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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-16
KANSANS TO FRANCE
Leading Educators Overseas To B.
With Army Y. NJ, A,

Leading Educators Overseas To Be
With Army Y. NJ. c. A.
-Thirty-nine of the lealing educa-
tionaI men of Kansas will go to France
soon to work for the armJ " NJ. c. A.
The selection of these men isnow be-
ing made by a. committee of Kansas
educators named-by the national rec
reation service\ of the Y. NJ. c. A.
This committee has compiled list of
fifty Kansas men, mostly city school
principals, the selection being based
on administrative ability, and from
this number it expects to get at least
the minimum quota of thirty-nine.
w. D. Ross. state superintendent of
public instruction. will go to France
about January Is, to serve in the
Red Triangle" educational forces.
He has received the appointment as
a regional director in the YIN c. A.
administration of army education
overseas. which will direct educational
recreation in the various American
camps in France and probably the
occupied portions of Germany. The
regional administration will be sub
divided into camp supervision and in
the larger camps. again into hut su-
pervision, the heads of these various
departments holding about the same
relative positions to one another that
city school principal does to the
superintendent. With the army no
longer in action, the Y. NJ. C. A. is
inaugurating a gigantic system which
will furnish first-class educational ad-
vantages to the men in camp, on the
belief that they will have more time
to devote to such cause than they
had when in training or while the
fighting was in progress.
Superintendent Ross, who Is chair
man of the selection committee in
Kansas, already has received replies
from six men who consent to go over
seas. They are:
C. c. Brown, Topeka, state high
school supervisor.
A. NJ. Ehoroman, secretary. of the
state school book text commission.
S. D. Hendrix, Sterling, city super
intendent.
P. N. Heck. Harper, city superin-
tendent.
NJ. G. kirkpatrick, Belleville, city
superintendent.
A. X. LOOMS, principal, Sumner
county high school, Wellington.
The committee appointed to select
the thirtyrnine Kansas educators fol-
w. D. Ross. chairman; H. E. Pear
son, Kansas City; S. M. Ness, indie
pendence; 80. Hall, Hutchinson; w.
s. Heusner. Salina; John Sargent, To-
peka, and w. N. Mason. Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-16
214 KANSANS IN LIST

The following names of Kansas men ap-
pear i1><tasuaIty lists for Sunday and
Monday:
Killed in Action.
Pvt. Marshall z. Miller, Toronto
Pvt. A. c. Rupp, Catherine.
Died Of Wounds.
Corp. J. V. Broulette, Scottville.
Pvt John L. Palmer, Bern.
Pvt. Walter II. Lindstrom, Oswego.
Died of Disease.
Sergt Harry F. Bush, Mackville.
Pvt. Frank Gunterman, Scranton.
Pvt. Ernest Holman, Selma.
Pvt Frank Miller, Chanute.
Pvt. Archie Robertson. Athol
Pvt. Harold Stinson, Wichita.
Pvt. Charles Pratt, Studley.
Pvt. Everett West, Meriden.
Pvt. Joseph Dorsey. Kansas City.
Wounded Severely.
Capt. Ben S. Hudson. Fredonia.
Lieut.. w. II: kirkpatrick, Hutchinson.
Lieut. Carl Burgess. Larned
Sergt Leonard Salmon, Wichita.
Sergt H. H. Jennings, Gretna.
Sergt o. Carpenter, Kansas City.
sergt James Cummings, Atchison.
Corp. Ralph Perkins, Independence.
Corp. II. II. McCrory, Wilson.
Corp. Robt. Marshall, Arkansas City.
Corp. Chaster -faxwel., Duquoin.
Corp. Frank Wellnitz, Emporia..
Corp. Frank Hale. Rosedale.
Corp. Elias Knots. Yates Center:
Corp. Max Z: Myers. Chanute.
Mech. Emil A. Elk. Epperson.
Wagner X. w. Bolson, Corona.
Corp. Les Breeder. Great Bend.
Corp. Chas. Brundidge, Hutchinson.
Corp. Otis Heberly. Minneapolis.
Corp. Joe r. Hinckley, Oneida
Corp. H. w. Schroeder, Ogellath.
Corp, Stephen Collins, Canton.
Corp. Geo. O. Heinig, Wichita
Corp. Geo. Z. Glylee, Paola.
BuGler John Carr. Council Grove.
Pvt. Mike Meyer. Park.
Pvt. Alton H. Neill. st. John.
Pvt. Anthony A. Criqui Olivet.
Pvt. Fred Davis. Kansas City.
Pvt. John Spenseberger. Pittsburg.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-16

