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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14
HAS IT CHANGED. OR NOT?
Different Readers Draw Different
Conclusions on World Progress
From Old Paper Found by Santa
E'e Man.

Tattered, torn, crisp with age and
gradually crumbling, dry as dust with
decay, a Santa Fe employe recently
eXhumed from among his possessions
a copy of the Chicago Inter Ocean,
dated November 1, 1898.
The two big news events of the day
on which the ancient sheet was pub
lished were the funeral arrangements
in honor of Carter Harrison, late
mayor of the city, and the passing of
been finished the World Columbian
Exposition.
1t wasn't these two news stories
big as they were, that attracted the
attention of the finder of the paper
however.
which was the high point of interest
Among the items listed were:
lone Case. Great Western Cham
''one Gallon demijohn table claret.
(demijohn included) ........-...-.$ 100
ooh, for the good old days. said
the Santa Fe man.
The Santa Fe man took the paper
to his boss. His boss just glanced al
the liquor ad. Then a situation
wanted" ad caught his eye.
eSITUATION wANTED-(It ready As
living at home; writes good plain hand
can assist with books and do typewriting
sensible and reliable; excellent recommen
dations, salary Sc to IS week"
Huh said the boss. "Oh, for the
good old days"
The paper fell into the hands of a
C m m n newspaper reader, who
scanned the news items.
cashier Swai1 Missing-His accounts
are straightforward supposed to be in tbs
case" was the first headline to meet tbs
readers eye.
We'll. the world hasn't changed sc
much since the good old days, after
ALL said the common newspaper
reader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14
Is YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the Columns OF
TILE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

May IA, 1886.
General Superintendent H. L. Nudge Of
the Santa Fe made an inspection Of the
Kansas City terminal yesterday, and today
is on an inspection trip over the Southern
Kansas division. The roadbeds Of this d.
vision are TO be materially improved dur
ing the summer.
Capital Council No. 1, OF the Knights and
Ladies of Security entertained Its friends
at its hall in East Sixth street Tuesday
evening. Mayor Fellows and A J. Kane
delivered addresses and there was short
musical program.
The Rev. Harvey Fowler of Manhattan,
formerly city editor of the State Journal.
is visiting relatives in the city for few
days.
Mrs. c. A. Fellows is in Kansas City at
tending the convention Of the Order Of the
Eastern Star. Mrs. Helen Farnsworth, Mrs.
John Sargent and Mrs. E. W PoindeXter
are also in attendance
The Ladies' Music club met wednesday
afternoon with Mrs. W. S. Charles, 1103
Harrison street. The next meeting will be
held at the home of Mrs. w. l. Miller, 112c
Tyler street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14

the western horizon swallows thesday.
Is that new way to say the oft
written phrase, the fairyiand of the
movies
Not long ago in the studio we had,
side by side on the huge stage, a
Scotch home with its matched roof
and quaint surroundings, a saloon and
dance hall of the Canadian Northwest
of the time when soldiers of fortune
were pinning their hopes on the gold
of Alaska; an English castle by the
sea, and n cabaret of the B. P. (before
prohibition) style.
1.-The Scotch home was one. of the
things that made Sentimental Tommy
John s. Robertson's production, one
of the most outstanding pictures of
the year. The home of Grizel and
Tommy, it fairly breathed the atmos-
phere of Scotland and the mood of
Barrie, the author. Dorothy Dalton
held the center of the camera in the
dance hall. which is one of the typical
and striking scenes of her picture.
The Idol of the North and Ethel
Clayton, another Paramount star, was
just preparing to jump from the win
dow of the English castle into the sea,
while in the cabaret George Fitz-
maurice. director, was lutting 500
extra people thru their PAGES for the
dance of the fools scene in hrs latest
production, Experience in which
Richard Barthelmess. the hero of
many Griffith pictures, plays the part
of Youth.
Thrills Every Working Day.
This was all in a days work. Can
you wonder that I get thrill every
working day? AS publicity manager
at the studio it is my duty to see and
write about the interesting and I'M
usual happenings in the largest motion
picture factory under one roof in the
world.
After committing in from Rye. N. Y.
every day where the same people get
/ on the same street car at the same
time every day and the same policeman
stands on the same corner with the
same bored look on his face it Is
rather exhilarating to know that when
you get to the studio Elsie Ferguson
is going to be drinking Russian tea in
a Greenwich village apartment setting
while the camera records the action
| for her picture, "Footlights," which
/ she is now concluding. There is moth
! ing more rare than a day in the studio
not even a day in June
| Every time I think of getting mar
Fied go over to see Mrs. Baker in the
wardrobe departm. mt and have her
open up the big closets which are
| filled with brilliant, sparkling gowns
How much are the gowns worth
| Mrs. Baker % 1 ask, just like, that as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14

