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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10
HIS BIGGEST DAY
Bob Johnson Has Topeka Sim
ners Coming His Way.
Great Crowds at Every Meeting
at Tabernacle Sunday.
MANY WERE TURNED AWAY
His Sermons of the Practical
Every Day Kind.
Deals Sledge Hammer Blows
at Sin and Hypocrisy.
MANY WERE TURNED AWAY

Sunday was the biggest day thus far
in the Bob johnson evangelist cam
paign at the tabernacle on the East
side. Morning. afternoon and night.
great crowds thronged the streets on
their way to the tabernacle meetings.
ard in the evening long before the
evangelist began to preach standing
room was at premium, and several
hundred people were turned away.
Bob" Johnson is doing some house
cleaning among double dealing hypo-
critical church members, judging from
the three red-hOt sermons which he
preached Sunday. In his own words
he declared that he was not a come
outer, but a stay inner and a clean
upper" The evangelist is not high
flown in his oratory or manner of
speaking, although very fluent in his
command of English. He is practi-
cal in his illustrations and themes. His
points yesterday ranged from home
trade. which he declared he was for.
first, last and all the time" to the
parental religious training of children
Applause repeatedly broke out over
the house at his sledge hammer blows
against sin and hypocrisy.
Mr.. johnson was not slow in show
ing the protesting Christian people of
Topeka, their responsibility beto
God and men, saying that God has
not given the honor and the privilege
of winning the world to Jesus Christ.
to angels, but to us. God has not
chosen us just to warm a pew eighteen
inches square in church on Sunday
morning" Speaking og sleeping church
members kicking when they were
wakened up, he said that he
would rather wake them up mad,
than let them go to hell asleep any
day, and that when you throw stone
in pack of dogs, the one that gets
hit is always the one that runs off a
bowling. God will freeze the ice, but
he won't send angels to cut it. God
will send the sunshine and the rain to
grow your beautiful Kansas crops, but
he won't send angels to turn the sod
for some old lazy farmer" The evan
gelist declared with considerable zest
that while he was here he didn't ex-
pect to please all of the people of To-
peka, because he knew that some
people here did not agree with Jesus
Christ, whom he was trying to please.
NeighbOrhoOd Prayer Meetings.
The work being done by the neigh
borhood prayer meeting committee of
the East side eVangeiStic campaign
is growing in interest. The whole dis
trict has been divided into seven
groups, as follows:
Group boundaries, Santa Fe
shops. east to city limits and railroad
tracks, north to city limits.
Group 2-Boundaries, Shunganunga
creek on the southern and eastern
boundary to railroads tracks on the
western and northRrn boundary.
Group S--Bo undaries, same creek
to Tenth street and east of creek to
California avenue.
Group boundary Tenth street to
Highland Park, railroad to Deer creek
Group Boundary Highland Park
Group 6-Boundary Kansas avenue
to railroad, Sixth street, south to city
limits.
Group Boundary Railroad to
Kansas avenue, Sixth street north to
river.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10
A MOTHER \ J TO EAST
President to Send Unofficial
Ambassador to Orient.
Morgan ShuSter Will Feel the
Pulse of Japan.

New York, Jan. 1o.-The Herald
this morning prints the following
under a San Fran cisco date line:
Col. E. NJ. House is not to be the
only confidential adviser and unof-
son and the state department.
Through shipping men here it was
learned today that w. Morgan Shus-
ter, who achieved worldwide notice
as treasurer-general of Persia, has
booked passage for the Far East,
where he will undertake a secret dip
lomatic mission for President Wilson
in Japan and China.
No details of Mr.. Shusters mission
have been learned in this city, hut
it is reported that his work will lie
chiefly in Japan, from which it is
inferred that he will attempt to i'm
prove matters in the strained rela-
tionship which has existed between
the United States and Japan since tho
days of the anti-alien land law con-
troversy.
Mr.. Shuster will travel also to the
Philippines in the course of his diplo-
matte mission. 1t is understood here
that he will bring home to the presi-
dent a report on Far Eastern at
mosphere" for the future guidance of
tho administration in much the same
way that Col. House is to do in his
European mission. This will include
information on me Philippine queS-
ton and a report on the present sit
uation existing between Japan and
China
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10
GIVE STREET PARADE
ModOc Minstrels Promise Big Feature
Friday.

