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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
AN 0. X. FOR HOOVER
He Is Sure To Get World Job as Foo
Boss Soon.

s(By the Associated Press.)
Paris, Nov. 30.-The plan for the
appointment of Herbert c. Hoover,
American food administrator. as di-
rector general of relief in charge of
food and relief administration for the
European allies and the United States
has been given approval, it was learn
ed today. by the very highest Ameri-
can authority. 1t now goes to the SUI
preme war council for determination.
The relief plan involves. besides the
appointment of Mr.. Hoover the use
of the large passenger ships Impera-
tor, Bismarck and other big steamers
in German ports for relief work and
to help in securing the return of the
American forces in Europe within a
comparatively brief period. The SUI
preme war council. which now will
cially summoned to meet in London at
the invitation of Premier Lloyd
George.
The council comprises the British,
French and Italian premiers and Col.
E. NJ. House, as the American repre-
sentative. Col House will be unable
to attend, however, owing to his re-
cent attack of grip. But the American
views will be fully represented and
the council will have in writing the
proposals concerning Mr.. HoOver's ap-
pointment and the use of the German
ships. Mr.. Hoover as director general
of relief would have a civilian position
in relief work corresponding to that
of Marshal Foch in the military
sphere. Thus it is pointed out, his ap-
pointment would be an extension of
the principle of inter-allied unity of
command
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
Had No Power.

Basel. Nov. 3O.-In answer to
charges mentioned by the Bavarian
minister at Berlin that he turned down
a peace offer from America, Count
Czernin, the former Austro-Hungarian
foreign minister, in a statement to a
Vienna newspaper. says that the offer
was made by Doctor Meinl, a leading
Austrian manufacturer. Doctor Meinl,
he said. acted in a purely private ca
pacity. Count Czernin adds: doctor
Mein1, more than any other of the
numerous persons who interviewed in
favor of peace. possessed no document
proving he was qualified to speak in
the name of a hostile government or
to act as a man enjoying the conf
dence Of President Wilson,"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
FORUM ON LEGISLATION
State Board of Agriculture To Collect
Ideas for New Laws.
BY E, W. SWAN


The state board of agriculture is
holding an open forum on proposed
legislation for the coming session of
the state legislature to consider. Be
fore the session opens, the board will
convene and will reach an agreement,
probably by ballot. on what proposed
laws it will recommend to the state
body of lawmakers
One member of the board recon-
mends that state laws be enacted
along the lines of the discussions at
the farm conference held at Manhat-
ing farm owning and discouraging
'1andlordism." To attain this end, he
recommends a revision of the state
tax system as follows:
1.-The development of agriculture in
eastern Kansas lies in tracts of me-
drum size, farmed by the owner. The
following three rules in regard to tax
alton would help materially to secure
the desired change and give justice to
| all.
(A) A higher rate on tenant lands
| than on owner farmer.
OBJ On tracts of 160 acres or less
the land in lebtedness shall not be in
| Guided for taxation.
| Co Increased rate of taxation with
| increased holdings of all kinds of
! property.
1.-The first and third will help to
make the man who holds large tracts
| as an investment put such land on the
market. The second removes a great
impeachment from the path of the poor
man trying to get a home and stops
| double taxation. The third tends to
make taxation equitable. The poor
laborer, the man heavily in debt on
a farm, and the millionaire all pay
the same poll tax. The laborer pays
property tax on all that he has; the
mortgaged farmer pays on all that he
has and all that he owes: the rich
man pays on what he gives as the WI
ues and the assessor has no way of q y
tecting differentiation and omission.
! These omissions are in many cases
more than the second man pays on
| altogether. Increased rate would tend
| to make this equitable. This will help
the returned soldier get his farm or
| home
| Another member urges that the law
of compulsory education be changed
| to include children from z to 16 Gin
stead of s to $50. He writes: There
are so many loopho1es in the present
compulsory education law that it is
about as efficient and effective as
carrying water in sieve to appease
the thirst OF an elephant" The author
| of this suggestion has been associated
in various capacities in educational
work in Cowley county for the last
| forty years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
WHAT WILHELM SIGNED
The Document by Which He Re-
nOunced Right to Reign.
(By rhe Associated Press.)

