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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-09

declared that the movement was part
Of plan of the relief organization
u place the children In more settled
and secure regions and to concentrate
them in easily accessible places where
taoy could be cared for with greater
efficiency at less expense.
Il Turks Require Relief.
j, "It took our caravan, which was
Inade up. in addition to the children
of another relief worker myself. for
pr-seven saddle and pack horses and
plules and twenty-five wagons, ten
Gays to reach .Urfa, Cilicia, about one
hundred miles from Mardin," he said
I'VE travelled two days more in this
fashion. after leaving Urfa. when we
Reached point from which the rail-
road was running to Aleppo. We were
held Mp at both Urfa and at the rail-
head for days waiting for permission
to proceed further" The Turkish
Eationalists require permits for all
travel in their territory These per-
lnits take time to obtain"
! Zimmerman said that when he left
Mardin the relief organization was
caring for about $50 destitute Ar
rnenian women in addition to the or
phans, which was considerably less
than the number receiving aid when
he first reached the city. AT that
time" he said, more than a thousand
children were in the American Or
sphanages in the city" He said that
the decrease was caused by transfers
to lother orphanages and by the find
ing of relatives of large number of
the children.
2 During his two years of service in
'1iardin, Zimmerman said that he re-
eetved mail from home only seven
times, owing to difficulty of trans
portation and the unsettled political
situation the regions between Mardin
and the base of supplies.
According to Zimmerman American
relief workers will not be able to
Withdraw from activities in the Near
EAST until the children in the orphan
eye are able to care for themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-09
BEAUCEANTS TO CELEBRATE
Topeka Assembly No. "a Was Char.
.s tered on March o..

Members of Topeka Assembly No.
"a. Social order of Beauceant, are
celebrating the close of the first fiscal
year of the assembly. The present
membership of the organization is
1O5. 1t was chartered March % of
this year. The officers are: Mrs. Ma
belle Lane. president; Mrs. G.. W. Nc
Clelland. recorder and Mrs. Ida Pom
,eroy, treasurer.
Following the regular business
meeting of the assembly next Tuesday
afternoon at the Masonic temple, a
special get acquainted program will be
held. Miss Bernice Hemus will give a
piano number. Leo Gilmore will give
"a saxaphone solo. Miss Mildred
Bollinger will serve as accompanies
A playlet. Not a Man in the House."
will be presented under the direction
Of Mrs. w. A. Bollinger. The mem
'bers of the cast are: Miss Esther
White. Miss Catherine Hays. Miss
kathryn Jordan, Miss Ethel Peterson
and Miss Catherine Chronister.
Prizes will be awarded for winners
IN getting acquainted contests. There
will be q program of stunts The
Beauceant is an auxiliary organization
to knights Templar and is composed
Of the wives and widows of. that or
Eanization.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-09
The REV. KALLMAN To CHICAGO
Topeka Pastor Will Take Prominent
Part in Chicago Convention.

Part in Chicago Convention.
The Rev. J. A. Kallman. pastor of
the Swedish Baptist church. will be
one of the leading speakers at the
forty-third annual general conference
of Swedish Baptist churches in the
United States to be held in Chicago,
September Ii to Is. He will deliver
the Sunday evening sermon of the
conference. The Rev. Kallman left
Thursday for Chicago and will not
return to Topeka until after the con-
ference.
He will also attend the general min
listers conference, which will be held
September IS. All sessions of the
meeting will be held in the Engle-
wood Swedish Baptist church.
The local church is the largest of
the denomination in Kansas with a
membership of nearly 200. The church
is also the most prosperous in Kan
sas. The property is valued at $780,
900. The Rev. Kallman is moder-
ator of the Kansas association.
On the opening day of the Chicago
convention a historical program COM
memorating the seventy years of
Swedish Baptist work in the. United
States will be held. The work orig
mated in 1852 at Rock Island. ILL.,
The annual reports of committees and
hfficers and the annual election will
be held Friday and Saturday. It may
be decided to hold the annual confer
ence in the spring instead of in Sep
TENDER. hereafter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-09
NAME 3 KANSANS
VIII Assist Near East Relief in
Famine Areas.
Are Assigned to Orphanage
Work in Alexandr0pOl.

The appointment of three native
Kansans to the Administrative Com
mittee Of Seven, to which the admin
istration of American rekef in the
famine areas of Armenia and Trans
caucasian Russia has been trans
ferred. has oeen announced by the
Near East Relief.
They are Emmett w Rankin. for
merly of Paola, but now of Mon
rovia, Cal. a graduate of Park col
lege, Missouri; DIR. Russell T. Uhls. of
White City. and Burnice L. Horn, for
merly of Stafford. but now a resident
of Athens o.
In Charge of Orphanagc Work.
sAll three are in charge of orphan
age work in Alexandropol. Armenia.
where the Near East Relief has con-
child war and canine victims. Ran
kin is in charge of the Polyson Group
! of orphanages; Horn of Kazacht Post
group, and DIR. Uhls of the Seversky
Barracks group. The last ieludes the
trachoma hospital, where's approx
mateIy six thousand youthful trach-
oIna victims treated.
| DR.. j. K. Marden of Massachusetts,.
heads the administrative committee.
| DR.. Marden for, the past six months
has directed the organizations fight
against cholera, typhus, and other dis
| case among the hunger weakened
J people of famine areas.
The administrative committee will
have entire charge of the distribution
| of American relief supplies thru the
| famine areas. Orphanage. rehabilita-
| ton, and other work will be carried
out under its supervision. The mem
| bers of the committee will continue
| to fill their present positions in adj
dition to their new duties. -
l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-09

college work previous to entering the
service. He resumed his work at the
Kansas State Normal school following
his discharge a,.u has completed the
work required, for the degree of
Bachelor of Science in education. He
has been active in the various. college
activities and was a member of one of
the college debating teams. He de-
Hvered the Founders Day address at
the school Jas. spring. Because of SUI
perior work ne was admitted to men,
bership in the Kappa Delta Pi. an
honorary scholastic fraternity. He is
now completing work for masters
degree in education at the University
of Chicago.
Was Kicked by Horse.
r. C. Menefee of Towanda, Kan,
served as second lieutenant in the
Veterinary c.rps, of the 18TH Field
Artillery, Third division. He was suf-
fered a serious. injury when kicked
7 by a horse at Trinity Farm France.
Prior to entering the service he had
completed three years of work in a
veterinary college. He took up adj
vanced work in this subject at Kansas
State Agricultural college following
his discharge. He is now practicins
as veterinarian.
Phillip A. Barnes of Syracuse, Kan.
enlisted in the army in 1917 and
served as a private IN Company c,
f37th Infantry. After spending eleven
months in France he received six ma
chine gun bullet wounds. H. was re-
turned to America as a casual.
Barnes complete three years work
in collegiate agriculture at the Kan
sas State Agricultural college prior tc
| enlisting In the army He had al
ways worked .on a farm and was voca.
tionally Handicapped. He completed
his course and received the degree OF
| Bachelor of Science in animal hus-
, bandry. So
He is now vocational agriculture in
structor at Syracuse high school.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-09
Women work For Bonus.

Emporia, Kan, Sept. 9.eThe
women of Emporia are organizing to
assist war veterans in their campaign
for the state dollar day bonus to be
voted on in the November election.
Two lieutenants will work in each vot-
ing precinct before election eand on
election day the women will = check
voters at the polls. An orga nization
Of American Legion menr.will coop
crate with the women
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-09
Boy Is Killed by Motor Car.

Great Bend, Kan, Sept. 9.-John
Williamson. Jr.,l aged 6, son of Mr..
and Mrs. John williamson of Hoising-
ton, was run over by an automobile
in the streets of Hpisington Thursday
evening and almost instantly killed.
Funeral services were held yesterday
afternoon at Hoisington and the body
taken to Marion Kan, the old home.
for burial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-09
TOOK PART IN CAMPAIGN
A. E. Jones, of Topeka, Distrib-7
uted Mckinley for President
Badges Here in 1S96-Has Lived
In Topeka Forty-F1ve Years.

The reproduction one day last week
of the first page of The Topeka State
Journal of March 4, 1897. telling the
story of the inauguration of President
William Mckinley. was of particular
interest to A. E. Jones. 80 years old,
235 Wabash avenue. Oakland
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-09
INJURY MAY PROVE FATAL.
Frank Moser, of Concordia, Seriousl,
Hurt When Car 'Overturns.

