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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15
JUST FOLKS
THE IMAIIGANT.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

Il.
He'd heard this was the land of gold and
gold betokened strife.
They had not mentioned peace to him, or
all the Joys of life,
They had not told him he would find the
children here at play,
Twas just the lure of yellow gold which
set him on his way.
The land Of easy money" that was all
he'd ever heard;
OF how we build and keep our homes no
one had said a word.
What freedom means he didn't know for
all they'd ever told
Was that our land is very rich and here
men gather gold
But had he learned this land of ours is
one of hearts content,
A land where children go to school and
romp in merrtment.
A land of countless garden plots and homes
aglow with cheer,
A higher and a loftier dream would then
have lured him here.
never see an immigrant but what I won
der why
He left the country of his birth-what
dream is in his eye?
Oh, did he come for yellow gold, or did he
come to give
His children all that freedom means and
live as free men live?
oh. was he lured by dreams Of peace and
was his vision filled
With pictures Of the little home he hoped
some day to builds
And did he come to dwell with US and
share the joys we hold.
Or is he but an alien in search Of yellow
Cc0pyTisht, 1922, by Edgar a. Guest,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.

I dident know wat elts to do this
AFTERNOON so started to wawk GROUND
to Mary TVatkinses house to see IL she
was out on her frunt steps, witch she
genrelly is wen she amt enywhares
elts, and on the way GROUND who did
I meet but Pubs Simkins going the
same direction, me thinking. Heck.
bet that guys going GROUND to Mary
Weaknesses, darn that guy. Saying.
Hello Pubs, ware you going?
Nowares special, ware you? Pubs
sed.
o, nowares special 1 sed.
And we started to wawk together.
me thinking, G, Ill soon find out II
that's ware he's going all rite who's he
think he is, anyways? Saying, Watts
you doing, jest taking wawk?
Sure, is that all you're doing? Pubs
sed.
Sure, that all, sed.
And we kepp on wawking together
till we started to go past Mary Wat
kinses house, and she was setting on
the frunt steps on cushions, saying,
Hello Benny, hello Pubs.
WITCH me and Pubs jest tipped our
hat and she sed, Ware you going? T
Jest taking a wawk, me and Pubs
sed both together. And we kepp on
going to jest to spite ourselfs and wen
we got GROUND to the empty wall
Leroy Shooster and Sam Cross was err
round there and we all got in a crate
game of hand ball with Leroys good
bountcer and had the best time so far
this week.
Proving there's other things besides
Rerls
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15

Poor old Austriai She started the
Great War and that she is paying
dearly FOR her action is pointed out by
Otto H. Kahn, who has just returned
from there and says: Nothing more
tragic can be imagined than the utter
misery of that gifted and amiabIe
people. which has been one OF the
civilizing forces among the nations.
and to whom the world owes so much
in the field of science. music and lit
erature. 1t is appalling to contem-
plate, especially, the deadful condi-
tions among the middle classes their
semi-starvation and, in some cases.
actual starvation. Forced. by the
treaty OF st. German, into economi-
cally almost impossible frontiers.
hampered and crippled by its terms.
the Austrian people are singled out.
less. really. by design than by bun
Cling on the part OF the treaty max
erS. for particularly cruel and hope
less suffering. Forbid en-, in d lance
of che famous doctrine OF self-deter-
maintain. measurably to relieve their
economic conditions by affiiation with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15

had not tasted before. Afterward she
was sent to a matinee in charge of
away at their courtliest, the elder of
them saying: BE sure we shall keep
track of you" and the younger look
ing things he lacked courage to say.
Possibly he found the courage later,
since the week after she passed
brilliant examination and was duly
admitted to the bar, NJ SIS Nora Max
well became Mrs. John Lewis Cope,
but so quietly hardly a breath of it
got into print. There would likely
have been columns had it leaked out
that Banker Lewis had settled a quar-
ter million On the bride. besides giving
his nephew wherwithal to buy back
Maxwellton, a big plantation down in
Alabama
Copyright, 1922, by Mcclure News
paper fSyndicate.)
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A self constituted friend and ad-
wiser of the farmers processes to see
grave danger that the individual
farmer will be snuffed out and that
huge corporations like the United
States Steel Corporation may buy up
the land, and cultivate the soil as the
ranches are managed in Mexico
However. he may rest assured that
the corporations are not looking for
any improbable investments like
farming is said to be. If farming be
a losing, game the farmers will be
permitted to keep their farms. If
farming be found profitable. nobody
can pry the farmers loose from the
soil.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15

