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TRAINMEN SMILE AFTER SEEING WILSONBRAINY TACOMA WOMEN'S

CAREERS RUN SIDE-BY-SIDE,BUTSUFFRAGE VIEWS CLASH

BY MABEL ABBOTTShall ivoinen he given suffrage by IVdcral amendment or win it state by state?This question has spill suffrage riinks, and become a big issue In the preside,ilial campaign.Two .young women now In Tacomu, imih liniisiuilly successful newspaper women, both fleilon

writers whom- work Is asked for before it is mitten, Imth dyed-lii-the-ivool suffragists, and bothdemur ruts, have, notwithstanding: the remarkable parallel in their ciireers, reuched conclusions onIbis subject us far apart as the poles.

(Inly on one iiolnt do they agree. They are lioth for Wilson.Here is what they think and why they think it:

Miss Monroe's ViewMiss Anne Shan-

|:>nMonroe of Port-

nd, Ore., and Nework city, who is thelest of her brother,r. William A. Mon-ic, 2.". 0 8 Mct'arverret, believes womenion Id work outlelr enl'ranchise-ent in each state'paralely.For two years Miss

[onroe conductedle funny column onle editorial page ofle Chicago News.

IShe was for some

me special writer>r the Chicago Tiili-ne. She has forears been corre-riondent for thea.t-t in net Oregonian.

Her recent book,Happy Valley," was

Eich a success thater publishers arerging her for mioih-r. While in Oregon,

MISS MoM'ol' sl"' was assistantcampaign manager

for William Hanley, who opposed Senator Cham-berlain for congress, and took the stump in hisbehalf.

"It is for the sake of women themselves that1 believe suffrage should be fought for and wonstate by state," says Miss Monroe.

"If it comes by federal amendment, womenIn many of the states in the. south and middlewest will not know what it means or what to dowith it. They are still pretty apathetic there.

"But women who have won suffrage, withouta press, from legislatures that use every meansto block them, have had their civic consciousnessawakened and their civic abilities trained as noth-ing else could do it. And when they have got

suffrage, they are organized and ready to go aheadand put through the other measures they havefound out should be put through.

"They know what they want and how to get It."In New York, where they have been fighting

so long and so hard, the women are wonderful.They can meet any politician on his own ground.They know politics as no woman not so trained canknow them.

"The taste of polities is like the taste of blood.Women who have once thrown themselves into acause will never drop back Into indifference towhat is going on in their country.

"I would like nothing better, If I could possi-bly take the time from my own work, thun tothrow myself into the campaign for Wilson.

"The big thing in suffrage is not what it willdo for the country, but what It will do for women;and it will do more for them if they have to fightfor It state by state than if It comes moreeasily."

Talk o* the TimesGreetings, ha* anybody

railed a meeting of theWhiskers' > lub to arrange forHughe*' visit?

The bakers' association seemsto have found how to raise breadwithout yeast. The price of itsnyhow.

Britannia may not rule thewaves Jvit she waives thoth* rule*.

Poland —to the contendingannies —"When do we eat?"

A GIRL LIKES TO LISTEN TOSOFT NOTHINGS — WHENTHEY MEAN SOMETHING.

ran you Maine people forbeing superstitious who liveIn a city afflicted by strikes,Infantile paralysis and fifty-million dollar explosions?

"Batter safe." Wheat cakes,baseball or burglary?

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Mrs. Mellett's ViewMrs. Berthe Knat-

vold Mellett, ofWashington, U. C,who Is visiting herparents, Mr. and Mrs.H. E. Knatvold, 80.">North J street, isheart and soul lornational action.

She is a former Ta-c o m a newspaperwoman, whose bril-liant work Is a mat-ter of recent mem-ory here. She is nowwriting for the big-gest of the maga-zines. Century car-ried a story of hersnot long ago; Colli-er's has one thisweek, and will printanother —a suffragestory—soon.

In Washington,List winter, she help-ed Anne Martin ofthe CongressionalUnion, now nationalchairman of the

MRS. MKLLKTT. Woman's Party, lob-by for the federal

amendment. She 1* a friend of Alice Paul, and hasbeen asked to go to Colorado Springs and speakfor the Woman's Party there, but has declined.

"The national way is the only right way, boththeoretically and practically," she says.

"The nation is outgrowing the old states' rightsidea, and learning to look at things from a nationalviewpoint. The interstate commerce commissionand other national boards are an instance of thisgrowth.

"Woman suffrage, the question of the citizenshipof half the population of the tinted States, Is athing that concerns all parts of the country. It isnot reasonable to leave it to the decision of indi-vidual states.

"And on the practical side, take my own case,for instance. I had the rights of a citizen in thisstate. I went to New York, and I was no longer acitizen. I had no right*. It Is ridiculous.

"In some states, if a suffrage amendment is de-feated, it cannot be taken up again for five or tenyears. In those states it is practically impossibleto get suffrage except by federal amendment.

"The national way is in keeping with the larger

national vision which is here in many things, andwhich will by and by develop into Internationalvision.

