The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-05
Kanssa Council of Defense.

Manhattan, Kans., Jan. "A cam
paign for coordinating forces to car
ry out war program has been started
by the Kansas Council of Defense
with the cooperation of the food ad-
ministration. It viii be a campaign
of education.
The idea is to get the most effec-
tive work through existing organiza-
tons rather than to add another to
the list. The plan is to have a coun-
ell in each community central
clearing house. Local forces will be
modified. The campaign was start
ed at the suggestion of the national
council of defense.
Lecturers will be sent to commun-
! tiles to give facts which the people
should know relative to the war and
the service which may be rendered by
citizens to their government. Liter
ature will be sent where it is desired
| to be used in study circle work. In fact
war information bureau is being es-
tablshed, the business of which will
be to furnish information upon re-
quest.
The war conference in topeka,
January II and 10, will be a part of
this campaign. It will be a meeting
of the men and women who will as
sist in making the movement a sue
cess.
Walter Burr, directors of the rural
service department of the division of
extension in the agricultural college
and secretary of the speakers bureau
/ for the Kansas council of defense, de-
| sires the names of those who will
volunteer to serve as public speakers
| in the campaign, and who will under
take community leadership.
More than 1000 representative
Kansans- men and women engaged
in council of defense, Red Cross, food
and fuel administration, educational
and other forms of national service
are expected to attend the war con-
ference in Topeka, January II and
18th.
This meeting which will be held I'M
| der the auspices of the Kansas coun-
ell of defense was called by Arthur
| Capper, governor of Kansas. 1t is a
| feature of a campaign for coordinat-
| ing forces to carry out effectively
! the war program. Six strategic points
IN the country were picked for war
conferences by the national council
Of defense.
Several prominent speakers for the
conference were announced today by
! Walter Burr, director Of the rural
service Department. of the extension di-
vision In the agricultural college, and
secretary of the speakers bureau of
| the Kansas council of defense.
Many prominent speakers will be
on the program. Franklin K. Lane,
secretary of the interior, and Sir
/ Frederick E. Smith, attorney general
of England, will be the most dis
tinguished of those making addresses
this country to address the American
| Bar association and will come to
Kansas through special arrangement
with the British war mission.
Or. Thomas n. Carver, professor of
rural economics in Harvard univers-
| ity, and advisor for the bureau of
markets, United States department of
agriculture, will discuss problems re-
lating to price fixing. Doctor Carver
is native of Iowa, grew up in the
west and is thoroughly familiar with
the agricultural conditions In this
section.
Henry Allen of the Wichita Beacon
who recently returned from Europe,
will tell of the Red Cross work P. W.
| Goebel, well known banker of Kansas
| City, Kansas, will be another speaker.
Other Kansans will be on the pro-
gram
Rats destroyed 100000 worth
of food in Kansas in 1917, according
TO estimates of Dr.. S. J. Crumbine,
secretary Of the State Board of
Health, who ranks the rat as an ally
of the Kaiser.
Every boy can serve his country
by killing rats" said DR. Crumbine.
'fIt has been shown by scientific in
vestigation that it costs not less than
$500 a rat to feed him for one year.
The cost is going up with the price
of feed
SIN the cities there is an average
of one rat for each person. In the ru-
raj districts there are from four to
ten rats for each person. There are
at least 100000 rats IN Kansas, and
as each one eats $500 worth of feed
a year that makes $6,GOO,0OO
The dog Is also a wasteful ami
NAL There are $4,000 dogs In
Kansas. Only 1000 are worth their
salt 1t is a sin to feed the remaining
1S6, 200 when our soldiers and allies
need food %