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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-10-18
ACTUAL EXPENSE Of
WAR NOT So GREAT
ECONOMIST SHOWS MONEY GOES
INTO PERMANENT
INVESTMENTS.

The actual expense of war. the
money spent for purchases which are
destroyed in the making of war, is
considerably smaller than 1t is being
reckoned by the press and the public
Of the country
Theodore Fl. Price, economist and
financier, explains in "The War Costs
and the War Debt" in the current
number of The Outlook, that the
United States is better off financially
than the bare statement of war ex
penses" would indicate.
A very large percentage of the $50,
000.000,000 given as our cost of two
years Of war, has gone into permanent
construction work. Of which the value
will not be lost when the war is won
and the country back on a peace basis.
In speaking of this fifty billion
Price says:
I'VE are not spending any such sum
for war, and much of what we are
spending is being invested In the in
terest-bearing obligations of our allies
and in ships, shipyards, terminals,
warehouses, railways, and other
things that will be valuable and pro
ductiye long after peace is declared.
Probably we shall be well within
the mark in assuming that our in
vestment in ships and shipyards a
year hence will be at least $2,15O ,000,.
900, and this will not include the
enormous additions that have been
made to our navy. Then there are the
military warehouses that the War De.
partment is constructing in the United
States, and the docks, warehouses,
and railways that have been built In
France as in some other European
countries"
These investments, of course, will
be productive when the war is ended,
and are subject only to the normal de.
probation which affects any peace
time investments.
"In the case of a private corpora.
ton, such investments would be
charged to capital rather than to ex.
pense account, and would be reckoned
as an Offset against any resultant in.
crease in liabilities" he states.
Price estimates our irrecoverable
war expenditure at only S18,331, ,702,.
470, which, while fair-sized sum in
itself. is decidedly different from the
fifty billion we have heard about.
The result of our policy. however.
of considering the total expenditures
as dead investment, while not so en-.
ouraging-sounding at the time. will
undoubtedly be, believes Price, that
the obligations Of the United States
government will be the most besought
investments in the world the moment
that their further issuance becomes
unnecessary.
Tn..~. IN n
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-10-18
Thousands See
War Trophies
On Loan I Trains

The Yanks on the other side would
glow with pride IL they could hear the
shouts which are greeting the two
Uncle Sans War Trophy trains
which are touring Ohio. Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and Kentucky carrying
trophies captured by the Yanks and
their allies from the Huns
The trains are on tour under the
auspices of the Central Liberty Loan
Committee of the Fourth Federal Re-
serve District, and are out to stimulate
interest in Liberty Bonds
Many of the thousands who have
crowded about the trains this week at
their various stops in western Penn
sylvania and along the Ohio valley in
Kentucky and West Virginia were
given their first chance to actually
gaze on one of the famous French
"75s," the guns that held the Hun at
the Marne back there in the early
stages of the war when this country
was still neutral nation.
The trains are carrying most of the
contrivances of modern warfare
aerial bombs, depth bombs, anti-air.
craft guns, trench mortars, gas masks.
etc They also have exhibits of med
ais and uniforms and rifles taken from
Hun captiyes.
Each train carries on 1t siren such
as is used abroad to warn townsfolk
that the enemies airmen are coming
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-10-18

tically all articles Of wearing apparel
are to be controlled by his board. The
prescribing of certain fixed prices for
shoes constituted only the first step
in a general policy for price control
of clothing. While shoe prices win be
regulated the prices set by the board
win have no resemblance to before
the-war prices. The agreement with
manufacturers provides that after
June / next the maximum price of
shoes will be $12. For low shoes of
the style usually worn in the summer
months the maximum price win be $11
Between now and next June manufac-
turers viii be permitted to dispose of
higher-prieed shoes After June
the price and grade will be regulated.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-10-18

Postmaster General
BurleSOn says:
fanaticism'
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-10-18
Buy LIsERTY BoNDs
TROUBLE FOR AUTOCRAT

Long Beach, Cal, There's trouble
in store for A. P Green, president of
the Long Beach Paper & Paint com
pany. This imitation kaiser addressed
the following note to his superinten-
dent.
Beginning with Monday morning
do not employ any mechanics asso-
ciated directly or indirectly with the
so-called Painters union of Long
Beach. Inform all men in our employ
that any connection or association
with said Painters union of Long
Beach will be sufficient ground for
their immediate discharge.
The would-be autocrat then imag-
ined his troubles were over, when,
in truth, they have just started. Pres
ident Connolley of the central labor
council has secured the original order
and has taken it up with the national
war labor board
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-10-18

4 i.-l Yankees
A You can be mighty they are--eyerywhere.
aly-brave, of
heap when has to receiving the Yanks cordially.
OF
itan hem.
o
those of have
folks
of the fighting
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-10-18
To be Fixed by Government.

