The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-19

The commonest sign OF fatigue,
writes Colonel H. Addington Bruce.
lis found in feelings of WEAKNESS.
AS nearly everybody knows. Colonel
Bruce is one of our favorite writers.
His is a considerable gift No other
writer within the range of our OBJ
servation has the coloners faculty for
stating the obvious in commonplace
manner.
1t is true that DR.. Frank Crane is
the equal of Colonel Bruce in stating
the obvious. but Doctor Crane often is
sonorous and, at times, almost elo-
quent.
The esteemed editor OF the esteemed
York Labor News has sent the column
copy of his publication bearing a
marked paragraph in which il is as
serted, There is nothing complicated
about socialism" EMPLOYING the de-
ductive analysis which made Sherlock
Holmes famous, We reach the conclu-
sion that the editor of the Labor News
wishes the column to comment upon
that asseveration.
We strive to obIige. And we are
unaffectedly glad to learn there is
nothing complicated about socialism.
We had gathered otherwise But our
failure to comprehend the doctrine
was, we hold. perfectly natural None
or its followers has ever been able 10
make 1t clear to US. And no two of
them have ever been in agreement as
10 what it is, or what it means.
We once offered a prize-it was a
Autograph OF the 1900 campaign depict
ing horny-handed citizen carving
soldier on his back--to any comrade
who could. within the space of 500
words, make it clear to us exactly
what the Socialists were trying to do
and how they proposed doing it. There
was much striving for the memento.
One gentleman exceeded his limit by
, 900 words in his effort to explain.
But we were more sadly muddled than
ever at the close of the contest
offer. We are all out of Bryan litho-
graphs, having bestowed them with a
promlscuous and prodlgal hand dur
ing the past ten or fifteen years. As
first prizes in this contest we shall
substitute group photographs showing
the Republican and Democrats ma
tional conventions in the act Of at
tempting to sidestep the prohibition
ISSUE IT the stake appeals to you. let
US hear from you. What is socialism
and why?
Phrasing it little differently, your
sTife is the woman who starts to tell
the story you are compelled to finish.
Sim Heckle says unless he is SEN
! fenced to be shot at sunrise he never
expects to see one.
After a woman has worked for years
to get her daughter married off. she
breaks down and cBies thruout the
wedding ceremony because of the
thought that she is about to be for
ever separated from her child.
/ Newspaper pictures OF Lady Cover
golfing at Havana" are intriguing. We
never saw better looking sports clothes
But the lady's stance is wrong, and we
should be willing to lay a little odds
of eight to five that she tops" her
drive.
We speak out of the fullness OF ex-
perience. We know what a launched"
shoulder does to ones game.
There still is some curiosity as to
whether Doug Fairbanks is going to
marry Mary Pickford. but IL we are
any judge of the condition OF the pub
lie mind, the people are much less
wrought up about it than they were
at the time Mrs. Fairbanks secured her
divorce. Say what you will for them.
the people are tickle.
Men stay up late, but they never
lose as much sleep as the girl who has
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