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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING. JUNE 23, 1917
VOTING OVERTIME
Russians Seize Upon Franchise
Right Extravagantly.
World Record in Balloting Setj
by Newly Freed People. i
CZAR MISJUDGED" HIS ARMY I
j
Artisan or Farmer With a Gun i
Doesn't Make a Soldier. I
Proved Merely a Menace
Autocratic Discipline.
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BY WILLIAM CI. SHKPHFRD.
Petrograd, Mny 10, (By mail) All
Russia Is voting. Not only the men,
but the wnmpti. There isn't any wo
man's right battle in Russia. Kvery
body accepts the feminine, ripht to the
ballot as perfectly natural. In all the
hirttory of the world, perhaps, there
has never been ho miich voting by bo
many different sorts of human beings
on so many different subjects, as there
is in Russia this very minute.
Soldiers are voting, workmen are
voting; moulders, machinists, wash
women, waiters, scrubwomen, ser
vants, cab-drivers, street cleaners,
rn ilro.'id men, peasants all are vot
ing. They are voting for delegates to
nvminsj: thtv are voting on hours
DO YOU KNOW THAT
Civilian health is the rock upon which military efficiency
rests ?
The little house fly i3 a dangerous thing, the time to "swat
'em" ia in the spring?
The ingestion of wood alcohol may produce blindness ?
Swimming is a healthful exercise ?
Human beings are the great agencies in the spread of
human diseases?
No community can be really successful without safe waste
disposal?
Floorman
We want a young man to
fill the position of Floor
man, assist in trimming
windows and to make him
self generally useful. To an
ambitious person this posi
tion offers .splendid oppor
tunity for advancement in
a line of business that pro
vides a brilliant future.
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705-707 Kansas Ave.
and wages; the soldiers are voting on
how to fight and on what orders shall
or shall not be given to them; they
hold meetings in the trenches, elect
delegates and send them back to Pet
rograd to represent them In the na
tional gathering of soldiers.
Trying to Interpret Results.
And while this storm of voting is
under way the new government, alert
and on its tip toes, waits to know the
popular will and translate it into law.
The government has no army behind
I it; and governments without armies
i are powerless. The army is behind
! the people in fact, the army is the
! people. So long as the new govern-
ment carries out the will of the people
1 it will have the support :f the army.
Wherefore the masters of public opin
ion, like Kerensky, keep themselves
' in the way of knowing what the public
will on any certain matter may chance
i to be.
The first thing that strikes an
American in Russia is the fact that
this new .wentieth century form of
wholesale war is going seriously to in
terfere with the king business in
Kurope. Despotic kings are safe
Enough, if they have a professional
army behind them and if their civil
ian subjects are not allowed to possess
arms. But professional armies are
killed early, in such g eat wars as
this, and it becomes necessary to put
workingmen and farmers into uni
forms and give them guns and expect
them to take the places of profession
als. This expectation went wrong in
Russia. The uniform r.nd the gun did
not change the workingman into a sol
dier. They only turned him into a
workingman with a gun and uniform,
and if there's anything n.ore danger
ous for a despotic monarch or for
any king who thinks he rules by Di
vine Right than a lot of workingmen
with guns, the worried little man who
has been planting potatoes In the gar
den at Tsarkoe Selo would like to
know about it. The coa'. may make
the man but the uniform doesn't al
ways make the blindly faithful sol
dier. This is one of the newest dis
coveries in the history of Russia.
Cossack Only Farmer in Disguise.
There was one brilliant second that
stormy afternoon of the revolution
when this fact that the uniform
doesn't make the soldier dawned on
the Petrograd crowd that was crying
for bread near the Finnish railroad
station- A policeman struck a citizen
with a club. Nearby was a group of
Cossacks on horseback, with knouts
and swords a grim sight to a Russian
crowd. But out from the group dash,
ed a Cossack; he was as terrible look
ing as any Cossack could be; he wore
all the terrifying Cossack garb, gift
of the czar; his face was black with
the Cossack resolution which the Rus
sian people fear. He swung his sword
and the. crowd fell back, not knowing
his purpose. The Pteel flashed thru
the air and a crowd of thousands of
people beheld, for the first time in
Russian history, the sight of a Rus
sian Cossack killing a Russian police
man. The crowd cheered with delight.
