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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-17

JUBILEE NIeHT
IS Bis IN Erie
Especial to Ths Argus.)

.Esis. Nov. l7.-2Twslvs; hun4Fsd
Republicans end Democrats 3oined
n the Republican jollincation held
last evening IN Erie. Machine loads
came In from surrounding cities to
spend the evening IN celebration Of
the victory Of the Grand OLD Party.
The Ladies' Aid society Of the
First Methodist church served q
|free supper to 1000 people in the
parlors Of the church. The Republi-
can committee, through subscrip-
tions. psid for the supper and gave
the society SIC for Its work. Mrs.
George Mauer. president Of the so
ciety. was In charge Of the supper.
The auditorium was packed IN tho
evening. even he standing room
being filled to the limit. Rev. e. z.
Hudson Of the Methodist church
was the speaker Of the evening. His
tory Of the Republican party was
given by the pastor. The mixed or
'chestra. led BY William Bleit1. fur
|nished the music. Mrs. E. e. Hud-
son sang SEVERAL patriotic songs
and the Erie High School Girls
Glee club gave selections. Miss
Anne Adams was the accompanied.
AT the close Of the program the
american legion sponsored a dance
lat the auditorium. The floor was
.filled with young people, many COM
ing in from nearby towns. The
Echairmen Of the committees in
charge OF the Jubilee we're: Finance.
Henry Bare; arrangements All
printing, Bert Turner; speaker. r.
H. Burchell: supper, Paul Carlson;
Samusements, Bert Byam, and music,
a. A. Matthews.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-17
POLES MISSING TROUPs.

Berlin, Nov. 17.-COnidential re-
ports that the Poles are massing
large masses Of troops near the
frontier Of Upper Silesia. have been
received by the German govern
,ment, says the Lokal Ahzeiger. The
attention Of France, Great Britain
and Italy has been called to the sit
uation, the newspaper declares.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-17
DRIVEN BY GALE.

Boston, Mass. Nov. 17.-(United
Press. Shipping was endangered
today in a northeast gale which
drove heavy seas against the north
Atlantic coast.
Scores of small vessels and boats
were driven ashore and water front
property was damaged.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-17

London.-An airplane dash to.
the south pole! This is the goal
Of John L. Cope. who is the head
Of q party which is now enroute to
the Antarctic to make q survey for
the British imperial Antarctic expe-
dition. following which Cope will
enter on a Swear push into the land
Of ice to the south. 1t is planned
to bring the expedition to climax
with an airplane dash for the pole.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-17
FOUR INJURED.

y Elgin. Nov. flour men were
badly injured today when ten coal
cars on the Eigin, Joliet & Eastern
Jumped the track near Elgtn. The
injured were rushed to Elgin hos-
Spitals. All will recover.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-17
HShob Early

Christmas 10. nigh-the advantage Of early
shopping yeu well know. Start tomorrow
Christmas stecks are splendidly complete
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-10

body failed to agree on the clipping of
film arranged, photographed and
captioned to appeal to the theater GO
ing public that is looking for the
raw" the trough" and the suggestive.
have Travelled thru the desert, thru
the Adirondacks, thru the Rockies.
thru the swamps of the southland
over the rolling vastness of wealthy
and productive Kansas
Shortly after 1 was married I took
my wife to New York City and notified
relatives there of the date of our ar
rival. The trip, of course, included the
honeymoon favorite-from Albany to
New York on the Hudson. I'll never
forget the reception committee that
met us at the Desbrosses street pier
We landed as nonchalantly as tho we
were walking across the KaW river
bridge at Topeka. Two uncles as
many aunts, and a sprinkling of cou-
sins. male and female, awaited u.s. But
let my uncle tell the story as he told
it to me:
I'VE looked forward to your arrival
as anxiously as the kids await the COM
ing of the clowns in a circus. Altho
we had no intention of allowing our
merriment to become apparent, we
talked for days of the coming of the
kansans. We argued uproariously
over your probable attire, your wide
eyed wonderment at all that was I'M
folding before you. We were ready to
expect anything-and we had planned
to make the best of it. Ye gods. You
were dressed saucily in a neat fitting
suit. & sailor straw hat resting COM
fortably on your head. You were
carrying a suit case and a travelling
bag-and we surely looked for a valise
and a carpet bag. Your wife was just
as fashionably dressed in her tailored
travelling suit as any cousin-in-law in
the outfit. You accepted the sights
in a matter of fact and thank-you-for-
your-interest way. You sat in calm
criticism or in reserved appreciation of
the theatrical productions we exhibit
ed. You buried your face in newspa-
pers on the subway and you mounted
the Fifth avenue busses as naturally
as you would any stepladder. And you
live west of Buffaloi"
Every kansan knows of New York
her skyscrapers. her subways, her
theaters, her Battery, her rivers and
her shops. Every kansan knows Bos-
ton and her one way streets and her
historic sights. Every Kansan knows
Washington and Philadelphia and
Niagara Falls and Chicago and Seat
tie and San Francisco and Los An
geles and etc, as Ring Lardner says.
Why? Because Kansas is a state of
readers and travellers. When Kansans
are not working they are reading. The
rest of the time they are reaping the
benefits OF both by travel.
This is not written to advertise Kan
sas. Gawdknows Kansas is adver-
tised sufficiently. When she is not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-10

