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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
SLAP ON WRIST
Good Government Club VIII
Rebuke Governor Capper.
Objects to Character of Adver-
Using in His Papers.

Arthur Capper, as governor of the
state of Kansas, was patted on the
back by the members of the Good
Government club and then as newspa-
per publisher he was slapped in the
face by the same ladies. At a meet
ing of the club held Thursday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Howard n.
Rhodes, 1924 Harrison street, a reso-
luton was adopted commencing Gov
ernor Capper upon his position re-
garding the excessive fees allowed at
torneys and receivers of the Kansas
Gas company
Then the members Of the club
switched right around and appointed
a committee with instructions to write
to Arthur. Capper, newspaper pub
Usher, and request him to purify the
he publishes. Miss Eva Corning, ex-
pOlicewOman, and Mrs. Blair, presi-
dent of the locals of the w. G. T. u,
were appointed a committee to write
to Mr. Capper concerning the objec-
tionable advertising.
Harold B. Wood, city physician, ad-
dressed the meeting and told the la
dies that most of the school children
in Topeka were in need of the services
of a dentist. He also outlined his plan
for the members of the club to in
vestigate and report on all the homes
In the city, using a score card pre-
pared by him.
According Mr.. Wood there is at
least one home in Topeka which is
less than nothing at all. He reported
having found Il house IN which a col
ored family lives, which according to
his card would score two points less
perfect home. Action on Mr.. Woods
oeStlOn DOStDOn0d.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13

its system of rail transportation-ex-
tensive mileage, modern equipment,
stupendous number of passengers car
ried and tons of freight transported
Yet, the value of the exports of one
year was 3 per cent of the total CAPT
tai invested in this huge railway sys-
tenn. The exports from the United
States in the fiscal year which ended
with June 80, 1915, would pay nearly
three times over the net public debt of
the country as it stood on July 1, 1914.
The value of the exports in the year
just closed was s404,000,000 in ex-
cess of that of the preceding year;
$303, 100000 greater than in 1913, the
previous high record year, and ap-
proximately double the value of the
shipments to foreign countries a dec
ade ago. Not only did the foreign
sales of American goods in the year
ended June 30th last go far ahead of
the sales of any earlier year. but a
new worlds record was set up.
American exporters have now sold
more goods to foreign buyers in one
year than have their competitors in
any other country in a like period.
The foreign sales of British exporters
in the best year the United Kingdom
ever had were 8 per cent less than
the sales of American exporters last
year; the best German total was Is
per cent below this new American rec
ord. 1t would be rather rash to at
tempt an actual prediction of what the
year just begun has in store for the
American exporter, but calculating on
the basis of the figures of the year
just closed and taking into account the
large gains in exports in the closing
months of that year, there is some
ground for anticipating that the pres
ent year will see still larger sales
record established by the American
exporter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
FROM MRS. VAN TUYL.
Leavenworth Woman Says Fan Hit
Water Not Her Back.

Leavenworth, Kan, Aug. 13.-Mrs.
c. d. Lloyd received a telegram this
morning from Mrs. Effie Hiatt Van
Tuyl, who is hostess at the Kansas
building at the San Francisco expo
sition, telling her that Mrs. Van Tuyl
was not seriously injured. In the mes
sage, Mrs. Van Tuyl stated that the
electric wire fell in the tub, and not
on her, as stated in the dispatch from
San Francisco, and that she was not
seriously injured. The dispatch from
San Francisco stated that while Mrs.
Van Tuyl was bathing in her suite in
the Kansas building an electric wire,
highly charged, dropped from a hook
over the tub. She was rescued from
the tub by A. T. Reid of Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
MADE BY A FARMER.
Collection of Wood Carvings Pre-
scented to Historical Society.

