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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-09
SPOTS ON MOON


Continued from Page onel
Miss Vernons connections with the
Congressional union, the affair has
decided significance in Washington
and among advocates of national suf-
frage.
Not for publication-far, far from
| it-there are new spots on the moon
and the women are preparing for a
fight that will in all probability be
carried into the campaign next fall
OF course the women do not care to
divulge these secrets. Yet the idea of
preparedness is gaining converts
among CORNER staunch advocates Of
peace. AS for Miss Vernon-person-
| alities are out of it. Certainly. Also
Mrs. Monroe. Why DR.. Harding is
Mrs. Monroe's physician.
| Il don't want to go into PERSONAL
tiles" said Miss Vernon, who is panied,
crushed: Inundated because of the
attack by DR.. Harding mo sir, L
don't want to be personal. I don't
think 1 want to say anything about it
the horrid affair I am quite certain
don't. But, we'll
Just here Miss Vernon jabbed her
elbow into a fancy pillow and smiled
| her softast, sweetest smile.
I'm My Home Fown-Never''
''If 1 were in my home town where
people know me best, DR.. Harding
wouldn't dare such things about me. I
was never talked about so cruelty in
my life. 1 Just know DR.. Harding
wouldn't dare say such things in my
home town.
IT have no answer to make TO the
personalities in which DIR. Harding has
INDUCED, but 1 would like to clear up
! the mystery as to why am in Kansas,
| an equal suffrage state. The con-
gressional union. which L represent,
works exclusively for the passage of
an amendment to the constitution en-
franchising women. If The amend
ment Is to pass If the present session,
it must have organized support in
| every part Of the country. So branches
of the union have been formed in
every state. The equal suffrage states
are indeed the most important places
| in which to organize, since it is our
purpose to prove to political parties
that the natioral suffrage amendment
| has not only sentiment but respect
compelling the votes behind it,
She Quoted Mrs. Monroe.
Miss Vernon denied emp hatically
that ner purpose in Kansas was to do
/ other than urge the passage of the
suffrage amendment.
Fs Asked concerning her authority for
the statement sent to Washington in
ferring djscou rtesies to Kansas women
by President Wilson and Secretary
Tumulty. Miss Vernon quoted Mrs.
Monroe. who had received the state
rnent second hand and repeated it to
the congressional union representa- tive.
II Take Her Medicine" Mrs. Monroe.
! Over the telephone today Mrs Mon
roe declined to give for publication
/ her authority concerning the presi-
dents remarks while in Topeka She
I also declined to reply to DR.. Harding.
4 T.. why, 1 take her medicine. she is
my physician" said Mrs. Monroe in
most soft and soothing tones. Il
wouldn't make things worse for the
woman for anything. I even want her
to get the congressional nomination.
! Then, too. 1 don't believe in chasten-
ing those you love. / don't like to
l.chasten my friends. even believe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-09
GIVES lie TO PACIFISTS
Approval of Peace Court Refutes
Blood Dividends" Charge.

Washington, Feb. 9.-Addresses on
Commercial Relations Between the
United States and China" by DR..
Wellington Koo, the Chinese minister,
and "a Business View of Peace to
Come" by Edward A. Filene of Bos-
ton, a member of the executive COM
mittee of the International Chambers
of Commerce had the attention of
delegates at todays session of the an
nual convention of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States. In
presenting a partial survey of condi-
tions expected to confront the United
States at the end of the war, Mr..
Filene declared that the chambers re-
cent referendum approving the pro-
posal that the country take the initia-
tive in the establishment of an inter
national court to settle the disputes of
nations has effectively given the lie"
to the charge that 1.-The chief interest
of American business men in the war
is the chance it gives then to coin the
agony of Europe into increased divi-
dends.''
Mr. Filene said it was the clear duty
of the United States and the states of
South America to take steps to COM
plete a Pan-American program which
will include international arbitration
with power behind it to enforce it's
GneratiOn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-09
SALES ARE Different
Merchant Should Consult Lawyer, Gill
man Tells Association.

