The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-07
ON SECOND THoUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger,

BY JAY e. HOUSE II
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger, |
~ 4 Suggestion. .s.. -
The. column aiss not profits Of |
ideas, The. few. for which it |
should be given credit hays nearly all |
comes to taking the other fellows idea |
and improving it, the column acknoY- |
Lodges few equals and no peers. We |
are moved. TO the foregoing exordium,
if that is what it is by the futile at
tempt, made on yesterday, to set aside
a wilson hour" in honor. of the for
mer president. The idea was a grand
one. Probably the reason it failed
was that nobody knew anything about
it until after the period set aside for
its observance had elapsed. We ask
permission to elaborate the idea, and
at the same time guard against the
contin gency of failure in future cere-
monial obseryances. We therefore
suggest the following dates and oc-
caSionS: , ~ ---- stssesss +5,s4
February 81, a Tom watson hour
April IS. a. Eugene Y. Debs hour.
June 5, a George 4Creel hour.
August %, a, Babe Ruth hour. ss..
October Is, a "Bi1I' Haywood hour.
December 10, an Al Joison hour.
Details for the observancess suggest
ed will be supplied as need for them
arises. For the. moment the idea is
to get the date of the obseryances
fixed in the public mind and to permit
the people to become excited oyer it.
Trust us. when the time comes, to pro-
vide a thrilling program.
Controversy has arisen over the cor
RICHNESS of the phrase, the bricks of
sixty years experience employed by
our distinguished fellow colunnist,. Mr..
John, Wanamaker, We have been
asked to adjudicate the, matter. We
are frank to say we don't see anything
wrong with it.
Fufthermore, and as far as We are
concerned, Mr.. .Wanaaker may say
anything he likes. We have a charge
account.
France seems to have won the at
fections of William Randolph. Hearst.
Mr., Hearst is an ardent .wooer.s The
question seems to be whether France
will consider him an acceptable sutton
One thing is. certain: If France does
accept him she will be well kissed.
THE unrest in India continues
notes contemporary. 1t would. There
is bound to be more or less unrest in
a country in which the men are conf
Pell6u 10 BQ6SS NI1Sl11ST d WO1ldH 40
good-looking or otherwise.
The record for that sort of thing
Undoubtedly is held by the ,Philadel-
phia, man who once purchased six dol
lar watches at one time.
Consideration of an amendment to
the Volstead law to make the use Of
sacramental wine illegal permits US to
whinple g tried whim-wharn. A. man
has nothing to fear from his enemies;
it is his fool friends who get him into
trouble.
We agree the matter is uninpor-
tant, but we'd hypothecate the pay
check for the second week of April on
the. proposition that there will be
other claimants for the distinction,
such as it is.
1t Wasn't Tyre; 1t was a UkeIeIe.
Sir-While you twanged the Tyre in
rhapsodic alteration of IF Winter
Comes" those Of US who failed to de-
rive unusual exhilaration from that
| biography of a boob listened with the
enforced patience of an audience pro-
| hibited by the management from
shooting at the musicians. If the boss
| could be persuaded into giving the
customers an occasional column OF
their own for rebuttaI purposes, Some
of us would be spared the risk OF
apopIexy that accompanies the neces-
siry of Sitting the emotions raised by
certain of your autocratic dicta.
| For instance: You go so far as tc
claim for Mark Sabre the solid ivory
championship belt of the WelterWeighi
hero class. This outrageous attempt
at infringement is resented by the elan
| that owes allegiance to Joseph Con
| rad, creator of the worlds recognized
champion bone--headed hero, Baron
AXel Hayst, of Victory renown
Conoeding to Itr. Sabre average facii.
ity in. splitting beans, there remains
the demonstrable. fact of Baron
| HaySt's appalling supremacy in the arr
of scramblinS the eggs at the precise
| inopp ortune moment.
| Desist. Continue to cenfine your
| self to, consideration of the unirnpor.
tant. Let us know why from the feini
nine hand clinging to the cup tina
cheers little finger protrudes at .righ
| angles. NORJEFF.
| Norjeff misreads the column W.
| did claim something for Mark Sabre
but recanted such claim immediately
following our perusal of the unrivale6
| idiocies of. Mr.. Wriford of "A Clear
Heart" If ''Norjeff'' wishes to be in
spired with a desire to kick the stuff.
ing out. of his own cat, let him read
"A Clean Heart
It has been suggested that we.writ.
the moral. of. the W. California
game If there are no objections. we
will engage. to do So. It is, that moth,
ing that comes out of California is a:
good as it claims to be.
We do not know Conrad. Perhaps
we should. But the goo" in which
| his admirers lave him makes Conrad
| impossible for US.
brow. of time and, disappeared into
the ages. Few haye said a kindlJ
word for it, but for all. that. it had its
distinction. 1t was the widest yeaf
we ever knew.
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