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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
DOUBLE ACREAGE
Titanic Campaign Sweeping
Western Kansas PrairieS.
Tractors Turning Sod for State
Greatest Wheat Crop.

Larned, Kan, July 16.-Hundreds
of thousands OF acres of sod That new
er before was touched by the pillow is
being turned over in western Kansas
this summer, in preparation for the
biggest wheat acreage ever sown in
the history of the wheat belt.
AS the big, ungainly tanks came to
confuse the enemies of the allies on
the battlefields of Europe, so the lum-
bering tractors are busy this summer
on the plains of western Kansas, get
ting the ground ready to produce the
greatest wheat crop in the history of
the state.
Steel Mule Succeeds Buffalo.
Without the tractor the miracle
could not be performed on these west
ern plains. The sod of these prairies
that has lain undisturped thru the
centuries, beaten down by the rains
and the hoofbeats of hundreds of
thousands of buffaloes, is stubborn
and unyielding. But under the touch
o the steel mule that has come into
needed worst, the prairies are being
turned upside down with ease.
Twenty, thirty and even forty acres
a day is no task for the steel mule,
which never tires, and is impervious
to the heat that shimmers on to the
prairies in suffocating waves
The streets of the towns and viii
lagos in western ana central Kansas
these days are deserted. Every avail
g BILE man is in the fields, getting the
ground ready for the big drive next
year. Young men are leaving the Of
fices of the towns to go out and help.
1t is estimated that in many west
ern wheat counties the acreage will be
doubled this year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
Minimum Pay Problem Before
Welfare Commission.
Merchants and Employees To Be
Called Before Body.
HEARING HERE SEVERAL DAYS
Girls Fearing Loss of Jobs for
Evidence To Be Protected.
Belief That Not Less Than So
VIII Be Considered.

Minimum wages for Kansas work
ing girls are being considered today al
meeting of the state welfare COM
mission A number of merchants and
girls employed in stores and industrial
plants will be called before the COM
mission. The hearing will continue
several days.
Evidence concerning the need of a
minimum wage for women will be
taken by commission members who
are in session in the Office of the state
labor bureau in the state house. Ac-
ton concerning a minimum wage for
women follows the recent order of the
board upholding the maximum hour
rule, established several months ago.
Arguments concerning the increase
in the cost of living, working condi-
tons in Kansas stores and industrial
plants and the uniform wage scales in
classified mercantile establishments,
are being considered. Some of the
sessions of the commission will be be-
hind closed doors. Girls employed in
industrial activities who fear the loss
of their positions thru testimony
which they may give, will be protect
ed by the commission in every possible
manner, it was stated.
Majority Live at Home.
Information recently gathered by
Miss Lenna Bresette, secretary of the
commission, shows that ninety per
cent of the girls employed in mercan-
tile establishments in this state live
at home. Naturally. it is stated,
these girls are able to live more cheap
ly than girls compelled to meet COM
mercial living rates.
At this time, members of the COM
mission stated, no definite minimum
wage is being considered. 1t is be-
lieved, however, that the commission
will not consider a wage below IS a
week in event an order is made. There
iS 1ift1p flrnha hilitU that n order in
the case will be made before some
time in August or early September.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
BLAME I. W. W. FOR MILL FIRE
Raid of Headquarters and Martial
Law Follow $15O,OOO Fire.

klamath Falls, Ore, July 49,
Every 1. w. w. in klamath county
will be arrested, Sheriff Humphrey an
nounced today, as result of a fire
which destroyed the mill and eleva-
tor of Martin Brothers with $4,000
bushels of wheat. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
The city today is practically under
martial law. Armed guards patrol the
streets and deputies are guarding rail-
road property and the mills
Immediately after the fire Sheriff
Humphreys swore in 200 special dep
uties and raided I. w. w headuuar-
tiers. Thirty-nine I. w. VS. were ar
rested and correspondence and liter
ature were seized.
Upon the authorization of Wash
ington, the United States attorneys
office at Portland appointed John w.
Farnell as special deputy United States
marshal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
COLD BACK OF IT
U. S. HOneycOmbed With Ger
man Propaganda, Says Scion.
Use Newspapers and Religious
BOdies-Amazes Congress.
BY GEORGE MARTIN.

