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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
HELP employees BUILD HOMES
Rock Island VIII Furnish Plans and
Make Loan Arrangements.

Rock Island employees will be ma
terially aided in building or buying
homes by the company. according to
recent announcements from the Chi
cago headquarters of the Rock Island
system Plans will be furnished at a
nominal figure, >and building and
loan arrangements made for all en-
ployes who wish to benefit by the Of
fer.
Declaring that 'in the spring a
married mans fancy turns to home
building" the Problem Editor of the
Rock Island Magazine. thru which the
home building campaign is being con-
Quoted. explained the plan in the last
issue of the magazine.
Complete working plans for small
homes viii be furnished any employee
for s2.50- Ordinarily architects fees
would bring the cost of the plans UP
to between $25 and 800. it is said.
Financing the houses will be ar
ranged thru local building and loan
associations. upon recommendation
from central offices OF the railroad
system.
Experts upon building and loan
matters will have charge of this fea-
ture, and the plan is already succeed
ing in a number of places, according
to reports.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
SAFEST EMPLOYE A KANSAN
Edward Herman of Winchester Has
Had No Accidents in "a Years.

Edward FternanS section foreman
at Winchester, Kan. veteran of the
Kansas Central railway. now the l.
X. & w, is known as the safest man
on the central division of the Union
Pacific.
Herman started to work for the
Kansas Central in May, 1878, and in
all his period of service he has played
safety first with both himself and
the men in his employ. In those
forty-four years he has never had a
man in his employ receive a personal
injury, which not only entities him to
the reputation of being the safest ma n
on the central division but many
clam he is the safest man on the en-
tire Union Pacific system.
When Herman began working for
the Kansas Central his intention was
only in order to get enough money for
him to continue his journey west but
Herman has liked the job so well
those two weeks have grown into Ass
weeks. He began with 30-pound rail
and narrow gauge. AS time passed
the 30-pound rail was gradually re-
placed with So. Sc and so pound rail
which was used on that branch until
November, 1921. Since that time the
60-pound has given way to 90-pound,
or rail that is three times as heavy
as that which Herman found when
he first began railroading
During the laying of the 90-pound
steel on the L. X. & w, Herman pre-
scented an official with piece of the
old 3e-pound rail. From this piece
was shaped an anvil and spike maui
which was presented TO Herman at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18

During the American Federation OF
Arts exhibition of paintings held at
Washburn college last month there
was one painting by George Bellows
called "Matinicus," and many people
wondered what the name could mean.
The picture represented a group of
dilapidated buildings on an old wharf,
while in the foreground was a con-
fused aggregation of old boats, men,
geese, cattle, etc.
The writer suggested at the time
that it was a picture of one of the
many fishing villages having Indian
names. which abound on the New
England coast. He was evidently
right, for on investigation he finds
an island with a town thereon, both
named Matinicus, off the south coast
of the state of Maine.
We find in our weekly New York
letter these two items:
Fresh surprises and new discoveries
will be found at the annual exhibition
held next month by the Society of In
dependent Artists. Among the dis
coveries'' are three children. TeXie
Myers, the little girl Michelangelo of
Texas" Teddy Harris, a pra ctica1ly I'M
instructed boy of II years, and Nuvart
Berberian. an Arm eRian girl who is
doing startling things in textile de-
signs. Water color impressions of New
York from the air, put down by
painter flyers as they scared 5000 feet
above the city, will be another feature
of the exhibit.
The famous, much heralded tapes
tries which formerly belonged to EN-
peror Francis Joseph of Austria have
arrived lin New York. Frank S. Ma
son. a Fifth avenue art dealer, landed
with them the other day. and they are
now being put on exhibition. They are
of ancient Gobeln creation and are
said to be worth half a million dollars.
''The eminent American painter,
Winslow Homer. who died a few years
ago, has joined the select company OF
great masters-if we may judge by the
price that collectors are wiling to pay
for his work. Eight Bells one of
his best known pictures, changed own
ers the other day for a consideration
of $4,000. Only about twenty years
ago-not so very long after it was
painted-it sold for $4,000, and even
that price was high for contemporary
American work. This is quoted from
the Youths Companion of March 8,
1922.
Wins1ow Homer died In 1905 or
1907 His speciality was figure pieces,
especially negro subjects. Born at
Boston. Mass, in 1895, he learned the
trade of a photographer ard later drew
pictures on wooden blocks for wood
engravers While engaged in the last
named work he moved to New York
and attended the night classes of the
National Academy of Design in 1860
and 1851. He exhibited his first pic
ture in 1868.
In 1867 he went to Paris to study.
and exhibited at the Salon that same
year. He was an important exhibitor
at the Centennial exposition at Phila-
delphia in 1875. From that time I'M
til the time of his death he stood in
the front rank of American artists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
ROCK ISLAND WOULD EXPAND
Euys One Kansas Branch and Wants
A1othcr, Report says.