Lawrence. Kan. Feb. 9.-lt is not so
important that merchant know the
law as it is to know when to consult
asIawyer. Pros Stephen W. Gilman. of
the University of Wisconsin, said in his
TEXTURE on the Law of Sales" this
morning to the 500 Kansas merchants
attending the short course.
9"There is a distinction between an
absolute sale where ownership passes
even though the price is not paid and
unconditional sale where ownership is
not 70 pass until the happening of
some event.
GIN every agreement here must
legally be an offer and an acceptance.
I3ven in cases where no words are used
there are various forms of implied
promises applicable in connection with
various ordinary transactions in retail
merchandising.
lille also brought out the distinction
between sale and a contract.
""The sale Of goods is an agreement
whereby the seller transfers owner
ship in property to the buyer, whereas
al contract to sell Is an agreement
whereby the seller agrees to transfer
the ownership and property. In the
first case the risk of destruction by
lire or other contingency is upon the
one who buys. whereas in the second
case that risk is borne by the one who
has not yet transferred the legal title"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-09
new AUTO DANCER
Four Unconscious, Eight Sick
From Gas Poisoning.
Oil Heaters in Bus Probably
We're Cause.

st. Louis, Feb. 9.-Four persons
were made unconscious by automobile
poisoning and eight others were made
i'll today while making the trip in an
automobile bus running from Gumbo
to Clayton, st. Louis county.
The driver, Chester Colver, fell
from his seat unconscious. Fred
Hackman, a passenger, took Colver's
place at the wheel. Before he could
drive the car to Clayton, three other
passengers fell unconscious, and eight
more became IL.
The three unconscious pa ssengers
We're given medical attention when the
bus reached Clayton and they quickly
revived. Colver, however, was not re-
vived for thirty minutes.
The body of the bus is completely
enclosed, and the vehicle is heated
with two oil stoves. -a
Today the passengers noticed that
the driver was acting queerly, he re-
fused to take two fares that were Of
fered him, drove near the edge of the
road, and permitted the car to run in
a zig-bag course. 1t was apparent
that Colver was ill, and just as Hack
man offered to relieve him. Colver fell
unconscious.
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.SPURNS GERMAN OFFER
,Continusd from Page one.l


the vatican, says the newspaper, has
not been aScertained.
1t is said that Germany through
Prince Won Buelow and other prom
inent personages has stated that the
terms she is ready to. offer Belgium
for the concluding of a separate peace
comprise the restoration of Belgium to
the government of King Albert and
the payment of a large indemnity for
damages caused by the invasion and
the occupation and that she asks in
return, economical and commercial
privileges which would practically
transform the port of Antwerp into
a German center of traffic.
To these proposals Belgium replied
with a prompt refusal, declaring in
tention to adhere to the allies and not
to conclude a separate peace. State
mentS regarding efforts being made to
induce Cardinal MERCER to use his in
fluence in favor of proposals for a
separate peace have also been made,
but it is asserted that they have been
entirely in vain. Cardinal MERCER
is living IN strict retirement at the
house of the Redemptorist Fathers in
Rome where he receives no visitors
and where he is recuperating from an
attack of grip.
Cardinal MERCER is occupied in
working out plans for the re-constitu-
ton of the ecclesiastical seminaries in
Belgium in accordance with the pro-
visions of the new Roman congrega-
ton which has been appointed by
Pope Benedict, to take charge of SEM
inarieS throughout the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-09
TO SUCCEED WILSON
Allen Botsford Is Made Editor of
Federal Prison Paper.

Newspaper men confined in the fed
eral prison at Leavenworth are rev
and far between but those who find
their way behind the prison walls are
always good men from a professional
point of view and the loss of Charles
NJ Wilson, former Hearst reporter and
editor of the Federal Prison New Era,
isn't going to cripple the editorial staff
so much after all Charles NJ. Wilson
was paroled Saturday after serving
nearly two years for white slavery.
Now Warden Morgan has appointed
Allen Botsford of Cincinnati editor of
the paper. Botsford worked under
John R. Mclean, publisher of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, and then began pub
fishing the Owl. 1t was while Bots
ford was publishing the latter paper
that he became entangled in the law
and received a sentence for misuse of
the mails
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-09