IfOuIlC1u night ~ 1ACl$As
(By rhe Associated Press.)
Berlin, Nov. 3O.-The text of the
former German emperor's act of
Remuneration which was issued by
the new German government Sin
order to reply to certain misunder-
standing which has arisen with re-
CARDS to the abdication," follows.
by the present document I re-
nounce forever my rights to the
crown of Prussia and the rights to
the German imperial crown. 1 re-
lease at the same time all the Off
Gals of the German empire and
Prussia and also all officers. nom
commissioned officers and soldiers
of the Prussian navy and army and
of contingents from confederate
states. from the oath Of fidelity
they have tken to me.
LAS their emperor, king and SUI
preme chief. I expect from them
until a new organization of the
German empire exists. that they
will aid those who effectively hold
the power in Germany to protect
the German people against the
menacing dangers of anarchy, fam
inc and foreign domination.
Made and executed and signed
by my own hand with the imperial
seal at Amerongen. November %.
(Signed)
civilian"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
STATE CHARTERS

The state charter board today ap-
proved applications of eleven new
corporations. The approvals We're
given at special meeting of the
board. Corporations permitted to en-
gage in business in the state under cor
porate authority include:
Metropolitan Exploration Co, Howard.
CAPITAL 1850.
lola Duluth Development Co, lola. Cap
ital SIC. 00e.
Central Foundry Co., Baxter Springs.
Capital $1,000
Finger Armor Development Co.. Co'dwa-
ter. Capital $4,000.
Kansas Produce Co., Wichita. CAPITAL
S20.OOG.
Niles Mercantile Corporation, Dighton.
CAPITAL $4,000.
Hillsboro OIL & Ga Co., Hillsboro. Cap
ital sec. 0o8.
patterson-lsmert Wheat Products Co.
Kansas city. C.picaI $1,000
Acme Cool & Mining Co. Pittsburg. Can
ital S4Sr
Savonburg. No capital.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
NAVAL POLICY HURT
Won Bethmann- Hollweg Comes Out
With Confession.

London, Nov. 30-(British Admiralty
wireless) Won Bethmann-H ollweg,
former German chancellor, has pub
lished an apology in the Nord
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, regard
ing his share in German guilt for the
war and, tho he attempts various ar
guments, for which the Berliner Tage-
blatt takes him to task, he makes the
following confession:
But above all, we must confess that
by deficiencies of our national char
acter and by sins of our general be-
havior. we have contributed to the
warlike tension which filled the air
for the last few years. The words
which might be taken as provocation
were repeatedly uttered. The pan
German activities at home and abroad
have done US the greatest harm, but,
above all. our naval policy brought US
the most fatal opposition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
n. Y. BANK Statement

New York. Nov. 30.-The actual weekly
bank statement today showed the follow
ing changes:
Surplus. decrea sed. So $50 o3O
Loans. decreased. S51. $50 600
Cash in own vaults members of the Fed
eral Reserve banks. decreased. S1.31T 900.
Reserve in federal reserve banks of men,
Der banks, decrea sed. S44. obs 600
Reserve In own vaults state banks and
trust companies. increased. $4,000.
Reserve in deposit state banks and trust
companies. increased. sol. 600.
Net demand deposits. decreased. SS:,. $50
OOa
Net time deposits. incresed. $780,
Circulation. decreased. s119OnO.
Aggregate reserve. $3.50 0S4 ,0O0.-
Excess reserve, SEA, $50 740.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
HE ADDS HIS 0. K.
Lord NOrthcliffe Talks of Will
son and Conference.
Says His Presence There Is
Considered an Essential.

