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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
ASK CUT IN FREIGHT RATES
Governor Allen Calls Conference With
Railroad Presidents for June "a.

Governor Allen has called a con-
ference with railroad heads in an ef-
fort to secure voluntary reductions OF
freight rates on wheat Railroad
heads have been asked to come to To-
peka June "a to discuss the proposal
In a letter. sent to operating heads
OF seven railroads the governor points
out that wheat will be sold this year
at practically pre-war prices. while
freight rates are 10 per cent higher
than during the war. The governor
points out that action of the railroad
wage board in reducing war time wage
scales has led to the hope that relief
was in sight for. the shipper He be-
lieves the wheat grower should have a
share in the reduction Immediate ac-
ton is necessary, the governor de-
clares--
Following are the railroad officials
who have been asked to attend the
conferences:
w. B. Storey, of the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe; J. E. German. OF
the Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific;
Carl R. Gray. of the Union Pacific; B.
F. Bush. of the Missouri Pacific: C.
E. Schaff. of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas; and J. NJ. Kurn, of the st.
Louis & San Francisco.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
q. s. Government for Past Year
Was Economical.
Score Is Even for First Time
Since 1914.
COST OVER FIVE BILLION
Interest on War Debt Was
Biggest Item.
Congress Cost Country More
Than S17,OOO,0O0.

Washington, June 1S.-With ordi-
nary expenditures totaling slightly
more than $5,900,0 100000 for the fiscal
year to end in two weeks, the govern
bent will have kept practically within
its income for the first year since 1914.
reports of the treasury department
now indicate.
Predictions that a huge deficit
would pile up at the close of the fiscal
year. June 80. have been freely made
for months by members of congress
and some officials.
But when the treasury closes its
books at midnight. June 80. the total
ordinary disbursement for the year
will be approximately 5000, 200, ,000
if payments for June run at the same
rate as for the first eleven months OF
the fiscal year. Income of the gov
ernment for the year will be nearly
$500, 100000, according to a recent
estimate by Secretary Mellon. This
would give the government pocket
book a slight leeway between income
and outgo for the year.
Total ordinary expenditures for the
last fiscal year, which closed juno 80
1920. amounted to $6,403.0 100000, OF
nearly one and one-half billions more
than will be paid out this year, unless
all present forecasts fail.
Nearly Billion Less.
Up to May 81. the government had
spent a total of S4,646,0OO,O00, ac-
cording to a statement issued by the
treasury department. For the cores
ponding period of previous fiscal yeai
ordinary disbursements amount to $5,.
$50. 100000.
This shows that for the first clever
months of the present year, disburse
ments were reduced s1,2S4,00 al
compared with last year. Ordinar,
receipts for the first eleven months O
the present fiscal year totaled $5,O45,.
| 100000 or about $400.0O0.0O0 more
than was paid out.
One of the biggest single. items O.
expenditures so far this year was in
terest on the war debt which amounted
to $3.50. 0.0e0, 900.
Payments to the railroads totalet
$729,000,000 while the war department
took $sSS,000,000 and the navy $3.50,
100000.
The lowest single item of expendi
ture was what is described as the "exe
cutive proper" meaning the Whit,
House and its offices. This cost wa.
only $633622.15.
Congress ate UP more than ST..
100000; the treasury, s425,00O,00(
and the interior department, 1919,
100000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
Living 81 to s5 Cheaper for
Each One in United States.
Adjustment of Allied Debts to
Cut Revenue Needed.

