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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BIZ Roy K. MouI.r0N

The Census Tal<er.
with Acknowledgements to John Godfred
"How many ,a9, boys. the mars marshal said.
And the lady bowed her flaxen head
And calmly answered, "Nine.''
But some are dead" the marshal said,
To the lady over the Rhine.
Again the lady bowed her head
And tearfuily answered. Mine"
Ruijs Beerenbrouck, of Iimberg. is
the new premier of Holland. The beer
and limberg part of it sound Teutonic,
but the Ruijs may be entirely neutral
or even, perhaps. pro-ally.
The local pro-Germans who violate
the government request regarding
Sunday joy riding have a sector of
barbed wire coming to them, and they
will get it.
We may not be as expert in dye
making as the Germans are, but re-
cent events on the western front
proves that our colors never rum
Miss r.
"Mr. Galli-Curci" has asked $780,
600 DANA ges for the alienation of the
affections of his wife. In other words.
he is not willing to let her go for a
song.
The main difference between the
master barber and the barber has bee.
that the barber has got all the tips
Now the master barber has eQualixed
their stations in life by abol.shing the
tips.
The enemy's hatred of US amounts
to insanity."-Von Hertling.
And it is too late to call in an alien
list.
The young lady next door has writ
ten to the war department asking just
what her duties will be when she be-
comes unit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16

ever, the surprise that greeted him
consisted of yards of soaked ana
crumpled wall paper. smeared walls
and a respondent wife.
"Oh. John, l pasted and smoothed
and pounded. but 1t Just wouldn't
stick" she sobbed.
There. there. dear" comfortec
John. Did you follow the printed
directions"
Yes" she vowed. "only of course"
and her eyes shone with pride and
patriotism. where it called for flour
I used half cornmeal."
A novelist said at a Bar Harbor
tea:
ut is incredible what some women
will spend to get into society. A west.
ern Daillionaire's wife came to New
York, took a house in Fifth avenue
and gave a ball of great magnificence.
when her husband totaied up the
bills he WINGED and said.
My. Maria. these here bills total
up to 10000.
lit costs money. dearie.' said the
wife. to get into society
Hufnph, said the millionaire. II
don't seem to me that we're gettin'
into society as much as society ID get
In into u.s. +"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16
ANSWERS TO
CORRESPONDENTS

The following are some interesting
answers to correspondents who wrote
for information to the Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau, Wash
ington. d. c.:
what is the difference in time between
midwest, United States and France?
ANSwER-The time in France il several
hours ahead of the time in-the united
States. When 1t is - o'clock noon In To-
peka it is 9 :09 p. m. in Paris. France.
When were rural mail routes established
and how many ire there at the present
ANSwER-The first rural route was
established October 1, 1896. Three routes
were tried merely as an ex PEI There
What is the family name of the reigning
house of Great Britain?
ANSWER-The family name Of George v
was originally Saxe-Cobure- Gotha. After
the outbreak OF the war the name was
changed to Windsor.
What 10 a 1plane?
ANSwER-A seaplane is a particular
form of airplane In which the landing gear
Is suited to operation from the water.
prison uniform?
ANSWER-American naval prisoners in
Germany are supplied with uniforms by
the navy department thru the Red Cross.
There are of the usual type Of naval uni
form, with the exception OF red stripe
running the length Of the trousers.
How many of the Central American
states have declared war on Germany?
ANSWER-Costa Rica. Panama. Mica
ragua and Guatemala have declared war
on Germany. Honduras has severed Dip
, lomatic relations with Germany. while Sal
vador has remained neutral but at the
States
How narrow nre the Straits Of Dover?
ANSWER-At their nafrovest point the
Straits Of Dover are twenty-one miles wide
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16

