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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09
GOODBYE DAVE, AND GOD BLESS YOU"
Letter From Frank w. Capanaug, Former Dartmouth
Coach Noro in France, His Son at Home

Drank w. Cavanaugh. the old Dart
mouth football coach and now lieu
tenant in the American heavy artillery
in France, wrote letter to his small
/ son David at Christmas time of such
rare simplicity and feeling that after
appearing in the Worcester, Mass, Post
it has been several times reprinted by
request. Tho written for the under =
standing OF a six.year-ola DoS II, .ne Ieanv
grownups.)
s'Dear Davie Boy our good moth
err writes me that you have a chum,
AND she says he is fine boy who lives
next door Isn't that fine? 1 wish
had a chum. You and your mother
used to be my chums and sometimes
Joe and Billy and even dear little Rose
Marie and Phil, too, when he was
home; but now that is all changed and
I nave no chum in all the world. l
think it's rather sad sometimes, don't
you, but 1 have your picture which
I take down and talk to when L am
lonesome
Il am happy to know you like your
new school and home, and I'm sure
you'll only play with clean boys who
don't do anything very bad and who
also like to go to school, Didn't We
use to have great times together, and
wasn't it fun when you'd come up to
the car to meet me? Then when you
saw me getting off do you remember
how you'd hide behind a tree and run
VI. behind me and scare me after L
had passed? And do you remember
and you were getting so you could
run pretty fast, for you were getting
to be a big boy?
And then we'd all go down to see
the circus and the parade and hold
hal DIS so we wouldn't get separated or
lost And then Christmas oh,
wasn't that a wonderful day. Early
in the morning how we would all rush
downstairs to see your presents And
then poor. tired mother would work
and work to give all You boys and gi,ls
Christmas dinner-turkey, cram
berry sauce and dressing and plum
pudding and candy and nuts and ev-
erything. oh. Dave. did any little
boy ever have such a good mother as
you, l wonder. And now you are soon
to have another Christmas and old
Cav won't be home. But l want you
to have the best time you ever had on
that day, so that l may be happy over
hero thinking of you all. 1 wish I
knew some little boys and girls over
here SO that might talk to them and
hold their hands and I would call
them my boys and girls names and
pretend. that was home.
THE other night 1 had a lovely
dream and / was so disappointed
when 1 awoke. l dreamed I was sit
ting in our kitchen with mother and
1dFAd anu al Tire anu a CndiT
which was tilted back against the wall
slipped and I fell gently and without
hurting me to the floor. And then
! mother and you and all the children
laughed and laughed, just like good,
naughty folks And you came over
and took my hand in yours and lifted
me up easily. Isn't that funny, Dave
Think of any boy lifting a big fat
father like me from the floor with
one hand. Then we laughed some
more. and suddenly 1 remembered it
was after 8 o'clock I said, Why,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09
Kids Turn Out Rhymes by
Yard in War Stamp Drive.
WAY Out in Kansas Kaiser Is
on Jackrabbit Lope.
That's All Needed To Help
Break Hindenburg Line.
Juveniles Will Knock Helm
Out of Wilhelm.

From Kennebago way up in Maine
to Kaunakakai out in mid-Pacific
ocean, and from frozen Hukahakai
down to balmy Ybor, comes the cheer-
ing news that the kids are kicking the
kaiser around in a manner that would
make the Missouri houn' dawg forget
his troubles and wag his tail with
glee It's that way out here in Kan
sas. where with rhymes and jingles the
boys and girls have got the KAISER go
ing faster than a jackrabbit can run:
So. if YOU hear somebody roaring and
you see our airships soaring you can
set it down that the kids have knocked
the helm out of Wilhelm. Reports to
P. w. Goebel, director for Kansas, tell;
Little saving stamps of green,
Bought by every one,
Make a mighty war machine
And a victory Won
More than one-half million boys and
girls of Kansas have caught the spirit
that is going to win this war Tor de-
mocracy and human freedom. and
their jinglets turned out by the yard
have the ring that surely Is to sound
the knell to autocracy and military
despotism These kids have learned
that a buffalo nickel and two thin
dimes will help to break the linden
burg line, and they are backing Uncle
Sans boys and their comrades of the
allies to do that same. So, you will
find that
''Mary is buying war saving stamps
Out of her meager earning:
She's doing her bit to keep the lamps
OF Liberty still burning.
The boys and girls in Kansas. how
ever, haven't a monopoly on the bust
ness of swatting the kaiser. In Geor-
gia the kids in school have jingle
contest on hand, and five leading
newspaper editors of that state who
are acting as judges won't know TIL
after the November election who is
running for congress. There the jim
gle theme has military swing:
"Sing a song of war time.
A country full of camps
Fifty million patriots
Buying saving stamps.
See the pennies flowing
In a steady stream
To keep the sol 1iers going
And smash the kaisers dream
The Beta Tau Sigmas in the colleges
and high schools are backing the no
BILE Sammies and cheering them to VIC
tory via the Kansas route. They are
forming war savings and thrift clubs
anc societies. and singing:
Twinkle, twinkle little dime;
Shining in this hand of mine;
How / wonder what you'll buy
(The cost of living is so high).
Surely this is best for me to do;
| I'll take your brother and half protnef, 100
Then I'll have enough, you see,
To buy n Thrift stamp so Thrift-i-ly.
Sure, the kids are in the war game
to win. They aren't old enough or big
enough to fight in the trenches with
their daddies. their big brothers, their
uncles and their cousins. but they are
brave and loyal and so they sing:
by thrift and saving we can share
The burden that the soldiers bear
And thus insure on land and sea
A victory for Democracy"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09

Roses? Now when Mother Nature
goesto sleep in the Fall, 1 wonder if
you know what she does? Why she
just drea ms ali the Winter thru. Now
comes real secret, so am just whis-
pering it to you. She dreams of flow
ers. What sweet dreams they must
be. And then, after a while her
dreams come true. Come true in the
spring. She wakes up with a smile,
and there is the lily and there is the
rose and the Violet and the daisy
And one of the most beautiful of her
dreams is little delicate thing, a
flower so shy, and SO smiling that il
wins you all at once. Its petals are as
airy as a fairy's wings. as sweetly pink
as a little maiden's cheek. / love all
the flowers and all of them are beau
tiful, but / do not know of a flower
that enters into the heart as much as
these little dream fIowers-found in
the spring, and I call them dream
flowers. but some people call them
spring beauties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09

children, what are you doing out of
bed at this hour of the night?' And
you said, Why, it isn't very often our
father goes away to war SO we thought
we ought to stay up to say good-by.'
And then 1 was so surprised to learn
that 1 hadn't gone away to war yet
that I suddenly awoke, only to find
myself in my little lonely barracks and
side and 1 was lonesome for my dear
family.
And now, David, old boy, every
one is in bed but me, trying to get
lots of strength and health for the
big fights we will soon be in, so l must
do likewise and end this letter to you.
You must always remember that your
father came into this great war for the
sake of all little children, and 1 know
that you will, while I am gone, take
good care of mother and all the chill
dren. / can see you growing up tall
and straight, with shoulders back and
head up, because that's what old Cav
wants. and you love Cav don't you,
Davie boy? Dave, will you do some
thing real nice for me? l knew you
would. Then kiss mother and Annie
and Billy, Rose Marie and John for
Cav and send one TO Philip in Maine.
Excuse me. David, for writing in
pencil instead of<ink. but ink is hard
to get
THE lights are going out in a few
minutes. SO good night, good-by, Dave,
and God bless you.
From your old man, CAV"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09
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Take in our own particular coun-
try. In der first column you will read
puy der papers dot secretary off der
var says We haff bunch off poys adt
der front und each vun hass sefen
rifles und two automatic revo1vers,
und in der Skenecond column some
skenator iss geknocking der secre-
tary off der var und st.ys der poyS ISIS
being sent to der front init beam
shooters. Und dot ISIS nodt all, in
column three anoder skenator tops idt
all off und says dot We are nodt efen
sending any soldchers to der front.
mooch less guns und ammunitions.
Also look adt der pictures. 1 pick
oop vun paper und idt shows a fight
nit der air oop puy two areoblanes,
each shooting der oder, und der next
baper / pick oop hasS an article tell
ing how var pictures are made adj
der mofing picture studios. Puy golly,
Heine, 1 don't gedt idt. Why don't
somepody nit some sense do some
ding os der oder peoples vile know
voI ISIS happening? l guess MAYBE
yedt I will half to choin der army
und go to France to sec vot ISIS hap
pening. But 1 pellet after all dot 1
haff worked ouldt de- right scheme.
1 now pick opp der bapors, und iff idt
reads apoudt der allies Winning bat
tie den L readt idt, but iff idt ISIS vun
off desc Cherman stories, den puy
chiminy 1 burn der baper. IF idt
iss patting der secretary off der var
on der back I readt idt, but iff idt
says anything apoudt LaFollette or
Stone, den also ISIS der fuel bill re-
duced. Und so forth, vich makes in
teresting reading, Heine. und ISIS graft
flying, efen if sometimes I am little
bit misinformed.
Hoping you are der same.
Your fader,
LOUIE SCHNITZ.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09
Work of Kansas Professor At.
tracts National Attention.
Dean Jardine of X. S. A. G..
Tells Boys Farm Secrets.
AID To WORKING RESERVE
1t Tells Youths How To Help
the Agriculturists.
Copies of Booklet Are Ordered
for Distribution.

