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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07
FIGS IN KANsAs?-sURE.
State Is Good for Raising This Fruit,
lola Woman Says.

lola, Kan, July Figs can be
raised in Kansas.
Mrs. o. p. Robertson of lola has
proof of this fact. She has a little
tree in her yard and invites any skep-
tics who think that California is bet
ter than Kansas to drop in any time
and see the tree. 1t is four feet tall
and produced eleven figs this year.
Mrs. Robertson says they are larger
than the California product. The tree
is kept indoors during the winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07
Use trucks for Rural Mail Now.

independence. kan. July ,7.-Old
pobbin once more is showed into the
discard. Uncle Sam has displaced the
mail carrying wagons here with two
small trucks which transport the mail
between depot and postoffice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07
epGYESTER.
~ DAYS
2RESULTS

National League.
New York, 8 Pittsburgh, 5.
Brooklyn, 2; st. Louis. Il.
Only two games scheduled.
American League.
Cleveland. 80: New York, 10-11-
Chicago, 0; Philadelphia, 5.
Only two games scheduled.
American Association.
Minneapolis, 1; Kansas City. 6.
Milwaukee, 8; St Paul. /
Columbus, II; Louisville. 8.
indianapolis. 3; Toledo, p
Western League.
wichita, 5; Oklahoma City, IL.
Omaha, z; Denver. 3.
Tulsa. 5; st. Joseph, 3.
Des Moines-Sioux City. rain
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07

If Joe Bockskopf can continue his
present hitting gait, a shake up in the
batting order may find him up among
the select group. Four singles in as
many times up was his record yester-
day. Becky also hit well on the last
road trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07

winning, to 1. The score by in
nings: X h h.
Muskogee ....OO1 900 O1O- 2 o
Indepen'ce 1000 010 600 1 IL ;
Batteries Rush and Bonifer;
shores and Fromme
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07
KING AND HUGHES TO MEET.
Premiers of Canada and q. S. Will
Talk Mutual interest Wednesday.

Washington, July Premier King
of Canada and Secretary Hughes will
confer in Washington next Wednes-
day, the conference which was ar
ranged on the initiative of Premier
King, taking in number of questions
of mutual interest to the two nations
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07

After today all week day games will
be called at $3.50 o'clock.
Ladies' day today. It may increase
the attendance but what Cooley needs
is gate receipts.
with a first division club. Topeka is
showing no better support than the
smallest towns in the league.
Every man on the Topeka team hit
safely yesterday with the exception Of
Peterson and Pierce. the two extremes
of the batting order
The crowd begged Pierce to put the
ball over the fence. but the hurler
couldn't deliver. On the other hand
it wasn't at all necessary. When his
mates pound the ball for twenty bases,
a pitcher doesn't need to hit.
All of the nine assists made by the
Coffeyville team yesterday, were cred
tied to Dorland and Mayer. Victor,
the pitcher, didn't have a fielding
chance during the day.
If Joe Bockskopf can continue his
present hitting gait, a shake up in the
batting order may find him up among
many times up was his record yester-
day. Becky also hit well on the last
road trip.
first inning. however, which seemed
to put the CoffeyvilIe team on the
blink yesterday. The blow scored
Peterson. Who had walked, and Rose
scored a moment later when Ennis
missed a play at the plate. The two
runs were sufficient to win the game.
Rose continued his batting perform
ance by hitting single in the third
and cracking out a double in the
eighth. Neville walked and singled
in the third round, and after hitting
a wicked triple in the eighth, scored
on Roses double. Both Neville and
Rose were up twice in the third.
Altho the game yesterday was
one-sided affair, the Coffeyville club
is well balanced organization and
may be expected to soon fight its way
into the first division. Here's hoping.
however, that it doesn't start until
after the present series is over with.
Jumps Harris made his first appear
ance before a Topeka crowd yester-
day, and got away in fairly good
shape, but like most of Barbour's
hired help. he failed to run the game
in a peppery manner. Harry Womack
is the only umpire in the league who
possesses the intestinal inclination to
let the players know he Is the boss.
The elimination of a lot of hot air
would speed up the games and please
the fans.
Which doesn't mean that Womack
shows his authority in a chesty, blus-
tering manner. He simply knows his
stuff and the players respect him for
it. Once they open their month they
know 1t is going to be expensive. Con-
seQuently they seldom do it. If the
other umpires will take a few lessons
from Womack, it will be a better
league.
Today's game will be called at 1880
o'clock. but commencing Saturday all
week day games will start at $3.50
o'clock and Sunday games at 3. The
plan of starting the games at 1880
o'clock has been given a thoro trial
and it hasn't proved satisfactory. The
$3.50 crowds were better and Manager
Cooley announces that he will stick to
that hour
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07

