The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
April 16, 1918

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JJOKK Topeka boys have arrlcd "over there. Moic reaHon why you ediotilri subsribc for more bonds. lVEATHER FORECAST for Kansas: Fair tonight and Wedmaday. Not much cli'inge In temperature. HOME EDITION TOPEKA, KANSAS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1918 TEN PAGES THREE CENTS TO PUT TOPEKA OVER HER QUOTA BEFORE SUNDAY That Is the Aim of Local Lib erty Loan Workers. n. Il!wi-rm with just enough enspness in jiaAimui Reached This Week. DRIYE WILL BE CONTINUED Governor Bamberger of Utah Coming Here April 21. He Will Be Principal Speaker at Patriotic Meeting. Altho the drive will continually of- j ficially until May 4. and efforts to place i a subscriber's flag in every business! hi. use. office and home in the city will j continue until that date. Topeka must oversubscribe its third liberty loan j quota by Saturday night, it was an- j nounced today by J. R. Burrow, chair- I man nf the Shawnee county executive committee. Burrow, in outlining his objective campaign, called attention to the fact that the yellow cards and "strong arm" methods are not being used here. Instead of these methods both banks J I ii 11 mw, i-lia i rmii Si lawnee ii unty third liberty loan executive ami solicitor are usins persuasion and patriotic diplomacy, both of which seem to be working as well here as the more violent methods are in? other cities and communities. Inciters I I .awards. T ie cusca of several wealthy rihaw nf count v citizens, a larsfe number of whom arc rural residents, who re fusi' u subscribe to the bonds have b-en called to the Shawnee county chairman's attention. Instead of Kwardins t yellow card to these men Bui row ser.t each one of these men a le'tc- reading as follows; Tr third liberty loan committee Miawnce county is amng us osi Uavc the people of this county sub scr be as liberally to the third liberty loan as they possibly can our government needs this money nnd needs it badly. If we fail to do our full duty in this emergency, there itr no question but that congress will put a direct tax on every foot of land in the Lnited btates or America in order o raise the necessary funds to equip our army and navy. "We believe if you study this mat- 1 ter over, you will act at once." Tn 1 1 I 11 Vii II. "The firHt time." said Burrow, "that W if, mm want the government tries to float a loan their crews being saved by British- Kansas City. April 16. The cam and fails to, there is no doubt but that ships. There were no British casual- PaiTi for the third liberty loan will a. tax will be imposed. The citizens ties." end for Kansas City tonight with a r: j celebration at convention ha.ll. Major V A: A Wv I ilSliiliiilip 1 m ;---xi--: -mes.y:-:-y.-:- Mrv tiatntMri of this county and country had far (Continued on Paija Two TO DRIVE ON ITALY Austrian Papers Are Heralding an Of- Tensive In South. -The Aus- trian press, duplicating the wide- spread prediction by German newspa- bers of the west front drive, is her aiding a vast Italian offensive. Operations In the new theater will be so extensive says the Vossische Zeitung, according to official Rome cables here today, that Teuton armies will virtually encircle Switzerland and put that nation's neutrality "to the se verest test." American troops in Lor raine adjoining Switzerland may be attacked at the same time, it was hinted. RAIN ALLJWER NOW Wednesday Will Be a Duplicate of Today. Flora Says. TODAY'S TKMPKRATURES. 7 o'clock 50 I 11 o clock.-. i 8 o'clock 51 clock 59 0 o'clock 53 10 o'clock 54 1 o'clock 63 2 o'clock 65 Tpmnpratures for the day averaged 4 degrees above normal for the date. The wind was Mowing nine miles an hour from the northwest at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The weather today was fine and the air to ward off touches of sprini fever. The indications are mai 10 moirow wi'l be about the same as to- I j.... t'i- ti i nrnsnprl nf It 1 (1 r P corditocMoro Fiort but then there is no special necessity for rain just now. Thn lowest temperature in Topeka (Continued mTPace Seven) BEGIN HOTEL WORK Buildings on "orth American Site Being Torn Down. ThirtT nv Ground Will Be In Ihirty Ways truuuu Mill c Ready for Excavation. A large gang of men began work this morning tearing down the build ings fronting 100 feet on the north east corner of Ninth and Kansas ave nue, preparing the site for the erec- uon oi me American hotel to be erected by the j North American Hotel Co. of Omaha. I Tom Smith of Topeka contractor ifor the wrecking of the four Z-story hrick buildings on the site, stated to- day that with good weather and nor- j mal taDor conamuuo, no the ground cleared by the middle of May. An old barn occupies the Ninth street alley frontage and workmen this morning discovered that the timbers in this old stone structure. built many years ago, were of the heaviest soft pine variety. The buildings on Kan sas avenue are built of soft pine lum- ber with a few timbers of Cottonwood. The lumber is in excellent snape. W. G. Tandy, city commissioner, was on the ground today supervising the work of boarding up the sidewalks against traffic. The streets around the corner will not be blocked in any way. "The city of Topeka will do all in its power to encourage this proj ect," Mr. Tandy stated. "Topeka will be greatly benefited by the new hotel a vital need for years." For beautiful picture of the hand some North American hotel, showing colonnades, second story roof-garden, ten full stories, with electric light ef fects on cornice and above colonnades see rage 7. SINK BOCHE SHIPS Ten German Trawlers Are Victims of British. Waters Between Denmark and Sweden Cleared. s London, April 16. Ten German1 trawlers have been sunk by gjnfire in i the Cattegat (between Sweden and 1 imi.a...w, i Their crews were saved Dy British ships. There were no British casual- ties. j The operations in the Cattegat. the statement says, were undertaken by 1 the commander in chief of the grand; fleet. Tne statement follows: "The com- mander in. chief of the grand fleet renorts having undertaken to sweep i .1 n 1 c m r Lilt; daedal imi npni Atrii uci- mon tr-1 ror- c,, rir hv tn.n 1 TVi rattrmt ia a hrtrlv nf n-atar I j connecting the Skagerrack with the 1 Baltic sea. It is 150 miles lone, north and south, and is ninety miles wide. I On the east is Sweden and on the west Denmark. It is filled with shoals and I is very difficult to navigate. j IRISH POT BOILS j i Temper of Shamrock Land i Seems Abnormal "ow. I Home Rule Action Urged Be- 1 fore Conscription. j ways observed Sunday as "the day of j London. April 1 6. Meetings to pro- i rest." His wife, on the other hand, S test against conscription were held he says, is a Seven Day Adventist, and i Monday in 100 parishes in Ireland, all- insisted on observing Saturday for classes of the population participating. Sunday. This, he asserts, caused him says a dispatch from Dublin to the to lose two days a week from work. Times. The clergy took a leading part a thing which he was not financially in all the meetings. Resolutions of able to do. He also charged that she protest are pouring In from public further embarrassed him financially bodies and Sinn Fein clubs are very by compelling him to pay subscrip active. i tions to her church. "Unquestionably." the dispatch adds, "the present temper of nation- alist Ireland is very deplorable. The country has lost all sense of propor- tion and has forgotten not merely home rule, but the war. It is a country of contradictions, however, for n UUD"" a.na some otner tow.is volun- I in.iun.iiig uas urU I C-liai tvI.Ul jr gooa in the past few days. i Ask for General Home Rule. 1 London. April 16. The committee! I which is in charge of the drafting of j nu insi. uumis ruie urn me nines, '-,.t, M. alreadv is. or in about to ronm a member of the war cabinet. The same 1 paper prints an appeal from the Unionist members of oarliament urer- ing the immediate introduction of a 000 feet of film and, of the reels that measure to home rule aa "generous as are being shipped abroad for the en can be devised by the light of the tertainment of American fighting men recent discussion of the Irish conven-' in camp and battle fleet. lej?s than tion and in l.armony with the ultimate one-third were produced prior to last goal of federal devolution." The ap- August. peal is signed by Laurence Hardy, J. f Despite the great demand of pic P. Maaon. Arthur Shirlev-Benn. Georee tures the bureau announces recourse i R. Lane-Fox, Leslie O. Wilson and 1 George Lloyd. LOAN IS PASSING INITIAL BILLION IN TODAY'S PUSH $806,465,250 Reported x From EleTen Districts Yesterday. Big Minneapolis District Has 'ot Reported Yet. MAliT SMALL I UWNcS AKt UVtR

Chicago To Have a Holiday 'ext Saturday. Number of Individual Subscrib ers Very Large. Washington, April ioai. subscriptions are 16. Liberty passing the first billion dollars today. Figures from eleven of the twelve federal reserve districts showed a total of $806,465,250 up to the close of lrusiness yesterday. No official re ports have yet been received from the big Minneapolis district where the campaign opened yesterday. Unoffi cial reports from there, together with to-lay's work, however, will carry the roI, or i1Derty dollars well over a bil- lion, it is believed. The St. Louis reserve district team sti' had the pennant honors with about 44 per cent subscription of its Quota. Individual mi.ihii... sweiled the fund there and the banks ana corporations have for the most part held back on their subscriptions for the finish. Northwest Subscribing. Heavily. Actual subscriptions reports of the New York district totaled J252.451, 250, indicating that the vast reserve finucial strength there is only scratcM ed thus far. The Minneapolis district. Just open ing its sellinfl, reported that everybody was rooting hard. The great northwest is doing itself proud. Tacoma, Wash., boasts that one in every five people there already have bousht bonds. The rural dis trict, according to a Dallas report, are absorbing heavily. Many Small Subscribers. Reports from local committees continue to- tell of a large number of subscriptions from persons of small means and of the withholding of the bigger subecriptions by banks until later in thi campaign. The number or snial, towns which have exceeded -tke-r quota? fei now so great that the treasury has given up efforts to keep e. complete roll. mo Kansas city district reports i,iKo nave oeen won by 33 coun ties and 147 towns and that man- communities are now asking for honor stars, lnaiCaiinST till! ilniih nir f their allotment. 38 Icr Cent Over. Oklahoma in the late returns Jump ed from $3,000,000 to 110,000.000 in a single day. Iowa reports its quota 38 per cent over-subscribed with 21 counties run ning over 200 per cent of their quotas and with only five of the state's 99 counties under their allotments. In Chicago a holidav has been de- jclared in most industries and com- big ,iberty ,oan para(Je wl be he,d The Cleveland distrift tmla nroctH from the San Francisco district the honor of having the most communities oversubscribed Its record is now "34 as compared with San Francisco's 206 A feature of the reDort from" th Dallas district was that the number of individual subscriber vu inm.au. ?LtlyondSSViVn of cSnT ".5 expectation of cam-

K. C. Campaign to Km). P.Pnprnl Wond. in POmmnd At t TT1 D Funston, Kansas, will be the principal speakers. Tne city passe a tne ia,- 000,000 mark several days ago. WIFE AN ADVENTIST r. W. McGee Says Religion Made Him Iiose Two Days a Week. Differences in religious belief steered T. W. McGee. an employe of the Santa Fe shops, and Katherine Mc Gee. his wife, on the rocks of divorce court today. I In a petition filed with Mrs. Mary Chaoin. clerk of the Shawnee county district court, McGee says that altho I he is not a church member, he al- McGee says his wire deserted him ln 1915 and stin remains away from nis home and fireside. He asks a divorce. H A MI1VII-K M1K XIIMIII-KK M. C. A. Bureau Is Organizing Shows in France. j m. New York, April 16. Geo. Dunham Foster, president of the Y. M. C. A. community motion picture bureau, it i was announced France organizing a chain of picture theaters on the western front from Ypres to Lorraine. The bureau is pro lectins every week in America and I France, it is stated, more than 8.000, has not been had to movie "junk shops." OUR FIRST BOCHE PRISONERS LAND. IN U. S. TODAY Members of U-58 Crew Are To Be Interned. Many Are Already Held Who Were in America. ALL WILL BE PUT TO WORKJONE OF THE KEYS TO YPRESj Complaints Coming From Americans in Germany. Will Try To Send Food for American Prisoners. An Atlantic Port. April 16. The first German prisoners of war arrived in the United States today. They are members of the crew of the submarine U-58. which was sunk by an American destroyer. The prisoners are to be in terned. Their exact number was not given out. but it is believed there are about twenty. Washington. April 16. Every Ger man prisoner of war in this country was ordered by the war department Map Showing Bailleul, an Captured by fJ It 'iieupovt GHENT f fiV "T Mons U vVLons 6 Kf vArrasclV YJS. Canibrai J f pAbbCTille 'S f lKiauiiie s AlbrV J Foui iBies, oF.pei (m PARIS r,Js T The arrow indicates the point ot German assaults upon the British lines between Armentieres and Givenchy, where it is generally thought to b Hindenburs's plan to attempt a splitting of the British armies, forcing them back upon the coast. The British are offering a stubborn resistance Sn defense of Bethune (west of Givenchy), an important railway center from which troops in northern France and Flanders are supplied. In the accompanying map the black line at the right indicates the battle line of March 21, when the Germans began their huge offensive. The lines farthest to the left indicate the present position of the contending armies. The shaded line indicates the battle line of a year ago, before the Germans began their great retreat. today t be put at work. Eight hun dred and fifty 'ere set at the task of building roads near Kort McPherson. Ga., while others at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., have been engaged in building new structures to house other pris oners. Pershing's Prisoners a Problem. With the war department taking over for the navy the U-58 prisoners captured by the destroyer Fanning, there still remains the problem of whether General Pershing's prisoners shall be bro tht back here. A deci- sion on this point is expected soon, but i meantime the Teutons taken by the (Continued on Page Two.) PAY HEAVY PRICE German Wounded Pouring Back From Front. Every Available House Aachen a Hospital. Washington, April 1 6. The heavy price the Germans are paying for their advance on the western front was told in dispatches to the state department today saying that 25 trains loaded with wounded are passing thru ALx La Chapelle every night. The hospitals at Aix, the dispatch said, have been crowded beyond their capacity and the wounded were lodged in schools, public buildings and even private houses. There was great lack of medical supplies and no morphine. It also was reported that the mo rale of the German troops is not good except among the new levies of the j very young. FIRST YANK ESCAPE Has Arrived in Switzerland from Land "of Hans. Rome, April IS. The first Ameri can soldier to escape from German captivity has arrived at NeuchateL Switzerland, according to Swiss ad- vices tdday. The American is in terned there, the dispatches said- BRITISH GIVE UP STRATEGIC POINT ON WEST FRONT Bailleul Has Been Center of Struggle for Days. First Important Point To Fall in the North. "ew Positions High and Still Favorable. Berlin Claims Yank Position. Taken by Storm. Tremendous pressure exerted by picked fresh troops in the desperate German effort to drive the British from Messines ridge has compelled a slight retirement of the British line on the northern side of the Lys battle front. The town of Bailleul has been evacuated and the British front with drawn to a line running from north of that town to the north of Wul verghem and thence to Wytschaete. Important Railway Point the Germans Wytschaete occupies the highest point of the easterly ridge system and the British have been firmly established here since the early days of the ene my offenuive. The Germans thru their push into the southwest are now apparently in a more advantageous position to attack and their expected drive upon i! was reported develop ing this morning. As it forms the pivot oi the British lines which bends here to" the north an extremely deter mined defense of it is looked for from' Field Marshal Haig's troops. Altho the loss of Bailieul and some of the romparatively high ground around it, such as Mount De Lille and Revetsberg represents a decided setback for the defense, the British line as it has been withdrawn is still on ground much higher than the Germans occupy. The British artil lery thus possesses numerous vantage points from which, it can continue to pour in a devastating fire upon the attacking columns. Chief among there high spots is Mount KemmeL whirh towers up more than 400 feet from the low ground about Wul verehem, two miles to the southeast. Apparently Field Marshal Haig's forces still have a firm hold on all this valuable hill region. t Heavy Attacks Repulsed. What may be called the frontal at tacks of the Germans upon the ridge system back of Messines. Wytschaete and Hollenbeke furnUh the spectacu lar feature of the operations as re flected in today's news. One brief paragraph in Field Marshal Haig's report, however, has an importance attached to it that should nt be over looked. It records the repulse of heavy German attacks southwest of Vieur: Berquin. The German line here runs along the easterly border of Xieppe woods and it is by a push to the northwest in this region that the enemy hopes to reach Hazeb -uck, some five miles distant, and take this highly impor tant railway town.- Well nigh vitrJ rail communications to the Messines and Ypres sector would thus be cut. The British line is being strongly held in this region, however, and the flank ing movement shows no signs of mak ing progress as the report of the Vieux Berquin engagement shows. British Xav-- Victory. The German effort at present seems centered epon the northern side of WAR SECRETARY BACK FROM FRONT WITH OPTIMISM Arrived Home Today European Trip. From Former German Ship Brings Him Back. ENTENTE NATIONS CONFIDENT Proud of Achievements of America Abroad. Has Visited All Fronts in Western Europe. An Atlantic Port. April 16. Newton t D. Baker, secretary of war, returned j burn their love letters, how she sat on to America today after a Journey to I his knee while she embroidered cen Europe impaled by his desire to con-, fer with British, French and Italian military and political leaders regard-I called ner ms little JaP were Parts ing his own country's co-opeiation in ot testimony today tn the J10.000 the war against Germany, a.id by his heart balm suit of Bessie Stewart Wish also to become intimately ac- arainst IjiKhr Rmhhs nn Irisl In .1iiit quainted with the American troops under arms in France. On this un precedented mission the secretary was out of the country about six weeks. "I return with a sense of pride and confidence at the achievements of the United States and allied troops abroad tnat would lustiry many tr.irs across the water," the secretary said as he stepped aboard a train which will take him to Washington. This was 'he only statemen. the sec retary said he cared to make until his return to Washington, wnere he promised a broad review of his voyage (Continued on Tage Two.) OUR LOSS: 3,559 Total War Casualties to Date Are Given Out. Disease Takes Three Times More Than Battles. Washington, April 16. Total cas ualties among the American expedi tionary forces abroad to date are 5,559. divided as follows: Killed in action. 246. Killed or prisoner, 15... i Killed by accident. 189. T Died of. disease, 891... Lost at sea, 237. Died of wounds, 79. Gas attacks, suicides, known, 45. Civilians killed, 7. Wounded, 1,783. Captured, 43. Missing. 37. Unaccounted for. 1. Grand total, 3.5'9. causes un- I DID NOT DO IT! i Of Success Berlin's Report of Su Against Yanks a Lie. n i r she consented to his proposal, she Bodies Were Repulsed With testified. A plush coat she claimed Loehr Big LOSS. i Grubbs had given her for a Christmas j present was displayed. Hugh Fisher, i on cross examination, demanded if she attnrt BwMt .i a -The German hadn't received the coat from E. A. 5 .h- ft!r rTri1Ln P?,slUon Guth of Topeka. She denied that wE t1aki04 tHJf rlVer Meuf'!Guth had ever purchased any clothes north of St. Mihiel. Sunday, was made for neri admitting that she had bor by a force of 400 picked troops who .in f h,m recently had been transferred from the Russian front. Altho the Ameri cans were outnumbered more than two to one, the correspondent of the Associated Press with the American army in France telegraphed under date of Monday that the Germanslga thing, She testified that whisky Y had oeen prescribed to ner by Dr. C back Into their own trenches. The i R Johnson of Kansas City, and pre known enemy- casualties included 64 wnted a statement signed by the phy dead, many wounded and 11 prison-: 8ician stating such a prescription had ers, beside a number of wounded who been given by him. The statement by their comrades.' '"The boches are too respectful now even to fire on patrols. The men are sharpening their bayonets and want to aet some more boches," said an of ficer. Chased Them. "One typical American private, Italian-born but a "Rood American now encountered several Germans in his trench. He killed one and the rest fled. Pumping bullets after them, the private chased them into No Man's Land and captured two. Returning with- them to the American trenches, he asked a sergeant for a match. The latter told him to capture another German and he would get it. "The prtvate thought he had al ready earned it, but he went out into No Man's Land again and soon re turned with a six-footer eighteen ineies taller than himself." "Yellow Clear Thru." The Germans are equipped with new trench daggers, si inches long and wit.i double edges. 'l ne. enemy troops sre husky and average about 18 vears of age. The Americans are smaller but ap peal tougher. The Americans are laden with "Gott mit uns" belt buckles as souv enirs. The average opinion of the Ameri can troops regarding their Teuton enemies was expressed by a Tankee private, who said: -'They are great big bums. They're yellow clear thru." KILLED IN TEXAS Ij.redo. Tex.. April 16. Pvt. Thos. F. Atchison. Headquarters- company, I Thirty-seventh infantry, was killed here today." when a bullet,"fired from the Mexican side of the river, struck him in the aide. Atchison's home was in Portland, Oregon. the Lys battlefield, no important haps fatally injured in an aviation ac fighting being reported 'rem the cident on the beach here today. They southern sectors. In view of the re-1 were making a practice flight when IConclnaed oa Page Two. GRUBBS INDUCED BESSIE STEWART TO BURN LETTERS That Was Part of Her Testi mony on Stand Today. Says He Tool Her to Rooming House and Hotel Here. CALLED HER HIS "LITTLE JAP"!FILL UP OFFICE BUILDING Wife and Mother Remain at j Defendant's Side in Court, i Seduction Added to Charges Against the Defendant. How Loehr Grubbs persuaded her to Robert D. Carver's division of the dis trict court. The trial opened at 9 o'clock Mon- Bessie Stevarl ters he had written to hpr from Kansas City. day morning. At 11 o'clock this morn, in Bessie Stewart stepped from the witness stand, her story practically unshaken in its major details after hours of gruelling cross examination. Her sister from Cameron, Mo., sat be side her today, making the little wo- man seem less lonesome and alone than at the opening of thj trial. Honey,' she testified, he said, let's burn all this foolish truck. We'll never be separated again.' That brought up the question as to whether Bessie Stewart was a hard drinker, or not. She admitted she drank whisky in small quantities about once a month and claimed that thousands of other women did the Hrs-lioehrGrubts MrsXXGrubbf. mohSer of Loehr Grubbs. Some court room sketches at the Stewart-Grubbs breach of promise trial. was ruled out as evidence on the grounds that it was not sworn to by the physician The defense emphasized Bessie Stewart's inability to name the hotel where she claimed Grubbs had se- (goptinued oo PacT oT NO AGREEMENflIADE Japs Landed Only to Protex Own and British Interests. Washington, April 16. In giving out today the text of a statement made at Vologda by Ambassador, Francis the state department made it' clear that the landing of Japanese and British forces at Vladivostok v.t-s not in pursuance of any international agreement but merely was for the purpose of protecting Japanes and staaehe details of such a move ha Rw.i.h it.rLt, ing been fully worked out and co. Fliers In Fatal Accident. Long Beach. Cal., April IS. Uw xence M. Reel. 21. was killed, and Grid sol Christofferson, his instructor, per- 1 their mac nine ieu. ROCK ISLAND TO MOVE A DIVISION TO TOPEKA SOON Freight Headquarters Will Be Established Here. Many Hundred Employes To Make Homes in City. Run at Least 15 Freight Crews in Three Directions. Plans All Complete Will Be Announced in a Week. Creation of freight division offices, yard and facilities, -,'hich will fill up the now almost vacant office building here and bring an additional several hundred persons into the industrial population of the city is under consid eration by the Rock Isla:.a railway, it was admitted in official circles today. A. C. Ridgway, vice president in charge of operation with headquarters at Chicago, is the instigator of the pro- The mother of Loehr Grubbs and his wife remain at his side constantly. Grubbs. if anything, is more calm and collected today than on the first day. He constantly took note of Bes sie Stewart's testimony. His young wife, formerly' Lucile Mulvane. shows the ordeal thru which she is going in listening to the story of her husband's debauchery from the lips of another woman. Color in her cheeks the first day had fled today. As tes timony was introduced tell ing of Grubbs calling for Bessie in a tax at 11 o'clock one night and talking with her on the front porch a few minutes, she looked at her husband questioningly. The mother's face remains impassive. At one point in the trial when the testimony against her son was exceed ingly unpleasant, she. reached over and pulled down a turned up collar, adding a few pats of the hand on his shoulder. Induced Her to Burn Letters. Bessie Stewart testified that after Loehr Grubbs r- turned, from Kansas City where, she claimed, he had seduced" her and where he took the Keeley cure, he was looking thru her trunk with her one day and saw love let posed move. Ridgway. a firm believer of large tonnage and short hauls, has long sought a way to shorten the freight haul between Kansas City and Herington. Under the recent heavy "war traffic" considerable trouble has been experienced in making the run ln compliance with the federal hours of labor statutes. In some cases, it is said, it was necessary to turn train crews around before the trip was com pleted. McFarland and Topeka, it ia un derstood, were considered as possible dlv.sion points, and Topeka seemed the most favorable location. Big Thing for Topeka. Topeka could receive no more val uable recognition from the Rock 1s .and than the creation here of the nerv freight division. In adding to .he railroad importance and indus trial life of the city, the step would be equivalent almost to the creation here of a part of the district general offices. Reports "out on the line" ara to the effect that the division point pro posed for this city is to be a strictly new one. Official intimations, how ever, assert that a division from soma other point is more likely to be moved here. Intimations as from where Loehr Grubbs this division Is to come from, how ever, are lacking. Enlarge Local Facilities. Establishment of a division point here will necessitate the enlargement of present facilities, including a new roundhouse probably. It is probable that the move wilj include the addi tion of about 17 additional freight crews of 5 members each making a total of 85 men, mostly heads of fam ilies. That, besides the officers, wip ers, helpers, hostlers and others will bring many hundred Rock Island per. sons to Topeka. Official announcement that the new step has definitely been decided upon has not yet come from headquarters in Chicago.- The plans are yet in the proposed and contemplated stage. However, they are well thru thia sidered. Topeka would, indeed, welcome its old friend, the Rock Island, hack into a promirent place in the city's rail road circles. The eqnlvslent of the Inbor of 20.001) mem for a month hs been lout to the govere ment's ahliibuildlog program thru strikes and lockouts.

