The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
August 8, 1919
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9tU 0ufn p.VNK'KY persons should rcmcm!or it docs not storm every time the clouds gather. mE.VTHKR FORECAST for Krnias: Fair tonight and Saturday: uot much change In tcmicraturc. HOME EDITION TOPEKA, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1919 TWELVE PAGES THREE CENTS NEED FOOD LAWS PRESIDENT URGES HEAVY PENALTY FOR PROFITEERS Wilson Would Kxtend Food Control Act to Peace Times. Favors Prohibiting Shipment of Goods Violating It. RECOMMENDS STORAGE LAW Legislation Modeled After New Jersey Act Proposed. V.011H Compel Goods Be Mark ed When Put in Storage. RAP AT LABOR LEADERS World on Operating Table Without Anesthetic. :in-t Control and Limit Wheat Shipments, President Declares. President Wilson told congress tint: Methods by which some of the present hlgli prices are produced are crfrnltKil. Rststlnjl law Is Inadequate. There will Ik' no ral peace prices licit! there Is pence. Tiic world is oa the operating ta ble without anesthetic. Ml thnt can be done to restrain profiteering until enoc conies must Im makeshift. Wheat shipments will be con trul'crl and limited so ns to lower f!o"r prices In America. :'':irpltis stocks of food and- eloth l'ic in government hr.nds will be pat on the market. .Hoarding will Ik- lnlfOl Washington, Aug;. 8. Ad dressing congress today and pro posing remedies to check the high cost of living, President Wilson declared that existing laws were inadequate and that high prices were not justified by shortage of supplies, present or prospective, but were created in many cases "artificially and de liberately," by "vicious prac tices." The president recommended that the food control act be ex tended to peace time operation and that congress exclude from interstate as well as intrastate shipment goods which did not comply with its provisions. Penalize Profiteers. The president also recommended that the food law he provided with a substantial penalty for profiteering nml that a cold storage law he enacted modeled after the law in New Jersey, by which a time limit be placed on cold storage. He also recommended that ail goods released from cold storage be marked with the price prevailing when they went Into storage. He fur ther recommended that goods in inter ctate commerce he marked with the prices at which they left the produc er. It would serve us a useful exam ple, the president suggested. If con gress enact legislation to control the situation In the District of Columbia, where it has unlimited authority. For V. S. Licensing System. Further, the president recommend ed a federal licensing system for cor porations engaged in Interstate com merce which would embody regula tions to Insure competitive sellin; and prevent unconscionable profits In the method of marketing. He also urged prompt passage of the law pending to control security I sues. Making an appeal lor the ratifica tion of the peace treaty to turn the country from a war basis, the presi dent said: "There can be no peace prices ao long as our whole financial and econ omic system is on a war basis." Boca still Higher Prices. "A process has set In." the presi dent told ccngress. which is likely unless something is done, to push prices and ints and the whole cost of living higher and yet higher In a vicious cycle to which there is no logi cal or natural end. "Some of the methods by which these prices are produced are alreadv Illegal, some of them criminal, and those who employ them will be ener getically proceeded against: but oth ers have not yet been brought under the law, and should be dealt with at once by legislation. dustllics Wage Demands. "Demands for increases of wages, ac companying the rising costs of living, the president said, were Justified "If there be no other means of enabling men to live." "While there Is any possibility that the peace terms may bs changed," aald the president, referring to his plea for early ratification of the treaty, no that the country may be turred back from a war basis, "or may be held lont in al.ey.inee or may not be 1 iCou turned ua vii sx. FACES ITSJJARDEST FIGHT Veterans of Famous Second Divi sion Onail at Cloliur Into "Battle i of Fifth Avenue- Today. New York. Aug. 8. The 25,000 "leather necks" and doughboys of the veteran Second division will experi ence their hardest engagement late to day the battle of Fifth avenue. The division, which saw the most fighting, suffered the heaviest cas ualties and won the reputation of be ing the tougheBt Yank division in the war, parades up that famous street between lines of tens of thousands of admiring men, women and children. The Second didn't want to parade, and said so. but gave in Just as a favor to the "old man" MaJ. Gen. John A. Lejeune. The division comprises the Fifth and Sixth mrfrines and the Ninth and Twenty-third Infantries. More than 2 5.000 officers and men were to be in line. Cabinet officers, state and city of- flclals. together with army and navy officers will review the parade. MaJ. Gen. L. E. Jeune, U. S. M. C, commanding the division, was asked to ride "General." the pride of the i New York police department stables, i at the head of the parade. SIOOlOG IN LOOT Two Bandits Rob a 'Frisco Jew elry Firm Today. Force Clerks To Lie on Floor While They Work. San Francisco. An p. 8. Two men robbed the Morgan Jewelry company's store her? of $100,000 -worth of Jew elry shortly after the store opened, today. 7-inth men were armed, and n n p xva 'masked. Entering as the clerks were j taking the window display jewe's I from the safe, they forced the clerks "!?ow" .?00I;,b?cv.f Jhe i i'uiilci i jicu nil v oricirti l: ir uir play case and escaped. It was be lieved they had an automobile In waiting nearby. 33,800 ON STRIKE Chicago Packing Plant Em ployes at Yards Walk Out. Action Is in Protest to Guards Stationed at Yards. Chicago, A us?- A general strike of 3 3. SOU employes at the packing plants in the stock yards began at 9 o'clock this morning. The action followed the decision of the stock yards labor council last night to call a general strike unless the state troops and police guards were imme diately withdrawn from the plants. The strike was precipitated by the re turn of 5,000 negroes to work yester day. State troops were withdrawn from the stockyards today, placating some workers who objected to their pres ence. Police and deputies remained on guard and the troops continued their vigilance outside. At noon it was estimated 5,300 packer employes were absent. The dispute, according to labor lead ers, is over the employment of non union negroes rather than race hatred. Many of the negroes, it is said, have refused to join the unions. The men walked out quietly and no disturbances were reported. The extra policemen, 1,200 of them, were placed thruout the yards yes I terday when 3,000 negro butchers and hog scrapers returned to work after a lay off of ten days due to race riot fear. Two hundred deputy sheriffs also were placed in the district. Decision to strike was reached at a meeting held last night. A flat de mand was made on Mayor Thompson to remove the police. It was under tood, however, the mayor would not order the removal of the patrolmen, fearing renewal of race trouble be tween the white and black workers. The men's leaders said they had no ob jection to working with negroes. Adjutant General Dickson, in charge of two regiments of militia stationed near the yards, said the troops will not be removed except on order by police authorities, under whose direc tion the soldiers were ordered to the yards. RECOVERYINTOCKS Iasuco Wh tcfi Took SI is rp SI unip Thursday Sltow Gain Today. New York. Aug. ft. After the slump In the final hour of trading yesterday, the stork market opened today wirh gains of from one to three points in those Issues which were weakest at the close of the previous session. Leeders in the recovery Included United Ptates Steel, which opened with an advance of 2 4 Crucible Srteel, Baldwin locomotive, t'nited States rubber. Central leather and Mexican petroleum. IS FAVORITE MEMORIAL Buildings for Social Centers Decided I'pon by 2S0 Towns. New York, Aug:. 8. Plans to erect war memorials in the form of build ings to be used as social centers have leen decided upon by 236 cities, towns and villages in the United States, ac cording to figures made public today by war camp community service. The organisation Is carrying on a country wide campaign for community me morials thru its bureau of memorial buildings. GERMAN WAR BRIDES HERE New York Aug. 8. The first (crnuin war brides to come to the Vnited States since 1ft 1 7 arrived today aboard the army transport Great Northern from Brest. They were included among 249 young women of various nationalities who married American soldiers abroad. The ;reat Northern also brought 22 officers. 1.500 troops and 83 welfare workers. UNIONS REJECT PLAN TO PUT AN END TO WALKOUT At 3:30 This Afternoon Strik ers Refuse Compromise. Stand by Original Idea of Forcing Their Demands. EMPLOYERS WERE WILLING Agreed to Suggestions of State Labor Commissioner. "We Are Willing To Meet Owners," Is Declaration. At 3 :30 o'clock this afternoon the members of the striking ce real workers' union announced that they had voted unanimous ly to reject the proposition sub mitted this morning by J. H. Crawford, state labor commis sioner, and would adhere to their original plan of forcing the mill owners to grant their demands. The union men declare that yie mill operators merely took advantage of the opportunity to air their views again concerning the labor troubles here and that they never really had any proposition to offer. "As for us," said President Stater, of the union, "wo must consider the public. We are willing to meet the mill owners and come to an agree- Kment, but it seems that they are not willing to do this." Iiooked Like Settlement. Karly settlement of the cereal work ers' strike in Topeka was apparent at noon today when mill operators ac cepted a compromise plan proposed by John H. Crawford, state labor com missioner. Under the Crawford plan the strikers would abandon attempts to unionize for one year. Questions of wages, re turn of strikers to their old jobs and other disputes will be settled by an arbitration board. The proposition was submitted by Commissioner Craw ford and approved by mill owners and operators following an all morning conference. Every mill affected by the strike was represented, while an equal number of strike representatives attended the meeting. Mayor Cor wine and A. L. Oliger. secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, sat with Crawford during the conference. Mill operators objected to the ad mission of several general representa tives of labor organizations to the conference. By agreement the dis cussion was behind closed doors. Crawford titves Ideas. Hope of ar. agreement in the strike trouble this afternoon centered In the action of mill owners in accepting the olive branch offered by tho state la bor commissioner. Under this pro vision, tho. cereal workers will with hold unionization efforts for a period of one year. Crawford urgJd that in view of the general unrest In labor circles thruout the country all Inter ests would be safeguarded by a twelve months delay. Crawford's plan bars any attempt at unionization during the year. At the end of that time, he believes, con- ditions will be sufficiently settled to i nermit a discussion of the problem. I The proposal does not bind the mills i to union recognition at the end of a f year, but provides that the question may be reopened at that time. The right of cereal workers to unionize is 1 the big issue in the present dispute .and strike. "The cereal workers are only sixty I per cent unionized at this time." Crawford stated, "and in view of the generally unsettled conditions, it Is ad I visable in my Judgment to postpone further action for n year." All questions in the strike dispute I outside the right of the men to union 1 ize and secure recognition is to be left to an arbitration board of three I men. The cereal workers and mill i operators will each select a member of the board. These men win name a third m ember. (Continued on l'ace Six.) HE TRIES SUICIDE Snowden Shaw, Age 40, Shoots Himself Today. Illness and Financial Troubles the Cause. Snowden Shaw, age 40, formerly a fireman at a Topeka bakery, at tempted to kill himself shortly after 3 o'clock this afternoon by shooting himself in the breast at the home of his brother-in-lawi A. Zane, at 1715 Clay street. Shaw had a long: siege of sickness with typhoid fever last winter, and, altho, he had practically recovered, he is said to have been worrying; over his financial affairs and his family noticed that he had been acting- queer ly duriilg the last few days. He had a team of horses, but recently had to sell them to pay his doctor's bill. Shaw's wife has been staying with his people, who live just west of To peka. This afternoon he was packing up his belongings, preparing to go to Arkansas to start life anew. Shortly after 3 o'clock he went upstairs and a few minutes later his folks heard a shot. They rushed upstairs and found him lying on the floor with a bullet wound in his right breast. Coroner Marcotte was summoned and Shaw was still living when he arrived. He was immediately rushed to St. Francis hospital. Since recovering from his recent illness, Shaw has not had a steady job. but has been workirrg hers and there wherever he could find employ ment. It is said. COON HUNTING SEASON OPENS GAME PLENTIFUL FEW GETTING COAL The Ice Situation in Topeka Is Still Serious. Billard Says It Is Worse Than Many Realize. "The ice situation in Topeka is quite serious." This statement was made this morning by Robert Billard, of the City Ice Delivery company in answer to a direct question. Billard said that the ice situation is more serious than most persons real ize, and he said that alleviation ia en tirely and absolutely dependent on im mediate deliveries of coal in carload lots. No coal has been received by the City Ice Delivery company within the last twenty-four hours and today the wapons of the various coal yards of the city are hauling almost every con ceivable kind of coal to the Billard plant. Every coal yard in the city has been called upon to help avert the im pending catastrophe and all this morn ing the wagons loaded with lump and nut coal and even semi-anthracite have been unloading in the bins at the City Ice Delivery plants. Try to Avoid Rations. Billard indicated today that with the present stock of coal in Topeka the ice plants may continue to operate until the first of the week. He said that if possible the company wishes to avoid the putting of Topeka on an ice ration but he said that there is a possibil ity that such action will have to be taken, Richard Hodgins's ice plant re ceived a carload of coal Thursday night which he said would guarantee operating there until Monday. Hod gins said that the situaiton is entirely dependent on the railroads for allevia tion. If the cars of coal do not come, spoilage of millions of dollars in food stuffs impends. Wolff riant Supply, i The Charles Wolff Packng company is in a fairiy good position today in regard to fuel supply. This plant will be able to maintain refrigeration as long as the fuel oil supply holds out Charles Wolff said this morning that he has assurances that the fuel oil supply is in fairly good shape but he said that the railroads will have to maintain the fuel supply of both oil and coal if millions of pounds of meats now In storage at his plant are to be saved. Refrigeration at the plant is no danger for at least forty eight hours more, Wolff said today. Receipt of several carloads of coal by the Beatrice Creamery company during the night relieved the ice sit uation at that plant. More than a mil lion pounds of butter, 25,000 cases of eggs, and 70,000 pounds of poultry are removed from immediate danger of spoiling. But the situation is serious with the railroads placing embargoes on carload shipments, and it is thought that Topeka Is standing on the edge of a sleeping volcano of per sonal and financial discomfort CHARGED WITH ANARCHY New York Bomb Squad Arrests Four Alleged Radicals. New York, Aug. 8. Charged with criminal anarchy under an did sec tion of the penal code, four men were arrested here today by detectives of the bomb squad after raid on their apartment in the Bronx. Much litera ture and a loaded revolver were found in the flat. According to the detectives the four men. all Finns and three of them claiming: to be carpenters, have dis tributed a large quantity of revolu tionary propaganda among foreign born working men in the United States. This literature urged that vio i lent measures be used to overthrow I the government. WELL, HERE'S SYLVIA AGAIN England's Feminine Agitator Is Charged With Receiving $30.01(0 From Be la Kun to Promote 1 Strikes. London, Au. 8. Sylvia Fank hurst, England's feminine agitator, was again In the limelightloday when Scotland Yard officials charged she had received $30,000 in Russian gold from Bela Kun. former Hungarian soviet leader. The money was re ceived thru a Norwegion radical, it was stated, and was to be used for promoting British strikes. Miss Pankhurst denied she had re ceived the money. Scotland Yard operatives said papers seized in a recent raid in Glas gow Included a complete set of rules of the soviet republic and location of place where bombs were stored in Glasgow and Manchester. dromOlour Barnes Says Public Will Get It at $12 a Barrel. Announcement Will Not Affect Local Market. New York. Aug. 8. Julius H. Barnes, government wheat director, announced today that the United States grain corporation will sell flour thru the usual channels at a rate per I mitting the public to obtain it for $12 i to $12.25 a barrel. The flour will be delivered to whole salers east of the Mississippi on the basis of $10.25 a barrel, and west of that line, exclusive of Pacific coast territory, for $10. Wholesalers will be required to guarantee not to charge more than 75 cents, a barrel additional and retailers not more than $1.75. Quotations received from Topeka re tailers this morning indicated that the Barnes announcement will mean little to local consumers. Flour is retailing here in 48-pound sacks for from $2.93 to $3.25. There are 200 pounds of flour in a barrel. The Dibble Grocery company stated this morning that it has a special price on flour today, selling 48-pound sacks that ordinarily sell for $3.25 for $2.95. William Green Son quote flour at $3.10 and $3.20 in 48-pound sacks. 