held up for public ridicule she is ex-
hibited for public admiration. The
rest of the time she Is doing her adver-
Using along legitimate lines. For in
stance-in one~Yeek recently, five
Kansas writers appeared in three of
the nations most widely read maya
zines-the Saturday Evening Post, the
Ladies' Home Journal and the Coun-
try Gentleman.
But to get back to this chin-whisker
stuff on Kansas.
There are fewer "rubes" in Kansas
than there are in New York state. l
have no statistics to prove this state
ment. I don't recall a government
census of ''yaps." But l have spent
more vacations in New York than 1
Jim and Uncle Harry and Uncle Char
lie and Uncle Clarence and Uncle VIII.
have been all thru the ''up state" 1
have studied the country folk IN
Oneida county in central New York. l
have studied them in the Adirondacks.
have propped my feet on the front
porch rail facing the state road. l
know why Cousin Henry moved that
pile of hop poles in the front lott
shut off the view of the neighbors
down by the cemetery who aGghted
from the $40 trolley.
The vaudeville artists and cartoon
lists picture the Kansan as a narrow
chested, stopped, slender individual.
The predominating Kansan is a
mana perfect type of manhood. He
is husky. He is a "corn-fed." He is
straight-in body and soul. He is a
picture of health. He is virile.
On to this stage, screen and news
paper type, the artists attach a rim
of facial growth-not the Bolshevist
"cuh-neI' masterpiece, not the French
cocktail - but the tranSfigurated
The predominating Kansan does not
wear a beard. He does not wear a
mustache. His hair is not long.
Strange as it may seem to fasteners,
the Kansas farmer wears a cravat-
whiskers to display it. His face is
leathery. His skin is not a stubble-
patch, but more like a tennis court.
The funmakers never fail to pro-
duce that ten-foot squirt of tobacco
juice. 1 have seen Cousin Josiah lean
on the front gate and scatter a flock
of sparrows from the center of the
state road in New York-then brag
about it. We don't have time to prac-
tice for long distance and accurate
expectorating records in Kansas.
Cigars and pipes are the Kansas favor
ties. And then there are few scally-
wag lawbreakers who place faith in
their fire insurance policies and flick
cigarettes from behind their wind
shields.
The makeup men decorate their
rubes with the long tan busters the
shin boots and the Tapping straw
hats. If these theatrical supply
houses found it necessary to buy their
goods in Kansas they would go out of
business. The Kansan is the best
dressed farmer in America. He is
proud of the reputation and he insists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-10
How Ladies Improve
Looks!

MANY ladies, old and young suffer
a round of torture with their nerves,
and many are so frail thin and blood
less that their splendid features are
lost sight Of while a vain attempt TO
conceal the angularity of the figure
deceives no one but themselves and
really eXcites the pity or ridcule of
the world" said a well known largely
employed practicing physician, in a
recent lecture at a young ladies' col
lege. Il do not mind exposing a lit
tie secret of mine to all such. as it
can do no harm and may result in
much happiness and health. 1t is
simply this: Any thin, bloodless, nerve
tortured man or woman can become
rs fit as the fittest by taking regularly
for several months an easily obtained
pharmaceutical product known by the
profession and pharma cists as three
grain Eypo-nuclane tablets, put up in
sealed packages with directions for
home se"-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-10
Making Thousand Pounds
of Vegetable Soap Daily
In Little North Side Shop
E. Robson Inventor of Five New Articles of Commerce,
Looking for Location for Big Corporation Here
He Invented Electric Hair Clipper.

