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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-08
Looking Blackboard In State
Journal Society Column
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

Mrs. ]. c. McClintock and daughter.
Ruth, are spending few days in Kansas
City.
Mrs. o. G. Miller has gone to San An
tonic. Texas, to spend the winter.
Mrs. A 2. Wilder returned from Kansas
City last evening.
Mrs. Littlefield and daughter, Franc,
spent yesterday in Kansas City.
The following society girls will assist at
Grace Cathedral Christmas market: Miss
Edna Crane, Miss Georgianna WATSON, Miss
Annie Jones, Miss Roberta WATSON and
Miss Lillian Whitelock.
Miss Lenna Short spent yesterday in
Kansas City.
The Bunglers will give a dancing party
next Saturday evening.
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She's First Woman Conductor.
New York, Dec. S.-The first woman
conductor for New York's surface
cars made her first run today on a
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES avenue car
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father. Mr.. T. B. Sweet, and his sisters.
Miss Susie Sweet and MISS Ahhe
Sweet. -,
DIR. Lillian Malone, Osteopatn' ooA
Mills Buiiding.--Adv.
Mrs. Charles Otis will return next
week from a motor trip in southern
Kansas with her daughter. Mrs. Fra
ger Cole and Mr.. Cole of Girard-
Shamuooing, hair dressing ana
manicuring. 734 Kansas avenue. Phone
1472.-Adv.
Mrs. c. G. Colburn will go to iowa
next week for a visit to relatives
Dr. Wilson Hobart. who has the
rank of captain in the army VIII go
to Fort Leavenworth next week
where he has been assigned to duty
Miss Anne Sweet is on trip IN
northwestern Kansas in the interests
of the Y. w. c. A.
Miss Shinn, chiropodist. Special at
tention given arch troubles 7S4 KAN
sas avenue. Phone 1472.-Adv
Mr.. Kenneth Lyle of Tulsa, Okla,
will spend Christmas with the J. r.
Lyle family in Topeka.
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Davis, Mr.. and
Mrs. Dana Davis, Mr.. and Mrs. Arch
Catlin, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Scott Da-
Wis and Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Van Pet
ten have returned from a trip to kan
sas City.
Shampooing grey hair our speciality.
734 Kansas avenue. Phone 1472.-
Adv
Miss Lucille Gilmore and Miss Lu-
cile Bomgardner are visiting the girls
at the Chi Omega house in Lawrence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-08

the war service cards. Colorado has
not yet had their registration day.
The woman's committee for Kansas
| IS planning to hold a state meeting in
Iopeka Monday, January %, the day
preceding Kansas Day. 1t is expected
that many women from over the state
who are interested in the work of the
council will be in the city to attend
the Woman's Kansas Day club meet
ing, and these women will be invited
to be present at the session of the
woman's committee. The heads of
some of the departments of the wom-
ans committee will be asked to make
addresses. Dean Mary Pierce Van
! Zile, of the State Agricultural college,
who is at the head of one of the COM
mittee's departments, will be asked to
speak; also DR.. Lydia Allen Devil
bliss who heads tie committees de-
| partment of child welfare, will be
given place on the program. and
also Miss Lima Bresette, head of the
committees department for the well
fare OF women workers. Mrs. c. H
Brooks, of Wichita, who is chairman
for Sedgwick county, will be asked to
make an address, and other speakers
will be heard at that meeting The
committee has a department also to
assist in Red Cross work, and some
| interesting reports on the activities of
the Red Cross will be made by Mrs
Charles Brooks Thomas and Mrs. Jack
| Dillon.
All war relief and patriotic work
among the women of the state is ex-
| pected, by the authorities of the gov
eminent, to be co-ordinated with the
womans committee of the National
| Council of Defense, which is the only
organization of its kind formed and
operated under the direct orders of
the United States government.
All departments of war relief work
which is dealt with thru some branch
of the committee is to receive the
united support and assistance of the
committee; thus the Red Cross branch
of the committee does all in its mower
! to assist the national Red Cross society
/ in its various branches over the conn
try, wherever the woman'S committee
has an organiza ton.
President Woodrow Wilson has
ordered the creation of a committee
on public informe ton, to be the an
thorized channel for the dissemina-
/ ton of official news of war activities.
and this committee is forming a refer
ence library for the record of the ac-
tivities of women in war work. The
information for this bureau, so far as
womens work is Concerned, has its
only official source in the woman's
committee of each state. Other or
CARNATIONS attempting to furnish any
Such information will not be recog-
nized as authoritative.
The Colorado women with whom
MRS. Mulvane conferred during her
absence were especially interested in
the plan the Kansas branch of the
committee has adopted in appointing
as its department heads professional
leaders in the various fields covered
This plan enables the committee 10
operate thru organizations and insti-
tutlons already existing in a strong
and active condition
X X
THERE'S A MAN IN OUR TOWN
Who dotes on Mary Pickford as
moving picture star He eniovs his
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The n. n. S. club will be entertained
by Mrs. E. B. Sewell. jr., 1905 Lin
coin street, Tuesday afternoon.
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The w. T. X. club will meet Tues.
day afternoon with f1rs. w. H. Davis
903 Western avenue
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The Day Nursery club will meet
Thursday afternoon with Mrs. George
p. Whitteker and Mrs. Horace Wilkie.
at Mrs. Wilkes home, 1921 Clay
street The members are asked to
take their thimbles with them to the
meeting, as Red Cross work will be
done.
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CLUB NOTES.