Neviue. Sacrifice fly-Bross. Two-base
tits-Ennis, Bross, Rose. Three-base hits
Asoses Neville. Earned runs-Coffeyville, 1;
frope ka- .. Left on bases-CoffeyvilIe, S;
ropeka- & Double plays-Mayer and WILL
ErOd: bross, Strohm and Bockskopf; Pierce,
eiross and BoekskOpf; Peterson and Book
Gkorf. Bases on balls-Off Victor, 4; off
fierce, }. Struck out-By Victor, 8; by
Time-1 IS Umpire-Harris.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07

All of the nine assists made by tn
Coffeyville team yesterday, were cred
tied to Dorland and Mayer. Victor
the pitcher, didn't have a fieldin
chance during the day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07

1t was Mitch Roses tipp1e in the
first inning. however, which seemed
to put the Coffeyville team on the
blink yesterday. The blow scored
Peterson, Who had walked, and Rose
scored a moment later when Ennis
missed a play at the plate. The two
runs were sufficient to win the game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07

Sapulpa, Z; SaIina, 4.
Salina, Kan, July IA home run
by Grigsby with two men on in the
fourth inning helped Sapulpa defeat
Salina yesterday, to l. The score by
innings: h h T.
Sapulpa 1000 $40 OOO- 1
Salina .....100 900 600
Batteries-Jeffers and Newasha;
Sarlund, Lundgren and Walsh
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07

OTHER S. W. LEAGUE RESULTS,
Mets, Yanks and Shocl1ers Won
Games Featured by Low Score.
I Independence, Kan, July Rush
bested Shores in a pitchers battle
here yesterday afternoon, Muskogee
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07

Rose continued his batting perform
ance by hitting a single in the third
and cracking out a double in the
eighth. Neville walked and singled
in the third round, and after hitting
a wicked triple in the eighth, scored
on Roses double. Both Neville and
Rose were up twice in the third.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07

The crowd begged Pierce to put the
ball over the fence. but the hurler
couldn't deliver. On the other hand
it wasn't at all necessary. When his
mates pound the ball for twenty bases,
a pitcher doesn't need to hit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07
HutchInson. 3; BartlesviIle, 2.

huUC1IIIsOHI o. .10tIH IOeFA1Ns -
Hutchinson, Kan, July shelby
held Bartlesville to four hits yester-
day, and Hutchinson won the first
game of the series, to 2. Ganley
hit a home run in the seventh. The
score by innings: r. H. E.
BartIesvilIe 1000 200 600 8
Hutchinson 1000 OO1 H. o
Batteries-Allen, O'Neal and Wiley;
Shelby and Osterfelt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07

Altho the game yesterday was a
one-sided affair, the Coffeyville club
is a well balanced organization and
may be expected to soon fight its way
into the first division. Here's hoping.
however. that it doesn't start until
after the present series is over with.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07

Every man on the Topeka team hi
safely yesterday with the exception o
Peterson and Pierce. the two extreme
of the batting order
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07
THE DOPE BOX

After today all week day games will
be called at $3.50 o'clock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07

With a first division club. Topeka is
showing no better support than the
smallest towns in the league.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07

