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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-14
rs YEARS AGO IN Topeka
From the Columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL,

March n, 1896.
There was a large attendance at the
Farmers institute at Berryton Thursday
and Friday. Ex Mayor Harrison read i
paper Thursday ON Rotation Of Crops
County Superintendent Stout talked about
the branches of stud.- best ad6bted to the
common schools and County Commissioner
Scott Kelsey read paper 20 "Subsoiing.'
At the meeting Friday Prof. Z. A. Popeuoe
and Prof. Mayo of Manhattan participated
in the exercises.
Miss Harriet Mason entertained the Dup
icate Whist club last evening. Those who
played were Misses Fe Waters. Eleanor
Work. Emma Dennis. Ida Stagg Marie
Brooks. Virgie Payne. Pearl Mcfarland
Messrs Ernest Medlicott, Kenneth wharry
Stanley Mediicott, Luther NelIis, Fred Wa
tiers, Carl Nellis, John Work and Dean
Waters.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Black who have spenr
the winter In West Tenth street with Mr.
Throop hotel, April 1.
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strong hand on her arm, was half way
DOWN the walk that led from club
house to pier did she realize what the
introduction had meant. OF course
this was that brother of Gilbert's who
had charge of their New Engla nd
branch. She hadn't dreamed-they
didn't look in the least alike
Half brothers. the man uncanniIy
made answer to her unspoken thought
"Yo1-you're the girl in the fog
Yes answered Millicent. And
that sense of elation came again, naul-
tiplied. For some note of finality in
Paul Graham's voice assured her that
they would always be together in a
world of their own, as for that long
moment they had been alone in the
rift in the fog.
Copyright. 1921. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.1
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In these days of wage reduction,
Increasing idleness and labor unrest.
it is refreshing to note a call from
THE Colorado Fuel &>Iron Co. for / 900
additional workers, sent out last
week.
A few years ago the c. T. & I. man
agement was in almost continuous
zconflict with its employees over wages
and working conditions. principally
the latter. The public became greatly
aroused and its criticisms finally pene-
ttrated to the ears of the Rockefellers.
Owners of the plant.
Young John D. Rockefeller went
'out to Pueblo with the purpose of
acquiring first hand information re-
garding the trouble. He remained
several weeks. and gained the knowl-
edge which he sought. The result was
that he adjusted the, matters COM
planned of in a way that has caused
hem to remain adjusted ever since.
Mr.. Rockefeller's action probably
. marked the beginning of the great
change that has taken place in the
attitude of big business toward labor
and the public since the days when
Vanderbilt gave voice to the sentiment
.'the public be damned" One notable
feature of the change is seen in the
fact that big business is taking the
public into its confidence. Thru
pamphlets and the advertising columns
of the newspapers, lit is telling the
people exactly how its operations arc
rarried on. how much it makes, and
how it makes it.
It long has been the practice among
a certain element Of the population
to decry the big business of the coun-
try-to hold it upkto scorns as il all its
ways were evil. The demagogues arc
forever railing against it and in re-
cent years some opportunists iii gov
ernmental authority have turned to-
ward it in severe comment to win pop
ular applause.
There is no denying that big bust
ness hRs been guilty of wrongdoing-
that there have been times when 81
has shamelessly abused the public and
has even given defiance to the gov
eminent: times when it has indulged
in practices contrary to almost every
moral concept-times when it has
been guilty of systematic persecution
But the ways of big business are
different today from what they were
It has made great progress toward
fair-dealing.
There is evidence of this in the an
nouncement of the United States Stee'
corporation that it intends to dc
away with the seven-day week and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-14
ENTIRE FORCE WAS BUSY.
Officers Have Difficr'+ Task Putin
Mrs. WcatherIy Jail.

