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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.1

[From the Atchison Globe.l
A college girl who is pretty and
knows it, isn't going to study very
much.
You may have observed that the
demagogue seldom belongs to your
party.
zine use a girls picture for a cover
design?
If disappointment killed. oil fields
would be strewn with as many cofpses
as the Marine.
If you must retain a few supersti-
tions, you can save money by not bet
ting on them
Neither is the parrot the only bird
which talks a great deal without hav-
ing much to say.
1t isn't when you get down to work,
so much as what you do after your
arrival that counts.
Alb Adkins says he once knew a man
who was so contrary he considered
thirteen lucky number
Reporters have only one consola-
ton: People criticize preachers as
much as they criticize reporters.
An orator becomes popular when
he promises the people a good deal
more than they have coming to them.
Good health is worth more than
money, which is some consolation
when high prices are keeping one
broke most of the time.
About the time one becomes con-
WINGED that honesty is the best policy,
he recalls that old Doc Cook doesn't
have to work for a living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19
WHAT DOES ECONOMY MEAN?

Let those who are urging economy
determine first just what they mean
by it and how it may be applied with
advantage instead of harm to the in
dustrial life of the people and the sue
cessful defense of the nation.
Patriotic economy does not mean
the lowering of Americas standard of
living, which would make US less eff
cicnt physically and mentally, nation
ally and individually, and would kill
the spirit and the will to do the truly
yself-sacrificing things to be done.
Our industries can be made more
prolific only if the people buy and
Use the merchandise produced by our
industries. Manufacturing slackens
when business slackens. Manufactur-
ing grows in a prolific way when
business grows. And business can
grow and remain healthful only when
culation.
municipalities must go on with their
civic improvements. Road building
and public works must proceed. Rail-
roads must renew their equipment.
Factories must be kept going to their
full capacity. Labor must be en-
ployed. Homes must be kept up.
Merchandise must be produced, dis
tributed and used.
1t is the duty of every citizen to
practice a wise measure of economy,
but it is equally his duty not to be-
come misery. Comfort and a fair de-
gree of plenty must continue to pre-
vail in American homes If we should
all suddenly stop purchasing articles
for personal or household USE should
decide to wear shabby clothes, should
skimp our tables and deny ourselves
all forms of recreation, throngs of
men and women would be thrown out
ness concerns would face bankruptcy.
The government would have no mar
ket for its war securities, and the rev.
enue from customs and other duties
would suffer a ruinous decline Such
hysterical saving manifestly would de-
feat it's very object
1t is unfortunate that the officers
of the government have so alarmed
the public that the newspapers and
the business interests in general have
found it necessary to combat an ap-
parent tendency to scotch the wheels
of progress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19

tention to any other woman younger
and better looking than she is, knows
in her innermoSt heart that 1t is be-
cause she has failed to give her hus-
band the tenderness, the love. the
comradeship that he had right TO
expect of her that she lives in deadly
fear of youth and beauty taking him
away from her.
The man who is so filled with jeal-
ousy that he would keep. his wife
locked up in the home, as in harem,
if he could, is the man whose con-
science tells him that he has been so
tyrannical. that he has done so little
to make his wife happy and attach
her to him, that he would have no
right to blame her if she played him
false and escaped her Jail with some
man who even promised to be kinder
to her and give her q little of the joy
of life that he denies her.
Not without reason are the jealous,
| Jealous, but if they are honest they
would know that the. roots of their
jealousy strike back into their own
meanneSs.
But the folly of jealousy is that it
reacts on itself. 1t is a weed that
| bears only bitter fruit. 1t is demon
that tears the soul of the one who ad-
mits it into his or her heart. The
more jealous a man or woman be-
comes the more reason they have for
| jealousy because nothing Stays love
like the green-eyed monster.
No jealous man or woman ever
| knows anything of the real glory and
sweetness of love. Their doubts make
a blight for them at the heart of the
rose. Their fears are a drop of gall
at the bottom of the wine cup, for the
perfect joy of love demands perfect
faith.
| Only fools think they can spy upon
| love and question it without frighten-
ing it away. The wise know that love
is a heavenly visitant that abides only
with the devout believer
| Thus jealousy is it's own undoing
| for love is one of the affairs of life
that is bound to be run on a credit ba-
sis. The minute your confidence is
shaken and your trust withdrawn, Gu
pid makes an assignment and goes into
| bankruptcy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19