Ring Lardner might say, and she says
to me:
"Oh, about $4,000"
And then figure up my salary, the
grocery bill, the rent~and the laundry
and say to myself-"Women's clothes
take a turn thru the property depart
ment where they have more than 1000
different articles of kitchen ware. Did
you ever know there were that many
kitchen utensils in the world? Neither
did I. 1 am glad my bungalow in the
to find a cook.
just Like a Newspaper.
For my continental tour 1 go up tc
the art department, where they are
always making something foreign ou
of perfectly good American lumber
The blue prints for an Irish castle
| look interesting, but when it is bull
on stage it will be realistic enough
to make even the most liberal minded
Englishmans shrug his shoulders.
| A trip into the scenario department
where Thomas J. Geraghty, formerl.
| Of the New York Herald staff; Ben
| jamin De Casseres, recently from thu
| Times: Waldemar Young, of the Sal
Francisco Chronicle, and other writer!
| hold forth, is always an inspiration
! They are continually hashing ove1
titles and scenes for Forthcoming
Paramount pictures to be made in tbs
| east
| Nothing is done half way in The
! studio. The continuity is prepared
| carefully before the director begins II
shoot" the picture. If, as in tht
case of Peter Ibbetson," in which
Wallace Reid and Elsie Ferguson will
co-star. period costumes and settings
are called for the research depart
ment does the first work. This in
sures a perfect mounting for the pic
ture.
This is all in the days routine and
! what is new today is old tomorrow
Working in motion picture studio il
Just like being on newspaper ano
you know what that is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14

ford exclaimed, ooh. look" I looked,
and, believe me, We were on the sum-
init of the highest mountain in the
world. Right on the edge of a preci-
pice. too, and if the machine had
swerved one one-thousandth of an
inch we'd have dropped, oh, at least
a million feet. For one never-to-be-
forgotten instant 1 pictured myself as
the hero of a serial thriller"
No Tire Trouble on Trip.
Save for this near-plunge, the very
thought of which, Crawford insists,
turned his hair two shades grayer, the
automobile trip across half the con-
tinent was without particular incident
He believes, tho. that he broke one
record The entire distance, 100
miles, was covered without sign or
tire trouble. Mud was encountered in
Missouri and Illinois and snow in West
Virginia. both interfering with speed,
but at that the trip was finished in
eight days, without really trying"
East of the Illinois-Indiana line the
party found excellent roads all the
way to New York.
Crawford's new office is at 25 West
Forty-fifth street, in the heart of the
motion picture magnates' district and
just four blocks from Grand Central
station. This last item is important,
for Crawford already has enlisted in
the vast army of commuters. He has
Rye Beach. which is twenty-five miles
out. where he may breathe the rural
atmosphere even if his desk is in the
Big Town.
Up ut O'Clock in Morning.
II get up with the cows at 6 o'clock
every morning and Mrs. Crawford
drives me to the railroad station"
said Crawford, in eXpounding on the
joys of rural life within sight of the
metropolis. According to the real
estate agents prospectus Rye Beach
boasts a street car line but all the
cars are in hiding whenever I chance
to be around. I catch the S:07
o'clock train and land in New York
at 1854 O'Clock in time to reach my
desk at Q o'clock"
Rye Beach is about four miles
from Larchmont where Arthur S.
Kane and John p. Fritts, both also
former Tcpekans, have their homes.
Kane, besides being president of the
Arthur s. Kane Pictures corporation,
is chairman of the board of directors
of Associated Exhibitors. Inc, of
which Crawford is treasurer.
He Met "PinIx' Wingart.
When Crawford went into the Rye
Beach grocery store to replenish the
familys egg supply one day he met
Pink" Wingart, another eX-Topekan,
who is now publicity man for Fa-
nous Players-Lasky. In Philadelphia,
where Mr.. and Mrs. Crawford and
Roy, jr., stopped for a night on the
way TO New York. Mr.. and Mrs. Jay
Z. House called on them, and out in
Springfield, O., they met Harry North,
who used to be in the old stock
company of the Majestic theater
back home"
The itinerary of the Crawford party
brought them by way of Macon, Mo
Jacksonville Ill, Decatur, Ill, In
dianapolis, Springfield, o.. Wheeling
I
mountains. snow and mud, Crawford
advises any Topekans who may eX-
pect to drive TO New York to take
the northern route. He had tried il
on previous trips and found it bet
ter than the other, for all it is slightly
longer. 1t is by way of Des Moines
Davenport. Ia, Chicago, Cleveland
and Buffalo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14

