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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06
FoREsrALLING AG1TAToRs.

The Mining and Scientific Press, of
San Francisco. calls attention to the
action of the General Petroleum Cor
poration, thru its president, Capt.
John Borneson, in announcing that
there will be no reduction by the COM
pany in the present scale of wages for
a period of at least two years from
date, and that all employees who left
to join the colors will be re-employe6
upon their return if they so desire.
Present employees who have taken the
places of those who left to join the
oolors and who performed their
duties to the satisfaction of their de-
part1nent heads. will be continued in
the company's service.
This is. a corporation which prob
ably sees a good market for its prod
ucts turnout the next two or three
years, and believes that it's employees
will render better service if assured of
established rates of wages for a long
period. Apparently its action was
taken without the intervention of the
so-called labor leaders.
Differences and bitterness between
| labor and capital have developed thru
many years of inadequate treatment
of the problems involved. Labor, in
| its efforts to better itself. has, in many
cases. become the victim of propa gam
| dists and irresponsible. grating lead
ership, which has made Cancellation
difficult, because the very life and
prosperity of these self-impoN,d lead
ers have depended upon keeping up
the fight. Anything that works for
conciliatioA and amalgamation of in
terests between capital and labor is
! distinctly against the self-benefit OF
some of these leaders. They have OBJ
stinately opposed any efforts for bet
| torment, and rewards and bonuses for
| efficiency. Wide adoption of the
| profit-sharing plan would sound the
'eath knell of these self-seeking trou-
ble-makers. This fact is illustrated in
the history of the United States Steel
| corporation, commonly called the
Trust, which several years ago made
its employees stockholders in the con-
cerr. There have been a number OF
wage advances by the concern since
but there have been no strikes.
Difficulties develop where proprie-
tors endeavor to be just to employees
because the trouble makers in the
labor world do not accept actor
of a conciliatory character as sincere
but prod their followers on to demand
more to offset the effect of sincere eff
forts on the part OF employers to dc
justice to labor. Nevertheless, we
| find cases Turnout the country where
corporations are dealing direct with
their employees to recognize efficient
! service
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06
A LAND OF GRAvEYARDS
That Is the Picture Painted of Ger
many at Present.

Paris, Feb. Germany is pictured
as "a land of graveyards'' by Lieut..
Col. Searle Harris of the United States
medical reserve corps, who has Just
returned to Paris after having inves-
tigated conditions east of the Rhine.
He says tat the SGerman nation is
bankrupt, the people are actually
starving and that "p obably no one
will ever know the number of casual
ties suffered by Germany during the
war"
There are no eggs, no milk and
only half a pound of beet sugar for
each person month"; he said in Civ
ing details of the situation,
Shop girls have lost from ten to
forty-five pounds in weight, while
every one shows a lack of vitality.
found children going to school shod
with paper sandals or with cloth shoes
to which wooden soles had been at
t,-ched.
mo one knows the composition of
the black, gritty bread that is being
issued in limited quantities by ticket.
tuberculosis is increasing and skin
diseases due to lack o. nourishment
and lack of soap are prevalent. One
beneficial result of the low diet which
has been enforced upon the German
people Is found in the fact that it has
helped many who were over-eaters.
Bright's disease has decreased and
diabetes has disappeared. There is no
more govt in Germany but, on the
other hand intestinal diseases have
greatly increased. They are attributed
to coarse bread. Beer that is being
sold has no substance"
Conditions which he had found in
Germany have led Lieut.. Col. Harris
to the opinion, he says. that many
women and children will die or be-
come DEF ectives if not supplied with
food.
1.-The Germans who overran France "
he said, "shc Id be punished and per-
Lifted to starve, but not the women
and children. Hungry men and women
do not make good neighbors."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06
INFORMATION FOR ALL READERS 0E
TIE TOPEKA SrATE JOURNAL.

