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The Huttig news., 1917-03-17
Dur Failing Physique
 Something to Worry About
 When Other Subjects Fail

When all other subjects for worry
 fail we can always fall back on the
 deterioration of the national physique.
 An insurance man makes the latest
 contribution to this fascinating discus sion. We learn that out of l.3o0,0oo applications for life insurance each
 year 100000 are rejected. A pen pie ture of the average American protrays
 him as hustling too much for the good
 of his health. His hair has aged ana he is getting bald. His digestive or gans have been given so many new and arduous duties to which they are not accustomed that they are showing Sions of rebellion. He is seriously overstraining his heart, arteries, kld- neys. nerves and digestion. Under ex- ertion he is short-winded. His 4oo muscles are virtually all soft from lack of use. He never walks when he can ride. The arches of his feet are gradually falling because his muscles provided to hold them up have weak ened by long disuse."
 It seems that the average American has about every disease except house maids knee. Is the picture q true one? Are there not many exceptions to this gloomy appraisal? How about the hosts of baseball and football play CTS among the younger and the golf enthusiasts among the older men? Bowling and basketball are popular sports just now. Should not their thousands of devotees help to raise the physical average? The business mems classes in our gymnasiums ought to nfford little gleam of encourage ment Even the billiard players get certain amount of wholesome exer- else. The patrons of the skating rinks do not present exactly an emaciated ap- pearance May it not be that health and mortality statistics are kept lit tie more strictly and accurately now adays than formerly? There are tests, too, for life insurance, such as that for blood pressure, for instance, that were unknown a few years ago, and these tend to reduce the number of successful applicants, But, of course, If one really wants to worry over the degeneration of the Ameri- can physique. these considerations can be ignored.-Pittsburgh Chronicle.
The Huttig news., 1917-03-17
Uruouay's Golden Tree.

By far the most beautiful of the trees of Uruguay, South America, is the mimosa. This tree is an ever green, and grows to height of about 40 feet. Even when not in flower it is very handsome, on account of it's dark green fern-like leaves and gray green trunk. The flowers are like lit tie balls of golden-yellow pollen, and they have a sweet scent. They cover the branches of the tree from top to bottom, and at a distance one would almost say the whole thing was made of gold, or had been transplanted from fairyland.
The Huttig news., 1917-03-17
LODGE DIRECTORY.

ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. & A. M. meets every second and fourth Satur- day evenings at z:5o o'clock. Visiting Masons always welcome. T. B. Weaver, w. M. w. P. Reasons, Sec'y.
 HOWARD CHAPTER, No. l22, R. A. M.-meets every first and third Thurs day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting companions welcome.
 J. M. Gibson, H. P. c. A. Berry, Seoy.
 ZEDEKIAH, COUNCIL. U. D.. R. & s. M-Meets every fourth Wednesday night of each month. Visiting compan- ions welcome. T. B. WEAVER, T. 1. M. R. N. BENSON, Recorder. HUTTIG CHAPTER No. 32o. Order of the Eastern Star, meets every first and third Friday evening at z:30 o'clock. Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
 Mrs. J. A. Brignac, w. M. MRS. L. G. GIBSON, Seo'y. HUTTIG LODGE No. 548 I. 0. 0. F. meets every first and third Tuesday eye- ming. All brethern cordially invited
 H. C. Bedford, N. G. Harlan Sehon, Secy.
 HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 6e, meets every Monday night at z:5o o'clock Visitors are invited
 Mrs. Wilkie Frost, N. c. Mrs. Murray Maroney, Secy. SWEET BAY CAMP No. Al l w. o. w. meets every first and third Saturday eve- nings. Visitors made welcome.
 Lester Malone. c. C. J. c. Bridges. Clerk.
 Sweet Bay Circle No. AS, w. C.. meets every second and fourth Thursday night at z:3O o'clock. Visitors areeoor-- dially invited.
 Mrs. E. S. Etheridge, Guardian. Mrs. J. c. Bridges. Clerk.
The Huttig news., 1917-03-17

Real Love Powder.

