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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
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Mein dear son Heine: I peleif dot
you must half hadt information on
der inside und known dot der COT
ernmendt vos going to float anoder
Liberty Loan, und for dot reason tried
to beat dem to idt ven you wrotten
me dot letter. However. heremit ISIS
der check nit der weekly allowance
puy der inside.
Say. Heine, idt ISIS generally con-
coded dot der United Stadts ISIS adj
der head of all Countries, und dot We
leadFei1f. eferything, manufacturing,
farming base ball, box-fghting, und
and so forth. but now comes der
greatest undertaking vot vos efer un-
dertook puy any Nation. namely. dot
ISIS making more daylight where
darkness vos before. Chust think off
idt Heine We inventioned der tele
phone, der submarines, der airy
blanes. Billy Sunday, und lots off oder
machinery. but now comes inven-
ton dot efen der Creator didn't at
tempt-der frightening off der day
mans or anybody else expect to whip
a country dot can accomplish sooch
an accomplishments. OFF course,
Heine, 1 don't chust understood how
ISIS idt dot idt will be done, but Con-
gress hass passed der Law, und dot
settles idt. You see ven Congress
passes a Law, den idt goes chust vot
Congress says, und der peoples must
do idt whether dey can do idt or
nodt, odervise dey go to chail. Now
dot ISIS how We gedt more daylight
because Congress says so, und der
matter ISIS settled. Der Law says on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23

Dryden entered politics right from
the coal mines. He was not a mine
superintendent or boss of any sort. He
simply went into the Scranton mines
every day with the gang and produced
his share of the tonnage output.
During the summer months when
the mines were running on short hour
schedules, Dryden played With the
Scranton baseball club. One day when
he was in another county with his ball
team, the Usage county Republican
convention nominated him for clerk
of the district court. That was in
1904. Dryden came home, made the
campaign and was elected by a big
majority.
That was the end of coal. digging.
Dryden spent four years in the
clerks office and he was rated as
one of the most efficient officials the
county had known. He began to take
a. hand in directing the political af-
fairs of the county and in 1908 the
Scranton coal miner was nominated
and elected to the state legislature.
He served in the house during the
100 session.
Following the 1909 session, Dryden
was given a clerkship in the state in
suranCe department by Charles w.
Barnes That appointment gave Bry-
derf tae opportunity to study the in
side science of the insurance game.
Recently Dryden told his friends he
would b. a candidate for the Repub-
lfcan nomination for state superin-
tendent in the Angus primaries Bry-
den has a good acquaintance among
insurance men and the men active in
political affairs in the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23

March 31s+ "farvnody moost gedt GOD
pefore daylight adj 200 A. NJ, vich
ISIS pe1orc - 1,.nlast, und on Sunday
particularly, und after gedting oop
den look der clock in der face md set
idt ooP an hour to 800 A. NJ, und
idt ISIS ofer
Now, Heine, I don't chust gedt idt
vot happens, but anyway der day iss
longer. Vot 1 don't understood ISIS
whether | sleep an hour longer or
whether | gedt oop an hour earlier.
Likewise do 1 gedt paid for an hour
ofertime|or do 1 loose an hours work
meme ! WISH dot you vouldt see dot
mathematician professor und please
try ind figure ouidt chust xot con-
sreSs mass did. Suppose dot 1 am on
a train vich reaches we're am going
adt ESQ a M. Sunday morning Now.
Nouldt l gedt there? You see there iss
nodt any 2:30 a. m, Sunday morning
so adt dot time 1 wouldn't be some
where, so where am /? Oh ptIv COL
~, vot ISIS loose, idt iss too mooch for
me. Off course. der idea ISIS all right.
II inc, und 1 am for vot> efer congress
may did. but ven idt comes to chop-
ping off some darkness und shofinr in
some more daylight idt makes me dig
" puy der headt, und wont somepody
blease explanation we're dot EXTRA
daylight comes from.
Now iff congress can buy passing a
law make more daylight why cant idt
chust as easy pass a law declaring der
Chermans ISIS licked und so end der
var? Heine, I don't like to say idt. but
1 pellet somepody ISIS crazy
Hoping you are der same
Your fader.
LOUIE SCHNTTz.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23

