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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-16
Summer an Excellent Time to
Combat the Disease.

Some cases of rheumatism give
very little trouble to their victim
during the summer season. and fer
this reason now, is a-most favorable
time to take a course of treatment
that will reach the cause of the
trouble and remove it from the sys-
tenn.
Otherwise, with the very first cold,
damp or disagreeable day. your pains
will return and gradually increase
in their severity, until you will soon
again be in the clutches of this re-
lentIess disease.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-16
Rats Cost State $50, 900, 900
YearEyKiH I'm, Says Allen
Governor Proclams Week for Purpose-Crumbine Warns
of Bubonic Plague Danger Here

Governor Allen today proclaimed a
rat killing" week for Kansas. In a
special proclamation the governo or set
aside the week of August % as a time
when all patriotic and health loving
Kansans are urged TO make war on
the rodents.
The proclamation was inspired by
reports from Dr. J. 5. Crumbine, sec
retarv of the state board of health,
that dangers of bubOnic plague have
increased as a result of menaces from
rats. Spread of the disease TO towns
more than 100 miles inland led to a
request by Doctor Crumb ine that
rat war he urged in this state The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-16
DEMANDS CITY COME TO TIME.
Mandamus Proceedings Filed Against
Liberal in Railroad Case.
Mandamus proceedings

Mandamus proceedings directed
Against the city of Liberal, Seward
county. were filed today in the SUI
premc court The action was brought
by the Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad
company.
In its petition the railroad company
asks that Il writ he directed against
the city to compel issuance of 100000
worth of railroad aid bonds. It is
asserted that the bonds were voted
ny the city and that the railroad com
pany has fulfilled its contract, altho
the city has refused to certify the
bone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-16
Rock Island Terminals Use. 800
More Men in City.
This Number Added to Original
Terminal Forces.
MANY MOVING TO Topeka
Big Growth Due-FolIowing In
crease in Employees.
New Rip Trick, Caboose Track,
and Telegraph Line Here.

Due to the increase in traffic and
the business necessitated by the new
IreiSht terminal of the Rock Island
IN Topeka, established March l, more
than zoe employees have been added
recently TO the payroll here according
to figures compiled by officers of the
road IN this city, This Is in addition
to the $50 men sent here at the time
the. terminal was created.
Forty freight crews, including en-
gineers. conductors. firemen and
brakemen are running In and out of
Topeka ito the new terminal. Six
switch engines working eleven crews
day and night are used in the Yards
Many miles of tracks have been added
New .deSartments have been vestab-
nshed, a Fip-track employing forty
men and6with facilities to repair fifty
cars has been built in the last month.
A new telegraph line from Topeka to
Belleville. costing 100000 and caI%e-
Ing eighteen wires, was completed East
week. Machinists., carpenters, switch
men, conductors brakemen. engineers,
yarunen. boflermakers, =hostlers, Gin
derpit men, checkers; billers, coal
chute men. car inspectors, sealers,
clerks and common Iaborers have
established Topeka as one of the largz
est freight terminals of the future on
the Rock Island Lines @,,, -
/ A. caboOse track accommodating
eighteen cabooses has just been built.
Sixty trackmen of maintenance de-
partment and twenty-five OF the
bridge ard building department have
been located here for right of way
work.
Moving to City.
The residential section OF the city
lying west of Kansas avenue, north of
West Eighth avenue and east of Pot
VIM has been swarmed by Rock Is
land employees and many new homes
for the men are being built in Ken
wood and adjoining sections of the
city.
The Topeka freight terminal han
dies. traffic from Topeka to kansas
City, Topeka to Harrington and Topeka
to BelleVille.
On account Of the large addition to
the city's Rock Island facilities. Off
Gals admit that a new roundhouse is
a necessity.
The increase in the payroll in the
last summer season has been a large
factor in the growth of the city
The Rock Island this week is paint
ing every piece of property in the city
The passenger station. the umbrella
sheds, the freight station, the yard
OFFICES, roundhouse, Kaw river brfigt
and all other properties are beins
frightened The passenger station will
| be overhauled. Plans are being made
| to remove the vault from the station
and esta bhsh joint men and womer
/ ticket window.
! Twelve operators are employed ir
the telegraph offices OF the Rock Is
| land here. The tower force also ha.
been increased. -c -~.-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-16
Rheumatism's Pains Are
Always Treacherous

