The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
December 5, 1917

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A QUARTER will equip one soldier with a Bible. Can a quarter do more? W1 EATHFR FORECAST for Kansas: Cloudy, unsettled, colder tonight and Thursday. HOME EDITION TOPEKA, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1917 TENw PAGES THREE CENTS RESOLUTION FOR WAR ON AUSTRIA GOES TO HOUSE Is Introduced as Wilson Re quested in Tuesday Address. 3Iay Encounter Delay Due to Senate Adjournment. SCHEDULED TO PASS FRIDAY -pledges AH Resources of Amer ica to War Victory. Stone, Former "Anti," Will Tush War Motion in Senate. Washington Dec. 5. The resolution for war against Austria-Hungary was introduced today in the house of rep resentatives by Chairman Flood of tne foreign affairs committee in the form and language approved by President Wilson. It contains a declaration that be cause of Austria-Hungary's warlike arts aeainst the United States in sup port of her ally Germany, a state of war exists at and after noon today. It also pledges the full resources of the United States to bring the war to a successful conclusion. Chairman Flood put the resolution in final fnrm after consultation at tne state department. He said he Pte the committee to formally report it out today and that he would bring it up in the house fur passage tomor row. Ill-cause She's German Ally. The official text of the war resolu tion follows: "Whereas, the imperial and royai Austro-Hungarv government has shown its hostility to the government and the people of the United States by severing diplomatic relations and has formally adhered to the ruthless policy of submarine warfare adopted by its ally, the imperial German gov ernment, with which the United States is at war and has given to its ally every support and aid on both land and sea in the prosecution of the war against the government and people of the United States of America, there fore be it "RESOLVED, By the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assem bled, that a state of war be and is hereby declared to exist and to have existed since noon of the fifth day of Pecember, 1917. between the United States of America and the imperial i and royal Austro-Hungarian govern ment and that the- president tie una he Is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and mili tary forces of the United States and the resources of the government to carry on war against the Imperial and royal Austro-Hungarian government and to bring the conflict to a success ful termination all the resources of the country and is hereby pledged by the congress of the United States." Confine Issues to War. Washington. Dec. 5. Outlining the legislative program in the house to day. Democratic Leader Kitchin said legislation would be confined as far as possible to appropriations and war measures, but that woman suffrage and prohibition constitutional amend ments, he expected, will be taken up and voted on before the Christmas holidays. He said conservation meas ures will be considered. May IX-lay Until Next Week. Washington; Dec. 5. Postponement of the Austrian war -declaration by congress until next week appeared probable today after conferences be tween chairmen of the senate and house foreign affairs' committees. Chairman Flood of the house com (Contintied on I'Hfre Two.) R. N. RAMI MAJOR War Department Sends Com mission to Topekan. He Will Handle Work in Con nection With Draft. The war department today com missioned R. Neil Kahn of Topeka as major of infantry in the national army. He is assigned to duty with Governor Capper in connection with the selective draft in this state. The order is immediately effective. Major Rahn has been property and disbursing officer for the government in charge of the equipment in this state. He was for several years as sistant adjutant general under Ad jutant General Charles T. Martin and for a time was acting adjutant general of the state. In his new capacity Ma jor Rahn will handle such work in connection with the draft as is detail ed by the governor. Following com pletion of the draft, it is probable Major Rahn may be called into active service. Warns Alien Enemies. Chicago, lec. 5. Fiuted States Marshal Jfolni .J. Bradley announced today that nil alien enemies who refuse to comply with the government regu lilt ions which forbid their approach within one hundred yards of the water front, will be interned. U. Y. TO OUST PRO-KAISER TEXTBOOKS AND TEACHERS New York, 'Dec. 5. German text books containing laudatory references to the German emperor or the history of the Hohenzollerns will be eliminated from the course of study in the high schools in New York City, it was announced today by Lawrence A. Wilkins. head of the modern language department. The questio. able passages in the tex: books will be deleted Friday. Mr. Wilkins also announced that steps would be taken to prevent the possibility of teachers of German spreading Teutonic propaganda in the high schools. OFHCHAL WAM STATEMENTS Russians Ffffht With British. London, Iec. 5. British troops act ing in conjunction with an efficient force of Russians have carried out a Hurcessful operation in Mesopotamia, Major General F. R. Maurice, chief di rector of military operations at the war office, announced today. FRENCH. Paris, Pec. 5. Another German air attack on Nancy, in which three per sons were wounded, was reported by the war office today. Raiding and artilleryinj? were the only war activities reported in the official statement Aronnd Craonne, Germain raids failed. Fast of Kheiius the French carried out a successful re connaissance, taking prisoners. Artillery fire was reported on the right bank of the Meuse. Fell 8 German Planes. Paris, rec. 5. Eight German air planes were brought down on Monday by French aviators, the war office an nounces. Active artillery fiprhtins is in progress on the Verdun front east of the Meuse. BRITISH. London, Dec. 5. In addition to the enstomary artillery activity on both sides on the battle fronts, says today's war office announcement. "There is nothing of particular interest to re pot.', GERMAN. Berlin, Dec. 5.--Germari official. Austro-German forces yesterday cap tured some bill positions on the Sette Comuni, on the mountainous front in northern I ta ly, the war office an nounced today. The negotiations between the Ger mans and Russians for an armistice are extending to the Rumanian troops, the war office announced. The text of the statement reads: "Troops of Field Marshal Conrad von Hoetzendorf have taken from the. Ital ians some of the hill positions in the Sette comuni." BRITISH 'HOLD CA 31 BR A I GAINS ..r TP0""0? jm cw". ofthrraurl CTucu Reasons y?,W.. 01 SqiSSONS SCALE or Mfifi UN APRIL 14,1011 mmmm UHZ nou. 16,1917 HtNOEMBOR UKI Attack after attack by the Ger mans against the British positions in the 'icinity of Cambrai have betn re pulsed by General Haig during the past few days. One of the attacks smashed by the British was at Havincourt (1). It waa at Gouzeau court (2) that American engineers Sunday came under fire of the Ger mans. They were saved when the British Bred over their heads at the Germans. HERE'S NEW ONE, KIDS! Valencia Hoys Threw Dead Into Railroad Dcnot. Skunk Throwing a dead skunk into the de pot at Valencia just before the train came in and sending the occupants out-of-doors for air in rapid fire or der is one of the pranks of a band of Valencia youths, according to a com plaint lodged with Robert D. Garver, county attorney, today. The com plaint was made by the station agent at Valencia. Garver has taken no action con cerning the skunk episode. However, a complaint made by Bessie Snoddy of Valencia agains Alvin Morris, Cor tez Applegard, Rjall Barnes and Klijah Pendleton resulted in the is suance of a warrant against the boys. They are charged with disturbing the peace. Miss Snoddy claims the youths have been throwing, stones against her houe. Whether the boys named in the complaint are the" same lads who threw the skunk, into the de pot is not known. VICTORY FOR WETS They Win Three Cities in Massachu. setts' Liquor Fight. Boston, Mass.. Dec. 5. War time sentiment in Massachusetts on the liquor question as voiced by the wet and dry vote in 18 cities, was decided Tuesday in favor of the regulated liquor traffic Three cities, Haverhill, Fitchburg and Fall River were turned over from dry to wet. Last year Fitchburg went ury 2,981 to 3,055. This year the wets won 2,951 to 2,581. This city is eleven miles from the big Ayer army can tonment and Major General .Hodges aided the no license fighters by the statement that the United States did not want a licensed city within 25 miles, of the cantonment. Strike Hint In Argentina, Buenos Aires, Dec. 5. Strikers made an attack today on workmen in a cold storage plant at La Negra province of Buenos Aires. One per son was killed and several were wounded. t 1 Grle USTQOENTTSS I TEUTONS HALTED, RUSH MORE MEN INTO MAELSTROM Cambrai Battle Abated, but Not Yet Finished. Artillery Fire Increases, Pres aging Fresh Attempt. MOST POWERFUL DRIVE FAILS Germans Didn't Even Reach First ObjectiTe Points. Kaiser Sends Up Reinforce ments From All Directions. BY WILUAM PHI IIP SIMMS. With the British Armies in the Field, Dee. 5. Germany has not fin ished her effort out of Cambrai. Fighting was still continuing today. It had abated somewhat from the fe rocity of the past few days. Never theless, British aviators reported more German troops massing, more guns being hurriedly yanked to battle front positions and every indication that Crown Prince Rupprecht was far from giving up after having failed in his initial attempts. Morever, artillery fire was increasing today. British officers believed the most critical moment around Cambrai had passed today. They were equally cer tain, however, that Hindenburg would not allow matters to stand where they now are. They looked for resumption of fighting on the same tremendous scale of the past few days, which has strewn German corpses around the Cambrai bulge. Hindenburg at Cambrai. It was rumored today that Hinden burg had either been on the Cambrai front or was there now. So far, Ger many's most powerful efforts have failed to flatten out -Byng's bump in the direction -t the German depot city. The Germans first objectives were not even reached. The completeness of the failure of the German plans was illustrated in prisoners' statements today that Ger man Uhlans (cavalry) were held for days in readiness behind the lines for the break in the British front that the Germans schemed to attain, but which they did not achieve. The artillery fire in the whole Cam brai sector was increasing today and the massing of more infantry forces forecast another drive. The German reinforcements have come from vari ous parts of the western front. Flanders Strenerth Wanes. I was in Flanders Sunday, during a local British advance in the Pass chendaele region and at that time comment was evoked on the fact that the German barrage was nine minutes late and of much lighter force than that in any previous fighting. The answer was apparent either the British guns had knocked the enemy artillery, or the Germans had been withdrawing their pieces for use on another front. The latter was un doubtedly the correct assumption. Apparently Hindenburg and Rup precht will continue the battle at Cambrai as long as troops are avail able. Every British officer and Tommy is con; dent the boche will be unable to make much headwav. BOOKSlbTiOYS Topeka Citizens' Committee To Collect Reading for Sammies. Your Magazines, Also, Will Be Taken Up Sunday Afternoon. The next drive in Topeka wilr be conducted for the purpose of collect ing reading material for the Sammies in France. The Topeka citizens' com mittee headed by George Godfrey Moore has arranged for a general mo tor car delivery system next Sunday afternoon tltruout the city. Books, magazines and any reading matter which could be used by the soldiers will be welcomed by tne committees. A short time ago the Scottish Rite Masonic bodies of Topeka inaugurated a plan of collecting shoes in this manner for the Red Cross work among the destitute in France and Belgium. The idea resulted in a donation of 20, 000 pairs of shoes in Topeka in one day. Now if the citizens of the city wilt be equally liberal in the contribution of books and magazines, the Sammies never will find time hanging heavy on their hands in France. The committee in charge of the movement here follows: George God frey Moore, J. K. Spalding. Arthur Car ruth, W. A. Johnson, S. L. Courtney, R. N. HInkson, L. B. Holland. Robert Stone, K. V. King, W. O. Anderson, N. Wood and W. H. Imes. KILLED PLAYING WAR Garden City Lad of Eight Shot by His Playmate. Garden City, Kan., Dec. 5. Harold Dummond, 8-year-old son of E. J. Dummond. superinienaeni oi cny schools, was insiaiiny aiiieu x afternoon by the accidental discharge of a target rifle in the hands of George Day. a playmate of the same age The accident occurred at the Day I home, where the boys were playing war- a ni inj Klf!rl fill MAN SHllT 111 VI I VIL. llinil UHUI Wife and Friends Present in Chicago Hotel Say It Was Accident. Chicago. Dec. 5. J. P. Hill, of Tulsa. Okla., said to be a wealthy oil operator, was shot and perhaps fa tally wounded while in his room at the Morrison hotel today. Hill's wife and Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ryan, also of Tulsa, were present when the shooting occurred. They told the po lice Hill was cleaning a revolver when it was accidentally discharged. A STOCK-SELLING SCHEME BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. In a few days a stock peddler will call on you. Watch out for him. He will try to unload on you some stock in a queer corporation. The corpora tion is called the American Red Cross, and he'll tackle you for a mem bership. The price is small; only two dollars or such a matter. And he will tell you in his oily tongue about the dividends. But don't you be fooled! Ther will be no dividends except in brother hood and if you get into te corporation you will be stuck for assess ments. Lord, man, the assessments will come in thick and fast before this war is over. Your heart will be wrung time and again by the need of our soldiers; by the hunger and want In the families of our soldiers; by the disease and famine in Europe. And while, of course, the assessments are voluntary, they will come and come and come. And you will have your choice; meet them or harden your heart. If you meet them your life will grow. Deny them and your ank account will grow. Take your choice. Meet them or pass them. The assessments are before you, and if you buy stock in this corporation your whole life's destiny will hinge uoon the way you handle that stock. And it is a curious stock in this: The dividends, as hereinbefore stated, are in human brotherhood. From all over the earth, wherever men and women and children are in want and misery, at home, in France, in Italy, in England even in Russia will come to America during this war. and forever after this war, the deep, sweet abiding gratitude of those whom we have saved and succored. We are feeding the starving through this corporation, and they will not forget it. nor their children's children. We are healing the sick the tubercular, the undernourished covered with sores and filth. We are housing the homeless in the devastated area of Belgium and France and Italy, and the agents of this corporation are gathering up the good will of humanity in bales and cords and shiploads and are pouring it back into America. Now, don't you want your share? Don't you want some of these divi dends? In other ages when peace shall come permanently to this world shall come because America sowed in. this great war the seeds of good will where Germany sowed the dragon's teeth of hate men too old to fight, and women who could not go into battle, will say, "I was a member of the Red Cross. Here is my membership. It is a certificate from the herald's college of my nobility. You children and all of yours for genera tions may know that in the great Peace Corporation, I was an investor. I drew my dividends in brotherhood. I paid the assessments that came from my heart. I am proud that I joined." In a few days the stock peddler will call on you. Watch out for him. He will try to sell you something that will make you bigger and better and kinder; something that will sting you for dividends, something that will make you or break you in the real game of life. Watch out for that stock seller. Don't let him fool you. If you become a stockholder in his corporation, it will cost you your heart's best aspira tions, your mind's best plans, and much exceedingly much of the work of your hands. And all you will get -out of it is your country's ever lasting glory and your own soul's comfort and content. So, when that stock peddler comes around beware. Don't let him fool you. STRIKE IS UNIQUE 29,000 Union Men Affected by General Protest. Insist on Right of Carmen to Wear Union Buttons. St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 5. Ten thou sand union men from the Twin Cities packed the municipal auditorium as the "continuous convention" of union men met today. The "continuous convention" affects 29,000 union men in the Twin Cities and is expected to virtually tie up all industries employ ing union labor excepting newspapers. Thousands of union men who quit their jobs today to remain out until the demands of union street car men. who were discharged because thejf wore union buttons, are met, were nop able to get into the municipal audi torium. 3,000 Guards Patrol Street. Order marked the swarming to the auditorium and the preliminary work of recognizing delegates and inspect ing union cards, prior to the calling of the convention to order. Of the 3,000 heavily armed guards who are patrolling St. Paul streets, none were at the union meeting. Labor leaders were unable to esti mate the number of union men who had left their jobs to attend the con vention. Some said seven thousand in St. Paul alone had quit. Minne apolis labor leaders said that "thou sands of men" were not at work to day. Labor leaders said that thou sands more men would quit as soon as a formal strike order has been issued. Eager for Federal Mediation. Resolutions prepared for presenta tion to the "continuous convention," today put organized lubor on record as eager for federal arbitration, ask the removal of C. W. Ames and Judge J. F. McGee of the public safety com mission, censure Governor Burnquist for his attitude, declare the public safety commission button order is a blow at organized, labor and demand that union laborers "be protected in their constitutional right to wear union buttons.", Saloons were closed today. Gov ernor Burnquist early today wired Secretary of War Baker, rejecting the federal official's request that the pub lic safety commission's button order be rescinded and that the matter be re-opened. The governor told Baker that there is no vital issue involved and reiterated his intention of leaving the matter in the hands of the pub lic safety commission, of which he is a member. "When we "need federal assistance. I shall not hesitate to call upon you." the governor wired. Hint at Propaganda, Almost one thousand more home guards were today ordered into ser vice. Friends of the street car corpor ation today intimated that German propagandists caused the street car strike. TO BE A BIG FUNERAL Scott Hopkins Will Be Laid to Rest Thursday Afternoon. I The funeral of Scott Hopkins, pres- ident of the Prudential Trust Co., who died Sunday evening, will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence. 1177 Fillmore street Rev. S. S. Estey, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will be in charge of the services. The funeral, it is expected, will be one of the largest held in Topeka for several years as Hopkins possessed as many close friends asftny other man in Topeka. Burial will be in Mount Hope cemetery BIG STOCK SHOW ON 25,000 See International in a Day, Breaking Attendance Records. Chicago, Dec. 5. With an estimat ed total attendance of 45,000. all rec ords at the International Livestock exposition were broken yesterday. Be-, tween 25,000 and 30,000 people viewed the cattle, swine and sheep ex hibits during the day and more than I 15,000 more were packed into the In ternational amphitheater during the evening to attend the judging of horses and ponies. Approximately 100,000 stock raisers and horse fanciers have arrived since last Saturday night. ROBT. BARR DEAD Ft. Scott Newspaper Man Ex pired While in Anlomobile. He Was State Senator From Bonrbon County in 1917. Fort Scott, Kan., Dec. 5. Robert B. Barr, owner of the Fort Scott Tri bune, and a member of the state sen ate, died suddenly last night in an automobile near here. Death was due to heart trouble. Senator Barr was 43 years old, and had lived in Kansas nearly all his life. Senator Barr served his first term in the state legislature during the 1917 session. He was the author of the state highway commission act which passed the Two houses "and is now' a law. While the measure was exten sively amended, the law contains many of the vital features urged by the "ourbon county senator. During the session Senator Barr was chairman of the senate committee on roads and highways. He served also as a mem ber of the committee on penal institu tions. In Bourbon county Senator Barr was for a number of years a strong permanent highway advocate. He was instrumental In securing the present rock road system thru Bour bon county and helped to put south eastern Kansas on the map with good roads. For a number of years Senator Barr was associated with the business man agement of the Fort Scott Tribune and is well known by newspaper men in the state. During the last several months Senator Barr"s health had broken rapidly. Numerous state senators in Topeka today sent telegrams of condolence to Mrs. Barr. Senators Walter E. Wil son, Ben S Paulen, William M. Thompson, James A. Getty and Carey Carroll sent telegrams from Topeka. Senator C. S. Huffman, adjutant gen eral and president pro tern of the in Columbus. It is probable a delega senate, sent a telegram from his home tion of state senators will go to Fort Scott to attend the funeral. Senator Barr's successor will be elected at the regular November elec tion of 1918. All parties will nomi nate candidates for the office and the successful candidate will fill the un expired term. DOWN TO 15 TONIGHT Mercury Started Dropping at O'clock This Afternoon. 11 Hourly temperatures as reported by the Topeka weather bureau for To peka today were as follows: 7 o'clock .23 11 o'clock 29- 8 o'clock 25 I 12 o'clock 32 9 o'clock 26 1 o'clock 37 10 o'clock 27 2 o'clock 30 The temperatures averaged 5 de grees below normal. A cloud hidden sun and 'a brisk, snappy wind from the north were responsible for the sudden drop between 1 and 2 o'clock. 