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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-21
SHOW POWERFUL film
Hearts of Humanity" i'm Private Re-
view ut Orpheum This Morning.

Hearts of Humanity" a Universal
war superfeature, was shown for pri-
vate review this morning at the Or
pheum. The film, strictly a war pic
ture. is probably one of the most real
istic and powerful photo plays yet to
be made with the world war as ba-
SIS =
The arrogance of Hun militarisnl,
battles in trenches that stretch as far
as the eye can reach, Germans charg-,
ing allied troops while using women
and children as a shield, the abuse
of Red Cross nurses by the Huns and
the sufferings of French children
while their oppressors dump milk fur
nished by the American relief in the
streets before their eyes are all de-
picted. IS
The picture is one of the first really
big features to be attempted by the
Universal in some time. The company
made good in this one attempt, tho.
Battle scenes, realistic and depicted
with the proper equipment. airplanes
by the score, as many monster pieces
of artillery, water flooded trenches,
machine gun nests, all mingled with
touches of human interest and drama.
make the production more stupendous
than the great Griffith pictures.
Among the incidents portrayed is
the appearance of the American flag
on the battle line for the first time at
Vimy ridge.
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grew, Mildred found herself analyzing

grew, Mildred found herself analysing
his character.
There was a certain restraint about
him that she could not understand, but
she wondered if somehow he had
guessed who she really was. To set
him off the true scent she made fire.
quent mentions of returning back to
work" and alluded to the shop"
more than once.
His musical ability, tho, was the
most remarkable thing about him.
next to his good looks, of course. His
name, she had learned long before,
was Wellington Brand.
Mildred could just picture him be-
fore a large audience playing his way
into fame. After his first big success
she could picture herself receiving him
with open arms and kissing him in
pride.
Then he would be on a footing with
her, and she would have no reason to
be ashamed of kissing him. Never
before had she felt SO interested in an
others talent. Hers was more than
interest, she knew it, but did not ac-
knowledge it even to herself.
But Mildred was to get a terrible
shock. The scenario writer had start
ed his hero out in barber shop and
, many of the scenes lay around there.
so when Mildred reached this stage
in her search for atmosphere she went
out looking for a barber shop. Just
as she reached one in that district
the sound of a violin greeted her.
Heavens. There stood her genius
arrayed in a BARRIERS coat,~playing his
favorite air while apparently waiting
for a customer to appear mildred
/ faith in her own deductions of human
character faded right there. A lump
rose in her throat and a burning sem
sation assailed her eyes. She dis
agreed with the scenario writer.
A barber a genius? Never! No man
with both talent and common sense
could content himself with shaving
had discovered he was worthless just
when she had begun to care,
| Three days before the appointed
time Mildred appeared at the motion
| picture ready for work, but the leading
| man was not there.
actor" she told her director, in true
prima donna form. MY first picture
cannot be held up"
But, my dear Miss Cushing" the
director told her, Mr.. Linton is a
real star, the only one who is good
