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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-29
BIG DECREASE FOR FARMERS
Crops This fear Valued Mt S5,6T5,-
S77,OOO-For 1920, S9.O75, 1888 900.

crops IHlS n car AAEugru III 300 co.
s77,OOO-For 1920, S9.O75,Sss,O 900.
Washington. Dec. 28.-The eoun-
try's important farm crops We're
valued this year at $b.675,S77, 600
based on prices paid to farmers on
December LIST the depart of agricul-
ture announced today in its final esti-
mates.
The same crops which comprise
about ninety per cent of the value of
all farm crops We're valued last year
at s9,075, 3se,000.
The area devoted to the important
crops this year was 34Ss336, 900 acres
compared with 349, 100000 acres last
year
Final estimates of production and
value announced included:
Corn: Production 3.0S1, PSI. 600
bushels; value s1,s05, 624000,
Winter wheat: 5S7,0S2,000 value,
S55S,725, 1000.
l. Spring wheat production 207,S61,-
600, and value SITS. 900.
All wheat production 794, 5000;
value, $737,068,000
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CHICAGO PRODUcE MARKET.

Chicago, Dec 29-BUTTE8l-Market I'm.
settled. Creamery extras 40c; firsts, s21s
Q39e; seconds, 3oM32e; standards, 3TAe
EGGS-Market lower. Firsts, Al 1ac; or
binary firsts, 36G3sc; miscellaneous. s9@
4Oe: refrigerator firsts, 35M3Gc.
pOULTRY-Alive- lower; fowls. 16@25e
springs, 231ac; turkeys, 40c; ROSTERS. Ice
TATOES-Market firm Northern
white, sacked. s. O06220 ewt; Red River
sacked, $1S0l1S5; Idaho Russets, sacked,
s.. 40 cwt.; Minnesota, $500 cwt.
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SPLIT BIC PILE
Lawyers for McCOrmicks Have
Huge Task Ahead.
Husband Alone Has s5O,OOO,OOO
Wife Nearly Same.

chicago, Dec. 29,-Lawyers are
wrestling today with the problem of
dividing one Of the largest fortunes ip
the world as the aftermath of the rap
id fire divorce obtained yesterday by
Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mccormick
from Harold T. Mccormick, head /of
he International Harvester company
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-29
DAILY sTATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING" DECEMBER

No. 2 yellow, 43c; No. yellow. 42@ re !;
No. mixed, 42lac; No. > mixed, PC.
OATS-Narket nominal No. white,
3415 a 1866; No. mixed, 34G35c; No, red,
40n42c.
KYE-TGMTTc.
BARLEY--446i46 e.
KAFIR-s5cdS1. 02
BRAN-s1.0oQ1,05
SHORTS-S1,0341.1
HAY-Markst Unchanged
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-29
DIES UNDER CAR WHEELS.
Unidentified Man Killed When He
Tries to Board Moving Train.

Atehison, Kan. Dec. 28.-An I'M
identified man, about SO years old,
was killed here today when he fell I'M
der a freight train at the west edge
of the local yards.
Witnesses said the man was trying
to board the moving train when he
fell. The left leg was severed and he
died almost instantly. The man was
reported to have said his home was
in Davenport, iowa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-29
GIIz1RkgETs!:;!;.