Washington. June 1S.-A tax reduc-
ton averaging between 81 and SIS an
nually for every person in the United
States will result from the permanent
adjustment of the allied debt to this
country.
In addition, it will open a way to
this government to retire some of it's
own war obligations which are falling
due in the next two years.
Harding In Hurry.
These two facts, it was learned to-
day, furnish the explanation why
President Harding and his cabinet
want to put the allied debt on a per-
manent basis as soon as possible They
reached tentative plan for doing this
at the cabinet meeting yesterday.
The loans to the allies totalled about
SO, 900 originally. Failure of
foreign governments to pay interest,
however, has increased the total to a
figure which now calls for an annual
interest payment of about 0.O00, 900.
The 105, 100000 American taxpay-
ers have been carrying this burden.
Once the allies start paying interest,
it will be lifted.
To Alleviate Depre ssion.
A tentative program designed to al
leviate the present agricultural de-
preston will be considered at a con-
ference today of delegates from lead
ing agricultural colleges with a COM
mittee appointed by Secretary Wallace
from the department of agriculture.
Members of the committee have been
studying the problem for some time,
it was announced. --...-
Those expected to attend today's
meeting include Andrew Boss, profess
sor of farm management, University of
Minnesota, and G. F. Warren, profess
sor of farm management, Cornell uni
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
RECANTERS ARE GIVEN START
Two Who Quit /. w. w. Are Released
From Leavenworth First.

Leavenworth, Kan, June 18.-Eigh-
teen members of the I. w. w. released
from Leavenworth prison by virtue of
the governments decision not to ap-
peal recent court of appeals order,
were en- route home today.
Peter j. Higgins, one of the MEM
bers, was held Immediately after re-
leased from federal prison by Leaven-
worth police for deportation to ireland
as an undesirable alien.
Two of the men. alleged to have
deserted the 1. w. w. organization,
while in prison, were given a two-hour
start" on the others to aviod possible
violence.
Several of the men including Joseph
Gresbach. who left for Wichita. were
arrested in Kansas. Most of them left
for Chicago, however, while one head
ed for Germany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
PIPE ORGAN FOR ISIS
Theater Will Be, Closed Three or -Four
Weeks to Install Instrument.

Weeks to Install Instrument.
With the. second performance this
evening the Isis theater will be tenn
porarily closed for a short period. This
announcement was made this morning
by Manager G. L. Hooper, who at the
same time announced that the shut
down" was made necessary in order
trat a b g pipe organ could be installed
in the theater
The organ, which has been pur-
chased from the Jenkins Music COM
pany, has just been completed in the
California plant of the company and
will arrive here next week The an
nounced purchase price was given as
$4,000. The instrument will be used
at all performances after the reopen
ing of the theater. 1t is uncertain how
long it viii take to get the organ in
place and ready for concerts, but the
workinen say the theater can reopen
in three or four weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
W. B. STORY WILL Be HERE
President of Santa Fe Will Attend
Freight Rate Conference.

Governor Allen received a telegram
today from W. B. Storey, president of
the Santa Fe system, to the effect that
he would come to Topeka for the
wheat freight rate conference June "a.
The governor expressed confidence
that representatives of all main line
roads in this state would send repre-
sentatives
The conference was called by the
governor in an effort to secure re-
duced freight rate concessions on
wheat. He pointed out that grain
markets had slumped to practically
pre-war prices. while freight rates
were much higher
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
FARMERS TO MEET TODAY
Shawnee County AgricuIturists Will
Discuss Marketing Plan.

l5N us NItlIhStIIIS I'M.
Farmers organization of Shawnee
county are cooperating in the holding
of mass meeting at the city audi
torium this afternoon, at which the
marketing plan for grain and farm
products. which has been worked out
by the Committee of Seventeen will
be explained by R. c. Obrecht,
The meeting is being held Jointly by
the Farm Bureau, the Farmers Union,
and the Oranges. Every farmer in the
county has been asked to attend the
meeting.
The new rest room which has been
fitted up in the city auditorium for
the benefit of rural shoppers in To-
peka, will be opened this afternoon in
connection with the mass meeting of
farmers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
JUDGE lands TO COME HERE
National Baseball Boss Will Speak on
Chautauqua Program.

