The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-10
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
(From Philadelphis Public Ledssr)

We bow in gratitude to the esteemed
Lit'ry Digest. With one stroke the
Digest. cleaves a manacle which has al
ways chafed our physiological pro-
cesses. The Digest says it is all right
to end a sentence with a proposition
and that at times it lends force to
literary effort We have always
wanted to. We never dared to.
Under the circumstances. we are
willing to overlook the fact that the
Digest has used but one of our
paragraphs in its screen pictorials and
that it obscured the point of that one
in the process of rewriting 1t.
1t is. we take it from photographs
made at the convention. the same old
Bryan. He still needs a haircut He
ought to have his trousers pressed
There comes a time In the life of every
man when he can no longer attoro 10
permit his scant hirsute foliage to
straggle wildly just above his ears Mr..
Bryan has reached it.
Sartorially speaking. Mr.. Bryan still
flutters in the wind. He has neglected
to fit his Characterization to the tempo
of the day The s12 suit OF clothes in
a condition closely approaching dis
repute no longer is a vote-getter. The
proletariat has come to be-. in a man.
near of speaking, well groomed and
well tailored. 1t cottons to the neat
and tasty dresser.
The Democratic party. as a whole.
has seen the light 1t has cast aside
Republican party, has adopted the
shepherd s-plaid motif in wearing ap-
parel. Mr.. Bryan is the only Demo-
cratic star left who can be identified
as such by his garments.
In Which L. c. J. Seeks an Argument.
Sir-The other day in one of your
paragraphs you saw fit to raise the
questioning eyebrow over the sincerity
of the Americanism of a man named
Rypins, merely because that happened
to be his name
Just what is the typical American
name? Do such names as Mckinley,
McAdoo, Roosevelt, Carl Schurz Bran
dels, Stokowski and Damrosch suggest
the red, white and blue in themselves?
Yet men with these names have ex-
pressed sentiments Endorsed by all
good Americans and have done deeds
apPlauded by all good Americans.
I admit there are names which in
themselves suggest Americanism, such
as Observation-Disclosures, Sitting Bull, Gro
yer Cleveland Bergdoll and Jack john
son. No doubt, if you would be logi-
cal, you would exp<ct American blood
at high pressure and of low boiling
4 point in these men,
I don't know Mr. Rypins from the
man in the moon, and it's safe bet he
i never heard of me. Yours for fair
play. L. c. J.
We merely subjected the name of
Professor Rypins to the casual test
and drew conclusion from the fact
that it is the sort of name always as
ISOLATED with that sort of thing.
But we don't insist upon the point.
and We are willing Professor Rypins
and his kind shall have fair play. We
! honest labor would be both fair and
+, adequate.
"In my own town. writes a CORE
spondent of the New York Tribune
the drunkards are earning money
with happy grins on their faces"
/ There is, we imagine, no smile more
beatific or spontaneous than that OF
| the drunkard who realizes that he
shortly will be in funds sufficient to
buy another quart
Here's Your Thrill.
1--WE favor comprehensive studies of
farm-production costs and the uncen-
sored publication of facts found in
such studies. "-Democratic platform.
And yet that particular plank of
the platform, despite the wallop it
carries to every heart, lacks some
thing. 1t should have been more spe-
cific. The implication is that some
body has been censoring the facts con-
| corning the costs of farm production.
The Democrats should have named
him.
1t is, We go on to say, only by
driving such skunks into the open
| that their nefarious practices can be
! checked.
another battling question concern
ing Mr.. McAdoo has been raised. He
inherits thru the female line. There
is grave question in the minds OF
many as to whether he can legitimate
ly succeed to the regency.