The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-20
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)


| discussion for the purpose of project
| ing it. Probably those who sustained
| the greatest financial injury on ac-
| count of war were the members of the
| great army of salaried persons whose
| living expenses were more than dou-
bIed and whose incomes were not ap-
| probably increased during or succeed
| ing the period of war. AS we have
hitherto indicated, for the class tic
which we refer, it never was so hard
| to make a living as during the years
1917 to 1920. inclusive.
We, therefore, suggest that every
salaried worker coming within the
| purview of the foregoing paragraph
be paid adjusted compensation by the
| government and that money be bor-
rowed for that purpose.
The fact that we should profit by
such an arrangement has nothing to
do with our attitude in the matter
The column is for the people and
against the government. Let's loot it
The News of Mauricetown.
From the columns Maurieetown correspon-
dent.
Mr.. Peter Tribbett, the town bar
Der is lying critically i'll at his home
here suffering from inflammatory
rheumatism. He is attended by DR..
Bradford, of Port Norris. His case
being somewhat peculiar, in that he
is the only barber in town. citizens
have been voluntarily contributing
their services at his barber parlor in
Front street, including the pastor of
the M. E. church here, who, in early
manhood, was a professional tonsorial
artist.
J. w. c. has written advising that
we get out of vaudeville and into the
legitimate. We can't get out of vaude-
-, e..
we can write it.
Still, when it comes to that, we'd
rather be quoted IN vaudeville than
forgotten in the legitimate, notwith-
standing our belief that the vaudeville
audience is pretty nearly the lowest
form of intelligence.
Meanwhile. the column opposes leg
islatiou against the ''filIum" gestures
of Mary Miles Minter and Mabel Nor
mand for the reason that it is sur
plusage. We oppose it, too. on the
ground that it reflects a sad lack of
perspicuity in those to whom is in
trusted the legislative process; we hate
always to be apologizing for the well
known race. The fact is, Mabel and
Mary are thru. Francis x. Bushman
can tell them that.
Just the other day a motion picture
producer told us the drawing power of
the divine Mary Pickfrod had Debated
% per cent since the date of the Ne
vada incident in which she was a CEN
trail figure. And there is no suspicion
that the divine Mary did anything
wrong. She merely put herself in
position to have her name banded to
and fro on unfeeling and unsynIpa-
thetic lips.
Notwithstanding the impetus given
it by world war, craftsmanship con-
tinues to be uncertain and inefficient.
The death rate for Ireland in 1921 was
the lowest in the history of the new
Free State.
Probably. it is expected of us that
we shall crown Uncle Joe Cannon'S po-
litical career with fitting moral. If
so, we offer the observation that he
continued in public life for many years
after those who drove him out of it
We're forgotten.
We credit the New York American
with having travelled the greatest dis
lance for the most inconsiderate load.
1t quotes Mabel Normand as saying
more vigorous efforts must be made
to arrest the slayer of William Des-
mond Taylor.
p However, the quotation from Miss
fecund mind. 1t is that Mabel run
the slayer down; she hasn't anything
else of Importance to do.
And that reminds us. altho We do
not know why it should, that another
effort in futility has been crowned
with success. Zeh Provost has been
run to earth in New Orleans.
Something ought to be done about
a. Il -, n<,I, \
saxophone in three lessonsi but this
column never has encouraged mob
action and cannot consistently do so
now.
However, the incident supplies US
with incentive for a casual journey
into the realm of conjecture. Proba-
bly, that is what is the matter with
most of those who play the saxo-
phone; they learned to do it in three
lessons.
What, by the way, has become of
the old-fashioned father who whipped
his son when the latter disobeyed
him?
A woman often looks as we'll as the
display in shop window, but a man
never does.
The men are a good deal favored
Dy the 1dcC JndC a woman never sees
her husband before breakfast until
after she is married to him.
While a young man may peer
anxiously into the future, it never is
in the direction of the time when he
will be a grandfather.
While we sometimes lament the fact
that we have never been q delegate
to the meeting of the Grand Lodge, we
realize a man can't have everything.
After more than eleven years of
bliss we have finally discov-
cred Adelaide's weakness; she is
afraid of her mother.
Is YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the. columns of II