The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-15
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A group of fashionable women well
known in Washington and acknowl-
edged arbiters in the social life i'm
Philadelphia will meet soon to discuss
the turkey trot." As patronesses of
numerous 'affairs'' given by the Young
er social set, they hold themselves re-
spons1ble for the good behavior of their
fashionable proteges. Certain dances.
winch nave degenerated-rumor has it
INTO saturnalia as the hours grew small
and the music struck up a faster meas
ure, have impelled these mothers to
take counsel with one another As a
precaution, If for no other reason. these
mothers should take the action thew
contemplate. But the turkey trot''
ana kindred dances are only the express
sion of tendency which has taken hold
OF the young people of the day, in and
out of what it termed Society" IT is
the same tendency that prompts ex-
IRENE and freakish dress; that demands
newport villa, a home in the Berk-
Sh1res and a motor trip abroad all
crammed into a summer vacation. +ba+
makes girls in their teens ambitions
TO achieve fashionable marriages. with
divorce as soon thereafter as NAV
prove convenient. 1t is the spirit of I'M
rest rest dissatisfaction, love of change, dis
like of all that is monotonousIv re-
spectacle. 1t is a spirit that eoes To-
ueeper than the turkey trot" a spirit
tnat cannot be dealt with as summarize,
as the dance which the mothers have
round offensive. Let them eliminate
me the turkey trot" none the less, and
then turn to the harder task of
STRENGTHENING out their chiIdren's ner-
observation-disclosures News.
ONCE MORE THE ASSASSIN
The assassination of the Snanisb
premier brings to the front again tba
virtual impossibility of protec fling
Puphc men against attacks by muir
oerous agftators or cranks ITrlike
Schrank, however, the man who as
sauIted colonel Roosevelt, Martin, who
aSSasSlnated Senior CanaIeias seems
10 nave been an ayowed anarchist.
VINO belonged to recognized band of
these enemies of society. These
maIefactors are found in ali countries.
ana their hands are against all Drorn-
inent representatives of the social ar
der. While the Milwaukee Criminal vas
apparently an Unbalanced personI tba
Madrid murderer held all the intel
l1gence and knowledge of consequences
Whlch belong to man of his order.
Until the assault made upon McI(in-
ley, the United States supposed that
its own public men would be safe
from attack by murderous anarchists
Tor Booth, who killed Lincoln. and
Gu1teau, who slew Garfield, did not
belong to the red brotherhood. we
nave bands of them, however in most
OF our large cities, many of whom are
known to the police. Occasionally
they parade, carrying the crimson
flag of their order, but unless they vio-
late some law they are not moIested.
Many of the new sect of disturbers.
the Industrial Workers OF the World.
whose membership in the United
states goes up into the tens of thou
sands, are anarchists under a very
thin alias. They avow revolution as
their purpose. Their hands are against
the social order which they see all
around them, and make no secret of
their purpose to subvert it. Anarch-
ism is an enemy against which ali the
modern governments will some day be
compelled to unite.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.