The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-17
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE.
(From rhilsdelphia Public Ledger)



sir-Did you not overlook signifi-
cant fact in your Closeup" of Henry?
Said fact being that he was elected
governor while in France serving as
division chief secretary of the Y. NJ.
c. A of the Thirty-fifth division. And
he did a good job, too. The writer
was chief of the bureau of personnel
ct the time. and was in position to
know. .. II. w.
| We overlooked a number of things,
! including Henry's election as COVER
nor But we had already crowded the
motion picture theaters hard and the
fear that they might turn upon US
stayed our hand. Henry was the first
Kansas hero of the war. As Red
Cross worker he beat the boys who
went thru the grind of training at
/ Sill and Funston to the field or con-
| flict by a. margin of several months.
| When Henry was nominated governor
the Argonne was a forest and the
debris at ChateauThierry still
smoked. Kansas was at fever heat
| and Henry's was, for the moment, the
lone figure upon the altar OF the
states patriotic fervor. He mad gone
| in January, leaving. his embryonic
I boom for governor in the hands or
the boys" 1t was the cleverest of
political strategy. Had he stayed at
home he would have had fight COM
parable in its intensity to that or the
/
been beaten, for there were a number
of Others good men and true, in the
race. AS it was, Henry romped home
| in the primaries as he did in the cleo
ton. Thru it ali, he sustained but
one repulse. He had gone abroad as
a Red Cross worker. Later the Red
Cross issued an order barring those
who wore its insignia from politics
| So Henry shifted to the Y. NJ c. A,
which was all right and fair enough.
I A 1t,ia u.hf guenf the
state gave Henry's candidacy its inn
petus A complete realignment of the
factions in the Republican party
nominated and elected him. Men who
had for years lain in wait for each
other in political dark alleys came into
the open and became as brothers. AT
the meeting at which Henry's boom
officially was launched, Conner Davies
threw his spear away and stumped
across the stage upon his willow leg
to clasp the hand of Sam Fitzpatrick.
Joe Dolley Rugged Mort Albaugh. 1t
was an emotional upheaval observa-
bic in this country only when fervor
lays its urge upon the souls OF those
who dwell upon the table lands. once
the seat of the great American desert.
/ Cmfwyp, Vbgkqj.
Sir-I have read with interest your
little dip at the expense of the bulletin
board and freely admit we are occa-
& S1OnallY DdQly InlXeQ may SQBStSl
that, in order to improve this ssrvic.
you get in touch with IA B." and
learn whether he or she would be
willing to fill this position for-us.
]. c., Supt.
We select the projecting nail on
which to hang what is, perhaps. our
favorite handmade epigram. Those
| who can tell you how it ought to be
done, are as numerous as the sands
! - he W n q n QCtfiallX do
| it are exceedingly rare.
For the Moment. the Flow Is
| Staunched.
sir-While your heart was bleeding
for the old songs, among which you
| Alice Ben Bolt" Come Where My
Love Lies Dreaming" "My Old Ken
lucky Home" and "Juanita,' how
could you have forgotten LITTLE
Brown Jug, How I'Love Thee? 1t is
a song which might, indeed, touch the
present human emotions and make
the heart bleed hemorrhagically.
II. E. S.
little Brown Jug hold no lure
| for us. AS a popular song it antedates
/ our career as a voluntary minstrel.
We are not SO old as that. Such &C
| quaintance as we have with it is de-
! void of the thrill of intimate contact.
For the reason that the composition
has no barber shop" minors, no
| lachrymose chords. it is unsuited to
the uses of the night-blooming warb-
Ter. Anyhow. We are off the stuff
and we would not wish publicly to
yearn for it.
| with the kindly permission OF the
| audience We shall now retire for the
purpose of determining whether we
shall go on suffering or throw our
| wooden clubs away.
A woman is always surprised to
learn that her husband has a new hat
and has been wearing II for two or
three weeks
If a man is worthless, the fact that
he belongs to a fine family is unim-
portant.