The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09
REFORM The CRY
Club Women Ready With School
Board Election Sensations.
Will Back Reform Ticket in
Every Ward.
SUPPORT THE MEN.
Women Will Not Run Any OF
Their Sex for Positions.
Female Insurgents Object to
School Administrations.
Down with the school boardv'

Down with the school boardu'
That is the cry of the club women of
Topeka today. Furthermore that is go
ing to be their battle cry from now un-
til the final election in April when the
city elects six new members of the
school board-one from each ward in
the city.
The club women and their friends are
holding a meeting this afternoon. The
meeting was going at full blast at 3
O'Clock and probably will not end up
until late this evening. They are meet
ing with one purpose in view:
To approve one man from each ward
in the city for membership on the
school board.
The club women refuse to give out
any names this afternoon. They say
that they have a large number of men
ION the string" and not until they are
sure of their ground and positive that
each man will run and uphold their
principles will they bring out the can
didates.
When the candidates are once pledged
and their ticket is made out, Topeka
will witness the greatest school board
election campaign in the history of the
! city Every woman in Topeka who has
proclaimed her disapproval of the ac-
| tions of the present members of the
| holds the theories against the dead
| languages" and the frat discrimina-
tions'' will drop her housework, her en-
tertainments, her reading clubs and
work for the good of their school board
ticket.
There Are Many Issues.
There are number of issues to be
supported by the women in their fight
| for a new list on the school board roll.
| The big issue. of course. will be the late
| trouble over the courses of studies and
| the schedule now in vogue at the high
school.
The club women claim that the high
| school course is not practical, that the
studies are taught in a poor manner.
| that the hours of recitation are not
scheduled correctly, that the students
are made physical wrecks by the meth
| ods used and that immortality results i'll
many cases.
With the intention of finding rem
edy for these alleged faults the club
women, assisted by a large contingent
| CT men. will elect men to the school
board Who have different ideas and
who will carry out their plans and
| their theories This platform of re
| form methods in school teaching and
| management" will be made of the
planks carried and nailed by the club
, " omen.
I'VE want a new school board said
Mrs. Lila Day Monroe in speaking OF
| the convention OF the women TINS al
| ternoon. Thus the cry of Down with
the school board applies to those who
are now in for their second term and
| who will have to bear the burdens OF
| the club Womens anger.
There is another issue that is going
| to prove popular for the benefit of the
candidates brought out by the women
voters. The recent fraternity trouble
| at the high school when a number of
students were expelled from the school
on account of their connection with
| high school eraIernities, has brought
| the wrath of many a father and
mother down upon the heads of the
school board and has excited a popu-
lar sympathy throughout the city.
The members of the school board
whose terms will expire this spring are
| c. c. Nicholson of the First ward; H
| c. Linn of the Second ward; E. H. An
] derson of the Third ward; J. D. Nortor