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The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
Boys VIII Mop Up in $4,000
T Roosevelt Memorial Drive.
Business Men Seek Contribu-
tions in Topeka Today.

To the Boy Scouts of Topeka will
be given the biggest task of the Roose-
welt Memorial campaign in Topeka.
They will be the cleaners and the
sweepers-the real noppers up of ev-
cry nook and Granny of the city to put
$40 tseesin the big memorial fund. -
This announcement was made today
by "BilI' Biby. director of the drive
for Shawnee county. Today the busi-
ness mems teams were working in the
business district, but it was almost i'm
possible to get business men to leave
their work for an intensive drive such
as characterized Topeka's war efforts.
Tomorrow the Boy Scouts will cover
the same territory, and, it is thought,
hundreds of dollars missed by the
mems teams in their hurried progress
will be obtained.
Need SIPS, 900 in Kansas.
The quota assigned to Kansas was
$125, 900; the quota assigned Topeka
and Shawnee county was $4,000. In
the nation S5,000,000 was expected to
more Hill at Oyster Bay, the erec-
tion of a great memorial shaft at
Washington. and for the endowment
of an Americanization foundation. The
first two were the prime consideration
when the campaign was first proposed,
but now the Americanization project
dominates the entire drive.
Unlike other war driveS-for this
campaign is assuredly a war drive
there will be no pressure brought to
bear on any person to contribute. 1t
is a patriotic motive which is hoped
to actuate every man. The desire to
make America AM Arican as was
preached by the great Roosevelt is ex-
pected to loosen purse strings.
Z "Soild South" GivesHcaviIy.
1t is not a party politics proposition
by any manner of means. The famous
! Democratic solid south" has already
subscribed and over-subscribed a
heavy quota.
Biby asked every person to remem-
Der that no contribution is too small
nor any too large.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
Child Hygiene Dept Won't
Sop at Orphans Home.
DR.. Sheroorn Gives Out Report
on Conditions Here.
MAKES CRITICISM OF HOME
Universal knowledge of Proper
Feeding of Children.
Much Trouble Excused Due to
Lack of Understanding.

Wholesale investigation of local
charities in Topeka was promised by
the state board of health today in a
statement by DIR. Margaret Brown
Sherborn of the child hygiene depart
ment. The statement was contained
in supplemental report regarding the
Topeka Orphans home. In declara-
tion that the home is not so bad as it
might be. Doctor Sherborn said there
are worse homes in Topeka than the
Topeka orPhanage. Such institutions
will be required ito make radical
changes or go out of business"
While Doctor Sherborn said there
were worse places than the orphanage,
she also took particular exception to
some of the policies of the home. She
bitterly condemned a policy which she
declared led to the assumption that
dependent children should not expect
too much. She said there is univer-
sal lack of knowledge as to proper
feeding of growing children.
Let Them Have Playthings.
One of the strongest rebukes con-
ceIned the refusal of the home to per-
NIT the use of toys and playthings.
Because playthings clutter up the
place" Doctor Sherborn declares 1.-The
children sit around in a bare yard or
a bare room and exchange informa-
eiol VI WdHutI dIOuHu dlHlitsSly
waiting to grow up"
Much of the trouble at the home
is excused by Doctor Sherborn under
the assumption that there is a gem
eral lack of understanding as to man
agement.
That other Topeka and Kansas
charities are in even worse condition
than the orphange, is asserted fatty
| in the report. These are to be inves-
tigated by the state board. II radical
! changes are not made, licenses will be
| revoked.
There are many worse children's $
homes in Kansas than the Topeka or
phanage," says the report indeed
| there are worse in the city of Topal.a.
! These are all being reqGired to he
radical changes or go out of business -
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
MEET TO blow UP
Immediate Dissolution of Public
Group Is Recommended.
Adoption Means End of Indus
trial Conference Tonight.

Washington, Oct 24-Immediate
dissolution of the public group-the
remaining element of the national in
dustrial conference-is proposed in
recommendation of the committee of
five which will be rrade to the group
this afternoon. Should the recon-
mendation be adopted the conference
would end tonight.
John D. Rockefeller, capitalist and
son of the richest man in the world
was intrusted with finding a means of
reconstructing the conference and
framing an Industrial peace treaty.
May Ask New Name
AS a result of this feeling the group
may ask President Wilson to give it
a fresh start as an industrial peace
conference by re-orga nizing II and Civ
ing it a new name.
Approximately 100000 workers now
are engaged in strikes. estimating the
steel strikers at 200, 900. APPROX
mately 100000 harbor workers, ma
chinists and miscellaneous workers
also are out.
Approximately 100000 men are
threatening strike or pressing for
higher wages. These include 500, 1000
miners now under orders to walk out
November / unless a settlement is
reached in mediation now being con-
Quoted here by Secretary Wilson OF
the labor department. More than one
million railroad workers are preparing
to renew their. demands for increased
wages. believing that the government
has made little progress in reducing
living costs.
November 1. it is believed, will bring
a climax in the whole industrial situa-
ton.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
WHOOPING COUGH HERE
Five New Cases Reported-FIu Dan
ger Lingers.

