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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-17
I'm STATE SENATE

The farmers in the legislature are
usually credited with the first attacks
of spring fever and the earliest desire
to get the business of state off their
hands to get back to the farm and do
the spring blowing. But is isn't so in
the senate this year. Senator Cole
man, lawyer. is the greatest little
speeder-up in the upper house. He
withdrew q cherished amendment on
the road bill because he wanted to
conserve time, and has at divers other
times recommended longer hours and
more short cuts to the senate.
The senate journal and calenda-
clerks and incidentally the members
of the third house. owe debt Of
gratitude to Senator Satterthwaite of
Butler county. The senators have ae-
quired the habit of using the last few
minutes just before recess or adjourn
ment for the introduction of bills ana
committee reports, which means that
the clerks and the news hounds have
to handle the whole list after adjourn
ment. Senator Satterthwa!te made the
suggestion that bills be introduced at
the opening of the sessions, instead of
returning to the head of introduction
of bills" in the last few minutes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-17
THROW OUT SPIES
Employers Find No Need to
Fight OF Strikes.
Are Scrapping Their Expensive
Systems of "Intelligence."

Chicago, Feb. 17.-Spies were being
squeezed out of the nations industry
today.
Elaborate intelligence systems main
tanned by employers as strike insur-
ance" are being dismantled in the
present readjustment period.
The method of placing operatives to
was a product of the labor scarcity
during the boom days of the war. Re-
ports furnished employers on the state
of mind of employees would enable the
former, in many cases, to prevent labor
difficulties by remedying conditions or
eliminating agitators.
Fear No Strikes.
Strikes are no longer feared by
manufacturers, they say because of
the present abundance Of labor. Men
now think many times before throw
ing down their tools. employers be-
HeVe, because they know large num-
bers are jobless.
systems has been caused by the plen-
ttful labor market and retrenchment
policies of employers, who no longer
can afford to make large outlays to
maintain the systems.
A survey of Industrial conditions
Just completed by the Chicago FEEDER
alton of Labor showed that industrial
Intelligence operatives are rapidly be-
Coming thing of the past.
Strike Breakers Quit
Large employers admit they no
longer maintain strike insurance"
From the executives viewpoint, it
was absolutely necessary for us to
know at all times what the men were
thinking about and what action they
contemplated taking" said one large
employer of labor. THAT time is
passed now. however"
Several strikebreaking agencies have
closed their doors here recently be-
cause there are few strikes to break.
Thousands of thinks" as professional
strikebreakers are called. have Joined
the army of unemployed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-17
REGULAR HABITS NOW,
CONSTIPATION GONE
Mr.. Brooks Suffered For Years
Tells How He Got Relief.

at have tried a great many things
for constipation, but the only thing
that has been able to relieve me is
Milks Emulsion. 1 am on only my
second bottle and have to take very
little of il now. Ny bowels move
regularly every morning, which they
have not been doing for a number Of
years. 1t seems like living again.
after suffering 81 ions. r. l.
mended Milks Emulsion to two of my
friends and both say it is the best
remedy they ever heard of."-Elmer
c. Brooks, 32s Washington St,
Peoria. Ill.
Constipation weakens the bowel
muscles. Salts and purgatives only
increase this condition. Milks Emul-
son is a real corrective remedy, You
can try it under its guaranty, without
risking a cent.
Milks Emulsion is pleasant, nutri-
tive food and a corrective medicine.
1t restores healthy, natural bowel
action, doing away with all need of
pills and physics. 1t promotes APP
petite and quickly puts the digestive
organs in shape to assimiiate food.
AS a builder of flesh and strength,
Milks Emulsion is strongly recon-
mended to those whom sickness has
weakened, and is a powerful aid in re-
sisting and repairing the effects of
wasting diseases. Chronic stomach
trouble and constipation are promptly
relieved
This is the only solid emulsion
made. and SO palatable that it is eaten
with a spoon like ice cream.
No matter how severe your case,
you are urged to try Milks Emulsion
under, this guarantee-Take six bottles
home with you, use it according to
directions and il not satisfied with the
vii Ia INF xr
refunded. Price 75c and $3.50 per
bottle. The Milks Emulsion Co,
| Terre Haute. Ind. Sold by druggists
everyWhere-Ady
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-17
No One Dares to
Test Home BreU
He Calls Poison

