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Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-20
PLdsterers

"Shall we raise our. international
per capita from $4.20 year to $12,
and pay it at the rate of 81 month,
instead of 35 cents, to establish an
old age pension fund for our mem
bership?" This question is now be-
fore the referendum of the Operative
Plasterers and Cement Finishers In
ternational Association, after several
years discussion.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-20

Government now operates 100000
miles of railway, employing 1,0OO,6O0
men and representing investment of
SIT, 7,500,0 100000.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-20
Blacksniths

Striking blacksmiths employed at
the Peninsula plant of the Wheeling
Mold and Foundry Company, Wheel
ing, w. Va, have secured a union
shop agreement and raised wages
cents an hour.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-20

Beats them all. La Belle sc cigar
union made in Denver.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-20

Try Principe de Lees cigar for an
after dinner smoke. Union made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26

If there be anything which would
dishearten the men who. far from
home, are offering their lives for their
country and their countrymen, it
would be a failure of their countrymen
at home to give them unhesitating and
adequate support. A failure to make
the third liberty loan a great success
would be a faltering, a failure by the
American people to stand by their
fighting men. 1t would be a reversal
in American history. To make the
third liberty loan the success it should
be, the success our soldiers deserve
should be the earnest and active effort
of every American. The Germans
shall not pass" the Americans shall
not fail"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26
A JEWISH STATE.

The Jews are making rapid prep
aration fc~ returning to the home of
their fathers in Palestine and re-es-
tablishing a state of. for and by Jews.
After being for centuries scattered
turnout the world, they seem about
again to have a country which they
can claim as their own. While it is
improbable that the Jews will return
to the Holy Land in large numbers,
wherever they may be they will feel
patriotic pride in the fact that they ne
longer are people without a country.
The Jewish administrative commits
sion for Palestine has established bu-
reaus in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and
is preparing to settle down to the ac-
tual work of laying the foundation for
the Jewish state, according to the first
official report from that body, which
has just been received by the provi-
sional Zionist committee in New York
City. This report, which is dated
April Is, describes a remarkable DEM
onstration which greeted the commits
sion on it's arrival at Jaffa on April
6. Every society and organization
joined with the town representatives
in making the commission welcome
and a huge parade reached its climax
when an address of welcome was read
to the commission. The commission
reports that several informal confer
ences with representatives of various
organizations revealed the fact that
its work would have the cooperation
of all elements of the Palestine popu-
iation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26

an eternity, he released her gently.
and after a half hour of troubled 81
lence they descended the steps and
started for the party at Dora Worth
Dan Wilkinson was, of course, the
center of all the merriment as he
played and sang his rollicking songs.
for he was the prodigal returned to
them again.
So it was late when the party broke
up and the chattering couples strag-
gled homeward thru the slanting
shadows of the low full moon. Dan
held Nancy's unprotesting hand with
her arm tucked under his own. and
for the most part they were silent IN
til they reached the house, where he
halted at the steps.
"A long time ago. Nancy, L prom
ised I'd come back to the old town
and you. The old town seems differ
ent to me, and changed, somehow.
but you haven't changed at ali.
There's nothing to keep me here.
nothing could keep me here, in fact.
Tor my place lies out there in the
row."
But you've been here such little
time, Dan," she protested
Long enough" he smiled wistfully,
to have kept my promise. But you
nave your life's work. 1 can see that
spaces. There are no libraries at the
ranch, Nancy. Nothing but great VAIL
leys, and blue hazed mountains, and
miles and miles of sunlight on the
hills. Once 1 thought that some time
there would be love there, too, but
was mistaken. Goodbye, Nam" He
turned to go, but as he reached the
sidewalk she rushed toward him.
'Dan-Dan! Don't go like that L
guess II was wrong about my life's
work. DAN" Her eager hands were
on his shoulders. 1T seems that it is
going to be miles and miles-of sum
| light on the hills-and love, Dan"
And the next day the assistant
| librarian received the shock of her
young life. She was promoted. for the
| librarian had resigned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26
LET THE GOOD WORK GO ON.

