The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27

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Topeka women will be especially
Interested next week in the annual
business meeting of the Woman's club.
vaicl. .silI be held Thursday. May 2.
This il The last regular program meet
ing tsf the se:Lson. The board of man
R-efncnt will meet at 10 o'clock in
The morning at the Y. w. c. A, and
tie election of officers will be held at
II o'clock
TAie nominating committee, which
took i.tiIOf a few weeks ago, will
make tnr.r report, and the formal
election VIII take place.
The open meeting of the educational
department will be held at 2 o'clock,
win Mrs, w. d. Ross. chairman, pre-
siding. The meeting will have for
u; program symposium. War in the
Schools Mr.. Phillip Hasty will
~i.c-.k on the war work m the city
rs-h"ois; Mrs. =. p. Womer. on the
work in Washburn college; Miss Agnes
IIannigan. on the parochial schools.
and Miss M'Edna COrber, on the rural
school war work Music will be fur
ni=hed by the eighth grade pupils of
Folk school.
The meeting will be followed by a
e1reteria luncheon. and at the social
hour afterwards. the hostesses will be
Mrs James L. King, Mrs. George NJ.
stone and Mrs. r. j. kulp.
The general program for the after
noon will begin at 2:30 o'clock. and
VIII be in charge of the civics and
justice department. of which DR. Sara
Greenfield is chairman. The address
OF the afternoon will be Democracy
l. Our High Schools" and will be Civ
en- by DR.. E. L. Nudge of Washburn
college.
The club year will close with the
usual social meeting in June. when the
years work will be reviewed. and the
OFFICERS, installed. The annual lunch
con by the board also will be given for
Moore.
A report has been received by Mrs
d W. Mulvane, chairman of the Kan
Sss woman's committee. National
Seuncf of Defense, from Pearl Mar
TN. r. n, chairman of the state nurs-
ing department of the woman's COM
Inittee- She reports that her COM
1nittee for Kansas has been making a
campaign in behalf of the profession
IN Kansas university. the State Normal
schools. and also nearly all of the col
leges and many of the high schools.
Addresses have been given to the
young women of the schools with the
purpose of interesting the educated
young women. and urging them to
utilize their education for the benefit
of the nursing profession, thus helping
liable property-its men, women and
children. She also gives the follow
Eng report. for Kansas:
Training schools for nurses in the state IS
Registered nurses Observation-Disclosures 1861
Red Cross nurses. Observation-Disclosures. 30
Pupil nurses in training ............. 525
Pupil nurses to graduate in 1918. 145
Possible nurses enrolled S54
Itrst ala $50
H"ine nursing .-..-'-- ofo
The organizations concerned with
nursing service. employ nurses, as fol-
Hoard Of education
State board Of health. .....................1
Public Health Nursing association .i
Social Service league .-....-.-............1
Swift Parking company ---....-....-.1
NanSaS City Canning factory
Ladies Auxiliary to Hospital. .............1
Visiting Nurses association. 1
Kansas Association for Prevention and
study Of Tuberculosis. ..-.............1
Government camp at Funston. L
Mrs. J. o. Ferguson, of Independ-
ence. who is chairman of the Woman's
Committee for her county, reports
that her organization has 1000 women
al work: the Red Cross has received
so much announcement thru the
committee, that il has more than
doubled in the country, and that the
organization has been so complete
that il has it's full quota of officers
from chairman, captains, ieutenants,
etc. down to one woman for every
Block in all the towns, and rural Sec
tons are as thoroughly organized by
school districts. She explains how
well the members are working, taking
all their efforts in war work thru
the channels of the committee organi-
cation.
BY means of the registration cards,
which were signed last summer. as a
part of the State Committees cam
paign. the general state committee
was able to make complete survey
of the nursing resources, and reported
10 the government the names of 1000
nurses who had registered thru the
war service cards.
X K
: Mrs Theodore Saxon has received
an appointment as Kansas state
chairman of the Woman's Land Army
of America. Mrs. Saxon has already
begun the orga nization of her COM
nlittee. and subcommittee will be
formed by her in every county.
A contract has been signed with the
federal authorities for the use of va
cant lots owned by the government
ar the intersection of Gordon street
and Kansas avenue in North Topeka
This land will be used for community
gardening.
s4rs. Saxon is endeavoring to inter-
est Y w. C. A. girls and members of
other orga nizations in movement to
raise summer gardens, and she will
helm them to obtain ground suitable
for their purposes She is anxious to
haxe those interested able to work
near their own homes in order 20 save
transportation costs
The North Topeka garden will be
farned by a club of girls from the
junior high school of Quincy school.
The girls are: Captain, Betty Byrd;
first lieutenant. Winnie Button; sec
ond lieutenant, Ruby McQuiston; ser
geant. Margaret Miller; Eva May.
Helen Sherburn, Lucille Sherburn,
Daisy Wilcox, Margaret Keller, Mabel
sash. Gladys Ruff. Loretta Huber.
Mabel Riggs, Freda Huber, Mabel
Stump.
The headquarters of the organiza-