Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-25

out o press agent. III Kate BarRaf
lad brought one with her or sent hin
in advance which would have bee1
cut Of her ltne-be. would nave beef
q useless appeudage in tho metropolis
for the newspapers, as weH as hun
dreds Of persons interested In uplif
work, We're more than willing to civ;
her all the publicity That could be 'ex
pected. They had already hean
about Miss Kate as she is called b.
thousands Of poor children. undergrad
working girls, convicted criminals and
other beneiiciaries OF her work In
Oklahoma, and were anxious to find
ont more, and then to pass the iat6f.
esting ssory on to those who had no.
heard. Miss Barnardds oae of the
ablest and most successful "uplifters'
In the busIness and, although she has
already accomplished wonders, her
yoathflIness wunid indicate that her
career Is onlyfairlyswe.l begun. Her
interesting personality and some OF
the things she has done are described
In the New York Times, which says
in part: ~ =
She went down to, Arizona for a hol:
iday last winter; and she hadn't been
there a fortnight before she was In
the midst OF a prison-refor1n fight She
didn't get the rest she went, for; she
won her hight instead.
Goes to New York. t4e
Miss Barnard came to New York
for lectures and for investigations
There are some things must know
about the wax you do things In the
East" she said. .,and your men here
tell me that they want 10 know, about
the way we are doing things in the
west. So I'm telling what we are try
ing to do, and I'm looking at all that
you've done. That's what I'm here
for. And thenrshes confessed, girl,
ishly, Il did really did want to get
acquainted with New York.
II has apparently never occurred tc
Kate Barnard that, for her own sake
people and cities might want to get
acquainted, with her. She sees moth.
ING at all extraordinary IN the worf
that ahe does, or even In the fact that
She is the most powerful person IN.
Oklahoma, and force to be feared
In Kansas and Arizona. and Other
states besides. r (, 81
She began factory-inyestigatios.,
work at twenty bccatise she saw
something to DO, and It seemed the
most natural thing IN the world for
her TO pitch right IN and do It. And
she helped draft the Oklahoma con-
stitutioh, and to make the young State
tho States that II il, {
That was ten years ago. Kate Barn
ard and her father had come eight
years before TO Oklahoma come az
so many families do, because they had
lost their money and must make a
new beginning somewhere, The girfs
mother was dead; she md her father.
were all alone. And, when he oh
tanned place as postmaster, she used
to help him about the office when she
was little more than q child.
Constitution the cafchall.
Ten years ago every one who want.
ed anything in Oklahoma, Kate Barn.
ard says, was trying to put what he
wanted into the new constitution.
sAnd there were all the poor, and the
helpless, and nobody fighting for
Them she said. so what was / to
de-"
What she did was to insist, with all
her girlish enthusiasm, that the State
OF Oklahoma. should make some pro-
vision for its helpless folk. She ar
gned Justify for child-labor bills and
charity work and prison laws. Be.
cause there did not seem to be any
one else To do II, she went TO st.
Louis herself and studied the fac
tory life and the factory Inspection
there. Then she went to Chicago, and
for the two hardest months Of her by
no-means easy life she lived with the
women and children who worked in
mills and mines In and near the west
ern metropolis, s.. \
Miss Barnard took time to write to
successful social workers all over the
country, and ask what they were do,
ing and what she should do. She
was In the habit of doing, things In
her own way, but she was also level.
headed enough. 10 realize that a pio-
neer in new, field cannot oyeresti.
mate the value Of the experiences of
older and more ,experienced leaders
who have blazed other trials. We
read on: .....j ..
She is an eager. intense, fiery little
person; she talks very last, with gest
lres and smiles and frowns and some
times with tears too; she is alive witt,
enthusiasm. and she is not afraid e:th
er of showing her feelings or of con
fe. sing that she has prayed great
t;ear' about her work. She is not at
all aggressive, she is. sometimes very
w.stful when she talks about her
boys" in prison and 'sher girls in fac
tories. She talks about religion and
brotherhood as simply as. child
Looking at her. and listening to her
". her tiny face and her ninatv
lnunds, and her FIVE feet OF height. her
hig ever and her earnest young voice.
!: is impossible not to think of her es'
q child, and then one remembers with
q sort of shock. the work she has done
She looks like SCHOOLGIRL; ;he talks
Iike an idealist: she is. Derhsrs,
v's:onary. but she works with practical
cfticenev and common sensc.
Makes stunn Speeches.
when Miss Kate"-as they began
to call her becausa sh6 was so Young
Old so little-fnished her investiga-