The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-11
KANSAS cOANENT
a GOOD SIrcGESrIoN.

GOOD SUG
Ine farmers and business men VINO
live In the towns and the country near
the Cnlocco Indian school, are OPP
posed TO the proposition to turn the
school into an insane asylum and sug-
gese that the government, il it aban-
dons the school as an institute for the
education of the Indians. make an ag-
RMS Is most sensible request. The
hackney Grange of Winfield has
adopted resolutions rega- ding the mat
ter and has made suggestions which
VIII meet with the approval of the
farmers Of the West. The Grange says:
me Chilocce reservation should be-
come government experiment station
for the western states under the sup
ervision of the United States agricul-
tural department, as large amounts are
now being expended by the United
states agricultural department under
less favorable conditions than these
would offer to the Western states In
the way OF improving cereals, plants
Grange also points out the fact that
the station could be made self-sustain-
ing. 1t is further suggested that the
buildings, if they are to be abandoned,
should be converted into a federal
agricultural university supplementary
to the agricultural colleges and to be
SO managed as to give postgraduate
courses to the students, thereby fur
nishing a --igher education in the
scientific researches of agriculture.
The location of the Chflocco reser-
walton is ideal for a great experiment
station. We get along very we'll in
agriculture in this section of the
country. but we know that we can i'm
that is why we have such great
state agricultural institutinos. But
the governm.. 1T school would be
a great aid and benefit to not only
this section, but to all sections of the
West. There is no experiment station
operated by the government on scale
which would be possible at Chilocco.
The effort being made to secure the
reservation for an agricultural expert
ment station should meet with the ap-
prevail Of farmers and business men in
this section.---Wichita Eagle.
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MEAT AND MOLLYCODDLES.
DR.. Wiley. who has ideas about ben
zoate of soda and other preservatives,
seems anxious to preserve the virile
powers OF Americans, and incidental
ly, the purchasing power OF the pack
ers. He sees a larger danger In the
meat boycott than q simple reduction
in the prices Of livestock, or dressed
because beef is to be dislodged from
that powerful triumvirate, beef, brain
and Drawn, and he says without that
powerful first, the other two must
fall.
The doctors theory is about as logi-
cal as the one he lately advanced that
men should bolt their food, presum-
ably because the dog gets along pretty
we'll that way. Whatever resort to
vegetarianism may do, you needn't
fear that 1t will hurt the mental, NOR
al or physical standard of the nation.
The British beef-eater, it is true, has
something of reputation for spread
ing history and influence over the map
Of the world. but something more
than beef must be given the credit
incidentally, the beef eating Briton
has been helped when he needed help
most, by the oats-fed Scots and the
potato eating Irish. No less an au-
thority than Bismarck has said the
world has produced no better soldiers
than those same Scots and Irishmen.
Drifting further back into history, it
will be noted that the Egyptians rose
to glory on d diet almost exclusively
vegetarian; Greece rose to power. and
Alexander's Macedonian phalanx
swept the known world with little
fell when the heads Of the house got
to eating more meat than was good
for their stomach or their heads, but
the fighting 1egions of Caesar did not
do their fighting on meat. Coming
down to the most modern instance,
what Japan did to Russia on diet of
rice and fish Should convince the world
that a lack of meat doesn't mean mol
lyeoddles, by any Interpretation of the
term. DR.. Wiley should go back to
benzeate of soda: a preservative is
needed to keep opinions as worthless
as his.-Atchison Globe.