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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-12
GIRLS PUFF PILLS
Cigaret Smoking in England
Alarms Nation.
Fear Effect ON POsterity-Have
Lady Smoking Rooms.
BY j. w. PEGLER.

London, May 12.-English girls are
SO hopelessly addicted to cigarets that
Psychologists fear the nation will
have to pay the price in a new genera
ton of rickety, weedy children. The
long-bearded sages may be right in
what they say but nobody seems to
care. Failing birth-rate and the fear
ful national consequences of infant
mortality impress the public mind far
less than 2-cent rise on popular
brand of cigaretS
An athletic young woman who tames
American horses for army remounts
claims she can quit smoking whenever
she wants to. SO far it seems she
hasn't wanted 20 quit for she out
smokes her own brother who spends
his time in the trenches. When this
girl began war-work she was knitting
socks for soldiers and it was not until
she began tanning horses that she fell
Tor the Kind the Grand Duke smokes.
Offer Cigarets to the Ladies'.
No man who knows enough to take
his spoon out of his cup will think of
passing up the ladies when he offers
cigarets with after-dinner coffee. He
is bound to give them a chance to turn
down the proffered pill, if any of them
are non-smokers. Women smoke as
much as men ia the restaurants and in
the lounge-roomS of hotels.
Maybe that would appear to be a
mere foible of the girls. But it isn't.
Tho there is still some natural timidity
about smoking on the street, it is moth
ing unusual to observe a number of
girls seated in the subway smoking
cars with cigarets at their lips
Several government offices and
business firms employing girl clerks
have set aside smoking rooms for their
benefit and in the tea-rooms scattered
everywhere about London. women pat
ronize the smoking room almost as
regularly as do the men.
They Have Tobacco Heart
Before the war it was the polite
thing to ask whether the ladies OBJ
jected if the men smoked. Today a
physician in a munition-making area
reports that fourteen girls have come
to him for treatment for tobacco heart.
His investigation proved to him that
women and girls of every class are adj
dicted to the cigaret habit. Munition
girls even smoke pipes and the preva-
lence of the tobacco-craving is indi-
Gated by the fact that in three weeks
women munition workers paid total
fines of $3.50 for carrying matches on
their clothing while at work in dan
gerous factories.
The physician lectured his patients
on the evil physical. effects of smoking
and reminded them that the nation
looks to their kind to become the
mothers of the new race. But cigarets
are handy and the craving is strong
while posterity seems to be a long way
eff. So the English girl smokes al
most whenever. wherever and as much
as she wants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-12

During the last few years much has
been done TO prepare the American
Red Cross for the nations call. But
preparedness on a large scale cannot
be accomplished in peace time. All
that can be done is to prepare a skele
ton organization capable of expansion
in war service TO draft plans of mo-
bilizatiOn as any army staff would
draft them and to gather reserve ma
terials and supplies.
When the call comes the Red Cross
must act quickly. It must take care of
a vastly increased army and navy.
Therefore, its growth must parallel the
growth in both branches of the ma
TONS fighting force.
Time for Quick Action.
The declaration of a state of war
with Germany means that the Amer
lean Red Cross must translate all
these plans, prepared during peace,
into action. 1t must be prepared to
supplement the existing facilities of
the Medical Department of the army
and the navy and of the Medical Re
serve Corps.
smoothly. This expansion must take
place without any hitch in the ma
chinery. There can be no experiment.
ing in war.
How to Help.
Every man and woman owes it as
duty to the country to become a men,
Der of the American Red Cross. Mem
bership-it is as low as one dollar
should be universal. Instead of having
a membership of 100000, as at pres
enr, the American Red Cross should
far exceed the 1900, 900 membership
in Japan the 100000 in Russia and
the million each in France and Eng
land.
Membership alone does not neces-
sarily imply service. 1t means merely
that one helps to support the admin
istrative organization directing the
work of the Red Cross.
After membership there is oppor-
tunity for service with the Red Cross
Every chapter has its workrooms and
its auxiliarieS. 1t has trained inStruc-
tors in the preparation of hospital and
surgical supplies needed here and
abroad.
Many chapters have classes in first
aid to the wounded, home care of the
sick, home dietetics and in the making
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-12
ADVISES IRON HAND
Time Has Arrived for Chancellor to
Gust His Internal Enemies

