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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-25

boche plane taking pictures. The plane
evidently was in trouble, for it was cut
ting up quite bit in the air. 1t wasn't
but a few minutes until the plane be-
gan to spiral down for landing. That
was enough for the men who were
watching the antics of the plane.
Everyone started in the direction in
which the plane was coming down.
Some went on horseback. some on mo-
tor cycles. some " motor cars. and
to be in on the finisfs, and not a mo-
ment was lost.
Training always tells. And IL II
hadn't been for the long hours of
ing over rough ground, five of the
boys who started out on foot wouldn't
have been the first TO arrive. They
ran across country, over hills, hol-
lows, and across fields. Just as they
gained the top of a small hill. they
saw the aviator and the observer
calmly working on the engine of the
plane.
They Had Stones.
Nearly all airplanes are equipped
with machine guns. and they always
carry plenty of ammunition. This one
ammunition train were not armed.
There wasn't even a pocket knife
among all five. But little thing
like a machine gun was never known
10 STOP q boy from the MlCQIe w est
Every one of the soldiers picked up
a handful of stones, and not bother
ing about the machine gun. ran as
fast as they could down the hill to the
plane The boches looked around in
surprise when they heard the Ameri-
cans coming. and simultaneously they
held up their hands. shouting.
"Kameradi Kamerad"
They were immediately searched and
disarmed. Someone suggested that it
would be the proper thing to shoot
them.
But You can't, We are-prisoners of
war" one of them spoke up in perfect
English.
1t wasn't but a minute or two before
soldiers and officers began to arrive
in droves. and they took charge of the
prisoners, while the men gathered
souvenirs.
Several Topekans are with this
ammunition train mentioned in the
above report from France
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-25
POWDER FROM GARBAGE
Grease Saved From Eleven Cities
Waste Loads Half Million Shells.

Wichita, Kan, July 25.-Sufficient
grease was recovered from household
garbage collected during May in
eleven American cities to make the
explosive charge for more than
half smillion of the famous French
rs MN shells, besides millions of
pounds of soap. according to figures
Just compiled for the food administra-
ton.
The garbage grease was sufficient
to produce 129,04o pounds OF Jlycer-
inc from which nitro-glycerine is
made and for which there is a big de-
mand.
Saved More Than Preceding Month.
The grease recovered is an increase
of 43 per cent over May. 1917 In
Chicago the increase IN collections was
200 per cent.
That increase. does not mean the
American people are wasting more. In
fact the garbage pals contain less on
the average than they did one year
ago, but our collection systems are
better Formerly much of the gar
bage we are now Scollecting was
dumped in the rivers and -akes or
burned at great expense. Cities which
formerly wasted garbage are install
ing reduction plants so that the valu-
able materials contained in kitchen
wastes can be recovered.
Grease Basis OF Highest Explosives.
Grease is the foundation of the
highest explosives known. Since Nay
the food administration has been urg-
ing the saving of garbage. either by
having it taken to reduction plants
tracted. or by having it fed to hogs or
cbfckepS
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WILL CONGRESS HEEDo

