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The Washington times., 1922-10-08

cor. partly an q result Of consult
Ing a spiritualist medium. 1t e said
and partly, Of course, from the
letters Of her own name.
She had reached the point Of
stipulatins that neither her family
nor the Rockefeller family names
should be exploited and tn It her
studies for grand opera would not
be stopped.
Miss Mccormick evidently be-
neved that her talent alone was
worth 100000 to the vertical
drama. but the negotiations fell
through soon after she said:
II want the world to forget
Muriel Mccormick. But I want
the world to know and to 40
knowledge my talent. want to
show my family and the world
that God gave me something more
worthy than money.
Where do they get those stories
that my grandfather has given his
approval to my entering the motion
pictures?" she queried. II never
considered entering pictures, and I
naturally have never asked for his
opinion"
LIKE OTHER PEOPLE.
She rang for a butler and order
ed cigarettes and ashtrays.
"oh, it's Muriel Mccormick this.
and Muriel Mccormick that all the
time! Why can't everybody Just
forget I'm a daughter Of Harold
Mccormick and q granddaughter
Of John d. Rockefeller. and treat
me like everybody elsef' she ask
ed. "of course, I realize my
grandfather did wonderful things,
The Washington times., 1922-10-08

but I'm not responsible for the in.
vention Of the reaper or the
financial success Of Mr.. Rocke,
feller, who rose to his fortune
from the wage Of s cents q day.
"If people only>knew how little
my income amounts tot" she ex-
claimed.
"And you are sure you are not
ging to enter motion picturesf"
mo. positively not. When Mr..
Sheriff. came to me about It he
showed me q scenario that hal
been written from the novel-l've
forgotten the name Of 1t. He said
to me: Now. Miss Mccormick
I'm going to be here eight days
80 you read It over and give me
your answer And said to him:
You needn't wait for an answer.
It's no. now: and will continue to
be no."
ARTISTS ARE BORN.
You know" she said with an.
other shrug and aesture. "one is
born an actress or an artist, but a
singer is made by the development
Of her vocal chords, and that takes
years. am going to continue my
vocal training until I am ready for
the operate stage.
Music was born into me. and I
must give It expression. want to
forget that I'm the Mccormick
heiress and be known as Nawanna
Micor. who succeeded through her
own effort and talents. I have
taken that name for my future
operatic career. I've been study
ing with Nine. Arimoudi ever since
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Rosa, Cal, as a resident Of that
town.
DR.. Simon Flexner Is unknown
in this complete" and "Ameri-
canized" authority on world
achievement.
Against every one of these
Americans thus shabbily treated
many Englishmen are arrayed, far
less important in the same lines
OF endeavor.
The Britannica abundantly sus.
tains Revisionist Hart, who on his
school History Of the United
States, Revised, 1920" teaches
American children that
THE English looked down upon
American writer's. One Of them
wrote: The mass Of the North
Americans are too proud TO learn
and too ignorant to teach. and
having established themselves by
Acts Of Congress as the most en-.
lightened people Of the world.
they bid fair to retain their bar
barism from mere regard to con-
sistency."
POE OvERsHADOwED.
The only American novelist
whom the Britannica gives any
thing like adequate recognition is
Henry James, who made Eng.
land his home.
True to the methods Of the
international mind" the American
drama is embodied In the article
On the English Drama" and 10
given - spacs than . column.
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Mrs. Mccormick and Mrs.
Freer tried to make me give q
series Of four concerts for moth.
ing"
To al Of which Mrs. Freer re-
sponded:
Absolutely absurd! Does any
one think that either Mrs. Nc.
Corsnick Or I need the Money
that might como from any con.
certs given by this young woman3
And II is ridiculous to think
suggested that she wear my old
garments."
But whatever the causes COR the
separation Of the young starlet
from the mother planet, Rosemary
quit and signed . contract in New
York WITH q musical revue. She is
confident that she viii reach grand
opera faster than under the die
tatorship or directorship Of older
women.
MURIEL BALKS AT MOVIES.
Muriel Mccormick, unaware Of
Rosemary's decision. was consider
ing . lucrative contract that ran
into $1.o0o.o0o to enter the motion
picture field. She had tentatively
adopted the name Of Nawanna MI
The Washington times., 1922-10-08
BY Charles Grant Miller

