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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-05-25
THE SPIRIT OF REGISTRATION DAY.

There is one sentence in the presidents Regis
tration Day proclamation with reference to the
selective draft law to which we want to call your
attention particularly:
1T is in no sense CONSUMPTION of the unwill-
ing; it is, rather, selection from nation which
has volunteered in the mass
That is the spirit of the call as issued by the
president, and it should be the spirit of our re-
Spouse to it and the nationwide observance of
the day. 1t is new thing in history and
landmark in our progress" the president de-
clares. ut is manner of accepting and
vitalizing duty to give ourselves with thought
full devotion to the common purpose of us all 1t
is nothing less than the day upon which the man.
hood of the country shall step forward in one
solid rank in defense of the ideals to which this
nation is consecrated.'
Let us throw aside all bias and prejudice all
fancied fav0ritism and discrimination, and real
izing the board fervor of the presidents appeal,
visualize as concrete fact his declaration that
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-05-25
HUMAN NATURE.

Human nature is human nature and we must
reckon with it. Take glance at the present sit
uation The farmer, for instance, wants to sell
his products for all he can get-the higher the
price, the better-yet some of his leaders are de-
handing that those who supply the government
with war materials be denied that privilege and
compelled to sell their products at no profit at
all or at no more than three and one-haf per cent,
which is less than the interest they have to pay
for the money they borrow to carry on their
business. Human nature spurs the Chicago wheat
spectators along in their greed until wheat hits
the highest price in the worlds history and the
exchange directors stop trading at the board for
fear of government prosecution. Proprietors of
eastern coal mines, the federal trade commission
says taking advantage of the transportation sit
uation, boost the price of coal out of all reason
Then, noting these things and many others, human
nature creates popular demand among us that
the government step in and handle a situation
which we ourselves cannot cOntro-and laborers
strike when they do not get wage increases to
which they think they entitled.
The government is going to take charge as
soon as congress gets tired of chewing the rag
and acts but the government cannot control
everything. Only public consciousness awaken
ed to the fact that such things should not be toll
Grated can do that. Human nature is human
nature-each of us wants to hang it on to the
'other fellow" We are right-he is wrong.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-05-25

Last week we had occasion to ''pan" the Taco
ma Tribune little for sighting Olympia in an
industrial way and, seeing the injustice it had
done us, that newspaper promptly published the
entire protest in its editorial columns. 1t is with
the greatest pleasure, therefore, that we extend
the Tribune heartiest congratulations for so gen.
erous an act and for the broad spirit which
prompted it. That is the spirit, the policy of fair
ness, which is making the Tribune succeed
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-05-25

1.-The Duties of a Bank Clerk" was
the subject of talk given by Cashier
Frank NJ. Kenney before the Tacoma
chapter of the American Institute Of
Banking in Tacoma Tuesday. He
was accompanied to Tacoma by As
sistant Cashier Harry E. Van Arsdale
and in the evening they attended the
lecture by Admiral Peary.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-05-25

