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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-17

kre1sler and Zimbalist having her to
little parties. to say nothing of the
great American public at her feet, buy
ing her records for seven dollars apiece
for their music boxes.
m sorry, Charley, but l feel that
l cannot waste my life being merely
domestic, I think it's my duty to go
ahead and make the most of my talent
Not every one, you know, has a voice.
and the few who have should use them
to make the world happy. Besides. it
looks like fate when a thousand dol
lars drops form the skies like this No
It's all over, Charley. l hope you'll be
very happy and get along splendidly
In your business. Goodby, now.
| must pack
and lessons at ten dollars apiece had
played ducks and darkies with Doro-
thea's fortune. And grand opera with
Caruso and Homer and the great
American public were as far away as
ever. There were five years of hard
work ahead, years in which more
money would be needed, and years
too, at the end of which nothing was
certain She had discovered a thing
or two also-that New York had thou
sands of musical students with as good
or better voices than she had. Also
that she had a weak throat, susceptible
to changes in the weather Of late her
teachers had shaken their heads.
The money went. There was moth
ing left but to go back to teaching
music in Parsonburg or to find work
| in New York. She would rather have
| died than to own up to defeat in her
own town, so she took a course in
stenography and finally answered an
ad.
OF course it was Charley who turned
from the big mahogany desk when she
went in. She drew back as tho to
fly when she saw who it was, but he
was on. his feet and had her hand
tight in both of his.
Dolly! Is it really true that you are
here ?''
She saw how tired and worn he
I looked, how much older-and dearer
Her heart contracted and she looked
aside guiltily. What a silly foolish girl
she had been to prefer will o. the
wisp career!
Tell me it's all over, Dolly, and
you're going to marry me-
You won't want me when YOU
know I've failed, Charley"
Falled? Thank heaveni' And he
drew her to him and kissed her
| Copyright. 1917. by the Mcclure
Newspa per Syndicate)
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GET MEMBERS VIEWS
The Chamber OF Commerce Auditor
ium Committee Meets Today.

At the request of the auditorium
committee of the Chamber of Com
merce, the directors of that body, and
the representatives of several civic
clubs in the city, met at noon today to
discuss the referendum vote which is
to be taken in regard to the remodel
ing of the old auditorium or the build
ing of a new building.
1t was decided that the question
which had been prepared by the audi
torium committee should be somewhat
revised before being sent out. They
will be sent as soon as possible, in an
endeavor to learn the true attitude of
the members of the Chamber of Com
merce toward the auditorium situa-
ton, which occupied a great deal of
the attention of the organization at the
last annual meeting.
The clubs which were invited to be
represented at the meeting today in
Guided the Good Government club, the
Industrial Council, the Nautilus club,
the Shawnee County Political Science
club, the South Side Civic Improve
ment club, the Town Meeting club.
the Topeka Art guild, and the Wo-
mans club, The Chamber of Com
merce was represented by the directors
as well as by the special committee.
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THE WORLDS GOLD.

The slight reduction in gold produc-
ton by the United States in the year
1916. when compared with it's hign
record of 1915, will not change the
country's rank as the worlds second
largest producer of gold.
A compilation by the foreign trade
department of the National City Bank
of New York shows that the United
States. even at the unusually low fig
ure of $92,00O.000 now estimated for
it's 1915 output, still outranks by far
any other country of the world except
the Transvaal mining region of South
Africa. and that we still supply our
normal 20 per cent of the gold output
of the world. Our production in the
decade ending with 1916 was in round
terms $3.50, 100000, or an average of
sos, 100000 a year, while the output
of the world in that period was about
$3,420,0 100000. Thus our own gold
production in the decade ending with
1916 has been slightly more than 20
per cent of the worlds total for that
period. There have been only half
dozen occasions in our history in
which the gold output of the country
exceeded the estimate now named for
1916, the highest record in any year
having been that of 1915, $1O1, 900, 900.
Going still farther back, the COM
pilation shows that the United States
has supplied nearly one-fourth of the
worlds gold output since the discovery
of America. The worlds production
of gold from 1892 toFthe end of 1916
is estimated at approximately $16,-
600,O0O,000, while in the same period
the production from mines in the
United States was 1895, 100000, or
about % per cent of the worlds pro-
duction in that period, 1892 to 1917.
The SIG, 100000 worth of gold
produced since 1892 is not, however
to be taken as a measure of the guam
tity of gold now available for currency
purposes The worlds consumption of
gold for Industrial purposes alone now
exceeds $175.00O,0OO a year, to say
nothing of the loss by abrasion, and
the amount which disappears by the
boarding" process. AS a result the
latest compilation of the worlds stock
of gold money is but about Ss,55O,OOO.-
600, or but little more than one-half
of the actual value of the gold known
to have been produced in the world
since 1892.
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TODAY'S ADJUSTMENTS