Concordia, Kan, Sept 9.-Frank
Mosher. a farmer near jamestown,
may die from q fractured skull, re-
ceived late yesterday when the car in
which he was riding overturned on the
Fulmer hill, west of Concordia. H A
Mossburg, of California. here on a
visit, who was driving the car. received
cuts about the head. He was unable
to explain how the accident occurred.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-09
NEW CHURCH AT WICHITA
United Congrcgationalists Plan Dedi-
cation in October

ton. of the $4,000 United Congre4
gational church in the College Hill
district of Wichita will be completed
shortly and arrangements have been
made to hold dedication services the
week of October 8. The dedicatory
sermon will be preached by DR.. Frank
G. Smith of Omaha. Among other
speakers will be DR.. Charles F. Aked,
of Kansas City. and President Will
liam ]. Hutchins of Berea college, in
Kentucky.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-09
CHANUTE HUNTER Is FINED.
Fred DimicIr Admits Using Motor Car,
TO Kill Chickens Out of Season.

TO Kill Chickens Out of Season.
Emporias Kan, Sept. 9.-The largest
fine ever assessed for violation of the
game laws of Kansas was paid yeSter-
day by Fred D:mick of Chanute. who
pleaded guilty TO killing thirty prairie
chickens out of season and was fined
S2O6.I0. Dinick admitted using Ford
cars connected with wires weighted
Gown As the wires We're dragged
across the pastures the chickens were
scared up and Dimick shot them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-09
AID TO FIFTY men
Vocational Training Provided
For Many Former Soldiers.
Assigned to Kansas Colleges
and Business Schools.
COST PAID BY GOVERNMENT
Total of 2s4 to Receive Insfitu-
tional Vocational Training. !,
August Was a Busy Month in
Topeka Office.

More than fifty disabled or par
TALLY disabled ex-service men will be
given the opportunity to receive vo-
cational training in Kansas colleges
and business schools this year thru
the Topeka office of the United States
Veterans bureau. All costs of tuition.
books. supplies tools and incidental
expense of the training courses will
be paid in addition to maintenance al
lowances ranging from $50 to $40
per month, depending on where the
course is taken and the status of de-
tendency. All men who receive this
advantage acquired a disability while
in the army service, which constitutes
a vocational handicap or prevents
them from carrying on their pre-war
occupation.
The number of EN- who will at
tend the various schools will be as fol-
lege, 40; Kansas State Normal school,
Emporia, 5; st. Louis and Washington
university ST. Louis. 5, and the Kan
sas Industrial and Educational Insti-
tute. Topeka. 4.
Two hundred and thirty-four men
are now receiving institutional train
ing at the following schools: Wash
burn college. College of Emporia,
Kansas State Normal school. Kansas
State Agricultural college. Topeka
Business college and the KanNs In
dustrial and Educational Institute.
Eightyaseven men are receiving place
ment training in Industrial establish
nentS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-09

= The new County Hall in London
contains more than five miles of cor
ridors.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-12
~.

have made more money for owner
Comiskey since the beginning of the
1922 schedule than they did all last
year and the season is only half over.
Baseball, with the crowds in the
American league parks from day to
day bearing witness, is not losing its
hold on the public. If anything, the
national paStime has increased in ia
vOritiSm as a source of amusement for
hundreds of thousands of baseball
fans What is true in the American
league is also true in the National.
\ plethora of home runs. the "lively
ball" the reconstruction of 10 per cent
Of the clubs in the two big leagues, ana
lastly the desire of the fan pOpulace
to be out in the open air have all had
a part in herding flOcks of golden
eagles to the vaults of the owners.
When Philadelphia. with two floun-
dering second division clubs, turns out
$4,000 patrons on damp Saturday af
ternOOn to watch the Athletics play
the White SOX; when Detroit packs
$1,000 spectators in a 25,O00-capacity
park; when Cleveland fans To the num-
Der of $4,000 see dOule-header on the
Fourth of July, and an average of %
900 on Sunday, and when the SoX, with
only three or four old stars left, draw
to the gate in three months what they
did in six months in a previous year.
then baseball must be good business
Comiskey. the JIM Dunn estate, the
nd
a few others will say so, anyway.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-12
HURLERS ARE NOT so YOUNG
Average Age of Pitchers in Major
Leagues Well Toward Twenty
Eight-Babe Adams Leader.