Ladies' day today. 1t may increase
the attendance but what Cooley needs
is gate receipts.
The New York herald., 1922-03-26
Bacon Prize for Newly Weds

r N the days of King John young Eng
lish baronet went to the little town
Of Dunmow in Essex, where, in dis
guise as country pumpkin, he wooed and
won a peasant For a year and day
they lived frugal. industrious life and
then, having proved her worthy, the young
husband declared his wealth and noble
birth. Leading his wife to the old priory,
Sir Robert Fitzwalter craved the abbots
forgiveness for his ruse, and his blessing.
The abbot gladly bestowed his blessing
and gave Sir Robert fitch OF bacon.
Sir Robert was so delighted that in true
medieval style he exclaimed by his halidom
he would make II worth the abbot's while
TO present iitches of bacon to every couple
who lived happily together for year and
day. Thereupon he endowed the abbey
with many acres of fair Essex land.
For several centuries the quaint fitch
OF bacon trials thus tradltionally estab-
lished were occasionally observed. In the
middle Of the last century young writer
introduced the fitch trial into a novel.
The New York herald., 1922-03-26

aroused public interest, and succeeded in
getting the trials reestablished.
England has supplemented It's religious
holidays with several others that are
known as bank holidays. That which falls
in August is observed as Fitch Day in
Dunmow, and there hundreds OF visitors
repair to see the couples claim the prize.
Six girls and six bachelors form the jury,
a Judge and opposing counsel completing
the court.
After the humorous procedure, the cou-
pies are carried in chairs to the traditional
spot where sir Robert and his comely
bride received their anniversary gt1
There they renew their protestations OF
mutual love and fidelity and receive the
ancient sentence:
Since to these conditions, without any
fear,
or your own accord you do freely swear.
A whole CANNON OF bacon you do receive.
And bear It away with love and good leave;
For this is the custom OF Dunmow well
known,
Though the pleasure be ours. the bacon's
your own
The New York herald., 1922-03-26

opinion the baby doll phase Is passing,
and more and more the screen is demand
ing real actors and actresses"
Our small town belle has sudden
thought as the wise man of Hollywood
ends his disquisition.
What" she says, happened to Ira
vesta Turbina the girl who won the prize
in that beauty contest and got a starring
engagement for five weeks at 5000 week"
"They paid her the money all right"
the friendly cynic makes reply. AS for
the rest, she had no more brains than a
snail. They made few long shots OF her
and then doubled her with a woman who
can act. They told Travesta she could
hang around and get movie education IL
she wanted to. She did for while, but as
nobody paid any attention to her she
gathered up her $4,000 and left Hollywood
to worry along as best it could. 1t was
just an advertising stunt for the studio
and the paper that ran the contest Few
studios do it."
The small town belle is not discouraged
yet. AS the telephone never rings, she
takes to making the rounds of the studios
every day. She finds them cheerful enough.
She wonders sometimes II 1t wouldn't be
better for her IL they were harsher.
Cant use you just now, but come again."
the assistant casting director says. He
really means 1t, after a fashion, for the
girl is not hopeless: she dresses we'll;
her obdurate parents have relented to the
extent of sending her money, realizing that
II will take some time TO effect q cure and
The New York herald., 1922-03-26


her parents and had her taken home, but
at last report she was planning another
sortie and the star was about to retreat
to Honolulu.
Rupert Hughes, who returned to Holly
gossip about the movie people and their
customs is poppycock.
1--WE been on the lot two years" he as
sured me, "and never have even seen
woman kissed. except as called for by the
script. have never seen a drunken man.
have never seen any soliciting in the
streets. Hollywood is just as clean as any
theological seminary, and any other state
ment befouls the man who makes it. |
have had jobs to offer, careers 10 make.
No woman has as much as hinted to me
that she was willing to grant favors to
get along. These matters aside let the
public keep in mind the words of Ian Mac
Laren: BE pitiful, because everybody's
having a hard fight"
To this may be added the observation
of one who has watched Hollywood from
its romper days and sees II now adolescent
but growing up:
bad has been mixed with the good here
and a man is fool TO deny It, But the big
question is, Who is molding the movies.
the rotten producer, the rotten director, the
rotten actor? Or is 1t the decent people
with an adequate set OF ideals which they
don't bother to say much about? To me
it is the latter. To me the movies are not
the Arbuckles, but the Fairbankses. the
Mary Pickfords. the Bill Harts, the Charley
Rays, the Conrad Nagels, the Will Rogerses.
the Harold Lloyds-scores Of others. the
finest in the world. setting an example OF
good acting and good citizenship"
The New York herald., 1922-03-26
Left Desk for Screen,
But Went Back Again

