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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-11
CAMP COMMENT

S. c. Queen, NJ. o. 7. C. Veterinary
corps, Fort Riley. has issued a chal-
leEge to meet anyone in ropins
or bareback riding contest. In let
ter received by Trench and Camp he
says: II challenge any person in
contest of roplng or bareback riding,
straight up or bulldogging wild steer.
I am ready at any time for any con-
test of tins kind on a minutes no.
tice."
The latest addition to the Zone, the
great white way of Camp Funston, is
the Funston drug store. The new
business establishment was opened for
business Saturday, with fully equip
ned soda fountain and complete line
az drug sundries. 1t is a very attrac-
tive place and is being literally pat
ronized by the soldiers.
Helen Hyde, soprano; Gertrude
Kallingford, harpist; Margaret Camp
teil, accompanies. and Doris Shelley,
reader, all of Wichita, comprised "a
company that did splendid service
thruout the camp during the past
week. They are in favor with the
bows everywhere and will be welcomed
back any time they can arrange to
come.
The officers and members of the
cooks and bakers school presented
Sergt. VIM. Roach with a handsome
Howard watch for his birthday. April
8. Sergeant Roach has been connect
ed with the school for many years and
has done some very fine work. He
Is one of the few nom commissioned
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OFFICERS KIND TO MEN
Funston Commanders Help Men Every
Possible Way. -

The man who thinks that q wide
chasm of arrogance stapds between
the pinnacle of military authority and
the humble station of the. army en-
listed man has another "think', COM
ing, IL the word of the average Flu l.
sto-n private is an index of the true
state of affairs here. Secretary Ba-
ker's statement pointing out that the
regulations governing relations be-
tween enlisted men and officers have
no relation to socia, standing, ap-
pears to be corrobor.ted in multi
tude of instances here.
Not long ago a gray-haireds Fun
ston officer whose broad shoulders
bear the silver eagle Gnsigniat of the
colcneD YVES sitting in his office
when an orderly. a new member VI
the National crmy, entered. handed
him message, and unceremoniously
began to beat a hasty retreat lust
a moment" said the officer kindly,
as he bcckoned the half-frightened
yeungster to return. You might as
well learn to do this right, right now
Take this message again, bring IL to
NE. stand at attention until look up,
and salute" -
Warming under the kindness Of the
officer, the recruit went thru the
maneuver and again started to make
ar awkward departure. Finish the
job right said the colonel, all pa
thence and kindness. Come back and
stand at attention. You have deliver
cd the message. now about face to
leave the room" A moment later
the youngster was out on the gravel
road. They told me the army was
what Sherman said war was" he con-
tinued- Some of it amt so bad after
ALL"
OF course, not all army life is like
this for /. must be tinctured with
iron now and then and favored with
sternness, because war is stern busf-
ness But just the same there's a
we'll defined feeling around this camp
that officers of the Eighty-nfnth d.
vision ara livin- up to Secretary Ba-
ker's statement that differences of
rank are not social distinctions. That
makes fe- loyalty among the soldiers
that is likely to make them much bet
ter warriors. Besides, it's the Ameri-
! can way.
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LIVELY AT. TOPEKA
Special Attractions for Week-E End Wis.
it0rs There.

The weekend visit of soldier visitors
to Topeka this week will be additional
~ interesting because Of the Campbell
United Shows. a carnival company. To-
Gated on the streets in the central part
of the city of Topeka, and operating
under the auspices of the Reclamation
Hospital fund for wounded soldiers.
The carnival is q big one and has met
with the endorsement of the best To-
pekans. the visiting bankers in con-
vention there and of Elks whose state
convention in Topeka this week added
greatly to the social activities of that
city. With the big carnival in full
swing the city fairly alive with visiting
ladies of the Elks and bankers, the
streets and buildings adorned with
flags and bunting. Topeka. thru
Trench and Camp extends a heartfelt
welcome to our soldier boys from ev-
erywhere.
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SUPPER FOR SOLDIERS
Rota Club Plans for Sammfe Enter
tainment on Sunday.

