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The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-26
PROBE FLYERS DEATH
Air Mail Pilot Leaps 200 Feet When
Plane Catches Fire.

Cleveland. o., May 26.-Supt. ]. A.
Jordan of the Cleveland Chicago air
mail service. today ordered an investi-
CATION to determine the cause of the
accident here yesterday that resulted
in the death of Pilot Frank McCusker,
%. OF 115 West Seventeenth street.
New York.
McCusker Ieaped 200 feet TO the
ground from his big de Hayiland
plane five minutes after he started for
Chicago. The machine had caught
fire. the cause of which has not been
determined. McCusker died almost
instantly.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-26
BETHANY GRADUATION
Exercises VIII Begin Saturday With
the May Fcte.

The annual Bethany commencement
exercises will start next Saturday eve
ming with the May fete on the college
campus. On the evening of June Z
diploma recitals will be given in Guild
hall and again on Monday evening.
Graduation exercises for the eighth
grade will be held in Bethany chapel
at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon. June
/ g. and the senior play will be given
on the campus Saturday evening, June
IA. The corporate communion serv-
ice will be held in Bethany chapel at
1880 o'clock Sunday morning. June 1 5,
with the baccalaureate sermon to be
delivered in Grace cathedral at IL
o'clock.
Monday morning, June Is, at 10
O'Clock, commencement exercises will
be held in Grace cathedral. to be fol-
lowed with a reception at the college
building at noon and a reunion of the
Bethany college alumnae at 1880
o'clock
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-26
MANY GET SCHOOL JOBS
Washburn Graduates VIII Teach in
Kansas Next Fall


Kansas Next Fall.
With the aid of the Washburn de-
partment of education. eleven Wash
burn students have obtained teaching
positions for next year in various high
schools of the state. Albert J. Reed.
of Lyons, who graduated in 1918. will
be superintendent of schools at Little
River next year. and w. c. Stein, an
other alumnus, will be superintendent
at Centralia.
Other students who have obtained
teaching positions are: Frances
Meyers. of Whiting. at Rock Creek 3:
Finley F. Neal. of Topeka, at Beloit; /;
Edith Stark. of Topeka, at Mankato:
Faye Bonjour. at her home, Onaga !;
Marguerite Scott. of Topeka; at
Tampa; Lulua Wiser, of BeIoit at Be
lott; Pauline McNey. at Cottonwood
Falls; Mrs Rena Demmin, at Hoyt;
Esther Goranson, grade school at Ran
dolph.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-26
KILLED BY Train
Santa Fe No. Hit Auto at
Tenth Street Crossing.
Occupants Were Taking Flow.
crs Out to Cemetery.

THE DEAD.
| Mrs. II. \. kanoff, so years old,
| 1870 Fillmore street.
! THE INJURED.
Mrs. c. b. Whitson. so years old.
1913 Monroe street,; bad cuts about
the face.
NJ. A. knnoff. 1910 Fillmore street;
two broken ribs.
on their way to a cemetery to COW
er the graves of relatives with flow
ers' one woman met death at the
santa Fe crossing at Tenth street, an
3" 'r"irNd, ono --1a- w. ~
CFrom Topeka State JournaI)
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-26
SUFFRAGE IN LEAD
Early Returns Give Women Victory
in Texas.

Dallas, Tex, May 26.-Returns from
293 towns. representing practically
one-half the vote cast in Saturdays s
state constitutional amendment cleo
tion, early today showed woman suf-
frage amendment running slightly
ahead.
Unofficial tabulations gave the vote
for suffrage as 52.941. against 1854.
Prohibition apparently will carry
safely.
The home ownership amendment
providing state loans for home buy
ers, is running ahead but a PROPOSE
ton to increase the governors salary
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year appar-
emily is defeated.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-26
TWO DISTRICTS Jagged
Total Victory Loan Subscriptions
S5,249, ,9OS, 800.

Washington. May 26.-Total sub
scriptions to the fifth or victory lib
erty loan were announced by the treas
ury as s5,249. .9OS.S 500, an oversu bscrip-
tion of nearly $3.50, 100000.
The Atlanta and Dallas reserve dis
tricts failed TO obtain their quotas,
Atlanta by less than 1 per cent and
Dallas by slightly less than per cent.
This was the first war loan in which
any district failed to subscribe its
quota.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-26
II SUFFERED
SEVEN YEARS"
Was Eventually Cured by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound.

