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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
Shooters Will Be Add
ed to Battery A.
Recruit Number to 217 Men il
L. $. Is Willing.
PARADE WAS PRODUCTIVE
Fifteen WOuId-Be Soldiers APP
piled for the Uniforms.
70 Trouble in Obtaining Addi-
Z tiOnaI Men Here.

= Battery A will be recruited to III
men and will include an assignment OF
machine guns If a provision authorizing
sach detachments for artillery units
be adopted by the war department.
Captain w. L. MacLean, commander
on Topeka organization, is authority
for that statement. Such a provision
Is now being favorably considered by
the department, ana while no orders
have yet been received here, military
experts expect its adoption.
The addition of two machine guns
to each artillery unit of the light field
type is proposed in the provision. cap
tain MacLean said today that II II is
TO be adopted he will have no trouble
III obtaining the additional men need
ed.
Recruiting in the battery received
fresh impetus by the loyalty day pa
rade Friday. Fifteen men applied for
enlistment Friday and altho not all OF
them have passed the physical exam
nation, Captain MacLean believes the
most of them will have no trouble in
doing so. Five men had made appli-
cation for enlistment up to this after
noon.
Todays applications, providing they
are accepted, bring the roster of the
organization up to 1862 men. How
ever the roster contains the names
of II men who failed to report last
spring when the Mexican call was
sounded The military board will
probably be asked to drop these men.
Captain MacLean said today that
these twelve were scattered over all
parts of the country, one or two in the
army. Some of them were natural
~ no good" Slackers, it is known,
are not desired in the battery.
I Elimination of the twelve men will
leave $50 men on the roster. They
are men who, to paraphrase Captain
MacLean, are up and doing and right
on the job ready for anything.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
WAR BULLETINS


Washington. April THE first
plans for cooperation between the
United States and the allies were dis
cussed by Counsellor Polk, the British
ambassador and the attache today.
Afterward Polk went to the navy
department, presumably to convey
some of the naval ideas given him. He
declined to make a statement.
May Fix Food Prices.
Washington, April THE POSSIBLE
ity that the federal trade commission
will be designated to fix war prices
on foodStuffs and all kinds of war
supplies, developed today following the
announcement that the commission
had placed its services at the disposal
of the National Defense Council
Take Over Big Wireless.
New Orleans, La, April THE
large wireless plants of the United
Fruit company here and those of the
Marconi company were taken over by
naval authorities today. Officials also
seized more than 200 amateur wire
less stations in this city.
Rumor Sinkings Near Boston.
Boston, Mass, April Persistent
rumors along the water front this af-
ternoon declared the Boston steam
fishing trawlers Tide and Swell have
been sunk by a German raider 100
miles east of Boston.
Confers With Q. S. Ambassador.
London, April 7.-Vfscount French
commandments of England's
home forces. conferred with American
Ambassador Page at the embassy to-
day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
NEGRO SPY CONFESSES
Tells How German Agitators Tried to
Arouse Race Hatred.

Jacksonville, Fla, April karl
Fink, alias Charles Fink, German. was
arrested here late last night for al
legged activity in melting negroes to
rebellion, it was announced today.
Robert Hicks. negro, is also under
arrest for delivering incendiary talks
to white pupils OF Il school where he
was employed as janitor.
Under examination Hicks admitted
German agents had held a meeting in
his neighborhood. These agents,
Hicks admitted, told the colored audi
ence that if the United States won the
war with Germany, all negroes would
be returned to slavery. On the other
hand, they were told that if the Ger
mans were victorious, negroes would
be given equal rights, including the
privilege of inter-marriage with
whites.
Jail a German Spy.
Birmingham, Ala. April IA man
giving his name as Johann Karl Gros-
huger, an alleged spy, was arrested to-
day near Calera.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
HE INSULTED THE FLAG
Soldiers Then Forced Civilian to
March Around Capitol 4S Times

st. Paul, Mimi, April Forced to
walk around the capitol forty-eigh
times and salute the flag on each
round was the punishment melted out
to a civilian who made an insulting
remark concerning the flag at the cap
itol today. A detail of four soldiers
and an officer were patrolling the
capitol grounds when the stranger
noticing the flag, made the derogatory
remark. Each soldier accompanied
him twelve times, taking turns. The
As laps represented the number of
states in the union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
PASS UP ATHLETICS
University Boys in Many Big Institu-
tons Will Drill, Instead.

