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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-11-03
SUFFRAGE NEWS AND NOTES
BY LILLIAN PERRINE DAVIS

Address Suffrage Inquiries to Miss Sue S. White. 100
EIks Building. Jackson; Press notices to Mrs c. c.
Dovls. Lexington
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-11-03

In West Virginia, the annual con-
ference of the Methodist Church
went on record of favorine equal
suffrage.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-11-03

A'recent inquiry brought out the
fact that out of $50 Congressional
candidates, 308 favor suffrage and
the Federal Amendment rs were
unfnvorable, and 26 non-committal.
Besides formal answers to the ques-
tons asked, many expressed per-
sonal views which showed that the
majority of them are we'll informed
on the subject: that they believe in
it because Of its justice, and not
merely because Of its political ex-
pedience. The result Of the whole
inquiry indicated that the country
is stirred as it has never been before.
The State Association has just is
sued a very attractive year book,
from which is seen the progress
in Tennessee. Since suffragists are
at present concentrating their ener-
gies on the Federal Amendment, it
is interesting to note that every con-
gressional district has been invaded.
About fifty leagues are listed and
all of them report active and effec-
tive work. While the leagues in
the cities have been able to do the
most spectacular work, the reports
from the smaller towns show that
they have caught the suffrage
spirit" and show steady progress
along conservative lines.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-11-03

In the state, the Daughters Of
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-11-03

The mental processes by which
women will select their Office hold.
ers will be about the same as tLat
by which they make other selections.
Those who were born sheep will in
stinctively follow whatever leader
walks confidently before them, just
as that class follows whatever fash
ion is set before them, without re-
CARDS to its beauty or its fitness fol
their needs. Those who rush to the
bargain counter and heedlessly over
stock. will select bargain counter
candidates. There will even be a
class to be won through flattered
vanity, and sex appeal. But a con-
stantly increasing proportion of in,
telligent voting will come from the
constantly increasing number Of wo-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-12-08

Three 40, 0O0-tom batteshfps. carry
ing a main battery OF twelve 16-inch
gums. viii form the backbone Of the
naval program to be authorized at the
present sessi ON Of Congress.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-12-08
Mrs. Susan Underhill
4 Gets $4,000 Award In
Chattel Mortgage Figk.

Mrs. Susan c. Underhill Of Bridge
port was given a verdict for $4,000
and interest by a jury in the New
Haven superior court yesterday after-
noon in her suit against her brother.
Fred w. Lyon, publisher of the Mill
ford Citizen.
The suit involved the validity of a
certain chattel mortgage from the der
PENDANT to the plaintiff. Mrs. I'M
derhill claimed that she gave her
brother the sum of $1,000 to keep
for her until she decided what she
would do with it. She alleged that
her brother then took the money
without her consent and against her
will and invested it in his PUBLISH
ing business in Milford, compelling,
her to take the chattel mortgage as
security The suit was to have the
mortgage declared invalid, and COM,
pei Mr.. Lyon to return the money to!
thep laintiff. The jury was out somei
time before returning the verdict for
the plaintiff. The defendant claimed
his sister had consented to the use
made Of the money.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-12-08

peatedly flown 200 kilometres an hour,
These little craft, none of which has
been seen here, have a wing spread
Of only 5.1S metres. They are now
used by the French flyers for fast
scouting duty.
Lieut.. Nyegaard, who is only TWEEN
ty-three years old, at the beginning
Of the war enlisted in the Foreign
Legion and was wounded In the right
foretrm at Dixmude. When the
wound healed he was made command
er of a ski detachment in the Vosges
and was wounded in the left knee.
Then he Joined the Flying Corps and
had several accidents. the worst be-
ing when his gasoline tank burst as
he was 5000 feet up. He managed
to bring the biplane down, but could
not control its direction when it near
ed the ground and a wing hit q tree.
He could not walk for seven months.
Capt. Sundstedt, who is thirty years
old. flew for two years in Swedish
navy hydro-aeroplane. He has in
vented several appliances for airplanes
and is the proud possessor Of No.
along the cards issued to international
flyers in Europe. Most of the pres
ent flyers at the front have cas-
numbered up in the thousands.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-12-08

