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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-16
PR0GRESS|VES PLAN
NEW ORGANIZATION
Party Leaders Approve Plan
Will Meet in st. Louis to
Perfect Outline.

NEW YORK. eDc. 15.-"Rclncar-
nation OF the Progressive party with
new sense Of party independence"
based upon the new liberal spirit"
was agreed upon at a conference of
prominent ProgressNcs from several
states held here today.
Furds were subscribed to open
national Progressive headquarters in
this city until the national convention
meets IN st, Louis. Permission for
those leading Progressives who have
made party mistakes" to rc-cntcr the
party was discussed but no action was
taken.
Assurances also were given to those
who seemed to fear that the "rcac-
ticrary group OF Progr"sslvos" might
gain control Of the ST. Louis conven-
ton, that only those known to hc
loyal and true progressivcs who had
refused to go over To the Republicans
or Democrats would have a voice in
organizing the new party.
The conference. which was called by
Matthew Hale Of Boston. national
chairman of the Progressive
party. lasted three hours. Mr.. Hale
was authorized 10 select committee
TO plan for the national convention
some time around WashingtOn's birth
day. Its members will he announced
later
A resolution rcaffrmirg the Pro
grcssiyc platform Of August, 19l2, was
adopted Amendments expressing
the desire of the ProgrcssiNes to co
operate with the liberal elements of
every party and to disro gard any party
affiliations since that time. even the
choice Of the Progressive variety Tor
the one now grown Is considered
desirable.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-16
TO MARRY HIS ASSAlLANT
Refuses to Prosecute Woman Who
Robbed Him.

WICHITA, Kan. Dec. 15-Mrs.
Bess Ryers, pretty married woman,
was freed in district court here today
of a charge of highway robbery when
Martin Safe, who swore at a prelimi-
nary hearing n month ago that she
helped slug and rob him, told the court
that he wouldn't testify against her.
Safe informed the county attorney
that since Mrs. ByArs was arrested he
had fallen in love with her and that
as soon as she gets a divorce from
her husband, who is now in Jail, the
couple will be married.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-16
\ slight Change.

"Whores the plunkviIIe house
hus?"
Amt no more plunkVille house.
boss. The Plunkville house is now
the Grand Palace"
"rm glad Plunkville has new
hotel"
Don't be too hopeful. boss. There
amt nothing new about the hotel but
the name"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-16
Not Posted,

"This Is a great character in Dick
ens---the Artful Dodger. | love the
story"
IAN automobile story. eh?'
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-16

Campfire girls will holl Bazaar
and Loan relic exhibition saturday
Dec. 1G, Ketchum Hotel. (AdN)
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-16
Man ErCCIcs fn DCalh.

ST. LOUIS. Dec. 15.-Andrew Roz-
inshy. i5 years old. froze to death
last night within Few yards Of where
his Polish countrymen were holding IA
peace celebration, according to police
officers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03
EUening Chat

BY RUTH CAMERON.

In a city where I sometimes visit
there lives young man with deep
interest in local politics
For various reasons it is impossible
for him to accept office himself, but
he has given time, money and energy
to help elect good men to the city
government.
1 admire this man.
L wish we had more young men
like him in every community instead
of so many who are too lazy, or too
selfishiy busy, or too Indifferent to
the general veal (and though they
DO not realize it, to their own well
fare) to pay any attention to politics.
But the last time 1 visited in his
neighborhood he gave me some
thing of a shock.
We were talking about dancing A
certain dancing place was mentioned
No. he said, II don't like to go
there"
why not? I'm told the music is
excellent"
Yes" he said; but there's one
thing don't like. The police won't
let you leave your machine outside
How can they prevent t?'
well, you know there is a city
ordinance against leaving a machine
on the street more than twenty min
utes, and the garage round the cor
ner from the dance hall must be in
league with the police, for they en-
force it to the letter, and YOU have to
put your machine in that garage and
pay fifty cents if you only stay half
an hour. 1 don't think it's fair. 1
think the dance hall people ought to
stand in with the police and protect
their patrons"
He said it with the same fervor with
which he pleads the case of his good
government candidates. And he was
evidently serenely unconscious of any
Inconsistency.
You can't have good government
without the. consent of the governed.
You can't have it merely by being
good men in the chief offices.
Each one of us can help get good
government. not only by working for
good candidates but also by obeying
| the laws. If we do not believe in a
law, the thing to do is. not to try to
get out of obeying it, but to protest
against it in some public way-by ap-
pealfng to the city government by
! talking to our neighbors about it.
city solicitor once offered to
show the new mayor q list of all the
people who were violating city ordi-
nances. The mayor asked to see the
list, and the solicitor handed him the
city directory.
The mayor of a certain well known
city brought out the same point in
regard to unenforced laws when he
tried to put the Sunday blue laws in
force.
OF course many communities have
too many laws. We are wont to feel
that any evil can be remedied by leg
islating against it. Would it could
The first thing to do would be to
make q law against human SelfiShnesS
We forget that legislation is only the
first step. and that unwise, unenforce-
able legislation is the first step in the
wrong direction. What we need are
fewer laws, more thorough enforce
ment, and more good citizens who are
willing to make obedience to Law
their first contribution to good gov
ernment- protected by the Adams
Newspaper Service.i
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03

