The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-20
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

if you have not already invested, you
are overlooking the very last oppor-
tunity you will have to purchase on
the starters basis-fifty cents per
share"
Pattillo doesn't appear to be very
chubby" sort. In a letter received at
thisT desk on May 10 he bangles a
goFden bait before our eyes and in the
same communication advises that the
opportunity which he projects auto
maticaIly was closed on the Saturday
night previous. 1t doesn't strike US as
a sporting proposition, and, just for
that, we shall stay out of it altogether.
But we should worry. There are
other investments. We know where
we can buy 100000 worth of the cur
rency of the late Confederate States of
America for IS.
A correspondent of the New York
World writes to ask it if they can
freely insult an eX-president. Well,
that depends. If he is the right sort
who attempt it will succeed in doing
go.
AS an instance, there is the Hon.
Joseph Fordney, Of Michigan. Appar-
emily, Mr.. Fordney tried to say some
thing insulting to an ex-president the
other day. But-he succeeded only in
revealing the type of a man his dis
eA4NL SOAAAS ~ NAAC AAOOSO VI representa-
tives
We Used Gray Doctor.
Sir-rll bite. Why, in view of your
avowed aversion to Shakespeare, do
you quote him in your column almost
daily? NJ F.
Well, that is middle western craft.
our inability to enjoy the Shake
spearean drama predicated their argu-
ment on the assumption that we knew
nothing about Shakespeare. IA hick
from the middle west! How Gould he
know whether he likes Shakespeare ?''
We merely wished to establish the fact
that we are sufficiently familiar with
the Bard of Avon to know whether
we like him or not.
Nor have we cast aspersion upon
ShakeSPeare's legerdemain with the
language. 1t is his drama that bores
US stiff.
Suppose" said the Rev. William T.
Walsh, of New York, in a-sermon on
morals, that part of our religious
service were the taking of an oath to
do whatever the highest moral stan
dard would demand
Well, suppose it were? Who then
would decide what is highly moral
and what isn't? There are among
deeply religious folk, very decided diff
ferences of opinion on that score. Who
IS to decide and how would it bind
the man or woman who disagr
with the decision?
And of what value would an oath
be in the circumstances? A man in
violably committed to the higher
moral standards wouldn't need to
take it. The one who is sIipshod in
his observance of them probably
would also be slipshod in mis- observ-
ance of his oath.
As you have gathered. we don't
think much of the Rev. Mr. WaIsh's
plan. And we shall also oppose his
selection as the authority to fix the
moral standards of a people.
Advice and Air Still Are Free.
Slr-In your column you express a
desire to know what is the matter with
man who, when going good, has
everything. but who, after eight or
nine years of golf, turns in a card of
l12S.
part of your trouble, sir is that you
th1pk you have everything" but it
is evident that you do not. When
you were breaking 90. and on num-
erous occasions turning in AZ for nine
holes you did not have Everything"
or your score would have been nearer
par Your recent card of 1913 is proof
that you have lost considerable of
what you IOr fnerly possessed.
If you desire to improve. I suggest
that you go to a good professional,
but you must first get out of your
head the idea that you have every
thing" or the professional can do
you no good.
A MAsHIE NfBLICK
! The three marked characteristics of
the well-known race are its porten-
tous solemnity when it addresses it
self to insignificant matters, its pains
taking statement of the obvious and
its uncomfortable desire to tell some
| body something.
Golfers are divided into three
classes: Professionals, amateurs and
| "dubs' Professionals and amateurs,
after a little elemental instruction,
thru unceasing application and natural
skill, master the game. A dub" is
one who lacks one or more of the
indefinable elements that make a skill
full player. We're a dub" No pro-
fessional can do anything for US and
make it stick.
| We took a golf lesson once. 1t was
! in our second season and we were
| topping some of our tee shots. The
pro" said he could correct the fault
in a. lesson or two. He gave US so
much instruction in one lesson that we
didn't hit another ball squarely on the
/ beak for seven months We wouldn't
go thru the agony of another golf les
son for untold gold.