The old chatter about youth being
served is still in the air. Yet out of
the 20 leading pitchers Of the big
leagues, SO are over the thirty-year
mark and % will never see their
twenty-fifth birthday. Only nine are
under twenty-five summers. Their
average age scales we'll on toward
twenty-eight. With Babe Adams, Wal
ter Johnson and Grover Alexander
leading the old age parade. In length
of service Adams leads. with 10 sea
sons III professional baseball; Johnson
and Marquard have seen II and Alex
ander, COveleskie, TOney and Tyler
have played for 10 years
OF the 20 pitchers included in this
survey. As have played for more than
ten seasons. the average span of serv-
ice being a bit over ten years. A
young arm and a young head are
hardly as good as an old arm and an
old head, provided the arm is not too
old
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-12
ONE HONEST CATCHER

Talk about rather playing
baseball than eating turkey.
How is this?
ON June II. 1912, when Yazoo
City was playing Columbus of
the Cotton States league and
the game had gotten az far as
the second inning, the catcher
of Columbus was hurt and there
was no one to take his place. 1t
was up to the catcher of the
Yazoo City nine 10 catch for
both teams. All the officials
agreed. 1t was dOuble-header
and both games went ten, in
ningS. This hero'S name was
Taylor. He worked manfully
and energetically and although
his own team won both games
his picture never .graced the
rOgUes' gallery. His was an eX-
ample that's good To pattern
after
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-12
Sporting Squibs
of All Kinds

Running is regarded as a much more
important sport in America than it is
in England.
There are 600 polo players in va
riOus War department branches of the
United States.
Pennsylvania will play the United
States Naval academy at rugby and
soccer this year.
Cleveland will have only one football
eleven in this years National league
Of professional clubs.
CheSley H, a tWO-ye8T-Old in the
stable of Roscoe Searcy. is showing
clever form in his training at Lex
ngtOn.
A victory over Yale on the gridirCn
next fall is the only stimulant left that
viii brace up Harvard's wObbly run
n athletics
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-12
BABE FINELLI MAKING GOOD
His Playing at Hot Corner Vacated
by Heinie Groh Has Been Fast
and Hitting Good.

Babe Pinelli the Oakland third
baseman for whom the Cinci Reus
paid $50 700 and several players last
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-12

winter, is making good. His fielding
at the corner vacated by Heinie GrOh
has been spectacular and his hitting
acceptable.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-12
BIG ANNUAL GOlFlNG EVENT
FIorida-2inehurst Team Match Will Be
Played Each Year-Established
for All Time.

The FlOrida-PinehurSt team match
has come to stay. This is a certainty.
and it will be played each year as
curtain-raiser TO the North and South
Open. The event will always have 10
be played at PinehurSt. unless some
neutral course. such as Aiken or Cam
den. is selected. The enthusiasm in
the event this year has established
the affair for all time. or as long as
golfers go to Florida. and others Ga
To Pinehurst for winter golf.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-12
Diamond
Sguibs

The Little Rock club bought In
fielder Art Ritter from the Atlanta
club.
The fight in the Southern league is
a hot one, and the clubs concerned are
anything bur friendly.
Clyde denny Wrenn has made the
rounds in the Western association and
is back with Okmulgee
Augie Moran, veteran umpire. who
has been in the South Atlantic league
this season. has taken vacation.
The Washington club has made an
other purchase from Tommy Leach's
Tampa team. This one is Hawkins.
pitcher.
James Russell Moore has been
named manager of the Cairo team of
the Kitty league. succeeding George
Hughes
Manager Harry Clark of the Mil
waukee team says Nelson Potts is
the best left-hander in the American
association.
The Washington club. in answer to
appeals from Joe CantilIon. turned
Pitcher Tom Phillips over TO the Min
neapOliS club.
Pitcher Connie Fields of the Nash
vile club has retired from the game
Of the season and gone to h, home
in Arkansas
Pitcher Lou Cowan of the Enid team
is going right again and setting Il pace
that is likely to get him another trial
in faster company.
The veteran Jimmy MalOney re-
signed as manager of the Ardmore
team Of the Texas-Oklahoma and Alex
Bogus succeeds him.
Charles Ooc) Barrett well known
as college coach and trainer. has been
signed by Connie Mack as a member
of his scouting staff.
The Southern league claims the
unique distinction of having two broth
ers as unpires on its staff. They are
Buck and Bick Campbell.
Manager Lee Foil of the ST. Louis
Browns is watching closely the work
of one of his young southpaws. Frank
Henry, now with Mobile.
Bunny Brief of Kansas City. i'm spite
of time out for illness. has been keep
ing up with the champion home-rup
hitters of all leagues pretty well.
The veteran Jack Scheneberg who
moved from Mobile To Charleston. has
made another shift and at last ac-
counts was pitching for Richmond in
the Virginia league.
The Buffalo club has turned Pitch
erS TOmlin and Weinecke over to the
Hamilton club to help Ernest Calbert
out in his efforts to win the hOnOrS
of the second half in the Mint league
Ira Thomas. scouting for the Phila-
delphia Athletics. made the rounds of
the TeXaS-O klahOma circuit and
bought two pitchers. Gus Ketchum
from Ardmore. and Red Shillings from
Paris.
Floyd Herman. the California kid
who swings bat bigger than Babe
Ruth. is batting half a million since
he returned to Omaha. Manager Burch
has poem using him in the Ou,seld and
on first.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-12
{ A|CAG0 EAGLE LIVE SPORTS
PHANTOM PLAY FOOLS

