The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 10, 1922

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DlflniiiiDinBnn I FAIR The Evening Newspaper of Kansas TOPEKA, KANSAS, TUESDAY feVENING, JANUARY 10, 1922 TEN PAGES POSTSCRIPT FOUR CENTS M VALERA BOLTS EXPERTS IN CLASH ARMS DELEGATES PLAN DEPARTURE LATE IN FEBRUARY Final Threshing Out of JTaTal Treaty Now Going On. FARMEBMEET ON Practical Business Methods Dis cussed at Conference, THREE TOPEK AIIS i ARRESTED TODAY ON ARSON CHARGE Fire Marshal Hussey Charge3 Existence of "Ring Here." THE MODERN GENU DAIL EIREAMN WHEN BEATEN Allied Effort to Compromise Belgian Priority Fails. Brussels Delegates Refuse Accept French Figures. Much Evidence of Harmony Among Rural Organizations. Arthur Griffith Elected Presi dent of Free State. 1' i i "ev Cabinet to Take Orer Gov eminent Announced. PLAN TO JOIN THE LEAGUE Pope Benedict Wires His Con gratulations to the Bail. Lalor Unions of Erin Now Take Hand in Squabble. WILL JOIN LEAGUE. Dublin. Jan. 10. Ireland ex pects to be admitted to the League of Nations as a free state during 192 2, it was learned today. It is expected that formal application to the association will be made as soon as the Irish free state comas into being and the authorities will see to it that Ireland is successful in gaining admission. (lly the Associated Press.) Dublin, Jan. 10. After electing Ar thur Grltfith president and naming a cabinet to assist him the Dail ad journed late today until February 14 to permit the new government to pro ceed with carrying out the provisions of the Anglo-Irish treaty. Maintain '-Irish Republic" Griffith promised that the Irish re public should remain in existence with himself as its head "until the time ar rived for the election of deputies to the parliament of the new Irish free state." He appealed to the opposition' not to throw obstacles in the way of he new government. Arthur Griffith. There was a Tieated scene when Krskine Childors, a political supporter of de. Valera, began to interpellate Griffith. Griffith listened to some of the questions and then exclaimed an grily: "I will not reply to the damned Knglishman." Dublin. Jan. 10. Arthur Griffith, founder of the inn Fein, was today fo- mally elected president by Dail I"ir?firin (the .Sinn Fein parliament.) Griffith, succeeds Eamonn de Valera', who resigned because the Irish peace treaty was ratified by the Dail. Gr if fith announced his cabinet as follows: Foreign affairs. George Gatan Duffy; finance. Michael Col lins; defense, Richard Mulcahy, chief of Muff of the I. R. A.; home affairs, R. J. Duggan local government af fairs. Deputy Cosgrave; economics. Deputy Hlggin. President Griffith and his cabinet constitutes the provisional government of the Irish free state, which will shortly take over all administrative authority in Ireland (outside of Ul ster province) from the British. Vnlcra Holts Dail. Eamonn de Valera and his adher ents bolted Dail Eireann. De Valera gained the floor and said that he could not remain in the house while votinc was in progress for Griffith. Accom panied by fifty-five of his following, he left the hall. The deputies who remained then made the election of Griffith and his cabinet unanimous. "The election of Griffith would de grade the office of president of the .Irish republic," exclaimed de Valera, angrily, as he passed out of the legis lative chamber. De Valera insisted upon knowing whether Griffith would act as "presi dent of the Irish republic." Griffith Declares Stand. T shall hold the same powers as were hold by my predecessor. Mr. de Valera, until the Irish free state offi cially comes into being," replied Grif fith. Deputies holding the front benches engaged in heated exchanges. Collins accused the Cork republi cans of "using black and tan" meth ods. He charged the Cork adherents of de Valera with compelling the Cork Examiner to publish a certain politi cal proclamation. Pope Congratulates. Pope Benedict XV today tele graphed his personal congratulations to Dail Eireann upon ratification of the peace treaty and said that the blessings of the Roman Catholic church were on the bodv. The Irish' Times said the Dail prob ably would authorise Griffith imme diately to summon a parliament for both Irelands within the next week The Freeman's Journal states that organized Irish labor is about to issue an important announcement in support tCouUnued on 'page 'Three.) II h' 1 '.r... BRITISH WILL ASSIST FRANCE Virtual Military Pact Agreed I'pon Kegarding Germany. Berlin Economic Delegates Ar rive at Council Session. Cannes, France. Jan. 10. The day long efforts of the allied experts to effect a compromise between Belgium and France over Belgium's- priority rights to German indemnity in 1922, failed. The clash came when Belgium re fused to accept France's valuations of the former German mines, now being worked by France in the Sarre basin. France put the value of the mines at 300,000,000 francs, but Belgium con tends they are worth much more to j France. This money is to be applied J upon German financial obligations to I France. Germany, under the new arranre ment, is to pay the allies 720,000,000 I gold marks this year, j British Enter Pact. j Notification of endorsement by the I Tiritish cabinet of the written pledge b:nding Great Britain immediate'y to !uid France to the full extent of her military and naval resources in case of aggression by Germany is expected -from London by tonight. The pact agreed upon by Premiers Briand and Lloyd George was tele graphed to the British capital iast nisht. Delegates Watchfully Wait. Meanwhile the French delegation is awaiting results of consultations in Paris regarding settlement of the Ger man reparations questions. The coun cil plans tc impress upon the German delegates the fact that the allies can not longer tolerate disorder in Germany's finances. Germany will be asked immediately to reduce the num ber of public functionaries, increase freight and passenger rates and pass laws preventing exodus of capital. Upon the assurances the German delegation is able to give of carrying out these reforms depends the final de cision of the council as to whether to reinforce the guarantees to the allies as authorized by the treaty of Versailles.- German Delegates Arrive. Paris. Jan.. 1 0.- The German dele gation which is to discuss the German reparations questions with the allied supreme council arrived in Paris from Berlin today. The delegation compris ing sixteen members headed by Dr. Walter Rathenau found an invitation from the supreme council to proceed to Cannes awaiting them at -their hotel. Attacks on Premier Briand by the French press grow in severity and dis trust of England increases as more becomes known regarding the agree ments reached at the supreme council meeting in Cannes. Andre Tardieu. writrng in former Premier Clemen ceau's new organ, the Echo National which appears for the first time today lead off with a diatribe captioned "The, Cannes Retreat. He writes "In four days' Briand has aggravated ir remediably the situation created during the past year by his policy and hns torn up the promises he made in Dec-vrr.ber to the senate and chamber." Anglo-French Pact Approved. The Figaro echoes the Echo Na tional. The Franco British agreement would not be a bad thing, it jays add ing: "Far from It, but prestidigitation and policy ought not to be confused. Very serious difficulties exist between England and France. They can be resolved but must not be juggled. j IVEclair says: "France ardently j desires the British alliance, but does not want to" conclude it for the sole benefit of Germany. When one allies cntself with another one does not f.rst of all ask him to disarm if one lis sincere for his force adds to yours. 1 The intentions of Lloyd George are j disquieting, since he only consents to unite with an enfeebled France." SAY RUSSIA RECOGNIZED Invitation to Attend Allied Conference So Interpret' d. by British. London, Jan. 10. British govern ment officials declared today the In vitation of the allied supreme council) to Russia to send representatives to the forthcoming international eco nomic conference might be construed as formal recognition of the Moscow government. Lenin is understood to have sent word to London that George Tchitehe- rin, the comrnisar for foreign affairs! i in the Moscow soviet, would have to represent at Genoa. For certain rea- sons. Lenin does not desire to enter Italy. A five-power economic congress may be held in London in March. :t was Indicated in Downing street cir cles. Lenin intimated in his note that he could attend a conference in Lon don personally. It v?ks proposed at Cannes to hold an ppnnnmin. rnnfpr- j ence in Genoa. Whether the London meeting would supplant the Genoa conference or would be supplemental I to it was not made plain. Hunted Preacher Found in Jail- I Jay, Okla., Jan 10. After a search j of nearly a year, extending into a dozen western states and Canada, the I Rev. J. C. Hagler, former pastor of the Methodist church south, of Jay and Grove. Okla., is in jail at Reno. Nev., on a federal charge of violating the Mann act, according to word received here today. Kansas Music Teachers Meet. Parsons. Kan., Jan. 10. Five hun dred music teachenj from southeastern Kansas counties will meet here Feb ruary 3 to perfect the district associa tion. The state association is to be divided into four district bodies be cause the membership is too large to be handled at one convention. May Be Given Years of Lire. Fifteen MANY DETAILS LEFT OVER Full Terms Expected Made Public by Thursday. Mediators lVork Hard to Solve Shantung Problem.

