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j. s. SENDS
DUTCH NEW
N()TEONO|L
Message Understood to Take
Issue With Arguments Put
Forth by The Hague Govt.

The United States has dispatched
another note to the Dutch govern
ment dealing with the oil contro-
versy in the Sumatra region, 1t was
stated officially here today.
U. s. TAKES ISSUE.
While the State Department de-
clined TO make public the text Of the
note. II is understood that IL takes
strong issue with some OF the argu-
ments advanced recently by the
Netherlands government In it's COM
munication to this Government. -.
!. The controversy between. wasfains,
ton and The Hague arose over the disty
crimination -'practfced> 'by--fhe 'Dutck
government against American inter
ests principally the Standard OF
Company In the Dtambi fields OF
i'Sumatra. This discrimination against
American capital led to an energetic
protest from Secretary OF State
Hughes some weeks ago.
DUTCH MAKE DENIAL
The Dutch government replied to
this protest with a general denial of
the State Departments contention.
stating that contracts for the devel-
opment of the Djambi fields had been
entered into by the government with
the Batavia (Royal Dutch Shell
Group) before the application from
the American interests had been re-
ceived. other points raised by Secre-
tary of State Hughes also were denied
by the Dutch government
In the note dispatched today. II Ia
understood that Secretary of State
Hughes takes up the Dutch arguments
In detail and reiterates almost In their
entirety the protests made in the first
American note.
...... REVIEWS SITUATION.
The Dutch contention that the APP
plication OF the American interests
for rights in participation was re-
ceived after the closing Of the BATAVIA
contracts Is fatty denied, It Ia under
stood.
The note was said TO be lengthy and
reviewed the world oil situation at
considerable length.
The Dutch foreign office took the
position that there is no discrimina-
tion against foreigners in the devel-
opment Of the fields and II expressed
the hope of seeing American capital
participate. The Dutch government
regretted" that II had not been soon
er informed of the American desire to
participate.
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GERMAN MINERS TO AID
BRITISH COAL STRIKERS

BERLIN. May s1.-The German
Federation of Miners has voted p
5OO,o0o marks for the assistance of
the striking coal miners in Great 81
tain, said q Giessen dispatch to the
Tagelische Rundschau today.
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FATHER OF FIFTEEN ENDS
HIS LIFE BY HANGING

WHEELING. W. Va, May 31.-
Frank Burns, a coal miner OF Boyd
Vile, committed suicide by hanging
to the ceiling of his bedroom. He
leaves ffteen children, the oldert
twenty-six and the youngest fftet n
months old. His wife also surviyeA
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-31
CITES URGENT NEED FOR
MORE FEDERAL JUDGES

More Federal Judges are urgently
needed, Col. Thomas B. Fielder. New
York, today told the House, Committee
on Revision of Laws.
Some district Judges are three years
behind in their dockets. he said, and
I'm many districts the one or two
judges allowed are not sufficisnt to
handle all the court work.
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HIGH BENCH ADJOURNS
AS TRIBUTE TO WHITE

The United States Supreme Court
met today and Immediately adjourned
until tomorrow out OF respect for the
late Chief Justice Edward Douglass
White.
Decisions viii be handed down to-
morrow In a number Of cssea
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new
REPUBLICS
)()|NSOV|ET
ALLIANCE.
European Balance Of Power
Now Hinges on Action OF
United States.

