The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-15
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY .. HOUSE
{FroA Philadelphia Public Ledssf.D

| While the fact is neither unusual
nor unimportant it seems worth
noting that Thomas L. Mooney has
been acquitted again. this time by
Frank p. Walsh, of counsel for the de-
Tense.
| Mr.. Mooney probably has more ac-
quittals to his credit than any other
man in the world. He has been de-
clared innocent by the New York
Tribune, the entire radical press and
practically every radical thinker in the
country. 1t is record, we dare say, of
which Mr.. Mooney is extremely proud.
AS we get it from the papers. Mrs.
| Hardfng'S favorite song is THE End
of Perfect Day" In addition tic her
other admirable qualities, Mrs Hard
ing is also franker than most.
! We are not particularly curious as
| to the sort of president Mr.. Harding
! will be. We think we know and. in
any event. it doesn't make much diff
ference. We are much more curious
| to know which of Mr.. Harding's ia
vorite articles of virtu Mrs Harding
lost or mislaid when she moved the
| lareS and penates.
| 1t is inevitable that the household
decoration which the husband likes
best is lost when the family moves.
Senator Smith is quoted as saying:
| ITO raise the great American of the
future under glass globe would pro-
compoopS.' We are glad to see the
word raised" restored in the connec-
ton. Formerly children We're raised"
and became sturdy. dependable citi-
zens. We haven't done so well since
we began rearing" them.
/ But what we really set out to say is
that Arizona needs new dictionary
one which contains the more recent
profundities of the vernacular Min
compoop" lacks vigor and dude" no
longer is considered a real CLASSY
/ word.
z. W. Howe says what this country
needs is protection from the "Dubb"
family. We wish we might have been
the one first to think of that but in
the course of five or six years. when
the excitement dies down and the
thought is forgotten, we doubtless will
be.
Il What the Democratic party needs
in the situation is not. as many be-
lieve, a new chairman of the national
committee. What the Democratic
A mothers idea of tremendous
achievement is one accomplished by
her son.
At the council table yesterday morn
ing there WAS some competition for
the distinction of writing the editorial
about AL Jennings. The incident in
which Mr.. Jennings was held up by a
New York bandit has given the edi-
tnr io1 of
press much food for thought. Be
cause we are a rough westerner, pre-
sumably in sympathy with Mr.. Jen-
nings aspirations and aims, the
coveted distinction. so far as this
newspaper is concerned, fell to us
We are to write of Mr.. Jennings and
draw the lesson from his misadven-
ture. a
| 1t won't take US long. Al Jennings
was a heluva bandit.
His conduct and language before
the congressional committee" writes
a correspondent of the Pubic Ledge
| in comm nting on General Dawes
were disgusting to decent men. 81
shocking a display of ill-temper, vul
garity, profanity and self-conceit il
without precedent in public life in thi,
country"
We knew it all along. If it is any
thing we particularly enjoy we learI
later that it was shocking, profane
vulgar or ungentlemanly, We are
therefore, not surprised to learn Gen
era1 Dawes exhibition was indecent
The trouble in this country seems t.
be that if a thing is interesting it ism
, respectable.
The Democratic party, we learr
from the public prints, is to max,
progress its watchword. We hope
the Democratic party will do well a
it; but there are four or five other
political parties already busily en-.
gagged in working that side of the
! street.
In the connection we take the lib
erty to offering a suggestion. There
is in this country a grand field for a
political party which will make plain