The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05
Stage TumultuOuS ebay Fete
for French ENJOYS.
PLEA FOR FIGHTING SUPPORT
Viviani and JOffre Appeal for
Aid to Whip Kaiser.
Thousands Upon Thousands
Cheer the Heroes of France.
BY GEORGE MARTIN.

Chicago. May 5.-Viviani, Joffre and
the French commission today are to
bid farewell to the sea of flags and
the tumult of cheers which marked
the first two days of their tremendous
reception by the middle west here.
After the big stock yards mass meet
| ing this afternoon, they will carry their
message of war and love on to other
corquests.
The west awoke today to the sound
of the voice of embattled France thun-
dering it's plea for Americas aid in
"a world war for freedom" And the
French war makers themselves tuck
ed away amid the luxurious furnish
| ings of Charles R. Cranes marble
| palace on Lake Shore Drive, awoke to
| a realization that the west is for war
to the finish.
Formally and exclusiveness were
swept aside in the program of the day
and Viviani and Joffre, both number
/ ed among Frances men of the peo-
ple," stepped down among those
myriad hosts of the middle west who
earn their bread by the sweat of their
brows.
Stock Yards Meeting Today.
1t was to such thousands as Viviani
and oJffre will address themselves in
| the monster free stock yards meeting
which says Chicago's farewell to the
war ENJOYS late today that ex-Premier
| Rene Viviani directed his words when
he cried:
Come to us, American brothers!
Come and fight side by side with
your French brothers. your allied
| brothers.
Come under your glorious banner
to fight for the democracy of the
world and show all men that when
the rights of a single nation are vio-
| lated. the rights of all nations are
trampled under foot"
With his jaw locked and his doubled
fist smashing into his palm for en-
phasiS, Viviani delivered his diatribe
against kaiseriSm:
Autocracy lettering to It's Fall.
From the first you gave US the ben
eft of your moral support, because
you are a great democracy. And We
are a great democracy. Because in
Europe and in France there are free
men who were thus agreed in soul to
raise yet higher the flag of democ-
racy before the rampant of an auto
cracy which is tottering to its fall.
Absolute monarchies imagine they
can conquer other peoples by the mar
riages they make and by placing on all
the thrones of Europe their relatives
and representatives. This is not dem
ocracy. And this they cannot do"
Seldom have crowds jumped to their
feet and cheered so wildly, so I'M
restrainedly as did those which have
marked every step of the French Wis
itors' progress since their arrival in
Chicago, and which early tramped
forth to line their way today.
Waving the tri-color and the Stars
and Stripes maSsed humanity made
a living lane from the Crane home
down the broad Lake Shore Drive to
the Art gallery, the first stop on the
party's farewell tour of Chicago to-
day.
Solid Lanes of Humanity.
Joffre in field grey and Viviani in
black business suit and derby hat sa-
luted and bowed from their big car as
they swept by the cheering throngs.
Other thousands lined the winding
course of the party'S parade thru the
loop district at noon and solid blocks
of humans filled the highways in all
directions as the Frenchmen rolled up
to the University of Chicago for lunch
con.
Following a mid-afternoon drive
thru the boulevards and parks of south
and west Chicago, the long line of big
cars will whizz down to Dexter pavil-
lion, that monster meeting place of the
common people, in the heart of the
stock yards district.
There the hero of the Marine and
the man who made La Patria stand
solid as a rock in the early months of
the war will meet the men of Drawn
the men whose love and interest
they came to America to enlist-and
their women folk and children.
On the platform with the two his
toric French heroes will be another
great man of the people, Lieutenant
Colonel Fabry, 'eThe Blue Devil of
France" and one of the gallant few
hundred who blocked the onrush of
the Teutonic hordes over a six-mile
front in the epoch-making battle of
the Marine.
Fought Over Comrades Body.
1t is said of Fabry that he person.
ally has killed more Germans than
any other fighting man in all the
allied forces. Also that he has been
nearer hell than any man living.
His trench at the Marine was shall
low. The soil. mixed sand and dirt,
could not be piled up. The only
fertilization available consisted of the
bodies of German dead. Fabry used
them. When he needed more he used
a hook on a rope to drag them in.
Fobry's best friend was killed be-
side him in this entrenchment. The
only place Fabry could bury him was
directly beneath the spot where he
stood to fight. He buried him there
on the grave, fighting and hoping
against hope that the Germans would
not break thru. And they didn't
Mexican Army Abounds in Generals.
Mexico City, May 5.-The Mexican
army suffers from no shortage of gen.
erals. There are 207 of them in a to-
tai enlisted force of 1888, an aver
age of one general to 607 men Col
onels, observation-disclosures, and majors
constitute a little army of 2,63S.