Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-14
ALLEN INAUGURATED
 GOVERNOR YESTtR RDAy
Newspaper Man Who Is New Governor of Kansas, Says Shortage of Horses and Planes Fatal to Troops.

Topeka, kas., Jan. l3.-Henry ] Allen, Republican, of Wichita, became the twenty-first governor ot Kansas today. Eleven other state officials also were inducted into oftire.
 In his valedictory address, the re- retiring governorelect Arthur Cap per, stated that he considered the passage of the Kansas bone-dry law the most important achievement of his administration. He also spoke at length on the international unrest as FeXemplified by "the epidemic of Bol- sheyism" and urged that the nation remove the contributive causes
 The new governor who is editor Of the Wichita Reason, was elected chief executive of the state while serving with the Red Cross in France. He has long been prominent in state and na- tional politics.
 Governor Allen, in an address here today following his inauguration, de- clared that lack of artillery support, due to failure of the horse supply, and shortage of airplanes, led to the cut ting to pieces by the Germans of the Both division, composed mainly of Missouri and Kansas troops, in the Argonne Forest. MT. Allen, who spent ten months in France for the Red Cross, and Y. M. c. A., also criti- sized the censorship, charging that 1t "became as arrogant and absolute as the censorship of Germany"
 "On September Doth, the 35th divl- sio nstarted to enter the Argonne, v said Governor Allen, "at two o'clock we had reached our positions and then began the artillery barrage. For four and one-half hours the barrage con- tinued Then it stopped and our boys went into the fight.
 By noon the next day the dough boys had gone beyond range of the artillerysand they fought for four days without any artillery support. l went along the roads leading up to the bat tie lines and time after time l saw the roads choked with the dead horses ! that had been killed or had died in the harness in the efforts to bring up the artillery. The lack of artillery support was not due to the men or their officers It was lack of trans port We didn't have enough horses and what we did have were too old and feeble to do the work"
 1 The governor declared that there sho,ld have been 5000 horss instead l Inf 2,2OO which wre available when the men entered the battle, and that many "warc old ones that the French had discarded as of no further use tC them.'
 "Yet our army paid $400 each fo1 these animals, only to be forced to shoot them a day or so later because they were too old and too feeble to dc
 the work" he continued.
 Governor Allen declared that the
 Germans maintained domination o
 the air on the American front. "Wt
 saw much in the papers that came
 to us of American domination of thf
 air But we did not know tha
 throughout the war 1t was going tt he q domination of hot air." he said.
 There was no lack of bravery ol
 inc part of our aviators. Oftentime'
 they went up knowing that one Amer ican plane and one or two American
 ayiators were pitted against three four and five German planes,
 "Not only did the airplane servic pay the price,. but the infantry. als' ;] paid the price in human life for tn protection they expected and did no get. for there was no airplane guar for them.'
 Governor Allen praised the medica ,l service. saying that it was not it's faul because some men lay in shell hole without dressings for thirty, forty all