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Charlevoix county herald., 1917-06-01
ALL GLASSES HIT
WHEN RAILROAD
PROFITS DECLINE
Industry Feels Most Ke0n|y
Effect Of Railroad Poverty.
UNWISE LAWS MAKE TROUBLE

Millions Of Dollars Lost by Railroads
In Meeting Maze. Of Legislative Re.
quirements-laws Contradict Each
Other.
"A man Is as old as his arteries"
says a prominent health authority.
With equal truth it may be said that
q country is as prosperous as its rail.
roads, for industry is the life OF a
country, and the railroads bear the
same vital relation to the industrial
system that the big blood carrying
tubes bear to the human body.
There was a time In the history of
industry when manufacturing was a
one man affair, when every laborer
owned his own tools and made goods
for his neighbours That system passed
away with the invention of the steam
engine, and no sane man today would
wish for its return. The modern high
ly developed industrial organism de-
ponds absolutely on the facilities for
distribution provided by the railroads.
But how have the railroads been re.
warded for making possible the evolu.
lion OF Industry In recent years they
have been made the subject for all
sorts Of legal vivisection. They have
been chloroformed and cut open. and,
as usual In such cases, the surgeons
have differed as to the nature Of the
malady and the necessary cure. The
prevailing theory, however, was that
the railroads were suffering from an
abnormal growth OF the income, so
their income had to be amputated
From a professional point Of view the
operation was eminently successful,
but In q number Of cases the patient
died. Recent mortality statistics show
q total Of 1852 miles Of steam rail
road in the hands Of receivers, the
roads involved having a total capital
cation OF t1,T9O, 4ss,210.
One Roa Spend, $4,000, 900.
The avalanche OF adverse laws direct.
ed against railroads has been so over.
whelming that since 1906 the Pennsyl.
vania railroad on its lines east OF Pitts
burgh alone has spent 100000 com.
plying with the legislative enactments.
approximately that sum is equal TO Q
per cent income on $500 100000.
Interstate railroads are exposed to
contradictory laws enacted by the leg.
islatures OF the states through which
they run. About nineteen states are
trying to regulate the issuance OF rail.
road securities by different methods.
Twenty-eigbt states specify headlight
requirements without any cooperation
with one another. Fourteen states
have different safety appliance acts.
Sometimes the orders OF the Interstate
Commerce Commission, so far as they
concern intrastate matters, are prac-
tically nullifed by the failure Of the
states to approve them. IL is estimat-
ed that the railroads OF the country
are required to make over 100000 re.
ports a year to various state or federal
authorities.
OF course the railroads do not bear
the burden Of this legal yoke alone. 1t
rests as heavily on the shoulders of
the 100000 or more owners of Ameri.
can railway securities. many Of whom
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-06-01
SICK WOMAN HAD
CRYING SPELLS
Restored to Health by Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Enhaut, Pal was all run down and
weak inwardly. l had female troubles
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-06-01

] will have to die as there is no help for
me. She got me one of your little
books and my husband said / should try
one bottle. | stopped the doctors
medicine and took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. 1t soon made a
change in me and now am strong and
do all my work. Mrs. AUGUSTUS
BAUGHMAN, Box sc, Enhaut, Pa.
Why will women continue to suffer
day in and day out and drag out sickly,
half-hearted existence, missing three
fourths of the Joy of living, when they
can find health il Lydia E. Pinkham' 9
Vegetable Compound
If you would Ike free confidential adj
vice address Lydia L. Pinkham Medicine
Co., Lynn, Mass.
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-06-01
Cave the Ihinu AWAY.

Harry understand Gertrude mar
ried man who made a big fortune by
q lucky speculation in soap.
Grace-Yes, and he disgraced her
while they were on their honeymoon.
Harry-How did he do it?
Grace-Gertrude wanted the other
passengers to think an ocean voyage
was an old story to them, when her
husband, almost as soon as they were
on board, pointed to row of life pre-
servers, and asked the captain what
was the idea of the extra tires.
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-06-01
Lots of men who have an aim in life
lack ammunition.
STOPPED HIS BACKACHE

George Lawrence, railroad fireman,
Kittrell, Miss, writes: 81 used three
bottles of Foley Kidney Pills when |
was so sick hardly could stay on the
engine, and they cured me. My back
ached all the time; kidneys acted
sluggish; dull headache; felt sleepy all
the time; nervous; had to rise many
times each night. "-Hite's Drug Store.
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-06-01

are women dependent for support upon
the income from these securities. In
surance companies, representing 3d.
100000 policy holders, have 81 100000
600 invested In railway securities. and
savings banks, representing 100000
depositors, have $500, 100000 invested
In railroad stocks and bonds.
Wealth Of Roads Benefits Many.
According to the statistics Of railways
In the United States issued In 1914, the
railroads then employed 1,710,296 per-
sons, to whom they paid approximately
81, 1881, lit ,292 per year in wages and
salaries, The expenditure Of that sum
is certainly a substantial contribution
TO the income Of all mercantile and
manufacturing enterprises. But while
the railroad situation claims the atten-
ton Of all classes Of citizens, II must
appeal to the Industrial worker In
bread and butter terms, for he is the
first to feel the effects OF railroad i'm
poverishment. This was evidenced in
1914 and 1915, when the railroad sit
uation was most acute and when thou
sands Of men were out Of work and
the industries of the country were In
a serious condition.
How can the industrial worker help
to put the railroads on sounder work
ing basis? BY joining in general pro-
test against the legislative avalanche,
by voting against the legislator who is
instrumental In the passage Of the bur-
densome and taxatious laws that re-
duce railroad profits and the income
on railroad securities. 1t is vitality nee
essary that these securities should be
made more attractive to the investing
public so that the railroads can In
crease their credit and obtain enough
money to make improvements and In
crease their equipment.
Sound Credit Essential.
Railroad regulation must encourage
sound credit or regulation Is failure"
says A. J.. County, vice president OF
the Pennsylvania railroad. Sound
credit is Just as essential in the rail-
road business as In mercantile affairs
and a railroad cannot have sound cred
1t without the earning power to pro
duce a credit basis. "-Industridl Con-
sefvation. Nelo York..
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-06-01

and nervous feelings
and my head both
cred me. ! would
often have crying
spells and feel as if
/ was not safe. If
| heard anyone COM
ing | would run and
lock the door so they
would not see me.
/ tried several doc
tors and they did not
help me so | said to
my mother Il guess
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-06-01

How can we hope to give stability
TO our great national asset, industry,
when from 1909 to 1916 our state and
national assemblies enacted 7S,74S new
statutes, many Of which related to
business?
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-06-01

Neither employer nor employee can
expect benefits from a business where
the balance sheet does not show dol
lars and cents to pay with.
Charlevoix county herald., 1917-06-01
CONSERVATION TRUTHS.

Capital has found that 1t is good
business to be honest with labor. and
the time is now ripe for labor to adopt
the same businesslike attitude to cap
itaL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20
HEAR MISS sCHEERER
High school Students Greatly Inn
messed With Her Recitals.

All school work was suspended TINS
morning in the Topeka high scnooA
and a special assembly was called 10
receive Miss Maud Scheerer, of Leland
Powers school of Boston, who was a
former Topeka girl. Her readings,
filled with action, pathos. beauty anu
all that is admitted by the hlgn
school pupil, were approved 1roin
every corner of the assembly room.
The 'Highwayman with IT'S rap
action and it's moments or intense eA
element proved a favorite with TN
audience Then, too the Meitlns
Pot" received unusual applause. Every
student was seeing the whole process
sion of the life as Miss Scheerer read
of the trooping of foreigners IN thS
slum districts of the big cities.
1T was one of the most interestns
programs of the year" according 10
A. J. Stout. principal of the school'
land every pupil seemed to appreciate
it, too.
Miss Sheerer is a graduate or the
Topeka high school some years ago
and also was Topeka teacher, hav-
ing conducted the primary classes at
the old Euclid school. which is now
Central Park After spending seven
years at Boston, training in dramatic
art, and teaching at the same time.
she came back to Topeka Just to see
the country and to visit" She is stop
ming with Miss Monte Campbell on
Quincy street.
This morning she told of how she
had battled against the easterner ana
his peculiar ideas--about art, Tor IN
stance. 1T seems like real nome
she said this morning, TO De pack
where every one is himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20

Alaska promises to become farm
ing country to the extent that it's
agricultural output may surpass its
mineral production. Nearly 1000
men are working on the new gov
eminent railroad which is being built
by the Alaskan Engineering Commits
sion, under the direction of Secretary
of the Interior Lane in Alaska this
year. one thousand more than were
employed last season. A number of
those whose applications were receiv-
ed too late have gone north anyway,
many of them intending to apply for
homesteads. The new railroad passes
thru an extensive agricultural coun-
try, and between 500 and 1000 home
steaders are now developing that re-
gion as it was never possible to de-
velop it before the coming of the rail-
road.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20

There is a double reason for utlllz-
ing every acre of tillable land in Kan
sas for the production of crops this
year. Such action is not only patrl-
otto but it is certain to prove profit
able. Failure of the people to do this
is more likely to result from lack OF
Iaborers in the fields than from any
other cause. Much might be done in
the way of supplying help to the farm
ers by establishing recruiting stations
in the colleges and high schools. There
Is little room for doubt that thousands
of boys and young men in the towns
would be glad to spend few weeks or
months or farm at this season of
the year. If anything is to be done
along this line it must be done at once.
1t will be useless to wait until the
schools close. Planting time is here
now and the wheat harvest soon will
be at hand. Team work between the
farmers. and the townspeople is neces-
sary .-- .-.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20
SLOWING DOWN.

Where are those big guns with
which the Germans battered down
Brussels. Liege and the fortress of
Verdun? Nothing is heard of them
in connection with the battle now in
progress. Are they useless in the
present kind of fighting, or is there
scarcity of ammunition?
In the earlier stages of the war the
German explosives and projectiles
were without a peer in the matter of
quality. Denied adequate supplies of
raw material however. her chemists
and machinists have been checkmated.
Even synthetic substitutes for stand
ard products require certain base ma
terials and when these are lacking
scientists and artisans may become
we'll nigh helpless. Germany is now
largely dependent upon salvaged cop
per for her supplies, of this highly nee
essary metal.
Undisputed figures show that she
received a scant 22,253, sos pounds of
copper in the first seven months of
1915 at a cost of $1,000, 377-the last
copper she was able to import. Dur
ing the same IlOHlIS dTSdI
took 133,216.732 pounds and since
then has bought in America PA, 207,-
059 pounds up to April 1 of this year.
France has had in the same period
42s, 360,015 pounds. England and
France are still buying the re-. metal,
and along with it iron and steel as raw
material and in manufactured prod
ucts.
But, whether the German supply
of metals is adequate or not, there is
still another vital shortage that is
Gripping the efficiency of the German
guns-nitrates, The German exp1o-
sives have been robbed of a great deal
of their power thru the inferiority of
this vital element. The big guns, the
rifles and land mines do not wreak
the havoc that was their wont.
By every sign, exhaustion is creep
ing upon the Central powers-exhaus-
ton that is reflected in the yielding
lines on the west front and in the
steadily decreased food allowances
sanctioned by the food dictator, and
reflected in the madness that gambled
with the United States whep the order
for ruthless submarine warfare was
/ promulgated on the chance that we
would prefer dishonor and ease to
war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20
KEEP COOL.

The thing most to be desired in
every American community today, says
the Los Angeles Times, is that people
shall keep cool and level-headed as the
republic goes about its mighty prepa-
rations for the tremendous and solemn
undertaking ahead. Nothing could
more nicely fit into the schemes of
the enemy overseas than the growth in
this country of an idea that the gen.
eral economic conditions in the United
States are imperiled by the war The
more smoothly things are kept going
in all the regular channels of business
industrial and development activity,
the easier it will be to build up the
not of our seeking have made neces-
sary, and the more reserve force the
country will have in graphing with
whatever trial may be ahead.
Were the nervous persons who are
so bent upon buying up the visible
supply of groceries to continue their
cornering of foodstuffs. of course the
laws of supply and demand might
eventually bring about a. him of the
conditions they are so fearfully antic-
ipating, but there is no reason for
thinking that starvation prices can
possibly come in the natural course of
events. Nor is any submarine going
to root its way underground from the
ocean depths into the bank vaults. In
these days when the police are having
all they can do to curb the lawless-
ness that is being melted by alien
enemies within our gates the bank is
more truly than ever the safest of all
places for funds.
| We have with US the man who
thinks that if he doesn't load his house
| from cellar to attic with flour and
canned goods and sacks of beans he
may soon have the alternative of paw
ing SIS a loaf for bread or starving to
death. The grocers all know him.
The funny thing about it is that it isn't
the man of ordinary means who is do
ing this. People swelI-to-do that
they could pay real Berlin war prices
Indefinitely and never feel it are the
ones who are ordering their groceries
in drayload lots. The average family
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20

is taking cognizance of the centin-
gencies by planting a garden.
The briefest reflection on common
sense lines would convince all these
war-worried individuals how utterly
uncalled-for, how downright silly, in
fact, their fears and precautions are
There is no earthly reason why the
war in which the United States is now
engaged should greatly disturb bust
ness or financial conditions in this or
any other part of the country. The
only danger to be anticipated under
existing conditions is that so many per-
sons IN the aggregate might become
affected with foolish apprehensions as
to start another wave of psychology
cal depression such as gripped the
country a few years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20
SCRAP ON RAIL RATES
Debate /. C. C.'s Order for is Per
Cent Raise on June l.

Washington. April 2O.-Hearings
opened today on the interstate COM
merce commissions tentative order
permitting all railroads to increase all
freight rates 15 per cent on June 1.
The commission also allowed tenta-
lively the increase to apply to thru
rates which are less than the total of
rates to and from intermediate points
and shippers from the intermountain
territory are expected to protest
strongly against such an arrange
ment. r-,r stt
The commissions order does not
apply to bituminous coal, coke and
iron ore on which the railroads intend
to ask specific increases, or to special
services on which the roads ask no
advance, such as terminal charges,
demurrage switching. diversion and
refrigera ton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20


The appearance of a German sub
marine off the Atlantic coast doubt
less will have a tendency to spur up
enlistments. Enlistments in the Ma
rine Corps in the last few days have
broken all records in the history of
recruiting. These Soldiers of the
Sea" are making net gains daily of
whole companies and battalions at
their distinctive recruiting stations
from coast to coast, according to re-
ports just made public. The desire
of red blooded Americans to be the
first to take a shot a periscope and
the realization of the fact that we
need marines as well as submarines,
at this time, is responsible COR this
material increase in marine corps re-
cruiting, according to government
officials
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20
wArcHFUL WAITING AGAIN.

The much criticised watchful walt
ing policy of President Wilson has at
last found justification in the eyes OF
+he editor of the New Republic. VIM
says:
The American waiting policy has
served Germany vas driven by the
logic of her original aggression to
threaten the security of all neutrals
connected with the rest of the world
by maritime communications. The
Russian autocracy was overthrown.
because it betrayed it's furtive kim
ship with the German autocracy.
Finally. President Wilson used the
waiting period for the education of
American public opinion. His cam
paign speeches prophesied the aban-
donment of American isolation in the
interest of a League of Peace. His
note of last December to the belliger-
ents brought out the sinister secrecy
of German peace terms and the COM
parative frankness of that of the AL
lies. His address to the senate clearly
enunciated the only program on be-
half of which America could inter-
vene IN European affairs. Never was
there a purer and more successful ex-
ample of Fabian political strategy. for
Fabianism consists not merely in
waiting but in preparing during the
meantime for the successful applica-
ton of a plan to a confused and dan
gerous situation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20
STEALS U. S. FLAG
Some One Takes Court House Old
Glory to SHOW Patriotism.

The east says the west isn't patri-
otto That isn't true. Patriotic fer
vor has reached its pinnacle in Topeka
and Topeka is in the west. Nowhere
else in the country have men been
known to steal for their country. They
are stealing flags in Topeka. Offlcers
are unable to ascribe that to anything
other than patriotism.
big flag was stolen from the court
house in broad daylight. 1t was hung
out the window of the register of deeds
Thursday morning and that evening
when a clerk went to take it in out OF
the night air it was gone. Stars. bars
and staff were gone and today they
are undoubtedly proving to the world
that there is another patriot in town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20

the simple truth. And that is a funda-
mental triumph. The person who
grows up among his fellows with an
unmarried reputation for yeracity and
sincerity, it having been proved that
he will not tell any kind of a lie, for
business, for politics or for society,
achieves a career that men and angels
acclaim. This meeting should create
ton that whatever else they may or
may not become. they will at least be
fearless and tactful of the truth.
Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie;
A fault that needs it most grows two
thereby.
George Herbert
Lying is like a tumor in the mind
it grows steadily and it poisons the
whole body.--Anon.
1t is difficult TO maintain falsehood.
When the materials of a building are
solid stone. very rude architecture will
suffice; but a structure of rotten ma
terials needs careful adjustment to
make it stand.-Archbishop Whately.
Thou shalt not go up and down as
a tale-bearer among the people.-The
Mosaic Law.
Though fame has coldly passed me by
And riches n1'er my name could spy,
If truth and justice l have sought,
If love and kindness | have bought,
Then, spite of lJss I've made some gain.
Blest thought, l have not lived in vain.
e. H. S.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20
Is YEARS AGO IN Topeka
From the columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
April 20, 1892.

April 20, 1892.
The Potwin Chautauqua circle is meet
ing this month with Mrs J. Il. Larimer.
There will be a baseball game at Wa h.
burn Monday afternoon.
The stairs of the state house dome will be
complete so that people can climb them by
June 80.
The Modocs have arranged to meet every
Monday and Friday to practice They are
getting ready to sing at the triennial con-
clave of the knights Templars to be held
in Denver in August.
Mrs. Charles F. Spencer is visiting rela-
tives in Dayton, o.
Secretary of Agriculture Mohler is still
busy among the Kansas counties organ
izing county fair associations.
May wheat closed today at 81. May corn
closed at 421a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20
SUFFS In WAR PLEA
President Gait Argues Foreign Vote
Defeated 1t i'm States.

Washington, April 20.-The federal
woman suffrage constitutional amend
day before the senate suffrage COM
mfrtee by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
president of the National American
Suffrage association, and other leaders
of the movement.
Mrs. Gait argued that the defeat of
suffrage in several states in recent
elections was definitely traceable to
foreign votes directed by unscrupu-
lous native-born. The duty of con-
gress. she urged, was to prevent such
things
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20
SHELL LIFEBOATS
Two Norwegian Ships Survivors Re-
port Barbaric Attacks by U-Boats.

London, April 20.-A Reuter- dis
patch from Christiania says that an
inquiry into the sinking of the Nor
wegian steamer. The Star, has re-
vealed that the attacking submarine
fired on the lifeboats as they were be-
ing lowered after the Germans loot
ed the steamer.
The dispatch also says the captain
of the Norwegian steamer Blomvaag
reports that a submarine fired on his
boats as they were being lowered. kill
ing four sailors. He adds that the at
tackers looted the cabins of the ship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20
LOCAL MENTION

Social Dance at Kirkpatrick hall
tomorrow, Saturday, night Saunders
orchestra. Admission 35c. Adv.
Topeka merchants are still undecid-
ed whether to hold a Merchants Week
or not. Two dozen merchants met
today noon at the Chamber of Com
merce and discussed the proposition
for two hours. A number of projects
were discussed and it was decided 70
adjourn to meet again some day next
week. Meantime. an effort will be
made to agree upon some definite
Dlan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20

Protectionists are Selling upon the
governments need of war revenue to
urge an increase of the tariff duties.
So long as the same people pay the
tariff taxes that pay those levied in
any other way it cannot make much
difference to them how the money is
collected. But it might make a vast
difference in the nations trade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20

One of the compensations of the war
may be that we shall hear no more of
the tariff for while. We shall be
busy supplying the world with the
products of our farms and factories
while Europe will have all it can do
for many years in supplying it's own
needs. The trade of South America,
which has belonged to Germany and
England in the past, is coming to US
and is coming to stay.