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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-25
is GREAT GAMBLE
Drive Will Reach Climax in
Next "a Hours.
Hindenburg Smashing MadIy
Seeking Weak Point.
BY J. w. T. MASON.

New York. March 25.-The next
twenty-four hours will probably mark
the climax of Won Hindenburg's I'M
precedented slaughter of his own
troops in an effort to overwhelm the
British armies in France. If the Brit
ism lines hold their own during that
period, Won Hindenburg's great gam
BILE must begin to go against him.
For the present the Germans have
gained two objectives. They have
largely improved their own defensive
positions guarding their chief lines of
communication in western France;
and they have undoubtedly disar-
ranged British offensive plans for the
coming summer. But the Germans
have not yet regained all the territory
they voluntarily abandoned last
March. when they retired to the Hin
denburg line.
Report on Prisoners Significant
The British front is resisting all
tendency to give way in disorder: as
long as this slow. orderly retirement
proceeds, the German attacks must
continue to exhaust Germany's man
power without corresponding compen-
sating advantages.
The Germans confess to an i'm
proved British defense in their state
ment of captured prisoners. During
the first two days of fighting Berlin
reported Zo.UUO BRUSH nad been tax
en-. For the second two days of the
combat, only 5000 additional captives
have been announced from the Ger
man headquarters. This sudden de-
cline in the number of prisoners is
very reassuring.
The present German objective in the
attack shows evidence of not being
fixed at any point. The British re-
tirement has caused Won Hindenburg
apparently to search madly at numer-
Gus sectors for any special weakness
of the line. with the intention of try
ing to break thru there. Otherwise it
is difficult to explain satisfactorily the
scattering nature of the German
blows.
Switches Drive Fifty Miles.
After attempting to outflank the
British positions at the southern end
of the British front and falling, Won
Hindenburg has turned for a new
drive nearly fifty miles north. near
Arras- A breaking up of the German
strength in this manner indicates Won
Hindenburg is now acting as an op-
portunist. The failure of Opportunities
has been almost invariable in the
present war.
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interesting talker, as he told her of
the various places he had visited, and
the strains of music that announced
the next dance came all too soon.
tunats in your choice of an employ
err she said to him, as they entered
the dancing room again.
MY employer? Why just what do
you mean?" asked the young man.
Why" said the girl. mot many
much of the country as you apparent
ly have, judging from your conversa-
tion.''
Not many chauffeurs." repeated
tho young man, a rather puzzled look
on his face-"why-er-' as a
guess l am rather lucky at that, altho
I'm afraid 1 hadn't really appreci-
ated it until yoL spoke
Once more they glided off. and at
the end of the dance Anne held out
her hand.
TT has been a very pleasant eve
ming" she said. Thank you for hav-
ing helped to make it so. Good night.
Mr.. Stranger"
Good night" and his hand closed
meaning conveyed in her words.
Good night, Miss Mystery"
At the end of the hotel season,
Anne went up to Aunt James little
mountain home to rest for a couple
! of weeks, and then went back to
Georgeville for the opening of school.
She found Georgeville all excite
ment. There was to be a reception
and dance to welcome the new super
intendent, and Anne, womanlike, was
just as eager as all the rest to see
what he was like.
/ We'll. you old dear" she said. ad-
dressing her remarks to her very
much wrinkled evening dress, as she
fished it out of her trunk, this makes
the second very unexpected appear
have half as nice a time together to-
night as we did on the occasion of
our last party'-and Anne went off
into day-dream, from which she
was aroused by hearing the clock
| strike six, which brought her to her
| feet with Mercy gracious I must
press my dress or I'll never DE ready
| but he was certainly mighty well-in-
formed for chauffeur, and he never
even asked me my name" she finished
vaguely. not making it very clear even
| to herself just what connection there
was betweei. the first part of her SEN
| tence and the last
Eight o'clock found Anne together
with the other teachers of her school
waiting her turn to meet the guest
of the evening Anne was the last in
the line. and the usher gave her
| his arm, the girl round herself re-
hearsing the very correct speech with
which she hoped to make a good i'm
preston upon her superior officer, but
+ the words Gied in her throat and a
light that was more than recognition
| leaped into her eyes. as the guest OF
the evening strobe forward to meet
her; and as his brown hand closed
over hers he said softly:
II must have the first dance, Miss
| Mystery"
And Anne, with the happy light still
/ glowing in her eyes, lifted them to his
| and said:
IT always find it best to obey the
superintendent
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THE PACKERS.
year.

The meat packers are flooding the
country with printed matter in an eff
fort to win favor with the public. In
the controversy with their employees
over wages they have been placed on
the defensive. They may be able to
evade the antitrust laws but they are
not finding it so easy to escape the
charge that they do not pay fair
wages.
Among the defenses set up are that
the business pays a very small per-
centage on the capital invested, and
that the net returns on each animal
slaughtered is but a few cents. As
opposed to this contention it is being
brought out that they are able to buy
up the stockyards at the various mar
kets. acquire terminals and various
other units OF the country's industrial
life
Frank p. Walsh, counsel for the or
ganized workers in the stockyards, de-
clares that the conditions in the pack
ing industry are a menace to Ameri-
cas- social life and likens the stock
yard workers to the slaves of ante
have turned them into economic hos
taSes.
| He declares it a crime against
American womanhood and a menace
to unborn babes to put women on a
killing floor to handle offal and SINCE
the carcasses of hogs. and says the
substitution of so-called "uplift work
for decent wages and fair hours is
worthy of nothing but contempt
The packing industry has not been
subjected to SO much publicity since
Upton Sinclair startled the public
with his story. THE Jungle" 1t will
be recalled that the author put on
overails and worked in the ranks at
one of the big Chicago concerns. and
later wove into his story a description
Of conditions as he found them The
Sinclair story probably brought about
the ''uplift" work since undertaken by
the packers.
But there is nothing that will who'll
ly compensate for fair wages. The
American laborer does not want char
ity. He wants justice. He wants a fair
| share of what he earns and the right
to spend it as he chooses
The meat packers will not be able
to obscure the issue by calling atten-
ton to the low profits derived from
tinue to amass fortunes. buy up indus
tries and control the food supply OF
the country along numerous other
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Representative Flood of Virginia
has introduced a bill in congress
which looks toward depriving aliens
of the right to vote which they now
possess in certain states by virtue of
local legislation. There are ten such
states. and in them the possession of
first papers only is sufficient to enable
a prospective citizen-tho he be, in
reality, an alien-to take part in cleo
tions. Mr.. Floods bill, of course, can
not curtail this right so far as it re-
lates to voting for state officers, and
it will apply only to the right to vote
for senators and representatives in
congress and for electors of president
and vice president. The proposal is
eminently proper. The right of fran
chise should be granted only to full
Pledged American citizens who owe nc
divided allegiance. Now it seems to
be in order for some member from
the north to offer a bill designed to
compel certain states to permit those
persons who are American citizens to
exercise their right to vote.
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The United States school garden
army is beginning to mobilize. The
secretary of the interior, thru the bu-
reau of education, is calling upon state
and county superintendent of schools
and also upon the governors of the
different states. the mayors of the diff
ferent cities. and school superintend-
ents in cities. towns. villages and sub
urban committees. and asking every
one of these people to fall in line and
get to work in the greatest practical
volunteer campaign that has been
started since the war began. Uncle
Sam says we need more food. The
fathers and mothers have never failed
to meet a patriotic call. Their chill
dren will not fail now.
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DETECTIVE AN ALIEN
He Has Been Employed by Adams
Express Co. at junction City.

Complaints have been registered
with the United States marshal against
the American Express Co.. accusing
the corporation with employing an
enemy alien as an operative on its de-
tective force. Walter Olschenski is
the man named as an enemy alien in
the complaint received by c. C. Jack
son, deputy United States marshal.
I'VE understand Olschenski has
been working at Junction City," said
Jackson, land recently he was trans
ferred to the company's Omaha di-
vision. That throws him out of our
Jurisdiction and now it is up to the
Nebraska office to take action. We
might make it pretty warm for the
gentleman for working in restricted
zones if he still were in our jurisdic-
tioDo
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Heart and Beauty
Problems
BY MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dsar Mrs. Thompson: I am twenty
nine years old and in as good if not a
little better health than the average
woman of my age. Still my cheeks
are awfully hollow and my complexion
sallow. Is there anything that will
cause my cheeks to become full again :?
Will cocoa butter help, and if so how
should 1 use it? My body is fairly
plump. A. B. c.
Your cheeks will fill out again. 1
believe, if you have proper nourish-
ment and exercise. Drink all the milk
you can and eat three or four eggs a
day / would not advise you to use
cocoa butter on your face. If you
massage your cheeks every night with
a good massage cream it will help to
fill them out.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a young
lady twenty-seven years of age and
have been teaching school for the last
five years. 1 am getting tired of
teaching and would like to have
another position. Please advise me
what to do.
have a little brother at home
about nine years of age who gives me
much trouble. Should / try to correct
him and make a better boy of him or
should 1 leave him alone?
'''0 49, ANXIOUS.
Many school teachers who do not
like their work study at a commercial
school evenings and in that way pre-
pare themselves for stenographic or
clerical work. You might find the
work of a business woman more in
teresting than teaching.
Correct your little brother. but dent
let him realize what you are doing.
Destructive criticism never does any
good unless it is followed with con-
structive suggestions. When you sug-
gest that you don't like what the child
is doing. give him something better to
do so that he will not be at a loss to
know what is the right thing. A child
does hate to be constantly corrected
and so you should be very -actful
when you express your opinions to
! him.
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LOCAL MENTION

Walter E. Wilson, state bank COM
mission, left Topeka this afternoon for
Salina. He will probably return
Tuesday.
Governor Capper returned today
from Jewell county, where he made
patriotic speeches in a number of
towns. He concluded an active day in
the county with a patriotic speech in
Mankato Sunday night.
Harvey Motter. secretary of the Henry
J. Allen for governor campaign head
quarters. spent Sunday at his home in
Mcpherson.
T. w. Doron of Hamilton. Ohio, who
owns the Walnut Park Subdivision. is
at the National hotel.-Adv.
Joseph L. Bristow, chairman of the
public utilities commission, will prob
ably lay his resignation before Gov
ernor Capper late this afternoon.
successor will be appointed in a day or
two 1t is probable the Bristow an
nouncement for United States senator
will be made Immediately following
the withdrawal of the commission
chairman from his present office.
Merrill ]. Ream, son of Mrs. Theo-
dore J. Ream of I'LL Morris avenue,
has been appointed to attend the sec
at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. After
completing the course Ream will be
one of the few men who have been
selected to weed out the mentally UNI
fit in the United States army.
More than 10000 circulars. ad-
vance billing of the Third liberty
loan. have been sent out from the
Chamber of Commerce. The Third
liberty loan campaign will open Off
cially April g.
Charles s Huffman, adjutant gen
eral of Kansas, will be the speaker
of the evening at the meeting of the
Current Topic club at the Central Y.
II. c. A. tonight. Huffman will talk
on THE Adjutant Generals Office in
War Time
A district convention and class adep-
ton will be held by the Royal Neigh
bors tomorrow afternoon and even
ing at Lincoln Post Hall, 11S East
Sixth street. The afternoon program
will begin at $3.50 O'Clock and the
evening program at O'Clock. Su-
preme officers of the order will be
present, it is announced.
Two hundred employees of the Chas
Wolff Packing Co. here met at Labor
hall Sunday and took steps prelimin-
airy to obtaining an American Fedora
ton of Labor charter affi1iating them
with tho National Brotherhood OF
Butchers and Meat Cutters At the
same time. about 200 members of the
new Federal union began final steps
toward obtaining their charter. Dur
ing the morning the street railway en-
ployes completed their organization
During the day the teamsters' union
voted to take a block of stock in the
Leavenworth and Topeka railway
project.
F. e. Judy of Kansas City, seriously
injured Saturday when an auto in
which he was riding plunged over Cal
houn's bluff, is reported to be recov-
ering slowly at a local hospital
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THEY SHALL NOT PASS.

On the western front the Huns
finally have been forced to do what
they have vainIy hoped the allies
would undertake. They have launched
a great offensive which is showing
Probably influenced by a realization
of the frightful cost in human life
such movement would entail the
commander of the armies of the al
lies has waited patiently and watched
for the day which he knew must come
sooner or later.
There seems little room for doubt
that the Hun offensive is the result of
necessity rather than design. The
folks back home are weary of the
war. They have had the superiority
of German arms drilled into them for
years. They have been told that vic
tory is certain. They h We demanded
that they be shown.
For the kaiser further to delay ac-
ton meant defeat at home. To launch
an attack on the allies probably meant
defeat at the front. He has chosen
the latter alternative, trusting to the
which will give him a victory. Not to
do SO meant certain ruin. All this has
been known to the allies and they
have been prepared.
Every Teutonic advance since the
war began has been checked before
reaching its objective. This one
promises to be no exception to the
rule. At the Marine. at Verdun. in
Italy and even in Russia, when the
Huns were opposed by fighting force
it was the same. They could not
pass. They cannot do so now
The great battle now in progress, if
it continue few days longer, may and
probably will end the war, not because
the forces on both sides cannot con-
tinue to fight but because the useless
ness of it will be apparent. German
defeat in the present battle will be a
defeat final and complete so far as fu-
ture offensive action goes. How long
defensive war might be maintained
in the hope of obtaining favorable
peace terms is problematical In the
present temper of the German people
it is unlikely that a protracted resist
ance could be carried out
When a bully is whipped he usually
suffers an entire loss of morale.
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There is now a new rule in the
United States senate-proposed by
Senator Curtis of Kansas and spon-
sored on the floor by Senator CALM
ger of New Hampshire. 1t provides
that hereafter no conference commit
tee may take from bill matter which
has received the approval of both
houses of congress or insert matter
which has never been passed Upon in
either branch. The new rule will pre-
vent a handful of men from overrid-
ing the opinion of majority of both
houses as has often been the case;
and it will apply pitiless publicity to
legislation in a very helpful manner.
II 1.-THE new rule had been in force
earlier the country might have es-
capped some legislation which has not
proven of great value.
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IF all that Francis J. Heney charges
against the meat packing industry De
true the Standard Oil company Is only
in the primer class in grabbing ana
controlling the country's industries
and the peoples necessities MI
Heney at least furnishes seemingly
plausible explanation of many busl-
ness conditions which the public has
been unable to understand. The mere
matter of enlightenment. however,
will not go far toward relieving s1tua-
tions which have been complained Of
..Pitiless publicity it will be remem-
bered was applied to the oil octopus,
and the courts went so far as to i'm
pose a fine of $29.O00.OOO. The fine
was not paid, but the oil people were
uut to some inconvenience for which
they subsequently made their patrons
pay dearly. The Standard is continu-
ing to do business, not perhaps in ex-
actIy the same old way, but at the
same old stand. But the government
trust busters must be kept busy. II
Heney succeed in getting the packers
into court probably final hearing on
their case will be postponed until the
end of the war, as has been done in
other antitrust cases.
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future generations has become a ma
tional problem. Already there are ru-
mors of an American minister of edu-
cation. with direct power over all state
and municipal boards of education.
Parents are no longer likely to be
consulted. In the interests of the
future United States of America, the
state must employ the most intelligent
and efficient teachers at salaries
worthy of their important positions.
Meantime, the teachers are leaving
in great numbers, and their places are
being filled by married women and a
few unD0ccoaeful tntellectuals.
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The Jews. who Jared so badly under
Russian rule. are even worse off I'M
der the Germans. In order to raise
money to pay for the cost of the army
of occupation in Lithuania. the Ger
mans turned their attention to the
Jews. They promulgated a bewilder-
ing mass of laws rules and reguIa-
tor to be complied with under threat
of heavy fines. These laws were not
printed in Russian or Yiddish but only
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS

r. b. ROBERTSON. &C years old. died
Sunday afternoon at his home. 61J Tyler
street. He is survived by his widow and
by five children Chester Robertson. of
Los Angeles: Mrs. Willis II. snyder of
Pocatello. Idaho: Edith and Jean Robert
son. of Topeka. and Corp. John Robertson,
of Garden City, Long Island. The funeral
will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2
O'Clock from the First Christian church.
The body will be shipped to Colorado
Springs for burial
MRS. ANNA II. EVANS died Sunday
afternoon at her home. 6O7 West Sixth
street. The funeral will be held tomorrow
afternoon at 2 20 O'Clock from the home.
Burial in Mt. Hope cemetery. No flowers.
GEORGE TYSON. 60 years old. died
Sunday afternoon at his home. 400 Lake
street. The funeral will be held at o'clock
tomorrow afternoon from PenwelI's chapel.
Burial in Topeka cemetery.
CARL ANTHONY CROUNAPPLE. is
years old. died Saturday morning at his
home. $50 Lane street. The body will be
WILLIAM WILLIAMS. 81 years old
died Saturday at his home in Kansas City
The body will arrive In Topeka tonight.
Funeral announcements later
The funeral Of Mrs. Evangeline EATON
will be held tomorrow afternoon at = 20
O'Clock from her home. 1201 North Harrison
street. Burial in Topeka cemetery.
lords Flowers Satisfy. Tel S27.-
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Importation of jewelry, art works
dice. billiard balls, poker chips and
perfumery is prohibited by the gov
eminent for the purpose of conserving
ocean tonnage. A mere glance might
lead one to suppose that one small
ship would carry enough of these ar
ticles at one load to last the country a
year.
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HUNS OFFERED HIM
A HALF MILLION TO
DISRUPT WAR WORK

st. Louis, March 25.-James H.
Dahm. former president of Typo
graphical Union No. 6 of New York, In
and Labor Union here Sunday. said
that prior to the entrance of the
United States in the world war. he was
offered 100000 by pro-German inter-
ests to disrupt war work in America
and that friend of his had been Of
fered a million dollars.
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Wall St. New York, March 2J.-STocKs
The rapidity with which today's stock
market threw off its early depression was
accepted as evidence Of sound underlying
conditions. Sales Appropriated 625 900
shares.
High prices of the mid season were shad-
ed on profit taking in the last hour The
closing was Irregular Liberty 3E-s sold
and recoad As at 1856 to g7Ol
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lines as well as those of beef, pork
and mutton.
Nor will they obscure the issue by
telling how many of the packing house
men have entered the army, or by tell
ing of their big purchases OF liberty
bonds or donations to the Red Cross,
etc, etc.
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BRIGGS JURY HANGS
Nine Favored Conviction of ColIyer
Girl Charged With Murder.

Salina, Kan, March 25.-At 1890
o'clock this morning the jury in the
Madeline Briggs murder case at
Wakeeney was discharged, unable to
reach a verdict. The jury had the
day Sunday.
Nine favored conviction. The second
trial will commence MondaY
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UNDER SPUR OF BATTLE
Hoover Thinks Americans Will Make
Grea ter Food Sacrifices.

Washington, March 25.-Stirred by
the German west front onslaught
America will rise to the new food sac
rifices necessary to support the allied
armies.
This was the view of Food Admin
istrator Hoover today as his drive to
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cut American wheat consumption by
one-half got under way. News from
the front, he believed, assures sue
cess of the tremendous conservation
program,
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WAR BUSINESS ONLY
Essential Industries Get Cold
Deal From Govt.

Washington, March 25.-Non-essen-
tial building and other enterprises
were given a knockout blow today
when the war industries board voted
to withhold priority assistance for
the rest of the war.
The decision applies to both NUM-
cipal and private undertakings.
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TOO LATE To CLASSIFY

LOST-Silver chateIaine watch with black
crdss fob. Howard Phone 5dI7-I
GAS RANGE. double. high ovens ~ II
Phone J417-J.