energetic workers, and we look forward to a happy and prosperous year. Our monthly social was postponed in December on account of the Christmas holidays, and again in January, to make way for Mrs. Lenora M. Lake's lecture. Those who heard Mrs. Lake in St. Louis will realize what a treat is in store for the union men and women of our city. We wish every member of the International auxiliary were here to enjoy it with us.

I would be less than human if I did not appreciate the pretty compliments Mrs. E. D. Donnell and Mrs. John D. Kane passed upon me in the last two numbers of THE JOURNAL. I heartily thank you, ladies. It is sweet to know my efforts have been recognized by our International officers, as well as by our local members. I simply did what I could. I would feel sorry to think I had done less. I wish you all a happy new year, and many of 'em. MRS. JOHN F. Lee.

ATLANTA, GA.

The election of officers of Atlanta auxiliary was held December 1, with the following result: Miss Connie Whites, president; Mrs. W. H. Conway, vice-president; Mrs. W. E. Jones, secretary; Mrs. J. W. Armistead, treasurer; Mrs. Annie Prell, chaplain.

The auxiliary has changed one of its business meetings into a social, and now holds one business and one social meeting each month. The social meetings are held alphabetically, according to the names of the members, and, according to the rule, Mrs. J. W. Armistead was the first to entertain the ladies at a social meeting, which was a most enjoyable event.

We were very glad to see several of our members present at the meeting who have been hindered from attending regularly the past year.

Don't you know that the dear old printers' hearts were glad Christmas when they received the nice box sent them from Omaha auxiliary? Atlanta auxiliary hopes to remember them next Christmas. How grand it would be if all the auxiliaries would follow suit.

How we do appreciate the "Woman's Department" in THE JOURNAL. It is like getting letters from home to read it, and, besides, we grasp so many new ideas.

It is noticed that the attendance is greater during the cold months. We are all glad for auxiliary day to come so we can gather together and have a pleasant afternoon. MRS. N. H. KIRKPATRICK.

CHICAGO, ILL.

On Monday, December 26, 1904, Woman's Auxiliary No. 41 to Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 gave an entertainment for the members of No. 16 and their families. It was given especially for the little ones, and every child present was presented with a bag of candy. Our program consisted of a vocal solo by Miss Shortess, recitation by Miss Margaret Lynch, piano solo by Miss Irene Winter, and recitations by two prominent members of No. 16, Mr. Yule and James Kibbey, both of whom were very much appreciated; and last,

but not least, was a grab bag, in which the older ones present were very much interested. Every one present spent an enjoyable evening.

The Chicago auxiliary is growing, and promises to be among the first as a sociable organization. Who can furnish the addresses of Mrs. L. G. D. Koch and Mrs. F. J. Ford? They signed our charter without giving their addresses, and so far we have failed to locate them.

Our present hall in the Fraternity building is too small for our meetings, and a larger one will shortly be secured. MRS. C. E. WINTER.

LINCOLN, NEB.

Capital Auxiliary No. 11 held election of officers at its last meeting in December, which resulted in the following ladies being installed at our last meeting: Mrs. H. W. Smith, president; Mrs. Charles B. Righter, vice-president; Mrs. Fred Mickel, secretary; Mrs. S. G. Sayer, treasurer; Mrs. George Freeman, chaplain; Mrs. William Bustard, guide. With such an efficient body of officers No. 11 feels assured of success in the coming year's work.

We had a masquerade party when we held our December social. There were a number of very unique costumes, but no prizes were given.

January 21 will be our second birthday anniversary. The ladies expect to banquet their husbands. A committee is making great preparations, and if it is a success, will have something to write about in the next issue of this paper.

Mr. and Mrs. James Leaden have the sympathy of the auxiliary in the loss of their home, which was caused by fire, the first week in December. MRS. C. E. BARNGROVER.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

The regular business meeting of Woman's Auxiliary No. 7 was held January 3. The officers for the ensuing year were installed, as follows: President, Mrs. Buchanan; vice-president, Mrs. T. J. Smith; secretary, Mrs. H. J. Loser; treasurer, Mrs. W. H. Jordon; chaplain, Mrs. J. P. Thornley; guide, Mrs. R. D. McElroy. We feel grateful to the retiring officers for their work in the past year, and trust the new ones, as well as every member of the auxiliary, will make this year the most successful one of the organization.

