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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-23
BONDS FOR THE CANAL.
An Argument From Russia In Favor
Of the Ditch,

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir. In
THE Sun of October 10 I read an ar
ticlc headed "Folly's Cost" In the same
edition ] also read under the heading
~"Archangel as a Port" the remarks Of
Henry q. Baker that moreover. through
the magnificent system OF inland water
II Is possible to ship freight from
Archangel tidewater to nearly all the
principal towns in Russia
Leaving out the admitted different
geographical positions OF the two cities
we cannot yet brag Of any magnificent
waterway. vi when the voters OF this
State vote. as | feel sure they will, TO
grant the $4,000 600 for the canal. we
also will have just such a magnificent
waterway.
DO not forget that the original sun
for construction has been strictly adj
hered to and that Of the $27. 900. 900
asked for only 50, 900, 900 Ii for Anal
construction work. Who knows but that
a number OF years hence. owing to
changes that 10 one can %foresee, the
people Of this state will be as fortunate
in having their waterway as the Rus
slams are in having II at this critical
juncturc Ia their transportation prob
lens?
There is no question that the canal
Is ~ wonderful a Feat or engineering
as the Panama Canal.
The millions expended over the orig
inal es innate for the completion Of the
Panama Canal were provided without a
murmur and there should he just as
hearty a pom for our New York
state canal.
Imagine Germany and Russia with
two thousand ton on their
canals and us with? We must
buck up and take "A keen interest In
our own affairs. once in a while.
JAMES Meg. BROWN.
NEW YORK. October 81.
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terms the housekeeping side" OF local
government.
Kansas women he continued. "see
to II that streets are kept clean. that
the water supply Is good and sufficient
in quantity that school are main
talned with regard to the health of
their children. They are constantly
looking after public markets. and the
tradesmen In food are mighty careful
to keep their goods screened from flies.
for example. II they don't. the women
hold n meeting and send in n complaint
to the health officer, and what Is more,
they follow up that complaint. In n
thousand important matters of this kind
the women of Kansas exercise intelli-
gently their right OF suffrage. It's very
funny" Mr.. Croissant added, TO see
what n row is being made here in New
York over the question Of equal suf-
frage. I've met n lot OF men. keen busi.
ness men, too. who are simply locoed
over the whole thing. II makes me
laugh. because I know that when women
have full rights OF citizenship they will
exercise those rights In their own fields.
where men seldom enter. and where
they usually blunder when they do
enter"
Last evening n very good friend who
II still an anti" though waverins.
asked whether | thought the average
woman Is AZ well educated as the aver
age man. and therefore az well fitted to
vote. reminded him that OF all the
high school graduates In this state the
great majority are girls. In other words.
while the boy drops out OF high school
and goes to work. the girl usually stays
through the last two years of hig
school. and 1t Is during those final years
that the high school takes up serious
study of civtcs. of history as related to
present government. and like questions.
In other words, II Is possible that the
average woman, especially the average
woman OF fifty years or less. Is better
educated than the average man, More
over. almost every town and village OF
the State long has had women's study
clubs. whose members do serious work.
who pursue regular courses of study,
prepare papers, discuss events. as men
cannot. because they are immersed in
business.
one reason why I am in favor OF
woman's suffrage Is that | do not know
OF any valid argument against II. There
are many women "%antis." They do not
have to vote unless they want to.
There IL no compulslon about casting
ones ballot but | fail to see why they
should deny a civic right to other
women simply because they themselves
do not wish TO exercise il.
Henry Roop.
PLEAsANrvrLLE, y. Y, October 10.
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u Opinion without the Fright" to
Vote Of No Value?

