The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-12
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAY e. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledgsr.)
By JAY e. HOT

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The weak and coIorless Mr.. Hard
| ing continues to indicate in his
speeches that during his incumbency
OF the White House the country will
be conducted as a copartnership. AS
was forecast by his opponents, he al
ready is seeking refuge behind the
people. 1t is a shameless surrender
and, we claim, bodies no good for the
' AS we view it, the stockholders have
been so long deprived of power that
they no longer are fittedto assume the
One who says she reads the column
rebukes us for what she terms our
| "tacit approvaP'--of Mr.. Penrose.
There is nothing tacit about our ap-
prevail of Mr.. Penrose. 1t is /out-
spoken, direct and enthusiastic We
don't know the man; we never saw
him. We don't know anybody who
does know him. Therefore our ap-
proval is unprejudiced and unbiased.
Our admiration of Mr.. Penrose is
based on the fact that he is frankly
for PenroSe and the Republican party.
He doesn't pretend he is for the people
and is engaged in a heroic effort to
rescue them. He neither kisses the
public nor caters to its whims. Mr..
Penrose is such a relief from the
type of statesman We have known
most intimately that we. are enthusi-
Iastically for him.
This, we see by the public prints. is
Girl Scouts week. Twenty years ago
we should have been tremendously in
trigued by the news. But we seem to
have lost the old zest. The process
no no xx-f1
home at o'clock in the morning after
an election.
The theory that the Democratic par
ty is dead does not impress US. As
one who. eight years ago, declined an
invitation to attend the burial of the
Republican party, we look upon the
demise of Democracy with suspicion.
With one exception the Immediately
urgent business has received atten-
ton. The detail of returning big
Bilr' Haywood to the penitentiary has
not, We believe, been carried out.
Haywood Broun, distinguished liter-
airy and football critic, confesses his
inability to incite the people to indig-
nation. He says George Creel and Eva
Tanguay are the only persons from
whom he has been able to exact acer-
bette retort. His experience runs so
directly counter to our own that we
are moved to make inquiry. Has Mr..
Broun never encountered the anony-
nous contributor who writes in to tell
him he is an lass ?"
We had no idea any free-lance writ
ing man escaped the attention of ''Old
Anonymous" Unless we are told, at
least twice a week, that we are an ass
we get the notion that the column is
losing its zip"
It's getting so one can't tell whether
it's salute of seven guns or the ex-
piosion of home brewed "hooch.'
And that, probably, is the last you'll
ever hear OF Mr.. Farley P. Christian
sen.
Stiff, the late Mr.. Longfellow, who
wrote of the melancholy days, never
realized the most tragic of their quail
ties. Only those who find it too dark
to play golf at $50 o'clock in the aft
ernoon can do that.
We believe it was Mr.. Longfellow
who referred quite effectively to the
melancholy days" At any rate. some
body did.
Meanwhile, we pay this parting COM
pliment to Governor Cox: He didn't
try to say it with flowers.
Mr.. Debs has learned the country
isn't ready for socialism and that, even
If it. were, those who embrace the doc
trines of socialism are not yet capable
of administering them. Mr.. Debs
grows in wisdom and grace. When he
finally concludes, as ultimately he will
conclude, that the people are not
worth saving, he will have become the
possessor of a well-rounded philosophy
which should keep him out of the
penitentiary forthe balance of his life.
However, we go on to adjure Mr..
Debs, no man can be really happy un-
less he is engaged in some form of
useful employment.
President Lowell recalls time when !
no young man. would think of smok- |
ing while with a woman. President |
Lowell'S observation as to the present |
laxness of our social ethics is perth |
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