The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-21
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger,

We had not intended to say any,
thing about the Admiral Sims matter.
It seemed to us to be a controversy
which could be and should be set
tied without Intervention from the
column. But such is the Roadway be-
ing made that we ultimately may be
forced to get into it.
We believe we could straddle the
question as satisfactory as any of the
various editorial writer's have been
able to do. We might do 1t better.
Mr.. Wilson is credited with the in
tention of keeping his ideals before
the public. 1t will be a considerable
feat. The public never cares much
What the average American citi-
zen wants to know is, Did he win
and. if so, how much"
The dream of a Farmer-Labor party
continues to obsess the American
Federation of Labor. Since the A. F.
Of L. yield nothing to any group, it
| will be necessary to convert the
farmer. AS one who regards the pos
sible combination with a casual inter-
est, we suggest that proponents of the
A, forty-four-hour week be sent out to
talk to the farmer about the time he
gets his hay down.
OF all the irrelated groups of Amer
| lean citiZenry, no two are so far apart
as the farmer and the labor unions.
In greater or lesser degree, every
farmer is a capitalist. There is moth
| ing in the tenets of union labor to
| which he is not antipathetic. The
gentleman who believes the two can be
welded to common aim has some
thing in his carburetor.
E,rrots
Sir-I note in your column a few
! impressions of Chicago written by one
, of your correspondents in which he
refers to the fact that "alf trains run
in and out of the city left-handed.'
I think he is, in way, wrong in this
/ statement, as the only road running
into Chicago which adheres to the
left-handed operation is the Chicago
and Northwestern, which operates the
whole system in this manner. This
/ is accounted for by the fact that the
road was built by English capital and
the English rule of the road" wa:
adopted and never has been changed
There may be an exception to this
but am not aware of it. F. D. B.
| What kind of husband are you?'
1 asks Montanye Perry in an article in
one of the current periodicals. Well
/ if Montanye must know, we are the
sort that spills stuff on the table linen
and almost invariably fails to close
the refrigerator door tightly.
Having answered the question po-
litely and courteously, we crave ths
privilege of asking one: Is Montanys
a gent or a lady?
| Inasmuch as there is bound to bt
some talk about 1t, we wish to sa.
that the will of the late Mr.. Hayman
who died recently in New York, is en-
tirely satisfactory to US. We maxi
this statement not with the expecta
ton that it will stop the controversy
but to indicate that we shall take NJ
part in it.
| We have assumed there will be
controversy. There always is. No NAL
has ever given his money away in
manner entirely satisfactory to hi
community.
Yesterday was Flag Day and NOR
attention should be paid to it, A da
of observance, which is free of charg
and which is not continued as an ex
cuse for shutting down the bushes
of the country. is entitled to some at
tention.
i Another thing about Flag Day
Z that it can be observed by hanging GU
the Stars and Stripes. 1t isn't neces