A committee from No. 20 called on the ladies at the last meeting and asked their co-operation in getting out an Easter edition of the Labor Advocate, for the purpose of placing a memorial tablet in the Union Printers' Home at Colorado Springs to the memory of the late William Aimison. A business meeting was called by our president for Wednesday, January 10, at her home, which was well attended by the members, and all present pledged themselves to do all in their power to make the Easter edition a grand success, and it is believed we will accomplish our aim. There is nothing accomplished without work, and when the members of No. 7 get to work there will be "something doing."

Some interest was manifested in the label at our

last meeting, and all present promised for the future to call for goods bearing the union label. We also decided to adopt a new plan of entertainment at our regular meetings in order to make them more interesting, and if all the members who don't attend will meet with us next time, we will pleasantly surprise them.

We are glad to see that new auxiliaries are being formed.

We regret that we were not represented in the last issue of THE JOURNAL, but we will try to be heard from once a month in the future. We enjoy the "Woman's Department" very much.

MRS. R. D. MCELROY.

DES MOINES, IOWA.

Auxiliary No. 15 has been rather quiet the past month, having no social affair whatever, and very few in attendance at regular business meetings. All were busy preparing for Christmas, but now that the holidays are over with, they have taken up the auxiliary work with renewed interest, and are planning a euchre party to be given February 3, which we expect will be a "record-breaker."

All of our sick members (of whom there are quite a few) were remembered with flowers on Christmas day. The auxiliary has lost its first member by death. Mrs. Selma FitzGerald died at her home in Hiteman, December 22. She was a charter member, and had been in poor health the past year.

I must say that I agree with Mrs. John Lee in regard to the different members writing to THE JOURNAL. Each one has a certain style of her own in writing, and there would not be such a sameness in the communications. MRS. E. F. DORIS.

PUEBLO, COLO.

On Tuesday afternoon, December 27, No. 32 met with Mrs. Charles Shade. At that meeting a donation of $10 was given to the Cummings memorial fund, and though it made quite a "hole" in our treasury, no regrets are forthcoming, for we feel that it could be bestowed upon no worthier object.

A social session was held on the night of January 10 in the G. A. R. hall, the printers and their families attending in full force. The thanks of the auxiliary are due Mr. Andrew, foreman of the Chieftain news force, for the courtesy shown us in extending the lunch hour in order that the night men might attend and partake of the delicious refreshments served by the ladies. The drawn-work lunch cloth presented to the auxiliary by Mrs. Baldwin was raffled, the nice little sum of $20 being realized from the sale of chances. The lucky number was held by Lee Bowman, of the Chieftain Press. Several literary and musical numbers were rendered, and card playing and dancing were indulged in. The ladies feel very much elated over the success attending their efforts to make the social a thoroughly enjoyable affair, and there is no doubt but that the auxiliary will have "something doing" again in the near future.

MRS. MAUD A. DUFFY.

KANSAS CITY, MO.

Woman's Auxiliary No. 39 is moving along slowly but surely, and taking in new members reg. ularly. We hope to so interest the wives of the printers and ladies who are as yet not members that they will come and be one of us, and take a hand in the good work. There is lots of room for all. To be one of us is to come out to our meetings and join us. We all know that the Missourians have to be shown, and that is what we are going to do in the year that is before us.

At our last meeting, which was held at the home of our secretary, Mrs. Charles Fear, we discussed work for the future and installed the following officers for the coming term: Mrs. A. E. Gross, president; Mrs. George Louck, vice-president; Mrs. Robert Sorby, secretary-treasurer; Miss Bessie Bohn, guide; trustees, Mrs. Hannefield, Mrs. H. Caslen, Mrs. H. Fratcher.

We are always glad to receive communications from our sister auxiliaries, and appreciate the kindly interest Seattle auxiliary has shown toward us. We never overlook a word in THE JOURNAL from our sister auxiliaries, being always anxious to learn what the others are doing. A happy and prosperous new year to all. MRS. A. E. Gross.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

Woman's Auxiliary No. 5 is enjoying a very prosperous and active year. Each member seems to take an unusual interest in the promotion and betterment of the order. Although we have not so large a membership as we desire, we are slowly growing, and what we lack in numbers we try to make up in enthusiasm.

We are frequently enjoyably entertained by some one of the ladies at her home.

On January 17 an entertainment was given at the Propylæum, as a Franklin night celebration. We have never given anything to surpass it in sociability or attendance, and though as yet we can not say how successful we were financially, we expect from the attendance to make a nice addition to our treasury.

The present officers hope to make this year as successful, if not more so, as any previous year. MRS. JOHN N. CULLUM.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN.

The regular monthly meeting of Mountain City Auxiliary No. 21 was held with Mrs. A. G. Linn, on Wyatt street, Thursday afternoon, January 5. Officers were installed, as follows: President, Mrs. E. S. Hale; vice-president, Mrs. E. I. Rhine; secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Charles F. Guy; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Oza Blodgett; chaplain, Mrs. Berringer.

We hope to accomplish something this year. Will begin an active label campaign along new lines, and hope to outstrip last year's work. Our membership, in numbers, is not so bad. The trouble is, we can not get the attendance up to the standard that we desire. Once get a good attendance, the interest will not be long in manifesting itself.

Isn't that true, sisters? But we are not giving up; on the contrary, are pulling up a bit, and have arranged several little "affairs," etc., for the near future that will doubtless revive interest in the auxiliary members who do not attend the meetings regularly.

Our hearts are in the eight-hour movement. To the printers, our protectors and advisers: "While in the battle of eight hours you fight, let this be your motto, 'We will stand to the right.'

At last meeting, after business was over, and just before adjournment for the social hour, it was announced that the ladies had a "grievance" against the president, Mrs. E. S. Hale, and the secretary, Mrs. Charles F. Guy. The "grievance" was explained in a poetical effusion, by Miss Effie M. Stone, and Mrs. Hale was presented with a tall cut-glass vase and Mrs. Guy with a large cutglass bowl. MOUNTAIN CITY.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.

Woman's Auxiliary No. 9 to Typographical Union No. 42 is progressing nicely at the present time. At our last regular meeting, December 8, two new members took the obligation. We now have forty-six members in good standing. The meeting was well attended and very interesting.

A card party was given at the residence of Mrs. Charles Browne by Mrs. Browne and Mrs. Frank Boreen on December 1 last, which was well attended and enjoyable. Ice cream and cake was served.

The following officers were elected at the meeting on December 8: President, Mrs. John Olson; vice-president, Mrs. A. Henderson; secretary, Mrs. Frank Boreen; treasurer, Mrs. Frank Frost; chaplain, Mrs. Holmes; guide, Mrs. Charles Browne. MRS. FRANK BOREEN.

BALTIMORE, MD.

Another Franklin day celebration! Woman's Auxiliary No. 28 to Baltimore Typographical Union No. 12 gave its second Franklin day celebration January 17, 1905, with the usual success, both socially and financially. The affair was so arranged that both day and night printers could enjoy it. A sumptuous repast, "to please the gods" (that is, the "earthly" gods), was so prepared that any one desiring could be served any time between 2:30 and 8 P. M. Music and song helped to make pleasant the afternoon and evening. After the feast the tables were removed and the room made ready for dancing. From 9 until 12 P. M. that pastime was indulged in. To say it was a social success is placing it in mild terms, as never in the history of Baltimore Typographical Union has there been such cordial and genial intercourse between the members of the craft and their families, all formality being laid aside. At one time there were fortyfive men from one office who sat at table. During afternoon and evening there was an attendance of about 600 persons. We owe much of our success to the Bowler, a small paper issued in the interest of bowling by members of the Sun chapel. It kept a standing ad and gave many wise injunctions as to the policy of its members and friends attending

this feast. The entertainment was in charge of the business committee, Mesdames C. Harthorne (chairman), M. Lyons, E. Goutrain and T. F. Brady, assisted by the rest of the members of the auxiliary.