work, as he has a legal right to do.
reserves no right to create mob to
prevent some one who is willing to
work from seeking employment, as he
also has a perfect right to do. The
bludgeon, the pistol, the knife and
dynamite are the weapons of the as
sassin. Those who resort to them are
outside the pale of the law. The
world does not owe them living Let
all such go back to the countries from
which they came. This republic is too
good for them. They are untitled to
appreciate its liberties. They are I'M
worthy of its boupties. The American
workingman is different from any
other. He is educated. He lives well.
He has ambitions for himself and for
his sons and daughters. He is not
easily misled. He is a fair type of
the open-handed, free-hearted. and
perhaps too credulous persons OF
whom Abraham Lincoln so truthfully
remarked. you can fool some of the
people all of the time, and all of the
people some of the time, but not all of
the people all of the time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03
Globe Sights
BY THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

Never compliment cheap people; let them
alone.
No woman is graceful enough to pursue
a street car.
We must have activity even if it does
butt in occasionally.
Selfishness, properly applied. will keep
you out of a good deal of trouble.
Most people hate monopoly, because they
have no chance to control one.
The sort of patriotism engendered at key
parties never saved the nation.
When a woman or a diplomat writes a
note, 1t is apt to be quite a letter
There also are those who ask the benefit
of the doubt when there is doubt
We have often wondered If Damon and
Pythias ever went on a camping trip to-
gether.
The ankle exhibition attracts good deal
more attention than the elbow display.
Knowing what to say is rather more i'm
portant than knowing how to say it, but
both are important
People would know more if the search
for useful information were as keen as the
pursuit of scandal.
Looking backward, you will observe that
| most of your past worrying was about
| things that never happened
White shoes make the feet look larger.
| White stockings make the Balance
| of this item killed by the censor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03
THE MEANEST!

The meanest man is the one who
makes another unhappy, and the
world is full of those who have a yell
low streak in their makeup writes
John A. Sleicher in Leslie's. 1t is the
mean creature who would turn a son
against his father, or daughter
against her mother, who would shake
ones faith in his Creator, or entice
him from his familiar place of Sunday
worship, who would take away the
consolation of ones religion and give
him nothing in its stead. But among
the meanest is the man who makes a
contented worker, whether in business
office, shop or factory. dissatisfied
with his job. and who encourages him
to quarrel with his employer and to
break the bond of fellowship that al
ways ought to exist between the man
who fills and the man who empties the
pay envelope. There are those who
make luxurious living by posing as
friends of the worker. They seek to
prove their friendship by creating an
tagonisms between employer and en-
ployee. Could anything be more con-
temptiblee? These disturbers thrive on
strikes they foment. and though
strikes bring penury and suffering to
the workman. the disturber never suf-
fers. He gets his pay envelope and it
is always full, for the suffering work
man fills it. The man who refuses to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03

