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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-02
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STRIKES IN WAR TIMES.

The British munitions workers who
went On strike last week have re-
turned to their jobs. Whether they
thought better Of the situation n were
alarmed by Lloyd Georges threat to
put them on the firing line matters
little. They are back at work Any
condition which would justify any la
borer engaged in war work in this crf-
sis of the worlds history in laying
down his tools, is inconceivable. Sup
pose that a man, working in any Brit
ish or American industry, had to en-
dure the following conditions:
Frequently to sleep outdoors in the
rain in his wet working clothes; sell
dom to have a roof over his head;
army rations and nothing else to eat;
often on duty day and night; in con-
slant danger of his life; sometimes
ordered to perform duties in which
there is an 80 per cent chance against
his getting back at all; the horror of
a CHASTITY, agonizing, permanently
mutilating wound always hanging
over him., the ever-present possibility
of being thrust into that inferno,
German prison camp. His pay fer all
this exposure, killing labor and I'M
ceasing danger&a Dollar a Day!
How many working men in Ameri-
ca-even in the British Isles-live
and labor under such conditions? Yet
millions of men employed in one par
ticular Industry" in Europe. do live
and labor under exactly these cond;-
tions-many of them for much small
err pay. Over a million of them are
American citizens-just the ordinary
run of the human mill. They often
go hungry, they are at times half
crazed for lack of sleep, they sup on
untold horrors and live amid indie
scribable conditions that offend every
sense. But what if they-the armies
of the allies went out on strike?
One result would be that the strik-
ing workers in the allied countries
would presently be prodded back to
work by Prussian bayonets. The Prus-
sian has frequently illustrated how he
deals with alien strikers in Belgium.
He doesn't consider their claims, and
conciliate and concede. He flogs,
filings into fetid jails, starves, tortures,
murders by inhuman methods The
only thing that protects the allied
world from the slave pens of Serbia
the systematic plumber of the Russian
provinces and tie death-deali1,g de-
portations of Belgium is the fact that
the greatest union of workingmen in
the world-the allied armies-refuses
to go on strike, tho, underpaid and
overworked.
The sole reason why the workmen
in any industry in any allied country
have the option of striking at all. lays
the Philadelphia Public Ledger, s be-
cause their brother-workmen n the
army do not strike, tho they have ter
times as much reason as the wors
abused mechanic.
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HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BY MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: ID I am
engaged to a young man who is in
France now. Do you think it is
wrong for me to go out with other
boys?N
CD His mother. who lives m the
north, and whom 1 have never met,
tho we have correspondent with each
other, has invited me to visit her and
her three daughters. 1 am not in a
position to entertain them in my home
and for this reason feel that should
not go. I would like to meet them
and want them to know me. Do you
think 1 should go? If so, should 1
take a trunk and how long should L
stay Her son wants me to go, as
he told me so before he left for
France.
CD Before this dear boy left he
gave me a service pin wit. one star
on it. and asked me to wear it. Should
1 wear it? MARY.
% If your fiance objects at all to
your going with other boys you should
not do it. He is making his sacrifice
by going to France to fight for you
and those dear to him and you should
make yours by doing as he wishes
while he is away.
CD 1t is all right for you to visit
his people even if you are not in a
position to entertain them. If you go
plan to stay about week Take a
suitcase and not a trunk.
go Yes, wear the pin.
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TRAVELETTE
BY NIKSAH
NeWtoWn Square.


A small wooden station, close to the
tracks of the West Chester Electric
line, a general store of comfortable
proportions, an abandoned toll gate.
cluster of brick cottages, Quaker
meeting house and a school-a11 the
rest of Nowtown Square, Delaware
County. Pennsylvania is a pleasant
rolling landscape, speckled with cor
pulent barns, impressive concrete
si1os, and slender windmills.
Newtown, according to chronicle and
legend, is very old 1t was one. of
the first Quaker settlements, following
the gentle exodus from Philadelphia
at the close of the seventeenth CEN
fury. The swirl of progress to the
east and south of it, seemingly, has
left Newtown Square unchanged. But
few of its farm houses have a later
lineage than 1915 and many of the old
farmers, descendants of the early set
tiers, still wear the broad brims and
drab gray of their forefathers
At one time Newtown was, threat
ened with the prospect of develop
ment" In 1855, OF Whereabouts, the
legislature gave to the Philadelphia
& West Chester Turnpike company
the right to operate one track
steam railroad between the outer mar
gin of Philadelphia and Newtowr
Square. The road, however, was
quickly extended to West Chester, and
Newtown was made a little used by
station.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-02

Among the many ways mentioned
from time to time thru which we
would win the war was the saving of
wheat. We have saved wheat until
Mr.. Hoover says we need do so no
more. Yet the war is not entirely
won, altho we have made a good start
in that direction. After all probably
the only way to attain a complete tri-
umph over the enemy is to fight for it.
The TIME required will be governed
by the number of men and guns and
the amount of ammunition we can put
into the field. Plenty of food, OF
course, is necessary; so are ships air
planes and many other things, but
victory depends upon the killing and
capturing of Huns and the more rap
idly we can accomplish this the sooner
viii the war end.
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DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
The Stern Parent,

The Stern Parent.
The other day the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children had
a man arrested for brutally beating
his little 13-year-old son. The fathers
excuse for his inhuman conduct was
that the lad had stayed away from
home all night, and the judge. before
whom the case was tried, dismissed
| the charge against the man, saying as
he did SO:
You did perfectly right to thrash
the boy. If 1 had a boy who stayed
away from home at night, would
whip him more severely than you
whipped this child
One can understand the father in
this case. He was simply a bully,
brute and a coward who vented his
animal rage upon a helpless little
child too weak to strike back. 1t needs
no psychologist to read the character
of a child beaten. The yellow streak
| in him is SO apparent that a blind per-
| son can see it.
| But one fails to understand a judge
who approves of child beating. Surely
| no one in these days is stupid enough
ness makes either for submission or
reformation, even when applied to
children.
| There is something in cruelty that
| turns what is weak and yielding in
the human soul into chilled steel that
something more potent than the smit-
| ing hand, and that is the spirit of re-
| bellion and revenge that it strikes into
| life and that never dies.
| No human being has ever yet been
tortured into a different way of think
| ing No criminal has ever been re-
| formed by brutality, and no child has
| ever yet been scourged into becom-
| ing a great and good man or woman.
| In their hearts parents know this,
and they also know that when they
| whip their children they are not do
| ing their duty by them, as they hypo-
| critically pretend to themselves, but
they are venting their lust fer cruelty
| on the only individuals il the world
| that they may attack with safety to
| themselves.
A man dares not beat his wife when
he comes home from the office nerv-
Gus and irritable because business has
gone wrong, or when his boss has
given him lecture on his ineficiency,
for wife would hale him into the di-
vorce court if he raised his hand
| against her. But it is perfectly safe
to spank little Johnnie for some trivial
offense, and little Johnnie is offered
up on the altar of his fathers ill
temper
Mother has a spat with father al
the breakfast table about the bills
She can't throw the coffee pot at him
as she would like to, because thai
way of settling a family dispute ISM
done in the social circle in which she
moves. SO she finds an escape valve
for her overweight feelings by Civ.
ing Mamie a whipping about losing
her hair ribbon.
The spectacle of a big, husky, six
foot man beating a little threefoot
child is so degrading, so shameful sc
unutterably cowardly that it is nc
wonder that fathers have had II
camouf1age the dastard1y deed under
a high sounding moral label, and cal
it parental duty, and claim that it i:
exceedingly painful to him and tha
he is only doing It for the good of the
, little one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-02
GLOBE SIGHTS
From the Atchison Globe.1

