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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07
CRANKS lombard LEAGUE
Most of World FauIt Finders Abound
in United States.

Geneva, Nov. THE general offices
of the League of Nations receive daily
an enormous number of letters from
pretty we'll all over the world, and in
these contributions the crank is well
represented. The mail clerks busy
individuals, for their is the duty. of
sorting and redirecting. Countries
number of correspondents. The United
States is far in the lead. and the
cranks in America who feel called
upon to tell the league what it should
do are seemingly without number.
But Germany and Soviet Russia also
aid generously in keeping the mail
clerks occupied. Africans and Asiatics,
as well as Europeans and Americans,
find the most extraordinary excuses
for communicating with the league,
showing there is a worldwide miscon-
ception as to what the league is and
what it was set up to do.
The secretariat gets q vast amount
of mail matter that ought to go to the
foreign offices of different govern
mentS, and it receives also a greater
number of suggestions, applications
and petitions that ought to go nos
where. Men and women bring to the
league in all languages of the world
their heart-aches, their headaches,
and the aching voids in their pocket
books. The Secretariat is asked for
the addresses of reliable doctors;
begged to find lost husbands, and ap-
pealed to to settle domestic as we'll as
other quarrels. The requests for funds
come along in a steady stream. The
league has not even been immune
from the beguilements of the conf
dence men. several Americans of this
species having tried to use the secre-
tariat to help them out with their
passport troubles.
Among the most frequent appeals
are these: that the league make the
world bone dry; that it suppress to-
bacco as well as all drugs and drinks:
that it institute a universal religion:
that it reform the calendar; that it
adopt a universal language; and that
it give votes to women the world over.
The suggestions are mostly for the
cure of the worlds economic and fl
nancial ills, but some correspondents
want to show the league how univer-
sal peace can be restored thru the
general adoption of their particular
religion, want to design a new world
flag, or make the league all over
again after their fashion.
The league is often asked to settle
strikes and to pacify divided families.
The latest curious demand was from
romancer who wanted material to
write an exciting novel about the
league; he was referred to the Near
East section.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07
WAR ON GIRLS CLUBS.
English Retailers Resort to Legal
Action to Save Trade.

London, Nov. 1.-THE retail traders
of the large manufacturing centers of
England have declared war on the
hundreds of girls clubs-organized in
mills, factories and commercial houses
which undertake to supply their
members with candy, silk stockings,
underwear and other apparel at much
The retailers have lost thousands of
pounds yearly thru the activities of
these clubs, and their trade in many
products has been permanently cur
tailed.
The first legal action against the
clubs is being brought by the British
Federation of ConfectiOners. who are
seeking to have the CONNECTION trade
of the clubs stopped as being an un-
fair form of trading.
Many of these clubs deal direct
with manufacturers and get better
terms and prices than the shopkeep-
ers,' said an official of the confec-
TONERS association.
They are not confined to the fac
tories and mills but in Yorkshire and
Lancashire churches and Sunday
schools now have these clubs. and
their effect on the retail trade is very
serious"
The total amount of money taken in
by the clubs is said to be enormous
and it is not uncommon for girls earn
ing two and three pounds a week to
spend on an average of ten shillinSs
or more for candy alone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07

moving to their destination. OccA-
ssonalIy. however, it is necessary to
use dynamite to take the kink out of
q solid jam
While high water is essential in the
mountain creeks for the smooth move
ment of the tie drives. comparatively
low and calm waters serve the same
purpose when the mountains of logs
reach Big Wind river, and great
''booms'' are formed where the creeks
converge into this river and the "gla-
cier of wood" is held until the Big
Wind is a placid stream.
Riverton, Wyo., where the ties are
taken from the water and shipped by
rail to points turnout the country, ex-
rerisnces an early summer boom pc
ROD when the hundreds of "tie
hacks receive their winter wages and
while the weary hours away until 1t is
time for the numbering Swedes, in
their picturesque red and black
checked shirts, to return to the head
waters for the garnering of millions
of more railroad ties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07

