The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-17
Society,"

Mrs. Albert NJ. Patten and Mrs. Frank
Scott Davis will entertain at cards Sat
urday night at the home Of the latter
on Tyler street for their brother. Mr..
and Mrs. Whitelock who leave Monday
for Mexico after an extended visit In
Topeka.
Mrs. Charles L. Mitchell will give an
afternoon bridge Saturday for Miss
garet Pettibone of Kansas City. Miss
Nellie Milslpaugh entertained her
bridge club yesterday afternoon for
Miss Pettibone.
The Guild of Grace Cathedral win
give supper in Guild han next We'd
nesday evening in honor of the Cathed-
raj club, an organization of the men
parishioners of Grace cathedral.
The Helianthus January dance Will
be given tonight at Steinberg's.
ct notice." Topeka woman said
yesterday, ''that the club women have
started a campaign against the joints.
dives dance halls, clubs and other
disreputable resorts in Topeka of
which we have been hearing SO much
lately. We always, by the way, hear
a good deal about the rotten local
conditions the last few months before
the off year. although 1 am inform
ed by those acquainted with the facts
that the state of affairs now is not
so different from what it was year
ago, or for that matter the year be-
fore that, when a prominent man
who has always stood for prohibition,
law enforcement and civic decency
was taken on memorable and wide
" advertised round OF the slums and
had his eyes opened as to the way
hi no n
town with e dry mayor.
However, that is neither here nor
there, just now and any exposure of
local conditions half as bad as they
are painted by the club women and
others is good thing and should be
encouraged. Far be it from me, to
knock on the club women's social
purity movement I am not one of
her element when she takes an inter
est in such things. She is decidedly
within her rights and if she ap-
proaches the work in the proper spirit
and adopts practical methods, she can
surely accomplish much good But I
cause 1 fear it is not a practical one.
Their object is all right but I don't
believe they are going about it in
way that will accomplish anything,
except. possibly some campaign ma
terial for the prohibition ticket next
spring. 1 don't really believe the
men know where they arc at exactly
in this movement OF theirs. I don't
think they understand local condi-
lions as thoroughly as they pretend.
For instance the protest of the club
which started this movement and
which has been endorsed by most of
the other clubs and women's organi-
cations of the city, raises its voice
against the city accepting fines from
joints, dives, dance halls, clubs and
other such resorts. But if the women
were better informed about the real
situation they would know, as almost
everybody interested does know, that
the fine system doesn't prevail in To-
peka but that we have a state of af-
fairs here infinitely more hagrantly
corrupt than that. If we had had
system of monthly fines for joints and
clubs in Topeka custer suits might
have been instituted by the attorney
general against our mayor at the
same time that they were instituted
against the mayors of Wichita. Leav-
enworth. Pittsburg and Junction City
for non-enforcement of the prohibit
tory law. But here the city doesn't
collect fines or other revenues from
such places and Topeka is, theoretf-
cally. a prohibition town, Absolute
~ Pure as Royal Baking Powder.
When the club women's protest