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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
DARCY A STACKER
n, Y. Governor FOrbidS Him to
Fight Because of This.
Promoter of Bout Goes to Al
bany to Explain Matters.

Albany, n. Y, March 2.-Governor
Whitman today directed the state
athletic commission to prohibit the
boxing bout scheduled for Madison
Square garden, New York, on Monday
night, between Les Darcy and Jack
Dillon, on the ground that Les Darcy
is a Stacker
The governor in a statement out
lining his position said:
Les Darcy 1 am informed is a run
away from his own country. In dis
guise and under an alias he left his
native land (Australia) because he
was afraid to fight in the cause for
which his fellow countrymen are sac
rificing their lives. He prefers to
give a brutal exhibition at some per-
believe that the citizens of this state
will support the governor in his in
sistence that this thing shall not be
permitted in New York"
Brown Explains.
New York. March 2.-Upon receipt
of Governor Whitmans statement for
bidding the Darcy-Dillon fight, Pro-
moter Browne announced that he
would leave Immediately for Albany
to talk with the governor personally
Browne said he did not wonder at
the governors statement if the state
executive believed what he said was
true but that he had been miSinformed
So far as Darcy is concerned,
Browne asserted. the Australian pugil-
list had several times volunteered his
services, but as he was under age the
consent of his parents was necessary
before he could join the army and his
mother had refused such consent
Darcy was also under age when he
left Australia.
The CONSUMPTION measure had not
been put to vote at the time he sailed
for America and was defeated when
finally put before the voters Browne
said he hoped to convince the gov
ernor that Darcy was not a Stacker
Mccoy Takes a Hand.
New York, March 2.-The Les
Darcy Jack Dillon tangle, over which
New York has lost its fistic head.
again vaulted into thin atmosphere
today and the worlds greatest city
stands the horrible chance of not see
ing these two gladiatOrS come togeth-
er in more or less mortal combat AL
McCoy's heavy voiced lawyer says he's
going to get an injunction and expects
to serve it on Grant Hugh Brown
Monday night, full dress suit and all
The legal light declares AL must be
treated right. Right to him means a
bout with Les Darcy.
The boxing commission has ruled
that Al must have brand new con-
tract before he can hold Brown to
match with Darcy. The commission
eA7O - ~ ~ nave ileahutu w " II
an edict that Brown must give Nc
Coy the bout promised, or there will
be trouble
Trouble, however, is getting to be
boon companion of Browns. He
failed to find the necessary dollars
to pay for Madison Square garden and
for a short time the New York Life
Insurance company threatened to take
back the Enclosure and throw him
out. The company finally agreed to
wait until after Darcy and Dillon had
| finished their fuss.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
FISH 6 CTS. A POUND
New York Food Commission Sells Ten
Tons to Consumers.


New York, March 2.-Ten tons of
Pacific coast smelts were dumped
onto the market here today in con-
tinued attempt to force down the high
price of food. They were sent 10
stores in Manhattan and the Bronx.
where they began vying with the
aristocratic Atlantic kind. The west
ern fish are selling at 6 cents a pound,
and the Atlantic offsprings are try
tng to bring 16 cents for the same
sixteen ounces.
When the smelts are gone. the
mayors food commission is going to
offer a ton or so of hominy. Also
five hundred thousand pounds of Bra
lillian beans are going to take a whack
at the food prices.
Advocates Food Tickets.
Herbert &. Hoover. chairman of the
commission for relief in Belgium. to-
day outlined plan of fe~ ding New
" orks poor. He declared stores
Ehould be established thru which
food, purchased at low prices in huge
Quantities. may lie distributed to per-
sons holding tickets. The tickets. he
said. should be issued by a body of
investigators.
Reorganization, he declared, lis
the solution for the problem"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
FLAGS FOR SCHOOLS
Senate Wants Young Kansans Taught
To Be Patriotic.

