The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-29
VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS

\ VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
I pertinent Question and Answers
/ Given and Gathered Today ny
| State journal Reporters.
TODAY'S QUESTION.
Now that powder is not needed for
war purposes, are you I'm favor OF a
return to the old fashioned FourthE
THE ANSWERS.
F. l. STEVENS. City Commissioner
They may not need the powder in
France, but the flappers are using all
that we can spare for decorative pur-
poses. Seriously, while hate to see
the boys and girls deprived of the fun
Of the old fashioned Fourth, yet there
was too much danger to it"
DIR. EARLE G. BROWN. city
health officer-'It may be all right
about the powder, but the death rate
of children on Fourth of July has
been tremendously decreased since the
elimination of the old fashioned VIDE
open celebration"
CAPT. E. H. DAVIS. No. hose
1T would certainly make a lot more
work for US"
JOHN B. FLOYD, Boy Scout ex-
ecutive for Topeka-'Tf the fireworks
were properly safeguarded and han
died by older persons, I'd like to see
the old time celebrations revived, from
a patriotic standpoint, and from the
standpoint of the fun the youngsters
get out of them"
THE REV. J. T. CRAWFORD. ex-
ecutive secretary of the Kansas Bap-
81 ~1nEyPnrfnn-ts\Ot that ground.
There are too many accidents. There
should be more care in handling ex-
plosives."
E. E. MDANIEL. advertising man
ager of the Kansas Teacher-''No, 1
do not I don't think a lot of noise
and confusion tends to display much
patriotism.
MISS GRACE PARRISH. of the !
teachers placement bureau of the |
Kansas State Teachers association
Certainly. I would like to attend an
old fashioned Fourth of July cele- |
bration. would feel ten years |
younger"
n W. BENNING. secretary of the |
Central Y NJ. c. Al do not. I |
think a sane celebration is by far the /
best"
GEORGE W. McCLELLAND.-' |
think the lids should go off on the i
small stuff. We are getting to be (
mollycoddles."
JAMES B. DONCYsON, secretary |
of the Scottish Rite bodies of the /
have ii. I once had to cut lawns to |
finance my Fourth of July celebration. |
We persons OF the old school become |
biased in our opinions"
J. F. JARRELL:-'More people |
have been killed in celebrating the |
Fourth of July than were killed dur !
ing the Revolutionary war which \
tinue the Slaughter"
w. B. LLINSON.-''Now that I |
have the responsibility of looking I
after a boy of my own 1 should say i
no.
W. c. FOx.-"I guess I'll have to be
for it this year. My boy helped with |
the fireworks at the fair grounds last /
year and when it was all over the |
man gave him big box of fireworks /
which hadn't been used. So 1 think
the Fourth will find me just out of |
the edge of towr enjoying myself"
E. F. FLAD. Flad & Marsh Drug
company am absolutely opposed
to anything except a safe and sane
Fourth. I have seen so many serious
injuries that resulted from Fourth of
July celebrations that l could never
l4NOE out a SdI6 ana sane
Fourth can remember when citf-
zens were not safe on the streets of
Topeka when Fourth of July celebra-
tons were in progress"
JUDGE w. r. sMITH.-'It doesn't
make any difference to me. I'm going
to get a bottle of near beer and sit
in the shade"
MAJOR A. W. KRAUSE. state
house custodian-"Tm going to shoot
something If it has to be dice. 1t is
a fine love of country and glowing
patriotism which can be worked up
when our national birthday is cele-
brated with a few speeches and a lot
of solemn. sad faced readings. / am
in favor of assembling all the folks
who have laid away their nursing bot
tie and holding a real celebration
celebration with firecrackers. sky
rockets. niger chasers and all the
other wild, patriotic making noises
BERT CORNELL, state automobile
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES was in favor of
the sissy Fourth of July stuff. Lord
when I was a kid we'd have started
a rebellion If they tried to put one
on us. I want some of the real thing
again."
J. c. MoHLER, secretary state
board of agriculture-"Put me down
for some firecrackers and skyrockets.
don't like the sane stuff all the time.
think we ought to get out in the
country and be wild about something
once a year. And there isn't any bet
ter thing to be wild about than our
own country"
MISS KATHERYN ALBAUGH,
secretary Judge John H. era Word
Il want an old fashioned celebration
even IF I hurn nv fingers and SINCE