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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
EVIL FOR GOOD.

Since the entrance of the United
States into the world war repeated ac-
acknowledgement has been publicly made
of the effective and patriotic support
rendered the government by the
American newspapers. Here are
some of the things the newspapers
have been doing:
Exercising an intelligent self-cen-
sorship against news likely to be use
full to the enemy.
Promoting enlistments in every
branch of the military and naval SER
vice.
Smoothing the path for compulsory
registration under the CONSUMPTION
act.
BY unstinted publicity popularizing
and insuriug success to the liberty
loan.
Loosening the purse strings of gen.
crosby by telling appeals for the Red
Cross war fund and all the other re-
lief funds.
In return what has congress been
trying to do for the newspapers?
To annul the freedom of the press
by establishing arbitrary official CEN
sorship autocracy.
To deny the newspapers the use of
the malls by prohibitive doubling and
trebling of postal rates.
To load the newspapers with double
burdens by special tax on advertising
receipts as we'll as on profits.
To prevent the newspapers having
any profits to tax by permitting them
as helpless victims to be gouged by
the news print paper trust.
| Here is the nutshell story, says the
| Omaha Bee, of what the American
newspapers have been doing for the
government and what the government
has been doing to the newspapers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

The war business is proceeding sys-
tematically, one important piece of
work following promptly on the heels
of another. First there was the lib
erty loan. then the Red Cross fund
and now the filling up of the ranks
of the regular army. For the latter
purpose the government needs 10000
men. 1t is planned to enlist them this
week. The age limit of the selective
draft has been extended. The ranks
are open to men between the ages of
is and 40. An excellent opportunity
to see service is offered to those who
were too young or too old to register.
The regulars will be the first to go to
France. They will be followed by the
national guard. Those called under
the selective draft law are not likely
to reach Europe before next summer.
Those who enlist now will not only
be performing a patriotic duty but
they have a good opportunity for ad-
vancement. Regular soldiers in con-
siderable numbers will be required for
training the new army of $4,000 men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

William. Together they went along
thru the woods, and over the fields,
and, all of a sudden, from behind
current jam bush, out jumped bad,
old, double-jointed skillery scalery al
ligator.
"Ah, hal" cried the alligator. AT
last l have caught some one to whom
1 can do it! All, hal"
DO what?" asked Uncle Wiggily,
while Father William looked around
for a place to hide. What are you
going to do?'
Tickle your feet" was the surpris-
ing answer. II am the ticklish alli-
gator. and feet 1 must tickle! Get
ready now, here I comet!
"Oh, dear!" cried Father William.
II never can bear to have my feet
tickled. For, when that happens 1
laugh and then L sneeze and then l
catch cold and have to go to bed. oh,
dear! 1 don't want my feet tickled"'
Hush" whispered Uncle Wiggily,
as the gator was hopping toward
them. you won't have to suffer that,
Quick! Stand on your head as you
taught me to, and hold your feet up in
the air!"
And in the twinkle of a spiced
pear Uncle Wiggily and Father VIII
liam were standing on their heads.
The surprised alligator saw them, and
after trying to reach their feet with
his claws, which he couldn't do, as
they were up in the air, he cried:
"Ah, ha! Thought you'd fool me.
didn't you, by standing on your
heads, Well, I'll tickle your feet after
all. I'll climb a tree and reach down
to them!''
oh. dear! He'll make me catch
cold after ALI" sighed Father Will
liam.
mo. he won't" said Uncle Wig
gily. The alligator is very good at
climbing up trees, but it takes him
ever SO long to climb down. AS soon
as he climbs up Wen stop standing
on our heads and run away" ,
And that's exactly what the bunny
and Father William did. AS soon as
the alligator was up in the tree
branches they turned fiip-1op, stood
up straight and away they ran, and
the alligator was all day getting down
out of the tree. So he didn't tickle
their feet after all, but he might have
if Uncle Wiggily had not learned to
stand on his head.
And If the ice wagon doesn't slide
down hill and throw snowballs at the
potato pudding in the parlor I'll tell
you next about Uncle Wiggily and the
magic bottles.-(Copyright, 1917, by
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
Even Good Little Girls.
BY ROY X. MOULTON.

