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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNALSATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1916
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Local News Events of the
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Week as Depicted by Bolmar
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The great photoplay, the Birth ot
a Nation, exhibited before Kansas
Hoard of Film Censors.
Birth of a Nation company forbid
den by State Censors to show its
photoplay in Kansas.
President and Mrs. Wilson accept
Governor Capper's invitation to lunch
eon for Wednesday, February 2, 1916.
Much sleet on the sidewalks makes
the going entirely too easy for the
average citizen.
Topeka Industrial Council parades
through cold and storm to State
House and holds a rally.
Large influx of Kansas politicians
with axes to grind, preparatory to the
Kansas Day banquet.
The banquet of the Kansas Day club.
Great day for aspiring politicians and
budding orators.
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GET OUT YOUR TACKLE
IER FOR
FISH POND
Vaut Congress to Give Doni
lha: Lake to Kunsas.
TEGLE
810
Half of It Now Belongs
State of Missouri.
to
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Slants
By "Zeke"
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NOBODY IN CONTROL OF IT
Tons of Fish Are Taken From
It Without Hindrance.
State Supervision Would Make
It a Great Kesort.
If congress will change the Kansas-
Missouri boundary line ami iul u...
nhaii lake entirely
the
One
Kansas, this
state may use tne ins ia
propagation of tisn and suppui i mc
Institution through a legislative ap
propriation. That is the plan ot W.
Tegmeter. state tish and game war
don, who favors placing the big lake
i.n.ior ntsitp control.
Th lake is now divided by
!ininfirv Kansas-Missouri line.
half r.t the lake is in Kansas, while
the other halt is in Missouri. Neither
stat can now assume control or su
pervision ot the water and lack of
federal supervision is said to have re
ciilted in the illvgal taking of tons of
tish from the bis pond. Now Teg
melr wanta Kansas to take over the
lnke and mak it a natural fishing re
sort and an institution for the propa
gation of fish. The lake would be
under the supervision of the state
lish ar.d same warden.
Plans outlined by the Kansas war
di n this week would make the lake
one of the greatest fishing resorts in
the central west. lie declares that
the vater is now stocked with tons
of bass and crappie and under care
ful supervision would furnish a natural
ramping ground and fishing resort for
humlrvda or sportsmen. The lake,
which was i'oi merly the bed of the
ilisFouri river, is fifteen miles long
and about three miles wide. During
heavy Hood stages in the Missouri
valley, the Missouri river Fometimes
overflows into the lake.
It Needs Supervision.
"Hither Kansas or Missouri or the
federal government should supervise
the lake," said T-egmeier. "ft is a nat
ural fishing resort, but law viola
tions in the last few years have re
sulted in the illegal taking of many
tons of bass and crappie from the wa
ters. The lake should furnish the best
of sport for hundreds of people, but
must have supervision."
The Kaunas fish and game warden
would re-stock the lake with fish
from the state hatcheries at Pratt. In
a couple of years, he believes, the sup
ply would be sufficient to meet all
ordinary fishing demands. Where
fish lariier than produced at the Pratt
hatchery are desired for delivery to
Kansas ponds and streams, they might
hi- taken from Doniphan lake, under
the Tesmeter plan.
"It is a wonderful opportunity to
make Kr.nsas a great fishing resort,"
said Tegmeier. "Before definite ac
tion can be taken, the legislature must
act and congress must also take a
hand. A measure looking to the de
sired change will be submitted to con
gress probably during the present
session. "
Should Kansas take over the big
lake as a part of its property, an ap
propriation would doubtless be re
quired for the upkeep and patrol of
the lake ns well as for supplying it
with fish from th state hHtcheries.
loniphan lake is the largest natural
lake in the state.
Our opinion is that the young lady
who deliberately Jumped from the
sixteenth floor of a Chicago office
building and fractured her skull got
about what was coming to her.
Outside of the fact that it is pa
triotic to try to get to see the presi
dent, we will make, no strenuous at
tempt to witness the ground hog day
parade, but we certainly are going to
see Mrs. Wilson or get mangled in the
effort.