At least five articles, new in the
commercial world, may be manufac-
tured in Topeka on an extensive scale
as result of inventive genius of E.
J. Robson, local barber supply man.
Robison's latest development is a
soap made from vegetable and min
eral oils only, but claimed by him to
be the most effective of any on the
market. Altho handicapped for room
and help and without having done any
advertising, he is manufacturing his
new composition at the rate of 500
pounds a day in his shop back of the
Baltimore hotel on North Kansas
avenue.
The soap made by Robson contains
no sand, grit or animal fats. 1t re-
moves paint, printers ink, shellac
and even many kinds of stains with
ease. Instead of injuring the skin,
it leaves a smooth and refreshing
sensation. He is planning to place the
soap on the market in jars for fancy
toilet purposes. He will leave out
one of the ingredients used in the
mechanics compound. add perfume
and pack it in fancy jars.
Robson said he completed the
formula nine years ago while living
in Missouri, but, owing to several
reasons, did not push it until within
the last month.
Also Makes Hair Clippers.
Another of his popular inventions is
the electric hair clipper, of which he
has two models. Many of these are
in use in Topeka barber shops and in
other cities of the country. The manu-
facture of the soap, which he has
named "Gets ALL" and the electric
hair clipper will be pushed rapidly in
his present location for a time. More
comm odious quarters will be obtained
as soon as possible.
by next week." said Robson, 81
expect to be making 1000 pounds of
soap a day. Later there is no limit
to the amount we may manufacture"
Will Form Company Here.
Robson said he will form a com
pany soon for the promotion and
manufacture of three more of his own
inventions, consisting of a combina-
ton library table, settee and sleeping
couch, combination adjustable bed
and sanitary couch and an inter-sec-
ton mattress. A 100000 corpora
ton which he formed in Missouri a
few years ago to manufacture the bed
was dissolved at>the beginning of the
late war, he said, owing to scarcity
of labor and materials
The company will seek local plan
ing mills and mattress factories TO
make the products.
an the event satisfactory contracts
cannot be made in Topeka it will be
necessary for me to seek elsewhere, "
Robson said.
Invented Pedestal Barber Chair.
Robson originated the first pedes-
tai base barber chair in the country
while he was employed as travelling
salesman for the August Kern Barber
Supply company. of st. Louis, in 1909
Prior to that time chairs with -four
legs were in use. He failed to patent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-10
Topeka Men Too Proud
To Tell Their Ages To
Registration Clerks!
"Mere Man" in Explanation Warns Brothers Against
Danger of Woman's Weakness-"Exalted Woman"
Says Girls Like EN- Older.

! press the public with their youth
| thru truth or thru a little excuSable
| falsehood-but why should the fact
that he is getting old worry a man
They do say at the city hall
/ registration office that men, particu-
1 larly bachelors of middle age, are
/ chopping off several or more years of
their age when it goes down in pen
and ink.
If the bachelors feel that the years
of their age they consider superfluous
and undesirable are a hindrance to
| their chances, of receiving leap year
proposals. they are worried unneces-
sarily. They should realize that those
very years may be their best asset
Listen to the words of a charming
discerning and popular young feminine
person of manageable age who is
likely to make a leap year proposal
most any time:
isn't it funny that men want to
appear younger than they are? If
they want to deceive women about
their ages il would be a much better
plan to add years instead of subtract
them. OF course girl doesn't want
to marry grandfatherly person, but
she doesn't mind if the man is five
ten or even fifteen or twenty years
admit that they like to play around
with the men just about their own age
but that when they marry they would
prefer the man to be at least five
years older"
(Whoopee, men)
why is that?" questions the Mere
Man.
Every simple reason" admits the
charming, discerning and popular
young person of manageable age.
You are quite stupid not to see it.
Here it is: i is generally admitted
that woman ages more quickly than
a man. Granted, isn't 1t. that a
woman of thirty generally looks thirty,
while a man of thirty often looks
twenty-five or younger. Well, then,
why does any girl of twenty-five want
to marry man Of twenty-five and
when she is thirty find herself looking
every bit of thirty, while Mr.. Husband
still looks twenty-five?
See what advantage 1t would be
for the man to be ten years older than
herself" she expounded. IF the girl
is ten years younger she may comfort
herself that people will not say about
her some day: Mrs. -- certainly
does look YEARS older than Mr..
.' If she is fortunate enough
to have husband fifteen years older
than herself she may even have been
considered a youthful looking wife
for the man of her choice all thru
their married life.
Il certainty Cn1nk a girl SnOu1O
consider carefully before she marries a
man Just her age. She will have the
public wondering whose boy she has
adopted to raisei"
So the men who fear that telling of
their advanced years may injure their
matrimonial chances are all wrong.
If there is any alteration in the true
facts on the mere mans age, to win
woman's approval in most cases he
should add rather than subtract.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-10

