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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18
SIGNS OF COLLAPSE.

The severe criticism visited upon
the kaiser and various members of the
ministry, by the German press, fol-
lowing the publication of the emper-
or's note to President Wilson, indi-
Gates that there is lack of harmony in
Berlin. One newspaper blames the
emperor for writing the note, another
blames Bethmann-Hollweg for per-
hitting him to send it, while another
finds fault because it was not denied
Defeat on the fighting lines, inter-
nal dissension and failure of the u
boat campaign. point the way that
Germany is travelling.
Evidences multiply that the strength
of Germany is being rapidly sapped
The testimony grows more and more
convincing that an economic and mill
tary collapse cannot be very long de-
layed. 1t is true that Germans keep
up a brave show of confidence in vic
tory. Successes in the East are mag
nified, while the slow-footed but in
exorable advance of the allies in the
for the German arms.
Not the least convincing proof of
Germany's failure, says the New York
Journal of Commerce, is to be found
in the refusal of the general staff to
tell the truth in their war bulletins.
OF the depletion of the man-power of
Germany, the world lacks full infor-
nation, and Germans themselves have
but an imperfect knowledge. The
of 1919 are already being used to fill
up the gaps in attenuated divisions on
the Western front, is sufficiently elo-
Quent of an exhaustion which cannot
be much longer concealed.
When the tremendous force of the
first blow had spent itself. and one
| after another the foes of Germany
were able to organize their superior
strength, it became merely a question
of time when the Central Powers
would be beaten by sheer force. of
numbers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18

Yes we are all for peace, says the
Los Angeles Express. We only differ
in our ideas and ideals of what peace
is TO bring to us. Had Germany sue
ceeded in crushing France, conquering
Russia and establishing a fortified CO.
lonial base in Brazil. she would not be
for peace until the full measure of her
ambition was realized. She has been
stopped. and is slowly but surely los-
ing her stranglehold on Belgium and
France. She has failed in her prom
Use TO starve England. She wants peace
to hold, by diplomacy. what she must
release in a clash of arms. England
and France and America want peace
fer the sake of peace and that hui
manity may be something more than
dumb slaves to armed efficiency This
irreconcilable antagonism must go on
TO a victory and a defeat. No true
friend of justice and liberty wants to
feel that the millions who have suf-
fered and other millions who have
fallen shall have suffered or fallen in
vain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18
MADE IN GERMANY" PEACE

The "pope's made in Germany"
peace proposal is meeting with chilly
reception thruout the civilized world
the word civilized is used advisedly.
1t is difficult to understand how the
head of the church of Rome can feel
the partially toward the Teutons
which his peace plan indicates. when
he remembers the wanton destruction
of his churches and cathedrals and
the murder of unoffending Catholic
men and women and children in Bel
GUM and France.
But the pope's just grounds for com
plant against Germany are as moth
ing compared with those of the re-
mainder of the world.
Before Germany can be trusted to
take part in stopping a war in defense
of human rights. let her abandon her
barbaric methods. Refusing to do
that, civilization will not trust her or
even recognize her as qualified to have
part in laying a basis for a future
peace.
Even while Germany processes to
desire peace, she places American cap
tives on the outside of a U-boat and
submerges to drown them. There can
be no peace made with the govern
ment that honors with the iron cross
the most brutal of it's slayers.
Shall the world be asked to sane
ton a peace that settles nothing, that
shall leave the world an armed camp
with all the really vital issues touch
ing the right of men and women to
live their lives in peace and to have
their plea for justice heard, still I'M
settled?
How can peace come of an undeter-
| mined conflict based on irreconcila BILE
standards of human rights and the su-
premacy and sanctity of physical
might?
The democratic world cannot close
this war until democracy is safe from
German policies. The issue is as tc
the type of civilization under which
the non-German world is to be per
mitted to live and work out it's des.
tiny.
This fight is our fight to an equa
extent with out allies. Weare not fight.
ing for other peoples. We are fight
ing for our own national life. Ever
the pacifists should be able to see this
| If they desire to live under German
rule they should so to Germany The
patriotic citizens of America will no
permit German 'kultur" to be estab
lished on this side of the Atlantic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18