Copyright. 1918, by the United Pressn
London, Nov. 30.-In view of the
widespread discussion regarding Pres
ident wilson's decision to attend the
peace conference, the United Press
asked Lord Northcliffe, Britain's
greatest publisher, for a statement OF
the European attitude toward the
presidents personal participation in
the deliberations.
Responding to this special request,
Lord Northcliffe today made the fol-
lowing statement:
FOREIGNERS have no right to take
part in the politics of other countries.
That the president of the United
States would attend the peace confer
ences, has always. been regarded here
not as a matter of politics, but as an
essential factor in the situation. 1t
would be unthinkable to us. for ex-
ample, that Premier Lloyd George
would not be at the peace confer
ences.
"I am not in a position to speak
for France, but cannot conceive 1t
possible that the peace conferences
should take place without Premier
Clemenceau as one of the Erencn
representatives.
1.-THE whole discussion shows the
grave danger that always exists on in
apparently evident from cables we are
now getting that many citizens of the
United States, Democrats as well as
Republicans, object to the presidents
voyage. l can only say that we cam
not comprehend that situation.
Britain and her four sister ma
lions, Canada, Australia, New Zea-
land and South Africa. have had
nearly 100000 men killed. People of
all shades of opinion here realize that
our head MAN, Premier Lloyd George,
must be at the peace conferences to
look af,er the interests of a nation
like ours. that has suffered so terribly.
The United States has played a
great part in the war. and the Ger
mans have consistently addressed the
president.
LAS a foreigner, altho a warm
friend of the United States, l can eX-
press no view of American politics.
tho. of course, l have many views
but l may be allowed to say, an
expression of personal opinion, that if
the conferences were held without
President Wilson. the whole European
world would think that there was
something very wrong indeed with
those conferences"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
KEEP FIT TO LIVE
Uncle Sam Tells Soldiers How To
Keep Clean.
BY SERGEANT HAY.
(From Trench and Camp)

How have you served Uncle Sam?
How have you served yourself?
Are you going back into civilian
life as clean or cleaner than when
you entered the United States service?
In the army Uncle Sam gave you
your equipment You had to take
care of that-you had to keep it clean
he taught you how to keep it clean.
Now, do you think less of your
body. than you do of your rifle or
your blankets or your hobnails?
When you are again in civilian life,
you won't have your army rifle or
your army blankets or your army hob
nails. But you do possess your body.
Your responsibility to keep it clean
and wholesome, untainted by disease,
does not end with your putting on a
sack suit and colored neckties.
Uncle Sam told you how to protect
yourself against germs and Germans.
You are responsible at all times for
the health of your body-to yourself.
to your mother and father, to the
world.
You had to keep fit to fight for
Now you've got to keep fit to live.
And you will.
You know that social diseases are
the worst diseases in existence-that
they cause more misery than any
other scourge-that you must protect
y
because Uncle Sam taught you, showed
you. proved to you the truth about
these life destroyers.
You are not going to forget!
You know the penalty of contract
ing any of these diseases. Tho you
are out of the Jurisdiction of a court
martial, you are always under the nat
ural law of compensation, of cause
and effect. Nature is a stern and just
judge.
If you run afoul Of the law, you
pay. You cannot escape.
When you get out into the old life,
you are going to keep within this law
or suffer.
1t is up to you, so1dier-citizen.
Are you going to shirk the respon-
sibility?
Are you going to be one Of the mil
lions of clean ones who will wipe this
blot from the country?
Uncle Sam expects you to be just as
clean a man in civilian life as in the
army.
And you're going to be- eh buddy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
NO SUGAR RATIONS
Restaurants Not Required To Ust
Envelopes Now.

The little sugar envelope which did
its bitsthru a critical period of the war
by enforcing the saving of sugar in
restaurants may be discarded at the
discretion of the eating house pro-
prietor, Federal Food Administrator
Innes has ruled.
For December eating houses may
serve four pounds of sugar a person a
month. This is believed to he cEple
to take care of demands. Retailers
also are permitted to sell four pounds
of sugar a person for the month.
The certificate plan of distribution
of sugar is abandoned effective tomor-
row. Dealers, manufacturers and no.
tells can get sugar direct from whole
salers or refiners without certificates
No more canning permits will be is
sued by the food administration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
STREET CAR HIT HIM
Funston Soldier Reported Knocked
From X. C. Viaduct.

Kansas City. Kan. Nov. 30.-Private
William Bray, Company A. 26th bat
talon United States guards stationed
at Fort Riley, who was found uncon-
scious under a street car viaduct yes
terday and died in hospital here last
night, is stated to have been knocked
from the forty-foot structure by a
street car. Police headquarters an
nounced today that a motorman had
been found who made the statement.
Bray's movements previously to his
death have been traced by police
enough to ascertain that he was in the
city on Tuesday and Wednesday nights
and ate Thanksgiving dinner here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
French Protest Treatment of War
Prisoners by the Germans.

