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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08

When you subscribe for liberty
bonds, you perhaps may wonder what
the government does with the money.
Since we entered the war some of the
expenses met have been as follows:
$37,O0O,000 for flour, 100000 for
sugar, S43,0O0,000 for bacon, $12.-
100000 ! for beans. 100000 for
canned tomatoes, and 100000 for
rice We, have spent 1926, 100000 for
shoes; over s5O0,000,000 for clothing,
winter and summer, nearly $150.000,-
600 for blankets. Our axes for the
army have cost over $6,o00,o0o, our
rolling Kitchens s47,0OO,00O and field
ranges S1,50O,O00. The army is US
ing 100000 shovels. costing 81
apiece. Our motor trucks to carry
supplies and ammunition cost $240,-
O00,0o0,- and for horse drawn wagons
and carts we have spent $37,000,000.
Our 279,00e horses and $4,000 mules
have cost us nearly s100,000.0o0,- to
feed them has cost over 100000
and the harness for them nearly $780,
100000. These figures are large, but
we have nearly 100000 men in
France and nearly as many more in
eanFonments here. And the United
States and the people of the United
States. thru the liberty loan. are max
ing these soldiers as safe and as COM
Portable, as powerful and effective as
possible. Every subscriber to the lib
erty loan has helped, and every sub
scriber to the fourth liberty loan will
help to win the war. So do your part
without hesitation and with satisfac-
ton that you can help a cause SO
worthy. 1t is the best investment you
ever made or ever will have a chance
to make.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08
FOR ALL READERS OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNALr

Each reader of the State Journal is Of
fered the unlimited use of the largest In
formation bureau III the world.
This Service Bureau is located in the ma
,tional capital, where it is in immediate
touch with all the great resources Of the
United States government.
1t can answer practically any question
you want to ask, butt cannot give adj
vice, nor make exhaustive research.
The war has forced so many changes in
the daily life Of the American people that
the services Of this information bureau
will be invaluable to all who use 1t.
Keep in touch with your government
during these trying times. 1t can help
you In a thousand ways If your wants are
only made known.
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service III order that every one of its read
.ers may take free advantage of 1T You
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08
DINNER STORIES
The man stood before the Judge.

The man stood before the Judge.
"How many times have YOU been
arrested before Pr, asked the. Judge.
Never before, SIR" answered the
prisoner.
But your face looks SO familiar"
replied the Judge.
I'm the bartender from across the
way, sir" said the prisoner.
A Scottish farmer, being elected a
school manager. visited the village
school and tested the intelligence of
the class by his metaphysical ques-
tfons. His first inquiry was, "Now,
boys. can any one Of you tell me what
naething ISL"
After a moments silence = small
boy in a back seat rose and replied,
TITS wat ye gRed me tsother day for
holdin' yer horse!"
: A teacher could not get a little girl
to remember the humber four. She
would count al, 2, 5, S." Finally in
desperation the teacher asked her II
she had cat at home. The little girl
said she did. III
Then run along home and count
the cats feet, then come back and
tell me how many she has" said the
teacher.
The little girl returned to the school
room promptly.
.weli. did you count the cats feet? p"
asked the teacher.
Eyes, ma'am."
"How many has it?'
1.-TWO in the front and two in the
back"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08
HEART AND BEAUTY,
PROBLEMS

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I have kept
company with a man for over five
months. He has not been going with
any other girl and he has done every
thing you could imagine for me. He
takes me nice places, brings me candy
and gave me a book for my BIRTH
day. I have known several other men.
but I have never cared as much for
them ash do this one. Tcare SO much
for him that I am only happy when
we are together. He comes over three
andsfour times a week, but he has new
er said one thing to make me think he
cares more for me than a friend. He
registered in this last draft and am
afraid he will be called. because he
has no parents and no one dependent
on him.
What can I do to make him tell me
II he loves me? 1t will break my heart
II he doesn't say something before
he goes away. WORRIED.
Be contented with the mans friend
ship. Do nothing to force him to
reveal his intentions, because, when
he feels ready, he will speak voluntar-
lily il he loves you. To give him an
idea that you are eager might make
him slower In making UP his mind.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: There is a
young man who walks home from
Would 1t be proper to invite him in to
dinner? He has also taken me to
several entertainments and shows.
DOUBTFEE.
1t Is not necessary to invite him to
dinner. but it--would be all right to do
SO occasionally under the circum.
stances.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08
A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds OF men In
Americas Fighting Service