| you. He has been on location for
nearly a month just to put atmosphere
in the picture. He has been playing
his violin at barber shop in the tene-
Inent district, and we can't drive him
| back here. / believe there must be a
| how romance will find these actors or
| atmosphere jaunts.''
what does he look like?'' Mildred
cried eagerly. Perhaps he is my bar
Der musician, oh, If it only Isl"
That's me-" a familiar voice inter
| rupted. 1t was Wellington Brand. No
1t wasn't. The director introduced him
as Harry Linton. leading man.
Once their hands had met in well
come the director knew there was nc
starting on that picture for at least
an hour. 1t is hard to say which had
the most to tell the other of how just
| surprised they were.
When the director returned he took
lone look and then called out frantical-
/ ly, Camera, Quick Here's a scene
for featured
1 copyright, 1912 bv the Mcclure News.
:. paper Syndicate)
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social body cares, and so does the God
above, who is Jealous for the welfare
of his people below. There is never
an idol set up, in nation or in
human breast. that the loving Father
of all is not grieved and offended.
Swiftly Moses was sent down to deal
with the perverse Israelites-only to
find them as shifty, evasive and ir-
responsible as they had been idola-
trous. They who disobey God in any
one point soon find other sins easy
and inevitable. Moses burned with
hot indignation; he had all of great
mans capacity for strong feeling. His
anger caused him to cast to the ground
the tables of stone upon which Gods
finger had written; for of what use
was law to such characterless people
as these? And he ground to powder
the golden calf, and he sent an aveng-
impenitent, SO that there fell three
thousand men. All who overturn the
law must fall beneath the law.
A Great Man in a Crisis.
What blazing figure is the old
prophet, as he strides about the COVER
ing camp, the very incarnation of di-
vine judgment! The picture Quickens
the ina gination. Yet if Moses had
tremendous powers of indignation he
had still greater powers of compass
sion. In this crisis he proved himself
, a constructionist. Jehovah was ready
had so insultingly repudiated him. The
narrative, with strong anthropo-
morphism, represents Jehovas as wax
| ing so wroth against the stiff-necked
pilgrims that he was ready to con-
sumo them in his wrath.
Then arose Moses, the majestic, as
an intercessor. yet now" he cried,
eff thou wilt forgive their sin; and
| if not, blot me, 1 pray thee, out of
the books which thou has written.
| There spoke the very spirit of Cal
vary. Moses so identified himself
with the people, and loved them SO
much better than they loved them
selves, that for their sakes he was
wi-lin- to be accused. That is the
| sort of prayer Jehovah always hears
| Is it any wonder that he answered
| the plea of Moses? Nevertheless, the
| people should suffer for that calf; the
Jews themselves have a tradition that
at least one ounce of the powder OF
| the golden calf has been mingled in
each of their later calamities.
| The practical application of the
whole lesson is admirably put by Pc
| loubet: Never think. when you take
a start in idol worship, that you will
| stop there. The idol must have ar
altar. The altar must have an offer
| ing. The whole must haN : a temple
Every sin is elf-perpetuating. Besir
| to love money more than God, and the
| great idol of mammon will soon make
a temple of your life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-21

