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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-03
HOUSE NOTES :
Establish a New Board.

After a call of the house today,
friends of the administration managed
to secure final passage of the flood
prevention commission bill. The
measure esta bliSheS new commission
which is authorized to spend the $780,
600 or $50, 900 received each year from
the sand royalty act.
'In opposing this BILL said Moore.
of Cow1ey, Il want to direct the at
tention of members to the fact that
it has been less than "a hours since
we passed a resolution against useless
boards and commission. We have so
MANY boards and commissions no one
knows the number. Now we are ask ed
to support this bill creating new
commission and spend money that
should go to the general revenue fund
of the state
Stamp Bill Monday.
Under an agreement today the trad
ing stamp bill come up for final action
in the house Monday morning. MQser
of Jefferson, author of the house bill.
today agreed that the bill should not
be considered until Monday morning.
Members of the revision committee
today agreed to the program.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-03
DAILY WEATHER. REPORT.

Furnished by the weather bureau office,
Topeka. Kan, for the twenty -four hours
ending Z a IN. Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-03
TOPEKA MARKET REPORT

Butter and Eggs.
FURNISHED by the Beatrice Creamery Co..
Topeka, kan.)
Topeka, Kan, March 5.
CHICAGO EGGS-39c.
NEW YORK EGGS-0c-
CREAMERY BUTTER-Chfcago 4oc !;
New York, 49c: Elgin, 40c; Topeka whole
sale, SOC.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-03

(The range of prices for grain futures
The Chicago Board of Trade as
ported by Empire Commission Co.. 301
New England BIdg)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-03

Kansas City Grain Market
(The range of prices for grain futures on
The Kansas City Board of Trade as re-
ported by Empire Commission Co.. 3O1
New England Bldg)
Kansas City, March 3.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-03

Iopeka DRAIN Aarkee
FURNISHED by J. r. Billiard, corner Kansas
Ave. and Curtis St)
Topeka, Kan, March s.
wHEAT-S165@L7O.
CORN-S1.o0 90.
OATS-50I55c
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-03

Cattle and Hogs
prices furnished by Wolff Packing Col
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-03

New York Cotton Market
New York, March 3.-COTTON-Spo
Iuiet; middling, 1T.75.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-03

quiet; mlddIng, IIIo.
Grain Gossip.
FURNISHED by Empire Commission Co.,
301 New England Bldg.)
The official statement of Canadian ex-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-03

Poultry and Eggs.
FURNISHED by the Topeka Packing Com
pany. corner Laurent and Madison.)
Topeka. Kan. March 3.
HENS-31a lbs. and over. lie; under
The Washington times., 1917-02-11
ARRANGING FOOD RESERVE
Conducting Mobilization Of Rations
in Middle West.

CHICAGO, Feb. IA careful in
voice of the nations food supply Is
under way and preparations are quiet
ly but efficiently being made for a
gigantic mobilization OF the reserve
food supply of the country's bread
basket-the great Middle West This
was learned tonight when it became
known that Government agents have
been keeping in close touch with
packers. commission men, and whole
salers the past week.
should war be declared and a large
army and navy nobilized, Chicago
would become the food center of the
nation. Already many firms have be-
gun preparing for any emergency.
Armour and Company. packers, are
ready at a moments notice to press
their Industrial army of $4,000 men
into service.
You get the army. I don't care
how big. Wen feed them" was the
Iaconic comment of ]. Ogden Armour,
president of the biggest packing COM
pany in the world.
Strictest measures are being taken
to stamp out any trouble among al
lens. Under the direction OF Hinton
CIabsugh, special Investigator of the
Department OF Justice, corps of spe-
cial agents are keeping in close touch
with suspicious characters and
The Washington times., 1917-02-11
COAL SHORTAGE FEARED
Dealers Face Near-Famine Unless
Warm Weather Comes.

Unless warmer weather reaches
Washington within a few days the
city may find itself suffering a serious
coal shortage before the end of the
week. Although there seems to be
enough coal on hand to answer pres
ent demands. a sudden drop in tenn
perature and a prolonged cold spell
would result in a scarcity nearly ap-
preaching a famine, according to
local dealers.
The shortage is largely due to the
recent cold snaps. Dealers were COM
PEELED to draw on their reserve sup
ply to MI the. orders crowded on
them. With fairly moderate weather
this week, they expect to be able to
supply all demands until spring.
None OF the dealers were prepared
to give prompt delivery yesterday,
most OF thsm asking until Monday
afternoon TO NIL orders. Practically
every truck in the city was busy de-
liverinR orders which have been on
hand several days.
The Washington times., 1917-02-11

claim would, IL presented. be unten-
able, for by section 1892, Revised
Statutes, II h made a condition OF
citizenship by birth that the person
be not subject to any foreign power
sections 1902 and 1898 OF
the Revised Statutes clearly show the
extent of the existing legislation:
That the fact OF birth. under clrcum-
stances Implying alien subsection, es-
tablishes of itself no right of citizen
ship and that the citizenship of a
person so born is to be acquired In
some legitimate manner through the
operation OF statute"
The case of Richard Greisser. which
Is similar to that OF Hausding, was
decided in the same way in 1885,
Greisser being held to be an alien.
But the contrary was held by the
State Department in 1901 in a deter
mination requested by the imperial
German embassy
The Washington times., 1917-02-11
FOOD SUPPLIES AND PRICES

Investigation of food prices in this
country, to be undertaken by the
Department of Agriculture and the
Federal Trade Commission at the dl-
rection of President Wilson, may Of
fer no panacea for the high cost OF
living. The result of the inquiry,
so far as prices are concerned, is
likely to be similar to the findings
of economists and commissions IN
private life who have studied the
situation The Government lnvesa-
gators will discover a series OF FAC
tors, partly dependent upon condl-
tions of production, partly upon the
vastly more complicated problems
this country offers as compared with
Europe, and partly dependent upon
archaic and faulty methods of city
distribution.
But the inquiry will have a vast
significance, not only in respect to
prices, but in respect to the sources
of our food supply. 1t may be slg-
nificant that the investigation Is
ordered at this time when war may
bring us face to face with the ne
cessity of better organization OF our
food resources. The numbering and
cumbersome food production and dis
tribution system of Great Britain has
been vastly affected by this war, and
some of the war time innovations, it
is now freely predicted, have come
to stay. Even before the war Ger
many, as is generally known, and
France, as is not so widely recog-
nized, had undertaken a reorganiza-
tioa of food distribution along more
scientific lines.
Up to the present this country has
suffered many of the handicaps and
inconvenience of a nation at war
without being involved in the world
struggle. 1t looks as if the upheaval
has now been brought closely enough |
home to the United States for US to
gain something of the stiffening OF
national discipline, and the tighten
ing I'D of our economic machinery,
without, it is our profound hope, go
ing to war ourselves.
The Washington times., 1917-02-11
AUTOMOBILES, cONSTABLES,
AND RECIPROCITY

The gist of the Smoot amendment
to the District appropriation bill is
that citizens of a State will be ex-
empted from paying District au-
tomobile license tax, when that State
reciprocates by granting the same
privilege to the citizens of the Dis
trjct. Incidentally, an annual tax Of
three, five or ten dollars, according
to horsepower, is to be paid by Dis
trict automobilists, beginning Janu-
airy 1, 1918. And the Maryland leg
islature meets in January, 1918, with
power to amend the statutes now
made and provided for the discom-
future of Washingtonians and the de-
light of Maryland constables.
Hitherto, there has been some JUS
tifcation for the Maryland claim
that the District, with no annual tax,
has had nothing to trade with. In
the matter of automobile licenses,
Maryland has regarded Washington
as a city within her own borders,
whose citizens are subject to taxa
ton for the use Of Maryland roads.
The fact is ignored that Maryland
automobilists delight to visit the city
of Washington and to ride upon our
asphalt and macadam, also built
from the proceeds of taxation. The
District has been Disseminated
against by Maryland laws. 1t is
argued that the present reciprocity
of mutual taxation may be changed
to one of mutual exemption, as soon
as a sufficient number of Maryland
automobilists, with influence in the
Legislature, are fined, in Washington,
a la Maryland.
Undoubtedly the situation has been
aggravated lF the notorious antics
Of the Maryland constable. On this
point the debate in the Senate re-
sembled an experience meeting. Sen
ator Lodge admitted that Maryland
hospitality did not compare with the
Massachusetts brand. Senator Reed
related the experience of citizen of
Missouri who was most painfully
shown the penalty of coupling a Dis
trict tag with his Missouri tag. Sen
ator Smoot drew a picture Of con-
stables lurking around the purlieus
Of the Chevy Chase Club as thick as
spiders in a dewy meadow. And
Senator Wadsworth brought down
t,e house with a sentence that found
its echo in many a martyrs soul,
when he said: "A Maryland con-
stable has S. Of mine now." 1t is
to be hoped that with this exploita-
tion of himself in the Senate of the
United States, the Maryland con-
stable will subside for a while.
Senator John Walter Smith, the
genial chairman of the District COM
nittee, was forced to champion the
claims of Maryland as against the
rights Of the citizens of Washington.
1t happens that this idea of automo-
bile reciprocity is a pet of Represen-
tative Page of Rorth Carolina, one
of the House conferees on the Dis
trict bill.
Il is predicted that Mr.. Page will
The Washington times., 1917-02-11
PolIcE TO WEAR FLAGS.

PITTSBURGH. Feb. IL. - Every
member of the Pittsburgh -police and
nre departments today appeared with
a small~silk flag pinned or his coat
as a result OF a joint order issued by
Superintendent OF Police W. Noble
Matthews and Fire Chief James y.
Richards. The flags were purchased
by the department of public safety
The Washington times., 1917-02-11

accept the Senate amendment as
eagerly as Senator Smith will in
sist upon it reluctantly. 1t looks as
though Maryland would have to
recognize the Statehood of the Dis
trict when it comes to automobiles.
The Washington times., 1917-02-11

German and Austrian teachers at
Columbia University want to be re-
assured about their continued tenure
of positions. The country wants to
be reassured about the loyalty Of
large number OF Germans and Aus
trisns, professorisl and otherwise.
The Washington times., 1917-02-11

I'VE are now in a twilight zone be
tween peace and war" announces the
New Republic" But we have
awakened from a prolonged twilight
sleepT on the subject
The Washington times., 1917-02-11
TO ADDRESS KENTUcKIANs.

Robert W. Woo,ley. former director Of
the mint. Is to speak before the Ken
lucky State Association at a meeting
Of that society at the Ebbitt Wednes-
day night Musical selections are to be
given.
The Washington times., 1917-02-11

The old-fashioned spelling bee
ought to be revived. IL only to stan
dardize the spelling OF such words as
"ukulele"
The Washington times., 1917-02-11
CItizenship Report.

A report of the citizenship board,
which was referred to In this reply,
was made during the second session
OF the Fifty-ninth Congress and Is as
follows:
"Where the residence was temper.
rary.-This question as to the citizen
ship of children born in the United
states OF alien parents who were in
this country merely temporarily arose.
and was deliberately examined in the
case OF Lynch V. Clark. 1854, l Sandf.
Ch., $50. 1t appeared I'm that case that
not only were the parents here tenn
porariIy, but that within a year from
the time of the child's birth they had
been taken with them on their return
to their native country-GreatB Britain.
The court showed no hesitancy in de-
clAring that the child so born was a
citizen of the United states In a
later New York case, Munro v. Mere
chant, .S5s, 26 Barb, 3S3. 400, when
the question came again before the
court. under circumstances that were
almost Identical. the court followed.
but questioned, the Clark vase"
Some Adverse Decisions.
Dr. Stowell cited several other ruu-
Ings and authorities to support this
contention. Conflicting decisions on
this point are reported In Moore's
Digest Of International Law. A case
occurring, in which the other side
was maintained, is stated by Moore
as follows:
Ludwig Hausding was born in the
United States, but during infancy was
removed by his father, who was a
Saxon subject, to SaXony, where he
afterward remained. The father sub
sequently became a citizen of the
United States by naturalization. In
1854 Ludwig applied to the American
legation in Berlin for a passport, but
the legation refused to grant IL on
the ground that he was born of Saxon
subjects, Rho were only temporarily
in the United States. and was never
dwelling in the United States either
at the time OF or since his parents
naturalization. and was not natural
ICED by force OF section 2I72 Revised
Statutes. with reference to this de-
cision the Department of State said:
Only Ground for Claim.
"'Not being naturalized by force OF
the statute, Ludwig Hausding could
only assert citizenship on the ground
of birth in the United States; but this
The Washington times., 1917-02-11