That man Is great, and he alone,
For neither praise nor pelf
Content to know and be unknown,
Whole in himself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14
CRAWFORD IN N. Y.
IOpekan Made Trip of 100
Miles Without Tire Trouble.
Some Mud Encountered in Mis-
souri, and Illinois.
ALMOST A MOVIE ACTOR
Met Many Former Topeka PeO-
pie on Journey.
He Now Makes Home at
Rye Beach.
ALMOST A MOVIE ACTOR

New York, May 4.-Roy Crawford,
now treasurer of Associated Exhibit
tors, me- came near qualifying as a
full-fledged movie actor instead of an
executive, when, with Mrs. Crawford
and Roy, Jr, he was driving here from
Topeka.
1--WE were somewhere in the Allie
ghanies between Wheeling, w. ", and
philadelphia" Crawford was telling
some of his friends, when Mrs. Craw-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14

The mind that is too ready at contempt
and reprobation is, may say, as a clench-
ed fist that can give blows, but is shut up
from receiving and holding aught that is
precious-tho it were heaven-sent MAMMA
George Eliot,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14
SEVEN DAY SENTENCE SERMONS.

A BARN maun creep or he gang-Scotch
Proverb.
Let no man presume to give advice 70
others who has not first given counsel to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14

Create in me clean heart. o God;
And renew a right spirit within me:
Psalms 81 10
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14

of escaping from yourself: but pardon your
failures, and quietly keep trying till you
succeed in gaining that full self possession
and religion.-william 'RounsaFille Alger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-14

What looks to thy dim eyes a STAIN,
in Gods pure light may only be
scar, brought from some wel1-won field
Where thou wouldst only faint and yield
Adelaide Proctor.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-06-17
LIGHTS GLARE FORTH ON CASTLE ROCK.
CRACCY BUTTE SUPPOSED TO HIDE GARDNER

as night fell and during the dark
hours the Kelso- Castle Rock
resembled a swamp where will o the
wisps disport themselves.
Lights glared forth on Castle
Rock, the craggy butte where Gard
ner was supposed to have been In
hiding yesterday and automobile
loads Of possemen held in reserve
proceeded slowly along the Pacific
highway in constant touch with head
quarters, both at Castle Rock and
Kelso. The business Of beating
about in the timber in the vicinity
of the two towns continued until
dawn today, when a lull was called
and further plans held up to await
further clues.
Officers Get Telephone Call.
Reports from San Francisco that
federal officers there had received a
telephone call from a man declaring
himself to be Gardner did not shake
the confidence of posse leaders near
here that the matinee idol bandit is
still a part of Castle Rock scenery.
A reorganization Of the posse took
place early today, with prospects Of
early afternoon or early tonight.
resuming the hunt either in the
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-06-17
FARM BUREAU SEEKS
INDIVIDUAL OPINION
ON VITAL QUESTIONS
Executive Committee Prepares Ques-
tiOnnaire for Answer by
Saturday, June 18

Expression of individual opinion
by the farmers of Thurston county
on matters relating to their economic
welfare is desired by the executive
committee of the Thurston County
Farm Bureau, according to G. G. As
pinwall, chairman Of the committee
and president of the bureau. For
this purpose QUESTIONABLE has been
prepared with great care SO that ex-
preston of opinion can come directly
from the individual instead of from
representatives. The committee re-
quests that the QUESTIONABLE be read
carefully and then voted upon, and
the answer sent to Mrs. w. D. Cook,
care of Farm Bureau Office, court
house, Olympia, SO as to be received
not later than June Is.
In order to prevent any misfnter-
probation Of the questions submitted
in the Farm Bureau QUESTIONABLE.
the following brief key of explana.
tion has been prepared.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-06-17
c. l.. CARROLL BECOMES
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT

New Official Is Graduate OF Belling-
ham Normal School in the
Glass of 1919
G. L. Carroll assumed Office as
county superintendent of schools to-
day, succeeding Mrs. Cassandra
Brown, who was appointed by the
board OF commissioners to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation Of
Frank ]. Brown, who became county
engineer.
Mr.. Carroll has been principal Of
the Roosevelt school during the past
two years and was elected county su-
perintendent at the general election
last fall. His regular term of office
dos not begin until next September.
but since Mrs. Brow nwas appointed
to the position, Mr.. Carroll was ell
gible to the position as soon as he
could qualify. which he did upon
completion Of the city school term.
Mr.. Carroll is graduate of the
Bellngham Normal school, class Of
1919.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-06-17
TARIFF WILL KEEP
CONGRESS OCCUPIED
UNTIL NEXT OCTOBER
BY L. c. MARTIN.

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 15.--
Tariff legislation will keep congress
busy until October.
The new tax bill may go over un-
til next session.
This was the answer today of con-
gressional leaders to President Hard
ing's clearly expressed wish that the
House and Senate would concentrate
on tax and tariff laws and then go
home.
Senator Penrose, chairman of the
Senate finance committee, in discuss
ing this question expressed the fear
that the injection of politics into
tax and tariff debates would seri-
ously delay final enactment of the
two measures. which, President
Harding said yesterday. constitute
the work for which he called the
present extra session.
II am going to do everything I
can to keep politics out Of it," said
Penrose. "And I expect democratic
leaders to do likewise. There should
be no politics in consideration Of a
tax bill. 1t may be impossible to
avoid 1t in considering the tariff, be-
cause there are two schools of
thought, the protectionists and the
tariff for revenue ideas"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-06-17
SIMS
FORCETS TICKETS
Steamship Officials at Southampton
Allow Him to Take Passage
Nevertheless

United Press
LONDON, June 15.-AdIhiral w.
s. Sims, world traveller, forgot his
tickets today in the rush of getting
away to Southampton in response to
Secretary Denby's demand that he
report in Washington. Sims left his
transportation at his hotel, but Of
ficials OF the steamship line promised
they would take care of him.
Several hundred British and Amer
lean admirers of the admiral sur
rounded him at Waterloo station,
many shaking his hand and wishing
him a pleasant voyage. Americans
gave him three typical American
cheers.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-06-17
FOUR OF wASHiNCToN's
HEROES LEAVE FRANCE
FOR BURIAL AT HOME

The Rocky Mountain club Of New
York has notified Governor Hart that
the bodies of four Washington sold
iers. who uled in France, left Hobo
ken June II for this state. The
bodies are scheduled to arrive in
Washington June 16 for permanent
burial.
The bodies arriving are those Of:
Tom F. Barto, Co. D. 4th Engi-
neers, Bellingham; Victor Kardorf,
Co. c, l09th Infantry, Colfax; Vic
tor Freed, Mobile Hospital 102,
Seattle; Otto Petrick, Co. c. 161st
Infantry, Seattle.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-06-17
AMERICAN LEGION
ELECTS DELEGATES
H0QU|AM CONCLAVE
Alfred William Leach Post
Selects Three Officers
Last Evening
WOMAN'S AUXILIARY
WILL PARTICIPATE
Commander DOhm Appeals to All
Service Men to Enter Cele.
sbrati0n Of Legion Day

