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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
IRISH OPPONENTS
OF DRAFT DRAW
CLOSER TODAY
Both Slim .Fein and National
lists in Big Meeting.
Open Threats of Resistance To
Draft Are Made.
DILLON LEADS THE FIGHT
"NOt Fighting To Defend Home
SOIL" He Says.
Would Take Big Army To En-
force Law.
DILLON LEADS The fight
Would Take a Big Army To En-
force Law.

London, May 6.-Anti- CONSUMPTION
speeches were made from the same
platform by John Dillon. Nationalist
leader, and Prof Edward De Valera.
head of the Sim Fem. yesterday at
Ballaghadereen, in Dillon's constitu-
ency of East Mayo. Good humor and
enthusiasm characterized the demon
stration attended by $1,000 ! ersons.
Mr.. Dillon, said that if the Irish
kept united and determined for
another two weeks. they would defeat
conscription. 1t was an atrocious
form of oppression to try to compel a
people to fight for country not their
own. He personally opposed con-
scription, whether in Great Britain or
IN Ireland. and believed it was a great
blunder to depart from Englands set
tied policy against compulsory service,
especially when it was not to defend
the soil of Great Britain, but to send
huge armies to the continent. If the
nations unity was broken in the face
of the present terrific danger, Mr..
Dillon continued, the government
would be encouraged to pursue its
wicked and insane policy.
Irish Rights" He Says.
The Nationalist and Sim Fem. he
said. actually agreed that the whole
struggle for Ireland's rights was based
on the principle of her rights as ma
ton. There was an impression in the
country that all danger was over. This
was a terrible false impression. There
was no&question that the government
had been staggered and no longer was
so confident about the practfcability
of it's policy as professed when the bill
was introduced.
A powerful section of the house of
commons and organized labor of Eng
land had declared against copscrip-
ton in Ireland, Mr.. Dillon added, un-
ii. an Irish parliament and an Irish
government were established These
things combined with united opposi-
tiCn in Ireland and the action of the
county bishops had given the govern
r.1ent pause, but it would be a dis
estrouS mistake to show that danger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
WANTS TO JUNK LINE.
Santa Fc Asks Permission TO Abolish
Wellington. Caldwell Branch.

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway Co. today filed an applica-
ton with the public utilities commits
sion asking authority to junk its line
between Wellington and Caldwell. a
distance of about twenty miles. The
road was built more than thirty years
ago, but for several years has not
been used.
Following construction of the line
from Wellington to Caldwell, the Rock
Island laid a parallel track. During
the last several years the Santa Fe
has operated its trains over the Rock
Island tracks. Both roads served the
same towns. Now the Santa Fe wants
to junk the road and return the right
of way to Sumner county under a
quit claim deed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
CHANGE AUTHORIZED
City Commissioners Order Ordinance
to Abolish Hun Street Name.

The city commissioners today. in
accordance with the petition of resi-
dents along the thorofare. instructed
the city attorney to draft an ordinance
changing the name of German ave-
nue., on the east side, to Wilson ave-
nue..
The petition, as introduced into the
commission thru City clerk Covell,
contained the name of every resi-
dent on the avenue.
AS soon as George P. Hayden, city
attorney, drafts the ordinance 1t will
be passed in the routine way by the
commission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06

had passed. He suggested the forma-
ton of Irish committees attached to
every, church and chapel SO that in
the event of a struggle being forced
upon them the church could be the
rallying point.
Would Take Army to Enforce.
The Nationalist leader declared he
was convinced it would>take an army
such as England could i'll spare to car
;ryouts successful consumption in Ire
land. He was also convinced that the
government would split on the Irish
rock and instead of destroying the
Irish nation, the Irish would destroy
them.
Professor De Valera said his follow
ers would unite with those of Mr..
Dillon to defeat conscription. With
reference to the issue raised in East
Cavan, he. said there was only one
arbitrator to whom the Sim Fein
would submit, namely, the free choice
of the electors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
CONGRESS is CURIOUS
What Has Been Done With Previous
Appropriations Is Asked.

