The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-12

hard labor in the Occoquan Work
| house in Virginia. She was later par
| doned by President Wilson. AS there
! is no law against picketing the White
| House, the charge brought aga
! the women is that of obstructing
traffic.
! Gould you not have paid a fine
and escaped imprisonment? ?" Miss Cal
derhead was asked this morning.
Yes" she said, I'VE could have
| paid our fine, but that would have
been an admission of guilt We had
! been allowed to carry our banners be-
| fore the White House for a long
! while, but suddenly one morning, as
we marched down the street, the po
! liceman ordered us to stop. We are
Americans, and our constitution gives
1 US right to march in procession and
i to petition our government. So we
| marched along anyhow, and were ar
rested. The banners we carry are of
white, purple and gold, and OCCASION
| ally they are inscribed with words
from the constitution. When the
sons and brothers of the women of
i the nation are going abroad to carry
democracy to the old world, it seems
| to US that we have right to demand
| democracy for the new world. The
president himself told u.s. when we
petitioned him last year, to go out
and get our cause before the Ameri-
! can people. 1t is, therefore, upon his
(
| desires. 1t is estimated that 10000
/ tourists from all over America, pass
! thru Washington every day These
( visitors all go to look at the White
/ House. Our picket is a most lovely
and decorative affair, with the beauti-
/ full, colorful banners. Pictures of this
! picket are taken by visitors constantly
and they are carried out all over the
country. The moving picture COM
panies have been photographing our
| unit
were censored and our pictures re-
moved by the government, we got the
publicity that goes with the moving
picture business. with its patrons
numbering about two million daily
all over the country. We feel that
we have chosen the most effective
way possible of following the presi-
dents counsel.
We are constantly criticised for
bringing this matter before the law
makers when they are supposed to be
crowded with other business The
fact is that congress met all summer
three days a week for a few minutes
daily. We did not feel that thew were
particularly rushed. If we do not get
this before the public in the way we
are getting it, how can we keep our
cause before the American people. Our
plan is simply saving the suffrage
movement from oblivion. We are not
afraid of our actions becoming pub
lie. If our cause is baSically Just it
will survive criticism. and win over
the adverse critic"
Miss Calderhead is to be in Kansas
a few weeks, spending a part of her
! time in Topeka, part in Wichita, and
visiting her people at Marysville. She
will be the guest of Miss Edna Hop
kins a part of the time she is in To-
/ peka. She and Miss Hopkins were
classmates at the Kansas university
! Miss Calderhead has a delightfully."-
composed way of discussing the pick
| citing question, that reveals, without
Haunting, the intensity of her pur-
pose and convictions She is a highly
intellectual young woman with degrees
! from the Kansas university, the Chi
cago university and Bryn Mawr.
When arrangements are completed
i for the Woman's party meeting and
| address September IS, announcement
will be made of the place and time
i X x X
! The story of an occurrence which
| took place in Topeka last Sunday, with
| its consequences, listens like a mod
! ern novel, 1t is one of those things
that one so often reads about and so
| seldom sees.
! 1t happened that a Topeka woman
who is noted for her benevolences and
the thousand thoughtful things she
manages to do for others, was one of
the women who assisted at the SOL
dierS' picnic at Gage park Sunday.
After the picnic it occurred to her
| that there would be a good many bits
of food untouched that should be used.
/ She gathered it up, and with the help
/ of another woman, drove with it to the
! Orphans home. There the little faces
peering thru the fence quite touched
I her heart The eagerness of the chill
dren to help carry the things into the
| house, and their appetite for the
| goodies" impressed the minds of the
women who remembered the children
with the offering from the feast. Well,
now that ends Act 1.
/ Two days elapsed, and a wealthy
| stockman, who sat in our legislative
/ halls in Topeka, came down for the
+. fair. He is acquainted with one of
i the women who were the good angels
4 of the orphans. He had a melancholy
/ story to tell her of the big empty
/ house on his ranch, which had just
/ been built. The home was erected in
i elaborate fashion for nicce who had
lately been killed in an automobile ac-
cident, and for the three sons of the
| family, all of whom have gone to the
war. 1t is a lonely hearthstone on the
ranch with only the man and his wife
to keep it cheerful. The listener to
/ this sad tale had an inspiration. She
bundled her guest straight off to the
II Orphans Home and pointed out to
him the place where paths might
cross for the childless home and the
homeless child. The man saw the
point in a hurry, PICKED out a bright
looking boy and made him his own.
His plan is to come back in a few
days and take the boys little sister.
who also lives at the home. Thus