The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-29
Gigantic Educational Campaign
for Y. w. Workers.
Some of Most Distinguished
Women of America Coming.
TO Topeka IN SEPTEMBER
Prepare Spellbinders for Next
Y. w. G.. A. War Drive.
Bertha Hampstead Chosen
State Director of Publicity.

Topeka Is to have a speakers in
stitute in connection with the gigantic
Y W. c. A educational campaign,
which has already been launched. The
institute will be held the first week IN
September, and it will bring to this
city some of the most distinguished
women of America who are entering
upon Y. w. C. A. work as the most
far-reaching organization for the good
of women which exists for the ex-
preston of women's desire to benefit
their kind.
This institute will prepare speakers
for the educational campaign, and also
for the campaign to raise funds for
war work which the Y. w. c. A. is to
conduct in cooperation with the enor-
NOUS campaign for funds which is to
be carried on in the fall by the Young
Mems Christian Association. Miss Ella
-Schooley, of New York, one of the Of
ficers of the National Y. w. c. A, is
expected to be one of the visitors to
Topeka at that time
Mrs. Walker Organizes State.
Meanwhile, the state is being or
ganized for the campaign under the
direction of Mrs. Paul Walker, state
chairman for the campaign, and by
Miss Allena Grafton, state director.
Mrs. Hal Hazlett has been chosen TO
direct the meetings over the state;
that is, to arrange for the admission
of speakers to ready made" audi
ences, and for Lettings that are called
especially by the organization. The
state is divided, after the plan of the
Y Nj. C. A, into fourteen districts.
Each district will have a director, who
will be appointed after consultation
with the Y. M c. A. leaders. These
district directors will n head H.
quarters their separate arrangements
for meetings, and these arrangements
will be approved by Mrs. Hazlett's bu-
reau in Topeka, or will be modified if
that is necessary to prevent duplica-
ton. Her department will furnish the
central control of the bookings for
meetings.
Mrs. Charles Huffman. is vice.
chairman, of the campaign commit
tee for the state, and her wide acquaiu-
lance thruout the counties will be a
big help in the choice of women work
ers. The state will later be organized
down to counties, and each county will
have its special representative.
In the Districts.
Miss Grafton has returned from a
trip into the third and fourth districts.
In the third district, Mrs. Herman of
Olathe, head of the state school for
the deaf, has teen chosen as district
Murphy. of Sabetha, will be asked to
accept the appointment. She has been
active in public work and women's Or
CARNATIONS, and is one of the most eff
ficient women of her district. Miss
Grafton expects to leave Tuesday on
trip to Pittsburg and Fort Scott. Mrs.
E. V. Lanyan, the wife of a Pittsburg
banker, and a we'll known woman of
that district. will be asked to give her
assistance to the work in an official
capacity.
The organization is planning to pre-
sent its campaign, not only thru ev-
cry newspaper in the state, but also
thru other agencies. Miss Bertha
Hampstead has been chosen as publ
city director.
All the large chautauquas will be CIV
en- an opportunity to present to their
audiences the work of the Y. w. c. A.
thru speakers who will be sent to
them. Exhibits will be placed in the
state fairs and in the more important
of the county fairs over the state. Old
settlers meetings will be invaded with
the great Y. W. c. A message, and a
knowledge of what the Y. W. c. A.
means in war work, industrial work
and constructive work in times of
peace, Is going to penetrate to every
''Middlesex village and farm in the
state of Kansas.