A bulletin issu ID by the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers points
out that the leading business men of
Richmond, Va, have just figured out
what it takes for the average Ameri-
can family 20 maintain a decent stan
dard of living. The Richmond Rotary
club, it reports, asked each member to
bring to the meeting a statement of
the lowest living expenditures on
which a family could be maintained
in reasonable comfort. One by one
the items were added up and the es-
Innate voted fair by the members.
Clothing. insurance premiums, food.
coal, rent and medical attention had
been set aside, when suddenly the
man who was keeping the books an
nounced that the budget already
amounted to $5,325. Nobody has any
objection to the earning OF $5,325 a
year by every man. in the country if
he can do It, but the total necessary to
such a distribution is far beyond the
value Of all the commodities produced
year. The only way IN which the
shortage could be made up would be
thru the printing of more money as it
IS done in Russia. The wages received
by Russian workmen must make the
engineers envious. The Russians
wages do not stop at a mere $5,325 n
year. They run into millions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15
Dinner Stories

After unraveling the usual red tape
connected with the process of inter-
viewing the buyers department stores,
a young chap who gave his name as
Michael O'Hoolihan, succeeded in be-
ing. ushered into the santum sane
forum of the hosiery buyer, to whom
he displayed a box of silk stockings.
''Phwat de We t'ink o. desc at four
dollars a dozen?" he demanded.
A casual inspection of the mer~
chandise convinced the buyer that
the stockings were exceptionally
fine, of the grade selling in the open
market at about ten dollars a dozen;
so he replied, without hesitation. that
he could take five thousand dozen,
Immediate delivery, at the usual terms.
1.-The divil ye will" replied Michael.
them is the only ones fell offa the
wagin."
Louis K. Liggett. the well known
drug magnate who failed and then
paid off his creditors IN full. was
congratulated by Boston reporter
on SO highly honorable an act.
II believe in business honor"
said Mr.. Liggett, though the bust
ness honor of some men reminds
you of the golf club that had to put
up tho rule:
"'Notice-Members must refrain
from picking up lost balls until they
have stopped rolling"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15
Dorothy Dix Tails
Ell DOROTHY DIX
WoR4a'O nxheS6 Paid Woman WEISeR.
Over-Tender Parents-2.

OhOA "AS1lACE
1t is a common thing to hear a
woman say that she wants her daugh-
tiers to have a perfectly carefree time
in their girlhood, and that she is not
teaching them how to cook, or sew, or
keep house because they can learn all
that when they have to.
She does not realize that instead of
saving her daughters trouble, she is
adding a hundred fold to their diff
culties, and even endangering their
whole life happiness. For many a
man gets his first cold, disilIusioned
look at the woman he had married
when he finds her utterly incompetent
to carry on her end of the job of home
fee cup have been the grounds of
many divorce.
OF course If a woman has any sense
at all, and any glimmering of her
duties as a wife, she does learn even
tual1y how to cook, and keep house,
and cope with the high cost of living,
but before she acquires that knowl-
edge both she and her husband go
thru many agonizing experiences.
No young bride ignorantly wrestling
with the vagarieS of a gas range, and
weeping over sad cake, and jaundiced
biscuit, ever thanked her mother for
not teaching her how to cook. Nor is
any young husband, as he sits down
ITO meal of UNDERGONE meat and
burnt bread, and soggy vegetables
that have cost three times what they
should, filled with gratitude towards
the woman whose maternal tenderness
foisted upon him a wife who had to
learn her business at the expense of
his digestion and pocketbook
The parents who are SO tender of
their children that they never teach
them self-denial, or self-control are
responsible for practically all of the
wrecked homes. For it is the spoiled
girls and boys who quarrel and fight
when they get married. Neither one
knows what it is to give UP, or>recog-
nizes any law except his or her own
pleasure and when these undiscipIined
wills clash matrimonial bonds are
burst and hearts break.
And it is the parents who cannot
endure to make Johnny or Mary do
any useful work, or stick to anything
after they get tired of it, who are first
aid to all the failures of the world.
Johnny and Mary have not the grit to
keep on with a job when it's hard, or
to get up early and work late, or to
submit to discipline They are always
looking for something easy like they
had at home, and somebody to
pamper them like mother did, and
they never find it. and so they drift
into the ranks of those who never
make good.
It's a great temptation to try TO
protect your children from every
harsh wind that blows. But it is a
fatal mistake. Life is not a bed of
roses. 1t is a battlefield, and only
those win out who are trained down
until they are as hard as nails.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15