Washington, Jan. 10. Behind the closed doors of the Pan American building where so many momentous decisions have been reached in the last two months, the big five today began final consideration of the naval treat? which will set the limitations in ship3, guns and building until 1937. In it3 essential features the flecst ratios and the ten year building holi day the treaty is understood to re main unchanged from the lines orig inally laid down, but in the supporting provisions there have been details in serted that are of much concern to the signatory powers. How many of these will be knocked out in the final diplomatic bartering, or how many others will be added be fore the treaty text reaches the pub lie, remains to be seen. It is accepted, however, tha the treaty will be un changed in its keystone provisions. Provisions of Treaty. Chief among the supporting pro visions of the new pact, as it was taken up today, are' understood to be th following: 1. Any of the signatory powers can renounce the treaty upon giving due notice to the other four powers. This provision is designed to take care of possible war when no nation would want to be bound by the limitations agreed upon here. 2. The powers can be called to gether for amendment or revision of the treaty upon the request of any one of the signatory powers. 2. The life of the treaty will be fif teen years, or until 1937, altho the re placement building is not to start until 1931, so far as Great' Britain, the United States and Japan are concern ed. France and Italy will be allowed to build one ship a year for three years beginning in 4. Present surplus must not neces sarily be scrapped. Six ways are laid down under which they may be saved from the scrap heap and converted to peace time uses if desired. 5. Guns on merchant ships will be limited to six inches and merchant vessels will be so constructed as to not be capable of mounting guns of greater caliber. 6. None of the signatory powers may build for other governments, whether in or out of the treaty, ships exceed ing in tonnage or armament the fig ures laid down in the treaty. Will Prevent Idleness. This last provision was designated to overcome many objections that shipyards and ship workers were doomed to idleness under the cessation of building originally proposed. The nations now can keep their yards and workers busy if they can get the business and at the same time the treaty powers can rest content that no outside nation is building greater ships than they themselves possess. There are numerous other con tributory provisions, but these are the principal ones. The treaty is ex tremely lengthy in its present form, and It is considered probable that it will be amended and changed in many places before signatures are attached. The delegations have had twenty four hours to study the document in its present form, and inquiry today re vealed that all of them will have sug gestions to make in the secrecy of the committee room. Two days will be the informal time limit set today for the consideration of the treaty in committee. It was hoped today and tomorrow will be sufficient to meet all objections and questions and a plenary session could becalled for Thursday to make the treaty public Delegates Plan Departure. Both Britain and Japanese delega tions now plan to leave during the last week in February, the British sailing from New York and the Jap anese from San Francisco. The explanation offered for the change In plans was that the details that remained to be adjusted are too numerous for quick settlement. One of them is that portion of the five-power naval treaty dealing with Pacific for tifications. Another is the Shantung question, which Balfour is directly as scciiited with as one of the two ".ne o 'a tors." Each of the delegations American, British, French, Japanese and Italian met today individually to consider the treaty prior to the meeting of the heads of delegations in the Pan Amer ican building. The American delegates met with Secretary Hughes at the state depart ment. Later, Hughes will meet Bal four, Kato. garraut and Sehanzer. HAYS OPPOSES HOUSE BILL. In Letter Postmaster Fights Law Making: Racing News Illegal. Washington, Jan. 10. Postmaster General Hays in a letter today to Sen ator Xelson, chairman of the senate judiciary committee, came out square ly in opposition to a bill recently passed in the house which would make it an offense for newspapers to pub lish racing news. The bill was primarily intended to prevent transportation of lottery and cheating devices thru the mails but one section, according to Hays, would seriously affect newspapers. Newton Wins From Parsons 43 to 29. Newton. Kan., Jan. 10. The New ton Athletic club defeated the Parsons Athletic club basketball team here last night, 43 to 29. i Pact SHOP MEN PARLEY Representatives 500,000 Work- ers Keep Sessions Secret. New Strike- Vote Caused j Wage Cuts Expected. Chicago, Jan. 10. General chair men of the federated shop crafts unions maintained silence today aa they entered the second session of their conference here to consider ac tion on wage cuts and working rules recently promulgated by the United States railway labor board. The con ference is secret and officials attend ing the meeting, refused to give out any statement. Six unions with a combined mem bership of nearly 500,000 men are rep resented at the conference. They comprise the railway employes de partment of the American Federation of Labor. The sessions may last sev eral weeks before a decision is reached. The shop crafts voted last surifmer to strike against the wage reductions announced by the labor board on July 1, This action later was held in abey ance pending the decision of the board on working rules. Despite the silence of the general chairman, it was considered likely that the conference, before adjourn ing, will authorize a new strike vote, covering both the question of wage re ductions and the working rules. ONLY DISCUSS INVITATION Harding and Cabinet Reach No Teci sion on Economic Conference. Washington, Jan. 10. President Harding and his cabinet discussed at some length today the invitation ex tended to the United States by Euro pean powers to participate in the Genoa economc conference in March. It is' understood that no agreemen was reached, and the sentiment de veloped was that there would be no formal indication of this government's attitude until the armament confer ence here has concluded its work. The United States wholly approves of the action of the allied supreme council at Cannes inviting the soviet Russian government to participate in the economic and financial parley at Genoa in March it was officially stated at the White House this after noon. President Harding considers the Cannes attitude toward Russia as an agreeable justification of the Ameri- said. HURRY TO RETRY "FATTY" Selection of Jury in Film Comedian's Case to Start Wednesday. San Francisco. Jan. 10. The trial of X. S. K. Walker for embezzlement was speeded to a close today in order that the second manslaughter trial of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle may open tomorrow. Interest is at a low ebb ii the tiial, this being evidenced by the email crowd which turned out for the ap pearance of the film star for his sec ond arraignment. Counsel were concerned today chiefly with the length of time the trial will occupy. It is expected it will take 'the balance of the week to get a jury. Attorneys for both sides predict the trial itself can be complet ed in two weeks after the jury is se lected. "Knowledge that the jury is to be locked up is expected to act as a de- 1 tcrrent to prospective jurors entering: th box and thus make difficult the' work of selection. A panel of sixty five jurors will be on. hand tomorrow. FOBKCA8T FOR KANS.YS. Ur tonig-ht and Wedwsday. Prw ceded unsettled ess portion. Colder toniglH nail- etuit portion YVedaesdajr. FAIR AND COOLER WEATHER No Chance for ItsJn or Snow, Says Meteorologist Flora. TODAY'S TEMPERATURES. 7 o'clock 31 I 11 o'clock 44 8 o'clock 32 j 12 o'clock 46 9 o'clock 33 I 1 o'clock 50 10 o'clock 39 I 2 o'clock 51 Shippers' Forecast. Trotect nil thirty-nix hours tihip meiits north nnl vxt ngainst a tem perature of 23 degrees. .Kast and south SO. Altho the sky was partly cloudy in Topeka this morning, it will clear up this afternoon and there is no chance of rain, according to Meteorologist Flora. It will be slightly colder to night and tomorrow, says the weather man. Tho sky was clear in northern Kansas today. The temperatures in the northwest were almost as high as those in Kansas. The highest temper ature in Topeka as well as Kansas dur ing tho last twenty-four hours was 62 degrees at 3:45 o'clock Monday after noon. This was only eight degrees below the highest temperatures in Florida. No severe weather was re ported in the United States today. Dodge City topped the Kansas rain market this morning, having received a rain of .40 of an inch. This rain covered the entire southwest portion of the state and extended to the Pan handle of Texas- This will be a great benefit to the wheat crop. The lowest temperature In Kansas during the last twenty-four hours was 2 4 degrees at Goodland. The highest in tho United States was 70 degrees at Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla., and the lowest was 2 degrees below zero at Modena;X-tah. The highest temperature ever re corded in Topeka on this date was 66 in 1911 and the lowest was 2 degrees below zero in 1918. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the wind was blowing at fifteen miles an hour from the north. Australian Voters Want Big Cnlon. Melbourne. Jan. 10. The Austral ian workers' unions have voted seven to one in favor of one big union. Gotham 1st Nighters To See Color Concert Harmony, Rliythm and Symphony of an Unheard Music To Be Thrown on Screen by an Entirely ?few Art. New York, Jan. 10. Gotham's first nighters will sit in tonight on their first "color concert" played on Thomas Wilfred's invention, the clavi lux, or color organ. Altho it is called an organ, and is equipped with a keyboard on which Mr. Wilfred will play, there will be no sound beyond the gentle whir of the electrical apparatus. The appeal of the clavilux is to the vision alone, and the "notes" played will be trans ferred to color on a screen in a dark ened theater. The audience will gather by vision the rhythm of unheard music, accord ing to Mr. Wilfred, who feels that this is a new field for aesthetic expression and enjoyment that is capable of de velopment into an entirely new art. Mr. Wilfred has worked on his dis covery for several years and refers to the inr oration as mobile color. The clavilux is three feet high, six feet long and calls for nimble fingers attuned to a color sensitive brain. OUT FOR BRIAND French Chamber of Deputies HVould Overthrow Premier.' Return From Supreme Council To Be Made Lively. Paris, Jan. 10. Kaoul. Peret was this afternoon re-elected president of the chamber of deputies and M. Bour geois was re-elected president of the senate. Kchoes of the naval controversy in Washington conference resounded in the chamber foreign relations com mitteeywhen the question raised by Minister of Marine Guisthau regard ing the publication of naval opinion in the review maritime was discussed. Another hard struggle to overthrow the ministry of Premier Briand is forecast in the session of the parlia ment -which began this afternoon. It was stated that only minor ques tions would be .discussed pending the return o the premier from Cannes at the end of the week. As soon as M. Briand gets back, the chamber will take up foreign policy and the results of. the supreme council meeting. A canvass of the members of the chamber indicates that it will oppose recognition of the Moscow soviet by France and will refuse French consent to an indemnity moratorium for Germany. mere was slight optimism among tne deputies as to the results of the Cannes meeting. Many declare that M. Briand deceived the chamber when he announced that he was going to Cannes with his hands free and that France was not bourid to any cut and dried program. Dispatches from Cannes have re vealed that M. Briand and Premier Lloyd George undertook certain en gagements at London which the French premier wished to repudiate when the supreme council met. The London program referred chiefly to German reparations. NATIONAL BANKS TO ELECT Annual Mn!ngs of Four in Topeka To Be Held Today. The four national banks of Topeka Merchants, Farmers. Central and Kaw Valley will hold the' annual meetings of their stockholders and directors this afternoon. The reports and election of officers and directors will be the main fea tures of the meetings. It will be necessary to elect a new head for the Farmers' National bank. H. G. West, formerly president, has disposed of h;s interest. C. C. Scoville, the purthaser, died recently. Waiter Wilson, who has been actinsr as man aging director of the bank, is said to be scheduled for election to the presi dency this afternoon. PASS BOOZE ORDINANCE Vehicles Vsed In Transporting- Liquor Will Be Seized. The city commission this morning passed the ordinance which declares an automobile or any other vehicle used in the transportation of alcoholic intoxicating' liquor into or out of To peka. or between two points within the city, a common nuisance. Hereafter any vehicle used for such purpose may be seized and its owner arrested, and the vehicle sold, the money to be paid into the general fund of the city. Are Trap Shooting Champs. New York, Jan. 10. Art Risaer of Paris, 111., 'is the leading amateur trap shooter of North America for 1921, and Hush Ragee the leading professional, according to official averages an nounced today by the American Trap Shooting association. HEBE FRQMALLPARTS STATE Governor Allen and H. G. Waters Start the Meeting. Senator E. E. Frizell Chosen Chairman of Session. Application of hard, sound, practi cal business methods to the farming business In Kansas plus co-operation were features of suggestions before the marketing conference today in representative hall. The meeting got under way with much evidence of harmony among rural organizations. There 'was a decided show of enthu siasm and more apparent determina tion to get results than has been in evidence in former market confer ences. t Farmers from every section of the state were in the hall for the opening session. Meetings scheduled for the week promise more important devel opments for the farming and livestock interests than any gathering held in Kansas in many years. There is not a farmer organization In the state which is not strongly represented. The mar ket conferences started off with an abundant evidence of fire and fight among the crop producers. Today's sessions will be followed Wednesday by a conference of farm interest with bankers regarding financial plans. Gov. Allen anil H. G. Waters Speak. Governor Allen and Henry G. Wa ters, former president of the State Agricultural college, started the meet ings with true pep speeches. They urged the farmers to strike out alone, to organize ami to get down to real practical business methods. Governor Allen told the farmers there were but slight differences in the various plans proposed, but that there was vital im portance in the adoption of some defi nite policy. Waters emphatically told the farm ers they had spent too much time talk ing things over and passing resolu tions. He skid results would not be secured by resolutions and mass meet ings. The only way to get results, tie said, was to get busy. Frlzoll Is Chairman. Senator E. E. Frizell of Lamed, president of the state board of agri culture, was chosen as chalrmnn of Ltoday's sessions. His election followed the formal opening of the conference by Ralph Snyder of Jefferson county. It was largely due to the efforts of Snyder and J. C. Mohler, secretary of the state board of agriculture, that the market conference was called in connection with farmer week meetings in Topeka. A rules committee appointed at the beginning of the day's activities, pro vided for business and limited oriir tory. It provided that each organiza tion represented in the meeting might have twenty minutes in which to pre sent any proposed plan. An individual might talk five minutes. With thi provision for the regulation of speeches, the meeting settled down to cool deliberate consideration of prac tical plans during the afternoon. I'rged Farmers to Organize. While committees worked during the morning Clifford Thorn of Chi cago, freight rate expert, told the farmers they must organize. He told them not to waste much time waiting for government aid, which might or might not come. The essential, he said, was organization. Carl Williams of Oklahoma City, president of the American Cotton Growers Exchange, told of results ac complished thru co-operative mar keting plans by cotton growers. He urged Kansas farmers to organize for the marketing of their crops. Early this morning almost the hour for completion of barnyard chores the farmers went into session. The Kansas Agricultural council went into session at 8:30, but recessed for the (Cortlnned n Pare Threet CALL MONEY IS WORTH LESS Lowest Figures in Two Tears Now Quoted on New York Market.- New Tork, Jan. 10. Call money or day to day loans opened at 3 per cent on the stock exchange today, tJie lowest initial rates since 1918. Unof ficial or private loans were made at 3 per cent. Time loans for 30 to 90 days were made at 4 per cent on mixed collateral and 4 to 6 months money was offered at 4 per cent on merchant paper. These are the low est quotations in over two years. Last week's statement of the clear ing house association fixed total loans and discounts of its members at about $4,465,000,000 against f4.576.000.00O in the first week of July, 1921. Othei factos indicating the plenitude of money are the facts that brokers' loans are said to be smaller than at any period since 1919while'a majority of the leading banks and trust companies are reported to be free from all In debtedness to the federal reserve bank. ASKS lOK TWO BODIKS. Indiana Grand Jury probes Death of Two Ituricd at Hiawatha. Hiawatha. Kan., Jan. 10. Follow ing a grand Jury investigation at Greenfield, Ind., a request has been made of the Kansas board of health for the disinterment of the bodies of A. B. Carl and his son, Frank Carl, buried at Hiawatha. Both formerly lived here but re moved to Greenfield several years ago. Last June the son brought his father's body here for burial, and two months later the body of the son was brought here by his widow. Autopsies are re quested, but no particulars are given. League of,-Nation Council Meets. Geneva. Jan. 10. The council of the League of Rations convened here to day, the second anniversary of its legal existence, under the presidency of Iaui Hymans of Belgium. Warrants Issued in Osago County Following Probe. GARAGE OWNER IS IMPLICATED O. 3f. Himellturger and Two Employes Are Held. Specific Crime Is Burning Barn In Oyerbrook. j- Following months of