The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-16
Y Worker From France To Be
Here Tomorrow.
Big War Work Conference Con-
venes at 10 O'clock.
SPECIAL W0MAN'S SESSION
Meetings at Memorial Hall and
Presbyterian Church.
B. NJ. Wiley VIII Outline the
Coming Campaign.

Work campaign organizations to be
held in Topeka Tuesday. will open at
10 O'Clock at Memorial hall. A joint
conference will be held in the morn
ing, and after luncheon, the women
representatives of the organizations
merged in the campaign will go to the
First Presbyterian church, between
Eighth and Ninth on Harrison street,
for separate session for the after
noon. The mems section of the con-
ference will have an afternoon session
at Memorial hall, and a second joint
session will be held late in the after
noon.
The cafeterias of both the Y w. c.
A. and the Y. M. c. A. will be open
where lunch can be had by the visitors
to the conference.
At the woman's session in the after
noon at the Presbyterian church, Mrs.
Paul Walker, state chairman of the
/. Y. w. c. A. war work council, will pre-
side.
The Morning Session.
The morning session in Memorial
hall will be presided over by B. M.
Wiley of Hutchinson, who is director
general of the united war work cam
paign for Kansas He is to make a
general statement regarding the forth
coming campaign.
The principal speaker at the meet
ing will be B. A. Davis, who is back
from France, where he served in a
prominent position in Y. M. c. A.
work. He was formerly in Y. NJ. c. A.
work in Washington, D. c. His ad-
dress will be on the Y. M. c. A. busi-
ness in France. An address will be
made by H. NJ. Beardsley of Kansas
City, chairman of the central depart
ment. He will be followed by Cover
nor Arthur Capper, who will make an
address.
Members will be appointed for a
committee on quotas.
Addresses are to be made also by
representatives from all tie organiza-
tiops uniting in the campaign. Miss
Henrietta Roeloffs, who is at the head
of the Y. W.. G. A. war work in
France, and has recently returned. will
speak on behalf of the Y. W. C. A.
part OF the campaign.
An Interesting program has been
arranged for the women's section of
the conference. which will be attended
by several hundred prominent women
from over the state, and by group
of eastern women who are coming
especially to address the conference.
Miss Roeloffs will make an address at
the afternoon session on the Women
in France Miss Helen Davis. general
secretary of the Y. w. C. A. war work
| council, will arrive from New York
and will speak at the session She
will speak on the American phase of
Stanton, who is at the head of the
c. -mpaign for the central field of the
Y. w. C. A. will speak on Women in
the United War Work Campaign"
Mrs. Carver Will Play.
Music for the afternoo-, will be
| furnished by Mrs. Robert Carver, who
will play an organ prelude. and the
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Mrs. George Parkhurst. who VI fur
nish two vocal solos. Mrs. S. S. Estey
and Mrs. w. S. Lindsay will conduct
| the devotional exercises. Mrs. Paul
Walker will preside.
The men of the conference will meet
at Memorial hall at o'clock in the
afternoon. The work of the college
/ and boys and girls campaign will be
presented. A report of the committee
! on quotas will be made. Then a meet
| ing of district groups will be held to
hear an explanation of the quotas as
signed The state. according to the
| Y. NJ c. A. plan, is divided into four
teen districts. Each district will be
assigned a quota to be raised in the
| campaign.
| The woman's section of the confer
( ence will join the mems section for an
explanation of the quotas and fol
reports
| B. A. Davis will close the session
with a brief, inspirationa1 address.
The organizations represented in tht
| conference are: The Y. M. c. A.. the
Y. w. C. A, the Catholic War Work
| council. the Jewish Welfare society
the Salvation Army. the Commission
on Training Camp Activities. and the
| American Library association. The
amount to be raised in Kansas in the
November drive is s1,90O.000, as this
states share of the total sum of s170.-
100000.