IFrom the PhiladeIphia Record.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
There's nothing that will make troubles
grow like telling them.
Many a mans downfall is caused by
tripping over his good resolutions.
At any rate. the actress who is late in
dressing can always make up for lost time.
Heredity is a curious thing. Lots of
people have sunny natures in spite of
shady ancestors
One half of the world is probably just
as well pleased that the other half doesn t
know how it lives.
Hoax-.What are your views on equal
suffrage? ~ Joax-"I am absolutely op-
posed to gloats for women"
In this country man never realizes
how many rights he has till he reads the
Constitution of the United States.
'Ah! love is eternal" sighed the amor
GUS swain. AT any rate, married life
seems to be- snorted the Benedict.
The honeymoon sometimes demonstrates
that marriage is a failure almost early
in the season as the peach crop.
Neil-.I wish I could get rid of these
freckles. Powder doesn't seem to do any
good" Beli-"Why not try dynamite?"
MugginE--A woman always wants the
last word" Buggins-"Also the first.
Muggins-"Well. the Good Book says the
first shall be last
The discussion had become heated. do
you want to betI" shouted Skinnum.
..IlI stake my reputation on it We'll
III put up a nickel against it, replied
Wigwag.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03
Jdyhdwker Jots

The sweetness of revenge insists
the Onaga Herald, often sours the dis
position.
An exceedingly personal item in the
news from Union Five to Sterling
Bulletin: w. Brooks is counting at
present in Hutchinson.
1t is about time for the annual
search for the country grave yard,
suggests the Soldier Clipper. They
are usually found just before the 30th
of May. :.
No son, advises the Alma Signal.
the fat man in the front row doesn't
own the ball team. If he did he
wouldn't be making so much noise
about it.
Says Adam Croaker in the Holton
Recorder: If I was riding in a presi-
Dental band wagon that was eaten by
Ford, l would get out at the first
station and walk back.
According to the Holton Signal, the
story of Jonah and the whale is a SIM
pie matter besides some of the cy-
clone stories which the recent cyclone
in this locality has set in motion.
Mexico is to issue "fiduciary money
to the amount of 50O.000,00o pesos,
notes the Eureka Herald, and it adds:
Like McAdoo's NET Balance" the
public is asked to take it on faith.
Two Toronto small boys each had a
boiled Easter egg, tells the Toronto
/ Republican. Said one, I'm goin' to
eat my egg Said the other Il amt
goin' to eat mine. L swiped itsout OF
| the incubator
| Quoting Webster to the effect thai
politics is the science of government,
Editor Honey, of the Mankato West
ern Advocate, contrastingly defines
dirty politics as the inherent schem-
ings. writings and drawings of am,
| bilious men,"
Told by the Madison News: Last
Saturday night at the movies" wher
the heroine was shown on the screer
doing a stunt in crocheting, or tattins
or something, we heard lady remark
| Wish they'd show that a little longer
I'd like to get that pattern"
| Poor man, signs the Marquette Trib-
une. The marshal tells him to hit the
road; the sportsman tells him to hit
the target; the preacher, to hit the
trail; the fan, to hit the ball; the auto
| list, to hit the high places; the sales
man. to hit the dotted line, and the
candidate, the little square after hi.
name on the ballot. No wonder meT
| become proficient at the hitting game
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03
wHEN TEDDY COMES TO BAT.


Much has been said of our National Game,
of fans" that root for their pets;
OF the strikes and balls, of flies and falls,
that often result in bets,
The greatest game in Nineteen Sixteen Will
be played on the national mat.
a ravin' when Teddy" comes to the
bat.
1t don't make much difference who umpires
the game, most anyone will do,
The fans will yell. 60 on and play, Hey
there, Woodrow. Why howdy you
The umpire shouts, THAT makes three
outs. don't try any more Of that"
For you've got to tote square in this game
for fair, it's Teddy" who's at the
bat
He's been after bugs, after fauna and flow
ers, has battled with animals fierce,
All countries and chimes, among mountains
and pines, new places and rivers to
Now he returns and the whole nation
to ,s greet stoh him. wi fs
they shout toss into the diamond
that hat"
The Republican mine" has had quite a
time with Cummins, Du Pont, Hughes
and Root,
ground, have even talked some OF
Smoot,
blamed bunch who doesn't look
mighty fiat
As compared to that red-DlOooed AMERICAN
our Teddy" who comes to the bat
He's the one of them all to depend on this
fall to stir up the patriots aright
We will "watchfully wait the guidance OF
Fate" cause he cannot keep out of
the fight,
A loyal American, he is the man who will
line them all up standing pat,
And we'll win the home run and with
trouble be done when Teddy comes
out to the bat.
His recommendation may beat all creation
az a cure for race suicide.
But taking his Judgment on the kind for
President fails, for that has been
tried,
So TO tally score and avoid horrid war
and swipe out the Nine Democrat,
Let's all pull together in fair and foul
weather and demand that Ted come
to the bat.
prince of Peace" Bryan will keep on q
tryin' to put someone out on fly.
woodrow has waited" until he's belated
back to Dear Princeton" must HE
The Democrat Nine all along down the line
will seek out their old habitat,
They will ever remember The ldes oil
November" for Teddy" will come
~ 'iie IRWIN A. STRAUSS.
Kansas City, Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03