investigation. L. T. Hussey, state fire marshal, to day caused arrests of three Topekana and took Initial steps In breaking up what he believes may prove to be ex istence of an arson ring here. O. N. Himelburger, automobile agent and owner of a large garage at 111S-1S West Sixth avenue, was the central figure in today's arrests. Clyde Bel!, mechanic, and James Kennedy, negro both employed by Himelburger were also arrested on arson charges. Warrants for the three men wer issued in Osage county. All of th men are charged with arson. The spe cific crime was the burning of a bam in Overbook January 19, 1920. Tha men were taken to Lyndon by Osapo county officials. Bell and Kennedy have confessed. They assert that they were hired by Himelburger to Bet fire to the empty barn on which $1,400 In surance was carried. A Clonn-Cut Case, Says Hussey. After two years of persistent Inves tigation Marshal Hussey believes he has established a clean-cut case against the three defendants. So con clusive does he claim Is his evidence in the present case and so many new phases have developed that he todar Intimated that arrests here might lead to further and more sensational ac tion by the state. Following arrests here today stato officials renewed their efforts to se cure new aid additional testimony. "I don't want to talk too much be fore I act," said Marshal Hussey, "hut we have followed this case two years and we are dangerously near uncover ing work of an arson gang here. I don't believe there is a bit of question about our present case and I also be lieve It is Just the beginning of a start ling tale of crime." W Divorced and Itemarried. Himelburger, who Is well known here, may Owe much of his immediate trouble to recent domestic upheavels when he was divorced and remarried. Thru his divorced wife the state is reported to hav Information which furnished the basis of investigations and led to today's arrests. What is more the former Mrs. Himelburger is reported to have giver! officers tips on which they are now working in con nection with other cases. In the case of the Overbrook fire. Bell is reported to have been hired outright to drive to the Osage county town and back to Topeka. He drove a car from the Himelburger garage,, according to the state, and received $50 for making the trip. He was at the time and has since been an em ploye of HimelburKor. Kennedy's story has the touch of a novel. He recited In a sworn state ment that thru intimidation and ex citing of the negro passion of fear, he went to Overbrook with Bell and wt fire to the barn. This is Kennedy's story in brief. Working in the employ of Himel burger, he bought team. He bor rowed the money from his employer. Then the war came on and Kennedv was called in the draft. He sold hia team he says with consent and ap proval of Himelburger but the horsos brought $60 less than the amount of j the loan. Himelburger. it seems, dldn t release the mortgage. Took Chanec on Arson, When Kennedy came home frnm the war h returned to work for Him elburger. He claims Himelburger wanted to hire him to go to Overbrook to set fire to the empty barn. He re fused to go. Before the eyes of tho negro the prison doors were ajar. Himelburger is quoted as telling Ken nedy he could go to prison for selling mortgaged property or take a chanci on arson. He took a chance on arson, The day after the fire the mortgage was returned to him, it Is claimed. Five gallons of gasoline were used in burning the barn. Bell and Ken nedy drove madly back to Topeka after starting the fire. Persons who tried to apprehend them failed. They Uleph'iiied Bher.ff Mller and he went to the Himelburger home, but .tha barn owi:r was in bed. His car In th garage was cold. But another car the one which the state claims ma1 1h trip to Overbrook was warm. Its por-ulinr tread was in the frost on th pavement outside, it is claimed. Now, after two years, the state has taken action. Marshal Hussey has been persistently on the case since th f!re. While he will not discuss details of plans or go into evidence which the state has secured, he left today a broad inference that the Overbrook fire ease is but one of a series of sn-' national developments In connection with an arson probe in Topeka. TVO.DIE IN BIG FIRE Many Baltimore Fnmtlie Marie Ilom Iosh by Knrf)- Morn'ng Blaze. Baltimore. Md. Jan. 10. K woman and a man were burned to death ant several others had narrow escapes in a fire which destroyed three dwelling houses here early today. Mrs. Josephine Playton, 80 years old, and Harry McAllen, 51. lost the:r live.. Mrs. KUzabeth Stinner wa overcome by smoke. The fire drov several families from their homes. John J. Wiseman saved the iivea of his wife and their four small children j when awakened by the odor of smoke, j He carried the members of his farfMly down the stairs and to the street t3 I safety. No estimate of the property damage could be made.

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s THE TOPEKA DAILY' STATE JOURNALTUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1922 An Independent Newspaper BX FRANK P. MACLEXNAN VOLUME XLIV ...No. 8 Entered 03 second cIsbs mistter. OFFICIAL. CITY PAPER OF TOPEKA. Subscription Bales by MaU. By mail in advance, out year. .W 00 By mail In advance, six months.. 3.00 By mail In advance, three montusL. l.f Uy njaU in advance, one month... .00 Bate by Carrier. One week ,...l.cents One month 00-cents Telephone 3000. Kastera office: Paul Block, representa tive. No. 5 Madison avenue. New lork; Century buildius. Chicago; Little. Bldg., H..Btou Kr.'syu building. Detroit; Lewis ntug.t uunaio Menioer Assocuneu jY; Kewsuaper Publishers' Association, Audit Bureau of Circulation. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATE!! PRESS. The Associated Press is esclusiverV en titled to the use for re-publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other wise credited in this paper and alBO- the local news puDiisneu oereiu. INFORMATION FOB AIL READERS OF TUB TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL. Kaon reader of The State Journal Is of fered the unlimited use of the largest in formation bureau in the world. This Service Bureau Is located in the national capital, where it is in immediate touch with all the great resources of the United States government. It can answer practically any question ?au wuut to ask. hot it can't giva advice, r make exhaustive research. The war forced so many changes in the flail v life of the American people that the service of this Information bureau will be invaluable to all who use it. Keep in touch with your government at all times, it can help you In a thousand ways if your wants are only made known, lbe State Journal pays for this splendid service io order that every one of its read ers may lake advantage of it. You are welcome tu use ti n. w.ii. j Write your request briefly, sign your stain p for return postage and address '.he TOPEKA STATE JOL'UNAL. INFORMA TION UL'HEAU. Krederls J. Haskln, Director, Washing ton. I. O. Along with the general outcry against high taxes comes the informa tion that the bulk of our taxes goes for the support of the schools. The people, of course, want the best there it to be had in educational facilities, but our schools may be costing; more than they should at that. A large amount of the taxpayers money is be ing spent on fads and on subjects of questionable usefulness. Those who pay for the support of the schools are entitled to service corresponding to the investment. There is a 'wide spread belief, however, that they are not getting it. Advancing the salaries of the teachers does not appear to have brought any important changes in the system. This, of course, is not the fault of the grade teachers. They are mere machines, working n grooves. The international debt situation is summed up by the Sioux City Tribune as follows: "France must collect every penny of the German repara tions because she must pay Britain and the United States. Belgium must collect every penny, because she must pay Britain and the United States. Italy must collect every ,penny be cause she must pay Britain and the United States. And Britain must col lect from Germany, France, Belgium and Italy because she must pay the United States." Thus it may easily be seen why certain European nations favor a cancellation of all debts ex cept Germany's. A subscriber to the Hartford Con rant has written to that paper a ti rade against the custom of Christmas giving. The editor became so indig nant that he promptly wished the re former the greatest punishment he could think of and that is that he may never know the pleasure of giving to a child at Yuletide. It is r ported that Will Hays, post master general, has been offered a salary of $150,000 a year to go into the movie business. Baseball inter ests must stir themselves to beat that. Peace apparently has come to Ire land and in the only way that it could come, that is, thru compromise. On the main issue, the absolute indepen dence of the island, there never could have been agreement. "What the Irish have obtained probably they could have had years ago, and without tur moil or bloodshed, if they had asked for it. They now can resume fighting among themselves. It is reported that fire, believed to be of incendiary origin, has de stroyed a laundry at Camp Travis, Texas. Possibly the concern had been charging Topeka prices. Cleveland, O., has entered upon a new plan of city government. It is the city manager plan, except that the manager is the mayor and he has been elected