A collection of wood carvings, in
the making of which fifty years was
spent, has just been given to the Kan
sas State Historical society by J. T.
Gem, farmer of Wabaunsee county.
In the collection, which is the handi-
work of Mr.. Gem, is a specimen of
every kind of wood grown in Kansas.
There are twenty-five pieces, many
of which are inlaid with other woods.
Three miniature churches are in
Guided in the collection. Each of
these is complete in every detail. Each
has mechanical contrivances by means
of which the minister and members of
the congregation move about during
the services and one is equipped with
a musical attachment that plays
hVmnS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
SCHOOL OF ETIQUETTE
oscar Swayze Thinks 1t More De-
sirable Than Fairgrounds.

O. K. Swayze, county clerk has a
grievance and he doesn't care who
knows it He wishes the school board
would spend less money for play
ground instructors and pay more at
tention to teaching the children the
proper kind of decorum to be main
tanned when a band concert is being
played.
save up all their cussedness until band
concert nights" said Mr.. Swayze, this
morning Then they try to see which
one can make the most noise and they
do all this right around the band
stand. 1t makes it almost impossible
for anyone to enjoy a concert
Mr.. STayze suggests that the par
ents of the noisy kids start 4 reform
and teach their children to respect
the presence of older people who want
to hear music and not a lot of racket
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
EXPORTS MAKING RECORDS,

The sales of domestic products by
the United States to foreign countries
in the fiscal year which ended with
June 80 reached the enormous value
of 81, 76S.643. 532, points out the Phila-
delphia Commercial Museum, and it
adds: 1t is difficult to grasp the mean
ing of this figure, even in a country
where it has become the habit to think
and talk in millions. A few COMPARE
sons may help. The United States is
still pre-eminently a farming country;
no opportunity is lost to point out
and dwell upon this great farm wealth
Yet the value of one years exports
was equal to the value of all farm
property-land, buildings, live stock,
implements and machinery-in the
Middle Atlantic states, in the South
Atlantic, or in the Pacific, and was
three and half times the value of all
farm property in the New England
states The export total was nearly
double the value of the corn crop in
1914; over three and a half times that
of the wheat crop, and over five times
that of the cotton crop. The United
States is a manufacturing nation, the
greatest workshop in the world, be the
viewpoint value of product or variety
of product. Yet, the value of the ex-
ports in the year which ended June
S0th was fifteen per cent of the total
capital invested in manufacturing in
the last census year, and thirteen per
cent of the value of the goods manu-
featured in that year. The United
States is likewise noted for its vast
mineral reserves, and it's annual pro-
duction of minerals. Yet, the value of
all minerals produced in the year 1918
was 1925, 100000 short of the total ex-
ports il the fiscal year 1915. The
United States boasts, and rightly so, of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
A PLAN FOR PEACE.

There is almost as much talk these
days in the newspapers and magazines
about a peace for Europe as there is
about the war. But the concrete sug-
gestions as to how peace can be
brought about are exceedingly few and
far between. One such, however, has
been projected by Henry Clews, the
New York banker, and who is also
president of the American Peace and
Arbitration league. AS a tentative
plan for the settlement of the Euro
pean war, Mr.. Clews suggests:
Germany to sell to France Alsace-
Lorraine for an equivalent of it's real
value and retire from France and Bel
GUM, but to have commercial access
to the Belgian seaport, which would
be declared a free port; Germany to
pay over to Belgium the amount ac-
quired from France to restore Bel
GUM; the colonies to be restored to
Germany to be EngIand's and Japan's
peace concessions; Austria and Italy to
agree between each other for a settle
ment and urged to do so by the other
nations; Constantinople to be a free
port to appease Russia, Turkey to
acquiesce and Austria and Servia to
agree between themselves to settle
their differences; establish a world
court able to enforce it's DEGREES by
an international police force of the
world-military and naval forces su-
perior to those of any single power in
the world. All the above nations to
pledge themselves for a peace to last
fifty years at least, agreeing as ad-
vantages to be gained thereby to re-
-duce their armies and navies to a
peace basis which would admit, dur
ing that period, of their liquidating
their liabilities incurred by the war
All these nations to obligate them
selves to work in unison to maintain
peace not only amongst themselves
but throughout the world. I feel quite,
sure that the United States, South
America and China would gladly join
in the combination for the great ad-
vantages that would accrue to them
by the certain assurance of peace pre-
Vailing for the next fifty years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
A SYSTEM OF SLAVERY
Kansas City Attorney So Terms the
National Baseball Commission.