Arthur Richard Schooner. seaman,
United States navy, has been COM
mended by Secretary Daniels for his
gallantry in jumping overheard from
the U. S. s. Isabel and scouting another
enlisted man from drowning. AS a
sailing launch was being hoisted the
relieving hook became detached. al
lowing the launch to drop and throw
ing Seaman wyllie, the bow man, into
the water in a stunned condition.
Schooner dived from the deck of the
Isabel and rescued his shipmate.
Schooner enlisted at New York,
April 50, 1917 His father, George
Schooner, lives in New York City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08
Is YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
FSesH he eslssnns :.
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

Octeber .. 1893. e~&
Several Of the young attorneys Of the city
were banqueted last evening at the home
Of Secretary of State Osborn by o. o.
Osborn, the occasion being complimentary
to several of his friends because OF his ad-
mission to the bar. The following toasts
were responded to: Notes" by Ed Me-
Keever; Law and Evidence" by Robert
Stone; "A Draft on Futurity," by Arthur
Callahan; 1.-The Theory of the Earth's
Flatness.'' by C J Dobbs and Getting
guests were; N. n. Neher, T. Scott Rice,
c. ]. Dobbs. Arthur Callahan, A. u.
Harvey: Ed McKeever. Robert Stone and
o. z. Huagate.
The Throop hotel has been decided upon
by the local Odd Fellows as headquarters
for the visiting Odd Fellows and the Cope
land for the grand lodge. A committee on
entertainment was appointed consistins of
L. n. Carter, c. c. Martin, A. N. Baldwin.
J. N. Miller, c. C. Jones, W. E. .BFubaker,
n. F. Morehouse. Thomas Shillinglaw. John
Armstrong. F.ss. Cole, Mrs. L. NJ. Carter,
Miss Z. Schenek, Mrs. C. Ely.
Mrs. W. o. Gordon will entertain the
Cosmos club and a few friends this even
ing.
Mrs N. R. Baker and son Floyd leave
today for Chicago, where the latter will
attend the university.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08
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 are the underground railroads In
Belgium. y Z
ASSWER-These railroads are = system
Of cooperation between the French and
Belgians, the purpose Of which IL to help
Belgian girls escape German soldiers.
Where are the federal pRisonsf
ANSWER-They are located at Atlanta,
Ca TT Leavenworth, Kan; McNeils Is
land, Washington; Mare Island. California /;
Boston, Massachusetts,, and Portsmouth,
n. H.
When did the battle Of the Marine take
place!
ANSwER-September g. to u. 1914. It
was the first big battle Of this war. Here
the French and British armies forced the
German invaders to retreat, thus saving
Paris, which was the object Of the German
drive.
Can an enlisted man In the navy be sp-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08

partment also urges the return ad-
dress. and suggests that the packages
be labeled Christmas Box" Accord
ing to navy orders. express packages
are to be forwarded care Supply
Officer, Fleet supply Base. 2sth street,
and Third avenue. 8. Brooklyn, New
York. Parcel post is to be sent ac-
cording to the mail address given by
the sailor for letter mail.
The always expected Christmas
rush will bring no new mail iimitat tons
to the forces in this country. Regular
parcel post and express rulings will be
in effect. and all speed possible with
depleted postoffice and railroad force.
will get packages mailed early to the
boys by Christmas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08
GLOBE SIGHTS
rFron the Atehison GlebA1

Easy street usually is farther away
than around the corner.
The most tiresome thing IL a heart
that thinks it has been broken
A financial settlement between kin
does NOT mean a settlement: 1t means
a row.
What has become OF the old-fash-
toned man who talked about peace by
negotiation?"
We don't know much about George
Creel, except that he Is tagging be-
hind in the popularity race.
Why Is II that church members are
the men who love to go fishing? A
man who does not belong to a church.
and has no services to atte ID on Sum
day, usually remains quietly at home.
but a church member. who should be
facing the preacher on Sunday, loves
to sneak Off with q fishing rod. Why
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08
LET US EMULATE FRANCE.

