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HEROES OF MARNE
Local News Events of the Fast Week
TWO INSANE BILLS
Feeble Minded Commission of
State Suggests Legislation.
Proposed Bills Relating to Ex
Istlng Conditions Here.
MAKE STUDY OF INMATES
Degree of Mental Disease Would
Be Under Investigation.
Flan To Change Same of Insti
tute at TVinfleld.
TELL OF TRAINING
Army School of Surses Ex-
plains Coarse to Topeka ns.
Work Leads to a Diploma la
Nursing to Women.
TRAINING LASTS FDR 3 YEARS
9 Months' Credit for Graduates
of Accredited Colleges.
After Battle Han Off Duty
Complained of Silence.
As Depicted By Bolmar
8TTNDAT.
MOXDAT.
TUESDAY.
WJUDZTJESDAX.
jfen Tell Endless Stories of
Heroism of Their Leader. .
HOWLED OYER 'MONKEY MEAT'
Officer Created Uproar When
Canned Shredded Beef Came.
Vacation of 1 Month a Year
For Girls of SI to 33.
THE TOPEKA DATT.Y STATE JOT TRNAL SATURDAY EVENING. TTTLY 13, 1918
STICKY OF ARTHUR
His Papers Just Goo With
Praises, Says Kansas Editor.
Soaked in the Sweetness of His
Candidacy for Senate.
THEN THEREjSMR. BRISTOW
His Pen, With Charley Scott's,
Opened Teln of Trouble.
ButJPoor Roseoe He Xust Buy
His Adrertising.
"Walter Roseoe Stubbs has com
plained bitterly that his great handi
cap in the United States senatorial
race has been the lack of publicity.
He recited rather feelingly that his
newspaper opponents Capper. Scott
and Bristow controlled the avenues
of information. But V. G. Sutton,
publisher of the Moline Advance, be
lieves Stubbs should get down on his
marrow bones and thank a kindly
Providence that he owns no news
papers. In a lengthy editorial, Sutton points
to the tribulations which have come
to roost in the Capper, Scott and
Bris'ow camps. And all because of
the things they wrote for their pa
pers, or the things overzealous sup
porters said in an effort to win the
candidates public favor.
A Publicity Review.
The Sutton editorial is a clever re
view of publicity, sorrow and sadness.
It is in pa. t as follows:
Ex-Governor Stubbs' campaign com
mittee is buying space in the news
papers of the state in which to set
his candidacy before the people. They
deplore the fact that their candidate
has no newspaper in which to exploit
his candidacy.
They'd better quit deploring and go
to congratulating him. There are
three other candidates armed with
self-bounding newspapers and their
senatorial booms are decreasing while
the Stubbs vogue is growing healthily.
Ex-Senator Bristow's newspaper has
been his undoing. Joe is handy with
his pen and his ready newspaper has
printed the product of his pen from
day to day and has played h-ck with
his senatorial ambitions. Because once
Joe made a hit and performed a real
service for the United States by jun
covering some grafting, he conceived
the idea that for this purpose was he
brought Into the world, that he might
expose graft. Gifted with keen im
agination he saw graft everywhere
and important as the uncovering of
graft is. he failed to see that some
other issues are more important still,
and so he's all balled up. almost un
balanced in his Judgment of what is
first and foremost. When the war
arose he saw only graft. When Ger
many became evidently -he enemy of
mankind he saw only graft every
where, gmft in Wall street, graft in
congress, just graft, graft, graft. Poor
Joe. and he printed it all in his news
paper. When the thieves were break
ins into our hen houses and the. vil
lains threatened our daughters, Joe
stationed himself as the sure guard
of our feathered chickens. Ilis news
paper said little or nothing about the
danger to our daughters.
Then There's Cliarrey.
