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Evening star., 1920-01-08
Twenty.Four States Ratify.

With ratification by Rhode Island
and Kentucky the federal suffrage
amendment now has the approval Of
twenty.four states. one-half the total
number. It still requires twelve more
ratifcations for final adoption. There
are twenty-one states that have not
yet acted, three having rejected
Georgia, Alabama and Virginia. Of
these twenty one states only five hold
their regular legislative meetings this
winter-Louisiana, Maryland, Missis-
sippi, New Jersey and South Carolina.
Even if all ratified-and it is doubt
full whether more than two win do SO
owing to the tendency in the south
ern states against woman suffrage-it
will be necessary to secure approvals
from others at special sessions in or
der to make the amendment national
ly effective for next November's cleo
ton. The Idaho legislature has al
ready been summoned.
Evening star., 1920-01-08
School Betterment Unanimity.

With the board OF education deh-
nitely recording its approval of the
citizens school betterment program in
a specific statement issued by the
president of the board, unanimity on
the fve-now four-points is assured
The District can now speak to Con-
gress clearly and unitedly to ask for
more teachers, better pay for teach
ers. more schools and an efficient bust
ness school management. In its state
ment issued by DR.. Van Schaick yes
terday the board agrees to concen-
trate upon these matters, leaving out
all other considerations if and when
they may conflict with or in any de-
gree weaken the chances of these
principal items.
The action of the Senate in passing
the teachers retirement bill, and of
the House ia promptly aequiescing in
the Senate amendments, thus putting
that measure before the President for
signature, may be taken as an indi-
cation of desire on the part of Con
gress to give the schools the equip
ment and the foundation they need.
But retirement does not help those
teachers who are now in the prime Of
their service. 1t does not pay the
debts that have been incurred during
the past few years in consequence of
inadequate compensation. 1t does not
make present service more attractive
to the men and women who are now
almost compelled for the sake of
themselves and their families to leave
the ranks in which they have labored
so long and so faithfully in search of
other occupation more adequately re-
munerated.
Clearly the first and most impor-
tant item on the list Of school bet
terments is a teachers pay scale that
will hold the teaching force and re-
lieve it from the burden of financial
anxiety so that it can concentrate with
full vigor and attention upon the
work of teaching school. This scale
should not be framed with limitations
upon the aggregate. It should be de-
vised strictly with reference to the
needs of the workers in the schools,
whatever the total sum involved may
be. The District bill, which has yet
to be drawn, furnishes the vehicle for
these changes. Some of the teachers,
however, are asking for immediate
emergency appropriations. There is
now pending before the House appro-
priations committee an estimate for
the employment, at once, of addi-
tional teachers, which has been SYM
pathetically heard and which it is
hoped will be added to the urgent de.
ficiency bill. It should be enlarged
to provide for the pay increases so
urgently needed to prevent resigna-
tions from the schools. This bill at
fords an opportunity to gain second
of the five points, already reduced to
four BY the enactment of the retire
ment measure.
Evening star., 1920-01-08
The Expanded Plumb Plan.

7 was inevitable that the so-called
Plumb plan should be enlarged be-
yond the original bounds Of the rail
road field That plan, proclaimed last
summer as a means of adjusting the
relations between the transportation
workers and their employers, by
Transforming the rail system of the
country to a profit sharing basis, was
obviously only the heginning of a
proposal ultimately affecting all
branches of industry.
Briefly stated, the Plumb plan,
whether applied to the railroads or
to other industries, is to put labor on
an equality with capital and with the
public, giving it a proprietary share
in the products of work and limiting
the earnings of the "owners" to a
fixed ratio. 1t is step toward com
munal ownership. 1t is definite de-
parture from the wage system In
favor of one under which the work
men shall receive "that rate OF wages
which in the free markets of the
world proeures the services of that
class of labor and, in addition TO
wages, shall receive its share of all
the savings which labor can effect II
the processes of production
1t is announced that this plan will
be presented to the people of the
country as a platform of principles.
The assumption is that labor organl-
cations will seek to have the political
parties declare for its adoption Ia
their platforms at the next conven-
ton. Failing that, there may be an
independent appeal to the country.
Obviously the presentation of this
scheme at this time is a move toward
its submission as a political issue.
Under the Plumb plan, whether ap-
piled to railroads alone or to other
industries. capital will, in effect, be
loaned at a practically fixed rate of
interest to the "public" and the work
ers, the former paying the interest
in the form of prices that insure small
profits and the latter paying the in
terest in the form of deductions from
compensations which are measured by
the volume of business and the profits
earned This, in the plan itself, is
called a tripartite partnership. The
only change from the present system
in effect is that labor is advanced to
partnership without any increase of
investm ent, it's sole investment in fact
being its services. 1t is compulsory
profit-sharing. The theory is that
there will never be losses and there
will never be strikes, and there will be
no profteering. In practice such a
plan may not yield all these highly
desirable results. 1t is assuredly,
whatever its merits in theory, move
toward communism which in the light
of present experiments in Russia is
not calculated to appeal strongly to
the people of this country.
Evening star., 1920-01-08