In four cardinal ways, in subscribing literally
to the Liberty Loan issue, in filling the national
guard to its full war strength, in cooperating to
make Registration Day complete success, and
in bending every energy to the cultivation of a
tremendous crop, can the state of Washington
be of prime assistance to the government in this
war, Governor Lister says. And the people OF
the state of Washington, hearing this call to duty
awakened to the responsibilities and the needs of
the hour giving heed to the fact expressed by the
governor that this is to be long drawn-out
struggle will respond generously willingly, active
ly to their country's call.
In Spokane the fore part of last week, in Ia
coma, and again in an interview given out here
this week, in addition to his official proclamations
and their accompanying statements, Governor
Lister has sought to impress upon the people of
this state the supreme fact he brought home with
him from Washington and his conference with
President Wilson, that this war IS serious,
grim business, that it will continue much longer
than he had at first thought and than most OF us
now realize, and that each individual among us
must order his business and his personal efforts,
his every thought and act, that each will be striv
ing harder than he ever did before to make his
government succeed
And President Wilson in those remarkable
paragraphs Of his Registration Day proclamation
published elsewhere in this issue, sets before us
wildly the task that is ours, to train a nation,
not merely an army, for war, that we may present
zone compact front ia. = common foe" Above
all does he portray to us the spirit which should
actuate us all and, brushing aside the little en-
mites and disturbing factions that have stirred
among us in the past, exhorts us to arise to the
needs Of the hour so that 1.-THE whole nation will
Be = team n which each man shall play the
part for which he is best fitted"
So, following the lead Of the nations president,
Governor Lister is seeking to impress upon every
citizen of the state of Washington his individual
duty in the crisis. And he is doing it, as the
Spokesman Review says, without resorting to
jingoism or clap-trap oratory, without theatre
cal effort, and without any cheap appeal to the
galleries. RatheD is he candid in his state
ments presenting to the people Of the state in an
earnest and straightforward way the reminder
that the nation has entered upon a grave task
that may call for tremendous and even exacting
sacrifice
1T is well that Governor Lister crossed the
continent to attend the great conference just
closed" the Spokesman Review says reviewing
the governors speech in Spokane, the first adj
dress he made on his return and the people gen.
orally join in that opinion, we believe ''He has
now clearer insight than could have been had
in any other way, it continues He speaks with
weight of frst-hand knowledge and he will find
everywhere a spirit among the people to respond
to his counsel and the presidents call -
And that, of course, is true Once we know
our duty, we will do it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
CONVICT ROAD WORK.

The Kansas legislature in it's recent
session passed law providing for the
employment of convicts in the work
of building roads and forbidding their
employment in any other capacity by
other interests than the state.
A steady decrease since 1885 in the
proportion of convicts in the United
States employed in miscellaneous work
under lease and contract and a marked
increase in the proportion employed
for the benefit of the state on high
ways and other public works are
shown in statistics published by the
office of public roads and rural en-
gineering of the United States depart
ment of agriculture.
The systems of convict labor are
classified in the report as lease, CON
tract, and piece-price systems, under
which the labor of the convicts is fer
the benefit of private Individuals or
corporations, often in the manufacture
of commodities: the public-account
system, under which the convict made
goods are sold by the state; the state
use system, under which goods are
manufactured only for use in state in
stitutions; and the public works and
ways system, under which the labor of
the convicts is devoted to public struc-
ture and roads. The latter system has
grown in popularity, it is pointed out.
because it makes use of the convict
labor with a minimum of competition
with free labor, contributes fairly last
ing benefits to the whole community,
affords healthfuI and even somewhat
reformative employment to the con-
victs, and reduces congestion in penal
institutions.
The most satisfactory use of the sys-
tenn, in the opinion of the department s
road specialists. is under state rather
than county administration.
Since 1885. the report shows, the
percentage of conVicts in large num-
Der of representative institutions work
ing under the public account, state-use
and public works and ways systems,
has increased from 33 to Sc per cent,
while the proportion engaged in road
work alone has increased from 13 per
cent to nearly 1 3 per cent.
In practice, when all considerations
are taken into account, it has been
found that from 25 to SO per cent Of
the male inmates of prisons are avail
able for road work.
The employment of state convicts in
road making, the report shows, first
became general in the south in the
early nineties. Such use of state con-
victs has been made by northern and
western states, however, mostly dur
ing the last ten years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24

The news dispatches from Europe
re calculated to inspire bellef thaI
he Waterloo of the present war Is
bout To be fought on the western
,ront, if it has not already begun
Both of the opposing armies are out
81 the trenches for the first time since
he German reyeat following the Bat
lie of the Marine. For the first time the
cavalry arm of the service has been
brought into action on both sides
rhe Germans are showing a dlsposl-
ion to halt their retreat and make a
.tand. While they probably are out
numbered by the Entente forces, they
have been able to choose their own
round on which to give battle to the
snemy. General Won Hindenburg is
ho trench fighter and the change IN
Iactics probably is due to the fact
hat this military genius now Is IN
command of the army in France. The
ate of Germany may rest on the out
sone of the impending battle, but not
hat of her enemies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24

several city blocks, is occupied almost
solely by women, working at their
lathe, producing fuses There were
acres and acres of women here, form
ing an insignificant portion OF the mil
lion women who are now working in
munition factories.
There is one Government munitions
works. where they deal with eXplo-
sives, that is twenty miles in length,
and averages four miles in width. Con-
tracts for munitions are being MADE
nv the Government that will require
five years to fulfill
England as devoted to one single OBJ
ject; that is, to waging this war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
A WHITE PLAGUE REVIEW.

