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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-17
Looking Backward in State
Journal Society Column
TWENTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY

A delightful porch party was given
Thursday evening by Miss Pearlade
Prescott at her home in Tyler street.
Miss Prescott is charming hostess
and always has some novel method of
entertainment for her guests. and this
occasion was no exception to the rule;
each one present told a story, pathetic
or humorous, as he or she felt inclined.
After the story telling had ended a
vote was taken to decide which were
the best two stories; Miss Josephine
Dietrich received the ladies' prize.
which was a bunch of American
Beauty roses, and Mr.. Charles Lager
strom was given the gentleman's prize.
volume of Kipling's poems. Besides
this there was music by Miss Oldham
of Kansas City and Miss Prescott
Those present were DIR. and Mrs.
c. B. Reed, Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Hob
son, Mr. and Mrs. c. S. Downing. Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Gust, Mr.. and Mrs.
Avery Turner. Mr.. and Mrs. c. S. SUIT
ton, Mrs. Sharp of California, Mrs. c.
S. Baker. Mr.. and Mrs. Louis B.
Smith, Miss Annie Jones. Miss Harriet
Jones, Miss Myrtle Jetmore, Miss
Carol Baker, Miss Eleanor Work,
Miss Josephine Dietrich, Miss Alice
Prescott, Miss Villa Rodgers, Miss
Oldham. Miss Harris, Miss Knowles.
Mr.. George Hayden. Mr.. Dick Alden.
Mr.. e. j. White, MIR. DeForest Jet
more. Mr.. Otis Allen, Mr.. Lew Ora
ham, Mr.. Dana MacVicat and Mr..
Charles Lagerstrom.
Mrs. Robert Pierce spent the day
in Kansas City yesterday.
Miss Eta Covell has returned from
several weeks visit in Chicago and
Iowa.
Mrs. J. NJ. Meade will entertain a
company of 80 at a o'clock dinner
this evening Elementary to her
nephew, Mr.. Burr Lakin, who will so
soon to Las Animas. Colo, to make
| his home.
Miss Lulu Mckee will spend the
summer in New York with Mrs. T. S.
Hand
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-17

King and Miss Deborah King left to-
day for California. They will visit
Mrs. George Merrill in Los Angeles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Miller and their
daughters have gone to their ranch at
Miller, Kan, for the summer.
MT. J. w. Mcclure has gone to Den
yer on a business trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Hall will leave
the last of the month for Mercer, Wis.
for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. o. Rosser have gone
to California.
Mrs. NJ. +. Southwick and Mrs. Jay
Close and her children will leave the
last of the week for Ludington, Mich,
for the summer. -
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Cope left yes
terday for Ludingtou, Mich. where
they have a cottage for the summer.
Mr.. Z. NJ. Hill left yesterday for Cal
ifornia.
Miss Sylvia Silverthorne. Miss Els
pey Schwartz, Miss Helen Claypool
Miss Inez Horner, Miss Elizabeth Van
Ness, Mrs. Florence McCord johnson
and Mrs. E. V. King have gone to
Funston to give a series of concerts
for the soldiers.
DR.. L. F. Hummer of Salt Lake City
is the guest of his brother-in-law,
Mr. c. L. Stack, and Mrs Stack
Prof. and Mrs. Henri Rouchi will
be the guests of Prof. and Mrs. Roy
Towne during the summer. Professor
Rouchi will have charge of the French
department at the Washburn summer
school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adrian Sherman will
leave tomorrow for Chicago to remain
for TIE summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Seeds and their
daughters. Miss Adelaide Seeds and
Mrs. Alfred Spicy have moved into
the house they have recently pur-
chased at 1904 College avenue.
Miss Esther Stamats of Chicago,
secretary of the west side branch of
the Y. W. c. A, is the guest for a
week of Miss Louise Curtis.
Mrs. T. J. Kellam will leave the last
of the month for the east, stopping in
Chicago on her way.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Cochran are the
parents of a son. born yesterday. Mrs.
Cochran. before her marriage, was
Miss Grace Greenlee.
Mr.. H. A. Spielman will leave Mon
day night for his home in California.
Miss Jeanette Gleed will go to ST.
Louis next week to join her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Gleed. and go
for the rest of the summer.
Miss Helen and Mrs Edna Rein
bach have gone to Kansas City for
visit.
Miss Lois Koontz of Emporia is the
guest of Miss Gladys Pratt
Dr. Fannie Howe of Atchison came
yesterday to spend a few days with
her sisters. DR.. Eva Harding and DIR.
Agnes Haviland.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Hall will leave
this week for California. where they
will remain four months
Mrs Frank Beck has returned from
visit to relatives in Boston
Miss Alice Winston. of Lawrence.
has returned to her home after a visit
to her sister Mrs. Mary Newson-
Mary Louise and Billy Theis of
Kansas City. will leave today for their
home after a weeks visit to their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-17
Society Women Learn
Hair Curling Secret