The Big Sister Military club will
meet Monday afternoon, December 10,
at the home of Miss Jane Elizabeth
Jones. The evening will be spent in
preparing Christmas box for the men
of the medical Attachment of the Field
Artillery now encamped at Fort Doni-
phan.
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Notes and Personal Mention

Miss Ruth Raster has left for Fort
Sill. Okla. to visit her brother, Lieut.
John Raster.
Mr.. William Macferran. who is a
student in the Pennsylvania univer-
sity, will spend Christmas with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. NJ. Macfer-
ran.
Henry H. Hail. New York Life
Adv.
Lieut.. John T. Boyle is visiting Mrs.
Boyle at the home of her sister, Mrs.
A. ]. Carruth. jr. Lieutenant Boyle
has been transferred from Ca mp Fun
ston to Camp johnson. Jacksonville,
Fla, and will leave Sunday for his
new post. Mrs. Boyle expects to join
him later,
Judge Lee Monroe returned this
afternoon from a trip of four weeks
to Texas. Mr.. Cyrus Monroe will ar
rive home Sunday from Hays, Kan
Chancellor Frank Strong and Dean
F. w. Blackmar of the Kansas univer-
sity were in Topeka for the funeral Of
Mr.. Scott Hopkins.
Mr.. Paul Sweet of New York Will
spend the Christmas season with his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-08
THERE'S A MAN IN ORR TOWN

Who dotes on Mary Pickford as a
moving picture star. He enjoys his
visits to the movies when she is to
appear more than at any other time
His best girl drags him off to the
picture show at frequent intervals. and
always during the Pickford perform
ance, he slumbers serenely from the
time the machine buzzes in the Pick
ford curls until the screen announces
THE End"
=
The music for the morning and af-
ternoon services at Grace Cathedral
Sunday, will be as follows:
Organ Prelude. Selected
Mrs. J. H. Campbell
Anthem .Maunder
oh How Amiable.
Choir.
The Chariots of the Lord
Mr. Hugh c. nickerson
Vesper Service 100 p. IN.
Organ Prelude. observation-disclosures Selected
Mrs. J. ii. Campbell.
Nunc l)lmittls- -.----. -trounod
Anthem .Gounod
Grant Us Thy Peace
Choir
Offertory Observation-Disclosures. Gaul
Duet: Miss Jeanette Price and Mrs
Hugh c. Dickerson.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12
OWN YOUR HOME
WHY BE A TENANT IN THE
MIDST OF OPPORTUNITY7
Campaign Getting Under Way in
Denver and Wage-Earners Are
Waking Up to Owning Homes

The county recorders office stated
this week that the first three months
Of this year were the biggest in the
history Of that Office since 1912.
D. {. Burns. president OF the real
estate bureau. announces that March
was the biggest month in the matter
Of sales that their bureau has known
in FIVE years.
The wage Garner is waking TO the
fact that by a monthly payment Of no
more than average rental he can own
his own home in a short time.
The man Of means is beginning to
realize that real estate is the one
permanent investment
The speculator. with keen eye on
the future, sees that our increasing
population must be housed and that
rents are advancing.
The own your own home" cam
paign is booming, and not with the
aid Of faith, hope and charity, but
backed by hard. cold facts.
We have had knockers. Probably,
like the poor. they will be with us al
WAYS, but ninety-nine times out of n
hundred the man who knocks Denver
real estate doesn't own even half n
lot He is one of the drifters-the
renting fioatcr-without stability or
financial interest. -,
The reasons why man should build
or buy are many The reasons why
he should rcnt-wcll, there aren't any.
for he cannot rent a home. shelter
a roof-ycs But not home.
Our government is actively teach
ing, preaching and practising prepar-
edncss. Preparedness for what? For
the unfolding of our national ideals
and the protection of our homes.
The best soldier is the man who is
fighting for something tangible. for
something which he has earned, for
which he has saved and that he has
made his own. This man will hcht
with n passion and n purpose that
cannot be dampened. II there were
not n thousand reasons why the move
ment to own your own home should
interest you, bear in mind that your
patriotic duty is also involved.
President Wilson is calling on every
man and woman to do their individ-
ual duty in the crisis confronting us
today. Our first step is to own our
own home.
Have you taken the first step?
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12
SINGLE TAX NDECLARED A FAILURE
BY CANADIAN OFFICER OF UNIONLABOR

Proof of the utter failure of single
tax in Canada and British Columbia
comes to Denver in a communication
from f. c. Wade. kings counsel in
Vancouver, British Columbia.
Mr.. Wade relates that in Vancouver
from 1895 to 1905. fifty per cent of
improvements We're exempted from
taxation, from 1906 to 1909, seventy
per cent, and in 1910 all improvements
were exempt.
The period from 1905 to 1912 in the
Canadian Northwest was one of eNcep-
tional growth and development due to
various contributing causes, among
others the booming of the country by
the Canadian Pacific railway and the
Canadian government, each of which
went so far in its efforts to build up
the country as to loan $4,000 to each
homesteader to aid him in bringing
his land under cultivation. The direct
result of this systematic booming was
tremendous influx of new settlers
from other parts of Canada and from
the United States.
During that time building permits
| in Vancouver increased from 50 .65S 900
to Sl9.3SS,322. Other cities in west
crn Canada. believing that Vancou-
ver's growth was due to the magic
touch of single tax, promptly followed
in the wake of that city and proceeded
to exempt improvements from taxa
tion.
Then came the crash. Single tax
was working to its full capacity when
in 1918 the rate of building in Van
couvcr dropped to Sl0.42S,197, n de-
crease Of nearly fifty per cent. and in
| 1914 to less than $4,000, 900, n decrease
of practically seventy per cent. 9th
Ter cities Of the Northwest which had
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12

democratically selected, to at least one
hundred thousand persons. a house to
house canvass should be made for jury
lists in precisely the same way as the
city directory is compiled.
In Kansas City We have a close
approach to a democratically select
ed jury, where the names are taken
tax roll. 1t is a matter of such vast
Importance for the fair administration
of law that an efficient method should
be adopted TO get the name of every
qualified juror in a large wheel, from
which all jurors could be drawn for
the trial of both civil and criminal
cases.
-. Laws should be enacted in all
the states and by the United States
congress covering interstate COM
merce, making it an offense punish
able both by fine and Imprisonment to
discharge a man or woman or dis
criminate against them in any way
on account of joining or belonging to
a labor organization. These laws
should be practically the same as the
Kansas law, which was declared un-
constitutional by the supreme court
of the United States, the judges there
of being divided in their opinion.
Bad Conditions Unfair"
as. A federal law should be passed
making it mandatory upon the federal
trade commission to declare any cor
poration or manufacturing concern
guilty of unfair competition in trade.
unless such concern has contractual
relations with an organization of its
employees democratically selected along
the present lines of union organiza-
ton and with whom contracts or
agreements could be made fixing
wages. hours and conditions of labor.
sc. That no person be allowed to
work in any industry for more than
eight hours per day and for six days
per week.
~. That law be passed making
it mandatory upon the federal tariff
commission to withdraw the dement's
of any protection of tariff duty from
any article or articles manufactured
by any concern that does not have
regular union. organized along pres
ent trade union or similar lines thru
which contracts and agreements are
made for wages, hours of labor and
working conditions.
"All of these suggestions are along
what may be termed strictly political
lines. When we consider, however,
that the present unjust system IS
maintained largely thru the aid and
manipulation of the law and courts,
these new declarations of liberty
should be the gateway for those eco
nomic changes without which life Is
scarcely worth the living for the
great majority of men and women.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12
HER ANSWER.

