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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18
Britain Accepts Policy of, State
Purchase of Rights.
Lloyd George Makes Announce
ment in Commons Today.
TRADE BALANCE VS.. ENGLAND
, Kingdom Must Increase Ex-
ports, Premier Declares.
War Cost 200 Billion Dollars
Lift Import Ban SOOn.,

London. Aug. 1S.-The British gov
eminent has accepted the policy of the
state purchase of mineral rights in
coal. This announcement was made
by Lloyd George in the house of COM
mons today.
, In discussing the financial and in
dustrial situation the premier said
there was an alarming trade balance
against the United Kingdom of $780,
10000 pounds (S4.OOO, OOO,OOO) which
threatened to increase. He announced
that import restrictions would be re-
moved September l.
War Cost 200 Billion.
The war cost forty billion pounds
(about $500. 00O, 10000, the premier
declared in his speech on the finan-
cial and industrial situation. Most of
this sum was spent for purposes Of
destruction.
He asserted that the change from
war to peace conditions would take
just as long as the change from peace
to war. The first outstanding fact of
the present situation was the alarming
adverse trade balance, he said.
The import restrictions, he con-
tinued, had given British manufac-
turers an opportunity of making a
dealing in goods which otherwise
would have been hurried here from
+. foreign countries.
b National Debt Ten Times Larger.
grown from 641.OOO,OOO pounds to
500. 900. 900 pounds (about s3,2O5,-
? 900, 600 to $4,000, 0OO.0O0).
& The premier said before the war imports
p had exceeded exports from the United
. Kingdom by 1JO.OOO.OOO pounds (S15O,OOO.
OOOl. Receipts from foreign investments
at present are down to 1OOOOOOOO pounds
$500 600 OOO) while Great Britain has to
pay back an adverse trade balance Of $780,
o. OOOOOO pounds ($fOO0O O0O).
Labor conditions in the United King
,dOm. he said. had improved. OF the
a GOOOOO men demobiized only $4,000 have
not been absorbed in industries.
N. Must Increase Production
Pensions cost the government 100000
pounds (SJ0O,OOO,O00) yearly. Private ex-
penditure in the aggregate, he said, was
more formidable than public expenditure.
One way Of meeting the Increase IN eN
penditures is to increase production, but
the output Is less in everything except agri-
He declared that If the country con
tinued in the ways It was going the average
trnde balance would reach 1,OOO,OOO.OOO
pounds 1884, O.OO0.OOOl compared with
15OOOO,OOO pounds $3.50, 0OO,0OO) before the
war.
1--WE cannot prosper" he said, 1--WE cannot
even exist without recovering and main
thinning our intern tlonal trade. We must
bring up the trade balance, adding to our
exports and legsening our imports
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18
HAD LARGE CROWD
Evangelist Evans Spoke ut Christian
Church Sunday Morning.


A large and enthusiastic crowd
heard Evangelist Floyd John Evans
lecture on "Americanism" Sunday
morning at the First Christian church.
The conservative congregation broke
all precedents by their continuous ap-
plause as Doctor Evans poured his
denunciation into the things that are
tending to undermine the American
home.
The frost is on the kaiser and the
hun is in the shock"
while my comrades over there
bled and died singing 'Yankee-Doodle,'
the Shylock- profiteers over here sang
'Yank- the-Boodler THE St. Vitus
dance is. a disease; but the shimmy
dance is a plague"
Some of these modern-day rag
time songs are so rotten and sugges-
tive that, when the music is snatched
off, the words should be arrested for
indecent exposure
I'VE don't want any more Hurried
Sunday; let's bring back the old
American Lords day"
II differ from the other returned
chaplain at Chanute. Khaki clothes
will not substitute for the 'Atoning
Blood of Christ" That chaplain or
no one else can drive hell out of the
Bible with the bayonet."
Such are some of the epigrammati-
cal statements made by the evangelist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18
WANTS NEW LICENSE
Harry Reason Lost Ono He Procured
Several Months Ago.

