The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-20

times in America, when the wife
walked to church just three steps be-
hind her husband. She reviewed the
granting of educational advantages to
women, giving the date of 1850 the
first time when All American college
(Oberlin, Ohio.) was opened to wo-
men. She spoke of the entrance of
women into professional and business
life and finally her entrance into the
political arena.
Mrs. W. Y. Morgan of Hutchinson.
president of the Kansas Equal Suf-
frage association, made a clever ad-
dress, in which she told of the meet
ing of the National Suffrage associa-
ton in Atlantic City, when nearly a
million dollars was raised in thirty
minutes for the suffrage cause Mrs
Morgan has pledged 500 from her as
ISOLATION to the help of suffrage work
in unenfranchised states.
Mrs. J. NJ. Miller of Council Grove,
president of the State Federation of
Women'S clubs, was called upon to
speak. She announced, as the largest
and most significant work of her
organization in the past two years. the
increase of the scholarship loan fund
for the education of Kansas girls. The
/ amount is now upwards of $1,000. A
Sift of $500, two scholarships, has just
( been received from the club women
of Parsons as a memorial to Fannie
Cooper Atkinson. The membership
! of the federation has increased %
about 700 individuals and $50 clubs.
/ Mrs. OeWitte c. Nellis, president of
| the Kansas Society of Native Daugh-
/ tiers, made an address, telling of the
| purposes of the club to promote COM
| radeship among Kansas women, give
patriotic instruction to the younger
generation, to keep alive the memory
/ of the pioneers, and to preserve
authentic history that has never been
recorded. She also spoke of the bill
the society is fostering for an appro-
priation for the John Brown park at
/ Osawatomie.
/ Mrs. H. o. Garvey, chairman of the
women's organizations for the League
/ to Enforce Peace, made an address
setting out the plan of the league, AMI
| telling of the method of getting the
membership campaign before the
public, thru the organizations of the
state. while the world is now in
volved in war, the situation is still
/ encouraging for the reason that a
horror of war; such as never existed
before, is in the minds of the people,
with n determination to find a way to
abolish war
Mrs. Hattie Smurr, vice president of
the Kansas branch of the Ladies of
| the &. A r., told Ct their purpose to
teach patriotism in the schools and
to keep the organization alive thru
the generations to come by extending
! the membership TO the direct descend
ants of Civil war veterans. The Circle
sees that a flag is placed in every
school house
! Miss Effie Graham, acting president
of the Kansas Council of Women,
spoke on behalf of her organization.
The council is made up of presidents
and past presidents of state organiza-
tons of women. The club" Miss
Graham said, have solved a problem
that the United States cannot solve.
! We know what to do with our retir
ing presidents, SO as to keep them so
! occupied and satisfied that they do
not pop up and run for office again
She said she believed that clubs I'M
| dertook too much work in too many
departments of welfare, civics, philan-
thropy and education. Every time
the men think of something that
( should be done they go before some
woman's organization, praise their
power and influence. and shove the
burden of the performance off onto
| them. Miss Graham went on to ex-
plain how the clubs provide a post
graduate system of education for the
state absolutely free, prividing their
own teachers, textbooks, pupils and
/ learners. She went on to say that the
women of Kansas had taken a false
step when they were enfranchised in
saying that they did not want public
/ offices. Women should be in the
/ legislature, on commissions and in
other public offices, instead of form
ing an outside fringe in the legislative
hall balconies
Mrs. Noble Prentis, who was with
| the Hughes special train, spoke on the
urgency of the need for women to use
! the ballot to assist other women in
! obtaining it.
Mr.. Walter Johnson, chairman of
/ the auditorium committee of the
| Chamber of Commerce, presented to
! the club the plan of the men for get
! ting new auditorium. He wishes the
| club women to consider the questions
I the committee is asking, whether the
! city should build a new auditorium,
repair and enlarge the old one, and if
| the former, what shall be done with
the present building. The committee
/ will take these questions to all the
important organizations of the city,
. and then make recommendation to
| the city commission.
Mrs. Joseph Hicks read a chapter
from Miss Graham's book Aunt Liza s
| Praisin' Cate" Miss Jeanette Price
/ sang Airy Fairy Pipers,'' and DAT