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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds of Men in
Americas Fighting Service

When the American destroyer Fan
ming, with the assistance of the Mich
olson sank a German submarine and
captured all of her officers and men
in the war zone recently, Francis G.
Conner, National Naval Volunteers,
coxswain of the first named vessel
won distinction by his bravery. The
U-boat had been disabled by depth
and surface charges and shots. I'm
der the guns of its captors the officers
and men had crowded the deck of the
doomed boat. Lines were being
thrown out to the sinking ship, but
before she, could be helped the
U-boat began to sink. The German
crew leaped to the water and started
to swim for the Tanning. One of the,
men became exhausted and was sink
ing when Conner Jumped from the
deck of the American ship, and catch
ing the German brought him along
side. He was drawn up to the deck
and first aid given, but without avail
Conner is 20 years old and New
Yorker He graduated in 1911 from
public school No. 90 of that city, TAX
ing the honors of his class. Up until
the outbreak of the war he was en-
ployed in New York as salesman for
H 3. Claflin & Co. For some years
Conner lived with his sister, Mrs.
Eugene Cough, 169 Delaware avenue,
Jersey City, n. J. He was officially
commended for bravery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
WHATEVER YOU WANT TO KNOwr'

lit is estimated that nearly $1,000
GOO of advertising space has been
bought and paid for by business nren
or contributed by the newspapers.
ma gaines, farm papers and trade pa
pers of the United Stateszzall to help
win the war and bring the people of
this country to the realization of their
own responsibilities during the war.
Yet when the government has money
to spend on a publicity campaign it is
said to be planning to put it into post
ers.. If the business men of the coun-
try, those who have made successes
thru advertising, had regarded posters
as the best method no doubt they
would have adopted them instead of
putting their contributions into the
newspapers. DO the men in Washing
ton pretend to know more about ad-
vertising methods than those who
have made a lifelong study of 1.-THE
men who have a successful business to
show for their efforts?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
TRAWELETTE
Mount Sinai.
BY NIKSAH.

He must be an unimaginative man,
whatever his creed, who can ascend
Sinai without thrill of reverence.
Here was given the law that is in
scribed on the countless ia blets of half
a world, the maxims that have ruled
much of the lives of billions of men
and women in Europe and America
for thousands of years The barren
grandeur of the peak, the rocky diff
Guilty of the ascent. are pitched in the
proper key. Unfortunately, the Mos
lem rulers of the region have clut-
tered up the neighborhood and the
mount itself with all manner of child
iSh legends and authentic relics.
Orientally tolerant, they have not
only accepted the Jewish traditions of
the spot, which have become a part
of their great rival religion. Chris
tianity-they have added to them and
OVERLAND them with all manner of
crude superstition.
Thus they will show you the very
rock where the children of Israel set
up the golden calf, and another
commonplace boulder which is guar
anteed to be the one smitten by Moses
when the wandering Hebrews were
thirsty Exhibit C is the rock on
which Moses broke the first tablets in
his anger. Then there is a garden
with a chapel, enclosing the spot
where Elijah was fed by the ravens.
A second chapel in the garden is sa-
cred to Moses. Nearby is a Moslem
relic. in the shape of a rock which
bears the footprint of Mohanmed's
camel, a sort of legendary fossil.
Even in a Christian monastery, this
somewhat primitive insistence on
marking the concrete spot-where re-
ligious history was made seems to per
sist, for you will be shown an altar
which is said to- be erected over the
site of the burning bush
All this is more or less out of key,
to the cultured occidental, whose re-
ligion must be more spiritualized and
perchance for that very reason less
robust, but the relics are eagerly
sought by many of the pilgrims, who
are mainly peasants from central and
eastern Russia. The bare. bleak
mountain itself preserves its grandeur
untarnished The rare. cold air, the
magnificent sweep of view, the mar
row rocky plateau on the summit.
harmonic with the great place of
the mount in history.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