Government reports showing u
shortage in fall wheat have been a
great help to those who are devoting
their efforts to maintaining higher
prices. The general public does not
seem to understand that so far the
government has given out no report
in regard to the great acreage of
spring wheat and will not give out a
report until some time in July.
The government report in re-
gard to fall wheat could be absolute
ly accurate but with the great in
creased acreage of spring wheat this
country could still harvest this fall and
probably will harvest a record break
ing crop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19

the food raised. 1t would be both a
pity and a sin in the present state OF
the worlds pantry if any Of the food
produced were allowed to spoil SIM
Div because it could not be immedi-
ately eaten. Canning is the solution.
and home canning will be the order
of the day.
In this connection, it is very i'm
portant to note that there is short
age of tin-plate for the manufacture
of cans. Every glass jar and wide
mouthed bottle that could possibly be
used for preserving fruits OF Vese-
tables should be carefully saved. 1t
is also planned to stimulate the manu-
facture of some of the cheaper grades
of glass jars which have rather gone
out of use of late
The national garden campaign de-
serves to be ranked as patriotic
movement of the first Importance 1t
is a peculiarly American way of meet
ing a national emergency, and its
promise of success has something in
spring about it. The American peo-
pie are faced by a food situation I'M
precedented in history. Burdened
with the problem of paving the way to
victory with food enough for a world,
we are meeting the test on individual
initiative, under no oompulsion save
the sense of individual responsibility
that must perYade every real democ-
racy.
The State Journal calls attention to
the fact that booklets on the planting
and care of the home vegetable gar
den, prepared by government experts
and published by the federal depart
ment of agriculture, can be secured
free from the Topeka State Journal
Information bureau at Washington,
D. c. Simply send your name and ad-
dress with a 2-cent stamp to the bu-
III
be mailed to you promptly.
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, 1917-05-19

babies, but 1 never before christened
one that behaved so well as yours
The young mother smiled demurely
and said: His father and 1, with a
pail of water, have been practicing on
him for the last ten days"
A soldier footballer in the trenches
was complaining that he had not had
change of undertaking for many
weeks and consequently his hands
were kept busy. He asked his pal if
it was true that the kaiser had with
cred arm.
quite right, old SPORT"
well, I wish to goodness that he'd
both arms withered," was the reply,
and had my shirt on"
The Bible class teacher in a certain
Sunday school was extremely annoyed
at the noise made by pupils in the next
room At last unable to stand it any
longer, he looked over the partition
and, seeing one boy talking louder
than the others, he leaned over and
hoisted him over the partition, and
banging him into a chair, said: Now
be quiet
Some minutes later a small head
appeared over the partition and a
meek voice said:
please, sir. you've got our teacher"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19

The announcement that grains suit
able for human food will no longer be
fed to horses in Great Britain calls at
tention to the possibilities of gradual
ly enlarging the production of the
worlds food supplies by utilizing for
that purpose the vast areas now de-
voted to producing grain for horses,
for which the world is rapidly substi-
tuting power driven vehicles and Gull
tivators. A compilation by the Nation
al City Bank of New York shows that
this process of substituting the motor
for the horse on highways and farms
has already made rapid progress in
the United States. The number of
horses on farms in the United States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19


Hands across the sea, brothers!
Hands across the sea-
Here's a flag to fly with yours,
The emblem of the free.
Holy hands of freemen gave it,
Heart and life we pledge to save 1t,
At your side we lift and wave it,
Now for Liberty.
Hands across the sea, brothers!
Hands across the sea,
Here's a sword to draw with yours,
'Gainst monstrous tyranny.
Valiant hearts have beat beneath II.
Deathless laurels still enwreathe it.
Sadly, sternly, we unsheathe 1t,
Now for Liberty.
Hands around the world, brothers!
Hands around the world
Fling the married colors out,
Never to be furled:
Till the power of Light prevailing,
Vict'rys heights in triumph scaling,
Sees the power of Darkness, raining
Down in ruin hurled.
Laura E. Richards, of the Vigilantes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
BE ROY z. MOULTON.

Nancy Green.
l cannot tell so very well,
It's rather hard to say,
Just why to Inc she seems to be
So different in a way;
She's pretty, true, but quite a few
AS fair I'm sure I've seen,
Yet none, l know, were ever So
Oh, you know what l mean!
And then again 1 can't explain
Just why it is her clothes
Delight me so and please altho
They're pretty, l suppose,
Still others too, are fair to view
In silk or crepe de chine,
But she can wear a certain air
Oh, you know what l mean.
With what a zest my life is blessed,
And how in joy l dance,
When passing by within her eye
l see smiling glance.
And oh, someday, I hope and pray
Instead of Nancy Green
Her name will be-that maybe She
Oh, you know what 1 mean,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19
HOUSEHOLD HINTS


