The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19
THE WAR COUNCIL PROGRAM
Meeting Will Be Held in Topeka on
Thursday, January 17-Noted
Men to Speak.

Topeka-The program for the Kan
sas war council to be held January IT.
| IS has been issued. The council will be
held under the direction of the state
council of defense More than $500
people throughout the state who are
! identified in one way or another with
war work have been asked to attend.
The principal meeting will be held
| Thursday evening, when addresses
will be made by Hon. Franklin K.
Lane, secretary of the interior; Sir
Frederick Smith, attorney general of
Great Britain, and Miss Harriet Wit
tum of Chicago.
On that afternoon addresses will be
made by the governor and an officer
from Camp Funston; E. w Pratt, sec
rotary of the Y. NJ c. A at Camp Fun
ston, on Training Camp Activities;
F. B. Barnes on Activities Outside Of
the Camps" and General Charles S.
Huffman on 1.-THE Home Guard"
The morning session January Is will
be devoted entirely to the discussion
of food and fuel problems Emerson
Carey Of Hutchinson, state fuel admin
istrator, will talk on Fuel; Walter
P. Innes of Wichita, food administra-
tor, on Food" and DR.. A. E. Taylor
of Washington on 1.-THE Federal Food
Administration" That afternoon P.
w. Goebel of Kansas City, Kan, will
explain the thrift stamp campaign in
Kansas; H. NJ Hill of Lafontaine,
Kan, will discuss war Service on the
Farm and E. E. Frizell of Larned will
speak on "The Labor Situation on the
Farm" Attorney General Brewster
will deliver patriotic address.
Topeka Schools Abolish German.
Teaching of the German language
in the public schools here after the
| present term has been abolished by
the board of education.
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Ripley Denies He Will Retire.
In a letter to Topeka paper, Presi-
dent E. P. Ripley of the Santa Fe
branded as unfounded the story that
he is to retire as president of that
company.
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Kansas Shippers Win.
If the report proposed by Examiner
Edgar Watkins, of the Interstate Com
meree Commission, is accepted by that
body, and. it is believed that it will be,
Kansas shippers of poultry and dairy
products to eastern markets will save
more than 100000 annually in freight
rates.
| General con0itIons as 20 health and
sanitation at the Camp Funston ma
tional army cantonment are good, &C.
cording to a letter received by Gov
ernor Capper from Major General c.
G. Ballou, in command of the canton
ment. Moral conditions, says the let
| ter, are better than at any of the other
environments. Governor Capper re-
Gently submitted to General Ballou
complaints made by a Nebraska wo-
man against conditions at Camp F'uns-
ton.
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Heads College of Emporia.
Charles F. Scott, acting president,
has announced the appointment of DR..
James W. Bean, pastor OF the First
Presbyterian Church OF Hastings,
Neb., as president of the College of
Emporia. Doctor Bean will assume
his new duties in April.
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Chance to Enter Training Camps.
National guard officers and former
national guard officers between the
ages of % and Al years, may now en-
list as first class privates for attend
ance at training camps
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To License Stock Feed.
Federal regulation of feed for live
stock may be another step taken soon
by the federal food administration, &C
cording to a letter received recently
by Governor Capper from Herbert C.
Hoover. food administrator.
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Kansas Girls HusEed Corn.
Edna and Enola Dalrympie of Bonds
/ husked corn this fall as their contrib
ution to war work Their father,
! James DaIrymple. Is mighty proud Of