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Woman Suffrage Principle
Marches Resistlessly Eastward
WOMAN suffrage has crossed the Missouri river; it has in
vaded the Mississippi valley; it presents a united front along
the country's western coast; all the Pacific slope, including
the states west of the Rocky mountains, with the exception of Ne
vada, are suffrage states: women may now vote in full equality with
men in ten states. At the next presidential election, as the roll
stands now, 70 electoral votes will be representative of women voters
as well as men.
At Tuesday's election Michigan, Kansas, Oregon and Arizona
joined with Wyoming, Colorado. Utah, Idaho, Washington and Cali
fornia in granting equal political rights to women. Ten out of 48
states, more than one-fifth of the states in the American common
wealth, have now given political justice to women.
The Call, which gave its best efforts to gain suffrage for Cali
fornia women, and which shares in the pride of success that came
to all who worked in the hard fought campaign of 1911, extends Its
heartiest congratulations to the women of Michigan, Kansas, Oregon
and Arizona and to the women of the 38 states who have been
brought that much nearer the universal triumph of their cause in
America. Suffrage ceases to be an isolated "western fad" how that
it enters the middle west. The recognition of woman's rights by
Michigan is in itself the greatest single victory suffrage has won, on
account not only of the population of that state, which is somewhat
greater than that of California, but chiefly because of the position
of Michigan geographically. California's contribution to the vic
tories of suffrage subsequent to its own decision in the matter must
not be underestimated; but to have the cause pass from the west
into middle western territory, within sight of eastern eyes, is the
important victory.
Modern conditions call upon women to work in the professions,
in the crafts, in offices, shops and factories—in nearly all activities
that engage and reward men's toil. It might seem to some that it
would be better if women could remain in that sphere of seclusion
ideally represented by the Hindu zenana. But social evolution has
ordained otherwise, and since society has commanded women to
come into the world and work with men, they must be given the
same power to administer the affairs of the world as men have. They
have been given that power in 10 out of 48 states.
Suffrage marches steadily, resistlessly, eastward. It will not be
long before everywhere under the stars and stripes every American
woman child will be born to the same heritage of political freedom
as every man child.
THAT stalwart and gingery San Franciscan, Paul T. Carroll,
chairman of the publicity committee of the Chamber of Com
merce, might be adequately described by the gentleman who
' T draws the ludicrous pictures on the sporting
page as "the man who put 'city' in publicity."
Mr. Carroll did that before the downtown
committee of the Chamber of Commerce at its
I weekly luncheon on Wednesday, when he said :
Every one should make of himself a competent salesman of San
Francisco citizenship, and wherever he goes, at home or abroad, should
make known the vast strides v.hich San Francisco has made toward
establishing itself as a world metropolis.
St. Paul expressed the same idea in an epistle: "I am a citizen
of no mean city." The philosophies of Mr. Carroll and of the Chris
tian saint on the matter of civic pride % are identical. Cajroll's epi
gram is a modern instance: "Be a competent salesman of San Fran
cisco citizenship."
Salesmanship is the science of the first two decades of the
twentieth century; thereafter it will be intuitive—just as the art of
walking was probably the chief study of many generations of men
before the race learned intuitively to balance itself. At present,
salesmanship must be taught, and exhorters, such as Mr. Carroll,
must preach its doctrine. Mr. Carroll has discovered that it is as
important and as great an art to sell citizenship—that is, to per
suade people to acquire citizenship in your city—as it is to sell
thrashing machines or silk neckwear.
Mr. Carroll gave the downtown committee of the Chamber of
Commerce its first lesson in civic salesmanship. He told the com
mittee to study the advantages and achievements and prospects of
San Francisco and to tell folks of them. May he have apt pupils,
ana many. {
Putting "City"
Into That Fine
Art, "Publicity"
A PROPOSED amendment to the San Francisco charter, ap-
L\ proved by the board of supervisors and to be voted upon at
*" * the special election December 10. provides that the organiza-
1 tion of the department of public works shall
be changed. The present board, consisting of
three members, will be abolished and one ex
ecutive head, to be called the director of public
I works, appointed by the mayor and to hold
office during the pleasure of the mayor, will exercise all the powers
P vested in the three commissioners. The director of public works
receive a salary of $15,000 a year.
