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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-04
A SUNSET VISION.

The summer sun was sinking low.
Its mellow golden rays still shining;
Beneath it hung low-banked cloud,
OF azure blue and silver lining.
And all athwart the ev'ning sky,
There CLEANED a radiance supernal
Filling the soul with blissful thoughts,
OF things celestial and eternal
: Long I gazed-my soul a-thrilling.
At the wondrous beauty of the sighti
And l thought of that bright city,
Radiant with celestial light.
As 1 gazed, my spirit seemed to wander
Thru peaceful gold-paved street;
And l heard the angel chorus, singing
Symphonies, most wondrous sweet.
And I saw a happy, white robed boy,
Chanting praises clear and sweet
AS he gently laid his trophies down,
At the blessed Masters feet.
Then I heard a voice of wondrous sweet
ness,
9 Kindly saying to the waiting boy,
Z eSvell done, thou good and faithful servant
Enter into everlasting joy"
And then the glorious vision vanished,
And / stood once more upon the hill;
With the shades of evening closing round
me,
And iist'ning nature hushed and still.
And I softly treathed. ooh. that I,
Like that boy, reaping more than leaves
When l meet my blest Redeemer.
Might lay down precious golden sheayes.
Mrs. Huldah E. Forsdick.
oberlin, Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-04
in A FAMILY ROW
Secretary Baker and Secretary
Glass Are in a Clash.
Administration Friction Over
Selling of Bonds.
FAVOR PRIVATE BOND DEALER
Charge That War Department
Is Not Playing 1t Fair.
Means Government Is Boosting
a Business House.

Washington, Oct. Another fam
ily euarrel has started in the admin
istration family at Washington. This
time Secretary Glass and Secretary
Baker are the central figures around
whom the tilt is concentrated. While
both of these members of President
Wilson's cabinet are small physically.
early predictions as to the outcome of
the pending trouble give Carter Glass
the victory.
The trouble started over the fact
that Secretary Glass has discovered
that Secretary Baker has not only been
making it easy for war department
employees to dispose of their bonds, but
has apparently been encouraging the
practice. According to the treasury
department the bond section of the
war department has been enclosing a
printed cfrcI'I~- with paid-up bonds
bought by employees of the depart
ment, quoting the market prices be-
ing paid for bonds and designating a
certain investment house where bonds
are purchased. Secretary Baker has
been asked to not only investigate the
aaatter, but to put a stop to it.
They Deny 1t.
OF course, members of the wsr de-
partment bond section deny any at
tempt on their part TO encourage en-
ployes to sell their bonds, but the
war loan section of the treasury de-
partment is worked up to a white
heat and members say they will take
thu matter in their own hands if
something is not done to stop the
practice.
officials of the treasury department
gay that the printed memoranda
which they have seen and which are
said to have been enclosed with the
paid up bonds by Secretary Baker
department, are more than misleadirg
and that they could easily be inter-
preted to mean that the bond section
of the war department vas at least
indirectly urging owners to sell their
bonds to the bond house mentioned
in the pamphlet Not only would this
be against all policies of the treas
ury department regarding the keeping
of bonds, but it would mean what is
far worse. the use of a government
department and government channels
to boost private business house.
1t is remembered in this connection
that it was Secretary Baker who re-
fused to allow the solicitation of funds
for the recent Salvation Army drive
in his department, altho every other
government department was wide open
TO the members of this organization
which had done so much for the
american army in France.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-04
MANY PLEAD IGNORANCE
sEany Auto Cut-Out Violators Get on
Easy in Court.

Pleading ignorance of a penalty for
driving with open "cut-outs," about
twenty of the thirty Violators of this
section of the traffic ordinance ar
rested the latter part of the week
were discharged by Police Judge Hugh
MacFarland in police court Friday
afternoon.
All stated that they had been driv-
ing that way for many months when
suddenly the police swooped down on
them. They promised to do better in
the future and went away with their
ZS5 appearance bond money in their
pockets. Ten who didn't appear
forfeited their bonds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-04