Even Good Little Girls.
For long we thought little maid
Through all the happy daytime played
At skipping rope, at jacks or tea
Or paper-dolls all quietly
And scorned TO Join for but a while -
The FRANKS that little boys beguile,
The climbings of a tree or fence
And other rough advertisements.
So thought we till the other day
We watched some little maids at play
With what romping, shouting din,
oh, shades of Hucke1berry Finn!
Few jacks were here, few paper dolls
These little maids wore overhaulsi
Nor did they skip a rope, instead
In turns they leaped from off shed!
Well, be it so. Too soon, all me!
Their days of frolicing will flee,
Those chubby legs as on Time skins
In later years alas, are Limbs!
SO let them frolic in their play
And leap and scramble while they may
w hen they are grown, who knows but thel
VIII hobble-skirts be in again!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

Americans are taking over the hos
pital work of our allies in France.
The work of building ships has be-
gun in this country. More important
than any other remaining war need is
that of airplanes. On these we have
not made a start. Congress has not
even made the necessary appropria-
ton. Aircraft can be built more rap
idly than boats and can be transport
ec more readily than an army. 1t is
declared that sufficient number of
flying machines will win the war
Why the delay?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

the west which was just as good as
the genuine Swiss and Canadian ar
ticles, altho made in America. Imme-
diately the number of visitors to the
parks took big jump. People began
to talk about them. Mary Roberts
Rinehart, Irwin Cobb and other SOW
ereigns of the public mind wrote
about them. 1t is not too much to say
that Mr.. Yard made the national
parks a national hobby.
Naturally these ripples of public in
terest were felt in congress and much
valuable legislation regarding national
parks has gone thru. Congress has
even been induced to appropriate
quite a little money for roads and
trails. And Mt. Mckinley in Alaska
and the Hawaiian volcanoes have been
added to the list of our protected won
ders. This measure creating a nation
al park service, which passed last
April and has just been put into effect,
is but the clinching of the matter, which
guarantees the permanence of the
great constructive work that went be-
fore.
Questions on the above or any sub
Ject upon which the reader desires in
formation should be addressed the To-
peka State Journal Information Blu
reau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director.
Washington. D. c.. with 2-cent stamp
e; closed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
HIGH PRICES WORLD WIDE.

The advance in prices. so keenly
realized by all the people of the
United States is by no means peculiar
to this country, or even the countries
in which war conditions are looked
upon as the immediate cause of the
higher prices. From the tea fields of
Java and India. the tin mines of the
Malayan Peninsula, the silk areas of
China and Japan, the sugar fields of
Java, Hawaii and Cuba, the sisal plan
tations of Mexico. the copper mines of
South America and Japan, the indigo
farms of India, the hemp fields of the
Philippines, the logwood forests of the
West Indies, the currant orchards of
Greece, the rubber plantations of the
Orient, the champagne producing area
of France. the cotton fields of Egypt.
and even the diamond mines of South
Africa, come statistical proof of add
vance in prices of their respective
products.
A compilation by the National City
Bank of New York of the prices at
which varied products of these widely
distributed areas are being sold in the
advance in prices is general.
Comparisons show in very large
proportion of the cases marked in
creases in the values, at the place of
production, of the merchandise
brought into the country. Raw cot
ton, for example, most of it from
Egypt, was imported in March, 1917,
at an average price of 31.8 cents per
pound, against 1913 cents in March,
1914, a date Immediately preceding
the war.
| Sisal imports in March of the cur
rent year were 1902 per ton against
$117 in March, 1914; copper 29.5
cents per pound against 14.1 cents
three years earlier; goat skins 62.2
cents per pound against 25.7 cents
three years earlier; cheese at an av-
erage of "a cents per pound against
IT'S cents; flax seed at s2.3s per
bushel against s1.29; beans at 1921
per bushel against $1.56; potatoes at
s1.77 against ~ cents three years
ago; indigo at So per pound against
15 cents per pound in the same
months in 1914; logwood at $36 per
ton against $11; combing wool at As
cents against 24.6 cents in March
1914; lead at 6.5 cents per pound
against cents; cotton stockings al
1927 per dozen against $1.27 in
March, 1914; sugar at exactly double
the price OF three years ago; currants
at an advance of 800 per cent; while
cattle hides, manila hemp. raw silk
India rubber, tin, lumber, cotton and
wooden cloth and many other articles
show advances. some of them as much
as 100 per cent.
Wood pulp. mechanically ground,
shows an average import price in
March, 1917, of s3O.7S per ton,
against $685. in July, 1914; chemical
pulp unbleached s96.90 per ton
against s36.75, and chemical pulp
bleached. s13S.11 per ton against
$500 in 1914. All of these advances
occur in the price at which the mer-
chandise in question was sold in the
country from which exported to the
! United States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
THE FLAG.