This change represents the new theory of municipal govern
t, the centralization of important offices in one responsible head.
Philadelphia has such an official, a director of public works, who
draws a salary of $25,000 a year.
In speaking in favor of the amendment and the salary provision,
Mayor Rolph stated to the supervisors the true proposition that
factories pay salaries of $25,000 a year to their superintendents, and
that San Francisco, as the biggest corporation in the state of Cali
fornia and one of the biggest corporations in the world, should
treat its employes as well and secure as efficient men.
It has not been customary to consider a city as a corporation,
to be managed with the same attention to detail that rules in a
pottery works or a shipyard, but now the people begin to realize the
economy of so doing. In theory a man works for the city for the
glory of holding public office; modern economists think that better
en can be secured if there is an advantageous financial considers
n added to the glory.
Good Works
Director Worth
Good Money
the great European empire conquered by the Mohammedan invad-
I ers centuries ago, there remained today only rive small districts.
\_y Even these—Constantinople, Adrianoplc, Saloniki, Monastir and
Scutari—are threatened.
. . This was the message that came yester
day from the Balkan frontier. The war of
1912 is one of the momentous events of the'
history of the world. A race is being driven
J from its stronghold; a religion is being forced
from a continent; the task that Charles Martel started at Tours in
the eighth century is being finished at Tchatalja by the Bulgarsj
supported across the face of Turkey in Europe by rhe allies, the!
Montenegrins, the Serbs and the Greeks.
In the eighth century the left tip of the crescent was broken, and
now the right tip is crumbling. Italy made a serious indentation in
the center of the symbolical moon in Tripoli.
The victory against Turkey must be complete. The war must
be not prolonged; the greater powers must develop no political
machinations that will mar the conquest of the Balkan allies and
spare the domain of the Turk in Europe.
Turkey has been a cruel anomaly. The tenacity with which it!
Victory Over
Turkey Must
Be Complete
' EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CALL
has held to its corner of Europe has been due to the mischief of the
powers. There been two considerations which preserved Tur
key: Great Britain wished Turkey in Europe as a buffer against
the encroachments of Russia on the Mediterranean. Also, Turkey
owed money to the great bankers of Europe—the same bankers who
control the loans of England and other countries. Turkey must pay
the interest on its debts or the bankers \vill lose. To meet that
interest they must collect taxes. Th- field of Turkey in Europe is
better for the tax collector than Asiatic Turkey. It has been to the
advantage of the international money lenders that Turkey retain
possession of its tax fields. With each prospect of Balkan trouble
as it would arise, the bankers would arouse England to express a
sentimental regard for the Turk and plead for peace.
Now the Balkan uprising has got beyond the power of the
treasuries of Europe to control. The Balkan allies are driving the
Turk out of Europe, smashing the eastern tip of the crescent, and
while their battle for Christianity must not be prolonged with a
vengeance that would outrage its own sacred cause, the victory of
the allies must be complete. The Turk must go from Europe.
LOUSY PO BANG, wbo attended the recent
international congress at Boston as a repre
sentative from the Hongkong Chamber of
Commerce, registered at the foreign trade de
partment o* the local Chamber of Commerce.
Sang is the head of several oriental railroads
and steamship Hoes, and connected with many
tanking Institutions In his country. He also
owns property In this city and Xew York.
Ban* will have charge of the selection and
arrangement of the exhibit to be made daring
the exposition in 1916.
* * *
E. B. COSNOR, a merchant of Fresno, is at the
Manx with Mrs. Cosnor. At the same hotel
are D. R. Jacobson, an Oroville business man;
H. A. Henry of Chicago and R. K. Kelley of
Havana.
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W. K. JAHN of Chicago is at the Fairmont
with Mrs. Jain. Brent Hart and Mrs. Hart
of Earlington, Ky., and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
de Coulon also are recent arrivals.
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E. J. MILEY, president of the State Consoli
dated Oil company, is at the Palace, regis
tered from Los Angeles.
* * *
OLIVER MOROSCO, a theatrical manager and
producer, is at the St. Francis, registered
from Los Angeles.
BAaRINGTOK MOORE, wbo is associated with
the forestry bureau, ts at the Fairmont with
Mrs. Moore.
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GREGORY PERKINS JR., an insurance man of
Lo* Angeles, Is at the St. Francis with Mrs.
Perkins.
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C. R. WEBB, a merchant of Manila, is staying
at the Palace. He is on his way back to the
islands.
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K. A. CAMPBELL, a well known attorney of
Willows, is registered at the Argonaut.
* *• *
WILLIAM G. ALLEN, a hotel man of Tahoe, Is
spending a few days at the St. Francis.
* * *
11. J. PRESSLEY, a publisher of Minneapolis,
arrived at th« Union, Square yesterday.
CHARLES F. RUSSELL of Weston, Mass., is
at the St. Francis with Mrs. Russell.
* * *
DR. IKJUGLAS BROWN of Spreckels, Cal., is
at the St. Francis with Mrs. Brown.
* * *
JOSEPH A. BANNING, a Los Angeles capital
ist, is at the Palace with his family.
%t 7f "3fr
GEORGE HOAO, a Coming real estate man. is
among the arrivals at the Stanford.
* * *
P. H. GRIFFITH, an insurance broker of Los
Angeles, is staying at the Palace.
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ALEX GORDON, a member of the state railway
commission, Iβ at the Argonaut.
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GEORGE BYRNE, a rancher from Gualala, Cal.,
is registered at toe Turpin.
Changes in Boston
la now headquarters for the Red Sox."
—Washington Star. j
San Francisco's Program
PERSONS IN THE NEWS
H
WILLIAM n, LANGTON, editor of Paradise of
the Pacific, a monthly magazine published in
Honolulu, Hawaii, the largest periodical of
its kind in the islands, Is stopping at the Ar
gonaut. He will remain In California until the
first of the year.
* # #
JOHN GEORGE, a mining man of Butt*; C.
Olmstead. a lumberman and mill owner of
Port Huron, Ont., and H. R. Link, a banker
of Riverside, make up a group of recent arri
val* at the Court.
* # *
C. W. MANN, who is associated with the de
partment of agriculture, aad E. C. White,
manager of the Grand Central hotel in Fresno,
ere guests at the Stewart.
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D. E. WISEMAN, of fhe engineering department
of the Pacific Telephone an.l Telegraph com
pany, is stopping at the Baldwin.
* * *
GEORGE A. CRESSET, wfco Is associated with
the Modesto Light and Power company, is at
the Palace with Mrs. Cressey.
* # #
CHARLES KING, president of the Lake Sum
mit and Hanford railroad of Hanford, is
registered at the Columbia. .
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ROY B. MAYEB, Cecil Rottenburg end Abel
Jaoocks are on a vleit in San Francisco, and
are staying at the Suiter.
* * *
W. R. GUIBERSON and N. E. Gulberson, oil
operators of Los Angeles, are guests at the
Palace.
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LOUTS LUND of Scranton, Pa., wholesale grocer,
is visiting the coaet, and is at the Union
Square.
* * *
FREDERICK BUCKELEY HYDE of Washing
ton, D. C, is at the St. Francis with Mrs.
Hyde.
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J. STACY BROWN of Newport, R. 1., is at the
St. Francis with his family.
DR. AND MRS. J. c. COOPER of Fresno are
guests at the St. Francis.
* * *
C. M. HALL, a bank official of Sus«nville, is a
guest at the Argonaut.
