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the desertion Of many mon who have
voted the Democratic tickets all their
lives. II was said. His Mexican policy
provided another reason.
One man wrote on his coupon: Il am
still a Democrat. I fought through tho
civil war in the Confederate army. and
I have voted for every Democratic Presi-
dent since. including Bryan, but I cannot
vote for n craven coward like Wilson.
who truckles TO a lot Of walking dele
gates"
Officials Of the alliance were impressed
by the fact that fully one-third OF the
new enrolments came from the Southern
states. Thu enrolment from Texas.
which has suffered keenly from Mexican
raids, was one Of the largest In the
Union. Tennessee, Kentucky. Arkansas,
North Carolina and Virginia also are
largely represented. California Ii frst
In It's number of enrolments.
The alliance expects TO reach a mem
bership of 100. 900 in New York State.
Col. Roosevelt sent yesterday to Chair
man Wilcox of the Republican National
The sun., 1916-09-25
SOCIALISTS RATIFY
THEIR NOMINATIONS
National and State Candidates
Make Car Strike a Cam
paign Issue.

New York Socialists met yesterday in
Madison Square Garden. ratified the
nominations OF their national and State
candidates, and made 1t clear the car
strike Is to DO the issue Of their cam
paign.
Frank A. Slovenian. candidate for
President Of tho Board of Aldermen.
mentioned the strike in his irst words.
I'VE will discourage scabbery In every
way we can" he said. land We will not
patronize the means Of transportation
so long as the strike lasts"
Joseph d. Cannon. candidate for
United States Senator. urged public
ownership as a preventive OF such o n
hicts. Morris Hillquit. candidate for
Representative In Congress from the
Twentieth district. said the strike has
served to make the workers OF New York
"class conscious"
"If there Is to be q general strike.
which we hope will not be necessary, we
think 1t should be complete and effective.
But II would be less effort for tho 7O0..
900 or 500. 900 workers to take over the
city government by their votes. elect
their own Mayor. their own Aldermen.
and take over the street railways as
public property. eliminating the Shontses
and Hedleys. THAI holds good for the
entire country as well as for New York."
he argued.
When w. r. Fitzgerald. Matthew Hig-
gins. l.. J. O'Brien and other car strike
leaders entered tho hail they were
chcered.
Allan L. Benson. candidate for Presi-
dent. made an address. which included
an attack on the Hay-Chamberlain arm
reorganization bill. into which a draft
provision has been struggled. no as
serted. Benson was greeted with a
demonstration which lasted more than
nfteen minutes. Wall Street. he asserted.
does not care particularly whether Will
son or Hughes wins. both being Its men.
Representative Meyer London. George
r. Kirkpatrick. candidate for Vice.
President. and Algernon Lee. candidate
for Governor. also spoke.
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J. H. BELL ABANDoNs WILSON.
Ex.Mayor Of Yonkers Chosen ON
ciaI OF Hughes Alliance,

YoNKEns. n. Y. Sept. c4.-It was
learned to-day that J.. Harvey Bell,
Democrat. formerly Mayor Of Yonkers
and formerly President Of the Yonkcrs
Police Board. has been chosen a vice.
president Of the Hughes Alliance OF
Westcliester county. Mr.. Bell supported
President Wilson four years ago
The former Mayor and his brother,
J. Christie Bell, are the principal mem
hers OF the firm of Bell Brothers OF New
York. II is said to hold securities valued
at 800. 900, 900.
The Administrations advocacy Of n
high tax on Incomes Is said to have beer
the determining factor In Mr.. Beil's de-
cision to leave the party to which he has
given a lifelong allegiance.
The sun., 1916-09-25
CITY HAS LEBAUDY's $l52, 1853.
"Ehperor Of the sahara" Suing In
France, Fears IN Accent T.,

ALBANT. Sept. "a. - Eugene Lamb
hichards. Superintendent OF Banks, has
nrought an end to the litigation between
the dcfunct Carnegie Trust Componv ~
New York city and jacques Lcbaudy,
sometimes known IA "thc Emperor OF
Snhara.' by depositing with the Cham
periain OF New York city sl52,15G.54,
Ihe courts have held that Lebaudy IL
emitted TO the money, but he has re-
FUSED 10 accept 1t for fear II might have
q pr")udicial effect upon an action he
mas instituted in France to recover hi.
"s'ates' Mr.. Richards. desiring TO be rid
VI Iesponsibliity turned the money over
10 the CITY Chamberlain.
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PRESIDENT IN MOVIE
TO AID HIS CAMPAIGN
Entire Democratic Admins
tration in Action for Bene-
fit Of New York Film Fans.
ORATORS TO HELP OUT
New Text Book Attacking
Whitman Regime Work of
Clever Jokesmith.

