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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03

The cables bring the news of mass
meeting held in the
Main. attended by $4,000 persons. 1t
was assembled for the purpose of
voicing a demand for peace-peace
without annexation. Since annexa-
ton was the only object Germany had
in. precipitating the war, this action
of so large a body Of the German peo-
pie is significant. Take away from
Germany her chance Of grabbing the
territory of her neighbors and she has
nothing left for which to fight. But
the Teutons cannot obtain peace
merely by relinquishing their aims.
Such action would be but half sur
render and would not be satisfactory
TO the allies. There must be not only
a measure of reparation but it must
be made impossible for the German
rulers again to involve the peoples OF
the world in a war to maintain their
rights to existence under forms of
government OF their own choosing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03
THE SOLDIERS
ISSUED by the War Department and all
rights to reprint reserved.)
XIII
XIII

In order to give the salute properly
when without arms. first assume the
position of a soldier or if you are
walking carry yourself al attention.
Look the officer you are to salute
stra: hit in the eye. When he is a
fw PAGES away fRom you raise the
right hand smartly till the tip of the
forefinger touches the lower part of
the head dress or forehead above the
right eye, thumb and fingers extended
and joined. palm to the left, forearm
inclined at about As degrees, hand and
wrist straight. Continue to look the
officer you are saluting straight in the
eye and keep your hand in the posi-
ton of salute until the officer ac-
knowledges the salute or until he has
passed. Then drop the hand smartly
to the side. The salute is given with
the right hand only"
A proper salute is one of the things
that will help to mark you in the
early days in camp as possessing the
bearing of a good soldier. When you
get an opportunity, watch closely to
see how regular army men salute.
Note that your hat should be on
straight. coat completely buttoned up.
and hands out of the pockets.
You will learn the rifle salute after
you have reached the training camp.
In general it is used whenever you are
carrying a rifle, except when on guard
duty, in which case you ordinarily
present arms instead of saluting.
You are to salute all commissioned
officers (not merely those of your own
company or regiment or those with
whom you are acquainted), except
when you are in a military formation
or when you are at drill, work. games
or mess. When. in formation. you do
not salute or come to the position of
attention unless an officer speaks to
you.
Tomorrow: Other Army Courte-
sies.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03
CITY BUILDING.

A booklet has been prepared by
Charles NJ Carroll and issued by the
International Harvester company en-
titled: I'VE Must Feed Ourselves"
Under the caption: Every Farm a
Factory" the author says:
The opportunity of the town lies in
along without the town. but no town
ever has or ever will be permanently
prosperous where the land is poor.
The town is built on farm profits; on
what farmers produce in excess of
their home needs. In fact, towns are
consumers. not real producers. Towns
are the natural evolution and out
growth of ecessity-places to store
and distribute the worlds surplus
products thru the channels of
commerce. There is but one road to
permanent city building-that road
leads to the farm. Business is so sym
pathetic, so sensitive to crop produc-
ton, that the forecast of poor wheat
or corn crop affects the markets of
the world When the harvest fields
smile, towns wax fat, and factories in
crease the pay roll. Corn, wheat and
hay, beef, pork and poultry-these are
the soil builders, the home builders,
the builders of great cities.
The old fashioned chamber of com
merce, with its cash bonuses and free
factory sites, is rapidly passing away.
Instead of grabbing business from
each other we must realize that our
opportunities lie hidden in the fertil-
ity of the soil. Towns and cities are
beginning to look to the country, out
to the fields of growing corn, wheat
and cotton, for their real prosperity.
A successful hay campaign will bring
factories to the town. Hay means beef
and pork, which beckon the packing
house and storage plant. More corn
means cereal mills, glucose factories,
starch factories. Flour mills locate in
wheat producing sections. Creameries
follow the dairy COW, and the truck
patch calls for the canning factory.
Let US have more chambers of COM
merce and agriculture. Let us create
wealth from the opportunities at home
and not subtract it from other COM
munities.
We must not forget that every farm
is a factory and that in every state
there are thousands of these factories
which need our best thought and eff
fort to make them productive.
The foregoing is worthy of consid-
Grafton by the Topeka Chamber OF
! Commerce and all citizens interested
in the upbuilding of the city The
capital of Kansas is located in the
midst of one of the finest agricultu-
AdAF MI tANuAAuldA anu regions
in the United States and yet a vast
amount of the food consumed by its
inhabitants is shipped in from other
parts OF the country.
We are large purchasers of fruit
vegetables and meat which are not the
product of the land lying about us
We buy apples from New York. grapes
from Michigan and potatoes from Col
orado and Minnesota. We buy meal
! from Kansas City and cream for but
ter making from all over Kansas. Cat
tie and hogs are shipped thru To
peka to Kansas City. slaughtered anc
brought back to us in the form OF
meat.
The trade trips made by member:
of the Chamber of Commerce for The
purpose of selling things to the neigh.
boring towns might well be employed
in inducing the neighboring towns t.
sell more things to us
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.l