Delegates to the annual state con-
vention Of the American Legion to
be held in Hoquiam July IA, is and
16 were elected last evening by the
Woman'a Auxiliary and the Ameri-
can Legion. =.
The American Legion delegates
selected to represent the Alfred WILL
lam Leach Post were Walter Ora.
ham and s. Raymond Holcomb, with
Charles A. Fullerton and Enoch An
derson as alternates.
The Woman's Auxiliary delegates
are as follows:f Mrs. John Dunbar,
Mrs. Fred Lewis, Mrs. Mark Fuller
ton; alternates, Mrs. Marvin Chase,
Mrs. w. B. Newcomb and Miss Ber-
nice Sapp.
New officers elected to fill vacan-
cies were; Kenneth Wilson, finance
officer; Roscoe Fullerton. historian; !;
and Virgil Westbrook. trustee.
In connection with Grand Army
convention, Commander Dohm ap-
pointed the managing committee for
the two big events OF Legion day.
June 20, as follows: Cornerstone
ceremonies - Roscoe Fullerton, w.
w. Rogers and Virgil Westbrook: !:
parade committee-Enoch Anderson,
Walter Draham and Charles Fuller.
ton.
An appeal has been issued by the
legion for all service men to partici-
pate in the legion celebration. They
are asked to wear their uniforms
regardless of the war they served in
or what branch of the service.
The Woman's Auxiliary vii serve
a lunch to the service men June 2s in
Capitol park.
The Ira L. Cater Post, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, and the Legion
have contracted for an exhibition at
the Ray theater June 20 and 21 of
the Powder River moving pictures
by the U.. s. Signal Corps. which
shows the 91st, 42nd and End d.
visions Of the U. S. army in service
in France.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-06-17
.|S0M WHITE
WILL SPEND LIFE
IN PEN|TENT|ARY
Governor Hart Commutes
Sentence Of Death on Ad-
vice of Alienists
BOY SLAYER HAS
SUBNORMAL MIND
Date Of Execution was Originally Set
for May II, but Reprieve
Was Granted

Governor Louis F. Hart has com.
muted the death sentence Of Isom
White, boy slayer. to life imprison-
ment after receiving the report OF
the two alienists appointed by the
governor a few weeks ago to examine
young White, who Is at the state
penitentiary at Walla walla, for
mental disorders.
In their report to the governor
Doctors Alfred s. Oliver, Jr., super
intendent Of the Eastern State Hos
pital at Medical Lake, and J. w.
Doughty, superintendent of the
Northern State Hospital at Sedro
Woolley. stated that after a careful
examination they found that White
is unmistakably underdeveloped
mentally and that his mentality is
about that of a normal boy of IL or
IA years Of age. White is now 81
years OF age. At the time he mur-
dered Lee Linton, an Everett taxi
driver, he was only 18 years Of age.
Reprieve Was Given.
White was sentenced on January.
1920, by Judge Bell Of the Snoho-
mish county superior court to suffer
the death penalty for the crime OF
murder in the first degree and May
20, 1921, was appointed as the day
on which the sentence by the court
should be executed.
On May II. 1921, in the abserce
of Governor Hart. Acting Governor
w. J. Coyle granted q 56-day re-
prieve to White after visit frlm the
boys parents and attorney, and after
a letter had been written him from
Warden Potts of the penitentiary and
DR.. Ingram. physician of the peni.
tentiary, to the effect that the pris-
oner was not mentally balanced.
White will serve his life sentence
in the state penitentiary where he
has been for the past two months.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-06-17
HIGHWAY COMMITTEE
AWARDS FOUR STATE
CONTRACTS ON ROADS
Tenino-Grand Mound Section Goes to
F. Nj. Mcclellan of Seattle
for $3.50, 5,O61.31

Four contracts for grading, paw
ing and bridge construction work ag-
gregating 1892 miles I'm extent and
$596,40O.53 in value were awarded
by the state highway committee yes
terday. Three of the contracts are
for work in eastern Washington and
one for work in Thurston county.
The awards are as follows:
Concrete paving of S.53 miles be-
tween Tenino and Grand Mound, in
cluding two small bridges. on the
Pacific highway in Thurston county
to F. M. Mcclellan of Seattle for
$2S5,
Grading. draining and surfacing
with crushed rock 2.17 miles, includ-
ing a concrete arch over the Chelan
river. on the Chelan-Okanogan high
way in Chelan county between Chelan
and Chelan Falls awarded to Henry &
McFee of Seattle for $54,721.40.
Grading and paving with concrete
four miles on the Inland Empire
highway from Colfax north in Whit
man county awarded to Alloway &
Georg of Spokane for $152,787.37.
Grading, draining and surfacing
with crushed rock, 5.22 miles Of the
Inland Empire highway between
Megison gulch and the Asotin county
line in Garfield county. awarded to
Grant, Smith & Co. of Seattle fof
$1O3,S3O.45.
The next meeting Of the state high
way committee will be July /.