A continuing dangerous shortage in
common labor is reported by the
weekly labor surveys of the United
States employment service.
Out of 165 offices reporting on
commentator conditions for the week
ended June %. 100 offices.sor 6s per
cent of the total. report a shortage
Only ten cities. three of them in Cali
fornia and three in Texas, show a SUI
plus of common labor. altho forty-six
cities report conditions normal
Common labor is greatly in demand
from South Carolina to Texas and in
the north central states. excepting In
diana. where there has been some sur
plus.
In the farm-labor division the
threatened shortage of central west
ern harvest hands seems to have been
averted. There is, however, an almost
universal shortage of farm laber for
permanent work.
Out of 1o7 offices reporting in the
fomale-labor division, forty-eight
show shortage, twenty-three surplus
and thirty-six balanced conditions.
Women are in great demand for do
nestle work, and are also wanted in
the cotton factories of the south and
industrial establishments of the north,
These conditions lend interest to a
news dispatch from Helena, Mont,
which says:
Suspension of the immigration laws
interfering with labor coming into the
United States during the war has been
asked Of congress by equity societies
in South Dakota, Iowa. Minnesota and
Wisconsin. land by the South Dakota
Farmers union as a means of obtain.
ing more labor.
Interest in the movement has de.
veloped in Montana, where it is under.
stood the petition, which declare.
there is a woeful shortage of labor
| in the United States" is intended pri.
partly to let down the bars to orienta
| labor.
The labor shortage, the petition
says. seriously interferes with pro
| duction and distribution of farm pro 4
| ucts, threatening a famine in the
land, Gripping industry and endan
| gering the success of our armies an6
our allies in the battle field"
| After asserting that there is al
abundant supply of capable man.
power In 'idleness and restricted OF
prohibited from entering this coun,
try by our immigration laws" the pc
tition asks that the laws be sus
pended.
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Every order of the food administra-
tor has been accepted by the people
without complaint or effort to evade.
The housewife continues cheerfully to
buy, with her purchase of flour. lot
of substitutes for which she has no
use, thus not only wasting money
but food as~weu. besides paying ex-
orbitant prices for them. Figures
presented by Senator Borah of Idaho
in debate on the food production bill
show that in his state a man who
bought fifty pounds of flour at a cost
of s245, or little less than 5 cents per
pound. was also required to purchase,
under the food administration regula-
lions, flour substitutes for which he
had to pay the following prices: Rice.
15c: corn meal, &c; beans, 15c; rye
flour, 10c; oatmeal, 10c. The debate
also disclosed that the food admins
tration has had just as much authority
to fix the price OF the substitutes as it
has had to fix the price of wheat
has not acted with regard to the prices
Of substitutes. so that the people have
had to pay the higher price for the
inferior article. But this may be nee
essary in order to win the war and
that is what all of US are after now.
Nobody, however, can be blamed If
doubts arise in his mind. Maybe NE
Hoover will change the system when
he returns from England.
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weeks. Beatrice to stay on with the
McCues. Eileen"
On Wednesday evening a tan pom
gee travelling dress bounced down
"oh, Daddy-I've come home. I've
come home!"
But the house-party. Mother want
ed you to stay, Bee'
started home She minute I knew
mother had to stay in New York. and
you're going to let me stay home with
you!"
Her father laughed. Il won't send
you back, Kitten"
When the Arland Church bell rang.
| at eight o'clock. Beatrice jumped up.
ITS the Circle night, Daddy; let's go!"
Two weeks later, Beatrice went
alone for her favorite walk up -Gray's
mountain. At the summit she came
upon the young minister sprawled on
a messy spot, some typewriter sheets
spread out before him. He started
guilty at sight of her. and with un-
| "Our next Sundays sermon!" she
bantered. May 1 see how it looks on
paper?"
He flushed and thrust the folded
sheets in his pocket, then fished out
of another pocket a strip of paper
which he held out to her.
I'm afraid your father has a bad
opinion of me, but his generous check,
mailed to me more than two weeks
ago, reached me only this noon"
Two weeks ago" murmured Beat
rice, puzzled. "was-was it forward
ed from Oregon?" she stammered.
/ 1T was"
"I-oh, I must have mixed the en-
velopes" she stammered. Then you
that awful letter."
He came and stood by her. IT re-
mailed the letter that was sent me by
mistake" he said.
over hur burning face.
fYes," he confessed. IT didn't real
ice what 1t meant until I'd begun it,
then-it was beautiful reading. ]
wanted to 60 down to Georgia on the
first train--I wanted to keep the
that, either. So 1 copied the letter, and
I've been carrying the copy here close
Ito my heart ever since. Sometimes
Two kissed it"
She raised her dropping head. Then
you-oh, Glenni"
his heart and that he was kissing then
A month later Mrs. Carter. just re-
turned from a six weeks visit, calling
on Mrs. Felix Landrith, met Beatrice
CaswelI and Glenn Pryor just leaving
Did you notice that child's face? p
Mrs. Landrith remarked, as the pail
passed out of hearing. "Love has
made her beautiful"
"Love!" gasped' Mrs. Carter. "You
don't mean to say she's in love with
him? Why. Mrs. McCue's ,brother-in-
law was crazy about her when 1 left!
Glen Pryor. with those altruistic no
tons of his, probably never will have
a penny" She set her lips. why
it's suicidal! I'll write to Eileen to-
day."
Doris Carter" the older woman
laid a hand on her shoulder, don't
, you do anything of the kind It may
} seem to you suicidal to marry for love
without money. but it's worse thar
suicidal to reverse it. I did that and
know. Don't you write to Eileen
Caswell. But even il you were to. it.
too late for her to make the child un.
happy. His Scotch uncle wants him
to come over to France right away. tc
help him in his army work. and the
board has reluctantly consented. Nat
urally, he wants to take his wife with
him. I am going up to Frank Cas-
wells now to persuade him to let them
: be married tomorrow"
; Copyright, 1918. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
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Monster Will Lead Parade
Down Avenue.
VIII Be a Real Feature in the
w. s. S. Campaign.
TO Be USED IN FUTURE DRIVES
"Liberty Castles" on Main
Thorofare a Success.
Circus Clowns Boost Thrift
Sales This Afternoon.

The first drive of the shock troops
of the retail merchants division Of the
Shawnee county war savings stamp
committee has been a pronounced sue
cess The equipment used so far in
the attack has been unique in the war
drive annals of Topeka.
The real feature of the campaign
will be sprung tomorrow evening.
however, in the parade for the 236
draft men. Leading the whole pa
rade will be a great tank such as the
boys will follow into action on the
battle fronts in France. It is a made
in Topeka productive materials for
its construction being solicited by G..
L. Hooper of the Orpheum theater in
his capacity of director general OF
pep and equipment for the war saw
ings campaign of the retail merchants.
OF course the Topeka tank is not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-25
Ammunition Train Soldiers
Capture German Airplane.
And They Had Only Rocks
With Which To Fight.
HAD NO GUNS WITH Them
But Boches Had Machine Gun
and Lots of Ammunition.
Topeka Boys Undoubtedly Were
With the Happy Yanks.

With the American armies. June IL.
There Is quite a difference be-
tween driving an ammunition wagon
and capturing German airplanes and
aviators, yet an ammunition unit or
ganized in greater Kansas City and
the state of Kansas combines the two
classes of work.
Nearly all ammunition is delivered
at night, so during the day most of the
men are at leisure. Observation planes
must work in the daytime. so OCCASION
ally the ammunition men have an OPP
portSnity to watch the boche airpianes
come over the lines to work, and
sometimes to fight.
Not many days ago the men. who
live in a little French village a few
miles back of the lines in one of the
sectors held by the Americans. saw
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DOROTHY DIX TALKS

Fore. armed Is Forearmed.-1.

