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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-01
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
Pertinent Question and Answers
Given and Gathered Today by
State journal Reporters.
TODAY'S QUESTION.
What should Topeka Ask for in the
Coming Legislature.
THE, ANSWERS.

TINKHAM vEALE, assistant !coun-
law should be amended to allow
some teeth in it regarding the sale to
minors, the possession OF cigarets by
minors. Everyone who wants cigarets gets
them and it has dragged the dignity OF
the law into the mud. But if it was amend
ed we could easily take care OF that part
concerning minors
PAUL EDGAR. assistant county attorney
More stringent laws covering the worth
less check proposition and business men
who will prosecute forgers and check ar
GEORGE G. HANNAH, chief Of police
and treatment of dope fiends. that we may
cure them aud not let them run loose to
practice petty thievery aud burglary at
Will This is the most serious problem To-
MAYOR CORWINE-"Topekas will ask
several taings from the legislature. The
principal thing we Will want viii be legfsla-
ton to lay foundation for work planned
A.. L. OLIGER, secretary Chamber of
Commerce-"Topeka needs legislation on
Commissioner Haneock's bill to. permit
proper paving of the streets. the city pian-
municipai aviation fields. the appropriation
for the state free fair, and several other
A. Il. TRoBERT deputy United States
stute house grounds and make them look
like the capitol of Kansas.
CHIEF 1HANLON-"We are going to ask
certain pensions for firemen not only for
tell. you more about il If the chairman OF
our legislative committee did not have the
smallpox"
the legislators themselves in when they
come.
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Topeka Wilder Than In MANY
Years at Stroke of 12.
Big 1920 Corn Crop Seemed To
Have Helped Matters.
REAL NAUGHTY IN THE CAFES
Smoked Cigarets, Threw Food,
Silverware 'Neverything.
Plenty of Noise When 1920 Died
With the Clock.

1t was a wild night on the prairie" I"
according to the testimony of those
who observed the passage of 1920 and
hailed with mirth. song, dance and the
festive juice of the corn, the New Year
in Topeka.
Every dance hall in the city was
filled with dancers. Every theater did
record business. Restaurants fed
crowds from II o'clock until the last
of the belated merrymakers stopped
in for bite to eat on their way home
in the rosy dawn
Kansas avenue was a favorite prom
enade for the merry makers who were
simply out to see the fun. With a
splendidly mild evening. motor par
ties We're much in evidence, and the
speed limit as well as the anti-noise
provisions of the traffic laws, was off.
The churches. lodges and clubs,
practically every one of them, staged
some sort of an affair in honor of the
occasion. and there were innumerable
parties at private homes
Plenty of Noise.
Topeka made more noise at the
stroke OF midnight, than has ushered
IN any OF the new years for some call
endars In the past, according to those
who have celebrated before.
Anything that would make a racket
|of leather lungs. was called into ac-
tlon minute before the hour, and
kept up till the steam was exhausted.
A fair sized battle might have been
going on if the explosion of firearms
could have been taken as an indica-
ton.
Apart from the note of decorum
struck by the prayer services and
watch parties in the churches, the
trend of the celebration was distinctly
toward the "devilisb.' -
In more than one restaurant sweet
young things and those not SO sweet
and old enough to know better were
hurting bits of eatables at each other
and lsorely trying the patience of the
walters.
Shocking to relate, there was on the
street more than one real wild man,
who had evidently looked upon the
fruk of the sod when it moved itself
Alright. For more than one the side
walks We're twitching most disconcert-
ingE. But the law was indulgent
there was no serious damage done,
and no New Year drunks or peace
disturbers were picked up last night"
it was said at the police station this
morning.
Liquor was drunk, however, and it
is stated on good authority that there
were dozens of Lucy Gaston's favor
ties smoked during the evening.
Business is taking its usual New
Years holiday today. The Santa Fe
shops and general offices are closed,
as are the city, county and federal Of
fices. Local freight trains on the
railroads are annulled, banks and re-
tail stores are closed for the day. The
Chamber of Commerce is closed. and
only partial postal service is in effect
Nineteen-twentyo one, with all it's ac-
compartments, cannot complain of
the reception accorded it in Topeka.
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President-elect Feels Certain
Expense Can Be Cut.
Government Expenses For 1921
Within Three Billion.
CALLS FlNANCIERS TO MARION
Determined Heavy War Time
Tax Burden Shall Lessen.
Economy To Be WatchwOrd at
White House After March 4.

