The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
September 28, 1916
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VVEATHER FORECAST for Kansas: Fair; frost tonight; cooler in the east tonight: Friday, fair and some what warmer. w 1TH football and fall come the rah-rah and the raw-raw days of the year. HOME EDITION TOPEKA, KANSAS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1916 TEN PAGES TWO CENTS MAIL TRAIN IS HELD UP BY TWO MASKEDBANDITS Italf Hundred Deputy Sheriffs Chase Them in Yain. Fireman Shows Fight and Is Beaten Unconscious. TAKE REGISTERED POUCHES Fnter Mail Car Thru Threat to Blow It Up. Believe Daring Pair Escaped by Auto Into Detroit. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 2 8. At the outskirts of Detroit, marked bandits last midnight held up and robbed Michigan Central passenger train -No. 14, Chicago to New York express, and escaped with the contents of two reg istered mail pouches. Half a hundred deputy sheriffs who patrolled the vicinity of the holdup for hours after the robbery, were still without any Cue early today as to the whereabouts of the bandits. Passengers were not molested. Value of the loot was still undeter mined early today. Only two men participated in the holdup. They are thought to have boarded the tram at Ypsilanti. Engineer Acts at Point of Gun. Descending into the engine from the coal tender, where they had been hid den, the bandits covered Ehow Harry Palmer with a gun forced a half east of Dearborn a suburb. They disposed ui T lwel'signs of fight" V beating him almost into insensibility with a revol- VeVorkng with lightning speed, one of the bandts, uncoupled the maU car from the rest of the train and then ford the engineer to pull the detach ed section down the track for a dis tance of about 200 yards. They ob tained entrance to the mail car by threatening to blow it to bits and by the same tactics obtained the reg 18 tered mail pouches from the clerks. Leaving the engineer and clerks in the mail car. the bandits returned to the engine and sped away in the direction fLater'thev abandoned the engine ana it was "found with fires dumped at a point a mile distant from the mail car. They are believed to have escaped into Detroit by auto. Passengers in Ignorance. Meanwhile the passengers were in ..,.mitA ignorance of events ahead. Jt wpa not until about fifteen minutes later that Doherty, the fireman, blood soaked and suffering from serious srolp wounds, pulled himself into one of the Pullman cars and gave the oc cupants information of what had oc curred Panic threatened among wom en passengers but they were soon re ired. Conductor Bouchard, in charire of the train, was in one of the rear Pullmans at the time of the hold up He commandeered a passing automobile and rushed to a telephone to notify Michigan Central headquar tern in Detroit DRYS HAIL BRYAN Grape Juice Champion May Be ext Candidate. Landreth Decries Breweries as Reform Warden of Sing Sing j toher husband pe de Worse Than Saloons. Bares Political Plot. J geiphja by train and not by a 1'iiee. Utah, Sept. 28. Breweries ami Bryan, condemnation for one and commendation for the other were sub jects discussed to Utah folks today by lir. Ira Landrith, Prohibition vice presidential candidate, as the dry spe cial entered the state for a one-day campaign. Utah is "wet." "It is not the saloon, nor the dis tiller but the brewery that is the greatest evil of all the liquor traffic agencies." Dr. Landrith said. "It owns thf fixtures of the saloon and all too often it owns the mayor and legisla tures also." Dr. Landrith's remarks were occa sioned in part by what he learned in a two days' campaign in Colorado, completed yesterday, where the brew eries are seeking to weaken the dry law by having beer declared a non intoxicant. "I welcome William Jennings Bryan to our ranks as a new convert. Dr. Landrith continued. "He has declared that the one great issue is liauor. He and others are going in for prohibition to be in at the death of liquor. They can point to their aid" in the great victory." Dr. Landrith said he would not be at all surprised if Bryan should run again for president on the "dry'.' ticket. "I'll vote for hi-.i if he does," he said. MOB KILLS 2 NEGROES Arrested in Connection With Murder in TcmiOihee Village. Nashville, Tenn., i?ept. 28. Two negroes arrested in connection with the murder of Bud Burns at Gardons hurg, Saturday night, were taken from the Hohenwald .iail by a mob early today and shot to death. Waiting Lens for Bremen. New London, Sept. 28. For several weeks everything has been in readi ness here for the arrival of the Ger man merchant submarine Bremen. Officiate of the Eastern Forwarding company said today they had no definite information concerning the under seas boat. NECK BROKEN SINCE LAST FALL; BOY DIDN'T KNOW IT Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 28. Joe Maston, all round athlete of the University of Pittsburg, has had his neck broken since last fall but he did not know it until today, when after vainly trying; to play -with the football team, he consulted a phy sician. An X-ray photograph dis closed that the only reason Maston is not dead is because the fracture is between the second and third vertebrae and the spinal column is not affected. BANKS TOO EASY Protective Department Blames Them for Their Losses. Using Deposits on Uncollected Checks One Cause. Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 28. Crimes committed against banks represented in the American Bankers' association during the past year have shown no marked increase, according to the an nual report of the protective depart ment at the convention of the associa tion here today, and it was further shown that a large proportion of the burglaries and similar crimes proved unsuccessful. For the period from August 1, 1915, to September 1, this year, there was a total of 428 arrests and 307 convic tions. The report notes that the loss es sustained by members in connec tion with burglaries amounted only to $7,754, while the loss sustained by non-members amounted to more than $60,000. Thru thirty-five holdups, however, there was a lossto members of $65,821, and thru nine sneak thefts a loss of $26,500. Swindlers I'use Counter Checks. The department now has 4,720 photographs of criminals, comprising burglars, holdup men, sneak thieves, forgers, and bogus check operators, with a complete record of each. A large number of the crimes at tempted against banks are due to carelessness on the part of the banks In permitting customers to use funds represented in uncollected checks, ac cording to the report, and it was rec ommended that this practice be dis continued. Trouble is also caused thru the practice tof leaving blank checks on the counters, and it was urged that- this practice be modified by printing across the face of such checks the words "Counter Check." Lead in Bank Burglaries. Oklahoma and Illinois are the ban ner bank burglary states in the United States. The annual report of L. W. Gam mon, of New York, manager of the protective department, shows that eleven such burglaries or attempts oc curred in Oklahoma and ten in Illinois during the thirteen months ending August 31. The total for the United States for the same period was given as sixty-nine. The states of Missouri and Kansas reported five each and in the tabulation follow Oklahoma and Illinois. The report showed that from these a total of $67,996.33 was obtained by the burglars but further losses, char acterized as holdups and sneak thefts, brought the total loss to bankers for the period to $230,707.26. But society was shown to have retaliated upon the robbers by sending thirty-seven of them to prison as a result of these and previous activities. The report revealed that banks in the past have lost $2,457,239.92 to criminals in the period covered by the life of the department. No estimate was made as to whether bank robbery is on the increase or decrease. OUT FOR SCALPS Indictments for Against Eight Are Sought. Salem. N. T Sept. 28. The at tempt of his enemies to blacken his character and oust him as "rerorm warden" of Sing Sing penitentiary having failed, Thomas Mott Osborne is planning to bring them to book with some conspiracy indictments, which are being considered by the Washington county grand jury, which reconvened here today. It is whispered that eight men, one of them a former state official, will be indicted, charged with political con spiracy against Osborne. Convicts and ex-convicts, some of whom testi fied against Osborne when he was in dicted for alleged prison mismanage ment, in "Westchester county, will tes- tiry in his favor here today, it is said, telling how they were threatened with punishment if they didn't testify against him before the other jury. The fight against Osborne originat ed, it is said, because his efficient ad ministration of Sing Sing affairs cut out a lot of graft. STUDY NEWS TO KEEP UP TO DATE ON GEOGRAPHY Oklahoma City, Okla., Sept. 28. I Daily newspapers are to be used in teaching European geography iu Oklahoma City schools this year, ac cording to Superintendent Whiteford who has instructed principals of all, ward schools to utilize them in "this manner whenever possible. "The war has changed the boundary lines of European countries until they no longer conform to those in the books," Superintendent Whiteford ad vised. "Read the newspapers. Keep up with current events and utilize them in classes whenever you can." HUSBAND WILL FORGIVE; WOMAN SAYSJNNOGENT Blames Graveur, Long Time Friend, for Deceit. Find Identity of Only Survivor of Triple Shooting. DENIES IMPROPER RELATIONS Confused "With Woman Who Did Shooting, She Says. Denies Traveling With Gra veur; Will Kecover. Philadelphia, Sept. 28. Hurrying to the bedside of his wife, the one sur vivor in the triple shooting in a hotel here early yesterday, J. C. Leduc. of Chicago, today said that he had every confidence in her loyalty to him and that he would stick to her thru all her trouble. Mrs. Leduc is in Jefferson hospital. She was improved today and physi cians said she will recover unless complications set in. She was shot by Mrs. Harry Belzer, of New York, who found her and J. C. Graveur, also of New York, in a hotel room. Mrs. Belzer killed Graveur, who had dis carded her-after a friendship of two years, and also ended her own life. There was an affecting meeting when Leduc reached the bedside of his wife, where he remained for some time. Later he was escorted to detec tive headquarters for an interview with the captain of detectives. Before reaching the hospital Leduc told of his happy married life of fifteen years and his implicit trust in his wife. He repeated many times his belief in her faithfulness to him. Knew Graveur Ten Years, Leduc said he had known Graveur for ten years, and always had regard ed him as a square man. He had not seen him for seven or eight years and had never heard his wife speak of him. Mrs. Leduc, he said, left Chi cago for New York about two weeks ago to visit her nephew and his wife He had letters from her every" day. Leduc said he did not believe his wife had visited Atlantic City with Graveur. He thought she probably met him accidentally in New York and consented to take an automobile ride to this city. The husband asked many questions about the shooting, saying he had only a fragmentary knowledge of the af fair gathered from newspapers. He asitea new liraveur and his wife hart registered at the hotel and when told s man una wile, nis race grew grave "That was the work of Graveur and j. am sure juia did not know it," he exciaimea. "I always regarded Joe as a square m" i cannot understand his ac tions." Believes Wife Innocent. Leduc went on to sav that his wifa is in a position which would probably reflect on her, but he still believed her innocent of any wrung doing. Mrs. Leduc, the husband said, has been studying operatic singing for ten years. Before ner marriage she was Lillia Kappes, daughter of Philip Kappes, of Cincinnati, where her mother now lives and is prominent so cially. At the hospital Leduc told his wife to cheer up. that he would forgive and take her back to Chicago. Mrs. Leduc told the story of the shooting and events leading up to it i and his baby recently born. She de i'i c. ourl11 that she had traveled to various cities with Graveur and suggested that her identity had been confused with that of Mrs. Belzer. The woundei woman said Graveur told her he had come to Philadelphia with Mrs. Belzer and then persuaded her to go back to New York According to Mrs. Leduc, Graveur called up Mrs. Leduc's New York address by telephone and learned that she had come to Phila delphia to see her nephew. He was given the address and later he met her. The same evening Mrs. Leduc said they went to a theater, then sup per and a dance on the roof garden of the hotel was suggested. Mrs. Leduc said she did not want to be encum bered with her handbag and at Gra veur's suggestion she said she left it in his room on the floor below. Went to His Room. Mrs. Leduc further said she intend ed returning to New York that night and after the dance she went with Graveur to his room for the sole pur pose of getting the handbag. As they returned, Mrs. Leduc said, Mrs. Bel zer who Graveur thought he had in duced to return to New York, jumped from a closet and began shooting. Mrs. Mann, sister of Mrs. Leduc, cor roborated Mrs. Leduc's story that she came to Philadelphia to visit relatives. Miss McAndrew, sister of Mrs. Bel ,.hn came here today to claim the body of Mrs. Belzer, said Mrs. Leduc's statement tnat ira. with Graveur was not true. She also denied that her sister had lived with Graveur. "She's the squarest little girl in the world." was the statement in broken tones today of Joseph C. Leduc, pro prietor of a fashionable Chicago cloth ing store and expert golfer, as he sat at the bedside of his wife, finally clearing up the identity of the last principal in Philadelphia's hotel tragedy. "Yes, it s my f-aiia. saia ijeauc, as he told detectives that the woman who was shot with J. C. Graveur at the Hotel Walton by Mrs. Harry Belzer is his wife. He made it clear that he does not regard his wife as guilty of any wrong. He declared the man, whom he had regarded as his friend, must have hadMrL Leduc under the 1 Continued on Fage Two.) WEALTHY KENTUCKY $10,000,000 TO WED hlf Bib JiPfiu i Mrs. 8. C Fetter, her two children and the Kentucky mansion left her byf her former husband. Mrs. John C Calhoun Mayo, widow of John Mayo, the Kentucky mil lionaire who died two years ago, has Just become the bride of Dr. Samuel Fetter of Portsmouth, Om and in doing so has forfeited, by a provision in Mayo's will, over half of her inheritance of something; more than $20,000, 000. Her two children will receive the forfeited millions. Mrs. Mayo snd Dr. Fetter first met in Florida last winter. STRIKE A FIZZLE Only Handful Responded Call in Jfew Tork City. to by Larger Unions Standing Contracts With Employers, New York, Sept. 28. -The second day of what was to have been a gen eral strike of union workers in New York revealed no change early today in the situation, marked yesterday by practically complete failure of the men and women to whom the call was directed to respond. Best estimates showed that a bare handful of work ers went out on sympathetic strike. The larger uniona have contracts with their employers and have hesitated to break them. Interest today centered in the pos sibility that subway and elevated mo tormen, who have heretofore refused to join the traction strike, might be called out. A. L. Gridley, organizer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers, with which some of the mo tormen are affiliated, attacked leaders of the street car union and declared officials of the Interboro company would be called to account for their refusal to treat with representatives of the brotherhood. Store Voting on Walkout Today. Unions with a membership of- 164, 000 were voting on the question of re sponding to the sympathetic strike call today. Leaders still claimed a ma jority of these would go out. They also claimed more than 150.000 work ers walked out yesterday, but admit ted that most of these were Jewish workers who would have remained away from work anyhow because of their holiday. SEEK SCHOONER ADRIFT Craft Bearing Rich New Yorker's Son Missing Seven Days. San Francisco, Cal.. Sept. 28. Acting under orders from he navy department, Rear Admiral Fullam has dispatched a torpedo boat destroyer from Los Angeles harbor to Lower California waters to search for the schooner Catarina. Aboard the Catarina are Arthur Blackman, son of John Blackman, a New York cap italist, and three Mexicans. The schooner has not been spoken since she was cut adrift from the auxiliary schooner Freda, 30 miles north of Cedros Island, during a storm seven days ago. The armored cruiser West Virginia, en route from Bremer ton to Pensacola, Kla., also has been ordered to search for the missing craft. BURY WAR FLYER WHERE HE FELL ON BATTLEFIELD Berlin, via London. Sept. 28. Lieu tenant Wintgens, who, next to Cap tain Boelke, was Germany's most fa mous fighting avaitor has been killed in an engagement with the entente allied avaitors. He was buried, ac cording to his own wish, on the spot where he fell. Lieutenant Wintgens, according to a report received from Berlin September 16, had shot down his .fourteenth en tente aeroplane, on the Somme front. In June last Wintgens was awarded the Order of Merit by Emperor Wil liam for the aerial services he had performed. WIDOW GIVES UP MAN OF HER CHOICE hi VILLA TO BORDER Invading Texas Is Plan Crippled Bandit Chief. Of Proposes to Rehabilitate Rag ged Men by Train Robberies. Field Heaqttarters, American Puni tive Expedition, Mexico, Sept. 28. by radio to Columbus, N. M. Sept. 28. Francisco Villa with 600 men was at Santa Clara ranch thirty miles east of Namiquipa on September 22, for the immediate purpose of capturing trains near Lacuna and with the ulterior mo tive of striking north and invading Texas in the vicinity of Fabens, ac cording to the latest and most de tailed report of the bandit leader's movements received tonight at field headquai ters. The following leading adherents are said to be with Villa: Jose Inez Sala zar, Martin Lopez, three Murga Broth ers and Nikolas Fernandez. Villa him self is said to be unable to walk with out a crutch or to put his right foot to the ground. The horses in his band are reported to be in poor condition and his followers are said to be in rags. The American expeditionary head quarters declined to vouch for the authenticity of the reports, but it is believed possible Villa might enter the Santa Clara country for the pur pose of recruiting or securing a base from which he could attack trains and obtain supplies. This region is his old stamping ground; the outlaw knows the country thoroly and it would af ford him an almost secure hiding place. ALEX VS. CHENEY Phillies and Dodgers Begin Big Series This Afternoon. Seventeen Thousand Fans Cheer for Brooklyn Victory. Tlie Lineup. Philadelphia. Brooklyn. Pankert- cf Myers, cf Bancroft, ss Stock, 3b Whitted, If Tavatli, rf Lnderos, 1 b XMehoff, 2b Killifer, c aubert, lb Stengel, rf Wheat, If Cutshaw, 2b Mowery, 3b Olson, ss Miller, c Alexander, p Cheney, p Vmpires Klem and Enislie. Ebbetts Field, Brooklyn. Sept. 28 Philadelphia led by Grover Cleveland Alexander, the big gun of Pat Moran's artillery corps, began the first game of a three-day battle with the ilrook lyns here today in a series that is ex pected to largely determine this year's winner of the National league race. Brooklyn has a thin lead of a game and a half in the struggle for the flag and Philadelphia must capture all three games with the Brooklyns to re turn home in the lead. "We will take two out of the three games at least." said Manager Albert Robinson, while watching his pitchers warm up, "and then all we will have to do is to play out our schedule while Boston and Philadelphia cut each oth ers' throats. We do not fear our series with the Giants." Some seventeen thousand fans swarmed the stands and urged the home folks on to victory over Alex- ander and his mates. LZJi TO A KNOCKOUT SAYS WAR CHIEF OF GLBRITAIN Peace More by U. S. Xow Would Be Unfriendly Act. "Germany Sought Finish Fight and She'll Get It." BRITISH. GOOD SPORTSMEN Didn't Whimper When Beaten; Won't Quit Sow. Kitchener's Successor Says Ger many Must Be Crushed. (The followlne Interview with Invid Lloyd George, the directing force behind Britain's armies, asserting- that the war must go on "to the finish to a knock out" is the first statement given by him r. ImaMn namnflwrs since he SUC- ceerieri Lord Kitchener as secretary of state for war.) nv urw iv nrnv 1?T (President of the ITnlted Press Asso- I ciations.) (Copyright. WIG. by the United Press.) (Copyrighted in Sreat Britain.) London, Sept. 28. There is no end of the war in sight. Any step at this time by the United States, the Vatican or any other neutral in the direction of peace would bejeonstrued by Eng land as an unneutral, pro-German move. The United Press is able to make these statements on no less authority than that of the British man of the hour, Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, secretary of state for war. "Britain has only begun to fight; the British empire has Invested thou sands of its best lives to purchase fu ture immunity for civilization; this in vestment is too great to be thrown away," was the Welsh statesman's size-up of the situation. More than at any time since the beginning of the war there is evi dence thruout England of a popular suspicion toward America, a suspicion that did not exist a year ago. This feeling appears directly attributable to the notion generally entertained by the man on the streets that President Wilson might be induced to butt in for the purpose of stopping the Euro pean war. A similar suspicion of Spain and the Vatican Is also mani fest." British Good Sportsmen. Lloyd George was asked to give in the simplest possible language the British attitude toward the recent peace talk. 'Simple language," he inquired, with a half smile. Then he thought a mo ment. Sporting terms are pretty well un derstood wherever English is spoken," he replied. "I am quite sure' they will be understood in America. Well, then, the British soldier is a good sportsman. He enlisted in this war in the sporting spirit the best sense of that term. He went in to see fair play to a small nation tramp led upon by a bulls. He is fighting for fair play in international dealings. He has fought as a good sportsman by the thousands. He has died like a sportsman. He has never asked any thing more than a snorting chance and hasn't always had that. When he could not get it, he didn't quit. He played the game. He didn't squeal and certainly he never asked, anyone to squeal ror mm. The secretary for war, who looks. acts and talks more like an American business man than any other English man in public life now, speaking real United States with scarcely any trace of the usual British intonation of ac cent, continued: Took His Punishment Then. "Under the circumstances, the Brit ish, now that the fortunes of the game nave turned a bit, are not disposed to stop because of the squealing, done by the Germans, or for the Germans, by probably well-meaning but misguided sympathizers and humanitarians. For two years the British soldier had a bad time no one knows so well as he what a bad time it was. He was sadly inferior in equipment. On the aver age he was inferior in training. He saw the allied cause beaten all about the ring, but he did not appeal to either the spectators or a referee to stop the fight on the ground that it was brutal, nor did he ask to have the rules changed. He took his punish ment. Even when beaten like a dog, he was a game dog. When forced to take refuge in a trench, when too badly used up to carry the fight to the enemy he hung on without whin ing, fought off every attack, bided his time, endured without wincing, work ed without flagging." Lloyd George's eyes snapped as sit ting at his desk in the war office, he tilted hack his chair and studied the ceiling as if seeing there a picture of Tommy's game fight in the early stages of the contest. "And at this time, under these con ditlons. what was the winning German doing ne asked. Germany Chose Finish Fight. "Was he worrying over the terrible slaughter? He was talking of annex ing Belgium and Poland as a result of his .victory and while he was re making the map of Europe without the slightest regard for the wishes of its people the British people were pre paring to pay the price we knew must 'Continued on Tag. Two. I Can't Collect From School Kids. Oklahoma City. Sept. 28. The prac tice of collecting small contributions from school children for the purchase of pictures, bpoks and supplies is for bidden, by the by-laws of the Okla homa City school board. Violation of this ruling was common in certain ward schools last year. Superintendent Whiteford has declared for a strict enforcement of the edict. His chief objection is said to" be that children who cannot afford to contribute to V. vBr.mia fnntii a ra nla n a n embarrassing, position among their 1 classmates. IN COLLEGE SCRIMMAGE 75 FRESHMEN INTO LAKE Chicago. Sept. 28. Five hundred under graduates of Northwestern University engaged In a free-for-all fight in Bvanston early today, and the affair did not end until seventy five freshmen had been thrown into Lake Michigan. It was the annual "Proclamation night" and fresh men and sophomores met to defend the honor of their classes. VANDERUMN CITY ew York Banker Will Be in Topeka This Evening. With Frank Trumbell of "Katy" He'll Feel West's Pulse. The financial pulse of the west will be felt in the next few days by capital ists of the east, beginning this after noon when Frank A. Vanderlip. pres ident of the National City bank of New York, and Frank Trumbell, chair man of the Katy board of directors and the Chesapeake Ohio board of directors, will leave Kansas City on a flying trip thru Kansas and other western states. With W. M. Jeffers, general manager for the Union Pacific, y" trS!f?" a SpeCial trai" VCr Frank A. Vanderlip. The party will arrive In Topeka to night at 6:30 o'clock and will remain here until morning. At 7 o ciock to night they will be entertained by To. peka bankers and financiers at an in formal dinner in tne iarvey nouse, Arrangements for the dinner were made today. Mr. Vanderlip and his party will leave Topeka early tomorrow morn lng. It has been announced that Mr. Vanderlip considers "his trip a sort of a vacation, but he expects to feel the pulse of the financial west. All members of the party have been in Kansas City all week attending the convention of the American bankers association. Mr. Vanderlip's financial institution is one of the largest, if not the largest. in the United States. He has a repu tation the world over as a safe, sane and master financier. Advance notices of Vanderlip's ar rival stated that he did not intend his trip to be a speech-making tour. Lo cal financiers tho are confident that he will address them at the dinner at the Harvey House today. The itinerary of Vanoerhp s trip thru Kansas as given out by E. L. Copeland, is as follows: Leave Topeka at 7 o clock Friday morn mi g. Arrive at Manhattan 8:30 a. m. Arrive Junction City 10 a. m. Arrive Abilene 1 1 a. m. Arrive Salina at noon. Arrive Ellsworth 2-p. m. Arrive Hays City 4 p. m. Arrive at Ellis 5:30 p. m. The itinerary allows for stops of forty-five minutes or an hour's dura- tion at each of the above named points. At each place mentioned he will meet the bankers of the district and confer with them concerning local tinancial conditions. Mr. Vanderlip's speech to the bank ers in Kansas City today appears on page 3. NEAR WINTER WEATHER Temperature Went Down to 28 in Kansas Last Night, Hourly temperature readinjars fur nished by the weather bureau: 7 o'clock 4711 o'clock .....53 8 o'clock 4 8'12 o'clock 54 9 o'clock 49j 1 o'clock 55 10 o'clock 61! 2 o'clock .56 Temperatures today averagred 12 degrees below normal. The wind is blowing at the rate of fifteen miles an hour from the northwest. Today was the coolest that has occurred this fall. Weather of the -near-winter variety prevailed here last night, and reports show it was general over Kansas. Temperatures were many degrees be- iow normal in all parts of the state and a reading of 28 degrees occurred at Goodland, Sherman county. A trace of rain fell early this morning at To peka. and a few showers occurred in the state. The sky here this morn ing was cloudy and threatening, but the sky was clearing before noon and the clouds were expected to disap pear before night. The lowest temperature this morn ing was 47 degrees, following a drop CConrinued no Pare Two.) Third l"-Boat Liner Nearly Ready. London, Sept. 28. The Amsterdam correspondent of the Exchange Tele graph says travelers who have arriv ed from Bremen report that a third German commercial submarine will be ready to sail within a month. This submarine to be known as the Kaiser, is said to be slightly larger than the rieutschland. KING OF GREECE DECLARES WAR ON BULGARIANS Decision to Join Allies Authen tically Announced Today. Greek. Army of 300,000 to Mobilize at Once. VENIZELOS FORCED THE MOVE Ex-Premier Proclaimed Leader of Crete Revolution. Cruisers and Army Officers De serted to Join Allies. Athens, vis. London, Sept. 28. The Associated Press is in a position to state positively that King Constantins decided this morning in favor of an immediate declaration of war on Bul garia, t Reports that a general mobilization has been ordered are premature. Af ter the session of the councir of ministers at the palace this morning l'remier K.alogeropoulos hastily called a cabinet meeting. The premier de clared the government was giving th fullest consideration to the situation and said there might be addressed to Bulgaria a note of such character that mobilization would logically follow. Later in the day it developed that the king had decided on a declaration of war against Bulgaria. The decision has not yet been announced publicly. numerous details remain to bo worked out. Thev include an ultima. turn to Bulgaria demanding instant evacuation of all Greek Macedonia, as wen as plans for mobilization under the difficult condition presented by the occupation of Greek territory by me entente xorces. People Welcome War. The king this morning discussed tVi mobilization problem mlnutelv wi.h General Mosothopoulos, chief of staff and General Tanakitsas, former min ister of war. He' probably will preside personally over a meeting of the crown council at noon tomorrow. Lven the departure of former Premier Venizelos from Athens creat ed nothing like the suppressed excite ment evident everywhere this after noon. The people feel that their long period of expectancy Is about to end, and the prospect of war with the Bul garians apparently is welcome. London, Sept. 2S. Greece's army of 800,000 men will be mobilized im mediately to join the armies of the allies, said an unconfirmed Athens dispatch today. King: Constantino was expected to sign the mobilization de cree within forty-eight hours, Athens reported. The government will then issue a, proclamation to the people, denouncing Bulgaria's occupation of Kavala and other Greek ports, following this with a declaration of war. The Greek le gation today had no confirmation of these reports. Diplomatic circles, however, heard a rumor that Alexan der Carapanos, Greek foreign minister and anti-ally in his sentiments, re signed following a stormy session at the cabinet with King Constantino. Presumably his resignation followed the king's- reported decision to range his armies alongside those of the allies. Situation Gravely Clouded. Contradictory dispatches from Athens left the situation greatly cloud ed today, but it appeared probabl that ex-Premier Venizelos, arriving at Crete, where he received an enthusi astic welcome, forced the hand of tha king. Venizelos caused a proclama tion to be given wide circulation thru out Greece, offering the king one more chance to join the allies. The alter, native apparently was a revolution. The Greek battleship Hydra and th cruiser Psara are known to have joined the allied fleet in the Mediter ranean under control of tho revolu tionists, said an Athens dispatch, but rumors that other naval units have followed them are not confirmed. Sev eral more Greek army officers arrived at Salonlki yesterday and nff.. their fieri ices to the allies. Calls Brother, Prince George, Home. London, Sept. 28. Prince George of Greece, brother of King Constan tino U'hn font. Kuan In T .1 r uuiiuuH iur some time representing the views of the Greek court today received a tele gram from the king recalling him to Athens. PARIS LOAN 50 MILLION Obtained Thru XJ. S. Firm to Care for Children and Widows. New Tork, Sept. 28. Paris is bor. rowing money for the first time out side of France. A fifty million dollar loan has been arranged for the city here thru Kuhn. Loeb and Company, it was announced today. The loan will take the form of five-year.- six per cent bonds, which will be offered the public by the banking firm next week. The city of Paris will use the funds provided by the bond issue, to increase hospital facilities, build or phan asylums. care for widows of soldiers and to maintain the unem ployed. TABERNACLE WRECKED Just Before Meeting Tornado Scatters It Over Several Blocks. Diagonal, Iowa, Sept. 28. An hour before a big wooden tabernacle was to have been packed by a Union church society here last night, a tor nado struck the building, completely wrecking it and strewing chairs and tables for blocks around. Two homes were struck by lightning, but the flames were extinguished after doing small damage. No one was injured.