Washington, July 16.-Evidence
that millions in German gold are still
being poured into effective propa-
sahda work among Americans has
by a statesman of international repu-
tation, it was learned today.
In an interview this statesman,
whose name for obvious reasons can
not be mentioned, said:
German bought papers are being
published unhindered under the very
nose of the American government
every day
Hundreds of ministers are using
their holy offices to turn Americans
into German sympathizers-
THE condition is not local, but
Zone of the biggest papers in the
pay of the kaiser is published in the
east
Crush Serpent's Head.
A dangerous situation is resulting
from the Vaccinations of these pro-
German propagandists, he asserted.
They are sleeping in atmosphere of
hatred.
The alleged pro-German operations
of German churchmen in Nebraska,
the statesman added, are only surface
outcroppings of a honeycomb propa-
ganda of. more than one religious
body, hundreds of individuals and
try.
MY fellow statesmen" continued
the speaker, were amazed at formal
findings which 1 submitted
81 take an exceedingly gloomy view
of the situation in America. Serious
trouble threatens if Americas heel
does not Immediately crush the SER
penis head.
Il also feel that the allies should
organize their own propaganda more
strongly in neutral countries. That
is the only point upon which Germany
has been wide awake and we have
been asleep
Riot meters Germans.
Washington, July I6.-Arrest of
German rioters ard meters among the
1. w. w. disturbers in Arizona and
Montana was reported to the depart
ment of justice today. The men ar
rested have not been officially accused
of representing German interests but
were taken in custody under the pro-
vision of the presidents alien enemy
proclamation.
Careful investigation has failed to
disclose the source of money at the
rioters disposal, and as yet no evidence
Of the use of German money justify
ing arrests of higher ups has been
found.
In the future officials said, l. W. w.
agitators will be held rs anarchists
and imprisoned until some come ction
can be established between the central
organization behind the trouble and
the German-paid propaga nda which
government agents feel sure will be
uncovered.
Here Is Widest One Yet.
Chicago, July 16.-John Natchky
was arrested by federal agents today
charged with trying to form an or
ganization pledging members if draft
ed first to shoot their officers and
next to surrender to the Germans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
TO EXTEND WHITE WAY
Light Poles VIII Be Placed on Kan
sas Avenue to Eleventh Street.

Extension of the white way on Kan
sas avenue from Tenth street to
Eleventh street was decided upon at
a meeting of the city commissioners
this morning. The decision followed
the filing of a favorable report by
Commissioner Frank NJ. Newland
upon a petition by interested property
owners asking for the improvement.
In his report Commissioner New
land stated that a majority of prop
erty owners had signed the petition
The city engineer has been instructed
to draw plans and specifications for
the improvement. The white way at
present extends from Morse street
in North Topeka to Tenth street on
the south side of the river.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
BLUE JACKET is HOME
c. t. Richardson, Training on Great
Lakes, Visiting Father.

c. T. Richardson of Topeka, dis
guised beneath a coat of tan and
sunburn, all decked out in his blues"
Jacket, pants and all-including the
little white hat and khaki leggings, is
in Topeka today.
The Great Lakes training school,
where he has been stationed for the
last month, is the best place in the
country" according TO his statement.
Richardson enlisted in the navy as
q fireman about a month ago. Since
then he has been stationed in train
ing at the Great Lakes and is now
drilling to get his sea legs before he
- transferred to the water.
richardson secured a ten days fur
Aougk last week when he received
word of his fathers illness. He came
to Topeka Immediately and will spend
the rest of his furlough here. His
father has been ill for nearly a week
and no improvement in his condition
has been reported.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
CALL TOPEKA GIRLS
They May Enter Federal Service as
Red Cross Nurses Soon.

Topeka girls will soon enter federal
service as Red Cross nurses, according
to a message received from Washing
ton this morning by Bertha Jones.
1908 College avenue, who is chairman
of the local board of Red Cross emer-
gency nursing service. The order
stated that the first detachment from
Kansas would be called by August 1.
The first call will include a single
attachment, consisting of ten members
and will be known as the Red Cross
emergency nursing company attach
ment No. 115. Members of this sec
ton will be selected from Red Cross
nurses of Kansas and will be stationed
within the United States and later pos
Sibly in France.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
CHARGE LAND FRAUD
Suit File Against III. D. Mossbarger
for 1910 in District Court.

