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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-14

The convention for progressive po-
Iitfcal action which has been meet
ing in Cleveland. has adjourned after
voting down a proposal to launch a
third party. At present these pro
gressives" will content themselves
with boring from within The con-
vention's decision recalls an incident
in connection with the Populist up
rising in Kansas. An old time Re
publican OF Cowley county wrote to
Dick Chase, Populist state chairman L,
that he was ready to quit his past po-
ntical affiliations and asked If he
should go over to the Populists or stay
in the Republican ranks and raise
hades- The chairman advised him to
follow the latter course and he did.
Clearly this is the plan OF the Cleve-
landites.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-14

The coal miners and operators
seem to be preparing to celebrate
their recent peace without victory
agreement by introducing the nation
20 -another series OF costly lockOuts
and strikes next season. The National
ccsl association has addressed a let
ter TO the United States coal commits
sion imploring it to investigate the
effect on production and the price of
coal to consumer ''of the monopolistic
and absentee control OF mine labor in
the United States.' At the same time
the leaders of the mine labor organi-
cations are asking the commission to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-14
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-14

investigate the effect of the absentee
mine owner system upon the produc-
ton and cost of coal If the COM
mission hands down an opinion that
will be satisfactory to both sides of
the mining controversy 1t will be dis
playing n wisdom far beyond any
thing that can reasonably be expected
of it. Appointment of the commits
son was merely the governments way
OF Kidding itself temporarily of an I'M
pleasant duty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-14

Earl Constantine, an official OF the
National Association of AIanufac-
turers. has compiled figures on the ef-
feet OF labor's nonpartisan political
campaign in the congressional cleo
tons. He shows that of 313 congress
men. whose Legislative records were
analysed by the American Federation
of Labor, 211 were fatty opposed for
reelection. OF these, 12S. or nearly
so per cent. were elected While of
the 102 Endorsed by organized labor.
only 81 were elected. OF organized
labor's accepted friends. a trifle more
than half were elected. and of its
enemies. approximately so per cent
were elected. A multitude OF issues
unrelated to labor's program were
matters of issue in the several con-
stituencies. therefore the result of the
vote on labor's friends and ''ene-
mics shows that the efforts of organ
lied labor produced little or no con-
elusive result.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-14

The budget for the fiscal year end
ing June 80. 1924. exclusive of postal
revenues and expenditures. amounts
to about $S.O75. 100000. which is
$500. 900 less than the total ac-
tually appropriated for the current
year. Due to readjustments in the
postoffice department it is expected to
show a surplus for 1924 of almost ST.
600. 900 instead of the large deficits of
recent years 1t is also predicted that
the entire national budget will show a
surplus OF about 100000 at the
close of the fiscal year 1924. Even
the estimated deficit for 1923 is ex-
pected to be materially reduced, if not
entirely eliminated, before the end of
the year by the energetic efforts of
the executive departments in cutting
expenditures even below the amounts
appropriated by congress. The budget
appears to be doing all that was ex-
pected of it by those who thru many
years urged its adoption by the gov
eminent. If the system operate so
well for the nation. it might profit
ably be adopted by the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-14

It is reported that the Bolshevik
government of Russia is restoring
property rights. thereby hoping TO
gain the confidence of the world.
INC rest of the world will be slow TO
feel confidence in an administration
that stole as long as there was any
thing left to steal and made p-etence
OF repentance on the prospect of thus
inducing Importation of capital which
could later be confiscated. A change
OF rulers probably is all that will re-
store confidence in Russia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-14

The unwiningr4ess of the people 70
permit tampering with their state
constitutions again has been mani
tested in the vote of Illinois. which is
Overwhelmingly in opposition to the
new constitution submitted for ratifi-
eaton at the polls The citizens of
the Sucker state apparently prefer to
bear the ills they have rather than
fly to others they know not of.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-14

Henry Ford stands by his colors.
He has obtained a parole for the man
who was convicted OF robbing him of
$1,000 1t is reported that the
amount actually was $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-14

The editor of the morning paper
points out that Kansas levses a tax of
per cent on the capital value of
mortgages but he fails to note that
she collects it only in rare instances.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-14

The farmers might well take a leaf
from the life book of John Wanna
maker. who has just died. He is said
10 have won his tremendous success
in business by establishing a fixed
scaIe of prices for what he had to sell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-14

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-14
Precedents Cited.