into an argument with a Chilean over
some point in revolutionary history.
He found that the Chilean knew moro
about it than he did himself. For
ments of national ideals to the Chile
ans no less than to ourselves There
is scarcely a town in Chile that has not
its 'tcalie Washington" and there are
many statues of Washington in the
larger cities.
All of these common ideals, coupled
with the new social and industrial
contracts are building up Chilean
American friendship, and are opening
the eyes of the younger generation in
Chile to a new conception of life. AS
natural consequence, more and more
young Chileans are coming to the
United States for their education. A
society has been organized bearing the
en- Estranjero." 1t is nominaily
Chilean organization for the purpose
of aiding young men who wish to be
educated abroad. Practically, it is
financed and dominated by Ameri-
cans, and 1t is sending Chilean stu
dents to all of the principal universe
ties in the United States. This society
also has arrangements with great
American industrial concerns, such as
General Electric, to admit to their
factories young Chileans upon its
recommendation, student assist
ants. The expenses of the students
to the United States are paid by the
society.
I The society exercises great deal of
care in selecting the men it sends to
the United States. All observers
agree that these young Chileans al
most always turn out we'll" They
| take the color and character of their
American environment They, and
the change they will work in their
native land are the price that Chile
is getting for her nitrate and copper.
| 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-cent stamp
enclosed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18
DINNER STORIES

at is remarkable" said Mr.. Grunt
Ter, how mean some people are. l
had with me on a fishing trip two
friends, who evidently were familiar
with my reputation as an angler. Be
fore starting one of them made the
following suggestion: We will agree
that the first one who catches a fish
must treat the crowd I assented to
this, and we started. Now, don't you
know, those two fellows both had a
bite and were too mean to pull them
up"
Il suppose you lost, them" re-
marked the friend.
"Oh. no. replied Mr.. Gruntler. II
didn't have any bait on my hook"
Two ayiators, one American and
the other Irish, were discussing the
best position for the propeller with
relation to it's strength.
Mine" said the American. lis in
lions minute"
Sure said the other. ST can't say
which is best. because mine is at the
back. and so 1 can't count them"
dolphin and its habits.
And, children" she said impress
sively, "a single dolphin will have two
thousand offspring"
Goodness" gasped a little girl in
the back row. And how about mar
ried ones?'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18

The optimism regarding Russia
which the members of the Root COM
mission have brought back from Pc
|rograd is fully justified If only the
mathematics of the situation is to be
considered. The numbers of the Rus
sian people. their strength of funda-
mental resources and the undoubted
high quality of their devotion to the
nation all spell ultimate triumph. The
difficulty at present, however, is to
|nnify and make use of these essentials
|of victory. Mr.. Root Is reported to
have told the president that there is
.no necessity to send American troops
10 the Russian front. There is yet an
other reason why American troops
should not be sent to Russia. To send
our men to Russia only to be deserted
lat a critical moment, or forced to join
bin a pell-mell political retreat, would
be a brutal sacrifice of men who are
not built for retreating in face of an
enemy. Americans expect to fight. but
let them be neither led nor showed into
any political trap. to be deserted by
towards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18

