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The Huttig news., 1917-12-15
War Notes.

Girl messengers are now en- ployed by many of the government departments at Washington.
 The strength of the naval re- serve forceis e.25O men. 70 per cent of whom volunteered for gen. eral service.
 By reducing the size of their samples wholesale dealers will save this year $4le.5oO worth of cloth, representing enough wool to provide uniforms for 6z.5OO sol- ders.
 , According to the department of agriculture, over 5.OOO,OOO eggs spoil in cold storage each year be- cause they have been washed or in some other way become wet before being sent to market.
 German aircrafts are marked with a Maltese cross, Allied planes used in Europe are distin ruishable by painted bulls-eye. American planes bear a circular blue field with a white star and bright red center.
 Red Cross relief shipments to Europe average over 10000 tons a month. In one shipment was a consignment of $50 soccer foot balls and 25o rugby footballs for American soldiers. purchased with funds raised by Harvard graduates.
 According to Secretary Daniels, there was turkey for the Thanks giving dinner of every man in the navy. A naval supply ship arrived in European waters in time to fur. nish the men on the submarine hunting destroyers with the tra- ditional Thanksgiving fare.
 The organization of a Cuban ay- iation unit to be offered France with complete equipment has been announced in Habana Probably the Escadrille Cubaine, as the fly ing unit is called, will be the first body of fighting men from Cuba to serve on French soil.
 Applications for war-risk insur- ance are now far past the billion dollar mark. All soldiers, sailors, marines and nurses in active sery- ice may buy insurance from the government at the rate of from 65 cents a month at the age of 2l to $l.2l month at the age of 5 for each $1 900.
 Under the terms of decision by Secretary McAdoo, the business of all insurance companies incorpo- rated under the laws of enemy or ally enemy countries is to be liqui- dated, with the exception of life in surance companies, which are al- lowed to continue existing contracts.
 The port of New York is under military control, the water fronts being guarded by the regular army, Fully armed guards prohibit the passage of any person, alien or cit izen, who can not establish a busi- ness reason for access to the water front areas. The same military control will be established at all other American ports and may in- clude factories engaged in war work.
The Huttig news., 1917-12-15

The Union hotel was discovered to be on fire early Monday morn ing but it was extinguished before much damage was done.
The Huttig news., 1917-12-15

Fatie Garter, formerly mail car rier on Route I, enlisted in the Forestry Reserve of the army at New Orleans this week and expects to be enroute to France soon.
The Huttig news., 1917-12-15

Certainly the administration and congress make mistakes. but their average performance is high and we all have to back up the fight for liberty.
The Huttig news., 1917-12-15

w. E. Chadwick returned Thurs day from Louisiana and has de- cided not to move.
The Huttig news., 1917-12-15

Join the American Red Cross next week and feel that you are doing your duty to your fellowman.
The Huttig news., 1917-12-15

J. F. Taylor and daughters, Misses RilIa and Dersie, of route l were in town shopping Monday.
The Huttig news., 1917-12-15

FARMS FoR SALE-On easy terms and 6 per cent interest, near Cecil and Marion, La.
 If A. G. Stephenson.
The Huttig news., 1917-12-15

You never impress anyone with your smartness when you tell about it yourself.
The Huttig news., 1917-12-15

We will buy Mutton, Pork and all kinds of Cattle, Hides, Furs, Beeswax, etc.
 UNION SAW MILL Go. MEAT MARKET.
The Huttig news., 1917-12-15

The man who tries to steer middle course is protected from neither side.
The Huttig news., 1917-12-15

The sleet of Monday night had the blaming and both saw mills closed down for several days this week
The Huttig news., 1917-12-15

Green saw mill wood for sale 85c per load. Herman Ashcroft.
The Huttig news., 1917-12-15

If trousers could be abolished the hip pocket menance would disap- pear.
The Huttig news., 1917-12-15

Thos. Green Notary Public, at the Union Saw Mill Go. store.
The Huttig news., 1917-12-15

A. V. Frost is home from trip in Mississippi.
The Huttig news., 1917-12-15

Huttlg Baptist church has services every lst and 3rd Sunday morning at l o'clock. s Smith, Pastor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17
BREAD THAT IS WASTED.