Washington-Chairman Baruch of
the war industries board has indicated
that prices and distribution of prac-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-10-18
Buy LIBERTY Bones

TX Buy LlBERTY Bones -
Save all kinds of Fruit Stones and
and Nut Shells for The Red Cross.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
II. |. IS TO HELP:
Road Will Send Section Hands
to Harvest Fields.
Campaign To Enlist Men Be-
gins Here Monday.

The Topeka campaign to enlist
s444 men for the Kansas harvest
army will begin Monday morning at
9 O'Clock, Between today and next
Monday all business men in Topeka
who employ men are asked to ascer-
tain what men IN their employ VIII
go to the harvest for a week or ten
days. and which ones they themselves
can best spare for that time and for
that purpose. g
At a meeting of the campaign COM
m.ttce at the Che mber of Commerce
this noon il was announced that the
local labor unions stand ready to send
5000 of their members to the harvest
fields this summer. providing that
their respective employers will grant
leave of absence.
E. F. FrixeH. Of Larned. state farm
agent spoke at the Chamber Of Commerce
luncheon today and told the story or the
harvest fields and the nc~crsify this year
Of saving every ias snd tittIe nf the Kan
sas grain crop so shat the armies Of the
United States nd h~r allies may 60 into
the fight with fun bellies and undaunted
couracr."
Another report made this noon was that
the Rock Island railroad he's announced
that all section hands and sertfon farcmen
and every man who can he spared from
the various stations viii b. rtlove.t to 60
to the harvest this summer. e. T.. RaScun
r'rdn the announcement on authority OF
tt5 division eure rtrts pfrnt he said
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
FUNDS ARE CONE
D. VI. McInverarity OF Oskc.
Ioosa Also Is Missing.
He Was Treasurer of Episco-
pal Diocese Moneys.

veil of mystery surrounds the
sudden disappearance of d. w. Nc
Inverarity. of Oskaloosa. together with
some funds of an uncertain amount
belonging to the Kansas Episcopal do
cese- McInverarity. who was treas
urer of certain church funds, disap-
peared from Oskaloosa May 9. three
days before the beginning of the Epis-
copal convention in Topeka. May H.
10. He was traced as far as Kansas
City by his family. where they lost
all track of him. and neither they nor
the diocesan trustees have been able
to ascertain his whereabouts A meet
ing of the trustees was called for 3
o'clock this afternoon and 1t was said
that the subject might be taken up
missing treasurer devised.
McInverarity is an elderly man and
for several years has. been engaged in
small loan, insurance and real estate
business in Oskaloosa. but this has
been sadly neglected during the last
two or three years and has dwindled
to practically nothing. 1t is said. He
was checked up by the diocese in
1916 aRd has always paid his interest
direct to Bishop James Wise by check.
His small home in Oskaloosa- IS said
to be mortga ged for $500
His family can offer no suggestion
as to his whereabouts nor do MEM
bers know of any friends or relatives
whom he would likely take q notion
to visit at this time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
Kansas Avenue Startled by Tive
Girls in Uniform.
Wore Trousers, Leggins, and
PossibIy-Everything Else.
BUT THEY WOULD NOT TELL
Refused To Give Their Names
or Their Organizations.
In All Their Stunning Attire
They Left in Mystery.