1 S. 3D. Flora, meteorologist, asserted this afternoon that the mercury would drop to 15 degrees by morning. The northern cold snap is rapidly coming this way accof'ding to this morning's statement of S. D. Flora, local meteorologist. It was 8 below in Minnesota this morning and the cold was coming south. The Dakotas are in the midst of a big snow storm that (Continued on Page Two.) NO FUSSVVITHSWISS J. S. Counteracts German Propaganda by Announcing Neutrality. Washington. Dec 5. The United States government has sent Switzer land a message pledging itself to re spect Swiss neutrality. The occasion for this was not made clear by the state department today, except that it is in line with action taken by other governments. It was recalled, however, that Ger many had recently spread word that when America's full force had reached the west front, it was the purpose of the United States to overrun Switzer land. The message was designed to counteract this propaganda. It is understood that the whole ar rangement provides for the rationing of Switzerland thru an international committee which will have its head quarters at Berne. U, S. CARDS ON TABLE, NOW UP TO KAISER BILL Tell Why He Started War or! Accept Indictment. Wilson's Address as Much to Germans as to Allies. "TO ENEMY AND FRIEND ALIKE" President Doesn't Mention Res toration Alsace-Lorraine. Opens Way for Austria To Throw Off German Yoke. BY FRED S. FTRG ERSOX. j Washington, Dec 5. America's cards are on the table. If Germany is to escape being crushed, she must as freely and frank- ly state exactly what she is fighting for as President Wilson outlined the war aims of the United States. The way is open for the German rul ing powers to respond explain to the German people and the world exactly what they are fighting for or admit America's indictment and fight it out. The table is likewise waiting for Great Britain, Prance and the other entente powers to put their cards upon it, as President Wilson displayed America s. This, it may be stated today, is the official view of the president's epoch al address before congress. Most Powerful Political Blow. It is the most powerful blow of the political offensive against Germany that has yet been struck. It was ad dressed to the German people as much as the other people of the world. The war will be considered won when a peace bsNied on justice to enemy and friend alike can be made and guaranteed by "spokesmen of the German people whose word we can believe." There is no mistaking the meaning of President Wilson's outline of American war aims. American blood is not to be shed and American money is not to be spent toward realization of any sel fish aims. The president did not men tion the restoration of Alsace-Lorraine. This question, according to the official view today, may take care of itself when Germany is brought to the final reckoning. But the restoration of territory lost forty years ago is not in the category of American aims. The president said nothing of colonie. These subjects are not considered among essentials of the war. i Liid on Italy's Ambition. The president asked for a declara tion of war on Austria. But as he asked that Austria be listed among America's enemies, he voiced the cause of the dual monarchy by de claring that under peace terms to which this country can subscribe. Austria-Hungary must have free ac cess to the sea and must be free of Prussian domination. If Italy still maintains ambitions of obtaining Istria and Dalmatia in re turn for her efforts in the war she will not find support from this gov ernment. This would cut Austria off from the Adriatic. Authorities pointed out today the particularly strong bid for the Aus trian pebple to assert themselves and throw off the curse of Hohenzollernism, along with the Germans, while at the (Continued on Paire Two.) MEET HERE TODAY Kansas Horticulturists in An nual Session at State House, Prominent Orchardists From All Over State Are Here. Kansas horticulturist are in ses sion at the state house today. They started a three-day session late Tues day and will conclude their annual gathering with the election of trus tees at a meeting Thursday afternoon A number of prominent fruit growers are attending the convention. Glenwood canning club pictures will be shown this evening. The pro gram today is the feature of the ses sion and horticulture in all its phases and from all angles will be discussed by members of the state society. The membership ineudes some of the most prominent orchardists in Kansas. The program this arternoon was launched at 2 o'clock. This evening's j session will start at 7:30 o'clock. j Following is the afternoon and even- ing program: Wednesday, Drcmiber 5, 1917. I 2 KK) p. m. "Orchard from Planting to Production," Geo. T. Jroh, jr., Orhaniist, Wathpna. "By -product a of Fruits," Mrs. Dora L. Thompson. Wllliamstown. "Apple Juice." Frank Pyle. Osawatotnie. "Importance of Forestry and Nut Grow ing for Kan Baa," James Sharpe, Council Grove. "Possibilities of Bee Keeping on the Farm," J. A. Nininger, Nickerson. 7 p. m. Glenwood Canning Club in Pictures, Otis E. Hall. "The Value of Fruit in Human Nutri tion," Dr. S. J. Crumbine, Secretary State Board of Health. "Tropical Life and Tropical Fruits," Rev. Juliua Smith. Baldwin. "Winter Killing of Fruit Trees." Prof. A. J. Mix, State 1'niversity. Lawrence. BOMBMNJRAT HOUSE Stndents Extinguish Fuse Would Have Demolished Building. Madison. Wis., Dec. 5. A lighted dynamite bomb waa thrown into the second story window of the Phi Kap pa Sigma fraternity house at the Uni versity of Wisconsin early today. The noise awoke several students who put the package into a pail of water. Police after examining the contrivance consisting of several piano flaunts its oerman origin with sticks of dynamite and a small bottle i the name plate. Zimmermann-Leip-of acid, declare there was enough ex- zig." while its strings echo American plosive to demolish the house. J one-steps and ragtime. j WHAT ARMISTICE MEANS IN PRESENT WORLD WAR What armistice means, in mod ern warfare: It suspends military operations, (troops may withdraw, but are not permitted to advance). The armies can continue to do all things that would be legal in time of peace, (they can raise and drill troops, collect stores and mu nitions). All conditions in dis puted territory must remain in the condition in which thy were when the armistice was concluded. A siege or blockade remains in effect. Any infringement of the terms enables the other side to re sume hostilities. An armistice along a small por tion on the front can be conclud ed by opposing commanders. A general armistice must be approved by the governments concerned. AMERICANS TAKEN Believe Several Engineers Fell Into Hands of Germans. Casualty List Not Yet Available at U. S. Headquarters. American Field Headquarters, France, Dec. 5. German troops fight ing around Cambrai have captured a few Americans, according to unofficial word received today from the British front. Headquarters has issued- no con firmation as yet. If the news is true, it is stated on authority that the number of Ameri cans taken was small. American headquarters has not as yet received a report of the Cambrai fighting, in which American army en gineers participated. No announce ment of casualties is yet available. U-BOAT KILLS Blows Up Women and Children on Sinking Ship. 80 Passengers and-Crew Seek ing Lifeboats Are Slain. London, Dec. 5. The British steam er Appa, according to the Daily Mail, was nearins home after a two months voyagre when she was torpedoed with out warning. The lifeboats were manned Immediately and all would have been rescued, but the submarine fired a second torpedo while the women and children werebeing low ered 'to the boats, causing the ship to sink immediately with eighty pas sengers and the crew. Another report says that forty pas sengers and thirty members of the crew were lost and that the survivors were landed on the west coast. NEW ITALY DRIVE! Austro-Germans Mass 10 Divi sions on Asiago Front. Allies' Flyers to Italy's Aid In elude Americans. Rome, Dec. 5. Enemy forces have begun an attack on the Italian lines on the Asiago plateau, the war office announced today. The only gains achieved in the attack were some po sition, the loss of which has not im paired the Italian defensive line. Italian Arn.y Headquarters in Northern Italy, Tuesday, Dec. 4. (By the American Pres.,.) Great forces of men and guns have been massed by the Austrians and Germans in the Asiago section according to reports reaching here today and resumption of t offensive is expected. The reports indicat that the enemy is employing ten divisions of troops. Canadian and V. S. Flyers There. With the Frerch Army in Italy, Dec 5. Among the troops and units that have arrived in Italy with the British and French armies is a large oup of aviators, who are impatiently waiting to get into action. The British have sent a large contingent of fliers, half of whom are young Canadians and Americans who havj been doing cout work in Flanders and northern France. The squadron which expects to be given work at the front very soon, is proving quite an auraL-iiun for the Italians. While awaiting orders thn fliers are keening themselves In trim and he natives in fascinated de light by -rracticing over the to-vn where they are billeted. There is scarcely an hour but that the hum of motors is hearo. aoove tne town anu everv public square is filled with crowds gazing upward. The British aviators apparently are much younger than their French com rades, whose numerous decorations at test their long experience. Both groups, however, are composed of picked men who have had careful training in fighting the Germans in the air. The British squadron has many young men who won commissions by brave conduct on the front in France and who were transferred to the aerial service from the infantry, cav alry and other arms Sine Amoricxn Songx. The fliers are curious to know what the future holds in store ror them since few of them have ever flown j over mountainous country as they will have to do here. They admit it will be a test to put them on their mettle, Fince emergency landings, generally i feasible in France, are almost out of the question here. The Canadians t and Americans nightly entertain their comrades and crowd of curious Ital- ians by holding song festivals at their hotel. American songs are sung mostly, with an Italian officer who j has spent several years in England and America as tne pianist. me CAPPER URGES T BIG DONATIONS TO BIBLE FUND Oversubscribe $7,500 Quota in Kansas, He Advises. It Is a Patriotic and Religions Obligation in U. S. MUST KEEP UP OUR ACTIVITY Kansans Have Shown Spirit In Other War Work. Integrity, Courage, Loyalty, Obedience, Purity in Army. Governor Capper today urged Kan sas to oversubscribe her $7,600 quota for Bibles and New Testaments for Uncle Sam's soldiers in the trenche and in the cantonments. Both as a patriotic and religious obligation. Kansas should make certain that the church of the state is placed firmly and strongly behind the army, lie said. A strong plea for generous subscrip tions to the Bible fund was made in a statement which Governor Capper today gave to the state press. The campaign for subscriptions for the Bible fund are being gathered this week under direction of church workers and church organizations in all states. In Kansas a subscription of but 17,500 has been asked in the campaign to provide a fund of $400,- 000 for Bibles and Testaments for all men in the national army and navy service. "When a quarter will send a New Testament to an American soldier in the trenches in France, Kansas should meet her religious and patriotic ob ligation by oversubscribing her quota. The state is asked for a mere $7,600. I understand practically every dollar collected in this state will be used to provide New Testaments for the men at Camp Funston. President Wilson, Colonel Roosevelt and army officers have endorsed the movement. It Is, my hope that Kansas., following her generous response to the liberty loan campaign, the Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A. drives, will go far beyond her quota in this campaign. "There is nothing suggestive of milk-and-water religion about the makeup of these little books. They are sturdy little books like their owners, khaki clad. Militant Gootiness.' ..'."The church In this campaign is out to put militant goodness into the morale of the American fighting forces, to offer comfort in hardship and strength in unusual temptations. Let no one say these spiritual needs are less important than the physical. Recollect that Christianity has been militant from the first and is living now 'in spite of dungeon, fire and sword.' "Men today are facing a spiritual crisis. They are looking for an ex planation of the wrongs in the pres ent world and for a religion upon which to reconstruct a new one when this war is over. Certainly the New Testament teachings of a kingdom founded upon justice, purity and de mocracy with God as King, are im possible of realizatioi. with the Prus sian spirit abroad in the world. Cer (Continued on Page Two.) IN TAR-FEATHER COAT Indignant Citizens Inscribe "On Berlin" on His Back. To Denver, Colo., Dec. 5. Wearing a coat of tar and feathers and a sign inscribed "on to Berlin," Henry W. Dutsch was enroute Denver today in the custody of two of his fellow townsmen from Hugo, Colo., who will turn him over to federal officials. Dutsch, a garage employe, was tarred and feathered last night by a hundred citizens of Hugo, because of alleged pro-German utterances. A rope was placed about his neck and he waa made to kiss the American flag. AUSTRIA'S PEACE AIMS Premier Outlines What Ills Nation Hopes to Acquire by War. Paris, Dec 5. Premier Czernln of Austria-Hungary announces his coun try's peace terms as based on recogni tion of nationi-1 integrity, economic liberty, complete independence of all countries and guarantees of the na tion's fno development, according to a Zurich dispatch printed by L'lnfor mation today. ROB CHICAGO BANK Five Bandits Herd Fight Into Back Room, Get $10,000 and Escape. Chicago, Dec. 6. Five bandits robbed the Stockmen's Trust and Say ings bank, in the stock yards dis trict, of 110,000 or more today and drove away in an automobile. The president of the bank and sev en employes were herded into a back room while the robbers rifled the safe and cash boxes. WAR SONG NETS AUTHOR $25,090, 0R$T61 A WORD New Tork, Dec 6. Try this on your piano. When you sing "Over There. Over There" the first four words of the chorus of that war song, it represents $44 to George M. Cohen. Kipling. Colonel Roosevelt and other "space writers" were dis tanced by Cohen with "Over There." According to Broadway, Cohen sold the song for $25,000. or at the rate of 141 a word.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE 'JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENTNG, DECEMBER 5, 1917 SEE WAR IN A HEW LIGHT THRU f WILSON'S NOTE Gives Impetus to Demand for "Statement of Claims." 'Humanitarian Viewpoint Wipes War Slate Clean. NOT OLD SPIRIT OF KNOCKOUT I 'Discards Threats of Economic and Post-War Boycott. British Press Lands Clear Vi r sion of U. S. President. BY ED. L. KEEN. London. Deo. 5. President Wil son's message to congress gave power ful Impetus today to the American plan for a complete open, frank and Jbtnt re-statement of allied war aims. The Daily News' editorial comment 'practically endorsed that plan. Other newspapers, joining in the general ichorus of hearty approval of the jwhole tone of the Wilson address, in 'dicated their belief in the necessity for ;a re-pledging of the hosts of democ racy. i As stated exclusively in these dis (pntches a short time ago. Colonel (House is known to have presented to .British officials President Wilson's ,yrgent suggestion for a sorting of war aims, a compilation of these to which fevery ally could subscribe, a discard ing, of these to which all could not pledge their force and finally issu ance of a joint pledge by the allies of composite war aims. The matter pre sumably was taken up in the Paris inter-allied councils but was tempo rarily put aside for more phvsical war .toeasures. Judging from the recep tion of President Wilson s address to ;oay. the plan will be brought to the .lore today. i, Would Have Converted Russia. 'v The Daily News comment today was practically an endorsement of the American repledging plan. If tha president could have said earlier, what he said today." the edi torial declared, "and if in Britain and 'S?not 'il!'1 Ita'y sponsible lead. flnr,i .."tlon" had made his wa"efeVheHI Kussia might to- ifroymbher,b'oVrd?rs:he G iZhhend for a ,tateme'" of war In the ".Peated and insistent. .in the light of Mr. Wilson s speech a 'ft. T?nt Whicn wi" mea" wiping off tU k f mucn tnat ouS"t nevfr to tw- wntten on 11 18 imperative. Srft or 1 klnahiP between the S J. yeat-day's speech and the spirit of knockout blows or of econo- f'pS J"a.fa;re or of Pst war boycotts." The Dally News held up the presi dent s speech to more praise than it jhas greeted any previous utterance of ,an American executive, judging it "an tother example of comprehension by Which he clarified fundamental issues tf the war." Comprehends the World. j;L"M wou,d be affectation to pretend hat the speech echoes the declara tions of allied statesmen." the editor ial continued. "His vision compre hends the world: theirs only half." I The Times still refused today to agree with the president's differentia tion between the German government 'and the German people. "President Wilson." the Thunderer 'said,, "has restated the allies' purpose with uncompromising force. With a straightforward statement of war .aims the last hopes of the pacifists ust founder." "As a reaffirmation of previous war Utterances, the speech is of first class importance," asserted the Chronicle. I "Clear, far-sighted and statesman like.' was the Express opinion. Practically every editorial referred to the message as the most emphatic announcement of America's determin ation to wage war to the limit. The President's recommendation that war he declared on Austria was regarded .as one further providence of this in flexible domination. ;THRUTOSSUM SUPPER Walnut High School Raises More Than fOO for Soldiers. Walnut, Kan.. Dec. 5. The high school at Walnut, Kan., took rather a 'unique plan for raising the money for the soldier boys' fund, gome hunters reported many opossums in the tim iber and one suggested that the cook ing class serve an old fashioned "pos Bum supper." The people of the sur 'rounding country began offering pro vlsions and other kinds of help. As a result the school prepared a supper 'with opossum as the chief meat. The weather was stormy, but In 1 spite ot that the tables were crowded Ia.Il the evening and many could not be served. Over $100 was raised for the fund and will be se..t to the Y. M. C. A. and Knights of Columbus. The -school has pledged $230, the remain der of which will be secured by per .sona! subscriptions and class enter tainments. rALLIED NAVAL BOARD Council Is Iec4dcd Upon at the Paris Conference. v Paris, Dec. 5. Foreign Minister tJPinchon this afternoon announced that the Inter-allied conference had decided upon a supreme inter-allied naval committee for co-operative action. Only On "BROMO QITININE." To y?t the genuine, ''all for full nnme, LAX ATIVE BROMO QT'ININE. Look for ig nture of E. W. GROVK. Cures Cold lu One Day. 30c. Adv. Notice to Merchants We wish to announce that in addi tion to our Pablo, we have, for merchants only A fresh stock of Hirh Grade Chocolates, Pail Goods and Other CAXDLES Our assortment is larce and our prices are right. Phone 951 and our representative will call. PABLO DISTRIBUTING CO. 305 Kansas Ave. Eli Clamper!, Mpr. FIRST STEEL SHIP OF U. S. PROGRAM 7 i 1 If H Th launching of the shipping boanTa first steel vessel at Seattle. The first steel ship, authorized several months ago by the emergency shipping: board, was launched re cently at Seattle. The launching of this 8,000-ton vessel marks the first step in the six million ton shipping program for 1917-1918. Photo snows the vessel- after leaving the ways being towed to its berth for completion. PRICES IN TOPEKA Fuel Administrator Sets Price for Coal in This City. Several Reductions Ordered by Danner Effective Today. Changes in prices of coal in Topeka were announced for today by C. H. Danner, chairman of the Shawnee county fuel administration committee. Danner's new order directs several re ductions and provides for increases in rates on domestic nut and fuel from the Osage county fields. The order is based on the showing of federal prices at the mines, freight and cost of handling. While a complete classification of prices is made by Danner, the fuel ad ministration reserves the right to make changes without formal hear ings and at such time as conditions are held to justify. Where purchasers provide for their own deliveries, a gross margin of $1.50 a ton will be permitted on -all classes of coal. Where the retailer makes delivery, the margin will be held to $2 a tori, except on anthracite and semi-anthracite, where the margin is listed at $2.50. Under the Danner order Arkansas anthracite is reduced from $14 to $13.24. Arkansas Bernice is increased from $13.25 to $13.49. Arkansas semi anthracite is reduced from $9.25 to $9.23. Oklahoma semi-anthracite is reduced from $10.15 to $10.13. South ern Kansas is reduced from $7 to $6.82 and $6.67. Southern Kansas nut is reduced from $6.50 to $6.49, and in some instances to $.34. Osage and Burlingame coal is increased under the order from $7 to $7.49. LA FOLLETTE AN IMAGE Washington, Dec. 5. Senator La Follette sat like a graven image in the house Tuesday as President Wilson delivered his war message. He did not applaud at any time, did not rise when other members did. Not a senator would walk with La, Follette from the senate to the house. Others marched in pairs. La Follette walked alone. He took a seat within twenty feet of the president. No one took throne next to Iiim. This seat remained vacant until almost every other chair in the house was filled. Then an usher took Harry S. New, of Indiana, to the place and the Hoosier senator sat down beside La Follette. The Wisconsin, Senator sat with his chin cupped in hij hand from start to finish of the message. At its conclusion he stalked out defiantly alone. U. S: CARDS ON (Continued from Page One. same time the president sought to swerve Russia to unreserved support of the allied cause. Truth Antidote for Intrigue. And as if speaking to America's al lies in the war, the president stated that the only antidote to the poison of falsehood that is keeping the Rus sians and Germans in the dark, is the truth. "It cannot be uttered too plainly or too often," he pointedly asserted. TTltimatery Must Crash Germany. If the German people are unable to respond to the political offensive di rected against their rulers and the German government does not coun ter the American stateftient of war aims with a declaration recanting ar rogant ambitions of the past then American officials today see only pro longed, bitter war ahead. Officials see in a Germany so crushed that she must, of military necessity, restore Belgium and north ern France, release Austria, Turkey and the Balkans from her grasp, a na tion beaten to her knees. For America and th allies this means bloody sacrifices. It means the wielding of every resource to its utmost capacity. The huge appro priations this congress has been asked to approve are an indication of the cost in money. Officials agreed today that America and the allies will have all they can. do ..to crush Germany's ambitions of world military domina tion and put her back where she was before she ran rampant and started the war., Itwas explicitly pointed out today that President Wilson voiced only the American viewpoint. It is hoped that the allies will fully sub scribe to this declaration of princi plesf Again TJ. S. Takes Ix-ad. There has been a constantly grow ing demand for a clear-cut statement of war aims. This government had hoped that such a declaration might grow out of the sessions of the inter allied council and supreme war coun cil meeting in France. Colonel House and members of the American mis sion gave the unofficial Russian rep resentative their support in urging that a joint statement be made, as an aid to Russia. This statement was not forthcom ing, but in the president's speech of yesterday America has again stepped forward and taken the lead. APPEAL FOR CHARTERS Field Day for lawyers. Oil and Bank Boosters at State House. This is field day for lawyers, oil pro moters and bank boosters before the state charter board. More than fifty men interested in charters and selling permits from the blue sky department are attending sessions today in the of fices of J. T. Botkin, secretary of state. One of the heaviest dockets in months confronted the state board when today's session was called. One of the first charter applications ap proved was that of the Great Plains Petroleum company of Wichita, a five million dollar concern which plans to place a million dollars w.orth of stock on the market in this state. The new refining company controls a large out put and extensive lease rights. Many of the companies seeking ap proval today are oil concerns. The majority of these companies are in the southern Kansas field. Several pro posed banks brought their troubles to Topeka for today's session. Work be fore the state board may not be clean ed up until late today or sometime Thursday. NEW DRY VOTE SOON Kitchin Says Permanent Prohibition l p Before Christmas. Washington, Dec 5. A vote on per manent national prohibition and a wo man suffrage amendment to the na tional constitution will be taken in the house of representatives before the Christmas recess. Majority Leader Kitchin said today. "These measures will be taken up by the house about the twentieth," he said. "We feel they should be put be hind us early in the session, to clear the way for war work." The suffrage amendment is expect ed to be reported out of the judiciary committee Tuesday without recom mendation. The prohibition bill will also be placed before the house at the same time. MOVIE CASE IN COURT Producers Would Appeal Direct to Courts for Review. Rights of movie producers to ap peal from the state appeal board di rect to the courts for review of pic tures is being contested today in the supreme court- The case involves the rejection by the state board of the film "The Easiest Way," and will deter mine a 1917 amendment to the state movie censorship act. When the film was rejected the Widwest Photo Play Co. sought to secure a review of the picture at the hands of the Wyandotte district court. The attorney general's office main tained that an appeal would be taken to the courts only to show irregular ity or. malice in rejecting a film. The producers contended the court should personally view the picture. In the trial court a decision was rendered for the state. An appeal was taken and the state supreme court will de termine the procedure in an appeal from state board. It is probable an opinion will be handed down in Jan uary. CAPPER URGES (Continued from Pa ge One.) tainly these are the ideals toward which the world yearns. The Amer ican Bible society would send these ideals into the trenches with the American army. It is a purpose which patriotic, thoughtful citizens should support. "The boy goes forth to battle in war for righteousness and peace. When you send him to face the enemy and to meet the perils of war, give him the word of cheer and courage and of hope. "Integrity, courage, loyalty, obedi ence, purity these are old virtues, but no army can win without them. 