IFrom the Atchison Globe.
There are always too many agita-
tors.
If you nave a good time working.
vacations are a bore.
What is the idea of the man who
signs his name so no one can read it :?
Plenty of men who aren't interested
in art would like to have an artist s
model
A church probably would get on
better If the sermons were shorte- and
the collections longer.
A young girls conversation is al
ways an awful strain on such adjec-
tives as she has in stock.
What has become of the old-fa sh-
toned woman who thought medicine
was nc good unless it tasted bad?
A big city may be lonely to the
stranger, but if you don't want to meet
some one you know there, you will
There is still considerable modesty
in the world, altho there is so much
else to see that you may not notice it.
1t often happens that a woman will
stick to a man as mean as mud thru
thick and thin, while another woman
will give a good man the worst Of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03
WHEN JOHNNY COMES MAEcHrNG

HOME.
When Johnny comes marching home again.
Hurrahl hurrah!
Wen give him a hearty welcome then,
Hurrahl hurrah!
The men will cheer, the boys will shout, the
ladies they will all turn out
And Wen all feel gay, when Johnny comes
marching home.
The old church bell will peal with joy,
Hurrahi hurrah,
To welcome home our darling boy.
Hurrahi hurrahi
The village lads and lassies say, with roses
they will strew the way,
And we'll all feel gay, when Johnny comes
marching home.
Get ready for the Jubilee.
Hurrah hurrahi
Wen give the hero three times three
Hurrahi hurrahi
The laurel wreath is ready now, to place
upon his loyal brow,
And well all feel gay, when Johnny comes
marching home.
Let love and friendship on that day,
Hurrah =! hurrahi
Their choicest treasures then display
Hurrahi hurrahl
And let each one perform some part, to fill
with JOY the warriors heart.
And wei all feel gay, when Johnny comes
marching home.
Louis Lambert.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03

that caused her to unbend from her
hauteur.
She fell quickly into his vein of
merry banter. and when at last he left
she rolled her eye at him.
With that innate courtesy for which
our hero was celebrated he picked up
her glass eye and returned it to her
A pharmacist who kept drug
store was holding forth recently on
the difficulties which beset young
man in his. first struggle with the
world.
II had a hard time when I first
started IN business" he said. refer
ring to a remark made by one of his
hearers.
The public has good intentions
toward you, but it sometimes has
strange ways of expressing them. An
old lady used to come in to buy post
age stamps. 1 observed to her one
day that she was evidently a sreat
letter writer.
q Oh she said sweetly. 4 cont
really require all the stamps l buy
here. It's only because 1 wish to
help a young man like yourself, just
beginning to build up a business. that
/ purchase them
Now. here is a showcase" said the
dealer, pointing to a peculiar looking
specimen of his wares, that is bound
" DeCOIHH pOPuldI- II
everything put in it to double its nat
ural size"
Cant use it in my business" replied
the prospective customer. What 1
want is a case that will seemingly re-
duce the actual size of its contents
one-half"
What is your lfne?" asked the
dealer.
MY speciality is ladies' shoes"
1t was knife and fork do" at the
country fair and the catering had been
done in the good old-fashioned way
The board groaned beneath the weight
of good things. The champion eaters
of the town sat together. and one of
them began to eat slice after slice OF
meat with great gusto. His friend
watched him moment, then. glanc-
ing around at the array of sweets
burst out:
"Good heavens. mani Surely you're
not going to throw away that beauti-
full appetite upon a leg of mutton"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03