gether of the public schools the old
order has ceased to exist and the three
greatest Americanizing forces have
joined together in seeing that citizen
ship is kept clean and the title con-
ferred in such manner that any Amer
lean may have a sense of pride when
a naturalized citizen is referred to in
stead of one of shame, as heretofore.
These three agencies are the Federal
and state courts throughout 2,345
counties in every state in the Union,
and Alaska and Hawaii, the Federal
Government and the public schools. In
every state in the Union these courts
have worked hand in hand with the
Federal Government for ten years but
during the last two years the people
have been brought into the support
of this law through the third element,
the peoples public schools.
Last year every superintendent OF
schools in every city and town OF
$500 population and over was ap-
pealed to by the Naturalization Blu
reau to join this nationwide Ameri-
canization movement. Favorable re-
sponses came from every state in the
Union expressive of "a desire to CO.
operate. Six hundred and thirteen
cities and towns opened the doors OF
the public schools to the foreign born
friend in order that the names of all
the candidates for citizenship and
their wives might be sent to them by
the Bureau of Naturalization. In
this way the sch ools and the candi-
dates for citizenship were introduced
to each other At the same time the
Bureau sent a letter to the candidate
and his wife Judging them to learn
American English, better their con-
dition and to establish an American
home through this distinctly Ameri-
can institution, the public school, and
to a, to the school nearest their home.
Nearly a quarter of a million foreign
ers were approached in this way by
Uncle Sam.
The helping hand was extended for
the first time and is still held out with
a. beckoning wave to the millions who
are seeking citizenship who came to
this country with dreams OF better
ment of their condition. The United
States Government has expressed a
personal interest in every one of these
in the letters sent to the candidates
and their wives.
The prospects are that over a thous-
and cities will have Joined these con-
stant1y increasing ranks before the
end of the current fiscal year in car
rving forward this great work. with
the end Of November approximately
eight hundred and fifty cities and
towns had already enlisted.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-12-08
COFFEE WON'T GO UP,
MANUFACTURES SAYS

New York, Dec S-Despite the in
creased cost of roasting coffee and
Putting it into packages for the re-
tail trade, it is not likely that the re-
tail price viii be advanced, according
to Ross w Weir, one Of the con-
fereeS at a meeting of the coffee trade
representatives OF New England, Phil
ade1p31ia, Ba1tfmore and New York
here yesterday.
There is plenty of coffee in the
United States" Mr. Weir said, and
while lit costs us more than year
ago it lis not SO high as to WARRANT an
advance in the retail price of coffee
In packages. There are great stores
of coffee in England and Fdance and
I believe the supply is sufficient to last
tn ose countries hntn the end of the
WAL"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-12-08
NATURAL zATl0N BUREAU is
DOING EXCELLENT WORK WITH
ROUTINE GOVERNMENT AGENCY
Efforts Have Turned Institution Into Great Hanzng Force
Reaching the People Through Their Interests.

Washington. Dec. 8-The annual
report of Commissioner Richard K.
Campbell, of the Bureau of Natural
ization, to the Secretary of Labor. for
the last fiscal year shows how a rOu-
tine governmental agency has been
transformed into great human1z-
ing force. This has been accom-
plished by linking together those state
Americanizing agencies, the public
schools of the entire country with the
Department of Labor, through its
Naturalization Bureau in the definite
and concerted action of helping our
foreign friends qualify upon a higher
standard Of admission to American
citizenship.
A most striking feature of this con-
structive and humanitarian work is
the startling fact that all of this de-
parture and expansion has been ac-
complished without taking any addi-
tional money from the Golfers of the
United States Treasury. This is in
deed injecting the most modern bust
ness method of money saving, If not
money making, into governmental OPP
Grafton in the place Of the proverbial
high cost of operation due to the red
tape usually supposed to be unwound
by the agents Of Uncle Sam. Indeed
this Bureau of Naturalization, by rea-
son of it's high efficiency and measures
of economy, has turned a notherwise
costly system of administration into
a revenue producing machine.
In 1908 when portion of this Blu
reau's activities were conducted by an
other Department, the cost ran more
than s65,000 above the naturalization
fees collected, but since all of the
affairs looking to making citizens
have been turned over to this Bureau
Of the Department of Labor there has
been an annual average Of over $685.
900 in fees in excess Of all cost Of
maintenance. This Bureau is not
supported from the general taxes col
lected by the government Indeed, the
citizens Of the United States do not
bear one cent of the expense Of this
governmental agency. It is all paid
for by the foreigner who is admitted
to citizenship. In other words from
the SIS paid by each. foreigner for a
good administration Of the natura1iza-
ton law, all of the expenses Of his
are paid and over
$4,000, on an average, has been
turned into, Uncle Sans pocketbook
every year.
To confer the. title Of citizenship
legally upon our foreign friends is no
difficulty at all as shown by the
wholesale method which prevailed be-
fore the government. became citizen
maker. Now with the linking to-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-12-08

During the past year there was filed
207,935 declarations Of intention. 10S,-
oO9 petitions for naturalization. and
93,91l certificates were issued by the
courts. Add to these figures approx
lmately 10000, representing the
wives of the candidates for citizenship,
and the result is an imposing army
OF a half million or more marching
through the Bureau of Naturalization
toward the goal of it's ambition.
In addition to the administrative Of
flee maintained in Washington, the
Bureaus field service, covering every
state in the Union, helped to swell
Uncle Sans revenue from the natur-
al1zation law in spite of an expendi-
ture for salaries, travel and miscel-
laneous items Of over $214, 1000. The
officers in the field examined over
100000 naturalization papers and in
vestigated, orally, or through CORES
pondence, approximately 10000 petit
TONERS and 1000 witnesses. They
attended about 1000 hearings and
made over 10000 official visits to
clerks of courts.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-12-08
MRS. DODGE ATTACKS
SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN

Washington, Dec. Sin her address
opening yesterday the National Anti
Suffrage Convention, Mrs. Arthur M.
Dodge, of New York, president of the
National Association Opposed to Wo-
man Suffrage. said:
sin protesting against the imposition
of political duties on women we know
we voice the majority of women Of
the United States. After sixty-five
years Of organized effort woman suf-
frage is minority movement. We
believe that woman has more power
in uplifting civilization through the
home than man has through his
vote.
''The conservative suffragists have
never been able to control the or
ganized emotion and radicalism in
their ranks. Under our form of gov
eminent there is great danger that
such an element might cripple >wise
legislation.
II should like to repeat what we
CALI our creed: We anti-suffragist
stand for the conservation of the best
of American womanhood in all con-
ditions and stations Of life, for the
preservation of the home, for the re-
tention Of the best ideals Of preced-
ing generations adapted to. the ad-
vantages and opportunities given to
them under modern conditions. We
believe that women, according to their
leisure, opportunity and experience,
should take part increasingly in civic
and municipal affairs as they have al
wavs done in charitable philanthro pic
and educational activities. And we
believe that this can be done best by
women without the ballot. as a non
partisan body Of disinterested work.
ers'''
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-12-08
VOLUNTEER SYSTEM AGAIN
PROVED FAILURE, ASSERTS
MAJ.=GEN. HUGH |. SCOTT
People Should Pay Military Duty With Service Just AS
Thew Do Every Other Tax, He Declares National
Guard Training Period is Inadequate.

authorized brining the army up to
war strength by adding 10000 men
and August 81, only S.463 additional
men were enrolled.
cit is cause for very sober consid-
Grafton on the part of every citizen of
the country, when the fact is fully
understood, General Scott says that
'4the units of the National Guard and
regular army have not been recruited
up to war strength in the crisis we
have just passed through"
The reports shows that the mobil-
lied National Guard force not only
was more than $1,000 below war
strength but was more than 1000
below authorized minimum peace
strength.
General Scott urges a drastic GEN.
sorship law to protect military secrets
in time of war and submits with his
approval the draft Of a proposed stat
ute drawn by a special board of army
and navy officers. It would authorize
the President to prohibit publication
of facts rumorS or Speculations re-
'garding military matters except when
passed by a censor, the penalty being
a fine of not more than $4,000, or i'm
prisonment not to exceed three years
or both where person, or officer, or
agent of a corporation is involved,
or fine of $4,000 when corpora
ton Is involved.
The report Of Brigadier- General
Weaver, Chief of Coast Artillery,
which accompanies that of General
Scott, says that with slight additional
increases over the 264 guns proposed
to be added to the coast defense in
the program approved by congress
last year, "the coast defenses will be
able to meet successfully any attack
that can reasonably be expected to
be made upon them or upon the
cities, harbors or interests that they
guard by the most powerful warships
afoat or at present projected"
General Weaver points out, how
ever, that national guard units of the
corps are 166 officers and 6,469 men
short of their prescribed complement.
The coast states of New>J Jersey, Della
ware, Florida Alabama, Louisiana
and Texas, he says have raised no
troops for this service
Judge Acknowledgement Crowder
in his report, also made public, re-
views desertion records for eight
years back to show that the 1916 fig
ure was the lowest during that time
The true percentage was 1.O1, he
says, although the reported figure
was IL The lowest previous record
WAS 1-93 in 1911
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-12-08
A|RMEN Plan TO
CROSS OCEAN IN
LESS THAN A DAY
French and Swedish Flyers
Propose Plans Bigger
Than America.