The senate is working on third
ding-calling the roll on bills al
ready recommended for passage from
the committee of the whole. The fol-
lowing bills have been passed TODAY
in addition to the trading stamp meas
ure:
Bill by Senator Anderson of Saline,
making it a felony to remove journal
brass from railroad rolling stock
Bill by ways and means committee
appropriating $36,8O0 for the next
biennium for irrigation, $4,000 for the
salary of the commissioner, $500
for the purpose of establishing pumps,
canals and reservoirs in western KAN
sas, and the remainder for expenses.
Bill by the ways and means COM
mittee making an appropriation of
$7O,150 for Western university at
Quindaro for the biennium.
Bill by ways and means committee
authorizing the secretary of state to
have pamphlets printed in the form
OF legal briefs explaining all proposed
constitutional amendments, and dis
tribute them prior to an election.
Bill by Senator Metcalf of Douglas,
admitting all honorably discharged
soldiers, sailors and marines who
served during the Civil war, now with
out means of support, to the State
soldiers Home, providing they have
been residents of Kansas for two
years.
resolution by Senator Laing in
structing the different state boards
ana governing bodies to dispense with
all unnecessary employees
Bill by committee on printing per-
hitting counties having a population
OF $4,000 or over to let the contra ct
for printing the ballots to a Job print
ing plant Heretofore the law has re-
CURED that the ballot printing con-
tract be let to newspaper published
within the county.
Bill by Senator McClain of Allen. re-
curing school boards and boards of
education to purchase flags and dis
play them during school hours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
ARE NOT FOR 1T
Topeka Bankers Are Misrepresented
in Morris Plan Article.

The Topeka Copital on Thursday
made a statement which is resented by
many bankers of Topeka. who declare
the article is untrue. The State Jour-
nal made an investigation of the mat
ter this morning and the bankers
seems to be correct and are mot push
ing the completion of a Morris Plan
company, which will establish a bank
in Topeka in the near future"
Hearing of much opposition among
the bankers to the proposed Morris
plan bank, representative of the State
journal upon inquiry found that
bankers of the city were not only not
pushing the enterprise, but were OPP
posing it.
One of the bankers said he was OPP
posed to the plan because, while os-
tensibly charging per cent interest
the, rate paid by the borrower was
more nearly 16 per cent in connection
with the instalment plan proposition,
which provides that 2 per cent of the
loan shall be paid every week.
Another objection 1 have" said
he, lis to the $1,000 promotion fund
which we would have to put up if we
went into it, as the stock is offered
$1.1O, the 10 per cent of $4,000, the
capital stocq, being used for 'ex-
penses of organization and installa-
ton
impossible interest is proposed in the
savings department of the Morris plan
banks.
"A still further objection 1 have is
that. If man borrows $50 or 500 he
must pay "a fee of 81 and not eX-
ceeding IS, to cover cost of making
necessary Investigations
j. 5. Westbrook, a gentlemanly rep
resentative of the Industrial Finance
corporation of New York, which owns
Morris plan banks over the country.
Is mere endeavoring to effect an or
ganization.
The present banks of Topeka seem
TO thlnk they can take care of bust
ness quite we'll, without another new
bank just yet
There may be some Topeka bankers
who favor the proposed new Morris
plan bank as stated in the Capital
but after diligent search today the
State Journal could not find them
quite the contrary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
MUST Be DANDIES
High School Boys "Fired" for
Not Wearing Fine Clothes.
One Lad Said He Had on the
Best Shirt He Possessed.

The public schools may be a dem
ocratic ips.itution. but in the To-
peka high school it is only the white-
collared. creased trousers and fine lin
en- sort of a democracy that need APP
ply. At least Is boys who essayed to
attend school this morning attired in
blue shirts, minus cravats and with
rough shoes were requested by r. w.
Coppedge, assistant principal, to re-
turn home and not to appear again at
the high school unless CARRIED like
modern Little Lord Fauntleroys.
And there are Is extremely dis
gruntled boys who today are talking
rebellion against host of sympathetic
school mates of democratic tenden-
cies.
Some of the boys are able to dress
better they admitted but are up in
arms over the dismissal of one of
their comrades, who was wearing
One r. w. Coppedge, officiating in
the absence of Principal A j. Stout
the children assert, sent a note to
every teacher in the high school in
structing them to dismiss all students
wearing blue shirts or shirts not
graced by cravats.
Boys Up in Arms.
One of the boys who was sent home
under the edict was wearing the same
clothes that he had all winter the
only ones ne ndd, IelloW students de-
clare. And democratic young Amer
lea is up in arms over his expulsion. s.
r. w. Coppedge. vice principal, who
is officiating in the absence of A. j.
Stout, principal, who is attending the
n. E. A. meeting at Kansas City could
not be found this afternoon and the
school authorities side of the story
was not obtainable. One of the en-
ployes in the high school office
stated, however. that the boys had
only dressed in that way with the de-
sign of being fired" thus receiving
a vacation. THE students are sore
over not getting q vacation Washing
toms birthday" the employe states
and used this method of getting a
compromising day-off"
The boys have not yet returned to
school
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
PUT "PULL" IN ADS
That Is the Way to Make Them Pay.
Prof. Shreves Asserts.

