The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-24
ON SECOND THOUGHT

willard is not fighter by instinct.
His mind works sluggishly. writes
one of the New York sport experts.
We protest the decision, on the ground
that Hon. Wizard isn't given his
chance. Let the New York sports
writer disclose to Hon. Willard the
wherea bouts of an unclaimed dollar.
1t will then be his pleasure to observe
mind that works with lightning
rapidity and a facility that is little
short of marvelous.s
The Hon. Willard no longer is much
of a figure in controversy. We ex-
plain his presence here on the, ground
that the column is ever the champion
Of big business.
Mrs. Grotz, who is to have the dis
tinction of being the first Philadelphia
pears, no very high opinion of the
men. The experience she is about
to undergo is likely to confirm her
in such uncompimentary belief. The
man who isn't smart enough to evade
jury duty is. as rule, a most uninter-
esting citizen. And, taking them as
they come and go, there is nothing less
inspiring than eleven men.
1t has been our privilege to observe
woman in the act of discharging her
sacred obligation to the jury box. We
reached this conciusion: If we were
guilty, and we nearly always are, we
should elect to be tried by a jury of
women. But if we were innocent. our
choice would be, a gentleman jury.
1.-THE murder of Edward w. An
drews a wholesale jeweler in the Fifth
avenue shopping district" says the
conservative Associated Press, was
has to be spectacular. Otherwise no.
body pays any attention to it.
We venture the assertion that il
| never was SO difficult fl, criminal
! of any kind to attract the attention
and win the admiration of press and
public as it is today. Crime has been
foverdone A2d is about played out as a
popular attraction.
However, we look for seine i'm.
provement shortly. As soon as the
law making the use of tobacco an of
| Tense is passed crime undoubtedly will
| decrease to the point at which the
criminal will again be the novelty he
| once was.
+, We learn from Golfers that .Wads-
worth Camp. whose great story, 1.-The
Guarded Heights" has been reviewed
in this column, is about to write an.
other novel. As one who takes only
a casual interest in literature. we are
|
ask, what for?
| Mr.. Camp already holds the record
for distance. inadequate terminal ia.
| cilities, limited acquaintance with love
money. the late war, collefle life and
politics. What else is there for hin
to strive?
Senator Penrese frankly admits hs
has talked too much. Our admiration
|
bounds. Those who talk too much ar,
commons enough. Those who admit 4
are so rare as to deserve. paragraph
of contemporary history.
| We, therefore,. take pleasure ii
dedicating one such to the jovial and
rubiound senator.
| 1t viii be perfectly satisfactory tc
the column If Mr.. Harding makes Mr.
Daugherty his attorney general. Blu
we do not strongly urge him to do SO
Mr.. Daugherty is an able attorney anl
a good citizen, but he has the fault o.
inaccuracy. Months before the conven
| ton he predicted Mr.. Harding woult
| be nominated in a room in the Con
gress hotel at O'Clock in the morning
Everybody knows now that Mr.. Hard
ing was nominated in a room at the
Blackstone hotel and that the conven
ton completed its labors and adjourn
ed shortly before midnight.
But. at that, the convention which
nominated Mr.. Harding was deliberate
| in its proceedings as compared to the
one which in 1916 met in "a room in
the Congress hotel TO nominate Mr.
Hughes. The nomina ton of Mr.
| Hughes was made SO early in the eve
ming that we caught the second edition
of the paper with the story.
H. c. B. directs attention to the fact
that Thomas jefferson, Henry Clay
Daniel Webster. Andrew Jackson,
Charles DENLY, James G. Blaine, Gro
yer Cleveland, Abraham Lincoln. Will
liam E. Gladstone, Theodore Roose-
welt and William Penn all had ten
cent cigars named for them 1t was,
we take it. H. b. C.'s purpose to de-
molish our contention that nobody has
dared named a ten-cent cigar for a
statesman
If it was. he succeeded. The only
thing left of it are a few shattered