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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
HUNS FALL BACK
Strategic Retirement Made on
Dixmude Front.
Fortified Farms and
Blow Up Works.

Washington, Nov ia German
retirement on the Dixmude front was
reported officially to the Belgian le-
cation today.
THE enemy is abandoning fortified
farms on the User left bank, blowing
up elaborate concrete redoubts, said
an official statement.
Belgian attachments occupied the
positions, caused severe losses to the
enemy and captured scores of pris-
oners."
Smash Center of. ItaIy's Line.
New York, Nov. 19.-Heavy masses
of Austro-German troops are being
thrown against the Italian lines be-
tween the Pave and the Brenta in an
effort is concentrated at present upon
Italian armies defending the Piave
line and those to the west, in the
Asiago region.
Comparatively rapid progress has
been made in this operation within
N last day or two and it is becoming
clear that the main Austro-G erman
effor tbs concentrated at present upon
what is probably this most vulnerable
point in the Italian defensive line.
Quero, on the upper Piave, about
fifty miles from the coast was taken
by the invaders, who subsequently
pushed the left flank of their line west
of the river a considerable distance
south along that bank.
Fuftner west the maSSou OFFENSIVE
movement has carried the TeutonS to
Monte Tomba, some five miles south
west of Ouero and they are attacking
the front between this eminence anu
the river with a force which the Itai-
ians are finding it hard to cope with,
despite their most desperate efforts
Serious Menace to Romans.
Should the Austro-German thrust
be carried much further here the en-
tire upper Pfave line, from point
near Conegliano approximately 80
miles from the Adriatic would he in
Tertonic possession and it is 'ilfficult
to see how the Italians in this case
would be able to continue their hold
on the southerly stretches of tie river
which az present they are brave-y and
successfully defending.
In the eastern Tren1no the Italians
have begun a counter offensive on the
Asiago plateau, which already has
/ netted them gains. 1t is not appar-
! ent as yet however, that this move
| ment is in sufficient strength to con-
| stitute any menace TO the Austro-
! German operations further east
| Scotch Troops Score.
London, Nov. 19.-Scottish and
Warwick troops carried out success
/ full raids in the neighborhood of Mon
/ cy lie Preux on Greenland hill and
north of .Roeux, Field Marshal Haig
/ reported today.
Turnout the whole battle area he
/ reported enemy artillery very active.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

MRS. LOUISA FEssENDEN; 50 years
old. died Saturday evening at the home of
her son. F. E. Fessenden, 1921 Tyler street
The body was taken to Clyde, Kan, for
burial Funeral services Will be held at
Clyde tomorrow.
FRANCIS NTZHUGH,, so years old died
at his residence S24 Fillmore street. He
is survived by his wife and six children.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday
morning at O'Clock at the Church of the
Holy Name Interment in st. Joseph GEM
etery at Holton, Kan.
CARL WEDDING, &c years old. resi-
dent of Topeka for thirty years, died at
8 80 O'Clock Sunday night at his home.
1922 Fillmore street. He is survived by
his wife. one daughter, Mrs. W. @, Storrs.
and two sons, DIR. Walter Wedding of To-
peka and Julius Wedding of Dumas, Tex.
Funeral announcements later.
JESUS CALVERON. - years old. died
this morning at 225 North jefferson street.
Funeral will be held from the St Marie
Catholic church tomorrow morning at s
O'Clock Burial in Mt. Calvary cemetery.
Lords Flowers Satisfy Tel. S27--
Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
CHARGES He IS SURLY
Mrs. Anna Blanche Sage Sues Her
Husband for Divorce.

Anna Blanche Sage, formerly Anna
Shirley, today filed a suit for divorce
against Olcott w. Sage, a former To-
peka bank clerk and well known in
this city. Sage's parents are wealthy
and live near Berryton. Mrs. Sage's
parents also are well-to-do and live
near Granville.
The young couple were married
March 4, 1914. Mrs. Sage charges
cruelty and gross neglect of duty in
her petition. For year, Mrs. Sage
alleges, her husband has been surly
and has refused to speak to her. Also
she charges that he has failed to pro-
vide her with a home, altho he is able
to maintain one. The only home she
has is one provided and furnished by
her father and mother, she states in
the netitiOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
JOIN AERO SERVICE
C. L. Cone and Five Other Kansans
Among II Accepted at Omaha.

Omaha, Nov. 19.-Seventeen men
have passed the physical test and have
been accepted for the aviation service
and thirty-seven for the balloon ser
vice, according to an announcement
made today at Fort Omaha.
Successful candidates for the avia-
ton service are C. NJ. Anderson, Ce-
non, Neb.; r. E. Johnson, OsceoIa
Neb.; Samuel Kior, Lincoln, Neb.; L.
E. Waters, Lincoln; William Brainerd
Des Moines, Ia; w. M Mansfield, Ce-
dar Rapids. Ia; W. r. Sheridan, Ban
croft, Ia; c. L. Cone, Topeka, Kan;
J. H. Gross. Ottawa. Kan; r. L. Jer-
envy, Emporia, Kan; A. E. Mahannah,
Sedgwick, Kan; Clarence Peterson,
Emporia, Kan; o. f. Utter. Cherry
vale, Kan; LIE Roy Farmer, LeXing-
ton, Mo; c. E. Wilson. Lexington,
Mo; H. F. Lemon, Minneapolis, and A.
C. Merkle, Bowdle, S. D.
Chas. L. Cone, until recently, when
he entered military service, was a
craftsman in the engineering depart
ment of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe offices here. He was an all-around
engineer. In Topeka he lived at 700
Topeka avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
INDICT MAX EASTMAN
Publisher of 1.-THE Masses Held by
Grand jury for Conspiracy

New York, Nov. 19.-MaX Eastman,
publisher of The Masses magazine re-
Gently denied second class mail privi-
Ieges, was indicted here today with
six others connected with the pub
LEGATION on a charge of conspiracy in
violation of the espionage act by the
federal grand jury. Bench warrants
were Immediately issued for their
arrest.
Those named with Eastman were
Floyd Dell, managing editor; c. Mer-
riIl Rogers jr., business manager.
Henry r. Glentner- Kamp, cartoonist;
Arthur Young, artist; John Reed,
writer, and Joseph Bell, writer.
Two indictments for attempting to
use the mails for non-maiIable matter
also were returned against The
Masses Publishing Co. as a corpora
ton and c. Merrill Rogers, jr., as an
individual
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
Cooking Utensils for
Thanksgiving

SI.25 Savory Rooster. size for S-lb.
Turkey-S1.OO.
S1.T5 Savory Rooster. size for 15-lb.
Turkey@S1.25.
$5.15 Wear Ever Aluminium Turkey
Roaster-$4.SS.
1886 Wear-Ever Aluminium Turkey
Rooster /5.49.
SIPS Casserole brown and white hak-
ing ware, with nickel plated stand-9Sc.
$500 Aluminium Windsor Kettle,
Wear-Ever brand. a 59c-cent size-$1.69
s2.oO Aluminium Coffee Percolators, ca.
slice
$3.50 Electric Toasters, each-S1.95.
apiece Carving Set, in this sale-$2.0O
per set.
3-piece Carving Set, stag handles-$5.
All Dinner Ware Patterns at 1917 off Reg
ular Prices. 10-year Par Plate Community
SiIverWare. Vernon Pattern. At very spe-
cial prices during this sale.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
CALLS AT CITY HALL
Miss Ward Extends Her Thanks t.
the Commissioners.

Members of the city commission
this morning heard a talk on food
conservation.
Mary Ward, food emergency ex-
pert for Topeka, called on the board
to thank it for the 500 the city has
voted for expenses of the work here,
and incidentally explained her work.
Miss Ward said she has held SO
meetings in the last weeks and
the most of them have been in schools
and with the parent-teachers' asso-
Citations. AT each meeting the attend
ance of interested women has totaled
between SO and so.
The food emergency worker said
she expects to devote considerable of
her time here. from now on, to work
among the various clubs and organi-
cations of the CITY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
TOPEKAN PRESIDENT
5: j. Shook, Manager StrickIer's Bust
ness College, Heads Teachers Body.

s. j. Shook, manager of Stricken
Business college of Topeka, has been
elected president of the Missouri Val
ley Commercial Teachers association
at the recent convention of that body
held in Kansas City. Mr.. Shook ap-
peared before the convention with
speech last week.
Mr.. Shook has been manager of the
Strickler school in Topeka for the last
seven years. He came here directly
from Kansas City to the mana gership
of this big Topeka institution. His
former home was in Jennings. Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
MACBETH TONIGHT
Noted Prima Donna Soprano to Sing at
the Auditorium Tonight.

Florence Macbeth, the noted prima
donna soprano, will sing tonight at the
auditorium. The concert will be one
of the several that the E1ls are giving
this winter for the benefit of the SOL
diers.
Macbeth is one of the cast of the
Boston and Chicago Grand Opera COM
panies Families or soldiers in ser
vice are invited to attend the concert
without admission charge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
RELEASE OIL LEASES
AIT Hope Given Up of Finding BLACK
Gold" in Shawnee County.

The Kansas Natural Gas company
In Ihe register of Deeds office today
Recessed all its oil leases in Shawnee
county. The release involves several
hundred acres In southern Shawnee
COUNTY.
a few days ago J. f. w. Renker. a
topeka oil man, released leases in
Shawnee county involving several
theuSand acres.
The releases are indicative that the
0iR men are losing hope of finding pc
troieum in Shawnee county
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
GIRL FALLS TO DEATH
Fatal Plunge Probably While Asleep,
From DOrmitory Window.

St. Charles, Mo-. Nov. 19.--Miss
Adelaide Henshaw, IT years old of Ok
lahoma City "a student at Underwood
college, was found dead today be-
meath a dormitory window. Other
girls in the school think she fell from
the window sill while asleep.
She was the daughter of George
Henshaw, a lawyer of Oklahoma City,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
FICKEL COMES HERE
Buys a Shawnee County Farm Never
Before Sold.

D. B. Fickel of Agenda, Republic
county. has come to this community
10 live. Last week he bought the
$50 acre farm of the late 7. r. Reed,
Az miles south of Topeka paying
therefor Sis per acre. a remark
able feature of this sale is that Mr.
Reed took out a government patent
for this land in 1868 and the farm
has never been transferred until it
was sold to Mr.. Fickel last week by
c. o. Ansel, the administrator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
KANSAN DIES AT CAMP
Atchison Soldier Succumbs to Spinal
Meningitis at Doniphan.

Atchison. Kan. Nov. 19.-The first
of Atchison county>s drafted men to
die in the service of his country was
Iraden Babcock, aged 25. News of
his death at Camp Doniphan as a re-
suit of spinal meningitis was received
here today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19

New York Nov. 19.-MercantiIe Daner
81. sterling, 6O-day bills, 4T11a: CONNER
elslls G0-day bills on banks, Al commercial
e01Siay bills, 4.I01s demand, 4.15A cables,
fINyt-16. Francs, demand n cables
AN Lires. demand, $50: cables, S67
Ruhles. demand, 1915; cables, 1855.
Ifar silver. S5la Mexican dollars 651A
Government bonds weak; railroad bonds
weak.
Time loans, steady; GO days. 5G5A 30
days. 5A " six months 51s6&
CAL money strong high. : low. 324 rul-
ing rate 4 closing bid. AZ offered at 5 !;
LIZ loan. 3
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
LOCAL MENTION

For sale. small house. Cali at rs
East 4th.-Adv.
An alI-day meeting of the y. s. c.
club is announced for Tuesday at the
home of Mrs. ]. E. Clement on Ohio
avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
New Orleans Cotton Market.


rw Orleans. Nov. 10-COTTON-Spo
a and unchanged; middling. $500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19

Unfinished by T. j. Myers. 3O1 N. f. Bldg,
New York. Nov. 10.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
Mems Shirts Mems gray Cotton oe,l, Fla Ia,

serviceable, with collars attached, $3.50
value-$1.1O.
Odds and ends to close out in mems
Percale Shirts, good variety of patterns,
SI.0o values-75c.
Mems fine woven Madras Shirts, all
sizes, "A to IT, worth up to $500, your
choice-S1.25.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
Umbrellas

sortment of gold, silver and i
trimmed handles. also plain and car
mission and other styles, covered '
fast black Union Silk, the most serv
able material Values up to SO, du
this sale-$4.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
SNAP SHOTS
To Avoid Delay.
AT HOME NEWS

