The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-24
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAY E. HOUSE
(From Philadeiphia Public Ledgsr.)


A reader writes to ask if there is
anything we can do to prevent the
laundries putting iron buttons in re-
habilitated shirts. Most assuredly we
can put a stop to that pernicious prae-
tiee. To one who stopped saturday
afternoon hair-cutting in one OF the
western centers of culture and art
and who was able to bulldoze the peo-
pie into getting TO the theater on time
that would seem to be a trivial as
signment.
But we are so crowded with other
and more important work that we
shall not be able to attend to 1T right
away 1t might be well to delegate
the task to some one less actively
identified with the cause of reform
We play them too close to the waist
coat to express the opinion that the re-
suit in Maine is conclusive. But we
do regard it as highly premonitory-
The only interest Governor Cox ever
evoked from a nettled and exasper-
ated country was based on the suppo-
sition that he knew a recipe Tor
"hooch." When it was found, either
that he knew ne such recipe or,
knowing it, was afraid to disclose it,
the interest of his fellow citizens re-
ceded tie the point of disappearance
The Cox campaign has been one Of
futile gestures, but of these none
struck us as so idle as the cooking
picnic with which the Democratic can
didate attempted to regale a mildly
curious public on a day Immediately
succeeding his nomination. The atti-
tude of this country is that if a man
wants to take couple OF hard-boiled
eggs and a hunk of bologna and spend
the day in the woods, that is all right
and his business. But the feeling is
that one who courts publicity thru
scrambling lamb chops and potatoes
over a brushwood fire has a dull ak
concealed on his person.
The result of the Evans Ouimet
inbroglio fails to pique our interest.
1t is our understanding that both
Evans and Ouimet were poor boys,
the product of humble homes and a
circumscrihed environment AS a son
of the people, we take no interest in
any competitive event unless it in
wolves the trimming of a rich and idle
malefactor.
OF course, every golf tournam emf
has its intriguing and amazing phase.
1t is thus it is established that there
are men who can learn to play the
game.
The exultant mood in which the New
York Tribune finds itself as a result
of the Maine election has a signifi-
canoe not essentially political The
Tribune has established the fact that it
can contemplate certain of the mani
festations of equal suffrage without
weeping.
In Maine, it seems, most of the
women who went to the polls voted
the Republican ticket. But so, for
that matter. did most of the men.
A head-writer on the New York Sun,
or, to give it all that is coming to it,
the Sun and the New York Herald,
credits the Hon. Charles Evans
Hughes with the delivery of a ringing
address. We yield to no copy-reader
in our admiration for Mr.. Hughes.
He is one grand private citizen. But
he couldn't deliver a ringing address
to save his life.
There is no jazz in Mr.. Hughes and
precious little resiliency. For that
reason the free and untrammeled Vot-
ers of the United States defeated him
for presidency.
1t may interest you to know that the
search for a blonde Eskimo. which has
been in progress for the two years last
past, has proved unavailing.
We trust. however. that the failure
of researches along the line indicated
will not discourage those who are de-
voting time and effort to the discovery
of purple rat