The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-30

H OO0Ax
The event of interest in town this
L week has been the celebration OF
/ Kansas Day, the anniversary OF the
states admission to the Union Ine
] nually with a meeting Of the organi-
zation Of Woman's Kansas Day CLUB.
/ The affair at which the ceieorauon
/ was held yesterday was one OF tne
most successful that the club has ever
| known.
The opening session was held in the
L morning at the First MethOolst
church. at which officers were eiecteo
for next year. Mrs. W.. A. johnston
the wife Of the chief justice OF the
state supreme court, and president
emeritus of the Citizenship league
which succeeded the State Equal SUI
| frage association, of which she was
president. was chosen as president OF
Ware, widow OF the late poet, Iron
quill" was made vice president by
| acclamation. The other officers were
chosen by reclamation. They are:
Mrs. David Hill OF Salina. secretary;
/ Mrs F. w. Watson of Topeka, treas
/ urer; Mrs. w. C. Smyser OF Sterling.
auditor, and Mrs. Mary Vance Hum
/ phrey Of Junction City, historian. and
II the district presidents are: First
district. Mrs. Effie Van Tuyl. Leaven,
| Rumbaugh. Fort Scott; Third dis
trict, Mrs. Tom Cordry. Parsons;
Fourth district. Mrs. E. r. Dean.
Marion; Fifth district, Mrs. F. A. viii
cox, Abilene; Sixth district, Mrs. A. H.
Blair, Wakeeney; Seventh district.
Mrs. w. Y. Morgan. Hutchinson;
Eighth district. Mrs. S. r. Peters.
Newton.
A luncheon was served at one
o'clock in the Sunday school temple
49,
were seated at the tables, which were
decorated with jonquils and narcissi.
Mrs. Roy B. Guild pronounced the in
vocation.
auditorium following the luncheon.
Mrs. w. ]. Bailey of AtchisOn, the
wife of a former Kansas governor,
presided. and gave the address OF
greeting. In her opening address she
said: Zone of the pleasantest men,
ories OF my life will be that of my
association with the women Of Kan
sas in our Kansas Day club. am
grateful for the honor you have given
me in making me president, but even
more happy over the help and CO.
operation have had from the women
Of the club in preparing for today;
The life of this age offers more to
women than they have ever known
before, but with our ever. widening
| opportunities, let us not forget that
I
Of our civilization. and that mother
hood is the greatest responsibility and
the most sacred privilege in the
world
Mrs. A. B. Carney Of concordis
made the second address Of the after.
noon. her subject being, Women II
II Kansas History. She outlined the
n history of the state in four periods
exploration, the missionary period
territorial days. and the period o,
Icfn fAh t. -
| history of any state that surpasse.
| the bravery If the women Of pioneer
days in Kansas, when they lived IL
. constant terror of Indians and raid
ers, when they endured privations
stayed in the state in spite Of croI
failure and encouraged the men t.
stay when they would have returned
to the east.
1.-The women of Kansas were tn,
prime movers in three great move
ments: the placing of the prohibitor,
law as an amendment to our consti
tuition; the political upheaval that dis
placed the Republican party in the
early nineties, when Mrs. Lease an6
Mrs. Diggs took a hand in the cam.
paign. and year ago in November
when the franchise was given t.
women.
1t was Kansas wOman-Carri<
Nation-that reused the people o.
Kansas to realization of the oper
violation of their anti-liquor law, an6
however much we may disapprove o1
her methods, we must acknowledge
that she led a great movement, and
became one of the makers Of thu
states history.
I'm our school histories, not more
than six pages in all are given to the
part women have taken. In mos
cases they have done we'll to get {
i foot note in. nonpareil. Among thu
Kansas women who should be named
in our histories are: Mother Bicker
study of domestic science into oul
schools, Mrs Allerton, Mrs. Margare
Hill McCarter and Esther Clark, Ou1
writer's
Mrs. Kate S. Herman of Olathe, a
the head of the school for the deaf
c spoke on "Woman's Power in New
Places" She spoke particularly o
c the places given to women in publi
affairs, I'VE have a woman on ou
2 administration board, a woman on tn
board of education, and a woman a
. the head of some of our educati0na
~ institutions. The new civilization
C to be greater and better than the old
&c for it will embody the ideals Of boil
&c men and women Wherever the hea,
/, of the institution at O1athe may fail
- it will not be accountable to her sex
~ Mrs. Herman spoke at some lengtl
on the attitude of the public towar,
the education of the deaf. 1T is no
a charity" she said, ANY more thai
the education of children. not afflict
ed. These people are entirely norma
in every other way, and they hol
responsible positions in the worl
wherever hearing IL not absolutely es