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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-05
CAN SAVE MUCH
Ordinary Efficiency in Public
ONCE Would Pay Big.
SAYS Senator Thomas Of Colo
RADIO in en- Address.

New York. Dec. 5.-Ordinary eff
cheney in public administration would
save the people of this country $780,
900, 900 a year, United States Senator
Charles S. Thomas, Of Colorado, told
the Association of Life Insurance
Presidents in thrift conference
which began today. Senator Thomas
is q member OF the senate committee
of finance.
1.-The war leaves us a legacy of a
etupendous debt declared Senator
Thomas 1T will reach, if it does not
exceed, $35, 100000, or twice as
much as the combined debt of the al
lied nations, including Russia, when the
war began. The annual interest upon
this stupendous sum will be $1,4OO.-
100000, nearly twice the net total of
the nations annual pre-war expendi-
ture This means vastly increased
rate and radius of taxation. The peo-
pie must bear the burden, for Ger
many cannot make indemnity. They
will bear it willingly If economy in
public administration and the appli-
cation of every dollar to the public
needs shall become the policy Of the
government. They will not and should
not be content if the gross extrava-
gances of the past continne-. Senator
Thomas declared that American shores
nave Deen llOOueu WIFI d mass VI hu
mainly apparently unassimfiable. The
Immigrants colonies have become
national plague spots, breeding places
for all the ugly disorders of the cen
fury" Disruption of the central pow
ers, he believed, would remove all re-
strictions upon emigration of their
people. 1.-The DAM" he declared,
must be erected on this side of the
Atlantic.
"Your city typifies the general sit
uation. 1t contains the germs of every
social and political disorder. Parts
of it's press are constant sewers of
Sedition. From such congenial soil
was bred the Black Hand and 1. w.
w. A powder magazine unguarded
is not more dangerous to the com
munity.
Into the face of this sinister men,
ace, wealth flaunts the orgies of the
Great White Way. 1t thus supplies
the East side with text and justifica-
ton. A population, suilcn with the
discomfort of poverty. confronted with
the vulgar and ostentatious display of
lavish extravaganza, will not always
remain quiescent. An explosion is
excepting Lenine. nearly all the lead
ers of Russian Bolshevism graduated
from the swarming centers OF New
York. Chicago and Philadelphia.
Their bloody program was formula ed
here and here. they proposed to test
1t, when opportunity beckoned and
Russia became their victim.
THE war has taught us the wisdom
and simplicity of thrift. We should
make it national virtue. 1t is the
best cure for discomfort"
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FLU CLAIMS TEACHER
Prof. b. O. Severson Succum5s to
Influenza Plague.

Manhattan, Kan, Dec 6.@Prof. B.
o. Severson. associate professor in
animal husbandry at the Kansas State
Agricultural college. died Wednesday
morning at o'clock at the Charlotte
Swift hospital of influenza. Professor
Severson was at his office Monday
and was taken to the hospital Tuesda I.
He is survived by his wife and one
child.
Professor severson moved to Man
haitian the last of August, following
his election as associate professor,
from the State college in Pennsyl-
vania. He succeeded Capt. E. n.
Wentworth, who is now in France
with the A. E. F.
Professor Severson received his
bachelors degree from the University
of Wisconsin, his masters degree from
the University of Pennsylvania. and
had completed almost enough work in
the University of Illinois to receive the
highest scholastic degree, doctor of
philosophy. For the last eight years
he has been a member of the animal
husbandry department of Pennsyl-
yania State college.
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SELECT THE WOMEN
Fourteen of Them Axe Nominees for
Parliament in England.

