The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-01
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY n. HOUSE.
tFron Philadslphia Public LsdeAe.l

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Debs' is quoted as saying. Il would
have asserted my manhood by defying
| 1t and the corporation laWyer-Judge
been defying the law for a good many
years. He began in 1894, to be Nxact.
But it doesn't seem to have got him
anything. He is out on parole and the
people still are enslaved.
Mr.. Debs has been defying the gov
eminent for twenty-eight years and all
he has to show for it is a term in a
federal penitentiary. If we had a sys-
tenn that produced no better results
we'd discard it.
1t Is true Mr.. Debs has managed to
live comfortably without performing
span Of half a lifetime. But what's
leisure worth to the man who spends
it crying on his own shoulder?
It is interesting to note that the
New York sporting writers finally
have mentioned the Michigan football
team. One of them-the gentleman
who disseminates football intelligence
credited Michigan with being the only
undefeated team in the western con-
ference. The error was natural
enough 1t is well within the bounds
of conjecture that the New York
sporting writer's never heard of Iowa.
Be that as 1T may, this column
achieved all of it's football detectives
| 1t secured tickets for the Army and
Navy game and lived to sec the Michi-
gan team mentioned in the New York
papers. And that is glory enough for
one season.
You say you ran into two female
foursomes trying to go thru two other
female foursomes at Cobbs Creek
writes Old Art Crabb. Il will hy-
pothecate all pay checks until next
June against the tickets you are not
going to get for the Army-Navy game
that you did not see four female four
somes at one time, and I'll bet q gold
dollars to a mark that you have never
seen a female foursome in your life"
Very well. just to keep the play go
ing Wen take the bait. What is the
Joke?
NJ. Clemenceau. who visited Grants
tomb just before departing for the
west, is on his way to another hal
lowed spot. We refer, of course, to
THE crypt in which the League of Ma
tons was buried.
An Interesting Competition.
Sir Following the fashion of
"Tramping on Harry Kemp" will you
permit me to offer a prize, value and
nature TO be determined later, to the
person who can show me the COM
written of the sea, either exclusively
or in part has resisted the temptation
to describe the quaint old ceremony
known sometimes as Crossing the
line"
will give another prize for the best
essay in not more than $50 words
which explains why the initiation OF
greenhorns by Father Neptune in
variably gets so much publicity when
men write of the sea. I'll bet there
isn't a landlubber alive who if hel
has read many sea stories, could not
act as master of ceremonies and go
thru the work with his eyes shut.
I'll give a third but very minor
prize to the writer who, if he must
describe Father Neptune's visit, can
get thru it without characterizing the
BARRIERS lather as "a villainous mix
ture." TELTIX-
With the main purpose of the COM
petition the column is in entire ac-
cord. We file a disclaimer to one of
it's minor contentious. We know one
landlubber who couldn't put on the
work. We always skip that part of
a sea story 1t is as uninteresting to
US as the joke about mothers-in-law,
or the one about the man who took
his children to see the animals in the
circus.
If you care to leave 1t to US, this
Mr.. John P. Herman is getting space
in the newspapers out of all proper
ton to his significance. We, there
fore, move that Mr.. Tiernan be SEN
fenced to serve an indeterminate SEN
tence in the forgettery.
Poll Negri is quoted as saying she
isn't going to marry Charlie Chaplin
because she doesn't love him. That,
we fancy, will be a good deal of a
blow to Charlie. To a man cogent
reasons for a woman's reluctance to
marry him are conceivable. But it
never would occur to him that her
refusal was due to the fact that she
didn't love him.
Meanwhile, the marital episode in |
which We are most deeply interested |
seems to hang fire. We refer, of |
course, to the conjectural nuptials of |
Bebe Daniels and Jack Dempsey.