Great Bend. Kan. Feb. Ito
date no one has ventured to test the
validity of the public proclamation"
issued by a farmer who was arrested.
the officers say. while operating
home made still on his farm near
here. Considerable distilled liquor
and mash were seized by the officers
along with the still. The edict reads:
I'm justice to myself and for the
personal benefit and safety of the
party or parties and their friends who
took the liberty to visit my laboratory
during my absence and connected
themselves with samples of supposed
Juice are advised either to return or
destroy said samples as it is a solu-
ton of grain alcohol and deodorized
cyanide OF. potassium which. if taken
Internally, is certain DEATH
"Just a STALL" commented the Off
Ger who seized the liquor-but he re-
fuses to assume the role of official
faster. The farmer was arrested and
released on bond. He contcnded he
was making poison to eXterminate
gophers, prairie. dogs and other field
rodents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-17
new PRIMARY Law
Representative Calder Submits
Bill for Open Primaries.
Would Wipe Out Party Organ
izatiOnS in State.

Open primaries and voting for can
didates without regard to party lines
and affiliations was proposed in the
house under a bill by Chandler of
Wyandotte county. Chambers bill
provides for a single primary election
ballot.
Passage of the Chandler bill would
virtually wipe out party organization
in this state. 1t would enable voters
to support a candidate of one party
for a nomination and to vote for the
candidate of another party for a sec
ond office. No party responsibility
would be placed on the voter and every
person entering the polling places
would receive the same ballot.
Numerous measures have been pro-
posed to make more rigid the enforce
ment of evidence of party affiliation.
Registration measures and return to a
partial convention system-as defined
under the Coleman bill in the senate
have come before the legislature.
Chandler, tho. would destroy all party
responsibility and permit members of
minority parties to vote indiscriminate-
ly and without absolute freedom for
candidates for nomination. by a ma
ioritY partY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-17
MAKE PAPER PRICE SLASH
international Company Announces Cut
of SIG Per Ton April 1.

New York, Feb. 1.-THE Internal
tional Paper company today announced
a price of ST cents a pound for news
print in rolls, carload lot 'or delivery
in the second quarter of 1921.
This quotation of $lI4 per ton will
supplant the price of $3.50 per ton
quoted for the present quarter.
The company also granted customers
an option on accepting quotation of
u cents per pound from April 1 to
the end of the year.
1t was understood the Canadian Ex-
port Paper company. controlling the
output of several large manufacturers.
will announced a price of 5 Y cents
for delivery during the second quarter.
Montreal, Feb. 1.-THE price of
newsprint set by the Canadian Export
Paper company for the second quarter
of 1921 will be $40 a ton, according
to G.. S. Steele, general manager of the
company. Steele did not give the rea-
son for the reduction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-17
SENATE FAvORS DIVORCE BILL
Little Opposition Shown In Upper
House to Report.

The senate Wednesday evening con-
CURED in the report of the conference
committee on the industrial court d.
vorce bill and the public utilities COM
mission bill, and the war on those sub
jects has ended. There remains but
the addition of the governors sigma
ture to make the measures law.
There was little opposition in the
senate to the report as report. Those
senator's. including Senator Price, of
Clark county, who are opposed to the
divorce of the two bodies, voted
against the concurrence because it
meant vote for the bill.
Now the second chapter of the row
has opened before the senate. At
1880 o'clock this morning the bills
which place under the jurisdiction of
the industrial court, the administration
of the water resources of the state, in
Guiding the state water commission
and the irrigation division of the board
of agriculture: the functions which
have been administered by the indus
trial welfare commission, and the job
of the commissioner of labor and in
dustry, came before the committee of
the whole senate for consideration on
special orders.
The bills have already been passed
by the house, and will probably be
passed by the senate, tho there is
strong opposition to them in the upper
house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-17
BILLIARD SHARKS PLAY HERE.

