The Springdale news., 1917-02-02

that the note was to be delivered to the public and informed them that In the late afternoon they would expect "a statement" to be released for pub- iication shortly thereafter.
 In his testimony Secretary Lansing said he had discovered, since the day that he gave this advance information to the newspaper men on the forth coming statement, that three persons were in the room who were not news paper men. Later the names of these men were given and each one made separate ayowal that he had not dis closed anything that he had heard during the interchange between the secretary and the correspondents.
 lt has been the custom of the secre- tarf of state to meet the newspaper correspondents in the big reception room of the state department. Il room into which visitors on sightseeing bent ordinarily are admitted There are q great many newspaper eorrespond- ents in Washington and hot all of them are known personally to the secretary of state. It would have been a com paratively easy matter it all times for an outsider to obtain admission to the room in which these conferences are held. II is probable that in the fu- ture the secretary will talk to the newspaper men under q more ade- quate cover.
 Former Secretaries More Cautious.
 Always in past years it has been m extremely difficult thing for an unau- therized person to enter the precincts where confidential conference be tween the officials of government and newspaper correspondents is to be ear ried on. Mir. Lansing is the first sec retar1 of state for many years at least who chose to talk in the big outside room.
 When the president holds his one daY-a-week talks with newspaper cor respondents there are four checks. Yes, one might say five checks, on ad- mission There are secret service men on duty at the White House of fees in the morning when the presi- dentfs there present These men know all the Washington correspondents by sight When the writers enter the round office room in which the presi- dent meets them they pass by the secret service man who stands at the door and scans each face as it's pos sesSor walks in.
 With the president when he talks to newspaper men almost invariably are Joseph r. Humility. his private seere- tars Rudolph Forster, executive clerk, and Thomas N. Brahany. chief clerk. In addition there is stenog- rapher who takes down the questions which are asked the president and the presidents answers thereto.
 Pretty Suffrage Tickets.
 Twelve silent woman sentinels. six of them bearing banners. have been standing in front of the gates giving entrance to the White House grounds. The banners read, MT Wilson. what are you going to do for woman suf- fragefe
 The young women who carry the banners are young and good-looking The banners are yellow, white and purple. and altogether the thing is pleasing picture. Of course the action of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, which formulated and carried through this plan for bringing Mr. Wilson's attention to the cause in hand has been criticized sharply here in Washington, and let haste be made to say 1t also has been upheld by many suffrage sympathizers
 It is not the intention of this news article to deal with the merits or de merits of woman suffrage. Some of the doings of the suffragists, however can be told with propriety and might be told with extreme pieturesqueness if the writer's pen were equal to the undoubtedly picturesque features ot the movement as 1t is conducted in this town.
 The house committee on judiciary has. turned in two reports on the sub ject of submitting the federal suffrage amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The majority of the committee ordered the report without recommendation one way or the other The minority members put in report of their own and it is favorable to tht cause of the women. The saffragists in getting the matter before the house in whatever form, have won an initia victory. As for the future not ever the women can tell.
 Two Organizations, One Aim.
 There are two organizations of sui fragists represented in Washington ably represented and in considerable part, let one who wants to be gallan say. beautifully represented. There is the National American Woman Suf frage association, and then there is th' Congressional Union for Woman Suf frage. Both bodies of women are striv 1 ing for the same end, but each is talk i ing different route to reach it.
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