The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-25
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE.
(From Phnadelphia Public Ledgsr.)

might hope to see my letter in
print?'' suppNcates F. G. TIE hope is
ashes in the leech of time. We fear
F. G.'s conjecture concerning Mr..
cussion of Mrs. Asquith are unethical.
We are reluctant to put upon the edi-
torial censor the responsibility of pass
ing them.
But it was a right good letter at
that.
The-new Mrs. Gould. it appears. was
born in Dakota. Since everybody is
specializing about her, we conceive it
to be entirely proper if we indicate
mild curiosity. We are wondering IL
the town was Rapid City.
Nothing much. We had a friend
who once lived in Rapid City. 1t is
well within the bounds of possibility
that he knew her.
Impetuous words upon the lips of
the gentleman at an adjacent desk
move US to take thought. impatient
OF the situation affecting mines and
rails, he expressed~the opinion that
President Harding is too good natured,
too amiable, too weak to cope with it.
Well" quoth we, what would you do
about it ?" ''Do?" he retorted, I'D
call out the troops, plant the machine
guns and run this government over
the mob that is flouting it,"
Probably that is the thing to do.
Likely it is, in a sense, the thing Presi-
dent Harding will be compelled to do.
Uncounted thousands of good Ameri-
can citizens would like to see it done.
But we are glad the responsibility for
action is not ours. If we were in
President -Harding's shoes we don't
know what we should do. We
wouldn't know exactly what ought to
he fl-aI1 ofn q
and hope that some way out of it
might be found. We fancy the gentle
man at the adjacent desk would be
seized by the same hesitancy.
A Boost for SouthoId.
From the SouthoId IN. W Traveller.
Who says that Southold is not an
honest town? A bicycle left in front
of H. NJ. Hawkins store was there for
two days and nights before it was
stolen.
Fifteen years ago. writes Deacon
paragraph which passed your inspec-
ton. 1t read: I am in favor of leaving
the saving of the country to the fell
lows who have had the most to do
with it, 1 desire to submit another:
According to the press dispatches, a
caddy is a lad who will Some day be
the open golf champion of the United
States
! We hasten to advise Deacon Walker
that a man who can think of two
good paragraphs in fifteen years has
recorded high average. 1t is better
than ours. If we write one good
paragraph every fifteen years we are
satisfied.
Only those who have never written
one can do a bright, snappy column
day in and day out.
Aside to T. w. S. do not recall
your communication and haven't an
tftatrwe can't remember it,. however. is
a. pretty definite indication that it
wasn't any good.
We get such impetus as we have in
this days striving for enough copy To
fill given space from Pip Daniels,
of the Kansas City Star. Another
thing that makes you feel DID, Pip
observes. lis to see the younger gen
Grafton writing in to the sports editor
asking what the famous Fred Merkle
bonehead play was
It doesn't make US feel old. 1t
merely impresses upon us the futility
of human observation 1t so hap
pened that we saw %aerkle make the
play in question. As working news
papernnan we necessarily had the hab-
it of close observation. AS one who
we were entirely familiar with the
technique of baseball. But we hadn't
the slightest notion as to what had
happened. We didn't find out until
we reached the downtown section OF
New York and bought a newspaper.
We were like the Philadelphia barber:
we just heard about it.
That is another story. Just before
the Tendler-Barrett fight a Phila-
delphia barber was weeping on the
shoulder of a customer. 81 go to all
the box fights" he said. At spend
my good money nearly every week.
But when there is a really big contest
I am so far away from the ring that
all I do is hear about it."
Let George Do 1t.
Sir-That item, IF a wife were not
keeping house for her husband what
would she be doing ?''-I can't quote it
exactly-must have been your best
paragraph in fifteen years. Go on;
open up that vein. What is the ultima
thule for a woman, also for man?
Get opinions. FLossIE.