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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-22
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OUR uNDERGR6uND ARMY.

Since our entry into the war and the
country consequently came face to
face with an actual or threatened coal
shortage. criticism of the coal miners
has been frequent and widespread.
There have been efforts to lay the
scarcity of coal at their doors. They
have been charged with Stacking; with
refusing to work more than three or
four days a week.
A report issued by the United States
department of labor should go far to-
ward refuting these accusations. 1t
appears from this report that fewer
than 100000 miners are now actually
bearing the greatest responsibility that
has come to any class of workers who
are giving their strength to the win
ming of the war. To them has been
presented a gigantic task that must be
accomplished with the handicap of
greatly reduced man power, and they
are accomplishing what has seemed
impossible. They have broken all pre-
vious records in production, altho
thousands of their comrades have
gone into the army and the navy.
In the first three months of 1918
despite the most patriotic effort, fig
nres showed that 100000 tons less
than in the same period of 1917 had
been produced. Bad weather was the
principal cause of this disappointment
The United States fuel administration
F.. studied the report for the quarter and
made earnest appeals to speed up.
But the mine workers needed nc
urging to do their best in what Presi.
dent Wilson has called the "great
service army" Increased production
became the watchword and enthusi.
SIN spread from Pennsylvania to In.
diana, from West Virginia to Illinois
from Texas to Colorado. In ever,
state where mines are located men fel
TO work with supreme energy.
Miners who had been working par
time on account of age or physical dis.
abilities ceased to spare themselves
Many who had made enough none,
TO support them in old age gave VI
their we'll earned leisure and appeared
again in the early morning lines o.
workers that moved toward the black.
ened buildings above shaft and tunnel
AT Stonesboro, Pa, where the Mercer
Iron & Coal company mines are ths
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-22

Much discussion of a proposed eco
nomic war against Germany following
the close of active hostilities is going
on in various parts of the world. All
thoughts of such a plan should be put
aside. Let the Huns work and sell the
products of their labor wherever there
is a market, then take the money
away from them and use it in repair
ing the damage they have wrought in
the past four years. The world will
need everything useful that can be
produced by all its people for years to
come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-22

been used to having them, and wnen
he returns you will know him better
because you have known his mother
so intimately. Do not become discour-
aged, and do not complain about your
mother n-law to your husband. If
he loses faith in your strength OF
character now you may never re-es-
tablish his prerent opinion of you.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: Do you
think a girl should be obliged to ac-
cept an engagement ring which a boy
has given another girl and she has re-
turned to him when they had quar-
rel?
My boy friend was engaged before
and now he wants me to take the 9TH
er girls ring. l think he should love
me enough to buy me one of my own.
never liked the other girl and I
would rather go~ without a ring than
wear hers. but / do want a ring OF my
own very badly.
/ MARY ELLEN.
1t is only natural that you should
object to a ring which another girl
had as an engagement gift and re-
turned. Ask the boy to sell it and
buy you another which will be entire
iy yours without any previous assoc
Citations.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: ] have been
going with a girl for several months
and 1 have asked her TO kiss me good
night. Will you please let me know
. If she is right and if there is any
harm in kissing good night, as we
are in love with each other? 3. D.
, If the girl did not kiss you she is
right. When you love her enough to
| ask her to marry you. doubtless she
will kiss you if she loves you, too. A
girl should feel loyalty to the man
she will some time marry and the
boy also to the girl he will marry. This
loyalty would prevent making com
monplace the rights of engagement
and marriage.
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help you would give was to say per-
haps we'd find a way. She told me
that and then she laughed. Madge is
very pretty when she blushes-she has
improved immensely the last few
years, since that time Aunt Jane had
us here to try and get us to fall in
love. I think the Dunhams do i'm
prove With age" And Aunt Eliza beth
said undoubtedly they did.
What I want to know Is what you
meant, and what Madge meant" con-
tinued Stanley. The more I have
thought of that remark-well, the
truth is it put an idea into my head
that had been shaping itself ever since
Madge got here. We have tastes very
much in common-the very fact that
we can't divide the books shows that,
and of course the books wouldn't
have to be divided if we-well, hang it
all, Aunt Elizabeth, you're a woman.
Do you think Madge would have me *
Aunt Elizabeth wasn't at all sure,
but when Stanley took his question to
Madge, she needed no urging. Her
only regret, she said. was that it might
seem that she was accepting him on
account of the books. whereas she
wanted him Tor his own dear self.
Stanley had never realized what an &C.
stacy of contentment there was in be-
ing called dear SELF by woman
before. In fact it was an entirely nov
They hurried to Aunt Elizabeth with
their good news and Aunt Elizabeth
was ready then to play her surprise
on them. Yes, Aunt James fortune
really, my dears. quite staggering in
size-had been left to her, but only
until the match could be made. Real
ly. old Aunt Jane was pretty shrewd,
even if she was near the century
mark. She had made up her mind a
little while before she died that if the
cousins could be brought together over
library of books that way they
would do-exactly what they had
done. So she sent to a book collector
in Boston and told him Just what she
wanted. OF course. Aunt Jane had
never had any books to speak of her.
self.
And If we hadn't decided as we did
| then you would have had the money.
or was there some other provision 2"
asked Madge, the full enjoyment of
her good fortune marred a little by
the thought that some one else might
be robbed by it.
Il asked Aunt Jane what to do with
the money if you didn't earn it, and
she said there could be no II. She said
she's been an old maid nearly a hun
dred years and I had for fifty, and it
was time some of the Dunhams got
married"
Copyright. 1918. by the Mcclure News.
papeF Syplicate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-22

