The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-11

New York.-''Day by day in every
way it's getting harder and harder
| to be secretive about oneself. Ages
to come will undoubtedly look back
on US as the period of the picture
! takers. We shall be the most pho
! tographed creatures who ever >inhab-
tied the face OF the earth Passports
I were the first step A lot of people
/ complained at having to have their
/ portraits attached to that document.
! And having seen passport photo
1 graphs of several of my friends L
l don't wonder at that. Then came
| commuters. Just few months ago,
| the railroads out of New York de
manded a Photographic accompani-
! and we had to stop borrowing and
! lending them in the good old neigh
borly way. Now. it's pistol permits
Our police commissioner has just an
nounced that hereafter every permit
must be accompanied by a photo
graph of the Bearer. Approximately
10000 persons are licensed to carry
pistols in greater New York. Chief
among them are employees of banks
and other financial institutions and
persons engaged in hazardous occu-
pations Several ordinary citizens got
permits last year during the crime
wave. and I've even thought of it my
self, but since We've learned our his
tory becomes distorted, I am not GO
Alg to have great come
across my portrait listed as a pistol
bearer in some hall ofNrecords.
The "Gas House District,-has a
fascination for all New Workers. Over
and about old Avenue A, it is the
scene of much of the Distress of the |
metropolis and a great deal of its
honest labor. It is in greater promi- |
hence just now because it is from that
district that Gov.-elect AL Smith /
came. and one of the proudest boasts
of the Boys club located there is that /
&c ~ I,
This club was founded by the late +. !
H. Hartman. and is yet under the |
patronage of that family. All the !
kiddies who cannot find room in the I
movie auditorium of the club go to !
the District Moving Picture theater |
the Avenue A" Every mothers son 4
was yelling himself hoarse the other /
night when pictures of Athe god AL ]
just then angry tongues of flame shot !
out from the operators booth. 1t !
looked like panic and the tune /
East Side, West Side failed to hold
the youngsters in their seats A so
hcitous manager got on the job. ap-
plying the pyrene extinguisher and
his own soothing assurances, and ''All
around the town was soon resumed
by the audience. Who knows but
what some, other future governor was
spared to our state?
Here's one more proof of advertis-
Ills - DdbN III TIE upper emu Oh the
city toddled away from home the
other day and landed, as usual, in the
police station. where the officers
waited for some one to telephone and
report a lost child with yellow hair
and blue eyes. After four hours, no
call had come wen have to send
her down to the Childrep,s Society if
some one doesn't appear soon" they
sighed. Say said one rookie on the
,orce, Did you ever try putting 'em
lp in the big window. Maybe with
hat kind of advertising. some one
night recognize her" So up went
soldilocks with a pehned- sign above
ler- Lost Baby Sympathetic
mothers, stopped and looked at her
'egretfully, until suddenly one little
sirl en- route from school, exclaimed,
Why there's the baby from the
apartment across the hall from u.s." |
And home the lost one went.
There are artistic dilettante among
,ur burglaries as well as any of our I
more conventional people. Thieves
Who entered the home of Mrs. Thyra
J. WinslOw,- short story writer of Kew
Long Island. the other night,NI
proved it. They stole only a bottle '
f old port and a Ioose-leaf notebook !
N which Mrs. Winslow had jotted I
own memoranda for plots of stories. l
The Hudson river makes a lot of i
Inference on ones point of view. {
here, just across its waves from us .
les Jersey City. And yet in Jersey t