'Righteousness exalteth a nation' and an army. Trust in God, confidence in immortality, belief in sacrifice these are the things which have made Christian armies the most formidable In the world. And Kansas can do no less than to aid in its support of the morale of our army. An over sub scription to the fund will do it." To Core a Cold In One Day. Take' LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tab lets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. K. W. GKOVK'S signature U on each box. 30c Adv. SAMMIES To Topeka State Journal. I hereby enclose Soldiers' and Sailors' Testament fund. Signed Address .25 will eqnip one soldier, 2.00 will equip a squad. 25.00 sulTices ror a Company of 100 men, S500.00 supplies a regiment of 2000 men. IS LAUNCHED NATIONS TO ACT? U. S.- and Japan Reported in Fact Aganist Bolsheviki. Copenhagen Hears of It; No Official Confirmation. Copenhagen, Dec. 6. Japan and the United States have agreed on joint action against the Bolsheviki govern ment of Russia, according to a rumor which was in circulation here today. It was without confirmation front of ficial sources. ORGANIZE ARMY BAND Sergeant Rhodes, Topeka Negro, Is Picked to Form New Unit. Sergeant Rhodes, a young negro from Topeka, who is stationed at Camp Meade, Maryland, has been au thorized to organize a band at that post, according to word received here. Rhodes" parents live here. He is well known among the Topeka col ored people. DOWN T015 TONIGHT (Continned from Pa ge One.) may come far enough this way to re lieve the suffering wheatfields of western Kansas. r, Fall in winter is now surely in the discard an- Topeka can settle them selves to the enjoyment of a real win ter. They may even look forward to a white Christmas with a fair pros pect of attainment. The temperature had fallen to 22 degrees at six o'clock this morning with no prospect of going far above freezing at -any time during the day. At 2 o'clock this afternoon it stood at 30. A 4-mile wind was insufficient to disperse the clouds and let the sun thru. Cloudy and unsettled weather to night and Thursday accompanied by colder temperatures was the official forecast hurled at Topeka today. Shippers do not fare any better, either. They are warned to protect 36 hour shipments north against 10 degrees, east and west against 15 de grees, and south against 2 0. The highest temperature for this date was recorded in 1892 when the mercury reached 66 degrees, and the lowest was in '95 when a temperature of 9 degrees was spread on the book. DAILY WK.1TBCB TABLE. Furnished by the weather bureau office Topeka, Kan., for the twenty-four hours siKling at 7 a. m. Wednesday. Stations. High. Low. Prec. W'ther Roaton -01 Clear Buffalo, N. Y 32 28 .01 Cloudy OaJjrary, Alb. 4 2 .42 Clear ChhWo; 111 ..,..f"0 .-2a .'0 Clear Cincinnati, Ohio... 40 2S 0 Clondy Concordia, Kan 44 24 0 Cloudy Corpus Chrtstl 78 06 0 Cloudy Denver. Colo 50 "4 0 Cloudy Pea Moines, Iowa.. 22 12 0 Cloudy Do're Citv. Kan.. 50 24 0 Clear lIlVi. Minn 10. IS 0 .Clear Kl 1-so, Tex 70 42 0 'Clear Fort Worth. Tex.. OS :S8 0 Clear (SaKeston. Tex R 62 0 Clear Havre. Mont 20 4 .10 Snow Jacksonville, Fla... 72 00 0 Cloudy Kansas City, Mo... 48 2 4 0 Cloudy Little Rock. Ark... 52 38 0 Clear Los Angeles, Cal 74 54 0 Clear New Orleans. La... 74 !W T Cloudy New York, N. X. 38 28 0 Clear N". Platte. "eb 42 20, 0 Clear Oklahoma, Okla. 4 28 0 Clear Phoenix, Ariz..... 70 88 0 Cloudy Plttsbnig. Pa. 30 S2 0 Cloudy Portland. Ore. 50 0 Clear St. Joseph, Mo 42 20 0 Cloudy St. Louis; Mo 42 30 0 Cloudy St. Paul. Minn 20 0 .01 Cloudy Salt Lake, Utah 44 36 0 Cloudy San Francisco. Cal. 60 50 0 Clear Sault Ste. Marie... 2S 10 .16 Clear Seattle. Wash 42 .TS .06 Cloudy Sheridan, Wyo 30 20 T Snow Spokane, Waah 3 2 .02 Clear Swift Current, 8as. 4 0 .10 Cloudy Tampa, Fla 72 Toledo. Ohio 42 30 0 Cloudy TOPEKA, KAN 44 22 0 Cloudy Washington, D. C. 40 30 0 Cloudy Wichita, Kan 48 2S 0 Cloudy Winnipeg. Man 6 8 0 Cloudy Reject Compranise Wage Offer. Bloomington, 111., Dec. 6. Demands of Chicago and Alton'telegraph opera tors, agents and towermen for ap proximately' ten per cent increase in pay were declined by the manage ment following a conference. The men have declined an offer of a five per cent increase. BIBLE FUND for the special CAN BEAT DRAFT Men Far Down on List Can v Enter Serrice at Once. May Join Nayy Marines- or "Get Army Field Clerkship. .Washington, Dec, 5. Draft regis trants whose classification and order numbers are so low that they do not fall within the current quotas of their local boards, may be immediately in ducted Into the military service at their own request. Provost Marshal GenerrJ Crowder announced "today. Upon filing with his local board a waiver of all claims of deferred classi fication, aman in a deferred class may be examined and sent to camp im mediately, altho not as part of his board's quota, as -this would violate the provisions of the selective service law which prohibit substitution. Where the claims had been depen dency, a waiver by the dependents must accompany that of the registrant but waivers from children or men tally unfit persons will, not be recog nized. Any registrant may enlist in the navy or" marine corps. General Crowder said, upon presentation to a recruiting officer of a certificate by his local board that his class and order numbers are so Jow that he does not fall within the current quota. Sub sequently upon presentation -to the board of his enlistment certificate, he will be placed in Class 5, the discard class, on the ground that he is in the naval service. New Rule for Medical Force. The new regulations also provide that by permission of the surgeon general of the army and under his regulation any irfedical student, hos pital interne, dentist, dental student, veterinarian or veterinarian student, may enlist in the medical reserve corps and he will be placed in the discard class. A registrant also may be commis sioned in the army, navy or marine corps, or appointed army field clerk regardless of his classification or or der number. It was pointed out today by Gen eral Crowder that registrants have un til December 15 to enlist in the mili tary forces. RESOLUTION FOR v r (Continued from Page One.) mittee. said he hoped to get the reso lution before the house tomorrow but postponement until Friday appeared probable and in such an event it was not believed that the senate could act before next week unless simultaneous consideration in both houses could be arranged. Senator Stone Comes Back. "Washington, Dec. 5. Senator Stone of Missouri, one of the original "will ful twelve" and stout opponent of the government's war plans until war actually was declared, will pilot the Austrian war resolution thru the sen ate as spokesman for the administra tion. Since war actually was declared on Germany Senator Stone repeatedly has announced that the government has his full and unequivocal support and the administration was so pleased with his attitude that It was decided that, as chairman of the foreign rela tions committee, he should have charge of the Austrian war resolu tion. Senator Hitchcock, the next Democrat on the committee, handled the German war resolution. Senator Stone conferred with state department officials preparatory to a conference of the foreign relations committee. La Follette, Sphinx Riddle. Senator La Follette did not join in the demonstration given the president' utterances yesterday and did not rise with the throng at various times. However, Senator Stone, chairman of the foreign relations committee, who probably will be in charge of the reso lution in the senate has announced his intention of giving support to the COMES FROM CHILE TO FIGHT FOR U. S, Sergt. Roy M. Lester. When America declared war on Germany Roy M. Lester, an Ameri can, was working for a copper con cern at Santiago, Chile. He got a job on a steamer bound for the United States and entered reira lar army two days after reaching New York. He is now a sersreant. Serjrt. Lester is six feet, three and fve-eiphths irches tall and weighs 0" I V V- k4 k i i f est men in the regular army serrice. prosecution of the war, and as in fa vor of defining: Austria's status. The president's recommendation in the Austrian situation, it was learned last night, was prompted partly be cause it might be necessary at any time to have American soldiers in Italy, and the vigorous approval of his position voiced by the joint session has caused leaders to expect little or no delay in the completion, of legis lative sanction. TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS Chicago, Dec. 5. CORN Steadiness pre- Tailed in grain to an unnsnai extent, a slight tendency to sag wbich was notice able at tue outset disappeared after a short time, and there were trifling up turns in some cases. Prospects of new price fixing legislation appeared to have lost force as a bearish factor. Opening quotation which ranged from the same as yesterday's finish to c lower with Janu- ary to ?1.20 and May 1.18 to $1.18 were followed by a little display of firmness but inside of very narrow limits. OATS Oats like corn had no decided impulse in either direction. Trade was al- most entirely local. Continued lightness of" rural offerings tended later to lift prices and so, too, did new high record quotations on oats. The close was firm, c to lc net higher, with January $1.21 aud May $1.W-, to (1.1. 1 PROVISIONS Scantiness of offerings gave an upward slant to provisions on prices. Pork led the advance. Packers buying resulted later in addi tional gains. I Chicago Grata and Provision Market. (The range of prices on grain futures on Chicago Board of Trade as reported by Ihos. J. Myers, 801 N. E. Bldg.) Chicago, Dec. 5. Closed Low Today Yes. 121.' 124 123 118 118 118 120V4 121 120 Open High CORN Dec. May Jan. OATS Dec. May POKK Jan. LAKD- May Jan. BIBS May Jan. 123 120 71 124 119 "1 75 72- 73 70 75 72 73 71 46.50 .47.25 46.35 47.25 46.25 24.37 24.53 24.30 24.07 24.37 24.52 23.87 24.02 24.97 25.00 25.35 25.37 24.90 24.87 25.35 25.37 24.85 24.87 Kansas City Grain Market. (The range of --ices on grain futures on Kansas City Board of Trade as reported by Thos. J. Myers, 301 NEBldg.) Kansas' feity, Dec. 5. Closed Open High Low Today Yes. CORN Dac ..126 120 120U 126 May ..119 120 119- 120 110 Chicago Grain and Pork Market, Chicago, Dec. 5. CORN Close: Decem ber, $1.24 January, $1.23 May, $1.19 fel.19. OATH December, 74c; May, 72c l'OKK Jan., 47.25. LAKD Jan., $24.52; May, $24.37. SHORT KIBS Jan., $25.37; May, $25.35. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City Dec. 5. CORN Cash: Mar ket steady. No. 2 mixed, $1.65Cgl.68 No. 3, $1.5Sryl.0O; No 2 white, $1.80al.n0; No. 3 nominal; No. 2 yellow, $1.851.90; No. 3, noinLual. OATS Market c higher. No. 2 white, 7676c: No. 2 mixed, 7374c. KAK $1.75iai.75. KAFIR AND MILO MAIZE $3.10)33.20. HAY Market irregular. Choice timothy, $28.00;29.00 choice prairie, $25.5026.00; choice alfalfa. $33.5041 34.00. SHOUTS $2.254j2.40. BRAN $1.92. WHEAT -Receipts 42 cars. BUTTER Msrket unchsnged. EOGS Market unchanged. POULTRY Hens, 19c; roosters, 15c; broilers, 244r2Se. CORN Close: December, $1.20; Janu ary, $1.22fel.22 May. $1.20. Chicago Prodnce Market. Chicago, Dec. 5. BUTTER Market un changed. K;s Market higher. Firsts, 4Kf48c; ordinary firsts. 434 45c; at mark, cases in cluded, 12476c. POTATOES Market unchanged. POULTRY Alive, higher; fowls, 1621c; springs, 1920c. New York Sosar Market. New York. Dec. 6. SUGAR Raw, steady; centrifugal, 6.70: molasses, 5.82; refined, steady fine granulated, 8.35. New York I' rod nee Market. New York, Dec. 5. BUTTER Market steady. Creamery higher than extras, 49 feSOc. EGOS Market unsettled. Fresh gather ed extras. 57fti5Hc. CHEESE Market Irregular. State fresh specials, 2rtH&23Hc; dressed poultry.quiet chickens and fowls, unchanged. Turkeys, 234(1 32c; live poultry, unsettled; no prices quoted. New York 8tock Market Wall St-, New York. Dec. 5. STOCKS Prices moved in the enstomsry erratic man ner during the first hour, strong stocks reacting while a few backward issues hard ened. The market continued under the in fluence of the president's message, however, general unsettlement developing later. All gains were lost and leaders touched levels considerably under yesterdsy's qnotation. United States Steel fell 2 points to 87 and other Industrials were equally heavy. Rails lost 1 to 3 points with specialties. Liber ty 4's sold at 97.36 to 87.62 and the 3'a at 98.54 to 98.64. Stocks were moderately well supported at the opening of todsy's trading, rallies over yesterdsy's finsl quotations extending from large fractions to more than s point in important issues. United 8tstes Steel gain ed 14 points and leading rails were sub stantially better, notably Union Psciflc snd Reading. Utah Copper and Crucible Steel also strengthened. Shippings. Sugar and Tobacco were heavy snd Continental Can broke 5 points Liberty bonds yielded lightly. Kansas City Live Stark Market Kansas City, Dec 5. HOGS Receipts IF YOU ARE NOT THINKING OF PRINTING IT'S A TWOTTO-ONE BET YOU' ARE NOT THINKING OF JONES BIRCH "UNDER THREE FLAGS" IN THE GAS COUNTRY

v Weather Report: WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas: Cloudy, unsettled, colder tonight and Thursday. The fifteen handred men who are building pipeline extensions to new gas fields are lodged in thirteen small tent cities scattered over the work In such a way that each' man eats and sleeps very near the place he is working. That saves time, and each moment of every twenty-four hours Is precious in thistremendous construc tion effort. As the ditching gang; progresses along the right of way its camp is moved and the pipe gang takes its place. After the latter, comes the gang that fills the ditch after the pipe is laid. There are seven American camps, three Bulgarian and three Mexican. All of the tents are 16x35 feet. Along the two sides of each are rows of bunks with good mattresses and heavy comforts. Lanterns light the tents and there are stoves which make them warm and cozy these cdol autumn evenings. Thesfeeding of the men in the temporary towns is interesting, but that must wait until tomorrow. KANSAS NATURAL, GAS CO. STOCK SHIPPERS -i.-','L(L,:To Inmjre.Yourself .Cest Results Consign to c v CLAY; ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Have Oar Own Of flora at fTilcngo, sjo. St. Joseph, So. Omaha. Denver, Sioux City. So. St. Paul. IS, Buffalo, K. St. Louis, Fort Worth and Kl Paso. 16,000-. Market steady to strong. Bulk of sales, $17.10gl7.3O; heavy. $17.20(8)17.35; packers and butchers. $17.10(&i 17.30; light, $16.XOM17.25 pigs, $14.0O7 15.50. CATTLE Receipts 15,000, including no southerns. Market steady to 10c higher, l'rlroe fed steers, $15.00(816.00; dressed beef steers, $11.00f4l4.00 western steers. $9.0uni 12.0O: southern steers. $7.00a 10.00; cows, $5.7O10.5O; heifers, $fl.5OIjll.0O stackers and feeders, $7.00 11.00: bulls, $6.50&8.25; calves, $C50il2.50. 8HKKP Receipts 8.000. Market stesdv J to strong. Lambs, $15.7517.00; yearlings, $12.5014.00; wethers, $11.50i 13.00 ewes, I $10.60(12.00: stockers and feeders, $7.(KKa) 17.0U. Kansas City Llva Stack Market. (The folowing sales were' made 4bls morn ing at the stock Yards, Kansas City, and reported over long distance telephone di rect to the State Journal by Cisy Robin son Co., live stock commission mer chants.) Kansas City, Dec. 5. CATTLE Re ceipts 15.000 head. Market steady to strong. HOGS Keccipts 16.000 head. Market stead. Bulk of sales, lC.&IJdj 17-30 top. SHEEP Receipts 8,000 hesd. steady. KILLING STEERS. No. i. Wt. PrlcelNo. we. 71...X1215 $12.50 JS 1066 34 1060 11.35 Market Price. $11.50 COWS AND HEIFERS. 3 640 3 880 1 1130 2.,., 15... 21.... 3... 520 8.00 7.50 7.50 11.00 30 (125 930 8.45 1240 10.00 STOCKERS AND FEEDERS. 67 36 855 731 10.30 8.25 21.. 980 CALVES. 11.50 I lO.. I 1.. BULLS. 7.HO I 4.. 6.25 f HOGS. 16.00 I 64.. 17.10 f 56.. 17.20 1 190 410 ..11.T0 ..1050 ..134 183 197 268 120 8.50 10.00 1.: 2.. 6.50 22.. 91.. 258 206 1T.35 17.30 Cbleaaa Live Stack Market. Chicago, Dec. 5. HOGS Receipts 32.000, tomorrow 33,000. Market firm, 5c 'above yesterday's average. Bulk of sales, $16.10 4il7.35r light, $lti53? 17.30 mixed, $16.75a 17.45; heavy, $1C.noi 17.45 rough, $16.75 16.95: pigs. $12.75(1X16.00. CATTLE Receipts 18.000.tomormw 8,000. Market firm. Native steers, $7.15tl5.50: western steers. $.25rl.i.50: stockers and feeders, $6.10(10.90: cows and heifers. $5.15 4jll.4: calves. $7.50?H 25. SHEEP Receipts 19,000. tomorrow 15.000. Market firm. Wethers, $8.8G 12.90 lambs, $12.5Ojl7.00. I Marnlng Grain Oosstp. (Furnished by the Topeks Board of Trade. New York. Dec. 5. The Financial Bulle tin: The suggestion of a prolongation of the war with Its tax burdens, etc, following the president's message of determination to win snd recommending of swar deci ra tion against Austria, has Induced invest ment llquidstion In prepsrstion therefor and it may continue temporarily. Humors a re current that "Austrisn holdings" in the United States are being thrown upon the market. More price regulation talk and delay in railroad relief measure are caus ing considerable of the selling. The enr talled short interest sllows market to slide l off easily. We do not believe the move ment will go far at present. Would rather 1' buy on breaks for turos, preferring to mske ssles on sharp rallies. Chicago, Dec. 5. The Herald ssys: Sen I'timent In corn last night wss mixed. None I of traders were able to see much on bull :side: neither were they certain of the Dosl- tlon of the bears being safe enough for the present to wsrrnnt heavy selling. Some selling of December snd Janaary by caah bouses was taken as indicating the making of No. 4 corn by drying andd s few con sidered it ss significant. Those who con. muereu m selling: niainiy uy inom lona for a rally should there be sny improve ment in the buying. Many are inclined to look for narrow market There are many friends to the bnll side of oats who think prices are to work irreg ularly higher until the cash situation Is materially loosened. Others take the posi tion that tbey can buy plenty of oats In country, and that it is only a question of cars. One csah handler from Indiana ssys holders there are afraid to sell unless they get cars, s it Is the only safe wav. A few traders regarded the short Interest ss well reduced, and thought the market in no anspe to stsnd any heavy selling. Most of the No. 4, 6 and 6 grades of corn arriving from Iowa are of poor quality and sell st a discount of about 10 cents per bushel under Illinois and Missouri grain of same grades. Chicago, Dec. 5. Loran and Bryan ssys: Corn. The strong resistance that the mar ket has oeen meeting on the bulge, and the indications that cash values wilt ease quick ly with any increase In receipts, prompts the view thst sales on small upturns will yield good returns. Oats No doubt the sdvance has ma terially reduced the short Interest In this commodity, snd cs export buying is not likely to be excessive st tnls level, we believe sales made now can be replaced to advantage a little later. Tor a a sakket BEroBT. Topeka, MIXED AND BUTCHERS, HEAVY LIGHT i PIGS COWS Good to rbojes Fair to good.. Common to fair...... Fair to good................ Common STEBRS Good to choice.... Fslr to good. BULLS Fleshy Medium 8HEEP Fst wethers Fat ewes Fat Iambs Goats VEAL CALVES Prime fat Medium good Fslr Good to choice Kan.. Ho, a ....$14.004216.70 14.00Sj 16.75 13.5042.16.60 iMtttmsm rwrt T.is Cnn fee 4.004 6 OS 6.004 6.7 4.00(3 VtW T.ooq tot .oo urn KWkfJ T.oa fcoot) tct e.wvfi a.01 of 7 ..H S-OXVrilLM loajf ut 5 3 eooi 7. os B.on fl os T.Oxa 8.0 a anoer above sa soars se Shorn lambs sad sheep J trices. Positively cms Dot am hs unless fst. fspsfca ft rain Marti. (Furnished by J. B. Blllard. corner Ave. and Curtis at. OATw-mrMSs. TOPek- K" NOT- OLD CORN $1.90. NEW CORN $1.201.30. Topeka star Market. PRAfRI SAT-SlLMr- ALFALFA $20.00, FealtVT ,a T.. (Furnished by the Topeka Psckina iw psny. corner Lanrent .ad MsdlJonY nrva4u. ,k. Topeka. Knn Nov. a Zi&tti!& over ra.,.":223 Hetan Hr. (Furnish", by "''gJU'-hri.t. 2 Quia, PRAITUB HAY-LOfc ALFALFA-$24.00: Kan., Not. S.

