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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09
Another cause for the high price 0.

Another cause for the high price of
white paper has been found. Argen-
tina is now relying upon the United
States for its newsprint. The exports
of newsprint paper to Argentina in the
nine months ending with March, 1917,
were 35,703,0O0 pounds. against g.
712,000 pounds in the same months
of last year, and 2O.712,O0O pounds in
the corresponding months of the pre-
ceding year, while in the correspond
ing period Immediately preceding the
war the total was but 14,OOS, 900
pounds. Thus it will be seen that the
business has more than doubled since
the war began.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

The sending of Americans to Rus
STA to reorganize and reconstruct the
railroad system of that country is a
repetition of history-for it was an
American, George Whistler, who, sew
enty-five years ago. went over to Mus
covy to build the railroad which the
then car had projected between St.
Petersburg and Moscow. That road,
like others, was laid out to take in
the main cities along the route and
the tradition is that the car, on look
ing over the map, laid his ruler down
upon it and drew a straight line be-
tween the two termini. Build it
there" he said. Since then American
engineering and constructive genius
has been seen in many another for
eign piece of work. Other nations
have developed their talent in war
preparation; we have developed ours
in the arts of peace. 1t is a curious
reversal of things that we are now
able to make so large a contribution
to our allies in furnishing them en-
cheering and construction forces to
rebuild and develop their transporta-
ton and manufacturing elements,
which are showing themselves to be
the larger half of modern warfare.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

In his vitriolic attack on the United
States government and the manner in
which war preparations are being
carried on. Joseph L. Bristow has
started something besides his cam
paign for a seat in the senate. He has
started something which he probably
would be glad to stop. Already rum
blings of an approaching storm are
heard. His recent utterances are out
of harmony with the sentiments of the
people of Kansas, whose votes he will
ask for, and they are beginning to let
him know it. If he expects to win on
a campaign of denunciation Of the
war and charges of graft and favor
itism, it will be necessary for him to
be more specific as to details. Stand
ing pat and saying the same thing
over and over will not do. Instance.
Mr.. Bristow. instance. The people of
Missouri have nothing on the people
of Kansas, who also demand that they
be shcwn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.l

[From the Atchison Globe.1
Some men never let friendship in
terfere with their business.
The fact that there is no place like
home is the reason some men leave it.
Spring always seems late to the
close observer of a dwindling coal
pile.
Women are often unreasonable, and
they resemble men in several other
respects.
We should hate to live in a coun-
try where fur coat is regarded as
necessity.
Proof is the main point in law, but
elsewhere rumors are often sufficient
to convict.
Nearly every busy man has lot
of schemes for making money he
never has time to try out.
Without wishing to appear finicky,
it is our notion that no man who
wears whiskers should ride a bicycle.
IF you must find fault, find fault
with yourself, and your chance of
correcting those faults may be better.
Sometimes Father, while tired and
Respondent, feels like grum bling out
something like this: Why leave
anything to posterity? A year after
am dead posterity won't think any
thing of me-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09
THE TIME is SHORT.

Only a few days remain in which
to subscribe to the liberty loan The
government, aided by the banks and
various employers of labor, has
placed the liberty loan bonds within
the reach of everybody. The denom-
nations are so small and the terms SO
easy that at least one of these bonds
should find it's way into the hands OF
every wage Garner.
Not all can fight, not all can rem
der personal service in other ways,
but those who are denied the privi-
lege of serving their country in per-
son have the privilege of serving her
by lending their money to win her vic
tories.
But it is not patriotism alone that
urges the buying of liberty loan bonds.
Thrift and a wise economy in invest
ing small savings commend these lib
erty loan bonds to small investors.
They are safe and considering their
tax-free quality-free from all fed
eral, state and local taxes, inheritance
taxes excepted, and free from any war
tax that may hereafter be levied, af-
fording an absolutely net income of
BIZ per cent. they constitute an ideal
investment for savings.
Nor is there any reason for waiting
for a later bond issue in the expecta-
ton of q higher rate of interest, for
the law provides that should such
bonds be issued later. liberty loan
bonds may be exchanged for them at
mar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09
TRAWELETTE
BY NIKSAH
Queen Charlotte Islands.

