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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-31
MRS. BRIGHAM DEAD
Prominent Topeka Red Cross Woman
Loses Battle With Grim Reaper.

Mrs Ralph S. Brigham, widow of
Ralph Brigham, inventor of the car
card system of advertising, died Tues
day night at o'clock at her home
1888 Western. avenue Her death
came after seventy-two hours of I'M
consciousness caused by a cerebral
hemorrhage.
Mrs. Brigham was one of the most
active members of the local Red Cross
societies. She was we'll known among
club women and was a great social
welfare worker. She was a member
of the U and I club.
Mrs. Brigham was born in Grand
island, N. Y. She came to Kansas
many years ago where her husband
originated the idea of street car card
advertising. Later he established an
advertising company for the car card
system. He was also promoter of the
midwinter fair. Mr.. Brigham died
several years ago.
Mrs. Brigham is survived by a
daughter. Miss Helen Brigham: a
brother James T. Ransom, of East
Orange, n. J., and two sisters. Mrs.
James Forsythe, of Grand Island, n.
and Mrs. Philip B. Wetterholt, of
Akron, Ohio
Funeral services will be held from
the nome Thursday afternoon at 2:3O
o clock Dean James P deb. KAYE
VIII conduct the services $500
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-31
HE LEADS FIELD.
Oliphant Greatest Football Star
Playing This Year.
GridirOn Is to Him What Wa.
ter Is to a Fish.
BY JACK YEIOCK.

New York, Oct. 31.-The best foot
ball player in the country today?
There is only one answer-Elmer
Oliphant, United States Military Acad-
envy. West Point, N. Y.
When you say Oliphant you lave
said the last word in describing
finished product of American football,
ana you nave said fork full.
A year ago, when football experts
were busy shaping up their all-Amer1-
can elevens, ELEPHANTS name was the
first that went down on every list,
because no one even started to COM
pare any other player in the country
with the former Purdue star. Wal
ter Camp placed Ollie on his first
eleven, and in mentioning him paid
the tow-headed Indianan the highest
compliment by writing: He is the
most mature player we have. and he
shows it,
Half of Team.
Ollie is still wearing the football
toys of the Army eleven. He repre-
sents fifty per cent, or more, of the
total offensive strength of the West
Point aggregation. He is the inspira-
and his playing this year has been
just as brilliant and just as effective
as ever before.
The paragraphers jokingly say that
when rival team is going to play
the Army it is going to play Oliphant,
and, after all, it isn't far from the
truth. Last Fall, with the assistance
of Vidal, Ollie kept the Army's slate
clean by defeating Notre Dame. This
year the team has been built around
him.
Gridiron His Home.
Elmer Oliphant is just as much at
home on the gridiron as a fish in the
water. He has the physique, the
speed and that rare football judg-
ment-the ability to think lightning
fast and do the right thing at the
right time-in addition to all-around
ability. He is a good kicker; a ter
rifle line plunger and a great OPEN
field runner. He is an adept in the
handling of the forward pass and he
is seldom thrown hard by a tackler
because he twists and squirms
thru broken field, yet manages to
keep his feet where other players
would go down with a crash.
He is a human dynamo, is Elmer
Oliphant. They don't make 'em any
better, and they seldom make 'em as
good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-31
LODGES IN CAMPS
Sec. Baker Permits Them to RuiId
Halls at Army Cantonments.

Washington, Oct 3I-Secretary
Baker announced today a policy to
govern activities of fraternal organiza-
lions in army training camps. Camp
commanders will be directed to per-
NIT the construction of buildings with
in the camp sites by any fraternal or
ganization individually or group of or
CARNATIONS acting together. Facilities
of the camp for social and fellowship
meetings will be extended and accred-
tied representatives from the various
societies will be authorized to visit
the camps and arrange for entertain
mentS for the men at the buildings
thus erected or in nearby communi-
ties.
1t was agreed however that no in
itiations or secret meetings of any
kind are to be carried on within the
camps, that existing well recognized
societies only should be accorded the
recognition and that propaganda work
among the soldiers in behalf of any
new society be forbidden
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-31
NO MONEY FOR TROPHY
WOmen's Golf Association Puts Cash
Into Red Cross Work.