It took the whole shcTiff's force to
put Mrs. Willal Weatherly, negress. in
Jail Sunday night. Her husband. Will
liam -Weatheriy, who lives north of
Topeka, claims she is mentally de-
ranged He filed a petitio- IN the dis
trict court a few days a asking. a
divorce from her
Mrs. Weatherly was brought to the
county Jail by her husband. When J.
H. Iamberson, her father who is night
jailer, started toward her she pulled
out a revolver and threatened to shoot
him, officers said. Sheriff Miller. Os-
car Carlson, undersheriff. Deputies
Oscar Perkins and Robert Pendleton
and Lamberson had their hands full
in getting the gun away from her and
getting her into a cell.
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The passage by the senate of the
Hegler bill which authorizes the use
of alcohol or alcoholic drinks which
are confiscated in the enforcement of
the prohibition laws. by city and
county health officers. for medicinal
purposes, is a remarkable departure
for Kansas lawmakers. The conces-
sion which it involves, that liquor is
necessary for medicinal purposes, up
sets legislative traditions of many
years standing in this state.
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NEW QUARTERS FOR COLoRED Y
Hcadquarters Will Be Established at
40 kansas Avenue

The colored Y NJ C. A. will estab-
lish headquarters at 420 Kansas ave-
nue., moving its location from 119
West Fifth street, where the reorgan-
lied association has been meeting
since November 81.
The new headquarters of the colored
association became necessary with the
enlargement of the membership and
increased activities resulting from the
recent membership and finance cam
paign. according to Aaron Green. sec
rotary. The Kansas avenue location
Will have three rooms. On Fifth
street the association had only two
rooms
The colored American Legion post
will hold its second meeting at the
association rooms Tuesday night. All
tcolored ex-service men are urged to
attend and become members of the
Legion.
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THREE INJURED IN ACCIDENT.

fully injured Sunday afternoon when
g. motor car driven by Ed Pine ran
into a ditch near Twenty-ninth and
Kansas avenues.
\ Miss Rosa Gibbs. 531 North Kansas
avenue, sustained a dislecated shou!-
der, her sister, Miss Nora Gibbs suf-
fered a sprained back, and John L.
Dagon, S26 North Madison street. al
most lost his right ear and sustained
severe bruises and cuts. Pine was not
injured.
First aid treatment was admin
istered by DIR. L. S. Morrison. after
which the three injured persons were
taken to Stormont hospital. Miss
Nora Gibbs and Dagon were then
taken to their homes.
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CHANGES MADE AT GRAND.
New Ventilation System To Be In.
stalled at Once.

II. H. Buntley today takes up his
duties as manager of the Grand
theater. Mrs Elizabeth Irwin has
been engaged as publicity agent for
the theater. These announcements
were made Saturday night by Man
ager Roy Crawford. Buntley succeeds
Jack WILSON, who has managed the
Grand for the past season.
Mr.. Crawford also announced that q
new ventilating system will be INSTALL
ed at the Grand so that the theater
can continue its picture programs thru
the summer season.
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New York Produce Market.

New York. March 14-BUTTER-Market
easy Creamery, higher than extras, 4Sg
4S1ac.
extra firsts. 3f1xH35c-
CHEESE-Market firm State whole
milk. flats, held specials. 2STDl4c-
POULTRY-AIfye. firm y broilers- $50
Coo; dressed steady; western chickens,
boxei. 2s4ooc.
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KILL WEST SCHOOL BILL
Branch of State Normal viii Not Go
to Dodge CITY,

Branch Of State Normal VIII Not Go
to Dodge City.
The most tenacious fight of the ses-
sion in the senate was waged in favor
Of the Dodge City normal school Sat
urday afternoon. The debate on
whether the state should establish a
new branch of the state normal at the
city on the plains. lasted thruout the
day. Late in the afternoon it came to
vote. When the vote stood fourteen
for the branch and nineteen against
and all the senators in the chamber
had voted, Senator Price asked for
call of the senate.
The sergeant-at-arms was sent sour
rying, to get the absentees and brought
them in, one by one. Finally there
remained absent only three of them
and the vote stood twenty-five against
the branch school and fifteen for it.
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Samuel Gompers insists that the
water should be squeezed out of rail-
road securities before wage reductions
are put into effect. But what can it
matter how much water there is in
the stock so hong as the roads are pay
ing no dividends?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-14