A young woman who thought she was losing her husbands affection went to seventh daughter of sev- enth daughter for love powder. The mystery woman told her: "Get raw piece of beef, cut fiat, about an inch thick. Slice an onion or two, and rub the meat on both sides with it. Put on pepper and salt, and toast it OH each side over red coal fire. Drop on 1t three Jumps of butter and two sprigs of parsley, and get him to eat it.. The young wife did so, and her husband loved her ever after.
The Huttig news., 1917-03-17
CONCLUDED FROM PAGE
 TIE NEW CONSTITUTION.

should stop fast train at Frog Hollow and whether it should build a depot at Sand Slough and take that power away from the legisla- ture.
 Provide for the people Of each couty to pass their own stock laws by vote, to create their own road districts by vote and the people ot each school district to attend strictly to the school matters, the matter of consolidation, division, building and bonding the school property by vote and take that power away from the legislature.
 You say they have this power now. That is true, but the legisla- ture dabbles in it too and we want to cut the legislature out of it.
 Require all game and fish laws to be general and state wide ana then a man would not have to have a county surveyor and a map and all the acts of the legislature from 1874 to date to tell whether he was violating some local law every time he caught minnoW or killed a squirrel.
 If that is done the legislature will have nothing to do with local legislation for these are the things that are the most fruitful of local legislation.
 Then, again, our present constl- tuition provides that any amend ment offered shall receive/a ma iority of all the votes cast Tn that election before it can be adopted. Last election an amendment al lowing the people to bond the three mill road tax that they are now voting in order to build permanent roads was defeated though it re- ceived big majority of votes cast on that subject.
 With it we could take our same money that we are spending every year in doing little repair work and build real and permanent roads that would need almost no repair, while now we don't have good roads and we spend all the money we get keeping them in the same condition we found them.
 With that amendment we could
The Huttig news., 1917-03-17
Sacrifice to Great Ends.

Did you ever wonder why soldiers who have been through war look back upon it, despite it's horrors, as a time of great and beautiful experi- ences? They never remember with loathing, but with a certain nimbus of glory, the long march. the cold camping, the gory battlefield. The same thing which glorifies the battle field will glorify life if you will let It; common cause, willingness to sacrifice self for greater ends. the kindly companlonship of those who suffer ogether.-Delineator
The Huttig news., 1917-03-17

Touched by reports of the terri ble loss and suffering which the European war has brought on the people of Belgium, Southern pine manufacturers are considering the launching of a movement looking to the donation of a cargo of their product to be used in Holland for building temporary homes for the Belgians who have fled to the neighboring country.
The Huttig news., 1917-03-17
N0tiCe.

Notice is hereby given that the firm of Reagan & Henderson of Huttig, Ark, has been this day dissolved and that l will not be re- sponsble for the firms debts be- vond this date. 1 will continue to buy cattle. RoBT. HENDERSON,
 February. lo. 1917. Lillie, La.
The Huttig news., 1917-03-17
Went Too Far.

A Kentucky mule was hitched to an automobile to draw 1t from the inud. The mule ran away with the auterno- bile. The latter was in sad state when rescued, but the mule calmly re- sumed it's grazing. There are some insults that even mule cannot brook.
The Huttig news., 1917-03-17
Got Them All In.

Mary, who reetes her prayers aloud each evening, remembering her pa- rents neighbors, Mir. and Mrs. Baker, and the man who sells the goodies at the corner store does so in the follow ing manner: God bless daddy, man. ma, Mizer Baker, Mizzey Baker, and the other baker. too"
The Huttig news., 1917-03-17
Our Shoes Look Well
and Wear Better

Where else on the earth can you do better than this? A stylish, up-to-date, comfort able. lasting shoe for women or misses, correctly made by the worlds most expert Workmen, at prices which are right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-31
PetrOgrad Military Busy Sup
pressing Counter Revolution.
Posters Calling for Uprising
Torn Down by Soldiers.
FOOD SHORTAGE STARTS IT
Jews, Accused of COncealing
Provisions, Maltreated.
Twenty Die at Moscow as Re-
suit of Drinking Too Much.