been for you living SO near to me I'd
have been scared to DEATH
IF it hadn't been for you living so
near to me I'd have been bored to
DEATH returned Linnelle. I'm going
back to Washington square next week.
My books just finished. 1 can't tell
you what it's all meant to me, down
here. I'll always love the place be-
cause of you"
Marjorie was silent. He stepped to-
ward the door and turned.
Come up to the roof he said. Il
want to tell you there" And they
went on up the five flights of stairs
ogether.-( Copyright, 1917, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03
THE SEARCMLIGHT
Latest News from the Fields of
SCIENCE. EDUCATION, INVENTION
Portable Houses for E,rance

Portable Houses for France.
The French government is already
setting about the task of repopulating
the areas that have been evacuated by
the Germans and it is using for this
purpose small portable wooden houses
that can be brought to the ground in
sections and erected very quickly. It
is probable that thousands of these
houses will be used in settling the
European wilderness that has been
caused by war, and American manu-
facturers will probably supply many
of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03

is needed. In an executive meeting
of the committee held recently APP
proximately s1.6OO.OOO was apRro-
priated for relief, and 100000 of
this was sent off Immediately. And
all this vast expenditure is due to the
policy of the Turk. who is the partner
of the kaiser.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03
Khaki.

Our soldiers are not clad in khaki altho
the word is commonly used to describe
their uniforms Strictly speaking, khaki
cloth. but color. 1t comes from an
East India word that means dusty and
was applied to the color OF the uniforms
worn by British troops In that part of the
world. Our government adopted IT. but
discarded it several years ago in favor Of
olive drab IN both cotton and Hwoolen-
partly because olive drab is supposed to
have a lower visibility and partly because
at the time of the change it WAS easier
to get dyes of that eolOr.-Youth's Com
panion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03

Italy has fixed a price at which her
paper mills must furnish print paper
to her newspapers. In addition to this
she has placed an export duty on the
product of the mills. High prices in
this country are due, in large measure
10 the fact that the mills of this coun-
try have been selling abroad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03

The American committee for Ar
menian and Syrian relief announces
that it has disbursed up to September
L, 1917. u total of s4.255.420.6 To
prevent widespread death by starva-
ton during the coming six months it
is estimated that at least SSO. 100000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03
DINNER STORIES

When he came into the room where
she sat he was struck at once by her
marvellous beauty. At first she did not
observe him, but finally she glanced
in his direction.
There was something about him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03
ON SPUR RE AZ MOMENT


Little Slice o. Life.
The gentleman who
BorrOws our lawnmower the
First of May and returns 1t the
First of November, every year,
Came over last night and told us
That Uncle Sam had borrowed his boy
And he was inclined to be somewhat
Perturbed about it.
1t WAS the first good laugh We had
Had since he moved next door to us.
We were glad on the boys account.
He wanted Uncle Sam to borrow him.
But, most of all. we were glad
That somebody had borrowed something
From the old man.
Jim is n fine boy and we hope
Uncle Sam will return him more
Promptly than his father
Returns our lawnmower.
Thus we return good for evil.
The boy is happy and we are tickled
Foolish because the old guy has got
Something to worry about.
War is hell. but 1t has
Its minor advantages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03

There is reported to be a serious
coal shortage in Germany. The kaiser
will need "a place in the sun" more
than ever the coming winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03
..wHATEVER YOU WANT TO Know

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03

The governors Of oregon. Washington
Idaho and Utah are to cooperate to pre-
ven l. W. W. activities in their respective
states during the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03

I'll found a new bird and
wanted you to come and see it with
me-" Toppy said.
New bird, fiddlesticks,' grumbled
Billy Raccoon, walked me up for
new bird. If you want my opinion
about a bird. wait till spring" and he
turned on his heel, crept into the hol-
low tree and went to sleep again.
Right before Toppy's eyes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03

