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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14
Mayor COrwine Causes Shake
up In Police Circles.
Men Given Satisfactory Priv
iIege of "Resigning."

A quiet but sweeping change in the
personnel of the city police force has
been underway since the Inauguration
of Mayor Herbert J. Corwine. In
vestigation of the police roster today
revealed that since the new mayor en-
tered office ten members of the old
force have been dropped from the
payroll. In each instance a note has
been made to the effect that the man
dropped resigned"
The ten members of the force whose
names have been dropped from the
payroll have been replaced by ten new
men, known not to have been unfav-
orable to the Corwine candidacy for
mayor In addition, six others have
been added TO the city payroll as
members of the police force. The adj
ditional members are needed in order
to augment the force sufficiently to
care for the new eight-hour work
schedule initiated by Mayor Corwine.
Mayor COrWine personally directed
the changes, the chief of police stated
today. Some, he admitted, had been
made after consultation with him, al
tho. he declared, that politics had not
entered into the designations"
Officers Who Resigned"
The police officers who have re
signed" are: Wonderly, Hamilton,
Kelley. Morrisey. Ransom. Douglas.
Garrett. Carter, Laubach, Frazier. The
new officers are: A. J. Taylor, Har-
vey williams, A B. Wingett. F. E.
Jordan, w. Z. Long, Daniel Duncan,
j. A. Hill, j. p. Engelbrech. Charles
Miller Morris Leonard, M. F. Burtch,
Gus Gallop, Lee Corberly, E. d. Glenn,
Clyde Tresner and j. Martin.
The resignation of some of the Of
ficers was requested to become effec-
tive within twenty-four hours, it is
understood.
The latest of "resigna TONS that of
Mrs. Delnora McGrath. police matron,
has been delayed twenty-four hours
and she will not be obliged to vacate
her rooms over police headquarters
until tomorrow, Mayor Corwine an
nounced today. Mrs. McGrath's rapid
exit is causing no end of cOmmotiOn at
police headquarters. Two women have
been employed by the police matron to
assist her in getting her furniture out
of her four-year home within the
scheduled time.
Mayor Corwine stated today that he
had not decided on the McGrath sue
ccssor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14
SETS A BOND RECORD
Knapp Approves $3.50. 900 School Issue
For City of Wichita.

The largest individual bond issue
ever certified in Kansas was registered
today in the office of Fred w. Knapp,
state auditor, when he approved n
block of $S50,000 -gorth of school
bonds from Wichita city. An issue OF
S. GAO worth of internal Improvement
bonds from Kansas City, Kan, made
the days business the high waite
mark for the department.
Wichita's mammoth school bond is
sue is the largest single bond registra =
ton the state has known. 1t sur
passes the Kansas City, Kan. viaduct
issue of several years ago, which uu-
til today held the record. OF the is
sue from Wichita. a transcript show 3
that s150.000 is to be spent iin the
purchase OF new school sites. A total
of 100000 is to lie spent on new
school buildings. The registration
record for the day. including the Kan
sas City issue. totaled sS5S.640.
with but fourteen days of May gone.
the bond registration has passed anv
former month in the history Of the
state. The registration to date shows
a total bond issue by Kansas towns Of
$1440,457.3T.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Soups.

Soups.
Soup Making-Soups are divided
into two general classes; soups with
stock and soups without stock.
Soups with stock have for their
basis beef. veal, mutton, fish. poultry
or game, alone or in classified combi-
nation.
They are classified as bouillon,
brown and white stock, consomme and
broths Every home where meat is
used should be provided with a soup
kettle, into which should go the extra
bones and pieces, we'll as left overs
of gravies, and the water in which
vegetables are cooked.
The lower part of the shank. called
the SHIN cut from either fore or hind
quarter, is one of the best cuts to use
for soup.
1t is we'll to cook small piece of
lean meat with this to add to the
flavor This may afterward be re-
soned we'll with grated onion, salt.
pepper and celery salt, and nodded
into bowl with enough of the soup
stock to moisten it Cover and press
down with a weight. When thoroly
cooled, this may be sliced down and
served as jellied meat.
Brown Soup Stock-SiX pounds
shin of beef. three quarts cold
water. one-half teaspoon peppercorns
(whole peppers), six cloves, one-half
bay leaf, three sDrigs thyme, one
sprig marjoram. two sprigs parsley,
one-half cup each of carrot. turnip.
onion and celery cut in dice, one
tablespoon salt. Wipe the. beef and
cut the lean meat in inch cubes. This
exposes a large amount of the sur
face and the juices are more easily
drawn out. Scar a part of the meat
in the marrow fat from the bone and
put with the rest into the soup ket-
tie, add cold water and let stand half
hour. Browning the meat gives the
stock a better color. Allowing the
meat to stand in cold water draws
out the juices, which give flavor to
the soup. Heat the whole gradually
to the boiling point. cover and cook
slowly fer six hours, keeping below
boiling point during the cooking, add
the vegetables. salt and spice the last
hour of cooking.
If the stock is desired clear for
any special purpose, the soup may be
strained. but usually it is well to
leaye the vegetables in. With this
soup stock as a basis the flavor may
be varied as much as desired.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14

