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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31

Camp Funston today is shipping to
Topeka complete equipment for 10o-
bed emergency flu hospital, Robt d.
McGiffert, city health commissioner,
was informed over long distance tele-
phone by the executive officer of the
cantonment this morning. The sup
plies, including everything from beds
or cots down to bandages, are expect
ed to arrive tomorrow. An officer
and two internes also are being sent
to help handle the flu situation here
McGiffert announced today that the
Garfield school building would be
ready FOR occupancy as a hospital not
later than Monday. He has a large
force OF men at work cleaning the
building and installing necessary i'm
provements. The building will ac-
commodate seventy-five beds. accord
ing to DR.. Earle G. Brown. city health
officer. -Four wards will be fitted up
mmedately. There are eight rooms
in ell and small room where pneu-
monia patients can be treated.
The Garfield school is the best
building we possibly could have Sc
cured for hospital said Brown to-
day. The ceilings are high and the
windows average seven TO a room, af-
fordtng plenty of light"
To Cancel County Order
The aid received from Camp Fun
ston will necessitate cancellation of
! orders for beds and bedding, which a
Subcommittee of the Public Health
committee purchased yesterday. The
expense for these was to have been de-
frayed by the county commissioners,
the beds to have been used later in the
new county home. The county Off
GERS agreed to furnish the beds, when
! the committee called on them.
Mrs c. c. Bailey, supervisor of the
Public Health Nursing association,
will be in charge of obtaining nurses
for work at the city hospital and else
where during the influenza epidemic.
In the meantime. the epidemics
strength seemed to have abated some
what today. Only eighteen new cases
had been reported to the city health
department at noon. One case of
pneumonia also was reported, but
there was no evidence of flu germs
/ in it.
the city yesterday The first flu
death occurred, the victim being a
little 2-year-old boy. The direct cause
of his death was pneumonia.
Health Department Open Sunday.
The city health department will
keep open Sunday from Q a. m. to
$3.50 p. m. to handle flu reports and
give pneumonia vaccinations. Doctor
Brown said many persons who could
not come to his office for vaccinations
during the week could arrange ITO do
| SO Sunday.
The department is distributing lists
! of instructions on how to handle flu
cases and a pamphlet on pneumonia to
every home in the city. These were
issued by the state board of health.
Doctor Brown today urged all doc
tors to report influenza deaths to him
| Immediately so the department can
keep accurate check on the disease.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
Sugar Price Boosters VIII Be
Prosecuted.
Have Been 110 Cases in Sixty
Days.

Washington. Jan. 31.-Whi1e the
justice department today denied that
sugar profiteers were escaping pun
ishment. Senator McNary of Oregon
declared that evidence of enormous
profits were being made in sugar
running as high as 100 per cent in
some cases-had been received from
many sources.
charge of pushing the government s
campaign to reduce living costs. an
nounced that in the last sixty days 110
criminal cases have been started
against sugar profiteers. These re-
suited, he said, from approximately
five hundred Investigations of alleged
profiteering cases. Figg predicted a
drop in sugar prices. y
McNary said today he had written
the department of Justice about the
profiteering situation. Fresh evidence.
he said, "comes to my office every
day."
At Mercy of Cubans.
! With regard to commerce depart
ment reports yesterday. indicating that
during December sugar at 8A cents
a pound was exported from the United
States to foreign countries. Figg said
that this was Cuban sugar bought by
foreign governments. The United
States government. he said, failed to
buy up the Cuban crop this year, leav-
ing American refiners to buy at any
According to Figg, the profits are
regarded as fair and consequently not
"prosecutable" by the department of
justice. Refiners 81 per 100 pounds;
per hundred pounds, and retail deal
ers, 81 per 100 pounds.
Five Cents Profit. g.
This group" of profits adds up to
SIS per 100 pounds. or cents per
| pound, as the total amount American
refiners, wholesalers and retail deal
ers are taking from each pound OF
sugar sold. Figures given out yester-
| day by the commerce department in
dicated that the profit divided be-
| tween wholesalers, jobbers and retail
ers was approximately cents per
| pound.
According to Figg, however, ship
ping and freight charges must be
added in determining a fair retail
price.
"Cuban growers are the only ones
who now are profiteering," said Figg
'.They have advanced the price to
American buyers to between II and
Is cents per pound"
Figg's reports show, he said. that
there is plenty of sugar in Cuba, de-
! spite the high price 1t is on these
reports that he basis his prediction
that sugar will drop in price.
Seventeen to Fave Trial.
/ Chicago, Jan. 31.-Seventeen sugar
| dealers here will have a chance to
/ explain in court whether their sugar
prices just grew or whether the growth
was forced. The charge against them
| in Indictments today was undue prof
| iting. Three internal revenue officers
were indicted by the same county
grand jury on charges of graft in con-
nection with prohibition enforcement
About twenty indictments were ex-
pected today for alleged dealers in
| narcotics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
SEVEN ARE BURNED TO DEATH
Temporary Homes for Steel Workers
Wiped Out by Flames.