that you can't call a person everything
and then expect to hold. their friend
ship
Mrs. Monroe was told of conflicting
reports concerning the reception of
Kansas suffrage workers by President
Wilson
Certainly" was the kindly re-
Spouse. Certainly. 1t really seems
that a lot of people ought to read the
poem of the blind men who went to
see the elephant
Word From Home Town"
From Wilmington, Delaware, came
defenseS for Miss Vernon. 1t was
stated in Topeka today that Miss YER
non had solicited statements from
representative business men of her
nome town in an effort to counter the
tight directed by Dr. Harding. Ar
thur {. Davies, news editor of the Will
mlngton Evening Journal, today sent
me state journal this endorsement of
Miss Vernon:
Mabel Vernon attacked by suf-
tragfsts not agent of political
organization. Straight out con-
gress1onal stuff. Has done great
work in east everywhere. Re
spected daughter of deceased Will
nIlngton, Della, newspaper editor
owner Attack an outrage"
80 back in Wilmington-Miss Yer
nonS home town-the gossip of the
row among Kansas women is also a
matter of concern.
Calling DIR. Harding.
In Topeka today the party telephone
lines are heavily loaded with CONVEX
sation. 1t is all because Miss Vernon
came to Kansas. In the office of DIR.
Harding, the telephone bell jing.es al
most constantly. Since the first pub
LEGATION of her interview in the State
journal, DR.. Harding has been a busy
woman. She has received scores of
offers of support in her fight on the
Vernon-Monr organization. And
some of the parties at the other end
of the line expressed a quite different
sentiment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-09
SAVES KANSAS AGAIN
The Rev. Festus Foster Censors Anna
Holds Show.

AS though Kansas needed someone
to revive the days of grasshoppers,
drouths, Populism, Mary Elizabeth
Lease. ''Sockless" Jerry Simpson and
the more recent Cones ''patella" bill.
the Reverend Festus Foster has
stepped into the breach. Now Anna
Held, the actress, is willing to take
oath-in tipping, ripping French ac-
cent-that all the legends of Kansas
VaSarleS are eNemplified in the action
of the Reverend Mr.. Foster in reject
ing the Madame La Presidente" film
Continuing his course of guiding
and safeguarding the tender morals of
Kansas. the Reverend Mr.. Foster re-
jected the new French film in which
Anna Held starred This week Anna
Held is appearing in q Kansas City
theater. II the Reverend Fostering
Foster-using the appellation of a
number of disguised Topeka club
women-should visit Kansas CITY this
week, Anna Held will put reverse Eng
lish on her speech when she tells the
personal representative of. w, D. Ross,
state superintendent Just what she
thinks of his action.
Sliced the Film
Several days ago the Reverend Fes-
tus Foster felt that a moral shock
was about to overtake Kansas So he
sliced about 100 feet of Anna Held's
best work from the popular French
farce in, which Fannie Ward made a
nOtaDle success 1t was all done, of
course, to safeguard innocent unso-
phisticated, pure minded Kansas
from blush of shame. When Anna
Held heard of the action, though, she
shrugged her alabastine shoulders
under cover of cOurse-and reaffirme d
a growing impressionithat The vagaries
of the human mind are quite beyond
the realm of worldly knowledge.
Il am sure" she said, as only she
could say it, I do not know. It eas
unknowable, monsieur, re vagaries of
Ze human mind. l assure you, zere
is nothing shocking. l do not, I never
have, monsieur, played re shocking.
II eeS so commonplace 1 cannot under
stand. A leetle lingerie here, leetle
eXuberance there, and perhaps a dar-
ing sltuation-zat ees all.
But, items, 1 am Parisienue enough
I do not need re situa ton; I can make
angling wicked if 1 choose wiz my eyes
what cannot behave. eh. and other
zingz but nozzing like that in Madame
La Presidente:' not a ling
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ment of the 1913 case, Thorne said
Brandeis outlined to him how the arr
guments would be made.
Conceded Enemy's Case.
When he first received a copy Of
Mr. Brandeis's brief, Thorne said he
was surprised to find nothing in II
about adequacy of rates. He asked
Brandeis what his position was to be
and the latter responded he believed
some of the roads were not earning
enough money and he thought condi-
tons were unsatisfactory in Ohio,
Michigan and Indiana.
''At the opening of Mr.. Brandeis's
oral argument he made this state
ment." continued Mr.. Thorne, read
ing from the record:
- ON the whole the net income and
net operating revenue in official clas-
sification erritory are smaller than
are consistent with their prosperity
and the welfare of the public and con-
ditions are bad in central association
territory, and also other roads be
cause of the central association
scales
Il was simply dumfounded by the
statement" declared Thorne. For
four years the railroad had been
fighting to establish that before the
interstate commerce commission. They
had carried on a nationwide propa-
ganda in newspapers, magazines,
speeches and in every conceivable
manner. l am not saying dishonesty.
Involved $4,000, 900.
Il was dumfounded to hear at the
conclusion of this great case. involV-
ing $50,000,0O0 annual interest on a
billion doIlars-if you adopt the
standard of dollars and cents-the
greatest case ever tried before a hui
man tribunal since the dawn of civ
iliZation, to hear counsel concede the
very point at issue at the time the
case was set down for argument"
Witnesses summoned to testify in
Guided: Clifford Thorne of the Iowa
railroad commission; S. w. Winslow.
president of the United Shoe Machin-
cry company; 2 J. Lennox, James j.
Storow and G. w Barron, Boston
Thomas c. Spelling, New York; Je-
seph NJ. Teal, Portland, Ore, and
Lieut.. Gov. John NJ. Eshleman, Cali
fornia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-09
FR0WN ON RAISE
Coal Operators Say They Can't
Increase Wages.
Miners Demand They Get In on
General Prosperity.