Germany, which wanted war, seems
to be getting it.
Generally speaking people can be
funny enough by just being natural.
So often. women have no use for
their husbands, but love them just
the same.
Be a gentleman, but not a gentle
man of leisure. Leisure is unpatriotic
these days.
A woman is satisfied if her children
are happy, but a man wants some of
the happiness himself.
The man who starts out by saying,
IT am pc -riotic, but etc, is not d
patriot, but is a knocker
AS a rule people who expect replies
by the next mail, take their own time
in answering letters.
The kaiser said year ago that he
wouldn't take any any nonsense from
Uncle Sam. Well, what Uncle Sam is
giving to him isn't nonsense.
There are two kinds of people.
Those who don't believe anything they
read in the newspapers. and those who
believe everything they read
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS


Meat Balls With Rice-Three cups
meat three cups boiled rice, salt, pep
per. one-half onion if desired
Mix chopped meat with equal parts
of boiled rice. Shape into cakes and
fry as for hamburg steak, first sea =
soning with salt and pepper. If the
cakes do not stick together add an
egg.
Corn Souffle-One can of corn, one
tablespoon honey, one tablespoon oleo
or butter substitute, one cup sweet
milk, two eggs, dash of pepper. Beat
eggs, add honey to eggs and beat
again. Add milk and melted oleo.
place with corn after draining off
liquid; then dash of pepper and bake
a rich brown.
Boiled Green Corn-Remove husks
and silky threads. Cook ten to TWEEN
ty minutes in boiling water; place on
platter covered with napkin; draw
corners of napkin over corn; or cut
from cob and season with butter and
salt.
Vegetable Salad-One-half cup of
cooked peas, one-half cup carrots.
one-half cup corn, beets or celery.
cooked dressing or French dressing.
Combine any leftover bits of CT oked
vegetables. such as peas. string beans,
carrots. corn or fresh celery. Season
and blend with cooked or French
dressing and serve on lettuce.
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necessary to bathe the foot than the
hand, for the foot is under more try
ing conditions. It does not have
chance, like the hands, which are be-
ing exposed and being washed fire.
quently. Too hot water should not be
used or too much soap; simply luke
warm water and very little soap, and
it is better to give the foot its washing
at the end of the days work.
The question of the care of the
shoes comes in also. A shoe can be
spoiled SO easily If it Is wet. by heat
ing it before the fire. 1t spoils the
leather by making it stiff and hard
and this makes the foot sore. The best
way is to have the shoe dry gradually
by moderate warmth and air; then
after drying and cleaning, put on the
ordinary shoe dressing. The care of
the stocking is also important, espe-
cially among soldiers, for there should
be no darns or holes to irritate the
foot.
The simple ailments that always
have to do with the foot come under
two or three categories. First, the
corns, calluses, bunions. ETC., are prob
ably always due to the shoeing. If
we correct the shoe, we get rid of
these conditions. Just bear in mind
that the shoe is the source of many
evils, and always be suspicious of that
first of all.
+ Blisters simply mean that the foot
has been slipping back and forth in
the, shoe, and the constant irritation
has resulted in a blister. 1t should slJe
taken care of by washing the skin
with a little iodine. Then take a
needle that has been sterilized by
passing thru a flame and puncture the
blister, being careful not to tear it,
evacuate the fluid, put some absorb
ent cotton over t, and that is suffi-
Gent for the average blister.
Tired. painful feet are common,
especially with city people. 1t is curl
Gus how the city affects the. average
foot. A person can walk for miles in
the country. but when he comes back
to the city he finds that very soon his
feet get tired. This is largely due to
the hard pavements, and also to the
habit CT walking with a stiff gait. a
very good. simple remedy for this is
to battle the feet in first hot and then
cold water. This gives the skin a
series of shocks, brings down the blood
and gives it chance to nurse the in
jured tissues. Then rest the feet.
When the foot is overetrained, so that
it is out of position, in bad cases sup
ports have to be used, but in simple
cases lifting the inside of the heel of
the shoe and carrying it forward half
an inch will often suffice. If the in
ner side of the heel is tilted just a
little and carried forward, the foot
comes down normally and you can
stand good many more hours, strain
than you could if you were depending
upon your muscles alone. Any shoe
| maker can nlt g the heels of your
| shoes for you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-02