Officers for the ensuing year are as follows: President, Mrs. George Foster; vice-president, Mrs. John Hackney; corresponding secretary, Mrs. T. F. Brady, jr.; financial secretary, Mrs. Emil Goutrain; treasurer, Miss Elsie Hackney; guide, Mrs. John Koeblitz. MRS. T. F. BRADY, JR.

TORONTO, CANADA.

I had not intended writing this month to THE JOURNAL, as I thought I had very little to mention, but got a hint that we would be expected to be heard from, and I had left it till too late to get anybody else to write for me.

We held our regular monthly meeting in the Labor Temple, and had quite a large gathering considering, and a nice time. Several new members were added to our list, and we hope that it will grow every month as it has the last two. Some of the ladies seem quite enthusiastic in their desire to help along the good work.

A few gentlemen of No. 91 have become honorary members and will no doubt be able to help a great deal in our work, as their advice will be of great importance to us. We had quite a busy afternoon of it, and did not let any intending members escape us without putting down their name on our list, although some had not come with the intention of joining so soon. But we impressed upon them that there was no time like the present, and all came in quite willingly.

We are all in hopes of making a success of our auxiliary, and are doing the very best we can, and hope for the good will of our sister auxiliaries.

We expect by convention time to have a very large membership, and, of course, will work to make it a grand success.

We are not at all asleep, but are working and holding all kinds of meetings, and I think if we continue the way we have begun our success is an assured fact. MRS. D. MCDOUGALL.

ST. LOUIS, MO.

No. 29 is preparing to conduct a public euchre and hop on the afternoon and evening of March 1, at Anchor hall. In order to defray the expenses, buy prizes, etc., private euchres will be held at members' residences weekly in the meantime.

The membership roll shows a steady growth. The continued interest is demonstrated by the payment of dues for a year in advance.

MRS. IDA DIRKS.

HER CHALLENGE.

THEY sat on the rustic bench counting the fireflies.

"Darling," he whispered, softly, "may I print a kiss on your cherry lips?"

The beautiful girl stared at him searchingly. "Do you belong to the Printers' Union?" she asked quickly.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

There were several severe injuries suffered by employes of the proofroom of the government printing office no other division seems to have participated in this chapter of misfortune to any extent by falling on the icy pavements about New Year's day. Charles P. Etchberger, sr., cut a long gash in the back of his head which necessitated the services of a surgeon. William S. Baker broke an ankle and was laid up for some weeks. Maj. C. A. Vaughan broke or dislocated a shoulder. But the worst case of all was that of Joseph A. Babcock, formerly well known in New York, especially on the Times, who broke his hip, from which he is still in the hospital and as yet has not been permitted to see calling friends. Mr. Babcock has been in failing health for two or three years and his condition was such that he could get about with difficulty before this accident occurred. The reports from Sibley hospital, in which he is lying, are to the effect that he is getting along as well as can be expected. He is under the care of Dr. DeWitt C. Chadwick, formerly a printer, and as well known in Cincinnati-where he was for a time secretary of the union, as well as a delegate to the Kansas City convention of 1888-as he is here. The other wounded are about recovered.

Charles W. Pafflow, of the same department as the wounded mentioned above, is lying in the Georgetown University hospital, where he has undergone a severe surgical operation, from which he has not yet recovered. He had been suffering for some time before, and his system was much run down. Mr. Pafflow hails from St. Louis, where he is well known.

Arthur B. Proctor, who had been employed in the government printing office for a great many years, died early in January, of nervous prostration, and was buried in Arlington national cemetery (he was an old soldier) with Masonic honors.