Inc Wilson managers plan a motion
picture campaign for the capture Of New
YORK city votes. Vance c. Mccormick,
announcing II yesterday. expressed the
opinion It would prove effective, reaching
thousands Of voters who could not be
persuaded In any other way to take an
Interest In tho election.
The motion pictures will shov the VIII.
son Administration actually at work IN
Washington. said Mr.. Mccormick. The
public will have an opportunity to see
Josephus Daniels and the rest Of them
doing the things that have made them
famous. all specially posed for the Will
son film campaign. 1t will be something
new.
Empty stores wherever available will
he taken over for these exhibits orators
or national reputation will be seen In
speaking parts along with the pictures.
There will be ample supplies Of "iitera-
ture."
Mr.. Mccormick spoke Of the plan as
ono for n 'cyclonic campaign" adding
that his committee intended to work In
n spirit Of earnest cooperation with the
local organization" meaning Tammany,
for the election Of Wilson. Scabury and
McCombs.
McCormick on Indiana.
SO occupied was Chairman Mccormick
with these plans to take New York by
storm for Wilson that he was unable to
pay his usual week end visit to his home
In Pennsylvania and passed Sunday In
national headquarters. To q question as
10 Ia he thought OF the crowds and
enthusiasm that greeted Mr.. Hughes in
Indiana. the Democratic National Chair
man said crowds and enthusiasm were
uncertain political barometers. He did
not doubt the Republicans had been at
some pains to 'whoop II up" for Hughes
and Fairbanks In Indiana. which IL the
Vice-Presidential candidates home state.
Evidences are multiplying that the
Justice and strength OF Woodrow Will
sons cause before the people Of the
United States will be approved by an
overwhelming vote in November" Mr..
Mccormick said.
John G. Agar has accepted the chair
manship OF the Seabury campaign com
mittce for the election OF "A Democratic
Governor Ia ihi, State. The vice-ohsir-
men include Herman A. Metz. Amos
Pinchot N Fire COMMISSIONS Robert
Adamson. William A. Barber will be
chairman Of . finance committee.
Activity for MeConbs.
Tho William r. McCombs committee
In a statement describing his popularity
with young Democrats referred yester-
day to the Democratic candidate for
The sun., 1916-09-25
CONFESSED KIDNAPPER HELD.
Shattered Romance Of Mrs. Podol-
sky Leads to Prison Cell.

Mrs. Belle Podolsky, 22 years old,
who told the police she kidnapped two
year-old Sylvia Licursi from her grand
mother In Chicago at her own fathers
request only to be deserted by the
father. who had promised to marry her
in New York. was held without bail
yesterday by Magistrate Frothingham
In Yorkville court.
The child's father is Frank LicursI. n
barber, When Mrs. Podolsky arrived In
New York with the child and without
FUNDS and I-icursi did not appear she
went to the police. who locked her up.
The sun., 1916-09-25
WILSON Is LOSING
THE "SOLID SOUTH"
Publications Straw Vote
Trend Announced by
Hughes Alliance.

A straw vote taken by means Of
coupons published In monthly magazines
and weeklies shows Enthusiastically that the
solid South Is breaking away from
Wilson In pronounced fashion. accord
ing to an announcement made yesterday
by the hughes Alliance.
The Presidents surrender TO the rail-
road brotherhoods undoubtedly caused
The sun., 1916-09-25
BOY KILLED BY THIRD RAT
E1lectrOcutcd While LooLinv o..
Lost Coins on bridge.

1sidore Mailman. 10 year Old .c,.
South First street. Brooklyn. w..
trocuted yesterday while scar,st,,
coins at the Brooklyn end Of tb, ~ /,
iamsbury Bridge. with anotr,-
Sidney Miller. 100 South F.,g, .,,.
Brooklyn, Mailman had found uo,.,
Saturday. and they returned yo.,.r,o.
&c renew their quest. '
The Mailman boy climbed urd,r
channel rail. and 1t was here pntr,l,o
Edward Blanken, doing duty on a ,r,, =,
car. saw the body. the head ~rc.,.nr ~
the third rail. Blankcn loopcd The ON
Of his nightstick around the boys t,,,
and pulled the body off tho rail ~
The sun., 1916-09-25
Bermuda RavaEcd by storm.

