The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-14
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAY q. HOUSE
(Fron Philadelphia Psbne Ledsar.)
After You, AIphonso.


souls believing in congress doing
something about prohibition. Are you
one of them? You have never taken
stand. I should think a daring,
fearless man would relish the chance.
There is one thing you cannot do, and
behind the anti-prohibition movement.
dare you'll
You write somewhat like a man
who wears the same tie for three or
four days straight. turns his cuffs,
wears light blue socks and heavy un-
derwear all winter. T. P. S.
We took one stand. and the attend
ing physician still is treating us for
powder burns. In October. 1913, we
Angeles Times the opinion that, while
prohibition is all right in theory, il
does not and, perhaps. never will
work out satisfactorily in practice.
For expressing # we were character
lied by prohibition turnout the coun-
try as an undesirable citizen, an
enemy of law and order and an aban-
doned profligate who was in the pay
of the liquor interests and who sus-
tanned intimate personal and financial
relations with the white-slave trust.
That talk persisted steadily for seven
years. and has not yet entirely died
out
We still are willing to get up and
tell what we think of prohibition.
But we want to do it after everybody
else has talked.
For the balance, as we spread re-
jeipder over another paragraph, we
are one of those proud and naughty
souls who boastingly say: ST wear
the same weight the year around
Next to the fiction of the cold bath,
man is proudest of the endurance
which enables him to get thru the
winter without putting on his
'heavies."
Our interest in Charles is still rep
resented by zero; but we retain n lively
curiosity concerning the white charger
on which he led his gallant troops.
What, we desire to ask as we stretch
| the merest shred of thought upon
eight lines of solid minion. what be-
| came of the little "hawss"?
ST never slept on u park bench"
writes Fannie Hurst, in a tabloid au-
, photography which comes to us with
the compliments of the Cosmopolitan
Magazine. It is always disappointing
to learn that the worst is not true.
With thousands of others of her loyal
and humble followers, the fiction of
the hardships she endured in her early
| New York days had been for us a
cherished and pathetic thought. Miss
| Hurst now admits she was getting
money from home all the time.
Her frank admission spells the day
| for US. We do not object to heroine
enscenced in the lap of luxury. if that
| figure of speech is deemed permissi-
BILE. But only those who have en-
dured hardship and privation live per-
manently in our affections.
A Husband Who Knows His Place.
Sir-Anent your little furry with
the Cosmopolitan you really should
give credit for the correctness of the
illustrations of Mary Roberts Rine-
hart's personal story appearing in the
current issue. Mrs. Rinehart appears
early in the article, looking very stern
| and carrying a rifle, while the head
of the family" appears Just where one
would expect to find Mrs. Rinehart' S
husband-on the last page cooking his
supper. r. +. S.
Meanwhile, the column extends its
Fluctuations and it's compliments to
Georgia. The South has set the North
a fine example. Knowing the North
as we do, we believe the time is COM
ing-it may be not far distant-when
it will also regard the killing of a
Negro by a white man as a criminal
| offense.
The New York papers had occasion
to print a column story about Evelyn
Nesbit on Sunday morning in which
they referred to the lady as "a former
actress" We don't know much about
the drama, but we claim the char
acterization was very liberal one.
The episode. which involved the, so
to speak, Mrs. Thaw in newspaper
publicity was not one we should care
to discuss. We refer to it in an added
paragraph merely to mark the note
of restraint that is creeping into the
New York papers. They gave it
plenty of space, but they printed it
on an inside page.
'"These robberies must stop. and
stop now" Postmaster General Hays is
quoted as saying. Mr.. Hays has
struck a popular chord. If we are