by the people. He appoints a cabinet of seven members, corre sponding to our commissioners. The experiment should command the at tention of other cities seeking a bet ter method of conducting their busi ness. That a large sum of money was pent in Michigan in 1918 to elect Newberry to the United States senate there appears to be no room for doubt. The senator's defense is that he did not know anything about what was going on. Such things w ere done differently in the old days. It Is re called that when choice of United States senators rested with the fegis latures, the title of a Kansas man to his seat in the upper house of con gress was questioned and an Investi gation was ordered. Before the probe was inserted, however, the senator arose In his place and said in substance: "There Is no reason for. proceeding with this investigation. I went to To- peka and found a United States sen atorship for sale for $60,000. Having by me that amount of money which I did not otherwise need, I bought it. Since there appears to be a feeling that it was not right ,1 will resign." And h did. He had occupied the seat two years. POWER SHIFTS TO WEST. The passing of Senator Penrose and the fact that his place as chairman of the most important senate commit tee will be taken by a western man. Senator McCumber of North Dakota, is attracting much public attention. McCumber is classed as a member of the "agricultural bloc." If the bloc will not cease playing politics and devote its efforts to work which will be actually beneficial to western interests it may find itself in a position to accomplish much good. One of the first points of attack, in the opinion of the Chicago Tribune, is the "Pittsburgh Plus" evil. "Pitts burgh Plus" is the practice of the steel mills of charging the middle western consumers of rolled steel products the cost of the finished steel at Pittsburgh plus the imaginary freight to the point of consumption, or an additional price of $7.60 per ton in Chicago, above the proper price of such steel manufactured at Gary, Ind. It means an additional charge of $13.20 a ton at Duluth, and a varying excess, greater or less, thruout the entire middle west. This toll of imaginary freight rates, never paid to the railroads, but go ing into the pockets of the steel pro ducers, la estimated at more than $75,000,000 a year. That $76,000,000 a year comes out of the pockets of men in every walk of life. The farmer, it is estimated by the American Farm Bureau federation, uses an average of 3,300 pounds of steel a year in various forms. Allow ing nothing for the added cost of do ing business, or the added profits on such cost by fabricators, that would mean an additional annual toll of more than $20 a year to each farmer in Kansas. City men pay even a higher price. The additional cost to the new federal reserve bank of Chicago alone has been estimated at $60,000. Every new building in every middle western town contributes to this toll according to the amount of steel it requires. Every manufacturer and consumer of machinery, every fabricator of rolled steel products pays. Every consumer of manufactured goods of any de scription pays because of the higher cost of such manufacture due to high er cost of plant and equipment. The farmer and the city man pay together because of the higher cost of good concrete roads for their communication. The good roads pro gram now laid out in this country is said to require 11,000,000 tons of steel. If the agricultural bloc desire to do something worth while for the whole west, farmers Included, here is its op portunity. There appears to be, in some quar ters, a disposition to blame the busi ness depression on the government's guaranty to the railroads of a 5 per cent return on their investment. 13 the public to understand that a return of 5 per cent on business invest ments is too high? NURSING A SERPENT. While American statesmen are do ing everything possible to minimize the chances of future wars, and are being heartily supported in their ef forts by representatives of other coun tries, Russia is building up the great est standing army in the world. And it might be truthfully added that this country is aiding her in the undertak ing by feeding her starving people who are not in the ranks. The soviet army now numbers 1,695,000 men, according to Soviet Minister of War Trotzky, who de clares their training this winter must be intensified in order that they may be fully prepared for war next spring and summer. In the course of a speech before the Russian congress at Moscow he revealed that 43 per cent of the Red army have been work ing men, and that 60 per cent of all the forces were peasants. That means that the soviet government has with drawn from productive occupations, such as agriculture, about a million men, and has assembled them and about 650,000 other individuals into the biggest standing army in the world. Not only is the productive ca pacity of those men lost to Russia, but millions of others are at work producing material and supplies with which to maintain the army and fur nish it with implements o war. One of the causes of the famine in the Volga district is that' the govern ment has sequestered the grain and is using It in the maintenance of an army. Had the surplus products of the soil in former years been stored against such an emergency as the drouth of last year, there is no reason to doubt that the people in the fam ine districts could have been provided for. So long and in proportion that out side aid Is sent into Russia the main tenance of a huge military machine by the soviet government is made eas ier. If the burden of supporting the Russian civilian population is as sumed by an obliging foreign nation, all the attention and resources of those in power can be centered on their army; in short, the nation that sends supplies into Russia is a direct contributor to militarism, and stimu lates the very thing most responsible for the condition it seeks to alleviate. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL Information Bureau FREDERIC 3. HASKIN, Director, Washington, D, C. THE PROLIFIC FOREMAN. Washington, D. C, Jan. 7. The most prolific people in the United States, when they are classified ac cording to occupation, are foremen, overseers and inspectors of mines. The wives of these men bear on an average 4.6 children per wife and each of them has on an average of 3.9 children now living. .These interesting figures on the proliferation of mine foremen have just been issued by the bureau of cen sus as a part of a long tabulation of the American birth rate according to occupation. It is a roost interesting tabulation and a somewhat bewilder ing one in a way. It upsets our pre conceived notions as; to what kinds of people have the most children and why. It also sheds some light on that much discussed question as to whether the native population of the United States is maintaining itself or slowly dying out and leaving the country to the immigrants. But before we proceed to general izations, let us note some of the as tonishing figures which the census bu reau has brought out. Next to mwie foremen, we find that the most pro lific occupational class in the United States is that of foremen and over seers on steam and electric railroads. The wife of a traction foreman bears on an average 4.2 children, of which 3.8 survive. This average mortality of less than one-half a chfld per fam ily is especially creditable to the transportation business. Foremen and overseers of all kinds seem to have a lot of children and they seem to have good luck in rais inar them. Perhaps this is not surpris ing. A foreman or overseeit is apt to be a workman of more than usual in telligence who has worked his way up, and who receives a good income. Nat urally, having lived on day wages for a long time, his standard of living will not be as high as that of a lawyer or doctor. He will not spend as much on luxuries, and so will be more in clined to raise children. The Janitor's Family. So much for the foreman. The next most prolific occupational class we find to be that of janitors and sex tons. The janitors' wives average 4.1 children per wife, and no less than 3.4 of these children on an average sur vive to cry at night, steal milk bottles and put dead cats in the dumb-waiter. Why as many an apartment dweller has doubtless asked before should janitors be so philoprogenitive? Of course, they get rent and heat free and 1 they have the whole basement for the kids to play around in. But it is I surely surprising to find that in the whole United States, only these two kinds of foremen, janitors and sextons and one other class succeed in beget ting an average of four or more chil dren per family. In all of the other occupational classes listed, the average number of children born is less than four, and in none of them is the .aver age number of children living as much as four. The mine foreman, with his 3.9 smiling babes, has the largest aver age family in the country. For the registration area of the United States the average number of children born per mother was 3.3, and the average number of children living per mother was 2.9. What we have always heard about the birthrate is that the population is "dying at the top," by which it is meant that people of wealth and peo ple in the professions have small fami lies, while the laborers and very poor people generally have large families. We are usually told that the average woman must raise three children in order to keep up the population and