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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04
FREIGHT BY MOTOR TRUCK.

Fleets of motor trucks running be-
tween Atlantic seaboard cities are do
ing much to handle freight between
Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Washington and Baltimore, as well as
from Pittsburg to New York. The
Traffic World summarizes the follow
ing uses of motor trucks recently in
this territory:
Railroad facilities were not avail
able to move a pile-driving outfit with
boilers and engines for shipyard job,
so the equipment was transported on
motor trucks in eighteen hours, with
great Saving of time and freight
charges Two tanks. each twenty feet
long, weighing approximately twelve
tons, were hauled on motor trucks
from Chester to Reading, Pa. Five
tons of supplies for the Red Cross
were hauled from Philadelphia to
Boston for export-S20 miles-in less
than two days. Large quantities of
yarn and textile material have been
hauled from Philadelphia to New
York and reshipped to New England
points to save demurrage imposed I'M
der a railroad embargo.
A fleet of twenty-five motor trucks
has been running on daily schedules
between Philadelphia and New York
since July 1. with side trips to Wash
ington, Baltimore, Wilmington, Hart
ford, New Haven, Springfield, Provi-
dence. Harrisburg. Reading. Bethle-
hem, Trenton and other cities in nine
different states Shipments ranging
from one pound to many tons are ac-
cepted and delivered direct to the
consignee in these cities. and single
motor-truck loads of freight are so
valuable that frequently they have
been insured for $4,000.
Recently. $4,000 pounds of finished
leather were carried from Philadel-
phia to New York for export, and
eighteen trucks carried ninety tons of
musical instrument records to New
York in a single day. Movie" films
are carried regularly between New
York and Philadelphia, and shipments
comprise machinery, clothing. wooden
goods, textile materials, and food
stuffS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04

s The British food commissioners
again has sounded the alarm in con-
nection with the grain supply. He
announces that the allies will need
IS 600 GEO bushels more of wheat. We
can furnish it if We can get the nee
essary ships. In supplying the allies
with food We are in much the same
position as we are in the matter of
furnishing coal to our own people.
We are short of transportation. With
a wheat crop in the past two years
for below normal, the United States
exported in the fiscal year 1917,
preadstutfs valued at $5SO.235, 600
against $165.SO2.0OO in 1914 and
<123, 9SO.OOO in 1912. This increase in
Exported breadstuffs is seen in wheat,
flour. corn. corn meal, oats. oatmeal,
rye, rice and preparations for table
food, all of which show much larger
totals in 1917 than in 1914 or even
1915. the banner year of breadstuff
production in the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04

=. The congressional committee on
printing shaved 100000 off of one
paper bill for this year by ordering the
records and documents of congress
printed on lighter stock. This is step
IN the right direction, comments the
Des Moines Capital. and those who
have seen the extravaganza and waste
,cpnnected with government printing
from year to year are in hopes that
Either reforms will follow Hundreds
of tons of useless matter are printed
at the order of congress annually and
ranked thru the mails So far. all
efforts to pry congressman loose from
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04

entitled to a rest; so. calling his son
into the library. he said:
tom, I've worked hard for a long
time and have done well, so I've de-
cided to retire and turn the business
over to you. What do you say?"
The young man hesitated a mo-
ment. then said, in sudden thought:
II was just thinking, father, he
suggested, how would it be for you
to work a few years more and then
we could both retire together"
Maude Valerie White, in her gos-'
sipy memoirs. records some round
chara western One fear
fully hot day a woman, overcome
with fatigue. staggered into a small
store in a city 'out west" The shop
man was half asleep behind the coun-
ter. She asked family for some pow
der whereupon the man said drow-
silly: Pace. gun or insect"
Mike had seen nearly every clock
in the shop. but had discarded all of
them as not being good enough for
his purpose The weary shopman
cept a few cuckoo clocks. so he
brought these forward as a last re-
source, and vowed he would do his
best to sell one or know he reason
why
asked Mike se
I'll show you what they do" said
the shopman. And he set the hands
of one to a few minutes to IL. When
the little door flew open and the
cuckoo thrust his head out, cuckoo
ing away for dear life, Mike was
thunderstruck. But when the bird
disappeared he looked glum, and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04

