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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-19

pions, but it contains something much more
valuable to him-points on the strategy of the
game. The American service the cut ball, lobbing,
playing for position, the smash stroke-what is
said about these opens his eyes to the fact that
there is more in tennis than just returning the
ball. He gets new glimpse of what he needs
to lift him into the ranks of good players.
THE WOMAN
An advertisement of fur sale catches the
wife's eye. She needs new set of furs or a
fur coat and is eager to save 25@ to 331sa% by
buying it now. But how can she tell whether
the fur she will look at is genuine or motor
must she take a salesman's word for it? She
turns to the Britannica for information, though
she is very skeptical about an encyclopaedia
acting as a shopping guide. But when she
turns to the article on FUR she finds that the
Britannica does.
You can imagine her amazement to find there
over seventy furs described in detail-their
sources, sizes, colors special markings, uses, val
ues She choosesthe ones which specallyinterest
her, learns their fine points, what limitations areon
the market, and, lastly, studies the tables COM
pairing their durability and weight. After this she
feels that, for the first time in her life, she can
buy furs intelligently. She is delighted to find
that the Britannica contains such unexpected,
such interesting, such valuable information
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-19
LOSS OF LIFE IN MINES
DECREASED, is REPORT
Federal Bureau Shows Fewer FATAL
ties in 1916 Than in Any Year
of Past Decade.

Although more men were employed in
American coal mines during 1915 than
ever before, taking a greater tonnage
from the earth than ever before fewer
men lost. their lives than during any
year of the past decade. according to
a statement just issued by Van H Man
ming. director of the bureau of mines
The army of mine workers numbered
more than three-quarters of a million.
Three and three-tenths of each thou
sand were killed by accident, the low
est death rate in eighteen years and
the lowest on record per ton of coal
mined. The number killed was 2.225,
which is forty-four less than in 1915,
229 less than in 1914, and $50 less than
in 1913. There were 65.00O.000 more
tons of coal mined than in 1915.
Gratifying Results Obtained.
THE mere reduction of forty-four
lives lost for the year 1915 does not
disclose by any means the gratifying
results obtained" says Director Man
ming. "If the same conditions had
prevailed in 1916 as in 1915 in regard
to the tonnage for each life lost, there
would have been at least 275 more men
killed.
The safety first movement foStered
by the bureau of mines, from an iso-
lated, sporadic effort until it has be-
come a great national asset is re-
sponsible for the stopping and turn
ing back of record of deaths that
had become a great American crime
1t is venturesome to suggest what
might have happened without the
safety first movement, but l believe 1
am conservative in saying that at least
5000 miners are today alive and happy
with their families who otherwise
would have been in their graves.
what has been so far accomplished
is due to the friendly cooperative
spirit that exists between the state
mine inspectors, the mine operators,
the miners and the bureau of mines"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-19
Pension Fund Passes s5.000,0OO.

NEW YORK. February 19.-Bishop
William Lawrence of Boston announces
that the old-age pension fund which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-19
This family is only one of thou
at the unusualness of the IL

They naturally count on this most famous of a
jects found in a conventional work of this kind
Britannica what wonderful help it was in unco
This extraordinary work was prepared with
the distinct purpose of doing the thing better
and differently than it had ever been done be-
FORE That's what makes it invaluable to every
member of the family, no matter in what lines
they are interested From it they can easily get
thousands of facts which they cannot obtain
otherwise except with the expenditure of pro-
hibitive amount of time and money.
You need the new Britannica in its smallest,
most compact, most easily handled form-the
Handy Volume" Issue printed on genuine India
paper-for you will use that oftener than the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-19
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article to the headings: "PREsENT-DAY ARMIES
Compulsory Voluntary Service"
Here he finds, not an academic study of the
subject, but an intensely interesting review,
written by man who knows armies at
first hand. He reads point after point which
had never occurred to him before about the
efficiency and popularity of the officers the
morale of the men, their pay, etc. Naturally the
fresh, unhackneyed viewpoint of this article
delights him. He gets in few minutes the kind
of facts which make his conversation on the
subject different" and, what is better, he has
real basis for arriving at an intelligent conclu
sion on this vital subject Of national defense.
THE BOY
The high school boy, with his eye always on
the lookout for good athletic articles, sees some
remarks about tennis for boys of his age They
recall his intention to read up on the game be-
fore the next season His fathers perusal of the
Britannica gives him an idea. He hardly thinks
that any encyclopaedia would contain real infor
nation about playing, but he is willing to learn
whether the Britannica can help him in I'M
usual ways.
The article on LAWN TENNIS Immediately
absorbs him. Not only does it give him facts
about the court, balls, terms and history of the
game, together with the list of national cham
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-18
SHIFTING THE BURDEN.