Then there's Charles F. Scott, the
Hon. Charles F. Scott, alleged centle
man and scholar, really posseSed of
gentlemanly manners, habits and in
stincts, having shreds and patches of
scholarship which he cunningly turns
out so that many think them his real
clothing. But he lacks the strength
of intelligence to penetrate deep into,
realities and so when he went to Bel
gium to see for the Kansas people
what was being done with the money
they had contributed for Belgian re
lief, some German officers of high
command took him in their charge,
flattered him and blinded him to the
realities about him so that he saw not
the German atrocities or. saw them
only as the natural acts "bf warring
people. Lacking the acumen to see
deeply, they muddled him all up ?nd
Impressed with the German glitter,
Brer Scott came home and took his
little pen in hand and many times and
oft wrote his fool impressions for his
paper. Now these little pieces he
wrote while a victim of his own weak
ness and of German propaganda are
rising up like ghosts to give his weak
ness away, and. strive as he may, can'i
lay them. Their garments are the
leaves of his own newspaper. They
stalk out of his paper tiles and ramp
tip and down the state grinning in
ghastly glee at his discomfiture. Like
Joe. Charlie would have been vastly
better off if he never had had a news
paper. The Case of Artie.
Then, there's Arthur, owner of a
string o papers, 57 varieties, all
trained to sing the praises of Arthur,
all soaked in the sweetness of Arthur,
all exuding the love of Arthur, all
glowing with the light of Arthur, all
sticky and gooey with the goodness
and greatness of Arthur.
Once he wrote letters by the barrel
and filled them with sweet promises
of great things he could and would
do for "the people." - These he sent
out to a long list of press clipping
bureau gathered names and so gained
a great clientele and gained a great
personal following, thus rising to a
high political altitude whereunto no
other Kansas man had risen.
But alack and alas! The Inordi
nate love of self-praise, the gooey self
flattery that exudes from his press has
choked his readers and his extraor
dinary personal following is dropping
off disgusted, his clientele is dwindling
because of the density of the self ex
ploitation of Arthur in Arthur's own
papers.
Now let Roseoe congratulate him
self that he has no newspaper, for
his publicity is restrained and re
stricted by the fixed price per inch
and thus will not likely rise In a
swamping tide to engulf him. His
personal vigor, his sturdy personality,
his corn and cattle and his resource
fulness are far better assets than
spouting presses and sputtering edi
torials. -
NOMINATE A PACIFIST
Kew York Socialists Will Support Rose
Pastor Stokes for Assembly.
New Tork, July IS. The New York
local of the Socialist party has nomi
nated as its candidate for the state
assembly from the Tenth district Mrs.
Rose Pastor Stokes, recently sentenced
to ten years in prison for sedition and
now out on bail, pending an appeal.
The nomination is subject to approval
by the state committee.
Troops Had Been Without Meat
and Expected Fresh Beef.
BT LOWELL. MELLETT.
With the Americans on the Marne,
June 15 (by mail). I spent today
among the American heroes of the
Marne in a quiet village where even
the big guns sire scarcely audible. The
contrast to the recent fighting was so
great that one lieutenant complained
the "deafening silence" prevented
him from sleeping.
Ragged young veterans sprawled
about, soaking up the sunshine and
trying to organl. - their own mental
picture of what they had been thru.
Their leader, not so ragged, because
he was wearing an Intact, nonfitting
private's uniform, with only a
shoulder tab to indicate his rank, was
trying to classify his recommenda
tions of his men for bravery.
There is one recommendation which
the officer cannot make, but which
every man does. That is the leader
himself. They tell endless stories of
his performances during the fourteen
days and nights of the Belleau wood
fighting. They say you will always
find him In their midst where shells
nin- the fastest or machine
guns spitting the most dangerously.
"Monkey Meat Instead of Beef.'
I got a line on the men's affection
for their leader when I witnessed bis
uproar on discovering that a contin
gent of "monkey meat" as the men
like to call canned shredded beef
had been delivered today instead of
the fresh Leef that had been ordered.
The delivery apparently was a mis
take, as the necessity of hot meat and
other hot food is recognized in the
case of men who have not been eating
any hot food, even coffee, for two
weeks.
While the officer was struggling
with the question of recommendations,
I made a little unofficial canvass
among the men, seeking to learn their
ideas as to who should be awarded. In
the course of a few hoars I obtained
many.
A Few of the Heroes.
There was "Big Swede" Peterson.
None knew hi" first name or his home
town and he was absent. Peterson's
machine gun crew was killed. . He
fired the gun all alone until the Ger
mans ran. Then he seized, the gun
and carried it forward, reset it : and
fired until the Germans ran again.
Took Machine Gun Single Handed.