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TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 5. 1917 it MORE ECONOMY CRYING NEED OF AMERICA TODAY People Not Fully Aroused to It Says Sec. McAdoo. First Two Years of War To Cost U. S. 23 Billion. MUST CURTAIL PLEASURES Already Loaned Allies $2,717, 00,000, Treasury Reports. Estimate National Expenses for Year 191S at 122 UHlion. Washington, Dec. 5.- War costs to the end of Ju e, 1919 exclusive of loans to foreign governments will ;ech the enormous total of m:re than J 2 3.000,000,000. according to esti mates sent congress toaay, by Secre tary of Treasury McAdoo. rdi ary expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 19 IS. will amount to 1 1 2, 3 16, 2 95.22 3. of which S 1 1.527. 7 iJ. 023 will be fed directly into the va- machine. Estimated expenses for the fiscal ar ending June 30, 1919, mount up ward to $12,701,83S,9S0, out of which $1 1.C05.SS9.500 will be for prosecu tion of the war. These staggering figures go side by side with a warning to the nation that it must awaken t the vast responsi bilities of the war, must curtail its pleasures and learn the vital lesson of Sit'"' "Dusiness as usual" is an impossible '.h ory in w ir, McAdoo declares. Waste Is Criminal "Everything wilted now is nothing short of crimi. al," he says. "So far as I've been able to observe, til American people are not suffi ciently a- lused to the necessity of economy in this really serious time.' The secret h ry counseled congress a gji inst imposition of additional tax burdens at the present session of con gress unless sale of bonds does not come up to expectation. He hinted at some form of regula tion of r.ew capital expenditures and, ap rently referring to railroads, added "It may also become necessary to concert some constructive measures thru which essential credits may be provided for those industries and en terprises essential to the efficient and r ccessful conduct of the war. Ilcsources Insure Victory. "The courage and resources of the nation," McAdoo continued, "are so abundant tHat America's success in the war is beyond question if they are properly organized and intelligent ly used. Th economic and financial c ondit ion of the country was never so string and America's spirit was j never more aroused to the importance and necessity of going forward, reso lutely and regardless of sacrifices, to the accomplishment of the great tank to which God ha called us." Loans actually made to foreign governments up to November 1. 1917, total $2,717,300,000, with a total cred it agreed upon of $3,131,400,000. A merica's gold monetary stock on hand November 1 stood at $3,041,500. 000, an increase of $174,500,000 in the past ten months. The grand total of estimated re ceipts for the fiscal year of 1918 is $12. 580,732, 000. Expenditures for the civil establish ment total $1,593,569,900. War risk insurance costs are esti mated at $435,000,000. while the ship ping board requires $901,129,150 and the council of onal defense $500,- 000. On IT. S. Kxpcnse Account. The war department, including $8, 6fiS.000.000 for war purposes, requires $8,833,850,000; rivers and harbors $35,800,000, while the navy establish ment requires a total of $1,466,150,000. including $1,300,000,000 for war pur poses and $295,000,000 for a new building program. 1 For the fiscal year 1919 the grand total estimated receipts are $5,176, 060.460, while the disbursements in clude: Civil establishment, $1,281,124,100; war department, $9,948,632,000, in cluding $9,512,272,000 for war pur poses and $24,000,000 for rivers and harbors; navy department. $816,370. 000, including $613,000,000 for war purposes and $206,140,000 for a navy building program The shipping board costs for 1918 are placed at $899,517,500 and the council of national defense at $900,- ooc. OBSERVE "LESS,rDAYS Only a Few Violations of Hoover Sug gestions in Topeka. Yesterday, Tuesday, was meatless day, and today, Wednesday, is wheat less day. At least it was and is for many Topeka hotels, restaurants, clubs and the like who have patriotically followed out the Hoover suggestions. But there were violations of this rule, strange as it may seem. For instance, at Topeka's most fashionable club, the Topeka club, steaks were served Tuesday. At an up-town restaurant of the first class, the Chocolate Shop, meat was on the menu. There is nothing mandatory about these wheatless and meatless days. It is altogether a matter of choice as to whether the dining halls will co operate with the government in win ning the war or not. Where these fast days are recog nized the proprietors find only praise on the part of the patrons. Manager Jones of the Throop hotel, as an ex ample, says that the traveling pub lic is enthusiastic in its praise of his determination to aid in supplying the soldiers with food. Only the farmers complain, he says. At the Cremerie, Manager Vogt says that the only com plaint he had all day Tuesday came from a soldier and the meatless days were created for the benefit of the soldier. Topeka housewives are, as a rule, carrying out the meatless-wheat less principles bravely. KEEP GOOD COWS Dairymen Will Slake Mistake by Selling Them Now. All Farmers Should Study the Feed Markets. Wltf tlM.WW" Yd I "1 1 7lu6d s?iuZ?UZicryi sow writ fiaaiM&, L A CompovDd nto T WbMt, Bar! Salt 4YkL fWtum Cereal Company Mfcfc. u. a. 7 A FOOD r "CONOMV tzL turn Manhattan, Kan., Dec. 5. That dairymen have never before faced such a serious problem in producing dairy products at a profit as they are facing today. Is the opinion of O. E. Reed, professor of dairy husbandry in fhe Kansas State Agricultural col lege. "Feed prices have doubled and the prices paid for the dairy products have not kept pace with this in crease," said Professor Reed. "Many farmers who are milking cows have wondered if they could profit by sell ing the cows and the feed which they have grown. At first thought this seems to be a logical conclusion but on more serious consideration it is found that this plan would only result in a temporary reuet. r Last lTp, Last Down. "It has always been true that dur ing a crisis such as the present, when prices of all products of the farm have risen, that milk, butter, and oth er dairy products were the last to in crease in price. This is due to the fact that these products are perish a ble and cannot be stored for any .length of time. This is true in the case of milk, it is also true that when dairy A roducts do increase they are the last products to be reduced in price. The logical thing for the dairyman to do is to hold on to his cows, be lieves Professor Reed. The country must have dairy products and in the long run the dairymen who stick will be repaid for their efforts. Weed Out "Boarders." With the increased cost of produc tion this seems to be the time to weed out the boarder cows in the herd. The meat value of the dairy animal now is closer to the dairy value than ever be fore, and consequently it is possible to weed out the poor cows and replace them with profitable producers with less cash outlay than ever before. Now is the time to study the feed market, and the dairymen in a given community should co-operate in buy ing their mill feed and other concen trates in car lots. Silage was never worth so much as it will be during the coming winter feeding period. When hay goes up in price, silage becomes more valuable as a feed. Three tons of silage is equivalent to about one ton of good hay. and consequently the farmers who put up plenty of silage this year will reap the profit. MANY RUMORS AFLOAT Grand Rapids Man Wants to Get, Into Western League. St. Joseph, Mo.. Dec. 5. Many ru mors were afloat here today regarding tne action tne Western league mag nates will take at their meeting Sun day. One is to the effect that Ed Han Ion will retain the St. Joe franchise and that Jack Holland will move his Hutchinson team either to -Tulsa or Oklahoma City. Another report is that William Es sick, owner and manager of the Grand Hapids team of the Central league, will buy the St. Joe franchise.1 buying out Holland's interests and co-operating with Hanlon, of Sioux City. There is some talk of a 6-club cir cuit, but the general opinion is that President Dickerson and the club owners will find a way. to keep eight clubs in the field. A six-club league evidently would mean the dropping of Hutchinson and Denver. WOODMAN OFFICERS Annual Election of Sunflower Camp With M. W. IiUnRhtnim as Consul. Sunflower Camp No. 536,- Modern Woodmen of America, held the annual election of officers last night. The following officers were elected for 1918: M. W. Lungstrum, consul. C. K. Miller, adviser. O. F. Parsons, escort. M. W. Saxon, clerk. S. Hoffman, banker. J. C. Ramsba.ger, watchman. H. Smith, sentry. H. E. Eversole, trustee. Installation of officers will be held January 8. SERVICE IS RESTORED Missouri Padfic Puts Old Schedule Back on Central Branch. Jewell City. Kan.. Dec. S. The Burr Oak branch of the Central Branch line of the Missouri Pacific railroad now has its former train service, the old schedule being restored Monday. The chair car accommodation is lacking owing to war conditions. The state public utilities commission had set December 7 for a hearing about service, but abandoned the idea, as the patrons of the road had never been consulted as to the discontinu ance of such service in the first place. i it 'ii IO0K FOR THE PROTECTION SEAL i III I IT IS NOT REAL GRAVEL 7 WITHOUT THIS SEAL. y 1 GRAVELY S Chewing Plug Cau mar. par pound to bwr than ordinary plus but. Lass par weak ta Chaw. A Uttla Chaw el Graraly t ..ta a Lana Whlla. Tha Good Gravalj Tatta tnn A lOa. POUCH IS PROOF OF IT jJ3 Sravrb!ToacceCa DmhuiYi -WW g .n Ai THOU la rl IUUU i BUV A WHOLE TRUNK I FULL OF IT IFYOUC0ULD1 READ AND LEARN HOW I GOOD IT IS. il II I yip;- in m Up to the Minute FROM EVERYWHERE. BYC1UG- CAN'T PLAY HERE Washburn Ambulance Team Unable To Come to Topeka. Many Want Game Between Funston and Doniphan. Topeka football fans will not have a chance to see the Washburn am bulance corps team in action here against the Washburn Ichabods. This disappointing news was re ceived today by the State Journal from Lieutenant Munford, coach and manager of the ambulance corps eleven, who wired that the command ing officer at Camp Pike has refused to grant furloughs to the men. Next to the proposed Camp Fun-ston-Camp Doniphan game, local sport lovers have been looking for ward to this as one of the big attrac tions before the Christmas holidays. The Washburn players have been keeping in training so that they would be able to put up real opposition to the Munford -Ream team and the ath letic authorities have been working on all the preliminaries. But, of course, army orders ae law and no further effort will be made to bring the Pike players back to Topeka. Funston-Doniphan Game. It has been suggested that if local promoters fail to get the Camp Fun ston and Camp Doniphan teams to agree to stage a game in Topeka it might' be possible to arrange a game between Washburn and Camp Fun ston. but many contend this would be more of a farce than a football game, as Washburn would not have a show against Withington's men. so the mat ter is not likely to be pushed. It is still hoped that a game can be arranged between the Funston and Doniphan elevens and a number of Chamber of Commerce members are said to be planning to get behind the proposition. HOLD JOINT MEETING American and National League Mag nates Will Thresh Out Problems. Chicago, 111.. Dec. 5. Club owners and officials of the American and Na tional leagues will hold a joint meet ing here December 13 to agree on a program for next year. This is the outcome of a conference here between Garry Herrmann, chair man of the national commission, and Ban Johnson, president of the Ameri can league. They found there were too many problems to settle them selves and decided to call for help. The annual meeting of the National league will be held in New York, De cember 11 and the American league meeting will be held here December 12. Johnson wants a shorter schedule, while Herrmann still holds out fox 154 games. There are several othet points where the two circuits differ.-; Iowa Stars vs. Dodge Team. Des Moines. Ia., Dec. 5. An all state team composed of college stars was getting in shape today for the game with the Camp Dodge team here Saturday. The receipts will go to the gymnasium fund of the cantonment. Captain Davis of the Iowa State eleven will direct the collegians. Wolverines To Take on Minn.? Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 5. Min nesota and Michigan will meet in football in 1918, it was freely pre dicted in Gopher camps today. The Wolverines may be taken into the Minnesota schedule to replace Chi cago. The Michigan game will prob ably be played at Ann Arbor, No vember 23. L Food for. Fans BY ABO. E. PBLA1S. iCopyright.) Shocking. Today I almost took a news hound's life; His face turned pale, his eyes grew dull and dim; The shock he felt when I returned his knife Prostrated him. We note with surpriz surprise that Rye will be eligible, to play on the Michigan team next year. We thought Michigan had gone dry. The Queer Expert. A football expert, when he picks his yearly all-star team. Succeeds at times in building up a team that is a screan. It may be strong on paper, but I al ways will contend That a fullback ain't a tackle and a halfback ain't an end. In spite of the fact that the Hot Stove league lis going full blast, a great many club owners are afflicted with cold feet. We do not hear any baseball stars threatening to quit the game this year. They are afraid the game might beat them to it. Bowling on the green is said to be increasing fh popularity, but we sus pect it never will become a popular winter sport. The Football Fannette. drhe football stands were all arrayed In bright and gladsome hue. The soldiers cheered, the brass bands played. And yet her heart was blue. For Mrs. Jones-Brown-Simpson's furs. The football season having come to end, we may now give our undivided attention to the six-day bike race. We have often wondered why our heavyweight wrestlers never enter the stock show. Marvin Goodwin has enlisted as an aviator. Being a pitcher, it is nat ural for him to aviate. Only twelve football players were killed this season. This proves either that the game is improving or de teriorating we don't know which. Gentle Sport. See the gentle football star, Mild and peaceful highbrow. Romping like a motor car O'er his foeman's eyebrow. FIGHT IN PANAMA That Is New Plan of the Box ing Promoters. Canal Zone Country 'ow Per mits 20 Round Bouts. BY JACK VEIOCK. New York, Dec. 5. Though Jess I Willard has been quoted to the ef- feet that he will not enter the ring j again to defend his skypiece until after the war is over, there are other j champions a whole lot more popular than the big cowboy, and with New York wiped off the Iistic map, pro moters in other parts are beginning to put out feelers for the staging of championship bouts, though the chances appear slim. Samuel Fitzpatrick, who one time was trainer and manager of John Art Johnson, is one of the many pro moters, or would-be promoters, who is keeping an ear close to the ground. Sam has been revelling in a dream which includes an invasion of Panama with a troupe of boxers, and of course he would like to take at least one champion along with him. Go 20 Rounds in Panama. Panama, by the way, permits the staging of twenty-round bouts, and several American boxers who have been down there say that boxing is growing in popularity with the pass ing of every month. But Panama is by no means the only spot where promoters are keep ing tab on things fistical. On the far-away Pacific coast Jimmy Cof froth and several others, including Jack Kearns, are biding their time in the hope of pulling off a number of big championship fights at Tia Juana. The main drawback is the fact that Tia Juana is just about five thousand leagues from nowhere, and in this day and age a promoter has to hang a large and juicy bundle of coin before the eyes of any champion to entice him into the ring for a title match. So, for the present, the Tia juana a ream is a ratner uncertain pi (JJJU31.L1UII. Jack Curlev Busy. Jack Curley, who hasn't had a lot to say of late, is known to be cooking up some fistic cards which, it is be lieved, he will attempt to stage at New Haven, and Milwaukee promoters are expected to bloom out with a number of attractive cards between now and New Year's Day. Ted Kid Lewis is practically the only champion, aside from Willard, who hasn't had on a suit of khaki, and Ted, being a British subject, may be dolled up in warsome togs before long. Leonard and Kilbane have both been designated as boxing instructo-s, while Pete Herman, who has the best claim on the bantamweight title, has been drafted into the a a.iional army. -135 Miles Behind Record. New York. Dec. 5. The twelve leaders in the annual six-day bicycle race at Madison Square garden had traveled 1,024 miles and two laps at the end of the fifty-sixth hour, 8 a. m. Root was leading. Madonna and Bello were still trailing the field by a lap. The record for this time is 1.159 miles and five laps made in 1915 at Chicago by Anderson and Dupuy. Catch-as-Catch-Can Tourney. New York, Dec. 5. In the interna tional catch-as-catch-can tournament here, Wladek Zybsko, of Poland, de feated Fred Pilakoff, of Finland, in 20 minutes and 15 seconds, with a reverse body hold and John Freiburg, the Swedish champion, was the victor over Pierre LeBelge, of Belgium, in 23 minutes and 10 seconds, with a double leg hold. ckcrsall Is No Bettor. Chicago. Dec. 5. Walter Eckersall, former All-Americar football player o the University of Chicago and later a sport writer on the Chicago Tribune, was still in a critical condition at St. Luke's hospital early today, where he was taken Sunday night, suffering from a general breakdown. CIAHEDGE MOW OLLAR -2 each 9r- 3fa5d A C of affScztfcry (cou6a VMM EYjfclulUJY The onfyrlphotingStoraBathwy: MACHINISTS ELECTRIC CO. 108 W. Eighth, Phone 6 3 In the Bargain Basement tomorrow Plush coats half price for Thursday, only A beautiful group of Plush Coats in new styles regular $25.00 Kj IJOiM values, as long 1 1 jfiS as they last, wr.Sm Thursday Another fine lot of Plush Coats that are slightly damaged: if perfect they would be priced J35.00 and here they a aa V are for only jQjJ lew serge and silk dresses V2 price -for the one day (Thursday) only A splendid lot of serge and silk Dresses, absolutely new stvles regular 25.00 values on sale Thursday, just 41 aVA M f the one day 14a4o Children's coats V2 2 price A special lot of little girls' Coats; sizes 2 to 6 years: gray, brown, tan, navy and red. slightly damaged regular I4.S8 to 15.98 1 mmam. values on sale, while they last Thursday, at exactly. 2 DTICe Women's and Children's Apparel Bargain Raaement Pelletier'a x lis Y iweatersa big-.-3-day sale men's, women's, gilds', boys', tiny tots' at practically 1-3 less than regular There are hundreds and hundreds of Sweaters of all kinds included; everything from com mon cotton up to the heaviest of wool, from cute little sets for baby up to the heaviest and warmest of coats for men who work out of doors in the severest weather. We secured a mill's sample lines and surplus lots of Sweaters of all kinds at prices that average a third less than regular and under-price to Us is always under-price to our customers. Get one now while you can save Get one now and have the full Winter's use out of it Girls' 25c Girls 69c Cotton Sweaters: sizes 2 to 12 years; red, gray, blue and combination colors; fine for play wear while they last Girls $2.50 Wool Sweaters; sizes 6 to 14 years, the popular cardinal color that most girls like so well; enough wool to insure plenty of warmth and service 4 ff on sale JL DO Girls $2.75 Wool Sweaters; sizes 7 to 14 years in dark gray and cardinal; the belted style with patch pockets in m9 y this great sale JL a Women's Women's $4.0O Sweaters; the coat style, coarse weave, with enough wool to insure service; fitted cuffs, roll collars and patch pockets; most all sizes in gray and black while 0 fc they last mm a 3 5 Women's $5.00 part wool Sweaters, extra warm and extra service able; plenty of most all sizes to begin with; gray, cardinal and maroon specially priced for the shop, for general wear: plain gray, good and 4 -f heavy and only Jm. m Men's $2.00 Sweaters; mostly plain grays, with a few reds and browns, coarse thread, wool-nn--v ish with 'hiffh button collars specially priced for ACk this sale mT3 Men's $3.75 Sweaters; good enough for any wear, warm enough for the coldest weather; knit of heavy, coarse, mixed wool-and-cotton warn, made with snug fitting roll collars; all sizes in gray, oxblood and blue most re markable bargains at 2.67 2.87 173 en's Men's $4.50 and 5.00 Sweaters of mixed wool-and-cotton yarns that look and feel and wear like pure wool; big, heavy, warm, serviceable ones In a good range of colors and sizes ff jr and for only aD.aDat Men's 87.50 Wool Sweater Coats: heavy enough for men who work out of doors in the coldest weather: Sweaters that will stand the hardest sort of wear for years and years f mm in this sale 3 Men's 89.00 to $12.50 Finest Wool Sweaters; we doubt If you will find their equal elsewhere at less than $15.00 for they are extra heavy and they are knit of the very finest of wool yarns and here in this great ra Ann. sale they are priced. .W. M Boys' Men's $1.50 Sweaters; for wear around home in the mornings. ON KALE IN TUB BARGAIN BASEMENT PELLETIKR'K Here are warm, serviceable Sweat ers that boys will be proud to wear at prices that parents will be glad to pay; sizes 6 to 14 years In gray, cardinal, navy and black with yellow bands; I 00 heavy cotton Sweaters. 89 $2 mixed wool-and-cotton $1.49 $2.50 warm, heavy Sweaters $1.69 $3.00 Wool Sweaters -81.98 The Sale of Toilet sets and traveling cases Toilet Sets of all kinds for all people; for babies, for children and for men and women; and leather traveling cases for men and women 75c to $4.50 values 49c to $2.93 The Sale of Blankets We started with a small sample line and six big lots from regular stock -the samples are all gone, but there are some exceptional bar gains among the lots from regular stock. And the best part of it all is that they're on at 1-4 off The Sale of Bath Robes for women, men, and children What a most practical and ac ceptable gift is a Bath Robe. We have three big sample lines on sale lA to y3 off PKLLETIER'8 BARGAIN BASEMENT A GREAT STORE WITHIN A STORE I tide a Bicycle It will help you pay off the mortgage on your home. Let as explain. 06 K. th St. M. PpnweT PresidcV Pbosa 775 K. K. Jnhnaoa oec'y-Trent. rb,v:3n THE L M. PENWELL CNDEKTAKINli CO. (OS-30S-S1U lolac7 Btraat Pbaaa 1H Superior Service All-Steel Trains To KANSAS CITY DOUBLE TRACK I.T. Tapafca Ar. Kan. City 4:15 a. m. 6:a.am. i:M a. an. 9 :43 a. m. T :4a a. m. iS a. na. S:LS an. S:la an. p. aa. S:L5. m. 5 p. an. l:Up. 7 :5 p. m. :S5 p. an. p. aa. 14 :4a p. n. NO STOPS C. E. BASCOM., C. P. Pbaaa 403 I... Kaa. CUT I Ar. fopafca 7:Ua.aa. l:Oa.m. 10:)!-. a. an. II :00 a. aa. :X p. an. 1 p. aa. p. aa. 11:44 b. aa. t:45 a. a 12:: p. a IS :4P p. 12 :A0 p. :I5 p. I 4:SA p. H 11:55 p., 1:54 a. For Quick Returns Try a Journal Want Ad.

