Evening star., 1922-07-21
IMPENDING ARREST
FINDS WHITE FIRM
Declares Friendship With
Gov. Allen Unaffected.
ImpeIIed by "Duty."
By the Associated Press.

BY tne AssOcldteu Iiess.
EMPORIA, Kan, July 21.-William
Allen White, Kansas editor, awaited
today service of a warrant for his
arrest, directed by Gov. Henry ]. AL
len, for alleged violation of the in
dustrial court anti-picketing law,
which. he was informed last night
was in preparation by Attorney Cen
eral r. J. Hopkins.
Mr.. White and Gov. Allen are life
long friends, and Mr.. White has sup
ported the governor throughout his
administration. Even in the face Of
the impending action against him he
said Yesterday: There is no personal
feeling between Gov. Alien and me.
He is making a splendid governor.
Hearing OF his impending arrest,
Mr.. White restated his deflance OF
the ruling of the court that to dis
play signs in sympathy with the
striking railroad shopmen was
against the law. Mr.. White said that
he would not take down the sign
which he had placed in the WINDOW
of the Office of his paper, the Emporia
Gazette.
The sign reads:
so Per Cent sympathy.
I'VE are for the striking railway men
so per cent. We are for a living wage
and fair living conditions" AS orig
inally placed in the window the sign
read 100 per cent" but Mr.. White cur
the percentage to 40 per cent Wednes-
day and raised it to so per cent yester-
day.
Similar cards appeared at the same
time in several other stores ~hese .l,e
MERCHANTS are in sympathy with the
strike. With the first indication that the
state did not approve the display or the
signs many merchants removed theIl,
bnt some have since followed Mr.. White
leadership and replaced the signs on
display. whit. ,r,
stated their friendship has not been al
fected by the controversy, Mr. White
said today:
Lends Moral Support.
"Judee 7. A. McDermott of the indus
trial court declares that the card IN
INV window is lending moral support 10
an unlawful act, and thereby creating
an atmosphere in favor of law VOCATION;
"The right of a free utterance OF
honest opinions is h, iuhfarhetilst far IL at
Bunker Hill and at Gettysburg, ana TO
restrict any from the calm expression
of an honest opinion merely because
there is a strike on in Kansas is un-
wise. Industrial questions arc Hos
honestly settled by a suppression OF
free utterance, either of speech or the
press, or of any other kind. SO long as
the opinion is orderly and temperate
and decent
las a matter of fact, / am not Tor
the striking railroad men 100 per
cent. They have a just cause, but
thew have taken a foolish time Tor
fighting for it. But so long as the
right to express any opinion is re-
Rarded as incendiary, i feel an oio-
fashioned American duty to stand up
and be counted for free utterance.
Has Wrong Slant.
The governor said that Mr. White
had the wrong slant" in placing the
strike sympathy card in the Gazette
window, and that he did not believe
forbidding display of the cards an
attack on free speech. He said:
"The Kansas court of industrial re-
lations act prohibits strike In an
essential industry. 1t declares every
form of picketing is part OF the
conspiracy to deprive the pubic oil
transportation.
Then he proceeds to point out that.
as he viewed it, Editor Whites dis
play of the sympathy card was a
form of picketing, and as such was In
violation of the law. and MIR. White
was melting others to violate the law
by his open defiance.