Florence M. Chrisman, as admins
traitor for the estate of Joseph w. H.
ChriSman, Walter Chase and Florence
M. Chrisman, field suit late Saturday
afternoon in the Shawnee district
court against H. d. Mossbarger for
1910 alleged to have been obtained by
fraud by Mossbarger in Florida land
deal
The petition states that Mossbarger,
as agent for George H. Hall, sold two
of the defendants ten acres of land
at $35 an acre and misrepresented it's
condition and quality.
The petition also states that Moss
barger induced Chase to invest $50 in
land and represented it to be free
from incumbrance, thereby defraud-
ing the plaintiff out of the money
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
Such Makeshifts Have Forced Thou
sands Into Risking Dangerous

sands Into Risking Dangerous
Operations
Wearing elastic and spring trusses year
after year is almost sure to shorten your
life.
You can't make them hold. even when
drawn so tight you can scarcely stand to
keep them
They usually let you get worse all the
time-that's why every year they are fore
ing thousands of people into undergoing
operations.
They are simply a crime-squeeze the
rupture, often causing strangulation-dig
the spinal column at the back-make life
miserable for nearly everybody who wears
them.
The Plain Truth Is This
You can't possibly get well-can't even
keep from getting worse-unless your rup-
ture is constantly held in place. Just as a
broken bone can't knit unless held Sc
curely together.
only way a broken bone can be held. so
the right kind of truss is the only thing
in the world that can keep rupture from
coming out and growing worse
You'll feel like a new person from the
day you put on that kind of truss.
But you know as well as We that you'll
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any drugstore.
Yet it's easy enough to get. And you
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It's the famous CIuthe Truss or Cluthe
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teed to hold, and won't cost you cent if
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1t is so utterly different from every
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Made on entirely new principle. In
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
New York Money Market.

New York, July -MONEY-Mercan-
tile paper. ~ @4A: Sterling: 60 days bills,
AIN; commercial so day bills, 471H de-
mand, 4.755s.
Cables, 4.76 ZIG.
Francs demand, 5.7515 cables, 57415.
Guilders, demand, Il BIG; cables IL SIG
Lires demand, T.221a cables, 7211h
Rubles demand, 22.95 cables, 2315
Bar silver, S1A
Mexican dollars. 63Kc
Government bonds steady
Railroad bonds irregular
Time loans firmer; 60 days and 30 DAYS
4@4A six months. 4%65
Call money strong. High. 10; low, g.;
ruling rate, 6; last loan, s. closing bid, 4 /;
offered at s.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
Rupture's Worst Enemy

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If it can't be made to keen yorrr runtura
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You'l find it full of facts never before
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
Apathctic Towards 1. w. w.

Lincoln, July 16.-The Nebraska
state council of defense will not at
this time take steps to suppress dem
onstrations in Nebraska by alleged
members of the Industrial Workers
of the World, it became known here
today. The navel reserve recruitins
officer at North Platte, Neb.. had ap-
pealed to naval recruiting officers
here for relief from an Il. w. w.
menace and the appeal was placed
before the council of defense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
CATHOLICS STAND PAT
With Only 2 Dissenting Votes Party i'm
Reichstag for Peace.

Amsterdam, July ia Berlin teIe-
gram to an Amsterdam news agency
quotes the Tageblatt of Berlin to the
effect that the Catholic Center party
in the reichstag has decided with two
dissenting votes to make a declaration
in favor of the peace efforts without
regard to the attitude of the National
Liberals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses were issued from the
office of Ralph Cav, probate judge, today
to the following persons:
Curtis C. Beasore, Winchester ........ .21
Vivian Z. Wallian, Winchester 10
Charles z. Montgomery. Topeka u
Mildred L. Clark Topeka ............... Is
Louis Bartlett, Shorey n
Mary Cooper, Topeka Observation-Disclosures
Charles B. Anderson, Meriden ......... 81
Mae Montgomery Meriden .......2 20
Gordon Hooper. Belvue .20
Viola Evans, Belvue .-.....-............. 20
George W. Wharton. Topeka %
Catherine C.. Clohessy, Topeka .23
Richard Rice, Jr, Mayetta 20
Grace N. Nahquabe, Mayetta 10
William Brown. Topeka -...............5 80
Emma Milford, Topeka -..-.....-....-...40
willard H. McCord. Topeka ............ 80
Mary X. Hardy, BurlinganS Is
Wedding rings. 1s-K gold. 81 up.
Harris-Goar Co., 1924 E. 6th.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16

quested the resignation of Chief Will
son, following the chiefs latest
boner" at the Dibble grocery store,
met with neither denial nor affrma-
ton from Mayor House. He absolute
ly refused to discuss the subject fur
Their than to reiterate the statement
made earlier in the day tina. the
chiefs action was an outrage.
That's all at this time,'' he said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
FOUR TIMES QUOTA
Illinois Furnishes 1900 for Training
Camps; Quota Ell.

