The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
It's a Fierce Night at Sea.

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It's Fierce Night at Sea.
Sir have written you before re
! the vagaries of fat women. This time
1 write to say something more serious.
What do you mean when you say
the consciousness of right doing ?
The old orthodox explanation would
| be Ito do unto others as you would
| have them do unto you& But what
of the free-thoughters, up-to-the-min
ute thought scientists, the Pollyannish
| Greenwich Village school of thinkers?
They claim to possess the conscious
ness of doing right, but they are daily
forgetting the law of compensation,
the law of retribution-laws that have
! functioned since the beginning of time
and will function as long as the world
| exists to quote DR.. Wyman. What
about their consciousness Your
sane estimate would be greatly APP
preciated. w. b. c.
That is/very deep water Already
we feel the waves breaking over a
devoted head. AS we pointed out the
other day, there never can be any
general agreement as to what is right
and what is wrong. We are willing
to leave it to the individual to decide
should attempt to impose a rule of
conduct on anybody? Or, for that
matter, who is W. B. c.?
There are certain welI-estab Iished
rules of conduct They relate to
honesty, truth and decency. and they
express the winpewed wisdom and
morality of the ages. Every human
being of intelligence knows what they
are. He knows it is wrong to break
them. He can have no consciousness
of right doing in doing 50. What he
may not know is that he cannot, as a
gate any of these well-known and
established rules That's the reason
were always telling him.
There are many laws and conven-
lions. Wed say the most important
and far-reaching of all is the law, or
convention, of good taste. Good taste
is the finest gift progress makes to
humanity. 1t is the most potent cor
receive in the category of direction
and restraint. Inherent good taste is
stronger than any statute or any moral
creed.
Well, that's settled again. What is
the further and immediate pleasure of
the meeting?
Meanw lille. we interpolate a sng-
gestion. There are those who crave
the boon of handing this column a
sturdy wallop. They are trying to
turn the trick with the columns own
the report that we'ra> a rotten"
golfer. That's a. charge they can
make stick, and we know of none that
annOys US more.
We sit most of the time in leisure
moments head in hand. Our gloom
is golf. We've been playing eight or
nine years. In our first season we
were the most promising beginner the
town ever produced. In that first
year we broke 80 more than once. !
Time and again we turned in AZ for
nine holes. We then expected, within |
three years, to be travelling about over
the country for the purpose of en-
gaging in tournament play. on Mon |
day afternoon, on the course of the |
Stenton Country club. we turned in |
12S. And Tom Daily, who did the |
scoring, was liberal at that.
What, we desire to know. is the !
matter with man who, when going !
good. has everything, but who. after I
eight or nine years of golf, turns in
a card of 1928?
Yes, we know it's piffling stuff; but
more people will be interested in it
than you think.
Sir Conan Doyle will deliver the
last of his present series of American
lectures in New York tonight. We
have no desire to quarrel with any
of Sir Conan's conclusions. We mere
ly express the wish that he might
have delivered his last American lee
ture Just subsequent to the writing of
Sherlock Holmes"
In the lecture tour now closing Sir
Conan was entirely considerate of
others. and that is high praise for any
body, but he wasn't very kind to him