The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-04

Eess and social meeting next Monday at
the home of Mrs. George Moore, 1892
Lincoln street.
The picnic of the w. I. K. club is
postponed from June until June u
on account of the aviation meet. The
picnic will be given June q in Gar
field mark.
Upon the return of Mrs. A. A. God
ard from the east, a meeting of the
new officers of the federation and the
officers of last year, will be held at
the home of Mrs. Lee Monroe, and the
papers and reports will be turned over
to the new administration. All unfn1sh-
ed business will be discussed, and fed
Grafton matters in general will be gone
over.
Nearly all the clubs have discontin-
ued their regular meetings for the sum-
mer, and the interest of club women
for the past week has been conferred
in the city federation annual meeting
and election of officers, held Thursday
at the First Christian church. officers
elected for next year are: Mrs. A. A
GODDARD, president; Mrs. G. H. Samson,
first vice president; Mrs. A. o. Well
man, second vice president; Mrs. w. r.
Stubs, honorary vice president; Mrs.
Z. F. Stanley, secretary; Mrs. J. T.
RASTER treasurer, and Mrs. F. w. Wat
son, auditor. The nominating commit
tee for next year will be: Mrs. j. II.
Close, Mrs. J. w. Movers, and Mrs. L.
Il. Roudebush.
The work of the retiring president
has shown good results. There has been
no task too big and none too small for
the federation to undertake If 1t meant
better conditions for those whose cir
cumstances needed improving. Mrs.
Monroe has visited clubs, has presided
at As meetings, not including numerous
small meetings hurriedly called, visits
in the interests of the department of
Justice, and other errands on fedora
ton business. 1t will be noticed that
any enterprise undertaken by the men,
involving begging, canvasSing, enter
tanning, ETC.. must be assisted by the
federation. While one of the depart
Inents of the Commercial club is fin
ancing and managing the and-tubercu-
losis campaign, the women of the fed
Grafton made the house to house men,
bership canvass and gave a concert,
which added $500 to the tuberculosis
fund. Mrs. Monroe has been one of the
ablest leaders the federation has ever
had. and the story of the past years
work is a splendid record of efficiency
and achievement.
The women of the federation feel as
sured that the organization for
this year is in good hands. Mrs. God
ard, whom they have chosen as their
chief executive, is experienced in club
work, is president of Western SorosiS,
zone of the foremost clubs of the city,
is chairman of the home economics
committee, and served on Mrs. Monroes
executive board. She is familiar with
the details of the past years unfniSh
ed business, and besides being a IA
vorite with the club women, who will
give her their strongest support, she is
a person of executive ability and quiet
energy.
During the past administration the
interests of equal suffrage have been
encouraged, and we hope, advanced.
The federation leader was known as
an enthusiastic suffrag1st, as illustra
ted by a story told by herself at the
Thursday meeting. During a debate at
the high school recently. the man who
took the negative argument on the suf-
frage question, made the assertion that
10 SuffragiSt is a good mother. The
speakers flow of eIoquence was inter
Iupted at that point by young girl
who said: You are wrong. Mrs. Lee
Monroe is a suffragette and a good
mother" Thus when a womanS life
stands for the principle, II am for wo-
men," even the school children recog-
nize.
The Good Government club presented
the retiring president with a bouquet of
roses in lieu of a gift that they had
hoped to make to her, and which she
asked them not to give. 1t was voted
to send a letter to Mrs. John @. Royce,
who was obliged to absent on account
OF Illness, expressing the regret of the
company that she could not be with
them. At the close of the meeting an
informal reception was held for the
visitors and the new officers.
The principal points of the meeting
were reported in the Friday papers, and
1 have in this article spoken of a few
OF the smaller details not previously
given.
Club women are doubtless interest
ed and pleased to know that an adj
vance has been made in the salaries
of the public school teachers. While
the advance is step in the right d.
rection. still the proportion is not yet
right. The women teachers are not
paid the same amount for the same
service as the men. Equal pay for
equal work" has long been the demand
Of women teachers in the United
States Year after year. as their work
has been reduced more and more to
a science in the widespread effort to
improve the public schools, the great
army of devoted women, whose call
ing means more to the future citi-
zenship of the country than any 9TH
er OF the learned professions have
become FESTIVE under the most patent
injustice. There has always been dis
elimination in favor of the men in the
profession. But then, the same is true
of any field that women enter. A
woman in an office, while she may
frankly be conceded to be a better
clerk than the man at the neighboring
desk, is almost sure to receive from
SIS to SIS month less than he. There
is one remedy, and it is votes for
women.
Mrs. Ida NJ. Ferris of Usage City.
who read some poems at the Fedora
ton meeting Thursday, is still in To-
peka, and is preparing an article for
the next state historical book
For the benefit of Topeka women
who were unable to attend the meet
ing Thursday, and for clubs over the
state who are interested in knowing
what the Topeka Federation is do
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