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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-28
CONSIDER GRID RULE CHANGES
May Eliminate Goal Kick and Sup
press Forward Pass Next Season.

Chicago. Dec. 2s-Conferences of
athletic officials of various middle
west, eastern and southern institutions
in session here this week may change
the tenor of intercollegiate athletics
next year. The first meetings will be
held today by the Athletic Research
society.
On Wednesday the intercollegiate
Athletic association will discuss pro-
posed changes in football rules. The
elimination of the goal kick after
touchdowns and the suppression OF
the forward pass have been talked of.
Barring of distance penalties within
ten yards of the goal line, except for
Intentional roughness sufficient to put
a player out of the game has also been
suggested. Reports of athletic COM
mittees and the subject of the ma
tional track meet, now in the hands
of the executive committee, Will be
considered on Wednesday.
The annual session of college gym
nasium directors is scheduled Tor
Thursday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-28
Is YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the Columns OF
TIE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
DECEMBER IS. 1895.


The high school pupils are busfly max
ing preparations for their local oratorical
contest, which takes place January 10.
This will decide who will represent the
Topeka school in the state contest OF high
schools, which will be held sometime in
March. The orators who will contest are
Miss Edith Worden, Frank Cell, Ernest
Lloyd Fisk Louis Frank Valentine, Lee
Clinton Forbes and Malcolm Girard. There
will be four schools in the contest this year,
tho there are six members of the associa-
ton. They are Lawrence, Ottawa, Topeka
and Atchison-
The gentlemen members Of the NJ: n. club
will receive New Years at the home OF
Mr. c. s., Sutton, 1863 Western avenue,
from 3 Till g.. They are Messrs. G. c.
Baker, z, II; Crosby, j; K HankIa' B. +
Crosby, W. W. Webb, and C. S. Sutton
At the NJ. A. Low home the foiling
young men will receive New Years: Messrs
Tom King, Dean Low, Tom Clements,
Frank Davis, Howard Wood, Harmon
Ryus, viii De Ford, of Ottawa. Homer
Low and Professors Gunlack and Hickman
of Lexin gton, Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-28
my GRATITUDE TOITIS
UNBOUNDED," SHE SAYS

frantic. I had a very bad cough and
my head ached so bad I could hardly
endure it.
There was such a pressure of gas
in my heart that it nearly killed me to
take deep breath. 1 was SO dizzy at
times 1 could hardly stand up. and 1
couldn't exercise or walk any distance
without stopping to rest My back
hurt me so bad 1 could hardly get up
or down without help, and while I
tried everything I knew of or heard
about, 1 kept getting worse.
But it wasn't long after I began
taking Tanlac until my appetite inn
proved and the indigestion and other
troubles began to leave me. Well,
after 1 finished my third bottle 1 was
feeling fine After the gas stopped
forming on my stomach had no more
pains around my heart or shortness of
breath Tanlac has SO strengthened
me that I can do all the work in my
six-room house and take care of my
family of seven with ease. My sleep
is sound and restful. my complexion
has cleared up, and 1 feel like a diff
ferent person"
Tanlac is sold in Topeka by Tally
Mcfarland Drug Co, S35 Kansas Ave,
and 729 Kansas Ave.-AdV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-28
FIGHT TOO COSTLY
Fans Complain Sport Too Com
mercialized for Them.
NatiOnalized Control Now Only
Salvation of the Game.
BY HENRY L. FARRELL

New York, Dec. 2S.-Natfonal super
vision of boxing, proposed by the In
ternational Sporting club, may save
boxing when other means have failed.
The Walker boxing bill, under which
boxing has flourished SO in New York,
brushed aside all the old stones that
made the road rough for the sport, but
it overlooked a fallen tree across the
path in the distance-commercia
1t all comes down to one very more
important point The sport at its best
has been made possible by the Walker
bill, but as the fans are saying,
What good does it do US when we
can't afford the prices charged to see
it? ?" Rivalry between promoters is
causing such immense purses for box
ers that the freight has to be paid
some place and the fans are being
asked to do it.
Tex Rickard,> premier New York
promoter, says: why is it that box
ers who will work outside the state for
| $1,000 want $4,000 from me?"
Other promoters say: 'Rickard
offers them thousands and we have
only hundreds"
The boxers are playing both ends
against the middle and they are cash.
| ing in.
| Governor-elect Miller. it is under
stood, will make it one of his first
moves in office to amend the boxing
| bill SO that the sport will be put In
the reach of the little fellows for
whom it was originally intended
The International Sporting club has
called a meeting of delegates from
eighteen boxing states here for jan
uary 10, IL and IL. The club will
| attempt TO form a working agreement
between the eighteen states that will
| amount literally to national super
vision of the game.
The first thing the club will recon-
mend will be the curbing of immense
purses and the adoption of football
and baseball prices at the gate. Mo
ton pictures of bout also would be
| prohibited.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-28
POOR MEMORY COST 3 LIVES
Wichita Family Leaped Three Stories
to Escape Flames.

