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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

1.-THE Peoples Council of America
for Democracy and Peace" which is
threatening to start impeachment pro-
ceedings against President Wilson,
should understand that democracy
and peace are what the country is
fighting for and are what it means to
get. Not only is the United States
fighting for democracy and peace for
herself but for all the world. Neither
democracy nor peace can exist on
earth while the HohenZollerns rule
Germany, therefore the HohenZollerns
must be removed. Since their removal
cannot be accomplished by peaceable
means it must be done by force of
arms. This is the program and moth
ing will be permitted to interfere with
it to any serious degree. Leaders of
the peoples Council are wasting
their time and other peoples money
in trying to dam up the current of
events. They should be classed with
the l. W. w, the slackers and other
German sympathizers and should be
treated in a manner calculated to put
an end to their activities on behalf
of the kaiser.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
An EXPENsIyE LESSON.

After four years of fruitless effort
it is given out in Washington that the
administration finally has admitted
that the project to make a physical
valuation of the railroad properties of
the country is a failure. The amount
of work accomplished under the law
forced thru congress in'191 is ridicu-
lousy insignificant and. due to the re-
cent increase in the values of material,
it is now absolutely worthless. There
fore the administration will wish to be
allowed peacefully to forget an eyre
gious blunder, that was not committed
without warning.
The result of the four years of COM
putting the valuations of the railways
is an estimate, now admittedly use
less, of the value of few hundred
miles of short line roads in Alabama
Georgia and Tennessee. Nothing
whatever was done toward ascertain
ing the actual value of any one of the
great transcontinental lines or the big
systems that connect the north and
south thru the central states and along
the Atlantic seaboard, and which are
the main factors in determining rates
on interstate commerce.
At the rate which the valuation di-
vision of the interstate commerce
commission has proceeded with its
work, estimates the Oakland, Cal,
Tribune, it would require something
like five hundred years to complete
the job and entail the expenditure of
over twenty billion dollars And then
all appraisals would have to be
brought up to date, for they would
always lack two or three years of be-
ing current, by estimating the change
in actual values since the appraisal
was fixed. Therefore the public
should be pleased at the news, gently
broken at Washington, that the folly
is not to be pursued further. The few
millions which have been expended in
learning a simple lesson may be set
down with the other costs of fool
hardy experiments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
THE RED. WHITE AND BLUE.

1.-THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE.
oh, Columbia. the gem of the ocean,
The home of the brave and the free.
The shrine of each patriots devotion,
A world offers homage to thee.
Thy mandates make heroes assemble.
When Liberty's form stands in view;
Thy banners make tyranny tremble.
When borne by the red, white and blue.
When borne bv the red white and blue,
When borne by the red, white and blue,
Thy banners make tyranny tremble.
When borne by the red, white and blue.
When war wing'd its wide deso1ation,
And threatend the land to deform,
The ark then of freedoms foundation,
Columbia rode safe thro' the storm;
With the garlands of vict'ry around her.
When so proudly she bore her brave
crew.
With her flag proudly floating before her,
The boast of the red, white and blue
The boast Of the red, white and blue,
The boast of the red, white and blue,
With her flag proudly floating before her.
The boast of the red, white and blue.
The star spangled banner bring hither,
May the wreaths they have won never
wither,
Nor its stars cease to shine on the brave.
May the service united ne'er sever,
But hold to their colors SO true,
The army and navy forever,
Three cheers for the red, white and blue.
Three cheers for the red, white and blue,
Three cheers for the red, white and blue,
The army and navy forever.
Three cheers for the red. white and blue.
David T. Shaw.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Bran Bread.

One cupful milk. one cupful water,
one-half cupfuls sugar, two teaspoon
fuls salt, one-quarter to one yeast
cake, one-third cupful warm water,
one tablespoonful shortening, one cup
full bran. five to six cupfuls white
bread flour.
Put sugar, shortening and salt in
mixing bowl; pour on the scalded
milk and boiling water; when luke
warm and the yeast cake softened in
the lukewarm water. add the bran
and flour, stirring until thoroiy mixed.
Use enough flour to make 1T the con-
sistency of white bread dough- Put
to rise When double its bulk. knead
into loavcs; let rise agaiT. and bake
as white bread.
The Table.
Three-In-One Meatless Dish-Three
raw potatoes cut into cubes, three law
carrots cut into cubes, one pound of
peas.
Place all in one quart boiling salt
water, let boil twenty or thirty min
utes until tender and about three
fourths cup of water remains; then
add one tablespoon butter or nut but
ter and serve hot VIII serve three
people.
If meat is desired, get a neck or
shoulder of lamb Zone pound), cook
until tender. then place the raw yege-
tables in. add an onion. if desired. and
boil as above. Note the saving of
dishes to be washed.
Ham and Noodles-Cook noodles
until soft, drain and season to taste
with salt, pepper and butter Put
butter in casserole, then layer of
noodles, then layer of chopped ham,
until casserole is filled; then add
two well-beaten eggs with milk
enough to cover noodles flet last layer
be noodies). Bake twenty minutes
with cover. then take off cover and
brown ten minutes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

| thousand people with lemonade at l
cent a glass every day. Thus when
Doctor Bolduan rented hall and
showed his health movies free of
there was none who wanted to. He
simply could not get anybody to look
at them.
Naturally, this was discouraging,
but after some months of constant
thought on the problem, the doctor
found new plan which met with i'm
mediate success and which is working
well now. He took his rolls of film
on the right way to feed baby, the
dangers of impure milk, the fly as a
disease carrier, our foe the mosquito
and the making of diphtheria toxin
from horses, to the various settlement
houses. The settlement houses in turn
distributed the films among the NOV
ing picture theaters of the district
free of charge to the exhibitors, who
were only too glad to add them to
their program. Hence, when GER
tain movie house advertised the exhi-
bition of Nell, the Daughter of He'll
Mountain" or some other sensational
drama, it would draw its usual record
breaking audience. And the people,
anxious to get their moneys worth,
would sit solidly thru the entire bill.
the latter part of which was a force
full lecture on health and sanitation.
The New York health department
has struggled thru years of careless
management and inefficiency due to
local politics, but today it is an up
to-date scientific organization. In
1912, a pioneer city health inspector
called the city's attention to the fear
full conditions that existed owing to
the crowded dwellings, the habita-
ton of dark damp cellars, the use of
underground easements for school
rooms, the need of clean streets, the
abolition of pig sites, the draining of
marsh lands and careful keeping
rewarded for his good intentions by
being deposed from office by his scan
dalized co-politicians. Today, the
health department has left such ques-
tons far behind it. 1t now supervises
the sale of food, the feeding of babies
and the cleaning up of the slums, all
activities which border on charity
When heat wave comes it is on the
job. Its ambulances are whizzing
along turnout the city. its doctors are
ready with ice baths for the heat vic
Tins. and in not quite so conspicuous
manner its wagons collect the dead
horses to be found in great numbers
in all sections. In 1911, when a heat
wave occurred there were so few am
balances that the department had to
employ grocery wagons for the relief
of heat victims. The New York health
department stands for progress, In
time even New York may be a
clean city.
Questions on the above or any SUBJ
1ect upon which the reader desires in
formation should be addressed the To-
peka State Journal Information Blu
reau. Frederic ]. Haskin, Director.
Washington. D.. c., with 2-cent stamp
enclosed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
TRAWELETTE
HelgOland.
BY NIkSAH


Helgoland is one of the most i'm
portant places in the world today. A
bleak island with forbidding cliffs
about its shores failing away sheer to
the waters edge, it is fortified as per-
haps no island was ever fortified be-
fore For Helgoland is the key to the
naval vitals of Germany. Lying far
out from the shore across Helgoland
bay on one side of it the steamer lanes
run up the Weser to Bremen, on the
other they strike in to the mouth of
the Elbe, to the kiel canal where
the German high sea fleet waits and
to Hamburg, GePmany's greatest port.
Ever since the Germans have been
in possession, long Before the war,
they have been strengthening the
Helgoland defences. Helgoland was
quite summer resort then, attracting
visitors from Bremen and Hamburg,
and all the northern provinces, even
as far south and east as Berlin, 1t
was fisherman's island, too, with a
tiny fishing village on the harbor, and
a simple population of hardy seam en-
who are known in all the merchant
services of the seas. But once the i'm
Derial government took hold, neither
fisherman nor visitor could visit the
frowning highlands. The fishermen
could keep to their village and the
tourists to the beach. The heights
were Nefpolen, TOT mere the great
coast guns were planted, here the con-
trolls for the mines far out at sea were
led, here, in a word, was the solar
plexus of a great system of death
and destruction.
No one. German or neutral, except
naval and military men, has set foot
on HelgOland heights since August,
1914, but it is no secret that the
Notifications have been doubled and
trebled since then, and they were
strengthened still more, in case the
stings of the U-boats should goad the
allies into a naval offensive against
the Kiel canal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
THE SEARCMLlGHT
Latest News from the Fields OF
SCIENCE. EDUCATION. INVENTION


The torpedoplane is regarded by
many military authorities as the most
promising untried weapon of the war
1t is the invention of an American,
Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske. 1t is
not quite accurate to call the torpedo
plane an untried weapon, for two ships
have already been sunk by it's use, but
it has never been given. a chance to
show what it can do on large scale.
The torpedoplane is naval aeroplane
equipped with a device for releasing
standard torpedoes from the air. 1t
can control a toFpedo's course quite as
well as a submarine. and is infinitely
more mobile, as well as better adapted
to survey the strategic situation. At
tacks on the German fleet bases by
torpedoplanes have been advocated in
many quarters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

former President Taft's illness is only
temporary. He has prodigally given
his strength, first to the league to
enforce peace and more lately to fur
thering the work of the Red Cross.
He has also been speaking with strik-
ing effectiveness in emphasizing the
causes, the responsibility and the pur-
poses of the war. The wonder is that
he has not broken down before. but it
has been an immensely valuable and
worthwhile service that he has per-
formed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

When one takes into consideration
the increasing activities of the I. w.
w. the slackers, the draft resisters
and those who by various plans are
aiding persons in escaping the draft,
1t is easier to understand the situa-
ton in Russia. But we have an es-
tablished government here, in good
working order and it seems that there
should be some way of handling the
trouble makers. If the constituted au-
thorities can't do it the Butte method
may become increasingly popular.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
DINNER STORIES

Mrs. Lewis had made it a practice
every night just before bedtime to
read some verses from the Bible to
her little ones. Among those verses
which she particularly endeavored to
impress on their young minds was,
"Whosoever smiteth thee on thy
right cheek turn to him the other
one"
The following morning Jack came
into the house sobbing bitterly.
why, what's the natter" anxi-
ously queried the mother.
Sister hit me-
Have you forgotten about turn
ing the other cheek?"
'No-n-no. boo-hoo!" walled Jack.
but L couldn't; she hit me in the
middle"
A clergyman whilst going to
church one Sunday morning lost
pocketbook containing valuable pa-
pers After the service he made
known his loss, and said that who
ever found the pocketbook and re-
stored 1t to him would be well re-
warded.
An old man immediately rose up
at the back of the church and cried
out:
IT'S found, sir!"
"oh thank you. thank you, my
man." said the clergyman Have
you got II with your
No, sir" answered the man, but
| coined that way myself after YOU
did, and il wasn't there then
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Experts find a good deal of fault
with each other.
Not all those who have had educa-
tional advantages are educated.
White shoes are all right as long
as they are white.
Every town thinks it has the
worlds biggest ass.
The older you become. the more
dull days you'll have
The older the man the more he
talks about how he would like to en-
list.
A woman likes to tell her husband
the number of things she wouldn't
stand from any man.
The average man doesn't begin TAX
ing care of his health until he hasn't
any to take care of.
If man feels the world is against
him, he should remember the world
may have some occasion for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
BY ROY <. MOULTON.

One Smile.
She smiled. one sweet and lovely smile,
AS she was passing down the aisle,
And all who saw were moved to stare
At one so heavenly and fair.
And 10, on every face there grew
A smile sublime, infectious too,
And when they went upon their ways
Then others saw them In amaze
And those who scowled soon smiled instead,
Till soon her lovely smile had spread
Not merely DER her own fair face,
But near and far and every place,
And if more pretty girls but knew
What one of their best smiles will do,
How it will spread a many mile.
They'd smile and smile and smile and
smile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

An enormous growth of the iron
'arrd steel business of the United States
is shown in a compilation of statistics
recently issued by the National City
Bank of New York Measured by
values the growth in our exports of
iron and steel manufactures has been
from s32.O0O.OOO in 1895 to $40. O0O,-
600 in 1898, to $4,000, 900 in 1905,
To $26S,0OO,O00 in 1912, to $3O5, OOO.-
600 in 1913. to 1921 100000 in 1916.
aad to approximately $1,12O, 900
in 1917.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

but in reality they are opposed to the
bill in its entirety. Their object is to
cripple the government and thus aid
its other enemies. In doing this they
will. make use of other senators who
honestly believe that certain features
of the bill are open to objection. If
the passage of the measure can be de-
layed sufficiently to embarrass the
government, the purposes of the
band" will have been served.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

Patent medicine vendors for many
years have been trying to convince the
country that the entire population was
The facts brought out by the draft
examining boards Indicate that the
medicine men were about half right
Nearly 80 per cent of those examined
the first day in Shawnee county We're
rejected on the ground of physical dis
ability.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11


Who has a personality oh, what a
favored lad is he, Whatever be his
daily work, tho but a tinsmith or a
clerk, he steps along a primrose way,
forever bright and always gay, he al
ways gets a welcome and the jovial
eye and hearty hand. BY bishops,
bankers. bards and buns, he's greeted
everywhere he comes; by-yes, by
even those he owes, he's greeted ev-
erywhere he goes, and everyone is
pleased to see the lad with personality.
oh, golden blessing of the gods, that
maketh princes out of clods, more
sought than any wealth of kaie, thee
Personality, we hail But, lackaday,
thy potent spell, too seldom do we see
it dwell in those that every day We
meet, at work, at lunch or on the
street OF all the mighty race of men
some few you favor, now and then,
and we were better pleased with you
if they alas, were not, so few. How
fine place this earth would be if all
but had lot of thee!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

The L! $, department of agricul-
ture estimates a corn crop of more
than three billion bushels in this
country this year. If we can harvest
a crop of that size, there seems to be
no reason why anybody should go
hungry. At existing prices the crop
will be worth more than six billion
dollars-or "A sum about equal to the
total bond issue so far authorized
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

Col Henry Watterson's newspaper
now throws a fit every day. owing to
the passage of the national prohibi-
ton amendment by congress. The
Courier Journal maintains that the
states are entitled TO say what brand
of Prohibition they will have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

While the Socialists of the greater
part of Europe are holding a peace
conference in Stockholm their broth
ers in Germany will be fighting in the
ranks What has become of the So
cialist idea of the brotherhood of
man?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

1t is being heralded by newspapers
all over the country that Germany has
been proven to have been the insti-
gator of the war. This is the first in
timation that there has ever been any
doubt about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

The little band of wilful men" is
preparing to fight the new revenue
bill as il has fought everything calcu-
lated TO aid the country in corrying
on the war. Their opposition will be
directed at certain features of the bill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

noble or ignoble. as selfish or unself-
ish, as patient or as impatient as are
those who have been thru the great
experience that either makes or mars
men and women, and so perhaps, in
this sense. the bachelor and the spin
ster are only fractionally men and
women
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

Minnesota farmers are reported to
: be contracting the sale of their potato
crop at so cents a bushel Probably
another cipher will be added to the
price by the time the "spuds" reach
the consumer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

Hawaii is entering upon the bust
ness of producing tobacco and it is
reported that the tobacco worm was
on the job right at the start.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

small white hand into Ned's big
brown one.
I'm sorry" she said softly. You
are the bravest coward l have ever
known. And / love you mere tnan an
the world. "-(Copyright, 1917. by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

While there was a slight increase in
the number of ships sunk by subma-
rines last week, it is noted that thir-
teen vessels which were attacked es-
capped without damage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

y is urged In Great fsrstafn that abso
lutte prohibition would free a minimum az
100000 tons year In ships for the orerree
transportation OF food =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

It's usually the man with the most
crust who gets the most dough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

BY far the biggest part of the hear
ing we do is done with our ears. We
hear at eve the thrush with our ears
and the milkman in the morning.
Then there is the other sort of hear
ing that We do quite a bit and could
do just as we'll without ears.
II hear the Pjonses haven't spoken
to each other for a week." Lots of
hearing of this sort is done. The way
people like to hear, We hear his
and we hear that. The amount of
real hearing that was done in the first
place would have left the Phones rep
utation in fairly good order.
An enterprising real estate dealer.
in addition to the View or the Health
fulness of a community, might ad-
vertise the Hearing. Next to being
heard people like to hear.
Tight.
Said Marcus Mead to Thnmas IMeed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

A breezy way,
Has Berthe Bot,
At least he blows
An awful lot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
Tight.

Said Marcus Mead to Thomas Tweed,
Lend me little dough in need
Said Thomas Tweed to Marcus Mead,
Lend you a little? No. indeed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

Questions on the above or any sub
ject upon which the reader desires in
formation should be addressed the To-
pelka State Journal Information Blu
reau. Frederic ]. Haskin, Director.
Washington. d. c., with 2-cent stamp
enclosed for reply.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-14
GARY SCHOOL PLAN
HAS NY. GUESSING
Writ Scheme Opposed as
Vigorously AS Tt Is
Boosted by Mayor.

NEW YORK. July 14.-President
Wilcox of the Board of Education and
School Superintendent Maxwell seem to
cate school plan"-embracing more
hand, eye and ear work-urged by
Charles w. Eliot. president emeritus of
Harvar University. in n pamphlet
Chances Needed in American Second
airy Education"
Replying TO a letter by Mr.. Wilcox
advocating President Eliotts views
Mr.. Maxwell yesterday wound up a long
letter thus:
The extension of the duplicate
hoo plan has been prosecuted with
such vigor and persistence as to jus
tify the belief that the Board of Esti-
mate and Appointment an the Board
permanently to the adoption of the plan
by establishing it so firmly and invest
ing In ii so much money --~- no future
administration can displace it without
a great disturbance to the school sys-
tenn. without a loss of the heavy in
vestment already made and without q
heavier new investment.
II believe that the duplicate che
plan should not be further extended
that in the meantime such public funds
as can be spared for school purposes
should be directed TO providing addi-
tional accommodations in the elemen-
tary and high schools where needed.