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The San Francisco call., 1910-02-07
ClubwOneR and Their WOrk
gv MARY AsHE MILLER

nOLITICS are beginning to interest,"
II clubwomen already, though the an
nuaI convention of the state fed
GRAFTON is yet two months distant.
1t is generally conceded that the
southern clubs are to have the presl-
dency this year and 1t remains ior
them to agree upon their candidate
There is not always perfect harmony
among the southern clubwomen and it
is possible that there may be merry
little war there during the coming
weeks as to who will be their choice.
Mrs. Waters, president of the southern
district. seems the only possible can
1idate thus far, as Mrs. Bryant
friends have abandoned her cause but
there is dark horse who will declare
herself later. it is whispered.
Charming auxiliary Will hold an i'm
portant meeting this afternoon, at
which the special feature will be
reading of Robert Browning's saul
by Mrs B. r. Norris Wilfred Glenn
will sing d barytone solo. The Palms,
and Miss Helen Colburn Heath VIII
sing also. Preceding the program VIII
be the annual business meeting, when
the election and installation of Of
fieers for the year 191o-1 Will
take place A reception VIII be
held for greetings TO members, at
which the hostesses will be- Mrs.
@. ID. Baldwin. Mrs. George cas-
well. Mrs. Edward Carlson, Mrs. a. ~.
Lucas. Mrs. G. P.f Osgood Mrs a. II.
Turner and Mrs S. A. Wood.
The nominating committee presents
the following ticket: President, Mrs.
Sophia Peart tincumbentl: first vice
president. Mrs. Horatio Ward Stebbins;
second vice president, Mrs. Bradford
Leavitt; recording secretary, Mrs. +.
w. Hollingsworth; corresponding sec
retary. Mrs William O. Raiguel; bust
ness secretary Mrs. S. ". Cowles;
treasurer, Mrs. Edwin William Stadt-
muller.
The history class Of the auxiliary. Of
which Mrs. George L. Ouiton is leader,
will be discontinued until September 8.
Tire Daughters of California Pioneers
will hold their regular meeting this
afternoon at Pioneer hall and the topic
for discussion will be "Amusenents and
Social Activities of the Early DAYS of
California
Miss Anais Moliere will give talk
on the proposed play. The Artists
Dream The year books of the asso-
citation are now ready.
The California club will meet to-
morrow afternoon and the program will
be in charge of Mrs. A. w. Scott.
"Womenss Work In the Twentieth Cen
tury Will he discussed by Thadd S.
Fritz, and Miss Cordciia Grylls Of Lon
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PERSONS IN THE NEWS