The car shortage is being remedied
at the present time There is a short
age of cars, and the shortage has been
aggravated by the holding OF western
lines cars in the east. and their slow
movement to the west, Mr. Chambers
said. But now the cars of the western
lines are coming back home faster in
some cases than the roads themselves
are able to handle them with present
equipment. He sees in this fact an
early remedy to the car shortage.
On Way to Santa Fe.
Mr.. Chambers is a personal friend
of Herbert Hoover, who. with Mrs.
Hoover. passed thru today to Santa Fe,
where Hoover is to preside at con-
ference of the governors of New Mex
leo. California, Arizona, Utah, Colo
RADIO. Nevada and Wyoming, on the
project of damming the Colorado river
at Boulder Canon. Ariz. The federal
government and the governments OF
the states named are contemplating
the construction of a dam there which
will bring under cultivation 25O.OOO
square miles of land now arid. Sew
eral sites for the dam have been sug-
gested. and there has been much dis
agreement among the state govern
ments concerned 1t is HOover's hope,
as the head of a federal commission,
to investigate the project, that an
agreement can be reached and the
work taken up by congress
OF Interest TO Railroad Men.
The project IS OF interest 10 railroad
men whose lines operate thru that
territory, since the construction Of
the dam would result in the produc-
ton of electric power sufficient to
electrify the lines across a large part
of the desert. Recently a company
was chartered in that section, to con-
struct railroad operated by electric
power from the dam.
Mr.. Chambers is on a business trip
over the system and is not officially
concerned with the conference at
Santa Fe-
In Mr.. -Hoover's party were Mrs
Hoover, Herbert Hoover, Jr., a student
at Leland Stanford university in Call
fora:a. and Clarence c. Stetson, assis-
tant to Mr.. Hoover.
Several Santa Fe officials and their
wives met the train at the Santa Fe
station in Topeka, and during the time
it was halted here while the pas
senEers had lunch, Mrs. Hoover and
Herbert Hoover. Jr.. were driven over
the city by their hoStesses
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07
LITTLE SYMPHONY CONCERT
First Program of Series VIII Be
Given November IL.

The Little Symphony orchestra of
Kansas City, Mo-, which has been en-
gagged to give a series of concerts in
Topeka this fall and winter, will make
its first appearance Tuesday, Novem-
Der IA, in the afternoon and evening,
at the city auditorium. The after
noon concert will be for the school
children, and the evening concert for
adults. Other concerts will be given
by the orchestra Deem Der IL, Janu-
airy and February 2.
Tickets for the concert series which
is being promoted by Miss Grace ".
Wilson, music director of the public
schools, and business men of Topeka,
have been selling rapidly.
The program of the concerts next
Tuesday will be:
Afternoon Concert.
I. Overture to Opera Martha. .Flotow
Ensemble
Anita's Dance
Ensemble
H. H T oI Dance No. ' 4Brahms
Ensemble
". Duet for Flute and Clarinet. Hummer
Messrs. SchOnhiet- and Rowe
v. Meditation from Opera That's.
Mr.. Blackman and Ensemble
VI M MTe S is .1 Rs sT9nfeld
Ensemble
Evening Program
i. carnival -...-----.----..... .Gulrand
IL Scenes Poet1queS .............G GODDARD
Ensemble
III. Meditations from Opera ~Thais"...
Mr.. Blackman and Ensemble NaSsene'
MessTs ar sc6onhiet De Nardo Rowe Sal
garido and Kenney.
" Boat Song -;:::::.;;---''De Rubertis
................. Neopolitana Suite Op. S
Ensemble
Intermission
I Drink to Me Only With Thine
Messrs. Blackman, Ready, Long and
Conway
II. PolOnaise from Boris Godouoff.
MOusSOrHSkl
Ensemble
In the Cotton Fields. .Blackman
Messrs. Blackman and Shore
" Ballet Music from THE Demon
..--...---.--.....-.. Rubenste1n
Ensemble
SOloists for the first concerts are: B.
SchOenhiet, flutist; G Rowe, clarinetist.
and E. Blackman, violinist-
Japanese work up to their knees in
water in transplanting rice shoots.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07