Both New Zealand and Canada al
ready have begun consideration of the
problem of employment of their re-
turning soldiers. Out-of-work pay for
ex-service men and others is one plan
that has been proposed in New Zea-
land. 1t is suggested that men be per-
mitted to draw such pay, or to call
upon the government thru an insur-
ance system. for twenty weeks at least
during the year. following their dis
charge from the army. Free insur-
ance against unemployment has also
been suggested. The back to the
land" movement for disabled soldiers
in Canada is being handled by the de-
partment of soldiers civil re-esta blish-
ment thru a census of the soldiers,
with a view to ascertaining their oc-
equations and future ambitions. About
100000 cards have already been OBJ
tanned and are being anaylzed in order
that the government may know the
magnitude of the problem.
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oldest in the district, 80 men who had
retired from the service Of the COM
pany after accommodating substantial
savings, volunteered to take up pick
and shovel again. These older work
ers were assigned to a new opening on
the mine, which was not yet connected
with q railway spur. but while waiting
for the siding to be completed they
mined 1000 tons of coal
1.-The mine workers, recognizing that
this is no time for Sinking or slack
ing, have responded nobly to the slo-
gan of the president OF the United
Mine Workers of America for "a full
eight hours work each day and for
six days a week." says James B.
Neale, director of production, United
States fuel administration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-22
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman WntDe.
Stacker Motherhood-2.

This incident Of the Stacker mother
who has made her sons slackers. calls
attention again to a fact that we are
apt to overlook, and that Is that
mother love can mar as well as make,
and be as powerful for evil as it can
for good.
Curiously enough, women do not
seem to realize this. The majority
Of mothers seem to think that If they
love their children enough it excuses
any harm that they may do them.
II love my children so well / just
can't bear to punish them," a woman
will say by way of excuse for raising
UP a brood of hoodlums. Il love my
anything" a mother will explain in
justifying herself for letting her
babies gorge themselves on candy I'M
til they are sick. Il love my children
SO 1 can't force them to go to school
when they hate it," a mother will tell
you in explanation of her boys and
girls growing up without education.
once heard a young man curse his
mother because she had not had his
club foot Strengthened when he was a
child, and SO saved him from being
cripple. But 1 was so tender to you
1 could not endure the thought of an
operation, and Of your having to wear
/ a Trace on your dear little Leg she
walled. II loved you So" 'Love!" he
Knocked at her, lit would have been
better for me had you hated me and
done your duty by me-"
And the young man was right. The
, love that has not the courage to fight
with us for what is best in us. and I'd
hol us up to doing our duty, is nc
blessing but a curse to US.
We do not recognize our mental and
spiritual deformities as quickly as we
do cur physical ones, but the lame
boy who cursed his mother for his
manned body that she could have
made straight il she had had the
strength to do her duty by him in his
childhood, has his prototype among
the nyriads of the men and women
who are failures in life. They could
have been cured of the faults and
weaknesses that have wrecked them il
only in their youth their mothers had
had the strength to control them
, But their mothers loved them too well
| to make them do the hard things.
Weak, selfish, Stacker mother love!
1t is thing over which the angels In
Heaven must weep.
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HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
By MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I recently
married a soldier who went to war
imm ediately after our marriage. MY
parents opposed my marrying him SO
much that they said that il ! did
could no longer live at home with
them. My husbands mother seemed
to want me to come to live with her
and so I was perfectly satisfied with
the arrangements.
I can see now why my mother-in-
law wanted me to come. She has a
big old house that always looks dirty
and she is tired of keeping it up her
self. She gives me work to do which
keeps me very busy all day long and
every evening. and she follows me
around and complains If 1 don't do II
just the way she wants ne to.
/ am nearly crazy and would give
anything to be at home with my own
people. but they say they will no,
take me since 1 disebeyed them. What
en- L do? 1 shall die where ! am.
MISERABLE WIFE.
The best way will be to work GU,
your problem where you are. You
made a wrong choice and now you
will have to meet the results brayely
and thru your own efforts better con.
ditions- The hard work you have tc
do will be a good lesson and will
teach you much about keeping up Q
home that you could learn in no other
way. Besides. you are learning to dc
things in the way your husband has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-22
GLOBE SIGHTS
From the Atchison Globe.1