Washington. May Am taking up
a redraft of the army appropriation
bill carrying $4,000, 900. 900 to pro-
vide for 100000 men during the
coming year. the house military COM
mittee today indicated an intention to
make a careful investigation of ord
nance and aviation work.
Altho members did not appear in
clined to oppose any appropriation es-
sential to a successful prosecution of
the war, many wanted to know what
has been done with appropriations al
ready made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
HUNS MAY RETALIATE
Germany Much Riled Over Lynching
at Collfnsvillc.

Amsterdam, May 6.-The lynching
at Collinsville, H., last month of
Robert p. Prayer. German who was
accused by the mob which hanged
HIM of disloyalty. has Infatuated Ger
man editors. The Zeitung Am Mittag,
CT Berlin, calls upon the German gov
eminent to make str ong representa-
TOMS 20 Washington reminding the
American government that Germany
Folds a number of American prison.
ers upon whom reprisals might be
taken $50 as to prevent the lynching
CT Germans in America from becom-
ing Questionable sport"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
Pope Not For Peace Now.
(By the Associated Press.)

Rome, Saturday, May (delayed)-
No favorable occasion for a further
peace move by Pope Benedict has pre-
sented itself. nor does one seem near,
1t was stated at the vatican today
when inquiry was made there regard
ing the report that his holiness would
make a new peace offer on Whit
Sunday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
EX-CZAR is MOVED
Fear of Escape Causes Transfer of
Russian Ex-Royalty.

10y the ASsocidteu ITeSst
Moscow, Saturday, May 4.-Nicholas
Romanoff. the former emperor, to-
gether with the former empress and
one of their daughters, have been
transferred from Tobolsk to Ekaterin-
burg G70 miles southeast of Perm. on
the Asiatic side of the Ura1 noun
tains). according to a soviet announce
ment. The transfer was ordered be-
cause of the alleged efforts of peas
ants and monarchists in the neighbour
hood of Tobolsk to promote the es-
cape of the prisoners
The announcement does not mention
the former heir apparent, the young
Alexis Romanoff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
PUT GAS IN MAIL?
Letters From Germany Make French
Soldiers Wives Ill.

Paris, May 6.-Germans are credit
ed, in reports received here, with in
jecting asphyxiating gas in letters sent
home by prisoners in their camps.
A woman living in the village of La
Sicotiere recently was i'll for several
days after opening a letter from q
French prisoner in Germany. On the
same day, it is said, another woman
received a letter also containing poi
son gas from her husband. captive in
Bavaria. Other cases have been re-
ported
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
NOT EVEN "A W0MANl.
One English Town Has just One
Voter-He Is "Whole Cheese

London, May 6.-Under the new
election law, the smallest village in
ENGLAND is Hopwas-Hayes in South
Staffordshire, which contains only
one voter. He constitutes the town
meeting. of which he is both chair
man and clerk, nominating and elect
ing: himself to both offices. He must
audit his own accounts and present
them to the authorities for ADDITIONAL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
Grcat Concrete Ship on Trial.

San Francisco, Cal, May 6.-The
1900 ton steamer Faith, the largest
concrete ship in the world. built by
the San Francisco Shipbuiiding Co.,
was given a successful trial trip here
and averaged more than eleven knots
an hour in its four trips over the off,
cial trial course.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06

Joplin. No. May 6.-Jack Demp-
sey of Salt Lake City, Utah and Bob
Devere of Kansas City. have been
matched to box IL rounds here on
the night of May g, Jimmy Bronson,
local promoter, announced today.
The same men were matched here
last January but Devere injured his
hand and was unable to go thru with
he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
ARMENIA ASKS HELP
Appeals to Pope to Keep Turks From
Returning.

Rome, May 6.-The Armenians
have frantically appealed to Pope
Benedict, imploring him to save them
from the consequences of Turkish re-
occupation of their country. it was re-
Hsb bly, learned today. The pope is
deeply moved and intends to make ev-
cry effort to induce the Germans to
prevent the Turks from committing
further atrocities, it is said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
BIG IRISH MEETING
10000 Anti Conscriptionists
Greatest Conflab Yet.

Dublin. May 6.-The joint National
list and Sim Fein anti-conscriptionist
meeting at Ballaghadereen was the
biggest yet held. $4,000 attending.
Dillon and Delavera were the princi-
pal speakers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
IRISH POLICY WRONG
Responsible Government Wanted
First, Then Will Volunteer.