New York, April such impetus
has been given to military training at
universities and colleges that indefi-
mite suspension of intercollegiate ath-
1etics has been decided on by repre-
sentatives of the athletic associations
of eight leading eastern universities
and colleges. Harvard Yale, Prince
ton, Columbia and Cornell Immediately
will abandon all athletic training, it is
announced. The different teams at
Pennsylvania, Syracuse and Dart
mouth still are in training.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
BENTON WINS AGAIN
Orator Will Enter National
Old Line Contest Now.

Howard Benton, of Washburn, was
pronounced as one of the three win
nerS of the National Old Line Ora
torical contest neld Friday night at
York, Neb. Ohio, Minnesota, North
Dakota and Kansas were represented.
Benton, as winner of this contest.
will go to Northrield, Mimi, to par
ticipate in the final national contest
to be held at Caileton college.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
Hatch EarIy-Laying PuIlets Now

Early matches mean early maturing
fowls and early layers. according to the
college OF agriculture poultry department
April 10 the month most favorable for
Matching chicks: Such breeds as the Ply
mouth Rock. WyandOtte. Rhode Island
Red. Orptngton, etc. require six to seven
months time in which to mature and start
producing eggs. Chicks Matched from these
]. At this time. most of the hens are idle
-molting or resting-and fresh eggs are
very scarce Prices rule high, and it is
the early layer that makes the profit
Extension News Service, Lincoln (Neb.) 4,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
WOULD SHARE INCOME
Wealthy Publisher willing to Pay 100000
War Tax a Year.

San Diego, April 7.-E. w. Scripps, mil
lionaire newspaper publisher. today tele
graphed President Wilson as follows:
II strongly urge that should pay as
we go I'm the war with income and inheri-
lance taxes. All incomes of over 100000
year should be conscripted. The minimum
cash pay of soldiers and sailors should not
be less than So per day during the war
Such legislation would cost me much more
than half my present income
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses were issued from
the office of the probate judge to the
following persons today:
Daniel A Muller. Topeka, age 81,
and Esther V. Payne, Topeka, age IS.
Alfred r. King, Hutchinson, age So,
and Minnie T. Anderson, Vermillion,
age 30
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
AERO DEPARTMENT
Secretary of AerOnautics To Be in
Cabinet if Bill Passes.

Washington, April Representa-
tive HILBERT, New York, today intro
duced a bill creating q department of
aeronautics, giving its secretary a
portfolio in the presidents cabinet.
The bill was referred to the house
military committee. Chairman Dent
promised to appoint a subcommittee
at once to consider the measure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
PACIFIST FOR LOYALTY
Father of Monroe, Wis, Referendum
Appeals to Followers.

. Monroe, Wis, April Judge NJ.
B. Becker. father of the referendum in
which citizens of Monroe voted over
against war. issued an
appeal today in which asserting that
he time for discussion has passed, he
.alled upon citizens to stand behind
President Wilson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
grape Pruning.

If crop of grapes is expected this sea
son, grape vines must be pruned before the
leaves begin to grow, say horticulture ex-
perts at the university farm. Information
concerning pruning will be found in Ex-
tension Bulletin No. %. which will be sent
free upon application to the bulletin clerk,
University farm. Lincoln.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
40 PLANES SHOT DOWN
Berlin Says Allies Lost A to Ger
many's 3 in Air Battles.

Berlin, April THE entente allies
yesterday lost forty-four airplanes on
the western front, says the official
statement issued today by the Ger
man army headquarters staff. Thirty
three of the British or French ma
chimes were destroyed in aerial en-
gagements. Five German airplanes,
the statement adds, did not return.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
Didn't Halt : Are Shot.

