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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20
% men ARE OUT
Aggies Have Nine Letter Play
ers Back i'm School.
Clevenger and Schultz Have
Promising Prospects Now.

Manhattan, Kan, Sept. 2O.-From a
group of candidates consisting of nine
letter men and IA others whose abil-
ity to display the proper class has yet
to be proved, z. G. Clevenger, director
of athletics and head Aggie coach, and
Adolph ("Germany'') Schultz, assist
ant coach, hope to mould football
team that will be a contender for
championship honors in the Missouri
valley.
Coach Clevenger will make no pre-
dictions as it is too early to get line
on the strength of other conference
teams. War conditions are RESPONSE
BILE for taking away at least a certain
amount of good material from each
eleven. Eddie" Wells. star fullback
LAST year, will be missed, but Har-
wood who has reported for practice
and who tore through the line for
long gains in the last game of the
we'll.
Randels Is Back.
When Stiff Randelss all Missouri
valley end of last season and captain
of the team, appeared on the field,
local football stock scared Other
letter men who have returned are
Whedon, Enlow, Slattery, Clarke, Leo
Ptacek, HARDWOOD and Sullivan. With
the arrival of Roda next week and
Pete" Ptacek early in October a
strong line is assured
Other men who will be given con-
sideration by the coaches are Gates,
Fletcher, Aye, Hoffhiner, Vermette,
Lindholm, Frankenhoff, Keys. Kinds,
Hixson, Fairman, Wettig, Nordeen and
Barnes.
while it is too early to make any
predictions" commented Coach Clev-
enger, 1.-The back field is fully as fast
but not as heavy as last year. The
line is fair We expect to give all the
men a trial in the game with Baker
university, September 29.'
Good Freshman Squad.
A strong freshman team will give
the regulars the right kind of scrim-
mage work to round the squad into
shape. Suits have been issued to
nearly 40 freshmen. w. P. futile,
first assistant coach of the University
of Kentucky for two years, will han
die the freshman squad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20
N0llAYS AkIuglEM1E lylrS

GRAND-"Sweden Today" with a
lecture by Axel Palmgren, staff
correspondent of the Stockholm
Dagblad, under the auspices of the
Norden society.
Musical tabloid The
1917 Vode Review in THE Candy
Ship"
NONELTY-Five acts of vaudeville
and an episode of THE Neglected
Wife,
ORPHEUM = Mary Pfckford in
'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm"
COZY-Douglas Fairbanks in His
Picture in the Papers
GEM-Marguerite Clark in Seven
Sisters"
IRIS-Jack Gardner in open
Spaces
BEST-Motion features
CRYSTAL@Motion features.
KELLAM' S-Dancing tonight.
For details, prices, etc, see sdver
rlsements on this page of the State
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20
NEED SUB FOR LEATHER
Prospect of Wooden Shoes Not Allur-
ing, but Leather Is Scarce.

ST. Louis, Mo-, Sept. 2O.-Owing to
the soaring price of leather. St Louis
shoe manufacturers are substituting
rubber and other makeshifts for
leather While a wooden shoe era
seems to be looming in the future, st.
Louis shoe dealers express every con-
fidence in American ingenuity to avert
such a condition.
w. H. Moulton, general superin-
tendent of the International Shoe
company, says when IAN American
wants something he goes after it and
he expressed confidence that the
leather situation would not prove to
be an exception.
Il don't think we shall be reduced
to wearing wooden shoes" he said,
"aItho American ingenuity will have
to get busy with this problem. We
are manufacturing sole made on the
principle of an automobile tire and l
am confident we will find some sub
stitute for the other part of the shoe"
Manufacturers are working to find
some substitute for leather which is
more subtle and attractive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20
- Upt the Minute
~ SPORTING NEWS
n FROM EVERY'W HERE.
BY
HUTCHINSON WINS
Salt Packers Take Pennant
From the Joplin Miners.
Sanders Pitched Good Ball, but
Was OutclaSSed.