Wall St, New York, March 1f.-SToCKS
I-Lfquidation and short selling provoked
additional impairment of values in the
stock market today. Oils, shippings and
steeIs were again most vulnerable Sales
approximated 100000 shares
Depression became more marked in the
final hour. Atlantic Gulf. Reading, Bald
win and Tobacc6s and motor specialties
leading the further reaction The closing
was weak.
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Kansas City, March 14.-HAY-Market
unchanged.
AIfalfa-Choice. So J0G23.00; No. I, 5000
G22 90: standard xI7.J0N2000; No. ., S14.o0
d16.OO; No. 3, $500 1880.
Prairie-No L, S1350d15-00; No. 2, 5000
G13.oO: No. 3. S7.ooGf1000.
Timothy-No. /, S19 00d 21.00. standard.
81 J0d1s.50; No. 2. s14-50G17.O0; No. 3,
s11. 00GI14.0c.
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ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY E. HOUSE
(From ladelphia Public LedrAs.)

The columns refusal to worry
further about the Yellowstone elk may
be recalled by some. Those upon
whom the matter of the Yellowstone
elk rests heavily will be glad to learn
the elk now have another and more
powerful worrier acting in their be-
half In recent issue Mr.. Henry
Fords not very well-known Dearborn
Independent says: 1.-The threatened
determination of the elk herd in Vel
lowstone park is alarming the officials
in charge. On the ranges where ordi-
narily thousands of these animals are
seen only a few have been observed
this winter"
1t seems to us u great field of use
fulness has thus been opened up to
the Dearborn Independent. The In
dependent has nothing important to
do. Let it take over the matter of
the Yellowstone elk and do the worry
ing for the entire country.
At any rate. we hereby appoint the
Independent to represent the column
in~the matter. If there are those who
still wish to do their own worrying,
we shall not OPP Sc the indulgence;
but we believe better results could be
obtained if the worrying were CEN
tralized.
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MRS. CARRIE-P. OLSON, age &C. died
March II. at 424 Paramore street. Funeral
services will be held at 2 80 O'Clock Tues
day from Penwell's chapel. Burial in To-
peka cemetery,
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS

MRS. CATHARINE HUGHES. age 30,
died today at her home. 924 Fillmore street
The funeral will be held at 3 o'clock Tues
day afternoon from the residence. Burial in
Topeka cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-14

The funeral of Amos Beeler. age IS, who
died March 10, in Atchison, was held at
O'Clock this afternoon from the Masonic
temple. Burial in Topeka cemetery.
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The funeral of Mrs. Marie E. Hitler ge
SO, who died Saturday at the home of
her daughter. Mrs. Joseph Hanion, was
held at O'Clock this afternoon from the
Pleasant Hill Methodist church. Burial
in Half Day cemetery
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-14

ROBERT NAE1ON, age 81, of SIG Kan
sas avenue, died Sunday morning in a
local hospital. The body will be taken
to Beloit, Kan, for burial and funeral
services
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-14

New Orleans Cotton Market
New Orleans, March 14.-COTTON-Spot
quiet land unchanged: middling. 1918.
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CYNTHIA A. TYLER, age ST, died March
IL at the home of her daughter, Mrs. ].
be brought to Topeka for burial, and the
funeral will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday
from ConwelIs funeral(heme. on East
Eighth avenue. Burial in Topeka GENE
terry.
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Local Mention

DR.. w. E. B. Dubois, editor, author
and one eff the leaders of the coforec
race, will lecture In Topeka at the
high sch pol auditorium Tuesday eve.
ming. March 10, under the auspices OF
the Topeka Grade Teachers Study
club. Doctor Dubois is the author OF
The Quest of the Silver Fleece, The
Soul of the Black Folk" and "Dark-
water" an of which are mastery deal
ings with the race problem. he Is
york in the interest of the colored
race. His education was gained at
Fisk university. Harvard college anu
Heidelberg, Germany.
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VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Pertinent Question and Answers
Given and Gathered Today by
State journal Reporters.
TODAY'S QUESTION.
Is the world getting better, or worse ?
The Answers.

