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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

The period is at hand when the
country school boards are making
their selections of teachers for the
coming year. If there is any place
in the entire field of education where
a teacher of superior qualifications is
most needed it is in the one-teacher
rural school, and there are over 2OO,-
600 such schools in the United States
today. The teacher in such a school
must play the part of primary teach
er. intermediate teacher, and gram
mar grade teacher day after day and
oftentimes she must teach some high
school subjects. There are 10000
rural teachers in this country with
less than high school education and
no professional training. Measured
by the responsibility that rests upon
the teacher it is little short of Grim
inal for a state to permit a girl with
only an elementary education, which
was obtained in a rural school of only
seven or eight grades in charge of a
teacher who possessed only a sew
enth or eighth grade education, Sc
cured in a like school under like
teacher, to take upon herself the high
and responsible task of teaching in the
rural schools. y stream cannot rise
higher than its source.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

Exports of the United States to Eu-
rope in the first two and half years
of the war show an increase of over
100 per cent when compared with the
two and half years Immediately pre-
ceding the war. and the imports a de-
crease of 33 per cent. Exports to the
whole world show an increase of about
so per cent, and imports an increase
of 10 per cent. This statement is the
result of an analysis by the National
City Bank of New York, comparing
the foreign trade of the United States
in the 80 months from August /, 1914
10 February l. 1917, with the 80
months from February l, 1912 to Au-
gust /. 1914, a period of normal trade
conditions. The total trade of the
United States in the first 21z years
of the war aggregates 1888. 900, 900
against $1O,4s9. 900 in the 2h
years Immediately preceding the war
Exports show a total of $40. 562. O0O.-
600 against s5,SS2.000,O0O, and i'm
ports $5,O61, 100000 against $4,6OS,-
100000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
AN EASTER cANrICLE.

In every trembling bud and bloom
That cleaves the earth, a flowery sword,
l see Thee come from out the tomb,
Thou risen Lord.
In every April wind that sings
Down lanes that make the heart rejoice,
Yea, in the word the wood thrush brings,
hear Thy voice.
Lo! every tulip is cup
To hold Thy mornings brimming wine;
Drink. o my soul, the wonder up
Is it not Thine?
The great Lord God, invisible,
Hath reused to rapture the green grass;
Thru sunlitmead and dew-drenched dell
l see Him pass.
His old immortal glory wakes
The rushing streams and emerald hills;
His ancient trumpet softly shakes
The daffodils.
Thou art not dead! Thou art the whole
OF life that quickens in the sod;
Green April is Thy very soul,
Thou great Lord God.
Charles Hanson Towne-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

Nearly 100000 miles of the two
and a half million miles of public
roads in the United States are of earth,
sand-clay, or gravel, according to re-
cent statistics gathered by the office
of public roads and lural engineering
of the United States department of
agriculture. Roads of these materials
are, therefore. of predominant import
ance in most communities of the coun-
try and probably will remain SO for
many years. For this reason the office
of public roads and rural engineering
has issued a comprehensive discus
sion of the materials, methods of con-
struction, and maintenance for the
three types. Most roads are located
originally as earth roads, the bulletin
points out. In such location work, the
fact that the road eventually may de-
velop into an important highway
should be kept constantly in mind and
routes should be chosen which will not
have to be changed radically, per-
haps at great expense. at some future
time. The tendency in many rural
communities to locate all new roads
along land lines has been responsible
for much -aste, it is pointed out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

If you want to render any other
form of war service than that of mill
tary service or if you are in doubt
about what you should do, says
Worlds Work. the council of national
defense will tell you. At present the
national council is mapping and dia-
gramming the resources of this coun-
try having in mind both men and
material. 1t is divided into commit
tees covering various aspects of prep
aration. You have only to write to
the chairman of the committee whose
subject interests you and offer your
services to be told what you should DO
and what use can be made of you.
And remember, if you are the head of
business and the business can be
useful it is better to offer the bust
ness with you at its head than your
self alone. Address your inquiry to
the Council of National Defense, Ad-
visory Commission, Washi- gtcn, D. C.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