HOUSEHOLD HINTS


Luncheon Chicken-Boil a large
chicken until tender. Carve and ar
range upon a dish with macaroni
previously -boiled) in the center
Around outside of dish lay French
fried potatoes or Saratoga chips
Garnish with parsley. The drumsticks
should be ga FINISHED with fringed pa
per and set upright in the dish.
Dreamed Chicken Especially good
for fowl which is inclined to be
tough)-Fry a finely chopped onion
this touch of paprika. Then place
on the chicken, cut in pieces. Salt
and add water or stock (if you have
it,; stew until chicken is tender. Re-
move chicken, thicken gravy with
cream and flour. pour over meat and
serve Immediately.
Fricassee of Chicken-Clean, cut
into joints. scald. place in stewpan
with two raw onions cut into eight
parts, little chopped parsley, salt
and pepper. and the least squeeze OF
lemon juice. Add bit of butter as
large as an egg and pint of water
Stew for an hour under a very close
lid, then life and strain off the gravy,
into which beat gradually a teacup
of cream and /the yolks of two eggs
Heat up the gravy, taking care that
it does not boil. and pour 1t over the
fricassee.
Chicken a la Fensier-Place sauce
pan on stove. put in chicken fat and
butter, small piece of garlic, chopped
parsley, salt and pepper. Take chick
en- which you must have jointed and
cut up, and roll in flour. Put in thu
sauce pan and brown; then add a lit
tie soup stock. or half cup hot water.
Cover up tightly, and let simmer ons
to two hours. according to what time
the chicken takes to become soft Re-
move chicken, add a little hot water
and thicken. Above can be served
with rice, or egg noodles, and is a
very tasty dish.
The Table.
Multum in Parvo Cake-Two cups
sugar, one-half cup lard and butter
mixed two eggs slightly beaten. Beat
all together and add one and one-half
cups milk. four scant cups flour, three
teaspoons baking powder, flavoring.
Can be used as layer or sheet cake or
baked in muffin pans
Pineapple Layer Cake-Make cake
in three layers by the fonoRing:
Cream half cup butter, add one cup
sugar and beat, then add half cup
milk and white of four eggs beaten
stiff. Add one and one-half cups
flour sifted with two level teaspoons
baking powder, and bake. For the
filling. beat whites of two eggs, add
tablespoon of the Juice from can
OF grated pineapple and cup of con-
fectioners sugar. Beat until light.
then beat in more sugar until the
icing is thick enough to spread well.
Cover top of one cake and to the
remainder add as much of the canned
grated pineapple the icing will hold
and keep of a right consistency to
spread. Use as filling, then put the
iced cake on top.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03


Sir: Yesterday l saw a Ford car
Just disappearing around corner in
n battle scene on the plains of Egypt
in $40 B. C.-H. T. C.
Dear Sir: saw George Washing
ton crossing the Delaware and the
locks made in Racine, Wis, by well
known tirm.-F. R., Yonkers.
A reader asks if it is difficult to
write magazine stories. No. indeed
Writing them is the easiest part of it,
We hope we will not be considered
out of step or anything like that if
we ask why all the hurry-up knit
ting?
Is it possible that a paternal gov
eminent is going to send soldiers to
France without socks?
We know this is a poor time to ask
pointed questions, but where are the
girls who run the machines in the
knitting mills going to get off?
a monarchy always goes to war
hell-bent for election with head up
and tail rising. A democracy always
has to fight it out at home before it
goes TO fight the other fellow After
all the tin-horn politicians have got
their names in the newspapers by call
ing each other liars, democracy is
ready to go out and clean up on the
enemy-and a bum start often pres
ages a championship finish. z
Fighting it out at home is just
little way democracies have, that's all
Pooling the Kaiser"
We would say offhand that this
item is censored right:
From the Gaylord (Kan.) Sentinel:
The postoffice has been moved from
where it was to where it is now"
ChirFup!
When we read the daily paper
Every pessimistic caper
OF the gloom besotted bunch we see in
print
And we get the dismal warning
Every night and every morning
That all scintillating hopes refuse to SENT
This and that have failed completely,
And we're told, tho quite, disrreetly,
That our active cosmic program is in bad {;
That ther is no use in hoping.
For there is no joy in Midwife TO be had
It's immoral to be happy
To be full of spuz and scrappy,
For were on the old tobOggan, sure ms
fate:
And those soggy Weeping willows
Send us quaking to our pillows.
Aud they have Disaster knocking at the
gate
But, tho all their sad predictions
Should come true. we have convictions
That there's just one way to play the
hardest game:
Swat the mollygumpus. fearful.
Do your derndest and be cheerful,
For we've got TO keep on living, just the
same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03