and he, too, wished that in Farnam-
town he might find some simple task
to perform by which he might carr
the little necessary to make his small
thrift stamps.
Now they had both told each other
their little predicament and somehow
they felt that there was something
between them that did not exist be-
tween them and any one else in Far
namtown. The doctor rose and as he
passed the kitchen door. he shifted
ever so slightly. Miss Margaret told
him he 'smelled cherry jam. She'd
just been putting It up. that is why
He shifted again pleasurably and then
in a twinkling she stood beside him
with slice OF her light, oatmeal war
bread and a little saucer OF fresh
cherry jam to be sampled.
That was how it began. The doctor
said he had some cherries. going to
waste on his place. He couldn't sell
them and he couldn't eat them all. He
smacked his lips over the sample and
said he could well afford to pay little
to have his cherries converted into
food for next winter. And that was
how Miss Margaret. made arrange
ments to earn her bit toward buying
thrift stamps. 1t was very little, but
the doctor felt he was not rash in
spending it. Besides, he could send
some of the Jars to his mother and
brother to help provision them as well
as himself. The doctor brought the
baskets of cherries in stealthily and
Margaret told none of her neighbors
of the arrangement. And then one
day when Margaret had to have some
repairs made on her old house-there
was leak in the roof that needed SOL
dering and there were some loose
drains and one of the front stairs had
grown old and sagged out of place
the doctor asked her why, II she had
to pay some one for doing the work.
he couldn't come and do 1t himself
| 1T isn't exactly. surgery. but I've al
ways been fond of tinkering." he said
And that made it possible for the doc
tor to begin payments on the next
bond.
It was the last evening of the repairs
on the sagging step, which the doctor
did by stealth to keep the secret fror
the neighbors. as Margaret had kept
hers about the cherry jam. Then, not
with the greatest fiuency, but with
sufficient explicitness.> the doctor told
Margaret that they simply must unite
their forces still further. He didn't
ask her to marry him. as he had in
tended to; he simply told her that she
had to. And Margaret's mind ran OH.
woman fashion. and predicted the
| buying OF more stamps and more
bonds. They could live in one house
| and both keep on with their work, ard
there would be only one furnace to
keep coaled. and that would make pos
sible a real show of patriotism.
| And the plan might have worked
had not the announcement been made
| the very day following that poor little
Germantown had been chosen as the
site for a new hospital and that DIR.
Burton had been appointed one of the
| resident surgeons-and that meant op-
portunity to do his bit as he had
dreamed OF doing it, and incidentally
enough to make possible increased
consignment to the brother and moth
err and enough left besides to send to
oblivion forever the symbols of the
establishment" in Margaret's front
parlor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16
MORE GERMAN KULrUR.

Recognition. of a Czechoslovak ma
tionality by the United States. follow
ing similar action on the part of Great
ter understood when one becomes ia
miliar with the Hun sentiment to-
ward the Slavs.
what shall we do with the SIavs? ''
was the query put in a recent speech
at Windisch Feistritz, in Syria, by
Deputy Wichtl. leading member of the
German party of Austria. Immediate
must exterminate them!" he declared.
'In the four years of the war
Wichtl said, 1--WE must have disposed
Of many millions of fighting Slavs.
That is good! The only way to deal
with these Slavs is to destroy their
race so utterly that it will not be able
to recover within perceivable time.
We Germans have already annihilated
Serbia. Montenegro and Russia. So
shall we also stamp out, root and
branch. the Slavs of Austria Hun
gary"
Germany's cleverest move, accord
ing to Wiehtl, was the way she car
ried the war on to foreign soil. II
the war were now carried to Czech
soil. he declared. no German would
regret it. The next step, in his opin-
ion, is for Germany and Austria to
take all possible measures against the
formation of a Czechoslovak or Jugo-
slav state. AS the artisans of a great
er Germany, the ministers of the state
must reduce these Slavs and dismem-
Der them. Not until the Slavs are
wiped off the face of Eastern Europe
will Germany's hopes be realized.
And when that time comes" said
Deputy Wichtl, ''there will no longer
be two states, but only one Great Ger
many. It will be one big German
house, where only German will be
spoken, only German ideas thought
and German battles fought. Then we
shall wage new war. We shall de-
liver three mighty blows by forcing
our way to America, subduing the
whole Orient, and establishing Ger.
The dispatches say that Wichtls
speech was interrupted with tumul-
tuous approval, applause. and cries OF
He is right! Listen to him. The
incident is significant because it shows
the way pan-German ideas have beer
sowed even in so remote places az
the mountain towns of Syria.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16