companionable. the girl N whose So
ciety l was never bored and never
had to rack my mind for topics OF
conversation. There can be no strong
er tie between a man and woman
than sympathy, and SO when you find
the girl to whom you inst,nctively tell
the story of your life. AMI who listens
with absorbed attention while you de-
scribe the details of what you used
to do when you were a small boy
with pale green freckles. and who
gets all wrought up over your account
of what you said to the boss and the
boss said to you, why, son go to it.
Lead he- to the altar without fear
or cold feet, for there be many wives
of whom a man tires but never of the
himself.
But the whole of the law and the
prophets in choosing the right girl for
wife is in taking the one that likes
to do the things that you do. If you
want to get on in the world, the right
girl for you is a practical, common
sensed, hustling, pushing, ambitious
woman, not a flabby, spineless, timid
little creature who hasn't got enough
energy and intelligence to run a four
room flat successfully.
If your idea of life is comprised lin
a cabaret scheme of existence, marry
a girl who is a good locker and good
dancer, and who knows how to show
off her clothes, instead of demure
wren of q woman who is never happy
outside of a nursery and smells of the
kitchen.
If you want a wife who will be a
real companion to- you, don't marry
Fluffy Ruffles who thinks Ibsen is a
brand of canned goods, and whose
conversational repertoire consists of
the things that ''he said" and ''she
said" and they said" about nothing.
Any girl is the right girl for you, son,
so long as she meets the greatest need
of your nature.
But don't marry a girl thinking you
can change her and make her over to
suit yourself. Heredity and environ
ment got the start on you there, son
and ran what looks to you like a char
acter as soft and pliable as dough into
a mould as hard as adamant before
you ever saw her.
And if you want an advanced view
as to what sort of a wife a girl is 60
ing to make, what she will look like
and what she will do some twenty-five
years hence, take a good long squirt
at her mother. For ninety-nine times
out of a hundred women revert tC
| type, and are even as their mothers
were before them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18

and do not grieve as much for their
loss as do those who sympathize-
This stream of wounded soldiers
will keep up until the war is ended
Then the army will come home and
our country will have another prob
lem, to insure to every soldier at least
as good a job as he had when he left
home. That will be no easy task but
it is certainly one that should be car
ried into effect without hesitation and
without a murmur. There will be diff
Guilty in adjusting the business world
to peace just as there is to adjust it
for war, but one of the items not to be
omitted is the care for the crippled
soldiers and provision for every SOL
der on his return.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18
The Carnegie Endowment for In

The Carnegie Endowment for In
ternational Peace has published its
annual year book for 1917, being the
sixth issue. Its contents reveal a wide
field of constantly extending activity
and demonstrate the striking differ
-ence between the work of this organ
ization and that of all other peace
societies. a comprehensive under
standing of the wide field of study
covered by the endowment activities
is obtained from the list of its publ
cations, of which no less than sixty
nine titles are listed in the year book.
These publications vary from small
pamphlets to large volumes. Many
of them are distributed gratuitously
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18

has the qualities for the emergency,
disorder and treason will be sup
pressed and the nation will be united
to face the perils which threaten it.
The friends of democratic Russia
will look anMously on to see whether
Kerensky is able to accomplish the
stupendous task which seems to de-
pend upon him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.J

TFrom the Atchison Globe.I
There are woman who keep their
husbands poor buying bargains.
Nuisances with money to spend are
apt to think they are interesting.
Another point wherein woman ex-
cells man is in keeping track of her
kin.
1t is easy enough to make friends.
but difficult to use them to advan-
tage.
How the non-church members
chuckle when a prominent worker in
the church goes wrong.
You are really getting all that is
coming to you; what you are shouting
for is more than your share.
Arriving home from a summer va
cation while it is still hot is about
as pleasant as paying for dad
horse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18

The state council of defense. says
the Oakland, Cal, Tribune, is advis-
irg the increased production of pota-
toes. 1t is good advice, perhaps, but it
will fall upon unheeding ears in those
sections that are now finding it diff
ficult TO dispose of the early crop at
price that will recompense for the
digging.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18
Cold Fruit Pudding.

