The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-18
CONDUCTED 6rHaRs.hA4YBEEEE ED1LLF BR0Wv- -eessfoz0n


best thought and action of that dis
trict and which could never be reached
through individual contact. It is this
unnamable, intangible something
which renders each meeting different
from the other. and which gives the
president an insight into the condi-
tions there existing as would be impos-
sible to reach in any other way.
In my mind each meeting stands out
with a cameo-like distinctness, each
one the peer of another, yet each to-
tally different from the other.
mot like to like, but like in differ
Certain ideas which the executive
board had put forth were brought out
at each meeting. and the application
in each case was different from all the
rest. In this very difference can we
find one of the most potent reasons
for the district federation. Through
it the work of the state organization
may be applied directly to the needs
of each locality.
AS the woman who attends the meet
ings of one district federation is i'm
pressed with the Importance of the
work, so the woman who attends the
meetings of seven district federationS
becomes seven times deeply dyed with
a sense of their place in club economy.
1t has been the policy of our fedora
ton presidents to urge all clubs to
federate through the districts. This
| throws the force Of the individual club
directly into both district and state,
while it makes the individual club only
an indirect member of the state fed
GRAFTON.
In thus giving Internationally of it's
strength to the district federaions, the
state federation may well ask for the
same unreserved reciprocity. and q
plan has been formed whereby the
subordinate organizations may be the
closer welded to the parent federation.
Next year, each district president
viii be asked to append to her call for
her annual district meeting an amend
ment to the constitution which shall
make one section read:
'This organization shall be called
Federation of Clubs, and shall be aux
| iliary to the Kansas Federation of
Women's clubs"
Such a change as this will unity all
our federations, and will forestall any
sudden weakening of the force of the
state.
If the state federation worked for
itself alone, and ignored the welfare
of the district organizations, we could
not so logically ask this of the dis
tricts, but it has been the policy of our
state presidents to urge district feder-
ation,-often at the expense of the fed
Grafton of individual clubs-and it is
only fair to ask that these district fed
eratiOns, which they have built up, so
word their rules that no single dele
gate body may by action or inaction
remove from the state federation a
force which it can i'll spare, and which
it has given, in a great measure, to the
district federation.
The notice of this change has been
read in two of the district meetings
and where it has been otherwise men
| toned it has met with the approval of
all club women. It is not something
which concerns the present, but it is
/ one place to build for the future and
so this movement has taken place.
Some weeks ago a complete club re-
/ port was asked for. VIII all clubs that
have not yet sent in year books or
reports of officers, ETC., please do so at
once? The Kansas division of the An
nual Register of the General Fedora
/ ton is being revised, and it is import
ant that we hear from all clubs that
I have not reported. Work has also be-
( gun on our Kansas Club Roster, and
we want every club, federated or un-
/ federated, in that.
Again, I wish to emphasize the i'm
portance of at leastsone number of this
| able to reach every club woman in
Be business like, and take the official
club paper.
MAY BELLEVILLE BROWN.
Council Grove Celebrates.
The recent visit of Mrs. May Belle
Vile Brown to Council Grove was made