The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-22

It begins to look as tho the reporter
who, last August, went to the Pacific
Coast to report q murder case, and
who has since been detained there by
the exigencies of his business, has
drawn a permanent assignment.
But what treat 1t must be to the
stated reporter to cover a murder in
Hollywood We recall our own pro-
fessional experiences with the details
of sordid tragedies. A panorama Of
CHASTITY. repuIsive sights pitched in
/ bly, recoiled-commonpl victims of
commonplace criminals-persists in
memory. How different it must be in
Hollywood,
For there's a picture-town stirred
from its repose only by the murmur
of the limousine and the rustic of
silken garments. No raucouE sounds
disturb the silence, no throngs of COM
monplace persons tread the avenues
beneath its stately palms. There it
lies, diadem of architecture, lightly
| jazzed, in the bosom of an orange
grove. Behind it impressive snow
cappede mountains and, at eventide
and onward. the murn1ur of the Pa
cific Ocean in ones ears.
| We would be reluctant to break
away from our numerous Philadelphia
| engagements. still
An optimist is a, man on his way to
enter his dog in a kennel show. A
pessimist is a man leading his dog
away after the show is over.
| If you don't care for any of the
other numerous methods of differen-
tiating between the optimist and the
pessimist, maybe you'll like that one.
It has the merit of being original.
This is notice that when our copy
of "Cytheria" comes home we shall
not again loan it. Our open-handed-
| ness with that volume has got two
| good men into trouble. If a man
| wants to take a chance. that is his
! affair; but we shall hereafter assume
none of the responsibility.
When a man buys new hat, that
is an incident. When a woman buys
a new hat, it's an episodes
| A woman HASN'T much use for a
man who waits for her to get under
the mistletoe.
The man who has anything to say
worth hearing seldom finds 1t neces-
sary to project it from an improvised
rostrum adjacent to the curbing.
People laugh at a dull man and
| they hate a smart one. Unfortunate
| ~, you have no option as to whether
you shall be laughed at or hated
your request for full details of our
February proposition" writes a mai
order oil company which is fishing foI
| suckers from the Kansas City postof.
! flee, Just received, and we thank you
| for the interest manifested We
hadn't asked for details, and if we
have any interest in asy mail order
oil stock promotion man-eating sharks
climb trees.
We have never bought a dollar;
| worth of wildcat stocks of any kind
And yet within the two weeks last past
two companies have endeavored to in
teFest us in oil promotions. Our name
is en- the sucker" list. We are curl
/ Jus to know how it got there. vii
| one of the "con" men who are plan
ming to assault the old pay check kind
/ ~ advise?
Sucker lists cost money. The preda-
tory gentlemen who purchased the one
containing ours were short-changAd tC
| the extent of one name
Our attitute toward those convicted
| of offenses against society is well
| known. We believe criminals should
be punished. But it seems to us that
| the Chicago judge who sentenced an
| offender to attend a motion picture
theater everylSaturday night went toe
far
Meanwhile, our interest in Senator
| ''Bi1r' Lyons increases. We don't
know the senator; we had not previ-
| ously heard of him. But we gather
| from the New York papers that he
| horned his way into a group pic
| ture of the Hon. Dempsey and his
| friends made in New York the other
| day. Thus, and in such manner, we