The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-10
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E, HOUSE.
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledgerl

by his appearance in South Da-
kota." we quote from the esteemed
New York Tribune. Gen. Leonard
Wood consents to the use of his name
as presidential candidate" But they
did have an awful time getting the
generals approval OF the plan to make
him president. One story is to the ef-
feet that they had to bind him hand
and foot and hold a lighted match to
the soles of his bare feet before they
finally secured his consent to run.
We beg the privilege OF recasting
the Tribune's editorial in support Of
General Wood. Thank you! Gen.
Leonard Wood, who for several
months has been an active candidate
for the presidency, and whose friends
have. for some time past, maintained
suite of ten rooms in Chicago no.
tel in support of his candidacy, has be-
come an aYowed one. General Wood
is high class gentleman, whose pub
lilo criticism of the war department.
the while he wore the uniform of a
major general. probably kept him out
of active service in France-both Mr..
Wilson and Mr.. Baker having demon
, strated in many ways that they are. in
a manner of speaking. entirely human.
General Wood is resolute person OF
fine executive ability and. undoubted-
ly, would make a good president.
The Wood boom, we so on to say
as we continue our self-imposed task
of recasting. isn't doing SO well. There
is something wrong with it. That may
be due to the fact that it glitters too
brightly. Possibly it's very obvious
financial prosperity has affected 1t. IL
still suffers from the original mistake
I of its promoters said mistake being
the assumption that Republican who
opposed the nomination of General
. a -
! Lately another misgiving has arisen
/ in the minds of some of General
Woods closest friends and stanchest
| Supporters. 1t is that the nomination
of General Wood. due to the fact that
| the country does not seem to be for
! compulsory military training, might
result In all Of the horrors OF another
Democratic administration. They are
shivering with that thought at Wood
/ headquarters, and so they have taken
I him out of his uniform and. thru the
aid of photography. are projecting him
! in civilian clothes and minus his mill
! tary title. 1t follows that, right now,
/ the Wood boom isn't doing so well, al
| tho he may very well be nominated for
and elected president of these United
States.
II you have read thus far we pur-
| pose rewarding you by revealing one
of the secrets OF the profession. We
| mad lnIeDueu 10 W1lle IllTee-llne par
agraph about the general, having the
\ humorous conceit of the binding and
| the lighted match in mind The rea-
| son so many of US writing chaps are
bores is that. once we start, We never
know when to stop.
1t Is, Sir, Entirely Obvious.
Sir-You say: THE good mans wife
| often disappears, leaving no clue. But
| the bad mans wife sticks to the end
The moral as 1 read 1t is; BE good
man." Z. IL. Il.
| Approaching the marital Arranged
don from another angle, We quote
letter from correspondent who had
! come to this compendium of universal
knowledge for an expression of opin-
| ion as to whether men were true TO
! one woman or to all of them. Tho
correspondent writes: II thank you
for your truthful reply to my question.
1 knew my answer, but wondered II it
were the same as yours. l did have
| six brothers, not to mention cousin
| or two. So 1 had ample opportunity
| to study masculine traits, and I've
learned their frailties and have sue
ceeded in forgiving and not condemn
! ing them. Now am 1 out of tho
primer class?"
We print the contribution with the
upon which to hang another thought
in the connection. 1t is that the
woman who forgives n man his fraiI-
ties is never the one to whom he is
married.
! We read Harold McGrath's new
, story up to the point1where, without
i being exactly conscious of what he
was doing, Hawksley began to dress
Kitty" There. having lost much OF
the reportorial instinct which for
merly distinguished US, we backed
away from it. 1t was, we concluded,
no place for US.
Every community produces a citizen
whose chief ambition is to make liv-
ing exhibiting a five-legged calf to
the public.
No really smart man waits for q
woman to get under the mistietoe.