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THE TOPy A DAILY STATE JO URN AI TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1918 U. S. MUST HASTEN Hun Aim Is To Crush Allies Before American Aid Arrives. Speedy Transportation of Yan kees Necessary, Says Balfour. LiUilUUd, J p 11 1 I O. vy 1 1 a. i is now most pressinsrly required fighting: forces of the United States should be broupht as speedily as pos sible into the field." said A. J. Bal four, the foreign secretary, speaking at a luncheon to the American labor delegation today. "The German plan," continued Bal four, "is to shatter the British army before the American weight can be I brought into the scale. The German inspired press has been instructed by its masters to show the utmost con tempt for the American military ef fort, but the masters do not share that contempt. They are planning their whole campaign and are sacrificing men with reckless extravagance in or der that the American help may ar rive after their blow has been struck." BRITISH GIVE Continued from Page One.l cent rumors of possible naval activi ties by the Oermans to accompany their land offensive, the news from London today showing that British naval forces have been operating: jn the Cattepat. the strait between Swe den and Denmark, and have sunk ten German trawlers there is significant. Still more significant seems the form of the British announcement which comes in a report from Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty. commander in chief of the Grand Fleet. This would appear to indicate that the irand Fleet is out. and possibly pres ages most important naval develop ments. The operation was undertaken yes terday for the purpose of sweeping the Cuttegat of mines, the report shews, and may still be in progress. What further British effort if any the oper ation implies, cannot well be forecast. Jt is indicative of intensified British naval activities at any rate, if not pre liminary to far more important oper ations on the part of the British naval forces. A Alain Objective. Bailleul is located midway between Arnientieres and Hazebrouck, on a Kharp bend in the railway between these two cities. It is seven miles and a half east of Hazebrouck and about eight miles southwest of Tpres. The Messines ridge, which is the strongest defensive position in all Flanders, runs westward from the village of Messines past Wulverghem to Kemmel, a dis tance of about three miles. It is about a mile and a half wide and on its eastern face runs northward to Wyt schaele. This ridge is practically impregna ble from the east and only slightly less dimicult from the south or north. One of Hjndenburg's main objectives in the Flanders drive has been to work around to the west of this ridge and assault the British positions there from the rear. Opens Way Westward. In the event that Messines ridge should fall, only a miracle of British grit would save Ipres, which never nas been in German hands. The fall of Bailleul also opens the westward road to Hazebrouck, the most Important railway and highway center in Flanders. The Germans al ready have reached Meteren. Merris and Vieux-Berquin, three towns on a norm ana soutn line, a mile and a nair apart. Vieux Berquin is only four miles east of Hazebrouck. Met eren is a mile and a quarter due west of Bailleul. In addition to the fall of Bailleul, Haig reported fighting in the neigh borhood of Wytschaete and southwest &t Vieux-Berquin. With the capture of Bailleul and the Isolation of Wulverghem by the Ger mans, von Hindenburg has brought his forces attacking Ypres to the very base of the hills in which are located The princippl British defenses protect ing the Ypres lowlands to the rear. May Be a Boomoran-r Hitherto -.he Germans have been Jjshting al-jp.g comparatively level Cround. Tney now enter unon what ought to be the most difficult part of nieir iasK. n rtinaenDurg continues his effort to reach Ypres. th.i slmich. ter of his trcops as they attempt to ad vance thru I he hills may wel: become unprecedented even for th present man-killing drive. -Since Hindenburg has resolved to Mntinue his reckless slaughter of man Jower in this sector of the front, it is Vetter tactics for the British to retire wholly to their defenses amid he hills than to continue the bloody game on Jevel ground. The hills defending Ypres may take their place amons; the mosc terrible death traps in history. There is no reason for present alarm in the slight British retirement; while the situation is unquestionably serious for vhe allies, it is capable of becoming well nigh fatal for Hindenburg. Success for French. Paris, April 16. Successful French raids in the Chemin des Dames and Toul sectors (where American troops are fighting) were reported by the war office today. "French patrols took prisoners In the Corbeny sector (Chemin des Pames) in the Champagne near .eichprey i oul sector) and in the Vosges." the communique said. There was active mutual artillery firing north of Montdidier. 1 The French progressed slightly at Koyon. AJong the Oise canal there were French reconnoissances West of Pierremande, a French reconnoiter ing party crossed the canal and brought back ten prisoners. American Position Taken. Amsterdam, April 16. North of St Mihiel, on Sunday night says a Wolff bureau dispatch from Berlin dated llonday. the main part of the Ameri &n position situated to the eastward fend southeastward of Maizey on the right bank of the Meuse river was taken by storm. A large section of the main enemy tines of defense on the high road from Laundering of Every Description DRY CLEANING DYEING HAT RENOVATING Out-of-Towa Work Solicited Topeka Laundry Co. S7tb Tear. PHONE 365S St. Mihiel to Bourois, the dispatch adds was rolled up despite the brave resistance of the enmywho suffered the severest casualties In addition to the loss of prisoners. Americans Prove Mettle. With the American Army in France, April 1 6. Details of Sunday mornJ ing's battle on the left bank of the Me use prove that the new American army is more than the master of the Germans. The boches used their best storm troops to attack, vs. Numerous natur alized Italians. Poles Irish, English .,4 a, rnn a marl can force which, without a knockout blow, repulsed the Germans. The enemy came an in. a -two wave forma tion after a barrage Storm troops led the attack. After a three-hour fight the 400 Germans were hurled back. They lost 64 dead, ill--prisoners and 22 mitrailleuses.' Paris. April 16. Heavy artillery fighting occurred last night on the main battle front In the neighborhood of Montdidier the war office announ ces. The French captured a machine gun and prisoners near the Oise canal. "In the region south of Montdidier there was heavy artillery fighting. In the sector of Noyon the French made some progress in a local opera tion. "French reconnoitering parties were verv active, especially in the region of the Oise canal. A French detach ment crossed the canal west of Pierre mande and brought back ten prison ers and one machine gun. French patrols also took prisoners in the sec tor of Corbeny in the Champagne near Seicheprey and in the Vosges. A Ger man raid at Teton was repulsed. "Everywhere else the night was calm." PAINT THEM YELLOW Vnion rncife Employes in K. C. Cursed the IJberty loan. Kansas City, April 15. Three men employed by the Union Pacific rail road in its shops in Kansas City, Kan., were smeared with yellow paint and escorted from the shops by a crowd of fellow workmen following a liberty loan meeting here today. Workers declared the men said: "To hell with the liberty loan," and that "If they had a barrel of money they would not subscribe." Yellow streaks were painted upon the men's backs and around their necks, after w'h ich they were led to the gates and told never to return. TO RUN OIL TRAFFIC A Kansas City Man Is Given Post of Supervisor. Kansas City, April 15. B. Lr. Swearington, assistant general freight agent of the Missouri Pacific railroad here received advices today that he had been appointed government sup ervisor of oil traffip thruout the south west. The appointment came from R. H. Aishton of Chicago, western regional director of railroad under Director General McAdoo. TO PUT TOPEKA OVER (Con tl n qefl from Pagtf One. better lend their, money at a good rate of interest than to have taxation im posed. If congress once imposes a tax, it will be a big one and it will also be a long time before it is re pealed. "I do not think there is any doubt but that the men who are failing to subscribe and aref able to will mend their ways before the campaign is over after seeing conditions in the correct economical and patriotic light. I am positive we will get results from all such persons without the yellow card which, in several cases, might impose uncalled for embarrassment and harm. A man always knows his business better than the other fellow." Utah Governor Coming. F. W. Freeman, chairman for the First Kansas district committee, an nounced today that Governor Simon Bamberger of Utah, one of the na tion's most prominent state executives, will be in Topeka April 24. On this date a rousing patriotic meeting will be held in the interest of bond sales, Bamberger being the principal speaker. Governor Bamberger comes here under the auspices of the national lib erty loan headquarters at Washing ton. Details and tne places or tne meeting have not been made as yet but will be announced later. Freeman also announced that ap propriate arrangements would e made immediately for the reception of the "mddem Paul Revere," who is to ride Thursday from state head quaiters in Wichita to Topeka with a message to Governor Capper and the capital city. "Revere" will ride In a motor car instead of horseback, as did the original immortal patriot, and will come by way of Newton. Marion, Herington, Junction City and Warn ego. Women Work on Campaign. Banks today reported fully as much or more activity in buying bonds en the part of the public as Monday. The organizations which are soliciting are said to be exceeding the speed limit the gait first established for them: Various women's committees are working out details for a house to house canvass of the city next week in order to give every householder a chance to buy. M. J. Drury, superintendent, report ed today that total subscriptions in the Santa. Fe shops here have reach e the sum of Jill. 106. Indications are that the final total will be around the $150,000 mark. Trury said. Cap tains In the shops have been at work four days and. show the following daily totals: April 12 $57,150 April IS 30.800 April IB... 12,900 April 1. 10.750 Total $110,100 In addition to the shops subscrip tions, the Santa Fe storehouse sub scriptions today totaled $25,300. N The Life tTnderwriters; committee announced today that thru an error on its part Monday, the $10,000 sub scription in Topeka of the Massachu setts Mutual Insurance company, H. O. Garvey, manager here was not report ed. Garvey was one of the first men in the Topeka association to report a subscription by his company to the credit ofTopeka. Co-ops Get $123,400. The Co-operative club is over the top by $23,400 on the $100,000 it promised to raise in the third liberty loan campaign. Reports at the lunch eon today showed one subscription of $9,000 from the Ismert-Hincke Mill ing company, which makes the total subscription from that company of $10,000. It was voted today that the Co-ops will close their campaign Fri day noon and offer their services to the general committee. HUNS GET U.S. COLONEL Reported Captured or Missings 44 Names on Today's Casualty List. Washington, April 15. The casualty list today contained 44 names, divided as follows: Killed in action, 1; died of wounds, 3; died cause unknown, 1; died of disease, 7; wounded severely, 4; wounded slightly, 27; missing in action, 1. Col. R. C. Boiling is reported as captured or missing in today's cas ualty list. Bight other officers are named. Capt. Hyman Green and Lieut. John Alexander Currin were severely wounded and Capt. Wake man G-. Gribbel and Lieut. Arthur S. Bugbee, George W. Donnetl, Hamon Gray, Thomas F. Hale and Reuben A. Moser were slightly wounded. The killed in action: Private Ovila Case. Died of wounds: Corp. Frank Stiles, Privates Oscar Blanchette, Jo seph L. Richards. Died of disease: Sergts. John Demp sey, John B. Gremlins, Corp. John E. Clark, Privates Charles A. Costello, Arthur H. Robinson, Henry V. Trout man, Nevel Edward Wheeler. Died cause unknown: Corp. Charles J. Buell. jr. The colonel, R. C. Boiling, named in today casualty list as captured or missiner in action, was identified bv 'war Hxnu rtmprtt nffifftl a t Vt C Roll. ing. assistant general counsel of the United States Steel corporation, who was commissioned in the signal corps soon after war was declared. PEACE IS NOT OFFICIAL Rumania will "Be in at Finish," High Officials Here Assert. New York, April 15. ilumania. officially, has not made a separate peace with .Germany, and altho neces sity may make continuation of nego tiations imperative, the little kingdom probably will be in "at the firjsh," ac cording to high Rumanian officials here today. NEW REVENUE HEAD 0 Stiakeup in Agents Force Precedes Great Delinquent prive. Washington,, April 15. Preceding a drive against delinquents on income and excess profits tax returns, inter nal revenue Commissioner Roper to day announced a re -organization of the revenue agent force with John L. Murphy of Boston, as chief revenue agent to succeed L. G. Nutt. OUR FIRST BOCHE (Continued from Page One-) Yankees remain in French prison camps. That some complaints of German food and camp conditions have come from American prisoners in Germany became known today. Some of the men reported they did not have enough blankets, while others said they were given either poor quality food or too little of it. International law requires a nation to feed its prisoners as it feeds its own soldiers. This Germany is not doing, tho the United States is scrupulously observing that regulation. Now America proposes that the interned sailors and other prisoners already on hand and the U-58 men coming here shall work for their "chow." TJ. S. Will Send Food. To relieve American prisoners in Germany from poor or insufficient food, the United States government has established the same system as the British, feeding the prisoners herself. This is done thru the American Prisoners Central committee at Berne, Switzerland. This committee supplies food packets now. The camps where Americans are de tained are inspected regularly by Spanish embassy agents, who take up with Germany any complaints that German food instead of the America supplies is given me men. inree one- pound packages or rood are sent every two weeks and clothing is replenished every six months. Apparently the complaints or some prisoners have re suited from German substitution of made-in-German y products for the American goods. WAR SECRETARY (Continned from Page One.) and Its results. Those who returned with the secretary said they did not doubt that they reflected Mr. Baker's feeling when they said that there was complete optimism and confidence among the peoples of the entente na tions that the war would be won. On German Merchantman. Apparently in perfect physical trim, with color in his cheeks and eager to plunge into his duties at Wathington, the secretary stepped ashore at 8:30 o'clock this morning from the deck of a ship which once sailed the seas as a German merchantman. His trip from Europe had been undisturbed by any submarines which might have lurked in ocean lanes. The weather had been ideal, the voyage a beautiful one, Mr. Baker said. Accompanying the secretary were Maj. Gen. W. M. Black, chief of engineers, U. S. A.; Col. M. L. Brett, ordnance department, TJ. S. A.; and Ralph Hayes, Mr. Baker's private secretary. Questions asked of the secretary by newspaper men remained unanswered. 4'Not a worcK" he said, in reply to queries as to his opinion regarding the Irish situation, aircraft produi-tion and the appeal of Arthur J. Balfour, the British foreign secretary for the United States to hurry troops to France. "Ail I can say is what I have given you. the secretary added. Mr. Baker first learned today of the death of Senator Stone of Missouri. "I must express my deep regret," he said. Will Discuss Voyage Later. Mr. Baker said he would be pre pared to discuss later the historical voyage which took him to England and France, where he conferred with the entente war leaders, military and political, and General Pershing com manding America's forces in France, and assembled military facts which he will present to President Wilson. The secretary left American .chores about six weeks ago. arriving at French port on March 10. At Paris he conferred with Arthur. J. Balfour, British foreign secretary and General Foch of the French army. The great engineering feats which Americans have accomplished io ac commodate .the accumulating arrival of American soldiers in France were inspected by the secretary. He toured the American lines of communication at-'one point, narrowly escaping in jury from a German shell. He visited the Belgian front and met King Al bert of Belgium; went to London and was received by King George and visited Premier Lloyd George and American Ambassador Page, Return- ing to France Mr. Baiter conferred with General Pershing at American headquarters, approving the Ameri can commander's action in placing his troops 'at the unqualified disposal of -General .Foch. r. Voyage Kept Secret Early this month, Mr. Baker went to Venice,-inspecting the ruins caused by Teutonic air raids; visited Italian army headquarters and was .wel comed at Rome by the American am bassador and Italian officials. He con ferred with Premier Orlando and the foreign and war ministers. Returning to Paris on April 4. he attended the ceremony held in celebration of the anniversary of America's entering the war. He was received by Premier Clemenceau. The secretary's departure -for Amer ica was shrouded in the same secrecy as that which attended his embarka tion when he left for Europe and un til his arrival here today, nothing had Deen published regarding his voyage. While waiting for his tram Secre tary Baker sent out for newspapers and magazines, remarking that he had oeen necessarily out of touch with news developments in the United States. Baker intimated that the American troops in France .were very eager to get into the fighting. He said they aon t want to see any Americans over there, unless they come with guns on their shoulders. Ready to fight their bit. ON FUNERAL TRAIN Senator Stone's Body Being Brought to Jefferson City. St. Louis, Mo., April IS. The fu neral train bearing the body of the late Senator Williaifl J. Stone, Mis souri, will arrive here at 5:30 tonight en route to Jefferson City, where the Doay will lie in state. Av committee of 100 citizens and the First regiment Missouri home guards will view the body. The home guards will act as a military escort. governor Gardner and a militarv escort will meet the train in Jefferson City.- The body will be taken to vada. Mo., later for burial tomorrow afternoon. IT IS PROHIB NIGHT. Evangelist Dean Calls It "Kansas Night" at First Baptist Church. This is national prohibition night at the First Baptist church. Evangel ist Dean has called it "Kansa? right." "Kansas led the fight for liberty in "58 and '59, and gave to the world the great Puritan leader. John Brown. She has also let- in the fight against whisky." v Doctor Dean's topic tonight will be "Abraham lancoln and thu Booze Battle." In it he will review the at titude of Lincoln on the liquor ques tion. The W. C. T. U. will attend the sen-ice in a delegation, and all tem perance people are urged to turn out "to show the devil on which side you're on," as the evangelist phrased it. GRUBBS INDUCED (Continued from Pa ga One. duced her in Kansas City, altho her testimony showed, she had been there twice. She was unfamiliar with the city at the time of the visit, she testi fied, and was taken there in a'- taxi cab. She repeatedly refused to give dates and thus avoided subsequent confusion concerning them on cross examination. Following her testimony. W. E. Atchison, attorney for Bessie Stewart, moved to amend his original petition and insert seduction along with breach of promise, humiliation and body suf fering as grounds for damages. His motion was bitterly contested by the defense but was sustained by Judge Garverl That necessitated Bessie Stewart naming the places of relations with Grubbs. A rooming house near Sev enteenth street and Kansas avenue, the Chesterfield hotel and a brick flat on either Sixth or Fifth street near the court house irera named by her. Mrs; Alice Egglestone, -41? East Fifth street, was the next witness o n the stand. Bessie Stewart roomed at her house for a long time. Mrs. Eggle stone testified that Loehr Grubbs called' on Bessie Stewart nearly every night for eight or nine months. She testified that Bessie Stewart had told her of her engagement to Grubbs, that she had seen fancy work and towels prepared by Bessie for "their home," had seen Bessie Stewart sitting on his lap embroidering fancy work for her future home, had seen letters written to Bessie'NStewart by Loehr Grubbs from Kansas City, tiad heard him call her my little Jap girl." Attorneys in a Clash. The defense devoted moot of its cross-examination of this witness to an incident in Mrs. Egglestone's past I eleven years ago when the house was raided. That incident occurred five years before Bessie Stewart took a room there, testimony disclosed, and Mrs. Egglestone. testified she had never mentioned the raid io Bessie Sewart, while Bessie Stewart testified that she bad never known anything concerning the raid. Attorneys clashed only once. J. B. Larimer, an attorney for Grubbs, ac cused Atchison of coaching Bessie Stejvart in "telling a lie" concerning the gift' of the. plush coat by Grubbs. Atchison branded Larimer's statement as an absolute falsehood. Tfcn min utes later Larimer asked the court if he might apologise to Atchison and after the apology was proffered Atchi son apologized to Larimer for his re marks. -.Judge. Garver ruled today that the underworld depositions against Bessie Stewart's character concerning .her actions subsequent to the filing of the suit might oe offered in evidence. A woman detective was employed by at lorneys ffr':Grubbs to watch' Bessie Stewart while depositions of number of men and women were taken bear ing on Bessie's alleged misconduct in Kansas City Find virrle in Crura?. Chicago Anril 15. Department of 'ustice agents found :'d. clMel lotlny two wireless telegraph plantj in Chi cago. Arrests were expecte.