Philadelphia, Pal suffered for
seven long years with a lame back,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-21
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

The Rev. Cloyd Goodnight of
Uniontown, is the new president of
Bethany College.
William A. Whitman, famous for
his pagoda at Reading, is a candi-
date for mayor.
\ Meredith Jones. active in the
mine cave" situation, will run for
Council at Scranton.
S. A. Farrell, of Johnstown, has
been elected one of the national Of
ficers of Woodmen of the World.
"A. D. Neidell. Mayor of New
Castle, is a student of street car
service problems.
The Rev. D. A. Lambing, of
Scottdale, has finished forty years
in the priesthood.
John W. Morrison, former legis-
lator, has been secretary of one OF
the Reading fire companies for
thirty-seven years.
Benjamin Rowland, prominent
Philadelphian, has gone on a trip to
Alaska.
Judge John NJ. Patterson, men,
toned for mayor of Philadelphia, Is
an authority on Dickens.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-21
FOOD BOARDING

1" HE Federal Department of Agri-
culture makes public the fact
that there are almost unbeliev-
ably large quantities of foodstuffs
in the cold storage houses OF
Chicago. OF course, it is always wise
to have in reserve a generous sur
plus of provisions of all kinds, but
just why it is necessary to have on
hand at one time $50, 100000 dozens
of eggs, which is equivalent to
about thirty dozens for every man,
woman and child in the United
States, is not apparent. Nor does
it seem reasonable that at a time
when beef is being advertised by
the big packers as unusually plenti-
full and the people are being ad-
vised to eat it in generous quanti-
ties, that it should be boarded by
the million pounds.
The whole food situation will bear
the careful attention of Congress.
1t should be probed to the bottom.
Early in the year it was feared that
radicalism might be encouraged by
unemployment, but there is equal
danger that discomfort engendered
by unreasonable prices may have
equally disastrous results. The pro-
fiteer is the father of the Bolshevist
and neither has any place in Amer
ican life. We should get. rid of
both.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-21
Crisis in the Export Trade
[From the New York World.l

[From the New York World.1
The price of exchange on London
in this market has reached the un-
precedentedly low level of $4.32h
to the English pound sterling, and
the tendency is still downward. This
represents a fall of over SO cents
from par and is a situation, along
with a much greater depression in
French and Italian exchange, which
cannot continue without serious
consequence to the export trade of
the United States
What this extraordinary state of
the foreign exchange means in plain
language is that Great Britain,
France and Italy have no commodi-
ties to send out with which to pay
for continued large imports from the
United States. And they have
neither gold nor American securities
to send here in place of goods.
Importers accordingly are buying
little exchange in the New York
market. That market more and
more lacks their support. American
exporters of goods. on the other
hand, are compelled to sell their bills
at lower and lower prices until the
point is reached when they will
contract or halt their operations.
Prices for them are at the vanish
ing point of profit. For the Ameri-
can importers it is the other way.
but they cannot get the goods from
Europe with which to realize the
rising profits.
1t is no longer a theory but a
condition that confronts the Ameri-
can export trade. 1t must choose
between taking pay in promises to
pay until Western Europe has
crawled up out of the ruin of war,
or it must prepare for a great con-
traction of volume.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-21
EXAGGERATED EGO