If your hair is straight, flat, dull look
ing, / need not ask If you long to possess
perpetually wavy, light, fluffy, glossy
tresses,' says Gladys Coleman in Society
World. III tell you what to do. Tonight,
after your hair has had its usual brush
ing. take clean tooth brush, dip it in a
saucer of pure liquid silmerine and run
this through the hair from crown to tip.
when morning dawns and you have
yawned yourself out of your downy cot,
you wlil have a real surprise, quite an
agreeable one. Your hair will have a pref
tier and more natural-looking curl and
lustre than it has ever had before-and
there will be nothing streaky, sticky,
greasy or anything unpleasant about it.
If you will get the liquid silmerine from
your druggist 1t Will require no prepara-
ton at all, and four or five ounces will
last for months. This is just the finest
thing ina ginable for the purpose. ADV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-17
= 5000 new customers by July 1.-"-Adv.
RHULE OUT OF RACE
13Oth Field Artillery Sergeant Will
Not Run for Sheriff

Sergt. Grover c. Rhule. the first
candidate to announce himself for the
Republican nomination for sheriff in
1920. today withdrew his name from
the lace.
}:hule. who was first sergeant of
headquarters company, both field ar
tillery. during the war, threw his hat
into the ring while in Sommedieue.
France. last January. = A few weeks
ago Capt w. P. MacLean also entered
the fighr.
In statement today. Rhule says:
81 wish to withdraw in favor of
Captain MacLean. There are two rea-
sons for this. The main one is that
do not want to run against MacLean.
because ] think he is the man for the
job. The second reason is that I am
leaving FOR the Pacific coast in a few
days to look after a business propo-
sition. and I may remain there"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-17
Housewife Becomes
New Woman

'All of our best doctors had given
me up. i was unable to leave my
bed for 16 weeks and was yellow as
a pumpkin, besides the terrible stom-
advised my husband to try Mayr's
Wonderful Remedy and it has saved
my life. I am a new woman now"
1t is a simple, harmless preparation
that removes the catarrhal mucous
from the intestinal tract and allays
the inflammation which causes prac-
tically all stomach liver and intes-
final ailments, including appendicitis.
One dose will convince or money re-
funded. Druggists everywhere.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-17
LEMON JUICE
FOR FRECKLES
Girls! Make beauty lotion for
a few cents-Try It,

Squeeze the Juice or two Ieiuons
into a bottl- containing three ounces
of orchard white. shake we'll. and you
have quarter pint of the best freckle
and tan lotion. and complexion beau
tifier at very. very Small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will sup
ply three ounces of orchard white for
few cents Massage this sweetly
fragrant lotion into the face neck
arms and hands each day and see how
freckfes and blemfshes disappear and
how clean. soft and rosy-white the
skin becomes. Yes. 1t is harmless
and never NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-17
For the Other F elbow:

THE fact that a person be tall, or
stout, or in stature slightly differing
from what is commonly known as
average" need not in any manner
preclude the possibility of being cor
rectly dressed. Stein-Bloch and Col
legian clothes are made in
Short, Stout,
Short Stout, Long Stout,
Extra Long.
We can fit you, whatsoever your form
may be, from the largest stock of this
character of Clothing in Kansas. If you
wear an odd-size, come to us. This
store anticipates your needs just as re-
ligiously as we care for the regular
man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-17

Miss Lulu Mckee will spend the
summer in New York with Mrs. T. S.
Hand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-17

the members of the Knife and Fork
club. was an enjoyable affair.
About thirty women called during
the afternoon, and every one sat
around and visited and discussed the
suffrage victory. clothes. the league of
nations. gooseberry jelly, the best
method of rearing children, the politi-
cal presidential situation. the labor
problem. the returned soldiers. Bolshe-
vism. the surest way to rid the pantry
of ants. and the flare-up in Mexico.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-17

We can sell you a wonderfully
serviceable Worsted-in either soft
or hard finish-correctly styled,
faultlessly made, with our guaran-
tee, in any of the extra sizes men
toned above, at.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-17