Mystery surrounds the persons OF
two good looking girls. in masculine
attire seen in town today. They ap-
psared on kansas avenue this morn
ing about o'clock and strolled into
the Chocolate Shop. The girls wore
Khaki uniforms of the same material
that the soldiers wear The trousers
were cut after the full, military pat
tern, only the coats worn with them
were long, like the ones worn by
LouIa Long at the horse shows Or
their heads, the girls wore small.
close fitting caps of khaki The high
leather lesgins of the army outfit
Completed the costumes One OF the
girls was tall and commanding in APP
pearance. and the othc- rather small,
with a piquant. upturned nose, ana
both of them were stunning in their
-new-fangled frrnouts-
The men collected In the Hnicity
Of Eighth and Kansas avenues were
all agog with curiosity. With bulg-
ing eyes and dropping jaws they
zazed at the young women until they
of the cafe.
Would Not Talk
A reporter sent to get the meaning
of the big idea" was met by the girls
with polite. but frigid disdain. Their
reply to all inquiries was a simple,
direct. We don't care to talk They
were buying some food that had to
be prepared. and while they waited
they stood at the counter and chatted
together. rs this a hike or a camp
ing event? ?" they were asked. 1T is
NOT" was the answer.
Eliminating the hike possibilities,
there remains the chance that Amer-
ca s to have a copy of the famous Bat
talon of Death, or that a new style
'of costume is to be introduced into
fashionable circles. Grit may be that
female harvest hands are to wear the
national army uniform and NOW down
the shining grain in the same sartor-
ial equipment as the warrior uses in
moving down the ranks OF the enemy.
The explanation, however. is prob
ably much more commonplace than
that. inasmuch as the girls were seen
to drive off with two men and two
other women who were in the ordin-
airy feminine attire, in a great, seven
passenger automobile, loaded with
what looked liked the irnpedimenta OF
an overland journey for a summer va
cation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
She JUST SMILES
Miss Lusk Hears Prosecutor
Demand the Limit.
Seems in Calm Spirits Thruout
the Ordeal.
EXPERTS DOUBT INSANITY
She Claims Three Witnesses
Lied About Her.
DR.. Roberts, on Stand Again,
Denies Her Testimony.

waukesha, May es.-The shooting
of Mrs Mary Newman Roberts wcs
pictured to the jury today at the trial
of Grace Lusk by D. S TuIlar. who
made the opening argument for sthe
prosecution. In demanding the extreme
penalty 81 the law for the defendant.
MIR TuIlar declared that the evidence
presented by the state proved that
Miss Lusk was sane at the time OF the
tragedy and quoted her oyn testimony
as proof of her ,abflity~to distinguish
between right and wrong Mr.. Tullar
asserted that at the interview on June
Fl, last between Miss Lusk and Mrs.
Roberts. the school teacher. after be-
ing asSailed for her relation with Dr.
Roberts, went upstairs, obtained a pis-
toll and on her return calmly and de-
Iiberately fired a bullet thru Mrs
Roberts body
Mrs. Roberts fled from the room
pursued by her assailant but was final
ly forced to turn in a corner when
the last shot was fired. Mr. fuller
claimed. Miss Lusk then fled upstairs
he said. and realizing what she had
done attempted to end her own life.
in an effort to cheat the law"
Grace Lusk smilingly heard Prose
cutor fuller demand that she be i'm
prisoned for life as a murderer in the
first degree.
1t was a most unexpected reversal
of spirits the slayer of Mrs. Mary New
man Roberts displayed to the crowded
courtroom The prosecutors implied
!. hint in his quotation from the Bible.
Thou shalt not scovet thy neignbor's
house" did not disturb her calm.
Thru what was expected to be the
schoolteacher's most trying ordeal she
vas tranquil. when fuller trampIed
over the defense plea Sheetoyed with
a big red rose. read letters, smiled or
feigned an occasional nap.
Tullar pictured Miss Lusk to the
jury as consumate actress, better
than Sarah Bernhardt' in the story
the defendant told on the witness
stand
She had ten months to rehearse II
in Tullar said of her testimony that
Dr. David Roberts loye-treachery
drove her insane and led to the shoot
/ ing OF his wife
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
TRY TO FIGURE 1T OUT
ANITA Fe Employees Have New Plan
to Determine Increase.

Altho the wage increases authorized
by Director General McAdoo will
probably add about $4,000 a month
to the Topeka railway payroll as a
whole Santa@F general office en-
ployes are acquiring grey hairs trying
to figure out their own Individual in
Icreases. Needless to say. no six men out
of dozen figure the raise" alike, and
the thirteenth man chimes into any
argument that may arise with a re-
quest for Information about his in
crease, as he is holding a job that
didn't exist in 1915.
One energetic employe, after burn
ing much proverbia1 midnight oiI'
has submitted the following solution
of the problem:
Take the first three figures Of your 1917
automobile license and add to IL the size
of your shoes, then subtract the number
of botDns that are missing on your
last summers suit, divide by the size
of your collar and add to THIS the total
amount of your unpaid taxes ard laundry
bills: divide this by so per cent of your
telephone number: next add the total
weight of your entire family plus your
serial number in the military draft and
divide by all the speeches on increase to
railroad employees that McAdoo has made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
FATE. IN BALANCE
Closing Arguments Being Made
in Lusk Trial Today.
Final Testimony That of Physi-
clans and Alienists.

