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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24
BEES.

BEE.S.
Bees are little insecks with a buzzer
on one end and a singer on the other.
Wen some people heer the buzzer
they ask as If they was feeling the
singer, proving that a hole lot de-
ponds on imagination. Bees wont
sting you unless you do sumthing to
annoy them ferst, the hard part being
to tell jest how mulch you can do
without annoying them.
Bees live with their families in
hives The queen bee is the ony lady
bee. so she has to lay all the eggs, on
account of II she don there wont be
eny. People also have hives. but bee
hives is muteh more ornamental and
useful.
Making honey out of the insides of
flowers is bees dooty and they all
realize it, Most bees spend all their
life making honey without ever find
ing out how 1t taists on bred.
A bee cant help buzzinE with its
buzzer wen 1t flies. Therefore a bee
can never sneek up on you vile its in
the air. A singular bee makes a buzz.
vile 2 or more plural beez makes
buEzes.
Nobody ever tries to teetch bees to
do tricks. proving that impatient
disposition with a singer is mutch
more valuable than Jest a impatient
disposition alone.
If you wunt to smell a flower vile
II l.; still growing, look ferst to see
weather there is a bee in 1t, and If
there is, smell another one.
Bees go everware ware there's flow
ers and for this reason it is best not
| to drop flowers down yeur back.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24
DINNER STORIES

The professor of a certain medical
college asked a student how much of
a certain medicine should be admin
istered to the sufferer.
"A tablespoonful" promptly an
swered the young man. In about
minute, however, he raised his head,
and said: Il
Professor. would like to change
my answer to that question: The
doctor took out his watch.
My young, friend" he observed
been dead forty seconds"
The Turkish armistice led Play
wright George Conan to say at a
dinner:
The Turk has well been called I'm
speakabIe. 1 once met an unspeak-
able Turk in Pera.
~ have seven wives he told me
calmly, blowing a perfumed cloud
from his hookah.
"'Merciful powers exclaimed.
How do you manage to pay their
The unspeakabie Turk waved his
hand.
az married dressmakers, son of an
infidel!' he said"
Them gents iolling on the benches
over there in the shade of the court
house square," said the landlord of
the Petunia tavern, assemble most
every pleasant afternoon to talk
things over. And while they are at
1t they talk them over and under and
across and round and round and
thru and up and down and athwart
and diagonal and back and forth and
sideways"
Indeed" returned the solemn
guest. And what is it they talk over
in the various directions you men,
tion?'
Nothing" replied mine host.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24

Il is reported that large part of
the live stock shipments to market is
now made in motor trucks. -As an
evidence of the importance to which
this method OF hauiage has attained It
Is cited that recently one. motor truck.
running from Dallas. Texas. to Farm
ersville, hauling four trailers. carried
20 head of sheep, II head of steers
net weight 20, 500 pounds-over a dis
lance Of 90 miles. 20 miles of which
was over dirt roads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24
TAKES ISSUE WITH SHERMAN

Former Presbyterian Moderator De-
mics Catholics Will Swing League.
New York, June 24.-The Rev. M.
A Matthews of Seattle, Wash, former
moderator of the Presbyterian Church
of America, today refuted the charge
of Senator Sherman that the league of
nations would be dominated by the
Catholics.
Because individual members of the
Roman Catholic church are members
of the league of nations does not in
dictate that the vatican or the pope
will be officially represented in the
league" Matthews said.
They will not be sent to the league
of nations to represent their church.
but to represent their country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24
LOCAL MENTION

Luke Fleming. a negro. accused OF
shooting Perry and Arthur Bryant. me-
groes in a quarrel over a gambling
game in North Topeka Sunday morn
ing, volunta rily surrendered to the poe
lice Monday afternoon.
Miss Irene Taylor, county home
demonstration agent. has been re-
employed at an increase of $500 a year
and the budget for her work has been
increased s1.400 a year, making the
total budget $4,000.
Cash paid for liberty bonds. John
Kieinhans, s27 Quincy. Phone 27ef J.
ADV.
workmen began pouring cement on
the East Sixth street road Monday az
per schedule announced by the county
commissioners two weeks ago.
Liberty Bonds bougr: and soId.
shawnee investment Co.. 53t Kan. ~.
J. H. and Duicie A. Downs. Of To-
peka. are the defendants in a suit
brought today in the federal court by
the Farm Mortgage company. of Kan
sas City, to collect $7,70O on two
tilirty-day notes dated January 20.
1918. Ten per cent is asked for attor-
ncys' fees. which. the plaintiff claima.
was according 10 agreement in Gaze
the notes were not paid when due.
safety razor blades sharpened bet
ter than new. 25c-2sc doz. Erunt-
Marfin.-Adr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24
SCOREB0ARD FLASHES