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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1916 PLAYING VILLAGE POLITICS IN D. G. ASSERTS BANKER Forget National Defense Med dling With Business. Picks Flaws in Federal Reserve and Farm Loan. BORROWING TOO EASY NOW "Either Disband Army and Scrap "ary or Prepare." Pres. Lynch of American Ass'n, for .National Defense. Kansas City. Mo., Sept. 28. Presi dent James K. Lynch of San Fran cisco, addressing the American Bank ers' association at the opening of its general convention this morning, con gratulated the association on the sub stantial progress made during the past year, both in membership, which has -now reached a total of 16,016 banks, and in its numerous activities, which have exercised a profoundly beneficial Influence on the banks of the country. With respect to the federal farm loan act, Mr. Lynch declared that while the end sought was sociological, "an endeavor to stem the drift of pop ulation to the cities, lower rates of Interest and greater facilities for get ting into debt would not of themselves .serve to accomplish this result. "The men who have the most intimate ex perience with farm conditions gen erally believe that borrowing is al- ready too easy for the farmer," he t-said. Touching on the European war. the 'great flotations of foreign loans here and the enormous inflow of gold, Mr. Lynch said: Most Control Gold Supply. "We may expect that as soon as the war is over and the normal imports of merchandise are resumed the ex- cess of gold will leave us, and this will be by no means an evil. ine sur plusage of gold and the loaning power set free by the federal reserve act to gether are likely to cause a credit ex pansion which will need careful sup ervision by our bankers, to the end that the corresponding contraction does not find us unprepared. The con- trol of both the export and the im port of gold should be guided by the federal reserve board, which was in- tended to perform this function and which has the power necessary to stab ilize exchange thru this means." Without using the word "prepared ness," Mr. Lynch made a strong plea for preparedness and national organi- v sation. He said: "The primary purprose of a govern ment is to provide adequate defense ,.tifor the country governed, and how shamefully this purpose has been neg- rlected under one administration after another is a familiar tale. Should our people demand that the army be dis banded and the navy scrapped, the position would be consistent, but to consent to an army pitifully inade quate and to a navy that dooms our '"boys to hopeless defeat and certain ,,death is not the American way of doing. America Not Xwake. "In fact, America is not awake; her people have been busy getting rich and her legislators have carried vil lage politics into national affairs, and have busied themselves with petty improvements and meddled with the business concerns of the citizens, with out a clear idea of the harm they were doing or an understanding of the world problems requiring solution, "If our people can rise to the heights of citizenship that the times demand, the work that must be done can be accomplished peacefully and in order, but if they will not learn from the bitter experience of our kin acrops the sea, the reformation will be work S ium oa It s All a Matter of Personality When deciding to order your new Autumn suit. Be your own model for your own clothes. Our clothes are designed, cut and tailored from your measurements. We guarantee satisfaction. Custom Shirts Made to L. C. FINE TAILORING 624 Kansas Avenue. STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourself Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Have Our Own Offices at Chicago. So. St. Joseph, So. V' v un ui in iiiu i -i i ww. PERFECT AS A PIANO TOPEKA FACTORY BRANCH STORE l iJ.;;i.;. Kimball ifiKi ed out amid the ruin of war. High ideals and lofty purposes are but feeble defenses against invading armies, and the god of battles may have decided that other ideals than ours are to prevail. Federal Reserve Most Important. "The most important subject be fore the bankers of America today," said President Lynch, "is the federal reserve act and the operation of the twelve reserve banks. Criticism of the reserve banks had come from dif ferent sources; from the banks in the financial centers, which objected to the absorption by the reserve banks of the supply of bank acceptances; from the small banks In the more re mote districts, which complained tht the requirements for eligible paper are too strict; and from -the member banks generally, proterting against an enforced investment which carries no immediate prospect of dividends and on reserve deposits on which no inter est is paid. To all these objectors he pointed out that conditions for two years past have been bnormal and furnished no evidence of what the re serve system could do, but that much had already been accomplished. Bank acceptances for the first time have been made possible as credit Instru ments in connection with the import and export of merchandise, the dollar credit is making its way In South America and in the Orient and our na tional banks are opening branches in foreign countries." Sympathizes With Country Banker. On the subject of the check collec tion plan, President Lynch said: "My sympathies are strongly with the country banker who is contem plating a loss of revenue thru the op eration of this portion of the reserve act. To my mind, it is pointless to compare the removal of exchange charges to the removal of toll gates from the highway. The transfer of funds is a service which Is as much entitled to compenpation when made by a bank as it is when made by an express company or by the postofflce." SCANDINAVIAN CLUB Swedish Mass Meeting of Republicans In Topeka Tonight. In a Swedish mass meeting tonight in the Office block. Fifth and Quincy streets, a Scandanavian Republican league will be organized to form the nucleus of a state-wide organization. More than 100 Scandinavians will at tend tonight's meeting, it Is expected. The league will be similar to those In Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin, where the Scandinavians have strong polit ical organizations. Officers will be elected tonight. It is planned to elect a vice president for every county In Kansas to head a branch in the officer's respective county. It is estimated there are about 6,600 Scandinavians in Kansas. From that population the league expects to draw a membership of 6,000. The organiza tion will be a permanent one. Its main object will be to further the gospel of Republicanism. SHY ON FOOD CONTRACT Scarcity of Vegetables Prevents Many Bidding on Navy Supplies. New York, Sept. 28. Bids for food su Dolies for the United States navv just received her are much higher than those or last year, some ol the items called for. such as beans and corn, are so scarce that many firms which usually bid for these contracts did not compete. Only two firms bid on the string bean contract and offered to fill only part -or the order or 500,000 pounds. One firm offered to supply 270,000 pounds for $22,120. The lowest bid for 1,140,000 pounds or canned com was $85,174, while 2,305,000 pounds of canned tomatoes were offered for $112,945. One of the largest items on the list was (140,000 pounds of canned peaches which were orrered at 5&1.31. Shack lo ton In Santiago. Santiago, Chile, Sept. 2 8. Lieuten ant Ernest Shackleton, the explorer. woh is on his way to England arrived here today from Punta Arenas with the members of his party who were rescued rrom Elephant Island. K. C. Society Favorite Held in Jait Ios Angeles., Cal., Sept; 28. Unable to raise l,000 ball, Miss Hazel Given of Kansas City, a social favorite at Coronado, was held in Jail today on a cnarge or stealing zoo worth of jew elry from Miss Juliet Lawrence of Los Angeles. Your Individual Measure RAHN AND CUSTOM SHIRTS Phone 268 at. t'aui, tjariaio, E. St. Louis, PERFECT AS A PLAYER Player 822 Kansas Ave. F. P. Whitman. Mgr. ev. rates m c WOMEN ORGANIZE. Mrs. F. E. Whitney Assistant Secretary of Kansas League. The Kansas Women's league, organ ized Wednesday afternoon, elected Mrs. A. Harris, of Lawrence, president; Mrs. Frank L. Britton, Osage, secre tary: Mrs. F. E. Whitney, Topeka, as sistant secretary; Mrs. S. K. Adler, treasurer. Vice presidents, one tor each congressional district, were elect ed as follows: First district, Mrs. Elizabeth Warning, Holtoh; Second, Mrs. Ada B. Rodman, Ottawa; Third, Mrs. Joseph Duncan. Arkansas City; Fourth. Mr Sadie Wlshnall, Cotton wood Falls; Fifth, Mrs. Phoebe Van Plecke, Marysville; Sixth, Dr. saran 1. B. Honey, Mankato: Seventh, Mrs. Dan Callahan, Kingman; Eighth," Mrs. Frank Cron, ElDorado. The ourganization is political In that it is composed of all suffragist follow ers of Woodrow Wilson. However, it embraces Populists, Socialists, Pro hibitionists and Progressives as well as Democrats. The object of the or ganization is to further the candidacy of President Wilson for re-election. HUSBAND FORGIVES (Contlnned from Pnge One.) influence of some drug or held her In his room. Will Forgive Her. "Will I forgive her?" he countered in response to a question. "There is nothing to forgive. She has been a true, loyal little woman and I will take her back home as soon as it is safe for her to travel. I love her love her even more than before. She was lured to the hotel. It was not her fault." As the last link in the strange trag edy thru which Graveur fell victim to the very thing he had sought to save others from in his days as a social re former, and a woman whom he had cast aside sought vengeance was sup plied, drawing newvfamilies -of posi tion into public gaze, detectives stood with moist eyes outside the door where Leduc and his wife held their brief re union. Leduc was in the room for half an hour. Tears streamed down his face as he tried to talk. Leduc arrived here at 9 o'clock today from Chicago. He went direct to the hospital where his wife was taken after being wound ed early yesterday when Mrs. Belzar shot her and killed her companion. When detectives finally entered the room Leduc was sitting beside his wife holding both of her hands. Leduc told the story of his married life. "We first met at a tennis match where 1 was playing and Lilia .was a spectator. For five years we lived in New York. It was there I met 'Joey" Graveur. He was different then; a home loving man. We all became warm friends. My wife and I be lieved in his sincerity in uplift work. His wife's death drove him to drink two years ago and that drove him to worse. Lilia and I were happy as two doves. We were known as the honeymoon couple.' They can talk. They can say whatever they please aoout ner Dut 1 Know that little girl ana win never change my mind about her. "She left Chicago September 12. She nao. planned to return to New York to visit relatives and niir old friend, She stopped first at the Claridge hotel nu wrote me a letter every day. I have read that Graveur and a woman, supposed to be his wife, stopped in Atlantic City September 22 and Sep tember 24. That was 'not' my Lilia. Not until Leduc arrived today were the authorities positive of the third woman's identity. To the very last she sought to conceal her name. NEAR WINTER WEATHER Continued from Page One.) of 20 degrees during the night This is 7 degrees below normal, but is not the lowest temperature of the fall. The mercury had reached 49 degrees at 9 o'clock and it was expected to 50 not higher than 60 degrees today. The wind early this morning was making thirty miles an hour from the west, but dropped to twenty miles shortly after daybreak Continued cold weather with a frost tonight Is indicated by the forecast which reads: "Fair and cooler with frost tonight: Friday fair and some what warmer." Tonight the mercury will drop to 40 or lower, according to S. D. Flora, local weathermen, but the frost is not expected to be a heavy one. "Almost any sort of covering will protect vegetation from the frost," says Mr. Flora. The highest temperature on record for this date is 95 degrees, established in 1911. The low record. 33 degrees, occurred in 18S8. The Kaw river is stationary at 4.2 feet, the lowest mark of the year. The moon sets tonight at 6:34 o'clock, giving about twenty-fivs minutes of moonlight: DAILY WFATRKR RFPORT. Fnrnished by the weather bureau office. Toneka. Kan., for the twenty-four honrs ending at 7 a. m. Thursday. Stations in Kansas. Stations. HI Eh. Low. Prec. W'ther. Anthony 84 so T Cloudy Coldwater SO 44 0 Clear Concordia 74 44 0 Clear Dodge City 78 42 0 Cloudy Dresden 70 "2 0 Clear Emporia 76 4(1 .Til Clotidy Eureka 84 52 .04 Fair Fort Scott 0 56. 0 Clear Goidland 66 26 .01 Clear Hanover 76 44 0 Cloudy Hays 74 as T Clear Horton 74 44 .01 Cloudy lola 82 54 .01 Fair Liberal 80 42 0 Fair McPhers-m 78 44 0 Clear Manhattan 78 46 0 Cloudy Phillipsburg 72 38 O Clear Scott City 74 34 T Clear Sedan 88 52 T Fair TOPEKA 74 47 T Cloudy Vtlca 72 38 .10 Clear Wichita SO CO .02 Clear Knal City 74 48 0 Cloudy St. Joseph 72 48 .02 Clear From Other State. Stations. High. Low. Prec W'ther. noaton, Mass 86 62 o Fair Buffalo. N. Y 80 66 T Cloudy Calgary, Alb 50 24 0 Clear Chicago, 111 68 56 .14 Clear Cincinnati, 0 84 64 .00 Cloudy Corpus Chrlsti.... 86 76 0 Fair Denver, Colo 64 34 0 Clear De Moines. Ia.... 70 46 0 Cloudy Duluth, Minn 58 36 0 Cloudy El Paso, Tex 84 60 0 Clear Ft. Worth, Tex... 94 68 0 Clear Galveston, Tex.... 84 7S 0 Clear Havre, Mont 50 26 .01 Clear Jacksonville, Fla... M 74 0 Clear Little Hock, Ark.. 86 68 .02 Kain Los Angeles, Cal.. 74 56 0 Clear New Orleans. La.. 86 74 .32 Clear New York, N. Y.. 80 64 0 Cloudy N. Platte, Neb... 62 32 01 Clear Oklahoma City 88 56 0 Cloud v Omaha, Neb 70 44 0 Cloudy Phoenix, Ariz 92 56 O Clear Pittsburg, Pa 82 66 O Cloudy Portland, Ore 72 52 0 Clear St. Loul, Mo 84 60 1.10 Fair St. Paul. Minn 56 38 .04 Rain Salt Lake. I'tah... 66 Ml 0 Clear San Francisco 86 58 0 Clear Sault Ste. Marie.. 62 48 .12 Fair Seattle, Wash 62 50 0 Clear Sheridan, Wyo 52 24 .02 Clear Spikane, Wash ,64 36 0 Clear Swift Current, Sas. 42 36 .28 Cloudy Tampa, Fla 8s 72 0 Clondv Toledo. 0 82 62 .62 Cloudy WaabingtcD, D. .C, 86 66 o Cloudy Winnipeg, Man... 42 28 T Clear PROFUSION CLIMB Santa Fe Set Revenues Show $8,457,398 Increase. No Debts Outstanding, Report for Year States. ADVANCE DUET0WAR ABROAD Three Great Disasters Marked Year for Railroad. Will Fight Kansas Rate, Says President Ripley. New York, Sept. 28. The Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe- Railway Co.,' for the year ending June 30, last, reports operating revenues or gross earnings of $133,762,392, an increase of slightly more than $16,000,000 over the preced ing year, operating expenses of $83. 730,960, an increase of about $7,600, 000, and net operating revenues of $50,081,432, an Increase of $8,457,898. Neither the company nor any of its subsidiaries has any notes or bills out standing and the company had in its' treasury, at the end of the fiscal year cash to the amount of $44,364,922. Net incomes of $45,109,468, avail able for' interest, dividends, etc., plus sundry profit and loss adjustments ag gregating $202,688, represent about 6.18 per cent on the property invest ment. The operation of the road was marked during the year by three dis asters the tropical storm which tlooded Galveston, an explosion at Ardmore, Okla., both causing serious loss of life and property, and an ex traordinary rainfall in California and Arizona, these resulting in a loss of $2,000,000 to $2,600,000 which was charged to operating expenses. Due to European War. In his general remarks. President Edward P. Ripley said, in part: "Close analysis of operations for the year clearly indicates the en hanced earnings to be almost wholly due to the war in Europe. Even things apparently remote can be traced to this source. On the Pacific coast there is no shipping for Atlantic ports, resulting, of course, in greatly increased tonnage by rail. In Arizona and ew Mexico the copper and zinc industries have had abnormal stimula tion the demand for foodstuffs has produced large prices for a heavy grain crop, thus creating large pur chasing power the oil industry of great and Increasing importance) has felt the interruption of supplies from old world sources, and the enormous increase in the use of gasoline in fact, business of all kinds has been stimulated to such an extent that there have practically been no dull periods during the entire year. So abnormal has the business been that it will doubtless be several years be fore we again reach the volume of the past year." In the course of his report. Presi dent Ripley remarks: Use Increase for Improvement. The striking fact emphasized by the foregoing statement is that the earnings on the entire investment, during this, the most prosperous year of the company's history, are hut little over 6 per cent and, tven in recent years' average but little more than 5 per cent per annum; and It must be borne in mind, that of these earnings it is necessary to appropriate a sub stantial amount each year for im provements and betterments." Mr. Ripley characterized the Okla homa 2-cent passenger rate law as "iniquitous" and declared that a con siderable amount had been spent in contesting the prevision in the federal courts. "The 1 via en ce Is now all in v,. continued, "and while 1:0 decision has as yet been rendered, we feel it will be in favor of the company. A similar raie is in roroe in Kansas and in all probability similar litigation will be necessary In that state." 