nous Goldwynite has already chosen
her new home in California, and it
but awaits the shipping of her furni-
ture from the East to be fixed up and
ready for occupancy. She will return
to the studios in Culver City in time to
be present when the initial scenes are
made on her next Geldwyn picture
Long Days Help Director.
Filming scenes at six:thirty in the
evening is unheard of in southern
California unless the Cooper Hewitts
are going full force. The northwest,
however, benefits by the famous long
Alaskan summer nights, and it Is pos
sible to read ones newspaper by day
light up to ten:thirty or after in the
evenings. This great abundance of
daylight hours helped Director Frank
Lloyd and his Goldwyn players to
finish the necessary scenes of Rex
Beach's 1.-The Silver Horde" much
sooner than at first anticipated. The
yacht ''Ei Primero", belonging to the
well known newspaper publisher.
Samuel Perkins of Tacoma, was used
In some OF the scenes of the picture.
'.Hearts OF the World"
Griffith's supreme triumph in the
motion picture world is closing its To-
peka engagement at the Grand today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-04
Stage Women's War Relief Series.


The Orpheum has been selected by
the Stage Women's War Relief Series
to run their series of twelve two reel
playlets. This series was brought
about thru the efforts of this associa-
ton and David Belasco, whom we take
for granted every one knows.
The Stage Women's War Relief
was organized for the sole purpose of
furnishing entertainment to the boys
overseas, in base hospitals and canton
ments.
The organization is composed of ac-
tors, actresses, playwrights, authors
and prominent society folk.
The government has given this or
ganization permission to build a thea
ter at Base Hospital No. 8 in New
York. This is now about completed,
the object being to entertain ex-sol-
diers and men in uniform. They also
still maintain their hotel in New York
for the accommodation of men in uni
form and furthermore are caring for
disabled performers who have been in
the service.
While the organization has never
asked for a public drive to raise funds,
they gladly helped in Red Cross, Sal
walton Army drives. have made over
seas supplies, and sold over six million
dollars worth of liberty bonds.
The object of this series is to wipe
out a deficiency and still carry on the
work they have to do and at the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-04
BRING HOME SOME YANK DEAD.
Thosn Inferred in Germany, Belgium,
Ieefy, England, Luxembourg and
North Russia.

washington, Oct 4.-Bodies of all
American soldiers inferred in Ger
many. Belgium. Italy. Great Britain.
Luxembourg and northern Russia will
be returned to the United States as
soon as necessary transportation can
be arranged. Secretary Baker an
nounced he has issued instructions for
the purchase. storage and traffic divi-
sion of the general staff to take charge
of the matter, and hasten it as much
as DOssible
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-04

Lhevinne was given an enthusiastic
reception wherever he appeared. while
his success in the capitals of Europe
have emphasized still further his title
to a place among the greatest of liv-
ing pianists.
Lhevinne has many qualities that
strikingly suggest his friend and ia
nous country man, Rubinstein; in
fact, he is frequently referred to as
Rubinstein's legitimate successor.
His career has been one of remark
able achievements, list of triumphs
in many lands. Appearances before
royalty, tributes from famous COM
posers and musical societies, and other
honors he has had without number,
but his success in gaining the noted
Rub3nstein prize at Berlin alone was
enough to win him international fame.
This is the most coveted distinction
obtainab1e by pianists in Europe. This
prize is offered once every five years,
and the award is determined by a
jury of thirty of the most prominent
musicians in Germany.
Lhevinne's European engagements
this season permit him to make only a
short mid winter tour in this country
This city is fortunate. therefore, in
being counted among the limited num-
Der of places that will have the priv
ilege of hearing him.
at the Novelty
The show for the first half the week
looks mighty good on paper and will
line up as follows: The eighth cpl
sode of 1.-The Tigers TraiP';; 'Morelle's
Toy Shop is the title of a decided ca
nine novelty presented by Sanchez
MoreHe; Talbert and Fisher are smil-
ing cheerup chaps whose comedy is
extra keen. Their singing voices are
excellent and they harmonic delight
fully; ION the Mississippi" Since the
advent of syncopated music, songs and
instrumental numbers galore have
been written, sung and played depict
ing phases of Southern life, particular
attention being given the various
whether this is because of the divert
ing possibilities of the negro race for
fun making in conjunction with their
work or the fact that syncopation
originated South has not been fully
determined, yet the fact remains all
the best songs and dance numbers use
Southland as the groundwork of their
rhyming and music. ION the Mississ-
ippi was therefore launched and thus
far has met with every expectation;
the fourth spot on this bill is held by
Nelson Warning in an up-to-the-
minute "Pianologue." They say poll
tics make. strange bed-fellows-but
the political game has close second
in modern vaudeville. An apt Illus
tration of this fact is shown by the
case of Colonel Pattee and Major
Wiles, who are members of the "Old
Soldier Fiddlers5' who play a special
engagement at the Novelty theater
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Fifty-six years ago both these men
participated in the great battle of Get
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-04
GIRL. is, KILLED AT PICNIC.
Automobile Overturns at Home Conn
ing Celebration ut heading.