| Mobile, Ala, Feb. 9.-Operators and
organized mine workers from western
Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana and Hi
nois resumed their joint wage confer
ence here today. taking up the discus
sion where it was broken off by ad-
journment yesterday when business
conditions in the soft coal mining
country were being considered. The
operators, instead of accepting the de-
mands made by the mine workers for
an increase in wages, offered to renew
/ the present wage scales On April L.
The coal companies today maintain
ed their position that business condi-
tons in the bituminous coal field did
not justify the mine workers asking
for an advance in wages, while on the
other hand, the United Mine Workers
pointed out that prosperity was gen.
eraI and that it was being felt in the
| coal business as well as in the steel
and other industries.
Reject Eleven Demands.
/ The demands formulated by the
! United Mine Workers of America at
their recent convention at Indianapolis
We're today formally rejected as a
whole by the operators of the central
competition bituminous coal fields and
the joint conference of employees and
| employees at once took up for dis
cussion the eleven demands sep
arately. This is the usual Formally
| following in the interstate conferences
/ The first demand taken up provides
that all coal be weighed before be-
| ing screened and be paid for on a
mine-run basis This is one of the
most important on the list. President
John P. White, of the miners' union,
urged the adoption of the request on
! the ground that it is the only equit-
able basis for the payment of what
the miner produces.
! Former state senator William
Greene, international secretary of the
miners organization and author of the
Ohio anti-screen law, repealed in that
state recently, commended that the
mine-run basis of payment was an
advantage to both operators and
miners, in that it resulted in the pro-
! duction of more coal per acre than II
| the fuel were screened.
He was of the opinion, he said.
| that a majority of the operators in
| Ohio were not opposed to mine run.
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WARNS PRESIDENT

Continued from Page One.)
made public, it is understood to have
emphasized three conditions he found
to exist in Germany. They were:
The the Berlin government, in
the instructions IL was then for
warding to Ambassador Bern
storff. was making its final con-
cession in the Lusitania negotia-
tionS.
Finds Bad Feeling.
That as a result OF the feeling
against America for its stand in
the case, there was a growing de-
mand on Won Tirpitz by the min
GRITTY for return to policy of
unreStPained submarine warfare
on all belligerent ships.
That severance of diplomatic
relations between the United
States and Germany would in
evitably result in war.
The House. cablegram actually
reached the president while he was in
st. Louis. 1t was in code and was
not decided until the president reach
ed Washington last Friday afternoon
Coincident with the delivery to the
president of the House cablegram, he
was handed a communication from
Secretary Lansing, said to include re-
ports from Ambassador Gerard, re-
garding the latter's knowledge of Ber-
Inns last word"
Corroborate House View.
Gerard's reports. it is stated, were
pessimistic as to the outcome in the
event of President Wilson not accept
ing Bernstorffs instructions as basis
for settlement
The president is said to have beer
deeply impressed with Gerard's COM
munication. 1t was confederation OF
Gerard's gloomy outlook and the
House report that decided the presi-
dent and Secretary Lansing to an
nounce to the country that the situa-
ton was grave. They were convinced
Germany would offer no more.
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A DOUBLECROSSER



