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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-10
JOKERS A SCARE
New Ghost Appearing in Re-
serve Bank Bill.
Special Privilege Clause Dis
covered in Measure.
DESTROYS DEPOSITORY LAW
Money Taken Away From 1858
Institutions in State.
Pleasant Day of Oratory APP
preaching ON Calendar.

Big, black jokers are beginning to
appear in the state reserve bank bill,
now before the state legislature. Leg
islators who have been studying pro-
visions of the proposed law have found
that it is loaded down with special
privilege clauses. But the trouble
doesn't stop there. The real scare IN
store for the Kansas taxpayer under
terms of the proposed law is the sec
ton of the bill which destroys the
present state depository law.
For nearly fifteen years the state
depository law has been a sacred in
stitution in Kansas. 1t came after
years of political strife and at the con-
clusion of an era of scandal that re-
Elected on various state officials of a
quarter of century ago. Under the
terms of the bill now before the house
and senate the state depository law is
wiped off the statute books and the
new reserve bank is made the state
depository instead of the 16S state and
national banks which now handle the
state funds and provide bonds for its
safekeeping.
The reserve bank law, as sent to the
legislature, does away with the pres
ent system of competitive bidding for
state funds. This system has dis
tributed state funds to scores of small
town banks, which have received the
benefits from use of the money, have
provided bonds for its safekeeping and
have paid the state about per
cent on daily balances Of state
moneys The proposed Bank of Kan
sas automatically becomes the state
depository.
Take Over State Money.
Instead of the two and a half, mil
lion dollars worth of securities now
deposited with the state treasury by
the 16S banks, the new state bank
takes over the state money by virtue
of it's official title and standing. Just
now Kansas legislators are beginning
to thiHk~the matter over. The present
depository law was enacted in 1906
after the state had experienced sew
eral unpleasant and rather vile SMELL
ing scandals. These scandals were the
result of private nlanipulations of
funds by men entrusted with state
money. Only after a series of expert
enees which disturbed the entire state
was the legislature moved to pass the
present law which has distributed the
funds and provided securities always
ample and sufficient to meet any pos
sible losses. In addition the revenues
to the state under the new depository
law have been greatly increased.
>, Section fourteen of the present bill
simply provides: THE state treasurer
shall deposit all state funds in the
state reserve banks" But it makes
no provision for securing the deposits
This plan, in the judgment of a num-
Der of legislators. not only takes the
use of the state funds from the local
communities of Kansas, but leaves the
funds of the state absolutely unse-
cured.
Find Special Privileges.
Special privileges to the men in
charge of the reserve banks have been
found, it was asserted. in the wording
of section IL. This section provides:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-10
SYRUP OF FIGS
FOR CROSS, SICK
FEVERISH CHILD
Look, Mother! Is tongue coated,
breath hot and
stomach sour?
Harmless ''fruit laxative" best to
clean tender liver
and bowels.

Mothers can rest easy after giving
California Syrup 6f Figs" because in
a few hours all the clogged-up waste.
sour bile and fermenting food gently
moves out of the bowels. and you have
a well, playful child again. Children
simply will not take the time from play
to empty their bowels, and they be-
come tightly packed, liver g,'s slug
gish and stomach disordered.
When cross, feverish, restless, see if
tongue is coated, then give this deli
cious fruit laxative" Children love
it, and it can not cause injury. No diff
ference what ails your little one--if
full of cold, or sore throat, diarrhoea.
stomachache, bad breath, remember
a gentle inside cleansing should al
ways be the first treatment given. Full
directions for babies, children of all
ages and grown-ups are printed on
each bottle.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask your druggist for a bottle of Cal
ifornia Syrup of Figs" then look care
fully and see that it is made by the
California Fig Syrup Company" We
make no smaller size. Hand back with
contempt any other fig syrup.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-10
LABOR In PLATFORM
Unions Adopt Ideals for City Govern
ment-Vote Down Manager Idea.

