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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
ONE Third PAY UP
TOpekanS Await Court Decision
on Poll Tax.
City Finances in Fine Shape,
WATSON Reports.

Less than one-third of the male
population of Topeka have paid their
poll tax, according to the quarterly
financial report just completed by w.
H. WATSON, commissioner of finance.
Receipts of poll tax during the quar-
ter total $7,221, less than one-third of
the amount that should normally be in
the fund.
The two-thirds of the male popula-
ton is waiting for a court decision on
the poll tax law. Hundreds of per-
sons claimed it unconstitutional and a
friendly suit was arranged between w.
H. WATSON and Frank Brown to test
the law.
Receipts show that 2,4O7 men paid
their poll tax while more than 5000
held out.
The quarterly report shows that the
city's finances are in excellent condi-
ton, according to Commissioner Was
son. Not a single fund is near the
danger mark. Balances in every de-
partment show that the city officials
have gagged their expenditures close
to the budget allowance for the pc
riod.
The totals of disbursements, re-
ceipts and balances on hand July /
are as follows:
Balances on hand July l, $780,
604.62
Disbursements during quarter,
$3SO,O9132.
O35.23
Balance on hand October /, $685.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
DR.. AKED TO TOPEKA
Minister and Lecturer Will Speak on
Armenians and Syrians to C. of C.

DR.. Charles Aked, minister and lee
turer, will talk before the Chamber
of Commerce, Thursday noon, October
25, on the stricken Armenian and
Syrian peoples. He will speak a the
regular MONDAY luncheon of the
members of the Chamber of Com
merce.
DIR. Aked is now in the service of
the Armenian Relief committee for
Armenian and Syrian Relief and has
now returned from a months lecture
tour in the Pacific coast districts. He
was also a member of the Ford Peace
committee that travelled to Europe,
ito get the boys out. of the trenches
by Christmas" His religious career
includes a pGstorate in Pembroke
Chapel, Liverpool, England; in the
Fifth Baptist church, New York City
Four years after taking the pulpit
in New York as a Baptist minister
DR.. Aked became a Congregation
and accepted the position of pastor in
the First Congregational church. of
San Francisco. He was granted an
indefinite leave of absence from the
California church to take up the Ar
menian and Syrian relief work.
In other sections of the United
States DIR. Aked has been more than
successful in securing pledges for the
fund. While in Topeka, however, no
request will be made for pledges to
the cause, it was stated this morning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
THEY SEEK THE "PIE'
Four Kansas Cities Send Delegations
to Get Detention Home.

Delegations from Wichita. Well
inston, Ottawa and Clay Center are in
Topeka today to present claims for
establishment near their towns of the
new $4,000 state detention home for
women. other delegations are eX-
pected to come later in the week. The
state board of administration is ex-
pected to locate the home sometime
in the next ten days or two weeks.
A number of towns in the Eighth
congressional district have asked Tor
the new state home. At present state
institutions are located in all congress
sional districts except the Eighth. For
that reason there is a strong belief
that the new $4,000 home for women
will go to one of the towns in the dis
trict Mcpherson, as we'll as yelling
ton and wichita seeks location of the
home. ottawa. in the Second district;
and Clay Center in the Fifth district,
have made strong bids. Each of the
towns has proposed site concessions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
OFFICIALS MUST BUY
State House Employees, Also, Asked to
Purchase Liberty Bonds.

State officials and employees expect
to subscribe $4,000 to the liberty
loan fund today. Following a confer
ence in Governor Cappers office this
morning, announcement was made
that every person on the state house
pay roll would be expected to buy a
bond. Purchases already made by
department and office heads will be
credited to the state house fund.
Every state official in Topeka at
tended the liberty loan conference.
All department heads were provided
with blanks with directions to place
subscription orders with all employees.
Every official, every assistant, every
clerk, every stenographer, every
bookkeeper-even the janitors-will
be asked to subscribe. If the employee
cannot buy a bond and make pay
ment in full. arrangements will be
made for monthly inStallment pay
ments. Under the plan announced by
the governor, payments as low as 81
month would be permitted. But no
Stacking will be accepted
I'VE expect everyone in the state
house to buy bond" said the COVER
nor. And 1 believe they will do it,
too. If they cannot pay the amount
of their subscription in full, arrange
ments have been made for installm emit
payments. Sums as low as one dol
lar month will be accepted. 1 be-
lieve we will raise between $4,000
and $4,000 in the state house"
Employees in state institutions have
been urged to buy bonds. State house
subscriptions will be reported tonight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
FIX FAIR PRICE
Illinois Food Administrator De-
ponds on Publicity.
Dealers Who Sell Higher Will
Be Branded as "Unfair..

