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INCOMPETENT DEMOCRACY.

The way to win the war is not the way
on which we have embarked. If it should
turn out that unpreparedness should neu-
tralize our part in this world crisis and
that "politics" should arrest our efforts
to make ready even at the eleventh hour,
we cannot dodge the conclusion that
democracy is neither morally nor intel
lectually competent to get an equation
between words and deeds.-Lewiston
journal.
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such energy that by midsummer there
will be not only an ample supply but a
surplus, and the same may be said OF
clothing. While it is possible that the
German strength may at any time col
lapse it is probable that the struggle will
continue for some time and our duty is
plain. We must not relax our efforts
but must redouble them.
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these troubles off
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Mccall Patterns.
lOc. and l5c.
ARE FOR SALE IN BELFAST BY
ESSIE P. earle
Who by special arrangement has all the
patterns all the time.
a. NO WAITING TO SEND.
Plain Toggery Snartest.
Hats, Gowns and Goats That Depend
Solely Upon Line and Color
For Effectiveness.
rCorresuopdence of The Journal, ]

Correspondence of The Journal
NEW YORK, Dec. "a, 1917. The smart
est, most attractive clothes worn here,
have little trimming, often none at all,
vet women never appeared to greater ad-
vantage. Perhaps it has been the object
lesson of military uniforms, where cut
and finish are the all important items
that has influenced designers for women's
apparel. Anyway the change from mean
ingless business is welcome, and an adj
vantage both from an artistic and eco
nomic viewpoint.
Colorings.
The coloring is especially good in most
of the typically new dresses, and the hats
seem to have been selected as backgrounds
for their wearers rather than extraneous
ornaments that might be worn by any,
one. individuality is emphasized where
people possess it, and where the natural
appearance is rather negative, astriking
line or becoming use of color gives the
needed relief from monotonous effect.
Some Instances.
At a morning musicale at one of the
smart hotels, terra Gotta suit of wool
velours, was worn with an outstanding
turban of gold and black brocade quite
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-01-03

''Oh, speed the moment on when wrong
shall cease, and Liberty and Love and
Truth and Right throughout the earth be
known as in their home above"
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Price Csc, at all druggists or
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24
A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds of men in
Americas Fighting Service

Secretary Daniels has commended
Harry R. Chambers, chief gunner's
mate, U. s. N, for his efficient con-
duct when the vessel on which he was
commander of the armed guard was
attacked by a German submarine on
May IL, 1918. The American gunners
hit the coming tower of the U-boat,
compelling her to submerge, and the
vessel escaped. The submarine
launched two torpedoes, which missed
the bow by about twelve feet, and two
more which barely missed the stern.
The port gun of the steamer went
promptly into action. The fourth shot
hit the coming tower of the 'subma-
rine. and heavy black smoke arose
from the explosion of the shell. Cham
bers enlisted at Philadelphia, June 8.
1915. His mother. Mrs. Mollie Cham
bers, resides in Atlanta, Ga.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24
HOW CAN THEY PAY?

Loans made By the United States o
the allies, the total of which now
amounts to $6,e91,59O,O0O, are con-
tinuing to pile up at a rate-of nearly
$500, 100000 monthly, treasury de-
partment statistics indicate Great
Britain to date has been given credits
of 1910, 100000. France $1.765.O OO.-
900, Italy s66O,OOO.0OO. Russia ssr5.-
600, 900. Belgium $131, 100000. Greece
s15,790.000. Cuba $15,OO0,000 and
Serbia 100000. A credit of $e,-
$4,000 was extended to Rumania, but
the exact status of the loan at that
time when the country made peace
with the central powers has not been
determined.
OF the credit extended to Russia
only $1S7.000.000 was paid out on
treasury warrants before the fall of
the Kerensky government, and the
peace treaty made with Germany by
the Bolsheviki led to a stoppage of the
funds.
How shall all this money be repaid :?
The debt cannot be wiped out in cash
because these creditor nations did not
receive cash from us and therefore
will not have it to return to US. IT is
clear that they must pay in goods if
at ALL
Already. Republican leaders are agi-
tating for restoration of the protec-
tive tariff after the war on the theory
that this country will be flooded with
the products Of European factories
unless a. protecting dam against the
flood be built by congress. In Ian
mig to fight another presidential cam
paign on the tariff issue the party
leaders are inviting defeat
What the people of Europe have to
sell they will sell; If not here then in
those countries where we are trying
to build up trade. We may as well
make up our minds to compete with
them here as in South America, Mex
leo and China
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24
DINNER STORIES

