The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
August 23, 1918

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JJOKS tlie large number of prisoners mean our ammunition Is running low. yEATHER FORECAST for Kansas: Unsettled, thunder showers to night and Saturday. HOME EDITION TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1918 TEN PAG THREE CENTS MIGHTY BATTLE ENEMY STAGGERS BACKWARD UNDER TERRIFIC SMASH British Hurl Vast Forces Against Warering Line, Huns Yield Slowly With Enor mous Losses in Men. NUNS ON EDGE OF DISASTER To Give Way Before British Now Mlg-ht Spell Ruin. .More Men and Guns In Now Than in Any Previous Battle. FRENCH THREATEN THE FLANK Advance on the Oise Imperils Hun Army in Picardy. Only 3 31iles From Chauny and at Edge of Coucy. Paris, Aug. 23. F r e nc h trooDS have crossed the Oise riv er and the canal at Manicamp, eight miles east of Noyon and are in the outskirts of the vil lage of Morlancourt on the north side of the Oise, a mile and a half from Noyon station, accord ing to dispatches to newspapers here. (Iy the Associated Press.) Along the front in northern Picardy a battle which seems to be one of the greatest of the war has developed. Disaster is reported to be threaten ing the whole German army on this front and the Germans are throwing great masses of men into the struggle in the hope of checking the tide of battle, which dispatches from British headquarters say is setting against them. From the north end of the battle 1. .e at Boiry, Becquerelle. BoyeUes and Gomiecourt come tidings of a British advance. Meaulte. near Albert, has been wrested from the Germans. Happy Valley, south of Meaulte and north of Bray, also has been taken by the British, it !s reported. South of the Somme the towns of Chuignolles and Herleville are said to have been captured from the enemy. Battle Spreads Rapidly. British Headquarters in France, Aug. 23. The British offensive so vigorously resumed on Wednesday morning has spread so rapidly that it is difficult to keep pace with the de velopment of it. What now is being witnessed is the unfolding of a bril liant tactical scheme which must be causing the deepest concern to the German high command. The rapid advance of the British patrols along the Albert-Bapaume road toward where the old German lines dip near Tara hill is threatening to flank any counter movements against the British gains further to the north. Some British batteries advanced several times in the last two days. No longer do the limbers bring ammu nition at a walk. They come up at a gallop in a cloud of dust. The French airplanes are as numerous as ever, and the boche ma chines are being harried mercilessly b:' bombing squadrons which fly ahead of the infantry and attack the German columns on the march. Fight on 50-Mile Front. London. Aug. 23. A battle is rag ing today in France on one of the widest fronts of the war. It extends for about fifty miles north from Sois sons. Everywhere, according to news received here this afternoon from the battle front, the battle has been going successfully for the entente allies. The British third army has gained more than a mile on a front of more than seven miles. The British fourth army 1 as gained more than two miles on a front of seven miles. The fourth army has taken more than 1,500 prisoners today. The third army captured more than 600 Ger mans in the town of Gomiecourt alone. Boiry-Becquerelle, Boyelles, Hamel incourt and Gomiecourt, are now held hy the British third army, according to a report. The British are pushing iheir attack toward the southeast from Gomiecourt In the direction of Bapaume. British Push On. (By tne Associated Press.) With the British Army in France, Aug. 23. British troops this morning are reported to have captured Chuig nolles and Herleville, south of the Somme river. More than a thousand prisoners were taken In this opera tion which eliminates the bend in the line. Field Marshal Haig's forces also are reported to have taken Boyelles and Boiry-Becquerelle and to be still pushing forward. They are piling up prisoners and guns. The British have reached Gomiecourt which is consid- 7MB WEATHER GOOD RAINS THRU KANSAS. Forccast Indicates That More Mots tare Is on the Way. WEATHER FORECAST FOB KANSAS Unsettled tonight and Saturday with thunder showers. Not much change in temperature. TODAY'S TEMPERATURES. 7 o'clock 6811 o'clock 75 g o'clock 7012 o'clock 76 9 o'clock 73 1 o'clock 77 10 o'clock 74 2 o'clock 78 Temperatures for the day average three degrees below normal. The wind at 2 o'clock was blowing 12 miles an hour from the northwest. Rain fell generally over Kansas Thursday night. The Kaw valley, ac cording to Meteorologist Flora, was particularly well soaked. To the crops the heat and dry weather have not already ruined, the rains will be of great value. To the people of the (Continued on Page Two.l PLAN CATTLE LOANS Government Officials and Bankers Confer In Kansas City Today. Government Will Furnish Money for Iong Time Loans to Cattle Men. Kansas City. Aug. 23. Clifford M. Leonard and Angus McLean, members of the federal war finance corporation, were here today for a conference with directors of the Kansas City Federal reserve bank, local bankers and bank ers from Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, looking to the establish ment of the Kansas City and Dallas, Texas, headquarters for the cattle loan committees. Plans are to be de veloped for giving financial assistance to cattle and agricultural interests of the southwest that are deemed of vital interest to the war. Especially will assistance be extended for the build ing up of beef herds. To Make Year Loans. The cattle loan committee plan, which is said to have been conceived by Secretary McAdoo. contemplates g-overnment assistance for banks so they may be able to carry farm and live stock loans for longer periods than have been customary. Loans for nine months to a year will be possible under the new plan. CAPTURE BED GENERAL Bolsheviki Commander In North Rus sia Reported in Hands of British. Amsterdam, Aug. 23. General Petahoff, commander-in-chief of the Red guard army In the Murmansk region, is a prisoner In the hands of the allies, says a Petrograd dispatch to th Weser Zeitung of Bremen. He was caught by peasants while attempt ing to flee southward, and handed over to the British. ered to be the chief pi nt of the Ger man defense positions. South of Gomiecourt the British this morning were attacking and pushing forward all along the line. A battle has developed which seems to be one of the greatest of the war. The town of Meaulte. southeast of Albert, fell early in the British drive. The British troops pressing on here are crossing the Bray-Albert road. Happy Valley, to the north of Bray, was taken by Field Marshal Haig's troops after hard fighting. Capture More Guns. Three German battalions' head quarters have been taken in the local ity of Happy Valley. Additional guns also have fallen Into the hands of the British. A number of fresh new German di visions have been identified. They were rushed up in the hope of sav ing something from the disaster which threatens the whole German army on this front. The latest renort from th hnttie line says that the British are reaching uui in tne airection or Tara hill. Which iS a thousand vard hvnnrl Albert Advance South of Somme. In the fighting south of the River Somme, the British have extended their line on a front of more than five miles, pushing into the German de fenses at the greatest depth for about two miles. Details of the fighting Just north of the Somme, which continues, show that Albert actually was stormed by the British, who crossed the river to the south and struck, anticipating the probable German intention to withdraw from the pocket which was rapidly being created here. The Germans now are fighting des perately in the region of Gomiecourt. South of Gomieronrt th- T-ir-itict, im began jin attack this morning and are pu.uing rorwara all along the line. Victory With British. Reports from all nointfl tsav iYiat tlie battle, which seems to have developed into one of the greatest of the wax from the standpoint of men and guns engaged ana the length of front, is going victoriously for the British troops. Field Marshal Haig's men are kill ing great numbers of Germans and are making steady progress every where in spite of resistance from the enemy who, if he retreats acknowl edges that he is beaten, and if he stays and fights it out is bound to Buf fer the heaviest casualties. French Near Chauny. Paris, Aug. 23 i v. m.) The French advance has swept the Ger mans back to within three miles of Chauny, the highly important railway and highway center between Noyon and La Fere General Mangin's men are reported to have reached the borders of Coucy Le Chateau, only three miles from the old Hinuenburg line. They are press ing eastward along the roads leading into the town from the Ailette river ana have launched a heavy attack against Coucy Grove, south of the vil lage. Hit Noyon on Three Sides. Noyon is being attacked from the northwest, southwest and northeast. The French are across the Oise and Manlcamo canal and have reached the edge of Morlincourt. two thousand yards (slightly more than a mile) from the Noyon railway station. 1 ne road rrom Jsoyon to Laon soon will be penetrated from another di rection. (This road Dasses Chaunv. a mile to" the southward.) The boche clinging to the hills north of the Oise already are under the (Continued oa Page Two.) AMERICAN AVIATORS FIGHT IN DEFECTIVE PLANES OVER THERE Fault Lies With Those In Charge In tinted States. Iiast Winter's Assurances Proved Without Foundation. NO IMPROVEMENT SOON Little Prospect of Much Real Results Before 1019. British and French Unable To Supply U. S. Forces. Washington, Aug. 23. The most disconcerting side of the sweeping in dictment of the management of Amer ica's air program by the report of ocnate military committee yester day was. the phase that related to the air forces of the United States aoroad. The setbacks, mistakes and bungles on this side the nnhlif- hud become more or less familiar -with, but the impression existed generally that much of our trouble temporarily had been overcome on the other side by macnines obtained from Brance and England. For the first time this phase of the air program Is discussed in official form. Use Bad Planes. The senate committee, of which Senator Reed of Kansas City took a prominent part in the investigation. aeciarea mat tne machines obtained on the other side were not only far from adequate in number, but many of them were unsatisfactory and out of date, and had to be used because no others were available. This sec tion of the report, dealing with con ditions abroad, reads as follows: "Recognizing the fact that the United States would not produce planes In quantities early in the war, the board contracted with the English and French early in 1917 for a supply of fighting planes. Of these, 2,114, according to the latest testimony, have been from time to time delivered. This enabled us to maintain thirteen squadrons of eighteen flyers each on the front, a force which is wholly in adequate to meet requirements of modern warfare. Baker Said All Was Wen. "It should also be stated that as our troons are movine to France in great numbers, the disparity may 'in crease until we get into quantity pro duction. It is proper to call attention to the fact that at an investigation of the war department by the military committee held in January and Feb ruary. 1918, the committee was as sured that, the French could and would furnish all the combat planes we needed, provided we would send them the raw material, and that this material was being furnished. This assurance was given when the com mittee showed anxiety at the continued delay in the shipping or planes. "In January General Squire and Colonel Deeds testified to this fact, and Secretary Baker gave similar as surance to the committee. The tacts, however, are as shown by the testi mony of General Kenly given July 20 that the plan failed for "two reasons. We quote his testimony: Failed to Deliver the Goods. 'The French contract practically fell down, as you know. It was due to what I consider two' reasons. In the first place, the contracts with the French were dependent upon the send ing of raw material that was to be furnished by us, and we did not live up to our agreement. 'In the second place, the Increase In German activities in the air caused a change of program in French avia tion construction. The French con tracts fell down, so that we became more or less dependent upon what could be furnished on this side. I'se Antiquated Machines in Battle. "Besides this, many of the machines our men are now forced to use in France are unsatisfactory but not more than those' used by the French themselves. An army officer recently at the front testified that the Ameri can troops are using many antiquated machines purchased from the French that were discarded by them a year and a half ago. They are using the Sopwith, 1 strutter, which has been declared unsafe by the French and British for observation work. They are using the A re-equipped with Renault, 220, which has a ceiling of only ten thousand feet. They use a Spad two-seater which Is unreliable and unsatisfactory. They were using a few French Briguet machines and the Sampson, which Is a French ma chine. It Is reassuring to reflect that all commands are unified in France with all lines of the service under a common protection." The conditions described by the committee obviously are a result of the mismanagement and mistakes in handling the program on this side. Few 17. S. Planes Before Next Year. I Careful study of the report shows that the committee was convinced that the organization and work was going on better now than it had. But it fails to hold forth any promise of real quantity production on this side of other than the De Havilands for sev eral months to come. In other words, aside from the De Havilands. It will be next year, not this, before any great weight in the air can be exerted by the United States. On the mooted question of the De Haviland. the com mittee's report is skeptical of their early value. It points out that all the early manufactured planes were de fective, and extremely so. It frankly admits those now manufactured are better, but limits their practical use largely to reconnaissance and photo graphic work rather than fighting. It does hold forth that the De Haviland 9A, a new model being developed, but which hasn't been put into manufac ture, will meet the bill for a machine of the De Haviland type. With the senate committee's report now in. interest is heightened in what Charles E. Hughes will report from his investigation. He went Into the contract phases and extravagance more than the committee, but It is ex pected he will deal with much of the ground the senate committee did. The senate committee In several spots hit in a most pointed fashion at Col. E. A. Deeds and suggests they are leaving Deeds to Hughes. The senate report revived attention In the air program generally and it is expected that the Hughes report, how- i evr it may or may not match np with the senate's findings, will be made public shortly. FOCH WILL POUND AT HUNS ALL WINTER IS. BELIEF OF EXPERTS Strenuous Cold Weather Campaign Ahead, Washington Thinks. Give Boche tittle Opportunity To Re cuperate His Ranks. "KEEP ON GIVING 'E3I H- Only in That Way Will the Allies Get a Real Speedy Finish- War Would Be Prepared for Main moth Drive in Spring. Washington, Aug. 21. That Foch intends to pound the boche hard all, winter is the view of high military ex perts' here today. Several prominent officers on duty here have .openly favored a strenuous winter campaign. They are of the school who com plained at the absence of open war fare, and who have cheered loudly since this system came into play. Now they believe that their hopes are coming true, that the French mili tary wizard gives every Indication of hammering on and on, giving the boche little opportunity to recuperate his ranks. Keep on Giving Them H "We ought to keep on giving them hell," said one authority. "Only in that way can we get a speedy finish. A winter campaign of large proportions is a tough proposi tion, but it would be worse for the enemy than for us. He expressed the view that hy keep ing on the campaign instead of per mitting the fight to dwindle to occa sional trench sorties, the way would be prepared for a mammoth spring campaign. Just at present there is some doubt in military minds here as to the exact intentions of the Teuton staff. Some authorities say the boche is falling back easily and suggest that he Is striving now only to save his men and material until he can establish a new line behind the Somme. It is believed that a retirement from the Lassigny region will soon be forced. However, It is considered doubtful that the Germans can fill up their divisions and undertake another offensive now. CONCERNING PAPERS Newspaper Economies Compelled by Government Restrictions. Newsprint as War Necessity -Industry a War EasenlU New Tork. Aug. 28. Newspaper dom, a periodical for publishers, prints the following in connection with neces sary newspaper economies and gov ernment restrictions: "Newi .that a general campaign of education has been started to acquaint the American public with the urgent necessity for paper conservation all along the line is welcome to publish ers, because it means that the read ing and advertising public will readily accept as a proven necessity whatever paper economies publisher may find it necessary to adopt economies which when expressed by narrower margins, smaller type, condensed headings, etc., might provoke some protests did not the public fully un derstand the urgency of the situation which has caused the government to suggest these restrictions. .'nnnnun uuuiiBiiEra unaenisniTi and persistently have bent every ef- j ion. towaro. co-operating with Its various branches, and in the sell-1 iib v' L uviiua, uiiub Biamps ana tne. raising of funds for special curnosea they have contributed news and ad-1 vertising space most generously space that has cost the publishers real cash to carry. We haven't as yet heard of any manufacturer of sol diers' clothing, supplies, ammunition makers, gun or cannon manufacturers handing anything over to the govern ment except upon the basis of a cash return. Regardless of the number of handicaps that have been placed upon newspaper making, the publishers j have not wavered for a second in their loyalty in their desire to help the American people win the war." The very fact that news-print en Joys priority as a war necessity renders the newspaper the logical medium for carrying an advertising message in war time. Secretary X War Baker has de-1 ciarea tne newspaper Industry a most essential one, and of great Importance in war time. HOOVER HAS RETURNED Food Administrator Will Issue State ment on Grain Situation Soon. An Atlantic Port, Aug. 23. Herbert S. Hoover, head of the United States food administration, -arrived here to day aboard a British liner, on which were 1.200 passengers. Accompany ing him were his secretary, Louis Strauss, Dr. Alexander Taylor and Alexander Smith. Hoover had nothing to say when he landed, but said a statement would be Issued from the offices of the United States Grain Corporation. PLANE CARRIED NINE Passengers With Baggage Made Trip From England to France. London, Aug. 53. A large British airplane carrying its crew and nine passengers has made the trin from France to England., it is announced. The whole Journey occupied little more than a half hour. The test was made with an ordinary service airplane of the largest type. The passengers carried the normal amount of baggage, as if traveling by train or boat. A monster' u. S. GUN I Paris Paper Hints at a Possible Sur prise for the Boastful Boche. Paris. Aug. 23. In special type. L'Heure prints prominently this enig matic note: "Will the echo to the great Bertha soon be heard? Will that echo have a Tankee accent?" DEFERRED CLASS FOR THE YOUNG MEN WILL FAIL, IT IS BELIEVED President's Opposition Expected To Defeat the Amendment. Says It Is Unfair to Men Over There Who Need Reinforcements. SENATE IS AGAINST IT Would Not Pass the Bill With the De f erred Class Provision in It. Vote in House Will Be Close, but Vic tory for Administration Seems Sure. Washington, Aug. 23. There is how little doubt that congress will give the war department a free hand In calling into service the boys cf 18 and 1ft under the new manpower bilL Convinced that these men are imper atively needed to win the war in the shortest possible time, congress will refuse to heed those who insist that the younger men be kept out of the tight until the last, j In the house, the vote on this ques tion will be close. Representative Kahn, leading advo cate of the no-obstacle policy, said to say he believes the amendment defer ring service of 18 and 19 year olds vill be defeated. Chairman Dent, of he military affairs committee, who athered the amendment, hopes It will te adopted. President at Work. Yz President Wilson has been working en tne quiet witn nouse members fa voring, the amendment in an effort to convince tnem by voting for it they will be failing to back up the men 'over there" who are depending on congress to provide the additional forces necessary to crush the German Senate Will Stand Firm. Whatever the house does, the senate Will refuse to support any amendment tending to limit the size nf tha rrrw If possible, the senate would empower the president to get more men. Ifj the pin goes into conference with the bouse amendment In it, senate con feres will be instructed never to ac cept It. Desire to get the bill thru with the last delay makes it appear likely the house will -vote on the measure tonight or early Saturday. Every effort will be made to get a senate vote Saturday. KILLED BY DEPTH BOMB Commander and Three) of Crew of Orizaba Die as Result of Accident. t Washington. Aug. S3 Exnlosion of frdeptw charge on board the U. S. S. lrizabs at sea on August 17, killed Lieut. Commander William Price Wil liamson and tnree enlisted men, and wounded Commander R. D. White and eighteen men. A report on the accident mrlifnff the navy department today shows that Lieut. Commander Williamson who was executive officer; was killed In stantly and that Commander White, tne commanding omcer had his Jaw broken and a knee can fractured. Tha sailors killed were: Samuel -T. Lambert. Riverain's M J.; Frank J. Mayer. Cincinnati: Ar thur K. Baird, Pittsburgh, Pa. Commander WilHamnnn'a wliw lives in New Tork City. The officer was born in Virginia and appointed to the naval academy from Minnesota. Commander White's report says an hour and a half after the explosion a submarine was sighted astern and that the ship's guns were manned and ready to" fire immediately in spite of the fact that half of the after gun crew had been hurt.