Five new cases of whooping cough
were reported to the city health de-
partment this week.. making a total of
sixteen in the city. A case of measles,
reported this week, and all the whoop-
ing cough, was confined to North To-
peka.
This date last year. 1850 cases of
flu were reported to the health de-
partment for the month of October.
This fall only ten cases were reported
According to DR.. Earl G. Brown,
city health officer. the danger of an
other flu epidemic here is not so great
now as it was a month ago. but is not
impossible. Any relaxation of caution
by the public at this time. Doctor
Brown warned, will likely result dis
astrously.
while the big medical authorities
of the country agree that the prospect
of a return epidemic is not so immi-
nent now at it was a month ago" he
said. ''the danger still exists People
must continue to take every precau-
ton. otherwise We will be caught off
guard and suffer another plague like
that last winter
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
Labor Situation
At a Glance

Washington, Oct. 24.-With one big
strike on and another threatening
there were indications today that or
ganized labor is Tightening its ranks
for a finish fight.
Immediate dissolution of public
group, the only remaining element of
the national Industrial conference, has
been recommended, which would ad-
journ the conference tonight.
In a telegram to the Illinois Fedora
ton of Labor today, Samuel Gompers,
head of the American Federation of
Labor, gave notice that a conference
of international union heads had been
called to meet in Washington at an
early date. Financial support for the
steel strike and affiliation of the rail-
road brotherhoods with the federation
are among the subjects to be taken up.
Secretary of Labor Wilson prepared
to put up to President Wilson the coal
strike threatened for November /
after the fourth compromise proposal
made by the secretary was rejected.
A committee selected by the miners
met with railroad brotherhoods' heads
to plan a permanent alliance between
those two organizations, the strongest
in the American labor field. One OF
the principal aims of this alliance, Il
formed, will be naturalization of the
mines and rail lines, miners official:
say.
Appearing before the senate labor
committee, Lieut.. D. c. Van Buren, 6
military intelligence officer, declared
that Red agitators at Gary, Ind, haC
gone unprosecuted. altho the depart
ment of justice had their names.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
FIRE LOSS IS HIGH
Hundred and Ninety Blazes
Cost Kansas $32O,956.
Hussey September Report Shows
"Unknown Origin" Costly.

Fire loss in Kansas for September
was s320.956. according to L. T. Hus-
sey, state faire marshal. Hussey's
records showed 100 blazes during the
month.
Thirteen fires, starting from expos
ure, caused loss of s40,45S. Lightning
started s fires that resulted in losses
of S36,970- Incendiarism was held
responsible for nine fires and loss of
SIT. 1S0. Anti-tobacco crusaders may
view the item showing five fires were
started as a result of smoking. The
lbss was S6.655. Thirty fires of un-
known origin cost s1O3.07S.
Forty-six grain and hay fires caused
loss of S43,729. Fires in six stores re-
suited in a loss of s61.526. Reports
of fires in 43 dwellings show loss of
$37.142. Forty-on barns burned. The
loss twas s5S.241.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
FOOTBALL I'M KANSAS
Important Conference Games
Today AMI Tomorrow.
BY e. w. SWAN.

