The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-07
RADICALS SEEK
DISRUPT NATION
SPEAKERS WARN
"GOspel of Reason" Preached
by SuzzaIO and Bangs.
Five Thousand Tutors Hear
Equal Opportunity Plea.
NO PLACE FOR REDS IN U. S.
SuzzallO Also DenOunces Appli-
cation Socialism in America.
Fight for Country Greater
Than Fight for Wages.
NO PLACE FOR REDS IN U. S.


The gospel of Americanization and
brotherly love applicable to an era of
national unrest was preached to the
5000 members of the Kansas State
Teachers association at the auditor
ium in their second general session
this morning by DR.. Henry SuZZallO,
president of Washington university,
Seattle, and John Kendrick Bangs, of
New York. humorist.
The time has come for the Ameri
can people to arouse from their leth-
argy and put down the dangerous
forces that are seeking to disrupt the
fabric of American civilization, SUI
zallO declared. The United States, he
said. is a land of equalized opportun-
ity--a land wherein the halls of
knowledge are open to rich and poor.
There is no such a thing" he
warned, ''as men being born equal so
far as ability and intellect are con-
cerned But in this country they are
born equal SO far as opportunity is
concerned"
Don't Need BoIshevfsm.
Socialism and Bolshevism, Suzzallo
declared, have no place in America.
The former, ne says was, originated
in Germany as a protest against the
double ladder of opportunity in educa-
tion-one for the peasant and one
for the nobility. 1t was brought to
who attempted to apply it in a land
which does not need it. Bolshevism,
Suzzallo defined as the Russianized
condition of socialism revised to fit
land where military coercion was great
and schools were small, and then
transplanted to country which had
overcome such difficulties long ago.
The son of an immigrant who came
to America in 1850, Suzzalo beheld
the opportunities of education and at
tanned the topmOst round of the lad
der. He was educated in three uni
versties and has won the reputation
of being the foremost speaker on edu-
cationaI topics in the country. He is
profound student of social psychology
the attitude of man toward man.
SuZzallo preached gospel of rea-
son. He pointed as an ideal to the
nation built upon the foundation of
its progressive history. He paid elo-
quent tributes to Washington, Lin
coin and Roosevelt as the spiritual
builders of the republic. He expressed
the belief that teachers, who con-
troll thru its youth, the destiny of the
nation, should be the highest paid
workers in the country, but in the
same breath warned them that to give
up the fight for better nation on
account of insufficient salary would
be as unreasonable as for the Amer1-
can soldiers to have refused to fight
because they were drawing only 81 a
day instead of So
Foundations by Generations.
Each generation, the speaker said.
must lay solid foundation for the
next generation to the end that the
process of evolution be not hindered.
Beware of the man in a hurry, he
warned.
1.-The man in a hurry" he said. sis
usually lokins out for his own selfish
interests. He carries a bomb to eX-
plode beneath the structures of civili-
cation with the hope of making away
with the Doodle in the excitement"
Open minds. fairness and business,
an intolerance of things discovered by
the experience of mankind as wrong
and a perfect Willingness to ASCERTAIN
the truth about things unknown are
essential to the building of a demo-
cracy of liberty and brotherhood, he
said
Bangs. while keepin.y his audience
in an uprCar with his jokes and hui
morus stories, paid a tribute to cold,
money-Gra bling Americans in relat-
ing his search for the good Samari-
tan" Thru fifteen years of wander
ing from one end of the United States
to the other, he said. he had made a
close study of human nature to dis
cover that, after all, American hearts
are responsive and American sympa-
thies genuine.
Praises the Y. NJ. c. A.
He declared that. in spite of the
general criticism it had received, the
Y. NJ. c. A rendered a service in
France for which every father who
had a boy overseas should be eternalIv
grateful Bangs was in Y NJ. c. A
service during the war and from his
own experience depicted the splendid
spirit with which the American boys
charged forward to meet the drea dfuI
thing beyond the hill"
The auditorium was crowded with
the visiting teachers. Vocal music was
furnished by 500 children of the Sew
enth and Eighth grades of the topeka
schools
The third general session will be
held in the auditorium tonight The
feature of this meeting will be the
voting on the twenty-seven resolutions
to be presented to the teachers. Miss
Elizabeth Warming OF Holton is chair
man of the resolutions committee.
The speakers of the evening will he
Gov. w L. Harding OF Iowa who viii
emphas size the importance of the pub
lie school is the training quarters for
citizensh'n and life work of the future
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