given to every newspaper and pub
lication-because the more people
read the more intelligent they are
sure to become, and no nation has
ever died that stuck to intelligent
ideas.
READ-READ-R
If you have not even the few pen
MES necessary with which to buy
books, our public libraries are FREE.
Go to them and get a book and read
it. Read books on biography-none
are more inspiring. Read books on
history-they tell and teach how
grand it is to live in this wonderful
age. Read good fiction
Map out plan of reading. If you
read biography, select the lives of the
men and women who dominated some
lrticular period in history. If you
read history. read the history of
AMERICA first. You will love 1t
more than ever.
But anyway. learn to READ, no
matter what it costs. Read some
thing daiIy-if you want to GROW
D-READ-READa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14
DINNER STORIES

William Dean Howells, the we'll
known American critic, tells Shake
speare story.
I'm STAFFORD" he says. during one
of the Shakespeare jubilees, an Amer
lean tourist approached an aged viii
lager in a smock and said:
WHO is this chap Shakespeare,
anyway
HE were a writer, sir
"Oh, but there are lots of writers.
Why do you make such an internal
fuss over this one. then? Wherever j
turn l see Shakespeare hotels, Shake
speare cakes, Shakespeare choco-
lates, Shakespeare shoes. What the
duce did he write-ma gazine stories.
attacks on the government, shady
novels?'
mo, sir! ah no. sir said the aged
villager. I understand he writ for the
Bible, sir "
Little Willie Emerson Higginson
had just been strapped by his irate
parent on the fathers side. Yet he
was not weeping.
His mother said:
"William, L believe that was a mere
pretense at a whipping that your
father gave you
Begging your pardon, my dear fe-
male prosenitress." said Willie, that
was no camoufla gellation."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14
THE PROMOTERS WIFE
ANXIOUS DAYS.
CHAPTER LXIII.

What did it all mean? If l asked
myself that question once, did TWEEN
ty times each day until Neil returned.
l had seen Lorraine again and while
neither of us mentioned Neil, his
business. we were both ill at ease, and
uncomfortably aware that the other
was thinking of our last conversation.
Blanche orion had called. She was
gay, debonair as usual, yet 1 thought
detected an undercurrent of unrest.
1t seemed as if she wanted to say
something to me, was right on the
verge several times, then caught her
4e4f just in time and uttered a silly
raised and appeared to even worse
advantage than 1 usually did when
where she was. This annoyed me
exceedingly, and became more
brusque, colder, until she left.
"She will think me silly jealous
fool" l said aloud as l, from the
window. watched her car glide away
from the curb. and she is right!
am a silly laundering fool"
Some way it comforted me to call
myself names, strange as it may
seem. 1t took away some of my fear
that Neil had done wrong. 1t was
SO easy to do and say things which
others misconstrued. OF course the
people who criticised Neil understood
nothing of his business-or else they
would not have criticised.
Father used to say that everything
came to him who had patience to
wait. Well I would wait awhile, not
long. before 1 tried to break into So
ciety. In the meanwhile I would
cultivate TWO or three rather impe-
cuniOus members of the 400. and
would tell Neil what people were say
ing. and warn him to be more careful
of his associates, and ask him to re-
main away from Blanche Orion.
1 had n queer feeling that in some
way everything now revolved about
his acuuaintnace, his friendship for
her If he dropped her. all the other
gossip would die a natural death be-
cause there was no foundation for it.
With her there was cause for talk,
even tho his friendship were the most
innocent thing in the world Blanche
Orton was either loved or hated and
for the same cause.-Because of
her uncoSventionality. ConventionaIly
narrow women and men hated her.
Those who would have been as I'M
conventional as she had they dared
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14

