The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-21


where she studied art under Mrs. L. d.
Whittemore and Mr.. Merren Gage.
She is now in the drafting department
of the mechanical engineering depart
ment of the Santa Fe.
Mr.. Edgar is a lawyer in the firm Of
Newell & Wallace. He attended the
Illinois university a year. and was
graduated from the Washburn law
school in June, 1917 He is a member
of the Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity.
At home after January 81 in apart
ments at 314 East Sixth avenue.
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Western Sorosis will have its annual
guest day meeting Saturday, January
26. al the home of Mrs. C. ]. Evans.
Mrs. Lee Monroe, who was to have
been hostess. is ill.
The Kansas Council of Women will
have its annual meeting Monday, jan
uary %, in the Pelletier building. The
council members will assemble for
their business meeting in the newly
finished assembly and dancing room
which opens off from the tea room.
After the business session the women
will have luncheon in the tea room
The council is made up of presidents
and past presidents of state organiza-j
tions of women, and it is their aim to
engage in some public welfare work
on which all the socfeties can unite
thru their chief officers. The council
hopes to secure the erection of halls of
residence for women at one or more of
the higher educational institutions of
the state. Last winter the council
worked for this same project and also
for a detention home for delinuuent
women.
Miss Effie Graham will be the pre-
siding officer at the meeting next
Monday. The session is always held
in Topeka the day preceding or the
day following Kansas Day.
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The Red Cross, thru the chairman
of its work room activities, Mrs. Jack
Dillon. asks for volunteers to go to
the Red Cross rooms On stated days,
to see that the sewing machines are
in order before the days machine
work is begun. Many of the women
who sit down to the machines to stitch
find that they need certain adjust
ment. This takes time, and it some
times means that a seam is started be-
fore the difficulty with the machine is
discovered. Mrs. Dillon would like to
hear from some women who will
promise to go to the work rooms GER
that the ms chimes are all in readiness
by o'clock. If the women who can
volunteer for this work will telephone
to Mrs Dillon. she can arrange with
them as to the days and places she
would like to have them serve.
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The following report of the activi-
ties of the woman's committee of the
Kansas Council of Defense. which was
submitted by the state chairman Mrs
David W. Mulvane. at the recent
meeting of the council in Topeka will
be of interest to the many women en-
gagged in war work turnout the state:
The Woman's committee. Council of
National Defense. was appointed in
Washington, April 81. 1917, by the
Council of National Defense
II was created for the purpose of
mobilizing the woman power of the
country for war work and to be the
channel thru which the various de-
partm ents of the government cen
corning war work were to reach the
womanhooG of the country. Its prov
ince was also to coordinate all the
different societies of women which
were doing war work and to prevent
duplication. To ascertain and report
the war work now being done by
women and women's organizations.
To do this, the womans commit
tee. Council of National Defense at
Washington, appointed a temporary
chairman in each state and this tenn
porary cha irman was to call together
the heads of all state organizations of
women and Representatives of unor-
gained women, to elect from their
number a permanent chairman. At
the mass meeting held in Topeka July
6, 1917, and called by Mrs. W. A.
Johnston, chairman, Mrs. d. w. Null
vane was elected permanent chair
man; Mrs. w. E. Ringle of Pittsburg
first vice chairman: Mrs. c. II. Brooks.
Wichita second vice chairman; Mrs.
c. w. Smith, Topeka, secretary; Mrs.
E. G. Wickwire, Larned. treasurer,
and Mrs. w. J. Bailey. Atchison. au-
ditor. Later in July the first letter
was sent out to woman in each
county in the state to organize: one
hundred counties responded and we
have a precinct organization in those
counties. Generally, our county chair
men are women representing the diff
ferent women organizations of the
state.
The first work given US to do from
Washington was the signing of the
food pledge cards and tho war Serv-
| ice registration cards. Governor Cap
per proclaimed September 5, 1917. as
registration day and the cards were
! signed st the voting booths in the
various precincts. Our women worked
| hard all thru the summer getting or
ganized and ready for this work. The
newness of it all, the busy canning
season. women deep in Red Cross
work, others away vacations and
I the intense heat were some of the OBJ
| stacles met in getting started. How
! ever. about $4,000 women signed the
/ food pledge rds and the war serv-
! ice registration cards on that date.
| Our next work was in conjunction