Copenhagen, May 1.-THE Tage-
blatt of Leipsic, a liberal newspaper
and a staunch supporter of Chancellor
Won Bethmann-Hollweg. advises the
chancellor that the time has come for
vigorous measures against his oppo-
nents, inside the government as well
as in political life outside it. The
newspaper refers specifically to Doc
tor Besler, Prussian minister of JUS
tice, and by inference to Baron Won
Schorlemer, Prussian minister of agri-
culture, as officials who are interested
in crossing the chancellor's policy and
preparing difficulties for him. Doctor
Won Bethmann-Hollwegi is warned that
ne will be lost il he does not soon
Scotch" his enemies at his own coun-
ell board, and substitute vigorous
and positive policy for the course of
compromise which he has followed
hitherto to preserve harmony within
in the face of foreign enemies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-12

over night. Men and women work
with elf-sacrificing zeal.
Charity to be most effective must
have system. Separate and unco-ordi-
mated organizations cannot achieve the
best results. Linked with the Red
Cross and working thru the Red Cross,
these same organizations would
achieve results a hundredfold greater.
They must practice some of the les
sons learned from business in recent
years and learned again in the exper-
fence of relief agencies abroad in the
early days of the great war.
Between the Red Cross and other
rehet organizations there should be CO.
operation. The independent organiza-
tions should constitute a sort of re
lief militia" or service force, which in
time of war would merge with the
Red Cross just as the national guard
merges with the regular army.
Big Brother of the Services.
The Red Cross is the big brother of
the medical services. The army and
navy cannot get along without it
without it warning nation is almost
helpless for the reason that a nation
IN time of war is unable to provide an
adequate medical organization without
civilian aid.
In no war have there ever been
enough nurses and surgeons. AS no
chain is stronger than its weakest link,
~ ~ al my Is stronger imam It's ReQ
Cross. So clearly is this understood
that in time of war the government
requires the Red Cross to give all its
energy and facilities to the nation, car
Ing for the fighting men and their de-
pendents at home.
Chartered by Congress.
The Red Cross is the only organiza-
ton authorized oy the government 20
| render war relief service. 1t acts I'M
der charter from the government.
Congress passed the act incorporating
It. This act made the president it's Of
flciai head and placed representatives
OF the army and navy on its directing
staff.
In other words, the Red Cross is of
flclaIly as much a part of the govern
ment machinery as the army itself.
Despite this official standing, how
ever. the Red Cross must depend upon
voluntary service of women and men
1t is the great volunteer army that Is
serving humanity as well as the ma
ton. And it is an army made up
largely of women.
Women as Leaders
Former Premier Asquith has assert
ed that credit for the successes of en-
tente arms belongs as much to the
women or England as to the men act
ually fighting the battles.
Without the women England neither
could have raised the army she has nor
filled the gaps in her industrial ranks
made by the voluntary enlistments OF
her men workers.
Every nation has in it's history wo-
men who were leaders of fighting
men, Nowadays feats Of arms are not
expected from women. There is nc
call for Deborah, a Joan of Arc OF
Molly Pitcher. But there is a call
for women actuated by the same spir-
1t of service, and thousands of them
are needed in America today-women
who will carry forward the work be.
gun by Clara Barton and Florence
Nightingale, women trained mo
ready to do the work they alone car
do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-12
FOLLOW IN STEPS
OF CLARA BARTON
WOOD TO WOMEN
Head of q. S. Army Urges Ac-
tive Red Cross Work.
Tells of Feminine Part To Be
Played in World War.
FILL The MEMS PLACES, TOO
Vast Number of Women in Mu-
milton and Clothing Plants.
But Real Work Comes in Work
of Florence Nightingale.
Tells of Feminine Part To Be
Played in World War.
FILL The MEMS PLACES, TOO
Vast Number of Women in Mu-
milton and Clothing Plants.
BY LEONARD WOOD,
Major General L. $. Army.

