The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-20
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY =. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Pnblic LsdgsF.l

We thought We had reached peri |
helion when the publishers of This
Freedom sent us beautiful, hand
fooled copy of the work; but our light,
instead of remaining static or dimin-
ishing, seems to be increasing. We
have just been made an associate di-
rector In the Higgins-Mexia Oil Com
pany-but let them tell it. We hate
to talk about ourself.
at have something to offer you,'
writes Mr.. r. N. Wilson, president Of
sne company, which means much
more than being just a stockholder-
something which when thoroly ex-
planned surely will appeal to your
good sense of reasoning. At meet
ing of the Board of Directors it was
decided to appoint few associate dt-
rectors in the Higgins Mexia Oil Com
pany, who will by their close co-opera-
ton with us enjoy special privileges
and be in position to earn big money
from stock sales and product sales in
their territory. You have been Sc
lected to represent us in your terri
tory, and 1 am going to extend to you
the privilege of accepting one of the
appointments as associate director in
this company"
We have long coveted some such
distinction, ard we accept-the APP
pointment1 With this issue of the
column we enter upon our new Gu
ties. We assume that, as an assistant
director, we have authority to speak
for and of the company. I'VE there
fore advise investors to let the Hig-
ginsMexia Company a1one~ Do not
buy promotion stock in any oil COM
pany. It's a sucker play.
eff I were C. subscriber to your
paper-which 1 am not" writes an
indignant woman who is at odds with
this Journals attitude toward the So
Icalled political prisoners, Il certainly
would cancel my subscription" That.
to paraphrase George AIDE, is an awful
threat.
Speaking of the political prisoners
and their friends, the sub-chief a day
or two ago suggested that we dedi-
cate a couple of paragraphs to them
We have run the suggestion thru the
wringer Of thought to no avail. What
we think of the so-called political
prisoners I'D those who are leading
the crusade for their RELEASE cannot
be printed in a decent, self-respecting
journal. 1t is language fit only for
the fireside. Eut we are willing to
strain a point to get it>into the record.
If the friends of the so-called political
prisoners will call at this desk, we'll
be delighted to tell them what we
think.
There are disadvantages in being
buried in the editorial recesses of a
newspaper office. The city editor.
the lucky stiff, whose room is the
first to the left as you come in, got
to tell them what he thought the.
other day.
Old Arthur Crabb, who is a good
writing-man, a fair golfer and, in the
present manifestation, a poor thinker,
is snorting With Indignation. Hear
him: "It is too bad that a. ow-down,
merciless, ignorant boss should make
you go to a. World Series game and
pay all your expenses. That's terri
Bile, but you ere so rnueh-worse. The
Yanks and Giants seem to have got
your goat for fair. Big league
baseball is entertainment. The public
goes because it gets it's moneys worth.
The owner provides the entertain
ment because h, makes money out
of it. why should you complain
because New York finds it good BUSH
ness to provide good baseball, where
as Philadelphia apparently finds it
good business to provide bad base
ball?"
Nobody makes us do anything. But.
as one who is loyal to his employer
and to his newspaper and who is
sincerely DESTROYS of earning the hon.
orarium that is paid him, we do
that we Shall do. and we do it UNI
complainingly That, we take it, IS
our obligation to the job. Expense
money never IS desideratun with US.
If it is anything we really want to do,
we are always willing. and usually
competent, personally to finance the
expedition.
We are not interested in the grand
slam" of baseball when New York
n frara '
pearl-lined limousine to ride across
a jasper pavement to accept the priv |
ilege of viewing the game from seat
on a cushion of eiderdown. That is
a purely personal reaction-more |
likely it is a purely personal antipathy. |
But we have the reportorial instinct, |
and we enjoyed writing a story about |
the game. We are the sort. of person |
who is willing to walk seven miles, |
swim a moat, tunnel thru a stone wall /
and climb a flagpole If, by so doing,