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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-21

no direct reference was made to Sena-
tor James A. Reed, opponent of the
league. the crowd understood what the
governor intended when he made this
statement:
Every American citizen is entitled
to free thinking, guaranteed under our
He would not be good
citizen unless he awaited himself OF
that privilege and had the temerity to
express what he thought"
During most of his speech Mr.. Taft
carried the crowd with him. The
speakers genial good humor. and wit
ty sallies. sometimes al his own ex-
pense, frequently brought laughter and
applause from his listeners.
Took a Nonpartisan View.
Mr.. Taft did not take a partisan
view of the league. He complimented
in creating the feeling of nonpartisan-
ship. At no place in his speech did
the former president show a vindic-
the adverse criticism of the league
the meaning of the provisions.
At the outset of his speech Mr.. Taft
said that the proposed league consti-
tuition makes the four greatest steps
toward permanent peace in recorded
history" In the body of his speech
he enumerated the steps as follows:
1. The agreed Limitation of armament
. Article 10, by which all members OF
the league undertake to respect and pre-
serve the territorial integrity and political
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-21
TAFT ON LEAGUE
Says Pact Takes Greatest Step
for World Peace.
Misunderstanding Responsible
for Most of Criticism.

Kansas City, April GA crowd of
ten thousand persons. virtually filling
Convention hall. heard William How
ard Taft, former president of the
United States. speak Saturday night
in favor of the +. opposed league of ma
tons. Mr.. Taft's speech was inter-
rupted by applause. AS the former
president entered the hall the band
played 1.-The Star Spangled Banner,
while the crowd stood and cheered.
Mr.. Taft was preceded by Frederick
d. Gardner, governor of Missouri. who
spoke in generalities of the proposed
league to bring universal peace. The
governor was introduced by o. ii.
Dean. Bishop Thomas F. Lillis gave
the Invocation.
Governor Gardner said that so per
cent of the people-indorsed the league
and the proposed constitution. Altho
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-21
DEATH OF PETER Hell
For Sixty Years He Was Resident
of Shawnee County.


Peter He'll died Sunday morning at
his home 1878 Garfield street. He
had been seriously i'll for several
weeks.
For the last sixty years Hell had
been a resident of Topeka and Shaw
nee county. In 1859, when he was
only 10 years old. he came to Topeka
in a prairie schooner.
The first home he owned in Topeka
was on Tenth street where the Santa
Fe tracks are situated. The railroad
runs across his old home site.
On December &c, 1865. he was mar
ried to Susan Cox, who also came to
Topeka in 1859. Besides Mrs. He'll, he
is survived by three sons, Ernest K.
He'll, Louis P. He'll. and Lieut. Row H.
He'll: and daughter, Miss Mabel
Louise He'll, a teacher in Van Buren,
school, and one brother, Leonard A.
He'll, of Fort Mcpherson, Neb.
Hell spent most of his time in Shaw
nee county m farming. About twenty
years ago he retired and moved to
Topeka.
Peter He'll was born in watertown,
N. Y. in 1910. He went to Ohio when
he was IT. Two years later he came
to Topeka and took up 4 claim on
Lynn creek, southeast of Topeka. He
was a member of Company A, Fifth
Kansas cavalry and served four years
in the Civil war. For ten months he
was held a prisoner at Tyler. Tex.
No. 1, G. A. r.
No funeral arrangements have been
made. This will not be done until
Lieutenant He'll. of the 129th field ar
tillery, who landed Sunday in New
York, is heard FROM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-21
ORCHESTRA A DANDY
Muller Organization Developing, Into a
Finished Body.

