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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-20
BIG STEEL DIVIDEND
Bethlehem Company Declares $50 a
Share on Common Stock.

New York, Jan. 2O.-The Bethlehem
Steel corporation today declared a
dividend of thirty dollars a share on
the year 1915, payable in quarterly in
stallments.
Big Steel Dividend.
The dividend represents a distribu
ton of approximately $4,50O,000. 1t
was authoritatiVely asserted that the
declaration of 80 per cent was conser-
vative Wall street estimates as to
the earnings have ranged from rs to
$50 per cent This is the first dis
bursement of the corporation S profits
that the common share holders have
ever received.
Last years profits have been earned
from immense orders for armament
received from belligeren, nations in
Europe 1t has been the announced
policy of Charles NJ. Schwab, presi-
dent of the corporation, to use surplus
earnings after the payment of the
seven per cent preferred dividend, for
improvements upon the cOmpany's
property Bethlehem steel early in
January last year, was selling at As Il
and by October had advanced to GOO
Bethlehem common opened today at
All, IA points down from yesterday s
close advanced to 4S0 and after the
announcement of the declaration of
the dividend dropped to ASS. Prices
declined in all parts of the list.
The corporation also announced to-
day an increase in wages of ten per
cent for its unskilled labor, which
went into effect itw as said on Jan. G.
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pico. were denied the protection of
nearby warships and were taken out
of danger on German and English
boats" After the commander of the
German gunboat had trained his guns
on Tampico served notice of his in
tent to use them if injury or further
insults were attempted, and escorted
our people to the wharf
An American warship, which Law in
Tanpico harbor, Mr.. Mondell declared
had sailed away. upon orders from
Washington, leaving our people de-
fenseless and at the mercy of an
armed, Infatuated and drunken mob"
Would Have L. S. Buy Northern Mex
Washington, Jan. 20.-AdvisahiIitv
of the United States seking to ac-
quire portion of northern Mexico
by purchase or treaty, it was learned
today. is being urged by American
citizens along the border and has been
recently discussed with President Will
son, Senator Ashurst of Arizona, who
saw the president yesterday is said
tC have preached the subject Per-
sons interested say American interests
are located chiefly in northern Mexico
and requirement of that territory
would do much to settle present diff
culties. The British Ambassador Sir
Cecil SpringRice, told Secretary Lam
sing today that the withdrawal of
British subjects from danger points
in Mexico was not to be taken as an
indication that Great Britain has al
tered it's policy of leaving the Mexican
situation in the hands of the United
States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-20
TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.

Chicago, Jan. 20-WHEAT - Lower
freight rates from Argentina gave an ad-
vantage today to the bears in wheat In
this connection notice was taken of word
that the French government had perfected
arrangements for an increased number OF
grain carrying vessels, and that in conse-
quence a more liberal movement from
Argentina and Australia was expected. Sea-
board buying developed here however,
when prices declined. The opening, which
ranged from 1hc to 1Hc lower, with May
at $1.29% and July at $1.221a to $1.23, was
followed bv a slight rally.
Later the market showed advance as
a result of signs of revived export demand
and decrease of higher quotations from
Liverpool New upturns in ocean freight
rates, however, led to a subsequent reac-
ton. The close was weak &c to 1G11sc
net lower with May at $1.29%s and July
at S1.221@@1229s.
ments from the country were much more
liberal than recently. After opening Ac
to sc to &c to q Z lower. the market I'M
derwent a little additional sag.
Prices afterward hardened to some ex-
tent when wheat went up grade. Besides,
weather conditions were unsettled, the
effect on prices though failed to last Quo
tations closed weak, at a shade, Il a sc net
decline.
OATS-Oats like corn felt the bearish in
fluence of prospective larger arrivals Com
mission horses leaned to the selling side.
PRONISIONS-Lower prices hogs
weakened provisions. Receipts of hogs
throughout the west were nearly twice as
numerous as at the corresponding time last
week or a year ago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-20
KING PANS ALLIES
Constantine Says Greeks Have
Turned Against Them.
Entente's Seizure of Corfu Like
Invasion of Belgium.

