The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-07
Secretary Lane viii Speak in
Topeka Next Week.
Also Attorney General Smith
of Great Britain.
REAL WAR DEMONSTRATION
Two-Day Conference of the
Council of Defense.
Many Well Known Kansas
Speakers ON the Program.

Kansas will offer her first real war
demonstration when the big two days
war conference is held in Topeka
January Ills The fact that the ma
tionaI council of defense has arranged
for speeches by Franklin K Lane,
secretary of the interior, and by Sir
Frederick E Smith, attorney general
of Great Britain, has aroused state
wide interests in the meetings Re-
DOR sent to local committees or the
state defense council indicate unusual
out of town attendance for all ses-'
sious.
charge of the campaign to secure
record attendance for the Dig meet
ings In addition to the Lane-Smien
attraction, the state council has oeeh
assured that Dr. Alonzo E Taylor: q
noted food scientist, who was with
A AMBASSADOR James w. Gerard in Ger
MANY prior to the entrance OF the
United States in the war. Will speak
He will tell of German food co-lserva-
ton methods and will urge the saving
of food as q war measure
Speaks for Great Britain.
| Sir Frederick E Smith is in the
| United States authorized to speak for
and represent the British government
/ His speech will deal with the problems
/ confronted by the British government
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an appeal for America to profit as a
result of the experience of her allies
| Secretary Lane will speak for the fed
/ eraI government All Of the speeches
are authorized by the federal gov
eminent and national council of de-
Tense. The meetings are being held in
! the larger cities of the central west in
an effort to arouse the country to a
realization of the war problems.
| Governor Capper will preside at the
sessions of the war conference The
I speakers bureau of the state defense
| council is in charge of the local pro-
gram Members of the bureau are:
! Dean E c. Johnson State Agricultu-
/ raj college, Manhattan; DR.. E J. kulp
and Mrs D. w. MuIvane, Topeka;
normal; Director F. r Hamilton
State university, Lawrence, and Walter
Burr, Manhattan
Program in Full.
/ Following is the program:
THURSDAY, JANUARY IL.
| Morning-l6:30 O'Clock
Business meeting of Kansas State Coun-
Gil OF Defense. with chairmen of county
Afternoons: 80 O'clock.
Meeting called to order by the governor
| Invocatiou-Dr Wilbur y Mason of
| the state board of administration.
Address-1Governor Arthur Capper.
Training Our National Army"-By an
]
Trimming Camp Activities the
: camps)-E- B. Pratt. general secretary. Y
am Barnes ss'0d DISTRICT 8q''id tep the
sentative of the trailing camp activities
/ Fort Leavenworth districts
The Home Guard"-Adj. Gen. Charles
/ 5. Huffman Topeka
Evenins-.:3O O'clock
| Gov. Arthur Capper. presiding.
Addresy-Franklin K Lane, secretary of
| Address-Miss Harriet vfttum Chicago,
/ Noman's Division of Illinois.
Address-Sir Frederick F. Smith at
/ torney general Of Great Britain.
/ FRIDAY, JANUARY 49,
Morninx-s O'clock.
DR.. F. J. kulp, Topeka. presiding
/ kansas Fuel Observation-Disclosures
Carey, Hutchinson. federal fuel admins
I kansas Food Administration'-wa
r Innes, Wichita, federal food admins
! Federal Food Administration - DR..
Alonz2 % Taylor Washington, member
Afternoon-s O'Clock.
Dean E. C. Johnson. presiding.
War Time Savings'-Peter w Goebel
{ IN charge OF war time savings campaign
for Kansas.
WAR Service on the Farm-H NJ. Hill,
The Labor Situation on the Farm
! E F. Frizzell- Larned. Kan.
4 AuIresS-S- M Brewster. attorney gen
| eraI for Kansas
Evenings O'clock
Dr. H. J. Waters, managing editor Kansas
city Weekly Star, presiding
/ REIMBURSEMENT in Educa ton to Meet War
I Emergencies '-Chancellor Frank Strong
State university
Reimbursement in Public Schools as n
Result Of the War'-Supt W. D. Ross To-
peka-
/ Price FiXing'+Dr. Thomas Nixon
: Carver. Harvard university
iHY THE nHYAYz-n