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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
WHO WANTS PEACE?
Ckraine-RussiA Move Made But Ger
mans Pay Little Heed.
(By the Associated Press.)

Moscow, Saturday, May IS tide
layed) peace negotiations
between Russia and Ukrainia have
now begun at kiev, the Germans have
broken the armistice on the Voronezh
front, occupying the town of Valuitai
after four days of fighting and making
a further advance. The IZvestia,
organ of the Bolsheviki. explains the
advance as being due to Germany's in
tention to seize those portions of the
Voronezh government which Ukrainia
desires
Meanwhile the Germans are making
extensive preparations in the Caucasus
and continuing their operations in the
Don region. where no armistice has
been agreed to-
Reports of the first session of the
Kiev peace conference. held on May
%. indicate that the Germans are in
no hurry for peace between Russia
and Ukrainia- The Ukrainian dele
gates told the Eussions their, creden-
tials were invalid, because they did not
specifically contain authorization for
did not state what parts of Russia
comprise the soviet republic The
Russians requested time to make a re-
ply and a day was granted for this
purpose
Germany's policy in the Ukraine is
repelling her old friends and gaining
her no new ones. declares the Social
list newspaper Vorwaerts of Berlin. in
commenting on a letter il publishes
from a correspondent in the Ukraine
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total of siIs,sss on set quota of
$4,000. -.
naf1nfne troops Is not yet complete
Scattered subscriptions are sun com
ing in: several precincts in one OF the
yards have not yet MADE their Ii,ai
renorts: and a pig. heller. and
horse remain to be sold before the
Country report can be complete AT
the closing banquet Of the active cam
paign Monday night, nearly sf,ooo OF
new subscriptions ware reported
The city OF Oakland. bosom COM
,snfon OF the city of Topeka contrib
uted ss52 to the Shawnee county
ouota- The city of Silver Lake. with
= quota OF $500 came within $67 of
going 200 per cent of its quota
.SiIent Dave Spoke.
Ar the banquet Monday night, D.
" Mulvane, surnamed the silent
nv his associates made a speech OF
nearly a half a minute in length,
thanking his captains, their Heuten-
ants q nd Others connected with the
"a npaign for their work. II was the
Longest speech which County Manager
NruIxane has uttered in connection
With the campaign. At the close OF
the reporting which followed the ris-
ing vote of thanks to Manager Null
vane and the headquarters stan, DR..
Edmund James kulp voiced the story
of the Red Cross
The ed Cross alone is responsible
that today you men are not making
preparations to pay German indemni-
ties for being defeated in the world
struggle" asserted Doctor kulp.
Defensive War Weapon.
Doctor Kulp explained that the Red
Cross has been the greatest defensive
weapon which the United States has
thrown into the breach since her en-
trance into the war in April, 1917 He
told of the furlo of a French soldier
in the winter of 1861 and how OF
his long journey from the battle lines
in northern France to his home on the
sunny slopes of the southern noun
tains he suffered all kinds of torment
hunger and cold, loneliness, a feel
ing that he was forgotten and alive
take it both ways" Doctor Kulp told
how this ma reached his home and
found the wife and the kiddies sick
and cold and hungry and without
money, and how the poilu felt when
the furlo was up and he went back
to the line.
But the next winter" said DR.
kulp. the one just passed, this same
soldier went over the same route, did
the same things, but thanks to the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28

Red Cross defense of the morale of
the armies he went back to the line
with courage and renewed determine
ton in his heart
DIR. kulp in his story of the French
poflu told of the way the Red Cross
with the funds contributed in America
has established rest stations at all
the junction points on the rail lines
from the front, where the soldier on
leave may obtain q much needed bath,
where he can have his clothes cleaned
and disinfected. and where he himself
is amused, fed and kept warm during
the long waits for the homebound
trains He told how the Red Cross
has met every need Of the war weary
families of France until the WEAKNESS
has dropped away and the French peo-
pie and poilu have nothing but faith
and determination in their hearts con-
corning the coming of the victory.
All this America has done thru the
dollars you have given to the Amert-
can Red Cross, and to that blood red
symbol of mercy you can point as
the escutcheon of the greatest defen-
sive machine America has yet put into
the war"
The banquet closed about $50
o'clock with a blessing from the lips
and the heart of Father Hayden. dean
of all Topeka ministers and priests.
and the armies of the second Red
Cross war fund campaign, veterans Of
q glorious struggle, went to their
homes blessed in the name of the
Father. and of the Son. and OF the
Holy Ghost"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
new POSTAL RATES
Zone System for Publications to Go
Into Effect Now.

Washington. May 2s--Reguiations
esta blishing the zone system of postal
rates for newspapers and magazines
have been issued by the postmaster
general That part of periodicals de-
voted to reading matter, after July 1.
is assigned a rate of Il cents a pound
for the first year and 1 u cents there
after. The portion of periodicals de-
voted to advertising matter is assigned
zone rates. running up from 1 \ cents
to az cents the first year. In 1919
the regulations provide a scale run
ming to 81 cents. while in the third
year the charge is raised to IL cents
in the farthest zoI-e and in the fourth
year II is raised to 10 cents Inter-
mediate zones take a rate proportion
ately increasing
To make effective the discrimtna-
ton between the weight of reading
matter and advertising. the regula-
tions provide that all publishers shall
file a copy of every publication
marked to show the percentage of
each Publishers also are required to
separate publications IN mailing in ac-
cordance to the zones to which copies
are destined. The separation can be
avoided only byAthe filing of circuIa-
ton estimates showing the percent
age of publications going into the diff
ferent zones
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
SWAT AT KAISER!
Wheat Harvest Is On in Texas
Big Yields.
Threshing Maybe in . Weeks
Then to Market.

Dallas. May 2s.-Harvesting in some
wheat fields in this section began this
week and by the first of next week the
bulk of the grain cutting will be well
started, according to ranchmen-
g. w. Colt. enc of the big wheat
raisers near here, estimated that
wheat In that section would average
from eighteen to twenty bushels per
acre. In the western and northwest
ern portions Of Dallas county some in
jury was done by the recent drouth.
There is some spring wheat about here
for the first time and Colt says it bids
fair to equal the winter variety.
II the weather is dry and the wheat
fully matured, threshing may begin
within two or three days after cutting
and the grain may be milled imme-
diateiy. according to B. R. Neal. Dali
las miller. Dallas civic and CONNER
cidi institutions are working on a plan
to furnish men for harvest labor.
A central committee has been ap-
pointed to have charge of labor mo-
bilizatfon and enlist recruits. School
boys. both white and negro. also are
being enlisted for work in the fields
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That VIII Be Basis of New Tax
Bill in Congress.
Practically All Agree on Draft
ing Wealth First.
LUXURIES AND WAR PROFITS
Should Have Taxed Them More
Heavily Before.
Difference of Opinion Over Will
sons 1850 Tax Ratio.

WASHINGTON. May 2S.-Weaith con-
scriptionists in congress today well
coined President Wilson to their
ranks
The presidents suggestion that the
government would naturally lock to
war profits, incomes and Injuries to
furnish the new taxes was hailed as
evidencing the presidents conversion
to their way of thinking
At the same time opposition devel-
oped in the presidents own party to
the forty-sixty financial policy he has
laid down.
Representative Kitchin house Dem
ocratic leader and chairman of the
ways and means committee, which will
frame the bill, is baking at this today.
kitchin wants larger proportion
raised by taxation
There should be no attempt to fix
an exact ratio" said Kitchin- But a
larger percentage than 40 should come
from taxes. We must get these huge
profits while they are here to be had"
Wilson Backs 1880 Ratio.
President Wilson has twice ex-
pressed himself to congressional lead
ers as strongly favoring this exact
proportion Once in a memorandum
to the senate finance committee and
again in response to an inquiry from
Senator Simmons as to whether he
would accept some other ratio.
1t was his insistence on this exact
proposition which caused Republican
senators to break away last Saturday
and upset what seemed certain to be
an amicable agreement to postpone
the bill until a special session in No
vember.
Republicans said they could not
bind themselves to this or any other
definite plan- because they could not
tell what war profits are going to be
in 1918 Neither would they agree to
pass the bill by the end of January
which the president also insisted r.
dictions are that the forty-sixty ratio
will be one of the big points of contro-
versy.
Luxury Tax Favored by All.
But upon the principle that war
profits incomes and luxuries must
bear the brunt, congress seemed prac-
ucally unanimous today The only
difference is the degree to which these
things will be taxed
Senator johnson. California leader
In last sessions wealth CONSUMPTION
fight said:
The modes suggested for a new
revenue bill are sinsularly gratifying
to those of us who constitute woe
ful minority last year in endeavoring
to make war profits bear their due
burden of the expenses of war
When in the last session we at
tempted in vain to raise the utmost
possible sums from those profiting
by war. we were met by angry
epfthets, the least of which were
anarchist and 'pro-German.' Appar-
emily those loudest then in denuncia-
ton of this method of taxation we
proposed are now cheerfuIly and en-
Enthusiastically demanding that method
What a pity one years excessive war
profits were permitted to escape with
out bearing their just burdens"
Representative Kitchin said TODAY
hearings will begin within ten days
He expects to report the bin to the
house in August
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
1871 TO GRADUATE
X. s. A. C. Commencement Ex-
ercises To Be Held Tomorrow.
DIR. Taylor of @. of Penn. To
Deliver Address.