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Buisjita ncre .tuiiea in ignt Amsterdam, Aug. 23. German forces were victorious over a force of 1,200 Russian Insurgents, well equipped with artillery and command ed by General Rebenko, near Kre mentchug, according to a conserva tive dispatch to the Vossiche Zeitung of Berlin. In a second encounter. which occurred near Poltava, sixty- four miles northeast of Krementchug, the revolutionaries lost 800 men killed and the Germans took six machine guns and other eouinment. The sur vivors of the revolutionary band fled, but their retreat was cut off by the pursuing Germans. JEWS UNDER OWN FLAG Jewish Battalion Will Fight With British Forces in Palestine. New Tork, Aug. 23. Men who en list in the Jewish battalion of the Brit ish army were assured service in Palestine dn a statement issued today by MaJ. C. Brooman White of the British and Canadian recruiting mis sion. Major White declared recruits will "fight under the Jewish flag until their services are no longer required." BIG" GASOLINE FIRE 540 Tons on Barge Near Paris Has Been Burning Since La?; Night. Paris. Aug. 23. Fire broke out last night on a barge containing 540 tons of gasoline belonging to the Ameri can expeditionary forces. The confla gration has burned continuously for fourteen hours, intermittent explo sions being followed by clouds of j smoke. The fire has attracted the at- tention of large crowds of Parisiens. 1 LODGE IS SLATED Massachusetts Senator Win Succeed

Washington. Aug. 23. Republicans of the senate have been called to meet tomorrow to elect a floor leader to succeed the late Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire. Selection of Sena tor Lodge of Massachusetts is regard ed assured. Resigns From Shipping Board. Washington. Aug. 23. Frank R. Munson today resigned as a member of the United States shipping board. The resignation, effective September 1. was accepted by Chairman Hurley. Munson will return to his duties as president of a steamship line in New Tork. LODGE DEFINES PEACE TERMS REPUBLICANS CONSIDER ESSENTIAL States Irreducible Minimum Party Believes Should Be Exacted of Huiu. I Places His Party on Record as "Bitter Enders" in War for Freedom. BACKS MANPOWER BILL Declares It Necessary In Order To Win a Decisive Victory. Says War Must Be Won Inside. Not Outside, of Gorman Territory. j 'Washington, Aug. 23. Hailing the! new manpower bill as the weapon with which America will win a com plete and final victory over Germany, j Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Massa chusetts, today outlined to the senate the "irreducible minimum" which the allies should agree to in making j peace. xiie ebsciiLia.1 cunuiuuos ui 91 com plete, secure and lasting peace, as Lodge outlined them, are:' Restoration of Belgium. Must Return Alsace-tiorralne. Return of Alsace-Lorraine to France, not from sentimental reasons alone, but to deprive Germany of the coal and iron of Lorraine. Restoration of Italia Irredenta, in cluding Trieste to Italy. Re-establishment of Serbia and Rumania as independent states. Security of Greece. Establishment of the Jugo-Slavs and Czecho-Slovaks as independent peoples. Independence for Poland. Must Restore Russia. Restoration to Russia of provinces taken from her by the treaty of Brest Litovsk. Relinquishment of Constantinople by the Turks and establishment ef Dardanelles as a free International waterway. Elimination of Turkish influence from Palestine. Such a victory. Lodge said, "must be won inside, not outside German fron tiers. It must be won finally and thoroly in German territory and can be so won nowhere else." The manpower bill is the means to this end. Lodge said. Spoke for His Party. His speech was received with great attention, not only because of its re markable outline of peace terms, but because Lodge is slated te become Re publican leader of the senate, suc ceeding the late Senator Gallinger. What he said today was accepted in the senate as expressing the party's views on peace terms thus placing the Republicans on record as "bitter end ers." Prophesies New Peace Driv. Lodge warned that Germany now sees herself beaten with the allies firmly in control of the offensive and American troops pouring In daily, a new pe..ce drive may be expected. .Because wa must race this, neace drive in the next few months, Lodge aeciarea it of the utmost importance to know the sort of peace ws are fighting for. It must be. it Is commonly said we have all said it a Just and right eous peace," said Lodge, What Is a Righteous Peace? "But what Is a lust and riehteous peace? What are the conditions that would make it so? What is the Irre ducible minimum? We intend to make the world safe for democracy, but what, exactly, do we mean by demo cracy If we mean, as we undoubtedly do, the democracy of England, France, ltaiy ana tne united States we can all understand. But the Bolshevik! mas querade under the name of democracy and the Bolsheviki, by a combination of treachery, conspiracy and ignorance nave reduced Russia to servitude un der Germany and have engendered a form of democracy as dangerous to the world as the government of the Hohenzollerns. But assuming as we do. ....v.. j uni 11 la nc 1 1 1 c wuriu i safe for democracy, that we mean our own conception of democracy, how is it to be made safe? "That again, is a vague term, which must be answered and can only be answered by definition. Fight for Self Government. "We are fighting and our allies are fighting with us for security, for In dependence, for the right of nations, great and small to govern themselves in their own way; for organized races and people to have the opportunity to govern themselves in independent states; for the sanctity and observance j of treaties; a general disarmament of J nations. "How are these things to be se-1 cured? The details are really more important than the general principles In which we all agree. Broadly speak- ing, there is only one way to obtain j this security of the nation, this safety! or. aemocracy, tnis preservation of freedom and civilization, and that Is by reducing Germany to a condition where by no possibility can she pre cipitate another war of universal con quest with all its attendant horrors upon an unoffending world." He then outlined the details of the terms, and added: No Concessions to Turkey. "We must not be gulled into con cessions to Turkey in the hope of separating her from Germany. It would be a miserable outcome to have Turkey retained In Europe, a curse to her subjects and neighbors, a plague spot and a breeder of wars. "Her massacres must not under any pretense be condoned nor her lniqui- ties rewarded. i "Let Turkey and Bulgaria share the fate of their master and be so treated that they will not be able to again j trouble the world. "These are the principal conditions which alone wHl give us a victory worth having and when we talk about a complete peace and a just and right- eous peace, let It be known to all the world that this is what we mean. "It is idle talk about our wanting tor annihilate the German people. No- i body, of course, has any such Idea. It j could be done.. If we wanted to do It. 1 Criticises Baker's Delay. I Lodge criticised Secretary Baker for- preventing congress passing a man power bill last June, when sentiment was stoong for immediate action. Bak er's reasons for stopping action by congress at that time. Lodge said, "have never been made vary, clear." allies withdraw Troops North of Vladivostok Find Themselves Outnumbered. I 'London. Aug. 23. Allied troops on the Ussurl river front north of Vlad ivostok outnumbered by the enemy j have been forced to withdraw after heavy fighting, says a dispatch to the Daily Mail from Harbin dated Wednesday. British and French troops were en gaged in the battle but the brunt of the fighting fell on the Cossack and Czecho-Slovak troops. Japanese units aided In the retirement. Bolshevik monitors operating on Lake Hangka are harassing the al lied left and have detained additional Czecho forces. Commands are being issued by the Bolsheviki in German. The Ussuri river forms the eastern boundary of Manchuria. BIG GAINS HAVE BEEN MADE Since Picardy 'Drive Began French Have' Advanced IS Miles. Have Fought 193,000 Men and Lib erated Scores of Villages. Paris. Ausr. 23. General nehnnm- commanding the French army north ana west or the Oise, Issued the fol lowing order of the day: "The battle has won ground to the depth of twenty-five kilometers (154 miles) and has liberated scores of vil lages. Sixteen German divisions U92.0C0 men) have been beaten. More then 10,000 prisoners and 220 guns have been captured. We will win." 'OUR CAUSE IN GREAT DANGER' Get man Foreign Secretary Admits Se riousness of Present War Situation. Says Truth Must Often Be Suppressed for the Good of the Public. Amsterdam, Aug. 23. "Our cause is an. exalted one but it is in great danger." Admiral von Hintze. the Ger man foreign secretary told a confer ence of German Journalists in Berlin, acoording to the Cologne Volks Zei tung. He asked them to co-opcratc with him. After asserting In v hat high esteem he held the press, the admiral said: "In these times the government, the press and the nation must hold to gether with one aim to win the war. If these factors do net hold together we shall be beaten. "The post of foreign secretary is by no means a desirable one. All objec tions I had made to my appointment were dispelled and I have undertaken this responsible post. I am not tack ling my task with a bowed head or a heavy heart. "I shall always show the greatest consideration to the gentlemen of the press. Tou will hear -nothing- but facts from me, but I cannot, always give the facts. s The entire truth at certain times does not serve but harms the public interest. "I am not at all concerned regard ing attacks either on my person pT against the imperial policy. I am merely concerned with our cause. Our cause is an exalted one. but it is In great danger. I, therefore, call on'l you to co-operate." SAN DIEGO TORPEDOED? U-Boat Commander Declares He Fired Charge That Sunk Cruiser. Portland. Me, Aug. 23. A boast that the American cruiser San Diego was torpedoed and not mined was made by the commander of the sub marine which captured the steam trawler Triumph and used her as a raider on the fishing banks this week, according to word received here from Captain Myhre of the Triumph today. The German officer also asserted that he sank the tank steamer O. B. Jennings and that the captain of the Jennings was a prisoner on the sub mersible while Captain Myhre was on board. The commander said he had been out three months and intended to re main two months longer in order to annihilate the fishing fleet on the banks. BRITISH STEAMER SUNK 100 of Crew, Some Severely Injured, Rescued -Down Near V. S. Coast. (By tbs Associated Press.) An Atlantic Port, Aug. 23. The British steamer. Diomed, has been tor- coast. More than 100 of her crew, many of them Chinese, some severely injured, were rescued and brought here today by another British steamer. a owcubh steamer wnicn aiso ar rived here today reported that yester- V. L I,I1C I L 1 1 nr I U-boat commander was allowed to KILLED IN AIR ACCIDENT I Machine of Blair Thaw Sideslipped and Fell in France. With the American Armies In France. Aug 22 (night.) Lieutenant Putnam, cf the American air fru-r-. has downed his eleventh German air-J piane. ine pilot and observer were killed. The machine, a Rumpler, fell within the allied lines in flames. Lieut. Biair Thaw, a brother of MaJ. William Thaw, was killed in an air plane accident Sunday, when his ma chine side slipped and fell. He was buried beside Maj. Raoul Lufbery, with his mother and sister present at the funeral services. HANGED 800 CZECHS Bolsheviki Wreaked Vengeance on Opponents After Capture of Town. Amsterdam, Aug. 23. Russian Red guards, after the capture of Simbirsk, on the Volga, according to a Moscow dispatch to the Hamburg Nachrichten. publicly hanged in the market place 300 Czecho-Slovak prisoners. The hangings. It Is declared, were a re prisal for "atrocities" committed In the town during its occupation by the Czechs. Employs Condnctorettes. Cleveland. Aug. 23. The Cleveland Railway company began today to hire conduct orettea for' Cleveland street cars. They will be paid men's wages. LOOK FOR INDIRECT PEACE OFFENSIVES ON PART OF GERMANY Observers Believe Hungarian and Bul garian Channels Will Be Used. Camouflaged Anti-Government F.le ments Will Be I sod by Huns. CAN'T USE AUSTRIA NOW CkMneneeeu's Exposures Have Spoiled That Country as a Medium. Magyars Try To Cause Broach Be tween Czechs and Slovaks. New Tork, Aug. 23. That the new peace offensive of Germany will be launched thru Hungarian and Bulgar ian channels, was the opinion express ed here today by Vojta Benes. of Chi cago, secretary of the Bohemian Na tional Alliance of America. "Hun leaders believe that the only way left open to them, after the Clemenceau disclosures have destroy ed the usefulness of the Austro-Hun-garian government as a peace inter mediary, la to send out peace feelers thru what will be camouflaged as anti-governmental and anti-German parliamentary authorities in Hungary and Bulgaria," he said. Use Hired Members of Opposition. "This should be all the easier as political corruption in. both countries makes it customary for the government to utilize groups of the opposition as its disguised agencies. "Also a peace move directed from Budapest and Sofia could lean for sup port on the power of the friends in this country of Hungary and Bulgaria, who now disguise their propaganda be hind protestations of unflinching loy alty to the United States." Concerning the activities of Maygnr propagandists, Benes expressed the opinion that the recognition of the Czecho-Slovak nation by Great Brit ain and the other 'allies will compel them to change their tactics. Instead of attacking the Czecho-Slovak claims in their entirety, Hungarian agents, he said, will now try to stir up dissension between Czechs and Slovaks by ap proaching the former with, promises to support the plan of independent Bo hemia state against Austria, with the implication that Hungary should bs left alone to deal with the aspiration of Slovak-Irrendltists. Czecho-Slovaks Will Stand Together. An article published here was re ferred to as an indicative of the Magyar scheme. "The most interesting feature of this article is that it speaks of Czechs all the time and does not mention the Slovaks,'? G. M. Milka. director of the Czecho-Slovak press, said here today. "Whether the omission was accidental or intentional, the inference is obvlou. But we Czecho-Slovaks have only a contemptuous smile for insinuations of this kind. "We may conquer or we may per ish, but whatever happens, we shall stand together in the struggle for world democracy." NO TRADE CONQUEST America Seeks No Advantage Over Other Nations In Building Ships. Washington. Aug. 23. German propagandas stories that the United States will use its enormous fleet of transports and food ships for trade conquest after the war were the sub ject of a statement today by Chairman Hurley of the shipping board. "In building her merchant fleet, America plans first of all to win the war, and after that to overcome her own neglect to provide ocean trans portation for her own trade," said Mr. Hurley. "To this end the people of the United States are preparing to de velop transportation for their own trade routes, without disturbing the trade rights of other nations. It Is unthinkable that a nation fighting shoulder to shoulder with the other democracies should turn its resources after the war against them for trade conquests, the nature of which .was largely Instrumental in causing the war.". SCHWAB IN OVERALLS Will Personally Inspect All the Ship Yards by Working Among Men. Philadelphia, Aug. 22. Charles M. Emergency Fleet corporation, is "on the Job" at the Hog Island shipyard today. He put on overalls and went to work In the yards so as to get In direct personal touch with the ship workers and urge them to speed up as much as possible on ship coast ruc tion work. Schwab Intends to spend ten or twelve hours each day In one of the shipyards. He will leave Hog Island today and go south for an Inspection of the South Atlantic and Gulf port yards. TROPICAL STORM ON One Has Been Located in the Carib bean Sea, Moving Northwest. Mobile, Aug. 23. A tropical dis turbance has been located In tha Caribbean sea. according to: reports from Washington received by the Mo bile weather bureau office. The mes sage, dated 8 p. m., says: "Tropical disturbances passed Into the East Caribbean sea south of Bar bados at noon Thursday, probably moving west-northwest." INCREASES WOMEN'S PAT British Ministry of Munitions Orders Raise for Workers In Plants, London, Aug. 23. The ministry of munitions has ordered that the wages of women munition workers be In creased five shillings weekly after Sep tember 1. Girls under 18 In munition plants will receive an Increase of half a crown. YANKS DROP BOMBS Flyers Score Direct Hits on Railroad Yards Behind the German Lines. 'Washington, Aug. 23. General Pershing's communique for Thursday says many direct hits were observed when American aviators successfully bombed the railroad yards at Lon guy on Audun de Roman aad Con flans, August 21-22.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNABFRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1918 USE VAST NUMBER OF REGISTRATION BLANKS Nearly 3 Million Required la Kansas for 18-45 Draft Work. Shipment Now on Way to Topeka. From the Government. SEST OUT OVER THE STATE All Material In Hands of Draft Boards Before Big Pay. Special Corps of Employes Assigned To Handle the Blank. Nearly two and a half million blanks will be required to Handle the registration, examination and classifi cation of Kansans who must register under the new manpower act. In a tabulated statement from the war de partment, Charles S. Huffman, adju tant general, was notified that ship ment of nearly two and a. half million draft blanks had been sent to Topeka. Detailed plans for handling the new draft work are now being worked out In the adjutant general's office. The hundreds of thousands of blanks will bs sent from Topeka to the local boards In various cities and counties and all materials will be In the hands of the boards several days In, advance of the registration. A special corps of employes will be assigned to handle the distribution of blanks as soon as the shipments are received. All Kinds of Blanks. Included in the list of blanks are 436.000 registration cards two for each registrant; 248,000 registration certificates one for each registrant; 68,000 registrar's oaths, ,000 reports on registration, 58.000 registration regulations. 