The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-22
Session Probably Will Last I'm
til December 1.
PHIL. CAMPBELL BUYS A FARM
BriStOW Has Taken Up the
Playing of Golf.
Usage County Man Private Sec
retary of DOOlittIe.


having yielded to the wish of Presi-
dent Wilson and sent home for it's
fall clothes, members are becoming
reconciled to blasted vacation hopes
and settling down to complete the tar
iff revision with deliberation and to
take up currency reform without un-
due haste.
When the special session will be
ready to adjourn has ceased to be
subject of speculation. No one pre-
tends to hazard any more guesses, and
leaders of both houses declare that
currency legislation is to be complet-
ed, even If 1t is necessary to run right
up to the regular session in Decem-
ber.
Senator Gallinger, speaking in the
tariff debate of the necessity for Re
publicans to debate certain proposed
rates at length, was asked If he had
sent home for his winter clothes, and
answered with an affirmative nod.
about 11:59 D. m. on November
30" Speaker Clark is writing friends
who ask him about adjournment.
The office of public roads of the
department of agriculture is making
a strong effort to focus the mind of
the country on the fact that mainte-
nance and effective repairs are of
equal Importance with the actual inn
provement of bad roads. Investment
of money in new roads does not be-
come real economy until provision is
made for keeping these new roads in
condition after they are built. If
new road were built and then allowed
to fall into disrepair, much of the
original investment is simply wasted.
Europe, generally speaking, is ahead
of the United States in the matter of
road improvement, but Great Britain is
struggling with a problem similar to
the one that confronts the people of
this country. In England, Scotland and
q har
separate authorities who, among them,
administer 175,4S7 miles of roads, or an
average of only 80 miles apiece. In
Scotland, apart from the big cities,
there are over 49, burgs, one-half of
which have but ten miles of road
apiece to maintain. Needless to say,
such a minute mileage is insufficient
to keep the road plant fully occupied
all the year around, and renders the
employment of a skilled engineer i'm
possible, for economical reasons.
Officials of the office of public roads
when called upon for assistance by the
various states, are pointing out that
road building is an art based on a
science, and that trained men and ex-
perienced men are necessary to obtain
the best results from the expenditure
of road funds.
though the average expenditure on the
Improvement of roads exceeds one
million dollars day, large portion of
the money in the United States is vast
ed because of the failure to build the
right type of road to meet the local re-
quirements or the failure to provide for
the continued maintenance of the i'm
provement.
The various states and counties with
in the past six months have taken a
greater interest in road improvement
than ever before in the history of this
country. and there is now strong
movement to conserve the roads of the
country where they are improved.
Scientific maintenance will be one OF
the chief features of the work of the
office of public roads throughout the
present year.
Having grown tired of contributing
a goodly share of his salary to house
owners and food merchants of Wash
ington, Congressman Phil P. Campbell
of Kansas has purchased a little farm
of a few acres down in Virginia along
the historic Potomac river.
MY family and are unusually hap
py, living the real simple life in the
country said Mr.. Campbell. 1--WE
have a cow, raise chickens and all the
vegetables for our table,"
Mr.. Campbell despairs of the un-
usually high cost of living in Washing
ton, particularly members of congress.
who are made the mark for special
prices for everything required for their
living. He reaches his place by an
electric railway, making the trip in
about 40 minutes.
Senator Joe Bristow is the only
member of the Kansas delegation who
owns his own residence in Washington.
The other members and their families
reside in either hotels, boarding
houses, or rent private houss.
During the currency debate in the
ho,, 80 tot ixrAe N-axr L
land progressive Republican congress-
man was delivering himself on the
subject of reforms. In generalizing
mis- attitude, he said:
'I am for police reform. tariff re-
form, currency reform, banking re-
form
At this point he was interrupted by
Congressman Dudley Doolittle of Kan
sas who said: What you need is
chloroform.'' And the house laughed
vociferously.
Senator Joe Bristow has a new
amusement; he has taken to playing
a rich mans same-golf.
A big golf club was this week or
ganized il the senate Its members
will adjourn to the links of the fash
ionable Chevy Chase club when the
tariff debate gets too monotonous.
Mr.. Bristow is a member of the ex-
ecutive committee of the club He is
the first national legislator from Kan
sas to ever play golf in Washington.
E. A. Thomas, of Carbondale, Usage
county, Kan, has been appointed pr1-
vate secretary to Congressman Dud-
ley Doolittle. He arrived in Washing
ton today and Immediately entered
upon his duties. Mr.. Thomas is man
in his thirties and is considered one
of the most active young Democrats
in the Fourth district.
Fourth-class postmasters appointed
in Kansas: Charles F. Best Bunker
Hill: Dorothy F. Kelley, Hugoton; Es-