The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-16
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
(Fron Philadelphia Psbrc Ledsss.y
The Young Fellow Is Pretty Good

The Young Fellow Is Pretty Good
Sir-I am just a young fellow.
like your column. 1 would like to run
a column myself. / am going to be a
writer. and am preparing myself with
that object in view. I inclose a bit 1
simply had 10 get out of my system.
/ have just been to prize fight.
Women were there
Lovely women with their men
OF sort
And Kid Williams smashed While Muir
watched one OF those women
And saw her laugh and cheer.
1 tIApk saw more than that:
1 saw her, herself. not the same
As when she. supped at the Ritz,
Or motored along the boulevard.
She was a woman incarnate
Cheering the strongest.
Cheering the brute.
And l though. you may argue
For your freedom and rights;
You may talk tf your intellect
And literary lights.
The facts are too plain.
wousan's n woman
They all are same. ID. Fl.
As We have noted. the young fellow
! is pretty good. To us his stuff is as in
| telfigibIe as. say. Amy LowelPs. But
| having established the fact that a
woman's = woman and that they are
all the same what does he purpose do
ing about it?
Nor can we understand why the
| young fellow wants to do a column.
Nothing else. We are prepared to say,
cuts so deeply into ones leisure hours.
We estimate that the necessity of writ
! ing column has deprived us of II $50
rounds OF golf. 1t has spoiled 1923
+, fishing trips. Had we not deliberately
| chosen the job of celumnist we could
have consumed $4,000 additional ci-
CARS and 900 pounds of smoking to-
| bacco. Time and again the writing
! of the column has kept us away from
the baseball and football games. 1t
! has spoiled many delightful moments
! of mental hamilton and has deprived
us of what has come to be the birth
| right of every American citizen-the
privilege of doing nothing. AS an ad-
venture columning is unsatisfa Glory; as
| a career it is a total loss We do not
recommend it to any young fellow.
The hero of the late campaign has
been selected. He is Mr.. VIII H.
Hays, of Sullivan county. Indiana.
| The column concurs in the selection
on the theory that, in the long run.
one one hero 4 as satisfactory as an
ness TO make the selection unanimous
we shall exact the privilege of select
| ing the heroine of the campaign.
| (Cries of Name hertz She is Miss
Lowden, daughter Of the governor OF
| Illinois and a potential nominee of the
Republican party for president.
| 1t was on that hot Saturday after
noon in Chica go. With the adjourn
ment of the convention for luncheon
had come the consciousness that War
rem C. Harding would be nominated
| for president before the convention
adjourned its afternoon session. The
! Tip" was on everybo Sy's lips. Ohio's
irongray entry was coming home. II
was question, at the most, of a few
| The Harding rooters had marched
! away to the CoIiseun>shouting, Were
on the way and we've got some place
| to go.D dramatically speaking, il
was an inelegancy. But it carried
| conviction. . 7g 49,
| Lowden headquarters in the Con-
gress Hotel was as quiet as a country
side. The governors loyal supporters
| stood about in groups talking in mum
bled tones. One group gathered about
, the telephone. And on the edge Of
that group was a slender, dark-eye6
girl. She may have been twenty
three; she may have been younger A,
the balloting proceeded the man at the
phone noted by states and by delega
| lions InS cuflnlnaIl OH OF the f1aIulnt
drive. Presently he looked UP and
doubtless thru force of habit, placed
his hands over the receiver. Gov
ernor Lowden," he said, has released
his delegates" 1t was as if the blight
/ of paralysis had touched every mar
assembled. They looked from one to
the other and none found tongue
Their house of hopes lay in shattered
fragments about them and they were
mute and inglorious-
The girl straightenedsand looked the
world squaredy in the face. little
laugh, very little laugh. rippled upon
her~lips. We'll" she said maybe
! I'll get to see my family now.s
haven't seen mamma for a week;
haven't seen papa fer a month" And
then she turned and walked out of the
| room as blithely as a swallow takes
| the azure heights.
| We assume the liberty of presenting
! Miss Lowden as the heroine of the