The Rota club committee for the
provision of food for the supper to
be furnished the soldiers Who attend
the Sunday afternoon party, met in
Topeka at the Chamber of Commerce,
and discussed the plans for the SOL
diers' meal to be served on Sunday
evening in the dining hall of the
Chamber of Commerce. The MEM
bers Of the committee are Mrs. A. l..
Greene. Mrs. Harry Forbes. Mrs. r. N.
Johnson, Miss Mabel Adams. Miss
Rosa Ferlet. Mrs. Alonzo s. Thomas.
Mrs. Eugene Wolfe. Miss Marie Wit
wer. Miss Mary Ward and Miss
M'Edna Corbet.
The supper that will be furnished
by the club and friends interested IN
the case, will have this bill of fare
fruit cocktail. pressed chicken, potato
salad, hot biscuits. strawberry jam,
pickles and olives. apple and mach
pie. white and dark cake, coffee. ice
cream and candy. The COMMITTEES has
planned to serve q good deal of sweets,
inasmuch as the soldiers are said TO
like that sort OF food, and not a great
deal of ii goes with camp fare
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In the last four the nasal vowels,
the breath comes out through nose
and mouth at the same time.
The French have but one conso-
nant sound that is rather rare in
English, the buzzing sound of 81 in
the word vision. The sound will be
represented by IN. 1t occurs three
times in the name of the great French
general, Joseph Jacques Joffre, pro-
nounced zhohZef zhak zhofT.
Pronounce with distinct trill by
making the tip of the tongue vibrate
just behind the upper teeth. Teie-
phone operators pronounce the word
three much like this.
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a soldiers work is a mans work.
The best men in America are the men
In uniform. Next to these come the
men who would like to be in uniform,
and generally speaking the men in
America who would not be willing to
don their uniform and take a turn at
II, provided they are fitted for a SOL
dier's work by health, age and train
ing. are not real Americans and are
not worth very much.
For nearly twenty years have been
employing other people. I don't be-
hevc that there is one of these men
who would not have been better off
and better man for soldiers train
ing. For military life teaches a man
self respect, il teaches him to take
orders and obey them and thus it fits
him to give orderk The only man I
think OF just now who doesn't take
orders and obey some one is the
Kaiser, and il he lives long enough he
will learn Some folks profess to feel
sorry for the boys who are going into
the service and may have to face bull
lets. The truth of the matter is that
every man who is worth his salt has a
Eneaking or open envy Of them.
And ali of us know that the fellow
who il unwilling to stand up for a
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SUNDAY IS MOTHERS DAY
soldiers Urged to Remember Mothe
ON That Day.

Sunday will be Mothers day. Anna
Jarvis, the founder of this beautiful
custom OF setting aside one bright
spring day on which to concentrate
our thought on THE Best Mother
Who Ever Lived" to kiss her il we
are near OF to write a letter to her
II away from home and wear a white
carnatfon emblematic of her pure love
and devotion, is urging all of Amer
ica's soldiers 70 remember their
mothers on that day.
Since it is for the protection of
the mothers of America that her sons
have gone t. war, it seems particu-
larly appropriate that Mothers day
he fully observed in every tender way
possible at this time The mothers
have made great sacrifices in. giving
their sons to the nation to wage its
battles Their hearts and spirits are
They never cease
thinking Of their sons And 80 it
seems but right that the founder OF
Mothers day should remind the SOL
diers. that Sunday is the day to write
mother loving. tender letter and re-
member her. in every way possible
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cious than money. The amount
| awarded to the country was not
placed in the Golfers of the nation;
but was held as a trust for the edu-
cation of Chinese students at Amer
lean universities.
These are two incidents in the mill
tary history of the United States of
which we, the citizens, have reason
to be proud.
In Flanders another chapter has
been added.
We have gone to the relief of
stricken France. We have pledged
all that we have and are. In full
flment of our pledge we have placed
great army in the country Of our
Ally. We have ruined fields by our
military operation; have occupied
houses; have RACED forests-all this,
mind you. in behalf of France.
The fields were owned by individ-
| ual farmers; so were the houses and
so, too, were the forests. The fields,
the houses and the forests were all
that the French peasants and land
owners had. If the Hun conquered
they would be swept away.
Going to Frances aid in an expe-
dition such as we have undertaken
it might have been reasoned that the
burden of paying for what we seized
would rest upon our Ally. But our
government did not SO reason. Gen
eral Pershing sent to Washington a
request for the passage of legislation
reimbursing everyone whose proper
ty had been taken. To reinforce his
argument, our Field Commander said
that any action short of this would
make our army suffer by comparison
! with the British, which had paid value
=, Cor value for everything taken or de
| stroyed.
4 Action was prompt. The Congress
enacted the needed legislation. But
It Is with pardonable pride that we
| who are Americans recall that oul
i action in the China campaign set {
standard recognized and adopted By
the British. that is thoroughly il
keeping with the high aims we have
: proclaimed.
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When that grim old warrior. Gen
eral Chaffee, led the American troops
IN the China campaign, his attention
was called to the fact that certain
of the Allied troops were looting.
Particularly was his attention called
to the fact that astronomical instru-
fnents of great value had disappeared
from an observatory.
With all the vigor he could sum-
mon, General Chaffee sent a protest
to the field commander. a German
general. Having been in tho field
with the German troops, the Ameri-
can commander probably thought the
direct route was the best. although
military etiquette demanded that the
protest be addressed to the senior Of
ficer present.
1t struck General Chaffee that it
was scarcely consistent with the
avowed ideals Of the armies of the
great powers that they should permit
their men to pillage. But it was a
4 new line OF reasoning to the Hun COM
mander. who very CURLY acknowE
edged receipt of the protest and de-
manded to know why it had not been
written in German.
I Because of the international favor
to the incident, the authorities In
Washington were compelled to ad-
minister a mild rebuke to General
Chaffee. not because of the stand he
had taken but because his righteous
Indignation had led him to such Wig
orous statement. But General Chat
fee was rewarded later with the
highest honors that could be be-
slowed by a grateful government, and
-4ne hfa npixod n0aaoaaf0nr for tina
rest of his life was a letter from the
then vice-President Theodore Roose-
volt telling him that the Republic
would always be grateful to him, NO,
slone for his achievements but for
what the American soldiers had no,
been permitted to do.
When the indemnities were paid
the American nation showed that il
counted some things far more pre-
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314 MILITARY POLICE
Odd Bits of News and Gossip From
Troop A.

The sweet tones of a sergeant's voice
yelling outside" is about all we hear
nowadays.
We are on the market for some
practical mufflcrs for three bipeds
that are always making a noise that
they call singing.
The third game of a series to be
played between the two troop of the
military police was won by Troop B.
The fourth game will be played We'd
resday afternoon
Sergeant GALLAGHER had word from
Clay CenterA He is wearing a long
smile and was seen telling his cor
roral friend something Immediately
after reading this epistle: They are
both smiling now.
Sergeant Clarnch was seen in Army
City again Sunday, making this the
seventh time this week.
Sergeant Reilly and Mexico Burch
went to Topeka on pass. They both
look like they lad had good time
Sergeant Stewart transferred to the
81 cavalry. We all hated to see
him leave.
Mech Crosby, our wood butcher,
has been in the habit of going to
Junction City every Sunday. He said
something about singing in the
church. Wonder who he sits next to.
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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
Under th& Auspices of the Army
Y. NJ. c. A.

Monday, May Is:
Bldg. No. ILLUSTRATED lecture on
southern France.
Bldg. No. 4-Wm. F. Isler of Ur-
bana. Ill. Illustrated lecture on Switz-
erland.
Bldg. No. 81. Adams Puffer of
Berlin, Mass
Tuesday, May IA.
Bldg No. 2-Wm. F. Isler, of Ur-
bana, Ill. Illustrated lecture on Swift
erland.
Bldg. No. 3-Illustrated lecture on
southern France.
Bldg No. IA. L. Flude of Officers
Bldg. No. 81. Adams Puffer of
Berlin, Mass.
Wednesday, May is.
Bldg. No. 9-Illustrated lecture on
southern France.
Bldg No. 12-Wm. F. Isler of Ur-
bana, ILL., Illustrated lecture on Swift
erland.
Thursday, May 10.
Bldg. No. s-F. M. Leaman Of No. 8.
Subject, The Coming People"
Bldg. No. 11-Wm F. Isler of Ur-
bana, Ill. Illustrated lecture on Switz-
erland.
Friday, May II.
Bldg. No. 6-Wm. F. Isler of Ur-
bana,. Ill. illustrated lecture or
Switzerland.
Bldg. No. 1o-Illustrated lecture or
southern France.
Bldg. No. 15-A. L. F1ude of Off
GERS Bldg. Subject. The Brain Mar
ket"
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officers who have attained the high
est rank that an enlisted man can.
That is Q. M. sergeant, senior grade.
One of the hottest contested games
of baseball of the season was played
on the sanitary train diamond May
1, between Ambulance Company 353
and 354. After a seven-inning game
the score stood 4 to in favor of the
353rd. Both teams played top notch
ball and the game was toss up until
the last inning. In the first of the
last inning the 354 scored. which
put them in the lead.
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COVER THERE" MAIL
american E. F." Should Be in Full
in Addressing Soldiers.

