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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-30
CITIZENS, BE ON YOUR GUARD,

CITIZENS, BE On 4OCh 1CAnD!
written by Harold MacGrath for the Ma
tienal Security League.)
Watch Quit Be on your guard,
Americans! Presently the German
government will step forward. wash
ing its Judas hands and Ismirking con-
ciliatorily.
Come; let US patch up our differ
ferences. why go on with this muir
der. when a little quiet talk may set
tie it? Why, we will give up Belgium.
northern France, even Alsace and
Lorraine. We won't talk about in
IDENTITIES. And who the devil cares
for Russia? Come on; let US get to-
gether and talk it over
Americans, watch your step. Fa-
theirs, mothers, sisters, wives, mind
your eye. Here comes the deadliest
menace of all. For there will be
thousands of well-meaning men and
Yomen-kindIy, well-meaning people
who will never learn anything, who
were born wobble-kneed and weak in
the tear-duct-who will throw up
their hands and wall: "Oh, my
friends, let US be merciful! Let us
stop this horrid war before all youth
| is wiped out. Let us forgfve! In
Christ's name, let us forgixei''
! Americans, in the name of Christ,
stand firmi For if this isn't a war
for Christianity. there never was one
Germany's God is not ours. Germany
has Wanted the fact.
No mercy until the Hun-all OF
them, from the kaiser downs beat
en-, beaten, beaten to his knees, made
to understand the white mans horror
of what his war-1ust has spewed forth
upon an innocent world.
Remember the Lusitania!
Remember the priests and the
nunsi
Remember the wives and daughters
the little chiIdreni
Remember our hospitals!
Remember the poisoned wells!
Remember the crucifixions of oul
soldiers,
! Remember the blood that cries uI
from French soil.
Vengeancei AS an American citi
zen demand it of my government. A
restitution. I demand it in the nam,
of my brothers-my common brother
who have died in France, who are dy
ing this moment, for those who will
die tomorrow!
We shall talk of mercy and forgive
ness only when we have finished tn
job we have started out to dol
So take, care, pacifistsI We tru
Americans are in no gentle mood. w
have no desire for. the incursion o
white-livered, wobb1y-kneed emotion
a1ists into the field we have so recent
" chosen for ourselves. We di,
choose 1t. And by the same tokel
we shall finish it. Germany wAnte
WAR. BY the living God, She is go
ing to get it. trimming cup of il
When we have forced the draugh
down her bloody pirates throat, wei
talk of peace and mercy and forgive
ness.
But all pacifists are warned to kee
: clear Of our road until theni
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-30
erous fashion is q thing to be scrut,n-


lied critically.
This argument of Professor Fishers
that the dollar is no good as a stand
ard is practically unanswerable.
AS the professor points out, almost
all of our other units. as of length.
weight and SO forth, have been care
fully standardized. In olden times
yard was the girth of the chief OF the
tribe and was called grid Doctor
Fisher tells us. Now a yard is bar
uniform temperature and viewed from
of metal kept in glass case under q
q distance thru a telescope. 1t would
be impossible for us to do business on
the basis of yard which was the
girth of the president of the United
States. Suppose. suggests the doctor
in flash of inspiration, that con-
tract for SO many yards of cloth made
in Mr.. Taft's administration had to Dc
filled now?
Joking aside, exact standards OF
everything are q vital necessity to
modern industrial life. Our bureau OF
standards one of the most remarkable
| scientific institutions in the world, was
founded for the purpose of fixing and
preserving 1lch standards. But we
have provided ourselves with no real
standard OF purchasing power.
How, then. is this to be done? II
of a dollar are we to have? Professor
| Fisher answers that we are to have a
Goods dollar. That Is, instead Of q
dollar which is a standard of value fol-
one metal. we are to have dollar
which is a standard of value for al
the commodities We buy.
How is this to be done? BY the
simple method Of averaging the prics
of all the goods on the market and
making the dollar conform to tina
average price.
The method by which this is to BIZ
done is technical. but not hard to up
derstand. The purchasing power O.
the do1lar now varies because the value
of gold varies, while the weight OF thu
dollar Is fixed. DIR. Fisher proposes
TO reverse this process. He woult
make the PURCHASE power Of the doiis
fixed by varying its weight with tn
variations in the value OF gold.
No; this does not mean q new crcl
of dollars every month or so. It mean
! that the gold would all be kept in tn
treasury and only paper money used
and that the amount OF gold which
; paper dollar represented would b
changed at regular intervals to con
form to the change in the PURCHASING
power of gold.
; Would this fixing of the value o
J the dollar, then, be left to the dis
: erection of the government? By n
l
ca1ly. The variation in prices is reg
} uIarly computed now by our labor de
. partment. Taking the price at give
) time as 100, they calculate the per
) centage of increase for each commo
dity. By averaging the increases 70
ally comm dities, they determine no,
much prices, as a whole, have rise
during the month.
Thus if prices increase one per cen
: this month, the paper dollar in you
r pocket would be made under DIR. Fish
: er's plan to represent one per Ger
: more gold, and would thereby acquir
: one per cent more purchasing power
For it is a fact at once evident an
5 proven that more gold will buy NOR
} goods.
This. in brief, is the theory of tn
Stabilized dollar, 1t is q theory at
t cepted by many wise men, and is 81
premely logical. Wherefore conside
! | it well. f<
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-30

