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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10
ZIONISTS ORGANIZE HERE
Topeka Hebrews VIII Aid in Rcstora-
ton of Palestine

A Topeka Zionist district was or
ganized Wednesday night at a meet
ing in the 1. o. B. B. hall to help in
the work which will be undertaken by
the peace league in establishing a pro-
tectorate over Palestine
Obadiah Grossman, of Palestine. a
worker in the interest of the new
movement. was present. He addressed
the meeting and assisted to orga nize
for the work of raising the apportion-
ment of Topeka Hebrews for the res
toration fund. The membership cam
paign started with twenty-five mem
bers and a total subscription of $3.50
The Topeka quota is fifty members
and 81, 500 for the fund.
The following officers were elected:
I. Gilberg, chairman; E. SkrinopSkie,
treasurer, and Mrs. S. Galitzkie. sec
rotary. The membership committee
follows: E. Skrinopskie. NJ. Brimon,
w. Levin. L. Shapiro. Mrs NJ. Skrin-
opsl1ie. Miss Lillian GHchanhouse,
Miss B. Blumkin, G. Gordon, and S.
H. Kaplan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10
10th f. s. b. Banner Will Be
Kept in Topeka.
Are To Be Presented to State
Historical Society.
SHOW HISTORY OF THE UNIT
Stars and Stripes Indicate En-
gagements Participated In.
Topeka Officers Were in Com
mand of Companies.

The battalion colors of the 10th
field signal battalion will be presented
to the Kansas State Historical society
within a very short time. The order
allowing the presentation of the colors
has already been issued and as soon
as preparations can be completed the
flags will be given to the state with
proper ceremonial.
The colors of the battalion, which
was an ALL Kansas organization, are
of silk. There are two flags. The
Stars and Stripes and the battalion
insignee.
The battalion insignee is of yellow
silk with the words 10th Field
Signal Battalion" embroidered in sill
yer and with the signal corps insignia
in silver.
Decorated for Service.
The colors are decorated with the
ribbons carrying the gold stars for
battalion participation in two major
offensives in France, and with the
silver bars denoting front line service
in two sectors of the western front
The colors were given the battalion
at Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, while
the organization was in training there
They were carried overseas where they
were used in all parades and reviews
The colOrs went into the front line
with the battalion headquarters-the
colors OF course being cased while in
the line so as not to draw the German
fire-and came back to America where
they have appeared in all the parades
and reviews in which the battalion
took part
The ribbons on the colors bear two
gold stars representing participate
of the battalion in two major often
sives-the st. Mihiel drive and the
battle in the .Argonne forest The
silver bars on the ribbons indicate
service in the front line in the Vosges
sector in Alsace and in the Verdun
sector.
Almost Got Another Star.
Another gold star would have been
added to the ribbons if the war had
gone on for another day. With the
rest of the 35th division the signal
battalion was waiting in the Jump
Off trenches near Verdun on the day
the armistice was signed The divi-
offensive the morning of November
-.
There were three companies in the
battalion as follows: A company, ra-
dio, of Topeka; B company, of lola
G company, of Wichita The battal-
ion was commanded by Lieutenant
Colonel Mclean of lola. Topeka Of
ficers in the battalion were Capt Ell
mer E. Stahl, commanding A COM
pany; Capt. William c. Carswell. who
was first lieutenant in A company
Lieut.. Kenneth E. Lewis, battalion
| ad5utant; Lieut.. James Smith, A COM
pany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10
1T WAS NOT LIQUOR
Liquid Negroes Had To Sell Soldiers
Was Tea and Coffee.

The police discovered this morning
that fifteen quarts of liquid found in
whisky bottles taken in a raid at 1872
Lawrence avenue were tea and coffee
mixed.
The jokes on us and the soldier
boys" said Chief Harmon. Wen re-
lease the whole bunch and he did.
Complaints had been heard that
negroes had been passing bottles to
soldiers going thru Topeka on their way
to Camp Funston. The police investi-
gated and discovered that these
negroes operated from the house at
1872 Lawrence.
1--WE can laugh about it, said the
chief today. But how about the SOL
diers who paid 81 a pint for cold cot
fee and tea? %
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10
WON'T AID DEBS
Organized Labor To Have Moth
ing TO Do With Strike.
Any Demonstrations July 4 VIII
Be Outlaw Affairs.

