The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-28
Is Approved by the
Kansas Council of Women.
Reconstruction Work Also I'm
der Discussion Today.
PLAN IS BEFORE MEETING HERE
Would Remedy Illiteracy Among
Feminine Population.
DOrmitOrieS at State Colleges
Are Also Urged Today.

The Kansas council of women,
which is meeting in Topeka today,
has voted to become affiliated with
the National council of women. one of
the most powerful organizations of
women in America The president OF
the National council, Mrs. Phillip n.
Moore, of St. Louis, was in Topeka re-
Gently and presented an invitation to
the council thru its president, Miss
Effie Graham, to come into the Ma
tional council. The work Of the ma
tional organization is particularly
heavy at this time on account of its
reconstruction program.
Miss Effie Graham, president of the
| council, was chosen to represent the
body at the next meeting of the Ma
tional council.
At the meeting of the Kansas coun-
! Gil this morning, about forty women
listened to a new plan, outlined by
Miss Graham. by which Kansas wo-
men may engage in reconstruction
work. Miss Graham suggested that
! the members of the council form
groups of workers who may specialize
on certain tasks, and she mentioned, as
a possible grouping of the members.
departments of America niZation, re-
! constructive education, social hygiene
and child conservation. She empha-
sized especially the need of Ameri-
canizat ton work among women, seeing
| that women and men are equal in
Kansas in matters of citizenship, and
that an Indifferent or disloyal woman
citizen is as much a menace to the
| commonwealth as a man citizen of the
same sort.
Stamp Out IIlitcracy.
| In the point of education, she sug-
gested that special attention be given
to stamping out illiteracy, particularly
! among the women in the state.
The result of the examinations OF
men for army service proved that
physical education is necessary, and
among them a heavy per cent of il
literates." Miss Graham said. "A
corresponding number Of women IL
literates no doubt are present in this
country, and a corresponding number
of women physically deficient. Ply
steal training for girls is an imperative
necessity. No people can be stronger
| than its women folk"
Miss Graham recommended also
| that the Council should provide for {
closer articulation with the state or
| ganiZatiOnS. The mem mberShip of tht
Council is made up of women who are
present or past presidents of state or
ganiZationS of women, and of deans o.
women in colleges of the state. The
purpose of the new plan suggested b,
the president, and endorsed by the
members, is to unite all the organized
women of the state, through theil
leaders, to support educational worl
that the council engages in or legtsla
tion that the council decides is needed
The question of halls of residenc,
for women in Kansas higher educa
tional Institutions, was brought befor'
, the meeting. The council has been a
work on a measure to provide dormi
tories for women for some years. I
was voted at the meeting today t.
work in the legislature for the levy 70
I
; share of the levy would be used for tn
; building of the halls. DR.. Albert;
Corbin, of the Kansas state university
: chairman of the committee on halls o
residence, reported that the board O
} administration had gone on record a
i favoring the plan of building place
: for the women students to live at tn
: state institutions, and that the rea
{ stumbling block was the money ques
| ton. That question, she believed
t nent levy for educational purpose
) could be procured at the present sess
$ ion of the legislature.
Improve Picture Shows.
At the luncheon which the counc
|. members had at the Pelletier te
: room, short addresses were made b
new members of the organization. Mr..
6 c. H. Brooks, of Wichita. a past presi
dent of the Kansas Equal Suffrage as
sociation, asked the council to Civ
\ its encourag cement to the work of tn
\ women of Kansas for suffrage in tn
z states in which women are not er
f franchised. Mrs. Miller, of the boar
= of review, desired the council to len
;. its help to the work of the movin
i picture censorship in its effort I
o improve the picture shows of Kansa
e Responding to Mrs. Miller's appeal,
i resolution was adopted by the counc
approving the work of. the board
o reviews.
/ Mrs. D. w. Mulvane. president {
= the Woman's Committee, Kanss
= council of defense, spoke in approbs
: ton of the plan of the council to er
d ter upon reconstruction work. in {
for