The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-05
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

That the deportation of Goldman,
Berkman and their confreres and as
sociates will help we have no manner
OF doubt. But the remedy cannot be
regarded either as a preventive or a
specific. Government is almost help
less when it comes TO the matter of
safeguarding the sucker.
And Emma and her kind represent
only one of the numerous schools of
snake doctors" who prey upon the
Icredulous and the mentally unfit.
az do not know writes a reader,
whether you are male. female or
otherwise And, for obvious reasons,
we decline to tell. If we can estab-
lish in the minds of readers of the
column a doubt as to whether we are
male, female or otherwise" we shall
be able Indefinitely to retain their
clientage.
But we don't mind dropping a hint
No female attempts to buy all of her
Christmas presents in one afternoon
nor does she defer the matter until
December 2S. That seems to clear the
attractive sex of the implication ex-
pressed in the communication.
A Rhapsody.
The man steppedAout into the rain
The wet, wet rain,
The. gushing, splashing rain.
The man walked on thru the streets
The dirty, muddy streets,
The murky, filthy streets.
The man met his friend in the alley
The crazy. twisted alley.
The narrow. crook d alley.
The man took a package from his
friend
The kind, dear friend
The careful, worthy friend
The man wn1xed back to his home
The cheerful, pleasant home,
The warm, welcome home.
The man smiled and blew off the
suds-
The clear, sparkling suds,
The white. sizzling suds.
G. w. ANONYMOUS.
The blunder of the West Phiiadel-
phia merchant who is window adver-
Using holiday reefs" is not SO eyre
gious as it appears to be. From one
third to one-haf Of the words COM
mon to ordinary conversation are
habitually mispronounced by from,
one-half to three-fifth of the total
population.
We trust we use the word "egre-
gious" correctly in the connection. II
is the first time we ever had occasion
to employ it.
Mr.. James ". Gerard's message to
the voters of South Dakota, who de-
mand that presidential candidates ex-
press themselves in platforms con-
tanning eight words. intrigues US
Make and keep the country safe for
democracy" platforms Mr.. Gerard.
1t is, we have no hesitation in say
ing, an inspiring pronunciamento. We
make bold, however, to suggest a cou-
pie of minor changes. They are that
the word from be substituted for
the word for" and that democracy
be spelled with a capital d.
The suggestion which has reached
this desk that Henry Ford may also
have written Young Visitors" is re-
jected as improbable and unconvinc-
ing. Mr.. Ford in five minutes could
have hired man who knew how to
spell to do it for him and. doubtless
would have done SO.
If Daisy Ashford didn't write
Young Visitors" Harold Bell Wright
did. AT least that is our opinion.
Young Visitors" is unconscious hui
NOR. Among contemporary. writers
Mr.. Wright is the greatest of the un-
conscious humorists. The theory that
Mr.. Wright, having changed his style
in order that he might mystify the
literati, is the real author of young
Visitors" seems to us entirely plausi-
BILE.
Some folks jump at conclusions, but
those expressed in the column are