1t has been rUmored around for
the past week that the Rock Island
has purchased the Wichita & North
western railroad, extending from Pratt
thru Larned to Vaughn and kinsley,
and that it was angling for the Wich-
tia & Western branch of the Santa
Fe, extending from Pratt to Wichita.
a report that the Rock Island was
figuring on buying the Wichita &
Northwestern was in circulation about
two months ago. An investigation dis
closed the fact that the report arose
when a numper of Rock Island Off
Gals had gone over the Wichita &
Northwestern line. including that not
Yet built which Is said to be the
greater part of il. Not at that time.
nor during the past week. has con-
ftrmation of any of the reports been
made
There is no denying the fact. how
ever. that the Santa Fe line from
Pratt to Wichita would make highly
desirable Rock Island property. The
main line of the Rock Island runs thru
Pratt and to acquire the Santa Fe
branch would give it a straight con-
nection with Wichita instead of having
10 route business for that point and
on further south via Harrington.
II hadn't heard of this report since
1912" said Fred c. Fox. general man
ager of the eastern lines Of the santa
Fse when asked about the Rock Island
trying to buy the Pratt line Il think
its old stuff. Under the present con-
ditions. at least. I don't think there
is ANYTHING to it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
SNAKES Cos9E FROM LAREDO
Express Employees There Find Some
thing New Every Day.

There is hardly day when the en-
ployes Of the American Railway Ex-
press company at Laredo, Tex. d o not
see some sort of a new shipment.
Laredo is one T. the gateways between
the United States and Mexico and the
express company's business is large
and varied
In the animal line it handles any
thing from a canary to an elephant.
not to mention the parrots and snakes
of all descriptions. including the dia-
mond RATHER. The express company
receives at Laredo many large ship
ments of fine chickens. hogs and cat
tie for shipment into Mexico for breed
ing purposes, while it gets in return
thousands of quail weekly to restock
the hunting grounds of this country
In the vegetable line the express
company receives from Mexico thou
sands of shipments of lines. cactus,
garlic and vanilla beans for distribu-
ton in all parts of the United States.
10 say nothing of the many vegeta BILE
shipments that originate around
Laredo on this side OF the line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
EASY TO TRAVEL WEST NOW


HOme-seekers' rates of a one-way
fare plus So for the round trip have
been placed in effect on the first and
third Tuesdays in each month until
November by the Chicago. Milwaukee
& St. Paul. the Chicago & Northwest
ern- the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
and the Rock Island to points IN
South Dakota and North Dakota; in
Washington and Oregon except to GER
tain points in the eastern part; and to
all points in Montana and Idaho. The
tickets are good for twenty-one days
with liberal stopovers-
The Union Pacific has also place
the home-seekers' rates into effect to
points in the northwest. but points of
sale are limited TO towns along the
Missouri river Kansas City is thus
the nearest place to Topeka where the
tickets may be purchased but many
inquiries for the rates are being re
ceived here, NJ L. Doering, city pas
senger agent, says.
According to J. NJ. Conneu. general
passenger agent for the Santa Fe, that
road has not adopted the home-seek-
ers rate inasmuch as the land avail
able for such development is confined
to restricted territory not served by
the Santa Fe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
Ne1O Day For Father Is
DalO1i11g In Kansas, Due
To Wright's Campaign
Now Ii Looks AS Tho There May Be Demand That the
Legislature Play No Favorites in Providing That
State Board Fix Wage Scale.

