The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-31
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Pubic LedEeE.)


Thomas to supervise and restrain the
bedroom and stokehole tendencies of
the legitimate stage. Is one entirely
satisfactory to the column. Mr.. Thorn
as is a level head and. in a manner of
speaking, reticeHt. OF those qualified
to speak authoritatively for and of
the stage, he is, perhaps, the one least
likely to mistake ,hokum for cleans
er, or employ it as sanitary pre-
caution.
That. it seems to us. is the weak
joint in the >arnaor of Mr.. Win Hays,
with hokum. What the pictures need
is a chemical, not an emollient.
OF course, we think our idea about
the pictures and the '1egit" is the
grandest one of all. We'd have pic
lures for the morohs and legitimate
drama for those who think they think.
But, like most of the other ideal
inspirations, it is, we fear, entirely
impracticable. Probably both the
hobble along under the circumstances
and conditions which bind them.
The editorial gentlemen, here and
elsewhere, have expressed their Se-
actions to the recent progressive VIC
tory in Texas. We are a little sur
prised to find that, in most instances,
editorial opinion is inimical to the
movement. 1t seems to us what the
profession of which we are proud to
be an ornament needs at this. crucial
juncture is more forward-lookers.
'gThe farmer out West" says the
esteemed paragrapher of the Wash
ington Star, SIS learning modern
methods in politics as well as in agri-
culture" -.---.---.-.
i We hate to embarrass a brother
Elk, but will the esteemed para
grapher of the Star kindly tell us
what the new methods are?
We have watched the western farm
er in the exercise of his inalienable
more than thirtysyears. We don't see
anything new. There hasn't been any
thing new since the Popuiist uprising
of the early nineties. That was new.
dynamic and disastrous in its effect
on government. Subsequent uprisings
of the western farmer-and they come
at intervals of from five to ten years
have been inspired by old stuff worked
to those that have preceded it, the
present uprising is unimpressive.
In the agricultural regions of the
west political procedure is simple and
elem ental. The uprising has its origin
when some gentleman who has as
| pirations for political preferment be-
gins pouring acid into the gaping
trick, but it always works. In time
the maddened farmers go beserk and
| elevate the gentleman who inspired
the trouble to official position. There,
shackled by responsibility; he becomes
conservative in thought and deed. In
| five or ten years a new uprising is
| started and he is discarded for an
/ other forward-looker who, in time,
| suffers the same fate.
The thing that is going on in the
West is the stated uprising, There is
nothing new about it except that the
The Postcardcrs.
| Toledo; Haven't reached Mt.
Everest yeti but here's hoping. Hav-
ing a good time; wish you were here.
This is the hotel where we stopped.
The x marks our room" H. FIR.
Lake George: Touring the Catskill
but I don't wish you were here. 1t
ster." PEGGY.
from Canada. Feel like the picture of
TT. George on the other side of this
postal; ruined" L. B. S.
Allan Ryan plans to pay his debts
and start all over again. For the sake
of the book the column expresses tho
hope that he will succeed in doing so.
Young Mr.. Ryan's outward bourd
journey was not without precedent,
but the return trip is the longest in
the world.
The delay on the part of congress
in decorating Lieutenant Colonel
Rowan for his part in delivering the
message to Garcia is not without
precedent. Jacksonville, III. did not
erect it's monument to the soldiers
and sailors of the Civil war until
year ago last summer.
You remember the message Colonel
Rowan carried to Garcia? 1t was
the one that made Elbert Hubbard
famous.