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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-19
HIT PEACE LEAGUE
Senate Investigating Committee
Adjourns Its Sessions.
Report ON Activities of League
to Enforce Peace Ordered.

st. Louis, Oct. 1stx-Five days before
the coming election on Thursday,
October IS. complete records of the
collections and disbursements of the
Republican and Democratic parties
will be submitted to the public.
The senate committee appointed to
investigate campaign expenditures
meeting here. yesterday directed the
chairmen of the national. senatorial
and congressional committees of the
two parties to file such reports at
Chicago on that date.
In event they refuse or fail, the
senators decided to meet in Chicago
prior to the election and subpoena the
chairmen of the committees.
A lengthy report on the activities of
the League to Enforce Peace. of which
William Toward Taft is president, in
troduced into the record before the
senators left here last night. may be
followed by further investigation of
the lea que and examination of it's off,
Gers, members of the committee indi-
Gated last night.
Don NJ. Hunt, attorney for the COM
mittee, who prepared the report fol-
lowing investigation of the letter files
of the league, suggested in his find
linGs that some members of the league
had, in his opinion, violated the Logan
act passed In 1893. to prohibit private
citizcns negotiating with foreign gov
crnmentA or their agents in matters OF
controversy in which the Unite i
States Is Interested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-19
MYSTERY IS DEEPEHED
Purchases of Clothing for Woman
Months After Death OF Herself
and Husband Confuse Murder
Clcws.

Los Angeles, Oct. 19.-Purchascs of
women's wearing apparel were made
in a Los Angeles department store in
the name of AIRS. ]. c. Denton" five
months after Mrs. Denton's death, de-
tcctives investigating the mysterious
murder of Jacob c. Denton. mining
mar, said they had learned today
They said the purchases were made
August Is and 16 and totalled $500.
Mrs. Denton died last March while
Denton was supposed to have been
murdered during the first ten days OF
June-probably about June 2.
This announcement. together with
indications of unusual activities
around the district attorneys office
today gave rise to a belief that the
investigation of Denton's murder rap
idly was reaching a climax.
Important phases of the case, it was
stated at the district attorneys office.
have been brought into shape for
presentation when the grand jury re-
sumes its investigation Wednesday or
Thursday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-19
Dorothy Dix Talks

The Economy Shop.


Nothing is too big or too little to
find>a place in the economy store. It
would take. with equal gratitude, a
grand piano or a single cup and sau-
Ger. It has proved boon to house
wives who for the first time in years
have been able to clean their attics.
because before they did not know
what to do with the junk that had
accumulated. Their consciences would
not allow them to throw good furni-
lture into the fire. nor cast wearable
garments into the garbage can, and
yet they knew personally no one to
whom they could give these things.
Now they send them to the economy
shop where they are sold for a mere
pittance, and where they meet long
felt want, because they so to that
middle class of people. the small sal
aried people, who are being ground to
powder between the profiteers above
them and below them.
These people, the senteel poor,
would starve and freeze rather than
take charity, but they can supply their
needs at the Economy shop, and save
their money and their pride.
At the Economy shop one may buy
odd dishes for 10 cents piece, a hat
for dollar. that with a little fur
bishing is as good as it was when IT
cost $25 or $50. Every kind OF a
imported ball dress, at prices that are
a fraction of what was originally paid
for them; three new novels for dol
liar, magazines for cents piece, ana
shoes that perhaps need little cob
bling to nike them as good as new,
for twenty-five cents to a dollar ana
SO on.
And there's every conceivable thing
in the shop, from quilt pieces up and
! down for it is a clearing house for
domestic undesirables on one hand, as
it is a source of supply for millions
of things that other people need and
want on the other hand. Moreover. it
has fostered a beautiful spirit in those
who give 1t has made the woman
who has much realize her sisterhood
with the woman who has little, and
so the women who give do not just
jump down their things in the store
any old way.
They have got so that they take the
trouble to freshen up a dress by put
ting on newtcollars and cuffs, or clean
ing or pressing it, and making it look
Better, because they realize how much
more value it will have in the eyes of
the woman who buys it.
The Economy Shop has been par
ticuIar blessing to poor mothers with
many children because it has furn-
ished them at the least possible cost
with quantities of ready-made clothes
for their young ones. and with shoes
of a quality that they could never
hope to buy in an open Shop.
All the women connected with the
Economy shop give their services. and
it is so successful financially that for
the past two years it has cleared more
than a thousand dollars a month.
| This money is divided among three
different charities which it virtually
supports, thus relieving the people of
the town from any further calls upon
their charity.
The Economy Shop is great idea.
| Try it IN your own community.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-19
ASK FOR WIFE DESERTER.
Governor Allen Issues Requisition For
Return of Henry Biddeman.