advertising is science" Prof
Shreves, professor of salesmanship in
lthe Nebraska State Normal school de-
cleared this noon in his talk on The
Psychology of Advertising before the
chamber of Commerce.
zone hillion dollars was spent in
advertising last year in the United
States" Shreves declared. And the
amount is not excessive in comparison
with the results obtained. However
@ per cent of those ads were ineffi-
Gent. They lacked pull A good ad
should have this pull and it is only by
a study of psychology that we will
understand how this attractive power
can be obtained
THE fundamental ingredient of
this pull is the power of the ad to
awaken pleasant associations With
certain articles and certain classes of
people to whom the ad is directed
very little more may be needed. But
with some classes of articles and GER
tain buyers they must be shown con-
ciusivelysthe advantage in purchasing
the advertised thing.
THE method of approa ching the
various classes of buyers is purely a
matter of psychology Most success
full advertisers possess a naive under
standing of psychology but the max
imum efficiency will never be
reached until the experimental scient-
ist in this new branch Of investiga-
lion Join hands in their search for
business efficiency"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
FOR PROFESSOR DENNIS
Northwestern Reunion and Reception
in Honor of Professor.

Prof. Ralph Dennis, director of the
school of Oratory and Dramatic Art
at Northwestern University, is the
guest of Washburn college today. He
gave short reading at the chapel
hour this noon, and was the guest of
honor at a reception given by the
Fine Arts department at three O'Clock.
He will appear at reception tins
evening given by the Dramatic club
in his honor at the Alpha Phi house.
Northwestern graduates in the city
are making this the occasion of
reunion.
Professor Dennis returned only
short time ago from trip to Eng
land and France. He and his brother
desired to see life at the front as it
really is. Friends discouraged them
from the attempt on the ground that
military officials would restrict their
movements to such an extent that
they would not be able to see any
thing of real interest. On the con-
trary his relation to an important
American university secured for Pro
fessor Dennis a courteous reception
everywhere and they were close to
many important battlefields.
This trip is the most recent chapter
of an unusually interesting life. Pro-
lessor Dennis was at one time in
charge of the George Junior Repub-
lie. famous self-goyeraing commun-
ity for boys. at F'reeville, New York
At another time, he served as a vol
unteer probation officer in Chicago.
From these sources he derives the
|, democratic realism of his dramatic
art. In search of local color. he one
time spent several months among the
New England fishermen, living their
rough life and enduring all the hard
ships of their trade. Prof Dennis is
now on a tour of the principal col
leges and normal schools OF the south
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
EGGS 20 CTS. TODAY
Everybody Can Now Eat Hen Fruit
for Breakfast.

Eggs. eggs! eggs! Everyone can
have an egg for breakfast tomorrow.
The price took a desperate leap and
landed at the % cent mark today.
From 40 to % cents in less than a
week-that is the record. Even the
boycotters can nearly forgive the hens
and the dealers. jersey City receiv-
ed a shipment of 1855 crates of eggs
last Wednesday and found that con
sumers had deserted the egg ship.
Prices went down and down. The
same experience followed the next
day.
AS for this locality, the warm, dry
days have made the hens hit on all
four cylinders. The market is flood
ed. Storage men are afraid that the
eggs are chilled and will not keep, and
hens will not set this early in the sea-
son, so the eggs are thrown on the
market for immediate consumption.
The demand has fallen off tremen-
dously during the last flight of the
price and is not great enough even
at the present figure, to keep up with
supply. But the price cannot go much
lower, according to a local dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02

BEVERAGE BILL
Meets Deserved Fate in Legisla-
ture Today.
Many People Desire to Use
Lemonade and Root Beer.
TURN TO NONALCOHOLIC DRINKS
Encourage Brewers to Manu-
8 facture of Soft Drinks
By Slaughter of Jewett Bill iii
House Today.
TURN TO NONALCOHOLIC DRINKS

