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Connecticut western news., 1918-07-11
"BETTER BLIND THAN DEAF
Scientific Writer Points Out Why tiss Former Affliction Is Less Hard
 to Bear.

Scientists have shown that sound ndt only informs the intellect. as does sight, but that, much in excess of tha4 sense, it excites feelings-that Is- sound pure and simple hus q specific relation to feelings widely diGererf from that of sight.
 Its primary effect was the creating of moods, Margaret Baldwin writes ia the Atlantic magazine. This being 50. the simple fact is that sound has far more to do fundamentally with origin ating our emotions, or how we feel from day to day, than has what we see
 It should be said in passing, thai there is very little recognition of this fact by the person with normal hear ing. Sight and sound are so inter woven for him that he does not dis criminate as to what belongs intrins- cally to each in the province of feel ings. It is only when the two are clearly separated, as in deafness or blindness, that experience takes nofs of what belongs to the one and the other.
 A SSlShllhS NlllSl BSlhbo SNN AAhN w can see with indifference the writh- ings of suffering animal that Is stu. but that, if there are cries of pain. tt produces emotions at once. We ars distressed. In reports of terrible ma rine disasters, it is almost never saia by people that they can never fergef the sights they saw, but always thai they can never forget the cries of tho drowning.
 Although one would hardly hesitate to say that the excess of the blind mans calamity over that of the deaf man is sufficient to overbalance this elemental function of sound to prs duce moods, yet the universal fact TO- mains that the blind are more cheerfw than the deaf.
Connecticut western news., 1918-07-11
SUFFERED FOR HIS COUNTRY
Agent, Received Harsh Treatment
 From Government f

Silus Deane, the first diplomatic agent of the United States, was bora at Groton, Mass, close t. 200 years ago. He became Il merchant and was a delegate to the first Continental con gress. In the spring of 1TT6 he was sent to France as secret diplomatic agent. He posed as a merchant from Bermuda, and upon his arrival Sn Paris sought an interview with Counz de Vergennes, the Minister of Foreign Affaires, who refused to receive him. Deane was reduced to the direst por- erty and was elected by his landladJ-
 Subsequent American ambassadors have complained of ihe lack uf suit able embassies, but Dcnne was re- ddced to point where he had to ae- cept poor lodgings from sympa- thetic Frenchman. Eventually he waa given an audience with Vcrgennes and began the diplomatic relations whict eventually resulted in tEe French at- ltance. In TIT Deane was'recalled.
 In th" bitter controversy which fok- lowed his recall Thomas Paine reveaa- ed the fact that supplies furnished ths colonies had been furnished by the French government. This was COZ sidercd n diplomatic tndiscretion ana 1t e ~t i'otne his place as secretary ot the Committee on Foreign Affair&- Deane. driven into poverty and exile. died in England in 17S0. Half eez- tury later his claim for his services abroad was adjusted by congress ana a large sum Was paid hls heirs.
Connecticut western news., 1918-07-11

