The Topeka state journal., 1921-03-04
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY z. HOUSE
tYron PhiladsipAia Public Ledssf.)

reads the column, we take this method
of apprising him that we shall reach
Washington some time Thursday after
noon. We'll be either in the lobby of
the hotel or the barber shop. We
start many places, but we never get
any further than the lobby of the
hotel. If there is anything he wants
TO talk over with us we could give him
a little time Thursday evening. an hour
or two on Friday afternoon and, per-
haps, all of Saturday forenoon. If we
give him Saturday forenoon We shall
have to eat little snack before leay-
ing the White House. We shan't have
time to eat luncheon at the hotel and
There is one thing. however. we
wish to make perfectly clear: Mr..
Harding must send for US: we shall
not gratuitously intrude upon his
privacy.
William j. Mccarthy. prohibition Of
ficer for New England, who has come
to clean up New York, says rum raids
will go on until New York is dry"
He thinks it will take about two weeks.
We believe Mr.. Mccarthy has under
estimated the time necessary. We
doubt that he can do it in less than
month.
We base our own longer estimate on
observation taken in Leavenworth,
Kan. They set out to make Leaven-
worth dry in 1880. They have been
at it ever since, and still have some
distance to go.
A Little Bunch of Lilacs.
Note-The editor of the Public
Ledger has received these letters:
Sir-What in the name of heaven
has come over the Public Ledger that
causes 1t to allow such stuff as Jay
House" writes to appear on its edi-
4 torial page? One would look for that
in the old Item or Sunday Transcript
tsure, he would. e. H.), but it has
no proper place in the Public Ledger.
My first recollection of a newspaper is
the Public Ledger of -fifty-some years
ago, and 1 am reading it still. 1 like
to browse over the editorial page, and
would ask ii you must publish this
stuff, please put it somewhere else.
Send the fellow out for police report
ing or something of that kind. X.
Sir-Has the Public Ledger gone
crazy completely, lost all sense of OBJ
| l1gation to it's serious readers that Il
would make its sporting pages a joke
1t certainly is joke, a refinement of
/ the ridiculous to see one Jay House
commenting in blatant, ignorant, ego
t1St1cal assurance on sports subjects.
God and your readers know Cullen
| Cain is rotten enough, as he never
| speaks of sport only indirectly, but al
ways rants about biblical characters
| and vociferates in time-worn plati-
| tudes. But as to House, who is the
callow- gentleman who says he is a
fIiend of Mr.. Gains doesn't our
friend read anything but the sporting
page?-J. E. H.) and cheerfully ad-
mits he is not qualified to speak of
! sports?
/ If the Public Ledger wants to drive
| its usual readers to seek other papers
| which have sense enough not to fen
ture freak" writer's on its sporting
pages, then it is taking the proper
course. Why don't You fire Reeves
and Recap and the entire SPORT 1g
staff? Why don't you break out on
the sporting page. or give your
dramatic critic, political writer or real
! estate expert whack at it? For my
self l am just about done with the
PUBIC Ledger and know a lot NOR e
| OF the same frame of mind.
DIS IUSTED READER.
! But, aside from the few little things
mentioned by TX" and "Diseusted
Reader" we are all right. are we
not?
Judge Landis says there ought to be
law making it a felony for any one
| to bet on individual plays at a ball
game The judge has started Our
| own individual opinion, which need
bind nobody, is the further he goes
the worse he'll get.
We have nothing against Judge
Lands, y'understand. But the bird
| that keeps on talking finally chirps
something foolish.
A Correction.
In our recent dissertation on butlcrs
we unwittingly gave Akron, Ohio, the
worst of it. and we hereby make ac-
knowledgment of the error. Akron
has butler and we correlate with this
retraction the observation that a good
wife is an immediate jewel When
Adei1ide read the butler" piece, she
said: why, Akron has butler
Don't you remember he served tea the