London, May 6.-The governments
two-fo1d policy of CONSUMPTION and
home rule for Ireland is disastrous,
declared Sir Horace Plunkett, presi-
dent of the recent Irish convention, in
letter to the press. The government
ought: he says, Immediately establish
a responsible government in Ireland
as war measure, and Ireland would
then voluntarily Join in the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
Wichitan Made Army omccr.

Washington, May 6.-Henry ]. Tat
man. 1348 North Waco avenue, Wich-
ita. Kan, was announced by the ad-
jutant general as eligible for APP
pointment as second lieutenant of in
fantry, following attendance at the
third officers training camp at Camp
Jackson, s. c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
TO AID ANNA HELD.
Improvement Expected as Result of
Blood TRANSMISSION

New York, May 6.-Improvement is
expected today in the condition of
Anna Held, the actress. as a result of
blood TRANSMISSION which was resorted
to yesterday.
Ernest Lang. aged 20. a truck driv-
er. was selected for the TRANSMISSION
operation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
NO JAP ACTIVITY
japanese Consul Denies Report of In
creased Forces at VIadivostok.
(By the Associated Press.)

Moscow, Sunday, April % (delayed).
Official denial has been made by
Japanese Consul Yueda to the Russian
foreign office to rumors that the
japanese are placing machine guns in
Vladivo5tok and are arranging to in
crease their forces there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
WAR VETERAN DIES
Major Walker Was in Civil War anG
Also Politics.

Sedalia, Mo-, May 6.-Maj. Addison
A. Walker, a veteran of the Civil war
and for many years a leader in DEM
ocratic politics of this state, died here
last night at the age of 70
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06

Wichita, May 6.-Rainfall in this
section of Kansas early this morning
totaIled 1.3S inches
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06

Roosevelt says that 1.-THE Germans respect
bullets. not words, and that 1t is the way
we shoot, not the way we shout that
counts"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

''Von Ludendorf has the kaiser's ear"
The German press has said.
But the allies ask for more than that,
As they would like his head
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06

BY present prices, we mean that
duplication on any of our present
stock would cost considerable more
money than at present. Our stock
is complete of Superior, Rockin-
chair, Vassar and other well known
makes. All sizes are here and it
will behoove you to anticipate your
seasons wants.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-08

ents now and then and thus become infected
People eat the infected pork, and, unless It
is thoroughly cooked so TO kill the minute
worms called "trichinae) are liable TO die
IN frightful agony, their flesh being invaded
by worms multiplying in countless numbers.
Evidently trichiniasis Is a very ancient
malady, for it was on this account that Moses
declared pork to be unclean, forbidding the
Israelites to eat it. AS matter Of fact to-
day at least one pig in twenty is thus In
fected, and only our habit of cooking pork
very thoroughly saves US from being eaten
up by the disease.
At times, in one region or another, rats,
owing to specially favorable conditions of
food supply and weather. multiply at an alb
normal rate, and the damage done by them
is enormously increased. On other occasions,
for lack of provender, they are impelled 10
migrate, marching in armies that number
millions.
In rural sections when warm weather ar
rives, they seek the fields and attack the
growing crops. They dig up the new sown
grain, destroy il while growing and later at
tack it In the shock the crib, the granary,
the mill, the elevator, the warehouse, the
wharf and the ships hold.
Nothing that Is grown for the use of man
is safe from their depredations. They eat
fruits and garden vegetables. They rob cat
tie, horses and poultry of their feed. They
are particularly fond of eggs and destroy
immense numbers of young chicks, ducks and
turkeys. They Will even attack little pigs
Often they cause a total loss of crops over
wide areas, bringing actual famine
commission merchant in Washington
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-08

