The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-29
Sufragists to Vote Full State
Ticket in 1914 for the
First Time Study Public
Affairs.

register and vote for all State and county
ofncers and congressman, says the Kan
sas City Star. 1t viii be the first time
that the women Of this State will have
had an opportunity to vote in state
election For twenty years they have
had the legal right to vote in municipal
elections A constitutional amendment
adopted last fall gave the women equal
rights with the men in choosing the
oficials in the nation, the State, and the
county.
That right was gained for the women
of Kansas by the Equal Suffrage Assoc
citation of Kansas, who conducted the
carapaisn for equal suffrage and won 1t.
Having got the vote for the women OF
Kansas that association had no reason
for turther life and at the last meeting
of the organization in Lawrence, May
1920, it was disbanded.
The women had been given the fran
chise, but Of what beneht would II De
10 them, or others, unless they used II
inteIlieentiy and rightly And so the
women of the Equal Suffrage Associa-
lion. disbanding the old fighting or
ganization, created the Kansas Good
Citizenship League, including In its
membership all those who were mem
bers Of the old militant association. The
different districts OF the old association
remain with their same officers and
working force and meeting places in
every county in the State. And for
them a new constitution and q new aim
was adopted.
The same women who carried the
fight for equal suffrage through TO VIC
tory will now undertake to educate the
women OF the State how to exercise the
franchise
Headquarters in Lawrence.
The headquarters Of this school for
women voters is in Lawrence. Its Of
ficers are: Mrs. T. H. Chalkley. of Law
renee, president; Mrs. ". r. Stubs
of Lawrence, wife Of former Gov.
of Hutchinson, second vice president;
Mrs. Genevieve Munson, Of Pittsburg.
treasurer; Miss Helen N. Eacker, of
Lawrence, formerly superintendent OF
schools in Ottawa, recording secretary;
Mrs. W. T. johnson, OF Wichita, auditor
All of these officers were active in the
recent campaign for votes for women in
Kansas.
The expenses for the campaign for
educating the women how TO vote is TO
be met from an annual fee of 30 cents
from each member. and from free volun.
tary contributions to the cause.
To carry on the work two committees
have been appointed. one known as the
outlook committee and the other the
program committee.
The chairman of the outlook commit
tee is Mrs. W. A. johnson, wife OF tn:
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court OF
Kansas. The work of the outlook COM
rnittee will be to keep constantly on the
watch for bad legislation and try to
head il off: and 10 work for the passage
of beneficial legislation, and especially
for legislation that Will make the path
smoother for the woman who must work
70: a living.
The chairman of the program COM
rnittee is Mrs. Frederick A. G. Cowper.
of Lawrence. wife OF a professor in the
State University. The program commit
tee is already at work preparing course
Of study and reading for the new women
voters of the State.
Mrs. Cowper is now in Chicago with
Jane Adams studying the work of Hull
House and getting ideas for the cam
paign of education.
Subjects Women VIII study.
The program committee, az its last
meeting, decided to send out as 1t first
educational course a plan OF study that
would acquaint the women with the fol-
lowin- subjects: The State department
of health and pure food; home economics
and sanitation; public ownership of pub
lie utilities; work and duties of the pub
lie utilities commission; proposed amend
ments TO the State constitution: labor
problems, minimum and maximum wage
scales, and child labor; eleemosynary
institution, consideration of preventive
measures; while slave traffic, cause and
remedies; property rights of women,
community property; franchises; Kan
platforms; taxation. direct and indirect;
elementary schools. how to improve
them; mill tax; vocational training; mi
tiative, referendum, and recall.
A bulletin will be prepared treating of
each one of those subjects. This will be
printed and sent to each newspaper in
the State and to any woman who may
apply for one The officers of each dis
trict will be given a supply of them for
distribution. The bulletin upon each
subject will give an outline of what it is
and a list of the books and magazine
articles that treat of 1t, where they may
be bought and the price.
These bulletins will be prepared with
the greatest care, and any woman who
follows the course of reading outlined in
one of them upon any subject will, at
the end of her reading, have a compre-
hensive understanding of it from every
angle.
DR.. Edna Day, professor of home eco
Monies in the State University, will out
line the course of study recommended on
the subject of home economics, pure food,
u. q
University, will prepare the outline OF
studies on the subject of franchises.
Prof. W. D. Ross. State Superintendent
OF Schools, will prepare the outline of
studies suggested for the subject, The
Elementary Schools of Kansas and What
Legislation is Needed to Improve Them"
The outline of study for the mastery Of
each topic will be prepared by an ex-
pert in that line.
If a woman who wishes to read up on
these subjects, or any one Of them. is
unable to buy the necessary books or
does not wish to go to the expense Of
buying them, she may get them without
cost by applying either to the State Cir
culating Library in Topeka, or to the
extension department of the State Uni
versity, when the books will be lent to
her for two weeks.
Pledged to BE Nonpartisan.
The league is pledged to remain strictly
nonpartiasn, and II will give both sides
of the argument on any topic, like the
public ownership of public utilities. But
on certain questions the league will take
a firm stand, such as the prevention of
the resubmission of the prohibition law,
the passage of pure food laws, and laws
for the prevention OF the white slave
traffic.
The plan is for the outlook committee
of the league to prepare and introduce
in the Legislature certain laws which II
wishes enacted and then before the next
election pledge certain legislative candi-
er7r.orf of fboeo e1,ras