as 1 have been doing every night or
two. Last night, Kate, when 1 went,
Curtis was not at home, and my
mother-in-law, with her jaw set like
iron and tightening flashes playing
about her cold eyes, told me the babies
were asleep and could not be seen.
She terrified me. I never saw a
woman SO ugly with anger in my life
She seemed on the verge of laying
hands upon me, putting me out of
doors and forbidding me ever TO set
foot inside again. And yet Kits-and
yet, 1t was as if she didn't quite dare
go that far.
l had an almost overwh Ginning i'm
pulse to fling off my things and cry
that L would stay-=that zs:m6sslS1 b.
NIT to her rule and to Curtfs's cruel
ties and to the endless housework and
the sleepless nights and all the rest
of it that made my life a torment, for
5the sake of the children.
3 But something restrained me a
voice whispered that only by aggres-
siveness, by stubborn resistance of
their system" and a holding to my
plan, could any sort of future success
in my marriage be brought about.
But Oh, Kitsie I am in
torment. 1 want my babies So But
I must not turn back just yet.
Your loving and misera BILE.
MAIZE
P. s.: ] devoured your fascinating
letter. darling, from New Orleans.
Write me more about if. It is like
reading a luscious romance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

In their negotiations with the Boil
sheviki the Huns have adopted the
popular expression. democratic
peace" But the German democratic
peace would be one which returns
Palestine ard what is reft of Armenia
to the democratic kindly Turk. A dem
ocratic peace which nominally frees
Belgium and Poland and puts them
under the economic mastery of Ger
many, Poland under thinly disguised
political mastery. too. A democratic
peace which YIELDS Germany, Austria.
Turkey and Bulgaria into one for pur-
poses aad power of aggression on their
nsighbo-s, scar and far A democrat
70 peace which returns the decina,ed
and ensiaved negroes or Africa to their
owners and tyrnnts. 4 democratic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

The Rockefeller Foundation has an
nounced the receipt of a further gift
of $5,50G,00 from John D. Rockefel-
Ter. During 1917, in addition to the
income expended, $5.OO0,OOO of the
principal fund of the Foundation was
appropriated and the trustees gave au-
thority to expend if necessary $1,000
600 more of the principal. The use
of principal as well as income was
called for by the large appropriations
to war RELIEF and to the welfare of the
American soldiers and sailors which
were made in addition to the regular
work of the Foundation in public
health and medical education. By his
latest gift Mr.. Rockefeller hopes to
prevent further encroachment on the
principal fund at present Uncle
John may not, be doing his best but
he certainly is doing his bit.
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per was just sending forth its savory
invitation.
why, dearie, you came in like a
cyclone. No villain pursuing you, is
there?" And Mrs. Donovan laughed
eXpectantly, for she and this only
daughter of hers were great chums
and shared a sense of rich Irish hu-
NOR.
Nothing mother. I'm just little
tired and hungry, l guess, and supper
smells so good. I'm ready, if it is.
'All right. But, Ann, did you hear
about Tommy Regain? His mother was
over this afternoon and told me about
1T. She cried and cried, but she's so
proud of him, and she says he's so
What. mother? Tommy hasn't
Enlisted! Yes, he has" exclaimed
Mrs. Donovan, dabbing at a 1ugtlVe
tear with the corner of her apron.
That's just what Tommy has gone
and done. She told me all about nov
he's felt ever since this war started
how it hurt him to see the other Eel
lows marching off. when he had to
stay at home"
well. why did he have to stay at
home?" interrupted Ann. "of course,
/ know it would leave ms nothet
alone, but Mr.. Regan must nave iei'
quite a lot of money when he died.
put he didn't" exclaimed her
mother. Every one thought so. but
il aDDears that he speculated heaV1ly,
not only with his own money. but with
some that had been entrusted to ms
care. His sudden death was result
of the shock of losing everything, ana
Tommy who was just starting out TO
make his way in the world. promised
his father that he would see that the
funds which mad been misused were
replaced tho it took years of self
denial on his part. His mother says he
has stuck manfully to his promise and
has done everything possible to re-
store his fathers honor, but it seemed
such a hopeless task.
Mrs. Donovan paused for breath
GO on, mother" prompted Ann.
We'll what do you think? Some of
that mining stock has turped out to
be valuable after all There wasn't
any gold in the mines but they have
found something else-tungsten, 1 be-
lieve it is called-that is worth nearly
as much. Anyway, they can pay off
all their debts and Tommy will know
that his mother is we'll taken care of,
even if he's away off in France. She
waste minute getting down to the re-
cruiting headquarters
Ann started for the telephone.
Where are you going?" asked her
mother. with the kindly inquisitiveress
of those near and dear.
Ann looked around the coy living
room with a speculative eye.
Tommy wanted me to call him up.
But I wonder if we wouldn't rather
stay home than go downtown tonight
Pm kind of tired of the movies my
copyright, 1918, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper SyndicateO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

