The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-24


gives it to them. Other editors hear
from the same people, and follow the
fashion set by the first editor-and
Your fashion is born,''
1t is the economic side of life, Mr..
London says, which interests him most
and it is moreover. an element which
IS bound to creep in to everything in
asmuch as economic conditions are be-
hind everything. "Of all my books
he maintains. Il love most The People
of the Abyss a study of the siums of
London. No other book of mine took
so much of my young heart and tears
as that study of the economic degrade
ton of the poor How can a man
who sees that our whole social and
economic system is rotten with eco
nomic wrong keep that consciousness
keep the sunlight out of broken
shaft
But if the economic aspect Of man
interests you so much" Mr. London
was asked. would you not find a
great city like New York richer field
70 study and write about
Great Scott, no. no | must have
the open=the open. No big city for
me. and above all not New York. l
think its the cocksure feeling of SUI
periority which the people of the me-
tropolis feel over the rest of the coun
try that makes me rage=when it dA)es
Next to my ranch in California is an
asylum for feeble-minded. In the
cabin of the place there are seven or
eight OF the inmates employed at peel
ing potatoes or carrots. who are not as
feeble minded as the rest of the in
mates. Well when their chores are
over one Of them Will usually shake
her head and say with great thankful
ness in her voice:
Well thank heaven. I'm not
feeble minded
Then another will shake her head
and say with greater relief, Well,
| thank heaven, I'm not minded
And in the same way the rest of them
Will thank heaven that they We're not
feeble-minded as the other inmates
And yet concluded Mr.. London
with smile, Il feel that way about
New Workers only when | see or think
OF them collectively. When I meet
! them one by one II is another story. =
Wallace Irwin, in "FIorizel and For
tunatus." will contribute a humorous
sllit to the March Century, on the ten
dency of the facile artist to make pic
lures which confer unintentional fun
on the stories they are supposed to,
but do not, illustrate.
Joseph Conrad. in his latest novel. TN
der Western Eyes" shows how warily the
Russian university student is forced 10
walk, and now the cables tell US of Moro
soft. the Russian scientist whose activi-
ties began during his student DAYS and
who has just again been sentenced to inn
prisonment after an interval of freedom.
But Razumov, the hero of Under West
ern Eyes" unlike Morosoff. whose pa
triotism was stronger than his ambition,
decided to work with instead Of against
despotism. In his book of "reminiscences,
"A Personal Record just published Mr..
Conrad tells of his own experiences with
the Russian police when he shared as a
boy the exile of his Polish father
Morris FIillquit the socialist leader. re-
Gently met in debate Attorney General
Thomas Carmody, the question being In
dividualism versus Socialism. The affair
took place in the New Rochelle People,
Forum before an audience Of two thou
sand people, There is some industrial
disturbance going on every day, Mr..
Hfllquit said THE present unrest IS
spreading daily and is attracting all
classes but the ruling class" He further
expressed great apprehension that the
wealthy and powerful would gradually
get control of the nation and that the
development and growth Of which we
boast had been a one sided development
which had left the other parts weak ants
crippled. These same sentiments have
been EXPRESSED in Mr.. Hillquitts Social
ism IN Theory and Practice with more
detailed argument than the somewhat re-
stricted form OF the debate allowed him.
A new and cheaper edition OF this book Is
announced for publication in March in
the Macmillan Standard Library Series.
RN68G-
summer in Rugby making drawings FOR
the new edition of Tom Browns School
DAYS which he has illustrated, notes
some new customs of the school and 9TH
ers that have fallen into disuse since Tom
Browns days. Nowadays, If boy is in
his first term, lie must keep his hands
cut Of his pockets. If you see a boy with
one hand in, he viii perhaps be in the
second term: after that both may be put
into the pockets. The duties of Tags are
less frlxsome than they once were. The
old tuck shops have been replaced BY
expensive pastry and fruit stores No
longer do the boys go down the 'Planks
and swifts' on the River Avon: well
appointed swimming bath Is quite near ia
the close New boys are no longer clodded,
cobbed. or ehaired. According to old docu-
raents and prints the boys in early DAYS
wore white ducks, short or Eton jackets.
and tall hats. Today the Jacket for the
small boy is longer or what is known as
the Marlborough Jacket over which IS
worn the broad white collar and the
bigger boys wear 8 cutaway. All are IN
black, including the tall hat. which Is
worn at the present time by young and
old on Sundays only