If the pianist takes the front off
the piano before tire show starts it is
a pretty sale bet that the singing will
need the added assistance.
The fact that the admission is
placed at J2.00 a throw wiM keep the
great majority of people from tearing
the movie censors to bits over "The
Birth of a Nation."
Probably all the two dollar people
saw it at the private performance,
anyway.
The Cubans can spend $25,000 en
tertaining Teddy if they want to, but
they will be mighty wise if they start
out by buying him a round trip ticket.
Dr. Mary Walker, fearing immedi
ate war with Japan, recommends that
congress send a delegation or tirty
MEDIUM IS BEST
!
Don't Be Blond or Brunette,
Says Woman Scientist.
! "Fifty-on-the-Scaler" Has a
Bonquet Coming.
MIXED TYPE ON A PEDESTAL
Blonds Are Explosive and In
clined to Crime.
Brunette's Lazy; Kill You
When Your Back's Turned.
New York, Jan. 29. If you can
prove that you are "fifty-on-the-scaler"
give three rousing cheers, buy a big
bouquet, go to your mirror, bow and
present the bouquet to yourself, be
cause the chances are that you are one
of those superladies and supergents.
All this on the authority of Dr.
Katherine M. H. Blackford, character
scientist, who lectured here on "How
to Size Up Men." But the "sizing"
goes for women, too.
Are you very blond hair golden,
eyes blue, tall, lithe of limb, fair of
skin? You are? Well, then sit
DOWN!
Are you brunette sloe-eyed, raven
haired, olive-skinned
movement? Well, then, YOU sit
DOWN, too!
But did Nature work over you with
an egg beater, as it were? Do blond
women to that country to confer with , and brunette mix happily in you?
women there. This item Is interesting Have you eyes of blue and hair of
only from the fact that Dr. Mary is j brown, cheeks of red and dark skin,
the only woman in the United States, ! tall body, but graceful curves? Are
Br. Katherjne Blackford.
"fifty-on-thc-scaler" on a pedestal of
perfection high as Eiffel.
To tllustrate what she meant she
trotted out several dummies.
Blonds Are Crooked.
She said that blonds, while they
languorous of were quickest, loved life, were always
been shown as the villains and villain
esses in picture and story, and when
it came to committing murder, it
would be a blond who'd crack your
skull with a bludgeon, but the "dark
man" that would sit down and scheme
your finish by poison. Blonds were
wild-blooded, vigorous and rangy;
brunettes medium height to squat and
it took them a long time to get their
engines working.
So the male brunette dummy De
gan to blush fiercely. It so happened
that he had the shoulders of a Jess
Willard and was about 6 feet S Inches
tall.
And behind the reporter sat a blond
English couple. The girl said to her
escort:
"Do you think It is really scientific,
Henry?"
And Henry, the blond, wild-blooded,
volatile creature of passionate im
pulse, drawled:
"Oh, yes, rawther, my dear."
IS HEARING HOME
Topeka's Advertising Pedes
trian Is on Kansas Soil.
IN THE THIRD YEAR
Baby Should Be Fed Four
Times a Bay.
Preparing Infants' Food Is an
Important Consideration.
TEACH HIM CAREFUL EATING
Don't Give Infant Anything to
Drink W hile Eating.
Excess of Sweets Destroys Ap
petite for Plain Foods.
ALL MISSED IT
Unpublished Incident of Taft's
Visit to Kansas.
TOPEKAN'S TALE J
Newspaper Men Were Too Busy
With Other Matters.
SOUGHT PARDON FOR SON
Woman Knelt in Front of
President's Speeding Auto.
She Held in Her Hand a Peti
tion for Clemency.
Has
Walked to the Pacific
Coast and Back.
who, by special act of congress, is
permitted to wear men's clothes.
Know anybody who wants to trade j
five or six good union suits, winter
weight, for a second hand electric fan
and three or four suits of B. V. D.'s?
This week adds two more names to
the roll of the "Come Back" clurj
Doc Cook and W. R. Stubbs.
The search for the old fashioned
man continues: Where is the one who
used to keep a pile of handy size
stones at his bedside for protection
against prowling cats and dogs?
