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The Press., 1918-03-21
BUILDING in 1918
CHAPTER 4 IN COyCLUsION.

CHAPTER 4. IN CONCLUSION. We do not wish anythlpg that has ap- peared In thIs space during tho past month to be considered advice" We would not venture to advise anyone on any subject relating to tho year 1918. But tO sunmsrlEe Building in i9Is'' we do re- peat:
 That you CAN, If you wish. build to- day, because in Stafford, at least, la bor and building materials of most kinds are available
 That every sign prints tn an inereas- Ing scarcity of labor In the immediate future, higher prices for lumber, with little prospect of either labor or lun- Der being cheaper for a long time.
 That you OUGHT to build at once. any building which would rssult In economy for yourself or family, or increased production of mill or farm -arythlng which would make the town worth more to ncle Sam. That you ought to build with LUM. BIER. because 1t Is relatively the low es' prieed building material obtaina- ble to-day. ..
The Press., 1918-03-21
Not the Best way.

One way to be up with the lark is to keep the lark up Rll night. ht.-Boston Transcript.
Arizona republican., 1918-11-18

oomed ever it all and he has since been writing mostly of Mr. Cobb. France and the war contribute only the background of the story of MT Cobb just the woods and hills and streams and rainstorms of Kentucky were made the background for the stories of Judge Priest and his companions.
 Now, as a theme Mir. Cobb cannot be of sus- taned interest. There is man. living or dead who could be made subject of prolonged popular inter- est. We all like to know about great characters but do want the knowledge to come to us in the shape of a serial We weary of details. We do not like Pepys and Boswell. who wrote of himself and the other who wrote of another. We mean to say and we hate to say it. but think the reading public is tired of Mir Cobb the theme of himself. We would welcome him back a story teller; we would like to him seated at typewrting ma : chine from which an expert mechanic had removed the type bar and the key of capital 'I,"
Arizona republican., 1918-11-18
THE TRIANGLE SIGN

At the Triangle Sign, the Red Triangle Sign You'l find it wherever the boys in line) There is paper and ink for the letters you write And there's magazines too, and a good readin light
 there's smokes, And the fellows in charge are some Regular Folks The kind that-you know what I mean-understands The kind with good hearty grip to their hands ] used to think guys from the Y M C. A. Was ginks whose whole game was to preach and to
 pray,
 But now-theyre good fellers and good friends of
 mine,
 Those chaps who are hosts at the Triangle Sign So long you're workn' fightin', this war Is plumb interestin' but what abhor Is the long, lonely evenins with nuthin' to do. And that's when the Y. M. C. A. boys come through :: They digs up photograph. gets up a show, Turns some movies that's chuck full of go, Finds few boys that warble a song Say, but them things makes the hours along. When a guys lonesome and likely pine He find cheer at the Triangle Sign, Infanary. cavalry, big guns and tanks Sometimes in huts that are roomy and swell Sometimes in Gugouts where shrapnel and shell Drop all around en- they're right the job, Bringing their comfort and cheer to the mob Boosting morale on the whole boomin' line That's what they do at the Triangle Sign,
 By Berton Braley.
Arizona republican., 1918-11-18
The Theme of MT. Cobb

one of the most interesting writers of recent years is, or was, Irwin Cobb who into promin- ence hardly half dozen years ago the author of the Judge Priest stories There a naturaness about them that appealed to every reader There was
 counterpart of every character in every corner of the land. Mr. Cobb seemed be such master of feta the world of letters not produced since I',ckens Tis settings of his Kentucky stories were familiar 10 every reader who had lived any where in the Mississippi valley. His descriptions brought back to them things they had long forgotten things that they had really noticed until they presented through MT. Cobbs observant eyes and skillful per.
 Mr Cobb's theme nature, physical and hu- man. something in which we are all interested and of which grow tired.
 Then the war broke out and Mir Cobb went to France sad day for and a day for him. He presumably correspondent and we all thought he would be a good one. But ne couiG never grasp the Perhaps he could not see it. So far ss he concerned the growing shadow of Mir Cobb
Arizona republican., 1918-11-18
What He Was Celebrating

There outburst of joy that not lost when rejoicing going all over the nation several days following prema- ture report of the signing of the armistce It was ih Topeka, Kansas. The ceebrant was an old negro He not disturbed and did not share in the general chagrln and anger few hours later when the which had sent the whole coun- try to rejoicing had been denied.
 He did not care continental whether the armis- tice had been signed not. He did not know what an armistce He hadn't heard anybody say any thing about any armistce. He thought that the whole country celebrating the election of a publican congress. He remembered afterwards ing lot Of hilarious democrats whoopng it up along with the rest of them and he thought it little strange that they should gloat their defeat. But he reasoned that democrat might change his mind and habits, and reform.
Arizona republican., 1918-11-18
King Ludwig's Resignation

It took Ludwig of Bavaria full week to make up his mind abandon his throne, but he finally gave it up and by hair avoided the humiliation of the pastor of a colored church Cynthana, Kentucky, of whom Senator Mark Smith once spoke:
 My father driving along the road one sun day morning when he surprised to the pastor climb over fence the roadside with fishing pole his hand
 ," Hello parson,' he cried, where you going My father had not heard of growing schism in the coIored church)
 Ans goin to see if An can't get d few fish, piled the parson
 But what would your flock think of it if they knew their pastor going fishing Sunday?
 "Ah haint got no flock no moh; dey done handed mo my resignashun.'
 Speaking of publications and renunciations of Ger thrones within the last week of imperial thrones the thrones of kings large and small it may seem that vacancies have been created. It has been if had pulled his finger out of pool of water: there is hole left nothing to show where the finger had been. The places occupied by em- perors kings and princes more; they are as if they never had been. These monarchs stood on the seashore for centuries. Their the glory of the landscape. Then came the waves and left nothing but a flat waste of sand, not trace of throne and a footstep of d monarch old Canute could not repe the waves of the The monarchs of Germany have been helpless
Arizona republican., 1918-11-18
In a German Prison Camp

Captain James Norman Hall has, in at least one quarter been criticised for his articles the Atlantic Monthly from officers prison camp in Germany. There is inferential criticism because Captain Hall speaks of the kind and courteous treatment corded him by German officers and direct critf- eism because in sentence he expresses doubt of the
 truth of the stories of escaped prisoners of their outrageous treatment in other prison camps.
 Captain Hall of course erred in raising any such question for undoubtedly many of the men who have related stories of i'll treatment veracious They had been in other prison camps than that good fortune sent Captain Hall for there must be prison camps and prison camps in Germany, just there are men and men there as there everywhere.
 But any criticism of Captain Hall for describing his treatment is and bigoted and is the emanation Of a mind The truth should always be told and it should be accepted by us however it may counter to theories of things If Cap tain Hall found something good in his captors we must conclude that Germans as individuals are not all bad We have caught ourselves hating only the kaiser but individual Germans German names German literature and German music It is the German idea, the German system which deserves our hate, and should hate that jus, as intensely ten, twenty forty years after the war as we do now
 The attitude of the German officers mong whom Captain Hall prisoner is thus illustrated by him:
 taken by German avators to their aerdome and had lunch with them before was sent on to the hospital Some of them spoke English and some of them French, that there was no difficulty in conversinS. l was suffering good deal from my twisted ankles and had to be guarded in my remarks because of the danger of disclosing military inforna tion. But they a fine lot of fellows They re- spected my reticence and did all they could to make me comfortable. It was with pilots from this squad that had been fighting only hour or so be- fore. One of their number had been killed in the combat by of the boys who was flying with me
 sat beside the fellow whom was attacking when my wing broke. was right lon his tail" as we airmen when the accident occurred had just opened fire. Talking the combat with them in their pleasant quarters I heartily glad that my affair ended as it did. asked them tell me frankly if they did feel rather bitter toward me as one of an enemy patrol which had shot down comrade of theirs They seemed to be surprised that we had any suspicious this score. We had had "a fair fight open field" Why should there be any bitterness about the result? One of them said to me "Hauptman, you'll find that Germans are enemies 0I country in war, but of the individual" My experience thus far leads to believe that this is true. There have been few exceptions, but they were uneducated common soldiers. Bitterness toward America certainly there is. everywhere and an in- tense hatred of President Wilson Ctue equal in de gree and kind to the hatred in America of the en peror
Arizona republican., 1918-11-18
Two Requests

MT Lloyd George in a letter on Saturday urged new parliamentary election and invited the return of candidates who would support the present govern ueut in bringing the a formal end and in work ing after-the-War problems. Lest this be cited by our democratic friends and be made d subject of comparison with the statement of the president two weeks ago we shall point out the difference between the two statements
 If the president had asked the election of rep resentatvcs and senators who would support the ad- minstration in concluding peace and through the transitional period, the two statements would be com parable But to ask for the election of democrats only was a quite different thing Lloyd George makes it clear that such election he proposes should be a coalition election.
 The government of Great Britain is coalition. It not in the first days of the War for lons time afterward. That nation ruled by party the war was directed by party. and the party tried to conceal the costly and innumerable bunders made period. At length the people of Great Britain in alarm and anger swept the party out, put in coalition government and thereafter things went better
 We have had party government but for the last nine months have felt the beneficial effect of coalition in the direction of the war. Capable men, regardless of party brought in to direct the real business of the war muniton making, transporta- tlon, elC the nCduS or the departments renamed only figureheads.
 There was it is true, a coalition. though it was never referred to such, in the beginning. It in congress, which had much more to do with part in the than the British parliament had to do with Great Britain's part It was the coalition of patriotic democrats and republicans that made it pos sble for us to engage in the at all. after had engaged in it, to be of any force in the war. Neither party alone could have taken this first neces- sary step.
 But after the coalition in congress had done all that congress could do there was no coalition in this country for a year. until aircraft and shipbulding scandals had convinced the country that making progress. After that we had coalition. informal. but none the less effective.
Arizona republican., 1918-11-18

and I started crawling backward down the hill. l lost my doughnuts and stuck my foot in another fellows mus ket and had to split my chow with him. It's a gay life, boy, it's a gay life, life
 Have to cut this short. Just re- ceived orders to roll my pack. Don t know which way I'm going, but hope it's to the rear. Be good, Jim, and if the opportunity presents itself give the Y. NJ. c. A, Red Cross. K. of C. or Salvation Army a boost. They have been our friend from the front lines back. Tell your brother, MT. E. H. hello for me.
 Hoping to see you before long, am, your friend,
 A. H. GEORGE.
Arizona republican., 1918-11-18
HISTORY
Tho worlds

The worlds history is divine poem of which the history of every nation is and of every a word. Its strains have been peang along down the centuries. and, though there have been mingled the discords of roaring and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian-the humble stener-there has been divine melody running g through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.-James A. Garfield
Arizona republican., 1918-11-18
NOTICE

There will be an annual meeting of the stockholders of the Arizona Pub fishing Company. November 18th, 1918. for the purposes of transaction of the annual business and such other busi- ness as may be brought before the meeting.
 (Signed) DWIGHT B. HEARD,
 President. (Signed) CHAS. A. STAUFFER- Secretary and Business Manager.
Arizona republican., 1918-11-18
NO REAL KNOWLEDGE

Just what sort of chap is Pertwhise?'
 T haven't the slightest idea" returned Gaunt N Grimm. T have never seen him except when he was with his wife"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-31

as saying: II venture to suggest Ito The
allied powe-sl that they consider whether
there should not be peace without vic
tory
In a word there Gould be no fouier distor-
ton of any mans attitude than to repre-
sent him as saying AFTER we got into the
war, what in fact he said two years BIZ
FORE the war logan. L am perfectly
willing to be judged by what may have
written at any time, provided the time Is
correctly stated but | protest with all my
might against a Justification of dates which
results in an utter libelous misrepresentG-
ton of my real attitude.
l wish to call attention also to the TACT
that one of these editorials reprinted in
this circular is garbied by the omission
Of an entire paragraph, thus materially
altering the construction that would have
been put upon the article had it been pub
lished written.
I submit that candidacy which must
be bolstered up by libelous attacks upon
competitor ia unworthy the. consideration
of the people of Kansas. l submit tina t
1 am entitled TO be Judged by the record
of more than twenty-five years in pubic
life during which time no whisper against
my integrity or my patriotism has BEEN
heard and not by few garbied and ms
dated extracts circulated broadcast over
Kansas in the interest of a competing
candidate. CHAS. +. SIOI1-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-31
SCOTT NAILS CIRCULAR
Candidate for Senate Points Out In
accuracics of Attack on Him.

