Judge — April 22, 1922 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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Se RADIO HE vasty mystery of natural things is so baffling that it is no wonder the mysteries of the supernatural are neglected in these days of marvels. The big, imponderable old world is shrinking and revealing itself as a speck in the cosmos around which its inhabitants may ride in a few weeks, write in a few minutes, and talk in a few seconds! Within the memory of living men the railroad has divided distances by ten, and steam and electricity have speeded up time in the ordinary processes of life’s busi- ness a hundredfold. Middle-aged people can recall the days when there were no telephones, no electric lights, and young people in their middle twenties remember when automobiles were toys, and the moving picture was an experiment just coming to commercial use. And much of the difference between the America of to-day and of Monroe's day is due to the physical discoveries that a hundred years have developed. These physical discoveries have changed men’s creeds, revised men’s attitude to God and man, rebuilt their in- stitutions, made them braver because they could afford courage, made them kinder because they could afford kind- ness, and wiser because knowledge of life was forced upon them by the civilization in which they live. And now comes radio with its vast possibilities. It is now where the movie and the automobile were a quarter of a century ago. But radio is a genie that is rarin’ to go. When we decompose the atom and release new stores of energy, and through radio scatter broadcast the world’s treasures of beauty and truth, the superintending angel on the job of making a new heaven out of the old earth will be able “And now comes radio with its vast possibilities.” EDITORIAL By WitiiamM ALLEN WHITE to turn in a report of real progress. Fancy what a jump we shall have in this century if we duplicate the jump of the last one hundred years! And we are all crouched for the leap. HOKUM VERY POLITICIAN has to appear to be as big a fool as his constituents, no matter how wise he may be. President Harding, coming into office after a slathering campaign made upon a third reader idea of American patriotism, swashbuckling, never-haul-down the flag, and my-country-right-or-wrong, has to consider the fools made by the campaign which elected him. Hence many of our gestures of 100 per cent. Americanism; hence we keep out of the Genoa Conference. The real reason we are not at Genoa is that the treaties of the Washington Conference were not ratified in time to send delegates, and that the election of Congressmen will be held in November. Harding and Hughes and Hoover all realize that we are in world politics up to our eyes, and for keeps. They will make the covenants eventually which will formally bind us to the other civi- lized nations, which must face the Moslem Peril of the East and the Yellow Peril of the West. The white man is in a serious crisis. White men must stand together or resign their leadership on the planet. But, however clearly wise statesmen see this, when stupid leaders educate a public in the doctrine of folly and ignorance, as the American people were educated last fall, it will require a certain amount of hokum for statesmen to play a wise part upon the world’s stage. We are getting our hokum now; a deadly dose of it. icomiechbookssecon