Why not begin at once a systematic
and sensible attack on the millions
of tiny germs which cause your Rheu-
matism, and forever rout them from
the sFstem2r This is the only. way to
get rid Of the disease, for these germs
are .iH4the blood, and Cannot be
reached by liniments. lotions. and
other local treatment.
S. s. S. has proven splendid
remedy for Rheumatism. especially
that form of the disease which comes
from germs in the blood. Being
such a thorough blood purifier and
cleanser. It routs tbs germs from the
blood. thus removing the cause of
your rheumatism.
s. S. S. is sold by all drugg.-ts.
Write for free literature and medical
advice, to Chief Medical Adviser. Gil
Swift Laboratory, Atlanta Ga,-Advs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-16
CATCH Two coNvIcTs HERE.
One of Them Said Lure of Outdoors
Was Too Strong.

One of Them Said Lure of Outdoors
Was Too Strong.
TWO escaped conyicts from the fed
eral prison at Leayenwoth were cap
tured in Topeka Saturdayan Sunday.
Lawrence Fuller. 10. an A, E. F.
man serving a sentence fer larceny
and forgery while enjoyingsa leave
in Paris, stopped Oliver Wyatt. patrol
NAM near .theeRock Island station and
asEed where he could get something
to eat for nothing.
THE jail is -the only place, buddy"
said Wyatt.
The peculiar texture of Fuller's
clothes attracted the officers atten-
ton. A few questions were asked and
the lad confessed he had escaped with
two other convicts from the federal
prison rock quarry August 9.
Fuller told officers he became SO
hungry he deserted, hts more cautious
| companions and caught a freight
which carried him to Topeka. He
and his companions had eaten nothing
/ excepting green corn since their es-
cape. he said. Federal officers ar
rived in Topeka Sunday morning and
: took Fuller back to Leavenworth.
Sunday night Joe Wonderly, q
railroad detective. saw two men get
ting off a freight train. He gave
chase and caught one. who proved
] 10 DC JonH DTO"H- dHotHci OA Xix
I escaped convicts. The other whose
name is Clyde Perry. escaped.
| we hid out at some junction Just
outside of Leavenworth for two days.
said Brown today. The boy got sc
/ hungry he left and we waited a day
/ for him to return
Brown said he was sent to Leaven-
I worth from Oklahoma on a charge
of manufa cturing whisky. He said he
| had only forty five more days to serve
Those trees way off in the distance
| looked too good" he said, .and
couldn't walt any longer Now, J
have lost my good time"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-16

fight on rodents will be in the interest
Of public health and food conserva-
ton. s-
In his proeIama tion-r>the governor
points to the heavy loss of food sup
plies because of lax public concern as
to rats and mice. His appeal is to
aid in determination of all rats during
the week of August 3d..
THE annual upkeep per rodent,
estimated on prices before the war,
was 50 per rat" says the proclama-
ton. With present prices it is at
least 81 per rat Using these figures
as a basis. a conservative estimate of
the annual loss In Kansas from rats
and mice is at feast 100000. 600"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-16
KEEP YOUR EYES OPERl
Topeka Taxpayers Lost $4,000 Be-
cause They Didn't Watch Levies.

Topeka Taxpayers Lost S24.OoO Be-
cause They Didn't Watch IleVies.
A levy of 81 of mill more for park
funds and of a mill more for bridge
fumes than may be levied under the
law was paid by Topeka taxpayers into
the city treasury in 1920. it has been
discovered. The total excess levy
amounted to nearly $4,000.
Under a law passed in February.
1919. the special levies for park and
bridge funds could not exceed 5 of a
mill each. But when the 1920 budget
was passed. ~ of a mill was levied for
park funds and s of a mill for bridge
funds The error resulted from an
oversight by the commissioners it was
stated.
The Santa Fe railroad was the only
taxpayer to enter a protest against the
excess, according to the records.
Those who did not protest at the time
have no chance of redress. The Santa
Fe's taxes for these purposes were
about $3.50. it was estimated. r.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-16
DISCUSS CLOSING FOR FAIR.
Matter OF Half Holiday TIP ~Before
Merchants Association.

