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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
AT HILL HEARING
Court Room Filled With
Negroes in ExtraditiOn Case.
Word ''Niggah" Causes Angry
Murmurs-Decision Late Today

The Kansas industrial court room
this afternoon was filled until stand
ing room was at a premium with To-
peka negroes listening to arguments
in the fight of the state of Arkansas
to take Robert Hill, negro, back TO
Arkansas to face a first degree muir
der charge in connection with race
riots at Helena, Ark, last fall.
Excepting Gov. Henry ]. Allen, four
state and federal officers and Hugh
Fisher there were no white persons in
the room. Outside. looking thru the
windows leading from the hallway
into the court room was a sea of white
faces, state house officials witnessing
the strange sight.
Governor Aliens decision was ex-
pected late today.
John D. Arbuckle, attorney general
of Arkansas. described the riots in
which it is claimed Hill was implicated.
He described a trip to the state prison
at Arkansas where he obtained depo-
sitions from negroes in cells awaiting
electrocution for murder in connection
with the riots. He read affidavits
from newspaper men purported to be
conversations overheard between Hill
and other negroes in which it was
charged that Hill advised other ne
groes to go to a meeting armed.
Arbuckle called the negroes mig
There was an audible murmur of an
ger heard when the lawyer from the
south called the members of the black
race by the name they resent
Hill escaped to Kansas, where he
had heard negroes received more JUS
tice at the hands of courts and other
officers than anywhere else in the
United States. Negro societies thru
out the state have hired lawyers, in
Guiding Fisher, Elisha Scott, James H
Guy and others in the fight, against
the issuance of extradition papers.
Negroes claim that If Hill is returned
to Arkansas he will not receive real
ed" thru a trial in a state claimed to
be unfair to the negro race.
Arbuckle in his plea denied charges
that the other negroes awaiting cleo
trocution were 'railroaded' thru the
courts.
They were all given fair trials" he
asserted.
! Hill was arrested in Topeka several
weeks ago. Hearing on a requisition
extradition was postponed from time
to time. Meanwhile, Hill has been
! confined In the city jail.
At a meeting of the Association for
Advancement of Colored People held
Sunday afternoon at the Central Bap-
I tist church resolutions were adopted
against returning Hill to Arkansas. If
the papers are not granted by Cover
nor Allen, a hearing will be held be-
| fore Federal Judge Pollock, where
/ Hill will be charged with inpersonat-
, ing a federal Lfficer.
Anticipating the large number OF
| interested negroes that would be pres
! ent at the hearing, Governor Allen
I arranged with members of the indus
| trial relations to hold the hearing in
! the court room.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
SURVEY FOR ROAD
Plans at Once for a Hard Sur.
faced Highway Here.
Concrete From Topeka to Doug
las County Line.

The county commissioners today in
structed J. A Campbell. county sur
veyor, to survey and plat the Midland
trail leading out of Topeka southeast
to the Douglas county line, prepara-
tory to building a hard surfaced high
way. The surveying and plating will
cost $3.50 a mile.
Beginning at a point just east of
Watson on the Douglas county line,
the highway runs west, five miles
north two miles and west again four
and one-half miles, entering Topeka at
Twenty ninth street and Kansas ave-
nue.. AT the point where it turns north
two miles. the road will be continued
north another two miles to the To-
peka-to-Lawrence section of the Fort
to-Fort highway now being con-
structed. making two direct routes
from Big Springs to Topeka
No state or federal aid will be
granted. the entire cost of construc-
ton resting upon the county, township
and property owners in the benefit
district 1t is said farmers along the
route are greatly enthused over the
prospect of having a hard surfaced
highway over which their products
may be moved to market. The road
will be built of bituminous concrete,
according to present plans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22

