The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-02
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

, Editorials in the New York World
and elsewhere forecast another break
up in the Republican party. AS one
who has always been in good standing
in the lodge and whose dues are paid
for life, we welcome the dehacle and
express the hope that it win be COM
plete- We can't stand the Republi-
| can party in its current manifestation.
1t has too many active members who
have never taken the obligation.
| Let's break up the party and re-
| organize it on the sound basis that no
snake doctor. no skulker, no guerrilla,
| no professional friend of the people.
shall be admitted to membership.
! Likely the party thus constituted
would lose an election or two, but it
would be distinction to belong to it.
A Kindly Word From Pleasant Valley.
Sir-I suppose you receive many
nice letters; here is another I will
say before you do that am ignorant:
1t has been long time since was IN
school. would like to know why
you hold forth on the editorial page.
seems to me your stuff about how
much 1t costs you to drink, golf, prize
| fighting, football and baseball. SLAM
! dering Mr.. Ford BRYAN and other
| good citizens should be on the sport
! ing page, where I would never see it
or peter vet, in between pages where
the good old paste used to be, then oh
| 1or the paste again! I could write on
| and on, am SO disguised with yotlr
rawlings. but hope that you will keen
your boozing, such disgusting subjects
| to yourself and laugh your head off
outside the column. a. F. IRWIN.
! We observe the quality of Mr. Tr-
wins restraint and thank him for If
He refuses to resort to harsh meas
ures; he doesn't threaten to stop his
paper. He just voices his disapproval
| m delicate, Kindly fashion. Most of
| those who write to express their disap-
prevail threaten to stop the paper, and
! they lead the circulation manager a
| dogs life.
! We don't believe, however that Mr..
Bryan belongs on the sporting page,
He never struck US in just that way.
| We'd say, if g. change is to be made,
| that he be placed on the woman's
| page, only the women have never
| done anything to us.
/ Probably the Anticipating bill will
| become p law. 1t is one of the ges-
lures in which government is, at the
| moment, extensively indulging itself
| but it won't help lynching. There is
plenty of law against lynching now.
What is needed is better abdominal
| development in peace Officers and a
| public consciousness awakened to the
fact that lyneh-law is a crime and a
| disgrace.
All any community lacks of being a
mob is a leader. But when the sheriff
is on the job the lynching is frus-
trated.
OF course our cry for better alb
dominal development on the part OF
the law has it's origin in a purely III
terror motive It's getting so every
time we see a crowd we suspect its
rope.
Are Audiences Becoming More Con-
siderate?
/ Sir-In your search for the unusual
| permit me to present an experience OF
1 mine which; I think passes the un-
| usual and approaches the marvellous
| l went to a theater last night and
/ found an audience apparently having
only one object, that being to listen to
the actors without annoying any one
Not single member of that vast
present, not a gum -chewer, candy
| eater or conversationalist. Can you
| beat it? L. c. b.
Tastes differ The fact that there
was no conversation would have spoil
ed the show for us. To us no play is
as entertaining as its audience.
! The newspaper boys persist in re-
| ferring to the Garland as a nut" We
| object to the appellation in the con-
neotion. 1t is not sufficiently descrip-
tive, and it is much too fulsome.
Another Disappointment.
| Sir-Pardon me, but the spelling of
! thinkers damn is perfectly correct.
See Century Dictionary, Webster's New
International and other well known
| standard authorities. Likewise is
| there authority for the spelling of
| ''tinker's DAM J. G..
The foregoing is the dietum of the
Public Ledger proofroom, expressed
| by one of it's units. and for which A.
T. c. clamored. 1t is a considerable
disappointment to US to learn that
thinkers damn" is perfectly proper
We thought We were slipping pme-
thing over. We are always 10th to be
| caught doing anything proper.
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