The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-30
songs OF KANSAS
SunflOWer State GlOriesRevealed
at Annual Banquet.
Harger Tells How Jayhawkers
Have Succeeded.
A WOMAN AND POLICE.
A WOMAN AND POLICE.
Miss Adams Refers to Way She
Brought About Change.
George r. Peck Is President for
the New Year.

Chicago Jan. 30.-"ShuckS, there amt
nothin' the matter with Kansas She
is a big, rip-roarin', don't give a d
sort of state. and the farmers all ride
around in their own big touring cars"
This isn't exactly the way he said it.,
but 1T is exactly what Professor Charles
Moreau Harger, dean of the school of
journalism of the University of Kan
sas meant when he told the Kansas
Society of Chicago at its annual ban
quet just what Kansas is and is 60
ing to be.
The professor admitted that there
use ter be- a time when pretty nearly
any kind of political demagogue could
drift into the Sunfiower state and get
the farmers with him.
Now" he said, 1.-The farmer pays his
help with checks, and when he happens
to come across a spellbinder he stops
his machine for moment, and then
choo choos away
Incidentally. little Kansas woman,
Miss Kate Adams, private secretary to
Chief of Police Steward told how. with
the Kansas spirit behind her, she has
accomplished much in Chicago.
Laid on Shelf.
Miss Adams told some things about
what she has been doing which is a
surprise, even to Chicago.
She told how she had established a
home on the South side for fallen wo-
men, where there are now between Is
she has SO arranged things that the po-
lice now ARE at times on the job
When 1 was in the federal building"
she said, 'I felt as if I were laid on
the shelf. I wanted to get out. So when
Colonel Steward was appointed chief of
police 1 arranged with him to- go to
the city hall as his private secretary.
THE chief told me when 1 accepted
the position, which 1 did several
months after he took office, that the
police didn't seem to be able to cope
with the situation. I took hold at once,
and 1 think I have accomplished some
thing. Heretofore the police didn't
know exactly how to handle this sort
of cases. For instance, they didn't
know how to take care of drunkards.
showed them that the Citizens league
would do it,
''Then, at the chiefs request, estab-
lished a mission, or a refuge, rather, at
2136 Armour avenue. You would be
Mortified and surprised at the kind IF
girls that seek our aid. They are girls
of good family and upbringing, but
they haven't had a chance. There is no
question but that the whole matter of
the social evil is an economic one.
Can Not Live OH SO.
Girls without special training are
paid Sc a week for clerking in stores.
They can't exc out an existence on
that, and I think there ought to be
law passed HldhlHS the wage
paid to girls IS per week. On this they
can subsist.
Another thing is that nine-tenths CT
the women who are discovered in sin
are forced there just because they
weren't taught anything in their
youth"
Short addresses were given by George
r. Peck, general counsel for the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul railroad;
H. U. Nudge, president of the Rock
Island; w. A. Garner, president of the
Chicago & Northwestern; B. L. Win
chell, president of the Frisco; George T.
Nicholson, vice president Of the Santa
Fe; T. J. Norton, general attorney Of
the Santa Fe; John Sebastian, vice
president of the Rock Island; Donald
Rose, vice president of the Illinois Cen
trail, and Harry Olson, chief justice of
the municipal court of Chicago.
The banquet had a double signifi-
canoe, as it also celebrated the fiftieth
anniversary of the admission of Kan
sas as a state. The following officers
We're elected: George r. Peck, presi-
dent; D. G. Robertson, vice president;
S. J. Flint, secretary treasurer. John
U. Hinginbotham acted as POSTMASTER.
Joseph Whitaker Is Dead.
Kansas City, Jan. 30.-Joseph Whit
aker, "a years old, a retired capitalist,