The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-02

tenth annual meeting of the Kansas
| state Federation with messages from
| district presidents. Friday morning al
8 o'clock there Will be a meeting of the
| beard of management. At this rect
| ing plans viii be made for the work
| coming year.
| I'VE hope for a large attendance at
| this meeting. There will be no cleo
| ton to interfere with the program, and
| the addresses promise to be 1ine. Mrs.
| c. C. Goddard.
The Abilene club women request that
those who expect to attend the meet
! ing of the State Federation April &c,
| q and 2S. to send card to Mrs. J.
| A. F'lack. of Abilene. If the women
| Of Abilene know in a ivance how nany
| will attend it will be easier for them
| to provide entert ainment for the WISH
tors.
The following Is a funeral sermon
| from the Wamego, Kan, Weekly Times:
| A town that never has anything TO do
| in a public wa is on the road to the
cemetery. Any citizen WIN will do
nothing for his town is helping to dig
| the grave. A man that curses his town
| 70 time from his business to give to
| civic affairs is making the shroud. A
| man who will not advertise is driving
| the hearse. The man who is always
| flowers on the mound. The man who is
| so stingy as to be bowling hard times,
breaches the funeral sermon, sings the
doxology, and thus the town lies buried
| from all sorrows and care"
Mr.. B. F. Hamilton, of Saco, Me-,
was the first merchant to employ
| saleswomen, and people today learn
and townswomen boycotted his store
in consequence. He was reproVed for
placing young women in position of
such publicity, and it is a fact that
a saleSwoman comes in contact with
the public in a week more than a wo-
man voter would in a year. 1t is in
teresting to see how there have been
ANTS" all along the line. The old
new ones will look just as funny when
seen through the perspective glass OF
time.
The Pinchot-Ballinge controversy
is expected to be one of the subjects
that will cause a warm discussion at
the general federation May 10 to 18|
in Cincinnati. Mrs. Philip Carpenter
Of St Louis, chairman of the pro
gram committee for the biennial, has
issued an outline of the program. The
more important topics given place in
the program are forestry and water
ways, and it is expected that the wo-
men will come to the defense of for
mer Chief Forester Pinchot. House
hold economics, food sanitation, civics,
civil service reform, Industrial and
child labor laws and general legisla-
tive matters will also be discussed.
Mrs. Taft has demonstrated that as
practical reformer she can get re-
suits more rapidly than anyone else
in Washington. AS a result of her
mediation, 1900 employees of the
census office will soon be breathing
air that has been famed in by sys-
tenn of giant ventilators, instead of
the stagnant atmosphere that they
have been inhaling.
Has woman. since Times earliest
Fer set her heart upon a thing
She never got?
I reckon not!
And though just now men will not let !
Her have her way-well, you can bet
He'll have to give the suffragette
The suffrage yet"
When we learn that public senti-
ment demands more battIeships and
war games and that New York |
school boys are being taught rifle
shooting because educators are con-
vinced that every boy should learn
to defend his country, it is we'll to
read some of the remarkable reve1a-
lions made last year by a New York /
paper as to the relation of the vested
interests to this extraordinary in
crease in ornaments which has grown
up since the Spanish war. 1t is well
to find out who is paying for the pub
lefty bureaus which are manufactur-
ing this public sentiment and who are
The men of wealth and social position
who are backing the Navy League and
National board for the promotion of
-ifle practice. 1t seems that General
James A. Drain, who is the cause of
some of the bills put through congress
or big appropriations for material for
-if1e nractice etc. is an agent for an |
immense powder trust. So 1t seems
hat a good deal of talk about de-
lending our firesides against attack,
f made noisy enough, will mean a
rood many millions of dollars to some
oody's bank account.