The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

We did not find the stillman case
as intriguing as some; even its fortis-
simo notes failed to stir US. 1t had
been going on three or four weeks
before we began to read about it. We
should not have done so even then,
but we found it impossible with our
inadequate knowledge of the case to
maintain a place in polite converse
ton. It remained for Mr.. Stillman,
in his final word. to stir our latent
interest and enthusiasm
You noticed what he said? No.
Well, he said. in effect, that he had
consented to a settlement of the case
out of court because he did not want
to subject his family to humiliat1ng
publicity.
These may not have been his exact
words. but that was the idea.
The newspapers comment favorably
upon President Harding's New York
speech, but the public won't like it.
President Harding advised the nation
to go to work. The nation doesn't
want to go to work. The idea nova
days is to sell somebody ticket to
the show at a sufficient advance on
the regular price to pay a handsome
profit. President Harding may well
mark our words. The public will re-
sent MS attitude.
/ And he probably has hopelessly
alienated the labor vote. The work
| ingman no longer permits anybody to
| insult him by telling him he ought to
| be at it.
! Only yesterday morning, and direct
| 1y after we had read Mr.. Harding S
| speech, we had a colloquy with the
wash lady. which we lost on points in
/ al "a NJ
been and is the custom of the wash
| lady to drop in about $40 o'clock in
the morning and consume from twenty
to thirty minutes in changing from
street dress to negligee. After don
ming her negligee it is her practice to
devote about three-quarters of ar
hour to leisurely breakfast. At moor
it is her habit to kill another three
quarters of an hour picking at hel
luncheon. And at o'clock she col
lects pay for eight hours work, car
fare to and fro. and returns to he1
own domicile, leaving the work fol
which she is employed about half com
pleted.
Now, in our own home, we seldom
stray further south than the re
frigerator and the pantry. But yes
terday morning. armed with Mr.
Harding's speech, we penetrated tn
\ laundry. We asked the wash lad,
what she thought about the genera
idea of working eight hours for eigh
hours pay. We found her distinctl
| antipathetic. She was also hurt an
insulted. We should have had edua
success in cracking a granite bloc
with a damp sponge. If man want
to antagonize this nation all he ha
to do is to tell it to go to work.
Bad News for p. N. r.
The editor of the Public Ledger ha
received the following letter: ''Ther
is a column in your paper we wis
you did not have to give 'Hous'
} room. Its efforts to be funny max
US so weary; its jealousy of me
whose shoes it is not worthy to loose
is really the funniest thing about
3 Do get it to resign, for we can't be re
$ signed to it any longer. P. N. R."
e We are always sorry to disappoil
a wel1-wisher, but the fact is we hay
Il made arrangements to stay in Phil'
i delphia. We hope nothing occurs
t disturb them. We haven't the Sigh
I'll est intention of resigning. We ha'
grown to like this town too well vo
: UNFAIRLY to go away and leave it I'll
n on it's back. If we can oblige p.
t R. in any other way we shall be hapI
to do SO. But we positively refuse
: resign
d Harry NJ Daugherty, attorn'
general of the United States" says,
/. dispatch from Atlantic City, who a
e rived today to visit the champion
e camp, was unable to do SO because
O illness in his family. He plans
watch Dempsey train tomorrow"
e We stuck up for you when the
said you were country-town lawye
/ Say it amt so, Harry; say 1T amt s.
Lloyd George believes public opinit
{, in the United States sustains his pos
+ ton with reference to Silesia. Lilo.
= George has been badly advised. IT
q general public has no opinion of al
kind about Silesia. 1t doesn't kno
:. what his position is and it doesn't cal
a Incredible? Very well: ask the fir
five men you meet.
= 1t is not surprising that Nine. Cur
a. is fatigued to the point of Hines