The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-14
Two Former Kansans ExtOI the
State and Her People.
At the LOtos Club Dinner to
Governor Allen in New York.
The FOREFRONT OF PROGRESS
Kansas Creates and Carries Out
New Ideas.
She Is a ParalIeIogram of Prin-
cipIe-A State Unafraid.


York last week to Governor Henry j.
Allen by the Lotos club, two former
Kansans. members of the club, gave
inspiring talks
Charles w. Price presiding, said in
part:
Our honored guest this evening halls
from Kansas-the chief executive of a
great state "Out where the west be-
gins1'
His words and deeds have made
known to US wise. capable and clear
visioned official, unflinchingly fearless
in the discharge of his drty-a man
of the truest patriotism with a heart
filled with sympathy for humanity.
He comes with a new idea-a new
birth in the craftsmanship of the
world.
He believes in safeguarding by or
dered arbitration the rights of the in
noeent and generally helpless third
party-the )ublic--in the case of
strikes and industrial disputes, and he
has had a law to this effect placed on
the statute books of his state, and the
Kansas supreme court has declared
this new enactment constitutional
All who come in contact with Gov
ernor Allen instantly realize his sin
certify and earnestness, and his over
whelming desire to benefit and assist
his fellow man.
AIlcn'S Patriotism.
Editor Aliens patriotism took him
from the agreeable duties and environ
ment of successful journalism to the
bloody trenches of France and Flan-
defs in the World war. He could
not go a soldier-his years would
not permit-but he would not remain
at home, and that great-hearted Amer
lean Red Cross gladly accepted his
valuable services. And while on the
battlefield. ministering to the wounded
and sick at the risk of his life and |
health, there occurred an incident that |
marked the fine quality of the man |
A cablegram came from friends back |
home telling this then comparatively |
unknown editor from southern Kansas |
that his opportunity had arrived and |
If he would return and canvass his |
state he could no doubt be nominated |
and elected governor, which had been |
his very proper ambition However,
he did not return, he didn't even hesi-
tate, but cablcd instant refusal to leave
his work at She front.
1t is a matter of happy history.
that the absent editor was nominated |
and triumphantly elected governor of
Kansas.
Governor Allen represents a won
derfully enterprising and successful |
commonwealth. Settled by intellec-
tuals from New England seeking wider
horizons, by industrious home-loving
emigrants from the old world. and by
patriotic families of the soldiers of our
Civil war, Kansas has ever, thru this
blend been IN the forefront of prog
ress of productiveness and of new
ideas. She deserves to be called the
courier of the coming millennium
among the states of the Union.
Forefront of Progress.
Kansas was the first state to adopt
and really enforce prohibition. This
happened shortly before L, a youthful
f. IL, |
to live. Doubling and suspicious
friends of mine in this vast city still
remark on my timely departure from =,
Kansas so soon after prohibition was
established! In proof of my consis-
tent efforts in other fields my reply
TO them now is Just look at New
York;"
Kansas is 400 miles long and 200
miles wide, and her rich and fertile
soil has made prosperous, without
parallel, her agricultural communities. !
Kansas is a parallelogram of plenty :
Her poor houses and jails are unoc-
cupied, and are rapidly isappearing.
Among her statesmen was John ].
Ingalls,. one of the most brilliant minds
that ever adorned and enlivened the :
United States senate. And who has :
not heard of the Intrepid and gallant
officer from lola, Kansas, one of our !
greatest fighting soldiers, Major-Gen- 5
eral Frederick Funston And her dis
WI
lowe, William Allen White, Captain 1
FSing and many others. Eugene Ware
the poet-lawyer, under the name OF /
'Ironquill,' in mis- poem The Washer c
Woman's Song, wrote an inspiring S
classic that will be read thru the ages
No state was ever loved more 10y !
ally by her citizens than Kansas.
Tonight the Lotos club honors it. t
self in honoring one who is to be r
among the genuine states Z
men of these times. S
1t is because we have had and stfIl a
have at the helm in state and nation t
such leaders unafraid. that the United
States of America has become the t
most powerful and most important ma
ion in the whole world. I
Houston's Talk. I
HerbeYt S. Eouston, president of 4
Dur World, said:
If 1 am to speak for the Lotos :
club, my first word, Governor Allen,
must be of grateful acknowledgment
% Kansas for Charley Price. He has =
ong shed cheerful sunflower glow r
over this club and we are of one mind r
n agreeing that we couldn't carry on :
without him. Out of Kansa: he came ~
Lnd~we never want him to go back, Z
except on 4 visit to the home folks. n
But, governor, neither you nor Bill
White nor Arthur Capper nor Morgan s
would agree with Charley's quantita- "
i've appraisal of his native state. He I,
S always calling Kansas a parallelo- e
gram of plenty. Now 1 submit that
While that is a fine example of APT
artful aid" it doesn't do
ull justice 10 Kansas. OF course Kan y
as is parallelogram of plenty, but II
he is so much more than that. Isn't
he even more truly parallelogram of ;
principle, a singing sphere of strug-
lie, a parallelogram of progress and +
else that can give mathe- Q
DatiCal eXDraSSion tO the states Nnot- 5
o, "ad astra per aspera." For the
'enefit of the Lotos members. who II
eldom ride their Latin ponies in 3
CENTRAL park. probably should inter-
,olate the English-''to the stars thru v
a
Kansas Sets the Pace. l.
The other evening pulled down Up