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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10

| tie front scores of German bombing
planes for three weeks devoted them
! selves closely and consistently to
bombing hospitals killing the wound
ed manning and mutilating unSpeak-
| ably non-combatant nurses, doctors,
! cooks and attendants. Then by scores
the planes of the allies visited Ger
/ man towns-chiefly where munitions
were made and stored. But doubtless
many innocent women and children
were slain. But in repr1saI the Ger
mans visited LondCn night after night
| and even by day, coming two times
| in one week, and slaughtered nun
| dreds And still the. bloody work
goes on. The forces are comparatively
| small, and fairly well balanced. But
! let destruction swoop across Germany
| in a thousand planes or two or three
thousand in a single battle, and death
will soon show Germany and the
world, too, that death is too cheap
in civilization to act as an arbiter or
great causes. That will end the war.
1t may end all war. Humanity may
learn a lesson and go forward to its
next task.
Now what of the salvage after the
war of all the murderous activities in
the air? What gain for the days and
ways of peace will come from the
four wonderful years of progress of
the military aeroplane? So far there
is little. It costs at least about a dol
lar a mile to operate a moderate sized,
airplane. But the life of the plane
is so short that under present lines of
| construction the airplane has no COM
mercial value. Few men can learn to
operate it quickly. It has a, tremen-
dous up-keep. 1t takes a golf course
for starting place and a pasture for
! stopping. 1t has no place in our lives
except as a toy for jaded men who
have exhausted all common thrills.
In fact the airplane is just where
the automobile was at the end of the
| 18th century And by the same token
when we have taken new angle to-
! ward the airplane, designing it and
: improving it for uses of peace for five
/ years as we have for five years de-
! signed it for the peculiar needs of
war, a new plane will rise where the
war airplane circles the sky. A slow
machine capable of only 100 miles an
/ hour carrying twenty persons would
i widen the suburban limits of every
| City to miraculous distances and would
draw New York, Chicago, Kansas City,
| Denver, San Francisco together as
neighbors of a few hours journey.
Again, providence would gather the
world togather in a constantly mar
| rowing circle. Men knowing each
other will understand each other the
better and, understanding each other
| better the need of war will be less
! even as the meaning of war an
! arbiter becomes less significant.
And so again may the swords be
turned to plowShareS and the spears
to pruning hooks. And these horror
| breeding vessels of wrath fitted unto
| destruction may rise from thu ashes
| of war as genuine harbingers of peace.
| Copyright, 1917, by the wheeler
| Syndicate, Inc.)
! (Another article from France by William
Allen White will appear next Saturday.
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1oUaG Ocrs4aTz