New York, Aug. 31.-''The militia
of Petrograd is busy today suppress
ing anti-government and counter rev.
olutionary activities" a special cable
to the Jewish Forward, received to-
day from the Russian capital. assert
ed.
Posters calling the population to
an armed uprising against the gov
ernment were torn down and attempts
to start street demonstrations were
vigorously quelled. The main reason
for the strength of the anti-govern-
ment propaganda is the shortage OF
food, which is very keenly felt all
over the country"
Liquor Causes Deaths.
The cable added that at Cherinigov,
Jews were maltreated under Dretext
that they were ccncealing provisions.
Twenty persons are dead at Moscow
and many more are dying, it was stat
ed, as result of over drinking. The
liquor was stolen from a nearby rail
way station.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-31
Under AgOny's Lash, They Sulk
at Wars Continuance.
Coming Winter Hardest i'm His
tory of Teuton Nation.
CROPS SHORT, FATS SCARCE
Kaiser Sees Trouble, Orders
Papers Not To Print Name.
L. s. Officials See Feminine Re-
volt To Stop Suffering.

Washington. Aug. 31.-Germany's
women are likely to have much to do
in remodeling Teutonic peace opinion.
Suffering from short rations, torn
with sorrow over their losses, they are
beginning to sulk at continuance OF
the war. This spirit. coupled with
general war weariness and a stirring
desire for governmental liberalism
are elements upon which authorities
here count largely in beliefs that
peace is not far distant.
State department adviceS today IN
dicate that the coming winter Will
be the worst Germany has experienced
since the great struggle started Some
crops are short. Fats are scarce
Smaller rations are inferior.
Kaiser Sees Trouble
The kaiser himself begins to see
the signs of trouble for he has order
ed the newspapers not to print his
name so much Hence the German
people are no longer fed on fuisome
praise of a leader whose authority In
being assailed.
that prisoners, always scsntily fed,
are now on even lower rations. Tur-
nip and beet soups, sometimes flavor
ed with nettles. with now and then
a potato, constitute the bulk of their
diet. To make their lot worse, Ger
many is forcing them 70 work on the
west front. frequently in direct line
of fire.
Liberals Growing Bolder.
All this found in official reports
showing that a revolution may be
nearer than surface indications show.
Confidential messages indicate the lib
erals are growing bolder. Officials
believe when the full force of Pres
ident Wilson's message strikes them
they will force a governmental reform
that will place power in the peoples
hands, rather than with the kaiser
and his war lords.
This government will see that ac-
tual translations of the presidents re-
ply to the pope reach Germany to Cor
rect impressions that Americas spirit
is one of butchery and conquest.
Holds Ray of Hope.
Wilson has held out the first ray
of hope to the German people by
showing clearly that peace negotia-
tions can be undertaken, once the
plotting. murderous Hohenzollern re-
gime is sidetracked.
This government will promptly un-
dertake peace proceedings when this
time comes about. 1t will notify the
allies that the reforms have been ac-
complished and that they must fall in
line with the peace negotiations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-31
GROCERS LIST STOCKS
Topeka Firms Help Government
Make Its Food Survey.

Topeka grocers are doing their bit
today in aiding the government to
make an estimate of the country's s
food supply on hand August 81 Every
grocer in the city, with a stock of
more than $1,000, is filling out a gov
ernment blank, giving detailed re-
ports on the amount of eighteen ar
ticles of food in stock
The articles listed on which the
grocers must report are: Wheat
corn, beans (navy and pea), wheat
flour (all kinds). corn foo6 products.
including meal, hominy, grits ana
breakfast foods; rice (cleaned and
milled), rolled oats, salt and cured
. beef, including salted, picked, canned
and dried; cured hams, bacon and
shoulders (pickled and smoked. lard
lard compounds and substitutes, ex-
Guiding vegetable substitutes. salt
fish, vegetable oils (cottonseed. olive
and peanuD, solid Vegetable cool,ine,
ia Is, sugar (au kinds). syrup and mo
lasses, condensed and cvaporateI
milk, and canned salmon.
These reports will be mailed to j.
T.. Earnsha, government food sur
veyor in Topeka. He, in turn, will
mail them to Washington where sta
tisticians in the agriculture depa TT
ment will use the figures on Which
to base an estimate on Americas eooc
supply. Various cities thruout the
country We're selected for such esti-
mates, all to be made on the sam,
day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-31
CALL FOR STRATTON
Lieutenant on Honeymoon Some
where in Kansas" Called tn DUTY.

Lieutenants Z. W. Wingart, Cliff ].
Stratton, Clifford Hope and Richard
S. Blaisdell L. s r.. have been or
dered to report Immediately to Camp
Cody. Deming, y. NJ, for duty
Lieutenant Stratton, married little
more than a week, is somewhere in
Kansas fon an automobile honey
moon. Efforts of relatives to locate
the couple in the small towns of Kan
sas have failed up-to-date. Follow
ing the marriage of Lieutenant STRAIT
ton and Miss Lenore Monroe they
rented rooms at Manhattan, believing
that Lieutenant Stratton would be
stationed at Fort Riley during the
winter.
Recent press dispatches stated that
reserve officers, who attended the
officers training school at Fort Riley
would not be called into active service
until September 8. Lieutenant Strat-
toms father-in-law, Lee Monroe, pre-
sented him with a touring car and the
newly-weds decided to enjoy an auto
tour of Kansas. They left Manhattan
Sunday, destination unknown. and lid
not expect to return until Sunday
September 2.
Three of the young men were in
the newspaper business prior to en-er-
ing the officers training camp. Lieu
tenant Wingart is the son of Mr. and
Mrs II. J. Wingart, 1874 Fillmore
street, and was Kansas correspondent
for the Associated Press, and State
Journal reporter. Lieutenants STRAIT
ton and Blaisdell were reporters on A
morning paper. Hope is a graduate of
the Washburn law school of 1917.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-31
TeutonS Plan Terrible U-BOat
Warfare on L. S. and England.
Rome Sees German Answer to
Our Reply to the Pope.
POPE BENEDICT DISAPPOINTED
But He'll Reply to Responses Of
All Belligerents.
Hopes in This Way To Make
Peace Practical Politics.

Rome, Aug. 31.-Intense and con-
centrated submarine warfare against
the United States, as wei. as England.
may be enc of the results of President
wilson's declination of the popes
peace appeal, in which the American
executive clearly showed he was not
impressed by the steps toward demo
cratiZa ton Germany has taken to
date.
Diplomatic circles here today reveal
ed their belief that the central en-
pires have been aiming thru so-called
democratic DEGREES and discussions to
influence American public opinion.
The reply of President Wilson is
evidence that they have failed in this.
Germany's next step. then, diplo-
mats here believe. may be expected il,
the form of Il new outbreak of terror
from N .r U-boats.
Pope Benedict. it was learned to-
day. has expressed himself as greatly
disappointed over the rejection of his
peace plan by the American president.
Reply to Responses.
AT the vatican today it was stated
that when replies of all pelligerents
are received. Pope Benedict proposes
to issue a statement pointing cut the
questions of peace on which all agre =
and separating those on which there
are differences. These latter he pro-
poses to make a matter of discussion.
In this way he hopes gradually, by
sitting out the agreed sections. to
make peace a matter of practical poll
tics.
According to rumors here, Emper-
or Karl of Austria and even the kaiser
have written the pontift indicating
pledges of the widest democratization
within their empires.
Letters Are Indefinite.
(The dispatch does not indicate
whether these letters were written
before or after Pope Benedict iss led
his appeal, but it is reasonable to as
sumo they preceded the pontiff's
note.)
In spite of the DEGREES and discus
sion within the central empires and
the letters to the vatican, diplomats
here believe the democratic" moves
are designed for American consuHlp-
ton rather than for the Teutonic peo-
pie themselves-new strokes to crush
its foes, which may be delivered by
the C-boatS, thru renewed attempts
to starve out England and prevent
supplies reaching the American army
from the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-31
NATION INVOICES! A drive ON CRIME
WinslOw Payroll Robbery Lands
Sixty Crooks in Net.
Wheed. Bandit Leader. Taken
After a 2-Hour Battle.

