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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17
JOBS FOR COMEBACKS
600 Municipality Reformed Alcoholics
Go TO Bonc-Dry States.

Chicago. May 17.-Before the end
or the week, 500 men who have been
treated for the liquor habit and hard
ened by steady work at the house of
correction Will have been released
from custody and sent to bone-dry
states where employment on farms
and in shops will be obtained for
them.
:. A class of fifty left the institution
today and thru the efforts of the
municipal authorities found employ
mens- The chief of police and the
chief justice. of the municipal court
had heart to heart talks with the men
before they left the institution and
promised to aid them in beating
back"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

The secretary of the Northwest Pa
cific Tourist association says that
thousands of dollars worth of adver-
Using has been withheld from the
newspapers and magazines because of
rumors that the big parks will be
closed and that passenger service on
the railroads will be curtailed. The
best thing the summer resort man
ayers can do is to go ahead and spend
their money in correcting any false
Impressions which may have taken
hold Of the minds of the tourists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17
ANSWER GERMANY
EngIand's Peace Views Coincide With
Those of Russia.

London, May 17.-Good results on
Russia were looked for today as the
result of Lord Robert Cecil's clarifying
speech in the house of commons on
the allies aims as to annexations and
indemnities. 1t was stated on author
ity that the speech, made by Lord
Robert in his capacity as acting min
lister of foreign affairs and endorsed
by former Premier ASquith, would un-
doubtedly result in a fresh interchange
of views between all the allies
Sunimed up. the allies views as ex-
pressed by the British acting minister
were:
All previous aims of the allies stand
The allies favor the Russian plan of
mo annexations and no indemnities''
on the understanding this means no
annexations and indemnities for DO
litical ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
People Must Ee Free.
Nations and indemnities may be
dom of peoples held in bondage by the
central powers and to atone for such
acts as the invasion of Belgium.
France. Serbia and Poland.
The opinion expressed by press and
public alike today was that Lord
Cecils speech had given the most eff
fective answer possible to the angling
bait extended by the German imperial
chancellor.
View Has Americas o. X
Washington. May 17.-American
war aims apparently do not run coun-
ter to the ideas of Great Britain as
voiced by Lord Robert Cecil.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

The committee on public informa-
ton, which consists of the secretary Of
state. the secretary of war, the secre-
tary of the navy. with George Creel as
civilian chairman, has tablished a
daily publication. the Official Bulletin,
which is designed to inform the pub
lie of the progress of the war and of
official acts incident to its prosecution.
The first issue appeared May 10. 1t is
proposed to present in its columns all
proclamations and executive orders
from the president of the United
States, rules and regulations promul-
gated by the federal departments. off
cial bulletins and statements. statutes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

Much of the speculation in food
stuffs, so vociferously condemned by
certain United States senators is due
to the alarmist reports sent out by
the government regarding the crop
prospect and a shortage which has not
existed. The artificial high prices of
grain brought about by the actions of
boards of trade have filled the cof-
fers of the well to do farmers. The
tenant farmers and others who are
forced to sell as soon as harvest is
over and the consumers are the losers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

Herbert c. Hoover, government adj
wiser recently returned from Europe,
says that there is no occasion for food
panic in this country nor any justifica-
ton for outrageous prices. Americas
problem" he says, 'is not one of fam
inc for we have now and will have
next year large surplus. Our prob
lem is. after proper protection for our
own people. to give the Allies the last
ounce of surplus of which we are ca
pable."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17
LOCAL MENTION

The annual election of officers of
the AkePot Ster-Boos will be held at
O'Clock tomorrow night at the
Chamber of Commerce. At that meet
ing arrangem ents will be made to mi
tiate the visiting bankers into the
mysteries of the order at the big
bankers convention to be held in To-
peka, next week.
J. w. Howe. until a few weeks ago
secretary of the state board of con-
troll. is in Topeka, a delegate to the
Knights of Pythias convention. Howe
is editor and publisher of the Dickin-
son County News of Abilene.
Safety razor blades sharpened bet
ter than new. 25c-35c doz Brunt.
Martin Drug Co.-Adv.
The Young Peoples branch of the
w. c. T. U. will meet Friday night
with Mrs. Bruce DeGarmo, at sos
Taylor street, a. o'clock.
A jubilee of the successful campaign
workers of the recent $3.50 Y. NJ c.
day night with a dinner at Gemmell
hail. President E. L. Copeland pre-
sided at the meeting. Rev. E. j. Kulp
and Fred Voiland were the speakers
of the evening. Paul Van Ness gave a
solo.
George Beal and w Cole will meet
this afternoon IN the semi finals of the
high school singles tennis tournament
Then the winner will play A Weis-
kirch in the finals. The doubles tour
nameEt starts tomorrow afternoon and
then Monday the girls will have their
singles fray.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