This is war of ships, of airplanes,
of munitions, and of food supplies
Industrial. agricultural and food
workers constitute the second line Of
defense" Vocational training for
these workers is as essential as mill
fary training for the soldiers. This
will form the subject for discussion at
the eleventh annual convention of the
National Society for the Promotion of
Industrial Education, to be held in
Philadelphia February 81 to %. Sec
retary Redfield is among those who
will address the convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04
TRAVELETTE
ELEPHANT BUTTE
BY'NIKsAH.

The road to Elephant Butte winds
from a little desert railway station
across a dead land of low hills, barren
as the desert where the children of
Israel wandered for forty years. And
like the road of the Hebrews, the road
to Elephant Butte ENDS in a miracle.
1t ends at huge green lake, deeper
than the Mississippi, more beautiful
than the fiords of Norway. 1t resem-
bles a chapter from Arabian Nights
rather than a government yeclama-
ton project.
inhabited only by a few prairie dogs
and an occasional herd of lean wild
range cattle. The sparse grass is
brown and bunchy, the well-known
buffalo grass of the dry lands. The
sky overhead is cloudless blue; OBJ
viously it has not rained for a long
time, and doesn't intend to. Looking
for a monster lake in this region is
rather like searching for a dry spot in
the Pacific ocean.
Then, quite suddenly, the lake is at
your feet A thin line of palest gray,
barely di itinguishable against the gray
of the terrain, cuts one rim of the
green waterf like the edge of a knife.
That is the concrete DAM most of it
invisible under water reaching down
thru the drowned sands to bedrock,
shaped like a gigantice wedge, with
broad passage-rooms for two motors
on the sharp, upper edge of the wedge.
Above the dam, the waters stretch in
placid green sheets, winding I'm and out
among the blue lava hills. The rocky
hill-tops float on the emerald mirror
like things enchanted. A white cloud
in the blue sky is reflected line for line
and shade for shade. The air is clear
as If there were no air. The silence is
so perfect that the flop of little fish
can be heard for a hundred yards.
Only the throb of tiny pump
ing engine saves the whole scene from
the quality of an absolute mirage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04
ON SPUR 4 Fl MOMENT
A Little Slice o. Life.
By coy x. MoULTON

A Little Slice o. Life
A friend of ours, who is a good guy
And who is great entertainer,
When he has the price and &
When eatables aye not SO high,
Invited us to dinner the other evening
And. as a special treat, he had what he
called
Woofus fish, from the Arctic sea.
They were caught in the vicinity of Arch
angel,
And shipped directly to my friend.
He told US the woofus fish was a great
delicaey.
They were a small fish, about
The size of blind robins, and
They really tasted very good.
We spent the evening in the parlor,
Playing the yictrola and
Talking about our neighbors,
When suddenly noticed that their
Goldfish globe was empty,
Nothing in 1t but the stones and
The seaweed and .he little castle.
1 never said a word, but
I had my suspicious about
The Siberian woofus fish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04

pondered in gloomy thought for a
moment.
We'll, how do you like that %
asked the shopman. That's a stag
gerer for you, isn't it ?'
Faith and -begorra, L should think
it is declared Mike. Its trouble
enough to remember to wind it,
without having to think of feeding
the bird"
A lady bank clerk had completed
her first week, and a friend asked her
how she like the work. "Oh, it's
beautiful" said the girl. I'm at a
know have accounts. and it's so nice
to see how little money some of your
folks have in the bank
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04

What an absurdity it is to- find that
the very cooperation which the ma
ton finds necessary for its economic
salvation under the strain of war is
denounced as a crime in time of peace.
The application of the uncertainties
of such statutes as the Sherman act,
says the Los Angeles Times. are num-
bered. Sanity must and will return
to the Land. The national legislative
books must be freed of cant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04

