The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-05
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY E. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger)

The columns forecast concerning
Senator McCumber's fate appears 10
| be justified by the returns, but we
quarrel with those who interpret the
result as Jolt for President Harding.
The result in North Dakota is jolt
for those who try to play both ends
against the middle.
We offer that as our political
thought for the day and pin to it the
observation that man who flirtS in
discriminatory with the attractive sex
has an outside chance to avoid dtsas-
ter. The man who flirts in politics
has no chance.
The news that Manager McGraw, of
the Giants. lost another fight is rou-
tine intelligence. But the fact that
it wasn't his fight adds a touch OF
novelty to the incident.
Round Three.
Sir-"Editorial Writer" says it is
necessary to accentuate the obvious so
the people will know what he means.
One of the greatest drawbacks the
world has had to contend with is the
underestimation of cerebral potential
tiles of the proletariat by their lead
ers. The masses are capable of more
vigorous mental assimilation than that
necessitated by the obviousneSs of the
abcdman. ID. ID.
1t is understood, of course, that this
| Is not our fight We are promoting
| IL merely as an accommodation to the
persons interested. But we don't be-
| lieve those who have to do with the
proletariat underestimate its cerebral
| potentialities. 1t can't be done
And, at that, the proletariat knows
more things that are true than the
| intelligentsia.
| TTrGnn Phlla
! delphia yesterday en- route from New
! York to his home in Grigsby City, Will
| have something to talk about when
he gets there. Tobias is carrying back
| to home and fireside memories of a
| Broadway restaurant in which they
charged him 81 for a half pint of
| whisky.
| Hitherto the record for free-and-
easy spending in Grigsby City has
| been held by GorgaS Gillian, the mer-
| chant prince. 1t was year ago Lass
| summer that Mr.. Gillian, then in New
his fall stock, paid "a for a pitcher
| of lemonade.
The Marital Complex.
| Sir-Big Bill O'NeilI, the husky
guard of the Grand Banks. being
| away for some time i'll, inquired his
! address that might call and condole
| with him. 1 carefully wrote the name
| and address on my railway commute
| ton ticket. That was all. When said
| said railway ticket ran out 1 gave it
to the youngest kid to play conductor.
| The kid soon tired of it and threw it
] on the floor. My Adelaide picked it
| up. She knows I know Bill O'Neill
and shifted. Would you think the
| sick-friend story would sound rather
| fiat? 1t did. The evening was spoiled
all because I failed to dot my i!
r. r. L.
If only an evening were spoiled the
matter might be dismissed with a
| wave of the hand. Something is al
ways spelling the evening. The trou-
BILE is that indicted 'i'' is lying in
wait just around the corner. R. r. L..
| will have to go on explaining 1t to
the end of his days, and he will never
| have the slightest success in doing so.
We're an unsuspecting male. But
the story sounds pretty ''fishy'' to us.
There will, we apprehend. be some
discussion about it. So far as this
! column is concerned, we forestall it
| by contending that it will be no stain
| on our escutcheon If the Hon. Wills
does beat the Hon Dempsey to the
! soporific wallop.
We trust there will be no great ex-
element about it. We lived thru the
reign of one negro champion. Be
| lieVe it or not, one could hardly tell
| the difference.
Or, Every Man to His Trade
Sir-You did so handsomely with
| Mr.. Harding's golf trouble that pos
sibly you can help out my friends. L
play regularly with a doctor and a
dentist The dentist continually pulls
and the doctor slices. B. L. T. used
| to call this sticking close to your