cause he has der chance, forgets hiss
country und idts needs, und boosts
der price off hiss goots und says 1dt
ISIS on account off der var Dot Teller,
in efery case haSS been making money
pefore DER var, odervise he wouldn't
be doing business. und 81 for dot rea-
son should be skanatisfied NIT his
oosual profit, und nodt take advantage
off der skituation to squeeze few
more cents off profit from der beo-
pies. Heine, iff he hadt der least bit
off patriatics apout him he would try
to keep der brices DOWN chust as
mooch as possible, und still earn
legitimate brofit right adj a time ven
der peoples need der hellup, and right
adj a time ven nearly eferypody ISIS
trying to hellup der gofernmendt puy
lifting as cheaply as possible. trying to
safe food for der soldchers, und doing
mitouidt luxuries und things. Heine,
der Teller vot takes advantage off
sooch a skftuation adt sooch time
shOuldt be elected to honorary MEM
bership in der Shoot Gun Squad nit
ouidt doubt
Say. Heine. did you efer stop to
think how mooch sympathy ISIS mis-
placed2 Now for instagnance. For
years haff sympathised NIT der fell
Ter vot didn't half any visible means
aroundt puy der street on und do
noting. All der time vot half worked
forty-eight hours each day half I
thought of der fellow who envied me
mein chob, und many times half I
veeped nit tears adj hiss plight. To
think. Heine, off noting TO do. no blaze
to go, und noting to do ven he gedts
there-idt vos awful. But now, aft
er all desc years find dot mein sym
pathy ISIS misplaced und lost. Dot
Teller hass a cinch. Heine. Ali week
der town hass been full oop nit pretty
school teachers from all der stadt
Offer, und dot son-of-a-gun mitouidt a
chob hasn't got a blamed thing to do
but stood on der street und watch der
sights 1 guess, Heine, mein sympathy
ISIS useless
Your fader,
LOUIE sCHNITz.
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Mein dear son Heine:
I guess iff you stay puy dot skol-
lege mooch longer der income tax
wont keep me awake oop night worry
ing. But vots der use off argumify-
ing. Heremit ISIS der check.
Veil, Heine, I am thinking off or
ganizationing a new society, und will
call idt der shoot Gun Squad. Der
purpose off der organization ISIS to
stood oop against a vail und shoot
nit bullets eferything und any vun
who attempts to Interfere init der
gofernmendt, der army, der nafy or
der country during der var. AS you
know der ISIS der certain class off
politicioners who try to embarrass
der administration for political profit,
und SO are traitors to DER country
puy putting politics und personal ad-
vancemendt before DER nations needs,
along oders chust as bad. All sooch
shouldt be made charter mempers off
der, Squad, und receife der full bene-
fits off der orchanization nit haste
But Heine, dere ISIS still yedt anoder
class off s&initizens who shouldt also
receife attention, und idt ISIS like dis.
Der nation ISIS calling for eonserva
, ton off eferyting. Dey say eat
enough, but do idt less. und so We
Hooverize. Dey say, safe der sugar,
und so We eat der bananas, prunes,
potatoes, coffee. und oder fruit mitout
sugar; der nation says, don't spendt
so mooch money, und so We safe idt
we're We used to spendt idt; der nation
says. puy Liberty Bonds. und We gedt
oui6t und fight for a chance to puy
some; -und who does idt? Der rich
man, der man NIT a salary, und efen
der poor Teller who hass to sell hiss
wife's lasdt years overcoat to puy
bond. Dey all Hooverize, save, und
itemize, but dey DON'T criticize.
Meier do dey complain, but SHOW
dot dey are patriatic. Now, Heine.
dot ISIS der class off skinitizens dot We
are proudt nit. But vile ell of der
apove ISIS going on, und vile der beo-
pies ISIS safing und conservationing,
dere ISIS anoder class off fellers vot
need attention Dot iss der Teller
who, mitouidt reason, und cflust Pc
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merry ringing cheers and smiling
faces.
Then when the dancing Is ended
the Fairy Queen invites them all to
banquet at her table, and while they
feast, Puck, the merriest Fairy in the
world, makes rirth and joke for all
They fare on sweetmeats taken from
the heart of flowers, and drink from
crystal cups, the dews that fall from
heaven upon the leaves and grass and
vine.
When the dawn sends her pink sig
nails over the sky, the HarebelIs peal
anew, in faint sweet tones to warn
each Fairy of the coming day Then
off they go their homeward ways and
hide from every eye till HarebeIls
sound the banquet call again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10
Shawnee County Officers Adopt
Clever Trace Plan.
Call Farmers When in Pursuit
of Motor Car Thieves.
CARS STOLEN ALMOST DAILY
Topeka, Wichita, Junction City,
Hutchinson Lead State.
All Roads From Topeka Are
Watched Closely by Officers.

Hardly a day passes that the police
and sheriff's office don't receive from
one to three descriptions of automo-
biles stolen in some town in Kansas.
Automobile thieves are rapidly be-
coming a class all by themselves,
along with pickpockets. safe blowers
and second story men. Cars. stolen in
Topeka, Wichita, Junction City and
Hutchinson in the last three months
probably would run into three figures.
Junction City, filled daily with
thousands who are obliged to park
their cars in out-of-the-way place. has
been the worst victim of auto thieves.
Topeka and Wichita are next in list
of victims.
Dips, second story men and safe
blowers can go anywhere after they
complete the bit of work they have
set out for themselves during the
night Auto thieves must follow the
roads. But they can follow them
fast Yet. the fact that they must
stay on roads makes their capture less
difficult.
Adopt New Plan.
The sheriff's office in Topeka is
pursuing a clever scheme to appre-
bend auto thieves. For the last week
one has found Bob Miller, undersher-
Tiff. drawing a map of Shawnee, JEFF
ferson, Usage and Riley counties. On
this map appears all the roads in each
county and the names of the farmers
living on these roads.
The telephone is looked upon by
officers as the best method of getting
a ling on auto thieves. BY consult
ing this map. figuring on the time the
thieves have been gone and the dis
lance they have covered, and tele-
phoning farmers all over the county
it is believed that in time things will
become so hot for auto thieves that
they will adopt another method OF
making a living.
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HAREBELIS.

