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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-12

Paul Rogers went ta Guthrie Sat
urday to work.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-12

Frank Harris and wife and Mrs Ed
Thompson were in Crescent Saturday
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-12

John Richard moved to the farm
Just vacated by Carrie Eigdon, Tues
day.
Willie Sebring and family spent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
POLITICS
German Alliance Active in L. s.
Picking Candidates.
Fought Wilson i'm Last CAM
paign; Supported Hughes.
DISPLAY HATE FOR ENGLAND
Would Make English "FOrelgn
Language" in America.
President of Alliance TeStifieS
Before Senate Probe. %.
DISPLAY HATE FOR ENGLAND

Washington, March 23.-senate in
vestigators today uncovered the TRAN
of the German-Alliance in party poi
tiles in the United States.
Questioning of DIR. S. G. Won Bosse.
president of the alliance. showed tnat
state branches of the orgahi aS for
had openly endorsed and worked TOT
certain candidates.
The Iowa bench, Won Bosse said,
endorsed Hughes for president,
cause we guard sthe United states not
only against Germany but against
England"
Issued Political Pamphlet.
The Iowa organization put out a
pamphlet containing this statement
and also recommending that alliance
members and voters of German and
Austrian descent vote for w l.:
Harding for governor on the ground
that his opponent favored and sup
ported President Wilson's foreign pol
icy and has thereby made himself
guilty of friendship for England"
The state branches of New Jersey
and New York endorsed state tickets
entire in 1912, Won Bose said.
He declared that the national al
lance "scolded" the two state
branches for thus entering partisan
politics in violation of a provision in
it's federal charter prohibiting polit1-
cal activity.
Ohio, Iowa, New Jersey and Penn
sylvania branches all adopted resolu-
tions against Roosevelt. Root and
Wilson," Won Bosse said.
Senator King read from an edi-
torial in the official Bulletin of the
alliance in 1916 which declared that
German-Americans would be guilty
of capital folly if they put the destiny
of the country again in the hands of
the munition peddling firm of Bryan
& Wilson" Won Bosse disc1aimed
knowledge of the ownership of the
editorial.
From the Bulletin also King read
statement in favor of the establish
ment of German schools in this coun-
try, the purpose of which was to make
English "a foreign language"
Thru all the utterances of officers of
the alliance since the beginning of the
war, an intense hatred of England and
things English was manifested.
California and Washington commit
tees were named Ito manage the
election" the Bulletin showed.
Won Bose said this action was
never disayowed by the national al
then president of the alliance, warned
all state branches in letter not to get
mixed in partisan politics.
Admits Vote Campaign.
rs it true there was a movement to
corral the German-American vote all
over the country for Hughes in 1852"
asked Senator Wolcott.
Yes, there was such a movement"
said Won Bose.
And officers of the national ALI
ance countenanced this movement"
Yes, they looked on it with favor"
answered Won Bose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
TROOPS TO COLLEGE
Funston Soldiers Are Being Given
Schooling at X. S. A. G. Now.

Camp Funston. Kan, March 2S--
Uncle Sam is sending men from Camp
Funston to college. The 342 field
artillery, which has been motorized, is
being made a regiment of expert me-
chanics as far as possible. Every day
a class of thirty-five enlisted men
from this regiment goes to Manhat-
tan and attends the Kansas State Ag-
ricultural college. The men are stu
dents in the engineering department
of the school, which is cooperating in
every possible way with the govern
ment. Others from the 342d and
other organizat ions are being sent to
Clintonville and Kenosha, Wis, and to
Peoria, Ill. to the big caterpillar, quad
and four-wheel drive truck factories
| for instruction.
At the Kansas school the men are
| learning the theory of motor opera
ton, building, types of internal COM
! bustion engines and the book work"
! of gas engineering as applied to the
tractors and trucks which will draw
! the big guns and supplies of the ar
! tilIary at the front.
/ The practical course is applied at
/ the factories, where men selected for
! training are made specialists in con-
struction and repair. Many a man of
mechanical bent, but without previous
specialized training, will become an
expert, trained to repair or rebuild
| the artillery tractors and four-wheel
drive squads under fire if neces-
| SarN,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23