Shawnee county has gone well lover
the top" in her subscriptions to the
third liberty loan, but there should
be no letup in activity. An increase
of speed on the home stretch for sub
scriptions is desirable so as to get as
large a proportion of the people as
possible interested in the loan and the
object for which it is raised. There is
no danger of going too far beyond the
nominal goal. which is a minimum,
for the surplus will be distributed
more largely among the small sub
scribers and draw less upon active
capital. The banks and other finan-
cia1 Institutions are generally doing all
they can to promote investment which
will not be their own or for their prof
it, and no doubt they would be ready
to make up deficit from their own
and should not be. The loan should
as far as is possible be popular in the
broad sense of being in the hands of
the people as well as in high estima-
ton.
More than half the month allowed
for subscriptions to the loan has
passed. 1t is more than half way to
the goal set of $4,000, 0e0, 900; but it is
desirable to have it go we'll beyond
the limit. Bonds can be issued be-
yond the actual amount set as a min
imum and it may be desirable that
they should be issued to prepare for
future needs and lessen the next de-
mand. This depends upon circum-
stances to be easily understood.
Five billion has been mentioned as a
limit to subscriptions which the gov
eminent would be glad to obtain. Then
it could fix the volume to be issued
within that limit according to the cir
cumstances and the actual need for
the funds.
It is desirable to have the bonds as
widely diffused as possible among the
people, which means the issue of a
large volume of the lower denornina-
tons and in the limited quantities for
subscribers. This would result in a
larger measure in drawing upon actual
savings not needed for other uses and
encouraging thrift, and less from
profits or income that need to be re-
invested as capital for increased pro-
duction of things in great demand for
supporting the same activities and op-
erations for which the money is bor-
rowed. Small savings for the future
gathered into a large aggregate, will
not only be serving a useful purpose
for the country, but will be secure for
the future while gathering a fair rate
of interest for such savings.
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Having placed the shipbuilding in

Having placed the shipbuilding in
dustry in the hands of competent
man who will conduct it without in
reference. the government now has
turned its attention to airplane con-
struction and has placed this branch
of the war service under the control
of John D. Ryan. These changes are
almost certain to make for efficiency
and speed. other branches of war
work are open to improvement in a
similar way Our war preparations
have been handicapped by too many
bosses, nearly all of whom have prov
en- themselves to be incompetent. The
outlook for the future has grown de-
cidedly more hopeful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26

American farmers are reported to
be paying $500 a minute, or over
s6O2, 900 a day. interest on loans Elk
perts estimate the total amount of
farm mortgages in the United States
at $4,000, 100000. One-fifth of this
amount. or $500. 100000, comes due an
nuaIly and is replaced by new mort
cages. The slow progress made by the
federal farm loan banks in financing
the farmers makes it still incumbent
on the private agencies to provide, as
usual, millions of dollars of the needed
funds and the federal treasury contin-
ues to buy the farm loan bonds in
large amounts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26

Germany long has viewed Holland
With a covetous eye. She apparently
has reached the conclusion that now
is the time to pounce down on her
Dutch neighbor. In order to make
showing in the way of justification sne
has picked a quarrel with The Nether-
lands over the matter of transporting
sand and gravel into Belgium. This
will serve as we'll as anything else for
,Berlin's purpose. The Huns were
bound to take over Hollands territory
sooner or later mainly because they
need it in their business That they
have selected this particular time
probably is due to the necessity OF
a gain appeasing the II IS back home
The drive on the western front has not
progressed according to calculation or
promise. Something therefore to in
iterest ard appease the porulace is re-
qulree and an invasion of Holland can
be made to answer the purpose. 1t
will serve to feed the appetite OF Hun
savages for plumber. rapine and muir
der. Queen Emma's country seems
ito be doomed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26
Heart and Beauty
Problems