London, Dec. 5.-Among the candi-
dates for parliament nominated
"Wednesday were fourteen women.
They include Miss Christabel Pank
hurst, daughter of Mrs. Emmelipe
Pankhurst, the suffrage leader: Mrs.
Frederick Pethick Lawrence, joint edi-
tor of Votes for Women: Miss Mary
Macarthur. secretary of the British
Women's Trades union, and Countess
Georgina Markievicz of Dublin, the
Sim F'ein leader.
Miss .Christabel Pankhurst has been
movement more than ten years. In 1905.
she was imprisoned for ten weeks for n
political offense and thereafter figured i'll
the harassing of Premier Asquith, the
other incidents. She was for two years
Mrs. Frederick Pethick Lawrence VS. ar
conspiring to incite riots by suffragettes.
Sentenced to nine months Imprisonment,
she started hunger strike. She was re-
leased on her promise to abandon further
came estranged from Mrs. E,nmeline Pank-
hurst and helped to organize non mill
tant suffrage movement in England.
National Federation of Women Workers.
Some years ago, when she plsnned to at
tend the Womens Trade Union league cons
refused her n passport. Since the war the
organization of which she is the head.
Joined the British labor party and entered
actively into politics. The Countess Geor-
and dramatist. living in Dublin, figured
proIninently in the Sim Fem uprising of
Easter week in 1916. A few months pre1i-
ously the police raided her house in Lou
don and seized pro-tserman literature. an
the Dublin affair. the countess killed a
guard during an attempt to capture Dublin
this was commuteu to life Imprisonment.
few months later she was released.
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HELD IN BOCHE PRISONS.
Sixteen Americans From This Part Of
the Country Are Listed.

Washington, Dec. 5.-The list of en-
listed men in German prison camps
from Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and
Nebraska was announced today by the
war department as follows:
Camp Rastatt-Theodore W. Con-
cry, Cody. Neb-: Ola Wrinkle, Tarkio.
MOI Robert LndIey. Stockton Mo. !;
Emery A. Dodge, Burlington juno
ton, Mo-: Edgar L. Jones, Coffeyville,
KAN; Ernest Rauber. Hamilton, Mo. !;
Allen L. Brown. jefferson City, Mo-;
Elmer W. Vail, Fort Scott. Kan. !;
Melvin Dyson. Oskaloosa, Kan: Clar-
ence P. Oliver. Dexter, Mo-; Joseph
P. Plante. Damar, Kan; Emmett Blan-
ton. Broken Bow. Ok: Aubrey L.
LadIow, Cawker City, Kan.
Camp Bayruth-Lemiel A. Parks,
New Hampton, Mo.
Camp Unknown-wounded, Albert
Rudolph Sitz, Hays City. Kan
Metz, Germany-Corp. Joseph H.
Bishop. Dill. OK, in hospital at Metz.
shot wound in both legs
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WILL LEAVE FORTRESS
England Will Not Require the Return
of HelgOland From Germany.

London. Dec. 5.-The British naval
authorities have decided that it will be
unnecessary to demand the return of
Heigoland to Great Britain from Ger
many. Winston Spencer Churchill, the
minister of munitions announced in a
speech at Dundee. a..
Mr.. Churchill also said the govern
ment had decided upon the national
ization of the railways
I'VE enter the peace conference"
said Mr.. Churchill. during the course
of his address, with the absolute de-
termination that no limitations shall
be imposed on our right to maintain
our naval defense. We do not intend.
no matter what arguments and appeals
are addressed to US. to lend ourselves
in any way to any lettering restrictions
which will prevent the British navy
maintaining its we'll tried and well de-
served supremacy"
The leland IF Helgoland. formerly Dan
1890 Great Britain coded 1t to Germany,
who began developing it into an extremely
important naval base. 1t lies in the North
Sea off the mouths of Elbe and Weser and
off the entrance to the kiel canal which It
dominates.
The island was n German naval strong
hold turnout the great war. Its occuta-
ton by the allies was under consideration
shortly after the signing of the armistice
appear doubtful IL Germany would com; "
with the naval terms of the armistioe.
These, however, seem since to have been
fulfilled nearly in their entirety.
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COLD WAVE COMING

Continued from Page One.)
cordfng to weatheS bureau report this
morning, which predicts the coming
of a cold wave, to reach the north part
Of the state tonight, and due to ar
rive here Friday.
The mercury went to 80 at three
o'clock this morning but has risen
rapidly today, and reached 81 at 2
o'clock this afternoon.
The extremes OF temperature re-
corded for this date are: highest, 66
in 1892. and lowest, 9 in 1895.
There has been but little precipita-
ton over the state, and no snow is
recorded. The cold wave started
from Edmonton, Canada, where there
is a temperature of 2 above zero, and
is travelling rapidly southwark.
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Topeka MARKET :sepore.
tPriccs furnished by Wolff Packing Co..
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GO BACK TO WORK TODAY
2,4OO Cleveland Street Car Men Vote
on the Return.