JUDGE K. g. MAHON of Yuba City is a guest
at the Dale.
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W. L. CHRISTIAN, a Los Angeles distiller, is
et the Palace.
1 * * *
O. F. KEARNEY, a Santa Cms merchant, is at
the Turpin.
* * *
M. B. CROSS, a Merced merchant, is a guest at
the Butter.
* * *
P. L. REAHEN, a Sonorm merchant. Is at the
Stanford.
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J. I. HOUSEMAN of San Antonio is at the
Baldwin.
Her Anxiety
Daughter—"Papa, Harold said some
sealed proposals came to your office
yesterday."
Father—"So they did, dear."
Daughter (anxiously)—" Were any
ol them for me rv-B<imore American, j
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
GEORGE FITCH
Anthor of "At Good O!d Slwash."
PROVIDENCE, the major fraction of
Rhode Island, is located a few
miles south of Pawtucket and
Woonsocket and on the fourth stop out
from New York on the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad, which
kindly permits its trains to stop there.
Owing to the extremely small »ize
of the state of Rhode Island, many peo
ple have looked for Providence on the
map in vain, but for many years it
could readily be found at any time in
the vest pocket of old General Brayton,
who wore it with him tor safe keep-
than any other city in the country if
so much of the land wasn't covered
with factories. Factories are Provi
dence's chief excuse for existence.
Make a, noise like a factory whistle
anywhere and if there is a Providence
man around he will grab for his din
ner bucket. Providence manufactures
most of the Jewelry and silver ware for
America. It makes enough woolen
cloth each year to make a pair of
trousers for the state of Rhode Island.
It also manufactures locomotives, rat
tail files, Corliss engines, cup defend
ers and screws. Providence Iβ one of
the most prosperous cities in the coun
try, according to banking , figures, but
it doesn't seem to pass its property
around, for only 4,000 of its people
owned their homes in 1900.
Providence was founded by Roger
Williams in 1635 and In the first 270
years of its existence it has managed
to pave five miles of streets with as
phalt and persuade its railroad to build
ANSWERS TO QUERIES
ARMAGEDDON—F. G. X., Oakland. What is
the significance of Armageddon, as used in poll
tics this year?
It means the place of the final bat
tle. It is a Hebrew word and the
allusion is to the great final battle
between the forces of good and those
of evil, which, according to Revela
tions xvi:l6, is the place where that
great struggle will take place. It is
believed that Armageddon is at the
plains of Esdraleon, large and cele
brated plains in central Palestine,
which, from the days of Barak and
Sisera to those of Napoleon I, because
of extent and central position, were
conspicuous as a thoroughfare for
great armies and as a fiercely con
tested battlefield.
* * *
HAY BOX—SnhsrribPr. City. What is the
o«y bos lined by the housekeepers of Sweden for
keeping food warm?
The Swedish hay box is an ordinary
pine one, any size from that of a cracker
box up. It is half filled with meadow
hay and a grain sack filled with the
same kind of hay is at hand. The pot
containing the food that is desired to
keep warm is placed in the box of hay
in which there has been made a de
pression to receive it ao that it may be
well imbedded. The sack filled with hay
is then placed on the top of the pot
which has been covered with a piece of
linen or cotton cloth, and that is all
there is to it, except to place a wooden
lid on the box.
* * *
INVITATION—E. X, Alameda. What is-the
proper form in sending a written acceptance or
declination to attend a card party?
