The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-23
Jay E. House and Albert L.
Reid Are in Limelight.
National Magazine Tells About
Newspaper Men.
OUSE IN PHILADELPHIA
Makes "SecOnd Thought" First
Thought With Readers.
Reid's Cartoons Reflect Every
Shade of Thought.

RhduU VI AhOu6Ae
When you get to writing about peo-
ple-people who stand out above the
crowd. who lead the gang, you can't
write about many people without get
ting Kansas mixed into the story. No
matter what line you take up-some-
body who stands high in that line is
going to come from Kansas"
The National Magazine. published
in Boston, is, it says on its title page,
Mostly about people" Which means
that it will have to tell about Kansans.
In the current issue two Kansas men,
and by the same token two Topeka
men, and to cut the issue still finer.
two former Topeka newspaper men,
have been chosen as personalities
which the readers of the magazine will
feel it is worth while to hear about.
Two Topeka Newspaper Men.
The two Kansans, Topekans. former
House and Albert T. Reid. Topekans
know what Topeka has thought of
these men, and it will interest Tope-
kans to know what Boston thinks of
them.
\ Most everybody knows that Jay
Houses Second Thoughts" are now
being printed in the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger That Kansas newspaper
man s. thought and PHILOSOPHERS could
interest the people of Philadelphia,
would have seemed improbable at one
stage of kansas development But
newspaper column printed in the
United States. day after day, with
more real homespun and soothing
philosophy than that written by Jay
f. House, in the Public Ledger of
Philadelphia.
His Work Has Charm.
THE charm of his work is en-
HANGED when you know his Second
Thoughts make it the first thought
when the readers of the Public Ledger
pick up the paper Jay E. House is a
publicist and premier para rapher and
philosopher Quiet, modest, and self
effacing, he has a subtle virility that
suggests a positive electric current.
Cream of Life Experiences.
"Jay E. House gives to his readers
the cream of rich life experience, for
he has had a notable public career.
He halls from Kansas, and was born in
the small town of Erie. which figures
in his work as Grigby's Station. After
years of newspa per work in Topeka.
his friends insisted upon him being
candidate for mayor. He was
a real mayor in fact and deed. 1t was
apparent after the enthusiasm of in
auguration day, that he was going to
be a real mayor. No amount OF pres
sure. cajolery or intimidations
sweryed him from carrying out his
own determinations. They insisted
upon re-electing him. More than 95
per cent of the business men OF the
CITY signed a petition urging him to
run for third term and they pre-
scented it en- masse. Jay E. House has
a sort of determination that can't be
broken, and he declined the lure of
third term. He had read American
history and felt that three terms We're
too much for any one man. and with
a consciousness that he performed his
duty as a citizen, he declined. {.
His Heart in Work.
"The great heart of Jay f. House
has always been in his newspaper
work. kilograms from Cyrus II. x.
Curtis. Philadelphia, kept coming 10
him. After a succession OF kilograms
jaw E. House made his way to Phila-
deiphia. and Philadelphia has FOUND
in the erstwhile Kansas mayor an ap-
preciative resident and citizen.
Direct Way of Saying Things.
"Jav'E. House has a direct way of
saving things that is startling and
nricIxs human vanity with fine-pointed
wit Nothing is sacred to him IL. IN
his estimation, it lacks genulneness.
And nothing .frishtens him or neaos
him off. Even in the test of running
for office he did. not alter his custom
of writing what to him appearedsto pc
YeaI ia cts. altho it might interfere with
the diplomatic plans of his friends-
He takes keen delight IN Watchihs
public men feed the public with Wnae
thew want to hear, and then he pro-
Goods to tell the truth whether they
want to hear it or not.
sHis description of early days ana
Of a Fourth of July celebration IN
Kansas country town is noU oniy m
teresting as a bit of newspaper htera-
ture but it indicates the source OF
sterling virility of citizenship nureureo
in the small country towns.
They Never Tire.
1.-The denizens of the east never tire
of the quaint philosophy that comes
of the experience offhe man who ran
the gamut of life by beginning in the
small town and living among pushing,
swirling throngs; he just sees human
nature in all its phases -
whether the environment be country
town or the swirlinS maelstrom OF
seaside resort, or a pushing subway
throng. it is all the same to Jay +.
House-they are just people-and peo-
ple are always interested in people"
Reid Is Genius
About the other Kansan, the Ma
tiona1 has this to say:
.aThe genius of Albert T. Reid is
best revealed in his clear conception of
the shadow of events and the further
shadowing events to come Where he
has secured all the ideas represented
in his book of cartoons, which Is
book pretentious in size to diction-
airy, is mystery TO his closest friends
and associates. Everyone who meets
him or drops in his office seems to
contribute to his work indirectly. A
chance remark. or an expression in
talking or a scene in the street, in the
theater-the active brain is ever alert
and at wrOk