The exhibition of billiard playing
Wednesday afternoon and night at the
Tromp Annex by George S. Spears, of
Chicago, and Hoji Yamada of Japan,
was a source of satisfaction to local
billiard enthusiasts. Both men were
masters of the art, and their straight
rail game was the best exhibition put
on here for some years. Spears made
a high straight rail run of 143, while
Yamada's high straight rail run was
around 60.
The Jap clearly excelled at fancy
shots. His eight cushion masse was
one of the cleverest shots ever on a
table. Spears qualified as an expert
by jumping the balls into a hat, hit
ting five balls with one shot, and other
trick shots that amused the large
crowd. The game of 1872 balk-line
billiards played by the experts was a
clever exhibition of science. Running
the balls SO far and hitting just hard
enough to get the right momentum
for the stop, Spears won the afternoon
tournament, and Yamada took his
turn at the honors in the evening.
Both men proved themselves compe-
tent at balk-line, by running around
As and so when they wanted to do SO.
New Orleans Cotton Market.
New Orleans, Feb. 1T@COTTON-SDot
steady: middlinR, 1900
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-17
SNAP SHOTS
acknowledgements.
AT HOME NEWS

Holcraft-Flowers.-
The alumni of Phi Delta Theta will
hold a luncheon at the Chamber of
Commerce Friday noon.
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment;
Co. 534 Kansas avenue Adv.
Miss Frances Lowe, stenographer in
the city board of health. has been i'll
at her home for several days.
DIR. Edmund ]. Kulp will be the
speaker at the mems meeting at the
Orpheum theater, Sunday afternoon.
Robert Steiner will give a vocal solo.
The Rev. R. A. Schell will talk to
the members of the Cliff Dwellers'
club at the Central Y. NJ. C. A. this
evening at 6:15 o'clock. Thirty-five
men who live in the Y. NJ. C. A. dor
mitory are members of the club.
Members of the Kansas legislature
who are members of the Modern
Woodmen of America will be honor
guests at a smoker at the NJ. w. A. hall
tonight by the Shawnee Camp No.
$500. Boys from the Industrial school
will furnish entertainment.
Matters of Importance to members
and others interested in the Potwin
Sunday school and church will be con-
sidered at a meeting at the church to-
night at 8 o'clock, to be conducted by
the Mems Brotherhood. Speakers will
be Oran Layton, A. D. Bolton and w.
S. Wehe.
The first colored women's auxiliary
of the American Legion organized in
this state and one of the first in the
United States is at Atchison. Applica-
ton for charter is now in the hands
of Miss M. Izetta Mccoy of Salina.
newly installed secretary of the state
auxiliary With two Legion posts and
two auxiliary units. Atchison now holds
the state record in number Of Legion
organizations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-17
WAR NOT CAUSE CRIME WAVE
Not One Criminal in Fifty Ever Was
in Army Says X. c. Chief.

Kansas City, Feb. 1.-THE nation
wide crime wave, an aftermath of the
passions reused by the great war, is
an "alibi," pure and simple. a myth
concocted by Inefficient police Heads
to excuse the prevalence of crime. This
is the statement of Charles Edwards, d
former major in the American expedi-
tionary forces. recently appointed po-
lice chief of Kansas City.
Increased crime is attributed by
Major Edwards in large measure to lax
law enforcement. and strict and impair
tiaI law will wipe out the crime
wave" he asserts. Edwards, who was
a police captain before the war, says
he is fami1ir with crime conditions.
both before and since the war, and in
sists that the war has had nothing to
&c with crime increases.
mot one man in fifty who runs
amuck of the police is an ex-soldier."
he said, land the occasional one we
find is usually not an overseas fighter
at all, but an habitua1 criminal who
was a criminal before the war and was
soldier simply because he happened
to be caught in the selective draft"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-17
FOR THIRD TIME

Webb resigned when an custer suit
was filed against him.
The Kansas supreme court upheld
the sentence and an appeal then was
taken to the United States supreme
court, where the case is now pending.
The injunction which Howat and the
other officials, stand convicted of vio-
lating was issued last September by
Judge Curran, forbidding the union Of
ficiais from calling a strike. Howat
and the others were arrested last
week. Harvey was arrested, but testf-
fled he opposed the calling of strike
of 200 miners employed at two mines
Of the George K. Macakie Fuel COM
pany at Cherokee and Scammon and
did not vote for it. He was released.
This break with Howat' was q
sensation in the Kansas coal field.
When Judge Curran pronounced
sentence there was low chorus OF
"Oh," over the crowded courtroom.
The friends of Howat had not expected
so severe penalty.
Howat Still Confident.
at don't believe any law that chains
court of the land" Alexander Howat.
district president of the United Mine
Workers, declared today.
ct don't know what our next move
will be-" he added, because we don't
know what's in our way. But we will
follow out our same policy of con-
tinuing to fight for what we believe
is right
While admitting yesterdays sem
tence was quite a blow. the union head
declared the victory Of the state was
only Temporary
Howat expressed considerable conf
dence that an appeal alreadysin the
United States supreme court attack
ing the constitutionality of the Kan
sas Industrial court would be decided
in his favor-that when it was handed
down, labor would again haYe the
right to strike in Kansas when and
where it pleased.
But you can't tell what courts will
do" he concluded as an after thought.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-17
MISS WILSON ASSAILS SENATE
Declares Senatorial Dictation Would
Muffle Free Speech in U. S.