Fol, some minutes after Mrs. Cater
come up to the pile of rubbish where
her eggs were buried, Miss Chameleon
watched her from behind leaf under
which she had hidden. But Mrs. Ga
ter was pretty big and clumsy in her
movements and Miss Chameleon was
rather tiny. so she soon decided that
She could see quite enough from her
favorite tree
NO use in my staying where
might be trampled on" she sensibly
thought "Fll run up my tree. There
7 can see as much as here and be safe
too. Alligators don't climb trees-I
am sure of that, even if I don't know
anything about their eggs.
So up the tree she climbed; she set
tied herself comfortably and looked
around-just in time to see Mrs. Cater
leaving the pile and waddling clumsily
off to the creek
NOW that's funny thing for her
to do,' exclaimed Miss Chameleon in
disgust. land lust when 1 am nicely
settled to watch her, too. 1 thought
mothers always stayed by their eggs.
How am 1 ever to learn about her if
she goes off that way before L can
watch her,
But all Miss Chameleon's disap-
pointment didn't bother Mrs. Cater.
She waddled off TO the creek and
slipped down into the water 'ksplash
with a satisfied air of having done her
full duty.
As soon as she was out of sight,
Miss Chameleon remembered her hun
ger 'To be sure l was going to get
me some ants from that pile" she said
land now III be afraid to go into the
bottom of it, for there's no telling
when that Mrs. Cater may come back.
1 fancy I'd better find me some ants
on a tree. That next one there seems
to have some on its trunk"
Lii f-Cv he e-Ix<x
was on and up the other Sure
enough. There were ants a-plenty
to be found. Her long, worm-like
tongue was kept busy darling in and
out, and always it brought back a fine
morsei for Miss Chameleon to swal-
/ low.
So busy was she eating that she
didn't realize how high up the tree
she was climbing till she found her
| self at the front door of an owls nest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03

Cover closely and bake two hours, turning
after first hour. Serve on platter and
strain around sauce. Sauce: One-fourth
cup butter one-fourth cup flour, four cups
water in which tongue was cooked. Salt,
pepper; teaspoonful Worcestershire
sauce, ~ cups stewed and strained to-
matoes may be used in place of some of
the water. brown butter, add flour and
stir together until well Drowned; Add
gradually the water, seasoning and Wor-
chestershire sauce
Turban of Tunny-Two and one-half
cups faxed funny, III cups milk, one slice
onion. nne-fourth cup flour. one-hah tea
spoon salt, one-thfrd teaspoon pepper,
lemon juice, yolks of two eggs, wo-thirds
Gun buttered cracker crumbs. Scald milk
with onion, mace, parsley; remove season.
ing Melt butter, add flour, salt, pepper
and gradually the milk, then add eggs
slightly beaten. Put layer of fish in
buttered dish, sprinkle with salt and pep
per and add lemon juice. Cover with snuce
Cover with bread crumbs and bake in hot
oven until crumbs are brown.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03

sense-which is always an exclusive
and timid sense If our premise is the
need for that kind of universal service
which will have military preparedness
only as a by-product, and whose pri-
mary aim is to create devotion to the
great society which bore us and which
sustains us, and yet our conclusion is
borrowing a system of service based
upon mutual fear and the necessity of
defense. our intelligence is not even
hyphenated Americanism. 1t rs unal-
Logged Europeanism.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03