Two cupfuls stale cake crumbs. one
cupful cooked prune pulp, one cup
full whipped cream.
If possible a few fruit cake crumbs
should be used in the two cupf dis.
The prunes SHOULD be measured after
the skin and stones have been re-
moved Mix fruit and crumbs till
they are like a smooth paste, then
add cream and beat till well blenued
Turn into a shallow granite pan and
stand in a cool place for three hours
Cut into square portions for serving
and accompany with whipped cream.
The prune mixture should not be
liquid or the pudding will not be stiff
enough
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18
HOUSEHOLD HINTS


Menu Hint.
EAKFAST.
Stewed Rhubare
Fried Corn Meal MUsh
Brown Sugar Syrup
LUNCHEON.
Emergency Soup (Tomato)
Corn Fritters
Bread and Butte
DINNER.
Eggplant en- Casserole
Lima Beans Butter Sauce
Potato and Onion Salad
Blackberry Shortcake with
Whole-Wheat Flour
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18

Those persons who have believed
that prices are kept within reasonable
bounds thru competition are destined
to learn something from the war. The
government plans to reduce prices by
competition, wherever nee
essary and monopolizing the entire
business in certain lines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18
WHATEVER you WANT TO KNOw.'

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Bureau at Washington furnishes readers,
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18
ON SPUR re 9h MOMENT
BY MORRIS MILLER.

How Nice!
On doctrine, gospel, faith, or creed,
So many folks are disagreed,
So very seldom do we find
The many of a single mind.
It's little wonder then that life
Has much of argument and strife.
How very pleasant it would be
If everyone could quite agree
And then no matter what you said
They'd always smile and nod the head
And say, of courser Every true!"
Or Yes. l always say that. too.''
If everyone were thus agreed
We then Would have no further need
OF lots of things as law and cops
And joint debates and razor strops
And hats or shoes of different size
And books and different sort of pies.
And all the people you would see
In order not to disagree
Would live on tea and broiled pike
And everyone would dress alikei
The world takes any man at his own
estimate of himself. Any man except
the kaiser.
Idiot.
I'd like to knife
Alexis Waite,
He told the wife
Her pies were great
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18

The Canadians are giving Europe
foretaste of what may be expected
when the American troops appear on
the fighting line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18

Chancellor Michaelis says the Ger
mans know what they want. 1t is not
improbable that by this time they also
know what they will get.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18
He Went to Both.

He Went to Both.
In the case of. Chester Carpenter
against Marie Perron Carpenter, a
divorce action, Judge J. Emmett
Walsh in the district court allowed
the plaintiff his freedom on the
ground of desertion. Carpenter met
his wife in a Goldfield dance Eall.
They were married in August, 1913.
Shortly after their marriage, while
in San Francisco, Carpenters wife
told him that he could go to Gold
field if he wanted to, also could go to
h if he wanted to. He chose Gold
field.-Goldfield (Nev.) Tribune.
Lots of people get red-headed when
they are caught ed-handed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18

Copyright. 1917. by the Wheeler Syndicate,
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18

Here are some of the vocations
taught: Woodworking, shoemaking,
gardening, poultry raising, farming,
motor-mechanics, massage, telegra-
ply. bookkeeping, basket making
sign painting, typewriting, shorthand.
Each convalescent chooses what voca-
ton he prefers, guided by advice of a
commission, and prepares for it be-
fore he is discharged. And the plan
is not to discharge a man until he Is
assured of an opportunity or a job.
OF course crippled men are happy
and hopeful and may do greater
things than they otherwise would.
I talked with returned soldier who
had lost nearly half of his face, in
Guiding an eye. He was a private
when he was thus disfigured. He has
recently received 100000 for an in
vention he made while a convalescent.
MY souvenir from the Somme" was
the way another joked about his emp
ty coat sleeve. In fact, I think that
the men are proud of their sacrifice
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-25
Possibilities Of Bad Verse.