c. H. CRoSSETT. = businessman. Of seattle Is
al tiS Palace With slrs. Crossett They viii
make tour of the orient
FRANCIS R. sHINN. vice president of the
Citizeps' trust ami savings bank OF Columbus
o., is at the Stewart.
Hotel Sacramento. is at the Manx, registered
from the Capital City.
" M WARNER, banker and real estste
dealer OF Ocean Park, is at the Arronaut
with Mrs. Warner.
o. NJ. TuLLEY. 1umberman Of Coos bay Is
staying at the Argonaut with Mrs. Tulley.
D. z. GARRISON JR. Of ST. Louis. manu-
faeturer Of building steel, is at the Palace
JAMES SAUNDERS. merchant Of Chicago. is
at the Fairmont with Mrs. saunders.
NORRIS BROOKE. real estate man Of Sacra-
mento. is staying at the stewart.
=
GEORGE oseooD. merchant of Sacramento.
is registered at the Fairmcut.
c. S. HUBBARD, druggist OF 70. Angeles. is
at the Maux Tor few days
SoSE MELVILLE. acGsss, = At he AAax-
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don will sing some old English songs.
Miss Genevieve Marsh accompanying.
The Sunday assembly of the Califor-
MIA club held an interesting meeting
yesterday afternoon at the clubhouse,
Mrs. Sarah Pratt Carr speaking on
The Romance of the Northwest and
Miss Mabel Penny of Los Gatos sang
group of Indian songs
The Shakespeare reading class of the
assembly is working on selected play
Romeo and Juliet having been read
and discussed, and the class is now
reading AS You Like IT. The class
meets every fortnight and will meet
this evening at Miss Bentleys apart
ment al the Jewel in Joice street be-
tween Pine aud California.
Under the auspices of the department.
of education Mrs Eleanor Bingham Will
lecture next Saturday morning at 1890
O'Clock on Rossetti and his work.
Thet New England Colony of Women
will meet in the California club house
next Friday afternoon at o'clock
Thomas E. Hayden viii speak, and
there will be musical program.
Corona club will meet Thursday aft
ernoon, with Mrs. John H. Bullock as
chairman. 1t will be Norway day. and
Mrs. Ingeborg Larsen will open the
- air Will q Sloup oI norwegian
songs. Mrs Eleanor Bingham viii lee
ture on Norway. Its Arts, Customs and
People Mrs, Thomas c. Inman and
Miss Florence Naehtrieb will play
piano duet.
The Council of Jewish Women will
meet Thursday afternoon at tho Califor-
MIA club house and the address of the
afternoon viii be "Sone Thoughts on
Judaism by Dr. Martin A. Meyer Miss
Pauline WE'LL will sing and Mrs. S H.
Beckett will act as accompanies.
The Equal Suffrage league will meet
Wednesday afternoon, at O'Clock. in
the Pacific building, when e. p. E. Troy
will talk on Public Ownership of Pub
lie Utilities.
The San Francisco musical club met
Thursday morning last, when the fol-
lowing program was given:
Overture. "Fingals Cave arranged for two
pianos Aiendelssohnl, Mrs Horatio Stoll. Miss
Florence Nachtrieb Mrs. Richard Fenner Mrs
Thomas Inman: .Kreislerana op lG. eight
fantasies, dedicated to Frederic Chopin tSclu-
mannl. Miss Clara Ranhut: 'sSchone Wiege
Meiner Leiden Schneeglockehen," Rose Nicer
una some tSchumannl, Mrs. MathiIde Wismer
bile allegro. andante sostenuto allegro GUERRERO
sBrucl9, Miss Valesea Sehorcht, sfrs. Thomas
innlan accompanies Motett-4trio aud chor1Is
tMendessohnl. Mrs. Cecil Mark Mrs Byron
Mcdonald, Mrs. Frank Cox; Ave Maria- solo
and chorus from 'Loreeii tNTcndelssohnl Miss
Irene MeHssdorfer solaist; .Sprfng Song
chorus from trigrimage of tho RoSe,, fSsbug
mannl, Miss Alollic Pratt sccompanisf-
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PARCELS POST TO
LOWER PRICES.
Political Economist Urges
Producer Could Ship Dl-
rect to Consumer


HAT the present high cost OF hy-
ing could he mitigsted by an EN-
eient parcels post system is the be
lief of John Brisben Walker, the
writer and political economist. in an
exhaustive article on the subject, in
which he says;
Instead OF the butter and cheese
producer being able to ship directly TO
the user. as in Germany, in refusing q
parcels post we have put the whole
army of American consumers into the
power of all sorts OF combinations who
pay the lowest price 70 the producer
and seem to be able to charge any sum
TO those compelled 10 buy.
so hagrant has this system become
that in the early months of 1909 the
high prices OF food are ascribed as
forcing 5000 children out of the public
schools of Brooklyn to help support
their households by child labor.
Fruit in the orchards of New York
state has been permitted to rot on the
ground because the express charges and
the middleman's charges would not
leave the cost Of packing for the hOr-
ticulturist-
Taking the haul from the Atlantic
to the Pacific at 5000 miles a shipment
of fruit at fifth of cent a ton per
mile would cost but three-tenths of %
cent per pound. Would not 1 cent
per pound postal charges be profitable
even on this long haul2 Nor would
large shipments change the matter.
except to make the profit to the rail-
ways greater.
More than Z years ago I called
upon Wanamaker. che then postmaster
general in Washington. regarding
postal parcels system. There are four
insuperabIe obstacles, he said, when
asked why we could not have what
England and Germany had. 1 looked
surprised, and he explained: The first
is the Adams express company, the sec
ond is the American express company.
the third is the Wells-Farso express
company and the fourth is the United
States express company.
The problem is very simple one.
but it has been so distorted by the
complete organiza lion employed by the
express companies that almost the en-
tire public has been misled. The ex-
press agents operating through the
trust railway and special interest rep
resentatives in their several communi-
ties have secured action by chambers
of commerce and boards of trade
throughout the country. Newspapers
have been made the victims of reit-
Grated miscellaneous circulated by an
ingenious press bureau. Finally the
companies have overshot their mark
by having the postmaster general pre-
sent figures so false as to be ridicu-
Ious.
scientific organization is being ap-
piled to every department. of human
industry Every country in Europe
has demonstrated for our benefit what
can be done in tine carrying of parcels
at less than cent pound Remove
the cause of blindness and corruption.
Buy out the express companies. and a
hundred able men now in its service
will stand ready TO show the govern
ment how to deliver parcels at less
than a cent pound.
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Answers to Queries

Is the following correct and who wrote it:
Eat. drink and be merry. for tomor-
row we shall die
This is from the New Testament. but
it is not correctly quoted In ST. Luke.
MILO, there is: Take thine ease. eat,
drink and be merry. In 1 Corinthi-
ans. 15;xxxii. there IS: Let us eat and
drink, Tor tomorrow we die"
FIAG-R. $. city. Was there ever an
American dag ON Que OF tue curtains at the
house when NIoroseo had it,, and did the orches-
ira salute the flag each night?
1t was at the Grand opera house and
it was saluted with the star Spangled
Banner" each night
THE vOTE-Subscriber. santa Monica. How
can / obtain the official vote for certain candi-
dates at a recent election in different counties
BY directing a letter of inquiry 10 the
county clerk of each county in which
the candidates you wish to know were
running.
THE BAY-M- f. L.. City. Is it positively
the first to discover the bay Of San Franciscos
That statement appears in a book
that was published under the auspices
of the Portola festival committee.
YARD SQUARE-k. Mel. City. Is there any
difference between yard square and a square
yard?
No.
PHYSICItN-SUbscriber. City. Is physician
required by law 10 answer call for his profes-
sional services at any time?
No.
COMET. J.. adelaide Is the comet that
was visible January IS Haley comet?
No.
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MRS. HAYLER REED, wife Of the general man
sser OF the hotels ON the Canadian Pacific
line. is at the Palace. She comes from Mon
treal, and will spend the winter in southern
California.
D. II. BURNHAM. toe architect. who outlined a
plan for heautifying the city after the Ere.
is at the 81. Francis from Chicago He is st
work on the new plans for the Pacific Union
club.
H. D. MCKENZIE, wine merchant, is at the
st. Francis. Mckenzie has made his head
quarters in New York up to this time. but wiz
remain on the coast for some months
MRS. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON came I'D
from Santa Barbara yesterday and registered
at the Stewart.
ALBERT RUBENsTEIN Of Hanford who has
recently made rich strikes in oil in the south
ern part of the state. is ut the st. Francis
ANGEL GARCIA, tobacco manufacturer from
Tampa. Fla, is at the Palace. The main
Office of the company is in Chicago.
souTHw1cK C. BRIGGS and Prof Emerson
Matthews Of Washington. D. G.. make up a
party staying at the Palace
AUGUST KuTINAUER Of ehicago is Al TIC s..
francis.
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President Taft's Jonah
Is Delaying the Game

President Taft delaying the game ulneces-
sary and the time pungng himself In gratutous
and superfuous of troubles If only he wond drop the
nconvenent and wholly unnecessary Ballnger he would Ind
himself Banger is the Jonah OF the
o the whale
Mr.. Taft found difficulty at all about dsnssng the
unfortunate Mr. Crane Chicago for special reason that any
body has been able understand unless might be that crane
persona graa with Secretary Knox But the case OF
Banger supposed different and to know why
Here find congress spending most OF its time and all its
energies Job whitewasng Balnger when everybody
knows outside of Washington will attach the
Importance findings of the joint congressional
all the the rude, rough Will wash
Eanger complications with the Cunningham coal land
The transparent effort expound these claims
perfectly legitimate business transaction merely provoke smile
Therefore Mr. Taft only pilng up store OF trouble or
himself by keeping Balnger i'll Office It be- and IS point
honor among politicians resign while under fire. but
that rule carried logic be rather hard Mr. att
who suffers because he is good who persuaded
that he smile away his troubles
In the meantime while congress is busy marking time for
Banger and finding for him soft drop the president
program needed legislation suffers Congress primarily
legislative rather political body and the
bulations OF he the job weigh far Washington
than program OF proposed legislation In the congressional
eclpses general welfare of the commonwealth
The easy for Mr. Taft would be to take Banger by the
scutf of the neck and dump him overheard
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MARINE
A MERiCAN RAiLWAYMEN
~ MEXICO TO RESIGN
More Than Necessary Two
Thirds Favor Wafkout

MEXICO ciTY. Feb. e.-on tho eve
OF the counting Of ballots cast by
American conductors and engineers of
tho National railways on the question
of rcsigning, it is considered certain
tonight that more than the necessary
two-tbirds majority IN the affirmative
Viii be the result.
The date is closely guarded secret
An official OF the union tonight said
that il the vote favored resignation.
the only chance for the men TO remain
would be the granting OF their re-
quests by the railroad.
lie said that practically every union
conductor and engineer on the National
railroad would leave Mexico unless the
railroads reconsk5ered their demands.
Tho Inioh men claim TO have many
McNicans among their numbers and
Say that 4 majority of the union ma
lives have voted 80 resign. Officials of
Also railroad SAY iilst liaeE are prepared
30 ll' fac vacated positions
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PLEA FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE

Editor Call: Mrs. Leslie Carter's ar
ticle written for The Call is interesting.
and a contrast with the usual articles
of antis. l should like to ask Mrs.
Carter whether she could regard with
the same equanimity the voteless con-
ditlon OF women if her baby died of
dirty milk or her child was shut out
of school because there We're not
enough seats for all, or her boy or girl
breathed in bad diseases or bad NOR
ais in front of her own doorstep q?
Some women may get what they want.
But certainly many women do not
Even the ballot will not bring the
millennium. But it is the tool that is
absolutely necessary in country
falsely called democracy
JENNIE ARNOTT.
Palo Alto. Feb. L.
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Stick TO the Earm

Stick TO the Farm
stick TO the farm, says the president
To the wide eyed farmer boy
Then he hies him back to his White House home,
With its air of rustic joy.
Stick to the farm" says the railroad king
To the Rad who looks afar.
Then hikes him back the double quick
To his rustic private car.
stick to the farm says the clergyman
To the youth on the worm fence perch
Then lays his ear 10 the ground to hear
call to city church.
Stick to the farm, says the doctov wise
To those who would break the rut.
Then HES him where the appendix grows
In bountiful crops to cut.
New York sun
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Beef
Trust Wanted
a Tariff War


Trust Wanted increase the profits OF the beef trust
!. Tariff Mar There has been any other
for tariff with Germany but the desire
club with which compel that
country sanitary regulations governing the importation
of products The history Of this endeavor the part Of
the goes back twenty years In 1890 the trust
congress which authorized the president
exclude by proclamation imports from foreign in
which unjust determinations made against American
products That club be used Germany
for the advantage of the beef The Payne tariff contains
the with these differences that the word undue
used Of unjust qualify discrimination, and that
instead OF exclusion the president authorized to impose the
maximum tariff by OF penalty No president likely
machinery whose purpose obvious but its creation
by legislative authority to indicate how powerful IS the
secret influence of the beef trust i'll Washington
Germany second best foreign customer for American
products The imposition of maximum their products
would corresponding retaliation against exports to
that country with great resulting injury commerce and
industry the hope of persuang Germany relax regulations
But the effort of the involve
this tariff for its special benefit al
Even Senator Lodge who regards
Of fable has been recently heard to
declare that the price xers must be punished 1t not the tariff
insists, that prices but the wicked He
expressed moderate desire get at the beef trust
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Everywhere

