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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-13

If Parliament honors me with it's confidence I shall see Presiden. Ma sary1k in Prague at onco. to settle the prsifmfnarles of the agreement with him. want to have the conference on our territory in 6flesfa. with the co-operation of delegates of .hs Po- 1ssh Government, representatives of tho General Military Stan. members of the National Council, also special 1sts, engineers and lawyers. Yes tsrday I had the following reply to a question addressed to Mir. Massryk. which tranhate:
 Thank you for your kind tele- gram. shall be vsryshappy to well come you fon a day to be named oy yeUrseIf. only please give me imne- diats infeSmation as to the day of your arrival. agree to the plan of ehD. Conference, and I expect we shall bS able to lay . firm foundation for 1G With most sincere good feeling for you and your people. (signedj 19aafyk."
 come to other affairs.
 True Co the national spisit we aha II xsvsT Wage . war = co0QvSVt og 0aip,
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NOW is THE TINE.

Governor Alien in his inaugural ad-
dress voiced unqualified approval of
a program Of universal military train
ing A bill having this end in view
soon lis to be submitted to congress.
The bill provides for nine months
training with the colors in the nine
teenth year, thus divided: one month
in barracks for equipment, classified
ton and examination; five months
intensive training in the field and
three months in the cantonment. Pro-
vision is made whereby, in exceptional
| cases, the training may be taken in
! the twenty-sixth year. To officer this
! force the regular army will be drawn
! upon for 10 per cent of the number
necessary, and the remaining 80 per
cent will be drawn from the reserve.
Commissions in the reserve will be
! limited to men who have had war
service or have completed their term
of training with the colors and passed
the examination required for officers.
| No more men will be commissioned di-
rectly from civil life.
| There is a suggestion in the gov
| GOuESSS lIldL ills Alll4ldl
| training be taken in the schools. The
answer is simple and conclusive: the
Eboys are not in school at the training
age-over 80 per cent are at work be-
! tween 10 and 20 years. Another con-
elusive answer is that the schools do
not and cannot enforce the necessary
discipline, and. discipline is absolute
ly essential to success. Authorities
generally agree that 10 is the best age
for training. At this period the boy
is sufficiently mature to stand the
rigorous training and he responds to
it better than he will later. Obliga-
tory military training will prevent tens
of thousands of boys from gravitating
into lives of crime and will make
of them useful citizens.
The present is the most opportune
time. We now have the environments,
superbly equipped for the purpose;
we have thousands of the best drill
masters in the world on the way back
from over there; we have arms, equip
ment and munitions necessary to carry
| forward such work for ten years
| without the expenditure of dollar.
If the plan is ever to be tried now is
the time to do it; the people are
ready, the boys are eager.
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"bee-yard" where We're rows on rows
of hives. opened the gate hospital bly,.
wont you come in, LADY,"
81 don't know as 1 ought!' she
stammered. II just wanted toto ask
you if you think it's right for wom-
an to marry when she don't love
mani mean them that amt young
in years?"
THAT amt never right, ma am" he
answered in polite wonderment, for
any age" Then he knew her. why
why, Roxie, who's a-wantin' you to
do that foolish thing"
II ran off, she confessed later. 81
didn't have anybody to side with me
when it come to me yesterday morn
ing I couldn't marry Simon, and II
remembered you always sided with me,
Hern. 1 jest couldn't marry the Sec
ond time without love!'
Heriot looked into her troubled face
and the smoldering fires of youth
blazed up in his heart. His eyes kim
died, his rugged features lighted.
"Meanin' you been a-lovin' a Grip
pie all them years, Roxie? I've been
lonesome a heap, but the rest of the
way'd be mighty bright and sfinin' if
l thought you'd marry second time
fer-fer lovei'
Roxana reached out her trembling
Life was very fair and beautiful,
Copyright, 1919. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.D
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DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Good Company-2.


The society of the sympathetic raan
or woman is always sought because
the one subject OF perpetual interest
to each and every one of us is the
eternal J. and as long as any one will
listen, with an appearance of interest.
to the story of our lives. we ramble
on and on. tasting the sweetest joy
that existence has to give
The second quality those who are
good company must possess il cheer
Iulness. We turn as instinctively to
the jolly man or woman. to the one
who has always a funny story to tell
and whose laughter is hung on a hair
trigger. as a flower does to the sun.
Nobody's idea of good company Is the
sour, solemn yisaged individual whose
mouth is drawn down in a cynical line.
and whose bitter smile Is a blight on
any good time.
None of willingly seek the So
ciety of those who have always some
hard luck story to tell and who weep
upon our breasts and recite TO us the
Iliac Of their woes. We are terribly
sorry for those who have lost their
money and those who have been
robbed by the death of a loved one,
and for the women who have married
drunkards, and the men who have
married spenders or flirts. but we are
not pining to hear all of the heart
rending details of their misfortunes.
We have troubles enough of our
own without being burdened with
those of our friends and acquaInt-
anccs. and so when we seek compan-
ionship we pick out those who are OPP
timists. who life US UP on the wings OF
their hope and cheer and who make
US feel that God's in His heaven and
all is right with the world. We do
not long for the society of the pesgi-
mists who fill us up with their own
bilious forebodings. who send us away
with a DARK brown taste in our
mouths. and the conviction that every
; thing is perfectly rotten and the world
is going to the bow-wowH.
Finally. one who is good company
is not argumentatiye. Personally. I
avoid "argifier" as l would u rat
I tlesnake. 1 can lima CINE no more IN
! pleasant individual than the man or
woman with whom you have to de-
bate every EubJeet tnt life. one who
I never agrees with you on any point.
and who holds a different opinion
I from yours n every subject from pol
I tiles to pie.
The people whom ] regard ar good
I company are those who like the sa me
pictures, the same authors. the va me
/ plays. the same kind Of smokes the
/ same amount of red pepper in their
/. food. and the same amount Of pep in
I life that / do, and with whom ! can
discuss these topics in endless tram
guilty of soul and high enthusiasm.
/ To be sympathetic and cheerful, in
/ teresting and interested. that's what
being good company means. Lucky
II ose no find It.
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THE BIG QUESTION.

The dominating question in finan-
cial and business circles at present is
the railroad situation. Shall the rail-
roads be returned to their owners; if
so, under what conditions?
To ascertain the feeling of the bust
ness, world regarding a continuation
of government operation of the rail-
roads one need but to talk with the
shippers. They voice a united COM
plant of delayed service, inattention
on the part of railway employees and
general decentralization in traffic.
The association of railway execu-
tives. representing about 95 per cent
of the railroads, has put out q solu-
ton of the problem that should re-
ceive careful consideration. Its main
features are private ownership under
government control; the establish
ment of a department of transporta-
ton under direction of a secretary of
transportation: the maintenance of the
interstate commerce commission as a
quasi judicial or advisory body; the
transfer of administrative powers
from that body to the department of
right to initiate rates subject to gov
ernmen approval; the issue of securi-
ties to be regulated by the govern
ment, and the Sherman law to be
I modified.
These are all perfectly just meas
ures. says Henry Clews in his Finan-
cial Review, and would save the roads
from the policy of starvation which
prevailed under rule of the interstate
commerce commission.
| Public ownership of railroads is a
vastly different matter in the United
States, with its immense territory and
mileage and peculiar political condi-
lions from what it is in Great Britain
Germany or France, with their COM
pact territory and different political
methods. Government ownership
would be a doubtful road to efficiency;
and. granting the past misdeeds OF
private management which will not be
repeated, the best solution is that OF
private ownership combined with
government regulation. Certainly nc
such radical step as public ownership
can be justified until the other alter
native has been tried; and the country
has enough serious problems on hand
without complicating them by impos-
ing upon an already overloaded gov
eminent such an experiment in trans.
portation.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS


Brown Betty-Soft bread crumbs
one and one-half cups, syrup one-half
cup, chopped apples one pin. chopped
raisins one cup. melted butter subst-
tute or vegetable fat four teaspoons.
cloves one-quarter teaspoon. Pour the
melted fat over the bread crumbs;
stir until the crumbs are evenly but
tered. Put a layer of the crumbs into
a well creased pudding dish, mix the
sugar, apples, raisins. cinnamon and
cloves Put a layer of the apple mix
ture over the crumbs and alternate
unti! all is used, finishing with crumbs.
Cover closely and bake for three
quarters of an hour in moderate
oven, uncover and brown Serve hot
with hard sauce or cold with cream
Apple Sauce-Wash. clean perfect
apples. quarter and slice. Put into a
granite pan with only enough water
to cook. When done rub thru a col
ander, sweeten with white or light
brown sugar. a small piece of butter
and a very little grating Of nutmeg
Serve cold. 1t is very wasteful TO
peel apples unless afterward some use
is to be made of the Feelings.
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HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
By MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: My husband
(male). He passed me coming out
as [ was going in. Is it correct for
me to speak as my husband had not
the chance to introduce us and so we
we're strangers. THANKS.
You should not have spoken. 1t is
not necessary for a business man to
introduce any one who happens to be
in the office to his wife when she
comes in.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: Will you
kindly advise me what to use to stop
the growth of superfluous hair on
ones face. do not care to use the
electric needle. THANK YOU.
The electric needle is the only safe
way to remove superfluous hair. Do
not try any other method or you will
increase the growth.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a girl
nineteen. 1 am heartsick. l have a
friend in the army in France. 1 have
His aunt said he was taken prisoner.
| read in the casualty list that he was
missing in action. Please tell me how
can find out. y. NJ. S.
A number OF prisoners have been
released by the Germans already and
the rest will be given up as soon as
possible. All are safe row. Continue
20 watch the casualty list for further
report and also the names of the
prisoners returned
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An investigation of the liberty bond
market has been ordered by the dis
trict attorney of New York, with the
purpose of learning Why bonds are
selling at SO great a discount.
Undoubtedly a chief adverse infiu-
ence is the offering of many small
bonds-those of the $50 and 500 de-
nomination. Insurance companies
and other large investors are picking
np bonds that should be held as per-
manent assets by the original buyers.
If the people can be made to see the
wisdom of holding their bonds with an
ever-tighteninS grip, the market will
take care of itself, the bonds will go
TO par and some of the issues to pre-
Inium
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them have failed because of the ex-
tremely Opaque quality of the water
at the depths which submarines fire.
quent.
The spectacular career of the sub
marine in this war was due solely to
the fact that Germany used them for
the new business of underwater COM
merce raiding. and was carefully pre-
pared for that enterprise. while the
allies had to develop the means of
combiting the U-boat. Once those
means had been developed, the pirate
career of the U-boat was over. 1t has
now taken its permanent place. which
is a minor one in the lineup OF
modern fleet.
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dinner party with the fond hope that
from this occasion she would be fairly
launched in society.
Lena" sad Mrs Jinks to her
amazed cook, ''be sure to mash the
peas thoroly tonight"
What ma'am," exclaimed the
amazed cook Mash the peas?"
Yes, that is what 1 said. Lena the
peas" replied the mistress. TT makes
Mr.. Jinks nervous at dinner to have
them roll on his knife"
Lord George Wellesley said at a
luncheon in Philadelphia:
zone result of this war will be tina.
the English workingman will be bet
ter paid He'll be content no longer
with the shameful wages of the past
The English workingman is show
ing in numberless ways his resolve 10
have a better share of the good things
his labor creates. / know lady who
when the submarine crisis was at its
worst lectuFed in the East End OF
London on cheap and tasty dishes for
the masses.
My next dish.' the lady said IN
the course of her lecture. is boiled
Gods heads A boiled Gods head. dear
friends. IS. properly prepared a disl
1T for the gods You take four Gods
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-15
Is YEARS AGO In Topeka
From the columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
January l., 1894.