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis,
the ultimate arbiter of national base
ball. occupant of the bench of a fed
eral court. and recently appointed to
straighten out the tangle in which
the Chicago building trades are in
volved, is to speak in Topeka during
the first week in August. on the Chau-
tauqua program to be held in Garfield
park.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

The announcement that Judge Lam
dis had been secured for the Chau-
tauqua was made today by the Cad
mean Chautauqua company. which is
furnishing the talent for the event
The definite date on which Judge
Lands Is to appear in Topeka has not
been set. nor has the subject OF his
talk been announced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

FORECAST FOR NEXT WEEK
Occasional showers. Temperatures
above normal at the beginning oG
week, cooler thereafter.
Scattered showers are due in some
portions of the state tonight, but To-
peka's chances of enjoying one are
not rosy. More heat is the prescrip-
ton which has been issued for this
end of the state.
The only rain reported in the state
Friday night was .66 inch at Good
land. The Kaw river has risen nine
feet at Topeka, standing this morning
at fifteen feet. 1t will commence to
recede this afternoon or tonight. The
drop has already started at Wamego,
where the river has fallen one foot
since Friday night. Meteorologist Flora
has issued a warning of a sharp rise
to Lawrence, Bonner Springs and
Kansas City, Kan. There will be no
overflow.
Friday was the hottest day of the
year, with a temperature of SO de-
grees registered at BIS O'Clock in the
CONTINUED on Page Two.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
TODAY IN CONGRESS
In the Senate.
NOT In session.
In the House.

In the Senate.
Not in session.
In the House.
Not in session.
Rules committee holds hearing on
resolution which would give the Vol
stead supplemental prohibition bill a
privileged status.
Judiciary committee considers anti
lynching bill.
Ways and means committee, Repub-
licans, continue work on permanent
tariff schedule.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
DUTCH CABINET RESIGNS.
Defeat Of Army Bill Clauses by Par
Lament Is Cause.

London, June 1S.-Official an
nouncement of the resignation of the
Dutch cabinet was issued in The
Hague today, says a dispatch to the
Central News from the Dutch capital.
1t is understood there the resigna-
ton was principally due to defeat in
the second chamber of the Dutch par
lament of the main clause in the bill
for reorganization of the army.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

Fort Worth Made Port of Entry.
Washington. June 1S.-President
Harding today signed the bill making
Fort Worth, Texas. a port of entry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
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FORECAST FOR KANSAS.
Unsettled but generally fair tonight
and Sunday. Continued warm.
MORE HEAT IN STORE

For Third Time Kansas Holds q. S
Heat Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
Re-eIect I. C. c. Chairman.

Washington, June 1S.-The inter-
state commerce commission an
nounced today that E. E. Clarke had
been unanimously reelected chairman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

TODAY'S TEMPERATURES.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-11-12

racially means jimcrow cars, jimcrow
schools and segregated cities. Expe-
renee has taught us that jimcroW
schools mean poorly equipped and in
efhclent schools and segregated dis
trlcts are always undesirable and neg
lected districts. How could the idea
Of our oneness as American citizens
prevail If we insist on complete di-
vergence socially and racially?
IN reference to the right of fran
ehise the President says, "Let the
black man vote when he is fit to vote,
prohibit the white man voting when
ne is unfit to VOTE" Who is to be
the judge of the black mans fitness
to vote? In nearly every Southern
state they have been judging or pre-
Judging the colored mans fitness to
vote and that is the reason for his
Acknowledgement today.
And finally, the President admon-
lshed us not to initiate the American
white man. We quite agree that the
colored man should not initiate the
American white man in his lynchings,
and burnings at the stake and his
other notorious practices. But we do
believe that if there is any good in
the American white man, the Jap, the
,Engllshman, Hindu, or what not, we
should initiate that good Civiliza-
ton has only progressed in that way.
we should therefore not strive to be,
as the President suggests, the best
possible black man or the best pos
slble white man, but we should strive
20 be the best possible MAN. -H
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-11-12
Presidents Southern Speech.
From the Wilmington (Del.)