86,000 placards "How to Answer: Question"; 24,000 registrant lists, 11,000 classification lists, 218,000 questionnaires, 80.000 duplicated page 1 questionnaire, 220,000 questionnaire cover sheets, 80,000 duplicate cover sheets, 224.000 keys to list of occupa tions, 6,000 notices to registrants and public, 198,000 notices of classifica tion, 180,000 notices of final classifi cation, 73,000 notices to report for ex amination, 162,000 physical examina tion reports and 73,000 notices of physical examination decisions. Arrangements are being made to handle the bulky blanks as soon as they arrive by express. It is probable that the work of assembling and dis tributing blanks to local boards will be handled by a special corps of work ers in the sub-basement of the state house.' Blanks to be used for the registration in. Kansas will weigh sev eral tons. ENROLL ALL DOCTORS Council of Defense Makes New War Move in Kansas. In an effort to enroll every physi cian in Kansas for active service or to place him in the reserves, the state council of defense has begun the tab ulation of detailed information re garding the experience and training of every physician in the state. The work is being handled thru the medi cal section of the state council Of de fense. Charles S. Huffman, adjutant gen eral, will work with the state council in the movement to enlist medical men for service in war work. -It is the purpose of the committee to aid the government in its efforts to secure an adequate corps of medical men for overseas service. Lieut. George M. Gray, Kansas City: Gen. Charles S. Huffman; Dr. S. Murdock. Sabetha; Dr. D. W. Basham. Wichita, and Dr. S. J. Crumbine compose the committee-in charge of the. work. PETRO IS A SERGEANT Topekan Stationed at Camp Iix Is Advanced in Rank. Kelsey Petro. who is stationed at Camp Dix, New Jersey, has been ad vanced to the rank of sergeant, and has been transferred to headquarters of the 812 sanitary train. The unit is awaiting orders to go abroad. When their foreign destination is reached. Sergeant Petro will have charge of a camp infirmary. Young Petro enlisted with the "Washburn Ambulance com pany, and was at Camp Pike. Arkan sas, for some months. Before enlist ing, he was a student in the Wash burn law school, and an Alpha Delt fraternity man. Before taking up law. tie had been a pharmacist and then r newspaper reporter on the State Journal. Sergeant Petro Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Petro, of 1028 Topeka avenue. EMPRESS IS ILL Augusta Victoria of Germany Hits Done Too Much Work.- Amsterdam. Aug. 23. Empress Augusta -Victoria of Germany is ill at the Castle Wilhelshohe Hesse-Cassel, the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin says, ow ing to overstrain of the war relief work. Physicians in attendance prom ise her full recovery within a few weeks, Emperor William, who has been al most uninterruptedly In the field since 'the spring offensive, has left main headquarters for Wilhelshohe, espec ially as "the empress's sons are pre vented by their service obligations from attending at their mother's bed side." ILLICIT STILLS NEAR LARNED. U. S. Officers Seize Cider, Wine and Moonshine Whisky. Larned. Kan.. Aug. 23. What is believed to be the first illicit stills ever seized in Kansas were taken over by the officers here in a raid. According to the omcials, one of the stills was in possession of Burgess Pulley of Lamed, a negro, and the other was taken at the home of M. D. Canatzy, two miles" north of Lamed. W. N. J-arabee and G. F. Shaugh- nessy, officers of the internal revenue department, who have, been working here secret: Icr ten days, in co-oper atlon with Chief of folice Myers and Lnder Sheriff McColm, made the raid. At the i'ul'.ey place a-barrel of 'cider. a barrel of wine and some moonshine whisky were found. The federal officers say they .have reason to believe ti ere are a number of stills in this vicinity and In nearby towns and say a cleanup will be made. Mrs. Mcllen Asks Divorce. Pittsfield, Mass.. Aug. 23, Mrs. Katherine L. Livingstone Mellen, of tockbridge, today filed suit here for a divorce from Charles S. Mellen. for mer president of the New York, New Haven Hartford Railway Co. Cruel and abusive treatment and attempt to damage her character, were charged. 25 YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA From the eohanru sf THE TOPEKA- STATE JOURNAL General Manager 3. J. Frey stater that tbe Santa Fe car shops, which Include the sinters, carpenters and upholsterers, -will e cloned temporarily, commend' g on the first of September. Eugene F. Ware of Fort Scott has formed a partnership with Gleed Uleed of To peka, and will immediately come to this city to make bis home. The Re.- Mr. Marvin of Valparaiso Is visiting the Rev. W. E. Archibald. Mrs. Mattte- Burns if Missouri, who has been visiting her eonsin, Mrs. 45. F. Kim ball, for several weeks, left for her heme today. Ed Arnold has returned from a two months' outing in Colorado. Misses Kittle Lindsey and Ota Nicholson of Lawrence will leave next Wednesday for Chicago. Mrs. F. E. Dietrich, Mrs. George Payn and Miss Vlrgle Payne will leave next Saturday tor Chicago. Gny Hagar and Will Ritter went down to Wakarusa Wednesday to fish, and were joined today by Henry Tasker and aoma of tbe other "'Bean club" boys. URGED STRONG HAND Czar's Mother Wrote Him. Urging FoHcjr of Unrelenting- Power. letter Is Part of Papers Taken From Nicholas by Revolutionists. Amsterdam, Aug. 28. A policy of "unrelenting power" was urged upon the former Russian emperor by his mother, the dowager empress of Rus sia, early in 1906, according to the se cret diary of the emperor as published by the Isvestia of Moscow. The al leged letter was dated January 14, 1906, shortly before, the assembly of the first duma. According to a Mos cow dispatch to the Reinisclte West falische Zeitung of Essen the abbre viated text reads: The letter. "Dear Nicky We are deeply thank ful for your dear letter. It breathes a new spirit. If earlier we had been more energetic and shown more firm ness In the exercise of power, much would have beeen avoided. I do not understand why Witte (one time Rus sian premier) lost so much time. Now to the question which greatly occu pies and disquiets me the question of the cabinet and crown domains which these swine want to take from us according to their various party programs. They must -be impressed with the fact that no one shall dare to Interfere with these personal rights of the emperor and his family. It would be a great historical mistake if we now gave way in the slightest point. Every concession would be interpreted as weakness. Our absolute principle must now be a policy of unrelenting power." The letter, which was. written part ly in Russian and partly in French, closes with the repeated admonition, "be strong." million; laborers needed It Is Up to Nonessentials To Furnish Men for War Work. At Ist the "Business as Usual" Creed Must Be Cast Aside.: Washington. Aug.- 23. The fact that there is now a shortage in war work of cfcie million unskilled laborers and that the reserve of skilled workers Is 'ex hausted developed here at a confer ence of field agents of the federal em ployment service. Further curtail ment of nonessential production is planned to release men for war work. The labor shortage is so serious that completion of a number of important war projects for the army and navy is being delayed. It wa"stated at the conference. The field agents decided that the only way in which the needed laborers could be secured was to take them from nonessential industry. "The time has come for the entire nation to realize that business as usual is no longer possible," Nathan A. Smith, assistant director of the em ployment service, told the conference. "If we are to end the war quickly, the production of luxuries and nonessen tials in this country must come to an end. It Is a question of ending the war quickly or having it dragged on Indefinitely. "Manufacturers must give up the creation of needless goods, workers must be willing to change from non essential to war production even at a hardship to. themselves; the public at large must stop buying luxuries and thereby make the problem of curtail ing nonessentials easier." List of Nonessentials. Indication of how the nonessentials may be combed was given today when the community labor board of the District of Columbia announced a list of twenty-four classes of work remarri ed as nonessential. Employers in this ciass are called upon to voluntarily re lease their unskilled labor for war work. Community boards are being organized thruout the country, by the aepariment or labor, and they are to work In close co-operation with local draft boards. Following are the industries which the district board, the first to make an announcement, has listed as nones sential Motor car Industries accessories. Drivers at pleasure cars cleaning, re pairing and delivery of same. Sightseeing cars. Motor trucks engaged In work other than fuel or government work. Teaming other than delivery of products Tor war work. Bath and barber attendants. Bowling alleys, billiard and pool rooms. Bottlers and battle supplies. Candy manufacturers, cigara and tobacco. Cleaners and dyers. Clubs. Confectioners and delicatessen establish ments. Builders and contractors not engaged In the erection of structures for war work. Dancing academies. Mercantile storea. Florists. Fruit stands. Junk dealera. Livery and sales' at a b lea. -Pawn brokers. Peanut venders and establishments. Pnoe shining shops. Window cleaners. I Soft drink establishments.' -Soda fountain supplies. Flyers on Way to K. C. Pittsburg. Kan.. Aug. 2S.: Major Hanley. commandant of Carruthers Held at Fort Worth. Texas, and T .lent Marshall S. Neal and Lieutenant Kel ley, flying from the field to Kansas City to participate In the flying events in connection with the visit of the British-American aviators there next week, are scheduled for a- stop in fittsDurg late this afternoon. AMERICANS ARE NOW, BIG FACTOR IN FIGHT By Holding Long Sectors East of Ver dun They Release French Forces. These Released Troops Give Foch the Reserves for the Offensive. AMERICAN PART IS VITAL Without United States Troops Allies Would Not Have Necessary. Men. By Holding Qntet' Sectors They Do as MuchGood as in Active Fighting. London, Aug.-1 i. Do not Imagine because the doughboys have not been mentioned in the recent actions of Byng and other functions that they are not on the Job. The, fact Is that altho they are else where they are now contributing to the allies' success even more effective ly, tho less spectacularly than when they are actually going over the top at Chateau Thierry and Soissons, along the Marne, etc. For It is primarily due to increases in the American front lines south of the present battle area that Marshal Foch has been enabled to acquire the necessary mobility and elasticity of nis forces for the purpose of quick, sur prising punches, here and there. The bewildering attacks not only have gained important strategic and geo graphical objectives, but have been the means of frazzling the enemy's nerves thru constant guessing and worrying. The battle must, more than ever, be considered as a whole from Tpres to Rheims. as one of Great Britain's most capable military writers ob served. It is the presence In the field of the powerful, growing body of Americans that has made possible the energetic handling of the enemy, which is now the feature of the western campaign. American Help Vital. Experts are unanimous in the opin ion that Foch not only could not have achieved tne initiative witnout tne og American help, but that he could not maintain this advantage without the steadily progressive increase of such help. There Is every assurance now that, thanks to America, no matter how desperately the boche may resist here and there, the days of deadlock are forever passed. The allies thru com plete command of the situation nre able to impose their will on the enemy when and where they like. But this does not mean, the end Is even yet in signt. German noggeu ness, tenacity, and recuperative pow ers must always be reckoned with. THE WEATHER (Cnntlnnert from Page One.i state, the slightly cooler weather will be more than welcome. Wichita re ceived the heaviest rainfall In the state. The official reading there shows a rainfall of 3.30 Inches. Topeka re ceived 1.54 of an inch, altho the opin ion of the people grown unaccustomed to rains, believed that It was much greater. Other points in the state re ceiving good rains were: Emmet, l.uj; Manhattan, 3.00; Anthony, 6.4; Em poria. 1.06 and Lawrence, 1.16. The heavy rain at Mannattan win send up the river several feet in To peka. The twenty-two day. period of ex cessive heat and dryness, broken by the rain in the last twenty-four hours. is the hottest and driest period on record for seventeen years, since 1901, the driest season ever experienced. The hottest place in the state was at Anthony, where the mercury went to 104. At 4 o clock Thursday after noon the .mercury stood at 98 In To. peka. Tonight the lowest reading will be close to 65. Tomorrow afternoon, Flora says it will not go much above 85. According to Weatherman Flora, the weather will remain cool until early next week. It may not be as cool as most people want it, but it will be cooler than it. has been for some time. This morning at 7 o'clock the tem perature stood at 67 degrees which is the lowest reading taken in Topeka in the last two weeks. Kansas and Oklahoma maintain their record for being the hottest places in the United States, which rec ord they have held for over three weeks. The hottest day on record for this date was 100 In 1899 and-the coolest was 52 in 1904. The temperature for the last twenty-four hours averages 2 degrees above normal. DAII.T WEATHER TABU. Furnished by the weather bnreau office, Topeka. Kan., for the 24 hours ending at 7 a. m. Friday. Ntntn Anthony Colriwater Dodge City Dresden Emporia Eureka Fort Scott Garden City Goodland Hays Rortoa Ida Lawrence Liberal McPherson Manhattan Phllltpsbnrg Scott City Sedan TOPEKA rtica Wichita Kansas City St. .Tnaenh Hlch TiOvr lrv. W'ther. 104 68 .64 Cloudy 102 4 .42 Cloudy fiS .04 Cloudy .96 SR. .02 Cloudy 100 flrt 1.06 Cloudy 100 68 .10 Fair 98 72 0 Clondy 64 O Cloudy 88 60 0 Cloudy 92 64 0 Cloudy .96-64 .60 Clendy 8 .04 Cloudy 9S 68 1.02 Cloudy .98 66 .40 Cloudy 94 66 .88 Cloudy 102 68 1.82 Cloudy 92 60 .01 Fair 94 60 0 Cloudy 100 70 0 Fair as 67 1.54 Fair 92 62 0 Clondy 98 68 S.40 Rain '96 72 0 Clondy .98 70 .56 Cloudy Light to heavy rains have fallen In nearly every section of the state in the past 24 faonrs, breaking to aome extent the high temperatures that have prevailed over the entire state the past two weeks. Tempera tures yesterday ranged considerably above the normal. Other States. Stations Hlirh. Low. Prec. W'ther. Boston, Masa Calgary, Alb Chicago. Ill Cincinnati. Ohio... Corpna Christl Denver, Colo Dea Moines. la..... Duluth, Minn...... El Paso. Tex Galveston. Tex..... Havre. Mont Jackaonville Fla... Little Rock, Ark.. Los Angeles. Cal.. New Orleans. La.. New York, N. Y... N. Platte, Neb Oklahoma. Okla.... Phoenix. Ariz...... Pittsburgh. Pa.... Portland. Ore...... St. Louts. Mo St. Paul. Minn..... Salt Lake. Utah.... ?an Francisco Sault Ste. Marie Sheridan, Wyo..... Spokane. Wash.! Tampa. Fla Toledo. Ohio Washington. D. C. Winnipeg. Man.... 90 68 0 Clear 68 50 0 Fair 90 76 0 Fair 92 66 o Clear 90 SO a Clear 78 54 0 Clear 92 66 .12 Cloudy 82 56 O Clear 86 64 .26 Clondy 86 80 .44 Fair 78 5 .04 Fair 82 68 0 Clear 86 72 0 Clear 76 58 Y 0 Clear 80 74 .08 Clear 84 68 0 Clear 70 53 .02 Clondy 98 72 J4 Rain 100 74 0 Clear 90 70 .84 Clear 76 62 0 Fair 90 74 O Clear 80 60 0 Clear 74 56 0 Clear 70 54. 0 Cloedv 74 64 .16 Cloudy 76 50 0 Fair 72 58 0 Clear SO 72 .56 flnody 88 72 0 Clear 86 68 o Clear TO 62 JU Fair MIGHTY BATTLE (Continued troro Page Una.1 heaviest fire from the French artillery. tBy tne Associated Press-t British and German armies art locked in a mighty battle today over a twenty-five mile front from Uhonsi six miles south of the Somme river, t the Cojeul river, southwest of Arras., liiis combat, which began wun tne British attack against the enemy po sitions east of the Ancre river on Wednesday, now has spread into one of the greatest battles of the allied offensive in Picardy. It is officially reported from London that the Brit ish are making progress at some points and that German attacks east otVBeaucourt at about. the middle of the battle front were repulsed. The British apparently still are on the age gressive along the whole line. e French Push In Along Oise. jj French troops have occupied the southern banks of the Oise and the Ailette between Sempigny. south of Noyon, to the railroad bridge west of Courcy-Le-Chateau. t South of Courcy-Le-Chateau they have reached, the outskirts of Gunjf and Pont St. Mard. This progress, brings them still further toward, the rear of the German forces holding the hills north of Soissons and within three miles of- the German positions north of Chemin-des-Dames, as they stood before the offensive of May 27. German Line Is Wavering. Shaken hy the allied assaults on the northern and southern ends of the Picardy battle front the German line is wavering. Along the Oise the enemy apparently is retreating precip itately. Allied pressure continues' strong along the whole front. Unless the enemy can stop the onrush, par ticularly in the south, his territorial gains of the present year are Jn a fair way to be wiped out. Further, if either of the allied strokes can break thru, the old Hindenburg line itself will be imperiled. French Advance on 30-Mile' Front. In the south the French are pushing forward on a front of thirty miles east and west of Noyon. weakening the German line around Roye and north ward, and providing a grave menace to the Vesle-Aisne line thru the cross ing of the Ailette and the Olse-Aisne canal northwest of Soissons. North of the Somme and the Ancre to Mercatel, the British keep doggedly at It after having captured Albert and 5,000 prisoners. South of the bend in' the Ancre they have crossed the stream to tne east on a six-mile front for a gain of two miles. Noyon Under Fire. Noyon, a pivot of the German lines in Picardy. still holds out, but the town, and the surrounding heights are under the fire of the French cannon. West of Noyon, the French are on the Divette for a distance of almost five miles. The Oise has been reached on a front of ten miles south and east of Noyon, and has been crossed at several points. So hurried was the German withdrawal from south of': the Oise that they were unable to" destroy all trie bridges across the stream.- They also left behind much material and more than 200 guns. Krench cavalry and airplanes are harassing the retir ing enemy and over the German posi--a tions of two days, even one day ago.J French guns and infantry are rushing northward. Except west of the Oise and along the sharp salient north off Soissons, th Germans show little signsj of holding, and proDamy will reure to, beyond the Oise canal; which parallels! the river on the north. Germans Fight Haig Hard. 1 Most stubborn have been the com- bats on the front north of the Somme) and Field Marshal Hal; has had to. face bitter resistance all along the front. His pressure continues, how ever, and his success around Albert? probably will provide leverage to push the Germans farther east, north and south of that sector. North of the Ancre the British and Germans are struggling violently for possession of towns alone the Arraa-Aibert railway. and the Arras-Bapaume road, but thai British have held to their gains. Probably the most, vital sectors to- the Germans at present are those from Roye to Noyon and that north-; west of Soissons. If the first should waver and fall1 back, the German position north to- the Somme would have to be read- Justed. The salient northwest of Sols-; sons possibly is. moat important be cause if it should fall the French would have the heights of Chemin-Des-Dames outflanked and be In a position to menace Laon. Continued French pressure on this salient would appear to have the effect of forcing. the Germans to retreat from the Vesle within a few days at most. American troops north of the Vesle have Increased the security of their position by cleaning out an important point north of Fismes. The Germans attempted a counter attack but were thrown back with a loss. Along the J remainder of the Vesle the allied pres sure is being maintained. Piffle says, "It's very queer How I lost my pretty Drar from one to two and so on tp the end. S2e I 39 87- Vfe 3o si 84 i .86- 1A24 rt. r? y!' V 'f: Si y x REGISTRATION FOR H ?18 MEN SATURDAY i At Least S,000 Kansans Will Qualify for Draft Tomorrow. Almost Automatically These Men Will Be Placed In Service. 7 TO COLORS IN TWO WEEKS Little Delay In Calling All Who Have Reached 21 Recently. In Larger Cities Physical Exams ym Be Conducted Immediately. Mere than 8,000 Kansans men who have attained their majority since June t will register with local regis tration boards In every county In Kan sas Saturday. In many localities the registration booths will' remain open until 9 o'clock at night that every per son within the military draft age may enroll for classification and examina tion. Almost automatically the class 1 men from Saturday's registration will be Inducted into service to meet cur rent calls. The general estimates -of army and draft officials place the number of new class 1 men at 2,000. At least 1,600 of these men will be called to the colors during; the first five days of September. Owing to the extreme emergency which confronts registration boards in Kansas, every effort will be made to hasten the examination and classifica tion of all registrants. In rural and small town districts, registrants will fill out questionnaires and be held for physical examinations almost within the hour of their enrollment. Exam ining physicians in the small towns and sparsely settled counties will at tempt to examine registrants as rapidly as they appear before the boards. In Topeka, Wichita, Kansas City and other large cities nhvsical ex aminations will be held next week, and an registrants will be given notice to appear. To Colors In Two Weeks. .Estimates of totals, in Saturday's registration, are based on results of the enrollment of June- 6, when the state listed slightly more than 12,000 men wno had reached the age of 81 years since, the enrollment of June S, 1917. The number of class 1 men from the new registrants averaged be low 50 per cent,, altho reclassification!. are expected to Increase. that number. Draft officials believe that- the Satur day registration will provide- 65 to 70 per. cent of the total for front rank service. Every registrant will receive his questionnaire when he-appears before the registration board. He will be ex pected to Immediately fill out the blanks and send the document to the local board. In view of the urgent demand for immediate army service, draft officials are discouraging de ferred classlfleatidns except in the most imperative eases. Probably 50 per cent of the-men who register Sat urday will be called to the colors within two weeks and the entire ad vance class of new registrants 'will answer"ealls before October The 'registration affects all men 'regardless of- physical condition who- basve freftotied the age or ayears since June y-or who may be. zi years oia on the day of registration. Hegistratioh in Topeka. Registration In Topeka will be con ducted Auaust 24 in the usual manner, with the possible exception of the county draft board, where it Is thought that the men will register, fill out thsir questionnaires and receive physical examination all on the same day. At the two city "boards the questionnaires wHl be mailed to the men later. The coming registration will be the lightest yet held, uny Doara.ivo. i expects from twenty-five to thirty men, and city board No. 2- from forty five to fifty men. The county board probably- wnll not register over twenty five men at the most. In (he county outside the city, the small number of men who wU regis ter would not jusury tne esiaonsn- ment of booths at various points as has been the custom, All men must come to the local board on the third floor of the court house to register. The usual form of registration will be observed by the city boards. All men living in the First, Second and Fourth wards will register at the fire marshal's office, while those living elsewhere in the city will register at local board No. 1. Both these boards are on the second floor of the city DUiiaing. 80 DEAD, 3 MISSING Coroner Gives Out Official Figures on Minnesota Tornado Casualties. Tyler, Minn.,'Aug. 28. Thirty Iden tified ttead and three missing was the toll of the Tyler cyclone of Wednes day night, according to the coroner's official count early today. After a day and two nights of horror and sorrow, unsleeping crowds were still searching ruins of buildings today for bodies. State guards are on duty, and a tem porary morgue has been established at the town hall just off the storm's path. TODAY'S, MARKET REPORTS Chlcaeo. Ane. 23. CORN The mm mar ket was under further presstii-e today on tbe breaking of tbe Kanaaa drouth, Sep tember opened off at J1.63V, and de clined to $1.62, later reacting to $1.26. Oc tober opened c Jown at $1.64, touched $1.64. and declined to $1.63 where it ateadled. Sentiment was nervoua. Tbe close was weak, September S'Sfcc down at $1.61 V and October V.ic lower at $1.63i. OATS Selling by leading cash and eleva tor iuteresta depressed tbe price of oats. October, which opened c to c op at 74Hc to 74ic, dropped to T4c. PROVISIONS Provisions worked slight ly lower in aympatby with graiD and lower JrWes for live nogs. Opening prls were rom 5c to 714c under yesterday's close. Provisions closed weak with pork IQc to 45c under yeaterdny. CORN Close: September, $L7 Oc tober, $1.6Si., Chlco.ro. Grain .-ind Provision Market. (Tbe range of ru on grain futures on Chicago Hoard of T.-nrle aa reported by Tboa- J. Myers, 301 K E. Bids'. v Chicago, ABC- 23- Close- Open High Lew Today Yea CORN Aug. .163 16014 100 162 160i 161 H 16314 71 W 163 11 165 72H' 73 744 sept Oct. ept, ..13'4 16f 73 73H 73 OATS Ang... Sept: Oct. PORK- 72V, 7314, 74S4-. 71- Jl 73 714 7314 Fept....43.85 LAKD -Kept. ..'26. 65 Oct BIBS Sept. ..24.82 Oct ..25.02 43.75 43.75- 44.05- 26.60 26.60 26.75 24.82 25.02 24.65 24:65 24.85 24.S5 Kasiw Cttr ISralai Market. (The range of prices on grain futures on Kansas City Boa d or Trade as reported by Tboa. J. Myers. 501 N. E. BldE-t 1 Kanaaa City, Ang. 23. Open Bjgh Low Today Yea. CORN Aug. Kept. ,.imn Oct. ..167? 174 167 165 176 170 168 74"4 169 168 169 Vt 105 OATS Aug. 73Vi 73 i 75? 7S4 74 75 Sept. Oct.- Cbieas Prednee Market, Chicago. Aug. 23. BUTTER Market steady. Creamery extra, 44&45c; (irsta, 42rd4c. CHEESK Market unchanged. POTATOES Market higher. Minnesota Obioa. onlk, $2.5022.0; in sacks. f-'.iO 0; v laconsin uiudb, uuik, vu,-.w. in sacks. $2.00 2.65: POULTRY rowla, ZJc; springs, sue. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City. Ang. 23 WHEAT Cash: Market steady. No. 1 hard. $2,111(62.20; No. 2, $2.1fi.l; Jo. 1 rea, .-io(&-.jv 2, S2.12&2.13. CORN Market steady. No. 2 mixed. $1.S21.92; No. 3, nominal; No. 2 white, $l.ttt(ii2.00; No. 3, nominal; He. 2 yellow, il.911.93; No. 3, nominal. OATS Market ateady to le lower. No. 2 white, 75Vj(&7Bc; No. i mixed, 73.73V4c K 1' E tl.iyjm. L72. KAFIR AND MILO MAIZE $3.4203,3.50. HAY Market unchanged. SHORTS $1.60. BKAN $1.42 1.-50. WHEAT Kcrtipts 315 ears. BUTTER Market unchanged. POULTRY Market unchanged. EGGS Firsts, 3Vc; seconds, 33c. Chicago Grain and Provision Market. Chicago, Aug. 23. CORN Close: August, $1.60 September, LlL61i4 October, OATtP August, 7171c; September, 71H671H; October. 7Sa73e. PORK Sept., $43.75; Oct, $44.05. LARD Sept., $26.0; Oct., $26.75.: SHORT, RIBS Sept, $24.65;, October, $24.85. Ktw York Preduee Market. 'New Tork, Aug. 23. BUTTER Market firm. Creamery Wgher thau extras, 47 47c. EUGS Market irregular. Fresh fathered- extras, 50(a51c. CHEESE Market firm. State whole milk, flats, fresh specials, 2fivtCa20c POULTRY AUve. firm; chVkens. broil, era, 35c; fowls, 35c; old roosters. 25c; turkeys, 2Sa.0c; dressed, steady and un changed. Kew Tork Soger Market. New York, Aug. 23. SUGAR Jtaw, ateady; centrifugal, 6.055; fin granulated, 7.50. New Tork Stock: Market. Wall St.. New York. Aug. 23. STOCKS terest at the dull opening of today's stoek market. Hide and Leather preferred mount ed to the new record of 04 on tta further advance of 1 pointa, the common also gaining a point. Changea among Indus trial and equipments were trivial, advuncea and declines being about equally distribut ed. The list jardened later, Canadian Pa cific gaining 1 pointa and St. Paul 1 point. Liberty bonda manifested none of their recent -activity, only a few transac tions occurring in the SVj'a during the first half hour. .Authoritative assurances regarding local monetary conditions afforded a better foundation for tbe further dealings of the forenoen. Canadian Pacific made sn ex treme advance of 4 points, St. Paul pre ferred and common H4 and 2 points re spectively, Reading 1 and New York Central 1 potnt. Among prominent Indus trials U. S. Steel gained a point with Beth lehem and Crucible Steel. Fertilisers. Motor Subsidiaries and Industrial Alcohol gained 1 to 2 points. Liberty 's approx imated their maximum at 102.48 and tbe 414 's were more active. New Tork Money Market. -New Tork, Aug. "23. MONEY Mercantile paper, 6. Sterling, 60 day bitls, 4.72; commercial, 60 day bills on banka, 4.72; .commercial, 60 day bills, 4.714 demand, 4.75J4; cables, 4.76 8-16 Francs, demand. 5.61', cables. 5.60. Mexican dollars, 78c. Government bonds, strong; railroad bonds, firm. Time loans, strong 60 days, 90 day and6 montfca, 6 per cent. Csll money, strong: high, low, rilling rate, 6.: closing bld 5 offered at 6; last loan, 6. Kansas City Live Stock Sales. (Tbe folowlug sales were made this mors iug at the Stock Yards, Kansas City, and mnnptail nr., lonff 1 t.f siir- telenhona di rect to the State Journal by Clay Uobin. son A Co., live stock commission mer- chants.) Kansas City. Aug. Ti. CATTLE Re- ceipts 1,000 bead. Dta l.uuo bead. M; Market ateady. .500 head. Market 10c HOGS Receipts 3.500 head. to 20c higher. Bulk of sales, $1S.70(&19 50; ton, $19.70. SHEEP Receipts' 1,000 head. Market strong to 25c higher. Lambs, $17.25. KILLING STEERS. No. wt PrIce.lNo. wt Price. 12 1020 $14.23 19 1162 $15.00 8 802 13.00 I COWS AND HEIFERS. 4 762 7.50 I 1 20 8.00 1 804 8.50 1 6 744 7.50 2 890 8.25 I 1 1020 9.60 11 810 0.00 BTOCKERS AND FEEDERS. 11. 862 11.00 -1 10. 60 8.00 &50 CALVES. 13.00 1 4... 8.50 f 120 30 HOGS. 64.. 79.. 233 184 19.60 19.40 1S.25 19.50 19.45 81. 262 196 102 243 19.45 19 50 19.40 10.60 52.. 71.. 61.. 43 116 62 218 72 231 Chlexo Live Stock Market. XHiIcago, Aug. 23. HOGS Receipts 8.000. Market mostly 25c to 30c lower than best tijnn THtprdav. Ton. S19.S5 bntohera. $19. OOiS 19.65; Htrht hoga. $19.0019r bnlk of sales. $17.35gl.50; pigs, good and choice. $17.85(318.50. CATTLE Receipts 5,600. Market gen-, erailv steady. SHEEP Recelnta 11.000. Good lambs. steady; sheep, slow to lower; lambs, med- lum to prime, $16.25nH8.50; cults, $10.00g 1 i-i.uu Teeners. ;nt.ru(aii.o: nti, medium to prime, $11.0013.00; choice breeding, $12.00gl6.25. Kansas City Live Stoek Market. Kansas City, Aug. 23. HOGS Recelpts 3.500. Market steady to 20c higher. Bulk f.f -S.1S nmTilQ. KO nNckprn jinri rtntfh. Sera. $13.90 19.7(1; light, $18.50(819.50; pigs. sifl.owriw. uriLfi tteceipts i,uw. mciuaing iw southerns. Market steady. Prime fed steers. $17.00(318.25: dressed beef ateera. $11.0016.75; western steers, $10.oO14.50 sontnern steers, sr.Ttufaii4.ZD;.- cows, sti.3uroj 12.50: heifers. JS.0oan.50: stackers and feeders. $7.7514.30; bulls, $7.O010.5O; calves, xa.uuqji4.uu. SHEEP Receipts 1,000. Market steady. Lamba, $15.5018.00: yearllnga, $ll..wa 16.00: wethers. $10.00 14.50: ewes. $9.00a 13.75; stockers and feeders, $6.00ijl8.00. Morning Grain GobbId. (Furnished by tbe Topeka Board of Trade.) Chicago. Ang. 23. The Tribune: Grain Cora traders predict an Increased move ment of that grain by the middle or end of next week. Advices from central Illinois. Iowa end Nebraska, and even Tennessee was offering corn here yesterday A Ten nessee point asked for prices on 90 ears. Omaha had 74 cars yesterday. Tbe largest in some time. Sections where corn crop propects are good are expected to sell corn freely. The movement la to be from farm ers as there is said to be little held In be country elevators. With Indications of bet- ter receipta ana me reiasai'or tne corn market to advance sharply and hold It on the bullish reports led many local traders to believe that tbe market has been over bought aqd orerbnlled for The present. Those who are Dearisk say th- recent ad vance was due mainly to baa crop news, catching the local traders sboH and to the turning from tbe bear to the long aide by a number of local operators who bad been out la tbe bad crop sections -of Iowa and Nebraska. Houses with esstera connec tions boaght a. great many bats. .yesterday. It was noticeable by close observers In the pit that tbe largest bnying by 'some of them was for operators with western, in terests; An Omaha honse was gsrea, ttp on part of the large purchases. j New York. lug. 23. The Financial. Jdews Bulletin: Stocks While the market amy be a little irregular on account of pro fessional activities against prices we be live good buying opportunities will be pre sented on moderate recessions and would give preference to equipments- including Baldwin, Alo., Ry. Steel, Am. Car Fdy. We think N. H. should be bought on all reac tinna. CommentThere la reason for believing that a short interest of considerable pro portions has been bnllc up in steel in an ticipation of a reaction of moderate extent. Scale down bnying is taken plsce In Am. Steel Foundry for some days past, we have found evidence of semi-investment in this stock. Topeka-ftflarkei Report. (Prices furnished by Wolff Packing Co.) U'opekS, Kan., Aug. 22. HOGS j MIXED AND BUTCHERS... ..$14.50019.00 LIGHT 14.50ifl8.85 PIGS 11.0014.50 We cannot nse rough and thin unfinished bnjrs for packing purposes. We will have to buy at stock bog prices. Topeka Bai Market. Topeka, Kan., Ang. 22. PRAIRIE BAY $48.00. ALFALFA $20.00. Betall Hay. Topeka, Kan., Aug. 22. PRAIRin nAY-$i'J.0U. ALFALFA $18.00. PODltry and Eggs. (Furnished by the Topeka Packing Com pany, corner. Laurent and Madison. Topeka, Kan., Aug. 22. Springs, over 2 lbs.. 24c: old roosters, lbc: broilers, I lb to 3 iba and under, 26c; bens over 3 lbs., 23c: bens under 8 lbs.. 20c EGGS 10c. BUTTER 48S50c. Topeka urate Market. (Furnished bv Derby Grain Co.. corner Kansas Ave. and Ctirtla fct.t Topeka, Kan., Aug. 22. MIXET CORN $1.70. WHITE CORN-1.7S. OATS 6.V. l, M. Peawell President Phone 775. R. M. Johnson 8ec'y-Treas. Phone 8619 THE L. II PENWELL UNDERTAKING CO. 500-808-510 Qulncy Street Phone 182 New Lessons in Natural Gas WEATHER REPORT TITEATHER FORECAST for Kansasi Unsettled, thunder showers to night and Saturday. You have been reading of the dignity that gas, especially nat- 4tral gas, has assumed and of the many wonderful uses to which Its by-products can be put. Tou have learned that it is a very) valuable substance, a substance which must be hoarded rather than wasted. Tou have learned in the past few bulletins Of the almost criminal waste of gas by those who have drilled for oil and allowed the gas encountered to escape Into the air, thereby being lost forever. Tou are to be told In the next few bulletins what methods are being used to save and conserve this wonderful vapor natural gas. j T 2 KANSAS NATUEAL .CAS CO. 5. I Why Wait and Pay More? Buy your FALL SUIT now and save money Kuppenheimer and Student Craft Suit can be bought at the old price yet Don't delay. Come in and get our prices BUY W. S. S. .VJ WHITE HOUSE MEAT MARKET Cudahy Rex Baconby half or whole strip. t .40$ J Chuck Ttoast, Hd Hamburger Steak, V lb.-.: Fresh Beef Tongues, lb. Plate Roast, -lb Round Steak, lb 18c 20c 22c ..16c ..30c 23c ..28c 18c Chuck Steak, lb Sirloin Steak, lb. Spare Ribs, lb 423 Kansas Avenue STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourself Best Results Consign to CL'AY. ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Have Our Own Off! ore at Chicago, Bo. St. Joeofih, So. Omalia, Denver, Siena City, So. St. Paul, E. Buffalo, E SC. Loulav Fort t www ana tu rasa.- Meat Market 110 E. 6th St. Phone 74T Of course you want the best prices. Chuck Roast Plate "Roast Veal Roast Veal Stew Leg Mutton Mutton Chop Mutton Roast Spare Ribs Neck Bones Bulk Sausage Hamburger Tongues Hearts 20 .18t 205: ...18 .25 25 20J 19eV 10 20 203 25 V7t Liver 10$ Sugar Cured Ham...33 Calif. Hams 24 Sugar Cured Bacon by V2 or whole strip. .42 Bacon Squares 32 Dry Salt Butts. .25 Salt White Fish, 2 for 15 Mackerel, 2 for .25 Herring 5 I SAVE W. S. S. t No. 1 Hams, lb Fresh Beef Hearts. 33c ..16c ..30c Bacon Squares, lb Pork Loin Roast, lb 30c Cal. Hams, smoked o A Shoulders Z4C Butterlne, 2-lb. roll 48 fi!:25c32c35c Dry Salt Jowls, lbe 22c t,