1,000 MACHINISTS WILL STRIKE! Ontario Men Announce Forerunner Series of Walkouts. New York, Sept. 28. The declara tion of a stike by 1,000 machinists employed in the shops of the Ontario X. U.'o.t.. i 1 I n,AB nM wiiiuuuueu to day by the International Association of 'K.TnnV.nla.n .1 uiawmiwia, a uriUOUUB ill e I U I an eight-hour day and higher wages. Un ion officials said the strike was a fore runner of a series of similar strikes to be declared on all railroads of the country. Germans Rebuild Great Bridge. Barlin, Sept. 27. The great Ponla- iowski bridge across the Vistula at Warsaw, which was destroyed by the Russians when they evacuated the city in August of last year, has been rebuilt by the Hermans. GOOD NEWS FOR THE 3EAF A new bearinjr device being dem onstrated the Mnltitone Auriphone. Look at it and 70a see the simplest and smallest device in the world. Use it and you feel that you have the most wonderful hearing device on the market Free Demonstration At Our Store Today Only From 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. The Mil IHtone An rt phone Is the newest of bearing devices and is a preat belp for the deaf. Each in strument Is adjusted to the individ ual's personal requirements. V. H. Izett, an expert from the factory, will answer all questions and make a test privately and give expert ad vice without charge. Each instru ment guaranteed. All interested should call and test THIS U'OXDERFft LITTLC INSTRUMENT during the demon stration. You save $10.(M on the purchase price. ARNOLD DRUG CO. TOPEKA. KANSAS 523 Kansas Avenue TO A KNOCKOUT (Continued from fare One.1 be paid for the time to get the army ready. It is one thing to look back on the pounding the British soldier took the first two years of the war, but a different thing to look forward as he did and know the beating-could not be avoided during these, months when it seemed the finish of the Brit ish army might come quickly. "Germany elected to make it a fin ish fight with England.- The British soldier was ridiculed, held in contempt. Now we intend to see that Germany has her way. The fight must be to the finish, to a knockout." Dropping his colloquialisms, the half smile lading from his face. Lloyd George continued in a more serious vein: "Tiro whole world, Including neu trals of the highest purposes and hu manitarians with the best motives, must know that there can be no out side interference at this stage. Britain asked no intervention when she was not prepared to fiEht. She will tol erate none now that she Is. prepared until Prussian military despotism is broken beyond repair. There was no regret voiced in Germany over the use less slaughter. There were no tears by German sympathisers when the few thousand British citizens who never expected to be soldiers, whose military education started only a few months previously, went out to be battered, bombed and gassed, to receive ten shells for every one they could fire went out, fought and died like sports men without even a grumble. Can't Be Worse Than It Was." I repeat that there was no whimper Ins then and the people who are now moved to tears at the thought of what is to come watched the early rounds of the unequal contest dry-eyed. None of the carnage" and suffering which is to come can be worse than the suffer ings of those allied dead who stood the full shock of the Prussian .war ma chine before it began to falter. More Than Desire for Vengeance "But in the British determination to carry the fight to a decisive finish, there Is something more than the nat ural demand lor venaeai.ee. The in humanity, the pltilcssness of the fight ing that must come before a lasting peace is possible is not comparable with the cruelty that would be in volved in stopping the war while there remains a possibility of civilization again being menaced from the same quarter. Peace now, or at any time before the final and complete elimina tion of this menace, is unthinkable. No man and no nation with the slight est understanding of the temper of this citizen army of Britons, which took its terrible hammering without a whine or grumble, will attempt to call a halt now." "But how long do you figure this can and must go on?" Lloyd George was asked. "There's neither clock nor calendar in the British acmy today," was his quick reply. "Time is the least vital factor. Only the result counts not the time consumed in achieving it. It took England twenty years to defeat Napoleon and the first fifteen of those years were blnck with British defeat. It will not take twenty years to win this war, but whatever time is requir ed, it will be done, and I say this, rec ognizing that wo have only begun to win. There is no disposition on our side to fix the hour of ultimate vic tory after the first success. We have no delusion that the war is nearing an end. We haven't the Flightest doubt as to how it is to end." Warm Praise for France. "But, what of France; is there the same determination there to stick to the end, the same idea of fighting un til peace terms can be dictated by Germany's enemies?" Lloyd George was asked. The war secretary carefully matched each finger of one hand with each fin ger of the other, and as he turned his chair slowly to gaze out over the khaki-dotted throng in Whitehall. It seemed the lnteruption had stemmed the flow of conversation. There was a full moment's pause and as the chair swung around again, the reply came in a voice and manner impressively grave. "The world at large has not yet be gun to appreciate the magnificence, the nobility, the wonder of France," he said. "I had the answer to your inquiry given me a few days ago by a noble French woman, sne naa given four sons she had one left to be given to France. In the course of mv talk with her. I asked if she didn't think the struggle had gone far enough. Her reply without a mo ment's hesitation, was The fight will never have gone far enough until we have made a repetition of this horror impossible." That mother was voicing the spirit of France. "Yes. France will stick to the end. I suppose America's conception of France ana tne if rencn soiaier dciok the war was as erroneous as the Brit ish idea I suppose you, too, regard the French soldier as excitable, bril liant In attack, but lacking dogged staying qualities. Cite sVerdun as Illustration. "Nothing was more unwarranted than the popular Idea of the French man as a poor defensive fighter. Mis lory never Justified this idea, but there will be a new appraisement, a new ap preciation when the real heroism, no bility and geniJB of the defense of Verdun is fully understood. France has fought the longest wars of any nation of Europe and her history it self is assurance enough that she will hold to the end. "With the British it will be the sporting spirit that will animate the armv to the last, fair play the motive fair fight and method. With the French it will be the riercely burning patriotism that will sustain the army to tne era, regaruiess 01 wnen tne end may come." Russia Thru to Death! "And Russia "Will go thru to the death," inter rupted Lloyd George "Russia has been slow to arouse, but she will be equally slow to quiet. The argument that Russia was forced into the war must be remembered. The Russian has not forgotten nor forgiven tho fact that this happened when he was ill-prepared and unsuspecting. No there are and will be no- quitters among the allies. "Never again' has become our battle cry. At home the suffering and sorrow is great and it growing. As to the war zone, its ter rors are indescribable. I have just visited the battle fields of France. I stood, as it were, at the door of hell. I saw myriads marching into the fur nace. I saw some coming out of it scorched and mutilated. Tliis Must End All War. "This ghastliness must never be re enacted on this earth snd one method at least of answering that end is the infliction of such punishment upon the perpetrators of this outragw against humanity that the temptation to emulate their exploits will be elimi nated from the hearts of the evil minded amongst the rulers of men." WON'T JOIN ARMY Pictures of Handsome Soldiers on Green Fields Ineffective. Dollar a Day Pay Is Requisite, Says San JarrelL TOPEKAN HOME FROM BORDER Disillusioned Guard Tells Beans and Prunes. of Long Hours of Drill and Camp Drudgery There. By San Jarroll. "Doing time" in the army is an un profitable, unpleasant duty which the government requires a small number of its citizens to perform for the whole people. A large number of the men in the National Guard have no complaint to make, as nothing happened to them on the Mexican border that they did not expect, for every man who has read the history of war knows that military life Is not a round of la-da-da functions with brick ice cream and cake. Serving in the army means a lack of all the conveniences found at home denial of associations which make for character building; long hours of drill and camp drudgery; unpalatable grub three times a day; and for all of which hardship the soldier is paid 15 a month. The man who knows what he is going up against when he Joins the army, or the National Guard in active field service, suffers no dissappolnt ment, and comes home with his Ideals intact; but the poor mollycoddle who counts on an easy time, hero stuff and a story book career will have his childish illusions mashed flatter than a Mexican pancake. Reform Is Needed. My experience leads me to believe that the government .will have to un dergo radical reform in its treatment of soldiers if it gets anywhere with the work of recruiting for the army. It is unfair to require one man to give up his business and everything else that makes life worth while to serve his country for practically nothing, while his neighbors are permitted to stay at home and profit by his sacri fice. Every able bodied citizen should bear his share of the army burden, either in active service, or money pay ment. Those who do not want to answer the call for military duty should pay a living wage to men who are willing to do so. I am sure that every enlisted man in my regi ment, tne 'intra juissoun infantry, feels as I do. The National Guard Is gradually be ing recalled from the border, and sev eral regiments. Including thj Third Missouri, have already been mustered out of federal service. I believe it will only be a matter of time before the entire guard will be brought home. There is a striking difference be tween the training the guardsmen and the regular soldiers are getting on the Rio Grande. The militia draws about five hours of hard drilling dally, while the regulars drill half an hour once or twice a week. The regular troops are of course seasoned and acclimated but it is a question to many familiar with the border if they are as fit for active service as the militia troops. who have been earning their princely pay wtn real work. Tell of Boiled Beans. The enlisted men in the National Guard will not bring home any tales of the glamor and glory attached to the service. They will instead tell their families and their frienos of the more unpleasant features of the sum mer, the boiled beans and stewed prunes and alkali water and, In some instances, inferior equipment. That will not have a tendency to stimulate recruiting In case of actual war. There are several things, in my opinion, that are necessary before any great prog ress will be made in building up a standing army, or a reserve army, to a standard necessary for a country as large and as powerful as the United States. Perhaps the most essential thing is pay. Men were called into service in the national guard who were forced to give up good jobs, families, friends, good eating, etc., for 50 cents a day. The enlisted men in the regular army are men who take up soldiering as an occupation and they are usually satis- nea witn tneir low pay. A dollar a day, with board and clothing furnished by the government. will have more effect in increasing the status of the army than all the pretty pictures of handsome soldiers gazing at hills and rivers thru field glasses. The advocates of a compulsory sys tem of military training In the Uni'ed States can find much In the present Doraer service or tne national guard on wmcn to Dase tneir arguments. MIDWEST IS STRICTLY DRY. Favorable for Harvest but Tough on Plowing and Pasture. Washington, Sept. 28. Widespread ory weamer witn mostly mild temper atures was decidedly favorable for harvesting and other field work gen erally thruout the week which ended Tuesday, according to the national weather and crop bulletin today in its tinai weeaiy issue ot tne season. Corn cutting, silo filling, threshing, harvesting tobacco, potato and beet digging and cranberry picking made line progress. Much fall plowing and grain seeding were accomplished but ory soil seriously hindered this work in parts of Oklahoma. Iowa, Missouri and Northern Texas, and in the ma jority of the states east of the Mis sissippi river. Gathering of hay and fodder made excellent progress, but fall pastures, late feed crops, and late truck, gar dens need rain. Picking and ginning of cotton has been pushed in prac tically all parts of the belt, with very favorable weather. SIKLOW ASKS FOR XEW TRIAL. Under Sentence of Death. Prisoner Lays Crime on Others. Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 28. -Efforts to obtain a new trial for Chrales 8tie low. under sentence of death for the murder of Charles B- Phelps and his housekeeper. Mrs. Margaret Wolcott. in West Shelby. March 21. 1S15, were resumed today before Supreme Court Justice Rodenbeck In special term. Much of the evidence filed by the Stieiow forces seeks to -place the mur ders on Erwln King, an itinerant horse peddler, and Clarence O'Connell, his alleged accomplice. LEGAL SNAG IN CASE Clash Over Where Blackmailers Shall Be Tried Xow Bobs VP Chicago, Sept. 28. State and federal authorities are expected to clash here roday over the euatody of alleged blackmailers of Edward R. West. Chi cago business man, who says he was swindled out of J 15, 000. States Attorney Hoyne yesterday obtained warrants for the arrest of Homer T. French. Miss Buda God- man and James Christian, who are out under federal bond and ordered that they be required to furnish new bond to state authorities. Hoyne says the crime was com mitted in Illinois. Meantime, word was received from the department of justice at Washington that the cases would-be tried in New York an it was there federal officers were imperson ated. Iowans Says He Lost $10,000. Following the lead of west in brav ing publicity to tell how he was black mailed, Hlnton G. Clabaugh, federal Investigator, today said he expected another wealthy Chlcagoan to tel of the syndicate's operations on him in volving more money than West's case. Investigation of a new blackmail plot Involving an Iowan who is alleged to have been fleeced out of 910.000, was started by federal officials today. BOYS ARE STEALING Epidemic of Thefts by Negro Youths on Kansas Avenue, The police, according tov Harvey Parsons, chief, are fighting, practical ly without a weapon, an epidemic of petty thefts wherein negro youths less than 1 5 years old are the offenders.- The negroes, according to the po lice, are petty offenders against busi ness houses mostly. They go into a store on pretext of wanting to buy something and when a clerk isn't look ing they snatch some small article from the counter. "It does practically no good to ar rest the offenders," Chief Parsons savs. "Thev are too young to Dut in Jail and only can be taken to probate court where the penalty is light. They don't seem to care, under the circum stances, if they do get arrested. HOLDING THEIR WHEAT Offer fl.45 a Bushel in Oklahoma, Bat Fourth of Crop Yet Unsold. Oklahoma City, Sept. 28. Local grain buyers report an unusually slow movement of wheat in Oklahoma, de spite the high prices being paid farm ers. They estimate that one-fourth of the year's crop is still in granaries. Farmers are being offered $1.44 to $1.45 for good No. 2 wheat. Mill buyers are retting the pace and while exporters are bidding, little wheat is being purchased for foreign delivery. BAKERS GET COLD FEET. Nearly All Chicago Bread Makers Fall to Make Raise. Chicago, Sept. 28. Everyone In Chicago was set for an increase of bread prices today. Women's clubs and federal officials were poised for attack on the bakers. But the looked for explosion was only a weak BISS AU except halp a dozen bakers got cold feet and did not increase their prices. B. H. Dahlhelmer, president of the Bakers association, was questioned by the federal district attorney, but no decisions were reached. TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS Chicago, Sept 28. WHEAT Notwith standing that wheat showed weakness at the outset today, the market later develop ed strength. Initial declines were dne to reports that Greece had finally decided to enter the war and to oppose the Teutonic powers. The bearlah Inflnence of this newa, however, vii soon more than offset by report that predicted rina In Argentine had failed to apppear, and that drought damage was growing worse. Opening prlcea which ranged from ")4c to lc lower with December at $1.51"J4 to $1.52 and May at $1.52 to $1.52, were followed by an upturn to well above yesterday's finish. CORN Contlnned wet weather had a bullish effect on corn, after opening c off to c up, the market scored gains all around, especially in the September delivery. OATS Oats hardened with other cereals. PROVISIONS Provisions were erratic. September pork waa wanted by shorts, who were forced to bid up the option to a new higa record lor tms season. Chicago Grain Market. The range of prlcea for grain futures on The Chicago Board of Trade as reported By Thoa. J. Myers, Broker. Columbian Bldg. Sept. Close Open WHEAT Sept ..152H Dec. ..152V4 Mav ..152 CO UN Sept. 88 Dec. 7314 May 76 OATS Kept. 45 Dee. ..48 May 51 porik Sept ..28.30 Oct. .26.50 Dec. ..23.42 High Low Today Yea R8H 73 704 45S, 48 51 Va 28.50 28.30 26.50 28.37 23.55 23.42 28.50 28.10 20.50 26.60 23.45 23.50 Kansas City drain Market. The range of prlcea for grain futures on The Kanaaa City Board of Trade aa re ported by Thoa J. Myers. Broker Colum bian Bldg. Kanaaa City, Sept. 28. Htgt Low Today Yea Open WHEAT Sept. ..1504 Dec. ..148 Mav ..148 CORN 1514 150--a 151 86 72 75 1504 148 148 85 72 75 1514 150- 151 14 148 Sept. 8 85 84: 72 72 84 Dec. May Liverpool Mralw Liverpool. Sept. 28. WHEAT Soot, weak; No. 2 hard winter. 