Washington, May Snail ad-
dressed to members of the American
expeditionary force should have the
word American written or spelled
in full so that in the address the des-
ignation will read american E. F."
according to request made here by
the postoffice authorities. The new
order is deemed necessary to distin-
guish American mail from that of the
expeditionary forces of other coun-
tries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-11
EXERCISE

/. Make past lenses by pref1xing
TAI, IL ., nous avons, vous avez. lis
ont, to the following words: dome.
parle. mango, regarde, ,ecout6. voy-
age, demande, fni, offert, 6t6, eu,
entcndu. Repeat them aloud with
meanings.
2. Read aloud and translate these
sentences:
Nous avons etc twenty Ia vile
hier par lie chemin de fer. A 10 Eare
TAI demande deux billets de troisieme
fclasse). Nous avons trouve deux
places dams une voiture avec vingt
cinq poilus. Nous avons parle de 10
guerre. Avex-vous mango au res
,urant? Non. dams le train. Les
oilus nous ont donne (gave us) du
yin. Nous ieur avons offert Created
them TOT des cigarettes Est-ce que
lie train = marche trun) vite? Non.
tres lentement. Les voitures fran
cafses (frahsez, femfnine) sont Pc
tites. II y q (there are) trois Glasses
de voitures: premiere, deuxieme.
troisieme. Les OFFICERS voyagent en-
premiere, mails les poflus voyagent
en- troisieme. Les bfllets de premiere
(first class tfckets) sont tres cheers.
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A very beautiful pamphlet has Just
been issued by the Officers Bible
class of the Medical Officers Training
camp at Fort Riley. The pamphlet
consists of TN Her Thoughts" by Ella
Wheeler Wilcox.
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s. O. 8.

Every time You peel your potato
raw, the Kaiser thanks you.
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NUMERALS $3.50

"Of the" before a word like eau.
water, oh, is spelled de l., as de Peau,
of the water, some water, duh lob;
de Thomme, duh Tom. of the man.
Eau" is feminine and "homme" IL
masculine, but both begin with q
vowel sound.
lie bureau de tabac tobacco shop
luh buroh duh taba
lie paquet package, bundle
lie timbre (-poste) tpostage) stamp
la hottie box
une allumette \ match
un alumet
lie billet bank note. ticket
luh beeye
EXERCISE
An Bureau &c tabac
Bonjour, madame Donnez-moi
deux paquets de cigarettes, sill vous
plaft. Combien? Quinze sous piece
Ia piece), monsieur. Doppez-moi
aussi dix timbre (-poste1 de einQ CEN
times, ct deux bottles d'allupettes de
trois sous (quinze centimes) piece
sill vous plaft. VOLTA, monsieur
Combien, madame? Cigarettes, un
franc dix; tim bres, cinquante cen
times; a1lumettes, trente confines
Un franc quatre wing dix 600 cen
times, monsieur. Avez-vous la mon
naie dun billet de cinquante francs!
Oui, monsieur. VOLTA quarante-huit
francs dix centimes. Merci. mon
sieur. Au revoir. madame
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Lean French
LESSON TX

The French vowel sounds, ~ a
ready studied, are az follows:
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PuhAeed under National War
rssssd State.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-16
THE CANDY ARMY.
By Annie Johnson Flint.

Sixty thousand men are engaged in
making candy in the New England
States
sixty thousand men are making candy
Spending 50 their muscle skill and
speed,
Using 50 the fuel and tie labor
All the farms and all The factories need;
Can { they sense the vastness Of the hour?
Can't they hear their brothers calling
Come"
Sixty thousand men just making candy
And as many more Just making gum
Sixty thousand men still making candy
While the streams Of France are run
ning red
Using so the -four and the sugar
While the starving millions ask for
bread
Dabbling with the nuts and creams and
While the tribes Of earth have come to
grips;
Dipping glace fruits and shaping fondant,
When they might be making shoes or
ships
Sixty thousand men a good-sized army
Making candy on the brink of hell;
Filling bonbon dishes for their country
When they might be filling bombs and
shell;
Wrapping caramels and packing nougat
Wasting strength on piffling tasks like
these
While the mad Hun, drunk with blood
and slaughter
Beats the little nations to their knees.
Sixty thousand men still making candy
Wake up, youths and maidens.- do
your share;
Men are wounded, mutilated, blinded,
Men are dying for you, "over there
Suffering? We have not glimpsed its
meaning!
Sacrifice? We do not know its name!
Hunger? We have never felt lis gnaw-
ing!
We are eating candy, TO our shame
sixty thousand men Just making candy,
In this world Of misery and woe!
Can't we lessen luxuries a trifie?
Can We let our little hkings 90?
Can't we see the vision and the struggle?
Can't we hear the nations crying,
"Come!?"
q America, stop eating candy
o America, quit chewing gumi
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-16
Personal.