FOURTEEN months ago today the Knights
and Ladies of Security launched its nloUe-
ment for a Home at Topeka for dependent and
aged members. 1t represents an Investment today
of $3.50, OOO and in time piLl be million dollar
plant. Topeka needs more societies like the
Knights and Ladies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-17

OBYNfYRANNt1LAMs lARRElL)

The informal tea for the out-of
town women who were in Topeka for
the ratification of the suffrage amend
ment, which was given yesterday aft
srnoon by Mrs. Henry J. Allen and
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24

the story goes, the team scored 100
per cent. Murphy was hailed as a
hero, and he established a club for
the baseball fans over a saloon.
Meantime he found more profitable
labor driving the Fourteenth Street
horse cars, and once, in front of
Tammany Hall, one Of the horses
baked and decided to take a rest.
Traffic was blocked, a crowd gath
cred, and when a policeman was
about to shoot the horse, which had
all the symptoms Of dying animal,
Murphy, with considerable fuss, re-
moved the harness, quietly readjust-
ed it, and then yelled:
"Whoa, there! Stop him!'
The horse jumped up and started
like mad, thinking he was free, but
Murphy was back on the platform of
the old Blue Belt Line car, leaning
over the dashboard, silently chuck
ling over his strategem, as the
horses resumed the slow trot of
their kind.
And on Saturday afternoon he
dropped the reins and took out his
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
The Woman otter

Tammany, too, has seen new
element enter into politics under
Mr.. Murphy, an elemont i cid its
best to keep out-the ryonaan voter.
Back four or five years. The writer
dropped in at the Fourteenth Street
headquarters on ore Ct The Tues.
days and Fridays when the leaders
foregathcr there to see "the Chief"
for it is only on these two days
that he is in New York. Interviews
with these leaders revealed that not
one Of athem was for woman sut-
frage. Their opinion was that i.
would never happen il this STATE.
But "the sun do move" and today
the old 18th Assembly District
now the 12th-of which NJ. Murphy
was once the sole, undispute8 lord,
is managed, as Tammany Was when
Croker left it, by a triumvirate,
only that it is a double triumvirate,
consisting of Mr. Murphy, Michael
j. Cruise, Edward F. Boyle and
Miss Anna Montgomery, Miss Eliza
beth N. Barry and Mrs. Mary Hag-
gerty,
But those who know ''the Chief"
will tell you that he does not care;
that he is little interested III poll
tics now, caring more about golf, in
which he delights, than once he
cared for real good political bat
tie royal, where all but the best
man went down. And in his sixty.
first year he has become teacher.
of the game and is instructing his
neighbor at Good Ground, SAP
Smith--sometimes known as Gov
ernor Smith-in its rudiments. He
has played the game long, He was
forty-four when he became leader
of Tammany. At forty-seven he
was good golf player, The Gov
ernor will be that age in 1920.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
Tan,naany Hall, in East Fourteenth Street

paign, a statement is given out for
publication signed by him. But
these have been written invariably
by the secretary Of Tammany Hall,
Congressman "Tom" Smith, who
held that position when Murphy was
leader Of the Gas House District
and known to the other district
leaders as "Silent Charley" Once
this was during the impeachment of
Governor Sulzer--Murphy gave an
interview to the newspapermen in
reply to one Of Sulzer's broad
sides. 1t was given on condition
that the interview be submitted to
him before it was turned into their
offices. When the report of what
Mr.. Murphy had said was placed
before him he criticised some of
its phraseology and observed that
most Of the sentences were too long.
Borrowing a pencil, he altered some
of the language and added a few
more periods. And thus the inter-
view appeared in print.
And yet of this man, whose word
has been law during the seventeen
years he has presided over the des-
tinies Of Tammany Hall, but little
of the personal has been written.
Men in small towns whose names
get into the local newspapers but
once in a lifetime have half COL
umn or more in "Who's Who" de-
voted to them. Mr.. Murphy, in
that dictionary Of contemporaries,
great and near great, is summed up
in the following:
murphy, Charles F., politician n !;
born at New York June 20, 1853 :,
son Of John M; educated public
and parochial schools; married. Be-
gan work in wireworks; later street.
car driver. Became leader of 18th
Assembly District, New York, 1892;
was Commissioner of Docks and
Ferries, New York, and treasurer of
the board; chairman Tammany
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
Cood Cround,'' the Murphy farmhouse looking ore,
the bay toicard Fire Island

