The Days of a Man 1915 



Society, and Rolla V. Watt of San Francisco, both 

 prominent alike in insurance and conciliation. 



The congress over, I left immediately on an ex- 

 tended lecture tour covering many cities of the 

 Middle West, eastern seaboard, and South. In 

 Terre Haute I was joined by Alfred W. Kliefoth, a 

 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, later a 

 member of the American Embassy at St. Petersburg. 

 Cousin From the University of Virginia, Harvey E. Jordan 

 Haney accompanied me as far as New Orleans. In the 



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matter of popular approval this trip proved on the 

 whole the most successful I have ever undertaken. 

 Its proceeds, as well as those of the preceding spring 

 and the autumn of the next year, I laid aside for 

 certain plans then forming in my mind for mediatory 

 efforts in Europe - - a matter to which I shall soon 

 return. 



Of special note were the cordial welcomes extended 

 me at Madison, Ann Arbor, Boston, the Broadway 

 Tabernacle in New York, Washington, and the 

 University of Virginia. 



At about this time a society called the "Organisa- 

 tion Centrale pour une Paix Durable" was established 

 in Europe with headquarters at The Hague, its presi- 

 dent being Senator H. C. Dresselhuys, and its secre- 

 Van Beek tary-director Dr. B. de Jong van Beek en Donk, an 

 active and enthusiastic pacifist. I became one of the 

 American members of the group, the executive com- 

 mittee of which was made up of an anti-militarist 

 from each of the leading countries, France excepted, 

 the natural bitterness toward Germany existing in 



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