the Wolff Packing company case the
industrial court has already fixed
fathers wages and that the day when
father shares some of the benefits
which come to daughter is now here
Minimum Wage for Men.
I'm the decision in the Wolff case
says White in defense of the minimum
wage plan, ''I1e supreme court decided
that a minimum wage for men is as
justifiab BILE as a minimum wage for
women and held that the employer
has no right to go into the labor mar
ket and buy labor at a price which
makes the laboring man work below
standard of living. This decision if
upheld by the United States supreme
court a bo1ishes the labor market as ef-
fectually the fourteenth and fiji
teenth amendments abolished the
slave market
1.-THE Leavenworth Times and other
papers which wonder why we are not
will wake up one of these fine morn
ings and find that We have done so.
The Ia Dor market sooner or later must
follow the slave market. man who
is willing to work hard eight hours
every day should not have to take as
he shall live below the American
standard of decent living-below liv-
ing wage. And the man who tries to
put him below that standard in the
name of liberty of contra ct, should not
go bla-a-a hing around about 100 per
cent Arnericanisn The way to make
100 per cent Americans is to see that
they can live 100 per cent American
standards. The way to care for pa. is
to see that the laborer is worthy of his
hire and that is exactly what the Kan
sas industrial court is trying to do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
MEMS CLOTHES ARE PLAIN
Trick Clothes VIII Not BE Toier-
ated This Ycar-No Cuffs on
Trousers - Waistcoats To Be
Fancy.

At last the man with mild tastes,
conservative ideas and ordinary
FORM" is coming into his own To-
peka clothing dealers say spring and
summer lines for mems custom cut
clothes will be straight.
TWeeds, cheviots and homespuns are
to be the correct attire for the stroller.
According to the arbiters of men S
fashions, whose creations are the mod
els thruout the country, men today,
despite the worries of making both
ends meet, are much more particular
about their dress. Trick clothes will
not be tolerated. Short coats, pinch
back effects and high vents are on the
toboggan. Form fitting drapings are
a thing of the past. Clothes will pre-
sent a soft appearance. sans padding
in the shoulders.
Trousers will not have cuffs. Goats
should have lapels notched and cut
low enough to show two buttons of
the vest. Waistcoats. by the way, will
be fancy. Three buttons will prevail
on single and double breasted coats
both at the sleeves and to encom-
pass the embonpoint.
Many sport coats will be seen.
Fancy bone buttons with pleats in
back, SO a man can crook his elbow
without fear of dropping a stitch in
his back. Golf Knockers will be full
straight from the hip Front pock-
cts, slashed on the bias; adequate for
a buffers hand while watching an
expert tee-off.
Waistcoats may be as fancy as de-
sired and yet not outStep the bounds
of good taste. A startling innovation
this spring will be cuffless trousers of
oxford background with white stripe
to wear with an odd coat-that is a
black or oxford coat. This model is
snappy for executives who affect
small. flat top desks in the middle of
big rooms
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18

Father is surely coming into new
day Since Harry Wright of Topeka
asserted that the industrial court
shouldn't overlook p. W. Poor work
ing father-in the fixing of wages for
the poor working girl. there has been
much discussion of the question by
the Kansas press Now it looks as
tho there may be something of a de-
mand that the legislature play no
favorities in providing that state
board or tribunal fix wages.
Recently Wright declared that if
1888 was a fair minimum wage for
the p. W. g., dad with a wife and four
children in school surely shouldn't re-
ceiTe less than 800 a week as an APP
prentice or beginner. The idea is
rather taking hold in the state. Will
liam Allen White of Emporia-credit-
ed with more hope and vision than
any publisher in Kansas-beleves the
day is Just around the corner. Con-
gresham d. r. Anthony's Leaven-
worth Times says Dad should be kept
in mind by the industrial court.
Anthony Approves Plan.
There appears to be something to
the contention" says Anthonys paper
in commenting on Wrights plea.
support must buy the things the
prices of which are kept high to pay
daughters high wages. The employer
of daughter is sure to add her wages
to the price he fixes on the goods so
that father has to pay. Manifestly. it
the court goes into the matter of fix
ing wages, it should go all the way
down the line. 1t shouldn't play ia
vcrites."
Then William Allen White requisi-
lions a column of space in his own
Emporia Gazette and declares that in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
CUT REGULAR RATE IN TWO
onion Pacific Announces Summer
Fares to Pacific Coast