Bone dry and full of dust. Kansas
is due to become much more saturated
with dust in the next twenty-four
hours. according to S. D. Flora, state
meteorologist
Southwest winds are expected to in
crease during the day until a fifty
mile gale is attaiped sometime tonight.
Flora does not expect any rain to
counteract the dust. The entire state
is very dry. The wind tonight will
blow much more dust out of southwest
Kansas. Coincident with depositing of
the dust by the expected high wind.
more damage to wheat thruout the
state may be expected, according to
Flora.
No rain has been recorded east of
the Rocky mountains in the last twen-
ty-four hours. No cold weather ap
peared this morning on the weather
map. The lowest temperature in the
United States was % degrees at Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich.
The temperature in Topeka was 90
degrees at 6 o'clock this morning. This
is II degrees above normal. Flora
expects a temperature of 70 this after
noon, the highest the mercury has
risen since early last fall. Flora pre-
diets a temperature of So degrees to-
ICOntfnue1 on page TWol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22

pected to arrange a trade, offering
their support of the school code in re-
turn for opposition 10 the federal
amendment
Until the last few days, suffrage ad-
vocates apparently had a safe ma jority
but the opposition had been gaining
strength and political observers look
for long fight with the result doubt
full.
Need Two More States
Washington. March 22.-Chances
for ratification of the federal woman
suffrage amendment in Delaware were
described as very bad" at suffrage
headquarters here today.
In Washington. leaders hoped, the
ratification will be accomplished to-
day.
Legislatures in both Delaware and
Washington met today to consider the
suffrage amendment which would al
low women voting equal rights to
those enjoyed by men. Thirty-four
states have ratified and favorable ac-
ton in Delaware and Washington
would make thirty-six. the total neces-
sary for final ratification.
Suffragists here declared they were
at present without a majority in either
branch of the Delaware legislature.
In Washington, which already has
woman suffrage by state enactment,
suffra gists are sure Of victory.
If ratification fails in Delaware. spe-
ciaI legislative sessions will be asked
in Vermont and Connecticut.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
Suffrage Leaders Want
TaUira Victories Today;
7lUo States VIII Vote
Legislatures of Washington and Delaware About to Pass
"Votes for Women Amendnent-Two More
Ratications Needed to Give Women the Ballot.

Olympia, Wash, March 22.-"We
hope to have twin victories" suffrage
leaders here declared today in com
menting on the prospects for ratifica-
tion of the federal suffrage amend
ment by Washington and Delaware
legislatures.
Both bodies were to convene in spe-
cial session today.
The lawmakers here are expected to
endorse the Susan B. Anthony amend
ment, shortly after the legislature con-
venes at noon.
The Delaware Legislature also goes
into special session today and will con-
slider ratification of suffrage. Ratifi-
cation by Washington and Delaware
on the same day would make a grand
pair of twins, the suffragis say.
IF today brings two new arrivals
to the family of suffrage states, the
necessary Sc will have come into
the fold. giving the vote to all wamen
of the nation.
Fight Due In Delaware.
Dover, Del. March 22.-The date
for taking up the question Of ratifica-
ton of the federal suffrage amend
ment will be fixed at a joint legisla-
tive caucus tonight
The legislature met in special ses-
sion today to act on the suffrage ques-
ton and the school code. The latter,
Governor Townsend's pet measure. -
will be considered first
The opponents of suffrage are ex-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
BLAME TO WILSON
Tried to Force His Ideas on
American People.
Failure of Pact Serious, Say
European Papers.

Paris. March 22.-The Journal Des
Debats today blamed President Wilson
for the senate's rejection of the peace
treaty. While Wilson automatically
tried to impose his ideas upon the peo-
pie he was supposed to represent, the
newspaper said, the political parties
squabbled in Washington and de-
stroyed the fruits of Americas victory
in the way.
London, March 22.-The London
press today gravely deplored the ac-
ton of the American senate in what it
considered a final rejection of the
peace treaty.
While the comment was not general
ly bitter, newspapers pointed out that
the reaction thruout the world GER
tainly will be serious. especially with
regard to the restoration of peace and
normal economic relations.
Relations between the United States
and the rest of the world have gone to
their pre-war status. the newspapers
believed, and American prestige has
suffered a considerable blow.
The newspapers regretted that there
seems to be slight prospect that ac-
ceptance of the treaty will become an
issue in the presidential campaign.
They agreed. however. that the pact
apparently is dead, as far as America
is concerned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
Sunday Blasting
Tends To Shotter
Religion, He Says
Shawnee County Minister Objects to
Road Work on Sabbath-Downs
Church Kicks on Erection of F1Iling
Station Across Street.