cure these names without any expense
whatever to any member of the Cham
Der of Commerce or to any one else.
1t is not planned to hire" any one
to circulate these petitions; they will
be circulated by loyal, energetic To-
pekans who do not wish pay for this
sort of work, for this sort of common
dable and necessary civic enterprise,
which means so much to our citizens
and visitors generally.
We assure our readers in all ear
nestnesS that this election is needed.
Anyone who is legal voter of Topeka
may sign this petition; anyone who
voted at the last primaries or last
election, either or both, may sign the
petition If you sign the petition you
do not necessarily favor the bonds or
oppose them, you simply give the
people an opportunity to vote on the
proposition one way or the other. The
law requires that about 5000 legal
voters shall sign the petition to make
it legal.
The following is the legal form Of
the petition, copies of which are at the
State Journal office, in the city build
ing and in the hands of willing, I'M
paid workers:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
HOUSEHOLD HINTS


Graham Pudding-One-quart cup
butter. one-half cup molasses one-half
cup milk. one egg, one and one-half
cups graham flour, one-half teaspoon
soda, one teaspoon salt, one cup finely
chopped raisins, dates or figs may be
used in place of raisins Melt butter.
add molasses, milk. egg well beaten,
dry ingredients mixed and sifted. and
raisins; turn into buttered mold, cover
and steam two and a half hours.
Serve with your favorite sauce.
Novelty Spread-Ten cents worth
of roquefort, ten-cent package of
cheese, one tablespoon of butter, two
green peppers. one large Bermuda on
ion. one-half stalk of celery Rub the
roouefort cheese and butter to a
smooth paste and the chopped onion,
nepper and celery. Mix well. season
with paprika and put in ice box.
Spread on toasted crackers.
Brown Bread-Half cup white SUI
gar, one half teaspoon salt. one-half
cup white flour. one pint sweet milk,
three-fourths cup molasses, one tea
spoon soda, one cup seedleSS raisins
and whole wheat flour. Place sugar,
salt and white flour in bowl: stir in
milk gradually; blend soda with mo-
lasses, then add to batter. Add whole
wheat flour slowly, beating constantly
and adding until consistency of cake
batter. Add raisins last and whip we'll
Make two loaves; bake in moderate
oven about half hour.
Fruit Salad-Orange shredded, ba-
nara sliced thin, cup pineapple diced.
cup prunes cut small. Mix carefully
and serve on lettuce leaf. Whip a
little cream and stir in two table
spoons of good mayonnaise dressing
and pile little on center of each
To-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
AN EPOCH IN HISTORY.

The entrance of the United States
into the world war promises to be of
more far-reaching consequences and to
exert greater influence on the history
of the world than anything that has
taken place since the arrival of Ma
poleon on the field of action. Ours is
the greatest republic on earth and the
purest democracy. Its action marks
the beginning of the end of autocracy
in government.
That as a consequence of our action
Germany will be compelled to join the
community of democratic nations
scarcely admits of a doubt.
There is a certain menacing signifi-
canoe, says the New York Journal of
Commerce, in the brusque declaration
of the leader of the Socialist majority
in the Reichstag that the hour has
struck for Germany to remove the re-
proach of being the only undemocratic
state left in the world. By critical
outsiders it has long been regarded as
one of the most remarkable facts in
modern political history that, while
within the memory of the present gen.
tiona1 country in Europe has opened
its doors and windows still wider to
the fresh air of political free thought,
Germany has been content to live in
the old sitting atmosphere of semi
absolutism.
France, Great Britain, Belgium and
the Netherlands have made their par
liamentary systems more democratic
than before: Russia and Turkey have
joined the fraternity of constitutional
states, and even in the "unchanging
east" ancient despotisms have been
discarded or overthrown. But the
constitutional fabric of the German
empire remains as it was framed fifty
years ago, while that of Prussia has
undergone no change since nearly sew
enty years ago, a constitution which
bitterly disappointing the nations ex-
pectations was offered to it to take or
leave, by "a Sovereign who hated all
such tokens of popular desire to share
with him the divine responsibility of
kingship.''
The Socialist majority, for which
Herr Scheidemann speaks, has formu-
lated a series of demands whose pres
entatioh in the midst of war must be
held to be ominous of radical changes
in the constitutional system of Ger
many. Among these is the demand
that the Reichstag shall have control
over the forming and terminating of
alliances and over making peace and
war There is the further demand
no he oh no
if the Reichstag so DEGREES. That is
to say, he is to be the servant of the
people, and not merely the ductiIe sec
rotary of the kaiser. Still another de-
mand is that of proportional represen-
tation and votes for all men and wo-
men at all German parliamentary cleo
tons, as we'll as the abolition of all up
per houses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
DINNER STORIES

