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The Greatest Menace
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for several week. The logging camps and mills of the Coast, Northern Idaho and Western Montana were practically para lyzed for seven weeks, at time when Airplane spruce, canton ment and ship building timber was most sorely needed. Today the 100000 members of this order permeate every branch of war industry, are watching the opportuu to bring about their long advertised "reyolution' and 1 assure the public with all sin cerity that if the United States should suffer great military disaster in France, and brief feeling of pessimism should sweep over the country as it did in the allied countries year ago, the I. W. W. would throw off the mask of docility and would use every weapon possible to para lyze industry and overthrow the Government.
 To expedite the revolution the 1. W. W. have inaugurated new system. a systematic at tempt to I. w. W. ize the A. F. of L. On losing the lum Der strike the 1. w. w. leaders advocated the invasion of the Legitimate" organizations to obtain control of them in future strikes. I think that move will prove a failure, at least during the war. for orga- nized labor is proving it's patriot ism by both word and deed in a striking and comWendable man. ner.
 The l. w. W. today dominate with job control several of the largest lumber camps in Wash ington. Thousands of these social enemies are scattered in every industrial center of the state On the Atlantic Seaboord they are becoming a potential factor in the great industries connected with the prosecution of the war. and the metal mines of the West are honey combed with these seditious foes of our commonwealth. They openly advocate, brazenly, and 1 regret to say. without compunction,
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sands of American boys in the

oduos VI htucI lCdii OOJS HI tuC cantonments all over the coun, try
 Thousands of homes in this land are gning 10 take a very sudden and personal interest in this Y. NJ. c. A. work for the let terS from their sons and broth CTS and husbands are going to begin coming from the "" huts and they are going to hear of the Red Triangle activities in every letter. A lot of mighty home si k b ys are going to find the
 Y" secretaries their very best friends, who are ready and will ing to help them over the rough places of those first army weeks. When you write to the boys, ask them if they are taking advan- tage of the opportunities offered them by the "Y" and if they are not doing so, urge them to at tend the nearest hut at once. Most of the boys come without special invitation but there are always a few back ward ones who need a little urging at first.
 One of the big jobs at Camp Pike just now is that of absolute ly barring the flies from the bar. racks, office buildings and out buildings. Every window is screened. CT soon will be, and all doors will have a small screened porch, with two sets of screens. It requires 54,000 half window screens for the camp, and right around 20,c00 screen doors. Sc if window screens are scarce in your town this summer you may take if for granted it is because the camps have monopolized the supply. Fly traps are also scat tered all over the camp in large quantities.
 Are you ready to die for your country?' asked the colonel. We'll, boss, I ain't -zackly pinin' to die for nobody, but I sho aims to make some German man die for his country''.
 A letter from Pine Bluff lady a week or two ago asked for words that are said by the sol. dlers to accompany two of the best known bugle calls. Not all
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Men in the hospital do Lot care so much for long stories as for short jokes, puns. short poetry, pictures, etc. Some very clever books have been received that contained series of the Mutt and Jeff newspaper cartoons and oth CT well known pictures. Better dozen small books than q half dozen thicker ones for they are easier to hold in the hand and do not tire the reader so quickly. Send to Y. NJ. c. A. Administra- tion Building. Camp Pike, Ark.
 It's an old theme but every Y. M. c. A. speaker from over sea that we have in camp urges the secrelarles to try and i'm press upon the folks back home the necessity of writing cheerful letters to every soldier you know. No soldier gets too many letters. if they are the right kind You can help win this war if you are writing cheerful, happy. newsy, letters to the men at the front. You can help lose it by writing slushy. mournful, tear dripping, funeral kind.
 Erwin Funk.
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ot the translations are the same but thls is the way one bugler gave them to me:
 Reveille:
 1 can't get them up, I can't get
 them up,
 1 can't get them ID in the morn
 ing;
 l can't get them up. I can't get
 them up,
 1 can't get them up at all.
 Petty officers worse than boots, Chiefs worse than recruits; 1 can't get them up, 1 can't get
 them up.
 Mess Call:
 Soup y soup y, without a single
 bean:
 Pork y. pork-y, without a streak
 of lean:
 Coffee, coffee, the weakest ever
 seen.
 Making fun of the eats is one of the standard rules for mess room manners and is in no sense an expression Of the real sentiment of the soldier kicker. A few nights ago. a dozen of the men came out of the trenches soaking wet and covered with mud from head to foot. After they had cursed steady for ten minutes about their condition and their hard luck, one of the fellows said: Whats the use of this stall. A little mud never hurt any one and every one of us has had really bully time to- night. It's the biggest thing we've done since we came to the
  camp and I for one wish we could have this experience every week. How about it??" And the whole bunch were willing to ad init that it was fun, after all. And so it goes. This refers. of course, only to the men in good physical condition. And the other kind are getting scarce here.
 Don't forget that the Y. NJ. 0. A. is asking for games and for scrap-books for the patients in base hospital The scrap books should be light and easy to han de, and are more acceptable when of a style that will allow them to lay open on the bed.
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$10O Reward, $10O

The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly influenced by constitutional conditions requires constitutional treatment Halls CatarFh Medicine is taken internally and faces of the System thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, giving the patient strength by building up the con- stitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in the curative powers of Halls Catarrh Medicine that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
 Address r. J. CHENEY 6 CO, Toledo, Ohio. Sold by all Druggist. 75c-
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 Camp Pike Notes

Arkansas is just now making its greatest contribution to the soldier population of Camp Pike. Special trains began arriving Saturday night from various parts of the state, as well as from Tennessee and Mississippi This is the first time Tennessee has sent draft men to Camp Pike and it takes the place of Louisi- ana, whose men are thls time go ing tu Camp Beauregard in Louisiana. Every hour sees long lines of rookiesn marching from the depot to the Receiving Station, and then on to the bar racks where they will be tempo rarily located. It's an cid story in the camp and yet every squad of new arrivals contains the ele ment of 50 many heart breaking stories, represents so much sac. ritice of home ties and financial interests, that it is impossible to see them filing oy without won dering just who they are, and what they were, and where they are from.
 Arkansas is sending 4,l24 white men here in this call, and 3,232 negroes will come from this state later. Included among the whites are quite a bunch of men and officers from the Fourth Ar. kansas regiment of the National Guards, which has never been accepted into the federal service. Many of these men have had some military drill work and life at Camp Pike will not be quite sc new to them as to those who are brand new 10 the job.
 Editor J. F. Henry of the Fort Smith Times Record visited Camp Pike not long ago and upon his return had much to say in a very interesting editorial upon the work the Y. M. c. A. is do ing here. He closed the article with the following paragraph
 Every dollar contributed to the maintenance of these Y. M. c. A holses is money we'll expended They are invaluable in maintain ing the morals and protecting the morals of hundreds of thou
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PRICES HIGH AND Low.

The increase in wholesale prices of
81 per cent and the increase in retail
prices of 81 per cent for January,
1918, as compared with July, 1914.
creates a serious problem in our
economic life. In making readjust-
ments to the new level of prices, va
rious classes of people have been diff
ferently affected. During a period of
falling prices. the debtor class and
business men feel the burden of the
change while the creditor and those
with fixed incomes are benefited
During a period of increasing prices
the creditor and the fixed income
class feel the burden, while the debtor
class and business men are benefited
From a history of world prices it
would appear that our economic life
is one of constant change and that
the problem of a changing price level
has ever been with u.s. Some of the
underlying causes of the present era
of high prices are set forth in a bull
letin issued by the Guaranty Trust
company of New York as follows:
A nation at war is an insistent buy
er of commodities. At the outbreak
of the European war, several such
buyers entered our market. Their in
sistent buying power ied to an inten-
sification of the market demand. In
dustrial plants in laying plans for
expansion to take care of war con-
tracts vent into the market bidding
for capital in the form of building
machinery, raw materials and also
labor. In order to get this additional
supply and to shift it from other lines
of production, it was necessary to pay
higher prices. Other industries, not
working on war contracts, found that
il was more difficult to retain their
skilled labor and to get raw ma
terials at usual prices, and as a re-
Fult they were compelled to offer
higher prices or reduce their output
The outbreak of the war disrupted
the normal distribution system, so
that the supply of important COM
moGities in the countries at war was
restricted. The demands upon avail
able shipping for troop movements
combined with war losses further dis
rupted the machinery of distribution.
A short sighted failure to provide
railroad transportation adequate to
meet the increasing commercial and
industrial needs of the country re-
suited in restricted supplies and in
creased costs. This has greatly cur
tailed the shifting of many commodi-
ties from points of production to
pldteS OIL IIlOSl lnSlSIenL demand. AS
| an example. the surplus of wheat at
the end of the present season in Aus
! tralia is e@timated to be about $780,
! 10000 bushels. If shipping were
available, the transfer of this supply
to ceI.ters of demand would lower
! prices.
There has also been a decrease in
the production of certain important
commodities, particularly agricul-
tura.- For instance, 3o-cent cotton
| in part is dues to decreased produce
| ton.
Under normal conditions, two or
three short crop years in succession
| lead to a higher level of prices 1T
| is a well accepted principle of eco
Monies that decrease of 10 per cent
or 20 per cent in the suppl of a
| product is likely to lead to a much
greater incregs, in price.
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mind transplanted to the Pacific coast
loses none of its keenness even with
advancing age and that Mr.. Ed
munds's intellect, which made him for
so long leader in national affairs and
more than once formidable aspirant
for the presidency is still alive to the
present and the future.
But his advice, sage tho it is, seems
to fall upon deaf ears at Washington.
Are we to have another period OF
watchful waiting?
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TRAWEEETTE

BY NIKSAu.

Tashkent
The kaleidoscope of war brings
strange bits of geography to the center
of the quickly shifting picture. One
of the latest to occupy the worlds at
tention is the ancient city of Tashkent,
which has not figured as a. place of
military Importance since the days
when the hordes of centra, Asia swept
westward
Tashkent is the capital of Russian
TurkeStan, ard as a result 1t finds it
self the center of one of the most veX-
ing problems in that Encouragement of
the world which is taking place today.
The great territory ofRussian Turke-
stan is topping in insecurity with the
bree kdown Of Russian power Turkey
has fixed her eyes and her ambitions
upon it.
AS its very name indicates, a con-
sidera BILE proportion of the people of
Turkestan, are of Turanian origin.
The Turkish imperialists put forward
a claim to the territory based on that
elastic phrase the right Of nations to
self-determipation along racial lines"
But a stroll down the covered bazaars
of Tashkent shows that the problem
is not so simple.
The Khirghiz a Turanian race, are
here in force. it is true; but so are the
Russia rs, and Mongols from the north
and east There are Talks and Sarts,
the Turks. There are Hindoos from
the lower Dekkan peninsula. There
are many Jews. Even Tartars and
Cossacks are numerous. The right of
self-determination is frrefutable in
theory, but its practical application to
a racial conglomerate like Tashkent
and Turkestan will make the chancel-
lor5 grip. their spinning heads.
Meanwhile, the game of intrigue
goes merrily on. The Turks spread
tales of Khirgbiz massacres by the
Russians, whose alleged features rival
the rnassacres of the Armenians by the
Turks A feeling of strain and hos
tility is becoming apparent The fate
of Turkestan is likely to be settled by
the sword. and unless the British con-
tinue to keep the Turks busy in the
south, there is not much prospect that
the people of Tashkent will have much
chance to exercise their right of self
determination.
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MORE WATCHFUL WAITING.

