The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-04
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE.
(From rhiladelphia Public LedgsrJ

Who" asks our somewhat cynical
friend, F. P. A. as he propounds what
purports to be one of the Republican
memory tests who is Warren G.
Harding?" We hesitate to remove the
blanket which covers a great secret,
but we go so far as to predict that on
the morning and afternoon of June 16
Warren G. Harding will be one of the
most widely discussed citizens of these
United States.
Not that we are one of those en-
gagged in the task of softly projecting
Senator Harding. We are for Priteh-
ard of North Carolina. SO long as he
has a chance. We have seen Harding
but once. 1t was at the moment when
he walked on eggs in the presence of
the Republican national convention of
1916. Greatly to our regret, he didn't
crack a shell. And SO we have no con-
Germ as to his destiny. But we do
profess some skill as reader of signs.
omens, portents and signals
There is. however, some compensa
ton in the thought that Wisconsin
probably is the only state La Toilette
could have carried.
The Rev Doctor Stratton. who is
conducting one. goes further than
most of those who make war upon tho
dance. The doctor says 1.-THE modern
dance is an expression of he degener-
alton of human society" Hitherto 1t
has been deemed sufficient merely to
say. "the modern dance is hugging set
to music"
AS we have indicated. good deal
of our time is devoted to looking for
the bug under the chip. Is it possible
the dance is getting the upper hand
of the gentlemen who so valiantly OPP
IN
sion they had it pretty we'll stamped
out.
Probably the best way to combat the
dance evil would be to go before the
various state legislatures and secure
the passage of a law declaring dancing
felony and punishable as such. 1t
would be no trouble to get that sort of
measure thru a state Legislature that.
as you may recall. having been the
the weapon employed in abolishing the
cigarette.
Every time we contemplate the
heights to which American statecraft
rose in the matter of outlawing the
cigarette we feel tremulous pride in
our country.
Why tire nulous?" Well. it's a nice,
gooey sort Of adjective and fits the
needs of the case.
We agree with Angus McSwain, pos
sibly for the first time. Senator john
son is not a radical. The descriptive
word in the senator's case begins with
ia lower case I'd" to be exact.
We stand cold and clammy in the
face of Governor Aliens plan to set
aside May l as American day. 1t pre-
cipitates another holiday upon a tried
people already overburdened with
holidays. Incidentally, it interferes
with our plan to have a day set aside
for the purpose of honoring the
fathers of this country. A Fathers
day. we go on to say since you are, no
doubt. curious about it,. is one of our.
obsessions.
We have no preference as to time or
date. We merely ask that there be set
aside one day in the year on which
father shall not be required, asked or
permitted to stick his hand in that
right-hand pocked of his trousers.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Sun and Herald. to give
it all that is coming to it, is an original
sort of chap. He says Rear Admiral
Cary T. Grayson is the White House
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