The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-22
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY z. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledssf.)

There is nothing more insidious
| than the propaganda of capital. Sew
eral times lately We have read In the
cApitalistic press statement 10 the
effect that E. Raymond. assistant
| general manager of the Atchison. To-
] peka and Santa Fe Railway, who died
not long ago. started in life in 1878 as
a track laborer-
| Doubtless there are thoughtless per-
sons who will applaud the late Mr..
Raymond's triumph of brute ability,
\ brute industry. and brute efficiency
over the unfortunate persons with
whom his earlier lot was cast, but
| thinking people everywhere Will dep
recate his heartlessness, his cruelty
and his callousness in lettering his
| condition at the expense of those who
should have been his brothers. Who
knows but that the example set by the
heralded by the capitalistic press. may
| cause any number of young men TO
attempt to better their station and
condition of life and thus, and by so
much. retard the ends of humanity
and justice?
1t is enough, we go on TO say, to
I make Upton Sinclair weep and, un-
doubtedly, will have that effect The
! incident of Mr.. Raymond's death may
be even moro far reaching. 1t may
inspire Mr.. Sinclair to write another
book.
We have SO frequently complimented
Mr. Gompers we hope he will not take
it unkindly If we seize the present oc-
casion to tell him the truth. And the
truth is that Mr.. Gomperss admins
tration of public affairs is becoming
very unsatisfactory to the public.
! There is, we are inclined to believe,
a very strong feeling that some young
er and more vigorous man should sue
coed MIR. Gompers in the conduct OF
the nations business.
We have known Jackson Fullen-
wider about five months. We live in
the same apartment hotel and see him
nearly every day. He is a very excel
lent gentleman OF more than average
ability and intelligence. But we can't
stand his favorite story, and If he tells
1t again in our presence, we shall not
be responsible for the consequences.
Roughly speaking, we figure we have
heard Mr. Fullenwider's favorite story
ST times. We do not believe any man
should tell his favorite story to the
same person more than fifty times in
five months.
There is very general antipathy to
men. 1t is often more strongly
/, marked in their wives and children
I
antipathy is due to the fact that every
man tells the same stories over and
over again.
who" writes a valued reader. ARE
the proletariat whom you claim to
represent and of whom you write so
much?" 1t is exceedingly difficult to
cover the ground in a generalization,
but the proletarians we have known
intimately were gentlemen who spent
so much time in argument that they
had little left in which OF perform use
full labor.
1t Runs North and South TO Us,
Sir-If you notice Chestnut street
runs west, then you will notice that at
sunset the sun moves from the south
of Chestnut street to n few points
north of west. 1t is in Williamsport.
Pa, where the sun sets at the north
end of West Fourth street. l. B.
The idiosyncrasies of the sun. with
reference to its rising and its setting.
have baffled many otherwise dull and
monotonous moments for us. We re-
call, among others. one very unusual
and annoying experience. We were
travelling, in late afternoon, from Los
Angeles to San Diego and looking
I westward from the car window dis
tinctly saw the sun immerse itself in
the Pacific ocean. Early the follow
ing morning, we saw the sun rising in
the western horizon. 1t had gone
down and come up in the same place.
The only difference was that. while 1T
had disappeared in the bosom of the
ocean, 1t was emerging from the top
of a mountain.
! In Elkhart, Ind. the sun rises in the
southwest and sets in the northeast.
We speak authorize lively of this phc-
nomenon, having had occasion to OBJ
serve it many times. In Washington,
d. c., the sun has no regular rising
or setting place. We have seen II rise
! in the north. south and west and set
in the north, south and east In Can
ton, o., the sun rises in the east and
sets in the south. In Topeka, Kan.
| 1t rises in the south and sets in the
northwest. The eccentricity developed
| by the orb of day in Williamsport Is
almost a commonplace.