NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering SO SERIOUSLY is the pending land legislation in California regarded by the Administration that after exchange of tele-grama between President Wilson and Governor Johnson last...
...Davits Appointed Joseph E. Davies of Wisconsin will be the next Commissioner of Corporations...
...Bryce expressed the hope that the friendship existing between America and Great Britain might be extended to embrace other countries...
...Suffrage Leaders Present Cause to Senate Committee Suffrage leaders appeared before the United States Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage last week to urge that the ballot be given to Women on the same terms as men through the adoption of a constitutional amendment...
...Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association...
...Mrs...
...Some weeks ago in a speech on the floor of the House, Representative Sims attacked Mr...
...If the prices of the great staples, like beef, sugar, oil, cotton, woolens, are fixed by the monopoly, if the tariff affects the east of the children's food and clothes, the only radical way to right the wrong is through national legislation...
...William Kent, wife of a representative from California, and several others...
...Sims twice...
...La Follette argued that women are as vitally interested in tariff legislation as the men and declared, that all important legislation before Congress In the last twenty-five years bad affected women equally...
...Bryce Says Farewell James Bryce, ambassador to the United States from Great Britain for six years, and author of "The American Commonwealth," said his farewell to the American people last week on the eve of his departure for home...
...He was born and raised in the section where he started corn raising and knows the land so well he can call it by all its chemical names...
...Serious irregularities in the conduct of the Weather Bureau is the reason given for this action...
...The putting out of the treasury department of a paid employee of the Standard Oil bank of New York, who for years, unknown to the frequenters of the treasury, had occupied a desk in the office of the controller of the currency, is the latest reform move...
...from his position immediately...
...As a result of an investigation which was promptly begun, it de-velops that the National City Bank, of New York, acting through Milton E. Ailes, vice-president of the Riggs National Bank, of Washington, has employed a clerk outside of the department, who has been given a desk in the office of the controller of the currency, and who has, for the last eight or ten years, made regular reports to the National City Bank on the condition of each national bank in the country promptly following every "all of the controller of the currency...
...She said it was...
...It was set forth that an investigation of grave charges had caused the President to withdraw his acceptance of Moore's resignation to take effect July 31, and to remove him...
...Miss Helen Varrick Boswell argued that a federal law would be the quickest and surest way to procure equal suffrage, and Mrs...
...It is needless to point out that if any large number of banks should claim the same privilege, the treasury department would be overrun with private employees to the serious injury and detriment of the service...
...And Bennie was one of the original clubbers...
...Knapp and started raising corn on his own hook...
...S. A. Knapp of the Department of Agriculture was sent into that country to help eradicate the boll weevil...
...The recipients of the wages are not allowed to elect representatives to the boards...
...One who considers it in this way solely neglects a large portion of the real meaning of the theater among social institutions...
...Bryce referred with feeling to his cordial relations with the three Presidents who had been in office during his service in Washington, and said he had no words to convey his sense of the kindness with which he had been received during his travels in the United States...
...Secretary McAdoo best tells the story in this statement: "A few weeks ago suggestion was made to the secretary that certain banks had long maintained private employees in the treasury department for the purpose of reporting to them on the transactions and business of the treasury...
...As such it is to be compared with the national games of baseball and football which call the people together in social masses and arouse them by appealing to their lively interest in contests and feats and public display...
...News Worth Remembering SO SERIOUSLY is the pending land legislation in California regarded by the Administration that after exchange of tele-grama between President Wilson and Governor Johnson last week, Secretary of State Bryan was sent by the President to confer with California's Governor and legislature...
...The promised reform probably will not take effect till 1916...
...The board determines the lowest wage and the women and girls take what they get...
...Two senators, Shafroth of Colorado and Brady of Idaho, and the wives of two other members of the upper House of Congress, also advanced arguments for the "cause...
...This, of course, is irregular and improper and immediately upon its discovery it was stopped...