All thru the long months the star
looked down upon the fair lake whose
waves were softly splashing and tell
ing of all happy things. 1t saw the
sweet blossoms in the bright month of
flowers (May.) Saw the gentle fawns
in the month of deer (July) come
trooping down to drink of the cool
water of the lake. Now in the gray
month of the beaver (November) the
star had grown more and more pale
breathing its life away in signs and
longing.
Then the great Master of life,
holder of the heavens, saw with pity,
and because of His love which keeps
all things within the circle of His
arms, gave the star its wish Slowly
thru the twilight, when Gush Kewan
the darkness, and Weeng, the gentle
spirit of sleep lowered in the air, the
star came drifting downward. floating,
drifting. falling from the far plains
of heaven, the fair land above
Then a hunter. named the Dreamer,
the one who saw where there was
the star falling swiftly thru the dark
ness with all its paleness gone flashed
red across the sky. He thought it was
a meteor. Then he turned to look in
wonder as the star fell downward un-
til 1t rested at length upon the bosom
of the sleeping lake. And then won
der of all. IL strafghtwav blcssorned
forth a flower. with SLOWLY unfolding
silvery petals and heart of gold lying
rocked in rest and peace upon the
softly whispering water. Thus was
born the beautiful O-kun-dun-mog
the water lily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
As to that only the coming days can
WEDNESDAY.
FORECAST.

AS to that only the coming days can
tell
If Germany has begun her grand
offensive and is risking her last
strategic reserves in an effort to end
the war, it proves conclusively that
the high command has become desper-
ate and has decided to stake every
thing on one throw of the dice.
Such a state of desperation could
come from either of two causes. 1t
might be that internal conditions in
Germany were such that the imperial
government dared not risk an in
definite prolongation of the war along
defensive lines. Or it might mean that
those in authority have at last
awakened to the fact thai America
means business and have decided that
if Germany has any chance at all to
win, it is now, before American forces
in France reach large enough proper
tions to become a material factor in
the struggle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23

Strengthened out and were now boring
into the atmosphere at a terrific
speed, it seemed to me, tho afterward
the sergeant told me that We had
been making only a mere ninety miles
an hour-simple flying speed. 1
looked over the side of the car and
could just make out some of the
landmarks that were pictured on the
map in front of me. The earth be-
meath looked like a map, SO flattened
was everything by the perspective of
the seven thousand feet altitude at
which the instrument told me we
were flying.
Met Another Plane.
I did not hear a sound, but for
some reason, knew that my attention
was being called. Looking up 1 saw
my pilot pointing upward and for
ward. Another machine was coming
to meet us. My heart lesped into my
mouth. 1 had seen fights in the air
but never did 1 expect that I was to
be in one. Sergeant Focht must have
known my thoughts. He was laugh
ing. Then l saw why. The other
machine that dashed across our path
bore the red, white and blue target
that showed it to be one of the French
machines. 1 had thought that speed
ing autos pass each other quickly. but
those two ali machines, simply
flashed past each other.
Again my attention was called
This time the pilot was pointing down
ward. Wish l could tell what 1 saw,
but there was SO much of it and my
mind is not a camera There were
two irregular lines that stretched
across the earth map below. Here
and there white and occasionally a
darker cloud of smoke appeared. In
the air beneath us came little snow
balls of white smoke. There was no
sound, but 1 knew what it was. II
was the front
We were behind what I knew was
the German line, now and saw Focht
holding up his hand. immediately
oegan scrutinizing the ground looking
Tor that peculiar shaped bunch OF
trees. L had been told of. All, there
they were. As fast as l could work
Will the machine circled.
pressed the trigger and then turned
the crank of the box at nv knee
When the crank would turn no more
l Strengthened up and nodded al
Fochts grinning face. He turned
ABOUT again and the machine banked
c1rcled and Strengthened. We were off
Tor nome flying high and fast.
was sorry in spite of the fact that
| was stiff with cold. when the plane
hopped thrice and then settled down
IN front of the building it called home
More arms came into my compart-
ment of the car and took out the
things that had been put in when
started Others came and helped me
70 ran out of the machine, where
Focht, still grinning immediately
grabbed my hand. Over his shoulder
saw two men taking that box tf
what L knew was the Photographic
dark ROOM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
MUSIC and C0RNS
Topeka Chiropodist Used To Be
q Violin Player.
Deserts His Profession To Make
"Life' Worth Living
TREATS 700 EACH MONTH
Women Prove To Be the
Greatest of Sufferers.
Vanity of Capital City's Fair
Sex Is Exposed.