Japs are approaching Blagievest-
schensk after occupying Zeyapristan
No wonder the Russians are consid-
cred an ignorant and illiterate people
they spend all their school days
learning to spell the name of their
home towns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-30

The government spent thousands of
dollars giving 500 soldiers specialized
training at K. s. A. c., Manhattan,
this summer. Now most of the
graduates of >the school have been
sent to other camps to dig bitches,
drains, wash dishes and peel potatoes.
Why specialized training for ditch
digging and potato peeling?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-30

If other liberty loans have enabled
the allies to inaugurate and carry on
successfully the present offensives
what will this one do? Needless to
say it will bring us closer to victory.
If money can defeat Germany what
greater victory could we ask?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-30

It is final victory in itself to see
bleeding Belgium and downtrodden
Serbia carrying. their arms in glory
against the European bully" Ger
many
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-30

Topeka is drilling Tor OIL If oil is
found. the old town will be doubled
in population. If a cluster" is brought
in the oil problem will be settled once
and for all time. It is worth the price
of the test no matter what the result
may be. The business men of the city
should get behind it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-30

Publisher Simons of the Lawrence
Journal-world, in Topeka recently
carried a list in his pocket of the
names of twenty-six men who have
left his newspaper to enter the army
and navy. His city editor. E. d. KeH-
mann, who has received an honorable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-30
So endeth the last chapter!

One of Roosevelt's sons has been
promoted to lieutenant-eolone1. With
Colonel Roosevelt fighting at home
and Colonel Roosevelt fighting in
France the results should be crafty
ing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-30

Fame has it's drawbacks. The town
comedians now declare that the rea-
son Napoleon is pictured standing
with one hand neatly buried beneath
the blouse of his uniform is because
he had the COOLIES"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-30

discharge from the army as first lieu
tenant in railway artillery and who
has seen service in France. is too act
i've a recruiting officer to be Of IN
dustrial svalue to Simons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-30

College social affairs. owing to the
orders effecting the s. A. T. c., are to
be held on Saturday nights. This will
make the weekend bath doubly use
f,,I
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-30

The boys in France are troubled
with the '<ooties' and their sweet
hearts at home are concerned about
the French "cuties'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-30
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Tvsed Recipes.

