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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-25
SANTA FE HELPS
Offices VIII Furnish 100 Men to
City'S Home Guard.
Will Uniform and Equip Own
Men Who Join.

Four companies of home guards
will be raised before winter in Topeka.
according to Art Hargis, who is in
charge of the organization, and they
will be completely equipped and thor
oily drilled The four companies will
be comprised of 100 men each, ac-
cording to his statement.
Already more than 100 men have
enlisted in the organization and are
active in drills and marches. Fifty
more men fully equipped and uni
formed have been promised from a
local business house. The Santa F'e
offices have secured the names of ar
plications of more than 100 men from
among the office forces of the build
ing. These, according to Hargis, will
probably be uniformed and equipped
by the different offices.
The home guards meet twice each
week for drill. They have been set
ting up" on the state house grounds
and marching about the streets of the
city. New plans for their drilling call
for regular army drills, probably on
one of the public parks of the city
marches during the week end and
active home protection.
The home guards will meet Sun
day morning at 1870 o'clock at Tenth
and Kansas avenue. The men will
march to Gage park where the Off
GERS will conduct a training school of
military formations
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-25
NEW JUDGE is NAMED
Shelby c. Brown Succeeds j. w. Fin
lay Who Goes Into Army.

Governor Capper today appointed
Shelby c. Brown, of Chanute, as judge
of the Seventh judicial district to sue
coed Judge James w. Finlay, resigned.
The district comprises Neosho and
Wilson counties.
Judge Finlay, who was one of the.
most widely known Kansas district
judges, resigned recently when he was
commissioned as a captain in the ma
tional army. Judge Finlay waived a
long term on the bench in the Seventh
district in order that he might enter
the army service. He attended the
officers training school at Fort Riley
and left the school with the rank OF
captain. He will go to Fort Riley
next week to begin the training Of
conscripts.
Appointment of Brown as district
judge met with unanimous endorse
ment in Neosho county. All members
of the Neosho county bar association,
all newspapers and a number of or
CARNATIONS endorsed his candidacy.
Wilson county presented names of
four candidates who received divided
support in their home county. Brown
was formerly city attorney of Chanute
and is recognized as a lawyer of abil-
ity. Judge Leander Stillwell presided
in the Seventh judicial district for a
period of thirty years preceding the
election of Judge Finlay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-25
IN FRIENDLY SUIT
Poll Tax Law Will BE Tested In Su-
premc Court.

Arrangements for bringing a friend
ly suit into the supreme court to test
the constitutionality of the poll tax
law, imposing poll taxes on all city
residents in Kansas, excepting Kansas
City, Kan, were made today by George
P. Hayden, city attorney, s. M. Brew
ster, attorney general, and Fred Jack
son, attorney for the anti-poll takers.
All persons concerned are anxious to
decide upon the laws constitutionality
as soon as possible.
Under the arrangements made,
number of the anti-poll takers will
appear in a few days at the office of
W. H. WATSON, commissioner of fin
ance and revenue, and pay their tax
under protest. WATSON will then place
the money collected in the hands of
the city treasurer.
Next. the city attorney and attorney
general will file a petition in the SUI
preme court asking for a writ of man
damus compelling WATSON to place
that money in the public road fund.
That'll bring the professors into the
case and they'll fight the law on the
grounds of its alleged unconstitution-
ality.
ITS much better and cheaper for
all persons concerned to go direct to
the supreme court than to drag the
case thru the district court and then
up to the supreme court" said Mr..
HAYDEN, today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-25
BURN HIS GARBAGE
National Hotel Proprietor VIII
Not Give 1t Away.
Announces He VIII Fight New
Ordinance of City.