A thirty-page booklet written by a
kansan. Dean w. M. Jardine, Kansas
state Agriculture college, and contain
ing suggestions for teachers giving
practical instructions to city boys in
care and handling of work horses,
care, adjustment and use of farm ma
chinery. and care and handling of
dairy cows and milk" has been Off
cialiy recognized and commended by
the government.
Dean Jardine wrote the booklet for
use in connection with the United
States Boys Working Reserve of
which he is state director of co-opera-
ton. The circular was printed by the
state and sent to teachers in every
city school in Kansas to be used as
textbook in teaching city boys the
fundamentals of farming that the lat
ter may be fitted to go upon the farm
next summer and help the state solve
the farm labor problem, and, more
important. increase the war produce
ton of foodstuffs.
Gets National Recognition.
The national director of the Boys
Working Reserve which is mobilizing
1000 900 city boys for farm work has
written to Jardine commencing his
work in the circular. The national
director has also ordered a supply of
the books" for national use.
The introduction of the circular is
resume of the boys working reserve.
The suggestions dealt with are prac-
teal ones. The boys are told how to
curry horses, upon which side to enter
the stall and how to harness and hitch
up, and scores OF other things The
manner of speaking to team is in
cluded even. Housing, oiling. repair
ing and the use of farm machinery is
touched upon in plain, simple under
standable English The boy reading
the book is told how to do these
things exactly the way a farmer would
tell him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09
Uncle Sam Demands Plat Sheet
of Everything on Route.
TO CALL FOR BIDS MAY |
County Engineer Says Work
Cannot Begin March 1.
Military Road VIII Be One of
Best in Country.

When Uncle Sam takes a hand in
the hard surfaced road game, monkey
business stops and the smallest details
of road construction becomes neces
sary, according to John E. Williams.
county engineer. Williams and his
assistants are busy making survey
and preparing a plat of the proposed
hard surfaced road between Topeka
and Lawrence, Leavenworth and Kan
sas City.
Williams is not as optimistic as w.
G. Markham, secretary of the state
highway commission, concerning the
time work will begin on the new high
way. Williams puts the date two
months later. Markham recently made
announcement that the work on the
road would begin March 1.
The careful estimate exacted by the
government, the cold weather of re-
cent weeks interfering and other
things will make it impossible to call
for bids much before May 1, accord
ing to Williams. Ordinarily, in the
opinion of Williams, the work would
be delayed a considerable length of
time after awarding the contract. But
this road is looked upon by the gov
eminent as a military highway, con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09
Is YEARS AGO IN Topeka
From de columns ~
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
February 0, 1898.

February 0, 1898.
There was no big game at the big gam
night. The Topeka Monte Carlo" which
for over two months ran almost every
night, has been closed; but the police are
not responsible for it. The exposure of the
gamblers in last evenings State Journal
did for Topeka what the police force had
been unable to do. 1t drove the gamblers
out of town.
A very pretty luncheon was that given
by Miss Minnie Peck for Mrs. A. A. Rob-
inson's guest Miss Sophia Leavitt, of
Those invited were: Misses Ruth Farms
worth. Margaret Mulvane, Alice Prescott,
Rose Horton, Name Horton, Kate Gunther.
Mary and Irene Homer, Kate and Clara
Thncher. Mary McCabe. Carrie BarthoIo-
new, Clemina Sim. Fannie Spencer, Madge
johnson. Margaret Dudley, Margaret
Powell, Myra Williams, Miss Freeman, Miss
Overton. Ollie O'Brien, Matte Jones and
Mesdames Paul Hudson, +. Il. Soper, Ar
thur Mills, Arthur Capper, A. II. Connolly,
Eugene Quinton and Mrs Doran.
Mr.. and Mrs E. L. Sim sent out very
unique Invitations bearing a quotation
from Scott, to about forty Of their friends,
for dinner Monday evening. The invited
guests were: Messrs- and Mesdames
George w. Crane. w. T. Crosby, E. ii.
Crosby, l.. l.. Turner, Fred Freeman S. J.
Bear, Frank Hobart, w. A. Martin. y. II.
Lewis, o. p. photograph, r. S. Harrigan,
Frank Sim, Jim Sim, Jim King. J. ID.
McCune, c. c. Baker and w. w. Phelps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09
TILE LITTLE DREAM FLOWERS.