To THE EDIToR or TIE SrS-Str: \
radical error. characterizing pretty much
all that is said In advocacy of woman
suffrage, lies in this: A failure. some
times wilful, sometimes due to a lack
of reflection. to recognize or admit the
nature and the power OF opinion.
Opinion develops civilization or re-
tards II. Opinion makcs our laws. ana
the contribution OF woman to the body
of opinion that has exalted. purified and
.ennobled. has been beyond calculation.
Yet the conspicuous leaders of the WON
an suffrage movement, they who stand
in the Hmelight, In the fury OF Their III
directed zeal belittle the achievement
Of rome in this regard insisting. most
of them. on the utterly stupid PROPOSE
ton that "Opinion without the vote is
of no value"
OF no value" what OF the ome Of
the American Revolution? What OF the
women Of France. through the history
of generations. OF generations fraught
with betterment for all the world"
of the opinions of women, North and
South, in the days preceding the shot on
Sumter? What. II you Ike. Of the work
OF the Woman's Christian Temperance
tnion Has IL been of no effect because
the members OF the organization did
not elect representatives to the Legisla-
ture"
ON Riverside Drive. somewhere about
Ham street, Is a great carven stone.
celebrating the "Womcn's Sanitarv
League" That organization has done
great work for the good Of the com
munity. has II not? But not one Of its
members has the mystical fright to
vote
The women OF the country could revo-
lutionize our id.otic tariff policy II they
would interest themselves in IL. Md
the subject matter lies peculiarly within
the domain of women's interests. Buy
voting Is a ridlculously futile agency
in bringing about a sane reform OF the
tariff.
opinion only can work n reform.
GRAHAM MCAuAM.
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Bulgarixing the Greek Towns OF Old
Rulgarln.

To THE EDITOR or THE SUS-Sir. Let
me thank YOU for publishing my letter
regarding Bulgaria's demands In Mace
donia but you made an error In saving
that II took the Rulgarians only six
years to Rulgarize TIE purely Greek
township OF Narna and other cities in
Ola bulsara' II was not six years.
hut thirty-SiN, since the existence of the
bulgarian nation by Russia's victory
over its old oppressor the Turk.
ARISTOTLE VI. MACHEI.As.
NEW YORK. October 90.
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B. R. T. MAY BORROW $50. 100000
VIII Go Toward Constructi"n 81
DuR system.

The Public Service CommissIC' 80
terlay granted the Sew York Ma "
R1ilwaN Corporation Ohe II Il 1''
mission To- issue t"oONO, 600 Ir
cent, sinking fund gold bonds a.
mortgage to the Central Trust co.
of New York. trustee. dated j.
lHl2, II commission on NJ"
1913, gave It's approval 10 thls m'".' we
which IL for Si0N, 600, 600, an a
lzod the company a. that rmc o.. 49,
$4,000. GOO in bonds II - es'' .'
that the COMPANY will eNpcud
>GO, 00o, n0o IN tho CONSTRUCT.
equipment ~ tho dua, system l.~'S H"'
the present issu" of houis ~ 10 'rn. '"t
remaining $50. OpO q ~ mat apr
The commission orders thai t', "'I'
are not to ho sold 10 net the C'".rh
less rhan ~ per cent The hu".- ere
dated ulv l., 1917 They MAJ" ''
January +. 1865, aud are In ne ''. ''-
able AT 1861. besides accrued i~u2''es'
on any ~semi-annual interest date
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KULTUR.
Prom THx EvESISa srS Of pesferd,

raised the question in the War Depart
ment to-day as 10 whether women spies
were shot during the civil war.
A furious search through the civil
war records in the AdJutant-General's
Office. the most complete records OF
that war extant. resulted after two
hours in an emphatic:
"They ,pere not 20
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-23
SHERIFF WRATHY AS.
CTS INDORSE SMITH
Grifenhagen Resents Expccta.
tiOns of "ImprOved Condi.
tons" in His Office.
OTHER CANDIDATES. O. I'D