LONDON, May 31.--A new en-
tente, headed by soviet Russia, y
being created in the East and Near
East, and when it Is completed IT
viii form = powerful military and
political organization stretching
|; from the Arctic ocean to the Ara
bian sea and occupying about half
of Asia.
Treaties of alliance have already
been negotiated between the follow
ing countries:
|, Soviet Russia, Nationalist Turkey.
Persia, Khiva, Bokhara, Georgia.
Armenia and Azerbaijan.
ARE ALL REPUBLICS.
Some of these countries (aiI are nov
under republican form of govern.
ment) are newly created and their
names are unfamiliar in Europe and
America Khiva. Bokhara, Georgia,
and part of Azerbaijsn were formerly
included in the old Russian empire.
as IL existed before ,the war, Ma
tionalist Turkey Includes most of Ana
tolia, "the Prussia OF the old Ottoman
empire"
Soviet Russia has made powerful
efforts 60 form an alliance with AZ
ghanistan, but the result Is not
known. Under the commercial treaty
between Great Britain and Soviet
Russia, signed on March ia. the Rus-
sian Soviet governments pledged itself
| to refrain from any attempt by MILL
| tary or diplomatic or any other form
OF action or propagandan. to encour-
| age any of the peoples of Asia in any
| form of hostile action against british
Interests or the British empire, espe-
4 cislly in India and in the independent
state of Afghanistan."
WILL HAVE POWERFUL
INFLUENCE.
This new entente will have q
powerful Influence in the future,
| not only upon Asia, but Europe a.
well as its destinies will be guided
by Moscow. Even IL Lenin goes no
further in Europe than he has gone
\ at present, the Continental powers
must reckon with Soviet Russia in
the future.
Aside from the eastern and near,
eastern entente, Russia exercises
strong influence in all the new
states formed on the Baltic, ana
Finland. which has entered into a
treaty of peace with Moscow. Soviet
Russia is now at peace with Poland.
but Is an ally of Lithuania, and
Lithuania is complaining OF bad
\ treatment from Poland.
II is not regarded as likely that
Russia and Germany will go fur
| ther than negotiating a commercial
treaty, although II IL unqueetionsd
that they would have formed a close
alliance II Poland had. been crushed
by Russia In the war of 1920.
TRIPLE ALLIANCE NOW DEAD.
The old ("triple alliance" I'm Europe
| Is now dead. but the new accord. of
| which Russia is the center. takes Its
| place.
There are now three groups Of pow
| ers:
The AnGIo-Frerch ccmbt.stser,
with Belgium and Italy ss allies.
The "Iittie entcrte.- q new ALI
| ance Of lIovskts, Juao-
| slsyts, and Rumanfs
The new Eastern and Ne.r-Ea.s-l
ern accord.
Germany, formerly allied in the
war with the old Austro- Hungarian
empire. Bulgaria. and Turkey. is now
isolated. She Is neither a member
OF any treaty combination. nor the
League of Nations.
Some European statesmen hold that
! II will depend upon the United States
as to whether the old balance Of
j power idea shall prevstll In Europe.
II America enters the League of Ma
Z
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DIR. Williams, a woman teach
ing shorthand at Columbia Uni
versity, says better literature
would make better people.
The "Elizabethan type Of lit
, srature made the people tingle
with new life" she says. But
DIR. Williams is mistaken. II is
the people that make literature,
no. literature the people.
When you look at the literature
in the books or newspapers of
. period, you have before you q
looking glass rejecting the peo-
pie of the psriod.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-12

One of the most radical coats shown
upon Euclid avenue was of midnight
blue peachbloom cut la cossack. 1t
buttoned with huge metallic button
from hem to narrow shoulder. The
INDEBTED back fell in supple folds and
the entire effect was of the foreign
military.
Hats also approve of gray and blue
combination. ChapeauX of crepe de
chine or silk fabric combined with
glazed straws are being worn consid-
erably here. In fact, the midwest lady
donned her spring lid" with fully as
much time to spare as had the Gotham
woman of fashion.
Little ribbon dingle-dangles and
frayed silk streamers that hang over
the hat brim and whisk the ear lobes
are the favored form of hat trimming
There seems to be a dearth of feather
trimming. Stiff flowers made of pat
ent leather, kid or metal limitations
are first in favor.
The midwest woman is gradually
reaching the stage where she does not
gasp at a semi-revealed knee. During
the winter months, skirts were of quite
a demure length, but they are going
up as the new season comes in.
Golashes sprint under new spring
suits fully as floppingly as they did
in the winter months. A count taken
of the feminine feet upon Euclid ave-
nue. found only one woman in eleven
who was not wearing the favored 60
lash.
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Emporia are spending the weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. Phil Eastman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Barber and son,
Oliver Perry, MIR. and Mrs. Carl Nc
Keen and daughter, Jean, of Law
renee, will be Sunday guests OF Mr.
and Mrs. Otto B. Cutler.
F'urs remodeled at Baer's Hat Shop,
SO Kansas avenue.-Adv.
Miss Marjorie Smith of lola is
spending the weekend at the Theta
house.
Miss Carolyn Thorpe of Haven. Kan.
re-entered Washburn this week and
will live at the Sigma Alpha Icta
house.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. D. Updegraff re-
turned Friday from a short stay in
Wichita.
y Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Van Dorp of Sill
yer City. n. M, are visiting Mr.. Van
Dorp's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Van Dorp, on Polk street.
DR.. Warren E. Jeffrey. Phone 702.
Extraction of teeth. 706 Kansas Ave.
ADV.
Mrs. Mabel Spicy and sister, Miss
Adelaide Seeds, who are teaching at
Frankfort, will spend the weekend
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H.
E. Seeds.
Mrs. W. D. Green of Holton is the
guest of her brother, Mr.. E. F. Weaver,
and family in West Tenth avenue.
Mrs. w. S. Kerr of Hutchinson is
visiting her sister, Mrs. W. F. Thomp-
son. and Mr.. Thompson, 1885 College
avenue.
Miss Grace NJ. Stotts of Bonner
Springs and Miss Mildred Jay of To-
ronto are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. E. E.
Kelley in Topeka boulevard.
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FASCINATING LITTLE STUDIO
Marguerite Koontz, Clever Society
Girl, Gives Instruction In the
Study of the Dances.