Then there was the unknown fel
low who dashed straight at a machine
gun which was picking off the men all
about him. He grabbed the muzzle
and turned tha gun on Its back while
the boche crew ran.
Walter Cook, a private, of Price
burg. Pa., when Lieut. Drinkard Mil
ner of Henderson, Tex., was compelled
to assume command of a. company
the captain being killed calmly ac
cepted the Job of second In command
there being no other officers. He man
aged the 10n like a West Pointer, and
was as cool as a cucumber despite
raining shell and seething machine
gun bullets.
John Iago of Peoria, 111., was
wounded and was bound for the rear
in an ambulance when a bursting shell
struck the machine. He got out,
helped repair the damage, climbed
back in and resumed his Journey to
the hospital.
Prisoners as Stretcher Bearers.
An unnamed sergeartt, when every
body else was ducking the Job of tak
ing back the wounded, because they
wanted to continue the rush forward,
took charge of forty prisoners, organ
ized them as stretcher bearers and
made them work until the field was
cleared up. Then he marched them
to the rear.
Stories of this kind are endless.
Personally, I never before believed the
tales of men wanting to go back after
a serious siege of fighting, but today
twenty of them told me they are ready
after a day's rest.
AN AEfflAL AMBuTaNCE
C. S. Flying Rescuer Has Been Suc
cessful in Trial "Runs."
Lake Charles, La.. July IS. An
aerial ambulance assigned to Gerstner
field near here has made its first run
in actual service and has fulfilled the
expectations of officers who advocated
its adoption.
A lieutenant at target practice at
the aerial gunnery school about twen
ty miles from the flying field recent
ly, descending at terrific speed from
an high altitude and firing his ma
chine gun at a target placed on the
surface of the lake, failed to flatten
out sufficiently when he completed
his dive and crashed Into the water.
He was rescued immediately but while
not seriously injured was badly bruis
ed and shaken up, necessitating a few
days confinement to quarters.
The round trip by automobile from
Gerstner field to the gunnery school
consumes from an hour and a half to
two hours over a rough and round
about road. Instead of telephoning for
a car the aerial ambulance was or
dered. Forty-five minutes later It had
made the forty mile flight from Gerst
ner field to the lake and return and
the Injured aviator was In his quar
ters receiving medical attention.
The flying ambulance is described
as a large biplane with the usual seat
for the pilot and an adjustable or re
clining chair for the patient. To dis
tinguish it a large Red Cross Is paint
ed on the wings.
MAKE THEM LEARN HUN
Germany Forcing Its Language on
Belgium Children.
JCew Tork. July 13. fine of the
methods practiced by the German au
thorities to Germanize Belgium is to
force the German language UDon Bel
gium children. This is indicated by
an article in the Cologne Gazette, a
copy of which has been received here.
Ten German schools, the paper says,
have been established In Belgium and
in addition the children of Germans
in Belgium are being gathered in
homes for children and Instructed in
the German language
Postmaster RIgby notified of salary Classification of 191 8 draft regis
ralse for postoffice employes. tranta by the two local boards.
THURSDAY.
. Kotary club held Its annual pfenle
on Boys Industrial school grounds.
NEED MORE POWER
This Is Government Problem
for Railway Operation.
Congestion of Cars Last Winter
Indicates Demand.
ASSIGN EVERY POUND STEEL
Engine Shops Will Be ProTlded
With Materials Sow.
Railroads Jonk 125,000 Cars
Tear, Expert Declares.
Washington, July Is. In the light
of experience with transportation dif
ficulties during the winter of 1917-18,
chiefs-of the United States railroad ad
ministration consider that additional
locomotives are more necessary now
than additional freight cars.
Discussing the decision recently an
nounced to build 100,000 new cars for
American railroads during the present
year, railroad administration officials
say the number was fixed only after
every locomotive that existing facili
ties could turn out during the next
year had been ordered.
"It was not a shortage of cars that
brought about congestion in the past,"
it is said at the railroad administra
tion. "In fact, so many cars got jam
med up in terminals that they nearly
blocked transportation themselves.
The shortage was In motive power. So
in considering the matter this year.
when the war industries board fixed
the amount of steel which It would al
io to railroad use. we assigned to the
engine shops every pound that there
was a reasonable chance of getting in
to a new locometive this year. Any
engine builder who can Increase his
capacity can still get orders.