preached me he smiled in his usual pleasant manner, and 1 recognized him as Frederick J. Goggin, a mem- Der of our graduating class. He asked me to have a doughnut. gazed at him in amazement, "A doughnut", said l. He smiled and said, "Well, yes, Rosa, doughnut". I asked him what he was doing with so many doughnuts in those tin cans on his back. He said he was pedd- ling them from East Canaan to Ca- naan and from there to South Ca- naan. I couldn't help but laugh. asked him what had become of that old horse he used to drive down to Canaan, 5 years ago, and this was his story. "Well one hot night turned him out to pasture. He jumped over the fence into field of popcorn. The night was so hot that the corn began to pop and so many large white flakes popped into the air that the poor old horse thought it was showing and was so frightened at so much snow that he layed right down and died. I knew that Freder- ick always studied hard and never tried to bluff in school and so felt I could not doubt his story.
 Now just imagine me wandering around in a large forest, wondering whether or not 1 am alone. As roam about 1 chance to hear music and as 1 approach the place from whence the music seems to come see many birds and animals listening attentively as if hypnotized by the wonderful song. In the midst of these birds and animals stands a girl with dark curly hair flying in the breeze. She is singing beautifully, unaware of the fact that 1 am one of her priviledged listeners. AS she stops she looks around as if partly conscious that someone is listening to her song and as she looks up l can keep still no longer-If it isn't Marjorie Johnson. Do you know that you remind me of Orpheus who played the Tyre so skillfully that his music attracted the animals, birds and even the trees of the forest? HAAS oAhliSd eihd IGpllSdy Ol uO 5O like to get out into the forest where can be free from the stage and opera and get in touch with nature. l was only singing one of my favor ties then. l suppose you know that l am now an opera singer don't you? l wasn't at all surprised to hear this for even in the old school days no one could have failed to note the re- markable quality of such voice.
 But l seem to hear you all asking Why doesn't she tell us about her self. Didn't she see her own future? l am free to admit that did, but I shall leave it to you to imagine what l was doing.
 As l felt myself slowly coming out of the trance I seemed to hear in the distance the voice of a child. l shall never forget those words, Teacher, teacher, tell us once more the story of "How Uncle Sam helped the Allies lick the Germans in 1918.
Connecticut western news., 1918-07-11
CLASS PROPHESY

Continued from Fage
 well acquainted with this old class mate of mine but who knew nothing of my past acquaintance introduced me to the music instructor. I looked at her and she at me and we simply had to smile. Imagine mates mv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-09

a contract for carrying the mail from
Blaine to Westmoreland- and from
Westmoreland to Blaine. The con-
tract was for SIS. The road needed
the money. 1t ha- bought five ton
truck and was paying for the i'm
provement on the dollar occasionally
basis. Besides. the company was in
arrears with Richardson in the pay
ment of the 500 a month which he
was to receive for his various services.
Yet there was no one to run the train
which was to carry the mail. So Rich
ardson became an engineer, conductor,
fireman, brakeman and full train
crew.
An End at Last!
local firm sold the company some
gasoline-on open account. Each
night after Richardson had completed
his other work, he cranked the motor,
blew the whistle. collected the two or
three passenger tickets. hooked trail
er behind the motor truck and started
for Blaine over uncertain track and
more uncertain bridges. But one day
the motor truck needed fixing and
when the repair bill came, it was nee
essary for Richardson to go to the
bank. There he borrowed money on
his personal note and paid the bill. 1t
might have continued Indefinitely had
not the state commission issued an
order permitting junking of the road.
When the road was built. West
-more-county seat of Pottawatomie
