The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-18
KANSAS COMMENT
A NEW ISSUE.

A NEW ISSUE.
Horace Greeley James. the de-
bonair. dashing editor of the indie
|pendence Reporter, has raised a new
issue in Kansas, and it is far more
/ important than the whiskers question.
for IT comes home to us all. while out
SIDE OF Emporia and Topeka there
are no longer enough whiskers in Kan
sas to start good sized bonfire.
Eullor James rises up to inquire
now often man should take a. bath.
AS the, Independence editor has been
recognized as the sartorial connoisseur
IN Third district newspaper ranks, be-
ing the only member of the profession
VINO takes a daily bath and changes
ms clothes twice a day, the admission
from him that he is perplexed, inli-
Gates the intricaoy of the question
raised
The uncertainty on this bath prob
lem IN Editor James mind came about
in tisis way: Editor Brighton, of the
CoHeyville Herald, remarked the other
oay tnat It is easier to keep clean feet
warm than dirty. ones. and Editor
James facetiously remarked something
about his CoffeyvilIe brothers start
ling admission s.Sure.n retorted Ed
itor Brighton, 'if Brother James would
only try it he would find it true and
because there has been SO much stink
raised lately at both CoffeyviIle and
lndependence over the census returns
that it is hard TO sort out scents in
Montgomery county Editor James
isn't real certain his feet can furnish
an abb. So he anxiously inquiries if
bath day is often enough
I. one thing that adds to the impor-
lance OF the issue raised is the scarcity
or water in the state at the present
time Most of us humble toilers
have been raised in the belief that the
old fashioned Saturday night scrub full
nlled all requirements. Some have the
idea that bathing o@tener than once a
month is unhealthy, and few consid-
er 1t religious duty not to pellute
the body with water more than once
a year.
Now if it is the proper hygienic
worse still, before each meal and at
bed time, where is the water supply
| to come from?
It is a. poor time to raise this ques-
ton and the Tribune moves it be laid
on the table until next summer when
the Neoshay and Verdigris and Marais
| des Cygnes rivers are inland seas, and
hauling water in barrel is not a
| necessity. -Chanute Tribune.
STATE PRIDE.
In an interesting talk with Judge
c. F. Cory yesterday the subject drift
ed on state pride,'' more sharply de-
fined in the East than in the West be-
cause the East is older than the West.
| Probably Massachusetts and vir-
ginia are the two states of the East
where this characteristic is most fully
developed. although other states are a
close second.
| In the hustling scramble to settle
the Middle West most of which has
taken place in the past fifty years, state
lines have been largely ignored, or
| rather pride of state has n yet erect
| ed q wall of exclusivenes s. The time
| however, is near at hand Judge Cory
/ says in his observation of conditions
when this will change and in a few
years native born Kansan, for in
stance, will be as proud of the fact
of his nativity as the ancient Roman
was in the day that Rienzi alluded to,
when. "To be Roman, was greater
than a king
Undoubtedly state pride is rising in
| the Middle West and particularly in
| leading states like Kansas that has
| of late years forged we'll to the front
of the procession of sister states on
moral and economic questions, always
aiming at high moral standards and
advanced intellectual attachments.
No course more surely and quickly
gives rise to state pride
Think how much more it already
means to be a Kansan, thar it does to
be an Arkansan although comparisons
are odious.
| Judge Cory is right, state pride will
presently be ruling the states of the
J Middle West as completely as it. now
rules over the East.-Fort Scott Re-
publican.