Hutchinson. Kan, Sept. 20.-Hutch-
inson and Des Moines will battle in
the final series for the Western league
championship. The big fracas will be-
gin Saturday at Des Moines. Hutch
inson won the right to claim the pen
nant for the second half of the season
and to meet the Boosters, winners of
the first half. by defeating the Joplin
club Wednesday here by the score of
to 0.
Not only did the ease with which
Hutchinson took the three straight
games of the play off show the super
FORTY of the Salt Packers over the
Miners. but it also showed that Jack
Holland has not lost all his cunning
and that he is still able to take
bunch of young talent and mould it
into a good baseball machine.
Sanders who pitched for the Min
ers again Wednesday. did his best to
redeem himself and allowed only four
scattered hits, but one of these was
home run in the first inning, and
Wright. his opponent, did even better
allowing the Miners just three safe
blows and permitting only one player
to get beyond first base. Both teams
played errorlesS ball and the large
fair crowd that witnessed the contest
saw the most interesting game that has
been PLAYED here since this city enter
ed the league.
After the home run by Falk in the
first inning the only other score of the
contest was made by Hutchinson in
the fourth round at bat. McClelland
drew a walk. stole second, was sacri-
feed to third by Falk and scored on
Shay's single. The score:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20

way consistently to the American
League flag, stand off the aggressive,
rough-and-ready fighters of the Clan
McGraw?
If superior fielding and pitching
will swing the balance in favor of Chi
cago, the White Sox will look mighty
sweet. But when the hitting strength
of the two clubs is compared the Gil
ants will not be found lacking in a
short series. and the fan who tries to
dope it out along these lines will find
his wires crossing each other contin-
ually.
The spirit of the players in the big
series may count as heavily as any
thing else, and the club which goes
in with the greatest amount of conf
dence may make that confidence the
asset which will decide the battle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20
NO FEUD WITH FARM
Labor Union Head Urges Cooperation
of Producer and Consumer.

st. Paul, Mimi, Sept. 20.-Farmers
and working men thruout the nation
will join forces in self-defense against
middlemen, spectators and CONNER
cial interests, according to President
J. P. CoughIin of the Central Labor
union, Brooklyn, n. Y.
Addressing the national conference
on the high cost of living here today,
Coughlin limited that thru the Far
mers' Non-Partisan league, labor
would unite with the farmers to gain
their political and economic ends,
foreshadowing possible formation of
a vast political party to effect their
joint program.
Labor on the farm has no quarrel
with labor in the city. Their COM
mon ensmies, the useless middleman,
bankers, spectators and monopolists,
have used one hand to rob the far
mer and the other to rob the city
worker. The two classes have been
played against each other" Coughlin
declared.
This conference is epoch-making
because it plans to abolish the enemy
which can exist only by keeping farm
and city labor apart"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20
HAD HARD FIGHT
SOx Have Faced Stronger OPP
position Than the Giants.
This Makes Them FavOrites in
the Big Classic.
BY JACK VEIOCK.

New York, Sept. 20.-In sizing up
the work of the White Sox and the
Giants for. the season it appears that
Clarence Rowland's team has the
edge on its National League rivals.
There is no doubt about the class
of the Giants in their own league.
They were universally selected as the
pennant winners before the season
opened, and they have made good, but
the fact remains that they stand out
as particularly strong team among
a poor lot, for the seven remaining
National League clubs are notably
weak in many respects and usually
inconsistent.
The Giants, incidentally, hare cen
overrated
At the outset of the National
League race they were expected to
walk away with the pennant. Many
critics went so far as to predict that
the race would be over by the mid
found the McGraw men still striv-
ing to cinch the flag.
Sox Had Hard Road.
In the American League condi-
lions are vastly different. No less
than four clubs-the four who make
up the first division nowhere in
the running for. the pennant as late
aside this strong opposition Chicago
had to play wonderful ball.
Baseball experts who have been
keeping a weather eye glued on both
big leagues for the past five or six
years are agreed that the American
League is much the stronger. and
records, not to mention the class of
baseball displayed on the field, tend
to prove this conclusively.
So if the Giants are the best of a
poor lot in the National League and
the White Sox the best of fast quar-
tette of pennant-contenders in the
American, there is only one answer:
Chicago has the call. Chicago is
the logical favorite in the worlds
series.
Many Things May Happen.
Up to the time of the playing of
the worlds series this line of reason
ing will do very well. But in a short
series of seven games, such as the
October classic, a hundred and one
things may happen. The seasons
showing of the White Sox and Giants
leaves the Sox with an edge. But are
the Sox the best team in a short ser
les? Can the team which fought it's
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20
WAR HERO AT 81
Fought Kaiser in 1870 and
Went Back Again in 1914.
American Veteran Promoted to
Lieutenant and Wins Medals.
BY j. w. PEGLER.