American pioneers ate corn bread
and other good things made from
maize. coarsely ground. They thrived.
People of today might thrive upon
corn foods, says the Chicago News,
provided the millers would consent to
give them real cornmeal instead of the
So called refined substance, which is
neither so excellent in flavor nor so
wholesome as is whole meal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

The secretary of war has given it
out that he expects" hostllities to con-
years? Why not one year or ten?
Does the secretary mean that it will;
take three years for Uncle Sam to get
over ther ?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

bearing on the war and their construc-
ton and other subjects related to the
war which may properly be given pub
licity. All of which will have been
in the hands of the public days in ad-
vance thru the medium of the daily
neWspapers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

The fight for newspaper. censorship
which is being made at Washington
arouses a suspicion that officials fear
they may do something which they
would be ashamed for the public to
know about
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

To make the punishment fit the
crime wheat spectators might be
made to plow the land and sow a crop
of that cereal next fall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17
100, 900 NOW In NAVY
jackson, Miss, Recruit Is 100, OOOth
Man to Join Sea Fighters.

Washington, May 1.-THE navy has
passed the 100000 mark in enlisted
strength. The 0,OO0th man was
Richard Cannon, Jackson, Miss.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

The government has called for
$4,000 volunteer recruits for the
army. Now is the time for those who
opposed the selective draft to get
busy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

The German chancellor refused to
show his hand when it was called.
Has he been trying to bluff the reichs-
tac2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

Senator Stone says the war is car
ried on by the newspapers. What ed
itor does not believe that if this were
true a better job would be made of it g?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

On the eastern front the indications
are that the Bear that walks like
man" has not yet emerged from his hi
bernation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

Address the Topeka State Journal lhf LOT
nation bureau, Washington, d. c., for free
Information about
whatever You Want to Know"
Write YOUR request plainly and inclose
cent stamp for return postage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

Indications are that the Russian bear
is about to be transformed into rab-
hit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

to figure on. It's up to her then to
decide what she wants to do.
The modern man is the only man in
the whole history of the world who has
ever been really chivalrous to women,
and the finest, whitest flower of this
chivalry is shown in his even being
willing to play the game of hearts fair
ly with a woman, and to play with his
cards, face up, on the table.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

Questions on the above or any sub
ject upon which the reader desires in
formation should be addressed the To-
peka State Journal Information Blu
reau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director
Washington, D. c., with 2-cent STAMP
enclosed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

The Young Peoples branch of the
w. c. T. U. will meet Friday night
with Mrs. Bruce DeGarmo, at sos
Taylor street, 4. o'clock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

Safety razor blades sharpened bet
ter than new. 25c-35c doz- Brunt.
Martin Drug Co.-Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

Washington, May 17.-American
war aims apparently do not run coun-
ter to the ideas of Great Britain as
voiced by Lord Robert Cecil.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-19

first generation born on this soil has the pioneers saved. Men who came over from the old countries strived to build up fortunes, and did, only to have them dissipated by the young bloods From shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves is a process that usually re- quires but three generations.
 When the President wrote to the Chairman of the War Savings Com mittee he probably had some Of theso things in mind. He undoubtedly will agree with the New York commenta- tor who sees something more than mere money in the holding of liberty bonds by the vast majority ol 'fe neople and who, in remark1ng an added attraction in the sale or tnese certificates, says: 'WhoeVer no1"S +bem will be a better citizen, more anpreciative of what the Government so.. for him and more jealous In It's defense against attacks" Profits ana savings are two sepagate and dls11nct things. In the first case, e1cesslVe nrofits. mere man is liable to deVelop into a care-free and easy-going spend e,, without a thought of the morrow or of God or country. In the sec- ond ease, savings that mean sacrlhces' are more apt to develop those traits of character which make for better men and women.
 We believe the President is right in his supposition that we have, as nation. wasted more than we are about to spend in the war we oe- neve, too, they he is right in think ing that the war, if 1t teaches us thrift. will be worth the cost on cal- culation of money alone. This na- ton, previous to it's entrance into the war, had seen it's people spending money like so many drunken sailors of the old school. There had to come a halt sometime. It is here. With the floating of Liberty Loans and the investment values connected there with, there has come a new realiZa- tiOn of thrift. Since some of these bonds will be held until called for by the government, there will be effected a saving that would never have come about save for the war. It has done that much, any way. The war has already taught Us to save.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-19
FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY A BY LIEUT.. F1rzHUGH GREEN U g. N
Range Finders.
GREEN, U. g. N.