Pittsburgh. Pa, Jan. 31.-Seven per-
sons are known to have burned TO
death early today when fire, famed
by a high wind. destroyed fifteen tenn
porary residences occupied by en-
ployes of the Carnegie Steel COM
pany's plant at Clarion. Is miles from
Pittsburgh. An office building also
was consumed.
The fire. thought to have started in
a building used as kitchen, entirely
destroyed sixteen structures within Ia
minutes. More than a hundred oc-
cupants of the houses. which were
one-story frame buildings, were forced
to flee in scant attire. The Clarion
department assisted by the fire fight
ers of the Caregie plat tried to con-
troll the blaze, but the effort was
fruitless.
As soon as the fire had burned itself
out firemen started a search of the
ruins and within few minutes seven
bodies had been recovered. The search
was continued, for it was impossible
to ascertain If all other occupants OF
the houses had escaped.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
Pipe Organ
and Band in
Big Concert

The city pipe organ is 'tpiped."
Marshalrs band is tuned up and ev-
erything is in readiness for the big
musical blowout at the city audi
torium Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock.
The concert will be open to the public
and no admission will be charged.
Commissioner McGiffert said today
the organ was in the best condition
it has ever been in. He has had organ
specialists working on it for some time
and thinks the big instrument will
pour forth pleasing and tuneful notes
tomorrow.
To correct a bad impression that
may have been given out last night by
the organist from Kansas City who
played at the negro 'sing," McGiffert
said that the organist. who announced
from the platform that the instrument
was in poor repair, probably was un-
accustomed to playing on an organ
where the keyboard is as far from the
pipes as on the one at the auditorium.
A local organist tested the instrument
Immediately after the negro players
statement. and pronounced it to be in
excellent condition
In addition to Marshalls band and
Dean H. v. Stearns on the organ, vocal
numbers will be given by Mrs. Ray
mond Murray and Harlow F. Dean of
the Washburn music faculty.
'Sempre Fidelis." the song of the
Marine Corps. will be played for the
opening march upon request of Nc
Giffert, a loyal Devil Dog" The
march was composed by Sousa.
Music lovers are looking forward
especially to that part of tomorrow's
program where the organ, the band
and the chimes will play in unison.
The selection for this number will be
| Easter Chimes by Lake.
w. w. Webb is in active charge of
the concert for the Rotary club, the
Cooperative club and the Chamber of
Commerce
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
BIC RAISE in
UNION WAGES
HERE APRIL |
Local Labor Announces Build
ing Trade Increases.
Dollar a Day Additional for
Nearly All Employees.
CONTRACTORS WILL GRANT IT
And Public Will Pay Because
of Lack of Interest.
Brick MasOns to Receive $54 a
Week Under Scale.
CONTRACTORS WILL GRANT II