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THE TOPFKA DAILY STATF JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5. 1917 Zapthn tntt 3iaumnl An Independent Newspaper HY KHAXK P. MAC I.KXXAX. Entered as Kecoml-rlaas mail matter. VOLUME XXXIX .No. 290 OFFICIAL STATK PAPKH. i OFFICIAL PAPEU CITY OK TOPEKA. ttubucrlption Rate. By mull In advam. one year $4. so Pv mall In artvaiH. slx months.. 2.40 Py mull tn alran-e. three months 1.20 liy mail iu advance, one montb. -50 Rates by Carrier. One week V2U cents Two week for a quarter. oenfn Pour weeks AO cents Telephone 3?ui0. Ejistnrn Offtces: Paul IMork. repreentn tlve. 2"0 Fifth avenue. New York: Mailers buiMime. "hl-a(ro 201 DeTmishire street, Bimton R res ire hnildinjr. Detroit. Member Associated Press. American Newspaper Publishers' Association, Audit Bureau of Circulation. MKMIIKK OF THE ASSOCIATE!) PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively ett t titled to the use for republication of a'l new dlxpiitcheH credited to it or not o iier wise relited in this paper and also the local news published herein. -WIIATKVKK VOl' WANT TO KNOW." j The Topekn State Journal Information Bureau at Washington furnishes readers. free of choree, accurate and authoritative answer to tinestions on any and all sub- jects cnncerniiijj which Information van be had from the unparalleled resources of the various federal poveruinent departments and the (treat library of conjrrs. A 3 cent stump for return posture must ac company each Inquiry. Htate clearly the Information wanted, write plainly and ad- THE TOPEKA STATE .TOPI1NA1 IX FORMATION UritEAU. V Washington, I. C. N. B. Inquirers should be careful to ob- j serve two points: Enclose a :t-cent stamp t and address their letters to Washington, as above, and not to Topeka. otherwise de lay and needless expense are incurred. Once more the president has con gress on his hands. Or shall it be said congress has the president on its .j hands? Mr. Wilson in the past has been remarkably successful in obtain ing from the national legislature f j whatever he asked. The process has i been slow at times but he usually has had his way in the end. Since the i gentry of the United States into the world war, nothing has taken place to cause the country or the congress to I waver in their fealty to the man who r is guiding the destinies of the nation in its hour of trial. There is cause f for hepe and reason to believe that I the work of the nation's law makers I will proceed with less" friction, and with greater singleness of purpose than was evidenced during the last ."session. Members have had time to j iret in touch with the thoughts and I Yfrlinss of the people regarding the j -war which Is now the one big thing j flo be considered. The pacifists and .the willful ones are likely to have lit. j tle to soy. Germany's defeat may be consid ered achieved when the German Armies are driven back to their own .frontier. Until that moment, the very iTkgestion of peace is an affront. 'Germany would be very happy to go Xt the peace table, war-map in hand, j,t5 be bought out of France and Bel 'gilim. It is hard to be patient with "Ufiose who, with astounding ignorance .fit European affairs and inability to understand German methods, says the Public, persist in the belief that there Ik a German liberalism ready to re nounce the fruits of conquest and to remake Germirhy in democratic terms. 4Jne way, and one only is open, and that is to break Germany's military power. The attention of the entire country is- this week being systematically called to the white plague. Tubercu losis in its various forms caused 101, 396 deaths in 1916, of which 88,666 were due to tuberculosis of the lungs. Because of progress in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis of all Kinds, the decline in the tuberculosis death rate in recent years has been most pronounced, having fallen from ZQ0.7 per 100,000 in 1904 to T41.6 in 1916, a decrease of nearly 30 per cent. Before 1904 the rate had fluctuated, starting at 201.9 in 1900. Even yet, however, tuberculosis causes more deaths annually than any other maU ady, except heart diseases, and about 7 per cent more than all external causes accidents, homicides and sul fides combined. r CHILDREN'S DAY. Friday of this week has been desig nated as Modern Health Crusade day, by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculo sis. The day will be observed in the schools thruout the country by the i modern health crusaders, the organi sation OX CUilUieil, HOW iUU.UUU SLTUIlg, which was brought into being a year ago as a part of the last Red Cross Christmas seal campaign. In this ob servance the National association has obtained the co-operation of school superintendents in cities of 10,000 pop ulation and over thruout the country- ..The object of the organization is not so much, to obtain money for the anti tuberculosis movement, as to give the ehildrenr definite' tasks whereby they can help the health campaign. Each Miild who becomes a modern health t-rusader receives a certificate of en rollment for doing a series of "health chores,' at least forty of which must be performed each week. Modern Health Crusade day will be devoted to interesting the children in the anti-tuberculosis and public health ttidvement. Use will be made of health plays, talks, composition con tests, motion pictures and other fea tures. Louise F. Brand's story, "Serv ing Uncle Sam," written for the occa sion, will be used in thousands of I schools as a feature of the program. The children will also be enlisted an this day to self Red Cross seals. Spe- cial ranks and accompanying badges j viH be awarded to crusaders who sell i a given number of seals. THE MESSAGE. While President Wilson was deliv ering his annual address to congress at the customary time and place, he was really delivering a message from the American people to the nations of the earth. Never in the history of the world, perhaps, has a single speaker been able to address so large or so in terested an audience. The president's words are certain to command the serious attention of both friends and foes of this country. Those who have desired to know America's war aims should remain no longer in doubt as to what they are. The president has stated them in plain, unequivocal language, in, words that all can understand. First of all the president, speaking for the United States, demands an end to the Hohenzollern power in Ger many in order tha the German peo ple may be represented at the peace table by some one who can be trusted. lie demands that the wrongs inflict ed upon weaker nations by the central powers shall be righted. He demands that territory acquired by the central powers thru force of arms shall be restored to its rightful owners. He demands that Gerraa..j shall loosen her grip on the nations allied with her and permit them to shape their own future destinies. And when all this has been done he demands that Germany shall be treat ed fairly and generously and not be made to suffer; unduly for the wrongs committed ty: her present rulers. A liberty loving nation With the welfare of humanity and the world at heart could ask no lesa and could grant no more. WHAT WILL CONGRESS DO? Regardless of the fact that railway earnings are the greatest In history and that the roads are handling more business than ever before, their se curities are quoted at the lowest fig ure reached in eighteen years. If a complete- answer is to be given to the question of who is to blame for the present plight of the railroads, writes Francis H. Sisson in the New York Tribune, many contributing fac tors must be mentioned. Occasional instances of financial mismanage ment, altho few proportionately 1 other Instances of watered stock, al tho the railroads as a whole are un dercapitalized lack of operating ef ficiency thru restrictive laws and reg ulations, lack of authority on the part of the interstate commerce commis sion to handle the whole situation with definite responsibility; political causes which make railroad baiting a popular pastime in many localities; the exactions of organized labor; tfle blindness of shippers to their own real interest in the matter; the unwilling ness of congress to legislate construct ively to meet the problems presented, and the ignorance and indifference of the general public tp the far-reaching effect of these- problems all these have a bearing on the case and must share the blame. Frequently there "has appeared a tendency to hold the interstate com merce commission responsible. But many Illustrations of the powerless ness of the I. C. C. to meet emer gencies presented might be cited. The benefits it may grant in rate increases can be, and have been in instances, entirely lost thru state interference. It may fix a fair passenger rate at two and one-half ce'nts, and be impo tent to enforce it against a state man date for two cents, and millions of rev enue be lost to railroads in this con flict "of authorities. It may refuse to impose burdens upon the carriers and yet see them forced by state enact ment. No man can serve two masters; neither can a corporation. A problem has arisen, which It is up to congress to settle and upon its answer prob ably hangs the issue of private owner ship or government ownership of the railroads. In the failure of congress to exercise more completely its power to regulate commerce the states have encroached upon its prerogatives, and are today actually regulating inter state commerce by Indirect methods all over the country. Like most oth er abuses of power, this has been a growth, until today the breaking point approaches. The railroads must be helped, per mitted to help themselves or quit busi ness. Reports received by the railroads' war board indicate that the railroad employes of this country took more than $50,000,000 worth of the second liberty bond issue. For the first bond issue 241,280 members of the rank and file of the railroad army subscribed an aggregate of $20,427,966. Reports on the subscriptions to the second issue show clearly that the amount which railroad men contributed to this loan is at least two and one-half times as much as to the first loan. The Los Angeles Times suggests that as an educational demonstration in Topeka a dog be hanged in order to impress upon the minds of chil dren the awful consequences of shoot ing or poisoning people whom they dislike. It is suggested that .the kaiser la, seekirg a decision on the western front. Well, if he continue to hunt for It ho it likely to find it. altho when be does it will not be to his liking. THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL raFCRMATIOK B0RBA0 87 FREDERIC J. HA8KIN, Director. WMhlntrtoa, D. C LEARNING TO WORK. I. ar Schools. Washington. Iec. 2. One kind of trai d man for wl-ich the government his a most pressing need right now is thn experienced anver wi trucks. The truck has displaced the army r.ule wherever there are roads and in many places where there are not. Food and ammunition go for ward on trucks from the base to the fighting line. It is not always the case that the man who has spent a few months or years driving delivery truck over asphalt streets, with a traffic cop to tell him what to do, is qualified for this war work. At the front the prob lem is more apt to be that of directing his machine across a roadless piece of country, ulowed uu by shells, littered -ith shattered equipment and shredsij of barbed wire entanglement, unin save by the occasional flash and glare of bursting shrapnel. And if this war driver fails to deliver his goods at the proper time, it will be a good deal .ore serious than the irritation of some customer, for the success of an attack, the lives or men, may depend upon that delivery. Truck Irlvcrs Needed. When the' government need for the kind of truck drivers who could- be depended upon to deliver the goods under war conditions became appar ent, a certain educator in Minneapolis, Er. C. A. Prosser of the Dunwoody in stitute, set about the tr.sk of produc ing such drivers by schooling them in their duties. It is probable that the average man, so'dier or citizen, would not consider such an undertaking practicable. He would say that thedrivers would have to learn their business for the most part at least by the hard and expen sive process of trial and error in the field. For we have all come to look upon education as a sort of dispens able preliminary to the main business of life. We know that the college man comes away from his Alma Mater with "a head full of theories," which he has to forget before he can become really useful, while soma practical men even regard much edu cation as a handicap. Making Kducation Useful.' Doctor Prosser belongs to a new class of educators, who do not believe that education necessarily lacks this applicability to the practical ends of life, althought admitting that it gen erally does. They have set themselves to the task of making education use ful. So Doctor Prosser went at the truck driver problem in characteris tic fashion by creating a little "no man's land" in a large field near his school. He equipped it with artifi cial shell holes, with entanglements and difficulties of all kinds, and he set his novitiate truck drivers the task of bringing their machines safe ly across it. He exposed them to every condition which a close study of tne war in Europe indicated they would be apt to meet in France. And he turned -out military truck drivers that could drive. Doctor ProBser's field of activities as a practical trainer of men has now been enlarged to include substan tially the whole county; for he has been made director of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, which is a new department of the government created by a recent act of congress for the purpose of using federal funds and the federal admin istrative machinery to help the states install practical training courses in the schools. In its application to civilian life It is a revolutionary meas ure, and means a new opportunity for the youth of America. That phase of it win db treatea in a separate article. For the present the board is directing its energies to work similar to that which Doctor Prosser undertook at Dunwoody the work of training men to fill the Industrial needs of the na tion at war. This, of course, is not what the board was created primarily to do, but a clause in the law under which it works gives it power to make investi gations and studies of methods of vo cational training. It regards the train ing of men for war work as an excel lent experimental investigation of such methods. Trained Radio Operators. t)ne of the first needs it set out to fill was that for trained radio oper ators. The Signal corps needed 15,000 ,of them, and they were nowhere to be found. Accordingly it turned to the board for advice. The board at once got into communication with leading schools In the states which had formed state boards to co-operate with the federal board, and suggested that these schools open evening classes at which men subject to the draft might learn the business of radio-telegraphy. The response both from the schools and from the men was prompt. There are already between fifty and one hundred schools for radio-telegraphers ,lu snout tnree thou- HAnfi m ,.r, r, ,n ,v, """n. wnne vi6a""uuii ,ji tnese evening- aohnnla ia nnu..in. has encouraged the board t JLiTL i timistie estimates, which n, ....''"e "ret time slnce the -lvl1 War- be made public, as to the number of -t 1 "uinuer Ul .....u-.ccb,.,,,,, lt nan supply to the war department. The success of this experiment has lifted the board for vocational educa tion into the position of a recognized part of the government war ma chinery. Secretary of War Baker has written a letter to the heads of all his department telling them that this board is the departme t to which they should refer their problems in the matter of trained men. And almost every department has such problems. The quartermaster's corps for ex ample, needs men trained in fifty dif ferent trades. Of course, men trained in all of these trades are found among the conscripts: but they are not found in the proportions needed. There are too many clerks for examplp, and not enough cooks. Only by training men can the needs of the quartermaster's corps be filled. Hence it is more than probable that evening classes for drafted men in a great many trades will soon be held in all "the principal cities of the country. There will, of course, be nothing compulsory about these classes. Eut ths drafted man who chooses to learn a trade will get more pay. and have a more interest ing and important share in the work of war. Thus a radio operator, in stead of setting". ..rty dollars a month as does an ordinary private, receives from fifty-one to eighty-one dollars a month. He takes part in the inter esting and difficult task of keeping the armv in communication with Its base. He Is not, however, relegated to a safe place behind the lines. Jn stringing the wires which cormect ad vanced positions with the base of operations, he gets all the thrills and danger that the most dariag could crave. Ships Will Win the 'rVar. One of the latest branches of the war machine to apply to the vocation al board for help was the shipping board. Everyone knows that "ships will win the war, and the trouble that we are having in getting them built. Now that the difficulty of de ciding who is to supervise the job has been settled, there comes up the even more distressing problem of who is go ing to do it. In a word, the shipping board cannot get the labor it needs. It is in special need of ship-riveters. There are lota of riveters in the coun try who have been trained in riveting the structural iron used in large build- ings but the Btructural work requires different methnrf nf rivPtin? from a different method of riveting from that used in building ships, and this difference of method means that structural riveters cannot generally be put on ship work without some special training. The vocational board has tackled this problem by putting into t:ie rieid an age..t who is to gamer all possible data. He will find out how many riveters trained in building work are available, and what additional training they will require to make them useful in ship-building. Then the board will proceed to the organ ization of schools where the training can be applied. The dralted man who wants to serve his country in a trained capacity should keep in touch with the super intendent of evening schools in hiB city, or in the large city nearest his home. Even tho no course may be offered which seems to fit his apti tudes. ench a course may be offered before he is called This is his op portunity to learn something out of wav besides the art of killing, to serve with his brain as well as his body. Questions on the above or any sub ject upon whish the reader desires in formation, should be addressed the Topeka State Journal Information Bu reau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C, with a 3-cent stamp enclosed for leply. ON SIPOM the MOMENT BY BOY K. MOUtTON Swat the Kaiser. The Akhoond of 3wat has gone into the Tk. larlH Akhnnnri nf Rwat. The kaiser's the party he's got it in for With all ol the swat he Das guu He is for TJnele Sam. Like the kink of Slam. It surely will help quite a lot, With bolos n-whirllug Anrl hpail-hnnters hurling Their boomerangs, spears and what not That's charged hy the rignters or swat, With cms words of weird poiygoW And homeward the Teutons will trot. The Akhoond wilt chase 'em Anil try to efface 'em iml i-irrir HI. tMnn1)tnl nnt. Of all the fighters I've heard of, Great cott There's none that I'd fear like the fighters they've got. They're desperate fully IVhni, 1.1 Wllrt.onrt.Wnrtllw i Leads them to the war for the glofy of Swat Hurrah for the Akhoond, pl'he loyal old Akhoond of Swat. There is a case in a Kansas court concerning twelve thousand dozen spoiled eggs. It will require brave Jurymen to stay in the courtroom with exhibit A, without gas masks. ts One of the tnti-suffragisis, a man, said in a recent speech: "No woman ican climb tree." No, perhaps not, but she can make any man do it. They have Just decided in Tennessee thaf a man cannot buy more than one gallon of whisky at a time for medicinal purposes, which will prob ably mean a slight reduction in the terrible epidemics which have been sweeping that commonwealth. With only a gallon on hand people can't be really very sick. They can Just be ailing a little. Tne Author's Lament. Oh. crudest of the stings of war. That three-cent poataKe takes the bun. It is not worth three centa to send The bit of verse, the danzllng pun. A thousand curses on the Hun. I was sitting in at a banquet in New Tork one evening last week and next me sat a public man who is very deaf. On the other side of the deaf gentleman sat a young woman an actress. On the menu was a pastry of which bananas formed the dominant feature. The yomng woman, desperate for con versation, turned to the deaf gentle man and said: "Do you like bananas?" "What's that?" he asked, placing his hand to his ear. "I said: 'Do yi.u like bananas?' she repeated. "No," he replied. "I don't like them. I much prefer the old-fash ioned nightgowns. One bottle of wine caused the death of a Denver man. It fell from a wiiy aow ana nit mm on tne neaa. Anna noils. nulla is. Annaoolis is a serious little ciDit.il I nowadays. The Naval academy has gratuated two classes in one year, for an g as waIL 1, e four vars' rniirP will nrnhnh v cut years' course will probably be cut to three. The situation has brought a new air of sobriety to the Naval acad emy. Discipline works with an extra snap; there is less skylarking and more attention to the fine points of drill. And the whole town has felt the changed atmosphere, -for there are few places that reflect the spirit of a single institution as Annapolis does that- of the academy. The war, especially the naval side of the war, is very real to Annapolis. Many of the older families have known the boys, class after class, year after year, since what seems to the enter ing plebe to be time immemorial. There is never a merchant ship sunk but the town speculates aa to the fate of the naval gun crew, and if the news is bad, there will be scores to mourn the 'lieutenant in command and to bring up anecdotes of his acad emy days. When, a patrol boat is lost on a bad night, as happened re cently, the names of the officers mean more to Annapolis than to any town save perhaps that of their birth. Nothing happens in the smallest ship on the remotest station in the Amer ican navy without stir(lng its echo In Annapolis. A new airvis noticeable toward the cadets in th streets. The small boys of Annapolis have always worn an ex pression' of worshipful admiration for the dark blue and gold; the kindly southern residents have always had an'undertjnding smile for the cur rent of clean-cut youth in their gates, eternal and ever-renewed; but now they look at the boys with new eyes. The gold stripes on the blae cuffs stand now for more than the number of years the wearer has studied his profession. They tell the Annapolis eye the number of months between the lad and active duty in the North Atlantic TIAVELIETTE BY MK.SAH. j EVENING STOOT T Something to Her Advantage. (By Hilda Morris.) Back In Stanton old Ellia Stevens' bookshop was a famous place, for friendly gatherings and gossip. Its hospitable table full of magazines, its big base-burner with a fire glimmer ing red thru the mica windows, its well-lined shelves, and case full of fascinating displays of paper, pen! and other literary appliances made it a popular