The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-13
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

The significant thing about New
York's first liquor trial was not that
the defendant was acquitted. That,
perhaps, was to have been expected.
The significant thing Is that eight of
the jurors stopped to shake hands with
the defendant and his attorney. And
we construe it as prop under our
theory that public sentiment is always
with the "bootlegger."
The college professors know every
thing. They are not very busy just
| now. We shall be glad to yield space
to a lucid explanation of the psycho1-
ogy of the public's attitude toward the
| Illicit vendor Of the demon rum.
The Washington correspondents
have beclouded to some extent the sit
| uation by the use of large language;
| but what the Republican Committee
really is trying to do is to reduce the
number of free rides to its national
! conventions.
, We stayed off the water wagon a
good many years because we didn't
| care for the passengers. We intend to
| stay out of the i-prohibitioH parade
| Tor the same reason. 1t would be just
| our luck to draw a companion who
| would devote the entire march to la
menting the fact that the workingman
had been deprived Of his beer.
| We are always willing to discuss
prohibition with the man who is
| against it because it interferes with
his own drinking. but we positively
VIII not march with a man who weeps
| over the workingman.
In Which "a. c." Wrinss His Hands,
Sir-Of course petting parties have
been going on since the world began,
but for the same time they have been
frowned upon by most nice people.
Now, thanks to the Public Ledger, you
and others, they have been tacitly
approved. Everybody is doing it,
you say; why not you? It's a fine
indoor and outdoor sport; go to it,
All very well in its way. that advice,
but you must admit there is a limit.
Why do you not, out of your wisdom,
| formulate a set of rules to govern
these parties, SO far as thoro1y nice
girls are concerned. and advise them
how far they may go?
| kissing probably does little harm in
itself. the transfer of a stray germ or
| two being the worst of it; but given a
| shady nook and a man, how many
stop there? There is, of course. a
point to which a girl should not go.
Why not explain just where that point
is? OF course, most girls are not of
any particular value, but we might as
well save as many of them as possible
on general principles. A. c.
We decline the commission rendered
by "a. c. There are too many vol
untary enlistments in that branch of
| the service now. The self-appointed
saviors of the world have blamed near
ruined it.
Meanwhile. ours is the fate of every
man who pierces the polite hokum
surrounding the relations of life. He
gets jolly well bawled out for doing it.
The papers refer to Rear Admiral
McCully as "a confirmed bachelor;
but the lesson of the ages is that no
man is safe.
Admiral McCully's system for rear
| ing children is interesting and prob
ably fully as practical as the plans of
| the unmarried women for solving the
problems of motherhood, Nearly every
unmarried woman, particularly IL she
has given up hope, has such plan.
The Clinton County HaiIstorm.
J. II. Chatham, in Altoona Tribune.
Twas on the twenty-eighth Of May
In nineteen twenty-one, we say, .
That sight Of Natures lovers sat.
The one a maid Of sweet sixteen,
! The other many years had seen;
When something dropped upon the FOOL
| That sounded like prancers hoof:
And looked for tongues and saws to drop
| And then the mass In Heavens field,
The storm had brewed and then concealed
| But soon learned the thought was wrong.
Another mass with saw-toothed prong,
Dropped thick and fast upon the ground,
And housed us in with snowballs round,
] Yes, snowbalIs 1 am forced to say.
For on the ground we saw them lay.
As big as hens or Eeese's eggs.
| With rims stuck round with icy pegs.
| OH Mother Nature dear to u.s.
| In Heaven how you raise this muss,
OF heat and cold, Of ice and snow.
And product give to child below.
l The protest of a correspondent
against parades and those who ride
and march in them has been received
and filed. We make no argument for
the parade, but there are extenuating
| circumstances It's about the only
thing there is left for the man who
would exact a dividend from his silk
hat.
Chancellor Day has resigned. Ten
or fifteen years ago we could have
thought of a number OF snappy things
to say OF him But his retirement was
so long delayed that we have forgot
ten what they were
The moral, If any. is that If you can
refrain from throwing the brick now
the probabilities are that 1t won't be
there when YOU reach fer it