| The Answers.
| Ralph Cav, assistant county attor-
| ney: Il think it is getting better.
People are increasing in intelligence
and are becoming better educated and
| more broad-minded. This can be seen
in comparisons in our own history be-
tween this enlightened age and the
early days in the Colonies when
women were burned at the stake be-
cause they were believed to be
/ witches
William c. Kelly, police docket
clerk: The crooks are, getting
smoother, but 1 think the world is get
ting better anyway. The newspapers
/ are a powerful influence in this direc-
fact that the evfl-doer- can seldom get
away with his crime without punish
ment"
Mrs. Bessie Reid, deputy county
clerk: Sometimes L think one way
and sometimes another. 1t must de-
pend upon the humor I'm in when 1
think OF it.
PM Zimmerman, anti-Nonpartisan
leaguer-"Y People are beginning
ito think more fundamentally, and as
they grow more intelligent the world
lis bound to grow better. For instance
thousands of people in Kansas who
didn't know what an insidious and
poisonous thing Socialism is, are be-
ginning to understand it. And this
legislature has consistently swatted
everything which smacked of Social
ism. I think that is a sign that the
world is growing better"
Arthur S. McNay, assistant secre-
tary state senate-"Can't say that I
have noticed any difference since I've
been in it."
Louis d. Breyfogle. assistant calen-
OAR clerk. state senate: ID if I
know. Say, see that girl in the gall
lery! Amt she pippin?"
DR.. Edmund J. Kulp, pastor of the
First Methodist church, do not
think that that question can be an
tswered with one word. Thru the
swing of millenniums the world is
growing better. But in this age we
are in slump. Our standards of pri-
vate morals, of business morals and
public moraIsSare lower. We are COM
ing to turn of the tide for the bet
ter, tho, think. because we are real
fizing the lowness of the standards and
the vast room for Improvement "A
Kansas City banker prominent in bust
ness life all over this section in dis
Icussing financial troubles, said that he
thought ordinary business honesty had
failed and that it was no wonder there
were financial troubles" =
n. W. Benning, secretary Central
~ NJ c.. A.-''Decidedly better. I
think we are living in the greatest age
of the worlds history"
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Box-office Advcnturcs-u

Miss Madge Leasing doubtless will
regret to learn that, despite the pleas
ant epistolary exchange between US.
We probably shall be unable to crafty
our desire to look upon her in the
moment of her recrudescence. We
know of no foreshadowed joy which
we could relinquish with more reluc-
lance.
On Tuesday afternoon we went into
the Forrest theater and asked the
superior young person in the box Of
nee II we might purchase two good
seats for the current evening perform
Tance. He proffered us two in the
eighteenth row.
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DR.. Lyagar. Dentist. sos Kansas Ave.