A motorist journeying through the
Rumpus Ridge region of Arkansas
came upon two men wallowing in the
dust of the big road and belaboring
each other right zealously. AS the
traveller brought his car to halt to
keep from running over the combat
ants they arose and whacked a por-
ton of the dust from their garments.
Then, stepping from the, track, they
produced pipes from their pockets,
and one offered his tobacco to the 9TH
,er in the most amiable way.
Pardon me, gentlemen said the
motorist, but what were you fighting
about ?"
Jaw, that wasn't fighting. presize-
ly," replied one of the men. My
name is Gap johnson, and three or
four of my oldest girls are beginning
to wall their eyes and talk about love.
This yur gent is Bung Sladdock the
best rough-and-tumble scrapper on
the Ridge. l amt as soople as l used
to be, and I'm just practicing up with
him against the time when I'll have to
fight a pessel of sons-in-law."
At the recent election a senator was
elected who thought very favorably of
his own tactfulness, SO when he re-
turned from his first visit to the cap
ital, upon being asked to deliver an
address, he started as follows:
MY friends, 1 shall not call you
ladies and gentlemen, 1 know you too
WELL"
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soldiers abroad can send money orders
which can be cashed at any Army
Neither France nor England has
found it necessary to limit packages
for its men at the front. When we
had .nly one-tenth as many troops in
France as Great Britain, we had four
tiles as much parcel post. There are
several reasons why the allies have
not had our mail troubles. In the
first place, England and France nave
been heavily affected by the war and
have little surplus money and time to
send unnecessary presents to their
fighting men. Then, too, the maxi
from this country overseas is seven
pounds as compared with the French
and British limit of two or three
pounds. Export laws cut down 3rit-
ish mail, and the short distance from
Britain to be covered to reach the
trenches makes 1t less vital that every
inch of cargo space be utilized.
No limitations. excepting weight,
have been set by the United States on
packages sent to soldiers and sailors
in this country. but moderation and
forethousht are urged upon the pub
lie. Fruit and perishable food of all
sorts should not be entrusted to the
mails. In proof of the wisdom of this
advice are statistics showing that
thousands of packages are DESTROYED
by military authorities rather than de
liver spoilt articles to the soldiers
This Is particularly true in southern
camps where a wave of hot weather
reduces even the hardest biscuits to
a soggy mass after their sojcurn IN
postoffice and mail train.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BIZ MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.


Dear Mrs. Thompson: have been
going with a young man since March
and after we had gone together just
a few. weeks he seemed to be very
much in love with me and said he was.
He is older than 1 am and out of the
draft age.
Recently he went on a vacation for
three weeks and when he came back
he seemed like a stranger. He came
to see me but we did not seem as close
friends as the first time we met. He
has come to see me several times since
and it is always the same way and he
says nothing about loving me.
1 do not understand why he acts
this way. What would you do If you
were in my place?
WORRIED.
Very often after a separation there
Is not the same close1ess for while.
If I were you I would accept the
mans friendship and not look for
love. He likes you Or he would not
ask to call so much.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: am IS
years old and 1 keep steady company
with a boy one year my senior. This
boy is very good-looking and very pop
ular with all the girls. Altho he likes
me better than the rest he acts funny
at times and 1 don't think he likes me
any more. He gets angry and WONT
| makes me very unhappy. If he really
loved me do you think he would act
that way? BARBARA
He is too young to really love you.
Regard him as a friend and do not
let his sulkiness make you unhappy.
A boy who acts the way you say he
does is not worth worrying over. Go
with other boys too. A girl of Is
should not limit herself to one boy.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I have been
keeping company with a. young man
! who has been drafted and will be
! called away soon. He is very BASH
| full. I love him very much and would
like to become engaged before he goes
away. AS know he cares for me how
| can make him say so?
| COUNTRY LASS
| Even bashful boys find a way to
propose. You may rest assured that
| when the boy feels inclined to pro-
| pose he will forget his shyness You
will not help matters if you try to
hasten him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24
GLOBE SIGHTS
From the Atchison Globe.1

Every town has two or three edu-
Gated boobs.
Duty is too apt to linger. instead of
going ahead.
Some people don't want to do bet
ter; they want to do you.
The man who says he will forgive
but can't forget, won't forgive any
thing.
There is class of farmers who feel
that small yields are never mentioned
in the papers.
The man who said, III have to wait
until my wife makes up our minds,
told one of theworld's greatest truths.
During these times. farmers and
town people should be satisfied and
thankful If they just break even, fl
nancially
A real brave man does more apollo
gizins than a coward does. for it takes
courage to do the right thing now and
then.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24
TRAVELETTE

