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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
VIENNA TOTS STARVE
$40 Suffering Children Sent From
Capital to Swiss Border.

Geneva Dec 2O.-LIvIag proofs of
the terrible economic condition in
Austria were furnished yesterday by
the arrival at Buchs. on the frontier,
of SIG pale and suffering children be-
tween the ages of and 9. They are
from Vienna and other Austrian
towns. The children had not tasted
milk for months
They had received bad bread in in
sufficient amounts. stomach diseases
resulting. their clothing was most
scanty and there was no fuel in their
homes They will be distributed among
various places in Switzerland until
their health IS restored
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
BATTALION OF DEATH
Chicago Police Ask Women to Organ
ize and Arm Themselves

Chicago, Dec. 20--VoIunteers to
form a women's battalion Of death for
Chicago will be called for tonight by
Capt George r Lee in an address to
be made to the Chica go police reserve
Z am going to ask the women OF
Chicago to band together and arm
themselves to back up the police re-
serve IN possible dire emergency. he
said The time may come when they
viii be needed Our regular police
force IS weak because of war demands
and We have practically no militia to
help Us Z any serious enemy disturb
ances should break out"
Captain Lee is intelligence officer
Of the police reserve He Is a veteran
of four wars
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
DIRECTOR OF TRAINING
Mai Gen Morrison Named TO Co
ordinate National Training Camps.

Washington, Dec. 2g--Na5- Gen
John F Morrison recently back from
an Inspection tour IN France, was to-
day named director of military train
ing with headquarters here
Morrison's task will be 10 co-ordi-
nate training in all national army ma
tionaI guard camps
He has been among those most
often mentioned for the place of chief
OF staff when General Bliss retIreS.
December IL AIorrison-s experiences
as head OF the army service -chooI Is
regarded as specially fitting him for
his new most
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20

to write Immediately to their local
board and explain the circumstances
Local boards have been instructed
to be reasonable said Crowder. but
to avoid dissatisfaction. explanation Of
delay should be made now and not at
the time the questionnaires are finally
sent
Reports to Crowder indicate men
have to send the GuestiounaIres to dis
tant parts of the country to have de-
pendents sign the supporting affidav-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
81 XMAS DINNER
DIR. Wiley Says Family OF Five
Should Ask No More.
Food Expert Says Cut Out Tur-
key and Sauce.
DIR. wII.EYs XMAS MENU,

war Christmas dinner for a
family of five that will be filling
and festive as well rs patriotic can
be bought for 81, says DR. Harvey
" Wiley. head of the bureau of
food sanitation and health Here's
the menu.
Roast chicken bread crumb
stufffng; potatoes: a half ounce of
butter for each person. one loaf of
bread; apple or pumpkin pie. milk
for the children and coffee or choc-
Olate for the adults. apoIeS instead
Of candy; no crsnberrIes- in order
to save sugar and no other sweets
or confections-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
A RED CROSS ROMANCE
Daughter of Grover Cleveland Nurse
To Wed British Captain.

London. Dec. Z0--The engagement
is announced of Esther. daughter of
Grover Cleveland TO Captain Bosan-
quet of the CoIdstream guards Cap
tain Bosanquet, 4 son of Sir Albert
Bosanquet. has beer decorated with
the distiu guiShed service order
Miss Cleveland came TO London in
June of last year after having GuaH-
fled as a nurse and Instructor of the
bird and took up work as volunteer
al St Dustan's home for blinded SOL
dfers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
SIDETRACK SUGAR!
senator Demands Pro5ers Concentrate
Inquiry on Coal Famine.

Washington. Dec Senator Ken
yOu. Iowa. today renewed his demand
that the senate sugar-ccaI inves1igat-
ing committee sidetrack the sugar in
quIry and probe the coal famine
We ought to be trying TO find soma
remedy for the coal famine said
Senator Kenyon The country as a
whole is affected by tFIe coal famine,
while the sugar shortage IS compare
lively limited, and, after ALL is not 50
vital as the lack of coal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
SANDER NEW MOTOR
DisgruntIea1 Motor Makers Believed
to Be Back of Propaganda

Washington. Dec zO-Vicious prop
aga nda against the liberty motor is
being circulated here.
Government officials today said that
disgruntIed foreign motor makers and
apparently some Americans. disap-
pointed at their own elimination from
rich contracts because of the new
motor. are spreading stories that Il Is
not satisfactory. All tests however
prove il 20 be the most efficient motor
made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
SEND 7 MILLION MEN
Whip Germany or Arm Ourselves as
Germany Has for so Years.

