The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-25
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
Pertinent Question and Answer.
Given and Gathered Today by
State journal Reporters.

TODAY'S QUESTION.
During what period of your life did
you have the most fun:
The Answers.
Miss kathryn Albaugh, secretary
civil service commission-"I refuse to
| answer. There's surely catch in II
somewhere. I've always beer taught
not to answer direct questions by re-
porters. Besides, don't care to tell
| Miss Hedwig wulke, secretary to
Clyde NJ. Reed had the most fun
when 1 was or 6 years old. never
knew anything that was so interesting
and caused so much trouble as when
/ made mud pies. Work in the kitchen
would be a dream if someone could
put the mud pie sentiment in it"
Emmett D. George, private secretary
to Governor Allen-"Playing hockey
/ was the most fun. Gee, how I'd like to
be a kid again. 1 wonder if there are
hockey and sneak off to the swimmln'
hole in April and May"
"Bnr' Kercher. Southwestern Bell
Telephone company-"Just as soon as
I quit taking life too seriously
E. H. Hogue1and, commerce counsel
for Topeka Traffic association-"Not
L
that period"
Miss Ruth Rooster, proprietor Ruth
AIMS Shop-"Right this very minute.
Senator Alfred Docking. Riley
county-"Going up against the SEEM
ingly impossible to get real results.
has always fascinated me as part or
playing the game Three years in the
Choctaw country in my later twent1es.
ava 10
meeting many and varied emergen-
cies as the superintendent of a train
ing school, probably constitute the
! most fun period of my life
Harrison Clarkson, age IS, Oldest
member of Topeka Rotary club and
Chamber of Commerce. think the
most fun I ever had was while I at
tended DE PAW university in Indiana.
We didn't dance in those days. AMI
drinking was mainly confined to the
farm hands. That was in 1854. and l
attepded two years-then ] had to go
to work About a dozen of the boys
from my county rented suite Of
rooms above a downtown store and
kept a bachelor hall We did our
own cooking and had a grand good
time
Billy Biby, Near East Reflective
never had much fun. but I've had lot
experiences that I've made fur out
Of
C. P. Buck, metal products-'T had
mine when 1 was back in Michigan,
and could go trout fishing and not
worry lot about business. Oh, yes,
there are trout here, but business is
also here
A. D. Gray. assistant treasurer Santa
Fe-"Right ROW.
Judge George H. Whitcomb, distric.
court-"Oh-h-h. when L caught my
first trout, shot my first partridge
and played baseball. I think any one
has the most fun at that time of life.
John NJ. K.nkel-"rve always had
it."
Erskine Neiman, Washburn law
senior-''Well, I'd rather wait a few
years yet, then 1 could give you a more
accurate and truthful answer. At
present I enjoy myself the most when
am in a class under Doc Hughes
H. P. Brush, Eighth street traffic
officer-"Boy, listen to me. When I
was a youngster back in Elyria Ohio.
used to go down in the pine woods.
thick with trees and underbrush, and
have the best time in the world fish
ing, swimming and sometimes hunting.
I'd give a lot to enjoy those days
again.
Chick Cole, billiards. had the
most fun between the ages of 5 and
Is. / think everybody does"
RED" Morrissey, barber at Antlers
when I used to go sit on a creek
bank, in the shade. with a bamboo
pole, line and bait, and plenty of corn
silks and matches. A day like today
makes me think of it,
SANTA F'E REDUCES FORCE
Thirty-Six Unskilled LabOrers Cut Off
Pay Roll, Thursday.
A further reduction of the force at
the Santa Fe shops became effective
Thursday and applied to thirty-siX