...Bennie rented one acre of land and he petted and patted and jollied that acre to such an extent that he produced a total of 226 1-16 bushels of corn from it...
...Ill health due to a nervous and physical breakdown is the reason given for this act...
...In an address at New York before the Pilgrims Society of the United States, Mr...
...He took lessons from Dr...
...Minimum wage bills have been introduced in the legislatures of California, Kansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin...
...Touching upon the great problems confronting the people of this nation, Mr...
...They need the moral support of their men fellow-workers in negotiating about wages...
...The women were Mrs...
...The theater is not primarily an art...
...If they have ignored this point of view it is, I am sure, because they did not realize what and how much was involved...
...Some of the newspapers unhappily denounced this as 'gag rule' and have thereby greatly impaired the usefulness of an order which was designed solely for the public good and to prevent the treasury department from being used for the benefit of any special interest...
...Wilson, and later as secretary of the National Democratic Committee and as director of the western campaign headquarters at Chicago he displayed marked abilities...
...Later the two men met on the street and in published statements Mr...
...Davies his choice of several foreign posts, but the young attorney preferred to accept an appointment that will keep him in active touch with his profession of law...
...It is only fair to say that the banks claim that the information so obtained is only such as in due course is made public by the individual banks or the department...
...With it all, Bennie is Just a regular boy...
...The work of the Commissioner of Corporations during the Wilson Administration will be conspicuous...
...Sutherland of Utah...
...Newspaper dispatches report that Governor Johnson and his party leaders in the Senate favor the bill excluding from land ownership in the state all aliens ineligible to citizenship under the laws of the United States, and that despite the Administration's opposition to the inclusion of the words "ineligible to citizenship" as being aimed particularly at the Japanese, the indications are that such a bill will be passed...
...Knapp was an earnest worker who simply couldn't let the boll weevil take up all his time...
...First of all, it takes the place for thousands of city dwellers that natural community sports and amusements would take for men in less congested districts...
...President Wilson offered Mr...
...In America the governor appoints the commission, and the commission-selects the wage board...
...I therefore appeal with the utmost confidence to the people, the governor, and the legislature of California to act In the matter now under consideration in a manner that cannot from any point of view be fairly challenged or called in question...
...And he did that at a cost of fourteen cents a bushel...
...He will lay before them the effects of the proposed legislation upon the nation's treaty obligations...
...These laws and bills ignore the youth and shifting nature of the working force in the under-paid industries which is so largely made up of young girls...
...And the theater at its best would not permit the demands of amusement to run counter to or deny the demands of beauty and spiritual delight...
...They are, in fact, not represented at all...
...Glover's alleged connection with a real estate proposition in which the government was interested...
...The theater is an amusement and a form of sport...
...If they deem it necessary to exclude all the aliens who have not declared their intentions to become citizens upon the privileges of land ownership, they can do so along lines already followed in the laws of many of the other states and as many foreign countries, including Japan herself...
...This was assured last week when the Assembly, following the action of the Senate, sent the bill to a third reading by a vote of 51 to 34...
...Minimum Wage Legislation Governor West of Oregon has signed a bill creating a Minimum Wage Commission...
...If these other ill-considered bills become laws, it will be the work of years to remodel them on more democratic lines, and on wise and just principles in the light of the experience of Australia and England.—Florence Kellt in The Survey.@@@@@@@@@@@@ * * * Notes on the Present State of the Theater By THOMAS H. DICKINSON XII...
...On Tuesday Mr...
...Glover wrote to the investigating committee and apologized for slapping Representative Sims...
...Many of the transactions with the department are necessarily of a confidential nature, and no government employee should, upon any inducement or consideration, supply information to any private interest beyond what is given out officially to all...
...At the last state* fair Bennie captured most of the corn prizes, because he not only produced a lot of corn, but mighty good corn...
