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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
That's Private Peat's Message
to Topeka Wives and Mothers.
''Send Him Away With Smile, :"
Canadians Plea to Women.
SENTIMENTS WERE "STRONGu
TOpekans Observation-Disclosures
and Applauded Vigorously.
Asks SWeetheartS To Give Men
Heart for Frightfulness.

Mothers, wives, daughters, sweet
hearts. Send him away with smile.
Don't faint and don't burst into tears.
He is going over there for you. Maybe
he doesn't know it now but he will just
as soon as he sees the mutilation and
the frightfulness. His thoughts as he
goes over the top are going to be of
you and your parting So smile when
he goes away and when the order.
Over the top with You, my ads, and
the best O. luck comes it viii be with
a grin and a rush and not with
gloomy countenance and half heart.
1t was the admonition and the in
struction Private Peat gave the women
folk of the boys who are going over
seas to join the allied forces on the
firing line. The talk was made at the
auditorium Thursday night under the
auspices of the military committee of
the Chamber of Commerce and was
for the benefit of the Red Cross war
fund. Just before Peat was ready to
talk a procession of Red Cross work.
ers in full uniform headed by a guard
of boy scouts came down the center
aisle and took seats at the back of the
stage. w. A. Biby introduced the
speaker.
Private Peat, after two years in hell
came back with his famous smile, and
eventually roamed into Topeka, where
for perhaps the first time in the his
tory of the town the crowd applauded
sentiments strongly expressed and not
entirely devoid of naive profanity.
Peat damned" the Hun to the limit
and Topeka listened and smiled and
was generous with its hands.
Profanity There Not Sin.
After your boy has lain out in the
mud, and ice, and blood. with a grim
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
LYNCHERS ARRESTED
Five Men Who Led Collinsville Mob
Taken Into Custody.

Collinsville, Ill, April 12.-Five
men were under arrest today alleged
to be the leaders of the mob which a
week ago 1ynched Robert Praeger,
alien enemy.
The detentions followed recon-
menGations of the coroners jury
which closed weeks investigation
into the lynching at $50 last night
The accused were Immediately round
ed up and taken in automobiles to the
Jail at EdwardSville.
grand jury Wednesday will begin
it's investigation.
Joseph Riegel, honorably discharged
soldier who appeared beforN the jury
and tolC a story, showing himself the
leader of the lynching party, was the
frs: arrested. Wesley Beaver, Rich
ard Dukes, jr., William Brockmeier
and Enid Gilmore are the others be-
ing held.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
A PATRIOTIC FAMILY
Chief Librarian in Cleveland Has Six
Children in War Work.

Cleveland. Ohio, April 12.-Six
members of the Brett family of Cleve-
land are in the war service of Uncle
Sam. Four of them are in the army
1.-TWO in active service in France)
while two more are working in civil
ian lines.
w. H. Brett, chief librarian of the
Cleveland public library, is the head
of the patriotic family. He wears a
little service pin with four stars
which, he explains, means that he has
three sons and a son-in-law in the
army.
Librarian Brett's two sons at the
front are Lieut. Col. Lewis Brett and
Major George H. Brett. The former,
of the ordnance arm of the service has
been acting as aide to Secretary of
War Baker in his inspection tour of
the American expeditionary forces in
France, while Major Brett is at avia.
ton headquarters in Paris.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
A NIGHT OF TORTURE
Tarred and Feathered Socialist Seeks
Comfort of a JAIL

TaIoga, Okla, April 12.-Witn re-
membranes of his night of torture
still sticking to him. William Mad
ison Hicks, ex-minister, Socialist lee
turer and organizer of the World
Peace league, who recently was
tarred and feathered at Elk City, ar
rived here afoot and demanded that
he be placed in the county jail
Hicks said he feared further vio-
lence and asked to be imprisoned un-
til he is tried in federal court under
his indictment for attempting to block
operation of the draft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12


tender corn? That's the old, savage
way. "Gets-It' is the modern, pain
less, simple way. Lean over and put
two drops of "Gets-It" on the corn,
put your stocking and shoe right on
again, end forget the corn. Pain is
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"Gets-It' has revolutionized the
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with greasy salves, bundling bandages,
thick plasters and painful methods.
Use "Gets-It'', it's common sense.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
This Corn Will
Peel Right Off!
''Gets-It" Makes Corns Come Off
The "Banana-PeeP' Way!