Cleveland, Dec. 5.-The 2,400 street
car men who went on strike at five
o'clock Tuesday morning because the
employment of women conductors.
and since which hour not a car has
been operated, probably will return
to work at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon
with cars in operation on all lines.
The strikers will assemble at l p. m.
today to vote on terms that their
union leaders have accepted for them.
The women conductors are to be
eliminated from the street car service
not later than March /. That is the
proposition union leaders will endorse
to the strikers. and 1t was evolved at
a conference of all interested parties
in the mayors Office that ended at S
q. m. today. This conference followed
an all night meeting of the city
council
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PARIS WELL FILLED
Prices of Hotc. Rooms and Meals Arc
Soaring as Result.

Paris, Dec. 5.-Paris is filled to
Overlooking. Prices of all hotel rooms
following the requisitioning of TWEEN
ty-five hotels for peace conference
purposes have doubled and tripled and
are still going up. Food in restaurants
and prices generally are similarly
mounting A breakfast of coffee,
bread and butter continues to cost be-
tween 81 and $3.50 at hotels. 1t is
virtually impossible to lunch or dine
for less than three or four dollars for
simple meal. People arriving at the
city frequently so to fifteen or twen-
ty hotels before they can secure rooms
for which the owners demand large
sums and refuse to lower. their rates
saying they can get the price.
The city is becoming more crowded
daily with the bulk of the conference
officials and others interested in get
ting rooms, such as several hundred
Of the worlds newspaper correspon-
dents not yet here. Where persons of
the latter class are going to find ac-
commodations nobody in Paris knows.
In addition to all the other arrivals,
officers and men of all the armies are
coming to Paris on leave in consider
able numbers. Sometimes as many us
twenty officers stand for an hour in
front of hotel offices waiting for
somebody to leave when they all de-
mand accommodations.
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DAILY STATE JOURNAI-THURsDAY EVENING DECEMBER
N0WlT IS "CkUG"
Second Reporter To Handle Flu Goes
Homo With 1t.

Homo with IL.
A week or so ago DOG Longen-
ecker. State Journal rep4ster. went
home one day, right aftAr he had
written a story of the flu epidemic.
and since that time has been confined
to his bed with the disease. He had
written columns about the epidemic.
he had written yards about symptoms
and cures.
Immediately after he left W. G..
Clugston, copy reader in the State
Journal local room, took up the reins
dropped suddenly by Longenecker.
The cases have been going over the
100 mark daily and Clugston. buff
feted about from city hall to state
house and from city physician to
health commissioner, began to feel the
symptoms he had been spreading daily
turnout his flu stories.
Last night "Clus" went home with
the flu.
Today w. D. Wolfe, another re-
porter, is on the job.
1t is a good plan for reporter to
put his mind on his work. but it is
earnestly hoped that Wolfe will keep
his mind off from it.
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Have Authority Over Several
Hundred Thousand Huns.
Accept Situation With a Re.
markabIe Complacency.
life IS NORMAL THERE NOW
Germany Will Pay Expenses of
the Third Army.
Occupation of Several Large
Towns Now Is Reported.

With the Americans in Prussia
Dec. 5.--Several hundred thousand
Germans are now under American au-
thority. They are accepting the sit
uation with remarkable quietness and
complacency, and are not finding this
authority onerOus. Astonishment is
often expressed at the American lack
of harshness and their policy of non-
Interference.
Normal life is going on in the occn-
pied towns and peasants are blowing
the fields as the troops march past.
Factories are humming with activity.
Hundreds of discharged German SOL
diers are passing thru the American
lines. 1 recently saw some of these
men still in their uniforms working
in the fields.
The Americans are gradually taking
over supervision of the telegraph,
telephone and postal systems Ameri-
irving at Treves, which is now gen.
orally referred to under its French
name of Trier. This traffic does not
interfere with regular passenger
= trains.
Germany Pays Expenses.
Under the terms of the armistice,
Germany will pay the expenses of the
Third army. The Americans. there
fore, are giving receipts for all requi-
sitions and billets. which will be COL
1ected from the, German government.
The burgomasters of the villages are
cooperating in assigning billets.
DEGREES have been issued, ordering
the surrender of all arms and am
munition. The people in some towns
have already turned over their guns
and receipts have been given them.
- Corps and division headquarters are
generally established in school h ,,lscs
or other public buildings.
The only untoward incident recent
1y reported occurred today, when
some school children in the little viii
2 1age of Scheich, threw decayed vege-
tables at American officers. The lat<
ter ignored the affair.
The most advanced elements of the
Third army have occupied the towns
of Wittlich, Berncastel and Zetlinger.
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T0DAY'S MARKET REPORTS