John B. Jacques, an old newspaper man, who has been in the government printing office for eight or ten years, had the misfortune to lose his wife by death on New Year's day, after they had spent the greater part of a lifetime together. But a year ago he was bereaved of a daughter.

Arthur P. Ferl, who came to the government printing office from Kansas about eight years ago, since when he spent about three years in the Philippines in the government printing service there, returning some months ago, has located in San Pedro, Cal., where he has established an office for the transaction of loan and real estate business. As an active, hustling man, I predict a successful career for him.

The regular quarterly meeting of the association of ex-delegates of Columbia Union was held on January 8, being fairly well attended. A number of new members were received, among them Miss Anna Wilson, a delegate to St. Louis last August. Having plenty of money, the dues were reduced to 50 cents per annum. Resolutions on the death of

ex-Delegate Albert E. Ingalls (Kansas City, 1888) were adopted. A committee was appointed to report on the advisability of giving an entertainment in the spring. The following officers were unanimously re-elected: Z. T. Jenkins, president; Dexter S. Hussey, vice-president; J. T. Herbert, secretary; Charles W. Otis, treasurer; H. S. Sutton, sergeant-at-arms. Considered as a Wahneta society, the ex-delegates' association has not yet showed its cloven foot.

Superintendent Deacon, or some one of my young friends who are his guests, sent me the Christmas menu of the Union Printers' Home, and it depicted a round of meals to make the boys glad they are living. Now it is in order for some economical soul, with slim-waisted charity in his heart, to protest against feeding our disabled brethren so highly. There unfortunately are such.

My oldtime Chicago friend William Mill, secretary of the executive committee of the Old Time Printers' Association, honored me with an invitation to the annual banquet and ball at the Sherman House on Franklin's birthday. I recognize in the names of those on the committee a number whom I knew as far in the 'way-back as thirty-five years ago, among them Harry Street, Thomas E. Sullivan, Nicholas Welch, John W. Troy, and Joseph C. Snow, most of whom have probably forgotten me long ago. I know of no other way so delightful for keeping up the associations of the past as an annual ball and banquet.

I am afraid that some people (apropos of nothing at all) fail to distinguish between the "kicker" and the "knocker," who are birds of very different plumage and with very different objects in view. The "kicker" seeks reforms, and all his "kicks" are in the interest of reform or what he conceives to be reform. The "knocker" makes something he does not like, or pretends he does not like, the occasion for "knocking" somebody he does not like. The "kicker" is a real reformer, and he "kicks" for reform; the "knocker" "knocks" what is without having anything to substitute for it. The former is a builder up-on his own lines, to be sure; the latter is a tearer down, erecting nothing. The "kicker" "kicks" to be helpful; the "knocker" "knocks" to be hurtful.

I have given in my allegiance to the Society of Typographical Journal Correspondents by letter to Secretary Dirks, but I hope that it will not be considered any part of my duty as a true and loyal member thereof to make Herbert W. Cooke understand my jokes.

I am glad to notice a decadence of the Tore-onto joke.

Washington has been "all torn up" over the ques tion of establishing a whipping post for wife-beaters, arising from the recommendation of President Roosevelt in his annual message to congress. The Evening Star, as the representative of the staid and conservative, is opposing it-not out of any sympathy with the wife-beater, but because of the

disgrace that would be brought upon the capital of the nation. Representative Adams, of Pennsylvania (a bachelor, by the way), introduced a bill in the house of representatives to carry out the presi dent's ideas, on which he made a speech containing statistics of wife-beating in his own state, which, however, had repudiated the whipping post as the remedy. I have an acquaintance of average range, and among them all there is not an instance of wife-beating in the present or past, so far as I have ever heard. I do not believe that any class of punishment, however severe, ever operated as a deterrent of crime. I believe it was in the English comic opera "Billee Taylor" that the lines oc

cur:

"Oh, why does the workingman wallop his wife ?" "It's love, love, love.'