With the College of Emporia and
Washburn college leading in the Kan
sas college conference football games.
the prospects that the championship
honors lie between these teams begins
to take form. However, another
month of games before the season
closes may break the winning stfeaks
which the Emporia and Topeka lads
have shown thus far, the former hav-
ing marked up three straight VIC
tories and latter, t~o.
Altho the Washburn- nsas uni
versity game a week ago. which re-
suited in a tie, to 0, was not a con-
ference contest, it served to reveal the
strength of the Washburn team. The
university found no difficulty in de-
feating both the Pittsburg and EN-
poria State Normal teams, but ran
against a stone wall In the Washburn
defense. at the same time K. L.
showed only spurts of superior Of
games are none too optimistic about
the probable outcome of the conclud-
ing classic of the season in which the
universities of Missouri and Kansas
annually vie for honors
In the defeat of the Southwestern
team. the College of Emporia proved
the reliability of speed and good team
work against weight. In the game
with Washkurn, set for November IA,
at Emporia, the Presbyterians will be
up against fnucn the same proposition.
but Washburn already has shown that
it is able to develop considerable speed
and is quite successful with the for
ward pass The November IA game
may decide the championship.
Southwestern. defeatedslast week by
College of Emporia. will take on the
latter's home rival tomorrow in a game
with the Kansas State Normal at En-
poria.
Four collegiate games are set for
today: Ottawa VS.. Bethany at Linds-
borg; College of Emporia VS.. Friends
at Emporia; Haskell VS.. Kansas Wes-
leyans at Lawrence, and Pittsburg
Normal VS.. Fairmount at Wichita.
Saturdays games are: -Washburn
VS.. Baker at Baldwin: Hays VS.. Kan
sas Aggies at Manhattan; Southwest
ern VS.. Kansas State Normal at En-
poria; Kansas university VS.. Ames at
Ames, Ia. missouri Valley Confer
ence).
The defeat of the Kansas Aggies at
Washington university. St. Louis, last
week was a sad blow to supporters of
the Aggies, especially because the
Kansas boys had the advantage in the
scoring right up to the last few min
utes of the game.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
BY DON CHAMBERLAIN.


On Board King Albert's Train en-
Route to New York, Oct. 24.-Co-edu-
cation. womans right to vote, conser-
vative fashions and better educational
cooperation between the United
States and Belgium were advocated to-
day by Queen Elizabeth in an inter-
view. The queen received me in her
private car as the train approached
Harrisburg, Pa, and in the course of
the conversation both King Albert and
Prince Leopold passed thru the car
and were forced to squeeze their way
by.
'I believe in co-education." said the
Belgian queen. "Girls should be edu-
Gated for one thing and boys for
another. 1 am not a believer in equal
ity of the sexes. The war undoubtedly
demonstrated this. 1t thoroly proved
men must be the soldiers and do the
work while women are nurses. In the
future 1 believe we will be guided
along the same lines.
Women Should Train Selves.
"I believe in times like that women
who are not forced to work ought to
prepare themselves for specialized
social work. such as nursing, welfare
and hospital work.
This does not mean, however, that
am opposed to womens voting.
firmly believe a woman ought to vote
and a womans intuition will tell he1
what is right and cause her to vote
correctly. I am not suffragette
however. in a militant sense, but 1 dc
believe in votes for women"
Elizabeth took several minutes be
fore the interview to say she had MOI
become tired of the tour of America
Praises Factory Conditions Here.
mo, no, I could not become tired
breathing the wonderful atmosphere
of your country. 1t keeps me fresh
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
ORDERED TO SHOOT
Z. s. Troops Patrol Gary With
"Trench Guns"
Were Thus Equipped After Be-
ing Stoned by Strikers.

Chiacgo, Oct. 24-Federal troops at
Gary, Ind, today patrolled with
trench guns" weapons of the sawed
off shotgun type. They were thus
equipped by order of Col. w. S. Mapes,
commanding the strike area under
military control, after he had received
reports that the infantrymen had been
stoned by strike sympathiZers. Colonel
Mapes said the troops would fire on
attackers. Elsewhere inA the district
the industrial situation was reported
generally unchanged.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
REDS IN A PLAN
TO FLEE FROM
SOVIET RUSSIA
VIII Withdraw All Troops To
Turkestan, Report.
Petrograd and Moscow Getting
Too Hot for Bolsheyiki.
|LENIAE REPORTED CAPTURED
Premier Falls Into Hands of
Anti-KedS, 1t Is Said.
Germano- Russians Meet Two
Decisive Defeats.
Petrograd and Moscow Getting
Too Hot for BOIsheyiki.
LEAINE REPORTED CAPTURED
Premier Falls Into Hands OF
Anti-KedS, 1t Is Said.
(By the Associated Press.)