MED all forms Of relief, In rearrange-
ment Of duties, equalization Of pay
and grant Of living cempensations. It
is hard to conceive Congress adopting
this course In the face Of the indis-
putable proof Of urgent need of a
revision Of the pay scale, which In
ninety-six years has increased just ~
cents in the annual pay of the aver
age government employe.
Evening star., 1920-01-08

Austrian peasants are said to be
greasing their cart wheels with but
ter rather than sell dairy products to
the Viennese. In order to maintain
its reputation as a gay capital Vienna
may be compelled to cut down the
cabaret menu and depend still further
ON music.
Evening star., 1920-01-08

John D. Rockefeller is so handsome
in his public benefactions that few
motorists have the heart to complain
of a rise in the price of gasoline.
Evening star., 1920-01-08

Kentucky wants the famous Nam
moth Cave established as national
park. Any plans for letting it out
for cellar accommodations have long
since collapsed.
Evening star., 1920-01-08
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHII4ANDHR JOHNSON.

Oraeles.
An oracle was something which, when
Greece in classic thought was
rich, expounded prophecies @and
sich"
Upon occasions rare.
The rising vapors made them choke.
The people did not growl nor
joke. They only murmured,
"Holy smoke!"
And listened with great care.
Those oracles were rather few. In
caves remote they mostly grew.
They never told quite all they
knew.
Those oracles were wise.
From far and near the people came,
with fuel for the sacred flame
and paid the fee the boss might
claim,
No matter what the size.
What great improvement now we seel
Pm very glad 'twixt you and
me, things are not like they
used to be,
When wisdom is our quest.
You do not have to leave your homo
and through the distant noun
tains roam to get yourself lit
tie "pome,"
Ambiguous at best.
Now oracles como out in droves. They
fill the highways and the groves
and each dispenses as he roves,
His cogitations grand.
Although the prices touch the sky,
for meat and eggs and corn and
rye, we've an abundance to sup
ply
The oracle demand.
Evening star., 1920-01-08

It is confidently expected that
means will be found to meet the Pc
cuniary needs of the railroads with
out conducting a "drive" for their
benefit.
Evening star., 1920-01-08

Jackson when he started in life as
a poor boy never dreamed that two
banquets would be given at once in
his honor in the same city.
Evening star., 1920-01-08

The league of nations is too bulky
a proposition to be accommodated by
any pigeonhole with which the United
States Senate is at present equipped.
Evening star., 1920-01-08
Wild Experiments.

Cleopatra dissolved the pearl and
swallowed it.
"Tll try anything once" she mur-
INJURED; "but that stuff is even less
appetizing than these mixtures the
cook has been fixing up with corn
meal and raisins."
Evening star., 1920-01-08

Whether he is present or not, the
most important remarks at the Jack
son dinner will be delivered by Wood
row Wilson.
Evening star., 1920-01-08

There has been so much prompt
candor in the announcements of will
ingness TO run that dark horse talent
may be rather scarce next summer.
Evening star., 1920-01-08

The award of naval medals is now
regarded as a matter entitled to the
benefit of a certain amount Of advice
and consent.
Evening star., 1920-01-08

An example of how prominent de-
feated candidate may remain is af-
forded by William J. Bryan.
Evening star., 1920-01-08

Friends Of Col. Bryan think that
what the democratic party needs is
campaigner of long and industrious
experience.
Evening star., 1920-01-08

They may not realize the fact with
proper gratitude, but this roundup
of the reds means safety first for most
of them.
Evening star., 1920-01-08