Yesterdays hero. Roger peckinraugh-
He contributed 10 the II 10 defeat hand
ed by the Yankees ia the-Athleticr with
two home runs. single and fine day IN
the field.
the decisive factor In the victory Of Pitts
burSh over ST. Louis. to .
PHILADELPHIA got twice as many hits as
the Boxton Braves hut lost ; to .
Cleveland hoped on cicotte for two
runs in the eighth. which added 70 one
the White Sox By 10 2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24
HUNS CELEBRATE PEACE
German Officers Ask Dutch Govern
ment To Protect Kaiser.

German Officers Ask Dutch Govern
ment To Protect Kaiser.
London, June 24.-News of the Ger
man governments agreeing TO sign the
peace terms resulted in patriotic dem
onstrations thruout Germany. the Ex-
change Telegraph Copenhagen corre-
spondent reports.
In Berlin, Munich and other large
cities, the dispatch gays. professions
formed and marched along the prin-
cipal streets. the participants singing
songs and cheering the generals of the
old empire.
The officers association. il is added.
has asked the Dutch government not
to deliver the former German emper-
or to the allies. In a telegram. officers
of the association said. eve can 'ro-
tect the kaiser with our bodies, but We
rely upon the generosity of the Dutch
people"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24

The point toward which society re-
porters have been travelling finally has
been reached. The Lawrence Gazette
last week contained a column story of
a wedding, and nowhere in It was the
bridegroom mentioned and the reader
was even left in the dark regarding
his narne
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24
HEAT CAUSES A STRIKE

Texas 1O-Cent Store Girls Walkout-
No Fans.
Waco, Tex, June 24.-Sweltering
Texas weather was held directly re-
sponsible for a unique strike here to-
day.
Shop girls of local "five-and-ten-
cent" store walked out because the
management refused to install fans.
The girls declared heat made the r
jobs unbeara BILE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24

If every head of family in America
owned his home there would be no 1.
w. w. peril in this country. The home
owner is not a Bolshevist. The home
owner has respect for the property of
others, because h rs property of his
own and wants oilers to have respect
for IT. The homeowner appreciates
law and order. He accepts the dis
cipline of organized society because he
knows how essential it is to the pres
ervation of liberty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24
C. A. MORSE is BACK
He VIII Again Assume Duties as r
i. Chief Engineer.

Charles A. Morse, assistant director
of the division of operation of the
United States railroad administration
at Washington, has resigned and is
back on his old job as chief engineer
of the Rock Island Lines.
Morse was in charge of engineering
and maintenance for the railroad adj
rninistration. He is well known in To-
peka, having been chief engineer of
the Santa Fe railway with headquar-
tiers here before going to the Rock
Island.
Morse's successor at Washington is
A. M. Burt, assistant general manager
of the Northern Pacific railroad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24
GET FREE TREATMENT
Topckans Take Advantage of Dental
Clinic Today.

Clinic Today.
Scores of Topekans today were re-
cefving free dental treatment at the
hands of dentists who are taking the
semi-annual state examination in the
dining room of the National hotel.
There were a number of persons on
hand when the doors opened at 9
o'clock this morning and the number
of patients began TO increase as the
morning wore away until the dentists
had more then they could care for.
Nearly 100 dentists are taking the
examination to practice in this state.
There are several returned army dem
tai surgeons and reciprocity men who
will take only the practical examina-
son. This is one of the largest classes
ever assembled here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24
WANTS FARMERS TO AID

