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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-01

I'm sorry you won't be here, Peg"
he added.
so am r. agreed Peggy, but may
be if you sail for France l will come
have another party" With that they
all reluctantly shook hands.
Nan Weeks was dimly conscious II
the warmth which fingered about her
hand after Walgrove had gone In
fact all three girls were curiousiy
elated over something. None knew
just what it might be.
During the drive back to the hotel
Peggy talked much of the evening.
Nan Weeks is far too beautiful and
sweet to nurse soldiers" she said
firmly. They will one and all fall
desperately in love with her and their
fevers will soar sky high whenever
she tends them"
Walgrove was silent Presently he
spoke, having followed a trend Of
thought. 'All the doctors and head
nurses take secretaries with them to
| France. ! would far rather she were
a secretary than a nurse, and viii
speak to some of our doctors and get
| her placed. And L am going to take
a couple of nice chaps up there-two
girls like Gladys Gale and Miss
Greene. Those girls are far too fine
to waste themselves on the fellows
they are thrown in with"
!
Peggy. You could marry those love-
| ly girls off in no time. So many
soldiers want to marry before going
abroad" She turned laughingly to
Vance and her fingers twined about
| his, But that will leave Nan all
alone" she teased.
! "Peggy-you're a bricki 1 knew
you were seeing Nan Weeks as my
wife almost before 1 did" He
squeezed her hands affectionately. 81
will have to make quick work of it
for we may be called any day te
| France"
And Nan. not knowing that she
was to sail as a doctors secretary
and not a Red Cross nurses aid
| dreamed that she was in a hospital III
France mitering sheets on an endless
chain of beds. A big khaki-clad sol
der was carried in and he opened
| his eyes and looked straight into hel
I own. There was love in his eyes
much love-and it was all for her
She smiled softly in her dream
| Copyright, 1917, by the Mcclure
! Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-01
BOARD is STILL BUSY
Sixteen Shawnee Co. Men Pass Army
Physical Examinations Today.

Four men examined before the
Shawnee county exemption board
were rejected today because of ply
steal stability. Sixteen passed the
physical examination and were ac-
copied. They filed claims for exemp
ton on other grounds. How many
were accepted and did not claim ex-
emption the board is unable to state
until records are checked up this
evening.
There have been 625 Shawnee coun-
ty men called to fill the quota of 119
men needed in Shawnee county for
the draft army. There are about forty
filled. Following are those accepted
ed for physical disability:
Accepted, Claim Exemption.
William Plumbey, Kansas City.
Floyd Tibbs Route u, Silver Lake
c. l.. Goldsmith, Abilene.
Harry Grant Lewis, Oakland.
William Wallace Griffith. Route 4, North
Topeka.
Harold f. Navarro, Route s. North Topeka.
George ". Hay, Route -, Wakarusa.
Ernest Lee Wright, Route 3, Eskridge.
Douglass c. Child. Route %, Valencia.
Walter Il. Tevis, Route 20, Berryton.
Omer N. Dodge Route 10, Tecumseh.
X. F. Engeike. Route To- Tecumseh.
james W. Alexander, Richland.
Harry Whitesfde, Dover.
Fred Van Nice, Richland.
Rejected. Physical Disability.
Glenn Frank Pollom, Route t. Topeka.
Omar Loring Herrick, Route 20, Berry ton.
Charles l.. Percifield, Route g. Topeka
George E. Dalton, Junction City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-01
CHARGE OF PlCKPOCKET
Negro Girl Defends Herself Against
White Man After a ..Date.r

Carrie Brackeen, a negro street
character arrested numerous times,
defended herself in the district court
today against a charge of pocket pick
ing. E. ID. Manshardt, white, who ad-
mitted on the witness stand that he is
a married man, was the prosecuting
witness The case went to the jury at
IL o'clock this morning and at late
hour this afternoon a verdict had not
been returned.
Manshardt told the jury he met the
girl on Second street between Jackson
and Harrison streets and stood in an
alley with her talking. He admitted
that he had an immoral purpose in
mind in talking to the girl. Detectives
Alba and McGovern grabbed them as
they stepped from the alley. 1t was
then Manshardt called one of the de-
tectives aside and told him that his
pocket had been picked A pocket
book containing a dollar and some pa
pers were found on the girls person.
The girl told the jury that Mans
hardt met her on lower Kansas
avenue, spoke to her, waited for her
at a corner and accompanied her to
the alley. She says he gava her the
dollar and later gave her the pocket
torney, and Judge Whitcomb called n
one of the young attorneys to defend
her. Court officials we're willing to
wager this morning that the jury
wouldn't send the girl 20 state Ir:son
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-01
ARREST PRISON HEAD
Charge Penitentiary Head With Con-
spiracy TO Defraud State.

Jefferson City. Oct Former
warden McClung of the Missouri PEN
itentiary, was arrested today
The arrest was made on two indict-
ments charging conspiracy to defraud
the state.
An indictment also was returned
against Lee Jordan charging him
with defrauding the state on bills pre-
scented by him and paid to him for
cement which it is charged he never
delivered. A joint indictment against
McClung and Jordan charges that
they entered into a criminal conspir-
acy that Jordan should collect 1881
for 1862 more sacks of cement than
he delivered.
a separate indictment against Jor-
dan charges that he collected 1902
for cement which he failed to deliver
McClung for four years was chairman
of the Democratic state committee.
Jordan is head of lumber company
Both Claim Innocence
Jordan and McClung are Jointly
charged also with conspiring to de-
fraud the state out of S1,SS8.
Both Jordan and McClung were re-
leased on $1,000 bonds today. Jordan
recently paid back into the state treas
ury $4,000, which represents an al
legged overcharge for cement Jordan
claimed at the time that he made this
overcharge to get interest, because he
had to wait for the legislature to ap-
propriate money for the Cement he
had furnished for the prison build
1ngs. McClung denied that he knew
the cement had not been delivered
when he approved the bills
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-01
AS NoRTHCLIFFE SEES 1T.

Lord Northcliffe, in an article on
What America Is Fighting For" is
quoted as saying: IF this country
had meant to take up arms in defense
of British or French interests, or in
the interest of Belgium, or in order to
spread democracy. it would not have
waited until April, 1917. If its aims
had been commercial it would have
been in the war long ago. The motive
which brought the United States in
was not sympathy for any other nation,
was not desire for gain, was not an
abstract fondness for democratic as
opposed to autocratic government; it
was self-interest, self-preservation and
self-respect."
This is entirely true and just, COM
ments the New York Journal of Com
merce, and there is nothing in it to
resent. We had no right or reason
for taking up arms in defense of
British or French interests" how
ever our sympathy may have been or
our judgment of the attack made upon
them. However indignant we may
have felt about the treatment of Bel
GUM, it was not our duty or our right
to attack or punish the perpetrator,
which we were in no position to do in
any case.
Whatever desire we may have had
to spread democracy we would not
have believed 1t could be done by such
means. 1t would rather have been
discredited by any such attempt. We
dnrht Whathor iaI
would have been promoted by getting
into the war earlier but we should ad-
NIT that the final motive was not
sympathy with any other nation and
we hope it was not desire for gain
! Abstract fondness fer democratic
as opposed to autocratic government,
whatever influence the sentiment
might have on our attitude, could not
have been IL sufficient motive for get
ting into the war.
1t is quite true that self-interest.
self-preservation and se1f-respect fur
nish the motive for the United States,
as it did for Great Britain and France.
We should have admired and justified
| their conduct and hoped for their sue
! cess if our own self-interest had moi
become so deeply involved, if our self
preservation had not been menaced in
case Germany should prevail and il
our national self-respect had not been
outraged; but what absolutely forced
US into it was regard for these quail
ties, which no nation can afford tc
sacrifice or can sacrifice without for
feiting the respect and good will OF
the civilized world. Anybody who
would wish his country to do that is
unworthy of the name of American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-01
THE WOMAN,s PARTY.

