The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-02

' Hammatt Wednesday night of next
t week.
i A group of girls from the College
of the Sisters of Bethany will go to
cital to be given by Kansas City and
Topeka pupils of Mr.. Paul Lawless,
who has charge of the voice depart
ment of Bethany. Mrs Alice Wors-
| wick will accompany the girls to Kan
sas City. Those who will sing in the
> recital from the college are: Miss
Clara Watson. of lola; Miss Dorothy
Merriam. of Kinsley; Miss Ruth Bur
gett, Miss Jessie Gi1christ and Miss
Alena Philbin. i. The recital will be
held in Grand Avenue Temple, Kan
sas City.
The Wednesday Bridge club will
meet Friday with Mrs. j. E. Morgan,
1913 Fillmore street. .
Miss Lucy Elliott entertained guests
at luncheon Thursday for Mrs. L. B.
Kendall, of Denver. who is visiting
her daughter !. Mrs, !. Eugene ouinton-
Mrs. F. E. Parr- will be hostess at
a meeting of the Ideal Bridge-Lunch-
con club Tuesday Of O. next < week.
The Crochet club Will meet next
Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. j. b.
Whelan.
The L. L n x. girls of the sub
junior class of the high school save
spread Thurdsay afternoon. Those
who attended We're: Miss Anna Bun
dy, Miss Lura Ferris, Miss Helen Hol-
lar, Miss Irene Anderson, Miss Isabel
Gordon, Miss Louise Arthur, Miss
Miss Nettie Long, Miss Elizabeth
Miner, Miss Lottie Winsett, Miss vera
Furman, Miss Louise Fowler, Miss
Matte Bair, Miss Anne Crane: MISS
der, Miss Lillian Hucken, Miss Flor
ence McBroom, Miss May Shepard,
Miss Sicily Allison, Miss Ruth
Bushong, Miss Dorothy Bradbury,
Miss Lucille Mcguire, Miss Fowler and
Miss Gilmore.
A meeting was held in the high
school auditorium Thursday AFTER
noon under the auspices of the To-
peka Federation of Women, through
it's department of justice and c1V1cs,
for the members of the federation ana
the public school teachers, and their
guests. The room was we'll filled,
with an audience composed OF both
men and women, to hear Mrs w: l. |
and executive secretary of the Won
ans Peace Party, which has head |
quarters in Chicago, and of which |
Jane Adams is chairman. Her sub
ject was 1.-The New Social Attitude To- |
ward War
superintendent H. B. Wilson intro |
duced the speaker of the afternoon
1.-The world" she said, has never so
much as now needed to draw on it's
fund of optimism, on its belief in the |
ultimate triumph of the ideals that |
the best of civilization has been fos-
tering. Women have organized the |
new party because they know that
women are the conservers of life. They |
stand outside of militarism and some
what outside of commercialiSm, and
they get an unbiased view of the |
meaning of both, and they are respon- |
Sible for the new definition of patriot |
ism, that believes in love of country |
hot m
work for the Improvement of the |
country, and conservation of the lives |
of it's citizens, and the need of bring |
ing each human being to his highest |
efficiency in doing the work of the |
world. The last word of the new so !
cial conscience is an expression of the |
life. That is the reason for the safety !
of machinery, the child labor laws, the
workingmans insurance arrange
ments, the better-babies teaching, etc.
at is the object of the peace party
to eradicate from the human mind the
idea that wars are necessary or pa
triotic 1t can be done by education.
The party urges the limitation of ar
mament and the naturalization of
their manufacture; organized opposi-
ton to militariSm in our country; ed
ucation in the ideals of peace: demo-
cratic control of foreign policies; the
humanizing of government by the
extension of the franchise to women;
the concert of nations to supersede
the DdIdHCe OIL power, dCllOn lOOk1nS
toward the substitution of law for war;
the substitution of international
police for rival armies; removal of
economic causes of war; the extension
of the power of the people to decide
on questions of war or peace; and the
of men and women, with
adequate appropriations, to promote
peace.
1.-THE first step the party asks to be
taken is the immediate calling of
convention of neutral nations in the
interest of early peace. They want a
tribunal of representatives from all
the nations, to sit at The Hague con-
until the close of the war.
When one suggestion for peace is re-
jected, the tribunal may seek other So
lutions of the difficulty"
There is some talk of organizing a
branch of the peace party in Topeka,
perhaps in connection with some other |
organizations
The morning meetings of the feder-
alton were held at the Y. W. c. A. The
art department listened to an address
by Mrs. Clement Smith on What the
Morgan Art Gallery Means to Amer
lca. She has had lantern slides made
from copies of pictures in the Nor
gan gallery, and her address was one
OF special interest.
At another department meeting a
discussion of cigarettes, street car
ventilation, the establishment of a free
legal bureau for poor women and
children. and the work of the conf
cussions were led by Mrs. O. L. Moore,
Mrs. L. L. Kiene, Mrs. Kate Pierson
and Mrs. s S. Estey.
At the afternoon meeting Miss
Emma Rempfer of Washburn college
sang a group of three songs. and two
readings were given by Miss Altha
Watson.
An out-of-town visitor was discuss
ing the fatality of little knowledge
yesterday. Her town has a clnb that |