-t before tonight, federal officials said. TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS Chicago, April 10. CORN Excellent planting conditions had a bearish effect today on corn. The general raiua were said to b&ve been of great benefit in preparing tbe aoit UnfaTorabie war development tended, also, according to some authorities to carry the market down grade. Opening prices, which ranged from ,c to 4c lower, with May $1 27 and July $1.49 to L49t were followed by a sbarp additional break, especially in tbe July delirery. Despite some rallies, tbe heaviness fMhe market increased as tbe session approached an end. Prices closed weak. c to 2c lower, with May $1.17 and July $1.47 to tl.47H. OATS Oats, like corn, showed weakness jkn-aecopnt of bearish weather and war od Tiees. The market lacked support. After opening r to c on, with Ttfay 84c to frlc. pri-es continued to sag. .7 PROVISIONS Provisions were depress ed by -the liberal increase of lard supplies during tbe first I'alf of April. Besides, hog and gratu afforded uo stimulus to buyer. Settlor that wm ascribe! to a -Milwaukee packer .led subsequently to an additiouul setDacir. Cbicasw Grain and Iovision Market- tTbe range of price, on grain futures on Chicago Board of Trade as reported by Tl-a. i. Myers, S01 Ji. E. Bldg.t Chicago. April 18. Open High Low 1'oria.v Yea. ClOBG CORN May ..127 July ..14!M4 OAT$ May &4fc POItK Mnv ..47.90 LARD Mnv .25.55 RIBS May ..24.02 127 i 126 127 147 S3Vi 47.85 25.00 24.05 127'4 149 84 Vi 48 .00 25. C7 24.10 83 'A 47.83 25.55 23.95 47.90 25.62 24.02 BlDWI City Grain Market. (Tbe range of prices on grain futures on Kansas City Board of Trade as reported by 1ho J. Myers, 301 N. K. Bide.) Kansas City, April 16. High Low Todav Yes. Close Open CORN Ma- .127 July ..152 OATS May 83 127 152 1274 150 127 150 127 152 Vi 84 83 84 Chicago Grain and Proviaiona Market. Chicago, April 16. CORN Cash: May, $1.27; June. $1.4TV.; Julv. $1.47eil.47V. OATS April, 87y.e; &av, 83Vi'a!sU--. Will K May, $49 S5. I.AKD-Mav. $25.tH; Julv. $25.92. SHOUT K1BS May. $24.05; July, $24.52. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City. April 16. CORN Cash: Market unchanged. No. 2 mixed, $1.H2G 1.66; No. 3, $1.55ftJ:1.60; No. 2 white, $1.70J 1.76 No. 3. nominal No. 2 yellow, $1.65fe$ l.ini; No. nominal. OATS Market steady to le higher. No. 2 white, 8Xc: No. 2 mixed, 83stt&tc. RYE $2.45l&2.50. KAFIR AMI MILO MAIZR-3.32iS3.37. HAY Market weak. Choice timothy. $22.001423.00: chole prairie, $22.50fe23.00 choice alfalfa. $25.50(8 26.00. SHORTS $1.B0(n2.10. BRAN $1.65(&1H0. WHEAT Kocepta, 10 cara. Rt'TTER Market urn-banged. POT'LTRY Market unchanged. KUIJS Firsts. 321.C CORN Close; May, $1.27.1.27 July, $1.00. w York Produce Market. New York. April 10. BUTTER Market firm. Creamery higher than extras, 45 KGtiS Market firm. Fresh gathered ex tras, :t8'c. tHEKNK MHTKft steady. &tate nem spe cials. 24f23V-c. POULTKY A lire and dressed, firm. Jfw York Sugar Market. New York. April 16. SUGAR.- Raw, steady; centrifugal, 6.005 fine granulated, 7.40. Chicago Produce Market. Chicago. April BUTTER Market higher. Creamery. r4fq;42c. Ki(JS Market higher. Firsts. 32&&34c; ordinary firsts. "l433c; at mark, cases included, r.l 14 (a 'XW. POTATOES-Market unchanged. New Orleans Cotton Market. New Orleans. April 10. COTTON-Spot, nominal and unchanged: middling, 33.00. New York Money Market New York. April 16. MONEY Mercantile paper, 4 and 0 months, 0 per cent. Sterling. SO dsy bills. 4.72',i. commercial, H day bills on banks, 4.2; commercial, 00 day bills, 4.71; demand, 4.75; cables, 4.70 7 1ft. Francs, demand, 5.1214 cables. 5.70V;. liar silver. 9oc Mexican- dollars,- 77c government bonds, easy railroad bonds. Steady. Time loanB. steady 60 days, 90 qays and 6 month. 5ad per cent, i Call money, easier; liiph. 3; low, 2; ruling rate;- 3 1 closing bid 2 offered at 3; last loan 3. -ry New Yorlr :Mtork Market. i Wall St.. New York, April lo-TOOKS War biklletinsV received in tbe financial district shorly before the opening of to day's stock market tended to depress prices moderately in the initial dealings. Tbe leaders of the preceding session, including United States Steel. Crucible Steel, Baldwin Locomotive. Shippings. Reading. Oils and Alcohol yielded tbe better part of a point, while specialties fell beck under the reac tion in General Motors, that stock losing 2. Prices hardened before tbe end of tbe first naif hour. Liberty bonds were steady. The rally of the first hour extended from 1 to 2 points in Baldwin Locomotive, General Motors and a few miscellaneous issues. Pools resumed their operations in Distillers, Linseed. Central Foundry, Inter national Paper. American Ice and the To baccos. United States Steel and Reading made up lost ground but another setback occurred later, a few issues repeating or falling below early low levels. The motor group was under especial pressure. Liberty 34's sold at 98.94 to 98.90. first 4's at 96.3S to 96.42 and second 4's at 96.25 to 96.40. New York stock Market. (Fnrniabed bj T. J. Myera. 301 N. E. Bldg. New York, April 16. Anaconda A. T. S. F.. c Baltimore Obio Central leather Chesapeake Obio C M. St. P., c C. K. I. P Cbino Copper Great Northern, p.. Inspiration Miami Kenn. Copper Missouri Pacific 20 Penn. Hailroad 44 Reading W Srudebaker Southern Pacific 82 I'nion Pacific V. S. Steel, c 91 I tab copper White Motors l Wabasli TVj Baasaa City JA-rm Stock galea (Tile following sales were maue tbis mora ing at tbe Stock Varas, Kanssa City, and reported over ions; distsnce telephone dl ct to the State Joarual by Clay Koblo. on Co.. live stock commiaaloo mer chants.) Kansas City. April 16. CATTLE Re ceipts 9.000 bead. Market strong to 15c bilfher. Top. $16.63. HOIjS Receipts 11.000 head.- Market steady. Bulk of sales, $17K5fel7.00; top, Xl7 4-H. SHKEP Receipts 1.300 head, stciiuy. Lambs, S21.00. KIl.I.l.NtJ KTEEUS. Market Xo. 17. 26. 20. 117. Wt. Prlc.No. Wt- .1S10 15.73 I 16. ."...1290 ..1130 13.50 I 41 986 ..114J 14.25 I lit 154 ..1240 16.6C t 72 1413 Prle. $10.25 11.73 16.05 18.00 COW8 AND HK1HKS. 8W 9.S0 I 1 1240 12.23 ..11 Ml 10.75 8 854 9.00 722 8.50 i 1 1000 10.00 7t! '9.5C T STOCKEKS AND FEEDERS. 42.. 20.. 88rt 10.00 I 19 1050 1: 00 .1175 140 110 12.00 SS4 11.40 CALVES. in.oo I 6.., .50 I 280 10.00 HOGS. U4 90 TO.... 1 67 42 182 116 192 243 302 190 17.80 17.10 354 2S0 104 217 20 17.45 17.40 17.00 17.55 17.05 17.IJ5 1-.50 17.25 17.55 58 12 New York Stock Market. -Wall St.. .New York. -April Mi. STOCKS Stocks rose 1 to 2 points in tbe first half of today's session, mainly on short cover ing. The greater part of this advance was cancelled later. Sales approximated 50,000 aharea. 1 Leaders reacted from large fractiona to a point on tbe lighter dealings of the last hoar. The cosing was Irregular. liberty sold at Bfe.94 to 96.98. .first 41 at 96.28 to 96.50 aud second 4 a at 98.18 to 96.40. Close Todav Yea. 64 W14 S! St 52 52V4 m 7 3514 54 ;.tH4 in 1914 41i Rf, R914 4714 47?J 2x 2HU. 32' i 21 44 80 :a4 8.-si 119 9U. 78 Chicago I.lvw Stock Market. Chicaso. Aoril 10. HOGS Kecelota 2.- 000, tomorrow 28,000. Market firm at yes terday's average to a shade higher. Bulb of sales. S1T.40H 17.75 light. M7.2rK817.S5; mixed, 17.10ftil7.S5; heavy. Jl.25 17.70 rough. $10.2510.70; pigs, fl3.0UftU7.00. 000. Market steady. Native steera, $10.S0 10.75; sto'kers and fetniers. $s.75to 12.05; cows and heifers, $7.50a 1:1.75 calves, J10.00 e 15.00. SHEEP Receipts 14.000. tomorrow 10. 000. Market steady. Sheep, (13.00glT.S5; lahlba. 110.50(321.25. Kansas City Live Stock Market. Kansas City, April 16. HOGS Receipts 11.000. Market steady. Rtilk of sales. $17.35 (a 17.55; heavy, $17.:!5& 17.55; packers and butchery. $17.40(17.65; light, $l7.35fel7.05; pigs, $i:t.75& 17.25. CATTLE Receipts 9,000. Market strong and higher. Prime fed steers, $15.00fti 16.75; dressed beef steers, 913.754& 15.50 western steers, $13.00( 16.40 southern steers. 99.uuejg 1-kuu cows, p i i.t.w neirers. .twa 14.00; Blockers and feeders. $S.50$t 13.25 bulls. $X.50(all."5; calves $8.50(g 13.50. SHEKiy-Recelpts 5.000. Market 10c high er. LauiDS, aAMMKr 2i.uu yearlings, iu,uu til 17.50; wethers. $15.5016.75; ewes. $15.00 (16.00; Blockers and feeders, $ti.50js 15.50. Kansas City Stock Yards, April 15. Western supplies of cattle combined, in creased 10,000 over last Monday and 12,000 over a year ago. Hogs and sheep de- creaaeii. nere, jz.uuu cattle, n.utw nogs and 4,;M0 sheep, slightly less in all branch es compared with a week ago. Cattle prices ruled strong, 10 to 25 cents higher with new record tops, sheep advanced 15 to 25 cents with fed and spring lambs at $21, while bogs reacted steady to 10 cents lower than Saturday's close. BEEF CATTLE. Regardless of the general prediction of decreasing supplies, local receipts of fat cattle held up remarkably well and trade was active st strong 10 to 13 cents higher and in extreme cases fully 25 cents up. Horned natives sold at $16.60. only 40 cents under previous record top and many pnlp ers above $1575 aud up to $16.40; lowest plain lightweights, $14.75. Big string at $15.50 last week, same cattle. $11.60. Butch er grades sold quickly, strong to 15 cents higher, mixed $14.15, heifers $13.50. Arisnna cows $7.75 to $10.25, calves $8.75 to $12, bulls $0.25. STOCKERS AND FEEDERS. Light run, better feeling in early com petition. Feeders scarce, unevenly 'bieher. up to $13.25. Stockers ranged up to $13.10 1 and all kinds firmer than the close last week. Stock cows and heifers scarce and firm. Breeding heifers up to $11.75. Stock calves In stronger request, weighty Pan handles $11.00 to $12.50. 1 HOGS. A loss of 10.000 in the west as compared with last Monday, but a gain of 36,000 over a year ago. Here 11.000 against 14.000 a week ago. Trade generatry opened 5 to 10 cents lower, heavies slow and mostly 10 cents off, closed steady to 10 cents lower. Pigs active, 25 cents higher. Butchers and lights favored, top, $17.65. bulk $17.35 to $17.55 against $17.15 top and $16.75 to $17.10 bulk last Monday. Late clearance good at decline. SHEEP. Western supplies normal, tough S.000 j less than a year ago. Local supply 1.500 't under last Monday, with 4.300. Quality 1 1 good. Fat sheep and goats scarce and firmer. Lambs, 15 to 25 cents higher, i I Texas spring lambs and Colorado fed at 1 1 $21, highest price of the year. Feeders!? scarce and in strong request. t i J. A. RICKART, Market Correspondent. k

Morning Grain Gossip. j (Furnished by tbe Topeka Board of Trade.) j New York, "April 16. Journal of Com- nierce: Cotton Still whirling downward under enormous selling. Liverpool sells 100 to 125.000 bales. The south one of leading? sellers against cotton. Wall Street and west also sold freely. Westher better rains in Texas, temperatures everywhere higher, increasing stocks, exports light. The south has begun to hedge on a big Bcale. The news was mostly against the price. The weather wjs better. Temnera- tures were higher. Texas bsd 1 to 3 inches rain and there are multiplying evidences of an increase in the acreage both east and west of, the Mississippi. New YorKv April 16. Financial News Bulletin Stocks Speculative sentiment has improved on latest foreign and domes- tic developments and irregujar bullish ten dencies expected with specialties leading. The strength In United States Steel has been an Influence in strengthening trading sentiment. Coppers and equipments well taken and are likely to go higher. There is a great deal of bullish gossip develop ment oit steels. Most of the grain traders are bearish on corn and oats. The newest argument presented yesterday was that corn and oats are tbe only articlea in which there is much speculation that have not suffered de clines of late from liquidation sales. They say there is more hedging going on in corn aud oats futures, and that the fight of this selling, coupled with a somewhat lessened power is against the maintenance of higher prices for the present and will co jnt. More are bearish on corn than on oats. .It was noticeable that houses who have bad the bulk of tbe seaboard business in outs were buying May on the weak spots yesterday. It was said that tbe orders represented export business. Ap pearance of those houses as buyers of Mav bad much to do with making yesterday's advance of 1 cents. Several bouses who made sales to the federal government of j late were buyers. The latter is in the mar- ket frequently on weak spots, but its op- e ration a are difficult to trace. TOPEKA MARKET REPORT WAGON DELIVERIES. roR (Prices furnished by Wolff Packing Co 1 Topeka, Kan., April 10. CATTLE AND HOGS. Hoga MIXED AND BUTCHERS $14.00016.95 HMH 14.OnfoJ16.90 LIGHT 13.50fttl7.00 PIGS Steers Good to choice.. Fair to good..... Cows Good to choice... Fa'r to good Common to fair.. Heifers Good to choice... 7.0O 10.00 .S 50 to f 10.03 7.00 to 8.50 T.90 to 6.50 to 4.00 to 00 to goo .tj 6.50 50 8.50 0.00 890 7.00 f air to good. 7.00 to Common 4.50 to JJUIJS Fleshy 7.00 to Medium SJjO to Veal Calves Prime fat j 8.50 to Medlam good 6.50 to Fair 5-00 to Sheep and Lambs Fat wethera 6 50 to Fat ewes 6.50 to Fat lambs 9.00 to Goats a.00 to 10.50 8 50 e.a son 8.00 12.50 0.00 Positlvelv cannot naa sheen er laraba bi less fat. 8born lambs an'l sheep 3c under above prices. Topeka Grain Market. (Fnrniabed by 3. B. BiUnrd. corner Kanaaa Ave. and Curtis St.) Topeka, Kan., April 16. MIXED CORN SI .45 WHITE COUM (1.63. OATS 80c nsure The Capital J. C. Mohler, Pres. Topoka Hay Market. Topeka, Kan. April 16. PRAIRIE HAY $20.00. ALr ALf A $O.UU. V Poultry and Eggs. (Furnished by tbe Topeka Packing Com. pany, corner Laurent aud Madiaon.) Topeka. Kan.. April 16. Springs, over 2 lbs.. 19c; roosters, 15c; SPEED IS OUP MIDDLE NAME IF YOU WANT PRINTING RIGHT NOW CALL 861 Jones Birch 1.1 II 1 1 I I I BUI m Cut Prices! niclielieri Fancy C'romery Butler 1 lb. carton.. 44c .Sailor Peas, doz. Bulk Corn Starch, lb 80 White Corn Grits, in bulk, lb. Rc Pompeian Olive Oil, quart $1.50 gallon $4.50 Red Onion Sets, small ones, It. ISe, 2 for .2oc Tomato and Cabbage Plants lots of finest (trade healthy plants. j I H j j I isjjf w-- We now have in stock and cat toa-f sugar. brown 1 1 Diamond C Yellow Ijiumlry, 10 6c bars for.. ,...45c 1 Cut Prices! 9jxi3aii!i:i:Dxi WEATHER REPORT WEATHER TORKCAST for Kansas! Pair tonight and Wednesday. Not much change in temperature. Tbe present status of the various fields from which your pipeline' sys tem now is drawing gas illustrates exactly the point of flexibility of .a pipeline system at tbe field end, and bow that flexibility makes for better service. The Augusta and El Doredo gas production is failing. The orth Osage field, a fine gas producing area, has begun to decline Were they .tlie only fields on tbe system, supplies In nil markets would be greatly, less than at present. The end would be iu sight. Instead of that, other fields are being developed for you the Hlarkwel! and American fields, for instance. Development still la going ,:n in tire Chautauqua field. By shifting tbe source of supply, service is maintained Had it been possible to obtain materials frr last year's emergency im provements early enough there probably would have been no serious In terruption of service last winter. Flexibility of -tbe system would have done its part then Just aa it is doing it now. KANSAS NATURAL GAS C. STOCK To Insure Yourself CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards.-Kan. City We Also Rave Our Owl ufTlcea at Cbk-aco, SO. St Oman. Denver, Slonx Oty. W, r art Wawtn and E3 Faao DON'T RISK Vw Umzmzh Wo offer the broadest line of coverage of any com pany on tbe market. Assets over (400,000.00. Openings for Live Agents Livestock Insurance Co. Topeka, Kansas ataggv young roosters. 17c; broilers, 2 lbav and under, 23c. Eggs are retailing in Topeka. 33c BUTTKR 4145c Retail Hay (Furnished by WTA. Gilchrist, 626 Quincy Street.) Topeka. Kan., PRAIRIE HAY $20.00. ALFA LF A $25.00. April IS. i s a 1 1 II I I I 1 11J Cut Prices! j. Roy Sifted 3 cans 4(e 1 .55 Pearl wiilte toon dry Soap, 10 6c bars for 40c Xavy Itluc. the Coffee valuft "so. prcme, 3 1W. cans .85c Pink Salmon Tall cans. Fancy Santa Clara Prur small size, lb lie Cut Prices! Largest Grocery Business in Kansas There's a -Reason. Help Your Country to Help You! Buy Bonds! Young Gas Fields Succeed Those Which Dwindle "Tl SHIPPERS Best Results Consign to Joseph. So. St. Paal. K. BuffaJov i. st. Louis. R. G., Reynolds, Sec'y. 1 a h

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THF TOPEKA DAILY STATE TOURNAL -TUESDAY EVENING, ARTL 16, 191S 4 -LUtoptkn Mttat Journal i -r Independent Newspaper BY FRAXK P. MACLEX.VAS. Entered as second-class matter. ;VOI.tTME XL No- 91 OFFICIAL STATE PAPER. OFFICIAL, ""APEU C1TT OW TOPEKA. Subaerlptioa Rate. P.y mntl n a1vnnce. one year 4-s? lw inafl In ailvaiu-e. six month.... 2.40 li? mail in ailvan.-e. three montha. 1.2P By mail in advance, cne month.... Rates by Carrier. fine wwk 12H cents Two -weekd for a qrarter....2 eenta :t Four irki ...50 cents Telephone S-VWJ. Fnt..rn Offices; .'iinl BlnolCrepresents Hw. ;.-iO Fiffa avenue. New York; Mailer ImiMliic. Chlrwrn: I.lttle Bids.. Boaton Krespe bniHinjr. reroit. Member Am.iv-tiit.il Press. American Newspaper Pnhlish.m' Association. All'llt tilnrenii of Clrruhitnn. MKMHKR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated jTeaa ia exclusively n- titled to the ne for rpiihll-ntion of all newa dispiti-heii rreillted to it or not otner- wis. cre1itel In thla naner and also the -kcnl news nMblished herein. !'H'H.tTF.VFa VOU WANT TO KNOW." ihe Tnpefca Stn' Jonrnnl Infortunium Jtnreun at Waahlnetnn furnishes- remieta. i -frpe of charge, nt nr.