. GRAND-Arthur Hammerstein's
production of "Katinka. Matinee
and night with cast of 100 people.
IRIS-Lillian Walker in 4Indiscre-
tion.'' and Luke comedy.
COZY-Clara Kimball Young in
The Dark Silence" and COM
edy.
NOVELTY-Five acts of vaudeville
and shielding Shadow serial.
ORPHEUM-Franci x. Bushman
and Beverly Bayne in Romeo
and Juliet with special musical
program.
For details, prices, etc., see ads on an
other page of the State Journal
"Katinka, Tonight.
'In Hurry" one of the lively solo
and chorus numbers of "Katinka," which
Arthur Hammerstein will present at the
Grand tonight sets the pace early In the
first act of the new, musical play, which
winter, and the speed does not slacken
during the course of the three acts, NOV
is the work of Otto Hauerbach and Ru-
dolf Friml, authors of THE FREELY" and
High Jinks," has eclipsed the two former
politan popularity. and promises to take
the entire country by storm The musical
score is rich IN DECISIVE n b
forces its way Immediately into the heart
and the brain of the listener and becomes
IQOTOlv uOmlClleu II Is Out VI iAUsc luucs
that Keep whistling and humming. them
selves for days afterwards. Then, besides
'Rackety Coo and In A Hurry" there
richly humorous Il Want TO Marry 4
Male Ouartette" and Your Photo" A
h9 OF and cny FL fbe grs
they are surrounded by three of the hand
soonest stage settings that have ever come
out of the art shop of Mr.. Hammerstein.
At the Orpheum.
Closing tonight at the Orpheum is the
Bushman and Bayne version of Romeo and
Edna May 1.-The former belle of New York
in a seven part super-feature salvation
for her part in the play was turned over
to war sufferers funds: the principal be,
and social betterment
At the Cozy.
Clara Kimball Young, in 1.-THE Dark Sill
ence," will be the attraction at the Cozy
theater today The story Is from an orig
self and can well be termed her photo
play masterpiece.
Blue Paradise Sale.
Seats will go on sale tomorrow at Row
ley's for the Messrs. Shubert's elaborate
production of THE Blue Paradise" the
reigning musical success of the season.
which vii be presented on Saturday mat
inee and night.
At the Iris.
Lillian Walker appears in the filming of
a world old tragedy. "Indiseretion" is a
great film drama and gives Miss Walker
a role of remarkable emotional opportuni-
ty.
At the COzy.
The Cozy has for the picture fans today
and tomorrow Clara Kimball Young whose
work in THE Common Law introduced
and popularized her with Topeka audiences.
THE Dark Silence" is somewhat the same
general type of film drama Miss
Young's first Topeka success
At the Majestic.
The seat sale for the special engagement
of that popular song play 'Freckles'' will
open at the box office of the Majestic the
alter today. This will be the first time this
big success has ever been presented at pop
ular prices and will be seen at the Majestic
Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday
matinee
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hands cooperate heartily and allow
the necessary shop instructors free
hand. Lastly, and perhaps most i'm
portant of all, as the president re-
marked in the discussion. an F. w.
Thomas has to be found. Given these
essentials it would follow that boys
and young men would be trained as
carefully as race horses and sporting
dogs, and would be rejected if they did
not do justice in every way to the car e
and attention given to their up-bring-
ing.
by the system but little faith is put
in examinations, at any rate in the
earlier years. and each lad is treated
as an individual and unit and not as
one of a flock of sheep. all following
exactly the same monotonous route
altho some of them lead by head or
so. Our present primary education,
with its 60-pupil strong classes and its
flabby secondary teaching, tends to
form that low standard of uniformity
beloved of the free and independent
brotherhoods, who, unlike those work.
ing the bed of Procrustes, never try to
improve shortcomings but invaria-
bly, and forcibly check abnormal ad-
vantages of any kind; they would, and
they could. Top off the heads of all the
tall peoples.
the system adopted for nine years past
by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad company"
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THoMAs's NAME TRAVELS FAR