If labor plays an active part in city
politics this spring, the city manager
plan will not be tried out this year.
This was settled Sunday in a meeting
of the Labor Union league when res
oIution providing for that form of gov
eminent was voted down. AS organ
lied labor was practically the only ele-
ment pushing the city manager plan
it will probably pass into oblivion. OPP
ponents declare the plan too closely
allied with autocracy. They held that
the reconstruction period was no time
to try out experiments.
DiSpoSing of the city manager prop-
osition, the convention got down to the
problem of putting ticket in. the
field and adopting a platform.
The platform adopted calls for: a
city administration of economy, con-
sistent with good business methods;
adequate facilities for a city market;
consolidation of the city water and
electric light plants; an eight hour day
for city policemen; repair work on
public works to be done by day instead
of by contract; a living wage for city
employees; free medical attention: the
demand is made that commissioners
the mayor become familiar with the
work of all departments.
The most important plank. one that
has been the dream of union men for
years, and one bearing the endorse
ment of many prominent welfare
workers is that free medical attention
may be given to those who are unable
to pay for it, the city paying the cost.
No objection is made to the present
health department except that its
scope is too limited.
The consolidation of the water and
electric light plants is based on the
ground tina. labor contends the two
plants could be operated at the pres
ent cost of running the water plant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-10
TRIBUTE FOR 7. R.
Senator Lodge EulOgizes Life OF
the Great American.
All America Conscious of Loss
When He Died.
TOWER IS Fallen STAR is SET
Possessed Requisite of Leader
ship to Fullest Extent.
Powerful, Well Trained, Active
Mind-Always Advancing.
TOWER is FALLEN--S STAR IS SET

washington, Feb. 10.-In solemn
service within the house chamber Sun
day the nations dealers and repre-
sentatiyes of foreign governments paid
tribute to, the memory of Theodore
Roosevelt. Members of congress, su-
preme court justices, members OF the
cabinet, army and navy OFFICERS ana
diplomats of many nations heard Sena-
tor Lodge, of Massachusetts,, praise
Roosevelt as a statesman and as
man.
Crowded galleries and the throng
of men and women who could not gam
admission testified to the personal
feeling for the man whose death
shocked the world. 1t was this to
which Senator Lodge, a close friend of
the man he eulogized, referred When
he spoke these words in the stiffness
of the house chamber:
"a tower is fallen, star is set!
Alas! Alas! for Celin.
All Conscious of Loss. 50
"VariousIy expressed, you heard it
in the crowds about the bulletin
boards, from the man. in the street
and the man on the railroads, from
the farmer in the fields, the women
in the shops, in the factories and in
the homes The pulpit found in his
life a text for sermons. The judge on
the bench, the child at school, alike
paused for a moment conscious of a
loss. The cry of sorrow came from
men and women of all conditions, high
and low, rich and poor. from the
learned and the ignorant, from the
multitude who had loved and followed
him, and from those who had opposed
and resisted him. The newspapers
pushed aside the absorbing reports of
the events of these fateful days and
gave pages to the man who had died.
FLASHED beneath the ocean and
thru the air went the announcement of
Theodore Roosevelt's death, and back
came a. worldwide response from
courts and cabinets, from press and
people. mother and fair distant lands
Thru it all ran a golden thread of
personal feeling which CLEANS SO rare
ly in the somber Journalism of public
grief. 1t would seem that here was
a man, a private citizen, conspicuous
by no office, with no glitter of power
about him, no ability to reward or
punish, gone from earthly life, who
must have been unusual even among
the leaders of hen, and who thus de-
mands our serious consideration.
I'VE cannot approach Theodore
Roosevelt along the beaten paths of
eulogy or satisfy ourselves with the
empty ciyilities of commonplace
funeral tribues,' said Senator Lodge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-10

