The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18

from Europe, when they met again in
st. Joseph, and their engagement fol-
lowed
Mr. Thompson is a Topeka man.
who has become famous as a war
photographer. He has taken pictures
on all the fighting lines in Europe.
and has been engaged as photographer
on the staff of Leslie's. some New York
papers. and also for the Paramount
Film company. He is noted for his
daring in getting his photographs from
places of danger, and he has been i'm
prisoned as spy, and has received
numerous minor wounds during his
experiences at the front He now has
an enga cement for taking some films
in Australia After his marriage he
and his bride will go to Australia for
some months. Later they expect to
go to Europe, and will spend some
in the other warning countries. Mr.
Thompson expects to continue as a
war photographer so long as the war
continues.
The Music Study club met Thursday
with Mrs. Harry Lyman. A feature of
the meeting was the study of the first
movement of the D Minor Symphony
by Caesar Frank. by Mrs. Harry Tasker
and Miss Ethel Grant Miss Grant
drew an outline of the themes run
ming through the first movement of
follows:
Symphony in D Minor, first move
ment ......Ca Caesar Frank
Mrs. Tasker and Miss Grant.
To You; Morning Song; Invocation
Mrs. B. p. smythe.
Barcarolle .....-.V Victor Staub
Mrs. Tasker.
Perfume of a Flower. .....B ouval
/ Mrs. c. E. Bair.
D Minor Symphony, second move
Mrs. Tasker and Miss Grant
willamette Acqua
When June Days ONE Again. 49,
........ Obey Speaks
Mrs. Alfred Spicy.
> {. >
The Argonauts have their regular
meeting on Saturday evening at the
home Of Mr. and Mrs. C. c. Nicholson
e20 Lane street Prof. E. F. Stanley
conducts the lesson C. c. Nicholson
will review the Folklore of Mexico.
An article published in the Brooklyn
Eagle, concerning Kansas institution
and a Topeka woman Miss Lima
| Bresette). is Of local interest. The fol
lowing is copied from the story by
| special correspondent from New York
! While Chairman Walsh and his fed
| eral industrial commission h. We beer
| investigating and arguing and recon-
mending with the idea OF starting the
whole country on the road toward the
industrial millennium, the state OF
| Kansas has discovered a short cut
which she confidently believes will p
her far in the vanguard, before the
rest of the country gets time to read
the federal commission reports Kan
sas detests nothing more than modera-
ton. and the newly created industrial
! welfare commission, which started tC
work on July l, is perhaps the mos
remarkable governmental agency fol
| the regulation of Industrial affairs evel
put into operation in this country
The bill creating the new commits
sion was drawn and introduced By
Robert stone. speaker of the house il
the last legislature. and was enacted
after a minimum wage bill had beer
defeated in the previous session. Tht
measure embodies Mr.. Stones idea
on Industrial legislation. after an in
vestigation that included a close stud,
of what had been done in Chicago and
other places. The speaker who is
Topeka lawyer, says he has no feal
that the law, yet INFESTED in the courts
will be found unconstitutional
No history of industrial welfare leg
islation in Kansas could be carried
much beyond this point without in
Producing Miss Lima E Bresette. wht
has just been appointed secretary O