The acceptance may be in the fol
lowing words: "Your invitation to the
card party received and cheerfully ac
cepted." The declination: 'Your kind
invitation to attend the card party is
regretfully declined, because of pre- ;
vlous engagement at the time set for j
J the party." J
Football
POET PHILOSOPHER
OH, surgeon, sharpen up your saws,
keep arnica in kegs, in readiness
for broken jaws and dislocated
legs. Take down your trusty battle ax
for amputation stunts; have remedies
for damaged backs and much disfigured
fronts, Oh, let us grease the ambu
lance and make it snug inside, for now,
with pomp and circumstance, the foot
ball teams collide. They have debrutal
ized the game, so certain experts cay;
it's now so innocent and tame that
even girls could play. And yet I notice
every year that grewsome stories come
of players who have had an ear or
head knocked out of plumb. And some
go home with broken ribs and some for
life are lame, which makes me think
that maybe fibs are told about the
game. Far be it from an old fat pote
to kick at any sport that does not get
the player's goat and put him out of
court. But football, in the ages when
it hadn't been refined, has killed and
crippled scores of men —but all that
is behind. They have it now so tem
pered down it's safe as blind man's
buff; no player gets a busted crown—
i there's nothing fierce or rough. And
yet, oh Sawbones, Just the same, I'd
grease the ambulance, for in the sweet
est tamest game some accidents may
chance.
§totf JUMtwm Kirn
A Compromise
County vicar (returning from serv
ice)—ls parliament sitting now, my
dear?
Wife—l don't know.
Vicar—Nor I; that's why I said the
prayer for parliament in such a low
voice.—Punch.
Exercising Her Right
"Mamma, young Mr. Ketchley wants
to come and see me."
"When did he tell you so, child?"
"Last time I saw him. I asked him
if he wouldn't like to call, and he said,
'Why, certainly.' " —Chicago Tribune,
Once Was Enough
"Father, did mother accept you the
first time you proposed to her?"
"Yes, my dear, but since then any
proposal that I have ever made ehe
has scornfully rejected."—Detroit Free
Press.
Belated
He who laughs last Is an English
man.—Princeton Tiger.
"If there U a Providence man around he
will grab for his dinner bucket."
a new depot. It was a great shipping
port in early days, but some years ago
it lost its.water front and has never
dared search Mr. Mellen for it.
For many years Providence was only
half of the capital of Rhode Island, but
some years ago it not only got the
other half away from Newport, but also
became the provisional capital of the
United States. However, it has lost
that distinction since Its leading citi
zen, Mr. Aldrich, stopped being the
United States senate.
Providence has a slight American ma
jority in elections with the Irish in
full pursuit and because it blows its
factory whistles too late In the even
ing it has 15,000 illiterate people. On
the other hand it has Brown univer
sity, which scores on Yale every year
or two. Providence is old fashioned in
its business district, its tenement sec
tions and its school laws, but its mil
lionaires are right up to date.
;orge Matthew Adams)
FIRST HARVESTER—In answer to
the query, "When and where was the
first combined harvester built and
used?" P. H. M. of this city writes:
"The first combined harvester was in
vented by William Rice, who built and
tried it out at Modesto, in this state,
in the middle seventies. Rice spent
his fortune on the invention and died
poor about six or seven years ago."
Abe Martin
If you think there's no such word as
fail, jist try t' fly a kite fer your little
boy. Some neighbors might jist as well
not live by you as fer as ther tourin'
car is concerned.
IN O VBAILBIE:Fig 8 » iQi:2
Ferry Tale
HERE'S com
fort for the
followers* , of
the routed ele
phant and cheer,
perhaps, for the
unapprec lated
martyrs of the
moose. The message of consolation, set
to the music of ice clinking on glass,
was composed by Phil Teller and em
bodied in a toast to which the After
deck equad, homeward bound the day
after election, solemnly subscribed. It
goes this way:
"To Woodrow Wilson—the first pres
ident einc* Lincoln endowed with *
sense of humor."
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If the Afterdeck equad, In lte col
lective capacity, owned a conscience,
Its moral sense would have sunk, long
ago, to the depths of repentant despair.
Ita latest conception, carried into ex
ecution by Joe Durney, wae taking? ad
vantage of Harry Gordan's shortsight
edness to plant In the bosom of Ronald
Rolph, brother of the mayor, the eeede
of political ambition.