Another Studio Club girl quit first class
stenographic job al s35 a week for the lure
OF the movies She was pretty, a good
dancer, mad about acting" a girl from
whom the uninitiated would expect rapid
progress. She went to work as an extra
and also did small bits. The very first
week she was busy every day and made
$50 She chanced to be exactly the type
a director had been looking for for GER
tain sequence Of scenes. But her pros.
perity ended with the sequence.
During the next three weeks she earned
nothing She kept an exact account. In
three months she received s140. That was
just what she had earned in one month as
a stenographer. Snc discovered that she
was not an actress and that the pictures
requiring girl OF her type were few and
far between. She returned to her pothooks
and typewriter and lived happily ever after.
Her brief experience had taught her
The New York herald., 1922-03-26

not more so than some Of the men in de-
partment stores or factories. | know OF
men here who have worked themselves
into places Of power in studios and who use
that power to block the progress Of girls
who are not complaisant. l know of girls
who have revolted and have left Hollywood
for this reason. But these instances are
exceptional.
Il could name many girls Of my acquaint-
ance who have reached the top without
ever having heard a disagreeable proposal.
1t ought to be noted that William Desmond
Taylor, the director who was murdered.
had fine reputation among the girls. He
was quiet, courteous, patient. He did not
fool the girls with careless fattery, as
some directors do, but il a girl was able to
see him personally he gave sensible en-
couragement IL he thought it deserved.
have talked with many girls and never
heard one OF them say word against
him"
I put the same question to John H.
Pelletier, director of the Morals Efficiency
Association Of Southern California, which
functions like the Committee OF Fourteen
in New York in reporting vice.
"Only small percentage Of girls who go
to the studios meet Objectionable treat
The New York herald., 1922-03-26

much. She had learned that the open
field for extras is not as open as it ap-
peared to be- that casting directors are
in the habit of choosing again and again
persons whom they know and are used to;
that in most of the studios, as is entirely
natural, the relatives Of employees have
the first call, provided they meet the re-
quirements; that many studios have their
own small salaried stock actors, who
play most OF the bits; that if an extra
woman has not a specially interesting per-
sonality she may go ten weeks without
earning a single dollar; that the chance OF
any one in mob scene catching the direc-
tors eye is slim; that the average picture
has only eight or ten acting parts at the
most and the average extra has no more
chance Of ever getting part in Hollywood
than he has of taking Carusos place at
the Metropolitan.
And how fares amid this disillusionment
the day dreaming middle Western belle
who went to Hollywood to improve the
movies? | do not know. Hers is merely
a typical case, set forth from what
learned Of many cases. The chances OF
her name ever appearing in electric lights
are at least 80 to l against her. She may
keep on and settle down as an extra, aver
aging perhaps s25 a week. She may
swallow her pride and go home. She may
join the innumerable company of picture
failures with picture faces crowding one
another for jobs In the stores and shops OF
California. Or she may disappear alto
gether from her accustomed walks. Some
OF the girls who look like Mary Pickford'
do that, too.
"One OF the most distressing facts" said
Miss Hunter, the finely poised director OF
the Studio Club lis that so many of the
girls who come here have parents or
brothers and sisters to support They ex-
pect to earn large salaries quickly and
you can imagine the worry when they find
that perhaps they can't earn anything at
ALL II they fail 1t is sometimes because
they want the home folks to think they
had made good here, sometimes because II
helps them TO make good"
The New York herald., 1922-03-26

