The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-08
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledgsr.)

We yield once more to the superior
discernment and authoritative knowl-
edge of the New York sporting writers.
Prior to its game with Rutgers the
touted by New York writers. But, in-
asmuch as it was able to beat Rutgers
only 2S to 0, the New York writers
have discovered much that is funda-
mentally wrong in its style of play.
A casual glance at the Nebraska
lineup did not impress upon a mind
surcharged with election news any set
conviction as to whether the name of
Honska, giant back, still appears
Honska was the best halfback in the
Missouri valley. We'd love to know
whether he ever finished his course in
music. If he did, assault and battery
have lost one of their most valuable
aids.
Whatever became of Honska, how
ever, he can never hope to equal, in
years of consecutive football, the rec
ord of pete" Hauser. But pete"
served two schools, alternating every
four years between Carlisle and Has
kell. Honska stuck to one school thru
out his football career.
Senator wadsworth's cheeks we
take it, still tingle from the impact of
the rebuke administered.
Unfortunately. the happy result of
Senator Wadsworth's experiment does
MT settle anything. There still are,
and probably always will be, con-
siderable number of voters spurred on
by the urge to punish any public Off
cial who expresses his honest convic-
lions. And, in this country, the pussy
footer" still has the better chance.
1t may interest you to know that the
copy of the Dayton News which made
a belated appearance at his desk
speaks highly of Zemo and is unspar-
ing in its praise of Eatonic tablets.
In one respect, however, the policy
of the News doubtless meets with gem
eral appreciation. 1t restricts its
columnist to about three inches of
lower right-hand corner of the /edi-
torial page.
There are various lessons of the
election. One of them, as we inter-
pref it, is If you have been insulted
by Will Hays, this country is no place
in which to obtain redress for your
wrongs.
IT is as yet too early to determine
whether Mr.. Hays temerity in regis
tering the negro woman was properly
rebuked in the border states.
Those who read this contribution to
eontemporaneous literature doubtless
have noticed that we are disposed to
be critical of Mr.. Hays. We wish to
say our failure to become enthusi-
astic about him is not due to any of
the nefarious practices with which he
has been charged. 1t is because he
not only permits people to call him
WILL" but encourages them to do SO.
1t was Adelaide, we believe, who
pointed out that baked ham was
the first purchase advised by the Chi
cago women whose ability to keep
house on $12 a week has been stressed
by her home papers.
Nothing much. We merely won
dered IL you had ever priced a baked
ham.
Mr.. Harding's election not only is
practically unanimous, but it is one of
the hardest blows his father-in-law
ever sustained.
We do not imagine Mrs. Harding's
fad will become general, but the fact
that she is potentially the first lady
hitherto attached to it. Mrs. Hard
ings fad, we add by way of clarifying
and properly pointing this whim-
wham, is he- husband.
While it is true that husbands are
not now, and probably never will be,
held in high esteem, the demand for
them increases. The talk is that one
of them, living in Philadelphia, is be-
ing chased by three women.
Another result of the election
which we are able to foresee is that
1t will greatly increase the number
of gentlemen who claim to have gone
to school 18th Mr.. Harding. Even
during the dull summer months the
attendance on the old abandoned col
lege at Iberia was the greatest in the
history of that institution.
Neither has the well-known East st. |
Louis waitress anything on Governor
Cox. He, too, has been "kidded' by |
experts.
While we are as deeply concerned |
as anybody, we lack the enthusiasm