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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09

The increased rates which the pub
lie is now called upon to pay for rail-
road transportation, either freight or
passenger, serve to illustrate the fact
the laws of business cannot be evaded
permanently any more than can the
laws of nature. The lesson is all the
harder because the increased rates
come at a time when the cost of liv-
ing has reached its highest notch, and
when every patriotic citizen is strsa-. All
every effort to buy war savings stamps
and liberty bonds and to support the
Red Cross and every other war benev-
olence. We are paying now the pen
atty of having an interstate commerce
commission which for years stubborn
ly refused to give the railroads the
limited advances they asked for. which
saw the railroads compelled 10 pay
higher wages and to submit to m 1unt-
ing costs for all equi~ nent, says les
lies, yet with strange faulty refused
them the necessary credit to increase
their facilities. It was inevitable that
the railroads would not be equal &c
the tremendous traffic demands of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09

Another case of Henry Ford is re-
ported from England. By 1917 there
remained in British agriculture only
$4,000 men Of military age. The
number of women workers had been
increased by 100000. But there are
very few women who can pillow and
one message from the submarine was
that in 1918 every available acre in the
British Isles must be put under cult
walton. What was to be done about
it? Use tractors, said Henry of De-
troit. offering all the patents and spec
ifications for his rwn as starter.
When it was found that there were
difficult in the way of manuta ctur-
ing in England. ne PIT on few thou
sand more mr. and made it another
Job for Michigan Delivery began in
January. 1918. Ard according to the
official reports CT the British war cab
met a. least 1000 were in sight for
the spring.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Chicken-Pecked Parents.-1.


Among my acquaintance is a dear,
clever, shrewd-eyed old lady who lives
with her maiden daughter, Martha.
Martha is a capable and energetic
soul, a born manager, whom nature
destined to b. the presiding genius of
a husband and a large family of chill
dren. Unfortunately, fate somehow
thwarted the matrimonial designs of
nature concerning Martha, and hav-
ing no one else to manage except
mother, she spends all of her talents
in that direction upon the poor lady.
Strangers always say to mother:
My dear Mrs. X, how blessed you
are to have such a good daughter! /
never saw such devotion. Why, she
just simply never lets you out of her
sight, and she seems to anticipate
your every thought"
And mother smiles an inscrutable
little smile, and murmurs politely.
"Oh, yes, Martha is the best of daugh-
ters," but to me she said once in d
burst of confidence:
DO you know what I am going to
do? One of these days 1 intend to
get together all the old fathers and
mothers that I know who have loving
children who are doing their duty by
their parents, and 1 am going to or
ganiZe these down-trodden and op:
pressed parents into a regular Fourth
of July Independence league. and we
are going to make our last great fight
for a little Bit of personal liberty.
"At present we are groaning under
the tyranny of the young. We are
chicken-pecked to death. We are
nagged and bullied by our children
coerced into doing those things that
from doing those things thai ne dc
wish to do, and there is no happiness
in us.
And it doesn't make it bit easier
to bear because our tyrants are low
ing tryants, and their interference
with all of our pleasures and plans
is done in purely altruistic spirit and
for our own good. What we old peo-
pie want is to have our own way, and
to live out our own little short spar
of days in the manner that pleasues
us. and this our children will not per-
nit us to do. That is why / am golns
to organize a revolt of parents
Our children don't seem to refleci
that after YOU have lived for seventy
years or more you have worked Out
the scheme of life that is most in &C
cordance with your taste. Neither dc
they seem to be able to appreciate
that after having toiled with more or
less success for half a century yon
form habits Of industry that you can
not be easily broken of. and that to be
happy you must keep busy.
Nor does it appear to dawn upon
them that after having managed your
own affairs satisfa ctorily. and had
your judgment respected and deferred
| to, 1t is not agreeable to find out that
your own children think you inca pa BILE
tof deciding the simplest question for
yourself. and that you must be loir
what to eat. what to drink and when
| to go to bed as if you were a 3-year-
old baby. Even the humblest worm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09
Nurses Who Enter Overseas
Service Under Orders.
No Nurse Can Go Who Has
Relatives on Front.
HORACE HALL EXPLAINS IT
Rule Applies to All Who Would
Leave Topeka.
No Women Allowed With Hin
in German Army

Women who have relatives nearer
than second cousins in the army la
BILE for overseas service will positively
not be accepted for overseas service in
the American Red Gross. it was n
nounced this morning by Horace L.
Hall, chairman CT the local chapter.
This technical question, which has
led to disappointment for SO many wo-
men wishing to qualify as Red Cross
nurses for work in France was ex-
planned by Mr.. Hall as being merely q
matter of efficiency. When woms&
is actually working in one of the hos
pitfalls near the lines. he says. it is i'm
possible to keep ner in ignorance OF
the whereabouts of any relative she
may have in the t...-iy. If she nows
him to be on the firing line, the fact
will naturally prey on her mind to
such an extent S to render her work
less efficient to a greater or less de-
gree and even cause her to make mis-
takes which might involve the lives
of her patients. 1t is an iron-cla5 rule
which cannot be departed from under
any conditions, in spite of the deplor-
able fact that it is keeping many
skilled nurses at home.
Nom With German Relatives.
When asked if he thought this rule
might be modified in the future in the
event of the scarcity of nurses, Mr.
Hall stated that he had no means of
even guessing at it.
THE Red Cross is now on a war
basis" he explained, land all we can
do is to take orders as they come. Just
the same as the soldiers in the army"
The fact that a woman has German
relatives, II or Out of the army, will
also bar her from the Red Cross, It was
explained. Women who have rela-
tives in the army in Europe may, how
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09

The assassination of the German
ambassador at Moscow indicates that
the spirit of Russia is not wholly dead.
Lenine and Trotzky could sell out the
country but they could not sell the
people into slavery to the Huns. From
the Staying of one man started the
war which in four years has involved
moro than half the nations of the
earth. From the killing of Count
Mirbach may proceed a revival of the
spirit of freedom in Russia which will
ultimately sweep the invaders out o.
the country. When the kaiser under
took to enslave 1SO.OOO,OOO people and
make them subservient to his will he
may have added one more to his long
list of blunders. If the sleeping bear
become aroused he may yet turn and
rend his baiters. If the Russian peo-
pie can be made to understand that
the allies are their friends the posi-
bilities of hurting the German hordes
from Muscovite territory will be i'm
mensely increased. There are enough
allied troops within easy distance of tie
Russian boundaries to afford a nu-
cleus for a military movement which
might easily reach formidable pro-
portions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09

horses, mules. rats. cats, dogs, even
elephants, and birds all kinds, fell
victims to the butchers knife.
The amount of food which the
French people consume can be &C.
curately o-timated. They had 10 re-
serves of food when the war broke
out; and the decrease of production in
that country, and it's imports are both
known. These statistics show that the
French are living upon just about 10
per cent of their normal food supply.
The shortage IS not apparent to the
traveller -ause the public eating
places are especially favored in the
mat of supplies; it is the French
househ I'd that suffers. This is ia
sharp contrast with the conditions in
England. where the nl~st rigid con-
servation measures are enforced in
public eating places, while the house
holds fare better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS.
BY MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a girl
almost fifteen years old.
% Do you think 1 am too young
to go to night parties with my
brother?
(2) 1 live in the country. How can
make some pin money?
BOBBY.
ID You are too young to go to
evening parties sven with your brother.
CD You might have a war garden
and sell the vegetables you grow to
autom obilists who pass your house. A
great deal of money could be made in
this way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09
WALL STREET LEADS
Pays s457 ,00o, 900 Federal Taxes in. a
Single Year.

Washington, July 9.-Wall street
the gold zone of America-led the ma
TONS revenue districts in taxes col
lected for the fiscal year 1918, with
s457, 100000.
Pittsburg, heart of the steel and coal
belt was the second district with $685.
100000 while the first Illinois district,
including important wet zones was
third with 1904, 100000.
Collections in the sixty-four districts
in the United States, Hawaii and the
Philippines amounted to S3,671. 3d.
1861, as against 1893, 640.44 fog
the fiscal year 1917. OF the total this
year s2,S21,34O,S01.51 was income and
excess prOfitS taxes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09
TRIED FOR INSANITY
Tive Complaints in County Probate
Court IN One Day.

The Shawnee county probate court
is running on high today following
the issuance Monday of five insanity
complaints. One of the complaints
was issued against William famm. a
negro. He was tried Monday after
noon and Gent to the Parsons state
hospital
Sarah Richmond. 1914 West Twenty
second street: Mrs. Allen. 42n Polk
street: F. P Thompson. Elmont. and
Frank A. Schwartz Thompson was
taken into custody Monday evening at
Elmont by Hugh Larimer, sheriff.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09
MORAN TRIAL JULY 19
Second Degree Murder Charge Against
Dover Young Man.

The preliminary trial of Forrest
Moran of Dover, who shot and fatally
wounded his brother. Merrill, has been
set for July 10 in the Court of To-
peka.
Following the death of Merrill early
Monday morning, Forrest. with Ed
Rooney, his attorney, appeared at the
court house and the complaint against
him was first changed from assault
with intent to kill to first degree MUIR
der. Later it was amended to read
second degree murder
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09
REFUSE GERMAN GENERAL
Austrians said TO Have Declined Won
Below as GeneralissimO.