AIadelon D. Rodgers and Grace Lynch
have returned home after delightful
ter DAYS stay at Atlantic City
MIR and Mrs. Frank Sheldon and
family are spending some time at At
lantic City
Mrs. Homer c. Summons, wife OF
Clerk Of Council Simmons and daughter
Mrs Homer Ewing. left yesterday for
Nashville, Tenn where Mrs. Ewing will
make her home. MIR Ewing being in the
employ Of the duI'ont Powder Company
there Mrs Simmons will spend several
weeks in the South.
Miss Elizabeth A. Jester Of this city
Is visiting her mt Mrs Perclval Nichol-
son Of Ardm1c. Pa
Mr. and Mrs Clarence Will and
children and Mrs Harry ; Williams and
son, Roger, all u this city. will leave on
Saturday morning for Bowers Beach
Wherc they will spend ten days at the
Powhattan cottage
The Rev G. ! AlderSon and family
are spending then vacation at their
summer cottage al Rehoboth
Judge Henry 6 Conrad Of George
town visited Wilmington today.
George " H Smith, deputy 10 the
clerk Of the Orphans Court IS spending
his vacation al Silver Lake, near Middle
town, and occupying the Dowaglac
cottage
William Ray, page Of the courts Of
New Castle county, will 90 10 Harrisburg,
Pa, tomorrow to stay two weeks
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-16
READY FOR THE GERMANS.

The sturdy Falkland Islanders had no
thought Of Surrcndering 10 the German
Squadron which approached their harbor
from South America in December, 1914.
4 British captain who helped sink Won
Specs ships tells in the World Work for
August Of the Islanders preparations for
battle He says:
And jolly good fight they would
have put up, TOO The old CanopusJ the
battleship which did not come up in time
10 help Cradock at Coronell had been
grounded in the inner harbor and turned
into land fort Her heavy turret guns
had been left aboard her, while those of
her secondary batteries had been mounted
Al the most favorable positions on the
hills The standing army-of something
like thirty-tive, believe had been
recruited up to several times that number
and all over the island firearms, ancient
and modern. had been taken down and
made ready for use. Won Specs sailors
and marines would have had many a
skirrnish on their hands
before they completed the conquest of
( he FalklandS'
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-16
DEATHS.

CAssIDY-In this city. on August Is.
1918. Thomas + Cassidy
Relatives. friends. Retail Liquor Dealers
Association. Fraternal Order Of Eagles
TO attend his funeral from his late resi-
dence. 922 East Seventh street. on Monday
morning at 9 O'Clock Solemn requiem
mass at St. Mary's Church Interment at
Cathedral cemetery.
DAVIDSON-In this city. on August TO-
1918. Robert Davidson in his SOth year.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend
the funeral services at the residence of his
son. William J Davidson. 1911 West Fourth
street. on Monday afternoon. August Io
at 2-30 O'Clock Interment at Silverbrook
cemetery.
JEANbELL-In this city. on august IS.
1918. Frances. daughter of Frank and
he late Elizabeth Jeandell
Relatives and friends are invited to attend
the funeral from her late residence
1915 West Fifth street. on Monday morn
ing at O'Clock Requiem mass at st
cemetery.
PATTERSON this city. on August I5
1918. Eleanor G. wife of he late George
Patterson. aged 81 years
Relatives and friends are invited TO attend
the funeral services at the residence of her
street. on Saturday afternoon. August IL
at 1880 O'Clock interment private at vii
mington and BrandyWine cemetery
RUsSELL-In this city. on August Is.
1918. Robert II Russell. aged 90 years
Relatives friends Welcome Council No
2. Jr- o /. A. 81 Brandywine Conclave.
No. 4. Heptasophs. : " NJ and EN-
ployes Of Trump Bros Machine 20 are
invited TO attend the funeral services at
his late residence. 1922 Elm street on
O'Clock Interment at Silverbrook ceme-
tory.