Wichita, Kan, Dec. 2S.-Three
members of the family of C. NJ. Nit
chell are dead in a fire here because
they failed to remember a second
stairway in the building in which they
lived.
When the fire broke out early
Christmas morning, the family was
asleep. The father reused the other
five members. Believing all exits -cut
off, the head of the house leaped from
the window on the third floor and told
his wife to drop the three younger
children on him as he lay on the
walk.
She did. Then she jumped and
broke his back. The father. wife and
youngest son died from their injuries.
Claude escaped down the second stair
way and was Mortified to see members
of the family jumping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-28
MORE PHOSPHATE AND
LOOK YOUNGER

If you are weak and nervous, be-
come played out early in the day; if
you are easily irritated, lose your pa
thence and have little ambition, then
you need Bitro- Phosphate, a pure or
ganic phosphate that feeds your starv-
ing nerves just the food they crave.
If you. man or woman. desire a
sturdy, virile body with an abundance
of nerve force and endurance-if you
want a keen, active mind that won't
tire under severe strain, then you must
have plenty of organic phosphate in
blood, nerve and brain cells, and a
pure organic phosphate known to
druggists as Bitro-Phosphate is just
what you need.
Get Bitro-Phosphate as dispensed
by Khngaman in the original package.
it will revive your depressed spirits
and renew your ambition. 2 It should
make you look younger and feel
younger, physicians assert.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-28
OHIOANS FIGHT WARM WAVE
Grid Title Holders of Middle West al
Los Angeles Hail Cool Weather.

Pasadena, Cal, Dec. 2S.-Cool
weather was welcomed today by the
followers of the Ohio State football
team, here practicing for the game
with California at the Tournament of
Roses next Saturday.
With the aid of the cool wave, the
Ohio camp was confident that their
young athletes would become accli-
mated by the time of the game. The
greatest difficulty in the way of an
Ohio victory, the Buckeyes believe, is
the chance that the fasteners will not
become accustomed to the warm
weather which usually prevails here at
this time of the year.
Both teams are working out on the
field where the game will be played.
Coach Wilce's men showed a lot of
pep and snap in their workout yes
terday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-28
Mrs. Talbot Says Tanlac Has
Meant So Much to Her,
She Wants to Pass the
Good News Along for
Benefit of Others.

Mrs. Fred Talbot, of 2S19 Edmond
St, one OF the most highly esteemed
residents of st. Joseph. No. had the
following TO say abont Tanlac, re-
comfy:
MY gratitude to TanIac is I'M
bounded. The medicine has meant SO
much to me that I want to pass the
good news along for the benefit of
others who are trying to find the right
medicine for their troubles.
Before I took it 1 had suffered
from a badly disordered stomach and
Kidneys for a year or more, and just
felt perfectly wretched. l had no APP
petite and what little 1 forced myself
to eat, for that is what I had to do.
would Invariably sour on my stom-
ach. I suffered so much from gas,
bloating. pains about my heart and
shortness of breath that 1 was almost
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-28
PLENTY OF COAL
Supply Well Ahead of the De-
mand in Topeka.
Even the Prices Have Come
Down in Last Three Months.
PLENTIFUL SUPPLY OF CARS
Letup in Other Shipments Has
Provided Transportation.
Deliveries in Less Than Twenty
Four Hours Now.

