The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-04

ject was, Where There Is No Vision
the People Perish"
In giving the club history, Mrs Nc
Carter began with twenty-one years
ago, when Miss Lucy Kingman had
come to her and asked her opinion
of the advisability of starting fed
Grafton of woman's clubs in Topeka.
She mentioned the fact that the mem
bers of the club had gone twice be-
fore the school board to get raise
in wages for the teachers; that they
had established Holbrook hall. had
one year bought school books for five
hundred poJr children who could not
otherwise have attended school, that
they had furnished i 900 shrubs, dur
ing the presidency of Mrs. F. w. Wat
son, for the beautifying of the city.
had established the love of art among
the school children by placing beau
tiful pictures in the public schools,
had been the cause of the disbandins of
the Owl club and others where white
slavery was carried on, had been in
strumental in getting the stores to
close on Friday afternoons or Satur-
day evenings during the months of
July and August. The club conduct
ed a free kindergarten for children
who could not afford to attend other
| wise, and were instrumental in get
ting the school board to give a trial to
domestic science, which was the mi
tial step towards the domestic science
| course given in the high school now.
The club also used it's influence to
get bonds voted for the new high
school building. They were the first
to start the travelling library in the
! state and furnished libraries for the
hospitals. Mrs. McCarter said that the
club had always stood for "construc-
tive idealism, interpreted in lives of
service
GnC nj sat Oh, It'll
to make all the. sacrifices asked to-
day, but she thought action should be
taken to prevent the poor mothers of
| the town from having to pay such a
high price for milk that many young
lives would be lost thru the lack of
nourishment. She said, I'm homes
where there are children there should
| be no 18-cent milk
| In speaking of the constructive
work which would be necessary after
the war, Mrs. McCarter said, There
would be the rebuilding, not of a ma
ton, but of nations" She spoke of
what the pioneer mothers had given
up by coming to Kansas in the early
days from their homes in the east and
the sacrifices they had made here that
their children might be educated, and
| asked, Can we do less today?" She
said, 1T is art, 1t is literature which
endure" giving as an illustration the
| 1act that we think of Abraham Lin
coin and what he said there wher
we hear of Gettysburg. She added
I'VE must do for our children or we
perish She suggested as one of the
important duties Of the club for the
year the care of the Washburn boy.
who are here in military service. She
named a committee composed of DIR
Dorothy Nicoll, Mrs. D. L. McEach.
ron, Mrs. Lewis Greenwood and Mrs
L. D. Whittemo-e to act with the
committee of fifty to see what should
be done for these boys
Mrs. McCarter told of the war work
done by the club and by the individual
members during the past year. The
club last year gave $2,275 towards wal
activities, counting the S1.4O0 which
was invested in liberty bonds. Yester.
day the club voted to buy a hundred
dollar bond in the fourth liberty loan
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Mrs. Esther Dolley Townshend, who
was spending the hot weather in Lone
Island at the summer home of Lieu
tenant Townshend's brother, has beer
in New York City and other parts OF
the east for the past thirty days ano
has now gone to Washington to visit