Judge — September 17, 1921 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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J Pexriton MAxwett, Lditor and Art THE AMERICAN GIRL REVERTS TO TYP! E waited for years to see our W girls dance through the hoops of fairyland and kick the decalogue through the roof. We were scandalized at their short skirts and shivered at their bare backs. We giggled at their elfish pranks and gurgled at the prospect of their snip- ping the domestic ties and lighting a cigarette with the pieces. But now we are edified. They were only spoof- ing us. Instead of spoiling, freedom only sweetened them, and being free, there was nothing else to do but re- turn to the customs of good society. We stumbled over the old block. We mistook the laws of morality for the manners and usages of habit. We thought proprieties were princi- ples. We built an unreal world, and the real girl plucked away the stale codes and freshened them with a lit- tle chaos. With delighted eyes we now see that our gay damsel is the grand-daughter of the demure maid- en grandfather married. Age can but imperfectly restrain the feelings of the young. The most that home and precept can do is to keep the heart and spirit untainted. In good time the new generation will find the moorings of the old, and the conservative class, picking up eleven billion newspapers, reads contentedly that the girl is nestling in the lap of love, just like her mother did before her. THE MAN HUGHES QECRETARY HUGHES at the Dis- rs armament Conference will hold in his keeping the honor of his coun- try and the peace of humanity. With power, dignity and precision he will set forth a proposal which has baf- fled all the ages. Around him will revolve a profusion of majestic ideas, and we look for him to divest U Directo D them of ostentation and to stamp them as the current coin of opinion with the simplicity of his own mind. He has been a: ated with the overthrow of political corruption, although without a political educa- tion. He has been a National leader without vehemence and declamation. With both vigor and felicity of speech he has embellished his serv- i not h oratory, but with his S. He displays what we regard as the attributes of a statesman. He is a symbol of American character. He guides the traditions and upholds the prestige of great predecessors. His features remind us of the portraits of some of our best and wisest. We forgive him his ponderous gravity, for we feel that in doing our work he will do nothing unworthy of our fame. LARGE ASSETS OF SMALL BANKRUPTS A MAGICIAN in New York failed ** with assets of “one tiger and a box of tri A resourceful ma- gician with an elastic mind would have waved his wand and sicked the tiger on the creditors. But our deal- ers in omens are sunk in melancholy. Their poverty of initiative casts across the whole business horizon a bilious aspect. The President, Cabinet and tall men on towers call a muzzein to all malingerers to arise and go forth to to meet “the greatest of all eras of prosperity.” The goddess of for- tune is nursing her ward, smitten with a panic. The foreboders dis- seminating apprehension are dis- missing the visions of disaster. The keepers of the death-watch are shortly to be relieved. The magician had to give up the ghost. This is no place nor time for either a seance or a circus. We have 20 J. A. Watpronx, Assoctate Edttor. ceased dissipating in the extrava- gance of woe. We are recovering our appetites and picking cherubic fruit from a merry tree. Let Calamity Jane and Cassandra lay them down to sleep. We are going to tickle our tigers and give our box of tricks to Trotsky. THE TIME-CLOCK IN CONGRESS A BILL would introduce a time- clock for Congressmen to punch, just like other workmen. They are to be docked for absenteeism. Strike symptoms and inefficiency are to be penalized by discharge. The Vice- President is to be foreman of the shop; wages raised and the output speeded up. The disciplinary system in industry is abeut to exhilarate it- self by setting a shining high-water mark for the emulation of a perspir- ing world. Congress is constitutionally em- powered to work by the piece or by the day, with double time for night work and Sundays. It can instal labor-saving machinery, adopt the apprentice system, the open shop and elect a walking delegate. We trust that an overtaxing of the physical powers will not impair its intellectual faculties. We would not welcome an cver-production concomitant with de- terioration. The old-fashioned estimate of leg- islation was that its province is to candidly distill public sentiment into public law. It is a deliberative, not a hasty, process. Yet, legislative dili- gence may be a precious discovery, such as steam and ginger, and an in- jection of brevity into the rules may infuse wisdom into the laws. The nation lives and thrives by the clock. Progress keeps step with the pendulum. Let the Congressmen punch the time-clock and punch with care.