January Is, 1894.
Assistant City Treasurer l. 6. Real for
wartied by telegraph to the fiscal agency of
Topeka in New York. today. the sum of
$4,000, the payment Of interest on oil
bonds including paving. sewer. improve
ment and general bonds. The interest IS
on $4,000 Of city bonds. Nc principal
has been paid with this settlement
The Topeka ISicyelist Protective asso-
citation starts with 100 members The asso-
citation met in the Veal block Saturday eve
ming and elected w {. T. Relchenbacf
president; William Taylor. secretary and
treasurer. and an executive committee con-
sisting Of H X. Eowley. A Il Harris and
otto Townsend. The admission fee is fifty
cents and rewards will be offered for the
arrest and conviction of bicycle thieves
Mr.. and Mrs. z. H Adams have taken
rooms on Topeka avenue between Eighth
and Ninth streets. and viii move IA fEea
Menokea this week
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F., The gross indebtedness of the ma
.tions of the world has risen in four
years from 81 to more than 200 bill
lion dollars. according to statement
Thy the Mechanics & Metals Ma
itional bank of New York. Ac-
icording to this statement. the
Indebtedness of the seven ma
-tions which were chiefly engaged in
carrying forward the Great War
.amounted to 1914 billion dollars on
january !. 1919. Great Britain and
Germany having the largest debts of
any of the belligerents, France being
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: The declaration of Senators Borah
and Kenyon that new political align
ments are impending has a familiar
sound The Democrat party has been
killed and buried time and again and
recently the Republican party was put
thru the same process. But both of
the old organizations come up smil-
ing every four years and one or the
other obtains control of the govern
Inent. Since these two parties have
beeh contending for supremacy, doz-
ems of new parties have come into be-
ing, disappeared and in some cases
probably been forgotten. How many
remember the Liberal, Republican
party which nominated Horace Gree
ley for the presidency? Since then
we have had the Prohibition party,
the Peoples party, the Free Silver
party and the Bull Moose party. Moth
ing remains of any of these but a
memory. Nearly all have been stop
ping places for the politician on his
journey from the Republican camp to
that of the Democrats. Always a few
of the new party recruits have re-
turned to their first love but usually
most of them have not. Meanwhile
the two "old parties continue to do
business In the same locations.
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Reports on the progress of the fed
eral prohibition amendment indicate
that Kansas is the thirtieth state to
ratify it. Favorable action by but six
lnore states is needed to make it a
part of the organic law of the United
States. That this number will ap-
prove the measure there seems no rea-
son to doubt. The amendment will
become effective one year from the
time of it's adoption by the requisite
number of states. 1t forbids the man
lufacture, importation, transportation
Tor sale of alcoholic liquors for bever-
age purposes within the United States
and its dependencies. Nothing is said
about medicinal use. There appears,
therefore. a possibility of drug store
saloons in states which shall not pass
laws in accordance with the federal
amendment. Thus is invited an out
break of a variety of illnesses which
would threaten to become epidemic
1t will be remembered that when
Kansas operated under a similar law
, the amount of sickness in the state
was frightful. Even with the ratifi-
cation of the amendment the prohibit
tim enthusiasts may find that their
work is not completed.
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Third after these countries. while next
in turn were Austria Hungary. Russia
the United States and Italy. The
United States came into the war after
the other nations, and that fact set it
apart from the common trend, not
withstanding that war expenditures
here from 1917 forward were more
than those of any other single belliger-
emf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-15