Chicago, Oct 23.-For the first
time in the history of the United
States a government representative
has fixed the fair price of certain
foodstuffs. H A. Wheeler, food adj
ministrator of Illinois, today an
nounceG the proper price for sugar.
potatoes and flour. Grocers for the
most part have agreed to put the
prices into effect. They are somewhat
lower than recent prices in Chicago
about two cents in the retail price of
sugar.
Prices regarded as fair Will be
published daily hereafter. They are
not compulsory, but it is the icea of
Mr.. Wheeler that unfair dealers
viii be forced into line by publicity.
About twenty other staples remain
to be listed. Canned goods are now
for condensed milk may be announced
tomorrow. Mr.. Wheeler's list gives
the price which the retailer should
pay the middle man, and the price
which the customer should pay over
the counter Other prices for staples
VIII be announced as soon as possible.
Publish List of Prices.
Today's list follows:
Retailer Pays Customer Pays
Flour. well known advertised mill
brands running four bags to the bar
rel
$2.SO@s292 s2.95@$31S
One-eighth barrel flour in cotton
bag, per bag
SLAP $14S S1496$16O
Five pound flour, cotton bags, per
bag
81 a 80 .36@.37
Potatoes, No. l Wisconsin. Mime
sofa and Dakota, per hundredweight-
$3.50 q $3.50 .43@ AZ peck
Sugar, best bulk granulated. per
hundredweight-
$7.65 @$776 .O7% .OS1h III.
Sugar. western cane graduated in
bulk, per hundredweight-
$7.6S 1915 O7s4 POSI- Id.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
AIRS OF THE ALLIES
First Methodist Church Will Give
Unique Entertainment Tuesday.

THE National Airs of the Allies
will be the title of the free concert
to be given Tuesday night at 1880 in
the First Methodist church as a part
of the Rally Week" services. The
early hour is chosen in view of the
mass meeting in the city auditorium.
The concert will be brief and will
be followed by an informal reception
to the parents of the Sunday school
children.
The Junior chorus will interpret
The Campbells Are Comm and the
japanese national hymn. The Senior
and Young Peoples choruses COM
bined will render The MarseiIlaise''
and the chorus parts of Rule
Britannia the verses of which will
be sung by Miss Madeline E. Hopes.
The Sunday school orchestra, Prof.
George Nyman, director. will play
star Spangled Banner" "A Day at
West Point" and "A Group of South
ern Melodies" Mrs. E. H. Anderson,
orsanist of the church will play tn,
Russian National Anthem THE
Italian National Anthem" THE
Maple Leaf Forever" and a group of
Irish melodies.
Miss Edna Coleman will read THE
Wind Before the Dawn" one of the
better poems produced by those who
are writing on the theme of the great
war Her second number will be
your Flag and My Flag"
The audience will sing America
and the Star Spangled Banner"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
OUCH! LUMBAGO!
RUB PAINS FROM
SORE, LAME BACK
Rub Bachache away with small trial
bottle of old, penetrating ''St.
Jacobs OIL"

Back hurt you? Can't straighten
up without feeling sudden pains, sharp
aches and tWinges? Now listen
That's lumbago. sciatica or maybe
from a strain. and you'll get relief the
moment you rub your back with
soothing. penetrating st. Jacobs OIL
ness and stiffness so quickly. You
simply rub it on your back and out
comes the pain. 1t is harmless and
doesn't burn the skin.
Timber up, Don't suffer. Get a
small trial bottle of old. honest st.
Jacobs OH from any drug store, and
after using it just once. you'll forget
that you ever had backache. lumbago
or sciatica. because your back will
never hurt or cause any more misery.
II never disappoints and has been rec
commended for so years--Advertise-
mont
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
WITH NEIL O'BRIEN
Earl Holmes, Former Topekan. With
Show Here Tomorrow Night.