Former Senator Edmunds of YER
mont. now making his home in Cali
fornia, 1elegraphs a New York news
paper to urge "our government in all
its branches and our whole people re-
gardless of party or creed. to unite
in favoring Japan's advance into ST.
IBERIA Mr. Edmunds points out that
this step may prove essential for our
own safety. on the ground that if Ger
many secure possession of the west
ern coast of the Pacific she may there
Establish U-boat bases from which to
operate against shipping in the Pacific
and agasnS: our ports on the western
c1las: Z: tho United States.
This iA!:cr point of view is one
~hich goes to show that a Yankee
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1T that private companies are al
READY in the business, and opponents
or the measure say that the govern
ment might as we'll go into the can
ming business and the packing
IND stry and be done with it. The
answer made by supporters of the
project can be summed up in a sem
tence: The nation not only wants
oehydration plants, but it wants them
right away.
Dehydration may also become an
important aid to the farmer himself
In saving his perishable crops. The
department of agriculture is working
N srnall-scale dehydration apparatus,
Wnic it is hoped will be so cheap
that every farm can dry its own prod
ucts If they are in danger of spoil
IN. Such a system would be of
great value at a time like the pres
ent, when both soft corn and pota-
to IS are being, lost
Questions or the above or any SUBJ
Ject upon which the reader desires
Information, should be addressed the
TOPEKA STATE Journal Information
Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director.
Washington. D. c., with a Scent
stamp enclosed for reply.
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who think that the selfish can keep
love alive. Selfishness has slain love
a million times where IL has been
killed once by infidelity. drink. bad
housekeeping, age, or any of the
causes to which we generally attrib-
ute the death of love.
We can forgive a big sin that may
have its inspiration in some primal
eyes to little blemishes. but we are
filled with disgustsIt a soul SO mean.
petty and ignoble- that it never rises
above its own material desires and we
turn away in loathing from a heart
that is incapable of love for anything
but itself
Time and again 1 have seen this
tragedy happen: A woman married a
fine. splendid man who literally wor-
shipped her. But the woman was SO
selfish that she thought only of her
self. She wanted the things that
money bought and whether they could
afford them or not she got them and
her husband had to make the money
to pay for them. She wanted pleas
ure and she dragged her husband with
her night after night to places of
amusement.
/, 1t was nothing to her that she made
him turn his Pegasus into a dray
horse. 1t was nothing to her if she
worked him to death. She never even
noticed when he grew tired. white
and worn. She whipped him on to
further effort with a lash of her greed
And l have seen such a mans love
dying by inches. I have seen every
fresh proof of the wife's selfishness
give 1T a blow from which it never
recovered and L have wondered if such
a woman thought that the price she
paid for her selfishness made it worth
while.
And in the same way 1 have seen a
selfish man kill a womans beautiful
love-a love that would have gone
unfalteringly with him thru the tor
lures of perdition, but that could not
survive his bestiai sclfishness
We all know old people and sick
people who complain of their loneli-
ness and say that there is no human
being on earth who cares whether
they live die. and that nobody
comes te cheer the twilight of their
days.
Sometimes they inveigh bitterly
against their kindred and tell you that
their sisters. brothers and even their
own children do not care for theEL
Always and invariably these have
been the selfish people who have TAX
en- the best of everything for them
selves. They have never visited the
sick, nor cherished the old. They
have killed all love with their greed
and they are reaping what they sowed
No. A thousand times no. Selfish
ness does not pay.
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A SIGN OF THE TIMES.

IF you can't lick 'em, jine EN-" is
one of the sayings attributed to Uncle
Chester Thomas. The suggestion was
born of his experiences in a long and
checkered political career. Some
such idea appears to have found lodg-
ment Friday night in the minds of the
men who compose the Topeka Indus
trial council. The council is reported
to have not only subscribed for stock
in the Leavenworth e Topeka rail-
road, but to have recommended SINH
lar action to the various local labor
unions
This seeming tendency on the part
of labor to unite with capital instead
of fighting it is an encouraging sign
of the times. Money in the treasures
of the organization may find much
better use in investment in public en-
terprises than in sustaining strikes.
Carried to its logical conclusion, in
vestment by labor in the industries of
the country might eliminate strikes al
together. If memory serves US right
there has been no strike in the United
States steel works since the employees
have become stockholders in the con-
Germ.
The laboring man of today may be-
come the capitalist of tomorrow.
The capitalist will best serve his
own ends and those of his class by
meeting this tendency on the part of
labor half way. While the worker is
becoming a capitalist, the capitalist
should also see that he does real work
Much of the bitterness shown In the
past by laboring men towards their
employers has been due to the fact
that they had a feeling that the boss
was living on the fruits of their toll
and contributing nothing to the well
fare of the world.
This movement on the part of the
Industrial council should not stop at
the local union but should extend to
the individual members 1t should
not end with the Leavenworth & To-
peka railroad but should reach out to
other enterprises for the upbui1ding of
the city.
There is no more intelligent body of
men than that making up the labor
unions in Topeka or one more capable
of looking after it's own interest There
are men in the unions capable of look
ing out for the business interests of
the rank and file, and there is no ne
cessity for outside aid or advice.
Let us hope that the action of the
Topeka Industrial council marks the
beginning of a better understanding
between elements which have hitherto
frequently been antagonistic.
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A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds of Men i'm
Americas Fighting Service

Altho he had twice been unable to
make his way thru a steam-filled COM
partment, Walter D. McLea a chief
machinist's mate, national naval vol
unteers, United States navy, made a
third go at it, and with success. In
doing this he prevented a much more
serious accident and for his valor has
been commended by the secretary of
the navy. The engine room had been
filled with live steam when the break
ing of the tiller carried away the ex-
haust lines of the steering engine. At
the first alarm, McLea tried to enter
the compartment where the steam was
escaping, but it was not until he had
made three trips down the ladder that
he was successful in stopping the flow.
McLea went into the navy April 8,
1917, entering the naval volunteers at
Erie, Pa. His home is at 1876 West
Eighty-Seventh street, Cleveland. o.
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GLOBE SIGHTS
IFrom the Atchison Globe.]

tFrom the Atchison GlobeJ
Prohibition workers are the real
booze fighters.
The trouble with committees is
every member wants his own way.
The average woman is not kept at
home any more than she ought to be.
Eccentrieity is more otter a mild
form of insanity than a mark of
genius.
When a married woman or a mar
ried man talks about having but one
life to lead. look out
Undertakers rarely visit the sick
probably because they can't talk one
way and feel the other way.
The best of wives, when they talk
of their husbands, say: 1T takes a
lot of patience to get along with
husband"
Don't attempt to become politician
or a statesman unless you possess the
gift of Cab; it doesn't matter whether
you have any brains
The most futile thing in the world
is a photographer asking some people
to look pleasant and natural at the
same time.
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German newspaper is quoted as
saving that the Teutons are watching
the big offensive with feverish inter-
est. Feverish is a good word in this
connection. 1t is in striking contrast to
the feeling of confidence with which
the allies have awaited the attack
EVERYWHERE among the civilized ma
lions is the feeling that the Huns can
not pass. There appears to be much
uncertainty regarding the real inten-
lions of Hindenburg. Doubt is ex-
pressed that he would hazard the re-
suit of the war in move that is SEEM
ingIy hopeless. What seems probaple
is that the internal situation in Ger
MANY has reached a point where 1t is
necessary to make some sort OF
showing. even at the cost of thou
sands of German lives. The people
have so long heard that their army is
in every way superior to that of the
allies that it is not unlikely they are
demanding to be shown. Failure OF
course will be followed by explana-
tions which may or may not prove
satisfactory to the Teutonic mind.