The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-25
Topeka Newspaper Men Enter
tain Kansas Editors.
Speakers and Politicians Given
W Planning in BurIesque.
MT FROM EVERY ANGLE
Hosts Even Printed Newspaper
To Poison the Sting.
Gov. Allen, Mrs. Grinstead and
Judge Freeman, Orators.
BY BERTHA Hampstead.


The newspaper men of Kansas had
their yearly chance Friday night to
forget the smears of ink, the sour
d paste, the sore subscriber and the dis
+ gruntled advertiser, when the Topeka
Press club and the Topeka Chamber
/, of Commerce entertained the visiting
l-delegates TO the Kansas Editorial aSso-
citation at a banquet and an evening
of fun at the Chamber of Commerce.
Paul Lovewell, president of the
Press club, presided at the meeting,
and Cecil Howes, secretary, had
charge of the details of arrangements,
served stagehand, and otherwise
trod the mute. inglorious' ways of
flunky and silent promoter.
A welcome address was given to
the company by C. B. Merriam. presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce,
and Tom McNeal. in his original way.
with the official title of "Ringmaster,"
, introduced the speakers.
Interspersing the bursts of oratory
from three of the foremost Kansas
orators. Winfield Freeman, Of Kansas
City; Mrs. Minnie Grinstead, of Lib
eral, and Gov, Henry Allen, the Press
Club members fifth Thespian talents,
--burlesqued the new Allen administra-
, ton in Kansas, and the Allen cam
paign in France.
- Special music for the program was
furnished by the Topeka Heish-Loa
Z Hawaiian Four composed of four boys.
William Crow, Harry L. Mckee, James
X. Knowles and Donald Knowles
True to the Press club traditions even
their music was produced by persons
connected with the newspaper world,
for these young men, whose organiZa-
ton has become known turnout the
state, formed their club and did their
practicinG in hours off duty at the
Topeka State Journal. Miss Mar
raF-fFn I~V.fcT 4rl
with Il talent for dancing, gave an
Hawaiian dance.
Reporters and Fabrication.
Judge Freeman, who is member of
the house of representatives from
Wyandotte county. was introduced as
= "the gentleman who looks like Il pic
ture of the Beloved Disciple but who
really Is full of guile The judges
speech humorously insisted upon the
qualities of maGination essential for
q reporter. He declared that the most
successful reporters We're those with
the greatest powers of fabrication. "In
the old days" he said. 1.-The lawyers
wrote the constitutions. dictated the
policies of nations and held the Of
fices. Now the newspaper men rule
the world
Mrs. Grinstead took as her subject
1.-THE Spirit of Kansas" Mrs Grin
stead is the first woman legislator
Kansas has ever had. She told some
incidents of her campaign against two
men opponents, and assured the COM
. pany that if the men in the legislature
did not vet take her seriously. they
would before the session was finished.
The governor in his speech mounted
and rode his pet hObbies-hobbies that
are worth while. by the way-to his
heH rt's content. He began with military
Training. and ran the whole gamut
of good roads, farm tenantry''
and the bravery and iunselfishness of
the soldiers in France. at was the
military training of the French ma
ton that has prevented Germany from
being master of the world today in
my opinion" the governor said
-"France was the only nation opposed
to Germany that had a compulsory
training system, and it was France
that held back the Hun hordes while