The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-30
LEST WE FORGET.

the Republicans next Tuesday and in
view of his splendid record Of achieve
ment it is surprising that he should
have any opposition whatever. His
friends are hoping for so overwhelrn-
ing an endorsement in the primary
that his election will follow as g. mat
tier of course.
/ No man sent to congress from Kan
Fsas ever did so much for the people
all of the peopIe OF the state-as Cur
tbs, and no man ever spent So little
time telling the people about his
achievements.
For one thing,=he hasn't a newspa-
per constantly to sing his praises and
direct attention to his<every act. SEN
afor Capper. Governor Allen, and even
Congressman Anthony are much bet
ter equipped in this respect than Cur
tbs. Consequently the people of the
state are much better Informed as to
the accomplishments of these public
men than they are about curtis's work.
Take the case of the influenza cpl
| demic last winter. Every hospital was
filled with patients, all the hospital
| equipment of the state was exhausted,
no one knew where to get more. The
authorities appealed to Senator Curtis
to SEE IL the war department could not
afford relief Curtis got the telegram
asking for aid about II o'clock one
morning. He took the matter up with
| the war department. The senate met
at noon, and by l o'clock Curtis had
a resolution thTu authorizing the war
department to loan to the state board
| of health of Kansas all the hospital
equipment at Camp Funston that was
required to meet the situation. Yet
nothing much was heard about it.
The state board of health knew and
at it's regular quarterly meeting last
March adopted a resolution appropri-
ately thanking Senator Curtis for his
good and timely work. The public
generally, If they heard about it at all,
learned OF 1t in only casual way, and
probably there are thousands of Kan
sans that know nothing about this ex-
eellent piece of quick work, and, least
of all. suspect that it was because of
his powerful position in the senate,
ator Curtis was able to perform this
signal service for the suffering people
| of his state.
This instance could be multiplied by
hundreds. Not a week goes by that
Senator Curtis does not respond to
some sort of appeal from Kansas, and
whether it is to obtain some necessary
Legislation. or TO take some matter up
with the departments, he is always on
the job and he always gets results. He
has performed many thousands of acts
of personal service for Kansans. He
has never failed to respond to every
need Of the citizens of the state as a
whole.
Senator Curtis prevented the wheat
guaranty price from being fixed as low
as s1.s7. He tried to get President
WILSON - place it much higher than
the basic price at which 1t was fixed.
His activity in this line alone obtained
for Kansas wheat growers SO cents a
bushel more for their wheat during
war time than they otherwise would
have had.
It was Curtis who first learned of
the wheat embargo that was depress-
| ing the price of wheat this past year,
and succeeded in getting it lifted,
thereby boosting the price. i 3
Curtis, when he was in the house,
was the firstiman to start a movement
for an amendment of the interstate
commerce act in the interest of fairer
rates for livestock and grain ship
] ments.
Senator Curtis introduced a bill
creating a farm loan division. This
measure resulted in the appointment
of a monetary commission, whose in
vestigatiens eliminated in the enact
nfent OF the farm loan bank law.
It was the amendment offered by
Senator Curtis to the national good
roads law that made it possible for
Kansas. like other states, to get fed
eral aid in the Improvement of high
ways.
A more recent example of Senator
Curtis's- unflasging industry was af-
ferded by the recent car shortage and
money stringency. affecting the wheat
and livestock situation. Senator Cur
tbs got promptly on the job and with
the other members OF the Kansas del
egatiea in congress made the streng-
est sort OF representations to the de-
partn4ents concerned for relief.
These are but few Of the many
things that might be enumerated &c
show the remarkable service per
formed by the Kansas senior senator
The women Of the state well know how
during the whole of his CONCESSIONS
and senatorial career he was the ar
dent champion OF national prohibition
and national woman suffrage, unit
both those reforms became aetualities
Both the suffrage organizations and
the temperance organizations give