Manhattan, Kan. May 2s.-Com-
mencement at the Kansas State Agri-
cultural college began Sunday after
noon with the baccalaureate sermon
by Dr. Edmund ]. Kulp, pastor of the
First Methodist Episcopal church. OF
Topeka The commencement exer-
cises will be held Wednesday morn
ing. with DR.. AIonzo E. Taylor of the
University of Pennsylvania as the
speaker One hundred and ninety
one students are candidates for grad
uation, twenty-eight of whom are in
the service of the United states and
will be granted degrees in absentia-
Monday morning the student as
sembly was in charge of the senior
class DR.. Frank Strong, chancellor
of the University of Kansas. gave the
annual address before the members
of Phi Kappa Phi. honorary frater-
nifty, Monday evening at O'Clock
The annual alumni business meeting
O'Clock A feature for Tuesday eve
ming will be a recital by the music
faculty.
Cadet Dress Parade
Following the commencement ex-
ercises Wednesday morning, a lunch
con will be held for the class of 1918
and invited guests by the Alumni as
given by the college cadets at 2.3o
O'Clock This will be followed at 4-30
by the annual alumni-K- s A C
baseball game
The closing feature of the COM
mencement prosrom will be a recep-
ton at s o'clock, wednesday evening,
in the home economics building for
visiting alumni, faculty and friends of
the college. This will be given by the
Manhattan Alumni association Many
graduates and former students are ex-
pected to attend the commencement
exercises
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
TO KEEP BELGIUM
Tirpitz Says Flanders. Coast
Must Stay German.
Must Make Sea Free From
"Anglo Saxon Tyranny

Amsterdam. May es.-''We must
retain Belgium economically. POLITICAL
ly and n1iIitarily." said Admiral Won
Tirpftz, former German minister of
marine in an address at Dusseldorf or
Sunday, as quoted in the Nachrichtep
of that city
The admiral's address was delivered
before the Dusseldorf branch of Re-
dictionary Fatherland party of which
he is one of the leading spirits Speak
ing of Germany's requirements after
the war, he said:
Neither central Europe, the ORR
emit nor northern Europe can supply
US with the raw materials requisite to
our industries We need to have the
sea free from Anglo-Saxon tyranny
for that purpose
Apparently the admiralty did not
mention the submarine warfare which
was discussed at the same meeting in
a highly optimistic manner by Herr
Bachmeister, deputy in the landtag
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
RICHES MUST PAY HUGE R. R. DEFICIT
of New Tax Indications So Far This Year
in Congress. Point to Huge Loss.
Practically All Draft May Be Nearly by
ing Wealth First End of Year.
lUXURIES and WAR PROFITS IS PERIOD OF READJUS1 MEN1
Should Have Deficit Now Should Be Made
Heavily Before. Back Next Year.
Opinion Will Many Changes Necessary on
Indications So Far This Year
Point to Huge Loss.
May Be Nearly s2O0,OO0,00O by
End OF Year.
IS PERIOD OF REIMBURSEMENT
Deficit Now Should Be Made
Back Next Year.
Many Changes Necessary on
Account of War.

