The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-13

DELIVER The GOODS
Dollars Worth Of Service for
Dollar Pay'-Governor.
Women ct Head Of Several
State Institutions.

Twenty-three important positions
in Kansas under the present state adj
ministratfOn. are held by women. This
fact Is shown by the pay rolls in the
office OF w. E. Davis, state auditor.
Among these jobs are some Of the
highest salaried and most important
state appointments.
Governor Hodges who appointed the
women, recently declared that every
woman appointee under the admins
tration was making q record equal or
superior to that of their predecessors.
In several instances women were ap-
pointed to positions at the head OF
state institutions which had formerly
been presided over by men. In the
case of the school for the blind 1t
Kansas City and the school for the
deaf at Olathe. Kansas il the only
state which placed women at the head
of such institutions. A woman also
superintends the state orphans home
at Atchison and the girls industrial
school at Beloit.
1T is because they deliver the goods
because they are competent and
worthy" was Governor Hodges recent
explanation for the appointment Of SO
appointee who has failed to give the
state q dollars worth Of service for Q
dollar pay"
some Of the best appointments In
Kansas are held by women, too.
Positions in Detail.
Mrs. Cora G. Lewis of Kinsley draws
a salary of $500 q year as q MEM
board and serves with e. w. Hoch.
former governor, and Ed Hackney OF
Wellington.
In appointing women as superin-
tendents Of the state orphans home.
the school for the blind and the school
-
give places for the women. Yet the
records which the women are making
in their now positions have never been
surpassed in the history OF the institu-
lions.
At the girls industrial school at Be-
lott a woman was appointed as parole
officer to succeed q man. At the To-
peka and Osawatomie state hisptta1s.
two women have been appointed az
physicians and devote their entire
time to the care Of women patients.
Miss Lenna Bresette, a Topeka wo-
man, was appointed female factory in
spector and her work both for the
state and the working girls has etab-
lished a new standard in the study OF
welfare and Industrial problems.
Through her work Miss Rresette keeps
in almost personal touch with nearly
5000 factory girls and her recon-
mendatfons concerning welfare leg1s-
latiOn will be one OF the important
documents before the law makers next
winter.
On Text Book Commission.
In addition to these appointments,
Kansas woman has been named as
member of the school text book COM
mission. two women serve on the state
board Of education, q woman IL q MEM
Der Of the state board Of health, an
other serves as q member Of the state
board Of osteopaths. four women are
members Of the nurses board.
Recently Governor Hodges appointed
a woman as dean at Kansas university.
For years the school had maintained a
dean to look after the welfare OF the
male students. But the new woman
dean card indexes every girl student
and keeps q catalogue Of her social
affairs and admirers.
A Kansas woman has been appointed
as matron of the Kansas building at the
Panama-Pacific exposition in San Fran
cisco next year and will welcome Kan
sas visitors to the big show on the
Pacific coast. These are q few OF the
more important women appointments.
The total reaches q, by far the largest
number Of women ever given public
recognition in Kansas.