Adv.
The Rev. 3. H. Hobbs, pastor OF
the. First Evangelical church, has
gone to Hutchinson to attend the
church conference of that denonina-
ton. The Rev. Mr.. Hobbs, who has
been local pastor for five years, PRIV
ably will be returned to Topeka.
DIR. T. B Anderson, formerly pastor
of the First Presbyterian church, VII,
speak before the community schooi
for religious education tonight at inc
First Methodist church.
RAYMOND. Chiropodist. orpheum Bldg
Adv.
night the advanced pupils of Mrs. r.
A. Mccoy and Miss Elizabeth Schlek,
pupiL of Paul Lawless, Will give inc
program A silver offering to be takei.
at the recital will be for the benent O
the p. E. o. Sisterhood
short cut home resulted In tho
loss of a hand for Fred Buckley. lo1o
North Polk street. Sunday nign--
While passing between two poX cars
at the Union Pacific crossing on
Sortl, Quincy street the train started.
causing him to fall. The wheels ran
over his hand He was taken TO Stor-
mont hospital in Penweffs ambulance
and the hand amputated at the wrist
List your property with the shaw
nee Investment Company. Phone
5050-Adv.
After responding to fake calls nearly
every day, the police ended the week
by answering a call for the lung motor
to 1929 North Kansas avenue early
sunday morning They found there
was no such number and that all the
houses in that vicinity were dark.
Officers believe the calls came from
some one who had been arrested anq
is taking this way to get even.
Art Lamp Shop. Silk Shade makers.
1923 Kansas avenue tupstairs). Jean
P.ckens Swanson, designer.-Adv.
Safety razor blades sharpcned bet
ter than new. 35c-45c dozen. Culver
Hardware CO-Ady
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Word was received In Topeka today of
the death of L. A. Clarke, age g. at Salt
Lake City, Utah, Mr. Clarke was for a
number of years telegraph operator for the
Western Union at Topeka and left here
four yers ago. He is survived by his
, widow, Mrs. Mary E. Clarke Of Topeka, and
five children, Saul Shreve Clarke. August
Wahl Clarke and E. A. Clarke, Jr., Of To-
peka: C. c. Clarke of Kansas City, Mo-.
and r. n. Clarke of Denver. Funeral an
| nouncements will. be made later.
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Now, We do not care to sit in the
eighteenth row and we asked the SUI
per1or young person if We could buy
such seats as we desired for Thursday
evenings performance. He advised
US that such seats as he might offer
for Thursday evening would be even
less to our liking. And So a sad-eyed
man with protuberant Adams apple
passed reluctantly into the street with
out the cherished pasteboards.
OF course, we might have gone
across the street and purchased choice
seats for either performance at any
motel ticket agency. But it is a sort
of principle with US not to pay the
extra prices eXacted by agencies. And
We might go TO the Forrest tIfeater
again, but we have not the hardihood
to ask again the superior young per-
son to confer upon us the boon of
tickets for "Erminie.' We couldn't
go thru with that second time. And
so we definitely abandoned the
projected journey along the golden
shores Of memory.
After all it is a sort of joke on the
Forrest theater. We had intended to
write something about the show. 1t
isn't every theater that has a chance
to get a, column of friendly publicity
on the editorial page of this ncy..s-
! paper.
| One of the Shakespereans, who ap-
parently wishes to argue the matter.
writes to ask how we>know We don't
like Shakespeare's plays. We once
made a hasty calculation and decided
| that we had written reviews OF about
100 plays. good, bad and indifferent.
| OF these. we figured about $50 had
been performances of Shakespeare
deathless works.
That's how we know.
- The case of DR.. Charles Cation, of
Kansas, who lost a $500 diamond
ring while operating. was sufficiently
unusual to get into the Associated
Press report. We trust Dactor Cation
will pardon us for assuming that he
knows the whereabouts of his scissors
and his roll of gauze.
We are again so moved by President
! Ebert's proclamation that We quote a
world war imposed upon us unheard-
of dems nds impossible of fulfillment
Not only ourselves, but our children
and grandchildren would have become
! the work slaves of our adversaries by
! our signature. We were called upon
to seal a contract which even the work
of a generation would not have suf-
feed to carry out"
1t Is. indeed, a sad and narrowing
| situation. But the Germans should
have taken the present contingency
into account when they invaded Bel
GUM.
You may recall, in the connection
that Germany once threatened to make
America pay for the war. We recur
to the incident for the purpose of ask
ing how Germany is getting along
with its collections.
Meanwhile, we imagine Germany is
less perturbed over the future thar
she is credited with being, The Ger
mans know the United States will feed
them if they get hungry. If the 'fil-
| lums" can be made to show a suffi-
cient number of emaciated children
the food supplies will at once go for
ward.
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Mrs. Bessie Reid, deputy county
clerk: Sometimes 1 think one way
and sometimes another. 1t must de-
pend upon the humor I'm in when /
think OF it.
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New York stock Market.

Lords Flowers satisfy. Tel. ST.
Adv
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Meanwhile. we imagine Germany is
less perturbed over the future than
she is credited with being, The Ger
mans know the United States will feed
them if they get hungry. If the Fill
lums" can be made to show a suffi-
cfent number of emaciated children.
the food supplies will at once go for
ward.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-14

DR.. T. B Anderson, formerly pastor
of the First Presbyterian cnurcn, VII,
sneak before the community school
for religious education tonight at the
First Methodist church.
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= The case of DIR. Charles Cation, of
Kansas, who lost a $500 diamond
ring while operating. was sufficiently
unusual to get into the Associated
Press report. We trust Dactor Cation
will pardon us for assuming that he
knows the Whereabouts of his scissors
and his roll of gauze.