...It was with these rumors in mind, and for the purpose of developing the facts, that the secretary issued the order a few weeks ago about giving out information by the heads of the departments except through the secretary's office...
...But the method employed of installing a private employee with a desk in the treasury department gives the bank so favored an undue advantage in the way of advanced information over all other banks in the country...
...President Wilson has appointed John A. Aylward, formerly candidate for Governor of Wisconsin on the Democratic ticket, to the position of United States attorney for the western district of Wisconsin...
...He organized boys' corn clubs...
...Oregon thus follows Massachusetts in this new field of industrial legislation...
...It has been common knowledge that for almost a generation the United States treasury has been very much an adjunct to the Wall street bankers...
...Professor Willis L. Moore, who has been chief of the United States Weather Bureau since 1895, was summarily ousted from office last week by order of President Wilson...
...Bennie's corn-raising neighbors raise an average of 19 bushels an acre and the averago cost of production in the corn belt is 33 cents a bushel...
...They fail to afford to American employees in underpaid industries those democratic safeguards which characterize English and Australian legislation...
...The New York Factory Investigating Commission will doubtless be continued and empowered to investigate wages...
...All of which gives some faint idea of what Bennie's achievement amounted to and why he is greeted with what is commonly termed "acclaim" and the most riotous sort of acclaim wherever he may, appear...
...This course is designed to solve the problems that confront modern municipalities...
...The 500,000 workers in Belgium who went on a strike in order to get the right to vote returned to work last week upon the promise of the goverri-ment to provide a commission to draft the "one man one vote law" demanded by the socialists...
...He simply followed scientific methods, although he used only the materials he found at hand on the farm he worked, which had been...
...This is to be associated with art, but should not in itself be confused with the art sense...
...WHAT PLACE does the theater occupy in society...
...If the tariff in any way affects th« price we pay for what we eat and wear, and if the combinations have anything to do with the high cost of living, women should understand it," said Mrs...
...If any act be passed it will be general in character, relating to those who are ineligible to citizenship and the language employed will be that of precedent and sanction in statutes which now exist on the subject...
...This sounds like a fairy story...
...Robert M. La Follette of Wiscqnsin and Mrs...
...unddr cultivation some eight years before he got it...
...Glover admits having struck Mr...
...It is announced that the entire membership of the City Club will accompany the officials...
...William Kent said woman suffrage had worked well in California...
...He meant no disrespect to the House...
...But while the theater is not entirely an art it must be recognized that at its best it is at least partly an agency of social art as well as of social recreation...
...News Notes —Rudolph Blankenburg, "the reform mayor of Philadelphia," and at least two members of his cabinet have arranged to attend a course of lectures at the University of Wisconsin next month...
...Women do the buying...
...There is nothing repugnant to interest and pleasure in the best things of an artistic character...
...The latter, it is stated, was willing to let the affair drop, but other Members contended that an attack upon a Member of Congress for what he has said or done on the floor is in contempt of Congress itself...
...It's a solid piece of fact...
...It may even be contended that the theater is of social value, without reference to the art side of things, in providing social outlet, entertainment and recreation...
...The Kansas bill was killed by the legislature...
...They apply to women, oblivious of the fact that wives and daughters work because their man breadwinner does not earn enough to support the family...
...The policy of this administration is 'pitiless publicity.' The secretary is in full sympathy with that publicity, but in executing it, he is animated solely by a desire to prevent the improper giving out of information concerning the business of the department and to secure the publication only of such legitimate and authentic news as will conserve and protect the public interest...
...In fact where the theater has reached its highest point of social service, it has always been at the same time an instrument of the most effective art expression...
...The Oregon law and all the pending bills have one characteristic in common: they are alarmingly undemocratic...
...It is the desire of the legislators specifically to provide in any act that nothing therein shall be construed as affecting or impairing any rights covered by treaty, although from the legal standpoint this is deemed unnecessary...
...Harvey W. Wiley, wife of the former chief of the bureau of chemistry...
