The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-18
Every Speaker Urges Kansans
To Save More Necessities.
Meat, Flour and Coal Hogs Bit
terly Denounced.
DR.. TAYLOR PRINCIPAL SPEAKER
Member Inter-AlIied Paris Con-
ference Hoover Representative
Henry Allen Speaks at the
Auditorium Tonight.
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rONIGHTS PROGRAM.
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DR.. H. J. Waters, managing editor Kansas
City Weekly Star presiding t e..
Emergenc gencies'-Chancellor Frank Strong,
State university.
Result of the War"-Supt. w. D. Ross, To-
peka-
Price II. FIJI Fixi9g'mDr Thomas Nixon
Universal Service Thru the REQ Cross
Henry j. Allen, Wichita.
Economy is the big subject before
the war conference delegates at to-
days session in Topeka The save
something idea is being driven home
and the meat and flour and coal hog,
as well as the profiteer, is having
more trouble than Satan in the book
of jeremiah. America will win the
war thru economy and might lose
thru waste. extravaganza and extor-
ton, speakers told the Kansas dele
gates to the war meetings.
Kansas should direct a campaign to
make economy popular, speakers
urged. They urged that the spirit OF
economy extend to every essential and
a direct reduction in all nonessentials.
Emerson Carey of Hutchinson, state
fuel administrator and Walter P. In
mes, of Wichita, state food admins
traitor. both urged upon Kansans
the need of more strict ana
rigid program of saving. They told OF
the war strength of a sack of flour
and a ton of coal and urged kansans
to eat less extravagantly, burn less un-
necessary coal and save money with
which to buy liberty bonds.
DIR. Taylor Principal Speaker.
DIR. Alonzo E. Taylor, of Washing
ton, a member of the inter allied war
p.ay-ie, ff1n rlrIn
raj speaker at the days sessions on
economy as a method of winning the
war DR.. Taylor came to Topeka with
a message concerning the polic1es ana
program of Herbert Hoover, federal
food administrator. He spoke at the
afternoon session in Memorial nall as
a representative of the federal gov
ernment and the food administration
department
kansas was urged to popularize
economy thru a general practice. Use
less waste both in the home, the Of
flee and in personal habits and indul-
gences were discouraged Delegates
to the conference were urged to stay
on the job during the duration of the
war in an effort to aid the govern
ment in the saving of every commod-
ity which might be utilized to the
governments advantage in fighting
the kaiser.
war savings were discussed at
of Kansas City, in charge of the war
savings certificate campaign in Kan
sas Goebel is one of the most widely
known bankers in the middle west ana
is former president of the American
Bankers association.
The Program Changed.
When Doctor Taylor came to To-
peka on a late train, attractions from
the afternoon program were switched
TO the morning session and the Taylor
address arranged for the after lunch-
con program. H. NJ. Hill, of LaF'on-
taine, and E. E. Frizzell, OF Larneo'
were placed on the morning program
as a result of the delayed Taylor talk
Guerney E. Newlin. representing the
United States shipping bureau, VIII
follow Doctor Taylor on the afternoon
card and will tell of the government s
shipping program and some OF the
causes leading up to recent embargoes.
Hill. of LaFontaine, took a real pa
triotic stand as to the duty of the
farmers in the war crisis He de-
clared the farmers should not listen
to politicians and newspapers Whlch
seek to make political capital by tell
ing the farmers their sons should be
exempted from war service we
should consider it blessing that we
have this opportunity to serve in any
branch of the government service
Stand Behind Hoover.
In his talk of War Service on the
Farm" Hill set an example of real
conservation. He told the convention
that the farmers should stand behind
the Hoover and Garfield conservation
policies and reduce consumption OF
food and fuel to the minimum. Hill
said that on his farm near IaFon-
taine the family had reduced their
wheat flour consumption more than
half. the sugar demand two-thirds.
had bought no canned goods, had
made all soap used on the farm ex-
ders for coal and employed men to
cut wood that the supply of coal might
go to some family unable to secure a
supply of fuel.
e. E. Frizzell told of the labor stu
alton on the farm. He said Kansas
high school students should spend the
summer driving cultivators and plows
scription of school children for work
! on the farms. With adequate farm la
Dor he declared Kansas would this
wear produce one-fifth of the nations
wheat supply
Allen Speaks Tonight.
| Henry J. Allen. editor of the Wich-
| its. Beacon and director general of the
Red Cross in France, will be the prin-
/ cipal speaker at tonights meeting in
the auditorium. Allen has made sew
eral war speeches in Topeka. But each
speech seems to have increased the
! demand for seating space at the subse-
quent meeting. AS consequence
there is every probability of a capac-
/ it: attendance tonight when he tells of
his trip to France and discusses uni
versal Service Thru the Red Cross"
"Readjustments in Education to
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