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THE WICHITA BEACON. THURSDAY, MARCH 2, AGE FOUR. Will This Sleeping Giant ft PAGEANT IN MAY PIES WIFE'S LOVE 364 Residents of Kansas Awake as Pagan or Christian FOR PLAYGROUNDS rAI flip CASH Tenant Brings Suit Against Landlord. tate to have his land Included In this district for the basis Is on the benefits derived and not on seizes of land Included in the district. No one hesitates to invest a dollar in any Improvement that will net him a fair return, but here we feel Safe In saying that the owners of these lands will receive many times over what' the cost will be to drain the Big Slough.

It is possible and practicable to make these overflow waters of the Big Slough a thing of the past with unity and concerted efforts. These lands, along with Sedgwick County and the city, have waited long and suffered much from lack of proper drainage of the Big Slough. Drainage is what Is needed. Let us have it with as little delay as possible." There Will Be 2,000 Children in It. "Who can measure the power of China? Who can measure the power of a nation that can put 40,000.000 men in the field, trained and equipped That's what China Is geetlng ready to do.

And it is going to mean much to Western civilization whether his sleeping giant awakens as a Christian nation or as a pagun nation." This is the way B. S. Fenn. the Y. Chinese Interests.

Such as this has never been known before. "The old idea In China that if a war did not touch a family It was no business of that family and its hundreds of connections what happened to the other families or that a war on the aeacoast (lid not concern the inland provinces, is passing. I believe that China is awakening as a tuition and that whether China fails to arise as an international power or whether she registered at Hotel Astor during the past year. E3 1000 Rooms. 700 with Bath.

A cuisine which has made the Astor New York's leading Banqueting place. Single Rooms, without bath, to 3.00 Double j.oo to 4.00 Single Rooms, with bath, 3.00 to 6.00 Double 4.00 to 7.00 Parlor, Bedroom and bath, 10.00 to 14.00 Griff Barnett May Be Em-ployed to Direct the AffairPlay Is "Peace." Case on File for Trial in the Federal Court Maas Suit Comes Up Again. FORCE PREACHER'S GIRL INTO A LIFE OF CRIME M. C. superintendent of construc tion in China, reads what he believes comes forth from the struggle a victor means much to Western civilization." China must develop character In The Wichita Playground Association l.i planning to hold a pageant early In May In which over school chil is "handwriting on the wall," being In Minneapolis Just Skim of Vice Is public and private life, standardize a TIMES SQUARE Removed.

language and standardize her money written by China's uneasy movements, lie indicated that China may be looked upon as a menace unless there is before her millions can act as one, Mr. dren will take part Members of the association met Tuesday with Superintendent Mayberry to work out details for the handling of the school children. Mr. Mayberry Is enthusiastic over the pageant idea, but says it must A $10,000 suit for alienation of affections will come up at the term of (he l-'ecleral Court which opens here March in. roniestlc affairs of Mr.

and Mrs. V. K. Wilcox, former Wichita residents, are to be aired in the nliena-tion suit. The scene will be laid on a ranch in Kiowa County.

The action one bright sprint? day In Mrs. Wilcox was a busy housewife in the ranch house. The stage includes the ranch. Mr. Wilcox is plowing.

Fenn thinks. There are sixty different, dlaletcs in China; It take three years to master one dialect and less At Broadway, 44th to 45th Streets the center of New York's social and business activities. In close proximity to all railway terminals. Minneapolis, March 2. A co-operative committee representing seven of the largest women's organizations in Minneapolis in a statement today to the public announces that nfler months quick and wide-spread Christlanizatlon in an address on the subject of that country before the gathering of Y.

C. A. men at the Kansas Club Monday night. China has been steadily unifying. of investigation they can say that recent startling revelations of vice conditions In this city, "only skim the surface of actual conditions." That young girls are unsafe alone on tho streets at night: that a chain ot hotels are They are happy mid us much in love said the speaker.

It is interesting to as when they were married at ich ita, June 30, 1909. An, automobile arrives, bringing than twenty-five miles from the city where you learned that dialect you cfn't make yourself understood without learning a now one, Mr. Fenn said. Two Americans recently were In China three weeks and their exchange amounted to $300, said the speaker, illustrating the difficulties arising over the many kinds of money in the Oriental country. Mr.

Fenn gave the following five things which he said Impress the American in China: Intense poverty. Terrible filth and disease. Power of superstition and custom. "That Christianity is sweeping being operated wholly on the profits gained from the vice and that taxicab drivers are co-operating with keepers not require too much time of the pupils, at least not to interfere with their school work. It is probable that Griff Barnett, well known stock actor of Wichita, now with the Mack-Hilllard 'ompany at the Empress, will direct the pageant.

