The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-09
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
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the Republican session two years
prior, is now on the books and a num-
Der Of prosecutions and convictions
have already resulted from it's pro-
visions.
Then there was a plea for child well
fare and child labor. A child labor
books for a number of years and has
been quite successfully enforced. A
bureau of child welfare has been
established at Kansas university and
Kansas Is rated in the front rank in
Wife desertion was one of things
which Mr.. Capper wanted severely
punished. The Travis act of 1911
makes wife desertion in Kansas a
criminal offense and a number OF men
in the state penitentiary at Lansing
know quite well Of the provisions of
the act.
Excessive fees was another thing to
which Mr.. Capper pointed as a need
ed reform. The fee and salary bill,
passed in 1913, provides a new fee
county treasury and removes about 80
per cent of the fees formerly received
by county officials.
School houses should be opened to
the holding of public meeting, said
thought so, too. And for more than
g year there has. been provision to
that effectson the statute books.
WOrkmen's Compensation Act.
WOrkmen's compensation was an
other public need. But the legislature
of 1911 realized the fact three years
before Mr.. Capper's 1914 platform was
written and a wOrkmen's cOmpensa-
ton act. was written and upheld by
the supreme court. 1t was strengthen
ed by the 1919 legislature and among
lawyers Is rated as one of the best
compensation acts in the country.
Cheap justice. That is one of the
big demands for humanitarian laws in
the Capper platform for this year. Yet
the last legislature enacted what At
torney General Dawson terms the best
law on the statute books for adding to
the public respect for courts of record.
That law was the small debtors court
bill. Possibly Mr.. Capper had a small
debtors court bill in view when he
outlined the issues before the voters
in this campaign.
Another thing to which Mr.. Capper
pointed with scOrn was the state 8
positive refusal to recognize the wo-
men of the state and to give them
places on the big boards and as heads
of the state institutions. Yet here are
a few things that have actually been
done in Is months. Two women ply
sicians, one at Topeka and another
at Osawatomie. have been placed in
charge Of the unfortunate women in
mates of the big state hospitals. For
the first time in tie history of the
state. a parole Officer has been placed
in charge at the Girls Industrial school.
Beloit. For years, a woman has been
matron of this institution. Women are
now at the heads Of both the schools
for the deaf, school for the blind and
state orphans home. In fact, it is
claimed that more women are at the
head of state charities in Kansas than
in any state in the union.
Perhaps when Mr.. Capper made his
Emporia speech he did not know that
a good many of his platform promises
for the coming campaign had already
been enacted into law. But the women
who attended the meeting and heard
the Topekan read his speech, knew.
Medley Holds Up Appointment.
Not until after Congressman George
A. Medley knows the result of his SEN
atorial candidacy in the August primar-
les, will he make recommendations for
appointment as postmaster at Hutchin-