It is the boast of the English that
their empire knows neither east nor
west, stretching around the world that
the traveller may pass from one British
land to another in which ever direc-
ton he travels. Yet the Queen Char
lotte group of islands is often spoken
of as the westernmost bit of British
soil, even tho by sailing westward
from them you reach India via Japan.
The Queen Charlottes are the western
most part of Canada. They belong to
the British Columbian province, lying
in the Pacific off Vancouver.
The principal islands are Graham
and Moresby, and they are given over
today to such prosaic occupations as
the salmon fishery and the manufac-
ture of fertilizer. There still remain,
however, few hundred of the original
Indian inhabitants, the Haidas, a pic
turesque and little-known race.
The Haidas are probably the only
American Indian tribe that practiced
seafaring regularly and successfully,
unless the Eskimos be regarded as In
dams. The Haidas outdid the most
daring Eskimo in their nautical ex-
ploits. They were the Vikings, the
sea-wolves of primitive America. Sep
arated from the mainland by the tur-
bulent waters of Hecate strait, fifty
miles wide at the narrowest, they
would set out in their rude war
canoes and descend on the coasts of
Vancouver to burn, plumber and de-
stroy. A high degree of seamanshIp
it must have taken to navigate their
frail craft across that tumbled chan
ne.
The Haidas are of great interest to
the ethnologist because they show
traces of a Japanese origin. Not only
do they strongly resemble the Japan
ese-many of the Indians of British
Columbia do that-but their language
contains words of almost unmistak
III To
to the theory that the original for
bears of the Indian came from the
Orient across a land bridge which
connected Alaska and Siberia ages
ago. Other authorities believe that
the Haidas owe their Japanese charac-
terists to the shipwreck of some jap
anese ship in prehistoric times, driven
far from its home coasts by storm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

sors on this job. The commercial in
terests of this country are the only
people who know anything about food
that is practical, and to them I shall
look exclusively for aid in helping me
solve the big and complex problems
which are involved in this work. 1
will not be shackled by anybody in the
department of agriculture. and will
not allow a single job hunter or prof
it-monger to help More power to
Hoover His program will meet with
popular approval.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09
PATRIOTISM.

PATRIOTISM.
Our flag is flying in the air.
We see it waving everywhere;
From windows. roofs, and house-tops high,
lis seen by every passer by;
Tis worn upon our coats lapel
Our hearts with patriotism swell.
But when n man can leave his home
Can leave his wife and babes alone,
To shoulder arms. and march away
To fight-as soldiers fight today,
Or leave mother bent and old
To be recruit in ranks of bold
To fight in the path of the shrapnel shell,
Where death and destruction cast their
spell
Mid blasts of bombs as they fall from
the sky
Mayhap to be wounded and left to die,
Or, live to praise our nationalism;
That's what l call patriotism.
NELL SCRIBBLER, Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

Ninety years old, Ell?
Yes, pop is close to ninety"
rs his health fgood?"
" 'Tair't much now. He's been
complainin' for a few months back
Whats the matter with him? ?"
"'I dunno: sometimes I think farm
ing don't agree with him.
Mr. Lovelaw was one of those peo-
pie who, on every occasion, consult
ed a solicitor. Nothing pleased him
more than to go to law. The law
yers regarded him as an invaluable
asset.
Il have been grossly insulted," he
exclaimed, rushing into the office of
his solicitor for the seventh time in
three days.
I'm what way?" asked the solicitor,
somewhat YEARLY.
My next door neighbor says I'm
a German, and has declared he will
pull my nose next time he meets me
What shall L do about it ?''
WELL said the lawyer, as if he
had given the case due deliberation,
Il should soap it, then it will slip
thru his fingers. Goodbye. My bill
will follow in due course
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

The Italians have forced the Aus
TRANS to withdraw large numbers of
men from the eastern front. The Britt
ish and French have done the same
for Germany. A better time for start
ing the Russian steam roller in mo-
ton again can hardly be expected
News from the Muscovites is becom-
ing more encouraging. One of their
best fighting men has been placed at
the head of the army. Minister Ke-
rensSy still maintains his hold on
the people. 1t is by no means GER
tain that Russia is out of the war for
this year News from there is so
meager that it is difficult to tell what
is going on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09
THE SEARCHLIGMT
Latest News from the Fields OF
SCIENCE, EDUCATION. INVENTION
Railroad Crossing Signal.

A proposed warning signal for use
at railway crossings would be set in
action by the blast of the locomotive
whistle some distance off. 1t is
claimed that by accurately co-ordi-
mating the vibration pitch of the
signal receiver with the note of the
locomotive whistle, the system is quite
practical, and that it will not respond
to other loud noises which are not
correctly pitched. The inventor would
use the vibration of the receiver to
close an electric circuit which would
pass the current to a warning siren
in daylight and to a searchlight stop
signal at night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

1t seems desirable that Commission
err Root should tell Russia in plain,
not diplomatic, language what she
may expect from the United States in
the future if she lie down on the
cause of world democracy at this criti-
cal time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

The man who should have regis
tered Tuesday and did not will now be
classed as a Stacker" The term will
cling to him and become more of a
reproach than that of bounty jumper.
which originated during the Civil war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