The recent report of the interstate
commerce commission on the unfortu-
nate position of the steam carriers is
about the broadest confession of err
ror that railroad regulation yet has
produced. Having been largely re-
sponsible for getting the railroads in
their present hole, the commission
can't even determine to its own salts
faction, which is the best way out.
1t seems that the commission, after
years of denying the railroads every
thing the latter considered necessary
to keep their lines equipped for their
big job, suddenly has thrown up its
hands, chucked the job and run to
shelter under a last resort of govern
ment operation. Thus it has met one
Of the greatest crises in the history of
the American railroads.
Government operation now stands
in new light and former conditions
have been reversed completely. The
railroads are not frightened at the
prospect and the old DOGGY of gov
eminent ownership has lost much of
its threat
The railroads adroitly have passed
ITO those in authority, says the Iron
Trade Review, the responsibility for
their maintenance and the service
the render as public utilities This
charge has been placed in a neat pack
age, well wrapped, and altogether it
has had the appearance of a. lovely
gift. The recipients apparently feel
much like a man suddenly handed a
hot potato, and this lends an air of
c Shay to the unexpected report of
the commission. The club which the
latter has been welding has been lost
because the railroads have expressed
a willingness to have the government
! try its hand at operations and show
them how it should be done. Hence
the precipitate retreat of the COM
mission. Until the president says who
4 is to boss the railroads in the near flu
ture the transportation problem will
remain in doubt.
But the commission has made one
thing clear The 5 per cent increase
in rates that a year ago would have
made railroad equipment more ade-
quate now is not even a palliative to
the situation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-18
MANY R. R. Bills
Senate Adopts Motion for
Broad Investigation.
for
Bill Creates 100 Million To
Manufacture Equipment.

washington. Dec. 1s.-S o
Cunlmins, Iowa, today introduced
resolution for an investigation OF the
railroad problem.
THE conduct of the war is suffering
from the inability of the railroads 10
take care of the burden thrust upon
them" said Senator Cummins, in pre-
senting his resolution.
THE president probably will make
some recommendations to congress
soon regarding the railroads and con-
gress ought 20 study the question.
= With scarcely any discussion tne
resolution was adopted, within a few
minutes after its introduction. Iho
coming from a Republican senator, II
was warmly supported by Democrats.
To Name Traffic Dictator.
Following adoption of the CumHlns
probe resolution. Senator Sterling IN
troduced resolution asking Tor the'
appointment by the president or
general traffic manager Tor an lhe
country's railroads. He would nave
authority to control priority OF SNIP
ments, movements of freight and all
problems relating to an effective CO.
ordination of the country's transpor-
tation facilities
Representatives took hand in the
railroad situation this afternoon. Crea-
ton of a $100,000,o00 government cor
poration to manufacture and lease TO
the railroads necessary railroad equip
ment, was proposed in a bill intro
duced by Representative Lenroot, Wis
consin. The railroads would be taxed
20 per cent of their net incomes in
excess of per cent of thier invested
capital, to provide a sinking fund for
the corporation.
a practical railroad man would be
appointed general manager of the cor
porations. All directors would be
members of the interstate commerce
commission. except the secretary of
the treasury who would be an ex-
! officiO director.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-18

