The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
Luncheon at WaShburn Gym
nasium by Federation.
SECOND DAY or CONVENTION
Busy Sessions for Club Women
From Over Kansas.
Dancing and Special Music a
Feature of Luncheon.


The district delegates chosen to the
biennial meeting of the General Fed
Grafton of Woman's Clubs in New
York follow: /,
First district-Mrs. Festus Foster,
Topeka, delegate, and Mrs. A. A.
Byers, Horton, alternate
Second district-Mrs. Charles f.
Scctt, lola, and Mrs. N. Miller of Fort
Scott. delegates; Mrs. Isabel Rum
baugh. Fort Scott, and Mrs T. Rogers,
Mound City. alternates.
Third district-Mrs. F. w. Stout, Os-
wego. and Mrs. L. H. Stanford. In
Black, Independence and Mrs. Ben
Gaitskill, Girard, alternates.
Fourth district-Mrs- ]. M. McCow-
an, Emporia, and Mrs. John Frazier
White City, delegates; Mrs. j. V. Wick
ham, Emporia, and Mrs. Geo. Plumb,
Emporia, alternates. II
Fifth district-Mrs. M. w. Sherman,
SaIina. and Mrs. NJ. o. Roark. juno
ton City, delegates; Mrs. J. P Scott,
Herington, and Mrs j. K Raber,
Junction City, alternates.
Sixth district-Mrs. A. T. Coolidge,
Smith Center, and Miss Grace Young,
Beloit, delegates; Mrs. c. E. Telling.
Jennings, and Mrs, Alice Laderick,
Lenore, aternates.-
Vedder, st. JOHN and Mrs. Taylor
Ham, Kinsley, delegates; Miss Pearl
Leighty, Hutchinson, and Mrs. Ed.
Wickwire, Larned, alternates. 4,
Eighth district-Mrs. Gebrge Ben.
ton, Wichita, delegates and Mrs. j.. C..
Mack, Newton, alternate.
Pittsburg was chosen as the next
meeting place of the federathotL 1s
(By Bertha Hampstead, u ~.
The second days sessions of the
largest convention of the Kansas State
n Il ion hal6 a h
morning at 8 o'clock in Memorial
hall 80 s3AbAa ss@sa ysesses
The feature of todays program was
the luncheon at Washburn college
gymnasium, where Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait was one of the guests of
honor. Mrs. Gait is making the trip
to Topeka to be present at theAcon-
vention of the Kansas Equal Suffrage
association which conVeness Thurs
day. She was urged tofeome a day ear
Her, and made her arrangements to
be in town today She arrived late this
forenoon from the east, and was TAX
en- Immediately to the home of Gov
ernor and Mrs. Arthur Capper, and
from there to the luncheon at Wash
burn. She made a brief address fol-
lowing the luncheon.
Mrs. Gait is president of the Nation
al Equal Suffrage association, sue
ceeding in that office DIR. Anna How
ard Shaw, who held it many years.
.
ternational suffrage organization. She
is remarkable woman in an intellec-
tua1 way. She is a good speaker, a
person of poise and culture. and she
has no small degree of good looks.
She heads the faction in suffrage work
that advocates the winning of the bal
lot for women by the process of con-
verting the states one by one, as op-
posed to the faction that believes the
dominant political party can be
brought to assist a national amend
ment through congress. by means of
the pressure put upon it by the unit
ed vote of the women of enfranchised
states
Two Factions Here.
The thing that lends poignancy to
the situation in Topeka today is the
fact that the leaders of the two op-
posite factions are sitting at luncheon,
surrounded by their local adherents
in the same town on the same day; for
the o. H. P. Belmont suffrage work.
ers and their Kansas followers are
dining uptown this noon While the
federation has nothing to do with pol
itics, and as a body of enfranchised
women recognize the justice of equal
suffrage as only one of the principles
they stand for: and while the coming
of Mrs. Gait for the federation party
is somewhat incidental to the conven-
ton proceedings; still the idea has
Deen FORMING IN the n11nQS OF topeka
women, that those who attend the
luncheon for the suffrage squadron at
Pelletier's are somehow committed to
the Congressional Union policy, while
those who remain away are "agin'' it.
though not nearly ali of the Topeka
federation women are able to find
places at the federation luncheon.
Such a large number of delegates and
other out-of-town club women have
arrived, that many of the local club
women have relinquished their places
at the table to give room for the Wis
itorS.
Professor McKeever.
The principal address of this morn
ing's session was by Professor w. A.
McKeever, of the child welfare de-
partment of the State University, Law
renee. Mr.. McKeever was not pres
ent, and the address was read by the
Rev. Festus Foster. He told of the
evils of the cigarette habit, its effects
on the mind, body and morals, and
asserted that if the cigarette smoking g
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Postpone Hyde Hearing.