lola, Kan, July 31.-Former Con-
gresham Charles F. Scott. Republi-
can candidate for senator, today gave
out the following statement:
To the People of Kansas:
Several days ago my. attention was called
to circular that was being sent out under
Wellington date line over the names of
W. w. Schwinn, James Lawrence, J. B.
Favor and II. c. Plumb, in which several
noticed that two of them were dated 1917
when in point of fact they were first writ
addressed the following telegram to each
of the men above named:
to but Gn e sto as to de ssne nesr man
name of circular that falsifies dates of
Register editorials, making it appear they
appeared in 1915. ask to be notified by
wire that you have done this and also have
made public correction"
The day following I received the follow
ing telegram:
Wellington, Kansas.
&c. F. Scott. lola, Kansas
Mistake made by printer and not noticed
by us. Will make correction.
LANES LAWRENCE,
At. b. FAVOR"
day later I received a letter from W.
w Schwinn, admitting mistake had been
made in the date and also charging it up
to the printer l have as yet heard moth
ing from Mr. Plumb
I am now Informed that thousands of
these circulars have been spread over Kan
sas with the mistake still uncOrrected, and
so far as have observed there has been
no public statement given out by either one
of the gentlemen concerned. calling atten
ton to the error and saking the public to
take note of the correction.
submit to a r-minded public that
this change IN date whether done DELHI
erately or loaded off onto that convenient
scapegOat. the printer, does me gross inius-
tice- A similar change in date would repre
sent William Allen White as saving after
We got into the war: In a world war mad
we have the peace that passeth understand
ing. BY Gods grace we should keep IT."
1t would represent W. Y. Morgan as say
ing. There IS nothing We would gain by
war and we would have everything to lose
including orr own Se'f respect" 1t world
represent the president of the United States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-31
PREPARE FOR WINTER
Industries Are Urged to Store Up Sup
plies for the Future.

The aid of the public utilities COM
mission in urging industries to move
their winter supplies has been ask ed
by Hale Holden, regional director OF
the central western division of rail-
roads. The government, says Direc-
tor Holden, is anxious to prevent the
conditions that prevailed last winter,
when SO extraordinary demands were
made upon the railroads.
Industries are asked to store away
their winter needs at once, and whole
sale concerns and distributors are
urged to persuade their customers to
take immediate delivery of goods re-
CURED. The use of storage space for
factory products nearest the point of
consumption is also encouraged. All
slippers and receivers are reminded
Of the difficulties that are likely to
prevail and are asked to prepare
against the billiards. and zero weather
by taking advantage of conditions
now. The storage of fuel oil is of spe-
cial impol lance, Director Holden says.
and users should stock up for their
own protection. The storage of coal
is being handled by the fuel admins
tration.
The question of the early movement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-31
GAINING ON SUBS
Allies Building Ships Faster
Than Huns Sink Them.
Net Gain Now of About 100000
Month, Says Geddes.

London, July 31.-Sir Eric Geddes,
first lord of the British admiralty,
has given the house of commons re-
view of the naval situation
The first lord compared the situa-
ton today regarding tonnage with that
of a year ago. Then the net loss in
tonnage, he said, was $4,000 gross
tons monthly. Submarines then were
not being destroyed as fast as the Ger
mans were building them, while the
merchant shipyards were short of men
and lateral. Four hundred thousand
tons net loss monthly was the British
deficit.
Gradually, in t$e past year, Sir Eric
continued. the position had changed in
many directions. Instead of losing
tonnage, the worlds net result in the
last quarter had been a gain, roughly,
of 10000 tons a month. The allied
and neutral world was as well off
June { as on January l, 1918. This
result, he declared, had been obtained
by reduced sinkings and increased
buildings.
THE problem of a year ago was
considered by many almost incon
ceivable and insoluble," Sir Eric con-
tinued. "MercantiIe carrying power
was being sunk at a rate which soon
would have meant an inability to con-
tinue the war, and there was no tried
recognized means of combating the
campaign. 1t was necessary to pro-
vide a building program of anti-sub-
marine craft, mines, other appliances
and merchant ships on a greatly in
creased scale"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-31
THIN PEOPLE
SHOULD TAKE
PHOSPHATE
Nothing Like Plain Bftro- Phosphate to
Put on Firm, Healthy Flesh and
to Increase Strength, Vigor
and Nerve Force. ,