pear-until prisms are adjusted (made crosseyed), when images coin- eide and only one object Is seen. A scale records the range.
 Simple, isn't it? And useful. -- you have no conception how indis- pensable 1t ist At 10000 yards ranga the hull of a hostile ship Is below the horizon. But we must open fire then; and the only way We can tell how far to elevate our guns Is by range finder readings.
 A fleet cruises in column, 500 or 1000 yards between ships. For per- feet maneuvering, it Is vital that per- feet intervals be held. Range finders are the solution.
 Nav1gators wore themselves thin and gray taking bearings soundings. times, and working sights. Nowa- days go per cent. of it Is done by tho range finder. Point the instrument at a lighthouse, and read both bearing and range at once, say North--11, 900 wards. Then a dot on the chart five and half miles south of the light ia ships position. Night work Is done by switching in thing called the as- tigmatizer, which breaks the beam ot light into vertical lines to be used like masts or other objects in tha daytime.
 Surveyors measure for hours with tapes and angles and stakes and tell escapes. A small range finder can do it all for them automatically.
 Instruments vary from 3 to nearly 80 feet in length and are constantly increasing In size and efficiency. They magnify from 6 to 28 times They are too expensive ever to class with Fords and Ingersolls. But they sell to every navy in the world, from four to a score on each battleship. The inventor, of course. is dead The pros moter rides in a limousine and haA dyspepsia.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-19
COMMUNICATED
X HALF TON OF COAL.
Writer Foresees the Day When Local Factories Will Supply Their Work CTS With Coal at a Reason
 able Prices,

To the Editor of the Herald:
 I have been a reader of your paper for many years and I have read with interest all your editorials about the price of coal. If I may, l would like to call few things to your attention. Although the price of coal has been reduced by government regulation, [ had to pay $500 for a half ton to- day. and the dealer would not accept my order unless I made payment in spot cash. Now I think it is time to let the coal dealers know they are not the only people on earth. There is movement on foot whereby the shops may supply their help with coal at reasonable prices, even lower than those set by the Federal Government At this, the shops expect to make a fair profit for the trouble involved. If they can do it, it seems to me that the retail dealers here can make money at the present prices. The Federal Fuel Administrator, pr. Gar field, has been written to in regard to this matter, and I think the coal dealers had better come down off their high horses and get in tune with the times.
 Sincerely,
 ta~ VERITAS
New Britain herald., 1917-11-19
WHAT THE WAR HAS DONE

President Wilson writing to the Chairman of the War Savinrs Com mlttee remarks that we have probably wasted, as nation, more than we are about to spend in this war and that if the war teaches us thrift it will De worth the cost. This, on a calcu- lation of money alone. To which the New York Times responds "As we are spending billions, this. the Presidents declaration, sounds ex- travagant until two things are con- sidered. War is temporary and there is an end to its costs Thrift is a matter of character, and descends from generation to generation. And the lesson of thrift is to be taught to so many millions that trifing sums saved by each of them make billions for all of them quickly Already there are 100000 900 hondholders among us. If the number should be doubled at the next loan offering. that would be smaller increase than from less than one in a hundred of us as investors to one in ten When the savers run up to 20.o00,Oo0 or more a mere $50 apiece gives a billion, and the saving of $50 shows how to save in larger sums"
 Whether thrift is a matter of char acter which descends from generation to generation is thing that may wei be doubted. In some cases it is un- doubtedly true. Tn others it is false The canny Scot is known the world oyer as "a thrifty mon" The Ger. man is frugal. The Irishman is a spendthrift. And so run the nationa traits; that is, so far as they are em. bodied in persons who live OCT the briny deep. Transplant these same characters to America and the close listed become money-spenders. Al least it has been so in the past, The
New Britain herald., 1917-11-19
." BY LIEUT..

See if you can swallow this Range is obtained by measurement of the parallex of the object-that is by the angle subtended by the base of the instrument at the object"
 No? We'll, try this: Suppose you and I look down a long flat road a, an approaching automobile. Lines from our eyes to the auto are ap- proximately parallel. Now, you go a ways to one side of the road while go an equal distance to the other Again looking down the road we gaze no longer in parallel lines, but in lines which converge more and more as the automobile approaches; until, when 1t is near at hand, We must almost face one another.
 To make sure you understand, look at your thumb, arms length. Your eyes are almost normal. Put your thumb close to your nose and you are crosseyed. Move it in or out and your vision becomes more or less pigeontoed.
 The angle we Turned toward each other looking at the approaching au4 tomobile, the amount of crosseyed- ness when your thumb was up, varied with the distance away of the auto and thumb. range finder measures this varying angle and on a small scale shows the corresponding dis tance or range.
 Imagine a metal tube 10 to 25 feet long in each end of which is an eye - prism looking for the enemy. The prisms reflect all they see, down the tube to the range finder man. It is as if his eyes were taken out and put yards apart until something five miles away instead of five inches can make him look crosseXed.
 But unless you do look crosseyed, VOL see two thumbs. (which Is what happens in the range finder; two ships, four masts, eight tunnels, ap-
New Britain herald., 1917-11-19
No Need for the Doctor.