Clashes between old-ume religion in
Kansas and modern improvements
reached the office of Richard j. Hop
kins. attorney general today.
S. H. Domoney. a member of the
board of directors of the First Metho-
dist church. Downs. Kan. has written
to the attorney general asking whether
there is a state law which will forbid
the erection OF an oil filling station
opposite the church property. Do
money complains that the noise from
autos standing in front of the pro-
posed new sta ton would interfere with
services in the new $780, 600 Methodist
church at Downs.
The Rev. J. B. Deever, pastor of two
churches in the eastern part of Shaw
nee county, situated on the East Sixth
street road. complains in a letter to
the attorney general regarding Sunday
work on the road by the contractors
THE blasting on the road during
church service has tendency 10
snatter religion" write the minister
from Big Springs.
As yet, Maurice MCNEIL, assistant
attorney general. has rendered no
opinion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
BOYCOTTS BRITISH AND FRENCH
King OF Syria Declares Against Ma
tions Occupying Territory of Arabs.

Beirut March 22-Emir FeisaI.
king of Syria, has declared a boycott
against countries occupying territory
of Arabs-France. and England--and
has organized g commission to bring
Mosiems and Christians into a better
understanding. Posters displayed at
Damascus where the Syrian congress
proclaimed the independence of that
country, declared:
'In spite of himself, the Moslem Is
brother to the Christian and the Jew.
The Arabs existed before Christ. Moses
or Mohammed. and freedom and in
dependence are rights of Syria Reli-
gion is of God and the fatherland be-
longs to his children"
The Syrian congress signed a decree
asking foreigners to evacuate that re-
gion, and Palestine and Mesopotamia
are reported TO have been included.
Lebanon is section of Syria supposed
to be strictly loyal TO France and anx-
ious for French mandate, but the
Turkish nationalist and Syrian move
ments are SO general thruout Syria and
Cilicia that Il seems improbable France
can continue her occupation OF dis
tricts there unless she receives strong
reinforcements.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
Survive Aliens Acid Test of E.
Q. ChancelIorship Applicants.
Two Newspaper Men, Three
Didn't Turn to Brass
TWO OF THEM NATIVE SONS
Are DIR. Henry j. Waters and
Edward Slosson of N. Y.
Others Eastern Educators
Final Decision Due Soon.

Edward Emery Slosson, editor
New York Independent and former
member of X. U. faculty.
DR.. Henry j. Waters. former
president Kansas State Agricultural
college and at present editor Kan
sas City Weekly Star.
Dean Lotus Delta Coffnan, Uni
versity of Minnesota.
Prof. Frederick Morgan Daven-
port, Hamilton college, New York.
Dean John Erskine, Columbia
university, New York.
Two newspaper men and three col
lege men have survived the process OF
in the selection of a chan
cellor for Kansas university to succeed
Frank Strong, the former chancellor
now a professor in the law school al
Kansas university. This statement
was made today on good authority al
the state house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
GET 500 LAWYERS
Railways and Shippers Well
Represented at Hearing.
Valuation and Rate Question
Up Before l. C. G.. Now.

Washington, March 22.-Five hun
dred lawyers representing railroads
and shippers from all parts of the
country crowded the interstate COM
merce commission hearing room here
today at the opening of hearing be-
fore the commission in connection with
the Esch-Cummins bill.
Two questions were before the COM
mission today. The first was to de-
termine methods to be used in fixing
temporary valuations of the railroads
until the formal valuations are COM
pleted by the commission two years
from now.
The second question was whether
the valuations should be considered as
whole for all railroads or by groups
of roads.
Both questions have an important
effect in determining advances in
freight rates. Under the Esch-Cum-
minis law rates must be fixed high
enough to ensure the return of i
per cent. on the aggregate value of all
railroads or the value taken by groups
Hearings are expected to last several
days.
Another meeting which may have a
far reaching influence on railroad
rates will start late today when rail-
road workers and managers get to-
gether TO confer on demands for wage
increases totalling approximately
s1,o00,0 100000 a year. Higher wages,
railroad men say, will mean higher
rates.
The demands of the union men are
the same as those represented one
year ago to the railroad administra-
ton, but which the union leaders de-
cided not to press at that time at the
request of President Wilson. The de-
mands are based upon increased living
costs during the las two wears
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
Teach Health
Texts by Using
Doll Models
State Board viii send Special Car on
Tour OF State March 31-Healthier
Children, the Aim.