An Atchison man has a shape like
a bottle.
No man ever loafs and fools people
into the belief that he is working.
A good fellow is imposed upon al
most as much as an automobile owned
in partnership.
The person talked about feels no
meaner than the one who realizes he
has talked too much.
Link Preston: Praise 'em and
spoil 'em. makes for the practice of
sending flowers after death instead of
before"
If you live in a big town, you get a
five line notice in the papers when
you die. and the chances are your
relatives pay for it.
John Quit, Liberal, Kan, man evil
IDENTIFY didn't have the right kind. He
has been interned for the duration OF
the war because he believes the kaiser
divine.
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ANSWERS TO
CORRESPONDENTS

The following are some Interesting
answers to correspondents who wrote
for information to the Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. WASH
ington. d. c.
How many Weishmen are fighting in
France?
ANSWER--It was estimated that at the
end of 1915 two hundred thousand Welsh
men had Joined the British expeditionary
forces in France. The last published total
for Glamorgan alone was higher than the
figure for the whole of Ireland. In recog-
milton of the services rendered by the
Welsh regiments a special regiment called
1.-THE Welsh Guards has recently been
formed.
Do soldiers on the firing line have their
clothes Numbered or do they do the wash
ing themselves?
Observation-Disclosures is being made for
travelling laundries to go from camp to
camp.
Where was Won Hindenburg born?
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Won Hindenburg was
born in the city Of Posen, Germany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-22
A PLEA FOR PEACE.

Let us have peace" a great general once
said;
Today millions echo that prayer,
While symbols of strife everywhere are dis
played.
And the harsh din Of war fills the air.
But. let it be peace Of a kind that will
last
While the centuries roll thru their
stages:
A peace that may partly repay for the
Thru the coming Of untold ages.
But oh, let 1t be by a victory won
BY the right and the might of freemen,
Ger the wrong and the might of the vicious
Hun;
Der the schemes of heilish demon;
When under the flags of the blue, red
and white,
In the front of the battle flashing.
To give the war lords a thrashing.
Yes; let 1t be after we've marched thru
their land,
Laid waste many n town and city:
Have shown them the weight Of q cold. iron
hand;
Have steeled our own hearts against pity
Let 1t be such n peace, whatever we do
That Hun lies no onger can "blindenn
When the armies Of allies, iu grand re
view,
Have marched thru "Cnter de Linden
Z. A. D. PARKER.
Belleville, Kansas.
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The eleventh article of the German
constitution reads: 1.-The emperor
shall represent the empire among ma
tions, declare war. and conclude peace
in the name of the same, enter into
alliances and other conventions with
foreign countries, accredit ambassa-
doris and receive them" President
Wilson knows very well, therefore.
with whom he is dealing whenever
peace overtures come from Berlin.
Knowing the kaiser's duplicity and
disregard of truth and treaties, the
president could not have been expect
ed to reply otherwise than he did.
Germany protests against any attempt
to interfere with the internal political
status of the country. but it must be
apparent even to the Huns that Article
XII must be abrogated before there can
be any peace negotiations. Germany
must clean house whether she like 1t
or not and the sooner she sets about
it the sooner she will get results on
her efforts in the direction of peace.
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A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds of men ia
Americas Fighting Service

keep going fellows-keep going!"
1t was the voice of a wounded U. S.
marine calling to his comrades dur
ing the attack on Bouresches, France,
June 6. The wounded marine was
Pvt. George Caygill. In spite of mis-
wounds, his whole thought was of his
comrades. who must achieve the VIC
tory which he had helped to gain.
Again and again his cry echoed-un-
til there was NJ one to hear. except
the stretcher man, gathering UP the
wounded. For his comrades had
needed the urging call. They were
far in the distance now, in Bour-
esches itself. They had won. Cor
poral Caygill. as a result of his dis
regard of himself. has been recon-
mended for decoration by his superior
officer. He is a son of William Cay
gill, Byesville, Ohio.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-22
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Menu Hint. Z,
BREAKFAST.
IL