Why have to flop on the floor.
squeeze yourself up like the letter
~" and with bullying eyes draw your
face up into a wrinkly knot while you
gouge and pull at the quick of a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
Laundry Needs

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Powder for-20c
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
Germans Recruit
Anarchists and Malcontents

Anarchists and WalCOntentS
Before the United States en-
tered the war what was of utmost
military Importance to Germany
was the destruction of arms, mu-
nitions, food and military supplies
destined for the Allies. In a cir
cular letter dated November 18,
1914, the Imperial German Naval
Headquarters ordered modified
"all controlling agents and all de-
structive agents who are overseas
in ports where vessels carrying
war materials are loaded, in Eng
land, France, Canada, the United
States and Russia" Declaring it
to be indispensable" that all opera
tions be conducted through the aid
of third persons having no relation
with the official agent Of the gov
eminent, the German agents were
ordered continually" to recruit
agents "to organize explosions on
ships sailing to enemy countries"
and to produce delays and confusion
in the sailing and unloading of
these ships. with this end in view
we particularly recommend to your
attention the .deckhands, among
whom are to be found a great num-
Der Of anarchists and escaped Grim
inals," the order continued.
The Berlin government, as re-
vealed in secret cablegrams sent
by the German Foreign Office to
Won Bernstorff, instructed the am
bassador to arrange for the de-
struction Of Canadian railroads and
for sabotage in the United States.
"In the United States" the instruc-
tons read, Sabotage can Re car
ried out in every kind of factory
for supplying munitions of war
1t was in line with these instruc-
tons from Berlin that Won Papen
and Boy-Ed from the very begin
ming established connections with
anarchists and the revolutionary
clements of labor. The Won Igel
papers seized by the Department Of
Justice revealed a fund Of $40.
100000 upon which German agents
and spies could draw. More recent
investigations showed that the Ger
man corruption fund placed in the
United States after the beginning
Of the war amounted to $l00, 100000.
simultaneously With furthcring
pacifist propaganda through mouth
ing radicals, academic paciGsts and
the Socialist party. German agents,
according 70 Federal authorities,
alnce the Cnitcd States entered the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
Oh
Induce Strikes
On New York Docks

In line with their habitual eff
forts to hinder transportation, L.
W. w. agitators on October ~,
1915, induced 1000 out Of 1900
freight handlers employed in the
warehouses of the New York Dock
Company to strike.
When l. w. w. leaders attempted
to gain recruits from the ranks of
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea at two collieries of the Pennsyl-
vania Coal Company, in April, 1916,
the loyal workers opposed the an
archistic propaganda.
In August, 1916, the |. W. ".
tomented strike in the Iron Range
in Minnesota. At Virginia, Mimi.
they tore down advertisements for
workers and substituted their own
literature.
Timed to divert public attention
IRON Germany's resumption of ruth
less t-boat warfare. |. W w. lead
'Ns'NA
crs early in February, 1917. started
tood riots in New York City In
March number of leaders were
arrested for plotting TO blow up the
Pennsylvania Salt Works az the
Greenwich piers, along the Della
~are River. In an attempt to stop
the supply Of fresh fool to New
York City by tying up freight they
called 10000 men out on strike on
March Q, 1917.
Regular army officers stationed in
South Dakota in July, 1917, uncov-
cred a plot which, if carried out.
would have meant an incalculablc
loss Of grain. The ! ". W. lead
crs had mapped ont the entire agri-
cultural districts Of the state, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
German Agents Practise
Sabotage on the job

In the " estern states labor dis
orders, caused by /. W. VS. and
believed to have been inspired Dy
German agents, resulted in several
hundred arrests and the hanging of
one of the agitators at Butte
Mont. Senator Thomas, of Colo
RADIO, charged that the Arizona cop
per mine strikes had been foment-
ed and financed by German agents
About the same time Fritz Baum
gartner, formerly connected with
the krupp works, was arrested in
Cleveland for trying to start
strikes. A plot to cripple transpor-
tatlon on the Great Lakes was un-
covered by Federal agents and ar
rests were made. The Department
Of State. in October, 1917, uncov-
cred plot concocted by the Ger
man General Staff to blow up the
Canadian Pacific Railway at vari-
Gus strategic points.
On December 20, 1917. an at
tempt was made to blow up the
Executive Mansion and kill Gov
ernor W. d. Stephens, at Sacra-
mento, Cal.-the act was ascribed
by Federal authorities either to the
|. W. W. or to German agents.
The enormity Of the sabotage &C
complished by the German destruc
tionists under orders may be judged
from the fact that to repair the
sabotage done to German ships
in American ports the United States
government had to spend S8,O00,-
600 before it could put those yes
sells into service. From the l. w. W.
point of view, as we'll as from the
German, this was "royally good
job
Two enemy aliens and one nat
uralized American were arrested
at Sellersville, Penn, March %,
1918, charged with conspiracy to
furnish defective gauges for tor
pedoes to the government. The
men arrested were Fritz Bicret, as
sistant to the general manager of
the United States Gauge Company.
of Sellersville, Penn; George Schu-
bert, foreman, both of whom came
to the United States six years ago
and had taken out first papers, and
William Hendricks, general fore
man, who had been naturalized for
twenty-eight years. When they
made the arrest, government agents
found, they reported, Won linden
burg's picture over Bieret's bed at
his home.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
Berlin Government Gave Instruc.
ton for Destroying of Num-
tons and Factories Along With
Pacifist Propaganda Through
Academic Sources