Judging from the countless prepara
lions and treatments which are continu-
ally being advertised for the purpose of
Masking thin people fieshy, developing
arms. neck and bust. and replacing ugly
hollows and angles by the soft curved lines
OF health and beauty. there are evidently
thousands of pen and women who keenly
feel their excessive thinness.
Thinness and weakness are usually due
to starved nerves. Our bodies need more
phosphate than Is contained in modern
foods. Physicians claim there is nothing
that will supply this deficiency SO well as
the organic phosphate '-nown among
druggists as bitro-phospbate. which is in
expensive and is sold by most all drug
gists under & guarantee of satisfaction or
directly and by Supplying the body cells
with the necessary phosphoric food ele-
ments. bitro-phosphate quickly produces
a welcome transformation in the appear
anee: the increase in weight frequently
being astonishing.
This increase in weight also carries with
1t general Improvement in the health.
Nervousness. sleeplessness and lack Of
energy. which nearly always accompany
excessive thinness. soon disappear. duh
eyes become bright and pale cheeks glow
with the bloom of perfect health.
CAUTION Although o-phosphate Is
unsurpassed for relieving nervousness.
sieeplessness and general weakness. 1t
should MT, owing to its remarkable flesh
growing properties. be used by anyone
who does not desire to put on flesh.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-31
LEMON JUICE
TAKES OFF TAN
Girls! Make bleaching lotion
if skin is sunburned,
tanned or freckled

Squeeze the juice of two lemons into
a bottle containing three ounces OF
Orchard White, shake well, and you
have quarter pint of the best
freckle, sunburn and tan lotion, and
complexion beautifier. at very, very
small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store CIR toilet counter will
supply three ounces of Orchard White
for a few cents. Massage this sweet
ly fragrant lotion into the face, neck,
arms and hands each day and see how
freclles, sunburn, windburn and
tan disappear and how clear. soft and
white the skin becomes. Yes! It is
har4nIeSs--Ady
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-31
She BABE Them RETREAT

Coiored Woman Objects to County
Surveyors-Used Gun.
When the county surveyors went to
work Tuesday afternoon in the vicin-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-31
Is YEARS AGO In TOPEKA
From the columns -
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
July 81. 1898.


The Topeka cyclists have organized a
club with a membership of fifty. The
officers are: President, W. c. f. Re1chen-
bach; vice president, Frank Patterson, sec
rotary, Frank Guernsey; treasurer, George
Seward; captain, f. E. Corners; lieutenant,
o. S. Townsend.
Insurance Commissioner Snider and Mrs.
Snider left last Light for Boston. Mr..
Snider goes to examine into the workings
of the Massachusetts Benefit Life assocla-
ton, which has applied to him for admis-
sion to do business in Kansas: The eX-
pense of the trip is paid wholly by the
insurance company
Among those who went to the fair today
on the Rock Islands Topeka sleeper were
Judge Bergen. wife and daughter, H A,
King and wife, E. NJ Randall and wife,
Judge Mcfarland and wife, Henry Keller,
wife and daughter. Theo. Pennecamp, Mrs.
n. T. Gardner, Mrs. J. D. Mason and chill
dren, Amelia and Josie Snyder, Mrs: Coles,
o. L. Svensson and wife, B. f. Younger
and wife, E. Dugenhefm.
Miss Lucy shuI has returned from the
Worlds fair.
Mrs J. Umpleby and daughter Birdie Left
last night for Arkansas City
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Sim are occupying
their new home on Taylor street, between
Sixth and Seventh.
Mrs William Werner, formerly Miss
Florence Beck, will return to her home in
Tacoma, Washington, next week.
Mrs Florence Thacher and Miss Eta
Fox left this afternoon for Chicago.