London. Oct 24-The Bolsheviki
are considering the evacuation of So
Wet Russia, according to reports
reaching General Denikine, a wire
less dispatch received today from his
headquarters says. The reported plan
is for the removal of the cabinet to
Tashkend, after the abandonment of
Moscow and the withdrawal of the
troops on all fronts to Turkestan.
fReports similar to the foregoing
Helsingfors One dispatch predicted
that If Tula, 120 miles south of Mos
COW were taken, the Bolsheyiki COM
capital and retire into Turkestan.
Recent report from Denikine's front
announced that the soviet forces had
begun to fortify the suburbs of Tula
War Minister Trotzky having declared
that general battle must be fought
outside that town.l
Report Lenine Captured.
Honolulu, Oct. 24.-Nikolai Lenine
Bolshevik premier of Russia, has beer
captured by anti-Bolshevik forces. ac-
cording to a wireless message picked
up by the Japanese ship Tenyo Maru
in the harbor here. The message gave
no further details of the reported cap
ture of Lenine.
Steal Bourgeoisie's Clothes.
Moscow, Oct. 24.-The necessity fol
collecting warm clothes for the RED
army for the winter campaign is an
nounced in Bolsheviki wireless mes
sages, which state that these thing
must 4come from the bourgeoisie-
I'VE must requisitioN warm clothe
and underclothes from the trunks an,
wardrobes of the bourgeoisie flats.
says the dispatch. I'VE must extrac
everything from these repositorie
which are suitable for the front"
= Defeat Ger1nano- Russians.
! Copenhagen, Oct. 24.-Germano
Russian forces in Lithuania com
manded by Colonel Virgolitch, hav
| been defeated by I4ithuania troops il
| two encounters, according to an of
! ficial statement issued from Lithuan
! ian headquarters at Kovno, nea
| Solesnniki. South of Wilma the Ger
mano- Russian forces were disarmed
| while near Kurshenvez, southeast 0
| Wilma, they fled from the field, aban
| doning all their arms and ammunition
| according to the statement.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
Trotzky. We found literally thousands
of these photographs
Steel Strike Leader n Redo

Trotzky. We found literally thousands
of these photographs.
Steel Strike Leader a Red?
1T was reported to US that Richard
Nerhagin, vice president and treas
urer of the steel workers council at
Gary, was a revolutionist"
Lieutenant Van Buren, then read a
transcript of Verhagin's examination
before military tribunal. Verhagin
admitted belief in revolutionary tao
ticsfopposition to the existing form of
government and faith only in orga nj
zations along the lines of soviet Rus
sia.
What is this steel workers coun-
'cil? p" asked Senator McKenar.
1T is the central body of unions
engaged in the strike" was the reply.
An American Federation of Labor
organization?"
Il understand So"
Raps Defense League.
Van Buren characterized the Work
ers' International Defense League as
nothing less than an anarchistic out
! fit. working thru the I. w w"
We found several OF its members
at Gary" he said
Il asked Paul Grazer. attorney for
the strikers. if he was a. BoIsheyilxi =
Van Buren continued and he an
swered, You bet 1 am We've recon-
mended to the department of Justice
that steps be taken to cancel his citi-
zenship papers"
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24

The cold weather. scheduled to ar
rive Thursday night, has been delayed,
but is, still on the way, according to
S. d. Flora. state meteorologist. This
morning it is showing generally over
Montana. Wyoming land the western
parts of North and South Dakota. The
temperature at Havre, Mont. was two
degrees above zero.
Thursday night the low mark in To-
peka was SO, reached at $3.50 o'clock
, this morning, making it the warmest
night this month. The temperature
was II degrees above the normal night
temperature for this season of the
year.
| At 10 o'clock this morning the mer
curry had climbed to 6S and it was
scheduled to reach rs this afternoon.
About o'clock it would begin falling
| (Coutinned on Page Two.l
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
X. U. IN A STRAW VOTE
University Club To Make Choice for
New Chancellor.

vote on November will determine
the probable successor to DR.. Frank
Strong as chancellor of the University
of Kansas, according to the University
club announcement today. The club
is composed of faculty members.
Agitation and interest among the
faculty is responsible for the vote an
nouncement. it was said ea
Since Doctor Strong's resignation,
which becomes effective next June,
names mentioned for the K. L. head
include:
William Allen White, prominent
~Kansan; Charles Judd. University of
Cincinnati; Johnt Hugh Reynolds. of
Arkansas; George D. Strayer. Column
bia university. and John r. Effinger,
of Michigan
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
Belgian Queen Does Not
Believe In Equality of
Sexes; For Suffrage, Tho