-.te anl authoritative Mnawera to questions on nny and all aub Je. ts concerning; whirh Informntion can be knit from the unparalleled resourcea oC the Tariona federal KOTprnment rli-nartmenla anil the creat library of enncreaa. A J ent aiorop for re-urn postage ni'iat se rompaiir each Inquiry. State clearly the Information warned, write plainly and au- THE TOPEKA "ATE JOrnNAt IX- FOIlMATIlPN Rl'llKAL. Washington. I. C. V B Inquirers rhould be carefnl to serve win ..oliita: KnHi.se a "-rent stamp and ail.lreaa their lettera to aahlnEton, as above, and not -o Topeka. otherwise ue 1t anil needless expense are incurred. To say that the liberty loan will be an overwhelming success is not suffi cient. We should be able to say that It will be the greatest success on rec ord, and doubtless it will be; provided he campaign is conducted with unre mitting vigor. Over-confidence is ex- .tremely dangerous; it ia enervating, end tends to slackness. Our patriot ism, our love of Justice and liberty, our ideals of free government and our belief in the right of small nations to live. ,will all vanish like smoke unless we back them with liberty bonds. ?'o great ideals and no great spiritual at tainments can ever be reached until we are prepared in some form to pay the price. The whole country, and es pecially our boys at the front who are battling, not only for these great ideals but also for themselves and their homes, depend upon those at home backing the loan. The increasing determination" of American public opinion to see thru their gigantic and costly Job will have results in the future no less salutary than those which "have already fol lowed from American intervention. To see this thing thru means, of course, primarily a volume and a rata of American military preparation which when it comes to a head will make German success hopeless. It means at the present time the train ing, equipment and munitioning; of more soldiers, the building of more ships. the production and transporta tion to Europe of more food, and the absorption of an increasing large proportion of American capital and labor in war work. But, says the New Republic, it means more than that. The thing which the American peo ple are committed to seeing thru is riot merely the defeat of the German autocratic imperialism: It is the cre ation of a new world after the war, in which imperialism in all its manifes tations cannot live, and in which all peoples will enjoy the same opportun ity of disposing of their own lives that they did before the war. A big oversubscription to the third liberty loan will carry out the promise of the United States that it means to obtain liberty for the world regardless of cost. It will make good the prom ise to the associated nations, weakened by four years of conflict, that they can have America's money to the last dol lar; that the five billion which has already been advanced to them is only a beginning. A large oversubscription will be a warning to the enemy, and in a language that a materialistic mind can understand, that it is its tottering and pyramided financial structure against the unimpaired finances of a fresh nation, a nation of vastly great er resources which has only begun to fight. It Is not only patriotism, it is sound financial sense, to invest 'in liberty loan bonds. They sell at" par and yield 4 M per cent t interest. When the war is over, they will sell at a premium,' as United States B per cent bonds-did after the close of the Civil war. It is true that the value of the liberty bonds depends upon win ning the war. So does the value of all bonds and all stocks and all MJnlted States paper money. What would any evidence of public.' of corporate or of individual indebtedness be worth if the United States and its allies should not win In this contest? What were Con federate bonds worth in4 London after Lee's surrender? Aside from considerations of pa triotism, of succor and of intimida tion, there is also a business side to tha third liberty loan. The govern ment must have the money, with which to arry on the big business in which It Is now engaged. This money can be obtained in two ways only, by loans or by taxes. The present purpose is to make such dovetailed use of both methods that the?urden on the people will not be unbearable nor the dis turbance to business unreasonable. Tut if the pcvple of the country do ncz vclur.iitrlly co-opentte by purchas es the bor.ds offered, and so distrib ute 'he cost over a series of years, Hen the only alternative la a tax rate that will pay for the war while It is being fouarht. With that coat now running to a billion dollars a month, and al- I most certain to go higher, tne pay-as- you-go policy might eventually mean I a tax rate stopping just enon ui tun- fiscation. ONE OF WAR'S LESSONS. Not only has the war on the trusts been brought to a halt by the war against autocracy, but the public has well nigh forgotten that trusts ever existed. Prosecutions have ceased and the laws against business combi nations, are rusting from lack of use. Whatever meU the Sherman law might have had In daya gone by, its utter impracticability In the present crisis haa bsen amply demonstrated. In fact, the very bodies who have been urging its enforcement have, in three or four important cases, suspended further action until after the termina tion of the war, and the government in carrying out Its war program, real izing the wisdom of Industrial combi nation as an indispensable element of business efficiency, did the very things which the Sherman act itself prohib ited. Crucial events since the outbreak of hostilities have revealed better than all the volumes of legal treatises, says the Wollmen Review, the glaring fal lacies and weaknesses of this law, and even our highest legal authorities have failed in its interpretation excepting by the elastic "rule of reason." The country has come to realize ;n full force that only by industrial com bination, wisely regulated and admin istered, can the business men of this country economically and efficiently conduct business and enter into com petition in the world's markets against combinations so carefully fostered by foreign governments. The country now sees that the ben efits of combination can be achieved by wise administration and proper re strictions and that it Is not necessary to destroy industry in order to correct some incidental evils engrafted upon It. Judging from the government's j prnHAn,p rflnnfll of 1ha Rharnmn anti-trust law and substitution of a regulative statute aimed at the evils of combination rather than at combi nation Itself, will receive serious con sideration after the war. This war will be won, not by the side which has the most man power, but by the side which manages to mass the man power at the points where it is needed. We have the man power; the next thing is to mass it where It is needed. Nothing else will' win the war. The more comprehen- sive and thorogolng our plans for the i massing of our vast man power, the sooner we get them into operation, the great deal better than nothing. The mooted question as to whether sooner the war will be over. ot mooted desirabie nas areaciy been decided in the af- LKST WE FORGET. i firmative in some of the training The desirability of the third liberty j provtd jYhe'wn mu loan bonds ae an investment must ap- sic They sing before and after eat pea! to every citizen, in addition to the j ing. and between courses when there feeling that in buying these bonds he are courses. Qf nQW is performing a patriotic duty. mucn nluslc means to the men in the The bonds will bear interest at the rate of 4 ',4 per cent per annum, will be dated and bear interest from May 9. 1918, and will mature September 15 1928. The first coupon will be for 129 days' interest and will be payable September 15, 1818. after which Inter est will be payable semi-annually March IS and September 15. This arrangement as to interest dates is made in order to avoid having the in terest payments in this series of bonds fall upon approximately the same dates as those of the second liberty loan. The bonds are not convertible and are not subject to call for redemption before maturity. The bonds carry the same exemptions from taxation as those of the second liberty loan. The secretary of the treasury Is au thorized to purchase third liberty loan bonds to the amount of one-twentieth of the original issue of such bonds during the first year, and in each sub sequent year one-twentieth of the amount outstanding at the beginning of each such subsequent year until the expiration of one year after the termi nation of the war. A similar provi sion is made with respect to the bonds of the second liberty loan and the bonds issued upon conversion of bonds of the first liberty loan. Third liberty loan bonds which have ben owned by a person for six months prior to the date of his death will be acceptable at par and accrued interest in payment of United States inheri tance taxes upon his estate. This ap plies also to 4 hi per cent bonds Issued upon conversion. The campaign opened April will close May 4. Subscriptions will be payable In the following installments: Five per cent on application. So per cent on May 28. 35 per cent on July 18. and 40 per cent on August IS. No Installment payment is required to be made in the month of June on account of the tax payments which are due in that month. Payment in full may be made with the application on or before May 4, but bonds will not be delivered before May 9 on any subscription for an amount exceeding $10,000. Full pay ment may be completed upon sub scriptions for any amount on May 9 or any subsequent installment date. The senate military committee rec ommended that control of the aviation program be placed In the hands of one man. And immediately a bill was introduced providing for an adminis trator, a vice administrator and four assistants. The trouble with the air craft business from the start appears to be that there were too many assist a.its. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL We INFORMATION BUREAU I FREDERIC J. HASKIN, Director, Washington. D. C Washington, D. C., April 13. Have you any sort of a musical instrument that you are willing to part with for the duration of the war ,in order that soldiers may enjoy it? If you have, communicate with the commission on training camp activi ties in Washington, which has charge of the amusement of the army and navy recruits. This commission will furnish you with a list of the camps where, musical instruments are needed, and will tell you just what they need. In nearly every camp there are more men who can play than there are in struments to be played. And music is one of the soldiers' most important amusements and comforts. One of the greatest needs, and one of the most difficult to meet, is for pianos. There is a national shortage of pianos. They are hard to buy and hard to rent, partly because materials used in the manufacture of pianos are needed for industries more essential to the conduct of the war. Many of the camps have no pianos or very few of them. Naturally, this piano problem is a hard one to solve. You can not very well send your piano to one of the training camps unless you live close by. But the problem is mentioned here in the hope that some reader of this will have an inspiration as to a meth od of supplying the training camps with pianos, organization and propa ganda have accomplished remarkable things since this war began. Some one should be able to organize a pianos-for-the-soldiers movement. Ukeleles and phonographs arc among the smaller instruments most needed, because almost anyone can learn to play a ukelele. and a phono graph will play itself. Banjos, violiny. guitars and harmonicas are also much in demand, as are, of course, phono graph records. Any musical instru ment whk-h you care to send will be returned to you at the end of the war. and greatly appreciated in the mean time. There is hardly a camp which can not use musical instruments, Iiut the need is greatest in the small, isolated -omna and naval stations where tnere are no Liberty theaters or other A,nni,Ml entertainments. for this reason, it vou wisn your to do the most good, you should com municate with the commission, for it can place each instrument where it will fill the largest want. No limit is placed upon the number of contribu tions which will be accepted; almost any number can be used. f course, the soldiers will not be entirelv without music as long as they have "their voices. Singing in the camps has been highly organized. Every camp has Its leader, and its reg ular times for singing. But even sing ing is difficult without some sort of an instrument to play the accompani- ments. The song leader at yuantico, i Virginia. Gilbert Wilson, has gotten 'around mis aimcuiy oy pruviuing .i.n. "r" ',n which ts self with a poi table organ, wnicn is not especially rich in tone, but cantonments. It Is one of their most effective relaxations. Mass singing, in which thousands of men take part, is becoming especially popular, and at some camps, civilians have joined in this amusement. Vusir enters into almost every phase of the soldeir's life. He drills to music and marches into battle to tune. His daily drills and duties are conducted to music. Ana now music is being recommended as a cur ative agent for the wounded. At Fort McHenry hospital, near Baltimore, Md., the commission is treating con valescent soldiers with music. Mrs. Isa Maud Ilsen, who was formerly superintendent of the military infirm ary at Hamilton, Ontario, has been placed in charge fo this wo-k. She has been administering melody with medicine to the Canadian wounded for a long time, and her treatment Is id to have prol most effective. Men suffering from shell shock, the effect of poison gas and other in juries that tend to shatter the nerves are said to be especially benefited by the musical treatment. It soothes and restores the broken rhythm of living. When music means so much to the men in uniform, it seems certain that a generous public will not refuse them the means of producing it. Certainly there are enough m.isical instruments in America to supply all the camps, without creating a serious shortage in civil life. Indeed, the suggestion has often been made of late that music Is too abundant and unrestricted in civil Ufa. The typical city apartment house, in the evening, is1 one burst of melody, often proceeding from a dozen instruments, all playing differ ent tunes. Sleep and peace of mind are often sacrificed upon the altar of melody. A measure for the conscrip tion of musical instruments, whichM would place some of these under mili sary to put our army bands on a par certain amount of support. The importance of music as a mili tary force has been fully recognized by General Pershing and the war de partment. General Pershing has asked for a reorganization of the American military bands, and the passage of a special legislation for this purpose. The new American bands ara to be of twenty-eight pieces, modelled after the French bands of fifty pieces, and there are also to be field music of thirty six drummers and trumpeters. Regi mental division song and band leaders are to be given commissions. Mr. Lee F. Haunter, who ha charge of music for the commission, asserts that this organization is vitally neces- sarry to put our army bands on a par with those or our allies. Xames In the News Ukraine (pronounced u-kran) is a term meaning "border." and is applied to the district in southwest Russia in habited by tne little Russians or Ukrainians. Originally independent, these people were incorporated partly into Russia and partly into Austria in 172-2. The present war created a de mand for national unity among the Ukrainians, and in 1917, after the Rus sian revolution, their independence was estaousned. Questions on the above or any sub ject upon which the reader .desires information, should be addressed the Topeka State Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin. Director. Washington. E. C with a 8-cent stamp enclosed for reply. Oil SPUR& BY BOY K. If OULTOJT I am the purpose of the republic in the world conflict between might and right. I am the voice of America that the will of the people shall prevail in gov ernment. I am the confusion of barbarism's cruel hordes and their retribution. I am the sinews of soldiers in khaki, on civilization's brave battle lines in Europe. I am the power of the American navy appointed to sweep the Prussian pirates from the waters of the seven seas. I am sustenance for the loved ones of soldiers and sailors, and their solace when sacrifice is supreme. I am the punishment of assassins at home who wear the sacred robes of freedom to conceal their ends of treason. I am the Liberty Bond. Capt. John Boer, of the national army, tells of a captain of an Irish company who was making a speech to his men just before a battle. He said: "Now,, me byes, what are you going to do, fight or run?" "We are," shouted the entire com pany as one man. You are what?" "We are not," was the reply. "Good." said the captain. "I knew you would." Berlin, Wis., seems to be located in the right state. My friend Oscar Odd Melntyre re turned to New York from Washing ton the other day. "I heard a senator make a bully speech the other day," he said. "What was he talking about?" I asked. "He didn't say." replied Mac. An Idea. There are a lot of fat old ginks Like us in thia country Who are not acceptable For service on the other aide Of the Atlantic, x Jt is a ahame to let all thia Material go to waatc. Organise them into firing squads To shoot tierinan aples. It would keep theui reasonably buay For a year or two, and it Would be a pleasure. The report that the propelling force in that sixty-mile German gun is com posed of cold storage eggs is probably a canard. Not enough eggs in Ger many. y It takes very little to turn Slav into slave. Only one letter "e," mean ing efficiency. Anyhow, if the senate has awakened from its long sleep, the war has ac complished something. Spring Is on tlic Job. Uncle Henry Tibbitts druv to town yesterday in his spring wagon. Luke Frisby saw the first spring room nursaay. is me sarr. tnat nas been hangin around al robin Thursday. It is the same one ter. On account of the high price of leather, Amos Jones Is tryin" to figger how he cansell the old brirTUle cow's hide without damagin' the cow. Henry Adams, who recently moved out from the city, is planting his gar den. He is afraid he got some of the seeds planted upside down. It rained cats and dogs the other day here, and they had veal stew and fried rabbit at the huttel that evening. Lucius Purdy has gone west on an extended business trip. His wife started housecleaning yesterday. The delivery horse attached to the delivery wagon of the Busy Bee de partment store got three straw nats yesterday while standing in front of the store and ate 'em. Three young ladies are very indignant. The hats do look tempting this spring. BY KIBSAB. Olympla. Those who had the naming of mountains and cities of the northwest chose with a lavish hand from the names of gods and goddesses f mythology and Indian tribes. The Olympic mountains might well have been those from which Jove hurled his thunder. And the sylvan town of Olympia. the capital of the state of Washington, seems more -fitting for the temples of Greece than those of lawmaking of an American state. W'ith the exception, possibly, of An napolis, Md., no state in the Union has chosen such an -old-world appearing hamlet for its capital, a town almost segregated from the outside world. At the end of a wonderfully beautiful waterway, deep seated in the hills and ioiesu., uiyiuuu una none m me at- mosDhere of rjolltics and hi business The towrn is a very small one. so small Indeed that the average over land train would not even hesitate as it passed thru. Its water front until recently has been adorned with pleas ure craft, fishing fleets and cannery boats. The fjords of Puget Sound af ford unlimited opportunities for fish ing and pleasure excursions. Olympia is a small inland seaport. Here loggers and lawmakers have met in the past to solve the mighty problems of legislation and lumbering. Here cannery boats tie dup in winter for overhauling. Here, in time long past, men tramped in from Tacoma and Seattle with the supplies which they could not wrest from nature on their backs. The town climbs a short distance into the surrounding hills rising from the water front, and then stops. The state capital resembles a dignified seat of learning in northern Europe: in fact nearly all northwest buildings bear the stamp of the hrrme of their builders, the Scandinavians, Scotch and English settlers. GLOBE SSG3EITS From the Atchison Globe. very few men are stoop-shouldered on acount of weighty intellects. An Atchison man should receive a pension, for he has long been re ferred to as General Nuisance. Reporters must belenient. A lot of men who say they don't know any thing are in a normal condition. The man who has proved himself yellow in this war usually adds in sult to injury by attempting to claim credit as a patriot. When some one admires a woman's new dres3. she is sure to say: "I'm glad .you like it, for it's the only thing 1 have to wear." DOROTHY BY DOBOTOT DIX Watta's nighea Paid Wuui Writes The Danger of Calf Ijo-vc Most men at heart ara sentimental Tommies. Especially when they are sweet-and-twenty. Thef) they are in love with love, and so sloshing over with sentiment and romance that they are ready to spill it on any female who happens to-be around handy. Their hearts burn in their bosoms like a dol lar in a small boy's pocket, and they can't be happy until they have spent their treasure. It is then that a youth yields to the insidious temptation to make love to any girl who happens to be in his en vironment, or who chances to be enamored of him. He isn't really in love with her, and he knows it. He isn't ready to marry. He doesn't want to marry, and espec ially he doesn't want to marry that particular girl. Nevertheless, he can not resist the sentimental impulse to say soft things to her, and the result only too often is the breach of nrnm. ise suit, or the long engagement of I wnicn ne wearies and which have i done more to wreck the careers of promising young men than anything j else in the world. For calf love is ;iot a subject of Jest, as we are generally pleased to regard it. It is one of the greatest dangers along the pathway of youth. Sentimentally speaking, there are three points of peril in a man's life, and if he can be piloted safely by these the chances are that he will have a pleasant and prosperous voyage across the sea of life. The first menace is that calf love will result seriously. Every boy is as sure to have an attack of this as he is of the measles. Fortunately neither complaint is often fatal if it is judi ciously treated, and If a boy can es cape marrying his grandmother, or the housemaid, or some one of the other unsuitable ladies that the callow JIUM1"? to Prefer- he has gotten ?.i S ,rat rocky reef on which his little bark was liable to be wrecked. Unhappily, not all escape. Some times caJf love does end in the youth committing suicide before the aliar. f more Pathetic sight on han thls of the married boy of the boy who has taken a wife be fore he was ready to be a husband llZB Ke.h,ad come to himself, and annf1?' hL eoins to be himself, a wife What he waited in a1nlLhe,Very ans:els' mu eep himi?8?' f lad wno nas burdened himself down with the cares of a whTn'V" heyday of" youth" when he should be exulting in free- fHvearly marriase for a man is a tragedy so complete that the state ceU.!shtin0wh.rcnhiSh "V P"-3 nich boys who are suffering rrom acute attacks of calf love could nm.P r soned u"til they come to their f,J ?Tn -Jl- f W 8hut other 'unatics tnVver"' them rom ha'"6 hl,h; second sentimental danger that ""an consists in the temp- 1''." make '.0ve to a sirl because fLV8 ,Ve..WU.h.him- The theory ,jT pursuer and wr-man the pursued in matters of affection i a pretty and polite convention, but f!L vf J-yone knows it is far away from the truth. Common usage does not permit a woman to openly pop the question to a man, but thai does not hinder her from wheedling him into making love to her in spite of himself and against his better judg ment. -,uus It is human for all of us to like the person who likes us and to ad mire her taste and respect her judg ment. More than this, it is intoxicat ing and flattering to any man to feel that a wornan has given him her heart unsought. Every instinct of gallan try and chivalry bids him b tender to her. He feels that he will be al most a brute to be cold to her when she looks at him with adoring eyes or to withhold the tender ipeech' when just a word of careless senti ment will make her flush with happi ness and gratitude. It is exactly the same impulse that makes us stroke the cat that rubs against our knee and begs for a caress. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred the man who is foolhardy enough to risk himself in the coSnpany of a woman who is in love with him will find himself, before he knows it mur muring words of devotion that he never intended to say. Also to his amazement and despair he will find himself engaged to her. h.eT i8 no "a'ty 'or him except in flight. Nothing else win i him from saying and fining things for which a cold and unfeeling jury will assess damages against him in a breach of promise suit, or that will result in his being dragged against his will to the altar. There are times when a man must take the .risk of being called a coward if he doesn't want to be called husband The third, and perhaDs th fatal temptation of all, to a boy, is to m,k, Iove to m- C L she is Sally-on-the-spot. Propinquity is ever tne greatest match maker. Throw two young people of opposite sexes together, and they will talk sentiment for lack of other topics of conversation, and because they know in their hearts it is a perilous sub ject to discuss, and we all like to play with fire. This danger of making love to a girl merely because she is handy, is always hanging over the boy like the sword of Damocles suspended by a single hair, and there are two occasions when the hair is especially liable to break. One of these is when the boy is leaving home to seek his fortune in the city. His heart swells with ten derness towards all from whom he is about to be parted. The old home takes on an aura of beauty and clearness that it never had befor. People whom he has regarded with utter in difleVence become suddenly precious to him. For the moment his mind is clouded, and his judgment obscured by the romantic melancholy of the "last time" sentimentality. It Is then that unless a boy has a guardian angel who is working over time on its job that he imagines him self in love with some neighbor girl of whom he never thought before, and commits the asinine folly of asking her to wait for him. and thus goes out into the world burdened with a long engagement chain that fetters him and keeps him from climbing. First in the Book of Martyrs must be written down the names of the calf love victims who; after they de veloped into polished and accomplish ed men of the world, "went hark to their native villages and married the provincial sweethearts whom they had long outgrown, but to whom they had given their word of honor in thelt unformed yotlu- If the boy esoanes the-'jaelerhbors daughter he is almost sure to f-rH prev tq the landlady's daughter. This is unintentional also, but when the 1 strange boy- goes- to the strange city there comes an hour when he is homesick. lonesome, yearning for companionship and sympathy. The boarding housekeeper s daughter is the only woman he knows. She is on the spot, and into her ears he pours the sentiment with which he is brim ming over and the deed is done. Moth er attends to all the details of the wedding. The number of boys that get en gaged without knowing it and married without wanting to is appalling. How they are to cacape is past finding out since youth is the time when the love game is the most alluring of all sports, and one at which every boy and girl must play. We older ones can only warn them that it is always a hazardous game, that neither side ever pteys fair, and that Cupid had better be watched as he shuffles the cards. (Copyrighted. J01T, by The Wheeler Syndicate- IncJ n WtakM HOUSEHOLD EIOTS Menu Hint. BREAKFAST. Steamed Figs Hashed Potatoes in Milk Coffee LUNCHEON. tevi!ed Crabs Tartare Sauce Wheatless Brown Bread Coffee DINNER. Beef Stew with New "Vegetables Sweet Peach Pickles Strawberry Wrhip. Breads. Boston Brown Bread One and one-half cups brown sugar, one and one-I.alf tablespoons white sugar, one half cup molasses, two cups butter milk, one teaspoon soda, pinch of salt, three cups graham flour, one half cup wheat flour, one-half cup raisins. Bake one hour in tin coffee cans with cavers on (fill cans one-half full), then remove covers and bake fifteen minutes more. Very good. Raisin Bread Two cups graham flour, one and one-half cups white flour, ,two cups sour or buttermilk, one cup table molasses, one teaspoon soda, oneeaspoon salt (level), three quar'.ers cup raisins, i Bake in slow oven one and one fourth hours. This quantity makes two loaves in coffee tins. -Cornmeal Rolls One and one quarter cups wheat flour, three-quarr ters cup cornmeal, three teaspoons baling powder, two tablespoons shortening, one egg. one-half cup milk, one teaspoon salt. Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt and mix with the meal. Rub shortening into dry in gredients. Beat egg, add miik and add this mixti re to above. Add more milk. if necessary, to make a soft dousrh. Rot. out on floured board, handliii: lightly. Cufc-with a round biscuit cut ter, fold tike Parker house rolls and bake in a quick oven. Rye Muffins Mix and sift one cap rye flour, one cup white flour, one quarter cup sugar, three teaspoons liaking powder and one-half teaspoon salt; add one cup milk and one beaten egg. Beat well. ake in mumn pans twenty minutes. "Substitute Muffins" Cream one rouuding tablespoon lard substitute, one-half cup sugar, add one egg or one teaspoon egg substitute; mix well; then add one cup cornmeal and one cup barley flour to which has been added two rounding teaspoons bak ing powder and pinch of salt. Mix in enough milk to make about the con sistency of cake batter. This makes ten nice-sized muffins. The Table. Little Pigs in Blanket (one-dish dinner) One and one-half pounds ground pork and beef, one large onion, three-quarter cup uncooked rice. Season, mix' together. Remove outer leaves of small head of cab bage, lay in hot water to wilt; drain. Roll some of meat In each leaf, start ing at stem end, and tuck in ends. Take three pounds of sauerkraut. Put in kettle a layer of kraut, then "pigs"' and so on till all used up. Cover with water and cook. When done lift out "Pigs," stir in dressing: two table spoons flour, one egg and little milk. Add to kraut and serve. Serves six persons. Cottage Cheese Croquettes Take the place of meat and are very good. Make as large a portion as your fam ily requires. Boil potatoes In salt water: strain, then mash; add one egg. mix well. Add enough flour so you can handle as dough. Cut in pieces as large as an egg. roll out, then put one tablespoon cottage cheese in center of each piece, fold over, roll together and watch so the cheese does not come out. Roll In flour, then fry a golden brown. This' can be served with sour cream. Baked Tomatoes Fry small onion in butter to a chestnut brown, add tomatoes, sugar, pepper and salt, one tablespoon cracker crumbs, then bake. Potato Apples. Two cups hot riced potatoes, one third cup grated cheese, two table spoons butter, cayenne, one-half tea spoon salt, two tablespoons milk, two egg oiks, nutmeg. Mix potatoes, cheese and butter; add seasonings, milk and eggs. Shape as small apples: roll in flour, egg anC crumbs, and make dents for stem and blossom end of apple. Fry in deep fat, then drain. Garnish blGscom end with a clove. Serve hot. This serve-i from six to eight people. Perfection Salad. Remove seeds from peaches (fresh or canned). Fill cavity with raisins and nuts run thru meat chopper: moisten this with mayonnaise. Place on lettuce leaf, serve with mayon naise. A EIEEO EVEEY BAY Brave Deeds of Men In America's lighting Scrvio John Harvey Stacks, fireman, third class, U. S. navy has been commended for courage displayed during a fire on board a patrol boat. Stacks at tached a line to himself and went down the port ventilator with a fire hose to help -nuench the flames, tho the fire was then at its height and smoke and steam were pouring from the ventilator. Stacks enlisted August IS. 191$. at Dallas, Texas, and gave as his next kin his mother. Mrs. Lois E. Stacks, CeQneen. Arkansas. EVENING STORY Changing Her Career. BY KITTY PARSON'S. (Copyright, 191S by MctMnre Newspaper Syndicate.) W'henr Nina Benson received word that her boy had been injured playing hockey,, she cancelled her first big concert engagement and then hurried to the boarding school where he lay ill. At the station she was met by Dr. Norwood, who had been kindness and consideration itself, and had helped her by his own cheerfulness to fight the battle that went on day and night to save her boy. Of course there waa a nurse, but she was so unsympathetic, j ference from Nina, that she thought as little about her as possible. In the middle of the fourth night. the boy called for his mother, anjjj tne nurse was lorcea to can ner. Thru the long hours that followed, they sat beside him. and when Miss Cross came back after a short rest, Nina ,had fallen asjeep, her hand in the boy's. "Hush," whispered the doctor. "Don't wake her." "No, indeed!" snapped the nurse. "But I've stood as much of this as I intend to from my future husband and I won't have you sitting up all night with other women, either! "A sick room is hardly the place for a jealous quarrel, Gladys," the doctor warned her, "and I shall not ask you to apologize to Mrs. Benson now. But I think you had better consider well before entering; upon a marriage with a man you can trust so little. After this scene the attitude uf Miss Cross became more antagonistic than ever, but Nina ignored it as much as possible and continued to be pleasant when they met. But she could not help but wonder how such a nice man as Doctor Norton could become en gaged to such an intensely disagree able woman. Unfortunately, such things did happen. Nina was only thirty-two, but- she had had a hard life of work and shift ing for herself ever since her husband died, ten years before. She had plen ty of pluck and grit, but the stral.i of the last week had told on her. She kept up bravely until the crisis waa past, and then calmly fainted. When she came to. she was holding the doc tor's hand, and lying on a couch in her own room. She recovered herself quickly and got up. "I'm sorry, I was so weak. Is Carl better?" "Doing famously. We'll soon have him about again. If you don't take better care of yourself, we'll have a new patient on our hands, tho." "Oh, I'm all right now. And If the boy's really better I'll have to go home this week I have an engagement to sing and if all is well, 1 must keep it this time." 'you're not fit to work yet it's preposterous!" "No, it isn't doctor. I have to earn my living and I'm quite happy. You've all been very kind to me, too." "Who wouldn't be?" burst from the doctor, then he recollected himself and added professionally: "Drink this milk now, and rest as mucn as you can for the next day or two, so that you will be more fit for your Journey. You 11 need all your strengtn. Nina thanked him and, when he had gone, she thought a good deal about him. Everything continued to rfo well. and in a few days Nina left the school for New York. Doctor Norton drove her to the train. About a mile from the station, as thev were rounding a corner, a wo man, driving at a reckless rate of speed, came towards them on the wrong side of the road. To avoid a collision the doctor swung out to the right and his car tunned turtle in a ditch which was hidden by a mass of underbrush. Nina was thrown clear, but the man was caught under the car. Nina rushed to him and tried to null him out. "You must help me," she called to the woman, who had stopped her own car. "flease nurry ne may aie ii ne is left here! Together they moved and dragged the doctor to the other car and drove to the hospital. "A bad break," the doctors told her. "We can't tell much yet, but it may be serious. Is there anyone to come to him Nina went at once to the phone and called Miss Cross and begged her to come at once. Doctor Norwood was very ill and might be left crippled. The nurse's reply was short to the ooint I am no longer engaged to Doctor Norwood. I've looked after sick peo ple so long that I don't think I'm go ing to marry a cripple now. Good bye." Nina was dumbfounded and dread ed carrying the bad news to the doc tor. But when they sent for her she steeled herself and went up to him. "I'm sorry I made you miss your train," he sighed, looking at her grateful!. "Did you telephone Gladys?" "Yes, but she couldn't leave Just now I m so sorry." "You needn't be I understand per fectly. We both made a mistake snd the break has been coming for a long time. He closed his eyes with a sharp gasp of pain. "Can 1 do anything?" asked Nina softly, gently stroking the contracted nana. "Yes a great deal!" "Tel! me, please." "Never leave me again. Oh, what am I saying! I forgot that I may be a cripple Please go before I forget myself again. "I want you to forget whatever happens I don't want to leave you again. I knew it as soon as we had the accident. I'm dreadfully lonely and no one else really needs me, and I love you. "And I've been trying not to love you ever since the first day you came to the school, hut it was useless. I'm almost grateful to- that miserable woman who ran over us, I'm so hap py." He would have said a lot more. tod? but the attendant doctor came in the room at that moment to see how he was. "Better already." he assured him promptly. "And with a few doses of the same medicine, I'll be cured in a week." And when the carriage came to take Mrs. Benson to the next train they found that she had decided not to go. and all that went to New York that afternoon was a telegram saying that she could not keep her engagement to sing on the following Monday night. Spanish Meat I.oaf. One pound harrTburg, one cup cook ed rice, one cup strained tomatoes, one-half cup bread crumbs, one tea spoon salt, one dnsh cayenne pepper. Mix. make in loaf, bake forty min utefc. baste with hot water to which a little butter or bacon grease haa been added. Will serve eight per sons. Heart and Beauty Problems BY MK8. ELIZABETH THOMPSON V- Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a young man who has a very good position and am able to give a girl a mighty good home and all the comforts of life. I have a lot of friends among the young ladies and take them out to the thea ter, dancea and parties, yet I have nev er met one whom I felt I could ever care enough for to marry. 1 am 35 years old and In all probability I have got to the stage where I scrutinize peo ple more closely than I should. There isn't a fellow in the world who wishes to have a home any more than I do. but I have got to the point where all women look alike. Don't think I am pinning roses on myself, for such is not the case. No doubt you will tell me to attend church or church gatherings. I at tend church every Sunday, rain or shine. Then again you may tell me that I didn't get the girl of mv choice at one time. That is true. When I was twenty-three I was engaged to a little girl aged twenty-one and the date was set for the wedding and I even went so far as to Join her church. For various reasons the en gagement was broken, but I am glad to say that after joining her faith I have gone every Sunday to church except in cases of sickness. This girl was not only wearing a diamond which I gave her. but also had one in her possession given to her by a party out of town. I brought it right home to her and sho had to decide between us. Come to find out the other man was divorced and our religion won't permit any thing of that kind. She is still single from last reports and is in California. I have no desire to even meet her again. What would you suggest? BILL. I wonder if you are honest with yourself. Your letter sounds as if you were very lonely for the girl and that you do want her again, but In the years you have been without her you have made yourself firmly believe that you do not want to meet her again. My advice is to find out where she is and write or go to her. You may find her very much changed, but still the "old girl." Single life is not natural and both of you will be so much happier together. Don't judge her harshly because she was engaged to a divorced man. Love, goes where it will regardless of re ligion and everything else. Remem ber that it is not your duty to punish her. You are tired and bored with yourself or you would not look upon girls with the indifference you now feel. Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a young man almost 20 and am in love with two girls. One is about 21, while the other is only 17. Neither of these two girlj is considered my equal socially. The first lives in a nearby town and ia engaged to be married and 1 believe she loves me yet, as- I have received several letters from her asking me not to discon tinue writing to her as her affections toward me are the same as they have ever been. I really love her better than I do th- younger girl, but can not say that I do not love the latter, &s I have been acquainted with her longer, but she seems so young. The older girl is well educated and a perfect lady altho she is not' my equal. In a recent letter she asks me not' to take it so seriously that she is engaged as there is plenty of time before the license Is signed, (11 What' shall I do? Should I continue my correspondence with her or shoulc" I drop it? (2) What should I do about the girl of 17? Do you think she is too young for me? I know a lot of other girls, but none of them appeals to me as these do. UNASSUMING. It sounds caddish to say that the girls era not considered your equal socaMy. It is bad enough for a girl to be a snob, but it is far worse for a man. (1) Drop your correspondence with the engaged girl. (2) The 17-year-old girl is not too young for you to have as a friend. You are both too young to think of marriage. Dear Mrs. Thompson: Is the lanolin for hair a salve or a liquid? THANK YOU. It is a salve. DINHwR STORIES They wei c on their honeymoon. He had bought a boat and had taken ler out to show her how well he could handle it, rutting her to cend the i;heet. A puff of wind came and he thouted in aif uncertain tone. t,et go the sheet!" No response. Thrfn again. Let go th.it sheet, quick!' Still no movement A few minutes later, when both were clingii. to the bottom of the up turned boat, he said: "Why didn't you let s:o that sheet when I told you to, dear? I would l.ave." sobbed the bride, "if you had not been so rouh about it. You oupht to speak mo.e kindly to your wife." The young man and the rlrl were standing outside the front dcor, hav ing a final chat. He was leaning; against the doorpost, talking in low tones. Presently the young lady looked round to discover her father in the doorway, clad in a dress".g gown. "Why, father, what In the world is the matter'.' she inquired. "John," said the father, a Id reusing himself to he young man, "you know I have never complained about your staying late, and I'm not going "to complain of that now; but tor good ness sake ttop leaning agamst tho tell-push and let the rest of the family get ome sleep." He was good fellow, tho a bad shot, so he was asked to join the shoot ing party. The gamekeeper, in gre,t disgust, watched him miss again and again. "Dear me said the sportsman, "the llrds seem exceptionally sirong on the wing this year "Not all pt m, sir,' said the mam. "You've shot at the same bird a dozen ttm. "K's follerin yer about." "Why?" asked the sportsman. "Dunno," said the gamekeeper, "unless he's anging about you for safety."

