The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12
ON SECOND THOUGHT
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We haven't heard directly from Mr..
Harding, a1tho it is more than two
weeks since we wrote him. But in the
issue of the Marion Daily Star of
March We find this paragraph:
well. if 1t will give the columinist of
the Philadelphia Public Ledger any
satisfaction to know it, here's telling
him that the man to whom his advice
was addressed called it mighty good
stuff
Our reaction to that is that things
ran too smoothly for US yesterday. MIR.
Harding handed US a tacit compliment.
An indignant citizen fell upon an edi-
something that had appeared in the
paper. We are due to get a jolt to-
day. Life never breaks better than
Ififty-fifty for us, but that is all we ask
of it.
We do not follow Buck Kilby all the
way to his conclusion that when the
negotiations between Germany and the
allies finally are concluded it will be
found that the allies have agreed to
Ipay the Germans fourteen billion
marks as reparation in full. We think
the allies will agree to pay Germany
fourteen billion marks. but only on
condition that the United States can be
persuaded to put up the money.
But We agree perfectly with Mr.. Kill
by upon the point that the only way to
knock them down and take it away
from them.
No Cause for Alarm.
From the Chautauqua Weekly:
At L o'clock on Tuesday, March g,
the fire department will hold prac.
| tice session and the fire whistle VIII
blow. Don't let it frighten you.
Prof. w. A. McKeever, of the Uni
versity of Kansas. says: "All young
man needs these days to start a matri-
monial career is one good American
dollar, willing hands and an alert
BRAIN For the benefit of the New
York newspapers which took Professor
McKeever seriously and dilated -edi-
| torially upon his pronunciamento, we
add that Professor McKeever is also
the gentleman who regards the cigaret
as the greatest menace now CONFRONT
ing the American people.
Our own deducation is that a man
who talks foolishly about the cigare'
is unlikely to be a sound adviser upon
matters pertaining to the assumptlon
of the marital relation.
| T. +ales something out of the ordi-
nary to stir the habitual calm OF the
i column. but we don't mind saying the
man of a group of New York intel
| iectuals to raise $4,000 to carry the
cases of the convicted members OF the
III w. w. to the supreme court or the
| United States evokes in US a nearly
and spontaneous enthusiasm.
| The little group of fntellectuals be-
hind the plan have not, however, gone
enough. A fund of 100000 to
give each Of the convicted mem Ders
of the I. W. w. a new suit or clotaes
| and six months back pay should Also
be raised.
The reason the column aspires to be
the organ of the proletariat may be
found in a careful scrutiny of the
various acts of the cognoscenti.
We suppose we lack soul. At any
! rate, the plight Of gentleman VINO
lives in Idaho Falls impinges more
heavily upon our sympathies than the
woes of the I. w. w. The gentleman
| has been trying to explain to his wife
the appearance in his motor car OF a
strange lady's leather handbag and is
having poor luck in doing SO.
If he does finally succeed he can get
rich merely by putting his recipe on
the market.
Mr.. Burleson, we ask the privilege of
doing so. The Chicago Tribune of
February II reached this desk on
March 6.
The three-weeks-old newspaper is.
however, more interesting than one
would suppose. 1t is a compendium
of prophecy and fact-of things that
never came to pass and things that
were not true.
For the Authors League Bulletin
Carolyn Wells, James Forbes. Alice
Duer Miller and others have been
writing OF My Maiden Effort" Their
"reminiscences brought back recollsc-
tons of our own maiden effort and set
us to searching the files of memory.
1t appeared, we go on to say, in the
columns OF the Grigsby City Weekly
Clarion and-r something like this: