The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-06
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY Z. HOUSE
(FrOm PhnadelphIa Public Ledger

Mrs McCornick's contention that
M. Oser seeks to marry her daughter
for pecuniary reasons seems unwar
ranted in the light of M. Oser's own
declaration. We recall his statement
straightforward. All he asked was
two homes. one in this country and
one in Switzerland, What's a coupla
homes to the McCormicks?
We think we have hitherto indi-
Gated that our sympathies lie with NJ.
Oser. If he goes thru with it, he'll
be compelled endlessly to listen to the
patter Of a seventeen-year-ol girl. If
he doesn't, he loses what is virtually
a fortune.
Mr.. Harding, we note incidentally
turned in a 81 in the newspapermen's
tournament. That ends our usefulness
to the president so far as golf is con-
cerned; we can carry him no farther.
We should, however, be less than hui
man did we fail to observe that when
we took him in hand, less than a year
ago, Mr.. Harding couldn't break 100
to save his life.
Our theory of golf as it applies to
the average amateur is very simple.
wholly on distance, The morale in
duced by a long, straight drive will
almost inevitably carry the mediocre,
or medium golfer, to the green at the
top of his game Transversely, a
dubbed" shot from tee will invariably
react in the succeeding iron shots.
That was the theory we expounded to
President Harding when we took him
in hand, counSeling him to shift from
driver to brassey and from brassey to
driver when going badly with his
wooden clubs. We took ten strokes
off his game in less than a year. If
there is a better system, we should
like to know about it. We could use
it ourself.
That ought to start the argument.
If 1t doesn't, we shall have to try
some other plan.
Neither Darwin nor any of his
followers" writes J. L. D., "ever
claimed man was descended from the
anthropoid ape. What they asserted
had a common ancestor. Or, to put it
as an illustration for your readers,
the common White-tailed deer is not
descended from the moose thru the elk,
caribou and so forth; but the umpty-
umpth great-grandfather of moose,
caribou, elk and deer were one and
the same. And that's ALL"
That, we shall add, is the informa-
ton for which we have been striving
wyoming. And that sends us scudding
along another line of thought. What,
and we direct the inquiry to the circu-
lation manager, what does he suppose
wyoming wants of a newspaper that
is necessarily a week old when it
reaches him?
If it we're left to you. what would
you say?
Mr.. Pinchot's campaign expendi-
lures have inspired some comment.
The difference between NJ. Pinchot
and some of those who are criticizing
him is that he did not attempt to con-
ceal the fact that his nomination to
office cost large amount of money.
The fact is no man can be nomi-
mated in contest for an office of
major significance except at great
expense. Virtually every public Off
cial who criticizes such expenditure is
himself guilty of the same offense.
Libel laws being what they are, we
merely furnish the scenario Make
up your own list of hypocrites.
Fps writes to say distorting facts
Is the Hfework of newspaper writer's
We could have a grand row with 1 p
S. over that, but what's the use?
Recurring to Harrington, Penn"
writes to ask if we have read 1.-The
Two Van Revels." We have followed
Harrington with reasonable fidelity
and assiduity since he projected 1.-The
Gentleman from Indiana" That was
a lumpy piece of work, but very in
teresting. Artistically, he has made
steady progress and we like everything
he has written except 1.-The Turmoil"
which, at the time of its publication,
was hailed as the great American
novel. In 1.-THE Turmoil Harrington
seemed to be over his head and out
of his element. 1t was artificial,
strained and unconvincing. But our
general reaction to Harrington is that
no other writing man sees provincial
America as clearly as he sees it, and
nobody else writes OF it so convincing
" or so well.