The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09
SPIRIT IN JINCLES WHAT'S A !
Kids Turn Out Rhymes by Yes, Everybody Kn
Yard in War Stamp Drive. Kind Anoth
Way Out in Kansas Kaiser Is However, There Are
on Jackrabbit Lope. ferent Kinds of
NICKEL and TWO thin DIMES SOME SHREWD Pc
That's All Needed To Help Some Are Men w
Break Hindenburg Line. Business to Sue
Juveniles Will Knock Helm Others Are Just p
nxt Of I'm TaSh her
Yes, Everybody Knows One
Kind or Another.
However, There Are Many Diff
ferent Kinds of Whips. :
SOME SHREWD POLITICIANS
Some Are Men Who Drive
Business to Success.
Others Are just Plain Plug
Horse LaShers.

What is a whip? Sounds like 9
simple question requiring an equally
simple answer. But it isn't Topeka
has number of varieties of whips
and the great cities and resorts of the
world have an even larger variety
The most common whip is that
which can be seen in the sockets of
innumerable old family buggies. 1t Is
used for giving Dobbin little added
incentive for speed.
Next in Importance is the political
whip" Happy is that man who can
call himself, with truth, full fledged.
snapper-mounted, political ''whip%
That man is indeed fortunate for his
whip" quality is that aura of per
sonality which he throws out quite un-
consciously, and yet which forces men
to follow his lead without question:
The political whip" is peculiar to no
party, but is common to all in extreme
moderation. Just at present Washing
ton has in its environs one of the
most adept political whips" that the
United States has yet produced
The business ssWhip..
Next is the business whip" He
too. is most to be envied man
Imagine one with such a forcefrI
personality that he can endow articles
of senseless cloth and stone and metal
with such attractive personalities that
one cannot resist buying. That is one
kind of business whip The other
kind is that man of more than large
means and equally large greed who.
thru his breat but small brain works
out the destinies of small corporations
lnnumerable. Some call this type of
whip" a genius, others cali him an
octopus.
But of all the whips the most note
worthy and the most conspicuous il
the society whip" Perched high on
the seat of little buggy the Society
whip gracefully and with all due
dignity handles the reins of his tan
dem turnout of blooded Kentuckians.
he is seen on the boulevards of Palm
Beach. on the parkways of New York
and washington. and in all of the in
humeraDle stopping and watering and
summering places of the idle rich.
Other Society "Whips."
or the same class of society '.whfps'
but of different growth is the whip.
who entertains his friends from the
box of an old new English coach. This
biase young man was more common
pe1ore the war, and his PRINCIPAL
haunt was the route to the great
tracks near London-on-the-Tham
! rms gentleman fooled a four whose
ancestry was undoubted and whose
spirit was not in the least subdued.
1t is not expected that the "whip-of-
four will flourish in all his pristine
glory for some time after the close OF
the war. =
| All these whips are notable vet com
mon. Yet there is one even more com
mon and cosmopolitan. In the pool
rooms of the cities-and in the cross
roads store in the countyseat towns OF
the nation this whip" can be found
plying his trade and touting the UNI
wary to the clutches of the bookiex
This whip is the common or garden
variety of race horse driver and he
f1ourishes anywhere and everywf1ere
that a race track for horses can be
found He is the driver of the speed
ing trotters and the coacher of the
swaying PAGER, and the bouncing
steersman of the plunging and spectac-
ular runner. Everyone knows this
whip" too, for does not the program
man furnish all and sundry with the
name and color of every horse and
driver for the sum of one dime, ten
cents? We all love him but all hate
him too, at times when the luck fal1a
wrong
These are just a few of the more
prevalent types of whips and IL you
want to think of any more you may
as the saying is hop to it,