...Invidious discrimination will inevitably bring in question the treaty obligation of the government of the United States, "I register my very earnest and respectful protest against discrimination in this case, not only because I feel it my duty to do so, as the chief executive of the nation, but also, and the more readily, because I believe that the people and the legislative authorities of California will generously respond the moment the matter is frankly presented to them as a question of national policy and of national honor...
...Cutting the Tie The tie that has for so many years bound the federal government and big business so closely together is gradually being severed...
...No country," he said, "has shown greater powers of overcoming defects and escaping from danger than America...
...Representative Bryan of Washington also was among the pleaders...
...I speak, I think, for the majority of the Senate of California, certainly I do for the voting power of the state, when I convey to you our purpose to co-operate fully and heartily with the national government and to do only that which is admittedly within our province, without intended offense or invidious discrimination...
...La Follette said she was not one of those who believed that equal suffrage would bring about any immediate radical changes, and declared that the real issue in the suffrage struggle was whether it was in the interest of home and society...
...Investigate Sims-Glover Affair A Congressional investigation of the physical assault on Representative Sims by C. C. Glover, a local banker and capitalist, was ordered by the House...
...When the theater has reached its best status, it will satisfy both claims—the claims of public community amusement and of a democratic enjoyment of art...
...To have fully explained at that time the purpose of this order might have defeated the end in view...
...The theater is the outgrowth of a gregarious community sense...
...Davies did brilliant and effective work at the Baltimore convention in bringing about the nomination of Mr...
...At the same time it tends to es-tablish intimate relationship with the employees of the government and the acquirement of information of a confidential nature that ought not to be given to individuals or private corporations, and which, if given at all, should be published to the entire country...
...Woman suffrage will again be submitted to a referendum vote of the people of Wisconsin at the general election of 1914...
...Among those present before the Senate committee to plead for equal suffrage was Dr...
...He became interested in corn raising when Dr...
...Ninety per cent of $10,000,000,000 paid out an-nually in the United States for food, clothing, shelter, is spent by women.' Mrs...
...He admitted having taken the law into his own hands in "a moment of passion" and expressed regret for his action...
...It substituted "an adjuster" for commission and boards...
...Bryce pointed out what he considered two grounds for hope—the large body of farmers and other land owners standing between the capitalists and laboring men, and the steadily rising standard of civic duty among Americans...
...She was aided by Miss Helen Varriek Bos-well, president of the Woman's National Republican Association...
...La Follette...
...President Wilson's telegram was as follows: "I speake upon the assumption, which I am sure is well founded, that the people of California do not desire their representatives—and that their representatives do not wish nor intend—in any circumstances to embarrass the government of the United States in its dealings with a nation with whom it has most earnestly and cordially sought to maintain relations of genuine friendship and good will, and that least of all they desire to do anything that might impair treaty obligations or cast a doubt upon the honor and good faith of the nation and its government...
...A Boy Farmer Who Discovered That Headwork Pays BENNIE BEESON, be it known, in a quiet, unassuming way, has demonstrated to the farmers of Mississippi that if they can raise only one-tenth the corn crop he coaxed out of the ground on his place they would increase their aggregate income by something like $8,000,000 annually...
...John E. W. Wayman, former state's attorney of Illinois, and a candidate for governor in the last primary election, shot himself through the breast last week and died a few hours later...
...Moore issued a reply to the letter of dismissal in which he denied that he had used improper methods in his campaign for the office of Secretary of Agriculture, calling the charges "infamous falsehood...
...It isn't...
...Replying to this Governor Johnson telegraphed— "Immediately upon receipt of your telegram of this date, it was transmitted to both houses of our Legislature, I think I may assure you that it is the desire of the majority of the members of the Legislature to do nothing in the matter of alien land bills that will be embarrassing to our own government, or offensive to anyone...
Vol. 5 • May 1913 • No. 18