The cry went up "The Cossacks are
with us! The Cossacks are with us!"
This one incident, it is believed by
some, marked the turning of the tide
against the czar. It developed after
ward that the Cossack with the sword
was a farmer from the Cossack dis
trict. The crowd soon learned that
almost every uniform was only the
disguise of some citizen like them
selves. The rest 'a easy.
BOY CRUSHED BY CAR
Perry Brewer Fell In Front of Heavy
Motor liast Night.
until SsptJQ
Round Trip Tickets Limited Until Oct 31st
Buffalo
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$40.82
42.32
Chicago 22.32
Cleveland 36.77
Charlevoix 34.87
Colorado Springs 20.00
Detroit 32.32
Denver 20.00
Duluth 28.'10
Glenwood Springs 33.00
Glacier Park Stations . . 37.50
Ludington 31.32
Mackinaw City 36.27
Mackinac Island 41.11
Montreal 54.32
Milwaukee $23.87
Minneapolis 22.32
60.67
Newport
Portland, Me.
64.57
60.52
56.45
34.87
20.00
14.52
Philadelphia
Petoskey
Pueblo .
St. Louis
St. Paul 22.32
Washington 51.65
Yellowstone Park
Stations 37.00
Yellowstone and
Glacier Stations 47.50
Round Trip Tickets Limited Sixty Days.
Unqton i $51.82
Buffalo 37.32
Detroit 30.82
Montreal $46.92
New York J 1-52
( 54.52
Portland, Me 50.12
CIRCUIT TOURS
Round Trip Tickets Limited Sixty Days.
Boston $55.02 and up New York $55.27 and up
Round Trip Tickets, on Sale Commencing
June 15 Limited Oct 31st
L03 Angeles , .$60.50
Portland, Ore 60.50
San Diego 60.50
San Francisco $60.50
Seattle 60.50
Vancouver 60.50
Grand Canyon Side Trip $ 7.50
Circuit Tours to California points $78.00 to $86.47
Through Sleepers Free reclining chair cars
Harvey JMeals unexcelled service
For particulars and Sum
mer Literature, call or write.
P. Ia Stnrgca, C. P. T. A.
Phone 11682
Topeka. Kansas.
Perry Brewer of 1027 Western ave
nue and Raymond Coolidge of 118
Greenwood avenue, 17 and 16 years
of age respectively, were injured about
9:30 o'clock Friday night when the
bicycle they were riding struck a rut
ai. 1 threw them in front of an auto
mobile driven by R. M. Williams, 1437
Fillmore street. The left rear wheel
of the automobile passed over Brew
er's body and possibly crushed the
chest structure. He breathed with
great difficulty after being taken to
the St. Francis hospital but the phy
sician in charge stated today that hia
injuries are not necessarily fatal.
Coolidge was struck by the car and
his shirt was almost torn from his
body, exposing numerous scratches
and bruises on his back. However, he
rode the bicycle from the scene of the
accident near the Sachs greenhouse
on the West Tenth street road to the
hospital. Brewer was placed in the
Williams's car and hurried to the hos
pital. Both boys were riding the same bi
cycle returning from a swim in Gage
ibkb. xney naa no light on the h rai.
and the road was lined with automo-
Diies traveling both directions and
carrying glaring headlights. They
were roiiowing the Williams car and
attempted to pass it. They turned in
ahead of it to avoid meeting a west-
uuumu car ana tnat Instant the wheel
faltered and threw the boys directly
in the path of the Williams car. The
Williams automobile was stopped
iwl ui me accident.
