The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03
Resolutions Passed at State
Meeting Here Today.
Order Is Opposed to Making
Future Pay for War.
END SESSION THIS AFTERNOON
Mrs. Mary A. Sipes Heads De-
gree of POcahOntas.
Kansas City, Kan., Gets Next
Great Council.

Consumption of wealth to support
the families and dependents of the
American soldiers and to provide mill
iaary equipment was advocated this
morning in resolutions adopted by the
thirty-fourth annual great council ses-
sion of Red Men and Degree of Poca-
hontas. No bonded Indebtedness for
the nation to finance the war should
be tied upon the American people to
be paid off later by the men of the
nation who return from the war, the
resolutions declare.
Following is the resolution adopted
by the delegates to be sent to the
president of the United States and to
the Kansas men in congress-:
Hunting Grounds of Topeka, Res
ervation of Kansas:
TTo the membership of the great
council of the Improved Order of Red
Men assembled in the hunting grounds
OF Topeka, reservation of Kansas:
Whereas, our government has seen
fit to conscript nearly one million of
our most physically fit young men to
be sent to the front in foreign lands
to maintain the democracy we now en-
JOY and to protect the wealth we pos
sess;
Therefore, be it resolved by this
body that we demand that our ma
tional government also conscript the
wealth of the country to support the
soldiers and their dependents, and also
to furnish them the necessary imple-
ments of warfare.
And Be 1t Further Resolved: That
we are strongly opposed to any sys-
tenn of bonded Indebtedness that will
make 1t necessary for the soldiers who
survive the war to have to come back
to their homes and families and have
n NJ fafI
suffer the burdens of taxation to pav
the principal and Interest on such
bonded debt"
tSigned) Matt Semple. AIvah
Graham. Roy d. SHELTON, David ShulI
and B. n. Moulten.
Next Session in X. @.
Kansas City was designated this
morning as the place of the 1918
Great Council session of the Improved
Order of Red Men and Degree Of Po-
oahontas. The meeting will be held
the first Monday after the first Tues
day of October.
John Bright, chaplain of the house
of representatives in the Kansas Iegis-
lature, was elected as great trustee
OF the order. AT this years session
Bright was great sannap of the Red
Men, and otened the convention with
Throw Out the Life Line" as he has
! done at other sessions of the council
for several years.
ID. B. Cuthbertson of Winfield was
also elected trustee. Cuthbertson was
great guard of the council chamber
this year.
At the morning session of the De.
| gree of Pocahontas, Mrs Mary A
Sipes, of Topeka, 726 Garfield. was
elected Great Minnehaha of the body.
Mrs. Sipes served as vice chairman of
the Great Council committee this wear
and also as vice president of the ex-
| ecutive committee.
Mrs. Maggie Gallagher, Wichita.
was elected Great Prophecies after
having served as Great Pocahontas al
| this years convention. She will he
| succeeded as Great Pocahontas bv
Mrs. Bertha Wood. also of Wichita.
Other Officers.
Mrs. Eta Phillip. of Kansas City
Kan, was elected Great Wenonah Of
| the degree of Pocahontas
Dan Bacon, of Leavenworth was
elected Great Junior Sachem OF the
Improved Order of Red Men to sue
| ceed G. b. DeDaul, of Horton.
Other officers elected at the morn
| ing's session of Red Men were: Roy
ID. Shelton. Of Pratt. Great Sachem:
c. b. DeDaul, of Horton, Great Senior
Sycamore; S. j. Shively, of Paola,