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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
BOYS OF 81 IN LINE
March in Last Encampment Parade,
Ten Thousand Strong.

Boston, Aug. 21-White-h haired,
lettering with the weight of years,
the boys of 81" ten thousand
strong. marched here today in their
last parade.
Feeble and a little unsteady, but
strong with the spirit that carried
them thru the battles of the days, the
veterans of the c.. A. r. moved be-
tween solid lines of cheering thous-
ands.
And while the fast fading ranks of
last time, here and there in the crowd
stood man in khaki-a silent figure
symbolical of the birth of the great
new national army, which will fight
to uphold the standard of liberty set
by the veterans of 81.
The route today was the shortest
ever selected for the annual parade
of the national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic. The
veterans were favored by a clear sky.
moderate temperature and a refresh
ing breeze
The chief marshal was J. Payson
Bradley of this city. In the line were
the departments of the Grand Army
in order of seniority of organization,
including the national officers and
past commanders in chief in automo-
biles, the sons of veterans, former
prisoners of war, naval veterans and
a rear guard of disabled veterans in
cars.
Commander in Chief William ].
Patterson reviewed the parade from a
large grandstand on the fremont
street side of the Commons Governor
Mccall was at the state house and
Mayor Curley at city hall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
ENLIST TONNES
L.. S. Army Officers May Take
British Recruits Now. :
Furnish Them Transportation
to Canadian Points.

British and Canadian subjects resiu-'
ing in ~the United States may be ac-
cepted and enlisted in the Canadian
and British armies by local recruiting
officers for the United States army
The order to accept recruits for the
Britishers was received this morning
at the local recruiting office, AIS KAN
sas avenue.
Subjects of England will be ex- !.
aniined and approved according to the
English military requirements All
branches of the service in the army,
the orders stated, will be open for ems :
listments and recruits will be allowed
to select their branch of service as rars
as possible.
A special call for carpenters, metal
and wood workers, automobile engine
filters and for sailmakers was includ-
ed in the order from the war DEPART
ment forwarded from the Canadian
forces Positions in the Royal Flying
corps, which has been playing such an
important part in the war, are now
open. Skilled mechanics for the re-
pair and maintenance of aeroplanes
are also in demand.
Pay and separation allowance viii
start the day of enlistment, the order
advises Enlistments will be for the
period of war and for six months after
the termination of hostilities. Free
transportation to the Canadian mo-
bilizAtion points and points of encamp-
ment will be furnished all recruits
Return transportation to the United
States will be granted soldiers at the
end of their enlistment s
The local recruiting office will now
acct men in the regular army, ma
tiaonal guards. special service in the.
national army and for the armies of
England and Canada. -E-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
Mission To Pledge Eternal
Friendship to America.
Prove Germany Sought Rup-
ture Between e. S. and Japan.
IEUTOAS SPENT VAST SUMS
Delegates Hope To Crush Inter.
national Trouble Makers.
Deny Charges Country Isn't Do.
ing Its Part in War.
BY d. NJ. EDWARDS.

Washington, Aug 21-Japan will
stand by the United States to the end
of the war-and after.
She will ask~no money; no ma
terial; no equipment.
She will exchange pledges of ma
tional, lasting friendship
She will prove that Germany instead
of seeking to make an ally of her has
been trying by propaganda to cause
rupture between Japan>and the Unit
ed States.
These are the outstanding aims of
the forthcoming visit of the japanese
mission which is expected to arrive
. here as soon as they were outlined
today by a source close to the Japan
csc embassy. He made these points:
The mission is one of sentiment
Japan, unlike some of the other
belIigerents is not in the slightest
need of assistance, either financial or
material. The mission will convince
Z The Washington government of this.
Documentary evidence will be pro-
duced to show that Germany has
spent vast sums in Japan and in the
United States to create iu-feeling and
suspicion on both sides and bring
about a break.
Japan will help the United States to
the utmost extremity during the war
and after it. The mission hopes to
take steps to obliterate international
trouble makers.
German propa gandistS have been
unusually busy in the oriental nation.
but their activities now have been
cut off. The Germans, it was explain
ed, always have predicted that as soon
as the United States became involved
in an open break with Mexico or any
European power that Japan would
throw her weight against the United
States. 1t has been known Lere for
several years that large amounts of
money were being spent in this coun-
try in an effort to cause disruption
of the relations with Mexico Other
money was scattered turnout Mexico
The expected trouble never hap
pened. it was pointed out The Ger
man charges have had the opp 5site
effect so far as the japanese govern
ment was concerned.
1t is said here tonight on the same
high authority that the fact that
there has existed a German propaean-
da in Japan and in the United States
to array one country against the other
has been clearly proved by the sudden
cessation of such propaganda since
the United States declared war on
Germany. Many Germans have been
forced to leave the United States.
They also were forced to leave Japan
when Japan and Germany went to
war.
1t Is also pointed out here in an
authoritative manner that .he Ger
man propaganda, coming from abroad
which has charged that Japan is not
actively cooperating with and sup
porting the allies is disproved by the
fact that Japan has "a squadron of
thirteen of her finest destroyers in
the Mediterranean and a large num-
Der of cruisers patrolling the ocean
routes and conveying ships of tho
allies laden with merchandise from
Australia to Suez.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21

Col Robert NJ. Thompson, presi-
dent of the U. S. Navy league, who
has been asked to resign by Secre-
tary Daniels after an investigation
of the explosion at the Mare Island
yard, has replied that he would be
pleased TO do so if Secretary Daniels
will render the nation the service of
resigning himself.
Colonel Thompson is reported to
have said that Secretary Daniels chief
fault is keen sensibility 70 criticism.
That's the trouble with Secretary
Daniels" Colonel Thompson has said
He can't stand criticism. The league
investigation showed the Mare Island
explosion resulted from { >crimipal
conspiracv"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
ORIENT FILES ANNUAL REPORT
Finances Show an Improvement Over
Preceding Year.

The report of the Kansas City. Mex
leo & Orient railroad has just been
filed with the Kansas state public
utilities commission. The report for
the year ending December 81, 1915,
shows an Improvement over the pre-
ceding year but at the same time II
furnishes an excuse why a "discon-
nected red coach is still used for a
station at Wichita, the northernmost
terminal of The road.
The report covers the operation OF
the road in Kansas and Oklahoma, or
272.16 miles. 72.6S miles of which
roadway is located in Kansas. The
operation of the Texas lines is not in
cluded in the report.
The net revenue of the Kansas
Oklahoma system was only SAL, 16s
more than the expenses. without al
lowing for interest on bonds. The
gross revenues were S1,236, SAP. 60
The operating expenses were S1.126.-
3473S.
After paying taxes the operating in
come was s3S.s2759. which was ar
increase over the preceding year. The
net incomes shows a deficit of $500
970.91.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
ASSAILS TAX BILL
Won't Tolerate Tax on Necessi-
ties, Says LaFOllette.
Demands War Tax on COffee
Tea, Sugar Be Removed.

Washington, Aug. 21.-The people
of the United States will hot tolerate
further taxation of life's lecessaries.
Senator La Toilette. of Wisconsin, told
the senate today in a speech flaying
the governments war finance policy.
If the attempt is made. he said. the
mass of the people will lose conf
dence in the war. He urged immedi-
ate conscription of big incomes and
war profits. to make wealth pay the
biggest share of the cost.
He predicted that war expenditures
at the present rate will req Oh so to 40
billion dollars next year alone.
The majority make passing sug-
gestion that at some other time more
convenient to the owners of big in
comes and huge war profits there will
be another tax bill. At the next ses-
sion, or in the next consress-or jim
the next world.
Increase Profits Tax Instead.
But why not now? ? Why put it
off? Whose interest is - be served
by keeping down taxation on income
and war profits. and NOR: asing the
masses to the money lenders?'
La Toilette urged striking out con-
sumption taxes on tea, coffee, and su-
gar, and raising all the revenue thru
increases in the war profits and in
comes. He would Increase the sum
TO be raised by the bill to 81. 500, 000,-
600. making it total s3.506, $4,000.
II am no prophet, but 1 am greatly
mistaken If the people accept this bill.
Consumption taxes upon the neces-
saries of the people will be no longer
tolerated in war. Surely it is not too
much to ask that they be relieved of
burdens of war taxation, until
those who profit by the war, and
those who live in luxury and security
have contributed a substantial portion
of hai =,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
WIN FIGHT AGAINST R.R.
/. c. c. Examiner Finds Railroad
Weight Schedule Unfair.

Washington. Aug. 21.-The North
western Traffic and Service bureau
today won lis fight against the Chi
scago, Milwaukee and St. Paul and a
dozen other leading railroads, when
Attorney Examiner Arthur Mackly.
of the interstate commerce commits
sion, recommended cancellation of in
creased total tolerance on coal.
Tolerance is the allowable margin
of error between the origin and des-
tination weights arising from differ
e1ce in scales of errors in weighings
or from absorption of evaporation of
moisture in transit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21

practices the meaning of which and
the seriousness of which they did not
understand.
Davis Denies Charge.
The little boy was thoroly fright
ened and could not get his story out
for some time. But when he was run
ming for home, crying, he was also
shouting for some one to call the Pc
lice.
Davis denied the charges. He has
been in trouble with the police before.
year ago he was arrested on the
charge of operating a disorderly house
upstairs in connection with his store.
Two girls were used as witnesses.
Thereafter for weeks there was always
a policeman or a plainclothesman in
some house in the neighborhood
watching Davis's place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
HOLD 2 FOR TREASON
One Tore Down F7ag-Asitators
'.BIuffed Out" at Peace Meeting.

Cedar Rapids, Ia, Aug. 12.-TwC
farmers of this district are free on
bond today awaiting action by, ted
eral grand Jury on treason charges.
John Zumbach, of Ryan, is held for
discouraging enlistments- while Will
liam Detlefsen is charged with tear
ing down the American flag and ours
ing the government at Coggon. Both
were given a preliminary hearing and
each furnished his own bail.
Speaker Fails to Appear.
Radcliffe, La, Aug. 21.-With
Unitad States Marshal Moore and his
deputies here Their was no display
of kaiserism last night, as had been
anticipated. The government agents
were dispatched here hurriedly last
night when it was learned a peac.
meeting was to be held. An anti
draft speaker who was to have made
the principal address, failed to appear
and the meeting broke up without
trouble.
. Moore and his assistants will remain
in the county running down evidence
Of Sditinn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
LIVESTOCK DYING OFF
Suspect Itinerant Campers Poisoned
Grass About Well.

Benton. La, Aug. 21.-Veterinarians
have been unable to diagnose mys-
FERROUS disease from which cows. hogs
and other livestock are dying in this
section.
A week before cattle began dying a
band of itinerapts camped at a well
near dipping vat and that this band
poisoned the grass around the well.
thus spreading the, disease, is sus-
pected-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
PUP AN EPICuRE.;; Dimes
ON GRAPEFRUIT, Ice CREAM

Chicago. Aug. 21.-Boy, page
Herbert Hoover, please
James Gordon, Lake Forest chief
of police, admits owning prize
winning Airedale that won't eat
anything for breakfast but grape
fruit orSnges. toast, eggs and cof-
fee. together with ice cream cones
the latter being his favorite dish
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
New vice. Pres. for Pa. Lines.

New York, Aug. 21.-Elisha Lee, gem
eral manager of the Pennsylva MIA rail-
road, will become vice president, it
was announced today. replacing W.
w. Atterbury. Atterbury goes to
France to become a director of var
railroads
R. L. O'Donnell, general superin-
tendent at Pittsburg, succeeds Lee
J. H. Gumbes, of the PhiIadelp hia
Terminal will take O'Donnelrs pia ce
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
Crippled steamer Drifts All Night.

Toledo. O.. AugA21.-The passenger
steamer, State of New York. after
drifting all night in Lake Erie, locked
here at a. m. today with the aid of
a tug. The steamers machinery broke
down after leaving Put-in-Bay at 6
p. m. yesterday. There was no panic
among the 200 passengers, tho women
and children became frightened when
a squall blew up shortly after mid
night
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
Collision in Yards Kills One.

savannah Ill, Aug. 21.-Wil1iam
Morrisy was killed and James John
Son probably fatally injured in the
switch yards here today A freight
train collided with a switch engine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
st. Louis GETS Half Her Quota.

st. Louis, Aug. 21.-Enough names
to make up half of the st. Louis quota
of 4377 for the national army are ex-
pected to be certified to the district
exemption board by night The nam es
of more than 100 men ready to serve
were on the books of the district
board when it resumed work this
morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
LABORITES VOTE AGAIN
BY 5000 Ma jOrity British Party APP
proves Stockholm Conference.

