The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-25
TOPEKAN AT HEAD
AIlena Grafton To Lead Kansas
Y. w. C. A. Publicity Drive.
Campaign Will Precede Effort
To Raise War Fund.
"a DISTRICTS IN The STATE
Efforts Here in Connection with
National Educational Work.
Both the Young Peoples Asso-
Citations Will Cooperate.
IA DISTRICTS IN The STATE

One of the greatest publicity cam
paigns ever launched by any society,
is being begun this week all over
America, by the National Young
Womans Christian association. Kan
sas, along with all the other states,
has started a campaign of educatlon
to bring before the public an under
standing of the gigantic war tasks that
the association has set for itself in
response to government request. rms
campaign is to precede the money
raising drive for war work funds, IN
which the Y. NJ. c. A. and the Y. W.
c. A. will cooperate.
Miss Allena Grafton, secretary of the
local Y. W. c. A, has been chosen as
state director for the campaign In
Kansas, and she has been granted a
release for three months from her
secretarial duties.
The state chairman for the work is
Mrs. Paul Walker, who has been one
workers in it's war program, for this
state The vice chairman is Mrs.
Charles S. Huffman, the wife of the
state adjutant general. Mrs Thurman
is also head of the speakers bureau
for the campaign Mrs. Charles L.
Mitchell, is head of the bureau on in
formation and education, and Mrs. Hal
Hazlett is head of the bureau Of meet
ings arrangements. Miss Eleanor
Young, of Denver, Colo, is in charge
of the work of speakers and writers.
Fourteen Districts in State.
The state of Kansas has been laid
out into fourteen districts, which fol-
lows the districting plan OF the Y NJ
C. A. These districts will each have
it's own workers who report to the
state headquarters in Topeka A spe-
cial publicity agent will be engaged to
bring the attention of the people of
this state, thru every newspaper in its
borders, to the projects of the assoc
citation and to the meetings that will
be held during the three months Of the
campaign. THE old policy of the
association was to perform all its
labors quietly, to keep as much as
possible out of the public prints. 1t
has steadily, for many years, adhered
to the rule of keeping the left hand
in ignorance of the operations of the
right. But the coming of the stipend
Gus events of the present time have
made that policy Impractical" Mrs
Walker, the state chairman, said to-
day. with the gigantic tasks we have
on hands and the ever growing needs
of the association, the blushing violet
role is impossible and hampers our
usefulness"
The national association is going
into its educational campaign with
characteristic energy and thoroness.
and has established training classes
for its speakers. Kansas will have its
share of women orators whose work it
shall be to put the association before
the listening public, as the publicity
woman will place it before the read
ing public.
Following this giant educational and
international campaign, the Y. W. C.
A. will begin its cooperative cam
paign with the Y. NJ. c. A. for the
raising of the sum of s112.O0O.0O0 for
war work. No organization has ever
before attempted the raising of so
enormous a. sum in one campaign.
The state director for the Young
Mems Christian association in that
money-raising drive is to be VI NJ.
Wiley, of Hutchinson. The state sec
rotary of the Y. NJ. c. A. for Kansas
is Clifford Pierce, with headquarters
in Topeka.
Miss Grafton will leave Thursday
on a trip in the interests of the cam
paign, going first to Leavenworth. Her
duties will take her out of the city a
good deal of the time during the cam
paign. Offices are opened in the Y.
W. C. A. building where the campaign
is being directed, and Miss Gladys
West, the daughter of Justice and Mrs
]. S. West, of Topeka, is serving as
clerk and secretary Mrs. Paul Walker
also has her desk in the headquarters