The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY z. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public LedgSr.)


where's your famous 'pep'?"
writes F. C. p. ''Once you carried
waIlop. Just read your mollycoddle
retort to the editor guy who roasted
you for wanting vacation to treshen
back with gloves on Hit out like
Kid Roberts in The Leather Push
ers.' Snap it over the plate like you
would a 'spit-balr to Babe Ruth"
1t is true, we used to pack wal
lop, but it didn't get us anything. Now
we wear rubber heels But we got
what we wanted. didn't We? If there
at a smaller expenditure of time and
exertion we'll be glad to subscribe for
the complete mail Course.
AS far as Babe" Puth is concerned.
we wouldn't waste a ''spit-balp' on
that lucky stiff. Ours is no such lum-
bering strategy. We'd curve a slow
one inside. That's the way the Babe
hurt his arm in the Worlds Series. A
"spit-baller" lasts five or six years.
One with slow curve goes on for
ever.
1t is gratifying to knew that while
the New York World virtually fixes
the blame for the mine and rail
strikes on President Harding, it is not
disposed to hold him directly respon-
slble for the Herrin tragedy. The
World grows less critical or Mr.. Hard
ing as time softens to it the distress
ing Memories of the 1920 election.
We trust that in his capacity as
dramatic censor Mr.. Thomas will not
eliminate from 'Lilliom'' the ditty
about the damn police" That one
little song virtually made the win
ter for US.
LIES Little Anodyues.
Dear ''Sweety''-Yes, that is Just
what I would like to call you You
make me mad when you call Eddie
Guest and his piece in the American
Eddie Guest I would knock you for
a goal, and then you wouldn't call a
man by any such catachresis for some
little time.
Not that I know Eddie Guest. I
don't. But I read his article and 1
know that there are millions of boys
today in this country who would be in
every way better off to make an all
around success of life if they had a
dad" OF the stamp of Edgar A. Guest
And if all you can do is poke fun
at a man who is doing the biggest job
in life and doing it well, you ought to
cart you and your typewriter and
your empty-minded ridicule out of the
sight of intelligent people.
H r. F.
sir-You undoubtedly need vaca-
ton. Or, perchance, you are zap
preaching second childhood At any
rate. Tuesdays comment, 1--WE have
read Eddie Guests piece in the cur
rent American and we think it just
sweet" is the most puerile expression
of sickly sentimentality I have ever
Why Gust SWEET. How "just
sweet? And why sweet at all?
Heretofore I imagined that expression
the exclusive stock phrase of dodder-
ing dowagers and tickle fancied flap
pers. Are you qualifying for mem
bership in the ranks?
I used to think of you as a reg
ular herman with spurs an every
thing. Now I am convinced you af-
feet spats, snell-rimmed glasses and
flaming scarlet bow ties. ]. H. r.
Such is Mr.. Guests fame that any
paragraph that may be written about
him is susceptible to three or four
hundred variations. If either H. r. F.
about him with which we can have as
much fun as we're having with the
one we did, we'll take pleasure in
printing it. Both, we suspect, mis-
apprehend the column. and we take
the liberty of restating its aims and
purposes. We do not write it to please
and crafty its readers; we write it
for our own edification. And we do
have a gorgeous time doing it.
We know Eddie. He is a fine, lik-
able lad. He couldn't knock us for
a goal If he would, and he wouldn't
if he could. Eddie isn't that sort. He
is a pleasant person who has dis
covered there is a vein of fine. free
milling ore under the soft and mushy
side of the street, and who shall say
he is not justified in working it up to
his capacity to do so.
AS yet, we have received no invi-
tation to vote in the Lit'ry Digest's
poll. And so we take it that. very
properly, we have been classified as a
workingman and will be permitted to
do so when the sentiment of the pro-
letariat is taken.
Likely the Digest poll won't prove
anything that cannot be controverted
by one in controversial mood. But it
has it's value, nevertheless. 1t gives
those who insist on discussing pro-
hibition something new to talk about.
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK /