The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-16
EROA OTHER PENS
HOLIDAYS IN WINTER.


wealth viii only become sufficiently ex-
| tended among the people, the winter
vacation will become no less in de-
nand than that of summer; and the
February trip or the March outing
VIII finally be as much an event in the
lives of the masses as is today the brief
| midsummer diversion from the routine
OF store, Office and shop. All that we
need is wealth enough, distributed
enough, to have half the people idling
half the year. Few persons seem to
love work for its own sake. A vaca-
ton is the most popular thing in the
world. One need not argue the ques-
ton. 1t IS simply a matter of ways
and means whether in time the ex-
ample the rich are now setting in re-
gard to winter vacations will not sat
urate all classes of society with its in
f1uence and make all of US jewellers in
two trips instead of one.
Already the infection is spreading.
The society items" Of every news
paper prove the assertion. Tt is a not
Twiddlededees are spending the cold
months at Palm Beach. or that Mr..
and Mrs. So and So are in the Carolina
uplands, where Mr.. So and So is do
ing some shooting. 1t all enters into
the cost of high living. But of more
Importance, considered from the SOL
emn sociological viewpoint is the eff
feet upon the rest of us-the toilers
anu Liz 4I1O1lSTS-WnO are 9Illl IN the
social barbarism of a steady grind al
most the whole year around. VIII
there some time be a general strike by
the mass of toiiefs for a winter vaca-
ton? Prediction is unsafe, but to that
we shall Certainly come if labor finally
gets a universal six-hour day and the
production and distribution of wealth
are to be multiplied in the twentieth
century. The truly downtrodden will
then be those miserable unfortunates
who can loaf in July and August alone
Springfield Republican.
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HOUSING DIPLOMATS ABROAD.
Friends of the proposition that the
government house its diplomatic rep
resentatives where they are accredited
wednesday,. 1t was not a good time
for its presentation. The popular cry
is economy, and We are running close
hauled to the wind. Even with the
new tariff bill behaving well, and prom
ising to do better, ali appropriations
are being carefully scanned. Not at
this time is Uncle Sam considered rich
enough to give US all house. Some
other time.
That the government should be rep
resented abroad by men of high intel
iectual class needs no argument That,
in the main It has been, and is now,
so represented cannot Do denied. But
equally true is it that they have al
ways been, and are now being, under
paid. Their salaries are small, and
they receive nothing but their salaries
from the government If they live
we'll, and support suitably the obliga-
lions imposed upon them, it is at their
own expense. Some of them are out of
pocket considerably, though making
no complaint
Those wh3 have interested them
selves in the subject solely from the
observers standpoint would be glad
to see not only houses built, but SAL
aries raised for American ambassadors
and ministers. That they think would
do justice to the men appointed to such
posts, and silence the assertion that
only millionaires Can afford such SER
vice. Such Iaborers, as we'll as all
others, are worthy of their hire. Let
the government paw adequately for
what it needs in one of the most impor-
tant branches of its scheme.-Wash-
ington Star.