And he was the master mind of an
other club, the Sylvan Club, COM
posed largely of his old baseball fol
lowers, all members duly qualified
voters.
One night, early in the fall, he
was standing behind the bar of the
biggest and most prosperous of his
saloons, at Twenty-frst Street and
First Avenue, whensEdward Hagan,
a little 6he rough for wear, entered
and asked for a drink. Murphy
served and, noticing Hagan, who was
one Of the lieutenants of the then
Tammany leader of the district,
Francis Spincla, looked worried, in
quired the cause.
well, Charley answered Hagan,
"the Boss has turned me down."
The Boss was Spinola. And to
Murphy, who knew Hagan's ambi-
tions to represent the district in the
Assembly, the rest meant that Spi-
nola had picked some one else to 20
to Albany.
"Never mind, Ned" said Murphy.
HE didn't give you a square deal.
But if you want to run n,an inde-
pendent ticket I'll back you and
| think can put you over"
Hagan readily agreed. Murphy
organized meetings all over the dis
trict for him, saw to it that there
was a band at the principal meet
lngs, and plenty Of red fire at all.
10 this was added a couple of torch
light parades. And Murphy's man
agement and Hagan's oratory-one
who served with Hagan in the As
sembly said he was brilliant and
fiery speaker-won. And with the
victory passed out Spinola as a
power in the district .and Hagan
became leader, and Murphy, at the
age of thirty-this was in 1888-be-
came his deputy. This, however,
was the only time Murphy fought
! the machine. Four years later
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
ack From Tammany Hall to Good CrOunt
Al Smith Nav
Then Rule at
Wigwam

Murphy. as Tsmmany's viceror
across the river.
1t was TINS one act which cou
tributed above all others to fl.
creation of the Greater Tammanv
able to control the affairs Of 81.
Democratic party in the entire
State of New York. The Bronx was
already amerable 10 Fourteen+b
Street. The defeat of McIauebl;,
brought Brooklyn under its swav
and, this accomplished. there was no
longer any possibility Of upstate
cities Ike Albany and Buffalo lin.
ing up with Brooklyn and holding
down Tammany.
Another innovation created h,
Mr.. Murphy is the Delnonico an.
mex, for of late years he mas been
holding the real important meetings
at the famous Fifth Avenue res.
taurant. During the big campaign,
he has maintained a suite Of room,
there, where the hoi polloi are not
likely to foregathcr.
Another Murphy institution is his
famous secret service. This force
consists of bankers, business men.
lawyers, doctors, teachers and other
professional men, who sound out
public sentiment in their respective
districts and report 20 him. And
it is said that his decisions are based
on what his secret service agents
bring him, together with the infor.
nation obtained at the gatherings in
Fourteenth Street.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24

Federation of Labor explained that
he had not desired to attack the
Germans and was not unwilling TO
cooperate with them in d new In
ternational. But he could not les
Legien's statements go urchal-
lenged, and he wanted an organiza-
ton based rot on German dictator
ship. but on the principle of self
determination for the unions OF
America and Of every other nation.
Asa result of the heated debate,
IN the course of which The French
Ieadel. sCuhau:.. also made vg-
orous and docuaented attack on Le-
glen S leadership, the German S@s-
senbach proposed Il declaration
which The Beigians and the confer
ence were asked to accept as a COM
promise. The Belgians were pleased
TO ind certain conciliatory phrases
III the statement, but when It was
referred 10 committee 1t was found
to contain a complete exonerarion
OF the whole German Socialist and
labor union'st position during The
war. "'The attitude Of the German
laDorins class at the outbreak Of
the war and during the war was dc
uated by the position Of Germany.
Note not merely that the Germans
were without free will, but also the
artfui and typical effort of leaders
and organizations TO hide behind
"the laboring Glass;" which had
never been brought into the debate.
"It was our conviction that GER
many was fighting defensive wal"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
Vhat Samuel G0mpers Accomplished of Amsterdam


zation, almost as hostile to Western
democracy?
Or has the defeat Of Germany
and the victory of the Western
democracies shaken the German
predominance?
The Amsterdam conference could
scarcely give final answer to such
questions. But it did serve to regis
ter the relative influence and to
define the position of each Of the
groups in the new International.
The delegates from Germany, the
scandinavian countries, Holland,
Switzerland, Belgium, France,
Great Britain and the United States
gathered together IN the Concert
gebouw on the afternoon of July
rs, under the presidency of Dude
geest, head Of the Dutch Federation.
Karl Legion, Samuel Gompers, Leon
Jouhaux OF France and the other
leading figures OF the old 1nterna-
tional we're all present--each nation
being represented by two delegates.
Icy
AS Legien on the one side and
Gompers, Jouhaux and Ben Tillett.
of England, on the other had all
taken leading and active part in
war activities, the icy atmosphere
scarcely needs description. There
was no effort at social amenities of
any kind. Hands were not shaken
nor friendly words exchanged--un-
less in exceptional cases and outside
the plaae Of meeting. though less,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24