Washington, May 10.-Organized
la Dor will have nothing to do with the
strikes threatened for July in pro-
test against the Imprisonment of Eu-
gene V. Debs. Socialist leader.
Vice President James Duncan of the
American Federation of Labor made
it clear today that any such demon
strations will be outlaw affairs with
out the backing of the great labor or
ganiZation.
The American Federation of Labor
unions are business propositions, Dun
can indicated. when he said:
I'VE do things in a regular and le-
gal fashion and do not engage in
flighty outbursts. We have agree
ments with our employers which we
intend to carry out"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10
Govt Has Lent S21O,OOO,0OO To
Aid Nations Farmers.
Texas Leads All States in the
Amount Borrowed for Farms.
KANSAS IS FOURTH ON LIST
Nine Millions Loaned Toward
Development in This State.
Farm Loan System Proves In
creaS;ngIy Profitable.

Washington, May 1O.-Governmel t
money in the sum of s21O, 900, 900 has
been used to develop American farms.
Figures given out by the federal farm
board today-its second anniversary
reveal that more than 1000 farm. ers
have borrowed from the board to buy
or develop agricultural lands.
Texas leads all states in amount
borrowed. Farmers there have taken
loans totalIing $22,531, 900, the figures
show. Middle. western states rank
next. Iowa is second with $14,3S5, 900;
North Dakota third with S14,0S6,OOO,
and Kansas fourth with $9,OO7,O0O in
loans.
The st. Paul bank has loaned
S2S, 100000.
Relative to the condition of the
farm loan system, an official state
ment by the board said:
with a growing volume of bust
ness on their books, the operations of
the banks have proved increasingly
profitable. One year ago their COM
bined organization and current eX-
penses showed an excess of $411,954
over the earnings. Six months ago
this deficit had been reduced to SILL
6O9. The present condition shows a
surplus of $420.361 of which $685. 900
has been credited to the reserve fund
$63,74S has been distributed in divi-
dends by the Spokane and Houston
banks and S321.613 still is carried as
undivided profits.
1T would, therefore, appear that
their net earnings were $100,345 in
the first half of the year and S631, $50
in the last half.
THE capital has grown from So
100000 to $19,4S3.000 By the end of
the present month the banks will have
returned $626,32O of the $S,S91,270
originally subscribed by the govern
70 thaiY. initial stock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

The funeral of Wilbur Harris, the Swear
old son of Mr.. aud Mrs. $. &. Harris, :i2;i
East Seventeenth street. who died Friday
morning was held Saturday afternoon Mt
> o'clock from the residence.
The funeral Of Edgar Woodruff, who
died Thursday, was held Saturday after
noon at 3 O'Clock from the residence, Cos
Polk street Burial in Topeka cemetery.
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Dice, who
died Thursday. was held Saturday after
noon at > o'clock from. penwells chapel.
Burial in Rochester cemetry.
The funeral of Miss Bernice Dillon, age
II, who died Thursday at her home, 10
East Fourth street. was held Saturday
morning at 30 o'clock from COnvell' s
funeral home. Burial in Mt. Auburn Gene
terry.
Lords Flowers Satisfy. Tel. s27-
Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10
DECISION AGAINST P. U. C.
Restraining Order Against Telephone
Company Has Been Denied.

The application of the public utili-
ties commission for a restraining or
der to enjoin the Southwestern Bell
Telephone company from collecting
the increased rates authorized by Post
master General Burleson was denied
this afternoon by Judge George H
Whitcomb, following the hearing be-
fore him in the district court.
This means that the increased rates
put into effect by the company May
/ may be collected. The attorneys
contended that the wires, having been
given over to the government and the
order having been issued by the pres
ident for an increase in rates, they
had no power to do otherwise than to
collect such rates. 1t was argued that
the telephone company was as much
under government control as the rail-
roads The utilities commission took
the stand that the company was sub
iect to state laws governing corpora
lions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10
CLOSES UP BUSINESS
Industrial Board Releases All Indus
tries From Price Obligations.

