The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-08
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

Today we gather up the rose leaves.
place them tenderly in a jar and set
them away in cool. dark place. A
little later in the season we hope to
breathe the peFmeating fragrance of
the resulting enhollient.
One of the rose leaves which we
press tenderly and over which we
cast it into its receptacle is the ravag-
ing, rampaging and devastating Ath-
leties. Connie Maclx's last-placers are
tearing thru the American league as
a raging tornado ticks a Minnesota
prairie and denudes it of its flora and
its evidences of civilization. They are
cutting swath as wide as pennantl
and as impressive as a worlds cham
pionship. The despfsed AS are on the
way AT last. And unless they are
broken on the wheel of their own
dizzy pace they are going far.
We are aware that in granting let
tiers patent for the tornado to Mime
sofa we are upsetting precedent and
tradition. 1t is the fashion of those
who trace the tornado to its place of
origin to make Kansas it's birthplace.
But we wish nothing so much as to
be able correctly to record contem-
tornadoes Minnesota is the heavy
weight champion.
Other fragrant petals fall about us.
Harold Bell Wright has written an
other book. It will be published in
August To those who wait for Mr..
Wright's books the last six weeks are
the hardest, but everything comes to
an end. And once the printed pages
of Mr.. Wright's latest venture in
balderdash reaches the open fields of
literature those who now await it with
M a ha
forget the depths in which they grovel.
Nor is Mr.. wright's forthcoming
volume the only light flaring in the
field of hope. Gene Stratton Porter
will again appear between covers in
in the late summer or early fall An
other great wave of words is upon us.
Life breaks fifty-fifty. Tho Georges
lost, the burbling that is to follow is
recompense almost complete.
He Means Us Personally.
Sir-If I were you, instead of
knocking anybody I would first try
and find out all I can about them,
then go and tell them to their face
what 1 think about them. Jack Demp-
sey answered your knocks Sat after
noon, and he answered them far more
/ better than your pen could ever hope
to answer them. After this, if I were
you, would keep quiet about Demp-
sey, because it shows you up as know
ing little about sports, and as far as
picking a winner you're some pine
apple. Never forget the old saying
IF you can't boost, don't knock"
This means you.
HERMAN ]. SMITH.
We trust Mr.. Smith will permit us
| to speculate a little on the matter in
| hand. Just suppose we do not heed
II, - 49,
we go right on formulating our own
opinions, expressing them as we
choose and saying what we like
What then?
Some of those who oppose Mr.. Vol
stead and his act marched in New
York yesterday afternoon. We leap
to press too early to know anything
about the details. We don't know
how many minutes the parade re-
CURED in which to pass a given point;
We should not have marched in it had
we been foot-leose and fancy-free
Our connection with all crusades is, in
a manner of speaking, vicarious. We
| have no opinion as to what effect, if
any, the parade will have.
But we doubt that the incorporate
| language employed by those who op-
posed the parade is going to help
| prohibition. A very considerabl num-
! per OF excellent and worthy citizens
are opposed to the Volstead act.
They have a perfect right to be. This
is their country. At least it was their
country before DR.. Crafts and Wayne
B. Wheeler took it over. If they
want to say anything they are entitled
| to say it. Calling them anarchists,
| Tories and traitors is poor stuff
spread at an inopportune moment.
We went thru forty years of pro-
hibition and know most of the symp-