The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-21
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E HOUSE
tF'rom PhiIadeiphia Public Ledzer.1


tF'rom PhiIadeIphia Public Led1er.S
If it were less a reflection on the
weii-known and highly touted race,
the laughter of the people Who go to
see "Liliom" would be the nadir OF
humor. AS it is, 1t merely accentu-
ates ones impatience with his kind
Here is an unusual play touching intf-
mately the grimmest Subject in the
category OF human diAcussion- For
the most Cart. Characterization is
almost flawless. 1t Is superbly acted.
There isn't a funny crack in it And
the people who go to see it ululate
with laughter.
We are constantly importuned. in
the newspapers and elsewhere. to leave
it to the people. OF all the slogans,
Let the people rule is the favorite
and the one most frequently en-
mind to permit them to do so. They
halfway had US convinced that 1t
might be a good thing. And then we
went to the theater and heard the
'Liltom.'
One of the late B. L. It's pet aver
sions was the man who. having been
told his inquirer all about it. One
of our pet diversions. Is his boon COM
panion and intellectual brother-the
man who says he goes to the theater
to be amused.
We possess no faculty to forecast
the future; we have no gift of proph-
ecy. But we think We know who is
going to pay the Widow Zander's bills.
The Acid TEST.
Sir-We want to know whether the
letters you print in your column are
real or not. So we are writing you.
If we see this in print Wen know they
are; If we don't well know they aren't.
Curiously enough, good many fork
want to know about that we think
we have said 1t before, but we don't
mind repeating it. We never bother
to write a letter to this column. That
Is one thing that may safely be left
to the people.
Readers of the column will recall
how jealousy we guarded our priority
rights to the series of paragraphs on
bathroom singing which have ap-
at our heart was that authorship of
the whimsey would be accredited TO
some New York writer. 1t had never
occurred to US that we might be
stabbed in the back. But Philadel-
phia contemporary. it seems to us,
goes out of the way. to give the credit
for it to a student in India
1t is all right for the other Phila-
delphia newspapers to withhold our
name from the detail of the proceed
ingS when We make political speech.
We don't blame them for that. But
the taking away from US OF our vocal
hydropathic jest in order to confer 1t
on a student in India is a doggone
dirty trick.
Moral: Use Angle Worms.
Sir-I see that. to date. no trout has
risen TO your Dante fly. Perhaps 1t
was too highly colored even for suck
ers. A T. S.
The trees are coming into deaf. As
soon as we finish the column we are
going out to pick a bit of laurel with |
which to crown the editorial writer
on the New York Tribune who says
golf now is the, only sport of Scotch |
derivation which may be enjoyed /
without violating the constitution.
That, in our judgment, was the !
cleverest thing said by any newspaper |
is good enough to be credited to |
Babe Ruth, and we are surprised |
the Tribune, as representative New !
York newspaper, didn't quote him as
saying it.
Gen. Jacob S. Coxey. the vesuvius |
of Massillon, o., Is again in state OF 1
eruption. But General Coxey failed to |
copyright his stuff and most of it has
been stolen by members of congress /
and others concerned in the fall cleo
lions.
When General Coxey first flashed
upon the horizon of affairs he was the |
only one of his kind. Now there are
thousands of Coxeys and the profess !.
sion is crowded.
Well, just This Once.
Sir-To be completely ignored is a.
I suppose. I had at least
expected a word of recognition of my
letter. for, whisper it not in Gath"
one is favored to receive q letter from
me- And wrote 1t, too, before hear
ing DR.. Beaver lecture. Result: |
Wasted effort. MARY JONES.
Mary will. we are sure. pardon us
for plain speaking. but if We printed
the letter of every one who, having
nothing 70 saw site down and writes