Chicago. Dec .5.-CORN-Light receipts
and scarcity of offerings gave some
strength today to the corn mafke3 Curtain
men of supplies was attributed In sOpe
measure to the spread of influenza thrt
the farming communities and to the CON
sequent restriction of labor. It was sail
also that shippers were anticipating an
improved demand from the east. Opening
prices, which varied from BE off to sc
and February sis8ls to si85il were foi-
lowed by period of unsettIement and
then by a general upturn to well above
yesterdays finish.
In the later trading. prices fluctuhted
rapidly but kept within n narrow range
with commission houses and local traders
on both sides Of the market and with
northern Illinois offerings enlarged. The
close was nervous, 1ssc net lower to &c
advance, january and February both lat
$1.31H to $1.32.
-OATS-Absence of export inquiries made
oats relatively weak. After opening un-
changed to &c lower, with January 72Ac
to 12kc. the market sngged further, but
subsequently recovered.
OvISIONS-Provisions were dull aid
irregular: Pork was steady; lard firm and
ribs weak.
Chicago Grain and Provision Market.
1.-THE range of prices on grain futures On
Chicago Board of Trade as reported by
ThOs. J. Myers, 301 N. E. BIdg)
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BUY RADIO STATIONS
Government Has Bought All Except
FOnr High Power Plants.

Washington. Dee. 5.-An the Amer
lean Marconi radio, stations, except the
four high power plants, have been
bought by the navy department, it was
officially learned here.
At the same time~it developed that
the department purchased the great
Sayville station recently from the
alien property custodian.
With the Marconi purchases, the
American Marconi company relin-
pushes the field Of handling ship-to-
shore MESA ges
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Market
Morning Grain Gossip.
Furnished by the Topeka Board Of Tratle.l

Chicago Dec. 5.-The Tribune: Grain
There were many traders after the close
who said they believed corn futures may
have to advance to a level where terminal
markets could compete with feeders. bat
after an advance of over 10 cents in d week,
and the country showing more disposition
to sell to arrive. sharp breaks were to be
expected as the short interest has been
reduced. There il said to be considerable
shortage among shippers on cash sales and
in December. With corn futures at .nc
highest IF the seaso1 for present deliveries,
the feeling in some quarters last night wis
little more mixed. few traders we're
others advised against buying ON bulgcs,
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Let Them Fly.

Washington. Dec. 5.-Army aviators
who go on the inactive list of the re-
serve corps after rehabilitation are
to be given an opportunity to keep
in practice by flying military planes.
A war5department announcement to-
d-y outlines a plan contemplating
that reserve aviators will be called
TO active service at army flying fields
for two weeks each year for exper-
fence with up to date planes.
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STUDY ORGANIZATION
Peoples OF Small States in Europe Are
in Session in Paris.

Paris, Dec. 5.-Representatives of
the Polish. Jugo-Slav, Eumanian and
Czecho-Slovak national councils are in
session here to study the reorganiza-
issued declare that only thru a per-
manent understanding among these
four nations can future peace be main
tanned,
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KEEP THE RAILROADS
Wilson Has No Immediate Intention
of Releasing Control.

Washington, Dec. 5.-President
Wilson has no immediate intention of
returning the railroads under govern
ment control to private ownership,
but intends to wait a reasonable time
for congress to formulate and pre-
sent some future policy. This was
stated today by Senator Smith of
South Carolina, chairman OF the sem
ate interstate commerce committee.
who had an hours conference with
President Wilson last night before the
latter left Washington.
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Washington. Dec. 5.-The capital
was presidentless today but thru the
Arlington wireless, the government
maintained communication with the
George Washington. carrying the
chief executive to the Paris peace
conference.
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END FUEL REQUlSITION
Industrial Plants Now Will Work Out
Own Problems.

Washington, Dec. 5.-All requisi-
tons of the fuel administration for the
shipment of bituminous coal to In
dustrial plants have been cancelled
The administration today announced
that it's policy in the future will be to
leave to the plants themselves the
work of obtaining fuel. which it is be-
1ieved can be accomplished without
difficulty
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Gould to Hospital.

