The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-12
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE.
tFrom Philadelphia Public LedgerJ

Il tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.)
Maurice MaeterIinck has changed
! his mind about America Having
given New York the casual once
/ over" he yesterday told the reporters
dousiy. In the circumstances we are
willing to withdraw our suggestion
that the law compelling Belgian poets
to lecture in this country be repealed
or abrogated.
Since NJ. Maeterlinck has been stay
ing in NewYork.. 1t is projecting the
obvious to say he hasn't seen Amer
lea yet. II. after he has lectured in
the "op'ry house." ia Plymouth. Ill.
/ ridden on the branch lines Of the New
| Haven railway, eaten in certain
hotel in Neenah. Wis. and has con-
templated the union station in Cleve-
land. he still thinks he likes this coun-
try, far be it from us to suggest or
devise any. method of keeping him out
of it.
We wish to cast no aspersion-we
would tndite no physiological sneer-
IN writing of the wholesale benefit
cence OF Henry Ford. But you proba-
nly put the same sort of mick in
your bank roll when you tip the head
waiter SIS for table.
Mr.. Ford has acquired a bundle" in
a perfectly legitimate, not to say a
pTaiseworthy manner. But the pos,
sioility that 1t may choke him makes
II necessary occasionally to remove
the outer wrapper.
upon one point. however, we wish
unreservedly to commend Mr. Ford-he
went out into a 5000 peighborhood
70 puild his 100000 house. So few
OF the very rich respond TO the earnest
aeSire OF the poor and worthy TO view
ana Gissect them at close range that
one. Va '4is
Most OF the-bttterness against the
more or less idle rich has its origin
IN their reluctance to permit the moor
and worthy intimate scrutiny NJ tbetr
private lives
The fact that Senator Borah has
sshea Governor Lowden where he
stands on the league of nations is
not, IL seems to us. the important
thinS in the connection. The inner
tant thing is that. altho Governor
Lownen has been a candidate for
else has asked him.
There are varying opinions concern-
ing the League Of Nations but as a
eampaisp issue 1t sleeps with Rameses
and the Ming dynasty.
AS to the assertion that IL was the
last wet" New Years, we are less
confident than some. The day after
Johnson whipped Jim Jeffries public
sshtiment was almost unanimous upon
the point that 1t was the last prize,
iignt this country would ever see
/ Anyhow. nothing except the flood
was ever as bad is it was said to be.
h..-l
Senator Moses's assertion that wood
viii win in walk" That is one of
the piausibiiities of the campaign
What We wish to know--we have
asked the question sbefore-is whether
we shall be regarded as traitor and
a scoundrel If we chance 10 prefer
some candidate other than the gal
liant general. sSe a"
It is a matter about which we are
much perturbed. All of the Wood
propaganda to reach this desk seems
based on the proposition that the Re
publican who isn't for the general is
a rogue.
| Probably we shall be pardoned II
we make suggestion in the connec-
ton. 1t is that General Woods can
didacy be predicated on his fitness for
the place and not on the theory that
th0se who oppose him are slSonks.
The suggestion comes from one whose
knowledge of politics is academic: but
there may be virtue in it.
Having responded to Arabella Re
plyer's request that we write something
about politics. we now turn to other
and more intriguing topics.
One of these about which we never
cease to be enthusiastic is Philadelphia
sausage Save for that produced in
| frnf fod dicfr riot located in WISCONSIN,.
there is no sausage west CT the Alie-
gheny mountains East of the Alle-
ghenies sausage-making is art.
West of those historic mountains it is
/ a mediocre performance In assembling
q unpalatable scraps of food into repul-
sive formation.
We don't know who invented Pennz
J sylvania sausage. but we are willing
: to contribute to the cost of a tablet to
be erected to his memory.
We have the habit of hasty compu-
! tation in immaterial figures. 1t seems
worth noting here that OF the fifteen
men we recall talking with on New
Years Day eleven asked II we remern-
bered the time when gin was ninety
cents bottle.
Doubtless. Mr.. Rockefeller. who gave
away another hundred million dollars
the other day. has his faults; but he
could have lot of amiab1e weak
, nesses and still be- worth more to this
country than all the whistlers and
whittIers that ever lived in it.
And. as yet. nothing but the wrap
per is off Mr.. Rockefellers roll.
III HEART AND BEAUTY
D0nDY r11R0