mountains, east of the Continental Di-
vide, and is fashioned into railroad
ties during the late winter and early
spring. The making of ties is not only
laborious work, but calls for very
high degree of skill with an ak. The
''tie hack first feIls the tree, making
a low stump to avoid waste. and
trims off the limbs with double
bitted ak. scattering the limbs over
the ground so that they will rot
quickly. The log is then flattened on
each side with a broadax and later IS
sawed into lengths of eight feet. Then
the bark is peeled off. and the ties are
piled along the roads thru the woods
leading down to the water OF the
creeks.
Work in Deep Snow.
The men. in wooden shirts, cordu-
roy trousers and heavily spiked boots.
work all thru the zero weather OF the
mountain winter, much of the time in
deep snow, making it necessary fire.
quently to shovel their way to the
trees before telling them.
The process of hauling, them to the
hanks of the creeks is highly interest
hauling them on their improvised
sieds, gal!oping wildly down steep
embankments ahead of their loads and
in imminent danger of being over
taken and crushed by the heavily
loaded, speeding sleds.
Drives in Spring.
The low waters of the creeks during
the winter season allow the ties to be
piled across the streams from bank to
bank, and with the melting of the
SHOWS in the spring everything is in
readiness for the drive downstream
As soon as the water is deep
enough the breaking" crews start
with the pile of ties farthest down
stream; the center piles go out with a
rush due to the backed-up water be-
hind them, and the crews continue to
work upstream until all the ties have
been started on the crests of the
creeks for their 100-mile journey to
RiVertCn.
Fight Log Jams.
Jams occur constantly in the course
of the long drive" but men. working
in freezing water above their hips,
straighten out the tangled masses.
while others are stationed at sharp
bends in the creeks and along deep
canyons to keep the long line of ties
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07
Vice President of Santa Fe a
Topeka Visitor Today.
He Is Mildly Optimistic Over
Business Conditions.
ROADS BUY new EQUIPMENT
Car Shortage Being Remedied,
Edward Chambers Says.
Party on Way to Conference of
Governors in New Mexico.

Edward Chambers, vice president of
the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe, who
passed thru Topeka today en- route to
Santa Fe, n. NJ, is mildly optimistic
over the immediate future of business
and especially railroading in the
United States.
He admitted readily today that rail-
way plant-including trackage, ter
minals. rolling stock and all other
equipment, is short, and it will be a
slow task to catch up with it to the
point where 1t is adequate to care for
the business which he believes is de-
veloping in this country.
Are Buying New Equipment.
But the railroads are doing 1t.
Things are pretty good with them
now The roads which can afford it
are buying new equipment and in
creasing their facilities. They will
catch up Mr.. Chambers said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07

Chamber of Commerce, which acts in
conjunction with the Topeka Chamber
of Commerce, has been completely re-
organized. According to plans made
at a recent meeting. only members Of
the junior and senior classes maybe
come members of the organization.
A committee composed of Ralph
Fisher, Tom Fergus, Milton Smith,
Frank Quail, and Delbert Roberts has
been chosen to confer with Guy Sick
Ter, secretary of the Topeka Chamber
of Commerce concerning a new con-
stitution for the organization.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07
MINES STILL a MENACE.
All Ships Leaving Baltic Ports Ar,
Warned of Danger.

Stockholm.-All ships leaving ports
on the Baltic sea have been warned of
the renewed danger of mines, many
of which have been found in various
parts of the sea during the last month.
The latest casualty laid to mines is
the loss of the Finnish Hghtship Stor-
botten, which was blown up by a mine
off Aland in September. Five of the
crew of ten were lost. The loss of
many vessels since the war is believed
to have been causd by the mines.
The sea was reported to be mine
free after German boats had been
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

HARRY H. EDWARDS. age 80, died
Monday night in n local hospital. The
body will be taken to Wichita for burial.
RETA MAE SPILNAN, the infant
daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. William Spill
man. OF 129 North Quincy street, died to-
day in local hospital Burial took place
at o'clock this afternoon in Topeka GENE
terry.
The funeral Of H. E. Longstaff, age -.
who died Monday at the home Of his SON,
Charles Longstaff, Sixteenth and Lake
streets, will be held at O'Clock Thursday
afternoon at COnwell's funeral home.
Burial lr Topeka cemetery.
The funeral of Mrs. Anna L Franklin.
age %. OF III Locust street. who died
Sunday, will be held at o'clock Wednes-
day afternoon at the Ozawkie~ United
Brethren church Burial in Ozawkie ceme-
terry.
The funeral OF Henry Evans--age Z. son
OF Mr.. and Mrs Harry Evans, 11O5 Locust
street. who died Sunday, will be held at
, o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the resi-
dence. Burial in Mount Auburn cemetery
Lords Flowers satisfy. Tel 22S1.-
Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07
NAME FRESHMAN COMMISSION
Washburn Girls Will Be Trained as Y.
w. @. A. Leaders.