Harry Reason came to Topeka today
from Joplin to get a new marriage
license. The one issued by Probate
Judge Ralph H. Cav in February was
lost and Reason again wants to marry
the same girl.
After We got the license we decided
to wait few months" said Reason.
THE other day we decided to marry
and then 1 found the marriage license
was lost"
The license was issued to Harry
Reason. Mayfield, KY. and Lena
Owens. Hale, Mo. He is 20 years of
age: She is "a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18

sue other firms. including Brown &
drummer of Wichita. offered better
inducem ents, together with substantial
premiums. it was reported.
The $225,O0O bond issue represents
a part of the total cost of the East
Sixth street road and the West Tenth
street road now under construction.
The money will be used in paying the
everyday expenses of the work, ac-
cording to Henry McAfee, a member
OF the board of commissioners An is
sue of 100000 is for the East Sixth
street road while the $4,000 is for
the West Tenth street road. The
bonds cover period OF ten years, paid
in serials each year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18
cow TESTER PICNIC
All Day Outing VIII Be Held al

All Day Outing VIII Be Held at
Sondker's Grove Friday.
An all-day picnic will be held next
FRIDAY in Sondker's grove. one-half
mile east of Holton. by the Jackson
county Cow Testing association.
Everyone interested - particularly
dairymen-is invited to attend.
Prof. ]. B. Fitch. state dairy COM
missioner; 1. D. Graham. assistant sec
rotary of agriculture and Miss Rens
Faubion, dairy specialist from Man
haitian, VIII be on the program, to-
gether with a number of prominent
dairynen. Music will be furnished by
male quartet and an orchestra and
there will be some good readings,
speaking and solos. Ice cream and
buttermilk will be served free all day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18
TO MEET TOMORROW
GroCcrs VIII Come Hero To Look Into
Prof1teering.

Members of the executive commit
tee of the Kansas Retail Grocers as
ISOLATION are coming to Topeka Tues
day to talk over the high cost OF living
and the profiteering probe. They have
asked r. ]. Hopkins, attorney general,
to attend the meeting. Both Hopkins
and Governor Allen are out of the city
and will not be here when the meeting
is held.
officials announced plans for a gem
eral food probe and Investigation of
living expenses. The meeting will be
held at the Chamber of Commerce
building at 10 o'clock Tuesday morn
n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18
TO SUE GARMENTS UNION
Pittsburgh Street Car Company VIII
Ask Damages for Strike.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Aug. 1s.-Receivers
for the Pittsburgh Street Railways
company announced this afternoon
that they would go into United States
district court late today and enter suit
for damages against division IS,
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees, its
officers and members.
More than 5000 members Of the
union-conductors, and motermen-
have been on strike since last Thurs
day midnight, completely paralyzing
trolley Service in the Pittsburgh dis
trict.
According to a statement issued by
the receivers the suit will be filed to
recover damages for losses caused
the receivers thru the breach of con-
tract which resulted in the stopping
Of the cars"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18
SCOUTS WILL CADDY
Boys VIII Help With Country Club
Tournament.

The minstrel show to have been
given next Friday evening at the au-
ditorium by Eight boy scouts from
Troop /, Rosedale, Kan, has been
called off. J. II. Fazel, local scout
executive, received a letter this morn
ing stating that two of the boys had
been called out Of town and that an
other is i'll. necessitating the canceling
of the date. Hopes were expressed
that the entertainment might be given
in September
Fazel wants % scouts to act as
extra caddies during the invitation
golf tournament at the Shawnee
links beginning August 80. and 100
more to act as guards next Friday
evening during the water play to be
given at Central park.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