Special prizes to the audience will
be one of the features of the Greater
Modoc Minstrels at the Topeka high
school auditorium Friday night. jan
uary l 4. The committee in charge has
arranged with several of the mer-
chants in Topeka for the prizes and
they will be exhibited, starting Tues
day morning at the Waggoner & Good
rich drug store.
The Modocs are rehearsing daily for
their part of the entertainment and
promise one of the best amateur shows
ever staged in here. Tickets can be
procured from members of the Modoc
club or from members of the drill
team and band of Capital council No
l. knights and Ladies of Security, and
Financier Candy, 107 West Seventh
street, or from Waggoner & Goodrich
at T31 Kansas avenue.
The comedians in the show will be
Art Webb, Harry Muma, Irwin Snat-
finger and Harry Snyder and Soloists
Paul Van Ness and Frank Robbins,
with an augmented chorus and orches-
ira of thirty pieces.
In the olio or second part, DR.. F. A
ance, and there will be other vaude-
vile acts featuring Jim Doncyson and
his Coonville Cullud Band, an act of
fun and mirth.
Harry C. Snyder is director of the
show and is working hard to make it
a success in every way. There will be
grand street parade Friday noon.
featured by two bands
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10
REXALL men COMING
State Convention of Druggists to Be
Held Here in February.

The ReXan druggists of Kansas, $50
to 200 in number, will be in Topeka
February 5 and 6 for their annual
state convention. Robert Rath of
Dodge City, is president and Roy
Leatherberry, of Emporia. secretary of
the state organization. The principal
speaker of the occasion is to be Thos
b. Wooten. of Boston, formerly presi
dent of the National Retail Druggists
association.
w. l.. Tully and James E. Mac
Farland of the Tully- Mcfarland drug
store, are arranging for the accommo-
dation and entertainment of the Wis
iting drug men, A noon luncheon tho
first day and an evening banquet til
second arc being planned. Prepara-
tions will be made for an automobile
ride over the city. 1t is understood
that Mayor House or Governor Cap
per will be asked to make an address
of welcome.
The last association convention
was held at Salina. last year. Mr.
Tully was instrumental in bringing the
session to Topeka for 1916.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10
FOR INDIGESTION,
GASES, SOURNESS,
o. ACID STOMACHS
The moment ''Pape's Diapepsin"
/. reaches the stomach all
distress goes.
Don't suffer! Eat without fear
of an upset stomach or
dyspepsia.

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taste good. but work badly; ferment
into stubborn Jumps and cause a sick,
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Most remedies give you relief some
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"Pape's Diapepsin" is quick. positive
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You feel different as soon as ''Pape's
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co now. make the best investment
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fer from indigestion, dyspepsia or any
stomach observation-disclosures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10