increase it a little. If this is true, the population of the country as a whole is just barely being maintained by the people in it, and the increase is due wholly to immigration. This study shows once" more that the problem of restricting and regulating immigration is the real population problem in the United States -ana one which seems nowhere near solution. The surprising thing In this tabula tion is that it fails to discover any class which is highly prolific, and re veals, for instance, that road workers and clergymen run a neck and neck race in the production of children, while garbage men and scavengers have on an average only 7-10 of a child more per family than lawyers, justices and judges. It is true that this tabulation shows the professional classes as averaging about one-third less prolific than the people who work for wages in a city; but it gives one very strongly the im pression that the poor man's huge family, which is always held up to us as such an unfortunate and common thing, must be much less common than is supposed. If it were common, some of these averages would inevita bly be higher. Factory Workers. For example, the largest wage earning class in the cities is that of factory workers. In the factories you find most of those immigrant families which are reputed to be so large. This tabulation lists about forty different occupations in manufacturing and the mechanical industries. The highest average number of children living per family is found among furnacemen, smeltermen, heaters and pourers, who perspire to maintain an average of 3.4 children per family. Electricians and engravers are found to be the least prolific men in the manufacturing In dustries, averaging only 2.1 children living per family. The great majority of the types of workers in factories have less than three children living on an average. Comparing these with the profes sionals we find that clergymen are the only professional class having an average of three living children. Architects artists and sculptors have two. Musicians, photographers, doc tors, teachers and writers are in the same class with an average of but 2.1 children per family. Actors, chemists, dentists, inventors and engi neers all average slightly less than two living children per family. Thus it would seem that the differ ence in size of families between wage workers and professionals is not near ly as large as has been assumed, and that families of more than three or four children must be rare every where in the United States. It is also commonly asserted that among working people many more children are born to die than among the well-to-do, but this is also hard to substantiate from the figures. It is true that the discrepancy between number of children born and number living is slightly larger among labor ers, stevedores and loom fixers than it is among doctors, lawyers ani judges but the difference is not large. Stevedores average 3.8 children born and 3.2 children living. Lawyers average 2.4 children born and 2.2 chii- oren living. The child of a lawyer has only a little better chance to sur vive; than the child of a stevedore, according to this. It is only in the country that a consistently higher rate of increase is found. Farmers, farm workmen and farm laborers have 3.4, 3.2 and 3 children living on an average per fam ily, respectively. Here Is a slight in crease, which doubtless accounts in part for the movement from the farms toward the city. In general, the picture which this tabulation draws is that of a country where competition is hard in all oc cupations and reproduction therefore naturally slow. -It is a country getting over its age of pioneer expensiveness, reaching the point when its popula tion, if let alone, would become rela tively stable. But this population is being constantly increased from with out by the influx from countries where the standard of living is lower. The immigration we were getting 50 years ago was one we needed. There is no real room for the hordes who are coming now no land, no jobs. They can find places only by displac ing, by underselling, someone else. THE NEW GENERATION BU JANE PHELPS MALCOLM AND JOAN SPEND THE EVENING WITH MARTHA. Chapter 116. Malcolm Frost really loved the self willed Joan, really intended to be pa tient and gentle with her. He knew how she had been brought up, how she had been indulged, and allowed to follow her own sweet will. He deter mined over and over that he .would not judge her as he would the girls at home, yet he found himself doin; so, wondering if Gloria Freeman would do as Joan did; or what Hor tense Thompson would think of the free and easy ways of the studio. That Joan was impatient of reproof he very well knew. That she had snapped him up shortly several times when he attempted it was a warning that he tried to heed, but which he found difficult. That other boys or men should make so free with his Joan, wasn't to be calmly endured always. Martha and her professor had re turned from their wedding trip, and Malcolm and Joan had spent a long, happy evening with them in their lit tle flat up near the college. It was all so cozy and comfortable they were both so happy, that Malcolm was even more eager for Joan to marry him soon so that they too might have a iittle place of their own. "It is very different from the studio life," Martha said. "I am afraid Joan would miss the boys and girls running in and out. It is quiet, and perhaps would be a bit lonely if I didn't keep so busy all the time. But you see we haven't much money, so I have to do the work, then I try to help the pro- ressor in the evening. He is doing ex tra work at the college." Martha's voice was o loving, so proud when she spoke of the "profes sor" one could readily imagine she meant "her professor;" and she was so daintily home-like in her cotton housedress, that Malcolm thought he never would ask ror greater happiness than to be with Joan in just the same simple way. "I don't believe Joan would be lone ly would you?" Malcolm asked in re ply to what Martha had said. "One can never tell until one tries was Joans non-committal answer. "I am not particularly domestic." "Neither was I." Martha reloined "But when it is all your own, when you both work together, why it makes an the difference in the world. One likes to do things one would have hated before. Being married seems to change one's viewpoint about many tnings. Alalcolm thought Martha's frank ness delightful and told her so. "Why shouldn't one say they are nappy: we love each other, and it seems to me that is the greatest thing in the world the love two people nave tor each other." 'You two are getting terribly sent!' mental," Joan broke in. "You'll make Malcolm expect so much that he'll be terribly disappointed in me, I'm afraid. I m not as pliable as you are, Martha." "You will be when you and Malcolm are together." I haven't your faith." Joan an swered a bit wistfully. She loved Mal colm, yet she could not easily bear any criticism from him no matter how gently made; neither could she en dure to be questioned. "You see I haven't been used to it. was her invariable excuse when she resented what he said. Yet how happy they were as they went home from Martha s: how erlee fully they chatted about the pleasant evening they had spent, Martha's love and admiration for the professor his love for her! "We shall be lust as happy, Joan.' Malcoimn said as he patted her hand resting on his arm. They walked to the subway, it was a lovely night, and they had so much to talk about. It was late, too, and not many on the train, so they continued their con ffdences even in that noisy cavern of speed. When Malcolm left her he said: "It must be soon, Joan. When will your book be finished?" "It's coming on fine! Won't Mumsle be surprised?" "Yes and we shall be happy, Joan, as happy as Martha and the professor are. shan t we dear?" "T sincerely hope so, but I'm afraid you'U have to be awfully good to me, Malcolm." "I shall try to be. Joan." (Tomorrow Margaret announces Joan's engagement.) Questions Answers Q. M'hat is a pat hand in straight poker, and is four of a kind considered a pat hand? G. M. H. A. Pat hands are those which are played without discarding or .exchanging any of the cards originally dealt. Four of a kind might be a pat hand or its holder might draw one card to mislead other ma vers. Q. Is the peanut a nut or a vegetable? A. N. A. The peanut is a vegetable and be longs to the same family as the common pea or bean. Q. What kind of nuts are used in pra lines? C. I. C. A. Pralines are confections made of nut Kernels, usually of almonds, roasted in boiling sugar until brown and crisD. In this country, pralines usually contain pecan meaLS. (Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing The Topeka Stste journal information Bureau. Frederic J. Hnskin, Director, Washington, D. C This offer applies strictly to Information. The Bureau cannot give advice on legal med ical and financial matters. It does cot at tempt to settle domestic troubles, nor to nndertake exhaustive research on anv sub. Ject. Write your question plain'v and briefly. Olre full Dime and address and enclose two cents in stamps for return postage. All replies are seat direct to taa IttQiurer.) Evening Story The Noon Hour Notes. BY FRANK H. WILLIAMS. Don Jones thought that Dolly Smith was the prettiest girl in the world. All day long, 'as they -worked in the big general offices of the Acme Manu facturing company, Don stole glances at her as she bent demurely over her typewriter, turning