A poilu, writes Ernest Diment in
the Atlantic Monthly, is a humble
man, who, one July afternoon in 1914,
left at two hours notice his Partisan
shop or workshop. or his ripe wheat
fields, or his ripening vines for E. mil
ttary depot he had never liked and
lad managed to tolerate only because
soldering. and all things soldierly, are,
lcvable to the Frenchman. and take
on halo in his Imagination: was
packed to the Belgian frontier; made
the acquaintance of danger under all
its forms; fought; hungered--hun-
gered and thirsted-for days; knew,
the trenches when they were in their
crudest novelty and worse than the
badgers hole; got wounded, and lay
for hours, sometimes days, where he
had fallen, or crawled miles to a hur-
ried surgeon, and to the torturing
goods-trucks pompously labeled SAM
tary trains; got well. and went back
to the depot, and then back to the
front and to fighting or being sheiled
and so on during four years, with the
er-disappointed certainty that mex
winter must be the last" or that the
imminent coming in of this or that
nation must bring the end.
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FOUR YEARS OF WAR.

At the close of the fourth year of
shows the central powers to he in
condition which must appear hopeless
to everybody, even including the Huns
themselves.
Out of the total area over which
the flag OF war is flying and which
covers the greater part of the habit
able globe about s6 per cent is lnIer
the dominance of the allies, and only
per cent belongs to the, central pow
ers. The number of nations actively
engaged in the war is %, with a total
of 31,357,3S3 square miles and pop
ulation of 1919, $4,000. OF these.
30,163,7S3 square miles. with 2 popu-
lation of 1907, $4,000, belong to the
allies, and only 1,2O3,sO0 square miles.
with a population of 143. 721, 900, be-
long to the central powers.
In national wealth, the five main
allies possessed before the war S4O6,-
600, 100000, a sum nearly four times
as great as the national wealth of the
two central powers, the latter being
s1O5, 000,0OO,O0 AS to man-power,
the allies could command on the bat
tlefield ss.oOO.0oO electives as
against 5000, 900 of the central pow
ers, a proportion of about three to
one. With these resources az their
command, the nations launched upon
a conflict that was to assume such ire
mendcus proportions to stagger the
human mind and shake the very foun-
dations of civilization.
The money expended by the seven
leading belligerents for purely war
purposes during the four years has
been estimated at about $134, 0,00O,-
900. It has been said that this sum
is greater than all combined money
expenditures for all other wars since
the beginning of recorded history.
The total cost of all the wars fought
since the American Revolution, the
aggregate fighting period covering
sixty years. was only $4,000. 10000
making the expenditures of the pres
ent war for only four years six times
greater. 1t is about one-third of the
total national wealth of the chief bel
ligerents. The combined average
daily war cost, computed on a four
year basis, is about $1O7,5O0,o0O or
s4,479,000 each hour of the day.
These expenditures have already en-
tailed a debt for these nations six
| times greater than was their total
| debt prior to the war. representing the
enormous sum of $129,0OO,00O,O0O.
1t has taken the belligerent nations a
hundred years TO accumulate the debt
of s2S, $50. 100000. which only four
years of war have multiplied by six.
1t must be apparent even to the
enemy, therefore, that whether viewed
from the point of man power, or that
Of economic and financial endurance
his efforts to win the war are certain
to fail. How much longer he, will con-
tinue the unequal contest none can
estimate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-02

