The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06
Governor Allen Warns Against
Return to Old Times.
Danger in Fatty Indoient Pc
riOd, He Tells WaShburn.
COLLEGE CELEBRATION is ON
Alumni From All Over Country
Are in Topeka.
Annual Birthday Banquet at
Barracks This Evening.


ernor Henry ]. Allen. speaking in
Washburn chapelthis morning during
the colleges celebration of it's fifty
fourth birthday, should not be too
anxious to return to what we call nor
NAL times" The state executive, who
was the principal speaker on this
mornings program, asserted that he
could imagine nothing worse than a
return to the fatty Incidence of pre-
war times.
"I do not want to stand up here"
he said, 'and fatty go on record in
favor of compulsory military training.
do, however. want to impress 1t upon
you that you should look to your ply
steal development. We need system
that will develop manhood physically
so if there is ever another crisis we
will be ready
league of nafions. as it is being
planned now, will accomplish all that
it is intended it should Immediately.
He called attention that nothing in the
plan now under consideration IN Parls
provides for the disarmament of ma
tions. "They, are now trying to settle
who is going to have the biggest navy
| and who will have the biggest army,
| he said.
Demand a Guarantee.
at behooves us to build up our edu-
| cation, to keep abreast of the times
l
| league of nations is something more
| than a platform We must demand
a guarantee. Without that guarantee
| the league will be of no more force
| or value than the Hague conventions
| and the league of nations constitution
| will be nothing more than a mere
scrap of paper.
1 Il believe tho that theA formation
I of this league will be a great step IN
! civilization" He asserted that Amer
/ 1NT~ CT n
the times that America may keep the
| world leadership that it is now op-
| tanning and perfect the idea of per-
petual peace. He called attention, too,
that this is not the first time that
| nations of people laid down their arms
and said there would be no more war.
New World Being Born.
| Allen. declared that a new world is
being born. He pointed to a delivered
| France, to a new England which is
now saying that the land is the prop
! erty of the people and not the prop
! erty of lords and barons to be used
as deer parks. He referred to Turkey
as the sick man of Europe, and as
serted that it is doubtful if more con-
| ferences of nations will be held to try
| to convalesce him. I'VE may let him
die this time" he said. He alluded
I to Germany as a nation of people
| who are relearning the fundamentals
| of civilization, forgotten since before
| Bismarck. He expressed faith in Rus
! sia, and declared that altho there is
many a bloody day ahead for the ma
| ton, it will move upward out of the
darkness.
Tells of Kansas Boys.
| Following his plea for Anferian in
| stitutions to give America the leader
ship of the world, Allen launched into
/ a reminiscent vein and told of the
/ Kansas boys in France. Personal ex-
| %Ia<
| American soldier, the peculiarities of
the French and their love for Ameri-
cans were retold. Incidentally, he
brought out the fact that during the
! first day of the Thirty fifth division s
drive in the Argonne the Kansas and
Missouri guardsmen went up against
/ the Prussian guards, the flower of the
German army. and took 1000 prison
ers in the twenty-four hours.
1.-The French loved the American
soldiers" said Allen, because of their
| gentleness toward the civilian popu-
lation And 1 want to tell you that
when the Thirty-fifth moved out OF
the VosSe5 mountains after being bill
leted with the civilian population there
were no tragedies left behind.
, never found a case where an American
/ soldier wronged a man or woman in
France morally" The former Y. M
c. A. representative told of the knack
developed by the American boys
among themselves for pronotlon
"Over there he said. 'the men had
i to go back to the primitive a great
deal. A man had to look out for his
immediate needs on the spur of the
| moment One of them rrGmoted my
| mess kit, and 1 was eight Gays getting
another one, ana I didD't buy 1t or
lerrow it"
Niorcing Program.
This mornings program opened al
10 O'Clock Following the invocation
and instrumental ard vocal Numbers
by Topeka artists. Niss Charlotte
| Leavitt spoke on the significance OF
| "Washburn Day. She outlined the
history of the college from the time
that Lawrence and Topeka. fought
/ over its location until the present year
This evenings banquet at the bar
tracks will begin at $50 O'Clock with
Imri Zumwalt. president OF the
Alumni association and state printer
as toastmaster. Following an operetta
and selections by the Meil's Glee club
4 Capt Luther Tillotson. Lieut.. Howard
! Searle, Ensign Herbert Guild and
Yeoman John Mabaffey will tell o1
their military experiences. Selections
will be given by the Girls Glee clul
of the college between talks
The celebration this morning
brought friends and alumni of the
college from all over the state to the
leI1a