out work just about twice as fast as any other girl in the office and work that was just about three times as neat as theirs. And every time that Don glanced at her brown hair and big blue eyes and rosy cheeks, his heart did a quick step and he felt like rushing right up to her and carrying her otr with mm to the "marrying parson" three blocks down on the street on which the Acme company was located. Then as .Don would turn reluctant ly back to his work, his heart would sink. What chance had he. anyhow? Not the least little chance in the world against Charles Gilliom, the sales manager, who, tho there was gray in his hair and lines at the corners of his eyes, courted Dolly with all the ardor of a college youth. Of course Don and Dolly were good friends. But always when Don was on the verge of leaning close to Dolly and whispering in her pretty ear that it would be a good stunt for them to hook up and go thru life together the thought of his meager salary rose up and chilled him. And there was Gil liom looming in the distance with his fat salary and big, powerful automo- i bile. Surely it wouldnt be right to deprive Dolly of the life of ease that Gilliom could give her. For some weeks things dragged on this way Don becoming more pessi mistic and less ardent from day to day, and Gilliom becoming ardent and more confident as time went on. Then there came a day on which Dolly hestitated when Dan asked her to go to the movies that night. "I I hardly know what to say." said Dolly. "I was out late last night and I'm going to be out late tomor row night. I really ought to stay home tonight and get some sleep. It always makes me sleepy to ride in. an automobile and I didn't get enough sleep last night." Don shivered a bit as Dolly said this. He felt as if some one had thrown cold water over him. He knew, of eourse, who Dolly had been with the night before and who she was to be with the following night. Of course, it would be-Gilliom. He was the only one of Dolly's friends who owned an automobile. Right away Don pessimistically speculated on the state of affairs. He decided at once that Dolly was as good as engaged to Gilliom and that this was her way of letting him down easily. "Oh, well, we'll call it off then!" exelainied Don, and turned hurriedly away without looking up at Dolly. As he strode down the street he thought he heard Dolly calling after him. But he didn't stop. Probably she merely wanted to tell him how sorry she felt for him. He couldn't stand that, so he kept right on walking away hurriedly. The next day at the office Don reso lutely kept his eyes away from Dolly. So successful was he in doing this that Sammy, the office boy, took notice of it. Having noticed the situation Sam my approached Don cautiously. "What's the matter?" queried Sam my. "Did she give you the frozen mitt?" As he spoke Sammy indicated Dolly with a nod of his head. For a moment Don felt like throt tling Sammy. Then he thought better of the idea and decided not to throttle him. "No," said Don, "she didn't give me the icy mitt. I've simply quit. What chance," he added bitterly, "has a guy got these days against a bird with a lot of coin?" Then without waiting for an answer from Sammy. Don mournfully answered himself, "Not a chance not a chance in the world!" "Well, cheer up!" admonished Sam my. "There are plenty of fish still left in the sea." r'Huh," retorted Don, "I don't want to marry a fistf!" It was on the following day that Don, upon returning to his desk from lunch, found the first of a series of notes which surprised him and made him again feel like committing mur der upon Sammy. The first note Don found read like this: "Faint heart never won fair lady." The note was scrawled on a sheet of scrap paper in a boyish hand. Right away Don felt that a trick was being played upon him by the fun-loving Sammy. But, in order to be sure about the matter Don secured some specimens of Sammy's handwriting and compared these specimens with tho note. The writing certainly looked alike. There could, therefore, be no doubt that Sammy was respon sible. But Don decided to catch Sammy in the act before saying any thing to him. For the purpose of catching Sammy right at it Don returned to the office earlier than usual the following day. But Sammy was not about. However, there was a note on the desk, just the same. This second note read like this: "Aw, go ahead and try! Mebbe you got a chance after all." The handwriting was the same as that of the first note. On the third day Don exercised par ticular care in his effort to apprehend Sammy, but again he failed. And again he found a note on his desk, this one reading like this: "You better hurry, or it really will be too late." An intense hatred for Sammy flood ed Don as he read this third note. The impudence of the boy interfering in this way and trying to tell Don how to run his affairs! If he ever caught him in the act of putting a note on the desk he'd he'd pulverize the boy, that's what. So intensely was Don aroused that the next noon he didn't leave the building at all: he simply went from the general office into a nearby room and there camped to await develop ments and to wonder, morosely, when Dolly and Gilliom would get married. Then, about 12:30 o'clock, Don's ac tivities were rewarded. He saw Sam my walking thru thet big general of fice room toward the desk. He saw Sammy stop at the desk and quickly put a paper upon it. And then Don swooped down upon Sammy like an eagle after its prey. "I got you that time!" exclaimed Don. "You you're so fresh I've got a good mind to to With Sammy in his hands. Don' was quite at a loss what to do next. He couldn't hurt the boy, of course, but Sammy's impertinence must stop. But apparently Sammy didn't rea lize that he was in any physical danger, for he writhed in Don's grasp and began telling Don to let him go. Then suddenly Sammy's tune changed. "Oh, Miss Doily help! Come quick. Miss Dolly!" Don listened to Sammy in the utmost amazement. What had Dolly to do with the affair? At Sa nmy's cry the door from the girls' rest room opened and Dolly hurried into the general office. Don saw her face go scarlet as she took in the situation. "You make him let me go!" cried Sammy. "He he "How can you pick on a boy like that?" demanded Dolly, coming up to Don. "I'm not picking on him," declared Don, rather sullenly. "But he's been annoying me with a lot of silly notes and and it's got to stop." As Don spoke his grasp on Sammy loosened. Sammy suddenly squirmed away, and then at a safe distance made a face at Don. "You poor fish!" cried Sammy. "Go ahead and get her. She made me write the notes. She told me just what write!" Sammy pointed at Dolly and then scurried from the room. As the full significance of Sammy's words came to Don his heart leaped into his eyes and he gazed deep into Dolly's eyes. And in her eyes, before she shyly turned away, he saw some thing that made his heart leap for joy. i "Why, why, Dolly!" he exclaimed, and caught her to him. "And you aren't going to marry Gilliom?" questioned Don. "You're willing to take a chance with me, poor salary aad everything?" "No and, and yes," smiled Dolly. "You know which is no and which is yes. I only went with Gilliom to make you jealous." But why didn't you sa- something or do something?" queried Don. "Why didn't you?" countered "Dolly. And as Don had to come back to that question he kissed her again. (Copyright, IKK, by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) Dorothy Dix Talks BY DOROTHY PIX Wrla't Hiffbeat PmI4 Woxnaa Writer. Taking Stock 2. When the business man takes stock he junks the articles that are worn out, that are out of fashion, that are obsolete. No good business man clut ters up his factory with out-of-date machinery. No successful merchant takes up the space on his shelves with hoop skirts, and bustles, and the sort of clothes that his mother used to wear. He knows he must be contin ually getting- in a new stock of mer chandise, and keep up with the times, or else he will go to the wall. When we take stock of ourselves we will do well if we do likewise, and cast into the discard our moth-eaten ideals, and our old-fashioned prej udices that do not fit this age and generation. The theory that the old days were the best days, and thai, especially, the times when we were young? were the days when all human wisdom and virtue flowered; the idea that because we are middle-aged or old we are infallible in -our opinions; the fond belief that we have a right to sit in judgment on the young; and to dictate their manners, and morals, and general conduct; the conviction that the youth of today is degenerate, and is going to the devil, all of these notions we ought to chuck out into the ash can. They are old stock, unusable, un saleable, no good to anybody, and they take up so much space in our heads that they leave no room for new, fresh ideas and impressions. Age is nothing but an inability to change one's view point. As long as we keep a continual turn-over of the latest ideas we ar young, no matter how many years we have been doing business at the same old stand. A good business man, after he has audited his accounts writes off his losses. They are bound to occur to even the most prosperous concern. He pays them, and the incident is closed. Suroly, we do well to follow his example in this, also, when we balance our book of life, at the end of the year. No human existence can be all sunshine. To each of us there must come sorrow, and disappoint ment. Some of our most cherished