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The Washington herald., 1920-01-11

of NJ street. west Of Nineteenth
street. south of Pennsylvania av-
erue, and east of Eleventh street.
The densest membership. II will be
noted. is within a block or two of
the site of the new clubhouse.
Statistics show that so per cent Of
the 1900 members of the club arc
located within two blocks of the
site and that IS per cent are situ-
ated east of Fifteenth street.
Thus the new clubhouse will be
only a few steps from the offices OF
places of business of most of the
members of the club and will be
easily accessible to members wives
when they are downtown shopping.
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observation-disclosures

@. Is the word mich used in referring
to milk cows ?--B. L. S.
A. The department of agriculture has
Just gone on record as favoring the use
of the word milk in this connection. Mich
is used in the Bible and in classical litera :
ture, but milk is the simple, work day
word and will henceforth be used by the
department.
Q. When was Thanksgiving first oh
served as national holiday E. d.
A. Thanksgiving was not celebrated by
the entire United States until 1864, when
President Lincoln appointed day OF
thanks giving. This was the beginning of
the custom of the president issuing II
Thanksgiving proclamation. The last
Thursday in November has been the day
generally designated.
@. How is the word derby pronounced?
C. II.
A In America. the word is pronounced
as spelled. while in England the usually
pronunciation is darby This is the most
important annual horse race of England,
founded in 1850 by the 12th-Earl of Derby.
and at EPSON Surrey, in the spring,
generally on the Wednesday before Whit
suntide.
Q. What is curule hair?-B. NJ. G.
10 a throne. in among the early
Romans. The chair was usually orna-
mented with ivory gold, had curved legs,
but no back, and could be folded as
camp stool is folded. 1t was used by
curule magistrates, dictators, consulS.
praetor, and curcule aediles on formal oe-
casions. The right to sit in the presence
of others was one of the precious priv
legeS of certain officers.
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ASK MORE FUNDS
tcantin ,ea from rare omen


schools all over the world were pre-
sented to the state Sunday School as
ISOLATION delegates at the city audi
toriun1 today. e. W. Halpenny and
A. NJ. Locker, representatives of tire
international, Sunday School associa-
ton, gave addresses on the subject
survey OF Kansas Sunday school
conditions was another interesting
part of the morning program, as pre-
sented by several members of the ex-
ecutive committee of the state asso-
citation, including Howard c. Rash,
chairman: r. NJ. White, treasurer; j.
H. Engle, secretary, and others.
The second study in Christian fun
damentais was given Tuesday night by
DR.. d. w. Kurtz of Mcpherson col
lege, one of the principal lecturers of
the convention and one of the best au-
thorities in the state on his subject
There is little or no politics among
the delegates, a factSunusuai in such
large organizations at annual conven-
tions. In spite of the fact that the an
nual election of officers takes place
tomorrow. there is no boosting of can
didates, or even announcement of NOM
nations.
The present officers of the associa-
ton are: Ralph n. McEntire, Topeka,
president; j. H. Engle. Abilene. gem
eral secretary; r. NJ. White. Abilene.
treasurer; Mrs. S. A. Chappell. st
JOnH, ElWoOQ M. brOOkS, 4ODerHn. II,
t. Ellis. Pittsburg; II. p. Armstrong,
Atchison,. and the Rev. A e. Henry.
Liberal. vice presidents; the Rev.
Frank G. Richards. Abilene. field
worker; Mrs. C. G. Hamilton. Topeka,
state worker for chiIdren's division
The children's department delegates
are much interested in the work of
Mrs. L. E. de Shazo OF independence.
Kan, who conducts short courses in
story telling at the First Baptist
church during the afternoon confer
ences of the department representa-
tives.
Pageant by Washburn Students.
A pageant, 1.-The Striking of Amer
ica's Hour" will be presented by
Washburn college students at the au-
ditorium tonight. The chief address
of the evening will be by DR.. Osbert
W. Warmingham of Boston univer-
sity. The convention will adjourn
Thursday at 1890 p. m. Important
considerations for tomorrow, will be
the election of officers scheduled to
take place before noon.
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$4,000 on that profit. As he does not
want to make any less net'income and
as he cannot escape paying the tax. he
strivesrto obtain a larger profit than
before; in other words. to make a
profit of $3.50 or more where he-was
making 81. SO that he may meet the
accommodating surfaces on the larger
amount and still procure his former
profit. He does this and passes the
article with the price so loaded on to
the wholesale dealer or jobber. who,
facing the same situation. meets it the
same way. and the experience is re-
peated when the article reaches the
retailer. so that by the time the arti-
Gle reaches the retail counter it has
been loaned three times to meet the
taxes of three classes of traders"
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KANSAS CHARTERS GRANTED