l nave been having a wonderful time.
l nave been much interested in your
clear-eyed, red-cheeked girls in your
factories. 1 know their evident hap
piness must be due to pure air, clean
llnessl of surroundings and generally
splendid conditions.
Il hope all employers in Belgium
and Europe will model their factories
after those in the United States. We
nave lost many, many men in the
war. Mothers are the hope of the
future race and we must do all we can
to protect them
Speaking of how better feeling be-
tween the United States and Belgium
can best be stimulated, Queen Eliza
beth said she believed the best way
is by exchanging professorships in not
only the universities. but in grade and
nigh schools. She suggested it would
be well to have French taught in
earlier grades here and English taught
in Begium schools.
Can't Keep Up With Fashions.
The queen professed ignorance of
the latest frills of fashion.
They change every eight days."
said the queen. II can't keep up with
them"
When I suggested to her the latest
edict from Paris is that skirts must
be cut shorter, the queen smiled.
Il am always behind the process
sion,' she said.
DO you not follow the latest
styles" 1 asked.
You see 1 am not wearing them"
The queen said she has been par
ticularly interested in various phases
of scientific research while on heI
tour. She spoke of her visits tc
numerous hospitals and said she was
especially anxious to establish an in
sutution IN Belgium along the lines
of the Rockefeller Institute of New
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
LIVED "CLOSE TO NATURE"
Boy. IL, and Girl, 13. Must Return
Home and Not See Each Other.

St Louis. Oct. 24.-Burt Bradbury.
13.-vear-oId school boy, and Helen
Shaw, II years old, have been living
"close to nature" in the woods near
Forest park for the last two days.
Missing since Tuesday night, the
couple was found last night at the
edge cf the park. This disappearance
followed a three weeks school ro-
nance. Bundles of letters from each
were found by the children's parents
after the disappearance.
They were forced to promise on
their return that they would not see
or write each other.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
GREEK THEATER HERE
Washburn Dramatic Club Funds &c
Toward Campus Improvement.

Sale of tickets for The Man From
Home" to be presented by the Wash
burn Dramatic club at the Grand the
ater Saturday night, is far above ex-
pectations. As there will be only one
performance it will be necessary for
those wishing reservations to obtain
them at once for every seat probably
will be sold by Saturday morning
The Washburn Dramatic club has
paid with funds from plays presented
during the last eight years for the
entrance gates tos the college on Col
lege avenue; for the wall from the
presidents residence to these entrance
gates; and il is now accommodating
funds for the erection of Greek the
ater on the campus The construc-
ton will begin as soon as the archi-
tectural plans can be arranged This
win be the first Greek theater to be
erected in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
KEEP new Time
New York Will Retain Daylight
Saving Plan.
Mayor Approves City Ordinance
Similar to U. s. Law.

New York. Oct. 24-Mayor Hylan
today put New York on a daylight
savings basis despite congressional re-
peal of the national daylight saving
law. He announced his official ap-
prova1 of a new ordinance providing
that city clocks be turned ahead one
hour at a. m. on the last Sunday in
April and turned back on the last
Sunday in September
This will save the people of the
city from paying such large gas and
electric light bills" the MAYOR said.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
WARSHIPS BUSY
U. S. Torpedo Boat FOOte Or
dered to SpaIatO in Adriatic.
Lively Movement in Connection
With Fiume Affair.
(By the Associated Press.)

Fiume, Oct ga lively movement
of allied war craft stationed in Adrf-
attic ports is in progress. The United
States torpedo boat Foote, which has
been stationed here, has been ordered
to Spalato. Similar movements of
British and French warcraft are oc-
curing.
The Associated Press correspondent
was informed today by an American
naval commander that the movement
probably was connected with the
Fiume situation.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
RAISES FOR TEACHERS
Missouri Association Prepares Pro
gram for State Meeting.

St Louis. Mo-. Oct. 24.-Additional
legislation for compulsory education,
a general increase in salary for teach
ers and an extension of the educa-
tionalN opportunities for children
school age thruout the country are
some of the most important questions
to be discussed at the fifty-seventh
general convention of the Missouri
State Teachers association which
meets here November to s. incIu-
sive.
Educators from all parts of the
country will address the convention,
which is expected to be attended by
approximately 10000 teachers from
this state. Congressman F. D. Fess,
of Ohio, will also speak, it was an
noInced
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
WASHBURN DRIVE ON
College VIII Raise 5000 fer Roosevelt
Memorial Fund.

The campaign for the Roosevelt
Memorial fund began Thursday ,at
Washburn college with an address at
the chapel given by DR.. E. J. Kulp,
First Methodist church of Topeka. He
recalled ambitions of Roosevelt to
make American citizens loyal and his
work for America
A faculty committee was appointed
with Professor Nudge chairman to
take charge of the campaign. A sub
committee of students was selected in
each class which will take subscrip-
tons.
The goal of 5000 for the college was
small in accordance with plans of the
national committee to get subscrip-
tions from all the people instead d
of a few wealthy