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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12

Those who are convinced that ma
tionaI prohibition is not only desirable
but practicable at this time derive un-
mixed satisfaction from the attempt to
attach prohibition clause to the food
bill, In their view drink ana the
devil are to be fought with any
weapons that may come TO HAND. The
clause is not SO satisfactory to those
who believe that national prohibition
ought to be adopted or rejected on
its own merits, not floated in on a
wave of disquietude over the food
question.
1t might simplify matters, end the
controversy and hasten the passage of
the food control bill, so much reeded
by the country if the whole matter
were left in the hands of the food con-
troller, Herbert c. Hoover. There can
be little question that he would do
what is best for the country's interest
and what would hasten our winning
of the war.
German and British medical au-
thorities, says the New Republic, know
quite as much about the effect of alco-
hol upon industrial and military eff
cheney as we do. They have infinitely
more reason to be disturbed over the
1ood question than we have. They
have reduced the production of alco-
holic beverages to what they probably
lave good reason to believe is the low
est practicable limit They have not
resorted to prohibition. and there is
no indication that they intend to DO So
British and German legislators are
taking this war seriously-something
we have yet to learn to do-and are
introducing war measures tina. are
designed solely to strengthen the ma
ton in war. 1t is not their endeavor
to put the administration in a hole,
or to make an embarrassing rear
rangement of finances necessary, or to
make the war unpopular. 1t is to De
hoped that the senate will have the
courage to put this matter where for
the present it belongs, in the hands
CT the food controller
Whatever restrictions may be placed
upon the use of foodstuffs, in the
production of alcoholic beverages. as
part of comprehensive plan of food
control, will be generally accepted
without murmuring. The enactment
of a sweeping prohibition clause by
congress, on the other hand, is certain
20 give rise to widespread discomfort.
| nd at time when we most need ma
tional harmony
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12
TRAWELETTE

BY NIKsAH


A sentimental interest will always
attach to Khartoum, for it is Kitch-
ener's city. He fought his way to it
up the Nile, to find the old town
blasted, sacked and destroyed by the
Dervishes. He is said to have drawn
the plans for the new Khartoum on
the sand with his own hand, and the
engineers set to work the same day
to build it up. The streets and squares
are laid out in the design of a monster
Union Jack.
All that was only in 1898, but the
beauty and Importance. There are
many groves of noble trees, a feature
only to be appreciated by the desert
dweller, for the Dervishes were not
schooled in the refinements of modern
warfare. They sacked the town on
their retreat, but they failed to girdle
the trees. They were only ignorant
savages, and they did their best, but
thanks to their miliarity with
modern methods, .Khartoum has some
beautiful groves today. There are
rose-gardens, too, with rush-bushes
the unfortunate Gordon himself
The Blue Nile runs past the city;
river gunboats helped Kitchener to
encompass its fall. The White Nile is
only a few miles away. These two
great arteries of trade stretch their
way southwark into the unknown, and
northward flows the united river to-
ward Cairo and the Mediterranean.
The trade of the town is augmented
by all manner of parties from the saw
age interior, and about Khartoum are
native villages built after the fashion
of all the tribes of the Sudan. The
people are drawn from all the ends
of Africa, negroes and Arabs, and
from Europe come Syrians, Greeks
and copts. The upper classes are
Egyptians in commercial circles; in
the political and administrative world
the English of course are dominant.
1t is a strange and cosmopolitan city
that has grown from the plan that
Kitchener sketched on the sand. with
the dead of the last days fight still
unburied on the plain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12
DINNER STORIES

