The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-29
Socialist Advises DIR. Harding
Activities Are 'AH Off.'
Doctors Sister Appeals to PO-
lice to Restrain Her.
U. S. SPECIAL AGENT IN Topeka
District Attorney in Probe of
Sundays Meeting.
Women Ask Congress "What
War Is All About

A sister of DIR. Eva Harding today
appealed to the Topeka police to
forcibly, if necessary. keep DR.. Hard
ing from attending a socialistic, and,
presumably, anti-draft meeting sched-
uled to be held tonight upstairs in the
doctors building at 1928 Kansas ave
nue.. Threats of national guardsmen
to break up the meeting and fear of
personal violence caused the family
Interference and attempted restraint
of DR.. Harding's actions.
The police will have their hands
full to keep me out of my own build
ing" said Dr. Harding. I'm too old
to show the white feather now
But a few minutes later she re-
ceived a telephone message from a
Topeka Socialist, who didn't give his
name.
This you doctor?' he asked. We'll,
we have decided to postpone that
meeting we planned for tonight"
''Oh shoot come on up, the water'll
be fine" said DR.. Harding.
But there will be no socialistic.
anti-draft meeting at that building,
tonight, anyway.
Operatives for Arthur T. Bagley.
special government agent at Kansas
City, are in Topeka today investigating
the meeting held sunday at the Uni
tartan church on Topeka avenue, &C
cording to a statement made by Fred
torney. Mr.. Robertson is in Leaven-
worth and in a talk over long distance
today stated that he would go to KAN
sas City tonight and receive report,
in full, of the Topeka meeting.
Will Prosecute.
You NAV rest assured that if there
is any way that 1 can prosecute them
l will" said Mr.. Robertson.
True to statements made in Topeka
Sunday by Kansas City speakers in
/ a
Edwards of Kansas City and Governor
Gardner of Missouri, to prevent them
from enforcing the draft, have been
filed.
At the same time, United States
Attorney Francis NJ. Wilson in Kansas
CITY. announced that he is consider
ing calling at once a federal grand
Jury to investigate the actions of sew
eral persons in that city accused OF
advising men of military age not to
enroll June 5. Mr.. Wilson said thai
his office had been collecting evidence
against several persons and that ac-
ton would be taken against them
soon.
DeniaIs Come In.
Theodore Wilkie, president of the
Unitarian board of trustees, denied to
day that he had any knowledge con :
corning the nature of the meeting held
at the church Sunday. Chancellor
Frank Strong also denied that the
professor credited by those attending
the meeting as being employed at the
university was a university professor.
THAT man once taught class OF
graduates at the university years ago
but he is not, nor ever has been en-
ployed as a university professor" said
Chancellor Strong.
Petition Congress.
Topeka women are circulating pc
tition to congress asking its members
to repeal the CONSUMPTION bill to tell
them what the wars about and what
the terms of peace will be, according
to a statement made today by DR.. Eva
Harding. That, she declares, is the
| direct object of the meeting tonight
and has been the direct object OF
meetings held in the past, altho other
propositions have been projected by
foreign speakers.
More women die in childbirth
than men in war" DIR. Harding said
today. Statistics prove my state
ment Then. women spend twenty
one years raising their children.
Now after our children are grown
we are advised to be brave, to smile
when they are sent away to war
| Again we are taught safety first to
stop, to look and listen. That's just
what we are doing. We want to know
what it's all about. And then to
have some fellow get up and tell us
to smile when we say goodbye &c
our children"
| The Orpheum Incident.
DR. Harding referred to a meeting
| held at the Orpheum Monday morn
| ing when group of women witnessed
a review of "Womanhood" and heard
descriptive lecture, in which they
were advised to smile and cheer as
their boys marched to the trenches.
And you should have seen some OF
those women clap their hands," sai6
| DR.. Harding.
Not re, you bet. 1 turned to M
partner and said:
Lets hiss and we did, good
and hard.
Throw 'em gut someone cried.
g" Discretion is the better part OF
vaIor,' 1 told my partner, let's gel
out of here, because if I'm going to
| Jail and have to pay a fine, I'll need
all my glad rags and money for thos5
two occasions
They both left the Orpheum thea
ter.