Bake about thirty minutes in moder-
ate oven. Serve hot with cream.
Homemade Prize Raisin Bread
Make a sponge of one cake of COM
pressed yeast with one tabiesoon sugar
dissolved in one-half cup luke-warm
water. To one cup of scalded milk
add one cup of hot water and when
lukewarm add the yeast and two cups
white flour and heat for five minutes.
Let rise until very light. Then add
three tablespoons each of sugar ana
shortening. creamed together, one
teaspoon salt and one and one-half
cups seeded raisins cut in halves. Stir
in flour until stiff, then knead until
dough is smooth and elastic. using
six or eight cups of flour. Cover to
let rise and when light. double in bulk.
mould into loaves, and when again
light bake about one hour.
Bran Bread and Graham Raisin
Bread may be madesfroru this recipe
by adding to the risen sponge. before
knaading in the white flour. two cups
of sterilized bran or three cups of gra-
ham flour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16


Thousands of Indians who, gen.
GRAFTON or two ago. decked themselves
out in paint and feathers, are today
wearing the olive drab uniform of the
United States army. At Camp Bowie,
Texas, the 142nd Infantry is composed
wholly of Choctaws, and thru this
camp alone are scattered more than
a thousand other Indians. In Nebras-
ka. the Winnebagos formed company
early in the war. but the formation of
separate units is generally frowned
upon by the government. which pre-
fers. when possible, to place the red
men in the same companies with
white soldiers. Fourteen tribes are
represented in the service and. when
yHung enough, the chiefs have enlist
ed In rank they scale down from
major, and almost every branch has
attracted some of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16

"BING ,EM ON THE RHINE"
(1he Chant Of the A. Z. F." from STARS
and Stripcs.'D
We've helped to sweep them from the
Marine
And send them on the way;
We've helped to nail them at the OurcQ
And spoil their pleasant day;
We've swung along the open road
Aand henmered at their line,
And now we're cut to bling EN-,
To bling 'em on the Rhine. .
We've hammered at them night and day
Along a bloody trail;
We've helped to throw their legions back
Across the river Vesle;
We've slogged along and logged along
Thru shadow and thru shine.
And now we're out to bling EN-,
To bling 'em on the Rhine
An old refrain, we know 1t well
From childhood's golden years;
And since we've heard 1t first we've seen
Our share OF blood and tears;
But still It fingers in our souls,
The while our rifles shine,
As we go forth to bling 'em,
To bing 'em on the Rhine.
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in war industries. At the present
time close to million and a quarter
women are engaged in munitions
work alone in England. practically all
of them having entered on this work
after very slight preliminary training.
Our own training and dilution serv-
ice is now laying extensive plans Tor a
greater utilization of women in war
year of war wiilmake this imperative
British experience is being very large
ly followed in mapping out the pro-
gram of this work.
Training facilities for workers have
been in operation for some time in
shipyards under the Emergency Fleet
corporation and the time is now at
hand when the department of labo
will carry similar methods OF training
into all the great war industries. Gen
orally the government plans super
vision of the training, and the spread
Of all available information and data
gathered in foreign countries on the
subject. Manufacturers. it is believed,
may be relied on to make all arrange
ments in their own plants for the ac-
tual work of training.
The immigration bureau is q third
division of the department of labor
whose war time duties are largely con-
cerned with the problem of obtaining
labor for war production. Unlike the
employment and training and dilution
services, it is not a new organization
but its machinery has been made al
most entirely available for war work
by the complete cessation of immigra-
ton from Europe.
At the present time-the immigration
service is cooperating with the en-
ployment service in importing Mexi-
can and Porto Rican common labor
ers into this country to help fill the
very serious deficiency in that type of
war worker. Several thousand Next
cans have already come in under the
new regulations, which provide for the
temporary removal of pre-war re-
strictions-the head tax, literacy test
and contract labor provision. The
number of Porto Ricans brought in So
far is more limited. due to difficulties
Of transportation.
No attempt has yet been made to
let down the immigration restrictions
to any foreigners other than Mexicans.
and in their case measures have been
taken to insure the return to Mexico
after the war OF all who are coming in
now under the temporarily amended
regulations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16
THE FIUcrUAT1NG GOLD DOLLAR