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THERE IS A LAW of
failure just as there
is a law of success.
The successful man fol
lows the law of success;
the failure keeps within
the law of failure.
As all successful men
pay a great deal of at
tention to the attrac
tiveness of their print
ing, attractiveness in
printing must be one of
the attributes of suc
cess. and If it is an attri
bute of success you need
it. We need it. Every
business man needs it.
We make these obser
vations because we are
GOOD printers. You'll
act upon it because you
a good business
man.
Personal Service
Bogle Printing Co.
5th and Jawksen
Pboae 127S
LJ. PENWELL
Funeral Director
ROBERT STEELE. Assistant
f'hom. loa BOft-.tlO Qiitnrj nt.
GIRL WHO MADE
ORIENT GASP IS
TO FLY IN TOPEKA
Katherine Stinson Will Be At
traction at Free Fair.
Twenty-Year-Old Lass in First
Kansas Flight.
SHE WOULD GO TO WAR
Offers Aviation Service to V. S.
War Department.
Miss Stinson Won 14 Medals In
China and Japan.
Miss Katherine Stinson. the slip of
a girl who has flown in her big mil
itary aeroplane miles high, looped the
loop, flown upside down and done
spirals and every other startling stunt
known to the flyers, will be one of the
feature attractions at the Kansas Free
Fair at Topeka next September.
Miss Stinson is 20 years old and
looks younger. She is 5 feet 4 and
weighs 104 pounds. She is not at all
said today that he would insist that
a special grand jury be called to in
vestigate alleged immoral conditions j
in the vicinity of the big army post.
It has been charged that negligence i
of officials had allowed gambling
dens, bootleggers and immoral houses j
to flourish near the barracks.
Assistant Attorney General Connor
has been commissioned to make an
investigation.
BEES TO LANDS!
(Continued from Page One)
r
reau at Washington and the inquirers
ask for data on a variety of subjects,
from bees to Montana lands. The let
ters come from all parts of the west,
and from many small Kansas towns.
The inquiries are from persons in all
walks of life, from hotel proprietors
to real estate agents, and from house
wives to locomotive engineers. They
come from Chicago and Bonner
Springs, from St. Louis and Beloit.
Many are from the smaller cities; a
great number from Topeka.
The bread book is in great demand.
For the great majority of inquirers,
foods, methods of production and
means of lowering the cost of living
form the center of interest. Many in
quirers want a Copy of the sailors'
book. The army and special branches
of the service are the subjects of a
constant fire of questions. Literature
on the most diverse topics is readily
supplied, and in the few cases where
none can be forwarded, reference to
a direct source of information is
given.
But from suggestions to homestead
ers to details of the duties of a hos
pital assistant in the medical corps,
information is on tap. The question
fMlP4 411
CONTRIBUTE
All You Can Possibly Afford to the
RED CROSS
JONES & BIRCH
J
Hiss Katherine Stinson
FRANK R. CONWELL
Funeral Director
11S EAST ITR ST.
Phone 2S7. Rea. Phone BSO-B t.
Personal Service
of the type of young woman one might
expect to see risking death in the
clouds. Srr is slight and pretty and
her hairvhangs about her shoulders in
brown curls, which are tucked inside
her cap when she is flying.
Miss Stinson raced Dario DeResta,
the daredevil auto race driver, at the
Sheepshead Bay race track, New
York. DeResta drove his car at a
nerve racking speed but Miss Stinson
drove her aeroplane faster and beat
DeResta.
In China and Japan.
Miss Stinson has Just returned to
Chicago Vom a tour of China and
Japan, where she won fourteen gold
medals and made the Orientals look
up to a woman for the first tims in
history.
"The Japanese are really the most
polite people in the world," said Miss
Stinson, "and the Chinese were just
lovely, but I'm certainly glad I'm an
American. They -make their wives
walk ten paces in the rear on all pub
lic occasions, and I wouldn't walk be
hind any man. I want to walk be
side him.