Washington. May 1O.-The indus
trial boar dof the department of COM
merce in closing up its business today
released all industries which have
conferred with it on prices from amy
obligation so insured"
Prices have been stabilized" on
materials used in construction of
buildings such as steel, sand, gravel
crushed stone, cement. brick, plaster,
lumber and glass
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10
RETURNS TO FORTUNE
VIM. Heberling of Lawrence Finds
$4,000 Estate Awaiting Him.

Lawrence, Kan. May 1O.-A four
teen thousand dollar estate, including
eighty acres of land, today was in the
hands of William Heberling, of Com
pany H, 18th infantry. He returned
today after two years overseas.
An aunt bequeathed the estate to
young Heberling, 10. who is a son of
w. H. Heberling, of OVERLOOK.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10

appellant: appeal from Reno county; at
firmed.
The Economy Hog & Cattle Powder Co..
appellee vs. !. Ed. Bilby. appellant; ap-
peal from Logan county affirmed.
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-05-21

Of the proletariat." Trotzky and ! e
nine don't talk or act like men de'd
care to have running things IN Ameri-
ca. Much blood has flowed. There
seems little doubt that thousands Of
bourgeois which means, in this
country, everything from a black
smith who owns his own home and
has a balance in the savings bank to
the rich capitals. that owns the bank
have been killed.
"The truth about Russia" is hard to
get at. but enough of it is clear to
make it impossible to agree with those
among us who propose that America
90 and do likewise. Enough OF it Is
clear, too, to make it advisable to de-
eide pretty soon what we shall do with
those in this country who are plotting
to do Balshevik stunt with America
The Duluth Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-05-21
THE TRUTH ABOUT RUSSIA .

Though we are very skeptical indeed
about the vain imaginings of those
who think something glorious and bea-
utiful is going on in Russia, still it re-
mains true that reports of what IS
going on there are unreliable at their
best and exceedingly doubtful at their
worst
For instance, first we heard that
the Bolsheviki had Mathematical" wo-
men.
Then we heard, on equally good au-
thority, that this was canard, which
somebody had sprung on the anar-
chists-not the Bolsheviki-of a GER
tain Russian town, much to the anger
of the traduced anarchists. .
Then, just when one was half dis
posed to accept that view, came a
story, just as credible as the others.
saying that Matchmaking women had
worked out so poorly in Russia That it
had been suspended in one province
pending report by committee of
women on it's operation and effect.
Russia is topsy-tursy. Russia is ex-
periencing what the Socialists long
talked about and what few of the rest
of us understood the dictatorship
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-05-21
State Payroll Scars

Bismarck, n. D.. May 16.-"It isn't
so hard to see where the money goes
when one starts digging in," said
State Auditor Kositzky today.
"April l, 1917, at the beginning of
the Towney administration our mon %.
ly payroll at the capital was S. r
1878. April /, 1919, after two We y
of Townleyism, it was $38,649.89. The
monthly salary account was boosted
from $26,189.73 to S35 1851 in one
year. | predict, with the offices alrea-
DIV created to take care of Townley's
henchmen and with the new jobs which
are being made daily, our capitol pay
roll will exceed $4,000 per month.
eff the governor calls special ses-
sion, them embers will be compelled
to pay their own travelling expenses
and will receive no per diem Our gen
eral fund is so depleted that | predict
that by September we will have no
money left with which to pay salaries.
The general fund May l, 1917, con-
tanned $736,132.36 May l of this pear
there was but S401 ,127.42, a drop of
1896, 484 in two years. And this is
true in spite of the fact that we col
lected 81 ,668, 1888. SO in taxes during the
first four months of this year, as COM
pared with 81 SAC, 723 during the same
period in 1917 Payments from tac
general fund during the first foSS
months same period this year 81 ,353,-
1871. We are spending money fas-
ter than the tax of 1917 were 80, PA.
IS and for the payers can produce it"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-05-21
The Tragedy of the English Girl