War brings with it a call to national
service for women as well as men,
There are two very important ways in
which women can help the nation in
war
% BY working in industry. thereby
releasing men for the front. and
co BY joining the American Red
Cross.
Next to the preparation of munitions
and recruiting the army and the navy
the most important step in getting
ready for war is to build up a Red
Cross organization. Vast numbers of
women are now working in the various
supply esta blishments which make
munitions. clothing, etc, but the time
is not yet here when women need go
into the factories to take the places of
men But the time is here not merely
for the Red Cross to prepare but to
meet the actual test of real service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-12
Kansas Land Owner in Topeka
Today Given "Small Return"
Only $4,000 Bushels of Wheat
Raised Last Year.
ATWOOD TO LIBERAL HIGHWAY
Robert Hendricks Here in Be-
half of New Road Route.
NOrthwesterns Could Deliver
Wheat by Motor Truck.

Robert Hendricks. former member
of the state legislature from Rawlins
county, is bit disappointed concern
ing the returns from his land near
Atwood Last years rentals gave to
Hendricks a little more than 1000
bushels of wheat which is today worth
SO bushel His land produced more
than &c, 200 bushels of wheat, but the
bulk of the crop went to the men who
farmed the land.
Hendricks is a banker in Atwood.
He also owns seveIA| large RawiinS
county farms. ThetArms>are rented
to men who look afttf the wheat crops
and Hendricks receives twenty-five TO
thirty per cent of the gross yield as
his share. Last year the yield was
not as heavy as in 1918 But with a
long price Hendricks will probably De
able to struggle along with an income
from his farms of only half tine. SAL
airy of the president of the United
States.
In Topeka this week Hendricks was
urging the establishment of a state
highway from Atwood to Liberal. per-
hitting northwestern Kansas wheat
growers to deliver their wheat to Kan
sas markets or at Santa F'e, Union
Pacific or Rock Island stations by mo-
tor truck.
How much wheat did you raise last
year?'= a road booster asked the Raw
Inns OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
"Oh, it wasn't a very good year,
answered Hendricks. 81 guess my
share of the crop was somewhere be-
tween 1000 and 1900 bushels. But
of course the land produced about
"A, 900 or 900 bushels"
Oh. just a Trifle.
Hendricks seemed to want to ex-
plain.
You see the land wasn't all farm
ed" he told his inquirer. Just as
well have produced five to eight thou
sand bushels more if we had just
planted the land. This year 500 acres
additional land will be planted to crops
and it will help lot. altho conditions
at this time are not very flattering-"
The modest little return of 1900
bushels of wheat which Hendricks re-
ceived from his rental of the land IS
now worth practically SO a bushel flat.
In other words, the owners return
based on present figures-would be
$33, 900 from his land, while the soil
in one year produced crops valued at
| this time at not less than $4,000. A
number of the western farmers arc
| holding at least portion of their
wheat, altho high prices during the
winter months compelled them to dig
deep in the bins and granaries. 1t was
, 10 urge an outlet for this flood of yell
low grain that Hendricks and a big
/ delegation of northwestern Kansas
men came to Topeka to boost a north
and south motor highway. At present
the farmers of Cheyenne. Rawlins and
Decatur counties must ship their grain
| to Nebraska markets or pay for long
hauls to Kansas mills and elevators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-12

und der oder ISIS ''Muy bueno, Senior"
Der lasdt ISIS nodt exactly French,
Heine, idt ISIS Mexico talk. but dot don't
make any difference, chust so long
as idt ISIS foreign langvidge 1 thought
1 shou1dt might as veil learn idt too.
Also I hat forgot vot dot ''parley VOC"
business means, but 1 know der words,
und next week I find oudt vot dey
mean. 1 tink 1 am gedting along pref
ty well. und if der Premium of
France. und Cheneral Joffer visit To-
peka after Ieating Chicawgo I am 60
ing to gedt me on der receifing gom-
mittee so idt will make dem feel adj
home to hear DER Matte langvidge
spoken. Since learning French, Heine,
dot iss, so much as I haff alrea dy
leandt, I findt dot edumacation ISIS a
greadt thing. und hope you will profit
puy YOUR faders versatility und tings
Idt IS greadt to know tings, eX-
cept unless you are a witness in law
yers' suidt or married. In knowing
langvidges idt ISIS der same. you can't
know too mooch. Now vot I know
aboudt der French langvidge wont
nefer hurt me, likewise idt Won't do me
any harm, und might come in goot If
l gedt puy der army in, unless OF
course l gedt shooted up NIT can
non. den / guess me dot 1 don't need
to know how to spoken any Ian
gvidge, except maybe Latin, witch dey
say ISIS a dead Language und would
be quite appropriation
Say, Heine. vot do you tink off der
old man. I am now a golluf blayer
Dot ISIS. nodt a regular bfayer yet. but
pretty soon maybe I will be- You see
I half bought a golluf ball Now after
vile I will gedt a golluf Club. und der
sometime I will choin a golluf Club
and maybe der French langvidge
teacher also teaches golluf. und 1 vii
den know all apoudt idt, und pellet
me 1 viii bust dot blamed ball vide
open.
Hoping you are der same,
Your fader,
LOUIE SCHNITZ.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-12

of surgical dressings All of these are
at the service of women who wish to
aid their country.
What the Red Cross Needs.
But what the Red Gross does need
today is trained women for the work
of military relief The lmmeolaIe can
is for competent nurses. A soldier
life is too precious to risk in unskilled
hands. Nurses must largely be drawn
from the hospitals of the cities
Women must be found to take the
places of many nurses IN clVlllan nos
pttaIs To prepare for this emergency
the Red Cross has been conducting
great training classes for women
In many cities-New York, Brook
Ivn. Boston, Chicago, Denver and
Misunderstanding centres OF the
Red Cross for the last two years have
been turning out women trained in the
care of the sick and in elementary hos
pital duties.
In New York alone, at No. East
Fifty-sixth street, one of these teach
ine, centres is now training women in
this work at the rate OF 1000 every
From them will largely be drawn
also the nurses aids attached to the
base hospitals organized turnout the
country. Twenty-eisht OF these nos
Element of fifteen nurses aids, are
now ready for active service. Even
the doctors and nurses attached to
these units have been innoculated
against typhoid and other dangers of
field service.
Work to Be Done at Home.
The sanctions of the Red Cross,
however, go far beyond service in mil
itary hospitals. In addition 10 the
Department of Military Relief is the
Department of Civilian Relief, equally
large and equally important.
Dependents of fighting men cannot
be neglected. Red Cross committees,
assisted by expert investigators, take
care of children who need aid. The
needs of convalescing soldiers from
the front will be looked after.
If the time comes when women
must go into industry, the burden of
caring for children must be shifted
from many mothers. Homes or nur-
series must be found for infants. 1t is
the Red Cross that is called upon to
meet these emergencies also.
Unified War Relief.
In all great emergencies charity is
prompt to act. Money comes pouring
in. Relief organizations spring up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-12

Apparatus with which Photographic
plates can be loaded into holders or re-
moved and developed in daylight has been
invented by South Dakota man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-12
WANT TO SEE HOUSE
Old Home Town Folks Anxious to
Hear Mayor Speak.

When Jay E. House, mayor of To-
peka, was Is years of age he was
working for So a week in a country
print shop at Harrisonville. Mo. He
knew all the prominent citizens by
their first names but none of them
knew him, either by his first or last
name, excepting the owner of the
shop. He stayed there a year and left
with about as much money as he had
upon his arrival.
A few years later he became a base
ball player and signed up to play a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-12

of surgical dressings. All of these are
at the service of women who wish to
aid their country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-12

season with the Harrisonville team
Then he left Harrisonville and has
never seen the town again, excepting
a few hours stop while enroute to
St. Louis a few years ago.
Recently he received his third offer
of a job at Harrisonville, this time
from the towns capitalist, Who used
to have hard time producing the So
a week that House earned as a SAL
airy. The towns capitalist is the may
or's old boss. He wants Mayor House
to speak before the Civic club there
in a few days on Some Problems of
Government" The mayor will accept
the invitation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-12
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Underpad fathers and overwoed mothers lose chill
dren?
The United States public health service issues free pubca
lions the of children?
mortality the sensitive index of
munity intelligence?
Dirty milk kills many babies?
Oneeghh of the children born in the United States die
before they year old?
Removing the before it becomes result is the best
kind of public health work?
Babies have right to an officially registered name?
The board bill for last years babies almost
the undertaker's bill for last years babies?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-12

Mike" Blake walked thirty miles to the
cruiting station in Cleveland to enlist He
was rejected because of defective foot and
he walked back home
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-12-21
The Two Boys Looked at Ne.