New York. Dec. 5.-George ].
Gould is patient at Roosevelt hos
pital here. recovering after an opera
ton for stone in his left kidney Gould
had been suffering from the ailment
for four weeks Physicians say he is
now out of danger and resting COM
fortably
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PAPER BAN OFF

Restrictions on News Print Paper
Withdrawn December Is.
Washington, Dec. 5.-All restric-
tons on the use of ne VS. print paper
were Withdrawn today by the war in
dustries board, effective December / s..
In making this announcement, Chair
man Baruch urged the adoption of
permanent rules by publishers prohib-
iting wasteful practices and continued
voluntary conservation of reading
matter space for a time.
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DIES OF PNEUMONIA
Harry Clair Van TnsselI WINS Vic
tim in France.

Mrs. Errna Van Tassell, Ct 430 VIII
low avenue, has received word that
her husband, Harry Clair Van Tassell.
died of pneumonia November 8, at
Limoges, France.
game. but he entered the service from
Topeka, joining the saith ambulance
company which was organized by Dr..
C. H. Lerrigo as the Washburn am
bulance corps. He is survived by
his wife, and by his parents, Mr.. and
MRS. w. H. Van Tassell, of Burlin-
game. The widow of Van Tassell is
living with her uncle and aunt. Mr..
and Mrs. C. NJ. Case. of Willow avenue.
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Manchester. Eng, Dec. 5.-Presi-
dent Wilson. the Guardian today says
II understands. will spend a few days
comforting with Colonel E. M. House.
In Paris and will so thence to Rome.
returning from Italy to spend Christ
mas in London and going again to
Paris for the remainder of his visit. .
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OhAH1A S1NlhE S11LL 10 ON.
And the Street Railways of Two Cities
Are Tied Up.

Omaha, Dec. 5.-The strike of street
railway employees still has the street
railway of Omaha and Council Bluffs,
completely tied up. Union leaders
SAID the strike will continue until their
demands for union recognition are
granted
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Kansas City, Dec. 5.-HOGS-Ieceipts
II COO Market steady. Bulk of snies. $11.a5
butchers. 81 .25G1T.10; lights, $170O@11.tb;
Market steady. Prime fed steers. S1S.0Oef
2010: dressed beef steers, $12OOM 800;
western steers. $1,000 Ia. 90 southern xteprs
S600M 1900: COWS. $3.50 II 80; heifers, 81. 10
a Il so: stockers and feeders. $G.50a 1850:
bnlls. s6.5c6f9.00: calves. S5.Oo6 1350.
SHEEP-Receipts 1000. Market strong.
Lambs s1200615.35: yearlings. $1a0a6f
1900: wethers, -. GOA 1870: ewes. SSU01
as; stockers and feeders. S6.00M17.50.
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WANTS THE WIRELESS
Secretary Daniels Today Advocated
Government Control of System.

Washington, Dec. 5.-Government
monopoly of all wireless in the UEited
States and its possessions was advo-
Gated by Secretary of the Navy Daniels
TODAY.
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Eaufpments and Motors recording fraction
al resessions but the list soon steadied
a moderate inquiry for rails and shippings:
also specfaities, Including Tobacco and
Sugar issues. Liberty fourth 4A's were
agnin active at the new low record of 6.4
. Pools were Ictive in specialtfes, tobaccos
Oils and mailing preferred also advanc 81
1 to 81 points. Royal Dutch proving an
exception at point decline. Gains were
largely relinQuislied later when rails steeis
and copperS fell back. United States Steel
being under special pressure Mt an extreme
decline Of 1A. Marine preferred rose =
points but yielded to the heaviness of 9TH r
leaders. Sentiment was adversely N
nuenced by further reverses In liberty
bonds, the fourth 4E4's dropping to 95.o6.
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FIND WORK FOR SOLDIER


Solving Problem.
New York, Dec. 5.-The nations
war work organization which aided
during the war in financing plans to
make easier the lot of the American
troops abroad have Joined in a move-
ment to solve the Unemployment prob
lem confronted by the returning SOL
diers, it was announced here today.
The efforts of these bodies will be
coordinated under a united council
of Unemployment" under the direction
of the U. S. employment service.
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New York, Dec 5.-BUTTER-Market
weak. reamcry higher than extras CSHs6
G9c. ~ ''NS
EGGS-Market Irregular. Fresh gathered
extras. I5c.
CIIEESE-Market strong. State Whole
milk flats. specials. SIC
IOULTRY-Alive, irregular; dressed,
quiet.