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATF tqurnAL TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 16. 1918 S225J50 RAISED r.- That Is Santa Fe Loan Suh- smptlon Total to Date. Glaeral Office 3fen HaTe Sub- scribed $S89050. Incomplete reports compiled this afternoon in the office of K. L. Cope- la-nd, treasurer, show that employes of Ape Atchison, Topeka and Santa I e railway in Topeka at noon today had subscribed $225,150 to the third lib erty loan. Nine hundred and twenty-one em ployes in the general offices subscribed $8.O50. Fifteen hundred in the shops under the supervision of M. J. Drury, superintendent, today raised the hop total to Jill, 100. Employes in the storehouse numbering 340, sub scribed $26,000. Work of placing the loan .before em ployes continues in the offices, shops and storehouse. Daily reports of pro gress made are being compiled and to morrow's figures are expected to show a godly increase over today's. Nearly every employe here who has been solicited has purchased, it was stated today in the different depart ments. When the campaign ends it is expected that the Santa Fe men and women will point to a record 100 per cent loyal. BIG MELON SLICED Half Million Back Wages to Tacking House Workers. Kansas City, April 16.- Nine thou n3 packirg house employes today are -participating in the slicing of a half million dollar melon in ihe form of back waves paid to them as a re sult of the findings of the wage arbi tration board in Chicago recently The employes of five large packing houses will receive all the way from $1 to $120, defending on the length of time they have been employed and the -wages paid them previous to the set tlement. The increase dites from Janu ary 14. The pay settlement resulted frm a strike last September when the m mi mum wage was 22 H oents an hour. The new minimum scale is 32 cents an hour. ROLLER-TOP OFFICERS In Washington Alone 1,772 of Draft Ace Hold Jobs. Washington. April 16. In response today of a resolution inquiry by Sen ator Thomas of Colorado, which fol lowed much adverse criticism of the number of officers of draft age kept in Washington on non-combatant duty. Acting Secretary of War Crowell advised the senate that 1.772 army officers within draft age who have re ceived commissions since the outbreak of war, are in Washington holding staff assignments. Of these 778 are with the ordnance bureau. 33S with the signal corps, 296 in the medical corps and 181 in the quartermaster's service. RECRUITS FOR TANKS Men of Draft Age May Join All-Vol-untccr Unit. Kansas City, April 16. Secotri Lieut. Frank K. Cooter arrived here today with authority to enlist an un limted number of men for tank serv ice. Men of draft age may join the organization regardless of their draft status, the officer said. Only volunteers are enlisted in the- tank service,'! he said. "No drafted men are being assigned. Even commissioned officers must volunteer for fhis work." Tractor drivers, heavy motor truck drivers and machine gun mechanics are sought especially, he said. SOLDIERS REBEL 100 Men Kscaped from Camp But Moat Are Caught. Houston. April 16. Approximately 100 men belonging to various organi zations in the headquarters trains and military police companies escaped from Camp Logan yesterday in re bellion against an order transferring theta to other organizations in the division. All but two of them have been cap tured and will probably face charges of conspiring to mutiny, it was an nounced today. The majority of the men were from the old "Fighting Seventh" guard regiment of Chicago. NELSON WILL RUN Minnesota Senator to Make Race Again. Washington, April 16. Senator Knute Nelson. Minnesota, today an nounced his candidacy for re-election. 'I was not a slacker in 1861," said Nelson, "and I do not want to be a slacker in this far greater war." For this reason, he said, he had heeded the pleas of his state to run aain. Nelson has been in the senate four terms. He has been a consistent and vigorous supporter of the present ad ministration. DANIELS RIDES PLANE Flv With a Naval Aviator Over the Capitol. i Washington, April 16. Secretary Daftiels was a passenger today with Liejjt. Doherty, a naval aviator In a twenty-minute flight over the capi-tol.-A service hydro airplane was used. CEATHS AND FUNERALS MlSK TIATTIK LOVEIL. 75 years old, dird tbis morning at her borne, VM7 Lane treet. Funeral announcements later. Word has been received in Topfka of the dath of A. W. Brooks, at ireelpy, Kansas, Saturday. Itroofcn was the father of Mr. A. I Harrison. 1171 Mulrntie street. Mr. Harrison and her dauputers, Mrs. Leah Cutpr of Smith Cenrer and Mrs. Oscar ftciitTto of Wichita, left Monday night for Greeley to attend the funeral. JfisiAH BAliXKS. 7ti years old. died Pun Cay r hla borne. 1202 Wayne street. The funral will be blrl tomorrow afternoon at 3 oV)fxk from Fpd well's i-hapel. Burial In 'Bnpcka cemetery. mJuY A. I ALTON. IW years old. dlpd Monday at ber home. 504 Liberty street. The.funernl will be held at 2 :W o'cloc k to morfur aftfrnooQ from the United Brethren rhiinh. Fifth and Leland stret'ts. Burial willjW in Topeka -ometory. New York Cotton Market. New York April 10. COTTON Spot, quiet; uiiJdliDC. W.aO. PRESIDENT'!? WIFE PRESENTS GOLDEN EAGLET TO CLEVEREST GIRL SCOUT, l'lv v -"A 1 z $SJ K i Us? i ?Jt r e l j I v Iff ;w ji r I Miss Edna Ruth Mrs. Wood row Wilson recentlv conferred thA cnlrion fa j?lft hn Hpp iHa highest honor attainable by a girl scout, to Miss Edna Ruth Coleman, of Washington. Miss Coleman is but the fourth girl in the United States to receive the honor and she passed fifteen of the seventeen proficienty tests to qualify when fourteen were only necessary. Winning the eaglet adds seven more to Miss Coleman's list of scout achievements. COMMANDER A HUN? Cyclops Ofricor Was German Under Assumed Name. Salt Lake. .Utah, April 16. Lieut. Commander G. W. Worley of 'he miss ing collier Cyclops is German-born, and his real name is Wichtnann, ac cording to 'lis brother-in-law Herman Peppercorn, of this city. Worley or Wichtmann came to America when ten years of asre and entered the navy twenty yearh ago when he changed his name, statea Peppercorn. WAR MISS10"nsIaND Two From Britain Are in Canada on Way Here. A Canadian Atlantic Port. April 16. Two Briti-h missions to the United States arrived here today and will pro ceed to New York. The purpose of one of the missions, headed by General Hutchinson, was not made public. Its plans were de Coleman. clared to be important. General Hutchinson is head of organization in the British war office. Heading the other mission is Lieutenant General Bridges. Colonel Wilson, staff officer with this nVssion, explained that its purpose is to co-ordinate the work of other British officers in America co operating with Earl Reading, British special ambassador to the United States. MEET IN SAN ANTONIO Secretary McAdoo and Margaret Wil Son Together on Tour of Nation. San Antonio, Tex., April 16. Sec retary McAdoo and Miss Margaret Wiison, daughter1 of the president, both tor ring the country in patriotic service, met here today. Miss Wilson came to sing to the soldiers, while the secretary was to deliver a liberty loan address here tonight. McAdoo and Miss Wilson visited Kelly aviation field together today. SEEIN' THINGS j LOCAL SULEHTKOS! I "The Brewers Big Horses Can't Run Over Me, the Rodeheaver song used in the Billy Sunday prohibition meetings, will be sung tonight by the big chorus at the First Baptist church, under the leadership of Professor Hausmann. The Sunflower quartet will also sing. The Jay House-Billy Wikidal-Harry Martin-Roy Crawford-Arthur Carruth annual fishing party returned in pieces from Erie today. Part of the party came by train. The Crawford-Wikndal-Martin section came by mud. The outfit left Erie at daylight Mon day morning. The fish were full particulars in Saturday evening's State Journal. Dr. Lyngar, Dentist, 809 Kan. Ave. Adv. Walter L. Payne, state treasurer, announced today that the first day's liberty loan subscriptions in the state house totaled $14,700. Payne is in charge of the state house loan sub scription campaign. The Topeka Rotarians, w!ll meet Friday noon at the Chamber of Com merce instead of Thursday noon as heretofore. The postponement was made on account of the meeting of the county and district managers of the 1918 Red Cross war fund campaign in Topeka Thursday. The program for the Rotary .unch Friday inc'udes the usual community sing, the finishing up of the p:ns for the entertainment at the Auditorium Sunday afternoon, and a short talk by Rotarian Charles Adams. Safety razor blades sharpened better than new. 25c-35cdoz. Brunt-Mat tin. Adv. The old Sexton building at 324 Kan sas avenue has been sold to a man named Veal, according to a statement by James Wall, the owner, this morn ing. The building will be remodeled and given :i new front, according to the statement. The consideration was J-2G.500. TO DRIVE ON ITALY Italian Officials Believe That Is Next Iiemy Move. "Washington, April 16. An Austrian offensive against Italy is imminent and will be started on a large scale, in the opinion of Italian observers as ex pressed in official messages today to the Italian embassy here. The recent visit of Emperor Charles to the Aus trian front and inspired articles in the Austrian and German newspapers, the usual forerunners of an offensive, are taken as an indication. "The enemy press has begun to speak openly of the offensive in order to prepare the Austro-Hungarian pub lic for the inevitable losses resulting from such colossal operations as are anticipated by semi-official newspa pers," the dispatches say. "The Vossische Zeitung (Berlin) in an article full of mysterious allusions says this spring will put Switzerland neutrality- under, the severest test as the Austro-German troops' will prob ably encircle, in the course of their operations, the little republic." NO PERFUMES THERE Manufacturers in Texas Not Allowed Alcohol for Any Purpose. Austin, Tex., April 16. Importation of alcohol f$r any purpose into the ten mile "dry zones' in Texas, is a violation of the law, according to an opinion handed down by the attorney general's office here today. If the ruling is sustained, many manufacturers of perfumes, flavoring cxtiacts, toilet preparations .and similar commodities requiring the use of alcohol will be forced out of busi ness in Texas. POSES AS UNMARRIED That Is Guy O. Itana's Charge Against Wife in IHTorce Plea. Because he says his wife is living in Kansas City, poses as .an unmarried woman and spends much of her time in company with one Judd West. Guv O. Dana, of Topeka. wants a divorce from Nona Dana. The husband is a well known Topeka travelling sales man. In his petition he recites tliat tie nas not lived with his wife since October, 1916, when they made a property settlement and separated. Mrs. Dana, the petition recites, is m almost constant company with West. The woman, it is stated, lives i in an apartment in Kansas City with j another woman. West is alleged to spend his evenings and Sundays there and the couple attend entertainments togetner. People in the apartment are declared to look upon the couple as engaged, Dana states. The plain tiff says his wife's conduct is such as to warrant him in asking for and se curing a divorce. Dana and his wife were married October 16, 1901. There are no children. CALM9T9 RECRUITS French Youth Go to Barracks in Most Happy Manner. raris.. April 16. The 1919 contin gent of the French army (ynuths of nineteen years) is just going to the barracks to begin training. Altho called out a year before the usual time, these young men are m better condition physically than an of their predecessors. They are. starting out In as high spirits as the army did in August, 1914, shouting from the car windows that they will beat the Germans. The scenes around the railroad stations in the last two days have been more like the times of the mobilization than any which have been witnessed since, con tributing to the wave of optimism which seems to have replaced the anxiety which was felt on the early days of the great German drive. CHANGES" HIS TUNE Alleged Violator of Espionage Act Out for Ixan In K. c. Kansas City, Kan., April 16. Fac ing trial for alleged violation of the espionage act, Jacob Frohwerk. presi dent of the Kansas German-American Alliance, today offered the servicea of himself and a team of ten workers to the liberty loan campaign commit tee, and, they were accepted. Froh werk eaid he and his aids could no doubt get better results, working among Germans and Austrians than English-speaking salesmen. SAVED FR0MAM0B Socialist leaders In Arizona Arrested by Federal Officers. Jerome, Ariz., April 16. Robert Lee Morton, Socialist candidate for congress from Arizona two years ago. and W. IJ". Burleson are under federal arrest here today after having been saved from a mob bent on a tar and feather program. They are charged with 'edition and spreading propa gafffla calculated to obstruct the se lective draft. BUILT IN FOUR MODELS Li COLONEL IS PLEASED v YOUNG SON OF FT Mrs. Archie Roosevelt, her new boy. and the Colonel. The picture shows the first meeting of two interesting persons. Colonel Roosevelt is proud of his latest grandsgn, whose father, Capt. Archie Roose velt, was recently decorated in France for bravery and has been slightly wounded in action. The baby's name is Archie, Jr., and appears to be all that his proud grandfather has said of him, "a fine little fellow." WOMEN'S CLUBS MEET Federation Begins Its First War Con vention in Sallna Today. Sal in a, Kan., April 16. Club wom en from every community of Kansas began arriving in Salina today for the state's first "war"' convention of Fed erated Women's clubs. "'Hooverized" meals and conserva tion in dress and decorations mark the twenty-third annual meeting of the Federated Women's clubs. The convention will open with a reception tonight at which Col. James H. Reeves, 353 All-Kansas infantry. Caa'p Funston, and Adj. C. J. Mas- seek, also of the 3o3 regimen, will speak. No Patents to Enemies. Washington, April 16. President Wilson today stopped the issuance of patents and copyrights to enemies and revoked the authority given Amerl-, cans to apply for patents In enemyS countries. TheTruck of Let Us Show You Capacity We Now This is a worm drive truck built from the user's viewpoint to handle economically, rapidly and efficiently the traffic of the one horse dray or delivery wagon. It's the ideal truck for speed-up deliveries at low oper ating cost and upkeep. N The ACME is a staunch, sturdy, dependable truck it will give long, economic service. Its PROVED UNITS have stood the test of time they are backed by immense organizations with a combined capital of over one hundred million dollars. PROVED UNITS eliminate risk, provide truck insurance and protection. First of all has been the purpose of the truck what it must do, where it must go, who must use it, how he will use it, the roads, the loads all these angles were uppermost in the minds of ACME engineers and de signers. The ACME aim is not td fit traffic to the track, but the truck to the traffic, and not to set a price, then hew the units and parts down to make a profit, but build the best truck possible by using the highest grade units and assembly and finally selling at a moderate pripe. J). 03. JOHNSON 526-28 Quincy St TO MEET THE ARCHIE ROOSEVELT vV MORE TRAWLERS SUNK Four Were Sent Down By British Monday. Copenhagen. April 16. British destroyers sank four armed German trawlers in the vicinity of Kullen, outside Halmstadt, early Monday morning, according to dispatches from Gothenberg today. One trawler, wirelessing, asked for aid. DEATH FOR SHES Xew Provision in Bill Introduced by Senator Chamberlain. Washington. April 16. The death penalty for spies and persons inter fering with the army or navy is pro vided in a bill introduced today by Senator Chamberlain. It also provides that enemy agents, spies and propagandists, shall be tried by military court martial instead of civil courts. Proved Units the Model B 1-Ton Have on Our Floor Phone 848 3 WANT BRITISHERS Appeal Is Sent Out by Mission for War Help. S New York, April 16. An appeal for Britishers and Canadians to Join the colors for service in Kurbpe was sent out today by Brig. Gen. W. A. White, of the British and Canadian recruiting mission, in a letter from MaJ. Gen. C R. Newburn, Canadian minister of mi litia. "The call from overseas is such that I must ask you one and all not merely to carry on. but to do so with renewed and special vigor. "Everj- man of military age is need ed and needed now. Faith must be kept with those who are fighting, as well as those who have fallen. "May every Britisher and Canadian in the United States take to himself Sir Douglas Haig's special order of ths day. addressed to. all ranks and de cide that it his privilege and duty to seize this opportunity and Join the ranks of those who are fighting for the safety of our homes and the free dom of mankind." SENATOR IS "BURIED Immense Throng Attended Funeral of Louisiana Senator. New Iberia. La.. April 16. The funeral of United States Senator Rob ert F. Broussard, who died at nis home here last Friday night, was held today, attended by an immense throng of Wose personal friends and mn promi nent in the cf fairs of the stat and na tion. Members vf the congressional dele gation, wh oh attended the funeral, will leave ere late today Several will go to Nevada, Mo., attend the funeral of T-e late Senator Stone and the others will return to Wellington. PRISONERS WITHlAKEB First Enemy Prisoners Come on Ship With Secretary. An Atlantic Port. April 16. The first German prisoners of war to ar rive in the United States, formerly members of the crew of the subma rine U-58, which was sunk by an American destroyer, arrived here to day on the same vessel on which Sec retary of War Baker made his re- I turn trip from Europe, une numoer I of prisoners was not given officially but it is believed tnere were auuui twenty in the party. They will be in terned. Hotel Fire in Omaha. Omaha. Keb., April IS. Four per sons were injured, one seriously and ten others were, overcome by smoke in a fire vhich destroyed the Savoy hotel here today. J. W. Stuart, of Kansas City, was seriously injured when a "rope" he had constructed r ohMti broke M he was I lowering himself from a fourth story i window. The loss is estimated at $50 000. 1 tO.ST Between Polk .rhon! and 1S25 To peka ave., pair boy', fold., filled bow fflsnaes in a Dr. Ksterly case. Pbooe S9 or S). Reward. tfn" ln n A SIZE FOR EVERY BUSINESS ia ow ur to d-

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THE TOPEKA Dtt.Y &TV. tttrnAL TUESDAY EVENING. APRTL 16, 1918 8 L, T. PURCHASE MUTT JEFF Jeffs Idea Is Good If His Paint Holds Out Drawn for the Top?ka State Journal (Copyright, mi, by H. C. FHh.r. Viad Mark He- 6. a. PU. atf.1 By BUD FISHER DOUBLE TRACKED DEAL, ORR SAYS IWtWS G.OOU MOMEV IN)

CONTRACT-VAIMT I N& F YOU Ml fcHAlAi MotlW VOWlt PAIMT. X GST TUo "Bucks' Fofc Atchison Attorney Asserts Poli PAlNTlWfe TUI &ARG ties M as Behind Scheme. Awb the pmnt cmy S6T M.E ACk. OAJE lie Says Walter Johnson Was Working: for "a Candidate." PLANS TO JUNK THE ROAD Cards Stacked for Some One To Make Big Money. BockC. X'lA GOING Ar-TCR Sose war contracts NEJtT. V C t I' U V Y JWJi.ITT- I t M At' I'M VUORRWS FVST-I i.Pi. A '"I v" .1 .t fonte v s w mm j i j vr r. x Those Who Bought Stock May Hold Kmpty Bag. Cards in the Lea ven worth Tope ka railway cane are being dealt under the table and investors in the project to take over the road face a court mandate to compel them to operate the line, according to a statement to Lay by James W. Orr. Atchison law yer and attorney for the receiver in the case. Orr declared today that "Walter A. Johnson and his associ ates are working for "a candidate for an Important office," and that the zeal to protect patrons of the road may now become quite expensive. When Johnson walked proudly for ward to buy in the railroad for the patrons the $80,000 sale price being far less than the junk value he en tered into an agreement that the buy ers would maintain and operate thelthe line to believe that he had been road as a going concern. The next instrumental in giving them a railroad day Fre-1 S. Jarkson, a Capper ap- polntee as public utilities commission attorney, nought to have the agree- I ment modified. His suggestion of i modification vas to remove the provi sion compelling operation of the rail- j road as required by the court. This question will be presented in Kansas City next Saturday. Orr strongly in timates Johnson and his associates fire now trying to dodge and win the long junk bargains. Was a Double-Track Scheme? Now the plan to make both votes and money seems to have struck 'a snag. Orr laid the record on the table- in a rather sensational state ment of facts today and invited pa trons who had been misled by soft words of politicians to make early reservations for ring side seats. In his statement. Orr said: "This railroad was owned for many years by the Union Pacific and Santa Fe railroads jointly and they oper ated it upwards of twenty years at a Iosj and deficit of $2&4,000 Then a unit was commenced by the Union Pa cific and judgment rendered against the L. A T. and a receiver appointed. The receiver operated the line for considerably more than a year at a hsavy loss. There is now due for taxes from the railroad to Leaven worth and Jefferson counties for 1916 and IS17 upwards of $10,000. The indebtedness now to he paid out of the sale of this railroad amounts to more than 60, 000. not counting a mortgage on the property for $250, 000 mere. --"The property, as I say, was order ed -old to pay the debts of the com pany, othe- than the mortgage debt, and certain persons, locally interested, including farmers. merchants and elevator men doing business on the line, and commercial clubs of Leaven worth. Oska1oo?a and Topeka repre sented to the court that they could arrsine to take over the property and one rate it. if given a chance, and, alti.o they were not pprties to the suit, the court was willing to give them that chance. Road Worth $160,000. "The junk value of the property ly ing west of the city of Leavenworth is practically admitted to be not 1es than 1160.000 at present market price, but the court, in its decree, gave these parties the first right to pur chase all the property, including the terminals at Leavenworth, at an up wet price of $80,000 cash, and instruct ed the special master to offer the property for sale in its entirety as a going concern and to consider or ac cept no bid for less than $80,000; that if the authorized representatives of uch commercial clubs or of the farm ers, elevator owners, merchants ?.nd citizens residing or doing business in the counties of Leavenworth and Jef ferson bid $80,000 and obligate them selves to operate the railroad contin uously in the future, as a going con cern. and shall make to the United States a bond or obligation to be ap proved by the clerk of the court, con ditioned in default of such agreement to operate the road continuously to pay 10 me piaintin all damages by Suit at a price vV..vmij the thrift t- mi 814 Kansas At. The House of Kuppcnlieimer. ,.,-1 ll 11.11 II 'I I im .1. I. .Ill III -I II I. ..II. i. II I I I II II l I I. I! .1 .1 ..II. II I I II .1 II II-. I HI I him sustained in not being awarded the right to dismantle and sell the i property at this time in the most ad- vantageous manner, then the special master should consider no other bid and sell the property to such repre sentative. "A candidate for an important of fice conceived the idea that if he could induce the people residing along for little or nothing it would help him in his campaign, and so a plan seems to have been adopted to induce sub- scripuons irom larmers, eievaior men and citizens of