1t is estimated that a million barrels
of flour a year IS wasted. Much of
this is due to the practice of the bak-
ers who take back stale bread.
This bread is not inferior. 1t is not
mouldy. 1t is really better than fresh
bread. Bread is more digestible after
being baked twenty-four hours than
it is after being baked two hours. Take
the heart out of a fresh baked loaf and
squeeze it in your hand; take the heart
out of a loaf that has been baked
twenty-four hours and squeeze it in
your hand. One will be a mass of
dough; the other will not be.
Athletes and men who do hard work
get along better on so-called stale
bread than on fresh bread. OF course
mouldy bread should not be eaten, but
mouldy bread comes from neglect.
Thirty and forty and fifty years be-
fore the American mothers and house
keepers attempted to run everything
else except their homes, says the
Memphis Commercial Appeal, there
were usually two baking days in the
week. And in some well regulated
HouSeHOluS there was put OHe pdhlHS
day. After being baked the bread was
! wrapped in a cloth and placed in a
cupboard or in tin boxes. That bread
would remain sound for several days.
There ought to be a law compelling
the grinding of whole wheat flour and
forbidding now the so-called superfine
white flour. There is too much waste
about the latter RlIt the return oP
bread after it has been baked one and
a half days ought to be forbidden. The
bakers themselves ought to stop it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17
ADD TO WAR TAX
Figure S1,SOO,0O0,OOO Revenue
Is S445,OOO,O0O Shy.
Plan Increase Income Tax to
Make Up Difference.

Washington, May 17.-Democratic
Leader Kitchin announced in the
house today that the treasury depart
ment had notified him that it would
be necessary to raise Spas, 900 in
stead of 81, 900, 100000 by the war rev.
enue bill now under debate. He urged
support Of new proposals to raise the
income surtax increases on sums above
$4,000, as contained IN the bill, by
one-fourth.
was estimated to raise between
S1,S00,0 100000 and $4,000, 100000,
which was expected to defray one-half
of the expenses of the first year of the
war.
Kitchin's announcement was a great
surprise. When the movement to in
crease the income taxes was started
Wednesday by Representative Len
Representative Shirley, Democrat. of
orously. The insurgents were success
full nevertheless in getting in an in
crease on the surtax on incomes be-
tween $4,000 and 100000. Today
they renewed their efforts and Lenroot
introduced an amendment to increase
the proposed surfaces on incomes be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 from II to
1875 per cent
The Lenroot amendment for further
increases was adopted in the commit
tee of the whole by an overwhelming
vote. Preparations were imm eiia teIy
made to propose similar increases on
all the remaining divisions of the in
come tax section
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17
HAVE NO FRILLS
Washburn Commencement Ex-
ercises To Be Very Simple.
President WOmer VIII Preach
the BaccaIaureate Sermon.

commencement at Washburn will
be one of the simplest celebrauons OF
its kind in the history of the college
All non-essential and time-kliling
parts of the exercises will be omitted
according to the program announced
this morning by the committee on ar
rangements commencement week
will start June and informal acuVi-
ties will last until June Z. The usual
athletic contest has been thrown out
and will be superseded by military
drill of the corps of students
President Farley p. Womer Will
give the baccalaureate sermon sun
day morning, June 3.
Wednesday will be the feature day
of the program. 1t will be alumni
day. The program calls for a campus
breakfast, then at 1900 O'Clock the
drill will be given followed by class
picnics at noon. In the afternoon TIE
students will give The Piper's Paid"
which is now being rehearsed under
Miss Pansy Benton of the expression
department.
bird fountain designed and made
by the students of sculpture under the
direction of Merrcll Gage, will be ded-
icated in the afternoon. The cere-
mony will include THE Bird Masque,"
originated and composed by Miss Vic.
let Crumbine and Isabelle Savage.
Back to Campus.
In the evening the alumni and stu
dents will have dinner down town
and will then start on the Wash
burn Walk back to the campus,
thru promenades strung with lights
and ending at the campus where folk
and fairy dances will complete the
day.
Commencement exercises will be
held Thursday, June Z, starting with
the academic procession from the Ii
brary. DR.. Harry p. Dewey, of Mime
Gpolis, will be the speaker at the exer-
ciSeS.
Tuesday will be class day, opening
with a special chapel exercise in the
morning, followed by reunions of all
the fraternities in the afternoon. The
Tau Delta Pts will hold their campus
| luncheon in the evening and later the
fine arts faculty will give a concert.
At o'clock the annual reception at
the White House will be held
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17
PLANT CORN.

Corn can be planted until July l
with a fair chance of harvesting a
crop. The most effective way to rem
wheat crop is to plant corn. says the
United States department of agricul-
ture.
Ordinarily the quantity of corn pro-
duced in the United States is from
three to four times the quantity of
wheat, but only a very small portion
of the crop-from to 10 per cent
has been used for human food This
amount may be estimated in normal
times at about 200,0O0,OO bushels a
year. Not over 5 per cent has been
exported in peace times. a relatively
slight increase in the corn acreage.
therefore, will place many millions of
bushels more of human food at the
disposal of the world without interfer-
ing in any way with the feed needed
for the support of livestock
In the past. with an abundance of
grain of other kinds, corn has not
sumption. But with other grains no
longer abundant, circumstances will
compel more general recognition of
the value of corn as human food. The
department is urging strongly the
wider use of corn in the diet. 1t is
the best substitute for wheat that we
have and can be utilized in breads,
mushes and a variety of other ways.
We should make every effort to avail
ourselves of it.
PLANT corn" then should be the
motto of every farmer in a section
suited to the crop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17
SPLITTING HAIRS
Senator Attacks Colleagues for
Delaying Army Bill.
LaFOlIette at Old Stand, Block
ing War Emergency Action.

Washington, May 17.-When the
army bill came up in the senate today
for final action on the conference re-
port, it was thrown into a three-hou
debate over technicalities which SEN
ator Chamberlain, chairman of the
military committee openly character
lied as hair splitting" The prin-
cipal contention was over whether
soldiers were being drafted for the
existing emergency" or the war"
Here we are at war" declared Mr..
Chamberlain land the senate is split
ting hairs on this proposition with
danger at outdoors and threatening
to send the bill back to conference"
Some senators protested against the
general language of the emergency
contending that it might fasten a
military policy on the country.
Senator Chamberlain insisted the
terms existing emergency was defin-
lite enough when considered with other
language in the measure and Senator
Fletcher pointed out that the exist
ing emergency could not be stretched
to continue men in service for some
future eXigency.
Would Mean 3O-day Delay.
Senator Chamberlain served notice
on the senate that if it sent the report
back to conference there would be
no military legislation for thirty or
sixty days.
Senators Smith and Hardwick of
Georgia. Reed of Missouri, and LaFol-
lette were among those who raised OBJ
jections. LaFollette demanded a vote
on returning the bill to conference
with instructions to make it operative
only during the war" and not during
the existing emergency"
Chamberlain pointed out that the
senator's delaying the bill were those
who lost their fight against the draft
system.
Our real work is being done across
the Atlantic by the navy" said Sena-
tor Smith. I'VE ought to write into
this bill an express declaration that
the draft system dies with this Ger
man war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17
IN FIRST PAYMENT
Edison Company Gives the City
$6,126.45 Today.
This Is Part of the Amount
Auditor Found Due.

First cash payment on the SIS
1888, held to be due the city from
the Edison Light company by the re-
cent ]. Z. Cation audit. was made to-
day by Albert Patten, manager for the
Mckinley interests here, to w. H. Was
son, city finance commissioner, in the
form of a check for $6,126.54, or one
third of the total amount. Batten also
handed the city. thru WATSON, tw3
notes bearing 5 per cent interest Each
was for $6,126.54.
One of the notes falls due May l,
1918, and the other is due May l, 1919.
This is in accordance with Patten' 5
agreement to pay the amount in three
nstallments, one each year. City Of
ficials regard the notes as good as cash
Nand consider the debt IS good as total
ly paid. The notes are bankable.
Audit Ordered Year Ago.
Audit of the books of the street
railway company and the Edison COM
pany hero was auth orized by the city
commission in adopting resolution
offered by Commissioner WATSON
about a year ago. The audit was
completed by j. E. Cation several
months ago 1t was authorized under
the franchise holding that ] 0 per cent
of all over 10 per cent of the net re
ceipts of the two companies should
go to the city
Nothing was found to be due the city
from the street railway company
which had not paid the tity anythin
| interests at once promised to pay
the amount due from the Edison COM
pany. Today's action fulfills their
agreement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17
CALL FOR RESERVES
Captain Cole Coming Here to EXAM
inc All Topeka Applicants.