"As to the action of the Woman's Party inopposing Wilson—l believe in almost any clubHint "ill force congress into doInK what itought to do; but my own feeling and convic-tions are so strongly for Wilson that I wouldnot allow myself to be pledged to oppose him.And anyway, 1 think we stand list as good achance of getting; suffrage through Wilson asthrough Hughes."

INQIIRFR—No, we areunable to tell you why anewspaper that n«-i<l to labelItxelf "The Best EveningPa|>er on the Pacific Coast,"should now refer to It-eelfmerely as the best in theNorthwest.

Overalls forWomen NowOn Sale Here

Overalls for women!They're here, In Tacoma.We've heard echoes of their

debut in eastern cities; batthey've slip'ied quietly and un-heralded lntu our very midst be-fore we realized It.

At least one Tacoma store hisbeen selling them for some time,and other* say they have Btocksor*' the way.

The garments can be seen Inthe women's ready-to-wear de-partment of McCormack Bros",

store, 1150 Broadway.They are quaint-looking arti-

cles, made of the ssme substantialblue or brown denim as men'soveralls, and like them, form abig in front which connects withthe "suspenders" over the shoul-ders.

The girl who shows them ssysaha Bells many to campers andmountain-climbers, some to berry-pickers, and some to women w.io

don't say what they want themfor.

Overalls for women ar* sn *•-tablished fact. What next!

EMPLOYES HAPPY;MANAGERS GLOOMYWASHINGTON, 11. Oaa

Aug. II.—President Wilsontoduy met representatives oftin- four railroad brother-hoods. The e'onfcreni'c ln*t-e-el INI mliiiites. The train-men left the White House at

The managers, in cording lo tillsman. arc willing to submit to out-side adjudication, hut are nothopeful of the president's beingable to settle the strike.

CLAIM To HAVK MKNnoon, smiling broadly.A. B. Garrettsin, of tbe conduc-

tors' brotherhood, said: "Nego-tiations are entirely in the presi-dent's hands."

CHICAGO, Aug. 14. w. ».!Storey. Santa Fe operating i\° >

psi'tiiient chief, told the I tilled .Press today that some western jrailroads are prepared to con- ,tiiitie all trains In the event of astrike.

They have hundreds of non- i

uuion men ready ot begin work,he said.

Passenger Traffic ManagerPort of the Cnion Pacific said S'lper cent of their trainmen bad |signed the petition asking con-1

Kicks to prevent ihe strike. It isconservatively estimated a strike'would make half a million men!jobless here.

The Rock Island officers m-noiince the road has not planir-d Ito operate trains unless the gov-ernment will promise protection.

Chicago railroad men claimiimto have information, today as-serted the strike would not reaclithe walkout stage.

They predicted the brother-hoods would finally agree to letthe Interstate commerce commis-sion settle' the argument, and de-clared th* government might In-terfere to prevent a tie-up of theHock Isla and other lilies under Ireceivership.

The Burlington Is planning lo

ask some of its former engineerswho arc now higher company of-ficials to resume their old workin the event of a strike.

Wurren Stone, of the engineers,announced, "I am optimistic."

W. P. Lee, of the firdemen, as-serted: "It looks the best it liasyet."

The employes are scheduled tosee the president again this after-non after his conference with therailway managers at I! o'clock.He will spend the interveningtime studying the stenographicreport of the morning's proceed-ings, and formulating proposalsto make to the managers.

it Is reported the employes con-sented to accept aiiillration pro-vided the railroads withdrawthair counter proposals. Afterthe trainmen had departed Feder-al Mediator Chambers again con-ferred with the president.

Railway managers are pessimis-tic. One prominent managersaid:

"We have no reason to changeour attitude. The men have re-fused to do anything. We areready for a strike, but no tworailroad managers agree on whatcourse to pursue. Some favor put-ting white lead on their enginesand storing them. It's a iiuestionwhether we are sufficiently readyto prevent business paralysis."

YOUNGER BROTHER ISLET OFF WITH 3 YRS.

Cecil Jordan, the Tacoma boywho had a chance and wouldn'ttake it, must go to the peniten-tiary" for the rest of his naturallife."

ing to live straight.He said they never again would

see him in court.They sent him off, with some

good advice, to his mother's lit-tle farm near Kdgewood. Hepromised to get work and makea living. Instead he idled awayhis days and prowled about thecountry at night.

Earl Jordan, who followed Inthe footsteps of his older broth-er, wh oalso had a chance andwouldn't take It, must live in thepenitentiary not less than threeyears and not more than 1 5 years.

This is their fate, handed <*»utMonday by Superior Judge Card.

"They were good boys—just alittle wild sometimes, hut theywere good boys," was the verdictof their mother after the sen-tence had been pronounced- • Themother has stood by them "sincethey first got into trouble' here,and talked to them for a longwhile in the county jail Monday,trying to arrange to buy theirfreedom while their case ia ap-pealed to the supreme court.