HAMILTON. Bermuda, Sept. c4.-Ber-
muda was swept by a severe storm yes
terday afternoon. very general damage
being caused throughout the colony.
Many buildings were badly damaged.
Trees were uprooted and electric light
and telephone communication was In
%terrupted.
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Holy Name Societies March.

Societies OF tho Holy Name in Brook
Ign. 10000 strong, paraded the streets
OF the borough yesterday. Tho silent
procession was the nnuai protest against
the proclamation OF the name OF the
Deity.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-25

is not difficult-this finding of ex-
cuses. Frederick the Great of Prussia
once said: "Give me a farthins ana
1 will find you an excuse for war -
and if excuses for war are always so
close at hand. excuses for our private
negligences and failures are even
easier. Apologies to other people are
bad-worst of all is the habit Of find
ing excuses for oneself to oneself.
Truly this gift of self-excuse is the
corner stone of hypocrisy; on 1t is oullt
the evil repute of men and of peoples.
Few actions are performed from n SIN
gle motive; as men and women are
complex, so are their actions; ana
hypocrisy comes when the actor finds
himself alleging the little motive or
aItruism where the great motive OF
selfishness predominated. Mirrors
vary; why should any of us prefer the
mirror that shows US as we are not
Let US conquer in youth the bad fairy
and destroy her evil gift of finding
ourselves excuses; for if the truth is
clear mirror, excuses are false mirrors
that help to interpose something be-
tween US and truths image.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-25

are government controlled: in Russia
about two-thirds of the $4,000 miles
are government owned, and in most
cases operated. In the United King
dom none of the $4,000 miles arc gov
ernment owned or operated.
Europe as a whole, said the lectur-
er. has about 100000 miles of rail-
way, of which approximately 10000
is government owned or controlled.
and about 100. 900 privately owned. 1t
happens, however, that the area in
which the military operations are in
progress has the greatest density of
railways in the worlC. Belgium had
before the war about As miles of rail-
ritory; the part of France now occu-
pied by Germany about so miles per
100 square miles; Germany as whole
10; Austria-Hungary about IL; France
as a whole about Is; Italy 10; Great
Britain 10; European Russia ABOUT 2
miles, and Europe as a whole slightly
less than miles of railway for eao
100 square miles of territory.
In the Americas. the United States
square mile of territory; Mexico, Ar
gentina and Uruguay about miles
each, and Canada about one mile for
each 100 square miles. OF the $4,000
miles of railway in Canada, about
1000 is government owned; of the
5000 miles in Mexico about 10000
is owned or controlled by the gov
ernment; of the 16, 900 miles in Bra
zil about 1000 are governmental; and
of the 1000 in Argentina about $500
are government owned. In India 30.-
900 of the $50 miles belong to the
government; of the 1000 miles in
Japan and Corea about 5000 miles
are under the government; and of the
$4,000 miles in Australia and New
Zealand, all but 1000 miles are gov
ernmental.
OF the 100000 miles of railway in
the world about one-third is owned
by governments; in Europe about SO
per cent are government owned or
controlled Asia IS per cent; Africa
so per cent; Oceana 90 per cent;
South America 80 per cent. and North
America per cent In the United
States there are no government owned
railways. except the line now under
construction in Alaska Our own rail-
ways, the lecturer said, are 100000
miles in length and form nearly 40
per cent of those of the entire world.
the next in rank in mileage being Rus
sia $4,000 miles, Germany 10000, In
dia $4,000, France $4,000. Canada 3O.-
! 900, Austria-Hungary $4,000. Great
Britain $4,000, Argentina $1,000, Aus
tralia 10000, Mexico 10000, Brazil
10000. Italy 1000. British South Af-
rica 1900, Spain 10000. Sweden
5000 Japan (including Corea) 1000,
China 5000, Belgium 5000. Chile
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The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-25
GLOBE SIGHTS
TFrom the Atchison Globe.l

1t is pretty hard for a man who has
a racing automobile not to make a
fool of himself.
A willing worker usually has plenty
of work to do, if that is his object
in life.
Your opinion may seem important,
but the chances are that you won't get
paid for it.
This ones travels having been linn
tied, and he has never seen a savage
breast soothed by music.
Most of the golf is played by tired
business men who probably go home
and tell what slaves they are.
Altho good reporters are not
abundant, every neighborhood has a
woman who has nose for news.
There is a difference between deter
mination and stubbornness which
some of the fatheads fail to consider.
1t wouldn't be so bad if the man
who says what he thinks would let it
go at that, but he is apt to keep on
talking.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-25
JAYMAWME JOTS

