The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-07
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY =. house.
(From Philadelphia Public LedgaR.l

AOPEs G1aCnAunalc3 4. d. ST.
that you have rallied from the blow
you got in the Chicago-Princeton
game" Wed scarcely characterize 1t
as a blow. AS between Chicago and
Princeton we had and have no choice.
Our philosophy of football is may the
better team win. After that, taking
into consideration the limitations
which the football season imposes on
its schedules, it should be ready and
willing to play any other team which
has shown approximate fitness and
capability.
So far as football propaganda is
concerned, the work of this column is
over. 1t now is very generally con-
ceded, even by the New York sport
ing writers, that the Middle West
knows something of the rudiments of
the game. And that is all we were
trying to establish.
For every thousand shots fired by a
trained soldier in battle. one person
is killed or injured. The highwayman
nearly always escapes unframed in
the lfusillade fired by the trained
marksmen OF the police force. But
frafl woman who has never fired
pistol gets her man nine times out of
ten.
There is the computation and it is
reasonably correct. What is the psy-
chology of it? will the learned gem
tlemen kindly write?
please react" asks H. X. in di-
recting our attention to the fact that
the perfect ma has been found in
Oklahoma City. We get no definite
wallop from the pronouncement, but
our observation is that in every ten
men there are seven willing to make
spectacles of themselves if the privi-
lege of doing 50 in public is accorded
them.
The Inside Story.
Sir-I wanted to write the human
interest story of the Navy game
for you, but not one person was taken
out drunk. That probably establishes
a new record in football. I suppose
the day wasn't cold enough. The
bleachers were d riotouS mass OF color
with the gorgeous red and blue of old
Pennsylvania and the Nays yellow
and black.
Between the halves a group or old
gentlemen stood down in front of the
graduates and murmured something.
AS near as I could make out, they
were handing the papers to the Tur-
ner Concrete Construction company.
looked for the u. of p. senior
who wrote me the nice letter and I
think he must have been the one
leaning against the first building in
the campus when we came thru the
gate, because he smiled pleasantly.
More people rose and took off their
IldIS when ln9 OldTS anu obTipeS- WGnl
by than before the war. After the
game a pretty Girl in a muskrat coat
kissed tall Annapolis man right in
the middle of the field. He must have
been a relative, tho he didn't look
bit like her.
At the risk of being excommunf-
Gated sor never invited to another
game on Franklin field, may 1 ask
why the University of Pennsylvania
omits a courtesy which is invariably
axfandad fha visitors a Harvard
Yale and Princeton? Why didn't the
U. of P. band and snake dance stop
the first time around the field in
front of their opponents cheering sec
always done by the home team every
where, whether victors or vanquished.
I am really glad to be a messenger
from the outside world to bring the
tidings to Pennsylvania that gloating
over the defeated isn't being done. at
all.
expected President Harding, but
he wired that he could not come.
DAISY BELL.
st suppose" postscripts Daisy Bell,
chat whether you print this depends
upon how much freedom the press
1t depends on whether we consider
it good stuff. Daisy Bells story of
the football game barely makes the
grade.
We note, incidentally, that the
White House is to be picketed until
amnesty is granted to the so-called
political prisoners. That being true,
we again direct attention to the fact
that no man who, during the war,
deneaned himself as a loyal, patriotic
citizen of this country got into the
for it.
We don't know what effect it will |
have on Mr.. Harding, but If we were |
presid ent-and likely we never will |
be MISUNDERSTANDING the White |
House would be the poorest way in /
the world to get anybody out of the |
penitentiary.
We do not string along with those