Life Behind Rars.Cecil has spent the best part

of his young life behind prisonbars. Last fall, after he badbeen arrested for entering theTacoma home of his uncle at thepoint of a gun, he gave bissolemn word to hie attorney, toJudge Card and to ProsecutorSelden, that thereafter he was g*-*"

Before half a year had passedhe and his brother Earl were be-hind the bars again, this time forstealing auto tires from theKdgewood Trading Co. store.

Cecil, still a very young man,stands today convicted as an ha-bitual criminal and sentenced tolife Imprisonment In Walla Walla.

.Pleads for Younger Brother.Will the younger brother, who

must serve three years in thesame prison, follow in the samedirection? Will thre eyears' con-test with hardened criminalskepp him from going the way ofhi* brother?

Budge Bell, the boys' attorney,asked these questions of thecourt in making a vain appeal forleniency.

(The modern object of criminallaw, he argued, is not to punishthe offender, but to reform him.AC have passed the day, he said,

GOLFGolf is the finishing school .'or

learning the fine arts of "fibbing"

and "profanity." It is called un"old man's game," because you're

an old man before you're able tomake a decent score.

EVERYOME OUTON HUGHES DAY

Allout for Hughea D»ylTeeoma it going to have the privilege on Tuesday efternooa of

Golf has broken up more homesthan war. With war there's achance for the father or husbandgetting b*ck home, hut with golfthere ain't no such thing.

hearing from his own lips the views of one of the leading presidentialcandidates. I

Every Tacoma voter ought to be iiithat audience.It will be well if every Tacoma youngster old enough to keep still

and to understand also be there.Narrow partisanship ought to be forgotten for the day. Those of

us who have our minds already made up to vote for another candidatewillbe exercising good taste if we keep our views pretty much to our-serves during the visit of the distinguished New Yorker and his wife.

Mr. Hughes has reserved one of his "big speeches" for this occa-sion. It willbe a day of genuine civic inteie-st and importance.

Let's all of us close up shop and pack the Stadium.

Golf Is the simplest and easiestgame In the world. The simplestpart Is missing the ball; and theeasiest port Is losing the ball.

If you've never played a gameof golf and would like to ttnd outwhat It's like, take a pinch of wetsand and place a half dollar on it.Then take a broom handle, closeyour eyes, and take a slsm at thefour-bit piece. Then proceed tolook around for said gelt.

Join That YachtParty Todt\\y!

The yacht leaves on jiagc 2 today. We arespeaking of the yacht i% "Into the Primitive,"that fascinating nay-el which Robert Ames Ben-nett has written concertiing the American mil-lionaire's daughter who was cast ashore withtwo other survivors on a desert island.

You'll enjoy following their adventures, theirlove affairs, and their intrigues. "Into thePrimitive" really deals with but three people,but the sum of human nature and emotions arecontained in the stiry.

when society must be protectedby punishing the offender Societymust be protected by reformingthose who break Its laws.

A MINISTERS VOICE MAYFILL THE CHURCH AND FAH.

»TO FILLTHE PEWS.

Ask Hughes to InvitePoindexter for TourLong Criminal Career.

But Judge Card declared theboy had been given every possiblechance, and must suffer the fullpenalty.

Cecil began his criminal careerIn Tacoma In 1903, when hoserved two years for burglary.

At the end of hi* term he wentto California. In 1906 he pleadedguilty to burglary there and wassentenced to four years in prison.In 1909 he got out and was againconvicted of burglary and sen-tenced to 15 years.

In 1915 he got out of Folsomprison on parole. He came to Ta-coma and immediately was arrest-ed for burglary. In addition tothese offenses he has servedtime for petty larcenies.

This was Earl's first convic-tion.

COOLER WKATHKR HELPSNEW YORK, Aug/ 1«. —Un-

usually cold weather caused areduction la the ravages of In-fantile paralysis here today.Nlnety-flva new cases and 31deaths a**** reported.

Shall Senator Poindexteraccompany Hughe* on hi*campaign through the state,or shall the republican na-tional eon,in ittreman con-tinue to ignore him?

Washington progressiveswho are supporting the re-publican ticket put this .|iies-lion squarely up to HughesMonday In a telegram fromTacoma to the presidentialcandidate at Spokane.

Hughes' reply Is beingawaited with interest.

The telegram, dispatchedby H. G. Rowland, read*:

"Tacoma, Washington."August 14, 1916.

"Hon. Charles E. Hughes, Spo-kane, Washington:"We, the undersigned republi-

cans, believe an invitation ex-tended to United States SenatorPoindexter to accompany yonthrough th* state of WasbiuffMa

will greatly strengthen the ro«publican national ticket.

"The republican national com-mitteeman extended Invitations toother members of the Washingtondelegation to be with you, and hasapparently Ignored Poindexter.

"This gives serious offense tothe Washington progressives, whoare supporting tbe republicanticket.(Signed) "H. G ROWLAND,

"JESSE THOMAS."8. WARBURTON,"GEO. J. 9ENNEB,"LORENZO DOW,

"JESSE READ,"FRED JOHNSON,"P. H. MURRAY,"F. A. MAGILL.''

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