Dear Mrs. Thompson: 1 am a girl
nineteen years old and 1 am married
to a young soldier. My mother op-
posed our marriage and so we went
to another town and were married
secretly. My mother has not for
given me for what l have done and
my home is very unpleasant. My
husbands mother has invited me to
live with her. She is a widow and
like her very much. My own mother
objects to my leaving home. and SO I
you advise? IN DOUBT.
If you and your own mother can
come to an understanding so that
your home will be pleasant, 1 would
advise you to spend most of your
time with her. You know each others
ways and probably get along more
comfortably than You and your
motfier-in-law would if you were to-
gether all the time.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: 1 am twenty
years old and 1 am lonely All my
gentlemen friends have gone to war
and / have to sit at home every even
ing. 4 am a girl who likes to have a
good time and SO this makes me very
unhappy. What can i do to have a
better time? 1 am sick of reading
every night. LONESOME.
You should spend some of your
evenings doing Red Cross work This
would enable you to get away from
you would be of service to your coun-
try at a time when your help is needed
Other evenings you could spend with
your girl friends. Girls will have to
learn to enjoy each other now that
the boys are gone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.
Baked Maple Apples
Dreamed Toast from Bread (Wheat
and OatmeaD
Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Cottage Cheese Salad
Brown Bread Sandwiches
Hot Ginger Bread Cocoa
DINNER.
Clam Soup
Veal Loaf Brown Gravy
Escalloped Potatoes Carrots
Steamed Fruit Pudding.
Breads.
Mixed Bread-One cup cornmeal.
two cups rye flour, one cup graham
flour, one teaspoon salt. Mix well
dry ingredients and reserve a little to
credge one-third pound. raisins- Then
add one and one-ha1f cup sour milk,
one-half sup sugar or nolasses and
one teaspoon baking soda dissolved in
6. little boiling water. Bake one hour
in slow oven. Makes two leaves in
one-pound coffee tins.
Cornbread (yeast raised)-Scald
four cups cornmeal: when about luke
warm add one-half cup sugar. one
tablespoon shortening, one teaspoon
salt, two cups salt-rising sponge tyeast
sponge will do. Add flour enough
to make a good batter. Let rise until
make rather soft dough. Put in tins.
let rise till very light. Bake one hour
WheatiesS Bread-One pint corn
meal, one pint rolled oats, one-half
pint rye or barley flour, three-quar-
tiers cup brown sugar Cor white) one
egg. one teaspoon salt. one tablespoon
shortening, four teaspoons baking
powder OeveD, three tablespoons
vinegar. one teaspoon soda Oevel).
enc and one-half cups milk and wa
ter, one cup raw prunes stoned and
ground with coarse knife of food
chopper. Boil liquid. pour over rolled
oats, cover, let stand until cold Mix
all to a very stiff batter, using more
LIQUID If required. Bake about one
hour in moderately hot oven Makes
one large loaf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26
sCHwAB'S NfAxIMS.

Here are two maxims of Charles M
|Schwab spoken as he entered upon the
duties of director general of the
Emergency Fleet Corporation:
1.-The man who is given great au-
thority usually does not have to ex-
ercise it, but a man must have it to
do things.
ct have never yet seen a man who
could do real work except under
the stimulus of encoura cement and
enthusiasm and the approval of the
people for whom he is working.
1t of course is a vain proceeding to
look back and estimate what might
have been accomplished had Mr..
Schwab been called to his present po-
sition earlier. While there have been
many unavoidable delays in this gov
ernments preparations for war, it is
apparent that much loss of time in the
construction of ships could have been
easily avoided.
The act creating the shipping
board and authorizing the president
to appoint it's members was passed by
congress September I, 1916. The pres
ident appointed the members of the
board December %, 1916, after a de-
lay of 106 days. The board organized
January 81, 1917, after a delay OF
forty days. The Emergency Fleet
Corporation was organized April II,
1917, or seventy-six days after the
shipping board was organized.
During the year following April
II, 1917. the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration had four managers, Goethals
Caps. Harris and Piez, and a fifth,
Schwab, was then named, after a de-
lay of a year from the date of the
creation of the corporation. Altogeth-
er, this makes a total of SIS days de-
lay in getting the right man at the
head of the shipbuilding job.
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ON SPUR re Fl MOMENT
Spring Fiction.
BIZ Roy 4. MoULToM