A native son" who jumped from
the vocation of a singer in a Topeka
moving picture house to one of the
premier vocalists in Neil OBrien's
minstrel aggregation will appear with
the production when it shows at the
Grand tomorrow night. The former
Topekan is Earl Holmes, rated as one
of the famous minstrel's principals.
He will be remembered as singing
three years ago at the Cozy theater.
Later he went to Oklahoma and soon
afterwards he appeared with O'Brien.
He was with the minstrels in Topeka
last season
There are great many new faces
to appear in O'Brien's production
Wednesday night. Among the assist
ing comedians are Eddie Ross, Joe
Coffman, Reggy Futch, Joe Willard,
Miller and mccarthy. Major Nowak
and Steve WERNER Vocalists include
James Barardi, Earl Holmes, Eddie
Connolly, Leslie Berry, J. Lester Ha-
berkorn, Chas. r. Wright Earl Har-
rold, Barton Isbell, George Miner,
Waldo Roberts and Fred Mills.
The O'Brien company, it is an
nounced, has been completely reor-
ganized, recostumed and fitted with
new scenery since last S@1r. .fs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
GOOD ROADS CENTER
Auto Club and C. of c. Committee
Plan Big Things for Topeka.

Topeka the center of Kansas good
roads, was suggested Monday night at
a joint meeting of the Topeka Auto
mobile club and the good roads COM
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce
Highways to Omaha, to Lincoln. to
St Joseph, Cawlser City and Kansas
City were all discussed and will prob
ably be chartered by the joint COM
mitteeS within the next few weeks.
The plans call for highways run
ming north and south across the state
and east and west. A thru road from
Kansas City to Cawker City was the
main feature of the committees dis
cussions. The road will follow the
Midland trail from Tonganoxie to
Watson, to Topeka and then to St.
Marys, across the river to Manhattan
and then to Beloit and Cawker City.
Petitions for the highway have been
circulated among the residents of the
benefited districts in all but two coun-
ties. These petitions are now in the
hands of the joint committee and will
probably be handed to the county for
their approval within the next month
The roads will be chartered across
the state on 365s day roads, the COM
mittee maintains. On routes over the
state no poor disjointed roadways will
be part of the plans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23

alleged to have been embezzled Is
spent.
Isn't it a habit among some bank
officers to make deposits in another
name?" asked Hugh Fisher. referring
to the Edwin Stanton incident.
4 can't say that it is replied
Southwick
AREN'T all the Edwin Stanton
transactions on the books of your
bank"
Yes"
McKeever in his cross examination,
delved further into the Edwin stan
ton affair.
You haven't another customer who
has money deposited in that manner ?"
asked McKeever.
NO, I don't think so"
McKeever presented Southw1ck
with an itemized statement that he
had in his hand and asked Southwick
to identify it as the statement he tes-
titled Clark Gresser had shown him
in Schenck's office. Southwick failed
to do SO. He stated that the statement
he had seen was longer and more
items were entered upon it.
Don't you know, Mr.. Southwick,
that this statement is an itemized
statement of the money spent and
Iegitimately earned by Clark Gresser
during the last few years." McKeever
demanded.
Unable to positively identify it,
Southwick was unable to make a spec
cific statement.
Clark Grcsser's Record.
Further cross examination by Nc
Keever brought to light a part of
the defense's side of the case. Ques-
tons were shot at Southwick as to
whether he didn't know that Clark
Gresser was in debt and was still in
debt. whether he had had only two
short vacations in four years, wheth-
err. or not, he knew that the first
automobile owned by Clark Gresser
had been purchased on the INSTALL
ment plan and two others had been
acquired thru trading in the other
machines.
Fl. c. Mckinley, assistant cashier,
was the third witness for the state.
He testified to obtaining a confession
from Clark dresser. He didn't ascer-
tain where the money alleged to have
been embezzled was spent, he told the
jury.
Cross examination of all the wit
nesses revealed that while most of the
cash was handled either by Ed Ores
ser or NJ. F. Southwick, that Clark
dresser had access to the cashiers, or
tellers cage, and handled cash.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
3 MILLION BY SCOUTS
Liberty Bonds Sold by Boys on First
of Four-Day Campaign.

New York. Oct. 23.-Boy scouts of
America in the first day of their four
day campaign on behalf of the second
liberty loan obtained pledges totaling
close to 100000. according to re-
turns received today at the organiza-
ton national headquarters here. This
achievement far surpassed that of the
first day of the scout campaign for
the first bonds, and James E. West.
chief scout executive, predicted that
by Thursday night more than $780,
100000 will have been raised
Reports today from fifty eight
cities and towns thruout the country
showed subscriptions amounting to
$2,9SO,700. St. Louis led with S302.-
200; Pittsburg was second with S1S4,-
$50, and San Francisco third, $131,-
400.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
JAIL MORE PICKETS
-Four Suffragists in Washington Are
Sent to the WOrkhOuse.