Washington Feb. 17.-Miss Marga-
ret Wilson. daughter of the president.
today assailed the senate on charge
of attempting to suppress free speech.
Her charges were made before the
National Womans party convention In
a speech on community centers.
District of Columbia community
welfare work has been handicapped
by senatorial dictation and suppress
sion, Miss Wilson charged.
zone reason given in the senate for
cutting our appropriation was that
community center here should not be
breeding unrest" she declared. "I
know Of nothing that could uphold
that statement but even granting It.
is it the business of congress to super
wise the activities or speech of those
they represent"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-17
Local Mention

Charles H. Quinche was called to
Las Vegas, N. NJ, today. on account
of the serious illness of his mother,
Mrs. Lou Quinche.
Margaret Bostic. Eye Glasses, 6es
Kansas ADV.
DR.. Lyngar. Dentist sos Kansas Ave
ADV.
A jury was empanelled in Judge
James McClure's division of the dis
trict court today to try case in which
Robert L. Glyn is asking SIPS dam
ages from Russell and F. H. Jones'
who live north of North Topeka The
suit is an outgrowth OF an auto acci-
cent which occurred a few months
ago in North Topeka.
List your property with the Shaw
nee Investment Company. Phone
5s50.-Adv.
Liberty bonds. Phone Kleinhans.
ADV.
Raymond. Chiropodist. orpheum Bldg
Adv.
Safety razor blades sharpened better
than new. 25c-35c doz. Culver Hard
ware Co.-Adv.
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Fren oh Physicians Shrug
Shoulders at OscilLophore"
Authorities Won't Believe in Dr. Abrams Instrument
Tell Percentage of Children-Can Only Tell If
Blood Is from Human Source.

entage, sex and some personal charac-
teristics of the subject. :s
"All that the courts will recognize"
he said, lis our ability to state whether
a blood sample is from a human be-
ing.
Mind you, the blood of two indi-
viduals will differ but we still lack
methods of determining these differ
-ences positively.
II cannot see by what sort of blood
test it could be proved that a man who
disclaimed his child could be proven
the parent. as Doctor Abramss claims
to do.
I'm paternity cases we would have
to recognize the fact that an infant
draws characteristics from two sources
the father and the mother
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-17
DINNER STORIES

Tho bright pupil was required to
write a 300-word essay on the new
automobile which his father had just
purchased. After considerable think
ing he finally wrote how his father
bought it, and a short time later
started away with his family, going
eight miles an hour. and them unfor-
tunately, got stuck in the mud. The
boy concluded thus:
81 have now used 100 words, and
pa spoke the other 200 when we walk
ed back thru the mud
First Church Member-Why don't
you get up some kind of a lottery to
raise money for the church?
Second Church Member-Our min
lister is very much opposed to lotteries
of all kinds, SO much so that his con-
science troubles him every time he
performs a marriage ceremony.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-17
Life of Industrial Welfare Com
mission Prolonged.
Action Postponed by Upper
House Until February %.