If Mr.. Bryan ever delivers piece
of rhetoric equaling his "crown of
thorns, cross of gold" peroration, to-
night will be the night.
Evening star., 1920-01-08

Statesmen who refer to one man or
another as "threatening" to run for
the presidency may yet be called upon
to explain.
Evening star., 1920-01-08
In Dreary Winter,

No man can coax the birds to sing
Or force tho fow'rs to grow.
But each some little help can bring,
And shovel of tho snow.
Evening star., 1920-01-08

W. j. Bryan is tempted to regard
life as one candidacy after another.
Evening star., 1920-01-08

Grandpa Mintlicker says that in tho
old days men who drank laughed at
folks who smoked cigarettes. and now
folks who smoke cigarettes laugh It
men who drink rum.
Evening star., 1920-01-08
Hopeful Superstition.

"The No. is regarded as lucky"
II hope it is," commented Mr..
Crosslots. "Maybe q 7-cent fare will
enable me to get a seat in tho street
car sometimes"
Evening star., 1920-01-08
The oracle demand.
Watching His Step.

Watching His Step.
"No doubt you will leave foot
prints on the sands of time"
IT don't know" answered Senator
Sorghum. "Politics out my way has
been requiring too much gum-shoe
work to make the footprint prospect
very favorable"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-29
Three Balls Notu Where
Carney House Sign Once
Greeted Weary Traveller
Old Topeka and Gordon Houses Other Well Known In
stitutions in 'Fifties-Prnting Press in Hosiery
Planned Topeka Boulevard Main Street

Long years ago a hotel, known as
the "Garvey House. occupied the
building on the southeast corner of
Fifth street and Kansas avenue, where
three brass balls now indicate a pawn
shop run by Abe jacobson.
Ed Garvey. $50 Quincy street, re-
members this hotel perhaps a little
better than others of the "old timers
because his father. e. C. X. Garvey,
was proprietor. The elder Carney
came to Topeka from Ohio In 1855
and built the hotel. Later he estab-
lished the kansas Freeman" and in
stalled his press in the same building
The hotel department he leased part
of the time. Uncle Johnny" Wilson
was among those with whom he took
turns at operating the well known
hosiery.
In Midst of Wilderness.
AS a competitor the Carney House
had the old Topeka House. which
occupied the opposite corner, where
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-29
FORECAST.

old when his father brought him to
Kansas. In 1876 he entered the serv-
ice of the Santa Fe in the construc-
ton department, and worked west
thru Kansas, Arizona, Texas and
New Mexico. That was in the days
when the railroad was a new insti-
tuition on the western prairies. Gar
vey was in the service of the--Santa
Fe as a civil engineer until a few
years ago, when he retired.
In the days when the Gervey. To-
peka and Gordon houses flourished,
the city was building up around Sixth
and Kansas avenues, altho Topeka
avenue was apparently laid out to be
the main street of the town. Col.
Joel Huntoon directed the survey
ing and the original townsite COM
pany planned to make what is now a
beautiful boulevard in the finest resi-
dence section, the business thorofare
of the city.
Topeka Avenue Spurned.
But the best laid plans often &C
awry'' and the impetus already given
to building on the high ground
around Sixth and Kansas was ire
sistible. Apparently there was nc
fight between opposing factions as to
which should constitute the main
street; the development came ma
turally. No store or hotel, so far as
can be remembered, was ever built or
operated on Topeka boulevard in the
early days of the town.
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over Kansas it means more sunshine
and hot weather, so the rules for pre-
dieting weather are not so simple as
they first appear. The position and
intensity of these highs and lows
on the weather map absolutely deter
mine the kind of weather that is go
ing to occur. Just what causes them
or why they are more developed or
follow different tracks at different
times is as complex as why are
measles or smallpox, or Bolsheviki or
high prices.
''Forecasting the weather is largely
a problem of knowing where pressure
is high and where it is low, because
the wind blows from areas of high
pressure into areas of low pressure
and the wind practically controls all
weather changes.
Observations of atmospheric pres
sure. temperature. rainfall, state OF
weather. and condition of the sky, are
made every morning and evening at
all parts of the country and tele-
graphed to centers where they are
charted on base maps in such a way
that they give a birds eye picture Of
weather in every section. These
graphic pictures are called weather
maps. Forecasting weather from them
is just a question of determining how
fast and in what direction the areas
of high and low barometer are going
to move and as simple as prescribing
sulphur and molasses for a spring
tonic, or as difficult as performing a
surgical operation, depending an
where the highs and lows are To-
/ Gated"
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the postoffice now stands. This hotel
was built in the fifties, not many
years after the little log cabin at
First street and Kansas avenue mark
ed the starting of a city in the wilder
ness. For Kansas was a wilderness
in those days. altho the advancing
tide of civilization was ever Increasing
in volume, and the buffalo and Indian
were being pushed farther and farther
to the west. But there were still
many Indian villages along the Kaw
and a variety of wild game to supply
the larders of the pioneers.
The old Gordon House was another
famous Topeka hosiery. 1t was built
by Copeland Gordon in the sixties, on
the site where the Throop hotel now
stands. Enoch Chase, father of Mrs.
Isabel Crawford. who died recently,
had n hotel between Kansas avenue
and Jackson street, on the south side
of Sixth avenue.
Ed Carney was about three years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-29

