The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-02
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAZZ e. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

It seems worth noting that those
who seek TO stop the fight did not
approach the matter thru the usual
channels. The favorits media OF those
who frown upon the contests of the
prize ring is a weakened, pussyfoot-
ing governor. There are various opin-
ions of Governor Edwards. Some Of
| them are uncomplimentary. But no.
body has accused him of having a
floating cartilage.
One speculation has always en-
per diem of the gentleman who, just
before the principals are ready to en-
| ter the ring, Inevitably emerges from
his obscurity with a plan to stop the
fight?
| Once again the column finds itself
| at odds with the esteemed New York
American. The American has picked
Bud Stillman as the hero of the Still
man divorce case. II we had been
have selected Mr.. Potter. father of the
heroine. as the hero. Mr.. Potter's
leisurely performance in rushing to
the aid of his daughter seems to US
to be the high light of the case to
date.
| We regret it II the sordid. COM
mercial note seems to creep into our
| estimate of the case. But, as we I'M
derstand 1t, young Bud was provided
for in his grandfather's will. 1t Is
comparatively easy for one who had a
grandfather to be a hero.
1t is also comparatively easy to be a
hero in the columns of the esteemed
American.
It may be true, as the Houston Post
AYERS, that Senator Newberry demon
strated he was a poor business man
when he spent fifty times the amount
Of his potential salary in his race for
the United States senate But Senator
| Newberry may rest serene in his
achievement. The people are so grate-
full to him for having defeated Mr..
Ford that they will never permit him
to come to want.
Meanwhile, the speculation as to the
amount of money Mr.. Ford spent con-
tinues to hold us in its thrall.
! Now that Bobby Jones has torn UP
a score card, we suggest to him. II he
wishes to go further with 1t, that a
sand box is one of the most convenient
land satisfactory OF receptacles over
which to break the shaft Of his mashie.
The sand box. however. is for those
who resort to violence. For those
who wish to preserve a gentlemanly
Idemeanor blaming the caddie is the
most popular and the most satisfac-
tory alibis.
We do not wish to discount Mr.. Jock
| Hutchison's impressive victory. but so
far as we are intimately and per-
the recipe for putting little back
spin on the ball.
your letter to Warren on wednes-
10 Ia R<r1 YT~wN
lieve you have Ring Lardner shaded"
writes a reader. We wish to make our
position perfectly clear. All we claim
is that we are a great deal better than
those who criticise US for not being as
good as Lardner.
IT have talked freely" writes Mr..
Bayard Taylor Swope, as he tenderly
massaged the present champion with
conversational emollient, with Cor
and willard" Mr. .Swope's achieve
ment has the quality of largeness.
Beside 1T the average Americans am
bition to be on terms of friendly init
macy with a head-waiter seems pulling.
II we are any Judge of gaits, the
plan to supplant THE Star Spangled
Banner" limps feebly. We have talked
with many who engaged in the activi-
tiles engendered by the war. None of
to another national anthem.
| What, we desire to ask as memory
regilds and revivifies the past, finally
became of the old-fashioned man who
believed the country could be saved by
the initiative and referendum and the
recall?
It is said to have been Miss Gladys
Deacons wish to make her wedding
thoroly American in character. We
shall. therefore, peruse the detail of
the event as set forth in this morning.
papers with a good deal of interest.
We shall want to know how the John
darms" of Paris succeeded in coping
with that form of riot and disordr.
The moral in the Stillman case, as
we deduce 1t from the testimony of the
maid who confessed she read Mrs
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