The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-20
RED BLOOD HERE!
Kansas Is All American, Carl
w. Alderman Says.
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Writer Visits Topeka.
SAW BIG FREE FAIR IN CITY
Crowds of $4,000 Truly Rep
reSentative of Jayhawker.
Alderman Formerly Wrote for
L. p. in State journal.

Kansas is a pure. red blooded All
American state and stands at the top
OF the ladder with sister and down
east states in peace, prosperity. con-
tentWcnt and unconcern for the red
shirt and the agitator and disturber.
That is somewhat the viewpoint OF
carr w Alderman. writing for the
Philadelphia Public Ledger regarding
conditions in this state Alderman 5
story was based on three trips to Kan
sas, day in the state house. an after
noon with the big crowd at the Kan
sas Free Fair In Topeka and many
talks with kansans and u study of
Kansas conditions.
Just at this time. Alderman wrote
Tor the Public Ledger. Kansas has one
conccrn-the movement OF her big
wheat crop. II the railroad admins
tration would furnish the cars, Kansas
would not lose minute OF valuable
rest in worrying about the league of
nations and the rawlings Of the Wild
eyed, fanatical disturbers who seek TO
capitalize Incidence thru a slowing
down Of national industry.
Alderman has visited eighteen
states In "a study OF Industrial condi-
lions for his paper. II was after trips
to New York. Pennsylvania. Ohio, In
diana. TIlinols-and then away out
on the Pacific coast and thru the mid
die west aEain-that Alderman came
to Kansas and found the most ideal
situation He found a happy people
who were al work They we're work
ing. Alderman wrote. because there Is
much work for everyone. They were
happy because Kansas has taken her
second sober thought and Is unyield-
ing to the frcth and the foam and the
lather that causes Industrial hysteria
In other communities
Real Workers In Kansas.
In krI-orVf,av, rs+rpta
people expect 20 work and want to
work. To them. happiness is the re-
suit Of industrious labor. They have
on complaints"
And then Alderman wrote of his
study Of Kansas conditions and quoted
at length from his interview with
Governor Allen. The Public Ledger
correspondent told OF the Kansas
method of meeting the T. W. w. when
h invaded the wheat fields last sum
MGR. Every man who wasn't working
and failed to show a tendency to
work. ent TO Jail. Aud tFOus; -nds of
I. W. W. who came to Kansas left the
state without launching one effective
strike, without crime and without
starting one serious fire.
After the war. Alderman declared,
Kansas talked the situation over with
hrr soldier boys and settled down to
meet reconstruction problems. The
state isn't worrying much about the
League Of Nations she is declared
to have jumped froIa = general yearn-
ing for tho pact on the spirit
Of wanting everyone .c be happy-to
an indifference and opposition. Gov
Cruor Allen Is quoted as saying there
IS very rapidly increasing indiffer-
cncc" to the league. Today" the
quotation continues the president is
getting nowhere with his campaign
because he is still talking about the
the people want him to tell US the
merits of the reservations. You
can always catch the west by a senti-
mental proposition, but there is moth
ing so profound as the sober second
thought Of these people when they sit
down and figure it out for them
selves"
This was Ackerman's second visit
10 Kansas on his present tour and the
. third since May.
saturday I went to the Topeka
state fair to watch the crowds and
listen to conversations" Alderman
wrote. This was perhaps as represen-
tative a gathering of Kansas as could
be found. Three hundred and fifteen
thousand persons attended the fair in
a week. Then ] called upon Gov
: Henry J. Allen. whose martial adven-
lures with Mr. White for two years in
Europe have made him known to
many Americans outside of the great
farming community"
Alderman was formerly in France
as n war correspondent for the United
Press. Many Of his war stories ap-
peared in the State Journal His ac-
counts of conditions and situations in
the war zone were among the most ac-
curatc narratives sent to America
Now Alderman is studying Industrial
conditions in the United States. In
his analysis he assures the nation that
no worry need be expressed as to any
disturbance I'm Kansas.