The Topeka state journal., 1922-06-13
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
CFrom Philadelphia Public Ledgerl
From a Patron of the Impeccable

From a Patron of the Impeccable
Sir-I am puzzled by the conclud-
ing sentence of paragraph in your
column. You say the only effect of
auditors mad" OF course, a man of
your scholarly attainments must know
that the nea ming of mad is insane,
Iaving, and is used only in that sense
by all the great writer's, including your
favorite author, Shakespeare. Do you
mean that your hearers, after listen
ing to one of your oratorical efforts,
leave the place with their intellects
oiScrcered? Or are you using the
word in question as synonymo with
angry?
If your public addresses, delivered
at the most to a comparatively few
perscI.s, nave the effect of causing
them to become insane, can you not
see the great peril to the thousands
who like myself, read the column
daily? Arc We not facing the posi-
bIlity that some day the golden chain
of reason may be snapped and we be
| left babfling wrecks of what we were?
1 hope you will acknowledge that
your facile pen made a slip and that
| yoL really meant to say that your
hearers became offended, angry. 1
Unin, but there are some risks a man
with a family cannot afford to run.
Z. B. 5.
| because we preferred it that way.
Mad" is good Middle Western idiom.
| The intent. in the instance quoted,
| was to strike a phraseological bal
as a sort of antidote for the pedantic
| titles we had just quoted.
| There is, of course, more to the idea
! than we have indicated. Column
| conducting is an uncharted sea. We
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the shoals. We seldom use a word
! of untainted ancestry where a cross
| breed or a scrub will serve the pur-
pose. It all makes for easy reading
and a satisfied clientele.
| There are those who deplore the pc
cuniary rewards of the prize ring. We
are not one of them. We wouldn't be
as scared as Phil Glassman was on
Tuesday night for twice the money.
The Speculative Instinct.
Sir-Your article some time ago
| about the '-singsong" at the Gridiron
/ club started a train of thought, which
has been slow in arriving. but here is
| its destination. OF course, they al
ways sing, but why is it that at a
certain point of illumination they al
| ways sing THE Old Oaken Bucket" /"
songs of home and mother, songs of
| childhood and the lost love who died
in early youth? Is it not due to the
well-known fact that Ticker" taken
| in sufficient quantities brings out the
| finer and nobler emotions of men :?
Another query; Do you think light
| wines and beer would have the same
! effect? If so, I am for them, but I
have my doubts. F. d. S.
A careful study of the "desiccated''
| who have come under our observa-
| ton conVinces US that the elemental
urge of booze" is in the direction of
sentiment The first enterprise that
engages the attention of the 'piffled'
gentlemen is that OF organizing male
quartet Failing in that he will sing
a solo. His second reaction to his
load" is expressed in a desire to hug
somebody, preferably a sober man
wearing a large mustache.
Unfortunately, subsequent reactions
to liquor are not all so faVorab BILE, and
it is from the tertiary degree of in
| toxication that ''booze'' derived its
reputation.
Wherein We Take a Chance.
Sir-Why married men? I nomi-
nate Miss Esther F Marvel Never