Tucked away on the third floor of
a Kansas avenue business house one
Of Topeka's clever society girls has a
fascinating little studio. The cream
colored walls are hung with blue and
gold Japanese stencils and soft lights
shade the room where each day
groups of girls and children toll with
all earnestness over their pas ct
point with Miss Marguerite Koontz
as the terpischorean instructor.
Miss Koontz established her studio
several weeks ago and since that time,
each afternoon some of the diminutive
members of Topeka's best families. as
well as the ''flappers' and older girls,
may be found spending many labor
ing hour perfecting the '.Jate-tours"
of the more advanced technique.
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MIDWEST NOT STRONG FOR FIFTH
AVENUE FASHIONS
BY ssMARJORIE''
written for The State JournaI.)

Cleveland, Feb. 1.-THE midwest
ern woman is championing the cause
of conservative fashions.
The shopping district of this city
has been offering spring styles for
some weeks. Everything, however
dresses, shoes, hats, gloves, coats.
wraps and suits-are quite different
from the garish, frilly effects as seen
in the Fifth avenue shops in New
York
Most window displays are featuring
pale pearl gray and delft blue. This
color scheme is used in hats, dresses
and blouses. Blue taffeta, barred and
checked. with the gray and gray silks
striped with the blue, are vet!r con-
spicuous. These crisp little taMetas
continue the winter line of low waist
line and wide ribbon sash.
Afternoon dresses favor gray georg-
cite or crepe de chine. They are cut
with the loose mandarin sleeve, flow
ing bell cuff, and are often beaded
with pearl or iridiscent beads down
the long front panels. Glycer;nd rib
bon sashes with huge bows are used
in a contrasting color.
Coats are almost entirely in the
castor or tan shades. They are made
of soft pile fabrics such as peach
bloom, duvet de laine, or bolivia and
are embroidered in a harmonizing
floss. The majority of the models
have the loose. unbelted back with
convertible choker collar
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According to Miss Koontz, one of
the greatest benefits derived from the
study of the dance is the opportunity
for self-expression. I'm dance crea-
ton the personality OF the young
dancer is carefully studied and deveI-
oped to SO high a degree that she
expresses herself almost entirely thru
the medium of rhythmic motion, the
joy of which only the dancer IS truly
capable of approaching" Miss Koontz
herself is a dancer of no little ability,
and has been the instructor OF several
OF Topeka's most prominent terpsi-
chorean artists. She works directly
with each Of her fifty students and in
spires them with that charming bit
of her personality which gives them
the incentive for progress in their art
Merrell Gage, Topeka's sculptor,
whose studio and home is now In Kan
eas City, was SO inspired with Miss
koontz's Interpretation of a dance ar
ranged for her by Miss Ruth st. Denis
that he is now working on a marble
figure of her in the dance ana which
will be called THE Crescent Moon"
= 4. =
PASS THE APPLES.
Roy X. Mouiton in New York Mail.
Back in 1890, 3. V. (Before Vol
stead, some lyricist took a shy slant
at prevailing feminine styles, COM
pared them with the modes affected
lad, us 1t Time to Pass the>Apples
Round Again." The apple. we will
state, caused Eve to run home and get
inside of some more wardrobe. If that
song writer could have gone, with me
on my recent tour of fashion investi-
cation. he would have not begun his
song, 'Is it. but would have started
out bravely 1T is
When I came to this town a corn
fed country boy, full of illusions, home
cooking and modesty, I was shocked.
That was many years ago when peo-
pie used to pay real money to see bur-
lesque shows instead of walking on
the avenue and getting them for moth
| ing. Nowadays it is said some men
refuse to go into the theater at all for
| fear they will miss something.
| Since that time 1 have become one
of the regular resident shock absorb
ers and nothing would startle me now
except to see a flapper on the street
| completely covered by clothing. A
| shock of that kind might be fatal.
Before I started on my recent in
vestigation of styles along Broadway
and Fifth avenue, I borrowed a large,
heavy fur overcoat from a rich car
| toonist friend of mine. I did not want
| to make the trip in the severe weather.
| but there has been so much discus
sion of the effect of modern women's
dress upon the morals of the men
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hereabout that there was urgent need
of a thoro expose
The first young woman I encoun-
tered wore a small turban, $1,000
sable coat which reached from point
somewhere below her shoulders to g.
point slightly above her knees, a pair
of gauze stockings, a pair of slippers
and nothing else that was in sight I
describe this costume in detail because
eshe rest were all like it.
AS a result of my investigation
find that the men keep right on at
tending to. business in spite Of the
styles, and If September Morn stood
in Times Square and shivered all day
long she wouldn't attract as much of a
crowd as a young lounge lizard dem
onstrating a safety razor in some drug
store window.
New York men have got all over
the habit of looking at Ford cars, sub
way kiosks and short skirts.
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Are you ready for a newshat? Well,
Kahr & Phillips are ready for you with
a. splendid assortment of satin and
georgette hats, the very thing for these
snappy days when you want to look
s'pert" along with the weather-and
prices-say, they will suit your money
bag. S25 Kansas avenue.
If you must kill time, why not try
working it to death
II you are in need Of anything in
the electric line, don't fail to see E. L.
Overton before you buy. Bert carries
a big stock of griIls. coasters, perco-
lators, irons, and all electric appli-
ances; also the wonderful Thor
washer and ironer, which makes wash
day a pleasure. Learn to do every
thing electrically and you will find 1t
cleaner and cheaper. Nov remember
that Bert Overton is the man to see,
and hurry quick.
Goodby. meet you next week in the
shadow of the Mills building.
(Advertisement.)
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TWENTY YEARS AGO
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Looking Blackboard in Society
Columns of The Stdte Journal