"After that, an estimate of the
amount of steel available was made,
and as many cars as can come out of
it were ordered. That happened to be
100.000. They are of a composite
steel and wood design, adopted be
cause it will get more cars out of the
steel supply. Only the event Itself
will show, but we consider that the
construction ordered will be sufficient
to meet the strains, tho all of our cal
culations are based upon an Increased
traffic burden for railroads next year.
Samuel O. Dunn, ed.tor of the Rail
way Age Cazette of Chicago, using
figures compiled by Slason Thompson,
head of '.he 7 ureau of. railway news
and statlst'cs. has made a prediction
that the new car construction will not
obvjate a sho -tags when crop and coal
movements i 'le upon railroads after
October. He declares that 125.000
freight cars are worn out and Junked
normally each year by American
roads, and that during recent years
new construction has failed to keep
pace with w: stage. There were 4.072
fewer frel; ht cars In use on American
railroads In 1917 than there were at
the beginning of 1911. he concludes,
placing the present total at approxi
mately 2.500.000. This total, he as
serts. Is 250.000 short of the number
reouired to handle the freight.
The original shortage which was
responsible mainly for tne cnaos or
last winter, will have to be Increased
rather than decreased." he said In a
statement upon the administration's
car building program, "and at that I
learned at recent conferences at
Washington that cars have not thus
far been turned out as fast as they
might hav been.
"On March 1. 191. for the first
time for two and a half years, the
American Railway association report
ed a net shortage of cars. This was
due mainly to weather conditions, and
to an acute congestion at eastern
ports. It disappeared, and did not re
turn for Jive months. On September
1. 1916, however, a new shortage was
reported again: and net shortages
varying from 14.000 to 1S9.000 cars
have been reported every month since.
This unbroken continuance of car
shortage for more than twenty months
is without precedent In the history of
American railroading. The car short
age Is again on the ascenJeney now.
and will assuredly reach its peak early
in October .when the crop movement
together with the cosl traffic will
further auement the demands upon
the railroads."
II Ill f jft.
FRIDAY.
Women gardeners compared results
of summer's toil.
25 YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From th cohmng rf
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
July 13, 1893.
City Treasurer H. K. Kowley drew $85000
from the state treasury today, the price
paid for the high school bonds, and de
posited it In the Central National battle, the
depository of the,achool board rands. Of
this, S21.000 will be paid to the trustees of
the First Baptist church as soon as the
necessary papers have been drawn up, for
the site on Eighth and Harrison streets.
Mlas Eats McArthur rare a picnic last
evening for her guests. Misses Eddy
Feat hers tone of Arkadelpbia, Ark and
Edith Stanley of San MarcUL '. M. The
folio wing- guests were chaperoned by Mrs.
B. P. McArthur; Misses annie agd Jose-
Shine Herren, Jessie Burgess, Ethel Wood,
innle Edwards, fiuasie Hitt. Princie Mc
Arthur. Mayne Read, Anna McArthur, Miss
Col well and Mo! lie Sloan; Messrs. D. A.
Brown, Walter Watson S. J. Hedging, Will
White. Ed Warren, Frank Read, Fred
S trickier, Harry Bo wen. Arthur C alia ham.
Will Bowen, W. M. Ryaerson, Miller and
Will Sheafor.
W. A. Dibble, the grocer, has returned
from, a stay on bis farm In Franklin coun-
CARRUTH IS IN FRANCE
Former Topekan Is Now First Lieu
tenant in Hospital Charge.
A former Topeka man who is now
one of the surgeons in charge of a
hospital in France, is Lieut. Howard
Carruth, who for some years, has
made his home on the Pacific coast.
He is the son of A. G. Carruth, editor
of the Carlton Sentinel, Carlton. Ore
gon, and formerly of this city.
Lieutenant Carruth is remembered
especially in college circles. He was
graduated from Washburn college,
and finished at the Washburn medi
cal school. Some time later he went
west to practice medicine in Oregon.