Generally about this time of year we begin to hear of aspirants for office, especially for delegate, but so far I have heard nothing but the thinnest sort of probabilities. It has been the custom of this union for a number of years to give the president a second term, and I do not think it is likely to be departed from this year, especially as President John R. Berg is performing very satisfactorily in that position.

With about as severe tests as they are likely to be subjected to, the Mergenthalers have demonstrated their practicability in getting out the Record on time, and I do not know of any place where they could be subjected to a severer test. In the two divisions in which Lanston monotypes are used the authorities are in love with them, and the work they do is indeed artistic. I have no means of knowing whether either machine is an economical investment.

The Union Outfitters to Men Company is an enterprise that is being organized in this city by workingmen, to be an establishment where none but union-label goods will be handled, under union conditions. It is to have a capital stock of $50,000, and already has sufficient subscribed to guarantee the success of the .nstitution. Its officers are all workingmen.

The Washington Credit Association is another workingmen's scheme for getting into the commer. cial swim. It gives its patrons orders for goods on almost any of the mercantile houses, being respon. sible for the collection of indebtedness so incurred, and making the collections and turning over the money for such percentage as by its arrangement with merchants they agree to pay. Its officers are also workingmen, principally or altogether em ployes of the government printing office.

I learn from my friend Thomas B. Brown, of Topeka, Kan., of which city I was once an inhabitant and where I completed my apprenticeship, that the printers have entered on a campaign for state ownership of the state printing office. I am very much in favor of the state owning all enterprises that are operated for the general public, but especially state printing offices, and if that be socialism, then am I a socialist. But if I read its platform aright, that is the socialism of the American Federation of Labor. But I have no sympathy, however friendly I may feel toward socialism, for

the scheme to drag trade unions into it, if for no better reason, the eminently satisfactory one to me that all trade unionists are not socialists and have a right to protest against being committed to what they do not believe in. Those harebrained devotees of the cult who denounce trade unions as the same class of opponents of socialism as the great corporations and trusts, can not see very far, or they would realize that both are making for socialism, each in its way, the one for equal opportunities for capital and the other for equal opportunities for labor, and when each becomes perfectly organized they will see the necessity for "pooling their issues," which, of course, means equal opportunities for everybody, everybody being a capitalist or a laborer and some belonging to both classes. Whatever of effectiveness socialism has achieved has been through the trade unionists' efforts, and they are certainly fools to try to kick over the ladder which has enabled them to climb as high as they have got. But there! That is enough to bring at least a dozen "bugs" into my wool.

While I am in a moralizing mood let me go a little further. I am astonished every little while to run across a man-even a printer-who really does not believe in organization, though belonging to ours principally because that is more convenient than staying outside and fighting it. There are only a few such, but I have met them. As an evidence of the strength of organization take the Roman Catholic church-and I have not the slightest wish to offend either member or foe of that church, but merely to use it as an illustration. Dozens and perhaps hundreds of assaults have been made on it by societies organized for the purpose within my recollection, and so far from making any serious inroads they have done scarcely more than ruffle its temper. And this is because of the magnificence of its organization, considered purely as such. Every pinion and every pulley has its allotted work to do and does it. Take the Masonic fraternity as another illustration. It has, and especially has had, its enemies and its traducers, but it goes on in the even tenor of its way. If all the enemies of the Roman Catholic church could be combined into as compact and obedient a body as the church is, there is no doubt that the church would be crushed out, and if all the foes of Masonry, not now perhaps, but at different times in the past, could be combined as the fraternity is organized, who can say that the institution's existence would not be ended? These are but two illustrations out of many that might be instanced. So must labor be organized. So is labor becoming organized. But it can not be done in a day. The Roman Catholic church has been 2,000 years achieving its perfection of organization, and the Masons 4,000, according to tradition. However, our facilities of communication in these modern days are such that more in the way of conveying intelligence can be done now in a day than could be done in a year until within less than a century. We are achiev ing that organization rapidly. At the rate of progress we are making, in ten years the proportion of non-unionists to unionists will not be greater than the proportion of convicted felons to honest men -which strikes me as a particularly happy illus