The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-19
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger)

. 1t is distressing to observe pish-posh
upon the lips of Senator Underwood
Generally. and in a manner of speak
| ing. the Senator is rock in weary
land, a shelter in a time of piffle.
| But when he asserts grandmother had
better health than her granddaughters
and attributes her superior vitality
and sparkle to he habits. living prac-
tees and customs of her day, he
aligns himself with Senator Pat Har-
rison and the other members of the
| bassoon section.
As a matter of fact. grandmother.
not infrequently, was old and broken
at forty. She dressed it and looked it.
Now she is not unlikely to be young
and pulsating at sixty. Present day
practices, customs and manner Of
| thought, together with the skill of the
modern architect and exterior dec
orator. have taken thirty years off of
her age. If there were nothing else
to say for the day and time, what it
has done for women would justify it.
We have hitherto expressed our
willingness to go to work for Mr.. Ed
son in the event that our answer to
his question is satisfactory; but
more pleasing alternative has framed
itself in mind. If he will remove the
limit or make it table stakes, we'd
rather play poker with him.
from readers who resent our dictum
tconcerning the word sweat" We diff
| fer from other reformers in the re-
spect that we do rot wish to bind
others with our personal prejudices.
But We don't like the word, it can't
get into this column, and that's final.
We are, however. entirely willing
that those who find it a delectable
physiological morsel shall use it to
their hearts content.
We find much that is intriguing
and instructive in the advertising of
the Newspaper Training Association,
| Inc, of New York City. The News
paper Training Association, Inc. is
/ engaged in teaching young men the
noble and arduous profession of jour
nalism. For Sc down it offers any
aspirant to the arena of journalism a
complete course of thirty lessons and
a reporters pass, contingent upon an
additional payment of 81 out of the
| first wages earned by the student. 1t
| is a grand work. There ought to be
more good reporters. If we seem to
| detect some flaws in the association s
plan, do not attribute it to fear that
one of its graduates will take our job
away from US.
The trouble is that, generally speak
| ing, a. young man who aspires to enter
| the noble and arduous profession of
journalism must get his job from a
city editor. City editors are a hard
lot. The fluff and froth which moves
| a world to exclamation leaves a city
editor cold and distract. But he would
laugh his head off at an applicant for
a job whose qualifications were that
he had taken a course of journalism
by mail. 1t would be so funny to him
that he probably would assign his star
reporter TO do a story about it.
The Newspaper Training Associa-
ton, Inc, also intimates and implies
| that the reporters pass which it con-
fers on student gives him entree to
about everything that is going on. We
mention the matter for the reason
1 that a lot of student reporters are go
| ing to be deeply disappointed when
| their passes are turned down at the
| gate. We have been a regular re-
porter for thirty years. We are con-
nected with a regular newspaper.
There isn't an amusement or enter
| tainment enterprise in the world to
which we are not expected and COM
PEELED to buy Our ticket of admission.
If we were to show up at & fire. a
murder or a jamboree of any kind
| without a police card countersigned
4 by the city editor we would be i'm
mediately propelled in the direction
of the outer air.
! Still, we do not wish to discourage
| those who contemplate a mail course
in journalism. They might as well go
| ahead with it. If a mail-order train
/ ing school doesn't get their money
| somebody else will
We look forward to another lonely
| and monotonouS summer. The people
virtually have stopped sending us pic
| ture postcards bearing the inscription:
Having a good time; wish you were
here"
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