The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-05
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Scores OF communities in the United
States and Canada, well-intentioned
and even enthusiastic as to vacant lot
and back lot cultivation In general.
are to be found in the regret list every
summer because they failed to organ
ize for the spring campaign in good
season. The late winter and not the
middle or late spring IL the time when
initial steps should be taken. Com
mun1ty movements Of the character
They are frequently begun too late to
achieve satisfactory results. A tele-
gram in the Monitor from Seattle con-
veys the cheering information that
steps have already been taken in that
city TO start garden clubs for school
yond the school yards. Vacant lots.
lawns and park strips are to be Guilt
waited and beautffied. The mothers
congress has taken charge of the
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structton she40xe eetaal WORT n hlegun.
This u the course that should be fol-
lowed everywhere both as regards
adults and children. A few weeks of
theory will be helpful before practical
in gardening will sharpen the desire
Of the students for outdoor work. II
classes are opened early enough to en-
able the students to acquire an ele-
mentary knowledee Of soil. seeds.
will be equipped all the better for the
tasks of the spring. Leadership is
requisite to community movements OF
this kind, and in fact, OF every kind.
Women seem to make good leaders In
the garden club movement. The col
umns of this newspaper have borne
witness to that fact repeatedly. Wo-
men need not wait to be invited to
take this leadership: they may assume
it. with the assurance that their auth
GRITTY will not be questioned. But the
main point to bear in mind IL that II
effective work il to be performed in
lot gardening in the spring. along eco
nomic or eethefic lines. II the places.
the waste places. the unsightly places
in communities are to be reclaimed
and made useful and beautiful-if
there is to be no regret list next sum-
mer-the sooner preliminary work 10
begun the better.-Christian Science
Monitor.
ENGLISH DIVORCE STATISTICS.
Sir Conan Doyle does not Join his
brother Brftons in self-satisfied COMPARE
and those Of the United States. Instead.
he eays that the English figures are alb
surdly wronE: TN that they take no ae-
vorces in everything except name. To
make divorce difficult for all, and 30 ex-
peasive as to be within the reach only
mend itself to this shrewd and competent
observer OF its results, and he does more
than hint that the consequences of .
and merely nominal celibacy
are not as moral as is pretended by those
who oppose any weakening OF the mar
rage tie. Sir Conan even goes 30 Tar as
to say that divorce IL not an evil. but 4
cure-a deplorable cure, indeed. but OF
state of affairs Stin more deplorable. Tho
dispatches do not quote him as referring
to that much-explofted grievance OF the
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on the same terms and for the same rea-
sons to women as to men. He might well
have done so. whether he II with the
suffragists or against them, for In either
case he must want to see a Just griev-
ance removed. What he did say. how
ever. will tend to annoy, IL not to dfscOur-
age, the southern statesman who recently
advocated in the senate the extension to
the whole country by federal law Of South
Cardinals stern refusal Of divorce for any
cause whatever.-New York Times.