The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-28
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledgerl

Sam Blythe predicts two new politi-
cal parties by 1924 and three by 1875.
We trust that one of them will meet
a bit FESTIVE in our present politicai
surroundings. We'd like to join nice,
exclusive political party which be
lieved something and had sufficient
abdominal investiture to say so.
At heart we still are a Republican.
1t would be like pulling teeth to leave
the grand old party. But We cannot
much longer stand the class of people
who have got into it and who are
operating in its name.
OF course, Sam may be wrong about
it; he was around 1912. But he is
everlastingly right in his approxima-
ton of the situation.
Meanwhile, we direct attention to
our heroine, Miss Alice Robertson, of
Oklahoma, the only woman to vote
against the bonus measure. Miss Alice
has been in Congress nearly two years
now and she has yet&o ship cog or
cover in fear.
New York American, editorially
speaking, that United States SEN
ators are sold, Grated. ticketed, ad-
dressed and that outside the Capitol
the wagons wait to deliver them to
the British and japanese Embassies.
Until the vote We will not believe it,
Senators"
Well. all we have to say to that is
that the American is too blamed cred
ulous But what we can't understand
is how, with the American dead
against it, the thing happened.
In Which Tolerance Is Asked for
E-Ux
Sir-Why the sudden departure
from your jaunty attitude of tolerance
for other peoples peculiarities? In
the case of the "neurotic" Boston sui
cides, about whom you speak with the
slightest-oh, the very slightest init
nation of impatience, don't you think
you may have overlooked something?
Don't you think it a pity they quit
life while still, as you point out, ig
norant of it? Is it exactly their fault
in order to know something about it?
The wisdom that you and I, for exam
pie, possess takes time. Surely to COM
NIT suicide must indicate an expert
mental curiosity about the next step
and curiosity is the mark, par excel
lence, OF the healthy minded. And
anyway, while I regret the pun,
must remark that it's their funeral.
L. S. P.
we do not wish to be placed in the at
titude of Withholding approval. The
thing about which we became impa-
tient was the attempt to invest the
deed with significance. A poor, hard
working model, who owned a $4,000
motor car and lived in a luxurious
apartm ent, voluntarily departed this
life. IN a few hours a poor fish"
lowed suit, leaving a trail of gibber-
ish behind. The deed itself is outside
this province of discussion. The at
tempt to define it as an intellectual
episode is anybody's meat.
AS a plain citizen concerned with
the destiny of this country, we are
intolerant of what, for lack of a bet
ter name. we shall term the. Green
witch Village school of thought. We
resent its vacuity, its tragic pose its
boundless reach into the fields of
flapdoodle, its inability to express it
self in terms that are Understandable.
There is nothing vague, or mysterious, |
or tragic, or inscrutable about life. 1t
is a commonplace little journey here
below. Its rules are plain and easily |
understood and athey are posted at
every corner of existence. It pays
its dividends on industry. thrift. hon !
esty, decency, generosity, kindness
and charity as expressed in thought |
word and deed. Amy other invest |
ment in life is wildcat form of spec |
ulation.
And every great artistic achieve
ment, wi, ether it be written, spoken, |
lirnned, designed or chiseled, is based !
on a knowledge of the commonplace |
truths about life expressed in simple /
terms.
At any rate, we desire to be per- |
rnitted to observe as we contemplate |
the vote on the bonus measure, that I
Senator Newberry, who also wanted to /
be elected, spent his own money.
The longer we study politics the |
more we incline to the opinion that |
spending ones own money is the |
cardinal offense. Governor Lowden. |
who financed his own presidential /