The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-06
|KANSAN MOvESUP
Capt. Chas. e. Vreeland, Former
ly Of Kansas, Promoted.
Now a Rear Admiral in Uncle
Sans Navy.
COMMANDED "KANSAS'
Was First Captain of the New
Battleship.
VIM. J. Bland, of AtchisOn, Wins
Rhodes Scholarship.

Washington, Jan. civilian J.
Bland of Atchison. Kan, former cap
tain of company H, Western high
school of this city, has received a Cecil
Rhodes scholarship at Oxford univer-l
sity. The award followed a competitive
examination, in which young Bland
maintained a higher average than any
contestant from an Ohio college. The
examination was held at Kenyon col
lege, Gambler, O., where he is now
studying.
The young Kansan is % years old. He
came to this city for his high school
education. At the Western high school
he established a SCHOLARSHIP record for
high averages. and made his captaincy
after an examination in which he ex-
celled other entrants by many points
The course at Oxford allows him
four years of study, with $500 a year
for maintenance.
Captain Charles E. Vreeland, of Kan
sas, has been promoted to rear ad-
miral in the United States navy. This
is the highest office in the navy ever
held by a. Kansas man. Admiral Vree-
land was appointed the first command
ing officer of the battleship Kansas,
when she was put in commission few
years ago. Recently he has held a staff
position in the navy department.
Members of congress are awaiting
with interest recommendations which
are to come from the navy department
on the subject Of naval personnel, 1t is
believed that the secretary of the navy
will recommend some. system of elimi-
mating certain numbers of officers each
| year from the active list in order to pro-
duce a regular flow of promotion. The
| avoidance of stagnation in promotion Is
appreciated at the capitol as necessary
to naval efficiency. At the same time
there are those in both the house and
OF x1vf,< to nnf
| which will increase the retired list. The
Kansas delegation is particularly
against such an idea. 1t is foreseen by
naval officers that the changes in favor
of legislation in behalf of the naval per-
| sonnet will be in proportion to the
diminishing volume of retirements.
The states of Kansas and Missouri
| run a close race for the high value OF
farm products. Their value in Mis-
souri,. as compiled by the government,
| is 5000 ZOO, 900. These figures do not in
clude live stock. poultry, eggs, and but
| ter sold by farmers. The value of Kan
sas products, eliminating these same
| items, is $215, 600, 000
| Kansas is $4,000, 900 ahead of Missouri
| because of its big wheat area, which is
! more than three times that of Missouri
! But Missouri shows an increase the year
just ended of $37, 100000 over the value
of last years crops, while the increase
! In Kansas Is Only $li,UUU,OUV
| Senator Joe Bristow comes from a
state which is one of the chief pro-
ducers of meat and perhaps that
causes a leaning to the conclusion that
| the farmer isn't responsible for the high
cost of meats. OF course the farmer
| isn't responsible. He is no better or
ganized than he was when hogs We're
| worth So a hundred; now they are
| mounting to near SO. The farmer has
no trust. but he surely is we'll Gin on
| a good thing.
But there are some striking things in
| Senator Bristow's recent interview pub
| lished in the State Journal Analysing
this condition. One is his declaration
that he can remember the time when
| live stock was worth about the same
prices as now, and yet meats cost only
something like half as much as now.
! That is certainly suggestive that some
| body between the farmer and the con-
sumner is getting vastly more than he
used to get; and 1t is not unnatural
| that the meat trust and the railroads
! should be suspected. The relation of
| the railroads to the maintenance of the
meat monopoly, as set forth in Senator
! Bristow's analysis, constitutes one OF
the important grounds for the Kansas