baseball team, and one Saturday
night, after skunking the opposing
nine, Murphy announced that he was
through with horse cars and would
open saloon, and wanted all hands
on the job on the opening night
the following Saturday night.
And most of the baseball fans in
the neighborhood crowded into the
saloon he opened at Nineteenth
Street and Avenue A, where, follow
ing the custom of those times, all
drinks were on the house. 1t was
not the richly appointed affair that
the saloon later became, with ma
hogany bars, gilded French mirrors
and mosaic floors. This was when
the saloon was owned by the man
whose name appeared above the
door and before the breweries began
to go into the retail business with
discredited prizefghters, and worse,
as managers Of the places.
Progress
Murphy prospered. In a couple of
years he owned two other saloons.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
The Reius

Murphy first assumed the reins Of
Tammany Hall as part of the
famous triumvirate which included
Daniel f. McMahon and Louis F.
Haffen. The late Chief Devery,
when he broke with the organiza-
ton, referred to them as Sport.
Two Spot, and Joke. The last was
Devery's characterization of Haffen.
Mcmahon was Two Spot and Muir
ply Sport. But Murphy broke Dew
cry, as ne did all others who ques-
toned his power.
This triumvirate, which was
named by Croker to succeed him
self, was finally absorbed by the
present leader of Tammany Hall.
and one of his first acts was to
break the rule Of Boss MCLAUGHLIN
IN Brooklyn and establish the late
Senator Patrick F. McCarren. who
acknowledged the suzerainty of
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
Hagan died, and Murphy succeeded

Hagan died, and Murphy succeeded
him.
Murphy now owned four saloons,
and when Mayor Van Wyck made
him a Dock Commissioner it was
reported that these saloons netted
him $4,000 q year. Murphy dis
posed of his saloons on receiving
this appointment and entered the
trucking and contracting business
with his brother John. Highly
profitable contracts with the Penn
sylvania Railroad and the New
York, New Haven & Hartford, the
Consolidated Gas Company and
other big corporations soon en-
riched Murphy, SO that when, in
1902, he became leader of Tammanv
Hall he took title to the house he
still occupies as town residence,
overlooking Stuyvesant Park, once
the home of Mayor George B. Nc
Clellan, and was actively engaged
in the stock market.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24

pers denied that any decision ex-
'sted) was to reserve all important
questions of a general character as
a monopoly of the Socialist Inter
national. This implies that the la
Dor unions are subordinate to the
Socialist parties.
lTs a Nutshell
Here is The very essence of Ger
man socialism. Here is the concept
which it opposes to the political
democracy and the labor unionisn
Of America, and Great Britain. and
France. These countries NAV nave
their tabor parties," but the labor
unions do not demand or assume
that their members must support
such parties.
President Gompers then went into
the relations Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor during the war.
he showed how leeien had rebuffed d
every suggestion that he help 10
keep Germany aid America from
war, exhibiting copies of letters and
telegram in when Legier had ,e-
fused to use any et1or. to get his
government to stop the rutlllcs.
submarine war unless Gomycrs
would urge Wilson to get England
to stop the blockade. AS to the
Lusitania, Legien had the etrrontery
to contend that its sinking was JUS
tilted because it was loaded with
munitions and a warning had been
issued by Bernstorff.
The president Of the American
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
By William English Walling


Amsterdam 10y Maa).
WI EFORE the war the Interna-
tional Federation Of Trades
Unions had it's Headquarters
at Berlin The president
was Karl Legien, also president Of
the National Commission Of the
German Trades Unions.
AS administrative head Of the In
ternational, Legien had an enor-
nous influence-which he used ruth
lessly on behalf of Germany and
socialism.
The German labor union leaders
not only dominate the labor union
movement of the continent thon
nave an even frmer control Of the
Socialist International. At the
Berne conference last winter their
resolution generating the German
Socialists from responsibility for
the war or its conduct was adopted
by forty votes to one. Nor was
this all Bauer, a lieutenant of
Legien's, is now Prime Minister of
Germany, while the labor union
Socialists are also in complete con-
troll of the Austrian government.
Is it not possible that the dream
Of vast Central European power
is being put into effect, not in the
form either Of a military autocracy
or Of dictatorship Of the prole-
tariat, but in the form Of an inter
national political and labor organi-