The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-08
A KANSAN IN NEW YORK.

LII response 10 a more or less 1nSlSI-
ent request, Mr.. Frank P. MacLen-
nan, to use language familiar to our
political readers, has been variously
asked to consent to write a half dozen
or more articles covering in a some-
what personal way his experience on
a recent trip of one week to New
York
Mr.. MacLennan went to New York
City to attending the meeting of the
Associated Press and the three days
convention of the American News
paper Publishers association. He has
been making these annual trips every
year for more than twenty years
This year he was in New York from
Sunday, April 21, until Sunday. April
2S, inclusive. and was gone from To-
peka about ten days.
The first article in the series <ap-'
peared Monday evening and was a
stenographer's report of talk before
the Rota club of Topeka last Satur-
day on The Entertainment of Sol
diers by the War Camp Community
Service of New York City,
!. If the demand" should seem real,
the articles will appear soon in the
State Journal, from day to day. and
will be a column in length, more or
less
Here are the subjects:
"A Dinner With Dean"-the Dean
being our own Col. John S. Dean, now
stationed in New York, and with
whom Mr. MacLennan spent portions
of four or five days and nights of the
week spent in New York.
"A Visit With T. r."
Ten Days Without Food Contain
ing Wheat This will tell of pres
ent day customs on dining cars and in
New York hotels and will include ref
erence to a dinner which was given
at the Waldorf Astoria at cost of SO
per plate and at which no bread, cake
or butter were served. There were
compensations other than monetary,
about which MIR. MacLennan will
animadvert.
How and Why. the State Journal
Contracts for $6,500 Worth of Entire
ly New Machinery" nothing of a sim
liar nature being now used by any
newspaper in Topeka or by the State
journal, whose efficient newspaper
plant will be still further extended by
the expenditure of this sum. and NAV
be more.
Uncle Joe Cannon; How He Looks
at s2 Years Young" and what he said
to kansan in Washington a week
before his eighty-second birthday.
which was yesterday. May Z.
Two Evenings With Harry Lauder
- ~" VI n, one OIL Wn1Ch
the noted Friars' club ten davs ~.
nights ago. u
Several Letters and -Telegrar
From William H. Taft" and what led
up to them.
Great Britain and Her Sea Forces )"
How 1t Is known that England TODAY
mas more shipping by so per cent than
she had just before the great war was
started by Germany notwithstanding
the destructive submarine.
"A Mans Cook Book being a COL
lection of war recipes covering the
cooking of meats and the preparation
of Hooverized cake and bread gather
ed by the Topekan from authorities in
New York. who tested some of their
recipes upon the man away from
home
THE Wyandotte Indian" being
something about a book soon to be is
sued by a friend of Mr. MacLennan.
written on an Indian tribe which fig
ured conspicuously in the territorial
days of Kansas and whose descendants
are occupying places of prominence
in the affairs of Kansas TODAY
None of these articles has as vet
been written, but if any considera BILE
number of State Journal readers want
them, all they have to do is to write,
telephone or send word and they will
be written and printed-otherwise
NUNS the Word.'' If they should
appear. our readers will be asked to
kindly use their discretion about talk
ing too much, as some inside facts will
be given that have not before been
prfpted IN fbeSa nrairior