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fered the unlimited use of the largest i'll
formation bureau in the world.
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fional capital, where it is in immediate
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United Suites government.
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vice. nor make exhaustive research.
The war forced many changes 10
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welcome to use it as often as you like.
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TION BUREAU.
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ton D. C.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06

The United States has emerged from
the war relatively stronger than any
other nation, says Henry Clews in his
Financial Review. We occupy a far
more powerful position than ever in
our history, he adds, and we have en-
viable capacity for furnishing the
things WI CHI other countries sorely
need. Our credit is sound. or bank
ing system strong. our foreign trade
enormous, our granaries well stocked
and our mills well equipped. When
present friction has worn itself out
and the readjustment is reasonably
complete. there is no doubt the coun-
try will take a big forward leap. and
prosperity should become more abun-
dant and more widely distributed
among all concerned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06

We scarcely can boast of having
made the world free for democracy
while the BolzLeviki are in control
of the destinies of 100000 people
in Russia. Bolshevism is as far from
democracy as was Prussianism, and is
a much greater menace to society and
progress. The allies seem unable to
shape any definite policy regarding
Russia. President Wilson says the
way to deal with Bolshevism is to feed
it, yet our soldiers are in Russia feed
ing it not bread but lead. If the plan
bet feed it, our army should b, with
drawn from the frozen sWamps of the
north If the plan be to fight it then
our little body of 1000 troops should
be REINFORCED so that it would not
remain in danger of humiliation. Re-
Gently they and their British and Rus
sian companions in arms have been
driven back a distance of forty miles.
American soldiers are not accustomed
to retreating in the face of an enemy
and they should not be subjected to
the humiliation, especially in a cause
Where nobody seems to know for what
they are fighting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BIZ MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a mar
ried woman twenty-onc years old.
have a little girl. When she was a
baby my husbands sister came and
got her. 1 did not want her to go,
but my husband told her to take
her. Now she will not stay home.
When my other baby was born I had
to get up and walk the floor with her
when she wcs three days old and 1 am
not well now at all.
When we were married wanted my
husband to get small place, but
he would not. He built big house
and cannot pay for it. Now 1 cannot
have any furniture for it. When my
little girl needs a doctor there is no
money, and we owe SO much money
we never can pay it. Please tell me
what to do.
REMEMBER Me.
Your outlook does not seem very
bright right now. Can't you get help
from the doctor you had when your
baby was born? He will understand
how much you are worrying and how
bad it is for you. If he tells your
husband that for your sake he should
sell his large house and go into smaller
quarters, your husband may take
| heed.
At any rate, worry is not helping
the situation. 1t keeps you in poor
health and prevents sympathy be-
tween you and your husband. Resign
yourself to things for better or for
! worse. If the creditors press too
hard your husband will have to sell
his home and begin over again on a
smaller scale. Then you will be rid
of your big house. Misfortune does
not last forever in the life of any
one; there are always bright periods
| ahead.
Dear Mrs. thompson: I am girl
eighteen years of age. l am good
| looking and am considered comical.
I stay at home and clerk in a grocery
store.
| 1 know many boys and have an OPP
| portunity to meet more, yet nobody
=: interested in me. Would you say
l am out-of- luck, or shall l wait for
| the future? CURIOSITY.
! 1t does not mean as much to be
| popular with boys as to be respected
| and loved by a few. Be slow about
making friends. In your position you
probably havs opportunities to meet
young men which girls who stag at
| home do not have. Always be courte-
| Gus to customers, but never familiar.
| The future holds much for you Ii you
! improve your personality and talents
and do not become commonplace and
! easily known by everyone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06
Is YEARS AGO In TOPEKA
From the columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

February 6. 1904.
At the memorial meeting at Representa-
tive hall last nig.i. in memory of the late
J. c. Hebbard, Speeches were made by F.
b. johnson, Albert Griffin. Mrs. Sam
Wood, J. H. Lathrop. A. c. Shinn and Mrs.
Mary E. Lease. A large audience was
present.
Three important appointments were
made by Mayor I. w. Harrison at the
meeting of The city council last night. He
presented the names of 5. b. Bradford to be
councilman from the Third ward, the place
made vacant by the election of himself
TO the office of mayor: George ID. Hale to
be city assessor to succeed Oscar Bischoff,
and David d. MAYOR to be street commits
sioner vice Albert Hopkins. resigned. All
the appointments were confirmed.
Miss Rhea Chesney entertained about
thirty of her friends at a taffy pull at her
home.
Misses Daisy Starr and Marie Brooks will
attend the Kappa Kappa Gamma party at
Lawrence Friday night.
The Ivy Circle will meet with the Misses
Effie and Winnie King at their home OH
the North side this evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. V. r. KistIer are entertain
ing at high five TINS evening at their home
in Van Buren, street, on the North side
Miss Annie Payne is home from Law
renee where she has been the guest of Miss
Mary Barkiey the past week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06