st. Louis, Mo-, Aug. 13.-The Ma
acterized in an argument in the fed
eral district court here today as "A
gigantic monopoly with system of
slavery and espionage"
The argument was made by Charles
Madison OF Kansas City, attorney for
Armando Marsans, who is seeking the
dissolution of the injunction which re-
strains him from playing with any ball
team other than the Cincinnati Ma
tionals. Marsans during his enforced
idleness is drawing $500 a year from
the ST. Louis Federals with whom he
has signed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
WRITER FLIES TO FRONT
New Yorker, i'm New Type of Machine.
Visits German Lines.

Paris, Aug. 13.-Ralph Pulitzer of
New York yesterday flew from a sub
urb of Paris to the fighting front in a
new type of double motor biplane
which was operated by a military
aviator.
Mr.. Pulitzer and the pilot covered
more than 100 kilometers (about SO
miles), getting within sight of the Ger
man lines and so close to earth that
they could see the German trenches
and distinguish the bursting of shells.
After a trip along the firing line. the
biplane was flown back to the capital,
where it landed safely.
Mr.. Pulitzer was the first newspa-
per man to make such trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
MORE WHITE WAY.
East Side of jackson and Around to
Kan. Ave. Arranged for.

The white way on the east side of
Jackson street between Eighth and
Tenth avenues and from jackson
street to Kansas avenue on Tenth ave-
nue. will be installed without any for
NAL action by the city commlssioJh.
Those who signed the petition for the
white way will pay the money and
avoid the formality of having the eX-
pense taxed against the property. The
owners of all but six lots on Jack
son street are ready with the money.
John Cooper, who owns three lots, is
out of the city, but 1T IS beIleved that
he will favor the plan. The other
three lots are in litigation and no per-
son is legally capable of signing a Pc
fitinn for the lights.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
RECORD PEACH CROP.

All indications at present are that
the 1915 peach crop of the United
States will be the largest in the his
tory of the country. The total of So.
100000 bushels reported on July i
was an increase of eight per cent over
last years figures for the correspond
ing period but it is believed that the
real extent of the crop when COM
pleted will be greater than is indica ted
by these figures. Many of the larger
producing areas will have substan-
TALLY increased yields, in some of
which there was a dearth last year,
while in the entire country there is
only one district-that of Colorado
in which the crop is noticeably shorter
than in 1914. The Texas yield will
be much larger than last year; Okla
hOma's will establish a new record;
Arkansas and the Missouri territory
will show big figures; Georgia will
equal last year; new records will be
made in West Virginia, Maryland and
western Pennsylvania; Delaware, New
Jersey, and Connecticut yields will be
good; western New York, big; Ohio
district and Michigan, about the same
as last year; the Northwest, with d
great increase, may break the record:
and California will have fully as many
peaches as last year AS some of
these big producing districts will de-
velop at about the same period, the
marketing problem involved will be
one requiring the most expert atten-
ton in order that the distribution may
be made to the best advantage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13

It's always the other fellow who is
densely ignorant.
j. I. i.
A "grandstander'' is satisfied with
any old kind of an audience.
= =
Not few are certain that they're
entitled to the applause that goes to
others.
j. j. =
Probably a wife's most difficult task
is keeping her worser-half in good
humOr.
i. = -
Wild oats would seem TO have at
least one advantage. They can be
SOWn any time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publisher
Association.
MEMBER:
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal away
from home during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day to any
address at the rate of ten cents week o.
thirty cents month (by mail only). Ad-
dress changed often desired. While
out of town the State journal will be to
yOu like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on these
short time subscriptions. to save bOokkeep-
tcg expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
THE HAZARDS OF FARMING.

