The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-02
yoted Clean Life Exponent Will
Spend Month in Topeka.
She Will Conduct Campaign in
& City's Public Schools
Will Show Them All the Evil
s. Effects of Bad Habits
And Will Try to Organise Clean
s. Life Centers in Kansas.

y DIR Dora Martin, former teacher OF
eex hygiene in the Chicago public
schools, an officer in the National Anti
Cigarette League and the originator of
the clean life movement, Is in Topeka
10 spend q month working in the pub
lic schools and in cooperation with the
churches of the city in an effort to In
terest the boys and girls in the leading
Of cleaner lives.
fsDr. Martin was brought here by H.
d. Wilson, superintendent of public
schools, and she will endeavOr to inn
prove the morality Of the pupils and
At the same time show them the great
benefits to be derived from living clean
Hives and keeping themselves free from
habits that injure their health. be-
enrich their characters and keep them
from being the highest type Of man
hood and womanhOod.
u Fight Tobacco Habit.
4, Dr. Martin will pay especial attention
to the boys-and the girls. too. if there
are any-who use tobacco; she will ini-
tate an anti-profanity campaign and
will hold regular clean life meetings
Where the influences of the home. the
School and the church can be brought
t5gether and made to work in harmony
In setting a higher moral standard for
the boys and girls.
fiIn discussing this phase OF the work
DIR. Martin said:
f''Ten men working in each church in
Topeka along the lines of the clean life
movement can do more to make this
4, better town in six months than Billy
Sunday could do in six years.
ysDr. Martin asserts that the tobacco
habit is becoming more prevalent
among both the boys and girls. Also,
nervousness, immortality. criminOlogy.
insanity. unhappy homes and divorces
are steadily on the increase. and there
-.
eeptiOn to the rule. However. it is the
Doctors idea that the only way to RENE
dy these evil conditions is to work on
the boys and girls who are growing up
ard give them clearer vision Of the
reasons why they should for their own.
the city's good and nations good keep
themselves physically, morally and
mentally clean.
Parents Must Help.
s1''This is the only way to better con-
0itions,'' she said. "Of course, it is
hard problem unless the men and wom-
En- cooperate. but it is the duty OF ev-
cry mother and father to set the kind
pf example they expect their children
to follow
stDr. Martin says she has not been in
cpeka long enough to know. anythinx
reports OF immortality will ber thokOkgl,iy
investigated. Alec. the doctor said she
did know that the clean life spirit was
public schools, and shestofd.Uf one family
that came to Topeka from Denver to
place their boy and girl in the public
Nchools because they thought conditions
were better in the Topeka schools than in
those of Denver, but since coming here
they have found that there is little differ
knce.
= DIR. Martin spent the month of January
IN two other Kansas towns and said she
was surprised to find the boys and girls
IN these towns about as bad in every
other place. In one town she said almost
every boy in the public school used to-
bacco in one form or another.
While in Topeka DIR. Martin will be the
guest of Judge J. G. Wood, of 81 Clay
street. and she will be glad to cooperate
In any way possible with church and So
eial organizations. and desires especially
to get into touch with all young people s
Aocieties and clubs and organizations.
Literature explaining the methods DIR.
Martin uses, and supplies for starting a
CLEAN life organization will be mailed to
any one upon receipt of two 1-cent
Stamps. the price Of the mailing.