Chicago, Dec 16.-More than fif-
teen thousand Irish and Irish sympa-
thizers today sought self-determina-
ton for Ireland as one of the out
comes of the peace confereI ce. Arch
bishop George Mundelein in an adj
dress last night pleaded for rights
OF small nations trampled upon by
usurping empires"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-16

Jan Christian SHUTS has long been a
figure in the political life of South Africa.
During the Boer war he was in command
of the republican forces in Cape Colony.
In 1907 he became commander of the British
forces in East Africa.
In January, 1917, the British government
named him a member of the imperial war
conference as representative of the Union
of South Africa and June. 1917, he entered
the war cabinet. His service to the British
government since that period has been dis
finpuished I'm MANY wyS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-16
GEN. SHUTS LEAVES PLACE
Quits English War Board as the War
Is Over.

London, Dec. 16.-Lieut. Gen. Jan
Christian SHUTS has resigned as mem
Der of the war cabinet on the ground
that the end of the war has termi-
mated the need of his services, accord
ing to the Express.
Evening star., 1918-02-24

put some knock-out drops in the
fizz, and in five minutes the firm
of Kaiser Bill & Company would s19ld
under the table. Hindenburg would
tip over backward on the floor. Won
Tirpitz would be snoring peacefully on
the arm of his chair. and William the
Tooth would have Joined the ranks Of
the temporarily petrifed.
''But they'd come to later and there'd
be the deuce to pay said Scott
"True-but where?" demanded Du-
mas. They'd come to-yes. but under
guard at the Elysee Palace at Paris, the
official home of the President Of France.
The moment those Knockout drops had
worked their purpose our -FOUR heroes
of France would shave off the en-
perors mustache: give Hindenburg
jail-bird clip; remove Won Tirpitz's
whiskers SO completely that even his
valet wouldn't know him. and trans
form Freddy Bill into a plain. common
garden sort of human by the mere re-
moval of his tailor-made majesty-and
then, with a makeup box and the
clothes of their unconscious victims.
they would transform themselves into
the kaiser. the admiral. the field mar
shall and the crown prince. Made up as
the kaiser Athos would seize the refns
Of government. Camouflaged as Won
Tirpitz Porthos would assume command
of the navy. Aramis. dolled up as the
crown prince. would return to the YER
dun front, and D'Artagnan, in the guise
of Won Hindenburg. would go forth as
generalissimo of all the Teutonic forces.
and the end would be in sight. Athos,
as kaiser, could order cessation of hos
tilfties Aramis. as the crown prince.
could surrender to Gen. Petain at YER
dun. Porthos, as, chief of the admir-
atty, could order the U-boats to sink
and leave no trace. while D'Artagnan,
as Hindenburg. could yield up the day
on the western front and surrender his
baton to Gen. Haig. The deed would
be done and the war brought to an
Pretty nne, Aleck, pretty fne," said
Dickens. "And IL may be allowed to
contribute q climax to the picture let
mo suggest that rs final scene you
have the kaiser and Won Tirp1tz and
Evening star., 1918-02-24

High ADMIRAL Won Tirpitz and his ex-
eellency the sheroic Hindenberg-we
have brought four portions of every
course to this splendid end-and that
we be permitted to crown our poor
! achievement by serving it ourselves.
That is ali we ask"
II am afraid, said Sir Walter Scott,
that SO modest request would make
the kaiser suspect that they were not
real Germans
'Ah.' said Dumas, "the eye of the
Hun is not so attuned to subtlety as all
that. If two and two were inevitably
four to the 'Teutonic mind there would
be that danger. but the German mind
of today does not work that way. Two
and two with the Wilhelmstrasse may
be nine. OF seVenty-three, or even four
and five e-eighths, according to what the
Teutonic mind wants it to be, but never
under any. circumstances, save by pos
sible oversight, could it ever be four.
Wherefore the plan as Il have devised
ii is safe. The kaiser would accept.
Hindenburg. Won Tirpitz and Freddy
Bill would be summoned to the repast.
Evening star., 1918-02-24

