The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01
Sons of the Sunf1ower State
Celebrate Her Birthday
With a Banquet at the Waldorf
Astoria, New York.
SOME DISTINGUISHED GUESTS
General Crozier and SBiIIy"
Deford Make Speeches.
Many Well Known Jayhawkers
Were in Attendance.

New York, Feb. 1.-The eighth an
nual banquet of the Kansas Society
of New York was held on the night
of kansas day. at the Waldorf
Astoria hotel
There are quite number of these
societies in New York City, some of
them having many hundreds of mem
bers, and giving banquets at which
some of the speeches assume the i'm
portance of national events because
of the high position or reputation of
the speakers.
The Kansas society, while younger
than some of the others, has always
managed to hold it's end up in the
matter of its banquet, its speakers
and its speeches. 1t was the first
among them to invite ladies' to the
annual function, and two years ago.
when Governor Woodrow Wilson was
the guest of honor, the president of
the society, in introducing him. ex-
pressed the hope that as he had
crossed the Delaware and captured
the executive mansion at Trenton. he
would, in due time, cross the Potomac
and capture the White House in
was the first public or semi-pubIic
launching of what afterwards evo-
| luted into the Wilson boom.
The menu this year was a hand
the cover this stanza by Esther Mary
Clark:
| There are many to sing of the noble deeds
OF Kansas favorite sons:
The men who stood in the early days so
manfully by their guns
Who shed their blood at the Nations
call Tor the martyr-state's release,
And led her out of the depths of war and
INTO the ways of peace.
L honor them. all; but I honor. too. the
Infinite VISIONS plan -
OF putting a man behind the gun, and a
woman behind the mani
General William Crozier. late of the
United States War College, in his adj
dress, pointed out the need for the in
struction Of the young men of the
country in military matters so that If
called upon for service in the event of
war they would not have everything
to learn from the very beginning He
intimated that the war department
had made considerable advance in
plans to this end that were likely to
be submitted to the states with a view
| to their acceptance and carrying into
effect.
William A. Deford, assistant district
attorney, New York county gave an
interesting and illuminating account of
his experiences in New York and in
Albany with respect to S0-cent gas for
the Empire City, and he passed from
that topic to the subject of public SEN
timent and it's powerful and practical
influence upon the men in control of
the government of the state and CT
the city In strong epigrammatic terms
he described conditions as they exist in
most of the cities of the country of the
remedies required and of the contin-
uous forceful application of the pres
sure indicated by all who had the well
fare of the community at heart. To-
wards the end he struck quite an OPP
timistic note indicating that he consid-
cred the present outlook for better
ment, and a better administration of
the laws was very encouraging.
DR.. Frank A. Waugh, of the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College, spoke on
'Skyscrapers and landscapes A
clever address, with many witty say
ings, interspersed with passages descrip-
tive of the sunflower state and con-
spicuous features of climate and of
the life of past days, that took the
old-timers back to those years, the re-
collection of which causes pleasure in
spite of the hardness" of many OF
the circumstances recalled.
DR.. Christian F. Reisner,. pastor Of
the Grace Methodist Episcopal church.
New York, showed himself to be a
walking biographical cyclopedia of
Kansans who have achieved distinction
in a score of different walks of life
and are now prominent in the various
circles that they adorn.
Following, are the names of those
having the banquet in charge:
Dinner committee--Byron c. Good,
chairman; H. r. Mitchell, John p.
F'ritts
Speakers ommittee-Thomas Ew-
ing chairman: Charles w. Price, Ed
ward F. Burnett.
Reception committee-M w. Levy.
chairman; A. P. Jetmore, Elmer I'm
derwood, Miss Frances L. Garside, L.
Mrs. l.. H. Pounds, ]. Sidney Gould.
n. P. Simpson. M. J. Stickel, w. o.
Jones, Elias Summerfield, Homer A.
Dunn, Mrs. Bert Underwood, T. c.
Marshall Thomas H. Dinsmore. Roy
NJ Robinson F. w. Waller, Miss
Nealie G. Miner, Omar Powell. Ely
Moore jr. Walter r. Wilder, Richard
wanless, Mrs. Russell Harding, L. II.
Pounds, Haiz Pope, H. o. Coughlan,
Thomas J. Reilly. Bert Underwood,
Nels c. Benson, Ernest Wernher.
officers - President. Walter n
C1ough; vice presidents, L. H. Pounds
and F. w. Waller; secretary. NJ. p.
Gould; treasurer, H. r. Mitchell; ex-
Charles w. Price, 1907; James Fl.
Canfieid. 1908; A. p Jetmore, 1903;
Thos H Dinsmore. Phi. D., 1910:
Thos Ewing, jr., 1911.
Trustees-W Walter r. Wilder, Roy
NJ Robinson, II, p. Simpson, Elias
SummerfieId. Elmer Underwood. NJ.
w. Levy. James II. Scarr. De Forest
Jetmore.