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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07
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Is YEARS AGO m TOPEKA
From The eslunss q
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

October =, 1853.
Arthur Cappef announces this week in
the Topeka Mail that the success of his
new venture is more gratifying than be
anticipated.
Department Commander Kelly Of the
Kansas g. A. II. has appointed 4 cofsmit.
tee eonsietink Of Judge John Guthrie and
o. e. Hill to examine the school readers
used In Kansas. as to the amount Of
patriotism they contain.
Guy HagaP has taken q position with the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad at 1t.
Paul, MiHu.
william Green and son John hare gon.
to the world'i fair.
Mrs. C. W. Augle and son. Lamon.
Gregg, left today for the fair.
Mrs Title Sample and son. Judson,. OF
Dayton, Ohio. are Visiting Mrs. Bample' =
Cousin, Mrs H. b. Garvey and Mrs. Charlie
I. Spencer.
Miss Josephine HERON is expected home
teaay SfeW : visit ~ inAisps ~ etisAss.
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DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Wersd's Highest Paid WomsD WKanAr.
Excitement Of Being a Woman.--I.

Excitement OF Being WOmdn.>-1.
An eminent physician has recently
declared that the reason that women
are sick so much is because they are
bored. He says that the average
woman. having little to amuse her,
eultivates ill health by way of diver
sion. She gels her thrills out of her
symptoms, and she only wakes UP and
has a real good time when she can
go to the hospital and have an opera
ton performed about which she can
talk ever afterwards
OF course, there is much truth in
what the doctor says. but being a
woman isn't as dull d career as re
seems to think. OF course, it isn't as
exciting as being a man. Being a
woman IL being a Kind Of understudy
In life where one never gets on in the
big happenings except as sort Of
ladies' auxiliary. Nevertheless. it has
raising adventure. --f er.-s.{
To begin with, women have the
most of the excitement in the 1--we
chase Hunting a husband is going
after big game with a vengeance, ana
what cleverness it involves, what foxi-
ness of movement. what wafiness- in
setting traps, only the experienced
know. 1t is the polite fiction to
speak Of husbands as if they came in
flocks, and were as easy to knock
over as tame pigeons.
Never was there a more baseless
fabrication. The modern man Is q
timid dear. and the woman who cap
lures him has to hustle out and round
him up, and before she gets him he
has given her a run for her money.
Then there is the excitement of
keeping a husband after she gets
him This is perhaps a canned brand
OF thrills, not as good as the fresh,
but it serves as piquant source to
life. For man Is still an. imperfectly
domesticated animal, and no matter
how old he is he is always liable to
stray way from home or permit him
self to be stolen.
Women also have the excitement Of
trying to keep young and beautiful in
order to retain their husbands affec-
tions, and this furnishes them a never
ending source Of interest. Whether
a husbands love is really affected BY
a thirty-two-inch waist measure and a
double chin is open to- discussion, but
there is no doubt that the majority
of women believe it to be, and that
they find a perennial source of en-
ployment and enjoyment in trying to
keep young and beautiful in spite Of
nature.
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ANSWERS TO
CORRESPONDENTS

What is q commissioned" officer?
ANSWER-Those who hold their rank by
commission iesnd to them ny Authofi-
ty of the president are so called. Lowest
in rank among. these is second lieutenant;
highest, general.
. How are non commissioned officers ap-
pointed?
ANSWER-They are appointed by their
rcgimental commanding officer.
What 10 the badge to b given wounded
men?
ANswER-The new ribbon Of homer to
be worn by American soldiers wounded In
the war - worn on the right breast and
H. one inch and half loag and three -eighths
Of an inch wide, the length to be divided
into equal sections Of red, white and blue.
Do soldiers who Starved In Mexico receive
ANSWER--Yes. . bronze medal 10 given
to all who took part in the Mexican cam
paigns. The medal 10 In the shape Of q
dish. one inch and atquarter in diameter,
showing Mexican yucca plant. With
mountains In the background and the
words Mexican Service"
What part are the Indians taking in the
war?
ANSWERING thousand Indians have
enlisted In the army and navy according
TO a report made by the commissioner Of
indian affairs. He also states that Indians
have subscribed to more than nine million
dollars worth of liberty bonds besides as
sisting In Red Cross work.
When did American troops first take an
active part in the wart
ANSWER-On October 10, 1917, 1877 days
after the decla ration Of war.
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THE SOUTH IN THE SADDLE.