acquisitions on governors of Colo
RADIO and Iowa were issued by Gov
ernor Allen today, while an extradition
by the governor of Nebraska was hon
ored-~ Two of the cases are under the
wife and child desertion laws.
In a requisition on the governor of
Colorado, Kansas asks the return of
Raymond Miller, Jack Williams, Hen
ry Hynk and r. o. Keeping. The
four men are charged with stealing an
automobile belonging to Fred Smith
of Ogallah. Trego county. Henry
Glaud Biddeman is wanted in Mont
gomery county, Kansas, for wife de-
sertion. He is under arrest in Iowa.
An extradition by the governor of
Nebraska for return TOT that state of
Bert Clark now ; under arrest in
Wichita. was approved by Governor
Allen on recommendation of Judge c.
w. Smith. executive clerk. Clark is
charged with deserving his wife and
children
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-19

The old adage: Spare the rod and
spoil the child" seems to have failed
completely in bringing satisfactory re-
suits in England, where Juvenile Of
lenses against the 6w are on the in
crease. The olSr,methods of punish
mont by whipping and Imprisonment
have failed. In 1915 the number of
young persons sent to prison totaled
2,SOO; in 1918 it had increased to
5000. of all those who were punished
by detention, one-sixth were back in
the court within a month. Whipping
has proved even more of a failure, as
one-fourth of the offenders reap
peared in court within a month. Wo-
men magistrates for courts dealing
with chiidren's cases are advocated in
a report issued by the British board of
education.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-19

The greatest corn crop in history
will be harvested in America this year.
The present promise of S,21e,192,OOo
bushels of corn IS over 100000
bushels in excess iof any crop ever
grown and nearly 900, 100000 bushels
more than was produced last year.
The condition of the crop as predicted
by the crop reporting board of the de-
partment of agriculture is 24.3 points
higher than the average and the high
est since 1906. There will be about
00,O0O,000 bushels of oats more
grown than last year. the crop approx
imating 1,444,362. 900 bushels. Those
figures mean that hundreds of mill
lions of dollars will go into the hands
of the farmers of America. With such
crops in existence, not even a fall in
prices can prevent another year of
active business for merchapts in all
lines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-19
WOMEN START S. A. DRIVE.
Thirty-Six Captains start Today II
Residence District.

Thirty-six women captains started
this morning on the organization of
thirty-six Textbook sections in the
residence district of Topeka for the
Salvation Army drive. The women
will appoint one woman solicitor for
each block in their sections. The ter
ritory TO be covered is new, and has
not yet been touched.
A final report on the canvass of, the
business district will be made by the
Inter-Service club Wednesday night.
The club members are working the
territory which has been assigned to
them today and are making their re-
ports to the club director 9th CAM
paign, Glenn Bybee.
The total of money collected by the
letter drive in the general offices. of
the Santa Fe has passed the $3.50
mark, it was stated today.
There will be a joint meeting OF sew
eral of the rural districts at Tecumseh
tonight which will be attended by-sev-
Feral of the drive officials from Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-19
JUST FOLKS
NEXT TINE,
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