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THE THPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING; AUGUST 28. 1918 BUS Itj Mo. KtUMI Cltjr Kaji. 705-707 Kansas Avenue 7fte House &J$iLJ of Courtesy Hi Hi prices jKiejlJ'tf W. let yon be the Judge of oar values J. 'J a special showing of new fall models, featuring the collarless modes in georgette crepe Dainty models in white and flesh with braid, wool and silk embroidery, and bead trimming:. Plain designs in smart tucked and hemstitched effects. Ion a t wit ?79S never 'before have they been smarter these Silk Skirts AT $95 Models of silk poplin", fiber silk, Geor gette crepe, indestructible voile, taf feta and brocaded silks in navy, black, taupe and a few light shades. VA Broco-dtd. P.UnSKirt il n I i i TENTH DIVISION IN REVIEW SnrURDAY Celebration of General Wood's First Anniversary Tomorrow. Troops of Seven States To Perform "Eyes Right" for trader. AFTERJfOON FOB, VISITORS Officers and Enlisted Men Will Have Rest of the Day Off. ReTiew May Bo Watched by Admirers From Middle West. Approval 'SAl Harris-Goar Diamonds win by comparison. II j f AT A W SM m "ent anywhere on 30 dm 7 approval. Money f f m-z V refunded it yva can bet our price. Tennsssiowas s V arW 1 SOc Down and 5Qe a Week I I f TfUi -VepV Hl Specials se oe.te oieea aiKcaas-se I 1 t f Jap 'ft Oenulne olemeae aies-.SSO.oe V-W-' if I Tomorrow Q'"e ai..s.oe r "j5S i; 1 SOS Oooelo. Otaei.ee- ai..7e.oa VWSt "-fell' ffl Come hjmuimp. Join ear Thrift Crab. Write for S "jr. f MMBHIS-SOAK COMRASY. 1Q4) feet grtfl Want to Buy 15 Old Motor Cars Any make, model or condition. 'Sell that' old car before the gov ernment tax falls due! Highest price and Spot Cash. Blacker Bros. Mil and Qulncy Sts. Phono 1818 IMPORTANT To State Journal Readers Order, to daily and Sunday newspapers, dated August 5, 1918 from War Industries Board: "2. Discontinue sending papers after date of expiration of subscription unless subscription is renewed and paid for. (This ruling to be effec tive October 1, 1918.)" No comment is necessary the State Journal will obey orders. What is the date on your paper? Some one wants that which you do not. A small ad in the State Journal want columns will satisfy both. Camp Fnnston, Kan., Aug-. 21. When the newly formed tenth division passes in review before its commander, MaJ. Gen. Leonard Wood, on the reservation here Saturday morning, the story of a year's achievement of one of the nation's greatest manpower factories will be told in the most im pressive of aU ceremonies. Just a year ago, on August 24. 1917, General Wood came to Camp Funston as commandant of the camp and com manding officer of the Eighty-ninth division. In the year that has passed tens of thousands of men have come, fresh from the middle western states, to be merged into the armed forces of the United States. Tens of thousands have passed on after undergoing the transition of their training period, to take their places in the ranks oppos ing the Hun on the fields of France. There have been 130,0(f0 of them, in round numbers; that many men have entered Camp Funston since its erec tion. Not all of them have finished their period of preparation, and it is this remainder, forged in a few weeks into an efficient divisional organisa tion, that will pass before Its com mander Saturday. General Wood put all the years of military wisdom and experience at his command into the training of the Eighty-ninth division. It left Funston an efficient ffghtlng force. The drafted men in its ranks thirsted for the strug gle invFrance. because they were patriotic Americans, and above all, be cause their commander had instilled into them the resolution to measure up to the high standard set by the officers at Funston. Relieved of his command before it departed overseas. General Wood came back here to take up his work anew. In the Tenth division, the same wholesome ma terial is to be found that character ized the Eighty-ninth. It has been re ported that the Tenth even will sur pass the Eighty-ninth in the high average of its manhood. Review at 10 O'clock. Final arrangements for the. review Saturday morning were announced to day. It has been decided the review will take place promptly at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. General Wood and his staff will inspect the division on the plains of the reservation north of Morris hill. Accompanying him will be all the governors of the seven states in the Funston jurisdiction who possibly can attend. Two governors, those of Kansas and Wyoming, al ready have accepted the invitation to witness the review. Following the in spection, the division will pass in -i view and will return to the canton ment in time for the noon mess. It was decided to hold the review In the. morning In order that officers and enlisted men might have the af ternoon off to visit with relatives and friends who will come to Funston for the occasion. Visitors will be doubly welcome Saturday," and every oppor tunity afforded them for finding friends and kinsmen in the camp. The ground on which the review will be held Is reached from Fort Riley. Per sons coming by motor will find mili tary policemen at the crossroads to direct them to the field. There wiU be. parking places for motor cars, oc cupants of which may sit at ease on leather cushions under sheltering tops to watch the division pass by. To those who never have seen a large body of troops pass in review, a special invitation la extended. There is no painting with word or brush the picture of thousands of feet tramping as one: thousands of arms swinging In unison: thousands of sun-browned faces executing "1) Eyes (2) RIGHT as a single countenance: thousands of pieces at the same angle across the brawny shoulders; band after band, rank after rank, color after color, sup ply train after supply train. In short, a divisional review of the kind to be staged here Saturday is a sight" not surpassed in grandeur by anything within the conception of an imagina tive man. As a last injunction, Camp Funston cautions everyone to remember that the hour is 10 o clock In the morning, Saturday, August 24. And that, in the army, means 10 o'clock and not one second later. STEEL FOR "RAILROADS I iT i ir- r 1 ll I L-U-1J I .1 i yrzy, nott mat Kesinol is clearing my skin! Resinol Ointment helps to make it possible for every woman to have a clear, soft, healthy skin, the first and in dispensable requisite of beauty and attractiveness.. Blotthes, roughness, pimples, red dened patches, itching and burning of the skin can be relieved and usually removed by Resinol Ointment aided by Resinol Soap. The Store of the People. Saturday the store opens at 8:S0 and closes at 9:00 Courtesy First,. Service Next. Aid Greater Production Urged To Government Program. 1 ajlllilfeiun, AUg. e 9. X Ilf5 I H.ii- jvoads of the country will consume the largest amount of steel required by the government, the war Industries board has announced following an all day secret conference with the steel committee of the American Iron and Steel institute. Shipbuilding require ments come next, with the war de partment's program third, and .the navy fourth. The meetinjr was called to find means of meeting in full. If possible, the steel needs of the government and the allies. These demands for the laftt six months already amount to more than twenty-three million tons and are rapidly approaching the twenty-five million mark. To remedy the shortage of steel which is so acute that actual require ments cannot be met unless drastic action Is Taken by the steel producers and the government, the following measures were determined as urgent: First Greater conversion of mills to the production of steel required in the war program. This will necessarily entail the elimination of many kinds of steel now being made for the nonwar Induatrles. Sefond Increase fhe coal Ptipply. partlc nlarty in byproducts coal available formills engaged in war work. Further rnrrnil ment of nonwar industries, commandeering of hoarded coal, and diversion of bypro duct coal from war Industries that con Id use poorer grade may hare to be resorted to If 'the situation is to be met. Shortage of this grade of -oI is serious, and de clared to be the crux of the admittedly alarming steel shortage. Third Shutting off of further tteel ship ments to industries other than those ea- f raged in meeting war needs. Steei Admin at rat or Replogle virtually baa cnt off this supply, refusing rrena pound of steel for other than war purposes. In addition, where large stocks were obtained prior to the restrictions being placed on the less er essential industries, the government may commandeer their stocks. Fourt h M ore rl gorou s con serr a tion In the handling of steel In the mills la de manded of the steel Industry. In Paris horse meat costs as mach as the best cuts of hM 4 Fall things coming, Summer things going such bustling, busy days at Pelletier's! A fresh Collar will renew a faded frock For Saturday we have some of the daintiest Pompadour Sets, col- lar and euffs in plain white and col ors: and there are new styles and shapes of flat and roll Collars, hem stitched and lace trimmed 50c to $2.50 And there are new RuffUngs of 'organdie and net 35o to $1.00 yd. And new Fichi'S of net, and or gandie; some wtih self ruffles and some with ruffles of soft Oriental lace $1.00 to $3.00 Silk Gloves We still have a very complete line of Kayser's Sirk Gloves; white, black and gray, t and white with black stitching. :75c to $1.75 Mala Floor Fellrtler'e Toilet Goods at reduced prices EOc Java Rice Ponder. 39c 35c Dora Face Powder 2!ic SOc Stillman's Freckle Cream.. SOc 25c Pond's Cold or Vanishing Cream Saturday for 10c1 SOc Kon Spi Deodorant 390 10c Wool Powder Puffs 7c 50c Ivory Service Frames. -80c &0c Hind's Honey and Almond Cream Saturday for ,30c 10c Pure Castile Soap 8C Main Floor Pelletier's Silk Utility Bags price '$7.50 Bags for. .$3.73) 8.50 Bags for 4.25 10.00 Bags for 5.00 "These are the large Utility Bags; of black silk, fitted with coin purse and mirror. New Handbags For Saturday we'll have a very comprehensive showing of the new Fall Handbags and Flat Purses: prices are very moderate $1.00 to $12.00 Traveling Bags Our line of leather Traveling Bags is very complete;ydozens of different styles In the popular IS and 18-lnch sizes $6.00 to $19.50 Hair Ornaments Hair Ornaments are high In Fashion's favor for Fall, and what variety there is here to choose from dozens and dozens of different styles set with brilliants and color ed stones 50o to $5.00 Mala Floor pelletier's Prices of Boys' Suits at Pelletier's tare still $5 to $20 :ri Now that the new Fall Suits are here, we've some exceptionally good ones at $5.00 you see. we bought them long before the big advance in woolens and our prices are from 10 to 25 less than today market val ues. The Fall Suits for boys of 2 to IS years are here and prices range $5.00 to $20.00 New Furnishings "Victory" Caps; a variety of mater ials and trimmings for little boys and girls i .$1.25, np Vizor Caps: light, medium nd dark patterns 50o to $2.00 Sweater Coats: newest styles and colorings, for boys of to 18 years 95o to $10.00 2nd Floor Pelletier' $1.00 sets of blown glasses 80c They're the 10-oz. size, optic shape Tumblers of the very best of blown glass regular $1.00 set of i .six for 80 10c Footed Glass Fruit Bishr the 4-inch size 10f Star Cnt Footed Glass Sherbets $1.50 sets of -six for $1.15 B9c Glass Ice Water Jugs; the 2-qt. size with covers -490 10-inch Yellow Mixing Bowls 35e White Porcelain Mixing Bowls: the ,-qt. size with blue band... 390 1- gal. stone Jars... 150 2- gal. Stone Jars.. 190 Plain Ironing; Boards: the 5 -ft. length Saturday for 890 Dish Pans: the 14-qt. size of gray enamelware Saturday -95 White "Wool Wall Brashes with a long and a short handle, ea. 950 "Punch" Oil Mops, complete with a bottle of oil. 750 Lawn Hose 60-ft. lengths of ?4-inch. 5-ply Lawn Hose, complete with coup lings and nozzl! $6.95 F OP values Saturday for s th Floor Pelletier's n 1-; Save from 10 to 25 on your Fall Suit. The woman who fetiys her Fall Suit at Pelletier's NOW will save from a dollar or se to ten to fifteen dollars (according to the Suit she chooses) over the woman who "waits." Why? v For the very simple reason that when we bought, the woolen materials were from 10 to 25 lower in price than they are today. Racks are hanging full of Fall Suits we've more Fall Suits in the house right now than we'd ordi narily have the middle of September. When these Suits are sold, and they will be within a month or two, and we go to buy again, we'll have to pay from 15 to 50 more than we paid for the Suits now oh hand and what costs ns more will, very naturally, cost the customer more. There'll be no more "Pelletier $1.00 Special" Waists so out s OA go the last of them at 0C Wise indeed are the women who "stock up" Saturday "Pelletier $1.00 Special" set a new high standard of style and value In popular priced Waists in Topeka. And it's because they were so good, the materials so excellent-and the making so exceptional, that we can't get any more to sell at a dollar so we're going to close out what's left Saturday. There are upwards of two hundred of them and along with them we are going to put a small lot of $1.60 and $1.98 Waists, including some OA "Stylish Stouts" as long as they last, Saturday 0C AU Summer Waists in two lots $1.75-$2.00 Included are Waists worth 1ip to $3.88; organdies, batistes, dimities, voiles, etc., in plain weaves, self stripes, cross bars, etc. And there are a few colored Waists, too. The $3.95 to $6.95 Wash Skirts $3.00 An the $3.95 to $6.95 Wash Skirts are Included; gabardines, tricotines, piques, novelty weaves, etc.: a great variety of styles and plenty of all sizes. AU up to $15.00 Wash Dresses $7.75 The daintiest of Dresses of white voiles and organdies, floral voiles, plaid organdis, tussards in plain col ors and a few lineena. Middies just here The first shipment of school Mid-, dies will be ready for your inspection Saturday; 6 to 14 years and 16 "years to 44 bust $1.30, up School Dresses Stylish, serviceable Dresses of fast color ginghams in plaids, stripes and plain colors; sizes 6 to 14 years $1.98 to $J.8 "Conservation Dresses" -at Pelletier's, only The "Conservation" Dress for girls and misses is made in the. popular Peter Thompson style t best quality white galatea with blue collars, euffs and pockets and in plain white and plain blue; very desirable and very -practical for school weai" and very exceptional values $3.25 and $4.95 The Apperel fterttM Ird Floor Pelletier's .T.r -V The women's "Conservation" Dresses come in white with the blue trimmings: very desirable for utility "year around" wear $.S A sample line of white petticoatsVi price $3.50 Write Petticoats $1.75 5.00 White Petticoats. 2-50 B.93 White Petflcoata. 2.9S 0.50 White Petticoats 3.25 It's a big sample line; most every kind of a, White Petticoat is included from plain, service, able, strictly tailored ones up to the daintiest and most elaborate affairs of finest long cloth with the fluffiest of flounces of the daintiest of materials and laces. One of a kind, in most cases, f nd, naturally, the prettiest ones will go first Ahe store opens at 8:30 in the morning. Taderweer 2nd Floor Pelletier's Some new Neckties for Saturday They're the big, full, flowing end style of very superior quality silk in entirely new patterns, col orings and effects most excep tional, they are, J 00 Shirt Sale The $2.00 "Emery" and land" Shirts are still on sale at. Silk Collars Collars of fancy colored silk; all colors and combinations and all sizes; cool, comfortable and C ft very stylish DUC Mela Floor Pelletier's "Mary- 1.49 Silk skirts worth OiO up to $8.50 pm&& Yes, there are Skirts in this lot that would sell under ordinary circumstances for $8.50. But these are not ordinary circum stances in fact, they are very extra-ordinary it's a small lot and we are very anxious to close out the last of them. Quite a variet;: of styles of plain color silk poplins and pure silk pongee in Khaki Kool patterns Silk Skirts worth up to $8.50 priced QO to close, Saturday .Baa 1.69 Wash Skirts Smart, stylish Wash Skirts of white drills and reps with gathered waists ana patch pockets regular $2.00 ones Saturday for Middies A special lot of women's and girls Middies; white ones with col-; ored trimmings; ali sizes up to 42; some are a little soiled Middles worth up to 91.75, as long as they last, Saturday. 99 c Fall Corsets The new Corsets for Fall tare here; pink ones, elastic girdles, and other styles, etc.; all sizes in each style Saturday our "Special $1.35" Corsets will be 0 e e on sale JL.asV mm Pelletier's BarsaJa Basement 1 Silk Waists Wash Silk Waists; white and flesh color; Some are plain, and some have lace trimmings up to $2.15 Silk Waists Saturday Girls' Dresses flood, serviceable dresses for girls of 6 to 10 years: of excellent quality, large and small plaid ging hamsup to $2.50 ones 2Ce) Saturday for Mm Muslinwear Women's Teddy Bears, Petti coats, Night Gowns and Silk Cami soles; all sizes up to $1.50 gar ments Saturday J -.WS for. 1.95 Men's Underwear Men's Athletic Union Suits; ef nainsook and crepe Madras; sizes) to 42 regular $1.00 C?Q e values Saturday for 0v Men's "Porosknlt" Underwear; short sleeve Shirts and ankle length, Drawers specially priced for Sat. urday's selling, per gar- 12 ment. tOw Boys' Wash Suite A small lot of Wash Suits fop boys of 2 to years; neat, service able ones of dark color materials up to $2.60 values M J far AmmmJ Pelletier's Bargain Baseseens, Her Face Beams with the "Wash day tmite," instead of the Wash Day Grouch, in sheer joy and de Jght at the dazzling, snowy white purity of her white goods. Red Cross Ball Blue wiU chase Srash-day-blnes Succeed where others fail, and bring the smile of triumph to every housewife who renVy earm tor pure, white, fresh clothes, 5 CEVTS. AT All GROCER For Saturday, only We have grouped into one lot $7 and $7.50 White Kid Pumps.. $6 and $6.50 Black Kid Pumps.. $8 and $8.50 .Cray Kid Pumps... $7.50 and $8 White Kid Oxfords. this price for Saturday, only $3 Children's and M i s s e s Sandals; $1.50, $1.75 and $2.19 white and tan ones priced to vp close, Saturday. "OC Bathing Shoes; original prices range up to $2.19 out go the last of them Saturday The She. Section (ad Floor Pelletier's Fan Spats aro here.' Fall Shoes are here.