There is something in a flag, and a little
FURNISHED eagle.
That is more than emblematic-it is glor
ious, it's regal.
never be in danger,
You may never visit foreign lands, and
play the role of stranger;
You may never in the army check the
march of an invader,
You may never on the ocean cheer the
swarthy cannonader:
But if there should happen to v GU, then.
when age is on you pressing,
And your great big BOBBY boy comes to
ask your final blessing,
You will tell him: Son of mine, be your
station proud or frugal.
hen your country calls her children, and
you hear the blare Of bugle,
Don't you stop to think of Kansas, or the
quota of your county,
Don't you go to asking questions, don't
you stop for pay or bounty,
But you volunteer at once. and you go
where orders take you.
And obey them to the letter If they make
you or they break you;
Hunt that flag, and then stay with it. be
you wealthy or plebeian;
Let the women sing the dfrges, scrape the
lint and chant the paean-
Tho the magazines and journals TEEN with
anti-war persuasion,
And the stay -at-homes and towards gladly
take the like occasion,
Don't you ever dream of asking, rs the
war a right or wrong one?"
You are in it, and your duty is to make
the fight strong one;
And you stay till it is over, be the war
a short or long one;
Make amends when war is over, then the
power with you is lying,
Then If wrong, do ample justice-but that
flag, you keep 1t flying
If that flag goes down to ruin, time will
then, without a warning,
Turn the dial back to midnight, and the
world must wall till morning.
Eugene Il. ware.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

To the orderly. the visitor said:
That's a bad case. What are Won
going to do with him?''
He's going back, SIR" replied the
orderly.
Going backn' said the visitor. in
surprised tones.
Yes said the orderly. He thinks
he knows who done it,"
Two gf-ls were discussing the re-
cent marriage of a mutual friend.
Everything went off splendidly.
didn't it?" said Dora enthusia stical.
ly. And didn't dear Rose look per-
fectiy sweet?"
Yes. she did," agreed Nora. Ssh.
told me after the ceremony that
there was only one drawback"
What was that" asked Dora IN.
quisitively.
Well, she felt that her father
looked too cheerful when he gave her
away"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

- In connection with the appropria-
tion of $1S.OO0.OOO by congress for a
food survey Representative Philip p.
Campbell of Kansas asks the pertinent
question. What will the people get
out of it?' In his opinion the. a, 500 or
more new employees who will be given
Jobs might better be employed as farm
hands, and the money in providing
food for those who are hungry THE
money appropriated in this bill will
be spent" declares Mr.. Campbell, the
people will have a report that nobody
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

will read, and the food shortage will
go on until the war is over" Mr..
Campbell insists that what the farm
ers need is sufficient labor to till the
SOIL but instead they are given an
army of investigators and theorists.
In the words of another congressman:
THE people are asking for bread and
they are given a survey"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

Al labor disputes; they settled 227 in
1915, and so far this year they have
already adjusted 267 strikes or threat
ened strikes. Within the past month
alone they were called in to mediate
66 Controversies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

Spectators have begun to beat
down the price of wheat in prepara-
ton for the purchase of the new crop
which soon will come into market.
Many farmers are forced to sell their
crop as soon as it is threshed. Their
necessities will be duly taken advan-
tage of by the grain gamblers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

Altho not in Uncle Sans pay, ex-
Presidents Taft and Roosevelt are act
i've about Uncle Sans business. says
the Los Angeles Times, and are giving
him the full benefit of their expert
ence. Their activity has gone far to-
ward answering that old question
..what shall we do with our expires
idents?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

King Alphonso, warned by the fate
of Nicholas and Constantine, has an
nounced that he is willing to become
president of a Spanish republic if it
please the people so to direct.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
Readymade Clothes Statesmen.

