The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-02
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAY e. HOUSE.
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1t seems TO us the chief banality OF
campaign marked by banalities is
the constantly recurring asseveration.
Nobody knows how the women are
going to vote" It trembles on the lips
of men who should know better. 1t
speech and writing OF those who as
sumo to speak authoritatively of the
issues of the campaign.
We have no inside information and
we claim no superior powers of divina-
ton. But we know exactly how the
women are going to vote. With, the
casual exceptions which offset each
other, they are going to vote as their
husbands and fathers and sons and
uncles vote. Why not? A woman is
susceptible to the same influences and
circumstances as those which sway her
men felix. These are heredity, self
interest and environment. She is like
ly to be more tense in her emotions
and more violent in her prejudices.
But the motivation of the sexes in its
application to the family unit is pre-
cisely the same. =
1t is likely that the group of women
which may here be described as% in
tellectuals'' will fit hither and thither
as campaigns come and go. The group
of men described as ''inteliectuals'' do
the same lIlflS- But l1CS are AWAY .
negligible influence in elections, and
are likely to remain so. Elections in
this country turn on the vote of the
great middle class-the class that ex-
tends from a point just above the
9read line to comparative affluence
unmarked by distinction And men
aud women in this class go hand-in-
hand to the polls and vote the. same
.icllSt.
You will pardon a final reference
to the foregoing phase of the election.
Thank you. The constantly reiterated
note to which we have referred frets
us. We go further: 1t inks us.
In Which q Masterpiece Is Assailed.
Sir-why don't you soak Way
Down East" good and proper.
The "lady-killer" smoking at an aft
ernoon. .'bridge-whist'' table is a
The swell Boston relatives had man
hers that would disgrace the lowest
class of society.
Did you ever see an apartment with
an arched ceiling fifty feet high?
Would the Boston relatives let the
stuff"
The lady in seeking death showed
clearly she had no experience in such
matters.
Inc nero, instead OF OlSfaroln8 ms
fur coat while dancing from cake to
cake of ice, carried the lady's cloak
and waved it violently. The fake is
so obvious as to be an insult to ordi-
nary intelligence.
Art? Ye gods. A. c.
We decline the invitation to soak
Way Down East" and refuse to be-
come worked up over it. So long as
Way Down East" isn't compulsory it
is nothing to US.
We do go so far as to interpolate al
qualifying clause. II Mr.. Griffith's
spectacle were art, the probabilities
are he couldn't sell it to the proletar-
lat. Art is grand, but It is "hokum"
that wrings the hearts of the people.
my husband" said Mrs Brown
when interviewed by a reporter rela-
tive to the Radnor wreck wanted to
go to New York on the 10 o'clock train.
1 wanted to go at O'Clock. We took
the earlier train
There are times when a married
man will rattle his chains. but he
never succeeds in irving his letters.
Mr.. Taft says If you are for the
league, vote for Harding" writes II.
B. P. johnson says If you are against
the league. vote for Harding. Now /
know you are amusing. and I suspect
you of being honest. Please exercise
the lesser of these two virtues and tell
me what's the answer. If you'll TEN
me, honest, I'll tell you a new word"
You wish to leave it to the column?
Very well. Do as they tell you.
The air is again redolent with the
breath of many perfumes The repre-
sentatives of Dempsey and Carpen-
tier got together in New York yester-
day and discussed the proposed fight
for the international championship.
1t is the talk that Mr.. Kearns, who
manages Mr.. Dempsey. has new
scent of which he is very proud.
As we are as much in the dark as
anybody, well string along with the
crowd.
Twill Hays" says the esteemed New
FORK World, "Eas revealed himself as
a very cheap politician of the type
that is spawned in the middle west"
Not only that, but when Mr.. Hays