The Citizens Union. to which All
things connected with Tammany ha,.
been ~anathema, yesterday Endorsed
! Alfred r.. Smith. Tammany~ candida,. fo-
sheriff. A wrathful blast from shcr"
| Max ~Grifenhagen, whose Under Shcrir.
Frank X. Bowers. is the Republican car.
didate. was an immediate result.
The "Cits" In appraising the work OF thu
Legislature last spring gave unmeasurel
praise to Assemblyman Smith They
could o consistently dispraise HIM ~
nominee for Sheriff. Their anuoun'c.
iment of yesterday says:
AS to his qualifications for this N, .
| there can he no question. Tho service 10
the State rendered by Mr.. Smith In the
Constitutional Convention this year On
titles him to special consideration.
in giving this high praise to NJ
Smith we are neither unmindfui ~ a..
! political connection nor his record during
his earlier career as a member of The
Assembly. when We repeatedly had o..
casion to cIiticise his activities a. re-,
resenting a desire to serve his party
interest rather than the public iutcre.
RltnouEn " party ledier, MT. S'llltN ms
In recent years been instrumental IN o,.
tanning much desirable and important
legislation.
I'VE are indorsing Mr.. Smith IN III.
expectation that ne will improve the con.
ditions in the Sherins ofiic"'
That last paragraph PANIED sheriff
frlfenhagei. lie sent out a Stttem'u
last night saying
1t is outrageous ana contemplate
- -# - -.
ior any Queer connected WIN ~" 'c
Ichs 'hlon-Wnl' - SulirT'd 10 repre-
sem something IN our CIVIC M 70 mdh-
such an representation. !
ucllhlld Oh the 'ltIIehs tflon thit X rs
a h"iy or any oil its officers Indicate u
me now ana where tnis orn'e can better
w n"''v W SeINv 'he Nite,'StS 'l ne
pu'." = N " 'ne pcoI'e ln'' .'' I'VE
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hmre.r ra-mr,,myizad !, ii''
Win GRAF, IN n.n,ganon, am4 ta,
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ana cn,n.r =, ,nor 49, "'.,
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-23
THE CASE FOR AND AGAINST
SUFFRAGE.
Mrs. Blackwell Draws From History
Parallel Of Hope.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir:
Woman suffrage won the greatest victory
1t has yet gained in this country Just
after it had been defeated by the first
state to vote upon 1t among a group OF
campaign States.
Three years ago Ohio was in about
the same position a. New Jersey this
year. Ohio was to vote upon oma
suffrage at a special election In Septem-
Der. 1912. and several other States were
to vote upon II at the regular election
In November. SO all tho friends Of jus
tice were watching Ohio. as they have
Just been watching New Jersey. Suf-
rage was defeated In Ohio. but 1t was
carried a few weeks later In Kansas.
Oregon and Arizona. Hence the OPP
ponents of equal rights have no warran.
for claiming that The result In New Jer-
sey settles the result for New York.
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. This
Is a question that each state settles for
itself. ALICE STONE BLACK WELL.
DoRcH ESTER, Mass. October 90.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir Tho
cry OF tho so-Called progresslves Is thai
We must have tho referendum because
We cannot trust our Legislatures and
other representative bodies.
! notice that woman suNyraglst lead
ers IN New Jersey now say that they
cannot trust the people, hut that they
must appeal to the Legislature and 70
Congress to obtain the right 70 vote.
ROsToN, October 90. C. T. &
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pray to Cor that ! may live to see
a President of the United States.
Women are capable OF governing this
country. There are many women just
az NJ as men. and In some cases filter,
to sit at the helm in the Whits House.
Bishop DAVID II. MooRE In Cincinnati.
Overrun as It IL with "favorite sons
every campaign year. would the coun-
try welcome the additional burden of
~"favOrite daughters?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-23

fine old Greek first came to Dur ac-
q%uaintance in an earlier century. We
nominate him for in~structorship In a
course required for the windy brood
who could. in such imitation OF the
polished periods of the ancients Of
IIcllas as they might be capable Of,
indulge in Free Speech to their hearts
content without disturbing the public
peace.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-23
gogy been dispensed with to preserve

gogy been dispensed with to preserve
this accounts integrity?
In the high mysteries Of a modern
ana all inclusive curriculum. could no
opportunity Of saving have been found
that would have avoided this serious
interruption Of laudable efforts to
gain schooling?
These day workers and night schol.
ars demand an education. A terrible
price will the city and the nation pay
hereafter II that which they justly
demand Is refused to them now.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-23
Social Success.

From ne Times ~ Clinton County p,
James Freeze Of Pennington was a very
pleasant caller at tho home ~ MIR. and
Mrs f. y. Johnson on sunday.
Hish Clymer Of Hayes Run spent Sun
day with his brother Joseph at EwIssLale'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-23

Science has made II possible for the
human voice tn be heard from Amer
lea TO Europe. but no wireless tele-
phone was needed 10 carry the sound
of the shot that was heard around the
world.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-23

TO Professor BASIL GLDERsIEEvE of
Johns Hopkins University. entering
upon his ighty-ffth year and still In
harness, congratulations. The an
cient classics have fewer intimate
friends now than they had when this
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orr friends pho favor ~ ,rfth manu-.
eoSpS and Hinssrdtions for publication irish
20 have rejected articles returned hep must
N al cdses send stamps for thai pur pose.
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London onlce, Bingham House. / Arun-
De- street. strand.
Paris office. . Rue de la Miohodiere. OF
Rve du Quatre Septembre.
Washington ONCE. Hibbs Building.
Brooklyn once. los Livingston street.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-23