he almost fell. But on his back he
carried his comrade, his pal, who
couldn't walk himself
That is one of the glimpses of the
war given to the public by Charles w.
Whitehair. former Topeka boy. in
Pictures Burned Into My Memory"
a gripping article written by himself
in the current number of the Ameri-
can magazine.
Il looked at them and tears came
to my eyes" continues Whitehair.
But those two. No tears for them.
They looked at me-and smiled"
Equally as vivid are dozens of in
cidents and pictures painted in the
article by Whitehair who, in 1910,
1911 and 1912 was college secretary
for the Y. M. C. A. in Kansas with
headquarters in the Frost building
Topeka. Since leaving Topeka White
hair has been favored with some of
the most remarkable experiences of
the war. He came here from De
Paw university and the Topeka posi-
ton comprised his first Y NJ c. A
work. Later he went to China and
then returned to New York. Later
the war broke out and he again en-
tered foreign service. Since that time
he has been thru the submarine zone
tnirteep times. he has been on the
battle line from Flanders to Egypt, at
terdun, at Ypres and is in France
now.
4@4- OiiIy LOT their comrades that
icy are willing to suffer-" says
NhltehaiF in writing of the British
Tommy "Ove- and over again L
have seen an English Tommy badly
wounded himself, take the cup of hot
soup. or coffee, or tobacco our Y. NJ
I. A. men were handing out, give it
70 wounded German"
Soldiers Are EataliStS.
Whitehair also tells the story of
a young Australian with the forces in
Egypt. By becoming a stowaway on
troop ship he became a deserter
and was court-martizled and placed
under guard. The Turks attacked
and the prisoner left his confinement
and began carrying in wounded under
fire.
man." says Whitehair, "he was killed
by stray bullet. His colonel told
the story and said he has been recon-
mended for the Distinguished Con-
duct medal. When asked about the
court-martial matter, the colonel
naively answered:
Somehow we lost those papers
Many of the soldiers become fatal
lists about death. You see men die
thru some incredible chance. You
see them escape by a miracle. And
gradually. you come to believe that,
as Tommy puts it, when a shell
comes over with your name on it,
you will get yours In the mean
time why worry. You never know
your luck That is the way Tommy
puts it"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
HERE is YOUR CHANCE
Topeka Artillery Officer Wants to
Borrow Field Glasses

II saw a piece in the State Journal
the other day." writes a lieutenant
from Topeka in the artillery, "about
Topekans giving eyes to the navy
Now. if there are any loose field
glasses a. ing around that people are
willing to. give away, here is one
tillery officer who needs a pair badly.
1t is quite impossible to get glasses
even if you have the money to pay"
In asking that some Topekan or
other reader of the State Journal fur
nish him a pair of glasses, the lieu
tenant says he will give a receipt for
the "eyes' and pay for them if they
are lost. He asserts that the field
glass problem is acute in the artillery.
You can't observe shots 5000 yards
away" he says, with the naked eye
and tell whether they are over or
short.
Should any reader of the State Jour-
nal desire to lend" this artillery
officer pair of field glasses. they may
be sent to the managing editor, State
Journal, who will forward them and,
in turn, forward the Heutenant's re-
ceipt to the lender.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
STIR UP ENTHUSIASM
Members of Junior C. of C. Working
Hard for Boys Reserve.

The Junior Chamber of Commerce
of the high school, in charge of en-
rolling Topeka youth for the federal
boys working reserve for war work
on farms, has set the quota of this
city at 500 enrollments. During the
week which closed today members of
the organization have appeared be-
fore twelve schools, including the
Quincy Junior high school. the Lin
coin Junior high school, Sumner jul
nier high school, Polk. State Street
Washburn chapel, Clay, Quinton
Heights, the high school assembly,
Central Park, Lafayette and Branner
Friday night George W. Neil. George
Whitcomb and Gerald Tasker ad-
dressed the Parent-Teachers' associa-
ton in Shorey.
Monroe, Washington and Lowman
Hill schools will be visited Monday
and Tuesday. In appearing before the
schools, the members of the organi-
zation are striving only to stir up en-
thusiasm. Pupils are supposed to put
the matter of enrolment up to their
parents and then come to room %,
high school, and enroll with Voca-
tional Supervisor Kaho.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
Iajor A. NJ. Harvey, President.


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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
WHICH WINS?

The enemy was allowed to pro-
coed against our forces unmolested,
1t made no difference what pun
ishnlent he cared to inflict. it was
borne with patience and indiffer-
ence until the system of defense
had been destroyed.
Suppose an article came out in
the paper today making such
statement regarding our forces on
the western front. You would be
Indignant beyond expression. No
you would fight! And our Sammies
have fought, the British have
fought. the French have fought.
Who wins is yet to be decided, but
right will win.
Right today, you, YOU, yes YOU,
right here~at home, you're letting
an enemy creep upon your defenses,
do just as it will. you're standing all
kinds of punishment, all kinds Of
suffering, and you are not fight
ing back.
That enemy is PILES. A most
inSiduous enemy of humanity. So
many afflicted, so many restricted
their lives every day, letting the
enemy tear down the human, con-
stitutional defense.
Which is going to win, you or
the PILES? Unless you take some
defensive or aggressive action, the
PILES will make you lay down
your arms, submit to more serious
illness or operations of a grave
character
You can come to my office today
start the treatment for the CURE
of PILES and before another
month rolls Ground, the enemy will
hess4anquished,. you will be enjoy
ing better health than in many
wears and you will have won
Doesn't cost much to be CURED.
Doesn't require much time to re-
ceiYe the treatment. Doesn't hurt
to have the treatment applied,
doesn't cause any after-soreness-
WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK ?
Come in and hold a consultation
with me. My advice and examin-
atoms are FREE. No detention
| from work. No hospital experiences,
| no. anaesthetie. no tying. But a
new, scientific. successful method.
If out of town write today for
NIX FREE BOOK of rectal disor-
ders and containing many. many
letters from those who have won.
| WON.
You need not risk a penny If 1
| fail to cure you of PILES EVERY
PENNY YOU MAY HAVE PAID
| ME- WILL BE RETURNED.
DR.. G., s, Wolfe
Rectal Specialist.
500 Kansas Ave. Topeka, Kan.
Second Floor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
JAMES A.
1ROU7mAN
Something for Voters
to Think About

MR. TROUTMAN Is LOYAL AND IN
TENSELY PATRIOTIC, as he demonstrated
in modest, unassumng and unselfish but
effective way long before he became can
didate for governor. He does not boast of
it, for that would be unbecoming. He does
not use it as an argument for political pre-
ferment because it is an attribute he has in
common with all true Americans. Its alb
sence would be bar but its presence is no 4
evidence of superior merit. To use it to
promote personal ambition would indicate
the lack of the sterling qualities essential to
the proper administration of so important
an office.
HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LOYAL RE-
PUBLICAN. Greenbackism silver and
the many elusive and ephemeral vagaries of
Kansas politics have never led him astray.
In every campaign for many years, he has
been tower of strength and has contrib
uted time, effort and influence to the success
of every republican elected to state Office
in quarter of a century. His far-sighted
deliberate and impartial view of public af-
fairs would insure a just, fair and stable
administration. We would know that the
wabble. While he has held several impor-
tant positions, his office holding has been
confined to those offices where services were
to be rendered with much labor little
honor and no profit
HE is A REAL KANSAN. He has seen
the state in all its myriad phases. Drouth
bounteous harvests and total failures have
been his lot as they have been ours. He
understands and sympathizes with the
hopes. aspirations and ambitions of our peo-
pie and their prosperity and security may
be safely entrusted to his care.
AS SPEAKER he is universally recog-
nized as clear. forcible and polished. On
every occasion, in any company, he would
reflect honor state.
HIS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS of a
life time recognize his character and worth.
During all this time he has been a true, con-
silent and persistent friend of all the people
and has encouraged and worked side by
side with them in every movement tending
to improve conditions and effect real ad-
fofr l,.%y,
feelings and personal animositie are not in
his makeup. The humblest citizen is as sure
Of his sympathy and help as the richest and
highest.
EVERY WORTHY PUBLIC MOVEMENT
during the last twenty-five years has re-
ceived his cheerful and unselfish support,
during all of which time he has been close
student of men and affairs. He has a COM
prehensive grasp of social and political
questions. wide acquaintance among the
people and is especially well equipped for
the responsible duties of the office he seeks
He would make an exceptionally compe-
tent, efficient and impartial executive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
70 MILLION PEOPLE
USE CASCARETS--W