From Soldiers, Sailors, Marines,
Washington: English women and
girls appear depressed to an Amerl-
can. They lack the ebullient and out
spoken frankness of the Yankee girl.
But once in while one of them speaks
her feelings freely and such one was
the little munitions workers at 1p-
swick, Of her escort, an American
sailors, she asked:
do you think many of the Ameri-
cans and Carnations will stay over
here 2"
He thought they would not and said
so.
1--WE English girls wish that they
would" she said, and there was some
thing rather plaintive in the way she
spoke. "You see, even before the war
there were so many more women than
men in England and now there must
be three women to every man.
Were just>like other girls every
where; we want to marry and to have
homes of our own. So many of US
never will, though. And not to mar
ry means that nearly all of US will
have to work for our living. We've
worked gladly these last four years be-
cause we were doing it to help win the
war, but it will be harder when peace
comes. We will have to compete with
them en- then an dtwo-thirds of US
will face the unending future of work
in shops or offices or factories"
She spoke of the tragedy of the Eng
lish girl, the brave hearted girl, who
for more than four years unfaltering
ly has worked on farms, driven trucks
and motor buses, made guns, and shells
and gases, acted as policewomen, no
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-05-21
BRACKEN QUITS BOARD.

DIR. Fl. M. Bracken resigned Mon
day as secretary of the board of health
of Minnesota. In a letter to the mem
hers of the commission he stated that
he had accepted a position with the
United States Public Health commits
~ OUT tnat he did not wish to en-
barrass the Minnesota board by leav-
ing at once and if necessary will re-
main until July 8.
He has been given the title of a
surgeon in the United States Reserve
nj will have charge of Mime
sofa, North. and South Dakota and
Montana. The appointment was made
by DR.. Rupert Blue.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-05-21
Party Fights to
Protect Children
DECISION OF SOUTHERN COURTS
WILL NOT PREVENT CHILD
LABOR LEGISLATION

Legislation to protect the children
of this country will not be made dead
letter. Member of Congress, who have
been prominent in securing legislation
against child labor are not willing to
see such law made nullity IN the
United States at time the whole
world. is recognizing the humanity
and economic wisdom of abolishing
child labor. The recent decision Of
Judge Boyd, of North Carolina,
knocking out the child labor provi-
sions in the revenue act will not be
permitted to settle the issue &C
cording to Senator Kenyon, who is
identified with legislation to prevent
/ chic labor.
sThe friends of child labor legis-
lation are not disconnected by the
decision of Judge Boyd, of North
Carolina, said Senator Kenyon. "The
decision was expected. Judge Boyd
rendered the first decision against
the @original labor measure. / be-
lieve the Supreme Court of the
United States will uphold the law and
reverse Judge Boyd. If it does not
do so, then steps will be taken III
Congress to enact other legislation
based on a different principle. For
instance, there is the Power of Con-
gless over the mails. That can be
used
"But if it should prove necessary
there is one step which can be taken
and which, | am convinced would
succeed. This would be to amend
the Constitution so as to give Con-
gress the unquestioned authority to
deal as it saw fit with child labor. I
have no doubt the overwhelming
sentiment of the country, men and
women, is against child labor and at
time when the world is turning
against it, the public in a advanced
nation like ours will not permit it. :"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-05-21

result Of having water in their cellars,
as is evidenced by the following from
the Lanberton Star: eff your cellar
does not contain a plentiful supply OF
water IN addition TO the usual sup
plies that are left over from the winter
80 you are not fashionable. Lam
berton cellars, owing to the heavy
rain which has been so frequent This
spring are in the majority of cases Sc
well filled with water that they are
useless as store houses and only serve
as puDlic nuisances. - - - -
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-05-21