strained frankness at all times and in
all companies.
He Acted Always Quickly.
when he had reached his conclu-
sion he acted quickly and dro.e hard
at his object and this 1t was. probably.
which gave an impression that he act
ed sometimes hastily and thoughtIess-
ly, which was complete misappre-
hension of the man. His action was
emphatic, but emphasis implies reflec-
ton. not thoughtlessness.
!, HE had no hostility to a man be-
cause he had succeeded in business
or because he had accumulated for
tune He had but one standard, one
test, and that was whether a man.
rich or poor, was an honest man, a
good citizen and good American.
Theodore Roosevelt had the largest
personal following ever attained by
any man in our history.
'Roosevelts courage and sense of
humor drew many to him.
mo man ever had a more abundant
sense of humor-joyous, irrepressible
humor-and it never deserted him.
He loved fun, loved to joke and chaff.
and what is more uncommon, greatly
enjoyed being chaffed himself. Even
NOR was the universal knowledge that
Roosevelt had no secrets from the
American people"
'Homely, Generous Humanity"
Another quality. "homely, generous
humanity" was emphasized by Sena-
tor Lodge.
He never by any chance bored the
American people, he said. "They
might laugh at him or laugh with
him, they might like what he said.
they might agree with him or disa-
gree with him, but they were never
wearied of him and he never failed
to interest them. He was never heavy,
labOriOuS or dull,
mo man ever priced. sentiment or
hated asentimentahty more than he.
He preached increasingly the ia
miliar morale which lie at the bottom
of both family and public life.
Theodore Roosevelt's ideal of pub
lie service was to be found in his life,
and as his life drew to its close he
had to meet his ideal of sacrifice face
to face. All his sons went from him
to the war and one was killed upon
the field of honor.
This is not the place to speak of
his private life. but within that sacred
circle no man was ever more fortunate
in the utter devotion of noble wife,
and the passionate love of his chill
dren. The absolute purity and beauty
of his family life tell us why the pride
and interest which his fellow coun-
trymen felt in him were always
touched with the warm light of love.
In the home, so dear to him, in his
sleep, death came, and
So valiant-for-truth passed over
and all the trumpets sounded for him
on the other side.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-10
BETTER THAN CALOMEL
Thousands Have Discovered DR.
Edwards Olive Tablets are
a Harmless Substitute.

Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets-the substi.
tute for calomel - are a mild but sure
laxative, and their effect On the liver is
almost instantaneous. They are the result
of DR.. Edwards determination not to treat
liver and bowel complaints with calomel
His efforts to Danish it brought out these
little olive-colored tablets.
These pleasant little tablets CO the goc
hat calomel does, but have no bad ATTIC
effects. They don't injure the teeth Xix
strong liquids or calomel. They take holl
If the trouble and quickly correct it. VIII.
cure the liver at the expense of the teeth.
calomei sometimes plays havoc with ths
gums. So do strong liquids. 1t is best nc
20 take calomel, but to let Dr.. Edwards
: Dive Tablets take its place.
Most headaches. ~dullness" and thu
azy feeling come from constipation an
disordered liver. Take DR. Edwards
five Tablets when you feel "loggy" ar
heavy" Note how they Clear" cioude
rain ana t1ow they -pert up" the spirits
DC and 25c oox. All druggists.
tAuttrtIstmeutl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-10
Ship Away the Coin.

Washington, Feb 10.-More than
125 bushels of silver dollars wer,
shipped today from the treasury vault
to the Philadelphia mint to be melte,
was one of the shipments which have
taken SOS. 100000 from the vaults in
recent months to be melted down and
exported to the allies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-10
LIKE OUR HOSPITALITY
Secretary Editorial Association Writes
of C. and C, and Press Club.

o. w. Little, secretary of the Kan
sas State Editorial association and edl-
tor of the Alma Enterprise, writes the
following appreciation of the recent
editorial convention in Topeka:
Topeka people get more sociab' e
and enjoyable as the years go by.
Their Chamber of Conmerce is
great organization and about the big
gest thing in Topeka. They take
care of everything that comes along
and do it right. But the folks who
did most for the visitors were the
Topeka Press club. They are the best
bunch of fellows ever and made it
their special business to see that the
wheels were creased"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-10
THERE is A RIOT IN BERLIN.
Mob OF 400 Attack Troops Who Are
Hunting for Guns.

