The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-19
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when she addressed them on the sub
ject of the Passion Play
The Vespuccian club will meet Tues
DAY, November %, with Mrs L. x
Eakn, 1107 Monroe street The date
for the meeting given in the year book
is November "a, but the change of the
uay is made on account of Thursday
nelng Thanksgiving. The program for
the meeting is as follows:
Music and roll call.
Forty-five minutes with Roosevelt
IN Afrlca-MrS. R B. Kelly
selections from the American-Mrs.
Reading, Selected-MrS n To-
mond.
Social half, hour.
Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead who &C. ,,.o,,
known for the interest she has taken in
| the cause of international neaca 81
arbitration, has an article in "CSInI1
| Notes" for November on "A New
Waste" in which she shows that The
cost OF ornaments is the CHIEF cansa
VI the increased cost of living Our
own government spends over 20 per
cent or its revenue in paying for mast
war and IN preparation for future var
ana now comes measure before CON
sress TO fort1fy the Panama canal at
an immense expenditure to the
| States, when the canal might he r,ede
| perfectly safe for a hundred wears 70
come by an agreement between this
country and other countries, on the or
| ger OF the treaty between the United
| States and Canada. The unnecessary
| expenditure of fifty million dollars for
| tort1flcat1onS at a place where all mast
| experience and sane judgment would
| go to show they were needless, makes
| the talk of peace and disarmament
look like joke.
The following recommendations were
made and approved at the Tenth bien-
NAL: That the bureau of information
| be continued; that state declarations
| send list of questions from all depart
ments at one time during the year;
that the president send to state feder-
| ations plans of work to be discussed:
| that the forestry and waterways de-
partment be called the conservation
department; that the combined health
and food sanitation commission be call
ed the department of public health;
that the industrial and child labor COM
| mission be called industrial and social
| conditions department.: that standing
committees be changed to department
of work; that the general federation
| be placed on permanent and efficient
| basis by establishing an endowment
fund; and that a committee to COM
pile the history of the general fedora
ton for 20 years, be appointed.
Mrs. Dawson, who is secretary of the
general federation, has compiled a re-
port of the tenth biennial, which con-
tains an account of all the business
transactions, a record of all meetings
and addresses, and general and detail
ed information of all proceedings. The
biennial closed the latter part of May,
and by the middle of July Mrs. Dawson
had completed her report, got it into
| circulation and gone for her summer s
rest. Pretty good speed record
| At the biennial held in Cincinnati in
| May, it was decided that the president
| of each state federation should ask
| that the various clubs of her state
| should decide what they would like to-
have adopted as the national flower.
At the next biennial. the suggestions
| will be received and voted on, and a
| recommendation made to congress for
the adoption of the flower chosen by
| the clubs.
The Literary and Sewing society of
Lincoln circle No. 1 Ladies of the G.
A. R., will have an all-day meeting
Tuesday, the 22d. to finish quilts and
aprons which are to be sold on the ev-
ening of December 10, at Lincoln Post
hall on East Sixth street.
i. The Ramblers' club will meet Monday
afternoon with Mrs. ]. E Odelius, BIG
West Seventh street.