NEXT TIME.
Times when he's been bad" they say,
You must punish him today
What's he going to be, If you
Let him go his way-and do
Surely then you can't expect him
To grow up the way he should
Yep" l say, III make him good;
Send him in to me and III
Fix him up in proper style,
And I'll tell him row that I'm
Going to punish him-next times
Then the mother sends him in,
And he comes in with grin,
And l try to look as tho
was mad at him. but oh,
Comes the thought that such a lad
Couldn't be SO very BAD
lBut l know I've got to scold
That mischievous eight-year- old,
So take him on my knee
And i tell him what will be
Done TO him for such a crime,
And his punishment-next time.
Hope III meyer live to see
That next time when I must be
Forced to carry out my threat,
Just because he may forget
All his promises and fall
Into trouble. He's SO small
And so full of life that he
Can't forever perfect be.
Yet il there should come the day
must punish him, I'll say
I'll forgive you now. but I'm
Going TO whip you sHre-next time"
Copyright, 1890. by Edgar a. Guest-l
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PUT CASE BEFORE COMMISSION.
Delegation CT Cclorcd People Review
Ticket Sale For Concert.

The cause of the ceIored persons of
Topeka against II. J. Dotterweich in
the matter of whether or not colored
persons should beAA Disseminated
against in the sale oktickets to the
concert series to be presented at the
auditorium by Dotterweich, was plead
ed before the city commission this
morning in the regular session of that
body.
Recently Dotterweich was arrested
on a charge Of refusing to sell colered
persons tickets in any part of the
auditorium they desired. His trial is
pending. II. I. Monroe. assistant in
the office of the county clerk and the
Rev. II. W. White of North Topeka
Mrs. Fred Roundtree and Mrs. L. C.
Clark gave short talks on behalf of
their people, all Of them stating that
there should be no discrimination
against them as American citizens. No
official action could be taken by the
city commission.
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WANT LEVEL CHANGED.
Mayor and City Commission Hears
Petition Concerning Alley.

Whether the level of the alley be-
tween yKansas avenue and Quincy
streets. between Tenth and Eleventh
streets, shall be raised. lowered or left
in It's present condition, was question
before the meeting OF Mayor Corwine
and the city commission today.
John Newall, lawyer and property
owner on Kansas avenue in the desig-
mated d.stric-. presented a petition with
nearly a hundred signers for the low
ering of the alley in order that it be
most convenient for the business es-
adjustments on the avenue in that
block. most of which are motor car
dealers. John Waters. lawyer, also
urged the commission to lower the
alley. Some time ago the city con-
tracted to pave the alley at its present
level and was enjoined from do ng so
by IAN injunction brought by NcwalI.
The matter was referred to a commit
tee of the entire comm .ss;on. to be de-
cidep upon before the meeting of the
commission Friday morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-19
FINISH SURVEY THIS WEEK
Captains Plan on Completing Canvass
in Child Welfare Work.

Plans for finishing the child welfare
survey before the end of this week
were made this afternoon by the cap
tains of the ward canvassing teams
in the office of DIR. Florence Brown
Sherbon. head of the child hygiene
department of the state board of
health.
The leaders of the canvassing teams
met at 2:30 o'clock with Mrs. C. J.
Evans, chairman of the canvassers di-
vision All but two or three precincts
of the city have been covered by the
canvassers with the questionnaires.
reports on the work are not yet avail
able.
DR.. Alice Conger Hunter of the state
board of health. who is head of the
state child welfare survey, has re-
turned 10 Topeka after several
weeks absence and will assist in con-
Guiding the city survey.
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CANCER CAN BE CURED.
II Taken at the Right Stage Operation
Successful. Says Physician.

If taken at the right stage. cancer
can be cured by The knife, according
to DR.. Charles II. 1errigo, of the state
board of health, and it is dangerous
to let that stage, which is early in the
growth of the diEease, pass without
an operation. This applies only to ex
ternal cancers, which are easy enough
to recognize. Interior cancers cannot
always be recogpizea so quickly.
Early attention and tAe-rcmoval of
cancers would have saved the lives of
100 Kansans who died from external
cancers during 1919, Doctor Lerriso
believes.
Deaths from cancer are on the in
crease in Kansas. statistics show. From
1912 to 1915. inclusive, there were
4.199 deaths from that source in the
state. During the period from 1916 TO
1919. inclusive, there were 4,939, ~
increase of T40
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Effort to >checlS the movement of
cotton by violent methods, such as are
being attempted in some parts of the
south, says Henry Clews in his Finan-
cial Review, may IGoduce a bad reac-
ton on business and is not likely to
help the producer. The similar at
tempt of wheat growers to maintain
wheat at a high level is not likely to
succeed, whether with or without
banking assistance. The truth is that
the immutable law of supply and de-
mand is the main factor in producing
lower prices, large supplies coming to
the market at time when the de-
mand is curtailed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-19
HE'S JUST FAKE CRIPPLE
Contort:@n.st Proves How Easy this
Public Can Be Fooled.