Muller Organization Developing, Into
Finished Body.
Fer more than a quarter of a cen
fury Topeka has possessed one of the
finest amateur brass bands in the
world. Now it is destined to have also
q municipal orchestra of fully as great
merit. Between forty and fifty Of the
citys best professional and amateur
musicians have banded together I'M
der the leadership of Prof. Daniel
orchestra that will sooner or later
make the whole United States sit up
and take notice.
The writer dropped in at the city
auditorium about o'clock Sunday
afternoon, and to say that he was aoth
pleased and astonished at what he
heard and saw is putting 1t very mild
ly. 1t was the orchestra's sixth re-
hearsal from the time of its organiZa-
Peasant" "Humoresoue, SousL's
STARS and Stripes" and other we'll
known compositions in a way that
would have done credit to the Mime
er of the high grade professional or
ganizations that tour the country and
draw large crowds wherever they go.
1t behooves every music lover, every
musician and every music, art and
civic club in Topeka to get squarely
behind the new orchestra, and boost
for all they are worth.
The auditorium is open to the pub
lie during these Sunday afternoon re-
hearsals from 2:30 o'clock until 4
O'Clock, and many persons are avail
ing themselves of the opportunity to
hear and appreciate the big work that
is going on there.
Professor Muller comes originally
from Amsterdam, Holland. He is an
accomplished musician. the product of
some of the best masters in Europe,
and is a specialist in organizing and
conducting orchestras. Coming to To-
peka a total stranger less than ten
years ago, he has built up from Moth
ing a large and prosperous school of
music. C. P. B.
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independence of every member of the
league. M F.
3. Article II, in which provision is made
for the peaceable settlement of differences
between members of the league by arbitra-.
ton.
4. Compiling open diplomacy.
In his preliminary remarks the for
mer president pointed out that the
United States would be ungratful II
we forgot those who fought three
years before their country went in.
He told of his efforts in his admins
tration to put thru the senate arbitra-
ton treaties with France and Eng
land When the treaty drafts were
returned from that body he said that
they were emasculated so greatly he
placed them on the shelf. His exper-
fence with these treaties convinced
him that arbitration treaties were i'm
potent in themselves to prevent wars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-21
SPECIAL LABOR COMMISSION
Will Be Made of Work
mems Compensation Law.

Appointment of a special commits
sion to investigate the provisions of
the Kansas workmens compensation
law has been announced from the gov
ernor's office. The commission will
serve without pay and will report to
the 1921 legislature concerning recon-
mendations for changes in the present
law.
Members of the new commission in
clude: A. E. Crane, Topeka: Senator
A. NJ Keene, Fort Scott; Representa-
tive B. F. Hegler, Wichita; w. E. Free
man, president State Federation of
Labor, Pittsburg; Harry Darby, large
employer of labor. Kansas City, Kan.
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DR.. STARBUCK HERE
Well known Psychologist To Lecture
at Washburn Chapel

DR.. Edwin D. Starbuck, a psycholo-
gist of international reputation, will
lecture in Topeka this week He is a
professor of philosophy at the Uni
versitys of Iowa. Thursday at IL a. m.
he will deliver a lecture on Infancy
and Evolution" in Washburn chapel
He will also speak Friday morning
at the same hour
Doctor Starbuck will be accompan-
led by his wife, who is head of the
piano department of the school of
music at the University of Iowa.
Thursday evening at s o'clock Mrs
Starbuck will give a piano recital in
WaShburn chapel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-21
WHITNEY MOVES HERE
State Senator From Agra To Make His
Home in Topeka

State Senator W. c. whitney. of
Agra, is planning to move his family
to Topeka and to make his home here
He has taken the agency for the
Austin-Western Road Machinery COM
pany of which Wallace Mckenzie. of
233 Elmwood. is state agent. and will
have headquarters in Topeka. A.
Senator Whitney has always been a
road booster. and he believes that the
demand of Kansas for better roads
will create a. big demand for road
building materials.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

strange youth who weaves up and down
the moving trains of this country like "a
silkworm, dispensing chewing gum
marshmalows chocolates and all
the-latest magazines?
1t was while riding in train that all
these thoughts came to me, and goodness
knows how many more dollars I might
have accumulated in the form of thought
had not Henry awakened at this junct-
ure and unexpectedly arisen to give his
scat to a neat little old lady, repairing
himself to the smoking car, with a sigh
Of relief.
Talking to people in trains is one of
my terrible weaknesses, and is partcu-
larly sore point with sHenry, because he
cannot complain about it, as l met him
by picking him up in a train between
Burlington and Camden, N. Jour mu-
tual sympathy at seeing the other one
directly to our MARRIAGE I could have
made parody of Henry James out of
that sentence if I had stopped to think in
time.
Therefore, when Henry accompanied
the giving up of his seat with stern
look at me I knew that what he didn't
say was:
"This old woman is not desirable Try
to control yourself and do not become in
innate with her, for if you do I shall
have to haul her baggage around at the
other end, and we'll have no end of a
deuce Of a time getting rid of her" Exit
Henry.
The old lady showed an instant desire
to talk. I withdrew into my she'll and
prepared for slumber. What I really did
was to lie there and ponder upon the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

forty or fifty miles and looking at many
points like a river that rolls through a
forest clad wilderness; the vast Potomac,
the lordly Rappahannock of the western
shore, and their beautiful sister streams
the Wicomico, the Nanticoke, the Chop
tank, the Pocomoke of the Eastern
Shore-steamboats run. from Baltimore
bringing the fruits of the citys great
kitchen garden, and the spoil Of its huge
fish pond, to feed not only Baltimore's
near million, but yet other millions far
up the Atlantic coast
The fish nets of the Chesa peake are
the richest gold mines of America. They
stretch for miles in the shadows of fifty
rivers and creeks. The Potomac is a
dozen miles wide forty miles above it's
mouth, and all up and down the river
hundreds of nets stretch to the edge of
the channel. In some places the steamer
passes between nets with barely ten feet
to spare on either side. 1t is the same
on the Rappahannock, the Patuxent and
the eastern shore rivers. Some of these
streams, whose very names are unknown
outside the local area, look as big as
the Hudson. The Potomac is nearly
twenty miles wide at it's mouth, and the
voyage from Baltimore to Washington
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

Of mild social and industrial revolution
to this land of hearts delight A few
of the older coored folk prefer the rela-
tons that naturally sprang out of slav-
cry, but the younger have caught the
new pace. Il was slave said an old
colored man far north in the Chesa-
peakc ]and "My mostah he had hun
Died slaves down at Cheste town on the
Eastern Sho, and I nebbah seen i'm
strike one O. 'em, ceptin' oncet, when
he wropped kerrdge whip round a
fellah's legs. Yes, my mostah was
good man"
Walters aboard the Chesapeake boats
are the smilingest and gentlest of their
kind. One on the Rappahannock steam
err, forty-three years in service, has
caressing solicitude for the guest and
any one looking at his inexpressbly be-
nevolent old face, lit with dignity Of
it's own, feels a bit like begging the
honor of his hand. He perpetuates the
tradition of the old border South at it's
best. Between waiter and deckhand
there is the difference made by the sys-
tematic training of the former under the
eye of a vigilant white steward. On all
these great tributaries of the Chesa-
peake-the PatuXent navigahle for only
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
The Land of the Languorous Life-On the Eastern Sh0

small net once day or fishing with
line two hours or less, morning and even
ing. Nature is lavish in the Chesapeake
country, because the waters are, perhaps,
the richest on earth in fish, oysters,
crabs, aquatic fowl, while the soil is
warm and genially responsive to cult
walton. Once in ten or fifteen years
true New England winter descends upon
the Chesapeake country and holds land
and sea for weeks in its Arctic grasp,
but in many years winter is short and
mild, hardly more than pretence. When
spring comes early, as this year, straw
berries begin to ripen in the mid and
lower Chesapeake country by the middle
Of April. An index to the climate is to
be read in this, that one may pluck ripe
figs from garden trees in late autumn
as one walks the residence streets of
busy little Crisield, on the Eastern
Shore. A few miles from Crisfield fig
farmer has long harvested rich crops.
Spring fishing starts business in the
chesapeake region, and shad and her
ring began running in the lower and
middle tributaries of the bay before the
end of February. While men ashore
spcculated gloomily as to whether bust
mesa would start up normally in this
first spring after the great war, behold.
business started Of itself with the
early run Of shad and herring! When
fish begin to run the folk Of the Chesa-
peake basin must shake off the winter
lethargy They might as we'll try to
sweep back the tide itself as the pros
perity that comes surging in with the
thousands of shad, the millions of her
ring, sea trout and other food fish. The
Potomac fishermen we're taken bv sur
prise, and their brethren of the Rappa-
hammock were hauling in shad by the
score before nets we're wet in the waters
of the greater stream, though at some
points the two rivers are less than a
dozen miles apart. The earliest ahad
fetched 20 cents pound for lacks"
and 30 to rs for "rocs" at the wharver
along the Rappahannock, but before the
end OF February fresh herring and sea
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