The publication of a monthly tech
nical journal, devoted exclusively to
tuberculosis, the only one of its kind
in English. is announced by the Ma
tionaI Association for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis.
In it's editorial announcement the
Journal says:
1T is only within the last five or
ten years that our knowledge of the
relations of infection to disease has
taken definite form. Years ago an
elect few had glimpse into the prob
ability that to be a civilized human be-
ing was to be tuberculous and that
only few of the myriads of the tuber-
culous ever developed tuberculosis
But at the time the facts were not at
hand to warrant positive statement
Today they are. And if anyone doubts
that we have learned much and have
travelled a long way since 1905 let
him read a work on tuberculosis of
today and contrast the point of view
with that held ten years ago. Or let
him read the writings of DIR. Trudeau
consecutively beginning about 1890
and in 1915. He will see how timid-
ity of statement gradually hardens
into positiveness and, here and there.
evolves even into pregnant prediction
as the hard won facts come in-all
too slowly sometimes yet uninter-
ruptedly."
The health forces of this country
may find much encourage in the
results achieved by the anti-tubercu-
| losis movement in the last ten years.
In 1905 the death rate was 200.7 per
| 100000 of population; in 1915 the rate
was 1868 per 100000 of population.
Stated in another way this means that
if the death rate of 1906 had continued
in 1915 there would have been 5000
more deaths from tuberculosis in this
| country than actually occurred. Some
| of the reasons for this saving is found
in the following facts: there were SOC
more tuberculosis sanatoria and hos
pitfalls in 1916 than in 1905; 43O more
clinics last year than in 1905; 1870
more anti-tuberculosis associations
and committees last year than in 1905;
there were approximately 500 open-air
schools in 1916, whereas in 1905 there
were none. There were 1000 tuber-
culosls visiting nurses at work last
year as compared with fifty in 1905.
I Making available to the whole med
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24

The typist took up the stamps.
where shall / put them" she ask
ed. .
Anywhere, Anywhere" shouted
the boss Anywhere out of sight"
Very well" said the girl, as an
ominous flash came to her cheeks.
And she gave the stamps a rapid lick,
stuck the big sheet on his bald pate
and departed in search of another job.
Ethel has the gift of graphic de-
scription. Until recently she was
little country girl; now she lives in a
large town. The first letter she wrote
back to her old home began like this:
This is a queer place. Next door is
fastened on to our house"
Marie asked the star of her
maid. gazing perplexedly at her re-
Election in the mirror. what was I
about to do-step into the bathtub or
go on the stage?"
Marie shrugged her shoulders.
How can / tell2 Mademoiselle is
dressed for either"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
NIUNITION MAKING.

That the British were not eAaggerat-
ing when they said that their shell
supply was larger at the close of the
Somme campaign than at the begin
hing. is the opinion of Mr.. S. S. Nc
lClure. who has recently returned from
Europe. In his forthcoming book
|'Obstaeles to Peace" CIoughton Milf
Hin Company, he says:
Everywhere I travelled in England 1
saw new factories being built. In a
tourney of three hours L saw six diff
'ferent factories of great extent in
.vicinity of towns and villages where
there were no other factories. In the
great manufacturing centers new ex-
Tensions are being built. All these
|new factories are for the purpose of
increasing the munition output.
Although the manufacturing abil-
'ity of England has been greatly in
creased, both by greater activity on
the part of working-men and by in
creased facilities, eighty per cent of
aH the manufacturing facilities in
|Ereat Britain IS devoted to munitions
land ornaments
One OF the Establishments I visited
employed ten thousand people. 1t was
a small portion of the plant of great
munition concern
In one factory it was almost impos-
sibIe to see the boundary wall in either
direction. and this factory, as big as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
To a Lady.
BY ROY X. MoULToN.

