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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07
MACARTHUR TO LOUISIANA
X. s. A. C. Professor Will Head
United War Work Campaign.

Manhattan, Kan.,. Oct. 7.-Seiected
to carry on the united war work cam
paign in all the colleges and universe
athur, professor of English in the
Kansas State Agricultural college.
leaves this week for Baton Rouge.
where he will open a six weeks drive.
He will return to Kansas late in No
vefnber. -
Doctor Macarthur is prominent In
religious work, and Is a former Off
GER of the Young Mems Christian as
aociation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07

The surrender of Bulgaria, says the
Christian Science Monitor, means
much more than the reduction of the
Mittel- Europa forces by the number
of the soldiers of Ferdinand's army.
IT means. first and foremost, the sew
ering of German communications with
Turkey and the east, and the fact that
the Turks will now be left to fight out
their battle as best they may. No
longer will the crowd of the Fried
richstrasse Balm gather to see the
Hamburg Bal hdad Express steam out.
for the length of that famous trains
Journey will in future be cut short at
the banks of the Danube. More i'm
portant than any of this. perhaps. is
the fact that the way is now open for
the allies, if they choose, to advance
by the back door into Austria. With
an allied army on the Danube and an
Italian army reasserting itself across
the Venetian border. the fate of Aus
tria is SO obvious and so certain that
the German papers are already dis
counting the withdrawal of Turkey
and the dual kingdom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07
THE BREWERS GAVE.
Attorney General Has Some Dope In
tho BrisbAne Investigation.

Washington, Oct. Attorney Gen
eral Gregory today notified Senator
Overman, chairman Of the senate
committee investigating brewers ac-
tivities in politics and loans to Ar.
thur Brisbane for the purchase Of the
Washington Times that he would sub
NIT to the committee documents OBJ
tanned by the federal district attorney
at Pittsburgh in Connection with prose-
cuttons there in 1916. when fines ag-
sregating $4,000 were imposed
against the Unitsds States Brewers
association and thirty-four brewing
companies for making money contri-
buttons to political campaigns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07

Paris High Offciai Tells What the
Hun II After.
Paris, Oct. la high French Of
fetal made the following statement
today regarding the German peace
offer.
1.-THE German offer aims. first to
halt the fighting.
Second. Germany desires TO
create an internal defensive spirit.
with rejection OF responsibility for
continuation OF the war.
Third. she SLOPES to eeduee the
allied pacifists.
Altho pretending to the con.
trAry. Germany accepts nothing and
gives no details. at Atine when de.
tails count. She seeyns ready to
adopt ideas which will not trouble
her later If other contingencies
arise"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07

\ There remain probably but few
weeks OF good fighting weather. 1t
will be unfortunate if the world be
compelled to wait thru another long
winter for the end of the war. But it
will be worse for the Huns and the
beating which they will get in the
spring will be swift and certain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07
No Prohibition There.

Melbourne, Australia, Oct. The
Australian government has no inteu.
ton of introducing a measure for pro.
hibition. even as a wartime measure.
This statement was made by w. A.
Watt. acting premier. in replying to .
question in the house Of Representa-.
lives Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07
Tired of Being Fugitive.

Chicago. Oct. Tim tired of beat.
ing IL about the country worrying
about being caught for Jumping the
wall of the Trenton prison." tele.
phoned Jack Langenbury to the police
here. Come and get me-" he said.
Warden MuIhefn, OF the Trenton. N.
J.. prison wired, today that Langen.
bury had escaped in 1907 ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07
Murder Is Charged.

Atchison, Kan, Oct. Charged
with murder in the second degree.
Ernest Berry. 10 years old. son of .
Missouri farmer near here, was ar.
raigned here today in connection with
the death Of Howard Wickersham, -
years old, who died as a result of
being run over by Berry's motor car.
Two other young men in the car were
held under 1000 bond as witnesses.
The boy died thirty minutes after the
accident
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07
On Special Mission.

Rome, Saturday, Oct 5.-Alfonso
Denavarre. of New York. has arrived
here on a special mission to the vati-
can. tie has been appointed by Cardi-
nal Gibbons. a commissioner OF the
American national Catholic war coun-
ell to investigate and report on Cath
Ole war activities in italy, France, and
England
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07
Postpone Cases.