stringed orchestra and tenor instead
of a jass band.
TIL dinner included a relish, large
dish of soup-and real soup of the
thick, old-fashioned variety; a meat
or fish, with a vegetable and plenty
of rolls and butter; bowl OF salad;
dessert consisting of ice crea m or
fruit, and a choice of cream or Rogue
fort cheese. Coffee and pint bottle
of claret or beer were served with the
dinner. The guests were served
promptly and courteously-a rare oc-
currence in New York The dining
room was crowded but not beyond its
capacity, a largs number of Italia ans,
artists and thea trical people being
present.
At the same time a much adver-
tised roof garden somewhere in the
upper forties was serving a dinner
that cost between three and four dol
lars. This was not a table d'hote din
ner, but that was the least which,
after careful selection from the menu,
dinner could be bought for. One
dinner, for instance, consisting of a
cIover-club cocktail, a small piece of
veal and two little bullet potatoes,
pale tomato salad and a minute
French pastry, cost three dollars and
fifty cents. Each course was brought
at intervals of one hour, the waiter
had to be asked three times to
a dozen times, he never did bring any
water.
But, of course, the place was pic
turesque. The ceiling was studded
with vari-colored lights, a fountain
with water lilies sent a gentle spray
up to the ceiling in the middle of the
room, and occasionally out of all the
din and chatter of travelling china and
hundreds of voices the faint strains OF
a jass band could be discerned. Here
There was, in his own vernacular,
some class" to a place like this. AS
one lady so aptly expressed it, All the
swagger people come here"
The same lady also told with some
chagrin that she had been in the
Automat for the first time the day
before, having been dragged there by
her little nephew who caught sight of
something he wanted. Il chose the
most inconspicuous corner" she said,
shivering pretttly, land kept my veil
me. When you do thing like that,
you know. you must travel incog."
Thus. you really cannot blame the
fashionable cafes for making money
out of their patriotic duty in conserv-
ing food. The people would be disap-
pointed if they didn't For, after all,
it depends wholly on them. What
ever they demand they get.
Questions on the above or any SUBJ
ject upon which the reader desires in
formation, should be addressed the
Topeka State Journal Information Blu
reau, Frederic ]. Haskin, Director
Washington, D. c., with a Scent
stamp enclosed for :eply
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-18

National prohibition won in the
house yesterday by a margin of eight
votes While the result ends one long
fight it marks the beginning of an
other. The battle within the states
Will continue and the amendment Will
not be in force until all but twelve Of
the states in the Union have ratified
It. AS the matter stands, the liquor
interests probably will have an eight
years lease of life. 1t is not unlikely
that there are enough states with
large interests in the manufacture and
sale of intoXicants which with others
containing large cities will be able to
hold off ratification by the requisite
three-fourths for several years De-
cision on the matter now passes to the
legislatures probably improving the
fighting ground for the brewers and
disullers. They will enter the contest
with the assurance that if they can
prevent ratification for seven years
the work of congress will fall to the
ground and they will obtain a new
lease of life. The prohibitionists
must realize that they still have a
huge task on hand. The old order of
things when it involves immense pc
cuniary interests dies hard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-18