Athens. Jan. 2O-The king of
Greece has summoned the Associated
Press correspondent in Athens for the
purpose of making a protest through
the press of the United States which
he said was the only forum of public
opinion open to him against the re-
cent action of the allies in their opera
lions at Saloniki, in blowing up the
bridge at Demir Hissar, in occupying
Corfu and other islands which Greece
claims.
He said the situation is as if a for
eign power had occupied that part of
the United States which had been won
from Mexico after the Mexican war
and that the plea of military necessity
advanced by the allies was like that
given by Germany for invading Bel
GUM and Luxembourg.
1t is the mereSt cant, the king de-
clared, for Great Britain and France
to talk about the violation of the neu-
trality of Belgium and Luxembourg in
view of what they had done and are
doing themselves. He denied the mil
itary necessity for the blowing up of
the bridge or for the occupation of
Corfu and he also challenged them on
the contention that submarines of the
Teutonic allies are being supplied
from a Greek base.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-20

lengthy paper to an exposition of
Ohio's pc culiar flood problems and to
a review of recent legislation which
he helped frame in that state. He
said the floods of 1913 created a de
termined fort to encompass the pre-
vention of food ravages'' and that the
resulting Ohio conservancy act
marked this. first profound legislative
attempt upon the part of any of the
states east of the Missouri river to
cope with flood problems"
RecIama ton in West Alone.
Discussing Federal Legislation"
F. II. Newell. head of the engineering
department of the University of Hi
nois and former chief of the United
States reclamation service, today told
legislation for flood protection and
the reclamation of swamp and over
flowed lands will come when all of
the various persons interested join
hands to urge it upon congress He
said in part:
"A hundred million dollars. in
round numbers, have been expended
by the United States in reclamation
work since the reclamation act went
into effect The operations are con-
fined by law 20 the far western states
and relate primarily to needs of agri-
culture in the arid or drouth stricken
regions. Inseparably connected with
this, however, has been the building
of drainage bitches to take away an
excess of moisture and to regulate the
suDDIV"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-20
ONTENEGRO REJECTS

fronting England in blockading Ger
many. a new legal angle developed
today. State department experts said
England would have to capture "oniy
a high percentage" and not all block
ade runners to establish and make eff
fective an actual blockade. They
agreed that Germany is now to all in
tents and purposes practically block
AIDED, except for goods first sent to
Norway, Sweden or Denmark and
thence to Germany by way of the
Baltic.
Russia in on Deal.
II was also declared today that the
known presence of British and Rus
sian submarines in the Baltic makes
that seaw2y less valuable, to Germany
than it is popularity believed.
Positive information is held by the
navy department from its agents
abroad that at least twenty ore and
merchandise ships from Sweden and
Denmark to Germany have been sunk
in the Baltic in the last six months.
Crews of many ships were landed at
Swedish ports. How many more ships
were sunk close to the German coast
and their crews landed in Germany is
problematical.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-20
REFORM IN SCHOOL
National Meet to Promote In
duStriaI Education.
One City Has Problem of
Spending $5,OOO,OOO Request.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. 20.-Voca-
tional education in its relation to its
sponsors. to trade unions, merchants,
manufacturers and their employees
and how best to deal with the tech
nical problems of the subject are to
be discussed at the ninth annual con-.
vention of the National Society for.
the Promote of Industrial Education
which began here today. Social well
fare workers, employers, union labor
officials and educators will take part
in the discussions which will last
through three days.
This morning was given over to
registration and informal gatherings
of members of the association and to
visits to various educational and in
dustrial institutions of the city. A
miscellaneous list of subjects was on
the program for this afternoon and a
banquet will be held this evening
Among today's speakers and their sub
jectS are:
Today's Program.
1.-The Future of Vocational Edu-
cation" David Snedden, commissioner
of education for Massachusetts:
Trade Union Ideals and Vocational
Education" Mrs. Sarah Colby, New
York, secretary of the United Textile
Workers of America; Cooperation
Between Home Economics and Indus
trial Education" Dean Saran Arnold,
Simpson college, Boston; THE De-
partment store as framing SchOOl.
Mrs. Lucinda w. Prince, Simmons col
lege; Short Unit Courses in the Girls
Trade School," Helen R. Hildreth, di
rector of the Worcester (Mass) Girls
Trade School
Tomorrow the convention is to de-
vote the entire morning to a discus
sion of reports on the minneapolis
Survey" a work undertaken by the
association at the request of local edu-
cational and industrial interests. \
trust fund of more than $4,000
was created by the will OF William H.
DunwoOdy for purposes of industrial
education.
Report on School Survey.
The survey was divided roughly into
two sections One dealt with the
schools and sought TO discover why a
certain number of children went to
work, why others were sretarded in
their studies, what educational facil-
tiles could be provided for those who
left school, the possibilities of eve
ming schools and in general the place
that vocational training should have
among the children of the city.
The second section studied indus
| trial plants and sought to learn
whether such training could best be
! impaired by continuous or part time
schooling, whether here was danger
of overstocking the labor market
with skilled workers and similar ques-
lions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-20
GOES TO K. C.
State journal Reporter Left Today for
New Work.

