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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-01
RUSS SEEK JAP LOAN
Proposes 100 Million to Pay for NUM-
tions Made There.

Toxic, March because the jap
anese bankers have made the unusual
demand that they be given security,
Japan may have to REFUSE the request
of her ally, Russia, for a new loan of
500, 1000, 600. Should Japan make this
loan, it would be the largests ever
flOated N this country.
Russia proposed the issue to the
japanese government, which acquaint-
ed the bankers with Russia's over
lures. AS Russia intended spending
the money for munitions and other
products purchased in this country
the proposition met with the approval
of the government.
Japan has the money to make the
loan and its success seemed assured
until the Toxic bankers made their
demand for security. In view of her
position as a first class power and a
friend bound in alliance with japan.
Russia believes such guarantee IN
necessary and beneath her dignity.
Japanese financierS take the attitude
however, that considering the large
amounts Russia has already borrowed
here and the magnitude of ner latest
proposal. some form of security should
be offered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-01
START SEED NOW
It's Time for Gardeners to Look
After Their Planting.
Prof. Ahearn Gives a List of
Best Early Vegetables.

Manhattan, Kan, March Now IS
the time to plant seeds for early
vegetables. This may be done in a
sunny window a hotbed, or green
house
Selecting the best early varieties,
planting early, and choosing a favor
able location for a garden are three
requisites in the production of early
vegetables, according to NJ. F. Ahearn.
associate professor of horticulture in
the Kansas State Agricultural college.
The man who plowed his land in the
fall will have an advantage over the
gardener who put off this operation.
Vegetables usually forced in the
window, hotbed CT greenhouse are
the tomato, cabbage, cauliflower, pep
per. muskmelon, and occasionally the
onion. The seed should be sown
either broadcast or in shallow drills.
When the plants have formed from
one to four leaves they should be
transplanted from two to four inches
apart in other boxes, and when the
weather conditions are suitable reset
in the field.
Fertilizer Helps.
Some plants respond readily to the
addition of commercial fertilizers,
Professor Ahearn points cut. A quick
acting fertilizer will hasten the ma
turity of the vegetab BILE. Some of the
vine crops. such as melons and Gu
cumbers, often are forced by placing
glass covered boxes over them until
they have obtained a good growth.
The best location for an early gar
den is a southeastern slope. Early
vegetables raised and recommended
by the agricultural college are string
less green pod and bush lima beans,
Crosby's Egyptian beets, black seeded
Simpson and improved Hanson let
tuce, early scarlet turnip and white
Strassburg radisn, Victoria spinach,
premium flat Dutch and early Jersey
Wakefield cabbage, Motifs Excelsior
and Gradus peas. mammoth white
Cary, StowelTs evergreen and Coun-
try Gentleman sweet corn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-01
Allies COvet e. S. Cooperation
for Moral Influence.
L. S. SenatOr-Elect JUST Back
From War Nations.
CERTAIN SPRING WILL END WAR
Child, Lone Survivor in Shelled
Town, Brought to Z. s.
In Crossing Kept Searchlight
on Z. s. Flag.

New York. March 1.-The allies
want US in the war; Lloyd George
wants us in the war; Premier BRAND
wants us in the war" was the word
brought to the United States from
Europe by Colonel Frederick Hale,
United States senator-elect from
Maine, who arrived aboard the Amer
lean liner Finland.
Hale has been abroad several
months studying war conditions be-
fore taking his seat in the next con-
gress.
The Finland was taken to the pier
alongside other American liners. The
entire passenger fleet of the line is in
New York harbor today for the first
time.
DIR. Henry Van Dyke, former Amer
lean minister to Holland, was not
aboard the ship, as had been reported.
Passengers said DIR. Van Dyke had
gone to Corruna, Spain, to join Am
bassador Gerard and would come home
with him.
Interview With Lloyd George.
81 had a talk with Lloyd George
before [ left England Hale said. q
also talked with Premier BRAND of
France, and other officials closely in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-01