state cup of the Women's Western
Golf association, which became the
permanent property of the Sheboygan
club this year thru previous victories
in 1912 and 1913, today was in possess
sion of the association.
Miss Arlisle Seaman, representing
the club at the annual meeting of the
association late Tuesday, turned the
trophy back, declaring that the money
necessary to buy new cup could bet
ter be expended in Red Cross work
The individual point cup was
awarded to Mrs. Melvin Jones, of Glen
Oak, with a total of lis. The Floss
moor Country club, with 272, won the
point record cup for the third year in
succession, giving it permanent pos
session.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-31
Ichabods Making Great Prep
aratiOns for Normal Game.
Most of Conference Teams in
Action This Week.

Uorl, work, work! That has been
.ta s,oean of the Washburn Ichabods
=, +t,is week and will be up until to-
,-lorrovU night when they will wind up
-, hard practice for the tough
80 +J,e1, will have with the Empor1a
Torn,aI school on Washburn teld
Saturday afternoon ,.:
Coach Kennedy has been driving
his men harder than he has driven
4torn at anv time since practice be-
~ and they have been going at IL
e hard that DOC" Van Horn, stu
dent manager. has been compelled TO
york overtime to keep equipment up
imnossibility to defeat the Bill Har-
eiss Teachers, but the Ichabods IN
tend TO let them know they have been
- a hattie and are not figuring 1t an
impossibility.
Conference Games.
Altho there will be number OF IN
teresting games in the Kansas CONFER
ence this week, there VIII pe none
Win distinct bearing on the cham
nionship race unless Washburn is able
70 nut the Emporia Normals out of
the running. Hays normal, the other
contender with a clean record, Is
scheduled to play Bethany and there
is nothing on the past PERFORMS me-
sheet to indicate that the Swedes Will
he able to do more than make it mild
" interesting for the Speer men
Following their custom of the sea-
son. St Marys will start the ball to
rolling in the state this week with
her game against Midland at st:
Marys tomorrow. The Catholics OF
Coach O'Rourke were badly broken
up by their defeat at the hands of
Hays last week, but they should annex
an easy victory from the Midlanders-
The Weeks Schedule.
The conference schedule for the
week is as follows: Midland against
St Mary's, at St. Marys. Thursday;
Pittsburg normal against Warrens-
burg, Friday; ottawa against College
of Emporia, at Emporia, Friday;
Paramount against Cooper, at Sterling,
Friday; Emporia normal against
Washburn, at Topeka, Saturday; Bak-
err against Southwestern, at Winfield,
Saturday.
The big game of the state will be
between the two Missouri Valley con-
ference members at Manhattan Satur-
day when the Aggies attempt to hum
BILE the Jayhawkers before a home
coming" crowd. The Haskell Indians
will go to Houston, Tex, Saturday to
play Rice Institute.
The University of Missouri will take
on the University of Oklahoma at Co
Iumbia Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-31
- Up to the Minute
~ SPORTING NEWS
II FROM EVERYWHERE.
BY~cLUo-
WORK men HARD OLCOTT IS OUT!
X. L. Coach Quits To Go Into
Service of Nation.
Jay Bond Will Probably Take
JayhaWker Job.