their neighbor. Germany; harassed.
Inundated and maltreated by other
adjoining states on which they de-
pend for their trade and for some of
the very necessities OF existence. they
are deprived even of the possibility to
escape from their wretchedness by
emigration, because they cannot at
ford the means to em!grate overseas.
and the doors of the neighborins Dan
ube states are closed TO them. At the
same time. millions of their brothers
have been torn away from their Aus
trian allegiance and placed under the
domination OF czecho-Sloyaks, Ru-
manians or Italians"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15
Observation-Disclosures

Q. Has New York or New Orleans the
smaller percentage of Roman Catholics
A. While New York City contains about
four times many Catholics as New
Orleans, the percentage is much smaller
Out of New Orleans population of 3S7. 219
the Roman Catholic estimate Of their mem
bers is 327
O. Is there life on Venus? B. C. T.
A. The question cannot be answered
definitely. DR. c. G. Abbot of the Smith
sonian Institution says that it seems more
probable that life corresponding to life on
the Earth exists on Venus than on Mars
The conditions on Venus are similar to
those on Earth, while Mars probably diff
fers in many ways.
+. O. Should varieties Of apples be mixed
for making cider? T. II. r.
A. Winesap apples are practically the
only ones that contain sugar, tannin and
from them needs no modification. Usually
a blend of several kinds is best since each
contributes special characteristic which
improves the mixture.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15
A HALF CENTURY OF STRIKES

A discouragins phase of the labor
situation Is that we have made. as a
people. 80 little progress in the solu-
ton OF the problem by equitable and
judicial means in the nearly half CEN
fury since big strikes first began.
Despite all We hear of the increased
mower of organization in labor ranks,
and of the spread OF radical ten
denotes. the strike itself as form of
private war has become little more
effective than it was half a century
ago.
The railroad strikes of 1877 were
serious enough to win for themselves
a place in the school histories of the
United States. The roads attempted
to lower the wages OF the men as a
part of the postwar deflation. Most
of the men refused to work, and some
of them refused TO allow trains to run.
They resisted the troops sent to pro-
tect the railroads, rioting in Pitts
burgh. Chicago. st. Louis and other
places.
After nearly two wesks OF general
confusion the riots were suppressed.
The worst OF them aIl--that at Pitts
burgh, where the rioters controlled
the city for several days-cost nearly
one hundred lives besides three mill
lion dollars worth of property. Even
the HerEin massacre staEds out no
worse as a tragedy than this.
Both administrations of Grover
Cleveland were filled with labor trou-
bles-perhaps the best remembered.
because it brought the president into
such a degree of responsibility, was
the Pullman strike of 1894, centering
in Chicago. That was a sreious affair
while it lasted.
We have had coal strikes before
notably that in the anthracite district
which Roosevelt settled in 1902.
Yet with all this past record open
to congress, legislatures, employers
and employees, little II any progress
seems to have been made either in
prevention or workable methods of
settlement. The railroads, since the
dates referred to above, have become
so thoroly under the direction and
control OF the government that a
strike by their employees seems wholly
unnecessary. The government is in a
position to force the railroads to do
anything that is right and in the pub
lie interest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15