Rather than submit to the provi-
sions of the new garbage ordinances.
Horace Humphreys. manager of the
National hotel. will buy a garbage
burning plant and burn every dollars
worth of garbage collected at his no.
tel. ANNOUNCEMENT of his intention
to fight the new garbage ordinance to
the bitter end was made today by Mr..
Humphreys.
Humphreys declares that the en-
forcement of the city ordinance will
deprive him out of hundreds of dollars
every year. Independent garbage
men collected it and paid him good
money for his garbage. The install
lation of the plant will cost him sew
eral hundred dollars, Humphreys add
mits.
I'D rather spend the money than
| give it away to some one who forces
! me to do it." said Humphreys. THE
/ scheme worked out by the city for a
! wholesale collection of garbage is un-
| fair.
Can't Use Streets.
THE garbage in this hotel belongs
| to me. They would take it away
| from me, over my protest. 1 have
/ been making money out of it, selling
! it to garbage men.
Now the city goes into a contract
| with an Out-of-town concern to turn
| all the garbage over to that concern.
| These out-of-town people take my
garbage, that l made money out Of
i and feed ii to their hogs. They. in
/ turn. make money out of my garbage
ana l get nothing.
The city won't permit me. or any
| one else excepting the Mid-Continent
Hog company. to haul garbage. II
makes no difference If we are willing
to haul the garbage in sanitary air
tight wagons, or not We can't use
| the streets to haul garbage.
| We'll, the city can cheer up. I'll
| not use their streets. I'll buy a gatb-
age burning plant and burn it up right
here on my own premises.
City commissioners admit that the
enforcement of the garbage ordinance
will impose hardships and loses on a
few. But, they declare, that the
scheme in its entirety will work more
benefits for a majority than hardships
on a minority of the population. y
Many Unsanitary Places.
Garbage men have been the bane OF
Commissioner Porters existence for
years. Maybe a few of the garbage
men kept their wagons sanitary and
kept clean hog pens. But a majority
Porter declares. were unsanitary and
hauled garbage just where 1t was q
paying proposition and let the remain
der of the Topeka residents whistle fol-
a garbage man, or pay to haul it away
All garbage is collected free in the city
since the city has gone into a contract
with the Mid-Continent Hog company
, which collects garbage and feeds it tC
hogs penned on a farm near the city
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-25

Short black velvet coat with transpar-
ent sleeves of black chiffon. 1t is
worn over a dinned gown.
making houses are turning out very
good looking coat suits for the early
September days
The reason behind this extraordi
nary condition is that the entrance of
America into the war and the economy
cry which scared so many merchants
impelled them to throw their goods on
the bargain counters before wor1e1.
had really ordered their best summe
frocks. And not knowing what else t.
do, they have turned to autumn fash
ions as a means of persuading women
into renewed interest in clothes.
AS a rule, America waits until Au-
gust to get her first importations of
velvet garments All the fashion re-
sorts of Europe exploit the velvet hat
and wrap on the first day of August
1t has never before happened that
America has given felt and velve' to
her women in June.
The shops are now filled with shor-
velvet coats in every color, from Man
DARN yellow to Vatican purple. They
are offered as a substitute for the
knitted sweater of wool or silk, which,
altho everyone knows it is not in the
first fashion, continues to be sold by
the thousands.
The Velvet Evening Coat.
There has been a disposition among
women to feature the straight line
from shoulders to knees in odd and
eccentric ways. Whenever they do nor
care to adopt the gown worn by Mrs.
William Faversham. known to the
stage as Julie Opp, which is a straight,
Alma -Tadema garment of wondrous
brocade, then they adopt wraps and
coverings and transparents capes to
serve as a background for whatever
curving silhouette the frock itself may
present
The sketch shows a novelty .-oat
worn at a dinner party. The woman
who designed it thought herself qrite
clever to introduce the transparent
chiffon sleeves, for their fra gility kept
the velvet coat from appearing I'M
seemly and heavy.
The velvet is that deep, dull black
which the dyers have produced in an
admirable way and which was frs: in
troduced in interior decorations for
portieres and carpets.
All fabrics of today have a depth
and dizziness that may be character
istic of the desire of women not to
sparkle too greatly in this time of de-
preston.
The coat is cut on straight lines
with nothing in the way of ornament
and the 1870 sleeves of black chiffon
float widely out at ,he wrist and are
finished with a three-inch puff. There
is frill of this chiffon al the neck
line of the coat. but some women omit
this. for they like the ink blackness
of the velvet to rest against the daz-
ZiinP Wilderness nf 10 SEi-1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-25
HALF And HALF
Clark Would Pay for War in
Equal Bonds and Taxes.
Descendants May Have War of
Own To Attend To.
CITES CIVIL WAR MISTAKES
Would Thwart Money Gamblers
by Limiting Bond Issues.
No Reason Why Paper of Ma
ton Should Go Below Par.
CITES CIVIL WAR MISTAKES
BY CHAMP CLARK.

(Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives.)
Washington, Aug. 25.-The expenses
of this war. in my Judgment, ought to
be paid on the basis of about fifty
per cent bonds and fifty per cent tax
alton. l think this generation ought
to pay this war debt and not bequeath
to our children, grand children and
great-grInd- children, because they
may have wars of their own to attend
to. There is another thing about it
if we issue an undue proportion of
bonds the money gamblers are going
to put the bonds below par.
During the Civil war they went
down on one day to 80 cents on the
dollar and for more than a year
they stood at between 40 and so cents.
OF course, they had to be paid at their
face value.
The Plans of Civil War.
Secretary Chase started in 1861 to
run the war by issuing bonds. They
had not devised the internal revenue
system then, so he raised, or had
raised the taxes on whisky and i'm
ports as much as he could in order to
get enough money by taxation to pay
the interest on the bonds and the
ordinary expenses of government and
at the same time set aside a very
small sinking fund; but the bonds
went down with such a rush that on
the fourth of July. 1852 they passed
the law creating the internal revenue
system, the chief feature of which
was a 50 tax on whisky and in the
year after they got that law into full
operation they raised 1911, 100000 in
internal taxes. If Chase could have
got the law started a year sooner
bonds never would have gone down
very much below par.
The only reason that there has not
been four or five years when there
was no national debt was because in
Buchanan'S administration they ac-
cumulated a surplus in the treasury
and congress passed a fool law. Only
Senator Benton denounced it as ar
it was
Divided Surplus.
The government divided the surplus
among the states in four annual in
| stallments. In 1916 the Mexican wal
began and we started a new flowing
debt and we have had one ever since
| The chances are we shall continue tC
have one when Gabriel blows his
| trumpet.
When this war began the public
debt was about $1,1O0.0 100000 and il
| would have been paid off long age
| had it not been for the fact that the
| National bank notes wers based or
| United States bonds and. If they ha6
| paid off the bonds, it would have cur
and there would have beer. a panic
| Every dollar of National bank notes
| has a dollar in bonds in the treasury
as security for the notes.
So 1 am in favor of paying enough
| of this new debt as we go along tC
/ keep the credit of the government VI
and keep bonds at par. 1t is abso-
| lutely ridiculous that in a great rich
| nation like this government bonds
| should &C below par.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-25
PAY AS YOU Co
British High Official Advises
Z. s. ON War.
England Conscripting Wealth
to Unprecedented Degree.
BY LOWELL MELrIET.

London, Aug. 25.-"Don't leave the
burden of the war to posterity." was
the advice to America today of Lord
Chief Justice Reading in an interview
with the United Press.
Governmental figures today showed
that revenues of the current year are
estimated on a basis of $4,000, 600, 600
from income and excess profits taxes
against less than s70o.OC0.OO0 from
customs, excise, estate stamp and all
other miscellaneous taxes combined.
England is now conscrfptAnE wealth
to degree not approached by any
other nation, and still further in
creased taxes on incomes must soon
be made.
Question of Billions.
THE point has arrived when little
measures will not SUFFICE" the chief
justice said Sweeping action is nee
essary. 1t is not a question of rails
ing five million here and zen million
there. 1. is a question of raising bill
lions"
In view of the debate now in prog
ress in the American senate over con-
, scription of wealth and taxation for
the war. Lord Reading was asked to
outline for the American people how
England is meeting the problem.
Sound finance" he declared, IRE
quired that we pay for the war as far
as possible out of war time taxation.
precedentedly conscripting wealth.
And very soon she must greatly in
crease taxes on incomes.
while the income tax has been in
creased from shilling and three
pence on a pound Approximately 81
cents out of $4S7) and in many cases
of the largest incomes thru a super
tax to eight shi1lings six pence (s2.12),
the limit has by no means been reach
ed. (The rate specified here is slight
~ less than so per cent?
Germany Leaves 1t to Posterity.
England has proved the wisdom @
this method 1 have outlined. She is
able to face an extension of that prin-
| ciple as far as necessary and possible.
THE history of the United States,
like that of England, has shown the
fallacy of attempting to leave the bur-
den of the war for posterity to pay.
Germany, on the other hand. prac-
f, tically disregarding a fair and demo-
cratic method, is raising only an in
| finintely small portion of her war ex-
penses from incomes and war profits
| In the future Germany will suffer the
consequences of this policy. Unfor-
| tunately. it is true France and Russia
are also pursuing it, but there is rea-
son to believe the United States plans
! to adopt the wiser and safer course.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-25
DECREASE IN EXCESS
Clearing House Statement, However,
Shows 563 Millions Reserve.

