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Show White Roasts New Yorkers la Snappy Speech "Trouble With This Part of the Country Js You Don't Give a Damn," He Tells Them in an Address NEW YORK. Oct. 7 fBy A. P.) New Yorkers who heard Governor Itenry .T. Allen of Kansas and William Wil-liam Allen White of "Henry snd Me" fume praise earh other publicly at the LrOtus club Inst night took stork today of a trrnchsnt appraisal of New York by the editor. "The trouhle with this part of the country," said Mr. White, "Is lethargy. You don't give a damn. You stand for fellows In polities here that we out In Kansas would throw out by the scruff of the neck and the slack of the breechea. f Jt Is a strike, you let 'em strike. "fou remind me of the seasick father on the ship. His son, a youngster, be Ran to walk along the rail of the ship. It looked as If he would pitch overboard. His mother shouted to the father. "Goodness me, sny something to Willie.' The father i looked at Willie and feebly waved his hand. 'Hello, Willie,' he said faintly. That seems to be the trouWe with New York. Out In Kansas we have 90 per cent American stock, we are full of pep and vinegar, and we i do things. Out In Kansas we have ! always been able to reach out and i pick a bood strong governor when j we needed one." |