Trenton. n. J., April Two men were
shot b." militiamen here early today when
they refused to obey orders of soldiers
guarding Pennsylvania railroad property
The men refused to halt at sentries' orders
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
HE IS RECOVERING NOW
Man Who Refused to Stand at Pa
triotic Music Will Live.

New York, April frederick
Boyd, who said he was an Englishman
working for a New York newspaper
and who refused to rise last night
when the orchestra played the Star
Spangled Banner at Rectors is slowly
recovering from his wounds in a cell
After being mauled and thrown into
the street. he was arrested charged
with disorderly conduct. The eight
men who are said to have hit him
simultaneously were not arrested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
Notice A. O. U. w. No. 26O.

All members of No. $50 are request
ed to attend the funeral of Brother
Silas Wright to be held Sunday after
noon at O'Clock from the Third
Presbyterian church.
]. F. WALTON, NJ w.
c. A SANDMEYER, Sec. Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

Two more men tried out the new
bone dry law Friday night and two
more men are in the county Jail
Robert Perry and Wesley Searles came
in from Kansas City on separate
trains, carrying different brands OF
liquor. But both were caught by po-
lice officers. Today they were turned
over the county and warrants were
issued making formal charges against
them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

Sunday afternoon at O'Clock from the
Third Presbyterian church. Burial in To-
peka cemetery.
4 The funeral of Dorothy Richards will be
held at . O'Clock Sunday afternoon from
the residence. 140S Tyler street. Burial in
Mt. Hope cemetery.
ALBERT GORDON. age 81 died this
hlorning at n local hospital. The funeral
will be held at o'clock Sunday from Con
Wells chapel. Burial in Rochester ceme
terry.
= MARY GOODER. age CO, died this morn
ing at n local hospital Funeral will be
held Monday afternoon Mt o'clock from
Sbellabargers chapel. Burial in Topeka
cemetery.
Z IDA SAUNDERS. age co, died Friday,
April 6. She was the wife of William l..
Saunders. The funeral will be held Mon
Day afternoon at o'clock Mt the family
residence, half mile south of Berryton.
Burial in Lynn Creek cemetery.
s Lords Flowers Satisfy. Tel. SCI
ALL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

The funeral of Silas Wright will be held
Sunday afternoon at o'clock from the
Third Presbyterian church. Burial in To-
3eka cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

"Unreality'' is the subject of the
lesson sermon to be given Easter
Sunday at the First Church of Christ,
Scientist. Children's Sunday school
begins at $3.50 a. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

| F. A. Rooster, ID. d. s., 7l0 Mills
| Bldg. Special attention given to pyor-
| rnea and oral prophylaxls.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

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, 1917-04-07

According to the notice of mar
riage printed in Kansas City newspa-
pers, r. E. Cuff of Topeka was we'd
ded yesterday to Nellie NJ. Jacobs of
independence, Mo. The Topeka city
directory designates Cuff as team
ster living at 1873 Grafton street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
LOCAL MENTION

Manhattan Cleaners. Phone 1863.
Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

The Buick Roadster belonging to
Charles Cuthbert. stolen last fall and
ditched by the roadside near Law
renee, was stolen again Friday night.
Cuthbert left it in front of a local
theater and when he returned for 1t
it was gone. The car was stolen last
fall by George Cole and Jack Wright.
They were tried and convicted and are
now serving time in the state reforma-
tory
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

Police and other peace officers are
watching today for John w. Beck,
alias John w. owens, who has escaped
from the state penitentiary. Beck
has friends here and penitentiary Of
ficials expected him to come this way.
He was sentenced at Olathe where he
was convicted of horse stealing.
Tonight, social dance, Kirkpatrick
hall Saunders's orchestra. Admis-
sion 35c-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07
BIRTHS REPORTED

Lords Flowers Satisfy Tel. So
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07

