The Topeka state journal., 1919-09-11
Celebrate Signing of Armistiee
at Free Fair Today.
Give Big Double Program at
Peoples Pavilion.
HARVEY AND ALLEN SPEAK
Signing of Truce Saved Lives of
Many Kansas Men.
Thirty Fifth Was Ready To
Drive on Metz Nov. IL.


Kansas Free Fair and the whole pro-
gram in the Peoples pavilion has been
arranged with an eye to properly COM
memorating the famous November Ii
when the bloodiest war in history
came to an end.
1t was just ten months ago today at
IL o'clock in the morning that every
gun on the four hundred mile western
front in France was silenced. It was
on this day ten months ago that the
Yankee troops swept into the historic
city of Sedan, captured It at the point
of the bayonet, and had barely consol-
idated the position when the silence
of the guns came. But touching yet
more closly home, 1t was just ten
months ago today when the fighting
doughboys of the 35th division were
lying in the front line trenches north.
of Verdun waiting for the fateful zero
hour to come which would send them
over the top in a drive on the city of
Metz. This attack was to start the
morning of November IL, 1918, and
except for the signing of the armistice
the 35th would have paid a bigger toll
to death.
A Real Thanksgiving.
In celebrating Armistice day today
L
Kansas are offering their thanks for
the event which saved hundreds and
thousands of the finest and bravest
men of Kansas for the development of
the state and the nation. =
In celebrating Armistfce day two
distinct meetings are to be held at
the Peoples pavilion. One of these
was at 10 o'clock this morning and
the other is to be at 1890 o'clock this
evening. At the meeting this morning
Col. A. NJ. Harvey. of Topeka, was the
speaker Of the day. This evening
Gov. Henry J. Allen is to be the
speaker.
Col. A. NJ. Harvey Speaks.
Colonel Harvey himself has a war
record second to none. While he did
not go overseas, yet he served on this
side as assistant judge-adYocate and
at the time the armistice was signed
was waiting with his division for. or
ders to proceed to a port of embar-
kation for transport to Europe"
Colonel Harvey was a major in the
Twenty-second Kansas volunteers of
the Spanish-American war. He en-
tered the world war with a commits
sion of major and was discharged as
a lieutenant colonel.
Governor Allen Tonight. -
Governor Allen who will make-the
talk at the pavilion this evening saw
| service in France as a Red Cross man
and as a front line secretary for the
Y. NJ. c. A. Governor Allen is re-
sponsible for the Investigations begun
by congress to sec why the regular
army officers replaced the efficient
officers of the national guard who
went overseas with their men in the
Thirty-fifth division. He is the hero
OF the book by William Allen White,
called the Martial Adventures of
Henry and Me-" The governor Is
1 \
| interesting speaker and it is assured
that big crowd will be out to hear
him tonight.
These two speeches by two former
service men, one of the fighting men
and one of the morale boosters as
sured a proper commemoration Of
Armistice day in Topeka.
Colonel Haryey's Talk.
/ I'm all the history of the world no
| set of public servants ever gave a
better account of themselves than did
the regular army officers and men in
this war"
This is but a part of one of the
| sentences pronounced at the Peoples
| pavilion this morning by Col A NJ.
Harvey, Topeka lawyer, in his Armi-
stlce day speech. The quotation is from
the section of the talk devoted to the
praise of the regular army and its
| o11lcers and men. TO add point to
his remarks about the efficiency. of
the regular service and the fitness of
the regulars to lead the way the COL
| onel cited the cases of several Topeka
men who are regular army officers.
/ calvin P. Titus was a private in
the Boxer uprising and he was the
first man over the wall at Peking. His
home had been at Wichita and those
| who knew him there only remembered
him as a boy. Congress gave him a
| scholarship at the Point and he went
| n Ha ~
hood when this war broke out, and he
gave splendid service and never COM
planned, altho he was disappointed be-
cause he did not get to go to France.
Mentions Colonel Ryder.
1--WE all know of the splendid serv-
ice of Chase Doster, Arner Robenson,
| Norman Ramsey, Earl Mcfarland,
Alfred Quinton, and others from To-
4 peka, and especially of Charlie Ryder,
who has worked like a Trojan ever
since the war began and has been ad-
vanced until he is now a colonel in
command of one of the regiments OF
the First division.
These men are Just like other Kan
sas boys who have gone into the regu-
lar service, either thru the Point or
j from the ranks, and Kansas people
know enough about them to know
their service has been good. and it is
safe to assume that the men from
other states, holding like positions
gave good service. Kansas people also
know that the service of General
Wood. Gen. Guy V. Henry, General
Wright, Colonel Reeves, Colonel Nc
Cleye. and others of the older class
deserve all the praise that can be
given to men who do their duty well
and they are typical of other officers
in the regular service.
1T is no discredit to. the national
guard, the training camp officers and
& other civilian officers, to say that the
/ burden in connection with the organi-
zation of our army fell upon regular
/ army officers. and that thye were
equal to the responsibility"
4 In another part of his talk Colonel
Harvey spoke of the stored up disas-
! ter which was being held in leash
ready to be loosed on the Huns In the
! event they refused to sign the armi-
stice. He spoke of the famous 35th
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