The annual spring "damper" was
thrown upon new building in Topeka
today when practically all labor
unions connected with the construc-
tion trades had notified contractors
. than an increase of 81 a day will be-
come effective April 1. Conditions
were further aggravated by spring in
creases in materials, making a total
increase of 25 per cent in the cost OF
construction, contractors said.
Unions demanding the 81 day IN
crease include brickmasons, stonema-
sons, carpenters and joiners and paint
ers and paperhangers. Common Ia
borers asked for an increase of SO
cents a day.
Contractors. while declaring their
opposition to the demands, said today
that they probably will be granted IN
view of the "publics refusal to back
UP the Master Builders association IN
the building trades strike last year.
Last year, when he unions struck
for n similar wage increase, the public
refused to back us up in our opposi-
ton 70 the wages" said one contractor
today. Every union man in Topeka
was employed on garages and sleeping
POI ches by individuals. This year we
are not going 10 refuse the raise un-
less the public changes its attitude, but
will grant it, and if the public thinks
the unions should have more money 1t
can pay it in the form of increased
construction costs"
Brick AIasons $54 Week.
Brick masons headed union demands
this year with a demand for $1.12 II
an hour for an S-hour day. or S54 a
week. Stone masons asked an increase
of u cents an hour, or 81 a day.
Journeymen carpenters and joiners
Joined in the chorus for total of 81
n day. or SAG a week. P"inters sent
along an "ultimatum" T the same
scale. Laborers now get $3.50 a
day say they'll accept "a ar April l.
Employers of paperhangers have
made counter proposal to the lat
ter's demands. So far the union has
not answered. Counter proposals will
not be made by the contractors, it was
indicated.
Were Satisfied Last Year.
Bad faith on the part of the unions
was charged by several contractors to-
day. Workers promised last year. it
was said. that If they were given a
raise they would not ask for another
one this year.
Demands for the increases came
from the unions in the form of mo
tees that the wages would go up
April l. There was no question
marks in the letters. All the letters
base wages on an eight-hour day.
A. Building material increases as cited
by Observation-Disclosures of the Mas
ter Builders association-this spring
follow: Lumber, 20 per cent; brick,
20 per cent. and cement. per cent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
ASOLD ASHISTORY
Nothing New in Strikes, Sena-
tor Wark Tells Bar.
Exodus of Children of Israel
Was First Instance.
nHPrrrRsn rzrna ~tua rrsrnusa@
MEETING ENDS THIS EVENING
Election of Officers and a Ban.
quet at Pelltier's.
Well Filled Program for Mem.
bers Thruout the Day.

Strikes on the, part of labor are as
old as history itself, George W. Wark
Of Caney, recently appointed member
of the newly created industrial rela-
tons court. said in an address today
before the Bar Association of Kan
sas. in annual convention here. He
pointed out that the first strike in
history was the exodus of the Chill
dren of Israel from Egypt.
1T seems to have BEEN" he said.
"a national protest against the op-
preston of capital and to have pos
sessed the substantial characteristics
of the modern strike. How far
this revolt was due to the order of
Pharoah that the Israelites should
provide their own straw to make brick
and how far to the hereditary aver
sion of the Jewish race to manual la
Dor, we shall never know. at least not
until we hear the Egyptians side of
sste story. 1t is true, they despoiled
the Egyptians, a fact not wholly un-
known to our modern strikes. but
tnere is no evidence that the Israelites
ever claimed a proprietorship in the
cities they had built or used any vio-
lence to prevent others from working
at the same rate of wages. The boy
colt had not then been invoked"
Rome, in the ancient days of its his
tory, ndQ 1tS laDOr troubles. Attorney
Wark cited the instances when the
people, oppressed by the patricians.
withdrew in a body to the sacred hill,
declared thier own terms and OBJ
tained the appointment of tribunes of
the people for the protection of the
working classes. Trade unions and
guilds, he said, existed from the days
of the kings and often were in trou-
BILE with the patricians ''who, tho
hating the plebeians, found them in
dispense ble."
Rights of Labor.
Touching on the rights of the work
ing man today-the rights accord ed
him by present laws-Attorney Wark
said:
1T is impossible to deny the labor
ing man the right to determine the
number of hours he shall work and
the wages he is willing to accept; that
is his privilege and right. And like
wise no legislation can compel an en-
ployer to pay more than he is able to
pay or to carry on his business at a
loss The price of labor thus becomes
the price of everything that labor pro-
duces Legislation is powerless to af-
feet permanently this law of supply
and demand and the conditions that
we now are facing in the controversy
affecting property of every nature and
between capital and labor is no new
question:; in fact it is as old as gov
ernments themselves"
Attorney Wark's subject was 1.-The
Evolution of Property Rights" He
tCOntinued on Page Twol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
Half and Half
For the Chorus
Beauties Here

Where is the chorus girl whose life
used to be one long round of after
theater dinner parties. who used to
be chased madly by the stage-door
"Johnnies" and who never was happy
unless listening to a concert of pop
ping corks or forking a delecta Bile
dish of caviar? Where is she? It's
a sad story of unhappy yicissitudes of
fortune and privation- She is now
sitting alone in restaurant-and not
Rector's either-drinking coffee or
milk and eating-breakfast foods.
Yes, it's sad story, mates. Last
night, following the performance at
the Grand. fhe writer dropped into a
restaurant and saw. sitting at one of
the tables. two of the members of the
chorus in Somebody's Sweetheart %
Were they flanked by gilded youths
and steaks two or three inches thick ?
Was a bottle OF champagne nesting
cozily in a bucket of cracked ice con-
veniently near? Not noticeably. Their
only escorts were empty chairs and
before them on the table were the
aforementioned milk and breakfast
food. Things are not what they used
to be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
DEAN WILL NOT RUN
Topekan Places Freedom of Speech in
These Times Above Court Ambitions.