"The women in China and Japan
are waking up, tho. There is a big
feminist movement. In Japan a Mrs.
Fujisawa, who is one of the leaders
of the woman movement there, gave
me a check for $2,500 because she
was so glad to see a woman do some
thing that no other woman in Japan
had done. That was when, clad in a
kimono, I made my flight Over the
city of Tokio. The Japanese were
wonderful then.
'They are intensely Interested in
aviation, and all the city turned out.
They had the aviation field fenced in
with slender bamboo rods. The
crowd was tremendous and the inter
est keen, but the Japs were so polite
that not a rod was broken."
. Flew to Sacred Temple.
In China Miss Stinson made a flight
from the grounds of the sacred tem
ple of agriculture, which was former
ly the Chinese imperial palace.
"The Chinese have never forgotten
what they consider the magnanimous
conduct of the United States in re
turning the indemnity money at the
time of the Boxer uprising. A check
for $3,000 was the gift of President Li
to the young American who was
teaching his people how to fly."
Miss Stinson is on her way to New
York to try out her new 150-horse-power
army plane, with which she will
soon make long distance flights from
Chicairo.
"When war was declared I cabled
the offer of my services to the war de
partment." she said. "I've heard
nothing from them and I believe that
there are plenty of men to do that
work now. When the time comes I'll
be ready. I'm just dying to be a sol
dier." Miss Stinson's brother Ed is at San
Antonio teaching aviation and her
brother Jack has Just taken out his li
cense. Her sister Margery is also fly
ing at San Antonio.
INVITES A VICE PROBE
St. LoniH Official Claims He Is Goat
and Locsn't Fancy the Role.
St- Louis. Mo., June 23. Tired at
being made the "goat" in the Jeffer
son barracks scandal. Excise Commis
sioner Mooney of St. Louis county.
may be geneml or specific, or the re
quest may be for literature on a cer
tain subject, as land or bread or the
marine corps. In whatever field, sat
isfaction to the inquirer is assured
thru Frederic J. Haskins, director of
the State Journal Information bureau
at Washington.
Several persons were Interested in
the Indian lands to be sold at auc
tion in southeastern Oklahoma. They
wanted to know about the Pullman
car advertising scheme that held forth
in Topeka several days. A circular of
special information on this subject,
together with a personal letter con
taining a direct answer, was forward
ed in each case.
One of Hundreds of Letters Received.
As a sample of the letters received
and the careful valuable reply there
to, the following letter from Onaga,
Kan., is given, with the reply to
same, by the Topeka State Journal In
formation Bureau at Washington.
Onaga. Knnsas. Mny 29, 1!U7.
To The Topeka State Journal Information
Bureau, Washington, D. C.
Kind Sirs Will you please answer the
enclosed questions :
1. Give the number of stnte senators and
representatives for KuiiBiia?
2. Give number of nntional congressmen?
3. How many sen u tors nnd rfnr'ptita
tlves bas Kansas in national eonprts?
4. Who are the cabinet members.
5. What states have woman suffrage?
6. Give steps required to become u nat
uralized citizen. Very respectfully vonrs,
MUS. HKNHY rKHUUSKL,,
Onnpa. Kansas.
P.S. Am semi i n g etnmp for reply.
The Ileply to the Above Ijetter.
Office of Topeka State Journal Informa
tion Bureau :
Washington, D. C, June 14, 1917.
Mrs. Henry l'errussel, Onuga, Kan.:
jOear Madam In reply to your letter nf
recent rtute asking for the number of state
senators and representatives for Kansas,
we will say that in the state legislature in
Kansas there are one hundred and twenty
five representatives and forty senators. In
the national congress Kansas has two sen
ators and eight representatives.
