The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-16
CHAPTER XIII.
IMore Polities.l

i - e1tC a AO4AAEOInAnS DOOA- 4LlS looks
I like the dove Of peace was really in
evidence with an olive branch in its
mouth. But, this is only the Sec
ond Thought of our esteemed con-
temporary. which it must be admitted
has been greatly improved since the
writer thereof has a better half to
censure and suggest copy
If our newspaper neighbor would
always think twice on most of it's
propositions what a happier outcome
all around there would be- The first
thoughts of our contemporary are
often rather crude, but give it time
and sufficient grasp, and matters final
" shape themselves in its columns
Taft or Anti-Taft. which is it? A pa
tient public awaits Is it the Large
Smile or the Big PomDadour? Is it
the big hearted. broad minded Chris
tian. Unitarian, w. H. T., or is it r.
L. F.. the man who is quoted by Les
lies Weekly as saying 'Ingersol had
a tremendous influence upon me-; but
then it is bad to mix politics and reli-
gion, and sometimes newspapers and
politics.
About all the time many of us
working people have to look at a
morning paper is to take the best
thought there is in it, glance at the
headlines, which have a familiar icok
to State Journal readers, and then
rush of to business
When Governor stubbs said in his
Thanksgiving proclamation just print
ed that the world is getting BETTER
did he have any reference to the de-
feated Guyer and his Lieutenant Gov
ernor Hopkins of Garden City, and the
improved conditions of the worlds
good people in the Second and Seventh
Kansas representative districts?
AS William Allen White is getting
his political bearings. which were
somewhat Jared loose last week, his
leading editorial last evening was
upon the subject Watch Your Lake
Fish. This writer will bear the in
junction in mind. The governor should
watch his pond, too.
"A lady asked this morning for
the names of several of our favorite
books" Well. we are not setting up as
a judge of literature in these REM |
but will say in passing |
that we find everything that William
Allen White writes highly entertaining. |
His Court of Boyvine' is delightful |
and his "a Certain Rich Man" edu-
cationaI, instructive, enlightening. His |
forthcoming book is anxiously awaited |
But meanwhile what pleases us most |
IN Whites writings is his political |
humor. White takes politics seriously, |
but to this subscriber among the fun |
NEST things which appear in print are
William Aliens heavy editorials for
Saving the Country" and against |
Taft
The recent one on "Our Weary Presi-
deEt" taken in connection with the
present little extra side trips President
Taft is making every day out of Wash
ington just for exercise, and to keep |
his spirits up and his flesh down. made |
observations. to quote the |
heather Chinee somewhat peculiar
Ed Howe of Atchison is always in
-eresting in his books, but we confess
hat while admiring the author him
self. we do not always like what he
writes. His STORY of a Country Town
IS one of the best novels ever writ
-en, particularly the last half of it.
The writer once wrote half page re-
rev of it for the New York Herald;
t was printed: it is full of epigrams.
he book, and the review too: quota
ions. Time and again it has been
suggested to E. W. Howe that his
book should be brought out in a new
EDITION, illustrated and exploited.
If a book like Howes STORY of a
Country Town" We're sent forth today,
Is books are, it would have a tremend-
Jus run. "Ironquill" is another ia
Jorite. This writer once too, wrote
If 'Ironquill," the pen name of the
ate dearly lamented Eugene F. Ware
With a sketch of the sturdy Kansan for
he Saturday Evening Post George
Horace Lorimer said it was worth
hirty-five dollars. We don't know
whether it was or not, but we got the
heck but "Ironquill'' is worth every
hing to Kansas literature.
hing good, try Mark Twain's Joan of
Arc There is no humor in it. but it
s very. very fine. 1t is not often read
and few people seem to know that
Mark Twain wrote a serious book like
his. There is only one sentence of
lumor in it. That seems to have slip
BED in when Mark wasn't looking.
DIR. Theodore Roosevelt is out to-
lay. see first page. in a remedy to
meet the aggravated case of 1.-The
trusts, The People, and The Square
DEAL The doctor is no .'quack." He
las a somewhat allopathic remedy, but
1t the same time it is not one of those
kill or cure" propositions that some /
political doctors are now prescribing
n fact, DR.. Roosevelt's remedy has
been consc;entiOusly worked out from
L carefully diagnosed case by a man
who understands the symptoms. the
condition and the system Of the patient
-or whom he prescribes. Some people