Washington. oct. 7--Upon the gov.
ernment's motion, the supreme court
is to be asked to postpone considera-
ton at the present term of all pending
antitrust suits because of the war.
Attorney General Gregory announced
today that motions TO tins effect would
be formally filed In the court tomor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07
Call 1000 Men.

Springfield. III. Oct IA draft can
for 1900 white men from Illinois.
qualified for general military service.
to entrain for cantonments during the
five-day period beginning October n,
was received from the provost mar.
shall general by Adjutant General
Bick6aa to-day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07
indictments Returned.

New York. Oct. 7.---Federa1 indict-
ments charging violation Of the 6her-
man antitrust and Wilson tartd laws
were returned here today against the
Sumatra Purchasing corporation. the
Sumatra Tobacco Import corporation;
American Cigar company. General
Cigar company, Inc. H. Duys & Co.,
and fourteen individual defendants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07

other, walked slowly up to the stand.
Yes. Judge"
you are accused Of profanity in
public place"
At guess I did 1t. judge. Niger was
trying to steal ma boss"
"But you should know better than
to take the name Of the Lord in vain.
Mr.. Cooper" >
ut vast in vain. Judge. You jes
ought ter have seen that niger run!"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07
SHE USED NO GAS.

Woman, Out on Gaslcss Sunday, In
Electric Motor Car Kills Man.
Chicago. Oct. Nv. w. Smith. aged
inventor, Is dead today after attempt.
ing to cross q street here on gasless
Sunday. He was struck by an electric
automobile driven by q woman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07
fs DEATHS FROM INFLUENZA.
In Kansas City Motor Schools Forty
Victims Arc Reported.

army motor schools here thirteen
deaths from influenza since Saturday
afternoon have been reported. bring.
ing the total death list to forty IN the
schools. Twenty-four new cases
among civilians have been reported.
making the total cases in the city 20S.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07

a wedding in these parts yesterday and
your fair ambassadorette has con-
fessed all to yours truly,
HER HUSBAND"
Copyright. 1919. By Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07

Close Missouri University.
Columbia. Mo-, Oct. 1.-THE Uni
versity of Missouri has been closed on
account of influenza.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07

Peter Cooper, stand up.3
The raw-boned person from the
south, holding his ragged hat in one
hand the the tail of shabby coat in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Tasty Vegetable Dishes.

Stuffed Artichokes-Six timed ar
tfchokes. one Glove garlic, one-thfrd
spoonful paprikas two tablespoon
fuls olive oil, one cupful grated stale
bread crumbs, one-Iialf cupful grated
cheese. Press the leaves loose from
the heart, SO they viii stand apart, but
do not break them off. Mash the salt
pour over the olive oil. Mix together
in crumbs and cheeae. and "stuff' Lee
tween the artiohoke leaves. Pour the
oil and garlic dressing over the Arti-
chokes. Set in a warm oven Just long
enough to melt the cheese.
plants Weighing about one pound
each. two tablespoonfuls butter or
other shortening, boiling water, one
chopped green sweet pepper,-ore cup
full dry bread crumbs, one and one
half teaspoonful salt, speck pepper.
inside of the eggplant, leaving q shell
about one-half inch thick: cook in
boiling sailed water for five minutes.
Fry the onion, pepper and eggplant
pulp, all chopped, in the butter for
about ten minutes. Then add the
fuls boiling water. ana seasoning. Fiji
eggplant shells with this mixture and
sprinkle dry crumbs over the top.
Place in pan with little water and
bake one-half hour.
Luncheon Tomatoes--Six medium
sized tomatoes, six eggs, grated Amer
lean cheese, three-quarter cupful
evaporated milk, salt and paprika.
Scald and peel the tomatoes and
scoop out. leaving a thick shell.
Dredge each with salt. and put In q
pan with a little water. In the bot
tom Of each tomato put a layer of
grated cheese; cook ten minutes in the
oven, then drop raw egg in each and
put back in the oven and cook about
fifteen minutes, or until the eggs are
set. Serve each tomato on a slice OF
toast with the following sauce. Stir to-
gether over the fire, six tablespoon
fuls grated cheese and the evaporated
milk until the cheese is melted and
mixture IL smooth. Add salt and pap
rika to taste.
Try These.
Camouf1aged Tea--A good drink to
serve children who are forbidden iced
tea may be made as follows: Brew a.
bowl OF sassafras tea, cool it, sweeten
and ice it. and serve for luncheon or
than iced tea.
To Make Good Gravies--Use the
water in which vegetables are cooked
when fresh vegetables are used and
the juices from the canned ones in
stead OF plain water when making
gravy. Green or wax beans. aspara-
gus. peas. spinach and even potato
juice deliciously flavors srAvies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07