the three cities I have mentioned. Public and private meet ings were held, where it was stated that notwithstanding the terms of the decree subscribers would get this property without giving a bond or be- i ng compelled to operate the road, and would get it free of all debt or obli gation, and if they could not operate they could junk it and thus get their money back, and more, and so were J induced to subscribe. I jea ven worth Gave Nothing. t 'Different communities were in a way assessed, each to raise a certain j part of the $80,000. Agents and rep resentatives of this candidate were ex ceedingly active. The sale was set for April 3 at Leavenworth and altho the portion to be raised by Leavenworth was fixed at $20,000, yet two hours before the appointed time for the sale Leavenworth had raised little or noth ing. George Hanna, who is a banker at Clay Center, attended the sale and when it was learned that Leavenworth had not raised its part, Mr. Hanna communicated with parlies in Topeka, by telephone, and then advanced the $20,000 to cover the Leavenworth shortage, so Mr. Wu.'fekuhler could certify that he had on deposit the sum required to make the bid. Mr. Hanna of Clay Center could hardly be consid ered one of those to whom the prop erty might be sold under the court's decree and doubtler was acting for some other interest. "The sale occurred, Walter A. John son, of Topeka, ostensibly acting as the representative of the commercial clubs, farmers, etc., made his bid in writing and. after offering the $80, 000, the bid recites: 'And the said Walter A. Johnson further offers and bids in accordance with said decree to obligate himself and his assigns to continuously oper ate said railroad in the future, as a going concern, and to make to the United States a bond and obligation to be approved by the clerk of this court, conditioned in default of said agrtement to continuously operate said railroad, to pay to the plaintiff or liis assigns all damages sustained by him in not being allowed to dis mantle and sell said property de scri"ied in the decree at this time in the most advantageous manner, and offers to conform in all other regards witi. the requirements of the deeree.' Deposited 910.0O0. "To carry; out this bid. he deposited with the special master $10,000, to be applied to the purchase price if the sale was confirmed, or to be for feited to the plaintiff in the event of their failure to carry out the condi tions of the bid. Fred S. Jackson, acting and sign ing himself as solicitor for Walter A. Johnson, filed a motion in court, the with the requirements of the decree. striking out the following words: "And shall obligate themselves to continuously operate said railroad in future as a going concern, and shall also make to the United States s bond or obligation to be approved by the The You'll Like that satisfies your sense for wise j m ucouc iv in sic JJ Willi spirit of the hour. $17 $17 Everything new in color and hue pat terns from the dressy blue and black to the gay weaves in novel effects. SECRETARY BAKER WITH AMERICAN CHIEFS SNAPPED ON WESTERN FRONT 144! tfi R Wf J Ms A Left to right. Gen. T&sker H. Bliss, Secretary Newton D. Baker and Gen. John J. Pershing. This is the first photograph showing Secretary of War Baker on his wceut visit to the fighting front in Europe. Mr. Baker believes that his personal touch with the American army abroad will have been of the greatest value in speeding up our war program and it is intimated that his visit was an important cause of the appointment of a supreme allied commander clerk of this court conditioned in de fault of said agreement to continuous ly operate sa id railroad, to pay this plaintiff, or his assigns, all damages by him sustained in not being awarded the right to dismantle and sell said property at this time in the most ad vantageous manner." "The hearing of this motion and the motion to confirm the sale occurs at Kansas City, Kansas, next Saturday. "The decree recites that under no circumstances will the purchaser ba permitted to junk the railroad, but, being given tne ngnt to Duy u at a fraction of its admitted value, they must operate the road or pay the present owner whatever he may lose by reason of his not being permitted to sell the property at this time in the nvost advantageous way. "Kvery railroad operating in Leav enworth has been offered the L. T. on very moderate terms if an agree ment to operate it wouJd be made. At the hearing, Mr. Cass. The president of the Kansas City Northwestern rail road, testified that after he had care fully examined the property and audit ed its various stations, he would not take the property as a gift, if coupled with a contract to operate it. Every one who has given the subject any investigation is convinced that it can not he made to pay operating ex penses, and the money invested by the purchasers will inevitably be lost. When the merchants and farmers along the line discover that they must operate this railroad and give the bond, and that they have been mis led by the soft words of the politicians, a seat at the ring side will be worth while." RESERVEOIL RIGHTS Rumanian Peace Treaty Allows Mil itary Occupation. Amsterdam, April 16. tion with tlje provision -in connec- of the Ru- manian peace treaty, giving Germany ,haa .enter tne employ of the 'company a lease of ninety-nine years on the in the sitores department. Lieut. Porter Rumanian oil wells, the Berlin Tagesi'was stationed at Fort Sill Okla. kV Zeitunar renorts. German v has reserved I w i w uiiii ui iimiwij m.iuii i ii,inKt Tnp wiU (.ppigten h(r Helen Vir oil producing territory for several cinia. Mr. Metwrer is the sod of Mr. and years. Mrs. tieorge Metxger. PREMIER BACK IN PARIS Brought Back Very Favorable Im pression of Situation. Paris. April 16. Premier Clemen ceau returned to Paris last night from the battle front where he had been getting into close touch with condi tions. The impression of the situation which he brought back to th-? capital with him was a favorable one. COTTON GOES DOWN B Am' a ..Well Known Broker Goes With It. New York, April 16. Upon the opening of the New York cotton mar- irit ances, the failure of Gay L. Schif- fer, one of the best known floor brokers on the exchange, was an nounced. It was said his liabilities were not large. Schiffer became member of the exenange in 1S93. Initial prices today showed breaks of from 45 to 110 points. May opened at 2'8.50, July at 27.75 and October a' 26.30. BOMBS ARE FOUND Were Likely Left In Revenge ProseeutJon. for a Milwaukee, April 16. Two bombs near District Attorney W. A. Zabel's residence were found this forenoon. The missiles were removed before any damage was wrought. It is believed the bombs were placed by someone in revenge for the prosecution of the eleven Italians found guilty of rioting at Bayview last September and sen tenced to long terms in state prison. SANTA FE NOTES Noes jnl pmona Is from Santa I Lv Frances Joaes. 211 rattan street, f le1ephonL etw;.n A ant i.u a m.. &U: other hours. 4751 K-2. Word has been revived from Daniel 1 Butler who is in France sending his best wishes to his fellow workers. The ltter which was written March 1 was received by his uncle. William Sutler, of the coach j t shops. Mr. nutler is witu a itaiiway i mi anu oerore nis entrance into tae army j worke,i jn tile Toiieka eliops. Lieut. B. H. I'ortpr has resigned from Mr- an1 :MP,P arp i t parents or a Uaugiirer. oorn uulay njnm- Mr. and Mrs. eorge lieiwig and r.imiiy have changed their residence from 17 thandler to rtrt .leffern srreet Engineer Robert PrentnaH is taking the place of Engineer John Hand on 1I7 and 108 between Toneka and St. Joseph. Mo. Engineer Hand is off for several days. Fireman William Itoberts bus returned to work oo 61 and after spending a vara- j tiou visiting various points in Colorado. 1 He was accompanied by Mrs. Roberts. i Kngitieer anil Mrs. T. lioy Hoover of Argentine speut a short time In the city Mouday. Miss Anna Ita rton of the--elegr;( ph de purtmuut is ill at the company hospital-, She expveta to undergo au opt ration soon. II 1 WILL ANNEX NOW German Reichstag Peace Reso lution Is Annulled. No Annexations or Indemnities Peeved Hertling. Washington, April 16. The Ger- man government has definitely an- j nulled the peace resolution "without) annexations or indemnities." passed by the majority of the reichstag last j July, according to an official dispatch today from France. The pan-German organ Tageblatt Rundschau is quoted as follows: "Count Hertung informed the lead- j ers of the majority parties that if they adhered to the resolution he would resign. Factions of the majori ty then adopted the chancellor's point j of view and formally declared that; they accepted the new program of the imperial government wnicn includes the incorporation by Germany of French territory and of the abolition of the coast of Flanders as well as the payment to Germany by the west ern powers of a considerable w inr demnity." HOW, AN I. W. W. WORKS Tactics Practiced to Frighten Pro j posed Jurymen. Chicago, April 16. Tactics alleged to have been put In practice to frighten prospective jurors in the trial of 113 I. W. W. members accused of conspiracy to hamper war activities were made public today by federaj agents. A stranger will visit a neigh borhood where a prospective juror lives, according to complaints rrade to government officers and will strike up a casual acquaintance with sortie one known to be friendly to the venire men. In the course of conversation he will be likely to say: "These I. W. W. fellows are a bad 1 lot. Now there was a case out in the I northwest. They convicted, an T. Wr. W. and at the end of six months all j a desperate lot." j With this seed sown he goes away. it is added in the hope that the story will get back to the prospective juror j and it usually does. Rapid progress was made in the trial yesterday the first day since the dismissal of the 1 panel a week ago by Federal Judge Land is. Ab a result six men were in the jury box today as tentatively ap- proved by the grovernment attorneys. v i PAY MEN BACK WAGES tht' pat.tcr. Give Employes Raise Oatins From Janocry 15. Chicago, April 16. Nearly 200.000 employes in the meat industry have been paid back wages from January j 3 5 to April 15. The amount paid by Chicago packers to employes in nine cities is said to be $6,000,000. The employes received from $5 to $250 each. While the arbitration which resulted In the payment of the back wages involved only the Chicago packers and their employes in nine cities. many independent packers agreed to abide by hte ruling. This, it is said, will benefit 80,000 more em ployes. WOMEN TAR WOMEN Police Were Held Back Women. Too. by Armed Stillwater, Okla., April 16. While part of their number held the police back with revolvers, the remainder of a party of fifteen women yesterday i tarred and feathered two women be longing to an objectionable 3how which was stopping here. The actresses were made to buy tickets out of the county and leave on the first train. Talking Bonds instead o f pboto praphs this week Phone 3070 and w will call and get your subscription. E. V. KING North Side News Items for this column miy be left at Petro'a drug store, or phone Ele.'i or Kimball after 2 p. m.: other honrc phoue 3520. Arthur Brintnall of the Fair store, believes he may have found a clew to the origin of the ground glass stories that have been circulating: of late. The other day he broke an egg. and found embedded in the yolk, a piece of blue glass. Mr. Brintnall thinks if the hen that laid thia egg could be found,1 she might prove to be the originator or some of the Hun plots hatched recently. Wilkerson-Bahr. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Bahr of 128 Hol man street, announce the marriage of their daughter Ada. to Clyde Wilker son, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wilker son of 1331 Van Buren street, this afternoon at 4 o'clock, at the home of the bride's parents. The marriage ceremony took place in the presence of about thirty guests and relatives, the Rev. Mr. Jones of the Central ave nue Christian church officiating. The bride was becomingly gowned in white crepe de chine and georgette crepe, and carried Liberty roses. The house was appropriately decorated with flags, among them being flags of the allies, sent from France by a brother of the bride, who is in the navy in transport duty. The bride is a nurse in training at St. Francis hospital. Mr. Wilkerson will return tonight to Camp EKjniphan and will be accompanied by Mrs. Wilkerson part of the way. Mrs. Wilkerson will make her horn with her parents, during her hus band's absence, and will continue her training in the hospital. Xotes and Personals. Mr. and Mrs. Hiat of west of town, are the parents .of a boy baby, born last night. Mrs. George Brown of Linwood, Kan., is visiting her daughter. Mrs. L. T. Orrick, of 84 4 Quinoy street. Mr. Frank Thomas and two young sons, who have been visiting Mr. Thomas' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, returned last night to their home in Syracuse, Kan. Mrs. Roy Boast will entertain the Tsuneo Taka Hashi Embroidery club this afternoon, at her home, 909 Jack son street. The women of East Indianola will meet Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at the A. O. U. W. hall In Shorey. for Red Cross work. William Boast has returned from Kansas City. Mo., and Lyndon. Mo., where he has been for three weeks on business, f A. M. Acord has gone to Gillette, W'yo., where he will make his home. E. W. Greaser, who has been living in Colorado for several years, has come to make his home in North To peka, He is staying for the present with his uncle, W. H. Welton, north of town. Mrs. Lucille Be Kender of Kansas City is guest of Mrs. A. T. Rowe of 1123 Jackson street. Miss Mary Summers of 1523 Monroe street sustained painful burns on the fingers of her left hand at the Crosby Brothers' beauty parlors yesterday aft ernoon. Miss Summers, who is em ployed in the beauty parlors, said the injury was caused from the explosion of an electric switch, the current from the wire melting a ring on her finger. Miss Summers will not be able to re sume her work for several days. A. M. Pero. the Druggist. Adv. Mechanic W. E. Keller. 130 regi ment field artillery', stationed at Camp Doniphan, spent a few hours with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Keller. 1418 Quincy street, on his way to Rock Island. 111. The young man was one of four of the 130 regiment selected to take the course at the Rock Island i arsenal at Hock Island. Ill j Orville Rowe has finished the third training school for officers at Camp Doniphan, and has been recommend ed for a second lieutenancy. He ar rived this morning on a week s furlo and is at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rowe of 1123 Jackson btreet. SUES MARY PICKFORD Lawyer Claims She Owes Him $5,000 on an Old Account. Xew York, April 16. Mary Pick- ford is to appesr in a trial scene in real life, instead of the movies. As Gladys S. Moore, which Is her legal name, she has been sued for $5,000 counsel fees by Samuel M. Field. He says he was once her lawyer. Crowds thronged the corridors of the county court house today when Miss Pickford appeared. The case was adjourned until tomorrow. A Card of Thanks. We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to all our relatives and friends, who showed their deep sympathy thru many kind deeds and beautiful flow ers, during husband's, father's and brother's illness and at his desth. Mrs. CI A. Tulien. Mr. and Mrs. George Tulien. Rev. and Mrs. Hugo B. Hateriud. Mr. and Mrs. F A. Tulien. Adv. I NO CYCLOPS YET! Disappearance of U. S. Collier Still a Mystery. Theory of German Raider Is Discounted. Washinsrton. April 16. Disappear- ance of the navy collier Cyclops, with aDout 3U award, promised today to r sociologI tn the University of Chicago go down in the annals of the sea as one of its strangest mysteries. i was to be served today on S illiam I. The navy, tho still searching the j Thomas, the "bald-headed daddy" of tropic seas, has virtually abandoned all I pretty Mrs. R. M. Granger. Thomas's but the faintest hope of finding her j arraignment in morals court jesterdav rne' lJL W- ,h h, on a disorderly conduct charge was in,. w?f J J-tS..9n SL Allowed by the telegraphic order of in the uaste of. waters lent itself to J uijil suspension from President Judson in many romantic tales of plots to wreck y.i her. but thus far Captain Wells intel-j k- t t,. T w I Meantime the campus boar' of trus- ligence officers have been unable to f ss .i;,v. -,,,v,.,i tees began an investigation of the thrtoriel truthfulnes of an' ofjcase in which their distinguished. A complete tabulation of intelli- ?e5" a l1 rr.nrt. fVr.rr. oil .ror-0 th world seemed to dissipate the theory had again slunk into the western At-1 aj. lantic. So today many turned to the v, j theory that plotters within wrecked A, the engines, put out of commission 1K. u the wireless and somehow spirited the l r ship away to some out of the wav port. u. or scuttled her enroute to home port. m WANT AMERICAN GOODS T But Denmark Must First Agrep to Shearing in morals court when Thomas n ri-mtiv and Mrs. Granger are expected to ap- I pear in public together. Mrs. Granger Washington. April 1 6. Reports J was reported ill in bed at the Thomas that Danish importers seeking to force j residence, mothered by the professor s a release of American products have j wife. been circulating, hinting that unless Tersisfent rumors that, new war they are permitted to purchase what rants would be issued, bringing in the they please their trade will go to j name of a prominent Chicagr. litrrary Germany after the war, has drawn j man. were not denied at the state s from the ar trade board assurance attorney's office today. This man and that everything possible will be done another woman are reported to have to safeguard American commerce. been in gay parties. Proposals for commercial agree- I Mrs. Delia Raines, sister of Mrs. ment with Denmark, similar to those i Granger, who was expected to be an with other countries, have been held j important wUness, has apparently dis- in abeyance for several weeks owing appeared from Chicago. to the refusal of the Danish govern-j M m t t7J mert to give assurances required of j ANllTHrK IS TflRRFfl all neutrals that the goods obtained! nilUIIIUI lw I mil I LIS from the United States should not be J allowed to go into Germany or to substitute for domestic Products se nt into Germany. .Jjntil an agreement is reached nothing will be licensed f or export to Denmark but as soon as the two governments come to an under- standing the United States will allow the exportation of ample foodstuffs. raw materials and manuiaciurea goods. NEW IMPORTS BILL Restrictions Will Be Plaeed on Some Article Imported. Washington. April 16. A new im ports restriction list will he issued in a few days by the war trade board, be- 1.111111115 i lie lurittiiiinrni ui uaiiBuiiii- tion of many articles of every day use in American homes. The first list cut off only commodities of which there was an ample supply or which would be produced here. The second will make it necessary almost for the first time since the war began, for people to do without. Extent of the list and the amount of tonnage to be saved for war pur poses have not been made known. Conferences have been held with rep resentatives of the trades affected and in some instances with representatives of goernments of foreign countries i mand made by the German authori from which the imports come. Every j ties for the Gerard property. The effort has been made to work as little j seizure of an ambassador's personal hardship as possible. BE LOYAL Gillette Nicholson Lumber Co. 100 Kansas Ae. HE WAS TOO GAY So Dr. Thomas Is Not a Pro fessor Xow. Another Prominent Man 3Iay Come Into Case. Chicago. April IS. Notice of sus- pension as associate professor of iuumi nuvruiuie win. ...a v.i.j 'ittle lady" whose husband is fighting in France. A "IkI; thU,.. U LX7r.-i i Angell. that Thomas is not lecturing T) y i this semester, but President Judson s w. order of suspension was for the bene- l.. fit of the public because the com- u.. 1 munity s morality has been ffeeted. 1 T. Dean Angell said the decision of the 7 1 v wi l I board1 would probably be announced I immediately following this afternoon s session. larence Drfrrow. chief counsel for I Thomas, ore oared today for Friday's Oklahoma Man Was Seditious and violated Soldier's Home,

j Tulsa. Okla., April 16.Because he had cr0sBed the threshold of a home, Ieft unprotected bv a soldier called to defend his country and is alleged to have made the remark that President Wilson was no better than the kaiser. the Knights of Liberty silently took John Kubreka. 26, off the street Mon day night and spirited him to a lonely spot north of the city, applied a coat of tar and feathers and then whipped it In with fifty lashes of a blackanake whip. Kubreka waa made to promise never to return to Tulsa and never to see Mrs. Ted White again. nCT II1C nnnnmTVI j LUOC. MlO rnUltn lit Germans May Confiscate Personal Be longings of James W. Gerard. New York. April 16. James TV. Gerard, former ambassador to Ger many, is likely to lose valuable paint ings, silver, china, bric-a-brac and other articles left in storage in a Ber- lin warehouse when he departed from Germany. Gerard stated that the Spanish am bassador, who represented the United States in Berlin had pretested a de- J property is contrary to civilized usaga. Protect your shingle roof with Conrad's Creosote. Roof with fire proof slate surface shingles. Look after your winter's supply of coal. I,