A youth secured a post in the tax
office of an English provincial town
and, with the strenuous enthusiasm of
the beginner, proceeded to make
things move. A farmer, very angry
and indignant, turned up at the office
one day and pointed out that he had
been wrongly charged ten shiilings for
keeping a goat.
The clerk insist1 d that no mistake
had been made.
Look here,'' he said. Its in the
rules. Read them for yourself
The farmer did so. and found the
following clause
For all property bounding and
abutting on the highways, IS cd per
foot"
Mrs. Higgins was an incura bic
grumbler. She grumbled at every
thing and everyone. But at last the
vicar thought he had found something
about which she could make no COM
plaint-the old lady's crop of potatoes
was certainly the finest for miles
around.
"Ah. for once you must be we'll
pleased" he said, with beaming
smile, as he met her in the village
street. Every ones saying how splen-
did your potatoes are this year"
The old lady glared at him as she
answered.:
They're not so poor. But where's
the bad ones for the pigs?''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12

1t is a mistake, says Leslie's, for the
government thru Postmaster General
Burlesoa to undertake to increase the
second-class postal rates on newspa-
pers and other publications whose
Services and support the government
needs at this critical period more
than ever. The tremendous advance
in the cost of paper. added to the ad-
vance in the cost of labor anu sup
plies, is making this a year of great
Hardship for publications large and
small, but the moth-eaten falsehood
persists that the second class postal
rate gives to publishers an annual
subsidy of from 100000 to c1OO.-
900, 000-one's guess is as good as
another's-hence the clamor at Wash
ington to penalize the press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12

1t looks now as tho those in charge
OF the food control bill are about to
back up and start all over again.
After weeks wasted in useless debate
not connected with food control the
committees find themselves back at
the starting point. In the meantime
the conditions which the bill YVES de-
ngned to overcome continue to exist
end are being aggravated daily. Re-
sponsibility for the existing situation
is easy to place. 1t is due to efforts
to load down the bill with lot of
extraneous matter. stopping the use
of foodstuffs for the manufacture of
liquor is pertinent to the measure, but
confisca lion of the liquor in bond and
control of copper, iron and cotton
have nothing whatever to do with the
food problem. Both prohibitionists
and their opponents have been play
ing into the hands of the spectators,
and politicians of all degrees are hav-
ing an inning. The welfare of the
people and the interests of the coun-
Try are being sacrificed to the fur
lherance of personal and political
ends. The country demands a food
control bill-nothing more. 1t has
not asked for drink control. iron con-
trol or cotton control.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12

ceptions with regard to Legitimate
children, if those children have been
supported by a man before he entered
the army. Allowances are also paid
to unmarried wives if theJ were sup
ported by men before enlistment and
the men acknowledge their RESPONSE
bility on their enlistment papers.
These are only the provisions of
Great Britain. The children's bu-
reau also has material on those OF all
the belligerent countries some OF
which are esp ecially unique and inter
esting. France. for instance, insists
the private employers shat continue
the salaries of their employees who are
at the front, inasmuch as me govern
ment is already taxed to ma utmost
with the payment of pensions and al
lowances Allowances are paid only
to needy families; if the members of
a family may support themselves, or
If they have enough money to live on,
they dc not receive any compensation
whatever. The separation allowance
amounts to about twenty-five cents q
day for the wife of a soldier, and fiji
teen cents additional for each child
under sixteen who is dependent upon
him, whether they are his own or not.
The allowances are paid to the
heads of the families-to the mother.
or the grandparent, the aunt or even
the temporary head. Only one al
lowance is paid to each family. a
woman may have had seven sons sup
porting her before the war, but she re-
ceives an allowance only for one, and
only one pension. The families of for
eign soldiers, including Serbians, Bel
gians ana Russians, are also paid the
same separation allowances, even tho
the men may have returned to their
own armies. This courtesy is also ex-
tended to French families in other
countries.
France also pays a pension to
workers, other than soldiers, whose
means of livelihood has been swept
away as the result of invading armies:
and a pension of from 10 to 80 cents
a day to prospective mothers for pc
riod of eight weeks before the birth
of their babies. This pension is ex-
tended for another eight-week period
if the mothers agree to nurse their
children. The death rate is SO much
larger now than the birth rate in
France that the government is put
ting a premium on maternity. This
same maternity premium is also Of
fered by Germany, altho on a differ
ent basis.
The care of soldiers dependents
will be one of our great national
problems if the war proves long. The
plan now under consideration to in
sure the lives of our fighting men is a
step in The right direction-just, pro-
gressive, thoroly American
Questions on the above or any sub.
1ect 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 stamI
, g. closed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12

"a The Paris papers say that the ma
tive beer-brewing industry will have
to be aided by imports of barley from
america in order to be continued.
The French brewers are said to be
negotiating with America for supplies.
arrangements are also being made to
ahip beer to France from the United
States. Before the war German prod
.ucts supplied the deficiency Here is
an opportunity for American prohibit
tionists to do little missionary work.
The French should be made to I'M
.derstand that the. need the grain
used in making beer for food.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12
REFORMING THE SCHOOLS.

1.-The use of Greek, Latin and mathe-
mates in the higher education of
America. is declining" says The
Youths Companion, "In a few years
it will be as rare for a student to know
Greek as today it is Cor him to know
Hebrew; and it will not tax, more
than a generation o. two for Latin to
follow the same course. How long the
higher reaches of mathematics-those
noble and inviting reaches in which
philosophy, poetry and imagination
combine to play with the intricacies of
space and the notations of time-will
continue to find extensive educational
use is also a question"
Unfortunately this is too true rs re-
CARDS the languages of the ancients
But the higher mathematics and much
of the lower may well be spared
There appears to be a widespread
realization that something is wrong
with the schools; that they are not
producing the results desired and ex-
pected. Expenditures increase stead
lily without corresponding growth in
public benefit. Educators are cropping
Elindly for the cause. In so doing
they have alighted upon the classics.
Aside from the three RS there is no
ether branch of study that could not
letter be spared.
One trouble with the schools is that
too much is attempted. The pupils
are given a smattering of everything
| with thoroness in nothing. Especially
is this true in the grades and high
schools.
| Let any high school graduate be
asked to solve an equation in algebra
or translate a letter written in French
or German, supposing they have
taken" those languages. and then
| note the result
Let any manual training graduate
/ be asked to fix an unruly window OF
hang a door and watch him fail. What
chance would graduate of the COM
mercial department of a high school,
Lave in the counting room of first
class business establishment?
Yet, in the effort to improve the
schools there is always the danger
that they will be made less efficient
than they now are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12


When bootblack jerks at the
cu11s of our trousers to let you know
he's thru he always wipes off his
hands. 1t is hard to catch him at it
and it's usually all over before you
can stop him. Bootblacks certainly
are slick at wiping of their hands on
your trousers.
light summer suit into a shoe shin
ing parlor. When the bootblack fin
ished the writer's shoes and jerked at
the writer's trousers the writer burst
into tears. Other customers gathered
around sympathetically and several of
them glared at the bootblack for the
writer From the knees down there
were large black fingerprints on the
writer's trousers.
AS long as bootblacks persist in this
custom we had better wear something
old and shabby while having a shine.
The next time you decide to get a
shine call UP your wife and tell her
to bring down the trousers you wear
in taking out the ashes.
Or you might turn your trousers
inside out before entering the shining
parlor But this is unhandy and you
would have to spend some time sitting
on the curb to do it.
Happy Thought.
Be more like the poor fish. If he's
let alone he always keeps cool and
seldom goes UP in the air.
Here's How.
To live in Gotham is the choice
OF some. some think 1t quite 4 curse.
Remember you are in New York
Pray do as the New Workers do,
On boulevard or avenue.
In theaters. In home park.
Pray talk as the New Workers talk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12

on the fifth of June. then out of that
number about one hundred thousand
should be negroes" continues Mr..
Kester. Are the negro troops to be
differed in fact, as we'll as in theory,
by members of their own race? If
so, the question of the promotion of
these officers at a time when promo
ton is likely to be swift, is of vital
moment to the negro race. Shall we
have negro generals commanding ne
gro troops before the war is over?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12
THE EARCHIlGMT
latest News from the Fields OF
SCIENCE. EDUCATION. INVENTION
New Telephone Receiver.