Sanford farrell, who for the last
three years has been on the staff of
the Topeka State Journal, today joined
the news force of the Kansas City
Journal in Kansas City, Mo. Mr.. Jar
rell was one of the youngest newspa-
per men in the city. He has a wide
acquaintance here, and through his
work has made many friends For the
last year and a half he covered the
railroad run" and has come in touch
with many executive officers of the
great railway systems.
FARRELL is a Topeka boy and is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. FARRELL. ]. F.
farrell is publicity agent for the Santa
Fe railway. Mrs. FARRELL as "Myra
Williams" is widely known to Kansas
readers. Young farrell consequently
comes by his ability as a newspaper
man honestly. He was educated in
Topeka schools and broke in as a re-
porter on the Holton Signal when his
father ran the paper. He has also
spent a summer on the staff of the
Colorado Springs telegraph
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-20
LOOK TO KANSAS
Farmers in the War Zone Are
Anxious to Learn.
Write to MOhler for Copies of
His Reports.

Kansas farming ideas are being
adopted in the war ridden nations of
Europe That the nations of Europe
are looking to Kansas for new ideas
IN iagriculture, is indicated in the
large number of requests which have
recently come to J. c. Mohler secre-
tary Of the state board of agriculture,
asking FOR copies of current biennial
crop reports.
In the last few weeks Secretary
Mohler has received requests for his
reports from every country in the
European war zone. England, France,
Gcrlnany, Russia, Austria, Belgium,
Italy-aH have sought Kansas ideas
on agriculture. Now the number of
available copies of the big Mohler re-
port is limited and there is prospect
t44at a second edition of the book may
be necessary to meet the increasing
demand.
p. whether the Kansas crop reports
reach their destination in the war
countries, is quite a different matter
But agricultural Authorities in the
foreign nations have asked for the
Kansas ideas on farming-and MohIer
sent them.
RtNot a state in the nation. outside
of Kansas. mas made such heavy re
quests for copies of the agriculture
reports as have the war nations OF
Europe. Not one Of the foreign ma
tions in the postal union has failed to
ask for the Kansas reports. In many
instances requests are for ten or even
twenty copies of the big 1,O24 page
book. Recently Australian agricultural
authorities sent requests for NUMBER
of the Kansas reports.
Many to Australia.
-gt'tProbabIy more copies of the Kan
sas repOrt are sent to Australia than TO
any other foreign nation, salu
Mohler.
In enc day recently Mohler received
a request for copies of the report from
a farmer in Rust e., a far Ter III
France and an instructor in agrlcul-
lure IN the Philippine islands. Both
the French and Russian requests for
books We're written in the native
tongues and translations of the letters
were necessary. Both writer's stated
that they had heard of the Kansas
report and would find some one &c
read it to them. In short, kind and
,considerate friends will spend many
long evenings reading the thousand
printed pages to agricultural enthusl-
asts in the war districts.
Nearly every request for shipmeni
of reports to foreign nations is accom-
lpanied by a sufficient stamp enclos-
lure to pay for mailing of the bulky
document. OF course Mohler wouldnt
Suggest it, hut the state postage bill
would be reduced greatly if the idet
were adopted in Kansas and othel
states. Expense of mailing the re
ports is an item of several hundred
dollars a year paid from the genera
revenue funds of the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-20
A LAKE SHIPPING BOOM
With Dull Start Year Winds Up as
Record Breaker in Ore Tonnage.