Washington, Oct. 23-Four more
White House pickets, among them
Alice Paul, leader of the picketing
movement, have been sent to the dis
trict workhouse at Occoquan. Miss
Paul and DR.. Caroline Spencer of
Colorado Springs were sentenced to
six months, plus thirty days. on two
convictions for ObStructing traffic in
front of the White House gates.
Gladys Greiner of Baltimore and Ger
trude Crocker of hinsdel. Ill, arrest
ed with Miss Paul on Saturday, were
sentenced to thirty days as first Of
tenders. Additional thirty-day terms
were also imposed on four suffra gists
already serving a six months SEN
tence.
Ten of the suffragists were removed
from the Occoquan workhouse to
solitary confinement in the district
Jail. The removal followed their re-
fusal to perform the sewing required
of them at Occoquan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
BELL RINGERS HERE
Noted Swiss Performers To Give En-
tertainment Tomorrow.

The program for the Swiss bell
ringers, to be given tomorrow after
noon and evening at the high school
auditorium under auspices of the To-
peka Christian Endeavor union, was
announced today by Rev. J. p. Hicks,
presid snt. A matinee will be given at
4;30 o'clock and the evening perform
ance will begin at Sis O'Clock. The
following is the program:
Trio-Tth Concerto ........De Beriot
Violin. Cello, Harp.
Cello solo-Traumeri. ............ Schumann
I. L. Georgette.
SaXaphone solo. ......... Popular Ballads
Trio-SeXette from Lucia. go. Donizetti
Mandolin, Violin, Harp.
Mandolin solo-BOstOn Ideal. 49,. Siegel
+. l.. Georgette.
violin solo-Mazurka de Concert=.-Musin
Josephine A. Georgette.
Ocarina solo. Cello Obligato. 80. Selected
Josephine A. and +. l.. Georgette.
Aylophone solo-The American Patrol.
Josephine K. Georgette
Musical Aluminium Tubes. Popular Airs
f. l.. Georgette.
Harp solo-Serenata Italiano. De Rocco
Siguor Miraglia.
Banjo solo-Darkies' Picnic. ....... Brown
+. L. Georgette.
Swiss Hand Bell Trio. ..............
Last Rose Of Summer
-.--.........-...... Irish Airs
Southern Airs
Hungarian Dulcimer solo,. Popular Airs
Josephine A. GeOrgette.
Marimbaphone Duo-William Tell, Pot
:: Josephine and F. L. Georgette
Musical Flowers-La Paloma = Yrad1er
+. L. Georgette
Organ Chime Trio. Medley of Popular Airs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
TAFT MAKES APPEAL
Former President Taft Tells Wall
Street Loan Must Be Raised.

New York, Oct. 23.-Former Pres
ident William Howard Taft Monday
appealed to the financiers of Wall
street to aid in making the second
liberty loan and any future loans
great successes. In opening his speech
the former president paid a tribute to
the German people, mentioning Carl
Schurz Bismarck and others, and
then said:
THE end of this war must be
psychological Here we have peo
pie whose heroic loyalty to their en-
peror and to the cause they have mis-
takenly adopted, of course call for
the admiration Of the world. A peo-
pie obsessed. doctrinated with a false
philosophy. But they are not super
men. They are not above the rules
that govern all men. and what they
need in order to produce the certain
psychological change is a licking. a
defeat"
In asking for the success of the
loan Mr. Taft said:
1T is of the highest Importance in
its effect on the world and in its
psychological effect on the German
people that it should not fail and that
we should subscribe every dollar that
is asked for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
OPEN NOSTRILS! END
A COLD OR CATARRH
How To Get Relief When Head
and Nose are Stuffed Up.

Count fifty! Your cold in head or
catarrh disappears. Your clogged
nostrils will open. the air passages of
your head will clear and you can
breathe freely No more snuffling.
hawking, mucous discharge. dryness
or headache; no struggling for breath
at night
Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm from your druggist and apply a
little of this fragrant antiseptic cream
in your nostriIs. 1t penetrates through
every air passage of the head, sooth-
ing and healing the swollen or in
famed mucous membrane. giving you
instant relief Head colds and ca
tarrh yield like magic. Don't stay
stuffed-up and miserable Relief is
sure.-Adevertiseme
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
Dveine daily. Topeka Laundry Co.