Then open wide your eyes and you
shall see a train of winsome little
sprites that answer to the Harebell's
magic call. And should you follow in
their wake. sweet revelry and mirth-
fuIness shall fill your hours from twi-
lights fall to earliest dawn.
Now they for the Fairy Ring and
hand in hand with nimble feet, dance
to the music furnished them BY sprites
who form the Fairy Band. And such
a Band it is Their instruments are
Trumpet Flowers and Columbines;
the DaTdeliOn's stem. the Willows
bark. and blades of Grass. Round and
round and in and out they go with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10
TRANSFERS ORGANIZE
They VIII Apply for An A. F. of L.
Charter in Short Time.

The eamsters, chauffeurs, stable
men and others following these lines
of work in order to keep pace with
the rapidly increasing cost of living
and to try to set better wages held
meeting Sunday morning at the Labor
Temple, located at AIS Kansas ave-
nue. and organized and will shortly
send for an A. F. of L. charter.
First Vice President Sol Viewers
of The Kansas Federation of Labor
was present and presided over the
meeting. An effort is also being made
to have the Boss Transfers of Shaw
nee County get into an organizat ton
that it claimed would benefit them
and also aid the teamsters in their
desire to be recognized as a Union.
The next meeting will be held at
the Labor Temple, AIS Kansas ave-
nue. at 10 a. m. Sunday, Nov IL
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same, they really don't much vary
Some now are showing fur pompoms
that are most chic-oh, very. While
turbans of brocade and gold are very
smart to wear with harem robes of
gorgeous hue that trousers boast, a
pair. And with the documentary
robes we've mentioned heretofore of
course they're yarn darned Georgette
caps that you will just adore
But this 1 know and tell you so
that whether cold or coaled If You
have bought a gauZy robe and for it
paid much gold. Although you SILVER
like leaf you'll really have to wear
it. You'll feel more dressed to wear
smile SO simply grin and bear it,
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SSeS Tor your convenience in buy.
e called on often for quick refer
day. If you are not represented
formation.
Insurance.
FALKINER & WENTWORTH GEN
eral Insurance. 409-11 New England BLDG.
Phone I'll.
r. H. MoREHo1ssTEe.
427 Holiday.
Phone 1923.
Loans. Mortgages. Financial Agents.
FARM MORTGAGE Co,
Crawford b e.,
Phone ASA
PIONEER MORTGAGE Co,
4th Floor Mulvane Bldg.
Phone IA
Mattress Factories.
MCINTYRE BROS. SPRINGS, BEDS
Mattress Factory. 227-229 Quincy.
Phone 5275.
W. ]. LEWIS. Opticians.
500 Kansan Ave
Phone 1oaa
7c7 Kansas Ave.
Phone $3.50.
c p BOLMAR REAL ESTATE
Collections. 30 Columbian Bldg.
Phone rs Ring 2.
Sand Dealers.
TOPEKA SAND CO.,
Foot Of Topeka Ave.
Phone 353S
II. W. BOMGARDNER,
621 jackson St
Phone 14a
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Advertising Companies.
DIRECT ADVERTISING CO,
412414 Central National Bank Bldg.
Phone 1s45
Bicycles and Motorcycles.
SHAWNEE CYCLE CO.
ia East 18th st.
Phone 900
Business Colleges.
DOUGHERTY'S BUSINESS COLLEGE.
George f. Dougherty. Pres. lie West sth
phone 5GG.
Banks.
MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK
New England Build.LS,
MARSHALL BROS,
135 Kansas Ave
Phone 535
WARREN NJ. CROSBY CO,
613-1- Kansas Ave
Phone 35G0
Electrical Fixtures. Repairs Supplies.
etic Supply. ZIG Kansas Ave.
Phone 1877.
Eye Specialists.
DIR. D. r.. PAINE,
IFS Kansas Ave.
Phone 724.'
Express Dray and Transfer.
TOPEKA TRANSFER CO. G II White
52S Adams st.
Phone 1856
BAUGHMAN BROS.
2235 Lincoln St
Phone 3640.
TOPEKA PURE MILK CO.
40o-o2-O4 jackson St
Phone 537.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY

Telephone numbers and addresses convenience in hi
Filed this list could be called for quick ref
1t will Saturday. you are not represent
call Phone $3.50 Adv Dept. for information
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LOUIE sCHNITz.
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of Grand % La
me
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NECLICEE STYLES
Most All Are, but These Are
the Real Thing.
Gauzy Gowns Not Affected by
Weather-in BOudOir.
FORECAST.

