The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-19
DREAM OF FRANCE HOUSE LIKES 1T
Topeka Lieutenant Girl Former Mayor Writes of Do
of His Heart There. ings in Philadelphia
Imagnes and Topeka Girl City of BrOtherly Love Is His
Asking Showdown. Kind of Town.
LETTER COMES NEXT DAY LONELY FOR HIS OLD FRIENDS
Tells of Sad Death of His Says He VIII Never Forget
MademOiselIe. Topeka or TOpekans.
bod CASTOR Making Hit With
He Came Home His "COyum."
Former Mayor Writes of Do
ings in Philadelphia.
City of BrOtherly Love Is His
Kind of Town.
LONELY FOR HIS OLD FRIENDS
Says He VIII Never Forget
Topeka or TOpekans.
bod CASTOR Making a Hit With
His "COIyum."

| Jay E. House likes his new job.
Plotting a "coIyum" for the PhiIadel-
phia Ledger and writing sundry edi-
torials, isn't half bad he declares. and
besides, he likes the town. Topekans
who opposed him and those who IA
vored him, but who are nevertheless
unanimously interested in him, may
be satisfied that Dodd Castor is SUI
premeiy contented in the City of
| Brotherly Love.
] To be sure, he gets lonesome for his
local friends with whom he associated
for twenty years and he declares he
will never forget Topeka: but he has
resigned himself to this inevitable
condition and resolutely gone forward.
/ He is making good on a fast Job and
those who knew him are not sur
| prised.
IT'S HIS Kind of a Town.
ct think I'm going to like it first
rate" writes the former mayor of
Topeka. THE work is very pleasant
and agreeable and Philadelphia seems
to be my kind of a town. Cut off
from all my boon companions, like
wheat at the harvest, and deprived of
all my sports and pastimes, I have
been very lonely. But that was a
phase thru which I expected to pass
and one which I discounted in ad-
vance. One cannot tear up friend
ships which have been twenty years
in forming, nor uproot habits of life
which have become so much routine.
without experiencing some pangs. But
I am gradually getting into things and
the worst of that Is over. altho I shall
never forget Topeka and its people"
House writes a column five days q
week. has Saturdays or and Sunday
afternoon writes an editorial for Mon
day. People there are warming up to
him. it is said.
81 suppose" he says, that in time
the old job will develop certain an
noyances. but at the moment can
think of none. And to one who
worked more than seventeen years for
Arthur Capper, the honorarium is
very satisfactory. No matter how long
I stay here, I doubt that I shall ever
pick up the Public Ledger and find in
its news columns a story in which
am tacitly accused of having social
disease. I doubt that Mr.. Curtis will
ever permit his managing editor to
abuse me in the paper or to cast re-
Election on my ability. my honesty or
my motives.
Still Interested in Topeka.
Naturally, / am curious about
many things. 1 should like to now
how Mayor Corwine is getting long
with the transfer station he was go
ing 10 build without expense to the
taxpayers. who is spreading the old
bunc in the most profuse quantities
What are the women trying to uplift
now that the men are saved?"
Houses hours are from about 10
o'clock in the morning until $3.50 in
the afternoon. Sometimes, he says,
he is detained until o'clock and
misses the ball game"
IF a man makes good here" Jay
declares, "he should make good any
where in the world There Is nothing
faster. And yet, to me the game seems
no harder than It Is in Topeka and
Kansas City. 1t may be that 1 have
not yet sensed the pace but the only
thing can see is that is is much
bigger and more. complex. It is a tre-
mendous institution, and the Evening
Ledger. which is cotton out by a sepa-
rate staff on a separate floor. but
which issues from the same building
is just as big a proposition as the
morning paper"
House apparently has taken a
fancy to his fellow workers and the
big men connected with the great pub
LEGATIONS, judging from the tone of his
letter. And no doubt they'll take a
fancy to him.