The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-14
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY n. HOUSE.
(Trom Philadslphis Pebble Lsdsss.l

We almost never make light OF SCI
entific endeavor. And so we are willing
to concede without argument the
claim OF DIR. Albert Abrams that he
can locate Thomas W. Lawson by the
process of electronic reaction. But.
so far as we are concerned, there is
no hurry about it.
Our attitude toward Mr.. Lawson be-
ing equivalent to that of Mr.. Eph-
Wiley when he contemplates a trained
seal.
Out of the murk of the New Bruins
wick murder mystery comes an inter-
given it out flat that hereafter the
feelings Of witnesses will not be
spared. From that are we to under
stand that a search for the guilty per-
son or persons is about to be made?
Speaking of books and literature, we
note that Joseph c. Lincoln has COM
piled another volume IN which there
is neither flapper, vamp, souse. faith
less husband nor erring wife. He has
or obscene speech. Do people. we
wonder. still buy that sort of trash?
There must be some demand for It.
| Otherwise Mr.. Lincoln would not keep
| on writing.
Ours is a mind serene in its pro-
cesses and for the most part untrou-
| bled- In other words, we are not easily
upset. But we gasped in establishment
when we learned, thru the medium of
our favorite newspaper, that the for
est fire now raging in Quebec got its
impetus from { pile of burning rub
bish to which a farmer had previously
applied lighte-. match.
! We had supposed. of course, the fire
had been kindled by a burning cigar
cite. Or, at any rate, that the press
dispatches would>say it had.
The heckling' of Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Lands was a natural conse-
quence. The individual who is always
| in easy range of a photographer be-
comes also the point of focus for the
attendant crowd. But the significance
of the outburst, runs somewhat deeper
1t is that the American citizen, when
in mob formation, can always be relied
upon to make a spectacle of himself.
The American crowd will abuse any.
body-if it thinks it is safe to do SO.
Add Useless Information.
Sir-Again the front page of oul
favorite morning newspaper puts forth
a news blossom that wears the ear.
marks of burb. It comes from this
| SIdLe IN winch the manufacture OF
wooden nutmegs was formerly a thirty.
ing industry. A prominent and
wealthy woman" of Greenwich, Conn.
pays her taxi bill of $42O in pennies
having them {42,000) conveyed in {
large keg," to carry which into &
bank required the united labor of foul
men. Well, let's see. A box a foo
| square and ten and one-ha1f inches il
height will hold $4,000 pennies. Thei
weight is ESQ pounds. You don't care
Well, neither do /.
PENNY WISE.
s. C. S. w. has gone to the troubI,
to write US a letter telling us wha
the editor of the American Econofnis
said about the tariff views expressed
in this column. z. A. L. is equal,
concerned and more painstaking H,
sends us the article itself, altho WI
discussed and dismissed the matte
some days agone. We recur to i
! merely that we may answer 8. c. S
| VS. question as to whether the articli
Jars any ones complacency."
To which we retort. not a jar. TIN
conclusion, If there was conclusion
was imperceptible in the vicinity o
this desk. As we have hitherto stated
we are amenable to reason. Wei
agree to bleed for the tariff four time
"a year for an honorarium of $25,00t
a year. Well bleed for free trade TO
| $4,000 year.