ing Celebration ut Reading.
Lebo. Oct A picnic held as a
homecoming to the soldier boys at
Reading. twelve miles north of here,
had a tragic ending.
Miss Mary Wamser, Is years old,
was instantly killed and Miss Hazel
Linch, also Is years old, was seriously
injured, when g Ford motor car
driven by Miss Inch, turned turtle. It
is said the car was going at a high
rate of speed. Miss Wamser's neck
was broken and Miss Linch suffered
a broken collar bone, two broken ribs
and internal injuries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-04

tysburg. Their own regiments were
opposed to one another and in many
of the fierce charges in that great
fight there is no doubt but that Col
onel Pattee and Major Wiles were
often in close proximity. 1t would
have been sure death to have even
intimated to either of them that at
that time there was a possibility of
their appearing together upon a pub
lie stage and clasping hands under d
Northern flag. But today the two
warriors are bosom friends and with
couple of other veterans of great
Civil strife are showing vaudeville
audiences in the large cities a real
novelty in the musical line. The four
veterans are just ''fiddlers," they dis
dain the term "violinists" and such a
thing as a musical education IS I'M
known to them. Early practice on
cornstalk fiddle of such classics as
Money Musk" "Old Black joe"
Arkansas Traveller" Dixie" Pop
Goes the Weasel" Captain links of
the Horse Marines" and the "Mocking
Bird" was the nucleus OF their present
skill Almost every American-born
citizen is familiar with these old tunes
and to hear the old fiddles reel them
off together with a lot of other home
ly folk tunes. jigs and reels brings
back fond memories to the heart OF
every listener.
At the Isis.
William Farnum, the famous star,
will appear at the Isis in his newest
hotoplay,~"Wolves of the Night" the
first half of the week. Mr.. Farnuni
portrays the part of Bruce Andrews.
a mining engineer, having failed 10
find copper ore on his land in the
northwest, has turned his holdings
into a sheep ranch. This adjoins the
bonanza mine of Edmund Rawn, Bur-
ton Mortimer and Carson. Rawn has
a party of society friends on a week.
end visit at his hunting lodge. In
the party are Isabel Hollii1s, her aunt
and Mortimer-who is sutton for Isa-
bells hand. While the others descef d
into the mine Isabel explores the sur
rounding country. Her foot is caught
in a wolf trap and Bruce finds her.
Mortimer and Rawn meet the couple.
tContinued on next page)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-04
Coming 10 the Grand.


October s and 9-"Peok's Bad Boy
October 10 and 1.-THE Gumps."
Week October 13-Nestell Players
October 24-"Chin-C Chin"
Coming Later.
Bringing Up Father"
May Robson.
Uncle Toms Cabin"
"Oh Lady Lady"
Lyman Howe.
1.-The Masqueraders."
1.-The Boomerang"
"Oh Daddy"
Thomas Travelogues.
t"Tea for Three"
"Maytime."
Mutt and jeff"
"Flo Flo"
FRITZ Scheff.
Tiger Rose"
up in Mabers Room"
"Parlor, Bedroom and Bath"
AL G. Fields Ministries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-04
PRESS CLUB MEETING
Members and Wives To Be Entertained
I at Executive Mansion.