was to make them American citizens
with as little knowledge as possible.
Apparently, this is the ambition in
many quarters judging by the number
of aliens who fail to have their petit
tons granted every year Last year
over thirteen hundred were denied be-
cause of ignorance of American insti-
tutions, while the year before nearly
fifteen hundred suffered from the
same cause.
The benefits of even a little educa-
ton to the aliens themselves are OBJ
vious, but they are not limited to them
alone The town in which they live is
benefited, the industry in which they
are engaged is benefited. the United
States government is benefited. In
realization of this, many manufactur-
ers are now urging their employees to
attend these night classe and are pay
ing them for the time.
From the aliens numerous testi-
monials of gratitude for the educa-
ional opportunities put at their dis
posal have come to the bureau. One
man writes: II am working for my
living since fourteen years a boy, for
very small money and long hours. So
you advise very good and kind to me;
never heard before that some one
would have said that there's a chance
to get more money or better job
Another says: Il received it, your
letter, and was glad that you give
some people a chanccto live in a
country that we are not afraid. As
have got my first papers, l want to get
my full papers; if you will send me
one book to let nrc know how to get
my second paper 1 will be glad for the
United States flag
These are in answer to the bureaus
circular letter urging them to attend
night school Not all of the letters
are quite SO naive as the above, how
ever, for of course not all of the aliens
who choose to become American citi-
zens are uneducated.
The war has brought about a more
| intense appreciation of our alien
problem. 1t is realized that if the
alien is to be Americanjzed he is
eligible not only to the responsibilities
of citizenship but to its privileges,
among which are such things as a
public school education and a COM
mission in the army when he earns it.
American citizenship has got to reach
| a fixed standard of value to the alien
and cease fluctuating with each turn
| OF the war compass.
Questions OF tn above or any sub
| jet upon which the reader desires in
| formation. should be addressed the
Topeka State Journal Information
Bureau, Frederic ]. Haskin. Director.
Washington. ,. c., with a Scent
stamp enclosed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
German diplomatists appear

German diplomatists appear to have
met their match in the Bolshevik lead
ers. 1t is reported that the peace
terms of the central powers. submitted
at the Brest-Litovsk conference, have
been withdrawn. This probabl
means that they will be resubmitted in
a modified form. While ostensibly ne
gotiating a separate peace with Rus
STA the Huns are in reality proposing
terms to the entente allies. They are
pursuing this roundabout course be-
cause the direct road is not open to
them. Whenever they get their peace
proposals into a form interesting to
the allied nations they will get hear
ing. Just now peace is making more
rapid progress than war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
DINNER STORIES

After two months at Rock ford.
Private Nelson got his leave at last,
and made what ne conceived to be
the best use of his holiday by getting
married.
On the journey back, at the station,
he gave the gateman his marriage
certificate in mistake for his return
railway ticket.
The official studied it carefully and
then said:
HYes. my boy, you've got a ticket
for long, wearisome journey, but not
on this road
: One night al a theater some scenery
took fire and a very preceptible odor
of burning alarmed the spectators. 4
panic seemed to be imminent, when
an actor appeared on the stage.
Ladies and gentlemen he said,
compose yourselves. There is no
danger
Tho audience did not seem reas-
sured.
Ladies and gentlemen" continued
the comedian, rising to the necessity
o. the occasion. "confound il aldo
you think if there was any danger I'd
be hcre?"
The panic collapsed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
FUTURE OF THE RAILROADS.

