The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-21

Apollo tho heS1S, Is entlrely human In
one respect. He doesn't look any
better in a wing collar than anybody
else.
And that, since one paragraph be-
gets another, starts us off on another
speculation. The wing collar is
throw-back to the nineties. 1t was
worn for a time by the neat and nifty
dresser of that period and then cast
into the discard. Thru the offices of
some miscreant it is having a recru-
descence.> But no gent can wear a
wing collar and at the same time main
tain his aplomb.
Yes, we wear 'em. But we feel like
hunted fox every time we put one on.
j. Franklin Baker has given up
baseball again, this time to marry. We
greatly admire Mr.. Bakers facility at
the, so to speak, national game, but
his judgment seems faulty. 1t is diff
ficult to understand a man who re-
nounces a perfectly good excuse for
being away from home six months out
Of every year.
Meanwhile the country surges with
impatient souls looking in vain for
good excuse to stay downtown some
evening next week.
Not that we are one of them. Far
from it. We can stay downtown any
evening we please. But what is lib
erty If one must fight for it?
1t is all right to talk about Mr..
Hays's service to the motion picture
industry, and to predict that he will
make the pictures" saner, sounder
we shall always doubt that's what he
was hired for,
The "fillum' magnates already
know the sort of pictures" the pub
lie wants. If you doubt it, attend the
motion picture theaters.
The Sensible Column.
Time flies. The obligation to write
a sensible column twice a year, or
oftener if occasion seems to demand
it, presses upon us. And the moment
is opportune, Herewith the last sensi-
BILE column of the dying year.
Some pother is being bothered con-
corning the recently conducted expert
ment of George Henri LIE Barr, noted
French criminologfst. NJ. LIE Barr
has just completed a stretch" of
twenty months in French jails, a self
inflicted sentence entered upon for the
purpose of studying crime and its
causes.
We have not been favored with a
copy of NJ. LIE Barr's conclusions, but
we know exactly what he found out.
He learned that crimes are committed
by criminals and that criminals are
recruited from the ranks of the in
herently crooked. the Inherently weak
or from those who are both weak and
crooked.
NJ. LIE Barr also learned If he car
n a
deduction that crook cannot be
made straight and that the weak can
not be developed beyond their mental
limitations.
And that's that. 4
It is a pleasure to record the fact
that wood alcohol killed only two per-
sons in the week just closed. At mea-
ger casualty list Gains a frightened
country, IL it does not entirely re-
assure it. 1t has pretty nearly reached
the point at which death from wood
alcohol scares everybody to death.
The congressman who believes the
proceeds from the motion-picture
rights to Woodrow Wilson should ac-
crue to the government lives in Ohio.
His name is Begg-James T. Begg. A
man can often achieve reputation for
wisdom and sound common sense by
the simple device of keeping his
mouth shut.
See Rule % Below.
Sir-Perhaps we err in the number.
but we think Rule Al applies in our
case, viz: Whatever is unimportant
interests the column But what we
want to know is this: Have others, as
have we been intrigued with the sub
jects chosen by illustrators for the
covers of our popular publications dated
near January l and December 81?
Next week we shall have q wealth of
little red babies labeled "1922." And !
wrinkled and gray-whiskered old men |
bearing the same numeraI. Why not |
have a young man grace the April |
covers, with his awkwardness; a tired |
business man those of June and an old |
sport those of autumn? The gap
from December to January is great.
Do it interest. L. H. B.
P. Snow that we think of it, Rule |
AZ says: Nothing new can be found; |
the columnist knows ALL" Yes, its Rule
SO that applies to the above. 1t must |
be-
Rule % reads: 1.-THE man who can
do better column probably is writ
ing one. He would be- It is our no
ton that the rule could be and should
be extended to cover the work of IL
lustrators.
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk II