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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13
THE SUBMARINE PROBLEM.

Senator William Marconi, inventor
If the wireless telegraph, who is in
America with the Italian mission, says
that he has not been working on any
invention to put an end to the subma-
rine menace and did not know of any
cure except continual fighting with
every means possible.
'It is fortunate for our side" he
says, that Germany has no seaboard
ike France or England. or Italy in the
Mediterranean. If she had, the odds
= gainst the allies would be terrible to
combat. The submarines are like
consumption and as difficult tn Grad
icate.
There is no doubt that it is very
serious at present and probably will
lie worse late in the year when the
night are long and the weather is
more favorable for the activities of
he submersibles. Now the nights in
Europe are short. which does not al
low the submarine commander more
than two or three hours to come up
to the surface and refill his accumu-
Iators and do other necessary things
winch cannot De performed unUer the
sea.
The submarines have been very
active in the Mediterranean, where
the Italians are doing their best to
check them. The big U-boats como
thru the Straits of Gibraltar and the
smaller ones are constructed in Ger
many ard sent by rail to Pola. the
austrian naval base, where they are
put together and sent to sea. The
submarines which come out from Kiel
have considerable difficulty in getting
back to their bases as the approaches
are so well guarded by the British
fleet
Meanwhile, other inventors are
busy trying to solve the submarine
problem. Among the latest inven-
lions mentioned is that of a search
j light operating thru an eye in the
1 hold of the ship on a level with. the
submerged U-boat. The ray of light
projected thru the water can be fol
lowed by an observer in the conninG
tower. When the light encounters ar
opaque object it is noted by the OBJ,
server, who notifies the ships gun
ners and the guns are at cnce trained
on the spot This plan still is in the
experimental stage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13
WOMEN IN WAR.

Wars certain toll is men. England
under war conditions. has felt the
pinch of a shortage of labor in her
Industrial enterprises. In the United
States an increasing number of cases
might be cited where, men no longer
available, women have taken up the
burden of maintaining essential pro
duction. In a recent issue OF The
Iron Trade Review a glimpse was Civ
en- of the situation as it exists in Eng
lish munition plants, where women
are doing mems work. In this coun-
try women now are performing a
highly necessary task in the manu-
facture of cages. without which it
would be impossible to conduct a war
such as the United States has en-
tered
In a New York state plant fine
cages are made for testing high-eX-
plosive shells. From the time the
raw material enters this factory until
it reaches the most delicate and intri-
cate stages. men perform all the oper-
atoms. The final touch. however, is
left to gentler hands.
Tapping, nerve-racking and close
iy defined task is done exclusively by
women. They have been found to be
more accurate, less subject tc ner-
Yousness and more consistent work
ers. Hour after hour their attention
must be riveted to one small gage
! There is an eternal sameness about
every days work. There are no new
pr blems to be met, no deviation from
the straight-line process, no belts
break to relieve the monotony a shut
down of power provides TO moment
respite. 1t is a steady tax on physical
and nervous powers that men cannot
endure for protracted periods. Due
to the war, women have entered the
| toolmaker's field, long thought to he
mans exclusively. There is little
doubt that they have come to star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13
FAVOR BIG AIR FLEET
Committee Puts 80. k on $780, OO,.
600 Aero Appropriation.

Washington, July 13.-Chairman
Dent of the house military affairs
committee today introduced the war
departments bill providing an i'm
mense airplane fleet and appropriate
ing $640, 100000 to obtain it.
A favorable committee report &C
companied the bill.
A sharp fight is expected between
Chairman Dent and Chairman Fitz-
gerald of the appropriations commit
tee who is expected to insist that his
committee hold hearings and report
an appropriation bill. The bill as re-
ported provides no youths under
shall dedrafted into the air corps. In
the measure as sent from the war
department the president was given
such power.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13
DECIDE AGAINST P. U.C.
Supreme Court Revcrses Decision in
Scammon Light Case.

The supreme court today decided
another case against Joseph L. Bris-
tow and the state public utilities COM
mission when II reversed the Shawnee
county district court in the Scammon
light case. In a per curtain opinion,
the supreme court reversed the lower
court and directed judgment for the
plaintiff company. the Welsbach
street Lighting company.
Suit was brought in the Shawnee
county district court by the welsbach
company against the state commits
sion. The issues involved a street
lighting contract with the city of
Scammon and the state commission
had sought to interfere in the settle
ment of the differences with the city
and the light company The commits
sion claimed Jurisdiction over the
American Gas company with which
the Welsbach interests formerly held
a contract.
In deciding the case today the SUI
preme court stated that the business
of the company was subject to settle
ment by the city and not by the state
commission. Jurisdiction which the
commission holds over the American
Gas company does not extend to the
town of Scammon. the court declared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13

A speaking campaign is being ar
ranged for the purpose of arousing the
Patriotism of the people of Kansas
NThen did the patriotic feeling of Kan
sas reach a point where it 'eeded
arousing? Did Kansas ever fail to an
swer the call of Uncle Sam? What
does the government want from Kan
sas tina. it is not getting? Will the
gentlemen who will make this patri-
otto speaking tour kindly inform the
people what offices they want. before
they start?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13
KAISER GIVES IN7
Report He Will Also Name Peace
Terms to Reichstag at Once.

London, July 1S.-German dis
patches reaching here today prophe-
sled that the German government
would accede to the reichstag majority
members demand for election reforms
and for full statement of Gernany's
war aims before the vote of credit is
asked Saturday
The new coalition of Center party
members and Liberals total 255 votes,
including Social Democrats now aid
ing with a few National Liberals
These forces gave significant indica-
ton of their strength Wednesday
when they defeated the Conservatives
demand for an immediate vote on the
budget.
Dispatches via Holland declared the
new majority is firmly united in their
demands for immediate election re-
form and pledge that. Germany make
peace without anneXat:ons.
The general belief here was that fol-
lowing its usual tactics in the past,
the German autocracy would probably
grant few reforms in the electoral
system, hoping these would be a suf-
ficient sop to the reformers to permit
of postponement of the war aims de-
mandS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13
MEET WITH new BOARD
Heads of Charitable Institutions Dis
cuss Maintenance Problems.

Heads of state charitable institutions
are in conference in the state house
today with members of the new state
board of administration. They are
discussing details concerning the
management and affairs of the var
ious institutions. Heads of educa-
tional and penal institutions will prob
ably come to Topeka next week for
a conference.
Members of the board of admins
tration announced that the purpose of
the meeting was merely to gather in
formation concerning the business
management of the various institu-
tions. The question of meeting de-
mands OF. the institutions without
oyerdrawing appropriations will be
discussed at the conference, it was
stated. Several of the institutions are
already meeting embarrassing situa-
tions. Appropriations are limited and
the enormous advances in prices of
food stuffs and necessities threaten
to send practically all of he institu-
tons before the 1919 legislature with
heavy deficits and demands for de-
ficiency appropriations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13
TURN WHOLE line
Russ Wedge Now Menaces En-
tire Teuton Defense.
Little Fighting Reported Today
on French Front.
(By the Associated Press.)

General Korniliffs aggressive Rus
sian armies, which already have drfv-
en- a vast wedge into the Teutonic
lines in Eastern Galicia, appear to be
at crucial point of their campaign for
Lemberg.
Having crossed the River Lomnica,
behind which the Austro-German
forces planted themselves in their re-
treat from the HalicZ region, the Rus
slams have opened up the possibility
of turning the whole Teutonic line
northward along the Zlota Lipa.
Desperate attempts may be expect
ed on the part of the defenders OF
Eastern Galicia, however, to prevent
the continuation of this menacing ad-
vance beyond the Lomnica, and the
battles now in progress may be. vital
in determining the fate of Lembers
and all the Eastern Galician terrain.
Todays statement from Petrograd
shows that in Wednesdays fighting
which resulted in the capture of Kali
usz, the Russians took $50 prisoners.
chiefly Germans, and five heavy guns,
besides ten machine guns.
Threw in German Reserves.
The reference to German prisoners
makes it appear probable that Ger
man reserves were thrown into the
hard battle that preceded the taking
of Kalusz, notwithstanding which the
Russians were able to take the town
after having forced a passage of the
Lomnica
On the French front there only has
been local fighting. Paris mentions
sporadic artillery activity in sectors OF
the Aisne front and to the north OF
Verdun, with attacks at several points
in the Nerdun sector. The assaults
apparently were not in strong force
4 and failed under the fire of the French
guns.
General daig's troops in northern
France continue comparatively mac
tive. There has been considerable all
fighting recently, in which the British
had the advantage, and last nigh
successful trench raids were carried
out by them in the Hulluch and Ypre
sectors in Belgium.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13
THE ATLANTA FIRE.

Immediately following the Atlanta
conflagration of May 81, the commit
tee on fire prevention of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters, dis
PATCHED one of it's most experienced
engineers to the stricken city in order
to make a close study of the charac-
teristics of the fire, the causes to
which it was due, and the lessons
which might be deduced from it. His
report has just been published.
The report finds that the Atlanta
disaster was essentially a 'shinEle
roof conflagration of the familiar
type: it notes that the fire department
rendered excellent service, altho some
what handicapped by lack of motor
apparatus, insufficient reserve supply
of hose, and unpaved streets at certain
points; it refers to the value of thigh
pressures" on the water system, COM
inends the assistance rendered by mil
itary organizations, questions the util-
ity of the dynamiting of buildings. and
records The fact that some of the hose
sent from nearby cities could not be
used thru lack of standardized cou-
pings. The reports greatest empha-
sis, however, is laid upon bad roofing
conditions.
Ten years ago. the United States
geological survey, after an exhaust
I've study, made this statement:
The danger of -conflagration is pres
ent is every city and village Of the
United States, and with it the posi-
bility of large loss of life. The most
efficient fire department in the coun-
try is powerless when once a fiji gets
under considerable Roadway in To-
cality where bad construction prevails
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13

Business as usual is the motto
' hich has been adopted by the Santa
F'e railroad. Its example is worthy of
Imitation by all other business con-
Germs in the country. Undeterred by
high prices the Santa Fe has placed
orders amounting to approximately
S15,0OO,0OO for additional rolling
stock. There is no waiting for lower
prices expected after the war. The
additional equipment is needed now
and It has been bought. There new r
was greater need for keeping the
country's business moving. No op-
portunity for increasing production
should be overlooked but it would be
useless to enlarge the output of food
and other necessaries if they cannot
be conveyed to market. The only
thing that can stand in the way of
business at high pressure and result
ant prosperity is timidity. The coun-
try has the money to finance a much
larger activity than now exists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13

The Kaw Valley interurban oper-
rting between Kansas City and Law
renee reports a handsome profit on
its line. Topeka 'ould like &C see
she road extended tic this city as pro-
5etted. But there is little hope for
any good to the capital city or any
Their part of Kansas as long as the
public utilities commission can pre-
vent 1t. The p, U. C. has proven to
be the most expensive and damaging
institution ever saddled upon the peo-
pIe of the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13
lombard PEK|NC
Republic Army Attacks With
Artillery and Airpianes.
After 2-HOur Battle 5000 Die
tatOr's Troops Surrender.

Shanghai. July ia Tien Tsip
telegram says the republic army at
tack on Picking began at o'clock
this morning and that artillery, ma
chine guns and airplanes are being
used. Five or six foreigners who
walls of the city were wounded.
Chang Hsun Finds Refuge.
Tien Tsin, July 13.-Republican
headquarters reports that 1000 troops
of General Chang Hsun, the monarch
list leader, surrendered in the Temple
of Heaven, after a fight of two hours.
Chang Hsun took refuge in the
Dutch legation. Fighting continues in
the forbidden city with a remnant of
Chang Hsun's forces. A large fire is
raging there. -
Movement for Peace.
Toxic. July "a movement to set
tie the internal difference which have
rent China. is being aided by the
foreign ministers in Picking, according
to dispatches received from the capital
of China today.
- They have sent a message to Shu
Shi Chang, at Tien Tsin, urging him
to go to Picking to attempt to bring
order out of the existing chaos The
diplomats have also recommended
that Chang Hsun, principal hacker of
the attempt to restore the Manchu
dynasty, be disarmed
The Republican leaders are forminI;
a new cabinet with Tuan Chi Jul as
premier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13

American automobile industry can do
on an emergency order for aeroplane
engines, because no such enorm Gus
organization has ever turned to such
a task before. But the aircraft pro-
duction board, headed by an automo-
bile engine expert, Mr.. Howard Coffin,
is working on the problem of convert
ing auto engine plants into aero en-
CINE plants, and the country is hoping
for much from the automobile manu-
facturers.
Finally arises the question of quail
ity. 1t has been said that America
cannot be abreast of the times when
it comes to building the latest and
fastest battle planes, because we have
been too far from the fighting front.
1t has been suggested that we build
training machines for our allies as
well as ourselves, thus allowing Eng
land and France to concentrate on
battle planes. This suggestion is open
to criticism. The best evidence seems
to show that we can build a machine
of any type-training, reconnaissance,
bombing or battle, to say nothing of
seaplane-about as wen as any nation.
Allowing for the greater factor of
safety in our machines, which we can
cut down if we wish. our manufac-
turers can build as speedy and easily
handled a battle plane as England or
France. Our allies have offered us
their latest designs and plans. II
would seem advisable for America to
build all types of aeropIanes from the
beginning, so that American inventive
genius may be stimulated to work on
improvements, and SO that our air
navy shall get a fair start and a firm
foundation in all branches. We dc
not wish to lead the world in making
training planes alone.
Questions on the above or any sub
! ject upon which the reader desires in
| formation should be addressed the To-
peka State Journal Information Blu
reau Frederic J Haskin. Director
Washington. d c with 2-cenf Stang
e: closed for reply
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13