Washington, May 2s.-Carryins
Americas war supplies will cost the
National railroad this year about
billion dollars more than last year
and force Uncle Sam to dig into his
pockets for a deficit of nearly 5000
900. 900 at the end of the year.
Closing its first five months Of
operation under government control
today, the National railroad books
show increased operating costs as fol-
lows: Fuel, s160,o0o,00; increased
wages, s33s, 0,0o0: increases in
detailing approximately s1.os1, o00.-
200.
As against this Director General
McAdoo effected the following econo :
mics and added revenue: Increased
freight and passenger rates. $3.50, 000,-
900; (but only about seven months
share of the passenger increases and
about six months share of the freight
increases will be available to help pay
off this years debts): passenger train
curtailment. 100000. 900; discontinue
ance of advertising, ss.400.00o reduc-
ton of rentals thru combining ticket
offices and eliminating competitive
agencies. 81, 00O.0 900, and substitution
of federal managers for highly paid
railroad presidents, $4,000, 900. a total
added revenue of s9s4.4O0,00o
Make 1t Back Later.
Since the railroad act provides that
the National railroad must show
net revenue of sI,049. 900 900 to meet
its obligations at the end of the year
to the various roads, railroad experts
here declare that at least $1,000 0O,0t
will have to be taken from the re-
volving fund of the government to
meet the deficit.
Next year. however, the full bene-
fits accruiug from the increa sing
freight and passenger rates, instead
of only approximately half of the
benefits this year. should not only
meet all obligations. but enable the
refunding of, the s2oo.oo0000 taken
from the revolving fund this year
Director General McAdoo has tele-
graphed all state public service COM
missions asking their cooperation in
adjusting the new rates to local condi-
tons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
N. Y. HOSPITAL CENTER
Big Store Buildings Being Cleared to
Care for Wounded.

New York May 2S-New York is
to be a war hospital base with accom-
modations for fifty thousand wounded
soldiers. If present plans of the med
icaI department of the army are car
ried out it was learned today.
The Greenhut store building in the
heart of New York. the first of a
group of buildings to be taken over
has been leased for the duration of
the war and o. year after 1t will be
used as a clearing hospital for
wounded soldiers. and the work of
clearing it out and installing 1000
beds started today. Other buildings
are now under consideration for hos
pital purposes. and plans have been
completed for forty-eight hospital
buildings at Pelham bay to cost
100000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
THERE'S THE DOORY'
No Export Duty on Those Who Don't
Like America. Says Churchman.

Grand Rapids, Mich. May Is
There is no export duty on persons
who are homesick for foreign land
and foreign church." said Rev K
G. Dykema, of the Sixth Reformed
church of this city. addressing the
Western Social conference of the
Michigan Reformed church here last
night In late years un-American
tendencies have asserted themselves
strongly in our church" he said
The Reformed church must accept
the fact that Americans want a
practical religion. that they will not
accept an ideal that destroyed their
national principles"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
FACE COAL Want
Production Still Lays Behind
Necessary Figure.
All Records Must Be Broken To
Meet Demand.

Philadelphia, May 2s.-The produc-
ton of coal in the United States for
the year beginning April l must reach
.735, 900. 900 net tons, j. D. A MORROW.
general director of distribution of the
United States fuel administration. to-
day told the National Coal association
in convention here. This means an in
crease of $4,000, 900 tons over the pro-
duction for the coal year 1917. If the
war demands of the country ara to be
met
1t is doubtful, Mr. Morrow said, If
the production of anthracite coal can
be increased over last years total Of
IS, 900. 900 gross tons. Therefore, the
entire s5.000.Ooo tons must come from
the bituminous mines.
A survey of the war demand for
coal by the United States fuel admin
istration has shown that the country
will require during the present coal
year 635,000,000 net tons of bitumi-
nous coal Mr.. Morrow said. During
the last year the bituminous coal pro-
duction was 551-oo0.oo0 net tons
Must Break All Records.
To meet these requirements it will
be necessary to maintain an average
weekly production of 12.60D, 900 tons
of bituminous- This quantity has not
been produced in any single week m
the history of the bituminous coal IN
dustry. The record weeks production
was 11,S25.0o0 tons.
The output of the bituminous mines
for April, the first month of the new
coal year was 10000 900 tons. Should
this rate of production be maintained
thruout the year the total output
would be about 564. 600, 900 tons. IN
der the present estimates of necessary
consumption The country at this
rate of production would face a
bituminous coal shortage of T1.o00,-
900 tons
Can Railroads Handle It?
Mr. Morrow said: I'VE must,
therefore, look to the bituminous
mines for SIS. 900, 900 tons more coal
than their record output. You men
ask Immediately can the railroads
| furnish the transportation to produce
| this tonnage
That is question that the rail-
road administration must answer. II
| behooves the operators to stand pre-
pared to deliver this coal should the
! roads prove able to haul it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
MADE BIG CRATER
Nitro GIycerine Plant Struck By Lkghf
ming and ExplodeA

Wilmington. Del. May 28--Lght-
ming early today struck a nitro-giyeer-
inc mill at the Repanno Chemical
plant, a Du Point subsidiary. at Gibbs-
town n. J. Three tons of nitro
gIycerine in the building exploded,
tearing q huge crater in the ground
The mill was not in operation ct the
time, and no one was injured Several
buildings were destroyed Total loss
is estimated at $4,000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
Lutheran War Work.