Fore armed Is Forcarmed.-f.
Little Mary Thompson has married
that handsome, lazy. no-account. dis
sipated Smith boy, in spite of the
prayers, tears and entreaties of err
father and mother, and in the face Of
all their warnings that she was wreck
in her life by choosing such a man
for a husband.
Arthur Jones has eloped with his
mothers pretty housemaid, and his
family, who had built all OF their
hopes and ambitions on him, are
heartbroken.
These are familiar bits OF gossip
that we all thresf. over every day of
idiots Mary ana Arthur are. and pity
their poor parents and wonder how
such food marriages come about. -
The parents say they don't know,
that they never dreamed of such a
thing as Mary and Arthur marrying,
they did, and said, everything on earth
that they could to prevent their poor.
misguided children from making mar
riages that any sane person could see
were bound to end i'll disaster, but wha I
can you do with a headstrous girl and
boy who think they are in love?
And the parents are sincere in their
protestations of guiltlessness. They
never suspect that they had any hand
in making the matches that bring mis-
cry and probably divorce upon their
children: They would be Mortified If
you would charge them with being
particeps criminis before the fact OF
almost every unsuitable marriage. Yet
this is nothing more, nor less, than the
solemn truth
There is moth ing in life more curious
than the attitude that parents take
so N,f ~
Theoretically. everybody knows that
every boy and girl is cut off of the
same bolt of humanity, and are of the
same warp and woof. Also that GER
tain basic principles government the
relationship between the sexes.
There has been no change in the
things that attract men and women to
each other since the law of nature
was first aeid down. A pretty face,
an eye with a come-hither-look in it.
winning way and a glib tongue, the
strange and mysterious way of man
with a maid have always been-and
always will be-the material out OF
which matches are made.
Propinquity has also never failed tc
get in its fatal work since Great
Grandfather Adam popped the ques-
ton of Great Grandmother Eve be-
cause they were thrown so much to-
gether in a lonely garden where they
were the only two young people.
| All parents know these bromide
facts. More, they have experienced
them in their own person, and yet they
| act as If their OWL children were en-
| tirely different from all the other chill.
| dren of men, and, therefore, not sub.
| ject ton the temptation to which any
other girl and boy might yield.
They take the position that while
other young peoples hearts may be
| made of highly inflammable finder
their children's hearts are coated IL
| asbestos, and that while other yount
people may be foolishly ignorant o,
the world. credulous and confiding
their own children are wise and far.
seeing, and of ripe and mature judg
| ment. Furthermore, they are con
WINGED that their own children are en-
tirely too young to think of marrying
altho other peoples children of tn,
! same age are already married
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-25

In these days when patriotic fervor
engendered by the war has reached
high degree, it is not surprising that
gentlemen are found who are willing
to make personal sacrifices for the
good of the political party with which
they are affiliated. We have an ex-
ample in this state. where George w
Marble is running for the United
States senate, without hope of cleo
ton but for the good of the order.
His example is being emulated down
In Kentucky where W. P. Kimban has
announced his entrance into the sena-
torial race, shall we say against or for
Senator Ollie James? His sole motive.
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far ahead of the balloons in sales altho
they were not quite so SNOWY, nor
quite so easily seen.
The attack of the feminine contfn-
geht of war savings stamp sellers in
the castles on Kansas ayenuo today
was planned TO 20 over IN three
waves. The first wave took over the
eefenses or the war at $3.50 o'c'.ck
this p1ornfag and pressed the attack
hard until thu second wave CAME On
at 1880 o'clock. This wave vas to
remain in action in the castles ntfl
1880 O'Clock. when 1t was thought hat
the biggest crowds would be 4l-eady
housed in the circus tents. Another
wave is scheduled to take over the
booths this evening after the Gowns
ha had their do at the selling
game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-25

The committee on public inforr1a-
ton established by the government
announces that: Due to the gener-
Gus donations of patriotic publishers
and advertisers. a fund of one and
one-half million dollars worth of ad-
vertising space has been made avail
able for use by the government thru
the division Of advertising during
1918" This is about, the only mark of
appreciation that publishers have re-
ceived.
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THE GERMAN PEACE KITE.