3 Europeans are said to be taking
more kindly to corn bread than ever
before. The chief difficulty n the
way of a more general use of.corn for
human food is the fact that the bread
must be baked at home. Most house
wives prefer to buy their bread al
ready baked. If it were possible for
the bakers to deliver corn bread, hot
and freshly baked, to the homes of
their customers, they could do a thriv-
ing business in his popular article of
food.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13

- II the government plan to go into
The business of fixing prices it should
proceed carefully. 1t has tried it's
nand at fixing the prices which the
railroads shall receive and what they
sall pay with almost disastrous re-
sults to some of the railroads. Eng
land has tried regulating the prices
OF food products. She put a limit on
he price of milk, and the result was
tihst the opposite from that intended.
Enable to make. a profit on milk at
that price. farmers sold their cAws tc
the butcher and are now Strengthening
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13

It is encouraging to note that there
has been a slump, of apparent per-
fnanency. in the loss of shipping from
J-boat activities. When first noted
Ibis was attributed to the fact that
the German divers were engaged in
an effort to intercept Pershing's army.
The small number of losses reported
for the past week seems to indicate
that the Germans nave been given a
decided check.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13

iAutocracy no longer is to find a
place in the sun. Even in Nhina the
democratic spirit has so taken posses
sion of the people that the attempt
10 restore 1t to power has failed. Rus
sta has taken her place permam entity.
there is every reason to believe,
among world dcmocracies. The
downfall of the kaiser seems DESTINED
to put an end to the whole king bust
ness
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13

be my PEI pie, and thy God my God"
But being only Nora McMurtry.
with a big love in her heart for the
man beside her, she said simply:
Take the job, Tommy; I'll be the
wife, ana we can go together
Copyright, 1917, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13
TO DEAD STANDSTILL
No Wheat Deals for First Time in
History OF Chicago Board.

Chicago. July 13-For the first
time since the establishment of the
Chicago Board of Trade. business in
wheat came today to a dead standstfiI
Not n single transaction took place
during the first haIf-hour of the SEES
sion of the board and there were no
bids or offers whatever on which 10
base even nominal prices.
The unprecedented halt was attrfb-
uted as to what would be the outcome
of pending food legislation in conpress
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13
R. R. AID EMBARGO
Order Ban on All Export Shipments
in Keeping With Wilson's Plan.

Washington, July fan embargo
effective Immediately against all ship
nents intended for export of commo-
cities named in President Wilson's re-
cent export proclamation. except
when bill of lading is presented with a
federal license number furnished or
authorized by the export council at
Washington, was ordered today by the
american Railway associations COM
Inittee on car service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

ETA L. KIMBLE. age AZ. died Tbur~-
day at her home. 2201 Clay street The
funeral will be held Sunday afternoon al
go O'Clock from the residence. Burial in
Foster cemetery.
HARVEY KITE. age 70 died Tbursdav
at a local hospital. The body will be sent
to st Francis, Kansas, for burial
MRS: MATILDA BROWN. age Sc died
Thursday at her home l27 North Madison
street: The funeral viii be in charge OF
Macedonia Lodge. No 3d. Arrangements
have not been completed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13

, The Roosevelt boys are getting ac-
ton on their inherited fighting ten
denotes, but there seems to be no sat
isfactory way by which the colonel can
reach the battle lines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13

their heifer The public cannot al
Ways be compelled to buy or to sell
at 2 given price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13

B The loss of the fight against beer
in the L. S. Senate is attributed
by the Atlantic Constitution 70
the fact that it was staged at the
wrong season of the year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13

" 1t is not yet too late for some slack
'er to invoke the anti-lottery law in an
attempt to escape the draft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13

Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13

What would be said Of the soldier
who would throw away his rifle and
try to do battle with his fists? Yet
is that any more vain and foolish
than the conduct of the Christian who
refuses the armor God offers and tries
20 fight against sin in his own unaid-
ed strength.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13

The great hope FOR setting a new
record in our construction program
lies in our immense automobile in
dustry. We have carried the stand
ardized wholesale production of in
ternal combustion engines so much
farther than 1t was carried in any
European country before the war that
we cannot look to Europe for a pre-
cedent Nobody knows what the
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-03-08
'CASCARETS" BEST IF
HEADACHY, BILIOUS,
SICK, CONSTIPATED
Best for liver and bowels, bad BREATH
bad colds, sour stomach

Get 10-cent box.
Sick headache, biliousness, coated
tongue, head and nose clogged up
with a cold-always trace this to tor
pid liver; delayed, fermenting food in
the bowels or sour, gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter clogged in the in
testines, instead of being cast out
ct the system is re-absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue it causes con-
gestion and that dull, throbbing, sick
ening headache.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases, take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
the constipated waste matter and
poisons in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep-a 1O-cent boz
from your druggist means your heac
clear, stomach sweet, and your Hve1
and bowels regular for months.