For two hours,-three times daily To-
pekans are being deceived by a fake
cripple. He is Lon CLANCY star in
The Penalty now being shown at
the Isis theater. When the story was
written by Gouveneur Norris the
chief character was that of master
crook in control of all the underworld
blizzard" had been robbed of his
legs in his youth by a careless sur
geon. The plot Of the piece is the
plot for revenge by the master crook.
whose face so resembled Satan that
he was enthusiastically accepted by a
Satanic majesty
So absolutely crippled does Clancy
appear when he stumps about with
half the legs of the normal man. that
the Topekans who have seen the screen
play have been wondering how much
trouble the producers had in securing
an actor who was minus both legs,
They couId~not believe that what they
were seeing was fake. But such 1t
is and Manager G. L Hooper has The
Photographic evidence TO prove IT. He
has made a display of photographs al
the Isis theater which are attracting
curious groups. They show CLANCY
while he is making up for the part .!
I'll zzard."
To do this CLANCY simply doubles
his legs backwards and straps them
in this posture. then inserts the knees
tin leather boots made for the purpose
Even for contortionist this stunt is
none too easy and it was told here re-
Gently by Bob Finlay. Mack Seunett
comedy star, that CLANCY could not
wear the boots more than twelve min
utesiat time. Perha@ss the agony he
suffered while the pictures were be-
ing taken, helped CLANCY in his por-
trayal of the demoniac facial express
sions which have made r3lizzard" one
of the most unique screen characters
seen here for a long time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-19
Local Mention

A social evening and musical enter
tainment for the members of Golden
Rule lodge No 80, in North Topeka,
is to be held Wednesday night. The
entertainment will be held in. the Ma
comic temple on the North side.
Or. Lyngar, Dentist. sos Kansas Ave.
ADV.
II you aren't getting the garbage
collection service you want. call 1887.
ADV.
Oliver wroughton, secretary of the
Master Printers association of Kansas
City. Mo-, is to address the Topeka
Typothetae Wednesday night at the
rooms of the Organization in Topeka
DR.. H>H. Raymond. Foot Specialist.
Orpheum Bldg. Phone 3960.-Adv.
Cash paid for liberty bonds, John
Kleinhans, SGT Quincy. Phone 27s1J.
ADV.
Judges and clerks of Republican
and Democratic Recommendations are
to be presented to the meeting of the
city commission on Friday morning,
in compliance with the law of pre-
senting such recommendations ten
days before the general election.
Picture Framing. and Hand Carved
Frames, cut prices woIeott's. s25
Kan.-Adv.
Only three contagious diseases are
attacking Topeka today, according to
the daily report of the city health de-
partment. Scarlet fever has twenty
four cases to- its credit, measles Is
and typhoid fever IL.
Safety raxorN blades sharpened better
than new, 25c+35c doz- Culver Hard
ware Co.-Adv.
The city payroll for the first half OF
October amounted TO s16.e45-12, ac-
cording to report of the city commits
sion today
New York Cotton Market
New York, Oct. 1a-COTTOS-Spot
quiet. midd1ing, $3.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-19
REPUBLICAN WOMEN TO MEET.
Ladies of Second Ward Hold "Pcp'
Meeting Tonight at Ripley Park.

