Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1907 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

An Advocate of Peace. William T. Stead, the English peace advocate and editor of the Review of Reviews, now visiting America, is one of the world’s foremost advocates of universal peace. This is Mr. Stead's third visit to America. He came herb first in 1803, when he wrote “If Christ Came to Chicago,” and a second time in 1897, when he crossed the Atlantic With Richard Croker and wrote “Satan’s Invisible World Displayed,” a resume of the evidence of the Lexow commission, which investigated the New York police department Mr. Stead’s third visit is in the interests of the peace conference of the nations to be held next June at The Hague. Mr. Stead has outlined a plan to force the adoption of four definite

peace measures at The Hague conference. The plan is for twelve representative citizens from each nation to descend in a body on the conference and demand the adoption of his measures.

Briefly stated the proposed measures demand that before nations let loose their war dogs they shall agree to thirty days’ mediation by a third and disinterested nation, all nations violating this measure being declared outlaws by the family of pations; that an appropriation be made equal to 1 cent on every $lO spent fbr armament by nations,“which shall be devoted"toThe promulgation of international hospitality and world power; that arbitration be made obligatory in certain secondary matters and that no nation increase its armament for the next five years.

Ths Golf Caddy. “The golf caddy,” said a southern journalist as he chewed a sprig of mint, “is a new type. This lad is independent, witty, altogether without reverence. “On John D. Rockefeller’s visit to Bon Air he tried a little golf one aftei> noon in the neighborhood of Augusta. “On a rather difficult shot Mr. Rockefeller struck too low with his iron, and as the dirt flew up he said to his caddy: “ *What have I hit?’ “The boy answered, with a harsh laugh: “‘Georgia, boss.’”

New Head of the Great Northern. Louis W. Hill, who succeeds his father, J. J. Hill, as president of the Great Northern railway, has been trained from boyhood for the duties which have now devolved upon him. The new president of the Great Northern is a Yale graduate and has gone through all the departments of the complex railway business—mechanical, executive and accounting. As he grew in knowledge larger responsibilities were placed upon him until he became president of the Eastern Minnesota railroad. Later he was made first vice president of the Great Northern and finally its head. James J. Hill, personally one of the most conspicuous figures in the Amer-

ican railway world, had been president of the Great Northern since its organization in 1889. As chairman of the board of directors he is not to give up, for the present at least, his management of the finances and policies of the Great Northern and will continue to perform as chairman the duties with which he has been charged for the last eighteen years as president The Great Northern as it stands today, one of the most important railroad systems in the country, is largely the result of the efforts which James J. Hill has devoted to the upbuilding of the northwest ,

WILLIAM T. STEAD.

LOUIS W. HILL.