Politics may have been suspended
for the duration of the war but APP
parently favoritism has not. Sixteen
southern states received from the gen.
eral government s490. 100000 in the
way of initial expenditures for the es-
adjustment Of environments and
strictly war activities, and paid, s291,-
100000 by way of taxes for 1918;
fourteen northern and western states
received $500, 559, 900 from the general
government and paid $4,000 900
by way of taxes, according to figures
compiled by Representative Robbins
of Pennsylvania. This appears to be
answer enough to the complaint of the
New Orleans Picayune some time ago
that the south was not getting her
proper share of war benefits. The
southern group paid 10 per cent of the
total income taxes and received II per
cent of the appropriations; the north
ern group paid n per cent of the
taxes and received 20 per cent of the
appropriations Group 1 paid one
seventh the amount of taxes paid by
group but received 2 u times more
federal patronage. True, Louisiana
received a rather thin slice of pork,
but cotton has been sky-hish ever
since the war began.
The establishment of these plants
and environments means a ceaseless
flow of currency to the counters of
the neighboring tradesmen from the
soldiers and laborers. To the south
this war has been financially a bless
ing in disguise, and pretty thinly dis
guised at that. WheH the war is over
the south can let out a few more
holes in its belt and exelaim. with
Sidney Smith, Fate cannot harm me
Il have dined today Mr.. Kitchin
and his eonferees can be expected to
continue to see to it that the cost of
the war is met largely by the states
north of the Mason and Dixon line.
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LESSONS OF THE WAR.

-Four years of war have taught this
country many valuable lessons. No.
table among these is the art of pro-
ducing at home the dyes and chem
icals which formerly we imported. We
are now in the front rank of produce
ers of chemicals and our laboratories
and plants today are in a position to
compete with the world. The statis-
tics of our infant chemical industry
affords an astounding tribute to
American industry. enterprise and
scientific research.
Prior to 1914 we were chiefly de-
pendent on Germany for our supply
Of colors. In the fiscal year ending
with June 80. 1914. we exported dye
stuffs valued at $356,919, while our
imports amounted to more than ST.
241,oo0. Our exports amounted to s
per cent of the value of our imports
For the fiscal year ending June so,
1918, we exported dyestuffs to the
value of s16.921.ssS, or more than
twice as much as we imported four
years ago. We imported in that Pc
Rod $2,507,2s6. In other words, our
exports were 500. per cent greater than
our imports.
Even these figures fade into insig-
nificance in comparison with the value
Of our trade in chemicals of all
classes. In the fiscal year of 1914
we exported chemical products val
ued at only $27.ofs.ooo, while for the
fiscal year of 1918 our exports had
risen to s1S1.726.ooo.
Our foreign trade customers in
chemicals include every civilized coun-
try in thu world with which we are
not at war. Since 1915 our exports
of dyestuffs to Great Britain have
trebled. Spain takes from us five
times as much as she did two years
ago; Brazil and India each eighteen
times as much and Japan twenty
times as much. Last year Japan's bill
for dyestuffs imported from the
United states amounted to s3,2a3,3SS.
American chemistry today, says the
Wollman Review. stands as the eff
cient 'helpmeet OF all our great ma
tional industries. Our giant steel in
dustry would be powerless without
its aid. 1t has taken it's place as the
greatest agent in our winning of the
war. 1t is cutting off waste in scores
of fields, giving untold value to count
less products hitherto thrown away as
worthless
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ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BIT ROY K. MoULToN