At the community house at Ripley
park Tonight the Republican women
of the Second ward will conduct
''pcp's meeting, with flags and other
decorations, a program of speeches.
and lively Republican campaign senss
to fiji the evening Both women ami
men are invited to attend.
Tonight Mrs. Arthur Capper, Mrs.
George Crawford, Mrs. A. A. Gods
dard, Mrs. Wilbur n. Mason, and Mrs.
Mary Chaplin will give addresses. The
Republican women's quartet, led by
Mrs. OAW. Doing. will sing the cam
paign Songs. Members of the quartet
are Mrs. Doing Mrs. Charles f. JOS
lin, Mrs. Belva Webster. Mrs. Frank
sturges, Mrs. +. Claude Smith and
Mrs. w. H. Rhoades.
New Orleans Cotton Market
New Orleans Oct 19.-COTTOS-Spot
steady and unchanged; middling. 1875
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Among the many plans proposed for
bringing liberty bonds to par Is one
to make them legal tender for their
face value. This would bring an infla-
tion of the currency and an orgy of
spending and speculation, hitherto un-
dreamed of in this country or any 9TH
er with the possible exception of Rus
ssiu
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-19

New York. Oct. 19.--MONEY-Prime mer-
camille paper, per cent. Exchange heavy.
Sterling, 60 day bills, 1864; commercial,
60 day. bills on banks, 336s4: commercial.
GO day bills, 5.3GA demand. 3.4fls; cables,
3.41M. Francs, demand, GO; cables, 642
Belgian francs, demand, G76; cables. CTS.
Marks, demand. LIZ; cables. 1.43. Greece,
demand. 97i. New York exchange on Mon
treal. sas per cent discount. Government
bonds, steady; railroad bonds, irregular.
Time loans, steady; 60 days, 90 days and G
months, 7AMS per cent.
Call money, steady; high, Z; low, g.; rul-
ing rate, 7; closing bid q; offered at I;
last loan. 6. Bank aceeptances, 6H.
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS

morning at Z 80 o'clock at her home, 10l
The Drive. She was the wife of Fred c.
Locke. Funeral announcement later.
The funeral of Mrs c. b. Kiimer, wife of
the late Capt. G. B. Kilmer, who died De-
fober L.. in Los Angeles. Cal, was held in
Topeka October 49, Burial was in Topeka
cemetery. Capt. Kilmer was right of way
agent for the Santa Fe for many years.
The funeral of William Pulliam, 40, who
died Sunday in local hospital, will be
held Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock Mt
Penwell's chapel. Services will be IA charge
of the A. O. U. w.
The funeral of James p. Daley, Sc. who
died Saturday at his home, 512 Lime street
was held this afternoon at o'clock from
Conwell's funeral homo East Eighth street.
Burial was in Topeka Neemetery.
Lords Flowers satisfy. Tel. SAT-
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New York stock Market.

Wall St, New York, Oct. 19.-STOCKS-
business on the stock exchange today was
dull and contracted but the trend was
mainly upward on short covering. Sales ap-
proximated 100000 shares. .
Willis Overland. international Paper and
a few other obscure issues became heavy
later but this was neutralized by further
improvement in rails, shippings, equip
ments and ellis. The closing was firm.
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Notice of Annual Meeting, Shawnee
Co. Chapter American Red Cross.

The annual meeting of the Shawnee
County Chapter American Red Cross
will be held October-27. 1890, at 4
o'clock p. n-. In the Chamber of Com
fnerce in the city of Topeka. Kan. for
the election of officers for the epsu-
Ing year and the transaction of such
other business as may properly come
before the meeting
Z FRANK C. BECK. Secretary.
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happily thru her open window into
the moonlight.
Dicky loved her! He had never seen
her silly trick to win his love! The
future, iridescent as a dream,
stretched before her rosy, beckon-
ing way.
Copyright, 1920, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-19

If the good roads amendment to
the state constitution be adopted, I'm
Gle Sam can pay for so per cent of the
roads, the state % per cent, the county
at large 12h per cent and the farmers
alongTthe road 12h per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-19

The display windows in few To-
polka stores already are beginning to
take on a holiday appearance. This
should serve as q reminder to do your
Christmas shopping before the rush
and while stocks haye not been picked
over. Buying thus will become a
pleasure instead of a task to be per-
formed