Big Business" which not long ago
was considered an enemy of the peo
pie. has been taken into full partner
ship by the government since our en-
try into the war. Banks, railroads
and manufa ctories all are working to-
ward a common end, the winning of
the fight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

necessary in the case of the United
States government 1t can and will use
at once any German patents which are
of value in prosecuting the war
Questions on the abov1 or any sub
1ect upon which the reader desires in
formation should be addressed the To-
peka State Journal Information Bu-
reau, Frederic ]. Haskin, Director
Washington. D. c., with 2-cent stamp
enclosed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

Rumania comes before the foot
lights long enough to announce that
she is ready to resume the fight. The
entente allies are now awaiting an en-
couraging word from Russia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

With war, tornadoes, fires and
earthquakes, it looks like it will be a
busy year for the Red Cross. The
society should be aided literally in
money by the government. 1t is too
much to expect the philanthropic
public to support. entirely its activi-
ties
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

Herbert c. Hoover is reported as
saying: "If it falls to my lot to con-
troll the food supply of the United
States I shall begin at once to cut off
every official and every theorist.
There must be. above all. no profess
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

1t remained for China to evolve a
plan by which a vice president can
get into the news dispatches. The vice
president of that country has re-
signed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

It took England and her allies
long time to get Napoleon but they
did it. They will be equally successful
in the case of the kaiser
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

The Western Golf association has
decreed that the stymie must go. Is
this another economy measure
brought about by the war?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09
DINNER STORIES

A man travelling in Maine met a
middle aged farmer, who said his
father, ninety years old, was still on
the farm where he was born.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

The hanging OF somebody for spy
ing is the quickest way to break it up,
in the opinion of Col. Henry Waiter
son.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
Not a Modest Lamb.
ny ROY z. MOULToN.

Not a Modest Lamb.
Thorg h once it's true a little lamb
Would follow Mary on the way,
No little lamb would follow her
Had Mary lived today.
A modest lamb would hardly care
To follow Mary as she goes
About today dressed as she is
In such outlandish clothes.
So Mary now has never lambs.
Perhaps the reason is to laugh,
You'll never see a lamb with her
Though you may see calf!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

The rallying cry of America today
is: Buy a bond and bag a U-boat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09


So Mary now has never lambs
Perhaps the reason is to laugh,
You'll never see a lamb with her
Though you may see a calf!
Remnants.
There is some use for everything
in the world, but the world has no
use for a lnocker.
Women almost always keep the
little things they love and yet they
do love secrets.
Most people acknowledge their
shortcomings in the hope of being
contradicted.
There appears to be nothing so un-
interesting as the things we are all
agreed on.
1t should humiliate the kaiser to
hear that Carranza proposes to fight
him for his barbarous inhumanity and
his crimes against civilization.
There should be a sympathy be-
tween the incubator chick and the
child that is raised in a fiat.
The present mild winter indicates
that we'll have a late spring. Better
not set out any plants till August.
The Two.
Some seem to live their lives accursed,
And many means and walls attest
mat they forever make the worst
OF the best.
In others lives there is expressed
For hope and happiness a thirst
And they appear to make the best
OF the worst.
You Can't Be Sure.
Who always wears a smiling phiz
Perhaps a blessed life Is his
Perhaps he finds at peace his soul
And he is happy. on the whole
That he should never fail to greet
With smiles whomever he may meet
And then again, perhaps the smile
Is but low and cunning vile
Perhaps he comes to borrow, beg,
To make a touch or pull your leg,
OF sell you paper knives yeast
We've noticed this of smiles at least
many men who loath to work
Are handy with the oily smirk!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

be filled with gratitude 10 tne nian
who stands between her and the strug-
gle that she has seen SO many otner
women trying futilely to make.
No woman ever learns anything ex-
cept by experience. and the way TO
cure the discontinued is to let her try
the thing she yearns to do ana ma
out how it works out in real life.
A~&
Copyright. 1917, by the Wheeler Syndicate.
Incl p
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

1917, by the Wheeler Syndicate.
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-09

The action which Germany has
taken or intends to take with regard
to patents owned in that country by
Americans is not yet known to the
American patent office. Action taken
by Germany, might affect that taken
by the United States, but it is not at
all probable that Germany will take
any confiscatory measures, in view of
the vast patent interests which she has
in this country.
German owned patents in the Uni
ted States are both numerous and
varied The report of the commits
sioner of patents for the year ending
last December shows that SAT patents
were taken out by German citizens.
England was the only country show
ing a larger number with 975, while
French citizens took out 500.
While a law must be passed by con-
gress before the use of German owned
patents can be made available to
! American citizens, no such law is
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-08-17

less and less rubber with which
to construct gas masks, many of
which are very inferior, and offer
but poor protection to the fighting
men against gases that constant
ly are becoming more powerful.
Boiling and blazing oil drums
which they find exploding about
them in Scaldin9 and incendiary
fury, heavy. shells which break
over them squirting streams of
melted lead, are other specimens
OF the dread chickens of fright
tulnesS that are daily flying home
to the German roostS.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-08-17
Arrangements Completed For The An
nual jackson County Fair