The bee is like a man. All up
And down the world he beats it:
He gathers honey all his life
Some other fellow eats il.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-07
Brains and
Brawn at State
University


quality and quantity OF the brain products 1t might have been
wished that Colonel Edwards had given something than
dry statistics this interesting subject The cody scientific
of plating the of Drawn and brain and remarng
their condolences lacks the personal interest the sporting
where the admng citizen the heroes and demgods
OF the campus exhibited with slender modcum OF clothes The
rank outsider has been led the past by obscure ntaons
eyed the esoterc columns OF this interesting
that certain OF the demgods having trouble with
their units and that OF gloom enrouded
anxious campus.
1t all mistake OF misguided sporting editor, Colonel
Edwards demonstrate by and The local
historian of this phase OF intellectual endeavor learns that
anxiety entertained concerning the weakness of the pitching
department OF the varsity nine but does explain whether this
unfortunate condition accompanied by corresponding lack of
brain power Possibly the situation attributable only the
poray eccentcis OF which sometimes afct
only the baseball artist but likewise the conscientious
pestered by his dsobedent figures,
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An Appeal
to Sectional
Prejudice

the federal Outside
little has been
Ii the federal government has ANYTHING the
OF harbor the
insignificant notice We believe the
blew rock ship channel but that
good deal of has been spent deepening Oakland
harbo and glad to hear that there coming
this because the commercial needs
such action Moreover thirty foot Oakland
estuary will cost less than the work required
San Pedro accessible to ships of deep draft
Francisco nterposes objection develop
ment OF harbor facilities San Pedro but to have
urged the ground that congress has Disseminated in favor
OF this port III making appropriations Altogether appeal to
sectional prejudice unworthy and likely its pur-
than assist in its fulhlmen Appropriations are
only obtained by loyal cooperation Of
whole Pacific Francisco
but does not relish the plea that this has favored
when in fact we have never asked for anything.
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THAT strange rule instituted by TAFT that subord-
nate officials in the federal departments give
ton concerning their work
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THE Los Angeles Times urging congressional appropriations
for creating harbo Pedro, makes extraordinary
sectional considerations which have
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NE learns with certain qualification that at the Cnvers
California if nowhere else it is the athletic students
learn their lessons best Colonel George c. Edwards OF
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II not beng founded on TACT We quote:
But. while duly sensitive of the kindness Of
national legislatures, it will not appear self
conceited on our own part and will quite justify
the action OF congress if cali attention to
the merits of the case The Pacific coast has
bad too numerous nor too great favnrs al
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were 25 per cent added to the cost Of products
imported from Germany for the single pur-
pose to increase the profits OF the beef trust.
There never has been any other reason
for tariff war with Germany but the desire
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Berkeley Institution S faculty has the hgureS tc
prove it.
1t is the unexpected that happens, even il
the cloistered groves of Academe. The cultva
ton of beef and braWn Incidental to the most
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I T Washington that there will be tariff
war with Germany and this is good In period when
of the of life high would be
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The Gag
| Rule Il
| Washington

examining the operation of Secretary Meyers reoreanz
the Va with
expediency of that pan congress lndolbted
right the fullest information the only through
authentic
what doing the departments and the public
that information Officials cabinet officers. servants of
the public and The country has know
exactly what being We mpugn the motives or
policies OF the administration, but censorship are dis
ncty contrary the public interest II OF secrecy IS
permitted obtain it will be long before will
and shelter behind that
recognized valid Banger could coaching his
subordnaes OF the interior department what
might give while he under Investigations No nan dare raise
his voice except penalty OF losing his lob
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OF their chiefs has already caused clash
between the president and congress. and in
this conflict ii. must be conceded that con
gress is right.
The naval committee OF the house i