BY NIKSAH


-"And some have greatness thrust
upon them"-that is Hog Island. For
hundreds of years Hog Island lay all
unnoticsd and unwanted, a bit of
sand and seaweed, on the smiling face
of the Delaware, contentedly breeding
droves OF mosquitoes and extending a
genial hospitality to reed birds and
wild canaries.
Theoretically, Hog Island was a part
OF the Elmwood section of Philadel-
phia. Actually it was not anywhere.
Now and again a small boy would
make a venturesome swim to its bank
and return quickly. possibly in search
of lotion. Sometimes, in bird sea-
son, a few hunters would push thru
her brakes in search of game. Once
in a while a congressmarwould rise
abruptly and demand that Hog Island
be removed for the Improvement of
the Delaware channel. Occasionally
perhaps once in a year-a Sunday
supplement writer would point out the
fact that there WAS Hog Island.
And then, of a sudden, everybody
was talking Hog Island. thinking
Hog Island. and a great many were
soon doing Hog Island. The Anieri-
can International Shipbuilding cor
| Fleet corporation. announced that it
would erect a billion dollar plant
| there. to be the largest and best equip
| ped shipyard in the country ship
yard that would give employment to
| hundreds of thousands of men and
| women
| And so last fall the reed birds for
| sock Hog Island; the wild canaries
flew by without stopping. The con-
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Salads.


Egg Salad With sardine Dressing
Simmer eight eggs twenty minutes
then drop into cold water, let remain
ten minutes and strip off the shells.
Skin and bone six sardines, pound
them to paste, add one cup OF
mayonnaise or boiled dressing and
beat until well mixed. Cut the eggs
in halves lengthwise, place in nests Of
lettuce lea es and mash with the
dressing.
Lettuce and Egg Salad-Allow two
eggs to each person and boil eggs IF
teen minutes. Chill. Quarter or slice
upon a flat dish or platter which has
been covered with lettuce and cut in
narrow strips with scissors. Slice ten
or more stuffed olives, scatter over
eggs and mounds of cooked dressing
at intervals over the whole. Sprinkle
with paprika and serve ice cold.
Banana Salad-Select nice ripe ba-
nanas, cut in two, dip in mayonnaise.
then roll in chopped nuts; serve on
crisp lettuce leaves.
Chicken. and Nut Salad-This may
furnish the lain course for a dinner.
One of the cans of boned chicken.
costing 40 cents, will serve four per-
sons generously. Remove the con-
tents of the can, rinse in cold water
and chill; then cut in dice lido not
chop). Have ready crisp celery, cut
in dice, measuring about one and one
half times the amount of chicken. Add
one tablespoonful of chopped walnuts,
two chopped Iiard-boiled eggs and six
chopped stuffed olives. Sprinkle very
lightly with salt. blend with mayon-
naise dressing and serve. heaped on a
salad platter. Mask with little adj
ditional dressing and garnish with
slices of hard-boiled eggs. capers and
bits of picked beet.
Cafo
age gelatin, mint flavor, one pint
stock. one cup cold cooked chicken.
diced. one-quarter cup cold cooked
carrots cut in slivers. one-oua rter cup
| cooked peas, one cup curled celery.
| one scant cup Of stiffly whipped cream
| (measured after whipping. one large
head of Irly lettuce. Dissolve the
| gelatin in boiling stock. When it COM
mences to thicker, add all Ingredients
except lettuce and celery. Mix thoroly.
Turn in individual molds and harden.
| Serve. as desired, topped with stiff
mayonnaiae and curled celery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24

The German leaders foresee the
large emigration o. the German work.
er whom tho struggle is ended; SO in
order that there shall be no getting
from under the burden of taxation the
imperial government proposes to en-
act g. law which provides that all per-
sons liable to taxes shall leave at least
20 per cent of their taxable property
mont of taxes. This action seems to
indicate that their plan to make the
allies pay the cost of the war has been
abandoned
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT.
BY ROY K MOULToN