In answer to your next question asking
who are the cabinet members We submit the
following :
Lansing State
MeAdoo Treasury
Haker War
(iregnry Attorney -Genera!
Kurlt'son lostoffice.
Imnk'ls Nuvy
Lane .Interior
Houston Agriculture
Ited field Commerce
Wilrnu Labor
In answer to your next question asking
what states have women suffrage, we sub
mit the following:
Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada,
Idaho. I'tnh, Arizona. Montana, Wyoming
and Kansas. In Illinois women can vote
for presidential electors.
We are forwarding you a map of the wet
anil dry states giving answer to your ques
tion on prohibition.
In answer to your next question asking
what steps are required to become a nat
uralized cit i Be ii, we submit the following:
To take out papers for citizenship, the
Bureau of Naturalisation says the first
step necessary is to establish a residence.
After this has been done, the declaration
of intention to become a citizen may be
made in the state naturalisation court in
the county in which the alien lives or in
the nearest United States district having
jurisdiction over the place yf residence of
the alien. No naturalisation paper can
be filed out of the office of the clerk of
the naturalisation court. An applicant
must have resided continuously in the
United States for not less than five years
immediately preceding the date of filing
bis petition, at least the last year of
which must have' been spent In the state
in which the application is filed. When he
files a petition, he must have with him two
ci linen witnesses who have a personal
knowledge of the petitioner sufficient t
i enable them to verify the petition bv flffl
; davit and personally testify to bis good
moral character and to five yenrs con
tinuous residence in the state and the
United States. Yours very truly,
TOPEKA RTATFJ JOURNAL
INFOUMATION HUKEAU.
Frederic J. Haskins, Director.
"Whatever you want to know, what
ever you may wish to etudy, in wher
ever you may wish to invest your
money, in whatever way you may de
sire to serve your country, ask the
State Journal Information bureau at
Washington, D. C.
N. B. Readers should address
their letters asking for Information
direct to the "Topeka State Journal
Information Bureau, Washington, D.
C," Where they are lent to thia of
fice there ia the delay and trouble
in forwarding: to our Washington
j bureau.
You are Cordially Invited to the
Red Cross "War Dance"
TONIGHT
At lliiolinrst tho J. 11. Ilurrow Residence in
HIGHLAND PARK
Jnning until midnight Marshall's Hand
Intermission Prosram nt 0:30 mirier the direction of
Mrs. Paul Walker
Tickets $1.00 the Couple For tlic Hcd C ross Fiiml
Fifteen-Minute Car Service .
the Big VInewood Cars
Topeka Railway Company
Dr. C. S.
DlTTf
DaMBnfntaVaV
ESI
How to Reduce
Your Weight
A Simple, Safe, Reliable Way
' If you are carrying; around ten to
sixty pounds of unhealthy fat you are
unnecessarily weakening your vital
organs and are bearing a burden
which destroys the beauty of your
figure.
Why continue to be a victim of
superfluous fat? If you want to re
duce your weight in a simple, safe
and reliable way, without starvation
diet or strenuous exercise, here is a
test worth trying. Spend some time
I daily in the open air, take seven deep
'breaths each morning and night and
get from any good druggist a box of
oil of korein capsules; take one after
each meal ana one berore retiring at
night; also follow the other simple
directions that come with the box.
Weigh yourself once a week, so as
to know Just how fast you are losing
weight, and don't leave off the treat
ment or even skip a single dose until
you are down to normal.
Oil of korein is absolutely harmless,
Is pleasant to take and helps digestion.
Even a few days' treatment has been
reported to show a noticeable reduc
tion in weight, the step becomes
lighter, your work easier; a more
buoyant, vivacious feeling takes pos
session of your whole body and mind.
If you are overstout you should give
this treatment a trial. Tou are very
likely to be surprised and delighted.
i Amaze your friends, too! Advertisement.