II the new Austrian ambassador
was to be so soon done for, what was
he e'er begun for?
The Washington times., 1917-02-11

Germany seems TO have solved the
high cost of print paper difficulty by
most of its newspapers.
The Washington times., 1917-02-11

1t must be confessed that thus far
we have not avsiled ourselves of the
privilege OF one American ship a
week
The Washington times., 1917-02-11

The daylight saving movement
awaits the constructive Endorsement
of the poker players
The Washington times., 1917-02-11

1t never rains. etc, and II never
gets extremely cold, it seems, but
there is a coal shortage.
The Washington times., 1917-02-11

The California belligerents are still
denouncing the Devil and all his
Works.
The Washington times., 1917-02-11

'NEehtcT LONc hdtu w Nidus
Then placing a rope about his neck
they strung him to A tree and, lower
ing him to the ground, they again de-
manded: "Where is your master?"
Once more "Uncle Burrell" ap-
s%ered: 81 won't tell you where my
master is. I'll die before ] betray
him"
For the second time the helpless
victim was strung up, and, being low
cred with his life well-nigh spent.
was askedl: where is your MASTER"
And with his life ebbing fast again
and for the last time "Uncle Burrell"
answered.: 81 won't tell you where
my master 70; I'll die before 1 betray
him"
And there and then "Uncle BurreII"
died and as he passed over to the
other side all the trumpets sounded
for him. Greater love hath no man
than this"
THE COMMENTATOR.
The Washington times., 1917-02-11

Belasco-''seven Chances" SIS p. m
New NationaI-"Eleven p. NJ, p. M.
PolI's-..Sis Hopkins" Sis p. m.
1aysty-BurIesqus, 2:l5 and s:i5 .. m.
I.oew's ColumbiA-PhOtoplays, 1880 a. m 70
II D. m.
Strand-Photoplays. II a. m. to II p. m
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-02-09
]. d. PRICE.
Ccmmr. 81 Agriculture Of Ga,
How To Describe Your Car.

II your motor-car was stolen, Mr.
Motorist, could you describe it in
such way that the police could
readily recognize it if they saw it?
There are thousands of black cars
and yellow cars, cars with hicks in
then and cars with Tenders bent.
It is out Of these many cars which
so closely resemble each other that
the police have to pick the stolen
one. But if you'll clip this form
out, fill in theinformation and stick
st in your hat band, you'll be able
to tell the police themost important
things they will want to know about
your car, ii it is ever stolen:
Name and model (year, b. p,
special name Of manufactured -
Color Battery No.
Passenger Radiator No.
License No. Steering fost No.
Motor No. Transmission No
Body No. Clutch No.---------
Top No. Front axle No.
Starter No. Rear axle No.
Tires Size, number, make;
Front left &c., Front right
Rear left Rear right
Remarks-special marks Of iden-
tifcation, marks, dents, notice
able scratches, monogram or mi
tials, upholstering, any special
feature or device. Kansas City
Star.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-02-09
TOnOIine is Beauty Aid
Announces Specialist
Mildred Louise Talk Of Interest to Women

Mildred Louise lax OF interest," 70 women
AS health is a first aid to beauty this
story, told by Mildred Louise, beauty
specialist, of Boston, Mass, is of un-
usual interest.
~ can recommend no better health
giver than tonoline," said Mildred Lou
Use.
81 was for many months victim
If stomach trouble and nervousness. ]
had suffered terribly from pains that
followed eating. Headaches also would
add to my worries. Poor digestion
finally brought on nervousness.
Relief came however, when I took
the advice Of several women who said,
Take tonoline.
Not long after l started the tonoline
treatment, my patrons began to remind
me Of the improvement inmy condition.
And because health is the quickest
way to beauty, the improvement was
particularly noticeable in my face.
''What tonoiine really did Tor me l
cannot say. l am SO grateful that | am
very willing to recommend tonoline
publicly"
Tonoline is a purely vegetable prepa-
ration which goes to the seat OF common
maladies-stomach and kidney trouble,
catarrhal affections Of the mucous mem
branes, liver ailments and impurities Of
the hlood-and quickly restores proper
action. Tonoline is being explained
daily to many people at your druggist.
Notice AS tonoline is a wonderful
flesh builder it should not be taken by
any one not wishing to increase his
weight ten pounds or more. Although
many reports are received from those
who have been benefited by tonoliEe in
severe cases of stomach trouble and
nervous dyspepsia, chronic constipation,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-02-09
High Grade Piedmont PuIyerized
Limestone