Me and Leroy Shooster are mad
and don't speek, and this AFTERNOON L
was Wawking past his house and who
was on the frunt steps tawking to
him but a peetchy looking gerl, me
thinking G, that must be his cuzZin
he's always tawking about, G., l wish
we wasent mad.
And L .kepp on wawking past with
out either of us speaking to either of
us, me thinking. 1 know wat, I'll run
back and maybe he'll ask me if l
forgot sumthing and then Ill stop and
get interdoosed.
And 1 went back running with a
Impression as if 1 had forgot sum-
thing, and 1 ran all the way past
without Leroy Shooster saying eny-
thing, so 1 had to keep on running
to make it look natural, and wen l
got Ground the corner l stopped and
stood there Il vile. thinking, Now
Ill wawk back slow as if I've got it.
WITCH I did. and Leroy Shooster
llepp on not saying enything and the
peetchy lolking gerl sed, Who is that
boy wawking past and running past
all the time?
Jest some fellow, sed Leroy Shoes
ter Me thinking. all rite, you big
stiff. Ill show you.
WITCH I did. buying 3 sents worth
of jelly beens in bag and going back
slow eating them. wich if Leroy
Shooster had of sed enything 1 would
jest of kepp on going past eating the
jelly beens and looking hawty. ony
he dfdent say enything but the
peetchy loking gerl did saying My
goodniss, there he goes asen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14

with Burleson in mind an editorial
writer on the New York Post recently
typed the following: Suppose
president were to set this task to
new member of his cabinet-to make
enemies Of the Democratic congress-
men and the Republican congressman.
owners of capital. managers of indus
try the American Federation of La
Dor. the Socialists and the I. w w.
the pro-Germans and the anti-Ger-
mans. the radical press. the conserva-
tive press. and the public, the mailers
Of letters and the carriers of letters
the telegram sender and telegraph
operators, and if there is any one in
the country not included in these cate
gories. him also. The appointee would
doubtless reply that it was impossible.
Yet suppose it done, and after it was
accomplished the further task were
presented to this unfortunate official
OF retaining his position among the
presidents advisers and the councils
of his party. That achievement would
seem beyond the dreams of obstinacy
that is. il all of these things had not
already been accomplished. as they
have been. by a member of the pres
ent cabinet"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14

People who know things, do things
knowledge is the basis, not only of
achievement but of happiness
And the main way to get knowl-
edge is thru reading. At no time in
the history of the world has knowl-
edge been so accessible as now. For
a few pennies the finest books ever
written can be secured.
, Your mind is the boss of your body
so that the bigger your boss gets and
the more he knows, the greater
chance will your body haN,. Get the
habit of READING.
l care not how poor student a
boy may be in school. If he will
early cultivate the practice of READ
ING l will not worry about his fu-
ture-providing, of course, that he
reads the sort of books that stimulate
and improve his mind.
l should like to see a great govern
ment department given over just to
the distribution of literatu- !. 1 should
like to see greater encouragement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS.

2, How can ] tell what fertilizer my
A. Send sample Of the soil for inaI-
ysis to your state agricultural experiment
what your soil needs aud what crops
should be raised on that particular type
Of soil.
O. What is the amount of compensation
paid for temporary total disability e +.
A. A soldier who is tempora rilv totally
disabled will receive $50 month com
pensation. if he is single If he is married.
he will receive S4j: and if there are chill
O. Have We a negro assistant secretary
of war; What are his duties:- A. :.
A. Thomas w. Scott. who is negro.
is not an assistant secretary of war hut
an assistant to the secretary of war. which
is quite a different matter. He was m
pointed by President Wilson to look fter
the welfare of men of his race in the army.
Q. Has the use of asbestos long been
A. Yes II has been used for many
centuries; 1t is related that Charlemagne
as long ago as 500 used to give banquets.
and then. to the CONSERVATION Of his
guests. would order the tabIecIoths burne
on the tables: as they were asbestos they
would not burn.
of the life of Walt whitman whose cen
G. L.
A. Walt Whitman is considered by
est poets. He is ranked with Homer. Poe
and Emerson. Whitman was a clerk in
the Indian bureau in Washington. in 1865.
hut was dicha: ged from that office by
because Harlan did not approve of his
book. Leaves of Grass The attorney
general. James Speed Immediately ap-
pointed the poet aS clerk in his affire
The verdict Of time has been greatly in
favor of the poet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14