1t is not often that the work of an
American railroad man extends be-
yond the boundaries of the United
States. Never before perhaps has the
accomplishment of a Topeka official
attracted notice abroad. A paper read
by F. w. Thomas, supervisor of APP
prentices in the Santa Fe shops in this
city, before the New York Railway
club last October, has attracted the
notice of the Railway Gazette. pub
lished in London, England
The British paper not only repro
duced the entire paper in its columns
but it commented on it editorially, as
follows:
1.-The experience of Mr.. F. w.
Thomas on the Santa Fe railroad in
the United States forms a valuable
contribution to very live subject. AS
supervisor of apprentices on one of the
main lines of North America, Mr..
Thomas has practised a system of
training young men with so much sue
cess that his lead might be followed
with advantage in all machine shops
and even in many other industrial un-
dertakings where practical skill would
be vastly improved by a certain
amount of technical and scientific
knowledge. The essentials of the
scheme are first. that the shop unions
graciously permit sufficient number
ondly, that the foreman and leading
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Oregon seems to have tried out

Oregon seems to have tried out
about every reform that came its way.
Now rumblings of dissatisfaction with
the bill for payment are being heard
The Donald, Ore, Record says; with
the direct primary, initiative and REL
erendum, recall, etc, as well as d
large number of commissions, costing
oregon from $4,000 to $4,000 a year
each, is it any wonder that taxes are
high? Is it not about time we were
waking up and repeating a lot OF these
foolish laws? 1t is not so bad for
the man who does not own property,
but it is pretty tough on the other fell
low. Unless something is done, within
ten years taxes will be double what
they are today. for expenses are in
creasing rapidly and valuations are
Decreasing"
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LOCAL MENTION

A telegram received this morning
from Mr.. and Mrs. II. S. Montgomery,
who lett Saturday for the home of
their son, Grady, in Los Angeles, Cal,
stated that he was much improved, tho
still in a serious condition as the result
of an accident which occurred recently.
He was taken to hospital in Los An
geles for an operation. Blood poison
later set in, and his parents were no
titled that his condition was danger
Gus. Grady Montgomery was formerly
manager of the Iris theater in Topeka
T. H Beacon, general manager of
the second district of the Rock Island,
with headquarters at Ell Reno, Okla,
was in Topeka on railroad business
Tuesday.
Manhattan Shirt Sale starts Friday.
Felix Clothing Co.-Adv.
A gang of workmen is employed re-
placing worn timbers and ties in the
street railway bridge across the Kaw
on Kansas avenue today. The work
will probably occupy some time
The posta! card found in the pound
can of Rumford Baking Powder will
admit you free to the Midwinter Ex-
position.-Adv.
Miss Edith Nolan, of Ills Jackson,
fell on the snowy sidewalk in front of
Voiland's clothing store this morning,
breaking her arm. Freezing of the
partially melted snow had rendered
the sidewalk slippery.
Manhattan Cleaners. Phone 1863.
ADV.
Interior improvements and repairing
operations are going on at the Union
Pacific station. The hotel and res
taurant is undergoing a thoro over
hauling.
Mr. and Mrs. o. c. Mecord are the
parents of a baby girl born January
3 at Stormont hospital. Mrs. Mecord
was formerly Miss Laurel Turney.
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BIGGERS JURY MADE UP
Panel Completed This Afternoon-The
State Begins Its Case