Marion, O.. Jan. 1.-President-e elect
Harding faced the opening of the New
Year today. confident that his admin
istration would bring back the normal
prosperity of the country, reduce the
taxes, and establish a sound business
foundation.
Economic questions are uppermost
in his mind today and he is looking
as much toward restoring a sound
economic condition as to the involved
international tangle which confronts
him.
Calls in Financiers.
It was to obtain light on the situa-
ton and the prospects of relief, that
Harding has called numerous congress
sionaI leaders and financial experts to
Marion this week.
Information obtained from them has
led the president-elect to believe that
under his administration the heavy
burden of wartime taxation can be
diminished and that business condf-
tons can be improved by sound ad-
ministration and legislative measures.
Harding is informed by experts of
the federal reserve board that the most
difficult stage of the re-adjustment
period has passed and that the
economic situation is sounder today
than it was a year ago.
To Hold Costs Down.
Hope of holding government appro-
priations this year to $300OOOO 900
was expressed to Harding by Con-
gressman Mondell, house majority
leader.
If this is accomplished an imme-
date reduction in taxes would be pos
sible early in the Harding administra-
ton The president-elect is looking
forward to making this one of the out
standing. achievements for his first
wear in the White HnI1Sn
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Emergency Tariff Act Doomed
In Senate Committee.
Penrose Starts Bitter Fight On
Emergency Legislation.
BONUS BILL is DOOMED ALSO
Pennsylvania Senator Organ
ICES Against All Costly Acts.
Backers Hurry To Amend, Hop
ing For Backing.

Washington, Jan. with Senator
Penrose personally in charge. the fight
over emergency tariff legislation in
the senate will usher in the New Year.
The finance committee will meet
Monday or Tuesday to consider the
bill which, as passed by the house,
places an embargo upon the inporta- :
ton of many commodities
Senators freely predicted today tha:
the bill will never get out of commit
tee. -Penrose. chairman of the COM
mittee, and without question the most
influential Republican in congress. has
expressed his disapproval of the meas
ure in unmistakable words. The DEM
ocratic members of the committee re-
Gently went on record as opposed to it.
Amendments Are Expected.
In view of the strength of this op-
position. the bilFs supporters conceded
today that they would have a difficult
time getting favorable report from
the committee. They hope to do so.
however, by making radical amend
ments in the house bill so as to limit it
practically to half dozen commodities,
including wheat and wool.
Both supporters and opponents of
the bill have been hearing from
abroad, as well as from American
business men, that enactment of this
legislation, while it might help GER
against American business by closing
foreign markets.
The soldier bonus bill, which also is
before the finance committee, stands
hardly better show than the tariff
measures, senators said.
Penrose has let it be known that he
viii oppose with all his influence any
measure which, puts upon the treasury
new burden which must be carried
over to the Harding administration
The Pennsylvania delegation in con-
gresS was to call on Senator Penrose
at noon today. Senator Knox, his coll
league. already has discussed with his
visit to President t-elect Harding on the
status of legislation.
Hit Hard by Illness.
Senators who have seen Penrose
since his return to Washington We're
amazed and saddened by the change in
his appearance. His fourteen months
Illness have plainly told on him. altho
he appeared as vigorous mentally as
ever.
Penrose, with a large retinue. has
taken a spacious suite of rooms on the
top floor of a big apartment hotel
here. 1t is from this apartment
rather than the capital. that Penrose
will play his part in this session OF
congress, and in the new admiuistra-
ton, as his physicians have warned
him against any strenuous exertion.
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EUen Chicagoans
Dislike Rough Stuff
Mary Garden as the "Goldcn Courte-
san Chrysis and Undrcssed Ballet
In "Aphrodite" Failed to Get Cur
tain Calls.

Chicago, Jan. MARY Garden as
the golden courtesan, Chrysis, domi-
mated the opera ''Aphrodite." the New
Years eve entertainment for 1000
opera going Chicagoans.
Draperles of the tint of palIid sun
shine constituted her first costume.
Her second was a diaphanous rose
and leopard's skin and a long scarf
of dull green.
The third was cunningly folded
mists of white
But that wasn't the half of 1t.
Spectators were left breathless by
the terpsichorean realism of Pavloy,
master of the ballet
A transparent chiffon house" was
the only mask as a statues youth and
his inamorata presented the ancient
equivalent of a wedding night The
party got a little rougher when the
youth brought the girl to the foot
lights so that none might miss their
gestures.
The audience didn't receive the
dancing well and curtain calls were
conspicuous by their absence The
conversation was along the lines of
isn't the music wonderful
"Aphrodite' was advertised as the
sensation OF the Chicago opera season
1t was.
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Belief Current In England Gov
ernment Helped Valera.
Let Him Slip Back To Help In
Peace Plans!
MILITARY EXPECTS OUTBREAKS
Every Garrison In ireland Or
dered To Be On Alert.
British Press Not Alarmed at
Return of Red Chief.

Dublin. Jan. 1.-Government agents
today were engaged in a nationwide
search for Eamonn de Valera, "presi-
dent of the Irish republic" who is
supposed to have landed secretly in
this country after a voyage from
America
The Irish office stated de Valera
was liable to arrest a S a Jail breaker
as he has been a fugitive since he
escaped from prison in England.
However, the governments policy
with regard TO him has not been off,
cially formulated yet.
Expect New Revolt.
There was much speculation here a,
to how de Valera had managed to
land undetected in Ireland. There
was widespread belief that he must
have had some secret agreement with
the British whereby he was permitted
to enter this country to use his in
fluence toward bringing about peace
Military garrisons were on the alert
today, their commanders evidently be-
lieving de Valera's arrival might ex-
cite the Sim Feiners to fresh out
breaks.
landed in Small Boat.
Queenstown. the principal Irish
port, has been strongly guarded for
weeks so 1t is assumed that de Valera
that he was dropped off a steamer in
Galway bay Tor on the west coast and
landed in a small boat
In this connection, it was remem-
bered that the military recently raided
the desolate Aran island a Sim F'ein
hiding place, in Galway bay, and ar
rested all persons found there.
British Not Excited.
London, Jan. 1.-The British press
today was not greatly excited at the
reported arrival of Eamonn de Va
lera, president of Ireland"
7 Many newspapers emphasized the
fact that the news was based on the
unsupported word of Harry Boland,
Sim Feiner, who styles himself
secretary to the president"
The Chronicle declared it had
learned authoritatively that de Va
lera had not landed in Ireland.
What Is HIS Efissione 2 -
THE news eff his arrival should
cause no surprise" said the Daily Ex-
press. The question is-what is he
there for?,'
The Daily News calls attention TO
Sir Hamar Greenwood's speech at the
dinner to athletes of Cornell uniyer-
| sity. at which he said:
Il honestly and sincerely saw that
the Irish question is now rapidly COM
ing to an amicable settlement | be-
| leve that in six months there will be
two parllaments functioning in Ire
land, opening the happiest chapter in
the history of Ireland and the English
speaking world"
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English Speaking Peoples Greet
New Year HiIariOuSy.
Merry Making Breaks Record
On Both Sides Atlantic.
WAS WET Thereby HERE
London Parties Mixed Drinking
With Dancing.
Americans Baked In Booze At
tempts by Officials.