BY MARGARET MASON.
| written for the Topeka State Journal
The negligees
They wear these days
Are simply out of sight.
But you, my dear,
In nnn I
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-11
IOWA, NEBRAskAAND NORTH DA-
koTA IN URGENT NEED OF
HELP IN FIELDS.
NORTHERN STATE OFFERS
7 CENTS PER BUsHEL
Defense Council and State Employ
ment Bureau Making Effort to Find
Sufficient Workers-Soldiers at Camp
Dodge May Be Granted Furoushs
to Assist in Garnering Crops.
special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times
Des Moines. Oct 11.--Iowa, Nebraska
and South Dakota are in urgent need
of men to husk corn. AS high as I
cents per bushel is being offered by
South Dakota farmers in addition to
board and rooms and yet, but few men
can be had.
The Iowa defense council and the
state free employment bureau are en-
deayoring to find corn huskers, as are
also the defense councils OF both
Nebraska and South Dakota. Corn
huslling is starting in many, localities.
The government is now co-operat-
ing with the state free employment
bureau in finding work for men who
complete their jobs at Camp Dodge
and these men are being apprised Of
the opportunity to pick corn. Not a
few of them are leaving the camp to
do this work.
The state defense council has APP
pointed a committee whose members
are G. c. Deering and James M.Pierce,
of Des Moines, and Paul Junkin, OF
CreSton to confer with General Hluii-
mer, in command at Camp Dodge, Win
reference to granting furloughs to the
selected men who have corn at home
to pick. Not q few Of the farmers GER
tilted for service by the southern dis
trict appeal board have been given
extra time in which to gather their
corn. -..
Seed corn is being gathered now and
it is reported to be feXcellent quality
Iowa is to be called upon to furnish
seed corn to states north Of here,
especially Minnesota, Wisconsin ma
AIichigan->where cool weather ruined
the crop The state extension depart
ment at Ames is especially urging the
prompt selection Of seed corn The
state defense council Is also urging
this. y ~. '...
Dr. George NJ. Chapel reports that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-11
MANY ALTERATIONS
MUST BE MADE IN
CAMP BUILDINGS,

Camp Dodge. Oct. ll.--Changes in
plans and specifications, made neces-
sary by the order of the provost mar
shall general changing the system of
army organization, will delay the COM
pletion of Camp Dodge until probably
Nov. Is.
According to present plans. 100
new. buildings of all sorts remain to
be constructed, While it will be
necessary to remodel about eighty Of
those already built and ready for o.
cupancy.
When the plans for the cantonment
were drawn II was supposed that tho
buildings would house regiments OF
about 1900 men each. Three of the
new organizations. which increased the
size of the battalion and made it
rather than the regiment, the real mo-
bile military unit, regimental capacity
is increased by 1000 men. and numer-
Gus changes have to be made to build
sufficient buildings to house that num-
Der and at the same time hold the reg
iments together in their former align
ment.
which was increased in size and the
plans for which were greatly changed
also has operated to delay the work. -
Present plans call for erection Of
quarters of two brigades of infantry,
one depot brigade aud two regiments
each of heavy and light field artillery.
In nearly every case the size of the
organizations was increased by the
army reorganization and alterations
have to be made accordingly. In addi-
ton it is necessary to build quarters
for the trains. the engineers military
police. signal battalion and hospital or
CARNATIONS, nearly all Of which in
creased in size as the result Of the re-
organization program.
Original Work Near Completion.
All original construction. officers
say, will be out of the way by the end
of the present month. All remodeling
will have been completed by Nov. 10.
Nearly five thousand laborers and car
penters are now employed at the camp
and work is being rushed in every way
possible The rclnount station has
been completed and work on the base
hospital is nearing its close There
remains only To- bHllu u lew ptll IL No
FOR the artillery. and in the neighbor-
hood Of 400 sta bles and sheds neces-
sary to house the animals and equip
ment to be used by the brigade.
The water sy stem. which has been
giving trouble and operation Of which
has been suspended from time to time
for several weeks, is now reported to
be in perfect working order. The
trouble, it was stated was with the red
wood pipe used for mains. Until the
wood soaks up and expands, leaks are
likely to occur These leaks have been
found and repaired and the system is
in perfect operation.
Sewer System Complete.
The sewer system is complete
and working in u satisfactory manner.
Plans arerso going forward for install
Iat;on Of all he heating apparatus.
It was stated that at least one
stove has been Installed in every bar
racks in which men have been quar-
tered. All efforts are being made. too
to have the remainder OF stoves in
stalled at once. About seven stoves
in all will be installed in each bar
racks and sever second lieutenants OF
the uuartermaster's corps yesterday
were sent to various factories from
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-11
FUNERAL. FOR SECOND IOWA.
Troops Make Merry at Passing Of Old
Regiment at Camp Cody.