"HE nationwide protest which
has been made by the great
u patriotic organizations
against the Anglicization Of Ameri-
can school histories is developing
into stronger popular resistance
against the whole flood Of British
propa ganda in the United States.
American patriotic spirit Is be-
coming quickened into wholesome
resentment against the persistent
British propaganda.
The movement toward the in
tellectual subjugation Of America
by England was not begun only
yesterday. We have been extreme
ly complaisant concerning II In the
past.
Henry Cabot Lodge In his
book, ''One Hundred Years Of
Peace" says that anyone who will
take the trouble to examine what
has been written in England about
the United States will find II diff
ficult to avoid the belief that the
assaults upon the American people
were systematic in their nature;"
and he adds:
Tho people 81 the United States
seam to have had the good sense
70 treat these criticisms with In.
aifference."
However true this may Be- a. to
sAs past. the American people have
Ssgun 10 evidence . conviction that
anAfffsrsoes has csassd 70 b soed
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OF the Frohman Amusement Com
pany. and he added:
GIVES ALL FOR LOVE.
THE story is one which will
place Miss Mccormick in a light
which readily demonstrates that
not even money can in any way
hamper a character.
1T deals with a girl of wealth
who sacrifices everything for the
man she loves. She faces direcr
poverty with him. She sees him
going blind. She sees her baby
come and live in wretch edness.
But nothing makes her turn
against her husband and return
to the father who adores her and
who would give her everything
that wealth can buy"
The million dollars said to have
been offered Miss Mccormick. may
be devoted to charity. 1t was !nti-
mated. Sherill said:
"A person of Miss McCormicks
wealth needs none Of the money
which this sort of venture wouli
bring" That is why. in all prob
ability. the receipts will be de-
voted to charity.
when Miss Mccormick ap-
peared in the French play. lie
Passant,' came on especially
from New York to see her work.
She then appeared to me as an
actress with remarkable taleats.
REFUSED ONE OFFER.
Carl Carlton made an offer to
Miss Mccormick to star in a must.
cal comedy to be produced this
fall. She was then visiting Mrs.
Fiji stillman in New York. II was
at her home that she announced
her refusal to enter musical COM
edy setting grand opera as the
goal Of her ambition. She reiter.
ated her refusal when Il broached
the subject three weeks ago.
IF she appears on the stage
she will astonish the world. She
has the quality and character and
the true democracy which makes
'or a great artist.
1T is her surpassing genius and
not her name that we want"
TO. QUIT OLD HOUSE.
Miss Mccormick is preparing to
uit her fathers mansion becaus-r
Is she put II:
"Everybody's away. you know.
,ather and Mathilde and it's.
spooky in this great big house
alone. There are noises you know.
And by the way. why do the press
always add lines about other mem.
bers Of my family when am men,
toned?
isn't this a democratic coun.
try? Why bring them all into II.
get letters asking why we Nc
Cormicks can't keep out Of rrin:
and I don't know how to answer
them"
And as to that film matter. whv
the theatrical man had given her
a book to read to see what size
thought Of It. No. she could not
remember the name of the book,
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I came back to this country two
years ago.
"I believe in serious work. I'm
not strong for this flapper stuff.
But have so little to occupy my
time-that's the reason I've gone
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MURIEL Me- CORMICK
QUITS HER FATHERS
MANSION FOR STUDIO

Stepdaughter of Gamma Walska, Who Will In
herit the Rockefeller and Mccormick For
tunes, Has Already DiSdained am Offer Of
/ $1,000,000 to Star i'm Sir James Barrie'S
Motion Picture, ''The Sweetest Story Ever
TOld."
The Washington times., 1922-10-08

who has written many OF Norma
Talmadge's successes. Joseph
Schildkraut, who won fame in
"Lilom," had been mentioned as
the choice to play opposite Miss
Mccormick. Sheriff. said, speaking
The Washington times., 1922-10-08
ROSEMARY PFAFF
LEAVES PROTECTOR
TOFIGHT OWN WAY
After RestiVe Six Months Pretty Protegee of
Mrs. Mccormick Strikes Out ALONE From the
Lowest Rung 0f-the Financial Ladder to
Strive for Artistic Supremacy-Girls Not
Strangers to Each Other. r