Il will be in Paris on April r.
Won Hindenberg.
God is directing our armies" Will
helm. -
Eggs are down to 40 cents, retail -
Market report.
We do not seek territorial ag-
grandizement in Siberia Japan.
My method assures the only lasting
peace. "-Trotzky.
Hope it will not be necessary to re-
fer to this country in the future as the
United States and Wisconsin
1t will soon be time to intern Mil
waukee for the period of the war.
When Junker Bill meets Bunker
Hill
Goodnight, Bill.
The old discarded victrola record
makes an excellent bottom crust for a
pumpkin pie.
Some newly married men can at
test this fact
Making World Safe for Gastronomy
To those who have been taking the
war portion apart to see what max s
it tick, it is very apparent that the
restaurant proprietors in metropolitan
localities are intensely patriotic. In
fact, some of them are so patriotic
that in certain cabarets food is the
only thing that is not served with the
meals.
Some of them were so quick to re-
spond to the call of Food Director
Hoover that they anticipated him by
about five years While Mr.. Hoover
was still in Belgium the war portion
was in full swing. Some of the older
Inhabitants are of the belief that the
cafe war portion is not an outgrowth
of this war at all, but a hangover from
the Civil war. At any rate, the war
portion is not a new thing. Ten years
ago it was stated that some of the cafe
proprietors had probably not heard
that the Civil war had ended at APP
pomattox Court House. The cafe pro-
prietors are not great readers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26
DINNER STORES

You had one of our burglar alarms
installed in your home some months
ago. said the agent. rs it still work
ing?"
ut isl replied the business man.
six burglars have visited my home
was one of the few things they didn't
take with Them
There was no room telephone in
the hotel chamber which he nighted
for a single night. But there was a
pushbell with a card over it that
said: Ring once for ice water; twice
for a bell boy; three times for cham
bermaid; four times for porter
He desired ice water, and tried to
make his wants known. After a
half hour porter presented himself
and looked around for baggage.
ice water" the man said. severely.
1.-THE card says to ring once for --''
"Yassuh,' acknowledged the porter.
But we all couldn't figgeh out
whethar you rang once TO times or
TO- times once"
The story of the ''nice-old-lady''
visitor to London hospital who asked
Gyro club banqueters by Lieutenant
Mcintyre, Canadian veteran.
"She had exhausted my informa-
tion," the lieutenant said THE next
chap she encountered was a member
of the Royal Flyers.
"'Oh, I'm so pleased she said, to
meet a flying man. Do tell me what
you do when you run out of gasoline
way up there in the air."
Madam the flyer told her, we
have no choice but to wait for some
one to come to our assistance.
"Do you know he added with
growing solemnity, there are thou
sands, literally thousands, madame,
caught up there without gasoline who
starve to death for lack of assist
ance'"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26

Uncle Sam since our entry into the
war has built up an insurance bust
ness that is calculated to make the old
established insurance companies green
with envy. The war risk insurance
bureau of the treasury in the last year
has insured 1900 vessels and cargoes
for 1886. $4,000; the premiums were
$35. 900. 900, the losses $23, 10000 and
expenses $4,000. 1t has issued 7S2
policies on the masters and crews of
merchant vessels covering $4,000 in
dividuals insured for a total of $92,-
100000; the premiums have been
1861. 600. the losses $4,000, and ex-
penses $4,000. Under the soldiers
and sailors insurance law the treas
ury has insured the lives of more than
100000 members of the military and
naval forces of the United States for a
total of more than $12. 900. 900. 900. In
February 100000, 900 was paid out in
allowances to the dependents of SOL
diers and sailors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26
GLOBE SIGHTS

tFrom the Atchison GIobe1
Politics and war won't mix. Poll
tics is worse than wet powder.
This is said of nearly every enor-
mously fat woman: She was beautf-
full as a girl"
An Atchison man is SO lazy that he
runs down hill. because that Is easier
than holding back
A lot of war correspondents appar-
entity go to France to write about T"
instead of the war.
What has become of the. oId-fash-
Toned girl who desperately attempted
to hide her ankle from view9
Sooner or later, Judging from pres-
ent Indications. the girls who parade
Commercial street will discard an
camouflage.
There are some people who ask for
no greater distinction in life than to
be asked, in time of trouble. ito
break the news
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26
THE JARGoN OF LIFE

