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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22
WATCHED HUNS EVERY MOVE.
Haig Had Advance Dope on Big Drive
Much Bayonet Fighting.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMAfS

With the British Armies in France,
March % G:15 a. m.).-British
troops, with their customary GOODNESS,
bobbed up after the German barrage
of gas shells and high explosives at
the start of the big enemy attack and
met the first rush, wearing gas masks
and machine cunning the adyafefng
waves.
British soldiers occupying the strong
points in the line fought it out with
knives and bayonets.
/ 1t looks as tho Hindenburg had
launched his long -heralded offensive
If this is the loudly advertised drive
, it has come according to specified
| lions. Officers are smiling confidently
as this is cabled. The situation is
necessarily vague. When the fight
ing begins on such a wide front, a few
hours are required to watch develop
/ ments.
Storm Troops Led Drive.
What sometimes appears a hurri-
cane becomes a feint and a seeming
feint becomes serious drive.
The Germans hurled their storm
troops against the British right flank,
following a brief bombardment on a
forty-five mile front They came on
in thick waves behind a smoke bar
rage.
British artillery and machine guns
cut swaths in the enemy ranks.
Enemy high velocity guns began
Smelling towns far in the rear as the
battle commenced. They fired regu-
larly turnout the morning, at five
minute intervals. stopping periodically
to cool off their guns.
Watched HindenburS's Moves.
German preparations prior to the
I attack were stupendous and were car
ried out with the utmost attempt at
secrecy. Haig. however, knew what
was happening. His airmen reported
every new ammunition dump, railway
! line, strategic road or airdrome as
soon as they were commenced.
Day by day they watched linden
burg complete his prepare TONS And
day by day Haig took counter-precau-
| tions, accordingly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22
OFF TO TOURNAMENT
Topeka High School Quintet Will Play
for the State Title.

Coach Elmer Bearg and, eight of
his best high school basketball play
ers left this morning at $50 for Law
renee where the Topeka quintet will
pla- in the invitation and state tour
naments held under the auspices of
Kansas university.
The Topeka team was scheduled to
go against Newton, one of the strong
est teams in the state. in the open
ing game. Should the locals win
their four games today and tomorrow
they will annex the state champion
shin title.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22
IN FAVOR $3.50 WHEAT
Senate Indicates Approval of Senator
Cores Price Bill.

Washington, March 22.-The SEN
ate late Thursday moved to overturn
the prices recently fixed for this years
wheat crop by President Wilson when
it adopted Senator Cores amendment
to the agriculture bill fixing $3.50 a
bushel as a minimum price for wheat
at all local markets.
The vote on the Gore amendmen mt
was 40 to IS. The amendment prom
Uses to cause a lively fight in confer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22
BAN ON LECTURER
Loyalty Questioned and DR.. Zueblin
Gracefully Cancels Course.

Kansas City, Mo-, March 22.-Dr.
Charles Zueblin, famous lecturer. has
cancelled a course of lectures, sched-
uled to be delivered at St. Joseph,
Mo-, it was learned here today. The
actio. was the result of a question
as to his loyalty raised by the Blu
chanan county defense council, after
Doctoi Zueblin had delivered the first
talk of a series at ST. Joseph. He re-
turned to Kansas City and Cancelled
the remainder of the course by long
distance telephone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22
CAR STRIKERS GIVE IN
Interur ban Service Resumed on Jop-
Iin-Pittsburg Line.

Pittsburg, Kan, March 22.-Serv-
ice on the stree: and interurban lines
Of the Joplin & Pttsburg Railway
company, suspended since February
10, has been resumed following an
agreement reached between the car
MGR and engineers and the company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22
HUNS DEMAND MORE
Germany Orders Rumania to Deliver
Her Munition Supplies.

Moscow, March 22.-Germany has
inc-ea sed her demands upon Rumania
ana now asks that Rumania surrender
to the central powers all of her own
wa munitions as well as those left in
Rumania by allied troops.
All the entente ministers remain in
Jassy but will leave there if Ruma mia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22

Chicago. March 22-HOGS-Receipts As
600 Market weak 15c to zoe lower. Bulk
of sales, S17.1OM11.1O: light, S17.25G17.90;
mixed. SIG S5G1l:S5; heavy. s16.35@11.55
rough. S16.350I 1850: pigs. S13. 25@17.15:-
CATTLE+Receipts II 600. Market weak.
Native steers. s95O@14.5O: stockers and
feeders. Ss20@12 cows and heifers.
81 10d 1215: calves. Sf050G 1919
SHEEP-Receipts 10000. Market steady
Sheep, s11.00@15.00; lambs, $14.50@1s.50
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22

New York. March 22-BUTTER-Market
firm. Creamery higher than extras 42@
421ac; extras (92 score), 41@411ac; firsts,
39A 64O%c.
extras, 4015@41c; extra firsts, 391hc; firsts,
3S1h 0l:9c.
CHEESE-Market irregular State, whole
milk flats, held. specials, 250251&c.
POULTRY-Alive. strong; ROSTERS, 35c :
old ditto, &c. Turkeys, 35c; lressed quiet
and unchanged
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22
THEY NEEDN'T FIGHT
President Orders conscientious OBJ
jectors'' Into Suicide Squads

Washington, March 22.-An execu-
tive order issued today by President
Wilson provides that all conscientious
DIRECTORS to the selectiYe draft will be
given non-combatant Service. The
non-combatarit branches outlined by
the president include the medical
corps and the engineer service
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22
Find Dynamite Near Power House,

FIND DynamIte Near Power HOUSE.
Milwaukee, Wis. March 21.-Forty-
eight sticks of dynamite were found
near the power house of the National
Brake & Electric company plant here,
federal authorities announced today
The plant is engaged in war work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22
Morning Grain Gossip
furnish I'd by the Topeka Board of Ira


New York, March 22.-Journal of Com
merce: Cotton-March was again the lead
er. 1t led with a vengeance. 1t was up
noon it was double quick until March
reached 34.O5. This, offset was magnet
drew fyng There Ss, baeS
some heavy selling of late. Yesterday
there was heavy replacing: prominent in
mills were buyers. Liverpool bought some
% to 10000 bales of May. July and October.
R1 Hew fors stocksNa ontnuanee Of the
narrow specially market, with bull trading
tendencies is indicated by latest develop
meuts. Conservative and selected pur
chases on recessions for turns should prove
more profitable than any other policy at
the moment. Equipments stocks are well
taken. They are destined for much higher
prices in our opinion. Tie new German
drive and the big railroad wage increase
sources are predicting higher levels for
American can, American Steel Foundries,
Corn Products, Pittsburg Coal and Beth
Grain-Export business in oats with The
wheat export company does not seem to
be easily satisfied 1t is said tn that p ur,,
5 million in all positions Over 100000
were sold yesterday. including 10000 from
Chicago, at the highest premium of the
season, the demand being dissatisfied at
the last. During the winter monthly re-
quirements Of the wheat export company
were said to have been close to 10 million
/ bushels. Since the export buying started
over a week ago it is estimated about D
million bushels have been sold to the sea-
board. This buying has advanced prem
/ iums 2Lc compared with May. 1t is the
/ impression of the cash men and bulls that
so long as the seaboard continues "A liberal
buyer of oats il will be hard to hold prices
down Indications ;re. however. for a
larger country movement after the middle
of next week. Passage of the $50 wheat
bill by the senate YESTERDAY was construed
| by many traders bullish and
oats with perfect weather for early seeding
and with large stocks in the leading pro-
ducing sections it vas said that short COW
cred on the bulge yesterday, aud without
new buying by exporters any heavy SELL
ing might cause a decline
! TOPEKA MARKET REPORT FOR q
/ WAGON DELIVERIES.
| CATTLE AND HOGS
prices furnished by Wolff Packing Col
Topeka, Kan. March %.
RI-TCHERS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22
New Orlean. COTTON M.rkc


NOW OfIeHnB COItOh MAFket.
New Orleans, March 22-COTTON-Spot
firm and unchanged; middling, 33.13
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22

Piles Cured in to Il Days
Druggists refund money if PAZO ONT
MENT fails to cure Itching. Blind, Bleed
ing or Protruding Piles. Instantly relieves
after the first application. Price 50c.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22

1.75; No. 3. Sfs60td 165: No. white S1.S5@
1-90; No 3 nominal; No. 2 yellow, S1.1oG
1.S2: No. 3. nominal.
ia, 0aTS S3,sL s@ie o higher cher so No
RYE-S275@2 S.
KAFIR AND MILO MAIZE-S3. SOd 90.
HAY-Market unchanged.
SHORTS-S1. 9oG2. co.
BRAN-$1 .65M1.S5
WHEAT-Receipts q cars.
BUTTER-Creamery, soc: firsts. SIC
seconds. SEC; packing Sic
EGGS-Firsts 33c.
PoULTRY-Roosters, 1sc: broilers. o6c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22