Things that might have happened
to a city's disposition, had a certain
fairly successful violinist not laid
aside his fiddle for a set of surgical
instruments and a sterilization outfit,
are hard to enumerate. Any one may
pick up current magazine and read
in it an advertisement telling of the
magic workings of the only reliable
corn cure on EARTH" that corns are a
menace to civilization thru the fact
that they spoil an evenings pleas
ure" and sour a person with natur-
ally sunny disposition into chronic,
confirmed crouch.
Any one who has a pet bunion, be
he young or old. rich or poor, beg
garman or thief, will testify that the
tiny callous does not tend to make the
owner an optimist. Curiosity killed
the proverbial cat, but death was
quick and devoid of torture. Had it
been corns the demise might truth
fully have been accompanied by
lingering torture and other things
ant -vivisectionists decry.
Doctors Tcmperamcntal Disease.
So much for the horrible POSSIBLE
ties of bunion. Now to get down to
the story about the man by whose
grace and sharp-edged surgical in
struments, Kansas avenue is a street
"
cate of the Strand during London
Zeppelin raid. AS was stated before,
this man put aside his violin for the
somewhat drab occupation of whit
Ting down bunions- Perhaps. tho,
in one sense of the word. it is not such
a drab occupation. 1t may take the
same common talent to raZe callouses
from their foundations deep between
the little" and second toes as 1t does
to operate a fiddle. There is tempera-
10 M
a corn Is a temperamental thing.
A City of Vanity.
And. tho it may not be generally
known, Topeka is a city of bunlons.
Lives there the Topekan who has
been forced at some time in his or
her life by vanity and tight shoe
to us. a cane as an aid in navigation.
OF course, friends were informed that
it was 2 sprained ankle or rheu-
matism Maybe they believed 1t.
Maybe not.
But if need be that argument can
be left clear of the controversy. What
more can be needed than this foot
artists own statement that he treats
seven hundred patients a month.
Some who come to his office possess
on their starboard toe a common.
ordinary inoffesive little callous
that 4 flip of a keen, shiny instru-
merit removes Some feet have bun
ions OF the bottom and crop" be-
sides that would make the food adj
ministration ashamed to ask the
farmers to work harder on their
spring planting. Mostly it's women
who come to the physicians office.
women with feet that are dainty when
clad in neat leather but gnarled and
ugly when shorn of adornment
/ With his 700 patients a month.
this physician is the businest person
in the city. bar none. He takes his
meals ION the fly" and is used to late
suppers. But by relieving aching.
painful feet he is bringing smiles to
Thousands.
What higher mission in life could
any mortal ask?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
WORK TWENTY HOURS 4 DAY
That Is What Garden City Company
Plans for Farmers.

Garden City. Kan, March 23.-The
public utilities commission has begun
the taking of testimony here in a case
wherein the Sugar Beet syndicate.
which furnishes electric power to the
city and to the farmers for irrigation
purposes, is seeking to increase its
rates and change it's hours of service
Some novel questions have been
brought up. The power company is
seeking to put into effect a system of
rotating power in zones or districts
similar to the plan of ditch companies
in rotating water to consumers In
this way the company would deliver
electrical power in alternate weeks to
the consumer. The plan is being Wig
orously opposed by the farmers.
Richard ]. Hopkins, former lieu
tenant governor. representing the
farmers, introduced testimony to show
that the company's plan would be i'm
praeticai and unreasonable and would
reduce the production on irrigated
farms from 25 to SO per cent. The
company's rules, if enforced, would
compel the farmers to use as much
power at might as during the day
time. 1t is next to impossible to get
farm labor. and the Testimony of ex-
pefienced 1rrigators and farmers
showed that the enforcement of the
company's plan would compel the
farmers to labor from sixteen to
twenty-four hours per day, or lose
their opportunity to irrigatc. Hop
kIns urged upon the commission that
it would be impractical and unreason-
able for the power company to furnish
electrical power in alternate weeks
only, and that to compel the farmers
to frrigate continuously for week
without interruption would compel
them to work such unreasonably long
hours as would impair their health
and be contrary to public policy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
BOOKS AT DONIPHAN
Five Thousand Volumes Donated by
Topekans Received by Soldiers.