TN United Zinc and Chemical COM
pany versus Britt we pointed out the
theory on which liability MAY exist for
injuries suffered by an infant. altho
the circumstances would give no cause
of action to an adult Infants have
no greater right to go upc other peo-
pies land than adults and the mere
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-14

You remember what we said about
Einstein?. Or don't you? Wei, that
goes for this DR.. Emile Coue.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

can delegates or involve any consid.
efation or acceptance of anv posi-
ton not entirely consistent with tho
traditional policies of this govern.
ment.
1T should be remembered ths. tho
iour-powcr treaty dealt with a sub
Jcct tho Anglo~Japancsc alliance
winch, as An agreement between two
powers competent to make and CON.
Vlnue IT, was not and in the nature
or things could not be appropriately
placed upon the conference agenda
lechnlcally, it was a matter outside
the conference, although the confer.
ence furnished an excellent oppor
tunlty for conversations regarding it
Whlle | cannot, of course, under
take to state what was proposed or
suggested in confidence by any of
the delegates, I think it entirely
proper to say that the negotiations
relating to the four-p power treaty
were conducted within limitations
deined~by the American government,
The views of this government as to
the Importance of the termination of
the Anglo-Japanese alliance had been
communicated long before the con.
terence met, and it had also been
Continued on next pauc)
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Harding Enjoys Cruise
Down Florida Coast
President Greeted by Throngs
When He Goes Ashore
for Golf

NEW SMYRNA, Fla, March IL (By
The Associated Press) s).-Presiden and
Mrs. Harding, with their vacation
guests, left tonight on the houseboat t
Of E. B. Mclean, Washington pub
Usher on their cruise down the Florida
East Coast. Just how far the cruise
will extend was uncertain, apparently
depending upon the weather and the
demands of official business.
During the day the party stopped
at Ormond for round of golf and then
came here by automobile, where nine
more holes were played. Those play
inu with the President have been
Speaker Gillett of the National House
of Representatives, Under Secretary Of
State Fletcher, Mr.. Mclean and oc-
casonally George B. Christian jr., sec
retary to the President.
1t is now three days since the Presi-
dent left Washington and the bene-
fetal effects of the open air and the
reduced pressure. Of official duties are
already evident in his tanned skin and
physical vigor.
Before going to the golf course the
President shook hands with several
hundred persons who gathered at the
wharf where the houseboat was tied
up The President has been greeted by
large crowds, both of native Floridians
and winter visitors, at each place he
came ashore. "
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

II understand that in tho course If
debate in the Senate upon the fourl
power treaty questions have hon,
raised with respect to its authorsh;n
III seems to be implied that in some
way the American delegates have
oeen imposed upon. or that thcv wcrc
,''ouccd TO accept some plan CUNNING
~ contrived by others and opposed
TO our interests. Apart from the re-
lection upon the competency Of the
American delegates such intImat;ons
betray very poor and erroneous
conception of the work in connection
WIN the conference, no part of which
whether within or outside the CON-.
terence meetings-was begun. prose
cuted or concluded in INTRIGUE
Nothing could be farther from the
fact. 0i' '"o
1T is, of course, wholly incons,st-
ent with the amenities of interna-
Iional intercourse that the informal
and confidential suggestions and con-
Versations incident to the neeotia-
tons should be Stated, but the Sen
ate may be assured that full dis
closure of everything said or done
III the course of the negotiations
would reveal nothing derogatorv to
the part taken. by any of the Ameri-
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Lifelong Friend
Of Taylor Slain
I'm Same Way
Honest John Brunen, Jer-
sey Circus Man, Shot Sit
ting i'm His Kitchen Read
ing; Man Seen at House
Linked With Film Murder
Wife Declares She Believes
She Knows Who Killed
Husband; Has Told Police
Special Dispatc, to The Tribune


