The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-19
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

we pTlnI0Q just the OLIer Qdy GX-
cerpts from the letter of a gentleman
who wanted to borrow 500 with
which to bridge a low tide in his af-
fairs The paragraph about it was in
spired by no Interior motive. It
seemed to us merely that the incident
carried certain element of human
interest. We did not ask for, suggest
or expect the creation of a relief fund.
Nevertheless. since the paragraph APP
peared money for the gentleman's re-
lief has been sitting down on this
desk. There is at this moment some
$45 in hand.
We don't know anything about the
fellow. 1t is manifestly improper
thus to commit the Public Ledger to
any eleemosynary plan or scheme
We make it a point never to bedevil
readers of the column for money or
favors of any kind. But the money
on hand will be forwarded to the
beneficiary. If others wish to give,
we'H see to it that their contributions
reach the appointed destination.
The moral of it all, if we are to be
permitted to write it, is that this is a
pretty good world.
Doesn't Care for AdeIaide's Opinions.
Sir-Where do you get the idea that
your reference to the attitude of the
people toward President Harding S
foreign policy is a word of wisdom?
To my mind, it is absolutely idiotic.
Why should people not be interested
in the nations foreign policy? Men
who have to pay taxes are interested,
for their pockets are reached by it.
Women who have sons are interested
because they wish to avoid future
wars. They would much prefer to be
bothered about matters like this
rather than by such imbecilitieS as
Adelaide's opinions or your opinions
as to the use of intrigue" If you
can't be amusing, don't be foolish.
GEORGE K. SCOTT.
We get our ideas of the well-known
human race from intimate and calcu-
lated contact with it. The opinion,
reaction or dictum of any little group
of the right people" has never seemed
conclusive to US. And so we go maun-
dering around with all sorts of not
worth while folk. listening the while
to the pearls of thought which fall
from their lips. Very properly, we
think, about 1 per cent of the people
of this country, male and female,
adult and adolescent, alien, Chinese
and INDECENT white, are interested in
Mr.. Harding's foreign policy. The
other SO per cent doesn't care a whoop
about it and won't know what it is I'M
til it becomes an issue in the presi-
Dental campaign of 1924. And, even
tn en-, IL won De aDle TO understand II.
The people want to know what is
ION" at the motion picture theater.
They are interested in the various re-
cipes for home brew and whether
Babe" Ruth made a home run yes
terday. They crave intimate news of
the family across the street and what
happened at church last Sunday.
They'd be tremendously interested in
what President Harding said to Mrs.
Harding at the breakfast table, or vice
versa A murder trial or a scandal in
high life intrigues them indefinitely.
They are tremendously entertained by
what 'I says to him. and 'I says to
her" But only the little groups OF
serious thinkers and right people
care anything about a presidents for
efgn policy.
Every man has an Adelaide. We
never knew one who admitted he
| cared much for her opinion. But we
have noticed he always stops to lis
ten to it.
Give a man his choice of reputa-
lions and he will elect to be known as
a 1ady-killer.
| Having just disposed of one argu-
ment, we devote the preceding para
graph to starting another. We know
| those who look at life from a high
and comparatively isolated plane will
not permit that scandalous reference
ITO men to pass without protest.
The attention of the BARRIERS is di-
| rected to the discreditable manner il
| which one of their number has qui
| cold. Yesterday, for the first time il
seventeen months, he permitted us t.
leave his chair without offering u!
| the solace of a facial massage.
|
What do the tonsorialists think o.
a man who permits a customer tt
bluff him into silence?
James w. Gerard is quoted as say
ing he couldn't get along without thu
Literary Digest. We do not wish tt
say anything to discourage the editor
of the Literary Digest. They print al
excellent periodical. But Mr.. GerarC
is laboring under a misapprehension
A man not only can get along withou
the Literary Digest but he can ge