Teach Your Child to Recite This,
I'd like to see the kaiser with a lily on his
I'd like to see that floral piece that always
I'd like to see the crown prince with his
mug behind the bars.
I'd like to see Won Hindenburg exiled IN
! dismal Mars.
I'd like to see Won Ludendorff in some cleo
I'd like to see Prince Eitel in desert grim
and bare
I'd like to s Sc yon Hertline on Helena. lone
I'd like to see King Ferdinand hanged firm
| 1y by his beak.
I'd like to see these things come true but
this I'd like the best
Ia Ike to see the kaiser with q lily on his
Our contest to select the most fit
ting war slogan has closed and the
| prize, pair of red suspenders. goes
- the Rev. A. j. Hawks of Pine Knot,
! Ark. who sent in the following:
To He'll with the Kaiser"
Some Rev. Some slogan.
Now that the matter of erecting a
statue in honor of Uncle Jim Buchan-
an has been decided in the affirma-
| tive, on with the war, let Joy be un-
refined.
Since prunes have Joined the aris-
tocracy everybody wants to eat them.
Isn't that just the way of American
people?
If the battle of Waterloo were 20
| occur today it would be described as
| an uflimportant foray on the, western
| front resulting in a clash by small
| bodies of troops. The world do move.
Why not remove the feathers from
the dove of peace and use them with
a coat of tar on some of our well
known alien enemies? just an idea,
| that's all.
If all the flivver drivers in Michigan
vote for Uncle Henry for senator he
| will be elected, but will they?
Who is going to build that tun-
mel from England to France? Mr..
McAdoo. the tunnel expert, hasn't
much to do now. Maybe he can find
time.
Reading Of the Examinations and re-
strictions devised by the war indus
tries board regarding mems clothing.
we can almost see the necessity Of
wearing Mother Hubbards, old rain
| coats and bathrobes on the street. We
cannot all be physically perfect like
Senator J. Ham Lewis and the war in
dustries board.
| Up to the present moment the crown
| prince has not been arrested for i'm
| personating an officer.
| Note a war receipt for a delicious
summer drink" which says: Take
] the juice of pineapple, sweetened with
| cracked ice"
| Don't know as we would care for
anything sweetened with cracked ice,
| but the sugar famine is liable to lead
| to anything.
| Kaiser Wilhelm the Last is about to
! place four new kings on thrones, but
the allies are on hand with plenty OF
| aces
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24

The Hams are staging their first big
retreat sine they Abandoned the
Sor=pe front in 1915 and retired to
the mc=s or less famous EinseaburE
line. Since RS r16soer ade movement
comes At a period nearly four years
subs~qus':t TO their first effort to
reach Paris 1t does not auguf well
for their ultimate success. 1t seems
hardly possible that they will be able
to sage smother comeback this year.
But The I4indenburg line may still be
in good working order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24

Everybody works for Uncle SAN.
Even Japan is building ships for him.
The contracts between our govern
ment and Japan include the con-
struction of thirty cargo carriers for
US of $500 tons each. Taken with
previous contract, it raises the total
for vessels to fifty in number, With an
aggregate tonnage of $50, 900, at a cost
of approximately s7S.OOO,0oO. Ac-
cording to the contract the United
ties furnisho one ton of steel for
every ton of shipping delivered, one
ton of the latter being retained Ly
Japan in return Tor her work of con-
struction. The work goes on at sew
cral different yards. Some of the ves-
sells Will be equipped with~guns ard
crews and put into immediate service
for carrying men and supplies to
France Others will be engaged in
trade on this side and with ne. raj
nations to relieve general commerce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24

While several nations of the west
ern hemisphere have Joined the coun-
ties banded together to whip the
Hun. most of them are silent-partners
In the concern. But not so Brazil.
She Is using her navy to patrol the
s~a ard her merchant marine to
trSecrort supplies to the allies. She
alec Is enlsreing and drilling her army
and X the war last long enough she
Is confidently expected to place a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24

struction department of the ship
building company cut down all the
reeds and the sanitary, department
killed all the mosquitoes Bridges were
built to Hog, Island, trolley cars, rail-
road cars, and auto buses bore its
name on their sides. Giant foundries
were erected. Shipways hemmed the
shores. Hog Island. long sterile and
sacred to silence, became suddenly
great in the world of industry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24

The hith price Of paper and other
increases in expense caused s25 news
paper suspensions and $50 mergers in
1871. and such Examinations are pro-
css:-~g this Year in a considerably
greaier ratio. Yet the complaint of a
paper shortage grows louder and mora
insistent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24

A Wisconsin court has held that
Senator La Toilette has no place of
residences in that state. It Is not sur
p-ia6ng that the state denies him.
Tncrs is nothing to prevent a nom
rsssisst from representing a state in
the Tinted States senate but such rem
resentatscn Is unusual.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24

First the food administrator puts
a limit on what we shall eat. Then
the cooks refuse to prepare what is
left to us. Topeka citizens soon may
be reduced to browsing for a living
like the goats; thus making their
likeness to those animals real as well
as Theoretical
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24

(, The American soldier may be sur
prise to his European enemies and
friends but he is doing no more than
we at home expected of him. His
fighting qualities are well known to
his relatives, and neighbors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24

force on the fighting line in Europe
Portugal, the mother country of Bra
I'll, has been valiantly fighting on tbs
side of democracy almost since the
beginning of the war.