The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-26
KANSAS COAAENT
CALL OF WHITE COLLAR.


In spite of all "back-to-the-land"
arguments, American youth continues
yielding to the lure of the. city.
Advance census figures indicate that
sixty cities will be added to those hav-
ing population OF $4,000 and up
ward There were $50 in that list ten
years ago; now there are 220. About
awo-thirds of the newcomers in the
zo,oOO list are in the great farming
pasin OF the Mississippi, north of Ken
wage OF $1.50 for an eight hour day in
tne city stronger than the drawing
power OF $40 a month and keep" for
the II and IA hour day of the farm?
moi tnat so much as the call of the
white collar.
All of us are strongly Influenced,
even IN momentous matters, by little,
unconsldered things Gaudy uniforms
nave done more toward turning men
INTO soldiers in all ages than patriot
ism. SO FAR as the really high quality
goes there Is as much of it in the man
penmd the gun. Ones work is not all
or the furnace and in the man behind
the counter as in the man behind the
gun. ones work is not all of ones
l1fe-nor the most of it.
If the boy raised in jeans and ging-
nam and permitted a white collar only
On sundays and holidays comes sub
consciously to associate the white col
lar with ease, enjoyment and respect
aDli1ty, is it not natural?
And IL he follows the lure of the
white collar to the city and gets job
In winch he can wear a white collar
ali the week. and though he spends all
MS extra pay in keeping his collar and
cuffs and shirt white, what does it
matter. so long as he is satisfied?
III white collar can make one feel
more a gentleman, it's a mighty good
thing. The feeling that one is living
well is the most to be got from life.
There is, on the other hand, a de-
clded back-to-the-land movement. But
don't look among the solemn sociolog-
zeal books for its cause.
The city boy, bred in starch and
convention, breaks for freedom and
the comfort of a flannel shirt
Deep thinkers reason profoundly
and endlessly upon fine-spun princi-
pies OF psychology that are supposed
to control these shifts in population.
But this is not a made-to-order world
and never will be.
The impulse to this great shift, in
either direction, originates no higher
than the neck. And it's well to bear
in mind that most of the great human
forces don't originate even that high
up.-Wichita Beacon.
WOULDN'T QUALITY COUNT.
1t strikes the average person that
quality, rather than quantity, should
count a lot in the class of Immigrants
that should come to America in the
next few years. America. in spite of
the present laws safeguarding immi-
grafton. is yet the dumping ground CT
a lot of European countries. America
is coming down the hundred million
stretch of the population statistics race
and there is some chance that this
goal may be reached in the next de-
cade. But the arrival at this high
mark ought to be made possible by
letting in only the choicest of the
people who would come here from
foreign lands.
| More strict immigration restrictions
should be one of the desires Of the
men who make the laws Of this coun-
| -Hutchinson@News.
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ANOTHER CHANCE FOR FAME.
| The summer fly nuisance is attract
| ing so much attention that the summer
electric fan nuisance is being overlook
| ed The electric fan, which is an in
vention of the devil, should be out
| lawed by the Kansas legislature. It's
chief accomplishments are starting
colds, bringing on nervous prostration
and turning fingers into sausage. If
| 1t has any good points no one has ever
succeeded in bringing them to light.
There is crown and golden harp
awaiting the one who will eliminate
this nuisance from hot weather's col
| lection of terrors.-Chanute Tribune.