place for evening gather ings. Toung Ellis had been brought up in that bookshop; he loved the very sight and touch of a book. So when ambition drove him to the city with a little capital it was natural that he should start a bookshop of his own. This was a modest place at first, but it grew rapidly, as some shops have a way of doing. There was no baseburner .in young Ellis store, but therp was a warmth of courtesy and the sort of hospitality which leaves one free to browse among the shelves undisturbed. People loved to drop in and scan the contents of the latest magazines. If they had pencils or writing paper to purchase Stevens's store was the very pleasantest place to go for them, because one could spend a half-hour or so among the latest books for the price of a very small purchase or even for nothing at all, if one chose. There was one young girl who came Into the shop rather often. Ellis had noticed her once or twice she seemed to be always reading magazines, tho she seldom bought more than a pen or an eraser. She was a pretty young thing, with bright color and simple clothes which lacked the' city instinct for "style." She looked like a girl from the country. Ellis Stevens, watching her on a particular morn ing when there were few other cus tomers, felt a growing conviction that he had seen that girl before, some where. There was something about the turn of her head and the springy way she walked he was sure he had seen her before. Why, even her smile 'was familiar, and her voice when she thanked him for the change from her small purchase. He stared alter her as she left the shop. Where had he known that girl? In Stanton? It was possible. All through the busy day that fol lowed, Ellis kept wondering. He could not forget the girl her rosy face kept re-appearing in his mind's eye, laugh ing, tantalizing, as if teasing him to "Guess who! The girl did not reappear that day however, anTl Ellis made a discovery. She had forgotten something. On the counter near where she had stood lay a book, a well-thumbed copy of Pen dennis. And on its fly-leaf was writ ten "Rose Maxwell, Stanton, New York. Rose Maxwell! He remem bered now. She was one of the in numerable Maxwell family who lived in the old gray farmhouse out on the Greenville road. He had seen her in school, perhaps, or at the church af fairs. Or it was possible that he had seen her sisters, there were so many of the pretty Maxwell girls, and It was the family resemblanee which had puzzled him. At any rate he wanted to see her again not the sisters, but this particular Rose with the merry, country-tinted face. She would come back for tfte book, of couse. But the weeks went by and Rose Maxwell did not return to the chop. It Ws strange she had been in- thu habit of dropping in every day or so, before. Ellis wondered whether she were ill or whether she had left the city. He searched the directory, but there was no Rose Maxwell. He even made tentative inquiries among the other habitues, but none of them had ever noticed the girl. The city had swallowed upvRose Maxwell. A month or so later Ellis made a flying visit to Stanton, and there he learned that Rose Maxwell had not returned home. She was writing short stories, it seemed; one of her produc tions was in last month's "Spectrum." Ellis got her address from friends without any trouble, and hurried back to town. He meant to find Rose Max well of course it was his duty to re turn that book. So the following Sunday Ellis Stev ens, carrying "Pendennis," called at Rose Maxwell's boarding house. An incongruous landlady met him at the brownstone entrance Miss Maxweli had moved. No, she didn't know her present address. No, she couldn't give him any idea as to where to find her; she had moved some weeks ago. Disconsolately Ellis went home, and depositing the copy of Pendennis" on his study table, he sat regarding it mournfully. He might advertise. That was something he had not thought of before. To be sure, he would adver tise! So the following morning this notice appeared in the columns 'of a daily paper: "If the young lady who left a copy of 'Pendennis' in Stevens's book store at Eighty-third street will come to claim her property she will learn of something to her advantage." It was rather a remafttable adver tisement, but it brought results. Ellis waited anxiously ail day, and a num ber of customers thought him ab stracted and a little less courteous than usual, bu1- he could not help watching the doorwsy. And at length, late in the afternoon, Hose Maxwell cams. Ellis was busy with an old gentleman who was fussily purchas ing an edition of the English poets. and it was some time before he could speak to Rose. But she did not seem to notice. She went directly to the magazine counter and began to read, ss usual. It was Just as if she had never been away from the shop. After an interminable while the old gentleman departed, and Ellis ap proached the girl. She was still read ing, but she looked up with a smile. Ellis thought she was pale and a little thinner. Perhaps she had been ill, after all. "Was It you who advertised my 'Pendennis'?' she asked. "It was I who left it here, jmveral weeks ago." "I know it was," he answered. "I thought yu would come back after it. I waited and waited before I ad vertised because "Because V she repeated curiously. "Because I thought I'd find you. Miss Rose Maxwell. Tou see I knew yoo that is I remembered seeing you in Stanton, and I tried all sorts of ways to find you. I looked in the directory. Why. I even went back home to Stanton to find your address but I found you'd noved." She was looking at him curiously, her eyes wide. "But why should you take so much trouble?" she asked. "The book is of no value." "No but Well. I wanted to see you. l had to see you again. Don't you She looked down, her face flushed, and stroked the edge of the counter. "Not exactly." she said. "Why I I Tou little Rose Max well, I love you! Don't you see? I had to see you again and tell you so. whether you could care or not. 1 WILL UNCLE HAVE TO STRAIGHTEN 'EM OUT FOR HIM? loved you from the first minute you set foot in my shop!" She looked up, starry-eyed. "That's why you advertised 'some thin? to my advantage' she asked. "Yes that was conceited of me. I didn't mean to be conceited. But if you could care a little. Rose, I could make you so happy!" "You dear okl goose!" she ex claimed. "I've cared all the time! Haven't you ever guessed that I left that book here on purpose to make you remember me? 2 meant to come back for it, only I was ill, and so But I've waited and waited and I thought you were never going to ad vertise! I guess it ie Wmethin? to my advantage." Copyright, 1917, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) DINNER STORIES A man who was much bandy- legged entered a London tailor's the other day and asked to be measured for a new suit. The assistant in- j formed him the boss wasn't in. "Never mind; tho'll do as waell," answered the man, and the assistant began to measure him. When he had taken the measurements for the coat and vest he stood up, scratched his head and looked down at the man's legs. "Wod arta lookin' at?" asked the man. "Why, Aw'h lookin' at tha legs. Aw'ye never measured ony body like thee afor." "Oh, never mind my legs," said the man. ;Thee measure um straight, owd lad. Aw'll bend um miselY' The village idiot gaped so long at the village grocer that that worthy man became irritated. "Look here, what you starin' at? If you can find a man uglier than yourself, kill him." The village idiot went in search of a man uglier than himself, and one .day he found one. He tapped him on the shoulder. "I've got to kill you," he said, smil ing amiably. "You're uglier than me." The stranger turret and looked at the other for a full minute. "Am I?" he said. "Then for good ness sake kill me!" t WSMT EOQVER SAYS XIV. "One of the most important fields of endeavor open to women in the present national crisis in the manage ment of farms and dairies. On the New Tork State School of Agricul ture's farm at Farmingdale. L. I., girla are taught the most advanced meth ods of scientific dairy management. The loyalty, diligence and intelligence of such workers will be of material aid in preventing the price of butter soar ing to 1 1 a pound in the United States, as it has in European countries." TEE SEAECELEGOT Latftt lew from the Field uf SCIENCE, EDICATION, INVENTION The Grape Blight. A disease imported from America almost ruined the grape and vine in dustry of Europe, when the grape phylloxera left these shores anM fast ened on the European vines. Only the most heroic measures held the pest in check. Now an Italian scien tist announces that the phylloxera In Europe has developed beyond T1!'-! ijiuiii. uwt it ever reacnea in lis native America, going so far as to produce different species peculiar to differert varieties of European grapes. Some i 1 1 f V. 1 .1 I ,J ria3 urniy ucvm,jeu species are harmless with respect to all but one or two varieties of grape-vine, whereas the original phylloxera attacked them all about equally. LETTERS OF TWO WOMEN BY ZOB BECKLET. Mother. Kerryville, Kan., Friday. Kate Dear: I am really distressed to hear about C. J. I was afraid of just such! a meeting some time. But, Kits, I do think it was perfectly piggish of him to turn the knife in you that way. He is of the type that finds Joy in revenge. He is small, unworthy of your pity and regret. However. I suppose it is useless trying to make you see him as others do. Still. I beg you not to brood over that unfortunate meeting. The man you are married to is worth your un divided thought. Your life with Paul is. or can be made, a constructive one. Your affair with C. J. was destructive. Forget It, dear, and set your mind-to REAL problems. What would you do In MY case, for instance? My mother and Curt's mother are like two electric storms converging ovefMny head. Outbursts of thunder and streaks of forked lightning play over our household until my nerves are torn asunder. Something will have to be done, and I suppose r shall be the one to make the sacrifice. When it comes to choosing between one's husband and one's mother, there eems no alter native. One f regoe love for the sake, of expedience. If 1 had money of my own Katie, I-rwould have my mother live out here near me in a little eottage where I could go for peace and eounsel when things under tny hu-band's roof are too ha-e-"rea r. Rut what can I do I wff I am totally dependant upon the Etonds? They have money and I have nothing. And there is the baby to consider. I am not miserable enousrh with Curtis to leave him and face the world with my baby and my poorjequipment for'earning a living. Nor am I hopeful of making an ul timate success of my marriage. It is neither heaven nor hell, Kate. It is a hideous purgatory. My mother Is right from her view-! point. Mrs. Bond is right rom hers. 1 Isn't It mockery that two right prin- j ciples comirar together sometimes j make a wrong one? j Our temperaments all clash. Mother and I are outraged by Curtis's lack oft apnreetation of ree; his coldness, his) calculating penunousness. his com- monplace mind, his sense of duty to- ward his stupid church st the exoense of his wife and child. Curtis and his" motner eem to reel cheated of a ser vant! Their attitude toward me is that of an investor in a roll of carpet which turns out to be a Persian rug. They don't know what to do with a Persian rug. Rut. having invested in it, and feeling that efter all a rrnr is a rue. they put it on the Vitchen floor and crease and starin and muddv It onttl its colors are faded and Its bean'y o"e. Who can sav. Kitsie. that either, wld. of us is to blame? Yet when both j faetions become overwrought by the doings of the opposed camp the battle that follows is both wrong and de grading. I suppose it must end by my giv ing up my mother the one soul on earth, now that I haven't you, who understands and belongs to me and is of tny own kind! For we cannot go on this way. I do not even tind peace ful happiness in my l-atiy". who. poor little ducklet, is usually the innocent cause Of our quarrelings. Ch, Kate, darling, hang onto your kind. sympathetic sweetheart-husband! Let nothing inconsequential come between you! Do not look harkward toward C. J. Ruild and look forwa'rd. 1 only, wish I had your .Chancer. s Your worried old HOUSEHOLD EIKTS Clcaning Carpets. Try scrubbing your carpets with the following mixture: Put into a large pan one gallon of water and add to it one pound of yellow soap shaved thin, and half a pound of washing soda. Let these boil together until the soap and soda are melted. Wash only a small portion of the carpet at one time and rinse with clear water. Removing Fisli Oilor. "Fishy" dishes and utensils natural ly retain their odor, but you can re move this by soaking the dishes in tea leaves and leave stand for a while before washing. Boil tea leaves in a little water in the frying pan and that, too, wiH lose the repugnant odor. Syrup Hives Knersy. Syrup and molasses as well as candy are quickly converted by the human body into heat and energy. When you have griddle cakes with delicious ma ple syrup for breakfast, the syrup gives a great deal more than flavor, 'orn Bread Munli. Save nil left ovets and scraps of corn bread. Dry out in warm oven, roll fine with rolling pin, add to boil ing salted water Instead of corn meal, with a few tablespoons of white flour. Mold s usual. Fry in hot Inrd or oil. The nutty flavor is preferable to the usual coin meal mush. Heart and Beauty Problems BY MK8. ELIZABETH THOMPSON Dear Mrs. Thompson: Please an swer these questions; (1) If you were going with a girl and her father wouldn t let you see her, what would you do? (2) If you had a girl you like and she went with another fellow, vhat would you do? It. L. W. AND A. E. X. (1) It ell depends on circum stances. If there Is no reason except the father's wishes to prevent your going with her. it would be all right to talk to him about it. If you can't convince him that he ought to let you go with his daughter, then you must nt go with her any more. It is for her father to decide whom his daugh ter will go with. (2) Try to be more interesting than the other fellow. S'udy his actions and his ways and see what there Is about-him that the girl likes so well and then adopt these qualities your self. If she simply doesn't like you at all, then there Is not much you can do. There are other girls, why not go with one of them? Dear Mrs. Thompson: My hus band owns a small farm near town and he wants me to give up our city y k" "i to tne rarm with i-ii. jiiv rje ougnt to wait till after Hie war Is over to make the change? S. C' E' lr jvur circum- "tances. If he. has been a farmer i" rarm work and you are also acquainted w!th farm work, it might be Just the thing be cause the country needs formers Rut If VJll I T- hnaKn I. K position and fi which will not be affected b i,,,- -ar, ,t would be well to consider ouite a while be fore giving dp something certain for something that might turn out right and then again might be a failure..'

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENTNG. DECEMBER 5, 1917 RUSSIA IN CHAOS Week Ago Much Bloodshed in Russia Predicted. ation Will Pass Thru Series of Crises to Stability. THERE DURING 3 UPHEAVALS Bolshevik! in Orgy of Blood Under Guise of Peace. 500 Men, Women and Childrei Killed in the Streets. S'OTK: Kollnwinir is the first of a scrips of storlpn hv Wllliiim 1. Slieplu-nl, lately Tuiti'd I'ress Staff Corri'SjmlwU'iit ut IVtro- frrThroe nf the series were written at sto;: Imliu on the eve of the successful Itolshevlki tilTislHK- The fourth anil coiiehMlinK st;ry is a sumniHry of Shephenl, written in New York and combining what he saw In I'etro ernil with the developments of later ilays. Sheliheril s stories from Stockholm are strikliiKlv prophetic of the uprising that inter swept KerenBky from his power. The first article of the series forecasts the r.olslievlkl revolt. The second, to tie printed tomorrow- tells som-thlnu of I'reniler K.Tt'imkv's Ions and bitter quarrel with tile Holslieviki, who subsequently tri umphed over him. The Mir- llY WIIJ-IAMr SHKI'UFJU). Stockholm, Oct. 23, (by mail.) It will be some weeks before this ar ticle will be printed in America. At that time, anything may be happening in r.ussia. But I am willin- to hive this article placed beside the newest, hot-from-PetroKrad cablegram. no matter how bloody and disturbing the news in it may be and these follow ing words run side by side with the descripn- of the latest Russian cri- 8is: .1 Russia is following the lines of all revolutions and she is hurrying along toward ironing out her difficulties. Predicts New Crises. If my American readers do not chance to see this article alongside exciting news from Russia, the chances are that the exciting news will have occurred a few days before; or that it is due to occur shortly. For crises are" oing to occur in Russia at an alarming rate. 1 expect bloodshed in the streets of Russian towns and cities. I expect anything in the way of a human storm that imagination can picture, but I stand pat on the declaration that Russia is being rushed through the series of crises that must come to any country in a revolution and that each crisis makes the Russian people saner and the Rus sian republic stronger. Kerensky knows revolutions by heart: as a physician might desire to hasten the various stages of a dis ease in order that the cure may be made the more quickly, Kerensky has not avoided one single crisis. Blood shed at wholesale, danger of death, the apparent risk of civil war he has shrunk from none of these. He will not shrink,- if his life is spared, from any crisis that may come in the fu ture. This grim man knows of only one path for the Russian revolution to take; it is the path that all coun tries, must follow, and he knows there are no daisy fields or resting places alongside that rocky, bloody way. Ill Tussia 6 Months. The world may expect crisis after crisis, thrill after thrill, shock after shock in Russia but it will all mean that Russia is forging ahead toward new strength. I have been in Russia almost six months; and through three great crises. The first crisis was a bloody one the Bolshevikl uprising in Petrograd and other cities and towns of Russia. It was a crisis that made us lose faith in Russia. The killing of 500 men, women and children In the streets, the terrifying of 3,000.000 citizens of the capital of the largest country on earth, the orgy of blood in which the Kron stadt sailors and the working men of Petrograd indulged made it appear that Russians were madmen, lusting for blood. There seemed no hope for Russia If such madness were to have sway. But today, after having seen two other great crises, and looking back the ten weeks to those bloody days, it is easy to see that those blood-lettings helped Russia along the road toward liberty and national unity. Russia Forging Alicad. There came the second crisis of the Moscow conference, when we who sat in the beautiful Moscow theater that sunny August forenoon, expected, with good reason, that a rifle shot from the troops outside the theater, or a shot PRECIPITATION OF NOVEMBER, 1917. Reports furnished by S. JX Flora, Meteorologist, Weather Bureau, Q4X g 3 off .9 T, I r-pJb Skvm Than St-vs 6m6" T."s are '5f57l Zsi-, V WwA""'3" XO'j, ilTOL iiacon L, Tl IV" S fx J y fakern Logan Trmffo W'j V1 L 7imarUs P$J$ 0.3 OJj Ca 0.6O M a.77 TSf'pihZX 01,, S2L a o,s 0 28 o.3t I jOZ -50 0.31 en 0.23 T- 0M Off, OJK. M 0.72 "fj i(J This was one of the driest Novembers ever experienced in nearly all of Kansas, except the northeentral an d northwestern countries. Combined with September and October preceding, it had scarcely more than 50 per cent of the moisture that fell during the same period last year and makes the driest fall the state has experienced in the past 29 years. The weather was fine for out door work all month, but the ground dried out so much, both on the surface and in the subsoil, that wheat made little or no growth and was badly in need of a soaking rain or heavy snow in mqst parts. or a bomb in the theater itself would dye mighty Russia in blood and set its cities and towns aflame. The Moscow conference ended on the edge of a catastrophe, and again we felt that Russia's case was hopeless. But to day, looking back, and putting to gether into one whole the red results of the Bolsheviki revolution and the bitter ending of the Moscow confer ence, Russia's approach toward suc cess is plainer than ever. Then came the Korniloff affair when the world looked on with flat lungs at the Cossack "uproar," not knowing the reasons for the extraordi nary event or realizing that the Korn iloff cause was a lost one, even before it began. But all these crises ""are connected and only natural in any revolution. They would happen in any country under similar circumstances and they are as much to be expected, in a revolution as a wind in a storm. I want to tell about them, in three articles. They show how Russia is heading and speeding toward strength and safety. TICKETS GOING FAST Everyone Anxious to Attend Ked Cross Shows Friday. Sale of tickets to Red Cross benefit performances at all Topeka theaters Friday afternoon is going with a rush today. Several business men and or ganizations, fraternal or otherwise, have purchased blocks of tickets for their employes or for groups of chil dren. At its Tuesday night meeting Capi tal council No. 1, the Knights and La dies of Security, voted to purchase tickets for the children of all mem bers of the council. There are about 2,400 members. The children may obtain the tick ets by calling on 1. Gandy, financier of the association, and presenting a note from their parents saying the parents are members of the council. Admittance to any theater in the city will be 10 cents Friday afternoon. Practically every theater, with the exception of the Grand, will "give two afternoon performances. At the Grand one performance of All-Topeka talent vaudeville will be given at 3:30 o'clock. The Red Cross tickets are not good for evening performances. Teachers are selling the tickets to schpol children. The board of educa tion has arranged to dismiss schools at 3 o'clock in order that the children! may see some theater bill and be pa triotic at the same time by contribut ing to the Red Cross. A TRAGI-COMIC DRAMA Mysterious Force Back of Russian Chaos Has Faith in Outcome London, Dec. 5. The situation in Russia is unique in history, accord ing to the Petrograd correspondent of the Morning Post writing Saturday, but it is'not yet advisable to attempt to raise the curtain upon the mys teries of the "tragic-comic drama." The correspondent insists that Rus. sie will right herself if generously allowed the necessary latitude by the puzzled allies and next spring it will put new armies in the field to fight the invader with the success that marked the Russian efforts earlier in the war. "In the meantime," he adds, "the situation is extremely curious. Some force. which is above or beyond all the contending parties is putting the poizes into the wheels of all of them." J t JV;7 Prettiest Boot in Topeka Rich steel gray shade of imported kid long slender appearing vamp narrow toe and covered Louis heeTs. Arrived by Today's Ex press. You must see them at once Price $12M Similar style in new French Gray lighter shade. Same style in Dark Brown Kid Price $10.00. Brown kid with new Cuban heel Price $9.00. as a Christmas Gift Smart Dress Boots Please HER Best. Beo Our Cftristmaa Suggestion VfSmiQ SMC STBMB 713 ttJtMJCAM JtVl The correspondent instances the various interferences