The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-06
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
Pertinent Question and Answers
Given and Gathered Today ny
State journal Reporters
TODAY's QUESTION.
THE ANSWERS.

Do you think the country is being
swept by a wave of MORAL laxity?
THE ANSWERS.
/ Tom King, passenger agent for the
/ Santa Fe-''I don't think So They
A.; stepped just as fast twenty-five years
| ago But when a fellow gets little
! older and starts to watching the pro-
/ cession from the side lines, his judy
ment Of speed gets little pit keener."
| A. K Van Hook. life insurance
| Yes. I believe so. think the auto
mobile is a contributing factor, ana
| then the boys and girls start stepping
out good. deal younger than they
used to do
| E. F. A. Reinisch, superintendent
Gage park-"The world as a whole is
J improving but since the war condl-
lions are worse locally have
! chance to see a good many things that
/ happen out at the park There - a
| class of persons now who Will not stop
/ at anything. They even tear up our
chairs and benches and destroy all the
property they can"
E. Z. Brayman, manager American
/ hallway E,xpress-"E Ever since 1 was
three feet high 1 have heard that the
| country was getting worse but 1 can't
believe it. If the country had slipped
as fast as we have always peen told 1t
was going we would have been in the
bow-wows a long time ago. With our
facilities of communication improved
we may hear about it more but the
things that citizens are doing today
were being done years ago. If some
certain vice is more prevalent now 1t
is because something else has bean
eliminated. which I regard as an i'm |
provement.
J. c. Mohler, secretary state board |
n only nudge from !
standards set by my friends. 1t |
wouldn't be charitable to admit they |
have slipped and really believe they |
are doing just as well as in the old !
days"
George T. McDermott. Topeka law
yer-''Naw. It isn't a lowering of
public standards. It's too blamed /
much regulation and interference with |
everyone's affairs. Persons who used |
to be perfectly respectable and good,
decent citizens and neighbors would |
go to the penitentiary under our pres
four-flushing politicians are to blame.
The ordinary citizen is just as good as
he used to be-maybe better
Emmett D. George, private secre-
tary to Governor Allen-'I don't ad-
NIT for minute that the persons with
whom 1 come in contact have slipped
a bit in their moral Standards
Charles A. Moore. Liberty Life In
surance company-'"The country has
just finished a trying ordeal 1t has
gone thru a period of moral upheaval, |
which was devastating in its scope.
But it is rapidly settling down now to
normal conditions. there's no doubt
the war and the conditions after the
war were bad. The country isn't get
ting any worse-it's just the opposite"
]
Hardware company: We'll. I don't
knoT--. Things seem pretty slow TO
~ Taybe that's because I'm aging
4 tho"
Roscoe c. Ellis, Kansas Life Ilsur-
anCe company: Due to the fact that
I am on the negative side of a debate
tomorrow night on the question: Re
solved: that the world is getting bet
Ter morally. mentally and physical
ly,' LII have to answer you IN the neg
alive on your question"
Judge w. L. Higgins. Industrial
court-"Yes emphatically yes. The
young people are spending prodigious
quantities of time and money in a
quest for false pleasure, and conse-
quently they are missing the real
fruits of life. The car has a. lot to do
with it. There should be a law
against any young person short of
majority driving an automobile alone &.
at night"
Judge George H. Whitcomb, district
court-"It strikes me that that is the
case, as a very natural result Of the
tension and abnormal conditions dur
Ing the world war"
W. B. Gasche, insurance.-.T'ml
afraid that that is right, and it will
be generations before the effects of
the World War. which brought it ]
about are eradicated. We have not
yet recoveredsfrom the same condition
which followed the Civil War
J. K. Roswell. Kansas City travelling +
and the laxer the }
more fun some have in living ]
G. Clay Baker. deputy clerk city ]
sourt.-'P Possibly SO. but 1 don't think
Z is a problem which can be solved | l
~ an inspection of court records" c
Charles Lytle. deputy marshal court
II Topeka-''Not at all. What 1 be-
ieve is considered by the older gem
,ration as moral laxity is merely a 1
mango in the mental attitude of the
world The old and new order of
Kings can never be reconciled on the =
question of morals" r
JUDGE STEPS INTO TRIAL. il
Calls Witnesses in Small Case When t
Prosecution Refuses. I