The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-15
WRITE OF KANSAS
Many JayhaWk Writers Also in
National Magazines.
Rob Wagner PnkeS Enn at
Rob Wagner Pokes Fun at
States Movie Morals.
JAY HOUSE IN |. H. JOURNAL
Ruth Miller, Topeka, on "The
Musical Recording Angel"
Charlie Harger and Nels YIN
gIe's Brother Also sat Bat"

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obliged to spend thousands of dollars
| to get as much space in famous pc
riodicals as is given by noted Kansas
| writer's in articles in the Saturday Eve
ming Post of this week. in the Ladies'
Home Journal, in the Country Gentle
man and in Golfers National Weekly.
The articles are mostly by Kansas men
or women. residents of the Sunflower
state or former residents.
l. The first page of the Ladies' Home
journal contains paragraphs and c1ev-
er miscellany by Jay E. House, for
| mer mayor and Kansas newspaper
| man.
| In the Saturday Evening Post there
are five articles, four by Kansans and
| one by a man who doesn't thinks a
whole lot about our ways out here.
| There is much gentle fun poked at the
advertised heart of prohibition and 9S
| per cent pure movie drama in an ar
| ticle by Rob Wagner on Making the
| Films Safe for Provincialism."
| Wagner points out that the 100 per
cent woman censor board in Kansas
| denies the movie men the right to put
a hypodermic needle in the hands of
a dope fiend for fear that some mis-
guided Kansas youth might get the
habit.
Those Funny Censors.
"When Jim cuts for Kansas. Nag-
ner writes, ''he makes his dope trends
snuff the snow artistically up their
noses, which really is a much simpler
| lesson in crime than showing the com
plexities of the hypodermlc syringe,
yet the funny censors don't see the
point.
naughty road houses to deflle the
| minds of the Kansas youth, absolutely
| nothing doing. if the road mouse IS. m
| the country, but if it is near a church
JCfn T-Iy n
| lice raids in Topeka show they are
we'll and good, the censors pass IT.
| Wa gner writes:
"The only way for a Kansas hotel
| to maintain its honor and deceney IS
| TO live right in the heart of the town.
| A hotel in the suburbs is always open
| to suspicion, and the farther 1t goes OH
| into the country the more outre be
| comes it's reputation. So true is this IN
| the Sunflower state that a roadhouse
| is forbidden in the films.
| "When we are cutting for Kansas
| the title will say: Night found them at
Ye Rose Tree Inn in the dear little
| town of Wa Keeney- Kansas Knows
| full well that nothing could happensaI
1Ye Rose Tree Inn, especially if It was
right next to the court house in Wa
1 Keeney."
| There is a second article in the sat
urday Evening Post this week by MISS
Ruth Miller. Topeka girl, and daugh-
1 Il
| Miss Miller's article this week IS en-
| titled, "The Musical Recording Angel
| and deals with the newspaper end or
| the musical game. namely the crltics'
| Howe7s Country Correspondence
The third article is by Ed Howe,
| Atchison, who is probably the best
known paragrapher in Kansas. Howe
won fame when he wrote THE Story
| of a Country Town This week IN
| the Post he writes the 'Anthology- of
/ fi0Io
with newsy paragraphs of country
| town folks Example:
"a travelling man yesterday gave
John Davis. the grocer, 20 cent
| cigar John Davis has been selling
| cigars at his grocery store and smok-
| ing twenty years-and a good cigar
made him sick"
| Another article by Ed Howe this
month appears in the Country Gentle
man, a Curtis publication. This
| Present. 1t deals with Henry Allen,
| Arthur Capper, Jay. E. House and the
| wheat and alfalfa and salt and other
products of the Sunflower state.
Some say that Kansas is hypocrite
| headquarters of the world; and that
| Topeka is it's capita1' Howe writes.
| Then he goes on to describe the cleo
| ton of Jay E. House as mayor as a,
revolt against the n1ush, sentimental
stuff and government upon which
L y
| Then turning to the Saturday Even
| ing Post a second time, search reveals
still another article by a Kansan. This
time it is the name of Charles NJ Har-
ger of Abilene that is recogniza bic.
| The fact that the by-Hne is signed
Charles Moreau Harger causes the
first glance thru the columns without
catching on to the fact that is just
plain Charlie Harger from Abilene,
the metropolis of Dickinson county.
His article is on the problems facing
the farmers with the big crops and
high costs of labor and materials to
| harvest them.
| Topeka in Crime Yarn.
| Turning from the Curtis publica tions
which are filled with the freaks and
| Kansas, one finds in the biggest kid
napfng story in a, decade in Golfers
Weekly that Topeka can hold her own
| in crime stories as well as those of
other colors. In Golfers appears the
story of Harold G. Peterson and Lieut..
Paul H. Davis, telling of their actual
Experiences when kidnapped by the
bandit, Renteria.
| The Topeka State Journal had an
article months ago saying Renteria
| formerly lived in Kansas. The army
officers verify the story in their article
this week
| "Renteria told u.s. the article reads.
| that he lost his left leg and left arm
lin a railroad wreck in Kansas, where
ihe worked on a railroad. He had been
Ito Kansas City. Topeka, and Dodge
city; he had worked there five years.
Turning back to the Saturday Even
ling Post one sees the name of Hal G.
Evarts signed to a bear story entitled.