Tried Recipes.
Cream butter and sugar, beat in
the egE-yolks, cinnamon and salt.
Mix together flour and baking pow
der. reservinS two tablespoonfuls OF
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-05-29

her honor, and stood up in it's defense
and the world will not forget it in a
thousand years. Even if they didn't
stay the march long, they made them
use the ammunition that was intended
for Paris. And then Britain remem-
bered her honor, and her interests.
and she came in, instead of staying
out. Didn't the Marine save civiliza-
ton? Democracy measured itself.
and presently more munitions, more
airplane1, more money, more men.
were produced than the autocracv
could produce, and at last America
came in, America that could be bluff
ed, that couldn't fight and that would
ut fight.
Now Germany wants peace because
she is victorious. The first stage of
the conspiracy is over, and she wants
to get ready for the next war. When
we have forgotten, when the great al
lance OF liberty is broken, when prop
Uganda has divided US, and when we
have given up our preparedness, then,
when she has had time to work out
her deviltries, when the super-sub-
marine has been perfected and the
new army that is being bred is ready,
she will be ready for the next war.
There is only one kind Of peace we
can make, and it is marvelously sim
pie. Does it matter to us that tonight
there are 100000,000 souls in slavery I?
We fought war once for 1000, 900,
and there are today 100,000.OOO. in
northern France, in Belgium, Poland,
Bohemia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Ser
bia, Roumania, among the Greeks,
the Turks, Levantines, Assyrians, and
Armenians. Those 100,O00,0OO people
are now forging our chains. The on
ly peace is peace Of all the nation
alities of the world, where every peo-
pie will be free, so that Germany
can't subjugate other peoples. Ger
many must be put back within her
boundaries. Also the 100000 Aus
trian Germans. And when there is
nobody to triumph over, to dominate
anybody else, when that time is come.
and the peace Of the world is Sc
cure, then there won't be any next
war.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-05-29

X x
The following address was given
by Prof. Theodore G. SOares of
Chicago University, at a meeting
: of the Milwaukee City Club on
\ May 18TH It contains the most
x profound grasp Of war causes yet
Z put in print. Read it!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-05-29
By Theodore G.. Soares.

When the kaiser recently took per-
sonal command Of the army on the
western front he announced that they
were going to make a drive to secure
a strong, German peace. The most
fundamental thing that we can re-
member is that German peace is a
preparation for the next German war
That is what a Germ n peace means
We will not talk about en- American
peace, the allies will not talk about
an allied peace, the only thing we are
interested in is a world peace, a uni
VCrsal peace
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-07-11
w. S. S.
FROM BOYS IN CAMP

The following is a short letter that
we have received from the squad of
Lake Hendricks boys who went to
Camp Funston with the last bunch OF
daft men. While it is particularly in
teresting to the people of that local
ity, it has also a good deal of interest
for all of us in Bookings county:
Saturday the twenty-ninth, we ar
rived at Camp Funston. The place is
different from a town in that it has
uniform buildings called barracks, and
that the inhabitants are all men clad
in khaki. We were taken to a bar
racks where we stayed over night. In
the evening we visited the Y. NJ. C. A.
building. Here were entertainments
of several kinds-music, singing,
books and papers to read and places
for letter-writing. 1t certainly is a
nice place for the boys to go at leis-
ure hours. More about the place lat
err.
The next day we were examined and
issued uniforms, and transportation
trucks took us to the barracks which
is now our present home. Our adj
dress is 18th Company, 164th Depot
Brigade, Camp Funston, Kansas.
There are four battalions in each
company, six squads in each battalion
and eight men in each squad. Ole be-
longs to the eighth squad, Carl to the
ninth, Alfred to the tenth. OLAF to the
twenty-first, John to the twenty-fourth
and Justin was assigned to another
company.
Monday morning we fell in line, four
men abreast and marched to a hill
just outside the camps and received
III first instructions in training. The
line Of 100 men formed quite a process
sion and would make the Huns SILVER
any day, We think.
In the afternoon we were vaccinat-
ed and are now under quarantine. We
are required to stay in our barracks
but will loon be able to resume our
daily drill.
In the morning at six O'Clock we
form a double line and stand reville.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-07-11
PAGE ELEVEN

