The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-08
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public LedgeE.)

1 i
Perhaps you have entertained the
desire to write screen Stories" con-
lectures the Palmer Photoplay Cor
poration of Los Angeles. Perhaps
yau have already written and submit
ted them. Rejection slips do not al
ways catalogue the faults in a fellows
story, but 1 wager the fault is gem
orally in the construction and not in
the story itself, where newspapermen
are concerned
Palmer Photoplay Corporation prob
ably is the poorest "perhapser'' in the
tanned the slightest desire to write
screen stories. We are only a hick
from the Middle West, but we have
our standards of conduct, such as they
are. And the assumption that We
have written screen stories only to
have them rejected annoys us and We
are frank to tell the Palmer Photo
play Corporation as much. To have
a screen story rejected by those who
control the destinies of the pictures
would be the browning humiliation.
We doubt If we'd survive it.
ION the other hand" continues the
P. P. c., half the great scenarists of
work and among our successful stu
dents newspapermen are most promi-
nently represented" Well, if half the
great scenarists are newspapermen all
we have to say is they ought to be
ashamed OF themselves.
Much as the Palmer PhotopIay Cor
poration desires to sell us its course
shall engage in the profession of seem
ario writing. If worst comes to worst,
we'll go back to Grigsby City. Carter
Wild would give us a, Job on the Grigs-
by City Weekly Clarion any day.
81 am assuming" writes Prof. EN-
NETT J. Scott. of Howard university.
| that you will welcome any. communi-
cation which will place before you the
feeling of colored people with regard
to the hateful segregation practices to
which colored people are constantly
subjected in this country
Prof. Scott assumes wrong. We
don't want to hear anything about it.
We once had the job of keeping 1000
colored voters placated and convinced
that they were not being Disseminated
again in any way in the administra-
their feelings, but we can't do any
thing to heal them. So, why should
we bother?
The facts are that a majority of the
white race-perhaps a very large ma
jority-objects to quasi-social contact
with the co1ored race. 1t is a personal
matter and, as such, is not subject to
statutory enactment or affected by
any abstract principle of fairness or
justice. The whites are largely in the
majority, they have the Influence and
the power, and they are going to keep
! them. The colored man will continue
to be segregated. physically wherever
contact can possibly be avoided, and
always in the mind of the white pop
ulatiOQ of this country,
For the coIored people hating segre-
cation is a waste of time. They can't
do anything. about it and the condi-
ton will exist as long as humanity is
what it is.
In Kokomo yesterday they dedicated
a monument to the man who invented
the automobile. In the news columns
this morning you will find the names
Of a number of those who tried to
drive the deadly weapon thus in
vented.
And it is we'll within the bounds of
possibility that ours may be among
them.
1t is true we have not yet received
an invitation to play golf with Presi-
dent Harding, but we stayed, last fall,
in the identical hotel, just out of
Uniontown, in which the president and
his party were entertained Sunday
night.
It is a cheerful place. A sign by
the roadside in front of the hotel tells
the wayfarer exactly how many per-
sons were killed. and the number in
jured in descending that mountain
during the previous year.
The Keener's Run Goddess.
From the Ashland (O.) Times Gazette.