In granting a summer tourist rate
OF ST2 10 California and other coast
points and return. the coming season,
the Union Pacific is cutting the reg
uiar fare almost in two.
Final announcement concerning the
summer tourist rates to the coast have
been received by the Union Pacific
passenger authorities in Topeka The
round trip rate from all Missouri gate
way points, including Topeka and
Kansas City, to Long Beach. Los An
geles. San Diego. San Francisco, Port
land. Seattle and Tacoma is S72 90
and to Victoria and Van Couver.
$3.50
The regular one way fare from To-
pmka to Portland is s69.92. to Seattle
EfO.60. to san Francisco and Los An
xeles $3.50.
The Union Pacific will make a tour
list rate of $50 from Topeka TO West
Yellowstone. Mont. but rates to Colo
RADIO have not Yet been announced.
The tourists rates will be in effect
from May 5 4 September so. with
October 81 as the final return limit
Colorado rates nay not be avaiIabI-
until June :, il is said
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
To START WORK APRIL |
Frisco May Eventually Double Track
From Il. c. to Fort Scott.

President J. NJ. Kurn, of the Frisco
lines, announced that work will start
April / on the building of the double
track from Spring Hill to Paola, Kan.
The contract for building this stretch
of track has been awarded to the
Walsh Construction company, of Dav-
export, Iowa.
The present reconstruction plan,
says Kurn, is due to the enormous
growth of Kansas City ard St. Louis
as comm erciaI centers. and to a real
ization by Frisco officials of the fact
that the volume of traffic from and to
these points cannot be expeditiously
handled on a single track.
1t is being predicted that within two
or three years. the frisco will find it
necessary to double track all the way
from Kansas City to Fort Scott.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
EAST DEMANDS PINION NUTS
Back There the ''Injun'' Food Is as
Popular as Eskimo Pc.

The East is eating 'Injun" food!
From the number of cars of pinion
nuts that the Santa Fe has hauled out
of New. Mexico during the past few
months it would seem that the East
ought to be fed up on this product of
the Rocky Mountain nut-pines, which
up until a few years ago was unknown
except to the Colorado and New Mex
lean Indians, but apparently it is not
The nuts are said to be all of the
rage in the eastern states and the
folks back there are evidently craving
for more. Three carloads of the nuts
were discovered in the Topeka yards
of the Santa Fe this week enroute to
New York where they are said to be
attracting as much attention as
Eskimo pie.
For years the pinion nut has been
looked upon by the Indians of the
southwest as a delicacy. Whenever
they ate, which was often, they started
and finished on pinion nuts 1t was
food they had all to themselves. Then
came the war and the money fHnging
period when everybody wanted some
thing new. 1t was then that some
New Mexican citizens saw an oppor-
tunity to create a new industry and
the pinion nut was introduced in the
East.
The venture was successful and half
of the Indian kids in New Mexico are
now said to be chasing thru the noun
tains in search of the nuts to meet
the demand. In the year 1921, the
Santa Fe received for shipment about
thirty carloads of the nuts at Santa
Fe alone, and numerous shipments are
being made from other points, it is
said. The three cars which passed
thru Topeka this week were shipped
by Charles Ilifield, who is in the
wholesale grocery business at Santa
Fe, and who is known by many Santa
Fe officials.
The pinion nut IS about the size of
a common pea and is said to be deli
cious, quite so, apparently. to the
taste of the Indian and the fastener.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18

vertised SO much and it did so many peo-
pie good that began to take it myself.
arm feeling fine now and every one tells
me they never saw me looking so well I
live on farm, do all my work, and have
three little girls to take care of. am
friends and know it will help them If
they use it like do. - - Mrs. HERBERT
LONG, r. r. 8, Box z, Larwill, Indiana.
Many women keep about their work
when it is great effort. They are al
ways tired out and have no ambition.
When you are in this condition give It
prompt attention.
Take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, for it is especially adapted
to correct such troubles, as it did 70:
Mrs. Long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
NONE KILLED FIRST MONTH.
Union Pacific Safety Contest Starts
With Only % Injured.

No employees were killed during the
first month of the Union Pacific
Safety First banner contest. Only
twenty-nine were injured, this being a
decrease of one killed and forty-five
injured over the same month in 1921,
or expressed in percentages a decrease
OF 100 per cent killed and 62.66 per
cent in injured.
The Kansas division stood third in
the list for the month with four cas-
ualties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
KATY HAS AN ECONOMY DRIVE
Makes Supreme Effort TO Effect Saw
ing in Fuel and Material.

