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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY K. MQuLToN .

If 5000 men die on the slope and
three reach the top. it is great
German victory.
1t takes a large amount of efficiency
to win q war that way.
Count Czernin, as the resuh, OF his
emperor's literary shortsightedness, is
to be sent to Berlin as ambassador.
Which might be called cruel and
unusual punishment.
1t is an old-fashioned guy who pow-
adays makes any kick on the amount
of food that is floating about waiting
to be devoured.
All the Americans have caught the
war spirit. and any one of them would
willingly eat an old boot to win.
When you hear anybody objecting.
he isn't an American. There are only
two kinds of people in this country
now-Americans and Germans.
A foreign-born resident has sworn
off wearing his title of Count of Thurn
and Taxis. Swearing off on the taxis.
he will save a lot of money.
We have a friend who II too old
to go to war. but he claims to be an
ace.
He has already swatted five flies.
Irwin Cobb expects to stay in France
of the survival OF the latest?
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Wheatless Pastry.

Corn Flour Pastry--One cup flour.
one-half teaspoon salt, one teaspoon
baking powder. one-Quarter cup fat.
Water sufficient for. binding.
Cut the fat into the sifted dry In
gradients. and add the water slowly
in order not to use too much. This
crust is difficult to handle, since II
breaks easily It should be rolled
thick. lifted into the pan and shaped
to the pan with the fingers. 1t should
be baked little more slowly than
wheat pastry. t =. -
Corn Flour and Rice Flour Pastry
-One-half cup corn -four, one-haif
cup rice flour, one-half teaspoon salt,
one-hais teaspoon baking powder,
one-quarter cup fat.
Water sufficient to make dough
slightly softer than for wheat pastry.
Cut the fat into the sifted dry in
gradients and add the water slowly IN
order not to use too much. This pas.
try has an excellent flavor and is par
ticularly good for a lemon or cream
pie In which the crust is baked before
the filling is added.
Rice Flour Passry-One cup rice
ilour, one-third teaspoon salt, two
teaspoons baking powder, one-third
cup fat.
dough. r-.'.'-'
Cut the fat into the sifted dry in
sIeuients, ana ada tho water Mow1y In
otoer not TO use too much. This pas
try has a good flayorS IT is NOT a
tender as wheat pastry. but IL has a
crisp flaky texture. It Is excellent for
a one crust fruit pie
Cheese Straws from Rice Flour
Pastry-Make the rice flour pastry ac-
coroine 70 the recipe. using one-ousrt-
er cup Of fat instead of onesthird cun
Roll the dough in a thin recta neuIar
sheet, sprinkle half the sheet with
grated cheese and paprika, fold over
the other half to cover Il. and ryress
the two lightly together with a rolling
PIN. Brush over the top with milk.
cut the beet in narrow strips ana
bake them until they are . delicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07

The, cost of the war this year will
be something more than a quarter of
a dollar-one thrift stamp day-for
each American. But Americans earn
over a dollar a day each. Each of
them can buy his thrift stamp and
have three times as much left. Any
American who is earning his dollar
and not putting his Bit into wal saw
ings stamps is not giving his share for
the glory of his country and the salts
faction of his conscience. The cost of
an American soldier for a year is less
than the average earnings of an Amer
lean citizen for year. No American
can give all he earns for the holy war
against kaiserism, but there are
enough who earn more than the av-
erage, 50 that multitudes can support
more than one soldier each.
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The fabricated American ship, by
which is meant a ship built of parts
which have been fabricated in numer-
Gus machine shops scattered over the
country. is now declared to be a dem
onstrated success. 1t reduces the
amount of work to be done at the
shipyard simply to setting up the ship
out of assembled material, and makes
the principles of mass production i'm
mediately applicable. The parts are
rolling into the big Hog Island and
other yards. by thousands of cars and
go together with the precision of good
machine work. This method makes
the machine shop capacity of practi-
cally the entire country available for
the ship building program. The ship
Tuckahoe, of $500 tons. which was
launched by the New York ShipbuiId-
ing company in twenty-seven days.
completely equipped. in thirty seven
days and sailed with her first cargo in
forty days from the laying of her keel.
gives evidence Of what may be ac-
complished.
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Henry A. Wise Wood. The latter has
been prominent in connection with
war activities since the opening of the
war and is a famous inventor of ma
chinery used in connection with the
printing of newspapers. Henry and
Benjamin Wood are sons of Fernando
Wood. former mayor of New York
City.
Among the papers using the dry
mat process are: The Des Moines Cap
ital. San Antonio, Texas, Light; Wat
erville, Conn.,, Republican,; Decatur
Illinois. Review; Rochester Union and
Advertiser; Houston, Texas. Chronicles;
Boston Record; Youngstown, Ohio,
Telegram; Chattanooga, Tenn, News;
Ell Paso Herald; Peoria Journal Trans
cript and the Minneapolis Tribune.
F. P. NJ.
Ito Be Continued.)
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not shrink up and down the columns.
An important process in the use of
dry mats is the Conditioning" of the
matrices. This is done in what is
called Wood Humidor. an iilustra-
ton of which is given in this column.
1t is gas connected and contains mois-
ture blocks. and a Thermometer for
the purpose of regulating the required
temperature in the humidor. 1t re-
quires several days to condition" the
mats or matrices; about one hundred
mats can be conditioned at a time.
What is known as the cork blanket is
important.
A machine known as the Wood
scorcher is also necessary. but the
scorcher has been in use in this Of
flee and certain other offices for some
years in connection with the drying of
the wet matrices.
The inventors and manufacturers of
the dry mat are Benjamin Wood and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07