Chicag 90, Dec. 9-WHEAT-Altho wheat
showed weakness at the opening today, the
market soon rallied and in some cases
scored gains. Bearish aspects of the gov
eminent report as to the 1921 crop appear
ed to be responsible for the initial dip. On
the other hand the succeeding upturns were
aseribed to Duying based on chances that
the government figures today on the 1922
crop would prove bullish, Strength in the
corn market tended also to encourage buy
ing of wheat Opening quotations varied
from &c to 112c lower. with May S114&
to $115H and July S1.04A to $1045s. but
the reaction was complete within an hour.
subsequently, talk of liberal purchases
Of seed Wheat>for Russia helped to lift the
market somewhat Prices closed unset
tied. Nc to 1%e net higher with 3, d May
CORN-Russian relief purchases togeth-
er with the reduction of the government
crop estimate had a bullish influence on
corn. After opening unchanged to 1se
higher, May 5415c to 545sc the market ad-
vanced moderately all around.
In the later dealings the December deliv-
cry underwent a material sag. The market
closed unsettled at &c net decline to 3sc
advance with May 55Q551se to 551sc.
OATS-Oats sympathized with corn
starting 1k6Ae off to Ac up, May 3S2zc
to 3sTsc, and later hardening for all de-
liveries.
PROVISIONS = Lower quotations on
hogs weakened provisions.
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Topeka. Kan. Dec. %.
Hens lbs. and over. 19c: under lbs,
He; old ROSTERS, ices springs and broilers,
h., lac: shaggy young rosoters, 14e; geese
under II los. per h., 12c; over II lbs, Inc !;
ducks under 81 lbs, 13e; over BIZ lbs.
ice; No. Heavy turkeys. IL lbs. and over
ssc; hen turkeys lbs. and over 3se: old
per lh. less; Gull turkeys. not wanted /;
young guineas. 40c each; old guineas, soc
each.
Eggs-1100 case. delivered, including
new cases.
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Topeka, Kan. Dec. ..
There Is no change in the poultry mar
ket With surplus stocks on hand from
the Christmas holidays. buying is dull and
products are accommodating.
Further heavy decline in the egg market
at New York and Chicago bring prices TO
low level for the season. Topeka prices
have declined from &c to &c per dozen.
Prices as follows: Hens. lbs. and over
19c per h.; hens, under lbs. he per ID. !:
cox, 1Oc per ID. bFoilers, IL to 2 lbs, 1se
per lb.; springs. = to lbs. lie per ID. !;
springs. over 4 lbs, Use, PEP b.; shaggy
black broilers and springs, &c per ID. less ::
young tom turkeys, over l. lbs. and hen
turkeys, over lbs. 35e per h.; old tom
turkeys, 2Sc per ID.
Eggs-on a graded basis, extra firsts,
z2c Per doz.s ordinary firstss BE per doz- /;
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KANSAS CRY GRATS MARKET.

Kansas City, Dec. 2o.-WHEAT-Re-
ceipts 81 cars: market unchanged to lie up.
No. l dark hard. $11sm1.22: Ne. dark
hard, Sl12G1-22; No. / hard, sf.0s@L17.
No. hard, 81. eS61.17; Nc. / red, 81 15e3
1,1G; No . red, S1-15
CORN-Market unchanged to he up.
No. white, 424zcs No. 3 white. AZ G42e !:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-29
ST. JOE LIVESTOCK MARKET.

st Joe, Dec. 29---HOGS-Reeeipt 1900.
Market 2D9a2 5c lower. Top, $3.50: bulk Of
sales, $7,1007.25.
GATTLE-Receipts 200. Market 15G2je
lower. Steers, $1,000 600: cows and heif-
ers. s. 256I9 80; calves, S5.000T. 60.
SHEEP-Receipts 400 Market steady.
lambs, S105OM 1.25; ewes. $3.50N425.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-29
ASKS FoR MARKET PROBE.
Connecticut Board OF Agriculture Sus-
picious Over Hides and Leather.

Hartford, Cnnn., Dec. 29.-The Con
necticut board of agriculture has writ
ten Attorney General Daugherty ask
ing him to order an investigation of
the hide and leather market.
The letter says that farmers get
only five or six cents per pound for
cattle hide, sometimes not over three,
and that the finished article is still
very high in price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-29
NEW YORK PRoDUCE MARKET.

New York, Dec. 2S.-BJTIEK-Mafk
easier. Creamery higher than extras, Ala
@42c.
extra firsts, 49M50c.
CHEESE-Market irregular. state whole
milk, flats, fresh specials, 21@M22c.
POULTRY-Aiiye. firm; chickens, goa
SOC; dressed poultry, weak; old ROSTERS, IL
M2Ic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-29
KANsAs CITY PRODUCE MARRIED.

Kansas City, Dec. 29-BUTFER-Mark
unchanged. Creamery. 43c; packing, 17e.
EGGS-Market &c lower. Firsts, 39c; sec
onds, soc.
POULTRY-AIarket firm; prices I'M
changed. Hens, 17a22e; springs 17@21c !;
turkeys, 40c.
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cHICAao GRAIN MARKET.