Headquarters of the American
Army in France, Sept 2O.-Old George
LIE Mesnager of Los Angeles, dropped
in here tonight on his way to join the
Sammies as interpreter. At 81, he
is a lieutenant in the French army,
prom oted from the ranks in which he
enlisted in August, 1914. He leaves
his active fighting service with a rec
ord of four citations for conspicuous
bravery, the war cross, with Palms,
and the military medal. In addition
he wears the medal of the war of
1870.
1t took long persuasion to make
Lieutenant Mesnager talk about any
thing else than the glories of Los An
geles, but here is the story he told
at last:
Saw Kaiser's Ambition Then.
Il saw the kaiser's ambition in
1870, when 1 was only 10. 1 left San
Francisco and fought thru that war.
Il went back and settled in Los
Angeles In 1914, my wife was Wis
iting our daughter at Catalina 1t
was a good time for me to go-while
she was away, because it might have
affected her heart for me to say sud-
denly that 1 was going to war again.
So arranged with my younger
daughter to break the news gently
after 1 had left When mamma did
find out she felt badly, but she wrote
me Papa. may be it's all for the best
THE French port authorities were
suspicious when I landed. They re-
marked pointedly that there was
recruiting station across the street, if
l was in earnest about fighting. 1
Joined on the spot and two weeks later
was at Verdun in the first defense.
How U. S. Will Fight
I've killed two Germans that
positively know Of My comrades call
me the American. They ask, will the
Americans fight to the end?
Il reply: Comrades, the American
flag will never go back until the Ger
mans go back to Germany. 1 know
the American boys-I know they'll
fight like devils -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20
How U. S. Will Figh,
CAN APPEAL TO GOV.
Executive Can Order Local Boards to
Re-hear Draft Case.

Washington, Sept 20.-Men sum-
moned for service under the draft and
who have been denied discharge by
local district boards because of de-
pendentS, have still a means of ap-
peal where they can show there has
been error or ,misapplication of the
law in their cases.
On such a showing governors of
states to whom appeal may be taken
are authorized to request local boards
to reopen cases. There is no appeal
to the president, however. except
where exemption has been sought on
the ground of industrial employment
and denied by the district board.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20
NEW STEEL SHELVING
improvements at Memorial Hall to
Cost 5000.

Work of installing additional steel
shelving in the State Memorial build
ing, where the collections of the Kan
sas State Historical society are kept,
was begun this week. The shelving
will cost SIS, 1000, appropriation for the
work being authorized by the 1917
legislature.
One section of the new shelving will
be constructed in the library annex
on the third floor. A deck of shelving
also will be placed in the newspa per
section on the first floor. Steel stair
ways will be constructed to connect
the various decks in the book stack
ings.
The contract for the work was let
some time ago but work has been de-
1ayed because of the scarcity of steel
If the contract had been let at the
present price of steel, the work would
have cost the state fully $4,000, ac-
cording to William E. Connelley, sec
rotary of the historical society.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20
GET Exempted" MEN
Fl of "a Suspected" ST. Joe Men Pass
On REORGANIZATION.

Kansas City. Mo-, Sept 20.-The
| federal grand jury at St. Joseph will
today start its inquiry into alleged
draft frauds in Buchanan county and
the city of St. Joseph. Mo-, following
forwarding of evidence from Kansas
City. Twenty-one of thirty-four men,
suspected of having been illegally ex-
empted from the draft because of
physical disability" were re-exam-
ined here All of them passed. it is
stated.
While department of justice agents
are quiet, it is known that the closest
investigation is under way. A score
of agents have been working in Blu
chanan county and many indictments
are expected when the facts collected
are presented to the grand jury.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20
JACK JOHNSON IS BUSY
He Expects Big Game With knights
of Columbus SUNDAY.