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THE TOPEKA .DAILY STATE JOURNAL- FRIDAY EVENING, A tYPUST 1P1S JZcrpekn jtati JJcitmal An Independent Newspaper B FRANK P. MAC LKNNAN VOLUME XL. No. 202 Entered SB second-class matter. OFFICIAL STATE! PAPER. OFFICIAL PAPF.U C11I OF TOPEKA. Subscription Kate. By mail In advance, one year $4.30 By mail tu advance, six months... 2.40 liy mail In advauce. three inoutha. i.-t By uiail in advuuee. cue ruontu.... -50 Kates by Carrier. One week a 12V4 centa Two weeks (or a quarter. ...25 centa Four weeka 60 centa Telephone 3530. Eastern Offices: Paul Block, representa tive. 200 Fifth avenue. New York; Mailers building. Chicago Little Uldg.. lioston Kresge building, Detroit; Lewis tsldg iulfalo. Member: Associated Press, American Newspaper Publishers' Association. Audit Lureau of Circulation. UtUEU OF THE "ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press I exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all Bew-a dispatches credited to it or not other wise credited in this paper and also the local uewa published herein. INFORMATION FOR ALL READERS OF TUB TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL Each reader of the State Journal la of fered the jnlioitred use of the largest In formation bureau in the world. This Service Bureau la located In the na tional capital, where H ia In Immediate touch with all the great resourcea of the United States govertiment. It can answer practically any question you waut to ask, but It cannot give ad vice, nor make exhaustive research. The wsr hus forced ao many coangea tn the dally life of the American people that the services of this Information bureau will be Invaluable to all who use it. Keep, in touch w4th your government during these trying times. It can help you in a thousand ways if your wants are onlv made known. The State Journal pays for this splendid service in order that every one of Its read era mav take free advantage of lu You are welcome to use It as often as you like. Write your request briefly, sign your name and address plainly, enclose a 3-cent suitnn for return postsge, and artdreBS the TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL INFORMA TION MUKEA1T. Frederic J. Haskina, Director. Washing ton. D. C. Apparently there has arisen in To- peka some dissatisfaction with the management of the city's water serv ice. A disposition to hold Commis sioner Newland responsible for fail ure of the water pressure is being manifested. This does not seem to be altogether fair. Mr. Newland never had any education or training which would render him competent to han-' die the business of supplying water to a city of 60,000 inhabitants. The peo ple knew this when they elected him. They first trjed a barber for the place. Apparently dissatisfied with his management of the business they turned him out of office and put a groceryman in his place. Now it is being1 urged that Mr. Kewland must go. Shall we next try a carpenter or a bricklayer, for instance, with the hope that he will do better? Experiments come high but it seems we must have them. The employing of persons of recognized capability for carrying on the city's business of course is not to be thought of. Such men cost money. .Fremier Clemenceau is reported to have told Senator Lewis that the war will end within a year. When re garded in the light of Marshal Foch's recent success, the forecast does not seem to be out of the way. It is dif ficult to see how the Huns will be able to stop the allies. Unless they can do his, they will be unable to reor ganize their forces, a proceeding of which they stand greatly in need. The longer such action is postponed the more difficult Cecomes its accom plishment. The general advance in prices at last has overtaken Mexican dollars. These were, quoted at 78 cents this week. They had stood uniformly at 77 cents for months. Opposition to the "work or fight" clause of the new manpower bill, al ready developed, makes it apparent that politics has not been wholly ad journed. 'This opposition, of course, proceeds from the ranks of organized labor, which fears that the enact ment of such legislation max, lead to the prevention of strikes. Since Mr. Wilson became president the organ ized working men have been able to obtain almost anything" they have asked for. They may be able to de feat the "work or fight" program. It will be interesting to observe the at titude of congressmen and senators on the matter. The Hun contention that America cannot produce standard soldiers calls to mind the old story of the lawyer who told his client thru the prison grating that he could not be put In jail on the charge leading to his arrest. The Russian bear now is confident ly, expected again not only to walk like a man but also to fight like a man. Readers of war news will be glad to note that General Byng again has ap peared on the fighting line at the head of an army. It was Byng who led the drive into the enemy's lines in front of Camb.rai last year and narrowly failed of capturing the place. The fruits of the victory later "were lost, but not thru any fault of Byng's, so far as has appeared. It was Byng who first used the tanks in large numbers and at. ineffective manner. The selection of Marshal Foch for the supreme command of the allied armies already has been 'fully justi fied. He has amply proven himself to be the man for the place. There were many reasons' why Foch should be made generalissimo of the allied forces. In the first place, France is the battle ground and the French na- tion -has most at stake in the war. Again, Foch knew better than any one else the character of the territory over which the battles must be fought, the obstacles to be met, the oppor tunities for advantages, and the char acteristics of his antagonists. His military training and skill were at least equal ts those of any other gen era! In the allied forces. Results have fully Justified the selection based upon the considerations mentioned, and Premier Clemenceau has the satisfac tion of seeing his choice vindicated. The credit accorded to Foch must be also extended to Clemenceau who. it is understood, insisted upon the generals being placed In supreme-command. WHERE PRICE FIXING FAILS. The efforts of the government In the direction of price fixing, up to this time have failed o allay com plaints regarding the high Tost of liv ing, or to stop the clamor of labor for wage increases to meet them. It ia of no advantage that a laborer's wages shall- be Increased from four to six dollars unless the six dollars wilt buy more of living necessities than the four dollar wage permitted. It is of no advantage to the public to fix the price of a manufactured product be low its cost because scarcity is a nec essary result with its resultant in creased prices or perhaps worse, an entire Impossibility to get the article. The experience of the country in the matter of price fixing has not re Suited In shaking the belief of the conservative experience of the busi ness world that the law of supply and demand is and always will be the proper regulator of prices, says The Mining Congress Journal. The fixing of a minimum price on wheat did not stimulate wheat production. The price fixed at the time of Its cfetermi nation was a very liberal price and if production costs had remained sta tionary the intentions of the price fix ers probably would have been realized. Extraordinary war conditions created so much of an advance in costs and in the price of other cereals that the av erage farmer found it unprofitable to raise wheat and more profitable to raise barley, oats and other crops. Had it not been for the patriotic im pulses of the farmers of this country we should not be- in anything like the enviable position we now are with re spect to this year's wheat crop. The fixing of a maximum price on coal did not prevent exorbitant profits on coal, but did stop production from higjt cost mines, and by misleading the public prevented, the buying at the time when its transportation o distant points was possible. This resulted in putting impossible burdens on the transportation system and a disorgan ization from which our transportation system has not yet fully recovered, The advantage or disadvantage of the price fixing system must be tested by its effect upon the volume of pro duction in this particular article. If the production be In excess of the amount required to meet the public. demands, prices will soon adjust themselves to a point of fairness. Upon the other hand, if production be, restricted, the public may easily be willing to pay for the privilege of buy ing at a high price rather than to do without the necessary article. The effect Is to brin-, about a disor ganization which Interferes with the operation of all related Industries. If prices could be fixed upon all articles by some law sufficiently comprehen sive to Investijute all production costs the system night not be so detri mental. The 'Mining Congress Journal re gards price fixing asusually detri mental, always dangerous and utterly Impossible if it is to be made univer sal, as It must be to bring about uni form results. The manufacturer who Is required to sell his article at a cer tain price must be guaranteed that the expense of operation, the aggre gate cost of material, labar and mat. keting must be kept within the selling price fixed by the governmental au thorities. If his expenses are In creased, while his outcome remains stationary, bankruptcy must follow unless his previous profits have been unconscionable. The great element in the cost of all material and supplies is labor. It ould require some courage for a public man to advocate that the price of labor should be fixed by gov ernmental agencies. Unle price fix ing Is mane universal no general good can result. Citizens who otherwise are loyal oc casionally are heard to say,, by way of excuse for the German people, that they are fighting for their homes. This Is a mistake. It is in fact at di rect variance with the truth. The German people are not fighting for their own homes; they are fightin? for other people's homes with the hope of possessing them. The Ger man people know and understand this fully. They have been educated to believe that by reason of their super iority In education. Intelligence .and efficiency, "kultur," as they express it, they are entitled t-o the earth and the fullness thereof. To obtain this they entered the war. Nobody attacked Germany or planned to do so. How can It be said then that the Germans are fighting in defense of their homes? The time Is approaching rapidly when they will in fact be called upon to defend their homes. But from this they can save themselves a. any tim by renouncing their scheme of conquest. There are more Hun rcitizens and soldiers than there are kaisers, and they can end the war at any time that they become willing to do so on a Just and equitable basis) jThey will not Jie asked to 40 anything that Is not right. TOPEKA STATES JOURNAL INFORMATION BUREAU FREDERIC J. HAS KIN. Director. Washington. D. C GABRIEL D'ANNUNZIO. Washington, D. C. Aug. 20. Among the personal transformations which he war has Vorked. Capt- Gabriel d'Annunzio of the Italian flying corps, who recently crossed the Alps with a squad of planes to drop a warning in the streets of Vienna, is certainly one of the most remarkable. Before the war. d'Annunzio was famed as a poet and aesthete, a ladies' man, .and an autocrat with a fine scorn for what hetermed"""demo cratic mud." When tlje war broke out he enlisted in the flying corps, won rapid -promotion, and has been many limes mentioned in dispatches He is further reputed to have renounced his autocratic philosophy, and to have en dorsed tn his speeches the principles advocated by President Wilson. To thus leave a life of aesthetic ease for the hardships and dangers of bat tle, and to renounce a life-long con tempt for the principles of democracy by going forth to fight for' them, would be sufficiently remarkable in a young man. But Gabriel d'Annunzio is 54 years old. According to members or Tne Italian war mission here in Washington, the message which d'Annunzio dropped in Vienna the other day was as follows: "To the people of Vienna: We could drop tons of bombs, but we Italians do not make war on women, children and old men only'on your blind, ob stinate, cruel government, which can not give you either peace or bread, but feeds you on hatred and illusions." Gabriel d'Annunzio has none of the conventional characteristics 6f the Greenwich village type of poet. To begin with, if compelled to live in America, d'Annunzio would not live in Greenwich Village at all. but on Riv erside drive. He likes all the luxuries of life. His clothes are immaculate, bis fingernails elaborately manicured, and his hair well, what there is of ,it is short, but he is mostly bald. He is described as a little thin man, with fair- hair and short Van Dyke beard, with large gray eyes and rather thick, senuous lips. He is famous tn Italy for his love affairs and his dramas. He long professed the belief that the morals made for ordinary rfien should be disregarded whenever they interfered with art. Thus in his great tragedy "The Triumph of Death," produced by Sarah Bernhardt at the Renaissance theater in Paris, we find d'Annunzio announcing thru the lips of Alessandro, that everything must be sacrificed tc genius. Ales sandro is in love-with a young girl. Uianca Maria, and, according to the above stated principles, pushes .his suit in spite of the fact that he has a de voted blind wife. -As a personality study alone, d'Annunzio is among the most inter esting of the. world's literati.' He is so varied In addition to his literary activities, he has raised a family of several boys, to whom he Is devoted. He keeps a kennel of racing 'dogs, which he used .to take to Paris .every so often to compete in dog races. tAnaV he has quite a reputation as a hunter of Italian foxes. His horses are all thorobreds, and before the war he used to ride horseback every morn ing. He is also said to be very fond of swimming a,nd fencing. When the motor car came along d'Annunzio Im mediately bought one and went in for motoring, and with the invention of aeroplanes he immediately beVafhe an aviation enthusiast. It is interesting to note that d'Anaunzie's lirst flight was made with one of the Curtiss brothers in 1910, and now in 1918, Hugo -d'Annunzio, his son. Is tiere in America shewing an American plant now to mane i;aproni aeroplanes. D'Annunzio, pere, entered the Ital ian aviation corps at the beginning of the war as a reconnaisance expert. He does not run his own machine, but choosing the most daring of the pilots, flies over the enemy's lines and spies .upon them. He has uncovered in this way a great deal of important infor mation about the enemy and prevent ed at least one large disaster.- It was his idea to fly over Vienna two years ago, dropping words of wisdom on the Viennese, but -the commander of the Italian aviation corps refused to per- i-1 rut.... l 1 i: 1 mit him. They needed him at- home, he said. Before the war. d'Annunzio was one of the greatest disciples of autocracy. In one of his novels he speaks of the "mud of democracy" which was de stroying the fine tradition of the It alian nobility. Since the war, however. he is a great exponent of the Wllson ian democracy. In the first year of the war he made one of the'ost stir ring war speeches that has been made in Italy a speech wMch is said to have had more effect in deciding Italy to. Join the allies than any other,one thing. HEART AND BEAUTY PROBLEMS BT MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON. Dear Mrs. Thompson: (1) Do jou think It is natural for any girl to want -to be "lo ved (2) Hew can I overcome a lonely feeling. Sometimes I am so lonesome J hardly know what to do with myself. I chum around -with girl friends and my father will not let me go with boys. 'If I do want to go I sneak out. I am going on 18. Please tell me what I can do. AN, ACHING HEART. It Is natural for a girl to want to 'be loved, but to day dream about it is an unhealthy state of mind. If you want to be loved when you are older you must build character now, and In order to do so It wi.ll be neces sary to master your thoughts and not be mastered by them. Do not allow yourself to day dream. When you find yourself drifting, get busy at something that will keep your hands or body occupied as well as your mind. 7 2 You are not too young to do Red Cross work. This will give you something worth while to do when you are lonely and will do much to relieve your feeling of restlessness. Never go ontwhen your father has forbidden it. You are not old enough to go with boys, as your father real izes, and you should respect his I-wishes- in the matter. Dear Mrs. Thompson: 'Caa you give me a good remedy for oily hair? My hair is terriblj oily and straight and I have a good head of hair, but cannot make it look well. I wash it about every three weeks, and two days after I wash It, it -is Just as oily as ever. N. S. l tonic for oily hair Is made with the following ingred'ents: Tincture of alcoholic cantharides, one dram; tincture of capsicum, one half dram; tincture of nux vomica, two drams; coco oil. thstee-quarters of an ounce; alcohol, two and one half ounces. Shake before using. Massage nightly into the scalp with the finger tips. DOROTUY DIX TALES BY DOROTHY .DIX World's Highest Paid Wonaa Writer. Your Children's Inheritance. 2. You will leave a good name or a bad name to your children. Which will it be? Wm you leave yeur children truth and honor? Will you have taught them by precept and example to speak the truth, and to play the game of life fairly and squarely, or will you have taught them to be liars and cheats? If your children have seen you do underhanded, things, if they have heard you tell falsehoods, if they have seen you give false weights and measures, and take ad vantage of the ignorance ofothers: if all your stories of cleverness reveal you as robbing some' one less sophisti cated than yourself, then you have given your children an inheritance "of dishonesty. But if you have taught them to speak the truth and dspise a lie. if you have held up before their young eyes a shining ideal of stainless honor if you have made them feel that it sin't sporting not to give the ether fellow an equal chance, ,nd that to soil one's hands by taking what does not belong to one. is to reaclr the low est depths of degradation, then one has given one's children an inheritance of honesty and honor. f Which are you leaving yours? Are you leaving your children an inheritance of courage and grit? Ar' you. making them successes or failures in life? Are you teaching them to e uhiners and quitters, or to be the sort of heroes that go over the top and fight adverse circumstances to a standstill 3 If you are pitying your children be cause they are poor and have to vovk, you are making of them weaklings. If you .weep over them every time they have anything hard to do, you make them so soft they succumb to the first misfortune. If you talk to them all the time about the difficulties that lie in their way, you kill hope, and with that-energy and initiative You give hem an inheritance of fear r.rd cowardice that foredooms them to failure. But if you hold your children to the hard Jobs that come their way, you strengthen their mental and moral fibre, and make them fit to fight every, difficulty which they meet in life. If you cheer them on with brave and hopeful words when they falter, yon put that in their souls that sends them on to victory. If yon buck them up when they are discouraged and force, them out to try again, you put the iron into them that turns them into successful men and women. Which inheritance are you giving your children, courage or cowardice? The will to do, or the f labbiness 1 of soul that fails'? Are you givlng your children a mind and a hearty or Just a body and pocketbook? Are you teach ing them to have sortie resources wlthi in themselves, or Just to be creatures of the senses Are you teachlne your children to read intelligently; tt find4 pleasure in good literature and good music, to en joy pictures,, to revel In the beauties of nature, and enjoy good plays, or are you teaching them that the Joy of life is made up of food and drink, and cab arets and diamonds? There are plenty of homes in which there are no books, in which nobody ever reads anything but the headlines of the papers and trashy magazines; wnere tne only talk is of monev and what money will buy, and the family ideal of a happy evening is a six reel thriller at the movies, or a lurid melo drama at the theater. Are you teaching your boys that a man must find his happiness in cham pagne and taxis, in gambling and chorus girls and everything that takes mm away from home? Are you teach ing your girls that the chief end of woman is to dress finer than any otherj- woman in ner set. ana to -go from bridBe Party to bridge party, and tea trlnncck tn tfl Hrtv,' ftnit rush frnn, vac dance to tea dance; and rush from res taurant to cabaret. If you are, you are giving them the Inheritance that sends men and women to the divdrce court, that shuts the door of a happy home forever in their lace, and that dooms them to a mis erable existence as soon as they have grown too old to be attractive to the opposite sex, and when excitement palls upon them, and they can find no new thrills In amusements that they have worn to the bone. Are you leaving your children an In heritance of the memory of loving parents and a happy, peaceful home? Or will they carry thru life the recol lection of a grouchy father, and a peevish and neurotic mother, and a home that was a perpetual battle ground? Think- It over. What are you leav ing your children?. Will you leave (hem rich in heart and mind, or spirit ually bankrupt? (Copyrighted. JH1T. by The Wheeler Syadl cata. IbcJ HOUSEHOLD HINTS Apple Dumplings Peel four tart apples and remove cor.es. Wft one cup of wheat flour, one cup rico flour, two teaspoons baking powder and one teaspoon salt Into a mixing bowl. Work into it a heaping teaspoon ot butter and one of lard -or substitute. Mix with 'a knife, using enough null: to make a soft dough. Roll out and cut in four pieces. Place an apple on each square., putting a little sugar, cinnamon and butter In each hole. Fold dough around apple and bake until brown. Serve with the following sauce or cream and sugar: Fruit Soup-- Cook two cups fruit In one quart of water with corn syrnp sweetening to taste. Cherries.-l-asp- berries, pineapple or plum may be used. Add the grated rind of half lemon, small stick of cinnamon, and a dasb of salt. Cook until the fruit is soft. Press thru a sieve and when cold add one-fourth cup of white wine, claret er sherry and serve very cold n sherbet glasses. The soup may slightlyxthickened if one tablespoon of arrowroot or sago, which has ben softened in cold water, is added when fruit is nearly done. INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS. For August 25 Is "Speaking for Christ" Luke 13:8-12; Acta 1:1-18. Flying the Loyalty Flag. Loyalty first! That Is the imperative word of tire" nation. Disloyalty la dishonor, black- and complete. There is no room in this land for divided allegiance. If a person's loyalty be- even suspected. he is forced to ny tne nag of fealty. As the war goes -on, the conviction has grown in the. common mind that any failure in full fidelity is simply In tolerable. Pro-Germanism, pacifism. "internationalism" are no longer per mitted la any degree. Life's great lesson of loyalty is be ing taught afresh to the world. All tne trimmers and trucklers and- dil etantes are forced to take a nosition. squarely and openly. The mental lazi ness and indecision which masquerade as superior Culture have been rudely Jolted into a knowledge of the eternal truth that a hall-mark of every genu ine character Is loyalty. The man who does not experience the passion of faithfulness to. a friend, a conviction or a cause is an outcast The war has taught us to fly our flags. "If yon have a friend worth loving. Love him, yea, and let him know That you love him, ere life's evening Tinges bis brow with sunset glow. Why should -good words ne'er be said? Of a friend jll he is dead? "If you hear a song that thrills you, Bung by any child of Cong, rralae It. Do not let the aiuger Walt deserved praises long. Why should one who thrills yonr heart Lack the Joy you may impart! "If vonr work- fa mad yiam J By a friendly helping hand, I Say so. Speak out brave and truly, I Kre the darkness veil the Innd Should a brother workman dear alter ior s word 01 cheer And" Old Poet's Wise Word. The. sort of mind that squirms un der the necessity of coming to an -pen decision finds these hard times to be alive. The spirit of the world war has taught us that we cannot be neu tral when moral issues are concerned, v -Neutral nations, even as was true, of America before she entered the war, have -profited in worldly wealth by their position, but they have suffered spiritual and moral deterioration. When a great Cause, comes forth with its challenge, all noble souls are bound .to align themselves on one side or the oiner. royalty is tne louenstone or character. f An ancient Hebrew poet summed up the case, as respects religion, 'n the terse exhortation, "Let the redeemed of the Lord sav nV of the Lord say so That is an adequate program for the growth of the kingdom of God, "Say so!"-and by that testimony the number of witnesses will continue to increase in geometric ratio. Never mind about preaching an elaborate system of theology, or promoting an intricate ecclesiastical organization: fimply -!Say soT" if you are a friend tot Christ. Thus His crowd will grow ana grew, until the last man on earth Lhas entered this- fellowship There 's no .other method-of propaganda 'to equal the simple testimony of those who, know what theyare talking about. Hard .Thnes for the Pharisees. Something like bitterness marks the attitude of men In the army against anything savoring of Phari saism. They are as fierce as Jesus himself against paraded self-righteousness. Piety that poses as super ior to others meets with sant cour tesy from soldiers. "Goodiness" sets rough treatment. Hosts of self-conscious Christian boys have been cured of priggishness ir camp. They have had to learn, in a rather severe school. that there is all the difference ia che world between a pose of piety, paln fully aware of its own religiousness, and a simple, modest, genuine faith that is a thing of the heart and of the conduct. They have been taught that Christian testimony which is rot tactful, and respectful to the other man's personality, is really odious. "Saying so," among the friends of Christ in the army, is not a matter of- sanctimonious phraseology. It is rather a sunny, imperturbable ad herence to Christian standards and a display of the Christ-spirit in every day life. The three cardinal sins. Iff the eyes or the soldiers, have been listed as (1) cowardice, (2) selfish-H ness, (s) self-conceit. These things are the antithesis of the genius of Jesus: and a Christian may "Say so" by his bravery, his helpfulness, his modesty and his comradeship. This is 'the special light that' the war throws on the-esson. It Is -hot new, for Jesus Indicated It In His tremendous philippics against Phar isaism, Which is but self-righteousness. Anybody who is coins- to ad vertise the Christian relirion-'nnwa- days has got to put the soft. pedal uu iiijuaeii. iiiKcwi?e, .ne must De con siderate of the rights and beliefs of tne otner man. Censoriousness is not saintliness. on thn PAnlnirv l.n,. advertised by His loving friends--lor-ing towards others, as well as towards SHim. Tripped by the Tongue. Sages of all times have dwelt upon the power of the tongue. for evil and for good. A few days ago I was con fronted at Atlantic ity with an opinion which I had expressed In San Francisco a dozen years ago. Those few idle words had been treasured by a friend as my creed upon a vital public matter; though they are at variance with my life-long j convic tion.' Either he "had misconstrued my Words, or I had' been careless and susceptible of misunderstanding in my utterance. Jfo special harm had been done; but it was startling to realize in this concrete fashion, the power of a chance flung sentence. The boneless tongne, so small and weak. Can crash and kill,' declares the Greek. "The tnniroe destroys a greater horfle.' The Turk assents, "than does the sword,' "The Persian proverb wisely salth. 'A lengthy tongue au early death.' "Or sometimes takes thla form instead-. 'Don't let yonr tongue cut off your head.' The tongne can speak a word whose speed." Say the Chinese 'outstrips the steed.' "While Arab sapr-s this Impart. The tongue's great storehouse Is the heart.' "From Hebrew wit tn maximum spring. 'Tho feex.sb.oald alio. let the tongue. "The sacred writer crowns the whole "Who keeps his, tongne doth keep bis aoul.'" Staggering as the statement may seem. Jesus undertook to. build HU church on the words of His friends. "Thou art the Christ,"- spoken by Pe tr. is the key-truth to the kingdom. liis last commissi onr- to His disciples was "Ye shall be my witnesses." The tongue of testimony is the principal reliance or the cause of God. Wise words win souls. In the shop-talk of business. Christians are to "sell" the Savior to their associates. i Putting Passion Into It Anybody who has looked at things religious in the large knows full well that it is not the rich or the wise or the fashionable or the powerful or the sophisticated churches that win re cruits. Ecclesiastical correctness does not spell success. Prestige does 'not 1 gain converts. .A ghastly reality, from tne discussion of which we shrink, ts the fact that there are many .elegant. wealthy, famous church edifices which are echoing emptiness week after week. The footsteps of the people are never heard on their portals. "They have everything a church could ask except the glow ow faith and the en thusiasm of numbers. Passion is a pre-requisite to testi mony. Christian hearts- must be aglow with' love for the Saviour be fore they can Impart that love to others. A salesman cannot aisnnse. of even hardware ft he does not be- lieve In it: how much less can one dispense spiritual verities which he himself does not experience? "Thy heart must overflow, If thon another's heart, wonldst reach." All the exhortations to witness bearing that can be penned are vain unless there be the reality of an ar dent love for Christ. Soldiers glow with the praises of their comrades and of their officers) because that sentiment Is so real to them that they cannot hide it. The lover betrays his devotion to his beloved Inevitably, be cause It is the overflowing passion of 'his life.- Christians commend Jesus successfully when He Is the very ful filment of their being. They "say so" because silence would be re creancy to the best they are and know. "I have a friend so precious, So very dear to me. He loves me with such tender love. He loves so faithfully: I could not live apart from Him, I love to feel Him nlch. And ao we dwell together. juy Lord ana I. "He knows bow mach I love Him, He knows I love Him well But with wbst love He loveth me My tongue can never tell It is an everlasting love In ever rich supply. And so we love each omeT, My Lord and I. "I tell Him all my sorrows, I tell Him all my Joys. I tell Him all that pleases me, I tell Him what annoys: He tells me what I ought to do, He tells me what to try, And so we talk together, My Lord and L "He knowa how I am longing Borne weary soul to win, -And so He bids me go and speak The loving word for Him He bids me tell His wondrous lore, And why He came to die. And so we work together. My Lord and I. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT BT R03T K. MOTJX.TON Egbert's Perseverance. When Kgbert was but a young lad he. decided to try his fortune in the great eity. Before he left TankvHle, his father called Egbert to him and said: 'Egbert, always remember that perse verance wins. Be faithful to the task and thine shall be a great reward." ."Thank you. father." said Egbert, and left for the great city and the great advenure. Egbert was a good boy whoi didn't smoke, swear or knit. Egbert secured a position almost at once with Peabody Co., and in only five years had worked up to assistant bookkeeper. His salary was eighteen bones per week. Just as regular as Sat urday rolled around. Egbert was always first In the. of fice in the morning and the last to leave at night. He always helped Mr. Peabody with his overcoat and even ings he would go up and mow Mr. Peabooy's lawn. Other men, not so persevering as Egbert, came" and went, higher. Eg bert held this position twenty-two years and always tbok care of Mrs. Peabody's coat and rubbers. 1 One red-letter day Mr. Peabody called Egbert Into the office and said: "Egbert, you have been with us twenty seven years and you have been faith ful. From now you will be head book keeper'and your salary will be twenty dollars every week." "Oh, thank you, sir: exciaimen Hu bert. "Tou are too good to me!" Moral: Perseverance wins. The Duke Adolph Friedrich of Mecklenburg has accepted ttie crown of Finland. If there Is anybody who holds a grudge against Adolph Friedrich, let him now gloat. The duke is about to get all that is coming to him. DINNER STORIES Gee! Where have you been burled all this time?" exclaimed Claudine of the rapid-fire restaurant. "No GermanJ fried potatoes go here any more American fry now." t "Cut out the piffle!", snarled the guest' with the flat-topped head. "I want what'I order. See?" "All right!" responded the young lady. Then to the chef she called: "Hy, Baldy! One order fried pota toes with ground glass In 'em!" "Say. mister, what do they give you at the probate court when you go over there to get married;" It was a woman who asked -the ques tion' and the man at police headquar ters at the other end of the telephone line hesitated a moment. "Why. why a marriage license, I- suppose," he replied. There was another pause, this time at the woman's end of the line. Then she added: "Well, that may be. but I guess they got twisted this time. V- r think thev must have given my husband a liquor license when we got married j four months ago, because he hasn t been sober one day since." GLOBE SIGHTS From the Atchison Globe. J A man who can cure the blues ii just as valuable as any doctor. The Valser speaks English fluently -.in .wn understand the Ameri- cans.. Some people go tnru uie wonaenng whether circus empioyes get enougn sleep. The. trouble with the primary" elec tion Is that It is soon followed by an other election. When a person boasts that he (or she) "speaks right out"' we'll' say there's an Impolite person, n. I EVENING STORY I One June Night. t BY LOUISE OLIVER. It, was a high Iron fel.ee covered with' honeysuckle the one between the Harringtons' and the Neales and with every year's growth of the vine and as every twig Interlaced to thicken the density of the green wall, the bar rier of hate betweta the two families had likewise grown In vast propor tions. The vine-covered fence itself com memorated the beginning of the feud, for, as is usually the case. It had start ed with a disagreement about (the boundary line, the disputed territory being a matter of two feet between the two properties. The court haa split the difference, giving each land owner a foot. It was then the fence n -everlasting 1 v. 1 To arbitrate a quarrel Is not to set- tie It- xseitner siae. .wiiiitiiis, mwo a no one to forgive, bo tne narnng tons and the Neales nursed their hate into the second generation, and still it grew. Violet Harrington, tM last and only one at home now, had always hated Dr. Wilbur N'ble bitterly. She hated him chiefly because he had al ways seemed politely and supremely indifferent to her. He was almost the only man In town who had not sooner or later lost his heart to her. Violet had always been the envy of every girl in Coburg,' because she was the pret tiest and most popular. Naturally accustomed to homage, she resented the fact that Wilbur Neale paid so much attention to his books, to Ue exclusioa almost of everything else. Now she was 28 and he was 30. and neither of them was married. Knowing that she could have anybody, she had taken nobody. Now she was alone tn the great house. It was June and a wonderful moon light night. Violet sat out under the maple tree in the yard, near the fence, in a soft white dress, stroking Dick. her Persian cat, and whispering little secrets in his ear. "It's a lovely night, Dickie. Do you smell the roses? Listen! That soft little murmur is the voices of the love fairies. Do you hear? They slide down on' the moonbeams to the roses on June frights, and plan whom they shall enslave next. Then they mix a sort of magic out of dew and fra grance, and fty with it to the chosen ones and anoint them: After that it's ail over, Dlek. That love potion never falls. "I suppose' you're wondering. Dick. why they neverhose me. I've often wondered, too. I wonder why they never did. There are so many splen did, wonderful men, I wonder why I never loved anyw them. I'm getting awiuuy 01a. jjick. some day 1 11 be walking with a stick. Oh. Dick, I wish I could lore somebody. I don't want to be old and lonely and ugly." 1 Her head went down on the soft coat and a tear dropped. Suddenly there was ta. chirping and fluttering In the vines, and Dick Im mediately Jumped down" to investigate. A fledgling, had dropped out of its nest and got'tangled in the leaves. Violet Jumped out of the swing and nurnea alter mm. But by the time she reached the vine-covered fens the cat had -Worked his sinewy -way into its very heart: Stooping, she reached into the black shadows for her pet. But he was gone. When she tried to straighten she found she could not. Her hair a wonderful copper, the chief charm of her beauty, was caught cruelly by the thick, twisted branches: She took out the pins and tried to work it free, but it was useless. She found she could sit comfortably enough,, hut that was no help to matters. She couldn't stay there all night; too far back from the street to be heard, and no one near but the hated -house of her neighbor. Suddenly she heard a voice. It was masculine and quite near. She peered thru the fenceT and in the jnoonlight saw a swing much -like own, and in It a man smoking a cigarette. Between puffs he was talking to a white bull dog on the opposite seat. The man was Wilbur Neale, and he was In uni form. She started. She had not heard he had Joined the army. "Rags. It's a bully night. Isn't said Doctor Neale. "I wonder if they have nights like this In France? But of course they have, only I sup pose J'11 De to bu8v to notice thenv 'Xm funny. Isn't It, Rags, how we waste time and waste it and suddenly realize what things mean to ua when they're about gone? For Instance, there la a girl I like very much very much indeed. And "she hates me, and she thinks l hate her; and because I didn't know how to overcome her dislike I just let It go. And now it's too late to do anything about it- Too bad, isn't it? And (toothing happens to me in this war, and I come back. I'll grow into a cranky old man without friends. Isn't It silly? I've watched her grow up, ana sne s a line, useful woman, as well as beautiful. And I've lost her necause I haven't any courage. But I've courage tonight, I believe. Racs. I wonder what she'd say If I went over there. It's only next door. Rags." ButNRags had heard something. A white shadow had flashed out of the hedge, then in again. It was too much for canine endurance. "Come here. Rags! Don't you hurt mat cat. it's nere. Hags., come here! But Rags was barking at something more substantial than a shadow. ad. refusing to move, his master followed. So Dr. Neale found Violet Harring ton a prisoner, and had to go around to her side to release her. Two hours latef, when he bad taken a reluctant leave. ..Violet buried her head happily In Dick's soft coat. "It must have been the Tove fairies. Dick." she whispered. "I'm going to marry him." (Copyright, IMS. by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) Convicts at Great Meadow prison, ttlens Falls, Y have "sworn off" the nae of tobacco for a month, and are contributing their "smokes" to a fund for American soldiers and sailors. Kew Tork ataek Market. (Furnished by T. J. Myers. 