The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-12
ON SECOND THOUGHT
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BY JAY E. HOUSE
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

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The plan of the Cornell student
body to curb the excessive use or
! liquor among students and at college
functions is an admirable and worthy
1 one. We are the most liberal of men,
| but we very seriously doubt whether,
under our present constitutional ana
i statutory regulations, college stu
dents should indulge in the excessive
! be charged with being both revoIu-
tionary and old-fashioned. but we be-
1ieve college students could get along
without liquor altogether.
OF course the situation at Cornell
! is exceptional Everybody knows that.
even with the country as tight as a
drum, the old ''soaks'' will continue
| to get their liquor. But. as has been
so often pointed out, the young no
longer have opportunity to acquire the
habit.
We pursue Mr.. Chief Justice Taft's
! Interpretation of the -picketing
| law a little farther. There are moot
points we wish cleared up One of
a good union workman to hit ''scab''
If it is, another blow against freedom
| has been struck.
it, but the Irish settlement spoils Ire
| land for us.
The Days Work
sir-What do you do with yourself
all day Saturday? Are you a union
man, working only six days a week?
| ]. S.
Saturday, in a manner of speaking,
is our fullest day. We devote it al
| most exclusively to a search for that
great American institution known
otherwise as pleasure. The detail of
! our Saturday activities reads like a
gorgeous dream, and often is mistaken
for one. So engrossing and enthralling
| do others find them that we are moved
to insert the record of last Saturdays
| adventures in this days proceedings.
We arose, then. at the usual hour
! hurriedIy snatched a light breakfast
of grapefruit, cereal, country sausage,
eggs and coffee, and made haste to
reach the office, thru which we passed
rapidly, pausing only at this desk to
| glance thru the mail and read Mr..
Haley's daily review of the Arbuckle
case. A hasty visit to the tonsoriaEst
followed, after which we hurried home
| to partake Eparingly of a meager
luncheon of chops, fried potatoes. hot
homemade plum butter, cake and cof-
fee. We then were ready for the real
adventures of the day. and entering
the Blue Swallow, drove rapidly to the
country club.
At the country club we played
twenty-Seven holes of the worst golf
we have shown this season. On three
| occasions we threw a brassey away.
| Twice we had the impulse to break
a mashie over the sandbox, and that
is unusual, for. taking it the season
| thru, the mashie is our most reliable
| weapon. There was need for haste,
and we drove rapidly home again to a
restricted dinner, consisting of a soup,
a roast, three vegetables, a. salad,
apple pie and coffee. The need for
haste is explained by the fact that
there was a piquet arty in Haverford,
beginning at O'Clock, coterie OF
Haverford gentlemen having express
ed a desire to ''pick" US.
At Z o'clock we again entered the
| Blue SwallCw and drove nonchalantly
I in the direction of Haverford. Our
craftsmanship proved to be almost as
mediocre as our golf. We shot five
times at the Montgomery pike before
we hit it, and then we inflicted moth
ing more than a slight flesh wound.
We had brief and pleasant CONVEX
z
desk in the Haverford Arms That
is to say, it was brief and pleasant
to us. since she told us we were in
Haverford and not in Lancaster, as we
had suspected, and that our destina-
! ton was only three or four squares
distant. During the evening and early
morning we nibbled now and anon at
| a tasty rejection which reposed on n
adjacent sideboard. At $3.50 o'clock,
the plan to ''pick" us having failed,
the loot was divided and the piquet
game adjourned.
We had some trouble in starting the
Blue Swallow, but finally headed it in
the direction of home. We had no
| inklfng of it at the time, but we now
suspect we may have missed the most
! direct route. At any rate, inspec-
ton of the indicator on the Blue Swal-
| low disclosed the fact that it is forty
| three miles from Haverford to Chest
I nut and F'orty-sixth streets All we
| know is that about o'clock we drove
| into a suburban village and came upon
| two mounted policemen and a motor
car full of bulls who told us we
were in Bala. We reached home be-
| fore o'clock and after eating what
| was left of the previous nights dinner
! retired to a well-earned ease
We suspect the detail of the afore-
said adventures will fail to interest
many. But the impression that we
spend our SaturdaysNin idle dawdling
seems to be widespread. We wish to
| give the lie to it.