Some un sick at yo' house, Mis- Carter?" inquired Lila. "Ah seed de doctah's kyar eroun dar yestiddy." Tt was for my brother, Lila" ''Sho! Whats he done got de matter of m ?" Nobody seems to know what the disease is He can eat and sleep as well as ever. he stays out all day long on the veranda in the sun, and seems as well as anyone, but he can't do any work at all" He cain't-yo says he cain't wuhk?" "Not a stroke" Law, Mis- Garter. dat ain't no disease what you brothe' got! Oats glf!- Everybody's.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-19
PALLERSON TALKS
Counsel for Railroads Says Inade-
 quacy of War Time Revenue No
 Longer an Economic Problem.

Washington, Nov. 19-Tnadequacy of war time revenues of the nations railroads is no longer a purely eco homie problem, but a vital question of national defense, George Stuart Patterson, counsel for the eastern roads, today told the Interstate Com merce Comm ission, in his closing ar gum for the carriers in the IS per cent. rate advance case.
 He asked for a sweeping readjust- ment of prevailing rates to allow the roads to meet soaring operating costs and serve more efficiently the trans present emergency.
 He pointed out a continuous decline in net operating income, accompanied by steadily mounting operating costs; marked sh ortage in the labor supply available for railroad work; existence of deferred maintenance when heavy war time traffic requires the highest standard possible and inability to raise new capital by issuance of stock with a resultant impairment of the carriers credit.
 He estimated that in 1917 the east ern roads will show a loss of $s1,0OO.- 900 in net operating income despite an increase of $161 900. 900 in total operating revenues. This, he stated. would represent return of 5.2 on investments. which is less, he said. than the amount of commission in 1914 found to be too small for Duhlic interest.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-19
CASTING FOR AIR.

Colonel Roosevelt after his visit to Camp Upton, Yaphank, L. l., yester- day grew militaristic in the extreme. One~mig11t almost say he waxed an- archistic. Nothing the administration has done SO far in this war quite suits the Colonel. The manner in which the army has been handled is any, thing but what the Colonel would have. There has been as much sense in handling our army as would have been shown in handling bush league baseball team," he says, which is- nothing if not elegant language. The average person, of course. will have little or no knowledge of bush league baseball teams and the manner in which they are managed. So Colonel Roosevelt's comparison of methods will appeal to but very few of the intellectuals. The others al- ready know that there is only one man in the United States who could have conducted Uncle Sam's war plans in the proper way, and the people failed to impose that task upon him. A fish out of water goes through a great many twists and tuEnS.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-19
AN ODIOUS LIBEL.
Fair Namc> of Good Womanhood Damaged by Sensational Charges
 Against Them in Can
comments,

tOnmcntS.
 (New York Sun)
 It is plain that the United States is not to escape a hystericalN outburst concerning the effect on women's chastity produced by the mobilization of large numbers of soldiers In the army camps. The fact that England made a fool of itself with respect of this subject has taught us nothing; the authorities, notably Secretary Baker and Secretary Daniels, by their unnecessary public utterances on the sul ject of masculine morality, have laid a broad and firm foundation for structures of sensationalsm which the credulous. the morbid and the ma licious are eager to build.
 Already one important reformatory society has addressed it's zeal to the menace of tho man in uniform, and exact statistics on a matter about which nothing definite can possibly be known at this time have now been put in circulation May we be spared the deluge of poetical and prose ap- peals to feminine virtue that three years ago rendered even some re- spectable English periodicals an Of fense to sense and experience
 England's experience was that her women remained vlrtuous, despite the settlements of war. in the usual pro- portion The threat of thousands of 1 children born out of wedlock in cx- cess of the normal number was never fulfilled. Good women and virtuous girls remained good and virtuous; good men and ViHtuouS boys clad in khaki did not abandon their stan dards of conduct. But these facts, it is to be feared, will be without in fuence on a population that eagerly l gave credit to yarns about poison needles and accepted unquestioningly reports that whole train crews en- gagged in the abduction of carloads of immigrant girls
 Yet there should be saving leaven of intelligent discrimination. ] Tn New York State, particularly, citi- l zens have cause to think twice be- 1 fore they put faith in reports of a general breakdown of womanhood We have just admitted women to the 1 franchise by an overwhelming vote. 1 Does any sane person, male or fe- male, think for an instant that this f privilege would have been conferred
 after years of serious study, if the moral nature of it's beneficiaries were ] as infirm as the infamous reports now | put in circulation would make us be- l lieve? Would woman suffrage have triumphed in England in time of war l if English women, who are not unlike the women of this country. had proved incapable of maintaining their honor in g. period of national danger?