The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-13
One at Chamber of Commerce
During Noon Hour.
Second Begins at Auditorium at
1880 O'clock.
STUBS TO Be HERE, TOO
Geo. Sherwood Eddy Will Tell
of War in Europe.
Prominent KanSanS From All
Over State Are Coming.

Arrangements for the two big Viii
liam Howard Taft meetings Friday.
one at the Chamber of Commerce at
II o'clock and the other at the city
auditorium at 1880 o'clock, were prac-
tically completed today noon at the
Chamber of Commerce at a meeting
of the arrangements committee. An
extra feature to the auditorium meet
ing will be an address by George Sher-
wood Eddy, former Leavenworth
man. who has returned from four
months in the trenches and whose
thrilling descriptions of the great war
has created press comment thruout
the country. Unless Mr.. Eddy is de-
layed at St. Louis tomorrow he will
speak with President Taft and ex-
Governor StubbS at the auditorium
Friday afternoon.
The ex-president will make two dis
tinct addresses The one at the Cham
Der of Commerce will be relative to
business organizations and the other
at the city auditorium will be con-
corning the peGce propaganda of the
International League to Enforce
Peace, of which Mr.. Taft is president.
Stubbs Here Too.
Mr.. Taft, Ex-Governor Stubbs. Mr..
Eddy and probably two others will
arrive at 1905 o'clock Friday morn
ing and will be escorted from the
depot to the National hotel by a reeep-
ton committee including C. B. Mer-
riam, w. w. Webb, J. Will Kelley,
Frank p. MacLennan and others The
short time intervening between the
party's arrival and luncheon at the
Chamber of Commerce will be spent
in a private room at the hotel.
The luncheon will begin promptly
at II o'clock and the speaking prob
ably will consume twenty or thfsty
minutes after the luncheon Then all
will go to the city auditorium to she1r
the world peace propaganda discussed
so appropriate following -Germany's
offer to negotiate peace
Prominent men from all parts of
Kansas will be present at the meeting
and will participate in the monstroIs
task of organizing the Kansas branch
of the International League to En-
force Peace. Every county in the state
will be included in the organization.
Michener at Work.
Z. c. Kitchener, who has been active
in the leagues work ever since the
historic dinner in New York, met with
the arrangements committee today He
impressed upon the committee the
task that confronts. this country in
preparing lasting peace propaganda
that will follow the world war. He
also urged that the cooperation of
Washburn be requested in the nation
wide movement.
Kitchener, the whole world. America
included. will be drawn into the most
expensive and exhaustive military nro-
gram in history
Also he declared that the success of
the peace propa ganda would govern to
great extent the military preparation
OF the United States provided for in
the army and navy bIT1. He told the
committee of something none of them
apparently had ever heard before. a
provision of the army and navy bill
winch leaves to the discretion of the
president the extent to which nrovi
slons OF the bill for military prepared
ness would be carried out If the Deo-
pie or the country get behind the
project with vim and impress the
foreign powers with their belief in
the propaganda of the league it NAV
tail the military expenditures he1ieyad
necessary for this country with condi-
tlons as they exist at present.