The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-18
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY e. HOUSE
tyron Philadelphia Pubic Ls6gss.l
Another Sensible Column.

Here it Is March II and another |
sensible column is due. We don't need |
write common sense, nor how utterly |
futile is the hope that sense may be
thus propagated. But we promised |
the Sunday editor we'd write such a |
solumn not oftener than once a
month, and the month is up.
Young John D. Rockefeller stood up
in the Fifth Avenue Baptist church in
New York on Sunday and told the
Mems Bible class how to pick a wife.
Young Mr.. Rockefeller was very seri-
Gus about it, which fixes his status as
a thinker with tolerable accuracy.
Men do not pick wives, nor do
women pick husbands. Marriage Is
the result of some intangible alchemy
OF the emotions. A man and a woman
potentially marriageable come into
casual or intimate contact. For no
apparent reason they work up a great
emotional lather over each other
They may quarrel like cats and dogs
In any event, the course of their WOO
agony to both. They may realize
that they are wholly unsuited to each
other. But for reasons that neither
fathoms nor cares to fathom, he wants
her and she wants him, and, unless
their ardor cools. they marry. And
neither reason. advice. suggestion nor
| threats avail against it.
The gent who stands up and talks
seriously about picking q wife has no
sense of humor. If it were any one
other than young John D. Rockefeller
we'd say he has no sense of any kind.
''Buck" Weaver a Chicago ball play-
er, was implicated by the confessions
| or his teammates in the greatest scan
! dal of baseball. He was thereupon
declared ineligible to participate in
| any game of professional baseball.
In Chicago 10000 persons signed
petition asking for his reinstatement
Where do they get that stuff about
the people being smart?
| The trial of Clara Smith Hamon for
| the murder Of Jacob Hanion has as
sumed sufficient Importance in the
news columns to justify comment here
| We predicate much comment on the
claims of Mrs Jacob Hamon and Clara
Smith Hamon. Each of the women
says she made" Hamon. The thing
is an impossibility. If a man can't
make himself, two women can't do
lannon's death did justify the claim
| that he was a millionaire" oil op-
orator. He owed nearly three and
one-half millions of dollars. Very
few millionaire" oil operators owe
| more than $500, 900, and the borrow
ing power of the average oil million
| aire'' is not more than $500.
/ Wayne B. Wheeler says if the traf-
fickers in beer become too "cocky''
the Anti-Saloon League will have con-
gress adopt an amendment to the Vol
stead act undoing the department OF
justice decision.
You are a free American citizen,
and, presumably, a taxpayer. How dc
you like that sort of talk?
The reasonable deduction as to the
Department of Justice ruling is that
it has set the enforcement of the pro-
hibitory act back 400 years. Mr.
Wheeler and his confreres as yet fai
to realize exactly how hard they have
been hit. Or, realizing it, they do not
publicly admit it.
The battle over prohibition enter.
its second stage with each side in pos
session Of club and anxious to use
it. When prohibition was written into
the constitution there was only one
club, and the prohibitionists were car
rying it.
The Whispering Post.
J. e. M.-You are right in your con-
lecture. McDonough county, Illinois
and Stark county, Ohio, respectively.
G. T. A.-The boon of knowing M.
Masters has not been vouchsafed us,