The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY =. HOUSE.
sFSpm Phnadslphia Fable Ledess.l

L 6Ip4 E0hAoeApuAa EGonS A8u8ekst
How long will Mr.. Debs continue TO
irritate the thoughts of you all wise
merchants of philosophy" writes h
w. r. We don't know how the others
feel about it, but MI. Debs doesn't
irritate US at all. No man who has
made so colossal failure of his under
taking as Mr. Debs has made of his
has much capacity to irritate this
column.
After many years devoted to cogita-
ton we have reached the conclusion
that if a column such as this. has any
value, such value lies in its contribu-
ton to proper sense of proportion.
When we write of Mr.. Debs, as we do
now and then, it is in the interest OF
proportion
H. w. r. says he's sorry for US. He
may well be sorry. We have to write a
column on holiday We know of no
more fearSome or futile task. On a
holiday there never is anything to
write. If there were anything to write,
people would be too tired and worn
out from their participation in holiday
pleasures to read OF. appreciate it,
Wednesday night we said to AIDE
laide, as we have said to her on the
night prior to every holiday for eleven
years: Lets get up early in the morn
l1E. IL 30 uOWIl the OIJICe anu
write my stuff, wen have an early
dinner and then Wen do a little holi-
daying on our own account" With Us
getting up early means an $40 O'Clock
breakfast. But we struggled to con-
seriousness yesterday morning to the
usual refrain: Aren't you ever going
to get up? It's nearly 10 o'clock"
Still we have fully as much success
getting up carly on holidays as Mr..
nahS had in the oafinn
the Socialist doctrine.
We acknowledge the receipt from o,
NJ. Scott Sons & Co. of a handsome
booklet dealing with 1.-The Seeding and
Care of Golf Courses" The assump-
ton that man who has broken 80 but
once in his life has anything to do
with the care and seeding of a golf
course is a handsome compliment, and
one which we deeply appreciate.
However, we don't see much bust
ness in the immediate future for those
who wish to devote themselves to the
care of golf courses. 1t is the man
who can devise the most devilish way
in which to tear up golf course who
is going to get the business
The YelIow-Throated Iocking-Bird
Stakes.
Mr.. E A HunAerford enters the
following financial commandments in
competition announced some weeks
ago in this column. The warbler,
you may recall, was offered to the
competitor who succeeded in writing
something snappy about Thrift Week:
l. Thou shalt work and earn kale
for thy wife, thy son, thy daughter;
thy maidservant, and the stranger that
is~within thy gates
2. Thou shalt keep budget, and in
it thou shalt estimate how thy wife
can get along without another new
dress.
g. Thou shalt keep a record of thy
spending, but thy wife need never see
the book.
4. Thou shalt have a bank account
so that thou canst check out on the
first of the month the pay check thou
the day before.
S. Thou shalt carry life insurance so
that thy family. will not worry whether
or not thy days may be long upon
the land which thou inhabiteth.
6. Thou shalt make a will visiting
thy wealth on thy wife and children
unto the third and fourth generations
of them that hate thee.
Z. Thou shalt own thy home, for
the Lord looketh with disfavor on him
that liTeth in a flat.
8. Thou shalt pay thy bills prompt
~. Six days shalt thou run all thy
bills, but the seventh Us the end of the
week. when thou shalt settle up as
many as can't be delayed longer.
8. Thou shalt invest in reliable Sc
curities, for, altho the bucketeer has
blessed his fake stocks, they are not
worth darn.
1 o. Thou shalt share with others, es-
pecially with thy wife, but not with
thy neighbours wife, nor his maid-ser-
want, nor his nan-servant, nor his OK,
nor His ass, nor anything that is thy
Mr.. Hungerford gets the bird. We
don't think SO much Of his stuff, but,
at any rate, he had the heart to try.