TT ENRY FORD'S own testimony
in the libel suit he has
brought against the Chicago
Tribune may not show any disloyal-
ty on his part in his country's con-
duct of the war with Germany, but
il could easily be used to convict
him on charge of exaggerated ego.
Confessedly ignorant of the common
places of history, admittedly lame
in literature, political economy and
statecraft, he yet offers, with all the
assurance of full knowledge that
comes only from long study, his own
personal opinions as sovereign reme-
dies for all the ills of the world.
success in one field of endeavor he
sets himself up as a wiseacre in all
lines; a sort of superman, cocksure
of himself under any and all con-
ditions and able and willing at all
times to advise his fellowmen on
any of the problems that have been
puzzling humanity since the days of
Adam.
History" he says, "fs bunk"
Benedict Arnold is a fellow in the
factory who does a little writing"
Paid press agents turn out reams
of ideas" for him on all manner
of subjects. He manufactures inter-
views on the same lines as his fac
tories turn out automobiles, but
with far less profit to himself. The
fellows who hack out his newspaper
notices give him more jolts than
he would get in one of his own cars
on a rough road.
1t was Patrick Henry who said
that he knew no light by which his
feet were guided but that of ex-
perience; the history of men and
the record of events. But Henry
Ford knows no such limitations. He
gets new idea, or one of his pub
licity men devise one for him. and.
presto, he has a thought that put
into practice would revolutionize the
world.
Why is it that so many of our
business, professional and mechani-
cal geniuses, having become famous
in one line Of endeavor, immediately
come to the conclusion that they
are qualified thereby rs philoso-
pliers, preachers. economists and
statesmen?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-21
Investigate Street Railways
[From the Scranton Republican,

From the Scranton Republican,
A Federal commission, holding it's
sessions in Washington, yesterday
began to inquire into the ills of the
street railways of the country. In
this connection it is stated that more
than half of the street car lines
in the United States are in receivers
hands or threatened with financial
ruin because of increased war time
costs and the natural dislike of the
people to have fares largely in
creased.
The Federal Electric Railways
Commission, which is conducting
this inquiry, was appointed by the
President to find, if possible, solu-
ton for the street car problems. It's
authority is limited to inquiries and
recommendations.
However, there is an intimation
in the dispatches that all the moral
force of the Federal Government is
back of the commission, which in
cludes in it's mem bership authorities
on questions that will come before
1t.
Among those who will be called
to testify are mayors of cities, mem
bers of the committee of one hun
dred selected by the American Elec-
tric Railways Association, transpor-
tation experts, labor representatives
and fnanciers.
1t is important, now that this
question has been taken up, it
should be given a thorough airing.
1t seems to be the hope of the
street railway men that the commits
sion will be able to recommend
something which will supply perma-
nent national assistance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-21
The Draft Records
[From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.

tFrom the Pittsburgh Dispatch.l
The carelesSness illustrated by
Chairman Graham's description of
the present location and condition
of the selective draft records dump
ed in waterlogged cellars or left out
in the weather at Washington bar
racks is not conducive to respect for
War Department efficiency.
1t may be charitably assumed to
be more the result of subordinate ir-
responsibility than deliberate derelic-
tion higher up, but it is a discredit-
able exhibition. 1t is easier to
imagine unthinking clerks saying to
themselves the wars over" and
wishing to rid themselves of the ac-
official so disposing of these docu-
ments.
They may have served their pur-
pose of mobilizing Americas armies
but by all accounts the military rec
ords are still far from completed,
Questions may arise at any time that
may make necessary reference to
these records so carelessly dumped in
barrack cellars. Besides, many of
these records contain intimate and
personal details that should be pro-
tected from possible abuse.
With all the waste material,
printed and written, that cutters
Washington, surely room might have
been found for the records of the
men who went to war or, IL deemed
finally of no further value. they
should have been properly de-
stroyed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-21
OLD RAISULI AGAIN

A ND now that the big war is
n over along comes old Raisuli
- again to let folks know that
the proposed League of Nations
means nothing, absolutely nothing.
in his young life. It's been a long
time since Raisuli was killed the last
time. As we remember it, just
previous to the kaiser's rush of
blood to the head back along in May,
1914, Raisuli was shot to death by
a party of French cavalrymen while
attempting to raid an outpost in
Morocco. During the grand melee in
which Europe has since engaged
Raisuu apparently confined himself
to the plain or garden variety of
banditing and even refrained from
informing the world, through some
fresh outbreak of deviltry, that the
rumor concerning his untimely de-
mise was exaggerated. But he is
on the rampage again and we may
expect TO hear of his death at the
hands of avenging soldiery almost
any time.
Raisui, like Villa, seldom remains
dead longer than three or four
weeks. To our own personal knowl-
edge, attained through long and close
association with European cable
dispatches. Raisuli has been put to
death at least twenty-three times.
He was burned at the stake twice,
beheaded three times, hanged five
times and shot at least eight times,
not to mention reports of his hav-
ing been carried off by cholera,
smallpox and typhus. But after
each experience he turns up smil-
ing and proceeds to crowd himself
back on the front page with a
flourish of trumpets and a rattle of
sabers as he begins a new holy
war" or raids a city for his own
personal benefit.
Just how to get the old rascal out
of the way for all time is a problem.
but it is suggested that perhaps Villa
might be induced to go abroad and
settle in Raisuli's territory. May be
that wouldn't do any good with re-
spect TO Raisuli, but it would at
least take the Mexican terrorist ont
of the running as a rival of the
Moroccan bandit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-21
Fall Fertilizers
Pennsylvania Farmer. ]


Farmers are now giving attention
to fertilizers for fall use. The down.
ward tendency in prices is a hope
full relief from conditions prevailing
throughout the war period. A-little
careful study of furmulas and soil
needs will add even greater saving.
Farmers may we'll investigate the
standardized analysis toward which
the fertilizer companies are now
working. The purpose is to elm
mate the fractional analyses and es-
tablish certain standard grades for
use on different types of soil and
for different crops. This would also
eliminate the very low grades of
goods which have always been ex-
pensive when considered from the
standpoint of fertilizing elements
contained. 1t may be put down as
a rule that the man who buys mixed
fertilizer on the basis of low price
per ton pays most for the available
plant food he actually gets. Fer
tilizers should always be purchased
on the basis of composition and
quality and not on the basis of price
per ton,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-21
DR.. GrenfeUS Reindeer
[From the New York Times. ]

[From the New York Times.1
DR.. Grenfelis letter gave much in
teresting information about his ex-
periences with reindeer since he
brought a herd of them to Labrador
in an effort to increase the food sup
ply of that harsh and unlovcly land.
The effort, as his figures showed, was
far from a failure, for the animals
prospered and multiplied rapidly,
and. while they were not found to
be as good as dogs for drawing
sledges, their meat and hides far
unbalanced their inferiority in the
matter of transportation.
Also, they did not attack and kill
their masters. as the Arctic dogs, &C
cording to DR.. Grenfell's surprising
statement, not infrequently do.
A sad feature of DR.. Grenfell's ac-
count of his reindeer enterprise was
his revelation that he had much
trouble with poachers, some of them
residents and others sailors on ves-
sells from the south, who killed the
animals in equally ruthless and
stupid indifference to the fact that
they were domestic, not wild, ami
mails, and to the fact that such un-
regulated killings, IL long continued.
would eXterminate the herds. There,
as elsewhere, 1t seems, the sort of
wisdom that can take into account
anything except the Immediate dol
lar and to-day's dinner is far from
being possessed by everybody. In
other words, Labrador has it's pot
hunters, who, If allowed to have
their own way, soon leave nothing
to hunt.
While the war was on, the Labra-
dor reindeer herds could not be
properly protected, for lack of skilled
attendants, and they are now much
decreased from what they were, but
1t has been proved that land former
ly considered worthless can support
great numbers of these valuable ami
mails, and presumably they will soon
receive again the attention they de-
serve.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-21
GiDe Washington Chance

tFrom the Kansas City Times.1
Considerable opposition to the
proposal to try the ex-kaiser in
London appears to have developed
in England, where it has been seized
upon in some quarters as an oppor-
tunity, not to sympathize with Will
helm but to criticize Premier Lloyd
George who announced the govern
ments intentions.
The ostensible grounds of the op-
position are that such a proceeding
would not be in good taste in King
Georges capital. The king is Will
helms cousin and the eX-emperor
has frequently been q guest at the
English court. To bring him there
now, a captive, the central figure
in show that might be likened to
pagan triumph, is urged to be a
course somewhat too theatrical for
the British character to sustain with
proper dignity.
There is a suspicion that some of
this sudden accession of grave and
| austere decorum proceeds from poll
teal opponents of the prime minis
ter. Their attitude may be good
deal like that of the Puritans to-
ward bear batting. of which Macau-
lay said that they were against 1t,
not because ii gave pain to the bear
but because it gave pleasure to the
! spectators. Some Englishmen seem
to be afraid Mr.. Lloyd George is
| going to get too much popularity
| out of the proceedings against the
| imperial exile. They are not SO much
| against trying him as against trying
him in London. They think it would
make a very proper show for Paris
or Geneva or Washington, but is
not to be thought of where the
prime minister is likely to derive any
benefit from it.
Well. rather than have any fuss
about it perhaps we ought to offer
| Washington as candidate for the
| doings. Washington hasn't had any
of the big war shows. All the other
capitals have had eXcitements OF
| some kind from bombardments to
revolutions. but all Washington has
had was some senatorial fireworks
and a demonstration for beer on the
| Capitol lawn. We would seem to
deserve at least one reel of this his
torical picture show, and we always
did like trials. especially when we
know what the verdict is going tc
| be.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-21
War Orphans