There is one form of civic activ
ity which is common to all towns.
We refer to the practice of lauding the
achievements of a former citizen.
Since the writer of this column has
been placed in charge of tire city gar
bage plant a great many friends ana
acquaintances have offered their ad
vice and best wishes. Oood wishes
are fine things, but it our well wish
ers really want to help, the best way
to do It is to drain the garbage and
then wrap it in paper before placing
in the can. . j
Except that it is unauthentic, im
moral, vicious, prejudicial racially
and sectionally, obscene and indecent,
there seems to be little criticism of
the ' Birth of a Nation" film.
The censor says "It will not do."
The G. A. R. condemns it, too.
The leading business man says "No"
The ladies pan it some also.
But what, care we; we couldn't go.
With tickets at two bones a throw.
That much of it, we surely trow.
Is quite immoral, anyhow.
The paragraph at the head of thto
column was written on Tuesday, since
when the young lady has regained
consciousness and stated that she fell
from the window. WTe apologize and
at the same time thank her for fur
nishing material for two paragraphs
instead of one.
Military terms defined: (1) "Pre
paring for inspection" The day be
fore the bridge club meets at our
house. (2) -Mes" What it looks
like after it is over.
you neither so blond that summer
suns peel your shoulders nor so
swarthy that the same old sun makes
you look like a relative once removed
of the king or somaliland ;
Well, if so, none can blame you for
being very proud of yourself. For a
full blond figures, according to Dr.
Blackford, as being "one hundred on
the scale." And a brunette is no bet
ter, though what's good in dark is
not in light, and what's good in light,
understand, is not good in dark.
But a "fifty-on-the-scaler" is a
happy medium. It seemed, from what
the scientific lady said, man or wo
man so endowed is the best ever. If
they inherited the bad qualities from
the others she didn't mention her be
lief to that effect. No, she left the
world conquerors and rulers of men
(now, here, Caesar. Hannibal, Napol
eon, you beat it right back to your
sarcophagi and be still!) were most
active creatures and tallest, , and all
regular cut-ups and rip-arounds; they
were also inconstant, fickle of heart,
lacked deliberation, .were get-rich-quick
persons and most given to
crimes of passion and impulse and
generally as explosive as bombs.
Aha! That for the blonds!
Right away then she walked to the
other end of the row of dummies,
where sat two markedly brunettes
man and girl dummies, and smack in
their teeth she bared the souls of
brunettes to the world.
Brunettes Are Villains.
Dark folks, said she, were deliber
ate, more thoughtful, more given to
the occult, ingrown speculation, were
slower to passion, figured conse
quences, were more constant. BUT
squirm, you brunettes! they were
given to allowing the blond races to
rule, they hadn't creative minds, they
were languorous, they had already
Fltzpatrick F. Fitzgerald, Topeka's
advertising; pedestrian, is doing well
and coming back to Topeka from the
coast as fast as his legs will carry
him, according to word received from
Fitzpatrick F. today by J. Will Kelley,
secretary of the Commercial club.
Fitzpatrick F. was in Ada. Kan. the
first of the week and arrived in Super
ior, Neb., today. From Superior he
goes to Belleville, from Belleville to
McFarland and then he makes a bee
line for home.
Fitzpatrick F. left Topeka about a
year ago for the coast. He took con
tracts to carry advertisements on his
back and in nis vause lor aistnou
tion along the route to 'Frisco and
other Pacific coast cities. Upon the
young man's return Mr. Kelley intends
to have him speak to his fellow citi
zens. Following is the letter written
to Mr. Kelley by the Topeka pedestrian:
"I am on my return trip back to
Topeka. I have visited twenty-nine
states, been entertained by 2,800 com
mercial bodies, covered according to
register 7,541 miles and walked every
step. I have photos of all places I
visited and names of every Commer
cial club secretary together with af
fidavits showing that I walked. I
have some good reading matter for
your club. Give my regards to all my
friends and foes."
BUSY SUMMER AHEAD
There
Will lit- Muth l'ublio Work
Done in Toiirka.
