The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-12

q ---SAAS NDuiQ suggest a4Ot4GI way 10
meet our expenses, for none occurs to
4 me. We Will have to pay bigger dues
or abandon the federation
/ Mrs, McClintock said: Il think one
| great drawback to the federation work
/ ia Topeka is that many of the club
women feel no real interest in the
fedora ton. They like their individual
clubs and attend the meetings regular
~ put they care little for the fedora
ton They frankly admit this and say
they rarely attend the meetings. Of
course if that is true we can't expect
them to take much interest in con
tinuing the organization and they
! would naturally oppose an increase of
the cost of maintaining an institution
which means so little to them
Speaking of the nominating commit
tee clause in the proposed amendments
one woman who is in favor of it said:
This talk about the nOmina ting COM
mittee being undenocratic is all bosh.
For years a handful of women have
1un the federation, not because they
wanted to especially, but because the
other women took no interest. If ever
there was an example of ring rule and
bosslsm we have had it in this orsani-
cation for years. I wanted to say in
my speech that 7 was tired of being a
nominating committee without authori-
4 ", and running the elections to suit
myself The trouble with the fedora
/ tiCn is that half a dozen or so of us do
too much talking and the others sit
around and let US. We need new life.
new blood, new leaders, new interests
in this federation and perhaps the nom
iIdtjng committee would find them. /
1 believe that there's material in the
clubs for a strong federation but we
seem to be in rut. The individual
clubs are doing things, worthy, useful,
/ uplmtlng things but the federation
hasn't advanced a step in years"
If the club women of Topeka are
not interested in the federation" said
another woman, sit is the fault of the
federation not of the club women. They
I care for their own clubs: that shows
] they like club work. Well, it is up to
the federation to interest them equally.
on can't expect them to take an in
/ terest if all they ever hear from the
! fedelation is a dsnlard for more mon
/ ey. They must have work to do-vital,
4 interesting, absorb bling work. When the
/ federation supplies them something 20
! do and something 10 think about they
will consider one dollar per annum a
small sum to pay for the privilege of
affiliation with such an organization.
Mr. George Barlow Penny, of the
Kansas College of Music, who is prom
inently identified with the highest art
/ interests IN Kansas, addressed the fed
Grafton Thursday morning at its call
/ ed meeting on the subject of an art ex-
| hibit for Topeka this winter. Last
! year when MI. Penny was dean of the
school of fine arts Of Washburn col
| lege his department = the college. with
the federation secured a loan exhibit
of American paintings which was
shown in the manual training high
school during the month of May.
There was a deficit the cost of the eX
hibition amounting to about one thou
/ sand dollars and the proceeds being
only about eight hundred but Mr.
Penny is urging the federation to It
tempt another exhibit this year. "a
. III he a.
always to be expected when the ad-
vancement of art is at stake. Lincoln,
/ Neb., has been holding exhibits for
| years with a deficit: so has Kansas
Kansas at Lawrence. An arrangement
is now pending by which Kansas City,
/ No, Lincoln, Neb.. and Topeka could
combine their exhibits at a saving Of
I fully half the expense and then If the
| clubs viii do as much this year as they
| did last we viii be able to give the ex-
hibit without a deficit.
Il think we can avoid this year some
mistakes made last year." Mr.. Penny
4 went on to say. For one thing we will
have the exhibit in seaSOn-that is in
/ February-instead of out of season as
last year. For another thing we will
not give it in connection with any
meeting. Last year~ft was a side issue
of the state federation meeting but the
! club women were so occupied by the
meeting they didn't have time for the
painting last year and this year we
will have several of note.
1--WE viii make special rates to clubs
as clubs and schools as schools, but not
to individual members of clubs or stud
ents. I purpose giving an organ reci-
tai at the Auditorium in which an at
tempt will be made to translate pic
lures into tone, to interpret through
music some Of the worlds great paint
ings. The proceeds of the recital will
go toward the payment Of last years
ant exhibit deficit Mr.. Klingenberg,
pianist, viii assist me on the pro-
gramme with a Rubenstein concerto
and there will be vocal numbers.
THE federation has no reason to feel
discouraged with the results of last
years exhibit of American paintings in
Topeka. 1t was, all things considered,
well attended and think its effect on
local art interests was highly beneficial.
If for nothing else the exhibit was
worth while because it increased our
eF whose pictures We're among the
best liked at the exhibit and proved
how well western art compares with
eastern art
The Review club of La Crosse re-
Il ceived considerable advertisement at the
meeting of the Fifth district federation
in Herington this fall. The Review was
organized in 1886, meets weekly on
/ Thursdays and its present officers are
Miss Laura Groves, president; Mrs.
Bertha Z. Russell, vice president; Mrs.
Joanna Williams, recording secretary;
Mrs. Lizzie O'Neal, corresponding sec
rotary and Mrs. Mary Daugherty, treas
urer. The club is studying the Bay
View course on Russia and Japan this
winter, but the special work it has done
which has attracted SO much favorab BILE
comment and has given it a prominent
place in its town and district is the care
of the local cemetery which it has beau
tilted and iTnDrOVed in O1aDV WAYS The
/ civic Improvement symposium at the
Herington meeting made much of the
work of the Review club which is set
ting a worthy example to similar organ
izations in small towns where there is a,
great demand for such work.