county-voted 100000 in bonds. Later
it put up $4,000 to insure fifteen
years operation of the road. Nor
does that include private donations
or losses. 1t was the only railroad
entering the town of Westmoreland
and connected with the X. L. e w.
railway at Blaine. The order junk
ing the road means that Westmore-
land will be the only county seat in
eastern Kansas without a railroad.
Owned by n Woman.
A number of years ago the road
was practically owned by Charles
Morse, former member of the legis-
lature from Pottawatomie county
Morse and his son were drowned while
inspecting a bridge during a flood.
Mrs. Morse became sole owner of the
road and was the only woman in the
United States who was ever sole own
er and operate. of railroad line.
Under the terms of the order as Is
sued today, the line will be junked
for $4,000. Some of the money will
go - the town Of Westmoreland. And
some of It will - richardson, who
may never again hold SO many jobs
and rer '-e su" - uncertain pay
check. Last year. the records show
Richardson received nearly $500 in
actual cash for his services. That
mo-. of course. was in addition to a
LASS over the entire S.3 miles of the
system
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have adopted a strange uniform In
which the empty flour sacks take the
place of sleeveless shirts. The sacks
are slit at the side for the arm-holes.
much cooler the men say than the
army undershirt. Each sack has
flaming red and blue letters OF its
brand, and SO they work respien-
dent with the whole range of Ameri-
can flour brands in their flour-saeiS
shirts.
BY the TrainIoad.
American Regulation Base. France.
Nov. 9-Bread for the American SOL
diers is brought here by trainloads
from the great army field bakery
few miles distant-one train OF thirty
cars a day all loaded with white bread
from the best of wheat flour.
One such train was arriving as the
Associated Press correspondent visited
the Base. Another trainload OF re-
frigerated beef arrived soon afterward
from the great refrigerating plant at
Gievre.
Other Supplies, Too.
1t was the same with other classes
of supplies, rations, forage, fuel and
oil-all came In huge bulk to this con-
centrating and distributing point, for
this is one of the great nerve centers
of supplies for the fighting men.
Here the trainloads are broken up
into fifteen parts, two cars to a part
and each part goes toward making up
a new automatic train" carrying sup
plies of all kinds to the soldiers-fif-
teen trains a day automatically leaving
for the front loaded with food or fight>
ing material.
Putting yard engines were doing the
work of splitting up the trains and
reforming new ones. Gradually the
| confused mass of cars. the bread and
| meat trains melted away and the fif-
| teen automatic trains took definite
FORM As they were completed they
moved off to sidings to take their turn
in the steady stream of trains moving
! out to the fighting front. This Is the
process, repeated dayIafter day, in the
formation of the automatic trains. that
marvel of transportation that has SO
bewildered and surprised the foreign
observers.
To Each Division.
| The last stage as the supplies pass to
! the troops at the front is where the
| automatic train reaches the rail-head
of the division. Each American di.
vision has its fixed rail-head, or ter
minal, where the train delivers its
daily quota. This is as near the troops
in the field as fighting conditions will
permit. But in many cases 1t is not
possible to bring the divisions rail-
head close to the front, so that in these
cases canton transit fills the gap be-
| tween the rail-head and the actual
| line.
A rail-head officer is in charge al
these points. reporting back nightly to
headquarters here as to the strength
| of men and animals in the division
| and its varying needs caused by active
fighting or periods of repose. Thus
| each division rail-head becomes a
regulating station for the needs of that
| fighting unit, while all of them are
linked back here to this huge central
regulating station where the steady
lines Of supplies are kept moving for.
| ward.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-09
OBSERVE ,TERCENTENARY
Raleigh Celebration by British Acad-
envy of Science