In the face of the dwindling effec-
tiveness of the U-boat and its utter
failure to prevent the transportation
of American soldiers to Europe, the
kaiser has felt called upon to repeat
his promise to his people, that the
submarine will keep the armies of
America out of the war. The fact that
the Yankees are on the fighting line
he can no longer deny. The evidence
has been too overwhelming.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-02

Those who may have believed that
the days of the "roorback" in Kansas
politics had passed find themselves
mistaken. The attempt to besmirch
the name and record of worthy citi-
zen of the state, while he is in Eu-
rope helping to win the war, should
and probably will react on the perpe-
traitors of the outrage. The people of
Kansas are in no humor for that sort
of thing,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-02

What shall it profit a country to
turn out thousands of flying machines
if aviators cannot use them? After
more than a year spent in an effort to
produce fighting planes. we seem to
be about where we started
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-02
TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
IN F 0 r M A TON
Blu REAU
FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Director
Washington, D. c.
KEEP FIT FOR WAR.
1.-THE Care of the Foot.

These articles are special reports Of
the Half Hour Health Talks which
members of the Army Medical corps
have delivered before the employees of
the war department by order of Sur
geon General William Crawford Gorgas.
They are probably the most autnorita-
tive advice upon medicine and hy-
giene which has ever been offered the
public in popular form. This talk was
delivered by Major w. G. Erving, .Medi-
cal Corps, N. A.
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all the plots we will globe-trot-for
more. You see," he added tenderly,
"a lonely soldier gets a great chance
when a knitted sweater arrives
Copyright 1918. by the Mcclure Sews-
Syndicate.l
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Always there seems to be "one more
river to cross on the European bat
tlefield. Probably the last one for
the allied armies will be the Rhine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-02

The fact that cover there" they call
Ford a "camionette' won't interfere
to any extent with the senatorial cam
paign in Michigan. Nobody knows
whether a "camionette" is knock or
a boost.
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Names in the News.

We1tma cht-pronounced ve.tmakt
means world power. and refers to the
German policy set forth by Bernhard
in his book. Germany and the Next
War" This policy is a plan of world
conquest by allying the autocratit
powers against the democratic. ana 4,
the one which the militarist party in
Germany is now trying to carry out
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DINNER STORIES

new sailor on his first shore lib
erty had just written a letter and
was hunting a mail box at the sta
ton when the conductor shouted "AIl
aboard" Seeing an ensign across
the room he ran up to him and SHOW
ing the letter into his hand. said.
Mail this for me, porter; here's a
dime for the trouble"
A recruit was asked. who is your
nearest living kim
MY aunt" came the answer
Then the questions were answered
correctly until it came to. "In case of
death or accident who shall be noti-
fled ?"
My mother" he replied.
But" said the officer. Il thought
your aunt was your nearest living
kir ?"
"She is,' replied the recruit She
lives two miles from me and my
mother lives five"
"Sedentary work." said the college
ance''
TN other words" butted in the
smart student, ''the more one sits the
less one can stand"
EXACTLY" retorted the lecturer.
standing is lost completely"
A pretty girl was eagerly watching
drill when a rifle vol1ey era shed o,1t
With a demure little scream she
shrank back into the arms Of the
young man standing behind her.
"Oh," she cried. blushing, 'T was
frightened by the riflesi Pardon
mei'
NO need" he said quickly. LET.
go over there and watch the artillery"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-02

Just been looking over the garden
and find that our sweet corn is no
smaller than 1t was three weeks ago.
In our garden experience, this seems
almost like progress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-02

My country, tits of thee,
Land where things used to be
So cheap, 1 sing.
Land where folks could buy
Things that are now SO high;
To thee with many a sigh
Our memories cling.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-02

We often wonder If all the famous
pajamas in the world are pink pa
jamas. We never heard of any other
Kind.
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ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
By ROY z. MOULTON

And it is well to remember at this
season that a good many cherry pies
are more to be pitted than censured.