The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-19

These sets of questions are to be dis
tributed, one to each club, filed out
by the proper officer or committee OF
the club and returned. These ques-
tons are intended to draw out infor-
nation on the work of the following
commit ees of every club of every state:
Art, civics, health. civil service reform,
education, forestry, waterways, house
economies, food sanitation, industrial
and child labor conditions, legislature,
literature and library extension. Clubs
receiving these blanks will fill out an
swers for such committees as they have,
and return the full set to the women
OF the ~esI ective states who have been
blanks. Mrs. Kendrick will have the
work for Kansas, and she will separate
the questions, with their answers, ac-
cording TO committees and forward the
Information received from each depart
ment to the chairman of the general
federation committee in charge of that
particular work. The clubs are asked
to fill out the blanks as promptly as
possible. so that the datum may be in
the hands of the general federation and
the work of compiling it finished be-
fore the convention in May.
The State Federation will hold its
annual meeting April &c to 20. this
year, at Abilene. The program for
the convention is being arranged, and
it has already been decided to start it
off with banquet. Entertainment will
be provided for the board of man
ayers, chairman of the standing COM
mittee and those on the program.
There will be a civic rally in Kan
sas City, Kan, March 10. Mrs. w. r.
Childs of Kansas City has charge OF
the civic department for Kansas. This
is to be the first civic rally held in the
state. and it is hoped that it will be
attended by people from other towns
MrS Kof A N
ages the civic health committee. will
be there. The evening of March
there will be a reception and March
10 a conference of delegates and peo-
pie interested in the movement. and in
the afternoon and evening music and
addresses from prominent speakers
will be given.
One of the subjects strongly agitat-
ed by Theodore Roosevelt and in
which public spirited men all over the
country have interested themselves
the conservation of natural resources
has, in common with many othel
worthy enterprises. found a champion
in the club federation. The National
Rivers and Harbors Congress OF
Women was organized at Shreveport
| La. with the object of educating and
agitating until the people and the leg
| iSlatOrs realize that the two mos
pressing physical needs of our country
| are the development of our waterways
anu lIle COUSeTfdllOH anu Replacement
| of our forests" This will require far
reaching comprehensive plans to take
in waterways along the seaboard witt
the harbors, the Great Lakes and every
river that is capable of being improved
with reasonable cost: that commerce
may be benefited. that there be NJ
devastating overf1ows. that foresas bt
preserved and replaced. arid lands irri
gated swamp lands reclaimed. tina
minerals be used as to prolong theil
utility. that the beauty of the countr,
be unimpaired a permanent commits
| sion should be established with what
ever power is required to mako it eff
fective. The forestry clubs have in