Rome, July 9.-Austria has refused
to accept a German generalissimo to
direct operations on the italian front,
according to adyices received here to-
day.
Recent reports said that in the gem
eral shakeup of the Austrian COM
mand, General Won Below. who di-
.rected the former Austrian offensive,
has been made ommander-in-chief
of the Austrian armies. Later, it was
said that General Ludendorff had hur-
ried to Austrian headquarters. evident
~ to make Won Celow's appointment
effective.
Extent of Defeat Hidden.
Amsterdam, July e.-General Stoe
ger-Steiner Won Steinstatten, Austro-
Hungarian minister Of war. addressing
a deputation of German members Of
the reichstat said that during the re-
treat on the Piav- there were SAN
culinary ocl rrences in some sectors
Some young. inexperienced soldiers
spsk regarding the deep impression
this made upon them. he said. The
speech. which was contained in a
Vienna disDat h to the Vossisch lei
tung evidently had been heavily cen
sored. indiceti that the full story of
the Austrian defect is not yet known
in Austria-Hungary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09
time TO TALK PEACE"
German Socialist Paper Refers to Will
sons Terms as Ideal

Copenhagen, July 9.-"The time
has now come openly to discuss
peace" declared G. Bernhard, writing
in the Vossische Zeitung.
Having regard for the ideal condi-
tons laid down by President Wilson.
unanimity undoubtedly will be
reached in Germany. favoring his de-
mand for self government of small ma
tons and rea sonahle disarmament"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09
BOMB U-B0AT BASES
Direct Hits Made at Ostend, Zeebrugge
and Bruges.

London, July 9.-British naval air
planes in the period between July
and July z, dropped six tons of explo-
sives on German works at -Ostend,
Zeebrugge and Bruges. Direct hits
were observed on buildings and yes
sells. five German airplanes. were de-
stroyed and three others were driven
down out of control. All the British
machines returned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09
NEVER AGAIN.
He VIII Not Act as Member of Ma.
tionaI Baseball Commission.

New York, July Ex-Governor John
K. Tener, president of the National
league, today informed presidents of
all clubs in the National league that
he would not act as member of the
National commission SO long as it also
has representative from the Ameri-
can league who regards our agree
ments as mere scraps of paper" The
trouble is an outgrowth of the Player
Scott Perry WranRle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09

must turn at the suggestion that ii has
become seEile.
THAT is what makes me feel at
times like becoming prodigal parent
and running away from my admirable
Martha. Martha is, as everybody tells
me, a perfect daughter, and no doubt
1 am a wicked old woman not to ap-
preciate all that she does for me and
the sacrifices she makes on my be-
half.
But the trouble is she overdoes the
doing, and there is no earthly need
of the sacrifices. If I were feeble.
bedridden and helpless, I should be
grateful, indeed, for her ministrations
but inasmuch as am well, hearty and
amply able to take care of myself
being babied and sick nursed certain
ly does get upon my nerves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09

war. Now that the government has
taken over the management the people
are made to pay with a vengeance for
all these years of railroad batting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09

If the government take over the
telegraph and telephone lines. let US
devoutly hope that they will not be
placed under the direction of Burle-
son.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09

over the top" probably has
meaning in Italy different from what
is understood by the expression on the
western front. Much of the fighting
in Italy has been done high in the
Alps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09

Government control of railroads ap-
pears to be more popular than it was
expected to be. The railroad children
cry for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-09

Hun leaders are calling for peace
with honor" But who is to furnish
the honor?
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-07-09
Lightning at Sea.

When proper precautions are taken
ships at sea are In no danger OF being
destroyed by lightning. OF all the dan
gers that beset the seaman. lightning
is the only one that he a guard
against with perfect thoroughness.
Permanent conductors, properly ar
ranged, offer the most complete pro-
lection from the electric fluid.
Before this fact was well under
stood, lightning was a very frequent
cause of damage to shipping. In 1905
to 1915 no fewer than seventy vessels
Of the English navy were entirely Grip
Piled by being struck. 1t was a no un'
common thing for vessels to be set on
fire so completely by lightning as to
defy extinction, with the result thai
those on board who were not killed by
the electric discharge In many IN
stances probably lost their lives
through being unable to let down the
boats before the fire reached them.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-07-09
FULL DETAILS OF
new SUGAR RULE