Paris, Nov. 30.-The French govern
ment thru Marshal Foch will send
vigorous protest to Berlin concerning
the treatment of war prisoners.
Edouard Ignace, under secretary for
military justice and pensions, an
nounced in the chamber of deputies.
He said the new government in Ger
many treated the prisoners no better
than the old one. The brutality of
the Germans could not be surpassed,
he added. and the reports of the Span
ish and Swiss missions which investi-
gated the condition of prisoners will
show clearly how deep into barbarism
Germany had sunk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
KICK ON THE ACTION
San Francisco Labor Body Not Salts
fled With Life Saving.

San Francisco, Nov. 30.-The San
Francisco labor council after an execu-
live session early today issued a state
ment deploring the action of Governor
William d. stephens in committing to
life Imprisonment the sentence of
Thomas j. Mooney, condemned to
death for murder in connection with
the preparedness day bomb explosion,
when ten persons were killed here in
July. 1916.
The labor councils statement de-
c1ared the governor had "straddled'
the issue and Mooney should have been
granted a full pardon or else allowed
to hang
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
Choosing u Principle.

New Castle, England. Nov. 2S--(de-
loyed) THE country is not choosing
party but principle" Premier
Lloyd George declared in campaign
speech here today. 1--WE should not
revert to the old party system until
we are forced to. l do not ask you to
entrust the work to myself and my
associates il another group is better
able to carry out the reconstruction
policies. But. in Gods name. let us
have a difference between Asquith' 8
coalition and mine. His included
Lansdowne: mine docs not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
USED A DRAWING KNIFE
Wetmorc Merchant Committed Suicide
While in AtchisOn.

Atchison, Kan, Nov. 30 Walter
Krage, a Wetmore merchant. commit
tel suicide here by cutting his throat
with a drawing knife, after jumping
from a second story room of the resi-
dence of a local physician, where he
was taking treatment for a nervous
disease.
He was 81 years old and Is survived
by a widow and mother. Accompanied
by his wife, he came here Thursday
for treatment. After leaping from the
window he ran to a barn in the neigh
borhood, where he secured the draw
ing knife with which he ended his
life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
To Name Doctor Iebreton.

Buenos Aires Nov. 3O.-Official ap-
pointment of DR.. Thomas A. Lebreton
as Argentine ambassador to the
United States to succeed Romulo S.
Naon is expected hourly. Doctor Le-
breton Is an attorney and a member of
the radical party in congress. He Is a
supporter of President Irigoyen. In
an interview he declared his most in
teresting duty as ambassador will be
to cement the friendship between Ar
gentina and the United States and to
stabilize commercial exchange be-
tween the two countries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
GET FEDERAL AID
Kansas Receives $3.50 in Remit.
lance for Work Here.

Government aid in the amount of
$4,000 will help the state to meet its
current bills. Notice has been re-
ceived by James A. Kimball. state
manager. that the government has
made remittances of $4,000 is federal
aid or in remittance for government
work under direction of the state.
One item includes payment of
claims amounting to $6S.000 for work
at Kansas University in connection
with the building and equipment OF
barracks for the student army. An
other remittance y for $4,000 from
the Chamberlain-Co fund for sup
preston of venereal diseases. This
money goes to the women's detention
farm at Lansing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
SERVANTS PEEVED:
LIEBKNECHT USED
WILHELM'S BED

London. Nov. 30.-When the cor
respondent at The Hague of the Daily
Mail visited the royal palace at Ber-
lin recently, he found the aged SER
wants there bursting with INDIGNATION
over the fact that DR.. Liebknecht, the
radical Socialist leader. had slept in
the former emperor's bed. The cor
respondent quotes the servants as say
ing: That cursed Liebknecht slept for
two nights in the kaiser's bed"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
The Jap Envoy.