The funeral Of Heaton II. Swallow, age
fS, who died Sunday at his home, 1901
Harrison street, was held Monday after
noon Mt 30 o'clock from Penwell'S chapel.
Burial in Topeka cemetery.
The body OF Mrs. Georgia c. Fetters who
died Friday at her home. 1706 Lane street,
will be taken to Delphos, Kan, Tuesday af-
ternOon for burial.
The funeral Of Adam Calm was held Mon
day afternoon at O'Clock from Shella-
barger's chapel. Burial in Mt Hope ceme-
terry.
The funeral of Mrs. Samuel f Kinsin.
ger. mother of Mrs william j. Bridge,
of North Topeka, who died Friday at her
home in Kansas City. No. was held Mon
day morning. Burial in Rochester ceme-
terry.
Word Of the death Of Beecher Sterne at
san Diego has been received in Topeka.
He was brother Of William Sterne, who
for many years was closely identified with
Topekas business and political life, and
who is now residing In California. Beecher
Sterne also lived in Topeka for a time.
He was member Of the San Diego city
council ut the time OF his death.
Lords Flowers Satisfy. Tel. s27-
Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18
OPEN ROAD BOND BIDS

Three Concerns Want $225,OOO Shaw
nee County Issue.
Bids for s225.ooO in Shawnee county
good roads bonds were opened at noon
today by the Shawnee county commits
sioners. After Opening the bids the
commissioners adjourned awaiting a
report from the auditor as to the best
offer rendered by three bidders
The Central Trust company or To-
peka offered Az per cent for the is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18
MURDER AT PRISON
Man Serving for a Staying Admits
Killing Fellow Prisoner.

Leavenworth, Kan. Aug. 1s.-John
Aday, 20 years old, of Tucson, Ariz.,
serving a 13-year sentence in the fed
eral prison for murder, has confessed
to killing Ike R. Watson of DAN
Vile, Ill.
Watson was serving a short term for
robbery of interstate freight ship
ments. Aday, according to the con-
fession. crushed Watson's skull with a
baseball bat at the prison last Tuesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18
WALTER NEFF FREE
I. w. w. Serving 2O-Yenr Sentence at
I.eavenwoIth. Released on Bond.

Leavenworth. Kan. Aug. 1S.-Wal-
ter T. Neff. an l. w. W. who was
serving a sentence of twenty years,
was released from the federal prison
today upon approval of a $4,000 bond
pending appeal. Neff left Immediate
" for Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18
OFFICER, Shot by Ycggs, Recovering.

Dallas, Tex, Aug. 1S.-Physicians
today said Policeman Frank Shannon,
shot in the breast when he surprised
two safe crackers at work in q store
here early yesterday. will recover. The
safe blowers escaped.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18

thereabouts Cali
would
New
they official bathing girls for the nearest Of them
maid
Palisades park and took drink at Of the public
This interesting Of girls attract considerable attention even
bathing suits and Praded through the parks aEaysd like mel
their footsteps the when this decided to what
whatever it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

wANTED--Dellvery boy. Dibble Grocery
Co, South side.
1888 COLLEGE-Oak dresser, mission
oak porch swing, table, chairs, pictures,
etc. Phone 716.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18

Wherever you go you C. NJ. Hill &
Son.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18

Lords Flowers Satisfy. Tel. s27-
Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-18

RUFF Kings voice broke today when
he was asked if reports were true that
he and his wife weren't living together.
a L., -
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

them into superior business which
might be taken up by a determined
minority, sort of little theatre move
ment, so that, on the understanding of
its being over the heads of the movie
public, the disdained movie might be-
come sort of shibbolcth for the elite
"a class, cult, an inner shrine.
In that case, one of two things would
happen. Either the worshippers, from
looking long upon the shrine, might
learn something about pictures and re-
turn to earth as a solid, organized sup
port, instructed and instructng, to
back those better things which the
producers as much as anybody would
like to do, or else the elite and the for
egners would remain shut exclusively
in the temple, and the ordinary movies
would be left to those to whom thew
give hope and warmth, courage and
consolation, the multiple, conglom-
crate, vast horde to which they are the
star in the distance, the fire on the
hearth, the pulse in music. Thev
should worry!
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
General Pershing to See
Lieutenant Persfine on Scroo.

General John J. Pershing is goinc :.
have the opportunity of seeing himss,.
as Lieutenant John J. Pershing reco;,,
ing his first important commission :.
the hands of Colonel Theodore Roo..
veit, when "Our Teddy" the Mcclr,.
screen version Of Colonel Roosevel,,
life, is shown in the areas of Fron..
occupied by American rroops. B.os.
the Mcclure feature was producoa ;.
was not generally known that Colona,
Roosevelt, then President, "discoveroau
Pershing as q young West Point prad
uate. recognized his ability and cs,o
him his first big job to do in the armr
In an interesting and impressive scer.
"Our Teddy" shows President Roo..
welt in conversation with Lieuten.r.
Pershing and assigning him the imno,
tant tasks that later resulted in him
being chosen as leader of the Amer
can expedition and commander in cb;os
OF the American expeditionary forces
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

great! You could do a screen version
of Balaam, and Hank could be the
famous vis-a-vis who called him
down"
"Well, I'll tell you. I have made
enough pictures to know that it is
the hardest work on earth; and think
of being shut up for hours in a polar
bears skin! In the work Pm doing
now l can return to human form in
a quarter of an hour or so, but even
at that it isn't the coolest thing on
earth in July and August.
perhaps you saw some Of the Or
films. You know I made my debut in
The Wizard of o. In these pictures
l played everything from a giraffe to
a parrot. But the thing that really
set me dead against the work was an
affair which | had with an English
bulldog out in Los Angeles. He nearly
killed me, thinking l was another dog
"a tribute to my makeup, of course.
but mighty hazardous.
$50 now l say that I won't make
another picture until get big con-
tract, and l go around hoping I won't
locate one. H. U.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Commonwealth Opera Co.

The Commonwealth Opera Associa-
tion will begin its four weeks season
at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on
Monday night, April 21. Florence Mar
beth, coloratura soprano with the Chi
cago Opera Company, has just been en-
gagged. Miss Macbeth is the third
prima donna Of the Chicago companv
to join the organization, the Others
being Dorothy Jardon and Irene Paw
loska. James T. Powers will play his
original role in "The Geisha," which is
to be presented during the final week
This completes the list of comedians
the others being Jefferson de Angels,
Frank Moulan, William Danforth and
Stanley Ford.
The opening bill will be "Tbe
Mikado."
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
By Virginia Tracy

Of the arrows that have been let fly
at US since we wrote last week about
lifting the embargo upon foreign films
three have stuck: Did we want the
screen flooded with pictures that would
drive out the home product? Since
when were we one of those who think
everything foreign better than any,
thing homemade? Third, and last:
Was 1t true we advocated having all
American characters played by Chi
nese actors so that we could get their
idea Of Americans.
This last, too subtle for refutation,
may have been biting jest, but as
to question number two we can answer
only: When, indeed! And ask, in turn,
of question number one: But would it
work out that way?
If it be true that hidden only by the
horizon there rides a golden argosy Of
pictures, an invincible armada before
the mere wind of whose coming the eff
forts of our own producers must fall
fiat, nations sweeping irresistibly over
products in their conquering trail,
then, for heavens sake, let us have
them. Let US see what they are like,
these wonders; let America look and
rejoice-and make some herself and
make them better! The economic ques-
tion being out of our sphere, all we
want is, as the movie magazines de-
clare to be the movie slogan: Better
picturesl" At the same time, it is not,
we presume, a case of cheap labor. If
it were true that, while the consci-
entious American producer was obliged
to ask a quarter admission for his
products the unscrupulous foreigner
could flood the market with nickel
movies, then, indeed, we might hasten
to scuttle the armada, to forswear curl
osity and comparison, crying to our
very own: ooh, be as thou hast been
to me, forever and forever!" But
we cannot help feeling that the pro-
ducers have perhaps taken a step or
two toward preventing this condition;
that the Monroe Doctrine was not al
lowed to lapse from the treaty without
the insertion of some substitute. Why,
then, shoot arrows at US, suggesting it
as inevitable that on equal terms and
on their own home ground the Amer-
can films must yield?
We have friends, it is true, whose
experience of early Italian films insists
upon lights and depths of Photographic
tone they have not since seen equalled,
and we, too, remember old Gaumonts
and Pathes which seem to US fresher
and cuainter in subject than our mac
adamizcd market would permit; yet we
can't be sure, because not one of the
few French films we have been able to
see since those easily dazzled days
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Ding Cartoon Subject Of
Loos-Emerson Phofop{ay