At 2:30 o'clock this afternoon the
jury in the trial of Claud Bigger, col
ored, on trial for the murder of John
Cox, was completed. The first move to-
ward selecting the jury was made at 2
o'clock Tuesday, and considerable diff
ficulty was encountered in securing
the talesmen. The case is on trial be-
fore Judge Fisher in the second divi-
sion of the district court.
The attorney for the state imme-
diately began the outlining OF his case.
Behind Robert Carver. county attor-
ney, were seated two brothers of the
dead man, w. B. Cox. a resident of
Maple Hill, and j. r. Cox, from Kan
sas City. James Guy, a colored attor-
ney, is representing Biggers.
The court room was crowded this
afternoon. Many of the neighbors and
friends of Cox are attending the trial.
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officers gave addresses at the close of
the lodge An oyster supper was
served after the lodge meeting.
The state board of the Christian
church held meeting Tuesday at the
office of the secretary, George E.
Lyon of Topeka, at which the bust
ness of the year was discussed and
some plans for the future made
FUNDS for the maintenance of mission
airy pastors in the state were appor-
TONED, and it was decided to make
Plttsburg the headquarters of a mis-
slonary pastor, who will operate. by
means of the interurban roads radiat-
ing from that town, thru the southern
kansas coal fields. Officers who at
tended the meeting included the Rev.
Q. L. Cook of Topeka, president;
George E. Lyon of Topeka, secretary;
David FL. Owen of Topeka. Bible
school superintendent; John D. Zim-
norman of Topeka, Endeavor society
superintendent; N. Lee Sorey of
Hutchinson, c. w. Cooper of Bonner
Springs, Clifton E. Rash of Topeka.
d. Y. Donaldson of Emporia, e. l..
Petit of Independence. The only Of
ficer absent was the vice president.
Jesse NJ. Bader of Atchison.
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peace will be found when the nations
of the world band themselves to-
gether to punish the first peace
breaker
His belief in a peace which will last
long enough for the nations of the
earth to take steps to make it perpet-
uaI is here indicated. If we must have
guns we probably can buy them after
the war much more cheaply than we
can make them.
While all the world is looking for
ward to lasting peace following the
close of the war why should the
United States make unusual prepare
tions for fight?
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SENATE NOTES

The Judiciary committee recon-
mended for passage the bill introduced
by kimball of Labette. providing that
the naming of receivers for public utiI-
lty corporations shall be left to the
utlhtles commission instead of to the
courts. Under the existing law the
court appoints all receivers without
consulting the commission, but the
new measure provides that the com
mission shall make an investigation
When a petition for receivership is
appned for, shall make a report to the
court and supply the name of the man
VINO is to become receiver if the petit
ton is granted
me judiciary committee of the SEN
aye 5t, mas recommended for passage the
oIi1 Introduced by Sutton of Stafford
authorizing cities and municina1itieS
TO vote bonds for the establishment of
municipal ice plants.
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NO MORE WAR.

i. The attention of those who fear that
the United States will become involved
in war with some foreign country after
the present fighting has ended and are
urging the expenditure of huge sums
for preparedness is directed to the
words of Lloyd The British
premier in his recent Guild Hall
speech voiced the following signifi-
cant utterance:
After the war the world will be
able to attend to its business in peace,
and in the future the best security for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-17
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

\, NEWTON REYNOLDS, age IS. son of
O'Clock this morning at the home 415 JEFF
ferson street. Arrangements for the flu
neral will be made later
ANNA ATKINSON, age 49, died Monday
day in local hospital. The funeral will
be held at O'Clock Thursday morning in
the Church of the Assumption. Interment
in Topeka cemetery. The body will lie in
state until s 30 O'Clock Thursday morning
in Shellabargers chapel.
ALMA MARTINSON. age IS died at her
home, III Clay street. The funeral will be
held at O'Clock Saturday afternoon in
the Swedish Baptist church. Interment in
Mount Hope cemetery.
DIR. IL f. KLEAIP. who died TUESDAY,
will be buried Thursday in Topeka ceme-
terry. Funeral services will be held at 80
o'clock Thursday afternoon in Penwell's
chapel.
MRS. ZELLA MAXWELL, age 80, wife
of w. II. Maxwell proprietor of the Jer-
sey Farm dairy, died Tuesday night at
her home after a short illness She leaves,
beside her husband, six children and her
father, Joseph MERCER of Toledo, o. Ar
engagements for the funeral will be made
later.
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With 81 wheat, dollar corn, 2O-cent
cotton and high prices for almost
everything else which the soil pro-
duces, says the Christian Science
Monitor, it is little wonder that the
American farmer is prosperous. He is
now able to pay off his mortgage and
buy an automobile. Whereas once it
was necessary for him to get money
from New York to move his crops, his
home banks now supply the needed
funds. He no longer is obliged to sell
his crops as soon as they are harvest
ed, but can hold them until he gets his
price. Moreover. he has plenty of
money in the bank. and his credit
is AL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-17
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Repressed emotion often induces
brooding.
The life of the poor speaks more
clearly than that of the well-to-do.
x X x
Wherever one finds contentment,
which implies happiness, there is his
o. 1 home place.
X X x
The mudslinging that follows the
leakage expose will spot many persons
before it stops up the real hole.
X x x
Fortunate is he who can supplement
a wide experience with the exuberant
enthusiasm of youth.
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Representative Lyons's bill