Topeka is in the clear as far as the
possibility of a coal shortage this win
ter is concerned. The majority of the
retail dealers of the city agree that
they have larger supplies of reserve
coal on hand at present than they had
last year, and some of them say they
nave more coal in their yards at the
present time than they have had for
the last several years
The price of the coal has not been
reduced noticeabIy altho a lower price
is asked for a few grades. The price
drops range from so cents to SIPS
ton, and the biggest drop has been
registered in Arkansas semi-anthra-
cite coal
No Big Reduction.
There will be no great drop in the
price before spring, Guilford Dudley,
of McCleary-D Dudley company, be-
lieves, and then the seasonal drop in
the price which comes every spring
will be more marked than ever before
Dudley sees no drop of consequence
before that time.
The production of coal is well up
with the demand. Mrs. c. NJ. Croft,
manager of the Jackson Walker COM
pany, says that some of the Arkansas
mines have closed down on account of
lack OF orders: George Hargreaves, of
the United Material company, also
stated that some of the mines had
slowed down owing to a shortage of
orders.
Public Is Backward.
The exceedingly mild weather of the
fall and this much of the winter, and
the general attitude of the buying
public-to buy as little as possible,
just enough to get along with-to-
gether with the general slackening in
IbuSinesS which has released thousands
of cars for the hauling of coal which
would otherwise have been occupied
in hauling other commodities, have
combined to make the coal business
slower than usual and has resulted in
| the piling up of bigger reserve stock
in Topeka than has been seen for
some time.
| There is not enough coal in the city
to last thru a severe and prolonged
cold spell. but the transportation
facilities and the mining production
situation is such that the dealers have
no fear of not being able to get more
into the city whenever it is needed.
| Deliveries Are Prompt.
| Deliveries at the present time are
practically up with the demand. 1t is
seldom that moro than twenty-fouI
Ihours are required to put coal in the
cellar of a customer after his order
was received. whereas last year there
lwere long waits between the order
and the arrival of the coal.
| No shortage is in sight, the price 1:
a trifle lower than it has been, anc
1.-THE coal situation from the standpoint
of the consumer. is distinctly favorable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-28
KETCHUM MAKES CHECK GOOD.
Colony Man Pays $3.50 10 Chief of
Police Hannah.

John G. Ketchum of Colony, Kan,
Monday made good the check for
$3.50 which he recently gave Chief
G. G. Hannah and upon which he
stopped payment after he left Topeka.
The complaint sworn out against him
will be dismissed. it was said.
John Ketchum is a brother of AL
bert Ketchum, who was recently ad-
judged insane. The check represent
ed the amount paid out by Chief Han
nan for the care of the three horses
belonging to Albert, but which John
took home with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-28
CALLS SPECIAL SESSION.
President Oregon to Lay Mexico's
Problems Before Congress January 5.

Mexico City. Dec. s.-Petroleum.
labor and banking questions will be
the principal business to be laid be-
fore the special session of congress
which has been called TO meet Janu-
airy 5. next. by President Obregon.
The present session of congress will
adjourn on December 81, after almost
four months of continuous work. Dur
ing this time, no legislation of a con-
spicuous character has been enacted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-28
DALLAS PAYS CHAMPS BONUS.
Texas Town Thinks Training Trip
There Worth $1,000.

Chicago, Dec. 2s.-The Dallas. Tex,
chamber of commerce is to pay the
Cleveland worlds champion baseball
team $500 to train in that city, I'M
der terms of a contract made by Man
ager Iris Speaker and announced by
President Dunn here today.
In turn the champions are to do
nate the city the proceeds of one ex-
hibition game to be played on a week
day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-28
CENTRE ELEVEN AT FIT. WORTH.
Champs of South to Stage Grid Game
With Texans, Saturday

Fort Worth. Tex, Dec. 2s.-The
Centre college football squad was to
arrive here today to begin a four-day
work out preparatory to its game
against Texas Christian university
New Years day.
The undefeated Horned Frogs were
training hard with an eye to McMiI-
Inns long toss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-27
BY HERBERT COREY.

