The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-17

spent the evening ana why ne stayed
out so late.
There may be, and probably are.
| husbands so fecund in the matter CT
improvisation that a wife's questions
never bother them. But we are frank
! to confess that We have run out of
satisfactory rejoinders.
Counsel herewith instituted in the
nlAtter concerns only husbands who
| 60 out nights. The tame cats" who
stay home evenings win have no in
terest in it one way or the other.
w. ]. Bryan is quoted as saying.
THE world needs more heart and
| less brains 1t cannot be said Mr..
Bryan hasrft tried to give the world
what he thinks it needs, He has run
| for president three times and has
been restrained from doing SO, on two
other occasions.
We nominate for the Hall of Fame
the Philadelphia butcher who first re-
duces the price Of meat.
The Ultimate in Speculation
Sir-What, in your opinion, if you
| Mark Sabre had met Carol Kennicott?
1t would be entertaining if you would
! go as far as you like. G. W.
| We can't do that, of course, but we
don't think it would have made any
difference in the life of either. Mark
was fed up on fool women He
married one. He could not have been
intrigued by another.
We renew what seems to US to be a
Timely and pertinent inquiry: How
much moTey did Mr.. Ford spend in
his unsuccessful attempt to be elected
senator from Michigan?
| And of the total sum. how much. if
any, did Mr.. Ford's employees con-
tribute?
! Not that we expect to find out. but
tfst there are stories which enlist our
| Having no quarrel of any signifi-
! canoe on hand at the, moment, we
seek one with DR.. Deets Pickett DIR.
| Picket is quoted as saying prohibit
ton is excellently enforced in nine
tenths of the, country and well enough
to constitute a great improvement in
other sections.
We are not greatly interested in pro-
hibition one way or another. We are
one of those who can take it or let it
alone. We are interested in the cir
| culation and diffusion of truth The
| truth is, that the prohibition of drink
ing is not excellently sustained any,
wheIe in this country The law which
| contemplates enforced total abstinence
| is almost a dead letter. That observa-
ton is as true of the sticks" as it is of
| the massed centers of population. The
year 1921 was one wild orgy of drink
| ing-and worse.
! AS we have hitherto poinAed out
| two things are necessary to Va salts
| factory enforcement of the prohibit
| tory statutes. One of them is an
aroused and insistent public senti-
ment- The other is perfect co-ordina-
\ ton between the various law enforce
ment officials. federal, state and city.
There is no aroused public sentiment.
there is no coordination anywhere
If that doesn't provoke the row we
seek, we fancy the followers of Joseph
| Conrad will provide one. The insult
to Conrad was one no true follower
will brook.
| Proffers to write the column on jan
uary 20 pour in. One of those to offer
his services is Henry Bernard Daglish
| Montague Pepper. Arthur. Crabb has
| expressed a willingness to oblige. If
| everybody fails, we still have an ace in
| the hole. Mr.. McGuffeys good old
Fifth Reader is within easy reach.
Undoubtedly. the reader who recon-
mends to us a trolley ride from Six
| ty-ninth street to Media meant we'll
But she could have no notion of our
reluctance to travel in a conveyance
exclusively employed for the purpose
of transporting tho great common
| people.
Next time a man annoys you, u
writes Cynthia Ann to the Public
Ledger, Just reach out, get a firm
grip on the paper and push it firmly
toward the floor or tear it in half and
hand him the part he pokes in your
1 face. It may cure him.
4 We are not so sure as Cynthia Ann
appears TO be. It might deter a timid
man; it wouldn't stop us. When We
set out to annoy a lady we permit nc
trivial interruption to interfere with
the coarse, brutal work
Our own expla nation of it is that
Cynthia Ann has the Representatives
of the idle rich who travel to and frc
upon the main line trains cowed.'