A special correspondent in France
for the Evening Telegram, of Salem,
Ore., writes of his visit at Nevers,
France, and tells of meeting a great
many Oregon men who were in the
service there. The following para
graph concerning Lieutenant Carruth,
is quoted:
Over at the field meet this after
noon, Lieut. Howard E. Carruth, who
was the kind old family doctor at
Yamhill before he "Jined" the army,
acted as a judge at the stretcher
bearers' contest. The lieutenant-doctor,
whose father is editor of the
paper at Carlton, is one of the sur
geons in charge of a hospital where
French soldiers are being cared for.
He is a i..ember of Captain Neer's
mesa, but he has learned to speak
French so well that he is sometimes
mistaken for a native docteur who
has joined the Yankee army.
"This is a beautiful country," was
said, just as a conversation opener.
"I'll say It is," replied the old fam
ily doctor from old YamhilL
Just then Lieut. Philip L. Jackson,
of Portland, Joined the party and we
all went over and had a cup of tea.
And so these boys from back home
are doing what they are wanted to
do to win this war. It is not Just
what they want to do, for these lads
are sure "rarin" to go." There isn't
a mother's son here from Oregon who
will ever he satisfied until he is
hewing his way thru the boche
trenches that surround the suburbs of
Berlin. But tl.ey are good soldiers,
and whatever duty is given them they
are doing it like American soldiers
and American gentlemen. They real
ize that they are a part of a great
machine, a machine that is working
smoothly and one that is not going
to stop working until the Hun squeals
for mercy.
CAMP MEETING AT GROVE
Evangelists Will Preach at Berryton
in Big Revival.
An old time camp meeting, in
charge of th Givens-Bowers evan
gelistic p. rtj, win be held at Cob
berly's gro. four miles south of
Berryton :.nc six miles west t.2 Rich
land, beg nning the first Su .day in
August.
Four communities will be repre
sented at the meeting, which will be
of three week duration. One of the
biggest fctmes will be .a chorus of
seventy-five voices in charge of A
R. Bowers, who will act as musical
director. Miss E. Norvelles Bowers has
been named r. - pianist.
Topeka Y. M. C. A. unfurled service
flag for 400 members now in army.
SATURDAY.
No Sunday lc deliveries caused in
spection of refrigerator Interiors.
TOPEKAN WITH GUNS
Picture) From France Shows Paul H.
Marks, Once With Weather Bureau.
A newspaper of Indianapolis; re
cently reproduced a picture of a gun
crew from Battery E on the firing Una
in France. in which appeared the
photograph of a former Topeka man.
Paul H. Marks. The picture was taken
by a camera in the possession of some
member of the company, and was al
lowed to come thru to America by the
French censor. It shows guns of the
battery, around which are grouped
members of the company.
Marks, who was brought up In To-'
peka, and lived with his people, the
Marks family, at 1300 Polk street, en
listed at Indianapolis, and went abroad
with the Rainbow division. He has
been on the west front for four or five
months. The Marks family moved
from Topeka to Florida, a few years,
ago, and young Marks went from Flor
ida to Indianapolis recently, where he
was employed before he entered the
army. For some time he was con
nected with the local weather bureau
office in Topeka.
A letter from Marks, written May
2, has been received by friends in To
peka. He writes: "It Is very quiet over
here Just now, in evidence of which
we have a Sunday half-holiday, and a
half day with nothing to do is rare, I
assure you. Usually we put in seven
days of the week at work, with ifoout
half the nights thrown in. I suppose
you have seen the picture ot our gun
squad and captain which appeared in
the Indianapolis Star. It is not a
good picture of me, as I had been
working extra hard before it was tak
en, but the guns show up well. If I
am not mistakn, none of the trees
shown in the picture are left standing
now. That was one hot place, now be
lieve me."
A MESSAGE TO MOTHER
Topeka Boy In France Sends Poetic
Word of Greeting.
Mrs. Nettie Shore, of 81 Topelfa
avenue, has received word from her
son, Corp. Alonzo F. Shore, who is now
in France, & member of Headquar
ters company, 130 Field artillery. His
message to her is on a postcard,
which bears on ne side a poem
"Cheer Up, Mother, which finds
great .favor with the British soldiers
"over there." Corporal Shore assures
his mother that his sentiments agree
exactly with the text of the poem:
The poem reads:
I wonder what you're thinking, mother.
