The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-07
.T0KlD POLITICIANS
Tonight VIII Be Warm for State
Officials at Hutchinson.
Topeka Press Club Will Fry EN-
on Gridiron.
STATE EDITORIAL MEET ON
Editors From All Over Kansas
Discussing Problems.
Topeka Clubs Show To Be Fea-
ture of Convention.

Hutchinson, Kan, May 7.-Topeka's S
Press club will offer the feature at
traction at the annual convention of
the Kansas Editorial association which
opened a tWo-day session here this
morning. Tonight the news writer's
from the capital city will burlesque
the great and the near-great in state
politics and public life when they
stage their drama, 1.-THE Court of Po-
litical Aspirations"
Press club members arrived in
Hutchinson this morning on a special
Pullman. The car was loaded-up-
pers. lowers and state room-with
news chasers, news editors, policy and
propaganda makers. More than TWEEN
the famous Topeka Gridiron club were
in the party. This morning the mem
bers paraded Hutchinson's main street
from the Bisonte hotel to Cow creek
and from Emerson Carey's salt plant
to the sand hills.
An Altman Aggregation.
President Charles Mitchell headed
the delegation of Press club visitors.
All of the crew wore special Press
club dges-twenty-f of 'em-and
was an altman aggregation.
Tonight's show is to be the spot
light event of the annual newspaper
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a prologue in Governor Aliens office
"a busy day of politics, business,
trouble and joy. Then comes the stir
ing scenes of the court of Industrial
relations-"The Court of Industrial
Aspirations" 1t is here that Kansas
politicians who escape in the opening
scene in the governors office, find a
warm place on the gridiron.
Prominent editors and aggressive
country publishers from every section
of the state are here for the annual
meeting. Many women are attending
the session, some of them active news
paper workers, others powers behind
the pens that make Kansas thought
and give Kansas inspiration.
The editors are mixing their joys
and sorrows. They are beWailing the
high price of print paper, the labor
situation and the job print and ad-
vertising problems. Then they are
laughing and finding real comedy in
the Kansas political status and recall
ing the big editorials and the spot
news stories and comments that have
occasionally taken the Kansas mind
off the high cost of living.
Have Free Rein in Salt City.
Salt town folks are giving the edi-
tors a free rein-all the freedom that
comes with the late amendment to
the federal constitution. There are
conversation in the hotel lobbies. Poll
tics in its serious aspect is discussed
with the freedom that comes when
Democrat and Republican editors talk
of the issues and the candidates.
Tonight the Topeka Press club will
return home and will get back in the
harness Saturday. Many of the edi-
tors will stay for the Saturday sessions
and more sight seeing tours and
more spe eches. The banquet and bur
lesque show tonight, tho, attracts most
attention-both from the editors and
the men who are in close touch with
public affairs in the state
t. p. c. Members Attending.
Topeka Press club members attend
L. Mitchell, Marco Morrow, Charles H
Sessions, Arthur J. Carruth, Jr., Frank
farrell. Paul Lovewell A. L. Shultz,
Neal S. Anderson, Milton Tabor, W.
G. Clugston, Cecil Howes. Imri Zum-
walt, E. E. Kelley. Emmett George,
Frank l. Pinet. w. r. Kercher, To-
peka; Will Beck. Holton; John Brey-
fogle, Olathe; Herbert Cavaness, Cha
mute; A. P. Burdick. Nortonville; Maj.
Charles H. Browne, Horton; ]. H.
Rhodes, Council Grove; Frank McIvor,
Hoxie; J. H Marshall. f. z. Paxton,
and W. P. Wilkerson, Topeka.
Posters and programs were carried
to Hutchinson by members of the To-
peka Press club when they left at
midnight Thursday to stage their
show, 'The Court of Political Aspira-
tions," before the Kansas Editorial as
sociation tonight. A bit of what To-
peka will miss and Hutchinson will
enjoy tonight is cleaned from the pro-
gram The following Topeka newspa-
per men will appear In the cast:
Members of Cast.
Hcny J. Allen. governor Of Kansas,
will be burlesqued by Arthur ]. Car
ruth. Jr.; Neal Anderson will bur-
of the industrial court; Frank farrell
will be Judge Clyde NJ. Reed; Cecil
Howes, Judge George Wark; Charles
L. Mitchell. clerk of the court; Marco
Morrow. Alexander Howat; Charles
Sessions, herald of the kings court:
G. Clugston, one baron" stenog-
rapher; A. L. Shultz, another stenog-
rapher; Milton Tabor, William Ker-
cher. Cliff Stratton, Emmett George.
E. E. Kelley, Frank McIvor. Paul
Lovewell. Imri Zumwalt and W. c.
Markham. reporters.
The posters to be distributed In
Hutchinson today announce that:
This stew-pendous. Augmenta-
shion. Colossal Agrivation of Carbolic
Actors will appear at the Chamber
of Commerce tonight presenting for
the first and only time in this city
'Heneretta' Jowatt Aliens most mag
nificent hemmorage. The Court of
Political Aspirations
Spectators are warned in the poster
as follows:
Check your brains at the box Of
flee: even the feeble minded will en-
joy this performance-that is why we
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