For the first time since the war
started the crown prince Is leading his
troops.
They are on their way home.
General Otani, who will command
the allied expedition into Siberia, is
the seventh son of seventh son. The
best that can ever happen in the kali
ser's family will be a sixth son OF q
sixth son. Everything against him
now. -
The best thing about the various
"famines' in this country il that they
seldom happen.
Today's slogan: Berlin or bust"
No more liquor will be seld on
trains operated by the government.
The only thing you can tip is the
porter.
The End of the War.
(By-Yau Know who.)
I'll have to say the war is almost over,
l must recall my soldiers from the west,
Ny first-born wires me We have reached
There's no more room for medals on his
chest.
Gabriel d'Annunzio, the Italian poet
and aviator, has been flying over
Vienna, dropping leaflets telling the
Austrians they are whipped, but the
TRANS is with f. N. r.
Newspaper men are not included in
the work or fight class by Secretary
Baker. but most of them have to do
both just the same.
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If the entente allies plan to an
nounce to Germany that they will
make reprisals for the destruction of
French and Belgian cities the. action
should not be further delayed. The
Huns are evacuating and destroying
these cities at so rapid a rate that it
might soon become necessary to make
a wilderness of large part of Ger
many in order to square accounts. A
notification to Berlin of such inten-
ton probably would have all the re-
suits that could be desired. 1t is no.
table that Hun air raids on London
and Paris stopped as soon as British
and French airmen began to retaliate,
No people are more amenable to this
sort of argument than are the Huns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07

PEELED from Europe, Constantinople a
free port, Palestine freed from the
Turk and the security Of Syrians and
Armenians guaranteed. The Hun
leaders may as we'll understand once
for all that nothing is to be gained by
beating about the bush. Perhaps they
do understand 1t and merely are try
ing to save their faces and their jobs.
While they are endeavoring to find q
place to light, the allied armies will
continue to pound their lines and thus
accelerate their movements toward
the point from which. they must now
see clearly there is no escape. ssa
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Try These.
GLOBE SIGHTS
rFrom the Atchison Globe

Chances are for an early fall--in
Germany.
Booze stock is becoming as worthless
as oil stock.
You can be SO busy your faults won't
be noticed.
1t ID the man-with the cleanest rec
ord who worries the least
Wesall are "asin" corporations, but
all of us would like to have special
privileges.
I Jude Johnson will join a lodge, so
as to be sure to have pail bearers when
he croaks.
II you are having hard luck. you
Will have worse luck II you get drunk
to drown your sorrows.
No doubt the kaiser thinks Colt Is
taking toe long q summer vacation.
The somber days of fall are upon u.s..
Danger gnals at bone are almost
as important as those in war, but less
attention is paid to them.
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DINNER STORIES

The officer was lecturtng the new
recruits on the preventive measure fo-
gas attacks and the necessity for the
smart adjustment of helmets. RE
member" he said, there are only tw o
classes when the gas alarm is sounded
tho quick and the dead"
Unable Seaman: when I come to
the surgeon e says to me. I'm bloom
ing sorry mate, I don't know what
I was thinking about,"he says. "but
there's a sponge missin'. and I believe
it's inside yer"
What's the odds?' I says Let
1t be- And there 1t is to this day.
No. I don't feel no particular pain
from it, but do get most uncommon
ly thirsty"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07