Chicago. Dec. 29-WHEAT- Close-Dec.,
81 121s May, $1175s July, 81 .e6ss
CORN-Dec. 4s1sc: May. DOC: July $3.50
0ATS-Dee., 341zc; May. 391zc; July,
40Ae.
RYE-Dec.. .s5Kc; May. disc.
! PORK-Jan, S1A95
LARD-Jan.. ss67; May, Se.fe
RIBS-Jan., $500; May. $500.
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TOPEKA POULTRY AND EGGS.


market quotations by premium Poultry
Products Co., 210 North Kansas avenue.
Topeka. KaR.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-29
KANSAS CITY GRAIN MARKET.

Orange of prices on grain futures on
the Kansas City Board Of Trade as report
ed by B. F. Christopher & Co., 800 New
England Bldg.. Topeka, Kan.)
Kansas City, Dec. 20.
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TOPEKA POULTRY MARX T
FURNISHED by the Topeka Packing to-,
corner Laurent aa6 Madison SITS. Tonekn.
KanSSs1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-29

seconds and checks. 22c per doz.. case in
Guided: without case, ic per doz. less.
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CHAIN RECEIPTS.

Furnished by Empire Commission CO.. 20I
New England Building, Topeka. kan.l
Dec. %. 1921.
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Kansas City, Dec. 29-CATTLE-Receip
1000 head. Market slow. steady to 25c
lower.
HoGs1Reoeipts 1000 head. Market 15c
to 25e ISwer. Bulk of sales $7.250D7 90 /;
top, $T65. ~
SHEEP Receipts 5000 head Market
steady Lambs s1f Ok
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-29
CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.

Orange Of prices on grain futures on
the Chicago Board of Trade, as reported
by The Empire Commission Co., 201 New
England BID
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

FURNISHED by Empire Commission Co., 20l
New England Building. Topeka, kan.)
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1.-THE following sales were made this morn
ing at the Stock Yards Kansas City, and
reported over long distance telephone
direct to the State Journal by Il. E.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-29
KANSAS CITY LIVESTOCK SALES.

10 a. m, Dec 90 1921
English sterling, 4191s; German marks,
54K
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Advance Publicity Scored.

"Ihere Is also evidence In this record
that representative of the press were in
formed the day before the grand jury re-
ported that there would be some out of
the ordinary procedure for them This is
reprehensibIe practice and cannot be too
lie before being ordered spread on the
record this courts duty would be plain
However, the presiding judges of the
circuit court ordered it to be SPREAD on
the record; ii thereby became accessible to
the public -
The remaining points relied on by the
defense, the opinion continues, apply to
certain indictments and particular counts
thereof
The opinion takes these up in detail
and rules in favor of the defense in its
first contention that the "so-caIIed embez-
element Indictment against Sterling Small
ficient in lacking the jury foremah-s en-
dorsement at the foot of the bill, with the
words a true BILL
Regarding objections made to soeaIIed
Evening star., 1921-06-16
The Saturday Half Holiday.

A brief laid before President Har-
ding by a committee OF the Federal
Employees Union brings up again a
question that has been pending some
years relative to Saturday half holi-
days in the departments in Washing
ton. Under the present practice half
holidays are bestowed on. the depart
mental force during the summer as a
matter of consideration. The law, how
ever, makes Saturday afternoon legal
holiday "for all purposes" throughout
the year. That statute has never been
observed in respect to the government
employees, although it has governed
the operation of banks and certain
other business establishments. The
brief filed with the President asks that
1t be applied to the departments
without discrimination and uniformly
throughout the year. The plain read
ing Of the law will not only justify
but requires this practice. If the work
Of the government for nine months Of
the year does not permit Saturday half
holidays the law should be amended.
As it stands 1t Is not a permissive
statute. It is explicit and inclusive,
and declares Saturday afternoon half
holiday at all seasons of the year. The
government, therefore, is in position
for nine months annually Of ignoring
its own mandate, not on the ground
Of emergency, but merely because it
has the executive power.
1t viii require but an executive or
Re - vut the.I Law into Snect thrcuxN
Evening star., 1921-06-16