You eat one or two Cascarets like can
dy before going to bed and in the
morning your head is clear, tongue is
clean, stomach sweet, breath right,
and cold gone and you feel grand,
Get 10 or 25-cent box at any drug
store and enjoy the incest, gentlest liv-
er and bowel cleansing you ever ex-
perienced. Stop sick headaches. bill
ious spells. indigestion, furred tongue,
offensive breath and constipation
Mothers should give cross peevish
feverish, bilious children a whole Cas-
caret any time.-Advertisem
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
TELLS HIS STORY
TOpekan in France Writes for
American Magazine.
G.. W. Whitehair Was College
Y. VI. C. A. Secretary Here.
RELATES BATTLEFIELD SCENES
British TOmmieS Give Sweets to
Wounded Huns.
Saw Highlanders Coming Back,
Clothes, Bodies Torn.

ct saw the wounded coming back.
Highlanders whose kills had
Iaen torn to pieces. Men whose
C.OtneS had been ripped by
.Hrapnel and machine gun fire and
/ rbe1 wire until they were almost
ked. L saw one man coming whose
ouSers had been torn clean away.
] g was so caked with mud and blood
that his features were almost unrec-
o"nizable. He did not walk. He stag
red from side to side Sometimes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
COUNTY IMPOSED ON?
Former Topekan, Now Californian
Opposes Draft Quota System.

Galen Nichols. former county at
torney of Shawnee county and now
district attorney for Imperial county.
California, has notified Governor
Stephens of California that Imperial
county will furnish no more men for
the national army until the draft
quota is readjusted.
Nichols claims that Imperial county
is being imposed upon in the quotas
by being asked to furnish more men
than surrounding counties of larger
population.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
Only True Tonic for Liver
\ and Bowels Costs
10 Cents a Box.

Cascarets are a treat, They liven
your liver. clean your thirty feet of
bowels and sweeten your stomach.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23

political ADVERTISEMENT
The Nome daily nugget., 1918-01-28

spoke very harshly of some man who was not present. I ought to say that Lamb suffered little, and one of his friends said, Why Charlie, I didn't know that you knew so and so?'
 Oh he said. I don't. I can't hate a man I know
 There is great deal of human na- ture, of very pleasant human nature in that saying. It is hard to hate a man you know. 1 must admit parenthe- tically that there are some politicians whose methord I do not believe in, but
 hey are jolly good fellows, and if they only would not talk the wrong kind of politics with me 1 would love to be with them And so 1t is all along the line in serious matters and things less serious. We are all of the same clay and spirit and we can get to- gether if we desire to get together. Therefore my counsel to you is this:
 Let us show ourselves Americans by showing that we do not want to go off in separate camps or groups by our selves, but that we want to cooperate with all other classes and ala other groups in a common enterprise which is to release the spirits of the world from bondage.
 ''I would be willing to set that up as the final test of an American. That is the meaning of democracy. have been very much distressed, my fel- have happened recently. The mob spirit is displaying itself here and there in this country. have sym pathy with what some of the men are saying. but I have no sympathy with the men that take punishment into their own hands; and 1 want to say to every man who does join such mob that do not recognize him as worthy of the free institutions of the United States. There are some organizations in this country whose object is an archy and the destruction of the law but I would not meet their efforts by making myself a partner in destroying the law. l despisc and hate their purposes as much as any man, but ! respect the ancient processes of Justice and I would be too proud not to see them done justice, however wrong they are And so I want to utter my earn est protest against any manifestations of the spirit of lawlessness anywhere or in any cause.
The Nome daily nugget., 1918-01-28