Topekan Places Freedom of Speech in
These Times Above Court Ambitions.
Because he desires every right Of
the freedom of speech and action dur
ing the next few years, Col. John S.
Dean today declined to enter the race
for place on supreme bench He
stated that he feared he might not be
enabled to exercise the same freedom
in thought and speech and action as
he now enjoys. This right, means
more than high office during the next
few years.
In declining to enter the supreme
judgeship fight, Colonel Dean disap-
pointed many friends who had pledged
their support of his candidacy. He
said he feared that public life-espe-
cially a place on the judiciary--would
seal his lips when he would want to
talk. The fight against Bolshevism in
all its forms is more than public Of
| flee, Colonel Dean said in declaring
he would not be candidate.
/ "Bolshevism in all it's forms must
! be fought during the next few years.
said Colonel Dean. IT prize my right
to place on the firing line too highly
F; to be in any way listed, among the nom
com batants. Nor is this remark in
: any manner a criticism of our court.
/ merely feel that I will be able to
exercise my right of thought and
I speech more freely off the bench than
on it.
There are some serious days ahead
of us. 1 do not want to feel that in
the least degree I will be denied my
right to take a full. free hand in every
issue. Because of this desire I must
not enter the race"
Senator Francis C. Price IS also ex-
pected to decline to run. This may
center the Justice John S. Dawson op-
position on James w. Findley of Cha
mute, former Neosho county district
iud0e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
DEFENDS L. S. RESERVATIONS.
Viscount Grey, of England, Declares
Americans Have Reasons.

London, Jan. 31.-The United States
senate is not open to charges of bad
faith by Europeans, Viscount Grey Of
Fallodon declared today in a letter to
the Times.
Giving his personal opinions as a
private citizen. Grey defended the ac-
ton of the United States toward tbs
peace treaty. The American govern
ment. he said. is anxious to solve its
obligation honorably.
Grey defended the American reserv-
alton on the ground of "entangling al
lance" The reservations, he said,
look worse on paper than they really
are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
Poor Hotel Facilities
Lose Another Kansas
Convention to Topeka
Precedent of ThrtyEght Years Broken When State Bar
Discards Capital City Annual Meeting Place.

Since the day the Kansas lawyers
organized the State Bar association
there has been a provision in the by
laws that preference shall be given the
capital city in choosing a. meeting
place. Always that provision has held
against occasional attacks by lawyers
representing other towns. But today
the pitcher made its last trip to the
well. It was case of Topeka losing
the bar association or the bar associa-
ton losing its membership and attend
ance-according to some of the state
ments which were made in reference
to Topeka hotel facilities.
Under the change in the bylaws as
proposed by the bar association judi
ciary committee, Wichita will receive
the next convention, to be held the
last week in November this year. The
lawyers did not bind the association
beyond the next meeting-possibly
awaiting fulfillment of Topeka hotel
promises,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
FLU is HAMPERING TRIAL.
Attorneys Have Hard Time Keeping
Jury Filled in Newberry Case.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Jan. 81
Despite the influenza handicap, at
torneys in the Michigan election fraud
trial in progress in United States dis
trict court here hope to complete a
Jury at today's session.
-Four peremptory challenges were
still to be exercised when court opened
at 9 a. m.-two by the government
and two by the defense. Forty-seven
men were examined during the last
three days in an effort to fill the jury
box.
Two were taken seriously i'll with
Influenza after having been accepted
and several others were excused be-
cause they were not in good physical
condition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31