Chicago, March o..
Close
Open High Low Today Yes.
CORN
May -126 1864 1855 1864 1251A
OATS
May :. STA SIX 81 81 s6h
PORK
May .4s.75 1880 1915 1915 1915
LARD
May .262o 1921 e6. 20 &c. % 20. %
RIBS
May .2497 25.O5 24.95 o4.95 a5.07
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22
T0DAY'S MARKET REPORTS

Chicago, March 22-CORN-Grain ad-
vanced sharply today a result of the
passage of the Gore resolution in the SEN
the 1913 wheat crop. Corn was also bull
ishly affected by the continued lightness of
receipts here. Important houses were lead
ing buyers Opening quotations. which
ranged from 1sc to sc higher. with March
$1271s and May S1.251s to 81 .261s were fol-
lowed by material further gains
No important reaction took place in the
later dealings. Prices closed steady. 1sc
20 &c net higher, with March S1.27k and
May $1.26A.
OATS-Seaboard interest continued to be
active bidders for oats. Shorts covered
freely. After opening q to 11kc higher.
with May SIC to S71ac, the market made
an additional ascent.
PROVISIONS-Provisio rose with GER
ais. Declines in hog prices were ignored.
Subsequently, a Gag accompanied more
pronounced decline of the hog market
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22

I Kansas City. March 22-CATTLE-Re-
.eeipts 1000 head. Market slow: steady.
HOGS-Receipts 1000 head. Market light.
steady; heavy, 10c lower. Bulk of sales
Sit. 756I Il. 80: top. $3.50.
SHEEP-Receipts 1000 head Market
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22
Kansas City Grain Marke

(The range of prices on grain futures on
Kansas City Board of Trade as reported
by Thos. j. Myers. 301 n. E. Bldg.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22
DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

Furnished by the weather bureau office
Topeka, Kan, for the twenty-four hours
ending at { n. M. Friday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22
Kansas city Live stock Sales

tThe following sales were MADE this morn
ing at the Stock YARDS. Kansas City and
reported over long distance telephone d.
rect to the State Journal by Clay Robin
ehants.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22

CORN
May .12614 1865 1861 12ess 1864
May :. s7% ssss IS IS s7A
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22

Chicago Grain and Provision Market.
tThe range of prices on grain futures on
Chicago Board of Trade as reported by
Thos. j. Myers, 301 N. E. Bldg.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22
OPERA MARKET REPORT FOR
WAGON DELIVERIES.

CATTLE AND HOGS
prices furnished by Wolff Packing Co.
Topeka, Kan. March %.
MINED AND BUTCHERS s14 GOALS. S(
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22

Topeka. Kan, March %
YELLOW CORN--S1 SO
WHITE CORN-$1.65.
OATS-SOc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22

Topeka. Kan, March 30.
PRAIRIE HAY-S2O.0O
ALFALFA-S250 0
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22

Retail Hay.
FURNISHED by w. A. Gilch-ist 62S Quincy
Street.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-22

Topeka Grain Market.
FURNISHED by j. B. Billiard, corner Kansa,
Ave. ald Curtis ST.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

all of us to keep US banded together. 1t is
the multiplicity Of variation that saves liv-
ing, even where it may be at it's worst, from
being altogether hopeless and 1t makes it
at its best thing that may almost seem
to be touching the tail Of the star that flies
always ahead Of the idealists. 1t Is the differ.
ence that pits men against each other, singly,
In groups, in crowds, and then in nations.
Each has view of deality that is surren-
dered and compromised and added to by
contact with other men, until in the end all
the battles in the world arise out of this
shock of group egotsms, discovering ways
of finding what may seem an eternal salts
faction in living.
This Is tremendous morality to load on
so small and innocent a book as Constance
Garnett's latest Dostoievsky translation,
collection of short stories and sketches put
out by Macmillan's under the title "White
Nights" Here is a rude assortment of
literary wanderings, almost the kind of
thing a novelist has put on paper in the
moments between upheaving inspirations
little tremors Of his universe punctuating
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

