Judge — January 18, 1919 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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| | | a | Judge fy ditorial nt Reenen BP. Stercnen, Secretar, WN A. Stmrcnen, Pr Peenrron Maxwett, £ A. Warpnos, Lite ast Geast Hasinros, drt Direct Lawros Mackant, Managing Ed rig Daxce! On Wirn ERLIN is “dancing mad,” says a_ wireless from London There are about fifty caba- rets in the German city and dancing goes on all the afternoon and until 9 o'clock at night. The edict closing dancing halls at 9 o'clock will soon be removed and dancing then will continue all night. ‘We are trying to forget,’ said a Berliner.” But will the rest of the world let Germany forget? The Teuton is overeager just now to wipe out memories of his submarine outrages, his Zeppelin raids, the rape of Belgium, the devastation of France. Can Germany's score be sponged from the slate by her pretense of vaiety It will take more than a wild indulgence in cabaret excitement to still whatever con- science remains to thoughtful Germans. One thin is certain—the Allies are not to be blinded by Berlin’s “dancing madness.” Germany will be made to dance to a far different tune than “Deutschland tber alles” when her indemnities are fixed; the kind of “dancing madness” she will then indulge in will be a bitter spur to her memory rather than the temporary effacement of hide ous crimes in midnight revelry. Nor tue Least count it not least of the blessings of peace that it terminates the political truce in Congress. There are those who do not see it that way They were so enraptured with the enforced ‘tadjournment of poli- tics” during the war that they would prolong the arrangement * to cover the reconstruction period—“‘drop parties and be Americans,” as they put it. But you can't drop parties and be Americans—not for long. Draws by Raura Baztow No family ties may He's changed js cou: Of William Henry is name to Burlingame, There is nothing more utterly gangrenous to the body politic than an “era of good feeling,” which, if pro- tracted, is bound to degenerate into the time-honored “addition, division and silence.” rule of three Fortunately for the country, the troublous problems of reconstruction will be fought out with the foils off, between two parties approximately equal in strength, each of which expects to win the Presidency and neither of which can afford to be wholly wrong. SIXES AND SEVENS F we do have a League of Nations, the bleachers will be Germany’s place in the sun. * + What few monarchs there are left on the job will never go on sympathy strike for XW] the kaiser. | . . Director General McAdoo ought not to e quit his run until he put the railroads back in the roundhouse * . . Every European nation is just crazy to look over Agent Wilson’s samples of the latest styles in democracy Well, they've finally dragged Uncle Sam to the card table of European politics—and you know what they say about a be- ginner for luck. * Gordon Rotto of Missoula, Mont., got himself suspected of being crazy by insisting on wear- ing corsets. That's how much a mere man can do to give himself a little standing. . George Creel, ex-censor, went and let some boob send a cable despatch which says that Presi- dent Wilson called on a couple of kings, but doesn’t give us an ink- ling of what the other fellow held. bind the eyes Hermann; german. comicbooks.com