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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-17
WALK HOT SANDS IN WICHITA
Mobiles of INDIAN Temple Assist $50
Novices Along Journey.

Wichita, Nov. 17.-One hundred and
fifty candidates We're to begin their
journey over the Ievelled hot sands
this afternoon when they assemble at
the Scottish Rite temple for the first
and third section cereTnonials. Mobiles
of indian temple assisted the novices
along their journey to shrinedom.
Street stunts, a 5 minute parade in
the business section of Wichita, and
impromptu band concerts beginning
this morning. marked the Shriner day
program. Tonight the second section
ceremonial vaudeville offerings and a
roof garden dance for mobiles and their
ladies' was scheduled.
The shrine ceremonials tonight end
the Sixty-eighth annual reunion of the
coordinant bodies of the Ancient and
Accepted Rite of Scottish Free Ma
sonry which began last Monday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-17
MUSSOLINI A HERO
Appearance Before the Italian
Chamber a Great Success.
Is Proclaimed Leader Italy Has
Been Looking For.
(By the Associated Press.)

Rome, Nov. 17.-Premier Mus
solini's first appearance before the
italian chamber proved a great per-
sona1 success. He spoke to the depu-
ties as he had addressed the leaders
of his Fascist legions, and his orders
were received with similar apparent
obedience. He announced his foreign
and internal policies and warned his
adversaries that the Fascist govern
ment had come to stay.
He did not ask, but demanded, a
vote of confidence in his government,
declaring that if the deputies refused
their mandates would be withdrawn.
His bitterest enemies were disap-
pointed, and his friends are saying he
is the greatest leader Italy has seen
since Crispi and the Fascist rule will
endure.
ShOwercd With Congratulations.
Congratulations were sshowered
upon him after he had concluded his
exposition of the governments pro-
gram, all the parliamentar group
Joined in the applause with exception
of extremists who abstained from dis
playing any emotion. In the lobbies
afterWard the expression was heard
many times repeated that, in Mis-
solini, Italy had found the leader for
which she had been looking for many
years. ...-..-
Mussolini keeps in the pink of physi-
cal condition despite the amount of
manual work of Is to Is hours daily
which he performs. He insists on fifty
full minutes of hard fencing every
morning. He had his customary ex-
chamber to deliver his first address
as head of the Italian government.
When his fencing master teIephoned
to ask whether the premier would
fence as usual Mussolini replied:
Certainly, is not this the day of
the hattie ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-17
THREE DIE In FIRE
Blaze Follows Explosion in
"HOOtch" Distillery.
Two Buildings Wrecked-Nine
Persons Are Injured.

Chicago. Nov. 17-Police today
worked on the theory that a bomb
caused last nights explosion and fire
IN a moonshine distillery, resulting in
the death of three persons and the in
jury OF at least nine others. The ex-
plosion occurred in a mixed foreign
quarter of the city, a melting pot for
eleven different nationalities. Two
buildings We're wrecked.
In the ruins of one building, which
was swept by flames, police and fire
men found the wreckage of two stills.
The original report of the efiremen
was that one of the stills had ex-
ploded. Later investigation developed
the bomb theory. 1t was learned that
former occupants of the building had
been slain by bombs and that threats
had been made against the lives of
families, who, up to last night, had
lived in the structure.
The ground floor of the building in
which the distillery was located was
occupied by grocery store and the
living Quarters of tie man who own ed
iit-Joseph H. Verdoni, and his family.
Verdoni is in a hospital suffering from
severe burns. His wife. Paulina, 35,
and her 15-months old baby, were
bodies with the child clasped in it's
mothers arms.
Fumes Fed Flames.
Steve Bottino, IL, one of the six
children of Joseph Bottino, who lived
on the second floor, died in a hospital
Immediately after the explosion
flames enveloped the building, trap
ping the occupants whose screams
were heard for blocks. Fumes from
the stills fed the fury of the flames.
Firemen reached the scene in a few
minutes but hesitated to throw strong
strea ms of water into the building
which burned like a furnace, for fear
of further endangering the trapped
occupants.
Downing a gas mask and ordering
none but his chauffeur, Charles Bratt
to follow, Frank Braband, battalion
fire chief, plunged thru the flames
with Bratt at his heels. Firemen, fear
full for their chief, when he failed to
Ieappear in a few minutes were on the
point of disobeying his orders by at
tempting to follow. Suddenly Braband
burst thru the outside, child under
each arm. He turned back and soon
brought out another injured child.
Bratt rescued several others.
Rescue Came First.
No attempt was made to save the
building while the rescue work was
going on. Lives only were considered
and an adjoining building was soon in
occupants had been accounted for
early today. police and firemen
searched the ruins for other bodies.
Despite his burns, Verdoni was
placed under arrest at the hospital to-
day. Police said they believed the
grocery he conducted was only a blind
for the illegal distillery in the base
rnent. One of the stills was a huge
affair which reached the ceiling.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-17
TO BUILD S1OO, 900 CHURCH
Westminster PreSbyterianS Plan
Building on Boswell Avenue.