Detroit Mich, Jan. 20.-After
season of navigation, most discourag
ing at the outset but a record breaker
at the finish, vessel owners, whose
ships operate on the great lakes, met
here today for the annual meeting of
the Lake Carriers association. The
annual report of William Livingstone
of Detroit, president of the organiza-
ton, referred to the last season of
navigation as ''in many ways the most
extraordinary year that the associa-
ton has ever experienced"
The ore movement was the feature
of the seasons operations. Up to Au-
gust 1, the ore movement was 1904
155- tons behind that-of 1913. Shortly
after August l, business began to pick
up and every month thereafter was
record breaker 25,593,5O1 tons of ore
being moved after the first of August
Every ship that could be pressed into
service was fitted out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-20
TEACHERS COMING
Annual Meeting of the State
Educational Council
viii Convene in Representative
Hall Tomorrow Morning.

At least 200 delegates from all
parts of Kansas are expected to arrive
in Topeka this evening and tomorrow
morning to attend the annual meeting
of the State Educational Council in
session Friday and Saturday. The
meeting will be held in Representative
nall
A detailed program has not been
arranged and consequently discussions
of school questions will have a wide
range. Many important subjects al
ready have been suggested for dis
cusSion and it is proba bic as many
more will come up before the session
ends. The subjects suggested to D.
A. Ellsworth, secretary, in letters
written by interested teachers in the
state are:
A Few Subjects.
County Unit of Taxation.
Removal of offices of county and
state superintendents of public in
struction from politics.
State Text Book Commission
Teachers Retirement Fund.
Longer Tenure of Office in Educa-
tional Positions.
Child Welfare as Related to School
Attendance
Use of Tobacco.
A Local Censor Board of Motion
Pictures to Cooperate with the State
Board.
Begins at A. NJ.
| At o'clock tomorrow morning the
teachers will begin registering and fill
ing credentials. At 10 o'clock resolu-
| lions passed by the association in No
vember will be read and points of or
| der discussed. At o'clock in the aft
| ernoon new measures will be pre-
scented and committees appointed. At
J $50 o'clock in the evening a dinner
| for delegates will be served at the
First Baptist church. At 9 o'clock
Saturday morning the session opens
| with a discussion of the measures in
| troduced. followed by reports of COM
mitteeS md the closing up of unfin-
| iShed business
Some Suggestions.
Il believe the duties of the school
| board should be more fully prescribed
by law and the members be allowed
some compensation" writes U. S. Lloyd
n. A. Baker of Cherryvale. wishes to
| hear discussion on the subject Are
| Our Public Schools Being Used Too
Much as an Experimental Laboratory
for the Theories of Professional Elk
perts?"
E. J. Dumond, of Garden City, sug-
gests that a discussion be heard on
the ACCESSIBILITY of adding to the
course of study for high schools OF
first and second class cities, two years
of work corresponding to that now
| done in the first two years of the
! colleges, thus enabling boys and girls
to remain at home two years longer
Miss Elizabeth Ellis, of Paola, wants
to see school credit for Bible study in
high schools. Hundreds of suggestions
covering every detail of school work
have been received by Secretary Ellis
worth and there is little doubt that
the meeting will be an interesting one
The secretary declares he is not g
candidate for reelection and has nc
idea who his. successor will be. s. M
Nees is slated for reelection as treas
urer; Miss Lillian Scott for president
and Miss Crouch, vice president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-20
WAR COST S78,7OO,OOO


