The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-17
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY E. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public LedgsF.l

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Our interest in the clergyman who
is doing" the celestial and Internal
regions for the New York World
negligible. His most recent pen pic
ture is that of a motion picture the
alter now being operated in heaven.
We have our opinion of gent
who, with unparalleled opportunity to
observe the beauties OF heaven. shuts
himself up for the better part of an
evening in a motion-picture thsater
1t is not complimentary. We shall
make no more vicarious journeys with
him.
Having sold Rogers Hornsby to the
Giants for $250,O0O, we are today
/ plunging into the thick of another
deal which will make baseball history.
We are selling Napoleon Lajoie to the
New York Americans for a round
half-million dollars. By the terms of
the sale Mr.. Lajoie is TO receive
100000 of the purchase price as a
! bonus for signing, and Is to draw
I salary OF 100000 for the remainder
of the season.
We Justify our action in the matter
from this premise. The owners of
the Yankees have the money Some
body is going to take it away from
them. We might as we'll have our
share of it.
Our first impulse was to spear"
Mr.. Proctor, of Cincinnati Along in
June he appeared to be the easiest
money in sight. Subsequently we
heard-we do not know how true the
story was-that Mr.. Proctor havine
been well Numbered in the Leonard
Wood campaign, had frightened up.
AT any rate, If We are any judge of
soft spots. the owners of the Yankees
are the finest vein of free milling ore
in the country.
They have. We note, after some de-
lay, finally removed the soft green
wrapper which obscured Mr.. Ponzi.
Stripped to the buff, Mr.. Ponzi bears
a striking resemblance to most of
those who swallowed his bait Once
he is Debated, the little Napoleon of
finance nearly always is revealed a
pitiable figure.
The moral in the Ponzi case. if it
has one, is that while legislation helps
there is no method by which the
sucker actually can be safeguarded.
We have referred. somewhat casual
| ~, to the Harold Bell Wright divorce.
| The nature of Mr.. Wright's grievance
may interest you. 1t was that his wife
work" That Mira Wright has gone in
for literature will be news to many.
| Mr.. Wright. as you probably know,
won such renown as has come to him
! in the capacity of a mush manufac-
turer.
| New England, we learn from the
public prints. refers to Mr.. Coolidge
as silent Cal" One source of our
anxiety is thus securely laid. We.had
feared New England would insist on
referring to Mr.. Coolidge as Honest
Cal" thereby greatly prejudicing his
chances of election.
The people often disappoint us, but
we concede they have learned one les
son we'll When the cashier is known
as Honest john they deposit their
money in the other bank.
Newspapers printed in the arid belt
of the Middle West are directing at
tention to the case of the Pennsylva mia
gentleman who died at the age of I02
years without having tasted liquor or
tobacco and after eschewing coffee in
f1S44.
pected to drape a homily upon the
| incident. but, If such is our portion
we take occasion to observe that ali
rules fail.
The chief objection to the man who
goes to the devil is that he nearly
always takes a woman with him and
not infrequently is accompanied by
a family of children.
The announcement that the mem
bers of Mr.. Wilson's cabinet are to
| take the stump whets our news
! instinct. Who are the members of Mr.
| Wilson's cabinet? We have a certain
! trifling curiosity on that point, and we
| fancy the country would like to know.
Tho presidents private burial plot
has. as most of you know. been closed
! to the public for many months.
We hesitate to pile ignominy upon
humiliation. but reference to the rec
ords dtscloses the fact that Mr.. Nc
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