ooh, You Women!" the John Emer-
son-Anita Loos Paramount production.
featuring Ernest Truck and Louise Huff.
Will be released by the Famous Players
Lasky Corporation on May 4. special
press book is embelishcd. bv courtesy
OF The Tribune Syndicate. with re-
production of the clever and singularly
appropriate cartoon by Ding recent
~ published in The Tribune, headed
"Therc's No Telling How Farronchnp
the Effects of .hc World War Arc
Going to Be-"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Reciprocity in the Films

A number of specials produced in
this country are to be purchased
by Robertson-Colc for distribution
through Jyry's in tho British Isles,
while Jury's will secure the foremost
European cinema attractions for re-
lease in the United States by Robert
sonCole. BY this arrangement Robert
son-Colc became the accredited Ameri
can representatives of jury's, an honor
aspired to for many years by numcr.
Gus film concerns on this side,
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
What the Foreign
Film Might Bring

/ have had any special quality whatever
and from Italy have come only a few
huge spectacles whose photography hat
been already equalled and whose dra.
matte passion-save in the personal in
stance of the younger Novell's acting
had been far surpassed by Griffith's
judith of Bethulia," while their pa
geantry, with the probable exception OF
"Cabiria," was of no difference in quail
ity from the quantity in which our
own lavish producers are won't pleas
urably to smother US. Still, those were
pictures which we attended when we
were still pretty largely screen blind
and, having eyes, saw not; when we
had to learn the plots by means
heaven save us!--of synopses printed
on the programme, as if we were ad-
mittedly incapable of following them
upon the screen; when the unfortunate
"This Is a lady. This is a gentleman.
See the gentleman put his arm around
the lady? That is pantomimc. 1t
means he likes the lady. Watch closely
and you will see whether she remains
in his arms or whether she pushes him
into the fountain. Then, by exertng
all your sympathy and imagination,
you may be able to deduce whether the
lady likes the gentleman" In other
words, we had then about as cultivated
a perception Of pictures as that upon
which those who are still screen blind
base the superiority Of their dramatic
vision. Pity the poor blind-but don't
take their word about pictures And
don't take ours about those pictures
which we saw in those days of our
dark night.
But it was only about year ago
that two English pictures struggled
into our fold, George Loane fuckers
we'll advertised "Manxman," and some
what earlier "The Second Mrs.
Tanqueray," which was scarcely even
announced, so that we should have sup.
posed it the work of some obscure firm
but that the cast included Sir George
Alexander. All, if our rich ignorance
of the foreign field were only lighted
by the dates when these pictures were
taken! For "The Second Mrs. Tan
queray" was like cry from the stone
age. Flat, blackish-gray shadows
stalked across slate-gray field in the
merest dream, at once vague and crude.
through which the glance, the gesture
of some indomitable actor occasionally
struck match-or, shall we say, hailed
us as if with an arm tossed above the
flood before he sank Now, if this
picture were taken six or seven years
ago, it was merely in the ordinary rum
ming Of its day, but we feel pretty
sure that the date of "The Manxman"
was 1915; the time, in America, of
Carmen" and maria Rosa" and "The
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
And Hank Opened His
Mouth and Spoke

Fred Woodward has spent most of
his time for the last ten years acting
like mule, and this is literally true,
for he is the best known donkey in
the world. His name is Hank on the
inside and Fred on the outside
We saw Hank last week over at
Shanley's, and he fascinated us to
such an extent that we begged for
an interview. So he told us all about
it over the demi-tasse, and, by the
way Hank does not subsist on
shredded wheat and apple cores
With our mind always on the films
we asked: "Why don't you go into
motion pictures? You ought to be