MARION, Ohio, August 26-Father
Harding seems to have been the hero
of the next act of Warren G. Hard
ing's drama. He played the part of
the strong, silent man who suffers un-
seen in the wings. while the more ro-
mantle actors caper before the foot
lights. For it fell to Father Hard
ing's lot to finance a business venture
that at the outset suffered savagely
from the ricketts,. Each descending
sun might well have seen the final
extinction of the Star.
When Sickles, the generous, offered
to finance the purchase of the Marion
Star for himself. Warwick and Hard
ing. not one of the three had any
clear idea of what that might involve.
So they paid over $500 cash for the
first payment on the property, Sickles
loaned his two partners $3.50 each on
their notes and put the same amount
into the cash box himself, and there
they were blithe and gay, first in
stallment paid on the new property.
$3.50 in cash. and happy hearts and
willing hands. Success looked like an
fashioned brass buckled cinch.
Star Keeps Sinking Into Debt.
Warwick was inside man, Sickles
the business manager, and Harding
the reporter. editor and genius of the
undertaking. But the Star kept sink
ing deeper into debt. There was MOTH
ing sudden or hasty about it. No
fashes or temperament helped or
hindered it.
Harding, as editor. pursued the
policy which later made it one of the
best country papers in Ohio. He Dever
printed anything unkind, he men
toned every name the owner of which
gave him a chance to mention pleas
antly, and he was of the sterling
brand of republicanism which yet
recognized that democrats might. per-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-27
BUYS MILLION RUBLES FOR $25.
BUT PAYS $4,000 FOR A MEAL
Newspaper Correspondent Finds No Real
Money and Little to Purchase in
Sebastopol, Crimea.

Crimeans much encouragement Most
women here have no hats. but wear
wells or kerchiefs about their heads.
Many are without stockings, but are
charming, nevertheless. in bright. in
expensive gowns which they dignity
with erect and independent carriage,
suggestive of American women.
Six years of war have not broken
the spirit of south Russian women.
They carry on" with the slight
means at their disposal without COM
plant, and give whatever encourage
ment they can to men battling with
bolsheviki along the Dnieper river
and in the Don and Kuban territory
Sebastopol. with it's idle dockyards
and railways operated only for mill
tary purposes, has not. in spite of it's
10000 inhabitants, the dynamics of a
city one-tenth it's size. The old Rus
sian naval base has lost all it's bril-
liancy. most of it's warships are rust
ing at the docks and it's industries are
closed. The civilian population is
awaiting resumption of export trade,
which is necessary to the exchange
situation and the restoration of nor
NAL trade conditions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-27
FATHER WAS ANGEL
WHO KEPT MARION STAR ALIVE

adventure, be men and brothers But
the Star kept on sinking BY and by
Its debts became truly colossal. They
might have amounted to one thou
sand dollars.
I've got to have s125 for Christmas
presents" said Sickles, the financial
hacker. I'll just draw it out of the
business"
Harding and Warwick explained to
him patiently that the business was
not in condition to be drawn upon for
that amount. 1t would die of PERM
cious anemia if any one drew on it
tor a nickel.
Father Harding to the Rescue.
This" said Sickles. not unnatur-
ally, lis dickens of business to be
associated with. All you do is work
and put up money. Let me out"
Enter Father Harding. the strong.
|silent hero heretofore referred to. Son
Harding explained the situation. and
Father Harding bought Sickles out,
paying him in full for every penny
he had invested. The Star kept on
Itwinklng and sinking. Each week
end found it considerable distance
farther in the hole. When cash was
absolutely necessary Father Harding
produced. At other times the Star
its debts amounted to about $4,000.
which was a horrendous sum. Then
Editor Harding made bold stroke
toward progress
Il have ordered a telephone put in,
said he to Partner Warwick one day.
"Ow-W-W-W." screamed Warwick
wild extravaganza. You're running
u.s."
Warwick Had to Face Duns.
There was a reason for Warwick's
grief. He was the inside man. and it
fell to his lot to face the occasional
duns that pestered the young editors.
A telephone would make the business
of dunning easier. Whereas Editor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-27

Harding. as outside nd-leg- talent
man. had discovered in that modern
invention a way to lessen the strain
upon the great muscle of the calf.
"Lemme out" demanded Warwick
eventually. "Lemme out. Pay me off
and femme go. You and your tele-
phones are going to destroy the Star.
Pay me regular salary. but release
me as a partner"
Once more Father Harding came
boldly to the front. He paid off War
wick. and Editor Harding promised to
pay him 50 week as foreman, dun
meeter. makeup man. business man
ager. compositor. ct a number Of other
CeteraS.
Warwick Happy at Last.
Warwick found himself happy for
the first time during his connection
with the Star.
Il never got 50 in any week before"
said he, cheerily. And Warren isn't
running me into debt this way,
either"
So the Star kept on until it became
a real success. The town grew, man
ufactures came, and the Star had a
pleasant. CHEEKY word to say for
every one. 1t boosted for Marion day
in and out. But Father Harding was
the true hero of the piece.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-27
SUGAR COSTS DOUBLE.
Refining Profits Averaged 31.6
Cents Hundred in 1919.