The following charter applications
werA approved today by the state
charter board:
Crescent Mercantile Co.. Wichita. 10000
Arkansas Aerial Co., Arkansas City $4,000
Tire Exchange Co.. Wichita, $4,000.
Farmers Co-operasttiye Shipping assoeia-
central Grain Co., Hitch, 500, 900
Columbia Battery Service Station Co. Sa-
lima. $4,000.
Farmers Union Cooperative association,
Schumacher Iewelry Co. Larned $1,000.
Farmers Exchange Co, Chicapoo, $4,000.
Cooperative Mercantile Co, Stafford
$500
Mutual Ice & Fuel Co. Manhattan. $4,000
Argentine Mercantile Co., Kansas City,
5000.
Farmers Union Co-operatiye Mercantile
association, Timpken. $4,000
Sabetha. Fire Department, Sabetha, 10
capital.
Fountain Service & Supply Co., Rosedale,
$4,000.
Farmers Cooperative Grain Co., Caldwell,
ClonmeIl Cooperative Grain & Supply Co,
Conmell, $4,000.
Hardman Lumber Coal Co., Colby.
100000.
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THE HOUSEW AIMING.
CHAPTER 90.

ITS perfectly wonderful. Gerry!
How i'll the world did you ever make
your rooms SO lovely ?" Jane Murphy
exclaimed before she kad taken off
her wraps.
ooh, she just waved her fairy wand
and it all came about" Mary broke
in. They had all arrived at about the
same time. She'll get all puffed up
if you praise her too much. 1 am go
ing out IN the kitchen and see if she
has cleaned under the ice box and
such places. You know people say
that when a woman puts all her
money and thought in her parlor, the
kitchen suffers"
Where did you read that, Mary? ?"
Robert asked.
'Sh-s, Robert, don't give me away
I hoped they would think it came out
of my head
Not room enough, Mary." But
good as her werd, Mary ran out in the
kitchen. looked under the ice box and
the sink, then called:
THE ninth wonder of the world.
girls! It's clean out here. too
So. laughing and talking. we started
to play bridge.
Look at Roberts eyes shine" Mary
whispered TO me. He was to play OPP
posite her.
Yes, 1 know" 1 answered.
What happy evening We hadi 1t
was different entertaining in ones
own home. Robert was right-theTe
was a different feel to it; you took
more interest.
We stopped playing at IL O'Clock.
Then with a flourish Robert drew
aside The drapery which hung between
dining and living room. The obs,
and the abs and other ordinations
repaid me for all my trouble to make
my supper attractive.
Fairies againi Tell me where they
live, Gerry, Gardner never will be
happy with what 1 can do after see
ing this" Mary spoke so naively of
her approaching marriage that we all
had accepted il in the same spirit
NONSENSE You can do just as we'll
as [ can at this sort of thing"
Your training at madame's has
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ROBBED AND KNOCKED DOWN.
Board of Trade blackboard Marker
Attacked by Negroes


