The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-31
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledgsr.)

Readers of the column will recall
our struggle with the word -'pro-
gressive' and our earnest effort 10 as
certain what it meant when applied to
political policy. We. think we have
clue In the paper yesterday one of
the political correspondents referred
to Woodro" Wilson as progressive
governor"
z As we understand it then, a pro
gressive" is one who favors writing
into the statutes a long list of meas
ures which viii not work. and which.
after trial, are either disregarded or
repealed.
OF course. this assumption may be
wrong If it is. we ask to be cor
rected.
We lived long in progressive.
state. More than that, we HAD for
more than ten years the honor and
distinction of being a '-reactionarv'' in
a progressive state. out there
progressive" measure was anything
believed by the progressive" leaders
10 be calculated to get votes in the
p. There is. however, one thing abo,,t .
progressive policy. 1t doesn't re
quire any courage-to be for ii. There
are times when it takesSbackbone TO he
''reactionary."
Mans Injustice, Etc, Etc.
Sir-Darwin saw Nature, function tn
Disposing Host, posting Gods pleas
ure; in the Commerce of IifeENat-
uralA Selection & Survival of the Fit-
test. Example: They hung Pirates:
t1llibusters & Crowned. William the
Conqueror -
Man is NfI-to deadly fatal issues.
The Matrix of Time & Science.-Cani-
tai and Labor at War-Scuttles the
Ship of State I,
"a years; I am Negotiating the Mat
rtx of Scfence-Loan me Capital and
will invent a Motor. that will make
the world over.
All inventors are misunderstood
Because Their Mission is not Heralded
Boss Printers & Publishers were
obsessed. thus Men trying to make
typesetting machines are crazy: as
men trying to make flying machines
or Perpetual notion
40 Years. am posting My THESIS.
to the Greatest People and Press on
both sides the Atlantic. That has kept
me in poverty.
JOSHUA GARRETT.
In bringing his troubles to the col
umn Mr.. Carrots has. shall we say.
selected the right place We try to
make this the clearing house for the
master minds engaged in solving the
problems of the universe. We invite
them to drive in and unload at their
convenience. But we cannot do more
than that.
We should not. we go on to say.
since we are in a hurry to finish the
days work and Join Adelaide in New
York. we should not advise capital to
loan Mr.. Garrett any money. We can
not Undertake to use our Influence
with the financial world in behalf of
any individual. And we saw II Mr.
Garrett has devoted forty years to his
thesis. he has put in too much time on
it, Ten years would have been am
pie; probably five years would have
been enough.
Still Mr.. Garrett inspires our en-
| thusiasn. Had he gone in for poll
tics instead of science what a grand
member he would have made some
third party!
Eph Wiley says the first four years
/ of a vaudeville performance are the
/ hardest.
! If you read the story of the mott
fication of Mr. Harding. you probably
noticed the audience was not asked to
: join the glee club in singing the star
/ SpangFcd Banner" Mr.. Hays. who had
reduce the agony of a public meeting
to its smallest dimension.
, Others have made their affairs at
Marion the basis of important political
deductions and conclusions. But we
regard the decision to let the glee club
alone with the star Spangled Ban
nerr as the high light of the day.
We note, incidentally. that another
Joke has been added to the original
; li.t of three. We refer to the one
tabout Doug and Mary.
The three original jokes were the
! one abdut the young married couple
and the two about the Irishman.
San AntoffA. Tex.-A young woman
asked 10 use the telephone Of n tire com
pany After she had hurried out II was
discovered she had taken with her hurried
eSlt 500 in cash.