Topeka Jack johnson announces
that his men are making elaborate
preparations for their game with the
Knights of Columbus at Western
league park Sunday afternoon and
that if they win they expect to claim
the city baseball championship.
1t is thought that this game will be
one of the biggest drawing cards of
the season if the day is fair, as the
regular following of the Brennan men
will be out and there will be a large
crowd of negroes to root for the
Johnson Giants
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
BASEBALL TODAY.

National League.
Philadelphia at Chicago. cloudy, p. m.
New York at Pittsburg, clear, p. M
Brooklyn at st. Louis, clear, 3 rs p. m.
No other games scheduled.
American League.
Chicago at Philadelphia, clear, p. IN.
st. Louis at Washington. clear, 3 80 p m.
Detroit at Boston, 2, clear, first 80 p m
Cleveland at New York, clear, p. m
ADDITIONAL SPORT WILL
BE FOUND ON OTHER PAGES
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.

Kansas City lat LouisviIle) 4 II 0
LOUISVILLE u
Smith and Hargrave; Davis Stroud and
KOcher.
Milwaukee Cat Indianapolis) II 10 0
lnulandpOl1S. 4 10 3
North and Murphy; voyles, Dale and
Schang.
st. Paul Cat Columbus) .S 11
SoiulliDus ~ 1t 4
Griner Williams and Kelly: Knetzer.
Hoffman and O'Farrell.
Minneapolis lat Toledo ....1O IL O
der.
Second game
Boardman and Bachant; Brady and
Alexander.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20

run-FaIk. Left on bases-Joplin, =;
Hutchinson. >. Struck out-By Sanders.
6; by Wright, 4. Bases on balls=Off
Sanders, L; off Wright, . Hit by pitcher
BY Sanders, FaIk. Earned runs-Hutch-
insOn, 2. Stolen base-McCIellan. Sacris
flee hit-Falk. Umpires-Daly and
Shannon. Time-1 20.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20

} equipment SILL
p1eandconpact.
No Strop-
ping, No Hon
ing and new
Blades can be
had anywhere
in France, Eng
land, Russia
and Italy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20

If you have any interest In any
man in the Service, don't let him
90 to the Front without this new
Gillette-the U. S. Service Set.
U. S. Regulations require a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20
You can be the One to Give 1t to Him

Marine Corps-by all the Armies and
Navies of the civilized world. There
never was razor so exactly adapted
to the fghtingman-his habits ofeffi-
cheney, his need for having all his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20

shaving outfit
and every man
must bring his
own razor.
The Gillette
Safety Razor is
used by the
Regulars of our
Army, by the
Navy, by the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

ence to their freedom from moral
hazards.
Second, it is responsible for provid
ing all forms of recreational activities
In the camps.
Third, it is to act as an agency by
which the volunteer effort of com
munities In the vicinities of camps NAV
be organized and utilized to best ad-
vantage OF the young men who are the
community's neighbors and guests
IN this work, especially in that phase
OF II dealing with activities within the
camps, the commission has two powerful
allies, the Young Mems Christian As
soclatlon and the knights of Columbus
dd Inc former started out to raise $4,000
UuO tor'its part of the work, and raised
s4,0OO,0O0, while the latter has raised
S1,OOO.00O for its efforts, and will raise
more If needed.
BY way of physical equipment for the
camp activities each cantonment will
have an auditorium, seating 5000. un-
aer the direction of the commission
while the Y. NJ. c. A and the Knights
or Columbus will each have audi
forums of their own for their special
work along educational, religious and
entertainment lines, and both these or
ganizations will erect many smaller
buildings, such as libraries, reading
rooms. writing rooms and club rooms
**
at Princeton University, a member of
the commission, is organizing the ath-
letics within the camps, and he is as
sisted by another commission member,
Malcolm L. Mcbride, erstwhile gridiron
star of Yale. DIR. Raycroft's organiza-
tion will comprise a post exchange Of
ncer in each cantonment and camp, who
VIII be the athletic director of that
unit, in much the same way as a coll
legiate athletic director acts for his in
stitution.
principal sports in each cantonment
and camp, and there will be plenty of
competitive sport, such as intercom-
pany, interegiment and interbrigade
base ball, hand ball, basket bali con-
tests and interregiment bayonet drills
The competitive element in all sports
and even in the training work, will be
stressed, in view of young Americas
desire to excel.
Theatrical producers have offered
their services to form two touring
stock companies, and the commission
has been deluged with letters from ac-
tors and actresses, and movie" stars.
who want to do their part in helping
entertain the young soldiers Lee r
Manner of the commission formerly
of the recreation division of the Russell
sage Foundation, is organizing the the
atrical programs of the camps He NOT
only will seek to make the best use of
the volunteer professional talent. dra-
matte, vaudeville and musical but he
will seek to use the amateur talent I'm
the camps to best advantage. At some
OF the ofhcers' reserve camps, which
also come within the scope of the com
missions work, like Plattsburg, for ex-
ample. there are enough actors in
training to put on a creditabIe enter
tainment of their own.
To Joseph Lee, president of the Play
ground and Recreation Association of
America, has fallen the tremendous task
of organizing the recreational activities
in communities in the vicinity of the
camps. To do this forty-five trained
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