Representative Lyons's bill for
working district judges in territory
other than that from which they are
elected would afford an excellent OPP
portunity for the voters of a district
to wish an incompetent or undesirable
court upon their neighbors. Who
would care what sort of man is elected
judge so long as he will not sit in
any case in which the voter may be-
come interested.
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New York, Jan. Notwithstanding
paper, 3A G3A per cent. Sterling, 60 day
bills, 4.7A; commercial, GO day bills on
banks, Ar: commercial, 60 days. 4.71A I;
demand, 4155s; cables. 476A Francs de-
mand, 5.s4: cables, 5.s3 Marks, demand,
6SA cables. GS9s. Kronen. demand. lilo !;
cables, 11.15. Guilders. demand 40 1916 I;
cables, 40Is. Lires. demand, 695 cables,
COG Rubles, demand. 2915; cables, 29.25.
Bar silver. T5c; Mexican dollars 57%e.
Government bonds steady. railroad bonds.
steady. Time loans. go days. 2Jh@3; 80
days, 2%M3; months, 3G3H.
Call money, steady; higher, 2; low, ~ !;
10 offered at 2.
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ROTARY CLUB MEETING
Warden Codding to Appear at Cham
her of Commerce Thursday.

The place of meeting of the Rotary
club fer tomorrow noon has been
changed to the Chamber of Commerce
rooms
Warden Codding of the State peni-
tertiary will address the club giving
personal views of the parole system at
the Lansing prison.
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In Washington, the capital of the
republic, the departments of justice.
of labor and of commerce have no
buildings of their own. The govern
ment is paying 100000 a year rental
to private individuals in the capital
city Yet large sums are spent annual
ly to provide postoffice buildings for
towns of a few hundred inhabitants.
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Having failed to brighten or coerce
the Mexicans, apparently President
Wilson has now decided to try moral
suasion." 1t is reported that the army
will be withdrawn and he will, thru
his official representative. talk it over
with Carranza. What a farce the
presidents whole course toward Mex
leo has been from the attempt to make
her salute the flag on until today!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-17

The Hearst newspapers which always
have been strongly for war whenever
the United States has had a quarrel,
are just as urgent on the side of peace
in Europe.
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London, Jan. 1T.--Rome wireless
press messages from Berlin declare
disorders there are such that the mill
tary authorities have issued threat
ening manifesto. The wireless also
carried the rumor that the reichstag
may meet elsewhere than Berlin, be-
cause of the disorders
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LOCATE SEA RAIDER?
Norfolk Gets Wireless That Pirate Is
1000 Miles South in Atlantic

Norfolk, Va, Jan. IA German
commerce raider, presumably the one
reported TO have sunk a score of YES
sells in the south Atlantic. is oneratinor
LOCO miles south of the Virginia
capes, according to a warning flashed
broadcast by allied warships at noon
today.
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FLEE TO U. S. BORDER
Mcxicans. Chinese and Mormons Fear
Vengeance of Villa Forces.

Ell Paso, Tex, Jan. 17.-Alarmed by
reports of an impending withdrawal
of General Pershing's punitive expedi-
ton from Mexico, natives, Mormons
and Chinese in The territory now oc-
cupied by the American forces are
preparing to flee to the border to
escape the vengeance of Villa. The
bandit chief has issued many threats
to slaughter the residents of Dublan
district for 'tharbo-ing Gringoes
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The battle of notes which is in prog
ress among the European belligerents
has the advantage of being bloodless
and otherwise harmless.
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President Wilson should direct a
note to the suffragist picket calling
for a statement of its demands so that
the world may know what these wo-
men are suffering for.