The pageant will be on "Peace." Some talk is made of having a play festival rather than the pageant, though the present, plan Is to carry out the pageant idea. Commissioner Schell has granted the use of Riverside Park to the Wichita Playground Association for the pageant. The pageant will be given to carry on tho supervised play as conducted in Wichita by the playground T. Johnson, a citizen of Grecrisburg. who owns the ranch.

Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox are employed by him. Mr. of resorts In luring young girls from Johnson is received by Mrs, Wilcox their homes were among the findings with ceremony becoming the arrival of the landlord.

Mrs. Wilcox enter note, he pointed out. that although China's first war with an outside nation was a city against a nation, her next war was a province against two nations, then several provinces against outside foes, and in the last war half a nation against the attacking forces. He declared China was getting some progressive awakening by hard knocks and that the awakening was sure and tremendous. "The recent demands of Japan have done more to unify China than anything else," said Mr.

Fenn. "Recently several of China's rich merchants deposited a very' large sum in different cities. For what purpose? For the use of China and the protection of tains Mr. Johnson while awaiting the of the committee. Another vice investigation was begun by county authorities this week, after the 15-year-old daughter of a minister who had been missing from her home for several weeks, told of being forced into a life of shame.

return of her husband from the field Then He Came Again. aivay every one of these things." The next seems will picture later association. visit of Landlord Johnson to the "In a country where at evening the plRs, dogs, ducks and chickens are taken into the house with the family Is It any wonder that there are great plagues and epidemics?" asked Mr. ranch In Klona County, supposedly in the interest of the crops. Mr.

Wilcox alleges that Johnson was more Inter TO SEGREGATE NEGROES CHOICE OF ST. LOUIS URGES THE DRAINAGE OF THEJBIG SLOUGH Fenn. ested in Mrs. Wilcox than In the crops. The husband asserts increasing notes of discord In the harmony of their Commerce Committee Shows the Land married life.

"Mr. Johnson visited plaintiff's wife ooooooooooooooooooo UNABLE TO LEARN THE LESSONS OF WAR. Owners the Profit in the Undertaking. TASTE TELLS While plaintiff labored In the field and told wife that husband was not treat Tetters have been sent out to farm ing her right, "announces the advance court sketch of the drama; "told her ers in and near the Big Slough by George H. Fleishman, secretary of the he was not giving her enough money dollars extra each month, although it la believed that the time is not far off when something like that must happen.

When the house becomes vacant, however, the landlord or agent will have no scruples of conscience about shoving the $10 house up to $12.50, the $15 house to $18 and the $20 to $25. That Is what is happening now and the man who has a nice house at the reasonable rentals that have been prevailing for the last few years will hang onto It in preference to facing a new landlord with the Increased rent he believes he is entitled to. and that he was making her work too Wichita Commerce Committee, urging hard." them to take prompt action to drain Mr. Wilcox announces that he will strive to show that Landlord Johnson the slough and thus remove a great nuisance. Mr.

Fleishman points out a wny by which this can be done St. Louis, March 2 The two proposed negro segregation ordinances were passed yesterday by the voters of St. Louis by a vote of approximately three to one. A majority was necessary for adoption. The total vote on Ordinance No.

1 was: For 52,220, against 17,887, a total vote of Ordinance 2, for 52,064, against 17.808, a total of 69.872. The ordinances are similar, Xo. 1 providing that a negro or white person can not become a resident of a block occupied entirely by those of opposite color, and No. 2 placing the same restrictions on blocks occupied by 75 per cent of one color. Legal residences now established will not be affected by the new ordinances.

The ordinances will go Into effect In ten days. City Counselor Charles H. Daues, In a statement last night to a Globe-Democrat reporter, said he would enforce them, and would neces-snrlly defend them against attacks which are expected. "Induced, procured and enticed" the wife away from her husband. He says Mm.

Wilcox made several trips to legally with other suggestions In the following letter: UNITED STATUS post office. Wichita, Kan. Office of Custodian, March 1, PM6. Pealed proposals will be received at this building until 2 o'clock p. March 10, b'Iti, and then opened, for furnishing electric current, gas, water, ice and miscellaneous supplies, removing ashes, and washing towels during the fiscal year ending June liilT.

The right to reject anv aiul all bids is reserved by the Treasury Department. II. Shields, Custodian. lPi--i-od At a recent meeting of the members AVlohlta to buy clothes. of the Commerce Committee of the Wich One of Mrs.

Wilcox's alleged visits to Wichita was on October 12. 1914. banks, he says, never have carried such high deposits at the present time. "My town has about 12,000 inhabitants," Mr. Price said.

"Tho deposits in the banks there total two and a half million dollars. Six months ago the deposits totaled only one and a half million dollars. Kome gain. The same advance is true in all parts of the state. Of course, the oil industry is responsible for a great part of the prosperity.