out the year, As It win soon be in ef-
feet, also by executive order. for part
Of the year. II the departments are
thus, by action Of the President, put
upon the year.round Saturday half.
holiday basis and Congress feels that
this treatment Of the departmental
force is too liberal it can amend the
act and simply authorize the Prest.
dent to close the government Offices at
noon on Saturdays during the warm
weather.
1t is altogether illogical to observe
the law for three months and ignore
it for nine on the ground Of govern
ment requirements. For the work IN
the departments is no less heavy In
the three months Of summer than 1t
is in the nine other months OF the
year. Indeed. the work in summer is
heavier, relatively, for that is the sea-
son of the annual leaves and the office
forces sre depleted. Thus the govern.
ment in observing the law In part
does so, most strangely, at the very
time when there is need Of longer serv.
ice. If three months Of half holidays
are to be granted each year on the
score Of the state of the work that
time should be placed in the season
of minimum vacation, or midwinter.
1t is not, of course, to be believed that
this will be done. The point is cited
simply to show that the logical course
in this matter is to follow the law and
establish the half holiday on a year.
round basis, as the statute prescribes.
Evening star., 1921-06-16

living artists and psrsons Of artistic
tastes. who prefer the simpler life Of
social non.pretense to the ltvelier and
yet more formal existence Of uptown
Manhattan. Undoubtedly takers and
artistic shysters and imitators and self
indulgent poseurs and neurotic seekers
after sensation have gone villageward.
Much II happening there daily and
nightly that Is perhaps no worse than
doings in other parts Of town. But
because the Village" is, as it were. q
place apart. whatever happens there
Is regarded probably as = bit worse
than similar happenings in other parts
Of the not uniformly righteous and
well behaved New York.
1t will be interesting to see what
Mayor Hylan viii do to the Village"
to correct its faults. If he closes all
the tearooms and shops and studios
and freak restaurants and can keep
them closed he will have wiped out
one Of New York's famous institu-
tions, almost as much sought by tour
ing sightseers as Chinatown and the
Zoo.
Evening star., 1921-06-16
Greenwich Village.

Mayor Hylan Of New York has been
asked by delegation Of residents Of
that part of the big town that is known
as Greenwich Village" lying general
ly south and west of Washington
Square, to clean up the place in the
interest of public morality. The "vil-
lage," they aver, has gone to the bad.
Its "bohemianism'' has become base
decadence and degeneracy. The so.
called artistic life Of the villagers is
q mockery, and often camoufiage for
sheer viciousness. The protestants
pointed to eleven suicides in a year in
these precincts, directly the result Of
the base living Of the denizens. Tea.
rooms of not even q doubtful but q
flagrantly immoral character openly
flourish. Even the policemen on the
beat in the village" are infected with
the pollution Of the place. They can.
not see anything wrong, and they
often are inveigled into the riotous
bohemian life.
1t is not new story. This particu-
lar section Of New York has been un-
der criticism for a long time. It 10
very distressing to the real Villagers" /"
Rho ara 1enuinA aeaf. af.negnec3a09. caennn
Evening star., 1921-06-16
Jefferson and Prohibition.

With no hope Of receiving anything
at the hands Of the present Congress.
the vets are already laying plans to
capture the next. Candidates for nom.
nations to Senate and House are to
be interrogated, and then assisted If
they answer favorably. Men such as
are successful in the primaries are to
be further assisted In their campaigns
for election.
Mr.. Jefferson has been drafted for
service. Quotations from his writings,
arranged and interpreted to ally him
with anti-prohibitionism are in cir
culation.
Mr.. Bryan, ever on the alert when
prohibition Is involved, objects. Az a
Jeffersonian he has read, marked.
learned. and inwardly digested the de-
liverances Of the Sage Of Monticello.
and sets him right before the country
in the matter in question. He says in
a statement recommending a revival
of Jetfersonism as the remedy for the
ILLS that now beset his party:
Jefferson believed in a government
which shall restrain men from injur-
ing one another. and shall leave them
otherwise free to regulate their own
pursuits Of Industry and improve
ment.' The two parts Of this sentence
balance one another. Some have put
emphasis on the words leave them
otherwise Free. and ignored the first
part Of the sentence. The words
otherwise free are not intended to
suspend or weaken the demand that
that government shall restrain men
from injuring one another 1t Is
necessary to restrain big corporations
-man-made giants-from injuring
God-made men. and there Is no oc-
caSion to discuss otherwise free un-
til this restraint IL made effective.
Prohibition is intended to restrain men
from injuring one another and no
one has a right to quote Jefferson in
support Of policy which would leave
liquor dealers free to injure their fell
lows"
Mr.. Bryan is not the only dry on
the watchtower: and the prospects now
are that before the year is out the
prohibition issue. as it win enter into
next years campaign, will be we'll
under way. And, as in last years cam
paign, it will receive considerable
1ttention.
Evening star., 1921-06-16
On the Job.