The most satisfactory tendency of
the economic outlook is the conspicu-
Gus trend toward lower prices in the
wholesale markets. altho this move
ment has not yet materially influenced
retail prices. which practically remain
at the war level. despite the fact that
hostilities ceased three months ago.
Drastic cuts have been made in sta
pie cotton fabrics, which in some cases
are today zoe to 81 Y lower than the
top prices of 1918. Cotton is down to
about Csc compared with 81 Il C year
ago; print cloths have dropped from
10s4 to &c: sheetings from 20Ac to
lie, ginghams from 25c to 22c. Wool
and wooden goods have also declined
materially. The declines in steel and
copper are already familiar, and in
dustrial chemicals have fallen 20 to
80 per cent since the armistice The
fall in commodities must before long
reach consumers, says Henry Clews in
his Financial Review. and will be the
basis for restarting idle machinery or
releasing long deferred enterprises
Building operations already show signs
of revival. and more building estt-
mates were reported last week than in
any week during the past two years,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-21
PUBLIC HEALTH SUNDAY.

February % has been designated as
public health Sunday. Every minis
ter in the nation has been asked by
Surgeon General Rupert Blue of the
public health service to present on
that day to the people of his church
the necessity for the continuance of
the energetic health campaign carried
on during the war in the cantonment
and extra-cantonment zones thruout
the country.
This appeal. it is hoped, will obtain
the cooperation of the churches and
of all the people of the nation in the
effort of the United States public
health service to - as much for the
health of all the people of this nation
as has already been done for the
health of our soldiers and sailors. The
surgeon general emphasizes particu-
larly the need for more public health
nurses in any general health campaign
or in any wo. k directed specifically
against the menace of any particular
disease. Recognition of the work of
the public health nurses of the army
camps should be encouraged, but the
most sincere token of our gratitude to
them will be the steps which we take
to continue their work at home.
The surgeon general of the public
health service asks fora general pub
lie health program in each commun-
ity. of which public health nurses shall
be a part. For the sake of our SOL
diers as well as for our own sake, the
fight waged against disease in our
camps must be continued at home.
The public health nurse can help US to
, win it. She can bring to the sick,
skilled care which will help to cure
disease. She can bring to the well,
education in the principles of health
which will prevent disease. She is
needed by our soldiers and our work
ers, our mothers and our children. and
| in every community in the nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-21
THE suRE.THING GAME.

In the proposal of the railroad
brotherhoods to take over and oper-
ate the railroads appears a striking
between the principles actuating labor
and capital. Labor says: I'VE will
take no risk. Heads we win; tails you
lose. Give US the railroads under suit
able conditions and We will do our
best to operate them. We will take
half the profits, if there be any, but
we will stand no losses" Capital says:
I'VE will take the risk. We want the
roads under proper conditions. Sc
cured against burdens for which we
are not responsible. We are willing
to take a chance on losses if we be
permitted to make a reasonable prof
it"
Soap box orators and doctrinaires,'
says the Wollman Review, may de-
claim against wage slavery and unjust
division of wealth but the fundamen-
tai fact remains that men arg divided
into two classes-those who will bet
There are those who want the assur-
ance of the weekly pay envelope and
those who strike out without that
financial life-preserver. One becomes
employee and the other employer. Ma
ture appears to divide them as I'M
erringly as she determines sex"
The man with the pay envelope
| takes little risk so long as times are
good and he gives efficient service.
viz vic
erything. but he also stands to win
| larger rewards. If he start with cap
ital-his own or borrowed-he may
| lose that and become discredited. He
takes that chance. No man yet has
ever won the reward of enterprise and
at the same time chung to the sure
thing
| Some day we will revise our eco
nomic vocabulary continues the Re-
view, and for the term Capital we
will substitute enterprise" For it is
the spirit of enterprise backed by cap
ital that has made our country what
it is today. 1t is enterprise that has
given us all the progress improve
ments. comforts and Injuries we en-.
joy today. It hos showered it's bene.
fits on the people of the world. It has
taken its rewards for the risk it took
Labor has taken its sure return in tht
form of the pay envelope. which hap
PLY and rightfully has grown larger
But if labo- wants the profits of enter
prise it must take the risks that enter
prise takes. 1t can't have it "botl
ways" Nobody can.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-21
TAKES RUSSIA'S PLACE
Berger Emits Red" Talk After He Is
Sentenced


Chicago, Feb. 21.-Victor L. Berger,
who was sentenced to twenty years in
the Leavenworth prison yesterday on
a charge of violation of the espionage
act, today gave newspaper men the
following statement:
The sentence proves that the
United Stats of Amrica takes the place
of old Russia and the car as the bull
wark or reactionary and tyrannical
aristocracies of the world. 1t will take
the people thirty years hard fighting
to win back the civil liberties which
we have lost in the last year and a
half, unless labor and Socialism take
the short cut and show the ruling
classes that conditions at the first half
of the eighteenth century cannot be
r-established in the first half of the
twentieth century, even with the help
of Burleson, Gregory and the secret
service.
1.-The hope CT the world today is in
the international Socialistic movement
If international Socialism does not pre-
vent it, we will have capitalistic autoc-
racy or Industrial anarchy or both"
May Hold His Seat.
Washington, Feb. 21.-Sentencing of
Victor L. Berger, Socialist congress
man-elect from Wisconsin, does not
automatically exclude him from the
Sixty fifth congress.
The house, under the constitution, is
judge of its own membership and SO
will have to pass on Berger's fitness
to hold his seat when his credentials
are presented.
No member would Predict the
houses action
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-21