Members Of the Topeka Press club
will be the guests this evening at a
dance and card party at the execu-
tive mansion, Eighth and Buchanan
streets. Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Reed will
be the hosts. Mr.. Reed is private
Secretary to Governor Allen and his
family resides in the governors man
sion.
This is the first time in the history
of the club that ladies have been pres
ent at any of the entertainments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-04

This picture has had a very good, run
here this week and every one has been
more than surprised at the marvellous
effects obtained in the production.
Lillian and Dorothy Gish, George
Fawsett and Robert Heron are the
principal characters. The entire pro-
duction was made abroad. and has
thrilled the world with its sentim entail
value. This is your last chance to see
this wonderful super picture in twelve
huge reels packed to the brim with
action. Tonight and matinee today.
Pccls's Bad Boy.
That never failing. ever funny, al
ways riot of comedy. dancing and
good entertainment, Peck'S Bad Boy,
comes to the Grand next week. for two
nights, Wednesday and Thursday
night with matinee each day at four
fifteen in order to allow the school
kiddies a chance to have the great fun
of the season.
This old familiar laughing show
comes to Topeka this season with a
brand new outlay of scenery, plot and
people. Among them are the clever
Payne children, Babe and Tommy.
The cast with the show this season
contains the names of all well known
artists in the theatrical world and one
of the biggest laughing shows of the
season is promised those who attend
the Grand. ''Pecks Bad Boy is.
without q doubt. one of the funniest of
all farce comedies and contains some
of the funniest lines ever heard here.
Seat sale is now open.
Topeka Concert Series.
The first attraction of the Topeka
Concert Series under the local direc-
ton of H. ]. Dotterweich will open at
the city Auditorium, November II,
with the celebrated Russian pianist
Josef Lhevinne.
Lhevinne is making his sixth Ameri-
can tour, under the mana cement of
Loudo1 Charlton, the well-known
New York impressario. During his
previous visits to the United States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-04

same time to show the people these
famous stage stars in their local pic
ture houses. In doing this they will
raise the money necessary to carry
on this work, and at the same time
afford the public a great deal of pleas
ure in seeing this wonderful grouping
of the great stage favorites. viz:
David Belasco Violet Heming
Call Curci Paul Gilmore
Hilda Spong Tyrone Powers
Robert oib Edson Henry Miller
Mabel Taliaferro Blanche Bates
Julia Dean Flo Ziegfeld
Maclyn Arbuekis William Courtnay
John J. McGraw Jane Grey
CRYSTAL Herne Gail Kane
Mildred Holland Edmund Bree59
Elizabeth Risdon Bruce McRae
Hamilton Revelle Yvette Guilbert
Montague Love Enid Marley
Thomas Wise Snelley Hull
John Drew Ethel Barrymore
The playwrights who have written
the two-reel playlettes are:
Ann Irish Katherine Kayanagh
Jack Larric Howard E. Miller
Samuel Hopkin Ad- Frederick A Hummer
ans Wallace Clifton
Rachel Crother Jessie Bonstelle
Calder tombstone Ethelwyn Brewer De
Mrs. Otis Skinner Foe
This splendid list of our greatest
, stage stars were gathered together
thru the efforts of Mr.. Belasco, the
services of each were given gratis for
the organization. 1t would be fruit
less for anyone to conceive what 1t
would cost to produce such pictures
with these stars. Announcement of
dates will come at later date.
Pauline Frederick Coming East.
Pauline Frederick will leave Los
Angeles shortly for New York. pro-
duction being completed on her cur
rent picture. Her present plan is to
return to the Goldwyn studios in about
three weeks. The trip is purely on
personal business, Miss Frederick hav-
ing decided to make her home in
California permanently, and while east
she will dispose of her farm in Con-
necticut, letting her horses and kennel
go with it.
AS a star of Miss Frederick's taste
cannot approach Fifth avenue without
dabbling in the hat and gown mar
ket, she admits that she is going to
be conventional in this sense and in
tends to acquire many pretty crea-
tons in attire while away. The IA
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-04
BRITISH RAILROADS.