Are yoa thinking', dear, of me?
Of tht lad who not so long ago
Seemed a kiddie on yonr knee.
We little thought In thoae bygone days.
When yoa'd kiss my hnhr brow.
W'rt see the 'Ike of the fighting ways.
That rule the country now.
That every blessed mother's son
That wasn't weak or balmy.
Would "down his toola and" shoulder gun
In the good old U. S. army.
Btif bnrk no. mother, and don't fret.
There's brighter days to come.
And we'll "strafe the bragging Hans well
let.
Before we're with them done.
I only wish that yon were near,
80 I could see vonr fare.
And clasn yon. dearest. In ray arms.
In warm and fond embrace.
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
Imdery Is the grey angel of success.
Dr. Gannet.
This world and all oar powers la It are
far more awful and beautiful than even we
know nntil nome accideut reminds ua. li.
LC Chesterton.
For the love of God is broader
Than the meaanres of man's mind.
An d the hea rt of the Eternal
Is most wonderfully kind.
Fiber.
Ton cannot dream yourself into a charac
ter : yon inn st hammer and forge yourself
into one. FrouUe,
All thinking men and women get the
main aatiafaction of life, aside from the
domestic joys, out of the productive work
they do. Charles W. Eliot.
Who steadfastly pnrsnes bis goal
Despite what win-is prevail.
Nor loses courage from his cool
Can never wholly fail.
Susie X. Best.
The saddest sight In all the world Is not
a grave of the uead. grievous as that might
be. but it is a grave of the living human
ity sepulchred while yet alive. Frances
. Willard.
L0
City clerk reported registrations for
August primaries Terr light.
FORECAST."
KJTrl
Topeka store proprietors and clerks
will sell you W. S. S. next week.
LOSSES TERRIFIC
Letters of German Prisoners
Tell of Wastage of Manpower.
Describe Sufferings of Troops
Opposed to Americans.
BOMBARDMENTS TERRIBLE
Lost More Than Half of Com
pany In One Attack.
Tell of Capture of German
Regiment by tne French.
BT HENRY WOOD.
With the French Armies In the
Field, June 10 (by mall). Letters
taken from German prisoners captured
in American sectors make no secret of
the terrible losses being; inflicted by
American Infantry, machine gunners
and artillery. This la especially the
case In the sectors near Chateau
Thierry.
One letter written June 12. by a sol
dier of a German Infantry regiment,
reads as follows:
"My division had been engaged only
since the situation has stabilized In
the region of Bonnes-Chateau-Thierry.
My company still numbers forty
men. But in three days my battalion
was exhausted and placed in reserve.
However, we are still required to go
wherever necessary across a terrible
barrage fire. Naturally we got less
and less numerous. Finally when we
were completely exhausted a battalion
of the regimen relieved us.
"Yesterday morning the poor devils
were still' asleep, they were CO
fatigved. They were taken prisoners
and the French occupied their first
line. We were accordingly given the
alarm and were obliged at once to
occupy the sustaining position.
The First Americana.
"Before us now there are Ameri
cans. Previously there were English,
French and Madagascar negroes. I
am astonished that I am still alive,
for it has cost us masses of men."
Another letter taken from a prisoner
of the 461st regiment of German In
fantry says:
, "The enemy's resistance has be
come stronger and our losses now are
heavy. During the night of June J-4
I was called because several section
commanders had already- been killed.
I was sent to the third company,
which had lost all Its section com
manders. "Our attack was without result,
owing to the terrible machine gun
fire. Our second attack was repulsed
on account of the heavy losses we sus
tained (more than half). We are still
in the midst of a terrible, uninter
rupted artillery fire that continues day
and night.
"As adversaries we have seen Eng.
llsh. negro colonial troops, French and
Americans."
American Artillery Terrible.
Taken f.oi the same soldier was a
letter he 1 ad written three days later
after his regiment had had more to
do with the Americans. It reads:
"The artillery is becoming more and
more violent than the preceding days.
We receive shells of every calibre,
even 280's. The mutilations are hor
rible. If mothers knew what happens
to their sons, .1 think they would
smother 'hem to death against their
bosoms to save them such sufferings.