A meeting of the Topeka Merchants
association will be held tomorrow noon
at the Chamber of Commerce to de-
eide whether Topeka stores, viii close
for a half day during Free Fair week,
as suggested by Secretary Phil East
man.
It is known that, while some mer-
chants are in favor of the suggestion.
others oppose il. The latter argue
that it is not good business policy to
attract large numbers of visitors to
the city and then close the stores. 1t
is for the purpose of assembling the
consensus of opinion of the local mer-
chants on the subject that the meet
ing for tomorrow noon shas beeg
called.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-16
New Hair Remover
Works Like Magic"

< No discovery Of greater benefit to hair
disngured w0mankind has been made in
: recent years than the marvelefs phelactine
method. 1t is entirely unlike and much
superior to electrical depilatorr or other
methods. because IL actually removes the
hair entire. roots and all-befoFe your very
eyeS-easily. quickly harmlesslyi Get a
stick of phelactine from your druggist.
follow the simple directions. and you will
he astonished and delighted with the result
II Is 1odorlcss. non-irritatinEfnnd 50 harm
n child could safely eat IT 1t leaves
70 skin so soft. smooth hairless. that not
lie least sign OF your former trouble re-
+ rnaiaS-A.iv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-16
H. r.. THOMPSON CHOSEN.
Former Educational Research Head
Vocational School Here

Vocational School Here
H. r. Thompson. formerly head of
the department of educational re-
search, will be principal of the new
vocational school to be established in
Topeka this fall, it was announced to-
day. Thompson, who was a member
of the high school faculty for two
years, resigned a year ago to accept a
position as salesman for a book pub
fishing company.
The new vocational school, decided
upon by the board of education early
in the summer, will be located in the
Garfield school building, which has
not been in use. The plan Of the new
school is to substitute a certain
amount of vocational training for the
academic work now required. in the
case of pupils more adapted for voca-
tional work. The. number of teach
ers necessary on the faculty and the
size of the program for the year will
depend upon the enrolment in the
new school NJ. G. Holman, clerk of
the board OF education, said today. So
far none OF the faculty has been Sc
lected except Thompson. the principal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-16
North Topeka News

Items for this column may be left at
PetrO's drug store. or telephone Eleanor
Klmba1l. 1881 after o'clock. Other
hours, $3.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-16

The Life o. Wheat team. champion
of the City League, beat Jack john
sons Giants yesterday afternoon att
Garfield park. The score was II
to 5.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-12-17
VICTORY MEDALS
! ARE OBTANABIE
| TO E-NAvY MEN

n Notics that sx-nayy men may re-
sive their victory medals BY writ
iAe 70 the navy recruiting station
= Chicago has been received by
Petty 0mcer Palser Of the Rock IL
Ind station. Ex-navy men must
4eod their original discharge papers
4nd their service certificates to the
hicAso once at go South State
Mtrese before they are entitled to
b victory medal.
Only navy men who served be-
VEGA the time the United States
declared war April 6. 1917, until the
1en1ng Of the armistice on Nov. IL.
aelS. afs eligible for the medal.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-12-17
GENE eEARY
WILL NOT HANG


Chicago, Dec. 17.-~Gsns" Geary
will not Be hanged today. TIE SUI
prone court last night Issued >
writ of supefsedeas which permits
him to live until 1t has IN cppcf-
tunity to review his case. The stay
was received It $50 o'clock last
night after 0eafy had spent four
hours In the death chamber. His
attorneys had fought desperately
fer three days to save him and the
supreme codrt was the last chance.
"Yov may tell the world for me
that I am happy and thank my
friends for what they have done
for me-" said Geary - Assistant
Jailer Lorenz Meisterheim removed
him from the death chamber and
dismissed the death watch.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-12-17

~ lslaa1 ceGlsnee today
- ~ ~ nciai alvics rsla-
r. ~ .ieeaasce 1las special
Is po1lieo stamps. ~ COM
49, 6 ~ tsreentsnasy of
- NJ y ~ Pilsri6s n Do
II Y le1e.
- tse1s h y three dsmomi-
4 ~, . follows:
~ est 0reen; subjsct, ~Ihe
DoAer."
~ esat Red; subjset Iead-
Rjluiue.
tSat- BI1s: suh55ct Sign
n4 - Compact"
~ dimensions Of the stamps are
ogoxtmately one inch one way By
4oguths Of IN inch Wide. and
~ l1DusA In sheets Of 70. In Z
e44lGAt horisantsi liae nt the TOP
~ the words Pilgrim Center
eez: directly below q let md
Hit ass IT, yses1 .1szV and
le1o.~ Beneath fho subject ~
1afS IL titl8 "a Z carSfng ribbon.
Min circles 9 the lower corners
~ nu@srAlG IT determination. The
6roer q the left OF the picture
sooe1ts : vertical row OF haw-
hosNb loesums THE British may
pwof1 The border At the right
poota3op ; row Of trailing arbutus
~ American naynower. which
Tradition says was named by the
Pilgrims after their ship.
II Postmaster Harry p. Simpson
btated todsy that the new issue has
~ been recsivsd ct the local post
ip0ce, but II expected soon. Owing
n The limited issue Of the stamps
shso received, they will be sold
pAly upsd request.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-12-17
REBUILDING DOCKS.