The trusts have won another vic
tory, this time in the supreme court
of the United States. The case is that
of the Shoe Machinery company. The
judges have held that the company's
control of shoe machinery "all over
the country" Is not necessarily monop-
olistic but is in consequence of bust
ness foresight" They also hesitate to
order the dissolution Of the company
into its constituent parts on the
ground that the result may be disas-
trous. And the plain deduction from
their findings is that if company
deal fairl, with its customers and If
the public benefit from the economies
and efficiencies of combination, mere
size does not constitute violation of
the Sherman act. This looks like a
definite application of the rule of
reason" "a
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trying to smile, but found he couldn't
What makes you SO quiet? she ask
ed, after they mad sat in silence Tor
nearly five minutes.
Nothing very much" he replied to
her question. Il was thinking that |
was going home tomorrow. t2s
Going homei" she echoed. Why
you said last week that you would be
here all summer"
Il have changed my mind. he an
swered, but when he saw the panied
look on Dora's face he wished he had
thought up an excuse.
The next morning Arthur's resolve
to go home had not faltereds he
wasn't going to stay there fo De the
laughing stock of the whole Motel
Ee was only twenty-one and most ike
Iy she was thirty, anyway. nine years
was too much difference. IL WASH
an easy thing to give her up he nsu
just about reached the proposing point
when he had made the discovery tnae
had shattered his plans He feit SO
uncomfortable over it he went to the
station half an hour before the train
was due to leave. He took a seAt II q
coach and waited irnpatiently for II 10
start As the minutes dra gged out ms
mind began to waver. If he parrfed
Dora he knew he would be proud OF
her no matter how old she was. Her
personality would cover up her age
and> others would be deceived as ne
had been. Lots of young men hao
married women a number OF years
their senior and had been happy.
What il she married Mervin Renton?
His going away would leave the field
open for Mervin. That was too much.
He left the train in a hurry and lefe
word with the baggage man to have
his trunks sent back to the hotel. He
couldn't be happy without Dora, even
If she WAS eighty.
He found Dora in a secluded corner
Lof the veranda. Her eyes were req
and there were other traces OF tears:
You haven't gone yet. she criea
II heard that you had gone witnout
even saying goodby to me-"
| II came pretty nearly doing Il,
dear" he said. but I couldn't go
away and leave you here. When i go
! I want to take you with me. ! want
to marry you"
IF you wanted to marry me. why
did you make me worry about your
leaving SO unexpectedly" she asked,
| trying not to smile. Last night was
the second night have lost sleep by
worrying. The night before it was
the thought Of having lost auntie's
best curl that"
| "Auntie's curl?" he interrupted.
| Eyes; the curl you found yester-
| day. Auntie gave it to me to keep for
her while she was in bathing the day
before, and I lost it. l thought had
dropped it in the water"
"Oh!" Arthur groaned. II thought
| that was your curl!"
| "Mine!! she laughed. And ] was
only twenty a week ago!"
| Thank goodness for that" he cried.
| But why?" she asked. perplexed.
She laughed for a long time after he
told her. But what difference would
it have made If I was 35?" she said.
| None: but I'm glad you're only
| 90" he replied, as he lifted her to q
seat on the veranda railing. where 1t
was necessary for her to put her arm
about his shoulder to keep from fall
| ing.
| Copyright, 1918. by Mcclure Newspaper
| Syndicate.)
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workers he applies to the agent in his
district, who sees that he gets the
help he needs and vouches that the
workers provided are of good charac-
ter and type to give the maximum
of service to their country. The great
aim of the federal employment serv-
ice is to equalize labor supply-that
is to see that local shortages In one
section of the country are filled from
local surpluses elsewhere. It is par
ticularly interested in the problem of
farm labor. having enrolled $4,000
rural carriers and special agents to
fill the farmers needs in this respect.
Since January, half million men and
women have been placed" by this
greatest Of employment agencies.
Next in order comes the labor pol
icies board, just organized, with Fe-
Xix Frankfurter, formerly of Harvard
university, as chairman. Its object is
primarily the Standardization of
wages and of living and working con-
ditions in the various war industries,
in order to cut down the labor turn
over. To prevent this bidding of one
arm of the government against an
other, officers of the various war
boards, such as the railroad admin
istration, the shipping board, the de-
partment of agriculture and the war
and navy departments sit with the
labor policies board. There will be
an early opportunity of work for MIR.
Frankfurters board in the railroad
industry, where dissatisfaction is
strong at the award of the wage COM
mission respecting mechanics. who
feel they can get more in shipyards
or outside machine shops than their
present Jobs pay them.
The third division of the labor poll
icy program is found in the national
war labor board of which Ex-Presi-
dent Taft and Frank P. Walsh are
joint chairmen. 1t is the duty of this
board to act as arbitrator in all la
Dor disputes which seem incapable of
peaceable settlement in any other
way. In a brief six weeks of exist
ence it has provided the most intelli :
gent and sympathetic treatment of in
dustrial disputes that this or any
other country has ever known. From
the fact that so many labor troubles
this spring have been Gained by the
bare announcement that the war la
Dor board, representing both en-
ployers and employed, would adjudi-
cate them, and that workers have re-
turned to their places under existing
conditions to quietly await the deci-
sion of the board, it is believed in
Washington that the era of labor dis
turbance which marked Americas
entry into the war, has been COM
pleted. With the assistance of the
two other boards. it is felt that Amer
ica's labor difficulties are now far
towards settlement.
Names in the News
Coup d'etat-pronounced koo-day-
tah--is French phrase literally
meaning "a stroke of state" a sud-
den decisive measure in politics. or an
important and usually unlocked for
change in the method of government
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
War and Women.-f.