Boston, Mass. Dec Cove must
have seven million men in France: TWO
million won't do" Former President
Taft said today
There is only one alternative Taft
declared. beat Germany or arm our
selves as the German people have been
doing for the past fifty years"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
SHOULD EXPLAIN DELAY
Get Questionnaires Back in seven Days
or Write to Board Telling Why.

washington. Dec Z0.-Draft regis
trants who cannot get their question
naires back TO the local board within
the required seven days are advised
by Provost Marshal General Crowdsr
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07
University Extension Works
To Foster True Democracy

The state7 How about those whom ~
is the expressed desire Of DR.. Van ilse
the president Of tho university. TO rem.
der impossible In the state, because OF
the abundance OF opportunity which
shall be offered them?
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07
English Playwright Reported Missing

Word has just been received Of the
probable death OF Hubert Henry
Davies. well known English dramatist.
He recently disappeared from his tenn
porary home at Robin Hoods Bay, on
the Yorkshire coast, in England, where
he had been convalescing from an i'll
ness brought on by overwork as an
orderly IN one Of the British hospitals
in Paris.
Mr. Davies is principally known to
Americans as the author Of Cousin
Kate" "The Mollusc," "Outcast' and
other comedies of English society and
manners, and has been referred to as
the originator Of the "cup-and-saucer"
drama.
The dramatist. who was not in the
best Of health at the beginning Of the
war. broke down entirely in the winter
Of 1914. and was obliged to retire from
active service While staying at the
Yorkshire resort II had been his
custom to take daily walk along the
cliffs, but one afternoon about fort
night ago he did not return, and a
search Of the paths. made slippery by
recent rains, revealed Davies's stick and
ovorcoat at a dangerous spot near the
edge Of the cliff.
Born in Cheshire in 1876, Davies
went to San Francisco while still in
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07
Jealousy Deleted

In order 20 eliminate any possible
cause Of jealousy among the numerous
talented performers who will appear in
the new revue, Miss 1917" at the
Century Theatre. Dillingham; and Zieg-
feid have ordered an expensive and
complicated electrical device from the
Edison laboratories at Orange. This
IS a sign which will show the name
Of each player in turn, for space Of
thirty seconds, in extra large letters
above the names of the others. This
stsr-like display will blaze forth on
Central Park at Sixty-second Street
every evening from sunset until after
the performance.
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07

his teeni and, after spending some
time as a clerk in the employ of 2
British shipping firm he entered
journalism as a dramatic critic on "The
San Francisco News Letter" He was
also known as the author Of several
vaudeville sketches which received
favorable notice, but even then he
aspired 70 bigger things and returned
TO England in 1901, where two years
later he made his debut as play
wright
His first. play was "Mrs. Gorringe's
Necklace" produced a. Wyndham's s
Theatre 6y Sir Charles Wyndham, and
this was quickly followed by Cousin
Kate" through which he first became
known on this side Of the Atlantic.
The original production of Cousin
Kate" was staged at the Haymarket.
with Cyril Maude and Miss Ellis
JeGreys in the leading roles. Then
came Cynthia" Captain Drew on
Leave" and, in 1907, "The Mollusc."
The latter portrays, in a delightfully."-
ss'irical vein, the character and
foibles of q. spoiled and idle society
woman of the parasitic type. This
play, next TO Cousin Kate" has had
the greatest success in the United
States Of any OF the Davies plays
Subsequently he wrote "Doormsts.' u
which many regarded as his bes,
comedy. and in all he has contributed
q dozen important pieces 10 the
thegtrc
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07

sides of the question and with neither
comments nor criticisms The reader
was both judge and jury. Also the in
formation IL always up TO date. So
these card indexes and records in the
rev extension service building by Lake
Mendoza tell the moving story Of pub
lie thought. A the demand for the
packages on various subjects ebbs and
flows or dies out altogether there IL
registered the trend of pubic interest
and the drift Of public opinion. For
the students of these package Libraries
are far different from the city dweller,
who has his opinions manufactured
each morning for him by the public
press and fondly imagines that they are
his own.
There is growing desire to know
more about South America. Reading
about labor and arbitration has in
creased many hundredfold. The diff
ferent phases OF business, big and
little, are being more and more
studied Interest in the immigration
problem is growing, as is that In the
tariff. Ofcourse, there is fast grow.
ing desire to know about the Red
Cross. Woman suffrage about holds its
own.
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07
Round About the Rialto