NJ
ne g " For ,nea
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

II can only say that | should be glad if
were to be mourned as faithfully as you were.
Do you hear me? ! should be glad. So you
have nothing to complain about with regard to
TIM. With regard to Poldi, mean. Pardon mel"
Plainly he didn't want to offend his friend
by emitting TO use the half Of the lady's Chris
tian name which was familiar to him.
But the latter made philosophical face over
it and said, calmly:
"Poldi-Tini. Together they make Leopold
inc. II is one and the same name"
Just as aniseseed cakes and aniseseed
schntten are made out Of the same dough-" an
swered the coffee house proprietor, with a
touch of humor. Then he began, overjoyed that
his comrade and predecessor did not take the
situation more tragically to tumble around
among the gifts from home.
But suddenly he stopped and handed Schu-
berth, as if doing him a special courtesy, Leo
poldine's letter.
with my compliments. We two have no
secrets from each other
The schoolmaster read, almost like a Wild
over in heaven, the four pages, which for all
they contained, might as we'll have been ad-
dressed TO him. Only the names were strange
to him, and failed to evoke recoections Of his
earthly homs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

my dear Christian" the letter began, and
ended, "Your faithful Tint"
When he got that far he felt that he ought
to be morally indignant. But he was not. For
all this appeared to him all Of sudden 10 be
completely unreal and trivial after the fright
full experiences through which he had gone.
When one, between a wound in the head and
an attack Of typhus fever on foot in the mid.
die of winter in tattered shoes, driven forward
by the butts of rifles, has travelled through
rugged, inhospitable Albania, then he is apt to
take any subsequent troubles somewhat lightly.
AS he handed back the letter to his friend
he repeated with a faint smile the concluding
phrase, "Your faithful TIM" 1t sounded still,
of course, a little bitter.
But in the meantime the coffee house pro.
prietor had completely unpacked the sweet
aniseseed cake. He broke it in two, with an
effort, offered his friend the larger piece, and,
with his mouth full, called attention to the
snoring guard.
"Be quick! Eat it before that black robber
of crow wakes up"
Then the schoomaster also began to eat OF
the lovingly prepared aniseseed cake-so rem-
niscent of home.
Yes. War is War.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Continued from Page TWO

Here it is" he said, pointing to a much
handled and smashed-in package
The package had been eight weeks on the
way. The aniseseed cake as hard as
stone. The chocolate was broken into bits
The cigarette box was empty. Nevertheless
the coffee house proprietor had tears in his
eyes when he came back to his friend, the
gifts from home under his arm and a letter
(which had lain on top of the contents) and a
still larger envelope in his hand.
"You can congratulate me- he said. 81 am
a father"
And he drew out Of the larger envelope
photograph of his wife, with a naked, new
born child on her arm. He gazed at it for
few minutes, overcome with emotion, stroked
with his finger tip the place on the photograph
where the infant waved its hands in the air,
and finally handed it to the schoolmaster.
He cast glance at it, uttered a cry, and let
the picture fall.
"My wife," he exclaimed
The other dropped his letter to the ground.
How 500" he asked.
THE woman in the picture is my wife" re-
piled Schuberth, as though what he was say
ing was sentence out Of an exercise which he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
5VyessASsezsyyzA!Y


was reading aloud for his scholars to translate
The coffee house proprietor was nonplussed
Excuse me-" he said. But at the same time
it struck him that there was not much point
in saying to his friend, Excuse me"-in a
matter of that kind in far-off Porto Ferrajo,
so he substituted Pardon" as if the use of a
foreign word was more appropriate under the
circumstances.
The schoolmaster asked, with some hauteur:
When were you married."
in October of last year. Your death GER
tifcate was dated January 49,"
The schoolmaster nodded
That's the reason my letters came back
marked unbelievable. Because my wife had
already changed her name to Wild You were
both in hurry"
"My dear friend, am more than forty year.
old; and my wife-your wife (you have
known her better, or at least longer, than
have). is not the sort of person designed by
nature to live in loneliness But all the same
she mourned you sincerely-most sincerely
Also, allow me to tell you this: Even after six
months she refused, at my aunt's, who has
cafe in Neustift, to join in a bowling party,
because she was in mourning"
And since the other seemed to be still little
dubious, he added:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Even at Fencing France
Did Not Score