All except s61,332. 900 of the orig
inaI $500, 100000 revolving fund of the
railroad administration has now been
used. Director General Hines reported
in connection with his financial state
ment for January. In that month
$9S,269,000 was advanced to railroads
or paid for new cars and locomotives.
The director general received $685.
600 from railroads and s1O,327. 900
from express companies during the
month. Total net advances made to
railroads and for equipment amount
to $7S0,274.o00 and, receipts have
amounted to $237.6o5. 900 from rail-
roads and s57.24s.0oo from express
companies, Outstanding loans are
s151, 254.O00, and roads still owe the
government s144.5s5.0O0 on account of
equipment purchased for them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-21

Up to this time the only Russian
faction that has agreed to meet rep
resentatives of the allies in conference.
to discuss the future of Rus is the
one made up of murderers, assassins,
looie-s and traito~- who sold out the
country TO Germany. Our good, hon
est, mild hammered fellow citizen, Will
liam Allen White, may feel himself Ill
at case in such a crowd. But it may
lie that he expects to do missionary
work. His brand of socialism is not
of the Bolshevist type. He is inclined
to rely on moral suasion as a means
of reforming society.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-21
BRITAIN INTO AIR WORK
Get Ready for Commercial Work by
the Airplanc Route.

London, Feb. 90 british wireless
service.) Preparations must be
made for the day when all British air
routes will play a great part in the
maintenance of the commercial ex-
istence of the British empire said
Maj. Gen. Sir Frederick Sykes, con-
troller general of civil aviation, in an
address before members of the Aus
tralian and New Zealand Luncheon
club today. He said that the British
government had for some time been
engaged in mapping out stages on air
routes from Cairo to Australia by way
of Karachi. Singapore and the Sunda
Islands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-21
BANK BILL COMING
Bergen State Reserve Plan to
Be Reported Out Monday.
Opposition to Measure Is Max
ing Strenuous Fight.

Senator Charles E. Snyder. chair
man of the senate committee on banks
and banking. has announced that the
Bergen state reserve bank bill proba-
bly, will come from the committee
next Monday, both the opponents and
the friends of the measure having had
hearing. n
Probably no measure before the
legislature has drawn more attention
than this bill. The majority of the
large bankers and a large number of
posed to 1t and have made known
their opposition in no uncertain terms.
Also. many members of the State
Bankers association are strongly In
favor of the bill and they have been
busy since the opening days of the
legislature trying to get supporters.
The principal arguments of the OPP
ponents of the bill are that it will
nize the finances OF the state,
tie up the resources of the banks and
prove impracticable in many ways.
The principal features advocated by
the supporters of the measure are that
1t will do away with the float" evil
and will enable the state bankers to
enjoy privileges of the Federal Re-
serve system they do not now enjoy.
Opponents doubt that a state can
affiliate with the Federal system and
| they assert that as much of the float
evils can be remedied can be reached
In much simpler way.
Committee Against 1t.
| 1t is understood that the senate
] committee stands seven to three
against the measure and that seven
members are SO thoroly convinced it
Is undesirable and dangerous that
they stand ready to vote that the bill
| be sent out with the recommendation
that it be not passed.
However, the friends of the measure
are using every influence in their
power to get the committee TO send
the bill before the senate as a COM
mittee Of the whole for consideration.
Having despaired of getting the COM
mittee to recommend its passage the
supporters are now urging that it be
sent out without recommendation A
short time ago one of the supporters
of the bill admitted that such action
on the part of the committee would
practically mean certain defeat on the
floor. but the thoro study the COM
i mittee has given the bill has SO con-
WINGED members of its impracticability
that the Bergen crowd has despaired
of any favorable recommendation and
Is devoting all efforts to get 1t out
without an unfavorable recommends
| ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-21