Lawrence, Kan, Oct. 31.-Herman
Olcott, coach of the football team of
the University of Kansas, has been
chosen director of athletics at Great
Lakes naval training station. He has
been given leave of absence from the
university for the duration of the war.
Coach Alcott is endeavoring to have
the time of leaving the university post
poned several weeks if possible to
more nearly finish his work with this
years football team, but the training
station authorities as yet have not
acted on this request.
The military authorities asked the
Kansas mentor last week if he would
accept the position. and believing it a
patriotic duty in the present national
crises to develop the sailors physi-
cally, he Immediately interviewed
Chancellor Frank Strong to get leave
of absence for the duration of the war
1t was granted and the coach imme-
diately wired he would accept the po-
sition.
Bond His Successor?
A successor to the coach of the
Kansas gridiron forces, has not been
announced yet. 1t is likely, however
that Coach Jay Bond, of the fresh
man team and former Kansas star'
will take charge of the squad Altho
the appointment has not been official
w announced, both Manager W. ..
Hamilton and Coach Olcott, sara
Coach Bond probably would take
charge of the team
A number of the Kansas sport FOL
lowers have expressed doubt as 10 the
advisa bility of changing coaches IN
the middle of the season and the pos
sible result of such a change. Coach
Olcott said he did not believe his alb
sence would materially affect the
showing of the team now, because all
of the players Were going good and
had the fighting spirit.
Bond in the Harness.
Coach Bond has sent his freshman
eleven against the Varsity several
times each week since the first of the
season and knows the weak and
strong points of the team. He has
also secuted most of the valley games
and knows what to expect from the
other teams.
Manager Hamilton said he did not
have any idea whom he would employ
to take charge of the freshman squad.
Someone, however will be employed
within the next few days because it
is necessary that the freshmen learn
the plays of the other valley teams
so they can work them out against
the Varsity.
ct dislike to leave the University
in the middle of the season. Coach
Olcott said but 1 feel it is a duty
There are about forty thousand men
in training at the Great Lakes station
and the Job indeed will be real one"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-31

New York, Oct 31-Johnny DUN
dee, of this city, outfought Jimmy
Duffy, also a local lightweight, in
every round of a ten-round bout here.
Dundee weighed 1914 pounds and
Duff 1874 Y
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-31
CAMP SHERMAN SPORT
Soldier Boys Go in for All Kinds OF
Athletics.

The soldier boys at Camp Sherman,
Ohio, are in for sports from Alpha
to Omega. They have received more
sporting paraphernalia, according to
a recent report, than any other ma
tional army cantonment. and are
equipped to play everything from
handbalI to polo. X
Perhaps the most noticeable fea-t
ture of sports at Camp Sherman has
been the manner in which the khaki
clad boys Of the Buckeye state have
gone in for football. When the call
for candidates was issued more than
thirty men turned out for the team,
and, under the eye of Captain Talbot,
former Yale and all-American half
back, assisted by Ed Conner ex-
coach of the Lincoln High school, OF
Cleveland, and Walt Powell, former
coach of the Western Reserve eleven,
the soldiers developed quickly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-31
WANTS A MARCH
Official Music Needed for Eighty
Ninth Division at Funston

An official march for the Eighty
ninth division, now encamped at Camp
Funston, is the work for musicians
suggested by Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood, who was in Topeka Tuesday.
Modern musicians should busy them
selves with music writing for the sol
diers who are soon to sail for foreign
lands, he stated
The Eighty-ninth is made up of
men from Missouri, Kansas, Colorado.
New Mexico Nebraska, Arizona and
South Dakota. Every one of the SOL
dierS wants an official division march,
he stated, and are expecting musicians
from the seven states to write for
them.
The march, according to Major
General Wood, should be written by a
musician in one of the seven states
represented in the division 1t should
have something of the history of the
state from which it comes and should
De written in military march time
with an Introduction, two strains and
trio. a measure in double time
should also be included in the march
so that the troops when passing for
review may return before the officers
on the customary double quick in time
with the music.
The official Eighty-ninth division
march will be selected from music
submitted to the soldiers Only one
piece will be designated as the Off
cal air. Each auxiliary department
OF the division probably will select
official" music from the compost
uons offered to the division, making
seven or eight compositions that will
De accepted by the troops and carried
to France.
Compositions should be sent to c..
H. Guthrie, Y. NJ. C. A. headquarters,
camp Funston. Kan, who has been
appointed by General Wood to submit
the manuscripts to a committee of
coliIpeteHt critics. Compositions
should be in camp not later than No
vember Is, he stated
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-31
WELSH IN COMEBACK
English Lad Wants to Wear Light
weight Crown Again.

