Arizona republican., 1909-07-26

 western Canada. great land move ment is on again. I have driven some 700 miles in Saskatchewan and never saw the crops look better"
 Child labor laws and civic i'm proVement will take second place to the efforts against white slave traf- fife in the reform work of the federa- tion women's clubs next winter, and suffrage and white slavery will be united for the main issues. Impetus will be given to this by the Chicago visit of fifty of the foreign delegates to the International Council of Wom- en, whose session recently was held in Toronto. For a day these delegates, who are just returning with the del- egates to the National Council of Women from Seattle, where the suf- fragists held the spotlight, will be the guests of the city of Chicago, the Association of Commerce, the Wom ans World committee for legislation against the white slave traffic, and the Federated Women's clubs, with Miss Jane Addams, the chairman of the honorary committee of entertin-
 
 the splitting of factions on the suffrage question have made such gaps in the ranks of the hostesses that from necessity the hatchet is sunk temporarily between factions and all the women are joining hands against the barter and sale of Am erican girls for prostitution. When the International Council of Women was first founded in 1888. by Miss Susan B. Anthony, it stood for the extreme of the suffrage cause. Of late years it has been accused of growing rather conservative. Frau lein Bertha POppenheim, a Jewish woman from Germany, whose de- fense of foreign girls in America who have been forced into immoral lives through white slave methods, was one of the fire brands of the Toronto session, and Broken Eliza beth Cad of Denmark, who later re- cited Denmark's woes in this regard. will speak. Also Mrs. Charles Hen retin, Miss Mary Mcdowell, Mrs. Catharine Waugh McCulloch, Miss Grace Nicoles, Dr. Anna F.. Blount, Mrs. Raymond Robins. Miss Rachel
 
 labored and mourncd over industrial conditions and the scant chance to live a decent life that beset the ig- nOrant girl in a large city. The dele gates are intellectual and titled celeb rities from England. Germany. Swed- en, Belgium, Holland and Canada.
 The bank merging epidemic of Chicago. beginning with that of the Continental National and American Trust & Savings involving S1l5.0O0.- 000 then the certain one of the Com mercial and the Bankers National with $1S.O00,OO0 of resources, an cpl demic which has spread. according to report, to the Hibernian and Central Trust Co, with $45, 5,OO0,0OO of re- sources, has sent the prices of those bank stocks up flying. When the Central Trust cd.. absorbed the Royal Trust some months ago it's stock ad- vanced from $40 a share to $165, and now if temporarily is not quoted. The Bankers National shares have advanced from $1ss to s227.. the Com mercial National from $290 to S33O, the Continental National from $23s to  S212 to $27S The First National. which has indignantly denied that it was negotiating or wished to nego- tiate or had any notion iof nego- tiating for any other bank, is occa- sionally cutting melons of its own, for the stock is paying now 16 per cent with occasionally additions to sur plus beside. The prospect is for an array of bigger and fewer banks that will be able to cope with the biggest of financing the West may require. George F. Roberts. the erst- while state printer of Iowa, later dir ector of the mint and now president of the Commercial National, will be the president of the greater bank, and George NJ. Reynolds. another Iowa man. will be the head of the Conti- nental- Trust.