The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-13
KANSAS COMMENT
POLITICS AND DOCS"

po,,+,cs NAV play some strange
pranks in this pure 1000 puSln0 IHa,,,o-
washington, for instance, the D..Hao,,
cratic party is in control h anu GOVERN
WILEY. who was head OF the goNt ~,
ment pure food job until kicked OUT ~
Tema lin. is a Democrat. 1t ooesu
take much imagination 70 see 49,
Democratic party put doc Wiz
back at the helm OF the e 9tSfer S
Benzoate In Kansas it is dlt1eren.-
Our own DOC" Crumbine, 1ounoSE
and defender of the pure FOOD I alLii
in Kansas, happens TO pc rep a.
can and the new administrator. -
Democratic. In due course OF uIle
it will be UP to the new governor 10
name a new board of health, anu ing
question is, will he name poaru
which will neatly remove the oIIiclaI
scalp of Doctor Crumbine? AS long
as the nation and state is run on a
basis of partisan politics, such
changes, for political reasons only are
certain to take place. What TINS gov
eminent needs is complete oVerhauI-
ing in it's business methods and sys-
tenn of administration. 1t ought TO De
on a business basis. Men should be
kept in the administrative offices as
long as they give good service. Men
like DR.. Crumbine should not be sac
rificed to politics. Nor should DR..
Wiley, excellent man though he may
be, be restored to power merely be-
cause he is a Democrat. The ques-
ton should De one OF merit, not "a
partisanship.-Merc Journal
o.
ExTRAvAGANT EATING
The recent announcement that Cornell
university student has succeeded in living
on so cents a week has caused some of the
wise college professors to discuss the
tendency of overeating. Prof. Patten,
head of the economics department or the
University of Pennsylvania, thinks that
two dollars a week is amply sufficient 70
the average person. and will produce BET
ter results, both physically and mentally,
than larger allowance. The average Z
dividual overcrowdS his stomach accord
ing to Prof. Patten. This, he thinks, IS
| tends to reduce the mental and physical
| efficiency of the men who do 1t. Il think
| there is a definite tendency everywhere
| for men and women to spend less for foUd
! and more for clothes said Mr. Patten. I
regard this as a favorable. sign, because
! while it was not especially desirable that
| persons should waste money on clothes, 1t
| is better that they should do this than
| that they should waste 1t on food which
| Injuries them physically and retards them
| mentally. It seems to me the time is not
| far distant when universities will require
| every student to take a course in dieting.
| They should teach a student what to eat
! as one of their very first duties They
should have him experiment. with diff
ferent kinds of food that he will know
] what his individual system requires. And
eating the things which he does not need
and which merely burden his system"
Prof. Patten said that a man could teach
| himself to restrain his appetite in the
presence of a large Thanksgiving dinner
| just as easily in the presence of n
cocktail or highball. The professor adj
mitted that in his own case he could not
hold back when the turkey was placed
before him. but he put that down to lack
of disciplinary training in his youth
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