1t is impossible to refrain altogether
from speculation as to the effect of
governmental operation of railways in
war upon the national ownership
movement. If the experiment prove
successful supporters of national own
ership will undoubtedly make capital
out of the fact. There is a certain I'M
fairness in this, declares the New Re
public.
Whatever measure of success be at
tanned will be due largely to the eff
ficient cooperation with the govern
ment of our higher railway officers,
the very men who are most irreconcil-
able in their opposition to government
ownership. We are in effect calling
upon them to help us defeat their own
equal to the test. 1t Is not improbable
that the railway men themselves, after
experiencing the technical adva ntages
of system that allows freight and
passengers to move by the most con-
venient route, without regard to COM
petitive considerations, will become
averse to returning to the old order.
Their capacity for organization can
now for the first time find full express
sion. They would probably feel
cramped if the unified railway system
were again dissolved into it's compo-
nent parts. Many Of them now hope
to attain the ends of efficiency thru
railway unification without govern
ment ownership. But they must see,
sooner or later, than the idea OF a
consolidated railway system under
private control is utopian.
A democratic state could han dly
tolerate the existence of an organized
private interest of such magnitude as
the whole American railway system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
LETTERS OF
TWO WOMEN
The Step Once Taken.
BY ZOE BECKLEY.

Los Angeles. the 21st.
Well, dearest friend. Kate, l think
l have done for myself. Yet / can
not be sure whether 1 am going to
die of this step I have taken, or pro-
gress toward something better than
1 what I have yet known. Time alone
can tell.
am at present like a soul that
has passed out of its familiar life
vet has gone neither to heaven nor to
hell 1 literally am existing in sort
of purgatory, my one hope being that
the suffering l now endure may make
ne fit 70 enter happiness later.
Kate, I am still away from my
home working at my stenographer's
job in the candy-and-lunch place
Your eastern mind may not quite I'M
derstand this andy-and-lunch' bust
ness, WHICH is a trade local to this
city and very profitable. 1 mean that
Los Angeles has the most beautiful
eatable shops in the world. I ex-
plain this because you may picture
me doing out cents worth of taffy
to a bevy of impecunious kiddies or
selling pound boxes of marshmallows
to occasional young men who f1irt
with me mildly over the counter while
they select goodies for some other
girl.
Nothing of the sorts The place ]
am in is a wonder-shop. The front
lion original and attractive ways of
serving them. The back is a sort of
glorifed restaurant where dainty
vfands are set before patrons by
girls dressed in quaint costume The
place does a huge business and at
tends to outside catering as well.
If 1 were not SO oppressed with
trouble in the present and worry for
the future I could be of great value
to the management. There are few
er well-trained business women out
here than in the east and while sal
aries are nothing to brag about
chances are excellent for women with
genuine brains, who have executive
ability and can run" things.
/ have already thrown a few hints
that the store manager has eagerly
acted upon. truly believe I could
prove valuable in a short while and
earn a fair living.
BUT-kate, L am terrified at the
step have taken. and Curtis's appar-
ent intention to keep me from retrac-
ing it.
! wrote you he said that if / didn't
return Immediately to our home to
live, should not be allowed to see the
babies when 1 came out to the house,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

This country has plenty of mere IA
cilities for making payments. Indus
try is not halting for want of means
TO make payments; it is limited on all
SIDES by scarcity of men and mater
ia1s. AS a matter of fact we make
payments with bank checks rather
than money. The correct method of
financing the war is by having the in
dividual citizens accumulate bank
credit, and transfer this credit to the
government. the latter in turn trans
ferring il in payment of it's purchases.
The transfers are simple enough. the
problem is in getting the individual
citizens to understand that they must
create by savings the means to sup
ply the governments needs. We must
create the purchasing power. and
transfer it to the government, abstain
ing from its use ourselves. Instead
of investing our savings in other Sc
curities altho they may yield a larger
return, we should put them into gov
eminent bonds as long as those bonds
are being issued. For this course
they are two good reasons. One is
that the government needs the money;
the other is that the money so invested
comes right back to US.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
HOUSEHOLD HTNTS