Knnsan In List.
Ottawa, Canada. Oct. 1.-THE maine
Of H. E. Thomas OF Pratt appears In
today's Canadian casualty list as i'll.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07

The great battle on the western
front gives promise of developing into
a foot race.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

Cssls 81 Fire.
An, macy Goals Of fire are heaped : & 80
On the wounded soldiers head,
When rescued by Red Cross dog p
Like the stray he left unfeti.
A Joyous bark on the battlefield
Bringa Iepentaut tears il lips are sealed
--0ussie Morrow Gage.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

aroused he can be impeached, such course
is practically impossible"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

neers, a professor of sanitation, a canal ex-
pert, one or two trade unionists, one or two
manufacturers, and representative Of the
Home Office or the Board of Trade Any
man of position who has shown interest in
public affairs may be asked to sit on q royal
ommission--provided he is not novelist.
Only one novelist has attained so giddy a
height-Sir Rider Haggard How it hap
pened is not known; it must have been a
mistake. We are not weighty enough,
serious enough, to be called upon, even if
our novels are weighty and so serious
that hardly anybody can read them. We
are gay tribe Of Ariels, too light to dis
cuss even our own trade. For royal COM
missions concern themselves with our
trade, with copyright law, with the restric-
tion of the paper supply.
HXou might think that for instance.
l. paper supply concerned US, for we
use cruel quantities, yet no recognized
author sat on the commission; a publisher
was the nearest approach Apparently
there were two great consumers of paper,
authors and grocers, but the grocers alone
were consulted.
What is the matter with us? Is our
crime that we put down in indecent ink
what we think and feel while other people
think and feel the same, but prudently keep
it down? Possibly our crimes are our
imagination and our tendency to carry this
imagination into action.
"RiRmarck said that c%o+n
the lines of the Sermon on the Mount would
not last twenty-four hours; perhaps it is
thought that state in the conduct of which
novelist had share would Immediately
resolve itself into problem play. Some
thing like that, though in fact it is unlikely
that Ariel come to judgment would be much
more fanciful in his DEGREES than the his
toric Solomon.
"All this because we lack solidity-and
yet the public calls us commercial, self-ad-
vertisers, money-grubbers. It is thought
base that we should want three meals a
day, though nobody suggests that we can
hope to find mama in the street, or drink
in our parks from the fountain Hippocrene.
We are told that we make our contracts too
keenly, that we are grasping, that we are
not straight-and yet we are told that we
are not business men. What are we to do?
Shall we form trade union and establish
a piece rate? Shall we sell our novels bv
the yard! May we not be as commercial
and respected as the doctor who heals with
words and the lawyer who strangles with
tape?"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

stands by the country. It is patriotic to
support him in so far as he efficiently
serves the country. 1t is unpatriotic not
to oppose him to the exact extent that bv
inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty
to stand by the country. In either event Il
is unpatriotic not to tell the truth-whether
about the President or about any one else
save in the rare cases where this would
make known to the enemy information Of
military value which would otherwise be
unknown to him.
"sedition, in the legal sense, means to be-
tray the government, to give aid and com
fort to the enemy; or to counsel resist
ance to the laws or to measures of gov
ernment having the force of law. Thera
can be conduct morally as bad as LEGAL
sedition which yet may not be violation
Of law. The president-any President-
can by speech or action (by advocating an
improper peace, or improper submission to
national wrong) give aid and comfort to
the public enemy as no one else in the land
can do, and yet his conduct, however dam
aging to the country, is not seditious: and
although If public sentiment is suficientiv
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
A Message from General
Pershing
Ce7,tu,.1/

GENERAL PERSHING sent thu fo,
lowing message, published in tho
ay Century to Mr.. Charles 81.
0rasty, to Be used Al 1oreword to hi.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
rREDERIC HARRISON Is not 1t
all nleased ,xr;th H.. ~Y..~- .t.aa