What has become, asks the Galena
Republican, of the old fashioned man
who had a brainstorm at the mention
of dollar wheat?
An instance of cause and effect, as
reported by the Jewell County Repub-
lican: There hasn't been a tramp in
town since the municipal trap was set
for him
If the price of print paper contin-
ues to increase, it is only a matter of
time, thinks the Chetopa Advance, be-
fore robbers will pass up the banks
and begin looting printing offices.
For a "streamer" across the top of
the front page of it's current issue the
Logan County News uses: The Hand
writing on the Sky, alcohol Delenda
Est, Let 1t Die" which will strike a
responsive chord in Kansas hearts if
the "delenda est" part of it is in har-
mony with the rest of the sentiment
Gems. from the Jewell County Re-
publican: A contentious man finds it
hard to quit even after the fuss is all
over. The man who fights
progress may be sincere and we'll
meaning; but he'll get run over.
1t somehow happens that telling a
man about his faults never makes a
very bit hit with him, tho they are
things he ought to know. After
woman has been away fifteen min
utes the house begins to look differ
ent, and it keeps looking more and
more different until she gets back.
Politeness pays anywhere, but
most of all in your own family, among
your own folks.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-25

Never were there such prosperous
times in Wall street on account Z the
unusual volume of trading on the ex-
changes and the operators and EN-
ployes in this country's chief financial
mart are looking forward to the mer-
riest of Christmases. But just ;-round
the corner in the greater city of New
York, the little bakeries and smrll
food emporiums are closing their
doors because they cannot run profit
ably and public authority is becoming :
concerned as to how the very poor If
the city are to be supplied with .ood
this winter. These United States may
be enjoying a record breaking pros
perity just now. but it is a muss un-
usual sort of one. There seems to be
no way of spreading it around where
il is most needed.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-25
UNIVERSAL TRAINING.

Another distinct contributi.n to the
literature on national military train
ing and national service comes from
in the form of an interview which he
provided for the Association for Ma
tional Service, and which is. in part,
as follows:
1--WE certainly need the spirit OF ma
tional service in our country. 1t is a
mistake to suppose that a people can
have good government, peace. order.
and progress for any long period
without any effort on their part. We
in the United States need to have our
patriotism awakened, throw off our
indifference, and think more of our
duties as we'll as of our rights. Every
one who is fit to be a citizen OF free
country ought to be willing to serve
the country, when called upon, in ac-
cordance with his ability. The young
men who are physically fit for military
duty should hold themselves ready
to fight for their country if need be,
and if they are not ready when the
need comes they will not long have
any country, and they will not deserve
to have any.
THE vast change in the way of car
rying on war which has occurred with
in very few years has created situ-
alton in which it is perfectly plain that
no country can be ready to defend her
independence against foreign aggres-
sion except by universal military train
ing and a resulting universal readiness
for military service.
THE old way of waiting until war
came and then calling for volunteers
has become obsolete and is no longer
effective.
1.-The national guard system is not
adequate and can not be made ade-
quate to meet the demands of national
defense under any real assault upon
our rights. 1t is impossible to have
an effective body of soldiers who serve
two masters and are raised and organ
ized to accomplish two different pur-
poses.
Universal training and readiness
for service are not only demanded by
plain common sense, but they are es-
sentially democratic. They were re-
quired by law during the early years
of our republic, for every male citizen
between the ages of eighteen and for
ty-five was required to be ready to
fight for his country and was re-
quired to be trained and provided with
arms in accordance with the simple
needs of warfare in those days.
TT is only necessary now to apply
the principles and requirements of the
national law of 1899. adapted to pres
ent conditions"
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-25
BED T HME TALES

