The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-17
1T WILL COME SOME DAY.
FRON OTHER PENS
THE GREAT DIVIDE.

Uncle Sam is a generous soul, and
when he virtually offers free homes to
whatsoever will, the country sits up
and takes notice, although he has been
doing this for some time. Free
homes" has a good sound in the ears
of the many, and now that the famous
Rosebud country in South Dakota is
to be thrown open to settlers, there is
big rush for that territory. Every
one is to have chance at a 160-acre
slice of ground, and already 100000
people are encamped around the Dor
ders of this rich tract to try to get a
portion of the $4,000 acres to be d.
vided. The registration is now on
when the great drawing will there
after follow.
This drawing is spectacular and
quite different from the time when a
or as many yoke of oxen to a prairie
schooner" and treked many weary
miles across the plains to take up
homestead as the gift of his govern
ment 1t is vastly different nowadays,
for the chugging raucous automobile
takes the place of many of the old
land schooners, and the big drawing
wheel supersedes the concrete act of
moving to- new home; for If your
names does not come out of the wheel
you get no land-unlesS you buy 1t
from a more successful ''settler."-
Indianapolis Star.
THE CHILD AND THE LAW.
While discussing the Juvenile court
before the charities and corrections
conference Of Washington, Judge S. J.
not more law was the fundamental
idea underlying the modern system of
dealing with the juvenile delinquent,
and he added that what is needed is
the sweeping away of the rigors and
a rSchins M fi~pd TIIlQSo that
judges may have "unrestrained discre-
ton to deal with each case in his own
way, considering the child, its en-
vironment, its opportunities, its dispo-
sition, its hopes"
Such is the modern progressive
view, and its soundness is too apparent
10 call for special emphasis. The hard
rules of the law are not for the child.
Applied to the child, they often con-
Arm untoward predispositions and
tendencies. The broadcast possible dis
erection should be given courts created
to deal with Juvenile delinquents.-
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY.
The situation in the near east is one
that can be composed by preventive
diplomacy without serious difficulty
If a majority of the powers are dis
posed to see justice done. II they are
willing to abstain from coyetousness,
and the unpredictable results of arm
ed conflict. Happily. reports from
most of the capitals indicate that the
decision will be for peace. and also
favorable to such handling of Turkey
as will reconcile her to a partial dis
memberment that. in a sense. was
foreordained. that can not be altered.
and that may leave her free to carry
out internal reforms on which the best
of her citizens are rightly more intent
than on anything else. There are
ethical aspects of the course of Bull
garia and of Austria which furnish
material for indignation and con-
demnation Back of the immediate
issue of satisfying Turke-- and Of pre-
venting strife lies the larger and more
important one of new alignments of
the powers and the future trend Of
events among the western European
nations. But just now the task Is one
of preventive diplomacy. Boston
Herald.