The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-19
Qualified Now To Preach Ma
toms Cause Over State.
MORE THAN 1000 attended
War Orators in Messages OF
Great Interest Last Night.
Final CIinches in Arguments by
Carver and Allen.

Delegates to the state war confer
a,ca have gone to their homes to
preach> the nations cause and aims 10
the men and women in the sHaheL
towns and in the rural dlsIrlcts %
Kansas The meetings which enueu III
Toneka Friday night probably brought
the war nearer the people or the state
than any effort of the national coun-
Gil of defense since the declaration Oh
war against Prussian militarlsm anu
autocracy.
More than / 900 delegates attended
the sessions in Topeka and in most IN
stances the capacity of halls and audi
forums were taxed to limit &c nam
die the crowd. Topekans were gener-
Gus in their support of the war meet
ings and helped to pack the auditor
ium for Thursday and Friday night
sessions.
The delegates left Topeka Friday
night and today with messages from
the war orators. These messages will
next week be delivered in theaters,
churches ard school buildings turnout
the state in campaign to arouse
Kansas to q full realization of the is
sues and the states responsibility.
Pleas for economy, for a speeding up
of all industries, for maximum crop
acreages and record production, for
mobilization of laUor, for organization
of high school students for farm work,
for support of the national govern
almost every meeting. AS a result of
the discussions, scores of men and
women will take up the campaign in
their home communities and the gos- |
pei as preached in Topeka during the
two days will be carried to every COM
munity in the state.
Carver and Allen.
Final clinchers on the war argu-
ment and the campaign of the gov
eminent, were clamped at the Friday
night session by DR.. Thomas Nixon
Carver of Harvard University and
Henry J. Allen of Wichita, director
general of the American Red Cross in
France. Short speeches concerning
the readjuStment of the states educa-
tional programs to meet war time
emergencies were discussed by Chan
cellor Frank Strong of the state uni
versity and w. D. Ross. state super
intendent of public instruction.
DIR. Carver pleaded with Kansans to
stand behind the food administration
and support the fixing of prices, even
tho the shoe cramped a little on the
states agricultural foot. He declared
that while the government price of 81
a bushel for wheat was debatable,
the men who fixed the price were sin
cere and honestly believe it is ade-
quate to yield a fair return to the
farmer.
''This is no time, tho, to talk about
rights or wrongs or grievances" said
DOCTOR carver. Our one inquiry SnOulQ
be, what ought we to do in this crisis
not how much ought we to get out
of it. Our government will not COM
mand you to do everything which you
ought to do. 1t will expect you to do
1T of your own free will.
TT is not simply the people of Eng
land, France and martyred Belgium
who are calling for your wheat 1t is
democracy itself whose life is at stake. |
Your wheat will help save its life. !
Your wheat will help to make the
world safe for democracy, it will help
to make your own Kansas prairies
safe for your own children and your
childrens children"
Such as was left to be said of war |
conditions, Henry J. Allen brought |
home to the delegates in his story of !
Universal Service Thru the Red |
Cross" Allen, who since his return |
10000 miles and told the story of the |
Red Cross work in France and on the |
entire western front, again recounted |
to a Topeka audience the mission of |
charity and love to allied soldiers.
Aliens Great Story.
Nor did Aliens speech meet with a |
less enthusiastic reception than any of !
war condition. In fact the story |
seemed to hold for the big crowd an |
even greater message of the states re- |
sponsibility in view of the fact that
Alien Will shortly return to the front |
to father and minister to the Ameri- |
can soldiers in the trenches
In the closing sessions of the war
conference. a definite and comprehen-
sive program for the mobilization of |
young men from the public schools
was worked out. Under the new pro-
gram the state defense council Will CO.
operate in the campaign of the boys
working reserve. This new depart
ment of the council of defense will
have for it's purpose the Organization
of forces from the public and high
schools of the state for active farm
work
1t is thru this new endeavor that
the labor shortage problem in the
state is to be met. Governor Capper
has appointed w. L. Porter city com
missioner of Topeka. as chairman of
the organization, with Dean William
). Jardine of the State Agricultural
college as head of the executive COM
mittee. Tho state organization will
work with local branches of the de-
Tense league and will direct the use OF