The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-22
Members of British Delegation
Entertained at C. of C.
Governor Allen Welcomes the
Party to Middle West.
URGES CLOSER COOPERATION
Is Made to Threaten
ed War With Turkey.
British Want to Know More of
Industrial Court.

| Reaching Topeka at 6:40 o'clock
Thursday evening after thirty-five
/ hours of travelling, ten British and two
American members of the Sulgrave
Institution were driven directly to the
Chamber of Commerce, where they
were the guests of honor at a dinner
attended by $50 Topekans.
| Judge w. L. Huggins. chairman of
I the Chamber of Commerce committee
! Charles Wakefield, one time lord
mayor of London; Sir Arthur Adding
| ton Haworth, president of the Cham
ber of Commerce of Manchester, Eng,
and Junior lord of the treasury; Sir
| William Lettes, Gov MacCaluIn Grant,
retary of the British branch of the
1 institution, and Harold Spender, Lon
don author and publisher, were the
speakers from the British delegation.
Gives History of Institution.
! John A. Stewart, chairman of the
| board of governors of the American
| branch of the institution, introduced
'mest of the British speakers, turning
| over the gavel to Anderson B. Hum
phrey, of New York, secretary of
the American branch, who gave a
| short history of the institution, and
stated its aims and purposes.
Gov. Henry j. Allen was the first
speaker, to welcome the delegation to
| the middle west. He laid stress upon
the fact that the two nations are OF
one blood and one descent
| Here in the Middle West we have
| been too busy to remember. often,
| that we are related to anybody Gov
ernor Allen declared. THAT is one of
| the things which has been the matter
with us. We have failed to realize
! and recognize our international rela-
tions and responsibilities. That is the
reason we were so late in getting into
the late war;
| Should Stand Together.
| Governor Allen declared that all the
English speaking people of the world
should stand together in the move to
prevent Turkey from crossing the Dar-
danelles, and selling Constantinople.
| We should be alongside the British
there in the straits today,''H G Governor
Allen declared. and the statement was
greeted with applause from the entire
company.
| Refer to War with Turkey.
Reference was made by nearly every
speaker to- the threatened war with
| Turkey. The British who spoke,
voiced their firm determination that
! the Turk shall not cross the straits.
| Sir Charles Wakefield, the first Brit
| ish speaker, made early reference to
! the Turkish situation. when we
send our ships and our troops to Asia
Minor to prevent the massacre of
| Christians there, England saves her
own SOUL And what shall it profit a
nation, any more than a man, if she
gain the whole world and lose her
soul?" he asked.
| The Turkish situation and the Kan
sas court of industrial relations were
the two topics of most interest to the
visitors, as indicated in their speeches.
| Sir Arthur Haworth, a leader in Brit.
| ish industry, was especially interested
| in the workings of the industrial court,
and announced his intention of con-
ferring with Governor Allen and
Judge Higgins at some length on the
workings of the court.
want Data on Industrial Court.
"There are many things about the
court which 1 want to know" the
British nobleman said. For instance,
suppose the order of the court is
against the workingmen, and ten
| thousand of them parade up the
streets declaring they will not obey it.
and demanding to be locked up. Have
you prisons for them?''
| An agreement or covenant which
| approximates the principles of the in
dustrial court j. now being formed
| between the employers of labor in
Manchester and the cotton splnners
there, Sir Arthur said.
! Harold Spender, who visited Topeka
| two years ago and spoke at the Cham
ber of Commerce at that time, dis
cussed the relations of the United
States with England and with Europe,
with the same frankness which he
/ had displayed in his first address
here.
Harold Spender Speaks.
! i"Our diplomats say we are going to
pay you every cent we owe you," he
said. ''They don't know how they
are going to do it. We are as poor
as church mice. You have all the
gold in the world, and are rich. OF
course, we have goods, but you say
you do not want our goods We can't
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