by the plotters of whom Rinteler
was the head had been manufac.
ured in Scheele's Hoboken labor.
tory. Detective George Busbv Of
the Police Headquarters bomb
squad, testified that on April 1s
1916, he had found in ScheelA,,
shop plentiful supply of explosive
chemicals-a typical l. w. ". ont.
fit, sulphuric acid, nitric acid. bv
drochloric acid, etc. The French
liner La Touraine, he declared. had
escaped destruction only becaus.
the force of the bombs placed in
that vessel, and which exploded
was not sufficient to wreck tho
ship.
On April II, 1918. the America,
munitions ship Florence H. was de-.
stroyed by a terrific explosion
which killed forty-one of the crew
wounded seventy-five and severely
burned fourteen. While the cause
is unknown, survivors expressed
the conviction that the explosion
was caused by a clock bomb con.
cealed in bunker.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

maintains an important supply
base. On the same day, also, vigi-
liant Waterman discovered a fire on
The deck of the steamship Adriatic.
moored at Hudson River pier, IN
the midst of mass Of iron tanks
containing gasolene which had been
placed temporarily on the forward
deck. Within the same twenty
four hours mysterious fires oc-
Cured in New York, Paterson,
n. j.; Maynard, Mass, and Peter
boro, Canada, and at Buffalo the
Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring Company's service and
repair plant near the waterfront
was burned. involving a loss of
Sf5O,OOO Is all this mere coinci-
dence?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
Fire After Fire in
War Supply Plants

On January 80, 1918, ten men
were killed and seven injured by an
explosion in a powder magazine in
the United States navy torpedo
station at Newport, r. l. On the
same day a disastrous fire involv-
ing a loss of $1,OOO,OOO occurred
at Port Newark. whore government,
ships were being built and where
the quartermaster Of the army
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

English patriots chance to 90 to
the front and kill some Of their fc1-
lo'o slores IN Germany. # they get
INTO GermonY o'o' croqrd 7rjU take
care Of the property interests IN THIS
part Of the globe.
n German oith gun looks no
more o1c'ous to me than an Aoneri-
can 'elth got". Be careful not to
spoil o'o' plan of hari'1g a little
home gud5d Of our o,cn / may
some dag be elected captain of q
nome guard company.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
Sabotage in Aeroplane
Production

Production
Asserting his conviction that
there are 100000 potential German
spies In the United States. Senator
Lee S. Overman, of North Carolina,
made the charge before the Senate
en- March % that German agents
had caused a hold-up of the aero
plane production in the United
States, and that by tampering with
aeroplanes they had sent several
American f1iers TO their death. Sen
ator Overman said that. while he
would not make a charge against
any one employe in the Curtiss
plant, there were spies there.
A mechanic employed by the Lib
erty Motor Company, according to
statement made by Representa-
tive Currie, of Michigan, before the
House last April, wilfully broke
complex machine used in the motor
factory, causing an actual loss in
production Of thirteen aeroplans
engines. Representative Currie a.
serted that Federal agents and or
eratives in Detroit had secured
proof of a thousand cases of SIM
lar destruction on the job Albert
White, a foreman of the Curtiss
plant, declared in statement that
blueprints had been frequently
stolen and defective ones substi
tuted in that plant
Evidence was secured by the Nj
agara Frontier Defence League, an
organization composed of manu-
facturers in the locality of Buffalo
proving that at the Pierce Arrow
Motor Company, at Buffalo, Ger
man foreman and a German time
keeper were engaged IN putting EN-
cry and an explosive acid in the
motors. Another German employe
industriously spent his spare hours
IN saving the axles of cars loaded
with ammunition and war supply
materials, so that the cars would
break down and cause explosions
These men were interned for the
period of the war.
Senator Thomas. of Colorado al
legged in the Senate on April that
German spies, operating in one Of
the war factories, had tempered
with gas masks. Of 5000 masks
made for the use of American
troops, $500 were found defective,
tiny perforations having been made
IN the rubber. These perforations
were so minute as to DE invisible
to the naked eye. The masks would
have been useless in q gas attack
and the boys using them overcome
by the deadly fumes The persist
ence of enemy agents in this plant
was such that after the defects had
been discovered and the masks re
iected by investigators and thrown
aside they were later found packed
IN a shipment.
In their entire campaign of sabo-
tage, in the destruction Of prop
erty with loss of life, in fomenting
strikes and promoting social dis
cord, in seeking in every ay TO 90
struct our conduct of the war the
emissaries of Germany. as has been
shown, have followed Tie pro
gramme of the /. ". ".
SO identical are their acts and
methods, so parallel their maIevo-
lent programme, that it is impos-
sible to distinguish between tnv
war acts of German agents and /.
W. ". fanatics. When some fright
full explosion or fire Of unknown
origin occurs, when a ship sinks, or
when strike paralyzes some vital
industry, one can only ask: Which
is responsible: German spies or
; no VI.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

