The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-07
on SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE.
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

Asked to speak to the good of the
order. Henry Ford expressed the opin-
ion that the country's greatest need is
teachers. Mr.. Ford is one of those
qualified to express an opinion. OF
all the great educators who cannot
read fine print very well. he is the
most notable and highly esteemed.
Mr.. Ford's record along educational
lines not only is impressive but unique.
Most of US are permitted to reveal our
ignorance for nothing 1t cost Mr..
Ford many thousands of dollars to dis
close the fact that he doesn't know
much.
| While We admire the courage of our
favorite writer Mr.. Arthur Brisbane.
we lament his lack of discretion. In
an editorial paragraph devoted to
Theodore Roosevelt's idiosyncrasies
as an equestrian performer Mr.. Bris-
bane expresses the opinion that Colo
mel Roosevelt wasn't much of a rider.
/ The people not only will resent Mr..
Brisbane's frank expression of opin-
! ion. but they may go further; they
may hold a mass meeting. 1t is not
beyond the bounds OF possibility that
they may adopt set of ringing resolu-
tons One may abuse the people al
mos at will. But he must let their
traditions alone.
However. on the point that no eaues-
| trian statue of Colonel Roosevelt
should be set up. We string along with
1 Mr.. Brisbane. No man. great or small
| should be preserved to posterity in the
| painful sact of riding on horseback.
In this connection the perspicuity OF
| the artist responsible for the eQues-
/ trian statue OF General Mad" An
thony Wayne at Valley Forge deeply
/ impresses us. He had the courage
| and the sense of fitness to depict Gen
| eral Wayne in the only position in
hi ~ aCf ell IN ca
! die.
That ought to start the argument.
Which is, we may say in confidence.
the purpose of this intimate and
! frankly unconventional revelation.
| The sacrosanct has again been vio-
lated. If that is the word for il, and
our Discrimination to look anything up
in the dictionary leads us to believe it
is. New York trembles with indigHa-
I ton. A pale civilian arose in the
/ grandstand in Jacksonville recently
and called Hon. Babe" Ruth big
piece of cheese" Let it be said, how
ever, to the credit of the New York
sporting writers, that they avenged the
insult to the extent of their no mean
abilities. Their descriptions OF the
spasm of fear which seized the GRIM
/ inal when the Hon. Babe" lelped
into the stand ran into columns.
| In our younger and more impetuous
days the repartee of the grandstl nd
was sand upon sur mental gear. The
| fullness of years enables us to regard
! it as the most unctuous of the uncon-
scious humor. OF all the incidents Of
| the glorious summer which receded
! into autumn last September. we recall
none so highly amusing as that OF
| the wild-eyed, meek and humble fol-
lower of the Athletics who arose in his
seat at Shibe park and called Ty Cobb
big bonehead."
! Having introduced the subject OF
! cheese" We are minded TO permit
readers of the column to revel with us
in Adelaides iatest-jibe at that sturdy
product of the dairy. We had reached
! that stage of our repast which for
merly, and in happier days, preceded
the walnuts and the wine. Adelaide
was toying in a dilettante sort OF way
with the casein. Don't you like it,"
we asked in the soEcitous voice of a
husband who expects shortly to an
nounce his intention of spending the
| evening downtown. Like it," chortled
Adelaide. as her lip curled in disdain.
Like it. l wouldn't bait rat trap
with it,
! The moral is so obvious that we
/ hesitate to point 1t out. 1t is, that the
wife of a humorist occasionally rises
above her environment.
J Mrs. Charlie Chaplin is quoted as
saying she wants neither a divorce
| nor her husband money. We are not
familiar with the details of the Chap
lin imbroglio. having in the course of
our casual and somewhat desultory
reading overlooked the newspaper
stories of the affair But we take it
Mrs. Chaplin's desire is that of nearly
! every other woman for whom the
marital adventure loses it's glamour:
she wants to make her husband as
uncomfortable as possible.
A man in Mr.. Chaplin's position is
actuated by no such petty motives.
All he wants to do is build a million
dollar house across the street from
the shabby cottage in which his for
mer wife and his successor exc out
bare existence.