Members of the Westminster Pres
byterian church are planning to build
a new $1,000 edifice on their lots
at the northwest corner of Thirteenth
street and Boswell avenue. according
to an announcements made today by
the Rev John A. McAfee, pastor.
A committee headed by DIR. C. H.
Lerrigo, which was appointed last
spring, is now working on plans for
the new structure, the Rev McAfee
said.
No plans for an active financial
campaign to raise money for the
church have been laid and it is not
likely anything will be done for sew
eral months, the Rev. McAfee said
The congregation has taken no action
on the matter recently.
The Rev. McAfee stated that the
plans would be selected and the cost
estimated before the church made any
aggressive building program.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-17
PUT DEATH list AT 54s.
Early Reports of Number Dead in
Chile Quake Exaggerated.

Santiago Nov. 17.-Revised figures
given out by the minister of the ir-
terror place the total of those killed in
last Saturdays earthquake at 54S,
which is considerably below the ear
Ter reports.
Iy estimated. the total being set at
S37. but those coming under this cate
CORY in Valleaar and Chanaral are de-
scribed in the report as "innumer-
able
Three more earthshocks were felt
yesterday at Cop:apo, one at p m.
heing particularly violent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-17
BOYS IN FIGHT over MARBLES
Four -Year-Old Has Bullet in His
Neck and May Die.

Chicago, Nov. 17.-Andrew Ragona,
4-year-old, was in a critical condition
today with a bullet in his neck as a
result of a quarrel with a playmate
over a game of marbles Wednesday.
After one of them had shot him
with a revolver, two of Andrews s
chums stuck court plaster over the
wound and took him home. telling his
mother another boy had hit him with
a brick.
The injured boy was unable to talk,
and it was not until yesterday that the
nature of the wound was learned. and
the bullet located by an N-ray.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-17
ARMY CONTRACTOR is DEAD.
John IT, Dalton a Resident of juno.
tion City Since 1880.

Junction City, Nov, 17.-John T.
Dalton, aged CT, a resident here since
1880. died this morning after a
lengthy illness. He was a member of
the contracting firm of Ziegler & Dal-
ton, formed in 1884. which specialized
in the construction of building of
military posts and which has handled
army contracts from the New Eng
land states to the Pacific coast. and
from the Canadian line to the Mexi-
can border. He is survived by his
wife and four sons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-17
OKLAHOMA BONUS Is LOST.
Defeat of Measure Due to Silent Vote
in Recent Election.

Oklahoma City. Nov. Hollow
ing the announcement of the defeat
of the soIdiers' bonus bill by the Isl
lent vote" in the recent election. the
Farmer-Labor Reconstruction league
issued statement today again pledg-
ing itself to initiate another bonus bill
in the near future which will be voted
on '-in an election where the passions
and preJudices of a state campaign
will not work to It's disadvantages and
where voters lax in their duty will not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-17

Thursday night. DR.. F. L. Loveland
lectured on the conditions which he
found in Australia on recent tour
thru that country. and the county Of
ficials adjourned to attend a line party
at the Novelty theater or to so to
Steinberg's and dance. The ladies were
supplied with tickets good at either
the Orpheum or the Isis last night and
this afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-17
Lewis Throws Bob AIonoeoff.

St Louis. Nov -17.-Ed Stranger
Lewis, worlds heavyweight wrestling
champion, last night defeated Bob
Monogoff, American wrestler, and
Stanislaus zybyszko, former heavy
weight champion, defeated Tony
Scala OF Italy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-17
(By the Associated Press.)