From all quarters of the country,
says the Manufacturers Record,
the most optimistic reports regarding
business conditions are continually
coming in. 1t finds the outlook is
most encouraging in practically every
line. The spirit of optimism is in the
air. and it is the confident belief of
leaders in industry and finance that
an era of unprecedented prosperity is
ahead. Many public and private un-
dertakings are being crowded to COM
pietion. There is no difficulty in
financing proper improvements. and
an ever-broadening market for bond
issues reveals the temper of the times
Enormous good road construction is
in hand and is being planned, work
with which the entire country appears
to be deeply concerned. There is a
dearth of dwelling houses all over the
land. and vast building activities can
not be long delayed. Everywhere
there is a .lessening in complaints of
Unemployment. and the prediction is
freely made that before the year is out
there may be an actual shortage of la
Dor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14

If any doubt existed as to whether
the league of nations was to be incor-
porated in the peace treaty with Ger
many it was dissipated by the words
of President Wilson when he present
ed the new draft of the league at the
plenary session of the peace confer
ence. At the conclusion of his re-
marks he moved to amend Article V
of the league covenant by adding the
words "or by the terms of this
treaty" Before that language was
put into the document there was no
reference in the league constitution to
the treaty. but the addition of the new
phrase links the league and the treaty
together as one instrument. The
thirty-nine senators who signed the
resolutions at the close of the last
congress registering their disapproval
of the plan to combine the league and
the treaty are now face to face with
the very situation against which they
protested. Their challenge has been
accepted by the president Will the
"Httle group of wilful men" be in
creased to SO?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14
Is YEARS AGO in TOPEKA
From the columns OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

May II. 1894.
The Kansas Lever the organ of the
party prohibitionists published at Otta-
wa is booming John Z. st. John for the
nomination of governor by the state con-
vention of that party, which will be held
at Emporia June l. aud IS.
J. W. Priddy has gone to Saratoga, y.
y. to attend the National Presbytery.
Mrs. Randlett and Mrs. A c. Markiey of
Carbonate are the guests of Mrs. X. L.
Whitfield.
Mrs. +. L. Vincent gave thimble party
this afternoon at her home, ST Hu.toon
street, for Mrs. Fred Frances of Salt Lake
City. Among the guests were Mrs. Fran
ces. Mrs. W. A McCarter. Mrs. +. ID.
Fuller, Mrs. Frank Brown. Mrs. ]. NJ. Tor
renee. Mrs Chas- sampson. Mrs.
Hopkins. Mrs VIM L. French. Mrs c. w.
Douglass. Mrs. Il. : Brigham. Mrs. Geo.
II. Whitcomb. Mrs. ]. w. Bailey Mrs. w.
]. Drum. Mrs. Geo. Eagle, Mrs. Margaret
Wigain. Mrs NJ. Weightman. jr-. Mrs. w.
D. Beymer. Mrs. E NJ. Mattoon. Mrs +.
Il. Muncey. Mrs. ]. Il. Hayes. Misses Lulu
Elliott. Carrie Boughton. Gertrude Bough-
ton. Mamie Alden. Alice Holdridge. Car
rie HoldridEe- Hattie Drake. Kate Put
man, Lou Mattoon and Daisy Hayes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14
JUST
1D
IGne5L
A VANISHED JOY.


When 1 was but a little lad of six and seven
and eight,
One joy | knew that has been lost in Gus
toms up-tO- date.
Then Saturday was baking day and mother
used to make.
The while l stood about and watched, the
Sunday pies and cake.
And ] was there to have fulfilled small
boys fondest wish,
The glorious privilege of youth-to scrape
the frostfng dish.
on Saturdays I never left to wander far
away
| lowered near the Kitchen door on mother
baking day.
The fragrant smell of cooking seemed to
hold me in its grip.
And -naught cared | for other sports while
there were sweets to sip,
| little cared that all my chumS had sought
the brook to fish,
1 chose to wait that moment glad when l
could scrape the dish.
Full many Il slice of apple I have lifted
BEFORE the upper crust went on, escaping
mothers eye:
Full many a time my fingers small IN art
funess have strayed
Into some sweet temptation rare WHICH
mothers hands had made.
But eager-eyed and watery- mouthed, l
craved the greater boon. :,
of being allowed to clean the dish ana Hex
the frosting spoon.
The baking days of old are gone, our chill
dren cannot know
The glorious joys that childhood owned
and loved so long ago.
New customs change the lives of all ana In
their heartless way
They've robbed us of the glad event once
known as baking day.
The stores provide our every need, yet
many a time | wish
Our kids could know that by-gone thrill
and scrape the frosting dish
Copyright 1919 by Edgar A. Guest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14
RIGBY is THE HOST
Open Houcc and Speeches For Re-
turned Soldiers-Sailors.

