The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-19
MEET HERE IN 1921
Kansas Officials to Hold Next
Convention in Topeka.
Election of Officers Takes Up
Most of Morning.
A. ]. HARVEY is PRESIDENT
Judge Wendell Ready Is New
Vice President.
Mrs. Bertha kemptOn Is Chosen
as Secretary.
A. ]. HARVEY is PRESIDENT

The closing act of the county Off
cials of the state. at the general ses-
sion of the Kansas Official Council this
morning was to again select Topeka
as their meeting place for the next
annual convention, which will be held
on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday
of the third week of November. 1921.
Charles L. Mitchell. of the local en-
tertainment committee, and Oscar K.
Swayze, of the same committee, ex-
tended the invitation of the city to the
county officials to come again. and the
decision to make Topeka the next
meeting place was unanimous.
The election of the officers of the
council and of the various associations
was the point of main interest in the
sessions which were held this morn
ing.
A. j. Harvey Is President.
A. ]. Harvey, county clerk of Mar
shall county. and past president of the
County Clerks association, was elected
president of the council, succeeding
Clarence Aten, past president of the
County Commissioners association,
who has served as president of the
council for the past two years.
A vice president was elected by the
council. There has not been a vice
president on the official roster during
past years. The first vice president
of the organization is Judge Wendell
Ready. probate judge of Sumner
county. Mrs. Bertha Kempton. secre-
tary of the District Clerks associa-
ton, and a former secretary and treas
urer of the council, was reelected to
that office this morning.
Engineers Elect Officers.
Officers elected by the county en-
gineers this morning were: c. NJ.
Cooper of Cherokee county, president; /;
S. K. McCrary of Brown county first
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county, second vice president; Blair
Boyle of Bourbon county, secretary
treasurer, and A. c. Lagerwal of
Shawnee county, corresponding secre-
tary. The county engineers voted to
affiliate with the Kansas Engineering
Council. and elected their representa-
tive on that body, Blair Boyle. their
secretary and treasurer. The county
engineers adopted in its final form
| their association constitution. This is
| they have held
District Clerks Elect.
The clerks of district courts this
morning elected the following Off
GERS: A. B. Campbell of Marysville,
president; Roy Foster of lola, vice
president, and Mrs. Bertha Kempton
of Goodland, Sherman county, secre-
tary-treasurer.
The district clerks passed a resolu
ton asking some action on the part of
| the attorney general of the United
States on the application of enemy
aliens for citizenship papers.
Alien Applications Held Up.
During the war according to law,
alien enemies not only could not be-
come citizens of the United States, but
their applications could not be con-
sidered by the courts, without the spe-
cial permission of the president of the
United States When hostilities
| ceased, the power of granting this per-
mission was delegated to the attorney
general of the United States. The
rule is still i'm force since the United
States remains technically in a state
of war, and there are thousands of
aliens thruout the country whose ap-
plications for citizenship papers can
| not be heard. Congestion in the Of
flee of the attorney general is believed
to be the cause of the clogging of the
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