Liberty loan speakers and promot-
ers of the fourth liberty loan would
do we'll to keep the example of France
before their hearers. France has es-
tablished a record to be proud of, and
that record not only can be equaled by
this country but surpassed. And only
by SURPRISING may we be free from re-
preaching ourselves with lethargy or
niggardliness-
Including the present $4,000, 600. 900
liberty loan, America has raised thru
bond issues for the prosecution of the
war thus far s15.9s5.2s3,o0o. The
round numbers is approximately 1867
100000 people. France has raised
during the four years of war and hah
expended more than $23,000, 900.
The population of continental France
is less than 100000 souls. Thus,
while the people of the United States
have contributed per capita, including
men. women and children, $152.s7. the
French people in the four years of this
terrible struggle have contributed the
enormous sum of $575 per capita,
men, women and children included.
If during four years of the most
trying times in the face of the op-
pressor, and while defending them
selves. their homes. their loved ones.
the French people could contribute
thus handsomely. for the successful
prosecution of their ideals, what
should not the American people con-
tribute for the same cause in which
they are equally interested? The
United States has had no territory in
vaded; it has been subject to no pill
lage; no loot has been taken away; no
fines have been assessed against mu-
inequalities. In the light of these
facts, should we not dig. and dig
deeper and deeper, into our pockets to
hasten the day of full victory and just
retribution?
There are many signs Of an ap-
preaching collapse in Germany. Moth
ing Will do more to hasten the desired
end than a big and early oversubscrip-
ton to the fourth liberty loan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08

The Excitement Of Being woman.--a.

The Excitement Of Being woman.--2.
Another source of excitement to
women IL the servant question. A man
who treats his employees well ana
pays them fairly is practically certain
to tlnd them at their post lever. every DAY;
girl. No woman knows when she
opens her eyes in the morning but
what she will find that her treasure
has he'd in the night. Thus Is a wcm-
suspense and uncertainty OF whether
she will have to get UP and get break
fast or not Life may be full OF
thorns to the feminine sex. but 1t can
never be uneventful as long as we have
the hired girl in our midst.
Then there are the children. No
woman who has children can lack for
interest or excitement, for every child
Is q bunch OF thrills. To the onlooker
a baby is just a little bundle Of pink
and white. of collie and yells. but no
dreamer, no prophet ever had such
ecstatic visions as course thru its
mothers mind as she holds him to her
breast. She sees the little squirming
red mite OF humanity grown to q
mans or wonaan'e estate, supernally
beautiful. angeically perfect, a tri-
umphant genius. crowned with hon.
ors and riches, amid the plaudits or
an admiring world.
Oh. it's an exciting thing to be a
mother. and the beauty OF It IL. that
every mother has this thrilling long
drawn out hope and faith about each
child, that lasts for twenty or thirty
years. sometimes longer; ana by the
time her belief In her own children
begins to dim she transfers IL to her
grandchildren and goes on thrilling
about what they are going to do.
In America. among nQen. the ma
tiona1 sport, the only game that really
crisps their nerves ana sends I the
blood bounding thru their veins IL the
excitement OF money making. Some
American wOmen--an increasing num-
Der every year-are enjoying that
along with their brothers. but Ameri-
can women, as a general thing. have
even more fun in spending money
That Is their national sport.
Life will always be worth living to
a woman SO long as there are shops
and she has the wherewtthal to buy.
That alone gives piquancy to existence.
1t IL impossible for q woman to imag-
inc herself being bored in q world that
still contains marked down sales, and
the mad Monday morning rush on the
bargain counter.
The exeitements hereiubefore enum-
Grated are those which belong to
peace times. Now we have the terri
BILE thrill Of war that has filled every
woman's heart with sorrow. and every
woman's hands with Red Cross work,
and 1t 10 significant that women have
ceased complaining about their all
ments, and recounting their symptoms,
and fussing over little indfsposttions
So perhaps the physician Is right
and women do take to semi invalidisu
as refuge from boredom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY K. MoULEoN

