The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-06
WORDS OF WISDOM
AID Club DevOtes an Evening to
Sociology.
DIR. Steiner Discusses the Emf
grafton Situation.
MORE GOOD THAN BAD
Thinks Foreigners Who Come
Here Are Misrepresented.
Standard of Living as High as
Wages Permit.

Tie second annual Ladies Night
of the Topeka Advertising club held
last night in the parlors of the Com
mercia1 club. was a marked success
in every particular. Over a hundred
persons sat down to the banquet table
including the wives and lady friends
of the members of the organization.
Halls, orchestra furnished music for
the occasion and the distinguished
guests of the evening were DIR. Ed
ward A Steiner, professor of sociology
at the Iowa State college, at GrinneIl,
and Dr. Charles Foster Kent, at the
chair of Old Testament Literature at
Yale.
Re. w Rankin, the president of the
AID club who presided at the meeting,
made few appropriate remarks in
regard to the purpose of the organiza-
tion and this special occasion.
Good Word for Washburn.
DR.. Kent spoke briefly urging the
club to cooperate in making Wash
burn college a great institution. 1t
almost staggerS a man on account or
the beauty of it ALL" said DIR. Kent,
Ito hear the statement of DR.. Shell
don's that there are probably 100000
children growing up here in kansas
who have never seen a saloon. What
impressed me most was the fruits of
II years or so of temperance.
There is something about the type
you are cultivating here in Kansas
that is distinctly American. The in
huence you are sending out of here
is acting as a leven of the right sort.
you have something in Topeka
which as an advertising club it is up
to you to develop, and that is Wash
burn college. You have an asset that
many of the state universities never
will have and that is this unity in the
faculty and some of the sturdlest
teachers and best thinkers that are
found anywhere in the United states.
Some of them have gained natlonai
reputation.
II am glad that you have a superb
State university, and that you nave
most delightful relations with TINS
institution, and / believe that WASH
burn college will grow faster with
this university close at hand than II
would do otherwise. Your interests
are bound up with the institution
DR.. Steiner's Address.
DIR. Steiner who was an Immigrant
at one time himself and has pusheo
himself to the front ranks OF Amer
ican educators in a remarkable fash-
ion smoke in a scholarly and eloquent
manner on Immigration as 1t Effects
the West
seThe air of conquest is in our
bones" said DR.. Steiner. 1T is sur
The migratory element is. suppose.
nermanent one. 1t is the foundation
of our life in America to move apout
Or there would be no great country
here 1t is our tendency to seek an
outlet TO our energy; to seek new
DIace. to he dissatisfied with the place
in which we are.
''There is another impulse that
causes us to move about. ana that u
the idealistic impulse. 1t is tnat
which drives men to cross tne 81 sea- an
They come to America because Oh an
ideal which they desire to live out III
a place in which they may be iree-
I'm this room I know that there Is
a blending of different peoples.
know that there are Germans by the
80, tbe,- eat know that there are
Americans by a great many other cyl
dances can tell the Irish by the
way they laugh.
.erhere are a great many people IN !he
west who show some misapprehehsiioL
ir regard to the vast hordes coming
80 his country. This great horde o.
foreigners which is sweeping over on
country is a Just cause for great anxl'
ety.. ,aoS.
s.Remember that sociologicaHy at ieas
Nat fear is the result of ignorance
's.Tbere are three groups of imm! grants
more important than the rest. They are
Slavs. Jews and Italians. Know
something about them haFg i nut
with them; slept with theh' nc
eaten of their bread. 80 heavy mat
YOU with your delicate stomacns an '
lender digestions ate some OF IL yot
would not have time to say Now L lay
me- -, c,a,,s
..rrhere are good Slavs and bad SiaPs
,-co6 italians ard bad Italians; goot
lows and bad Jews. but know that O.
ali the Deople there are more good thar
bad.
Questions That Are Uppernlost.
sTherc are four fundamental ques'
tiops which we should ask. First, do VIZ
-qaed the people who come? The Arneri
can laboring man has as much r1gn
for protection as the manufactures
Inst as soon as they make labor drus
an the market then we should Gloss
the doors to them. If our bridges meet
10 he built, and our rails laid we can
not do without these people. If two
years ago 10000 college graduates hae
cf.ne TO this country the problem Woult
he homeless. Last year 10000 foreigners
save their lives so we could run oul
Factories. I have seen them stir you
1oisons and work in the unhealthfu
mines .5 -
.l,vfug than our own? Their STANDARD
Soe living is as high as their wage vii
permit Usually after the 1orelgne
has been here for some time he raise
bis standard to the American STANDARD
Of living. have lived in a home wher
there were 20 persons sleeping in
room. The foreigners usually keel
dodgers when they first come to tn
country. They soon begin to get crayol
nortraits Of themselves which do no
look like anybody at all. The womel