This matter Of social equality is a
vague, unreal and evanescent thing.
Who is to define what it is? If such
a thing really exists it is regulated
by the Individual. Is it social equal
lty to want to ride in frst-class man
ner when a colored person paws a
tirst-class fare? Is it social equality
when being in strange city, or home
city, a colored person desires to get a
bite to eat, having the price to paw
Tor 1t, goes to a place where food is
sold to buy it? Is is social equality
Tor a colored person to desire to hear
good music, see an uplifting drama
and buy a seat where his means will
permit? Is it social equality for a
colored person to patronize the public
libraries and the Institutes of fine art
Tor, the cultural benefits to be derived
from them? How much of social
equality is there in colored children
attending mixed schools and having
that healthful contact, that beneficial
understanding that is so easily OBJ
tanned in the formative years of life
between the races? If these things
mean social equality then the colored
people want them, and if these United
States form real democracy thew
are entitled to them, or this country
IS not the land Of the free, and the
Constitution of the United States is
mlsnomer and the Declaration of In
dependence is dead letter.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-11-12
The President in Alabama,
(FrOm the Richmond Planet. J

From the way our distinguished
President is handling the situation,
we Were just as well off under Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland and President
woodrow Wilson as we expect to be
under President Warren G. Harding,
whose praises we have sung from one
section of this country to the other
and whose success we had prayed for
from the time he was nominated up
to the time that he was elected. He
has not exactly gone back on US as
his supporters, but he is giving voice
to some strang utterances,. which
sound strangely like those of the
Democratic leaders, whom we have
been opposing. .A
President Harding says that there
must be such education among the
colored people as will enable them to
develop their own leaders, capable of
understanding and sympathizing with
such differentiation between the races
as he has suggested Headers who will
inspire the race with proper ideals of
race pride, of national pride, of an
honora BILE destiny, an important par
tlcipation in the universal effort for
advancement of humanity as a whole.
This kind Of education has been in
operation for nearly half a century.
We are dumbfounded to learn that
the President of the United States did
not know it. The Southland is full
Of this kind of leaders. DR.. Booker
l.. Washington did his part in devel-
Foping this kind of leadership. In
later years he realized that he had
gone too far to the extent of elimi-
mating the principles of manhood,
without which no race can rise to the
full height Of American citizen.
He declared that the race problem
was one noticeable in Africa, in South
America, in the South Seas and of
the world. Just how it. can be prob
lem in Africa, the home of the Black
Man is an amusing situation and a
most interesting one. If the black
people belong there, what are the
white people doing in the land of the
Ethiopian But then this is raising
another question. It seems to us that
President Harding might have citec
quotations from that Holy Bible upor
which he took his oath of Office anc
he would have found therein funda.
mental principles, the observance OF
which will settle all problems, racia
and otherwise.
The foregoing is an excerpt from {
three column editorial in the Planet
Richmond, Va, edited by Hon. Joh1
Mitchell, Jr., which is too long tt
print in full.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-11-12
President Harding and the CoIored
American.

(From the Boston Guardian.)
IN regard to President Harding's
speech at Birmingham, Ala, on
Wednesday of this week, October 26,
1871, we would say to this Republi-
can President that persons of color
born in the United States of America.
most OF whose parents and grandpar-
ents and great-grandparerts were
born in the u. S. A. see no reason
why they should be expected to be
willing to be simply black people and
not fully and wholly Americans, any
more than Jews born here are expect
ca to be willing to be simply Jews,
Irish simply Irish, Italians simply
Italians. and so on with the MANY
race varieties here. :, -~.. 800
We demand that there be no dis
Junction put upon us for race or color
IN public matters that is not put on
every other race in this, our common
country. We know as the white
Americans know that there is no es-
ssential difference between human be-
lngs, and just as much superficial diff
terence except in color or feature be-
tween white races here as between
Americans of color and those called
white. Nature has amply proven this
before the eyes Of all Americans with
the aid of the white mans imposi-
tlons upon colored women. We OBJ
!ect to being made the only everlast-
ing aliens in our own land by any en-
forced separation in the public life of
the country. 1t must come over our
everlasting protest.
The crux of the matter is this:
Why does not President Harding ask
US to be good and true and efficient
American? Why did he not ask white
and black to be alike one uniform ele-
ment of patriotic Americans, none
trying to be good as white folks, none
to be good as black folks, but all one
common American citizenry? ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-11-12
Great Danger in Things Said.
Flames Weldon johnson in New Yor
"A pa ]