dowries Believe me. the opportunity
of getting a good husband is one of
the advantages of poverty that ought
to go long ways towards taking away
it's sting with girls.
LAS for your boys. poverty is the
making of young man. It is as easy
fo- a camel to go thru the eye of
needle as for a rich mans son to
were all of noble and heroic mold we
would go ahead and achieve things
because we would feel it our sacred
duty to account for the talents en-
bic and heroic mold. We are mostly
lazy shirkers and we do only the
things that We are forced to do.
Perhaps the supremely endowed,
the great geniuses, would have per-
formed their divine tasks whether
they had been rich or poor. You can't
think of Shakespeare not writing. nor
Michael Angelo not painting. nor Ma
poleon not being a great general. no
matter whether they had been Born
to wealth or poverty, but the most of
us have to have spur in our sides to
make US get up and show what speed
and staying power is in U.S.
And there's nothing like poverty
to sharpen a mans wits, steel his
muscles and bring out every bit of
ability that is in him. He's got to
succeed. His bread depends On it.
He can't give up. Ninety-nine per cent
of the successful literary and artistic
men and women in the world were
poor boys and girls, but the rich were
not goaded on by need: the poor were,
SO the rich gave up the fight and the
poor battled on to victory. So mad
anne, the one best bet at fame is pow
erty. And that's another of the ad-
vantages that the poor give their
children.
when it comes to making money
there's no such incentive as a hungry
desire for the things that rich people
have, coupled with empty pockets.
The thing that made me a millionaire
was sheer at my patched trousers
when I was a lad at school 1 wasn't
anything but a child, but I swore to
myself that 1 would have everything
that the rich had, and that raving
for luXuries that I had never known
nerved me to go thru incredible toll.
hardship and striving
Look about you. Almost every man
of Importance in America today, from
the president down, was born to pov-
erty, and because he WIS trying to
get out of poverty he raised himself to
where he is now. That incentive was
the advantage that their parents gave
them. We rich men can give our sons
no such advantage. We smother their
ambitions with luxury We take away
from them the necessity for effort
We make them a shining object for
every tempter and then we break our
hearts because they turn out weak
lfngS instead of men
Il tell you that if I did what I
know would be the best thing for my
family I would give away every penny
of my fortune and bestow upon my
children the blessing of poverty and
of having to deny themselves and
struggle in their youth"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-18

German intrigue has accomplished
what German arms could not do. Rus
STA has been eliminated as a fighting
force. opposed to the Huns, and has
been converted into an ally The
doors of the Russian store house have
been opened and the Teutons already
have begun to receive supplies which
they could not have obtained else
where. All thought of exhausting our
enemy economically must be aban-
doned. Nothing remains but to fight
It out and the process may endure for
years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-18
Dancing tonight at Kerlam Hail.

Dancing tonight at Kellam Hail.
Adv.
The Monday-Thursday vslleyball
class plays the Tuesday-Friday five at
the Central Y NJ. c. A. gymnasium
Wednesday noon.
Miss Maude Hulse, a teacher at the
Topeka high school, has gone to Man
kato to be at the bedside of her sister,
who is seriously Ill.
Verses by Imri Zumwalt appearing
in the Journal, illustrated in. artistic
booklet form for Christmas soc.
Zercher Book Co.-Adv.
The Woman's society of the First
congregational church will hold its
Christmas meeting Wednesday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Warren M
Crosby, SIG Polk.
Will Dupree, a negro, was found
guilty of stealing flour from the Kaw
Milling company today, and was SEN
fenced to sixty days in the county Jail
by Rad Lee, judge of the court of To-
peka.
Rev. John A. Bright. past grand
master of the I. o. o. F. lodge, is de-
livering a series of Odd Fellow lee
lures in southwestern Kansas. He
spoke Sunday in Hugoton Stevens
county.
Easy money was too great temp
tation for Eddie Perkins. colored.
Monday night SO ne proceeded to cash
a worthless check at the grocery store
of Mrs H. A. Parker at Fourteenth
and Kansas avenue. He's in the jail-
house now.
students in the high school filled
out the preliminary enrolment cards
for the spring term Monday. Filling
them out this early in the year the
OFFICIALS will have the lineup of studies
and courses completed shortly after
the holidays.
Wilbur Berry, a Topeka lad who is
a first class fireman on the U. S S.
minnesota, is visiting his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. G. w. Berry, 429 Harrison
| street The Minnesota has been on
the Atlantic coast since April. Berry
Joined the navy in January.
Members of Topeka lodge No. 2,
traternal Aid Union, will be addressed
at their meeting tonight at the hall by
Orven NJ. West of Kansas City, state
manager of the F. A. u. The regular
session of the lodge will be followed
by a card party in the club rooms.
Topeka lodge No. 2. FraternaI Aid
union, will give a card party at its
hall, 119 West Sixth avenue, this even.
ing Owen M. West, of Kansas CITY,
state manager for the Kansas jurisdic-
ton, will address the meeting. The
degree team will exeinplify the initia-
tory work.
The board of administration at the
state house awarded a contract to J.
M Leeper, Topeka contractor, for
| erecting the general science and eco.
Monies building at the Pittsbure
Manual Training Normal school
| Leeper's bid was $173,531. There
were four other bidders.
! Thursday, December 90, is the las,
| day for tax payers to obtain a Y pei
cent rebate on their taxes. That this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-18
THE RED GROSS CAMPAIGN.