Berlin, Feb. 10.-A mob of 400
civilians attacked government troops
which were searching for arms in one
of the poorer districts of Berlin today
They had roverpowered and disarmed
the troops when help arrived. The
mob turned the captured weapons on
the reinforcements but the latter's
fusillade dispersed the rioters. Five
persons were killed and dozen
wounded Continuation of the search
revealed many weapons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-10
TO REMOVE DANDRUFF

Get a small bottle of Danderine at
any drug store for a few cents, pour a
little into your hand and rub well into
the scalp with the finger tips. BY
morning most, if not all, of this awful
scurf will have disappeared. Two or
three applications will destroy every
bit of dandruff; stop scalp itching and
falling air.-Advertisement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-10
MRS. 7. R. THANKS KANSAS
Cards to Huffman and Lambertson
Express Appreciation Today.

Lieut.. Gov. Charles H. Huffman, of
the senate, and Speaker Lambertson,
of the house of representatives, have
received cards from Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt and family expressing their
sympathy extended to them by Kansas
upon the death of the great Ameri-
can.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-10

down and got so
weak l could hardly
stand, and had head
aches every day. I
tried everything /
could think of and
was under a ply
sician's care for two
years. A girl friend
had used Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vege-
table Conpoundand
she told me about
it. From the first
day l took it'll began
to feel better and
now / am well and
able to do most any
kin d of work. I
have been recon-
mepdip0 tho COM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-10

pound ever since and give you my per-
mission to publish. this letter. miss
Flo ETC KELLY I7ErLETY gig So: 14th St., Newark.
The reason this famous root and herb
remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, was so successful in Miss
Kelly's case was because it went to the
root of her trouble, restored her to a
normal healthy condition and as result
her nervousness disappeared.
tAdvertisementD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-10
A NERVOUS
BREAKDOWN
Miss Kelly Tells How Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Restored
Her Health.

Newark, N J.-"For about three
years l suffered from nervous break
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-10
PORTUGUESE RoYALIsTs LOSE.

Pa1r OF Sharp Battles.
Lisbon. Feb. 10.-Republican troops
defeated the monarchists in battles at
Viszue and Lamego, it was announced
today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-10
EAT A TABLET!
DYSPEPSIA GONE
Pape's Diapepsin instantly re-
lieves sour, gassy or
acid stOmachs.

When meals hit back and your
stomach is sour, acid. gassy. or you
feel full and bloated. When you
have heavy Jumps of pains or head
ache from Indigestion. Here is in
slant relief
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-10
q e

Just as soon as you eat tablet or
two of Pap Diapepsin all the dys-
pel--s Indigestion and stomach dis
tress ends. These pleasant, harmless
tablets of Pape's Diapepsin never fail
to make upset stomachs feel fine at
once. and they cost very little at drug
stores ADV.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
Liquor Interests Plan
Court Battle to Delay
Coming of Prohibition

Special Correspondence
MILWAUKEE, Jan. lS. The brewers
as we'll as the dstllers will not admit
they are whipped on prohibition. They
declare there viii be fight to deter
mine whether the constitutional amend
ment was passed in a constitutional
manner. They propose not so much to
keep the nasion wet as to delay pro
hibition as long as possible.
The nature Of the fight which will be
made. has not been determined.
Local brewers, however, are making
plans for q dry nation.
Surplus stocks OF beers. which may
be left in the hands of brewers,
saloon keepers and clubs cannot be
sold or given away in this country
after July l, according to II. J. Stark,
secretary of the Pabst Brewing Com
pany.
Storing of liquor for private use is
not illegal, according to present rulings.
Exports Of surplus stocks of beer after
July are not forbidden, it is believed.
With the closing of distilleries, no ar
rangement is made for the use of
whlskey or alcohol for medical pur-
poses Mr.. Stark maintains 1t is ex-
pected these matters will be the sub
Ject of new regulations.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
Bankers Widow.
Aged OF, Married
ToEx-Chauff eul
Mrs. Helen Clidden Grant
Bride of William TOmbs.
Who Formerly Drove Her
Car; to Winter in Florida