Announcement of the members OF
the freshmen commission of WASH
burn college was made this morning
in the meeting of the college Y. W.
c. A. This is an organization OF
freshman girls, who are chosen by the
Y. w. C. A. cabinet to be trained as
future leaders of the Y. w. c. A. 1t
is considered the greatest honor that
a freshman girl can achieve to be
chosen on this commission. Miss Bar
bara farrell is the leader of the group.
Those who were chosen were: Wilma
Kraus Eleanor Campbell, Mary Neiswan-
ger Janet Edelblute. Bernice Williams.
Dolores Poland, Neva Humphrey. Emmy
Lou Peterson, Grace Hess, Virginia Davis.
Inez Rohrer Thelma Stanfield, Lois Linn,
Anita Biggs, Leona Stone, Marion Beck,
Esther Gantz, Theresa Raida, Cleons
Draut CASTOR Washburn, Winifred MUIR
laugh. Harriet Sproul, Doris Engholm,
villa Marie Maxwell. Hazel Denton, Ruth
Sanford, Lucille Lortscher, Clarissa ogden,
Ona knight. Alberta Thoroman, Thelma
Wood, Juanita Lee.
The total population of Australia is
than Of NaW
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07
ANIMALS TAKE HEAVY TOLL
Snakes Also Help Cause Enormous Nor
talIty in India

venomous snakes are still causing enOr-
mous mortalities in India. Latest reports
q show that during the last year in British
India there were $500 persons killed by
wild animals Tigers were responsible for
1.4S4 deaths; leopards. go; wolves, 800;
The lives lost from snakebite total H.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07

President Harding recently asked
congress for a special appropriation of
$40. 100000. for refunding taxes coll
lected during the fiscal year ending
June 80. The bulk of this refund IS
for income taxes erroneouslY paid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07

sent to clear the waters last summer.
1t is now alleged that this job was not
well done, and that there is still much
danger from these floating derelicts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


The moonshine stills a quiet place,
The sinners neither josh nor joke;
Nor do they boast to passersby,
We're making good-just watch oul
smoke -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07

The total population of Australia is
less than that of New York City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07

Lords Flowers satisfy. Tel 2261.-
Adv.
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Japanese work up to their knees in
water in transplanting rice shoots.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-19

Here's a beautiful RED maple
leaf!" cried Susie running to Teddy
with her bright YELLOW curls fly
ing.
20. how pretty" exclaimed Teddy.
See ! have a bunch OF RED and
BROWN leavesl"
BROWN like your hair and RED
like your nose!" laughed Susie.
"Ha. ha, my nose isn't so RED Is
it?" said Teddy. trying to look at his
own nose.
Almost then. Teddy" replied
Susie.
They tlied Teddy's little GREEN
wheel-barrow full with RED, VEL
LOW and BROWN leaves. also long
GREEN leaved branches full of
bright RED berries.
The big oak tree had RED leaves
and the slender trees that grew lust
beyond the oak had been painted
YELLOW by the Frost Elves--they
were GRAY trunked poplars. you
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-19
HYACINTHUS

source OF wonder to tho mind. For
instance. In the spring the MOWERS
bloomed and everyone enjoyed their
beauty and fragrance. but alas these
beauties did not continue indefinitely,
for with the coming of fall the tlowers
withered and decayed. and sometimes
even In tho heat OF tho summer the
beautiful plant llfe was withered and
scorched by the hot sun. while stlll In
its youth.
These occurrences set the people
wondering anu finally. being unable
to explain the phenomena this story
was conceived which accounted to
their mind for tho conditions OF
nature:
Apollo. the sun god, was strong and
powerful, when he appeared in the
heavens. tho lesser gods, the moon
and the stars dispersed IN fright. and
he outshone all the others. Now.
Apollo took It upon himself to pro-
tcct all youth, especially when en-
gagged in athletic contests or warfare,
aud so II happened that Apollo was
present at the athletic fete when
Young Hyacinthus was entered In the
disc throwing contest. Hyacinthus
was a beautiful lad. and was beloved
by all who saw him. Apollo loved
him with fatherly devotion. Zephy-
rus. the wind god also loved him and
in his heart famed jealously for the
love that Apollo bore the boy. Zephy-
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-19