London, Aug. 21.-By vote of
1,234.000 to 1921 900, the labor party
members today decided to participate
in the Stockholm peace conference
The vote was by card. The scant
ma jority found-only 3.0OoAwas a
surprise
The labor party will appeal to the
government to grant passports for its
representa- tives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
FIRE ON OWN OFFICER
Six Colored Priyates Face Charge o
Attcmpt to Murder

Waco, Tex, Aug. 2I-The trial by
court martial of six privatos of the
Twenty-fourth infantry, colored, on
charges of attempt~to murder was to
begin this afternoon at Camp Mac
Arthur.
The negroes were engaged in the
rioting few weeks ago and fired on
their superior officers who came from
the camp to the city to arrest them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
SNAP SHO is
AT HOME NEWS

In mathematic skill of late
Our butcher is immense"
For fifteen cents worth of cold ham
Is always thirty cents,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-20
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
How to Serve Wheatless Meals.

Begin today to eat more cornmeal
and hominy grits in place of wheat
flour and wheat breakfast foods" is
the message the United States depart
ment of agriculture is sending out
broadcast to housewives. TRY a
wheatless breakfast tomorrow and
then extend the wheatless idea to
other days or meals" the dietary spe-
cialists suggest.
To help the public use cornmeal as
wheat substitute, the department
has ordered editions of Farmers Bull
letin sos, "Cornmeal as a Food and
Ways of Using It." which will be sent
on request to all who apply for it.
This bulletin shows that cornmeal
dishes can be made to take the place
of those made of wheat, and supplies
more than fifty tested recipes for it's
use for breakfast, luncheon and din
ner-
Corn, a great natural breadstuff of
this country, the departments special
lists point out. has not been used for
human food nearly as much as its val
liable nutriliVe qualities warrant. This
is due largely to the fact that many
persons with a wheat-using habit
never have taken the pains to learn
to use corn. There is no important
dietetic difference between corn and
wheat as sources of body fuel. Bread
is convenient as a source of starch and
it makes little difference whether one
gets the required cereal ration in the
form of raised or light bread, mixed
bread or biscuits, or as mush, hon.
my grits or desserts.
To those who wish to try wheat
less meals, the department suggests
the following:
As a substitute for wheat breakfast
foods. try white or yellow cornmeal
or hominy grits, served with cream
and sugar. butter, syrup, or fresh or
dried fruit.
AS substitute for wheat biscuits,
rolls, or toast, the housewife can en-
ploy a dozen different forms of corn
bread, such as hoe cake, dodgers, soft
or spoon cornbread, hominy bread,
cornmeal and rye Boston brown
bread, Zuni Indian bread, etc
Fried cornmeal mush, fried hominy.
or cornmeal pancakes made with very
! little wheat -four, will be found a
pleasing variation from wheat cakes
Cornmeal Goldfish cakes cornmeal
meal or Ia omlny cooked with meat, fish,
cheese. eggs or milk, viii supply nour-
ishing dishes for the hearty courses.
HOminy grits and coarse hominy
boiled and used like macaroni or 9TH
er wheat pastes to serve as side dishes
with meat
For dessert, Indian pudding, corn
meal anu ny OT apple puuulHB, apple
dumplings, cornmeal doughnuts, gin
gerbread, cake. fruit gems, etc, Will
contribute variety as we'll nourish
ment to the bill of fare.
The housewife who wishes to sub
stitute corn for some but not all of
the wheat flour can make excellent
raised or light bread, pancakes,
waffles. mullins, rolls, graham flour
Indian bread, etc
|, That wheat. rice, rye, barley. oats.
changeable as sources of starch in the
diet is made in Farmers Bulletin sos,
| How to Select Foods-What the
Body Needs"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-20
G1vEi GIVE: GIVE.:.