Any man could always look neat
and tidy if he had a readymade
clotheS salesman to go around with
him and to pat and pull at his coat
This always makes a coat fit per-
fectly.
When you get a readymade suit
nome you are surprised to see the
funny Jumps and wrinkles in it. The
, amusing thing is that it didn't look
that way at all when you tried it on
at the store. You point this out to
your wife and after you have both
chuckled over it a while you decide
to take the coat back and kid the
salesman about it. 1t is probably a
mean thing to do but any man with
little fun in him can't resist joshing
the salesman in case like this.
The salesman will certainly be
fused to see The mistake he has
made:
When you get the coat on in the
store again the salesman turns out to
be a pretty good fellow and takes the
joke in the right spirit. He admits
you've certainly put one over on him
if you can prove the coat doesn't fit
perfectly and then he leads you up to
a glass.
! Whats wrong with that fit there 90
he says. Then quick as a wink he
makes pass or two at the collar in
back and yanks the lapels a bit and
after a few snappy jerks at the bot
/
your sides and turns you around so
you can see how swell it fits in back.
That's funny! The coats fits per-
| fectly.
When you get the coat home and
put it on once more it begins to act
up again but what's the difference.
Maybe the salesman knows something
to do to it. He knows more about
how coat should be worn. But it
would be fine if he always could be
handy to pat and pull at your coat SO
that you could always be looking neat.
| That's So.
A crazy nut, 1t seems to me,
Is anyone like Sidney burst.
Before be mods he waits to see
If 1 am going to nod the first.
(Still after ALL it's likely he
Has thought the very same of me ,
Today's Sheer.
Back numbers are scoffed by quite
a number who were never numbers
at all.
Wise Words.
The prudent lad but seldom plays
Around with loud and sporty guys,
He knows it almost never pays
| To chum with him who buys"
4 Speaking of incomes most men like
to puff them out and most women like
to blow them in.
The Missing Link.
The race has missed missing link"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

The federal trade commission will
be asked to fix the prices of all steel
products so as to allow a fair profit
How, then, can the government collect
an excess profit tax from the steel
concerns?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
DINNER STORIES

Passing thru a military hospital, a
distinguished visitor noticed a private
in one of the Irish regiments who had
been terribly injured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

Hindenburg has executed another
of his famous strategic retreats. If
he continue to entice the allies along
they may in time reach Berlin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

I'll just do it. 1t never occurred to
me before that marriage might mean
that at last I should be understood"
Copyright, 1917, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

The Missing Link.
The race has missed missing link"
At least so Darwin seemed to think:
This Link that somehow made escape
Would link the human with the ape
Let Dsrwin's Xix. in ones and twos,
Be linked with apes then, If they choose,
But we who have a little pride
Would call that QUITE undignified.
And anyway. we hardly think
However missing is the Link,
(Or strayed or lost or something such)
That WE are missing very much!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

Speaking of incomes most men like
to puff them out and most women like
to blow them in.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-21
REAL ESTATE.

New ten-room, modern, east-front, oak
floors, cstern, garage Just swell home.
In Eastland addition. Price only $500.
81 900 cash and balance 500 per month.
Four-room cottage, good well and garage.
Lot 50X190 Price $l,400 VIII take in good
secondhand Ford car. Balance cash. Prop
erty is clear and will easily carry "A loan for
$500.
New five-room modern bungalow; fine
and dandy; in Eastland addition and a
corner lot Price $3,250; $500 cash and
balance $50 per month.
New siX-room bungalow, east front, two
the house; on South Wheeling street; garage
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-21