The life of the industrial welfare
commission of the state, and proba bly,
the official life of the state commits
sioner of labor and industry, was saved
by a very narrow margin from the ak
which was being welded by members
of the senate late this afternoon.
The question of whether the boards
shall be placed under the administra-
ton of the state industrial court was
postponed when the intentions of some
OF the senators to see to it that the
commission is abolished, became very
evident and looked like fulfillment.
The bills will come up on special Or
ders Tuesday, February %, for the Sec
ond time. ~
Wanted No Mistakes.
The hackers of the bill said they
wanted to frame it over again so that
there could be no mistake as to it's
meaning. The question of whether the
bill was abolishing the commission
and comforting its powers on the in
dustrial court, or whether, as Senator
Price. of Clark county, declared, it
was picking up the commission bodily
and handing it intact, with all its ma
chinery, to the court has occupied the
senators most of the day. And the
forces bent on the destruction of the
commission were getting close to their
goal.
Senator Price tainted the hackers
Of the bill when the motion was made
with the statement that it is a tick
lish time for its existence, and that
they wanted time to confer with the
commission. the governor and the
lobbyists Senator Hegler, of Sedg-
wick county. heatedly denied that he
had any desire to talk to any one ex-
cept the other senators who were in
terested in getting the verbiage Of the
bill clarified. isrf4 :.
The axe was sharpened but the vic
tim escaped for the present, and the
ington's birthday.
New Ranking Bill.
This afternoon there was introduced
a bill by the senate banking committee
which provides for the reorganization
fof the state banking department, to
Include five practical bankers, as well
as the state bank commissioner. The
banking board members would have
advisory and supervisory powers over
the bank commissioner.
The commissioner would have the
power of appointing special assistants
qualified in various WAYS, one of them
to be an expert in building and loan
transactions. The term of the bank
commissioner would be four years and
his annual salary $4,000 under the bill.
Another bill from the same COM
mittee provides that the assessments
for the state bank guaranty fund shall
continue till the fund has reached
million dollars. instead of half million,
its present total.
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Paris, Feb. 17.-French scientists to-
day expressed disbelief in the claims
of DIR. Albert Abrams of San Francisco
that by "electronic" blood tests he can
determine the parentage of a child.
Doctor Delezenne, eminent biologist
of the Pasteur institute, declared blood
tests are confined to determining
whether the sample is that of a hu-
man being or an animal.
Even then" he said, 1--WE must re-
serve something because there are GER
tain anthropoid apes whose blood can
not be distinguished from that of hu-
man beings"
Refuse to Believe Test.
Doctor Delezenne shrugged his
shoulders over the assertion of the
California scientist that his "oscillo-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-17

New York, Feb. 11-MONEY-Prfme mer-
camille paper. ~ per cent; Exchange.
weak Sterling 81 60 day bills s a9d com COM
mercial, co day bills, Ss4A; demand, $50:
cables. $500. Francs. demand, 40; cables,
I32. Belgian francs. demand, 7-6l cables,
1853. Marks. demand, 1.6S: cables, 1.69.
Greece, demand, 743. Argentine, demand.
35.12. Brazilian, demand. 1900 Montreal.
steady; railroad bonds, irregular. Time
loans. steady: 60 days, 80 days and d
months. S5M7.
Call money firmer: high. low and ruling
rate, 9 per cent; closing bid g.: offered at
4: last loan. Z: Bank acceptanees. els per
cent
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FORMER KANSAN is KILLED,
Passenger Train Crashes Into Auto
Was Former Newspaper Man,

Boise, Feb. 17.-Charles H. Turner,
former mayor of Caldwell. Idaho, was
instantly killed at that place last night
when a westbound Oregon short line
passenger train cashed into a car
which he was driving.
Witnesses claim a string of box cars
standing upon siding. INSTRUCTED his
view. Mr.. Turner was formerly a
newspaper man of Kansas and also
served in the legislature of that state
prior to coming to Idaho several years
ago.
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Six Thousand Bales Cotton Burned.

Ennis, Texas, Feb. 17.-Six thou
sand bales of cotton were lost here
last midnight in a fire which destroyed
! three warehouses. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000. Officers are
working on a theory of incendiarism
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Industrial Court Sued.

The American Telephone company
of Ho1ton filed three suits in the dis
trict court late today against the court
of industrial relations, asking that an
order made by the Industrial court
requiring it to maintain free toll serv-
ice between Holton and several north
eastern Kansas towns without extra
charge ha set aside
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aise Missouri women's Legal Age

Jefferson City, Feb. ia bill
drawn by Representative Gray raising
the legal age of women from IS to 81
years was passed in the senate yester-
day. If the measure passes the house
and becomes law. girls will have to
wait until they are 81 years old before
they can marry without consent.