The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-27
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
GFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

I
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.)
| Can you not" complains L. F.,
! produce something in your column
worth reading? Why must the pub
4: lie be RECALLED with such utterly worth
less. trifling affairs? Surely there is
enough yet left to write something
profitable and instructive. Try to see
if you cannot find something really
useful and beneficial and instructive"
Wen do better than that. Wen
turn the column over, for day. to
L. F. Well give him opportunity to
instruct and benefit the public to the
extent of twelve or fifteen hundred
umn than we, on the average. are able
to produce We'll turn the job over to
him permanently. It's a good job and
the hours are easy. If he can consist
emily do better work than we nave
been able to produce. he will have
no difficulty in holding it. We have
long wanted to go back to Main street
and become the editor and publisher
of the Weekly Cleaner As soon as
we find a man competent to take up
the work here we intend to do it.
Meanwhile, we have no ambition to
write anything really worth reading.
We do not wish TO instruct or benefit
the public
Looks Like We Gotta Do 1t.
Sir-We are equally in the dark as
to the "caballistic letters" that seem
For the sake of clarifying what at
present is a deep mystery. we are risk
ing your displeasure and are sending
you a copy of THE Wasted Genera
tion." Please hunt thru the volume.
tear out the ''caballistic" pages and
mail them back to US at our expense.
LITTLE, BROWN & co.
AS Mr.. Samuel E. Merwin SO aptly
remarked. There's always some
and publishers for seven or eight |
months. we've got to read THE Vast |
ed Generation"
DIR. Walter Prince, layer of the |
ghost of Antigonish,'' SO runs the A. |
z. story. said upon his return to |
New York yesterday that he had TAX |
en- the trail of a personal spook' |
which had made its appearance in<fhe |
life of himself and his wife,
We refer to the matter here because |
we considered the item the best piece |
of pishposh in yesterdays news. If |
there was anything superior to it,
our casual reading failed to reveal it.
There is of course some pish-posh |
in the continued investigation of the
double suicide in Boston the other
night The authorities, we learn, still
are trying to clear it up. Wen en-
gage to save the authorities any fur
Their trouble for the merely nominal |
fee of So. Wen go further: Wen do
It for nothing.
The woods are full of neurotfc men
and women who rave about life in
-ermS which express both their ignor-
ance of it and their lack of mental
balance. Two of them committed sui
side in Boston. The authorities owe
ions One of them is to let well
enough alone.
'Diogenes was honest, too says an
colleague. We are not SO
iure about that. Diogenes gave it out
hat he was looking for an hoDest
nan and then prosecuted the search
With lantern, and Diogenes knew
as well as anybody.
We don't know whether our APP
'roximat of Diogenes meets the
iemand that we write something in
tructtFe and beneficial. But even !
'uS critics must concede that it is a |
lew angle ON the old gentleman.
'As column reader" opines E A. T.
\, Il do not hesitate to wager to
that you are a bachelor and that
adelaide is only a creature of your !
m&giration; is not in existence. Now
oIIfess; is it not a fact?''
We leave it to the readers of the I
olumn- Shall we tell him or permit s
i'm to go ahead and lose his money?
We commend enterprise. wherever t
re find it. 1t seems fitting, therefore '
, mention the fact that the New j
ork American was the only news 6
Gper we saw that printed Senator t
ON Watson's speech against the
realty pact in full
The attempt of the American to e
rint a newspaper for the feeble s
linoed has become a successful and .
isitinctiVe achievement.