The Missouri Kansas & Texas lines
are putting on a fuel and material
economy campaign this month with
supreme effort to drive waste from
its ranks. Especially is the campaign
being pushed for economy in oil. but
it is also extended into the coal burn
ing territories and not only includes
the locomotives, but concerns all fuel
consuming units from the stationary
plants down to the switch shanty. The
economy broom is being used in all
departments, including the mainte-
nance of way. the maintenance of
equipment, round houses and in alli
offices.
The saving made in March will be
used as a starter for the campaign
which is 10 continue thru 1922. re-
ports OF which will be published
monthly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
NURSING
-an NeoIF sofeSsson/ 6rMouen :

Nursing offers a broad profes-
sional and humanitarian field for
young women of sterling character
Thorough Training in Large
SanatOrium and Hospital in the
Famous Pixies Peak Region
Gleckner Sanatorium and Hospital
offers Class A School: years
course; lectures by nationally recog-
nfzed physicians; complete medical
and surgical training: diplomas ac-
cepted by all State Boards: direct
supervision Sisters of Charity: nom
sectarlan in its attitude TO pupils.
Comfortable Nurses Home: recre-
alton opportunities: located best
resident section easily accessible
Requirements; Good health anti
tude for the work; years High
School desirable. required
Full Information upon request
Address Sister Superintendent
GIOCKNER
Sanatorium and Hospital
SzS2 North Cascade Avenue
Colorado Springs. Colo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18


his life was at Scarboro, Maine
Says the Chicago Tribune-''G Gorge
F'uller's noted figure painting, .Fedal-
ma (Heroine of George Eiiot's noted
! poem, The Spanish Gipsy'). regarded
by many as this American painter 3
finest work in q classic vein, has been
sold recently by the REIN gallery to a
of $4,000.
THE highest previously known sale
of Fuller canvas, was that of The
Turkey Girl purchased by r. c. and
n. NJ. Vose of Boston for $15,6
at the sale of the Humphrey collec-
ton at the American Art association
in 1917. The Turkey Girl is now in
the Worcester museum
George Fuller is perhaps not so we'll
known to US of this generation as he
should be. He was born at Deerfield,
Mass, in 1929. He had but scant ar
tistic training. His first instructor
was Henry Kirk Brown of Albany.
New York. He painted Browns pOr-
trait and exhibited it at New York
city in 1857. This portrait brought
him recognition and was the cause of
his being made an associate of the
National Academy In 1856 Fuller
went to Europe and made a study of
the old masters. particularly of Cor
reSio, of whose work he was especially
fond.
Soon he returned to. New York and
but the attempt was-not a financial
success and he shortly went back to
the family farm near Deerfieid. re-
naming a farmer for fifteen years. He
did not entirely neglect art, however.
but continued to paint whenever the
opportunity presented itself. Thus he
worked out for himself a peculiar
dreamy style not unlike that of Corot.
He loved to paint the beauties of ma
ture, not its defects and had the ex-
ceptional gift of subordinating unim-
portant details in landscape, figure or
portrait work
Eventually Fuller moved to Boston
and successfully took up the career of
a professional artist among his best
known works besides the one mention
ed above are 'tWinifried Dysart' and
'Arethusia," both idealized female
portraits. Fuller died at Brooklne,
member of The Boston Art club, The
St. Botolph club, and the Paint and
Clay club.
According to The London Illustrated
News q group of sc drawings by old
masters from the Max J. Bonn col
lection sold for ,O10 pounds (more
than $60,00o). These drawings, re-
productions of several of which APP
peared in The London illustrated
News for February %, 1922, are the
work of Albrecht Durer, Van Dyck,
Rembrandt. and Vatican. They are
done in .crayon, colored chalkS and
water coIors. A Vatican study of three
negro heads brought 5000 pounds, a
study of a dead duck by Rembrandt
brought 2.100 pounds, and another
group of six sketches by Rembrandt
sold for 1900 pounds. The sale oc-
Cured at Southeby's in London on
February 10, Iast.
The above mentioned copy of the
London Illustrated News may be seen
at the City Library reading room.