with the ad ministration without, however, eluci dating his suggestion. WREATH FOR SAMMY Old Chestnut Woman Sends Floral Tribute to "Ije Petit Soldat." BY J. W. PGGLCR. American Field Headquarters, France, Dec. 5. Little Harvey Reamy of Cincinnati, II. S. A., "le petit Amer icain soldat," sleeps today in a grave on a bleak, snow-covered hillside. The wind sings a lullaby thru the hilltop pine trees. Atop the grave, half bur ied in the drifting snows, a wreath of flowers marks the tribute by an aged French woman. She was a chestnut peddler with a stand close by general headquarters. Private Reamy of the United States marine corps dropped dead on Thanks giving day. He had just finished cooking turkeys for his company. On Friday the old chestnut woman missed the slender smiling marine. She asked about him. His comrades explained tenderly "Reamy, well, he is mo;t" Her Son -Missing at Verdun. The old woman wept. He was such a pleasant, smiling-faced Americain. The tears trickled down her weather beaten face, already lined deep with grief at the loss of her own son miss ing at Verdun for two years, and a husband dying of wounds in a hospital near the front somewhere. Reamy was a daily visitor at the old woman's stand. His cheery greeting somehow helped her forget. She learned his name and then always r sceu mm wxtn motherly c pcui. aoiaat ithe little price 1" soldier). It was another tragedy for the lit tle old woman hen the bright faced American passed away. Moreover, she had missed the funeral, missed the opportunity to see her American boy. On Sunday, two days after Reamy had been laid to rest by his comrades, general headquarters received a soiled and. laboriously addressed envelope Inside was a brief letter and fiftv francs. Her Pathetic Letter. "You will permit me, sir" the let ter said in its curiously worded, difficult French, "to send you fifty francs. I desire to place a wreath on the grave of the little Ameri can soldier who died tar from his own country. I don't ask even to be permitted to carry the wreath to his grave. Please, sir, do not re fuse the humble offering of a poor French woman who loves America who loves the memory of this dear, dear boy, who died far from his own mother, while assisting France. Do not refuse to place my wreath for this poor little soldier." The signature was "Marguerite Gil ly, the chestnut woman." Today, early in the morning, Iteamy's comrades carried Mme. Gil ly's wreath, on their reversed arms, in a little procession to his grave. They transplanted the flowers as best they could. And Mme. Gilly's letter, translated into the English phrases here given, was posted as an "official communi cation" on the Marine barracks bulle tin board. BIG GRANGE DINNER Chamber of Commerce Directors Winked at Hoover Tuesday. The age-long hospitality of the Anglo-Saxon race was amply illus trated Tuesday at the noon luncheon of the Indian Creek grange, when twenty-five members of the board of directors of the Topeka Chamber of Commerce invaded the meeting: with an invitation to the grangers to use the Chamber of Commerce rooms as their headquarters at any time one or more of them might be in Topeka. That is it may have been a luncheon to the grangers, but to the men from the city it bore a striking resemblance to a banquet of the first water. The C. of C. men were invited to partake, and they did, to such an ex tent that their doughty progenitors must- have blushed exceedingly red with shame. Great piles of chicken, fried, chicken in pies, potatoes a la innumerable modes, cakes and coffee, and oh, all things nice soon disap peared under the combined onslaught of the allied forces of farm and city. And after the meeting a number of speeches were delivered by represen tatives of both the allies, and the first breaking of bread and eating of salt will surely mark a new era of a closer understanding between the farmers of Indian Creek and the business men of Topeka. The officers of the Indian Creek grange who nearly incapacitated the men from tow'n for further business on Tuesday are: J. K. Cecil, master H. L. Moore, overseer; Glenn Pollom, lecturer J. M. Pollom, steward; Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Chaney, assistant stewards; Mrs. Boyd Pollom, chaplain; Ray Kimball, secretary Peter Mover, treasurer Mrs. J. O. Browning, Ceres; Mrs, O. N'iccum, Flora; Mrs. H. L. Moore, Pomona, and O. Fullmer, gatekeeper. The members of the board of direc tors that gave the lie to the fallacy of "the jaded appetite of the city dweller" are: C. L. Mitchell, president; W. H. Davis. S. E. Cobb, Luther Bailey, E. L. Overton, B. B. Eitelman, C. S. Elliott. C. B. Merriam, W. A. S. Bird. George P. Hayden, E. H. Crosby, W. W. Webb, George P. McEntire, C. H. Trapp. H. S. Morgan. William G. Tandy, W. Im porter. R. R. Baer, George W. Stans field, W. C. Cars well, Er. George H. Litsinger, and F. M. Steves. TALK OLD TIMES Topeka's Fioneec Settlers in Annual Meet Today. Patriotism Keynote of the Bi? Gathering. NO DINNER THIS YEAR Association Does Away With Big Feature to Hooverize. An Elaborate Program Render ed This Afternoon. A keynote of patriotism sounded thru the annual meeting of the Old Settlers association which convened at 1 o'clock this afternoon at the First Presbyterian church. Two hundred and fifty or more pioneers of Topeka and Kansas were in attendance, according to H. O. Garvey, president. And while the patriotic keynote was supreme as an air of the "grand old days" when Kansas was unbroken prairie scattered over with only a few villages, mostly Indian, hovered over the assembly. Because the organization is "Hoov erizing" the elaborate dinner which heretofore has opened the program at noon was eliminated today. This is the first time in many years that the feature has not started the ceremon ies. A reception committee greeted the old settlers when the meeting be gan. Badges of different cplor des ignated when the wearers came to Kansas, The attendance was some what diminished by the weather which was threatening, but despite this and the fact that there was no bountiful old-fashioned dinner the as sembly was of considerable size. The Afternoon Program. The program opened with the sing ing of "America" and other well known songs, with the singing led by M. P.'Holman. H. O. Garvey, presi dent, delivered the address of welcome. Josiah Jordan, Topeka, secretary, read the minutes of the last meeting and then committees on resolutions and nominations were appointed. A memorial to deceased members was read by Judge G. A. Huron. After the report of the nominating commit tee, election of officers for the ensu ing year was to be held. It is a rule of the society to never elect the president for more than one term. The office is passed around. A vigorous patriotic note was sounded by the Rev. E. J. Kulp, pastor of the First Metho dist church. After the Rev. Mr. Kulp finished, Miss Nonon Herren gave a reading The feature of the pro gram included talks by old settlers. Those who spoke included Free man Sardou, who has lived on his homestead in Oakland since before Topeka 'was founded. Sardou settled in Oakland in October, 1854. The city was founded in December, 1854. Mr. E. C. Nellis and Robert Stone will also talk. The note of remoiniscence was strong in these addresses. Children on Program; A patriotic rythm was given by the children from Central Park kin- -dergarten under the direction oi.31rs.,4 june tnapman. unaracters repre sented included a bugler, the God dess of Liberty, the army, the navy and the flag. This ceremony was accompanied by a stringed orchestra comprised of the Misses Helen and Dorotha Leeper and Ullian Huckel. The reception, committee which looked after the comfort of visitors included: Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Remington, Mr. and Mrs. Hale Ritchie, Captain J. i. Waters, P. I. Bonebrake, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. McAfee, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Meade, Senator and Mrs. Jas. A. Troutman, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Steele, Mr. and Mrs.Carl F. Spencer, Mrs. S. J. Crawford, Mrs. George W. Veale, Mr. and Mrs. William P. Bish- j op, Mr. and Mrs. CVrence D. Skin- i ner, Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Hindman, 1 Captain and Mrs. Andy Fuller, Mr.! and Mrs. Hiram Root, Mrs. Julia SUn son, Mrs. Freeman Foster, Henry I Wallace and Miss Emma Wallace. I Costume of Sixties. Something of a novelty was to be offered in the remisicent talk of Mrs. IX C. Nellis. Mrs. Nellis was to wear a costume prevalent in the early six- ties. j During the last year the society, i under the supervision of Clarence 1. j Skinner, has been making a collection i of photographs and historical data. Space where this collection may be kept and be made accessible has been -obtained in the state historical soci- j ety. Mr. Garvey today requested that any data or photographs members may be in the possession of be for- j warded to Mr. Skinner. TENER AND TJAN JOHNSON SCRAP OYER WAR POLICY New Tork, Dec. 5. Governor John K. Tener, president of the National league, is about to match his strength with that of Ban John on in a war time baseball scrap. A policy of anti-calamity howl-' ing will be placed squarely before National league magnates by Gov ernor Tener at the meeting here next week. Johnson, meanwhile, is crying for stringent reductions all along the line, including a shorten ing of the playing schedule. Governor Tener declared today that so far he has received no word of a joint meeting in Chicago of American and National league magnates to discuss war time eco nomics. Ije has also made it plain he sees no reason for taking dras tic steps. WAR ORATORS COMING Big Public Meetings Will Be Held In Auditorium January 16-17. E Orators speaking under direction of the war department, will address a war conference in Topeka January 16 17. Governor Capper has- approved the meetings which will be held in the auditorium. The purpose of the meeting is to urge upon the public the importance and necessity of the war with Germany as well as details and conditions leading up to war declara tion. A series of patriotic meetings will be held in western states in January and several prominent orators will speak during the week in Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Kentucky. The two days assigned to Kansas will bring to this -state all of the most able speakers on the war question now giv ing their service to the government. The meetings were urged by George Creel in charge of the federal public information bureau. YEGG SPIES ON TRIAL Charge They Were in Plot to Blow l"p Bridges, Factories, Etc. Detroit, Mich., Dee. 5. With the jury completed, the' trial of Albert Karl Kaltschmidt and five others in dicted on the charge of conspiracy against the United States government, got under way in federal court today. The defendants are accused of waging war against the United States thru plots to blow up bridges, tunnels and factories. SATISFACTION is the real thing you buy here; we have such faith in our qual ities that we say, "Give it the test of wear; be sure of the satisfaction you pay for! then if you don't get it, money cheerfully refunded." THERE are two ways of getting around the higher cost production one is to assess the customer and the other is for the merchant to stand it himself we've chosen the latter method. The values in Hart Schaffner Marx clothes at $25 are as great this season as ever it required a radical lowering of our profits to bring that condition about- we made the sacrifice willingly to maintain the'won derful reputation we've gained on this line. Therefore, comparatively speaking and in the light of present day copditions, Hart Schaffner Marx clothes of f- pad the Palace type are better yf than ever this season at Jp Overcoat headquarters THE 2nd floor; every good style you can think of; double or single breasted; dress or business, or storm-defying; belt all-'round styles. Fur collared and fur lined overcoats. Over coats for every occasion and every ,need. London made overcoats and famous Amer ican makes. $20, $25, $30, $35, $40, $50, $60, $75, $90, $100, $125 Xmas Stocks Ready. Every and anything you can think of. AuerbachSGuettel ICLOTHING CC, Genuine Cordovan Shoes 1 0 Extra Quality ad Qttr CMssified Ads' j i.mi. in ummmwmB4mmMmmifjii)mm.Mm ui- iwi.im.wiiii)wiiiiuiiww'iwivwuiiiiiiij iimmpi .iwmwuu,fcmw" nu wwiwwmww "ll"MI ,jl 111 1111 I Lyg B)MT Ej)IE, fl M N NEW DANCE 'FEATURE I Little Helen Wilson Will Appear ut Red Cross Performance. j A new feature was added to the Red Cros performance at the Grand Friday afternoon when it was an nounced today that Helen Wilson, the 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Wilson, 1169 Fillmore street, will go on the stage in a dancing act. Little Miss Wilson will be remembered in a leading part in the "Lost Prin cess' which was given at the Grand early this fall. She is a clever and versatile lass and will add interest to the Friday matinee given for the benefit of the Red Cross. Helen Wilson's father, Fred Wil son, also appears in the performance in blackface. He is the author of the State Journal's "Louis Schnitz" let ters every Saturday evening. MEANS'S COTTON" DEAL Witness Says He Lured Attorney and Slain Widow Into Market Plunge. Concord, X. C, Dec. 5. William C. Patterson resumed the stand today in the trial of Gaston B. Means, charged with murdering Mrs. Maude A. King. In two, hours and a half of grilling cross-examination yesterday he dis closed that Means was an unwilling investor in cotton, but that he, the wit ness, led Means on until he plunged. Mrs. King, Means and Patterson' agreed to share the profits and losses alike, according to Patterson. CASTOR I A Pot Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Uways Dears toe Signature of $4 25 BringsYouth Before you pay one penny we send you the Eureka .Electric Vacuum Cleaner on TEN DAYS FREE Trial provided you make your request to share in this great SPECIAL OFFER! pedal Offer Ends ecember 1 0 No obligation or expense to you whatever. We want you to be the judge try it on your carpets, rugs, curtains," etc. just as though it weft your own. If you decide you can't get along without it, then you can pay down $4.25 and the balance on the easiest kind of weekly of monthly payments. Remember You Are Getting the Rock Bottom Special Factory Price. We want you to see we want you to try in your own way the Grand Prize Winner at the Panama Pacific World's Fair, 1915. That model with many added exclu sive features the 1918 advanced model. e fcure kaCl Don't delay! This great free trial and easy payment offer expires sharply at 5:30 p. m., Monday, December 10th next. Only a limited number of these new machines will be placed in Topeka on this generous plan. You can easily understand why we cannot afford to make thi3 offer generally or permanently. Don't delay until the big rush cn the last day. Don't Buy Any Vacuum Cleaner Until You Have Tried the EUREKA 'i'liis grtat offer expirej promptly at 5:30 p. m Monday, Dec. 10th Telephone us, or send your name and address in a letter or on a postal The minute we hear from you we will send you the full details of this great free trial offer and special easy payment plan. We will also send you our beautifully illustrated folder describing our new 1918 model. 9 eanen TOPEKA EDISON CO. 808 Kansas Ave. Telephone 4080 For FREE TRIAL Phone 4080 Before Dec. 10 if 1 1 -1'

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5. 1917 PLAN. GOVT TO RIIY FnillPMFNT IT'S A PLEASURE FOR THE TEACHER TO INSTRUCT GIRLS SO DAINTILY GARBED JOIN RED CROSS This Appeal to Be Made to Every Citizen of County. RAISE MORE HOGS 25 Per Cent Increase Is Pre scribed as Kansas' Quota. mm w MESS i wii uniLiiunww Program for New Rail Legis- ia i lull 1 1 v a u j v v IVouItl Rent Cars Owned by fRANSPORTATlON, WAR ISSUE l.lie of AVar Prosecution De fends Mainly on Railroads. r e,.w Ciiunalnii nf Anti- Trust Laws to Prevent Pool. Washington. Dec. 5. Several billion loTTBrs "of government funds for rail iuiPnU-to be rented to the aji'ters is embraced in a comprehen sive program of railroad legislation f -fitly for presentation to congress. $g;itor Newlanrts, Nevada, chairman itXjho joint congressional commission r.vVstiatinsf railway conditions, will n&; President Wilson's approval of h& proposed measures, i &ne bill would prohibit railroad J.tMkPH during the war. Other meas nifs are in preparation, but their na ump is withheld, until they have been ligrussed with the president. The successful prosecution of this v.fj- depends more upon trannpor Hon than any one other thing.'' aid -tn'fj.itor Newlands today. "We have V)l hesitated to appropriate enormous ?urihs for increasing our shipping fa iSies and we should not hesitate to I NtfgVrvl all that is necessary on our ft$ Deprived of Capital. 'ewlands pointed out that the pov i HKment by absorbing available capi ?:iHfor war needs, is preventing the a.riroada getting the money they need. fhe senate judiciary committee to--rtjfrrow will take, up the Overman res i i 3ft ion proposing suspension of that iialk of "the Clayton law which re-iiujjj-ed railroads to buy supplies by 'gppetitive bidding. I SM 'rices are so enormous," said Sen- tjSJT Overman, "that this provision of l.p Clayton law works injury' rather hijm good. j I J. C. C. Makes Recommendations. 1 Svashington. Doc. 5. Congress was f'JH in a report by the interstate ixOimerce commission today that to i'rct the unification of railroad re l rces for the war anti-trust and 'i !jt,i-poolinff laws should be suspended. j$n addition the commission de i ifred railroads should receive a gov iflment loan and that issuance of ;u3road fecurities should be vested in tithe special body. iime advance in rates Is imperative. bj commission said in the war emer i. -vny. w Help fop It. IIh Imperative. 4 fler reviewing the extroordintry iand on the railroads during the ;i&t year and the increases in labor material costs, the commission's i--j-ial report says: t The act to regulate commerce was 3 enacted to meet such a situation, carriers have the right to de- jd at our hands and it is our duty 'Approve, just and reasonable rates I fifticient to yield fair returns upon hi value of the property devoted to ifelic use after necessary expendi 't irt'S. Measured in dollars the gross '-venues of the carriers during the ;t and current fiscal years exceed lnny in their history. But what the I -Ajar will buy in labor, material and jpplicj is substantially less. t f'We are sensible of the vital and "operative need of the hour that our :lH roads shall not be permitted to 4 fume less efficient or leas suffic- nt. We realize the gravity of a seri fs breakdown in our transportation icilities. It is unthinkable that this ivnkdown would be permitted if it 5ald be prevented. Increased charges .Sr: carriage, if found necessary to take i il of unavoidable increases in op- rting expenses would not at this ;;me 'bring new capital on reasonable cwnB in important sums. Situation Demands Action. I itfn out opinion the situation does it permit of temporizing. All ener- f must be devoted to bringing the ar to a successful conclusion and to i'tt end it is necessary that our trans J etation system be placed and kep i rSi the plane of highest efficiency, 'js can only be secured through uni- 46tlnn of their operation during the I friod f the war. ."Mf the unification is to be effected j r-the carriers they should be enabled 'fTect in a lawful way. To that end "i.ur judgment the operation of the !ti-tiust laws except in respect of risolidatKns or mergers of .parallel id competing lines, rut applied to rail water carriers subject to the act i egulate commerce and of the anti skiing provision of section five of jit act, should be suspended during e period of the war and until fur rier action by congress, j In addition they should be provid- from the government treasury ith financial assistance in the form loans or advances for capital pur "s in surh amounts, on such con- Parisian Ivory Toilet Sets

1 i II I i it The charm of Parisian Ivory.due to its pure whiteness, its sparkle and its bril liancy, has made it all the rage. It is easily cleaned, com paratively inexpensive and decorated "ith handsome engraved initials, daintily Ktained in attractive color ing. 4t makes-an attractive gi'.:. I "The lius) lrug Store 7 Kansas Ave.. Phones 528-3777 What pleasure for the school teacher if "ol pHt-Ik wi-re as sideration and under such supervision of expenditure as 'may be determined by appropriate authority. Must Protect Shipper, Too. "As a necessary concomitant the regulation of security issues of com mon carriers engaged in interstate commerce hoiihlv be vested in some appropriate botfy as has been recom mended in our annual reports. The rights of shippers for reasonable rates and non-discriminatory service under the present jurisdiction of the com mission need not be seriously inter fered with by such unified control. Some elastic provisions for establish ment of new routes wou'd probably be needed." Ask 30 to 50 Per Cent Rate Increase. Washington, Dec. 5. Increases in commodity freight rates ranging from 30 to 60 per cent from Mobile, Pen sacola, Gulfport and other gulf cities to Missouri river crossings were asked by railroads today of the interstate commerce commission-. The jriposed rates would affect-. Kansas Oity, St. Joe, Omaha, Sioux City. Lincoln, Cedar Kapids, St. raui, Sioux Fills and other points depend ent on rates to Missouri rural terri tory. (lOvornmont Control Alternative. I The alternative for such voluntary I unification of the railroads, the com I mission declared,- would be govern- ment operation with suitable guaranty of an adequate annual return as wen as for upkeep with fair terms on whictvmprovemiints during the pe riod of government operation could be paid for by the roads upon return of their property. The recommendations signed by Chairman Hall were accompanied by a supplementary report by Commis sioner McChord. who said he believed that if the president would take over operation of the railroads, "vastly im proved transportation conditions can be promptly secured." "If the other alternative be adopt ed and the president operates the railroads as a unit during the period of the war, there" should be in our opinion suitable guaranty to each car rier of an adequate annual return for use of the' property as well as of its upkeep and maintenance during operations with provision for fair terms on -which v improvements and betterments mad by the president during the period of his operation could be paid for by the carrier upon return to it of the property after the expiration of that period." ANDREW GIVES $50,000 Many Cities Oversubscribe Quotas in Soldier Entertainment Fund. New York, Dec. 5. The national drive of the war camp community service for a $4,000,000 fund to pro vide wholesome entertainment for sol diers and sailors on leave in cities near camps and cantonments, was ad vanced today by a contribution of $50,000 from the Carnegie corpora tion, it was announced. This brought New York City's quota of approxi mately one million over the $200,000 mark. Reports from eastern and middle western cities indicate that many of them have oversubscribed their quotas already. John D. Rockefeller. jr., is one of the active organizers of the work. HE'S GOT A BIG JOB George X. Peek Heads Bureau to Mo bilize Factories for War. Washington. Dec. 5. George N. Peek, vice president of Deere Company, Moline, 111., today was ap pointed industrial representative of the war industries board to direct the conversion of the country's manufac turing facilities to war work. His duties will be to meet with manufacturers,- who have facilities for producing munitions or other gov ernment materials and decide to'wha extent sjch plants should be utilized for this purpose. DEATHS AND FUNERALS O FllAXK W. BVTTERFIKIjD. fi2 vears old, died this inoruing in local hoBpitnl. The body will be tiikvu to Kan bus Citv for burUii. He was formerly a resident of Topeka and was a well known Santa Fe conductor. He w od the hoard of direc tors of rbe Snuta Fe hospital. Lord's Flowers Satisfy. Tel. 82 7. Adv. (daintily clad as these, rhe frock sen at the left is made of blue serge iand is most simple in style. The skirt is pleated and the button and ibraid effect on the waist is the only i trimming, yet the little frock has an I unmistakably renned touch. The I waist worn by the girl at he right is Imade of rose-col reo crepe de chine, hand smocked with edging of baby Tnsh cro"-M" it the collar. WHY HE STOLE HAMS Walter Henderson Says He Couldn't Make Enough to Support Family. Systematic robbery of valuable hams, shoulders and bacon from the Wolff Packing company was un earthed today by the sheriff's office following the discovery of fourteen sides of "Banquet brand' bacon hid den on the roof of the home of Ed. Davis, 213 East First street. Walter Henderson, a temperature reader at the plant, was arrested this morning by Deputy Sheriff Joe Holman and confessed to the robberies. "I have a wife and eight children," said Henderson when arrested. "There was nothing else to do to keep from starving. My wages were not suf ficient to provide us with a living." j-Ienderson.4told Holman that he Z..Ta vit.?Z t-J Vr" 7, 'I ovi-.