plans go wrong. Friends we have trusted betray us. Love we have counted on, fails us. Let us not brood over our wrongs, or cherish our sorrows. Let us charge it off to profit and loss, and wipe off the slate, and start afresh with the new year. (Copyright, U2u, Dy the VTescsi CjndlcaC ise.1 George Matthew Adams Daily Talk THAT WHICH IOC DOX'T QUITE GET. Walt Whitman, in writing of Lin coln's face, has this to say: "Xone of the artists or pictures has caught the deep tho subtle and indirect ex pression of this man's face. 1'her.j in something elsa there." The artist is great for what he con ceals from you, but which you applaud! We strive for ideals beyond us. We are thrilled by what we gain from toil and long years of waiting and patience but that which we receive is not the biggest thing that makes our heart warm and our face to smile. It's that which we don't quite get. The lover clothes his sweetheart with perfected beauty. Her merest expression to him is sweeter than the smoothest melody in his ears. If he could understand her and she would solve herself to him in all that she iB, the castle in which he has found her would crash to earth. It's the something else that Is there in those we love that binds us to them. Outside my bedroom window a branch from a tall tree waves to me i every morning. On this branch lately I have watched a gray bird sing mar velous songs. Its little throat vibrates with happy melodies. And tho it sits but a few feet from my gaze, still it does not fear but goes thru its concert :.w i i a r it'. tthat thnt ft.lrri think, nf me a funny looking human being that I would like to know. The mystery of not knowing it is this that drives us all on and on and on. That which you don't quite get Is what makes you think, and work, and bear. Spurred by its fascination, you climb over your failures and disap pointments and FEEL, that you are winning anyway. As you are! The best that is within us must al ways express without explaining the secrets within our personalities. ON SECOND THOUGHT BY JAY E. HOUSE (From Philadelphia Public Ledger.) Ever anxious to promote harmony and good feeling, the column offers its services to the senate as mediator in the Newberry case. As you may have suspected, we have a solution, and it is a very simple one. It is that those senators whose campaign ex penditures exceeded the sum set down in tha sworn statement required by law vote to seat Mr. Newberry and that those whose campaign expendi tures did not exceed the limit fixed by law vote against him. We have given this solution of the matter careful consideration. It seems to us to be a fair and sporting proposi tion. And, while we are not In Sena tor Newberry's confidence, we believe it will be perfectly satisfactory to him. As those who read the column we refer to the lady in Pennsylvania, the gentleman in Jenkintown and the one in Haverford as those who read the column have inferred, we have cer tain violent and unreasonable preju dices. One of the objects of such un seemly emotion is the gentleman who springs to his feet to "holler" Wolf! and inadvertently discloses wool in his own teeth. In order that we may explain the matter, we select this choice para graph from a fulsome letter sent in by a Camden customer for exploita tion. The gentleman writes: "From time to time about quarterly you run free advertisements of Ring Lard ner. But thru all of the writings of Lardner I have seen no word of praise for you. In fact, he has apparently ignored your existence. If I am mis taken. I would appreciate reading a few extracts from his comments. It looks like another case of 'Me und Gott.'

Probably the Camden reader im agines he has us stumped, but we fancy we have a perfectly satisfactory answer to his question. We don't sup pose Ring ever heard of the column or the reporter who writes it. A chappie can't be expected to mention another chappie of whom he never heard. While we. greatly admire Mr. Lard ner, and frequently say so, we admit his influence is not always for the best. The locution. "It looks like," employed by our Camden customer, can, no doubt, be traced directly to him. Another date has been set for the Wilson hour. It will be observed on January 16. May we express the hope that the people will not, for a second time, forget this important ceremonial. There need, 'however, be little fear of such contingency. Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt has allied himself with the movement. He can make it go, if any body can. All that occurs to us at the moment is that the "fillum" folk need Will Hays or some other good Presbyter ian. But while our admiration for Mr. Hays virtually is boundless, we don't believe even he can get that $11,000, 000 worth of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle celluloid out of the storage warehouse. About Books and Literature. Sir Don't worry about reading Con rad: you haven't missed much. But if you haven't read him, how do you know all about Heyst" How do you expect to get away with that sort of stuff, you poor fish? Have you ever tried Edith Wharton's "Ethan From me"? There is a masterpiece with a subject not dissimilar to that of "If Winter Comes," but the hero is a regu lar guy. Try it. It won't do you any harm to read a good book once in a while. P. M. R. The suggestion concerning "Ethan Fromme" doesn't intrigue, and for this reason: One who reads the column so carelessly and misunderstandingly as to attribute to it a knowledge of Baron Heyst would be an unsatisfactory liter ary adviser. He would, we fancy, be equally careless and uncertain in his literary judgments. At any rate, we shall lay off "Ethan Fromme" until we learn what sort o! book it is. If it is in the manner of "The Age of Innocence." we'll change it. A lady can read "The Age of In nocence" without getting her hair mussed. But if it is in Mrs. Whar ton's earlier manner, we wouldn't read it for worlds. We read one of Mr. Wharton's books three years ago last summer, and the resultant blush still mantles our cheeks. Music Is Essential Make Your Family Happy With a Genuine Victrola We have a model that will suit your taste and your pocket book.. SOME SPECIAL OUTFIT SUGGESTIONS Oar Special Outfit B Victroln, Style 6, with 10 10-inch double face S5c Victor Records your own selection. Very tO CA easy payments r).Jv Onr Special Outfit F Victrola. Style 90, wrth 12 10-inch double face 85c Victor Records your own selection. Very CI OtJ OA easy payments tPlOJ.siU Our Special Outfit G Vic trola, Style 100, with 13 10 inch double face 85c Victor Records your own selection. Very easy payments. $160.20 JUST FOLKS BY EDGAR A. GUEST. CREATES THAJJ "VICTORY. I thought I'd done a dreadful thing, Mv hope had fallen fluttering And I had failed where, I had tried For conquest and its touch of pride. I'd done my best and it had lost And in despair I summed the cost. But quickly I was reconciled. She heard "my story thru, and smiled. "What matters it?" -she said to me, "We did not need the Tktory." Then ttud came bounding thru the door. And helter-skelter on the floor I romped with him, forgetting Jhere The hurt of failure and despair, As happy at' the close of day As tho success had come my way. Bud and his mother blessed pair! Were proof against the stings of care. They would not change or lore me less Because I faltered In success. They did not. to be proud of me. Always require a victory. And tho despair had left me glum. They still would smile to see me com. Here is the cure for every ache. The balm to comfort each niistnko, i So long as they who understand, :f Rejoice to take me by the hand .-j And gladly welcome me at night I still can master every plight. Here is the greater victory, Always to have them proud of me. (Copyright, 1021, by Edgar A. Guest., LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK BY UES r AFB. Frank Feernot and the Millionalr. A play. Scene, boys throwing snow balls at old man. Frank Feernot. Hay, cut that out. Youll be old yourselfs some day if you live that long. Ill give you all a gool swift kick in the pants if you dont leave that poor old man alone. Old man. I may be a old man but Im not poor. Im rich. Frank Feernot. Im glad to heer it for your sake. Old man. A million dollers dnp.t meen eny more to me than a cent. Heer, 111 rite you out a check for a million as a slite reward for you. bravery. Frank Feernot. No thanks 1 wouldent know wat to do with it and it would ony be in the way. Old man. How sensible for one sr. young. Well then how about a halt a million wlte we're on the subjeck" Frank Feernot. Well I dont wurit fab appeer selfish and not take eny thing. II! take a dime if its all the same to you. Old man. Sure I dont think eny more of a dime than I do of a million, thais how rich I am. Heers the dime and 111 leeve you the million in my will. Frank Feernot. Thanks, I wouldent mind having it that way. Old man. Maybe 3U leeve you -million for good mezzure. WeU'gooi by. Frank Feernot. Good byA Be care fill you dont slip on the ice becaubc your bones brake easy at yourage. Ack 2. Frank Feernot. Holey smokes X forgot t;o givs him my name and ad dress. The end. Dinner Stories I A member of one of the theatrical clubs tell? us of a stranded but Ptill haughtey leading man- who was obliged to put up at a dilapidated country hotQl. He glanced frownini; ly about the office, reluctantly signed the register, and took the brass key from the proprietor. "If there any water in my room?" he demanded. 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