The President, it is announced, will
remain on the job If it takes all sum-
mer.'' While Congress continues to
function he viii function-will be at
hand, ready to help in the dispatch of
public business.
That is the idea There is good
deal of public business to be dispatch
ed. and some Of it pressing in the ex-
reme. Both foreign and domestic
affairs are involved. All business cir
cles feel, and show. more or less anx-
iety. The times are most decidedly
out Of joint.
Congress is functioning steadily. 1t
vas ready for business when the gavels
fell, and it has not been loaf1ng at any
time since it began to do business
Now and then impatience is express
ed. One might suppose that with more
diligence ON the part Of Congress the
public's woes would by now be we'll on
the road to a cure.
Such expressions come from mex
perienced quarters, or from quarters
paying politics. The public's present
woes were not created in a day, and
hence cannot be cured in day. The
yaRt Of everyday wisdom is to face
a. situation squarely, and the part
q everyday courage is not to be ap-
palled by it. There it is. not to be
underrated or overrated for its diff
cufties and complexities. but tackled
with a recollection Of the fact that we
have faced other situations OF a grave
character, and by courage and patience
conquered them. We can do the same
thing again.
The President is game, and, as Con-
kress shows no disposition to run away,
matters should shortly begin to show
Improvement.
Evening star., 1921-06-16
SWimmin' Holes.

The days of wilted collars at the
Office and shirt-sleeves at the ball park,
of Palm Beach suits and iced coffee,
Of fly screens and mothballs are ap-
parenuy upon us. And as the annual
reaction to those days the youth Of
Washington. and with them many Of
the older residents of the city, are
thinking, with a hankering born Of
80-odd degrees Fahrenheit, of the re-
freshing qualities OF splash or a
swim in cool waters. A tub is all well
enough for the grown-ups, but to
Young America it is too closely asso-
ciated with phase Of life which is an
ordeal rather than a joy to make it
an acceptable substitute for swim
min hole And there are parental
recriminations if, splashing enthusi-
astically, one souses the bathroom floor.
So the youngsters Of Washington are
questing cool waters, green or sun.
splotched brown, as are the waters Of
pool or stream. The quest has carried
them to the municipal bathing beach
in numbers which cause the waters
Of that establishment to swarm with
humanity. But bathing beach, and
an overcrowded one at that, while bet
ter than a tub, lacks somewhat of the
glamour and fun with which the veri-
table "swimmin' hole" is identified in
the minds of those who know. Better
than nothing-oh, better by far than
nothing!-there is something in the
tramp with Bill and Skinney to some
secluded rendezvous with the gang;
in the race not to be the ninny in
volved in being ''last one in; in the
subsequent hour in and out Of the pool.
when the spray leaps high in exultant
water combat and a fellow can shout
as loud as his lungs permit-for which
no artificial convenience of a city-run
bathing beach can effectually substi.
tute.
There are today few such retreats
available to Washington boys. Yet
one has only to study the course of
f6OCk Creek Dis II "IuOS lHIOuSA llS
most beautiful park in the country to
see where two, or three. or six, or a
dozen such could readily be brought
into existence. The removing Of a
bowider or two here, the slight back
ing up Of the water there, the build
ing, at points where the woods
would hide the artifice, of shelters
where Bill and Skinney could con-
duct their miraculous contests in
doffing and donning, and the thing
a big thing for the boys of Washing
ton-would be done. One obvious i'm
pediment stands in the way of accord
ing this boon. The number of police to-
day assigned to the park is insufficient
to insure adult protection to the young
bathers. With modest increase Of
that number during the summer
months, those in charge Of the park
could and should, and undoubtedly
would, satisfy the hankering Of young
hearts for real, honest-to- goodness
"swimmin' holes"