" California farmers are reported to
have vast quantities of potatoes which
they cannot sell, altho there has been
no potatoless day set aside by Mr..
Hoover. Since potatoes cannot be
shipped in winter, those California
Farmers must hold their crop until
spring at a time when everybody else
will be unloading. In the meantime
the consumer is at the merry OF the
retailer and the commission man.
The man w->o can uevise a plan for
Bringing the producer and the con-
sumner together at the proper time
that is when the one wishes to sell and
the other desires to buy-will perform
q great service to his country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04
The war has restored silver

The war has restored silver to a re-
spectacle standing as a money metal
In large measure the white metal
is being made to supplement the use
of gold. Silver imports amounted to
$6,000.oO0 in December. as compared
with $500, 900 for the corresponding
month in 1916, and to $4,000, 600 for
the year, against sS2.0o0,OOO in 1916.
Exports of silver were valued at slQ,-
100000 in December, 1917. and s9,-
100000 in December. 1916. For the
year the silver exports amounted to
$s4.0oo,oO0 against ST., 100000 for
1915.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04
DINNER ST DRIES

The head of certain manufactur-
ing firm is an old gentleman who
built up his business from nothing by
logged and persistent toll and who
never felt that he could spare the
time for a holiday. Not long ago,
however, he decided that he was get
ting on in years and that he was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04

their highly expensive perquisftes
have availed nothing. If congress
really wants to set a pattern in pa
triotism for the nation to follow, it
can find a fine place for retrenchment
and personal sacrifice right at its
doors
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04

President Wilson's plea for talk
less congress will be approved by
the entire country. Little is accom-
plished by speech making. 1t is
doubtful that congressional oratory
ever changed vote in either house.
1t is not INDUCED in for that purpose
1t is intended to influence the vote
of the country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04

Spain has demanded an explanation
from Germany. Probably she will
get it. Explaining is the Huns long
suit. What Spain should demand is
reraration and she should be ready
to enforce that demand with the aid
Of the other powers arrayed against
the Telltons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04

The German workers who are on
strike stand to get some of the same
treatment which the German military
power has dealt out to the people of
enemy countries. But results may be
vastly different.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04

The number of hogs in the United
States has increased more than three
million head in the past year. The
figures include only the four footed
variety
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST
Fried Cornmeal Mush.
Syrup. Apple Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Cream of Carrot Soup.
Bread Fritters. Sweet Pickles
DINNER.
Chicken Pot Pie. Mashed Potatoes.
Turnips. Beet Salad
Stewed Apples and Rice.
For Meatless Tuesday.
Nut-Rice-Cheeese Ramekins-Three
tablespoons melted margarine, one
half cup chopped walnuts, one cup
boiled rice, one cup cheese, cut In
small Epieces, one cup bread crumbs,
two eggs, two cups milk, two table
spoons chopped parsley, salt and pep
per. Mix and turn into well-greased
ramekins- Bake about fifteen min
Ctes.
Cheese Fondae---Beat up three eggs,
stir in one cup ground cheese. one cup
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04

The food administration has sent
out a recipe which calls for the use
of two cups of flour and one cup of
corn meal and calls the result corn
bread
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04

"Mr. Jenkins is in conference and
can't see you
mo. IT is only thirteen minutes
late"
Painless dentist.
Strictly fresh eggs.
This building is fireproof"
Fine view from all windows"
yours very respectfully"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04
The New Management.