1t is announced that the McCumber
tariff bill will be passed next Satur-
day. Possibly this is true. 1t has
been shorn of many of its most OBJ
jectionable features but still retains
enough to conder it and it's authors
in the minds of the American people.
If it shall be passed at the appointed
time it still must run the gauntlet of
joint conference. But it should be
far enough along for the voters to get
a line on it by November 7.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15

The $3.50. 100000 appropriated by
congress as federal aid in conjunction
with state funds will result in the con-
struction of about $4,000 miles of
road, says the bureau OF public roads
of the United States department of
agriculture. This mileage would par
allel the railroad from New York to
San Francisco nearly fifteen times, or.
if divided equally among the states.
would give nearly 1000 miles to eacn
state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15

Economic law is inexorable. 1t can
not be evaded. The burden of full
cost of production can be lifted from
a comm odity by such artificial means
as Germany has employed and carried
for a temporary period, but sooner or
later its full weight must sag down
again. The weight, in an economic.
national sense, must be SO great as to
equalize and make up the arrears, be-
fore a normal level of cost can be
reached again
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15

1t is charged that importers are
putting up money to fight the pending
tariff bill. Who is getting the money?
Surely those making this charge do
not wish to cast reflections on Senator
Lodge. who voted against the tariff on
hides
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15

Public funds to the amount of
sI45.oOo have Just been allotted for
the improvement of the Missouri
river, from its mouth to Fort Benton.
AS far as any public benefit from the
expenditure goes the money might as
well be thrown into the river.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15

Brief notes: In Canada was able
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15

Surely, Slip back that measIy
ten and say nothing about it till next
week." Nora broke in gayly, adding
almost wistfully: Also something
personal. Please tell me where I can
get real food without waiting too
long"
1T will be better to show you" Mr..
Lewis interrupted. Wen take Miss
Lane, my secretary. and John Lewis
Cope, my scapegrace nephew, to make
the party complete
A thrill amounting almost to riot
went thru the establishment when the
limousine rolled away with four in
side It whirled the four crosstown
to the lower city's famous luncheon
place There Nora, forgetful of her
sS-cent hat, her mended gloves. her
severely simple handbag, ate daintily
but with keen relish such food as she
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-01
oPERATlC SOCIETY GIVES
TUNEFUl STRAUSS OPERA
Excellent Singing and Acting by
Competent Cast and Good Chorus

InE CAST
queen ................ Cora Frye
N;sSsAion:.: S;Ss T. Il iIsSs sj,ss; 1
s.nehc :.:.:::.:. Charles ). .sSS..leSorth
e.emis,, e,. ....'..... D. L. IoSn Mathews: b S., Ir
Mnis,er Of war '0 Otto o. r.. esSss Bess
MAn,Ha'S: Mns,ss 81 GPefssd Foiies Charles D. Long
Nns.s. q Juslss Frfnk HaSssI, g. Rsts1 Rsn s
DANCING Scoanadasuc,or.wss;;;itIii Saaas EeIs. G '"a''A
. The Philadelphia Operatic Society
gave one Of the most successful perform
ances Of Its career at the Academy OF
tuneful and graceful opera. '"Thc
Queens Lace Handkerchief" by Johann
Strauss. 1t was the sixteenth season of
the organization and the fifty seventh
production which it has given.
Despite the so-called ''lightness' Of
the opera, 1t is a more difficult one to
give to the best advantage than many
4 more ambitious one in plot and music.
The music is typical Viennese music Of
the best period, calling for a fault!ess
feeling for rhythm, not an easy thing
to find in n large amateur body, where
there cannot be daily rehearsa!s. as
we'll as for a characteristic style Of
singing and acting, in keeping with
the spirit Of both music and plot. That
the production was so we'll done speaks
volumes for the capacity Of the society.
The cast was adequate oil around.
both in voice and in action, Miss Taiz
showing decided aptitude for stage
work and, lile Miss Frye. singing
we'll. Mr.. Shuttleworth and Mr..
Mathews took the comedy parts with
much clevcrness, and DR.. Becker. Mr..
Graham and Miss Ritter did well. Mr..
Boss gave an excellent portrayal Of
Don QuixOte.
The chorus was feature Of the per-
formance, as 1t is of all the productions
of the operate Society. and sang with
enthusiasm the swinging waltz move
ments and sparkling tunes of the opera.
The stage settings were excellent, and
Mr.. Leps conducted with authority and
discretion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-01
LITTLE
BENNYS
NOTE BOOK
BY Lee Pape