The Schic< and Mcintyre mattress
factories have both made the inter-
sectional mattresses in Topeka. There
are many of them in use in Topeka,
one at Stormont hospital.
Robson equipped several hospitals
in the state, among them Stormont. in
Topeka, with his adjusta BILE bed and
sanitary couch combined. He had
five patents on this invention
Claims 'sManlcss Airpianc' Invention.
Robson claims to be the inventor
of the "manless airplane,'t designed
for dropping bombs on enemy posi-
lions. Secretary of War Baker. in
an address in Texas at the close OF
the war, declared a 'self-controlied
airplane had been tried out by the
war department and found success
full" A bomb was dropped at a GER
tain point with more accuracy than
it could have been done with a gun.
he said. He said the inventor was an
American. but gave no details
Il was in correspondence with the
war department a long time concerns
ing this invention" said Robson.
and finally gave up in disgust at the
red tape. I am convinced the ma
chine referred to by Baker was built
after my own specifications. Some
day 1 shall get the credit due me for
that device"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-10
owERE2BLE&RNcY
BY JAMES P DE BEVERS KAYE.

changed them all into flowers, SO that
wherever there had been a fairy there
was flower. and the flower took the
color of the gown that each fairy had
been wearing
That very morning a number of the
fairies had appeared in new gowns.
made of bright yellow sunbeams. and
now these little people found them
selves huddled. close together on the
top of one stem, staring up at the
sun. If you should take a strong
magnifying glass and examine a DAN
delion. you would find il was not sim
ply one flower but number Of flow
ers punched up together. The botan-
lists will tell you that this is q COM
posite flower, but they do not know
anything about fairies. The truth is
that this is a real fairy family. All
the little ones are put in the center,
ana the older and stronger ones form
e circle around them for protection.
And this was the beginning OF the
Dandelion-
q 'Tis the springs largess. which she scat
tiers now
To rich and pooc alike with lavish hand,
Tho most hearts never understand.
To take it at Gods value. but pass BY
The offered wealth with unrewarded eye
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-10

There may be little girl of grade
school age in your family who proudly
wears an arm band of tan colored
linen, embroidered with the letters
&c r. arranged in an artistic mono
gram surrounded by a blue triangle.
II so, you understand her pride in
wearing it and why her eyes shine
when she tells what the armband
means.
If there is not such a little girl in
your family, it will be interesting for
you to know what the blue embroi
dered &C r. means, because it con-
Germs many little girls of Topeka
in fact nearly three hundred who are
in the sixth. seventh or eighth grades
of the city schools. 1t means they are
known as Girl Reserves" the
younger generation of the Y. W. c. A.
members, who are thrilled" over be-
longing to the big organization and
are imbibing the high ideals and we'll
grounded principles of the Y W. C. A.
In thirteen of the grade schools of
the city there are Girl Reserve clubs.
Each club has a grown up" Y. W.
c. A members as leader. The leaders,
some of whom have charge of two
clubs, are Miss Ruth Raster, Miss
Jessie McCarter, Miss Theo Cobb, Mrs
Pansy Milton, Mrs. Kurtz Kellam,
Miss Mildred Bowman. Mrs. Arthur
Shakeshaft. Miss Neva Shoemaker.
Miss Lois Shaffer and Miss Louise
Curtis. Meetings are held once each
week from 4 to O'Clock at the re-
spective schools. There is bust
ness-like character to a part of the
meeting, and then play is in order.
which may be a hike, a party, playing
games and singing. or whatever mem
bers and leaders may choose. Some of
the clubs have given parties for chill
dren from orphans homes.
From the Girl Reserve club the little
Y. W. girl graduates into the Junior
Y. W. c. A, which is the high school
organization.
In a conspicuous place in many
girl reserves bedrooms which every
member adopts on being initiated is
found the Girl Reserves creed. It
reads as follows. in acrostic form:
AS a Girl Reserve I will be
Gracious in manner
Impartial in Judgment
Ready for service
Loyal to friends
Reaching toward the best
Earnest in purpose
Seeing the beautiful
Eager for knowledge
Reyerent to God
Vic yorfous over self
Ever dependable
sincere at all times.
| will try to face life squarely-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-10
WEDNESDAY.

