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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15

nent homes in Germany Germans
want the American soldiers to stay,
because if they leave they are afraid
they will be followed by French SOL
diers. He states that Germany has no
i'll feeling against America for enter
ing the war, because they think that
America Joined the allies because of
her financial transaction with them.
He stated that Germany at times
needed money, but was too proud to
borrow. The Germans lay the blame on
ex-Czar Nicholas of Russia, King
George of England and the ex-kaiser,
According to Wolff everybody in
Germany is busy. At Dusseldorf, a
bicycle manufacturing center, 10000
persons are employed at one plant ana
they work from ten to fifteen hours a
day
10000 Make Aspirin Tablets.
At Krupps 10000 persons are kept
busy manufacturing aspirin tablets, he
said. More people are employed there
than during the war. There are 10000
men working in the shipyards at Ham
burg The shoe stores and gents fur
nishing stores are all run by women.
Wolff visited many places in Ger
many. Frankfurt, Cassel, Heidelburg
and Eisanach. At Cassel he was
shown thru one of the kaiser's castles.
Some of the doors were overlaid with
gold. At EiSanach is the WartburS
where Luther was imprisoned by his
friends so that his enemies could not
kill him. Wolff stated that he saw
the spot on the wall caused by Luther
throwing an ink bottle at an appari-
ton of the devil which he declared he
saw.
The money situation is good in Ger
many and people from all over the
world are buying their goods there.
He stated that the average German
likes the republican form of govern
ment. Officers higher than a captain
don't like it because they don't get so
much pay.
Heard Oppau Explosion.
Wolff was 100 miles from Oppau
when the big explosion occurred.
The window panes shook like a leaf
and the watches stopped at exactly
1882 O'Clock in the morning
Wolff asked a German army officer
why they did not capture Paris. The
army officer stated that when they
got within seventeen miles of Paris
the Russians started an offensive and
large numbers of troops were removed
to the eastern front. After that the
line would not bulge.
There were 100000 visitors in Ber-
lin in one week this summer. It was
almost impossible to get hotel accom-
mOdatiOns there, Wolff stated.
He sailed from Rotterdam on Sep
TENDER 27 for the United States He
arrived in Topeka on October 10.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15
BY HAROLD HENDERSON.

N. H. Wolff, local tailor, saw his
three sisters for the first time in forty
seven years at Frankfurt, Germany,
while on his tour thru Germany this
summer. His sister-in-law also
Travelled 500 miles to Frankfurt to see
him, altho she had an injured foot
and could hardly walk.
Wolff left Topeka June 81 and went
direct to New York. He sailed from
New York on the steamship RynGam
July 2, the day of the Dempsey-Car-
pentier fight. The results of the fight
were received on the ship by wireless
lat 4 o'clock in the afternoon. He ar
rived at Rotterdam July IS, after an
eleven day journey. Upon arriving in
Holland he went to the German con-
sui and was charged $40 for a permit
to enter Germany. He arrived in
Dusseldorf after an eight hour ride
Wolff said that the trains made as
good time as ours, altho the rolling
stock was very poor. The outstanding
fact was that they were always on
time. Many of the engineers wear
their army uniforms.
He met his brother Sally at mid
night at the station at Dusseldorf. He
went to his brothers home and ate a
midnight lunch. He left Dusseldorf at
10 o'clock the following morning and
arrived in Frankfurt at 4 O'Clock in the
afternoon, which is a 500 mile ride.
Upon arriving in Frankfurt, he spent
ten minutes with them at the station
and then drove to their home.
Wolff stated that meeting his sister
was the thrill of a lifetime. His sis
ter's home was draped in evergreen
and roses. An inscription on the
front of the house read, Hearty We'll
come to My Brother" He then went
to Salzschlief after visiting four days
with sisters, where they owned a sum-
mer resort hotel.
Upon completing his stay there he
went to his old home, which is a viii
lage of 264 inhabitants. He met a
good many people who were his boy
hood friends. But after visiting the
cemetery he found most of his old
friends were dead. The house in
which his father and he were born is
still in fine condition.
Met American Soldiers.
After he visited his old home he
proceeded on a trip thru south Ger
many and thence to CobIenz. There
he met many American soldiers from
every state in Union except Kansas
with the exception of Harry Greene.
According to Wolff the American SOL
diers and German girls mingle freely.
There is no hard feeling between the
German people and American soldiers
and American people. Many of the
American soldiers have married Ger
man girls and upon retirement from
the army intend to make their prema-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15