lowing receipt of a telegram to Gov
ernor Capper from the national pic
ture board of trade, urging the state
to waive its inspection in favor of fed
eral censorship.
Just now moving picture producers
are urging federal law for censor
ship of films. Through the action Of
congress, they hope to escape the in
reference of local censors. The meas
ure for federal censorship is house bill
No 456 and is now on the calendar
for considerations 1t was to deter
mine whether the state would waive
its right of censorship in favor of the
federal inspectors that telegram was
today sent to Governor Capper.
Under the state censorship law. the
work is under the jurisdiction of the
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton. 1t is hardly probable. though
that the state superintendent will
waive the right of state censorship
until action has been taken by the
state legislature in the repeal of the
existing statute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10
STOCK WATERED?
Over Capitalized Is Charge
Against Reorganization.
Oklahoma Commission Halls
st. l.. & San F. II. r. Plan.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Jan. 1O.-A
protest against the reorganization plan
of the st. Louis & San Francisco rail-
way was filed with the Missouri pub
lie service commission today by the
Oklahoma corporation commission.
The protest charges that the reor-
ganization plan as submitted provides
for an over capitalization of more than
100 per cent and asserts that it would
be better for the public interest if the
bondholders were allowed to foreclose
than for reorganization to proceed I'M
der the plan now under consideration.
The protest says that the interest Of
the state of Oklahoma in the Frisco
railroad is greater than that of any
other state because the mileage of the
system is greater in that state than in
RnY other
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10
SETTLEMENT NEAR
Negotiations for Lusitania In
demnity Near Close.
Cant Determine Nationality for
Sinking of Persia.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 10.-Count Won
Bernstortf and Secretary Lansing had
another conference in the Lusitania
case today which both agreed should
be described as confidential.
The am baSSadOr expects to confer
with the secretary again inside of a
week on the subject. That fact is tax
en- by those conVerSant with the status
of the case to mean that Germany and
the United States have approached
point in the negotiations where only
one more exchange between Washing
ton and Berlin will be necessary be-
fore the long controversy is ended.
1t was stated that the next step of
the United States will be to ask all of
the allies of Germany to agree that no
vessels carrying Americans be at
tackled until passengers and crew have
been placed in safety. Exactly what
procedure will be followed was not
revealed. The administration is said
to take the position that as Germany
now has agreed in all the principal
points of the position of the United
States the only thing remaining to
bring the negotiations to a satisfactory
solution, is for her allies to follow her
lead.
The impression grows among ad-
ministration officials that the ma
tionality of the submarine or mine
which sank the Persia will never be
disclosed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10

either came to Topeka or went to
Kansas City subsequent to the killing
Saturday evening Diaz was picked
up at First and Kansas avenue by
Detective Alba and Patrolman Sturm-
Alba remem bered Diazs description.
Alba also arrested DiaZ three years
ago on a robbery charge at Manhat-
tan, he says.
Then the Clay Center police were
notified. They were sorry, but all men
competent to testify in the case were
members of the extra gang and since
August 2S had drifted to the four
ends of the earth, so far as officials
know. Chief Parsons released Diaz
this morning.
Diaz, according to the police, is a
partner of Juan Velasquez, who about
year ago gained much notoriety by
making complaint to the Mexican con-
sui in Kansas City that Topeka Next
cans We're being badly treated by the
police and the sheriffs force
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10
TOPEKANS ON PROGRAM
FARRELL and Rowland at COllinsville
Okla, Banquet

Collinsville, Okla, Jan. 1O.-At a
banquet given by the Commercial club
here today for a delegation of Santa
Fe officials. Superintendent Payson
Ripley made the statement that Col
linsville now has the largest zinc smell
ter in the world. He read telegram
announcing the arrival of a ship load
of ore-400 cars-which had just ar
rived at Galveston from Australia, for
shipment to Collinsville. The cargo
will leave Galveston this week on eight
special Santa Fe trains. Australian
ore formerly was sold in Germany,
but the war forced the producers into
new markets. Ore comes to the Col
linsville smelter from mines in four
teen different states and from Mexico.
Short talks on behalf of the railway
company also were made by j. F. Jar
rell of Topeka, publicity agent. and
Harry Rowland of Topeka. advertising
agent. ]. r. Caudle presided. L. H.
Petit. ]. F. Orr, Clinton Young and DR..
W. E. Smith spoke for Collinsville.
The Eastern Star ladies served the
baQQuet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10
ORDERS SHAKEUP
Commissioner Porter Intro
duceS Economy Plan.
Superintendent CrematOry Will
Be Asked to Resign.
ABOLISH SANITARY SERGEANT
j. A. Ramsey Drops to Rank OF
a Sanitary Policeman.
After It's All Over City VIII
Save $40 a Month.