- "'iv-'i uiuri I pieces of meat under a blouse as he left the packing plant. He named Ed. Davis as one of the purchasers of the meat. Holman and Billie Anderson, a sten ographer in the county attorney's of fice, called at the Davis home Tues day evening in a search for liquor. Instead of discovering liquor they found the bacon hid on the roof. That let to the apprehension of Henderson. Davis is a negro. Henderson is a white man and lives at 392 Michigan avenue. RAISE DISCOUNT RATES Federal Reserve Board Issues Order to tlie Twelve Reserve Banks. Washington, Dec. 5. To discourage inflation and promote sound business condition the federal reserve board has approved a general Increase in discount rates of about one-half per cent for most of the 12 federal re serve banks. On 15 day paper including member banks collateral notes the new rates are 4 per cent for all banks except at New York where it is 3 per cent. For 15 to 60 day paper the new rates are 4 per cent for all banks except New York which is 4 per cent and Chicago and Minneapolis which are 5 per cent. Formerly rates on this paper ranged between 4 and 4 per cent. For agricultural and live stock pa per over 90 days the new rates are 5 per cent except for Richmond which is 4 per cent and Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis and San Francisco which are 5 per cent. LOCAL MiENTTlION Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sherman with their little daughter, Pauline, left To peka Thanksgiving for New Mexico. Mrs. Sara Hargraves, Mrs. Sherman's mother, has received a wire announc ing their safe arrival at Pres Ripos, where they will reside for some time. The grand opening of the city fed eration of colored women's clubs was held Tuesday night at the clubrooms in Garfield school. The opening pro gram was in charge of the Ne Plus Ultra Art club. Mrs. J. M. Wright and Mrs. L. C. Clark sang vocal solos, Mrs. Maybelle H. Bradshaw and Mrs. A. M. Booker gave readings, and an instrumental solo was rendered by Miss Ruby McKnight. There will be another program tonight in charge of the Poinsettia and Excelsior Arts clubs. The Bell Telephone Directory goes to press December 8. All those desir ing listings or changes call telephone number 33. Adv. The Bell Telephone' Directory goes to press December S. All those desir ing listings or changes call telephone number 33. Adv. Minerva MacFerran. 9 -year-old daughter of Sullivan MacFerran, re ceived $600 today in a friendly suit against the Rock Island. The money was paid to her father. The girl lost a leg several months ago when a freight train ran over the member, lacerating it to such an extent that an operation was necessary. The Ladies Masonic unit of the Red Cross will hold a b-isiness meeting and election of officers at the Masonic temple, Thursday evening at 7:30 p. m. Flans for Xinas Membership Drive Outlined Today. A FLAG IN EVERY That Is Slogan of Shawnee County Committee. AJbaugh and Dr. Knlp Speakers at Luncheon Today. The first call to arms for the great Christmas drive of the Red Cross sounded this npon at a combined meeting of men and women committee workers at the Chambe. of Commerce. Morton Albaugh opened the speaking by sounding the slogan of the drive and announcing the determination of the workers to "place a Red Cross flag in every window in Topeka by Christmas eve." Albaugh asserted that the Shawnee county drive would win and that by the time the cam paign closes every farm house in the county would be displaying the em blem of mercy, and that the Red Cross would blaze in every window in Topeka. The feature address of the lunch eon was delivered by Dr. Edmund Janes Kulp of the First Methodist church. Starting out with a sketchy history of the war. Dr. Kulp declared that today Germany is able to throw nearly ten and one-half million men In the field and that to oppose this force successfully the allies must fur nish opposition of like size. The share of the United States from the man standpoint he estimated as not less than 4.000,000 men. "And to back these men and care for them as they deserve to be cared fc it is the duty of every true citizen of the United States to become a member of the greatest power for relief the world has ever seen. The American Red Cross." German Spies Denounced. Doctor Kulp was especially vehem ent in his vitriolic denunciation of the German spiea that infest the country. "This nation must be made dangerous for the spy, and exceedingly danger ous. These vipers of the earth should be forced to spend their blood as they spend the blood of our boys across the seas. Instead of the delights of the internment camp these cumberers of the eartti and enemies to democracy will now be forced to the doubtful lux ury of a prison term at hard labor. In this war mercy is the cause at stake but in our defense of this ..d mirable quality we must not forget that the best mercy in the case of a spy should be of the relentless variety and not the kind '.hat fosters while ii punishes." The luncheon today was merely the opening gun in the great Christmas membership drive. Committees were ordered to be recruited to full war strength and the outlines of the cam paign were laid with sureness and .dispatch. The Sh-wnee county drive specially came in for attewtwm. ,.a jiMnjnn Mice X J IT bett and H. S. Morgan the rural school teachers will be organized into an effi cient fighting force and will imme diately begin to smooth the path or the membership juggernaut that will start on its relentless way on the morning of December 17. Obligation of All. "Teachers must realize that mem bership in the Red Cross is an obli gation which no patriot will attempt to waive in the present crisis. Our boys have gone forth to fight the battles of democracy and the stay-at-homes can do no less than spend their money, to the last cent, t staunch the flow of blood from the heart of the nation. Membership ir the Red Cross is a patriotic duty and the rural teachers must take a promi nent part in the present campaign.' This is the message of the county sup erintendent of schools to the teach ers of her organization and to the vo ters and citizens of 'the county. The National Red Cross society is bending every effort to inaugurate r new era, in the expiration of mem berships. All persons who are mem bers of the Red Cross are urged V waive their present membership and take out a new one to expire in Jan uary, 1919. This will do away with a great deal of the expense of the membership department, and will a the sarn time enable1 members to renew at a time when the thought of mercy and charity is uppermost in the minds of everyone who is not so far lost that he can experience no such emotions. Membership for Year. Membership in the Red Cross, will nerearier De ior tne calendar year whether the membership is bought in January or in May, and every mem bership will expire on the first of the year following the purchase. Horace Hall calls on the present members in Shawnee county to waive their pres ent memberships and help the Red Cross to eliminate unnecessary ex pense. But in this statement the head of the Shawnee county Red Cross does not mean that any one who refuses to waive his present membership will lose, on the contrary such members will retain their membership to the regular expiration time, but from now on, beginning with memberships sold in the campaign starting December 17, every membership will automatically expire on the first day of each year. RELY ON FREE PRESS It Is Beet Aid to National Prohibition, Miss Rankin Says. Washington, Dec. 5. A free press, run by the people and for the people, is the quickest way for Americans to get prohibition or anything else they want. Miss Jeanette Rankin, first congresswoman, told the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union at their annual convention here. Miss Rankin propose Z that each community appoint its own press organization with a community editor, to run its own papers. Vying with Miss Rankin as the center of attraction was Miss Ger trude Bonnin, of the Society of Amer ican Indians, who in full Indian cos tume, made a plea for the protection of her race against the incursion of liquor. The union expects before adjourn ment to announce the goal of mem bership towards which the members will work in the ensuing year. Patriotic work will be taken up to day. Bishop Frazer McDowell, for merly of Chicago, was among the speakers. (Copyright by the McClure New&paper Syndicate. New York City.) The deeolletage that belonxs to the fifteenth century ia so successful that it is accepted by every dress maker as the correct way to cut a gown. Xew York, Dec. 3. American women have always complained against the Moyen-age decollete. They may like it exceedingly well in the portraits of the fifteenth century that one makes a trip to Italy to see, but they do not combine their artistic Afternoon gown of black satin and white silk Jersey embroidered with jet. enthusiasm with a desire to imitate the lines and movements that artists consider lovely The American woman is stern in her belief that the so-called Italian decolletage is ruinous to her appear ance. She is quite willing to concede to the artistic element and to the ac tresses the kind of opening at the neck which both these segments of society adopted. For herself, if she is a workaday, practical woman, or if she has a conventional place in so ciety, she insists that the decollette of iher frock should be a deep square or a deep V. That tradition is rooted in her Anglo-Saxon temperament. She is will ing to subscribe to the slightly round decolletage. and she has taken up the slightly square Dutch neck with all the impetuosity of her character when she likes a novelty. It is difficult to persuade her that the Dutch neck is as unbecoming as the Italian kind, for she looks upon the latter with a bit1 of contempt born thru her spo radic contact with the artist element, who adopt this in loose, hanging smocks and blouses which they pre fer above til other garments. The Accepted "Decolletage. Tradition is one thing and present fact is another, and it is evident that the majority of American women will accept the decc Iletage that is cut about three inches Telow the bend of the neck and runs away to the end f the shoulder. It is seen on many of the French gowns and the best American orig inations. It is adopted for jumpers, for informal dinner frocks, and it prevails on the oi-e-piece frock of serge, worsted or satin that has come dangerously near usurping, the place of the tailored coat suit this fall. There are ways of making this kind of neck outline becoming, and it is nrcl 1 t Vi a t a wnmn n Vinn M laa r-n tkam j for she will have, difficulty in persuad ing the dressmakers to give her an other kind of outline at the shoulders and she will find that the majority of ready-to-wear frocks and waists have adopted the decolletage th.t has been tatjpo in this country for so long. If one brings the material about two inches higher in the back than in the front, and if there is- a slight curve upward at the shoulder line, a trans formation for the better will be in stantaneous. It is .just this bit of practical work that the back of this kind of gown shall be three inches lower than the f. ont, and a few of the extra artistic French designers have aided and abetted her in this sartorial weakness. It seems to be quite certain that as the winter progresses, evening gowns will be less and less decollete, and that the Italian outline will be ac cepted as a compromise between the c: che-nez collar and the girdle-bodice. As France- roes It. The gown which is sketched today and which has been sent direct from an atelier in Paris, is the best ex ample of this kind of frock whioh is now accepted for theaters, restaurant LAUNDRY NOTICE Rough Dry and Finished Family Washings received after Wednesdays may not be deliv ered before the following: Mon days. This on account of the law limiting hours for female laundry workers. Wet wash, flat work, bundle work, and Dry Cleaning- will be delivered ir? usual time. TOPEKA LAUNDRY CO. I dinners and afternoon occasions 01 Bayety and brilliancy, and it is well that a woman shoul- look upon it with interest and a desire to imitate. Each feature of it brings out an ac cented line or movement of fbric. I The skirt is of black satin, and the I top part is of the new white jersey I silk which is impossible to describe I without making a woman think it is i commonplace. It is not woven in this j country, and France made a hit with j our buyers this season by offering it as a novelty. Paquin. Royant and all the big peo ple employ it for formal gowns, and it has already been used by the most fashionable women in this country who saw that it was a novelty and jumped at it. It has a soft, broche surface, and it cling to the 'figure like Chinese crepe. IN DEAL WITH BRAZIL France to Get 30 Former German Ships in Exchange for Products. Rio Janeiro, Dec. 5. A decree auth orizing the signing of an agreement with the French government for the use of thirty former Ger. in ships is published by the newspapers. A statement issued by the finance minister places the total tonnage of these ships at 249,500. France, it adds, is to place at the disposal of Brazil 110.000,000 francs and will pur chase 2,000.000 bags of coffee and Brazilian agricultural products to the value if 100,000,000 francs. MADE SAW A RAZOR Insane Man Then Ordered Wife to Cut Off Child's Head. Peoria, 111., Dec. 5. Having sharp ened a saw to a razor edge. Warren J. Holliday, wealthy insurance broker, suddenly gone insane, ordered his wife to cut off her baby's head, kill herself, and then said he was going to commit suicide. Pretending she was going to mail letters of farewell to relatives, Mrs. Holliday notified the police. They rushed to the house in time to over power Holliday. He was committed to an insane hospital. 2 ARMY FLYERS FALL Canadian- Instructor and American Student Aviators Down at Camp, Dallas, Tex., Dec. 5. Lieuteant Mc Farland of the Royal Flving corps. stationed at Fort Wori, was serious ly Injured and a student aviator who has not been identified, was probably fatally hurt shortly before noon to day when their airplane fell two hundred feet, near Duncanville, sev enteen miles southwest of Dallas. Mc- 1 Farland has a chance to recover, phy- sicians say. HOUSE SEES PERSHING American Mission in France Are Guests at V. S. Field Headquarters. American Field Headquarters, France, Dec 5. Accompanied by Viscount Northcliffe, the American mission, including Colonel House, General Bliss, Admiral Benson and Mci-u.y tjoiby, w.in Ambassador Sharpe were guests at headquarters today. General Pershing personally showed them around. WOULD TAKE OVER R. R. Resolution for C Jv't Control During War, Introduced In House. Washington, Dec. 5. A resolution authorizing the interstate commerce commission to take over all railroads and coal mines in the United States and to manage and operate them in I the name of the government for the i duration of the war, was introduced in the house toda;- by Representative j Sabcth, Illinois. SUGAR CARGO ARRIVES

3 Million Pounds of Cuban Product Unloaded at N. Y. i New York, Dec. 3. Three millior pounds of Cuban sugar was unloade: here today to be distributed imme diately. New York Monry Market. 1 New York. Dec. 5. MONBY Mercantile Plr. SK54. Sterna. 00 day bills, 4.71 !4; counni rrial, (at Ully bills on banks, 4.71: commercial. M ilav bills, 4.70",; ;e msod, 4.754 cables. 4.711 7-10. Krnn.'s de mand. 5 7SV4: abU. B.71'4. (jntlclers cle i mnnd. 43: cables. 4:1. I.irea. clcmanil. KfXi: I cables. 8.04. Kublpa. demand. cables '13. Bar liver. .Soie: Mexican dnllur 60c. Government hnnils. tapavv; railroail bonds, heavy. Time Inaua. firm 00 days. Tri5L; 90 days. 5(b5: c months r,u.M 5. fall money, steady: high. 4: low, 3V, ruling rate, 3; closing bid offered ut 4; last loan, 4. r York Stock Market. Wall St., New York. Dec. 5. STOCKS Prospective federal control of the trann i porta tion lines of the country on a favor- able basis was the outstanding develop- ment of today's stock market. Sales ap proximated 900.000 shares, i Kails and industrials rebounded 1 to 4 points In the later dealings, deriving their stimulus from the recommendations of tbe Interstate commerce com mission. The clos ing was strong. Liberty 4's sold at !7-'S0 to 97.(G and jthe ;fi'a at 98.50 to 1H.4. New York Htock Market. (Furnished b.r T. J. My n. 301 N. K. Bid?. New York. Dec. 5. Close Today Yes. I A in. Beet Sugar i-74 Anaconda Mining 5?i A. T. S. F., c Kt Ki4 Haltimore Oulo 4! 4H I Central leather ij I Chesapeake Obio 4xr, I t M. St. l. e :0) M 1 C K. 1. P 1"4 1714 C'hino Copper 41-Si 41 Colorado-Fuel Irou .T.'Vi -T-'t ireat Northern, p 91 Inspiration 4L'V, 4:; Kenn. Copper 31 31 1 Miami Copper- i Missouri Pacific 24 l'enn. Kailroard 45Va Heading c .71 IIS I Studibnkcr 4L"4 42V4 Southern Pacific s 4 iu I'nion Pacific, c 113Vi 1H:4 V. S. Steel, c Ml- S7 j Vtah Copiter 7s 744, White Motors 37 Wabash b. 1 Plenty of Corn, ot Enough Pork, Put Up to Farmers. Washington, Dec. 5 Fifteen per cent increase in the production of pork in 1918 will be required for do mestic consumption and export to the allies, the department of agricul ture today announced in urging every farmer to do his share toward remedy ing the shortage of, pork products. Allotments by states have ben made to increase the production rang ing from a fifty per cent increase in Missouri to a five per cent increase in West Virginia. The percentage of in crease allotted to other states is: Ala bama 30; Kansas and Iowa 25; Il linois. Indiana, Nebraska, Arkansas and Mississippi 20, Okio. Kentucky Tennessee and South Carolina 15: South Dakota, Maryland and North Carolina 10. "The duty of American fa-mers, says the department, "to themselves a.td to the nation is clear.- Live stock production, especially hog raising, must be increased. If there should be a serious shortage of hogs in the coun try in 1918 there will be more corn on hand than the market can absorb. The Very extensive campaign now in prog ress to replace as mu-h wheat as pos sible with corn should be encouraged in every possible way." CHEERS FOR WiLSON His Xamc Arouses Applause In llou.se of Commons. London, Dec. 5. Mention of Presi dent Wilson's name in the house of commons debate was vigorously ap plauded this afternoon. Foreign Minister Balfour, replying to a question from, a member, said he was "unaware that President Wilson had in anywise retracted his sugges tion for a league of nations." BIG PLANT BLOWN UP Aetna Powder Works, 10 31 i Ic from Pittsburg, Reported Destroyed. Pittsburg, Dec. 6. An explosion oc curred this afternoon in the Heidel burg plant of the Aetna Explosives Co., ten miles from here. Reports which accompanied calls sent to Carnegie for physicians and undertakers, said the entire "T. N- T." plant had been destroyed and a num ber of persons killed. Question: How'll Jeanette Vote? Washington, Dec. 5. Jeanette Rankin, the lady from Montana, was non-committal today when asked if she would desert the ranks of the pacifists and vote for a declaration of war against Austria Miss Rankin voted against the German war declar ation. A. O. V. W. All members Topeka Lodge No. 11, A. O. U. V., are requested to attend election of officers Thursday evening. December. 6, I yal Arcanum hall. C. H. BEROXIUS, Recorder. i i "Some people can afford to speculate just as they can afford a yacht or an opera box. Specu i lation is a luxury. Is it one you can afford? If not buy farm mortgages." THK FARM MORTCAOE CO. Topeka. Kansas. JIST U-TE-C0 THE BKST .34c .T8c M5-1I). Pas 12-Ib. Bag "I lfouElt It at tlie Tea Store." Finest Northern Quaker Pintn. Potatoes Corn Flakes Beans 35? peck 9 pkg. 12? lb. Tin I Ke.1 Ions Horn 'nS?LJ'"re Hric-k odflsh On'om 'liore ftorsnum i7c ib. 2cin. sod, gayavsg. Fancy Shred Cocoanut, prepar ed with suerar. bulk, lb... 34c Baker's Cocoa, 25c can...., 20c Corn Starch. Ib fc Fancy Seeded Raisins, pkg.. 10c Beat Quality Hominy, large' can 10c Table Talk Catsup, 18c bottle ISc Coaster June Peas, can 12c Highest Grade Peanut Butter, Ib SOc Shredded Wheat Flincuit, pkg 12c Bran Breakfast Food, ISc pkg S TOPKKA'S Ql'ALlTV C5KOCEUS 1701 Buchanan St. 102.1 West tli St. K. eth St. Ponntown Store. THE UNION PACIFIC TEA CO: 6?a QVAIITV "mini U" OltOCEKIES feKKVICK Is-r) M With the skating season at hand this pretty costume should interest every irirl who enjoys the outdoors in winter. It is of jersey cloth of a jrreenish turquoise with bands of seal and bone buttons. The skirt is of black velvet. FINANCE FIGHT IS ON Washington. Dec. 5. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo today precipi tated the expected fight in congress over the proper method of further fi nancing, the war. He urged that $6,195,000,000 additional revenue needed for the year ending June 30, 1918, be raised by bonds and that no additional tax legislation be passed at this session. Advocates of financing the war mostly thru bond issues immediately rallied to McAdoo's standard, declar ing his recommendation represents the administration view. Wealth con scription advocate, however, are de termined to press insistently for fur ther levies on war profits and big in comes. The fight was postponed today by word from Senator Simmons, chair man of the senate finance committee, and Representative Kitchin, chairman of the house ways and means com--- JUee that there weulr, bft UurAV- inue legislation until spring. SAY FLOUR FI.OUIl 11I.1.K1 21-11). Sa k 4K-lb. Sack .SI. 40 .S2.75 Silver Bell Fancy Sweet Corn, can 12 c Country Gentleman Corn. 18c can 15c Fine White Oats, bulk. lh..7c Holly Fir Apricots, 25c can 20c Holly Bartlett Pears ISc can 2.1c Grape Nuts, pkg 12c Brown Sugar, the beat. lb..lOc Malaga Seedless Raisins. 15c pkg i3c Gold Dust, the 3 5c size, pkg. 23c Camel Coffee, 30c grade, lb. .23c 840 N. Kansas Ave. 1204 Kant (h St. I'itK-K'i

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