Berlin, Nov. ia Russian te1e-
graphic agency message from Chita
is quoted in a Moscow dispatch to the
socialist Red Flag to the effect that
the government of the far eastern re-
public has unanimously decided TO
dissolve that republic and make it a
part of soviet Russia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-17
SIBERIA UNITES With SOVIET
Government of Moscow Takes Over
the Far Eastern Republic.
(BY the Associated Presal

Chita, Far Eastern Republic, Nov.
17.-The government of the far east
ern republic of Siberia was abolished
today. The assembly voted to unite
with the soviet government of Mos
COW.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-17
shippers' Forecas


Protect all thirty-siN hour shipments
in all directions against temperatures
above freezing
Heavier showers are due in Topeka
tonight. says Meteorologist Flora. A
few sprinkles fell in the city at various
intervals during the day but were
not sufficient to measure. Altho con-
siderable precipitation is due in To-
peka tonight, the rain will be over
with by Saturday morning, says the
weather man.
The rain will be sufficient to make
the roads muddy and slippery and take
the gridirons out of the best of con-
ditionS for football games, says the
weather man. No rain is scheduled
Saturday altho the day will be partly
cloudy. The rain today will proba-
bly, help substitute for the usual week
end precipitation
More mild temperatures will prevail
but weather conditions will be un-
(Contfnued or Page T-Wot
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supper at the c. of G.

At the buffet supper and entertain
ment which was rendered to the vis-
itors at the Chamber of Commerce
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-17

Protect all thirty-siN hour shipments
in all directions against temperatures
above freezing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-17
HEAVY SHOWERS DUE TONIGHT
Rain VIII Be Over by Saturday, Says
Meteorologist Flora
TOD VS. TEN u Z p 4 TIP IrS

) TEAIPERATUREs.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-03-03

when the modern detractOr OF the
Puritans grows most sarcastic he
must be reminded that such
proposal as the following in any
other part of the New or the Old
world would have been met with
scorn and contempt = perhaps
even the hangman's moose: g. ;.
to allow and maintain full and
free toleration of religion to all
men that would preserve the
civil peace and submit unto gov
ernment." Of course, the pro-
posal was never accepted "Our
Governor would not suffer it to
come to VOTE But it certainly
argues we'll for those who had the
backbone to propose it.
The reverence and love which
the learned men of New England
bestowed upon Hebrew culture
may be paralleled perhaps only to
that of our own sages and pious
men of antiquity. Theirs was
child-like alteration of Hebrew,
verging on pain. Bradford, the
first governor of New England, in
his History of the Plymouth
Plantation, says: Though I am
grown aged, yet I have a longing
desire to see with my own eyes,
something of that most ancient
language, and Holy Tongue the
Law and Oracles of God were
write, and in which God spake
to the holy patriarchs of old time
=. and though I cannot attaine
to much therein, yet am re-
freshed to have seen some
glimpse hereof as Moyses saw the
land of Canaan a farr of. My
aim and desire is to look on the
words and phrases of the Holy
Texte; and to discerne somewhat
of the same for my own con-
tents" Indeed, one is strongly
reminded of the longing of Halevi
for his Jerusalem.
And this enthusiasm was not
confined to the older generation
alone. Hebrew was studied by
the New England youth from
childhood on. When John Cot
ton, one of the foremost leaders
of colonial times, was young
ster of eleven he. had already
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-03-03

made considerable progress in
his Hebrew Grammar. When he
presented himself for examina-.
tion at college ''it was remarked
that the Poser trying his Hebrew
skill by the third chapter of
Isaiah, a chapter which contained
more hard words than any one of
the Bible, might therefore have
puzzled a very good Hibrician,
yet he made nothing of it."
AS the students grew up some
of them studied the Rabbis so
much that they became almost
Rabbis themselves. While they
were guided in their church func-
tio"s bv the New Testament,
which though written in Greek
was none the less Hebrew in
spirit, they were guided in their
daily life by the Old Testament.
The New Englander rose in the.
morning and retired at night with
some Old Testament passage on
his lips.
To what degree Hebrew cul-
ture had instilled itself on the
mind of New England is evident
from the fact that only one year
after the first printing press was
brought over from England, the
"Bay Psalm Book" literal
translation. of the Hebrew, was
brought out. This was no small
undertaking in that day. Indeed,
it was as remarkable feat for
the twenty-year-little world as
was for the Mother Country some
years before in bringing out the
King James version, on whose
production many of the greatest
scholars had exerted their utmost
skill and learning. Throughout
the text of the EBAY Psalm Book"
may be found scattered Hebrew
words which would never have
found their way on its pages had
the average reader not been more
or less familiar with them in the
original. Indeed, a glance at the
pages of that book reminds one
of our. Reform prayer books.
The New England divines fed
on the Old Testament and
brought its inspiration to the
councils and s'the' most perfect
harmony subsisted;" says Trurii-
bull, the first president of Har--,
ward College, between the legis-
lature and the clergy; like Moses
and Aaron, they walked together
in most endeared friendship"
When Harvard College was
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-03-03
The Influence of Hebrew
Culture in America
BY Herman Jacob sohn (Copyright)