Waukesha. Wis. May eS.-Closing
arguments in the trial of Grace Lusk
who is charged with the murder of
Mrs Mary Newman Roberts. began
today and IL is hoped that the case
will be in the hands of the Jury by to-
morrow night
State attorneys today began blasting
away in arguments at the defense of
Grace Lusk- The evidence, which
barred the Illicit relations of the mid
dle-aged school teacher with DIR.
David Roberts, 50. will probably go TO
the jury tomorrow There are three
possible verdicts-acquittal, guilty of
manslaughter or insane.
The sensational trials final testi-
mony was from physicians. Alienists
for both sides befuddIed the farmer
jury with such terms as "hysterical
automatism,' "masSed epilepsy" and
'.persecutory decisions"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
GOOD DAIRY COUNTRY
Government Expert Pleased With
Conditions Found Around Topeka.

W. E Peterson. government dairy
expert from Manhattan, who has been
in the county for few days address
ing dairy meetings and interesting the
dairynlen in organizing themselves.
said this morning that he was very
much pleased with the dairy pros
poets around Topeka He compared
kansas with Wisconsin the greatest
dairyirg state in the union. with Ia
vorable results.
II can see no reason" said Peter
son, why this cannot be made an
important dairy state. We have d
longer pasture season and milder win
tiers here than in Wisconsin and when
the dairymen get property organized
they should have no difficulty in find
ing a market"
Peterson strongly recommends the
Holstein blood in cattle and il is b-in-
pushed to the front very rapidly III
Kansas Some of the lea ding Hol-
stein breeders around Topeka are:
Smith and Hughes. Charles Holston.
H. V. Cowell. William Bigger. C L.
Wood Ira Romig, Ralph Rutton. A
B. Wilcox, NJ s Holloway and tbs
State hospital
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
For Turning Eczema

Greasy saves and ointments should not
fc applied if good clear skin is wanted.
rom any druggist for S5c, or S1.OO for
{ ira large size, get bottle of zemo.
\. hen applied as directed it effectively
T-nog,s eczema, quickly stops itching, and
>al3 skin troubles, also sores, burns,
v-ourcs and chatting. L pe1erates, cleanses
and soothes- Zero IS clean, dependable
and inexpensive, penetrating, antiseptic
icuid. Try it, IS we believe nothing you
have ever csedi5 as effective and satisfying.
TIE E ". Reese Co.. cIcvc,,-S. o.
tAdvsrLise ment-B
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
SUBS A FAILURE
Leader OF German Centrist
Party Admits Facts.
He Says Peace by. Compromise
Must Be Arranged.
BY JOHN M.HUGH STUART.


Washington, May 2s.-Matthias
Erzberger. leader of the Catholic CEN
trist party in Germany. has declared
that the submarine war is a failure
In a long article printed in Germania
for May % and cabled here today, he
says that a peace by compromise and
understanding is more vitality neces-
sary to Germany today than it ever
was
In the same article he bitterly at
tacks the miIitarists and the politi-
clans of the Koelnische Volks Zeitung
school Yet dispatches received thru
diplomatic channels reveal that Err
berger is almost alone in this stand in
Germany today. A large wing of his
own party is reported to have desert
ed him. a summary of German press
comment also SHOWS that only the So
cialist papers take serious notice of
President wilson's pledge to stand by
Russia The rest either ignore or
laugh at it.
Erzbcrger Stands Pat.
Erzberger was stung to speech by
the attacks on him from members of
Koelnische Volks Zeftung. He de-
clares that he stands by all the dccla-
rations for a moderate peace he has
ever made in the reichssag and in the
committees. He says that events have
borne out his prediction of 1916 that
ruthless submarine warfare's only re-
suit would be to bring the United
States into the war.
ITO believe that the present war
has no sother aim than the rectifica-
don of the frontier" he says. '.Is
showing very little common sense and
reflection at a time when the range
of our cannon covers all of the small
and even the middle sized states of
the confederation and when aviation
has taken such a fabulous develop
ment.
Politicians a Plague.
IT consider that the politicians OF
the Koelnische Volks Zeitung are a
plague on Germany and shall take
avery occasion to fight them. Nc
foreign land, no amount of money
taken from the enemy is big enough
to counterbalance the blood shed by
Germany
OF the submarine warfare, Erzber-
ger says:
ST foretold from the first that it
was bound to fail and the results have
confirmed my skepticism. The politi-
cal consequences of this war. which
posed by me as early as October,
1916 during the debates in the main
committee of the reichstag. de-
clared then that war with the United
States would be the Inevitable conse-
quence and that other neutral coun-
tries would also declare war against
U.s. My declarations in July 1917,
concerning the submarine war were
reinforced and verified
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
s9UTH.s..ST DOUBLES
SIG. COO eco R~d C-css -ot-I dedicated
Over 200 Per Cent.