Camp Cody, Deming. n. NJ, oct. IL,
The merging of the old Second Iowa
guard regiment into other regiments
here was the occasion fo1 last sad
rites" being performed by The mem
Ners
Following en- grafton, read by Cor
poral Jack Elliott, of tn4 headquarters
company, a fu"cral procession escorted
The cisKGt, appropriately draped, TO
the burial. ....
The Second Iowa band which in
is snort stay ,;ar2 has made its III
already famous, led the procession
playing Nearer My God to Thee"
Officers of the regime Mt presented
Colonel Hyatt with a Howard gold
watch In token OF their appreciation
OF the colonel ss commanding officer
OF the old regiment.
New orders by which the Second
was merged Will Nebra SKA troops into
regular army units. were responsible
for the last obsequies so well executed
for Miss Sec md Iowa.
Copies of the obituary read by Cor
poral Elliott were sold by the thou
sands in camp and thru the town ana
distributed over the country by friends
of the regiment. Following is II copy
of the grafton:
Tn loving commemoration Of Miss
Second Iowa. who was born on the 10th
day OF May, 1877, at Fort Dodge.
Iowa, where she was raised to young
womanhood. She then moved to Web
ster City. Iowa, which was her home
at the time of her demise. She was the
strongest OF large number or reSl-
ments which we're raised in various
parts of the country. and she has been
model young lady, who was copied
by all who had ever had the pleasure
of meeting her. She was disowned by
her father, the government, on the 29th
day of September, 1917, at Camp Cody,
n. NJ, after passing thru a serious
operation to save the life of her sister
Miss Third. few short months be-
fore. She had never known days
weakness up to the hour of her death
and went to her death gallantly to
save the life of some OF her weaker
sister regiments. She passed away
Sunday morning. Sept. 80, 1917, and
was inferred in the lasting sands OF
the New Mexican desert There was
none who knew her but that mourns
her death and weeps in sorrow Tor
her
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-11
co.Eps ARE TAUGHT rlpINEss.
System, Of Military Inspection lnsti-
tated at Grinne!l.

System, Of Military Inspection lnstl-
tuted at Grinne!l.
Special to Times Republican.
Grinnell, Oct. ia system Of mill
tary. inspection among the girls OF
Grinnell College. whereby the offenders
are compelled to do all kinds Of dirty
work." has been instituted in an eff
fort to maintain strict order in the
rooms Of the dormitories at all times.
Before explaining said system, 1t must
be emphatically stated that girls do
not like to clean kitchenettes.
Disorder in any room Is reported as
soon as discovered by the proctor OF
that building and after two reports the
name of the victim is posted. Also she
is warned. At the third report she
is compelled to scrub up the kitchenette
"spick and span" for a week! Callers
at the dormitories have seen numer-
Gus busy" notices tackled on doors
since the system was inaugurated. Can
you guess the treason why?'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-11
CALL RESERVE SIGNAL CORPS.
Company Recruited at Des Moines Re-
ports For Service.

Des Moincs, Oct. 11.-Company A,
Seventeenth battalion, reserve signal
corps, recruited in Des Moines last
summer by Capt. l.. w. AinsWorth, has
Been ordered into the field.
Members OF the company reported TO
T. g commandihe officer of the Three
Hundred and Thirteenth field signal
hlttaliol at Camp Dodge "Wednesday.
The company Is the last of the Des
Moines units tc be ordered out. Lack
of the special equipment necessary for
the training &C signal companies is said
to have been responsible for the delay
in he calling OF this unit.
Captain Ainsw orth's company mum =
bers about seventy alive men, About
forty of these are Des Moines young
men. number of local men, enlisted
under Captain Ainsworth at the time