touch with the conduct of the war
Without exception they are elated at
the step which sent Count Won Bern
storff back to Germany, and they be-
lieved the next move will carry the
United States into war on the side of
the Allies
-'The moral effect of the Ameri-
can entry is all that is hoped for by
the European countries. They de-
clare the spectacle of only a few
American troops fighting the German
armies in France would have a ire
mendous moral effect.
The feeling in the allied nations
toward the United States has changed
great. The United States now is
looked upon as a firm ally of the
countries fighting the central powers"
Colonel Hale was a visitor to the
French and British fighting fronts
and at one time was under heavy
shell fire in Ypres. He described the
feeling in France and England as one
of absolute certainty that this spring
will bring the attack that will smash
the German lines.
In France, he said, there is a great
shortage of coal, but despite meas
ures which have been taken to cut
the use of food, he neither saw nor
heard of any cases of starvation.
Only Survivor in Village.
The Finland also brought over to
America, Bogo Shelly, curly headed,
blue-eyed Serbian youngSter, who was
picked up in the village of Chapa-
zine after it had been shelled by adj
vancing Serbian troops He was the
only living inhabitant in the village,
when Miss Elizabe Shelly, an Amer
lean Red Cross nurse, reached it. She
found him, smiling and playing with
heaps of dead lying about. She i'm
mediately adopted him and christened
him Bogo, which, she said, is Serbian
for Love of God"
Passengers on the Finland de-
clared there was not a hint of sub
marine scare, altho all passengers
We're given their places in the life
boats and drilled in the use of life
preservers. The ship, they said, made
its way across the Atlantic with lights
burning brightly at night and with a
searchlight turned on the American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-01
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A Truss +!
After Thirty Years Experience 1 Have
Produced An Appliance for Men
Women or Children That
Cures Rupture


If YOU have tried most everything else
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-01
WIDOWS GET PENSIONS.
Wives of Pittsburg Miners Receive $25
a Month From Relief Fund.

Pittsburg, Kan, March Each of
the thirteen women widowed by the
Stone City mine explosion last Deem
Der, will receive $25 a month from
the relief fund gathered for their
benefit, it has been announced here.
In addition SIS monthly will go to
each of the twenty-five children rend-
cred fatherless by the accident
The relief fund, raised by mine I'M
ions, operators and from other organ
izationS and private individuals
amounts to about $500.
Wichita Hogs Bring $13.35.
Wichita, Kan, March 1.-The top
price for hogs paid here Wednesday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-01
oDNYSAMUSEMENTSl

IRIS-Peggy Hyland. winsome Eng
South
ORPH William s Hart in
the widest westernest play he
has appeared in - The Gun
Fighter
NOVELTY-Five acts of vaudeville
and Pathe News
COZY-Gan Kane in mystery
story. THE Scarlet Oath"
For details. prices. etc. see ad~-r-
tisements on another page of che
State Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-01
DENMARK DRY, TOO
Nation Temporarily Prohibits Sale of
All Spirituous Liquors.

London, March 1.-The sale of all
spirits and other alcoholic liquors has
been prohibited in Denmark, accord
ing to Reuter- dispatch from Copen-
hagen.
The order is temporary and calls for
returns % be made on all stocks of
spirits in the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-01

was $685.. the highest ever known in
the history of the Wichita market.
Hundreds of visiting stockmen, here,
attending the Kansas Livestock asso-
citation convention, saw the hogs sold.
The Washington times., 1917-08-19
JEANETTE RANKIN
CALLS COPPER MEN
4BLACKMAILERS"

BUTTE, Mont, Aug. 1e.-There Is
no question here about the stand of
Americas FIRST Congresswoman on
Butte's labor problems. Miss Jean
nette Rankin Is q friend of the strik-
ing miners.
For an hour yesterday afternoon
she stood before a crowd OF 5000
persons who jammed the baseball
park at Columbia Gardens to the
bAckneld fence, and told the results
OF her investigation last week.
She denounced the murderers of
Frank Little, 1. W. W. agitator; con-
demned the "rustling card" protested
against violence; pleaded with the /.
W. w. not to injure the nations
wheat crop, and predicted that II the
strike interfered with the supply of
copper for the manufacture of NUM-
tions the Government would take con-
troll OF the mines.
"If the Anaconda Copper Company
continues to hold up production OF
copper from this country in time OF
war, II does so because it refuses to
abandon the rustling cards" she said.
THE United States is going to have
copper to prosecute the war, and II
the Anaconda Company will not fur
nIsh 1t, the Government will take over
the mines and mine It. And 1 know
you miners are patriotic enough to
welcome Government control and ope-
ration"
She declared Butte mines were un-
safe for the men. II have letters
from the wives Of the miners" she de-
cIAred, "who fear every time their
husbands go TO work they never will
return"
She called the rustling card ma
tionaI blackmail, which can prevent
a good man from getting a job, en-
ables the mining companies to control
their men completely, and surrounds
the miners with an air of criminality.
other speakers during the after
noon were Tom Campbell, head Of the
Metal Mine Workers Union; James
LRrkin, 1. w. W. chief, and Judge J.
J. Lynch, of the District bench.
The Washington times., 1917-08-19

