The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-06

ten minute address will be made by
Prof. Arthur Nevin, of the State uni
versity.
The program will be as follows:
l. Group of Mcdowell numbers.
. From a Wandering Iceberg.
b. In Midocean.
c. Witches Dance.
Esther Payne
8 Pipe organ numbers.
a. MMSedItauon --.--.........-..'- Skilton
i Prof &. S. Skiiton 'Aii'on
T. Concerto in D Minor, Opus 23;,..
a. Larghette Caimato nu"afu NaeDo"eH
b. Presto Giacoso.
Esther Payne, Miss Anne Myers.
g .no. First BAPTIST church choir.
o. America. Pipe Organ accompaniment
BY the audience
Speaking of books for the soldiers.
one of the librarians of Topeka tells
of a soldier she met from the remotest
hills of Missouri. He was long and
lank. stoop with the effort of climb
ing from one to another of the Ozark
nils. His hair was carrot colored, and
his civilian suit was cotton and seedy.
But he wanted a book. He said his
favorite book was Peck's Bad Boy.
He didn't look on the outside of the
lid to see who wrote it, so he didn't
wanted that old classic more than he
wanted jelly or jam or a housewife
kit. He said he had gone away from
home to work for a neighbor one
week, and had received as his pay two
bales of hay and a copy of Peck's Bad
Boy that was found in the loft of the
barn. Long and 1aborious had been
his reading journey into the book. He
had finished all but a few chapters,
when another chap had come along,
read a bit in the story, and then bor-
rowed it to finish up. The shameless
fiend had never returned it, and our
hero was still without knowledge as to
how it came OUT
Our librarian has a gentle heart
and the missionary spirit. Il shall get
that soldier this classic that has so
long eluded him. she told me. and it
is thus that I shall do my Bit
In Chicago a new society for the
comfort of soldiers and sailors has
been organized, and it is called the
Loyal Girls of America society. The
purpose of its members is to write let
tiers to soldiers and sailors of the
United States, these letters to be
cheerful and friendly and of the sis
terly'' type The society was organ
lied last month, with headquarters at
6616 Kimbark avenue, Chicago. The
secretary is Miss Gertrude Elmore,
and she would like to nave recruits
from other cities of the country. Any
Topeka girls or women who would
like to be members of the society may
write to Miss Gilmore. There are no
dues, and the only expense in connec-
ton with the membership is that of
postage and the time and thoughtful
ness required to write frequent letters.
Interest manifested at the country
crossroads postoffice in the daily ar
rival of the mail is nothing to the ex-
pectancy displayed on the big battle
ships of the American navy when the
jacI1ies are mustered on deck for the
distribution of letters.
Many of the youthful sailors are
away from home for the first time
and even their pride in being part of
Uncle Sans first line, and regular
fighting men," cannot keep them from
feeling just a bit homesick when they
see their comrades receiving letters
while their names are not called.
To remedy this condition and to
make every sailor boy know that
ashore. somewhere in the land he is
defending, are those who think of him,
this organization has been formed.
Indicating the welcome letters re-
ceived on shipboard the quartermaster
of one of the big battleships says in a.
letter to Miss Gilmore:
THE L. G. of A could do nothing