Camp Doniphan, Okla, March Is
A shipment of los boxes containing
five thousand books. a gift from To-
peka. was received by the American
Library association at Camp Doniphan
Friday increasing the number of
books to seventeen thousand. The Ii
brary has been open a week. The
average daily attendance is four hun
dred.
A nationwide campaign to esta b.
lish a branch in each of the twenty
six wards of the base hospital. sup
plying each with thirty volumes of
picked fiction and nop-fiction. is be-
ing made. In addition a library for
the nurses home and medical officers.
outside the medical library they al
ready have. will be supplied
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
HE WAS A MINER.
Scranton Man Is Now Candi-
date for State Office.
w. j. Dryden Is Out for Super
intendent of Insurance..

1t is a long. long road from section
foreman to president of railroad.
1t is about the same distance from
newsboy to head of a Wall street bank
Now a Kansas man-W. J. Dryden of
Scranton-seems about to make the
trip from coal miner to state superin-
tendent of insurance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
DEATH HIS REMEDY
New Yorker Recommends Execution
for Anti-American Aliens.

Chicago. March 23-Denouncing
pacifists as the 'illegitimate offspring
of a hope and regret" Job E.
Hedges. New York, in an address here
recommended the death penalty for
Gernan-American who live in this
country and are not against Germany.
I'VE didn't enter this war, in my
opinion" Hedges said. God Almighty
took us by the nape of the neck and
threw us into it,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-07-05
BARRIERS BEMoAN TRADE LOSS
Women Who Are Taking Mems Places
In Industries Are Not Helping
Tonsoral Artist.

Memphis, Tenn.-Women taking the
place of men in the Industrial world
may be filling the Jobs all right, but
they are not helping the barber.
Visit any tOnsorlal establishment
and ask the man who wields the gleam-
ing blade. He will tell you some Of
his best customers have gone-gone to
fight the Germans. And he will tell
you that all the women who took their
places are strangers to him.
While the barber complains the
"beauty doctor" has a different story
to tell. She says her patrons are
more numerous than ever before, and
they are more liberal. They spend
money 1avishly. A few dollars to re-
move a wrinkle that has appeared as
a result Of business worries is handed
over without a murmur. Powder and
paint and toilet water are used Law
ishlv.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-07-05
DAUGHTERS OF REBEKAH
INSTALL THEIR OFFICERS

The Daughters of Rebekah installed
officers at their regular meeting Tuesday
evening in the presence of a goodly
number of members.
Ellen Betz served as deputy prisedent
and Lizzie Kistler as grand marshal:
The elective oificeas installed were:
May Miesse-Past Noble Grand.
Lizzie Enyart-Noble Grand.
Sarah Murchland Vice Noble Grand.
Matte Hoffman-Rec. Sec.
Blanche Andrews Sec'y.
Minnie Stemen-Treasurer.
Agnes endricks-Pianist.
The appointive officers installhd:
Ellen Betz-R, S. N. G.
Margaret McGee-L. S. N. G.
Clara Bowser-R. S. V. G.
Mary Rypkema-L. S. V. G.
Mary Ayers-Warden.
Rose Fisher-Conductress.
Inez Schuyler-O. G,
Elizabeth Stein l. G.
Jennie Bedell--Chaplain
After the installation a dainty COLA
ton was served and social hour gave
pleasure to all present.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-07-05
LETTER WRITING THE RAGE
Pretty French stenographer ls Cause Of
Literary Epidemic Among the
Marines.

Somewhere in France.-Letter writ
Ing has become all the rage among the
wounded United States marines COM
fined to the base hospitals here.
The reason is French stenographer,
II pretty one, too, who has volunteered
to write letters home for her incapacl-
tated American brothers.
The petite Parisienne makes a daily
visit to the Marine hospitals for die
tatlon-and the wounded devil dogs
have suddenly become literary giants.
They anXiously await her visits and
fairly swamp her with mail.
Gee, If l only had about three more
aunts and six more cousins to write
to-" sighed one husky sea-Soldier, as
the pretty little "steno" moved on to
the next cot.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-07-05
NEWEST OF SLACKERS
Is Person Who Encourages Buy
ing of Platinum JeWeIry.
Government Must Have Metal II War
Machine Is to Be Kept
Going.

Washington, d. C.-The newest type
Of Stacker and one who is doing his
country a great amount of harm, is
the man or woman who buys or even
encourages the purchase of platinum
Jewelry, according to the bureau of
mines, department Of the interior. For
the country is and for many years will
be desperately in need of the scarce
and precious platinum in its Industrial
work and must have it If the war ma
chine is to go full speed ahead.
A plan proposed by the federal Off
cials would stop the use of platinum
in jewelry, not only for the war but for
all time. officials Of the government
who are in close touch with the situa-
ton are filled with apprehension as
to the future supply of platinum.
In an effort to fill the immediate
pressing needs of the government in
its war program, the war industries
board has ordered that rs per cent of
the stock of platinum in the hands of
manufacturing jewelers. be comman-
deered and also the complete stock
held by refiners, importers and deal
ers, but this, it is said will only fill
a small gap and that temporarily.
1t has been hoped by federal officials
and chemists throughout the country
who understand the seriousness of the
situation that the whims of fashion
might yield to national needs and that
purchasers of jewelry would demand
gold and silver or white alloy and so
release platinum for its highest use,
but the results have been disappoint-
ing.
The American Chemical society, an
organization composed of the leading
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-07-05
he was driven back again.

Fight Continues for Three Hours.
When the fight had continued for
four hours a shell from the steamer
fell amidships on the submarines star
board side, but this did not prevent
him from continuing the engagement
The German kept trying to creep out
on the steamers port side, but the
master checkmated him each time and
continued to keep him dead astern.
When the sun began to set the Ger
man tried to maneuVer so that the
steamers gunners would have to fire
into the eye of the sun. But the
master prevented him from getting the
benefit of such a position until the
sun was obscured by clouds.
Throughout the engagement, which
lasted six hours, the German managed
to score only one hit. This shell
broke the steamers deck surface pipe,
punched a hole through the boat
swain's and carpenters room without
touching two men who were there,
finally exploding in the second cooks
room, Whlch II wrecked. Apart from
this the steamer suffered no damage
The last shell fired by the steamer
appeared to explode in the U-boat's
bow, whereupon the enemy turned
away and abandoned the action.
The masters opinion of his crew is
expressed in the following words:
Specially Praises Engineers staff.
"They all behaved splendidly and
carried out their various duties Coolly
and with a will to save the ship. The
careful and deliberate shooting un-
doubtedly contributed to our success
full escape, while the chief engineer
and his staff, working in ignorance
down below, deserve special praise
for getting thirteen and an eighth
knots out Of an unlocked ship, whose
usual speed is about eleven knots"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-07-05
"SWAT THE YELLOW DOG"
Campaign Against Person Who Car
ries Rumors of Disasters, lnno-
Gently or With Intent.

Cleveland, O.-"Swat the Yellow
Dog"
This is the plea of a pamphlet being
issued by the Cleveland Advertising
club as a contribution to the cam.
paign against insidious rumors of mil
itary disaster and against German
propaganda. The pamphlet will be
used as a letter enclosure and the
local advertising club will attempt tc
get the other advertising clubs of the
United States and Canada to issue
similar pamphlets and push the cam
paign. The Yellow Dog is described
as a person who carries rumors OF
disaster and spreads German prOpa'
ganda, innOCently or with intent.