: Gold producers of the British en-
pire have formally petitioned the Brit
ish government to order the Bank of
England to pay a higher price for
gold and this request is receiving seri-
Gus consideration. In America the
federal government recently declared
gold production to be an essential in
dustry and the treasury department is
said to be giving consideration to a
proposal to pay bonuses to producers.
Any such attempt to stimulate the out
put of gold at the mines might en-
counter difficulties. In America a
large amount of gold coin remains in
circulation west of the Missouri river,
and it would be difficult to prevent
the melting down of these coins if
bonuses or premiums were paid for
new gold.
The government might pay sub
sides to cover the increases in wages
and costs of chemicals, quicksilver
and other supplies. without leading
producers into this temptation. The
problem is to devise some method of
stimulating production, without in
creasing the bullion value OF gold
coins.
We may need a readjustment along
the lines of an unshrinkable dollar
but that Is not the intention. It is
not that more gold is to be put into
! the coin stamped five or ten or twenty
dollars SO as to increase its purchasing
power. but under the plea of stinu-
lating production to pay more for the
metal. And paying more" means
that instead of stamping 25s grains
OF gold one dollar, to make it, say,
twenty grains.
A dollar is nothing but 25.s grains
of the metal gold. The dollar stamp
means nothing except that the United
States government guarantees that a
five dollar gold piece contains 129
grains of the metal, a ten dollar gold
piece ass grains of the proper "fine-
ness" Beyond that the government
guarantees nothing.
When It issues paper money it guar
antees to exchange this piece of paper
calling for five dollars for l2s grains
of gold. It makes no charge for putA
ting this guarantee on the metal, so
the mining company mines and smelts
the metal, pays carrying charges to a
mint and receives the same weight
back in coin properly stamped. or a
check which means that the coin is
held subject to call. The function OF
the United States mint is only to elm
mate the necessity of our carrying
scales and acids to determine at each
transaction the weight and genuine
ness of the pieces of metal
All paper money, checks, notes, gov.
ornamental or private, are the docu.
mentary evidence that gold is on de.
post somewhere subject to the call o,
the payee or that it will be forth
, coming If 1t is by him demanded aftel
q given date
International exchanges. frequentl,
are liquidated in gold bullion, coin
being melted up to obtain such bull
lion. The money value of gold in thi
country is stable enough; it is its pur
chasing power which fluctuates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
WefiA's Highest Paid Woman Wntsf.
Mothers Duty.

AoNys"&s
The girl. who isn't permitted to
have beaux at home and little par
ties in her own house. will meet boys
on the street corners and they will
skylavk in the family entrance of sa-
looms, and she will get to know people
whose very presence is contamination
to her.
Nine-tenths of the boys and girls
who come of respectable families and
who go wrong. could lay their down
fall at their mothers feet. and say
They only had a prison house to sleep
and eat in, and 1t was their mother s
hand that turned them out on the
street to learn its lessons and get
their pleasure from 1t.
Children are gregarious. They go
in focks, and this being a law Of ma
ture. it is a mothers business to wei
come her children's friends in her
home, to draw them into it, because
that is the only way in which she can
know the kind of children with whom
her own are associating. and in that
manner alone can she keep them away
from bad influences.
This is particularly the case with
girls. The mother who will not let
her daughters bring their company
home, surely cannot be stupid enough
to think that she is isoiating them
only thing she does is to make them
hide their friendships and to meet Sc
cretly people OF whose desirabiliry sh
knows nothing, and IL her girls form
intimacies with other girls OF evil
character who lead them into wrong
Going. the mother alone is to blame.
And this is even more true az re-
CARDS the girls acquaintance with
men. The girls who cannot receive
their beaux in their own parlor, NEE
them elsewhere, and they meet ths
type of men that they would nevel
know II the men had to visit them II
their homes. Also, the girl who :.
forced to pick up men that she can.
not receive at home. is treated by then
with a lack of respect that is never
shown to the girl who has the rnantl,
of parenthood and home thrown
around her.
Propinquity is the great mattel
| maker. Girls and boys marry ths
other boys and girls with whom the,
associate, and for that reason, it is
mothers duty. to make her home 81
pleasant that desirable young people
will like to come to it, and her chill
dren will be thrown into the society
of the young people who would bS
suitable mates for them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16