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST
Apple Compete
Waffles and Syrup Coffee
LUNCHEON
Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
Oyster Stew. Crackers.
Hermits. Tea.
DINNER.
Casserole of Halibut, Tomato Sauce
Baked Parsnips. Dressed Lettuce.
y Ginger Pudding.
The Table.
Excellent Graham Pudding, contain
ing no eggs, shortening or sugar:
serves five people-one and one.quar-
ter cups graham flour. one-half cup
milk. one-half cup molasses. one small
teaspoon soda. little salt. one-half
cup currantS or raisins.
Mix raisins with flour and salt: add
soda dissolved in milk then add mo-
fasses- Pour into creased mold. steam
two hours. Serve with any desired
pudding sauce. 1t does not seem pos
Nble that SO simple a pudding will be
light and tender, but u is.
Chile Con Carne-One and one-haff
pounds round steak cut in dice, one
quart kidney beans. two medium size
onions. bottle homemade catsup OF
one pint strained tomatoes. one heap
ing tablespoon lard. two heaping table,
spoons Mexene. salt and pepper to
taste. Have it all well covered with
water. When done thicken with three
flour stirred up in a little
cold water
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
GLOBE SIGHTS
FFrom the Atchison Globe


A vain woman is often popular; a
conceited man, never
People always exaggerate how long
they sit up with the sick.
A man should at least keep his
mouth shut while being shaved.
Everyone thinks that those who are
twenty wears older should be recon-
ciled to die.
The old married sport so often re-
marks that what. people don't know
doesn't hurt them"
A man may be insincere when he
makes over a woman, but when he
makes over a baby he means it.
Life is something like this: When
a man has minnows, and no fish
worms, the fish prefer fish worms.
No matter how hard You may work
to accumulate a lot of money, some
people will say you are merely lucky.
Fixed rules result in lot of good
being cast with the bad, but without
them a lot of bad gets in with the
good
Short jerks, who is always denounc-
ing foreign missions and upholding
home missions. once gave 10 cents to
home missions.
In confidential chats before the
wedding the bride and bridegroom are
always advised that each one must
learn to give in to the other"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
DO IT NOW.

To the man who has gone to the
colors the United States government
offers the safest. the most liberal and
the cheapest insurance on the face Of
the earth. Approximately 100000
men have already accepted the gov
ernments offer. applying for insur-
ance of about two and three-quarter
billions of dollars. The average
amount applied for per man is more
than $500, whicfAs very close to the
$4,000 maximum provided for by the
law.
This insurance total, great as it is,
should be only a beginning Every
person in the military and naval forces
of the nation owes to himself and to
those he loves to avail himself of the
full insurance protection. But the
time in which he can do so is limited
Prompt action is imperative
Those who joined the service before
october Is. 1917, must apply for the
-stlrance on or before February II,
-a1S. After that, it will be too late.
The automatic insurance which is pro-
vided until February u, 1918. is only
partial protection.
Parents, brothers and sisters. who
have a representative of their family
in the army or navy should, for their
own sake, and for his, write to him at
once urging him, If he has not already
done so, to buy the government insur-
ance. They should urge him to buy
the full $4,000, and. above all, to buy
it now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

AS an evidence of the confidence re-
posed in the American Red Cross and
it's officers. a big surety company has
issued a fidelity bond covering the re-
spective tredsurers of $500 chapters
thruout America. The total amount
specified in the schedule is approx
mately s4,500,000. and the bond runs
in favor of the American Red Cross
and of the chapters. If the federal
anti-rebate law permit, the company
has agreed to contribute to the Red
Cross the amount of the premium, so
that the bond will eventually cost the
Red Cross nothing. The bond is is
sued for an indefinite period, and is
without regard as to what individuals
may be holding the position of treas
urer. The surety company does not
require the Red Cross to notify it of
any change of treasurers, and no in
vestigation by the company's agents
has been or will be made with respect
to the local treasurers. Two other
large schedule fidelity bonds. under
the same conditions. have also been
issued to the American Red Cross. as
follows: One, for s1,5oo.o00, to pro-
tect the American Red Cross with re-
spect to money-handling officials and
employees in the main office at Wash
ington and also at the divisional head
quarters in various states. The other,
for s141,ooo, protects the Red Cross
with respect to Red Cross officials in
Europe.