The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-19
IT'S KANSAS DAY
AT The Big FAIR
Continues from Page One.l

There is nothing, even in romance,
to compare with its rise. development
and history Tt is a record that stirs
the blood and makes pardonable a
pride, however great, in being a
kansan- The governor then pointed
to the close bond of sympathy between
the people of California and those of
Kansas.
Governor Capper said, in part:
L am happy to be the bearer of a
message of congratulation and good
will from the people of the state Of
Kansas to California and to the man
agement of this great international
exposition. There is a close bond of
sympathy between Kansas and Cali
fOrnia. Our people have much in COM
mon. 1 think this is due, in part at
least, to the fact that this beautiful
Golden state, with its wonderful eli
mate, it's bounteous gifts of nature
and, most of all, its open-handed,
cordial hoSpitable people, has tempted
so many good and true Kansans to
leave the Jayhawker state and retire
to California to spend their good Kan
sas dollars. We have sent you also, I
am told, some of your best and most
successful real estate agents. I be-
lieve California has enticed away more
good Kansas people than any other
state in the Union. 1 warn you,
however, that we are trying to make
Kansas such a good state, with peo-
y,
our wandering sons and daughters can
not resist the call of Kansas" but will
come back to that parallelogram of
plenty" we all love so we'll
Apologize For Showing.
Kansas is proud and happy to con-
graduate her sister state upon her
triumph. To you, President Moore,
and through you to the board of man
ayers and to the people of California,
L extend greetings from the people
of Kansas and our heartiest congrat-
ulatiOnS upon this notable achieve
ment. 1t is a triumph-an inSpira-
ton to every Spectacular impulse
toward those things which are really
worth while.
Kansas wishes you every success in
your big undertaking. L am sorry that
we were not able to erect here a
larger, a more beautiful building as
our contribution to this exposition.
We are an agricultural state and
our contributions to your fair must
necessarily consists largely of the
products of our fields. Of these. we
have sent you our best, and you and
your judges have been duly appre-
ciative. What we lack in way of dis
play, I am sure, we will more than
make up in attendance. Kansas is
coming to your fair and will continue
to come. We have the reputation of
being great travellers. We like to see
what is going on in the world and,
and prosperous, have the money with
which to travel when they want to.
And, another thing. Kansas people
like to travel, because they are al
ways glad to get back home. But L
feel sure that when they come here,
they will be glad they came. 1t has
seemed to me recently that almost
the whole state is getting ready to
spend a week or two here, and after
seeing the wonderful spectacle which
you have created 1 can think of no
way in which one could spend vaca-
ton with greater profit or more self
Improvement. / believe Kansas Will
send a larger percentage of her peo-
pie to California this year than any
other state east CT the Rockies, and /
am glad that this is SO.
L presume that the greater part of
YOU who are within the sound of my
voice are now or have been at some
time in your life, KanSanS. l may be
pardoned, then, I hope, if 1 say some
thing here about the state and the
people 1 am so proud to serve as an
executive. L know that we Kansas
people have been accused of being I'M
able to talk about anything else We
have been accused of blowing our
own horn" to excess. They say we
are much given to hot air and statis-
tics. However, you and L know bet
ter We know that the half has never
been told of Kansas, nor ever can be-
A Blessed Privilege.
Never before have Kansans so fully
realized what a blessed privilege it is
While war is desolating Europe, de-
stroying life, wrecking nations and
paralyzing rogreSs-eVeryWhere in
peaceful Kansas we are producing rec
ord-breaking crops, encouraging unit
ed community interest and effort, de-
veloping a quickened civic conscience
and a higher social life, making our
cities and towns better places in
which to live, building more consol1-
dated school houses, more high
schools, more community halls and
churches, more libraries for town and
country folk, more comfortable homes
all over our broad prairies, and more
miles of good roads and substantial
and handsome bridges. All kansas is
reading, thinking, doing; seeing, hop
ing, testing: believing, trying, accom-
plishing Everywhere within the state
a great page in the history of Kansas
progress is being written by am bltlous,
Kansans-
In our own way, THINK we nave
done more in Kansas to promote social
progress to bring larger opportunities
to our citizens of every class and con-
dition, than any other American COM |
m onwealth; and have developed an
intelligent citizenship through the bal
lot which comes nearer to putting gov
on the basis intended by the |
trainers of the Declaration of indie |
pendence than is to be found any /
where else in all the land. or in all /
the world.
1 am not going to weary you with
statistics. But L hope I may be par
doned if 1 ask: Haven't we reason to
be proud of Kansas ?'
California has invited us to come
herewith all the rest of the world
and to ''put our best foot forward"
wish that 1 might, today, make a fitting
exhibit of what Kansas really is and
what Kansas stands for. Kansas
The state which sends more boys
and girls to university, college and
public school, in proportion to popu-
Ia ton and fewer men and women to