The campaign of the American Red
Cross which is being carried on for in
creased membership is a campaign to
obtain needed support for the invaiu-
able work of the organization behind
the American firing line. Joining the
Red Cross is not donating to a char
liable undertaking. It is doing ones
part in defense of our country's de-
tenders. 1t is little that is asked. Re
Spouse should be prompt Red Cross
membership will be the badge of
Americanism. Now is the time to pro-
claim-no proof may be needed-our
loyalty to the flag and our equal 10y
atty to the men who will, at peril of
their lives. and under the certainty of
extreme hardship. bear arms in our
behalf.
1t should be borne in mind that
those who prosecute the member ship
campaign in the interest of the Red
Cross are doing patriotic service; that
they are not in the ordinary sense So
ncitors or canvassers; that the merit
of the Red Cross is not in question and
need not be argued.
Ihere Is, or course, no ulSpOSItlOn
upon the part of the Red Cross cam
paign forces to conscript for MEM
bership any one who actually cannot
afford to devote a nominal sum to
the support of the humane and con-
structive work of the Red Cross; work
which. sentiment aside, is of enormous
value as salvage. in that it sends bac9
to the front many a soldier who other
wise would not be reclaimed for future
service. and saves for usefulness and
happiness in civil life many who with
out its ministration would be disabled
or would die as a result of wounds.
Our duty is to consume as little
as possible of the valuable time de-
voted by busy men and women to
solicitation of Red Cross membership.
Join when asked unless there
is an actual and compelling reason for
declination, and if you must de-
cline let it be understood clearly why
you must decline, and that, as an
American, you esteem the work of
the Red Cross and the work of those
who are devoting themselves to the
increase of its membership.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-18

Atlantic to France thru tbs danger
zone carrying a pretty fair sized army
without the loss of a man. The Rain
bow division now over there is alone
larger than our standing army before
the war. We are just now hearing
great deal thru congressional inves-
t'gation of delay in the furnishing of
equipment for the army. but there is
little or no criticism of the navy.
Maybe the critics have been jumping
the wrong man in belittling Josephus
Daniels. 1t certainly looks that way"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-18

Here is a wheatless dish without
butter or lard that is delicious, nour-
ishing and satisfying:
Apple Germ Bread (Without Wheat
cups white corn meal.
tablespoons sugar.
Three-fourth teaspoon salt. a
l teaspoon soda.
1 teaspoon cream of tartar.
l y cups milk.
tart apples, pared and sliced.
Mix the dry ingredients, add the
milk. and beat thoroly. Add the APP
pies. Pour into a well-buttered shall
low pan and bake thirty minutes or
longer in hot oven to soften the ap-
pies
This could be made with dried april
cots cooked in the usual manner by
soaking and cooking slowly and add
ing a little sugar. The juice may be
used as sauce.
This serves six OF eight people
This recipe is taken from the Off
cial book on "Cornmeal and Ways of
Using it" The State Journal will
send you a copy of THE, Cornmeal
Book" with its sixty-one recipes free
Send YOUR name an address with a
2-cent stamp for return postage to the
Topeka State Journal Information Blu
reau, Frederic ]. Haskin. director.
Washington. D. c., and ask for THE
Cornmeal Book"