The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-03

war is over, l find that l nave any
business left l will thank God that
have made no money during this con
fIict.-Henry j. Allen, publisher OIL. OF Ia
Wichita Beacon and recen recently .roTn the
emissary of the Red cross LroLn liz
battlefields of Europe
Putting to shame the business men
who secretly or otherwise are using
the war to CLEAN excess profits, Amen.
In many respects the ''Northcllle "a
Kansas" made that assertion petor
the Topeka Press cup at lilT He
waters dinner Friday night. -
osserted that Russia is entirely OUT VI
the war; that Germany IS using men t
i1atu,een the ages of IA and 30 IN hei
army and that the war CANNOT e nv
before or after two years from Ia 10
re described the job the Chlleu
states has taken on as the plssesS
one the nation ever tackled ana auoe '
tta+ before it is over Americans Will
realize the investment OF money ~
4 per cent liberty bond is not the Als IA
est act of patriotism.
times favored with a strain OF sallre'
the Wichitan laid before the ne"spd-
per men the European or, petter say
world situation and for their educatlolI
stripped it of the masks sometimes
nlsced upon it by the propagandists,
BEFORE he was thru the very air mao
heen burned with the dramatic ana
every man present realized the NAKED
savagery, brutality, intrigue, sacrlice
and righteousness IN the cause WI4C -.
nations of the earth are fighting or
championing.
Too Much for Italians.
Allen spoke of the Italian situation.
''Sone people," he said, think the
italians are putting up splendld ex-
hibition of footracing. They are not
I was over the Italian frontier and 1t
was with considerable arnazement that
I viewed the 800 miles CT Gibraltar
the Italians built in the italian and
Austrian Alps The Italians were eX-
pecting the Austrians to attack thru
the point they had fOrtified-thru
Gorilla for it was on this line that
they had driven to within eight miles
of the key of Vienna.
But $780, 900 fresh German and
Austrian troops came transforming
along Five hundred thousand fresh
troops thrown against the weak points
of any line in Europe will break thru.
And the Germans and Austrians didn't
attack where they were looked for;
they selected the weakest point of the
Italian line.
The allies are now sending Italy
help. But every military man in
Europe knows the allies weakest point.
Before any country can send troops
from one nation to another meeting
of emissaries of all the allied countries
must be held in Paris When such
a meeting is over the Germans are
generally somewhere else.
Not Enough Capitalization.
Germany can direct all her troops
and those of her allies from one
central point. The allied nations must
create one central war board with full
power to act on behalf of all govern
ments without hesitation or red tape.
Such a board must be inaugurated,
me
than right that America be at the head
of it,
Allen, while in Europe. visited the
American troops in France. Incl
dentally, in telling of their surround
ings and location, he took a whack
at the censorships of the various
countries. England's suppression, he
said. is fairly intelligent in so far as a
censorship can be intelligent. Ameri-
cas- is about the same. The French
censorship, however, is the worse yet.
1t was the French that inaugurated
the policy of sending stories to
America from Somewhere in France"
The American censorship is keeping
the policy because they have it. They
are fooling no one with it.
Everyone in France, Germany,
England and nearly everyone in
America knows where the Americans
are" said Allen. They are encamp-
ed in Alsace in sixty French villages.
l.
they go into the trenches they will go
in to fight beside the French Chas-
seurs. the Blue Devils the savage,
ferocious fighters from the southern
mountains of France.
American troops are not really in
the trenches now. They haven't yet
taken over any section but those who
are in the lines are especially picked
men sent in with the French to learn
the ms and outs of gas, bombs and
other trench warfare.
Half Million by April.
American troops will take over a
section of the western front in April
when this country will have about
500,0 men ready in France to fight
II is agreed now that no American
offensive will be started before that
number of men is ready in the
"And about this censorship, even
the Germans know where the Amer
leans are. They fly over the camps
every day and take photographs
I'm the spring the British will have
the Belgian front, the French the
central France line and the Americans
will be in Alsace and the latter will
begin to fight on captured German
territory"
Allen told of the great work the
American Red Cross is doing il
France.
fright here" he said, II want tc
say lave heard several howIs to the
effect that the Red Cross is spending
q part of the $1O0.O0O.O0O obtained
here recently to send men on junket-
ing trips to Europe. The world may
rest assured that no such expendi-
lures have been made
Both Allen and William AlleI
White, who accompanied him. PAID
their own way on their recent trip
Rcd Cross Money.
Eighty million dollars of rha
s1oO,00O,0O0 has been spent in France
to alleviate the suffering of thu
wounded, for the care for the French
destitute and to help families of me1
at the front. The Lord has so multi