The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY N. HOUSE.
gTTom PhIladelpAaa Pzb1is Lsdeas1


What to do about the Ku Klux Klan
Is disturbing the best minds ana many
others. Speaking as one who nearly
always finds an unbloWn rose n1doen
somewhere In the shrubbery, We take
the suppressed excitement about the
Klux Klan seems sufficiently impor-
tant to call for wisdom and concen-
trated thought.
Personally. we are sick and tired of
menaces that do not menace and out
RACES that never happened. If this
country were called upon to do little
clean-cut, hard thinking about a real
problem it might get the habit
Meanwhile. we trust those who are
out to save the Pueblo Indians quickly
will conclude that important project.
The season of the year when the Yel-
lowstone elk must again be saved Is
approaching. We hope, when the time
to o~do it comes, there will be no divi-
sion of public interest.
We believe, y understand. that both
the Indians and the elk should be
saved. We counsel haste for the rea-
son that this country never4s able to
entertain more than one big eleemosy-
nary project at time.
It may interest you to know that
your old friend, Oscar Egg, 10 again
a leading contestant in the six-day
bicycle race now attracting the boobS
and others to Madison Square Garden.
You remember the quip we once
pulled on Oscar? No? Well, it seemed
to US particularly fitting and appro-
pirate that one named Egg should be
the winner of six-day bicycle race.
and we thought so well OF the idea
that we confided it to everybody.
Mr.. Wilson is again walking the
EfrnnfG of Wazhinufnr Ia ad
to be, comparatively speaking, in
state OF vigorous health. That is sad
news for the Democratic party. If
Mr.. Wilson can renew his pristine Wig
or, the chances are as 10 to that the
control of his party will again pass
to one who doesn't speak its language.
Meanwhile. having had almost two
workings, we are curious to know what
Mr.. Wilson thinks of a Republican
form of government.
''who are you, anyway" sneering1y
asks B. J. F. Well, if B. J. F. must
know, we are the gent who. on the
occasion of his meeting with Georges
Carpenter, tried to whip Jack Demp-
sey with an inferiority complex.
The columns effort to elect Sam
Blythe president appears to be a more
difficult undertaking than we had at
stand, is going to run Secretary Dem
by, and that complicates a situation
which prior to the Army-Nevy game,
seemed rather simple.
In the event that the publishers do
not send us free copy-and up to the
present moment there has been no in
dication that they intend to do so--we
lands "a Guide to Men" If there
is a book published which will teach
q man to discuss financial matters
with his wife without becoming en-
broiled in a useless argument, We lit
tend eventually to find it..
Miss Rowland is a woman who }
speaks freely. We shall buy and read
chance that she has thrown light on |
one of the chief difficulties of the |
marital relation.
Search for the author of the whim-
sey familiar to most patrons of vaude- |
vile about the Philadelphian who shot |
4 couple of 1etter-carriers under the |
Impression that they were Confederate
soldiers is under way. We can ass a
little in the process of elimination: we
1idn't do it.
We go further: we never heard It
until couple of months ago.
The former crown prince. we LEARN
rom the esteemed cable, will shortly
-isit Argentina and Brazil and plans tel
:ome to this country IL such action
ieems advisable. We imagine it will
% all right. LaFollette was re-
elected by an Increased majority.
And Debs is again speaking to large
md appreciative audiencesi
I'VE have developed several i'm
,ortant facts since the grand jury ad-
ourned last week" Detective Totten
# Somerset county, is quoted as say
ng in discussion or the Hall-Mills
ase, "and we expect to develop more.
The case Is far from closed"
Has Detective Totten the Speculative
instinct? If so, we'd be glad to lay !
lin the honorarium for the week end