The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY E. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

sport writers said this of Dempsey in
his write-up of the fight: He came
i out OF the fight without a scratch"
Ever hear that history repeats itself :?
Seems like remember another fight
along somewhere between 1914 and
/ 1918 that he also came out of with
! out a scratch. I just wanted to let
you know some OF US who carry some
few scratches of one kind and another
have pretty fair memories.
"By God" the well known Fred
.Beauvais is credited by the New York
papers as having written to a friend.
Il wish it were possible for me to get
| into this fight!' What the we'll known
Mr.. Beauvais probably wrote, If he
wrote at all, was: BY God, wish it
was possible for me to get into this
fight.'
| But, in either event, what is de-
tanning him? 1t has all the appear
ances of fight anybody could get
into.
! The fight is over and the books are
closed. but the well known reformers
who sought to stop it still potter
see it, is that reform will make little
progress so long as its proponents in
sist on making themselves ridiculous
as to the identity of the gentleman
who is paying the mileage and per
diem of those who induce the only
laugh America has been able to wiring
from the fight.
1t is interesting to know that In
| Brooklyn on Tuesday a saxophone
Mayer was sentenced to three months
in the county Jail. But that wasn't
the only reason: He also tried to steal
motorcar.
| It is probable that a saxophone
player who has committed no other
offense is safer in Brooklyn than any
, where else in the country.
We note the desire of the Socialist
party to hook up with some good live
political organization with more than
passing interest. 1t is nearly twenty
years since we first expressed the
opinion that the Socialist party wasn't
going anywhere in particular.
Not that it will make any differ
ence in the long run. When the So
cialist party goes into voluntary bank
ruptcy another fatuous organization
will arise to take its place. There al
ways will be party haven for those
who believe happiness and prosperity
can be conferred by government.
Jess Willard is quoted as saying he
wants four months in which to train
for Dempsey. Mr.. Willard is entirely
frank about it. He admits the two
hours he devoted to training for
Dempsey in 1918 were not enough.
The situation clears little for Mrs.
Kaber, the hitherto obscure but now
welI-known Cleveland lady. No wo-
man Is to be permitted to sit upon the
jury selected to try her. When a wo-
man is tried by a jury of her sex the
verdict guilty as charged in the in
dictment.
Elsewhere we have noted the dis
position of those who sell motor cars
TO waive certain of the formalities.
The country seems to have come upon
a period of informality. 1t is now pos
sible to rent an apartment without
kissing the landlord.
When we set about it to help the
president with his game we did so in
all sincerity. We have a very earnest
desire to be of service. and we'd as
soon help a president as a plasterer.
But if the picture of the president
printed in a Philadelphia newspaper,
which shows him in the act of put
ting" with his driver, is authentic, we
reluctantly relinquish the commission.
One can't do anything for a man
who puts" with driver.
It is not, we desire to say to w. H.
E., the Henry car to which we object.
1t is the Henry person.
tIs it not true" writes Jay C. as he
unleashes the speculative instinct and
permits it to wander at will in the un-
titled fields of thought, that the hu-
man family is genuinely interested in
but a few basic topics which pertain |
fn fhar4Colva~ 1G an
religion. family, health. work and |
pleasure? Do not the happenings of
others touch them lightly. and is It
not an artificially stimulated interest I
that causes most discussions?"
Jay c. not only expresses the con-
centrated and calculated wisdom of
the ages. but he wraps the package
with deft fingers and ties 1t neatly
with blue ribbon.
Az to Jay C.'s quaisi-compliment to
the effect that the column has a
"cussed way of being right" we quote
1t in order that we may reveal the
trick Of It. We first find out what
the crowd thinks and, whatever 1t Is.
we copper it. The crowd. left to its
own devices. is nearly always wrong.
At last, after two years, we feel at
home in Philadelphia. On Monday
night we found Surcease from the ex-
treme heat by tossing q pillow upon
the floor of the living room and as
Stunning a recumbent position in front
of an open window. II, as we did Il
night after night in the dear middle
west, we could have dragged the cush-
ion from the porch swing to the front
lawn and lain there all night shame
less under the gaze of passersby we
should now be at peace with all the
world. II
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