresy NJ u. NJ
A American tire manufacturers recon-
mend air pressure of 80 pounds per
weight of 225 pounds per wheel; GO pounds
for 3 inch tires. $50 pounds maximum
weight; so pounds for 4 inch tires, $50
maximum weight; 90 pounds for 4A inch
and 3 inch tires, 1000 pound Enaximum
Q. Are the vitamines in mix destroyed
when it is heated? w. n. Il.
A. vitamines A and are not easily
sterilized. and dried without affecting
them. Nitamne g. however. is affected by
heat and an infant fed on prOcessed milk
should also have an efficient anti-srorbutic
.. What was the origin of the term
"woodenhead'? II. T.
A. The exact origin OF the epithrt
''woodenhead" is not known, but perhaps il
the bOokful blockhead, ignorantiy rad.
with loads of learned lumber in his hen y
Q. Is it correct to call silver and gold
money currency? A. H X.
synonymous with the phrase medium Of eS-
change but more commonly confined to Il q
paper elements of the medium. II used in
the broader sense, two kinds should be
distinguished, metallic and paper
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03

ern Europe have struggled forFcen-
turtles with the soil problem, DR.. Mar
but says. In this part of Europe the
first attempt to improve farm land
came thru the discovery that animal
manures enrich soil Then they dis
covered that by resting the soil one
year in three production would be in
creased. That was the beginning OF
the three field system of feudal times.
Even that did not solves the pro-
blem of raising crops on impoverished
soil. Eventually man discovered that
by growing grass he not only helped
the soil but he could feed more live
stock and so have more animal waste
to put on the soil. The latest stage
in soil history was the discovery of
chemical fertilizers about rs years ago.
Now there are soil bureaus and ex-
perts. Dr. Marbut of our governm ent
bureau of soils is a member of the in
ternationaI Conference of social scien-
lists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03

Arguments in the interest of a wage
adequate for a reasonable standard of
comfort are being put forth on behalf
of the striking railway workers. In
the abstract. nobody will deny the
desirability of a reasonable standard
of comfort for everybody. In fact.
that is just exactly what we are all
striving for, individually and cohec-
lively. Those who happen to enjoy
such a standard either because of SUI
perior fortune or superior contribu-
tons to the total product of industry
are Immediately struck with the ap-
pearance OF justice which an appeal
for such a standard undoubtedly has.
even when It is made on behalf of a
group only. But the truth is. there
are not enough goods being produced
at present TO provide a reasonable
standard OF comfort for everybody
The goods we produce. as measured
in terms of the annual national in
come in dollars, would not be enough
to provide every one OF the approxi-
mately 25,o0O.O00 families in this
country with the income specified by
the special pleaders for the railroad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03
Dorothy Dix Tails
Scnsitiveness-2.
BY DOROTHY DIX
WoE1&'s HIEhegs Paid Woman writes

SenSitiveneSS-2.
The girl who cannot go out into the
world and work, as other girls do,
makes her constituencies am excuse for
being a gutter, for it is observable
that her shrinking from mingling
with other people doesn't keep her
from going to the places she wants to
go to, or doing the things she wants
to do. She doesn't dread meeting
men in society. It's only in business
that she is stricken with fear of them,
yet men are no more dangerous or
unpleasant in their office than they
are in parlors.
The woman who is so sensitive she
is always getting her delicate sensi-
bilities wounded is the one who pos
sesses what alienists call IAN eXagger-
ated ego" She is always imagining
sights, because she considers that
great Difference should be paid her.
She sees herself as the most important
figure in the universe, with everybody
kow-towing and knocking their fore
heads on the ground before her. and
when they fail to do this she consid-
ers that she has been grievously in
suited, and she won't play any more.
She takes her doll rags and goes
home.
The sensitive woman can never be
| told of any of her faults because her
abnormal vanity makes her believe
herself perfect, and that everything
she does is beyond criticism. If she
is a business woman she dissolves in
J tears every time her employer ven
lures to tell her of a mistake she has
! made. If she is a domestic woman
she makes such a scene when her
husband tells her that the coffee is
slop. and the bread a first aid to the
undertaken, that he never ventures to
try it a second time. And she never
gets anywhere because she is never
willing to learn how to do better
work.
The vanity of the sensitive is so all
pervasive that it enables them to see
the things that are not there. Their
minds are so unalterably fixed or
themselves that they firmly believe
that all their little world carries on
its affairs with sole reference to them
You have to edit your conversation in
their presence because. they see hidden
innuendoes in flippant remarks and
take your jokes as personal criticism
If you do not single. them out in @
| crowd they are sure you cut them or
purpose. If you fail to invite them tc
every party you give you have tc
apologize on your stomach for slight.
| ing them.
Vanity and selfishness, these are the
ugly core of sensitfveness. Instead 'o1
coddling 1t, and cultivating it, we dc
| well to fight it as the most insidious
vice to which we can become addicted
and we are wise when we avoid the
| sensitive man or woman as we would
| avoid a leper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

NO, NO, SONNY! NOT TODAY.
What's a doting dad to do
With a little chap like you,
Teasing, begging all the time,
Hand extended for a dime
For an fee cream cone or sweet
Mother says you mustn't eatf
Wanting this and wanting that,
II my purse were twice as fat
Really it could not supply
All the things you'd have to buy.
Trouble is. when you commence
Love shuts out my common sense,
And so far as you're concerned
My old heads completely turned;
All that can seem to see
Is boy that used TO be
Who was wanting things like you,
Wanting, wanting all day thru,
And it hurt his dad to say:
NO, no, sonny! Not today"
Know It isn't wise or good,
Shouldn't do it If could
Little boys have greedy eyes,
He regrets ii soon who buys
All the sticky stuff and sweet
That his yoaugster wants to eat;
Yet forever comes the sad
Picture Of another dad
Who was forced so oft to say:
No, no sonny. Not today"
What's a doting dad to do
With a little boy like you,
Just the picture Of a lad
That his kindly father had?
Do you think he can forget
All the times those e~es were wet,
And how bitterly he sighed
AS some fond wish he denied?
It's no easy thing to say:
"No. no. sonny Not today"
Copyright, 1922, by Edgar A Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03

The shipping board had to be given
a deficiency appropriation of $4s.-
OOO,O00 to cover deficits in operation
in the past year. 1t is pointed out
that this is about so per cent more
than the maximum annual cost of the
ship subsidy bill now pending in con-
gress. Thus and by such argument
is it sought to reconcile the people
to a. perpetual burden of taxation in
order to stop the existing waste of
their money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03

workers as necessary for reasonable
standard OF comfort. That being true.
the question then arises as to how we
are to determine who is to live at or
above the standard and who below.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03

preciate the favor of your compiny
a minnit.
Proving he had herd me all the
time, and 1 went in the setting room
and pop gave me 4 crasks some place
with his slipper and I went up to bed,
steps at a time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03

When the voters start out bent on
a political lynching they usually d.
rect their activities toward a shining
mark. So il was that they burnt Phil
Campbell at the stake OF unrest last
Tuesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03
Dinner Stories

A huntsman called at the farmetead
to settle for damage done by the
hounds and found only the farmers
wife at home.
HAS your good man made an ex-
animation yet?'' he asked.
|.EY
GAE.
49,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03

Likely the Digest poll won't prove
anything that cannot be controverted
by one in controversial mood. But it
has it's value, nevertheless. 1t gives
those who insist on discussing pro-
hibition something new to talk about
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-15

The ground mole must have had eyes like Ben Turpin, and the family cat must have the mango. All signs of early spring were sure enough false alarms. Just look out the window.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-15
Miss Flicker Given
 Miscellaneous Shower

Miss Alma Flicker, who will become the bride of J. Elmer Phriem, adver- Using manager tof the Bridgeport Post, in the early spring, was pleas antly surprised at a miscellaneous shower given at the home of Mrs. Harry E, Mosman, 706 Laurel avenue, last evening.
 A color scheme of pink and orchid was carried out in the house and ta- ble decorations, the cakes, candies and ice cream. The centerplece on the table was large bouquet of pink and orchid sweet-peas and the favors for the guests were dainty crepe pa per baskets filled with colored can dies.
 The guests were Mrs. Edward Flicker, Mrs. Ray Flicker, Miss Nor ma Flicker. Mrs. Eugene Hope Mrs. Fred Carlson, Mrs. Otto Kess1er, Mrs. Lillian Casey, Mrs. Frank Crawford, Mrs. William Murphy, Mrs. Carl DueSchell, Miss Grace L. MoSTnan, Miss Cane Mosman and Miss Alma Flicker.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-15
BAD BREATH
Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets
 Get at the Cause and Remove It.

pr. Edwards Olive Tablets. the substitute for calomeI, act gently on the bowels and positively do the work
 People afflicted with bad breath find quick relief through Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets The pleasant, sugar coated tablets are taken for bad breath by all who know them
 Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets act gently but firmly on the bowels and liver, stimulating them to natural ac- ton, clearing the blood and gently purifying the entire system They do that which dangerous calomel does without any of the bad after effects
 All the benefits of nasty, sickentng. griping cathartics are derived from Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets without eriping, pain or any disagreeable eff fects-
 pr. F. M. Edwards discovered the formula after seventeen years or prac- tice among patients afflicted with bowel and liver complaint, with the attendant bad breath
 Olive Tablets are purely a vegetable compound mixed with olive oil; you twill know them by their olive color. Take one or two every night for a week and note the effect 15c and BOG Adv
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-15
LOCO HAS LARGE AMOUNT OF CASH
 FOR PRESENT USE

The operation of the LocomobiIe company's Bridgeport plant and of its various branches throughout the country, is continuing without inter ruption during its receivership. So far as the internal affairs of the com turbed in the transaction of the rou- tine of business. This is due largely to the appointment of men within the organization to the positions of receivers in the. various Federal dis tricts.
 Direction of the branch organiza- lions throughout the country is con- tinued by B. A. Travis, the general company at the general offices in Bridgeport. MT. Travis also is an a.nci1lary receiver for the New York district; this keeping him, as usual, in close touch with the activities of the large New York branch organiZa- ton. Elmer H. Ravens, the presi- dent of the Docom mobi1e company, who is one of the receivers in the Con nectfcut district, where the factory proceedings in several other Federal ing as an ancillary receiver in the proceedings in evera1 other Federal districts.
 The Locomobile company operates its own branches in New York, Bos- ton, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. As 1t owns consid deraible property in connection
  esSary for ancillary rece1versh1p pro- ceedings to be instituted in each Fed era1 district where the properties ex- ist. These actions are progressing harm oniously in each case, for the entire recetvershfp program is agreed upon by the various raries in inter est as being the logical step towards the reorganizat1on of the company.
 Following the naming, February l, of Mir Hayens and E. s. Wolfe, pres ddent of the First National bank Of Rrfdeeport es receivers in the Con necticut district. several branch man egers have qualified as receivers in their respective districts as follows: |C, B. Amorous of Boston, W. S. Hor- ner of Philadelphia, c. A. Kingsley of San Francisco and T. E. Swayne of Los Angeles. The Central Trust Go. of Chicago, has been selected to ad- minister the company's affairs in that district.
 Confidence in the LocomobEle as an institution never has been better demonstrated than now, in the steady volume of business which the com pany is doing during what might be expected to be dull season of re organization. It is stated that al- though the officers of the company had looked for a Hull in business dur ing the receivership proceedings. the contrary has developed and the branches, particularly in the east where the company is located, are obtaining more than their share of orders
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-15

cipal ribs a great deal on various matters the past year, the Hartford Couraut editorially this morning, ridi- cules the reasons given publicly for the demand of R. H. Hunters resig- nation. After giving the town the merry "razz' for more than half @ column, the following statement ap- pears that is well worth thinking over in the quietude of your home on some of the impossible streets. This closes the Courant'S comment:
 These counts do not suggest high crimes and misdemeanors but they may indicate a lack of harmony be- tween the town council and the town manager and they suggest that of the enlightened electorate of Strat- ford. The electors have equipped an old town with all the modern app1i- ances and now they are reminded that the machine is not running smoothly. They must turn out now and approve the action of the town council or else elect a new one. By the time they will have had time to reflect that no system of town government will work we'll without constant attention from the electors. When that is given any system will prove satisfactory.
 Town, cities and states have had this truth impressed upon them many times but never do they remember it for long. Things go badly and the electors are stirred and right the evil at an election but then they assume that affairs will care fof themselves in a satisfactory manner and they fall asleep again. If their interest was continuous instead of intermittent disagreements like this in Stratford would not arise."