ones 1el1OW man as well as with
the beast of the field.
And since Alfred the Great
Hebrew culture never left Eng
land for any length of time. In
time it became the warp and woof
of English life. The leaders of
the Reformation were men deeply
versed in it, quoting Hebrew as
often as the Rabbis in Spain and
France. The galaxy of scholars
in England, from Wicliffe to Mil.
ton, who represented what was
best in the English race, prided
themselves most on their Hebrew
scholarship. Many classes at Ok
ford and Cambridge were headed
by Hebrew scholars, not infre-
quently of Jewish extraction, at
whose feet the pick of the coun-
try's youth came to learn Hebrew
and Hebrew culture. In fact, these
two universities for time resem-
bled Sora and Pumbeditha of old.
Even those in England who con-
sidered all other learning vain
and effeminate, even downright
wicked (such as the Puritans)
held Hebrew learning in the
highest esteem. More, it was the
democracy which the Puritans
had absorbed from their constant
study of the Old Testament that
put an end to the absurd notions
of the English aristocracy i'm
ported from France about the
divine right of kings, trampling
rough-shod upon the divine right
of man. And it was the influence
of Hebrew culture that at last
sent the Pilgrim Fathers in quest
of a land where every subject
should be king and priest unto
God, acknowledging no sovereign
but the King of Kings"
A decade after the landing Of
the Pilgrim Fathers in America,
Cotton, their foremost divine, !,
presented the General Court a..
code of laws modelled on the Mo-
sale Law. A quarter of a cen
tury after they had set foot on
Plymouth Rock there were many
laws in the colony modelled after
the Hebrew Scriptures. And
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-03-03

Hebrew culture was brought
into this country by the Pilgrim
Fathers. In the hold of the May
flower there was no Homer, no
Virgil, no Beowulf, no Justinian,
no Kent, no Pandects,- but a
copy of the Bible.
The Bible served the voyagers
both as a source of literature and
as a source Of legislation. In
deed, the Bible was the one book
upon which the cornerstone of
the new commonwealth was to
rest,-a commonwealth which,
t h G h occasionally frowned
upon by skeptics and wiseacres,
was far in advance of the times.
Well has William De Witt Hyde
remarked in an address before the
New England Society some years
ago: "The New England con-
science first stood for the Mosaic
Law. The New England con-
science, butt of our jest, yet SOW
ereign of our souls; wrong at first
on every question, yet sure to
come out right"
Hebrew culture to the Pilgrim
Fathers was no new tangled idea
coming into being and dying with
the fashion of the day. Long be-
fore England stepped out from
the covert of obscurity, a wise
and noble king, Alfred the Great,
jurist, judge, and administrator,
had given the English people a
code of laws prefxed by the
Decalogue and the two chapters
of Exodus which follow it. This
code was known to them as the
Legis Alfredi. 1t was the most
famous during the years preced-
ing the Norman Conquest. Al
fred had learned his legislative
wisdom not from Rome, Greece,
or from Charlamagne, but from
Israel's great Law Giver. Among
many other wise things Alfred's
laws forbade idolatry, abrogated
the masters power of life and
death over his slave, and regulat-
ed the Sabbath day, when the
bondman as we'll as the OK in the
stall was to rest,-unheard-of
things in Germanic law. And
since no law is of any avail if it
is not accompanied by the good
will of the individual, Alfred's
code concludes with an appeal to
his subjects to use the Golden
Rule as laid down by the great
Hebrew teachers in dealing with
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-25
QUIZ ALL CANDIDATES
constitutional Clubs Ask n They
IndUrsc Shawnee Platform
and Its Candidate.