Cornmeal-The high nutritive value
OF cornmeal and the low price at
which it sells makes it the cheapest
available food. 1t has advanced In
price, but is still cheap considering
that there is no food more wholesome
One pint of cornmeal to a quart of
boiling water, boiled ten minutes and
then cooked over slow fire for an
hour or two, will make a good mush
to be served with milk. The meal
should be added slowly while stirring
A good old southern recipe for making
cornbread calls for one pint sour milk
one teaspoonful butter, one pint corn
meal, one egg, a half teaspoonful BIZ
carbonate of soda. Dissolve soda
in tablespoonful of warm water; add
milk and stir a moment; add egg, well
beaten; the butter, melted, and then
the cornmeal. Beat quickly and turn
into shallow, creased pan. Bake
thirty to forty minutes in a moderate
ly heated oven
Flour Paste
Mix one cup flour with cold water,
as for starch. Add hot water and one
tablespoon powdered alum. Boil five
minutes, then remove from fire and
add one teaspoon oil of cloves
This will make nearly three pints of
paste and VIII keep for months.
Interior Cuts More Tender.
In study of factors which influ-
ence tenderness, Lehman and has as
sociates measured experimentally the
relative tenderness of raw meat of
different kinds and cuts from old and
young animals, the effect of hanging
and freezing upon tenderness, and also
the effects of cooking. According to
his summary. the toughness or tender
ness of the individual meat fibers is a
matter of the location of the cut, and
his measurements showed that the raw
fibers from an exterior cut (flank)
were almost two end half times as
tough as those from an interior cut
(tenderloin).
Nut Prune SouffIe.
Pick over and wash one-half pound
of prunes, soak one hour in cold water
and boil until soft. After removing
the stones obtain the meat from them
and add to the prunes- Then add one
cup of sugar, one inch of cinnamon
bark. one and one-third cups of boil
ing water and simmer ten minutes
Dilute one-third cup of cornstarch
with enough cold water to pour easily
add to the prune mixture and cook
five minutes. Then add the whites of
two eggs beaten stiff, and one-haIf cup
chopped pecan meats. Mold, chill and
serve with cream.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19
About Wives.

ed. Howes Monthly
After the new year wears off in an
association between husband and wife,
there is u natural disposition on the
woman's part to object to the man s
opinions and habits. In case a man
is really a good husband, and admits
his wires rights, she crowds him
gradually. a little at a time, until he
begins to notice it, and feels rebelli-
Gus. In all my life I have known
only one woman who did not show
this disposition; l have quarreled with
half a dozen because of it,
Said Wallace Wick to Bertram Bow
How thick my thoughts are coming now ~
Said Bertram Bow to Wallace Wick.
They surely should-your head is thick 80
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19

The appearance of American de-
stroyers in British waters and Ameri-
can dollars in Russia should give en-
enlargement to our Allies on the fight
ing line. If Ambassador Root will fol-
low closely to Petrograd the 500. Ooe.-
600 loan, the two together may stiffen
the backbone of the hear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19

Japan will not permit America to
have the sole credit for ending the war.
She has sent d flotilla of sea fighters
to the Mediterranean and a body OF
troops to the western front. If she
will now place an army on the eastern
front the kaiser's power will collapse
like a house of cards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19

A government official at a luncheon
IN Washington said recently:
we are continually turning down
requests for consulships Our consuiar
service. you know, has been taken al
together out of politics
You cannot talk now as Cons,,
smith talked in the past.
50, you've got a consulship, chr.
A traveller said to Smith.
Yes Smith answered. lighting a
Is it hard wark?' asked the trav-
ia. Not after you get it, Smith re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19
DINNER STORIES

Turnout the christening ceremony
the baby smiled up beautifully into
the clergyman's face.
We'll, madam said he to the
young wife, II must congratulate you
on your little ones behavior. 1 have
christened more than two thousand
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19

1t is noted by the Louisville Courier
Journal that about the only things that
escape taxation in the new revenue
bill are the air and hysterical states
manship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19

Address the Topeka State Journal lnfor-
information about
''Whatever You Want to Know
Write your request plainly and inclose
2 cent stamp for return postage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19

We wish our next door neighbours brat
Would cease to squat so.
It's quite a nuisance in a flat,
We'd raise a row excepting that
We have one also
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19
Happy Thought.