Competition among school book
makers in the past for the business of
Kansas has cost the people of the
state millions of dollars. 1t was
thought that when the state undertook
to make its own books the raids of
eastern publishers would stop. but it
seems they have not given up the
fight. They are reported to be MAX
Ing a mighty effort to place the state
publication of school books in the dis
card. The retiring state printer. w. r.
Smith. has issued a circular letter in
which he sets forth strong and con-
Fincing reasons why this should not
be permitted. Since the author of the
letter no longer has personal inter
est in the matter it may be accepted
hat he is arguing on a basis of long
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

THOMAS W. KARI, age %, died this
morning at the home of his father. 16s
Norton street. Funeral announcements
later.
GEORGE c. IRELAND, age So died
Wednesday afternoon Mt his home, 50i
Wilson avenue. The funeral viii be held
at = 30 o'clock from the Seward Avenue
terry. The body will lie in state at Pen
wells chapel.
JOHN WESLEY HERTzER, age &c
died this morning Mt his home, ::5S After
avenue. Oakland. The funeral Will be held
at = 30 o'clock Saturday afternoon from
the Oakland Methodist church. Burial In
Topeka cemetery.
The funeral of Grover Neiswender. age
81. who died Tuesday at his home ne;r
Silver Lake, was held at 10 o'clock this
morning from the Church of the Assump-
tion.~ Burial in Mount Calvary cemetery.
The funeral of Robbie Roy Porter, age
4 months. who died at the home of his
parents. $50 North Madison street. Wednes-
day, was held at . o'clock this afternoon
from the home. Burial in Topeka Gene
terry.
The funeral of Chas. II. Huston. who
died at Fort Dodge, Kan, February 3. was
held Thursday afternoon at 3 O'Clock from
the home of his daughter. Mrs. L. Candy.
1918 East Sixth street. Burial in Topeka
cemetery.
Word has been received of the death of
II. NJ. Williams, formerly of North Topeka.
in Kansas City. He was the son-in law of
Mrs. II. Mueller: 1901 Western avenue, and
street. The body will be brought 10 To-
peka for burial. Funeral announcement
later.
nrdsS E,1nuynrc Safety
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06
SOLDIERS WEE KILLED
Houston Book Dealer, Also Shot. Says
1t Was Accidental.

IL was ACcfucntdI
Houston, Tex, Feb. 6.-Mrs. Harold
St. Clair Mcconnell, 19-year-old Chi
cago beauty, wife of an Illinois soldier
now in the base hospital at Chicago.
was shot thru the heart and instantly
killed at her apartment here today.
William Hart, owner of a local book
store, was arrested following the
shooting. He declared the shooting
was accidental. Hart himself was
wounded in the left wrist by pistol
shot.
Mrs. Mcconnell was Miss Pauline
Roberts before her marriage. She
was a niece of Doak Roberts, owner
of the local Texas league baseball
franchise and daughter of j. d. Rob-
erts, prominent Tulsa, Okla, baseball
man. She was married here January
IA, 1918. to Mcconnell. who was a
member of the Thirty-third division.
which trained at Camp Logan. Nc
Council went overseas. was wounded,
and invalided to the Chicago hospital.
Hart has a wife and two children
here
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BIZ ROY K. MOULToN