Europe and organize the world. In
the earlier stages Of this great wal
they could not have foreseen the full
measure of the collapse and disinte-
grafton Of Russia; and probably not
many of them expected at that time
to attain the heights of German des-
tiny except through a series of events
that might take another century for
their fulfllment. But history is made
rapidly in wartime, and the programs
of c%onQuerors also expand with their
successes. Germany has now COM
pletely repudiated the unambitious
views expressed in the Reichstag vote
of last summer. The men who were
deemed very moderate in Germany
men indeed who were leading oppo-
nents of the ~Pan-German enthusiasts
are now going further in their ad-
vocacy of immediate annexations and
of war indemnities than the widest
leaders OF Pan-Germanism would have
dared to advocate at the beginning of
1917.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-07-11
ANOTHER FROM FUNSTON

The boys all arrived at Funston and
are partly settled, as the following let
ter from James Pouge will show:
Camp Funston, Kans., June 80, 1918.
Dear Friends: AS | believe my time
to be limited for writing, am taking
advantage through the courtesy Of the
Register of sending one letter to all
whom l had hoped to write individ-
ually.
The twenty-one of us who missed
the special train at Brookings, board
ed the morning west-bound passenger
and upon arriving at Iroquois found
our troop train still there. Here we
were escorted to the Methodist church
where We were served breakfast, much
appreciated by all of us. Upon leav-
ing We were asked to be sure and get
another free meal when We returned
from Berlin. Amid much cheering
and permit me to say we were keyed
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-07-11
TEUTONIC AIMS NOW UNHIDDEN

Review of Reviews-There is no
longer the slightest reason for doubt
as to Germany's aims. She does not
look forward to being one Of a group
of great nations, enjoying equal rights
in the world on principles of freedom
and justice. Much less does she look
forward to such an entire submerg-
ence OF national and imperial rivalries.
for the sake of a higher structure of
civilization, rs many leaders of
thought in America and Western Eu-
rope are ready to accept. Her aim
is to dominate. Germany's opportuni-
ty to overrun Poland, Rumania, the
Ukraine, Lithuania, the Baltic Prov
inces and Finland, has served at least
one purpose that is to be deemed val
liable. 1t has finally revealed the spir-
it of Germany, and uncovered the ma
ture and extent of Germany's ambi-
tion. The German leaders-political,
military, scientific, intellectual and
e~thical-believe themselves superior
beyond comparison to the leaders Of
the English-speaking peoples, to those
of the French, Italian and other Lat
inic races, and especially to the Rus
SLAMS and other Slavonic peoples. They
believe that it is their mission to rule
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-07-11
CHURCH NOTES

The items in this column are furnished
the Register by the press CORRESPONDENTS
Of toe various churches and societies.. All
churches and societies have the same privi-
ieges in the use of this column
First Church Of Christ, Scientist
Services are held every Sunday at
First Church of Christ, Scientist, at
II o'clock a. m. Subject for next Sun
day, Sacrament" Mid-week service
at 8 o'clock, Wednesday evening.
Reading room open Wednesday and
Saturday from 2 to 4 o'clock. All are
welcome.
The NJ. f. Ladies' Aid Society will
be entertained by the July committee
in the church parlors, Thursday, July
IS.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Bap-
fist church will meet in the parlor of
the church July Is. Committee on en-
tertainment are Mesdames Carlisle,
Handwerk, Grove and Palmer.
Mrs. T. Fogerty and Mrs. J. J. Con-
nelly will entertain St. Thomas Guild
at the home of Mrs. Fogerty, 246
Eighth street, Thursday, July 10. at
3 p. m.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Pres
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-07-11

byterian church will meet in the
church parlors Thursday. July 18th.
Mrs. Young, Mrs. Farrankop, Mrs. Sol
berg and Mrs. Gates will entertain.
At Lutheran church next Sunday
morning, the Rev. II. Skyberg Of Fer
gus Falls. Mimi, will preach. In the
evening the Rev. II. NJ. Thorson of
Elbow Lake. Mimi, will preach in
English. At the Sterling church the
Rev. A. Meland will preach in the
morning, at 10:45.
Baptist Church-Rev. J. L. Bryant
will preach at the Baptist church Sun
day morning, and Rev. Porter will
preach at the union service Sunday
night at s o'clock.
United Presbyterian Church Notice
-Regular services at the church Sab
bath morning, preaching at 1890 a.
m, and Sabbath school Immediately
following. Young Peoples meeting at
Z o'clock. At s o'clock we join in the
union meeting at the Baptist church.
Prayer meeting on "Wednesday even
ing at s o'clock.
Presbyterian Church NoteS-Regu-
lar service Sunday morning at 1920
a. m, the Rev. NJ. r. Kennedy, of the
y. NJ. C.. A. work in India, will preach.
Sunday school at the usual hour.
There will be a union service in the
evening at the Baptist church.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-07-11
LOYALTY TO OUR COMMUNITY
81 M A LOYAL CITIZEN?
IN DO / PERFORM A FAIR SHARE OF MY DUTIES TOWARD
s' COMMUNITY IN WHICH LIVE?