I Lave nn absolute CURB tor riLKft with
out resorting to a painful and iinciTtnln sur
irlcal operation. I am the only reputable spe
cialist In this line of work usintf the exclusive
methods of treatment In Topeka or tha central
pot-tion of this country.
I am the only specialist treating rectal dis
eases In this section of the state who
GUARANTEED A CUKE FOK 1'iLKS
will not charge yoa a cent
if B fail to effect a care
Remember. In giving the treatment
I use NO KNIFE No Caustics-
Treatment in Painless Sure Safe.
Patients are not detained from
work or duties.
No Bleeding or Sloughing
No Injurious After Effects.
Relief After the Very First Treatment.
Very Moderate Fees No Hospital Expense.
GET BUSY ACTION COUNTS
Wolfe, Specialist
NO SEMI-LOYALTY
Kither AU American or Allen Is Do- j
cision of Ohio Governor.
Columbus, Ohio. June St. To ex
empt Americans of Otrman parent iff
from military service la to recognize
divided citizenship.
Governor Cox so declared in a letter
to G. S. Vierick, editor of the Ameri
can Weekly, New York.
"We cannot recognize now, of all
things, a division among the Ameri
can people," says Cox's letter, answer
ins a query from Vierick.
"Those who rnnnot register as full
United States Americans, citizens with
only one loyalty, may declare them
selves alien enemy. There can be no
half way course."
TOO BUSY TO WRITE
Washburn Students In Army Fail to
Return Question Blanks.
Only 700 of the 8,000 questionaires
sent out a month ago by Wash
burn college have been returned, the
Washburn college bulletin announces.
A hurry-up call has been sent out
from the college asking that these
blanks be filled In and returned im
mediately. New blanks are being sent out by
the registrar this week to the alumni
and students of the college The pur
pose of the questionaire is to give the
college authorities a full report of the
students and alumni of the college
who have enlisted during the war,
as well as to give information to the
intercollegiate bureau, at Washington.
A record of all students enlisting
will be kept by the college.
DELUGE IN' WISCONSIN
KIglit-Hour Rain Now Doing Over
timeMood Hi to Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, Wis., June 23. With
tain still falling: after an eight-hour
dilute reports were coming in from
rrany points of Wisconsin thia morn-
i inp of floods. The Menomonie river
valley on the outskirts of Milwaukee
is said to he under several feet of
water. The sheriff said several
houses had been washed away.
Woman sre now wnrktng In the fields
I to help relfere the labor shortnre In the
preat farming district In southern IiU-
aois, eastern Missouri and Arkansas.
Knowing; you need trentment. know
results. Action must urive nmoition
If von ore neeiliiie t rent ment for
When you come to my office It Is up
I nave tue aonoiuie cure ana ine
If rou will write to me today I will
lay flrnt evidence of what I hare done
i have the uermlsslon of my patients
refer them to yon. Yon can conrttict
Come to mv office iuty day dnrlng;
dny, these days being: fully occupied.
1 will examine you if you desire,
and its development.
It cnrnhlo 1 will tell TOO how lOOB
will discuss the expanse, nnd if yoa
then and there. And jou are on the
Ing what ought to be clone won't bring
rectal troubles tt Is up to too to twt.
to me to offer you proof enough that
treatment for you to tnke.
sent you my r hkk hook which U
nud tells what I can do for you.
who nave iifcn Muccesnrniiy treated to
your own Investigation. Write to them,
the week except Wedm-sday and Tbura-
FRKR. We will talk orer your ease
it will require to T!tE YOIT. We
oesire ireaimeni, ine rirat win be given
road to health again
Act TodayIt Is Action That Counts
DR. C. S. WOLFE, Specialist
OV iaiisaD rBtWci wfKnca.f Jsvs.cxsi9 y
fcnSaAiaj
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The farmer supports the
world. Since this is true,
loans secured by farm
mortgages are the safest
and most stable form of
investments.
THE FARM MOHTOAfiE CO.
TOPEKA. K .VISAS
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