have been used UP in this sort of
fighting. They include the crack
Prussian Guards. "a German division
is usually computed at 10000 men,
- The advance of the guards across
the valley and up the slope, in which
they were practically wiped out, ri
vailed the famous charge OF the Light
Brigade, the immortal Six Hundred OF
British history.
Their mission was almost as hope
less. Yet they came four abreast
across the valley OF death, sweeping
forward to destruction in the deadly
fire OF British guns.
The city which the British must
yet capture from their dominating
heights about Lens is one OF concrete.
Beneath the city representing the
former thriving industrial center Of
France is another OF veritable solid
rock constructed by the enemy.
All means OF ingress and egreSs to
the city are seventy feet underground.
The whole region is burrowed like q
rabbit warren and 1t is such defenses
as these that the British must blast
away.
The Washington times., 1917-08-19
GUARD
. HURLED BACK IN
ATTACK At LENS
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tcontinued from Page one)
Hill 20 -retaken at all costs to save
the city of Lens. .
.The result OF the order is the ming
ding of the blood of men Of every
kingdom of the German empire on
the sodden slopes Of this mound Of
death.
The Canadians are beating them
back. Men fresh from the CORY work
told me today they had never used
their bayonets to such extent as they
have on Hill 20.
Sixteen counter attacks have been
made against the newly won positions
ofsthe British since Thursday. The
lighting has been hand-to-hand with
bayonets, knives, clubbed rifles, and
bare fists.
10 Its the heaviest continued close
quarter hghting OF the war.
Every succeeding counter attack by
the Germans is like the one preceding
it-the pouring OF the enemy from
their trenches. the formation In fours,
the march across the open field with
Canadian artillery and machine guns
tearing the ranks to pieces at every
step. Still they come on. They push
forward over the bodies of victims
OF previous attacks. The Canadians
are waiting for them. They close in.
Then the bayOnet, the bitter man-to-
man struggle, and the German sur
ytyers roll back down the slope.
More than four German divisions
The Washington times., 1917-08-19
WAR BUDGET BILL
PROVIDES ISSUE
OF ELEVEN BILLIONS

The new war budget bill. embody-
ing recommendations OF Secretary Nc
Adoo, authorizes the issue OF bonds
and certificates totaling $11, ,537 ,945, =
460 at one time. A draft OF the bill
has just reached the House Ways and
Means Committee from the printer.
Desires Additional Power.
In addition to authority to float a
S7,53S, ,o45, ,46O 4 per cent bond issue to
care for a previous $1,000 ,000, 900 and
a future $4,000. 900, 900 allied loan au-
thorization the secretP=- desires pow
er to issue additional certificates OF
Indebtedness to the amount OF $1,000
600 900 and an equal amount OF war
savings certificates in a form avail
able to small investors.
Lives Of the certificates Of indebted
ness and war savings certificates would
be limited to one and FIVE year, re-
speotively, and they would be subject to
discount and payment in the discre-
ton Of the Secretary. He also would
tax the interest rates and regulate in
terest payments. They like the bonds
would be subject only TO the income
supertax. and the war Profits and ex-
cess profits taxes.
May Be Necessary.
Inclusion OF the two additional GER
tifcate proposals, not mentioned here
tofore by Administration leaders in
connection with the bill, is understood
to be principally for the purpose OF
providing against a sudden demand
for money which the Treasury might
not be able to meet. AS Congressional
leaders understood the situation, II
may not be necessary to issue many
OF the certificates, but they would
prove the means of getting money
quickly II II were needed.
Authorization to issue the certlfi-
Gates would prove particularly valu-
able, It is pointed out, II Congress
should not increase the revenue bill
now under discussion by $500, ,OO0, 900,
as proposed by Mr.. McAdoo. 1t Is by
no means certain that this proposed
increase will be secured.
The Washington times., 1917-08-19
TAKE ALLEGED SPY
WHILE PREPARING
ADMIRALTY REPORT