47 DAYS OF DROUTH Xo Relict In Sight, Hither, Mr. Flora Said Today. WEATHER FORECAST FOU KANSAS: Fair tonight aaI Saturday; uot much change iu temperature. TODAY'S TEMPERATURES. 7 o'clock 66 S o'clock 68 I 0 o'clock 72 10 o'clock 77 I For forty-seven 11 o'clock 80 12 o'clock 82 1 o'clock 84 2 o'clock 85 days and forty seven nights there has not been a rain in Topeka of sufficent size to even soak up the top of the ground. According to the forecast of S. D. Flora, state meteorologist, there need be no preparations made in expecta tion of rain lor none is in sight for twenty-four hours at least. -tFor twenty-four hours there has been no rain in Kansas. Neither has there been any rain in the Missouri valley. There is no prediction for rain in the valley either. Thursday night was the coolest night in s'ventee n days. The me rcury scoot lOontinbed on Page Two.) SHIP IS AGROUND! Steamer North Star Runs Ashore Off NoYat Scotia. Has 285 Passengers Aboard Four Vessels Standing By. Boston. Aug. 8. The steamship North star, which left this port for Yarmouth, N. S., yesterday with 285 passengers, went aground today on Greer, island, six miles off Yarmouth, according to word received by officials of the eastern steamship lines here. Four steamers, including the Canadian government steamer Stanley, were standing by and the passengers were said to be in no danger. In a later message Captain Strout of the North Star reported that water was entering the fire ro6m and that it had bren necessary to draw the fires. The Canadian government steamer Stanley, at first said to be standing by, was detained at Yar mouth and unable to go to the North Star's assistance. Two boats, several motor schooners and all other avail able vessels were ordered out, how ever. The North Star struck on the rocks at 6:40 a. m. during a thick fog. Re ports received here indicate no one was hurt and that there was no con fusion aboard. Preparations had been made to remove the passengers if it became necessary. The work of transferring passen gers to two of the boats was begun at 10:40. The North Star was re ported to be pounding somewhat heavily. TRAINS STILL RUN Topeka Does Not Feel Chicago Curtailment Yet. Extra Work Thrown on Local Passenger Employes. The curtailment of passenger serv ice out of Chicago due to the shop men strike has not been felt directly in Topeka at least on thiu trains over the Panta Fe and Rock Island today. Officials of both roads state that "everything is running as usual" but they make no guarantees for the future. Union Pacific trains east only run to Kansas City. The strike, however, has thrown an immense amount of work upon local railway workers. Due to the strike in Kansas City It has been necessary to ice and water practically every thru train in Topeka. Extra employes have been placed on this work and big quantities of ice have been used to keep passengers' in hot weather comfort. Considerable extra switching of pas senger trains also has been operated in Topeka rather than Kansas City. Trains have been tied up here on the Santa Fe as long as two hours whii the necessary switching was carried out. In Kansas City the last two or three days officials of the road have h&ndled Ice and have inspected cars in the absence of union men who are out with the shopmen on the strike. All of this has caused delay and dis comfort to the passengers. No change in embargo conditions was noted on the four railroads run ning into Topeka today. The "sub ject to delay" clause is still In effect on all roads. Out of Kansas City on most of the connecting roads no freight Is accepted when shipped by other roads. MEN FROM SHOPS KUUK ItAMdltlfd AT MILLS HERE?! Transfer Company Drivers Re-1 fuse To Haul Flour. One Report Is That Strikers Threaten Them. two mi up their jobs; Santa Fe Men Gathered Around Topeka Mill at Noon. Clayton Denies Cereal Workers j Strikers Comply With Presi Are Causing Trouble, dent's Urge of Last Night. Shop Men Back Up Strikers. F. A. Sanderson, president of the Santa Fe Shop Federation, declared that the charges that Santa Fe men were throwing stones at truck, drivers was a mistake. He ex pressed the belief, however, that the teamsters should nt haul flour from these mills and that anyone who did this or who went to work in the mills was considered unfair. "I hope and believe," he said, "that everything will be agreeably settled in a little while. The Santa Fe boys only wish the cereal work ers the best of luck, at the same time realizing that the opera' ors be lieve they have a side in the affair. What we want is fair play, living wages, and decent hours to work for every man in the city.' Refusal of the teamsters and truck drivers employed by the local tra ns fer companies to haul flour from the mills concerned is the latest develop ment in the strike of 250 cereal work ers here. The drivers say that pickets have thrown rocks at them and that Washington, Aug. 8. Tele there is too much danger entailed in received by the Ameri- penetrating the picket lines. J, A. i Clayton, international representative Can Federation Of Labor today of the cereal workers, declared that j indicated that railway shopmen there' was nothing- to the allegations i concerning rock throwing. Victor i Wh Stnick Without authority piantz, president of the Teamsters' have already started going back union an.1 an employe of the Mer- itrt chants' Transfer comnanv. said that to Work 111 response to Presi- more was to feared from the Santa -Fe men than from the cereal work- 1 ers' pickets. Two men employed by the Topeka Transfer company for mriy years o,uit their Jobs Thursday rather than obey orders to So to the TopeKa Mill and get a loa.ll of flour for the Col lege Hill bakery. K. F. Dean, one of the proprietors of the company, took the team and hauled the flour him- self. Drivers today freely expressed a fear of rocks. "TC""' "al One of the cereal workers declared land. Rock Island and St. Paul this afternoon that seven of the driv-! railroads and on the Pennsyl- i ers of the Merchants Transfer com- r. Ipany had been discharged this morn- Vania lines west Of Pittsburgh. i inp beiause they refused to haul flour, j strikers at Kansas City voted I J. H. Cayhart, manager, denied the alienation. to call off the strike pending j "No men have been discharged or Settlement. I quit this company," he declared. "I j j have heard nothing of it." Jllnes Awaits Decision. No Tcnmsters' Boycott Director (ieneral Hines today await- Plantz stated today that no order w,"' fromll th" unl"n th,at had been issued by the Teamsters' j 1', B "h0Pm.C1 1ha(,,"turn-1 union for the men to quit hauling j S0Ibe;0.11",drrt"kl.n,t 2 ut flour from the mills implicated in the J.rcs'd.ent instruction, to set I strike and that there would be no "e the aB,e controversy on lt such order unless it was for the per- mV.rlts- he telegraph system of th. sonal safety of the men. railroad administration was put at th i "The men should haul the flour "'"POoal he union off Iclals and pr I unless there is imminent danger in it." emptory orders that the men should I he said. "If there is danger, they g f ,to the Job we,u out to -n i. -1 local chairmen. Until the men have resumed work. COURSE IN FLYING Washburn CoUpce Joins W ith rtuiuiurn toiiege joins tt nn Lieut. Webber In Plan Royal FlyilW Corps Hero Re- 0 r turns Today. t Y i the presentation of evidence and to Lieut. Thofnas Webber. Royal Fly- j hear this a new board may be conatl ing Corps hero, and a pilot with seven 1 tuted or the old board enlarged to 'years experience Including 17 months twelve In accordance with the swggea i in the war. returned to Topeka today. tiona of union men. KquHl represcn I He will conduct flights from Wash- tation between the two sides would be j burn field this evening. He has pur- retained, but men specially qualified I chared a new plane, a Curtiss J N-4 to deal with the subject in hand would with a 110-hor.se power engine. jlfce appointed to handle the different With his new machine he will have classes of wages, two planes in Topeka for the use of Return to Work at K. C. i his students when he opens nis xiying school soon announces "i" ,D twf rtw I the appeals of the heads of their na plan that is being com- tlnnn, afMtliMtAB .Mbfn Mnl i pleted at this time which includes the i IV -hi n,7- ii CWohuerbeKnownRhase t "ships" and two extra motors all to be available to the students of Wash- born who take the course. i This ia the first college in the west to take up airplane manipulation. Lieutenant Webber has signed contract with the Free Fair in Toikeka i for exhibition flights September 8-13. I He is planning also to malte several j State Journal newspaper deliveries this summer and fall. He carried the J first newspaper by airplane a few j weeks ago when the State Journal was r taken to Kskridge. TO TRAVEL THRU J. S. Ki.iR Albert Plans Extensive Tour of nisreeanl Wilson I rttc America Bringing Prince IxopoIil. j Indianapolis, Aug. 8. Striking rail I Brussels. Aug. 7 Details of King roa'J. ho.n,m?n ,ne.re wl" not return to I Albert's trip to America have not been "n "IV" .meJ,' .it.. i. t. k n gardless of President Wilsons state- fully arranged but it is probable that j mn h h rallroafl adminratioii he will start about the middle of Sep- wiH not conMrior the demands until member and wjfl not return until his'tm workmen return to work. Union. presence nere is necessary oeause ine eigian e.vcuons. According elections. According tc 1 present plans, h will make a com 1 plete swing of the country ana w.il j be accompanied by his son. Prince j Leopold. Approves Spain Joining League. (lr The Associated Ir-0 .Uau 11C, lis- r i I I i i I proved today the proposal that pain SHOP 14ST IT IVY IVi Ej m BACK BIG RAIL STRIKE NEAR END MANY RETURN TO POSTS Walkout Ends on Fight Eastern Lines and at K. C. MANY STILL HOLDING OUT Will ot Return Until Wag Increase Promised. Hines Stands Pa', on "No Ac tion Cntil Work Resumed." passenger'servTce is hit Forty Additional Trains A nulled by Chicago Linos. See Absolute Freight Embargo Unless Strike Ends. dent Wilson's letter, In Which he asserted the government would not consider higher wages for them until all men were back on the jobs. Shopmen were rapidly re turning to work on the Lacka wanna, Baltimore Ohio, Nor- fiv. t -iir, t:,,. m railroad administration officials said they would not discuss the procedure to be employed In adjusting the wag demands. As the shopmen's reasons for wanting a 25 per cent Increase have bern considered thoroly by the board of raiIroart wafteB and working I conditions, which divided three to three. It wax helieved possible that the evidence in thnt case would he put i immediately before the director gen eral for a decision. Other unions have demands pend ing, however, which will necessitate -I I A-A lul iat mass meeting here today voted to "turn to work shortly after noon. I HOW Ont nt Milwaukee. j Milwaukee. Auir. g. "Only In th event that our demands are acceded to will the men who walked1 out of th West Milwaukee shops of the Chicago. a,""11""" ot. j-aui railway return to work." said Otto A. Jlrikowic. pub licity representative and authorized to speak for the allied crafts. August Iwrence, representing th Chicago Northwestern shopmen, stmpfy said he did not believe the men would return to work until the wag demands had been met. No word had been received from i national officials bearing on any ao tion. Union meetings were to be held in various parts of the city during th oiiannounced th!s decision today. Washington. Aug. 8. Whether waore demands of railroad employe will be peacefully arbitrated or whether the workers will defy th government and attempt to cripple th. roads by strikes apparently depended today on he response of striking shopmen to Pi President Wilson' order i that thev return o work before their join the league of nations. 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'I THE TOPEKA DAILY STA1E JOURNAL 1'KiDA EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1919 ACTORS IN STRIKE First Walkout in History of "erfesii" Occurs. Broadway Theaters Were Dark i Last Mght as Result. NO BELL-RINGERS' AFFAIR Solium, Drew and Lillian' Kussell Among- .Strikers. I'nderstudles Will Get Chances Chorus Girls as Leads. New York. Aug. S. 'Understudies, who hardly hopend to appear in first night performances or even to b thrust Into the spotlight of a new pluy during its summer debut, suddenly leenme the objects of much attention from Uroadway theater managers to day. In several of the twelve theaters where the. stages were darkened last night by the strike called by the Actors' Equity association the first walkout In the history of the "per fesh" understars will appear with hnstlly arranged casts for tonight's performances, if the plans of the man ainT mature. The strike Is otnfined so far to performers of the legitimate at i in the city alone. Over 300 Actors Out. The strike was called by the Actors' Kqutty association following refusal of the Producing Managers' association to recognize the union. In addition to (COCnitfOB, the union demanoed: .Vinlmum engagements of two v.-C'-Us: :wo weeks' notice of dismls nl: limited number of performances In a week, and limited number of free rehearsals. More than 300 actors participated In the strike, which was called only a few minutes before the curtains were scheduled to go up last night. Audiences got a r.ew thrill. They were turned loose into Broadway with their money refunded at an hour when that famous thorofare usually Is comparatively deserted. They wandered about the street In dense throngs, turning the situation Into nn Impromptu celebrntlon. Hothcnti Drew, Kussell, F.t Al. This Is to bell-ringers' walkout. In eluded In the union are the crftn de la creme of the theatrical profession. K. H. Snthern, Lillian Kussell and .ohn Drew are among the brightest luminaries In the organization and thev are staunch for their union. "Nightie night" said good night at 11:15 when the manager of the house discovered too late that the actors reully meant It. As the tired business man with Mrs. T. B. M. or someone stalked about the lobby waiting for the decision, a Ml limousine rolled up and decanted a distinguished looking Individual Into the well dressed gathering. "Ambassador Ofrard," whispered someone who had seen "My Four Years In Germany." The ambassador looked surprised. He took a turn about the lobby and then gllmpaed at the sign which In formed the customers that the show was temporarily abandoned. Then the distinguished person climbed back Into the limousine, settled against the upholstery and ordered "Home Jamea." Cfcur Girls as "Ix-nds." In some Instances other theaters at tempted performances with chorus girls In principal rolea. The audiences were treated to unintentional comedy. Francis Wilson, president of the Ac tor's Equity association, is directing the strike. E. H. Snthern sought to bring about an amicable adjustment of the situation at the strike meeting last night hut was hooted into alienee. The producers have announced they frill fight the strike. Cute Thing Sings New Song. "They've ground us on the wheel long enough," chirped a cute little thing with a 4-ounce dog In the crook of her elbow. DUe classic phraseology of the labor organizer now mingles with the "I'll say eo'a" of Broadway regulars. John Drew this afternoon plumped" for noble dignified labor when he told a reporter: "I belong to the Actors' Equity As sociation. I wish to associate myself with the view expressed by Mr. E. H. Bothern." Sothern's view, referred to. was an announcement in which the Shake spearean celebrity urged his cohorts to stand firm against theatrical cap italists. Many Stars Among Strikers. Here a:-e some of the actors who at tended rooiy's union meeting which, voted to send the ultimatum: Arthur Byron. William H. Crane, James Romlo. Lillian Rusaell. Mrs. Thomas Whitfln. Bruce McRae, George Arllss, Barney Bernard. Ed mund Breese, Donald Brian. Harry C. Browne, Eddie Cantor. George Stewart Christie. John Cope. Herbert Corthell, Frank Craven William Danforth, Jef ferson De ngells, William J. Deming, Katherin Emmett, Ernest M. Glenden nln and Florence Reed. Among the theaters that were dark: Shnbert "Hayetles of 1919.'' ruyhnuee "At 9:45." Forty-fourth Street Theater "Oh, What a (Mrl." Lyric "A Voice in the Lark.'' Republic "The Fire Million." IT'S UP TO YOU! TRY IT THIRTY DAYS If you want It pay us If you don't like it bring It hack. Hint's the Auto strope wny of proving that It Is the razor yon wants Geo. W. STANSFIELD DRrotasn 32 Kansas Ave. Tke m Kodak with yu. Astor "Knst Is West." Ualetr "Light ills'." Prim-ess "Nightie Nleht." (First night) Ilroadhurst "The Crimson Alibi." Nelwyn 'The Challenge." pehea and Harris "The itoyal Vngn. bond." Knickerbocker. Hut llroadwny took it ail good naturedly. AID FOOD PURCHASERS i Increase Pnrcol Pout Wright Mm It To Handle Army Food Orders. Washington. Aug. 8. Authority to increase temporarily the parcel post welrht limit to 1 25 punds so that buyers of army food may take full advantage of the opportunity to pur chase thru postmasters and letter car riers was granted the postmaster gen eral by the interstate commerce com mission. It was announced that the sale buyer might place severaj orders at the same time without paying the initial postal charge of 5 cents a pound more than once. The orders must be in writing and duplicate and the cost plus postage wilr be collected with them. They will be filled In the order received. Julius Kosenwald today offered the govern ment the mailing list of Sears. Roe buck Co., of which he Is president, as a means of assisting in the general distribution of army food. He also offered to assist in the ordering rout ing and shipping of army food and to otherwise co-operate. POPPLED SOLDIER iMspmo Arose Over Rcfwuil To Admit Latter to Dance Hall. Des Moines. Iowa, Aug. 8, Private Hiram Deeben, member of the Fourth division, regular army, stationed at Camp Dodge, la., was shot by Officer tieorge Welsh at a dance hall last night. He died Thursday. The shooting was the result of a dispute between the police and the sol dier over refusal to admit Deeben and another soldier to the hall. The policeman claims the shooting was accidental. GERMANS eED FUEL Kmployers ami Workers Join Forces To Avert Freezing and Starvation. (By Th; A ciattd Press.) Berlin. Aug. 7. A