A newspaper publisher has to do
q great many things in his calling
that are personally disagreeable to-
him. To do his paper justice he at
time sacrifices friendships that are
priceless. He is forced to forget him
self as an individual and recognize
himself as part of the machine He
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-05-21

goes after stuff that does not inter-
est him personally a bit, but he does
it as a duty. Sometimes he is met
by naughty grandee who wants to
know what business of his it is if
he does so and so, and editor is given
the insult direct. But he does not pay
any attention to insult. If he did he
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-05-21

tel clerk and call girl, nursed the sick
and wounded and even built canton
ments in France. It is tragedy for
her, but she will bear it with the same
high courage she bore the other count
less sacrifices the war has demanded
of her.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-05-21

A Bolshevist my son, is a fellow
who uses his brains for hair fertil-
izer.-Ex.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-05-21

wouldn't last day. In little coun-
try town these insults are borne as
business policy-but not forgotten,
says a Minnesota exchange.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-05-21

In Lamberton the property owners
are experiencing a serious time as a
Evening star., 1919-04-10
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
D. A. R. OPENS MONDAY
Address by Mrs. Guernsey Will
Mark Formal Sessions-Re-
ports to be Heard.

With the organization session in the
congress of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution is to open in Memorial
Continental Hall MondaF, continuing
through the week.
The address of the president general
Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey, Monday
afternoon, will mark the formal opening
of the sessions. Reports of other-gen-
eral officers are to follow the address of
the president general.
Reports of standing committees are
to be presented Tuesday and Wednes-
day, the remaining days of the congress
being devoted to new business, OF which
a large volume is expected to come up
or consideration. Election of seven
vice presidents general and a. historian
general is to hA an important feature
OF the congress.
Nations is tho be the subject of a pa
per to be read Monday night by Mrs.
Philip y. Moore, the occasion being
designated on the program as ''wonan's
night" Mrs. Barnett, wife of Gen.
George Barnett. commandant of the Ma
rine Corps, will tell of her visits to the
war zones of France and Belgium. ITO
Have and To Hold" is to be the subject
of a paper by Mrs. Percy V. Penny
hacker. Nine. Slavko Grouitch. wife
of the Serbian minister to the United
States, is to speak on the effects of the
American revolution on the history of
the Serbian nation.
The victory banquet is to be given
in the large ballroom of the Willard
Hotel Tuesday night. A reception is
to be held in the small ballroom.
Wednesday and Thursday nights the
state regents are to report and pre-
sent the state gifts.
Friday afternoon the delegates will
visit Mount Vernon. Friday night
Orrin C. Lester associate director of
the savings division of the Treasury
Department. will make an address on
''Perpetuafipg the Victory" DR.. Will
liam Frede ck slocum will speak on
triotic Society in the Constructive
Work on the League of Nations
An exhibition showing Americana
cation work by the Daughters of the
American Revolution will be held in
the basement of the hall. Elaborate
programs for all meetings
have been planned.
Evening star., 1919-04-10
The Submarine Crew.

From the New York Times.
According to a sailor who has just
had a chance to visit the interior
of the German submarine that sank
his ship off our coast, her crew was
Americans, so-called-men, that is.
who had lived and worked in this
country, had learned to talk English
as well as their own tongue and
had every opportunity to acquire in
formation as to our system OF govern
ment. its purposes and consequences.
The fact that such men are not only
in the war on the German side, but
that they are participating in the
part of German warfare that is most
obnoxious to everybody of non-Ger-
man instincts and convictions-that
fact has it's bearing on the theory
that it is only because they are de-
ceived by their rulers that the mass
of the German people approved of
starting the war and still want to
reduce the rest of the world to a
congeries of vassal states.
1t would be most interesting to
know how these GermanAmericans
managed to get aboard that Subma-
rine. They are not men who returned
to Germany before the war began.
for such returns, except for short and
infrequent visits. were rare-especiai-
ly rare among the class Of Germans
who would form the crew. as dis
tineuished from the officers, of a
naval vessel Possibly the sailor who
brought the report was misled in his
deductions from the English talk of
his hosts. 1t does not necessarily
City and Brooklyn because they said