The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-02
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY =. HOUSE.
Vron Philadslphia Public Ledgss.l

avian PARSONS. IN PUBIC ADDRESS IN
New York the other day Mr.. Parsons
said in part: MEN haven't any mo-
nopoly on brains. Thousands of pages
of paper have been wasted discussing
Ambassador Harvey's remarks on
whether women have souls. God
knows they have If we men have"
It is perhaps unnecessary to say
New York School Of Fine and Applied
Arts Nof Paris and New York. He
would be.
We don't imagine much paper was
wasted in the discussion of Ambas-
sador Harvey's remarks. We don't
think much Of the wisdom or judg-7
ment of the well-known human race.
But we hold it in higher esteem than
Mr.. Parsons.
The details of NJ CIemenceau's visit
to Mayor Thompson are set forth in
the news columns. You may recall
only three or four days ago this
column predicted the Tiger" would
run into a pocket of cold air in the
Middle West. We should be less than
human did we fail to direct attention
to the incident.
Mayor Thompson, of course, is just
one of those. But we haven't a doubt
that he reflected the disinterested at
titude which that section of the
country will assume toward the
Tiger and his mission.
While we do not exactly share
Secretary Denby's horror in the dis
covery that there was drinking going
on in connection with the Army-Navy
game, we can understand it. sSecretary
DENLY must have felt much as the
other Senators felt when they learned
Senator Newberry had violated the
Corrupt Practices Act.
We suspect some progress will be
made in the controversy over pro-
hibition when the known facts about
it are admitted by both parties>to the
contention. The known facts are that
a great deal of drinking is going on
and that virtually everybody who did
it before is doing it now. Everybody
knows it. Whe-- everybody admits it,
the country will be on the way to a
solution of the problem.
That is one thing about the new
party. If we write the platform. and~'
unless we are permitted to write it
there isn't going to be any party, it
will avoid hypocrisy. If a condition
exists, the platform will say SO. If
it has a practical remedy for it, the
remedy will be suggested. If there |
is no remedy, the platform will admit |
it.
Frankly. we don't think the new
party will go far. But we intend
that it shall keep its self-respect.
"Over our morning coffee" writes
c. B., I'VE read your rankings from
La Toilette across the gridiron clear |
down to your innuendo against the |
Nation and Adelaide's cousin, and we
wondered, psyche -analytically, if, |
yesterday being the day of rest, you
had a little tiff with Adelaide about the |
views of Adelaide's cousin who writes |
for the Nation. Did not your pen
transfer the slightest unpleasantness
to the column"
C. B. is in error in believing we had |
day of rest. In the bright lexicon of
newspaper writer, there is no such
thing. But that which we wrote ex-
pressed the CHEEKY, good-humored,
perhaps, our distinguishing character
istic.
We first heard La Toilette in 1917. /
We listened to him for three long |
hours the while he spiced a speech |
about nothing in particular with |
malice and vindictiveness- La Toilette /
was something of a hero then. His
ti6h. And so the next morning the
responsible person asked us what we /
thought of him. HE won't do" we |
replied. Nothing that has happened |
since has changed the opinion thus1
hastily and colloquially expressed.
We are the open or p1e-faced type.
We hate the radical, the incendiary
and the bum. We dislike. the shoot
mouth, the mentally and physically
insanitary and the vulgafian. We
have open contempt for the impracti-.
cal, the visionary, the fat-headed
and the self-appointed saviors and
conservators of the race. But, con-
as we are, we should derive
no satisfaction from these varying
emotions unless we were able publicly
to express them.
We have our little tiffs with AdeI-
aide, but they never are inspired byI
political or economic differences. Wei
are merely a conservative; Adelaide
is a reactionary. We are content to
blister them with words. Adelaide
wants to hang them by the neck until
they are dead.
The current competition for social
leaves us at the post
Harrison did not smoke
a pipe. She hated the sight and odor
of tobacco.
1t is true that Great-Aunt Polly +
Morris smoked to the day of her
death; but as we understand It from
the conversation that goes on about
US on the occasion of a social evening,
sreat-aunts do not count. The pipe
must have been smoked by a grand
mother or a great-grandmother.
We are also impressed by the
wisdom and originality of young John
D. Rockefeller He is advising the