New York, Aug. 25-The actual
condition of clearing house banks and
trust companies for the week shows
that they hold $68.776,920 reserve in
excess of legal requirements. This is
a decrease of S7,679,07O from last
week.
The statement follows:
Actual condition:
Loans, discounts, etc, $3,797, 996, 900; de-
Cash in own vaults: Members federal
reserve banks (A) $S6, 100000; decrease, ST.
931. 600.
Reserve in federal reserve bank of mem
Reserve in own vaults: State banks
and trust companies OBJ SIT, 900; de-
crease, $11 ,693 600.
Reserve in depositaries State banks
and trust companies, S., $4,000; increase,
= met demand despoits, s., $50 sos, 900; in
crease, SCI ,179 900.
Net time deposits. $2Os, 100000; decrease,
Circulation. 100, 900; increase, $4,000.
Specie included in (A) and OBJ, S169,611,-
.United States deposits deducted. s119.-
500. 600
Aggregate reserve, $500, 100000.
679,O70
Summary of state banks and trust
companies in greater New York not
included in clearing house statement:
Loans, discounts, etc, $S4S, S46500; de-
crease, $1,74T 200.
Legal tenders, $14,390,9O0; increase, $462,-
Total deposits, $1.Oss, 244, 500; decrease,
$9,O9S, 700.
Banks cash in vault. 81 ,s91, 800.
Trust companies; Cash in vaults, &c.,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-25
NO PEACE NOW!
Allies and America Prepare for VIM
ter Campaign.

Washington. Aug. 25.-America and
her allies are preparing for another
winter campaign-and a great spring
offensive to turn the scale.
The forthcoming reply to the pope's
peace proffer, extension of ala to Rus
STA and the outcome of the Moscow
conference now in session will show
this, officials and diplomats said to-
day.
Between now and late winter. the
allies expect to get Russia on her
feet" that she may play her part in
the giant nippers to be closed about
the Teuton powers next spring
In the wake of the pope's offer ami
detailed explanation rendered bv the
vatican, it was re-emphasized today
that all powers will reject peace now.
President Wilson will offer a decla ra-
ton of principles rather than an out
line of peace demands. Each country
is expected to reply individually to
the pope.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-25
BARRIERS co OUT
Only Three Are Left in Ma
tiOnal Hotel Shop Today.
Humphreys Will Try To Run an
Open Shop, He Says.

With Horace Humphreys manager
of the National hotel. determined to
keep his barber shop open until IL
o'clock, despite the local unions de-
on September l, only three BARRIERS
are working in the National hotel
shop today One by one The men have
been looking arouno for other jobs
and walked out of the shop.
Humphreys announced today that he
would make every effort to operate an
open shop, not a non-unio shop, but
an open shop. He expressed doubt as
to whether he could obtain sufficient
non-union BARRIERS. II the BARRIERS are
available, he promises to operate the
shop.
Il have received no Official notice.
said Humphreys but word has come
shop and throw badly odored disin-
fectants IN front of the shop. 1 hard
ly believe they'll go that far. however
Wants to Accommodate Trade.
II am not objecting to union hours.
But l do want my shop to remain
open until IL O'Clock Saturday nights
the same as in Wichita and other
cities. to accommodate my trade COM
! ing in on late trains. l cannot see
why the men wort work in shifts sc
as to make this possible,
Humphreys denied report current
that he would import negro BARRIERS
from the South into Topeka.
Topeka BARRIERS, members of the
union, say they will not arrange shifts
, such as Humphreys demands All
union men will be obliged to stop
work "a 10 o'clock Saturday nights
after September 1. BARRIERS in two
shops. including the National hotel
shop, voted against the 10 o'clock rule
but votes of union BARRIERS in other
shops overcame their dissenting votes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-25
|IRI!7f DRESS
| ~ .QNlGI .6y True Rite nhoAse
opyright Syndicate City,

