The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-06
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

AsRepubIican congress probably will
pass a bonus measure. 1t is unwise
legislation because the already over
burdened taxpayer will have to foot
the bill, whatever it is. Congress Will
pass the measure because it is scared
to death of the fall elections. Some
sort of sop must be thrown to the un-
thinking voters. who are largely in the
majority.
If the administration were Demo-
cratic instead of Republican. the sit
The only difference is that the Demo-
Gratis. would be getting ready to throw
the sop.
We had a wager with an editorial
ceadjutor based on the proposition
that We could say all there was to say
about the bonus measure in twelve
lines of type We leave it TO you as
to whether we won it.
We'd be willing to lay another
wager, at odds of 10 to 2, that we get
at least twenty-five violently abusive
letters as result of having expressed
a perfectly-frank and sincere opinion
touching bonus legislation.
1t has been pointed out that NJ
Alexandra Millerand was elected Pres
ident of France at a cost of S3,700. A
more gifted writer. one with a higher
sense of civic responsibility and duty,
probably would see in the incident a
tacit rebuke to those who, in this
country, violate the Corrupt Practices
Act Likely he would write an edi-
toriak about it.
But the only reaction we get from
IL is that $S,700 probably is all the
job is worth.
The Valve-Handle Wheeze-A British
Variation.
At the First of April 1900
Messrs. Trollope. Sons & Co.,
Bristol.
Observation-Disclosures have YOU
not sent me that sope 1 am order from
you? His. is because you think my
money Is not so good as nobody else
Dam you Trollope, Sons & Co,
| wherefore have you not send me the
sope-send it at once and oblige-
Your Humble Servant,
HASSAN Ell KAMEL.
p. S.-After 1 write this my wife
have found the sope under the coun-
ter.
Naturally, we were interested in
Mrs. Asquith's first words after land
ing in this country, which she did late
y
be. Well, she said she hadn't been
seasick a minute, proving, as we inter-
pref 1t, that one petty vanity is COM
mon to the great and to the humble.
We are a prairie man. What is
there about not being seasick to make
people boast of it,?
Meanwhile, we counsel you not to
confuse Mrs. Asquith with Lady Astor.
II nrn fN1yn Il OF ,Y-r1ff n
persons. Lady Astor is the humorist,
Mrs. Asquith is the distinguished Eng
lishwoman who took the covers off the
bed.
We are willing to give John Sheeban
of LUDLOW, VI, the distinction the
telegraph editors have conferred upon
him. So far as we are concetned. his
feat of .strangling bobcat with his
bare hands can go into the book. But
what was the idea?
There are, roughly speaking, 100
different ways of killing a bobcat.
When a man selects the most annoy
ing and troublesome method we want
to. know why he did it, -
sit were time, we fancy, to write a
little deep stuff The column has
been playing to the boys at the Good
Luck Garage for a matter of two
weeks. To-Day we shall lean, Tor a
little while, in the direction of the in-
telligensia. We shall weave the fabric
of our discourse from a play called
The Deluge." which is at the moment
gripping New York. -.
AS we get it from cursory reading
of the reflex OF the dramatic COM
mentators THE Deluge'' seeks to dis
close the mental reaction to impen L
ing death and to the subsequent guar
antee that all is well. With death
imminent, all of the characters re-
formed, to backslide the moment the
immediate menace ceased to exist. We
are frank to say we are not much
stirred by the idea; in the light of an
experience which we survived it seems
academic to US.
Once we were very near death-and
knew it. We were not alarmed and we
did not recast our life. The past did