A German Socialist newspaper at
Berlin is permitted to say that If the
entente will name the price that each
nation is expected to pay for peace,
Germany is ready to take the matter
under consideration. President Will
son has named the price in unmistak-
able language on several occasions
The price of peace was stated. perhaps
more specifically, by Senator Lodge
recently and includes the restoration
OF Belgium, the surrender of Alsace-
Lorraine and Italia Irredenta, Serbia
and Rumania restored, independence
for Poles and Slovaks, reputation of
the Brest-Litovsk treaty, the Turk ex-
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Peace feelers, made in Germany,
over the earth. There should be no
consideration of ending the war until
every Hun in Germany realizes to the
fullest extent that his country has
been beaten. In order to bring about
such realization there must be abso-
lutte and unconditional surrender. If
Germany had carried on an honorable
warfare she might justly claim, that
consideration which is usually ac-
corded to a vanquished foe by the Vie
tors. But her course from the out
set has been such that she has lost
title to any claim for leniency or any.
thing else. She has violated every
rule of honorable warfare and every
International law. She is a robter, a
highwayman and murderer among
nations. Even today as her armies
retire before the advancing allies her
soldiery is destroying the cities and
villages of an unoffending people. She
must be crushed and Inundated be-
fore there can be any discussion of the
terms on which she can again take
her place in the family of nations and
there must be satisfactory guarantees
of future good behavior. Her pro-
fessed ignorance of the allies de-
Tnands will not avail. These demands
already are well known to the world
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HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
By MRS. ELIzABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am q girl
very anxious to do my bit for Uncle
Sam, but want to do more than OBJ
serve all the eatlest and rpeatless days,
etc. I want to go lover there" and
work among our boys. have no near
relation in the army or navy.
I am q good, strong healthy Girl,
and not afraid of good days work.
1t is impossible for me to become a
nurse or I surely would be one now.
But isn't Uncle Sam looking for girls !?
Isn't there anything We can do :?
Couldn't be a canteen worker?
This is no sin, silly notion aa that has Just
over for some time, and am sure
whatever would be found best fit
for would do my best at.
Isn't there something can do over
there. MAID IN AMERICA.
Go to Red Cross headquarters and
talking to you they may be able to use
you in war work lover there" Do not
build your hopes too high. however.
because very few of the girls who want
to go over are fortunate enough to be
accepted. You can do real actual war
work here if you are not satisfied with
doing your duty on Tess days.
Dear Mrs. Thompson. Does 1t mean
as much to be married by justice OF
the peace as by q minister? My
finance and are of different religions.
and, altho we do not care ourselves,
our parents disagree about the minis
ter we should have to marry us. To
avoid trouble we have decided to be
married by a Justice OF the\peace II
the result is the same.
WAR BRIDE.
The justice OF peace performs the
civil ceremony required by the state.
The church man may add prayers and
other features to the civil ceren ony,
but the marriage by the justice Of the
peace is entirely legal.
Dear Mrs Thompson. Do you
think a girls father and mother
should care II she is nearly eighteen
and has boy callers, 8. r.
It is better for girl to wait Until
she is eighteen before going with boyt
than TO go before that when she ought
to be giving her time to other things
Dear Mrs. Thompson. OF what ma
ture should the letters Of boy and
girl of sixteen and fourteen years. re-
spectively, be. We are good school
mates and the girl is off on a three
weeks vacation. INTERESTED.
Write about the things you would
talk about if you were together. The
only subject which young people
would be apt to touch upon, which
they should not. is love.
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A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds OF men in
Americas Fighting Service

A gold medal Of honor has been be-
slowed by the secretary of the treas
ury upon Joseph Marcio. chief COM
missary steward, u. 8. N, now on the
U. 8. s. Garcia W. in recognition Of
his heroism in saving a man from
drowning.
Marcio was formerly attached to the
U. s. s. Smith as ships cook. first
class. During a heavy northwest gale
the chief quartermaster of the vessel
was washed overheard Marcio. dis
regarding the dangers, jumped over
board. and after a perilous struggle in
the rough sea, saved his shipmate
from drowning.
.Marcio enlisted at Philadelphia in
1914. His father. Raffea1 Maroio,
lives in that city.
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COLBY FLU VICTIM Is BURIED.
Leroy Smith Was Merchant Before
Entering tho Army. 0

Colby. Kan, Oct. THE funeral of
Leroy George Smith. a Colby soldier
boy, held at Colby Sunday, was at
tended by 1000 persons. the largest
funeral ever held IN this city.
LEROY was sent to Camp Cody from
Colby, and later to Camp Dix. He was
ill with Spanish influenza and died
later with pneumonia.
He was a prominent young business
man of Colby of the firm of Smith
Brothers. prosperous merchants.
His mother was at his bedside to the
last and accompanied tho remains
home. together with his brother, Max
Smith. soldier at Camp Dix.
The funeral was attended by the
Kansas state guard company at Colby.
Rev. r. S. Weinlsnd of the Presby-
terrain church preached the funeral
sermon, and the final services at the
grave were conducted by the Masonic
lodge at Colby, Of which the deceased
was q member.
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Atchison wholesaler Dies.

