The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-04
ON SECOND THOUGHT

DlfIerenC are the metno0S OF MI ~
G. Houston, oil man of Camden, Ark.
The investor who goes in with Mr..
Houston gets an interest in the 100, 900 |
barrels of oil now in storage on the \
property. Mr.. Houston doesn't say 1
how much of an interest the investor /.
viii have; but. as We understand It, ,
that isn't the catch in the proposals
ton. The catch is, Why does man |
with 100000 barrels of oil in storage !
wish to involve himself in the COM |
petition for sucker money?
The school for the instruetion and
to throw away thei9 money closes for !
an indefinite period with this issue of
the column. It may be reopened a
some later date, but that is on the lap
Of the gods We don't suppose the
school taught its pupils anything, but
teacher had grand time.
In his peerless column in the un-
paraneled World, Haywood Broun eX-
presses the wish that he might write
something that would cause people to
hate him. Everybody it appears, |
loves Mr.. Broun, and he is sick ana
tired OF it. We wish we might somell
time meet Mr.. Broun for the purpose
OF exchanging recipes. We could do
with little more~1oving. We don
suppose we ever wrote a line for which |
we were not hated by somebody.
There are people-plenty of them
who will hate us for writing a pard-s
graph about Haywood Broun. Within
a day or two we will begin to receive
letters and postcards. couched in
sneering and contemptuous language,
charging US with attempting to attract
the attention of Mr.. Broun.
Amt Information Grando
Sir-Your prediction for the I'M
important prompts this appeal. You
see, 1 Just dote on science. I think
1t is awfully lovely and so delightfully."-
confusing. In Mr.. Wells 'OutIine of
History there are some perfectly de-
Hcious bits about the sun. Mr.. Wells
says that in bulk it is one and a quar-
ter million times that of our inSignifi-
cant earth. And Prof. j. Arthur Thorn
son, in his Outline of Science" says
the su mis- 5000 times the mass of
our earth. Amt it wonderful how
scientists stick together? From Prof.
Thomson'S book had memorized that
the sun was $500 miles in diameter
and was saving it for a dinner sur
prise when Mr.. Hearst, in one of his
magazines, stretched~it to 900,000,00O
miles. So don't know what to tell
my friends. Mr.. Wells says the sun
being 100000 times the bulk of the
earth, we may imagine that, with the
sun as a ball nine feet in diameter,
the earth could be represented by a
ball one inch in diameter Mebbe so;
butdt doesn't sound right. Approaching
as I'm sure you do, will you call up
Messrs. Wells and Thomson and Hearst
ana ask them to stop intriguing us?
Fer your own benefit, let me say that. !
in It's one current meaning, i'm |
-trigued'' is to be "perplexed."
INTRIGUED.
The experience of "Intrigued' is |
that of every man who reads for in
formation or with the idea of improv- |
ing his mind. All the effect such |
reading has on the mind is that of |
ineXtricably confusing it. The only |
system of reading worth anything is
the one we invented years ago. 1t is I
that of reading what we like. If we
don't learn anything, we don't forget |
anything, either.
1t is no advantage to us or to any |
body else to know the definition of
Intrigued" We should have preferred |
to remain in ignorance. Now that we i
know what it means. we shall have to /
be careful about using it So long as
we were in doubt we could use it any !
time the impulse to do so seized us.
Far from enhancing our facility in
the use of language, Intrigued viz
tuaIIy has bound and gagged us,
phraseologically speaking
You remember what we said about
the Hall-Mi1ls case when they sent
it to the Grand jury NO we'll wei
told you4then the HaH-Mills case was
saying "good-by."
OF all the various gestures, the
grand jury possibly is the most futile.
If a prosecutor has the evidence, he
doesn't need a grand jury investiga-
ton. If he hasn't got the evidence,
grand jury couldn't find it.
One who-sign himself "Sailorman"
relays. the information that Bowditch
has nothing to say about crossing the
line. Well, in that event, all we have
to say is Hurrah for Bowditch!
Wen Make Him Presidential EFector
Sir wonder if you could find a
place on the new party's ticket for