Miss Alice Prescott and Mr.. C. L. Brown
of Arkansas City were the guests of honor
at an S o'clock dinner given Monday eve
ming by Mr.. and Mrs. Walter N. Gust at
their home in Potwin. 1t was a pink and
white dinner and the appointments were
perfect in every detail. Covers were laid
for eighteen and all were seated at one
long table. The chandelier lights overhead
had dainty pink and white shades, while
half way to the ceiling was a butterfly
bow of pink ribbon with floating ends.
Pink satin ribbons extended from the
chandelier to the sides of the table, ending
in big bows. In the center of the table
was q square of Mexican drawn work over
pink satin, on which was a round mirror
rejecting an exquisite cut glass Venetian
vase set with jewels, which Miss Redden
brought from Germany for the hostess.
1t was filled with pink and white carna-
TONS At either end of the table were
candelabra with pink and white shades.
They rested on squares of Battenburg
over pink satin: Twined around the mirror
and the candelabra were festoons of as
were ferns and carnations. Supper was
served in ten courses. The guests present
were: Miss Prescott, Mr.. Brown, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Prescott Of Kansas City, Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Cole, Miss Winnifred Pres
colt, Miss Lolita Ranney of Arkansas City,
Miss Rosamond Horton, Miss Edna Crane,
Miss Pearlade Prescott, Mr.. John Waters,
Mr.. Dana McVicar, Mr.. Tom King, Mr..
Earl Mcdowell and DIR. d. Z. Esterly.
Mrs. A. B. Quinton is able to be out after
a months Illness
w. L. Trump left today for New York
on a business trip.
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joy forever and will always be worn.
Ana as 1 told you last week Warren
MS have hand mades in great num-
bers. They are all Butterfly.
The steno who wrote: this is the
first time England has f1oated alone
in US" was not familiar with the ex-
preston ito float a loan"
We all can't be beautiful, but we
can all improve our looks some and
The Viola Beauty Shop" can help
you, yes it's new and truly is a beauty
shop, all new. and strictly up-to-date,
with all modern electrical treatments
of any kind of facials. also manicur-
ing and shampoo work. And listen
only distilled soft water is used in all
work. The Marenella and Kalos pre-
parations are used and sold. The Viola
and is for ladies exclusively. GIG Kan
| sas Avenue. Phone 2910.
The reason we have two eyes and
only one tongue, is because we are sup
posed to see twice as much as we say.
Hey! you fellow, tomorrow night Is
the night. Better take her a box of
candy and you know just where to
buy the best. The boys in The To-
nue. have every thing pure and at a
big reduction. Do it tonight.
The latest name for a lady elevator
operator is, queen of the movies"
Let a little sunshine in. It's a
good MISUNDERSTANDING your money
be making A per cent interest, while
you are buying your next winters coal
by the Pepp's Coal Savings Plan. 1t
will pay you to investigate. The To-
peka Coal Co, Aetna Bldg, 11S West
Seventh.
A good way to remove paint is to sit
| on it. Chats an old one)
Once in a while your wife would
like to go out to a Sunday dinner
Why not take her to Shaffer's Cafe
tomorrow. They have good things to
eat.
A boy does not get much comfort
out of his first cigaret, but he gets a
heap of experience.
Play ball-Hf, kids, come on; let's
| get up a baseball nine" and beat the
other fellows. Let's go to Howard
and get the whole works-bats, balls,
| masks. Oh, gee. he sure has some
| 113 East Seventh.
What time IS 1t. Johnny?
| It's a quarter past two.
| 4 You're wrong, it's twenty-five min
| utes past two.
| Well, isn't twenty-five a quarter?
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EXPECT FAST DOG RACE
Fourth Annual eO0-NIiIe Contest Is for
$4,000 Purse

