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The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
PLEA TO JAPS IN VAIN
Rumania Needing Munitions But Ja-
pans Supply All Spoken For.

Toxic, Dec. 23.-Rumania, overrid-
den by Teuton troops, has turned to
Japan for help in her time of need.
An urgent appeal from the little coun-
try for munitions has just reached
here with the arrival of Lieut.. Col. G.
Felix and Colonel Petiesco of the Ru-
manian army.
1t is doubtful if Japan will be able
to extend any aid, as all of her surplus
munitions are being purchased by
Russia
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
Admit Films as Mail.

Washington, Dec. 23-Motion pic
ture films are admitted to the mails
by an order today of the postoffice,
effective January 1. Films will go un-
der regular parcel postal rates, but
stringent regulations governing pack
ing have been adopted
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
TO REBUILD HOME
Kansas Masonic Home Board Votes to
Erect $4,000 Edifice.

Wichita, Kan, Dec. 23.-The Kan
here, today decided to begin at once
the erection of buildings to coet
100000, on the site of the home
which was destroyed by fire here early
Friday morning. Aged members of
the Kansas Masonic lodge and orphans
of members of the lodge reside at the
home.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23

A. O. U. w. No. 20: Officers and
members meet at hall at o'clock
Sunday to attend funeral of Brother
w T Schaffer. Funeral service will
be held at Penwelrs chapel
C. G. DAVIS. NJ. W.
J. W. HOLIDAY. Recorder.
{AdVertisement.4
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23

MRS. SARAH Y. DUNCAN 200 on
died this morning at the home Of be,,
son, Charles Duncan, 529 East Fair
child street. The body will be taken
to Winchester, Kan, for interment
Monday.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23

~ Il may seem to some no more than
right that those who start wars
ehould be entitled to stop them.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23

In his effort to bring about peace
president Wilson is acting alone. He
has not even called in Henry Ford.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
TOO LATE IN CLASSIFY

BY Intelligent young man. years. exper
ience as steDographer and also book keen
ing and clerical work; best Of references
Phone 21G2 Red.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
EAST SIDE

Notes and personals from East Side.
by Frances Jones, 211 Grattan street,
telephone between and 10 Il. m, $3.50;
other hours 4751 K-2.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23

WILLIAM T. SCHAEFFER. who
died Friday morning, will be buried
IN Rochester cemetery Sunday after
noon. Funeral services will be held at
3 o'clock in Conwelrs chapel.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23

All Union barber shops will be open
until II o'clock, noon, Christmas and
New Years day-Adv.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT.

New York, Dec 23-The statement of
actual conditions of clearing house banks
and trust companies for the week shows
requirements. This is decrease of 81 3S3-
060 from last week. The statement follows :
Actual condition; Increase
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23

CHARLES MORTON, age Sc. died
this morning at his home, 1925 Wash
burn avenue. Arrangements for the
funeral will be made later.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23

MRS. A. B. POMEROY, age SO. died
Friday night at her home, 1910 Har-
rison street. The funeral will be held
at O'Clock Sunday afternoon in Bonn
gardner's chapel. Interment in Mount
Hope cemetery.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23

Loans discounts,
etc. ............. s., ,344, ,1s3,OoO S1,712.O 600
Reserve in own
vaults (b). 41S942 900 IS 222 600
Reserve in federal
reserve banks. 1S5,91S 900 G259OOO
Reserve in other de-
positaries .... 54.004.OO0 81 04O 600
Net time deposits. 166,0S2, 900 *5242 600
Net demand de-
posits .......... $500, ,T59000 6413OOo
Circulation .....-. 2S. S3S 900 III 600
(b) OF which $352 S51 900 is specie
Aggregate reserve ..............S6 SOS S64 600
Excess reserve. 90.064. .260 1885, ,060
Summary of state banks and trust COM
panies in Greater New York not included
in clearing house statement:
Loans, discounts, etc. .$159 S45, 900 $50 $50 900
Specie ........... 6270O900 S6S 700
Legal tenders.-...- 1905. 100 -142 400
Total deposits. 924.S90,2 200 %5,777. 200
Banks cash reserve in vault. :. 81, 500 800
Trust companies cash reserve in
vaults 30 ZIG. 700
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23

Framed pictures. Il off. Coe Broth
ers.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23

Expert framing. Cut rates. Coe
Brothers.-Adv
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23

INFANT FORTSON. daughter o
Mr.. and Mrs Warren Fortson, dieC
Friday at the home. 72O Haneocl
street. The funeral watts held this af
ternoon at the home. Interment il
Mount Auburn cemetery.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23

Official state Paper.
Official oaper City of Topeka.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23

IJLL LEASED WIRE REPORT
- or THE ASSOCIATED = ESS.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23