New York. Oct. 31.-Records of the
frosty path are nothing in the life of
Freddie Welsh, once holder of the
lightweight championship. Freddie is
going to try comeback, regardless
of the sad and feeble efforts of Bat
Ting Nelson, Ad Wolgast and others
who have pounded the beaten trail
and their ears at simultaneous pc
RODS.
Tonight Freddie, of England, is go
ing to do battle with Jimmy Paul, a
youthful lightweight, at the Manhat-
tan casino, and if he makes a pleas
urable showing he will try to get an
other match with Benny Leonard
who dethroned him. A pleasure BILE
showing in Welsh's estimation prob
ably will be an ability to keep from
being clouted by JimmY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-31
ADDITIONAL SPORT WILL
BE FOUND ON OTHER PAGES
FOOD FOR SUFFS PUNK
Grub for Jailed Pickets Something
Fierce They All Claim

Washington, Oct Improper
" cooked pea soup, corn bread re
pelIant to the eye and taste" and milk
mot only SKINNED but watered," have
brought DR.. Harvey Wiley. noted food
expert, into the ranks of suffrage
picket champions
Doctor Wiley charges that until
pickets were fed these foods at Deco
guam prison he never felt sympathy
for them.
Better conditions for promoting
tuberculosis could not be found" he
said. and demanded a general inspec-
fiOp
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-31
CENSOR PRIMA DONNA
If She Won't Sing ''Star SpangIed
Banner" She Can't Give Concert.

Providence. Oct. 31.-The police
commission today withheld the grant
ing of a license for a concert here
Sunday by Frieda Hempel. pending
a promise by the singer that she will
sing 1.-The Star SpangIed Banner"
While in this city last spring Nine.
Hempel refused to include the ma
tional anthem in her program. claim
ing that she did not know tia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-31
Basketball Not to Suffer.

New York, Oct. 31.-The war will
have no effect on playing rules this
winter in the collegiate basket
ball league. Delegates from Yale.
Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Co
lumbia and Dartmouth decided at a
meeting here not to allow freshmen
players on fives in the league.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-22

last word. It will simply have offered
the Senate its opinion, and solicited the
Senate's opinion on it. And the Senate
will have an opinion to express.
We are approaching what should be,
and probably will be, an exceedingly in
teresting revenue debate. The subject
calls for it, and the tribunal will admit
of the proper staging. Gag rule can
not be invoked. Senators differing with
the committees recommendations will
have opportunity to offer amendments
and state their own views, with the coun-
try for audience.
There will be a bill sent to the White
House, but what the White House may
do toward shaping it in the final stages
is for the future to disclose. It is very
likely that when the contestants come to
the closest grips an effort will be made
to have the President take hand, and
use all the powers Of his Office toward
settling the more stubborn points at
issue. He has been appealed to so often
in trying circumstances, it has become
quite the thing for his party friends to
turn to him in times Of trouble. He is
their "guide and stay"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-22
The Revenue Problem.

The reports from the Senate finance
committee show incertitude in that body
as to the more difficult items Of the
revenue problem. Decisions are reached
slowly, and some do not stand long.
This may grow, probably does grow,
out of two things: ~ The character of
the items, and ~ the disposition of the
committee to give all sides considera-
ton.
1t SO happens, too, that the contro-
versy over the food bill, which is much
warmer than promised, has heightened
the committees time. The Senate does
not expect report until tho food bill
is out Of the way; and that measure has
yet to pass the House. When it reaches
the Senate it will be thoroughly debated.
As The Star recently stated, the COM
mittee should do its work as thoroughly
as possible. It appreciates the impor-
TANGO Of its task. It knows the ankle
tics Of the business world. It knows the
needs Of the government. It knows that
the public il expecting much at it's
hands. It has time to use, and should
use it.
But after doing its best, the commit
tee will not, Of course. have said tho
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-22
Russia Going Ahead.