In about three weeks time Henry
Miller will bring TO New York the IAN
tastical play, Anthony IN Wonder
land" in which he opened at Stamford
on Friday night. The author is None
ton HofTe, an English playwright, and
Charles Hawtrey has produced it in
England. Based on the familiar con
dition Of a will which requires the mar
rage Of the hero. and on the imhibing
of Il supposed love philtre that Is really
an opiate, the bride seeker awakens IN
motion picture setting which he be-
l!eves 10 be n wonderland Of Illusion.
II is said that this play will not be the
one 70 inaugurate the season at the new
Henry Miller Theatre in Forty-third
street. Another play that Mr.. Miller
will bring 70 New York within week
or two is Galsworthy's "A Bit O. Love"
which he has tried out on the coast
A. H. Woods will produce "on With
the Dance" play by Michael Morton,
author Of "The Yellow Ticket" on
! October Is at Wilmington, and will
bring II TO New York two weeks later.
Eileen Huban, who will take a leading
feminine part, was a year ago unknown
70 Broadway, but had few opportuni-
ties last season 70 impress the discern
ing with her unusual talent. These were
with the performances OF the Irish
| players who appeared at the Bandbox
Theatre, and again somewhat later in
the special matinees of "The Grass
hopper" which b. Iden Payne presented
at the Garrick. After her first appear
ance at the Garrick the press notices
were so commendatory that she was
forthwith starred.
John Mason will have the leading
male role in "On With the Dance.
/ and Julia Dean, William Morris and
/ Edward Abeles will also be in .he cast
Frederick and Fanny Hatton's new
comedy, lombard, Ltd" has proved
so successful that a new company will
/ be organized to present it in Chicago
on Thanksgiving Day. At the begin
ming of the third week the play begins
to look like the greatest success that
Oliver Morosco has had since he pro-
duced "Peg O. Ny Heart" Leo GARLIC
has won marked favor, in fact, in the
role Of the fashionable Italian dress
maker, and the present box Office indi-
cations are that Tito Lombardi and his
beautiful mannequins will occupy the
Morosco stage for some months. to
come.
Although Hartley Manners had al
ready written four plays for his wife
Laurette Taylor, all duly announced
in which she has not appeared. he has
lust completed fifth which is sched-
uled for her present season at the
/ Liberty Theatre He wrote the first
act during the summer at Mamaroneck
before Mrs. Manners, who was living
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07

Things o. progression and .nliy,,
eminent. child labor laws, child ,.na.
and training, music, motion plctay..
and municipal ownership hays !.
steadily growing audience
But beyond all these subjects % N.
times and Of national and intr.
tional importance, there is anotb.,
class OF subject. which come, m.,.
nearly home 70 the dwellers In sm,l,
communities, and which conseouen.l,
are not so passing and for the tin.
being as the others, but which 70 .,
forever. They are the stories OF Ar.
culture. Of Health and Disease, Of ~.
Rural Schools, Of Foods and Di...
Child Welfare, Road improvement,
Community Centres and OF Rural Club,
gor these are the homsly but ,ys,.
present subjects which speak 20 them I,
terms Of their own living, and % v,
things that lie around them in the,
daily existence. So there is ,sd ana
fostered that int gent interest Al
participation In - those eonstrue,Is.
material and mental accomplishment,
which seek TO bridge the grea, yul,
which for all time has separated b.
city and the country TO their mutual
undoing.
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07
Washington Square Players

The season of the Washington Square
Players at the Comedy Theatre will
open on Monday evening, October %.
For their first bill they will adhere
20 their usual custom OF presenting
four one-act plays. three American
plays and one foreign, this time from
the Spanish. They are: "In the Zone" "
a play Of sea life by Eugene 0'Neill;
"Thc Avenue" comedy Of New York,
BY Fenimore Merrill; Blind Alleys.
a play by Grace Latimer Wright, and
His Widows Husband" comedy by
Jacinto Bensvente, translated by John
G.. Underhill.
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07

peter lbbetson," John y. Raphaels
dramatizaton of du Maur.er's novel,
which the Shuberts are presenting at
the Republic Theatre has Just passed
its hundredth performance. There is
every evidence that this play will re-
main here during the entire season.
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07

in the same house, knew anything about
II. The leading role, that of an Italian
woman of refinement, requires fluent
command Of the Italian language, and
Mrs. Manners has already made some
Exogress by diligent study.
Conceded 70 be the biggest musical
lit OF two seasons, "Oh, Boy" con-
tinues to break all records at the Prin-
cess Theatre. The entire first act has
recently been recostumed, and this
week the second net will also be
brought up 10 the minute in the way
Of the latest word in fashions. II Is
said that "'Til the Clouds Roll By"
as sung by Anna Wheaton and Lynne
Oyermann, "An Old-Fashioned Wife"
sung by Marie Carroll, and Nesting
Time" sung by Hal Forde and Anna
Wheaton, have had the largest sale Of
any individual songs OF the last two
years.
One OF the early benefits on Ray
mond Hitchcock's list il perform
ance for the relief of the Armenians in
the city in Turkish Armenia near
which Mrs. Raymond Hitchcock was
born. Mrs. Hitchcock, who was Ia
belle Mangasarian before her marriage
TO the famous comedian, has just re-
ceived word that her native city has
been devastated by the Turks and most
Of the inhabitants put to the sword.
Apparently even the name OF the place
has been wiped out by the Ottomans.
Drafted" which II. II. Frazee has
presented in Albany, is play with a
war atmosphere. Two scenes are laid
in New York, and one Is behind the
German lines. Emmett Corrigan and
William II. Thompson take the parts
Of German officers. Pauline Lord, who
was in THE Deluge," is also in the
cast
Peter lbbetson," John y. Raphael :
dramatzstion of du Maur.er's novel,
which the Shuberts are presenting at
the Republic Theatre, has Just passed
! its hundredth performance. There is
every evidence that this play will re
main here during the entire season.
The war tax OF ten per cent or the
atre tickets may be reflected in the
prices asked of the public. One man
ager, Charles Dillingham;, has already
| decided 20 raise the price Of orchestra
chairs at the Globe to SO next week
with the presentation Of Fred Stone in
Jack O. Lantern"
Ferdinand Gottschalk has been en-
gagged for the part of Heinrich Heine
In Mrs. Fiske's new play about George
Sand. Chopin and List remain 70 be
cast
A new Dickens play, based on "The
Mystery Of Edwin Drood,' on which
Guy Bolton has been at work for some
time, will soon be offered TO the public.
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07

A new Dickens play, based on "The
Mystery Of Edwin Drood,' on which
Guy Bolton has been at work for some
time, will soon be offered to the public.
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07

Ferdinand Gottschalk has been en-
gagged for the part of Heinrich Heine
In Mrs. Fiske's new play about George
Sand. Chopin and List remain 20 be
cast.
The Huttig news., 1917-04-28

In which fhis defect will not be a han dicap. Such children should learn early that there is no work for them on the railway.
 Word-blindness Is q much more se- rious defect, and may be the cause of the difficulty some children find in learning to read. They see correctly. Tested with figures or pictures, they may pass the standard, but the let ters of the alphabet, when strung to- gether to form words, convey no mean ing to them. The effect is due to q want of association Of the brain cen ters. The defect is usually mistaken at first to indicate defective eyesight, but this is not so. It is noteworthy that these same children may show considerable ease in reading figures, even money sums. To teach these children to read, words must not be taken letter by letter, but as q whole. the word "cat" must be taken not as "c-a-t,' equals cat, but the whole thing must be the sign for cat. The method is known as the Hook and say plan, and by it's aid it is possible to teach the child to read.
The Huttig news., 1917-04-28

ST. LOUIS, IRON MOUNTAIN & SOUTHERN
 LITTLE ROCK & MONROE BY.
The Huttig news., 1917-04-28
lNCURABLE DEFECT IN BRAIN
Color Cannot Be Over Come, Though Word
 May Be Alieviated.

Two defects in regard to sight word-blindness and eolor-blindness- are described by an English writer. He points out that they are not de- fleets of the eyes at all, but are really mental defects, and, curiously enough, are found very often in clever men, the discoverer of the defect-Dalton, the great scientist-being himself colOr-blind.
 Color-blindness occurs in about three to four per cent of males and in a smaller number of females. It is frequently hereditary, but, strangely enough, though the males suffer from the defect, the females carry it on.
 CoIor-blindness is defeet in the registering apparatus in the brain and Is ineurable. It is of importance to recognize the defect early, and to turn the attention of the sufferer to work
The Huttig news., 1917-04-28
Regulates Strength of Light.