SAMUEL BRENTNALL. age 6S.
died Friday at his home, 504 Leland
street. Arrangements for the funeral
will be made later.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-06-30

the news OF the serious illness of h,s
mother. Before his return Mrs. sexsc,,
had considerably improved, bur Wa
still quite low, with some chances :,
her ultimate recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. P. Forde and son
Boyd drove over from Loomis Sundor
ana spent a few hours visiting with
friends. WIN
Mrs. Clara Ruff, of Chicago. arrived
in Oroville Saturday evening. and viii,
visit for some weeks with her brothor
J. S. Hare. D'"o'
Mrs. L. w. Davis has been very sar.
iousiy Ill during the past week bu,
from last reports She was showInp
signs of improvement.
+. s. Taylor now has charge Of tbe
hardware department in the Orovil,e
commercial company's store, assistinp
in the post office at odd times,
From the number OF cars on tho
streets Friday and Saturday one would
suppose about all the automobiles in
the county had collected in town.
From all indications a large num.
Der OF people are going to register for
the land drawing on the CoIyilJo roc.
ervation next month. The event will
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-06-30
+ Nd THERE ON the CURB

r.urth of July next Tuesday.
aver to Loonlis next Tuesday
! p' celebrate at the old camp,
~ pusy Hurlbert of Tonasket,
= visitor in town Thursday
=, local moving picture houses have
ven putting on some swell attractions
recently. .,,. -,
~ nan, Elgin, the old time resident OF
u was registered in Oroville
grdsy last
5sdEnse- came to GLADDEN. the
~ MFR, and Mrs. Peter Sneve
1 1s'ss ' night of last week
, very heavy rain fell in the valley
-, avening. accompanied by sharp
,,ss,ning and heavy thunder
w. y, and Mrs. Fred Ritter and son
!. we're over from Loomis Sun
~ NV visiting for few hours.
s.orse Hawthorne made a business
!. n Oroyille on Thursday.-Oka-
IAN Falls item in the Penticton Her.
aid.
NJ, sexson returned Friday last
~, peardon. where he was called by
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
ARCHITECTURAL SUCCESS
TPittsburgh Gazetfe-Times.

The Graham -Burnham Company of
Chicago, ILL.,, which has constructed
such noted structures as the Henry
w. oliver, Frick, McCreery and the
Pennsylvania Station buildings in
Pittsburgh; the Equitable, Flatiron,
Maiden Lane and Wanamaker. in
New York; the Continental-Comme
cial Bank, Marshal Field store,
Worlds Fair and Speedway in Chi
cago, and the general post office and
Union Station in Washington, has
been given the contract for the struc-
lures which will grace the keystone
State Fair and Industrial Exposition
near Harrisburg, Pa.
The selection of this firm assures
not only absolute fidelity in point OF
expenditures but architectural beauty
as we'll, the latter a most essential
factor in an exhibition, such as the
Keystone State Fair is certain to be.
Although the Field Museum and the
new Union Station in Chicago are tre-
mendouS undertakings which the Gra-
ham-Burnham Company has on hand,
their wonderful field and office forces
are easily able to handle the Pennsylr
vania contract.
The men who compose the Gra-
ham, m-Burnham Company are Ernest
r. Graham, ID. IL. Burnham, Edward
Probt, Howard j. White, Pierce An
derson and Hubert Burnham. The de-
Gliding factor in the Harrisburg con-
tract letting is the monuments that
these six men have erected in the
form of the buildings mentioned in
four of the worlds largest cities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
MANAGING THE CITY
Enterprising Sumter
BY Frederic J. Haskin

of businessman to be a director in
the city government without neglect
ing his own affairs. Likewise, the
purely nominal salary paid makes the
office of commissioner unattractive to
the professional politician.
OF course, it is clear that politics
could creep into even this form of
government. Suppose, for example,
one of the commissioners who helped
to select the city manager demands
that the latter appoint a certain man
corporation counsel. 1t is evident that
the integrity of the city manager will
at once be the test. However, a COM
for certain parts of the public busi-
ness, who has q recall hanging over
his head, and who serves for only a
nominal salary, is far less likely to play
this sort of politics than the council
man who is a professional politician
and responsible to no one.
Nothing more clearly reveals the
changing conception of city govern
ment in America than the way most
city managers are chosen. In the
typical American city under the old
style of government nothing would
outrage public sentiment more than
the appointment of a man from some
other town as chief of police or SUI
perintendent of street cleaning. Yet
most OF the commissions tnat nave
had to choose city managers have
sought all over the United States for
the right man, and taken him where
they found him. No one has felt out
ragged or surprised, for it is the only
logical thing to do if efficiency is the
object.
The greatest difficulty which has
been discovered in the working of
commission government is the jeal-
ousy which springs up between COM
missioners in charge of different de-
partments. By putting one man in
charge of all departments the city
manager plan eliminates all friction
Besides Sumter, Phoenix, the capital
| of Arizona, has commission manager
government. Five other States have
one city each under the plan: Cali
fornia, with Bakersfield; Colorado
with Montrose; Oklahoma, with Col
Iinsville; Oregon, with lie Grande, and
West Virginia with Wheeling. Texas
| leads with five commission manager
cities-Amarillo, Denton, Sherman
Taylor and Tyler. Ohio and Michigan
comes next with four each-Ashta-
bula, Dayton, Sandusky, and Spring
field in Ohio; Big Rapids, Cadillac
Jackson and Manistee in Michigan
Florida has two, st. Augustine and
Lakeland, as has New York with New
burgh and Niagara Falls, and North
Carolina with Hickory and Morgan
town.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
SPANISH IN THE SCHOOLS