The recruit from ireland spent his
leave in England. Asked on his re-
turn to the front what he thought of
the place he said: Faith London is a
great city; but it's no place for a poor
man unless he has plenty of money"
II say, mamma" said little Johnny,
do fairy tales always begin with
Once upon a time'?''
mo, dear, not always" replied his
mother. They sometimes begin with.
My love, 1 have been detained at the
office again tonight"
rs there no way of stopping these
cyclones?" asked a traveller who was
relating his experiences in the far
west.
NO" replied the narrator The
best way is to go along with them"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

The Berliner Tageblatt hopes that
the quarrel between Germany and the
United States will be settled before all
others. The time for that sort of con-
clusion probably has passed. The Ber-
lin government was given every oppor-
tunity to avoid trouble but has invited
it in numerous ways Doubtless Ger
many would be glad to have this coun-
try unrepresented in the general peace
conference. 1t would mean one less
world power on the side of democracy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

The purchase money has been paid
over and we are now in possession of
the Danish West Indies. They will
serve as naval rendezvous. and they
will be a protection to the canal in
the sense that they cannot fall to a
foreigners hands. They came high,
but we had to have them. The delay
in making the trade cost us $4,000
600 extra-just as the delay in carry
ing out the naval building program au-
thorized more than two years ago has
cost us more than a hundred millions
extra.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

The growth of Los Angeles has
been the wonder of the world Thou
sands of persons have sought for a
reason. Many theories have been Of
fered. Ed Howe has the latest. He
says the rise of Los Angeles is due
to the fact that she does not rob Wis
itors. Perhaps he is right. There
does not seem to be any other plausible
excuse except advertising and her
treatment of tourists may be merely
a part of her advertising campaign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

No treaty or agreement of any kind
should be permitted to stand in the
way of our appropriating all the Ger
man shipping interned in American
ports. Germany's disregard of all in
ternational obligations would amply
Justify US in the eyes of the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
LEGAL PETITION FOR AUDITORIUM ELECTION
To the Honorable Mayor and Be
the City of Topeka, Kansas:

To the Honorable Mayor and Board of Commissioners of
the City of Topeka Kansas:
We the undersigned qualified and legal voters of the
City of Topeka respectfully petition you to call Special
Election in the City of Topeka at as,eary date pos
sbe to submit to the voters of the city for their decision
the following proposition:
Shall the city issue bonds, in the of One Hundred
thousand Dollars (s1OOOO0) for the remodeing and en-
arging of the Auditorium in the present City Building
located Quincy Street in the City of Topeka, Kansas
NAME ADDRESS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

:. Jess Willard has notified the presi-
dent that he is ready to fight And
it must be conceded that Jess is some
fighter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

1t is suggested by the Los Angeles
Times that Won Hindenburg is en-
ticing the allies to Berlin for the pur-
pose of starving them to death
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

The man woman who marries an
valid is taking the longest shot ON
earth at connubia1 bliss.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24
III as q Greet Jobbimg ond Distributing

There are, no doubt, many other lines of
merchandise which are now being distributed in
a large way from this CENTER which, if properly
developed by local capital and energy, would
meet with just as big success in manufacture
ing way as has been met with by the Skinner
Manufacturing Company.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24

Ing Company, who are exclusive manufacturers
Of macaroni products The Skinner company
has had a phenomenal growth as can be seen by
the illustrations showing the growth of the fac
tory, which appear on this page.
In addition to having the most modern, up-to-
date macaroni plant in this country, and perhaps
in the world, the Skinner company also have
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24

very complete merchandising organization which
covers the United States. This organization,
backed by their modern factory, works continu-
ally to place Omaha merchandise in each Amer
lean home and it means much to Omaha and the
central west to know that each of the millions of
packages so placed annually bear the mark,
made in Omaha, U. S. A."
The Washington times., 1917-10-12
II Should Worry
Now About Corns"

