The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-26

the State Agricultural college at Man
haitian. The last legislature set aside
$4,000 to be used in two years for
state forestry work. Albert Dickens,
of the Agricultural college, who has
been acting as forester since the pass
ing of the bill, has the work organ
lied and well under way. Mr.. Scott
| is graduate of our Agricultural
school,; he spent seven years in the
United States bureau of forestry, dur
| ing which time he was in charge of
the work in western Nebraska and
Kansas, and he has been in the Iowa
college for the past two years. He
will assume the duties of the office
March LIST.
Mrs. w. n. Wood of Horton, chair
| man of the educational committee of
the State Federation and former pres
| ident of the First district, has a plan
for the coming year, to present to the
club women of the state. She says:
we can secure ten suitable persons
Omen and women) from over the
state who are willing to give one af-
ternoon or evening lecture free under
| the direction of an individual club,
provided the club will pay railroad
| fare and furnish entertainment. This
| department with the committee schol-
arships selects the subjects for the
| lectures. Once having thoroughly
reused a community to the needs of
education, it will be an easy matter
| to increase our loan fund to $1,000"
This plan is for the benefit of the
1 State Federation scholarship work, by
| which girls who have not the means
to educate themselves. may be kept
| in school,
Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, sec
Ond vice president of the General Fed
Grafton, who has been i'll for some time,
| is convalescing at her sisters home in
| Seattle, Wash Now that she has be-
gun to climb the hill of health, her
Kansas club sisters with their good
| thoughts. wish to boost her to the top.
Delegates intending to go to Cincin-
| natl, should write to Mrs. r. c. Muir
dock of Wichita. Kan. who is general
| ed rooms for "a delegates, and a parlor
| in addition, for $54 a day. This divided
among the delegates will make rea-
sonable rate.
The First District Federation is in
yited to hold their meeting at Hor-
| ton this fall. AS Horton is the home
/ of some prominent Kansas club wo-
men, the members of the First district
| will look forward with good deal OF
| pleasure, to the meeting at that place.
| Clubs wishing to unite with the Cen
| eral Federation should have their ap-
rlication in the hands of the member
| ship committee by March IL. Address
| Mrs. Emma A. Evans. Portland, Ore,
| care of the Evening Journal.
| South Dakota has pending an amend
meDt to it's state constitution. There is
l in Massachusetts, small organization
| of women known as the ''Massachus-
| etts association opposed to the farther
| extension of suffrage to women They
publish a quarterly organ. tine Remon-
| STRANGE and placed in the hands of
| eevry editor of South Dakota a recent
| issue, with tine request that the editor
| comment en- it. Most of them took no
| note of it, but the editor of the Blunt
| Advocate published the letter from the
secretary and SAID: 1.-The comment the
| editor of the Advocate will make is
this: If the Massachusetts women don't
| want to vote there is no law to COM
/ pei them to, but let the good sisters of
| that state who cannot see and do not
| believe that the extension of suffrage
| to women will be a distinct advance
| ard beneficial 10 their sex and their
! state as well, keep right inside their
1 own little Atlantic grass plot, and the
| bright brainy women of South Dakota
will take care of themselves. They
know what they want and their hus-
| bands, brothers. and sons are going to
| help them get il"
1 1t may be added. however, that the
1
| rot altogether representative of the wo-
| men of that state. as there are now
| 500 women CT Massachusetts, petition
ing the state government for the fran
chise.
A New York paper says that a wo-
| nan in New York pays the highest per-
| sonal tax in the world. She is Mrs.
Emma B. Kennedy. widow of the late
John s. Kennedy, who left $20,000,000 to
| charity at his death. and she pays taxes
on personal property valued at $6,000,-
co., Andrew Carnesie is second on the
list, and Mrs. Russell Sage third. A
| Chicago women has refused to pay her
/ personal tax because she is not repre-
| scented in the government. which Mere
| Iy means that she recognizes and lives
up to the principle that taxation with
out representation is tyranny. 1t would
seem that some of the women who pay
such enormous taxes as are assessed
against the property of the women
mentioned above. would feel much the
| same way.
The following is the message of the
State Federation president, Mrs. c. c.
Goddard, to he clubs of Kansas:
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