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110 THE TOPKKA DA IT V ST IT TmTT?NAIA-TUESDA EVENING, APRIL 16, 1918 TO RELIEVE CATARRHAL DEAFNESS AND HEAD I. NOISES ff you hare Catarrhal Deafness or heart noises tco to ynr drusrtffst and pet 1 ounce of -A'nrmiiit (double strength), and artil to it &4 pint of hot writer and a Jit tie of prau'tlated auar. Take 1 tablesnoonful ftr times a l:ty. This will nf ten bring quirk roliof from the, Oistreasiujr head noisi-s. 4'logseil nos trifa shuiilil oien, bre:tliing become easy a nt the ti) ileus stop dropping into t h titrrtnr. It is easy to prepare, 'sts little and in pleasant to take. Any one who has I'atftrrluil Deafness or lieaii noises should jrtw the pres-ri prion n triii t. Adv. vlil5 requirement WU.S.FOOD leais. S3 H to s w a g 5 to tn (a tu j o J: s 1 o 3 1-: -j: Misr.aits: Approved ffiearlessD, avsil 1 (Copyright by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. New York City.) As ttic Spring Advances, There Is a roil t Effort M adc to I ntrod ucc Costumes of the -.rden Party Spe cies in Pastel Shades. New York. America has taken to herself the credit of introducing a new fashion into spring and summer cos tumery. thru organdies, pastel shades, fluttering ribbons and pink roses. France takes the credit also. Any woman who is interested may take her choice. Nobody cares, probably, who started the fashion. The real curiosity rests on the questions as to whether or not it will be popular and sufficiently enduring to warrant in vesting one's dress allowance in it. Gown by Jenny of Paris, with bodice of silver net and pink roses. Skirt of blue chiffon over yellow chiffon. Coat of blue chiffon caught at back with pink roses. Looking at it from the point of view of a reporter, it seems as tho the fash ion will be sufficiently permanent for every woman to take a chance at it. It will last until September, if one can judge accurately by the present signs. The main thing today is to find out whether this garden party species of costumery is suitable to your especial type of face and figure, your pocket book, and above all, your social oppor tunities. Environment should be the leading factor in the choosing of clothes. Typical Summer Clothes. Each decade there comes about a revival of what the old writers used to call flower-like gowns. The nov elists of other days dressed their hero ines, as we all remember with amuse ment, in the faultless muslins which were supposed to be the costumery of the ingenue, as well as that of the poverty-stricken girL What every woman knows is that the muslin frock, perfectly made and entirely fresh at all times, is the luxury of the rich. There is only one segment of this country where muslin gowns are cheap, and that ,s in the south, where the mills produce the materials and the colored women, who have been trained thruout two cen turies to make these clothes, turn them out at a small price. But, as the Fifth avenue dressmaker points out when this argument is brought to her, the sewing, the fit and the perfection of the frock .of the north or of Paris are not repeated in the carelessly put together muslin gown worn in hot climates. Today we face the extravagance of exquisite cotton clothes. Embroidered batiste, French organdy, fine com munion cloth an(3 cotton net. called point d'esprit, are the materials chosen. For the evening there are elaborate materials, but the gowns are made up with the same idea in mind the gar den party poor heroine popular uovel style. Paris Says Pink Roses. When Paris departs from organdy. Do YOU want Clotbes that Dazzle? u s &u easy i ssr A single trial package of Red Cross Ball Blue will convince yon that never he fore have you known true happi ness at the end of the day. "White? why it gives your clothes a whiteness that even th fleeciest clouds cannot rival. Don't Watt, Don't Doubt Got ifUse ft and KNOW 5 Cents. At GOOD Grocery Stores "3SST.. blue ribbon and Leghorn hats, she gives us at- evening gown of pink roses, blue p.nd yellow chiffon and a t it of silver tissue, to' provide orna ment. One of the frocks that Jenny of Paris has made for an American girl is shown i.. this sketch. Here you have the new movement in clothes ex pressed, thru the medium of an artist, in a dinner or dance gown, for the American gill still dines and dances as often as she works for the Rod Cross and drives an ambulance. She be lieves in turning both sides of the shield, in order that she may serve and cheer and smile and spread optim ism as long as the war lasts. This frock has a yleated blue chif fon skirt over a clinging slip of ac cordion pleated yellow chiffon. There is a short-waisted girdle made of silver net over tissue, and a lattice work of ribbon" and pink roses goes over the entire surface. The lower edge is scalloped and these scallops are bound with silver. Covering the shoulders and making a high decolletage at the back, is a draped blue chiffon coat made from an extra long width of draped material twice the length of the figure. THE HOUSEHOLD Edited by AWE RITIEXOCSE. Things We Make of Wood. We have recently learned that wood can be tremendously useful material so far as the adornment of womankind is concerned. This doesn't mean that we are to wear sabots of wood, either, for our boots are as daintily fashioned from leather and kid as ever before. But we find many bits of wood in our ward robes, nevertheless. For one thine there are the fascin ating wooden beads that have be come such an important uimmms ac cessor this yir. Paris, we are as sured, took to the use or wooaen Deaas because they were cheap and made of a fabric not essential to warfare. And we took to the fad of using wooden beads because we found them alto gether charming. The first beads that came to us on TrvonnVi frnrku were of uncolored wood just the natural, unpolished wood in a soft, brownish snaae. fsut now we have wooden beads in all colors of the rainbow. They aren't just the shades of the rainbow, which makes them the more interesting odd shades of green and blue and violet and red and yel low, in dull, flat finish. These beads are used on wool fringes to finish off belts and collars of serge suits. They are used for em broidering hats and frocks, likewise, and sometimes they are strung togeth er ad fashioned into parts of capes and frocks. They are incorporated into tassels, too. and in this guise form a most at tractive finish for handbags. A silk tassel of blue threads, for instance, shows beads of yellow,, purple and green, and the result is decidedly ef fective. Then there are the wooden tops to handbags. These are used witn vel vet or some other heavy fabric, for naturally they are themselves heavy. They are not usually carved. There are rings, too, of wood thru which the handles of the same bandbaga are slipped. Of course, there are wooden fans carved sandalwood, for instance that may come for more than ordinary at tention now that this fad for wood has come to life. And before long there may, be new fans of wood in the shops. Wooden buttons, too, have come In for a good deal of attention, and they are worthy a good deal more. For wooden buttons are decidedly effec tive. They are sometimes carved, sometimes stained in a soft, dull fin ish and sometimes highly glazed, with a -;ort of enamel. Wo hav used wooden rods, carved at the ends, or finished with big en ameled balls, as the framework for t'ae top of our knitting bags of chintz and silk for several months, but they are still interesting. Some smart women have brought out bits of wooden jewelry little carved wooden lavalieres and even sometimes old brooches and pins of wood. They are all interesting be cause of the new-found liking for wooden accessories, and perhaps you too can find some odd bit of wooden adornment from the past that you can make use of now. It is strange how out of the picture a bit of wooden jewelry would have been a couple of years ago and how much to the point it is today. 2? rY.4 IS IB .5 a AM I 57. .'56 4S OS 4 So '47 52 3 V u 1 Vl 4X AV To fifty lines add eight And see a great. Draw from on to two and so on to the end. NEW CROP REPORT Most Important Kansas Condi tion From J.'C. Mohler. Every- Department of Farm Work Will Be Covered. OUT ON A SPRING CAMPAIGN State Council of Defense Will Use Mohler Information. Wheat, Corn, Investments and the "Labor Situation. Kansas will receive her first official announcement of crop conditions from the state board of agriculture in a re port to be rssued late this week by J. C. Mohler, secretary of the state board of agriculture. The report will give the first estimate of the year from Mohler's 2,000 correspondents as to conditions of the Kansas wheat crop. That report will be of concern to the state, the nation and the allies. Crop reporters will cover conditions as they existed in various crop grow ing localities last Saturday. More than 1,200 statements of conditions are expected from the 2,000 local crop reporters. The April report will cover a wide range of farm investigation. Not only will information be gathered concerning the condition of the winter wheat crop, but reports are asked con cerning probable acreages of corn and potatoes ano conditions of oats and barley as compared with last year. One of the vitally important auestions asked by Secretary Mohler concerns the larm labor situation. He asks for information both as to the labor sup ply and the general progress of spring woric on the farm. New Spring Campaign. Much valuable information will be contained in the report which will be made public in a few days. As a re sult of the crop and labor inquiry by Secretary Mohler, the state council of national defense will direct its spring campaign in various farming com munities. As many as a dozen or twenty reports will be compiled from a number of the more important farm districts. Coming out of a more or less un favorable winter, Kansas farmers are now studying soil conditions and have gathered rather accurate information as to crop prospects. AH of this in formation will be contained in the Mohler report. Since the reports were compiled in local districts, gen eral rains have fallen thruout the stale and great benefit has come to he wheat growers in western coun ties Crop. Questionnaire Here is the questionnaire sent to the local crop observers: Wheat: What per cent (if any) of the total acreage sown to winter wheat iiz your county is worthless or so unpromising that it will probably be abandoned or devoted to other croos Deducting all likely to be plowed up or worthless, and calling a good average stand and condition 100 per cent, at what per cent do you estimate the present condition of that which will be allowed to stand? Are soil conditions now favorable for vigorous growth? Will there be much seeding of oats in thin stands of wheat for a com bination wheat and oats crop? Oats: How will the oats acreage compare with that of last year? What is the condition of oats? Barley: How will the barley acre age compare with that of last year? Potatoes: How will the acreage of potatoes this year compare with that of last? Corn: How will the probable acre age of com this year compare with that o! last? Crops .in Farmers' Hands: What per cent of last year's crops are in the hands of farmers? Iabor: Is there any serious short aga of farm help in your county to waid enlisting men and boys of the cities for farm work, especially dur ing the harvest season, to meet any labor shortage that may develop Spring Work: Is spring work pro gressing rapidly? JAP LANDING CALMS Siberian City Is Now Quiet Under Jap Bluejackets. Tokio. April 16. Official advices from Vladivostok say the city is calm. Japanese hluejackets are not replying to occasional shots from snipers at night. Protection of the French con sulate has been taken over by the Japanese. The Japanese foreign office an nounces there is no confirmation of a Petrograd dispatch that the Bolshevik government has proclaimed a state of war in Siberia, and ordered the 'Red Guard to oppose Japanese marines. David Keith Is Dead. Salt Iake City. Utah. April 16. Da vid Keith, capitalist and pioneer min- ing man of the west, died at his apart ments in the Utah hotel here last night of pneumonia. He was 70 years old and one of the original promoters of the Ontario and Silver King mines at Park City, and partner of Former Senator Thomas Kearns in the owner ship of the Salt Lake Tribune. HEADACHE DOSING IS UNNECESSARY Sloan's Liniment does away with internal treatments. That splitting, crazing, shooting pain in the head, if of neuralgic origin, sue cumbs to the first application of Sloan's Liniment. It creates a counter-irritation :that starts the blood pulsing normally and soothes and comforts in its prompt relief. Apply without rubbing for ft pene t rat est for rheumatic twinges, sore, stiff muscles and joints, sprains, strains, pains, sciatica, and bruises. Clean, don't stain the skin. Generous sized bottles at all druggists. No in crease in price 25 c, 60c, and $1.00. HAS $00,000 B UT KEEPS STORE JOB Miss Ruth Johnson. Miss Ruth Johnson of Kansas City keeps right on selling goods in a store there despite the fact she has inherited $60,000 from her grand father, Henry Johnson of Danville, 111. Johnson committed suicide re cently. SLAPS AMUSEMENTS Petti cord Condemns Cards, Dancing, Theaters and Moving Picture Shows. Evangelist Petticord spoke on popu lar amusements at the Evangelical church Monday night. It was a scath ing address on cards, dance, theater and incidentally the movies. The ad dress was based on the evangelist's personal knowledge and experience, for he was not raised in a Christian home nor were his youthful surround ings conducive to a Christian life. The evangelist treated the subject in a re fined manner, giving definite reasons for each assertion and viewing these amusements as they are viewed by the average individual. He depicted these pleasures as devil controlled and in a subtle way leading men and women away from instead of toward God, by lowering the ideals and sapping the spiritual and moral strength, iti The r social side of life demands recreation and pleasure, but common sense and a sense of responsibility to God demand that these pleasures be wholesome and upbuilding instead of enervating and dissipating." he said. The dark brown taste, the regret, Sorrow and remorse incidental and at tributal to cards, dance and theater in dulgers certainly speak against its wholesomeness.' Petticord gave as his reason for dis cussing this subject the fact that he is constantly being asked for advice on the amusements by people who are desirous of rightly rearing their fam ilies. An ajred Minnesota Indian, injured in an accident, refused to sleep on a hospital bed; but rolled bimself up in a blanket and slept ou the floor for two weeks. For Burning Eczema Greasy salves and ointments should not be applied if good clear skin is wanted. From any druggist for 35c or $1.00 for extra large size, get a bottle of zemo. When applied as directed it effectively removes eczema, quickly stops itching, and heals skin troubles, also sores, burns, wounds and chafing. It penetrates, cleanses and soothes. Zemo is a clean, dependable and inexpensive, penetrating, antiseptic liquid. Try it, as we believe nothing you have ever used is as effective and satisfying. The E. W. Rose Co., Cleveland, O. f Adr.rrlstTTTpnt. Cocoanut Oil Makes a Splendid Shampoo If you want to keep your hair in good condition, be careful what you wash it with. Most soaps and prepared shampoos contain too much alkali. This dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle, and is very harmful- Just plain mulsified cocoanut oil (which is pure and en tirely greaseless) is much better than the most expensive soap or anything else vou can use for shampooing, as 1 this can't possibly injure the hair. Simply moisten your hair with water and rub it in. One or two teaspoon fuls will make an abundance of rich, creamy lather, and cleanses the hair and scalp thoroughly. The .lather rinses out easily and removes every particle of dust, dirt, dandruff and excessive oil. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves it fine and silky, bright, fluffy and easy to man age. You can get mulsified cocoanut oil at- most any drug store. It is very cheap, and a few ounces is enough to last everyone in the family for months. Advertisements President L. M. Pen v ell Phone 775. Sec'y-Treaa. K. M. Johnson Pbon- 3A19 THE LM. PEN WELL UNDERTAKING CO. BM-SOS-510 QuIdct 81rect Pfaoa IS MOTORISTS WHEN TOCB STARTER give yon trouble take it t J KEELE ELECTRIC CO. 2U W. Sixth Ave. USE HUN CRIPPLES German Manpower Is Becom ing1 Low. Permanently Disabled Soldiers Retained in Army. STRIKERS ARE PUT INTO ARMY Soldiers Complain of Imsuffi cient Food. o Reserves. To Replace Men if Withdrawn. New York, April 16. Germany is so hard pressed for manpower that per- f manently disabled soldiers are re- tained in the army and cripples are called to the. colors. This statement was made in the reichstag by Deputy Ryssell, an independent Socialist, on 1 February 23, according to the Berlin Vorwaerts, a copy of which has been received here. Other deputies also laid bare sensational conditions pre vailing in the German army. The disclosures were made in a de bate which was precipitated by a mo- tion introduced by Deputies Mueller- Meiningen, People's party; Feheren- bach. Centrist party;. Doctor Strese-1 mann. National Liberal, and Stueck- j len, Socialist, requesting the chancellor I to see to it that the classes of 1869 I and 1870 be discharged from the army j as soon as possible and that the men of the landsturm who have been in ac- j tive service since the beginning of the j war and who have been one year in i the front line trenches be permanent- ly transferred to the home reserves. Deputy Ryssell said that it was ex plained that the men in question could not be withdrawn because they could not be replaced. He added: The resolution adopted by the reichstag two years ago providing for the dis charge of persons permanen'l sick and unfit is not being acted upon. In the first reserve battalion of infantry regiment No. 61 a great many cripples have been drafted and the same is the case regarding infantry regiment No. 175 at Graudenz. Strikers and such persons as had caused offense politically are put into the army as a punishment. The soldiers in general complain of insufficient and bad food. What be comes of the food articles which are supplied the army? The non-commissioned officers em ployed in the canteens continually take food home.- GIFTS OF FOOD POPULAR At German Benefit an Opera Tenor Gets a Four-Foot Sausage. Amsterdam, April 1 6. The most desirable gifts nowadays in Germany are things. to eat and wear. The fol- Inn-inc io a list cf Vio crifta nrocanai4 by the people of Salzburg at a benefit LIFT OFF CORNS c FREEZONE IS MAGIC Costs few cents! Sore, touchy corns lift right off with fingers. No pain! 'f.t. leA'.. It, 11 ll Drop a little Freezone on a aching corn, instantly that corn stops hurting, then you lift it right out. It doesn't hurt one bit. Yes, magic! Why wait? Your druggist sella a tiny bottle of Freezone for a few cents, sufficient to rid your feet of every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes? and calluses, without soreness or irritation. Freezone is the much talked of ether discovery of a Cincin nati genius. Advertisement- We Carry Out the Physi cian's Orders With Our Double Checking: System on Every Prescription No matter how simple the prescription it's an iron rule at StansfielcTs that one pharmacist must check it over with another. Geo. W. Stansf ield 832 Kansas Ave. Phone 289 M 0 SELL LIBERTY BONDS AT OPENING BROOKLYN GAME New York. April 16. Maj. Gen. William A. Mann, commanding the United States department of the east, threw out the first ball at the game between Dodgers and Giants here today at the Polo grounds. The old press box. in the lower stand, was turned into a liberty bond booth and Lieut. Marty Mc Hale, former ball player, headed a corps of bond salesman. recently to Herr Bratt, the leading tenor of the local opera company: Seven pairs of boots, three suits of clothes, eleven pounds of coffee sub stitute, fifty-one packages of food, one sausage four feet long, $400 in cash. NOT ENOUGH CLOTHES "Tlie Sower" Stayed Out All Winter But Is Ordered In Now. Chicago, April 16. "The Sower," huge bronze figure of a man in a nat ural swimming suit but one not de signed for planting in the tumbleweed districts, braved the Arctic blasts last winter from a perch in front of the art institute here. Today he was or dered inside. Morals Censor Funkhouser gave the order. "It's an immoral show," he as serted. Women Everywhere j Use Lemon Juice j To Beautify Skin The beauty lotion which is becom ing so popular throughout, the coun try is easily prepared by anyone, and a whole quarter pint of it doesn't cost any more than a small jar of the common, ordinary cold cream. Add the juice of two fresh lemons to three ounces of orchard white and Lhake well in a bottle. Strain the lemon ju'ce two or three times through a fine cloth so no pulp gets into the lotion, then it will keep fresh for months. Regardless of what price you pay or how highly advertised, there is nothing else really more meritorious in beautifying, softening and clearing the skin. As a tan and blemish remover, also to remove oili ness and sallowness, lemon juice has no rival. Massage it into the' face, neck, and arms once or twice each day, and just see if it doesx't bring out the roses and hidden beauty! Lemons have always been used to bleach the skin, but pure lemon juice is too highly acid, therefore should never be used except in this manner. If properly prepared, this sweetly fragrant lotion will speak for itself. Any drug store will supply the three ounce: of orchard white at very little cost, and the grocer will supply the lemons. Advertisement. Quick, Harmless Way to Remove Wrinkles Kprinptime brings wrinkles to many sensitive skins that are much exposed to winds and changing temperatures. To make an effective wrinkle remover. mx an ounce of powdered saxolite anfl a half pint witch hazel. Hathe the fn-e in the solution immediately every wrinkle is affected. It acts wonderfully on sapffius facial muscles, also, the lotion possessing remarkable astringent and tonie properties. Use it once a day for a while and see how it will improve your facial contour. This simple lotion cannot harm the most delicate skin. The treatment itself leaves no trace no one guesses the secret of your increasing youthful appearance. But be sure to nsk the druggist for the pow dered saxolite. Advertisement. ARE YOU STILL YOUNG AT HEART? Then Why Look Older Than You Feel? Every woman is as young as she looks, so why let sentiment or pre judice prevent your keeping youth ful as long as you wish? Not long ago many women would not use face powders or cosmetics. Today, practically every woman knows their need and uses them. This is equally true of the hair color restorer. Thousands of women keep their hair dark and youthful with Q-ban Hair Color Restorer. It is not a dye. but a delightful toilet preparation which brings back the color and gloss as gradually and evenly as the natural renewing of the hair itself. Q-ban will not stain the scalp, wash or rub off; and does not interfere with washing or waving the hair. Keeps it glossy and healthy. Guaranteed to satisfy or money refunded. Sold by all good druggists every where on Money-Back Guarantee. Price 75c. Advertisement. Buy a Liberty Bond then bay your winter's supply of PEACOCK Lump and Nut Will store in perfect condition and will keep you warm next winter $10.25 Per Ton JACKSON -WALKER COAL AND MININC COMPANY Phone 550 3982 H. M. FELLOWS Manager. TAKE CASCARETS AND FEEL DANDY Enjoy life! Don't stay bilious, sick, headachy and constipated. Get rid of bad breath, sour stomach, coated tongue, indigestion. LADIES! DARKEN YOUR GRAY HAIR Look years youngrer! Use Grandmoth er's recipe of Sag-e Teal and Sul phur and nobody will know. The use of Sase and Sulphur foi restor'nE faded, gray hair to it3 nat ural color dates back to grandmoth ens' time. She used it to keep her hair beautifully dark, glossy and at tractive. Whenever her hair took on that dull, faded or streaked appear ance, this simple mixture was applied with wonderful effect. But brewing at home is mussy and out-of-date. Nowadays, by asking at any drug store for a bottle of Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com pound." you will get this famous old preparation, improved by the addi tion of other ingredients, which can be depended upon to restore natural color and beauty to the hair. A well-known downtown druggist says its darkens the hair so naturally and evenly that nobody can tell it has been applied. You simply dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one strand at a time. By morning the gray hair disappears, and after an other application or two, it becomes beautifully dark and glossy. Wyeth's Sage an 1 Sulphur Com pound is a delightful toilet requisite for those who desire a more youthful appearance. It is not intended for the cure, mitigation or prevention of disease. Advertisement. for mm Try Musterola See How Quickly It Relieves You just rub Musterola in briskly, and usually the pain is gone a delicious, soothing comfort comes to take its place. Musteroie is a clean, white ointment, made with oil of mustard. Use it instead of mustard plaster. Will not blister. Many doctors and nurses use Muster, ole and recommend it to their patients. They will gladly tell you what relief it gives from sore throat, bronchitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, congestion, pleurisy, rheumatism, lumbago, pains and aches of the back or joints, sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet; colds of the chest (it often preventa pneumonia). Always dependable. D.D.D. Prescription lor Eczema for 15 rear the standard remedy for all kiadiaeaKa, A liquid naed extemallr. 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