the intervals between the earthquakes of
his imagination. But it would not need
"The Possessed" or "The Brothers Kara
mazov" even "Crtme and Punishmentn-
it would not need any of these trumpetings
besides the thin, quiet voice of these sketches
to penetrate all satisfactions and COM
placencies and pride everywhere and estab-
!ish living as a greatly more uncertain and
variable thing, possessed of greater ca
pacty for intensties in every direction
than all the little systems and PHILOSOPHERS
that try to house it will make room for.
Dostoievsky has not done so marvellously
in these stories, yet the total effect of them
is such as to raise enormously the question
of what genius amounts to. These are COM
mon lives he turns out to light, young
people who are adolescent and lonely, as
only youth on first awakening to the i'm
mensity of it's world can be alone; men and
women who are angered with the futility
of their existence and rush to passion and
dissipation madly as if to do so were to
shake their clenched hands at the heavens:
a mser, girl who seeks prostitution rath-
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

er than the unbearable monotony of her
family tyranny; sentimentalist who is too
weak to defend his vanity against the
world; a woman of fashion, a mistress.
lover, soldiers, old women, seducers, drunk
ards all those who exist every
where, but are only disclosed when great
mind is turned them.
In the end there comes out of such poY-
traits an enormous impression of the differ
ences that grow to mountainous proportions
when humans are gathered into nations It
IS plain now that there are no people any,
where on the earth like the Slavic people
There is no explanation, no echo of Tartar
tribes and redundant Orientalism that will
explain them; nothing except it be the
explanation that lies in themselves And
what is clearest in this work is the unique
character of the genius that gives such
disclosure to the world 1t is not merely
that these types that exist everywhere are
singularly different in Russia but that it
is part of the Russian character to tear the
curtain aside and disclose them in this way.
1t is true that our own literature has
learned how to face life little more truth
fully than it has been accustomed to do,
but even in the most lusty days of the
Anglo-Saxon tradition it did not have to
face anything SO complicated as the human
conditions of modern life project In Rus
sian art, of the last century as we'll as this,
there have been no hidden things; everything
in human nature has been shown utterly
what is Gnglorious and vain and futile and
dreary alongside the terrible longing for
betterment, the tightening moments of tri-
umphant living. These are truly people
who are unashamed to live and drink the
last drop and pay the last penny, but their
biographer is not afraid to be as simple
as those he sketches and shows his soul
along with theirs. 1t is not the dramatic
power of Dostoievsky that is so impressive
as his power to tell the truth without
flourish.
When there is a temptation to think of the
Russian as subtle complex, when there Is
danger of being outfaced by the bright
clothes of his modernity, his governments
his music, his painting-all his great strug-
gle to express himsef-it will be we'll to
remember that this is only the other side
of his overpowering honesty and terrible
naIvete. All the other peoples in the world
have become sophisticated. The Russian re-
mains alone still child, still hoping and be-
lieving, haunted by shadows and fears, and
brave enough and simple enough always to
confess them.
Henry James tried hard to capture this
honesty for US, to disclose what went on
behind the walls but the tradition of his
race was too long and hard upon him. The
young men try to do it in England, but the
A,,<~I
themselves out under the sun and keep
nothing hidden. 1t is not strange that it
should be Joseph Conrad who uses the Eng
llsh tongue for the first time for complete
human confession. No Englishman would
dare show soul so naturally as Conrad
showed Lord jim" Which returns the
theme to Slavs and Dostoievsky. And the
differences between humans everywhere!
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
r K UMAN beings create all kinds of
- fctions about themselves to make
l. II living more nearly possible and
add comfort to it, It is a fiction


that human nature is pretty much
alike everywhere"; q fiction to salve
egotisms and lay the animosities and
jealousies that arise between men wher-
ever they are. How could a proud
man stand it to know that there were 9TH
ers so much better endowed than he with
good fortune, by inheritance or acquire
ment? To soften all this has arisen the
fiction of the similarity Of human nature,
the fundamental sameness of mankind.
Whatever precedence or superiority arises
into view it is only accidental and seeming;
the reality stands based the same level
with all other groping human souls.
Yet what a fiction this is after all! If
there is only one unique thing left under
the staring sun it is what distinguishes
one human being from another. There is
only just enough that is universal among
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Poets WhoToil
In Greenwich War Left q
Golden Trail of Prosper
ify Behind II
By Lionel c. Noise