L>REDERIC HARRISON Is not 1t
all pleased with the slangy styid
that has come into vogue In Tie
press and in the utterances Of public
men since the war began. He writss -
follows in "The FortnightIy Review:
ut is sad to see how the slang d tAs
trenches and the camp, tle rage 10 b
toplcal and up to date, 10 injecting eyes
our higher journalism and our per
liamentary and platform oratory. Thiar
are described with preposterous over
statement or under statement, or srs =.
ferred to with literary and historical ssp-
monplaces, nicknames and catchwords, M
til the ordinary man can hardly guess TIE
sense, and is certainly worried by iuess'
SAINT tropes. Why not use plain WORDS
instead OF trying to be so tediously funny,
so smart? Why describe everything n
ccmical illusions? Then come thope.
stale American phrases which catch on
statesman now is out for victoryj ~
Is up against pacihsm, and is all for %.
knock out He has . card up his slssye
by which the enemy are at last " -
'euchred!' Then fierce fight in which
hundreds Of noble fellows are manglsd o.
~~S""SA 40 scrap. WuCu
murder civilians and burn churches thss
is mot cricket To criticise politics.!
Is to call for his scalp or for his hses
on . charger One minister is top dssI
the other fellow il beaten TO . frassl&
His supporters bark and howl or ~
offer mere eye wash Some one j. ses.
ever riding for fall and the eternA
red herring still misleads the pack Tha
the iteration Of some pet term--sorisnms
tion,' mentality a different angle. auls
essentially solidarity and 'selS-deser
minstion.' Boishsvism is running iss'
guage ~ we'll ~ society. l
ut 10 natural that our hns 3slIowe -
the trenches and In the ships should ees
out Of horrible carnage and call .s
9iveliness,' or . pretty thing. But ~ ~
ous writer's at home need not talk q W.
heroism Of our men with rourd o. us1
some slang. And what bores ns even msssjS II.
is to and the most acute problems q u
reslsd OF with phrases manufactursa
Of popular novslssF So :
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
The Reign of Terror
EVeryb0dy'

RLAND WHITLoCK'S belgium"
- continues to be the most promi-
nently featured Offering in "Every-
body's Magazine" The instalment ap-
pearing in the May number is called
"The Reign Of Terror" Writing Of the
German invasion Of Dinant Mr.. Whitlock
declares that
suddenly, early on the morning Of the
2Sd, German troops began pouring into
the town from all four quarters. They
came by the Lisogne road, by the Cinev
road, by the Froidevaux road, but prjnci-
rally by La Montague de St. Nicholas. and
while the shells exchanged by the Ger
man artillery on the citadel with the French
across the river were screaming overhead
the soldiers turned the inhabitants out of
doors, set the dwellings, on fire, herded
the people in mass, and marched them
across the city, their hands above their
heads, to the Place d'Armes. The men were
separated from the women and children.
ranged In line, and from time to time dur.
ing the day few were selected, led ont
and shot. In the Leffe quarter alone the
Germans shot thus lao, and at evening they
shot the Argentine Consul and forty work.
men in factory. The terror lasted ali
that day and night. The Germans locksd
whole crowds Of people In barracks, In sta
blss, IN factories. surrounded them by
so1diers ready to Are at any moment, and
IN the st. Roch quarter they imprisoned q
group IN . building, placed bundles Of straw
al around the house and set it on FIRE.
out by fortunate chance the Germans
overlooked collar window, and the peo-
PIE crawled one by one out Of this and a.
capped. s''s 80"
Women and children wers forced 70 stand
py and witness the murder Of husbands
and fathers. One woman, Nine. Amin.
WHO had given birth to child three days
nefore, was borne forth on mattress by
German soldiers, who said they would com.
pei her to look on while they shot her
husband, but her cries and applications
nnA!ly moved the soldiers TO spars the
husbands .Nfe.s
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Leading Articles in the Current American Magazines
Forthcoming book, "Flashes from the
'front.':