They Peel Of With "Gets-It"
Two corns are no worse than one,
and one is nothing at all-when you
use "Gets-It," the one real corn
shrinker, corn loosener, peel-it-right-
off corn-remover That's because two
The Washington times., 1917-10-12

One Foot, Corn Free.
drops OF "Gets-It" eases your corn
pains at once, and you know that that
old corn has been "nipped in the bud"
"Gets-It" makes cutting and digging
at q corn and fussing with bandages,
salves or anything else entirely unnec-
essary. Remember "Gets-It" Is safe.
You'll not have to take off. your
shoe or pumps under the table at the
cafe to ease your squirming soul. See
that you get "Gets-It." Don't be in
suited by limitations. 25c is all you
need pay at any drug store for Gets
It" or IL will be sent direct by Z.
Lawrence & Co, Chicago, ILL.,
Sold in Washington and recommend
ed as the worlds best corn remedy
by O'DonnelIs Drug Stores, Peoples
Drug Stores, p. g. Affleck.-Advt.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-13
STORIES FROM THE GERMAN
 NEWSPAPERS

icus housewife, who goes to seek food to help her over the next week, and the families who hunt food for sport, and buy up large quantities. The former do not mean any great danger to the com munity apart from the fact that they often return with empty pock- cts, unable to compete with the other class. The latter have been carrying on their selfish work since tue war began, and care little how their stores may he wasted. Against these the most drastic measures are none tco drastic, but if they could effectively be reached and brought to reason one might close ones eyes to the transgressions of the driven housewife and the anxious father. The same journal points out that these reDrehensible excursions are but the inevitable re- suit of the inefficiency of the official organization. The food is, after all, there; it ought not to be left to private ini- tiatiYA to procure it.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-13
ALL ALONE IN \ CROWD
San Antonio, Tex, Light

San Antonio, Tex, Light
 Recently there arrived in New York City from the interior Of Al Rska. g little American woman nam sS Mrs. Ida Lilly, who had gone to the gold country a dozen years ago Rnd who hod lived there most of the time since in little cabin, sey- eral weeks travel by dog sledge from the nearest seaport. She was asked by a newspaper reporter what her first impressions of New York were, and she said:
 --..7F have lived for months and months in the winter-bound camps of Alaska; once spent six weeks absolutely alone on a storm-bound island off the Alaskan coast and subsisted on what game l could trap; have been showed in when tse snow was sixty feet deep and ] had to dig my way out with shoY- el. but I have never been as lone some in my life as in New York City This is the lonesomest spot % earth to me"
 IL might strike a person as anus jDs that anyone would use the word "qonesIme" to describe such a place as New York city, but to any one who has lived much in isolated re- SiOns 1t Is well known that lofty mountains, deep clear rivers, great fCrest trees, moss-coyered rocks and, d. ubtless too, ghe great wastes of snow and ice-billOcks of the far north, take on a companionship which is sorely missed at the part. ing.
 ARd 1t Is true, too, that there is no FonlIer feeling in all the wide world than to be set down in great city without knowing single soul and watch the crowds go by. To q stranger far from home and friends, far from familiar environ msnts and customary scenes, the feeling of utter desolation that can come when the first electric lights of a strange city begin to glimmer, h past description and can only bs realized by experience.
 There Is nothing colder than a ccld heart and there Is no greater lsRlinesz in the world than for a person accustomed to solitude and. isolation to be hurriedly swept along ia s crowd Of a city's street.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-13
A Confirmed
 Statement
Evidence Skagway Readers Will
 Appreciate

Doan's Kidney Pills have done splendid work.
 Have merited the unstinted praise they have received.
 Here's evidence of their value that none can doubt.
 It's testimony that's twice-tOld and well confirmed.
 Sucn endorsements are unique in the annals of medicine
 Should convince the most skepti- cal reader.
 F. 4, Sutton, tents and awnings dealer, 396 Hoyt St., salem, Ore, says: q had kidney trouble and rheumatic twinges ten years or more, My back gave me a great deal of bother and sharp pains ex- tended all through my body. I was all run down, lost weight and was in poor health. Doan's Kidney Pills made me feel like a different man. My appetite improved and the aching and pains left me-" Statement given January 31, 'O6.)
 On April 13, 1916, Mir. Sutton added: whenever my kidneys aren't acting right I take Doan's Kidney Pills for a few days and the never fail to overcome the trouble"
 Price COG, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same tat MT. Sutton had. Foster-Mil- burn Co.,, Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
 Advertisement.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-13
CLOTHING MADE OF PAPER
@ Clinedinst.

