Judge — December 20, 1919 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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n by Steane Har Judge E Revsen P. Srercuer, Joun A. Sterner, President retary Prerrtron Maxwett, Editor J. A. Watoros, Literary Edi ditorials A. E. Retiavas, Treasurer ( a . Grast E. Hasuvros, Art Director ing E | Race Riots Wy HESE race riots make the Giant o the West ' look small and mean to the eyes across the sea. Hundreds of millions o lips whisper that the Goddess of Liberty devours her own children, and that democracy is but an ' amiable philosophy, henpecked in its own household, 1 only daring to talk back on National holidays. The dark races will decide that if the white man’s civilization cannot make a gentleman out of a clot of clay it has played a confidence game on a number of very gullible people. And how the kings will chuckle at the spectacle of public men quailing and public principles crumbling in ignominious terror as mobs gambol in pogroms in the land of the Pilgrims, tear up Magna Charta as a scrap of paper, burn the courthouse and hang the mayor? We are somewhat surprised ourselves as we watch the reel, and the film shows the armies of the North freeing the slaves—and the slaves toiling to feed the armies of the South— the Yankees faithful i to the principle of human freedom, the ' ' J sons of Ham faithful to the sentiment of human affection—and then the descendants j of the soldiers slay the ' toilers. | Will not posterity chuckle over the se- quence of one genera- tion enslaving a race, i a second emancipat- } ing it, and a_ third } murdering it? We iW don’t seem to know | our own minds for i six decades at a time— i] weeping bitterly over Uncle Tom in 1860 and burning his grandchil- Drown by A. B. Watcen dren in an auto-da-fe "Teo many thou: in 1919. wives. Doesn't thi ‘one shame you? tless men leave the tiresome Xmas shopping to their The joke is on us—just as we have the joke on Herod and the babies and Nero fiddling before a bonfire of saints. Yet all race issues are settled in one of three wa’ tirpation, Exile, or Equity— and the last is the true American way. For we have strong men who will soon stand forth for life on the level, for the Golden Rule and the Con- stitution; we have fair men who will not permit the injustices of Nature to the lowly endowed to be made harsher by the injustices of men, and wise men who know that to a nation is meted out as a reward ora penalty the good or the evil in its own nature. JUDGELETS Ohio voted for a wet New York. Germany is now right down to hard tax. * * * So many crimes are committed that we all know what the wicked are doing, but so many virtues are left unpractised that one wonders how the good put in their time * * * Women who con- sider indecent the short skirts some women affect’ may base their opposition on reasons they do not wish to make public. . * . Many of us would be all right if we were of the opposite sex. * * * It is difficult to avoid the appearance of evil when there is a mirror in the house. * * * Idealism is just Stubbornness that doesn’t know when it’s bedtime. comichooks.coun