The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-10
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY n. HOUSE.
(Ffon Philadelphia Public Ledsee.l

For us he biennial observance of
Married Mems Free Day will lack its
usual tang. There is nobody at home
to care when we come in, or whether
we, come in. We could stay out all
night and nobody would be the wiser.
Thus and so, Election Day loses much
of its savan. To enjoy it thoroly
one must realize that but for its saving
freedom he would be tied to his own
radiator However. we shall spend
It as usual, hanging around the local
room, urreptitiously lifting election
bulletins from hooks and getting in
the way of busy men who are trying
to put newspaper to press.
The doctors have finally got around
to recommending a hearty breakfast,
dietetics That is to eat what you
want when you want it.
A hearty breakfast is all right for
those who want a hearty breakfast.
We happen to be one of those who do.
But it is an utterly foolish procedure
for those who do not crave it.
This, you will have observed, is the
day on which we act in an advisory
capacity,
The applause of a Southernner when
the band plays s'Dixie'' is a perfectly
natural and creditable manifestation
when a Northern man applaUds
"Dixie' he is merely trying to be a
good fellow with indifferent success.
/ We gather from the New York
World that the only thing that will
save this country is g Democratic
victory. You remember the last time
the Democrats We're elected to save
the country? Do you also remember
the trouble we had in getting it back
from the pawnbroker?
The column. we shall add, is not
mark eddy partisan. 1t merely is anti
foolishness.
There must be something doing in
the New Brunswick murder mystery.
1t no longer is pretended that an arrest
is imminent.
1t lately has occurred to US that it
would be a fine joke on the reporters,
the column conductors and the other
-wiseh eimers should it develop that
the New Brunswick affair really is
one of the unsolvable mysteries
&The superiority of western foot
ball." says a writer in the New York
I'rib, always has been mostly
phrase to roll generously on the tongue
and really a nonresident condition.
Well, we never heard anybody>around
these parts rolling it generously on the
tongue. Take an Eastern football fan
into a dark and deserted alley, back
him up against the wall and massage
him with club and he will relHct-
antly admit that the West knows the
rudimepts of the game. Butt that is
as far as he will go. And there will
be nothing sonorous about the ada
mission.
We don't think anybody in the
West claims the game out there is
superior to that played in the East
All the West ever asked of the East
was concession to the effect that it
had mastered a few of the simple
elemental rules of play. What we
think after having seen the best teams
of the East, the Middle West and the
Missouri Valley is that the leading
teams of the big Ten" along with
other unclaSsified teams, play about
the same brand of football as the
best teams of the East. The balance
of power shifts from year to year. but
it no longer is marked either way.
Missouri Valley conference football
ranks below that of the big Ten"
Taking it one year with another,
is the pillar of fire in the
Missouri Valley. Usually, 1t outclasses
the other teams in that conference.
But until it came East last year and
Cleaned up' nobody in the football
circles of the Middle West thought
of CHASING Nebraska with the leading
teams of the East.
Germany, says the esteemed cable, |
has a new Kaiserin. Very well, let
the lady take her new title to the bank
and see what she can get, on it.