"Toward morning we were violently
shelled and at S o'clock we were at
tacked but repulsed the enemy. Be
ginning at noon, there waa a new
bombardment that was frightful. At
S o'clc " an English and American
attack waa repulsed. We were com
pletely In advance and our position is
critical. The regiment at our right
has already fallen back."
Three days later, just before this
soldier was taken prisoner his last
letter read as follows:
"At S o'clock this morning there
was another attack. The remainder of
the day was normal. Toward evening
the fire increased and became even
more terrible during the following
morning. All the rest of the officers
are killed and buried. I am the fifth
to take command of the company.
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The legislative committee of the
commission on provision for the
feeble-mlrdec for this state, has sub
mitted to the commission two pro
posed legislative bills to be submitted
at the session of the legislature next
winter. One bill Is to ask for a com
mitment law for feeble-minded chil
dren and adults, and the other la to
ask for a change of the name of the
institute for the feeble-minded at
Winfield; that Institution to be called
a state training school. Mrs. Lee
Monroe Is chairman of the legislative
committee.
Dr. E. H. Mullan. of the United
States public health service, - and
honorary member of the commission
on provisions for the feeble-minded,
has pledged h' . support to the work of
the commission, and Secretary of War
Newton Baker promised the commis
sion, thru a letter addressed to Gov.
Arthur Cappar, the psychological rec
ords of Ka:.cas men found to be
mentally defective to such a degree as
to warrant their discharge from the
army, also those who are incapable
ot discht.rgii-1 the more responsible
duties of .1 soldier and who are re
tained In he Limy for work about the
camps.
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The sociological committee, of
which Dean Elackmar, of Kansas uni
versity, is chairman, has been recom
mended th-t a bureau of investigation
be established to study the inmates
of all institutions and their relatives
in city and rural districts, to determine
whether thosti inmates are normal,
feeble-minded, vicious or insane. This
step is expec:e l to assist the commis
sion in its work of clearing society and
penal institutions of its mentally de
fective members.
Ralph Ga". Judge of the probate
court, promised the commission at
their recert meeting that the probate
judges of the state would assist the
commission!- offering amendments to
existing legislation in case the com
mission's legislative program is not
put thru in its entirety.
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, Screen Work and Remodeling of All Kinds
Call ua We give special attention to repair and job work.
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Z31 Jefferson St.
Topeka Steam
Boiler Works
JOSEPH BROMICH,
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Economy Forced Draft Grate
and reduce your fuel bill 20 to 35 per cent.
Jobbers in Steam and Water Supplies. "
123 to 129 Jefferson St. Phone 463 Topeka, Kan.
Automobile
Cylinders Rebored
PISTONS and RINGS
FITTED
Machinists Electric Co.
108 W. Elgnra St.
The Army School of Nursing, es
tablished by the surgeon general of
the United States, has issued to local
workers Interested In recruiting,
nurses, an announcement of the ar-
rangements which may be made for
entering training. The school offers
to women desiring to care for sick and
wounded sol iers, a course leading to
a diploma In nursing should the mili
tary hospitals continue in operation
for the full period of the course.
Should the cessation of hostilities oc
cur before the completion of this
period, credit for all branches ot cure,
ing completed will be given In a certi
ficate which will entitle the holder to
recognition by any civil hospital train,
ing school which may accept her as a
student.
The school is located In the surgeon
general's office at Washington. D. G
The training will be given in the vari
ous military hospitals and thrnout
such affiliations as may be required
to complete the course. Each hos
pital designated as a training school
will have its lectures, director. In
structors, supervisors and teaching
equipment.
Course of Three Years,
The course extends over a period of
three years. Credit of nine months,
or an academic year, will be given to
graduates of accredited colleges.
Credit for three or more months will
be given to students who have had
two or more years of college where
the science : were Included in the work
taken. Vacation of a month for each
year in the course will be granted.
Candidates for entrance must be be
tween il and 35 years of age. in good
health and hvina high school edu
cation or is equivalent.
Application for entrance Is made
thru the division directors of the
bureau of nursing of the American
Red Cross.
No tuition fee is required. The in
struction, 'board, lodging and laundry
and required text books are given to
the stulent during the course. The
students ro- lde their own uniforms,
and they receive a monthly stipend of
S15 after ' e probationary period.
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