The pretty girl of the party was
bantering the genial bachelor on his
reasons for remaining single.
"No-o-o, l never was exactly dis
appointed in love-" he meditated. Il
was more what you might call dis
couraged. You see, when l was very
young 1 became very much enamored
of young lady of my acquaintance;
l was mortally afraid to tell her of
my feeling, but at last 1 screwed up
my courage to the proposing point.
l said, Let's get married
"And she said, Good Lordi Who'd
have us!' "-Everybody's.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12
Especial CorrespondenoeD

NEW YORK CITY, May THE
following Charter of Freedom" con-
corning labor's position, rights and
obligations in the immediate time, was
written by Frank p. Walsh, chairman
of the committee on industrial rela-
tions, for the May number of the
American Railway Employees journal:
In view of the wide circle of de-
mocracy growing out of the war, such
as the shaking off of the Romanoff in
Russia and the insistent demand for
more genuine democracy in Eng
land; with the mighty protest against
the German autocrat, what will be the
contribution of America in the on
ward march toward the genuine free
dom of mankind? ?
THE old political bulwarks have
become obsolete. Our advance must
be the winning of industrial freedom.
The word liberty has a vastly diff
fcrcnt meaning today from what it
had when the original thirteen colo
mics threw off the English yoke. We
fear no monarch, and are not threat
ened by an individual autocrat. The
autocracy which enslaves the mil
lions of today is based upon money,
and its representatives are the mas
ters of industry. A new charter of
human liberty must be the following:
Ask Court TO Abdicate.
al. That the supreme court of the
United States. and the supreme courts
of the several states. should at once
abdicate the autocratic power which
they have usurped, in declaring laws
passed by the people to be unconsti-
tutional and void.
80. A general amnesty should be
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12

followed the false doctrine of single
takers suffered similar decreases in
building operations and the govern
mcnt structures built on the fiimsy
foundation of single tax collapsed with
dull, sickening thud.
Since 1912 the Canadian Northwest
has seen practically no development
and Mt last the people have come to n
realization of their sad mistake. For
n time they prospered IN spite of sim
gle tax under abnormal conditions due
to the booming of the country, but
since their return to normal condi-
tions and the ending Of the boom, the
deadly effects of single tax are plainly
to be seen.
As to the claim Of the single tax
agitators that their pet theory is a
boon to the laboring classes, Mr., Wade
has this to say:
"Do not imagine that the actual
effects have entirely escaped the at
tention of the working man. In June,
1914. delegation of the Trades and
Labor Council of Vancouver, consist
ing of the president, vice president and
chairman of the parliamentary COM
mittee. gave evidence before the high
cost of living commissioners, sent out
by the federal government to conduct
inquiries. The vice president, Mr.. Nc
Vety, was asked if the Vancouver sys-
tenn of single tax had been of benefit
to the laboring classes. His reply was
that the single tax system did the
working class no good and it fell rela-
lively hard on the poor man, whose
property is not improved, or if i'm
proved is but slightly so. Wages here
have remained the same and from the
laboring mans standpoint single tax
had not been of benefit"
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12
COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE URGES
INDUSTRIAL STANDARDS MAINTAINED
All Set Aside Protective Existing Labor Laws Are
Be Contested; Important Conference Held on This
Subject With Officials
Representatives Present

that capital has no right to inter-
fere with workingmen organizing la
Dor any more than the workingman
has right to interfere with the capi-
talists organizing capital. The two
are on a parity on that point, and SO
my feeling is that in the present
emergency the employer has no right
to interfere with you in your efforts
to organize the workers into unions,
just as you have no right to inter
fere with capitalists organizing capi-
tai into corporation. If you can get
a condition where efforts to organize
the workers are not interfered with
and where a scale of wages is recog-
nized that maintains the present stand
ard of living, it occurs to me that
for the time being no stoppage of
work should take place for the pur-
pose of forcing recognition of the
union. OF course, that would not in
terfere with the employers and your
selves entering into any arrangement
for recognition that might be mutually
agreeable.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12
SHE WAS ENLIGHTENED

The sympathetic prison visitor
went from cell to cell interviewing
the inmates. To one penitent looking
individual she put the usual question;
what brought you here ?"
borrowing money, lady," was the
reply. -.
But, good gracious!" she, eX-
claimed, they don't put people IN
prison for borrowing money!"
Not ordinarily" said the man
but | had to knock man down three
or four times before he would lend II
to me-"
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12
A JAUNpICEp ATMOSPHERE.