Tour of State March 31-Healthier
Children, the Aim.
Doll will be the chief attraction on
the special car of the state board of
health which is almost ready to begin
a tour of the state of Kansas.
Dolls in gymnasium suits will dem
onstrate to persons who visit the car
the joys of playground work for chill
dren; invalid dolls and healthy dolls
tell the story of right care of infants
and children, and the entire display
of rules and advice in the health car"
will be thru doll models. The car will
begin its journey March 81.
The demonstration car will be of
vital aid in the survey of the state by
the Kansas women's committee on
child welfare. now under preparation
The object of the survey is to point
the way to needed legislation and COM
munity child welfare programs, to
put new issues into elections for the
benefit of children and to further the
rights of children in general.
Health. education, children in
courts, organizations and institutions,
and chiidren's and mothers conditions
all over the state are points covered
by questionnaires sent to all counties
of the state. to be handled by a county
chairman with the cooperation of the
county schools.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
Labor Outlook for 1920 Gloomy
One, Wilson Says.
Department of Labor Issues Re-
port on Prospective Walkouts.
100000 OUT IN 1919
Loss in Wages to Workers Last
Year S5O,OOO,OOO.
FSixty-Eight Per Cent Strikes
Are Still in Controversy Stage.

Washington. March 22.-Approxi-
mately one million workers will be af-
fected by strikes, lockouts and wage
controversies during 1920. it was esti-
mated here today on the basis of labor
department records.
The records show that in the fiscal
year ended in June. 1919. approxi-
mately 100000 workers were in
volved in strikes, lockouts and con-
troversieS referred to it for settlement.
Losses of workers thru wage con-
troversies and strikes this year may
reach 50.000.000. it is believed. In
1919 total losses in wages are be-
lieved to- have been twice this sum or
more than s10O.O00,ooo.
No reports are obtainable on the
the decrease in production resulting
from strikes.
Many Not Arbitrated.
In 1919. however, 6S per cent of the
cases referred to the labor department
for settlement were still in the con-
troversy stage and had not developed
into strikes or lockouts. These were
adjusted peacefully.
But the cases referred to the labor
department for adjustment represent
ed only a small percentage of the ac-
planned. Thus the steel strike. which
is claimed to have made idle 100000
men, does not figure in the labor de-
partment records. Neither does the
coal strike. altho Secretary Wilson
personally took a hand in it.
Evidences are abundant that witt
the coming of spring. workers in al
parts of the country are turning theil
attention to wage scales.
Builders Hike Demands
In many cities, building workers an6
machinists already have opened ne
gotiations for wage increases. Build
ing mechanics in most cities now re
ceive 81 an hour. In few cities de
mands have been presented for in
creases ranging from s1.25 to $3.50.
The industrial situation now is nea
the tense moment from the labo
standpoint In April and May. wag
contracts expire in scores of crafts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
CHARGES BRIToN WITH CRIME.
president OF Sim Fein Republic
Says No Irishman Killed Mayor.

Chicago. March 22.-Eamonn De
Valera. president of the Irish repub-
lie referred to Britain as a murderer.
robber and thug" IN an address here
yesterday.
He told an audience of 5000 that no
Trishman murdered the mayor of Cork.
but he was certain an English thug
had committed the crime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22

DR.. Henry ]. Waters needs little in
PRODUCTION TO Kansas. For years, thru
his work at the State Agricultural COL
lege. Doctor Waters won fame and re-
nown thruout the country. Waters re-
signed as head of the State Agricul-
tural college more than a year ago 10
become editor of the Kansas City
Weekly Star. He was federal food
administrator for Kansas during the
war.
Edward Slossons, New York editor
is Kansas born. married a Kansas girl
and was a member of the Kansas uni
Continual on Page FfTej
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
OUT OF LEcoMPToN SCHOOL Rov.
State Refuses to Permit Use of Nam
in Proceedings.