In order to make it easy and convenient
for numerous interested sufferers from
rupture in this community TO personally
see for themselves the many advantages OF
the Easyhold Truss the Easyhold Truss
Co. is sending one of their experts, Mr. A
I. Christoff, to Topeka.
Every man, woman or child, who is rup-
tured, should see him. He will demon
strate the marvellous features of the won
derful Easyhold Truss, and without oblt-
eating you in any way, will personally
fit one to you to prove that it is better
more comfortable and more satisfactory
one than you are now using.
The Easyhold is a new idea in Trusses,
and contains many scientific features
found in no other. 1t has no cruel steel
bands, no leg straps, no hard, gouging pad
that spreads the Hernial opening. 1t is
so comfortable that no inconvenience is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15
Henry L. Doherty Started
His Career AS Ne1Usboy
New Yorks Richest Bachelor Is Now at Head of $780,
100000 COncern-Is Widely known in Oil and
Gas Business in Kansas.

New York, Oct. 1.-THE remarka-
who started as a newsboy at ten in
Columbus. Ohio, and who now, at
fifty-one, is head of a $4,000, 900
corporation, and rated as New York s
richest bachelor, shows what can be
accomplished single-handed.
Mr.. Doherty's company owns the
Kansas Natural Gas company, which
distributes gas in about forty Kansas
cities, including Topeka. His COM
pany also owns the Empire Oil & Gas
company. one of the biggest COM
panies in the Kansas oil fields.
Mr.. Doherty politely brushes
aside any effort at probing into why
he never married, giving as the chief
reason that he has been too busy. 1t
may well be accepted as conclusive,
for it would be difficult indeed to see
how a man, self-made as a scientist,
inventor, engineer and financier could
well have found time for the more
leisurelY social life.
His life has been study and work
work and study It has all been ac-
complished outside of schools and col
leges, except for the few years of his
early youth in the public schools at
Columbus. Even then he sold news-
papers as part OF MS daily program.
Didn't Like Chores.
ST don't take much credit for in
dustry on the score that I was a
street salesman" said Mr.. Doherty.
LAS I recall it, 1 sold papers SO I
could make money to hire my brother
to do the chores. I didn't like to do
chores, SO I selected work I liked
better"
AS might be expected from a man
who wroked his way from sweeping
the floors of a gas plant, when he was
IL years old, to the position as general
manager when he was twenty, Mr.
for all who will put forth real effort.
From manager of a single gas COM
p9ny he expanded until he was direct
ing gas, electric and traction COM
panies in Madison, Wis; st. Paul,
Mimi; Denver Colo; Lincoln, Neb..
and twenty-five other cities in 1905.
Now, as head of Henry L. Doherty
& Co and the Cities Service company,
he is the directing manager, banker
and operator of public utilities in two
hundred cities in the United States and
Canada. In addition, his firm is the
largest independent producer of re-
Unable oil in the world, having out
out is, 0O0,O00 barrels in 1918, a guam
tity SO per cent greater than produced
by the whole United States in any pre-
ceding year.
The Study Habit.
His love for the mechanical was in
habit, gaining, as he says, his under
standing of chemistry, higher mathe-
MATES and combustion subjects from
a real study of gas catalogs while
working in a gas plant. He was for
ever blending theory with practice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15
Makes Special Day Trial Offer
Consultation Free

experienced by its wearer. Amazing cures
of long standing cases are being constantly
reported 1t is designed to heal the
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tirely. It is put out on 80 days free trial
with the binding guarantee that X In thirty
DAYS you cannot actually see your rupture
is getting better. or you are not entirely
satisfied in every way, your money will
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Mr.. Christoff will be at the Throop hotel
for one day only, from o a. m. to II m,
to D. M, and to p. m. You owe 1t to
yourself and family to investigate the
Easyhold, as it may mean the end OF your
truss and rupture troubles. If you cannot
call, write the Easyhold Truss Co., 1llJ
Wyandotte St, Kansas City, Mo-, for their
free book on rupture and self-measurement
blank as they also guarantee to fit you by
mail. but see Mr. Christoff If possible
ADV,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15
A Kit of Golf Tools and
A Good Disposition All
Kansas Editors Require
State Editorial Association Journeys Are End of News
paper Rainbows -Iola Meet Indicative of
Spirit of Organization.