RIVERSIDE, N. j., March IL
Honest John" Brunen, a circus man
who is said to have been one of the
few friends of William Desmond lay
lor who had kept in touch with the
murdered film director throughout his
changes of identity, was shot and killed
last night as he sat in the kitchen Of
his home here reading
The police said nothing Of the
murder until to-day, hoping, they ex-
Brunen under arrest by this morning
Now however, they are foundering in
a maze of theories and suspicious, and
admit they may arrest several persons
and try to identify the guilty man by
a process of elimination.
81 believe know who killed my hus-
band" said Brunen's wife tonight. ~
have told the police, but they told me
to say nothing until an investigation
had been made"
1t was between s and 8 o'clock that
a man entered Brunen's house with a
loaded shotgun, with which he intend
ed, the police believe, to kill the circus
man. Several persons saw an auto
mobile containing three men stop be-
side the railroad track near Brunen's s
home at about that time and saw one
OF the men leave the car and enter
the house. He is described as youth
full in appearance, dark and smooth
shaven and having sharp nose.
Wife Heard Shot
It was little before o'clock when
Mrs. Doris Brunen, who was up stairs,
heard the report of shotgun. She
ran down stairs and found her husband
dead in the kitchen. The doors and
windows were closed, as she remem-
bered they had been when she went up
stairs. No one else was in the house,
nor did she hear any one running away
Brunen had been killed by charge
of brdshot, fired at such short range
that it penetrated his skull in solid
mass. A shotgun stock and two ~
gauge shells we're found about loo
feet from the house to-day. One of
the shells had been discharged.
One theory Of the police is that the
murder is connected with robbery
which took place in Brunen's home
July is. 1920. At the time detectives
REGARDED the hold-up as an unusual one
and were inclined to think that it was
inspired m by quarrel which Honest
John" had with Baltimore gamblers
with whom he was intimate about two
years ago.
They took jewelry and money, and
as they departed one Of them called
back to Mrs. Brunen: "Well come back
some day and get Honest John This
stuff will only help repay the money
he's cheated us out Of.
Thereafter, said Mrs: Brunen,. hcl
husband began to receive mystltyine
and threatening messages by tele
rraph. Some Of them which she saw
we're to this effect: eve haven't got
what we want yet" The messages were
sent from various cities and variou;
Continued on page tourtesn)
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
% Killed AS Red Revolt
Sweeps Rand; Montagu
Predicts Prenier's Fall
India Congress Urges
People To Be Peaceful

BOMBAY, March II (By The
Associated Press An appeal to
the public to remain calm, "as we
shall show no regard for Ghandi
either by observing a hartal or
going mad" was issued to-day by
the Congress Committee. The
committee requests that the ma
tives refrain from invoking
hartal and maintain "a peaceful,
cordial attitude toward all"
While at Ahmedabad, Mohan-
das K. Ghandi, writing in the
newspaper "New India" said
that if he were arrested the peo-
pie should remain unmoved. He
asked that they fulfill the whole
constructive program framed at
Bardoli with clockwork regular
ity and speed like the Punjab ex-
press"
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Plot to Scrap
Housing Bills
Laid to Gibbs
Untermyer Warns He Will
Resign as Counsel for
Committee Unless Side.
tracked Laws Are Passed
DenOunces Secret Lobby
Governor May Be Asked 10
Order a1l Extension of
the Legislative Session