IT is to be hoped that the School
Board will adopt the recommenda-
ton that Spanish be made an cleo
tive study in the Technical High
school. Spanish is going to be of
vast value to any young man who in
tends to follow a business calling in
life, and the young engineer or tech
nical graduate who has it at his COM
mand will have a big handicap over
his fellowman who has not. More and
more we of the United States will be
brought into touch with South and
Central America in a business and
professional way, and Spanish is the
language of those countries. The day
is not far distant when the young man
who can write a letter in Spanish will
be much sought after and when
stenographers who can translate Eng
lish dictation into understandable
terms for South American readers will
be paid we'll for their services.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
WOODS A READER

AS BELTS Phi Beta Kappa and a
Doctor of Laws, Cyrus f.. Woods is a
reader as we'll as Secretary of the
Commonwealth.
1. met him one day this week, when
he had come down from Harrisburg.
He was on his way to a bookshop.
What is the best new book?' he
inquired.
Not having written one myself.
couldn't guarantee a correct answer.
But did that discourage him? oh, no!
1T find." said he, that rereading
those favorite tales of ones boyhood
Scott. Cooper. Defoe, Irving-brings
just about as many thrills as it used
to do. That must be why they are
really great books and good litera-
ture."
Secretary Woods defies the canons
of oculists and reads himself to sleep
every night. "It is the acme of lux
ury'' is the reply to the eye mans
protest.-Girard, Philadelphia Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
"sAvE-THE-BoY SUNDAY"

NHICAGO is to observe next Sum
~ day as "Save-the-Bo Sunday"
1t is a reflection on the fathers
of any city when a step like that is
necessary, but "Save-the-Boy is an
appeal that might be raised in any
community, for the need is universal.
Too many fathers are too busy
earning a living for their families, or
getting on in the world, or following
their own inclinations, or riding a
hobby, to pay much attention to their
sons, and the sequel is nearly always
trouble. The father who takes time
TO make a friend of his boy, who
chums with him and shares his
amusements, who induces him to love
good books and good sports and clean
ways of living is not only doing a
service to Society, but he is insuring
himself against the heartaches of
old age that come with the misdeeds
of wayward sons.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
THE WAR ON RUM

Any confessedly well-informed op-
ponent of local option or prohibition
VIII tell you that neither plan reduces
drunkenness or decreases the consump-
ton of Intoxicating beverages. Why
the liquor men and brewers neverthe-
less persist in lighting temperance leg
islation would seem to be a mystery.
When these dealers in wet goods get
together in convention the facts come
out For instance, the Retail Liquor
Dealers Association, meeting at Wash
ington, has just had reports showing
that in 1915 there was a falling off of
100000 gallons in the consumption
of whisky and of 100000 barrels in
beer. If the antisaloon movement can
repeat these results for a few years by
extension of dry territory the business
will be in bad way. There is still
much of it left. however, as the ma
tion's drink bill for 1915 is computed at
So, SOC. .000,0 900.
1t is the current impression among
oldtimers at the national capital that
Washington Is likely to be. voted dry
before the present Congress expires, If
not during 1916. The pressure for a
national prohibition amendment be-
comes stronger every year. Add to
those Senators and members who are
avowedly for prohibition others who
would square themselves with their
people at home and yet not go to the
whole length, and then secure a vote
lumbia dry-and 1t will pass. The
scheme is to have a try-out of the dry
system as applied to larger city than
has yet fallen within the territory of a
prohibition State.
Both the temperance people and the
liquor men realize that the strength of
the "wets" is in the cities and that if
big cities once get into the dry column
and stay there for a considerable period
the victory over the saloon will have
been won. 1t is this feature of the
issue in Congress which gives zest to
the battle being waged by the Anti
Saloon League, and there are few sub
iects of legislation which possess a
more absorbing interest among resi-
dents and temporary sojourners at the
Capital. Senator Sheppard. of Texas. is
determined to have a vote on his Dis
trict of Columbia bill at this session,
and it is possible that the straits of the
Democratic party, with Mr.. Bryan Wig
orously making war on rum, however
peaceful otherwise. may conspire to the
consummation of the dry forces cam
paign in this respect at least.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08