yet attention for some time, and while
waiting my, turn I noticed two sadly
neglected looking little boys Of about
six and eight years respectively stand
ing very close to the counter and look
ing, oh, SO longingly at these same har-
monicons, when suddenly one Of the
young saleswomen turned sharply
around and in a loud voice said, "Now,
then, If you two boys don't get away
from here at once I'll call the floor
walker and have you arrested" At the
time this sudden attack was made upon
these poor little waits was holding
In my hands two of these same mu-
steal instruments, trying to decide
which Of the two kinds I would take.
The larger one of the boys looked up
at me with frightened look, as If to
say, "Oh, we didn't mean to steal any
thing" when said, "Boys, would you
each like one of these harmonicons?"
They said nothing, but the look of sur
prise GRATITUDE they knew nothing of)
when 1 put one in each boys dirty lit
tie hands I shall not forget to my dying
day, and before you could say "Jack
Robinson they were out Of the store
and out of sight. turned to the young
woman, saying, II will pay for them,"
when noticed the tears In her eyes.
When she finally found her voice she
said, "Oh, madam, am so sorry l
spoke as I did" "Well, never mind"
4 said you didn't understand. I am
the mother of two boys and know what
a boy Graves" When she handed me
my change and package she said, Il
shall never forget this day; it has
taught me lesson"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-11

selves in the ground near where they
have been eating. Noting this, 1t is
easy to prevent injury or kill them by
the following methods:
/. Put small cylinders of cardboard
or tar paper partly above and partly
below the ground around the stems of
the plants.
2. Place shingles or small boards
around in the garden under which the
cutworms can collect in the daytime
Early in the morning raise the shingles
and kill the worms. Also dig around
under the plants, find the worms and
kill them.
3. Scatter spoonsful o. poisoned
bran or clover leaves around the
base of the plants. To make this poi
son, mix one-half ounce of Paris
Green or white arsenic to each pound
OF bran or clover leaves. Mix dry or
dampen with water containing little
syrup. Don't let chickens get at this
poisoned bait.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-11

| WARSAW, ILL, June ll.-UnlVor'
sal regret is felt here over the unfor-
tunate shooting affair in Port Barra,
La, Wednesday last, and much sym
patty is felt for the families of the two
men.
Miss Norma Kicker of Beardstown.
| is the guest of her cousin, Irven Mey-
er, manager Of the Farmers elevator.
Miss Kicker attended Carthage col
lege commencement before coming
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Sharp recent
lly attended the convention of the
agents of the Equitable Insurance Co.
at Excelsior Springs. Mo.
Auto touring south Of here IN Mis-
souri,, according to recent reports. may
be impossible for a while because OF
the recent heavy rains making mud
holes of the bottom roads and carry
ing away bridges and culverts. A
north bound train Friday was delayed
at West Quincy for twelve hours and
then rsn through water almost the
whole distance to Keokuk.
Tuesday evening the wind carried
away the top of the Sack bus, while
in lower Warsaw, landing it in an adj
joining field.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Ferris enter
tanned the 500 club Tuesday evening,
Harry Frazer has traded his White
Palace moving picture theatre for a
300 acre farm near CORN, Mo.
John Nesbit has been appointed
superintendent of water works.
The Presbyterian excursion on the
steamer Helen Blair on Wednesday
last, had to be abandoned because OF
stormy winds
Rev. E. H. Jagdstein is now in San
Rafael Cal; he is sadly missed in
Warsaw, where he did a world Of good
for years He is quite prominent in
child welfare work.
Paul Dory and Milton T. Hunt, Jr.,
are home from the state university for
the summer vacation.
Roy Leach, wife and son OF Quincy.
were visiting relatives here the past
week.
Mrs. Bradney returned from San
Diego, Cal, about two weeks ago, af-
ter nearly two years absence. She
will live in Keokuk.
Warsaw's drill company has f1zzled,
not enough interest being taken by
our young men. Uncle Sam might call
them bye and bye and then perhaps
more interest would be taken.
Geo. ]. Risto was appointed city en-
gineer and Henry Kretchman street
supervisor at the April meeting. OF the
city council.
The trolley line between Warsaw
and Hamilton Is to be placed on new
poles; the job will not be completed
so some of our citizens think, until the
road is built up town.
Frank Wallace OF Chicago. is visit