The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21
FROM OTHER PENS
CALL OF THE WILD.

A vacation for pleasure is one thing;
vacation for rest and recuperation
is another. The man who is bent on
pleasure may be left to his own de-
vices, but the man to whom vacation
time is an opportunity to recuperate
from killing toll should use d1scre-
ton. Rest is what he needs, but this
rest should not be absolute inaction-
and rest. There is an instructive long
ing for something which the daily life
does not furnish. In making this
change it often is not wise to choose
enough of the unusual to take the
mind far from the troubles that are
left at home. What is the change that
appeals most is known to each man
himself, but certain it is that change
of some kind is within the reach of
most of us. And in deciding let us re-
member that the right kind of vaca-
ton is a godsend, and the wrong kind
often worse than none.
Let us also remember that on our
part are certain obligations that obtain
no less in the wild than in the midst
of civilization. We must give the fish
and the game a fair chance for life.
else we sink to the level of the market
hunter. we must kill no more than
we need, else we become butchers
rather than sportsmen We must set
no forest fires, else we become guilty
of the crime unspeakable. Finally, let
us remember that the spiritual man
needs natures cure often quite as
much as the physical man. In the ST.
lent Places there is opportunity for
profitable communion with self and
casting up of accounts. The solitude
and the open air and the sunshine
teach many a lesson that the city has
scant time to listen to; oftimes the
Call of the wild is a call to higher
and better things.-Chicago Inter-
ocean.
JAPANESE HONESTY.
1t is one Of the best rewards of for
iegn lectureships for American schol-
ars that the lecturer, on his return.
gives his countrymen clearer insight
into the mind and heart of a sister ma
ton. Not seeking copy" and not
Swimming the mere surface Of foreign
life, as journalists and tourists do, but
becoming for a time part of the peo-
pie TO whom he goes, he approaches
them sympathetfcally and learns to
accept their point of view. When he
writes of them his opinions bear the
evidence of sanity, of ripeness and OF
admirable fairness. Hence we find In
Mr.. George Trumbull Ladd's essay.
ION the Business Morals of Japan"
published in the Century for July, some
conclusions and interpretations worthy
of serious attention.
Repeatedly it is said that the Jap
anese are forced to employ Cinnamon
as bank officers. To this Mr.. Ladd re-
plies: II have never seen or heard OF
a Chinese employe in any responsible
position in Japanese bank" Repeat
eddy it is said that the Japanese ignore
the sanctity Of business contracts. Mr..
Ladd admits that not all Japs are
saints in this respect, but remarks that
"something-in certain cases much-is
to be allowed for failure on both sides
to understand each others language
and methods Of doing business" And
what il your tnrikisha men or some
bazaar keeper cheats YOU? As the Broad
way "cabby" always honest? Have you
never been relieved of spare nickel in
Twenty third street? Besides, 1t is
only very recently that men of hon.
or''-the samurai-have engaged in
trade. They are now raising the
standard of Japanese business morals,
doing for Japan what the ancient
guilds of merchants long ago did for
China--Boston Transcript.