The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-27
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
(Frem Philadelphia Public Ledger.)


wishes to apologize to- Judge Lands
and forget all about it. The owners
of the Yanks have sent emissaries to
Judge Lands for the purpose of ef-
fecting such highly satisfactory settle
ment of the case.
Any arrangement of the matter
which saves the Hon. Babe to the
game he adorns will be agreeable to
the column. But we don't believe he
should be asked or expected to apol-
ogize to the judge. That would be too
humiliating. We suggest instead that
the New York baseball expert who
wrote an editorial commencing the
owners of the Yanks for their sports
manship be delegated to make the
apology.
However, the element of speculation
still clouds the issue. The question as
to whether Judge Lands will fall for
the kokku still is a mildly disturbing
angle of the case.
The Geography Lesson for Today.
Sir-In one of your recent travel
letters you referred to the town of
on the map. Where is Camp Point?
r. c.
Camp Point is the municipality in
which the Bluffs division of the Wa
bash effects juncture with the
tracks of the c., B. & Q. 1T is six
of Golden, eleven miles northeast of
'Mendon, twenty-five miles west of
Mount Sterling and eighteen miles al
most due north of Shake Rag. Are
there other queries?
The news is that Charles landed in
Hungary from an airplane. We re-
new lnQ1IiTW tn what haPa nf
the white charger on which Charles
effected his last previous entrance.
The appurtenances and investiture of
comic opera ever intrigue US.
1t is the opinion of this newspapers
Washington correspondent that Presi-
dent Harding grows in grace and in
the affections of his constituency.
There is a thought here for the gen
tlemen who are clogging the wheels at
Washington. The player who unosten-
tatiously spreads his cards face up
ward on the table nearly always grows
in the affections of his audience.
To the point that the Republican
majority in congress is SO large as to
be unwieldy we demur. There is no
such majority. Too many of those
classified as Republicans are operat-
ing under an alias. They are not
Republicans now and never were.
Speaking again of those who I'M
ostentatiously spread their cards face
upward on the table, it may be that
you would be interested to learn our
pet diversions. One is the gent who
gathers the significance of his hand
from the corners of his cards. The
other is the one who shuffles his hands
before apprising himself of his luck in
the draw.
We recently spent four weeks at
various places in the middle west. We
played some golf and engaged in other
purely social and athletic diversions.
But wherever three men gathered to-
gether the conversation was OF liquor.
Coming out of Kansas City week ago
tonight, we had as travelling COM
panion- a staid business man, largely
interested in affairs, with whom we
had many impulses in common. But
all the way to Chicago we talked of
LIQUOR In Chicago we dropped in on
half dozen old friends. They talked
of liquor. We Travelled out of Chicago
with an old and intimate friend who
represents a western constituency in
congress. From Fort Wayne to AL
lance we INDUCED in intimate con-
versahon Once or twice we touched
on national affairs and the politics of
his state; but mostly the talk was OF
liquor.
Now the point we make in the con-
nection is that we are tired of the
liquor motif in conversation. Long
ago it ceased to carry a wallog to us.
With Adelaide out Of town we are
spared for the time being the clank-
ing of the marital chains. We have
some idle time at our disposal. We
should enjoy spending it with some
gentleman, or set of gentlemen, who
are not engrossed in the liquor ques-
ton to the exclusion of every other
topic of conversation. If there are
any such, we'd be glad to get in touch
with them.
What we'd like to do, of course,
would be to organize Q male quartet
for the purpose of trying out the old
songs. But the difficulty of securing
competent tenor is so great that
such a program probably is too ambi-
tious. AS a beginning we'd be willing
to devote our idle evenings to non
alcoholic conversation.
Let it be understood. however, that
we are not greatly interested in the
welfare of the state or the nation. We
don't care to meet reformers, uplift-
ers or faddists of any kind.
The publisher of "King-of Kear-
sage" has sent US a copy of the book
with the notation that there are four
smNshing good fights in it If, on
rea &ng it, we find that in one of
these fights the bully whips the hero.
we shall be glad to write column re-
view of the volume.
We are tired of reading of fights
wherein the bully succumbs to the
hero. Most any bully ean whip a hero
with one hand tied behind him. The
first author to write realistically of
this wen-est-- blished rule OF combat
will get good notice in this column.
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