The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-02
KANSAS COMNENT
ANOTHER INsPEcToR.

A0SO4dEh INSPECTOR.
Last Monday a printing Office inspec-
tor called and inspected this shop He
old not tarry long, finding everything
satisfactory and passed on Printing
omces come under the head of factories
ana there is a factory inspection law.
IL is now against the law in factories
10 employ a person under 16 years of
age. and the number of working hours,
IN factories, are supposed to be regu-
lated by the state. This, no doubt is
good law in factories where a large
number of persons are employed But
IN small concern like a country print
ing ONCE 1t is useless. The fact is
there IS no need of any law making it
q crime TO abuse or impose upon any
man or woman employed in any small
business mouse, any more. Any man
VINO does not treat his hired help de-
Gently and respectfully will soon find
himself without their services. This is
a matter that regulates itself and no
Inspector is needed to travel around
from one town to another to look at
ter these things. But whether he is
needed or not makes no difference to
the inspector. He gets his salary and
goes about his work. He knows better
than anyone that his job is a joke SO
Tar as being Of any practical benefit to
the people. He has a good job, proba-
bly, given him as a political plum, from
the mead inspector, who gets bigger
salary and also has an easy time.
After looking over the platforms
OF all political parties we see no prom
Use to abolish the useless office of coun-
" printing Office inspector Probably
the platform writer's never thought of
II, being engaged with weightfer and
more alldring promises to the people.
1t is cur observation that platform
makers use very little space in prom
Using to abolish useless laws. Their
entire effort is put forth in making a
declaration for new laws, promising
the people more and more. The best
political platform that could be writ
laws on the statute books of Kansas,
but 1t viii never be done because it
would not be a good vote catcher. Some
other political party would get up a
platform promising so many things to
the people that it would be a joyous
anticipation and catch the votes. And
after all. that is what is wanted. The
printing office inspector law will not be
repealed.-Smith County Pioneer.
STUDY BY MAIL
Students in correspondence work
enroll in the University of Kansas Elk
tension Division at the rate of about
one day throughout the year. At
the present time there are more than
a hundred students carrying on uni
versity work through the mail. AS
the course has been established less
than a year, it is felt that the show
ing is a very promising one. The work
is in line with the general policy of
the university to place its facilities at
the disposal of all the residents of
Kansas, so far as possible. Four as
sistants are now required to handle
the work in the office of Director
Richard R. Price, of the extension
division. The outlines, prepared by
regular professors are mailed out to
the students. When the papers come
in, they are read by the same pro-
fessors. The correspondence student
really gets a larger amount of per-
sonal attention from the professor
than does the resident student in one
of the larger classes. What he misses
of course, is the associations and the
atmosphere of the university life
Atchison Champion,