~ ENIUS eats to-day in Greenwich
Village To be sure, it eats with
~ hands on which the most num-
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
LincOlnMOvieS
An English Poet Turns
the Great Emancipafor
Into a Film Hero
From The Nation, London

FTOnn TIC Wdt10l, LOndOH1
LITERATURE about great men
and events never makes its ap-
pearance in impressive form un-
til some years after the sipnifi-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-12-23
ance
PURE BRED PIGS

More than $4,000 boys and girls in
the United States are enrolled iii big
clubs organized and conducted by the
United StrSes Department of Aglicul-
ture and the State agricultural col
leGes, ard Il per cent Of the report
ing members raise purebred pigs. The
juvenile wisdom displayed is support
ed by records showing that more than
l2,0G0 pigs made an average daily
gain of la pounds N weight, which
is considerably above results obtain
on most farms. Pig clubs, now es-
tahlished in % States, are believed TO
have such > beneficial effect on the
swine industry Of the country that the
OF Agriculture has as
signed 4g specialists to foster their
further development.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-12-23
RETURN OF FARM SOLDIERS

Kansas farmers have petitioned the
War Department to speed the return
Of her soldiers to the farms.
AT a conference Of farm bureau OF
tcers and, county commissioners re-
certify at Manhattan the committee on
reconstruction offered the following
resolution: 1--WE respectfully request
the Secretary OF War and the Pro
vost Marshal General to adopt some
such plan rs will return the soldiers
10 the homes they lett at the earliest
possible date. In Kansas there was
sown to wi:eat this fall a record acre
are, amounting possibly to more than
100000 ceres, with crop prospect,
which, if realized, Will require an army
of workers to harvest next year. Inc
demands If the firm for labor III tnl
early spring foe preparation and
planting ;ls spring crops is also great
and IN no other way can the situation
70 we'll lie met as through the demo
biiizatioa of orr soldiers and sailors
in the manner suggested"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-12-23

taken forbearance for weakne-s, and
has forthwith dropped mis- initial at
titude of fawning. Correspondents
with the American forces at Coblenz
now describe the native population
rs disposed to sheer at our douglboys
and to hold them in tontempt for
their lack of severity.
:. Such conduct is typical Ct the Hun.
Being brute by nature, he under
stands only that which IS brutal. His
only explanation for the fact that the
American troops have not treated
German territory and .ierman people
with the same frightiulncss that the
Huns employed in Belgium and
France, is that the Americans are
"safe." 1t is not in his nature TO b.
lieve that a victor can deliberately
exercise toward the ianquished an
attitude Of liberation. So he jostles
the American soldier on the side
walks of Coblenz and laughs covcrtly
when he finds that pc IS not immed-
lately hailed before court martial
The Americans as i'll army will of
course, maintain their self.restraint
They arc not going 70 soil tiieir hands
with any wan:on crualties. II may be
expected before long, however. tina.
individual soldiers, if the insults con-
rnue, will crack a few heads as an
object lcsson.-Rich Times-Dis-
latch.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-12-23

While the recent titantic struggle
was in full swing P. II. ". Ross,
well-known writer, published a booi:
entitled "The Blessings Of War" He
cites. many historical facts to Show
that while millions OF persons perish
ed in long drawn-out wars, countries
were opened and conditions so
changed as to render commerce easy,
resulting in blessings to the entire
world. Among other things MIR. Ross
says:
How do we treat our mother
earth? Do We not tear her bosom
with the cruel iron of the p!ow? Do
we not harrow her face? Do we not
dig and cut and roll and ditch and
drain? And does she not laugh in
our faces with her flowers and per-
fumc, with her fruits and her har-
vests? and they shall beat their
swords into plowShares. and their
spears into pruning hooks But re-
member: the plowshales were swords
first, and the pruning-hooks had first
4Lo:, J,,+,. 10 po,rcr,,, nc cpaarSl And
so it is with the harvest Of nations.
Before the blessings of peace can be
enjoyed, mankind must pass through
the purgative discipline Of war. For
what does peace mean if not that
which is not war, that which IS not
strife? Every. enjoyment of peace Is
the direct result of either our own
Individual strife or the struggles and
strivings of others on our behalf.
Hence it is not only our bounden duty
but our very grateful pleasure to do
honor and to express our thankful
ness to the brave men whose unselt-
shness and valor in times gone by
have made possible the peace and
plenty that we have enjoyed
TIE airship was one of the devices
OF war; it will soon become one OF
the greatest in commercial import
ance.