Some day a Kansas newspaper chap
will walk away with the state golf
championship. This Editorial Golf as
ISOLATION is developing a whole lot
of excellent fellowship, considerable
deuce hunting competition and more
good golf than the ordinary citizen
may realize. Conclusion of the second
semi-annual meet at lola produced
evidence that a wicked fair-way holds
no more fear for a newspaper guy
than the wrath of a disgruntled sub
scriber.
When Charles F. Scott invited the
news mon to lola, they didn't realize
they were going to play on the most
humpety, bumpety. roly-poly, ditch
be-deyiled bit of landscape in Kansas.
In those two days of play the editor
fellows-ard those who are just work
ers in the vip eyard-planted more golf
balls on the lola course than could be
bought with the box office receipts
then and so there were some high
grade scores and for seven holes of
the initial flight Fred Cooper of To-
peka put the course records so snugly
away that it looked as tho a new par
accounting would be necessary.
Don't Take 1t Too Seriously.
But it Is the social side of the edi-
lOIidI SOlL IHdI VIII likely
make the organization a success. Most
of the fellows who went to lola were
not disposed to take the game too
seriously. They ,wanted-to talk poll
tics or paper rates or the open season
on the funny card.
Johnny Gilmore of Fredonia, who
has played the Broadmocr course all
summer and has a prosperous news
paper and $3.50 for every fish in the
Verdigris river, was in the crowd
which met a Topeka contingent at the
station Sunday night. Gilmore had
noon. He wanted his fellows to know
Just what they were coming to. So
he discoursed as the evening enter
tainment progressed.
You drive off on a dogs leg from
the first tee" he said. 1T doesn't
make much difference which way your
ball goes you will most Likely be in
trouble. Then there are two fine
bitches. and a bunch of well drained
landscape on the second. You can
shoot over or around a hill On the
third Or drive back to the club house
and start from there. whichever you
do is wrong. Except that the rolling
country will outguess you on the
fourth and fifth holes, you will do
pretty well. Then you come to the
grand canyons on the sixth hole.
Sit Right Down and Talk.
IF you are right lucky you will
drive off seven with about a thirty
or maybe a twenty-seven or twenty
eight You think you are doing fine.
Then you hit No. S and viii sit right
down on the fairway and talk with the
gods. Those last two holes will de-
stroy any mans score and religion.
A man simply can't sing Onward
Christian Soldier with good grace and
play that course. Nature was simply
out to do its worst in this section of
the country when that course was left
here"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15
SIGNS OF PROSPERITY
James Hamilton Lewis Says Business
Is Good Everywhere.

Chicago, Oct. 15.-James Hamilton
Lewis, former United States senator
from Illinois, after an extended trip
thru the east and south, yesterday
brought this message to Chicago.
Business is good. Everywhere
have gone there were unmista kable
signs that we are entering upon an
era of prosperity"
The former senator likewise gath
cred from this trip that the prohibit
ton laws have not found much favor
with the general public in the east
and south
81 can safely prophecy" he said
that these two sections of the country
will send at least twenty representa-
tives to congress this fall to fight the
enforcement of the dry act"
The serious illness of his father
MAJOR John c. Lewis, in Georgia, &C.
casiOned the trip
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15
APOLOGIES FROM RUSSIA.
William H. Johnston Receives Gable
gram from Russian Council.

Washington, Oct. 15.-Apologies
have been received from soviet Russia
by William H. Johnston. president of
the International Association of Ma
chinists, who was recently prevented
from entering Russia, when he went
there to investigate trade conditions.
Johnston today received a telegram
from the all-Russian central council
labor unions expressing regret at the
failure Of the government to admit
him, declaring that the entire incident
was very regrettable mistake in the
commissariat of foreign affairs" The
cablegram assures Johnston that Rus
STA labor and the soviet government
join in welcoming representatives of
American abor to visit Russia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15
CITIES INVITE TOPEKANS
Kansas City and Indianapolis Would
Hear of Victory Highway.