No more meritorious legislation has
sion than that involved in Represen-
tative Hegler's resolution providing
home rule for cities. The needs of
municipalities are so many and vary
so in character from those of rural
districts that they are not always I'M
derstood or appreciated by farm and
village jewellers. 1t always has been a
serious handicap to urban progress
and development that the municipali-
ties have been compelled to ask per-
mission of a legislature, composed
largely of farmers. when they have
wanted to take a forward step. Not
content with cxerting a repressive in
fluence on the towns, the rural repre-
sentative often endeavors to interfere
with city affairs which do not concern
this may be cited the attempt by leg
islative act to regulate the length of
the skirts worn by vaudeville actresses
and the effort to provide a censorship
for vaudeville acts. The cities have
power to regulate these things by or
dinance if they desire to do SO. The
state law which compels a member OF
a street car crew to descend from his
car at every railroad crossing was
originated by member of the legis-
lature who, it is said, never saw a
. street car until he came to Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-21
ONLY II CASES OF FLU
Number of New Reports Today Set.
Low Record in This City.

Releases numbering sixteen at $3.50
o'clock today were leading the new
cases of influenza totalling only
eleven. Eleven is the smallest num-
Der Of new cases received up to this
hour of the day for many days. The
west side of town still maintains the
largest concentration of influenza,
says DR.. H. L. Clark, city health Of
ficer.
Children will not be permitted to at
tend the concert by MarshalPs band
at the auditorium Sunday afternoon,
says DR.. Clark. The same order will
apply on the concert that is in force
against the children under 16 years of
age attending theaters. 1t is not
probable that Sunday schools, either
will be permitted to hold their reg
ular meetings unless supervised by a
doctor or a nurse as has been the reg
ulation for the last few Sundays.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-21
WILL. KEEP PROOF
OF HIS DEATH AS
TROPHIES OF WAR

junction City. Feb. 21.-Two of the
trophies of the war that Private Ir-
win, a Lawrence boy, with the Fourth
overseas convalescent company. most
prizes, are a war department notice
of his death, and letter from the
Kansas State Historical society re-
questing his picture, to add to the
Photographic record of the states de-
ceased heroes. Irwin, who is at Camp
Funston. recovering from wounds re-
ceived in France. beat his own death
notice home and received it while on
a furlough with relatives in Lawrence.
He formerly was with Company H,
137th infantry, Thirty-fifth Division.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-21
FOR A COURT MARTIAL
Assailant of Premier ClcmeHceau VIII
Get No Civil Trial.

Paris. Feb. 21.-Emile Coffin, the
assailant of Premier Clemenceau, will
be tried by courtmartial instead of by
a civil court. Captain Bouchardso.
who investigated the Bolo Pasha and
other cases for the military court will
conduct the Investigation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-21

The entrance of, the presidents SON.
in-law into the movies, combined with
his prospective candidacy for the pres
ideney, leads the New York Herald to
make suggestions as to possible cabi-
net members as follows: Secretary of
state. Charles Chaplin; secretary of
treasury. Mary Pickford; secretary of
war. w. S. Hart; secretary of navy,
FATTY" tRoscoe) Arbuckle; secretary
of interior, Bessie Love; secretary of
agriculture, Douglas Fairbanks.
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New York Money Market.

New York. Feb. 2f.-MONEY-Mercant
bills. 4.73Iz commercial. 60 day bills on
banks. 4.72A: commercial, 90 day bills,
4.72h: demand, 1910: cables. 4.16 ZIG.
Mexican dollars, TIC. Government bonds.
irregular; railroad bonds. firmer. Time
loans. firmer: 80 days. 30 days and 8
months, 5A651s.
Call money. hrmer: high, 51l low, Az /:
ruling rate. 81 closing bid Az: offered at
8; last loan. 3. Bank acceptauces. Az.
Final prices on liberty bonds today were:
31z's. $50; first convertible As. 9292; see-
ond as, 1885: first convertible AVS. 1926:
second convertible AVS, 94.3S; third AVS.
1872: fourth as. 9f.3O.