The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-03
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY Z. HOUSE.
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

i tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledges.l
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For US the c-cision of the United
States Supreme Court upon the valid
ity of wartime" prohibition is a mere
exercise of legal phraseology which
carries no significance The dilemma
which we faced uncomplainingly last
June still confronts us. We have no
place to store anything.
Discussion among our editorial col
leagues as to the ability OF the mem
bers of the industrial conference to do
anything in the very important mat
ters which confront them finds us
fecund with ideas and suggestions.
They can adopt a set of resolutions.
They can and probably will present the
presiding officer with gold watch or
a set of sleeve links.
But inasmuch as the conference is
made up OF sterling citizens gifted In
the matters of education, culture and
good taste. the probability that they
will buy a diamond scarfptn for any
body may be regarded as remote.
Indubitably, the people of this couri-
try are for the covenant of the league
OF nations But they can be relied up
on to put up no such fight for it as
they staged for 2. beer.
Meanwhile blame for the defeat of
the treaty pact is being traced by its
proponents and its opponents TO vari-
Gus sources. Both the president and
usual, however, the Hearst newspapers
are claiming the credit for it.
Ludendorff says American prisoners
didn't know what they were fighting
for. Which is unimportaHt but inter-
I Aetfu to
finally conceded America was in the
war.
You may recall. in the event that
you read his memoirs. that up to the
| time of their completion Ludendorff
had made no such concession.
A reader hazards the conjecture that
We have mingled little with the class
, to which the miller-poet of Middle
| town belongs. On the contrary, we
earned our only degree, that of bache-
lor of leisure, in that school. 1t was
! presented to us by the faculty shortly
! before we left the farm.
We continue to have perfect faith in
the power of the government to COM
pei the miners to dig coal. but we ad-
NIT a certain curiosity concerning the
manner of its procedure.
How Would .Skirt- Do?
Sir-I am a devotee of the column
| and note that you occasionally refer
| to certain type as gent" I can. in
my minds eye, see him as tho he stood
| before me in the flesh every time you
mention him. What / am trying to
get at is, what is the feminine of
gent? "Poifect lady is as near as 1
can get, but 1 am sure you have a bet
! ter word at hand. I attended
John Ferguson" and infer you have
| /
who by the time the last curtain fell
| had, thru her friends. Informed me
that John was a good Baptist" and
| 1--WE are having a regular sermon
| Hannah was O. gloon spreader.
crepe hanger and .horried-" At Jim
Caesars denunciation of himself she
laughed outright and wished he'd
| leave the stage. "Clutie John" evoked
the remark. ats hard to act silly
part" To this almost differed aloud.
| Anyway, she was a gent in the femi-
| nine and I'll not rest contented until
| know the word that fits her.
| A THEATERGOER
Men are stolid. The failure of many
in the audience to grasp the signifi-
| canoe of John Ferguson" disturbed
US not at all. Women are more tenn
| peramental. The fact that the ex-
| pensively "gowned." extravagantly
| "furred' and iEordinateiy "teweled
I
recently washed her hair ruined the
show for Adelaide.
We claim the mistake of the eF-
| teemed Minneapolis Tribune in SAYING
| the brides attendant was ''gowned in
an attractive blue girdle" was natrr2l
enough. There is so little difference
NOWADAYS that it is excee 1inglp diff
cult to tell one from the other
~ Ten
Sherwood, of Ohio. where was Gener-
al Pershing when the shells were
bursting over the American troops in
France?" If it's riddle. we're will
ing to be the goat. Where was me-
congressman?
In Which Amy Is Out-Lowellcd.
Trees wholly bare:
Ducks annihiIating latitude;
Crate full of fuel grateful;
Ditto the torso, virtually speaking.
Score of Jay Walking 41144.
Bucket shops preying by phone.
And some re bored to death
Alone.
Jay Talking.
Acoustics OF vision: Where our ior-
gnon?
What commentaries hold today
In Examinations Secundus?
The fourth dimension and fifth wheel,
Electric chair thirteen. New Thought,
And astral LESSONS digging bait,
The wliles "On Second Thought the
normal crowd delights.
HUGH MERR.
We are glad to be able to say that
freedom is again shrfeking from the
mountain top. Scranton clergyman
says billy" Sunday has. so to speak.
shot his bolt. Five years ago few
clergymen would have dared SO frank
ly to express their innermost
thoughts.