A friend of mine has recently gone
to live in a hotel. A few days after
she took up her residence in the hos
telry, chambermaid said to her:
please ma'am. may 1 ask if you
are an ordinary lady or a war lady?"
Il have two sons at the front. and
am very much interested in war
work. replied my friend, but what
is the difference bet, cen an ordinary
lady and a war Lady,"
AN ordinary lady," replied the
chambermaid, out of her vast knowl-
edge on the subject. lis a lady what
has her broadcast in bed, and doesn't
get up until IL o'clock, and a war
lady is lady what gets up in the
morning and has breakfast down in
the grill at O'Clock, and hustles out
to work like a man does.
Now there's Mrs. Blank in Oil
whose rooms I've been making up for
four years. In all that time 1 never
knew her to get up once before IL
O'Clock, and she always took her
breakfast in bed, but now hes a war
lady, and she gets up at half past Z
and goes down to the Red Cross and
she doesn't get back until 5. She
used to be fat, and many is the time
broke my finger nails trying to hook
her dress belts. but you ought to see
her figger now. It's something
grand"
Twin sister to the chambermaid's
picture of the effect of the war IN
women is the plant I heard recently
from the wife of a famous nerve
specialist.
No" said this woman, 1--WE are not
going to have a new car this summer
Can't afford it. Business is bad with
US. Believe me, there's no class that's
been harder hit by the war than the
doctors, and especially the nerve spe-
cialists. and it's only because SO many
physicians have gone to the war that
the balance of us are making any
money at all.
The reason is plain enough. A
| doctors main source of income is his
women patients. Women who are sick,
or think they are sick, and nowadays
| there are mighty few sick women. The
war cured them. 1t has given them
something besides themselves to think
about. something to do except to sit
up and explore their systems for imag-
| mary ailments, and as a result they've
| gotten well.
1T takes more nerve than the aver
age woman possesses to ask people to
sympathize with her poor nerves when
men are meeting death over there
| with smiles on their lips, and every
| body has got some story to tell of a
hero cut to pieces by shot and shell
who endured the tortures of hell with
| out murmur. Why, believe II a
nice, fat. healthy looking woman
would start to talk about her nerves
now. that other women would fall on
her with hat pins and prick her to
pieces, they'd be so disguised with
her.
"Of course, like the character in
| Dickens's novel, 1 am praying against
my husbands business to say such a
thing, but all the remedy that nine
tenths of the neurasthenic women
needed was to have something happen
| to them that would lift them out OF
| themselves and make them think of
| somebody else-something that would
make them quit being lazy selfish
slobs. and go, to work. The war has
done that for them. It has saved them
body and soul"
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their capability. Holy ambition
still achieving. still pursuing"

An adequate motive and sustenance
for a progressive Christian is given
by Paul when he babe Timothy Re
member Jesus Christ That inspira-
ton lasts. elf-aggrandizement will
fail: the desire to be useful will fail:
but the example and spirit of Jesus
are sufficient sustenance. Forget
Timothy, but remember Jesus! Medi-
tation upon Him Is the unfailing
spring of service.
They are dangerous. our idealists.
our nobly progressive ones, are the
salt of society. The aspirations of
youth are the rising of the spark of
divinity in the human spirit. The
objection to many ambitions Is not
that they are too great but they are
too small Some there be who
should be pursuing imperial power
who are deludedly seeking only a pot
of gold, or a dream of idle pleasure
The stirring line of the poet Young
reminds US that
TOO low they build. who build beneath
the stars
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OF course wesare law abiding peo-
Pile, loving justice and the right, but
it may have been noticed that there
have been no indignation meetings
held In protest against the acquittal of
the men who hanged a Hun sympa-
thizer at Collinsville. Ill.
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Bettering Our Best.

Terse Comments on the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic of the Young
deavor, Etc.-For June 9: "Pro-
gressive Christians" Pet. Hill.
Customs vary with place and time.
Standards are as variable as people.
What is correct in one land is wholly
improper in another. Usage, there
fore. cannot determine the most i'm
portant thing. which is character.
For the measure of manhood we must
have some fixed standard which ap-
plies always and everywhere. That
standard is Jesus, our Example. He
is as adequately a gauge and guide
for the Chinese as He is for the
Americans. His life is as good a
measure for tt life of the city man
of today as it was for the peasant in
Judea two thouand years ago. To
be like Christ-that is the sufficient
and absolute test of the stature of
Christian life.
Only a great goal calls forth a great
endeavor. Then holiness of the Christ
of the Christian life.
1t does not matter greatly what else
is happening to us in life, if only we
are growing like Christ.
All the power OF the olVlne CnrlSt
is promised to those who would live
His life over again.
Burning lives are beacon lives.
They light the way homo for storm
stressed wanderers. They illuminate
the problem for living for all who sur
round him. They are signal fires of
sometimes the fire consumes as it
burns. so long as the beacon shines.
The exhortation, of the apostle Stir
into flame the gift that is in thee"
is a summons to zeal in service.
cried Henry Martyr. the great mis-
sionary. There sounds the echo OF the
Pauline passion. Great souls are
willing to be consumed in great serv-
ice. They prize. nothing SO much as
an opportunity to cry, THE zeal of
thy house hath eaten me up"
The school of doors teaches the skill
that most directly counts. In Chris
tan Endeavor. where youth learns by
doing, the idea of service has been
dominant. 1t really antedated the
present social service movement in the
churches. and pre-figured 1t. That
wholly within the range of young
peoples ability was a new idea thirty
years ago: but now we see how this
principle has led devoted disciples into
a wide class to work in a rescue mis-
sion.
Consider all the millions of young
men and women who have passed
thru the Christian Endeavor Society.
The great dreams Of youth famed in
| their hearts. They aspired to noble
service. Life seemed to them a talent
| to be multiplied. Yet where are they
today? Loyal, efficient Christians. the
most of them. no doubt Some have
done really distinguished service in
| the church and state. But, surely. the
| world has a right to expect more OF
this worldwide organization. which
| has SO greatly fired the hearts OF
youth. What has happened to these
| holy ambitions? They have been lulled
into littleness. An insidious egotisn
| has made many too easily satisfied
with themselves: and SO they have
failed to reach the real measure OF
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Names I'm the News

Names in the News
Coup d'etat-pronounced koo-day-
tah-is French phrase literally
meaning "a stroke of state" a sud-
den decisive measure in politics. or an
important and usually unlocked for
change in the method of government.
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A KANsAN IN NEW YORK.
CHAPTER XIV.

Machinery for Greater Efficiency-I.
During April, the month in which
the writer was in New York City. Cen
eral Leonard Wood, in speaking to the
New York county women's Red Cross
chapter regarding the winning of the
war. said:
1--WE can win the war. but we can
not win Il with a song, and we can
not go thru with shout and a cheer.
The continuance of any evidence of
inefficiency in any department is
treason"
This might apply especially to man
ufacturers. industrial concerns and the
conduct of business generally.
In buying the large amount and va
ried expensive machinery purchased
on the recent trip to New York. great
er efficiency was the paramount idea.
The State Journal has given from
its force and staff seventeen men. 1t
has thus suffered in every department
from the standpoint OF conducting a
newspaper, but the men who have
gone into the army have been fine,
capable men and the government has
profited thereby.
This new machinery, recently pur-
chased, part Of 1t fully installed and
the remainder to be in operation
shortly vastly improves the already
good working conditions in this news
paper plant. Ifmakes the labor easier
and more comfortable. 1t may reduce
slightly the number of people required.
but in no sense will It throw people
out of employment. There is de-
mand for every skilled workman in
every department of a newspaper.
There is no trouble for such a man or
woman getting employment. The men
who have gone from this office to the
war, when they return will find their
places, or equally good ones. in readi-
ness for them.
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All the power of the divine Christ
is promised to those who would live
His life over again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07

Only great goal calls forth a great
endeavor. Then holiness of the Christ
ideal is the explanation of the nobility
of the Christian life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07

1t does not matter greatly what else
is happening to us in life, If only we
are growing like Christ.
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The inventors and manufacturers Of
the dry mat are Benjamin Wood and