A call for applicants to enter the
enlisted mems reserve corps was made
from the Topeka army recruiting Of
flee, 425 Kansas avenue, today. Capt
o. r. Cole, in charge of the Kansas
City headquarters of this recruiting
district, will be in Topeka tomorrow
afternoon to examine applicants.
Recruiting officers here have been
instructed to accept applications for
the corps. Today they urged Tope-
kars desiring to join to apply before
tomorrow at noon so they will be
ready for examination when Captain
Cole arrives.
The reserve corps for enlisted men
is a branch of the army to be called
out by the war department when
needed for war. Immediately after
the emergency is over the corps will
be dismissed. No duty is required at
normal times
Those eligible for the corps include
men coming under the war depart
ment qualifications for members of
the hospital corps, engineers, ord
nance companies, quartermaster
corps, and signal corps.
To receive applicants, the recruit
ing office here will be kept open to-
night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17
U. S. SENATE PEEVED
Proceedings of Secret Session Are
Published in Newspapers i'm Full.

Washington, May 1.-THE senate
was in quite temper when it recon-
Vened today to continue debate on
the war budget and found that a full
and accurate report of its secret ses-
sion yesterday had been published in
the newspapers.
Senator Thomas, calling the senate's
attention to the publication of the
executive proceedings session, said:
They were quite accurate-more so
than publications of open session pro-
ceedings.
THE sooner we abandon this farce
of secret sessions the better" he
added.
Exclusion from the mails of any
newspaper which publishes matter
purporting to report executive ses-
sions was proposed by Senator Hard
wick of Georgia, as an amendment to
the pending espionage bill. Senator
Myers of Montana, said he regarded
the senate's recent vote against news
paper censorship a declaration of con-
gressional intent for complete free
dom of the press.
Il think the action of congress
means that newspapers can publish
anything they please" he said closing
the incident without further action.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

lawn socials and strawberry festivals
for the benefit of All Souls"
The doctor stood up quickly, look
ing down at her with a new expression
in his eyes 1t was : new Polly who
faced him belligerently. He had al
ways thought her the usual type of
girl in the summer colony, and while
he had frankly fallen in love with
her from the first. he had not been
keen on telling her so. And now, with
out warning. Polly had lifted the veil
of her frivolity and shown him some
thing of the real woman nature be-
hind it. He answered her slowly.
Il came here today on Halls invita-
ton to tell him I'd been accepted as
chaplain on the Alert. We sail, 1 be-
lieve. the 18th. Before left 1 wanted
to ask you to be my wife, if 1 return"
There was a long silence. Polly's
blue eyes watched the shore where
Betty's pink dress and hat made her
resemble some animated blossom bob
bling around
IT think she said softly. that the
twins decision was right, after ALL
Copyright, 1917. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.i
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17
is WORTH $4,000
Yet Husband Makes Wife Wash
for Living, She Says.
Mrs. Abraham Mckee Sues for
Divorce and AlimOny.