13a lid: No. 1 Manitoba, 14a tkl No. 2, 14s 4d No. 3, 14a 2d. CORN Spot, firm American mixed, new, 10a 8d. I Furnished by T. i. Myer'a. Columbjn' Building. Minneapolis wheat stocks have Increased 300 000 bushe'a thns far this week. A cable from Liverpool said unsettled weather waa reported in Argentina yeater dav morning. Rain waa expected. Elevator stocks of wheat in Kanaos City have increased 68.477 bushels thus far thla week and corn stocks increased 28.866 bnsbels. Late corn growth waa stopped by froata of the previous week, according to the Illi nois weekly crop report. Com la ripen ing fast, but there are many soft eara. Exports from the United Htatea and Can ada yeaterday were 621000 bnahela of wheat. 6.000 barrels of flour. 90 corn. 6.000 bnahela of oata; wheat and flour combined. 8910(10 bushels. "I'robably not more than 10 per cent of the Iowa corn waa damaged by the frost of September 18, and much of that not aer- 155 152"K, 155 152H 156 1514 154 152 155 152 154 152 89 88 89 734 73 7.'l"i 70 76 764- 46 454 46 48 48 4S 5i ei 5i lonsly. The bulk of the crop Is rally matured and much excellent seed corn al ready been gathered," says the weekly Iowa crop bulletin. "Official reports still contend that Rus sian crops are over the average with the exception of barley," snid a cable from Liverpool yesterday.- "Private and semi official reports are distinctly unfavorable. A Russian food committee estimates the wheat crop SO million bnsheis less and rye 136 million boabela more than an average. Mi CM Procure Murfce. Kansas City, Sept. 28. WHEAT Cash Market unchanged to lc blither. No. 2 hard, $1.51(a1.60; No. S, $1.471.S8; No. red, $1.50df.60; No. 3, $1.40 1.67. CORN Market unchanged to Mc hither. No. 2 mixed. 84SS5o; No. 8, 8383c; No. 2 white. 8485e; No. S. 84c; No. 2 yel low, 84iUi85&c; No. 3, m-c. OATS Market unchanged to tic higher. No. 2 white. a,6c; No. 2- mixed, 450 46c. RYE si.zo. HAY Market unchanged. BRA N $1.06 1.07. SHORTS $1.25gl.40. KAFIR No. 3 white. $1.68. WHEAT Receipts 246 cars. BUTTER Creamery, 82c; firsts, 09 He; aeconna, ztc; pacKing, 24c KGGS Firsts, 29c. POULTRY Hens, 16?c; roosters, HV4c; broilers, 21c. Cbiease Produce Market. Chicago, Sept. 28. BUTTER Market unchanged. EGOS Market higher. Firsts, 2030Hc; ordlnary flrats, 28S29c j at mark, cases In cluded, 22329e. POTATOES Market lower. Jerseys. $1.1561.1.35: Ohina. 1 InArl in- Wi. r.i)in White, $1.101.15. POULTRY-AliTe, higher; fowls. 17c Dl.u.ea, Aim;. New Yr Prodore Market. .New York. Sept. 28. BUTTER Mnrket Creamery extras, 92 acore. 35c. EGGS Market Irregular. Fresh gather ed, extra fine. 3K39c. iVP5,E?I,7M',;ket Arm. 'State whole POULTRY Alive, nominal ;dressed, dull. New York 8agar Market. .w X& ,SeP(- 28. SUGAR Raw, Et.r'fJg2'' f-SOj.molssses. 4.90:aale 25.000 basra of Porto Rico at 6.T7; refined, steady fine granulated, 6.70(87.00. Mew TeHi Htnek Market T1W11 New York, Sept. 2a STOCKS S!'. Marines and Coppers lnt ground moderately In the extenaive realising of the firat hour bnt Industrials, Including war ba or became stronge? with Motors. Stndebaker and Willya Overland being foremost, with a fair Inquiry for ac cesaorlea. Bethlehem Steel rose almost 10 points and General Electric Increased yes terday's ealn hv ovep a uaual activity in various utilities. Steel I assumed market leaderahln hefnre mifi 1 assumed market leadership before midday I n"in Bonda were firm fRfr 'V ral treJ"fth characterised the opening of today's broad and active mar- SfiUl imSlrV!0S C??per n1 Republic Steel selling higher than before. Other ln- ikli a?d CPP moved In keeping, while rails lost none of their recent buov ancy Marines and other sblnnlne we're "1 substntial recovery I Stuts featured the motors. United States Steel gave promise of regaining much of lu recent prominence and various specialties were at higher levels. v e ,m Kanass fclty Live Stock Market. IT5tf.?Jlowin5 "ere made thla morn. ?J 5ihe srto?k Yr. Kanaa. City and !3or'ed cr. Ig distance telephone di rect tp the State Journal by Clay Robin- chUnta tock commln mr- e.K.?JSr?LinClt5r'J Si CATTLE-Re-ee'P'" 4-000 head. Market steady. HOOS Receipts 7,000 head. Market lioso7' lea- -ei0.40; top. tlaiay.BPReCe'pt" 9,000 head- Mrkrt 'COWS AND HEIFERS. no. wt. Price. No. vi t. price, wo. $6.45 I 2.. 4.75 I 1.. 5.00 I US AND F 18 H34 $8.45 I 2 Bio as mi 1.. 1.. 8.. 20.. 2.. 4.. 1.. 2.. 10.. STOCKERS AND FEEDERS. 605 40 I 41. 0.25' t CALVES. 7.75 1 10. 8.50 3. 6.50 I BULLS. 4.85 I 3. 6.35 HOGS. 10.50 I 88. 10.50 I 68. 7.05 364 165 390 ..1065 ..1590 212 203 100 220 7.50 9.00 .1140 5.00 6.3. 79. 108 286 10.45 10.15 Kansas City Live stock Market. TSnSM S!'?'4- SL HOOS Receipts 7.000. Market 5c to 10c lower. Bulk of salea. $9.KO10.36: heavy, t 60(810.30: puck- CATTLE Receipts 4,000, including 200 southerns. Market steady. Prime fed eteera. $0.5010.75; dreaaed beef ateera, .25(89.25; western ateera, $6.25(39.00; aouthern ateera. $n.758.00; cows. $4.50 7.25; heifers. $6.00(8,9.50; atockers and feed $6 00(fiioo7'76; b""' $60oe6-28: cslves. SHEEP Receipts 6,000. Market steady to 10c lower. Lambs. $9.50(310 00; year lings, $7.508.25; wethera, $7.00187.75; jy'SV.Sk50'-25; atockera and feedaraw $J. 50(89.90. Chlcaso Live Stock Market. Chicago. Sept. 28. HOOS Receipts 19, 000. Iarket alow, 5c to 10c under yester day's avernee. Bulk of salea, $10.00fi 10 70; light, $9.7010.70; mixed. $n..Val0 80 heavy, $9.0010.75; rough, $9.6000.80; pigs, $6.75rti0.70. CATTLE Receipts 6.000. Market firm. .aiive oeer cattle, .40J11.25 western ateera. $0.159.40; atockera and feeilers, $4.oci7.70 cowa and heifers, $3.40to9.S5; calves. $8.50(g 13.00. SHEEP Receipts 17.000. Market weak. Wethers, $6.80&8.40; lambs. $u.75&10.50. TOPEKA MARKETS. Prices furnished by Wolff Packing Co. Topeka, Kan, Sept 23. Hogs MIXKD AND BUTCHERS $8.00(3990 HEAVY 8 00fri9H5 LIGHT BOtHaV.UO PIGS (under 150 iba.) 6.0ix&7.50 iMtrie Cattle Good to choice $6.50 to 7 25 Fair to good 6.50 to 6.00 Cowa Oood to choice $5.50 to 6 00 Fair to good 4.50 to 5.00 Common to fair 3.50 to 4.25 Heifers Oood to choice $6 00 to 7.0O Fair to good 5 00 to 6.00 Common 4.00 to 4.50 Kill, lesh $5 30 t 5.59 felefllnm 4 no o 4 75 rtnw fat r7.5ti to S.OS Mr.llutn good M to TJ0 4.00 to 6.U0 sheep and Lambs Pat wethera .pi no to 1 no Pat 800 to a 00 1st iambs l.m Shorn iambs and sheep 2c under above prices. (Positively cannot use sheep or Iambs unless fat) Ponltrr. Ecxa and Batter. Furnished by the Topeka Packing Com pany, corner Laurant and Madlaon.j Topeka, Kan.. 8epf 28. HENS-3 Iba. and over. 15c: uorte? S Iba.. 13c. snrinca. over 4 iha ia. 8 geese. 7c: broilers. 2 Iba and under 20c. Batter and Rgga. Furnished by the Beatrice Creamery Co Topeka. Kan. Topeka, Kan CHICAGO EOOS 2l''.fr3K. Sept 28. NFW VORK EOOR-32Sl34 CREAMEKV BITTER-Chicago. 32c- Furnished by J. B. Rlllard. corner Kan- Topeka, Kan., Sept 28. OATS 44(5 46c. tijit. Hoc. WHEAT $L 40(8 1.45. Topeka Hay Market. Fnrnished by T. A. Beck. 212-14 East etku
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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1916 OUT OF GASOLINE, TANK IS RESCUED BY INFANTRYMEN Germans Vainly Try to Find Way Inside. Armed Sotor Left 250 Dead in Its Wake. TEUTONS DUGTHEMSELVES IN Had Sliell-Proo! Defense at Town of Thiepval. Caught in Dugouts Like Rats in a Trap. Briih Front in France. Sept. 27--.ndd night, via London. Sept. 2 8 In ,he lull which has occurred after the p-eat two-day battle in which fe i,v to glean manj stories i participants in ;J stories were not on s cu ,ox -Soa-uXled and t,,ld was perhaps that o 1 rs, tanks or new armored motor which started to Be'lin ,and Bhip. account. This Jid not ramhlinB and mluBJe taUinK Wait on the infantry lode ed over shell r,f (;ueudecourt l.u Plodded holes and a "-historic lizard. Tcouroe -i.dU;tocP U' itsUnmnTtundit ran out of .inline. r-ermans found this When the (,er,",' iM teel hide ulranBe creature w th Us curi. impenetrahle to oui e was a ,.sity and a d.-M.'e rev went fillip to 'pCv(,Sirtoric ilf,er i, with the a W 'mammoth men -talk.PR a w "n()ne of the whose bulk 7' No such alleys of th''Sl- western ff arThas heen by all 1-inds of bizarre fishtniK. llisrucd tin- Tank. i,.lordina to the accounts Riven by Accon.iiif. ith various sol- iH e tanV's machine pn b "ed rih and left some of the Ger i.i,ieu creep alonR the ms managed to P hjnd Iof .ocmu". Then they KW-trmed over it looking for an open ?n thru which to strike at its vitals Thev fired their rifles into joints and hot to no more l;;.'",1. than bulRlars trying to reach the inside of a balliesnip iui." -I ii'nmv. All the while the tank s ma i 1 une" suns kept busy at the human daredevils, concluded to stick until i tha riormans found t iiev the proper can op" '"l-Mnallv the British infantry in the r(Jj,r seeinu the tank in distress, re fused to wait on any eeneral's order that thev should remain at the ob.iec tive which they had pained. They vete out to save that impounded tank and with a cheer they rushed the Ger- rnpna rind -v r heln'ed them. When ELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Onepackage ornvesit 25c at all druggists. T 1 lomurruw Fish Fresh dressed Chan .18 ..15? .18f .12? nel Cat, per lb Halibut Salmon Tile Fish Celery Michigan grown 5c per stalk Eggs Frt Fresh laid, nn per doz OC Apples Grimes Golden, per peck 30c Phone 4190 MORNS MYERS 900 North Kan. Ave. SUITS Dry or Steam Cleaned 75, Manhattan Cleaners 609 Jackson St. Phone 1769 MRS. WILSON'S FIRST ENTIRE SEASON AS LADY OF THE WHITE HOUSE PROMISES TO BE UNUSUALLY BRILLIANT t V-N I rrFv fZfn Ask Left to right, top: Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Miss Callie Hoke Smith. Bottom, Mrs. Ollie James and Mrs. Robert Lansing. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson's first full season at Washington as the lady of the White House promises to be unusually brilliant. Among the women who will be prominent in the social life of the national capital this fall and winter, besides Mrs. Wilson, are: Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, wife of the vice president; Mrs. Ollie James, wife of Senator James of Kentucky; Mrs. Robert Lansing, wife of the secretary of state, and Miss Callie Hoke Smith, daughter of Senator Smith of Georgia. the crew heard the laughing and shouting in English they opened the door and called out "We are all right if you will only get u seme more juice so that the Old Girl can have a guzzle of he- proper drink and we can ake the road again." So the infantry formed a line in front of the tank, determined to defend her to the last man while a runner was hurried back for a can of gasoline. The gasoline arrived safely and the Beast, havirg taken a swallow ambled back into re serve amidst wild cheers. It left be hind 250 dead Germans according 10 its1 commander. Helped" Take Town. Another tank which did well in this fight assisUd in the taking of Thiep val. The taking of Thiepval and the Zollern redoubt which ".ies between it and Courcelette, was a wonderful bus iness. Thiepval was held by the One Hundred and Eightieth Germany regi ment, which had been there for a long time. According to prisoners, the de fenders had fortified the commanding ridge with t n amazing series of rami fied tunnels and dugouts. They had dug into the chalky earth with beaver like industry until they were safe un der a shell fire which would have turned a fort like Maubeuge or Liege or any otljer of the pre-war lype into the jumbled grae of its garrison. Then men of the Hundred and Eightieth asked permission to remain in Thiep val giving their word that it would never be taken from them and the German army commander consented. Not only at this village but along the ridge upon which hangs the whole Anglo-French movement was the same maze of warrens, where the Germans had all the comforts of home. The Hundred and Eightieth had cudgeled its brains to make Thienval the very last word in this kind of defense. It was this sort of preparation which stopped the British attack on July 1. Then as the British Infantry charged after the artillery bombardment the Germans popped out of their hiding places with ma chine guns and swept the .lines of khaki with their deadly spray. Bit by bit since July 1, the British have worked their way forward. Yes terday when they went after Thiepal and the Zollern redoubt the British soldiers, as one of the captured Ger mans said, were at the doors of the dugouts almost as soon as the last shell of the preliminary bombardment had burst. A hurricane of shell fire kept the Germans in their burrows and when it had lifted the British had arrived. Some Forced to Quit. Tho the Germans in many dugouts where their galleries of escape were closed, surrendered in bodies; in other instances they kept the faith that the I Hundred and Eightieth would die be fore it would surrender Thiepval. AH of yesterday the British were prying for the entrances to dugouts in these blackened ruins of the town, amid the stench of all kinds of explosives as well as gas and lachrymatory shells. There was sporadic hand-to-hand fighting and at intervals Germans ap peared from the bowels of the earth with their hands up and surrendered to the British soldiers who were smoking cigars found In the German dugouts. All observers agree that of late the Germans, when left in isolated strong points with orders to hold fast' to the death, are less inclined than formerly to obey their Instructions to the letter. An officer of the Second Prussian guards division who was captured was in a state of exceptional disgust and expressed himself freely. "We got no support from our artillery." he said. "The British had double our number of guns and three times as many aero planes, while our aviators seemed to have lost their nerve. "My battalion was always put in the worst possible position. Some of my men who were given Hex's automatic rifles, threw them down without wait ing to fire when the British charged. Machine gun squadrons and last ditch parties are left to stick in. the face of the British guns and British charges wun tne assurance that if they stick it out, a counter attack will rescue them. But the counter attacks failed to materialize as thev did at first. I gave In. I had had enough." PLAN TO ATTACK G. 0. P. Wilson Decides on Speeches In Con ference With McCormick. Long Branch, Sept. 28. Arrange ments for President Wilson to aoaail the Republican stand on the promi nent issues of the campaign were made at a conference here today between the president. Chairman McCormick and Secretary Tumulty. Using his speech of acceptance as a foundation the president is preparing to build up the Democratic case in a series of ad dresses on political subjects. Mr. Wilson, it was decided def initely today, will make at least two speeches in New York state, one in New York City and the other in Buf falo about the middle or latter part of October. A decision was also reached for the president to make at least one speech here eveiy Saturday between now and election. Ke has already agreed to address a Pennsylvania delegation Oc tober 14, and today ariangements were made for him to speak to a delegation of farmers and a delegation from St. Louis later in October. "Mr. Hughes is slipping and from now on Mr. Wilson's stock will rise," said Mr. McCormick. who was plainly pleased by his conference with the president. "There is to be no lagging in the Democratic campaign and every point made by the Republicans will be more than answered." RAISE FIFTY PER CENT Denver Bakers Announce Big Jump in Price of All Products. Denver, Colo., Sept. 28. After next Monday prices of all bakery goods in the city will be advanced approxi mately 50 per cent. This was decided upon at a meeting of the master bak ers of Denver, every baker present voting for the increase. Bread now sells for 5 cents a loaf. After Monday it will be sold two loaves for 15 cents. If a single loaf is pur chased, it will cost 8 cents. Rolls, pies and other pastry have been advanced in proportion. There will be no change in the weight of the loaf or other bakery products. Postpone Morrison Case Decision. Chicago, Sept. 28. Disposition of the bankruptcy proceedings against Edward W. Morrison, was postponed today by Federal Judge Landis until next Monday. DON'T HAVE GRAY HAIR It's Unnecessary Q-Ban Dark ens It Evenly No Dye. No matter how gray your hair, pre maturely gray, faded, bleached, streaked with gray, all you need to do is to shampoo your hair and scalp once a day with Q-Ban Hair Color Re storer. This Is a very pleasant exper ience, and after a few applications you will be delighted to see all your gray hair gradually turn to an even beautiful dark shade. Q-Ban acts on roots, making hair and scalp healthy, restoring the color glands so all your gray hair is naturally darkened and entire head of hair becomes soft, fluffy, long, thick and of such an even beautiful, soft dark shade no one could tell you had used Q-Ban. Also stops dandruff and falling hair, leav ing your hair fascinating and abun dant, without even a trace f gray showing. Sold on money-back guar antee. 