The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-04
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAT E. HOUSE
(From Philadelphis Public Ledssr.l

1t is the chance observation that in
trigues. One who recently sojourned
in California writes to the Chicago
Trib that he was astounded at the re-
markable prevalence of goiter among
have made number of trips to the
Pacific coast. We do not recall that
we ever saw goiter west of Truckee
or the Needles. 1t may be, of course,
that our eyes were elsewhere.
But we have our opinion of the gent
who, with the unriyaled opportunities
for admiring the feminine form af-
forded by the Pacific coast before him.
devotes his time to looking for and
noting golfers along the way It is,
shall we add, far from mplimentary.
This and That.
Sir-Why in the name of all that is
wonderful don't you be a little decent
in your petty criticism of Way Down
East?" You pick out the very few
errors that are mere molehills and
make mountains of them, whereas for
those beautiful landscapes which APP
pear frequently thruout the pictufe
you have mary word of praise" For
instance, the sceae where the hero
walks thru the field of daisies toward
the heroine. who is sitting on the bank
Of the river Were you asleep then?
Perhaps you were too busy trying to
find fault to see the real beauty OF the
picture-t seems to have gone over
your head without even a scratch. For
get the story the picture portrays; Just
take the scenic effect, and you will
have more than the worth of your
money. You have about six faults to
find out of eight reels of film. You
don't even average one error to a reel.
How do you become that way? My
idea of you is that the sooner you are
shot or done away with in some man
n n the sooner the country will be as
it should. I don't believe you would
give credit to dead man for dying.
EVERY DOG HIS DUE.
Sir-I can readily understand your
desire to see Anna go over the fall, but
why not in the first five minutes of
the picture2 Why eventually?
Mr.. Griffith, the detail artist. for
got one big detail-the musical theme.
oh Dry Those Tearsi" should have
been used.
One man sitting in the audience said.
thought I had lot OF trouble at
home. but I never knew the meaning
OF the word until I saw this"
The public misunderstood Mr.. Grif-
nth: I don't think the picture is in
tended for grown-ups.
AT the age of ten had the pleasure
of seeing a 10-20-30 stock COMPANY
play Way Down East" and I've never
enjoyed anything more. Another lit
tie girl and myself cried all the way
home about little Anna, and it was
three years before we were again per-
mitted the joy of witnessing a popu-
lar-price melodrama. Ten years is the
age to see 'sWay Down East" Then
it's a thriller. r. b. C.
Let II be understood that the coll
umn merely is acting as bottleholder
in this controversy. We have no opin-
ion we wish to express. We never saw
the "fillnn" version of Way Down
East" Unless we lose a bet, or some
thing, it isn't likely we ever shall.
The policy of the Column is that
people should be permitted to select
their own weeRing posts If hokum
stimulates the gratuitous tear. let
there be hokum and see II we care.
The gentleman who objects to the
use of the editorial we in the coll
umn probably is justified in his excep-
ton, and 1t will be written into the rec
ord. But we beg of him not to be
too hasty IN his judgments Until he
has seen us in battle with the perpen-
dicular pronoun he has no means of
knowing which is the lesser of the two
evils.
Those whose interest in Fannie
Hurst's first novel, now current in one
of the magazines, had become jaded to
the point at which they ceased reading
are advised that she has resumed the
projection of the collar button throat
atomizer motif and is once more we'll
worth while.
So long as Miss Hurst sticks to the
knitted tidy and cornbeef hash, she is,
shall we say. the curly wolf of the
quaking and wayering forms of liter
AZURE. 1t is only when she attempts to
shrek like soul that her readers bow
down.
We see by the paper, the Alvin
fTex.) Sun. that M. L. Spencer wants
to sell his confectionery and tobacco
business on Gordon street. Mr.. Spen-
GER says he(has a good location and
good stock and the business is a SPLEEN
did proposition for some one. my
reason for selling" he adds, ''is that
business interfsres- with my fishing"
We know nothing of the business