The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-26
IT'S GOOD ENOUGH
Mrs. Noble Prentis' Idea About
the Constitution.
Mrs. w. A. Johnston Thinks We
Need a New One.
WOMEN WHO WRITE.
Kansas Press Association Meets
in Topeka.
Mrs. King of PIainville viii
Probably Be President.
WOMEN WHO WRITE.


| being held at the Copeland today.
The election will be held this afternoon
and Mrs. L. A. King of the Plainville
Gazette, the only avowed candidate
for the Office, will probably be elected
president. Mrs. Annie L. Diggs OF
Kansas City is the retiring president.
The morning session in the Cope
land parlors was interesting and well
attended. Beside the incidental bust
ness Miss Ruth Cowgirl of the KAN
sas Farmer read an excellent paper on
The Mission of the Young Folks
Page" and this occasioneds a discus
sion of unusual merit and spirit to
which Mrs. Q. 3. Hoffman of Enter
prise, Mrs H. O. Carney, Mrs. ". A.
fNoble Prentis and Mrs. James NJ.
Lewis of Kinsley contributed. Miss
Cowgirl is a daughter of E. B Cow
gill, editor of the Kansas Farmer,
Young Folks Page for that magazine
beside doing club news and other
women's departments of the paper
for a number of years.
This afternoon the feature of the
programme was a discussion of the
Kansas constitution by Mrs. Noble
PTentis, Mrs. William A. Johnston
and Mrs. r. Z. Rice OF Lawrence. The
question, Should Kansas Have New
/ Constitution? was treated Mrs. Prem
tbs said: During the past few
months ] have had occasion to study
the constitution of Kansas and its
amendments very thoroughly and I
/ have been impressed by its cOmpre-
hensiveness and its completeness. I
think Kansas needs not a new cohsti-
tuition but revival of respect Tor the
very excellent one which we have.
What the Kansas WOmenS Press club
members owe to their readers is to
/ create a greater respect for law in
this state. Our constitution is good
/ enough but it needs editing. There is
/ too much dISTeSDGct for law in Kansas,
/ from the highest official to the lowest.
| Newspaper women might make use of
their opportunities to create new
public sentiment in this particular"
Mrs. Johnston was in favor of a new
constitution. She reminded her hear
ers that the present constitution was
adopted almost fifty years ago and that
since then the state has grown and de-
velOped in many ways and that the old
constitution no longer meets its needs.
| She spoke of the marvellous develop
ment of the mineral resources of the
state unsuspected when the WyandOtte
constitution was adopted I'VE had
not dreamt," she said, "of our zinc,
| lead, coal and oil and nobody thought
commerce, our population have in
| creased beyond the dreams of the men
who framed that constitution and in
many respects it is no longer adequate.
mand a new constitution. The present
one gives US equal property rights
with men, but we also demand equal
political rights. Another thing that I
would have changed in the constitu-
ton is the provision which prohibits a
district judge becoming a candidate
for any other Office during the term
for which he was elected The best
material for our supreme court comes
from the district courts, but a district
a-+f hat
cannot become a candidate for the su-
| preme court"
Tonight the clubs annual dinner
will be given at the Copeland The
programme of after dinner talks fol-
lows:
"a Dream of the Hour" Mrs. Matte
| Toothacker Kimball.
should DR.. Osler Be Chloroform-
ed?" Mrs. C. A. Wilder.
Lights and Shadows" Mrs. Cora G.
| Lewis.
''The Spirit Of Kansas Mrs. NJ. l.
1.-THE Kansas March" Mrs. Mar
garet Hill McCarter.
"a Heavenly Vision" Miss Amanda
T. Jones' read by Mrs. J. c. Mack.
/ 1.-THE Mission of Verse" Mrs. Berta
Alexander Carney
AUD Lang Syne." Mrs. Minnie D.
Morgan.
the meeting are Mrs. J. NJ Lewis of
the Kinsley Graphic and president of
the Kansas Federation of Women's
clubs, Mrs. Annie L. Digs Mrs. c. 3.
Hoffman, of Enterprise, Mrs. J c.
Mack Of the Newton Kansan- Repubh-
can, a daughter of the late Noble
Prentis, Mrs. W. A. McCarter, editor
of the Club Member, Mrs. L. A. King
of the Plainville Gazette Mrs. W. A.
Morgan of Cottonwood Falls, Mrs. D.
c. Nellis, Mrs. H. o. Garvey. Mrs. r.
E. Rice of Lawrence. Miss Olive Bray.
Mrs W. A. Johnston, Mrs. M. L. Rupe
of Clyde, Mrs. Matte Toothacker Kim
ball of the CORTLAND Register, Miss
Nanon Herren of the Topeka Daily
Legal News, Miss Constance Crowther,
Mrs Belle Benedict, Mrs Walker of
Kansas City, Kan, Miss Helen Dodge,
| Miss Emma Dennis and Mrs. c. A.
! Wilder of Manhattan.
Mrs. De Witt c. Nellis and Mrs. H.
o. Garvey will entertain the members
of the club at a Observation-Disclosures at
| Mrs. Nellis' house, 914 Fifth street
west tomorrow morning.