London, Jan. 1.-London's prosper
Gus section hailed the advent of the
new year with noisy gayety surpass-
ing anything seen since January 1,
1914.
The revelers turned their back upon
the grim bogie of hard times, but its
'hadow nevertheless, crossed their
'aths in the form of collectors of
lnds for the unemployed, who shook
money boxes on street corners and in
ne porticos of hotels.
Nhe large West End restaurants and
els Wed with one another in stag
-g attractions for their patrons and
were lavish in planning the decora-
tions of their ball rooms and dining
rooms.
From the ceiling of the ball room in
one big hotel was suspended a big air
ship eighty feet in length, from the
capacious cabins of which young wo-
men. dressed "A S fairies, descended and
distributed gifts among the guests.
All London Danced.
Another hotel featured a Japanese
garden where silver bugles announced
the birth of 1921. Dancing and merri-
ment continued until this morning,
many not returning home until day
break.
Outside of st. Pauls church there
was the time honored gathering of the
poorer people of the city, and the
crowd. tho perhaps larger than usual.
was NOR edecorous than it has often
been.
There was evident a disposition to
defy all dry" thoughts. Flasks and
bottles were .Iroducel from thousands
of pockets as the Lells rang out herald
ing the New Year.
At the stroke of twelve the streets
g1trTOundi1er hn nh11r0I1
filled with n din of bagpipes. mouth
organs, accordions and human voices
playing or singing "Auld Lang Syne."
Chicago Kept Dry.
Chicago, Jan. 1.-Federal prohibi-
ton agents sponged the wet spots off
Chicago as the city celebrated the CEN
tury becoming of age at midnight.
Fifty revenue agents divided into
five squads visited many cabarets and,
lining the patrons up against the walls,
aarched for +.likker. Some OF the
lore noted cabarets as the Green Mill
Gardens were visited.
Proprietors of places where liquor
was found were locked up. A score
of persons carrying liquor with them
were also held
However, the prohibition agents
were able TO make only a small dent
on Chicago's celebration. Police Of
ficials were too busy keeping down the
holdups and other crimes to aid in the
moppIng up and the federal agents
were able to visit only few places.
All Parties Were Wild.
In practically all places the parties
were as wild as ever, according to
managers of cafes and cabarets in
outlying districts. However, in the
downtown loop district there were few
celebrators and the streets were de-
serted soon after midnight.
The federal agents encountered bel
ligerent crowds in several places and
j. was only after few fights that the
tNnntimne., on ipnC.. TRio.F
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E.F. LEVER TO TOPEKA
Federal Farm Loan Member Coming
To Agricultural Meeting.

Official announcement that A F.
Lever. a member of the federal farm
loan board, would speak at the semi
centennial of the state board of agri-
culture. has been made by ]. c.
Mohler. secretary of the state board.
The convention will be held in Topeka
January 12-14.
Lever is a former member of con-
gress from South Carolina He is au-
thor of the Smith-Lever bill. which
made possible thru federal aid for ag-
ricultural colleges. to extend college
work to farmers on the farms Mem
bers of the state board believe the
Lever speech will be one of the most
important features of the three-day
convention.
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PAPER EARLY TODAY

Three editions of The State Journal
Main, Home and Postscript-were
issued early today so employees of the
paper may celebrate the New Year.
First and Noon editions were pub
lished on schedule time, while later
Local news runs" and world press
service were covered by The State
Journal until early afternoon. Then
the news gathering. business. adver-
tising and mechanical forces were re-
leased for the day.
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MERRY Makers ARE INJURED
Walk Over Excavation Proves Trap
For Frisco Carnival Crowd.

san Francisco. Jan. About fifty
New Year merrymakers were injured,
several seriously, when a temporary
sidewalk over an excavation for a new
theater building at Market and Tay-
Tor streets here collapsed early today.
A thirty foot section of the walk
gave way, falling twenty feet into the
excavation with 100 persons, accord
ing to witnesses
Twenty persons were removed to
the Central emergency hospital for
treatment in ambulances, patrol wag-
ons- and automobiles Communicated
for the purpose, no fatalities occur
ring, according to early accounts.
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WICHITA SKATER is DROWNED
Two Risl<ed Lives to Save Boy of Five.
But to No Avail

Wichita. Jan. Ralph Clements,
5, drowned Thursday afternoon when
he broke thru the ice on the Little
Arkansas river, where he was skating.
Sterling Dietz. 90. and E. B. Mcintyre,
a carpenter risked their lives to save
the boy. Mcintyre went in first but
was seized with cramps and almost
drowned. .Dietz rescued the body after
it had been in the river ten minutes.
The mother. helpless. stood with a
crowd on the bank watching Dietz
trying to rescue her son.
The boy could not be brought back
to life. despi-e efforts of the use of a
pulmotor. The Clements family came
from Topeka about eight months ago.
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SHOT HIM FOR ONLY S2.7O
Aged Texas Farmer Probably FATAL,
Wounded by Highwayman.

Dallas, Tex, Jan. 1.-Watt Smith,
farmer, was shot and probably fatally
wounded by a masked highwayman on
road near the city limits last night,
when without a word, the robber
placed a pistol against Smiths abdo-
men and fired.
Smith was driving home in a buggy
He stopped, when the highwaymaE
stepped in front of his horse, think
ing the man wanted to ride.
After Smith was shot, the robber
took $2.70 from his victims pocket,
overlooking a $40 bill
According to Smiths dying state
ment, his assailant appeared to be a
tramp. 1t is thought the. man escaped
on a southbound Katy freight train.
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Starts 1921 With Murder

- New York. JAN 1.-The New
Year was only a few minutes old
when another murder was report
ed to the police. Henry .Schepp. a
butcher. who was walking past a
social, club in First avenue. was
shot three times by an unidentified
man. who escaped. The police be-
: lieve the murder was the result of
feud in the social club.
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CARDINAL is Low
Severe Relapse Suffered by
Cardinal Gibbons.
Weak Heart Threatens End To
Catholic PreIate.

Baltimore. Jan. cardinal Glib
bons has rallied from his relapse of
yesterday after a. good nights rest
and was much better this morning. ac-
cording to news received at the arehi-
episcopal residence shortly before 10
o'clock from Union Mills, Md, where
the cardinal is ill at the home of
friends.
Baltimore, Jan. 1.-Alr the Catholic
religious communities here embracing
the various orders, prayed thruout the
greater part of the night for Cardinal
Gibbons, who yesterday suffered Sc
we're relapse at the home of Robert T.
Shriver, Union Mills, Maryland, where
the cardinal went nearly a month ago,
for a rest. He was suffering from
fatigue due to too close attention to
diocesan affairs. Special prayers also
were offered at all masses today by
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GREEK KING WANTS PROBE.
Constantine Anxious to Clear Himself
| of Pro-German Charges.

Athens, ian. liking Constantine
has made a request for an impartial
investigation of Greek events by an
allied commission. asserting this would
be preferable to the present piece-meal
method.
Objection to this plan is made. how
ever. as both the followers of Con-
stantine and of former Premier Veni-
zelos are asserted to have destroyed
too many documents to give any in
vestigating body a clear view of mat
ters in this country.
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AUTOMOBILES KILLED 7o7.
New York City's High Record in 1919
Broken by 1920 Eipurcs

New York, Jan. IA record of
407 persons killed by automobiles
within New York City was established
in 1920, according to statistics made
public today.
The previous record was 7O2, estab-
l1shed in 1919. Total automobile cas-
ualties for the state in 1920 were
1,102.
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Spain Holds Election sunday.

Madrid. Dec. 31.-Elections for seats
in the Spanish senate will be held on
Sunday, $50 senators being on the list
to be chosen, but there is no public
interest in the campaign The remain
ing $50 senators hold their seats for
life
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Heavy U. S. Army Blankets. Coats.
Shoes, Underwear for sale at 53I
Kansas Ave.-Adv.
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SUNSHINE AND BALMY
beautiful Weather Ushers. In New


beautiful Weather Ushers. In New
Year IN Kansas. ',-'
90 ToDAY'S. TEMPERATURES
7. o'clock. ..34 10 O'Clock. .3s
s O'Clock. .35 IL o'clock. .39
8 O'Clock. SO IL O'Clock 40
The shippers forecast advises the p
Protection of thirty six hour shipments
to the north and west. against tempera-
lures of "a degrees; east and south, 30
degrees.
A continuation of generally spring
like weather with westerly winds,
temperatures above normal, and
plenty of sunshine, is ahead for the
fConrinued on Page Two.I
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JAN KUBELIK

Great violinist,- coming Jan. 2S.-Adv.
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U,entInned on Page rwo.I
Evening star., 1921-04-21
LANDLORDS REVIEWING
RENT BOARD FINDINGS
Real Estate Agents Who Ignored
Decisions Hasten to Look
Up Records.

Landlords and real estate agents
who had adopted the policy of ignor-
ing decisions of the District Rent
Commission, with respect to com
plants of their tenants. today be
gan the work of inspecting the rec
CrdS of the commission, presumably
with Il view to preparing for poSsi-
Bile legal battles in the courts.
\ number of representatives of
prominent realty owners and agents
spent the greater portion Of the day
copying from the records Of the rent
board. In many instances landlords
have failed to take notice of hear
ings granted complainants against
them and the testimony presented by
tenants is yet to be read. The de-
cision of the United States Supreme
Court declaring the Ball rent act con-
Stitutionai has altered the position
formerly held, however.
The commission today handed down
a list of more than forty determina-
tions. the majority of them providing
for rental reductions. In several in
stances substantial increases were
allowed the landlord.
Alice F. Mcclure of apartment go,
the Ontario. who protested against an
increase in rent from s23 to s42 d
month. asked by the McLachlen Bank
the increase was fair. The corpora
ton was denied possession of the apart =
ment.