Weeds Along Highways.
Farmers living along roads to be
surveyed for hard surfaced highways
are urged to cut the weeds, along the
highways to aid the surveyor in COM
plotting his work in quick time. Jack
Campbell. county surveyor, awarded a
contract for surveying and plating the
road to Jefferson and Jackson coun-
ties, announced today that he would
begin work Immediately.
I'm order to get federal aid on the
highway the survey and plat must be
completed in ninety days" said Camp
bell today, land we can do 1t il the
farmers will aid and cut their weeds"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24

The sinking Of the German war yes
sells by their crews will serve at least
one good purpose. It will prevent a
possible unseemly squabble among the
victorious nations for possession of
them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24
CONFER on SINKING

Allies Determining Whether Huns
Violated Truce ut Scnpn Flow.
Paris. Juno 24.-The council OF
three has referred the question rela-
tive to the sinking of tine German fleet
in Scapa Flow to a commission Of ex-
perts. which will determine whether
the arg istice, conditions were violated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24

closely for a moment; then said. arch
ly. You're too big to go in my
creel, but so was that two-pounder-
and ! didn't put it back. did I?''
Copyright. 1919, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24
GIVE BELGIUM FIRST CALL.
Agree on Priority Payment of $780,
o00, 900 From Hun fndcmnitics.

Paris, June 24.-The reparatIOns
committee of the peace conference has
agreed to priority payment to Belgium
of 100000. 900 from the German in
IDENTITIES. 1t was officially announced
today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24

July 1 will not be a day of unadui-
terated gloom to the thirsty. on that
day We return to 2-cent postage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24

President Wilson has earned his
service stripe. along with the other
boys. He has been overseas six
months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24
SELECT COCCHI JURY
Trial of Ruth Cruger's Alleged Slayer
Starts in Italy

Bologna, June pa jury was
chosen at the first session of the trial
here of Alfred Cocchi. charged with
the murder. of Ruth Cruger in New
York City in 1917. The trial began
this afternoon in the court of assizes
and at 1850 o'clock the selection of
the jury had been completed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS.

Q. Are yeomen ~ still being enlisted by
the navy "A. Ii.
A. The navy department tells us that it
has discontinued eniisting yeomen.
Q. Is the charge that the United States
is losisg many farmers to Canada correct:
A: American farmers are going to Can
ada in considerable numbers, says the de-
partment of agriculture, but those numbers
are more than offset by the number of
Canadian farmers who are coming to the
United States. The balance is I'm favor of
this country.
Q. What are some of the inventions
that have been made by womfn:- H.
A. Comparatively few invsntiOns have
been made by women. but the following
are recorded in the U. 5. patent office: :
Cook Stove; Sheet-Iron Shovel: Ice Cream
Freezer; Sad Iron: Fountain Pen; Wash
ing Machine; Toaster; Pocket Book ::
Spring Seat for Furniture or Cars: Button !;
Dress Pattern, Dust Pan; Portable Oven :;
Vegetable flasher; Attachment for Heating
Kettles and Boilers by Gas.
Q. When will the next National G. A.
II. eneampment be held. Will there be
special railroad. rates for the G. A. r. men
and their families ?-F. g.
A. The National g. A. r.. eneampment
beginning Septe nter s, 1919. The L. S.
railroad administration has made an an
nouncement that there. will be reduced
rate of one cent per mile for members OF
the G. A. II. and their families.
Q. What is Peterspence ?-R. K.
A. Peterspeuce or Peters Pence was the
annual contribution for the support of the
Papacy. 1t consisted of the payment of a
sed land or cattle Whose value was L irty
pence In England this payment was
abolished under Henry VIII. and. in other
countries, did not survive the Reformation.
tAny reader can get the answer to any
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24

(Any reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic ].
Haskin, director, Washington. d. c. Give
full name and address and enclose three
All inquiries are confidential, the replies
being sent direct to each Individually
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-24