Portland. ore.-Ralph Paines automobile
was ordered held at the police station
automobile didn't stay in Jail. however
Paine sold it and the cops had to deliver.
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THOSE CATCHY ADS BASS ON PARADE
Birch Give Their Annual Spectacle Was Thirty
Theory of Advertising Days Late This Year.
Credit The State Journal With They Swim Tail When
Building Up Their Business. the Season Begins
WORTH MORE THAN statesmen FISHING OFFICIALLY "G00D'
Tells How Intimate Style "Dean" Hoadey Tells OF Lake.
of Ads Started. view Conditions Now
First Year in Twenty Fins Were
Jump i'm Five Behind Schedule.
Annual Spectacle Was Thirty
Days Late This Year.
They Swim Head to Tail When
the Season Begins.
FISHING OFFICIALLY "GOOD'
"Dean" Hoadley Tells of Lake
view Conditions Now.
First Year in Twenty Fins Were
Behind Schedule.

The bass season is officially open
and it is nearly thirty days late this
year, according to w. I. Hoadley of
Lawrence who for years has been the
dean of the disciples of Isaac Walton
of the Lakeview Hunting and Fishing
club.
The annual parade with which the
season is opened took place last SUM-
day, according to Hoadley and il was
the latest parade the bass at Lake.
view have ever staged Hoadley de-
clares. 'Sfact, says Hoadley, the bass
do stage an annual parade. He tells it
this way.
you see, the bass spawn according
to the laws of nature. in the upper
reaches of the little streams that en-
ter the lakes in which they usually
make their habitation. Lakeview has
no such streams but the bass true to
their instincts hunt for those streams
every year.
AS soon as they feel the water
warmed enough to tell them 1t is time
for them to begin their usual summer
program, they come from the deep
holes of the lake where they passed
the winter and IL one is fortunate
enough to be there at the right time
he will see a long line OF the finnies
swimming almost head to tail, NOV
ing slowly about the edge of the lake.
Sometimes the bass swim this way for
two days but this year it seemed to
take them only few hours to dis
cover that there was no chance for
them to spawn according to their Gus
toms and the parade broke up. early.
ST have watched the bass of Lake
view for nearly twenty years and have
found that they stage their parade at
nearly the same time every year. This
is the first year they have been late
and they were nearly thirty days late
at that. I had thought 1 had missed
the show"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-29
That Bermuda High.

high settle down for a siege over
the eastern gulf states. This means
continued high wind from the south,
hence the hot weather of a Bermuda
high, becomes associated with the
holiness of It's small namesake, the
Bermuda onion.
Thighs also bring clear weather.
and in summertime when one settles
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-29
SINGERS NEED ADVERTISING
Edison Star in Topeka Points Out
Value Of Publicity to Stage Art
ISIS.