The final preparations for the
big Jackson County Fair, which
will be held in Kadoka on Aug
ust 29-30-3l, are rapidly being
completed and the Press is pleas
ed to be able to inform our read
erS that this years Fair will be
the best ever attempted by the
Fair Association.
The amusement programs are
we'll filled with attractions of real
merit and enough has been pro-
vided to fill every moment and
insure all who attend the Fair of
something to see and amuSe and
entertain them from the start of
the day until the beginning of
the next.
The special outdoor free attrac-
tions are of exceptional quality
and include Don and Mae Gordon
who are recognized as the world S
greatest trick and comedy bicycle
riders, who will put on their per-
formance on the large raised plat
form directly in front of the
erandstand. Harris q Harris,
will also put on performance of
trick and comedy tumbline and
a special exhibition of Roman
ring work.
The lovers of the national game
of baseball will have an opportu-
nifty of seeing some fast clean
games. On the afternoon of the
30th the Weta and Interior teams
cross bats and on the following
days the winners will take a
whirl at the Philip team. All OF
these teams are fast and playing
a dandy article of ball and will
put up good exhibitions in each
game.
The race programs are good
ones and will include, besides the
regular races, numerous feature
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-08-17

and novelty races, and a good
string of fast horses is already
assured TO the management of
the Fair.
The Cottonwood Band, one of
the best musical organizations
west of the river, has been en-
gagged to furnish the music dur
ing the entire Fair and they will
help to keep things moving along
with lively strains of music. The
merry-9o-round, picture shows.
side shows, bowery dance and
such attractions will furnish
plenty for all to attend after the
close OF the regular programs.
The exhibits in the various de
partments should not be over
looked and every resident of the
county should make an effort to
bring something to enter for the
premiums offered. Premium lists
have been well distributed over
the county and we urge every
one to get owe of these books and
see if there is not one or more
articles that they can bring along
to enter for exhibit. Try it. Let's
make this years Fair the biggest
from an exhibit standpoint as
we'll as from an amusement
standpoint. We can do this if
everyone will do their bit" In
this connection we wish also to
call attention to the fact that en-
tries for exhibits will positively
close at six o'clock Wednesday
evening, August 29th, but all ex-
hibitorS are urged to make their
entries at as early a date as pos
sible.
Fair days will soon be with us.
Complete your plans now to at
tend every day of the Big Fair
of Western South Dakota"
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-08-17

time, and it is his right to expect
every man, woman and child to
stick to him, heart and soul and
help him with this fight. Show
me another nation who would
have gone into this war as we
have gone into it. What have
we to gain? Do we want new
territory, do we want an immense
indemnity, do we 90 into it for
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-08-17

will make the acquaintance of a
very old but scarcely cherished
friend of the Tommies and Poll
us another member of the Wer-
fer family known as Minnie
This is the German mine thrower
of mlnenWerfer, which filings ov-
er at short range great heavy
projectiles known as flying pigs"
because of their wabbly, uneainly
flight. They go off with a deaf
enine roar, eXpending more ener-
9y on noise, however, than on
material damage.
A notable development of the
war has been the dread with
which the Germans have seen
weapons of their own invention
turned against them, and turned
with a steadily increasing inten-
Sity. Their prisoners speak of
the terror these weapons have
caused and declare the German
higher command is realizing all
too late the Frankensteins it
brought into being. While the
entente allies are multiplying
these terrors on lines laid down
by Emperor William himself, the
Germans, isolated so long from
the world, find their resources
and materials constantly failing
both as to means of carrying on
this style of warfare, and what is
more important to them combat
ting the retributive measures un-
dertaken by the British and
French.
AsphyXiatinq gas may be tax
en- as a striking example. The
whole world was shocked when
Germany first released those poiS-
on clouds during their second at,
tack on Ypres when the allies,
little SuSpeCtin9 such a weapon,
had no protection whatever again
st it. The horror of those DAYS
when men en9ulted by the lethal
waves died a9onizine deaths will
never be forgotten. But the
manner in which the Canadian
troops rallied and prevented the
Germans breaking through in
what they hoped would be vic
torious march on Calais and Bou-
logne, will ever be one of the
most thrilling stories of the war.
Nowadays the British fairly bathe
the Germans in every form of
gas whenever the slightest oppor
tunity offers, and prisoners all
say that their losses in these at
tacks have been alarminely heavy
Gas is sent over in creeping banks
of fog, is shot over in bombs that
suddenly explode in trenches and
at entrances to dugouts, while no
billets or sleeping quarters for
troops in rest miles back of the
fighting lines are safe from the
gas shells which are ever knock
ing at their doors.
T. The bitterness of it all to the
Germans, however, is the fact
that daily they find they have