The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-25
Seventeen Measures Before 1923
Kansas Legislature.
ChiIdren's Code Commission
PrepareSa Big Program.
TRY MARRIAGE REGISTRATION
Bill Will Provide for Ten-Day
Public Notice in State.
Another Measure Would Con-
sOIidate County Jobs.


Seventeen bills, covering all phases
of child welfare, are being prepared
islature by the Kansas Children's Code
Commission. According to Mrs. Hen.
rietta Mayfield. secretary of the COM
mission, the measures have received
the endorsement of practically every
leading women's organization in the
state. These, she said today, include
the Kansas Council of Women. COM
posed of presidents and vice presid ents
of sixteen statewide clubs; the Par
ent-Teachers Association5-tte w. c.
T. u; the Kansas League of Women
Voters, and the Fourth District Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs. The seven
other district declarations. have en-
dorsed the code commissions proposed
measure which would require a ten
day registration of the contra citing
urged their clubs to study the re-
mainder of the code, Mrs. Mayfield
said.
In addition to the women's clubs,
made up of city officials, went on
record in favor of the proposed child
code laws at its recent annual meet
ing at Pittsburg.
Consolidate County Offices.
Considered by the code commission
lation it will urge before the coming
session is the one which would pro-
vide consolidation of three county Of
fees into one, to be known as the
The object of this, Mrs. Mayfield ex-
planned, is to give better service and
save the counties money.
Considered next in Importance, the
secretary said, is the ten-day registra-
ton before marriage measure. This
will give publicity to intended mar
riages and will prevent unsuitable,
hasty and often unlawful marriages."
Mrs. Mayfield said. 1.-The records of
our divorce courts bear out the fact
that such legislation is imperative"
The Fifteen Bills.
Following is a list of the fifteen
other bills to be sponsored by the
children'S commission, with the pro-
visions and comments of Mrs May
field on each.
A home for INDECENT, pregnant
women and abandoned infants under
two years of age in connection with
the University Hospital. Rosedale.
Kansas does not provide care for
children under two years of age. The
hospital facilities for INDECENT expec-
tant mothers is inadequate. There are
only about rs beds available in the
state. Kansas City has no facilities"
Chld-labOr and compulsory school
law. Its purpose wotIld
and make administration more possi-
BILE. There are two loopho1es in the
present school attendance law-the !
poverty and temporary absence ex-
cuse clauses"
y Part-time schools law. Provides
that employed children between ages
of IA and Is years must attend part
time school four hours a week unless
they have finished second year of high |
school. This time is given at expense |
Of employer
Court of domestic relations PRO |
vides another division of district-courts
In Wyandotte. Shawnee and Sedgwick !
counties to handle all family cases, |
such as divorce, desertion, non-sup-
port, and juvenile work.
To raise juvenile court age from 16 |
to Is years. This is to give the Is !
and 17-year-old child protection of
the probation system of Juvenile |
courts. The juvenile court has more |
facilities for retaining and protect
ing the Maynard child than any other
court"
To require separation of delinquent |
and dependent children in county de-
tention homes. ct is not fair to the |
dependent child to place it with de-
inquents.''
To provide special classes in public
schools for defective children. "Speci-
fies that where there are twelve de-
'ective children, such as partially
blind, deaf, etc, special class be
provided with a specially trained
eacher."
Hospital treatment for Ncrippled
children where Improvement is
deemed possible 1.-The bill provides
| state revolving fund of $685. 900 from
which expenses for such treatment can
De met"
Physical examination and training in
public schools. Provides for train
ng teachers in the normal in physical
education and examination of aUSchil-
iren. Children, whose parents~ object
o such examination, would be ex-
,mpt'
Rewriting the county health officer
,ill. present statute has not been
'evised for thirty-five years. Duties
If health department would be more
pecifically defined"
Regulation and registration of mid
wives. There is no regulation of them
It present and many women suffer
rom unskilled care"
Forbid posting of social disease
ures in public places. would pre-
-ent advertising of 'quack' doctors" l.
Forbid presence of minors at OBJ
Gene trials. This merely changes the
resent permissive law
The Children's Code Commission will
lso urge before the coming legisla-
ure adequate appropriations for the
tate home for feeble-minded at Win :
ield, and the Child Research Bureau j.!
t Kansas university.
Wants AfarriaoeN AunuTIad