by CLARA INGRAM JUDSON

But tho Billy Raccoon started for
another meal. with the best of in
tentions and a determination to eat it
whether he wanted it or not, he didn't
eat it right then. after all. For some
thing else took his attention. And
Billy was far too sleepy and lazy to do
two things at once just then.
G. Squirrel ran across the open
space in front of Billy and called a gay
goOd-mOrning.
Yes, 1 suppose it is good morn
ing" replied Billy solemnly. but 1
hadn't thought about it,
Now, Billy, what's the matter with
you?" demanded G. Squirrel. You
know it's fine day, come on and
cheer up"
Billy lazily turned his head and
looked at G. Squirrel. No wonder you
G. Squirrel looked down at himself,
thoughtfully. of course I'm slim.
You'd be that way, too. if you worked
as hard as I do
Worked" sighed Billy dolefully,
worked! Who's worked harder than
have? Tell me that, I've eaten and
eaten till I'm sick of the sight of a
meal, and still I'm not certain 1 am fat
enough to do for the winter.
G. Squirrel laughed. Now isn't
that funnyi" he exclaimed. I've
worked my flesh off storing up nuts
for winter eating-and believe me it's
no small job-and you just sit around
and eat Why don't you do as I do
store up your food and take your time
for eating?"
I'll tell you why said Billy, and
he waddled over TO where G. Squirrel
was sitting among the leaves. THE
reason 1 don't, is because I am I and
you are you-that's the reason" G.
Squirrel knew there must be more
coming so he waited till Billy felt like
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-25
SIDE TALK S
Christmas Efficiency.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Christmas efficiency-that's queer
phrase, isn't it? One associates the
idea of efficiency with cut and dried
things. 1t seems almost an insult to
apply it to things of the heart like
Christmas.
But is Christmas chiefly thing of
the heart nowadays? Isn't it, in its
modern development, partly a busi-
ness, and as such don't you think we
ought to approach it as efficiently as
possible? l do.
OF course, the first principle Of
Christmas efficiency is to do your
shopping early. Not only for the sake
of those in the shops, on delivery wag-
ons and in the postoffices, to whom
the phrase "the holiday season" must
seem the bitterest kind of mockery,
but also for your own sake. that
Christmas may not find you tired and
on the raw edge of irritability.
How early?' someone asked. when
we were discussing this the other day.
We all told when we had started. The
Lady-Who -Always-Knows Somehow
had the record. She starts Christmas
day for the next year. That is, she
| makes her preparations. She has a
Christmas notebook that she has kept
for many years. She says she can pick
up more suggestions for appropriate
gifts around Christmas than at any
ing each others gifts and saying what
they wish they had had
She starts actually shopping in the
after-ChriStmaS sales and keeps it up
all thru the year, whenever she has
an advantageous opportunity to buy
In her notebook is a list of the sizes
| of various articles which her friends
wear. and she keeps this constantly in
her shopping bag.
Another of her schemes is to buv
handkerchiefs every year for the half
dozen friends to whom she gives a
slight remembrance. and whose needs
she can not know (we all have some
OF these on our list). Thinking up
something new every year took time.
A pretty handkerchief is always well
come and she is constantly on the
/ watch for them.
Another neighbor contributed her
efficlency scheme, which is to tie up
each gift in its Christmas regalia as
soon as she buys it and thus do away
with that bugbear. the tie-up day.
Another saves a rest day for herself
on December "a, by mentally putting
| Christmas one day ahead, and getting
| that terribly busy day before Christi
mas out of the way a day early.
1 wish my reader friends would send
their Christmas efficiency ideas to me
so that 1 might pass them along
Copyright by George Matthew
AdamS)
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-25

Cheese is of Importance because of
its high nutritive value, particularly
its high percentage of protein mater
ials; because of the ease with which it
can be kept and prepared for the ta-
BILE, and because of it's appetizing fla
vor and great variety of ways in which
it can be served. Following are some
cheese dishes which may be used in
stead of meat:
Cheese Fondue-Heat one cup boil
ed rice in two tablespoons milk, add
four eggs, one cup grated cheese, half
teaspoon salt. Serve on toast.
Cheese and Corn Soul fle-Melt one
tablespoon butter and cook one table,
spoon chopped green pepper thoroly
in it. Make sauce of one-fourth cup
flour, two cups milk and one cup
grated cheese. Take one cup chopped
corn, the cheese sauce, three egg yolks
the green pepper and half teaspoon
salt, fold in the whites of eggs beater
stiff, turn into buttered baking dish
and bake in moderate oven thirty min
utec.
Cheese and Tomato-Heat two ta
blespoons butter and same of floul
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-25
ON FINDING EXCUSES.

In the nursery tales. when the
fairies confer gifts upon the new
born prince or princess. one of them
is always a bad fairy. and her gift
brings unhappiness, and the nursery
tale is the history of how that unhap-
piness is iconquered-if it be conquered
at all. says Golfers. Now, one of the
gifts of the bad fairy, made not to
princes alone, but to children of all
sprts. is the gift of easily finding ex-
cuses. Happiness comes to the indi-
NPdual who is prompt to get the better
OF this bad fairy and to rid himself of
that evil gift; and this we see in every
kind of life: at school Cwhere the ex-
cuse maker grows unpopular with
teachers and fellow pupils allke). at
hpme (where the excuse maker, for
eyer shifting his burdens. makes a
poor sort of son and brotherl, in busi-
ness (where results. not intentions or
excuses. matter): on every stage of
life and in every act of the comedy. 1t