The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-29
MRS. WATSON HEAD

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brief remarks on her hopes for better
legislation for women in industry and
enumerated the committees to which
she has been appointed. She is chair
man of the public welfare committee,
and a member of the educational COM
mittee. the state institutions commit
tee and the roads and highways COM
mittee. She declared that she was IN
strumental in having the yearly salary
of police matrons raised from $1,000
to $1,000, in a bill regarding salaries
of police officers.
Teachers Pay Too Low.
. Miss Wooster spoke on the subject
of the rural schools, and decried the
low pay given to the grade teachers
and the county superintendents. In
the counties of Kansas" she said, 1.-THE
superintendent, who are directing the
education of the new generation in tins
state, are receiving about half the sal
airy of the sheriff, who is looking after
the criminals, who constitute only
small fraction of the population.
Mrs. May Belleville Brown, who is
head of the legislative committee of
the Kansas Federation of Women's
clubs, and who is working for the tree
memorial bill in the legislature, had
on address fromthe subject Lest We
Forget
I'VE must not allow our lives to
slop back into the old easy way" she
said, Now that the war is finished.
We cannot forget, in desire to be
merciful to the vanquished enemy,
that the Hun propa ganda is still being
| scattered in this country, and we have
no right to forget what the despoiler
has done to Poland. for example,
where there is said to be no children
left alive under the age of Il. We
| believe in the justice and mercy of
God, and we should also believe in
h n in cit
at half mast for a man whose last re-
corded words are for a stronger and
truer -Americanism. The liberated
nations that have been FESTIVE for free
| dom must be taught that freedom is
! not license. and that one mans liberty
! Presupposes the right of all men to
| liberty, and that situation demands
| certain self restraints in the exercise
| of freedom"
Need Educational Reorganization
! Mrs Matte Britt Hale, of Lacrosse,
| vice president of the club. gave
| the new education. She said:
zone of the biggest questions before
| the American people today and one in
which women play such an importan Mt
part. is that the education of our pop
ulation. especially that part which
never reach our high schools and COL
| leges
Educators everywhere, are de-
manolng complete reorga niZation of
| the old systems. In this readjustment
may We not insist that the laws af-
| fecting the elementary and rural
| schools of our state be made stronger.
more compelling for both parent and
! child and that our socalled compulsory
4 law be made compulsory
I'VE realize that if our country is
: to produce real Americans she must
j teach along with the three RS, pat
I riotism. a love of country and a re-
! spect for law.
! This teaching to be effective must
{ be given in the early years of a child's
/ life. No young child can develop into
a real citizen without training. His
/ mind must be aroused to desire for
/ knowledge and his pride in his coun-
| try stimulated by stories of its valor
and greatness. and no child WILL be-
come a desirable citizen if permitted
| 70 read and converse in foreign Ian
| suage and to absorb all the traditions
of a foreign country, to the exclusion
! of our own
The Local Committees.
/ ~flre chairnen OF the local commit
tees in charge of affairs today are:
Mrs. Aibrecht Marburg. membership;
Mrs. Robert Carver. music; Mrs. Chas-
F. Spencer, decorations: Mrs. Mar
! garet Hill .AfcCarter, publicity: Mrs. A.
A. GODDARD hotels and Miss Grace
| I<oontz. ushers and pages
Those who are acting as doorkeep-
ers are: Mrs. ]. E. House, Mrs. W. R.