Menu Hint ,xi
Dat Flakes s"ANp AL Top Milk. 7
Corn Mullins
Rhubarb and Orange Marmaladc,
Milk. Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
EGGS Served on Potato Balls Drowned
in Oven.
Rye Bread. Apple Butter.
DINNER.
Mutton. Green Beans Potatoes,
One-Dish Meal
Fruit Salad. Barley Muffina
Coffee.
Tried Recipes.
Waldorf Salad-Mix an equal guam
tity Of sliced celery and apples, add
quarter Of a pound of pecans or
English walnuts chopped fine. Put
over tablespoonful of lemon Juice
and sufficient mayonnaise dressing to
thoroly cover. To be absolutely cor.
rect, this salad should be served with
out lettuce. 1t can, however, be
dished on lettuce leaves.
War Cake-One-quarter cup mar
garine, half cup sugar. one egg. well
beaten, half cup milk. half cup buck.
wheat, one-half cup white flour. one.
half cup graham flour two and one.
half teaspoons baking powder, vanilla.
, Cream fat, add sugar. then the egg,
well beaten: add alternately the milk
der. Flavor and bake for thirty min.
utes in a moderate oven. II frostinR
is wanted use three tablespoons hot
water or milk; sift into it enough con-
fectfoners sugar to make II the right
thickness to spread 1t can be flavor
ed and colored pink with fruit juice.
Green Tomato Sweet Pickle-Slics
one peck green tomatoes. sprinkle
with salt, let stand over night; next
| day drain off salt water and scaId in
weak vinegar. Drain again. Make a
syrup as you would for pears and
peaches. using whole cloves and stick
cinnamon. Pour over tomatoes boil.
ing hot. stand a couple of days, pour
off again and boil syrup fadd more
sugar II necessary; pour off again in
another couple of days. If syrup is
watery add more sugar and pour over
the pickles the last time cold. This
] will keep in crooks.
Green Tomato Butter-Wash. pare
! and cut in small pieces green toma-
| toes; one or two red ones help to col
| or. To each gallon OF tomatoes add
| one quart sugar and one quart light
| corn syrup. two lemons sliced very
thin; let boil slowly until thick enough
! to keep. Before removing from stove
add one tablespoon ground cinnamon.
| Put in glasses and cover with paraffin
! or seal in jars. This is delicious.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-22

1.-The Germans are like the chap in
evening dress who went up to the box
office man and said eagerly:
"'Have you got two front-row seats
on the aisle for tonight
"'Yep. Here you are said the box
office man.
But the chap in evening dress
frowned.
keep EN- he said The show
can't be any good"
where do you come from in the
states?" inquired g. Y. NJ. c. A.
worker OF an American darby.
you'll have to pardon me, sab,
but the captain tells me not to di-
vuIge no valuable military informa-
tion."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-22
GERMANY's NEW NOTE.

Germany's reply to President Will
sons latest note is a tissue of lies, eva
sions, misrepresentation and false
pretenses. She denies that she pur-
posely has sunk lifeboats with pas
sengers. The inference left is that
she would have saved the boats If she
could and sunk only the occupants.
The note carries the announcement
that Article XII of the German con-
stitution has been amended SO as to
allow the people a voice in declaring
war and arranging peace. But a con-
stitution that can be SO easily and
quickly changed can just as readily
be changed back again.
The declaration that private prop
erty is being protected by the retiring
Hun armies is disproved by the facts
as observed by their pursuers.
The president is asked to arrange
for terms on which occupied territory
will be evacuated. 1t must appear
to everybody, however. that Marshal
Foch is attending to the evacuation in
a manner that it would be hard to i'm
prove upon.
Germany hopes that President Will
son will not make any demands cir
reconcilable with German honor and
a just peace" AS regards German
honor, there is no such thing, but in
the matter of justice, let Germany
have it by all means if any way of do
ing so can be devised.
Let Germany have justice, but let
US first have justice in Belgium.
Civilization demands that the terms
of peace we dictate must be "just to
Germany" but let US be sure that they
will be just to France, one of the sub
FINEST figures in all human history.
Let US be sure that they are just
to the millions OF noble French men
and women, who have died for God
and humanity.
Let US be sure that these terms will
be just to the women and children of
France. who endured horrors possibly
greater even than those inflicted upon
Belgium.
Let us be just to the men who have
been killed on the battlefield in de-
Tense of civilization, to the men and
women. the Red Cross nurses and the
hospital attendants, coldbloodedly
murdered by Gernnnys ruthless as
sassins.
Our peace terms must be "just to
Germany" but let us bear in mind
that justice must be given first to the
victims of Gern,any's accursed war.
Let us be just to the millions OF
England's troops who have made the
supreme sacrifice in defense of Chris
tianity and civilization and woman
| hood.
| Let US be just to the men who have
| been murdered on the high seas.
Let us be just to the memory OF
the women and children and innocent
men whose bodies were fed to the
sharks when Germany sank the Lus-
itania.
Let us be just to Italy, and remem-
Der how she has struggled heroically
sublimely, against the armies of Ger
many and her allies.
And when thinking of being "just
to Germany" let us remember the aw.
full chaos in Russia-that wreck ane
ruin OF a once great nation, where
the streets run red with blood, where
crime more unbridled than human
history has ever known marks the
course of German traitors to Russia II
the overturaing of all that has beer
sacred to life in Russia.
Justice is about the last thing thai
Germany will want