The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-22
WOMAN BANKERS
Mrs. Bennett. Bank President,
Makes a Speech.
Sees No Reason Why Women
Should Not Be Bankers.
ONLY ONE THAT STAID
Other Banks in Ness City Sue
cumbed to Panic.
Justice Porter Makes Pointed
Speech on Law Enforcement. =

The members Of the Kansas Bankers
association reconvened this morning
for their days session II Representative
hau and listened 10 a number OF 4d-
dresses and papers BY members and
others. The associa ton has been in
session since Monday and the meeting
viii come 70 a close this evening by d
banquet given Al the Auditorium COM
u1encing promptly at $50 by the To-
pela members Of the body
The d-st paper On the programme this
morning was by Mrs. N < Bennett
Of Ness City. who Is the only woman
bank president in attendance at the
meeting OF the bankers assOeia ton
She said I believe that about al ad-
nit that women are better hoUsekeep-
erS than men, and Why then should
they not De their equals al least as
bankers. for the same principals which
d successful banker and il the rule will
work II the first instance II should in
the second
4 think that the field Is good one
for woman ard there are q number Of
reasons f0r this SupposiCiOu- There is
4 high sense 0f honesty among the wo-
men which Is not always found among
TIE men- They are keen OF perception
and excellent judges OF human nature
as a general thing They add 70 the
usatnsss and cleanliness OF the bank
ing institutions with which they are
identified and I can see no reason why
there should not De more women bank
ers in the state than there ara
Mrs Bennett has been Identified with
the Institution q which she Is now the
head Of for . years as A bookkeepsr.
and vice president Ness City had four
banks At one time. but al OF them went
out Of business during the paufcIxy times
N the early part OF the ufnefies with
the exception or the one presided over
by Mrs Bennett
James H Hill. president OF the State
Normal school at Euporia spoke or
Kansas and Her EEuca rfonaI Prog
ress- during which he called attention
70 the fact that while Kansas is class
ed among the best as far as her ss1u-
CauO1aI features are concerned. that the
schooI teachers are unGsrpaid for their
services He suggested that plans Tor
the more 1udiciGUE expenditure Of the
mGuey appropriated BY the legfSIa Cure
should De devised.
According % the figures OF Mr. Hill
the men who follow teaching as a pro-
fession receive s512 per school year for
their services while the women receive
even less than this amounting On an
average 10 bur $3.50 fer nine months
service
Justice P0rter-s Speech
SiIaz Porter. Justice Of the supreme
court 1polxe On kansa-Her Constitu-
tf0n and Her Laws and said kansas
has plenty u laws and the only trouble
Il that they ara not enforced either On
account Of the Iaxness Of the official
whose place IL i TO see that they are
obeyeG OF On account Of public sentf-
meuL
Thz latter Is a nuisance 20 the COM
muufry which permits the violation and
the state aIike- for the constant open
violation Ct a law brings not only that
law but al others into contempt kan
SaS has always occupied front page
top head position in the advertising CT
the country. bur much Of It mas been Of
the Nellie Lease. Jerry Simpson, Carrie
Nation kind This. however. IS a thing
OF the past but Kansas cannot be kept
0ut CT the unneIght
a common place affair IN any other
state Is wGrth top head any time il
occurs in Kansas A murder OF suicide
= Il happens IN Kansas is worth more
space than II II had occurred in any
other state Affairs which had rhey &C.
CURED in any other state would have
ouIy occasioned passing interest threat