The New Management.
Dear Uncle Sam: I see that you are
runnin' railroads now.
It is the finest thing that's happened
in this war, I vow.
And now that you have taken charge,
some things I'd like to say
About improvements in the way the
roads are run today.
I've bought ton of wormy figs from
butchers, that I know;
know when you have taken hold,
you will not sell them so.
The brakemen holler out the names
I never get 'em, quite.
Please teach those birds how to pro-
nounce the names of stations right
The Teller who takes off his shoes and
goes to sleep and SHORES,
And sticks his feet out in the aisle.
please send him to foreign shores.
Please make the porters1 brush our
clothes and not just wave the broom.
And have some water that Is hot out
in that old washroom.
Just fix these little things for US. We
know you have the spunk.
Then we will send a thousand more
ideas for you, dear INK. r-,,c9
The extreme limit in profligate givs
ing:
A cartoonist friend of ours received
dozen fresh eggs for Christmas. He
has had them hard boiled and bis
wife will wear them for a necklace.
Inasmuch as we are rapidly learn
ing the ways of the French, the cham
p1on salad makers of the world we
may adopt Christmas tree salad before
the war is over.
Note From the Front
Ihat young French maid, she was dear.
She sweetly said: "Bonjour monsieur"
| found my book and answered right
In my best French: "Tress-bean, petite
While the senatorial Investigations
are going on let it be hoped they
don't forget to investigate the senate
at least, one member of it,
Hard times never really come until
some little tin-horn politicians begin
jumping on big Business"
Where would We be without big
Business?'
We would be about as important as
Guam.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-04
ssEHATEvER YOU WANT TO KNOW

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-27

Arthur Brisbane, the famous edi-
torial writer, says in the June Amer
ican Magazine:
The Editor every day must an
swer the question, What interests
people?' or he must fail.
THE question can be answered in
thousands of ways.
This story is told of Cyrus II. X.
Curtis: In days when he paid close
attention to his magazines, before
he became publisher of the ledger
Mr.. Curtis saw on his desk picture
of Miss Alice Roosevelt as very
young girl. The line under it read
Miss Alice Roosevelt
THAT did not satisfy Mr.. Curtis.
1t was not sufficiently interesting to
the millions OF women reading that
particular publication. lie adder
five words: IN her first silk dress
The line read then, Miss Alice
Roosevelt in her first silk dress
Young women and girls looked at
the picture With sympathetic inter-
est. older women studied 1t with
memories of other years.
Those five words in that particu-
lar edition of the Curtis publication
were worth a good many hundred
dollars for each word.
Needless to say. it was Miss Alice
Roosevelts first silk dress, other
wise the Curtis passion for accuracy
would have forbidden the addition
al five words"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-27
BottHng U-BoatS Big Feat of War

TINE following is an extract from
private letter received by Il
British naval attache located
in New York from a brother ofhcer
in the service:
Great excitement has prevailed
over that show the other night.
Every one in it was simply delighted
over it. and say il was a huge sue
cess. They were prepared to lose
as many men again as they did, so
the casualties were not heavy. Any
way, when you think that those
men stormed the land guns and
landed and fought +he Huns, 1t is
only natural that a good many could
not get back.
The Vindictive was tied up along
side the Mole for one hour and for
ty-five minutes, during which time
she was being heavily shelled. You
can imagine what she looks like
now. Herbert's was the boat that
towed the submarine alongside the
Mole and which blew the Mole up
All the men got away safely. Most
of them were wounded from ma
chine gun fire. Some of the escapes
were simply wonderful and some of
the stories of the things the men
did make ones hair stand on end.
Their bravery is beyond belief.
"They say 'tis a huge success. II
ought to make a great change in
the food in a few months time.
Photographs from airplanes show
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-27
Abolish All That Is German
TEditor and Publisherl


In his address to the Town Coun-
ell of Aachen, a few days ago, the
German Kaiser is reported to have
said:
'I believe it is now time to abolish
all that is foreign. We must cease
to talk French"
If Germany had a considerable
population of English-speaking peo-
Pile, some of them born in Germany,
others naturalized citizens, and still
others openly hostile to the German
Government. and war aims and re-
tanning their national allegiance
And If there had grown up in
Germany an English-language
press, catering to all of these ele-
lnents. preaching either a divided
loyalty or frank opposition to Ger
manism-
And if the publishers OF these
newspapers should contend to the
Kaiser that they were performing a
service to the "Fatherland" through
catering to the people living within
his empire who had no use for the
German language
The Kaiser would not be likely to
enthuse over the proposition, do you
think?
If "it is now time" for Germany
ito abolish all that is foreign as
the Kaiser says, it is surely time for
MS to abolish all that is German. It
is time for us to accord to German :
language newspapers the same sort
of treatment which would be ac-
corded in Germany to English Ian
guage newspapers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-27