M "a
V is preparing to seek fame through grand opera
Avn Rosemary Pfaff, who Is without fortune Is
planning the same career.
Il will be interesting to watch the progress of the two
girls the highest rung Of the financial ladder,
the other the lowest rung each striving for artistic
supremacy.
For Muriel and Rosemary not strangers to each
other. Just few weeks ago Rosemary Pfaff the
petted protegee of the Mccormick family with instructors
IN vocal and dramatic art, and wealthy dowagers to
courage her efforts. Muriel Mccormick herself not
more favored
But the petting and the patng proved too much for
Miss Pfaff and she broke from the social restraint
tossed off the feters Of god and announced that she
would work out her career
YOKE TOO HEAVY
Mrs. Edith Mccormick had discovered" Miss Pfaff
and had taken her under the family wing to develop her
voice. But Rosemary said after she abruptly quit
Chicago and came to New York:
"Some rich women who deign to give financial as
sistance to talented girls think that they the girls
Their attitude to be that they tell the girls
they aid to do anything and the girls must jump through
the hoop whenever they asked.
"They too exacting and dictatoral about every
thing particularly matters of which they know little"
THE OTHER sIDE
But Mrs. Archibald H. Freer president of the English
Opera Association in Chicago, with which Rosemary had
been studying, asserted that the young girl merely
exhibiting the first symptoms Of the dreaded malady
known as artistic Temperament, and was incidentally
making gesture for publicity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-06
AbOGt 1000 Shop Employees
VIII Receive Cut in Wage.
Greatest Number of Workers
Employed by oSanta Fe.
TOTAL OF z, 100 IN SHOPS NOW
Car Men Are Hardest Hit by
New Board Order.
Reduction Was Expected in
Railroad Circles Here.

The United States railway labor
l boards action in slashing the pay of
railroad workers. this time the mem
bers of the shopcrafts' unions. will
affect Approximately 1000 Topeka
pay checks.
/ There are about this number of
workers in Topeka. the various au-
thorities agreed, today, of whom ao-
proximately 1900 or better are en-
pIoyed by the Santa Fe. The Union
Pacific has about twenty-five or thirty
that come under the agreen nent and
the Rock Island has a similar num-
Der. perhaps a few more.
2,1OO Employed at Shops.
There are slightly in excess of 400
men employed at the Santa F'e shops
at the present time but the others
come under the maintenance of way
agreement and received their cut in
pay little more than a week ago. In
the two q cups, now due to receive a
reduction in wages as a result of re-
cent decision by the labor board,
there are between 1900 and 2.400
members in Topeka. and the slash
will amount to several thousand dol
lars in the monthly payroll.
The reduction will be keenly felt
here since the car men are due to
head the procession with a cut of 9
cents an 0OuEt ana OF the various
groups, Nit is said that the car men
compose the largest individual force
in Topeka. There are approximately
500 men employed in the car depart
ment al the Santa Fe shops. Machin-
lists. who are cut cents an hour,
come next in number in Topeka, as
boilermakers, sheet metal workers and
blacksmiths are considered in the
same group.
All in Line for Wage Cut.
The latest cut puts all railroad
workers in line for a cut in wages ex-
cept the members of the big four, the
clerks, and members of a few of the
smaller organizations like the signal
men, and is the result of notices is
sued by the roads as early as last De-
cembGr. 1t also is the second cut the
shop workers have received since the
top in wages was reached in 1919 and
1920.
The cut was expected in railroad
circles for sometime, and altho no Of
ficial would make a formal statement,
there seems to be a feeling that the
pay of all railroad workers will be
similarly reduced by the time the
labor board finishes the Job. Members
of the clerks union, especially, now
see the shadow of the axe, they say.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-06
Member of Russian AristOcracy
Worked Her Passage.
She Wandered More Than a
Year Trying To Reach the Q. s.
RUSS AGENTS TRAILED Her
Her Husband Was CrHcified
Over Gate of His Large Estate.
Eight Year-OId Son Was Placed
Somewhere in America"

Washington, June 6.-Secretary Of
Labor Davis thru the bureau of immi-
grafton today ordered the immigra-
tion authorities at New Orleans to
admit Princess Ivan Tschernitschew
of the erstwhile Russian aristocracy,
to the United States. The princess
c1ainas American citizenship.
After making trans Atlantic voy-
age, partly as a stowaway without
food and partly as a stewardess on the
steamer Texandria. the princess was
ordered admitted Internationally.
Secretary Davis said today she was
admissible under the general immi-
grafton laws.
claims she was born in Louisville KY.
in 1881, ends more than a year of
wandering over Europe in an effort
to reach the United States.
After her arrival in the United
States, she told immigration authori-
ties she was followed as she made her
away across Europe on foot by Rus
sian agents keeping papers of the Rus
sian royalist regime which had been
entrusted to her by her husband just
before he was crucified by Bolsheviki
troops over the gate of his estate in
New Novgorod.
She also explained she was seeking
her eight year old son who, she de-
clared was sent away by her husband
early in the Bolsheviki revolution to
a place of safety
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-06
Widely Known Topekan VIII
Run for Legislature.
Civic and Commercial Leader
May Not Be Opposed.

George. w. Stansfield, prominent
Topeka druggist and president of the
Chamber of Commerce, filed today as
a candidate for the Republican nom
ination for representative from the
Thirty-fourth district. He will be a
candidate to succeed Matt Weightman,
popular Shawnee county legislator.
who declined Monday to make the
race for third term.
Stansfield's entrance in the legisla-
Journal Monday evening following
ing Republicans urged Stansfield to
make the race. He became a candi-
date today after having received as
surances of support from scores of To-
peka business and professional men.
Il Is likely he will be nominated
without opposition and elected by an
overwhelming majority. In fact it is
not improbable that he will go thru
both the primaries and general cleo
ton without a fight.
This will be Stansfield's first race
for a. public office. He has never be-
fore held public place or been a can
didate for a political job.
For nearly forty years Stansfield has
been engaged in business in Topeka.
His interest in civic affairs and kn0wl-
edge of needs and conditions in To-
peka and Shawnee county place him
in position 70 ably fill the position of
Weightman who was one of the most
valuable members ever sent in the
Shawnee delegation to the legislature
Weightman and his friends will be
strongly behind Stansfield's candidacy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-06
Kansas To Receive 51a Millions
Additional Appropriation.
New Congressional Amendment
Cans for s19O,OOO,OOO.
LESS THAN IN LAST 8 YEARS
But Lower Costs Have In
creased Mileage This Year.
Since 1917 Nearly Eleven Mil
lions Has Come to State.

Kansas will receive five and half
million dollars additional appropria-
ton for permanent road building un-
der the new congressional enactment
The estimate was today made by M.
w Watson, state highway engineer
It Is based on the blanket appropr1a-
ton of $780, 100000 for all states dur
ing three years period.
The amount to be received by this
state is much less than government
aid used in Kansas during the last
three years. However, with reduced
material and labor costs, the appor-
tionment will enable the state to con-
tinue a systematic construction pro-
gram The federal fund will insure
about 100000 worth of hard sur
face road building in the state during
each of the three years. During the
last three years the average has been
about six millions. Last year was the
top twelve months. In that time
about eight million dollars worth of
hard surface road was built in Kan
sas.
Engineer Watson's estimate shows
Kansas will receive $1,40O,0O0 in fed
eral aid for 1928. For 1924 the
amount will be increased to $1,S50,00
and in 1925 to $2,20O,00O0.
Since 1917-date of first federal ap-
propriation-this state has received a
total of approximately eleven million
for road building purposes. Practi-
calIy the entire amount was used dur
ing the last three years.
None of the new appropriation will
be available until the calendar year
of 1928
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-06
DAY BEFORE ARMY BOARD.
says He's Perfectly Willing to RctelI
Story of Beck's Staying.

Oklahoma City, June 6.-Judge
Jean P. Day, who shot and killed
Lieut.. Col. Paul Ward Beck, POST field
ccmmandant, early in April and
against whom no charges were filed
following the coroner's inquest, ap-
peared at 9:35 o'clock this morning
before the special army board investi-
eating the affair holding sessions in
the federal building. The sessions are
secret.
MY wife and have told the whole
truth and are gladly appearing before
the army board to answer any ques-
tions," Judge Day said this morning.
''Any fairminded investigation will
prove our position clear in the
tragedy. There is nothing more to
tell
Judge Day testified at the inquest
over the body of the lieutenant colonel
that he came home after taking some
friends home and found Mrs. Day
struggling in the arms of the army Of
ficer and in the scene that followed he
shot and killed Beck accidentally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-06
POPE Plus XII is ILL.
Care OF Physicians Needed for the
Once Robust Cardinal.