London. Nov. AT a meeting of
the British academy during the last
week for the purpcoe of the comment
Grating the Raleigh Tercentenary, this
resolution was unanimously adopted:
1.-THE British academy desires to af-
firm it's wish to cooperate with Amer
lean scholars in the advancement of
intellectual culture. The alliance be-
tween the great English-speaking peo-
pies which has been so fruitful in war
should have its victories no less re-
nowned in peace. 1t is the hope of
the academy that scholars on both
sides of the Atlantic will in future in
creasingly collabcrate in the organiza-
ton of research, in the cultivation of
intelligent citizenship, and in the pro-
motion of intellectual progress"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-09
LOSES HIS "PET"
G. Il. Richardson's Railroad Is
To Be Junked Soon.
1t Runs From WestmOreland to
Blaine, or Has.
RICHARDSON ITS MANY HEADS
Was Everything From Presi-
dent to Trackwalker.
Remuneration $500 a Year and
Annual Pass.

Approval was granted by the state
public utilities commission today per-
hitting the junking of the Westmore-
land Interurban railroads. motor
line between Westmoreland and
Blaine, a distance of S.3 miles. aoz-
en- thrills anad heartaches are contain
ed in the report which commission IN
spectors filed regarding the flnanciai
vice of the road The road, when
has cost the town of Westmoreianu
more than $4,000, will be junked tor
$4,000.
When the roadbed is torn up and
the lone motor car and four trallers
are moved away, George T. Rlcharu-
son will be able to go to bed and en-
10y a real nights sleep. Richardson
owns no shares of the company stock.
For several years he has been the
roads financial hacker and has served
at the head of all the departments
of the eight-mile system. When the
road needed $50 or 500 to pay cur
rent bills-those were among the
monthly and quarterly cash deficits
the banks refused to loan money on
the company paper. So Richardson
borrowed money on his personal note
and put the money into the road. He
seemed born of a hope eternal ana
he held on long after every iio SiSS
wanted to quit.
Man of Many Jobs.
Probably Richardson held more
railroad Jobs at one time than any
man in the world. At least. he broke
all known records in railroad circles.
Once he invested some real money in
the road he was made general man
ager. Then he added the job of
general passenger agent. Later. he
became traffic manager. Then the
depot agent quit and Richardson be-
came city passenger agent, freight
agent and at the head of the tele-
graph department.
When the war reached America, the
Westmoreland Interurban Railway
company felt the labor shock. Its sec
ton crew quit-foreman and both
workers. So Richardson became head
of the bridge and building department
and also superintendent of construc-
tion-which meant section foreman
and crew. He looked after the track
and the bridges and tried to make the
wobbly track look straight and as
mucl. like a main line road as pos
sible. But the weeds grew faster than
Richardson>could cut them and when
a tie rotted or a bit of track slipped
below the grade level. there was no
money for repairs.
Then the government gave the road
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-09

TT was in a hut at one of the training schools
in France. He was non-commissioned
l. officer He had been in France for eight
months, and now was back from the front as
an instructor. He hadn't seen girl of his own
kind, girl like his sisters, for weeks.
And there she stood behind tho canteen
counter in this big, roonny, comfortable hut
He bought a bar of chocolate Then he drifted
over to the group around the piano. Presently
he went back to the canteen for package of
cigarettes. He strolled to the reading table and
leafed over magazine. Again he returned-this
time for cake Of soap and some tooth-paste.
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WITH TOPEKA BOYS
Corporal Pinet Tells of Fighting Of
10th Engineers at Ver1un.

~orPor"i Tihe' ieHs OF F1gnung OF
10th Engineers at Verdun.
Wounded nv a machine ,un hv,1.+
,r,u. ,.,,,-
"Hiio carrying water 10 MS men from
spring which was under fire was
the experience of Corp. E. p. Pinet.
| Companv A. 10 en1ipeers Accord
- ,ott.r ,.,o;,,.s - IT., h..L
20 ~ AS
b. Il. P1net, OF topeka, secretary OF
the Kansas State Teachers associa-
+,,n C,-no-., p;n.+ 1v,+,a.s.a ~.
oea'h VI Saies oessop VI AoPeha'
who, Pinet says, died game.
Corporal Pinet wrote from a base
bosnitaI where he was recovering from
..-,...l ~.
INC s
second pattie OF Verouh' september
80. The engineers went over with the
infantry to keep the road in repair SO
that the transnorts couId keen moving
~ IT, s.n,o dow tho ENGINEERS
- 49, a. Iat+1a oa infantrv re-
went in'J .ne a.tio ae ..,,ta ~
tranch.s for the infantry On the
- -, l.HI h,,rst
eVenins VI t ia S S;rat Ina
inS 1ust peIiiu CoIpoiai 49,,
wv VI iiiS 70. - r, $3.50
Was e.sop' -. =, th. ra,,rs-
uedth haS oeeii eoio oooo' l" 'Ae
| s-%a
|. ae+i,, ~. saraeant
| LIN 40 a ~ ~. a. S, oot,an
| II was my uu'y ~ oseeAe ny Il
as soonl as M, Iahe On 80 III
awa,. ~ o -, an..,,. -, tts aaoa ~ w.
suppea as u nv. -, .i.s -. 49,
on ~ si:p 80 u.4. LII
| were shellng spring pretty paoiS'
| ana L went Tor water LOT my men.
IL was wnlle ! was coming PACK tnat
| was mt. Macnlne guns were IN
irony Oh US airplanes aooVe US anu
| dfuiiery all diouhu. must ha.e
gone some distance a1ter 1 was nj.
| because my snoe was 1ull OF piooo
When notlced IL. Inc wound was
thru my lett root, by machine gun
| pullet. was also wounded IN the
back by shrapnel, but as 1t hit my
back. the wound does not amount TO
much.
! Pinet writing on his twenty-second
birthday, told something of his expert
ences in the battle from September 70
to October 80. He writes THE bat
| talon left camp in part of the
Argonne forest, and started toward the
front line. We had made maps show
ing all the principal roads, towns.
| farms, etc. and were prepared for
| whatever the morning might bring.
On the main road We were only about
ten miles from the front, and we fig
ured that we would have plenty OF
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Gee! but it's nice to see a
girl like you'll"

