The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-14

before the social service institute at
the Commercial club Here in To-
peka you can work a girl 4 hours in
damp Iaundries+and it has been
proven that the laundry business gives
a strain more severe than almost any
other industry.
while there are comparatively few
industrial conditions to face in this
state such as are confronted in the
large cities, laws should be enacted
which will protect the laboring classes
Thirty years ago the labor problem
was not the first problem in this land
Some people think that the present
of the labor unions, when as a matter
of fact unions are only an effect.
production now is everywhere for
profit but formerly it was chiefly for
use. Now We raise crops not to eat,
but for a profit; manufacture things
not to use, but for a profit
Women Forced to Work
From the first women have been
forced to work. In this country 100000
women are engaged in the MILL the
workshop and the store.
.Woman's home industries have
passed away and have been placed in
the factory She is doing the work now
that she has done since the beginning
of history.
Woman has made the garments since
patriarchal times but formerly she
did it in her own home AID had control
of her working hours and conditions
and had her own domestic me- NO"
she is doing the same work, but IN
different surroundings and without any
control over hours OF conditions II -
a fact that women are paid less money
for the same labor than are men Wo-
mans industry, her sobriety, her non
esty and her economy nave oeen taken
advantage of in industrial life
"A class which presents unusual
lob
aoater. who has no home, no family
and no outlook. 1t is this class when
reacts back upon the community IN
terms of cost rather than in terms or
production. This class supples lll
floating voters, the class in the great
cities that betrays the will of the PEG
ple in choosing officials. 1t is TINS
class that is the basis of the soclal
evils" ,.. 4ha+
the GOSPEL belongs to the days WORK.
said John NJ. Dean in speaking w zones
day night at the First Baptist churci.
toll honestly The best book Kipiing ever
wrote was called The Days Work. IN II
he entered into fellowship win lhe me- ttl
who toll The biggest problems or the
dav are in the days work the sWeeISst
word of Christ is to the toners AS
severest word of Christ is to those VINO
burden others with unnecessary labor
,rhe admonition of the early church was
Bear one another's burdens ana SO Iulli
the law of Christ
dowments will save a church from us
aster if it does not enter the MUS anu
factories and the daily life and proDieHls
is an open Air Religion.
..-Tben. too. the gospel is an open AR
religion It is at home IN the open , an
IT IS a daylight. not a gaslight' reilglou
One neril of the American people Is the
turning of night into day by unnatural
living. ~, 49,. +o,,ob of
nature. TIE gospel is supernatural put
never unnatural From the nyInh ~
Creation in the book OF Genesis 70 tls
sound Of many waters in the ReN ED MN
the word of God is filled with the har-
monv of the great open air world we
have too much hectic religion nowadays
and need once more to take the blole ou1
into the fields as did wesley. -,
-.Finally-the gospel is at nome IN tIlt
hands of laymen- community eAtet r
demands the raising up OF large toLSe
| Of f,,lsiness men professional men, WORK
| INC men ana others who shall go out into
! the community speaking u -
II n-av that the laymen of this city may
nor he content to express their religious
life by sitting in a church pew on 2 1ti
and dropping coin IN the coiltliouel"N
s,The need of the hour is the rallying Of
the laymen to the aid OF tne oNeL " " ~
een+ira American civic life of the Gospel OF
our Lord Jesus Christ, from the lips u
laymen evangehsts-
Try to Reach All.
INV never in the history of Topeka
in RELIGIOUS revival or movement mas
such an effort been made 10 reach a,
classes in the community w eLleSN g..
total of 90 meetings were held, and touay
while the number will probably not De 80
great the various classes of men IN the
city will hear the message u liiO
ment Every Man JOB
Tho first thing on the regular program
this morning was a ministers GohleIe
in Gemmell hall over whlch II .,c,s ~ ar
Barbour presided. John l. AleAeil9 i
president of the Boy scouts OF -Ali NJ iO e,
spoke at the high school at 1872 u, =
4 Rarho31r addressed the w aShDurn COL
Ieee students this noon. At l2;5o lunch
cons were held for the different groups
This afternoon the regular group con
ferences are being held, Al LOT IN m
evening a banquet will be he1q a. LIN, tne
Masonic hall in connection Win VIZ" n
addresses will be made by Dr- = a i oai
hour and Yutaka MlnakucA WIZ a. ~
members of the order.
Shon meetings were held this morning
,11elar the direction of the community eX-
tension On. tnI,,orroTy is as follows:
i2:15 D. m.-Santa Fe coach SHOP shoP
No /. David Russell, speaker. .+
1215 n m.-Santa Fe water service "S9I
side. W. A. Brown, speaker:
19.15 ~ m=Santa Fe machine SHOP, cen
ter j r. Smith. speaker. -, oct ~
12:15 D. m.-Santa Fe new mill east emu
c. A Barbour, speaker
Kansas Consultation Day.
This is the Kansas consultation day. of
the Home Mission council. and meeting
is being held at the First Christian
church Of an INSTRUMENTATION nature
which is attended by persons from var
ious parts of the state. One of the lead
! ers Joseph E. McAfee, OF New Aorh lily
| is attending the meeting.
addresses on the program for today are
| oxford of Parsons; Among Foreign
| ers.' Rev. p H. Gragg, Lawrence; In
/ small Towns" Rev. c. A Finch OF the
! Suburban