This means that by usins vanilla in
chocolate, in cakes aid in various sorts
OF desserts l was materially adding to
the cost without materially adding to
the nourishing qualities. OF course.
In small family not much could be
saved by going without Wa li.la. But
if you were cooking for a large num-
Der OF persons you would find that
vanilla at its present war time price
was luxury. 1t may be that before
the war is over the bottles will be-
come smaller and the glass thicker
and we shall be spending even more
for mere flavor.
Just take this matter of vanilla as
typical After you have discovered
that vanilla is a luxury you have to
make up your mind whether or not it
pay for. That will depend on whether
or not you can find a substitute that
| is cheaper and whether or not you and
your family are willing to accept the
substitute.
In cakes and desserts vanilla is al
| most necessity if you do not make a
rule to add the pinch of salt" But
if you always do add the pinch in
custards. cakes, etc, then you can get
along well enough without the vanilla.
Most cooks use vanilla in connection
with hot chocolate, and other choco-
late dishes Just to bring out the fla
vor." Well, that is exactly what salt
does-it brings out the flavor and yet
a pinch of salt is of inconsid era BILE
cost.
In cakes it is possible to use mace
or cinnamon or any other spice in or
| der to get flavor when vanilla is not
uSed-and these spices are of very
| slight cost compared with vanilla.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-25
KANSAS FAIRS

The following is a list of fairs to De
held in Kansas in 1917. their dates
(where they have been decided on).
locations and secretaries, as reported
to the srs.te board of agriculture and
compiled by Secretary J. c. Mohler:
KANSAS FREE FAIR: Phil Eastman.
Secretary. Topeka; September 1918
KANSAS STATE FAIR: A. l.. SponsIer.
Secretary. Hutchinson: September 1922
Allen County Agricultural society DR. f.
5. Beattie. secretary lola: September
Allen County-Moran Agricultural Fair
BARTON County Fair association: Porter
Young. secretary. Great Bend; October
Brown County-Hiawatha Fair associa-
ton: J. d. weltmer. secretary. Hiawa-
tina: August 2s-31
Clay County Fair association: W. F. Mil
Ier secretary, Clay Ccctnr: October 3-5
Clay County-wakefield Agr..r'.r-sI as
seciation; Eugene ElSins. SECRETARY
Cloud County Fair association: W. H
Danenbarger. secretary. concordia: Au
coffey County Agricultural Fai- associa-
iington: October Is
citation A. L. Beeiey. secretary. Coldwa
ter: September 12-14
CowIey county-Eastern Cowley Comfy
tary. Burden: September 81:
Douglas County Fair & Agricultural socie-
ty: G w Murphy. secretary. Lawrence
September 1921
Elk County Agricultural Fair association
Fred X. Lanter. secretary. Greno!a: Au-
gust $3.50
Ellis County Fair association: 7. ]
Deane, secretary. Hays; September 25-2S
Franklin County Agricultural society: l.
c. Jones. secretary. Ottawa: September
Franklin County-Lane Agricultural Fail
associa ton. Floyd r. Martin. secretary
Lane: Sci tember rs.
Gray County Fair association: c. c. Ise
Iy secretary Cimarron; September
liam Bays. secretary. Eureka; Angus
2S-31
association W. F Wilkerson. secretary
Spring Hill; September ~.
Kearny County Fair association: Audlel
Helmick, secretary, Lakin: August 16-1s