The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-01
NEGLECT is THERE
Congressman Campbell Com
plains About Our Waterway.
Says That Mississippi Should Be
Improved.

Washington. April IT don't
| know when 1 was as d1sagreeably sur
prised as I was last October a year
| ago. On one of a flotilla of nine
| steamers, 1 was with a party of con-
| gressmen going down the Mississippi
river to New Orleans, and we did not
meet a ton of freight on all that great
| stretch of that grand river. Having
always been a great enthusiastic ad-
vocate of waterway improvement, such
! a spectacle and condition distressed
me-"
Thus spoke Congressman Phil Pitt
| CampelI of Kansas to the State Jour-
nal correspondent today. In the last
congress he was chairman of the COM
mittee on leveeS and improvements of
the Mississippi river.
I'm my district we are rather re-
r1ote from navigable waters, but we
are, nevertheless, vitality interest in
the promotion of the policy of the
National Rivers and Harbors congress
for a broad and comprehensive system
of waterway improvements. II should
be adopted by congress and no pains
spared to perfect a system which VIII
embrace the entire country and SUD
ordinate all local projects to the one
grand scheme or system which Will
make use of every actually navigable
stream of the interior and proper i'm
provement of our harbors.
at is a shame that with the great
natural system of waterways with
which we have been so bountitully en-
dowed, that we have so fiagrantly neg
lected our opportunities to solve the
problems and master the difficulties OF
transportation.
s'I have gone along the Rhine from
Cologne to Mayence and saw innumer-
able boats carrying, taking on and un-
loading an immense volume or freight
in six feet of water. We can do with
our streams what Germans and other
hafr n fa1s 1sE7y.l US
and we can do more, because we not
only have deeper, wider and longer
streams, b t a country far more pro-
ductive in all the things essential to
life and comfort.
stPursuing the policy advocated by
the national waterways organization,
and standing against the waste of
single dollar on any local project, we
can do more, in my opinion, to pro-
mote the commerce and bring pros
rerity- to all the states than by any
other measure that involves the all
important question of transportation
1.-THE remotest corner of human
habitation In this country is directly
concerned in this great question. All
business interests, all political parties,
state legislatures and the congress of
the United States. should unite in an
effort to solve the question"
Kansas posemasters appointed: Rob-
ert L. Henderson, Admire; Adelbert A.
Shirley, Brewster; Reuben L. Wilt,
Rossville.
Chester I. Long of Medicine Lodge
gave a greeting to Congressman Camp
bell. and asked much about Canada,
while Campbell was han1y with the in
terrogation point about affairs down il
the Sunflower state. The one-time SEN
ator. who served long time In the
house, was a trifle. chary about discuss
ing actual politics in Kansas. He
would admit, however that kansas is
actually quiet politically and every
other way. The banks are full Of
money, and sorrowful, as there seems
no movement toward using 1t. There
seems a period of waiting, and yet no
worry
Former Senator Long has a large
legal business which brings him to
Washington, Philadelphia and New
York very frequently. He is in splen-
did health these days, making gooi
money, and does not seem to be bother
ed much about politics.
William L. Hall of Manhattan, Kan,
assistant government forester. he's been
chosen to make the selections and prac
tically to establish the Appalachian
forest reserve. He will begin imme-
diately the work of laying out the big
eastern reserve.
Upon the young Kansan will fall the
work of determining just what lands
shall be bought with the $10,000,000
appropriated for the Appalachian re-
serve. He will traverse the whole re-
serve from the Carolinas, to the White
mountains. In building up this east
ern reserve, Mr.. Hall in one sense has
on his hands the greatest problem
which has ever been undertaken by
the government forest service.
When the reserves of the west were
established the lands for the most part
were in the public domain. There
were some few purchases made. but
these were within the limits of the re-
serves. In the case of the eastern re-
serves there is not an acre of public
domain and Mr.. Hall must not only
lay out the reserves. but he must look
after the details of acquiring the land.
Frank w. Yoder of Garden City,
Kan, graduate of law in the George
town university, class of 1905, has been
appointed UnNed States commissioner
in Butte county. South Dakota. His
parents now reside here.
M Snyder, Buffville; Alice Murdoch,
Emmett D. George, Mankato; Orliff F.
Falls, Valley Falls.
OTTO RINGLING DIES.