IContinued from Page One-I
ing, about $25,OOO,OO0 a year; from
1886 to 1855, approximately sac, OOO,-
600 a year: in the succeeding decade,
100000, 900; in the thirty years from
1866 to 1895, about 100000; and
than $257 900, 900 per annum, the low
est point being $145,0O0,0O0 in 1898
and the highest 1929, 600 in 1907.
Sugar tobacco, cotton manufactures,
and alcoholic liquors supply about one
half the total revenues derived from
imported merchandise. The duties
collected on imported sugar in the
fiscal year 1915 amounted to $49,0OO,-
0O0 a decrease of $12, 000,0 600 when
compared with 1914. Unmanufactured
tobacco paid duties aggregating $22,-
100000 as against $23,600,00 in the
preceding year; and manufactured to-
bacco, S2,600,000, as compared with
S3,3OO,000 in 1914. On imported cot
ton goods duties collected amounted
to $2O,OOO,0oO; on distilled spirits,
wines, malt liquors, etc, $13, 100000;
and on manufactures of fiber and of
wool, each about s10.00O,00O.
Liquors Pay Highest Duty.
The highest ad valorem rates of
duty paid on the more important
groups were those on distilled spirits
1873 per cent; tobacco and manu-
features thereof, S4.33 per cent; wines,
1856 per cent; malt liquors, 5S.77 per
cent and silk manufactures, 1924 per
cent.
About 5000 classes are shown
separately in the forthcoming booklet,
with particulars as to the rate of duty
and value of the imports entered for
CONSUMPTION.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-20
SPAIN WANTS IN
Preparedness Is Another Step
to Grab Portugal.
Considers England Now Too
Busy to Oppose Plan.

London, Jan. 20.-Every move by
the Spanish government is being
watched closely by the allies, it was
learned today, in view of growing
conditions of unrest in Portugal.
Though officially discredited, the
rumor persisted in London that Spain
is making secret preparations to in
wade Portugal if she thinks England
has her hands full with Germany and
cannot got to Portugars assistance.
Such a course would at once range
King Alfonso beside the kaiser as an
enemy OF the allies
Private advices from Oporto and
other Portuguese cities today de-
scribed internal conditions as CROWN
very serious. The claim is made that
Spanish agents are responsible The
critical food situation and incessant
strikes and riots keep the republic
guards constantly on the alert.
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the gas situation and another reform
in prison management.
Revenues of the stat~ are matters
that need daily care and attention and
big expense items cut enormous holes
in the rather meagre balances of some
of the institutions and departments
Expense for coal and coal burners
means the spending of more money
Already the state has drawn twenty
five per cent of all money available for
the present calendar year. Now the
state faces extra fuel expenses as the
result of a gas reform and the further
necessity of spending real money for
coal because of a prison reform.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-20
WILSON TO COME
Continued from Page One,

peka will probably get one speech and
Kansas City is expected to land a date.
Denver and Omaha each want dates,
but the amount of time which the
president will spend in the west and
the number of speeches he will make
are yet undecided.
When Congress Adiourns.
1T seems hardly probable that the
president will attempt an actual
speech making tour said Thomas
Lillard of Topeka, who has been in
communication with members of the
Kansas delegation and Secretary Tu-
nudity regarding a Wilson date. AS
soon as congress adjourns- or the work
of the session is better in hand, then
President Wilson will probably come
west Kansas will doubtless secure
at least one speech. Topeka would
probably be the logical place for him
to visit, especially in view of the fact
that Il hard fight is now being made
to bring the president to Kansas City"
Should a Wilson date be secured
it is probable that the Democratic
state committee would arrange for a
special state wide gathering of Kansas
Bourbons and the event would be the
feature attraction OF the early cam
paiSn in the state. 1t was in order to
stage q big Wilson demonstration that
plans to change the date of the Demo-
cratic banquet were suggested.