The four would seat themselves at
table, and them
The eye of Dumas glittered.
The others trembled. caught in a
surging agony of suspense.
Go on. Go on"' they quivered.
We'll. then" said Dumas, wed work
on to rapid finish. Athos. Porthos,
Aramis and D'Artagnan would unpack
the hamper and spread the feast. The
consomme would be delectable. The
poisson would be perfection. The en-
tree would be masterpiece, and"
impetuously "The English plum pud.
ding would conceal a dynamite bomb.
set with a time fuse to explode at the
psychological moment and blow the
whole outfit off into the milky way!"
Raw stuff! Raw stuff" ejacula ted
Dumas. That might occur to you.
Chass, but believe me it never would
occur to me, because 1t wouldn't stop
the war, or fill President Poincare's
order to bring the kaiser to him. No!
Again would French subtlety be called
into action. Toward the end of the last
Evening star., 1918-02-24

as Herr katenjammer-they would re-
pair to Potsdam with large hamper
filled with the rarest French Yfntages.
the most toothsome Of Partisan en-
trees. the most delectables of the gas
tronomic creations of the chefs of the
Champs Elyses. together with huge
English plum pudding, the which they
would humbly present to the chief OF
all of the boches, with some such
words as these:
Most worshipful sire, this hamper
contains the Christmas dinner your il
lustrious highness had intended to eat
at Paris. To-keep n from the despoil-
ing touch Of the schweiphunds of per-
f1dious Albion, we, your devoted sub
jects of the Cafe de Ia Concorde. have
through indescribable perils that it may
serve the divine purpose for which it
was originally designed Realizing,
sire. that Mahomet could not get to the
mountain. we have brought the noun
tain for Mahomet.'"
Marvellous said Scott. '.s..
Most unusual" said Thackeray. q:
quite so!'' said Dickens.
But the fnish." cried Scott. Must
we turn over to the advertising pages
to get the end of this wonderful stosy2''
The end is simplicity itself" said
Dumas. 'sThe kaiser. overcome by this
wonderful spirit Of orthodoxy. would
express instantly the appreciation OF
Gott and Himselluf. and would natur-
ally ask the. Musketeers to name. their
own reward"
"a dukedom apiece. undoubtedly =
said Thacksray. i Sc. j. = -,
"Say rather a field marsha1s baton
for EACH" said Scott.
mot So" said Dickens Better than
either. the privilege of acting as the
personal bodyguard to the kaiser''
None of the three replied Dumas
'Non-something vastly more subtle
than that. Athos would get down on
his knees and say:
"Sire, we have but done our duty, and
seek no vain and pompous honors. We
are nothing but simple garcons-de-cafe
after all, your majesty. and the loftiest
honor that conld come to us would be
that your imperial highness would
deign to eat this dinner with your bravs
and magnetic heir. Crown Prince Fred
erick William. with his honor the Lord
Evening star., 1918-02-24

Maybe you're right" Abe said. 'bu-
IN that case when magazine prints an
Advertisement by . motor car COM
pany that the now inalosed models IN
design and luxury Of appoin9meut sur
pass the finest motor carriages Of this
country and Europe. Mawruss. The edi-
toe should add in small letters. But
soe page IS Of this magazine and then
when the reader turns to page q and
finds out what the article says about
pleasure cars in war times. y'under-
stand. he would think twice, amt ftf"
Sure I know Morris said, but
there's always the danger that the ad-
verdser would also turn to page %, 50
as q business proposition for the maga-
zine. It would be better If the editors
stick to them nitchyvo articles. which
II the advertisers turn to page % and
sec enc Of those articles the only thin.
that would worry them. yunderstand.
to get SO disguised that he would
throw away the magazine before he
reached the advertising section"
That amt how look at 1t, Nav
FUSS" Abe protested. "The way =
manufacturer has to figure costs SO
close nowadays. Mawruss, anything
. like these here war articles which gives
you an example Of how to turn out the
finished product with the least amount
Of labor and material in 1t. Mawruss.
should ought to be- Of great interest
to the business man. For instance.
you ask one Of them live. up-to-date
young fellers which is now writing
about the war with such q
good imitation of being right next to
all the big diplomatic secrets that no
one would ever suspect how before the
war he used to think when he saw
the word gavour in the papers that 1t
wasn't spelled right and cost dollar
fifty q portion with hard-boiled egg
and chopped onions on the side. yum
derstand, and we'll say that such a
feller is ordered by the magazine
nebich which he works for to go and
see Mr.. Lloyd George and I'LL up pages
IL. 13 and IA Of the April, 1917. edition
with what Lloyd George tells him
about political conditions in Europe.
We'll. the nrst time he goes to NJ,
Lloyd Georges house we will say he
gets kicked down the front stoop. on
account when he says he represents
the Interborough Magazine the butler
thinks he comes from the subscription
department instead Of the editorial de-
partment and didn't pay no attention
to the sign. No canvassers allowed on
these premises Do you suppose that
feazes the young feller7 oser . stuck!
He goes straight back home. paints the
place where he landed with iodine.
understand, and writes enough to d1l
Evening star., 1918-02-24

ICKENS and Thackeray and Sir
III ~ Walter Scott and Alexander
III ~ Dumas were seated in the spa
- cious deck-window of the
Houseboat on the Styx, discussing the
war, and incidentally watching that ia
nous hooligan. Bill Sykes. shoveling
coal into the bottoraless pit across the
way.
That's nice job your old friend
Bill has landed down here. Charles"
said Thackeray, as the unfortunate
Sykes paused to wipe the perspiration
from his brow. IT should think you'd
feal highly complimented by the pen
atty prescribed for one of your most
famous creations. With Sykes ordered
to shovel coal into the bottomless pit
until he's got it filled. and your other
friend Fagin sentenced to an eternity
Of picking empty pockets lined with
Ashhooks. it seems to me you have re-
cefyed the highest possible testimonials
to your imaginative powers"
'Glad you feel SO. Bill" said Dickens,
but I must say that Edgar Allan Poe
paid me a higher compliment the other
day when he slapped me on the back
and assured me that in his judgment
was what Col. Newcome was to the
world # polite society"
Well. said Thackeray, touching the
bell and ordering a schooner Of tabasco
honor of Dickens compliment, 'I can
only say that I wish Bill Sykes were
back at this very moment 50 that he
might have go at the kaiser
Alexander Dumas laughed.
TT would be some exhibition, that"
he said "and can well imagine TX hat
sort of a mess Sykes would leave be-
bind him amer he had given the Hob
'Ho-hen-zollern. Aseck," said Sir
Il said Ho-hun-zollern, Walt" re-
torted Dumas. "And when / say Hun
! mean Hun. not Hen. The kaiser is
not q Hen. but a Hun. II he'd been a
hen he might have hatched something
more worth while than this war from
the egg he's been setting on for the
past thirty years. But what I was
going to say when Wa1Iie here butted
was a supreme example of the sue
cessful hooligan. he wouldn't have
done at all for the particular trick of
turning the kaiser into pulp. He might
Tooth of Potsdam. but that wouldn't
have settled the war because of the
multiplicity Of faces that must be
spoiled before we can rid the world Of
Nathan Hale, with only one life to
lose for his country, the kaiser has
only pe face to be mussed up for his" "
'I suppose" said Sir Walter. that
you think that bunch of yours-Athos,
Perthos. Aramis and D'Artagnan.-aid-
ed and abetted by my Ivanhoe. could
have done a better job, eh?"
Il don't know about your Ivanhoe.' .
said Dumas. i've always been trifie
skepticAl about the practicability OF
those canned knights that used to go
rattling about the country dolled up
in tin trousers and straightjackets
snatched from bargain sales in hard
ware. but I have what Washington
Irving would have called a copper
fastened hunch that IL 1 could turn
those Musketeers Of mine loose on
the Wilheimstrasse they'd put the
kibcch on old Pop Mars in three whIsks
OF lambs tail. as George AIDE might
say.
HAT said Dickens. "D'Artagnan te
tweak the kaisef's nose: Porthos to re.
move the Hfndenbergian proboscis
-Athos to cave in the circumference Of
Won Terpitzs and Aramis to Jam thu
crown prince's hat down over his eye'
Evening star., 1918-02-24
Woman Selected for War Board

after the war is over. It is also intend-
ed to provide against unscrupulous en-
p1oyers who are seeking to procure
cheap woman labor for their own gain,
and to insure a maximum output
Miss Nestor stated that many trade
union women are serving on commit
tees appointed by the Council of Ma
tional Defense and on state and city
committees, thereby in an official ca
pacity representing the interests of the
woman workers and voicing their needs
in order to meet intelligently the diff
culties and complications which arise
in the industrial field as the result Of
this country's entrance into the war.
Some of the recommendations which
the National Women's Trade Union
Evening star., 1918-02-24
Continued from Second Paxe.)

