The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-23
KANSAS WOMEN WELL PAID
a Week, Welfare Commission
Figures Show.

Few Kansas merchants pay their
women workers less than Sc week,
except for novices. Some Kansas
women draw as high as $50 a week
as clerks or department managers in
the stores of the state. The lowest
wage paid is So week and then only
to young girls who are just entering
the work. And the merchants of the
state are willing to give the women
9-hOur day if every merchant is com
PEELED to do so.
This is summary of the results of
the investigation into the wages paid
the women workers in the stores of
the state, conducted by Miss Lima
Bresette, secretary of the industrial
welfare commission. Miss Bresette
sent every merchant in the state a set
OF questions, asking how many women
workers each employed, the number
who received less than Sc a week,
what the minimum and maximum
wages of the store was and the num-
Der of hours each woman was required
to work each day and each week.
The replies of the merchants have
been coming in by the hundred and
are now being compiled. When the
work is completed the commission will
meet and from the data furnished by
the merchants themselves it will fix
minimum wages and maximum hours
of labor for the women employed in
the stores of the state. Another in
vestigation is under way for the manu-
featuring industries.
Nnf IoT
chants do not favor a 9-hour day for
women workers, provided all the mer-
chants are required to obey the same
closing hours. Nearly all said that if
their competitors would observe the
9-hour day it would be satisfactory.
Only one merchant reported that he
required his women employees to work
on Sunday and then only during har-
vest.
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Naismith Back to K. U-Dr. James
Naismith, professor of physical edu-
cation at the University of Kansas,
has been released from his duties as
chaplain of the First Kansas Infantry
at Eagle Pass, and will return to
Lawrence in time to resume his K. U.
nOIh lOI the year.
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Ask Rock Road.-Petitions under
the Hodges Rock Road Law have been
filed at Girard for the Commercial
Highway, proposed rock road to
cross Crawford county from north to
south. The petition calls for twenty
five miles of road.
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Typhoid Epidemic at Solomon.-An
epidemic of typhoid fever has broken
out at Solomon Five cases were re.
ported in one week Health officers
have condemned the city water sup
ply.
Killed by Motor Carl. D. Cum
ningham of Coal Valley, miner, was
killed when a motor car driven by
Tony Banchi, a grocer, struck him at
an interurban railway crossing near
Pittsburg.
May Fight K. U. Fees.-A vigorous
protest is expected to be made to the
board of administration of the Univer-
sity of Kansas at its next meeting by
K. q. students who are members Of
the Christian Science Church and who
are against having to pay the 81 an
nual hospital fee collected from ali
students.
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Lightning Hit church.-St An
drew's Catholic church. at Independ-
ence, a large stone structure, built in
1884. was struck by lightning recently
and the roof and interior burned.
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Picks Up Wire and IS KiIIed.-Be-
cause she saw wire lying across the
road and took hold of it, Nellie Dick,
10 years old, of Lawrence, is dead. The
wire was charged with 1900 volts OF
electricity and the little girl was killed
almost instantly.
Fell 1900 Feet5Capt. Ralph Nc
Mullen, an aviator, was killed at st.
Francis when his Curtiss biplane was
caught in an air pocket and fell nearly
/ 800 feet, crushing him beneath. Il
was the second time in a week that
McMtIlen had fallen