The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAY z. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

At have never seen Dempsey fight"
middle-western ring expert told the
enthusiastic reporter who interviewed
him, 'bQt / think he'll win in four
rounds The Associated Press thought
the opinion of sufficient importance to
carry it, and a number of newspapers
went to the expense of putting 1t In
type.
Now it may very we'll be that Demp-
sey will ease the soporific wallop into
the pictureSwithin the prescribed four
rounds. This is not an approximation
of the relative chances of Jack and
Georges. The point is that most or the
opinion. whether it pertains to sports.
finance, literature, art or politics. mas
as little basis of actual knowledge and
is inspired by the same motive.
The guy who made the prediction
either wants Dempsey to win or he
wants to get his name in the paper.
But, particularly, he wants to get his
name in the paper.
The uprising of the Utah Indians
having disappeared from the first
pages of the New York papers, we
take it that the Utah correspondent
having sold enough stuff to provide
money for his immediate needs, has
laid off to spend it.
We remember the last Indian upris-
| ing in which we participated. You
may recall it. 1t was the one headed
by Chief Crazy Snake. The uprising
yielded US s1s6. Some of the other
boys did much better. And the near
| est we were to the seat of the upris-
ing was 261 miles. as the crow flies.
Was there a Crazy Snake? We
never knew to certainty.
Prof. Einstein sailed on Monday
He told a reporter the respect and ad-
miration he had always felt for Ameri-
can scientists had been greatly in
creased as a result of personal con-
tact with them and that he found q
sympathetic dealing with the theory
of RELATIVELY and a truly detached
scientific interest in it.
But he didn't say whatit was.
| We trust MA" Bergdou will be &C
| corded every courtesy in her attemp
to get Erwin out of the penitentiar,
by August. Ma" Bergdoll is in nj
mood to trifle with this country. /
| she is baked or annoyed in her eff
forts to spring the prison gates fol
/ Erwin, she may withdraw her sup
port from it.
Mrs. BergdoI is a forceful and
T perSeVerlng woman and, like COUSIN
Egbert, can be pushed Just so far"
Mr. William Gibbs McAdoo, WIFI
delivered the Memorial Day address
at Huntington, N. Y, was somewha
acerbetic in his criticism of the Re
publican party and the Harding ad
ninistration, but, unfortunately, h
neglected to explain why he raised tn
pay of the gentlemen who inspect tn
front ends of railway locomotives t.
sss,a week.
And that, we take the liberty o
! suggesting to Mr.. McAdoo, is Wha
the public really wants to know.
We have hitherto refrained from
criticzing Colonel Harvey, and we TAX
a pardonable pride in the fact tina
we are the only newspaper man cas-
of the Allegheny mountains who ha
declined to do SO. But we go SO ia
as to say that the spectacle of an am
bassador publicly kissing the presiden
who appointed him is not at all to on
liking.
1t may be all right for a privat
secretary to kiss his president. MI
Tumulty was addicted to the practic
and nobody censured him for it. Blu
we doubt that an ambassador shout
give public exhibitions of the oscula
tory process.