commission of employers and workers was appointed at yesterday's coal conference of ex pests from all parts of Germany to devise means of Increasing the pro duction of coal no that Germany will not freeze or starve during the com ing winter. Its first session was held today at the ministry of labor. The situation is desperate. ROB BANK'0F$2y500 Six Masked Bandits lock l r Officials in Vault. Chicago, Aug. 8. Six. masked men and armed automobile bandits Thurs day held up the cashier and assistants of the Sixteenth Street State bank, locked them up in a vault and escaped after looting the cash drawer of $5,500. Passersby who saw the robbers dash away released the banker and clerks. BACKWARD OUT WINDOW Woman Didn't Stop for Door When Car Controller Blew Out. It was a one-man car running on the Washburn-Douthltt line and when the controller blew out Thursday aft ernoon on Kansas avenue between Ninth and Tenth streets, the front door wasn't big enough to let all the passengers out at once. So a lady in a white dress, assisted by several at tentive males, emerged from a win dow backwards and was lowered gent ly to the ground as the front vestibule of the car spat flame. Several chil dren got out via the window route. The fire was quickly extinguished, with no casualties reported. SHARP STOCK REVERSAL Xcw York Market Suffers Greatest Break of Year. New York. Aug. 8. The stock mar ket suffered its greatest reversal of the year in the final hour of today's trading. Prices of leading shares showed extreme declines of from five to almost twenty points from their early and Intermediate quotation. There were no new developments to account for the break other than ru mors to the effect that the adminis tration contemplated drastic action against profiteers together with other developments before the interstate commerce committee roday. PACKER SECURITIESlREAK Anti-Trust Suit, and Strike Causes 9)4 rolnt Fall. Chicago, Aug. 8. Packing house se curities suffered a severe break in values Thursday, owing to anti trust action by the government and be cause of strikes by white employes. Swift and comany stock closed at 121. a fall of 9 since last night. MARKET mU OF MARTYTIS. Here's Another That Offers Himself for Wllliclm. Paris, Aug. 8. Paris newspapers announce that Karon Burt von Lera ner, head of the German mission at Versailles, has transmitted to the su preme council of the peace confer ence a letter from Gen. Erich von Falkenhayn, former German chief of stafr. In which he claimed responsi bility as war minister and head of the general staff for all military acts by Germany -while he was in power, from the beginning of the war to the end of the battle of Verdun. General von Falkenhayn offers himself to tho allies in place of former Emperor Wllhelm. Wales at St. Johns Tuesday. St John. N. F., Aug. 8. The Prince of Wales wyi land here at' noon next Tuesday, according to official an nouncement. Arrangements for his reception were made upon the ar rival of officers of the British cruiser Dauntless, who preceded the escorting fleet for the purpose of conferring with the local authorities. Fonght War Over Again. Dallas. Tex.. Aug. 8. J. D. Hoy, discharged soldier. Is In bed with a dislocated shoulder. He dreamed Wed nesday night, he explained, he was fighting the war on the western front over again. Fresh, sweet, white, dainty clothes for baby. If you use Red Cross Ball Blue. Never streaks or injures them. All good grocers sell it. 5c a package. Adv. BROOKLYN HOOFS IT Thousands Walk and Ride In Trucks to Manhattan unices. New York, Aug. 8. With only at few surface cars, an occasional ele vated or subway train in operation, j compelled again today to resort to Lueses, motor cars and trucks. Con gestion at terminal points of the Long Island railroad and the Interborough Rapid Transit company line to Man hattan were jammed early with anx ious throngs when it became appar ent that the third day of the strike of Brooklyn Rapid Transit employes promised little or no relief. Suspension of local Brooklyn bridge car service resulted In a rush for the promenade and thousands walked to work. None of the ten Brooklyn Rapid Transit surface lines over the Wil liamsburg bridge had resumed opera tions when the first of the rush hour crowds began to arrive at the Brook lyn end. The few local cars In oper ation were Jammed, many passengers risking the danger of riding on the top of cars. Only two elevated trains passed over the Williamsburg bridge between 5 a. m. and 7:15 a. m., each being made up of two cars. Orders were Issued by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company about 7 a. m. to resume selling tickets for Coney Is land. No disorders were reported when the early rush began. to gather evidence .Staff of 25 Investigators and Prose cutors Will Go After Packers. Chicago, Aug. 8. A staff of twenty five In vest! pa tors and prosecutors will be assigned to the task of gathering evidence and presenting it against Chi cago packers, according to announce ment made today by Assistant Dis trict Attorney R. A. Mllroy. Milroy yesterday was appointed by District Attorney Clyne to be ready with evidence on activities of the pack ers for hearing before the September federal grand jury. Other food pro ducers and distributors will be in vestigated also. Clyne told Milroy. CAN'TGETTHEIR BONDS 150,000 Service Men Have Nothing To Show for Liberties, Charge. Washington, Aug. 8. There are al leged to be more than 150.000 sailors and soldiers who. after subscribing to various war loan campaigns, and hav ing the amounts of their subscriptions taken out of their pay by the govern ment, have been unable to secure their bonds or to get trace of them. In a number of cases, it is said, these men have died in the line of duty and their relatives "have been unable to secure the bonds or to regain the money col lected for them. CLAIM SMALL PROFIT Swift Oftlelnl Says Company Made Only On-nlnth Cent a Pound. Kansas City, Aug. 8. Swift Com pany made a profit of only one-ninth of a cent a pound on all beef sold In Washington for the five weeks ended August 2, a senate committee Investi gating high living costs In Washing ton was told by L. H. D. Weld, mana ger of the company's research depart ment. "TIGER" -IS COMING Clemencenu Will Attend Ixwguc Meet at Washington This Fall, Report. Paris, Aug. 8. Premier Clemen ceau probably will attend the meeting of the League of Nations to be held In Washington this autumn, the Echo de Paris reported today. 47 DAYSJF DROUTH f Con tinned nn Pare Twe.l ed down to 65 degrees and put sheets on sleeper:; early this morning. The north breeze brought the cool weather. The lowest In the state was 58. report ed at Macksville. Manhattan and Scott City. In the United States, 44 degrees, acccrepanied by a frost at Saulte Ste. Marie, was the lowest temperature re corded. The mercury reached 100 Thursday afternoon at Emporia and Sedan. Phoenix, AH'.., beat this score by two degrees. This morning in Nebraska temperatures were down around 60 degrees, farther north in the Dakotas they were around, 50 degrees. Altho Kansas received no rain, Texas re ported good rains this morning. The extremes on record for this date were 105 in 1896 and 55 In 1888. At 3 o'clock this afternoon the wind was blowing at the rate of 3 miles an hour from the northeast. Temperatures to degrees. DAILY WEATHER REPORT. Furnished by the weather bureau office, Topeka, Kan., for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. ni. Friday. Station High Low. Pree. W'thr. Boston. Mass 7S 10 .01 Clear Calgary. Alb 82 0 Fair Chicago. Ill M 0 0 Cloudy Cincinnati. 0 02 70 0 Clear Corpus Chrlstl.... W 74 0 Fair Denver, Cole M A2 o cloudy lc Moines, la.... NO 6 0 Clear Dulnth 72 r.2 .04 Cloudy El Paso. Tex 90 6S .10 Cluudy Fort Worth, Tex.. 100 IJolvestnn. Tex 00 7S 0 Clear Havre, Mont 94 HO 0 clear Jacksonville SO 7 0 Fair Little Keck, Ark.. OS 7 .22 Fair Los Angeles 70 00 0 Clear New Orleans. La.. 90 New York, N. Y. 84 74 0 Fair N. Platte, Nell Sd no 0 Cloudy Oklahoma, Okla... OR 74 0 clear Phoenix. Arl 102 SO 0 Fair Pittsburgh. Pa ss OS o Fair Portland. Ore 72 K2 0 Clear St. Louis, Mo 90 70 0 Clear St. Paul. Minn 7S 5R 0 Cloudy Salt Lake, rtsh RS 72 0 Clear San Francisco 2 52 0 Cloudy Saalt Ste. Marie., fis 44 0 Clear Sheridan. Wyo 90 Spokanel Wash RR 00 0 Clear Tampa, Fla 02 70 0 Cloudy Toledo, Ohio an su o near Washington. f. C. 90 76 0 Cloudy Winnipeg. Man 70 48 0 Clear Kirnti enther Report. Fur the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. m 73th meridian time, Friday. Anthony OS ft! 0 Rood Cnldwater SO 64 0 Good Concordia 92 64 0 flood Hodge City 92 64 0 Good Kmpnrla 100 IB o Good Fort Scott 92 2 0 Good Garden City 90 00 0 Good Hanover 94 60 0 Good Morton RM 2 0 Goort Hutchinson US CO o Good Iflla 92 04 O Good Lawrence 94 S4 0 liood Liberal 92 64 0 Good Mcpherson 92 64 0 Good Macksrllle 94 AS 0 Good Manhattan 94 WB 0 Good Phllllpahnrgli 92 64 0 Good Scott City 92 1SR n Good Sedan 100 64 0 Fair TOPEKA 91 6S 0 Good Kanana City 90 70 0 Good St. Joseph 00 fin o Fair Minimum temperatures are for the last 12 honrs. Cool weather general over entire stat? lat night and yearerrtsy. No ralu was re ported in last 24 hours. BIG RAIL STRIKE (Continued from Page One.) requests lor more pay will be con sidered. Bill To Oppose Strikers. A Joint resolution "declaring that a state of anarchy exists in the United States and authorizing the president to free interstate malls and traffic from further unlawful interferet.ee and to adequately protect citizens in their property rights," was introduced today by Representative Blanton, Democrat, Texas. nines Has Full Power. The president in a letter to Rail Director Hines told him to take up the wage question without further authority from congress, but also told him there would be no dealings with the employes until the railroad shop men, who walked out without the sanction of their leaders, went back to their jobs. Mr. Hines is understood to consider that two main points are involved In the settlement of wage demands: First, how much has the cost of liv ing increased beyond the increase in wages, and second, what are the wages being paid in other industries for the same classes of work? B. M. Jewell, acting president of the railway department of 'the American Federation of Labor, has telegraphed the shopmen asking them to resume work so a settlement of all the rail- I road employes wage demands will not be delayed. Answers to Jewell's appeal were looked for today In the action of the unauthorized strikers. If they go back to work negotiations between the rail road administration and the employes will proceed. Otherwise, according to Wilson's letter, the government will Ignore the wage demands. Leave Matter at Standstill. "Until the employes return to work and again recognize the authority of their organisation, the whole matter must be at a standstill," wrote the president. The letter emphasized that the rail administration will deal only with duly accredited national heads of the unoln. e "You are hereby authorized." the president ordered Hines, "to say to the railroad shop employes that the question of wages they have raised will be taken up and considered on its merits by the director general In con ference with their duly accredited rep resentatives." The letter made no mention of rates. President Wilson instructed Hlnat to decide the wage question following re ceipt of a letter from Senator Cum mins, who said the senate interstate commerce committee had decided the president had full power to act. No Labor Plan Champion. The appeal of organized labor for government ownership of railroads, backed by veiled threats of serious un rest until the plan is adopted, has so far found no open champion among the house and senate interstate com merce committees. Even Representative Sims, who in troduced their plan as a house bill by request, today definitely stated he could not agree to It in many details. He favors government ownership of the fixed equipment of the lines, with leases to private corporations for oper ation, the owners being allowed to keep the rolling stock. It Is generally believed the bill even in modified form will not be reported out by either house or senate committee. Interest Lies In Wall Street Expose. Interest now centers in the brother hoods' next move, the threatened ex pose of the alleged looting of many railroads by Wall street Interests, with a demand for congressional Investiga tion. Nothing definite has been re vealed with regard to the conference on railroad control which Glenn Plumb, attorney for the railroad em ployes, said had been called to meet in Washington, and to which many prominent persons. Including Governor Allen of Kansas and Frank T. Walsh, had been invited. The date remains to be fixed. CANCEL MORE TRAINS Shopmen's Strike Is Crippling Passen ger Service. Chicago. Aug. 8. Forty additional passenger trains were cancelled today by Chicago railroads as a result of the strike of the federated railway shop men, a The railroads which announced dis continuance of trains were the New York, New Haven, Hartford, the Chesapeake A- Ohio and the Chicago (i i Northwestern. The New Haven an nounced that 102 passenger trains would be dropped, all dining and parlor-car service discontinued and the suspension of the existing time tnble. The C. O. announced that thirty four passenger trains had been dis continued. Rail Officials In Denial. Washington, Aug. S. Officials of the railroad administration declared today that no nation-wide curtail ment in passenger traffic as a result of the shopmen's strike was In con templation. Such a policy has not even been under consideration, it was said. Discontinuance' of more than 150 trains by three railroads was said to have been ordered locally by the managements of those roads based on conditions peculiar to them. Officials of the railway department of the American Federation of Labor met today to frame arguments to the unauthorized strikers to support the request that they resume work pend ing negotiations. "We want our men to obey the president," said Bert M. Jewell, act ing hfad of the American Federation of Labor railway department. A strike vote being taken among shopmen's local unions will continue, it was stated at labor headquarters to test the sentiment of the men. It does not indicate a strike will be au thorized, leaders said. I At the eapltol, Glenn E. Plumb, con tinuing his testimony before the house interstate commerce commit- i tee, said that "social unrest thruout the country is not going to result in the overthrow of the government, but in the overthrow of the present in dustrial system." Chicago, Aug. 8. Curtailment of passenger service on many of the large railroads of the country is be lieved by rail officials to be forecast in the annoimcement today of discontin uance of many trains by two eastern and one western road, as the result of the nation-wide strike of federated railroad shopmen. Railroad, officials predicted a further curtailment of passenger service unless the shopmen respond to President Wilson's appeal and return to work within a short time, pending a settlement of wage demands. Freight traffic on neatly all lines continued to be hampered by the walkout of the shopmen, and it 'was asserted by railroad officials that the notice to accept shipments subject to delay would be changed Into an abso lute embargo on many commodities unless conditions improved shortly. Railroad superintendents, train masters, road foremen and general agents today were holding down Jobs left by many thousand railway shop men, enabling moving of foodstuffs and perishable freight and a curtailed passenger service. Tfils was the situation reported by R. H. Aishton, regional director of railroads. wHo, while reporting "no distress yet," admitted there will be a compete tieup if the shopmen do not return to work at once. Twenty passenger trains were dis continued on the Chicago North western railroad today on the Mil waukee and Wisconsin state divisions. Wichita Shopmen Out. Wichita, Aug. 8. Several hundred shopmen employed by three of the six railroad systems operating thru here Jiave struck. The three affected are the Missouri Pacific, Frisco and Rock Island. It is likely that the Santa Fe Orient and the Midland Valley men. No violence has been reported here and it is also said no local wage de mand has been made, the men strik ing in sympathy and becoming dis satisfied with progress made by the railroad administration regarding set tlement of the wage controversy in Washington. First Break In Strike. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 8. The first break in the strike of railroad shop men in the southea;t came late Thurs day when 1,500 employes of the Nor folk Western railrtad shops at Roanoke, Va., voted to return to work today and await results of the vote on a general strike order. In the meantime railroads generally in the southeast were working under a sus pension of freight traffic, except in perishable goods and foodstuffs fer human consumption. 700 Out at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Aug. 8. The men in the Kansas City Southern shops here walked out Thursday at 10 o'clock, following the strike action taken by the six crafts in secret ballot. The men are creating no disturbance. The action Is termed a protest against the cost of -living rather than a strike. Approximately 700 men are affected in the local shops. 7,000 Miners Forced to Quit. Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. S. Seven thousand miners were Idle in this dis trict today as a result of the shop men's strike on the C. and E. I. -railroad. The Pennsylvania railroad is endeavoring to maintain its service to the mines. Practically, all the mines located along the C. and E. I. lines had suspended operation. Hold I'p Ore Shipments. Iuluth. Minn.. Aug. 8. Ore, coal, and wood products movement was held up here today because of the strike of railroad shopmen thruout the west. R glonal Railroad Director E. D. Brigham notified all shippers freight of all classes would be ac cepted only subject to delay. Ore trains stopped Thursday noon. Coal docks were idle today. Lumber and wood pulp' shipments were halted. Practically the only freight moving from the head of the lakes by rail is perishable goods. Stop Suburban Trains. Boston, Aug. 8. Annulment of sub urban passenger service on the Bos ton and Maine and the New York, New Haven and Hartford lines on account of shopmen's strike inter rupted rapid transit between flf;y cities and towns and this city today. The Boston and Albany railroad started its suburban business as usual but officl-.ls said it might have to be curtailed later. Threatens Boston Milk Supply. Boston, Aug. 8. Orders Instituting an immediate freight embargo on the New Haven railroad were received here today, according to officials. Such an embargo threatens the milk and ice supply of Greater Boston, which reach the city almost entirely by rail. Kmbargo On All Freight. New York, Aug. 8. An embargo of all freight on the N. Y. N. H. H. and the Central New England railroads was announced this morning, because of the ttrike of shopmen. me7bom shops (Continued from Page One-) should not ao it. We are trying to straignten tnings out now. Plants laid off today In an effort to bring about an understanding. He in timated that it was the Santa Fe men whom the drivers feared and added that the cereal workers' pickets would cause no trouble. There were 250 Santa Fe men gathered around the Topeka mill at noon today, but there was no disturbance, he said. Lew Shannon and Arthur Muslck, who had been employed by the Topeka Transfer company for years, resigned Thursday afternoon rather than haul flour from the Topeka mill. "Our contract with these men," said O. H. White, of the Topeka Transfer company, "requires that they do this work. We -told them they would either have to do it or quit." Try to Settle Matter. This morning J. H. Gayhart, of the Merchants' Transfer company, sent two men in a truck to the Topeka mill for a load of flour. Arriving at the mill, and being threatened by the pick ets, it was said, the men returned without the flour. This morning Floyd White, a truck driver for the Topeka company, said rock was thrown at him when he went to the Topeka mill for a load of flour for a local bakery. The po lice we're called and picked up one of the pickets, but Clyde Tresner, chief of detectives, stated that there was no charge against the man, that no complaint had been made and that they were merely holding him tempo rarily pending further developments. After Floyd White had obtained his load of flour he went to the transfer company's office where he asked for another helper to assist him in put ting the flour In the bakery. At that moment a wagon drove up for orders. "You gd with Floyd here and help him." O. H. White told the helper on the new wagon. Man Refused to Go. "Nothing doing." replied the helper. "I wouldn't go out there with that flour. I'm out on one strike now." He had been a mill employe and had gone to work for the transfer com pany pending settlement of thi cereal workers' strike. Earl Tucker, another truSk driver for the Topeka Transfer company, and a union man. said several rocks were thrown at him and his helper Thurs day when he went to the Topeka mill for flour. The picket, threatened violence, he says. "Tlrere has been no order issued to us to quit hauling flour," said one of the -union drivers, "but It's a danger ous proposition. You wouldn't want to go down there either If you knew you were going to be bombarded with rocks." Transfer company officials argue with the drivers that they are working for the transfer company and hauling flour to the bakeries, where the men are all unionized, but this does not seem to ease the worry of the men over rocks. The drivers who are bold enough to penetrate the picket lines are escorted thru by deputized guards. PAYS IT CHEERFULLY Chicago Digs Into Pockets for Two More Pennies Car Fare. Chicago, Aug. 8. While city attor neys prepared to file suits against the surface lines for annulment of contract under which they agreed in 1907 to charge only a 5-cent fare, the street cars and elevated lines charged 2 cents more today than they did yesterday, 7 cents on the surface lines and 8 on the elevated. The public took the Increased fares good naturedly. TODAY'S MARKETrEPORTS Chicago. Aug. 8. CORN Sharp curtail ment In tho volume of trailing was the most evident feature of toiiny's session of 'chiiii (re here. So aoch uncertainty existed as to Industrial and economic possibilities that a decided Inclination was manifested to keep dealings on a minimum basis and to reduce outstanding risks. In the con sequent absence of demand, values of corn tended to sag except that there was a tern porary bulge la the September option ow ing to .inxlety of shorts who wished to settle forthwith. Opening prices which ranged from the snme as yesterday's finish to l-V- lower with September to $l.wv4 aud December $1.49 to $l.fi0 wen followed by continued weakness In the new crop deliveries and by the virtual wiping; ont of transient gains In September. Later the price of September delirery hulged again as a result of renewed cover ing by shorts and there were sympathetic rallies also In other months. The govern ment crop report this afternoon was ex pected to prove bullish. Quotations closed nervous, ic to 4r net higher wlfh Septem ber $1.8R4 to $1.90 and December $1.00 to 1.51. OATS Oats reflected the conditio" In the corn market. After opening c off to c advance. Including September at 72c to T21&C, the market hardened a little, but then underwent a moderate decline. ritO VISIONS Dealings In provisions were almost nt a standstill. Quotations were nominally lower owing to absence of support. rover! hit by shorts helped later to make values recorer. Chicago Urals, and P roils! on Market. (The range of prices on grain futures oh Chicago Hoard of Trade reported by Thoa. J. Myers. 303 N. K. Dldg.I Chicago, Aug. 8. CI o lie Open High Low Today Tea. CO 11 If Sept. ..im 190 18.V.V lec. 74 76 May ..147 148 144 OATS Sept. 72U 74 tl Dec. 74( 74 744 May ..77 70 79 1894 74 74 40.00 m ifi.no 41.00 a .at J1.10 n mux Sept .45.50 40.00 44.95 JCt LAUD Sept. ..31.00 Si. 92 30.70 Oct. .30.70 31.12 30.00 IM US- Rl.1.1 .11.00 Sept. ..23.75 2.00 25.05 25.90 2.05 Kaim City (irala Markrt. (The rang of prices on grain fdturei on Kanaaa city Hoard of Trsila as reported by Tho. J. Myers. 301 N". E. Bids.) Kanaae City. An. S. Open High Low Today Yea. CORK Sept ..VA'-i 11 VI 19Hi 180 lK!i Dee. ..150 151V, HTH 1504 14 May .no'- l-io 14 ltt OAT8- Kept Dec. 7.1 May TCtt 7 10M T4Vi T7 73H Kanaas City Grain nnfl Produce Market. Kansas City, An. R. WHEAT Cash MarkPt steady to 3c higher. 'o. 1 hard. 2.1Sl(,(ff2.20; Nn. 2. 172.22; No. 1 red, SU; No. 2. 2.152.1. COHN Market nnrlinnped to 2c hlR-lier. No. 2 mixed. $1.(121.05: No. 3, tl.K1.89; No. 2 white. M2MmiM; No. .'t. fl.Kifel.OI; No. 2 yellow. $1.9.-.; No. 3, $1.0101.03. OATS Market unchanged. No. 2 white, 73i.i74c: No. 2 mixed, 7047 71c No. 2 red, 70i...ii71i4c. RVB $1.51. KAFIR AND MII.O MAIZE $3.45S3.0. SHOUTS $2.75fff'.'.M. Hit AN $l.(KXj 2.00. WHEAT Receipts 370 cars. HI TTER Market unehani-ed. EOOS Firsts. 45c: seconds, .TUc. I'OI'LTRY Market unchanged. CORN Close: September, $l.sfl Decem ber, $1.50 May, $1.474. Chicago (irala and PrevUion Market. Chlcasrn. Aug. K. CORN Cloae: Septem ber. fl.K-Vjl.B0; December, fl.5O!fc01.51U May. $1.4747 1.4S. OATS September, 74c; December, 7014c Mav. 70i,c. PYlHK September. $41.00. LARD September. $2S.37 Octobcr4.11.15; January. $31.0('. SIIORT RIBS September, $25.90. Chicago Produce Market. Chicago, Aug. 8. BUTTER Market firm. Creainerv. 4i.V:i,. E558 Market unsettled. Firsts, 42j4.1c; ordinary flrsta. 3SVjo. rOCtTRY Market higher. Springs, .13 Me; fowls. S3. POTATOES Market strong. Kanaas and Missouri Early ohlns. sacked, car lots. S4.75(?7 4.R5 cart.: Minnesota Early Ohio, bulk, partly graded. $4.K5tt 5.00 cwt. Irish Cobblers, bulk, New Jersey No. 1, $5.50. New York Produce Market. New York. Aug. S. HCTTER Market steady. Creamery higher than extras, 5642 55,,ie. EUOS Market Irregular. Fresh gathered extras. 54086c, cnF.ESI' Market dan. State whole milk, flats, current make spoclnla, ttHsattate. Morning tleala tios.lp. (Fnrnlshed by the Topeka Board of Trnde. i Chicago. Ang. X. The Tribune: ORAIN The railroads are being daily crippled by .the strike of shopmen which la steadily re. duciiig the available supply of motive pow er. This combined with the other unset tling factors which rapidly are multiplying are too many conditions against traders and a comprehensive opinion as to what the grain and provision markets are likely to do is Impossible aa coitnervfltlve opera tors see it. Wild fluctuations are to be expected as every Idle minor has more or less effeet refcardleas of Its jarobabllltv. Heavy and persistent buying of September oats by houses with eastern connections .ipparently seeking protection against sah-M to exporters with the prospect of a railroad strike preventing them from securing the grain gave that delivery a strong undertone thruout the day. The government rep.,rt due today at 1:15 p. ra. is expected to be bnlllHh on small grains. Estimates on corn are 2.H0O.000,000 to 2.(IO.Ofio,0(ia Conditions last month was SC..7 or above the avenge. Last year 2.5eVI,000.000. laBt month 2,lr.. otm.Onn. Estimates on wheat are from 075! 000.000 to one million. Oats 1.200.000.000 to 1.403.000.000. Reduced estimates are ex pected on rye and barley. Those who keeo elose tab oh Washington news exneet th.t j President Wilson In his seeeli before con. I gresa at 4 this afternoon will ask for power id cuirvi iiwu auppiif s. New Task Money Market. New York. Aug. 8. MONEY Mercantile pane r. .-'i,7. per cent. Sterling. 80 dar bills, i.'ls; commercial. SO day bills on banks. 4.27U; commercial, 00 dayabllls 4 27 -demand. 4.31: enbles. 4.52. Francs, demand! 7.75: cables. 7 Marks, demand. 6: ca bles. OoTernroent bonds, heavy: railroad bonds, weak. Time loans, easier; 00 dars. 90 days and months. S bid. Call money, ensr: high. low. ruling rate, closing bid. offered at and last loan, all S. Bank acceptances, 5. Nw Task Cotton Market. Neve York. Aog. 8. COTTON Spot, steady; middling. .12.15. New York Liberty Ron Market. New Y'ork. Aog. 8. Liberty bond prices at ll .no a. m lUi's. 00.74: first 4's. 04.10: second 4's. Sn.1: flrsi 4', 04.20: sec a 1 4H's. 0S.2fi: third M'm. 04.94; fourth IV'i, On.TS; Victory SVs, 0.S; Victory 4Vs. Mew York Ktoefe Market. Wall St.. New Yor. Aug. S. STOCKS About half a million shares changed hands In the first hoar, tho result, as indicated by the tape, showing an increase of pur chases over sales. Trading slackened later when gains among leaders, uotablv I'nited States Steeel. were materially reduced and rubber reacted 8 points. Equipments were extremely uncertain. American car rising tH points while Baldwin reacted. Ship ping also lost ground and rails were under further pressure. Selllug In heavy volume was resumed at noon with low records for important stocks. Call money opened at to per cent. The midday reversal wss succeeded by ir regular recoveries, new buying evident tv being induced by free offerings of call money. 1'nlted State Steel and kindred Industrials, equipments, shippings and ct'o rallied 2 to 7 points with Mexican petrol eum the strongest feature. Many recoveries from yesterday's extreme depression accompanied the Initial dealings on the stock exchange today. Tnlted Slate rubber, yesterday most erratic feature, led the rally, advancing t, points In the first rifteen minutes as a result of Its having been placed on an H oer cent divi- i dead basis. Centra! leather, Bethlehem, i rurioie ana i r-. nieeii, iiamwu. i,oc motive and Atlantic Gulf comprised the other strong stocks. Ralls were reaction ary, however, and American tobacco loat 7 points. (hle.se Live stock Market. Chicago. Ang. a HOG8 Receipts 8,000. Very few hogs sold or bids made; the scattered sales that did take place were nt steady to unevenly lower prices. Top, $22.50;. no detailed quotations were obtain able. CATTLE Receipts 5.000. Market alow, steady to unevenly lower. Top, JlvT.V local killers doirg very llitle; no quota tions. SHEEP Receipt a 12.000. Practically no trading: city bntchera paid $ltV50'fon hol, sorted lambs. No westerns sold; no quota UoRa made. Kansas City Lire Stock Market. Kansas City, Ang. 8. HO(18 Receipts 1.800. Market steady: closed sharply low er. Bulk of aales. $21. 00121. 00: heavy. $21.7.-122.00; medium: $21.50f 22 00; lights. $21.0Cef 22.00; sows, $19.50tJ 20.50; pigs. $111.0041 2U.0O. CATTLE Receipts 2.700. Market steady to 25c higher. Heavy steers, choice. $17.40 sriaOO; medium. $14,234) 17.35 common, $12.(agl4.1.-.: lights, good. $14.(KXa 17.00 common. K.50i 14.70 butcher heifers. $n.T5 14.B0 Cows. $fi,50fti 12.(15: fanners. $5.50li( B.40: real calves. $13.300 15.00; feeders, $0.50 13.25: Mockers. $6.50011.00. SHEEP Receipts 3,000. Market steady. Lambs, $12,000.10.00; culls. tUtOlt-Tif; Four Big Boilers Four new 450-horsepower boiler were installed at the Hominy Creek ga compressing station in Osage County, Ok., when the engines for the plant were moved there two Tears ago from the de- fileted Hogshooter field. The tall stacks of the boiler house are andmarks. The picture doe not show the main station building the engine house which stands nearby KANSAS NATURAL GAS COMPANY. STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourself Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock1 Yards. Kan. City We Also Hare Our Own Offices al Clilc:iro. So. St. Joseph, So. Onwlia, Denver, tilotu City, So. St. Paul. E. Uuffalo. E. St. lentils. Fort Worth unci El Paso. Song Hit of the Day Sonn Orchrstrntlon 32C CINDA LOU 32c Postpaid Postpaid Up-to-Date Standard Numbers 9c l.itra by Love Blossoms, by Dennl, SOe. Tell Me, by Kortlander. ,10c The Vamp, by (lay, 30c. Oolden (late, by Brock man 90c. Dear Old Pal of Mine. 40c. Western Land. .Tor. Iluddha, by Pollack, 30c. Almond Kyes, by F.nlman. Mv Bsbby's Arms (Zleg feld Follies 1101 :tr-. Shlmmle Town (Zlegleld Follies 10101. XV. Tulip Time c.lcgfeld Fol lies 1911, 3Bc. When You Look In the Heart of a Itose, Sdc. Popular Hits 10c And That Ain't All. Ballyho Bay Chong Cry Baby Cootie Tickle Alcoholic nines I'm Waiting for Yon Lisa Jane I'll be Happy When the Treacher Makes You Mine Jenny's In Town Jatr. Baby Mammy o Mine Eyes That Say I Lore Y'on Have a Smile Late Attractions in Player After Yoo've Oone. "So. Broken lllossoms. $1.00. Alcoholic Bines. l.oo. Ited Lantern. 00c. Chinese Lullaby. 90c. Lore lllossoms. WW-, mil Onl Marie, 90c. i bong. 00c. Jnst Yon. SOe. Jenny's In Town. $1.00. War Tas r. Call or Write yearling wethers, $0.00011.75: ewes. $5.2."' 9.25; ewes, culls. $3.000 5.00: breeding ewes, $0.50015.00; feeder lambs. $12.75014.50. Kansas City Utt Stack Sales. The following sales were made tilts morn lug at the Stock Yards, Kansas City, anl reported over long distance telephone di rect to the State Journal by Clay Robin son Co., live stock commission merchants. Kansas City, Ang. 8 CATTLE Receipt 2.200. Market steady to 15c hlaber. HllCS -l....l.,r. 1 BOO Aiarari auto steady to atri.ng. Hulk of sales, 21.SU top, $22.00. SHEKl'-Receipts 2.000 head, steady. KILLING STEERS. No. wt. Priest No, wt. 17. ,...1500 $18.90 J2 1127 S 1242 1H.70 42 1003 31 1100 10.35 Market Prle. 15.15 17.50 COWS AND 1120 11.50 7.50 4 070 10.ISI 9.00 10.50 0.00 CALVES. 310 8.00 x 1T0 100 14.50 I HOliS tt. H. 212 220 21.50 I 80. 21.85 72. 107 lfll 21.(10 20.75 Topeka Market Itenort. Topeka, Kan., MIXED AND BUTCHERS. LKJHT "'.I PUIS ROUGH Topeka Poultry and Kan (Furnished by the lopekn Peking Cos- Topeka, Kan.. Ang. 8. Springs over 2 lbs., 28c; old roosters. 13c i broilers. 2 lbs. and under, SOe kens over 3i4 lbs.. 20c; hens under 314 lbs., 2fe! stags, 14c Poultry and Kgs. (Furnished by Witchey Poultry A tj., Co.V 51T Qulncy StJ Topeka. .van.. Aug. 8. ve are paying delivered Hens. 2c: roosters. 18c; broilers, 30c springs 28e j Looso eggs, 38c uew cases. $11.75 Topeka t.ealn Market. (Furnished by Darby Grain Co. cornet Kansas Are anc Curtis Kt.) Topeka, Kan., Aug. 8. YELLOW CORN $1.00. WHITE CORN $1.1)0. OATS 80c. at Hominy Station Mull Postpaid. Lonesome. That's All afle. Lnllaby-lly lucs 0r. That Xaoghty Walts. Mc. Italnr Iar Bines. Me. Waiting, from Listen Les ter, me. Sand Pnncs. by (lav. 30c, Out In the Fields, by Bond. 30c. Each, 12c by Mail Mickey I Know What It Mesne 10 be Lonesome Tears Till We Meet Agsln Wslt and See. Host Yog lienor Keep 'Km Down on the Farm? Mummy Mluo Rolls Nlfbt Time hj Little IH'T- Iteroitttlonary Keg. Ererybodr's crssr Ah"j" the lioggone Bines, ".e- 833 Kansas Ave. Topeka, Kan. Phone 1448 flElFKRS I 7 800 1 1000 I o m;" An. 8. .$18.30021.33 M.Sthfi 21.23 18.30021 20 atjMsU Iff rs