New York, Dec. 8-Lielt. Kjell Nye-
gard of the French Flying Corps and
Capt. Hugo Sundstedt, the famous
Swedish flyer, arrived yesterday from
France on the steamship Espagne,
bent on making a transatlantic flight
In an airplane next spring.
Nyegaard is one Of the we'll known
French army birdmen and among his
encounters was one with Boelke, in
the air over the western front. Neither
could gain enough advantage over the
other to fire a shot. They circled
about, Nyegaard above the German,
for twenty minutes and, as the former
said yesterday.
"Boelke beckoned to me with his
hand to come down and I beckoned
to him to come up. 1t was a tie and
we both waved a farewell and part
ed
Capt. Sundstedt is the chief pilot
aviator of the Swedish navy, and he
flew 1880 miles from Paris to Stock
holm in nineteen hours in July 1914,
stopping only at Bremen. Before
that he had flown from Paris to Hen
don, England. and back in a Henri
which the French Aero Club gave him
a gold plate. A
Nyegaard's speciality is handling the
aeroplane in pursuit, which means
machine gun duelling.
II am a stunt flyer" he said,
while the captain is a long distance
flyer"
Both have wanted to make the at
tempt to cross the Atlantic for some
time and Nyegaard, who is a Norwe-
gian and the nephew Of the Norwe-
gian Ambassador to France, obtain
ed his discharge from the French
Flying Corps in order to come here
and try it. But before Nyegaard left
he promised his wife, considered by
many the most beautiful actress in
Paris and a creator Of Partisan styles,
that he would take her with him on
the cross-ocean flight. She has flown
with him many times and will join
him here in a few weeks.
The aviators will have a machine
built here this winter large enough
for four passengers, as a mocha nician
will be taken along. They plan to
start at Newfoundland and make the
Irish coast in twenty hours. Both
are bubbling over with confidence In
their project Their craft will be
larger than the American tyne. They
will CONSULT with Glenn H. Curtis in
few days.
In the meantime Nvegaard NAV
bring from France 10 horse power
Ponier biplane In which he has re-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-12-08
AUTOISTS BOUND OVER.

Hartford, Dec. 8.-Frank M. Davis.
"a Wethersfield avenue, was yester-
day bound over to the criminal court
on a charge Of granddaughter. Davis
was driving an automobile on Maple
avenue last Saturday night when it
was wrecked and David Hunter, rid
ing with him, was killed. The police
claim Davis was driving recklessly
and was under the influence of LIQUOR.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-12-08
CUMMINGS AT WILSON DINNER

Homer S. Cummings. Of Stamford,
vice chairman Of the Democratic Ma
tiona1 committee, attended the dinner
given last night in Washington in
honor of Vance c. Mccormick, chair
man of the committee.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-12-08
DECORATION FOR CIVILIANS.

London. Dec. S.-The German En-,
peror has established a decoration
for civilians, such as munition work.
ers, similar to the iron cross, accord
ing to a Copenhagen despatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company quot
ing the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-12-08
GARMENT MANUFACTURERS
MAY GIVE WAGE INCREASE

New York, Dec S-The union
made garment manufacturers may
grant an increase of 10 per cent in
wages to their employees numbering
more than 10000, as a result or ne
gutiatioas now in progress between
committee of the manufacturers and
Representatives of the United Garment
Workers of America The question
of wages win be considered at tornor-
rows meeting. of the manufacturerr
association.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-13
Florence
Social Items

Mrs. L. r. Griffith was the guest OF
Mrs. Clara B. Mcmillan in Benson Mon
day.
Mrs. Frank A. Sears OF Rochester,
Mimi. is the guest of her sister. Mrs.
+. l.. Plate, this week.
George Mcpherson of Chicago, a former
resident of Florence, was here Monday
and Tuesday renewing old acquaintance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Ross and family
have moved from Omaha TO Florence.
taking the Harold Reynolds place.
Mrs. w. B. Vreeland will entertain the
Hillside circle of the Ladies' aid society
of the Presbyterian church at her home
Monday afternoon.
Miss Lucille Harris was taken i'll the
first Of the week with scarlet fever.
Miss Julia Krisl and Miss Viola Meyer
have issued an invitation to the school
patrons TO be present at patriotic
cantata by the school children at the
Eagle hail on Wednesday February 20.
Mrs. Frank Brown will entertain the
T. T. class of the Presbyterian church
Tuesday evening at which time plans for
the play, THE Spinster's Return" to be
given at the Eagle hall. March >. will be
made.
|. Misses Olga and Olive Peterson enter
tanned at their home Sunday evening for
large party of young people.
The Ponca kensington was entertained
by Mrs. Andrew Albach at her home
Monday evening. Those present were:
Mesdames Nielsen. Broderson, Moran
Krenger. Jasperson. Grown. Reed. Han
son and Raymond and Misses Martha
Jasperson and Christine Albach. Mrs. S.
B. Letovsky will entertain the kensing-
ton club next week.
A surprise party was given Miss Maude
shipley at her home Monday evening.
Twenty OF her young friends assembled
and made merry.
]. H. Price spent Wednesday and
Thursday in Lincoln on business.
Leonard Crum returned from South
Dakota the first OF the week TO again
make his home in Florence.
Mrs. C. w. shulze returned Wednesday
from wausa. Neb.. where she was visit.
ing her sister.
Miss Lillian Broderson. who is teaching
school at Long Pine, Neb., returned the
first of the week to visit her parents.
Mrs. Fritz Kruse entertained Monday n
her home IN honor of her birthday. About
twenty guests were present.
Mrs. !. A. Taylor entertained the Dor
cas- society of the Methodist church Mon
cay