The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21
Clinics Down Town.

greater than those of Illinois, Indiana
or Ohio. ard are less than those of
Michigan and that western Kansas is
rot as windy a. place as western Okla
bona or the panhandle of Texas.
The rowing disposition of many
Kansans. who go TO summer resorts
in the heated periods and seek milder
climates in winter as well as a some
what prevalent belief that the only
cure for TIE dread disease, pulmonary
the southwest, has resulted in a rather
wide spread belief that Kansas wealth
er is not conducive to bodily comfort
and good health
Climate Is HeaIthful.
Modern medical science has Of re-
cent years came to the conclusion
that tuberculosis stands almost as
climate like that of Kansas, other
things being equal. as in the far
famed climate of the southwest, and
that Kansas climate, plus the care
and rest and proper food Of a good
home. is much more likely to effect
a cure than Indifferent care in
health resort THIS is not surprising
in view of the fact. that Kansas re-
ceives mere sunshine each year than
any state between it and the Atlantic,
or between it and the Canadian boun-
dairy, and considerably more than
South" The western third # the state
is a close rival of southern California
in this respect. and the air in those
western counties is almost as bracing
and celebrating as it is III the noun
tainS to the westward
Climate Is Unchanged
Another common delusion about
Kansas weather is that the winters
are becoming milder and the drouths
IaaS and This daltI-
sion 1 should like, personally, to find
is not a delusion. but it will have to
give way to cold and unfeeling sta
tistics. 1t is a common tendency with
all of US to remember the cold winter
years ago, when the snow lay deep on
the ground from Christmas until
spring, and the ground was frozen sew
eraI feet deep, and the drouth that
withered the corn, forgetting the nu-
merous faVora BILE seasons that have
passed. This has been especially true
/ in Kansas. where the early settlers
were poorly protected from the in
/ clemencies of the weather and still
more poorly prepared in financial
way to undergo a crop failure result
ing from a severe drouth-
The winter of 1911-12. only five
years ago. was the coolest on the
states record, and the drouth of 1913,
/ less than four years ago. the most Sc
we're in the history of the state. with
/ the possible exception of that Of 1874,
} tho doubtless many old settlers can re-
/ call winters when there was more
suffering from the cold than in the
one mentioned. and a great many
! years. especially 1860 and 1854, when
the shortage of crops due to dry
weather was more disastrous than in
1913.
/ In the light of all available knowi-
edge the fact seems to stand that,
while Kansas has made great strides
/ in an agricultural way in the past
/ fifty years and may make even greater
strides in the next fifty years, the
climate has not changed any since the
! Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock
and will probably not change for cen
1 turtles to come, also that the golden
| harveSts of the last twenty years have
been the result of increased skill and
I industry in making the earth produc-
tive and have been independent of any
change in climate.