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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1919 3 BIG REMODELING SALE IN FULL BLAST! Hundreds of our customers have made big savings hy taking advantage of this remodeling sale. They have been surprised at the wonderful bargains we are offering in every Department. We have everything for the home, so if you want one piece or a complete outfit, you can save money by buying now. Beautiful 3-Piece Parlor Suit Only $149.75 Here is a beautiful Parlor Suit in Solid Mahogany, up holstered in the very best grade of French Velour. This Suit is priced at almost M its actual value. We have the finnest line of Parlor and Living Room Furniture to be found anywhere and at a price so low it will surprise you. Electric Reading Lamps $6.95 Just received a beautiful line of Electric Reading Lamps with beautiful art glass shades Saturday Special $6.95 Electric Irons $4.50, Up We have several kinds to select from, all of them are Standard made. Liberty Bonds Accepted on Merchandise THE EMAHIZER-SPIEL MAN FURNITURE CO. 517-519 Kansas Avenue "HmBw We ire pleased to notify tourists and uw litis of summer cottages in North ern Michigan that we have taken over the properties of the Northern Micl.igan Line, including docks and the Steel Steamships "Manitou" and "Missouri." These two palatial steamships and the popular steamship "Kan: as" will be in constant service during this season supplying frequent and a". tractive service between Chicago and Northern Michigan points. Special accommodation for automobiles on "Missouri" and "Kansas." The Palatial Steel S.S."iVBANBTOU" TRI-WEEKLY Sailings Eetweon Chicago and Charlevoix, Peloskey, (Bay View), Harbor Spgs. Mackinac laid. f3ndays 11:30 a. m.; Wednesday 2 p.m Fridays 1:3ft p.m. First trip Friday, June 27tb Regc ;ular Summer Schedule Durin teason leaves Chicago Monday at 7 P. M. tor Ludington. Manistee, Onckama, Portag Park, Frankfort. Glen Haven, Northpo.-t. Omena, Old Mission. Sutton Bay and Traverse City. Leavaa Chicago Thursday and Saturday at 7 P. M-, for Lodington, Manitee, One ktr.lt. Portage Park and Frankfort. Call or Wrhrn For Folder IVIichigan C. COWLEY. C.n'l Tr.ff ic Mr. MUWICIFAL rtmn City T.al f Electric Washing Machines that will' not tear or wear yorr garments; and the cost of operation is very small we also have a very complete line of hand power washers. Terms to Suit Suit Cases $1.75 One line of Suit Cases for $1.75. 10 fr Discount on all other Suit Cases, Traveling Bags and Trunks. Regular Summer Schodulo During season leave Chicago every Wednesday at 7 P. M. for Frankfort. Glen Haven, North port, Omena. Old Mission, Sutton Bay, Traverse City, Charlevoix, Borne City, East Jordan, Petoskey. Bay View. Harbor Spring. St. Ignace, Macki- inac Island and Sault Ste. Marie. Full Information Transit Co. B. J. KENNEDY. Gin. hw. Aji. OtTloa. tOT W. Jarfcaaw Blvd.. CMaaao. Y HADJIG YEAR Annual Report Shows Topeka Association Work. Average Daily Attendance at Building Is 1,000. 27,000 SLEEPERS CARED FOR $54,965.18 Taken In by All the Departments. Complimentary Memberships Issued to 642 Ex-Serrice Men. The annual report of the Central T. i i M. C. A. indicates a very satisfactory condition in the association. The report shows that there Is an average daily attendance at the build- I Ing of 1.000 persons. The beds in the I dormitory have been used by 27,000 j sleepers. The association directed I 1.178 persons to boarding: houses, j Letters written by members and I friends number 3.78". In the cafeteria J 9.500 meals have been served. ine financial report shows receipts I from memberships, dormitory, lockers, j special' athletics and miscellaneous, amounting to a grand total of $64,- 965.18. Total disbursements for (ten- eral expenses, general administration. I physical department, boys' depart- meat, building and dormitory come to the grand total of $54,503.43. Big Service Flag. The service flag of the association contained 593 stars and six gold stars. There are 81 monthly gymnasium classes. The total enrollment in the I physical department is 809, in the I classes it is 4 88. The total attendance jat all regular gymnasium classes num j bered 8.150 persons. Forty-seven j persons were taught to swim. Re'.i- eimi meetings heM in tk. imllHinc numbered 21, with an attendance of 937. The cash report shows net liabili ties amounting to $2,349.23. The state ment of the debt and improvement fund amounts to a grand total of $31,507.99. Complimentary membership tickets have been issued to 64 2 ex-soldters or sailors. FOOD FOR THE FANS Topeka Will Have String of Wock-Knd Baseball Games. For the next three weeks Topeka j has almost a full baseball program, in I so far as week-end games can be said to give the fans a full program. Saturday afternoon the Santa Fe team will play the fast team from Oak land at I-eagiie park. Sunday after noon a crack soldier squad will be here for a contest. It Is said that the sol dier team from Funston has cleaned up everything at the big army canton ment. Both games will start at 3:30 o'clock. Sunday. August 17. the local Santa Fe team will play a Santa Fe team from Kansas City at Topeka. And a week from that date the Mayetta In dians will play here. August 30 the fast navy team coming to Topeka as a part of the big central department re cruiting party will play the Santa Fe men at League park. Besides these games, which are paid admission contests. Manager Stack of the Santa Fe team has announced a blanket challenge to all local teams for evening games. These games would be in the nature of practice contests and no admission will be charged. SEARCH FOR FORTUNE Estate of Nearly Quarter Million Dis appeared at Woman's Death. Chicago, Aug. 8. Relatives of Mrs. M. Hayward today tried to learn what became of nearly a quarter of a mil lion dollars, part of Mrs. Hayward's estate, which disappered after her death. William E. Hayward, the husband, died five years ago in Brookline, Mass., leaving an estate of a million dollars, of which his wife inherited one third. She converted her share into cash three years ago and moved to Chicago. When she died a few weeks ago she had not enough left to pay her funeral expenses and relatives came here seeking an accounting of her ejtate. Her life was devoted to music, religion and her friends, relatives said, and at times she hinted of secret enemies who were causing her trouble. Two sisters residing in Brooklyn, and Philadelphia, and other relatives of Pana, 111., are conducting the seach. givenaofficial 0. K. Dr. Lull's Sanitary Detachment Ap proved at Inspection. The sanitary detachment organized in Topeka to become a part of the new Kansas National Guard will soon be accented for service. Col. Fred V. Chambers of the Missouri National Guard sent here to inspect the new organisation in behalf of the war de partmont had recommended accep tance and the unit will probably be sworn in before the date of the an nual encampment of the national guard at Fort Riley. The sanitary detachment was re cruited and organized by Maj. Claude C- Lull, formerly of the Thirty-fiftn division. 1 esinoi will soothe that itching skin The first application cf Resinol usually takes the itch and bum right out of ec zema and similar skin-affections. This gentle, healing ointment seems to get rijht t the root of the trouble, restoring the skin to health in a surprisingly short time. Resinol is sold by all druggists. 6 OPI I CTICD'G Lunch and Dine In the I ORDER BY MAIL Saturday business hours, ORDER BY 1'HpXE Satisfaction or your PF I FTTFR'C: r tLLt 1 ILK O Tea Room 5th Floor Delivery Prepaid 8:30 a, m. to 9 p. m. Call 3500 j money back riL.L-.l-C 1 1E.IX J All Summer Suits and The time for decisive action, the time for drastic reductions has come; Fall Suits and Dresses are arriving in quantities every day, now; the last Summer Suits and Coats must get out and so we've arranged for Saturday a quick, sharp clean-up sale in which every Summer Suit and every Summer Coat is included the great majority of them on sale in 3 $9.95 for choice of anv silk or cloth Suit or Coat originally priced up to $1.7S And all the high class, exclusive style silk and cloth Suits and Coats originally priced $49.75, $59.50, $65.00 and up to $75.00 on sale Saturday in e A rr 1 d0 0 two lots 24.75 and $33 $1.79 to $2.25 Wash Skirts $1.59 A fine big lot of Wash Skirts; dozens of different styles of snow-white reps, piques and gabardines, khaki, shepherd checks and gray mixtures Wash Skirts originally prjeed $1.79, $1.98 and 1 f"Q $2.25 in the big clean-up sale Saturday l.Dif The The Children's story hour 3 to 4, Saturday Mrs. June Chapman will tell Doll Stories and Little Mi's Adelle Fos ter will dance. All little girls and boys are re quested to bring their dolls. Anrt those who have "Airplane Babies" (the dolls dropped by the Airplane "Topeka" as it flew over the city a week ago Wednesday evening) are especially requested to bring them. The Balloons came Monday, so there will be plenty for all. The story telling commences promptly at 3 o'clock Saturday af ternoon. Little girls and boys of up to eight and ten years are most cordially invited. 2nd Floor Pelletler's 39c boxes of Stationery 29c A very good quality of fabric fin ished Correspondence Paper in white and dainty tints, complete with Envelopes to match regular 89c boxes of Stationery on OQ special sale Saturday LtnJC Main Floor Pelletler'a Standard toilet goods at special prices 25c Woodbury's Face Powder.. 19c 35c Roger Gallet package Rice Powder.' 25c 60c Dry Derma Viva Face Powder 29o 50c Mazola Face Powder 39c 25c Creme de Meridor 19c 25c Bonita Cleansing Cream... 19c 50c Pond's Cold or Vanishing Cream aor $1.00 Bonita Toilet Water 79c 25c Woodbury's Facial Soap... 20c 10c Jergen's Violet Glycerine S cakes 25c 50c "Everyweek" Shampoo 39c M.in Floor Pelletler's $5.00 silk Waists for $2.98 $6.00 silk Waists $3.98 In the first lot are Waists of black silk messaline and striped and plaid taffetas, made up in newest styles sizes 36 to 44 regular $5.00 Waists on special sale in y the Basement Saturday The second lot consists of silk Georgette Waists in white, flesh, corn and coral; the fronts beautifully embroidered in contrasting color silk; all sizes from 36 to 44 regular $6.00 Waists on sale in the Basement J Q O Saturday OaD WASH SKIRTS of snow-white gab ardines; six different styles to se lect from regular $5.00 wash Skirts on special sale In 9 f the Basement Saturday m9J ALL WOOL SWEATERS for wom en and misses; most all sizes in light blue and light green the last of a lot of regular $6.00 Sweaters priced to close Saturday 2.98 Pollftir' Bargain B.w.m.nt- Girls $2 Dresses $139 Dresses for girls of 7 to 14 years; of superior quality fast color ging hams in an excellent variety of patterns and colorings girls' regu lar $2.00 gingham Dresses on sale in the Basement afl JCk Saturday JL 69c Turkish Towels 50c 20x42-inch, good, heavy weight Turkish Bath Towels regular 69c ones on sale in the CSnrtsr Basement Satur Jay 9wv big lots $14.95 $19.75 for choice of any silk or cloth Suit or Coat originally priced up to $26.75. $1.98 to $1.59 A very select lot of Summer style Waists of Jap silks, crepe de chines and fine voiles and organdies in white and colors regular $1.98, $2.98 and $$.98 silk and cotton Waists in the clean-up sale 1 CQ Saturday 1 ,37 Apparel Section Srd FIolos r.lletler's Boys' 65c and 69c Blouses 48c Boys' Blouses and Shirts of plain blue and plain white ma terials; the neck band and the col lar atta'ched styles, In sizes 6 to 14 years regular boys' 65c and S9c Blouses and Shirts, on AQn sale Saturday frOC Straw Hate 2 lots All the $2.00, $2.60. $2.75 and $2.95 Straw Hats for boys will be on sale Saturday J All the boys' $3.50, $3.95. $4.75 and $5.00 Straw Hats will be on special sale Saturday 48 Boys' Straw Hats; all sizes and shapes in white, black, brown and navy all on sale Saturdaj in two big lots as above. $3.89 Wash Suits -$1.59 Little boys' 1 and 2-plece Wash Suits of plain color and striped poplins, galateas and crepes little boys' up to $3.89 Wash Suits on special sale Satur- "I CQ day L.DJ $2.25 Play Suite $1.59 Little boys' 1 -piece play Suits or Cover-alls of light weight denim and khaki; sizes 2 to 5 years reg ular $2.25 and $2.50 ones 1 r"A on sale Saturday J.D tad Floor Pelletl.r'. Save on Housewares Saturday $5.00 Tea Cups and Saucers In a neat pink design on special sale Saturday per set AA of 6 for $&.UU 3.B Water Coolers; the 2-gal. size with galvanized lining. -8,2. 79 94.79 Water Coolers; the 4-gal. size with galvanized lining. $3.98 $2.75 aluminum Rice Boilers; the 2-Qt. size $1.98 $1.25 A nrt rock Ovens 75C S9c 10-qt. galvanized Pails... 43 p 9c 14-qt. galvanized Palls. .47 $1.89 Bamboo Splint Clothes Hampers $1.49 4th Floor Pelletler's ATHLETIC UNION SUITS for women and misses; made just the same as the men's and delightfully cool and comfortable; all sires 34 to 44 women's regular $1.25 ath letic Union Suits in the f AA Basement Saturday. X mJJ SILK BOOT HOSE in black, white and two shades of gray and brown slight "seconds" of regular $1.50 silk boot Hose on sale in fttCks? the Basement Saturday. Ovv -A r.rf t store Within store Boys' $1.00 Pants 79c Pants for boys of 6 to 16 years; of fast color khaki, well made and serviceable boys' regular $1.00 Pants on sale in the Basement Saturday. 79c $1.25 Work Shirts $1 Men's absolutely fast color blue work Shirts in sizes 14 H to 17; full cut and well made regular $1.25 ones on sale in the Basement Saturday. 1.00 rILLETIIB'S Coats in a for choice of any silk or cloth Suit or Coat originally priced up to J3S.75. $3.98 Waists Kimonos just here from Japan and what a comfort and conven ience a cool cotton kimono is these hot days. Kimonos of the finest of Japan est cotton crepe; plain blue, rose and lavender, hand embroidered in white and colors; and of figured crepes with dainty Japanese floral designs in all colors and combina tions $4.50 to $8.50. rod Floor Pelletl.r'. Saturday evening in the Tea Room Service 5:80 to 8:00 Dinner--$1.00 Olives Pickles Roast Pork with Apple Jelly Mashed Potatoes Corn Saute Tea Room Biscuits Fruit Salad Wafers Ice Cream with Swiss Cake Iced Tea Dinner--$ 1 .50 Fruit Cocktail Olives Pickles Fried Chicken Parsley Potatoes Fried Egg Plant Tea Room Biscuits with Jam Vegetable Salad Green Apple Pie a la mode Iced Tea Coffee Service a la carte order anything you wish, from n sandwich to a full dinner. Opperman's Orchestra 6:00 to 8:00 Phone 3500 for table reservation! Tea Room 5th Floor Pelletler's All bathing Suits Yz price Men's Women's Children's Don't wait any longer prices will not be lower. Every Bathing Suit in the Base ment is Included. Women's knit Bathing Suits in the most attractive colors and com binations all on sale Saturday at just Vz price Men's cotton, wool-and-cotton and all-wool Bathing Suits in all colors from black to the loudest greens and reds all on sale Satur day at just Vz price Girls' and boys' cotton and wool- ton and wool iuits; all sizes combinations Vz price and-cotton Bathing Suits; all sixes and all colors and combinations and all on sale Sat- 1 1 uraay at jusi. PHletier's Bargain Baaement Boys' Overalls Bib Overalls for little boys of I to 9 years; of good weight fast col or blue material little boys' regu lar $1.60 Overalls on sale In the Basement sj JC5 Saturday A i&w Overalls for boys of 10 to 16 years; the bib style of good weight, fast color blue material boys' regular $1.76 Overalls on sale in the Basement 4 f Saturday A 3 7 School Suits Excellent quality worsted Suits for boys of 8 to 16 years; in an excellent variety of dark color mix tures ideal for school wear boys' regular $10.00 Suits on sale in the Basement C Saturday O. 3 BAKGAI-N BASEMENT A GREAT BTO, quick, sharp clean-up Women's athletic union suits for 79c! and that's moat decidedly less than Topeka has ever known before. Women's "E M C" athletic style Union Suits of plain or checked batiste; cool, comfortable and serv iceable; sizes 86, 38 and 40: women's up to $1.98 athletic Union Suits on sale Saturday, 7Qr while they last I UC 2nd Floor Pelletl.r'. The Annual Sale of Sample Blankets commencing next Monday offering hundreds and hundreds of pairs of Blankets of ail kinds from the softest of fleecy, downy little Blankets for babies' cribs up to the heaviest, warmest of all-wool Blankets for sleeping porches all of them on sale Monday at an average of V& less than today's regular prices. Saturday will be "Courtesy Day" By "Courtesy Day" we mean a day before the sale in which those who desire can come down and Inspect the blankets that are to be on sale. The sale commences Monday, August 11th, and Saturday will be "Courtesy Day." Bright and early Saturday morning all the Sample Blankets, with the ex ception of the ones in the win dows, will be arranged in groups on the aisle tables so they can be thoroughly inspected. Come and look them over, pick out the ones you want, if you wish to. We will put them to one side with your name on them, and make out the sales check and deliver them Monday. $4.50 white Shoes for $3.15 $5.00 white Women's lace style Shoes of white canvas with ivory soles and covered Louis heels; all sizes women's regular $4.50 white Shoes on sale in the Basement Saturday Women's and growing girls' lace Shoes of snow-white can vas with welt soles and low heels; all sizes; excellent for women and growing girls who want low heels regular $5.00 white Shoes on sale in the Basement Jk C Saturday GIRLS' MARY JANES of snow white canvas with leather soles and heels; sizes 8 to 2 girls' regular $2.60 Mary Jane Pumps on sale In the Basement Satur- 4 B day A iOO GIRLS' ANKLE STRAP PUMPS of brown calfskin; solid leather throughout; sizes m to 1$ girls' regular $3.50 ankle strap Pumps on sale In the Basement 2.45 Saturday Pelletler'a Bargain Baaement $2.00 Shirts $1.25 A sample line of men's fine dress Shirts of superior quality percales and madrases; sizes 14 to 1 6 a fine lot of up to $2.00 Shirts on sale In the Basement 4 JJ Saturday A jiO $4.00 Spreads $2.98 Full double-bod size white cro chet Spreads; plain ones and with cut corners and scalloped edes regular $4.00 Spreads on sale Saturday IS WITHIN A STORK 2.98 A new lot of popular price purses and handbag's Ready for your inspection Sal- k) urday will be a fine lot of new style leather Handbags and Purses; new shapes and effects in black and all colors $1.25 to $$.50. y Then there are better Bags of genuine pin seal. Morocco, goat seal and patent leather at $3.00 to $10.00. The new "Danse" Bag has a van ity case containing a cuticle knife -and glove hook and also has a card case; tan. navy blue, gray and brown $3.00. Then there will be a fine lot of genuine leather Handbags and flat Purses in black, navy blue, gray, tan and green, each one fitted with coin purse and mirror most ex ceptional values P I AA at. px.vv Main Floor Felletler'a Plenty of silk hosiery Thanks to foresight as to the kinds that would be most wanted and thanks to large orders placed early In the season, you'll find plenty of the most-ln-demand silk Hosiery here at Pelletler's. "Wayne Knit" full fashioned whit silk Hose $2.00 "Wavne Knit" full fashioned white 1 silk Hose, all silk or with lisle tops $2.50 and $2.75 gl Fnll fashioned black silk and fibre J Hose $1.35 J "Wayne Knit," seamless white silk Boot Hose. $1.00 Fibre silk Hose, fine and sheer; white, gray and brown $1.00 Silk malted white Boot Hose. 8c "Wavne Knit" full fashioned white silk lisle Hose, very soft and fine 85c, 95c, $1.25 M.ln Floor Pelletler's Shoes $3.45 3.15 ANKLE STRAP PUMPS of patent leather with round toes and low heels; sizes 4H to 5. only girls' regular $4.50 ankle strap Pumps on sale In the Basement 'J 4 Saturday O.Jt BOYS' OXFORDS of brown calf skin with RInex soles and rubber heels; sizes 1214 lo 5 boy rcg nlar $4.75 Oxfords on sale In the Basement Satur- J g A Great Store Within a star. Men's $1.50 Shirts $1 Men's dress Shirts of excellent quality striped percales In all sizes from 14 H to 17. At the present market value these Shirts would b. cheap at $1.60 and here they are on special sale In the 4 -ftsft Basement Saturday at. A i 75c Bath Towels 59c Extra heavy weight, rough fin ished, 18x36-lnch Bath Towels; one of the best and most serviceable on the market regular to ones on sale Saturday.
