The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-18
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY E. HOUSE
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

!
The grist from the . o'clock mail
moves us to a word of explanation
which should have been made two or
three doors farther up the street.
We haven't read Conrad and we are
not knocking his stuff. We don't know
anything about it. The point we insist
upon is that his admirers kissed him
out of the league before we were given
opportunity to read him.
We can't stand for a man whose
male admirers kiss him in public.
There is some compensation in the
story which removes Joe Dugan from
the roster of the recumbent Athletics
and assigns him to other fields of en-
deavor. Connie Mack and the Phila-
delphia public win know where he is
during the playing season. Neither
ever has known.
We can't see the joke about Fred
Beauvais being in the "fillums", altho
number of the humorists have
sought to point it out. Babe" Ruth
is in vaudeville, and nobody is laugh
ing at that.
However, the detection of Beauvais
has made it necessary to create new
hero in the Stillman case, and the New
York paper are starring Bud Still
man in the role. A good deal is being
made of the fact that Bud turned
the $1,000 check his father gave him
for a Christmas present into his
mothers defense fund. We claim,
since mother didn't need it and Bud"
can get another check for the asking,
the quality of his abnegation is being
over prafsed.
4I,.1.
in the Stillman case. Bud" won't do.
He isn't a hero; he's a grandstander.
The statement of Mayor Wheeler, of
Gloucester, to the effect that he has
seen pollock split down the back, dyed
and sold as salmon lntrlgues- we
know little of the pollock. but it in
comprehensive to us that anybody
should seek to initiate the salmon.
The salmon, and we speak now of
the Pacific coast salmon, is the Ben
Davis of fishes.
The story that the voters will hold
the Republicans responsible for the
results of the arms parley and that
Republican control of Congress there
| by is endangered comes out of Wash
| ington. The voters don't know what
has happened in the arms parley, and
they probably never will find out
If they knew, they would forget all
about it by the LIST of April
We don't know anything about the
arms parley either. Likely we never
shall learn. What we do know is that
| it was apparently an earnest sincere
and conscientious effort to cut the
| overhead and to minimize the prob
ability of future wars. Nobady pro-
fessed to know how much, if anything,
would be accomplished. Nobody prom
| ised anything. 1t will. we fancy. be
difficult to launch much of an attack
on anybody from that eminence.
In other words. pish tush.
One who has noted our request for
a bright and amusing column on jan
uary 20 writes to ask why we wish to
make such a radical change, even for
day. Probably, since the people are
crazy about the column just as it is, it
would be foolish to make radical
change.
Yesterday at noon we bought seats
! for the current performance at the
| box office of the Walnut Street the
alter. We got courteous treatment and
seats in the tenth row. If there is a
suggestion for you here, you are well
come to it.
TT rather seems to us, writes L.
D. H. that YOU have lately been
slipping a little more often than usual
and, as a remedy, it is suggested that
you give Adelaide another crack at the
column. as you did about a year ago.
To my mind she had you backed in the
corner and gasping. You perked up
considerably after the trimming she
gave you. Let her try it again"
Well put it up to the lady. If she
wants us to write another column for
her Wen do it. But at the moment
we are in no position to ask favors.
An evening of piquet which We had
unwittingly scheduled recently in
fringed ON her plan to dine downtown.
We have the same standing at 1924
Chestnut that a bound boy formerly
held at a husking.
II you care to Ieavs- it to us, this is
a mighty poor column.