The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-26
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledgsr)

Lady Astor's 'tuckadunt'' is being
voluminously discussed. We make
bold to express our own reaction TO
it. AS an epithet it is a failure. AS
humor, it leaves much TO be desired.
president Harding is right" says
the esteemed New York World. Only
those who read the World know how
difficult it must have been for the
World to say so.
If the petition of the New York
woman who is suing her husband for
divorce on the ground that he hasn't
taken her to picture show in five
years is sustained, we owe a million
dollars in back alimony.
Oh, All Right.
Sir-If you will. dig out the sportin'
part of Mondays Public Ledger AMI
read the account of the finals at the
Bala Golf Tournament, you will turn
over the page and find the story con-
tinued under the head of BOAT
Races" This of course, is unimpor-
tant. But you will discover that some
gent in the gallery stepped upon Mr..
Clarey's golf ball when it was sitting
up as nice as could be in the middle
of the fairway and that Mr.. Clarey's
opponent then rose to supreme heights
of craftsmanship and insisted that the
ball be lifted bodily out of the hole
and teed. Tne honorable referee APP
| speaking, a pleasant time was had by
all. If some genius had only quoted
Rule IT, paragraph 8, the atmosphere
would have been very much clarified.
= A. G.
Inasmuch as "A. c." failed to quote
Rule II, paragraph 8. the company,
| including the UNDERSIGNED, still is in
the dark. We don't know whether
the paragraph in question makes of
the incident comedy or a tragedy;
we don't know whether to laugh or
! to cry. This thing of referring to a
golf rule and then neglecting to state
what it is is going to be mighty disap-
pointing to the people.
E. H B. sends us this quotation
from 1.-THE Education of Henry
Adams" saying it has been recalled to
her by a request in the column: The
British mind in the days of Darwin
was building so many and such vast
theories on such narrow foundations
as to shock the conservative and de-
| light the frivolous. Unbroken
| evolution under uniform conditions
| pleased every one-except curates
and bishops; it was the very best sub
| stitute for religion-a safe, conserva-
| tive, practical thereby common-law
Deity. Such a working system for
the universe suited a young man who
/ had just helped to waste five or ten
thousand million dollars and million
lives"
Very well, Wen bite. Granting that
it has any bearing on Darwin's exact
phraseology, which was the matter
under discussion, exactly what does
/ it mean?
! We miss one swelling note in the
glossary of alarm. So far no volun-
tary custodian of the public veal has
| expressed the opinion that radio is
moral menace. The people are get
| ting a lot of pleasure out of radio.
That note should be struck without
further delay.
Luckily, we know just the person
to do it. Will Prof. w. A. McKeever,
of the University of Kansas. kindly
the public mind proper appreciat ton
OF the menace of radio. Prof. Nc
Keever can.
The news from the old home town
! is that Lem Willoughby, who was be-
Eeved to be on Genevieve Harping-
tons reserve list, has been playing in
an outlaw league for more than year.
| Sim HeckIe refers to Einstein's the
ory and says his great-grandfather
should be given credit for it.
We trust Life will pardon our con-
travention of its assertion that dog
! days are here. It is summer that is
here. Dog days do not come until
! August.
In certain phases of its endeavor
! Life is superb. We want no better
! chuckle than We gurgled from its re-
cent picture of Mr.. Hearst. But no
great knowledge of nature and its
manifestations may be expected from
| a publication which for twenty-seven