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THE TOPEKA DAILY STTE JOURNAL FT?TrAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1919 Ctrprka J&tntr Journal An Independent Newspaper BY FHANK P. MAC I.ENNAN VOU ME XLI No. lit Entered oi second claea matter. OFFICIAL TAPER C1TI OF TOPEKA. Subscription Kates. liv mill lu advaace, one year-... toy mall In advance, alz months.. By mall In advance, three montba By mall In adranca. on month. Ho 2.40 1.2 .50 aute by Carrier. On week 1H4 centa Two weeka for a quarter zS centa Four weeks SO centa Telephone 38.10. tol" I n tht they want the good, "rebuilding-. Chicago: Little Bids.. Boston Kardless of price. The annual furni BEffi, b",M'"'- D,r,,: tur. exhibition at Grand Rapid., at- .mbcT'prvr'Aaj" b" ""V"" from over the Newapaver Publtshara' Association, Audit I country, was closed several days ahead Uuresn of Circulation. j of th, jhedule. with the manufactur- mk.mbkk OF the askociatbd P1XBS ers .old out. Heavy premium, were Th. AiesoHiitcef l'n-ss Is exc UiiTelr en titled 1u the iae for republication of all news dlspntcbea credited to It or not other wise credited In this paper and alao the local news published herein. tomkk st a tic jnt'RNAL. I Each reader of The Stale Journal la offered t lie unlimited use of th largest In formation bureau in the world. This Service Korean la locted In the na tloiinl cnpltal, where It I In immediate touch with all the great reaources of the United states government. It can answer practically any question you want to ask, but It can't give ad vice, nor make exhaustive research. The war forced ao many changes In th dallv life of the American people that the services of this lnformstlon bureau vlll e tnvnlunble to all who us It. Keep lu touch with your government at all times. It can help you in a thousand wavs If vour- wanta are only made known. Th State Journal puys for this splendid games In order that every one of Its read ers may take free advantage of It. You are welcome to us It as often .as vou like. Write your request briefly, sign your name and address plainly, enclose a 2-cent stamp for return postace and addrese the TOPEKA STATE JOt'liNAL INFORMA TION in; HE At'. Frederic J. llaakln. Director. Washing ton. I. C. That there is a large amount of food held in storage In this country there can be no doubt. But If it were all thrown on the market It is Improb able that It would supply the needs of the country a week. Come lines would be eaten In a day. The government's move against the country's food pur veyors probably la intended to bring about legislation giving over the busi ness of the country still further to po litical control and to create Jobs for federal employes who no longer are needed In other lines of work. If the government, instead of extending its control over the business of the United Htutcs will relinquish what it already holds, prices soon will readjust them selves in the direction of a normal level. "Labor demands that America be come the home of Industrial freedom as It has become a land of political freedom," says Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomo tive Engineers. Kussia has "Industrial freedom." Let us hope that It Is' not this kind of "industrial freedom" that Mr. Stone wants. There re those who still Insist, after the hitter experience of the past two years, that the government can con duct the transportation business In an efficient manner a government which does not even have a budget system In the conduct of the business it already had before it took over that of private 2oncerns. If the government decide to go after the profiteers it should include the army of useless federal employes who are drawing salaries without perform ing any useful service. r It may be noted that Attorney Gen eral l'almer did not announce his crusade against food hoarders until after Secretary Baker, the greatest food hoarder in the country, had be gun to unload. Organized labor is demanding a larger share of the profits of industry. It probably will succeed in getting It But for every additional dollar it ex acts from capital, capita! will exact 12 from the general public, including the membership of organized labor. This fact has been illustrated In Topeka. Immediately following the organiza tion of a waiters' union and the con sequent Increase in wages, prices of meals at the eating houses advanced 50 per cent. One of the suggestions offered in Washington for reducing the cost of living is that a large amount of the paper currency in circulation be re tired. Nothing yet offered would be more effective in obtaining the de sired result, and nothing could act more effectively to put an end to the existing prosperity thruout the coun try. The proposed remedy Is all right but It would be to expensive. Stockyards employes In Chicago are demanding an Increase in wages, but Insist that the packers must not make a corresponding advance in prices of meat. The position taken by the stockyards men shows that they have clear understanding of economic conditions but of course their plea In the Interest of the public will be dls .regsrded if the wage demand be granted. The packers will not only raise prices so as to cover the In creased cost of labor but they will add little for good measure. The big packers have become the targets for attack of both the produc er of livestock and the consumers of meat. If the packers had not made a world market for American meat, does nybody think that the stockmen would be getting anywnere near tne prices they are getting today for their product? The consumer may have a case, but not the producer of the raw r-aterial. LIGHT ON A DARK PLACE. A certain amount of light la thrown upon the price situation thruout the country. In a circular issued by the American Exchange National bank of New York, dated August 1. It (hows, among other things, that If there be profiteering going on the profiteers are being greatly encouraged by the peo- pi themselves. The bulletin in part follows: "House furnishers and clothing manufacturers are unable to supply the demand that has developed from the general acceptance of the new j price level. The attitude of the lyiy paid for the 'samples' by buyers in urgent need of stocks, and orders were placed without regard to prices. "A aimllar condition la reported in th clothing and dry gooda trade Dry good, mercnants wno nave been charged with 'profiteering' disclaim responsibility on the ground that buy ers In their eagerness to get goods are bidding up the market. Retail cloth iers complain that they are unable to get the goods needed by their custom ers and are losing money. The same conditions are found in the retail shoe trade, aiyl further advances in prices are predicted. The demand for lux ury goods, such as pleasure automo biles and Jewelry, is well maintained. "Conditions in the field of labor re flect the return of confidence In the Industrial future of the country. La bor always makes its bid for higher pay in a period of prosperity, when the urgent demand for goods Is likely to influence the employer In making con cessions." The situation as above set forth bears out the contention of this paper that there canbe no material decline in prices of manufactured articles un til production overtake and pass con sumption. As regards food products, it must be apparent to everybody by this time that the government alone Is respon sible for the continuation of high prices. On one day this week it was announced that wheat would be sold at the market price and prices of all grains and provisions hit the tobog gan. The next day it was announced that the government guaranteed price of wheat would be maintained and grain of all kinds and provisions im mediately climbed back onto their lofty perch. High prices of food are in no way due to a shortage as Is the case with manufactured articles. CHANGED RELATIONS. Out of the many effects produced by the war and the reconstruction per iod probably none is more striking or far-reaching In Its ramifications than the change In the position of buyer and eeller. Ever eince money became the medium of exchange among civil ized peoples the possessor of it has had an undeniably strong strategic po sition when It came to driving a bar gain. This was because money was convertible into so many desirable forms thru its exchangeable quality. It could be traded for food, clothing, shelter, pleasure, luxuries; it could buy goods or services, and the supply of goods or services was always more abundant than the supply of money. For thousands of years it has been the man with money who was sought out by the seller. All this has been changed. Money is more plentiful than goods or serv ices. The grocer, Instead of rubbing hls hands ,n nc'Pn as you enter hi. (tore, looks upon you as one more boresome suppliant bent on depleting his stock of food. The drygoods Job ber, who formerly watched the list of buyers who had Just arrived, in New York, planning an expensive entertain ment in the hope of getting a fat or der, now waits In his office for the in evitable call, and curtly limits his clients' requirements to five cases of goods. No matter where you go, no matter what you want to buy. whether it be an automobile, a suit of clothes from your tailor, a ham, a barrel of flour, a theater ticket, or a room at a good hotel, the poor buyer gains the impres sion that he is a nuisance, and that he ought to know better than to offer mere money in exchange for some thing that has real Intrinsic value. This doe. not apply merely to de mand for goods, whether necessities or luxuries. It also applies to services, and the changed situation is probably nowhere more pronounced than in the case of the would-be employer and employe. Formerly there were hun dreds of applicant, for every vacancy, whereas now the few applicants which do appear exhibit a spirit of indiffer ence and restlessness, notwithstanding that wages have been increased and working conditions vastly improved. This situation is fairly representative of existing conditions. The position of buyer and seller has undergone a complete reversal. The 50-cent dollar does not look big to the seller. So-called friends of labor, says the Wollman Review, have been watting years for this situation to develop a situation where the worker could de mand his price and get It, and be utter ly indifferent if he could not get It. Most of us may be glad to see this new order of things. At the same time one cannot help wondering If the world is or will be any the better off on ac count of It. An excess profit tax that will reach the profiteer Is urged by Senator Cap per. Did the senator ever know of a tax of any kind that was not passed on to the wage earner or the consumer? EVENING STORY In Durance Damp. Br W. A. PEACH. To be pushed headlong Into a cellar by a pretty girl was the second sur prise that came to Norton Bennett on a day of surprises. He found himself gathering his dased faculties together on the cellar bottom. The whole affair was aston ishing beyond reason and common sense. He knew he looked like a hobo or a trump for reasons he had tried to overcome, but could not; but he could not imagine why the young lady should cast him down the cellar en trance. He sat up and rubbed himself until assured that in the process of descent no part of his anatomy had suffered. He looked around. No light came into the cellar save from little old-fashioned windows thru which a specu lative cat would have difficulty in crawling. Up the steps was the cellar door, and he had decided memories of hearing a bolt slam. He drew himself up'cautlously. The cold damp air swirled about him. "I suppose I look like a dangerous character, but what under the sun made that girl heave me down here?" he asked himself, still badly puzzled. He reviewed the situation. He had come to the house by the road for the purpose of getting a cold drink and telephoning to the summer hotel where he was staying for a car to meet him. A rosy-cheeked dark-eyed girl had come to the door, started as she looked at him. invited him in. Inform ed him that if he went down cellar he would find a well from which he could draw a drink. She opened the door, and he started to be assisted forcibly by a small hand planted vigorously In the small of his back. The sound of a clear, sweet voice telephoning broke into Bennett", puz zled pondering. He felt his way hur riedly up the stairs and paused. It was the girl's voice saying. "Will you tell Judge Hammond that I have that criminal down in my cellar? And tell him to send somebody quick: I am all alone here, and he is a desper ate looking character. Judge Ham mond will .end the sheriff or some body. Tell him to hurry!" Bennett sank down on the damp steps. "Ye gods. he thinks I am a Bolshevik! I don't wonder. But I must get out of this or I will be a living Joke the rest of my life." He scrambled to his feet and rapped on the door. He heard a slight in tonation, suggestive of fright. "Miss er er, you have made a mistake. I am not a murderer or the son of a murderer he began. She interrupted, and Bennett, listen ing to her, thought she had the sweet est voice of any girl he had ever heard." "Tou look like one: and, be sides. I am not going to talk to you. That lock is good and strong, and you'll stay there till somebody comes." He tried the door. It was urm ana unyielding. He tried to induce her to talk, but she let him have the first and last word. "Unusual In woman," he muttered to himself, and went down into cellar to conduct an inspection. He discovered that, with the excep tion of two old-fashioned cellar win dows, there was no way of escape. A bulkhead had been filled in and he guessed that the girl and her family had bought the old place and were using it as a summer cottage. Pulling a box to the window, he mounted it cautiously until he could look out. He could see the road be yond him. Suddenly he caught sight of a pair of bare feet going down the road. He knew he could prove his innocence in the end, but the prospect of being in durance damp did not ap peal to him. Besides, he did not in tend to let that slip of a girl "put anything over on him." So, In a mo ment's time, by means of a frantically waved hand and whispered word, he called an astonished boy's face to the window. "Sonny, you go to the Edgemeer hotel and tell Jim Braithwait to corn's. here as fast as he can. I 11 give you $5 If you will see? Now beat it!" he urged. A pair of tanned legs twinkled out of sight. "It'll be more like Jim to think It's a rich Joke and keep me here, but that message will bring him," he thought gloomily. A little later a car rolled Into the yard too soon to be Jim's heavy roadster. Bennett's worst fears were realized when he heard, after a little, the door above him open and a gruff, commanding voice say: "Here, you come up out o" thar!" Obediently, wondering what was coming. Bennett mounted from his subterranean domicile to the light of day. He found himself facing a huge. brown-faced individual who carried a billy of imposing size. Back of him stood the girl, a slim figure of brown and gold. "Look here, sheriff," Ben nett began, "this Is all wrong. I am not the man you want." "That so? Well, here's the descrip tion." He drew a paper from his pocket. "You robbed six of the guests at the Lake hotel, were almost caught escaped to the woods. Tou're wearing the suit that you wore "Let me tell you how "Bennett began. "Never mind, you come along with me!" the big fellow said, grabbing Bennett s arm. There was nothing to do but go. He turned to the girl. "This has been a rare day. After I am free I am com ing again to thank you for an exciting afternoon. Her bud-like mouth parted in a smile. "Do!" she said. As Bennett stepped into the yard In the grasp of the muscular guardian of the countryside he saw the figure of a man pause at the turn of the road, stare and start away. It was enough. With a yank Ben nett broke loose from the sheriff and started full speed after the hurrying figure that Immediately broken Into a run. It was a sharp sprint, but Bennett caught him, grappled with him; and in a moment's time the road was the scene in which the sheriff had taken a hand. When the dust had settled, Bennett, with hi. hand snarled In the collar of hls'captlve, knocked the sheriff's hand aside from his own. The fun of the experience had gone for him. "The Joke's over. This chap is the fellow you want. Look him over. I am wearing his clothes. I'll tell you why. I was out for a tramp and stopped at the north end of the lake for a swim to cool off. This chap came along while I was in and swiped my rig get that? He left his own clothes and I had to put them on. I didn't want to promenade the country side in a pair of swimming tight.! He knew hi. ghastly suit would give him away. I started for the hotel and on the way A big roadster drew up with squeaking brakes. Bennett looked around and grinned. "Here's Jim Braithwait of Bdgemeer. Tou know him? Ask him." In a minut the joke was Indeed over. The real criminal had disappear ed with the apologetic sheriff and Bennett was on hi. way back to the scene of his durance damp. He left Braithwait with the car and went to the cottage. The brown and gold girl listened at first with astonishment that changed gradually to rosy embarrassment. "I am sorry for my part in it," .he said meekly, "but they telephoned word to watch for this fellow and I was alone and when you came I Just did ths first thing that I thought of." Her eye. dropped. "I really wl.h you would come again and this time T- won't shove you down eeller." (Copyright, 19111 by the McClure News peper, Syndicate.) ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT BI ROT K. MOULTON Lookinc Forward. I gaze upea the dialing street; I hear the tramp of weary feet. And oh, but it i( good to know They'll aoon be trudging la the snow. I see the little urchin lad, Who looks aO hot, but then I'm glad To think e'er many day are gone He'll have to pnt his mittens on, I watch th horses dragging by, Their load a wagon piled op high, And optlmlstlc'ly I say: "You soon will have to draw a sleigh." The bumld air: the scorching sun; The suffering that every one Must bear, nt present, soon I know Without a doubt will bare to go. So now I try to pass the day In driving thoughts of beat away: I think of all the wondrous things That cold, crisp winter weather brings. An optimist is one who having lost his "Suspenders, still believes his dig nity will be upheld. Arthur H. Rose. Get Out From Under, Bill! A horse died on Bill Vandermuth last Sunday. Mercyville (Iowa) Ban- The Little Old World As It la Miss Anna Jarvis started "Mothers' Day": a bachelor invented the safety pin, and we daresay that some of our college yells were conceived by deaf mutes. A little old world full of in congruities. Buffalo News. HOUSEHOLD HINTS Menu Hint. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit Emince of Ham on Toast Hashed Browned Potatoes. Rolls Coffee LUNCHEON. Corn Pudding Lettuce Whole-Wheat Bread. Butter Iced Cocoa DINNER. Cold Sliced Beef. Baked Potatoes Red Sauce Canned Corn Apple and Banana Salad Brown Bread and Butter Cornstarch Pudding with Cream White Loaf Cake Tea Favorite Recipes. Lima Bean Croquettes Wash one cup of lima beans in evening and soak next morning. Cook until tender and then drain and cool. Now mince four slices of bacon, two onions fine and brown gently in a frying pan. Now put the beans thru the food chopper, adding, after the beans, one-half cup of bread crumbs. Now put the mix ture into bowl and add the bacon and onions, fat from the cooked bacon, one-half teaspoon of salt, one-half teaspoon of pepper, three tablespoons of finely chopped parsley, one green pepper, chopped fine. Mix thoroly and then mold into cro quettes. Dip in flour and then in beaten egg and then roll in fine crumbs and fry until golden brown in hot fat. Green Peas a la Maltre d'Hotel Four tablespoons crlsco or lard, one quart shelled peas, salt, pepper to taste,-two sprigs mint, one tablespoon lemon Juice, one tablespoon chopped parsley, one teaspoon sugar. Shell peas and throw Into olenty boiling water containing a teaspoon ful of salt, sugar and the mint; boil fast until tender, then drain. Mix lemon Juice with crlsco or lard and parsley; stir this among peas; reheat them and serve at once. Cream French Dressing One-half teaspoon salt, one-quarter teaspoon pepper, two tablespoons lemon Juice, four tablespoons olive oil, three table spoons cream (heavy). Mix ingredients and stir until well blended. LittkBditv NotLlOOK e J tie rape- Pop was shaving his face in frunt of the bath room mlrrer this morning and I got thru washing mine and start ed to dry it and look at pop, saying. Wat would happin if you tried to shave without eny lather, pop? I should render myself very unhap py, to say the leest, sed pop. And he kepp on shaving his face, and I sed. Well If you had to take your choice, wich one would you do without, the lather or the razor, pop? The razor, no. the lather, O. I don't know, it seems' to me you are choosing a very bad time to ask foolish ques tions, sed pop. And he kepp on twisting diffrent parts of his face diffrent ways to shave them, and I sed, If you dident shave yourself for about a yeer. pop, do you think it would make mutch diffrent.? Yes, aerteny it would, confound It, youll be getting me nerviss In a mln nit, sed pop. And he made his neck like a Imita tion of a tertle and started to shave it, and I sed. How mutch diffrent. do you think it would make, pop? O, about 50 yards, how the doose do I know? wat did I Je.t finish telling you about asking foolish questions wile Im shaving? sed pop. Wouldent they sound a. foolish If you wasent shaving, pop? I sed. If youre thru in heer, beet It, sed pop. Meaning he wunted me to get out, and he kepp on shaving his neck and I sed, How I. It you hardly ever cut yourself, pop? Wich Jest then pop. hand slipped and he cut his neck, saying. There, blast it, see wat you did? now get cut of heer before you fall out. Meening he would put me out If I dident get out by mystelf. Wich I did. INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON BI WILLIAM T. ELLIS. For August 10 Is "Winning Other. to Christ." Acts 16:9-15; James 5:1. 20. From the Angle of Bethlehem. In the soft glow of a summer even ing I rode yesterday from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. The distance is only a little more than five miles, along the main southern highway to Hebron. It was over this very road that Joseph and Mary and their faithful donkey went in haste the day before Christ mas. The ancient well by the way side Is pointed out, with every degree of probability, as the one at which Mary refreshed herself. Near Bethle hem we pass the tomb of Rachel. Olive and vlneclad terraced hills sur round the town, which r solidly built of. the ubiquitous limestone of the land: the wise man builds his house on the rock the underlying rock of Palestine and of the rock as well. The stone is quarried soft and hard ens upon exposure to air. In a limestone cave, which once was the rear room or stable of the Bethle hem Inn, or kha'n, there was born nineteen centuries ago a Babe. Over that cave today there stand the old est Christian church, in the world, built In the reign of Constantino the Great, on 'the site of a still earlier construction. "Since the capture of Jerusalem by General Allenby when an American officer in' his army was made firtt governor of Bethlehem certain unlovely evidences of ecclesi astical strife, notably the unsightly wall that divided the Interior, have been removed. It Is still necessary, tho, to maintain a military guard at the manger to prevent sectarian strife: tho now the soldiers are British, In stead of Turks. A silver star is let into the center of the grotto beneath the church, and it is Inscribed, "Hie de Virgine Maria Jesus ChTlstus natus est." Around it burn perpetually the lamp, of the Latin, Greek and Armenian churches. There is much ecclesiasti cal ornamentation. One can scarcely realize that at this holy spot the mira cle of the ages was wrought; and that here was manifested the Son of God, the Saviour of the world. Here gathered the wondering shepherds from the neighboring hillside. Over this town tne mysterious celestial glory shone; and later the star rested. This is a focal point of the universe and of eternity. New rower of an Old Place. What has all this got to do with the present Lesson? Everything. This Bethlehem manger has become central to a newly self-conscious world. The star that shone here nineteen centuries ago has b.ccome, as It were, the supreme luminary of a celestial system, drawing all les ser planets into its orbit and power. It represents the uplifted Christ who is today drawing all men unto him self. Now, above all days that have ever been, is a time or tne supremacy of the teaching and spirit and sacri fice of Jesus, once born in Bethle hem as a lowly mother's Babe. The heart-sore world is ready to say, with the shepherds, "Come, now, let us go unto Bethlehem." As of old Paul heard Macedonia calling in a vision that same poor, distraught Macedonia thru which I have recently traveled "Come over and help us," so now all the weak and war-worn and newly-awakened na tions are crying to Christ and his Church. "Come over and help us." There is no thoughtful person who intelligently reviews the world's present condition who does not arrive at the conclusion that the greatest need of the nations 1. spiritual, and to be met only by a vitalized and present religion. As the Soldier Sees It. Upon returning from Bethlehem yesterday, and after dinner. I spent two hours in conversation with a cos mopolite who has seen most of the problem-place, in the present world unsettlement. We discussed the na tional perplexities, one by one. and finally confessed ourselves baffled, un til the soldier said and he is not a religious man "I tell you. this whole business will never be settled on the basis of religion which will make peo ple really friendly. There has got to be some great power to bring the spirit of brotherhood Into all the world." That Interview was true to type Over and. over I find all sorts of men tunning .to religion as the solution of the present world chaos. Some ex- j press a aesire lor a new religion or a new prophet or an amalgamation of all religions. Jn the speech of soldiers and statesmen and .men of the world, the great affirmation of Christ is being echoed mankind must be born again, and receive a new nature, before it can live a life of holiness and help fulness and harmony. Under His Own Hat. That line of reasoning leads us straignt to tne conviction tnat tne most important work in the world at the present is to create Christians. When men and women are led to Christ they are led out of the self ishness and smallness and sordidness that now afflict society like a dis ease. A sturdy type of intelligent Christianity is the best bulwark against Bolshevism, capitalism, im perialism, and all the other isms that menace the integrity of civilzation. Recently "Life" had an editorial upon the Importance of each man's having a league of nations, and of good intentions under his own hat. If the little world that lives there is reorganized, the affairs of the greater world will be cared for automatically. The final problem is the state of mind of the individual. That is so obvious that its Impor tance may be overlooked. All of us are so busy with vast schemes for making over mankind in the mass that we are .tempted to forget that God's way'ls the one-by-one method. He deals with individuals. He Is changing the world by transforming men one at a time. Whoever leads a friend into disclpleship to Christ is doing as real a world service as many of the men associated with the peace conference. We cannot improve upon the Mas ter's methods. Amid these hills of India and Galilee Jesus chose a dozen common men Just such looking men as are at this moment passing thru the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem before my eyes to be His friends and help ers. Association with Him made them uncommon ,men Their disci pleship led them into a service where they became a world-revolutionizing force. Again we are at a plastic hour in history. New personalities re yet to emerge to lay a shaping hand upon events. Whey knows that the young i person who is today brought under the spell of Christ's leadership may not be decisive factor In human destii.y? We are serving the world in profound est and most fundamental ways when we lead men into Christian allegiance. HEART AND BEAUTY PROBLEMS BY MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON. Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a high school girl of seventeen years old. There Is a boy In my town nineteen years old of whom 'I think very much. I have cared for him three years and think I always will. He says he likes me, but Tie won't go with me. I am considered good looking and I act like a lady and have pretty clothes. What do you think Is the reason he does not want me? He Is very Inde pendent. If you don't know how I can get him, please tell me how to forget him. JUNE. Analyze your thoughts. I think you will find that you permit yourself to think about the young man altogether too often. Probably you realize that you are wasting time, but you enjoy thinking f.nd do so anyway. To forget him you must push him out of your thoughts as often as he enter, them. This can be done. Keep attive. If you work, associate with young people with an open mind to enjoy yourself, and If you read, jou should have no trouble to forget the young man. You are worshiping your own Ideal. It Is unfortunate that the young man does not give you a better chance to know him. Friendship would proba bly banish your Ideal, and disappoint ment would lead you to seek a new one. Of course I advise against trying to "win him." Such a thing is practically impossible and would compromise you. You have no magnetism for him and therefore he does not care for you enough to want you. Dear Mrs. Thompson: (1) I am a young lady 20 years of age and ha v. been keeping company with a young man for some time, but we are not en gaged. Is it proper for me to allow him to kiss me? (2) Do you consider me too young to keep steady company with a young man (8) When a young lady is Intro duced to a gentleman, is it proper for her to shake hands with him? DOUBTFUL DOROTHY. (1) It 1. not proper for you to kiss him until you are engaged to him. (2) You are not too young if you care that much for him. (3) Yes, It is proper, Sot her to shake hands. Either way is correct. Dear Mrs. Thompson: We are two girls of 15 who do not work, conse quently have plenty of time to go out. There are two boys who persist in showering their attentions upon us and get very Jealous if we go out with any other boys. What should we do, as they are nice boys and we want to keep their friendship and still enjoy ourselves with others? We feel that we are too young to hold any particu lar friendship, as these boys seem to want us to do. Please advise us. M. Let them get over their Jealousy, girls, as best they know how. Of course, you don't want to abbreviate your list of boy friends to two and two only. SANDRA THE JEALOUS By JANE PHELPS EVERETT IS UNCOMFORTABLE. CHAPTER XL One afternoon when (hopping we ran into a man whom Everett knew. He was younger than Everett, fine looking, altho not so handsome as my husband, and with a very pros perous air. "Sandra, allow me to introduce Mr. Halliday. my wife, Mrs. Graham." "I am charmed," Mr. Halliday raised his hat, while his eyes flashed a look of admiration upon me. I flushed a little, but he only stopped a moment, and I hoped it had passed unnoticed. "How nice your friend Is," I re marked more for the sake of making conversation than for any other rea son. Everett was inclined to walk blocks sometimes without .peaking. "He's like dozens of city men. He likes to play around with married women. He thinks them safer for a bachelor." "Why what?" I never had heard anyone express such a sentiment. I scarcely understood his meaning. "They might get roped into marry ing the girls; while they can flirt with a married woman with perfect safety to themselves." The bitter ness in his tone caused me to look at him in surprise. "See that you make them keep their distance," he finished harshly. If only Everett I caught myself I must not be always wishing he would be different Then I said: "But if you introduce them to me they are nice men, aren't they?" "Nice men, as you call them, some times do strange things." His enig matic reply worried me. but I dared say nothing more, he looked so for bidding. I expect I was hopelessly bromidlc in those first days of my married life; and also often exasperating. One day Everett had a business ap pointment so he said, and he left me alone. He had said nothing about my remaining at the hotel, so I dressed and started out to take a walk, and look 4n the shop windows, an ever increasing delight to me. I remained out about an hour. When I opened the door of our sit ting room, Everett wes looking from S15151S151SISIS1515iS15151S15lSIS IThe George Matthew Adams !S DON'T ARGUE. The fool's favorite pastime is argu ing. Don't argue explain. We all must have our opinions. And if they are opinions worth hav ing they are opinions worth fighting for. But let us all be honest, respect ing the ideas and viewpoints of others matchings ours with theirs, but never arguing to useless ends. Don't argue explain. We all have a right to whatever opinion we may desire, but to defend it in small and narrow bickerings is worse than to have no opinion. Don't argue explain. The original purpoae of argument was that people should match ideas and opinions, and not put them up like prize fighter. In the ring one or tha THE GENTLE LANES. Let tne tread the gentle lanes Whew the kindly people are, Where the light from window p&nea (.leans and glistens from afar; Let me walk with men I know. Never haughty, seldom great. And I've strength for every blot And a friend for every fate. Let me hear the laughter ling That proclaims the simple joys, Let roe thare the chattering Of a pack of girls and boys; Let me lire among the men Who are tolling day by day And I shan't be friendless, when Care and sorrow come my way. Let me sit awhile and rest In the fellowship and cheer Of the men I like the best: Men of useful service here. Strong of arm and brown of face. Hands that shape and build and rao'-l, For In their abiding rlace Life is rich with more than gold. Not in places high or low Dwells the courage of the race; Many glorious blossoms grow In a soil that's commonplace And It's on the simple lanes That the men of worth are found There it Is that kindness reigns There the 'oys of life abound. Copyright 1010 by Edgar A. Guest. DINNER STORIES "Have you tried that hair tonic I (old you?" asked the druggist." "Oh, yes." was tthe reply. "And did you find It brought out the new hair?" "No, but it brought out the old hair all right." With the demobilization of the army some new stories are being de mobilized, too. One is the story of the bright thought of an adjutant. The commanding officer of a force behind the lines had acquired or "won" (as they say in the army) a cow, and he was much envied in all the messes. The adjutant hal a cottage wth a garden in which he had some good strawberries. One day the C. O. with out a word went into the garden and helped himself to the adjutant's straw berries. The adjutant could not, of course, rebuke hi. chief, but he put up this notice: "Trespassers in this strawberry gar den will have their cow shot." the window. He was watching for me. He turned as I came in. "Where have you been?" he de manded harahly. He seemed strange ly agitated. His face was fluehed, his eyes angry and hot looking. "What is the matter, Everett? What has happened?" I was fright ened at his appearance. "Where have you been who with?" "I went for a walk, and to look In the windows. I was lonely." "Did I tell you you might go out?" "No but I thought I thought you might be gone a long time. Was it wrong for me to go out?" My manner may have disarmed him a little, for h: spoke more gen tly when he replied: "No I don't say it was wrong. But a man likes to know where his wife is. He also likes to find her when he comes in. Put on another gown and we will go to some restau rant for dinner. I'm tired of the food here." I had been puzzled distressed., un happy by Everett's manner. Had I known he wanted me to remain In the hotel I certainly should have done so; bat he said nothing about it, and what I had done had been so Inno cent. I was glad for the chance to be alone. I bathed, did my hair and dressed. When I finished I asked If I would do,, and he seemed quite him self again as he answered: "You look very nice. I like that dress. Sapphire i your color. Your hair and eye. call for It. I shall buy you some new Jewelry." "Oh, I have plenty now! I would n't know what to do with any more!" "You aren't obliged to wear every thing at once, .imply because you have It. Now come on. I'm hungry." Everett thought a great deal or his comfort. I had already found that out. He was fastidious to an extreme, and impatient of anything which gave him the slightest annoyance. Yet oc casionally he could be so charming, so Interesting, that he seemed almost like two personalities. (Tomorrow Sandra dines with Mr. Halliday.) other to be knocked out in order to win. Don't argue explain. And be brief and explicit in your explanation, sincere and straight-forward. Never lose your temper In an argument and never argue with a per son who does lose hi. temper. It never pays. Don't argue explain. An argument is bawd on the fclash between two viewpoints and two peo ple may be arguing in opposite di rections, both thinking to reach the same end. Bitter arguing between them would never get anywhere. But calm, dispassionate explanation and a comparison of viewpol.