The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-09
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAy =. HOUSE
tFron Philsdsiphia Public LedssrJ

For the moment we desert the cause
of the, so-cailed freemen. While we
regard the formation or a Men Voters
League as important. it can wait until
graver and more important matters
are settled. In a way. the men have
become accustomed to their chains
Grown lethargie, the gives no longer
chafe them. Their cause can wait
to devote its entire attention to the
matter.
The adoption of a state song en-
crosses the attention of the legislature.
1t is a humiliating thing to realize that
Pennsylvania has gone along for more
than 100 years without contributing a
purely local epic to the garland of
song. Other and more progressive
commonwealths have officially adopt
ed state anthems and have forgotten
them. Pennsylvania lags behind.
We believe a little pressure, properly
applied, would force the legislature to
fadopt the epic now before it. The COLI
umn will do its part. We suggest to
its readers that they. too, turn on the
screws We reproduce the gem which
now awaits the sanction of the assem-
the state will never be able to get a
better one. In the words of Admiral
Farragut, "Why stand we here idle?"
There's a state in Americas Union,
A commonwealth mighty and strong,
A state of historic achievements
That rung out the liberty gong:
The state where the great Declaration
Pealed forth from Jefferson's pen
document fruitful of freedom
That gave a new nation to men.
CHORUS.
"Pennsylvania, you're keystone,
The arch of the Union great;
The state where the Penn was mighty,
And eurbed the sword of fate;
The state where carbon is abundant-
Independence Hall your fame
PENNSYLVANIA ever hallowed,
pennsylvania, We love thy name,
It's an empire of beauty and splendor,
The home of the Liberty Bell;
The state where Old Glory was fashioner,
Sweet stories of free dome TO tell.
Valley Forge, too, is Its treasure:
Fortitude there was displayed.
Where the barefooted boys in blizzard
With steie-like front were arrayed."
The author of the proposed state
song, Mr.. Peter O'Donnell, of Carlisle,
probably will be subjected to some
piffling criticism. Both his inspira
ton and his muse may be fleuted by
the highbrows. Some may hold that a
declaration canont peal forth from a
pen. There will, we are satisfied, be
some objection to the classification of
the Liberty Bell as a gong" and THE
state where carbon is abundant
doubtless will bA scored on the ground
that it is an awkward phrase-a rusty
horseshoe nail clasped. as it were. in
is piffling and detracts nothing from
the beauty and grace of the song.
Only Mr. o'DonnelI's golden words
are before the legislature. The bill
provides that they be ''sung to such
music as may hereafter be adopted for
the purpose" We suggest that the
bill be passed and that Henry Ford
be employed to write the music.
IA n w
repeat that it is the New York Amer
ican-again scores heavily. Four pic
lures of Babe" Ruth appeared in its
Sunday issue. Its New York COMPETE
printed only three pictures of the
And one New York newspaper went
to press Sunday morning carrying not
line about the Hon, Ruth -, -s
"All of Mrs. Harding's gowns" says
her spokeswoman, Mrs. New, have
been especially designed for her, and
they are all American. She has .pur-
chased no jewe1ry nor had any dress
designed which in any sense could be
considered foreign
From which we take it that Mr..
Harding. If all goes well, expects to be
a candidate for a second term.
truth to tell" writes contempe-
rary. Mr.. Chesterton wouldn't know
what he knows if it weren't for the
fact that his wife remembers what he
forgets."
Mr.. Chesterton's is the common lot.
We know thousand things we might
have forgotten had we been able to
get Adelaide's permission to do so. A
woman may forgive, but she never lets
her husband forget.
Formerly a man reluctantly admit
ted that he drank a little now and
then. Now he boasts of 1t.
Every time a man expresses his ad-
miration of a woman his wife says,
But did you ever notice how bow
legged she So"
Personally. we approve the call to
arms against the infringement of per-