in Dublin were gathered at the wharf, as
1t were, to suggest in person that / and
my baggage come and live with them. /
had been warned that this would happen
in Paris; had not expected it in Dublin.
The memorable thing about this trip.
however, was really the succession Of
little stations we had stopped at to take
on Irish servant girls starting for Amer
lea. 1t had seemed as if the whole ma
ton were going; their families gathered
at the wayside stations in tens and
twenties to see them off; there was ter
ribe weeping and hosting up and down
Of cloth bundles, and one entire family
ran along nearly half mile beside the
train, which gives you an idea of the
rapidity of the transit in Ireland.
Then there was that ride up the Arne
at sunset, through the quiet fields OF
Provence. l went third class in those
days, not having yet met Henry, and
during this long war I have gradually
learned to forgive that French peasant
man who, with his wife and five children,
shared my compartment, and insisted
during the entire length of that en-
chanted ride in keeping not only the
window down tight, but the shade as
well, so that l saw nothing of Provence
or the sunset on the Mediterranean, after
having travelled across the Atlantic
Ocean to see it. His wife explained, with
radiant smile, that her husband could
not bear the sun in his eyes. I sulked,
the train rocked in the heat; all the
babies cried, and the woman and her
strange husband talked steadily in d
patois, winding up each sentence with:
"Oui; cest CONNIE ca" Where is this
family now? AS l say, have forgiven
them the war was not in vain.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
By E. N. Vallandigham

ROSPER1TY never deserts the
basin of the Chesapeake, but it
asserts its presence with peculiar
~ loud acclaim when spring comes
early. This year spring came early to the
'aho OF the Chesapeake and prosperity
woke with start from it's light slumber
0l mild winter throughout the whole
ehgth and breadth Of the land, from Elk
t'eck southwark to the Capes, from the
nsaa OF navigation on the Rappahannock
az hllly Fredericksburg to the head Of
navigation on the Pocomoke at Snow Hill
on the sandy Eastern Shore.
Spring and prosperity showed them
's'Ves IN the waters Of the Chesapeake
@aa as tributaries before they were
's0nsiy felt ashore. Prosperity in that
's'0n is really child of Neptune, or, at
LAST an amphiban with a penchant for
~ A'Aning salt waters. Nobody within
Instance Of those tidal waters can
'''r except from constitutional lazi.
go and this land Is one of the few
'''' On earth where may be realized
= 'a@y mans ideal Of earning a living
VIC leisure hours. Just enough fish
. ana shooting for amusement. lust
"oodcutting and gardening for
~.'a'ui exercise, viii give man Of
,'s'a's needs all the material essen-
! ~ hfe- Before the world war came
| 'ose values it was estimated bv
wing observers4 that q colored family
10 cabin and a garden plot on tho
" a tidal tributary Of the cbesa-
y. s'uid be comfortable according to
49, : Standards Of the race and time = the
80 of the house could earn in cash
s'a*rs between $50 and 800 a vear,
60 g q ten could supply the family
- 10r most VI the year by tending
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
after some trouble, and she was much re-

after some trouble, and she was much re-
lieved.
"Was he killed on the other side?" I
asked
No, he had died of influenza at one of
the camps after six months service-her
only boy
Pop had a load of grain that had to
be got off to-day, so had to come on for
the boy. New York seems a big place"
she said, without interest.
WAS he sick long," I asked
"Only week The doctors kept wiring
me not to come on, that it was all right,
but | knew it wasn't He'd never been
off the farm before, and this was great
thing for him. He wrote every week
nice letters, telling us everything. Then
they stopped all at once
"Will you have far to go from the sta
tion?" I asked.
ooh, yes-twelve miles. Pop will be
waiting for me with the hay wagon. We
couldn't use the buggy, being as the
coffin is so long. He was big boy"
She Tipped the pages of VANITY
Fair"
-"This seems nice sort of magazine"
she said, and paused at picture of one
, Of our arlstocracy, in white fannels,
holding silver cup from tennis tourna-
ment, with his racket held gracefully like
a bayonet Beneath was the inscription:
Mr.. - enjoying a little rest from
his we'll known activities as head Of the
War Workers Welfare League. Mr..
was seen at the races last week
with his famous mare Gwendoin. said
to have been purchased for - thou
sand dolars.'
He looks healthy young man." said
the little old lady, shutting the magazine
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