THE JARGON OF LIFE.
1t is the things that disagree,
Ill-dmed, Unmatched, that give US pain
The incongruities we see
That make the average man profane.
There looms a thirty dollar hat,
Above a thirty center brain;
A shoe that knows not where it's at,
Conceals a maizy crop of grain.
An ugly, crooked finger wears
A gay, installment- purchased ring;
A bunch of blooming flowers of spring.
One weds a kitten of girl,
Who figures in a street parade;
The wheels of court soon start to whirl
And grind the grist for which he prayed
One man secures a motor car,
In pleasure DER the land to roam,
Between his teeth a fine cigar,
A blanket mortgage on his home.
Another fills his hide with slop
With banquet, fountain junk, ct Get;
The doctor comes with jump and hop
To make him vomit, purge and sweat.
One has a wife sweet as a peach,
Among the sanity and refined;
When listening ears are out of reach
She nags her husband till he's blind.
Another likes to hear the hum
OF praise for big financial stunts,
But when the tax collectors come,
How wretchedly he lies and grunts.
But why this diatribe prolong,
On closets hiding ugly bones?
1t Is the discords in the song
That emphasize the sweeter tones
J. NJ CAVANESS
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A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds OF Men In
Americas Fighting Service

Among the American destroyers
which have been lost in the submarine
zone, the Jacob Jones made an es-
pecially good fight. and members of
her crew have been commended for
gallantry. They returned the fire of
the enemy, and literally went down
fighting. When their vessel sank,
many of the men saved their lives by
swimming, but Gunner r. Hood was
killed at his post by the explosion of a
torpedo. He was from Atlanta, Ca,
where his mother now lives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
by W. r. ELLIS
BY w. T. ELLIS

IS as ministry to himself. A. certain
father of my acquaintance sought to
find out from his son the real reason
for the boys enlistment in the army.
Youth does not like to talk of its
deepest feelings. but at length this son
replied, to the delight of his father:
Well, dad. you know. greater love
hath no man than this, that man
lay down his life for his friends "
Such was the high purpose carrying
the routine of camp life and sustain
ing him for the voyage across the sea.
The Great Essential.
This conversation with the disciples
closed with the memorable Words upon
sacrificing all things for the sake OF
the essential. To know God and to
serve God, to be true to the highest
calls of duty and of spirit is alone the
worthy goal of life.
Professor Moffat quotes this mas
sage as follows:
IF your hand is hindrance to you, cut
better be MANNED and get into Life,
than keep your two hands and go to
Gehenna; to the fire that is never
II your foot is hindrance to you, cut
better get into Life q cripple, than keep
your two feet and be thrown into
If your eye is a hindrance to you, tear
it out:
better get into Gods Realm with one eye
than keep your two eyes and be
thrown into Gehenna,
where their worm never dies and the fire
is never put out
That is the word for our day, Illus
trated by the offering of myriads OF
lives to the cause which is felt to be
of God. The war has revealed to us
that noble youth does not think life
essential, but that duty is to be done
whatever the cost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26

l. is easier to give a meal to a tramp
than it is to deal with the problem
which makes him a tramp. 1t is a
small thing to satisfy his hunger; it
is a great thing to lif- him up into a
life of industry, self-respect and USE
fulness. There is world of differ
ence between real need and apparent
need. Many a man who apparently
reeds most new suit of clothes real
ly needs above all else a new spirit of
manliness. True charity is that which
helps him to get the latter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26

spring not to destroy wantonly every
thing that is beautiful enough to catch
their attention, but to leave some
thing for others to see and enjoy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26

Questions on the above or any sub
1ect upon which the reader desires
information, should be addressed the
Iopeka state Journal Information
Bureau, Frederic j. Haskin. Director,
washington, d. c., with a Scent
stamp enclosed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26
Names i'm the News.

Dugout is the name given in the
trenches to the deep holes dug by the
engineer corps and rendered she'll
proof to provide shelter for reserve
troops during a bombardment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26

Instead of referring to American
soldiers as being somewhere in
France" we soon may mention them
as being everywhere in France.