All America will heartily endorse
the tribute paid to Marshal Foch by
the Philadelphia North American
when it says that he is universally
recognized as the supreme soldier of
his time" He has taught the eie-
naents of war to those who believed
themselves its absolute masters. And
the whole French system is reflec-
ton of his genius. for he was for years
head of the republics war college. and
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implanted in the minds of the future
staffs the daring yet simple doctrines
which underlie his success. OF all the
men who have honored the French
nation, America most delights to hon.
or Lafayette. Next in the hearts of
the American people will come Mar
shall Foch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16

Among the many wonders of the
war, few things are more striking than
the development OF the British Royal
Air forces. Four years ago the British
possessed considerably fewer than 100
aeroplanes. Now the Royal Air force
alone destroys in an average week q
larger number of enemy aeroplanes
than >Briton possessed when the war
began.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16

Hun leaders in their recent speeches
have renowned all claims on the part
OF Germany of conquest or indemni-
ties. This action on their part consti-
tutes marked change from their for
mer attitude, but it is not nearly
enough. They must renounce many
other things before they can attain
the peace which they now SO eagerly
covet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16

The Yankees waited, what must
have seemed to them a long time for
it has come they appear to be MAX
ing good use of their opportunity. 1t
seems unfortunate that they feel call
ed upon to take SO many prisoners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16

The Firms are going right ahead
or backwards, as you like-and accept
ing their Hun-made king. When the
war has ended they may have the dis
tinction of possessing the only real
live king in captivity.
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DINNER STORIES

A very young housekeeper decided
to do her bit by papering the kitchen
herself. She would thus give hubby Q
nice surprise. and also cave the OK.
pense of having a professional wall pa
per hanger
When hubby arrived home, how
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16

The Hun retreat expert" was SO
busy farther north that it was impos-
sible for the enemy to extricate his
army, from the ST. Mihiel pocket.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.
Fruit
Corn Griddle-Cakes
Scrambled Eggs
Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Stewed Lamb Kidneys
Potato Chips Rye Biscuits
Pound Cake Tea
DINNER.
Veal Outlets
Dreamed Cauliflower
New Potatoes
Watercress and Radish Salad
Maple-Bread Pudding
Coffee. -r-z,.-..
Recipes with Raisins.
Mush, Souffle Style. with Raisins
and Dates.-Stir one cup yellow corn
meal into one and one-half cups
scalded milk in the double boiler. Add
one tablespoon butter and one and
one-half teaspoon salt and let cook
one-half hour over boiling water. Add
two cups leftover oatmeal porridge
beaten smooth and free from humps.
Take from fire, add yolks three eggs,
beaten very light: then fold in the
stfffly beaten whites three eggs Cook
one cup seeded raisins until tender
and water has been absorbc I. Butter
two. shallow granite baking pans.
Spread raisins with one-haif cup
chopped dates In pans and turn mix
ture one-half inch deep over the fruit.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-07

Feature at Hip First Three Days this Week.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-07
EMP PRESS

"The Beloved Traitor" the new Goldwyn picture staf4ing Mae Marsh which will be seen at. the Empress theater, beginning today, is de- lightful screen version of Frank L. Packard's novel of the same name.
 Mary Garland. Maine fishermai- ren, has a sweetheart, Judd Minot a fisherman, whose talent as sculptor in unsuspected by the townspeople. He is haunted by a vision wherein he see a statue of woman with face strikingly like Marys and the people around it acclaiming him as its creator. The figure stands with arms outstretched as if welcoming the returning fishermen. He dis covers Mary in that attitude when she goes to the rescue of her uncle, Simeon, caught in a storm far out beyond the rocks while returning from the lighthouse. Judd saves both. Shortly afterward, the uncle, with whom Mary lives, dies. Before his passing he has exacted Judas promise to watch over Mary, along with Father Anthony. the village priest
 Mary is delighted with Judd's model of his ideal figure, but Judd seeks
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