50c for a big bottle at Brunt Martin Drug Store, 729 Kansas Ave.. Topeka, Kan. Tel. 528. CAit-of-town folks supplied by mail. Adv. GERMANY "NAILS" TWO Denies News Report of Aero Bomb Damage and Enlisting Belgians. Berlin, Sept. 28. By wireless to Sayville. Attacks by entente aircraft upon foundries in Luxemburg are de clared by the Luxemburg newspaper Obermosel to be unjustified. Luxem burg, it declares, stands ready to fur nish ammunition to any customer. It cites Switzerland and the United States as in a similar position. No previous report has been' re-' ceived of such air attacks. Only Detains Foreigners. Berlin, Sept. 28. By wire to Say ville. The semi-official Norddeutsche Aligemeine Zeitung today prints a de nial of reports from hostile sources that Germany has enlisted foreigners, notably Belgians, for military service. During the war Germany has main tained the principle of detaining the nationals of hostile belligerents, the newspaper declares, but not of enlist ing them in the army. TRY TO STOP REVOLT Twenty Thousand Mexicans in Cana nea May Turn to Villa. Nogales, Ariz., Sept. 28. Twenty thousand Mexicans are threatening re volt under the Carranza government at Cananea, the largest American min ing camp in northern Sonora, Five hundred troops were rushed from Hermosillo to Cananea to cope with the situation. American and Mexican refugees ar riving from the copper camp state that Villa agents have been active there for several weeks, with the re sult that the Mexican population, which has always been pro-Villa, i& ready to declare in the latter's favor. GIVE SMASHING TALK Wilson Will Answer Critics in Address to Young Men's League. Asbury Park, N. J., Sept. 28. President Wilson, besieged from al most every Democratic quarter to an swer his Republican critics, has agreed to discuss the real issues of the cam paign next Saturday. On that date he will address the Toung Men's League of Democratic clubs. The announcement was made today by Secretary Tumulty, who said the president was preparing a "smashing" speech. The subjects to be taken up were not disclosed. TWO MORE TO BOTTOM British and Swedish Ships Are Re ported Sunk. London, Sept. 28. The 2.500-ton British steamship Stathe and the Swedish bark Benguela, 688 tons, have been unk. A Christiania dispatch to Lloyds says the crews of the Swedish steam- hips Knut Hilde and Danla have been I landed The Stathe was last reported on her arrival at Newport, England. Septem ber 9, from Leghorn Tht Knut Hilde was 1,670 tons gross. There are two Swedish steamships Danla, one of 1,408 tons and the other 552. Hog Supply Growing Fast. Berlin, Sept. 28 (by wireless). A census of Prussian hogs, the Overseas News Agency announces, shows an in crease of 2.000,000 during the pasi three months. Crude Up 10 Cents. Pittsburg, Sept. 28. Principal crude oil purchasing agencies today an nounced an advance of 10 cents a bar rel. For That Tired Feeling TAKE HORSFORD'S ACID PHOS PHATE. Excellent for relief of ex haustion due to Summer heat, over work or insomnia. Cooling, refreshing- Adv. LEARN THRU WAR U. S. Should Stop, Look and Listen to Europe. New York Banker Advocates National Military Training. Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 28. "If ever a people should pause; if ever they should look abroad and profit by the experiences of others, should comprehend their national dangers ii the light of the teinble realities that are being enacted before their eyes in other nations, It is now and we are that people." In those words. Frank A Vanderlip of New Yofk, addressing the annual convention of the American BanKera association warned his hearers that they should not take too easily the present great wealth of this country that "seems dangerously Vkely to submerge us in our own prosperity.'' Rather, he said, with an opportunity before us, "such as no country ever had to lay the sure foundations of a great future," we must not be "so in tent upon dividing the proceeds of present prosperity that we fall to safe guard its permanence." Mr. Vanderlip, after speaking of the war's cost in Kurope and outlining the financial status of this country, de clared: "In a word, I believe the greatest need of the day and a need so funda mental as to make other matters in consequential in comparison is the need of universal military, industrial and economic preparedness." He asked for training in military service for all men, greater savings of all classes and greater efficiency in industrial pursuits. "I once thought you could count universal military service as an economic waste," he said. "I feel con fident, in the light of events of the last two years, that it is not only a military necessity of superlative im portance, but that our national life would draw a unity, our democracy would receive a reinvigoration, and our youth would obtain a physical training and comprehension of the value of obedience and a patriotic de vntinn tn 1 Vm welfare of the nation which could be obtained in no other way." Need for United Nation. Mr. Vanderlip'3 title was 'Trhe Need for a United Nation," and this does not embrace military unity alone. "Back of physical training, there must be moral training," he declared. There must be the creation of a pub lic opinion that wili tninK aeepiy mi clearly regarding the great interna tional questions that we are facing. We have need for developing a clear cut, clearsighted public opinion that will see things as they are and that will have courage without audacity, firmness without impetuosity. We need to have what we have not now a public opinion that would not per mit a shuffling attitude in regard to international issues, an opinion that would make temporizing in the han dling of foreign relations impossible where fundamental principles are in volved. Efficiency in industry must come so .nn h. idle but that all will have continuous work, the speaker said, and to make possible the crea tion of new factories, new railroads and other labor producing elements, all persons must practice economy and save some part of their wages and in- CMra' Vanderlip scarcely touched upon the banking business except to say that he believed the federal re serve act "embodies sound fundamen tal principles too valuable. essential to be abandoned, the free working of which, however, has been fntangled and hampered in Its incep tion by political considerations and administrative attitude to such an ex tent as to endanger the success of tent as to endanger the sucess of what portant step ever taken in American banking." Tired From Big Picnic. Bankers showed indications of fa tigue today as result of their picnic de luxe yesterday. Twelve hundred motor cars carried six thousand guests to the Longview farm, where Miss Loula Long exhibited her 115 thorobred horses. Thirty-five prize winners in all classes were shown on the half-mile track. Then, after viewing 225 prize cattle, the six thour sand bankers made a rush for the five .hn.nri box lunches, while emerg ency autos tore toward Kansas City for food for the unexpected extra thousand. Featuring the first session of the fnnvention Droper was an address by Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the National City bank or new xorn. au mv not be harmony in the business session. The demand of country bank ers for elimination of the free clear ance of checks by the federal reserve banks is certain to meet opposition from city bankers. T. H. Dickson, of VlckEburg, Miss., said administration supporters, however, were trying to stave oft attacks on the federal re serve act and if their wires are laid sufficiently well the outbreak may be sidetracked. APPOINT OR ELECT HIM? Democrats Await Missouri Court In cision on State Office Vacancy. St. Louis, Sept. 28. I. Newton Evrard, of Marshall, Mo., has been nominated for state superintendent of schools by ihe Republican state com mittee. The nomination is to fill a vacancy caused by the death of State Superintendent Gass, whose term would not have expired until 1919. The Democratic state committee will not make a nomination until the su preme court decides in a similar case whether such a vacancy shall be filled by election or by appointment. FJxpertfl Care for Your Pre scriptions at This Store. TuUif4IcFdrlad TOPEKA'S REXA1X STORE BEER FESTIVAL TO GREET DRY CHIEF AT HUTCHINSON Hutchinson, Kan., Sept. 28. Beer will flow when J. Frank Hanly, the Prohibition nominee for the pres idency, arrives here Saturday. But it will flow into Cow creek. City offi cials and officers of the W. C. T. U. will escort Hanlys party to the banks of the stream to witness the smashing of several thousand bottles of con fiscated beer. PLAYGROUND REPORT More Than 4.000 :ivcn Recreation In Topeka Last Summer. Topeka children to the number of 4,135 were given healthful recreation and exercise under careful supervi sion on Topeka playgrounds last sum mer, according to the report just made by Mis- Clara Johnston, playground director. And the summer of good times for the kiCdies cost the taxpay ers bnly $1,792.60, or a little over 40 cents for each child benefited. The greater part of the expense is accounted for in the salaries of the twenty-three directors, the "good times specialists" among Topeka chil dren. Showing the effectiveness of the su pervision is the statement that not one accident of consequence occurred dur ing the summer. Local club women interested in the playground movement assert that there has never in the history of play ground movement in Topeka been such a varied and balanced program of entertainment and recreation of fered to the children of the city as there was last summer. Next year a more extensive program is contemplated by the board. More tennis courts will be installed and more general equipment added. The eventual aim of the school board and teachers is to make the playground an all me year anair for the ohiidi-or. This would entail the establishment of permanent playground club houses. It would mean also the establishment of a big interest among the children in winter sports. Owinir to the laou f funds, it is improbable that v, I uumu wm go anead with plans this year. any such KATY EMPLOYES PICNIC Seven Thousand Will Attend Annual Affair at Parsons October 7. Seven thousand or more employes from all divisions of the system will gather In Parsons, Kan., Saturday, October 7, for the annual meet of the Katy Railroad Athletic association, according to Z. G. Hopkins, publicity manager of the road, who was in To peka Wednesday night. The athletic event will be a track and field affair and will last all day. Last year, in Denison. more than 6, 000 employes attended. Athletic teams from St. T.onis Se- dalta, Kansas City, Parsons, Musko gee, Oklahoma City, Denison, Wichita Falls, Dallas, Waco and Houston w'll enter in the meet. Besides there will be events for individual entries. A feature of the meet will be a baseball game for the championship of the Katy system. The game will be between the leading team north of the Red river and the leader south of the Red river. Just what teams will meet has not been decided as the teams of the two divisions have not plaved o finals. South of the Red river the leadership lies between Denison and Pmithville. North it is between Se dalia and Atoka. AT THE THATFRS The Orpheuni. Critics offer enthusiastic approval of Frank Keenan's appearance in '.'The Thoroughbred" which Is shown at the Orpheum today and tonight. Keenan acts the part of a typical southerner, 'Major" Ainslee. lover of fast horses. Margaret Thompson as the old south erner's daughter appears to excellent advantage. The whole cajSt is an unusually strong one, the plot has not one dis appointing feature and "the sport of kings" is giver, an inning seldom seen in dramatic efforts. Following the appearance of "God's Country and the Woman," the Or pheum management has arranged an interesting program along regular Triange lines with the Keystone comedies and special music. The Iris. The Iris holds the winning card to day by offering Mary Pickford in "Hulda cf Holland." This picture will be shown today and tonight only. The Katzenjammer Kids, the black and white comedians of national news paper fame are given a chance for action adding much to their interest and fun-making propensities. For Absolute Safety Equip Your Car with only Ap proved Lens the Try Dimmer Plan Members of tho good roads committee of the Automo bile club, went out Friday night and experimented in an effort to find an automobile headlight that would sat isfactorily meet the dimmer qualifica tions of the new traffic ordinance. The Warner lens, a prismatic innova tion, was said to have proved satisfac tory. The lens was tried under all conditions, country driving, meeting and passing automobiles and buggies and city driving. City Attorney George Hayden and Commissioner Frank M. Newland accompanied members of the committee. According to Mr. Hayden, the lens will meet all the requirements of the new traffic ordinance. (Clip ping from Daily Capital, Sunday, Sept. 24th.) Southwick 925 Kansas Ave. K. C. TO BE THIRD CITY Mayor Edwards Tells Visitors of Me tropolis' Promisin- Future. Kansas City, Sept. 28. The bank ers attending the American Bankers' association meet were told by Mayor Kdwards that Kansas City would be tho third largest city in the Unite! States, thru the tremendous" r sources of its trade territory" and by the "courage and energy of its resi dents,'.' Mr. Edwards said. "Kansas City will not be content until it is the largest middle western city." He declared this would be possible because of the agricultural, mining, oil and live stock resources of Mis souri, Kansas, Oklahoma and other nearby states. Similar declarations were made by J. W. Perry, president of the Kansas City Clearing House as HIGH COST OF LIVING TO CLIMB STILL HIGHER Winter Will Bring Increase in Food Prices. Wholesalers Declare Canned Goods Will Cost 20 Per Cent More Be cause of Short Crops. Chicago, Sept 20. Prices of foods, clothes, luxuries aud materials have ad vanced alariniugly .witliln tl'e Inst year, affording to a table of comparative prices published here today. Merchants and producers say that prices tor lood will be even higher this winter. From a Topeka Daily. Peas Belle of Brandon, extra quality sifted sweet peas; can 12c 6 for 69e; 12 for 1.37 Peanut Butter Fresh made from No. 1 selected nuts; the 20c kind, 2 lbs. for 85c New Homemade Style Pure Fruit Jams Pride Brand Straw berry and Raspberry, jar 15c doz. $4.5 Friday Only Fresh Churned Golden Creamery Butter, lb car tons 38c Excellence Brand Extra Se lected Fresh Eggs, 1 doz. carton for 3?c Extra Fancy Table Butter, in bulk, lb 35o Credit Accommodations If de sired. Open up a convenience charge account. R. B. Fancy Sugar Corn, 12 He value, can 10c; doz $1.15 New 1916 Fancy Hominy, No. 3 cans, 3 for 23c; doz 88c New Cove Oysters No. 1 cans, 3 for 23c; doz. 92c No. 2 cans 15c; doz $1.75 Salmon No. 1 Alaska, 2 cans for 25c doz. $1.40 Cadet Fancy Alaska, can 15c doz $1.65 Fancy Red Alaska, can. lo doz. $2.25 Yacht Club Fancy Red, can 25c: doz $2.75 Fancy Boneless Codfish, 1 lb. wooden boxes 25c New 1916 English Walnuts, lb. for 25c Fancy Candied Citron, lb. 23c We are headquarters for fine coffees roasted fresh daily. Our Famous Topeka Cup un equalled in flavor and quality. 1 lb. cartons 30c Dutch Mill Special Process Coffee, 1 lb. cans 33c Our Pride of Topeka the 30c coffee in 1 lb. tin cans, lb 26c Friday Only Post Toastles, 15c family pkg 10c Fancy Blackeye Beans, 4 lbs. for 29c White Crystal Baking Powder finest in the world, 1 lb. cans for 19c Morton's Fancy Table Salt 3-10c pkgs. for 25c. New 1916 Prunes 2 lbs. for -large ones 29c Largest Grocery Business In Kansas. There's a Reason. 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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1916 An Independent Newspaper. By FRANK P. MAO LEXXAS. (Entered July 1. 1S75, second-claai matter at the pnatnfflce at Topeka. Kaa under tho a-t of cougreaa. VOLUME XXXVIIT .No. 231 orriclnl State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS Of SUBSCRIPTION. tatly edition, delivered Ly carrier. 10 rents a week to any part of Topeka or anburba or at the aame price In any Kan Ma town where Mie raper Toaa a carrier .vat- -n By mall, one year ian By mail It montha J "5 By mail. 100 ralenriar daya TELEPHONES Private brn-. eiehange. Call S5M ana aak the State Jonmal operator for peraon or department deaired. erv Tonka Btate Journal bnlldlnc. 0? and 04 Kanaaa ayenoe. corner Elfhtn. New Tor-: Offire. 230 Fifth avenue. Rlook. manaeer. Chloairo Ofce. alallera building. Panl Btfk. ma' er. Tietrolt Offire, Kreage building Paul Block, manaeer Boston Office, fll Devonshire street. Faul lllork. manaeer. rCIX I.FASED WIRE REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Journal la a member of the A.oHated Preaa and receives the f nil flay telegraph report of that (treat ranirarinn. for the exclnalve afternoon publication In Topeka. ,.i The newa la receive! In TheStnte Journal onll.iVa over wlrea for thia aole purpoae. UEMBElls Associated Press. Audit Bureau of Circulations. American Newspaper Publishers' Association. Europe's war alo arrived at a con venient time for the horse-h: eeders in this country. They were beginning to gel a trifle blue over the predictions that the automobile had begun to put the horse out of business. End horse ffeth of all varieties, except the elass j.!st was not at anything like fancy figures. But such has beer, the de mand for horses on the put of the betligerents of Europe that the horse industry In this country is enjoyirg an unprecedented boom these days, par ticularly as far as prices gu. A team pt good, but ordinary horses, that brought as much as .200 or 3' 0 at the beginning of the war is now fetch ing as much as .500 and $600, and tha available supply is considerably Short of the demand. No use, deny ing it. the European war has been a great boon to the multitudes in this country who have things to sell, or to most of them. On the other hand, too, there are larger multitudes here j;ho have nothing to sell but a day's ivurk, and the latter's pocketbeoks have been flattened almost as much by: the prices that the European war pas thrust on this country as the pocketbooks of their producing and manufacturing brethren have been fattened. Oysters K now good, of course, and It, Won't be the fault of the food and lrog officials of the fnited States de partment of agriculture if the bivalves that shipped around the country are not much better generally than they have ever beeVi before. There is to be active inspection on the part of tiese officials to prevent the shipment hot only of polluted oysters but also of shucked oysters that have been oaked to increase their bulk. In other words, when a Ladles' Aid so ciety in these parts invests in an oy ster this winter to flavor the soup for an Oyster Soup Social. It is likely to be reasonably sure of obtaining a per fectly normal oyster, and one that is In as good condition as might be ex pected, considering the distance from its native environment. And what, by the way, has become of the old-fashioned sport who would bet two-bits that he could eat a dozen raw oy sters with a liberal sprinkling of powdered sugar on each one? Mow the war is going for the Cen tral Powers may, perhaps, be gleamed from the news dispatch from Vienna which tells that Austria has finally found It necessary to organize a board with dictatorial powers to enforce emergency laws for the conservation f the dual monarchy's food supply. Possibly it will be news to some folks that there is a nation on this earth with a population of about 00,000 and where there is absolutely no butter production. Siam is the country in question. And it is equally shy on all other dairy products with the exception of an insignificant amount of milk. Nor is so very much butter Imported to Siam, the amount for the year ending March 13. 1915, being only (3,3(7 pounds, which was a falling off in the Siamese butter im ports of the previous year of a full 80 4er cent. Most of the butter that reacnes siam is shipped there from iJenmark and Australia, with the Ian Ish butter retailing at about 76 cents a pound and the Australian down as )ow as 48 cents per pound. And so Siam also enjoys the distinction of being practically a butterless country. POLITICAL, POETS MISSING. Something Is the matter with this campaign, declares The New Repub lic, and It adds: Although it has al ready reached the verse-bearing age no political verse is born. Neither the lJurand case, nor anti-dumping, nor the after-the-war attitude of the United States to the rest of the world, nor the conversion of the hysterical Alarmists who in the late autumn and early winter of 1914 wanted a larger army and navy to the safe and sane patriots who in midsummer 1916 want B. larger army and navy no. a of these things his inspired the poets. Un- promising subjects, which altho mod ern fail somehow to hand out le fris son modern? Perhaps so, but how about the vers librettists, whose sen sations and ideas are derived so ex clusively from the contemporary that they cannot be expressed or suggested by the older forms of verse? Why do the free versers neglect to prove that their instrument, when handled by the "right party, may become a trumpet or claxon? THE BEST 1EFEXJE1 PEOPLE. Using for a basis the informative description by Dr. Ferguson of the military system that has been so suc cessfully in vogue for so long In Switz erland, and which was reprinted on this page Wednesday from Its columns, the Spokane Spokesman-Review also presented an editorial ana.ysis and comment of clarity and force, as fol lows: "Proportionate to population the Swiss are the best defended people In the world. In two days they can mobilize a trained citizen army of 200,000 men; within a week 300.000 more every man of the half million trained to shoot, to march, -o maneu ver and take care of himself in the field. "Yet the Swiss are intensely non militaristic, intensely devoted to love of Justice and peace. Their constitu tion expressly prohibits the mainte nance of a standing army and specif ically forbids a war of aggression. They are essentially armed and trained for defense and peace. "With what poignant regret must the unhappy Belgians now lament that they put their trust in treaties of peace instead of their own defensive prowefs. With approximately twice the popu lation of Switzerland, Belgium, with the Swiss system, could have thrown a million trained defenders upon her German frontier, and history would record a different and less tragic story of this war. Against that heroic and determined array the German armies would not have marched to strike at France. They would have deemed it wiser to move directly against the French on the Franco-German bound ary. "Belgium stands today a frightful warning against the folly of inad equate defense. It had been better for the Belgians if they had maintained no army at all, for then a futile sense of honor need not have driven them to throw their weak forces against the mighty German military machine. They could have saved their, country from ruin by yielding to Berlin's offer to treat them well and compensate them for a granted right of way. "The danger of Inadequate defense hangs over the United States inad equate defense and a false sense of security springing from an ignorant Seller In many minds that 'we are big enough and rich enough to whip any. other nation on the globe.' "With our present preparedness we are not. Grandiloquent Fourth of July orators and certain office-seeking poli ticians have declaimed that error until many of them believe it. and too many voters have taken it confidingly in; but every authority on military mat ters, and practically every officer In the army and the navy, knows it to be foolish and false. "A century ago President Jefferson, apostle of democracy and pesce, glimpsed the republic's need of pre paredness approximating the Swiss plan. Tho European armies then were small. Japan a hermit nation with no Imperial designs, and tho United States far more secure In Isolation than now, Jefferson urged tho mainte nance of a citizen army of 300,000 men. The young republic had then only a twentieth of the population of today, and not a fiftieth of Its present wealth. Proportionate defense now would mean a trained force of 6.000, 000 men." THE COAli SrrUATIOX. From all Indications, the national coal trade .has been within the last month meauuring the Job that is ahead of it and doesn't like the prospects, says The Black Diamond, one of the more reliable of the publications de voted to the coal trade. In Its current issue, and it continues: The only con crete figures available shew that for the first six months of this year the production and distribution of bitumi nous coal was 261,000.000 tons or an Increase of 35 per cent over 1915. If tne same rate of increase In produc tion and shipment were to prevail for the second half of the year, the 1918 output and distribut.on of bituminous coal would be 597,000,000 tons, or an increase of 35 per cent ever 1915, This compares with the best previous rec ord of bituminous production of about 500.000,000 tons in 1913, or approxi mately an Increase of 20 pr cent. The demand Is principally for steam coal. Railioads, factories, mills and coke ovens are using vastly more than they ever have heretofore. The big demand, therefore, comes from the steam branch of the trade, rather than from the domestic branch,' where the consumption Is stationary, barring, of course, the normal increase indicated by growth of population. Since the business of the country shows no signs of letting up there Is every reason to believe that the heavy demand indi cated by production and sale in the first six months of this year will con tinue in the last six months and this measures the amount of coal which the mines will have to produce and sell. It would not be at all surprising if the trade had to supply upwards this year of 575.000.000 tons of bitumi nous coal. Just now the trade is beginning to feel the weight of this burden. Up until two or three weeks ago the mines were kept busy mostly with the satis- fyir.g of the steam demand. Thia took up the normal production of the mines. Within the last three weeks, however, this steam demand has been complicated by the appearance of the domestic demand. Householders who didnt think of coal during the hot months are beginning 'to think seri ously of it now that the weather has turned cool in the evenings with a few cold days. The result has been that feverish buying on the part of the householders and retailers has given just enough additional snap to the market to put prices away up. The natural result has been premium prices everywhere. Complicating the tremendous de mand made upon the mines for coal is the railroad situation which in all parts of the country now is serious. As will well be remembered, the east ern territory was short of cars for most of the summer. About the best they can now do is to supply (5 per cent of the cars demanded. In the west the situation has become quite as bad and is growing worse. For a while the railroads were supplying about 80 per cent of cars, but nowytre down on the average of 65 per cent. Even as far west as Colorado the same car shortage prevails and the mines there have been slowed down to about the same extent as have those further east. There are two or three curious phases of the present coal shortage which in dicate the extent of territory covered by the coal shortage. In the north west there is such a danger of a fam ine for fuel this year that farmers in the heavily wooded districts are cut ting and are planning to market their timber. In the south where the de mand for domestic coal is not very active on account of the weather, one or two high grade coals are selling at an unprecedentel figure. The south, however, has some steam coal to sell to the north at prices which look favorable to the northern buyers. Whether these southern steam coals can be marketed in the north must depend on whether the railroads can furnish transportation facilities. The statistics of the trade are not very encouraging. Most places from where statistics come show increases in shipments over last year, but those increases are only from 3 to 10 per cent, whereas the indicated demand is for an Increase of from 20 to 35 per cent. Thus the increases are fail ing to take care of the larger demand These scattering statistics indicate the reasonableness of the contention of the operators that the higher prices on coal ere fully warranted. Some of the mean men are no meaner than they have occasion to be. If laugh and grow fat is one rule, cry and grow thin must be its reverse. The most enjoyable game or sport for any man is .the one he can win at oftenest. Attending to other people's business has seldom been known to reap any dividends worth while for either party. While envy may not be much of a virtue, it is often likely to be a spur to drive those harboring it on to bet ter things for themselves. JAYIAUIER JOTS Some people are too mo'dest to view a Kansas September morn with the naked eye, declares the Minneapolis Messenger. They prefer to sleep. Oh prunes, why can't they let things be. protests Ol Little in the Alma En terprise, as he notes that Dame Fash ion has decreed that the women's skirts are to be longer. Clad Thompson, of the Kansas City Star, has finally joined that goodly company of reformers of prohibitory tendencies. He is demanding the pro hibition of the low joints in the street car tracks. Officer, there's a case demanding your attention at Habetha. The Sa betha Herald reports: They tell of a Habetha young man who powders his face and carries a chamois skin in his pocket, with lace embroidered edges en it. A trio of observations by the Brod rlcks in their Marysville Advocate Democrat: In the absence of some one to share a secret with, a woman can always telephone. The renow wno prides himself on knowing it all would, do well to forget that part of it at least. Some peo ple never realize how popular they are until they die and then it is ever, lastingly too late. GLOBE nHTS From the Atchison Globe.J Marching in a parade is the hard est work for the poorest pay. By being a grouch you can escape being asked to do a lot of fool things. A sheep shouldn't go around looking for wolves, as sometimes happens. Tou can get a bill of particulars about a landlord by talking with his tenants. It isn't because an actress is so modest that she doesn't act as her own press agent. There is some consolation In know ing that a eat fight is never as furious as it sounds. Don't be a reformer because you are disgruntled, but be a reformer for real reform s sake. The wound to your pride isn't apt to be mortal but it may hurt worse than the other kind. When picnics begin to look like hard work to a man. he is aging, and might as well admit it. Usually the most harmless creature is the braggart who spends most of hla time feeling hrs muscle. Anyhow, when the peach crop is short there is less canning about the house, and home seems more like home. on spurn of THE MOMENT T MOT K. MOCT.TOK. The Coontry Editor. A Michigan editor Binge aa followa: The country editor, they eay. Has got a aaap most every way. At aix o'clock or juat about He takea the office aahea out. Then builda about three firea or more. And tries to clean the office floor. He thlnka of eeveral items tben And wrttea them with hla rusty pen. He grabe the big old awkward a tool. And finds a composition rule; (toes to hla favorite eight-point case And aets type at a steady pace. In juat a half an hour A man comes in a-feelin' sotir, And with a voice Juat like a yell lie atarta to taut ana swear nite inunaer. "Why didn't roar old measly Newe." He saya while wiping off hla ahoea, "Have aomethina in about mv Phil. Who vtalted at Bishop Htll? Take my anbacription off your books Before 1 go and spoil your looka.' And then the sour-faced talking guy Departa, and doean't aay "Good-bye. The editor, then let alone. He bears tne office telephone. "1 lost a brlndle cow laat night. Put in an ad; I'll make It right. I don't believe In paper ads. They're merely foolian little fada, But put the ad in anyway. Aud wait six montha to get your pay." Uncle Abner. Miss Pansv Tibbitts says she has had nine offers of marriage but is waitin' until she finds a feller that her mother thinks is good enough for her. But when she does find this feller he probably won't ask her. There is only one class of people that gossip as much as the wimmen, and they are the men. I never yet aee a foreign nobleman who didn't look the part. A model husband is a feller who kin mako his wife believe his excuses. Deacon Stubbs has got a mewl which is the stubbornest critter In our township. When the deacon wants the mewl to stop he hollers "Giddap." and when he wants the mewl to start he hollers "Whoa!" so the mewl does just what the deacon wants him to without knowin' It. The deacon uses the same system on his wife. What has become of the old-fashioned business man who used to dis count all his bills? One drawback to being president Is a feller has got to meet an awful sight of sordid and uninteresting people. Since Lem Tubbs held the office of notary publio in our village and got a taste of politics, he ain't fit fer work of any kind. Rill Will Start Housekeeping. Here is what a court awarded Wil liam Lindsay for the furnishing of a new home: A Remington rifle, a gas lamp wiAh hose connections, a tooth brush hold er, a nickel plated soap dish, a crib- bage board, a kitchen cabinet, a watch, a shoe hammer and last, and a photograph of a friend. His wife, Anna B. Lindsay, was granted a divorce on the ground of cruelty and was awarded 3750 ali mony. SHOE If ALES T BITCH CAMllftK. Criticising; Competitors. "Tou don't like her," I said, "I ca tell that by your tone." The woman in question was from my own town. As a representative of a certain or ganization, she had gone to another town and there had come into con tact with an old friend of mine. I expected them to be friends and was surprised when my question in regard to her elicited no enthusiasm. Hence my challenge. It was not denied. "No," admitted my friend, "I don't. I expected to, but it was this way the very first time we met she began by asking me if I knew certain people who were active in the work here, and rbv running them down. There was Mrs. Knowles, I don't particularly care for her, but she is good-hearted, and I didn't think it was up to a stranger to run her down. Well. Mrs. Meade couldn't say enough about what a bore she is, and then she said she thought Mrs. Martin was loud, and Mrs. Holyoke was old-fashioned and narrow-minded, and so forth and so on.