The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29
KANSAS COMMENT
COUNTRY TOWN BASEBALL.

COUNTRY TOWN BASEBALL.
Many country towns in Kansas have
baseball games on Sunday, and to some
OF them admission is charged. If it is
wrong to play baseball on Sunday in
one place. it would seem that it is
equally wrong to play baseball in some
other place. They talk about the cities
being tough but it is fact that a
very large number of towns in Kansas
barred baseball, while apparently there
is no restriction whatever to Sunday
baseball in the country. When the anti
Sunday baseball bill was up in the leg
lslature, great many speeches were
made in favor of it by farmers who
said that the Sunday ball games in the
country were demoralizing and diSor-
derby; that they often served as an op-
portunity for bootleggers and key par
ties to do fiouriShing business, and
very often wound up in fights and
braWls. We don't know of any such
argument in favor of the anti-Sunday
baseball law which was made in the
legislature was that the Sunday games
in the country were inclined to be dis
orderly. Professional baseball as play
ed in the cities is kept free from rowdy-
ism by the police; it is noisy, but in
Kansas, at least, there is little drink
Ing and gambling IN which respect the
professional ball game in the city prob
ably has the advantage over a good
many ball games in the country.
There may be no way to stop Sunday
baseball in the country, when it is not
played by professional players, but
there is certainly as much necessity
for stopping it as there is for stopping
the professional games conducted I'M
ger strict police supervision in the
league towns.-Salina Journal
BREWERS AGREEMENT FALLS
FLAT
For some time the Brewers associa-
ton has been making the plea that it
will do all in It's power to clean out
d1sreputable saloons and resorts and
it has blamed the low dive for the pres
ent prohibition wave. At a meeting of
the brewers in Atlantic City week be-
fore last they came out strong against
whisky and in favor of beer saloons
which should be conducted in an Or
derly and decent manner. This same
plea has been made in the fights in In
diana and Ohio where counties have re-
Gently voted on local option. At
youngstown Ohio, the brewers and
wholesale liquor dealers won their fight
last week and the town is wet. They
made the promise there that if prohibit
ton should be defeated they would
clean the city of its dives and they
nave failed to keep their promise. 1t is
stated that while the local dealers
want to carry out the promise eight of
ZIG Stdl0 UISWeTS Will not agree to the
cleaning out Of the dives.
1t has been the history of the fight
against liquor that saloons can not be
conducted In decent manner. Of
course there will be few in every
town where they are allowed which
VIII lay down set of strict rules and
follow them, but where one does this
two will not. The vast majority of
liquor dealers and brewers are too
shortsighted to see that they hurt their
business by allowing dives to run, but
they can not resist the few dollars the
dives will bring them.
The Youngstown case proves that the
argument of the brewers amounts to
nothing.-Wichita Eagle
SHE WAS NOT DESTITUTE.
The justice before whom Mrs. How
ard Gould's case is being tried, has
stricken from her complaint the
charge that Mr.. Gould did not support
her. OF course he didn't give her all
the clothing she wanted, and possibly
not as much as she needed, but with
$4,000 allowed for pin money. the
court decided that she was not in
destitute circumstances.
This Is a triumph for man over
woman. The recent notion that a wife
needs $4,000 year for her wardrobe,
mas worried great many common
men and 1T will be a tremendous re-
lief to them to know that no reason
able court will convict a man of cruelty
and nonsupport who allows only 500
UOO or $4,000 a year to his wife for
dress.-Wfchita Beacon.