ate up the black rats and drove them out, so
that to-day a black rat is rarely seen. For
a century and half the brown rat has been
rapidly conquering the world.
We have In this country about twenty
species of native rats, but none of them lives
In houses or seeks the neighborhood of man.
The black rat was an immigrant from the
old world, and so likewise was the brown
rat at a later period.
The brown rat originated in Asia. 1t was
not known in Europe until 1927, when vast
hordes of rodents of this species swan across
the Volga 1t appeared in this country about
the time of the Revolution.
From that time on 1t spread rapidly over
the world, to all parts of which it was car
ried by ships To-day there is no country
that it does not afflict. Even the remotest
islands of the seas suffer from its depreda-
tons In Hawaii the brown rats have taken
to nesting in the trees, adopting habits like
those Of squirrels.
This rat is one of the most ferocious of
animals, and, if cornered, will not hesitate 70
attack man. 1t has been known to aSSail
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-08

mer. As proved by experiment, IL dropped
overheard half a mile from land it will soon
make its way 10 the shore 1t is also clever
acrobat and has been seen TO make It's way
from house to house over telephone wires.
Its tail has a more complex system of mus
cles than the human hand. Mr.. Rat, In fact
employs it like hand being thus enabled to
crawl along narrow lodges while using it to
balance with and TO gain hold. The tail is
prehensile. like a monkey s, and on occasions
serves the purpose of a spring, by the aid of
which the animal can jump 10 heights other
wise inaccessible.
Only two mammals are able to maintain
themselves anywhere IN the world and
against ali rivals-man and the rat The
genus Homo and the genus Mus go every
where and eat everything They are the two
creatures that dwell in houses and travel in
ships. Ever companions, they wage per
petual war upon each other. Man has fought
the rat for thousands of years, and the battle
is still drawn.
The newly circulated Government posters
speak of the rat as a 'spreader of fatal dis
eases" 1t is the sole carrier of the most de-
structive of all human maladies-the blu
bonic plague.
This disease which on two recent occa-
sions has invaded the United States, was for
centuries the terror of the old world, cpl
denies of it carrying off whole populations
One such epidemic, in the fourteenth CEN
fury. killed half the people in England In
1907 more than 100000 men, women and
children In India succumbed TO the com
plant
It is now known that bubonic plague
[ 1919 BY the Star COMPANY. Great Britain Rights
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-08

stored 100 dozen eggs IN a covered wooden
tub. Rats gnawed their way into It and at
the end of two weeks it was discovered that
seventy dozen had been carried off witMut
leaving a she'll
steamer on twenty-nine-day voyage
from India to Antwerp suffered a loss of
10000 sacks of grain out of 46 600 on board.
packing house In Chicago lost 1850
hams, eaten by rats, In a twelvemonth.
A hotel lost SIS month In linen destroyed
by rats A department store suffered to the
extent of $50 night by damaged merchan-
disc.
Rats injure buildings, Kidding them with
holes and undermining the foundations
Many bad fires are caused by rats nibbling
matches.
The cleverness of the rat is illustrated by
the way in which it handles eggs. To eat an
egg it will bite through the shell and nibble
off small fragments of the latter, consuming
the contents without spilling drop.
10 rat, a hens egg Is as big thing 70
handle as barrel would be for man. Yet
rats will carry eggs long distances-two of
them to each egg. One holds the egg be.
tween his paws, passes 1t to the other, and
then runs ahead to receive II In ike manner,
They adopt the same method in carrying egg
up and down stairs-a truly remarkable per.
Torrance when one comes to think of it.
Rats are great travellers, and ships are
usually infested with them. On board Of
vessel they find plenty of hiding places, and
in the hold there are food supplies In guam,
tity
The city of New Orleans was ratproofed
not long ago, when bubonie plague had
started an epidemic there. The Public
Health Service undertook the job, and IL
was so thoroughly done that very few rat
have been seen in that locality since
1t would cost perhaps $40 100000 10 rat.
proof Chicago. but the job would pay for It.
self in three years by the reduction of losses
due to rat depredations.
The sanitary garbage can, with tight
cover, Is an important help IN getting rid Of
rats And 1t goes without saying that the
housewife should protect the contents of her
pantry.
The second thing of Importance IS 10 de-
prive the rats of shelter-to render them
homeless and thus rob them Of the oppor-
tunity to breed
Ratproofng of dwellings and other build
ings accomplishes this purpose 10 a large ex-
tent but it is also necessary to abolish such
harboring places as old sheds, piles Of brush
or old lumber. wooden sidewalks and gar.
bage dumps.
In New Orleans dogs mostly fox-terriers)
lent highly efficient aid in the work of rat.
killing accompanying the gangs of men and
bouncing upon every rodent driven forth
from It's hiding place by poison gas or the
destruction Of a tumbledown shanty.
Nobody IN these days, or IN any time to
come, should think Of putting up building
of any kind without making it ratproof It
costs little and pays for the trifing invest
ment many times over in the course of years.
Any one can End out how to do It by writing
for information to the Public Health Service
at Washington
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-08