Chicago, July 16.-At noon today.
the last for receiving applications for
the second series of officers training
camps, $4,000 applications had been
received at the central department of
the army. OF them 1909 were from
Illinois. The states quota is 971
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16

Chicago, July ia man giving his
name as A. E. Holdt of Shelbyv1lIe,
Ind, was in Jail here today because
he is alleged to have referred to a pic
ture of President Wilson in his hotel
room as whats that d thing doing
on the WALTZ"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16

Copenhagen, July 16. - Maurice
Francis Egan, the American minister
no has been suffering from an alb
snees nf the kidneys, is reported de-
. idsdl)- better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16

The navy observation balloon is
the eyes of the fleet. 1t takes its
post hundreds of feet in the air and
keeps a lookout in all directions for
hostile raft. Telephones connect the
obserH with the vessels below.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16

Wall St, New York. July 16.-STOCKS%
Developments over the weekend and I'M
settlement in local MONETARY conditions
gave fresh impetus to bear attacks today
War shares and industrials made gross
recessions of to points, rails holding
firm to strong.
Disregarding the further advance in call
money to 10 per cent the market recorded
1 to points rallies in the final hour
The closing was heavy. Liberty bonds
were quoted at -99.46 to 90 1870 for reg
ular lots and from par to 90 for odd
amounts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16

Minister-"And do you forgive your
enemies?" Penitent-"Well, 1 can't say I
exactly forgive them. but l do nv best to
put them in a position where 1 can SYM
pathize with them."-Life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
HOUSE WON'T TALK
Mayor Refuses to Say He Has ''Fired''
Chief Wilson.

Constant rumors current late this
afternoon that Mayor House had re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16

Lords Flowers Satisfy Tel. s27.-
Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16

Mrs Blanche Shoemaker Wag-
staff, prominent author and poetess,
will drive her Lancia chassis as an
ambulance on the British front Mrs
Wagstaff is an expert mechanic and
crack motor cyc'ist and will be able
to repair her machine as well as
aTive il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16

Wedding rings, 1S-K gold, 81 up.
Co., 1924 E. 6th.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
Here rs WiIdest One Yet-

Chicago, July 16.-John Natchky
was arrested by federal agents today
charged with trying to form an or
ganization pledging members if draft
ed first to shoot their officers and
next to surrender to the Germans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
Great
Renodeling
Sale
526 Kansas Ave.
AT /;

In order to give our
workmen plenty of room
to work with we are go
ing to reduce our stock
as quickly as possible.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-06
LEAGUE or NATIONS
TO MAINTAIN PEACE
French Chamber OF Deputies Passes
Momentous Resolution. Ac.
cepted at Secret Session.
REPATRIATION FOR DAMAGES
Peace Conditions Demand Adequate
Return to Invaded Regions.
Evacuation Of Seized Territory and
Return OF Alsace-Lorraine.

PARIS. June 5.-By a vote t53 to
b6. the Chamber OF Deputies. In secret
session, has adopted a resolution do
claring that peace conditions must in
cludc the liberation OF territories. oc-
cupied by Germany. tho return OF
Alsace- Lorraine to France and lust
rcparation for damage done in the in :
radod regions. Tho resolution. which
was accepted by tho government, also
favors the creation OF a league OF
nations for the maintenance OF peace.
The secret session. which was ad-
journed from Saturday. continued all
yesterday afternoon and evening until
midnight.
When the doors were thrown omen
10 the public shortly after midnight.
president Paul Deschancl read four
resolutions which had been submit ed.
one was drawn by Deputies kleotz.
charles and Dumont. representing the
opinion OF tho majority group. the
other three were presented by different
sections Of the Socialists The frs,
resolution was accepted by the gov
eminent. II reads:
The Chamber of Deputies. tho direct
expression OF the sovereignty of tho
French people, salutes the Russian and
other allied democracies and indorscs
the unanimous protest which tho rem
resentatives OF Alsacc- Lorraine. torn
from France against their will. have
made to the national assembly. 1t de-
clares that IL expects from the war
imposed upon Europe by the agrees
sion OF imperialist Germany. the return
OF Alsace-Lorraine to the mother coun-
try. together with liberation OF in
vaded territories and just repnration
for damage.
Far removed from all thoughts OF
conquest and enslavement, il expects
that tho efforts Of the armies OF the
republic and her allies Will secure.
once Prussian militar.sm is destroyed
durable guarantees for peace and in
dependence for people great and small.
in league of nations such as has al
ready been foreshadowcd.
Confident that the government will
bring this about by the co-ordinated
military and diplomatic action Of all
the allies and rejecting all amend
ments. tho chamber passes to the or
der OF the day.