Atchison. KAN. Oct. John B. Sill
hman, wholesale hardware dealer of
national reputation died At his home
here Sunday. aged - years. He came
to Atchison in 1870, and bought . re-
tail hardware business which he con-
verted into jobbing business by In
teresting his brether-in-laws. D. p.
ceased and establishing the firm Of
Blish. Mize and Silliman. He was vice
president. a member of the executive
copnmittee OF the national hardware
dealers association and WAS widely
known by the hardware trade.
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We have nearly 2 nnn On,

We have nearly 100000 men in
France. Every subscriber to the lib
erty loans helped send them them.
Fer artillery. automatic rifles and
small arms. and for ammunition for
them. we have spent over s3.70o, o0o,-
oOo. Every liberty loan subscriber
helps to arm our soldiers. We have
spent over $120,00o.O00 just for sta
Pile supplies for our army. Every sub
scriber to the liberty LOAN helps feed
our soldiers. We have spent over
s5o0.0e0.0oo to clothe our soldiers.
Every subscriber to the liberty loan
has had a part in this care of the
Americans who are fighting in France.
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Like the stray he left unfed.
4 joyous bark on the battlefield
Brings ssas' no1IRs , az asse
Dance tonisht-Kellam Halliday.
C. A.fCaster, Of the statc Y. NJ. c.
A., has returned from q business trip
to Pratt county, which has lately been
The secretary for the county is r. E.
Rush. 90 A-
The high school Y. w. c. A. girls
had their first regular meeting OF the
fall this afternoon at the Central assoc
citation building. Reports OF the Hoi-
lister conference were given during the
business session.
Fern and Harold Burgess, the chill
dren OF Mrs. Thomas A. Burgess, who
was killed IN / santa Re crossing ac-
cident here a few months ago, were
awarded $500 damages by Judge Geo:
H. whitcomb in the second division or
the district court this morning.
Clifford Pierce, state secretary OF
the Y. NJ. c. A. and state director OF
the united war work campaign TOT
kansas, is spending a few days In
southern Kansas on business in con-
nection with the campaign. He IS
stopping at Independence, Parsons and
Pittsburg.
The next regular meeting Of the Co
Operative club will be held at the
Eik's club, Tuesday evening, October
8, at $50 o'clock. III. @. Larimer VII,
be present at the meeting and will
bring along his war maps which are
marked to show the latest war moves
He will entertain the meeting by ex.
planning the value Of the gains maze
in recent drives.
The petition to open Paranore
street from Kansas avenue to Central
4 10 r,ragQntad
Gently to the city commissioners. was
this morning rejected in the regular
weekly session on the grounds that the
city did not own the land. The people
who signed the application should be
informed according to Commissioned
Tandy, that the proper method OF pro.
cedure should be to place before the
commissioners petition asking Tor a
benefit district to be declared which
may be taxed by the city in order that
sufYicient funds may be raised to pay
for the property across which 1t is de-
sired to extend Paramore street.
A delivery boy for the Exchange
grocery store this morning, on Kansas
avenue near Ninth street, found him.
self hauling around a little blaze which
caught in the seat cushion; Neither
the lad nor any OF the bystanders
could determine how the flames got
a start. As soon as the driver dis
covered that a fire OF modest proper
tons was raging In his immediate
neighborhood. he Jumped from the
wagon and began a hasty unloading
Of provisions to save the Yare sack of
sugar and the costly eggs and bacon.
Then he grabbed a gunnysaek and
beat out the flames. In a fifty he
had reloaded his groceries and was
| driving down the street as blandly as
tho q little matter Of discovering
conflagration within easy reach of his
coat tail was an everyday experience.