Another member of President Will
sons cabinet has resigned but prob
ably nothing will ever touch Postmas-
ter General Burieson as long as there
remains to him a possibility of work
ing injury to the business of the coun-
try. Since he took over the wires.
there has been the same deterioration
in service as has characterized the
administration of postal affairs.
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heads of good size and quality. place
them in > casserole with salt and pep
per, an onion and
wait a Bit ma'am,"
"A gaunt chap had risen from a
front seat. He was pointing hi. long
fore1nger at the lady and scowling.
"'Wait . bit. ma'am." he repeated
What 1 want to know is, who gets the
cod?'"
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1t is considered worthy of mention
I the Associated Press that Presi-
dent Wilson attended a meeting in
France and did not speak. On the
theory that the disser. nation of news
consists in publishing unusual happen
ings, the item is 5orth the clble tolls.
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Following the close of the Civil war
the problem of the country was not
the resumption of normal business but
the resumption of specie payment. 1t
was then that Horace Greeley re-
marked that the way to resume spe-
Gle payment is to resume" The same
formula might we'll be applied to bust
ness today.
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ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY K. MOULTON

Feds of the Naughty.
oh, IT,. snooze of lowly pedagogGc
In the empire bed
OF the Prince Murat-
A famous snooze
With n snore which said
Or seemed to say:
"Ho-Ho. Ha-Ha.
Here's sudden guest
From the teeming west
In the regal bed
of the Prince Murat.
Ard the dreams which came TO the peda-
gogue
On the naughty couch
of the Prince Murat
We W i'll have to guess:
But, oh, they were happy dreams.
Which danced like Ned
Thru the humble head
In the empire bed
of the Prince Murat
The shades Of a hundred English kings
Looked down-on the bed
At buckingham
Where the democrat
Lay his humble head.
And they gasped My word.
What has occurred
TO old John Bull
And UncIe Sam
That Yank may rest
Beneath the crest
on the head
At Buckingham"
Sir Douglas Haig is to be made a
duke. but Pershipg will be something
better than that-an American citizen
Governor Whitman has Joined that
great army of patriots who have. from
time immemorIal. gone back to the
law" Somebody goes back to it every
day
The war stopped too soon. 1t has
just been discovered that we have an
unexpended war balance of $4,000
100000. Hog Islan1 overlooked a bet
Unpublished History.
Charles 1 walked calmly out to tbs
platform OF the Tower and after a fev
words with the executioner laid his
neck upon the block.
Are you ready" whispered this
masked man who held the axe
II am" replied Charles. "strik'
we'll
| zone moment. please
I 1t was the calm. cold voice OF tn
/ director.
I Il have not placed the cameraman.'
/ the voice continued. Hold that pose
! please. Charlie. and don't smile
| DON'T SMILE Now you. execution
er. hold that axe as tho Ii were a car
pet sweeper. How did you bust int
/ this business. anyhow? Now. pose
Good, Hold that. Remember Their,
| can be no encore We can do ;hi
only once And didn't buy these pic
/ ture rights for nothing. either"
| When Herr HohenzoIIern gets read,
to play return date he will find
rival company In possession of tn,
thcater.
I Hog Island. IL all reports of expendi
? fr1reS al 70 frue lived as, IN, ~. - rx,s-
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A new labor organization with poIitiesi
purposes has beer planned Is tbirago. I'm
errosifiou 20 the American fesIeFatisn 81
Lori Assor. who gsns property In the
Tinted States well fn England. has
70 pay both countries aH aggregate tar II
10 PR cent. or 10 per cent more than
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DINNER STORIES

1t was the first week that the
Jinkses who had fallen heir to con-
siderable property, had been in their
new home. Mrs. links was giving a
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The wide extent % IIiIseraey In this eoun-
try Is shown By the fart that nearly =
per cent ~ the men rallied 70 the coIors
wene unable 10 read or write
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Hog Island. IL all reports of expendi-
lures are true. lived up to its ma me.
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When Herr HohenzolIern gets ready
to play a return date he will find a
rival company In possession Of the
thcater.