The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-17
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Mrs Fannie Cooper Atkinson, of
Parsons. Kansas, the president of the
State Federation, has written the fol-
! lowing letter to Mrs. A. A. GODDARD,
! of Topeka: 4 am submitting for your
conSid GRAFTON, and hope for your ap-
prevail of list of members for our Art
lCommittee The imm ediate work of
the committee is that of enlisting the
country school teachers in plan to
place at least one good copy of one
great picture on the walls of every
country school in Kansas. To this end
the chairman of the Art Committee,
| Mrs Murdoch, will write at once to
every county superintendent, asking
! cooperation and the privilege of the
matter being presented at each county
normal institute. 1 am asking the CO.
operation of the district presidents to
the extent of appointing a capable
/ club woman, or some capable repre-
sentative in each county to present this
matter to the teachers.
THE question. OF ways and means
must be left to the teacher to work out
in the district, with the cooperation of
pupils and parents. A literary enter
ltainment a spelling match, lecture,
a ''pie social or any otner plan that
will bring the teacher, pupils, and par
ents together, will, by having a small
admission fee, serve the triple end of
! promoting social intercourse, intellec-
ltual stimulus, and provide fund, even
though a small one, for the purchase
of copy of a great picture. The Art
Committee will advise with the teach
ers concerning the picture to be chosen
and it is hoped this work may be ae-
lcomplished before the Christmas vaca-
ton.
ct must be unnecessary to present
argument on the value and need of
this work. The barren walls of our
school houses in both town and coun-
try, and the resultant hunger for some
thing of beauty to feed the souls of
these precious children of Kansas. is
surely sufficient reason for this effort.
ANYONE who visits them must be i'm
pressed that there is nothing so
wholly dreary and uninsI iring as the
interior of these country school houses,
and if it be true that to get thing
Into our national life, we must get it
into the schools then is this the place
to begin teaching love for the artistic
and beautiful. We hope the Civic and
Educational Committees will be able
to cooperate with the Art Committee
in such manner that not only the in
terror of the school buildings where
the children spend so great a part of
their formative years, be made more
attractive, but that the exterior and
grounds may receive attention and also
that the school houses may be utilized
as centers for the social. intellectual
and religious life OF the communities
referring to the Chautauqua assem-
blies in Kansas, it would seem the
Federation should not only make its
contribution by way Of interest and
participation toward the success of
these meetings, but avail Itself of the
opportunity for presentation and dis
cussiOn of work along the lines of the
various departm To this end,
may / ask that each distric- president
take the matter up with the Chautau-
Qua Assem- bIies in her districe, and with
he of a M of 10
executive board who may reside in her
district, arrange with the local club
women to conduct a club hour. at
which time some talks and discussions
in line with the committee and depart
ment work of our federation be pre-
scented, and if possible MAINTAIN rest
tent or club headquarters. The mat
ter of club extension is &c he placed in
the hands of district presidents, and
some valuable work along this line
might also be accomplished. VIII you
consider these suggestions and give
them immediate attention."
Professor Alberta Corbin, of the
German department of the State Uni
versity, has been appointed state chair
man of membership extension of the
4 State EQUAL Suffrage Association. She
will appoint members Of her committee
in each district and as the counties are
organized, there viii be a county
chairman of membership in each
county
Mrs. Matte Toothaker Kimball.
1 president of the Fifth District has
completed the organization of Riley
County for suffrage work and has be-
gun work in some of the other counties
of her district Mrs. W. T. Willard.
whose husband is professor in the
Agricultural College, has been chosen
president for Riley; Mrs. Emil Pfuetze,
of the Agricultural College, a graduate
of Washburn and a former student of
the University at Berlin, will be first
vice president; Miss Wetzig, county
superintendent of Riley, and a woman
Of wide political acquaintance in that
section is seer tary; Mrs. B. s. John
son, wife of Representative johnson.