to the interstate commerce commits
sion conceded that the returns were in
consistent with the prosperity of the
railroads and the welfare of the public.
81 Was Dumbfounded.'
81 was simply dumbfOunded," de-
clared Thorne.
At the beginning of the hearing the
subcommittee voted down a proposal
to have the full committee hear the
case. That was regarded by some as a
first victory for Mr.. Brandeis, on the
ground that the subcommittee was
favorable and the full committee hos
tile. The full committee, however, will
act on the subcommittee report, and
senators who are not on one side or
the other protested to see no particular
significance in the action.
Mr.. Thorne said he was uncertain
how far he should go into details, but
began a review of proceedings in the
big rate cases. Mr.. Brandeis, he said,
characterized his testimony as won
derful'' and suggested it be published
at once, so the public could see the
other side of the question. Thorne
said he suggested that Mr.. Brandeis,
in view of his intimate relations with
Senator LaFollette, might get the testi-
mony printed as public document.
Cites a 1910 Case.
Mr.. Thorne interrupted his nara
tive to say that in the 1910 case Mr..
showing "if the railroads are entitled
TO more revenue, how shall it be Sc
cured ?"
Returning to a description of his
testimony he declared he was con-
graduated upon it by attorneys and
representatives of many interests Mr..
Brandeis and he participated in cross
animation of railroad witnesses and
their relations were most friendly
During the progress of the case, Mr.
Thorne said, two attorneys sought to
show the adequacy of the railroads
revenue as a whole but the clients of
both compelled them to abandon that
course. He read from Mr.. Brandeis' s
brief to show Mr.. Brandeis knew two
points were before the commission for
consideration, first, adequacy of the
revenue, and second, if inadequate
how additional revenue could be Sc
cured.
When it came time for oral argu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-09
ROYALTY TO FARMING
Danish Prince, Cousin of Greek King,
Prefers Canadian Wheat Fields.

Chicago, Feb. "a prince of Den
mark, on the way to Canada to take
up scientific farming of northern
wheat fields. registered today as
tErikson. Copenhagen" at a Chicago
hotel He refused to meet newspaper
men, but a friend with whom he was
travelling, Axel c. p. Wickfield, said
that the agricultural field was the sole
object of the visit and that the name
of the prince was Erik Frederick
Christian Alexander. nephew of En-
press Alexandra of Russia. son of the
vice-admiraI of the Danish navy and
cousin of King George of Greece and
King Christian of Denmark.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-09
DEPUTIES Are NAMED
Tax Assessor Prepares to Begin Work
March I.

Deputy county assessors to begin
work March 1 have been appointed by
:. H. Haynes, county assessor. A
school OF instruction will be held at
Mr.. Haynes's office during the last
week of this month. The following
deputies were chosen: A. T. Daniels,
w. 7. Dawson, A NJ. Russell Edith
E. Bush, George Young, w. H. Will
liams, Minnie NJ. Maze, f. H. Helm,
b. G. Walker, II. Clay Bowen, J. S.
Langston, r. NJ. McGaw. George w.
Adamson, Katherine Barker. D. NJ.
Mitchell, S. w. Mcknight, f. NJ. Cock
rell. ]. F.. Collins, II. l. Monroe A. L.
Van Antwerp, J. II. Johnston, A. w.
Mauney, Elmer r. Johnson.
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CAN'T 'GERMANIzE' U. S.
General Miles Scouts Continental Army
Plan; Praises Volunteers.

Washington. Feb. 9-Lieutenant
General Miles. retired. denounced the
continental army before the house
military committee here.
at would be a very dangerous step
toward Capitalization, that would put
tremendous power in some future
president, he said. It's un-American
You cannot Germanize American citi-
zens."
General Miles praised the national
guard, declared compulsory military
service unnecessary, favored three year
enlistments, recommended a standing
army of 40, 600 or 10 900 and submit
ted an army organization plan of his
own for recruiting q force of 1000. 600
men by expanding the units of organi-
zaton. He said the national guard
should be organized the same way. He
said it would be easily possible to raise
1000. 900 men if necessary in a reason
ably short time.
Volunteer superior Soldier.
General Miles said the conscript was
not as good a soldier as the volunteer.
He said that the United State was daily
manufacturing more war materials
than any two nations abroad are using
in the same time and that the expert
ence in the Dardanelles shows that
guns aboard ships are no match for
Notifications and submarines.
Overseas expeditions" he said, al
ways have been very expensive and as
a rule disastrous To cross the Allan
tic or Pacific oceans to land in the
United States would be very serious
undertaking"
An enemy he said, might be able to
put a force of 400, 600 men on its ships
but would never be able to land that
number on United States shores.