The Kansas legislature, to its credit
has killed a bill against SOFT drinks
rhe house removed the enactlhs
clause from the Jewett beverage Dill
1ewett proposed to put Temp Brew
-oa1ted milk. Bevo Tin-Top and a
b,nch of other alcoholic bower
ages out of business in this state ms
measure provided a fine OF SlVo 10
$500 and a Jail sentence of thirty 10
ninety days for selling or giving away
ANYTHING that tasted, smelled or
4ooked like beer. The bill seemed to
coyer nearly everything not IN thc
original bone dry bill except lemon
ade, milk and POSSIBLY ginger ale' soHa
non. root beer and coca cola
! Wilson of Iawnee offered an
amendment 20 the bill which made It
ironclad. Collins Of Penokee. Graham
county. thought the amendment a lhe
thfng and ma lie q speech Tor T. oil
Inns is the meIu Der who thought OF the
law which sends cigarette smokers 10
aail 10 live on 'rackers and water.
Start "a EiIibuster.
Dppositfon members started fill
buster which finally defeated the bill
Sparks of Cherokee county was so Of
fended he couldn't adequately express
his thoughts.
II resent these DlllS COllllliS bCAOA e
the legislature which won't let man
get a drink of anything anywhere
not even a soft drink" said the IN
1uriated Galena man. He wanted to
SAY more but changed his mind. Then
Hershberger of Kiowa. moved that the
women leave the hall until Sparks had
adequately expressed himself.
Several members sought 10 remedy
the bill.
z Martin Has Some Cider.
Martin of Reno, thought of four
barrels of sweet cider sent to his home
from his farm each fail. He didn' t
want to go to Jail for owning the cider
and he didn't want to give up the
cider.
do l go to jail for owning my
sweet cider simply because it later be
comes hard cider and later vinegar -
asked the Hutchinson lawyer.
A member advised Martin the bill
would send him to Jail. Another mem
Der wanted to fine Martin d barrel of
the cider for such undue prosperity
and good fortune. In the meantime
the ants held a hurried caucus A
mOtion to strike out the enacting
clause was carried.
This probably settles this sort of
foolishness. 1t seems to the State
journal that If the breweries and
liquor houses can be turned into pre-
Serving works, vinegar works and
other factories and be persuaded to
manufacture non-alcOholic beverages,
as many of them are now doing in
part, it would be a good thing for the
breweries and good thing for the
people. 1t is like beating swords into
plowshares. and bayOnets into prun-
ing hooks" The soft drink consump
tion is increasing enormously as the
opportunity for liquor drinking dis
appears and it is a most desirable
Situation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02

New York. March 2.-MONEY-M ercau-
tile paper. 404A per cent. Sterling 90 day
bills. Al; commercial. 60 day bills on
banks, Al commercial. 60 day bills. 47Os4 !:
demand. 4-I4A cables, 4.7G ZIG Francs
demand. 5.s5M cables, 5.s4A. Marks. de
mand, 6s3s; cables. 6s1a. Kronen demand.
IL cables, 11H- Guilders. demand, 4Oss !:
cables 40l2. Lires. demand. 7.7J: cables
10 Kubles, demand, ~: cables. 2sis bar
silver. I6Ac; Mexican dollars. 5sa4c Gov
e e,Ia Ti ponds, steady railroad bonds irreg
3S4 at: months, 4AM4I1
Call money, steady: high. 212 low. 2L ::
ruling rate, "a last loan, 21a closing bii
"a offered at 21s.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
The Grand Duke and Buffalo Bill

The Grand Duke and Buffalo Bill.
I'm the seventies, when Buffalo Bill
was in his glory as hunter ana
scout a correspondent tells me, Il
was ranching out on the great plains
in Colorado, and often heard men talk
of him. The Grand Duke Alexis paid
us a flying visit about that time, ac-
companied by a train of Russian
grandees, and the United Sites au-
thorities, who were particularly anx-
ious to do them as well as possible,
arranged that they should be taken
for a great buffalo hunt. and very
sensibly put Bill Cody in charge. Bill
gave Alexis his own favorite buffalo
horse to run the game on, and, skilled
hunter as he was, Bill did not take
very long to find them plenty of buf-
falo to chase. Naturally there was a
troop of United States cavalry along
for the protection of these important
visitors. as the Sioux. Arapahoes and
Cheyennes were then hostile, and
keen to take the scalps of any un-
lucky white men they could corral
While the hunt was in full swing a
United States cavalry sergeant came
up to Bill and said: Cap Che wasn't
Colonel Cody yeti, say, Cap. one OF
them kings of yourn has fell off his
horse three times, and we're afeard
he may hurt hisself. What are we
goin' to do about it p Oh returned
Cody offhand, jes' tie his crown on
under his chin with a chin-strap, and
tie him into his saddle. and he'll do -
Westminster Gazette.
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Nilsson BUCK: age &C. died at a local
hospital this morning. The body will he
sent to Charleston, Kansas, for burial
LULU BENNETT. age 40. died at a local
hospital this morning. The BODY will he
sent to LecomptOn for burial
Mrs; CHARLES HAYDEN, age 60. died
held Sunday. "'
SAM Ell KIDNEY, age 81 died this
morning at the home of his sister Mrs. Ii
w Nenning, 1920 Monroe street The body
VIII lie in state at the residence SaturIay
AFTERNOON. Burial in Cincinnati, Ohio.
REBECCA WILSON. age AZ. died Tburs
nay nay morning at her home, S13 North TYLER.
Inc funeral will be held Sunday after3oon
terry ""urh ceme-
ID MKS. GEO. W: MATHEWSON. sister of
"A a. l.; Cotran, former mayor of Toneks
Hled IN Emporia Thursday Funeral Will
De held in Topeka Saturday. III
Lords Flowers Satisfy.-TeI s97-
Adv. OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02