Cost of producing refined sugar
doubled between 1914 and 1919, the
Onlted states Tariff Commission re-
ported yesterday in an official review
OF the industry. Advance in price to
the consumer closely paralleled that
in cost of production, the report
showed. Factories investigated by
the commission gave the total cost
per pound as ranging from 81 to
1878 cents. of which the cost of raw
sugar usually comprised 90 per cent.
Labor accounted for from .076 to .33
per pound.
Profits and returns on productive
investment of refineries averaged 40
cents per hundred pounds in 1917. 10
cents in 1918 and 31.6 cents in 1919
the review said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-27
MARINE CORPS ORDERS.

Col. r. H. Dunlap. to office naval
operations, Navy Department.
Maj. w. C. Powers. from office naval
operations to Fort Leavenworth. Kan.
Maj. +. S. n. Erskine, from the bat
tleship Utah to the battleship Arizona.
Maj. S. \. Raynor, from New York
city to Quantico. Va.
Maj. r. B. Garrett, from Atlanta,
Ga, to New Orleans.
Capt. q. w. Martin, from Arcadia,
Fla, to Quantico.
Capt. L. NJ. Bourne. from Tulsa,
Okla, to Quantico.
Capt p. H. Stone. from Norfolk to
Tulsa.
First Lieut.. e. W. Franklin. from
LRhUadelphia to Quanticq.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-27
.RAPS GOVERNMENT
FOR SUGAR CRASH
Grocery Association Head
Says Justice Department
MisIed Public.

NEW YORK, August Ell. H. Nc
Laurin, president of the Southern
Wholesalers Grocery Association. last
night made public detailed recital
of the sugar situation, in which he at
tackled the Department of Justice for
many inaccurate and misleading
statements" issued in connection with
its investigation of profiteering.
After having referred to newspaper
reports quoting John B. Floyd, assist
ant attorney general, as stating that
sugar shortage would keep prices
up, and Robert T. Scott, another as
sistant attorney general. stating that
the department forecast tumble in
sugar prices, Mr.. McLaurin declared
sit will be seen that the Attorney
Generals offices in Washington and
New York seem to be at odds.
Mr.. McLaurin challenged the state
ment credited to Mr.. Scott that the
department was concerned only with
profteering. He declared that at the
solicitation of the department. retin-
ers and wholesale groceries had pur
chased sugar at high prices to relieve
a shortage. and now. with the situa-
ton reversed. are left with thousands
of tons of high-priced sugar on their
hands.
rs the Department of Justice SIM
ply a political factor, catering to a de-
mand for lower prices, no matter how
unjust such demand may be and no
matter how many merchants may face
financial ruin?" Mr.. McLaurin asked
The sugar market has steadied lit
tie, following reports that a sale of
$4,000 tons of new-crop Cuban sugar
for January. February and March
shipment had been made to the far
east at price equal to or better than
IL cents, cost and freight. New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-27
BY the Associa ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEBASTOPOL. Crimea, August 25.-
One million Don rubles were purchased
for s25 here today by the correspondent.
but afterward he paid $4,000 rubles
for a meal. 10000 more for a short
cab ride and at the close of the day
was a bankrupt millionaire. Crimea
is in an unhappy situation. It has
24.000,000 900 of rubles, but no real
money. and there is little to buy here.
The harbor is filled with idle and
disabled warships and merchantmen.
There are no cargoes on the docks,
street cars have been stopped because
of the lack of coal. stores have no
stocks and streets are deserted except
for an occasional carriage. some
wounded soldiers or armed patrolmen
The only life here is on the beaches
at the park at the entrance to the har-
Dor. There bathers. for the most part
women and wounded officers and SOL
diers, pass the time when not reading
bulletins for the various south Rus
sian fronts al the official news bureau
These bulletins afford depressed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-27
LINDSAY GOES TO PARIS.

Ronald Lindsay. counselor of the
British embassy here. has been trans |
ferred to the Paris embassy as first
secretary. He is now EN- route here
from England to turn over his Office
to Robert Lester Craigie. who will
hold the position of secretary Of en-
bassy. Mr.. Craigie formerly was first
secretary of legation at Bern. but
more recently has acted as such AT
Sophia.