Specihl 70 the 'Norld.
OKLAHOMA CITY. oct. "a.
Challeugeing all candidates on the
democratic state ticket to mako
known their stand on the Shawnee
platform, tho Constitutional Demo-
Crat club Of oklahoma, Tuesday
mailed letters to each candidate. The
letter follows:
"As the campaign 10 drawing TO a
close thousands OF democrats IN the
state are making daily inquiry for
tho names OF democrats who ap-
move the Shawnee platform. Desir-
ing 10 furnish this Information and
desiring not to do any candidate
an injustice we write TO inquire your
attitude on the subject; 1. @. on
which platform are YOU standing?
surely no candidate will hesi-
tate 10 give the people OF the state
his views upon a subject so i'm
portant."'
The qucstionnaire was sent to the
following.
F, NJ. Il. Trap, John \. Whitehurst
NE. W. Hardin, A. 8. J. Shaw. NJ. A.
Nash. X \, Snecd. John u. Almond
w r.. Roberts, Robert Brown, Ed
Boyle, William Franklin, G. g.
Ch!ldcrs. Fred Parkinson, Claude l..
Connolly Mrs. Mabel Bassett.
George Il. Short and Frank Carter.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-25
T.C.U. GridsterS
Working Hard for
Saturdays Game
Shakeup in Horned Frog
Line to Strengthen Team
for Battle

FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. "a
There r. much n doing a. the Texas
Christian University gridlron this
weck--getting ready for University
~ Tulsn. which the Horned Frogs
meet at Tulsa on the 2Stb day OF this
month. The Frogs beat Tulsa last
season. hut feel they had a better
team last year. and that a victory
Will not be 80 easily won this time.
a shake-up has come along for the
Horned Frogs this week and itflOoks
like Coach Mcknight r. going 20
have q new team before the week Is
out Cowboy Oglu. who has starred
for three years at center for the
Frogs has been put In az quarter.
while Captain Green, tackle, has
been sent out 10 end along with
Quarter Back Cherry Both are fast
and II looks like the change is
good one. giving the ends into moro
experienced hands and giving them
a lot more speed.
Tankersloy Will go in Mt center.
after having played a good game at
end, dividing time with Alexander
and Cantrcll Alexander has been
sent into back field, while Cantrcll Is
taking Green's tackle. Estes and
Mcconnell, guards. have been re-
placed this week. though they may
develop punch enough TO get back
on Meningitis first suund roster.
Tho pep" squad is getting livcued
up for the Tulsa game aud expect
10 add n bit of color TO the OKLA
hOmn gruudstauda
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-25
Golfers Qualify Today Anderson Trophy Tournament at Country C{
Had
Three Teams in
Gridiron Games

FAYETTEVILLE. Ark, oct. az
Three teams representing the uni
versity Of Arkansas were on the
gridlron last Saturday. Two OF the
teams won decisive victories over
their opponents. while the third, the
Varsity, went down 10 defeat 10 the
Baylor university eleven At Waco,
Texas
Arkansas teams secured a total OF
7G points against their opponents
80. The games won were by shut
out scores
The university team proper. the
Varsity Razorha cks were defeated
at Waco Wy tho Baylor Bears. The
powerful Texas machine. outweigh
ing Arkansas 80 pounds to the man.
failed 20 make any good headway
Ia the first three quarters but In the
fourths ssssion/ favored by the
breaks, the Reers swept across n
powerful offensive that registered
five touChdowns. The final score was
60 TO 10. The RazoTbacks accom-
plished something against Baylor.
However, that no other team has
done this year. Tho Arkansas eleven
twice crossed the Raylor goal line.
the first time the Bridges crew has
been scored upon this season.
Tho freshmen RnzorbackS play
ing at Fayetteville. crushed the fast
Fort Smith high school eleven by a
~ tn score. The game was very
brilliant and showed the marked
superiority OF the first year Varsity
team In every department of the
game over their opponents. The
freshmen have three more games
to play this year. n schedule that Is
being anNiously watched for by the
university students because of the
excellent showing made Saturday
by tho young team.
Stilwell high, Stilwell. okla,
proved victims for the third univer-
sity team. the university high school
squad The high school boys smashed
through their opponents for three
touchdowns. defeating them II to o.
The university high school team IS
coached this year by a former Ra-
zorback, George Basore OF last years
team