The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-03
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY z. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledgsr.)

1--WE Americans" says William Allen
White, assume all men are created
equal" We Americans assume moth
ing of the kind we. know it isn't so.
But not infrequently an American who
is peddling something to the crowd
assumes men are created equal for
the purpose of titillating his prospec-
tive customers.
At that, it is a fatuous GESTURE
demogogy. The lowly and downtrod-
den, for whom the gesture was de-
vised, do not accept the theory that
they are the equals of the successful,
the capable and the efficient They
believe they are superior to them.
We never knew worthless, ineffi-
cient man who did not believe himself
to- be superior to the most successful
citizen of his community.
els not the friendship of Russia
worth having?" honked the Hon. SEN
ator Borah in Philadelphia Tuesday
night. Well, If the Hon-vSenator cares
to leave it to us, it isn't worth a thin
dime. But, inasmuch as the Hon.
Senator must have something to NUT
ter about, it is preferable that he con-
fine his mutterings to the injustice
Russia is suffering at the hands of this
country.
safety first:" is the motto of this
column. Conceivably Hon. Senator
Borah, who is always wet with his own
tears and who has the gift of COM
fnunicating the 1ugubrious mood to the
thinkless. might find a subject for his
mutterings that would start them mill
ing again.
But He Does Write Lovely Stuff.
Sir-Having noted your desire to
dissertate upon the unimportant and
the unusual, I beg leave to call the at
tention of the readers of your column
to a photograph published in the May
number of the American Magazine
showing DR.. Frank Crane apparently
attempting to carry on a telephone
conversation while the index finger of
his right hand is holding down the re-
ceiver hook. suggest, by way of
starting discussion, that a person
guilty of publishing a QUESTIONABLE
on How Much Do You known"
should at least give US the credit of
having reasonable eyesight even tho
we lack all other reason.
GRID LEAK.
Ours is not a mind that notes tech
meal details. When we see a picture of
a man talking into a telephone our
curiosity in the matter concerns what
he is saying. To ne able to carry on a
conversation over the telephone is n
great gift; to say anything worth
while is a mark of genius"
Yes, we know people almost univer-
sally use the telephone for the pur-
pose for which it was devised and
that the performance virtually is con-
tinuous. But they don't say anything.
Let appreciation mark your daily
path" advises J. G.. L. I'm so doing
you will not only hearteE others, but
make for yourself friends and content
ment-the highest form of happiness
this life provides
We have tried all CT the stunts. in
cluding the perennially appreciative
mood. When we permit appreciation
10 mark our daily Path" half the read
efs of the column think were grow
ing ''sappy'' and the other half fancy
we are trying to write a funny crack,
of the public osculatiCn is bestowed on
the gent with tho cultivated wallop.
A Reasonable Request.
The editor of the Public Ledger has
received the following letter:
Don't you think it is about time to
cal. off your Mr.. Jay e. House: sHis
column is getting on such a low plane
that it does not fit in with the high
character of your paper.
''WILLIAM A. NICKLES."
Public Ledger shall be ours. But the
thing that concerns us most at the
moment is the manner in which we
imprinted the bruise ON the pedal ex-
tremity of Mr.. Nickles. Almost in
variably when patron demands or
suggests the discharge of reporter
it is because the latter has said some
thing with which he does not agree or
of which he does not approve. We
are curious as to the point upon which
Mr.. NickleS disagrees. 1t may be, if
we put it up to him, he will write and
tell US.
Meanwhile, we trust Mr.. Nickles is
not under the impression that he has
charge has been demanded by some
of the best demanders in this section
OF the country.
HE is" said Eph Wiley yesterday
in discussing his son-in-law, 1.-The sort
of fellow who attends a Coroner's in
quest
The incident of the Thomasville
mob which voted as to whether it
should whip or tar and feather an OBJ
jectionable cigar manufacturer, and
then took him into the country, dashed
him with strap and tarred and feath-
in the members of the Idle Hour
Luncheon Club. Our own, as an in
stance, is that the mob having given
the Objectionable gentleman sixty
hours in which to leave town, must
have some change coming to it.
Mr.. E. G. Lowrys reaction is, on
the other hand, less conclusive and
more analytical. Mr.. Lowry wonders
how the mob, having voted on the