It has not yet been found pos sible, says Das Deutsche Wollen- Gewerbe, to make paper textile fa' rics sufficiently supple for eX- tensiye use in the clothing indus try. The difficulty consists in mak- ing the textile supple without cor respondingly diminishing their ten acity Alkaline substances which give good results in regard to pliability unfortunately affect the tSuacity of the paper yarns in an unsatisfactory manner.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-13
Matson and Ireland.

Sir William Watson has earned the right to be termed Ire,and's poetical champion, although he was born in Yorkshire and is of Yorkshire ancestry on both sides. Home rulers say that there Is no more terSe description of the position of Erin than that contained in the famous lines of his ode on the Day of the Coronation of King Ed ward VII"
 The lovely and the lonely bride Whom we have welded but have never
 won.
 His first volume of poems was pub lished at his fathers expense. Ten years later not twenty copies had been sold. Six years after the publication of his second volume he had gained no success. Today he is regarded as our greatest living poet.-London Standard.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-13
r | ! : < t % . ! + < @ F ! : + FRATERNAL ORDERS t < + < + + < f < + t + 4 f < E

- Arctic Brotherhood. -
 1A Camp Skagway No. 1, EIWS A. B. meets every sec
 c5g ond and fourth Tues ~ day evening at S:3O p. m. sharp. Visiting brothers cordial ly welcome. Edward A. Rasmu5on, Arctic Chief, w. R. Gray, Arctic Recorder.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-13
NOT A RIVAL OF THE SUN.
This Shows How Puny Is the Worlds
 Biggest Artificial Light.

Biggest Artificial Light.
 Perhaps the biggest artificial light ill the world is the :2,UDHJU caaG.e pow CT light installed at IAe raiS uf Mag ara. When this gigantic Installation was made it Was ,lg!E.Cd to be the nearest approach ,C G,;l S@n..il,:!e ever devised by man, uI.d that LlHy be true. But It is interesting tO ascertain. if possible. how mu, it fell :.huIt of tine actual output Of light D.: OFT great Iuminary, and, St.&aGc.y CIoJsh, there are figures in existence which enable q comparisCu tO be made. Yct it nay be stated at once that these figures are so stupendous as to leave the hu- man mind absolutely in the dark"
 Professor Young made calculation some years ago, based upon careful and repeated experiments Uf the total quantity Uf sunlight given out by our sun, and he foaud it to be quan- tity represented b. candles running to twenty-eight igur,a. ;u%Gie power be- ing the official unit.
 How many lights equal to the Mag ara installation would 1t require to match Dame Natures big installation which appears above the horizon so regularly day by duyi More big fig ures, It would require 31. 5OO,OOOOOO,- 9OO,OO0.00O lights just as powerful as the biggest man has accomplished lon his own" So even Uncle Sam will have to try again. The Niagara illu- imitation Is some" light, but old Sol is equal to three and One-half Quintil- lions of them.-PearsOn'S Weekly.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-13
TEASING TUNIULT

Someone has been peddling the ridiculous story that Joseph P. Tumulty, Secretary to the President, has been found to be a spy and has been confined in military prison
 Ar. Tumulty is righteously and rightly indignant; and the secret service is trying to find out who stsrted the story. It will probably remain one Of those things which Lcrd Dundreary used to classify IS such that no feller can find out"
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-13
SELFISHNESS OF "FOOD EXCURSIONISTS."

The recent order of the military authorities directed against the food excursioniSts has given rise to much agitation in Berlin. A writer in the Lokal-Anzeiger points out that a distinction should be made between the hard pressed, anx-