The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-03

Tarbell, publicity head for the Ma
tional Womans committee a letter
regarding the responsibility of wom-
en- in assisting in war service. She
says:
The Importance of the full cooper
alton of women with the governm ent
in the readjustment of tn common
practices of life it has undertaken is
becoming more and more clear. The
woman's committee of the Council of
National defense feels that one of the
greatest services that women can
render in this war lies in this coop
Grafton. The effectiveness of the back
ing the women have given to the eff
fort Of the bakers of the country to
stablish the plan of no bread returns
in order to save the tens of thousands
of 1oaves of bread that were going to
pigs and chickens is daily becoming
clear. Practically all of the bakers of
the country are today cutting out that
waste and the women are standing by
them wherever the matter has been
called to their attention. 1t is only
here and there that a baker is found
who, in the hope of gaining a COM
petitive advantage by turning his stale
bread returns into chicken feed, fights
the change. The women gathered un-
der the banner of the woman's COM
mittee of the Council of National De-
Tense have been asked to take care of
such. They will do it as fast as they
discover them.
The same board which has rallied
the women to cooperate in saving
the wasted loaves is calling on them
now to cooperate in another saving
one vastly greater; one which if prop
erly conducted will free not less than
hundred thousand men and ire
mendous amount of equipment, to be
used where they are really needed.
Miss Tarbell continues with the
story of the country's effort to con-
serve the naticn's labor power by cut
| ting down on the merchants delivery
service. She explains that the chief
purpose of the proposed system is to
save an unnecessary use of men and
teams and wagons that might other
wise be used for special war service.
And it is that even more than it is for
the saving of money to the purchaser.
Topeka has already answered the
call of the ration to make those read
justments. and the local merchants
/ of goods a day.
THERE'S A MAN IN OUR TOWN
Who is going off on wild vacation.
His travels heretofore have been
! chiefly in Kansas, and his experience
/ in great cities has been confined to
Topeka and Dover, mostly. But now
he is going to Chicago. The question
of the money that would be required
puzzled him. so he took it up with a
| friend .Well,'' said the friend, you
won't need much money for meals
Just go to a saloon and buy glass of
beer, and then walk over to the cor
| ner where the kullud gentleman is
making up the sandwiches, and you
kid him along about the ball team
and his sweetheart, and he'll give you
a whopping big beef sandwich. and
maybe two of them and that way you
can get your meals for a nickel
apiece"
Yes, but don't like beer object
| ed the prospective traveller.
Then the big idea flashed into the
mans mind, and he is now spending
all his spare time drinking bevo in
the hope of cultivating the taste
And that sly dog who gave him the
/ tip on cheap meals has never told
him that the free lunch with five