301 N. E. Uldg New York, Aug. 23. t.'lose 1 Today i'es. Anaconda A. T. S. F., c Baltimore Qhio.. Central Leather Chesapeake Ohio C. M. ic St. P.. c Mi s m Kit k4 5 4IH4 ."5'. 4Si KJH n 3V4 ...27 It 4.V4 OO'.i B5 to 67H 47- SSI 46 Mit 27 3.1" i 43T W4 4:iv, K7 l-'lTfc i 4R I Clilno "opie.r Colorado tnel rron reat Northern. p. i inspiration i Kenn. Copper t iami MiKsonrl Pacific Penn. Hallroad lteadlnjr MauebaKer Southern Pacific M l ulna al'riflc l'-"1 I'. 8. Bteel, c- 11- I'tah Copper M' White Motors -4."l Wabash HOUSE ASKS RAISE Mayor Submits Budget to Commis sioner Waason Today.' Includes $4,600 Increase for PoUca Department Salaries. s Mayor House today submitted hla budget to W.sH. Wasson, commission ers of finance." The mayor's budget contains only on change from tho budget allowed last year. Ia the police department the mayor asks for S4,00 more to be expended In salaries. The police pay roll request Is for 848.20. The total amount asked for police de partment last year was 851,958, which has been increased? to sss.aas tnia year..- Last year the mayor was al lowed 876,17 for the -fire deparUinrj general fund. 824,648 for tho estM platoon. These figures were nil changed in-the budget for this year. C2ECHS CALL F0RHELP. Must Have Strong Belnforoement Within the Jeit Thirty Days. Japanese Forocs Advance Jap Gen eral Takes Charge) of Allied Force. Voklo, Aug. 28. The- Czecho-' Slovaks have asked the allies for bis reinforcements in the region of Lake. Baikal, according to the Vladivostok correspondent of the Nippon Dempo news agency. The Czechs, .says the dispatch; ar eriously endangered there and declare Lney must o rt 1 b 1 v ri y anm shevlki within a month, before winter sets In. Japanese 1 Troops Advance. Tokio, Aug. 0 Japanese lroops'a advancing beyond Nilyilsk,1 the war office announced today. The Japanese official statement also said that Lieu tenant General Otanl, commander of the allied forces in eastern Siberia, will command also the Czecho-Slovak troops operating there and the antl Bolshevtkl forces in the maritime provinces of Siberia.. FURNISH 10,2)0 MEN Kansas Quota for War Work Must Be) Met In Six Weeks. Lebor Calls From Essential Bnstneaa Three-Fourths Canvass.' Kansas must furnish a- quota of 1-0,210 men for war work within the" next six weeks, according to a state ment today by J. Will KeUey, state di rector of tho United States employ ment bureau. One thousand of these men will be sent, to Nashville. Tenn for work in the "powder plants, Kelley said, and tney will be shipped from the state within the next two weeks. Four hundred men are required for work in the Pennsylvania shipyards, and 150 men are still to be shipped to Lee Hall, Vs., for work on the new artillery cantonment. Kelley said today thai about 75 per cent of the calls for war labor are al ready In and that it Is thought that the full Kansas quota will not exceed 1, 000 men- Ts t-r LOANS TO ALLIES 6 BILLION Sum Represents Checks Actually Drawn on the V. 8V Treasury. 1 4 Total Credits Extended Amount tc? Nearly Steven Billion Doilnvs.. Washington, Aug. 23. Payments to the allies .since the United States en tered the war today passed another billion dollars' mark and stood at $6,089,064,750. This represents the aggregate of checks actually drawn on tha treas ury and paid, as distinguished from cVedlts established or agreements y the United States government to make loan whlrh nnw amniml tn S4 flf 040,000. Itnssla Still Has a Credit. All credit accounts are open and ara being drawn on periodically by the governments to which they are ex tended, excepting that to Russia, which has an unexpended balance of 1117.000,000. Technically this ia still available, but the Bolshevlkl govern ment has never presented any de- Lmands for ptuyment. ureorcs now estaonsnea xor tne al lies are as follows: Great Britain. $3,845,000,000; France, $2.0S,000,t0; Italy, $760,000,000; 'Russia, $S2S,0. 000; Belgium. $1S4,250,000; Greece, $15,780,000; Cuba, $1,000,000: Ser bia, $12,000,000. MITCHELL Tn NEW HOSOlt He Is Chairman of General Ofnco Sup ply "Section International Horary. Announcement was made today that Charles L. Mitchell haa been named as chairman of the general office sup plies division of the vocational section of International Rotary cluha. Mitch ell's naner on the at a f ton w hiidnM, read at the International convention of Rotary in Kansas City this spring, has been printed by the international aesociatlen and distributed among the various clubs as a text hook on this phase of vocational work. Appoints Ordnance Assistants. Washington, Aug. 23. Major Gen eral Williams, chief of ordnance, to day announced appointment of five special assistant to act for him In supervision of various activities of tht ordnance department. They are CoL Guy E. Tripp. Col. W. H. Marshall, Lieut Col. Baacomb Little, Lieut. Col. W. C. Spruanee and Lieut. Col. Ralph Crews. Cardinal Farley Bettcf. Marmsroneck. N. T., Aug. 22. A slight change for the batter in tho condition of Cardinal Farley was noted today in the first bulletin Issued on the condition of the aged archbishop of New York Sew Terk Stack Market. Wall St.. New Tor. Anr. M. STOCKS ndlcstloss of easier money eoadltlona an KiimuiitinK war wn-mm imp -m ro to day' stock market, lsyeatment ralle re cording extreme of 1 to 6 points, gales approximated 350.OTI0 shar-s. Trsdlnr dwindled tn the final hour but rains were maintained subject to slight re-ce-slons. The elo-lnr was atroag. Liberty bnnda eloping. Final r, rices rut liberty ootids were Vs 102.42. first con vertible 4'a 04 in. second 4 s SS.SM. first convertible 4"s 94 ?V second- convertible 4 O.I.Bt. third 4 s. tiS.10. JQO LATE JO CLASSIFY tnr tabk. Hmir. lounge, wardrobe. th T fHrnitwr: dnolenm. Bnil carpet 11-3x15. 1421 W. 6th. I

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL-rFEir-Y EVENING, AUGUST. 23, 191S X 1 J. V inal Clearance Every Summer Garment In Our Entire Stock It will pay you to buy your next year's needs at the prices that we are going to offer you the balance of our summer stock. We never carry over stock from season to season and with the ever increasing prices you will be smart in buying now your needs fr next year. The Suits Up to S20.00 Wool Suits. .$10.00 Up to 825.00 Wool Suits $12.50 Up to $32.50 Wool Suits. $15.00 Up to 40.00 Wool Suits $17.50 Up to $45.00 Silk Suits 1 $14.95 The Coats Up to $25.00 Silk Goats. 7 $11.85 Up to $25.00 Cloth Coats, $11.85 Up to $27.50 Cloth Coats .$13.90 Up to $32.50 Cloth Coats $15.00 Up to ?40.00 Cloth Coats $17.50 The Skirts Your choice of any Wash Skirt.... $1.00 $7.50 Amazon Crepe Silk Skirts. .1 $3.95 $10.00 Silk Taffeta Skirts $5.00 Your choice of any Summer Hat in our entire stock, value, to ,$15.00; $1.00 Fall Dresses from S14.50 to $5.00 ..aaaa' mmJM PROPS. APPAREL FOR ftOMEi w Kansas Avenue Fall Suits from $25.00 to, $75.00 iV1- "Hmi Food For. Fans BI GEORGE C PH.Ua. 1 W1ENKIWS- v ScNsVtOsicCa DO NOT -WAIT Select Your Piano NOW at Jenkins Great Mid-Summer Sale HXBC'RN, most expensive style Z. maliotrany. wonderful even scale, pure singing tone, durable action. This piano has been rented only a silort, while and we guarantee it like QO D JT new, at-....,.... VaaOtJ EUlBr, style D. -mahogany. This well known make is in good condition, has a rich tone, and has been so slightly used, that It has only improved it. $260 ELElKN. popular style D. ma hogany. The nae this piano re ceived while rented a short time really improved its tone and ac- tion. so that we can guarantee it like new at $245 fXBITKN. style T. case, cannot be told mahogany from new, $245 but because of being used only a short time we are selling It at a reduced price of STEEYWAY. standard of the world.. Style O, ebony, grand, which has been Used only "a short time and the use that this piano, has had has greatly increased its tone and action. The new price of this piano is now $1,000. and this is a wonderful bar- QQ TOSE t SON'S piano, style C, In mahoaany case. This is an old standard make. The tone and action of this piano eennot be told from a new $390 OSE A SONS, style E. mahog any. This piano Is in perfect condition in every way -and we $420 guarantee it the as we wpuld a new one F. 4 S. FISHES piano, dark rosewood case, good condition and would make a splendid practice piano. CJIO for HAKWOOD. beautiful walnut case, has had but little- use. per- 5. .$300 ELBOSX style D, mahogany case, returned from rent, pertect condition, absolutely like new CROWN, this substantial, well built piano is like n-iw for all practical purposes, is a light 'eak case, tone and action could not be duplicated elsewhere for less tnan-$325, our $200 $260 In fourteen cities we have opened our great Mid-Summer Sale. All our stores are contributing to this, our most tremendous effort. Hundreds and hundreds of new and used Pianos are offered at prices that provide savings of from $50 to $200, and practically every make of Piano is represetned. DO YOU KNOW 3lT5r-SES.e. speciml tu m piano AT LEAST 10? Tills will be added to trie price of the piano but will not have to I paid by those who already own an Instrument. Insure additional saving: by buy in" NOW. r matter what ymir price limit or what yonr tastes, wo hare the Pianos tnat will fit both. It is Indeed a mm&shiag oppor tunity a real sale in every sense of the word backed by a house which has a record of 40 years' of square dealing. Flayer Piano Bargains Besides new, wonderful Duo Art and genuine Pianolas, we offer in tfala sale the Aeolian Player Ptano for- $495, and other new players equally fine value for the money. J JENKINS 833 Kansas A vs. Phone l$48 Topeha, Kansas The Toderfne Rho TortoT at 3:W, 7:30. The Very L.i-.t VAUDEVILLE Aao The ISth EpifMide f fch. "HOUSE OF HATET rtw Ma Slab Me. illillHIIllIi iEiiiiininiiiiiiiiHnoiiiininiiiii?niiiinnniiiiiiiniiinrniiiinHi; COMING in th first PlaaadalJaaw (-1 caattsaaaa skafch y Prmnsfla mM -Mr. Janes.. hmh.rt.1 i Mrs. Jones Him wifa Scene: Mr. and Mrs. Jones' palatial futir- fuoin tint. lime; About p. m any old time. XCT I. (Mr. Tones, slows ia sml'lns; and pfanta the usual con jural kiss on Jir. June' brow sail sll is weU.) J.iuej Well, I see the francs M patting; over a drive oa cne Oiaa. Mrs. Jones On. tlta which 1 Junes on the Oise. Mrs. Jones Uh: I know mt yoo, are tryius; to ssy. Xm mess the Ute. Janes (beginning- to he his eiuashniCr That s wkac i said, waaa'k It? Oisst Mrs.. Jones (snsJting; her finrer so-us-injfiy Jasou, yon knew yon never ssJU wijuuBK oi znc Kina. it g Qise tt ones xuat s wnst i nlsce. Mrs. JoneIt isn't. Jones it is! Mrs. Jones It ln"tt Janes It is. I guess I know: want I'm talk; a' abotir, Mrs. Jones I guess I anew wkat I'm taikia' abonr. Jones Hnh I Mrs. Joaes Huh Jone Huh Mrs. Jones Hob f tXo- b confirmed.) The study of Latin la infinitely mors safe than the study of French. When ysu speak the Latin you have learned in books either C. 1. Caesar anr Q. H. riaerna wtli ask you la nlsin English, whattbehel you are miking about It is rumored that haircuts sooa win be W. per portion and shares 3a cents. Loeks aa it the Boisheritt are apreadiac propa ganda, in our muiac Two chess masters played a Kama la a boa in a theater la 'ew lork while a must, cal comedy was going- on. Anybody who plays chess can play in a boiler factory. Chess ls much Ilk gnlf. One eaa play it anywhere. We have beard a pair -or gaifers play eighteen holes ta a one-arm loach foundry. It must make BUI Hohensoller sore to (earn that Woodrow Wilson has had a Ta cstion this summer. Ever sines esrly in July BUI has been busy proving- aubia. And it looks like a long winter- If the crows prince bad been seat lifelong- vacation yeara ago, maybe tha old man would be able to taka a vacation now. ,Th last racation the; kaiser took was ta 1914, when he touched a aaatch to the fuse and weal sailing on his yacht Bill didn't realize at the ama what a biz ex plosion, it would be. W aula The German fleet is coming r" And all the- gold-stripe gurs i Are calmly eruiaing thereabout With hopeful syee, -"Thh German fleet ia comina; out:" And all the gobs in bine I4ft up a loud and cheerful shout l "We hope they do-;" THURSDAY GAMES JfATIOAX. 12AGUB. -Boston (at PUtsburgh........,o 8 nnaourga 3 a gr nuiwipo. ana wagaer;- Saodera ajM- Schmidt. Sew York (at Chicagot X Chicago j S 3 Xoney and Bariden Vaughn, and O'Far reli. Brooklyn (at St Iouis) ;a a at touis 1 2i Second game. Brooklyn g a 0 sc. Louis 2 10 3 Smith and Miller; Meadows aad Brock. Philadelphia, lac Cincinnati) 3 2 Cincinnati 9 1 4 Wlniii"1' "1 Adams i aennciaer and .AMZSICAW LKAGrBV s. s. s. CTeveland (at Washington) ..1 a 3 Washington 7 o Bagby. McQuiiian and O'SieiU; Shaw and Casey. Sr. Louiyat Boston). Boston iJKvenport and fiesei'eid new. a,-hanf. Bens and Schalk; Adama and McAvor Detroit (at New Tork 1 f Cunningham and gpencer; Love, and Hannah. i r t nan Bush and Ag- 8T.'DIXC OF THJS CI. UBS. Xatioaal reagaa. Cinhs won Chicago .....75 New York .B5 Fittsbnrga. Cincinnati; 5S Brooklyn Si Philadelphia 40 St. Louis .4 Boston ...4 Clubs won. Boston w Cleveland Washinirton, Xew York ......W Chicago 35 St. Louis ..5 Permit 53 Philadelphia 7 Lost 4 s an l ct 71 as Lost 52 5t 5 St Sit SI as Pet .H52 J70 .4X5 -4:rr .1 Pcfc .602 JH2 AOS .42 .47S

.io BED CROSS Df ITALY Opens) Vp Eisbt Cbildrcns Asyhuaa Within tba War Zone. Rome, Aus it. Xhe Red Cross ha opened eight children's asylums within thai war zona, according; to an official announcement hers today, five more- are to be opened soon in the TrevLso, it was stated. New Trial Hearing; Monday.' Chicago, Aug-. 2 a. Hearing; of the 109 convicted L W. TV", renders in their plea for a new trial, will be held Mon- aiay. Federal Judge Landis armounced today. Federal officials believed sen tences will be imposed at once, if the new trial motinrt way ortfd. WITH THE, If fiilrft, 1 mniiaeii BENNETT'S SHOW Biggest show on Earth- Tan bmt than ever. HTXTHtrrds of Freafes 1 0(-'O Thrills 10O SmtJes. E?m BFt FTT aad her 1KT Perl ormiBi Uutia. 1 Sec Chas. Mfimiy in his Death Daring Slido for Life to -I.OVE LOOPS THE I.OCfP" Hear BSTLT Slna; Aa He Never &snaa; Before OKPHEOJ CONCERT ORCHESTK-V The Home of Hart Schaffner Marx Clothes Final Drive" of the season on summer gooas Your last and only opportunity to buy the celebrated Hart Schaff ner Marx spring and summer fancy suits at savings of 33 to 100 on the pres ent market value These reduced prices are even Iotr-er than the present wholesale ligures but we are holding: steadfastly to our clearance policy, in spite of the fact that these goods are now worth much more than than when we bought them. The same quality will not be obtainable next season at such favorable prices. The production of fine wool ens for civilian clothes has already been greatly curtailed. But now obtain the finest all wool fabrics and avoid the necessity of paying the top prices of the future, $45 suits now reduced to $37.50 $40 suits now reduced to $32.50 $35 suits now reduced to $27.50 $30 suits now reduced to $25.00 $25 suits now reduced to $21.75 $20 ahd $21.75 suits now $17.50 s S f Filial Reductions on Thin Summer Suits Buy next summer's thin suits now and save money. Choose from these Dixie Weaves, Silks, Mohairs, Kool Jvloths and Wool Crashes." These sale prices are about the-same as the present wholesale cost. f Men's and young men's $25.00 suits. i Men's and young men's $29.00 suits. $21.75 $17.50 Men's and ytmn; men's SI 7-50 suits. Men's and young: men's $15-00 suits.. Final Clean-Up Sale of Boys' Fine Suits S5 and $f50 aa qj Boys' Smta, p5.") Parents realize that 4uit at this original price are un abtainabla. The material in these Suits- axe staunch wear-' ins; eaaaimeres and unfinished fabrics; tn plain and fancy colors. I to 18 yra Too save donble by buying; flJO Qf Suits in this sale at. dO.tJD $80 Boys,- Suits, now dOsaD ilany "Wooly Soy" and "Adamar Suit included ia tnis lot. Newest style eoats knickers fail pes; and lined throuffhout. Splendid aseort- ment of patterns, S to IS yra $5.95 $120 Boys Suits, now... $7.95 Finest tweeds, unfinished worsteds and Scotch mixtures all new this season, mili tary styles. Many Sam peck suita in. tma lot at $7.95 IK It All Children's Wash Suits Y2 Price Everything Goes Nothing Reserved AH styles guaranteed fast color materials, cutest combination modeia, Mothers know qualities of ma- teriala and will realize that goods alone will coot more than tha complete suits we're i selling at only PRICE $15.00 $12.50 Final Shoe Reductions Men's and youns? f A AA men's $120 suits. lU.UU Men's and young men's $10.00 suits., $7.50 Men's Oxfords in all the best makes that wp- carry now reduced, for a quick clearing; to make room for Fall Shoes. Buy a pair for' next season. $14 and $12 Oxfords $9.85 $10 and $9 Oxfords $7.85 $3 and $7 Oxfords v. $5.85 $6 and $5 Oxfords r. $3.85 Table of odd pairs of Ox fords, values up to $8.00 .P.. $2.95 Ladies Shoes Final Reductions Ladies should take advan tage of this Clearance Sale of fine footwear. All good styles at bigr savings. $4, $450 and $5 vaL $2.85 $5.50, $6 and, .$7 vaL $3.85 Two pair. asoold e 1 bay." A table of Choice these odd pairs. $1.00 Buy Your Furnishings Saturday Final Reductions OUR y YEARLY SHIRT SALE Now in full force Manhattan and all the other makes we feature. Reductions of any kind mean more than ever this year. A word to the wise is sufficient. $1.50 Fine Shirts. .$1.15 2.00 Manhattans.. 1.65 Manhattans. 1.85 Manhattans.. 2.15 Manhattans.. 2J&5 Manhattans.. 3.15 Manhattans.. 3.85 Manhattans.. 435 Manhattans.. 635 Manhattans.. 7.65 Buy $1 Neckwear at 50c A big- assortment of light and dark Summer Silk Scarfs, beautifully made,- handsome styks. .Former prices were 75c and $1.00. For a quick clearance you can buy them Saturday...... 1 2.50 7M Hi I 7.50 50c 33 SUPERIOR Union Suit Sale ...v.. S2.SO Cnion Softs. Sale Fries ILlifl tX5 Cnton Salts, Sate Prtca 1.t P. I niow Salts, Sale Price t;.0OJ I S3.5 I nion SBtts. Sale Price S2.33 y S4JM I'Bkm Salts. Sale Price XS7 t-L3 Vnhm Seata, Sale Price 3 lami Salts, Sale Price S3.S4 Men's and Young Men's FaB Snits AiTmngDafly Come in and look them over. Auerbach Guette iCLOThiSG CC 709-711 Kansas Ave. Since 18S8 FALL HATS Are Here We have yotm Waitia gfor yon. 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