upon maintaining it. The agricultural
conventions in Topeka would pass for
a gathering of the U. c. T. II the Jay
hawkers only could smooth their hon
est wind-worn compilations. The KAN
san doesn't carry a walking stick, to
be sure, but, as the Topeka white
way moths would say. he Shakes a
wicked stride" The Kansan wouldn' t
feel at home in the clothing adver-
tisements with the background, of
subway entrances or battleships but
substitute silos and motor cars and
you have him in modern home attire.
Now for the last ebuttal-the
"squeaky'' voice.
AS a Kansan I will endure the en-
broidered countenance, the tobacco
sprinkler and the kitchen apron-but
the sisterly vocal record-NEVER!
The western farmer finds his voice a
necessity. There is more than an
house, to the Kansas farm. There is
that broad expanse of prairie. there
are the roaming grazing lands, the
waving fields and the winding creek
bottoms. When the Kansan is not
handling his livestock he is dealing
with men or he is wading deeply into
politics. There is no place for the
falsetto in Kansas. If the occasion
demands the Kansan can Julian
Eltinge, but seven days out of the
week he is William S. Harting his
way in progress and prosperity.
Don't allow the stage and the
screen and the newspapers to dictate
your opinions of Kansas.
Kansas is not metropolitan-she is
distinctly urban. Kansas is not cos
mopolitan-she is all American. And
she is inhabited by about 1.75o.o0o of
real men, real women, real children
all or any one of them ready to dis
Illusion the fastener who knows only
as he is led lightly to believe.
Take this from a Kansan,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-10
THE DANDELION.
a Fancy.

\ Fancy.
We are told that long ago, when
the world was very young it was peo-
pied by fairies. Also there were
brownies and elves thruout all the
land, and there were wood-gnomes
who lived in the trees. The fields
were filled with little flower-sprites,
in their gay-colored gowns fitting
about in the sunshine
Then man appeared upon the earth.
The little folk of fairyland became
frightened as man increased. and hid
themselves away wherever they could
find a place The little Snomes hid
themselves deep in the earth. The
elves sought shelter in crevices of the
rocks. The brownies hid in the hoI-
low trunks of trees. But the dainty
fairies were made for and loved the
sunshine. They would die in the dark
cold ground and would wither away
among the barren rocks. The hollow
trees were not fitting places for them.
So they hid themselves among the
plants and so close did they cling to
the stems that they seemed part of
the plants Then the Fairy Queen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-10
SCRIPTURE



Now there cried a certain woman Of the
wives of the sons of the prophets unto
Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband
is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant
did fear the Lord: and the creditor is come
to take unto him my two sons to be bond
men.
And Elisha said unto her, What shall l
do for thee? tell me. what hast thou in
the house? And she said, Thine handmade
hath not any thing in the house, save pot
of oil.
Then he said Go borrow thee vessels
abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty
vessels: borrow not a few.
And when thou art come In thou shalt
shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons,
and shalt pour out into all those vessels,
and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
So she went from him, and shut the door
upon her sons, who brought the vessels to
her: and she poured cut.
And it came TO pass when the vessels
were full, that she said unto her son, Bring
me yet a vessel. And he said unto her,
There 10 not a vessel more. And the oil
stayed.
Then she came and told the man Of God.
And he said. Go. sell the oil, and pay thy
debt. and live thou and thy children of
the rest.