The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-10
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY z. HOUSE
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

Ever anxious to promote harmony /
and good feeling, the column offers
its services to the senate as mediator
in the Newberry case. As you may |
have suspected, we have a solution. |
and it is a very simple one. 1t is that |
those senators whose campaign ex- |
penditures exceeded the sum set down |
in the sworn statement required by
law vote to seat Mr.. Newberry and
that those whose campaign expendi- |
lures did not exceed the limit fixed by
law vote against him.
We have given this solution of the
matter careful consideration. 1t seems
to US to be a fair and sporting PROPOSE
ton. And, while we are not in Sena-
tor Newberry's confidence, we believe
| 1t will be perfectly satisfactory to him.
AS those who read the column-we
| refer to the lady in Pennsylvania, the
/ gentleman in Jenkintown and the one
4 in Haverford-as those who read the
column have inferred, we have GER
| tain violent and unreasonable preju-
| dices. One of the objects of such I'M
seemly emotion is the gentleman who
| springs to his feet to "holler'' Wolf!
and inadvertently discloses wool in his
\ own teeth.
In order that we may explain the
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graph from a fulsome letter sent in
| by a Camden customer for exploita-
! ton. The gentleman writes: From
| time to time-about quarterly-you
| run free advertisements of Ring Lard
| ner. But thru all of the writings of
/ Lardner have seen no word of praise
for you. In fact, he has apparently
| ignored your existence. If am mis-
| taken, I would appreciate reading a
few extracts from his comments. It
looks like another case of Me und
Gott.'"
! Probably the Camden reader i'm
| AGNES he has us stumped. but we
fancy We have a perfectly satisfactory
| answer to his question. We don't sup
pose Ring ever heard of the column or
the reporter who writes it. A chappie
can't be expected to mention another
chappie of whom he never heard.
While we greatly admire Mr.. Lard
| ner, and frequently say so, we admit
his influence is not always for the
best. The locution. sit looks like"
employed by our Camden customer,
! can, no doubt, be traced directly to
him.
Another date has been set for the
Wilson hour. 1t will be observed on
January l 6. May we express the hope
that the people will not, for second
time, forget this important ceremonial.
There need, however. be little fear
of such contingency. Mr.. Franklin D.
Roosevelt has allied himself with the
movement. He can make it go, if any
body can.
All that occurs to US at the moment
is that the ''fillum" folk need VIII
| Hays-or some other good Presbyter-
ian.
But while our admiration for Mr..
Hays virtually is boundless. we don't
believe even he can get that S11, 1000
600 worth of Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle
celluloid out of the storage warehouse.
About Books and Literature.
Sir-Don't worry about reading Con-
rad; you haven't missed much. But
| if you haven't read him, how do you
know all about Heyste How do you
expect to get away with that sort of
stuff, you poor fish? Have you ever
tried Edith Wharton's ETHAN From
me-? There is a masterpiece with a
subject not dissimilar to that of eff
Winter Comes" but the hero is regu-
lar guy. Try it. 1t won't do you any
harm to read a good book once in a
while.
/ The suggestion concerning Ethan
tromme' doesn't intrigue, and for this
reason: One who reads the column SO
carelessly and misunderstanding as
to attribute to it knowledge of Baron
Heyst would be an unsa tisfactory liter
airy adviser. He would, we fancy, be
! equally careless and uncertain in his
! literary judgments.
At any rate. we shall lay off ETHAN
Fromme' until we learn what sort O.
book it is If it is in the manner of
| THE Age of Innocence" we'll change
| it. A lady can read THE Age of In
nocence" without getting her hair
mussed. But if it is in Mrs. Whar-
toms earlier manner. we wouldn't read
it for worlds. We read one of Mrs.
| Wharton's books three years ago last
| summer. and the resultant blush still
| NANTES our cheeks.