Forthcoming book, FLASHES from the
Front:
"This great war is teaching new things
every day. War on such a scale affords un-
precedented opportunity for originality.
While methods change, human character
remains and, other things being equal, char
acter will decide the last battle.
This war found us nation nakedly un-
prepared, but our people had the stamina
the moral sense, the instinct for the lpht
and the. right 1t is fine thing to us
soldiers in the service to look toward home
and see mighty people responding to the
call OF ldealism, turning nobly toward duty
IN the splendid spirit expressed in the
phrase, the utmost for the highest We
may make mistakes here and there in this
detail or in that, but we have the practical
mind, and with each new experience we
snail move to higher level of excellence.
W the human material that America is
sending to this war l can speak with exact
ness. 1t is the best, and with enough of
such material there can be no doubt of
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Rat-a-tat-tat and a Bugle
Call
Sunset


4 N ARTICLE in the May issue of
IA "Sunset Magazine" published
4 ~ in San Francisco, discusses the
why's and wherefores, as we'll as
the merits, of war songs which, sung
every day by thousands of American SOL
diers, promise to live as part of the
great story itself. The writer, Robin
Baily, lays special stress upon the sue
cess Of George M. Cohan's "Over There"
In one place he says:
Professor Arthur Conradi, master of
tho violin and lecturer on the science and
psychology OF music to the Affiliated Med
ical Colleges of San Francisco, declares that
Mr.. Cohan's work has all the essential mer-
its OF masterpiece. A composer is confined
70 certain limits In the art Of music, he ex-
plains There is nothing tangible in mel
ody. as In the case Of picture. The notes
60 IN at one ear and out at the other. The
musician must state his idea or motive. and
his only means of impressing it on the mind
OF the listener Is by judicious repetition.
when the idea is good and repeated with
out monotony. the composer has succeeded.
Inc most famous Of all instances Of the
majestic reiteration Of simple three-note
theme is Beethovens Fifth Symphony,
which many think tho noblest musical ut
ssranse OF all time. The great German
the Germans were great In his day--heard
: Fapping on the door. It suggested the
tsp Of the hand Of Fate, and he wrote hi.
deathiess symphony. George N. Cohsn tool
nugls call. three-nots idea. like the rat-
s-tat-tat on the door, and in The cola ana
Aysica! view OF serious musician ia.
~1'ssen war song that will live forever
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Do We Despise Novelists?
Immensely!
"Shall We Form Trade Union and Establish
Piece Rate?"
"HE English writer. w. L. George,
in an article published recently
Il in "Harper's," finds the position

"HE English writer, w. L. George,
in an article published recently
Il in "Harper's," finds the position
Of the novelist to-day, particu-
larly in England, pretty hard and
thankless one. eve novelists," he con-
fesses, "are the showmen of life. We
hold up its mirror, and if it looks at us
at all, it mostly makes faces at us"
Prestige? Well, he suggests
make an imaginative effort; see yourself
in the reception room of some rich man in
New York, where crush of celebrities is
taking place. A funky at the head of the
stairs announces the guests. He announces:
'Mr. Charles Evans Hughes! Mr..
W.. D. Howells! The Bishop of
Oklahoma!' Who caused swirl in the
'gilded throng'? The nv.ste cleric? The
former candidate for the Presidential chair?
Or your premier novelist? Be honest in
your reply to yourself and you will know
who, at that hypothetical reception, created
a stir. The stir, according to place or
period, greeted the politician or the bishop
and only in purely literary circles would
Mr.. Howels have been preferred.
"For the worship of crowds goes to power
rather than to distinction; to the recog-
nized functionary of the state, to him whose
power can give power, to all the evanescent
things and seldom to those stockish things,
the milestones on the road to eternity. The
attitude of the crowd is the attitude of the
state, for the state is only the crowd, and
often just the mob; it is the chamberlain
of ochlocracy, the leader, who follows.
"In all times the state has shown it's in
difference, its contempt, for the arts, and
particularly for literature. Now and then
prince, such as Louis of Bavaria, Philip
of Spain, Lorenzo the Magnificent, has given
to literature more than respect. He has
given love, but that only because he was a
man before a prince. The prince must
prefer the lawyer, the politician, the gen.
eral, and indeed of late years what prince
was found to patron George Meredith or
Henry James?
CIT HE attitude of the state to the novel
l. st defines itself most clearly when
a royal commission is appointed. In Eng
land royal commissions are ad hoe bodies
appointed by the government from among
men of political influence and special knowl-
edge to investigate a special question.
"As rule they are we'll composed For
instance, royal commission on water sup
ply would probably comprise two or three
members of Parliament of some standing,
the president Of the Institute of Civil Engi-