The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-01
= issOurians Gave Locals Elab-
crate Banquet Last Night.
Improvements SUGGESTED
Municipal Farm Expert Coming
to Topeka Thursday.
''Kansas City Did, Topeka KAN
Is the New Slogan.

was a slogan suerested for adoption by
the Topeka Rotary club by DR.. Roy b.
Guild, one of the speakers at the tes-
timonial dinner to Rotarlan arthur
Capper, governor-elect of Kansas. CIV
en- at the Hotel Baltimore Monday
night by the Kansas City Rotary ciup.
And the chances are that the wonder
full boulevard system Of Kansas CITY
that has cost a mint of money to build
and which has made *. e. famous
that has proved a decided success, VIII
be an influence towards the accom-
plishment of needed improvements III
Topeka.
In fact Karl L. Schneider, super1n-
tendent of the parole department or the
Kansas CITY municipal farm, will give
an address before the members OF the
Topeka Rotary club Thursday noon. ne
was invited to tell Of the work on the
farm by Frank p. MacLennan ana r.
B. Merriam who composed
committee appointed to make an IN
vestigation of the Kansas CITY lnstl-
tuition. The committee visited the farm
Monday afternoon.
Given a Big Treat.
The forty-five Topekans-mempers u
the Rotary club and their wives ana
lady friends-whO attended the Oahque.
at the Baltimore were royanS
tanned.
fifteen mile auto run over por-
tion of Kansas City's boulevard system,
including the we'll known cliff drlve'
was a pleasing feature of the program
The banquet was an elaborate a11air.
Tho PROGRAMS. which were extremely
elaborate. included a cut of Arthur
Capper, the special guest of honor.
Among the speakers were Waiter u.
Lovitt, president of the Kansas City
Rotary club, who welcomed the WIS,
itors to Kansas City, and who oficiateo
as postmaster; George Godfrey Moore,
president of the Topeka Rotary clup;
Arthur Capper Robert Stone, FREQ
Voiland, DIR. s. J. Crumbine, FRANK +:
MacLennan, DR.. Roy B. Gulld' an u
Topeka and John H. Wlies: w. -.
Berkowitz and James Wood of Kansas
City.
The ladies left the banquet nail az
O'Clock to attend special picture
show at the Willis-Wood theater. An
orchestra furnished good music, ana
the singing of Rotary songs py tne
of the event. An added feature was
entertainment by a company or Ha-
waiian musicians who not only pro-
duced orchestral music, but sang in ap-
proved style. T.
MANY complimentary remarks were
made by the Kansas City speakers con-
corning Kansas and it's capital city.
Our personnel of the Kansas City
business men made up largely from
Kansas" said John Wiles. You have
notch of their respective professions.
Arthur Capper, governor-elect, re-
ceived a hearty ovation when he arose
to his feet to deliver an address.
His fellow Rotarians from Topeka
broke out in song:
whats the matter with Capper!
He's all right. What's the matter
with Capper? He's all right. He's
the governor-elect of our grand old
state. He's there with the goods at
any old date. What's the matter with
Capper? He's all right"
Then at the conclusion Of his re-
marks the visitors shouted:
"Oh, how he run; our native son.
For what you are, we thank The
Star Capper, Capper. Capper!"
Capper's Speech.
Governor-e1ect Capper predicted a
great future for Kansas City, situated
in the garden spot of the earth.
He was glad to be in Kansas City to
help promote a spirit of friendliness
between Topeka and Kansas City. and
Kansas and Missouri. He told of the
material greatness of Kansas, and
then continued: 1.-The true greatness
of Kansas lies in the moral fiber of
her people. The Kansas conscience
has led the nation in every movement
with a moral back ground in a quar-
ter Of a century. Nowhere has there
been more genuine effort to in
corporate into the body polite the
high morality Of private life. And
Kansas comes nearer today, be-
lieve, in giving every man, woman
and child within it's borders a square
deal than anywhere else under the
sun.
This result is due more, in my
Ns~Ns~
has been an outlaw in Kansas for
more than twenty-five years, than to
anything else. 1t is not surprising
that we Kansans stand uncomprom-
isingly for prohibition when we view
it's results. 1 think most of us will
live to see the day when prohibition
becomes national"
II believe in clean and honest DOL.
itics. We have too much playins
football with partisan measures. we