The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-07
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY z. HOUSE
CFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

serves Jay c. when your fellow
| journalist, Mr.. Brisbane, has predic-
tons to make concerning Mr.. johnson
he is inevitably wrong, but, at least,
| he is definite
Jay c. is exacting. We claim when
/ a humble columnist sinks the erst-
while idol of California in two para
| may reasonably be expected of him.
What does Jay C. want? Fire and
sword?
And we object to be classified as
Mr.. Brisbane's fellow journalist. We
are not a journalist; neither is Mr..
Brisbane.
But Where Did Mr.. Dana Get 1t?
Sir-More than thirty years ago.
when Dana was editor of the New
York Sun, an editorial on a political
speech began as follows; Sire" said
the ina%iring youth what IS fa abe
sage, lit is the stuff that fools are fed
| on" Needless to say, the rest of the
editorial was brief and to the point.
I. c. W.
The fact that the late Senator Pen
roses fortune was much smaller than
/ the popular conception of it is going to
be bitterly disappointing to many per-
sons. The public is a hard critic. 1t
| the manner of building house, max
ing will or in the amount of money
one leaves behind.
We assume about the usual number
of persons remarked, We'll, he
couldn't take it with him" To which
| we offer the rejoinder that he had it
while he was here.
The Urge to Get Into Print.
Sir-As a regular customer, permit
| me to dig into today's vaporings. When
/ 1. E. K has been a customer as long
! as I have he will know you have a
smattering of nothing. Also, the col
umnist should know something about
citrus fruits, maybe, but for the sake
of the payroll, your boss should know
citrus fruits In the third line, second
para graph, did not the compositor
leave out the word "other" between
IAN. and amateur? You amaze me
| about the Shutters. When I realized
how silly the thing was thought sure
you were Grand Master
RICHARD H. SILBERT.
We try to be a good fellow. We
print Mr.. Silbert's communication
partly that he may have the gratifica-
partly because it points a question we
wish to put to other readers of the
column.
Tine question IS one OF grave con-
Germ to us and, upon it, we are of two
minds. Should we, as result of Mr.
Silbert's letter, grow discouraged and
give up or should we struggle on?
We asked for loaded ten-point; we
get the leads. And thus our phi
losophy of life is again squared at
every angle.
Our philosophy of it, we take the
trouble to repeat, is that life breaks
about fiftyfifty.
IF after you have looked over the
map and read the banks letter and
the geological report" writes Mr..
Charles Saunders, of Denver, you feel
as enthusiastic as do over the proba-
bilities of opening up two oil pools.
and you want to share in whatever
we can make out of those two big
leases, then let me hear from you
with your check, money order or
cash."
We regret to advise Mr.. Saunders
that we haven't looked at his map and
that we didn't read the banks letter
or the geological report. Instead. we
chucked them into the waste basket.
We couldn't feel as enthusiastic as he
does about it and we know it was
useless to try.
Few things stir our enthusiasm, and
oil stock is not one of them, but we
leapSd WITH uellBHI Wnen tne ca SSe O1
the downtrodden coal miners landed |
in the lap of the Hon. Senator Borah. !
To US there is no national spectacle |
comparable to that of the Hon. Sen
ator Borah Illuminating in high.
"Thirty-seven murdered last month; /
thirty-nine were women" runs head /
line in our favorite newspaper.
Would you say" would-yous w. NJ. |
L., that two of them had been lead
ing double lives ?"