The Topeka state journal., 1922-02-01
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

We can explain the plight of the
farmers in one para graph and write
the remedy for it in another Not
only that. but we shall undertake to
do so. The prices of farm products
slumped before the farmer was able
to reduce his overhead. Nobody is to
blame for the situation and nobody
can correct it.
The condition is one that Yields only
to natures sovereign remedies. When
the overhead comes down the farmer
will again leap lightly to his feet pre-
paratory to buying the adjoining
eighty next fall.
And. while 1t isn't exactly our prob
lem, we thought We might as well
| ton conference the trouble. If our at
titude seems presumptu0us we're WILL
| ing to hypothecate the pay check for
| the first week in May on the PROPOSE
/ tion that we have come as near to set
Ting it as the Washington confer
ence will be able to do.
| 1t is gratifying to be in position to
/ state that the widely circulated story
J to the effect THAT the citizens of EN-
1 poria. Kan. compelled Pavlowa to
| cover up her legs before giving her
show is n roorbaek. 1t is true En-
poria held a mass-meeting to discuss
/ the matter. but conservative counsel
/
| interfere with the show.
| Emporia is the most tolerant CT
towns. When, last summer, we'll
known Emporia young woman donned
boomers and rode her bicycle down
Commercial street the town passed it
off as college prank.
We have Hitherto professed an in
| terest in the plea of Luther Boldly, a
| negro who Is shortly to be tried in
New York for shooting two white
men. His counsel has indicated that
it will be emotional insanity. We
/ don't know what success he will have
with it: what we do know is that he
lis stealing white mems stuff
| We say when a negre arrogates TO
himself the white mans favorite de-
fense he practically is demanding So
eial equality,
We note. incidentally, that Phila-
delphia's favorite singer. Geraldine
Farrar, received an ovation in New
York Monday afternoon.
1t seems to us as we braid a cheap
and shabby paragraph from Governor
Miller's widely circulated remark that
it isn't so much that everybody wants
an orchestra seat. 1t is the refusal
Of SO many to stand in line to get it.
ldIk bGFGTlys VINO SLdfLeQ sixteen
years ago at the bottom of the ladder.
is there yet
/ Duck KELSEY. who is in Jail for wife
beating, yesterday gave his fellow
prisoners a short talk on personal lib
erty.
The column is entirely satisfied to
know that Mr.. Hays is to get $50 600
a year and believes he will earn it.
! iS nF
as to how much of it is money.
As we hitherto pointed out, every
man has his distinction. Sim
Heekle's distinction is that he hasn't
spoken to his wife for thirteen years.
We have been reading the first in
stallment of Lillian Russell's remin-
iscences. now running serialIy in one
of the more or less popular ma gazines.
| Doubtless we shall read succeeding
installments. We feel about it as We
| used to feel about going downtown
after dinner. When we lived in
Grigsby City we went downtown every
evening; we were afraid something
| would happen without the benefit Of
| our own personal supervision. But
nothing ever did happen.
/ Life breaks about fifty-fifty to the
! best of us and the worst of us. Miss
| Russell has a story and can't tell II.
| A lot of US who can tell it have no
| story.
What happened to you today"
asked Adelaide as we made our Gus
/ tomary 5 o'clock approach to the
| happy-home fireside yesterday after
noon. Nothing ever happens" we re-
piled, "but Jim Walbridge did hand
us laugh this morning. He thought
/ the reputed excerpt from the Shaw
| Star and Argus really had been taken
| from that newspaper" But you did
| mt take it from the Star and Argus
did you? % Adelaide remarked. q read
it; L thought you wrote it. It sounded
| like you"
| We have long despaired of the bal
ance of the human race; we are be- .
ginning to despair of Adelaide