their seditious meetings before they
got we'll under way
In an article published in 'Il Pro-
letario,' the official Italian organ Of
the [. ". W.. Baldazzi declared
that, in preparation for open at
tacks against the coal company and
the authorities, "the miners of the
anthracite district must be armed
and strongly armed"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
Sedition and
Opposition to Draft

In Montana, Immediately after
the institution of voluntary regis
tratlon, the |. w. w. organized
riots against it. They were SINH
larly active in the anthracite coal
regions Of Pennsylvania. George
+. Buss, Sheriff Of Luzcrnc County.
PENN asserted that the past ac-
tlYltics Of the L. W. W. made it
necessary last summer TO break up
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
ought W ork for
The Liberty Loan

In the Chicago trial numerous
declarations by l. w. w. leaders
against the draft, the Liberty Loan
and the government we're read In
an official bulletin Grover II. Perry,
one Of the most radical workers in
the Southwest, declared: THE gov
eminent says the draft is going into
effect September /, but so far as the
|. w. ". miners are concerned it is
not going into effect at all"
In March, 1918, the I. W. w.
started a campaign in Chicago to
combat the sale Of the Liberty Loan
and War Savings Stamps by issu-
ing l. w. W. bonds and stamps, eto
be bought by members and sympa-
thizers instead Of government bonds.
The l. W. W. bonds were called
freedom certificates" and the
stamps general defence stamps"
in the shipyards at Tacoma,
Wash, a district infested by the
|. w. W., a Russian riveter when
solicited recently by fellow work
men to buy Liberty bonds replied
"To hell with the Liberty bonds ="
The |. w. WIS had driven spikes
into logs, damaged machinery and
practised sabotage to such an ex-
tent that all unknown laborers who
came to that district were regarded
with suspicion. SO extensive was
their propaganda and so grave the
danger that, to prevent l. w. WIS
getting in, thousands of drafted men
were put to work in lumber camps
cutting and saving spruce to be
used in aeroplane construction.
Upon the imperial German gov
eminent which made this war the
/. w. w. leaders have cast no blame.
The hosts which have been swept
forward by the German military
machine in it's last offensive con-
stitute merely "so-called enemy."
The American boys who are going
bravely forth to fight and to make
the utmost sacrifice if need be, that
American homes, American liberty
and American womanhood may be
safe, were called, in a motion passed
at a branch l. w. W. meeting at
Augusta, Kan, May 20, 1917,
band of potential murderers."
In line with their general plan to
obstruct the entire conduct of the
war the |. w. W., according to evil
dence presented ON May 10. 1918,
IN the trial at Chicago. aimed d.
rectly to defeat the aircraft pro-
gramme. In an l. w. w. organ of
August s, 1917, headed "Why Not
Ask the Lumberjack?" authorities
we're quoted as saying that the ma
lions aircraft programme would be
delayed year unless the strike in
the Northwest lumber districts was
settled in two weeks. "This is an
open admission that we have tied IN
the programme declared the ar
tlcle, triumphantly.
Charles Jacobson, an /. W. W.
leader, distributed and posted in
public at Virginia, Crosby and Du-
luth, Mimi, on June 90, 1917, post-
crs urging the mine workers to
strike. I'VE are here producing the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
By T. Everett Hare

Z N THE wholesale murder of in
B nocents, in the burning of fair
cities and despoliation of fer
tic lands, in the breaking of solemn
covenants and the abrogation Of
human rights and justice and in the
invention of scientific devices for
slaughter and human suffering, the
imperial German government in it's
military campaigns has accom-
plished what is unparalleled in the
annals of mankind. Yet in its war
fare against the United States
within the confines of our own
shores, its agents, in efforts to OBJ
struct our conduct of the war. have
had only to adopt the essentials of
programme already prepared.
Seeking to do their utmost to mega
tive the governments prosecution
of the war and to render frpitless
the bravery and sacrifice of our boys
in the trenches, the agents of the
Kaiser simply adopted the methods
of the I. W. W.
In the manuals of the J. W. W.
Germany's agents found compre-
hensive catechism for sabotage,
crime, destruction and violence. A
comparison Of the activities of Ger
man spies and those of the I. w. ".
reveals starthngly identical meth
DDS and acts.