Under the new Nevada sugar rul-
ings effective Saturday and made pub
lie by the Nevada food administration
saloons and soft drink manufacturers
are allowed fifty per cent OF the sugar
used by them last year; ice cream
manufacturers are allowed seventy
five per cent OF the sugar used last
year. and families are limited strictly
to three pounds of sugar per person
per month. Twenty-Five pounds OF
sugar may be purchased at one time
for canning purposes, but II must be
used strictly for canning purposes.
Following is the ruling sent out by
the food administration:
"All users of sugar, including fam
lilies. restaurants, hotels, bakers, sa-
looms. retailers and wholesalers are
notified that the new rules are In eff
feet absolutely controlling the pur-
chase. sale and distribution Of all cane
and beet sugar products.
Families will be limited to three
pounds per person or ninety meals
served. per month. Twenty-Five pounds
at one time may be purchased for can
ming and preserving. but sugar so
bought must be rigfdly conserved and
used for strictly canning purposes.
All retail sales of sugar to families for
any purpose whatever will be noted
on monthly sales reports furnished
to Nevada grocers under sanction OF
the federal food administrator for
Nevada.
Commercial users of sugar for
manufacturing purposes are divided
into five classes. known as manufac-
turers under Statements A, B, c, ID
and E. All of these users in buying
sugar must conform to regulations
by. first procuring from their county
food administrator sugar certificates
in amount determined by their signed
statements Of needs. These sugar
certificates. onc used, need not be re-
turned at once to the food admins
tration as in the past; they may be
reused by the retailer in buying from
the wholesaler. by the wholesaler
from the refiner, the refiner then
sending them in for cancellation,
Thus, the new certificates become me-
gotiable paper used in obtaining SUI
gar supplies.
Statement A includes saloons, soft
drink manufacturers. candy. syrups
etc. These users are limited to nftS
lper cent of the sugar used by then
last year.
Statement B includes e~ssentia
manufacturers, under which manufac
turers of ice cream and other perish
able commodities are listed. Thes'
are allowed sev~enty-flve per cen o
last years requirements.
statement C applies to hotels. res
~taurants. clubs, dining cars, boardin
houses, hospitals, public institutions
and the sugar is issued to them on
basis of meals served during July
August and September of 1917. or dur
ing June, 1918, at the option of tn
person making the statement.
Statement D includes bakers an
cracker manufacturers.
Statement f includes alb retal
stores selling direct to consumers.
Every manufacturer In Nevada vi
der statements A. B, G, D and e mus
file his statement with the fedora
food administrator. or with the count
administrator OF his county. on or be
fore July 25th, 1918; otherwise he wi
be allowed no sugar whatever for tn
remaining months of the year."
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-07-09
What They Asked Him.

There is n nan In town who Is
tired Of hearing the name of a small
car Of popular make. His name Is l..
@. (Baron) Rothschild. 1t all hap
pened like this: On Monday morning
the baron, In his haste to get to the
Jewett inauguration, as some say. slip
ped on the sidewalk and broke a bone
In his wrist and tore loose two liga-
ments In his right hand. He has since
been carrying the hand around In q
plaster east. Since then. whether In
the club or on the street, nine &C
quaintances out of ten asked him the
question, Were you cranking a
(name deleted to avoid giving free nd
Observation-Disclosures News
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-07-09
Report of the condition Of
THE wINNEMUCCA STATE BANK
Il TRUST COMPANY

at Winnemucca. In the State OF Ne
vada, in response to the call OF the
State Bank Examiner for a report OF
condition at the close OF business
ending on the Goth day OF June. 1918.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-07-09
AND FURS

We will pay the highest prices 70:
hides, furs and pelts. NEVADA HIDI
& JUNK CO., winnemucca Nev.-fAd
~vertisement s8tf
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-07-09
Report OF the Condition OF
THE QUINN RIVER BANK

at McDermitt, in the State OF Nevada.
In response to the call of the State
Bank Examiner for a report OF condi-
ton at the close of business ending on
the 29th day of June, 1918.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-06-24
Good Husband. But
Gets Mad and .Sulks

Dear Miss Grey. have been mar
riod but short time. My husband
In "A good man and loves me. but he
gets angry occasionally and then lac
will not speak To me. and worry
and cry over Il. / have good par
cnta, but | do not like TO hurt their
feelings by telling them my troubles.
My husband has said the next time
he gets angry ho will go away and
leave do not know what to do.
because he evtA angry In minute
over such little things I do not know
when these times are coming II
breaks my heart that he does not
speak How can avoid such
accncA7 2g.
Your problem II one OF adjust.
ment. which means time. II your
husband IL "A good man and loves
you. you must be willing To mako
concessions that will make him
into more ideal husband You
must study him and find out
what particular things irritate
and anger him and YOU must not
let these things occur-or AT
least. the occurrences must bc
infrequcnt Keep your own
feelings In check and ignore his
fits OF Hulking. DO not cry and
worry over things. this will only
aggravatc the situation. Above
all. keep happy and good natured
yourscif--that IL the beat posi-
bic way 20 avoid trouble.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-06-24

got into sort % scandal. and he's
evidently gone from bad TO worse" "
What became Of the baby. Mar
gie2' asked Donna.
II don't know" I answered. 81 eS
poet that IL Is getting along in a
way. for Herbert had n lot OF money
left him soon after he married the
second time"
"Oh. did he marry the second
time" asked Lola interestedly.