the "blaek death" of the middle ages-is
originally disease of rats Fleas, deriving
the infection from the rats, communicate it
to human beings by their bites. Diseased
rats make their way from house to house and
travel in ships from seaport to seaport, thus
spreading the malady.
Another dreadful disease attributable to
rats is trichiniasis 1t originates in rats,
among which it is very common. Pigs
Whose quarters are commonly invaded by
rats looking for food eat the diseased rod
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-08
Two Effective Rat Traps Recc
by the Government.

by Near o. Trap Were Caught IN n
Warehouse single Night The Plan Involved Dee9yins
he 10 Feeding Them Nights
ne of
I'd a no II That the
Fell Into the Barrel Large Catches Have Been Made by
Tran Nc. Barr Fitted with n Light Cover Wood.
ON a cd 10 a. o Weight a
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-08

helpless infants, kill them, and eat
them.
Sturdy, fierce and wonderfully
cunning, it is foot and half long
from snout to tip of tail when full
grown and weighs a pound and a
half. Occasional giant specimens
weigh as much as four pounds.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-08

of all kinds, but spread horrible diseases and
cause fires and interruption of cOmmunica-
ton by gnawing the insulation Of electric
wires In this latter way they may bring
about great military disaster
1t is only the brown rat that is here con-
sidered In the days of our grandfathers
this animal was known as the wharf rat, "
or ship rat, - for at that period the common
rat of the United States was the black rat
But the brown rat, being bigger and fercer.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-08
By Rene Bache.

THE common brown rat is
one Of, our most dangerous
enemies in the present war.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-08

While we are making every
effort to defeat the Germans and
using up our income and resources
in the struggle, we are allowing
the rat TO do us as much material
damage every year as 100000
German soldiers could do.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-11-19
RELEASED PRISONERS
ARE ALMOST STARVING

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
OF VERDUN, Nov. Il.
by The Associated Press)-Rus-
SLAMS, Italians, French and Rumanians
by thousands-al released by the Ger
mans-streamed into the American
lines Sunday The question of feeding
and housing them is taxing the facili-
ties of the army and the various organ
igations which have been furnishing
the Americans with luxuries.
In Spincourt the Americans found p
coo hungry Russians and Tate on Sun
day started to transfer them to Nerdun
by trucks which had hauled supplies
for the American advanced troops
Owing to the shortage of food on
Saturday, two horses were killed at
Sjincourt but this meat only half sat
isfied the Russians, freed by Germans
several days ago.
Already the Americans are starting
outpost feeding stations, where they
are serving coffee. bread and canned
meats. In one instance released pris-
oners rushed an American truck loaded
with bread. cleaning it out before the
crowd could be controlled.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-11-19
ITALIANS FOLLOW
RETREATINC HUNS

WITH THE ITALIAN ARMY IN
ITALY. Nov. 17.-(By
the Associated Press -Genera1 Wit
war commission, former minister of
war and former food controller, died
today of influenza. He had played
most important part in Italy's war
organizations.
All the army commands are moving
forward in order to keep in closer
touch with the evacuating troops. The
Americans, headed for Tolmino to
take up positions on the frontier, are
moving so fast that their food and
equipment transport has been unable
to keep pace with them. Today the
Americans were fed by a passing
Young Mems Christian Association
truck
During the offensive only one Amer
lean was killed. Six were wounded
slightly, and all of them are very
proud of their hurts.
The roads are still blocked with
blown up bridges and general wreck
age There still are thousands of IN
counted prisoners behind the Italian
front.
Prisoners with whom the correspon-
dent talked indicated the greatest in
terest in American political events.
They do not regard the United States
as an enemy.
Wilson is our god said one major.
He finished the war and also is help
ing US to freedom"