With blood streaming from a wound
near the base of his skull, ]. H. Day,
blackboard marker at the Topeka
Board of Trade office, staggered into
the Santa Fe station last night. There
he told Officer Thomas Comstock that
he was held up and robbed by two
negroes at the corner of Fifth and
Monroe streets.
Day stated that they took ST. in
cash, his watch, cigars, pencils, and
pocketbook containing two baggage
checks and a ticket to Kansas City.
While his hands were still in the air,
one of the highwaymen struck him in
the head with the butt of a revolver.
inflicting the wound which stunned
Day temporarily.
rComstock few minutes later over
heard a conversation in the station be-
tween Elizabeth King and Annie Will
liams, negro women, which convinced
him they knew something of the rob-
berry. They were ARE ted but denied
any completely in the hold-up.
The King woman is wanted for COM
plicity in the theft of a suitcase from
the Rock Island station. Tina Siam
mers, another negro woman, confessed
to the robbery and told police officers
the King woman assisted her The
King woman had an eye knocked out
a few months ago in fight with a
negro
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apolis. where Sanborn visited at the
time. urged him to fill the pulpit
Oh. nix, nothing doing told him"
the Rev. Mr.. Sanborn said. He asked
me to visit the high school then, and
the first thing 1 knew I was facing
1000 high school students and was
forced to make the first public speech
had ever made. / didn't mind 1t par
ticularly and soon afterward resolved
that I might be able to help fight the
materialistic philosophy which is
usurping religion in the United States
il I became a clergyman"
The Rev. Mr.. Sanborn is not far re-
moved from being boy. He is easily
the most youthful looking clergyman
among the several hundred clergymen
attending the convention. Fully six
feet tall, of athletic build and rudy
color, he has The strength and vitality
to put any amount of -tpep" into his
fight against materialistic philos-
ophy" and incidentally to arouse great
enthusiasm among the group OF two
hundred boys who scamped at Bethany
last Saturday. The Rev.--or Major
Sanborn, as he was known to the boys
was indeed q hero to them.
CriticiSeS United States Education.
THE education the United States is
giving its boys and girls is a con-
glomeration of sharp tools and high
IDEALS he said. The sharp tools are
the weapons we give them for mod
ern business life in search for the al
mighty dollar and the ideals are some
thing they cannot apply to their lives
in any connected way"
Work among railroad men and COL
lege students in Reno, Nevada, is the
Rev. Mr.. Sanborn's present work
after he Travelled over the United States
to get citizens interested in helpins
returned soldiers. He will speak at
Grace cathedral tonight at the annual
dinner in the Guild Hall of Grace
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The Woman Who Loved-and
Earned A Modern stosy Of Home and Business
Blu JANE PHELPS

helped you I expect, Gerry" Betty
Weed interrupted, but really it is
exquisite. Aren't these place cards
dear?" speaking to no one in particu-
lar, Where did you find them? ''
IT made them" I had taken some
stiff cardboard and decorated them
with water colors. I didn't add that I
had haunted one of the smart shops
and copied their exclusive designs.
"Smarty smart Mary chorused.
Come on and sit down and stop
flattering me. 1 shall be spoiled" 1
was really becoming embarrassed by
so much praise, but Roberts eyes
shone like stars, and l knew he was
pleased.
"Um-um-fairies cook for you
too?" Carson Murphy asked.
No-unless you call me fairy.
Ten pounds too heavy, Gerry.
This croquette is delicious"
So it went all thru supper; one com
pliment after another. Robert insist
ed that should not rise from the ia
BILE. and so he served the coffee.
It's mighty poor family that
can't afford one butler he said as he
flourished his napkin.
'Indade it is thot, Mister Morti-
mer." Mary agreed in her choicest
brogue.
and we girls chartered like magpies.
I had to show them every single thing
[ had bought: they fairly turned the
house inside out for fear they would
miss something
Amt it a great and glorious feel
in, Gerry" Mary asked.
What, Nary
ITO have a home of your own. to
do as you want to. and ask no odds of
no one Gee. girls. 1 wouldn't stay
in that hash house where Gerry and
Robert almost spent their lives if Mrs
Lane would give it to me. and throw
in the boarders''
TT is nice to have you all and feel
we are independent" I returned, just
as the boys called that they were
ready if the girls were.
Wasn't it great. dear?" Robert
asked when we were alone. You are
a wonder$wife. l don't believe there
ever was another like you"
tTomorrow-Gerry grows fidgetty.9
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LITTLE BENHY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE pApE.