Mrs. Helen Gldden Grant, sixty-two
years old, widow of New York
banker, was married yesterday at the
Cathedral Of st. John the Divine to
William Tombs, twenty-four years old.
who was her chauffeur six months ago.
They have gone to Palm Beach, where
they will spend the rest of the winter.
II have known the boy for a long
time and he is fine fellow" said the
Rev. II. A. l.. Sadtler, who performed
the ceremony. 81 am sure they will
be very happy, despite the difference
in their ages. | was asked to perform
the ceremony about three weeks ago,
and readily consented"
The wedding was no surprise to the
friends of Mrs. Grant. She TOLD them
of the approaching marriage several
weeks ago. Her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Robert Glidden, Mr.. and Mrs Harry
llartshorn, of Newark, and Mr. and
Mrs. J. S. Nichols, of Woodbridge, n.
j., were witnesses. Mrs Nichols is a
sister Of the bridegroom
In the spring Mr.. and Mrs Tombs
will return to the brides country es-
tate, Cliff Road House, Sewaren, n. j..
where they will make their home. Up
to the time of his marriage the bride
groom lived with his widowed mother at
Railway, n. j.. not far from Cliff Road
House.
While he was driving Mrs. Grants
cars he found time also to study
craftsmanship and he left her en-
ployment six months ago to enter that
Of the Standard Aircraft Company of
Elizabeth, N. J. He had been driving
and studying for year and a half
then.
Mrs Grant is the widow Of Frederick
Furman Grant, who was associated
with George T. Baker. For forty wears
he was a director of the First National
Bank of New York. He died in 1915.
Recently his widow offered her resig-
ration as president of the Sewaren
History Club, an organization of which
many OF her neighbors are members.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
Ash Removal Laxity May
Drive Plants Out of City
Manufacturers Say They Cannot
Get Action by Mayor or
Other Officials

Large manufacturing concerns. par
ticularly y in Brooklyn, are on the verge
OF moving their plants outside the city
limits because of the failure of the
city to provide properly for the re
moval Of ashes
Mayor Hylan is said TO have put the
responsibility on the Street Cleaning
Department.
Investigation has disclosed that in
some Instances no ashes have been
removed since January 1 and tons Of
ashes are filling the cellars. 1t was
SAID that if this situation continues
some plants would be compelled to
close
The manufacturers have gone to
various city departments, but thev saw
their appeals were met either with in
dlHefence or Impractical suggestions
street Cleaning Department officials
told Brooklyn manufacturers thev
could dump their ashes in various parts
Of Long Island if they would be re
sponslble for transportation but the
cost and impossibilitv of getting men
to do the work ended the plan.
The private removal of ashes would
incur great expense on some Of the
concerns. where ten or twelve trips a
day would have TO be made "a IN aver.
age cost of $40 a round trip. These
manutacturers take the view that such
expenditures are uncallod for when
there IS city department supposed to
do the work.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
Humbert Treason Case
Reported Disproved
investigation Said to Have
Cleared French Senator of
Giving Aid to Enemy

PARIS, Jan. Is. Investigations have
established the falsty CT accusations
made against Charles Humber, who was
charged with communicate to Ger
many the contents of two documents
relative to the national defence.
Charles Humbert, member Of the
French Senate and former editor of the
Paris newspaper "I-e Journal" became
involved during the trials of Bolo
Pacha, who was executed for treason.
and the directors of the Germanophllc
newspaper Bonnet Rouge" Revela-
tions during the inquiry into the Bolo
case led to the arrest of Humbert, in
whose newspaper Bolo had bought an
interest with money that came from
the German Foreign Office through
banking houses in New York.
While the case was pending it was
alleged that fresh evidence Of com
municating with the enemy had been
discovered. This was early last Au-
gust, and the court martial Of Hum
bert, fixed FOR August 26, was post
poned. Late in September formal de
mand was laid before the French Sen
ate for the consent of that body to
prosecute Humbert on a charge of trea-
son, the penalty for which under the
French code is death No authoritative
outline of the evidence said to have
been found in the case was ever given