High Grade PULVERIZBD LIMESTONE
comes from clean quarry, containing nothing
but high calcium Limestone. Nothing but
clean stone goes to the Crushers. No quarry
in the country SURPRISES ours in uniformly pure
stone and absence Of sand clay or dirt.
After the preliminary crushing, the stone is
passed through a sixty-foot rotary steel dryer
In this way we remove about 200 pounds per
ton Of natural moisture Otherwise you
would pay for this moisture.
After the drying process, the stone is pull
s-verized in heary duty Cement Pulverizing
Mills. The finished material is a fine powder.
Every particle is not only available, but inn
medatey available. There is absolutely no
waste Every pound you see will be utilized
in the soil
There is no Limestone on the market that
approaches our High Grade Pulyerized Lime
tone in purity, fneness, dryness and avaiiabi-
lily, and quick. lasting and economical results.
Read our Guarantee Of High Grade Pull
verized Limestone.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-02-09
COMR. PRICE WRITES
ON EFFECT BOIL WEEvIL
TO THE FARMERS OF GEORGIA:


TO THE FARMERS OF GEORGIA:
You are going to find Just as I
have told you, thag the Mexican
cotton boil weevil will prove one Of
the best and most substantial Of
disguised blessings that has ever
come upon you. | don't mean that
you are going to grow fat because Of
the advent Of this pest if you sit
idly down and do nothing to COM
bat it.
But II you will adopt and execute
the fighting plans which experience
has proven valuable to other suffer
ing states, IN a year or two you will
be congratulating yourself upon the
fact that the boil weevil came and
made you do the things you knew
you ought to do, but did not.
In fact the coming Of the boil
weevil has already proven a bless
ing to many Of you, because you
have grown more food stuffs and
more fine hogs and cattle than ever
before in your lives, ana have gotten
q good price for them. You have
planted more leguminous crops and
you and your lands are richer for it.
You do not have to stop growing
cotton. You cannot afford to stop
it. 1t is your business and your
duty to grow it. But it has never
been your business or your duty to
make all cotton to the exclusion Of
food for your family and your stock.
You can continue to make cotton
in spite OF the boil weevil IN good
and profitable crop yields if you will
plant early maturing and disease
resisting varieties, cultivate inten
sively for rapid growth, clean off
your top crop in the early fall, and
plow under your stalks in early
October 50 as to kill off the greatest
nulaber Of these insects.
There is one thing | want to i'm
press upon you, and that is that
there is nothing so remarkable or
wonderful about 20 cent cotton
which you had for brief period in
the fall of 1916, and are going to
have again. Why shouldn't we
have 20 cent cotton with everything
else practically without exception,
selling at anywhere from Is to 100
per cent and more higher than the
prices OF 10 months TO 2 years ago?
Consider the most common
articles of personal and household
necessity. The western corn you
buy to feed your stock aud hogs and
make corn bread for Jour table
costs you s1.25 bushel, as against
6Oc to zoe just short while back.
What must be said of the farmer
who is short-sighted enough not tC
grow it at homer
The -four you eat has doubled II
price; likewise. your beef that yor
bought not long ago at &c to lOc 3
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-02-09

expenses. You will find otherfacts
and statements Of direct and per-
sonal interest to yourself,
It has been my constant aim and
effort to make the department as
much Of helpful agency to every
farmer in Georgia as was possible
under the law, and | trust I will be
pardoned for such disqualification
as the results may Justify.
! THANK you.
n ppICE