The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-09
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
tFrom PhiiadelphIa Public Ledger.)


Shake, Brother!
Sir-I was greatly pleased to learn
that some one else had read and been
impressed with the sterling merit of
Sweeney Todd, the Ruffian Barber
of London 1t was a great tale for
real boy. I think my copy is in
New England attic now That pie
business more than took the cake.
Aren't you mistaken about Sweeney's
being hanged? I had the impression
that he was shot by officers while try
ing to escape. 1 remember 1 was
greatly disappointed at the time be-
cause of his easy decease. How the
populace yelped for those delectab BILE
pies! Thank you for bringing this
meritorious tale to the light.
T 1t may very we'll be Sweeney was
shot while trying to escape. There
are many fadeouts in memory. In
either event, the superb moral of the
tale is unassailable. If one commits
murder, he is almost certain to get
into trouble; he may pay the forfeit
with his own life
These remarkable pictures" says
the restrained and conservative press
''fillums," show that the struggle for
a nations homer was really epic. 1t
is the sort of film that makes for the
higher patriotism; for a cleaner,
braver citizenship, and it is tremen-
douS propaganda for America and
the great ideals she stands for that
these films are being shown in every
capital of the known world"
We don't know about the films, but
the Third round of the fight itself GER
tainIy made for the higher patriotism.
The spectacle of 10000 Americans
standing on their chairs and yelling
their heads off for the little fellow
when ff(tarr1ft T0nyp7raSoxr fv, "a
jaw and set his legs awash beneath
him was one of the finest exhibitions
of the higher patriotism we have seen.
We are wont to grow gently Satirical
at the expense of our fellow citizens4|
We comment, from time to time, upon |
their credulity and their lack of per-
spicuity. Perhaps we are too harsh
with them. To a large degree people
get their reaction and their impulses
from the newspapers. Not much can
be expected of them so long as repu-
table newspapers deliberately feed
them the sort of sap that is fermented |
in behalf of the country's counterfeit |
heroes.
The Low-DovVn on Golf.
Sir--I see you speak of golf as of
Scotch origin. Are you quite correct
in this? If you will turn to the En-
Britannica. which surely
would credit the Scotch with the game
if history permitted, you will find that
golf is of Dutch origin. AS the Britain
MICA says: 1T is scarcely to be doubted
that the game is of Dutch origin
The early Dutchman played
golf; they painted golf" One of Rem
brandt's early etching is called Man
Playing Golf AS far back as 1913
King James I, of England, deplored
importation of golf balls from HoI-
land, and issued proclamation
against the practice. There are plenty
OF records to show that golf was played
in Holland early in the fifteenth CEN
tury, whereas, in Scotland it was in !
troduced about 1850. 1t isSwithin con- I
servatism to state that golf was played |
in Holland fifty years before its in /
Lroduced into Scotland.
EDWARD w. BOX.
Mr.. Box seems to have the weight |
Of authority on his side and, in any
event, he gets no argument from us. 1
There are times when we don't care
where golf came from or where it goes
-altho we Gould indicate a suitablei
destination if pressed. All we know /
about the game is that were it played +
exclusively with the masf1ie, we could
facility with the wood that makes an |
gnoramus of us. -
However, we do have our little
L4uHlpHS. we Ilnally persuaded /
to sit thru one of her hus- |
1and's speeches. -
And gosh, how that fran little /
woman suffered, Agony is variously /
lefined, but the ordeal woman un- |
iergoes in listening TO her husband |
make a speech. probably is as good |
Is anything you will find in the books |
1t has, we believe, but one counter I
BART among the emotions which rack |
he human frame. That is the agony /
If the man who sits helpless and in
Lctive on his own front porch waiting
or the doctor to tell him whether it's |
/ boy or a girl.