Baron WON BfssiNo has qualified as
one af the most successful recruiting
%sergeants England has.
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Published daily. including sunday. by the
pun Printing and Publishing Association at
Loo Nassau street, In the borough Of Man
haitian, New York. President and Treas
ursr. William L. Reick. $50 Nassau street.
Vice President. Edward i. Mitchell. $50
Nassau street. Secretary, c. Il. LuxtVn, ij0
Nasaau street.
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All checks. money orders, &c, to be
made payable to TnE SrN.
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THE EVENING SUN. Per Month. .... IS
THE Sun. Per Year. ..... 3 80
H EVENING Y (ForeiEn), Per Mo. I %
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Trusting the PeOple.

F'N' :. =
NEW YORK. October lS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20
NO N0N-PARTISAN.
Repeats Law Al
fecting Court Justices.
1t Is Now Up to Governor
Capper to Sign or Veto.

The Kansas legislature has repealed
the non-partisan judiciary law. That
experiment by the legislature of 1918
was voted a mistake when by a mar
row margin the senate last night
passed the house bill repeating the
original act and providing that JUS
tees of the supreme court and dis
trict judges shall be nominated and
elected in the same manner as are
other state and district officers. AT
the next general election in 1916 the
state will return to the old method of
making nominations and the separate
non-partisan judiciary ballot will dis
appear.
That is, it will unless Governor
Capper vetoes the present bill
So far as his official utterances and
platform pledges have been under
stood, Governor Capper has stood in
favor of the principle of the non-par-
tisan Judiciary election. He suggest
ed, however, that in the future the
ballot on which such nominations are
placed be printed on the same ballot
with other nominations so as to avoid
the necessity for extra ballot boxes
and to simplify the counting of the
vote. Most of the senate lawyers vot-
ed for the repeal of the 1913 law and
a call of the house was necessary be-
fore a majority for the bill was OBJ
The vote finally stood % to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20
ST. MARYS PAINTING.
Ben MiIeham Explains Work of Ar,
Presented by Pope.

An article appearing in a recent is
sue of the State Journal concerning a
painting owned by the Catholic parish
at St. Marys, Kan, and being reno
waited by J. D. Sullivan, has given
cause for the writing of an interest
ing letter to the State Journal. quoted
below:
After reading an article in your
paper of the 9Th inst, relating to a
painting of the Immaculate Concep-
ton, owned by ST. Marys parish and
now being cleaned by Mr.. Sullivan of
this city, please let me give YOU and
your readers a little insight into the
history of this picture.
I'm the year 1897 l was engaged in
gliding the affairs in the church at St
Marys, and had occasion to get up
near where the painting hung, high
on the wall. And on close examina-
ton / saw that the canvas was liter
ally perforated with holes, the fault
of decay. I called the attention of the
pastor, the Rev. ]. P. De Smedt, to its
condition, and he asked me, il posi-
BILE, to preserve it,
Il put it on a new canvas, using the
old stretcher as it was still in a fair
state of preservation. Now there is
no question that if at that time it had
not been noticed that the canvas was
in an advanced state of decomposition
and remounted, il would have per-
ished long ere now, as We had to ex-
ercise great caution and care in get
ting il off the stretcher and on to the
new canvas without having it fall to
pieces
II found ON the back of the canvas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20
new CLUB MEMBERS.
Commercial Club Has Added to Mem
bcrShip List.

A number of prominent business
men have been added to the member
ship list of the Commercial club 1t is
expected that they will perform val
liable service towards the upbuilding
Of the city.
The new members:
E. r. Stants with Adams Bros,
printers.
John Savage. baseball manager,
New England building.
Fred B. Cooper, publisher The Con-
struction News. Central National Bank
building.
A. K. Owen, physician, New Eng
land building.
A. c.. Durham, secretary Topeka
Credit Bureau, New England building.
H. J. Brockman, Mail and Breeze,
Capper building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20
NOT IN POLITICS.
Commercial Club as a Body Not In
terested in City Campaign.

