The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-26
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE.
(From Philadelpnia Public LedgsR.l

Mr.. Secretary Hughes has been
writing to a clergyman about the
lNewberry case. We are going to say
but probably that would be a too
drastic summary of the proceeding
Likely it would be better to say.
everybody falls for something. Mr..
gentleman who is looking for the ad-
vertising.
The facts in the Newberry case are
very well known, Senator Newberry
was tried in the courts, in the United
States senate and by the New York
World for an offense of which vir-
tually every man who runs for a po-
litical office of significance is guilty.
1t is certain that most of those who
sat in judgment on him in the SEN
ate had committed the precise offense
with which he was charged. The
Newberry should be made the goat"
The point was decided in the spega-
tive.
with these facts to go on, and
everybody has them, anybody can
make up his mind about the New
berry case. He doesn't need to seek
advice or information from the sec
rotary of state or anybody else. II he
does publicly seek such information.
that means he is either looking for
the advertising or trying to embarrass
somebody.
Mr.. Jewell, of the shop crafts, gets
a Salaryof $3.50 and there is some
question in the minds of disinterested
observers as to whether he is earning
it this summer.
Marking the Knicker Belt.
Sir-Your travels comment on the
! curiosity shown by midwest hicks in
a mai Of Ia 1ner- ~. to- lrv g,lr
ers is, as the lamented Bert Williams
was likely to say, true. true!" You
drew the line thru Indiana; my ex-
perience locates it 800 miles further
east.
One can avoid much of the embar-
RAISING guffaw by trying to pass him
self off as the hired chauffeur If he
is willing to go toNsuch an extreme
say, by leaning against the front fen
der with a bored expression on his
face while the women of the party
disembark, or, after parking the car,
appearing on the street with greasy
hands and black fingernails, smoking
a Camel or carrying a copy of Snappy
Stories. Apparently to the eyes of
the hick Knockers are q legitimate
part of the livery of paid drivers, but
on the legs of laymen 1T is to laugh
and jibe and smoker. Women in
Knockers attract much less attention
than men.
After all, tho. was gratified to
find the west running true to form. 1t
was only the latest variant of the GUS
tom of poking fun at the effete east.
It will be a lamentable day for both
east and west when the west fails to
see fun in joshing the east.
A r.. w.
A. r. w is the lucky stiff who was
goin' back home. Why doesn't he tell
us something of what happened after
he got there?
Meanwhile, we know no matter OF
unimportance more intriguing to one
who knows both sections than the
casts pretended Indifference to the
west and the VESTS affected contempt
for the east.
Haywood Broun has been discussing
the matter of getting a job on a news
paper. Mr.. Broun is one endowed by
experience. We wish he had been a
little less casual and a little more def
mite. We've been seeking Jobs on
newspapers for thirty years or more.
getting one. There are numerous scars
apon our person. They are the en-
during marks of stab wounds inflicted
by cold, Indifferent, contemptuous
editors we have met.
In the halcyon and parlous days of
which we are prone to become remi-
niscent the only editor who, without
equivocation, condition, subterfuge or
an expression of doubt, offered us u
Job was Mr.. Lord, of the Sun. The
experience was so unexpected, so un-
usual, so staggering. we thought there
was something "phony" about 1t, and
we did not again show up in the Of
flee of the Sun for more than ten