The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-16
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It is encouraging to know tkat the
war department is to retain the serv-
Ices OF Hon. Newton d. Baker. The
capacity. to be sure- is minor one;
but it fits the Hon Mr.. Bakers proven
capabilities as glove. 1t is to be
hoped the new administration may be
able to avail itself of the services OF
the Hon. Josephus Daniels in a place
of equal responsibility.
Unfortunately for Mr.. Daniels, there
is no tatting to be done, no socks to
be knitted for our hardy seamen.
We are sometimes discouraged at the
slow rate at which we assimilate in
telligent knowledge of the great issues.
We have been trying since 1910 to dis
cover the fundamental differences be-
tween a progressive and . standpatter,
without much success. We have had
even less success with the stngletax
thing, althe we have been trying for
i twenty years to learn something
about it.
The current lucubratiens merely are
to note progress We have finally
found out something-we have CLEAN
about single tax. Writing in the
New York Tribune, Morris Van Neen
refers to it as the great cause which
seeks to restore the land to the peo-
pie"
If single tax will restore to lis some
thing We never had and for which we
are wholly unprepared to pay ade-
quate compensation, 1t is worth looking
into. But before finally committing
ourself to plan which guarantees US
something for nothing we'd want to
see its references.
However, our own intimate study of
the people eonv1nces us it isn't land
they want. All they want is to finish
| their work in order that they may
| be able to reach the motion picture
| theater in time for the first show.
"Crabbing'' the Act.
| Sir-There is no occasion for you to
become tender because your Airedale
persists in habit which goes more
deeply into his being than his intelli-
| gence- l had dog of the same breed
when lost ms JOB with US because of
undue righteousness. 1t was our GUS
tom to ebain him for the night. One
evening when he returned from his
wandering after the family had retired
| he stood by his kennel and barked
until one of us went down and chained
| him. NV.
Sir-As to dog stories. A ranehman
| was caught in Montana blizzard, his
i only companion big, shaggy dog. In
due time they were famished. The
! raRchman cut off the dogs tail, made
a nourishing and saving soup and
| gave the dog the bone.
soPHoKLEz.
| In addition to the unimportant, we
pay some attention to the unusual and
the extraordinary And we believe
| George Randolph Chester's feat of in
| Producing a "auacking'' gander into
| his new .'Wallingferd1 story is en-
| titled to high rank under the latter
classification
At the same time we rate the feat
| OF a reader of the column who found
| a made-up tie in one of the ilIustra-
tons in the current American maya
street dealers were unable to supply
us that is where we should look for
/ msae-up ties.
"Huff."
Sir-You have been selected as
| arbiter to decide as to the correct pro
nunciation of the family name of
Emerson Hough. the novelist. is it
How" 'Hoff," Hoe" Huff or
Hoop We shall be glad to hear
from you thru the column.
| Not at all. With one or two excep-
| tons which we shall note, anything
to oblige. We decline to wear spats
and we won't hold a baby while its
mother shops. Otherwise, the column
is at the service of its readers.
A. j. s.. writes to say he is glad the
| Hon. Calvin Coolidge had the alb
| dominal adequacy to wear what
suited him at dinner the night before
he was inaugurattd. Looking at it
from that angle, 1t probably was all
right. Our own reaction was that the
Hon. Mr.. Coolidge was trying to save
his dinner clothes.
The fact is, one can't save his din
| ner clothes in Washington. and Vice
| President Coolidge would be foolish
| to try it. The Washington moths
| haven't had a full meal since Andy
| Johnson's administration.
! 1t may interest his friends to learn
! that Sim Heckei, who was suspected
| of being one of the men who voted