Judge — March 4, 1922 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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clover still agitates the rustic mind, and Mary Garden could walk in the cool of those sylvan glades with Salome’s seventh veil over her arm and no one could misunder- stand her noble purpose. Some one should lead Menoken there, tell him to appoint an official Adam and Eve for the dump, let them name the livestock while He in His omniscience goes to work as Providence to make the world over as it should be. HOW NOT TO BLOCK THE BLOC UR beloved President has funny notions about block- ing the agricultural bloc. He gave the leader of the block the best office in the gift of the Administration, on the theory that it would decapitate the agricultural bloc. Perhaps it would take the head from the block. But the spectacle of the head of the block, the leader of the revolt inside the party, getting the best job in the party, is just the kind of salve that will make the head grow on again. Show the other rebels that rebellion gets good jobs, and you put down rebellion about as fast as squirting jets of coal oil on a blaze puts out the fire. Taft was a bit slow at times when he was putting down the insurgent rebellion. But he was never futile. He did the best he could. But he never tried to kill cats by feeding them the gold reserve. He took an axe, and went after the rebellion with awkward enthusiasm. His tactics were correct. But his estimate of the size of the progressive rebellion was poor. President Harding is trying moral suasion, in the shape of rewards of merit for misbehavior. It is a grand system, if you want to multiply rebellion and raise up the ghosts of the Kilkenny cats. Also, there is this to be considered: Mr. Kenyon, in a high court of the land, can do for the block in the judiciary what he could not do in the Senate. Perhaps by the same token which has passed current at the White house it might be well to put La Follette on the Supreme Court to head off his activities on the com- Chorus—There’s good sl {Vo : ’ NUS sors | US Bus mittee of levies and waterways in the district of Columbia. It so happens that the writer of these lines believes in the agricultural bloc. And he is delighted at the turn things have taken. For, when the next leader of the bloc appears, he will always have a good Federal job ahead of him if he succeeds, and if he fails he can always go back to the arms of the regulars and eat the fatted calf of the Senate restaurant. TEACHING THE TEACHERS HE New York papers are having a delicious quarter of an hour snickering at the Kentucky legislature for assuming to pass a law prohibiting the teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution. The theory of evolu- tion has come a long way forward from Darwin, and it is not taught as Darwin announced it, even in Kentucky. But, even if Darwinian was taught to-day, the New York papers have no laughing cue. The beam is in their own eye bigger than a telephone pole. For the New York legislature in its Lusk bills has made American academic freedom a joke all over the world. What the Kentucky legislature can do to discredit American education by pro- hibiting the spreading of the Darwinian theory is negli- gible after the Lusk bills have passed. Of all the hick States in the Union, New York is the prize Reuben. "MID PLEASURES AND PALACES “ CAT’S place is in the home.” So decided a San A Francisco judge recently in exonerating a cat-kill- ing dog. There is some comfort in that. Father's place is at work. The children have a right to their schools and playgrounds; mother’s place is at the polls, on the jury, or in the wage-earning business—any place except at the kitchen sink, and the hired girl has her Sunday out and her Thursday afternoon down town. Let us give devout thinks that the cat is legally house-bound. Other- wise, be it ever so humble, there’s no one at home! TOWN BW, OLITICSs De 15 a Nop tS edding that way, Warren! 19