tice. The help of the American god
mothers came too late to save these
undernourished nerve-shocked little
ones.
Mrs. Walter S. Brewster. of Chi
cago, vice chairman of the Father
less Children of France, has been
appointed chairman of a campaign
to secure American aid for the co.
900 little war orphans whose names
were on the lists of the organiza-
ton as "unadopted" before the sign
ing of the armistice. Ten cents will
care for a child for an entire day;
$500 for a month; while for $3.50
year the donor may select a child
from the lists at the organization s
headquarters and be placed in cor
respondence with it. To adopt a
child or make a donation write for
information to Mrs. Walter S.
Brewster, Room 634, 410 S. Michigan
avenue, Chicago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-21

rolled into the gutter and stayed
there. We made a slight correction
in the aim of the gun and waited.
In about fifteen minutes we saw Mr..
Boche appear, crawling cautiously
fiat on his tummy towards the keg
Still we waited. He got we'll out
into the road and lay still, evil
IDENTIFY waiting to see If anything
would happen. Nothing happened,
so he crept on slowly. He got to
the keg, reached up and started to
roll his precious beer towards the
gutter. Bang! went the 81 and the
Boche were minus one perfectly
good keg of beer and one perfectly
good soldier. 1t was such work as
that that made the Boche hate,
loath and detest that sweet little
Allied weapon, the infantry 81
millimeter gun, that shoots straight
er and faster and farther than a
rife"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-21
GiDe Up Knighthood

bombay Correspondent of the Lon
don Express.1
Sir Rabindranath Tagore has
written to the viceroy asking to be
relieved of his knighthood because
he protests against the recent meas
ures taken in the Punjab to quell
local disturbances. He alleges that
these measures were carried out
with a severity that has no parallel
in the history of civilized govern
ments, barring some conspicuous eX-
ceptions. and says:
THE time has come when badges
of honor make our shame glaring
in their incongruous context of hu-
initiation, and I, for my part, wish
to stand shorn of all special dis
tinctions by the side of those of
my countrymen who, for their So
called insignificance, are liable to
suffer degradation not ft for human
beings"
Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the fa-
nous Indian poet, was awarded the
Noble prize for literature in 1918
and knighted in 1915.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-21

= EFT us go back to the simpler
ways of living we knew twenty
or twenty-five years ago and
we shall rid ourselves in a moment
c: much of the high cost of living"
concerning which everybody is so
vigorously complaining.
Who ever heard of ten dollar silk
shirts in those days, or silk stock
ings except on the most festive oc-
casions? What man in those times
invested ten or fifteen dollars in a
Panama hat or wore two dollar
neckties? Who ever heard of silk
pajamas and underwear at four and
six dollars a garment?
Only few of the very rich paid
those prices for their clothing in the
old days, but the most extravagant-
ly priced garments are regarded now
as none too good for everyday wear.
A Harrisburg haberdasher said the
other day: Yes, we sell more high
priced shirts than ever. Young
working men buy ten dollar shirts
and think nothing of it. We can
scarcely find a market for the cheap-
er grades of stockings. The only
people who are dressing sensibly are
the older working men and the bust
ness men who do not believe in
spending money foolishly. We have
little call for cheap garments"
There lies the trouble = extrav-
agance. If we were content to
go back to the cheaper grades of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-21

Blair county prisoners are proving
good road builders. Their work has
been so satisfactory that they will
be kept on the job until fall. These
prisoners live in a big tent along the
highway and have their own cook
They receive three dollars a day. out
of which they pay the exact cost of
their meals. 1t will occur to most
people that this is humane way to
treat prisoners and at the same time
save the county expense.