A new electric fixture has been pat ented which will permit the user to adjust the strength of the light to any degree he desires. Unlike some of the older adjustable electric bulbs which have q choice between two fntensities of light, the new bulb can be adjusted to any number of intensities within it's limits. It consists of a plug and socket, the plug to screw into the regular socket, the socket to receive the electric bulb which may be of any pattern. By turning the special socket to right or left the light can be made brighter or dinner at pleasure.
The Huttig news., 1917-04-28
LODGE DIRECTORY.

ROWLAND LODGE No. SEA F. & A. M.meets every second and fourth Satur- day evenings at z:3o o'clock. Visiting Masons always welcome.
 T. B. Weaver, w. M. W. P. Reasons, Sec'y.
 HOWARD CHAPTER, No. 122, R. A. M.-meets every first and third Thurs day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting companions welcome.
 J. M. Gibson, H. P. c. A. Berry, Secy.
 ZEDEKIAH, COUNCIL. U. D.. R. & s. M.-Meets every fourth Wednesday night of each month. Visiting compan- ions welcome. T. B. WEAVER, T. I. M. R. N. BENSON. Recorder. HUTTIG CHAPTER No. 32o, Order of the Eastern Star, meets every first and third Friday evening at z:3o o'clock. Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
 Mrs. J. A. Brignao, W. M. MRS. L. G. GIBSON, Sec'y. HUTTIG LODGE No. 548 I. 0. o. F. meets every first and third Tuesday eve hing. All brethern cordially invited.
 H. c. Bedford, N. G. Harlan Sehon, Secy.
 HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. ee. meets every Monday night at z:5o o'clock Visitors are invited.
 Mrs. Wilkie Frost, N. G. Mrs Murray MarOnev SecV SWEET BAY CAMP No. 4I1W WOW. meets every first and third Saturday eve nings. Visitors made welcome.
 Lester Malone, c. c. J. c. Bridges. Clerk.
 Sweet Bay Circle No. 145, W. G.. meets every second and fourth Thursday night at z:5o o'clock. Visitors are cor dially invited.
 Mrs. E. S. Etheridge, Guardian. / Mrs. J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
The Huttig news., 1917-04-28

season at Monticello and produced a good sield of seed The seeds of Os 1 ceola are somewhat larger than those l of the speckled bean, rather flat, and mottled. The variety is one of the most promising tested.
 i Early speckled velvet beans, com monly called the 100 day speckled. be- ed only a few immature pods by O. 1 tober 6, at Fayetteville. The variety | fully matured before frost at Monti- cello and produced a heavy yield of seed and forage The seeds. are round ish in shape and mottled. This vari- ety is the most common one grown in all except the more Southern sec ti.ls of the Cotton Belt The variety is considered medium in time of ma turity and is probably safe during av- craze seasons as far north as Little Rock
 The Chinese variety, considered medium late in time of maturity, be gan blooming September 8 and pro- duced only small immature pods at Fayetteville. At Monticello the pods became long and extra heavy, but did not mature The beans are large and quite similar In appearance 10 these of the Yokahoma. The variety pro- duced a heavy yield of forage in both tests. excelsing the Oseeola and Early Speckled to some extent
 The Lyon Velvet Bean and the Late Speckled variety are both late in time blooming September 10 at Faye.te- vile and matured about sixty per cent of it's seed at Monticello. The Late Speckled produced heavy fo. liage and fruited heavily at Monticel To, but failed to mature. This variety began blooming in early October at Fayetteville.
 Give Much Hay.
 The yield per acre of green vines of different varieties varied from about 7.500 pounds to 1S,000 pounds, and air-dry hay from about 4,600 pounds to 5000 pounds.
 Plant Only in Warm Soil.
 
 The crop should not be planted un- til the ground is thoroughly warm. The best results are usually secured by planting the velvet beans in com bination with crop sach as corn or sorghum, which will support tho vines. This can be done by widening the rows of corn and sorghum and planting the velvet beans through the center. On rich land the beans. when planted in the drill with corn, tend to cover up the corn.
 Produces Valuable Pasture.
 The pasture from a velvet bean field and especially velvet bean-corn stalk field, becomes valuable during the fall and early winter Since the seed is produced in comparatively large punches, the gathering of the seed is not difficult The seed and pods. when ground together, make palatab1e nitrogenous feed for live stock worth about one-half as much AS high-grade cotton seed meal.