that the climate OF California, though
salubrious, is not nutritious.
She is inspirited by the few in
stances she hears of quick success in
the midst of failure or plodding A
friend at the Studio Club tells her Of
Zasu Pitts. Mrs Pitts brought her
daughter to the Studio Club from
Santa Cruz. She was timid country,
small town girl, without training or
obvious ability. She registered as an
extra Very soon fortune placed her in
Mary Pickford's company, filming "The
Poor Little Rich Girl" She developed
personality. Directors gave her small
parts and she acquitted herself we'll, never
ceasing meanwhile to study the difficult
technique. In less than three years she
was a star. That was very rapid ascent
Then our small town girl hears the story
OF Lois Lee, another graduate of the Studio
Club. magazine beauty contest lifted her
from obscurity, but 1t happened that Lois
Lee unlike most of the prodigies thus dis
covered had common sense as well as
beauty. As the prize winner she played
a lead" without experience. When the
picture was finished she astonished the
director by insisting on tossing away what
ever prestige this might have given her
and beginning at the bottom as an extra.
She had brains enough to see that she
didn't know anything about acting and
humility enough to be willing to do mob
scenes in order to learn. She worked up
through and is now playing leads again.
The New York herald., 1922-03-26
Found Less ViciousneSs
Than in Other Places

Having heard that a good many movie
girls had had experiences with evil direc-
tors asked Miss Hunter what conclusion
she had come to on this point
Before came to Hollywood" she said
Il worked among girls in large cities.
have found less viciousness here than else
where. Some of the men in the motion
picture industry do present problem, but
The New York herald., 1922-03-26
Fate of the Winner
In Town Beauty Contest

Yes, it's a tough life, but don't let me
discourage you. A few girls have come up
through 1t, but remember, only a few.
Once In while l hear of one who is
sensible enough to go back home and
marry the proprietor of the Elite Garage,
but great many of those who are crowded
out are too proud to go, or haven't money
enough. Hence the lovely ladies you see
gracing the cafeterias and department
stores of Los Angeles.
"A few girls with baby doll faces and
nothing else have been starred, but IL you
look over the list seriously you will find
that the majority possess not only that
rarely. a complexion that photographs we'll.
hut a personality, an almost indefnable
ability to register changing moods without
conscious effort, to feel what they're play
ing and make the spectator feel It In my
The New York herald., 1922-03-26

ing f0rlorn maidenS and carry
ing them off in rakish roadster
over winding, perilous mountain
trails. Her ambition pointed not
toward art but toward the hero.
Barred from the studios, she
climbed ten foot fences to get
at him. Driving home at night,
he found her hiding in his car.
When he walked in his garden,
she materialized from vines and
shrubbery. AS this actor has a
wife and children and is a mild
and prosaic citizen when not
skyhooting before the camera,
the attentions of the runaway
girl from the East embarrassed
him not a little. He sent for
The New York herald., 1922-03-26

mont" he said. Personally / know Of
only one instance. The morally irresponsi-
BILE director is marked man. Also marked
is the type OF woman who is willing to
oplige a director in any way in order to
break into the movies. The producers are
more careful than they used to be In
keeping out directors and women of those
types. But you could render a service by
publishing this warning to mothers. This
city is no place for girl to come to with
out money or without relatives or friends
here any more than is New York"
Another expert view: Don't forget that
the pictures have attracted here half baked
girls and boys from everywhere The
worst menace is not the director or the
girl or the camera roughneck or any Of the
others you've heard about, but the aristo-
cratic, ne'er do we'll gambling and mashing
sons Of rich Eastern men, who have come
out here with the idea that this Is the
DEVILS playground"
what is your advice to girls?" I asked
Miss Hunter.
"Stay at home" she said. IF you have
come to Hollywood, go home unless 1t is
proved that you have unusual charm and
individuality and enough money to keep
you going for at least year. AS matter
of fact two years is necessary for fair
trial. Remember that stars are not made
in day or a month or two. Remember
that there is great and tediously acquired
technique behind the motion pictures Re
member that there are success and happi-
ness for few, failure and dismay for many"
Girl Enamored of Star
Haunted Him to Death
This good counsel may discourage a few
Of the butterflies who might otherwise join
in the foolish chase around the pepper
trees of Hollywood. But until the movies
lose their glamour there will undoubtedly
continue to be girls like the one who re-
Gently ran away from home to be near the
studios She had fallen in love with lofty
hero of the screen whose speciality is rescu-
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