running restaurants, handing out hot chocolate
or coffee, pies and doughnuts.
They are giving the huts q look of home
putting bright curtains at the windows, posters
on the walls, making flower-gardens at the
doors They are mending for the soldiers.
But, most of>all, they are just being .therel
They talk about the things that sound like
home. Perhaps they know the very towns
and streets and girls that these boys know.
They bind together home and Francei They
arc the girls beside the men behind the gunsi
Without the organizations whose uniforms
they wear, these girls could accomplish nothing
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A Million Pounds of Bread q
Day Required.
1000 Bakers Kept Busy for the
Soldiers.
TENTS FORM THE BAKERY
And the Bread for the Soldiers
Is of the Best.
BY TrainIOadS to the Great
Regulation Base.

American Advance Zone, Nov. o.
Two thousand soldier-bakers turning
out million pounds of bread day
this Is the vast and animated work
one sees. here at the American army
field bakery, which supplies the staff
of life to the American army in the
entire area of the advance zone.
1t is a bakery of tents. unlike the
ordinary bakery within brick walls
and with whizzing machinery, but a
field bakery right out in the open air
and open fields. half a military en-
campment and half an industrial city,
and like all army camps capable of
being picked up and transported to
another point in a few hours.
A city of tents marks the site Of this
huge camp bakery, along the country
roadside about a mile outside of the
large cities of the advance zone
nameless as are all places in the zone
of advance. The camp stretches over
many acres, lately ploughed ground of
a big farm, but now humming with
the activity of huge productive en-
terprise. Above the tents one sees
countless smoke-stacks OF the bake
ovens, belching black smoke, and in
the open air hundreds of soldiers,
striped to the waist, bending over the
huge masses of dough. and hundreds
more manipulating the leaves in the
huge battery of ovens.
The daily bread train was about to
start for the front as we arrived. Altho
the camp is in the fields, yet spurs of
railway have been run alongside, and
each day this huge train goes forward
SO that every American division and
every camp along the whole front gets
its supply with unfailing regularity.
The train was nearly half a mile long.
with some fifty box cars loaded solid
from floor to roof, 10000 pounds to
the car, or a million pounds of bread
to the train.
Flour Is Unloadcd.
Near by another train was discharg-
ing huge stacks of flour straight from
American wheat fields and milling
centers of the west and northwest. 1t
comes in SO and 140 pound sacks, of
the best standard grades. for nothing
is too good for the food of the fight
ing man. OF late, however, said the
escort, some of this flour from far
western points has not been up to the
highest standard, indicating that the
rush of an enormous shipment had led
to falling off in quality.
The soldiers 1aboring among the
flour sacks have now begun to look
themselves like flour sacks, for they
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-09

However eager to help,
they could not even
travel as individuals.
But with the backing
Of these established, rec.
ognized and regulated
bodies, they can work
wonders.
When you think Of
war as a brutalizing
force, think Of Ameri.
can womanhood work.
ing with the soldiers in
this War-then give, to
support the organiza.
tons which make this
possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-09

For a moment the
rush at the canteen was
over. He loitered at the
counter and looked at
the girl. She smiled. So
did he. Then he blurted
out what he had been
trying to say for 20
minutes.
Gee! but it's nice to
zee a girl like you!"
There are girls like
that all over France
in camps, in towns, in
the big cities-even at
the front itself. Theyare
serving the canteens,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-09

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SETTLEMENT
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And Paid-up Participating policy for $2,OOO.6o
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Assets $4,000, 600. 90
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Old Line Bankers Life Insurance Co.

Ashland Kansas June Fl 1913
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