If you want to use both hands while
you telephone, or if you have to wait
for long periods holding the receiver
at your ear, you are one of those
whom a newly patented device is in
tended to benefit. This apparatus
consists of a rubber stand, tube with
two branches, and a button on the
end of each branch which can be
slipped into the ear. The telephone
receiver can be used in the ordinary
way if desired; to make use of the
supplementary device it is only neces-
sary to stand the receiver face down
on the rubber stand and slip the but
tons into the ears. This saves the
listener the necessity of holding up
the receiver, frees both his hands, and
by stopping both ears is said to make
easier a telephone conversation in a
noisy room.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12

When the Belgian and Russian
r -issions visit Topeka they should be
taken out to Fort Riley that they
may gain an idea of what Uncle Sam
is doing to help their countries win
the war. When they understand
that the activities at that point are
merely sample of what is going on
all over the United States they will be
able to take 2 hcartening story home
with them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12

Are the negro troops. to be raised,
Trained and equipped for the battle
fields of Europe, to be chosen in. ex-
act proportion to the negro popula-
ZION as the white troops will be chos-
en- in proportion to the white popula-
fion?" asks Paul Hester in discussing
the presidents speech in which he
said that the war would obliterate the
last division line-"either of race or
ssociation"-between the north and
Che south. ''If a million men are to
be selected from those that registered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST
Bananas.
Buttered Toast
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Cream of Tomato Soup.
Croutons.
Washington Pie.
DINNER.
Casserole of Lamb and Rice
Stewed onions.
Bread. Butter
Strawberry Shortcake
Daily order-Three-quart of
dozen bananas, one loaf bread, one
quart milk, one pound onions, one box
strawberries.
Canning Fruit Without Sugar.
Fruit for use in pie or salads or
as stewed fruit can be put up or can
ned without the use of any sugar at all,
according Ito the canning specialists
of the United States department of
agriculture. They, therefore, advise
those who, because of the high price
of sugar. have been thinking of re-
ducing the amount of fruit they put
up, to can as much of their surplus as
possible by the use of boiling water
when sugar syrup is beyond their
means. Any fruit, they say, may be
successfully sterilized and retained in
the pack by simply adding boiling
water instead of the hot syrup. The
use of sugar, of course, is desira BILE in
the canning of all kinds of fruits and
makes a better and ready-sweetened
product. Moreover, most of the fruits
when canned in water alone do not
retain their natural flavor, texture
and color we'll as fruit put up in
syrup. Fruit canned without sugar
to be used for sauces or desserts must
be Sweetened.
The Table.
Stuffed Calves Hearts-Clean and
wash four calves hearts and stuff
with highly seasoned bread dressing.
Brown in bacon fat. While browning
season with salt, pepper. one chopped
onion, half a carrot, sprig of parsley
When nicely Drowned, add one and
one-half cups of water and cover.
Cook slowly for one and one-half
hours. Make gravy and serve over
the hearts.
Fruitcake without Eggs-One-half
cup molasses. one tablespoon butter:
beat till light. Add one-fourth cup
lemon peel one-half cup raisins, one
half cup currants. one-fourth cup
chopped nut meats (Walnuts), one
teaspoon ground cinnamon, one tea
spoon ground ginger Stir this all up
well. add two cups flour. one teaspoon
baking powder sifted with the flour,
one cup sour milk, one teaspoon bak-
ing soda Bake one hour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12
GLOBE SIGHTS

Hardships are borne eheerfully
when they are encountered in the
name of sport or patriotism.
Probably the greatest liar is any
man who is about to get married and
doesn't want anything said about it.
married man doesn't need to join
the aviation corps in order to be up in
the air a good deal.
What has become of the old-fa sh-
Toned novel heroine who used to pine
away on slight provocation?
Solomon. however. probably wasn't
so wise as, the man who knows where
to get a drink in a dry town, tries
to act
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12
ON SPUR OF
Till I. HE MOMENT
nov

You.
Perhaps of late you're pleased to see
You're more important than you knew,
On every fence Or wall tree
Are posters meant especially
For YOU.
Go where you will, or west or east
You simply can't escape 'em, kid,
These cries to YOU have never ceased
And you came through. We hope, at least
You did.
And If your best you've done or spent.
We cry. We'll, that's the way to dor
what's more, we hope you're well, content
And happy. too. And this is meant
For lOC
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12

Slackers are reported to have gone
to work on the farms in the hope of
escaping the draft thru exemption.
That is not a bad place for them pro-
riding some way can he found for
Keeping them there Anybody who
prefers farm work to soldering might
well be allowed to do it. He probably
will soon change his mind and prefer
The trenches to the furrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12

s Congressman Mann says govern
Inent officials "see a German spy on
every housetop and street corner"
But it is the spies they don't see that
are blowing up the munition plants
and performing other acts damaging
10 the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12

hsTe seen our right Names" Tweedle-
ddm laughed.
'Of course" said Tweedledee.
But everything came out all right
and the allisators onty had sawdust
for supper. And if the wash lady
doesn't take my best collar button to
hasten the tablecloth to the ironing
board in the clothes basket, I'll tell
you next about Uncle Wiggily and the
pool of tears.-(Copyright 1917, by
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12

Twice have the Russians overrun a
large section of the enemy's country
since the war began. They are now
engaged a third time in a similar per-
Torrance. The allies may derive add
ed hope from the fact that the Slavs
are now fighting for country instead
OF for king.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12

Another inequality of the proposed
Income tax is thai the married cou-
pie having a housefuI of children and
an income exceeding $4,000 will be
lust as heavily taxed as will the cou-
pie having no children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12

The successful bombardment of the
Krupp gun works at Essen by a
French aviator is one of the brilliant
accomplishments of the war. 1t is
the allies answer to German air raids
on defenceless towns in England.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12

An attempt will be made to elm
tnate. copper. iron and cotton from
the food control bill. Since nobody
.eares to eat any of these articles the
Change should receive unanimous
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12

marry anybody" someone said to this
woman. How could you sacrifice
that innocent girl to him?''
~ thought perhaps that marriage
might save him. 1t was a chance and
1 took it, replied the mother, with a
cynical indifference to everything but
her own child's good.
1t is mothers inhumanity to other
mothers children that makes count
less thousands mourn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-12

Questions on the above or any SUBJ
1ect 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
g. closed for reply.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-29
BASKETBALLERS
To MEET TODAY
Will Hold Conference in
Office of Physical Di-
rector Holm.
rectOr Hob

At the y. N. C. - this afternoon,
the Church league basketball solons
will meet to determine the future Of
the league. Several Of the managers
are rather discouraged over the out
look for the new season but it is
hoped that it will be voted to allow
all available players to enter regard
less Of City league affiliations or age.
The Mt Sinai boys the new entrants
are practicing faithfully and viii be
real contenders for the title. The
First Nethodists have a strong squad
and the Mexican AIethodists will prob
ably be among the first division teams
this year Trinity MethOdists viii
have at least three Of last years squad
providing the war does not carry
them to the front The First Chris
tians are recruiting and viii have TO
build up an entire team.
Things look good for the First
Presbyterians although they VIII have
almost a new outfit. Calvary Hous-
ton viii have two of last years team
but hope to enlist some Of the young
er fry. It is doubtful If the Mormon
boys viii enter a team this year. The
Bap+ists report that they VIII have
light but fast team with several
youngsters in the line up The meet
ing will be called at eight in the
Physical directors office