ST. Louis Nay ss--Unoffiefai fig
ures available here today indicate
that the southwestern division will
contribute more than &16.00o.0Q0 to
the second war fund of the American
Red Cross. according to Chairman
John l. johnson. The divisions quota
is s7.s5o.oo0.
L. E. Phillip. chairman Of tho
Oklahoma campaign who hid express
cd fear that his state would not
reach its quota of 5000. 900. report
cd today that $s.oe1.957 had been
subscribed with many chapters not
heard FROM Greater Kansas City
has contributed s1.soa.ooo. and Dali
las. with a quota of S2,s.00o already
has pledges of ss0o.oe0 81 LOUIS
has greatly exceeded its quota OF ST.
$4,000 and has subscribed more
than 5000. 900
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
MAKE FRITZ WORK
Work or Fight" Order Applied to
German Prison Camps in America.

Washington, May 2s.-Provost Mar
shall General Crowder's work or fight
order has been applied to interned
enemy aliens by the government and
Germans formerly engaged In bust
ness in the large cities OF the country
soon will be plying hoes. rakes and
other farm implements in gardens at
troops camps, raising vegetables for
the soldiers
One hundred of the informed enemy
aliens have been sent from Fort Osle-
thorpe. Ga, to Camp Devens, Mass.
The next quotas will go to Camp Dix.
y. J. and Camp Grant, Ill A 400
acre farm will be cultivated at Camp
Dix. Each 100 aliens will be looked
after by IS soldiers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
OFFICER IN A HURRY
Chicago Man Handed Commission
With Training School Certificate.

Chicago, May 2s-Robert~ Ander-
son, Chicago. was granted his certifi-
cate of graduation for the govern
ment's free marine officers training
school and as he was folding the
document to put in his pocket tele-
gram was handed the officer who had
just presented the certificate. 1t was
from the shipping board headquarters
in Boston and read:
Send at once someone qualified to
command boat. Commission auto
matte"
Anderson left today and his com
mission is believed to be the quickest
on record for an citizenship with the
United States fighting forces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
TO GET "SCALPERS"
Those Who Sell Theater Tickets With
out Paying War Tax-Bcwarc!

Chicago, May 2s.-Theater ticket
'scaIpers' are to be prosecuted for
failure to pay government war tax on
tickets sold by them at advanced
prices, Charles Clyne, United States
district attorney announced today.
From other sources it was learned
that federal Investigators are inquir-
ing into an alleged understanding be-
tween theater proprietors and scalp
ers'' which permits the operations of
the latter. It was stated il the in
quiry develops evidence sufficient to
warrant it, proprietors and scalpers
will be made the targets of grand jury
action.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
NO TRACE OF THIEF
Police Look for Man Who Made Big
Diamond Haul Here.

The police are searching for thief
who the latter part of last week enter
ed the dressing room in the home OF
A. A.. Robinson, Ninth and Tyler
streets and obtained a pair of diamond
cuff links worth $500 and diamond
and pearl stickpin valued at $500.
The disappearance Of the valuable
adornments is compiete mystery The
dressinr room adjofns the bedroom
wherein Robinson who is Ill. is confined
He heard no one enter or leave the dress
ing room. despite the fact that the cuff
inks were taken from shirt and the pin
was on a stanI in the middle of the room
Plain CIothesmen Frost and Bundy are
working on the case. Several suspects
have been examined. but no arrests have
been made The robbery was reported to
the police Saturday evening