The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-25
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger9

"You may bet you won't accept an
invitation to get licked out or your
boots" writes F. Ogden Cornish in
commenting upon the columns decli-
nation to engage in controversy with
the New York Call. The reason you
reactionaries lie about socialism and
Socialists Is that you are moral and
generally physical cowards
Well, that wasn't exactly the reason.
The real reason was that a Socialist
bores US stiff; we simply cannot
stand a fathead.
However. Mr.. Cornish's calm and
well-calculatcd presentation OF the
tenents OF socialism in the quoted
paragraph is effective and convincing.
1t would convert any man less obsti-
nate, less set In his ways.
Those who seek to discredit Con-
gresswoman Robertson now claim she
very well be true. But. at that, we
say the girl is smart. She knows there
isn't the slightest proba bility that any
woman will be selected to sit in the
disarmament parley. She knows that.
outside the handful Of women who are
urging such selection, nobody wants
woman sitting in the parley.
! We conclude, therefore, that Alice is
a smart little lady. For. obviously. II
|
1t is the part of logic and wisdom to
select a grandstand that is crowded.
! We note, as a passing incident of an
otherwise dull Sunday afternoon, that
! the Fourth Amendment has been re-
discovered. And the passion for ex-
ploration engendered by the discovery
may lead the people on and on 1t is
within the bounds of probability that
a searching party ultimately will lead
he 70 IA mr. xxvh Efffh
| Amendment is buried.
Some Doings of the Drama.
SirI made the column before in
every respect. Mine was the only cutie
confession. have a new one, Collette
Ryan, of the Zeigfeld "Follies" What
did you do before the "Follies" came?
saw the new Avery Hopwood farce,
&c letting Gertie's Garter" They do.
Let me sketchily report to the column:
Wilson Coilinson once wrote a play
about a. kid giving a girl something to
wear to at-homes cup in Mabefs
Room"). Avery Hopwood wrote
piece in which a beautiful girl wears
a blanket and runs for forty-seven
weeks ("Ladies' Mighty. Forty-seven
weeks. plus a perfect thirty-six, plus
one blanket, plus one garter. equals
Gertie's It's much better than it
sounds, though not ope-tenth as funny
as Ladies' Night even without John
Cumberland. The latter piece is due
here, and if Adelaide can't go and you
can get Mr.. Bonte's top-hat. you and
I will go down and review it.
/ r. P. C.
The invitation doesn't intrigue. We
saw Theda Ba-ra last year. We are. so
to speak, fed up. Not that we wish
with any exponent of the widowed
drama. but that. like Cousin EgbeEt,
we can be pushed just so far.
what" asks w. w. W.. "can we
do with the reporter-and exc the
night editor-who tells us in the PUB
lie Ledger that schoolhOuses can be
built now for more than 100 per cent
less than they could a year or two
ago?"
They might make a columnist of
him. 1t has been done.
Despite conflicting and pessimistic
1 opinion, the world makes some pro-
gress. There was a time when a man
in order to preserve his social stand
ing was compelled to buy his daugh-
ter a piano and employ a teacher to
give her lessons on the instrument.
He can now achieve the same general
result by buying his daughter ukelele.
The average girl gets about the same
response from a ukelele that she gets
from a piano. and it is unnecessary. to
employ an expensive teacher to give
her lessons. She can pick up every
thing she needs to know about it.
! Hereafter, when we want a fit
thrown we shall not ask that the
World be accorded the privilege of
throwing it.
Business of Stepping on the Gas
/ Sir-Last week at luncheon one day
I was eating some shrimp salad and
| in a needless moment passed the re-
mark that I thought shrimp much
tenderer than lobster" 1 started
| something. The discussion whether
much tenderer or "more tender" is
correct isn't fairly started. and have
been howled at ever since. Some have