The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-01
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E HOUSE
Erom Philadelphia Public Ledger.I

We are less exercised than some
concerning the various manifestations
of Colonel George W. Harvey. Our
attitude toward him is one of uncon-
Germ. We do not regard him as a
menace: we do not look upon him as
la hero. We do object to having him
recalled by Senator Jim Reed No
senator who losses an iron-gray name
can do any recalling for US.
Obviously, the way to rid the Court
of st. James of the presence of Am
bassador Harvey-provided it is
deemed advisable to rid said court of
his presence-is to write an editorial
about him. The New York World is
the paper In which to print it. If it
cannot be done in that way, we object
to it being done at all.
Our meticuIous contemporary, F. P.
A. is right in his assumption that so
much as we know of Thomas Beers
new novel was derived from Percy
Hammond's critique. But we knew his
name is Beer We do not read our
Saturday Evening Post for nothing.
We are compelled to rely upon the
critics for our first impulses toward
new books. About all the publishers
send US are seconds There seems to
be notion in publishing circles that
a second or third class book can get
a notice in this column. But we no
longer accept unfaiiingiy the judg-
ments of the New York critics. We
pretty nearly quit them cold when
they began to burbIe over Star Dust"
Meanwhile. pictorial art makes pro-
gresS in Manhattan. Life finally has
succeeded in getting the nilkmaid on
the right side of the cow 1t isn't
much of cow; if it be left to us.
she isn't much of a milkmaid. But
she is the first miiknaid to appear N
Life who seemed to know what she
was about
We doubt that the physician Connie
Mack is carrying to his ira. ming camp
will be able to do much for the Attn
letics. No doctor can do much for a
ball team that is scared stiff of Carl
Mays.
The departure of the ath-a-letes
stirs interest in the so-called national
game. There win be much talk about
the heroes of the diamond in the days
Immediately to come. We know all we
shall ever care to hear about Babe"
Ruth, but we should like to know
where Scott Perry contempiates con-
Quoting a cleaning and tailoring es-
ia blishment this season.
The Roma disaster is to be investi-
gated Various cOntributory causes
may be uncovered, but, primarily, the
Roma fell because navigation of the
air is an exceedingly dangerous ad-
venture and the man who INDUCES in
it, or who is assigned to it, trifles
with his life.
We have accepted an invitation to
go to Washington on April %. 1t
may interest you to know that the in
vitation was not sent by President
Harding and that, SO far as we are
advised, the round of golf which he
proposed will not be played at that
time
We haven't read Thomas Beers's
new book, THE Fair Rewards" but
we have read certain of the reviews
and predict it will cause a good deal
talk in Philadelphia. Everybody
will have his opinion as to the identity
of the Philadelphia hotel mentioned in
its pages and he win wish to express it.
We have the feeling that we backed
around that one rather neatly-just
how neatly you will not understand
until you have read the book.
The Taylor tragedy intrigues for the
second time. We got our first wallop
from it when an uninspired reporter
unwittingly revealed the amount of
the late motion picture directors SAL,
airy. Our second came when we learned
that the undersheriff of Los Angeles
county is going to reveal the identity
of the murderer by a secret process.
We still contend, however. that the
show is going on and that all it needs
is an Interpreter. The spectacle of the
nut" colony of southern California
the largest of its kind in the worldly
engaged, each Individual with a differ
ent theoryri in publicly solving the Tay-
lor mystery must be the funniest thing
in the realm of comedy.