1 to time with your president, Mir. Con- pers. And if I may be permitted to
 do so, want to express my admira- l tion of his patriotic courage, his large
 vision, and his statesmanlike sense of l what is to be done. I like to lay my
 mind alongside of a mind that knows
 that kick over the traces will have l to be put in a corral.
 -~-nssa~ sas.s4srF s1uuuHg Now to stand the ground means
 that nobody must interrupt the pro- | cesses of our energy, if the interrup- tion can possibly be avoided without ! .he absolute invasion of freedom To put it concretely, that means this:
 Nobody has a right to stop the pro- cesses of labor until all the methods of conciliation and settlement have been exhausted: arId might as we'll say
 right here that am not talking to you alone. You sometimes stop the courses of labor, but there are others that do the same. And 1 believe that 1 am speaking of my experience not only, but of the experiences of others, when say that you are reasonable in a larger number of cases than the cap itaMsts.
 "t am not saying the things to them personally yet. because I have not had chance. But they have to be said
 not in the spirit of criticism, but in order to clean the atmosphere and come down to business, everybody on both sides has got to transact busl- ness and the settlement is never im- possible when both sides want to do the square and right thing. Moreover, a settlement is always hard to avoid when the parties can be brought face to face. can differ with a man much more radically when he isn't in the room, because then the awkward thing is that he can come back at me and answer what 1 say. It Is always dan gerous for a man to have the floor entirely to himself And, therefore, We must insist on every instance that the parties come into each others presence and there discuss the issues between them, and not separately. in places which have no communication with each other.
 q always like to remind myself of Q delightful saying of an Englishman of a past generation. Charles Lamb. He was with a. group of friends and he
The Nome daily nugget., 1918-01-28

"Why, gentlemen look what 1t
 means: We claim to be the greatest democratic people in the world, and democracy means, first of all that we
 can govern ourselves. If our men have
 not self control then they arc not cap able of that great thing which we call democratic government. A man who
 takes the law into his hands is not
 the right man to cooperate in any form of, or development of law and in-
 stitution. And some of the processes by which the struggle between capital and labor is carried on are processes that come very near to taking the law into your own hands.
 T do not mean for a moment to compare them with what I have just been speaking of, but want you to see that they are mere graduations of the manifestations of the unwillingness to cooperate, and the fundamental lesson of the whole situation is that we must not only take common counsel but that we must yield to and obey common counsel. Not alb of the in- strumentalities for this are at hand.
 T am hopeful that in the very near future new instrumentalities may be organized by which we can see to it that various things that are now go- ing on shall not be. There are various processes of the dilution Of labor and the unnecessary substitution of labor and bidding in distant markets and un- fairly upsetting the whole competi- tion of labor which ought not to go on T mean now on the part of the em- ployers-and we must interject into this some instrumentality of co-opera- ton by which the fair thing will be done all around. am hopeful that some such instrumentalities may be devised, but whether they are or not, we must use those that we have and upon every occasion where it is neces- sary to have such an instrumentality originated upon that occasion if neccs- sary.
 And so, my fellow citizens the req son that I came away from Washing ton is that l sometimes get lonely down there. There are so many people in Washington who know things that are not so and there are so few people in Washington who know anything about what the people of the United States are thinking about, I have come away to get reminded of the rest of the country; have to come away and talk to men who are up against the real thing and say to them, I am with you if you are with me- And the only test of being with me is not to think about me personally at all but merely to think of me as the expression for the time being of the power and dignity and hope of the United States.