how perfectly everything was car
ried out, and that they did exactly
what they set out to do, in the way
of blocking the entrances, etc. 1t
really is considered one of the teats
of the war, and down here every
one is frightfully 'bucked' over 1t.
Il went into Dover with Herbert
the next day and we were taken to
see the Vindictive. No one can con-
Ceive what it looks like. l could
not describe it. OF course it was
absolutely untouched below the
waterline, but from there up. there
seems very little of it left. The
decks are ripped up and the place
is like iacework, with machine gun
bullets and hits-how anyone ever
lived for one second on 1t is beyond
belief. 1t seems so wonderful to
think that Captain Carpenter, after
fighting on the Mole one hour and
forty-five minutes. calmly went on
board again and steamed her back
to Dover.
"I believe they never expected to
see any of the destroyer people back
again. The admiral was quite excit-
ed when Herbert went in to see him
after il all, as he said he thought
he had said "Good-by" to him.
"Of course, the Huns are making
out that nothing has been done, but
the photographs which Herbert saw
yesterday prove that story to be an
absolute lie."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-27
He Couldn't Get a Drink

Prohibition is going to do many
things. 1t will probably stop many
men from going through expert
ences such as this one. This is an
extract from the June American
Magazine, in which a man says:
" Night after night I'd wake I'D
about three o'clock, nervous. No
whisky in the room for a bracer.
because man when he's drunk has
no heed for the morrow. l couldn't
get any outside, all the saloons
closed; l knew that. I'd lie STAR
Ing up at the ceiling in positive
agony, physical and mental.
- When l could neither get drink
nor any other kind of solace, USED
to go mad. Once 1 was in the coun-
try with a friend. I'd been on a
prolonged debauch. There was no
liquor in the house. Wed drunk up
everything the night before, 1 start
ed out alone, early in the morning.
and walked along the main street.
Presently I came to a country road.
l kept on walking, straight ahead.
I had no money. / walked all
day. I didn't know where. 1 didn't
care. / just wanted to go on and
on, keep moving, trying to get away
from the devil that / knew was fol-.
lowing me. felt him at my heels.
and didn't dare turn. Now and
then would stop at farm and get
a drink of water"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-27
A SCHOOL FRIGHT THERE

A CTION of the Central High
u School in presenting to the
Harrisburg Public Library a
500 Liberty Bond for it's permanent
endowment not only inaugurates a
movement which will be of import
ance to the library whose circula-
ton is rapidly growing, but it ey!-
dences the patriotism and spirit OF
the school. The money was raised
among the students and accom-
pIishes the three-fold purpose of
helping the government, assisting
the library and giving the school a
membership in the association which
administers the institution.
This action of the school alone
would entitle it to praise for its
spirit, but when the record of the
school in the last half year or so is
given the whole city can take pride
in the student body in the building
in Forster street over which Prof.
H. G.. Dibble presides.
The students OF Central High, as
they are called, subscribed s12,5 to
the second Liberty Loan and $4,000
to the third. When it is considered
that these subscriptions come out of
allowances or represent money for
which students work, some of the
rest of us have to take off our hats.
And yet this splendid showing, which
means a real sacrifice on the part of
boys and girls, is not all. The stu
dents gave over $500 in cash or
pledges TO the Red Cross and have
agreed to buy $500 of War Stamps.
Harrisburg has been doing mighty
we'll each time asked and the part
played by Central High is something
worth while. Prof. Dibble has every
reason to feel proud of his school.
In the language of the day, 1T is
right there with the goods"