There is a ''shake-up" in the office
of w. L. Porter, city commissioner.
The office of sanitary sergeant, held
by j. A. Ramsey, will be abolished
J. NJ. Brain, superintendent of the
city sewage disposal plant, will be
asked to resign.
]. A. Ramsey will be offered the APP
pointment as a sanitary policeman.
Clyde TreSner, now listed as book
keeper for all of Porter's departments
will also do the work done now by
the sanitary sergeant. Commissioner
Porter will employ an engineer for the
crematory at higher salary than is
now paid the superintendent but will
also require him to keep the books at
the plant.
The shake-up will cut off one en-
ployee by the consolidation of jobs and
will save $40 a month at the crema-
tory. But the point of saving is not
the one on which Commissioner Por-
ter lays greatest stress. He stated to-
day that he is after more efficiency in
his departments.
Wants an Engineer.
Il want an engineer at the head of
the sewage disposal plant said Por-
ter Il believe it is foolish to burn
garbage Besides burning something
that would be valuable as fertilizer If
properly used We are spending $500 a
year at the plant for coal to burn
water The system followed is not
right l don't know exactly what is
right and l haven't the time to figure
it out. L want some man down there
who will work the problem out to the
oest interest of the city. 1 believe 1
can get an engineer who will know
how to handle the plant for from $50
to 500 a month"
Porter says he can save $500 a year
in the sanitary department by the pro-
posed changes and that he might de-
eide to spend that in doctoring poor
people.
The office of sanitary sergeant now
held by Mr.. Ramsey, pays $65 a month
but under the new ordinance would
pay SIS n month. The job of sanitary
police offered to Mr.. Ramsey will pay
$40 under the new ordinance. The
superintendent of the crematory now
receives SOS a month while the book
keeper receives a like amount. Mr..
Porter proposes to consolidate these
two jobs and pay the man who han
dies them from $50 to 500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10

MOTHER BETRAYED
Father of IIIegitimate Child
Was a Drunkard.
The Offspring Is a Dangerous
Mental Defective.
DE HAISELDEN TO OPERATE
Surgeon VIII Sterilize Boy for
Good of Society.
Foster Mother Tells Sad Story
of Boys Life.
] HAISELDEN TO OPERATE

chicago. ILL.,. Jan. 1O.-In the oper-
ating room of the German American
hospital just below the ward in which
thef deformed Bollinger baby was al
lowed to die two months ago, DR..
Harry ]. Haiselden will operate today
upon George Edward Goss, twenty-one
years old, defective.
The Goss boy. ignorant of the
Significance of the operation. is to be
sterilized as a public subject to which
thessurgeon may point to illustrate his
thepry regarding the propagation of
thekunfit
last night, in the office of the Ger
man-American hospital DR.. Haiselden
discussed plans for the operation with
thief woman who adopted the boy at
birth. twenty-one years ago. The fos-
ter 1nother told of prenatal influences
which doomed George Edward Goss
to Hfe as a defective.
Mother Was Betrayed.
'daIy name is Mrs Georgine Goss. "
thee woman told DR.. Haiselden. Il
Iivesin suburb of Chicago. George is
an allegitimate child. I knew that
WHEN adopted him. His mother was
a BEAUTIFUL girl twenty years ago She
Wasbetrayed by man older than her
self drunkard.
The mother. had two younger sis
ters good girls. and when her parents
discovered that she was to ne
mother they practically threw her out
of khe home She suffered cruelty
Th@.child was born under these condi-
tiors defective through the prenatal
infIpence of cruelty to the mother ana
the alcoholism of the father The boy
Thinks he is still Il years old He has
theE mentality of an eight year old
chih. cannot see him become the
father of another defective. He must
nevAr know"
ISr. Haiselden made a further addi-
ton to his revolutionary creed of med
a. III in a
before the weekly meeting of the Chi
cago Society of Anthropology- In
evitable death of the victims of in
durable ailments. ho said, should not
be painfully postponed by surgical
skill.
LET these sufferers die peacefully"
he said while the physician with
holds the medicine which might pro-
long life for weeks or even months.
"Only a few days ago I was called to
Indiana to attend one of my patients
wah was dying of cancer. I was pre-
pared to operate I could have pro
ionged the woman's life. 1t would
have meant long days of continued
suffering. Otherwise she would die in
a few days She told me that she was
ready to die, that there was nothing
for her to live for. so she died. l did
not operate"
DR. Haiselden also assailed the gov
ernmental inaction which permits vic
Tins of Virulent diseases to associate
with healthy persons.
III we had men like Surgeon Gen
eraf Gorgas in the presidents cabinet,
he Said, perhaps we would spend less
time and money on the prevention OF
theToot and mouth disease among our
cattle and more on the prevention OF
unrhentionabIe diseases which are be-
ing fspread broadcast among the in
nocent women of this country"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10
SISTER OF TOPEkAN
Abraham Shub Called to X. G. Follow
ing Sisters Death in an Accident