Russia's decision to proceed vigorously
with the prosecution Of the war is re-
assurance and will greatly hearten the
allied nations now engaged in fighting
the militant power Of Germany. Evil
IDENTIFY the adjustment in Russia has
passed the crisis. The council Of work
men and soldiers has Endorsed the pro-
visional government and unanimously
urged q vigorous offensive all along the
line. Whether this decision is due in
any degree to the presence and counsel
Of Elihu Boot and his colleagues Of the
American mission cannot be told, but
tho coincidence is at least significant,
and it IL conceivable that the presence
Of the American representatives at
Petrograd has Influenced this determi-
nation to present united and aggres-
sive front to the enemy.
With Russia once more active in the
field, with her government organized
upon broadly representative lines, and
with tho provisions for munitioning and
supplying recruits perfected through a
full utilization Of all the national re-
sources, the cause Of the anti -Teutonic
alliance Is greatly strengthened. Ger
many has had her chance to separate
Russia from the entente and has missed
it. Though valuable time has been lost
in the course of the Russian revolution
the regeneration effected is a material
gain. Probably events will prove that
this time during which Russia has been
virtually inactive in the fighting has
been well spent to the end of making
the new Russia more definitely a facto,
for peace through complete victory thar
would have been possible under the ole
regime.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-22
The Registration Lists.

A full list Of the local registrants I'M
der the selective draft law has now been
prepared and is available for consulta-
ton by all the people. Copies of this
list are to be seen at the District build
ing and probably in short time at
each police precinct in the city. A full
list is kept at The Star Office, where it
may be consulted by any person con-
cerned.
This list is an honor roll, and every
member of this community between the
ages Of twenty one and thirty-one should
be proud to have his name upon it. Tho
law supposes that every name is on it.
Yesterday when the list was first dis
played at the District building it was
consulted by several scores Of people,
some of whom wanted to assure them
selves that their names and addresses
were properly recorded and others who
wished to ascertain whether men Of reg
istration age Of their acquaintance were
themselves registered.
The law imposes upon every citizen
the duty to aid in its enforcement by
insuring as far as possible the regis
tration of everybody. IF any person
has knowledge that another who is eli
gible in point of age has failed to reg
lister the law requires that a report be
made to the authorities. The conceal
ment of knowledge to this effect is tan
tamount to completely in avoiding the
registration. The lists now available for
public inspection afford full opportunity
for this discharge of the citizens duty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-22

There Il NO relation whatever between
a publications advertising or profits and
its mail circulation. Magazines have
far greater mail circulation than news
papers; and local conditions determine
the widely varying percentages OF mail
circulation in the newspapers. This per-
centage ranges from q minimum Of 2
per cent or per cent and an average OF
16 per cent in newspapers to 60 per cent
in the case Of. magazines and other
periodicals. With q war tax on adver-
Using or profits as consideration for
cheap mailing rates <, Y and z, news
papers with small and nearby mail cir
culation, but large advertising profits,
will pay heavily for circulating cheaply
all over the country the publications Of
A, B and C, mostly magazines and peri
odicals with 40 per cent to 60 per cent Of
mail circulation.
If the cheap mailing rate confers
discriminatory benefit demanding the
payment Of consideration, either the
rate itself should, in the regular course
Of thoughtful legislation, be altered; or
the consideration should be paid by
those who enjoy the benefit and in pro-
portion to their enjoyment Of it.
If the tax on advertising or profits is
not imposed as an Offset to cheap mail
ing rates it cannot be e1acted on any
other ground.
It is conceded that the newspaper
business is not an immoral, immoral or
hurtful, injury-working business which
can be taxed even out of existence on
grounds of public policy.
It is conceded that neither the news
paper nor newspaper advertising is a
luxury of the rich, inviting special tax
alton, but a modern necessity Of poor
and rich alike.
This unanimous protest of the asso-
citation meets the suggestion that the
newspapers are hopelessly divided in
answering the question: (Which do you
prefer-increased mailing rates or pu-
nitive war tax on advertising or net
proftsi" The newspapers say: eve
prefer neither. These are not logical
alternatives. Mailing rates must be set
tied separately on equitable principles.
No discriminatory or punitive tax of
any sort should be imposed"
Evidently the newspapers have de-
cided not to let conditions drift into q
situation resembling that pictured in the
fable, wherein the lord Of the barn
yard called its occupants to conference
to determine whether they should be
roasted, broiled or fried; and when they
indicated q strong preference not to be
cooked at all, reminded them that they
were wandering from the only question
before them.