Paris, June 6.-Pope Plus xI is i'll
and under the care of physicians. ac-
cording to a Rome dispatch.
The Rome dispatch, printed by the
Petit Journal, says in part: when
Cardinal Ratti, known as a robust
mountain climber. was crowned pope.
1t was considered a good augury for
a long reign, but voluntary seclusion
In the vatican's golden prison has re-
suited in surprising physical decline
in the past few. months.
This is believed to be due to the
change from accustomed open air ana
exercise to a quiet, sedentary life 1t
cannot be denied that the pope is a.
sick man. Doctor Amici and Doctor
Battistine examiRed the pontiff and
prescribed a severe diet and plenty
or exercise in the vatican aardens''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-06

Kansas City. Kan. June 6.-While
sixteen policemen tried to cope with
the mutinous outbreak of Heap Big
Indian Chief Rasumhel, who barri-
caded himself in the detention room
of the jail here today, a gasoline fill
ing station across the street was held
up by a lone bandit who escaped with
$40.
Chief Rasumhel, who comes from
the Indian reservation at Anadarko.
Okla, was locked up last night after
policemen found him doing a last
stand of the red man" on the city
streets.
room showed Chief Rasumhel contin-
uing his war dance. The three beds
in the room had been dismantled. A
table had been broken to splinters and
the Indian was using one leg as 40 club
All electric and gas light fixtures had
been torn down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-06
A STRIKE
Vote Is ReturnabIe to Head
quarters in 80 Days.
Cuts for Telegraphers Will Not
Be Ready for a. While.
fBv the AssocIated Pressl

Cincinnati, June "a strike vote
Of approximately 100000 railway
workers of the United States will be
taken by the individual unions affected
by railroad labor board wage reduc-
tions, recently ordered. and pending.
it was decided, at a conference of
union leaders here today.
The vote in each organization viii
be returnable within thirty days after
the board announces a wage 1ut for
that class of employees, the vote of the
shop crafts, whose reduction was
ordered by the board today, being re-
turnable June 80.
Representatives of all railroad labor
unions with the exception of the big
four" brotherhood were in Cincinnati
today for a series of conferences dur
ing which recent ruling of the United
States railroad labor board reducing
wages Of rail workers was under dis
cussion-
B. NJ. Jewell. president of the rail
way department OF the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, presided.
They are going some If they expect
a railroad man to work for % cents
an hour" Bert NJ. Jewell. president of
the railway division of the American
Federation of Labor said when in
formed of the sweeping cuts ordered.
we were in no pleasant frame of
minded when we met here. and this
added blow probably will hasten
action to learn what sort of appeal we
shall make from this order
Chicago. June 6.-The Z. s. railroad
labor decision affecting telegraphers.
the next class to be dealt with in a
wage ruling. will not be available for
some time and will not be issued in
time to become executive July /. The
reason. it was explained, is that the
chief question in the telegraphers' case
is not how much money shall be paid
but how Inequalities in pay on differ
ent roads shall be settled.
Washington, June 6.-H. L Brum-
son. special representative in Wash
ington of the International association
OF machinists- declared today that a
strike vote would be imme ediately
taken among the 400, 900 machinists
affected by today's decision of the
railroad labor board reducing wages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-06

Atlanta, Ga, June 6.-The novel ex-
perience of a husband serving on a
jury that granted his wife a divorce
has just been brought to light here in
the case of Mrs. Sara Myrtice Alnand,
who was granted decree from Albert
Irwin Almand several months ago.
Mrs. Almand did not attend the hear
ing, the divorce being granted on
deposiuons taken in Newark, n. J..
where she now resides.
The decree is valid, according to
lawyers in the case.
r. W. McLarity, counsel who repre-
sented Mrs AImand, declared that he
did not know that her husband was
on the jury until a week after the
verdict had been granted.