But more stable industries are running more than full time. In my town there is a glass plant that employs hundreds of workmen." ita Commercial Club, the matter of drain 'THE BOTTLE-FED BABY" ing the Big Slough was given further con He Propote to Her? On the night of May 6, 1915, Mr. Johnson Is alleged to have told Mrs, Wichita ft Going in Strong for Observ-ancs of Baby Week, sideration, and It was the general consensus of opinion that the recommendation of County Engineer Moon and County Surveyor Brown, endorsed by State Drainage "Wilcox that he loved her, that he would take care of her and that hus "There are well-meaning people, utterly incapable of learning any lesson taught by history, utterly Incapable of understanding aright what hns gone on before their very eyes during the last year or two, who, nevertheless, wish to turn this country into an Occidental China the kind of China which every Intelligent Chinaman of the present day is seeking to ahollFh. "There are plenty of politicians, by no means as well meaning, who find it to their profit to pander to the desire common to most men to live softly and easily and avoid risks and effort. Timid and lazy men, men nbsorbed In money-getting, men absorbed In ease and luxury, and all soft and slothful people naturally hail with delight anybody who will give them high-sounding names behind which to cloak their unwillingness to run risks or to toll and endure.

Emotional philanthropists to whom thinking is a distasteful form of mental' exercise enthusiastically champion this attitude. T1IKODORT3 TtOOSEVFIf. band no longer had any right to take care of her and "completely alienated more. Rev. M.

W. Woods, superintendent of Sedgwick House, says that the capacity of his place lias been taxed to the limit three nights within the past week to care for those who applied for beds and meals. He believes that the few days of warm weather in February, coupled with the oil boom, is responsible for this unusual influx of unemployed. the affections of the wife from the husband." Mr. Wilcox prices his wife's affec "The Bottle Feed Baby," "Cost of Feeding the Baby," and other similar posters are to be displayed in the shop windows to advertise Wichita's Baby Week, March 4 to 11.

The week promises to be one In which every mother will have to follow the fashion take her baby down to the clinic and learn to wha.t degree her child Is perfect. ttrfs, love, esteem and association at G.A. R. GOLDEN JUBILEE IS TO BE HELD SOON lie.noo. MANY ARE UNEMPLOYED There are more unemployed men in Wichita at present than there have been at any time this winter.

Mooehers, beggars and honest appearing work-lngmen out of a job are more numerous than they have been for a year or But the lawyers for the defense of MfJ Johnson promise some sensational There is a decrease In A. F. of L. membership of 74,324 last year. disclosures with which they expect to It Is th hope of tho rarentr Teacher upoil the Bucceis ot flir.

vvncoxs aam Engineer It. B. Walker and State Engineer W. S. Gearhart, is fully provided In Chapter 168, Laws of 1911, specially passed to cover the lands in question and provides for a geographical survey, the engineer specifying all lands, roads, railroads and other property benefited by this proposed improvement.

"On the basis of benefits derived by reason of this improvement the lands are classified from 100 per cent to that part receiving the greater benefit ana a lesser per cent to all other lands as their Interest may appear. "From a clear and comprehensive survey of all the wet lands of the district carefully classified there can hardly be any chance that any lands or other property will get anything but a fair rate. Then the cost of UiIn proposed drainage Is so small In consideration of the benefits derived that no land owner should hesl- agin suit. They announce that the Knileral Court jury will at least be en tertained by what they have to relate. CLOGGED NOSTRILS OPEN AT ONCE In the Fred Maas case eight more witnesses than have been used before have been summoned by the govern ooooooooooooooooooo HEAD OLDS AND CATARRH VANISH ment and Maas and an even warmer Kansas City, March 2.

Col. Ellas R. Monfort, of Cincinnati, commander-in-chief of the Q. A. and Adjutant General Joho M.

Adams were in Kansas City today conferring with the local committee on arrangements for the golden Jubilee encampment of the Grand Army to be held here next September. Colonel Monfort and Adjutant General Adams were the guests of the local general encampment committee at a luncheon today. Tomorrow night a dinner will be given in honor of the visitors, to which will be Invited the commandants at Kort Leavenworth and Fort Riley and their official staffs, and the board of managers of the National Military Home at Leavenworth. battle than has been staged in the Association to make the coming week one of the biggest events ever held here In the interest of belter babies. Dr.

II. O. Norton has been appointed by Dr. J. O.

Dorsey, president of the Sedgwick County Medical Association, to arrange the lecture programs for next week. Lectures are to be given at 3 o'clock every afternoon in the Board of Education rooms In the city hall. Ministers, nurses, doctors, club women and others aro co-operating with the Parent-Teacher Association to carry out Baby Week plans. Slides will be run In the motion picture theaters of the city annnounc-ing the coming event. last, two sessions of court is predicted.

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