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MONTANA WOMEN WOULD JOIN
STATE MILITIA -
Butte, Mont., Oct. 22. If the law
makes women liable to service in the
militia if they are given the ballot
they are ready to join the militia.
This is the declaration made by
Mrs. Harvey Coit, one of the leaders
in the presenl campaign fBr suffrage
in Montana, In discussing a question
raised by many opponents of equal
suffrage.
"I do not believe military service
has ever been or ever win be a quali
fication for the right of suffrage," she
said, "but, if it should be, the women
of Montana would be ready to join
the state militia and shoulder a rifle.
History has shown many iristances
where women have defended their
countries and in the future they swill
show their patriotism in the same
way, if necessary,
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ASKS ANNOYING QUESTIONS'
Robert P. Kolb, nominee for con
gress in 6th district and Progressive
committeeman in 34th ward, in ah'
open letter addressed to Clifford W.
Barnes, pres. Legislative Voters'
League, asked him if the contribution
James Kittleman made to his Chi-,
cago Sunday Evening Club had any
thing to do with his endorsing Klttel
man, running for fourth term in the
legislature.
"In 1909 and 1910 you looked up
Mr. Kittleman's votes and actions and
stamped him a thorough-paced Lort
mer reactionary and held him up to
the people as a member of the com
bine which voted for Lorimer," Kolb
says in his letter. "Now you declare
that 'as a member of the 44th, 45th
and 46th general assemblies Mr. Lit
tleman ranked high as, a legislator
and 'that he should be electeuV Are
you telling the truth now-and were
you falsifying then or is it the Op
posite?" i-O o
LABOR LAWYERS FOR SCULLY
Daniel Cruice, who was a candi
date for the Democratic candidate J
for county judge, and Frank Comer
ford, whose recent work in securing
the freedom of Carl Person, young
leader of (the Illinois Central strikers,
earned him an enviable reputation as
a labor attorney, have come out in
support of the candidacy of Judge
Scully, Democratic nominee for
county judge. (J)
Both men have promised their aid
in working among trade unionists.
Cruise and Scully in the recent pri
mary race both made their fight
against the Hearst influence on
Judge Qwens and are credited with
driving Andy Lawrence from his po
sition of boss. ,
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS FORCE
CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL .
In a report submitted to Mia Flagg
Young, sup't of schools, William Bo
dine, sup't Of compulsory education,
gives reasons why so many children
"quit' school between the ages of 14
and 16 years. The principal cause,
the: report states, -is necessity and
reedof the parents, others being
ui&mtary surroundings, intemper-anfee-and
domestic dissension.
Th a group of 2,390 boys from pub-
Tic -and, private schools investigators
ioijSd .fhat i,bM2 were wormng ror
less than $6 a week. The percentage
qjTj gfds Vho worked for low wages
'-wawound much greater. Out of 1,867
l3& looked into 1,299 were working
tor less than ?6 a week.
"The regretable existence of child
labor and the issuance of so many
work certificates is due to the social
conditions, to the demand for cheap
labor, to poverty and causes of pov
erty," says Bodine in the report
"The child labor law could be more
successfully enforced if the state did
not maintain a policy of maximum
legislation with minimum appropria- .
tion. Illinois has only 25 factory In
spectors to enforce its -child labor
laws in thousands of factories, mer
cantile establishments and offices in
Chicago and elsewhere."
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