Alleging that while she washes for
a living he lives in luxury upon the
income from $4,000 worth of prop
erty, Elizabeth Mckee filed suit for
separate maintenance in the district
court today against Abraham Mckee
Besides that. she alleges that on
numerous occasions he has returned
to her and lived with her while she
washed, only to move his bed and be-
longings to other lodgings, leaving
her heart broken and sorrowful on
each occasion.
Abraham Mckee lives at 1900 West
Sixth street Mrs Mckee does not
say where she lives but it is not at
that address. She alleges that she
has been abandoned and that before
that occurred she was defrauded of
her rights in her husbands property
thru the signing of papers she did not
understand.
Signed Away Rights.
Mrs Mckee alleges that in July,
1915, her husband made her believe
that he was a financial shipwreck and
that while under the stress incident
to that discovery she was induced to
sign deeds, contracts and other legal
papers, the contents of which she was
ignorant.
She was not permitted, she says
to consult with anyone else and she
intimates in her petition that she
wanted the advice of a lawyer, but
that it was denied. Even after all this
had occurred and she had discovered
1t; after she had moved to another To-
cation and was, according to her pc
tition, washing for living, she greet
ed Abra ham with open arms when he
visited her.
Left Her Again.
The first time she thought every
thing had been patched up, but after
winning her affections all over again,
he left. This has occurred several
times, she says, and now she is con-
WINGED that she has been ditched
Mrs. Mckee asks that in spite of the
contracts and deeds she admits sign
ing, she be allowed separate mainten-
ance by the court. She wants $50
month from her husband, an attorney
fee of 500 and such other relief as
the court may grant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17

A wa of indignation which had ITS
inception in the United States senate
has swept over the country and
threatens to put the boards of trade
out of existence. Operators on the
grain exchanges are accused of boost
ing prices of food by bidding up the
grain for future delivery. The wrath
of the people seems directed solely at
the bulls" But what about the
-bears?" They, too, have been spec
ulating in the nations food. 1t hard
" will be claimed that their efforts
to depress prices have sprung from
patriotic motives. In fact, except for
them there would be no bulls. In or
der that there may be buyers there
must be sellers. Why should all the
blame be placed on those who pur-
chase grain for future delivery =?
They at least benefit the producer
who has been able to hold his crop
Whom does the man who sells grain
he does not possess, help?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17
COLLEGE PATRIOTISM
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
INFORMATION BUREAU
BY Frederic j. Haslxln. Director
Washington. ID G.

Washington, D. c., May 17-There
are to be few intercollegiate sports
this year-few field meets, boat races,
or tennis tournaments. The colleges
are going to war
Classrooms are rapidly being de-
serted as thousands of students leave
for military duty in one organization
or another. A large number have
gone to Newport to enter the naval
coast defense reserve; others are re
porting for duty at the reserve Off
GERS training camps, opened up by the
War Department on May "A; few
have gone all the way to France as
members of the American ambulance
corps, and hundreds are joining the
governments new army for the com
missary. Those who remain are drill
ing on the campus, studying radio
and topography, and displaying I'M
usual interest in laboratory work. For
the government is going to need engi-
neerS and chemists as well as soldiers.
So far, Cornell University leads in
military preparedness. Cornell began
recruiting college battalionS early in
the term, along with several other
colleges, when people were still talk
ing about early peace negotiations. AT
the Thanksgiving football game, the
Cornell band was attired In military
uniforms, and for months sentries
patrolIed the college campus. Now
that war is actually declared, the uni
versity has granted leaves of absence.
with special credits, for those who
offer their services to the government,
and a rapid exodus of students is in
progress. According to the latest re-
ports, nearly two thousand students
have left for government service of
one kind and another.
The college maintains an examining
board, consisting of two of its mill
tary instructors and one medical pro
fessor, who has recently been appoint
ed a first lieutenant in the United
States medical reserve corps. This
board examines every student DESTROYS
of entering military service to deter
mine whether or not he is physically
able before he is sent on to official
headquarters. 1t also examines other
men of the state of New York who
wish to enter training camps
Out of the large number of students
who have left and are leaving the uni
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-17
I'M A FURTHER SLUMP
Wheat Prices Drop From s to 10 Cents
Again Today.

Cash wheat slumped frem to 10
cents on the Topeka Board of Trade
today. No. 2 hard ranged between
S2S7 and S2.96. No. hard was be-
tween s2.s5 and $3.50. May options
were off cents. On the Kansas City
wire they opened ut s2.70. the low, and
went to $2.75. where they closed.
July futures opened at $2.20 to
S2.21, the high, went as low as S2.1E
and closed at s2.161z
Cash corn was from " to l cent
up. No. white ranged from s1.64h
to S1.65 ". No. mixed stood at
s159.
The opening today caused consider
able excitement. Other than that, the
market was dull. Trading was spas
modic.
Following drops IN wheat Wednes-
day and today flour went down 26
cents a sack on the retail trade todav.