Mary Watkins was setting on her
frunt steps looking CRATE in a new wife
hat ard wife shoes and stockings, and
was setting there tawking to her,
and sed my fletcher was better than
her fletcher and she looked mad and
wouldent hardly tawlS eny more, me
thinking, G, L better say sumthinG 10
make her feel all rite agen.
And I sed, Hay Mary, do you know
wat you look like today9
Wat? sed Mary Watkins, and l sed,
You look jest like angel
Benny Potts, l don't think that's a
very refined thing to say to lady, /
don't, sed Mary Watkins.
G. wiz, wy not !? 1 sed, and she sed,
Haven't you ever saw eny picktures OF
angels? and / sed, Yes, and she sed,
Well then you awt to know wy not.
Aw Gosh, C, 1 sed, 1 dident meen
that kind of q angel, l ment a angel
with clothes on.
Nobody ever saw one with clothes
on and I think you're perfecky awful,
looking proud and went in the house,
me thinking, Heck, G WIZ. And l
started to wawk home and who did
meet down at the corner but Loretter
Mincer in a new red coat with brass
buttins up and down it, me saying,
a unrefined thing to say to a lady If
somebody told you you looked like
angel?
Certainly not. Id think it was a per
feckly bewtifill thawt. sed Loretter
Mincer, and 1 sed, Well, you look like
one.
o Benny, how nice of you. sed Lo-
retter Mincer. and l sed, Do you wunt
to take a little WaWk.
WITCH she sed she did, and wawk-
ed past Mary Watkinses house times
with her Jest to show Marx Watkins
she wasent the ony gerl in the werld.
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Not many months ago buyers were
so anxious to get goods that price be-
came a secondary consideration. De-
Iiveries could be obtained only after
long delays. Sellers were booked up
with orders for half a year ahead, and
called in their statesmen from the road.
Today many of these are sending their
statesmen out again, it is said. and
large wholesale buyers report that the
daily mails bring an increasing supply
of letters soliciting orders and prom
Using Immediate delivery" Another
factor is that many sellers are now
asking that the price paid be that at
the time OF the order. an exact revers-
al of the recent practice of insisting
that the price be that at the time of
delivery. Many concerns are espec-
tally reluctant to make any additions
to their plants because they doubt
whether prices will stay up long
enough to pay profitable returns on
fixed investments made at these high
prices Considerable attention has
been drawn to recent sharp declines,
not only in the stock market, but on
the grain and cotton exchanges. All
OF this indicates that a decline in
prices is imminent. All that is now
necessary is for the public to sit tight
and refuse to pay extrava CANT prices
Tor anything that can be done with
out
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when it is remembered that the
Prince of Wales is not candidate for
office and is not likely to be it must
be accepted as a fact that he is a re-
markably sensible fellow. He did and
said many things while in this coun-
try that won for him popular approx
al. He now is in New Zealand and
the latest story about him from that
country is that during the progress
of a railroad strike. he refused the Of
fer of special train, and would not
bulge because the road was not serv-
ing the people. He expressed a wish
TO be classed as one of these.
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OAKLAND NOTES.
Notes and personals from Oakland
by Frances Jones. Telephone $3.50.

The Oakland cars are now running
straight thru and the Oakland street ear
sufferers are no more compelled to walk
two blocks on-Lake street. The north end
of Lake street has been in the process
of being paved for the last year and this
week saw the finishing of the work of re-
laying the ties for the street car tracks.
The Oakland public is looking forward
with sorrow to the time when en- Branner
street, north of the viaduct the street ear
track will be torn up and they will have
another spell of walking. They are only
hoping that when the time comes it will
not rain every day. There is one advan-
tage to the changing of cars which doesn't
come otherwise and that is, people living
at the end of the line always get a seat
and those getting on later on generally
stand up. so when the time comes to
change cars, the standing persons rush out
pell nell. get seat and the others are
left to take their turn, standing and being
joggled up and down, forward and back
ward at every turn and corner.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. J. Clemens have re-
turned to their home AFTER avenue. from
Excelsior Springs. where they have been
the past month in the interests of Mr..
C1emens's health. En- route home, they
visited relatives at Lawrence for several
days.
The eifhth grade Of the Oakland school
will entertain Wedne sday night at the
school house for the members of the boarl
and faculty of the school.
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At the close of the Civil war the ma
tional debt was about $2,775.00O, 900,
or $50 per capita. The present national
debt is about s24,7eo. 100000. or 1925
per capita. 1t is not surprising there
fore, that there should have arisen
opposition to the soldier bonus. No
body grudges the money but there is
doubt about the ability to raise it at
this time without serious damage to
business and industry such as would
leave the soldiers no better off than
they are today.
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Estimates by statisticians indicate
that approximately two-thirds of the
money formerly spent for alcoholic
beverages now goes to swell the de-
mand for more useful products. Econ
omists estimate the. increased demands
from this source at about a billion dol
lars year and say that it is in a
measure responsible for the high cost
of living. Thus does the drinkers
gain become the non-drinker's loss.
In other words the latter is paying the
cost OF keeping the country sober.
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Premier Nitti invites the world to
smile. In an interview. printed in the
New York Times of April s6. 1920,
the Italian premier says: 1--WE of to-
day are becoming brutal and stupid
because we have war too much on the
brain. We are becoming crazy and
hard. No poetry is being penned, no
music composed, no great books writ
ten. To me that is sad. Let us forget
about war and write poetry and sing
sweet music. The trouble with the
world today is it has forgotten how to
SMILE" But how can we in America
who still are at war be expected to
smile?
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Rev. I'll. X. Sanborn Tells of Ag-
nostic College Instruction.
Professor Had 1000 Followers
at Western University.
WAR CHANGED REV. SAND0RN
Couldn't Tell Dying Boys
"There's No Eternal Liie."
Episcopal Convention Visitor
Has Enyiable Army Record.

What is man going to say when
a dying boy looks up to him and asks:
DO you believe in eternal life?' Even
the most confirmed agnostic such as
thought l was couldn't say mo- and
kill the dying hope of that boy. 1 was
v~lled upon many times to give dying
soldiers comforting words and for a
long time our bunch had no chaplain
and l conducted hundreds of Chris
tan burial services
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The people of the United States
might learn a lesson from Japan.
with the possible exception of the
United States Japan has proportion
ately benefited more in the last five
years in additions to its wealth and
gold supply than any other belliger-
ent. yet last month precipitated a
financial crisis, brought about almost
wholly, it is said, by unbridled extrav-
agancs and speculation and disregard
Of caution.
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WARNS STATE INSTITUTIONS.
State Auditor says Operation Must
Depend on Fee Funds.

Fred w. Knapp, state auditor, today
issued a warning to state institutions.
His warning is to the effect that insti-
tutiens must live and pay bills from
fee funds until new taxes are avail
able July l.
Nearly quarter of million dollars
which came to the general revenue
fund thru inheritance taxes during the
last few days will help the state oyer
a. few rough places. But in the main,
the institutions have used their main
tenance appropriations and must look
to their fees. to escape deficits during
the remainder of the fiscal year.
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The effect of the excess profits tax
on the cost of living is illustrated in
recent statement on the subject by an
eastern mercantile firm as follows:
ufacturer of some necessary article.
has been accustomed to making a
profit of 100000 a year. He sud
denly finds that he is to be taxed
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Local Mention

Little damage was done when an oil
stove exploded Tuesday at the home of
F. A. Reddick, 615 Buchanan street.
Fire companies were called.
Be a stockholder in Pepp's Coal Saw
ings Plan. Topeka Coal Co, Elks'
Building. Phone 482-Adv
DR.. Lyngar. Dentist. 500 Kansas Ave.
ADV.
The executive committee of Capital
Post No. I, American Legion, will meet
at 1880 o'clock tonight at legion head
quarters. 210 West Sixth avenue, to
select an adjutant to succeed John H.
Bergen, who has rendered his resigna-
ton.
Cash paid for liberty bonds John
sISleinhans. s27 Quincy. Phone 2761-J
ADV.
Call 1858 for job carpenter work
Door check and lock repairing. Ham
son and Hanson. 509 Kansas Ave.
with Friek. the sign nan.-Ady.
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Paul Warburg suggests a curtail-
ment of bank credit as a remedy for
scarcity of commodities and resulting
high prices. But people neither eat
nor wear bank credits
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Cards of Thanks

We wish to thank our friends who
so kindly assisted US during the illness
and death of our beloved husband
father and brother.
Mrs. Emily Stewart
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. ]. Stewart.
Miss Elizabeth Stowell.
ADV