Pop was up in the setting room hold.
Ing his face with one hand, and ma sed /.
Willyunr, you've got tooth axe and
you cant deny 1t. you've got tooth axe
and there's no use saying you haven't.
There's no use having II at all. for
that matter. as far as can see, but I've
got It all the same, confownd sutch a.
tooth. sed pop.
You dident tell me enythins I dident
know, sed pop, and ma sed, Well for
mersey sake wy don't You 60 GROUND
to the dentist?
know as mutch about 1t as that berd
does, all he would do would be to make
II hert verse and then about hour
later It would stop herting by itself,
Test as It would Of done enyway, know
this tooth. know It well, don't mention
dentist to me. sed pop:.,,
and G"t nom my sed. Nuthins doing. 'i let a me-
alone. can you see I'm injoying this /?
Wich Jest then my sister Gladdis came
In, saying, For land sake father, wy
don't you 60 to the dentists?
For the same reason gave your
mother before you came in, sed pop,
and Gladdis sed, o we'll, its your tooth,
It's your fenerel, its intirely up to you.
It duzzent seem that way, sed pop,
you awt to take tip from Benny, he's
the ony ono of you with eny sents, you
don't heer him asking me wy I don't 60
to the dentist.
Well wy don't you. pop? I sed, and
pop scd, wy don't you go to bed, and
II you wunt to know the anser to that.
the anser is. because If you don't I'm
going to take off my good rite slipper
and give you sutch n slippering you'll
see stars for 3 days, rain or shine, now
beet It to bed.
Wich did.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-01
Dinner Sets
Aluminium and
Enameluave

Enamelware utensils, some pieces slightly
blemshed-all at half price All kinds ~
Aluminium Cooking Utensils, 95c and 31.25;
much under price
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-01
"SanfOrd'S" Fine
Administer Ru0s

With many Of the attractive patterns
matching indifferent sizes, have Just come
in and will be ready tomorrow This must
be good news to many homefurnshers-
Rugs, 9Nl2. .,.. $500 and $3.50
Rugs, S.3XlO.6. :. ,S4250 and $3.50
Rugs, 1919. -. S37. 90 and $3.50
Rugs, 6X9. .$2S.75 and S3O.5O
Rugs, 4.6X66. Sl6.25
Rugs, 36x7O ins. $500 and $3.50
Rugs, 27x54 ins. $3.50 and $3.50
@S strawbrids. 4 Clorhisr-Fourth Floor, IVES,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-01

The boys are charged with partici.
patton In at least nineteen burglaries
about the first Of the year. 1t is said
there were four boys In the gang, and
they are declared to have stolen cloth
ing, jewelry and other loot to the value
of $1,000.
In one instance, IL was testified, they
entered the home Of Thomas White, at
345S p street, and stole the bulldog he
Ind purchased to keep away burglars.
They gave, the dog meat. and then were
80 well pleased they stole him,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-01
FAIL TO LOOT CHURCH
oaken Door on Closet Holding silver
Service 10 Too strong

Efforts of thieves to steal the silver
service of the Balligomingo Baptist
Church, West Conshohocken,. late last
night, failed. The silver is kept in a
closet in the church basement.
An attempt was made to- pry open
the oak door Of the closet, but 1t was
| too sturdily built.