The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-11
ON SECOND THOUGHT

will you answer these questions
or will yeu dismiss them as the
warmed-over rawlings of a bromid
ian?" writes one who signs himself
Treasury Raider" We intend to dis
miss them. SHINING bromidians is
easy work, but the task grows mo-
notonous with repetition. When one
bromidian falls back, three come for
ward to take his place.
Because of the fecundity of the
species in this latitude, we are forced
to formulate and adopt a new rule.
The added rule will be No. SO in the
book. 1t reads: I'm the discussion
of purely abstract questions no more
than one bromidian may be skinned
within a given period of six months;
in matters which are concrete in their
application and of general interest,
two bromidians may be skinned at
the pleasure. or option, of the editor
OF the column"
Mr.. Justice Clarke has resigned his
seat on the supreme bench to devote
himself to the League of Nations. That
is privilege no one would deny him,
and it is in keeping with the fitness
of things that the last resting place
of the deceased should be cared for
by sympathetic hands.
With Mr.. Justice Clarke keeping
green the grass on the plot dedicated
to the League of Nations and Senator
Capper busy at the work OF. collecting
the foreign debt, futile effort provides
harmless endeavor with a perfect
outlet.
We assume Senator Capper is going
ahead with the collection of the for
eign debt. The senator is not the sort
of man who. would suggest thing
unless he deemed it entirely feasible
of accomplishment.
Mea Culpa.
Sir-Piffle in the papers? Why
not? 1t gets everywhere. 1t is the
favorite breakfast food of the people.
There have been occasions when it
has trickled into the column.
By my soul-nay, it would be un-
kind to borrow Mr.. Gains handiest
expletive. For explotive, see Webster.
"A syllable, word or phrase, not nee
| essary to the sense, but inserted to fill
a vacancy"
So there, by my haIidome, it is not
in charity born of fellow feeling that
our conductor chides the peepul for
lack OF understanding. One to whom
the lath and plaster of If Winter
Comes" appears as true craftsmanship
and who is able to follow ~. Poin-
dexter, Colored," to the weary end
wears no badge of authority to switch
morons
Bear little with the peepul. Evo-
| luton still is in its floodtide. Who
knows but that in another million
years or SO the peepul may be as wise
as-weli, for instance, as you and
are now? ZENAS.
We do not say the forecast is i'm
possible of fulfillment. What we do
| say is that the outlook is unpropitious.
| Zenas, as an instance, reads "Jurgen''
! and understands if We don't believe
the people, as a whole, will ever be
| able to do that.
babe" Ruth, we note in our inter
ested perusal of the box scores, has
been shifted to right field. If you are
one of those who consider the specta-
Gle worth the effort, it might be well
to take another look at the Babe
1 before the season closes down. Right
field is the jumping-off place for
aging outer gardeners.
| But the Babe" will find st. Joe a
nice, quiet town. The people are
agreeable and the soul of hospitality.
The consensus is that the Virginia
man who has written to the New York
| World demanding that President
pointed. Not one in ten of those with
! whom we have discussed the matter
believes the president is going to do it.
| Personally, and the thought binds
nobody, we think the president would
have been in better position had he
declined to mess in the rookus between
| capital and labor. But we glow with
conscious pride when we remember
that no Adamsen law has as yet been
approved by the present administra-
! ton.