The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-21
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

IUNU NIULLDdCII,
wife, Nine. Matzenauer, for the free
and easy life of chauffeur Mime.
1 Matzenauer, it appears, allowed her
| husband only $3.50 a month spending
money. No red-blooded, 100 per cent
American can make much of a splash
on $3.50 a month. The men feel that
Mr.. Glotzbach has re-established his
self-respect, and reflected some glory
on his sex, in declining longer to ac-
cept the pittance.
The moral, as We see it, is if prima
donnas expect to hold their American
husbands they must pay better money.
No American worth having is going
to relinquish his sovereignty and give
up his identity for $3.50 a month.
In New Orleans on Thursday Mr..
Thomas, pitcher for the Pelicans, fed
the Hon. Ruth a high fast one outside
and the latter propelled it out of the
park. 1t would have paid young
Thomas to read the details of the 1921
worlds championship. Had he done
Giant pitchers "curve-balled" the
home-run hero out of the series.
1t now is too late for the knowledge
to be of any value to young Mr..
Thomas. But it isn't copyrighted, and
there is nothing to prevent the Ath-
letic pitchers avaiIing themselves of it,
senator 1G6oQ IN Ills speech On
Thursday attacked President Harding,
Chief Justice Taft, Elihu Root and
Secretaries Hughes, Hoover and Mel
lon. And, it may be added, the gen.
tlemen mentioned have many other
qualities that endear them 10 the
hearts of the American people.
However. Mr.. Reeds speech, when
considered as an achievement, pales
into insignificance when compared to
some of his earlier triumphs. We re-
call having been in court once when
a young negro was on trial for the
heinous offense of having snatched a
purse containing $1.5G from a white
lady. Senator Reed prosecuted the
case so ably and so energetically that
the young negro was sentenced to
forty years in the penitentiary.
We suggest the speech of Mr. Will
Hays delivered at the meeting of the
motion-picture makers as a fertile
field for such investigation. 1.-The mo-
tion-picture industry" said Mr.. Hayes
accepts the challenge in the demand
of the American public for the highest
quality of art and interest in its en-
tertainment.f
or demanded anything. The trouble is
that the motion-picture impresarios
are scared stiff.
And while we continue to daily with
the mail on the desk, We'll advise the
anonymous correspondent who lives in
Myterstown that he identified the Blue
Swallow i'm his first attempt to do so.
It's that kind of a car. and We ask
him, as man to man, if he knows one
with a better motor.
The fact that he scouts the OAR
winian theories has, we fear, given
many a wrong impression of Mr..
Bryan. He believes the world is
round, and has tacitIy admitted it on
a number Of occasions.
We have not been sufficiently in
terested in the matter to follow from
day to day the detail of Madelynn
Obenchain's trial for murder. We
don't know whether she was acquit-
ted, convicted or still awaits a jury's
verdict. But we were impressed with
one thing: the manner in which her
name fitted the role for which she
has been involuntarily cast.
Had Madelynn's name been sally
or Abigail she would have been
long ago forgotten. Probably the de-
tail of her trial would not have got
into the newspapers at all.
We have read the editorial on col
York Times. The gentleman who
wrote it will. no doubt, be agreeably
surprised to hear that our conclusions
concerning his editorial were identi-
cal with his conclusions concerning
columnists.
The gentleman. we shall add, was
either unable or unwilling to reach
conclusion.