Germany has sent out another
peace Kite. The fact that this has
been done while one of the greatest
battles of the war is in progress and
her armies are in retreat indicates
lions before the German people find
out that their nation is whipped
AS has been predicted in these COL
umns, the German terms contemplate
a REIMBURSEMENT of territory on the
west but demand that gains on the
east be retained. Other matters it is
suggested can be arranged at the
peace conference. That Germany will
be permitted a seat at the peace con-
ference when it assemblies is an I'M
warranted assumption on her part
The effrontery and insolsnce of at
titude uf Berlin are best answered by
ignoring them. What right has the
murderer who has entered the home
and been surrounded to make terms
on which the intended victims shall
go about their business and he be
allowed to carry off his plumber and
without expiation for the cold blood
ed murders he has committed?
Germany. the most abominated
criminal in history. should be SEN
tenced-not allowed to negotiate for
peace. There must be only uncondi-
tional surrender. and after that, terms
of punishment dictated by the allies.
The Germans have achieved GER
tain great material gains in this war.
and they are fighting now to hold
them. If they fail to hold them. the
Germany of the war-lords- is ruined.
She will have to give up all her bloat-
ed ambitions, to purge and live clean
ly, and painfully to reconstruct her
prosperity on a quieter and sounder
is forced to it by defeat. No doubt
there are moderate and sensible men
in Germany, as III other countries; but
in Germany they are without .influ-
Cnce, and can do nothing. War is
the national industry of Prussia; Prus-
Sit has knit together the several states
of the larger Germany by means of
war. and Has promised them pros
perity and power in the future, to he
dCIlleNeu Dy war. we Know the HruS-
sian doctrine of war. Every one now
knows it. According to that doctrine
it is a foolish thing for a nation to
wait till it is attacked. It should
carefully calculate its own strength
and the strength of bis neighbors. and
when it is ready it should attack them
on any pretext, suddenly, witho Il
warning. and should take from Their
money and land. When it has gained
territory in this fashion, it should
subject the population of the con
quered territory to the strictest laws
of military service, and so supply it
self with an instrument for new and
holder aggression. This is not only
the German doctrine; 1t is thu Ger
man practice. In this way and no
other modern Germany has been
built up. 1t is a huge new state,
founded on force, cementcd by fear,
and financed on speculative, gains to
be derived from the great gamble OF
war.
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The thief who stole the Red Cross
contribution jar from in front of
moving picture house. with its pen
MES ana other small offerings to, the
most worthy cause that can appeal to
a generous and humane people, must
have been a German.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-25
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.
Stewed Prunes
Oatmeal Milk
Cornmeal Cakes Maple Syrup
Bacon Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Egg and Lettuce Sandwiches
(Rye Bread)
Rice, Cooked in Milk in Double
Boiler
Fruit Salad Cocoa
DINNER
Baked Potato New Beets
Barley Flour Mullins
Lettuce Salad Salmon Loaf
Rice Pudding with Raisins
Tea.
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Karl H. Kuhn, a German phiIoso-
pher, wrote in one of his books be-
fore the war began; The might of
the conqueror is the highest law be-
fore which the conquered must bow"
Germany is about to be placed in
position where she can appreciate this
sentiment more than she ever has
done before.
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Canning and Preserving.

Rhubarb-Take rhubarb. clean and
cut in short lengths. Have jars al
ready Washed clean and cold. Put
rhubarb in, fill to top full of cold
water Let stand twenty minutes,
then turn on more water so it will
not take p any more. Put on rub
bers. fsste-l- o. top. put away in cellar
in dark pl@ ce and the work is done
s. Canning Cabbage-It is advisable
to can the surplus of summer cab
bage. much OF which has been wasted
in former seasons. Separate leaves,
remove core and cut out thick nidrib,
as when preparing to cook for the
table Wash thoroly. Blanch five to
ten minutes and cold dip. Pack in
jars and add one level teaspoonful salt
to each quart, then cover with boiling
water. Put on rubber and top. Adjust
top bail or screw top on with thumb
and little finger.
Sterilize ten minutes in hot water
bath or sixty minutes at five to ten
pounds steam pressure. Remove, seal
tight and cool.
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The expected blow has fallen. The
wire communication of the country
has been turned over to Burleson.
Under this new power he may easily
find an opportunity farther to harass
the newspa pers
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TRAVELETTE
By NIKSAH
The Red Tower.

The Red Tower.
York, England. is a very old town
ana the Red Tower of York is almost,
if not quite, as old as the town. The
tower is small and square, built of red
rock-wherefore, its name. Where
the walls are Lerfect they are four
feet thick. The Red Tower was built
early in the sixteenth century when
architectural fashions decreed red
brick trimmed with mortar as the
thing for embellishments.
Since tAat time the square little
tower with its demure gabled roof and
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he declares. is to give the Democrats
a choice. He says>that he expects to
vote for James himself and hopes that
every other Democrat in Kentucky
will do so.
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In taking over control of the wires
the government said nothing about
the political kind. but perhaps it was
considered unnecessary TO specify in
this instance.