1t takes a Man to hold down a
Good Job but no Job can hold down
a Good Man.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-23
SCOTT NEARING, RADICAL,
TRAILED BY u. S. SLEUTHS
Prediction Of Country's Ruin, if It Fol-
lowed Wilson, Puts Officials
on Guard

Scott Nearing, ousted from the Cniver-
sty of Pennsylvania several years ago for
his revolutionary utterances and since then
a big brother TO about every radical move
ment in the line of economies. including
pacifism. Is being closely watched by Fed
era authorities In Chicago, following an
address at the University OF Chicago in
which he said that following the Presi-
dent would lead to the ruin Of the republic"
Professor Nearing some months ago re-
signed at the University of Toledo, where
he had been since leaving Pennsylvania.
His resignation was the result of severe
criticism of his pacifst views and speeches.
Recently he wrote to friends in this city,
saying that 1t was doubtful If his resigna-
ton would after all be accepted. Shortly
after that the governing body of the Uni
versity accepted his resignation
Federal officers assert that German prop
aganda is again becoming active in Chicago
1t is said that the Teuton propagandists ure
working among Russian eXles who are
about to return to their native land at the
invitation of the present Government there.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-23
HUGE COST OF ACCIDENTS
SET FORTH IN DOLLARS
S. S. Ridddle( State Department of
Labor, Gives Impressive Figures
at Monday Conference

The average cost of amputating an arm
by accident in industrial plants last year
is sl537 The amputation of legs is esti-
mated at s1463 apiece and feet at s124O
EACH This also includes compensation.
These costs for amputations caused by ac-
cdents were fully recounted today by S. S.
Riddle. editor of the journal of the Penn
sylvania state Department of Labor and
Industry before the regular meeting of the
Monday conference in the New Century
Drawing Rooms Mr. Riddle while speak
ing of accidents said
Seven hundred and fifty persons have
been killed in industrial plant accidents
during the first three months Of this year.
Last year the compensation for such acci-
dents amounted to $i,250000. At the rate
of accidents shown the early part of 1917
the compensation will amount to $1,000, 900
Accidents are increasing the cost of
living-they are big factor. The compen-
sation charges are taken out on the public
One Of the most essential things to prevent
accidents is the Americanization of foreign
workmen, in order that they will under
stand when warned Of impending danger"
II. NJ. Foster, first vice president of the
National Safety Council. spoke at the meet
ing and pointed out that the rate of acci-
dents among women were much less tina n
those among men. He said that 2263 per.
sons were killed in Industrial accidents
last year. OF these, fifteen were women.
Philadelphia was the scene of 80 of these
deaths. He also stated that Pennsylvania
has the worst accident rate of any State in
the Union.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-23
WELLS'S REPUBLIC IDEA
NOT DIRECTED AT CROWN

LONDON April 23-So great was the
criticism aroused by the letter of II. G.
Wells to the Times, suggesting republic
for England that he has written another
letter, stating that his proposal was not
aimed at the King. In mis- latest letter,
published in the Times today, Mr.. Wells said
IN part:
I'm this country few people wish to see
any change in the golden link of empire
on the other hand, there can be little dis
pute that very many minds disturbed
and becoming restless on account of our
tepid treatment Of the Greek republicans
II Is unfortunate that we should seem to
encourage, however slightly, the Greek
royal family at the present time, and many
of us are by no means sure as we would
like to he that the fun weight of British
influence will be thrown into the scale in
favor of liberal institutions and the break
ing up of the dynasty net in eastern Eu-
rope. Hence this disposition to republican
activity.
None of these things ought to reflect
on our own throne The position of the
British monarchy is a special and peculiar
one. We have no business to bring it into
these matters. and it should be possible to
profess and discuss the republican idea
frankly and without duplicating the i'm
perial crown"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-23
RAIDER IS IDENTIFIED
AS EX.AMERICAN ship
Pass of Balmaha Reported to Be
German Pirate in South
Atlantic
NEW YORK. April 90.


That the German raider which has been
causing havoc TO shipping in South Atlantic
waters for several months Is the Pass OF
Balmaha, a captured American vessel, was
stated today by officers Of a steamship
which arrived recently in an American
port.
This vessel reported that few weeks
ago, when thirty-nine miles north OF the
equator, the raider chased II for fve
hours. but was outdistanced Officers of
the pursued steamship assert that the Pass
of Balmaha had two Norwegian flags
painted on her sides. carried two eight
inch guns and has speed of thirteen knots
The Pass of Balmaha few the British
flag until the close OF 1914, when she was
taken under American registry While
bound for Archangel with a cargo of Amer
lean cotton she was overhauled by Brit
ish warship and prize crew of five British
naval men were placed on board.
The British encountered rough weather
In their attempt to take the Pass Of Bal
maha into Krkwall and were DETECTED
from their course. A German submarine
overhauled the craft which was then taken
into Hamburg as a prize of war. There
have been reports in the last month that
the mysterious raider might be the Pass OF
Balmaha. but no substantiation has been
obtainable until today.