Boy howdy! Tonight's the night.
Warriors of the air. water and land
will gather tonight at Rigby's smoke
house, 612 Kansas avenue, to slam
the worries, smoke fine Havanas and
regale themselves with eats and
drinks. And it's all free-just a kind
of philanthropic stunt on the part of
Harper Rigby, proprietor, as it were.
Rigby gave a similar open house to
the members of Battery A just before
they left for Camp Doniphan and an
other later for the state guard and
now his place is open for every SOL
ter a uniform.
At Sis Big Bing Bang Bill' Biby
will give one of his characteristic
spicy talks and about 9 o'clock Mayor
H. J. Corwine will make speech.
Carl MOritz will sing a few selections
and troubles-also the specches-will
be forgotten in the swirl of good fell
lowship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.



Sometimes we see young man who
is ,shouldering the burden that his
shiftless and worthless parents parents
have shunted onto him. He tolls like
slave to support and educate his
little brothers and sisters and to give
them the advantages of education and
such clothes as he never had. He de-
MES himself all thoughts of love and
establishing q home of his own. Every
day of his life he is the goat offered
up on the family altar.
And the result of his sacrifice gen.
orally is that he turns the younger
brothers and sisters into leaners and
loafers. who depend on somebody
else to give them the things they want
instead of working for them them
selves. There is no reason why the
abe bodied man or woman should be
supported by another, and if the older
brother had taken his own, and forced
the younger brothers and sisters to
shift for themselves as far as they
could. he would have saved both HIM
self and them.
Often we see a woman who has rare
gifts-who could win fame and for
tune as a singer, or an actress, or an
artist, or a writer, or whose executive
ability would enable her to rise high
in the business world, but who has to
bury her talents in the home circle
because her husbands vanity will not
brook = wife who is more important
in the public eyes than he is.
often and often we see a man
whose career is blighted by silly,
little wife whose extravaganza keeps
him tied like q slave to his job; or
who refuses 10 let him go the place
where his fortune lies; or whose self
ish demands on his time leave him
no leisure in which to study and keep
up with his profession, or whose love
of pleasure drass him about half the
night to places of amusement and
sends him to work nerve tagged and
weary.
Certainly no one can think that the
superior wife or husband should sac
rifice herself or himself to the in
ferior one. and yet it is the tragedy of
matrimOny that it is almost invari-
ably done, for it is only the big
Drained and the great hearted who
are unselfish and who see anything
except their poor little pitiful selves.
That is why the question of what
we owe to ourselves and owe to others
can never be settled. Those who feel
within themselves the possibility of
doing great things, know that they
/ owe everything to themselves, but
they can never collect the debt. 1t is
only the mean spirited and self CEN
tered who take everything that is due
them. And then some.
~~H7 T
/ copyrighted. 1919. by the Wheeler Syndi-
cate. Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14

The German Chancellor declares
that the peace offered by the allies
is not acceptable and that Germany
will not sign it, reither will she fight.
OF course this is all bluff. Nobody
doubts that she will sign. But should
she refuse. what then? The allies
would proceed to enforce all their de-
mands and possibly a few additional.
1t IS not expected that the Huns will
renew the fight, in any event. They
would not commit so great a folly.
The chancelIor's attitude appears to
embody a yelled threat of Bolshevism,
but he should realize that Bolshevism
is a two-edged sword.
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vently. II made up my mind the first
day l saw it that I'd take it down my
self just the minute you gave me a
chance. And I'm going to ask for the
chance mighty soon, too"
Gwen drew in a deep breath of re-
lief. After all a good soldier may be
permitted to be glad when the war is
over.
Il don't care how soon you try it,
Dick" she said, and slipped by his
reaching arms into the house.
Copyright, 1919. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)