Late in the afternoon, Wise Mr..
Owl stuck his head out from the hole
in the tree and called, who? Who-o7
Who-o-o-?"
OF course Miss Chameleon thought
he meant her. so she replied, Its
Miss Chameleon come to see you. Wise
Mr. Owl. And will you please tell me
why Mrs. Cater lays her eggs in a
rubbish pile"
Wise Mr.. Owl bIinked in the waning
sunlight and eyed Miss Chameleon
seriously. Then he replied, Because
she knows that the rubbish will decay
when it lies in the sun. And the de-
caying will make heat. And the heat
will hatch her eggs. Eggs laid in rub
bish hatch quicker than those buried
in sand. Wise Mrs. Cater knows
that" = Copyright - Clara Ingram
Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03
CoNsCRIPTIoN is EUROPEAN.

We need a new and more political
Emerson to warn us against intellect
ual and moral imitativcness, writes
John Dewey in the New Republic
Under the guize of a more effective
Americanization of the members of
our social body, we are called upon to
introduce aims and methods pro-
foundly hostile to those habitual en-
deavors and social relationships which
alone will ever constitute us a distinc-
tive nation in any but territorial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03
Journal Entries

Few mistakes are made that cannot
be readily rectified.
= - =
Most folks vacations away from
home are generally about as long as
their pocketbooks.
+ =
If secrets are not designated as such
there is less chance that they will be
disclosed.
+ = j.
1t is safe to set man down as be-
ing fussy if he carries his change
around in little purse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03

How careless of a few lawyers in
Kansas and elsewhere to overlook
such golden opportunities. In the
neighborhood of only thirty lawyers
are concerned in one way or another
with the cases in which are involved
the affairs of the Kansas Natural Gas
company. incidentally, and of course,
none of them represents the gas-con-
sumers, except, perhaps, in most per
functorY WAY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03

President Wilson's dictum is that
the United States soldiers shall re-
main in their present positions in Mex
leo, and as there is apparently nothing
in particular for them to do there
now, this is little more than a con-
tinuation of the "watchful waiting
policy except that it is transferred
across the Rio Grande instead of be-
ing confined to this side of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03

May Day was ushered in with
out any serious labor disturbances
throughout the country and also with
out any blooms for the kiddies' May
baskets. with the exception of a few
wood vioIets and dandelions. And it
was too chilly for even the dandelions
to show up in their best form.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03

: What a rage the real Irish patriots
must be in over the faux pas COM
mitted by the Sim Fem rebels? 1t
probably sets back the hands of their
Home Rule clock for a considerable
period, if not for all time And this
dream of Irish generations was near
ing frultion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03

Such thoughtlessness. How can the
Scandia, Kan, farmer expect any ans
Wers to his ad for a farm hand with
an offer of $50 month and board
-and the use of a driving horse and
buggy" In the line of extras the
modern farm hand is probably sat
isfied with nothing less than the use
of high-powered runabout.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03

With all kinds of labor better en-
ployed all over the country than has
been the case in a long time, there
may be some grounds for fear over a
wheat harvest hand shortage in Kan
sas But that Kansas wheat crop will
be-harvested in some fashion. 1t al
WAYS is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03
MORE ABOUT THE ALLIGATOR EGGS.

I Now here's my chance" she
thought; III lie here till Wise Mr..
Owl wakes up. Then I'll ask him
about Mrs. Cater and her eggs" SO
she stretched herself Gall brown as
she was by now, of course) along the
way of the bark and waited for the
owl to come out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03

s An unusual number of automobile
Of the collision variety, are happening
in Topeka and its vicinity these days.
Only one lesson can be drawn from
them. TOO many Automobiles are
not using the caution and care that
they should in the operation of their
cars. And the heavier the hand of the
law descends upon them, the better
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03

ANOTHER general rule is that those
who are quickest to demand fair play
for themselves are the very ones who
do not always accord it to others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03

Embellishments fall also suggests
that the British have suffered more
than their share of the reverses of the
great European war.