The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-16
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.l


We have scanned the list of con-
testants in the six-day bicycle race.
now on view in New York, only to
have our interest in it die away as
a soft summer breeze perishes on the
wings of hot July day. The name
of oscar Egg is not listed in the com
petition. For us there is no six-day
bicycle race unless Oscar is in it.
II have spent an entire month";
writes a ne-too-enthusiastic Gus
toner, trying to discover why you
occupy the midship section OF a per-
fectly good editorial page
Well. if an apparently dissatisfied
customer devotes a month TO such
futile and egregious proceeding,
that's the answer.
We see by the paper that one of the
professors is quoted as saying tho
| University of Pennsylvania IS not
coed school. We do not assume to
speak for the people as a whole, but
that on little thing practically spoils
the university for us.
Other matters of dire import con
front us as we glance hastily thru the
newspapers dedicated to service on this
desk. OF these, the abnegation OF
George CLANCY is perhaps the most
/
miliarly known as Knockout" IS
quoted saying he will never fight
| again. That, coming as it does almost
at the end of another satisfactory day,
| is discouraging.
Somebody" Prince Eitel Friedrich
| is quoted as saying. has been pulling
| a raw joke on father" The column
| finds itself not entirely in accord with
| Eitel in his approximation OF humor
4 \ =.-I-s
You remember Eitel, of course. He
went thru the war and came out of 1t
without scratch.
The gentleman who sat across the
| able at luncheon yesterday had been
assigned to interview Mr.. Haynes. pro-
| hibition enforcement commissioner.
| What would you ask him ?" quoth he.
| If we were assigned to interview Mr..
Wed try, instead, TO sell him the city
hall.
If We succeeded, we should have
money enough to laugh in the face of
a city editor. If we failed, nobody
would lose anything.
Tim not a Harvard man." writes
one who gently chides the column,
but am sure you do not get the col
! legiate view, which is unanswered BILE. -
We hope we sha'n't get it. We'd hate
| to nave anything as serious as the col
legiate view.
'He has the old-fashioned idea
says the Jenkintown Times-Chronicle
| in referring to the modest, self-effac-
| ing gent who writes this column. that
men are the real builders and that
womans place is the home. Women
can be of use and make their influence
| felt in the scheme'of things only by
believing absolutely shall say
blindly, in their men and by becoming
model housekeepers who can make
real gravy"
Wei. waving for the moment the
| fact that the Tim s-Chronicle doesn' t
seem to know when it is being kidded
can you think of a sounder piece of
| reasoning than the old-fashioned idea
to which it refers?
But it turned out just as we had
| anticipated. When we arose to ad-
dress them we offered TO lay thewom
en- of Wyncote a small wager at our
favorite odds of to that, after we
had concluded. no woman present
would say, Hes a grand man.
In his association with women a
man is confronted by this alternative:
Re can tell them what they want to
hear and receive their benediction. Or
he can tell them what they ought to
know and run for his life.
SO saying. he removed the sheet
from the typewriter, gathered his
copy" together, turned it over to the
editorial censor, replaced the cover on
the machine, closed his desk and left
the office for the day.
1t may interest you to know that
among those clamoring for the releas
of all political prisoners is Morris Hill
quit. The revelation of Mr.. Hillquit' :
attitude in the matter came TO us a
a great surprise. Now that he has
spoken. doubtless the New York Cal
and the Masses also will demand the
release of all political prisoners.
AS We intimated some time ago.
| whatever President Harding does in