To Lady.
oh Lady, you know that it's seldom, if
ever.
find any fault with the things that you
wear,
Your clothes, as a rule. are decidedly
clever.
Your clothes, as a rule, 1 assure you, are
There:
But lately, alack! you distress, you alarm
Permit me politely to say if you please
They do not allure, ravish, gladden. or
your knees.
oh, wear if you will in your tresses
feather.
Or wear little booties that lace in the
rear,
Wear gowns made of rubber and jackets
of leather,
Or hats that are fashioned to straddle the
Far be it from me to discredit the clothes
of
A friend and a lady, I'm sure you are
these,
But won't you abandon, reIinquish, dis
pose of
The shoes you are wearing way up to
your kneeSi
The styles just as well as the ways of a
maid are
at times quite riddle, at times quite
jest.
But two you now favor alas I'm afraid
More. foolish and frightfuI than all of
the rest.
Oh, many, indeed are your foibles but
chiefly
Just two L deplore and the two they are
these
To put it succinctly and shortly and
briefly
The shoes You are wearing wAy ND to
your knees!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24

ton in the world. Probably they
own half of the property in the
world. They certainly have just as
much at stake in every country as
to the laws of the land as men are
There are nearly as many college
graduates among women as there are
among men. There are more girls
that go thru the high school than
there are boys. The percentage of
that among men. There are ten men
cOnvicts to one woman.
Yet in every civilized land men have
u voice in making the laws that govern
them: Women have this privilege only
in a few countries. The man who has
not a dollars worth of property can
vote on all subjects of taxation. The
woman who owns millions of dollars
worth of taxable property Las no
voice in the matter The most 1gnor-
ant and illiterate man can vote. The
most highly educated and intelligent
woman cannot. The best and noblest
woman in the world is classed po-
litica1ly with the most degraded man
because in politics woman is not
regarded as a human being. She's
neither fish, flesh, fowl. nor good red
herring. She has no place on earth
and her struggle for the blot is
merely her effort to put herself on
the map.
A great deal Is SAID about the I'M
rest of women. The whole sex is de-
clared to be in ferment 1t is as
serted that girls are no longer salts
fed to be just society butterflies; that
wives are not content to be merely
wives and mothers, and the highbrows
who discuss this matter profess not
to be able to understand this modern
phenomena of feminism.
The explanation is as plain as a, b,
C. What we call the unrest of women
is simply the efforts they are making
to achieve the right to be human be-
ings first and women afterwards, in
stead of being compelled to be just
women and nothing else.
Women want the right to develop
their minds and bodies like rational
human beings instead of being forced
into some silly and conventional little
pattern of feminism. They want the
rights of a human being to follow
the bent of their. talents. They want
the human right to earn money, the
right to be regarded as human beings
in government and, above all, they
want to be treated by men as human
beings, not as slaves or playthings
but as good comrades-human beings
like the men copyright
1917, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
GLOBE SIGHTS
EFrom the Atchison G1obe.l

EFrom the Atchison Globe.]
1t is hard to guess why some voices
are cultivated.
Keep going; a bicycle idle has to be
propped up
Water and work seek the course of
least resistance.
AS a rule those who lack faith. in a
town also lack ambition.
1t is also too bad that we cannot
hear ourselves as others hear us.
Telling what the other fellow
should do is the mildest and most
useless occupation.
Another unfortunate thing is the
average mans inclination to believe
everything he hears.
1t is so easy to be mistaken that
you shouldn't conclude out loud that
you could do his, her or their work
better.
A woman's garb, a woman high
brow writes, should express her men
tality and temperament. But some
women have considerable tempera-
ment.
chant typewriter probably is the larg-
opportunities for representation.
which helps some.
One gathers from the divorce court
docket that. the men may be to blame
for most of the divorces, and We are
too gallant to place the responsibility
for the bulk of the maria ges.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24