Naval Secretary Daniels said at a
dinner in Washington:
Our friends views are jaundiced.
Is he aware the navy is shooting bet
ter than it ever did?
"Our friend lives in an atmosphere
as jaundiced as that wherein the
schoolmaster said:
"A synonym for Friends" please.
Money" the pupil answered.
Quite right, said the schoolmas-
ter !"
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12
LABOR'S CHARTER OF FREEDOM COMES
ASBULWARKS OF AUTOCRACY BREAK
Walsh Says Widening Circle Democracy Growing Out
O War Marks March of Human Liberty; Sug-
gests Some Necessary Reforms in Estab-
fishing This New Era in America.

declared, liberating all industrial pris-
oners of war now confinel in jails and
penitentiaries thruout the United
States.
THE number of men and women
thus confined thruout the United
States will be found to be simply ap-
palling; many of them convicted for
alleged violations of Injunction; many
on trumped-up charges of crime thru
the state courts, and many under city
ordinances.
"3. That no man shall hereafter be
held to have lost his liberty or prop
erty by due process Of law unless all
questions of fact in his case have been
passed upon by jury democratically
selected.
by this is meant that a jury in
every court, state and federal, must
be drawn from jury wheel which con-
tains the name Of every qualified
Juror in the county or district in
which the case is tried.
'TIn virtually every jurisdiction in
the United States, even where prop
erty qualification does not exist, the
assumption is indulge that some Off
cial has the right to select so-called
good jurors
Trial by Jury a Mockery.
"Trial by jury is 4 sham and mock
cry unless every man, high and low,
rich and poor. is eligible to jury serv-
ice and actually serves in his turn.
The jury list from which the jury was
drawn that sent Tom Mooney to death
in San Francisco was taken from a
list of approNimately two thousand
persons. selected by the judges. The
jury list in San Francisco should
amount at the lowest estimate. if
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12
KNEW wHAT HE WAS DOING.

The Photographer-Me heav-
ems. Mr.. Spiffkin, can't you look mt
tie more cheerful?
Mr.. Spifkin-Not for this picture.
TIM to send IL to my wife, who is away
on visit, and if looked too cheerful
she'll take the first train home.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12
TUESDAY, MAY Is

Mr.. Cochran is thoroly familiar
with all phases of City and County
economy, courtesy and service are
as member of the City Council.
deputy County Clerk. acting as
Clerk to the County Commission
ers and as Secretary to the Civil
Service Commission.
He believes tn at efficiency,
economy, courtesy and servise are
what the people want and are
entitled to from a public official
and promises the same careful,
thoro and impartial supervision
and control of the Auditors
Office that has marked his con-
duct of other positions he has held.
As n home owner and taxpayer
in Denver for more than twenty
five years, Mr.. Cochran has al
ways had the material interests
of the city at heart.
He asks the votes of all who
desire an intelligent, impartial
and independent management of
the Auditors Ofiice.-Adv.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12
MERE TRIFLE.

A girl student, in taking leave OF
her college dean, said: "GOod-by, pro-
fessor. I shall not forget you! l am
indebted to you for all l know
"Oh, beg of you," replied the pro-
fessor, don't mention such tritie!"
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12

Try a Principe de Lees cigar for an
after-dinner smoke. Union made.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12
WED AND WON.

Wunce-He lost all he had in Wall
street, but later he married widow
with three million dollars.
TWICE. see. Lost on the stocks
but won on the bonds-The Lamb.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12

Beats them all. La Belle sc cigar
union made in Denver.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12

See Dairymen's Association ad OIL
Twin Page.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12

See Dairymen's Association ad o.
Twin Page.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-12

Beats them all. La Belle &C cigar
union made in Denver.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-14

Your gift of furniture will
not be appreciated for day
only, but it's years of useful
ness will be a constant re-
hinder of your esteem