FOR SALE-One 6x3O shell gasoline tank;
one 6x15 shell gasoline tank two lOO'
barrel Maloney steel upright tanks on IN
Al condition; call and see US. midwest
Supply Co
FOR SALI.-Nancy Hall sweet potato slips,
fresh, nicely packed, SO per 1000 I. o. b.
Fort Gibson Okla. Address Burnett Brad
WANTED-Refined business couple; wi, VIII
care for house and pay reasonable rent
south side preferred; can give best OF rel
erences Phone 4042.
FOR sALE-snap, one set of wheeled
house moving trucks, 15 jack screws Two
sS pa2 %gST S7 BsGa4 fi saFSsn Sh Phone h sOS s5
FOR sALE-S15O Victrola and records,
also 500 Columbia both slightly used,
excellent bargain. Address 5s1o, care
World.
MOVING to Pittsburgh, Pa, want party
TO share car for shipment Of household
goods or automobile. Phone 4599.
FOR SALE-One electric automatic pop.
corn and peanut roaster. Plymouth Drug
company.
NoTlCE-Watch and jeweiry WORK left at
New York Store to be called Tor AZ oio
South Boston
FOR sALE-A neat stock of groceries,
good location doing fine business. Phone
296. b. +. Pettus. -,
FOR SALE = Three AXIS pool tables and
equipment; good as new at bargain
Address BOX Ito, Nupah, oN'"'
FOR SALE-Nationai cash register, in good
condition: will sell cheap. Call World
office.
WANTED-ro purchase one TO four houses
TO move. will pay good prize. Address
T. y. box 1919, ralsa
FOR SALE-Remington typewriter in good
condition. win sell cheap. 524 South
Boulder. Phone 1857.
FOR SALE-Medium size safe and some
filing cabinets in good condition. Phone
CONTRACTORS equipment, hoists, mixers
etc. for sale or rent. X. 7. Courtney
16 Old Daniel block. Phone 6465. -
FOR SALE-Two sets OF bar fixtures. APP
piy Tulsa Indian Trading Co, 3l4 South
Main street
FOR SALE Cheap, two rugs one made rug
exl2, and one ingram art square I'M
O23 North Elwood.
WANTED-To buy secondhand pump with
about 100 feet Of Y pipe, good condi'ioh
and price right Phone 2735.
LADIES' waists, soc. New York store
2I3 East Third.
PEcl s;s;irt;;, 81. New York Store 2i'
FOR sALE-Peaches on ten trees. Ready
to pick. Call Plymouth Drug.
| CHECK KWRITER-Slghtly used. for sale
cbeap or trade Phone 463.
FOR SALE-Vose & Son piano: Il bargain
| II taken at once. 305 kenosns.
! Young MAN desire room mate Immediately
s16 South Elgn.
NEW TENT for sale cheap. Phone 4ss9,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-21
REAL ESTATE.
REAL ESTATE.
SWENI[E SPECIALS

and a good we'll Of drinking water, sleeping
porch, on paved street Price $1,000; $500
cash and balance like rent.
337 acres of fine black sandy land; well
improved. in state of Washington. AT edge
of the Big Bend wheat belt. | have lived on
this and know that it will grow mighty fine
wheat, corn oats and alfalfa. Cool climate.
Some beautiful lakes; clear crystal spark
ling water. 100000 feet of yellow pine
timber Two miles to railroad station on
the Great Northern. Growing crops OF
wheat, corn, oats, Irish potatoes and alfalfa
on the place at the present time. Price
$4,000; $500 against it for five years at
8 per cent; balance cash.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-21
MONEY TO LOAN.

MONEY TO LoAN-Straight loans on Tulsa
residence property, also on improved
farms; can take second mortgage on farms
not mortgaged to full value; low rates and
quick action. John Rainoy. 209 Ohio build
ing. Phone 6ls0.
MONEY on hand, 300, 600 private money to
loan on Tulsa property and farm lands
no delay; bGSi rates aud terms Z. A. Lilly.
2l1-2l2 Texas Bldg. Phone sal.
GEORGIA State Savings association-s25o :
600 TO loan at once, two to eight years
time, low rate OF interest, repay at any
time W +. Broach, sos Mayo Bldg.
LOST-Old fashioned bar pin set with sap
phires Phone 3l77. l416 South Boston.
Mrs James Morrison. Reward.
LoST-Auto tag license No. 1890. Phone
26ll