The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-17
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
IFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

The column finds >itself in position
to speak freely regarding the new
treaty. 1t no longer is necessary %
exercise caution or skirt discussion OF
the matter. The New York World
| commends it. The column, therefore,
has no hesitancy in indorsing it.
Had the esteemed World left the
column in doubt, the esteemed Amer
, lean would have swept such dolVt
away. The esteemed American -
against the treaty.
1.-The only advice I have to give
! you," writes D. *. J., land being we
are so much alike excepting 1 have
| to work for a Hving), 1 believe you
won't mind my doing so is not to
talk about Adelaide so much in the
column. Nothing gets a woman. espe-
cially if she is your wife, so blame
stuck up as mentioning her in public.
You can get away with it the first
| few times, but after that she thinks
| she's absolutely necessary. as an in
| spiration or something such like, and
then there's no holding her in. Shell
| try to boss your work, your pleasure
and every other doggone thing you al
tempt.
We fear D. K. US Interpretation
of the feminine character is based on
hearsay. Mayhap he has been read
ing Fanny Hurst. Fill a woman with
a sense of her own importance and
she forgets her wrongs. Keep her
cowed and subjective and she broods
over them.
1t is. of course. a matter for self
determination. Since we pay no at
tention to them, we'd gather take or
ders from woman than listen to her
troubles.
The foregoing observations are gen
eral in their character. And that's
one thing a married man learns; to
make his observations general in their
character:
There has been talk of other ex-
plorers, but we believe furthest south
was reached by the Kansas City den
fist, who sent a card announcing a
| change in his location to the address
which we permanently abandoned
| nearly three years ago.
The Association Was Circumstantially
Enforced.
Sir-Having noticed in your column
repeated reference to expressions Of
| alleged opinion by New York sports
writer's. and being one who has had
\ some SSociation-more or less cir
should like, if you will permit, to in
vite attention to one or two points.
A casual glance into the sporting
page OF Manhattan newspaper office
will convince any one that the birth
pangs of an opinion seldom occasion
| local anguish. The fact is that sport
ing writers and sports reporters on
New ork ddilieS are separate and dis
| tinct groups. The former flaunt their
limitations under their names. while
the latter write only under headlines
and the more or less restraining in
| fluence of copy readers
More than any other individuals en-
gagged in having their writings pub
| tshed, these sporting writers travel
afar. They do so accompanying base
/ ball clubs and kindred professional
! organizations whose exploits are ex-
| plotted in the "sp 'rting'' columns r.
! Consequently natives of the United
States receive an erroneous impression
concerning New York newspaper re-
perters generally, This includes sports
reporters as distinguished from sport
ing writer's. Gel
The organization known as The
Friends of Irish Freedom has pledge
for fund of more than two and one
half million dollars in it's war chest.
1t is not, therefore, surprising that the
Irish settlement is unsatisfactory to a
considerable number of the better
known Irish of this country.
/ Recurring to the matter of releasing
political prisoners, and we do so for
the reason that We overlooked some
thing, it seems that Senator Watson,
of Georgia; Senator Borah, Senator
Norris and Representative London
also are in favor of doing so.
We have noticed, in the connection,
that man can always attract atten-
ton and secure liberal publicity by
engaging in a movement to ameIiorate
the conditions surrounding those who
have been convicted of crime.
woman reader has asked us to ex-
plain why, in New Y ork and elsewhere.
| the escorts of flappers who appear
| with men in public are nearly always
middle-aged. Well, youth has the
looks, but it is the old boys who have
! the money