The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-17
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

The Lucy Stone League invites COM
ment. 1t will, we suspect, be disap-
pointed if it doesn't get it. We are
willing to devote five or six lines to
the enterprise Who, by the way, are
the women who do not wish to sink
their identity in the marriage tie, and
what do they do?
As everybody who reads the column
knows, IL is not particularly inimical to
any league. If there were no leagues
there would be almost nothing to
kid" and those of US who project
the personal pronoun in free and easy
fashion would find the pasturage
much scanter. The thing we fear is
not another league, but another law.
We are glad to learn that Mr.. Sec
rotary Hughes wrote the original draft
of the well known pact. Had we dis
covered that its authorship rested with
Mr.. BaIfour or NJ. BRAND we should
have been desolated.
Why? We don't know exactly. We
merely know that's what the bitter
opponents of the pact were endeavor-
ing to establish.
There are several strangers here"
writes the naive Leo MacGillivray
They say they are newspapermen,
and they are sore, sore because DIR.
Prince refuses to see them, sore be-
cause DIR. Prince refuses to allow them
to see the other members OF the
party
The naive Leo may not know it, but
that is the very thing calculated to
make a newspaperman sore What
did Leo expect?
The Consumers League has recon-
mended that tipping in hotels be abol-
ished- When a large sum already
has been paid to the hotel for accom-
modations, including service" say
League, patrons do not like to con-
tinue paying out money in tips"
Truer words were never spoken.
Even when he is showing off in an
attempt. to impress his lady friend,
man parts with a tip reluctantly. We,
therefore, follow the recommendation
of the Consumers League and order
all tipping abolished.
We don't think that will stop it. but
it probably will come as near to stop
ping it as any plan the Consumers
League has in mind.
Roscoe Arbuckle's third trial is I'M
der way. The public no longer is
greatly interested in the outcome of
often wondered what became of the
nemesis-the gent who Immediately
after the tragedy made a public VOW
to see justice done. He hasn't been
heard from since.
Meanwhile, we reiterate the advice
given the motion picture impresarios
before the conclusion of the first trial.
You will remember we told them they
might as well burn the 100000
worth of ce1uloid housed in the stor-
age warehouse pending the outcome of
the case.
The column joins Mr.. James NJ.
Beck in lamenting the dearth of first
class theatrical entertainme in Phiia-
delphia- Positively, there isn't a thing
in town we really want to see. But
we have noticed that a community that
patronizes good shows gets them.
There's the scenario. Go ahead with
your argument. If you can make it
snappy it will be printed in the
column
1.-The only way to have real Ameri-
can government that is responsive to-
real American sentim says the
New York American, sis to have pub
tic officials and representatives who
will perform the will of the people in
stead of the will of foreign diplomats
and international bankers"
The idea of the esteemed American
seems to be a good one. Has it, by
sesses the qualifications needed and
desired?
At that, we fancy there are a good
many men in public life who would
perform the will of the people if they
had any idea what it is. If the people
don't know, and they seldom do, II
is almost impossible for a public off
ciaI to find out.
Since Doctor Prince seems unneces-
sariIy slow in laying the Macdonald
ghost, we take the liberty of perform
ing the service for him. There isn't
any ghost, and the things purported to
have taken place in the Macdonald
house never happened