Washington, Nov. 30.-An official
dispatch from Japan today announced
that Marquis kinmochi Saionji former
premier has been redesignated to head
the Japan delegation to the peace con-
ference. Friday word came that the
marquis had been replaced by Wis
count Kato, former foreign minister,
but now it is said the original person.
mel has been restored and Viscount
Kato will not be a member of the
party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
Italy Wants League,

Washington, Nov. 30.-Italy will be
a strong hacker of the league of ma
lions idea at the peace conference. 1t
was learned at the Italian embassy to-
day. Italian Amba sSador Di Cellere
who will accompany President Wilson
to Paris, is known to be enthusiastic
in support of the full American peace
program.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
RETREAT IS ORDERLY
So Says an American OF the Removal
of German Troops.
CBy the Associated Press)

tBy the AssOcfated Press.)
With the American Army of Occu-
patton, Nov. 30.-An American who
has just returned from trip which
extended as far as Frankfort, Ger
many, says that the withdrawal of
the German troops under direction of
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg is
being conducted in a most orderly
manner everywhere despite reports to
the contrary. This man is familiar
with military matters generally and
says that from his own observations
he believes the withdrawal Is being
carried out perfectly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30

Washington, Nov. 30.-The news di-
vision Of the committee on public in
formation which has been the distrib-
uting center for news of all govern
ment activities, closes tonight. In the
future this news will be given out at
press bureaus in each department.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30

New York, Nov. 30.-Brewing
plants in New York representing an
investment of $2o0.O0O,OO0 will close
at midnight in accordance with the
law enacted by congress. The general
public will not be without its beer.
Brewers have produced enough to last
at least two or three months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30

New York. Nov. 3O.-Without de-
parting from made in America" prin-
ciples Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is to have
several new Paris gowns. it became
known here today. A Fifth avenue
dressmaker sailed for France on the
steamer Rochambeau taking with him
trunks containing materials from
which Mrs. Wilson's gowns will be
made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
Brisbane BUYS Another.

Milwaukee, Nov 3O.-Formal an
nouncement of his purchase of the
Milwaukee Free-Press, morning, was
made by Arthur Brisbane today. The
Free-Press will be marged with the
WiScOnsin-News. two afternoon pa
pers, which Brisbane recently acquired
and of which he is now acting as edi-
tor and publisher
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
TO STOP BEER MAKING
Midnight Tonight Is the Time for the
End

Washington, Nov. 30.-Brewing of
beer and other malt beverages will
stop at midnight tonight turnout the
u S. The special presidential COM
mittee which recommended the presi-
dental proclamation prohibiting
brewing as a war conservation meas
ure decided TODAY to make no recon-
mendation to President Wilson on
suggestions that the proclamation
should be rescinded in view of the
armiStice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
A BIG BLOWUP There
400 Quarts of Nitro-Glycerin Ex
pIOdeS at lola.

lola, Kan, Nov. 30.-Four hundred
quarts of nitro glycerine owned by the
Independent Torpedo company, ex-
ploded here late Friday night smash
ing many windows in dwellings and
business houses in lola. and surround
ing towns, within a radius of twenty
miles.
No one was injured and officials of
the plant could give no explanation
for the blast.
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Washington, Nov. 30.-Dol1ar meals
| in railroad diners will be served for
rs cents to soldiers returning home
after being mustered out, Director
General McAdoo announced today.
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Birmingham. Ala, Nov. 3O.-Presi-
dent j. S. Pevear of the Birmingham
railway, light and power company was
arrested today on warrants charging
violation of city health and car serv-
ice ordinances. Bad service on the
East Lake and Lake View lines is
charged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
CARRIES FIFTY Men
Nays New Scaplane Breaks All Rec
ords for Flight.

Washington, Nov. 30.-The navy's
newest type seaplane, the giant No. 1.
the largest seaplane in the world,
broke all records for the number of
passengers carried in any airplane
when it made a flight with fifty men
on board Wednesday at the naval air
station, Rockaway, L. /. No special
notifications of the plane were made
for the flight, which was made to DEM
onstrate the machines enormous lift
ing power. The No. l is the first
American tri-motored seaplane and is
propelled by three liberty motors that
develop a maximum of 1900 horse
power, giving it a cruising speed of
eighty miles an hour.