Hear of Victory Highway.
George W. Stansfield and Ben Blow.
president and manager of the Victory
Highway association, and the mem
bers of the Topeka Advertising club
have been invited to attend a meeting
and banquet of the Kansas City Ad-
vertising club to be held at Kansas
City october "a.
A letter from ]. H. Minor, chairman
of the extension committee of the
Kansas City Advertising club. was re-
ceived by Stansfield today, asking him
and Blow to come to Kansas City
Monday, October "a, and speak on
the Victory Highway.
The newly organized Topeka Adver-
Using club was asked to send as large
a representation as possible to the
event. The Kansas City advertising
men are contemplating a trip to To-
peka in the near future. according to
Minors letter.
Stansfield and Blow have also been
invited to appear before the Indianap-
oils Chamber of Commerce to speak
there on the Victory Highway project.
THAT shows the, interest which is
being taken in the project along other
sections of the line. It's up to Topeka
to show the same interest in the drive
next week." Stansfield said today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15

| The next day Ro.Ia C1ymer. of
Eldorado; Oscar Stauffer, of Pea
body; Bill Kercher. of the Telephone
News; Harris, of Herington; L. R.
Booth, of the Capper household; Will
ford Cavaness, of Chanute; Quinn"
Miller, of Belleville; Scoop" Hill,
from the State university, and a flock
of other bent club artists, not only en-
dorsed Gilmore. but added sundry
supplemental remarks. They wanted
to yell with joy that night when Mister
airweather-rignt from the sod of
Scotland and the native haunts sof
golf in all its evil ways-testified as
the lola Country clubs new course was
the most deceptive and dangerous bit
of sod he had ever pushed a pill over.
I've played all the famous courses
of England and Scotland and a few
! courses in this country" testified Mis-
ter Fairweather with fire native ac-
cent, and 1 want to say this is the
| hardest course I've ever seen" The
news chasing chaps wanted to yell for
! joy. Their 115 and 40 qualifying
scores were not so bad after all. Hoot
/ mon! Here was a pro from the land
where golf is in its highest state Of
of development and his words came
from his heart.
This Mister Fairweather gave the
news hounds more sound advice about
golf than they had ever known. But
he nearly broke up the meeting with
! references to the game as it is played
in the old country.
Golf for 80 Cents a Season.
"The last summer I was III Scot
land" he continued in his most fluent
and highly acceptable brOgue, Il got
all the golf [ wanted for about 80
cents-with me locker thrown IN.
What was more. some of US were sent
to the big tournaments in Glasgow
and other cities. Who paid the diff
ference between that so cents and the
cost of those trips-Johnnie Walker.
About so to 80 per cent of the men
and women of Scotland play golf
and they all play the nineteenth hole.
Johnnie Walker is the most popular
fellow in the club house. He repre-
sents the difference between your high
priced country club of this country
and popular priced golf which every
one enjoys over there
At Lawrence Next Year.
President Scott and Secretary King
put on real show for the newspaper
fellows at lola. Next spring Scoop
Hill and university town editors will
provide the tournament on the Law
renee Country club course.
There are two qualifications for
membership in the Editorial Golf as
ociation-identifica with some
Kansas publication and ownership of
"a kit Of golf tools. Qua flying scores
mean little. OF course, there are the
chaps who are out to win cups and
medals. But that is incidental Every
member. tho. is a a booster. And out
of the association will doubtless come
a line of publicity and boosting which
will not only make the association a
real institution, but will do more than
any single thing to advance popularity
of the game in Kansas. Next spring
efforts are to be made to insure pres
ence of newspaper men from all of the
seventy nine towns which now support
golf courses.
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To HANDLE oBENCHAIN CASE.
Chicago Attorney VIII Leave Soon for
Los Angeles.

Chicago. Oct. 15.-Attorney Charles
E. Erbstein, legal champion of a hun
dred women charged with Staying, to-
day agreed to go to the rescue of
Madalynne Obenchain, facing trial, in
Los Angeles for the murder of ]. Bel
ton Kennedy.
Erbstein will leave for Los Angeles
within three days.
He consented to handle Mrs. Oben-
chains case following a long distance
telephone call from Ralph Obenchain,
the man in a million" husband of
Madalynne.
Admiration for the loyalty of Oben-
chain brought about my decision"
Erbstein said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15
Urges Lower RaiIroad Wages.

