The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-15


sidering that it is contrary to the evil
dence of ones sense of sight. Re-
garding the unsanitary surroundings
of bill boards, Mr.. Conner had moth
ing to say. The argument that they
were fnartistfc and opposed to the de-
yelopment of an aesthetic taste in a
community, he answered by his open
ing remark that he could scarcely
think that a consideration of that kind
would weigh with so progressive city
as Topeka.
None of the women present were
asked to speak, but all listened atten-
lively to what Mr.. Conner had to say,
and SO are in possession of any addi-
tiona1 light that his talk may have
have thrown on the subject in which
they have interested themselves.
The many friends of Mrs. Eustace
Brown. a former president of the State
Federation of Women's Clubs, will be
glad to know that she is recovering
rapidly from serious operation which
she has lately undergone at hospital
in Kansas City, Mo. She will be in the
hospital for some time. but her recov-
cry is practically assured
The club women of the country are
waking up to the horrors of the white
slave traffic" and will probably enlist in
an active campaign against it. The fol-
lowing is quoted from Mrs. c. c. God
dard. the State Federation president:
1.-THE attention of congress and the
| whole country is at present very much
occupied with the agitation of the white
slave trade. Mr.. Patten, a young Kan
sas man and graduate of our State
university is prominently connected
with the investigation of the traffic.
He is secretary Of the immigration re-
striction commission of Boston, and 1t
is through him that much information
has been brought to light regarding the
traffic in foreign women.
zone of the vital questions before the
world today is that of the white slave
trade and one in which the club wo-
men will before long be called upon to
| take an active part in its suppression.
! It is not alone among immigrants that
| this crime exists, but in the city of
L Chicago alone there are 80 600 girls held
as prisoners of these traders, and 10000
men are living from the traffic of these
girls sold into bondage. The income
of one Of their chiefs is 100000 a year.
He pays to his agents from $40 to $50 a
| head for the girls, and should he chance
| to be caught, he is fined $500 and given
| a two years term of Imprisonment.
AT the Fifth district the question
| its horrors by DR.. Jean Zimmerman,
president of the Chicago Rescue Mis-
sion and National White Cross league.
| The crimes she told of were those she
knew through her own personal expert
ences in connection with her rescue
| work. She spoke of one hundred Kan
sas girls who had been sacrificed to this
| traffic in human lives by specious
| promises of the agents of this vampire
| trust.
CDR. Zimmerman is trying to enlist
the sympathy and interest of the club
women in all the states to take part in
askino for legislation that will put a
| stop to this American White Slave
traffic. So it behooves us. as Kansas
mothers. to awaken to the menace that
threatens the daughters of the Sunf1ow-
| err state"
The Twentieth Century club of Which,
| tia have taken up the subject of milk
| talk they had from their city inspector
that recalled the "Stereopticon Cow
| which was the subject of an illustrated
lecture by DR.. Magee of Topeka, ex-
MIXED a very filthy COW and stroked
| a dirty cat at the same time.
The General Federation of Women's
Clubs in America has a membership
of 100000 people and consists of 46
state declarations and 5000 clubs. The
following is a directory of the officers
of the state federation and the Topeka
| federation:
STATE FEDERATION.
State president, Mrs. C. C. Goddard,
Leavenworth.
| Vice president, Mrs. Matte Britt
Hale, La Crosse.
/ Recording secretary, Mrs. Charles
/ Hall, Hutchinson
| Corresponding secretary, Mrs. G. w.
Kendrick, Leavenworth.
Treasurer, Mrs. A. G. Stitch, indie
/ pendence.
Auditor, Mrs. Carrie B. Johnson
| Larned
General federation secretary, Mrs
r. P. Murdoch, Wichita.
CITY FEDERATION.
/ President, Mrs. Lila Day Monroe
| 900 Harrison street.
First vice president, Mrs. ]. D. Nc
Farland, 100 Harrison street.
i Second vice president, Mrs. w. R
Stubs, Governors House.
. Secretary, Miss Gertrude Barnes
1878 Clay street.
Treasurer Mrs. ]. P Raster, SIC
4 Auditor. Mrs. o. c. Knowles, 7os
Harrison street.
In the town of Kinsley the wo-
mems Society of the Congregations
church. paid out during the year 1905
more than $4,000, every cent of which
the society had earned and not solicit
ed. The money was earned in va
rious ways-taking newspaper sub
scriptions, selling tickets to entertain
ments, flower sales, banquets, socials
etc. It was used in keeping up the
current expenses of the church, paying
lecturers. rebuilding the organ, and
making repairs on the building. This
is probably the best record the state
can show of the money making pow.
ers of church association. Consider
! ing the size OF the town and the fac
that the members of the society were
busy women and keepers of homes
. they have given q remarkable example
| of what can be accom- p1ished bl
llenergy and devotion to cause
/. /
Experience is dear teacher, but gen'