BlnShampton Press. =. =.
England is spending $10O,000,O00 a
year on its railroads, and they are
earning practically no dividends. That
can hardly be charged to government
control entirely. for rail and rolling
stock and workmen too, have been
shipped to the continent for military
PURPOSES. Yet government control is
largely responsible for the present
condition. Sir Eric Geddes reports
that the lines are financially in a
semiparaly2ed state. The government
advocates n ministry of transportation,
plans to retain control for two years
more, and is frankly looking forward
TO the possibility of naturalization.
The railway workers are reported to
favor naturalization; they want an
eight hour day. want their war bon
uses made permanent and want to
participate in the management, of the
roads. British railways are several
laps ahead of our own. though a con-
sentative might say they were rather
behind ours. And there may he some
profit for us in seeing how England
handles the railway problem which,
like our own. has been produced by
the combination OF wartime traffic
and. government operation.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-04
AUTOMOBILE MANNERS.

The people who write etiquet books
have not so far got out any code of
automobile manners. But perhaps in
these hurried times people do not
read etiquet books any more. But
anyway there are certain basic princi-
pies of good manners that should be
applied to new developments of mod
ern life.
The use of the automobile has had
the effect to upset certain people s
ideas of what constitutes mannerly
conduct. In ordinary life these peo-
pie may be very courteous. But when
they get out on the road, they seem
obsessed with the fear that someone
will get ahead of them, or get away
from them some precedence to which
they are entitled.
If they seem n shade closer to a
corner than a car coming from the
entering street they will rush ahead
to claim the right to go ahead first
Frequently they misjudge the distance
or speed and an accident results.
In their home life these same peo-
pie would probably be very scrupulous
to rise when a lady enters the room
and they would always insist on pass
ing through a door last But that
spirit seems gone when they get out
at a steering wheel. They blow their
horn violently when approaching q
crossing, as a notice to everyone to
wait until they get by. 1t is of course
easier for the pedestrian to stop and
start than for a big motor. Yet drivers
who come down through a street
slowly do not have to ask everyone
to yield for them.
These remarks do not apply to the
majority of drivers, who carry out or
the road the same spirit of courtesy
that they exercise in their homes. But
il does fit a lot of people who ought
to know better, and who do not real
i2e how boorish an appearance they
are making If they could understand
how Objectionable they are made b,
their bad manners, their pride woult
compel an instant change of attitude
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-04
CROOK OF JOB" STAGED.

Harriet Munroe in Poetry.
The one memorable. even glorious
theatrical experience of too brief
New York visit was the Stuart Walker
company's presentation of "The Book
of Job" ] had feared to risk so pro-
dgious a venture, but the reward was
magnificent beyond words. Never a
slip, never false note, marred the
sublime simplicity of the greatest
drama ever written; and the Job of
George Gaul was a triumph of thy
loftiest dramatic art Strange that it
should require an actual presentation
TO remind us that Job is not a nara
tive poem but drama, its highly
colored dialogue embodying action as
intense as a charge from trench to
trencht-action of the spirit expressed
In flaming words of beauty. And It
is an example of perfect structure;
Job and his three friends all grandly
drawn and individualized. their dia-
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-04
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED
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sUNDAY........,..-...MAY 4, lsls
OUR FOREIGN MISSIONS.

Where the churches formerly spent
millions for foreign missionary work
and for the spreading of the gospel
Mt home. they are now preparing TO
spend hundreds of millions OF doliars'
In China and India, missionaries
tell of whole communities that tired
Of their own burdensome. unsatsfyng
religions, have asked to be baptized
into the Christian faith. The total
of such applicants now awaiting en-
ligbtenment which must precede bap-
tism. reaches more than a million,
Such a general willingness to hear
has never before been known in the
history Of Christian missions,
1t must be recognized that In Asia,
particularly in China. Korea and ia
pan, the Christian missionaries were
the men who made the way easy for
western intercourse and commerce;
and are the men who today, more than
any others. keep the attitude of these
peoples friendly toward western ideas
and trade.
In the present critical condition OF
political affairs in the orient, it is of
the utmost importance that the good
will of the eastern peoples toward
America he held and strengthened.
No one can do this so well as the mis-
sionaries, who have for long time
proved their unselfishness to the peo-
pie among whom they work.
In this age Of new things the utter
most parts of the earth have become
our next door neighbors. China is
almost as much our concern as Mex
leo and the islands of the sea are al
most as vital to our prosperity as are
the vast plains of our own domain.
The line of distinction between home
and foreign missions is breaking up
and charity that begins at home may
now fittingly extend to Tibet.