Representatives of that little group
of willful women who have been en-
gagged in annoying President Wilson,
by picketing the White House ever
since the beginning of the war. have
come to Kansas recently in an effort
to arouse sympathy for their cause
among the loyal women of this state,
The reception which they met in To-
peka indicates that their cause finds
little favor in the west.
The National Woman's party to
which the picketers profess allegiance
is purely a partisan political organiza
ton, which makes the attainment of
the franchise by women a secondary
issue The result of its activities has
been in every instance the defeat of
everything and everybody for which
it professed to stand.
In 1916 this organization espoused
s!e candidacy of Charles E. Hughes
for the presidency and contributed
element in the campaign.
1t is declared to have contributed
largely to the defeat of suffrage in
the recent election in Maine despite
the efforts of President Wilson to aid
the cause.
The Woman's party has not con-
fined its efforts to heckling the presi-
dent. but has striven to give aid and
comfort to the country's enemies by
casting slur on the government on
the occasion of the visit of the Rus
sian commission.
The party was organized primar-
lily for the purpose of bulldozing and
intimidating congressional candi-
dates into pledging their votes to the
Susan B. Anthony amendment The
members may have succeeded, ir
some instances, in frightening the
timid ones, but there is no longer any
reason for any candidate for congress
or any other office to give them any
consideration.
The p pie of the United States
men and women, have placed the
stamp of their disapproval on the
methods of the militants as positive
ly as did the Shawnee County Polit.
ical Science club. 1t is gratifying t.
the true friends of woman suffrage
to know that tn cause will continue
t ADVANCE despite the handicaI
placed upon it by the so-called Wo
maA's party.
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THE SOLDIERS
(Issued by the War Department and all
rights to reprint reserved.>
XXI
XXI

Courtesy among military men is
shown by speaking and acting in a re-
spectfu1 manner. 1t is shown by using
the correct form of recognition. This
correct form when meeting or address
ing commissioned officers is known as
the military salute.
I'm the old days the free men of
Europe were all allowed to carry
weapons, and when they met each
would hold up his right hand to show
that he>had no weapon in it and that
they met as friends. Slaves or serfs,
however, were not allowed to carry
weapons, and skunk past the free men
without making any sign. In this way
the salute came to be the symbol or
sign by which soldiers Gree men)
might recognize each other. The lower
classes began to initiate the soldiers
in this respect, altho in a clumsy,
apologize way, and thence crypt into
civic life the custom of raising the
hand or nodding as one passed an
acquaintance. The soldiers, however,
kept their individual salute, and pur-
posely made it intricate and difficult
to learn in order that it could be
acquired only by tie coL-stant training
of all real soldiers received.
ITO this day armies have preserved
their salute, and when correctly done
it is at once recognized and never mis-
taken for that of the civilian. All sol
dierS should be careful to execute the
| salute exactly as prescribed. The
civilian or the imitation soldier who
| tries to initiate the military salute in
variably makes some mistake which
shows that he is not a real soldier; he
gives it in an apologize manner, he
| fails to stand or march at attention
/ his coat is unbuttoned or hat on awry
or he fails to look the person saluted
| in the eye. There is a wide difference
| in the method of rendering and mean
| ing between the civilian salute as used
/ by friends in passing, OF by servants
| to their employers, and the military
| salute. the symbol and sign of the mil
| itary profession"
| Tomorrow: THE Proper Way to
! "a nj
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-01
III TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL IN
FORMATION BUREAU,

A co-operative delivery system is
renorted to have been established in
certain cities of the middle west. The
plan appears to be a good one, ana
10 result in an important saving OF
time and labor. The retailers nave
pooled their equipment and organized
a general delivery company which
serves all the stores that enter into
the arrangement. The wagons oper-
ate on regular schedules, calling at
each of the stores at definite hours
and covering regular delivery routes.
Each store pays for just the amount OF
service it needs, either a stipulated
sum per month or per package One
wagon can carry the groceries from
half a dozen different stores to the
customers of all just as well as six
different wagons can do it. 1t can
also carry meat from several butcher
shops, drugs from the druggist and
tinware from the hardware store. So,
where fifteen or twenty wagons were
formerly required. half a dozen motor
wagons, operated by the general de-
livery company, can serve the Gus
toners fully as well and do the work
more cheaply for each store. The
uext step in the direction of economy
and labor saving should be in the di-
rection of reducing the number OF
stores thru combination. Much saving
of clerk hire and rent might be ef-
fected in this way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-01
ON A BIG AUTO TOUR
National All Trails Scout Car Is in
Topeka Today.

The Elgin Six National All Trails
Scout car, in charge of Roy S. Marsh
and Edward M. Lawrence reached
Topeka, today at 1885 p. m. The Lin
coin highway from Chicago to San
Francisco. the road from that city to
Los Angeles, the National Old Trails
road from Los Angeles to Washington,
D. c., the Dixie highway from Chi
cago to- Miami, Florida. and thence
returning to Detroit, is the route being
covered by the Elgin National Scout
car. The distince is approximately
II, 1000 miles. Mr.. Lawrence is driving
and Mr.. Marsh is accompanying him
and Photographic the trip. They left
reporting the condition of roads for
the benefit of the large touring traffic
which will be seen on these highways
during the present summer and the
coming fall and winter.
With Europe closed on account of
the war, the tourists, American mo-
florists and many European motorists,
have been compelled to See America
First
Lack of first hand information at
the present time led the Elgin Motor
Car corporation of Chicago to dis
patch the scout car on it's journey of
almost $4,000 miles to learn of the
real road conditions, and to report by
| wire daily to the National Highway
association, the Chicago Motor club,
Detroit Automobile club and all other
automobile organizations interested in
disseminating road information.
| Mr.. Marsh dispatches each night by
| telegraph and by mail detailed infor-
i nation of the roads as they are found,
and from a central Office in the east
| this information is sent broadcast to
the daily and trade publications OF
America and to the national associa-
| tons and the automobile clubs for
/ posting in prominent places where the
tourist will be able to secure all data
in regard to trips proposed.
| The Lincoln Highway association
thru Austin +. Bement, secretary; the
Dixie Highway association, thru V. D.
| l.. Robinson, secretary and the Ma
| tional Old Trails Road association
thru j. M. Lowe, president, have ex-
pressed the utmost interest In the ar
duous trip of Mr.. Marsh and Mr.
Lawrence, whose daily reports will be
compiled by these associations anu
sent thru the medium of their official
publications to all pats of the coun-
! try for the benefit Of the tourist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-01
INDICT 22O ANTS
Grand Jury Makes Big Haul in
Draft Opposition Camp.
Practically All of Oklahoma's
Rebel Army Under Arrest.

Musxogee, Okla. Oct. 1.-Two hum
bred and twenty alleged draft resisters
and conspirators were indicted by the
federal grand jury, which adjourned
Saturday night at McAlester, instead
of 40, as reported last night Prac-
ticaIly all of them are under arrest,
il was announced today at the United
States district attorneys office here,
The accused men probably will be
tried in the federal court at Chickasha
in November, it was stated. The in
dictments returned charge seditious
conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct
the draft. No treason charges are
preferred
The 220 defendants are accused in
just six indictments. One of these
names 1913 men for conspiracy to re-
sist the draft. The other five lame
the remainder and charge conspiracy
to obstruct the draft and failure to
register,
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In BIG TURNOUT
Chamber of Commerce Members
Flock to Noon Luncheon.
VOde Revue Entertainers Make
Hit With All.

Very few members of the Chamber
of Commerce failed to show up for
the noon dinner entertainment staged
at the club rooms today. More than
100 persons ate at the Chamber of
Commerce rooms-which, according
to Charles Mitchell, president, is a
better attendance than has been re-
corded for more than a year
Every one of the 100 persons en-
joyed it, too. The program was ap-
plauded by nearly every man there.
It was music with their meals and
that was apparently what they want
ed. Every number of the program
was applauded even louder than the
pep speeches of Charles L. Mitchell
Songs We're Enjoyed.
, Dinner was served in exactly the
same friendly style that was formerly
the custom there-eXcept the air was
different. Expectancy relsned su-
preme-and the expectancy was moi
in vain. Roy Crawford with the GO
terie' of eight girls and the mems
trio were there. They were the cen
ter of attraction.
The program started while the late
stragglers were just finishing the1r
dinners Miss Wilma, leader OF the
'coterie," led the program with keep
chorus came in on the refrain Then
came where Are the Boys OF Our
Village Tonight? p" a song composed
and written by Miss Wilma Then
the echoes of the parting words OF
Battery A were echoed by the men
trio in Canning the Kaiser
Gave a Serenade.
The trio gave mems serenaoe
after the program was over ana TOTO
OF the Big Yellow Buick and the
Little Red Ford" sung by Raymond
Justice. George kump, tenor, alsc
gave a short selection after the snow
The entertainers were members OF the
1917 Vode Revue, now showing at the
Majestic theater.
According to Charles Mitchell there
will be more of the same entertain
ment in the future. Each day, or two
or three times a week, special muslca
entertainment will be given at the clut
rooms during the noon dinner. nc
announcement will be made OF the
programs, however. 1t will be come
and see or stay away and hear aDou'
it for the members of the Chamber OF
Commerce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-01
CONSERVING HIS BAIT
xx71,a,, Kaiser Gets n NibbIe He Pulls
in Line and Cuts OF a Chunk
BY j. w. T. MASON.

New York, Oct 1.-Chancellor
Micha elis's statement to the relch-
stag main committee that the Ger
man government has not announced
its willingness to abandon hostiie Ter.
ritory means the kaiser is holding up
his abandonment policy for purposes
for negotiation.
The kaiser wants to trade back Bel
GUM and other occupied districts TO
save the Hohenzollerns.
1t is Impossible, therefore, for
Michaelis to announce definite pol
lev even at secret meetings OF the
reichstag main committee. To do so
would be to pledge the kaiser to a
certain course of action and to force
from him the open confession that
the fortunes of the Hohenzollern fam
lily mean more to him than the mis-
fortunes of Germany.
There can be no certain course of
action by the kaiser from now until
the close of the war. Everything is
uncertain fer him. He does not know
how much or how little the allies will
accept to call the war off, and yet he
has to play with time limit irreVo-
cably fixed upon him. The time limit
has been caused by Americas en-
trance into the war, for the Germans
nitely against Americas strength add
ed to the allies
Has Only Day to Day Policy.
The kaiser, therefore, is compelled
to accept a day by day policy. His
only fixed sentiment is that the Ho-
henzollerns must not be defeated by
the esta blishment of democracy in
Germany. Bargaining on this basis is
now the duty of Chancellor Michaelis.
The kaiser's chief official is batting
hooks for nibbles When he feels ever
SO slight a tug, he pulls up the line
and cuts off part of the bait, to see
whether the lesser portion will be
sufficient to hook the sucker.
This is why Michaelis, true to the
craftiness of Germany diplomacy, de-
MES he ever offered to evacuate any
conquered territory. Not one inch of
land seized by the Germans will be
given up except under extreme neces-
sity, while the kaiser runs the Ger
man foreign office. Morality and mag
nanimity are regarded by kaiserism as
vices. Not these reasons, but the
prospect OF defeat and Hohenzo1Iern
! destruction are the only ones that
will weigh with the kaiser.
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TURKS BADLY BEATEN
British Capture Commanding General
Supplies and Many Prisoners.

London, Oct. 1.-The most telling
blow at Turkish morale that has been
dealt since the British capture of Bag
DAD was the official view today of
General Maude's latest success in Mes
opotamia. British troops now OCCUPY
Mushaid ridge after a notable victory
in two days of fighting. during which
a Turkish commanding general was
captured and vast stores of supplies
and food taken.
General Maude's report indicated
heavy fighting after his troops had all
but encircled the Turkish positions in
the Rama die region. fifty miles north
west of Bagdad on the Euphrates
The enemy struggled to ESCAPE after
sustaining the first surprise attack but
great numbers were caught and sur
rendered.
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LAKE SAILORS AGREE
Wage Raise of $23 a Month Avcrts
Tie Up of Lake Traffic.

Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 1.-Great
Lakes freight traffic proceeded as
usual today, following an eleventh
hour agreement between the Lake
Carriers association and representa-
tives of the lake seamen's union,
which prevented a strike of ten thou
sand to fifteen thousand sailors,
scheduled for midnight last night.
The compromise agreement &C
cepted by both sides to the controversy
was drawn by the United States ship
ping board. 1t provides an increase
from $72 per month to $95 a month
for able seamen. Other demands of
the union organization either were
waived or will be arbitrated by the
federal shipping board.
Boston Dock Men Strike.
Boston, Oct. IA serious tieup of
oceangoing freight is feared if a strike
of more than 1000 dock freight ham
diers which went into effect here to-
day, is long continued. The men en-
ployed by the Boston and Maine, and
Boston and Albany railroads demand
an eight-hour day in place of the
present nine hours. and an advance
in wages.