Farming has always been a hazard
Gus business. Fire, and frost, and
flood; wind, and hail, and drouth !;
blight, and the hords of insect enc
mics, have destroyed the crops since
man began tiIling the soil. So says
Farm Life. but it adds: Yet with all
it's hazards, farming is perhaps the
most stable and substantial of all
businesses. They say that 30 per
cent of the merchants fail. We have
always suspected those statistics, but
certainly a much smaller proportion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13

Servia is evidently wise enough to
know that a bird in the hand is worth
two in the bush. She is willing to cede
the territory that Bulgaria demands
as its price for entering the war
on the side of the allies, but she
wants a suitable cash consiGera-
ton to bind the bargain. A whole lot
of promises have probably been made
as to what this European nation will
do for that one when the war is over
that will never be fulfilled
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13

1t was needless for the news dis
patches on the subject to emphasize
the great wealth of a Californian who
IS being sued by a ST. Louis woman
for breach of promise damages to the
amount of $25O,00O. No man is sued
for breach of promise unless he is pos
sessed of funds, and the amount de-
manded is always proportionate to the
size of his bank roll.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
DRUMMER Boy RETIRED
Col. John l.. Glenn. of Civil War Fame,
Quits Active List.

Washington, Aug. 13.-The last Of
ficer on the active list of the United
States army who saw service in the
civil war was placed on the retired
list today when Col. John L. Glen,
quartermaster's department, reached
the age of 81 years and wound up his
official duties at the war department,
where he has been stationed for many
years. He retireS with the additional
rank of brigadier general, in accord
ance with an act of congress.
Colonel Glen is commonly known as
1.-The drummer boy of Chickamauga."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13

This American Pathological Society
may be right in its contention that the
grape fruit is not a grape fruit, but
a Pomelo, whatever that may be. Ger
tainly the so-called grape fruit neither
looks nor tastes much like a grape.
Neither does it grow in punches. Who
labeled it grape fruit. ANYHOW?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13

school for several years, giving the
best satisfaction and has been retained
for the next year. The bride was born
In Decatur county and is one of the
teachers in the high school. The
happy pair are off on a trip 20 west
ern points, and promise to be at home
after September 6.
Professor Smick will be- remem-
bered in Topeka For some time he
was carrier State Journal
route and a Washburn c.tutIent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
Good Templars Meet.

San Francisco, Aug. 13.-Ifundreds
of delegates and visitors from all parts
of the country are here today to at
tend the annual convention of he Ma
tional Grand Lodge. Interna tional Or
der of Good Templars. Wednesday
will be observed as Good Templars
day" at the exposition. The program
includes great military and civic
M do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
SAVED BY HIS NOSE.
Topeka Negro Buried in Cave-in, Up
to His NOStrilS.

Had E. Grant, 2. colored laborer
working on the construction of the
East side sewer, been an inch less in
height he would probably be dead
instead of living today.
Grant was working in sewer
trench. Unexpectedly the ground
caved and Grant was buried-buried
all but his nose. BY standing on tip
toe and tipping his head back as the
earth covered him he was able to keep
enough of his nose in the air to
breathe. He was rescued without in
iurV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13

Say. Mr.. Good Citizen, are you
boosting as you should for the great
fair with a free gate that Topeka is
going to stage next month? Here's an
opportunity to gather the greatest fair
crowds in Topeka that Kansas has
ever seen, but all of us must be up and
doing if we are to eaIize ON il.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13

Speaking of the champion Johnny
on-the-Spot, General Fred Funston is
once again exactly where he's needed.
But it would be better for all con-
cerned on this side of the Rio Grande,
in all probability, if his authority were
more extensive, if he did not have to
take orders from Washington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
detroit Gets Two Southerncrs.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Aug. l3.-
President Andrews of the Chatta-
nooga Southern Association club an
nounced today the sale of Pitchers
George Cunningham and RUDE Mar
shall to the Detroit Americans. Both
will report at the end of the South
ern Association season. The price
was not stated, but the Chattanooga
club will get Out Fielder Jacobson
from Detroit in part payment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13

of farmers are sold out under the
hammer. There is no starvation in
the country, and few cases of cha rity
outside of the infirm and helpless
The problem of employment is not
pressing, and we do not lie awake
nights wondering if we can get the
money to paw next months rent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
BAD STORM IN MARION
Hail and Wind Damage Crops-Cars
Blown Off Track.

