The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-21
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAT .. HOUSE
(From Fhilaaeiphia Public Ledssf.l


There is some dissatisfaction with
President Harding's message, and net
al little e1 it is oppressed by p sazfaas
message to save their lives.
The wisest man in recent literature
is the doctor in Main Street" He
knew he had a fool wife and he was
smart enough to know he couldn't do
anything about it. So he followed the
course of least resistance, refused to
distress himself about matter he
couldn't mend and because of his men
! tai tranquility was very valuable
and useful member of his community.
A man with less wisdom would have
worried himself sick over his domes-
| tie situation and would have failed
as a medical practitioner and as
citizen.
! Sinclair Lewis devoted several hun
bred pages of manuscript to an at
! tempt to make a heroine OF Carol
i Kenniscott and failed. The real hero
i of the tale was DIR. Will Kenniscott,
| who was shamefully neglected by his
/ creator.
DESPITE a rigid censorship. there is
continual complaint that motion
pictures are low in taste, vulgar, SEN
| satienal and sometimes lewd. Can it
| ship doesn't amount to much?
The column, v understand frames
ne Indictment against the pictures
1t never sees them. We merely repeat
what we see in the papers and hear
from our friends.
There is SEINE criticism of it, but
we rather admire the fashion in
vogue among the younger women of
L. L., h. Ttac
ear is enc of the least edifying of
human features.
The facts are that most of us are
dull, stupid and little tireseme-
Once in hundred years or SO seme-
thing unusual happens A Philadel-
phia woman interrupts her husband
when he starts to tell a story and
takes it away from him. Husbands
who take up the stories their wives
start to tell are common enough. In
point of fact, few women are able to
finish a story without assistance from
their husbands. But the woman who
, takes up her husbands story and
4 finishes it is born only once or twice
in a century,
If you are looking for an argument
there is the ground work for one
: AOoNS " SOoA manu-
We go further than E. w. Howe
who says he is in favor of a law com
pelling women to smoke pipes. W.
, are in favor of a law eompellin.
: women to chew tobacco.
When a thief gets caught ana sen
to the penitentiary he gives out a lit
tie advice in which he urges people t,
go straight" So many thieves hav
done it that the performance ha
, grown tireseme. Some thief ceul,
! make a great hit and secure a lot o
newspaper publicity by standing vi
for crookedness. We often wonde
that no thief has ever done it,
Il And it doesn't make any difference
!. whether a. thief advises people to .tg,
: Straight or crooked. The result i
the same. 49, T.5ssg9S
Miss Margaret Wa1z, dance reform
er, says Jazz" makes tame girls wild
1t would be easy enough to dislnis
l what seems to us to be a superficial
observation with a glib phrase, but w
prefer to discuss the matter seriously
I We have no friendly word for "jazz'
a it is one of lifes little irritations. Blu
: Jazz" merely is an effect. The caus
a lies much deeper.
. ming hog-wild. But the various cause
assigned are really but manifestation
of a condition. If We are any judg
q of the alleged human race, the con
4 dition is cumulative and is the resul
of a continuous and persistent attemp
: to restrict, restrain and regulate tn
!, public by law. Conservators of tn
public veal have sought to mold tn
fpublic into a groove. The public is i
q a state of rebellion and nobody know
how far it will go. All that is def
j.. nitely known is the direction in whic
| it is headed.
I OF course we may be all wron
3 about it. We may be no Judge of tn
g alleged human race. But the avera e
!. human being is decent in his instinctl
3 His disposition is to behave himself
q If we are wrong in our diagnosis, We
e be glad to yield space to an able
4 practitioner.
n Despite the fact that the New Yor