The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-14
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

With the various economic phases
of the proposed strike OF steel workers
we feel incompetent to deal. we leave
that to the gentlemen south by east.
But one clause in the, bill of particu-
lars filed against the defendant conn
pany challenges our well-known GU
riosity. 1t is the one to the effect that
under present conditions the steel
workers cannot find means to feed
their starving children
steel workers, we learn thru our
casual perusal Of the public prints, get
from SIS to $50 a day. What. may We
ask is required by way of financial
remuneration to put the children of
the dissatisfied steel workers on. IL
we may drop for a moment into the
uncouth phraseology of the West,
full feed?
Recent Investigations along the line
of the high cost of living convince us
that the situation has been subjected
to much exaSgeration 1t is much less
series than many imagine. Only the
other night in a Philadelphia hosiery
we managed to feed a company of
six persons for trifle more than $24.
To be exact, the check was only $24.60.
To be sure. it was a frugal sort of
meal. Many of the tempting deli
cacies on the bill of fare-menu, we
believe, is the correct phrase-were
omitted from the ensemble. But the
food, while plain, was wholesome and
| we'll cooked, and nobody left the table
hungry.
The honest man is neither rare nor
infrequent. The trouble with old
Diogenes was that he prosecuted his
Roland Rholfs's mark of 34,010 feet
is one at which to shoot. but it is not
the record of that sort of thing. The
the flight of the New York Giants in
the fifth game of the worlds series
of 1919
Ed Wynn has quit the stage. but not
without distinction. He made the
| panama hat an accessory of humor
| and added another property" to the
equipment OF those who write for the
l [. b. m.
Mr.. Wynn's trick hat, by the way.
was the first new adventure in stage
humor since Lew Fields began jabbing
Joe Weber in the eye
| The Y. w. c. A, speaking thru its
authorized representatives, has con-
| demned the corset and the high-heeled
! shoe. The column defends neither and
desires to engage in no controversy
touching the merits of any item of
feminine apparel. But 1t is the man
who has had the opportunity to OBJ
serve corsetless women who becomes
the corset's stanchest friend.
In Mrs. Beatrice Forbes Robertson
Haie's contention that men show their
prosperity not in their own clothes but
| in those of their wives. we heartily
| concur. Any smart woman can look
at another woman's clothes and guess
within $500 of the yearly income of
the latter's husband.
fc rhan til vx,l, I,ue -faI
and gone away comes home for her
second yearly visit that the community
determines whether she landed a
perch or a whale.
| There is no set rule but you can tell
pretty we'll the sort of people they are
by looking over their Victrola records.
The column deprecates and deplores
all outrages irrespective of their ma
| ture. But we are utterly unable to
become as indignant over the stymie
rule as Grantland Rice appears to be.
We know nothing of politics. but we
are curious to learn whether the pres
ident's implied intention to run again,
| in the event that the covenant of the
| League of Nations is rejected. should
| be construed as threat or a promise.
! Occasional reference to the most
difficult task is made herein. We
| should say IL lies before those VINO are
! trying to institute a comparison be-
! tween Abraham Lincoln and Henry
Ford with the purpose of making such
comparison fIattering to both.
! Mr.. Hoover says the esteemed
New York Sun. lis believed to be
Republican" We wish somebody
would find out to a certainty. With
! the matter of HIS political affiliations
in doubt. nobody knows whether he
should praise Mr.. Hoover or abuse
I him