The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-11
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
tFrom Philadelphia Public LedgsrJ

we notice, incidentally. that the
statesman who recently made a speech
| in which he said high prices were not
1 due to the farmers, the merchants.
the mechanics, the bankers the law
yers nor the doctors, but TO the proft-
GERS, is running very well in the Lit
erary Digest's straw vote for presi-
dent.
Every writer, every publicist and
politician pretends to voice the cry
/ ing demand but none OF them has
adequately expressed it. The crying
demand is for some method by which
the company which drops in casually
for a couple of hours in the evening
may be entertained.
1T is" as Grover Cleveland once
remarked, "a. condition. not a theory,
that confronts the nation" Nearly
| everybody is out of gin; all other sup
plies are running low. Unless some
thing can be devised, the neighborly
visit and the informal call are doomed.
A contemporary refers to Lucy
Page Gaston's candidacy for the presi-
dency." Mrs. CASTOR is not a candi-
date for the presidency. She merely
is being mentioned in the connection.
The fact is. IL one knows he is going
to be bored, he will select the alterna-
tive of being bored in the privacy OF
his own home.
In a reference not long ago to tho
overall fad we characterized 1t as a
fool movement which collapsed before
it succeeded in passing a given point.
We find that to be an under-statement.
The overall fad petered out before the
head of the procession reached the re-
viewing stand.
Proceeding on the theory that 1t
doesn't matter, we have little concern
as TO what the Democratic national
) convention will do. But we should
! enjoy watching the ceremonial of the
| third burial of Bryan. 1t was. as We
recall it, in the convention of 1904
that they first threw clay upon the
! political corpse of the so-called Com
moner. In 1916 they rendered him "A
} funeral so private that only two or
: three of the newspaper correspondents
who had gathered in st. Louis attend
ed the obsequies. The late decedent.
his cerements trailing in the breeze is
to appear in San Francisco for his
5 third interment and second consecu-
! tive trip to the 'honeyard."
1t was, we go On to say, a cold and
Z unrvsisting cadaver they put away in
1916. They slid him into the waiting
> hearse without ruffiing his shroud.
2 But the Bryan who is to appear In
} San Francisco on June 2s is going to
5 fight the undertaken. We'd enjoy the
frenzied efforts of the latter gentle
t man to administer the soporific.
Meanwhile. we tender to Democracy
the services of the columns depart
/ ment of suggestion and advice 1t is
that ii try cremation. a ceremonial TO
which San Francisco is much addicted
1t must, by this time, be apparent 10
! Democracy that neither packed earth
, nor the rock placed upon his last restl
ing place in st. Louis will hold VIII
liam Jennings.
Those of you who follow our per-
sonal fortunes will recall our agony
; in connection with the wooden clubs.
One hot afternoon in August, 1918.
we lost a drive that had been our
, pride and joy and a brassy shot ordi-
narily good for zoo yards. We search
! ed for them all that fall and early last
spring gave them up as lost. Wednes-
day afternoon on the Cobbs Greek
course we found the drive when we
laid the bali dead to the pin on No
Ind got down for a two. And all after
= there were traces of the brassy.
We recount the experience for the
Benefit of brother golfers who may
also be passing thru the valley of the
shadow. The moral is, IL you ever
had it it will come back to you. We
lost the knack of getting the wrists
denly as it had departed.
Millions of people" we quote from
the motion picture advertising. "cau
write stories and photoplays and don't
know it," We have no wish to quar-
rel with the assertion. We merely
suggest that those responsible for the
motion pictures get hold of some of
| them.
Our contention being that those now
writing for the motion picture drama
cannot do 1t.
The suggestion made by an editorial
! coadjutor. that President Wilson could
| not be elected to any office in Great
/ Britain or France is true enough 80
! far as it goes. But It doesn't take in
! enough territory.