Judge — April 20, 1912 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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EDITORIAL S Offensive Caricature. CARICATURE of various races in the cheaper theaters and the more su- perficial stage offerings, in jest, song and ‘‘make-up,”’ has long grieved judi- cious theater patrons. It never has ap- pealed to any but the vulgar, and the vulgar are by no means the public. What a sane and legitimate effort can accomplish in antagonism to such an offense is shown by the movement to in the theater or in any other institu- tion that appeals to the general public tending to offend any race or make light of any religion. The caricatures of the Jew against which pertinent complaint is made have no place in plays, in songs or in journals, and no decent part of the public has ever applauded or encouraged them. JupGe stands against any such distortion, exaggeration or burlesque of racial characteristics, and believes that public sentiment will applaud their elimination everywhere. Pearls. The public seems to be oyster mad. The ‘‘succulent bivalve,’’ as the country editor calls this popular shell fish, is up against a common appetite. At first glance, this might seem to indicate that the appetite grows upon what it feeds just now, in accordance with the tradi- tional R, for May cometh apace. But that isn’t it at all. As the oyster sea- son wanes, reports of the discovery of valuable pearls in oysters increase and multiply, especially in White Way res- AS USUAL, THE WORKINGMAN SUFFERS. abolish caricature of the Jews in the theaters. Dr. William S. Friedman, of Denver, president of the Central Con- ference of American Rabbis, which met in Baltimore,on April 12th, instituted a campaign against Jewish caricature some time ago, and he has received let- ters from practically all theater man- agers in the country, declaring that derogatory characterization of the Jew shall stop in their theaters. Dr. Fried- man has. also asked the publishers of songs of low-comedy type that ridicule the Jew to eliminate such characteriza- tion from their output, and the ethical force behind this request will probably prevail. There should be no form of caricature Showers. Although Indiana is ranked by its peo- ple as the literary center of the country, it displays versatility of genius and it has practical people in its citizenship. They have given a new adaptation of that beneficent social function, the “‘shower."’ There has been introduced into that fortunate State the chicken shower. Mr. and Mrs. Alvah Keats, who were married a short time ago, re- cently entertained eighty guests, each of whom brought a chicken. That is about as far as the shower idea can be safely carried in that direction, It would not do at all to follow it with an egg shower. taurants. No day can pass without the enrichment of some man or woman who called simply for oysters with usual trimmings and got them with pearl trimmings. Jewelers—and even pawn- brokers—in that illuminated vicinity have had to hire additional experts to pass upon ‘‘pay dirt’? uncovered in the eating places. If this keeps up, R will have no more effect as to abstinence from oysters during the months in which it is missing thar any other old letter would have. And the first thing we know, oyster rakers will qualify as peart experts and search every bivalve dragged from the deep before committing the creature to the retail market—and the press agent. comicbooks.com