Il Nsv Orleans. L.. Dec. 17.-work
pgaa today on rebuilding the
lnAncke dry docks. destroyed yes
rday b hre which also damaged
hree sAips anchored nearby. en-.
iling'a loss Of approximately g..
0.0eo. Building materials were
assembled last night.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-12-17
GERMANY CANT,
PAY FULL DEBT.


Brussels, Dec. II. = UNITED
Press)-Germany As the embar-
raised debtor faced an exacting
creditor in . financial conference
with allied nations here today.
0ermany's representatives. turn
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-12-17

III ths ssvs u, Tee sf4e-Ths
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-09-25
ARAGRAPH
"A LITTLE NONSENSE NOW
AND THEN n RELISHED BY
THE BEST OF MEN,

New occasions teach new duties,
Time makes ancient good uncouth:
They must upward still and onward
Who would keep abreast of truth.
TT
There are two things a Winnie
mucca man hates to take-castor oil
and his own advice.
TT
The average Winnemucca man may
have his price. but he is slow about
showing his cost mark.
TT
Wherever there are mosquitoes
there's the hum of industry-with
the mosquitoes supplying the hum.
TIT
Looking at some Winnemucca men
we're constrained to believe it's hard
to keep tobacco chewing a secret.
TIT
The Winnemucca man who accom-
plishes half the things he intends to
do is striking a pretty fair average.
TIT
There is a strong conviction that
he coal prohteers are headed for a
place where there is never a fuel
shortage.
1t has always been our observation
that the Winnemucca man who is
first to argue is usually among the
last to act.
TT
A lot of Winnemucca girls low
adays know too much about bon-bon
tongs and too little about skillets and
coffee pots.
However, the price of sugar hasn't
yet come down to the point where
presidential candidates are claiming
credit for it.
Maybe the reason Russia doesn't
Join the League of Nations is she's
afraid she'd have to first take a bath
and get shaved.
I'll
These photographs of candidates in
the act of working mean little. Most
of us would prefer to see the eorns
on their hands.
~
What has become of the old-fash-
toned hired girl who received two
dollars a week wages and banked
a dollar of that?
TT
We suppose that they have the
= Ill
on using up a part of her
speaking time by telling about the
time stc had her operation.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-09-25
OR
EUROPE FIRST

EUkOPE FIRST
Governor Cox held a meeting in
Oakland. California, last Saturday
night. Whether he was aware that
he was speaking in a Republican
stronghold or not is a question. but
in the heat Of his argument, he asked:
Now what does my opponent stand
for?"
Directly to the right of him In the
gallery, a man answered: America
First"
After the shouts and applause died
down so he could be heard. Cox said
"One moment please, this Is my meet
ing" then turning to the man in the
gallery, he asked: What is your
nationality"
I'm an Irish-American" the man
replied with a thick brogue.
Very we'll, where does my OPP
ponent stand on the Irish question?
He is silent. When I take the oath of
office on March 4th next, one of my
first acts will be to bring the cause
of Ireland before the League of Ma
TONS" This cute twist paciied the
heckler. but Cox left in the cloud
his attitude toward America.
When we go to the polls next No
vember, 1t might be well to bear in
mind that when Mr.. Cox was put
right to 1t to answer his stand on
America First" he said he would
attend to the cause Of Ireland.
In other words, he would accept the
salary Of the presidency of the United
States and serve the members of the
League of Nations. Is that an honor
able intention?
The Irish difficulty is purely a do
nestle and political problem of Eng
land. What Cox promises us. is to
invite us to withstand a rebuff from
Great Britain, which we would richly
deserve il we interfere. Suppose
England or Japan should presume to
dictate TO us our policy with refer
ence to the Philippines. how we would
yell: What's it to your"
II 1t is our business to step into
the Irish muss. let our Congress
thrash it out well and determine our
attitude before the President starts
writing a lot of "strict accountability"
notes which will embroil our diplo-
matte corps in all sorts of embar-
assments.
Senator H%arding's promise to take
council with Congress and the vice
president, is very assuring and salts
flying and gives n a feeling of Sc
curity. While a president might err,
six or seven hundred congressman,
consisting of the finest brains in the
land, would help him find the right
procedure.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-09-25
A SQUARE
DEAL