Now that the income tax season is
over, the motion picture stars have
begun Dragging about the large salar--
les they receive.
A person who INDUCES in the in
sidious habit of playing the slide from
bone. or slip horn. as it were, can't be
too careful. According to a local
scribe. Amry Higgins, who tortuEes
poor slide trombone for the Amity-
THE Stars and Stripes Forever" the
other evening during a concert in the
town hall, and, when reaching for a
low note, shot his arm out sled length
and the slide hit a new $40 bonnet
being worn by Mrs. Lafe Purdy and
knocked said bonnet into q cooked
hat Mrs. Purdy was sitting in the
first row with her husband. When
her husband got thru with Amry nine
teen folding chairs were laid up for
repairs and the artistic atmosphere OF
the concert was entirely broken up.
It takes lot of sand to be a soldier.
Agin' the chargin' Huns to make stand /;
Thank God, we've never yet run out of
sand.
Babies.
The biggest baby crop in years is
being harvested. according to statistics
from Washington. Old DR.. Stork is no
Stacker this year. He is right on the
job. The figures for 1917 are now
available. and they show that the baby
crop went over the top with a vhoop
and hurrah.
We thought we noticed it was
noiser around here than 1t was last
year, but didn't know the cause. Since
we read the story from Washington,
we have been looking around. Yester~
day We counted twenty-eig baby cabs
in our block. OF course, it is a long
block and is lined with large apart
ment houses, but we maintain that
twenty-eight baby cabs at one time is
some showing.
Aside from the babies in the cabs,
there were exactly 17S children Just
beyond the baby age playing in the
street. No matter what else becomes
shy in this country, it doesn't look as
tho we are ever going to run out of
population.
A million new babies in 1917. Some
efficiency!
News from the Austrian front is to
the effect that General Wurm has
not been able to execute a turning
movement.
An eastern man said to a friend the
other day that his wifb had been miss
ing for three days. The friend said he
had had worse trouble than that. His
automobile engine had been missing
for a week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
For Fish Days.

Salmon Crcquettes--One pound cam
NED salmon, two cupfuls mashed potas
toes. two eggs, one and one-half tea.
spoonfuls salt. one-etghth teaspouniul
pepper two cupfuls mediunsthick
white sauce, one cupful canned peas.
Remove bones and skin from saImon
and mash the flesh with a fork. ADD
potatoes, salt, pepper and one egg
weli-beaten. Mix thoroiy and form
into outlets. Roll In fine. dry bread
crumbs and then in the other egg
slightly beaten and mixed with .
fourth-cupful of water. Roll in crumh0
again and fry in deep fat hot enough
to brown q bit of bread in forty sec.
onds. Drain and serve on q platter
with the peas. which have been heated
In the sauce.
Escalleped Crab Meat and, TINA
One can crab meat or shrimp. one
small can tuna, two tabIespoonfulu
butter. one and one-half cupfuIs white
sauce, one-qqartsr cupful Parmesaa
cheese.
Cover bottom of buttered boxing.
crab-meat. cover with white sauce,
then layer of tuna, and continue
alternating layers until casserole 70
filled. cover with cheese. sprinkle with
butter. and bake until the cheese has
Drowned nicely. .ea
Puddings.
Chocolate Pudding-One pint milk.
two eggs, one-fourth cupfuI fine dry
bFead-crumbs, one and one-haie
squases cholocate, scant half-cupfui
sugar. one-eighth teaspoonfup salt.
eight baked apples. one egg-white. one
tablespoonful sugar.
Soak the>cfumbs In the milk for
thirty minutes and then add the choco.
late and scald. When the latter N
melted, add the sugar and salt, and
pNur onto the eggs, which should be
slightly beaten, and cook for fffteeu
minutes in a double boiler. For the
top dressing. sift the apples and beat
the esg-w e stiff. Add to the latter
the apple-pulp and the teablesroonful
of sugar. and beat together till fluffy:
heap over the pudding and serve very
cold with or without cream. II desired.
a few drops of vanilla may be added
to chocolate custard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08
BRITAIN,s WAR RECORD.

One can hardly fail to admire the
efficiency and resourcefulness of the
Germans, even tho these qualities
have been devoted to a bad cause.
We are also disposed to point with
pride to our own accomplishments
since we entered the war. But the
record of Great Britain probable has
never been equaled by any country in
the world.
BY August, 1918, the British empire
had raised ,s,500,o0o men for the
army and navy Great Britain alone
contributing e,25o,O00. Today. every
third male of any age in the British
Isles is fighting; not far from 1 5 per
cent Of the population of England and
Scotland is in the forces. On the
same basis the United States would
contribute about 100000 men,
To December, 1917, British casual
ties amounted to over 100000. The
British are fighting in fifteen far away
parts of the world; the naval tonnage
is 100000; in 1914 the tonnage was
100000; the personnel of the navy
100000. The navy has conveyed 49,
100000 men, 1000. 600 horses and
mules, 100000 vericles. 100000
tons of explosives, 100000 tons of
oil and fuel, and has kept the seas
open for 1870. 100000 tons of food and
material: at the same time cutting off
Germany's normal annual supply
Of foods and necessaries amounting to
100000 tons. 1t is said that 80 per
cent Of the ships in the eastern Attain
tic fighting the U-boats are British
and that they have sunk $50 of the 200
U-boats destroyed.
/ Forces in the air service number
$4,000, and in one week recently Brit
ish aviators dropped 5000 tons of
bombs, and in single day on the
western front silenced 1877 German
batteries and destroyed % gun pits
The great British merchant marine
of some 1s,0oo.o0O tons has been en-
gagged in the task of feeding not only
the allied British nations, but also in
large part the people OF Belgium,
France, italy, Serbia, etc. Over 5,000,-
1000 British women are doing 1,701
different kinds OF work previously
done by men. and they have broken
| every pre-wars production record set
up by the sterner sex. Four million
workers are engaged in munition fac
| tories, producing in two weeks more
! than in the whole of the first year of
the war.
Increased efficiency>in civilian pro-
duction makeCup for the shortage of
labor caused by the draft. The ara
BILE area of the islands has increased
by 1,245,ooo acres; 100000 acres are
/ worked by steam plows by the govern
ment. A new wheat has been pro-
duced which repels the rust and the
grain crop this year will be the big
gest since 1868. Three million tons
represent the increase IN the potato
crop for 1917. Eighteen million peo-
pie out of a population of 100000
have invested in war bonds or w. g..
certificates; the per capita income is
s23s against a per capita debt of
$3.50. Loans to Great Britain's allies
total $4,000. 100000.
| Hundreds of thousands of refugees
have found succor and shelter in the
British Isles-Belgian. French, FvIish.
Serbian and others. The government
has q nationwide organization de-
voted to the care and uplift of its
crippled soldiers and sailors.
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. The rapidity with which Marshal
Foch shifts his attacks from one
point to another must have convinced
the Huns by this time that his army
IF maneuver'' is in good working Or
der. There was time, not so long
lgo, when Hindenburg asserted that
( did not exist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08

In buying liberty bonds you are
helping to buy liberty for our coun-
~ and all mankind. In buying lib
srty bonds you are protecting your
owed ones from the fearful crimes
Ereaked by savagery upon the wo-
men and children of Belgium and
France. In buying liberty bonds you
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08

are standing by the millions of our
boys who over in Europe are being
blinded and manned and murdered in
your defense and mine. How can you
hesitate?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08

the victory loan" and some call it the
sehd-the-war" loan. Both terms
amount to the same thing and the
duty to subscribe to it remains.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08

Another change brought about by
the war is that most of our young men
DOW are trying to "See Europe first"
The old slogan of 'See America first
has been cast into the discard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-08

The people of this country are will
ing to pay any price to win this war
because they feel that when it is won
it will stay won.
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pointed to the naval academy at Annapolisf
ANSWER-Yes, If he has been in the
navy at least one year, is under 20 years OF
age and able to pass the mental and ply
steal examination.
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Correct address of overseas armv
packages are insured by having each
soldier fill out his own label which is
TO be pasted>on the cover of his box.
To this designation should be added
the sender's full name and address
placed in the upper left hand corner
of the side addressed. The navy de-