The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-29
MANY WOMEN
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was on kansas and the War. He
mentioned the pride that Kansas has
in the prominence of the place this
state is taking in a national way,
especially as, to the fitness of her
troops. which is made possible by the
long year; of prohibition in Kansas.
a state possessing a high order of
patriotism. and spoke of the health,
enthusiasm and high moral standards
of the soldiers from this state in the
present conflict.
Mr. MacLennan ON Camouflage.
Frank p. MacLennan, editor and
publisher of the State Journal, spoke
on the subject "Camouflage," but not
once in his speech did he attempt to
pronounce the word.
Your club is patriotic one" he
said. There are many other patrlotlc
clubs, but in the way of Kansas Day
clubs, the Womens Kansas Day club,
as 1 understand it, is founded upon
purely a patriotic base Some other
Kansas Day club may be primarily an
organization for the enhancement or
one particular party, but 1 know that
this particular club is organized upon
broader lines. Still, in speaking to
this gathering 1 find myself unable
to get away from the one point of
woman suffrage; not that it is a mat
ter with us to be debated, but that it
exists and we are all proud of it,
THE war has given US all new
light and new insight.
81 want to assure you at this time
that Il is a-great privilege for me to
talk before you even for few MIN
utes Think what it means to a man
who is in the minority in his house,
hold, and what privilege to talk as
one unrestrained and uninterrupted.
1t is a privilege for whict- thank you,
and / feel the more highly honored
| that you have given four men this
oppor tunity when there are SO many
of you women anxious and ready TO
| talk on this and all other occasions.
= ITO mention the wonderful work
that women are doing in the varied
necessities of the war. and SO wen
doing let me merely remind the TOUR
! other mere men who are here-and
| you often hear the expression mere
man but never mere woman-let me
remind them that it was Betsy Ross
who made the first Of the flags which
we consider the most beautiful flag in
! existence; it was Molly Pitcher who,
within the first minutes of her widow
hood manned the gun that mad been
| fired by her late husband, and l might
] give endless illustrations. Woman
/ gives man his first nourishment and
| it is the best that he ever gets. When
man later on supplies the food then
! follow indigestion and the various all
| mentS in the wake of man-made 1000
| in all its dangerous variety.
/ woman gave us our first clothes
and never were we, clothed SO daIntily,
appropriately or serviceably. Later
! men are man tailored. When woman
I is decked out in the most enhancing
manner on the important wedding
/ day, even then man is clothed only in
| the conventional black
Woman teaches man to talk. The
| first syllables he utters are copied
| from the mouth of the mother, and
what apt pupils some of these men
are. You will have illustration in
Governor Capper's talk here today
| He was not much of a speaker until
! his mother taught Aim how to talk
and his wife told him what to say
now he is a postgraduate in oratory.
5- Value of Tea Party.
'Do you realize the Importance of a
| tea party? You women have dis
| cussed, with good results, many inn
portant subjects at these afternoon
gatherings and 1 need only remind you
that suffrage and independence came
to the men of this county, following
on the heels of one of the greatest
afternoons known in our country's his
tory-that of the Boston Tea Party.
"a new star has been added within
the last few days to the power and
province of woman. Food Commits
sioner Hoover made an announce
ment this week that in 10000 house
holds the great majority had signed
the pledges for the conservation OF
food, saying at the same time that the
country had only one police to- enforce
these rules-the women of the house
holds.
81 am proud that 1 belong to the
calling of the press which made it pos
Sible for you women and all the wO-
men over this entire country to re-
ceive this latest and most important
emblem of your authority and your
efficiency, the duty and privilege of
enforcing these food rules which may
| win the war;
Mrs. Brooks on Women of Today.
Mrs. c. H Brooks of Wichita, pres
ident of the Kansas Equal Suffrage
association, was the principal speaker
of the afternoon, taking as her sub
ject, Activities of the Women of To-
day." She reviewed briefly the prog
ress of women to their present state
approaching political equality all over
the world-a state actually attained in
| some parts of the world. She spoke
of the work the women are doing now
in the Red Cross, the woman's com
mittee of the council Of defense, and
other powerful organizations for as
sistance in prosecuting the ar,-and
in the relief of the suffering caused
by it:
The wonder of all this movement
for the emancipation or women is that
it is general turnout the world, and
not confined to our own nation" she
said. tAt a convention recently held
in Rome, one of the leading men of
| Italy declared that the world is ready
to listen to the voice of the women,
which is now the voice of civilization.
We are disheartened by the calamity
that has overtaken the old civilization,
and it is now to be the work of wo-
men to replace the fallen structure
with better one. In Canada and in
England, women are being enfran-