boiled in liquid or fried in deep fat
For this dinner beat three eggs, add
cup of milk, half teaspoon salt, then
stir in, little at a time, one part
bread crumbs, until mixture is very
stiff. Roll out half inch thick, cut
in thin strips, drop into this well sea-
soned tomato sauce, and boil gently
sprinkle thickly with grated cheese
and dot with butter, then slightly
brown in very hot oven.
The Table.
Original Milk Soup = Buy two
pounds of shank, near the round.
when the water boifs drop in the meat
and boil quite fast for five minutes
Then lower the heat (but still bold
until tender, thus retaining the flavor.
adding the salt half an hour before
done. Take the stock tthere will be
about a quartz and add four small
potatoes, cut very small; then boil
until potatoes are cooked, in about
ten minutes. Put all thru a strainer
and return to kettle and stove, adding
water to make the right amount. Then
add a tablespoon minute tapioca.
Boil gently fifteen minutes. When al
most ready to serve, add cup of
good milk, a little salt and pepper
Takes only thirty minutes to make
after the stock is prepared and costs
about three cents.
Cheese Head-One veal shank, one
and three-fourth pounds; brown. in
! dripping with one medium sized on
! ion, then simmer with two quarts wat
er, one-half cup sliced carrots, one
bay leaf, few mustard seeds, salt,
! pepper and paprika for two hours.
| Line mold with slices of hard boiled
egg, sprigs of parsley and some
rounds of cooked carrots Pour in Ii
| quid and add veal cut into pieces Let
| cool thoroly. Turn out on platter. dec
crate with parsley.
Somerset Halibut-Arrange six thin
slices of fat salt pork, two and one
half inches square. in small dripping
pan Cover with one onion thinly
sliced. and a little chopped parsley
Wash and wipe dry two-pound piece
of halibut, lay 1t on the pork Ind
onions sprinkle with salt and pepper
and cover with crushe cracker
crumbs that have been mixed with
melted butter. Cook in hot oven,
Sasting frequently with the pork fat
| in the pan and half a cup of boiling
water. If it browns too quickly, cover
with piece of buttered paper. Dish
on heated platter. garnish with lemon
and parsley and cerve with highly sea-
soned tomato sauce. This serves five
!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
rs YEARS AGO IN Topeka
From the columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
March "a, 1892.

March "a, 18y2.
Kansas avenue is to be swept tonight.
1t needs it.
George NJ Stone and Josiah Jordan took
a trip into the country yesterday to do
some sketching.
The committee of the school board which
went to Denver in the interest of the pro-
posed high school building, have reported
their expenses at $160.
A printed slip requesting the lady of
the house to register has been placed in
every home in Topeka.
One of the young ladies in the play of
Little Trixie'' sadly in need of more
padding about her neither extremities.
The room in the City building formerly
occupied by the st. Ananias club is being
repapered and painted. The mayor will
use it for his office
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24

In the IL years since 1905, we have
spent for government a sum equalling
the entire wealth of the kingdom of
Italy-nearly % billion dollars A
census report shows that our total cost
of government in 1913 was 2,967 mil
lion dollars. 1t must now be well
above three billion dollars annually.
This means that we are spending ten
million dollars every working day of
the year, not to conduct a war. but to
govern ourselves IN time of peace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24

There is not the slightest question
hat. given time, we could raise and
souip a larger army than any of the
nations engaged in the European
War, excepting. perhaps, Russia. Inc
census shows that there are 2O,OOO'OOe
men in the United States of military
Age. from IS to As. If we take the
military age as from IS to 80. we have
hearly 100000. and if from IS to
s3. nearly 100000. Moreover, about
600 600 Young men reach military
hge here every year. If we went INTO
he business of raising armies, says
Worlds Work. we should not lack
men; nor, in view of our huge manu-
Iacturing plants, should we lack equip
lnent