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 19.-otto
Greiner, former German army lieuten.
ant and alleged spy, is in the hands
OF the FEDERAL authorities here. .'
When he was arrested, a report
which he was preparing for the Ger.
man admiralty was found in his pos.
session. Drawings OF a submarine
and Of a submarine net which is used
by the allies were also seized.
Navy yard officials say that he ad.
mitted he was in the pay of the
Teuton government.
Greiner Is confined at the immigra,
tion station at Gloucester, ". ].
News OF the arrest was withheld by
the navy yard censor until today.
The Washington times., 1917-08-19
Democracy to Win,
VenizelOs' Message
After 3 War Years

LONDON, Aug. 1s.-In response
to a request for a messsge'to the
British people on the opening OF
the fourth year of the war, N.
Venizelos, the Greek premier, has
sent from Athens the following:
after three years Of war am
now more than ever convinced OF
the final triumph of the nations
reprssentatlng the democratic
idea, and Fam pleased that Greece
may throw in her lot with these"
The Washington times., 1917-08-19
LoVETT MAY BE DICTATOR.

Washington was full OF rumors to-
day that Judge Robert S. Lovett, chair.
man OF the executive board OF the
Union Pacific railroad had been named
as "coal dictator" by the President.
but the White House refused all
comment on the report.
Judge Lovett is a member OF the
Council OF National Defense and has
been one OF the most active advisers
of the Government since the outbreak
Of the war.
The Washington times., 1917-08-19

noon on the EIlipSs, near the Monu-
ment.
all men in uniform In Warrington By
. committee OF local churehmsn
working In connection with the Foa-
dick commission on training camp
activities
Solos BY the bAndsmen and singers
from various churches Of ths city
will feature the program.
Lieut.. W. II. SantelmAnn, leader Of
the Marine Band, will conduct the
concert. -..-
The Washington times., 1917-08-19
MARINE BAND TO GIVE
FIRST SUNDAY CONCERT

The nrst concert ever given espsc-
tally for soldiers snd sai'Srs In wash
lngton and the nrst Sunday concert
ever held in the history Of the or
ganiEation. will be given by the
Marine Band at { o'clock this after
The Washington times., 1917-08-19
"mINE SEIZURE ILLEGAL"

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. 1s.-Attor-
ney General Brundage, 1t was rumored
today, will inform Governor Lowden
this week that the governor has no
legal right to take over the coal
mines of the State. This rumor per
sisted in face of denial at the gov
ernor's office that Brundage had even
been asked for an opinion
The Washington times., 1917-08-19
U. S CAUSES ARREST
OF FOUR SPY SUSPECTS
Tad.

LAREDO. Tex, Aug. 1e-chAFgsd
with being aecomplicss Of Capt Br-
win Schneider, recently arrested in
san Francisco a. . German spy, four
Austrian army officers are In jail
here today.
The Washington times., 1917-08-19
No Exciting Event.

After the excitement that marked
the last suffragist visit to the work
house, the present incumbency is prov
ing so uneventful that Superintendent
Whitaker has been taken completely
by surprise. He had expected a repe-
tition OF former events.
1t is perfectly evident that Super
Intendent Whitaker wants to have
as little friction as possible. The
only events OF the day were the visit
of the mother of Edna Dixon. a
Washington girl, and a long tele-
gram for Lucy Ewing, from her rela-
tives in Chicago.
II any pressure Is brought to bear
in an effort to release the suffragists,
II Is expected to come 1-om Miss
Ewing's relatives in Chicago, who
make up one OF the oldest Democratic
families in the country, having been
influential in both the elections OF
Cleveland and Wilson.
The Washington times., 1917-08-19
DEATHS

THOMAs-Suddeuly, on August 10 at $40 \.
M, at his residence, 76s Harvard strsst
northwest, CARL FRANCIS THOMAS,
dearly beloved son Of Carl n: and Ethel +.
THOMAS (nee Van Horn), and great grand
son of the late Henry K. Van Horn, U. 8.
A, and Hannah v. Van Horn, aged
three and one-half years.
Funeral Monday at Congressional Gene
terry (privatel.
CPhilSdelphia and Trenton papers please
copy1
The Washington times., 1917-08-19
SIX SUFFRAGISTS
ARE PLEASED BY
PRISON QUARTERS
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Herndon. the matron. is considerably
surprised.
In the second place the Administra-
ton is pursuing a soP1Fg1t different
policy than when he hrst pickets
were sent to Occoquan.
In addition to having their cots
placed in a little group by themselves,
they also have been given a table
for themselves in the dining room,
and have been as far removed from
the colored prisoners as possible.
This arrangement takes care of two
of the most Objectionable features Of
the famous sIxteen's short stay, when
they were separated by having their
cots alternated with those Of the
other prisoners.
The Washington times., 1917-08-19
Eat But Little.