"There is fcoiiiE? to lie a lot of work
in Topeka this summer," said Com
missioner W. (!. Tandy this morning
after a paving contractor left his of
fice. "With all the paving, the Kast
Side sewer and perhaps a couple of
bridges the city will be furnishing a
good deal of work."
The paving to be done. this summer
in Topeka will cost In the neighbor
hood of $165,000. The work on the
Kast Side sewer will run pretty well
through th3 summer and after that
HE IS WORTH $200
The
Government Offers That Much
for the l.oialioil of Kicker.
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It will be worth $200 to anybody
who will furnish information leading
to the arrest of Charles O. Kicker,
the Yates Center National banker,
who was convicted of embezzlement.
Circulars to that effect are being dis
tributed today from the office of O. T. .
Wood, I nited States marshal.
Notwithstanding the circular there
is an impression that Ricker's where
abouts are known but that federal
authorities are unable to reach him
because of international comolications.
.i .1 ..-ill mtiiuiilcrultl n'.irlf i Ifinlfr u-ue onni-iluH Linttno. , K
incident to connecting the houses up i Yates Center National bank more than j
upon which work has been started ' in his automobile and it was found
and which are still to complete. Then : outside of town the next day. So far
there may be a couple more bridges as the public knows no trace of tho
erected during the summer. 1 missing banker has been found since.
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At noon time in a grassy dale
Beneath a tree she ruminates,
At eventide behind the bars
The milkmaid's call she patient waits.
Her flesh the warrior's staff of life.
Of tender babes she is the friend.
And oft untimely gives her life
To furnish soles for maids and men.
Complete the picture by joining t he dots. Begin at No. 1 and take them numerically.
(Second of a series written for the
State Journal by the Children's Bu
reau, United States Department of
Labor.)
When the baby reaches the third
year he should be fed four times a day
at regular intervals, having the heav
iest meal in the middle of the day.
It is of the utmost importance to
teach him to chew his food carefully
and then to take plenty of time at his
meals. But since his tiny teeth can
only partly masticate his food, this
should be properly prepared for him.
Meat should be cut into small pieces.
vegetables either mashed or put
through the colander, and all the
cores, skins and seeds1 should be re
moved from fruits.
He should not be allowed to drink
while eating solid food, lest hs fall
into the habit of washing down his
food before it is thoroughly chewed,
as do so many of his elders.
Things Good for Children.
The following foods are recom
mended for children from two to
three years, and a daily program is
suggested for the convenience of the
mothers:
7: SO a. m.: Cereal Well-cooked
oat, wheat or corn preparation, with
thin cream or milk and very little su
gar. Cereals should be cooked three
hours in a double boiler.and flavored
with a little salt when being cooked.
Glass of whole milk, warmed in the
cool months of the year.
Egg, soft boiled, poached or cod
dled. Toast, or dry bread and butter.
10 a. m.: Fruit Use one orange and
strain the juice, or a baked apple, and
two graham crackers; or warm milk,
one glass, with dry bread or toast.
2 p. m.: Vegetable soup one tea-
cupful, or meat broths with rice or
arrowroot.
Meat Beef, mutton or chicken,
broiled, roasted or boiled, or fish, cut
into small pieces, flavored with a lit
tle salt. Use no pepper, sauces or
condiments.
Potato Baked, mashed, with a lit
tle salt, butter and milk, or salt and
cream; or boiled rice or spaghetti,
both thoroughly cooked, with butter
or cream.
Green vegetables Either carrots,
asparagus, string beans, peas, spinach,
young beets, or squash, each cooked
until very soft, with a little salt in the
water, strained through a colander or
mashed.
Dessert Apple tapioca pudding, or
baked apple, or apple sauce or stewed
prunes, or plain custard, or junket.
Drink Water. No milk at this
meal.
Stale bread, with butter.
6:00 p. m.: Bread and milk; or cer
eal, farina, arrowroot, or wheat, or
milk; or milk toast; or dry toast or
bread with glass of milk.
Raw fruit juice and milk should
not be given at the same meal.