trout were going at two pounds for a
quarter and even less.
Before March had ended it's first week
every breakfast table for $50 miles up
and down the bay was provided with the
local luxury of fresh herring cooked
upon this interesting recipe, described
with gusto by native: The freshly
caught fish is cleansed and placed in
vessel of light brine over night Next
morning it is washed in fresh water
and fried until the bones are so crisp
that they crumble between the teeth.
Add to this as aids to digestion thin,
small, very hot corn cookies right off
the griddle, half dozen PANIED oysters,
sweet potatoes saute, eggs in such guam
titles as you wish, coffee, and perhaps
beaten biscuits, and there you are, fitted
out to withstand famine until the mid
day meal. ut certainly was wicked"
said resident Virginian, "that we used
to have our old colored cook come at
o'clock in the morning just to make sure
that we had hot beaten biscuits for
breakfast, but she did it as a matter of
course"
That kind Of cook, by the way, has
become scarce in the Chesapeake coun-
try, because the war has brought a sort
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varying with the customary rate Of
wages. Up-river it is worth $50 a month,
or perhaps bit more. Down-river last
year farm laborers were asking 800
month, but then wages ashore in the
lower Rappahannock, as on all the tidal
streams, are ruled by what an able
bodied man can earn as self-employing
fisherman, oysterman or "crabber." The
whole scheme smacks Of the past, not
merely of the days "befo' the wah," but
of Colonial days and of England, back to
the emergence of the farm laborer from,
serfdom.
There is at least $50 miles of steam
boat navigation or the tributaries of the
Chesapeake, and half as much again if
all the ms and outs and the cross-weav-
lngs to scores upon scores of wharves,
creeks and inlets be counted, while the
distance from Baltimore down the
Patapsco and in the bay to the mouths
of these tributaries is from 80 to $50
miles Beyond all this is the navigation
open to sailing vessels and light draft
power boats into innumerable smaller
tributaries, so that the intimate naviga-
ton, so to speak, between Baltimore and
the Chesapeake country almost rivals in
length the transatlantic voyage. AS
matter of fact, he that would take all
the steamboat voyages of the Chesapeake
country must have nearly a month at his
disposal.
What is most significant this spring
in the Chesapeake country is the unmis-
taxable revival of business under the
urge of an early opening" of the fish
cries and the necessary response from all
sorts of occupations afloat and ashore.
With the revival of business have gone
better conditions for the laborer than he
ever before knew in times of peace and
more hopeful relation of the races. with
the prospect that this delicate adjust
ment, while endangered by the increased
self-respect of the colored people and
their expectation of high pay, will be met
by the wisdom and moderation of whites
perhaps more accustomed to deal fairly
and alphabetically with the colorcd
man than employers anywhere else in
the United States.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13
Bv Winifred Duncan Ward
Sketches BY the Author

ITO ONE who reads the daily pa
pers with that slavish enthusiasm
peculiar, I suppose, to contribu-
tors it is at once sad and
interesting to see how the mind of a
nation turns in its tracks like the tide
Interest in great events GIBBS while the
events themselves are still in the making
1t was inevitable, no doubt, that the
wave of chivalry and romance which has
Just lifted our careless nation so high
should dissolve beneath US, yet Henry
and | cannot now discuss the morning
paper without realizing that We are still
trailing clouds of glory behind us To
have to bend our minds back again to
murders, milk. the new subway and the
price Of theatre tickets is disappointing,
not to say humiliating. Are these really
the things that absorbed our minds be-
fore the war?
But there is one long thread of ro-
nance left us, in speculations as to how
the vast machinery Of war will be con-
yerted into a machinery of peace. Our
daily living has been raised pitch by all
this frantic inventing and adapting, so
that an airplane line connecting the
Seventh Avenue subway with the Lex
ington Avenue subway no longer seems
improbable, and a revolving sidewalk
seven stories up to convey shopping
ladies' up and down the length of Fifth
Avenue IS a reality which we wait for
patiently and confidently.
Only a few days ago the head of the
railroad administration bureau of opera
tons pointed out that the small branch
raroads-the feeders or plug" lines