The Subway Girl.
| met her in the subway,
She was stylish and petite
From her fascinating little hat
To her shapeiy little feet.
Her hair was brightest golden
And her cheeks were softest pink.
But the way she ehewed that awful gum
Would have made statue blink.
She juggled and she jawed ii,
l could never tell you how;
But she might have learned some dainti-
Had she watched the old red COW.
k. NJ. Post.
The government has issued a bull
letin entitled Remedies for Fleas.'
That is the first time we ever knew
that a flea needed any remedy. Most
every one that we ever came in con-
tact with was healthy enough to make
a grown-up man sit up and take di-
rect and speedy notice.-Pewamo
News.
The Century" tells of young sailor
who has washed off the deck of one
destroyer and was picked up by a
wave and landed on the deck of any
other ship a half mile astern. When
the young man had returned to his
own boat his captain sand: Young
man, you have used up all the luck
you will have all your life" Hash
true.
AS to the Lenine and Trotzky fight,
may they both lose.
If the peace conference doesn't get
busy soon, people are going to begin
talking about something else and, be-
lieve me, there is plenty here at home
to talk about.
a H.
line.
We hope not recount of the Fords.
I've got a COW that gives good milk,
/ dressed her in the finest silk,
1 fed her on the best of hay
And the milk she gives ] throw away.
The Dairyman.
Nomoney is a town in France, and
tc some of the soldiers it probably
| doesn't seem much like home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06
HOUSEHOLD HINTS


Brown Stew-One pound veal, one
teaspoon butter substitute, one tea
spoon flour. one pint water, one-half
teaspoon salt, pepper. slice onion, one
half bay leaf. Cut veal into cubes.
roll in flour. Put fat into a pan and
when hot add meat. Stir constantly
until Drowned. Dust with flour. mix.
add water. stir, add salt, pepper and
bay leaf Cover and simmer gently for
an hour.
Cornmeal Fish Balls-Two cups
cold white eornmeal, one cup shredded
Goldfish, one egg, one tablespoon but
ter or substitute. Pick over fish and
soak to remove salt Combine the in
gradients and drop by spoonfuls into
hot fat. Drain on porous paper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06
WOOD TO T. RS PLACE.
Metropolitan Expects General TO Tehe
IIacf.-.n E1,cxscrcIf

New York. Feb. e.-Maj. Gen. Leon.
ard Wood IL expected by editors of
the Metropolitan Magazine to become
a monthly contributor TO that page of
the magazine formerly known as
Colonel Roosevelt's page. it was an
nounced today by Henry J.. whighani.
editor and publisher. General Wood
has been offered the place of CHIEF
contributor to the magazine, formerly
held by Colonel Roosevelt. 1t was
stated.
-'In no sense is General Wood to be
considered as a contributing editor"
Whigham said. His efforts for US.
provided he agrees. will in no sense
conflict with his duties as soldier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06
UNDERMINING PERSIA.

An organization capitalized at $780,
900, 900 has been formed in New York
designed to build up a large export
and import trade with Persia. The
corporation is the first, so far as is
known, to be organized in the United
States solely for development of Per-
n-American trade.
Arrangements are now being made
by the corporation to send to Paris d
number of natives of that country who
have long been resident in the United
States, together with a number of
American engineers and experts who
will establish branches of the corpor-
alton turnout the empire. a large
expected to leave this country in April.
While Persia as a nation is over six
Thousand years old, during the past
century the hand of progress has
passed it by.
! AmericaR- manufacturers it is held
can supply Persia with all its needs,
such as light agricultural implements,
shoes. clothes, glassware, matches,
! lamps, foodstuffs, roofing material.
automobiles. leather and rubber goods.
chemicals. drugs and medicines of all
kinds. soap, paper, Irvine. thread, and,
in fact, all the necessities of life, ex-
cept meat and cereals. In exchange
for which Persia will furnish wool,
hides rugs, pearls and rubies, gums,
! spices and furs.
Persia has no railroads and engi-
neers are now studying a plan of rail
roads to link up all the principal cities
of the empire to the seaports on the
Persian gu'f. thus providing for the
! opening of the wonderful 7al and iron
| deposits in the north This will af-
i ford an opportunity for the investment
| of American capital. The corporation
| expects to develop the water supply as
we'll as the supply of gas and electric
! ity to the principal cities of the en-
pire.
Persia has a population of about
100000 and is three times the size
of France. Lying between Turkey and
Russia, it has been far removed from
the scenes of world development; yet
while neutral in the great war, it has
/ been overrun by the armies of Turkey
and Russia in the north and has un-
dergone all the horrors of war. The
entrance of the United States into the
war, with its fight for humanity ant
| the recognition of the weaker nation.
. to the right of self government, ha.
removed the stranglehold of Russia
and makes it possible for Persia tt
| take its place in the family of nations
and welcomes American industry ant
American capital, as it knows tina
Americans have no political aspira
lions affecting the life of the nation.
Never before has Persia been il
such need of all forms of manufac
tured products and never before ha
the United States been in so favorabl,
position to fill her needs, which make!
the situation an excellent one fol
American industry.
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Lords Flowers Satisfy. Tel 50
Adv
Kansans Worry Over Son.

Cedar, Kan. Feb. 6.-The parents
of Corp. Milo c. Stivers. company bar
Der. Co. H. $50 infantry, are greatly
worried over his wherea bouts. They
heard from him regularly until Octo-
Der IS and since that time they have
been unable to locate or hear from
him. In the last letter they received
from him. dated October 25. he stated
likely be in the hospital some time.
From this date they have heard MOTH
ing from him and letters written to
him have been returned. Any re-
turned overseas soldier that knows
anything that would be of any inter-
est will do a great favor by commune
eating with his father, AL Stivers, Ce-
Gar, Kan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06

Director General Illness proposal
that there be an arrangement by
which the government shall share in
the profits of the railroads calls to
mind the familiar story about the boys
and the apple. AS long as the govern
ment has anything to do with opera
ton of the roads there amt agoin' to
be no profits"
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TO HONOR ROOSEVELT
Memorial Services Next Sunday at
Second Baptist Church.

Memorial services in honor of the
memory of the late Theodore Roose-
welt will be held next Sunday evening
at the Second Baptist church (Afri-
CAM Third and Quincy streets. Charles
S. Huffman, lieutenant governor, will
be the principal speaker. Addresses
will also be delivered by William
Bradshaw, DIR. J. L. RansoW, Clarence
Bradshaw and J. r. Bridgeford, prin-
cipal of the Topeka Industrial insti-
tute, touching on Roosevelt as a SOL
der, a man and a citizen.
Music will be furnished by the in
stitute chorus and by Miss Anna Crit
fifth and Miss Boulder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06
LOCAL MENTION

At $40 O'Clock this morning fire COM
panies were called to the apartment house
ut 1910 Topeka avenue. owned by Mrs
Emma Barnum. fire on the roof caused
by sparks flying from the chimney de-
stroyed large part OF the roof before 1t
YVES controlled by the firemen altho they
stopped the blaze solely with chemicals
1t had gained considerable Roadway before
the firemen arrived. No estimate was placed
On the loss.
Safety razor blades sharpened bet
ter than new. 25c-35c doz. Brunt-
Martin.-Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06

New York. Feb. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
paper ga 81 per cent. Sterling, 60 day
bills, 4.13k; commercial. GO day bills ON
9a 7a demand commsrcla c,,e 10 day e ais
Francs, demand. 545A cables, 5.45h. Mex
lean dollars. 1i15c, Government bonds
easy: railroad bonds. steady. Time loans
firmer; go days, 5@5A 90 days. 5L c
months. 5HM5k.
Call money, firm: high .: low. Az rul-
ing rate, AZ: closing bid Az. offered al
8; last loan, .. Bank acceptnnees, AZ.
Final prices on liberty bonds today were
312's 9S.9S: first convertible as, 93.04: sec
ond As. $3.50: first convertible AS, o. 20
second AS, AIS; third AS, 9510: fourth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06

1t is much more of a hardship on
a community to thrust an ambitious
scheme Of public Improvement on its
property owners in the face of stagna-
ton and panicly conditions, than it is
when conditions are what they are to-
day. with money circulating freely,
with every one employed, and with no
one feeling the pinch of hunger or
privation. When prices are high. as
at present. money is plentiful, and
practically every one has work at
profitable prices. iAltho living ex-
penses are high, it is possible to pick
and choose what we shall buy, and il
is feasible so to conduct our personal
affairs as to have a surplus, if we
make up our mind to it. When prices
are low. employment is uncertain, ir-
regular, and for some, impossible to
obtain. Money circulates less freely;
and most of us are afraid to spend q
nickel for fear We will never get an
other