Chicago. Aug. 31.@The Chicago po-
lice today began the greatest often
sive against organized crime in the
history of the city
With Edward Wheed. ex-convict
and alleged participant in the $500
holdup at Winslow Brothers factory
Tuesday when two employees were
murdered, in custody after two
hours battle with policemen late yes
terday. city officials not only were de-
ciaring efforts apprehend other
members of the gang but were round
ing up every known crook in Chicago.
Make Sixty Arrests.
More than fifty men and a dozen
women have already been arrested in
the crime drive. Many of these are
said to be wanted for Jobs executed
years ago. Hundreds of policemen
and detectives are engaged in the
roundup.
Wheeds arrest is said to account for
three of the five bandits who shot
Barton Allen and Louis Osenburg in
front of Winslow Brothers on the West
side and escaped with the payroll they
were carrying. Wheed is alleged to
have been identified by Kit Lewis, who
accompanied Allen and Osenburg.
Others Identified by Lewis are Charles
Carrao, alleged owner of the bandits
automobile, and Anthony Cosetino.
The latter is said to have lad some of
the loot in his possession.
The capture of Wheed followed one
of the most spectacular battles in po-
lice annals. Surrounded in little
stone cottage on the West side, he
held $50 policemen at bay for two
hours. He wounded three of the Of
ficers and surrendered only after
Deputy Superintendent Westbrook
promised him prison sentence in
lieu of hanging. Fifteen hundred
spe ctators crowding around the scene
of the battle added TO the difficulties
of the police.
Part of the Winslow payroll was re-
covered in Wheed's home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-31
HOLDS Law VOID
Federal Judge Refuses To Af-
firm Keating-Owen Measure.
Child Labor Bill Held UncOHsti-
tutiOnal i'm North Carolina.

Greensboro, N. c., Aug. 31.-Federal
Judge James E. Boyd today declared
the Keating-O Owen childr labor law un-
constitutional.
Injunction proceedings which re-
suited in Judge Boyds ruling were
brought by Robert H. Dagenhart and
his sons, Reuben and John, against the
Fidelity Manufacturing company to
prevent the company from dismissing
the two boys, minors, from the COM
pany's cotton mill at Charlotte.
The law. which becomes effective
September /, prohibits the employ
ment of any child under IA years of
age in any factory, mill, workshop or
oannery, whose products are to be
shipped in interstate commerce, and
requires that the working day of chill
dren IA to 15 years old shall not be
longer than eight hours.
Reuben Dagenhart is under IS years
and John Dagenhart under IA The
father contended he was entitled to
their wages until 21 and as the North
Carolina law allows eleven hours a
day. Reuben has a right to work more
than eight hours a day, while John
has right to work in the mill, altho
under IA, because the state law per-
mits it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-31
Army of 93 Thousand Taking
Stock of q. S. Food Supply.
Are Probing Pantry and Ware
house, Closets and Barns.

Washington, Aug. 31.-With a vol
unteer army made up of ten thousand
American housewives, three hundred
and fifty thousand merchants ana
thirty-five thousand farmers, the gov
an inventory of the nations food sup
plies.
The forces are taking stock of the
food they have on hand, in the pantry
and preserve closet on the shelves
and under the counter, in warehouse
and grain elevators, and in barns and
bins on the farm. From the puanti-
ties reported by these the bureau OF
markets will estimate the total food
stocks of the nation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-31
BURN DRAFT RECORDS
Deliberate Attempt at Destruction
Successful in X. G.

Kansas City, Aug. 31.-Records
representing three weeks work of the
local exemption board of the ninth
district of this city, 2s2 individual ex-
aminations under the seiective draft
law. were DESTROYED by fire today in
what is believed to have been an at
tempt to obliterate the records. The
records Were in desk at a gram
mar school in the district and only
the desk was destroyed by the fire.
in the possession of one of the MEM
bers of the board and a. certified list
had already been sent to the district
board. The heard. however. will start
denominations tonight to obtain de-
tailed reports not contained in the re-
capitulation.