Durney and William Rolph, etlU an
other brother, were chatting . In Cali
fornia street with Ronald Rolph. A*
they talked, Gordan hove In sight. They
call him "Gusher" Gordan now, partly
as a tribute to hl» cordial manner but
chiefly in recognition of his recent suc
cessful ventures the oil fields , .
Now, besides Jim. Rolph, long before
he was elected mayor, there was no
man e>o well known in California street.
Gordan, as said before, Is shortsighted.
William Rolph was speaking , when
Gordan came within earshot and Gor
dan greeted him by name. Hβ also
recognized Durney and then glanced In
quiringly at Ronald Rolph.
"You know Mr. RolpU, don't you? ,,
and Durney waved a hand toward Ron
ald of that ilk.
"I never had the pleasure," said Gor
dan, reaching out and grasping Ron
alds hand. "I esteem it a great priv
ilege, your honor," he continued, cling
ing to the hand, "to meet you now. I
have watched your career as mayor
with interest and admiration. I am
pleased to have this' opportunity of
telling you that you are a credit to
California street. Your administration
is going down In history a*—"
There was a lot more of it, includ
ing a few kind words for an estimable
young man, a policeman, to whom the
cold winds of the beach were becom
ing monotonous and who would really
be an ornament to a downtown beat.
By signs that Gordan couldn't see,
Durney cautioned Donald not to un
deceive his enthusiastic admirer and
Durney thought that was why Konald
accepted it all with a modest: "Thank
you, bir," without committing himself"
about the policeman.
"Good joke on 'Gusher*" chuckled
Durney, as Gordan ■went hie way.
"There Isn't another man in the street,
Ron, that would have taken you for
the mayor."
"Good Joke. Ha-ha!" rather reluc
tantly admitted Ronald. "Say, Mr.
Durney, do you know I think it must
be rather fine to be a mayor and have
people talk to you that way. Wonder
if some of these places around the bay
don't want a good man for mayor?"
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All of which indicates troubled
dreams for Ronald Rolph. Seriously,
however, if he ever does become a com
muter let the community in "which he
settles keep him in mind. There'll
never be too many Mayor Rolpha.
« • •
Philip S. Dickinson of Berkeley Iβ
known among commuters a* , the most
tenderhearted of men. When the
weather is cold and wet he never tor
sets to fill his overcoat pocket with
bread to feed the seagulls during the
trip across the bay. When his favorite
cocker spaniel died a few weeks ago.
his grief was real and lasting. For a
whole week he carried hie dead pet's
collar in his overcoat pocket as & token
of respect to the memory of hltt four
footed friend.
Incidentally, Dickinson is so particu
lar about his attire that when he ap
peared on the ferry the other morn
ing with milk stains on hie coat and
trousers, his friends felt at liberty to
call his attention to the fact.
"That's all right," he explained. "The
cleaner will taken that out. I'm a
foster mother now, you know."
Then it was learned that a new grief
had come into his life. His animal pet
next in favor to the dead spaniel had
been a very beautiful Belgian hare doe.
This hare followed the spaniel to the
happy hunting grounds the other day,
but before taking her departure had
dutifully provided for the future of her
race. Beside her dead body Dickinson
found 12 tiny furry jninatures of their
departed mother.
"I have to feed them every morning,"
he explained. "I give them milk. . Use
a medicine dropper. They're lively
little beggars and for every drop I get
into one of their mouths, half a dozen
drops go astray. I guess I've ruined
this suit, but I'm going to pul! those
motherless ones."
What's the matter with getting
Dickinson to put the elephant in shape
again? LINDSAY CAMPBELL.
Why
Husband—"ln olden times people
thought more of their homes."
Wife—"Of course! There were no
restaurants worth mentioning to go
to."—Judge.
Exceptional Child
First School Teacher— "Does Edith'e
little girl e%er make any bright an
swers?"
Second School Teacher—"No; she al
ways knows her lessona/V-Juc^e,