CONTINUED from Second Paxe)
house over fve hundred young men
were taken; in another, half that num-
ber. The glove-making trade is one
which Is hardly affected by wars con-
ditions, as women have always been in
the great majority among glove-mak-
ers.
In regard to the feeling Of the men
toward the entrance of women into
their domain, Miss Nestor called atten-
tion to an incident in Jackson. Mich
The men in the Central Michigan rail-
road shops went on strike to give the
women higher wages and they won.
Another significant fact to which she
called attention was seen in Chicago
when the banks called for woman help
and some of the women declined to
work for the wages which had been
paid the men. In a recent survey made
in New York city. it was found that
for this class of work the women were
Evening star., 1918-02-24

ing the scaffold in the midst Of q vast
concourse Of cheering people, and at the
as I had Sidney Carton do in my Tale
of Two Cities with the words: 1t is
a far. far better thing that we do than
we have ever done; 1t is q far. far
warmer welcome that we go to than
we have ever known
"Corking idea" said Thackeray. Get
Wagner to set it to music and let 'em
sing it."
NO" said Dumas. That would be a
pretty ending. I admit, but when think
of all the human suffering that outfit
has brought into the world I don't feel
like letting them off with anything SO
Evening star., 1918-02-24

easy as q comic-opera finish on the gall
lows or the guillotine. I am going to put
'em in q cage and let 'em live while
we take them around the world and let
the peoples of earth look at 'em, at so
much a peep for tho benefit Of the Red
Cross. They'd make enough on q show
like that to rebuild Belgium and
France and Serbia and Rumania, with
enough left over to reimburse the
world for the financial cost of the war.
and between you and me don't think
it would be long before the occupants
of the cage would be confirmed in
their ante-be1lum belief that peace is
hell"
Copyright 1918. by Mcclure Syndicate.)
Evening star., 1918-02-24
By MONTAGUE GLASS

u ne whole Of page n sAesa hsw.
unlike President Wilson. N. Lloyd
George believes in surroundtng himself
with strong mem
tho nsxt time he ealls thers hs sets
into the front parlor while he sends
up his card. and before the butler could
return with the message that Nj. Lloyd
George says he wouldn't be hack for
some days, understand. Mra. Lloyd
George happens in and wants to know
who let him in there and he should 60
and wait outside in the vestibule, which
is good for hah a page OF how Mn.
Lloyd Georges success In politics ia
due in great measure to the tact and
diplomacy of his charming wife.
However. he has stfn got half OF
page Is and all Of page II to MI IN.
and the next day he lays for Mr.. Lloyd
George at the corner Of the street and
walks along beside him while he tells
him he represents the Interborough
Magazine. which on account Of the
young feIler's American accent Mt.
Lloyd George gets the idee at arst that
he being asked for the price of =
night lodging. y'understand. So he
tells the young feller that he should
ought to be ashamed not to be lighting
for his country. This brings them to
the front door. and when Mr.. Lloyd
George at last nnds out what the young
feiler really wants. understand me. he
says. 7 amt got no time to talk to you
now which is practically everything
the young feller needs to finish up his
article
He sits UP all night and write. =
fun account. as nearly as he could re-
member II. not having taken no notes
At the time. Of just what Mr.. Lloyd
George said about the Youth Of the
country and universal military serv-
ice,' understand. and also how Mr..
Lloyd George spoke at some length Of
the cabinet minister's life in war times
and what little opportunity to give for
meeting and conversing with friends.
quoting Mr.. Lloyd Georges very words.
which were rs the young feller dis
tinctly recalled. Much as would lfes
to do %. I md myself quite unable 10
speak even to You at any greater
length. and that's the way them axti-
cles is written. Mawruss"
'I wonder how big the article would
Of been, supposing the young fellsr
had really and truly talked to Mr. LLOYD
George for say three to i've minutes.
Abe" Morris said
Then the article wouldn't have been
an article no more. Mxwruss." Aba con-
cluded. Tt would Of been . book oe
four hundred pages BY the names
Lloyd George. the Cabinet Minister
and the Man. Price. - Net"
fe-s~A< Yo1a ~ Ns~r9rr> av~Ak~AN n