No one has yet written any adequate
appreciation of the possibilities Of bad
verse. The verse mean, that is COM
posed at the crises of life, on the noun
tain tops of exultation and in the joy
less valleys, by persons unskilled and
ordinarily unpoetic. The verse that Is
hidden away in vases and bureau draw
ers, never to be shown. and always pro-
duced In some moment Of vanity. Only
a true poet could write a lust appre-
citation of bad verse; and from his pen
the words would come too much faint
ed with the implication of irony. The
quality Of bad verse is not strained.
1t is written to suit no magazines pol
icy. II is rewarded with no check. 1t
is brave denying Of reality; prayer
that is Its own answer. 1t is, to use
Maeterlinck's phrase, "a making or In
voking Of wings" by creatures that
creep on their bellles.-The New Re
public.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-25
GLAD TO TESTIFY
Says Watoga Lady, Gas To What
Cardui Has Done For Me, So
As To Help Others"

Watoga, w. Va.-Mrs. S. W. Caldwell,
Of this town, says: "When about IS years
Of age, | suffered greatly =. Sometimes
would 20 month or two, and had
terrible headache, backache, and bearing
down pains, and would just drag and
had no appetite. Then =. il would last
two weeks, and was SO weakening,
and my health was awful.
My mother bought me bottle Of
cardm, and ] began to improve after
taking the first bottle, so kept II up till !
took three =. gained, and was well
and strong, and owe it all 10 Cardui.
! am married now and have 3 children
1. Have never had TO have doctor for
female trouble, and just resort 10 cardui
il | need tonic. am glad TO testify to
what II has done for me, so as 10 help
Others"
II you are nervous or weak, have head
aches, backaches, or any Of the other
ailments so common 10 women, why not
give Cardui a trial2 Recommended by
many physicians. In use over 40 years.
Begin taking Cardui today. II may
be the very medicine you need.
Nc-l30
ADVERTISEMENT
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-25
As We Grow older.

/ cannot be persuaded that II is
solely a sensitiveness to the loss Of
youth that prompts us to waive or dis
regard those birthdays which fall
upon the neither side of twenty. Our
neglect Of them is more often, like
to believe, In the order Of gentle dis
avowal of old egotisms, as life ripens
and takes on In our regard an aspect
larger and less personal; even as to
a nation Or a religion which progresses,
egotism and special privilege become
increasingly distasteful, and the idea
of a chosen people more and more In
tolerable to the pure at heart as the
world natures. Mature life, like the
mature heart, cannot endure q sover-
eighty over its brethren, but longs for
the old original levels; sheds its sim
gleness and its superiorities. We be-
come, God be thanked, less considera-
BILE under the moon as time advances;
more of piece with life; better blend
ed with the days; part of all dawns
and sunsets-we who before had but
one Of each TO our credit.-Laura
Spencer Portor, in the Atlantic.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-25
Silver Trumneta.

The silver trumpets which Moses
was charged to furnish the Israelites
were to be used for the calling togeth-
er Of the assembly; for the Journeying
of camps, for sounding the alarm of
war; for celebrating the sacrifices on
festivals and new moons plumbers TO-:
1-10. .>.-
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-25

The number of British merchant
men sunk by submarines or mines
in the last week was only slightly
larger than the previous week when
a considerable falling off was noted.
According to the official statement,
fifteen vessels of more than 1000 tons
were sunk and three vessels of less
than 1000 tons, in addition to two
fishing vessels, as compared with
fourteen large vessels the previous
week, two small vessels and three
fishermen. Arrivals, 1888; saiL'gs,
2.764. a total Of 5,602.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-25

The report of the Naval Board
which investigated the recent fatal
magazine explosion at Mare Island
has reached the Navy Department
and probably will be made public
after examination. This investigation
was the cause of the rumpus between
Secretary Daniels and Robt. M.
Thompson, of the Navy League.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-25
Flowers Of sane&ity.

Long ago certain fragrant flowers
bloomed. They were Of eight kinds,
md belonged TO the species called
flowers Of sanctty." Their names, as
rendered from the Sanskrit were:
Clemency, Self-Restraint, Affection,
Patience, Resignation depression Of
any mental perturbation), Devotion,
Meditation, Veracity. 1t is thought
that the correct modern botanical
titles remain unassigned.-From D
notebook.