thrown by Apollos guiding hand ac-
cldently struck the boy and he
crumpled up at the feet OF the sun
god. What had happened nobody
rightly knew. Had Apollo accldently
killed the boy whom he loved or had
Hephyrus In a jealous rage hurled
back the disc that Apollo had aimed
so truly and had It struck the head
OF Hyacinthus? Whatever the cause
Hyacinthus was dead and where he
fell sprang up beautiful flower that
bears his name, and each year the
people of the earth celebrated the
festival OF Hyacinthus. II began In
sorrow and ended in Joy. sorrow for
the death of the young boy Joy In the
confidence of his return TO earth in
spred by the blooming OF the flower.
And this legend explained to the mind
OF the people long ago that tho youth
typifying vegetation. (and the disc
the sun OF Apollo) was stricken down
by the scorching heat only 20 return
with the rebirth OF the flower at the
change of the season.
Hyacinth is beautiful fiower that
blooms best under the suns gentle
rays and dies when the heat becomes
great.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-19

goodness me! Francesl Help! Help!"
"Oh Kathy!" cried Frances, dancing
around on the ground below, "oh
Frances, It's bear! Drop down and
III catch you!"
But Kathy didn't have that much
confidence In her sister and preferred
to skin down. The animal began
looking calmly al Frances.
"Oh my!" Frances exclaimed. TITS
all hunched up. oh Kathy. II you
don't hurry. itll jump"
"Go and race like mad for the
big tree by the fence!" called Kathy.
II can run faster than you. Go on,
now. quick"
Frances hated to leave her sister.
but Kathy could run faster. so she
left. Kathy wasn't slow to follow and
she soon reached the tree.
We'll never!" she exclaimed
looking all around. Frances snt
here. ! bet she's run home!"
Frances. however. hadn't run home
a, all although she would have been
willing enough. She ran and ran in
a. sort of panic, and instead OF run
HlHB 10 the Dlk Altts as oiit luANbhtu
she ran In a circle. the way people do
in the woods when they lose their
heads. The first thing she knew she
came to familiar spot. The little
girl looked up with big eyes, and
there. sure enough, sat the animal
looking down calmly.
Frances gave a scream and began
running again.
She ran and ran, and then she heard
her sister family calling. The voice
sounded far away. She was sobbing
now and her tears blinded her.
Kathy called again and Frances fol-
lowing her voice. ran straight for the
big tree. What a a.relief to see Kathy
perched In the tree instead of a spiney
animal!
"Oh, Kathl" gasped Frances, climb
ing up To her sister "Tve run miles
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-19

them together as In the table; the
half holes at b may be bored by the
method shown at c in which two
pieces are held firmly together in a
Wise or clamp and - @s1i or II" hole
bored in both pieces ~ once, the oen-
ter OF the bit being placed In the crack
between the two pieces, and when they
are separated there will be a half hole
In each piece. DO not bore all the
way through, or a piece will be broken
off the back. but bore nearly through
and finish with a knife or a round file.
In making the bedstead fasten II
together as described above. after the
head and foot boards have been
shaped and made OF the right dimen-
sons: tack a piece OF pasteboard upon
the bottom OF the side rails of the
bed at d; this will form the support
for the bedding. The clock may be
made OF pieces to make the desired
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-19

and I saw pnother Of those things!
Oh dear! They're thick in here.''
"fo-hoo!" called a friendly voice.
and looking down. the girls saw
Auntle Iane coming through the
woods to them.
Whats the matter. dears?" she
asked Seems as IL I"heard a lot of
yelling"
The girls suddenly felt rather
ashamed Of being afraid OF the ami
NAL, or animals. which after all wasn't
nearly as big as a bear. They looked
sheepish, and then Kathy said
we couldn't find any beech nuts"
You. what?" cried Auntie Jane.
Then she went off into peals Of laugh
ter.
Frances frowned.
What's the joke?" asked Kathy.
THE joke!" laughed Auntie Jane.
You'll see it too in a minute! You're
sitting in a beech tree right now ana
the nuts are scattered all around
youi"
OF course. the girls saw the Joke
too. Then they found out that the
big burr" was a porcupine and best
left be-. But yum-yuml that beech
nut maple candy sure did taste good!
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she looked at Il. She was Just won
dering how near to II she was. and
she Looked up and
1t was looking at her!
Yes. sirl 1t wasn't a burr any more,
but a spiney animal with a blunt silly
face and dull sleepy eyes. It was look
ing Kathy right In the face and gent
ly and slowly scratching its chin. 1t
wasn't excited and 1t wasn't alarmed.
But Kathy wasl
"Oh. myl" she screamed. "Great