Samuel Cntermyer, chief counsel to
the Lockwood housing committee, and
Senator Charles c. Lockwood, its chair
man, issued scathing broadsides yester-
day against Senator Leonard w. Gibbs,
of Buffalo, placing upon him the re-
sponsibility for the failure to have GER
tain bills proposed for the solution of
the housing problem reported out of the
Senate Cities Committee for action by
the Legislature.
Senator Gibbs, chairman of the Sem
ate Cities Committee, had asserted that
the absence of Senator Lockwood from
Albany Friday night had jeopardized
the fate of the housing measures.
81 regard the drawing by Senator
Gibbs of this red herring across the
trail in the form of the hubbub over
Senator Lockwood's absence last eve
ming" says Mr.. Untermyer, land the
refusal of Senator Gibbs to report out
the bills, as being all part of q des-
perate attempt to kill them. That is
the plain English of it,"
Responsibilities Laid to Gibbs
Mr.. Untermyer characterized it as
the "latest trick" designed to block
the housing measures, adding: "Sen-
ator Gibbs is personally responsible
for the present situation, and his at
tempt to shift the responsibility to
Senator Lockwood is too ingenious to
pass muster in the light of the facts" "
Fe insisted that if certain, of the
measures were. not enacted into law
'the Lockwood committee might as
we'll go out of business" He threat
ened to resign as its counsel in the
event the more important bills are
killed, adding that "it would be a most
unjustifiable waste of the money of the
state to continue"
Senator Lockwood had short con-
ference with Mr.. Untermyer here be-
fore the formers departure for AL
bany at 1 p. m. He declared before
leaving that Senator Gibbs had the
the Senate Cities Committee for report
ing the housing bills out for action,
and could have done so .had he
wanted" "His statement" added Mr..
Lockwood, chat ! in any way delayed
the bills is utterly without founda-
ton"
1t was understood yesterday that if
there was no improvement IN the sltua-
tion overnight Mr.. Untermyer would
hustle up to Albany this morning ana
continue the battle for the passage of
the housing measures. The counsel sug-
gested that il necessary the Governor
should ask the Legislature to remain
III session a few more days beyond next
Friday, when it is scheduled to adjourn.
Secret Lobbies Arraigned
"The clumsy attempt" says Mr.. I'm
termyer in his statement, "of the
various underground and nregistercd
insurance and landlord lobbies in and
out of the Legislature to find a pre-
text for defeating this legislation by
placing the blame on Senator Lock
wood is about as asinine piece of
effrontery as can be conceived
"The stakes are sufficiently high to
Continued on na1e thrsel
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Revolutionists at Tripoli
Attack Italian CarrisOns

ROME, March II (By The Associated
Press). "A revolution on large scale
has broken out in Tripoli, according to
a dispatch to the newspaper al Monde"
from its correspondent In the capital
The rebels have cut the railway in
many places and attacked the Italian
garrisons.
At Azizia two companies of Italian
soldiers, surrounded by rebels, are re-
ceiving food dropped from airplanes.
The Italians have evacuated Chatter
and Zavia The latter is on the coast,
about 1876 .miles east of the city of
Tripoli.
A Tripoli dispatch by way of Rome
on February 13 told of fighting between
rebels and the Italian forces at Misu-
rata, near Azizia. 1t was then stated
that the Italian government regarded
the trouble as an isolated demonstra-
ton.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Bandits Rob Paymaster,
But Miss $4,000 Loot

While on his way to the Palisades
Laboratory, where motion pictures are
printed, Charles Sanwald, fifty years
old, paymaster of the concern, was held
up and robbed yesterday by two armed
men who escaped in an automobile.
Sanwald has been in the habit of
drawing a weekly payroll of $4,000. The
payroll was taken to the Office on Fri
day, and it is believed that the bandits
thought that Saturday was the day on
which Sanwald drew the money from
the bank.
The bandits took $500 and a gold
watch Two women passing in troll
ley car less than fifty feet from the
hold-up saw the men escape. They re-
ported the incident to the police Of
Edgewater when they reached the
ferryhousc.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

OF Metal Said
ToBe Realized
Age-Old Dream of Alche-
mists Is Accomplished, Is
Report TO the Ameri-
can Chemical Society
Tungsten Made Helium
Result Achieved by Appli-
cation of Unprecedented
Heat of 10000 Degrees