The attorney generals office toda
declined to permit the use of the
states name in bringing mandamus
proceedings in the supreme court in
an effort TO force the Douglas county
commissioners to call special election
on the dissolution of a rural high
school district at Lecompton. The
fight by those fer a rural high school
at Lecompton and those against the
improvement was checked up to the
attorney generals office by citizens o.
the town last week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
Two Skeletons of Children Discovered
In Attic of Old Hous.

Leavenworth. Kan. March e.
Finding OF the skeletons OF two chill
dren in the attic of an old farm houss
being razed near here has given the
coroner a mystery to solve.
Members of the last family that
lived in it say they know nothing
about the bones
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
e
ANOTHER GALE DUE
Flora Predicts 5O.MiIe Wind in
Kansas Tonight.
Warmest Since Last Fall, Tho
Up to 20 Today.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR KANSAS:
Probably fair tonight and Tuesday; warm
er east and cooler northwest portion to-
night; cooler Tuesday.
Shippers forecast calls for temperatures
above freezing in all directions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
Our Daily Bank Robbery

Oklahoma City, March 22.-Safe
blowers successfully blew" the safe
CT the Epworth grocery store last
night and escaped with $50. The
robbers did not molest several hun
dred dollars worth of checks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22

New York-Siiyer dollars less than one
per cent legal tender are good enough to
buy many gallons of beer less than per
cent alcohol. Discovery was made when
Saloons" tried to bank the dollars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22

tions directly interested in the man
ly dominate those of the lesser edu
cational institutions in Kansas. The
five men named above, all Who's
Who" folks, are those who did not
turn to brass when the test was
applied
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
Thieves Moved Safe seven Blocks.

wichita. Kan, March 22.-Thieves
moved the Jewel Tea Co. safe seven
blocks on a hand truck to the banks
of the Little Arkansas river to crack
il They got $1,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
New 4. c. Bank to Cost $4,000. 900.

NEW IA z. bdHA 10 NOel SS'UVV'UUV-
Kansas City. No. March 22.-Bids
will be opened here tomorrow for a
sixteen story federal reserve bank
building. The structure is expected to
, cost around $2,000,oeO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22

The appointment probably will be
announced by Gov. Henry J. Allen
shortly after his return from a trip
to eastern states the latter part of this
week. 1t is understood the governor
will hold interviews with certain of
the applicants while in the east.
Did Not Turn to Brass
In recent weeks applicants for the
highest educational honor in Kansas
have been put thru an acid test by the
governor, by the board of administra-
ton, the faculty committee, an alum
nae committee and other organiza-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22

WEATHER FORECAST for Kansast
Probably fair tonight and Tues
Gay; warmer east, cooler northwest
portion tonight; cooler Tuesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22

Berlin is beginning TO assume a nor
NAL aspect. Radicals elected revolu-
tionary councils yesterday and VIII
vote on the labor unions proposition
to call off the general strike today.
All Baltic troops have withdrawn
from Berlin. according TO officers Of
the reichswehr.
There was a small fight In the
Friedrichstrasse when a truck load Of
(Contfnued on Page TWo1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22
FIND MURDER MYSTERY.

CONTINUED on Page Two.)
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-04-21
AMERICAS STRENGTH

Intelligence and an understanding
of the problems of ones country are
essential for the citizens of repub-
lie. The will of the people must be
reasonable or else disorder and chaos
will ensue..
To develop good judgment. educa-
ton is fundamental. But we are neg
lecting this source of strength because
it seems expensive. Students are
turning to other pursuits than profes-
sional because the return financially
is greater and because there is not
the outlay of obtaining an education
The better class of teachers are
leaving their work to enter other
fields. And all the while the cOun-
try needs enlightened youth to take
positions of leaderships. Problems
are SO complex today that it requires
more than superficial thought to &c
below the surface.
America has been established upon
a rock. The superstrueture will be
frail and unequal to the storms un-
less we make education universal and
thorough.