The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-25
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledgerl

Nothing in recent time has so afrect-
ed or periurbed the column as senator
Capper's mastery speech aepiceii's
sad plight of the wronEed anu OUT
ragged American farmer. The farmer
we learn from the distingQisneo han-
sas senator. is doing business at Loss,
his returns falling far short OF tne
costs of production. The senator
speech was a triumph in oscuiation
unparalleled in the present session OF
congress.
Few have the versatility o. the sena-
ator from Kansas, fewer still his gift
of ambidexterity. He is, we take IT.
the one senator clothed With the Ie-
cility to kiss the brow of the embattied
farmer the while he caresses labor
with one hand and smoothes the rum
pied fur collar of capital with the
other.
General Pershing's characteriEatiS>
of the deplorable Centralia affair -
to the point, but inadequate. The old
general says it was "a serious out
rage" We go further. We are al
most convinced that criminal offense
has been committed
The moral of the affair. in the event
that you wish to write it. is that every
vicious cause eventually enlists rat
heads" in number sufficient perina-
nently to gum" its further progress
1t is asserted, and the point seems
| reasonably we'll established. that there
are more clergymen than actors IN tne
penitentiary. If those interested in
making the point will indicate what
/ it proves. we agree to assent to their
conclusions. b
| The late Mr.. Shonts. it appears. paid
his wife a stipulated sum of money to
| let him alone. The point We make In
the connection is that there are, very
few women who would suDscrioe 70
such an agreement The license given
the average woman to pick at her nus
band is not for sale at any price.
If that one doesn't start something,
we shall have to admit we have ceased
! to be proficient in the matter of gem
Grating trouble.
] There is, we gather from a perusal
of the New York papers. some talk of
a third major league. But the COM
| rersotion, we have taken occasion to
observe. Is not being carried on by
those who have money to invest in the
project.
The fact that Mrs. Woolworth's in
come is s443,00O a year is not. to US.
the remarkable fact in the connection.
! To us the remarkable fact is that the
principal from which the income
springs was compiled 10 cents at
| time.
! 1t is to he hoped the plan of the
New Century club to abolish the sor
ciety pages OF newspapers will not be
! favorably regarded by publishers. So
ciety probably would suffer no great
! Inconvenience. But 1t would deprive
| those not in society of their chief di-
version. The inveterate readers of the
society pages are those who not only
are not in society but who have no
chance of getting in.
| We. therefore. protest against this
! Insidious attempt to curtail further the
pleasures of the working classes.
Women, we note by the news col
, umns have been reduced to the ex-
trenity which makes 1t necessary for
two of them to claim the same man.
! I'VE might say yes and we might
i say mo-" says the Hon. Grantland
Rice but it wouldn't mean anything
| in this modern hurly-burly of football
| until the game is played" The Hon.
Grantland knows. He hasn't picked
winner this season.
We quote from Mr.. Rice for the
purpose of algning a. prop beneath
one of our favorite contentionr. 1t is
that the man who never saw an atn-
letic event of any sort is as likely 10
pick a winner as one who, by reason
of long experience and observation, is
| entitled to speak authoritatively.
'Tank'' Beverly, who spent the
summer looking for a good ten-cent
cigar. yestf rday announced that he
had abandoned the search.
When a man attends an amateur
dramatic performance it means either
that he wrote the play or has daugh-
ter in the cast.