At the forthcoming annual meeting
of the Motor Club of Harrisburg an
extremely interesting report will be
Submitted by the secretary treasurer, ].
Clyde Myton, who has been on the firing
line for the last year in every legiti-
mate movement for the improvement
of motor conditions in and about Har-
1isburg and this district. 1t would seem
10 be proper at the meeting to consider
the proposed Improvement of the high
way from the present terminus of the
State road in the Dauphin Narrows to
the Clarh's Ferry bridge. This matter
is now under consideration by the rail-
road officials, following an important
conference with State Highway Com
missioner Cunningham. No road en-
tering Harrisburg is more urgently in
need of attention than this stretch and
of course, the Motor Club will be found
in active cooperation with all the other
bodies in bringing about the important
changes necessary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
A MODEL TOWN

TIME Telegraph is in receipt OF an
interesting booklet descriptive of
Kaulton, town near Tuscaloosa,
Ala, built to provide housing, living
conditions and physical environment
for the employees of the Kaul Lumber
Company, of Birmingham. When 1t
came to creating Kaulton the company
found the housing problem to be more
than the scattering of some shacks, as
the company, like many others, had
done in the past; the problem was
found to be one of town planning, and
that most of the principles of city
planning applied, although in a minia-
ture way. Therefore, just as the COM
pany would study various arrange
ments and details of it's plant, employ
skilled designers to determine exactly
what ii wished accomplished, would
make plans and do all figuring on
paper before one cent would be
actually expended on construction, so
also with the housing it employed the
services of those who had made life's
study of the work, determined the ad-
vantages to be gained and how best to
gain them.
In building its town the Kaul COM
pany was not restricted or directed by
law. There are as yet practically no
national or State laws regulating the
planning of proprietary towns; it is
still matter of individual license. The
Kaul company approached it's problem
under the law that unselhshness is
generally far-sightedness. 1t directed
greatest energy in securing a scientific
and beneflcent physical town plan,
realizing that a physical foundation
was essential to an efficient system of
social and financial town management.
The employees are enjoying the benefits
OF wholesale cooperative methods the
prize system and thoughtful super
vision are stimulating best social life,
and these are made possible and effect
i've by the scientific and attractive
; physical foundation laid down The
result has been tow nof pleasant and
sanitary houses, good to look at, well
planned streets. civic centers, play
grounds and all else that goes to make
life pleasant in a municipal way.
The company responsible for this
development has proceeded on the line
that a city of homes is good and
happy one.
There is a lesson here for all of us
The family circles of the country form
the links in the chain that make W
the nation. A weakness In home life
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08

IF you have never before been here
you probably think of this as a
sleepy little southern town where
they still hang to the good old tradi-
tions of the. days before the war. AS
a matter of fact, like many another
southern town, Sumter is agressively
up-to-date. 1t was the first city in
the United States to try the manager
plan of government, and after a var
led experience 1t has evolved for it.
self an entirely original city admin
istration, which is a combinations of
the manager and commission plans.
The city manager plan of municipal
government, which originated in this
town, has subsequently been adopted
by twenty-five American cities. 1t
consists in running a city just like any
other corporation. Every American
knows that the only way to run a
bank or a railroad or a pickle factory
or a chain store system is to elect a
board of directors and let them
choose manager for the corpora
ton. He knows that this manager
must be a man of absolute integrity
and great ability that the fortunes of
the concern depend largely upon him,
and that he must be paid a large SAL
ary.
The people who have adopted the
city manager play of government have
simply awakened to the fact that a
city is also corporation in which each
citizen is interested, and that it re-
quires the same expert direction as
all other corporations. They realized
that the old method was fundamen-
tally wrong. 1t you own stock in a
railroad, it would cause you some
alarm to see things placed in the
hands of a committee of ten elected
from among the stockholders on the
strength of their promises of divi-
dends, and absolutely without regard
to their knowledge of railroadinga
Yet that is the way most American
cities are run. The commission plan
of government makes one improve
ment by electing three or five men in
stead of nine or ten, and fixing share
of the responsibility upon each of
them. The city manager plan carries
the analogy between the municipal
corporation and the business corpora
ton to it's logical conclusion by elect
ing q commission which acts merely
as a board of directors and chooses
a single high-salaried manager to run
the city just as bank president runs
a bank.
BY this plan the commission meets
perhaps once a week to discuss the
city's business with the manager. Thus
the commissioners do no detail work
and their positions do not interfere
with their private business. This
makes it possible for the highest type