merely the duration of the war. The
organization is conducted purely along
military lines, and every woodsman en-
rolling therein will be uniformed and
armed, just as other units of 'Sammies'
The first duty of both officers and
men will be to acquire the sense of
discipline, the necessity for perfectly
harmonious team work, and as much OF
this as is possible will be inculcated
in the regiment in rigid drills at the
training camps here and in Kansas
Pay will begin on the day of enlisting
and all travelling expenses will be fur
nished by the government from the
point of enlistment to the training
camp designated by the officers.
THE interesting feature to me in this
newest idea for regiment is the in
dication thus the more directly point
ed out that this war is taking on
an industrial aspect. The scope of
present-day military. operations is al
most past comprehension. For ex-
ample, they are sending nine regi-
ments of men just to build and operate
railroads in France and now the regi-
ment of lumbermen and foresters."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

cities, near which soldiers already are
encamped, include theatrical and
dances. community choral festivals.
roof garden socials and other forms of
recreation.
San Diego, Cal, raised $500 to de-
Nelop a playground center on it's old
exposition grounds, near jefferson bar
racks, at st. Louis a swimming pool is
being built for the men in khaki, and
Junction City, near Fort Riley, Kan,
has subscribed $1,000 for an auditorium
for soldiers entertainments.
Every regiment has its band, for the
psychology of music on the soldier has
long been recognized, but the commits
sion has contributed an additional
musical element to the young soldiers
life in it's efforts to stimulate group
singing. For the first time in history
young men will go into battle humming
the songs taught them by trained
choral leaders, four of whom already
have been named, and will gather in
camp to be led in song by these same
leaders.
other members of the commission
are Thomas j. Howells of Pittsburgh,
Charles Z. Neill, former commissioner
of labor; Maj. p. E. Pierce, U. S. A, and
John X. Mott, general secretary of(the
international committee of the Y. N. c..
a. Maj. Pierce passes upon the COM
missions plans with an eye to their
relation to the real business of train
ing young men for active service. MIR.
.
NJ. c. a. is undertaking. in Aonjunction
with the commission. and when he is
temporarily out of the country, as at
present. John S. Tichenor. associate
much of the work already done in
officers and guardsmen's training
camps, represents him.
AA
Acting in a similar capacity for the
IA
bers of the commission, are Col. p. NJ.
Callahan, chairman of the knights
committee on war activities; Rev.
Lewis j. OHern, C. S. p, and A. G.
Bagler
Raymond B. Fosdick, chairman of the
commission, is a lawyer by vocation, a
student of community organization and
social problems, an organizer and a
human dynamo when it comes to work.
Under Mayor Gaynor he made a notable
record as commissioner of accounts for
New York city. Later he went to Eu-
rope to study police organizations un-
der the auspices of the bureau of So
cial hygiene. He has studied conditions
of camp life on the Mexican border, and
he was responsible for a cleaning up
of bad moral conditions in the neigh
borhood of several encampments there
to find out how the Canadians provide
for the relaxation of their men in
training.
Down in a little Office in the old
land office building, also known as the
old post office. at Sth and q streets
Washington, he works day and night,
facing new problems of Organization
concerned with safeguarding the NOR
ais and developing the morale of mill
lion men. 1t is a gigantic task. 1t has
been compared with providing, almost
over night, the recreation facilities of
an entire city of million souls. But
that comparison breaks down. for here
are nearly fifty small cities. populated
by young men whose demand for recre-
alton is particularly keen and whose