Peabody, Kan, Aug. 1S.-Several
freight cars on the siding at Lincoln
Vile were blown off the track and
hundreds of dollars in damage was
done to fruit and crops by hail as the
result of a severe storm that visited
this county early today
The hail was driven by a high wind.
The Marion light plant was burned
out and the town was left in dark
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
Notice.

All members of the u. B. F. and S.
M T. Lodges and Temples are re-
quested to be present at the funeral
of our late Brother Deputy Eddie
Patterson on Sunday afternoon at 3
o'clock at the Second Baptist church,
Third and Quincy SITS. BY order of
Brother Geo. McNeal, NJ. W. C. M
Adj
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13

Undoubtedly General Fred Funston
and the force of men he had with him
there would come in nightly handy
just now in Vera Cruz. Has anybody
ever heard of or discovered the reason
for the evacuation of the American
troops from Vera Cruz?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
LUMBER YARDS BURNING
Fire of Incendiary Origin Causes
Heavy Loss in California.

Sacramento, Cal, Aug. 13.-Fire.
presumably of incendiary origin. de-
stroyed today the lumber in the yards
Of two companies at Portola. Plumas
county, with a loss estimated at be-
tween S250.000 and $2,OOO,OOO At
noon the flames were still spreading,
sweeping toward the great sawmin OF
the Feather River Lumber company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13

He was major in the Confederate
army of Virginia and took part in
many of the most important battles.
Several years ago he was chief clerk
OF the lower house of congress and
during this period he married the
sister of Senator Cockrelrs wife.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13

Carranza must be pretty firm in his
belief that he finally has the whip
hand in Mexico, else he wouldn't have
delivered his "hands-off' def to the
United States and the rest of the
world
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
TEUTONS FREE OIL SHIP
American Vessel WicO and Cargo Re-
leased at Swinemunde.

Washington, Aug. 13.-The Amer
lean oil steamer Wico, taken by Ger
man warships to Swinemunde, has
been released and facilities have been
given for repairs of damage done
when the ship was being brought into
port by the German prize crew.
Her cargo also was released.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
New York Mopev NTarket

New York, Aug. 3.-MONEY-Mercantil
paper, 3A M3M. Sterling, 60 day bills 4 6I !.
denand, 4.71J0; cables, Ar % Francs
9i2s; Lires, demand. 6.3s: cables, 637
fIAe; Mexican dollars, SIC. Government
T TGnas' ,o easy; railroad bonds; irregular.
days. 2z@2% six months. }H ~ 30
GalI money, easy; high. IL: low. IL
~ rate; IA last loan, IA closing bid
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
PROF. sMICK is MARRIED.
Former Washburn Student, ODerlin
High School Head, Marries Teacher.

Oberlin, Kan, Aug. 13.-One of the
happy surprises to most people he-e
was the marriage of Prof Caleb W.
Smick to Miss Lois Edna Street, which
took place Wednesday, August II, at
the home of Mrs. w. d. Street.
Professor Smick has beer at he
head of the Decatur county high
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13

Present indications are that the
Watchful Walters at Washington will
sooE see some of the things for which
they have been looking so long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
COTTON Seizures Protested.

New Orleans, Aug. ia protest
against interference by Great Britain
and her allies with cotton shipments
for neutral nations was forwarded 20
President Wilson today by the New
Orleans board trade
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
Rear Admiral MCGOWAN Dead.

washington, Aug. 13.-Rear Adj
miral John MCGOWAN, L. S. N, re-
tired, of this city, died today at Twi-
light Park, n. Y, where he was spend
ing the summer. He was ~ years old.
Burial will be Monday in Arlington
National cemetery.