- Apparently, there wasn't any one she really approved of except her self." Not an agreeable impression to give, is it? But It is the impression which peo ple who are always criticising and running down others are apt to leave. Tou may not really be self-satisfied, but if you are dissatisfied with every one else and say so. people are likely to draw that conclusion. Above all things it never pays to run down people who are in the same line of work as you, yourself. A certain writer has just received a stinging rebuke from the critics be cause, whever she is interviewed, site has some criticism to offer of some one of her fellow -craftsmen. Now she may be offering this criti cism in the most impersonal way. She may fully value the good points of the authors whose defects she picks out. But only those who know her well enough to know that, will believe it. Jealousy is an almost universal human fault, and the public Is quick to trans late criticism of one's competitors Into an expression of it. How much good does If do you to run people down? None at all. And how much harm? That you can never measure. So, when you look at it reasonably-, what's the use? (Copyright by George Matthew Adams.) POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. Alas, for the lass who is afflicted with lassitude! There are sermons in stones also ice cream in bricks. Everybody knows how everybody else ought to do things. A man isn't necessarily two faced because he has a double chin. When a woman hasn't any snore to say she is willing to let a man talk. The less some women have to say. the more difficult it is for them not to say It. The average man would rather blow hla own horn than listen to a band concert. If two women kiss but once when they meet it's a sign that they are not very good friends. Humility is one of the ingredients a self-made man occasionally forgets to mix with his material. "Give us the man who sings at his work," says Carlyle. Tea. verily! de liver him into our hands and we'll do the rest. WISHtJT. Sometimes I've wlsh't thet I wa'n't Nothin' but a little worurbug. 'Th nothin' much to do But swim round in- a puddle. Where 'twas cool, 'N' straddle out my legs. 'N' jest Joggle od a lily-pad, All day long. 1 iv some oiu moasy pool, 'rhout no relations near nor fur. To snoop 'n listen every time you stir, 'N' hang round where they wa n't wanted 'N' find fault. X' mind my buaineaa, 'atd their own. 'X' keep a-aayln' you shouldn't do thisr 'X' shouldn't do that. 'X" stew, 'X' mek folks hate yau; I'd ruther be a dunce, 'X' not no enuff to earn my salt. Kr make a livin', Yis-sir-ee. that'a true! I'd rather be a fool, 'X' not learn nothin' Into school, Th'n be a durned old hottintott, A agervatin' everybody all the time, Wouldn't you? Herbert Kendall In the Boston Transcript. EVENING STORY Winifred's Pluck. .(By Izola Forrester.) "It seems too bad," Mrs. Ramsey stopped thoughtfully, but the profes sor did not even glance up from his, writing. "I said, dear, it does seem too bad that we are somewhat bound to take the girl here." "Not bound,' nothing compulsory about it, Betsy," the professor re sponded cheerfully. Hia large tortoise- shell spectacles added to his usual look of benign attentiveness. "Hec tor merely asked if we could take, her with us. Find .her a good room around at any of the houses. I dare say the Crosbys would take her. I thought it would relieve you." "Well, it would. She could be a lot of help if she's that kind willing. I mean. So many girls of her age never even see what's right under their noses to do. She would look after Betty a great deal and help Anna with the upstairs work, and maybe with the Ironing and hanging out washday, and 1 could give her some sewing for the children, but wouldn t trust her with the baby. "No, no, 1 wouldn't. If I were you, Betsy," said the professor dryly. "She'll probably have enough to do and keep up with her classes besides. "It was- on account of Everitt that I spoke. You see, I feel just a little bit responsible for him. Laura begged me to keep him out of well, you know what I mean, dear. Not to let him fall in love until he is thru col lege." "Can't help falling in love at a co- ea place. They all do." The Drofes aor's eyes twinkled. "You know, we're a horrible example, Betsy. I'd let things take their proper course. May be the girl's ordinary looking. I don't feel as if I could refuse Hector. We were classmates, and he's been pretty hard up for years. It means quite a good deal to him, this putting hia girl thru college. If I could afford it, I'd have her here and never ask any re turn at all." "Oh, that wouldn't be right. Inde pendence is the first principle of suc cess. Self-reliance and self-respect go hand in hand." "Doubtless, doubtless." The pro fessor's mind reverted again to his work. "Write to her to come, any way, Betsy, and don't worry." Everitt came downstairs just as his aunt sealed the letter. He was tall and boyish, with a happy, whimsical expression of perpetual optimism. "Can I mail that for you. Aunt, Betsy?" "Whyer-yes, I suppose so." It almost seemed to Betsy as if she had purposely and knowingly put him into danger when she even intrusted the letter to him. He was such a clean, frank, splendid boy. And the girl might be anything. She tried to explain her coming. "She's the daughter of an old class mate of young uncle. He is the head of a mission now in southern. Okla homa and has a large family. Win field is the eldest. She wants to work her way thru college and we are go ing to have her live with us. She is to help me somewhat partially to pay her board." "Oee, isn't that plucky of her.' After Winifred's arrival that seemed to be his attitude of mind to ward her admiration for her pluck. Life had come along with gifts for Everitt ever since he could remem ber. His mother had plenty of means to put him thru college and start him in business later. Now. here was a girl handicapped at every point win ning her own way. He felt himself an idler as the weeks passed and he saw how she gave Aunt Betsy all the 1-elp in her power, suiting herself to the latter's little peculiarities, givini; the professor a lift over his esssys i.nd lectures, petting 4-year-old Betty out of the sulks and still making all her And the worst of it was, no matter how the other girls tried to smooth it over, she was left out of the smart est frat dances and the best girl.' clubs on account of her position at the professor's house. The college was Just near enough to New York to have caught a tincture of metropol itan snobbery from it even in little ways, and Winifred took her social hazing with a fine grace. The event of the early winter season was the A. G. L.'s dance at the fra ternity house. The boys were the hosts, and most of the exclusive little frat belonged to the senior year. Only the very pick of the girls were in vited, and the boys even held consul tations over the lists beforehand. It was Everitt who set Winifred's name down as his choice, and he told, her of it the day before the committee suggested that he select another girl. The boy who told him was brother of Nan Holland, leader of the New Tork girls' crowd. Everitt remembered he had invited Nan twice before that term. He turned on Ted Holland with steady eyes. "I'll bring Miss Gray or no girl." News and gossip travel quickly in small town college circles. Somehow the rumor grew until it reached Mrs. Ramsey's ears and troubled her. it would never do for Everitt in his .senior year to be absent from the A. G. T.'s dance, while for Winifred it really didn't matter, since she never aimed for the social side. She really had too much good sense, Betsy had said. So now. relying on that good sense, she told Winifred just the way mat ters stood, and the girl from Okla homa listened with a little smiles, as she combed Betty's soft curls over her finger in little close ringlets'. "Why, of course, I understand, Mrs. Ramsey." she said gently. "I'll tell you what we'll do. I have promised one of the girls in my chemistry class to run out over Sunday with her. She lives at a farm just outside town, arid I can skate down the river to the place. It will be lots of fun. Tou can tell Everitt." Mrs. Ramsey never quite forgot the look of the man that came to the THE boy's face when she told him. He had come home whistling the night of the dance, had stayed to dinner at one of the boy's rooms over a chafing-dish spread, and started up the stairs three steps at a time to dress when she spoke to him. "I thought it best to try and make 4 her understand how unpleasant the other girls might make it for her if she went." she concluded. "Now, don't be foolish, Everitt "Foolish," he laughed shortly. "Aunt Betsy, she's going to skate five miles jdown the river to the Davises. and every student has been warned against skating on account of the danger. There isn't a soul to hear her if she screams for help. I'm going after her. You'd better tell Uncle Felix, and let him try and get some help out after us. We'll need it." He caught his skates and boots from the hall seat box and was gone before she realized it. It seemed miles even to the river. He took the short cut over the hill, put on his boots, and struck out along the shore where the ice seemed thickest. Pines and oaks lined the hills around. In the moonlight the dried leathery leaves on the latter looked like fresh foliage, he thought. A young moon skimmed the sky low to the south. Back In the town he heard the frat call from some of the boys as they went on to the dance. But be fore him stretched the ice-covered river like a curving silver road un winding before him. and no sign of Winifred. As he left the town far behind he began to call her name, the pet name Bettv gave her: "Win! Oh. Win." And finally he saw her ahead, well out in midstream, skating leisurelv with the long, steady Elide she had. He caught up with her, thanking heaven she was safe. She turned her head and smiled back at him just as the ice cracked under his feet, and he saw the black water surge ud between. "Don't some near!" he shouted to her. but she had already swerved to meet him, and as the gret sheet of i ice bent down she went with it ahead of him. I The weight of his skates and heavv i boots hampered him. The sting of the ice-cold water lef him numb with shock, but he belt oottom under his feet. The water only came to his chest. And he knew Winifred was at least six inches shorter than himself. But she had kept her balance going down and was standing, too, -lifting her chin high from the water. "Reach out your hand." he called to her, feeling along the bottom with his feet cautiously. It did seem to take away the horror when their ,hands touched and gripped closely. Her teeth chattered, but she was plucky all thru. The ice broke under his touch when he tried to rest any weight upon it. And the strangest thing happened. They were close now, side by side, not knowing how long they could stand the strain, and Wini fred's face was near. Without one word of love or questioning, Everett bent and kissed her. Somehow it didn't seem like a kiss of matehood. There was something tender and sacred in it, just the acknowledge ment of all the other knew. "Hello. he4lo, there!" came a shout from the shore road and the hum of a motor. Two lights swung into view. "Are you in?" called the professor. "Yes. sir, right over here," Evereitt called back. There were six of the fellows in the car, with ropes and a couple of couple of planks. He lifted Winifred up first on the plank and shoved it cautiously along the ice until they got her, then climbed up himself, the rope under his armpits while they held him steady. An hour afterward Mrs. Ramsey stole upstairs again to see if Winifred was all right. She lay wrapped in blankets on the couch before the open fire in the best bedroom, a guest of honor, and over her leaned Everitt. "We were just planning. Aunt Betsy," he said, happily, "how Win can finish her course even after we're married. Aren't you glad for me?" "Glad, dear," Mrs.- Ramsey sighed. as she patted the brown braids lying j on the pillow. "I think you're a very i lucky, boy." f Copyright. 191. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Three deposits of coal In Hayti have i en investigated by French engiucfra and ben efforts will be made to develop thein. RETURN TO CIVILIZATION w By BRES'KERHOFF. DINNER STORIES Mrs. Aytoun wanted some new shoes, so she went into a shop, when an obliging assistant brought out a selection for her to try on. "Thats strange, madam," said he, after many vain attempts to fit her. "One of your feet is larger than the other." Bristling with rage, the lady left that shop and sought an other. Here again the assistant failed to find a pair which would do. "How curious, madam!" he said. "One of your feet is smaller than the oth er." And with a beaming smile Mrs. Aytoun bought two pair. "What was the date of Columbus's diBcovery of America?" an examiner asked. "1492," the bright boy replied in stantly. "Right," said the examiner. "And why was that date Important for you to remember?" "Because I knew you would be sure to ask it,? the bright boy said. "It says here, 'One of the idols most revered by the Koreans in the figure of a woman, seated, resting her thin E? CLARA PIGRAH JUDSOH T1IK HI NT I'OIt When Father Beaver turned around to tell Mother Beaver that he was ready to begin building operations and found she was nowhere to be seen, he was so surprised he could hardly speak. "Why why where is she?" he cried, "she was righ' here'" Mikey Musk-rat looked around be hind the bushes and weeds but he didn't see her. -'Maybe she's hiding somewhere to surprise you." he sug gesteu. '1 do that myself sometimes." "Well. Mother Beaver don't, she wouldn't think of such a thing." re plied Father Beaver positively. "Something's happened to her. I know something's happened to her! Some thing dreadful's happened to her. Don't get excited about it! Flease don't get excited about it!" exclaimed Mikey Musk-rat. "We'll find iler all right, you just see!" "How'll you find her?" demanded Father Beaver. "Something dread ful s hapuened to her!" Just at that minute Policeman Billy Raccoon came along. Mikey was so glad to see him he tairiy m. "Now everjthing will be all right! Now 1 know everything will be right!" he shouted, "Don't you worry a min- ute. Father Beaver." "Worry?" asked Policeman Billy.) "Who's worrying?" I "Father Beaver is." said Mickey, before Father Beaver himself had a chance to speak. "Father Beaver's awfully worried about Mother Beaver. She's disappeared." "Well, well!" said foiiceman uiuy. i "think of that!" I "And you'll Mikey Musk-rat began to eay, "you'll help us find her," I but he didn t say it after all, because j he happened to look at Policeman Billy. And Policeman Billy had the f unnleit look in his eyes the funniest look! j Almost as tho he wae laughing at i Father Beaver and Mikey. "I wouldn't worry about her." said j Policeman Billy. "I have a feeling i in her hand, M said Mrs. Chatterly. reading from the newspaper. "Which proves that the Koreans are about the wisest nation on earth. suggested her husband. "How's that, Joshua?" "Well, said Mr. Chatterly, with distinct emphasis, "simply because they make a deity of a woman who has sense enough to give her chin rest." HOUSEHOLD HINTS Core of the Baby's Clothe. Here are a few very useful hints of how to take care f baby's clothes; Whenever you get baby a thick pair of stookings, lay stockings on a thick pasteboard and cut the exact shape and length, then every time you wash stockings put them on this form and pin on top; stockings will never shrink and you can use them twice aa long. When washing baby's sweater coat wash in lukewarm water which ha been made very soapy with white soap and keep pressing in your hands until clean. Do not rub. Then rinse in clear warm water, button the coat and lay it on a Hat surface in the sun to dry. The coat will be just like new when dry Never put any of baby's cloth in blueing water, as babies always have their dresses in their mouths and the suck the blueing out. Xever use baby's diapers twice without rinsing. When used once, rinse in clear water and hang outside to dry. You can always keep baby looking clean by washing its little shirt and stockings just as soon as they are re moved; also its little dresses, as it takes just a few minutes. 'Xever starch a baby's dress until he wears short ones; then just starch oottom. MOTHEK BK.WKIt that aiother Beaver can look after herself very nicely." "But she wouldn't run away with out telling me," said Father Beaver Po lceman Billy had the funniest look in Ills eyes. positively. "I know she wouldn't" He shook bis head three times and looked solemnly at Policeman Billy. "Something's happened to her." "I'll tell you what we'll do." raid Pnlir-emmi Ftillv whn k& Father Beaver meant to worry wheth er there was any use of It or not. "We'll find her and then you'll be happy." miner Heaver, Mikey Musk-rat and Policeman Billy Racoon. And all the while they were going, Mikey kept thinking to himself "Policeman Billy's Just laughing at us He knows all the time where she is""" But he didn't say a word out loud' Not a word! No. sir! Mikev knew bet ter than that! (Copyright CUra Ingram Judson.) time Tales
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