When you buy from a big city store
and don't happen to get what you
feel is a square deal you withdraw
your trade. and find later that it
isn't a drop in the bucket. Thous-
ands Of others who know nothing
about your experience go right on
trading there. and others come into
the city and give hat store their
business.
But it is different with merchants
in Winnemucca. They can't afford to
have dissatisfied customers. Their
territory is limited and if they lose
very many customers they are paw
ing the way to financial failure. That
is why you are sure of a square deal
when you trade with your home mer-
chant. He knows he has to depend
upon your trade with your home
merchant. He knows he has to de-
pend on your trade. along with the
trade of people you know personally,
so he doesn't pass up any seeming
complaint you may have with a snap
of the fingers. He knows he must
have the patronage and good VIII OF
the people right around him or he
is gone. He knows new customers
are not pouring into the store every
day. 1t is the old one upon whom
he must lean for support.
There are a thousand and n
other reasons why you are safer
when you trade at home. but can
you think of a better n than this
the assurance that you are going to
get a square deal? Talk about the
big city merchant doesn't hurt him,
for your talk doesn't get very far.
But the home merchant knows he
must have your good will, and he
takes few, if any. chances on losing
it. AS a result he plays safe. you
are sure of a square deal. and it
means something for you both.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-09-25

He stands for anything. But licens-
ing editors will not make good edi-
tors out of bad ones any more than
licensing lawyers will make them all
good lawyers. The Eastern man says:
|. "At present the profession of
journalism Is open to anyone who
can hire a press and borrow a lead
pencil and a paste pot"
He doesn't know, and there are peo-
Pile right around Winnemucca who
do not know, that at THIS time II re
quires something more. 1t requires
capital, and brains, and energy, and
IL the paper does not find a field or
make one at once. 1t perishes from the
earth, for there are non so rich at
his time they can afford to run a
losing newspaper. Anybody may
start a newspaper, but it will stop
itself, and in a very short time IL it
is not the right kind of "a paper and
unless it caters to he right kind OF
people.
An editor, running Il: Ind with a
license in his hip pocket. would not
always mean an editor WITH the best
interests of his community at heart.
And, license or no license. that's the
only kind of an editor no is going
to succeed.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-09-25

Somebody should wake up poor old
Van Devort of the Carson Appeal.
He is still singing lullabys to the
little hermorphrodite brat-iLeague of
Nations-that Woody the First
brought back from the founding
asylum of its degenerate European
parents. If we are rightly informed
Van hasn't any sons or grandsons to
send across the sea as gun fodder to
aid England, the painted harlot of
the seas, to steal a few more million
acres of land from h~alf-baked saw
ages and weaker nations. In looking
over the list of would-be wet nurses
for this mongrel brat, we find pro-
British, international bankers and
their subsidized organs, old maid
school teacher, long-haired profess
sors and those like the Missouri
mule. without pride of ancestry or
hope of posterity." Those of us who
have sons in soldier graves and
grandsons growing up are perfectly
willing to stand by the constitution
of the good old U.S.A. and let Eng
land to do her own robbing and muir
dering of the peoples of defenseless
and weaker nations.-[Western Ne
vada Miner.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-09-25
LICENSING
EDITORS

Here ome an Eastern man adj
vocating the licensing Of editors. just
as lawyers. or doctors. or ministers
are licensed. And yet We doubt If
he realizes that the average editor
will not object to being licensed. He
is the best-natured soul on earth and
does not kick at any precautionary
measure. You al license him, vac
cinate him. baptize him, deodorize
or disinfect him. and lite all the same.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-09-25

The League of Nations was sired by
England and damed by the people OF
the United S~tates.-[Western Nevada
Miner.