III leave to you, my niece" he said,
MY fortune when l die"
Thanks, uncle, won't you have -other
-Cir-Cingle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19

Fancy aIl-over silk laces for blouses
and nets for dresses, values from S1-50
new shadings during this 10 Price
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19

Lords Flowers Satisfy. Tel. SCI
Adv.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-05

most prodigal and extravagant in the
world. We have wasted our natural
resources. We have squandered the
fertility Of our soil without return. We
have slaughtered our game till bison
to moose, partridge to quail, are all
but extinct. We have thrown away
great tracts of valuable lands; we
have exploited our coal till the supply
is limited, measured-we know how
many tons remain. The rest is gone
Our forests have been denuded, plum
dered, ruthlessly cut without reforest-
alton. Vast areas of great, valuable
timber have been burned through lack
of adequate forest protection, or to
clear the land for crops
The tendency of the age in educa-
ton, as in our national resources, has
been one of extravagant waste. There
is no conservation of our youth. There
is no calculation to eliminate the wan
ton destruction of material. We eat
into the future without regard to
what kind of living place we are
making for our children's children.
We have wasted our natural re-
sources; let us preserve our youth. Let
us stop burning great, valuable men
by educating them to mental work
which they loathe. We have all been
created to do one thing better than
another. Ruskin says, Happy is he
who has found his work" Let US
save our coming men, directing mis-
spent and misguided energies into
economic independence and civic use
fulness.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-05
A GLAD HAND AND A FOND FAREWELL.

James E. Rockwell, city editor of The Duluth
Evening Herald, and one Of the best known news
paper men IN the upper lakes region has purchased
substantial interest in ''The Forum Fargo s
prosperous and influential daily newspaper, and will
leave his desk at The Herald office tonight to be-
come actively identified with the Fargo paper.
Mr.. Rockwell has been connected with The Duluth
Herald for fifteen years. beginning reporter and
covering every run on the paper. When C. F. Nc
Donald resigned as city editor of The Herald to
succeeded by Mr.. Rockwell, and he has held down
that desk ever since with credit to himself and the
management OF the newspaper maintaining at
all times The Herald's we'll known reputation for
reliability In reporting local news matter He is a
capable wide-awake, progressive and forward look
ing man who is admired and respected by all who
have had the good fortune to know him. While his
departure from Duluth is deeply regretted he car
ries with him to his home the very best wishes
and highest hopes Of wide circle Of friends who
expect to hear great things about him in his new
venture, which is sure to be winner from the
outset.
James A. Stuart is to hold down the position of
city editor made vacant by the resignation of Mr.
Rockwell. Mr. Stuart recently returned from St.
Paul where he represented The Herald during the
session Of the legislature. His reports of the daily
doings at the state capitol were read with whole
some interest by the people Of Northern Minnesota
He covered his work with such thoroughness and
his reports to his paper were unbiased that the
average newspaper reader found little difficulty in
closely following from day to day every movement
OF the Legislature. Mr. Stuart has had wide expert
ence in newspaper work and his many friends know
in advance that he will make good with ease at his
new task
The Labor World extends fraternal greetings to
| the two '.]lms.' We bid a fond farewell to one
and hold out cheerful glad hand to the other Such
men Will win III any venture they set their hearts
and minds upon. Go to it boys, the world is yours
for the taking.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-05
On the one hand was poverty, on the
other concentrated wealth, with all
Of fhei1. 1zicious conaaa1anooe

On the one hand was poverty, on the
other concentrated wealth, with all
Of their vicious consequences.
The government is going to spend
seven billions during the next few
months. If only that money could
have been employed in an intelligent,
fearless, radical campaign against I'M
deserved poverty and unearned
wealth! Suppose that the newspapers
could have filled their columns; the
preachers delivered their sermons,
and the teachers utilized their posi-
ton, of unparalleled advantage and
power. Suppose the movies, the
chautauquas, and all of the other
agencies for the molding Of public
opinion had devoted as much atten-
ton to the perils of these internal
problems as they devoted to the perils
Of nilitarism in Germany-if only
they could have done that, how diff
ferent-how very different the subse-
quent history of the United States
might have been.
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these-1t might have
BEEN"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-05
{. SATURDAY. b.

PEELED from membership in the union. When the
strike is won the union Stacker is left in the cold
he is an exile unless he pays the penalty levied
against him and is restored to union membership
Now the Big Union is on strike. 1t is the United
States Of America the greatest of all Unions of Men,
Its demand is for universal human freedom. To
carry the strike and to insure complete victory
men are needed for "picket" duty, and to prevent
favoritism and discrimination it is proposed that
every able bodied member of the Big Union of fight
ing age be called for service on the firing line or
wherever he may be most needed or best fitted.
That's union principles We follow this method in
every labor strike, and usually accept the duty
without quibbling over any question Of personal
liberty. If such is good thing in labor union
strike why isn't it much better when the biggest
and best Union of all-our Naton-is at war-on a
strike if you please?
Naturally the proposition arises that if the nation
conscrpts it's there should also be a conscrip-
ton of wealth. And that is all right, too Don t
make the mistake of wasting your energy in oppos-
ing selective conscription but work like men for
the proposition, and then we may with perfect con-
sstency call upon government to conscript ex-
cessive incomes, idle wealth. and last, but most i'm
portant Of all--the land, which must be nsed and
worked to feed the world while so many of it's men
are engaged in war, and are not used in production
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-05
"Of All Sad Words"
BY SCOTT NEARING.

The American people were slow to
enter the war. Indeed, it is doubtful
whether majority of them would
have voted in favor of war at the
time when war was declared.
The war will be expensive-expen-
sive in life and joy, and expensive in
wealth-yet the prospect of this ex-
pense proved no deterrent. The ma
tions of Europe have spent, to date,
perhaps rs billions in the warAa sum
large enough to buy New. York city
eight times over; a sum large enough
TO pay every. man, woman and child
in the world $45 or $50; a sum large
enough to build over a hundred Pan
anna canals; a sum large enough to
provide $4,000 for each Of the 30
100000 persons in the United States
who are now living in poverty-and
| there's the rub. .>.@
When the government of the
United States assumed the task of
! crushing milftarism in Germany there
were five or six million families in
the United States who. according to
the figures published by the Federal
Health bureau, were living in pow
erty: More than a million little chill
dren were at work for wages; three
fourths of the ten millions of women
who work in the United States were
receiving a weekly wage Of less than
IS; half of the adult men engaged in
American industries were earning less
than $500 per year. There were acct
dents. trade diseases, unnecessary
sickness. More than half a million
people died each year from prevent
able causes The wealth OF the coun-
try-the land, resources, Transports
ton agencies and factories were beins
/ rapidly concentrated in the hands Of
q small percentage Of the population.
Farm tenancy was incre asins RAPIDLY,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-05-05
LABOR'S PROGRAM
BY REV. CHARLES STEIZLE.

Like most other reform move
ments, organized labor seeks to abol-
ish poverty. But it does not spend
its time dreaming about millennium
in which all wrongs shall be righted,
and all ills cured. It's leaders are op-
portunists. They are alert to the
measure which promises immediate
though only partial relief
They are convinced that the work.
ingman is not receiving his just share
of the common product. They are
not prepared to state just what that
share shall be, but they insist that we
have not yet reached the point in our
industrial life when all workingmen
should be satisfied with their wages.
It is not fair to ask labor to specify
any given amount with which it
promises to be satisfied for all time.
Money has different value in differ
ent sections of the country and at diff
ferent periods of time. Also, the de-
velopment of our Industrial life may
be such as to completely alter the
relative value of the services of both
employer and employee. The intro
duction of labor-saving machinery,
for example, may revolutionize our
chief industries.
The workingman feels that he is
entitled to fair share in the products
of all improvements. He is not ready
to commit himself to any contract
which will prevent his securing fu-
ture, and what will then be conceded
perfectly legitimate, advances in his
wages The increase in wages and
the shortening of hours Of labor-the
two principal points of contention be-
tween capital and labor-must be
worked out upon an evolutionary
basis, such changes being made from
time to time as conditions warrant.