Mother Nature, as we call her-and
you will know much more about her
when you grow up-goes to sleep, and
rests, and dreams just like other peo-
pie Only she sleeps a long time. but
then, you see, she Is awake a long
time. While she is awake she works
SO hard and does many things to make
the world beautiful for us. 1t is
Mot-ier Nature who makes the trees
send out their leaves, and makes the
Grass green, and sends the Birds and
the Butterflies. 1t is Mother Nature
who makes the beautiful Flowers
grow in the Garden, and in the Woods
and in the Fields and by the Wayside.
Indeed. we often say that the Flowers
are Mother Natures pretty children
They are pretty children too. don't
you think so? Do you know of any
thing lovelier than the Snowdrops and
the Tulips and the Lilies and the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09

Mein Dear Son Heine:
Say, Heine, maybe yet you had pet
ter come home from Skollege und
take a correspondence schooling les
son on how to safe money vich amt
so oxpensiveness. However, heremidt
ISIS der check.
Say, Heine, I guess maybe I will go
crazy init der var if someding amt
did pretty soon. Mein poor head ISIS
all gewiggily und mein brains ISIS all
mixed oop trying to figure ouidt chust
vot ISIS going on. 1 take all der news
bapers und readt eferyting including
der timetables from der railroads, but
der more I read der less know vot
am reading. Idt iss all so geflum-
mixed und mixed oop. Take for in
stagnance der beginning off der var.
Der kaiser says he did not start idt,
und likewise SO says France und Eng
land-nopody started idt, der var
papers dot der kaiser says dot der
submarines haff shooted COP der
whole Atlantic ocean und dere ISIS no
longer any water for der English nafy,
und on der next page der paper says
dot der English premium off der ad-
miralty says shipping ISIS still shipping
as oosual. Der Cherman press dis
patchings says dot Won Hind1egburg
hass advanced hiss troops sefen miles.
captured fife thousand guns und
killed two million English und French
soldchers, but der allied press dis
patchings says all vot happened vos
dat a mule kicked vup soldcher in der
stomache, und he ISIS recovering, nodt
der mule. Heine, der soldscher. Some
Teller who writes on der New York
Bugle says dot der Chermans ISIS starv-
ing, und on page two ISIS a advertise
ment from der kaiser saying dot der
Chermans iss too well fed, und must
take rejoicing exercisinps
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09

Meeting two of the largest inland
posts in the country-Fort Leaven-
worth and Fort Riley-and Williams
feels assured that the government will
do everything possible to get the ma
terials for this highway on the ground
at the earliest possible minute,
Every tree, every telephone pole,
every barbed wire fence and its exact
location is demanded by the govern
ment thru the highway commission
on the plat to be sent to the commits
sion for it's approval along with the
petition of farmers asking for the i'm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09

provement- The stretch of road from
here to the Douglas county line is ten
and one-half miles In length.
Large plat sheets are demanded by
the government. Each sheet covers
one-half mile, and on it are located all
these details just mentioned
1T is a ticklish job, one requiring
minute information and one not ac-
complished in a day." said Williams
"I feel certain those who understand
our task will feel that we have pro-
crossed with as much rapidly as pos
Sible'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09

last night at city hospital. She was
q clerk at the BengeaI dry goods
stores. The body will be buried in
Charity Field"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09

VAGRANT VERSES
BY IMRI ZUMWALT.
A voice in the twilight
Gentle and low
Whispering softly
Of things long ago.
A soul that's undaunted,
A task that's well done,
A conscience unhaunted,
A place in the sun.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-08
FORTY BUSHELS
CASTOR BEANS IS
Y|E[O AT YUMA
Bard Experiment Station Reports
Big Yield in the Yuma Valley
President Johnson of the Castor
Bean Association Has a Full Week
of Speaking in Valley.