A Few Don'ts,
Do not give a child of this age any
of the following foods: Pork in any
form, or salted meats or salted fish;
cabbage, onions, celery, radishes, let
tuce, cucumbers or raw tomatoes; hot
breads, or griddle cakes; rweet cakes,
pastry, syrups, or jellies; nuts or
candies; bananas, nor any green or
overripe fruit; tea, coffee, wine, beer,
cider or soda water. Mothers are apt
to err chiefly in the matter of sweets
in feeding children. An excess of
sweet food, not only upsets the young
stomach but destroys partially the ap
petite for plain food.
Children should be taught to eat
simple, well-cooked food, but should
not be forced to eat when they have
no appetite. If a child shows a dis
inclination to eat some special food,
which he ought to have, this should be
given first at the meal, even if only
a small quantity is eaten. Do not fall
into the error of scolding the child at
meal times, which should be one of
the pleasantest hours of the day, full
of fun and Joy. A little judicious
coaxing will usually result in the
child's taking- the right food in suffi
cient quantity.
Methods of preparing meats, vege
tables and soups for young children
are given in infant care, a little book.
which is sent free to all who ask for
it, addressing the request to the chief
of the children's Dureau, nitea
States department of labor. Washing
tor., D. C.
HARD THE GOOD
Trials and Temptations of
Hotel 31 en in Kansas.
Offered Big Money to Wink at
Violation of Law.
WANTED TO BUN A POKER GAME
One 3Ian Offers $600 a Week
for Privilege.
How a convict's mother threw her
self in front of ex-President Taft's
automobile in Leavenworth in 1911 in
an endeavor to gain clemency for her
son, is an unpublished story told by
J. N. Dolley, former chairman of the
Republican state central committee.
And the woman was successful. Her
son obtained a pardon from the presi
dent several weeks later.
"Following a speech delivered on
Haymarket Square, in Leavenworth.
we drove out the government road to
Fort Leavenworth." said Mr. Dolley.
"The president, two secret service men
and myself were in the leading auto
mobile and we were going at a fast
clip.
"Suddenly a woman dressed in black
with a veil over her face ran into
the road several yards in front of us,
kneeled and raised her hands as if in
prayer. - I noticed then that she held
a big envelope in one hand.
" 'Look out, cried the president, as
he sprang to his feet. We were all
startled. The chauffeur drew the ear-
to a stop not five feet from the kneel
ing woman, and the two secret service
men Jumped to the ground and car
ried her aside none too gently.
" 'Don't arrest her,' admonished the
president. 'Find out what she wants.'
"The woman refused to talk but
presented the envelope to the secret
service men. That evening in the
president's private car we opened the
envelope. It contained a plea for a
pardon for her son in the federal
prison and contained a petition, ask
ing clemency, signed by hundreds in
his home county in Illinois.
" 'Take a note of that,' the president
told his secretary, 'and we'll see what
we can do about it.'
"I have learned that the young man
obtained a pardon. Newspapermen
were busy in Leavenworth writing
their stories at the time and not a
word of it has ever been published."
U. S. PAYS $600 A LIFE
Sum Received by Families of K-2 Vic
tims "Disgracefully Small."
Guests Frequently Attempt o
Corrupt the Bell Hop.
Washington, Jan. 29. Families of
the men killed and injured by the
recent explosion aboard the subma
rine E-2 at New York will receive
$600 in each case under the compen
sation act, the house Judiciary com
mittee was informed today by Miss
Eva Ward of the American associa
tion for labor legislation. The sums
were dsignated as "pitifully and dis
gracefully small," by Charles P. Neill,
former labor commissioner. All the
injured. Miss Ward said, were young
men with families of small children
and all will be permanently disfig
ured. Miss Ward and other speakers, in
cluding Dr. John B. Andrews, secre
tary of the association, and Dr. Royal
Meeker, commissioner of labor statis
tics, addressed the committee at a
hearing on the Kern-McGillicudy bill,
favorably reported at the last session
of congress. The bill provides for lib
eral increases.
Being a good hotel keeper morally.
Is a mighty hard job even in Kansas,
according to H. G. Humphreys of the .