-ts often ;rnd most always does bring about agree ment. Don't argue explain. y J SMS-. iSBE(kl IW Jf DOROTHY DIX TALKS BT DO ROTH T DIX World's Highest Paid Wemaa Writer. Be Honest With Yourself I. There M an old saw to the effect that there are two people to whom" wa should never lie, and these are our lawyer and our doctor. There is a third party to whom it is even more important that we should always .peak the truth, and that i. ourselves. Yet there i. no other indi vidual on earth to whom we are o little candid and honest. Most of us spend the time from tha cradle to the grave in deceiving our selves, in camouflaging our mottvea and intentions so that we will not ba able to detect them with our own eye., and in pretending, as children do In play, that we are some Noble Hero, or Persecuted Martyr until we come te believe at last In our own make be lieve. We are like the traditional confi dence man who was such an artist in hi. calling, and .o persuasive and con vincing that he sold himself a gold brick. It is only the most heroic of us who have the courage to sit down in cold blood and teH ourselves the truth about ourselves, and to strip the frill and furbelows from our dallv life and look UDon the mean and sordiu thing that we have made of it. iet we miant save ourselves, we might save our money, our ambitions our love, our happiness if only wa would be honest and candid with our selves, if only we would give up the asinine folly of deliberately trying to cheat ourselves. Look at the way we He to ourselve. about our own abilities. Think of the hundreds of men and women you have known who have deceived themselves into believing that a poor, feeble little flicker of talent was a great flashing arc light of genlue! What a pathetic host of them each one of ua can re call! A girl with a sweet little canary bird voice who impoverished her fam ily, and wasted her youth, taking les sons from extortionate teachers, while she hugged to her breast th; sweet lie that she would be a grand opera singer, and refused to recognize the limitation, of her own voice a. .he would that of another. A man with some Idea of form and color, but with no power or origin ality, no inspiration, who dabbled away from youth to age with paints, gulling himself with the belief that he was a second Whistler, yet never achieving anything but the veriest potboilers. Men and women toiling, agonizing, starving, shabby, harassed by debt and bill collectors, refusing to accept the verdict of the editors, and the mana gers who send back their books snd ooems and plays to them, duping themselves with the belief that they will yet write an Immortal thing, and bolstering up their false faith in their abilities by lying to themselves about magazine editors and theatrical pro ducers being in a league against new talent. One could weep tears of blood over these pitiful self-impositors, who might be happy and prosperous, and do use ful work If only they would take an honest measure of their own abilities and be good choir atngers. or sign painters, or stenographers, or mer chants. We also make a barrier of lies that bars us from success. Nearly every failure, within the range of our abili ties, is the result of laziness and in competency. (Copyright, 1M9, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Q. How many people died during the t nu epidemic last year, ana wdii was iu estimated economic loaa to the country? H F. B. A. About 600,000 died. The economic loaa from death, slekneM and debility waa reckoned between three and four bllllou dollara. Q. What la a good way to remove Ink from the fingera J. H. D. A. Dampen the head of an ordinary match and rub briskly on ataln. Q. Ia the turkey an American bird? S. V. K. A. Yea, be was found in America In bla wild atate when Europeans first came here. About a hundred yeara after America was dlacovered, broiled young turkeys became great delicacies on French tables. Q. What waa the total coat of the war? H. V. H. A. The coat of the war to April 30 1010. was t21.850.000.000 more than 11,000.000 an on hour for over twe years. Q. Can yen give me the height of the highest iriret ever meaanred on the oceai v. i,. n. A. It is (aid that the highest billow ret meaanred was fifty-two feet In height. Tbla waa on the Pacific ocean. They are said to be net over thirty feet high in the North Atlantic. Q. What waa the first book ever printed with type? O. H. K. A. According to Petllgrew, the first book printed :n type waa the Latin ntble. It waa printed bv John Gutenberg at Mayene,-. about 1406. There are only twenty copies of this edition known to exlat. and the workmanship in type, ink, and paper, were better than in any subsequent edition for two hundred yeara. Q. Can yon tell me the Afrieaa method of salntatlon N. M. A. Snlutationa differ according to the different tribea. Home greet each other quite aa we do. Borne of the trihlea still very much uncivilised pull their fingera until the Joints "crack" aa a form of salu tation, and one tribe has the enrtoua fash ion of showing friendship by standing back to back. (Any reader can get the anawer te any Jueation by writing The Topeka State ournal Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haakin, Director, Washington. I. C. Oia full name and address and enclose 2-cent stamp fer return postage. Be brief. All inqulrlea ere confidential, tha replies being aent direct to each Individual.) 2S YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA From Ac columns of THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL Angast S, ISM. The first marriage In Topeka. accor'Ung to Salvation Army rites, will be held at Hamilton ball some time In the laat week ia Angnat. Captain Walter Yager and Lieu tenant Orace Xltamlller are the contracting parties. It la proposed to have a Mr wed ding banquet and charge an admission. Raya 'he Osknloooaa Independent man was down laat week from Topeka buy ing apples for s firm of that place. He shipped nearly a ear load over the South western, paying 30 rents a bnabel for them. Hiia IWIla Rodgtra left todav for a ali weeks' trip thru New Mexico and Cele rado. V Hcnrr Keeler and Mr. and Mrs. Kd Smfil, will go to Rmall'a ranch near Hort Thursday to remain two weeka. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. M. Noble have returned from Colorado. Mrs. W. W. V rev-tor. Mlaaes Edna Btevena and Clarence Pitts, spent yeaierdny at Kilmer. L
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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOUPNAL FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1919 NAMES GOUNTY CHAIRMEN Justice Marshall Urges Kansas To Celebrate Constitution Day. r H m 1 Kansas City. Mo. Knnsas City, Kan. rat.1 705-707 Kansas Avenue Topcka, Kansas 77ie House We Do Nol Use Former, or Comparative Prices. of Courtesy We Let Vou Be the Judge of Our Values. August Clearance Sale Continues Practically Our Entire Stock of Smart Summer Apparel Reduced Again Dresses These are Voiles In Foulard, Figured and Flora! patterns In many smart styls variations Ueduced to considerably less than flr AA the Wholesale cost JJ.W Girls' Dresses Wlnome "Olrllsh" styles in white Pique, white Orftandie P AA and Voiles Greatly reduced to PJ.U.W House Dresses A laree assortment of practical styles, made of Ideal Percale In stripes, checks, plaids and fancy patterns Reduced to a price that is less than you can buy the material and P1 AO make them Vl.ifO Wash Skirts Of Cotton Gaberdine and Trlcotlne. fashioned with clever treat ments In the way of novelty pockets, belts and buttons CO Reduced to PJ.UJ Wash Skirts All our "Better" Cotton Skirts In Voiles, Gaberdine and fl J CP Trlcotine have been reduced to Silk Skirts These are Crepe de Chines, Georgette crepe. Baronet Satin, Dew KUt. Wash Satin, Trlcolet and Murette crepes; In many of the Season's smartest styles Most decisively M A AA reduced to jlV.W Silk Suits Of rongpc Silk in Tailored and Sport styles CJ1 P AA Greatly reduced to JXJ.VV R Initial and Comprehensive Showing of New Autumn Skirts Serviceable Skirts for early fall wear, featur ing all the latest style notes. Small pockets, braid and button trimming, narrow and crush belts, some featured with buckles. Shown in Wool Plaid Tweeds, Wool Serges, Tricotines, Poiret Twills, Failles and Satins Ranging in price from 10.00 to Satin Skirt 27.50 Call up Phone For Moving Wagons Baggage Wagons Storage Expert Packers United States Railroad Administration Director General of Railroads Justice John Marshall, state direc tor of the National Security league, has announced appointment of county chairmen for each of the 10 5 counties of the state. Members of the com mittee will be in charge of celebra tions in all towns and counties in Kan sas where Constitution Day will be celebrated September 17. In letters addressed to county chair men today. Justice Marshall urged that every town and county arrange for celebrations in honor of the 132d anniversary of the signing of the fed eral constitution. County chairmen an nounced today include: Alien C. II. Apt, Iola. Anderson J. O. Jobusun, Garnett. Atchison T. A. Moxccy. Atchison. Barber Samuel Grllfiu. Medicine Lodge. Barton E. C. Cole, Great Bend. Bourbon A. M Kcene, Kort Scott. Brown W. K. Archer, Hiawatha. Butler K. M. Geddes. El Dorado. Chase H. A. Meckel, Cottonwood Falls. Chautauqua J. E. Brooks, Sedan. Cherokee C. McNeill, Columbus. Cheyenne J. L. Kin ley, St. Francis. Clark V. V. Harvey, Ashland. Clay-rGeorge U Dana, Clay Center. Cloud A. 1.. Wllmouth, Concordia. Coffey E. J. Crego, Burlington. I'ooiaucue Jay T. Botts. Coldwater. Cowley W. R Hackney, Winfleld. Crawford C. O. Piugry, Pittsburg. Decatur J. P. Noble, Oberlin. Dickinson S. S. Smith, Abilene. Doniphan J. J. Baker. Troy. Douglas Thomas Harley, Lawrence. Edwards W. E. Broadle, Kinsley. Elk Clifford Sullivan, Howard. Kills K. C. Flood, Hays. Ellaworth Samuel E. Harden. Ellsworth. Finney Vni. Eastou Hutchinson, Gard n City. Ford Arthur C. Scatei, Dodge City. Franklin V. B. Jenks, Ottawa. Geary V. W. l'ease. Junction City. Gove R. H. Thompson. Gove. Graham F. D. Turck. Hill City. Grant II. W. Stubbs. New l lyssei. Gray Harry Brlce, Cimarron. Greeley w. M. Glenn, Tribune. Greenwood Howard J. Hodgson, Eureka. Hamilton George Getty, Syracuse, Harper Donald Muir, Anthony. Harvey Harry C. Bowman. Newton. Haskell C. G. Dennis, Sublette. Uodgcman W. S. Kenyon, Jetniore. Jackson Guy L. Hursh, Holton. Jefferson H. T. Phlnney, Oskaloosa. Jewell W. It. Mitchell. Mankato. Johnson J. V. I'arker, Olathe. Kearney E. It. Thorpe, Lakln. Kingman S. a Alexander, Kingman. Kiowa J. D. Beck, Greeusburg. Labette W. A. Disch, Parsons. Lane J. A. Simmons, Digbton, Leavenworth Lee Bond, Leavenworth. Lincoln B. A. McFarland. Lincoln. Linn John A. Hall, Pleasantoa. Logan C. A. Spencer, Oakley. Lyon O. S. Samuels, Emporia. McPberson P. J. Galle, McPherson, Marlon W. H. Carpenter, Marlon. Marshall W. W. ltedmond, Marysville. Meade H. Lewelyn Jones, Meade. Miami B. L. Sperling, Paola. Mitchell Omer I). Smith. Beloit. Montgomery Chas. D. Shukers, Indepen dence. Morris N. B. Nicholson. Council Grove. Morton Mayo Thomas, Elkhart. Nemaha U. M. Emery, Jr.. Seneca. Neosho T. R. Evans, Chanute. Ness A. W. Wilson, Ness City. Norton E. N. Boatman, Norton. Osage C. G. Messerly, Osage City. Osborne N. C. Else, Osborne. Ottawa E. C. Sweet, Minneapolis. Pawnee W, H. Vernon, jr.. Lamed. Pottawatomie Maurice Murphy, St. Marys. Pratt llliam B. Hess. Pratt. Rawlins Dempster Scott. Atwood. Reno H. S. Lewis, Hutchinson. Republic W. D. Vance, Belleville. Rice Ben Jones, Lyons. Riley A. M. Johnston, Manhattan. Rooks O. O. Osborn, Stockton. Rush S. I. Hale. La Crosse. Itassell G. W. Holland, Russell. Saline La Rue Rovce, Snlina. Scott Leo T. Glbbeus, Scott. Sedgwick A. M. Cowan. Wichita. Seward V. H. Grlnstead, Liberal. Shawnee A. M. Harvey, Topeka. Sheridan C. L. Thompson, Hoxie. Sherman John Hartsler. Goodland. Smith A. W. Rellhan. Smith Center. Stafford Robert Garvin, St John. Stanton R. J. Shatter. Johnson. Sumner Ed T. Hsckner, Wellington. Thomas E. H. Benson. Colby. Trego S. M. Hnstel, WaKeeney. Wabaunee C. E. Carroll. Wallace D. R. Beckstrom, Sharon Springs Washington Edgar Bennett, Washington. Wilson E. D. Mlkesell, Fredonla. Woodson G. H. Lamb, Yates Center. Wyandotte Henry Dean, Kansas City. "BOUGHT" STATE TO BE SENATOR. J. Edwards (Gas) Addicks, of Dela ware Political Fame, Is Bead. Wilmington. Del., Aug? 8. J. Ed ward (Gas) Addicks, who died Thurs day in New York, started life aa an errand boy in a Philadelphia store. made millions thru deals in various gas companies, ana later Became known thruout the country as "the man who I bought a state" in his efforts to win I a seat In the United States senate. He was defeated for the first time in 1889. Owing to the fact that no one in the ftate was permitted to vote at that time without exhibiting a paid tax re ceipt, Addicks was able to gain control of a large number of votes by going thru the lower sections of the state paying the taxes for those persons who promised to vote for him. Addicks carried his fight thruout the state for eight years. He is credited with hav- oj.rijv ujjndiuB ui (iuu.uuu in me campaign i:i 1892. Following a crush ing defeat in 1907 he left Delaware and went to New York. BATTLESHIP IS DISABLED. The Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad Announce Change of Time Effective Aug. 10 No. 10 The Scout for Kansas City and Chicago--- will leave 2:45 p. m. instead of 3:10 p. m. For Information, reservations or details, call T. L. KING, Agent, Phone 3682, Topeka. AtchisonlopQka ftSamalblfoflroacl Y 1. 1 w I Tslnnil n.Mkln I r I ,14 a mihv Fleet, Towed in at Canal Zone. Washington, Aug. S. The battle- ship Rhode Island, flagship of Squad- j ron One of the new Pacific fleet, is being towed to Balboa, Canal Zone, with a broken propeller shaft. The battleship North Carolina has the dis abled dreadnaught In tow. Dispatches to the navy deDartment I said the starboard shaft of the Rhode j j Island broke when she was about 675 miles west of Balboa en route to San Diego to join the vanguard of the fleet. Altho compartments In the j after part of the battleship were flooded, there were no casualties. J LARGEST NORMAL NO TEACHERS Lyon County Is Fnccd With Fecnllar j Shortage of "School ma'ams. Emporia. Aug. 8. Altho the largest I state normal in the United States is 1 located in Emporia, Lyon county is facing a shortage of teachers, and twenty-five school districts have beer, unable to hire "schoolma'ams" for the fall term. Higher wages in other parts of the country make it difficult to employ teachers. Miss Florence Wright, county superintendent, de Prescription Specialists Ask l'otir Doctor About Ui Drugs and Toilet Goods The Modern Drug Store CUT-RATE 500 West 10th Quality and Service with Satisfaction Guaranteed HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER MARX CLOTHES Auerbach Guettel lZJ clothing coJJ Store open Saturday until. 9 P.M. of The best clothes values in town are here at our Mid-Summer Clearance Sale Hart Schaffner Marx Fancy Suits You know, if you've ever worn them, that any clothes made by Hart Schaffner Marx, sold at a fair price, are low priced. No matter what you pay for them at this store, you get a lot of value for your money, at regular prices. When we mark prices down, as we have now, you get remarkable values. We bought these clothes for your use right now; bought them to sell this season, not to carry over; and we've reduced prices with that end in view, in accordance with our long-established policy. We can't urge upon you too strongly the importance of buying now; clothing costs have advanced immensely since these suits were bought and will advance even more. Wise buyers are providing for both present and fu ture needs. Men's and Young Men's Suits on sale as follows: $25 suits reduced to $21.75 $30 suits reduced to $25.00 $35 suits reduced to $27.50 $40 suits reduced to $32.50 $45 suits reduced to $37.50 $50 suits reduced to $42.50 $55 suits reduced to $47.50 $60 suits reduced to $50.00 $65 suits reduced to $55.00 Note: The savings are so important, in view of present market conditions, that you owe it to yourself to buy what you need now or will need later. Discount On All Our 20 Boys 9 Suits Wash Suits Topcoats Reefers Buy for School Wear Now! $5.95 Boys' Suit now $7.50 Boys' Suit now $4.75 $6.00 $10.00 Boys' Suits A1 now DO.W $8 SO $10 $15.00 Boys' Suits now $17.50 Boys' Suits now $20.00 Boys' Suits now $11.00 Boys' Suit now $12.50 Boys' Suits now $25.00 Boys' now Jults $30.00 Boys' Suits now $12 $14 $16 $20 S24 Women's Oxfords Reduced $12.00 values. $11.00 values. $10.00 values $9.85 values $6.85 JO OP $7.00 and $8.00 ffp OC OO.OO values ?D.OD Ol.OO values $J.OJ Odd pairs up to $6.00 S2.S5 Shirts Reduced $13.50 and $12. us Pft QP Shirts. 1 J)7.O0 $10.00 GQ yir Shirts 40.1-U $9.00 and $8.50 P7 JP Shirts $f .tO Shirts $6.45 $6.50 and $6.00 (J Of Shirts 9i.OD $5.00 Q QC Shirts OJ.OD $4.00 and $3.75 0 QP Shirts 9C,iJD Neckwear Reduced $1.00 Silk CCr. Scarfs DOC $1.00 Wash fiC Scarfs O JC $1.50 Silk flJI I p Scarfs 91 1 D Mens Oxfords Men's $15 and $14 1 Of Oxfords Men's J1A OP Oxfords llr.flj Men's $11 and $10 frJ Of" Oxfords 9 I .03 Men's $9 and $8 C QC Oxfords 90 -OD Men s $t CA QC Oxfords Ot.OO Underwear Reduced $2 no Union (pi 4J suit 9l.J4 $2.50 Union nj Suits $l.Qf $3.00 Union (f Suits p.UU $3.50 Union Oil Suits.. f VC.O't $4.00 Union 0 nl Suits 4.Of 1 1.50 Union PQ AA Suits OJ.lU $6.00 Union Q Oyi Suits OJ.O1 Su,,..Un.,on $4.00 Hosiery Reduced 50c Women's $1.50 Silk QJJq Women's 75c S11X PA. Hose i)UC Straw Hats Reduced $6.65 &5t.08traw $6.35 17.00 Straw Hats Tt.UJ $5.00 Straw ffO OP Hats. 9000 $4.00 Straw ffO CP Hats m V&.VJ s&.'rr.. $2.00
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