little. The matron says It will take the
women a day or so. and possibly a week.
to become accustomed to the workhouse
menu
For breakfast they had rice, stewed
peaches. brown gravy. bread. and coffee.
For dinner, meat, boiled cabbage. corn
bread. and potatoes. Tonight after a
light supper Of vegetable soup and bread,
they will be sent to bed at s 30.
They must be up at 6:3O tomorrow
to start their first days punishment.
The Washington times., 1917-08-19

Pumps-oHo Slippers
in all leathers-also white
canvas.
Wonderful values remaining
from the Boston Shoe Stores
stocks-and from recent sales.
The Washington times., 1917-08-19
QuestIonnaIre First.

The first thing on the program will
be a thorough examination in which
they will be asked more than $50
questions.
The result OF this examination will
determine what their work will be.
1t is expected now that they will be
given a short task in the gardens,
night and morning, and work In the
sewing room the remainder OF the
day.
Miss LavlnIa Dock Is the only one
who has served at Occoquan before
for picketing, She has been able to
explain a great deal to the others.
Miss Flanagan, of Hartford, Conn,
is indignant at what she expresses as
the "railroading" of the pickets.
The Washington times., 1917-08-19

Mrs. w. Upton Watson, OF Chicago
is the only married woman in the
group. She has no children, and hel
husband is strongly in sympathy with
her work.
Miss Natalie Gray, OF Colorado
Springs. is a voter there. She has re-
ceived kilograms from her folks con-
graduating her on the courage with
which she is working for the suffrage
cause.
The suffragists insist that their In
generation Ia OccoQuan is illegal. be-
cause 1t is out OF the District. and that
they are confined here rather than at
the District jail so that the experience
may be all the more unpleasant
The Washington times., 1917-08-19

Including latest styles in Tan.
Brown, Black, and Patent
Leathers. Also white low shoes.
They've got to EOI ThIs In your
opportunity
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-11
ENLISTED MEN ENJOY
HOSPITALITY Of HOMES
Quantico Soldier Tells Hostess I'm Let
ter How Deeply He Appreciated
Homefike Entertainment.

Washington. Nov. 1o.-IThe extent
to which the enlisted man appreciates
home hospitality when he is thrown
into strange surrounding is impress
sively shown in a letter. a copy OF
which has been rec etYed at the ma
tionai headquarters of the war camp
community recreation service.
The letter. written by 81 young sol
der at Quantico, Va, to a Washing
ton woman who had entertained him
In company with other soldiers. at
Sunday dinner, read in part as fol
lows.
My visit at your home last week
was such n pleasure to me / feet
can express II no better than by say
ing it WAS almost like a visit home
I will always remember your kindness
in taking into your home strangers
that longed for Just such a homelike
place. You people probably viii never
know Just how much these visits mean
to Us and how much we appreciate
them and while you do not seem to
consider L out If the ordinary. L.. L.
1t is a very worthy contribution to the
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-11

keenly recognized by those In author
ity here and I know they are appre-
ciated. I hope the good work will
go on" writes Colonel Abner Picker
ing, commanding the Eleventh infan-
try at Fort Ogiethorpe. Ga
Colonel Robert II. Noble, of the
Sixth infantry, expresses similar SEN
timent and adds: THE soldiers rest
rooms at Chattanooga. various public
and private entertainments for our
soldiers, the welcome given by the
churches, fraternities, libraries and
the community geenraily have been
of real value, and are gratefully re-
membered by u.s.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-11

y Is Q very WorthF contributlon
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-11
IN The SPOT LIGHT

In the cast Of we Should Worry
which is a musi-aA2ed version Of
Hoyt's "A Texas Steer are Roger
Gray and Dan Marble. first and second
comedians OF the Comic opera players
appearing here last sumner at the
Academy, The play opened at Allan
tic City last week, and the reg ewers
were hone too kind towards IT,
When the New York Winter Garden
management advanced their prices to
IS per on the opening night OF their
new review Doing Our BIT they re-
ceiyed "A shock which might well make
the avaricious New York mana ger
stop and thing. for instead IT a pack
ed house rs was expected. there were
many rows Of unoccupied seats Ii
IS reported that q panic struck the
box office short time before the cur
tain rose. and seats we're offered at
So per. reduction Or so cents on
the regular scale bat even that d'dn't
get the crowd. The public are willing
to be fooled sometimes but not au
the tfrTIe