(James Weldon johnson in New York
Age.)
If the things which Mr.. Harding
demanded for the colored man can be
achieved in the South and in the
United States, while at the same
time the race, either voluntarily or
involuntarily, is solicited into a com
pletely separate and distinct element
in the nation, an element considered
either too different or too inferior for
common human association with the
rest, it will entail the working of a
miracle. Such thing has not come
to pass in the whole history Of the
h r1an race. 81
It seems that in developing his
speech President Harding inadver-
tently betrays the. illogic of such a
supposition. Following the very par
agraph in which he stresses the per-
manent and eternal difference be-
/, tween the races, which must be fos-
tered rather than diminished, he
makes the following statement:
THE one thing we must sedulously
avoid is the development of group
and class organizations in this coun-
try. There has been a time when we
heard too much about the labor vote,
the business vote, the Irish. vote, the
Scandinavian vote, the Italian vote,
and so on. But the demagogues who
would array class against class and
group against group have fortunately
found little to reward their efforts.
That is because, despite the dema-
gogues, the idea of our oneness as
Americans has risen superior to everv
appeal to mere class and group
We hope the net result of the Pres
ident's speech will be good, but
THERE IS GREAT DANGER IN
SOME THINGS HE SAID.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-11-12
An Appeal to Race Prejudice.

A close study of the Presidents
speech as to it's effect upon the COL
ored people of this country. The
Argus sees danger, grave danger in
the Presidents stand on what he
calls "social equality" In the first
place we believe it ill-advised that he
as President Of the United States
should have attempted to discuss a
subject which he himself admits. does
not exist. ---
The question of political, economical
and educational equality is impossi-
pie so long as the white people of the
South, yes, of the North or elsewhere
are being warned of the question of
social equality. It is an appeal to
race prejudice and it finds it's way into
very economic and civil phase of
Americas life.
We want to be men, free men, en-
goying every right that others enjoy,
limited only by our ability. We want
to breathe the sunlight of Gods love
in the "Land Of the free and the
home of the brave" and be anything
we are big enough to be.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-11-12
JIM CROW LEADERS.

We present in this issue a sympo-
SUM of views of colored editors in
various parts Of the country on the
speeches of President Harding in Biz
mingham, Ala, and Atlanta, Ga.
One of the strongest Of these is an
editorial from the Richmond (Va.)
Planet, by that fearless journalist,
John Mitchell, Jr. Referring to the
desire of President Harding to have
more NEGRO" leaders developed, The
Planet says:
THE SOUTH IS FULL OF THIS
KIND OF LEADERS. DIR. BOOK
Err T. WASHINGTON DID HIS
PART IN DEVELOPING THIS
KIND OF LEADERSHIP. IN LAT
Err YEARS HE REALIZED THAT
HE HAD GONE TOO FAR, TO THE
EXTENT OF ELIMINATING THE
PRINCIPLES OF HOOD,
WITHOUT WHICH NO RACE CAN
RISE TO THE FULL HEIGHT OF
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.
This is a strong statement yet it is
absolutely true. No single thing in
the history of the colored people in
the United States has done so much
to prevent the full attainment of citi-
zenship as that speech of Booker
Washington delivered in Atlanta, Ca,
in 1895.
Since then the descent to hell has
been swift and sure and the depths
were sounded when the other day,
Warren G. Harding, President of the
United States, stood by the side of
the Grady monument in Atlanta, pro-
nounced a eulogy on Henry w.
Grady, the most bitter, dangerous and
insidious enemy of the colored people
that the country has produced, de-
clared that the race question must be
settled by the segregation of Ameri-
can citizens.
Lured on by the enthusiastic recep-
ton by the South of the B. Washing
ton speech and the white mans
good negro" pat on the shoulder, the
jimcrow leaders tribe has increased
so enormously that it is now a men
ace to be reckoned with in every com
naunity in which there are hundred
colored men. f~i
Before he died Booker Washington
repented in bitterness what he hae
done and longed for life to wash ou
his unwise course but it was too late
Although it may be news to many, il
is a fact that after his death an ar
ticle, written by him, was printed il
leading magazine, in which he re
pudiated segregation which he had Sc
long championed.
No greater calamity could befal
the colored people than the harvest.
ing Of a new crop Of "jimerow negro
leaders,