The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05
SOCIETY
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No one should be permitted to pro-
mote or advertise an entertainment or
like function as a Red Cross entertain
ment benefit unless one is sure the
management or control is entirely in
the hands of the Red Cross chapter.
If, after due investigation, those Of
fering to conduct entertainments for
the benefit of the Red Cross are found
to be entirely reliable and acting in
good faith, they may be permitted to
make announcement in the press or
otherwise of their intention to donate
the proceeds of the entertainment to
the. Red Cross but the entertainment
should not be advertised as Red
Cross benefit or Red Cross entertain
ment, nor any wording used in the
announcements that would lead the
public to believe that it is being given
under the auspices of the Red Cross
or that the Red Cross is in any way
connected with or responsible for its
mana cement.
In no instance should the use of the
Red Cross emblem in announcing or
advertising an entertainment be au-
thorized except in the case of such en-
tertainments as are actually managed
and controlled by the Red Cross chap
ter.
Some civic workers of the East got
the surprise of their young lives late
ly, when they wrote a letter to the
Good Government club of Topeka, bid.
ding them send representatives to a
great City Beautiful convention in
Kansas City May Z, and 8. 1t seems
that they made the painful error of
mistaking the club for an organiza-
ton of men. They assumed that all
civic workers in the West were men,
because those who have any influence
in that direction down East are men.
But these fasteners came over the
Mississippi to hold their convention in
Kansas City, and comforting with the
midwestern people on the subject,
they became aware that nearly all the
civic organizations in this part of the
country are women's societies. 1t be-
came necessary, then, to invite the wo-
men to the meeting. However, the
program is furnished entirely by men
Among the Topeka clubs invited to
send delegates are: The Good Gov
eminent club, Womans club, Vignette
Western Sorosis, and the Nine
teen Hundred and Now club. Mrs. Lee
Monroe is one of the Topeka women
who expect to attend the convention.
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Some Topeka mothers of young high
school and college girls are breathing
easy after quite a spell of worry over
the friendship of their daughters for
a certain good looking, dashing chap,
new to our town, who has been beau
ing some of them around bit After a
while it became hoised about among
the young people that the man was
married. He denied it stoutly, and as
it afterward developed, truthfully, al
tho he is said to have been maintain
ing a HOUSEHOLD and "housekeeper"
after the most approved fashion of the
matrimonial state. The latest news on
the situation is to the effect that he
is about to break up his happy home"
so that he can go about as a free man.
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An official order from the national
Red Cross society has been received
in Topeka, declaring that all entertain
ments from which the Red Cross is to
derive proceeds must be entirely for
the Red Cross. The society does not
think it can divide profits with clubs.
lodges, merchants or any organiZa-
tons The bulletin is as follows:
No offers should be accepted con-
templating a division of profits be-
tween the promoters and the Red
Cross. This rule applies to the manu-
facture and sale of merchandise or
articles of any kind as well as to en-
tertainments-
No one should be permitted to pro-