New YORK Librrfy BoDd MnTket.
New York June 2i-I.fherty honda,
final: sik's so.cS: first as. $50; second
As 1890: first 4M's. 9s.40: second 4He
94 20: third 5N's. as12: fourth 9h's, 9i20;
Victory s7i's. io0.oe; Victory ms, $3.50.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-02-24

canp 'ork will be continued
 un' 'prucer is discharged
 "o saving, based on known qu 'ood served, is 30,0OO 'o"' H'e trainloads of food worth five million ,do,,.-
 repor'eu ""suse of 24.1 per cent of an ioo'' ''Ved in the Northwest woods in August 1o,o ., 00> was cut " per cent in October.
 The old army post ot v,noo
 was headquarters for the spruce dl. vision, though its genera, bus,nes. o,. fices nave Deen at Portland. Acres of new buildings and tents enlarged the capacity or the post to 10000 men. Much of the camp is new, having been cleared from the virgin forest since ca the first of last year.
 For all that they wear an aer,a, propeller as collar insignia and are dressed in regulation khaki, perhaps not more than one out of every ten spruce soldiers has ever seen an air plane "clOse up," any more than he has seen a battle. It is a strange twist of the war that this should be so, when they volunteered to f,ub+ The war has not been more dfsap- pointing to the kaiser and his six extra safe sons than the spruce warriors. so far as getting what they expected out of it is concerned But the soldier sprucers, having been assigned d to their part in great cause, have car. ried it through like men, until the Hun has begged for mercy. And now, having finished their job, they are oil for home.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-02-24
COAST BASEBALL LEAGUE
 CONTAINS EIGHT CLUBS

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. "A (by Asso- ciated Press) Tn the formation of an eight-club circuit this season, the Pa cific Coast Baseball League has brought to fruition plan that has been considered, from time to time, for more than twenty years. Propo- nents of the eight-club circuit have maintained that the six clubs hereto fore included in the league did not represent coast league. This, in view of the fact that five of the clubs San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, Vernon and sSacramento--all were Cal ifornia cities, while the sixth club, Salt Lake City, did not represent a coast state.
 With the admission of Portland, Ore, and Seattle, Wash, all three Pa cific coast states now are represented, and the Pacific Coast league is a fact as well as name. With the injec- tion of an interstate. or intersectional, element in the contests, 1t is believed by the officials of the league that an added interest will be taken by the public in the leagues schedule. It also is expected that, with two North western states represented in the league, there will be revival of base ball interest in that section of the country.
 In framing the playing schedule, the greatest problem consists in ar ranging the games so they can be con- tested with minimum of expense at tached to travelling. In no league in the country are the officials confront ed with the great distances which the teams of the coast league are re- quired to travel in order to play games
The Cordova daily times., 1919-02-24

l and employee, with General Disque al
 a court of last resort.
 Since the signing of the armistice
 representatives of the more than 900
 locals voted to perpetuate the Loya
 Legation and to invite General Disque
 to remain as it's head. The member
 ship has been close to 130,000. l While Spruce for the air" has been the war cry, both fir and some Port OrfOrd cedar have been used for air plane parts. A total stand of 2,300,. 000,00 feet of spruce was estimated at the beginning of the work, in the territory served by the thirteen rail- roads projected. and since built. A total of 74,671,670 feet was removed. At this rate the supply would have lasted for thirty years. About an equal amount of fir was cut for air planes.
 Lack of equipment forced the spruce production branch to do many things which, under other conditions, would have been considered inef- ficient On the Alsea Bay railroad, a cut 100 feet deep was dug almost with hand shovels and wheelbarrows, where steam shovel would have "eaten it up" with five per cent the hIn 1o h0r Mi1no 0f fc ,1n grades were so built. The great Van- couver, Wash, "cut-up' plant was built in forty-fve days of constant wind and rain, to meet an emergency demand. Soldiers at l.. l.. l.. l.. Woodsmen fought rain and snow in the early 1918 logging-a most un- seasonable job.
 Nearly 300 miles of railroad were built, mostly without machinery, for adequate machinery was not to be had at any price. Human labor alone had to solve the tremendous problem of getting to the spruce belts and get IAA6 out CAC Ouly III SOlut future time of great national stress, according to Colonel Disque and his staff, is it likely that the railroad building record of the division ever will be approached or equalled.
 There were side features to the work of the spruce army, as creditable as the main endeavor. An emergency hospital was manned by sixty officers and men in Portland, who volunteered to serve as nurses during the influ- enza epidemic. They cared for S76 cases. Two of the nurses died. Re- gently the city of Portland gave medals to those who engaged in this dangerous and unselfish service.
 A food conservation department was established to standardize food saving in the hundreds of forest
The Cordova daily times., 1919-02-24

in warfare 1t probably would be tha
 of signalling.
 1 So the signal corps had to tak'
 charge of the infant branch of thu
 service, 5000 miles from the sound O.
 gun or the sight of a boche, ane
 must see it through to it's present | brawny maturity. The boys who en
 listed in the signal corps to serve with the telegraph and telephone lines and motorcycles and spy-glasses ! and pussyfoot scouting in advance o1 the fighting front in France, were the first sent to nurse the aviation corps through its teething period in the backwoods. With axe and maui and wheelbarrow and peavy and "tin' pants they worked in forests and on handmade logging railroads and in sawmills that they built in rainstorms almost as deadly as the bullets of the boche. That they wet-nursed the in- fant to the point where it had a big pert in winning the war, was tribute to their adept ability.
 Labor conditions in the lumber in dustry were not good in the North west at the beginning of the war. Paid German propaganda is said to have been rampant, for the Hun knew how vital it was to cripple the Ameri- can air program.
 Captain Brice P. Disque, who had retired from the regular army to ac- cept the wardenship of the Michigan state prison, which he tried to trans form into model man-saving insti- tuition, went back into the service at the first call of war. He e>had his blanket-roll packed and aboard ship for service in France when he was re- called and sent to the Northwest to report on numbering conditions. He was judged to be the right man for the titantic spruce job, was commis- oAOucu d COiOnel, ldCer DTlSaQlef- general, and was in charge of spruce production throughout the war. He assembled a staff capable to cope with the military, legal, civil and social problems which combined to hamper him.
 The Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen was conceived to bring capital and labor together in one great engine of patriotic service Both sides agreed to submit thir business and social differences to the United States army as final arbitrator; the elght-hour day was agreed to; camp sanitation and better living conditions were made effective; liberal wage scale for all classes of labor was in- augurated. Matters at issue were dis cussed by representatives of employer
The Cordova daily times., 1919-02-24
CREATW0RK0F
 COL. DlSQUE'S f. LUMBERJACKS

PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. 22-With in the span of fifteen months the spruce production division of the United States army was organized out of thin air, bought ten million dollars worth of materials. stood sponsor for far greater purchases by private con. tractors and was organized into an army of 3O,OOO soldiers and 13O, ,OOO civilians who were sworn to as bind. ing a patriotic oath as that taken by the soldiers themselves. It built, wholly or in part, thirteen lines with more than 300 miles of railroad, shipped 174,00O,000 feet of aircraft timber for the allied air program and opened 2,300,000,00O feet of spruce for immediate railroad shipment. It was just ready to double if not treble it's production record when the fighting stopped. '>S
 How this was accomplished has been told from month to month by the spruce production divisions bulletin. Four railroad lines built and owned entirely by the government for spruce production, with their spurs, either built or estimated, have an ultimate production possibility of more than 33,O00,000,0O0 feet of lumber, the bull letin declares.
 Of all the various branches of the American army service, none possibly but the flying sections of the United States signal corps, had a larger pro- portion of volunteers than the spruce section. War service appealed orig inally to the men who wanted to get out and do things; to be in front to carry the flag; to sound the long yell; to see the enemy first and to be the eyes, ears, nerves of the whole army. Rather curiously, the spruce produc- tion fell to men who had been among the first to volunteer for extra hazard ous service abroad. .........-
 The nation found it needed a vast air navy. Before the war, when air planes were merely expensive toys in America, the aviation section had been assigned to the signal corps on the theory that if flying had any part
The Cordova daily times., 1919-02-24
PLANNING
 TO HONOR SOLDIERS

MISSOULA, Mont, Feb. "A (by As sociated Press) Plans already are being made by the University of Mon tana football followers here to make the Montana-Washingto State Col occasion of homecoming day for all former students of the university who saw service in the military and naval forces of the United States during the war.
 It is hoped to have readay for dedi- cation by that time a suitable memo rial on the university campus to the former Montana students who died in the Service.