Being great singer is largely a
matter of advertising" is the opinion
of Miss Leola Lucey, well known HgAt
opera singer, who gave an interesting
concert in Topeka Tuesday night 10
compare her actual voice with its Ed
son reproduction.
aGreat artists have beautiful voices,
of course" said Miss Lucey. Il Go not
mean to say that they do not. But
many obscure artists have just as great
voices as world-famed singers, but be-
cause of lack of money and boosting
they are not considered wtrth while
II have heard Caruso sing wretch
eddy and at the same time cause people
TO go into raptures because it was the
great Caruso they were hearing.
have known Galli-Curci when she had
hardly the money to buy ready-made
gown. and now she employs one of
the best fnodistes of the country, Just
one of the results of the great CAM
panini deciding to present her to the
world.
"A tenor enjoy hearing more than
any other is quite an unknown per-
son." Miss Lucey said. He pawned
his saxaphone to travel to a city to
have an artist tell him whether he
could sing or not. The artist encour-
aged him to go to New York. He is
now making records at SIS a record
and getting ahead in the musical
world. while before he was advertised
| by the record making companies he
was earning but $40 a week You'll
hear of him soon. He's Harry Shields
which name doesn't mean anything
| to you now. Only advertising can
make him famous"
| Miss Lucey has studied voice for nine
years She is attractive and COM
paratively young person to have at
| tanned such success as has been hers in
| light opera. She is twenty-eight. She
| sang the leading part in Canary Cot
ttage' and has appeared in the Zieg-
4 field FolIies the Passing Show of
t1915," Gypsy Love- and has sung in
the last year at the Palais Royal She
spends every summer in energetic
study to improve her voice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-29

Charles L. Mitchell. secretary and
sales manager of Crane & Company,
Topeka. was elected president, and
Kellogg Smith, secretary of the
Schooley Stationery & Printing COM
pany, Kansas City, Mo, was elected
secretary.
A vice president was elected from
each state, who will act as the state
chairman for the association, which
will organize in each state. Herman
H. Cast, vice president of the Western
Lithograph & Office Supply company,
Wichita, was elected vice president
and chairman for Kansas: Horace G..
Mitchell, president of the Democrat
Printing & Lithographing company,
Little Rock, Ark. was elected vice
president and chairman for Arkansas;
c. E. Meyer. president of the Meyer
Stationery company, Omaha. Neb.,
was elected vice president and chair
man for Nebraska; Gerry H. Manning.
secretary of the Joplin Printing COM
pany, Joplin. Mo, was elected vice
president and chairman for Missouri;
Clarke Field, president of the Field
Stationery company. Tulsa, Okla, was
elected vice president and chairman
for Oklahoma.
Collective Purchasing.
Problems affecting the stationery
ard office equipment business in this
zone" were discussed at length at this
two-day convention. This division is
the first one to organize q subdivision
of the National Association of Station
ers and Manufacturers. Owing to the
fact that these five states have prac-
tically the same freight rate from the
source of supply and the assets of
these five states are practically the
same. one of the benefits of this or
ganization will be that of collective
purchasing making it possible for
the stationers of this section to buy in
carload quantities and distribute from
Kansas City, or some other Missouri
river point, and thereby get the bene-
fit of the quantity rate in buying as
well as the carload rate in transport
ing.
At this meeting the following off
GERS of the National Association of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-29
FIVE MINUTES-2,O00 BBLS. OIL
Record Gusher Is Brought in Near
Santa Anna, Texas.

Santa Anna. Texas, May 2s--Two
thousand barrels of oil was spouted
by Gladys Bellies Pope No. 1 well in
five minutes late yesterday, owners
and drillers { -clared.
Considerable trouble had been ex-
nerienced anth the we'll A shot last
Friday splis casing. The spectacular
spouting started when the hole was
cleaned out.
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der.
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F. Marvin chief United weather
serecordng Misunderstanding
The instrument automatically
conditions
lifted large secured
OF
containing eight miles of
line One outfit broke
hepessy enangled mile
released the mule the
ound unframed.
Studying upper Of this with kites
gudanes
the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-29
MITCHELL is HEAD
TOpekan President of Station.
ers of Five States.
Elected at General Convention
in Kansas City This Week.
AN AUTHORITY ON BUSINESS
Crane Secretary RncOVuized All
Crane Secretary Recognized All
Over the Country.
Chairman Also of Atlantic City
Rotary Committee.

Sixty OF the leading stationers of
five states-Nebraska, Kansas, Mis-
souri,. Oklahoma and Administered
in conference in Kansas City Tuesday
and Wednesday, and organized the
midwest division of the National As
ISOLATION of Stationers and Manufac-
turers