The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-26
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

Well, you'd never guess it in a thou
sand years. but the boys out at Haver-
ford college want to do the column
for a day. 81. H. R." writes: You
some work. Why not give a group of
us here at Haverford college a chance
at that column of yours? Where can
more sophomore wit be found than in
a college? Here's the glove-no sec
onds needed" .
Oh, very we'll! If the frolicsome
Haverford boys will get their copy"
in by noon on Thursday, May~z6, We'll
dedicate Friday mornings column to
them. We impose only one condition:
We don't intend to edit their stuff or
make it up for them. 1t must be
ready for the printer when, it comes
to this desk. Except to excise such
passages as may be~unethical or in
conflict with the policy and traditions
of the Public Ledger, we decline to
put pencil to it. 1t will go as it is
framed and punctuated.
There has been some controversy as
| to whether the non-college man or the
one with degree, potential or other
wise, displays the most shocking ig-
norance of the English language and
it's uses. The reporter who writes the
column regularly is a aon-college
man. The work of the Haverford COL
lege boys will furnish a fair basis for
| comparison and ought to go far. to-
ward settling the controversy.
In yesterdays, column we spoke
pridefully of the development of our
i short games and breathed hopefully of
our distance work. Well, on Thurs
! day afternoon, just after hope had
sung glee to us, we slipped on the
| precipitous green at the ninth hole
1 and diSl0catod a ShnllldeTN
Luckily, it was the left shoulder,
! and since We do most of our gesturine
with the right hand, the incident in
1 terferes very little with our argumen-
tation. The last previous accident to
befall US happened in the heat of a
political campaign, when we fell on
an icy pavement and broke our right
arm. We were booked for twenty
five or thirty speeches in the succeed
| ing week, and We couldn't make a
gesture of any sort. That was the
most agonizing of experiences.
In Financial Philadelphia.
''Mornin', Larry, glad y stopped
| "Mornin'. Jo.''
Say. Larry. got a coupla good guys
\ f. you today"
mo use, 10. just stepped in to
Nugall at 8; can't beat. How bouter
coupla hundred?"
Nope, nuthin' dom, 1 just stepped
you're dom wrong. Larry; oils
the thing now with all them new
the stuff. Try some Good Luck
| Buck at n eighth of a cent?
Sorry, 1 just stopped"
But, Larry, think what it'd bring
you next December-nice little ole
| bag of gold for Christmas"
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. L ju {
stopped for a tip. Now seriously, be-
tween friends, which one of these
savings banks pays the biggest i'm
terest?" WILL PENN, Jr.
Apparently the correspondent who
suggests a movement looking te the
designation of a Fathers Day hasn't
been reading the column long The
"Father's-Day" thing is our own no.
KUN. We first stirred it up some
seven or eight years ago. Frequent
references to it have appeared in this
frolic of faulty. We long have been
committed to the idea and insist on
such credit as goes with having orig
| mated it.
We have. too. definite and. We
think, a grand idea as to the manner
nized and his memory perpetuated.
I We should erect to him, in every park,
every public square and on every viii
lage green in the country, life-size
statue of a harassed and tired man,
with slightly bowed shoulders, in the
act of putting his right hand in his
trousers pocket. OF course, the mon
ey for these memorials would neces-
sarily be raised by taxation and father
would have to pay it. But he would
have. probably for the first time in his
life. the privilege and the pleasure of
spending a little money on himself.
AS we have said. the Fathers
Day. thing is our own hokum, but the
credit Ter 1t eventually will go to
somebody else. Years ago, in Gopher
Prairie. we started a crusade against
the Saturday afternoon haircut. The
movement grew by leaps and bounds.