Playing phantom" bail-@"
ing right through all the me.
tions without 4 ball being used
was quite a practice STUNT e.
some clubs several years ago
and it made a great hit with Ia.
fans for a while.
But some phantom stun
that got b. in Il real game Wa:
pulled once on the coast that
got Mike Fisher. who was doing
the umpire work. in rather bad
with the home fans N Sa~ra-
mentO.
The Chicago Cubs were p!a!
ing an exhibition game in SuCra
mento. \ Sacramento h.tt2I
drove one through Joe Tinker ri
short like a shot. Tinker Wen
through all the motions of field
iEg. Chance on first stretched
out and slapped his glove as if
making the catch.
out" yelled Mike Fisher
loudly.
And all the while the center
fielder was madly chasing the
ball. OF course Fisher never
heard tie last of it.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-12
Baseball
Notes

Del Pratt, second baseman OF thu
Red SoX, continues to hit safely In
every game.
The San Francisco club is said to
have offered $1,000 to Saginaw for
Shortstop Otis Miller.
No, mules and BAH players are not
at all alike A mule only kicks when
he has good reasons.
Catcher Micky Devine of the TOrOn-
TO club has been loaned to the Albany
club of the Eastern league.
Iris Speaker claims he can throw
baseball much farther than the or
binary man can throw a cornerstone
The Syracuse International Baseball
team has signed Milton Dixon, a for
mer pitcher of the University of Mich
igan.
Walter Lynch. the latest addition
to the Boston Americans catching
staff, formerly attended Niagara uni
versity.
The Russell for whom the Pirates
paid $4,000 and two players is not
'TeX" Russell's grandSOn-it is "Tex"
himself
Among the new players with Des
MOines is Pitcher Claude Cooper, who
was obtained from Seattle of the Coast
league
The Detroit Tigers sent First Base
man Shanlaub to the Augusta club in
the South Atlantic league fo further
seasoning.
Scout Joe Engle of the Washington
Americans is after Pitcher Georg
Walberg of the Portland Coast league
baseball club
Women are making wonderful rec
Ords in tennis. II only remains for
them to organize baseball team and
win a championship.
The Salt Lake team has been run
ming on three wheels here of late, due
to miShaps that put both Oscar Wilt
and Joe Jenkins out
Intielder Gallagher and Pitcher Mat
thews have been purchased from the
l1lh of II, ri1,io 4
the Boston Nationals
Leroy Maynard, who capUained and
played ShOrtStop for the Dartmouth
college nine this season, has Joined
the Boston Red Sox in Boston.
Babe Ruth Finally Reaches 300
Mark in Hitting" said headlines in
the papers recently Truly these be
lean days for the once great swat
ting king.
The Pirates have given Pitcher HOl-
lingsworth and a bunch of money for
Reb Russell, left fielder on the Min
neapOlis team. Russell is the former
w ute SOA plCcner.
Manager Forrest Cady of the Au-
gusta team, doing first base work now,
concluded he needed another catcher,
so he made Il deal with the Newark
1nternatiOnals for Wade Letter.
Connie Mack is engaged in taking
on and letting out colIegians. He
signed Walter Wolfe, pitcher from Leb.
anon Valley, and sent him hence to
Hartford in the Eastern league.
1t used to be news when Babe Ruth
made a homer because he was making
so many and now he gets one so sell
dom that it has become Il news item
when he makes circuit clnut
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-12

too much cOmmercialiZed 10 make it a
proper sport for colleges. l do not be-
Iieve the game should be passed up
in the college on any such score. Base
ball is a scientific game. 1t trains the
mind of the player, gives him self
control and develops skill and cour-
age. What more does any other sport
1o?"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-12

of
pitcher the Louis
Babe Ruth in
a of
honeun king Shus who has famed Babe
thai made
Mathewson
is The
"Old
a
He to of
Western the Browns
says re : one o OF e