Douglas Turns Inventor and Dreams
of Wonderful Future for His
Eau1flw
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03

A reader asks if it is difficult to
write magazine stories. No, indeed.
Writing them is the easiest part of it.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-10-09
FOUL PLAY t FEARED &
FOR ASHLAND MAN

A man giving the name OF Harry
Martin may turn out 20 be the vie
tim OF fouf play and not an insane
man, which was the opinion held un-
i'll yesterday by Ashland officers.
Martin was found wandering aim
lessly about the Ashland streets
shortly after noon Sunday.
He was taken In custody BY the
police and lodged In Jail until Mon
day when he was brought to this
city in transit to Jacksonville, where
il was intended to have him exam
ined and committed to the state hos
pital at Salem. Sheriff Jennings ex-
amined Martin and concluding that
he was suffering from something
other than dementia called In DR.. y.
II. Porter who made careful ex-
animation. AS a result OF this Mar
tin viii be taken to the Sacred Heart
hospital for an X-ray examination Of
his head.
Martin continually lifts his hand
to the right side OF the head and DR.
Porter believes that not long ago he
may have received a blow there
which fractured his skull.--Medford
Sun. ia.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-10-09
Mr. PluMMtR TALKS.
Continued from page

great need OF the staples at the
front. II we stop TO figure that the
saving OF one slice OF bread day
by each OF the hundred million peo-
pie would mean saving OF 10.-
900 900 loaves day, and that the
saving OF an ounce OF meat day
will mean the saving OF 5000 tons
OF meat day. re win realize the
small part we can render to the gen.
eral help OF our allies and her ar
mics. Carrying this out for month
or a year will mean immense sup
plies saved with no serious loss to
ourselves"
Mr. Plummer explained that n
home card OF instruction for conser-
vation will be placed in the schools
on Monday. the 18th. and the schol-
ars will spend the entire week study
ing with the teachers the different
problems set forth so they will be
thoroughly saturated with the ideas
OF conservation. The weeg begin
ming the 21st cards will be taken
home from the schools by the chill
dren to their parents and the mother
will be asked to Sign pledge card
agreeing TO live up. as far as pos
sible, to the conditions set forth. In
the instruction card. Upon signing
this cpledge card membership card
with the emblem OF the United
States food ADMINISTRATORS win be
furnished which is to be displayed
In the most conspicuous window OF
the home. indicating that that house
hold is signed up for food, copserva-
ton. ~ hait. :
Mr.. Plummer has been several
days on this trip and an the way
down from Portland he finds every
cbmmunity a ready response by the
rhairmen and the executive commit
tees of-sbe countses. and. he believes
there will be hundred per cent reg
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-10-09
DIED ,

CURRlER-At Grants Pass. October
3, Leroy Currier. aged ~ years
and months, following a long Ill
ness from paralysis.
Mr.. Currer was born at Bath, o.,
in lS4a. coming to Oregon and to
Grants Pass about u years ago. de-
voting the greater part OF his time
while here to mining interests. He
was a member OF the G. A. r.. the
Modern Woodmen. and the Knights
and Ladies OF Security. The fu-
neral will be held at the family
home. l24 Overland avenue, on We'd
nesday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock
The remains are to be shipped TO
LaPlata. Mo-. for burial. pi