The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-25
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY u. HOUSE.
tTron Philsdelphia Public Lsdssr.l

The bonus Oil Is out and we shall
miss it. Unless we can devise some
other equally good method of aatagon-
izing the public, disposal OF the bonus
measure viii reduce the mail received
at this desk SO or 10 pes. cent. We
with proponents of the bonus as to
the des.rability and wisdom of the
measure, More than one thousand
persons wrote In TO tell US what they
thought OF US,
We were held in contempt and derisien
246 times, We were sneered at isa
times. Thirty-six of our corresponds
ents called US a. swivel-ehair warrior.
Our courage and our patriotism were
lmpugned IN sse missi7es. seventy
nelng controlled by and in the pay of
the interests"
The moral, as we read it. is that it
never costs anything worth having TO
be yourself.
Yes, we know, We tried writing il
oneself" but the phraseelogy seemed
stiff and awkward,
Word to s'Berremee'' is that we res
gret that We must disanpoint him.
Wed love to print the letter he wrote
the Chief, but it's too dog-gone long.
II he could manage to compress his
olstaste Tor US into about three hun
dred words of seorn and derision we'll
try to print it in the column.
We congratulate the esteemed New
york World on the warmth of its
osculatory performance in connection
with the presidents veto of the bonus
measure, Its antagonism to the meas
ufe being what it was, the World was
bound to some form of saiutation
gu. me most We expected was a
erotheFly caress.
The Yanks have it. and this depart
iheht VIII put on mourning for the
customary thirty-day period,
The column does not wish to be re-
carved as flippant. 1t seeks to re-
move any impression that it is cold
and heartless. 1t is only that we lack
the gift to worry. For that reason we
have ngaged our editorial colleague,
Mr.. Fullerton L. Waldo, to do our
guarantee that it will be done right.
When Mr.. Waldo has a piece of worry
ing to do he puts his soul into it,
The future of Greenwich Village as
an art center is said to be threatened
art center is even more precariously
situated.
We went once with party of
friends to Greenwich Village TO watch
the Middle West buyers at their gam
bols Except the piano." said Flor
ence Hayden as she looked about her
for something real, everything here is
artificial"
A little later somebody turned on
| the piano, 1t was one of those
mechanical boys.
How many cases of epilepsy and
insanity have been caused thru alcohol
and narcotics "' asks e. L. ]. We
haven't an idea; but if it is important!
we'll endeavor to find out. 1t o1=l:t
to be comparatively easy to do SO.
However,. unless it is important we
shall ask to be relieved of the respops-
Utility; we have a much moro impor-
tant task in hand. Just the other day
a critic of the Administration made
1.-The statement that Less than tive
Years ago General Sawyer was rolling
pills in Marion now he is a origaaisl
general" We wish to/devote a little
spare time to that. We want to find
out what difference it makes IL
However, every person who usei
liquor to excess and narcotics in any
quantity knows they are harmful Ii
the circumstance. what good are sta
tistics going to do?
The average human being, if there
is any such thing, is careful OF MS
superstitions. but he pays no atten'
ton to warnings. We recall thai
every physician We know as a boy ad-
vised against the practice of reading
in bed. Probably physicians still sc
advise. All of tho literature bearing
on the subject stressed the same con-
clusion. But we went right ahead and
ruined our eyes, After thirty-five
years of reading in bed. our vision is
only a little better than that of the
average man twenty years our Junior.
If a box car is more than half a mile
away we can hardly read the letters
on ii.
We were also fully advised as to the