Poor and inadequate hotel accom-
modations today drove the Kansas
State Bar association from Topeka
after annual meetings here every
twelve months since organization 3S
years ago. Wichita deftly took the
next lawyers meeting from Topeka this
morning when changes were made in
the bylaws and precedents of more
than third of a century were broken.
Every speaker on the floor today for
a change in the meeting place said
caustics pointed things about Topeka
hotels-sharp, unkind and cutting re-
marks of which an aroused legal pro-
fession is capable. It was the second
time this week that a big convention
was taken from Topeka and on Topeka
soil. Thursday Topeka ran fourth
with Salina, Wichita and Hutchinson
in the contest for the Republican state
convention. Again it was the deplora-
BILE hotel ommodations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
GOVERNMENT WASTES PAPER

Washington, Jan. 31.-The waste
of white paper by government de-
partments came in for another at
tack today in the senate. Senator
Smoot, Republican. Utah, opened
the discussion and 10 prove that the
senate's skirts weren't quite clear,
he lugged into the chamber vol
urne the size of a bushei basket
with the explanation that it was a
compilation of the speeches already
made in the senate on the peace
treaty and printed in the congress
sional record.
The book. said Senator Smoot,
contained more than 100000
words.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-31
FLU over STATE
Early Morning Report Shows
1881 New Kansas Cases.
DIR. Crumbine Warns People of
Seriousness of Epidemic.

! New cases of influenza reported to
the state board of health up until
noon today, covering the period from
4:So yesterday afternoon. numbered
1881. nearly as many as the total re-
ported yesterday, 1,441.
Forty-five cities and counties were
| included in today's report.
The total number of cases reported
since the present flu epidemic hit the
state stood early today at 6.914. Prac-
| tically every county in the state is in
fected, according to the board of
| health.
Three deaths were reported to the
state. board today. one from Rawlins
| county and two from Kansas City,
Kan. Four pneumonia cases were re-
ported at the latter city. Kansas City.
Mo-. has 246 new cases of influenza,
| 19 of pneumonia, II deaths from flu
and seven from pneumonia. Five
from Lyon county, one from Ford and
one from Topeka
DR.. S. j. Crumbine. secretary of the
state board of health, warned the peo-
| pie of the state of the seriousness of
| the epidemic.
Cases Over State.
The following cases were reported to
the state board of health between 4:30
o'clock yesterday afternoon and 9:30
this morning: Harper, SO; Barton, l 5 /;
| Cloud, 80; Seward, 10; Nemaha. %;
Finney, At; Ford. so; Gray, SO; Green,
6; Smith, IL and 1 pneumonia: Pot
tawatomie, 80; Leavenworth. city 5. 1
Wichita. so; Logan. 8; Doniphan. 20
and l pneumonia; Cowley, "a: Wa
| baunsee, 81; Riley. &c; Sherman, 1
and 1 pneumonia; Chase. IA and l
pneumonia; Ellis, 7; Mitchell. 9;
/ RnfIaT RnfIrhnr =
| Crawford. Al; Sumner, 81; Ellsworth.
| 80; Allen, and l pneumonia; Nor
| ton, 4 Coffeyville, /; Cherokee, 9;
| Clay, 3 and l pneumonia; Lyon, go;
Wilson, and pneumonia: Republic.
21; Clark, 56; Rawlins, 81; Kansas
City, Kan, SO, four pneumo monia; Phil
lips, 3S.
| Fewer Cases in st. Louis.
st. Louis. Mo-. Jan. S1.-For the
first time since the disease was pro-
nounced epidemic on January 19. the
number of new cases of influenza re-
ported to the health board today fell
below the number reported on the
/ health boards record there were 529
new cases in the city during the last
"a hours, as compared with 533 re-
ported for the preceding period.
Epidemic Stationary in Kansas City
Kansas City, Jan. S1.-The influ-
enza situation in Kansas City con-
tinues practically stationary, accord
| ing to DR.. E. H. Bullock, health di-
rector. New influenza cases reported
to the board of health yesterday num-
bered 246, compared with 243 re
ported Thursday. New cases of pneu-
monia totaled 10, decrease of 1 !
from the number reported Thursday
Influenza deaths reported Friday
numbered IA, two more than or
/ Thursday, while seven pneumonia
deaths were reported yesterday, two
less than on Thursday
! On Increase in Arkansas.
Little Rock, Ark, Jan. 31.-Reports
TO, the state health office Saturday
morning show 254 new cases of in
fluenza in the state, compared witt
211 new cases reported Friday. There
were three new cases of pneumonia
and two deaths.
In Little Rock twenty five new case.
of influenza were reported, and one o.
pneumonia.