Saturday night. Saunders Union
orchestra. Admission 35c.-Adv
In an effort to run down the fire
bug" who burned a large barn Thurs
day morning, belonging to j. Stage, a
farmer near Valencia, Sheriff Iari-
mer procured bloodhounds today, and
attempted to follow a trail leading
away from the scene of the fire and
thought to be that of the incendiarv.
The animals were unable to follow this
trail. No arrests will be made unless
Stage later swears out a warrant
See the large display of knives in
the window ats425 Kansas ave.-Ady.
Word was received here TODAY of
the death this morning of pneumonia
of Mrs. Charles Hayden, IS, of HoI-
ton, wife of one of the prominent
lawyers of the state
Spiritualist Temple tonight-free
class in soul embodiment, Fourth and
Monroe street, 7:45 p. m.-Adv.
Manhattan Cleaners. Phone 1863.
ADV.
Topeka Auto Livery. Phone SOS or
373T, 116 w. 5th. Open day and
night.-Adv.
Dr. S. T. Willard has removed his
office to rs Kansas avenue, over Full
terton Bros.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
TROOP A AT Fl. RILEY
Kansas Cavalry Arrives From Border
Fffty-Seven Strong

Junction City, Kan, March q
Troop A, Kansas cavalry, arrived at
Fort Riley today from Llano Grande.
Texas. The troop consists of three
officers and fifty-four men, command
ed by Captain Oliverson, and as soon
as rehabilitation is completed the
members will return to their homes at
Eureka, Kan. This troop is the last
contingent of the Kansas National
Guard to be mustered out of the serv-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
SHE SUNK A U-BOAT
Sent Attacking Subma-
rine to Bottom With Shots.

New Orleans, La, March 2-Offi-
GERS of the steamship knight Com
panion, arriving here this afternoon
said the ship was in a battle with
German submersible. According to the
officers, the submarine opened fire
at range of seven hundred feet
Five shots were fired at the knight
Communion but none took effect The
knight Companions gunner fired two
shots. the last sending the U-boat to
the bottom.
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Teachers Endorse Training.

Kansas City, March 2.-The report
was adopted almost without opposi-
ton. John D. Shoop, superintendent
of schools at Chicago, and president
of the superintendency division, en-
deayored without success to obtain a
recommendation for cadet training in
high schools
The speakers favoring the report
brought out that educators were not
satisfied with the present work in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
WHAT, SOME MOISTURE
Whiff of Snow in Eastern Portion
Gives Hope to Bone Dry Kansas.

Kansas City, March "A light
snow, melting almost as it fell began
here shortly before noon today. Re
ports from points in eastern Kansas
and western Missouri indicate SINH
lar fall there. The temperature stood
at 80 at noon, with predictions of a
Light SNOW or rain tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
Card of Thanks.

We desire to thank our fr1ends ana
neiphbors for their loving kindness
and help during the illness and death
of our dear mother and sister, Nancy
NJ, Snook.-Adv.
MR.. AND MRS. T. A. VERLIN,
MR.. ED. SHOOK,
MARY A. SWENY,
r. C. SCHENCK,
MARY A. SWENY-
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PUSH CORN TO S1.O5
Report British Govt Buying Large
Orders Bulls Market.

Chicago. March "A report that
the British government was placing
large orders for corn for export sent
that grain upward until it reached
$1.O5 g cents per bushel just before
the close of the pit today The for
mer high record established January
Hogs were from 10 to 90 cents
higher today. The top price paid in
Chicago was s13.65 per hundred. At
East ST Louis the top price was $13.75
per hundred