The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-05
BOOMS A KANSAN
National Tribune FavOrs Mrs.
Harris for High Honor.
Supports Emporia Woman for
Head Ladies' G.. A. r.
VIC MURDOCH BITTER.
Has a Presentiment That New
York Will Be Destroyed.
He Calls the Metropolis a Con-
scienceless City.

Washington, July 5.-The National
Tribune of this city, which is the Off
cial paper of the Grand Army of the
Republic. is making a vigorous cam
paign for the election of Mrs. Belle C.
Harris of Emporia. Kansas, for the
presidency of the National Woman's
Relief Corps. In commenting on Mrs.
Harris candidacy, the Tribune says:
Mrs. Harris is so we'll known that
the very pretty circular sent out by
her department bearing the portrait
of Mrs. Harris, which characteristical-
ly portrays her strong features. seems
scarcely necessary. She was depart
ment president of Kansas in 1899; has
three times been department counsel
lor and twice department secretary,
and has come up to this national office
through a succession of official posi-
tions in the local corps. She has serv-
ed as national senior vice president
and twice as national chief of staff,
and might almost be said to occupy the
position of premier singer of the ma
tional organization, as it falls to her
to lend the charm of her voice to al
most every national function where
singing is introduced.
Mrs. Harris is the wife of Past
Commander Charles Harris, who served
in company F, Twenty-flrSt Iowa. Mrs.
Harris has been twice before indorsed
by the Grand Army and the Woman's
Relief Corps, and when her name was
presented she withdrew in favor of the
other candidate; and Kansas thinks
that she has the right of cordial sup
port this time. Mrs. Harris is indorsed
for this high office by every past de-
partment president of Kansas now
living, as follows: Julia A Chase, Ida
w. Moore. Annie A. Apple, Marian S.
Nation, Emma A. Bedell. Emma g.
Aldrich, Minnie D. Morgan, Margaret
H. Griffith, Emma E. F-orter, Mary w.
Buchner, Lucy Reed Jones, Sarah M.
Whitzel Mary M. Carson, Julia Camp
bell. Evalyn Bradford Knipe, Anna
Heacock.
'She has also been indorsed by all
the votes on the department staff, as
follows: Cora NJ. Deputy. member ma
tionaI executive board; Emma Hoag-
Hendricks, junior vice president; Flor
ence A. Bum, department treasurer:
Pauline Bent1y Snoddy, delegate ut
large. And by all the delegates and al
ternates, as follows: Julia Mccarthy
Wood, Jennie Brandon, Emma East
man, Florine Deputy, Matte Hillyard,
Emily Scott Kate Osborne, Kate
Lewis, Eva E. Brewer, Charity Hor1'-
err"
ct would like to live in New York,
for it is the place which comes nearest
10 doing big things. But have
curious feeling that some day New
York will be wiped from the face of
the earth. 1t is big city, prof1igate
of it's wealth and resources, and un-
ashamed in it's wickedness. London and
Paris are bigger and more wicked, but
they are the cancerous growths on
civilizations hundreds of years old
while here are We, a nation of only
$50 years, with a constituencies city
like New York. Some day New York
will be destroyed as an example to the
nation
So says the arch priest of insurgen-
cy. Victor Murdock of Kansas. in COM
menting Oh the business and social life
of the Gotham city.
The war department has issued
bulletin governing the proper equip
ment and maintenance of the militia
of the various states and also embrac-
ing various items respecting the school
OF instruction, which is to be held at
Fort LeavenWorth, for certain militia
officers, in accordance with provisions
of the department issued recently
Among ether things it is declared
that wagons of field artillery organiza-
tions should be equipped with articles
for repainting once in two years. The
main thing to be accomplished, 1t is
asserted, is to have sufficient supplies
regularly furnished to keep leather
equipment clean, soft, and in good or
der
Only 80 officers of the regular estab-
l;shment will be allowed to take a
course of instruction at Fort Leaven-
worth this summer. The school at pres
ent is in an experimental stage and is
not one of those to which officers of
the state militia may be admitted The
establishment of the LeaVenWorth
school is a new venture for the per-
raanenr establishment and, If success
full, it is thought, the advantages of
this and similar schools will be extend
ed to officers of the organized militia.
The Washington Post says: ''Luth-
er Burbank is no longer the power
among the farmers and fruit growers
of the West that he was three years
ago." said William A. Wingrove, of
Topeka, Kansas. at the Raleigh.
s'In spite the many excellent
things which the celebrated cross
breeder has accomplished, he has led
the West on many a barren trail in
his published experiments Best1es.
the farmer is beginning to realize that
the path of the attempt to improve
upon nature is strewn with many pit
falls
DO you know that the famous or
chards of the Hood River valley and
the Yakima. in Washington and Ore
gon. are not going to show. the same
splendid yields of fruit in the next
few years that they have in the past?
Many of the orchard experts find that
the older trees are not sustaining the
record upon which the calculations of
future earning power are based.
Thousands of Eastern folk have mi
grated to this wonderful region in the
past few years. thinking of the or
chards rs permanent investment.
with constantly growing dividends.
But unless there is 2 great develop
ment in the science of horticulture in
the next few years there . no question
that the orchard trees of oregon will
show signs of exhaustion