The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-03
WILL MAKE NO POLITICAL TALKS
State Has Chance To Nominate
without Listening.
Editor Received Only $3.50 for
Expenses Abroad.

Kansas Republicans may next year
experience the thrill of nominating
man for governor who has not made a
political speech in the campaign
Henry ]. Allen of Wichita told ms
friends before he went to Europe IN
the Red Cross work last summer that
he would be candidate-neXt yea.
Regardless of conflicting statements
encouraged by opposing Candidates,
Allen has not changed a word OF tnat
original statement. His only poSSIDle
change may be that he Will stay III
the Red Cross work during the ehIlre
pre- primary campaign 81.
Allen IS going back to france ms
winter He is going for the Amer
can Red Cross Society just as ne mace
his first trip-without dollar OF pay
and donating his entire time ana eher-
gies to the work that means so mucn
to the nation in the war crisis NOT
only is Allen giving his entire time TO
the country in the war work. nut
something of the sacrifice of the wien
ita editor became known here To-Day
Allen is giving up speaking and writing
contracts for the next six months
which would have paid him between
$4,000 and $4,000. He is too busy
to write His speeches will be made
for the Red Cross without pay
In Food Work.
In the next few weeks Allen Will
go to Washington where ne VIII take
up special work for Herbert Hoover,
federal food administrator. He WIN
be d sort of buffer for the food ad-
ministration. He will be sent to con-
ference with stockmen, manufactur-
ers, farmers and millers- He VIII ad-
vance the cause of the government in
the food drive and help work out
program Cor cooperation
Some time in January or February
Allen will return to she war zone. he
will spend the spring near the lrench-
es occupied by the American troops
and desires to stay thru The summer
for the first fighting of the Sammies.
Thru the war zones in France ana
Italy Allen will assist in directing the
work of the Red Cross.
1t is quite probable Allen may not
make a campaign speech IN Kansas
next summer. He has told his friends
that the responsibility of his campaign
is on their shoulders. And his friends
at home ire accepting the RESPONSE
biiity and will see that his interests
are not sacrificed because he has re-
sponded to the ce4ll to war service
Speak on Red Cross.
Before leaving Kansas, Allen may
spend a week or ten days talking for
the Red Cross and the Y. M. c. A. in
Kansas towns Later he will make
scores of speeches for the Red Cross
society in the larger c1LleS OIL IIle
country His pro gra m includes
speeches in practically all of the large
towns from New York to San Fran
cisco After the work for the food
administration is out of the way, AL
len will start on his return trip to
France.
Allen returned to Kansas this week
after three months in the war zone.
He had previously given two weeks
of his time to the 100 million dollar
Red Cross drive. In addition to his
time Allen donated $1,000 of his own
money. Then came the call to go to
Europe. He cancelled $500 worth of
pea king dates in August, waived aside
some future contracts and went The
Red Cross society gave Allen $3.50
when he left New York. Not one
cent of this money came from the
100 million fund. Aliens trip proba-
bls- cost 1900 to $4,000, but that
$3.50 was the only money paid and
Allen not only donated his time and
work, but the bulk of his own ex-
penses.
Turned Down Offers.
When the Wichita editor returned
to his home this week, he found Of
fers of speaking contracts which
would have Melted him $4,000 during
the next six months. He received an
offer of $1,000 for a series of ten
short stories But he wired tho nub-
fishers that he had no time to write