National hotel. Yet, while gold glit
ters temptingly at times, as Induce-'
ment for a digression from rigid rules -and
regulations set forth by an exact
ing legislature from the short grass,
compliance with the same has proven
a paying proposition in the long run.
Turning down a 600 a week pro
position for permission to operate
poker room during a big convention
isn't a bit easy. Neither is it pleasant,
nor profitable, on the surface, for a To
peka hotel keeper to note and put a
quietus on successful attempts of
guests to corrupt a bell hop into bring
ing wine and women into a hostelry.
Nor to put a firm foot on the dice box
and cigarette proposition. Yet it paya
Guest Took Flowers.
Here's an example. The other day
a guest entered the dining room of the
National hotel and was seen marching
out in the lobby with a bouquet of
flowers under his arms. Now the
management digs down Into its pock
ets every day and extracts a number of
dollars for floral decoration in ths
dining hall. Mr. Humphreys ap
proached the guest diplomatically.
"Did the waiter give you those T" he
asked. "It he did we want to know it
as it is against the rules."
"No," replied the guest. "I just
took them. They were there why
shouldnt I take them ?"
So's the Cash Register. ' ' " "
"Well," replied the irate proprietor,
"the silverware is there, over behind
the desk is the cash register and up
stairs are the carpets and furniture. If
you're working on the theory 4hat
everything 'there' belongs to - th
guests, why didn't you take It all? - -
"Now if we were winking at a poker
game, selling of cigarettes and other
things prohibited by law he could have
come right back at us," said Mr.
Humphreys. "It is well to have a
clear conscience in keeping; a hotel la
Kansas."
But $600 a week offers for a poksr
game, with a good bond to cover all
costs of prosecution added, doesn't
grow on trees. So it keeps a hotel man
' reading his Bible, and also the penal
ties attacnea lor Dreaking the law, to
keep up enough moral courage to re
sist temptations.
JAILS EVER AWAIT HIM
It Is Just One Prison After Another
for George Roberts.
THE REPORTER
Oeorge Roberts, a federal prlnonar.
will have the champion hard luck tal
to tell when the government finally
getn through with him. Roberts has
a lot of a Manes but "Roberts' la as
good as any of them. Fifteen month
ago Roberts completed a term in th
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth
for a postoffice robbery. He thought
he was through with his troubles, but
when he stepped from the prison, of
ficers from the United States mar
shal's office were on hand to rearrest
him. He was taken to Iowa to serve
I a term for a postornce roobery in
that state. Today his term expires
but instead of becoming a free man
he will he arrested again and taken to
Illinois to serve another term. He has
a long list of robberies charged up
against him.
DISGRACE GERMAN FLAG
A reporter is a curious combination
of legs and nerves. Where his legs
won't take him his nerve will, and
where his nerve will not take him,
his city editor will often desire him
to go. He is filled with hope and
despair, even as a balloon is often
filled with gas and small holes. Like
a balloon he is often up In the air, but
generally lands all whole on solid
earth.
Like charity he suffers long and his
wisdom and cunning and skill are as
the artillery officer. His English is a
gripping flavor of high brow and
slang. He voice, when questioning
the husband of an eloped wife may be
as the sympathetic coo of the gentle Swis8 students Tear Down KaiHer'als.
uovts ur ia iiuraii, alum ana mm w t
the bark of a German father. He
will talk to a convict in the early
morning hours in a cell, and chin with
a prima donna in her luxurious apart
ments at a late hour at night. He is
self confident to outsiders, but prop
erly modest among bis co-terns.
signia -Nation Apologis
Berlin (via wireless to Sayville),
Jan. 29. The Swiss government today
formally apologized to Germany for
the action of Swiss students and other
nersons in tearing down the German
He disbelieveth all things except : flaac from the consulate at Lausanne.
j scoop; he has charity for all and cynt- manded a further investigation of ths
'Cism ror the same. His name is ?e-act and has demanded that the flaf
gion and his race shall endure for- be hoisted again and protected by the.
lever. R.M.C. I Swiss authorities.