Among the two dead and six in
jured-the toll of an automobile that
got beyond the control of its intoxi-
Gated driver in Kansas City. Mo, carly
a sister of Abraham Shub of Topeka.
Miss Shub, who was 10 years or age
and an orphan, was killed when the
car driven by Ralph ]. Gmiley plunged
into a party of fourteen persons of
which she was a member The acct
dent occurred at Fifteenth and Troost
avenues
Miss Shub with her friends was re-
turning from party at the home Of
Max Lipoff of ITO East Twenty-fir
street An excavation for new
building on Fifteenth street near
Troost forced them into the street. 1t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10
To MEET next week
State Educational Council to Assemble
in Topeka Jan. 81.

The State Educational Council of
the State Teachers association will
meet in Topeka January 81 and %,
according to plans made by the re-
firing president, Miss Lillian Scott,
who was in the city this week.
Meeting will be held in representa-
tive hall of the state house, COM
mencing at 9 o'clock. Delegates are
appointed by each teachers associa-
ton over the state and should all be
in Topeka representation of 17S will
be present. Approximately so are
expected to be present. Miss Lillian
Scott, the retiring president will pre-
side over the meeting with B. A Els
worth, secretary.
The policy of the State Teachers as
ISOLATION will be decided at TINS
lens discussed. The council meets
lens discussed. The council meetas
every January.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10
CAFFNEY To N. Y?
RumOr Says Former Braves
Owner Will Buy Giants.
Harry f. Sinclair in the Deal
With Him, IT'S Said.

New York. Jan. 10.-A baseball
deal whereby the New York Giants
Will be sold shortly to a syndicate COM
posed of James E. Gaffney of this
city, Harry F. Sinclair, the Oklahoma
oil man, who was largely instrumental
in settling the war between organized
baseball and the Federal league and
Robert H. Davis. former partner of
Mr.. Gaffney in his big enterprises is
understood to be under way
Gaffney and Davis sold their con-
trolling interest in the Boston Ma
tional club to Percy Haughton and his
associates in Boston Saturday Harry
n. Hampstead. president of the Giants,
has set a price. it is reported, for the
club. which 10 said to be several thou
sand dollars higher than the amount
the syndicate wants to pay. Negotia-
tons on the purchase price are under
way and it is believed the sale will be
announced shortly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10
MOVE To Topeka
Report That Rock Island o. S.
and DIS VIII Come.
Commercial Club Committee
Goes Wednesday.

1t is now reported that the entire
o. s. and D. department of the Rock
Island Lines will be brought to To-
peka to occupy the third floor of the
station building.
This word was brought back to To-
peka Sunday by a Topeka man who
was in Chicago last week. At the
Rock Island offices there the matter is
considered almost certain. The gossip
has not yet been verified. No one in
Topeka seems to know anything about
the case.
The o. S and D. bureau employs a
large number of people. E. B. Whit
in Topeka for the second district, but
he was moved to Chicago shortly be-
fore the landslide took the railway
offices to the four winds.
George B. Hetherington. trainmas-
ter, has moved his office from the
third to the second floor. Today the
third story of the rock edifice is va
cant, with only a gang of workmen
clearing out the rooms once occupied
by a general manager and his assist
ants.
A committee from Topeka will meet
Receiver ]. n. Dickinson of the Rock
Island ednesday afternoon in Chicago
to see about bringing some offices to
Topeka. particularly the car account
ants office, which employs between SO
and so men. The committee met at
the Commercial club today for lunch
and decided the personnel of the
party which will leave tomorrow. In
some cases the members will take
their wives. The committee: C. S.
Elliott, c. L. Mitchell, John Nichol-
son. T E. Whitaker and S. J. Hold
civ