In most of the field and track events
dear to the hearts of the old Greeks and
the modern Anglo-Saxons, Celts and
Scandinavians, France entered no COM
petitors. Wrestling, rowing, swimming
lacked French champions at Stockholm.
Naturally they had no football team.
Even in fencing the Frenchmen did not
take place.
Gagged on their athletic showing jus,
two years before the war, the men who
make up the French armies of to-day
were sadly deficient physically for their
work. If universal athletic training had
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
JEAN BOUIN

best soldiers of Europe are non-ath-
letes? None whatever. There is no dis
position here to contradict the American
military authority who declares that
compulsory and systematic physical
training is primary requisite for an
efficient military organization. The
Frenchman may be the glorious para
dox, the exception to prove the absolute
military rule.
do claim, though, that the ideal sol
der needs spiritual preparedness
which the matter-of-fact military au-
thorities do not recognize. This, above
all peoples, the Frenchman had as his
birthright. He kept it hidden behind
his bright smile until the supreme test
came, and it was this spiritual fitness
that made him the man of steel. 1t is
his very disposition which the old Eng
lish barrister criticises so bitterly that
carries the Frenchman through the Ju-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
When the Test Comes the
"IdeaI Soldier" Wills

The theoretical and ideal soldier, the
sort of trooper of which Kipling
dreamed, is an outstanding chap with
the legs of a sprinter, the chest Of
distance runner and the shoulders
of blacksmith. He should be Differed
by clean-limbed, clear-eyed polo play
err, or at least the captain of the school
football team. With his temperament
the military authorities have no con-
Germ. He should not have anything OF
the sort concealed about him.
Regiments made up of this type OF
soldier are wonderfully beautiful to look
upon in the parades and manoeuvres.
But when the real test comes the the
oretically perfect troops wilt. The care
fully built up physiques break down.
The men who are schooled in absolute
regularity, brought face to face with
absolute irregularity, are found unpre-
pared.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
The Best AH-'ROund Man Was
an Indian. Which Proves?

In conclusion, this article proves
nothing, because it concerns an excep-
ton to q rule. 1t is never wise to en-
phasize exceptions to rules. believe
that Major Pierce's argument for COM
pulsory physical training in connection
with compulsory military service Is
thoroughly sound. The practical SOL
der should be physically fit.
Yet the ittest man physically at the
last Olympic games was Jim Thorpe, the
American Indian, who demonstrated
that he was the best all around athlete
in the world. And where are the mill
tary successes of the race that pro-
duced the worlds greatest all around
athlete?
When that cruel test that is trying
the bone, the muscle and the nerves OF
the peoples of Europe is over there Will
some day be way of determining the
relative fighting strength of the races
These statistics will show that the nom
athletic French we're the hardest oil
them oil
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
France Was InVinCibIe
al Indoor Tennis

The indifference of the Frenchmen to
athletics and athletic competition was
emphasized at the last Olympic games,
held at Stockholm in 1912. In the track
and field competitions of that meet
France had Just one athlete, Jean Bouin,
who won a second place in the 5000
metre race. Bouin ran second in that
event to Hannes Kolehmainen, the Finn
who has since come to the United
States. Bouin was killed early in the
war. He was shot down at the Marine
running forward to meet the "Boches."
In the minor sports at the Stockholm
Olympiad France captured four first
prizes. French horsemen won the rid
ing competition, Frenchmen won the
lawn tennis championship for covered
courts, French soldiers won the compe-
tition for shooting with army rifles and
the yacht race of the 6-metre class. Sec
ond prizes went to France for gymnas-
tics lin individual competition and
horse riding) Frenchmen took third
place in lawn tennis (outdoor) and
again for riding.