CHICAGO, March 11-Transmuta
ton of metals, sought throughout the
ages, has finally been accomplished, it
was announced in a paper read to-day
at meeting of the middle western sec
tions of the American Chemical So
ciety at Northwestern University.
Tungsten, which is used in the fila
ments of electric light bulbs, has
been definitely and permanently
changed into another element, heliunl,
through treatment in temperatures of
between $4,000 and $4,000 degrees, it
was declared in a report on expert
ments conducted by DR.. Gerald l..
Wendt and c. E. Irion, working at the
University of Chicago.
at means that the alchemists who
tried to turn the baser metals into
nature of metals could be changed"
said DR.. Paul N. Leech, of the Chicago
section of the Chemical Society, in
commenting on the paper But, of
course, it has nothing to do with the as
sertions of scalawags that the 'baser
metals can be transmitted into sym
thetic gold.
Opens New Field to Science
at does, however, actually blast the
theory that the atoms of elements,
ible, cannot be broken up by men. 1t
may result in many farreaching and
important scientific developments. We
cannot vet foresee what these develop
ments may be.
Cup until 1895 it was believed that
no decomposition of elements was pos
sible. At that time, however, it was
discovered that radium, which is one
of the about ninety known elements,
naturally decomposes into lead. Ma
ture, however, performs that change,
and until DR.. Wendt and Mr.. Irion
completed their experiments man had
never been able to produce similar
result.
"The heat developed to break down
the tungsten atoms and change them
into helium is the greatest ever known
hotter than the sun or than the hot
test star known to astronomers. The
heat of molten steel is about 1000 de-
grees, the temperature of the sun is
about 5000 degrees and that of some of
the hottest stars is about 0,000 degrees
"Artificial Lightning" Used
"But these scientists have, by means
of artificial lightning such as DR..
Charles P. Steinmetz recently produced,
developed the hottest known spot in
the universe.
Astronomers have long known that
while in general the materials which
compose the sun and stars are the same
as those known on earth, the list of
substances and chemical elements be-
Continued on page threcl
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
u. S. Seeks to Salvage
'old From New York Air
i'ew Process Is Tested at ASSAY
riant TO. Recover Minute
Particles Now Wasted

,.,s ,msAsHlNGTON, March 1l.-Getting
r. Sv'a out Of the air is being attempted
she government at the New York
a.ssay Office, according to a statement
Knight by Director of the Mint
;aacr. ;nn Tests Of new process arc be-
ws VIZ carried on there, he declared. by
c.a" n,eh the air, smoke and dust which
e.eape from the molten gold and which
nrary sary off minute particles of the
pas.ious paa. metal can be refined so that
cue OF the gold is lost.
..ssod uood progress is being made in the
tbsts' ne declared, and it is thought
srn rnr considerable saving to the gov
e.. '".eht VIII result from the new proc
row, "niie extension Of the method to
s;hal ;ha'merclal plants should make pos
Dlor.s o,s the utilization of all gold en-
'9yea Th IN manufacturing.
oistass rev York tests should be com
i'e,ed It .',d next week, Mr. Baker said, when
setma, ti ne possible to demonstrate the
ttseied sf' amount mount Of gold that can be e.
) sssiag plant. '''S' "a '''' -
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Hoover Refuses $4,000 job
On Harding Plea to Keep Post

rector -generalship of the Sesqui- Cen
tennial Exposition said Mr.. Hoover in
his letter. "The President strongly
expressed the wish that I remain in
the Cabinet, and indeed, I feel that,
having undertaken the reorganizat on
of the Department of Commerce in the
hope that | may build it into a greater
service to the community, would not
be justified in abandoning that task
until it has reached further advance
ment.
81 wish to express appreciation of
the great honor of this suggestion of
the people of Philadelphia. While do
not feel that l should undertake this
service, am deeply interested in the
success of the effort being made by
Philadelphia, and you can depend un-
qualifiedly upon my support and the
support of this department. in every
possible contribution we can make to
its success. believe that Philadelphia
is projecting very great cintribution
to national progress"