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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-06
AN IMMENSE ORD

AN IMMENSE ORDER.
In all Mr.. Bowler contracted for
go autos and trucks.
At Wabash, Ind. he bought 7s SER
vice trucks, to tons capacity. This
was the largest single order for i'm
mediate delivery ever made there and
one of the Wabash newspapers en-
phasized the sale by reproducing the
contract.
At Connersville, IND, Mr.. Bowler
bought 100 Lexington "sixes" and at
Chicago 100 Elgins, "the car built like
a watch"
Mr.. Bowler then visited Detroit and
purchased 100 more Kings.
At Alma, Mich, he bought 90 addi-
tional Republic trucks.
FOR THE FARMERS AND OTHERS.
He visited the Smith Formatruck
company's plant at Chicago and later
ordered 300 of their output. These are
unique. They designed to meet small
trucking and tractor demands. The
company makes for any moderate
priced car an attachment that renders
1t available for blowing or trucking
The cost is $3.50, the purchaser fur
nishing tho running gear with engine.
At Pontiac, Mich, Mr.. Bowler pur-
chased enough Oaklands to fill out the
big order.
HOME, SWEET HOME, BUT
Il also visited my old home, Rock
land, near Boston, where / was born"
said Mr.. Bowler. IT thought I would
want to stay long time. l love my
folks as much as anyone does, but after
a short visit began to banker for the
I,ast
erything seemed so CONSTRUCTED and
stuffy and narrow. The Rockland pa
per gave me nice notice, pointing out
that had left there II years ago
broke GOOD knows was) and had re-
turned for the first time, after hav-
ing made good
II talked the west everywhere and
succeeded in interesting a number of
people in Boise and this section Of
Idaho who will come out here and in
vest. l was surprised at the general
ignorance of eastern, and especially
far eastern and New England, people
about the west. One man asked me If
I lived near a settlement"
Mr. Bowler also visited Kansas City
and other points on the trip of 10000
miles.
GROWTH OF BOISE BUSINESS.
Getting back to the automobile
business here" continued Mr.. Bowler,
sit is gratifying to our company to
realize that we started short time ago
at the tail end of the procession and
that we have become a leader. Our
latest order is enough evidence of that
II anything were needed to supple
ment the visual evidence of our Boise
plant, our branch houses and our
sales.
while we have been in business we
have never had a car of autos stand
10 minutes on the tracks waiting to be
unloaded after we had an opportunity
to get at 1t. We have never paid a
cent in demurrage
Recently in ~ days we unloaded 20
cars of autos in Boise
TO GET 'EM, GO AFTER EN-.
Speaking of the complaint about
auto shortage, Mr.. Bowler said: THAT
situation has been exaggerated. Cars
can be obtained If dealers will proceed
the right way-go and get 'em as we
did.
AT all points where I made con-
tracts for cars left orders to ship as
soon as possih1e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16
NEEDLESS ALARM.

When the United States entered the
war, official Washington expressed
the belief that it would be necessary
to drive rolling mills seven days II
week in order to meet demands for
military necessities. The industrial
resources of this country have not yet
been severely tested by the nation and
it's allies, says the Iron Trade Review.
but it already is apparent that our
blast furnaces. steel works, finishing
mills and machine shops will expert
terial needed to prosecute the war
successfully. Moreover, this can be
done without disturbing present work
ing conditions to any great extent.
Tin plate manufacturers received
one of the first calls to cooperate
with the council of national defense.
They were asked to expedite the move
ment of material entering the manu-
facture of containers for perishable
food stuffs Federal officials declared
that tin plate makers could not cope
with the abnormal situation caused
by the war, unless mills operated sew
enteen turns, instead of sixteen turns,
a week. Leaders of the industry
were requested to offer suggestions
for obtaining relief. if possible
After mobilizing the resources of
the tin plate trade, the commit
tee on tin plate of the American iron
and steel institute announced that
perishable food packers will obtain all
the tin plate they require. In addi-
ton, it is pointed out that this coun-
try will be able, to ship huge ton
nages of tin plate to our allies, thus
relieving pressure for steel in England
and France.
Mill managers generally believe it
would jeopardize the interests of the
nation to attempt to increase produc-
ton by operating finishing mills sew
en- days a week. During the extreme
ly hot weather recently, the output of
20 per cent. Many sheet and tin plate
mills were made idle by the intense
heat; if these mills had been operat-
ing seventeen turns, instead of six
teen, it is likely that many men would
have been Frustrated. Rolling mill
employees have been working under
high tension for more than two years
The time has not yet arrived when il
is necessary to call upon them to as
sumo greater physical burdens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16
.MHATEYER Won MANr ro KNow.n

Since the beginning of her subma-
rine campaign Germany has sunk 436
ships belonging to citizens of Norway,
a country with which she is at peace.
OF these "a have been destroyed by
mines and $50 by torpedoes. They
represent a tonnage of 9S7,S16. En-
gagged in peaceful commerce, guilty
of no belligerent act, protected by in
ternational law, they were none the
less destroyed. The imagination, and
that only in dim and distant. fashion,
can paint the full picture of this mod
ern Slaughter of the Innocents, the
death and suffering and misery of
which this colorless record is the
interest index. The magnitude of the
Injustice paralyzes the judgment.
For these acts do not fall within any
of the familiar formulate by which we
explain to ourselves the alterations
of human conduct. War is intelligi-
BILE. but these are not acts of war as
Germany defines war, but of peace.
The ships and lives destroyed are the
ships and lives of a friendly nation
with whom she processes to have no
quarrel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16
TRAWELETTE
Bethlehem.
BY NIKsAH


Bethlehem, Pa, is fast displacing
Bethlehem in Palestine as the place
we think of when the name is pro-
nounced. The story of the three wise
men and the star is fading nowadays,
and the glare of thesfurnaces in. the
other Bethlehem grows brighter from
day to day. Bethlehem Pa, is one of
our biggest steel towns, one of the
centers that has been pouring out
munitions for Europe thru the last
three years, and that will pour them
out twice as fast now that Mars has
stepped across the Atlantic.
Needless to say, Bethlehem is pros
porous and growing. If you will con-
suit the little list of figures which sets
forth the earnings of leading Ameri-
can industrial corporations for the
year of grace 1916, you will find Beth
lehem steel well up toward the head
of the list matter of forty-three
millions of dollars stand for the net
profits, along with a few odd hun
dreds of thousands, but Bethlehem
does not deal much in small figures
nowadays, so it is hardly worth count
ing the latter.
In appearance Bethlehem is of
course first and foremost a mill town.
There is a certain gaunt beauty in this
architecture of lean and towering
stacks-a certain beauty, and an i'm
mense significance. For our modern
world is founded on steel. Not only
in war but in peace. the steel mill Is
the primary source of most of our
development. Railroads, tools and
structural beams and bars come from
here as well as shell castings and big
guns. With an Olympian impartiality,
Bethlehem turns out the raw material
for building and the means to knock
the finished product down.
AS for that section of Bethlehem
where the mill men live-West Beth
lehem, it is called-not much can be
said for its appearance. 1t, too, is
typical of our great mill towns, and
so long as such a dreary monotony is
typical, be sure that our industrial
problem is a long way from being
SOLVED
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16

in order to see French fashions. Paris
is more than willing to accept the
tribute"
In the meantime. many manutae-
are en- route to America are on the
point of nervous collapse. OF course,
it would be dreadful to lose their
buyers. but what if their winter
models were blownsup?
This is the present great source of
annoyance the war is causing the
clothing trade. another is the short
age of labor. This has been felt since
the very beginning of the war, but
now that thousands are being taken
have been created. Perhaps the re-
tail trade-the women's wear estab-
lishments and large department stores
are more affected by this last con-
tfngency than are the manufacturers.
The latter can always employ women.
But the retail trade must have men TO
deliver its packages.
An idea of the tremendous delivery
business executed in New York may
be had when it is stated that half a
million persons are employed by it
Very few women these days will carry
their own packages home. Further
more. there is a large number of wom-
en- who delight in shopping as they
would in croquet or billiards and keep
the delivery wagons busy hauling
back ana forth goods which they do
not want. 1t is estimated by one au-
thority that % per cent of all goods
bought in New York are returned.
If this waste could be eliminated,
and women would carry their own
packages, clothes would be sold at
greatly reduced prices, assert the
clothing merchants. To this several
women's organizations have replied
! that they would carry their own pack
ages if the stores would allow them a
discount for it, but the clothing mer-
chants have not taken kindly to the
suggestion. They feel that at the
expedient. The women should carry
their own packages and thus release a
number of men from the delivery
| business. The fact that the stores
expenses would be decreased as the
result of such release, they feel, does
not enter into the question at all.
What with the dye situation, the
shortage of labor, the submarine
danger and the recent economy propa-
granddaughter almost caused a panic
in the clothing trade-the clothing
enough. 1t is now up to somebody
else to stand the brunt of the war. II
they are willing to risk their buyers
and their money in bringing Partisan
fashions to the women of America. the
least the women can do, they declare
is to carry them home.
feet upon which the reader desires in
| formation should be addressed the To.
peka State Journal Information Blu.
reau. Frederic J. Haskip. Director
Washington. D. c., with 2-cent stamI
e: closed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16

Say said he, isn't London a
wonderful place? BY gorry. now
just look at that thing g1in' down
there: now, look at it, isn't that won
derfuI? But say. ould man, 1
wouldn't want to be the cove at the
bottom filling that thing up, would
ye?"
A gentleman in Cincinnati employs
two negroes to work on his rather ex-
tensive gardens, which he personally
oversees. One morning Sam did not
appear.
where is Sam. George" he asked.
I'm de hospital. sah.''
I'm the hospital? Why, how in the
world did that happen"
We'll. Sam he been a-tellin. me
ev'y. mo'nin for ten yeahs he gwine
to lick his wife cause O. her naggin'-'
"WeIl?"
We'll. yestiddy she done ovahheah
him. OATS ALL"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16

The Chicago American says: AN or
ganizer of the Brotherhood of Boiler
makers, Shipbuilders and Helpers of
America says: If the government fails
to exempt a single man from war duty
will call on strike every one of the
four thousand three hundred mechan-
les engaged in completing ships all
along the Delaware river. Workmen
unjustly treated have the right to
strike, even in war. But the distin-
guished bOilermaker who is planning
and announcing a scheme to tie up the
defense of the United States if a single
man is drafted mistakes himself for
the government. He should be draft
ed to quiet cell for while with
plenty of time to think it over. The
leader renders a poor service to or
ganized labor who suggests that
workers are afraid to fight for their
country-and that's the plain English
of the boilermaker's observations"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16
THE GAP GROWS WIDER.

In an attempt to solve the problem
of the high cost of living in this coun-
try scores of commissions have been
busy and hundreds of investigators
have worked over time
Many theories have been evolved
and methods promulgated in the eff
forts to explain, excuse and in some
cases remedy, the existing and ever
increasing upward trend of prices for
food, fuel and other necessities of life
Increased production has been
urged, the old argument of supply and
demand being the basis thereof.
The result has been a tremendous
impetus to farming. both professional
and amateur. and unprecedented ac-
tivity in our coalfieIds and those in
dustries upon which we depend for
the things necessary to comfort and
wellbeing.
And yet inflated prices are the rule
and the hiatus between the pay en-
tvelope and the grocer, butcher and
fuel bills keeps widening.
The council of defense of Illinois
has been investigating the problem
a
duction and number OF coal opera
tors appearing before that body have
testified that increased railroad facil-
tiles, especially additional cars, would
bring down the price of fuel.
The Railway Age Gazette, COM
! menting upon that view, sees it as
being the truth and sayss 1.-THE made
quate expansion of the railroads has
been one of the causes of the increa Sc
In the cost of living, and, paradoxical
tho it may seem, it has also injured
many producers by reducing the
prices they otherwise would have re-
ceiVed for their products"
The Buffalo News shares this opin-
! ion and says:
We would not condemn the rofl-
ROADS for the condition of things We
would condemn the policy that has
mace the railroads inefficient
| No institution or system can work
without reasonable profits being as
Sured' and the story of railroad resu-
latlon IN this country is that of cap
tlous criticism and restraint
Tnat policy of regulation has failed
TO recognize the fact that the ade.
quacy and quality of TRANSPORTATION
service rendered has a more import
ant effect upon the prices which GRO
ducers receive for their commodities
and which consumers pay for these
commodities, than the rates which
railroads are allowed to charge.
The result has been that raiIroa dc
nave mad low profits and the public
low rates, but not adequate facilities
Who has benefited? The specuIa tor
has benefited
Poor transportation facilities have
restricted the supply of food and fue
to the necessary centers.
Farmers have big crops coal mines
nave big stocks. but the conuec+ipc
link-the railroads-has been unayail.
able.
The result is that neither the rr,ine
operators nor the farmers have resred
excessive profits, but the manipulation
thru whose hands food and fuel goes
to the consumer
We may have big crops, we nav
increase production, but until the rail
roads are encouraged to expand--un
til they are endorsed by the govern.
men as never before-the problem OF
the high cost of living will remain
unsolved.
1t is time to build and construct, IL
develop and grow. to cease restrain
of railroads and work for the common
good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16

, The American hog appears to be
leading the race for supremacy in
high prices of food. A figure of SIS
was reached in the Kansas City mar
ket Wednesday. High prices of corn
and government demands probably are
largely responsible for this record
breaking price. The government is in
the market for large quantities of
bacon to feed the army. Bacon is one
of the standard rations mainly because
II is easily transported and preserved.
There can be no such thing as chea D
hogs while the war lasts even tho corn
should greatly decline.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16
GLOBE SIGHTS
tFrom the Atchison Globe. ]

GFrom the Atchison Globe
A sport likes TO excuse his excuses
by saying he is red-blooded.
No mans judgment is infallible but
most of us go on just as il it were.
Some people are SO slow that even
a time card doesn't do them any good.
If there's a family skeleton in the
closet the door OF the closet is never
closed.
In business affairs a man should
consult his wife and then use his own
judgment.
When hair disappears from the top
of a mans head it usually turns UP
in his ears.
Cars are so common that even those
who walk are now talking automobile
language
Getting whipped occasionally will
slow down the temper Of the most
quick-tempered man.
If you have to use the bill boards
to tell people what you have done.
you haven't done much.
Artists who draw pictures of wheat
fields always have the wheat shocked
too well.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16
ON SPUR f Fl MOMENT
BY MORRIS MILLER.

The New One.
You have noticed, have you not. that
All the girls you see have got that
New and nutty way of walking with a lag,
Every Molly. May or Maggie
Walks a walk that's lag -and saggy
For the Lag is now the very latest gag
1t is not. this newest notion,
just wiggle or a motion.
And it isn't quite an amble nor glide,
1t is quite a novel movement,
But to call it an improvement
Is a question that we really can't decide.s
~
If a maiden's way are slumpys
II her figures rather dumpy.
She Is seldom quite alluring to the eye,
She should try to walk sedately
But it isn't stylish lately,
So 1t isn't very likely that she'll try.
II her figures fair and slender,
May the kindly gods attend her,
And protect her while this new one is the
style.
For we fear alackadaydee.
Every young and shapely lady
Will be limping by on crutches, In while
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16

China has replied to the German
peace proposals coming thru Rome.
Argentina is expected to follow suit
Shortly. The German has openly.
loudly, widely proclaimed that Corsica
has conquered Galilee-that the doc
trine of Napoleon has prevailed over
that of Christ. This is the German
spirit. this is the German idea, and its
works have been written in blood for
all men to see and to know. With this
doctrine civilization cannot compro-
mise. While the Germans hold it the
war must go on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16

II is reported that an entire brigade
Of Jewish soldiers may shortly be sent
by England to participate in the fight
ing in Palestine, under command of
Colonel Patterson of the famous Zion
Mule corps composed OF Jewish refu-
gees from Palestine. which won dis
tinction for valor in the Galipoli cam
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16
THE SEARCHLIGHT
Latest News frem the Fields Of
SCIENCE. EDUCATION. INVENTION
Near Perpetual Motion.

A German inventor has perfected
a clock which seems to be the nearest
thing to perpetual motion that has
so far been devised. The clock gets
its power from revolving shaft
which is impelled by a wheel, whose
spokes are capped with hollow glass
balls Each ball is covered with
cloth, and contains little ether. AS
the wheels revolves, the lower balls
are dipped in water. The balls hat
are out of water are cooled by evap
grafton from the damp cloth. This
cooling condenses the either, which
runs down in such a way as to dis
turb the equilibrium of the system
and turn the wheel over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16

E Denmark's telegraph and telephone
systems are owned by the state. For
1915 their earnings were approximate
" St,sOO.0OO. OF this sum the tele-
graph system took in 81, 175.OO0, and
the telephones the remainder. Main
tenance. salaries. etc, tOtaled S1,170,-
900, leaving a net profit to the state
OF about IS per cent on the capital
invested
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16

The reply of the British and French
on the western front. to the pope's
peace proposal was made in the prop
er spirit. 1t consisted of a smash at
the German lines from Lens to the
sea. The civilized world would be
glad to hear a similar report from the
Italians and the Russians.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16

lost her memory the first year OF the
var in the horrors she went through
She forgot that she, even had child
until Marie rose to sing that morn
ing After that-well what would
YOU? The child has wealth and love.
everything. They took Charity BACK
yvffh them TO France and yet I'd wa
ger ali I'm worth that some day Marie
will throw it all aside, and step back
to the footlights and the lifted baton
of her der''-(Copyright, 1917, oy
the Mcclure Newspaper syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16

Many persons probably have MEM
cries of the town bully. He lorded it
over his neighbors and had his own
way until somebody gave him sound
threshing Then he was heard of no
more. Germany is the bully among
nations. She is about to get what is
justly coming to her. When it is all
over her neighbors will be able to live
in peace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16
DINNER STORIES

While in London on holiday a
visitor went to have a look at the
Thames. There was steam shovel
at work out in the river and he was
standing watching it. Suddenly he
felt a tap on his shoulder and turned
round to find a SON. of Erin stand
ing there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16

: 1t will do no good for the kaiser to
cry: Enough" The entente allies
will tell him when he has enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Use strained onions in meat loaf or
serve them in butter or cream sauce.
After preparing string beans for
the table. set them in the oven and
bake a short time. 1t improves the
flavor.
An excellent salad is made of cook
ed string beans, chives. cucumbers,
pusley, celery and sorrel mixed with
a French dressing of oil and vinegar,
or lemon juice.
.Pusley-if you are so fJrtunate as
to have purslane-commonly called
pusley-growing in your garden. save
it. 1t makes fine greens or salad. Is
good canned for winter use.
Cream of Onion CouL-Boil one
pint of sliced onions until tender;
drain, add one pint of boiling water
and one quart of milk scalded with a
bit of bay leaf then thicken with one
fourth cup of flour rubbed to a
smooth paste with an equal quantity
of butter. Season with pepper and
salt and cook ten minutes before serv-
ing. Do not strain.
The Table
Potato Salad-One-half potatoes
chopped. one-third hald-boiled eggs.
one-third celery tdon't chop too fine).
Dressing: Two eggs well beaten, two
Stir we'll, remove from stove. add but
ter size of an egg, one tablespoon
sugar. pepper and salt to taste.
Crab Meat Sandwiches-Cut bread
in one-fouI tn inch slices, remove the
crust and toast. MELT two tablespoons
butter, add two tablespoons chopped
green peppers and cook five minutes.
stirring all the time. Pour on grad
ually while stirring one-half cup thick
cream and three stewed and strained
tomatoes which have been sweetened
by one-haif teaspoon soda. Add two
cIInS finely emf mild cheese one egg
slightly beaten. Season to taste.
Baked Sweet Potatoes-Wash the
potatoes and bake the same as white
potatoes Small ones will bake in
half an hour, while very large ones
will require an hour or more. If the
potatoes are liked very moist and
sweet, bake from an hour to two
hours, depending on size