The Pas, Feb. 12.-Fast time should
feature the fourth annual Hudson Bay
Dog Derby. to be held from here to
Film F'Ion and return, a distance of APP
proximately zoe miles, for a purse
of $4,000, March 1.
The Alaskan method of racing has
been adopted by the -'mushers" and al
ready a great improvement in the
speed of the teams has been noted in
the preliminary trials. What was
thought to constitute a record when
Goyne, the derby winner of 1929, COW
cred 100 miles in IS hours and IA
minutes. has been beaten by the local
racing teams in their workouts.
One contestant driving a team of
nine huskies covered so miles in
hours and IA minutes. This is three
miles an hour more than was posi-
BILE under the old single-file system
OF Harvesting when barely seven miles
an hour could be made.
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IRISH TO HOLD MASS MEETING.
Two Prominent Speakers VIII Tell OF
Conditions in Ireland.

The Very Reverend F. x. McCabe
of New York, national vice president
of the Friends of Irish Freedom. and
r. E. O'Malley of Kansas City, state
president of the organization in Mis-
souri,, will speak at the Isis theater
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock on
the subject of Conditions in ireland
and America Today"
The Reverend McCabe is recognized
as an authority on Irish questions.
both from an American and Irish
standpoint
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-12
WASHBURN BREAKS EVEN.
Girls Defeated by Scaman-Boys Win
From Auburn.

Washburn's two high school teams,
one boys. the other girls. broke even
in their games Friday night The
girls team was defeated by the Sea-
man high school girls team, Is to II.
and the Washburn boys won from
Auburn high school. 81 to 16. The
Seaman girls team has been defeated
but once this season. and the XIV
valley girls championship les between
Seaman and Oakland high schools.
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Georgette and with an ex-
ira. touch of metal rib
bon Il liked that one).
The nets seem to be the
thing. Anyway, a lot OF
them are shown. OF
course Georgettes are a
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you, cause spring Is coming ana Wall
be at your door before you
know it, and goodness me, you
must be ready before the big A
rush takes place. Berkson's "a
can fit you out in the best look ~
ing frocks-ever. Taffeta for
spring, but Canton Crepe is also M
very good, in wonderful shades NJ
of grey, brown shading to NJ
beaver (new), and of course
blue. There will be some pa
rade this spring as the "frocks" are
very attractive.
As soon as they tell US that the
dresses are going to be- longer the
street car company right away put the
steps up higher, SO what's the use.
Up the steps but not "up the prices
at Mrs. lCourtney's Millinery shop.
She has some dandy early spring Gre
ations which are just the thing for
right now AMI new ones coming in
daily. Her trimmer is in New York
and you may know what to expect.
Instead of putting up the sign, mo
Smoking" in the street cars, why don't
they say, Pray as you enter?
LIN always in a hurry but take time
to look over the Butterfly waists at
Warren MS for you are bound to be
well repaid. There are new ones COM
ing in every day. One I noticed es-
pecially was a cream net made in
"OVer blOuSe' fashion combined WIFI,
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GsGodabout
BY BLANCHE WEIR.

The knock from the knocker is a
boost to the booster.
Don't let this little cold snap scare
you, cause spring is coming and will