Chicago, Oct. 15.-Reduction of
wages for railroad employees, the saw
ing to the roads being passed on to
the public in reduced transportation
rates, was urged by W. w. Atterbury,
vice president of the Pennsylvania
railroad. in an address before the Ma
tionaI Vehicle and Implement asso-
citation Friday. He asked that public
sentiment aid the roads in their. eff
forts to readjust rates, which, he said,
was essential to the return of the
cn11nfrv's nrnSDeritY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15
SUE CHICAGO CARPENTERS.
WOOdworkers and Lumber Companie.
Charge Council With Monopoly.

Chicago, Oct. 15.-Eight woodwork
ing and lumber companies have filed
suit against the Chicago carpenters
district council, charging that the
council is monopoly and asking a
temporary injunction against it. The
court is asked to restrain the union
and its officers, several of whom are
named, from interfering in any way
with men who are willing to do car
penters work at different wages and
under different contracts from those
stipulated by the council.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15
DISORDERS BY UNEMPLOYED.
Demonstrations Breaks Out in Streets
of Santiago Following Speeches.

Santiago, Oct. 15.-Demonstration
by this city's unemployed were staged
in the streets facing the congressional
building yesterday in which hundreds
of jobless participated. The disorder
tempted to address the demonstrators,
who threw stones and other missiles,
so that mounted police had to inter-
vene and dispense the crowds by firing
several shots into the air. A number
of the unemployed, as we'll as police
men were injured. The unemployed
recently petitioned President Ales-
sandri to expedite pending legislation
providing for the erection of public
works with the object of relieving the
unemployment situation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15
Sims Declines Invitation.

New York. Oct. 15.-Rear Admiral
Sims has declined an invitation at the
Armistice day dinner of the New York
chapter of the military order of the
world war. Officers of the chapter
today attributed the refusal to the
reprimand he received for his speech
in England in reference to Sim
Feiners. This officer quoted the ad-
miral as writing to the chapter:
"A year from now when I am on
the retired list, I can say what I feel
like and then I'll be glad to talk to
you"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15
John D. Gives Her Two Dimes

Tarrytown, y. Y, Oct. 15.-John
D. Rockefeller was so stirred by
the singing of a little girl on a ferry
boat crossing from Nyack to
Tarrytown today that he dug down
in his trousers pocket and fished
out two new dimes which he gave
her. Rockefeller was crossing in
his automobile and the little girl
was in another car.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15
TO MEET ROYAL FLEET
Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman I
Chosen as Escort.

Chosen as Escort.
Washington, Oct. 15.-Rear Admiral
Hugh Rodman. U. S. N. who has been
appointed special aide to Admiral
David Beatty, together with other
navy and government officials, will
meet the admiral of the royal fleet,
Lady Beatty and their two children,
off quarantine, New York, October 81,
the navy department announced to-
day. They will accompany the admiral
and his suite to the battery on the
harbor tug Vigilant, where a reception
will be held. Destroyers carrying rep
resentatives of the navy will meet
General Armando Diaz of the royal
Italian army uDOn his arrival in New
York October 10.
Plans for the reception of Lieuten-
ant Baron jacques, chief of staff of
the Belgian army, include the detail of
two divisions of destroyers to act as
escort for the Lapland from Fire
Island to quarantine on October 1921.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15
BANK ROBBERIES COMMON
Officer From Attorney Generals De-
partment Expects Another One Soon

OAANNCH OC-
partment Expects Another One Soon
Pratt, Kan, Oct 15.-Bank rob-
berries are becoming so common in
Kansas that predictions are now be-
ing made when the next one will oc-
cur.
C. w. Parks, Of the attorney gen.
erals department today stated he Eek
pected to hear of a bank robbery west
of here within five days"
The prediction was based upon the
report that a man said to be Eddie
c. Adams, notorious bank robber who
escaped from the Kansas penitentiary
last spring, was in Pratt last night.
He escaped before he could be ar
rested. Later. a report from Wichita
to Sheriff McCole stated that a Hud-
son speedster had been stolen there.
The man believed to have been Adams
was driving such a car.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-15
TURKS ALARMED OVER REPORT
Have Asked Assistance From Gov
ernment at Moscow.

Constantinople, Oct 15.-The Turk
ish nationalist are much alarmed
over runners that there is to be mill
tary cooperation between Greek and
K Jmanians in Thrace.
They have requested the Moscow
government to bring pressure on Ru-
mania to maintain neutrality ii the
C-eco-Turkish conflict.