4A coMMUNITY IN WHICH / LIVE? " :" '"' w. fAD
Let US discuss the subject fairly and openly
derive BENEFITS AM, and profits because Of u association with the community Of
of the cost of maintaining the support of the community.
many of u are satisfied with the perfuncory performance of that part
'SA'1% I'M other tine " words. w wR'n ARE roo . EASILY S,sm, INCLINED TO BELIEVE THAT
R E \ CONNECTION N r1aaS'v WITH - THE THo% co aMx MP AN IN
We re inclined to forget that the many comforts and convenences, both
in a social and a business way which we find in our community, are ours
We expect our associates % be loyal to u and to u community and we.
at least pretend that we are loyal to them.
II we purchase our necessities and lmurie. from mall order houses. w.
are not loyal to u associates In the community, because W then show n
with these things. We ae not helping = associates t. maintain their e.aS-
II we .end our dollars ot u. to~n-o the mail orde houses-we Gan
only expect that the time will quickly o when We must send to the NATL
order houses for everything we require, because ii Is only natural that our
and buy 0r merchandise from them, and go out Of business
strtcted to such things al must be bought to comply with emergencies, for
the reason that or citizens s, send Ito to the big cities, to the mail order houses
stores And it will be but natural Tor our business mn to continue % restrict
10 buy from the mail order housesu until we will awaken some day % a rearza
'" f Fl sS' r fst s ~a %s p %s's W , ~a discover fss Ssrst tns ,A :'s %sa order houses.
finding little, If any competition for u business in our home community,
require in the wy of merchandise.
Iii not impossible, although it is admittedly improbable, that when the
mail order houses shall have driven competition from the field by eliminating
orders away from home, that there will be a readjustment of prices sc that
W Ns e nus n "a wbater rer t nnce e't = m e Uo order Al houses %ms 'r misb te eh snou TO 0e b uu~
US, with n o competition against them to protect is !.
our money away from home. Loyalty means more than a mere perfunctory
,er !. asIs the The exseuons Of monopoly. We are nontino for - wv U r.
lection ssaIns. tn. condition.. which ae bound to % unIe.. W. h.ip our
local :.erskesp": to ~. maintain their business relation: with Vt. y: and e: Stand
their business W and compel u to send to the big cities for everything w
When We pay u dollars to u assodate: in the community the store
our future welfare. Let is forget the attractive and often misleading desctp
lions in the catalogues Of the S.n mail order houses and remember the kindly
and who. when everything, has been carefully .naly.ed, give u: much better,
order house where s every customer .,. :: Known n. mere. J, a, a. a number %%ss.. and ever. =,
. nsnIs employ
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-07-11
OF A COLD
Bookings People Will Do Well to
Heed Them

Many bad cases of kidney trouble
result from a cold or chill. Congest-
ed kidneys fall behind in fltering the
poison-laden blood and backache, head
ache, dizziness and disordered kidney
action follow. Don't neglect a cold.
Use Doan's Kidney Pills at the first
sign of kidney trouble. Follow this
Brookings residents example:
Mrs. Jane Prowse, Sixth ST., says:
Il had Kidney trouble and vas all
out Of sorts. My back ached dread
fully and l felt miserable. When
took cold the trouble was always
worse. l knew my kidneys were the
cause of the trouble so / used Doan's
Kidney Pills and a few boxes pu: my
kidneys in good order and rid me of
the backache."
Price Coo, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Prowse had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.