Dyeine daily. Topeka Laundry Co.
Adv.
Social dance tonight at Kellam hall.
ADV.
Harold Corbin, a member of the
headquarters company at Fort Sill, is
enjoying a weeks furlough and is
visiting relatives in Topeka.
Women of the second division of
the First Methodist Episcopal church
will meet Wednesday afternoon at
2:3O O'Clock at the home of Mrs. 6. C..
Bowman, 433 Woodlawn avenue
The special committee meeting of
the Topeka Fanciers' association has
been postponed until Wednesday,
night The meeting was scheduled
for tonight at the Chamber of Com.
merce.
E. H. Hicks. merchant police, was
the defendent of a complaint made
this morning by w. N. Bartlett, special
railroad officer. The complaint was
filed in the small debtors court Bart
lett claims that Hicks owes him $4-25
for services rendered during fair week
Slight damage was reported this
morning from a fire at 305 Quincy
street. The alarm was turned in at
the first station at S:45 o'clock this
morning The cause was given as
a two-story frame house owned by C.
E. BERGEN.
Miss Louisa Duncan Shaffer, public
health nurse. will speak this evening
at the Kansas Avenue NJ. E. church
to the members of the EpWorth
Leagues of Topeka who are interested
in social service work. She will speak
on The Child in the Midst" The So
cial service department has meeting
every Tuesday night for the purpose
of studying social conditions
]. Frank Smith, president of the
Kansas Good Roads association, is in
Reno county this week, where he is
making two talks each day on good
roads. Petitions are being circulated
asking the county commissioners to
call an election and let the people vote
on the question of issuing bonds to
build 154 miles of brick road. 1t is
the plan to connect every town in the
county with a system of hard surfaced
roads.
Distance makes no difference to the
potato growers of Minnesota, accord
| ing to a letter received Monday after
noon by Mayor House from an eX-
mayor of Cohasset, MINI. In that
district the truck gardeners have an
abundance of potatoes but have no
market. The ex-official wished to
know if Topeka merchants could use
Carmen potatoes free from frost, -
if shipped in carload lots. The Kaw
valley potato, the king of the COM
Hluully, lOIlefeQ on us throne Tor only
few moments No reply has been
sent to the potato Bugs of the north
Following Saturdays quarrel at the
Wiburg grocery. Fourteenth and
Quincy streets, Mrs. C. A Wiburg has
filed another petition for a divorce,
the second filed within a year. De-
spite the fact that she admits she
! signed an agreement to never again
ask a court for alimony in her future
divorce petitions. Mrs. Wiburg has
asked for 81 200 and asks the court for
an injunction against. the Wiburg gro
Gerry at Fourteenth and Quincy streets
| to prevent him from disposing of the
property Mrs. Wiburg says the anti
alimony agreement was signed under
duress. Cruelty is alleged in the petit
/ ton and she demands restraining or
/ der Keeping Wiburg away from the
/ premises on which she fS LIVING
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
DISMISS STUFF CASE
Lose Contest Alleging Fraudulent
Names on Petition.

Columbus, o.. Oct. 23.-Citizens of
Ohio will vote on a referendum on the
presidential suffrage question at the
coming November election, according
to decision by the state supreme
court today.
The suit, brought by Ohio suffra-
gists. to have the proposed referendum
on the Reynolds presidential suffrage
act passed by the last general assem-
bly,, annulled, was today dismissed by
the supreme court. This decision ends
a long standing dispute between the
suffragists and anti-suffragist re-
garding the validity of over 10000
names on the referendum petition cir
culated last year. the suffrag ists
claiming that thousands of these
names were fraudulent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
PADEREWSKI WAR JOB
Pianist Quits Concert Platform To
Help Gather Peace Data.

Washington, Oct. 23.-Ignace Pad
erewski, pianist and leader Of the Pol
ish nationalist movement in the
United States, will assist Col. E. NJ.
House in gathering data for use of
peace commissioners at the end of
the war, it became known today
when Colonel House paid another
visit to the White House.
Mr.. Paderewski has established
headquarters in Washington, can
celled most of his concert engage
ments and will devote his time to col
lecting and arranging the mass of de-
tails concerning Polish politics. bust
ness and nationalist ideals, on which
peace conference would need to be
informed before agreeing on Poland's
future status
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
GO TO WORK ON CASE

Today the police began investigating
the automobile accident that occurred
in front of the postoffice Saturday aft
ernoon when Mrs. Clara Nealy, PIT
East Fifth street, was knocked down
and injured by an automobiles who
didn't stop to ascertain how badly she
was hurt. according to stories told by
eye witnesses. Chief of Police Frank
s Harbaugn stated that he had placed
the case in the hands of Detective
Donovan and that a thoro investiga-
ton would be made.
A bystander took down the number
of the speeding car as best he could
This number. it is alleged. corresponds
to the number of a car owned by an
emDlove of the citv.