"Give until it hurts has been sug-
gested as a slogan for the campaign
to raise s1OO,OOO,OOO for the Red
Cross. The fund is one which can not
be oversubscribed. Always there are
places to put the money donated to
this worthiest of all causes. Its pres
ent needs and those of the immediate
future are unbounded.
Millions Of men have died horrible
deaths on battlefields, in prison
camps and in hospitals since August
1, 1914; millions of others have been
blinded, MANNED or made hopeless
cripples; cities have been devastated,
homes obliterated, miles upon miles Of
fertile fields have been laid waste, and
even prosperous, happy nations have
been heaped with ruin and effaced
from the map of Europe.
Billions upon billions of the worlds
wealth have been expended to the sole
end of slaughter-the victims includ-
ing innocent women. children and the
aged, as we'll as fighting men.
The slaughter, the carnage, the hu-
man and commercial wastage still
continues with undated fury; ap-
parently, in fact, it has not even yet
reached it's zenith. Perhaps millions
more are yet to die; other billions of
treasure must yet be poured into the
reeking hopper; other homes; human
resources; hopes and loves and all that
life holds dear to other countless
thousands are. perhaps. yet to be
sucked down in the pitiless maelstrom
before the horrid thing is satiated and
peace restored.
Wherever is found human suffering
from whatever cause, there are found
the ministering angels of the Red
Cross. Give until it hurts!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-20

1t is creditabIe to the commission
form of government and especially so
to Topeka's present board of commits
sioners, as we'll as gratifying to the
citizens, to note that the city has
reached a financial position which en-
ables it to devote certain sums to pur-
poses other than paying salaries and
paving the streets. Notable among
these extra expenditures is the liqui-
dation of the pipe organ debt and
the aid extended. to the public library
Now since the pipe organ has been
changed from a liability into an asset
appears to be a good time for an ar
rangement by which the public may
get more out of it than it has in the
past. Why not employ a municipal or
ganist? A considerable music fund is
raised by taxation every year. In the
past this has been devoted exclusively
to band music. The setting aside of
a portion of this fund for paying the
salary of a professional organist who
would play at stated intervals prob
ably would meet with general APP
proval. The plan has been tried out
successfully in a few of the eastern
cities. The experiment is worth try
ing for year, at least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-20

Herbert c. Hoover, national food
director. has mailed a letter to 200, :
600 pastors OF individual churches,
Catholic, Protestant and Jewish, call
ing upon them to cooperate with him
and with the department of agricul-
ture in urging the largest possible
production of food and the smallest
possible amount of waste All pastors
are urged to preach upon Conserva-
ton of Food, Sunday, July 1, which is
designated as Food Saving day. and
to secure the cooperation of religious
and civic bodies in campaign for
food saving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-20

ing hot lunch. tho Nurse Jane left
me cold one, and
You are going to have a much
hotter lunch than you imagine!" said
the red flamingo bird Look out!
I'm getting sizzling hot And indeed
he was, which made him such a red
color L suppose. I'm going to burn
you." cried the bird to Uncle Wiggily,
sticking out his red tongue.
Burn me? Why?" asked the poor
bunny gentleman.
"Oh, because L have to burn some
body. and it might as well be YOU"
said the flamingo. "Look ont, now"
"Ha! Indeed! And it's you who had
better look OUT" cried new voice.
And with that the cook-the same big
lady. shaped like a ham, whom Uncle
W1gglly had last seen in the kitchen
of the Duchess-hopped nimbly in
thru a window of the hollow stump
bungalow.
'I'n fix him!" she cried, catching
up the flatirons from the shelf over
the stove and throwing them at the
flamingo- Get out! Scat, Sush!
Run away!" Aand she threw the fire
shovel, the dustpan and brush, the
coffee strainer, the dishpan, the sink
shovel, the stove litter, the broom and
the coal scuttle at the flamingo. My,
but that cook was a throweri
She didn't hit the red flamingo bird
with any of the things she threw, but
seemingly with such anger, that the
bird was frightened.
This is no place for me-" cried the
flaming red bird. drawing in his red
tongue. "'Ill go make it hot for Mr.
Whitewash, the polar bear. He might
like some heat for a change from
his cake of ice.''
Then the red flamingo bird, not
burning Uncle Wiggily at all, flew
away, and the cook. after she had
picked up all the kitchen things she
had thrown, came in and had a hot
lunch with Uncle Wiggily, who thank
ed her very much.
I'm glad you came said the bun
ny. but I didn't know you cooks
threw things"
"Oh. I'm from the Wonderland
Alice book. which makes me differ
emit" the cook answered. And she
was queer. But everything came out
all right, you see. and If the trolley
car conductor doesn't punch the
transfer so hard that 1t falls off the
seat. I'll tell you next about Uncle
wiggily and the Baby.-(Copyright
1917. by Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
Cate.)