Chicago. May 2s-More than 49,
600 men have gone to war from fam
lies in the Lutheran church more than
$35, 00o. 600 was subscribed to- the
third liberty loan, according to fig
ures given out today by the Illinois dis
trict of the Missouri synod of the Luz
theran church in convention here to-
day In responding to resolution of
loyalty and support for the govern,
ment a telegram of thanks was receiv-
ed from President Wilson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
TWO FLYERS KILLED
Both Fan to Deaah I'm Training Camp
Accidents

Hampstead. n. T.. May zs--Flying
Cadet Charles B. PassWater, Of
NobIesviIle. Ind, was instantly killed
at MrneolA aviation deid in = 1000
foot afrplane fall. At that altitude he
attempted . tail spin, but lost con-
troll Of his machine and crashed to
the ground
San Antonio. May 1s.-F1ytng Cadet
Paul NJ Currie. of Minneapolis. was
killed in . fail in an airpIane last
night near San Antonio william A.
Currie, of Minneapolis, Is his father
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28

Washington. May 3S--yohn 2.
White. former president of the United
Mine workers OF America and ut pre-
ent labor adviser TO the fuel admfnfos
tration has been appointed repressntns
dive of Fuel Administrators GArdel1s
on the labor policy board zcccrdfuI
to announcement today The labof
policy board viii soon institute m M
vestigatf0n OF the needs Of labor vim
a view Of Formulating a labor budget
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
CLAY CENTER MAN KILLED
City Power Plant Wrecked When Fly
Wheel Went to Pieces.

Clay Center, Kan. May 2s-J W.
Hetzel. chief engineer of the electric
and waterworks plant here, was killed
when a flywheel of a large dynamo
went to pieces The plant was wreck
ed. the damage being approximately
$40 900.
The town will be without light or
water for some time. HetzeI is sur
vived by his wife and four children
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28

Unofficial figures announced at the
final reporting of the captains of the
Second Red Cross war fund army at
the closing banquet at the Chamber of
Commerce last night show that To-
peka and Shawnee county have gone
over the top in the drive with a grand
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28
TO TRAIN MEN AT K. U.
Prof. F. H. Sibley Will Have Charge Of
Army Course at University.

Lawrence. Kan. May 2S.-The
training of men in the national army
who will come to the University of
Kansas June Is will be under the di-
rection of Prof F. H Sibley. of the
school of engineering, and the men
who will assist him are Prof M E
Rice, of the department of physics,
J. J. Jakowsky, and Willis BeItz
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-28

London. May 2S--Sir Henry Joseph
Wood has decided not to accept the
offer to become conductor of the Bos-
ton symphony orchestra He viii re-
main in London
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-12-12
BAKER REVlSES ESTIMATE OF
$13,222, 100000.
Secretary of War Declares Veteran
Troops viii Remain in France
Until Treaty Is Signed.

Washington, Dec. secretary Ba-
ker gave ii as his personal opinion
that none of the veteran American di-
visions in France will return home be-
fore peace formally is declared.
Earlier in the day at IA meeting Of
the senate finance committee Mr.. BIZ
ker said that through contract cancel
lations the war department expects TO
save approximately $7,250,000000 Of
the $242S1 100000 voted by congress
for the army during the war.
The war secretary told the senate
finance committee, members Of the
committee said, that congress will
need to appropriate only about $l.lOO-
100000 to cover contracts made under
the $S,000000,000 authorizations pro-
vided by congress and for which no
appropriations have been made.
Forty per cent of the cancellations
have been divided among states, Mr..
Baker said, enumerating those in Mas
sachusetts as amounting to 1921, 600
600: Michigan, S143,0OO000; New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Mis-
souri,, $99,0O0,000 each Illinois, 500
00OGOO; Indiana S44,000,000; Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota, S11 100000 each.