The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-23
WOMEN IN A ROW
Peace and Harmony Among
CIubbists Is Jared Again.
Good Government Crowd "Cut"
by WOmen's Council.
INVITATIONS WERE EXCLUSIVE
Legislative Program Was Made
Without Mrs. Monroe.
FreeZe-Out on Harrison Street
ArOuses Club Circles.

Peace and harmony prevailed among
Kansas club women nearly three
Notwithstanding to surface indica-
tons. Now trouble has started again.
All of the old fractional disputes are
engendered in the new women's battle
and today the tele phone wires are red
hot with the exchange of opinions and
side lights on the controversy
The latest row among the club wom-
en- had its setting in Wednesdays
meeting of the Kansas Council of
Women. If you are on a party line
in the exclusive social district. take
down the receiver this evening. Maybe
you will gather few crumbs of So
ciety gossip and scandal that will
equip YOU for a neighborly discussion
of current events.
Trouble broke loose among the club
women when Mrs. w. A. Johnston,
wife of the chief justice of the su
preme court. is charged in society cir
Giles with unceremoniously cutting
Mrs. Lila Day Monroe and leaders of
the Good Government crowd. Mrs.
Johnston. a report indicates, has d
sort of half Nelson on the plans and
policies of the Women's Council. So
Mrs. Johnston is given the credit for
balancing the tally sheet and settling
some old scores and grievances of
former rows among Kansas club
women.
An Exclusive Set.
Under the constitution. charter.
rules, bylaws and methods of pro-
ce6ure OF the Wonen's Council, the or
ganiZation specifies to persons who
are eligible to membership. In fact
the laws of the council specify so
clearly that only the most prominent
and exclusive of club women can en-
roll their names on the honor sheet.
Thers is nothing cheap or make be-
lieve about the council. Nev-vur
To become a member of the Kansas
Council of Women, a woman must
have been president of some one or
more of the Kansas organizations of
women, or have held a chair in a state
school. That restriction limited the
patriotic but lowly club women on
foot who held secretaryship to a
( club in an outlying precinct. The
membership plan was devised to regu-
/ late the mem bership and it worked
perfectly.
Now for the row.
] Invitations were sent to certain
members regarding the "Wednesday
meeting. A legislative program was
to be worked out. A number of WON
: en- received invitations Some were
members of the council. Some were
not Some who are members were not
invited. And there is your trouble.
Mrs. Lila Day Monroe, former
president of the Equal Suffrage
league, was not invited Neither was
Mrs J. D. Mcfarland. former prest-
dent of the Women's Kansas Day club.
Mrs. Lillian Mitchner. president of the
Woman's Christian Temperance union
was also overlooked
Now. it just happens that Mrs
Monroe, Mrs Mcfarland and Mrs
Mitchner have been on the opposite
side of most womeE's rows in which
Mrs Johnston was Interested And
Mrs. Johnston is claimed to have beer
the guiding spirit in the plan to for
get the three Topeka women
That wasn't ak Not nearly. Mrs
E. E Marshall. who has sided witt
Mrs Johnston rather than the Mon
roe-MacFarland crowd in most femal:
controversies. was invited And Mrs
Marshall is not a member of the coun-
Gil Mrs J. X Codding. wife of tbs
state prison warden. and DIR. Lydia