President Johnson of the Castor
Bean Association expects that 5000
acres will be signed up to grow the
needed oil legumes as a result Of
his two weeks campaign which ends
IN the Valley Saturday. He has half
tnis amouLt now.
The county supervisors yesterday
got behii:d the castor bean planting
propaganda. Coachella VALLEY will
plant from 400 to 500 acres.
Johnson's program this week will
lie US follows: Holtville, thi, after
noon: Wes' moreland tonight; See!cy
mass Ieet'ng tomorrow; INLAND Fri
day afternoon; Calipatria, Friday
evening" Brawley, Saturday.
What Scaife Says.
Captain Scaife, Signal Corps, u. S.
A., in charge for the government of
the planting of castor beans in the
Southwest, passed through Yuma
Sunday afternoon and was me-. by
Fprevious arrangement, by canmitg
lsee-froa the Yuma, Csmmerciu sslnb
in the interest of prospective plant
ers of castor beans on the Yuma
project. Captain Scaife expressed
himself as highly appreciative of
tie patriotism of people of t.le Pro-
.ect who have in view the planting
Df this crop, which he declared 20 II
, NECESSARY adjunct to the Wa pre-
gram of the country, there beng Il
shortage of the oil, which can be OBJ
t;ined from no other product. Cap
tain Scaife expressed the opinion :hat
;he Yuma Project possessed every
roirt needed for the production ,,e
heavy crops of castor beans, which
can be planted to advantage a.. this
sea-.n.
Forty bushels of castor bea IS can
be raised per acre on the Yumo Pc
ject. They have been successfully
grown at the U. S. D. A. Experiment
Station at Bard on ordinary soil. The
government will furnish se'ecte;
seed and pay $3.50 per bushe: of IS
pounds at th., shipping point for TIC
c,op. The government further will
see to it that ears are available to
move the crop when it is ready for
delivery, and the government is op
Grating the railroads.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-08
Charms
to be Shown to
Entire Country

Incompatible Imperial Valley is
now enjoying a prosperity never be-
fore equaled in the history of agri-
culture in the West. 1t is the rich
est farming section in America. Its
products are of greater value, acre
for acre, than any other like section.
WE know this, but the outside world,
generally speaking, does not. Our
light is hid under a bushel because
of the lack of publicity.
The Imperial Valley Press and the
FL Centre Progress will publish joint
ly a special feature edition to let this
light of prosperity shine to the far
thest corners of the entire West.
To insure the broadest outside cir.
culation of this feature edition, a cir.
culation which shall be national in
its scope and do the greatest good
The Imperial Valley Press and Fl
Centre Progress have arranged tG
have inserted an announcement of the
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-08
BAN ON SENDING
LAB0RERS OUT
OF THE VALLEY
County Supervisors Pass Ordinance
Taxing Employment Agents Who
Send Men Out of the Valley $25
Per Day-Al Agents to BE Lii
censed Hereafter.

The time has passed when labor
agents can with impunity come into
the Vale yand ship outside our bac-
ly needed workers.
The count ysupervisors yesterday
passed at it's first reading an ordi-
nance providing for fee for $25
for any employment agent sending
labor out of the Valley.
The ordinance also provides for the
licensing of every person engaged in
the employment business.
There is one firm in FL Centre
which has been in the habit of gath
ering up laborers each week and
shipping them to the mountain camps
of the San Diego & Arizona rail-
road. from whence they drift over to
the Coast.
The supervisors realize that the
coming summer labor will be scarce,
and the welcome the advent of a fed
eral employment bureau here.
d. &C. Bitter, appointed county de-
agent yesterday, win also
help in the work of getting workers
for the cotton and milo fields.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-08
F A r NJ B u r E AUl FUR
MS HE'S CENSUS OF
F ARM ANIMALS ON
RANCHES THROUGH
OUT THE VALLEY.
There Are 145 Sil0s, $4,000
Hogs and 100000 Sheep
on Valley Ranches, the
Latter Animals Showing
Great Increase.

Farm Adviser Sullivan han practi-
cally finished census 81 farm ami
mails and silos in the Imperiaf Val
ley, in order to ascertain the num-
Der of hogs, sheep and silos.
The figures represent the entire
county with the exception of four
school districts, from which no re-
port has been received. Forty-eight
districts have made accurate reports.
The number of hogs in the districts
reported is said to be 1854. The
number of sheep reported is 88,1SS,
and the silos 112.
Mr.. Sullivan estimates the total
number in Imperial county as follows:
Hogs, $4,000; sheep, 10000; silos,
145.