The Topeka. Commercial club wants
it distinctly understood that the club
as an organization is not interested in
city politics. The current issue of the
paper contained the following edi-
torial, boxed and in black face type:
ttThe Commercial club is taking no
part in city politics despite state
ments to the contrary. 1t has been
alleged that the club is backing GER
tain candidates 1t probably is true
that individual members are working
for their personal friends, but the
club an organization has taken no
stand in the campaign. The Com
mercial club will be glad to transact
business with any commissioner
elected who will work for the best
interests of the city at all times, and
who will be willing to have the ad-
vice of the club relative to civic i'm
provementS.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20
TO SUPPORT AMOS
State Labor Chronicle Endorses
TOpeka'S Chosen Candidate.
Well Known Newspaper Man
for State Labor Commissioner.

The labor Chronicle published at
Leavenworth. in its last issue gives a
very strong endorsement of Willard
NJ Amos of Topeka, candidate for APP
pointment by Governor Capper as
state labor commissioner The Labor
Chronicle says:
Willard NJ Amos of Topeka has
lbeen endorsed by his own local. To-
lpeka Typographical Union No. 121
with a membership of $50, at its last
report He has the endorsement of
the Topeka Industrial Council COM
dorsement of the Topeka Musicians
Union with nearly 200 members He
has practically all the unions of To-
peka, besides many unions over the
state.
Mr.. Amos has long been student
! OF the labor question. He is a deep
thinker and an educated man. He
served his local for a number of years
as financial secretary; served as dele
gate from his union to the Industrial
Council for seven years; was secre-
tary of the Industrial Council two
terms. When he took the presidency
the council was s45 in the hole and
when his last term expired the coun-
Gil had nearly $500 to the good He
served two terms as secretary-treas-
urer of the Allied Printing Trades
Council and was one of the founders
or that organization. He was chosen
as delegate by his local last year to
the providence convention of the In
lternat1onal Typographical Union.
Before coming to Topeka Nj.
Amos was publisher of a newspaper at
Manhattan, Kan. He is the son of a
veteran of the Civil war, and with his
rather, is dyed-in-the-wool Repub-
1can, and has been a delegate to both
district and state conventions of that
party.
But the position of commissioner
OF labor and industry is not a political
1oD, and Mr.. Amos is a candidate on
his merits as a union man whose or
gan1zation is affiliated with the Amer
lean Federation of Labor and the Kan
sas State Federation of Labor His
local is one of the very few which
pays its per capita to the State FEEDER
alton of Labor monthly in advance.
Another thing strongly in. Mr.
AmoS'S favor is the fact that he has
never been mixed up in political fac
tons of the State federation or the
State society, and for that reason he
would be a strong harmonizer of the
idlscordant elements. While other
men were in the Bramlette faction.
or the Johnson or Danner or O'Brien
Iacuon, Amos was shouting for peace
There is no question but that he Is
the strongest man in the field and
would be a most efficient commits
Sloner OF labOr-one whom the gov
ernor, the labor organizations and the
people of Kansas might we'll be proud
of"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20
SPECIAL AID TALK.
Clothing Merchant From Iowa Will
Tell of Hampton PIan.'

H. G. Larimer, a prominent clothing
merchant of Charlton, Iowa, will
speak at the Commercial club quarters
Wednesday noon, March "a, on The
Hampton Plan The address will be
particularly interesting to advertising
men and merchants. All business
men are invited to attend.
The Hampton plan of campaign is
designed to show that the best method
of securing the maximum of local
trade, of extending the retail limits
of trade, of building up the whole
Hampton community, of securing the
greatest amount of service, and of sat
isfaction in goods purchased, is to sell
and purchase so-called nationally ad-
vertiSed goods
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20

I'm dim black letters, almost obliter-
ated by age, this inscription, g.
Bonite, Rome, 1906 The pastor, after
elaboration, concluded that ii was
painted by a member of the Francis
can order, among whom were many
artists at that day.
Now let me correct a little error in
your article 1t said that the foot of
the Virgin was placed upon the body
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20

of fish with an apple in its mouth.
To the contrary, the foot is en- the
'tempter' in the form of a reptile or
snake. While a fish might prove to
be a temptation to a hungry human,
if well fried, the snake can beat it a
country block when it comes to the
supernatural. Respectfully,
BEN MILEHAM."
319 Monroe St, Topeka.