The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-03

sixty OF us members VINO had gone TO
the front. 5000 miles away; and, with
a black border. in memoriam. was a
list of eight members who had been
killed or died in the service of the
! Crown on the side of the allies
| while had known no one in this
community, there was a newspaper
man there whom I knew belonged to
the American Newspaper Publishers
association. of which the state Journal
is a member, so 1 called on him, Mr..
Frank ]. Burd, who is manager of
the enterprising Daily Province. He
was kind and cordial and said 4 want
to take you up to the Rotary club for
luncheon That sounded good and
! natural and I began TO feel at home
1 told him 1 was a member of the
Rotary Club in Topeka. That's fine,
saiG he.
I'm attendance at that luncheon I
thought: Can this really be a foreign
country? These people look like our
Tcpekans and act like them. They
! had the same large white buttons, Civ
ing their respective names and call
ing There was the same sort of roll
call and repartee. There were fines
for not bringing ones badges, the same
as in Topeka. 1 was called on to
speak, the same experience in To-
peka. I was placed at the table next
to man who gave me his card, which
read:
'Malcom Bruce MacLennan.'
1.-THE MaeLennans are pretty numer-
Gus 1 thought and seem to be pretty
good people up on that side of the bor-
der, but here was significant thing.
The card read Chief Constab BILE of Van
couver' and the Chief Constable there
is the same az our Chief of Police. He
has ITO patrolmen under him and is
the big man in the fine, four-story,
sandstone, fireproof, modern Building
of the Police. But why this early sur
veillance? Why should they think
it advisable to put me next to the
Chief and under his weather eye? But
L was by no means uncomfortable
or afraid in fact. l felt right at home
1 had been next to our own Chief of
Police and 1 knew that as a class they
were fine sort of people and meant
no harm to law-abiding, respectable
citizens.
Chief MacLennan, as his card pro-
ClalnleQ, mas three oCOIC1 Hdul0S- Ills
mothers name was MacGregor. That
gave him about all the Scotch con-
nections that would stick to his skin.
He was as fine gentleman as 1 have
ever met.
zone day he had an errand out in
the country twenty miles. He said he
wanted me to go along. 1 went. Meet
ing at the appointed hour. at his COM
Portable office in the building just re-
ferred to. 1 found there was a session
of the Alien board of three members
of which he was chairman. He asked
me to attend and 1 observed the per-
sons who were planning to go to the
United States or had just arrived
placed under a catechism of inquiry.
Some were dismissed, others were de-
tanned and others were taken under
| Amusement.
I'm transacting his business, I MOTTO
ed that Chief MacLennan was not
obliged to go up stairs, dodge around
the corner. and look up a chair and
make various Hurried efforts to hold
a conference as required in Topeka of
Chief Parsons. Vancouver furnishes
it's head police officer an automobile.
twenty miles of permanent roadway,
smooth as Kansas avenue, to the Men
tai Hospital, under charge of DIR. ]. G..
Mckay of Essondale. In Topeka we
formerly called it the Insane Asylum
| later the Topeka Hospital for the In
sane,' now shortened to the Topeka
Hospital DIR. Mckay took us over to
the Colony Farm where vegetables and
grain are grown for the patients at the
hospital, and where beef and milk are
produced for them. Here were ideal
sanitary barns of concrete, with iron
stalls and cement floors for Holstein
cattle that would make envious the
Gentleman from California, who owns
a fine string of stock at Dornwood. A
picture of Pauline the COW which
produces on the Colony Farm, an
average of over 100 pounds of milk
daily, was printed in the current Sat
urday issue of the State Journal.
| '1n leaving Vancouver, after a stay
of nearly three weeks, on the steamer
to Victoria were a score of veterans
who had just returned from the war
in Europe, where they were put out
| VI S0ANiCe ny WounuS IeCelNeu. "A lew
days before, 1 had been at the big
Canadian Pacific station with a great
throng of people awaiting the arrival
of some sixty injured soldiers. Some
twenty of them on this boat were go
ing to Victoria, mainly for hospital
treatment. In the cabin of the steam
er, during my absence to another
| part of the boat, my wife and daughter
overheard one soldier speak to another,
calling him 'MacLennan.' On my re-
| turn to the deck they told me 1 had
better look up my cousin and get
acquainted with him. At an oppor-
tunity later 1 introduced myself. His
name was:
"'Roy MacLennan.'
''This particular veteran was only