Judge — July 1, 1922 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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“Persiflage and buncombe would disappear in the h toe work and left jabs.” presence of Senators wit! EDITORIAL By WILLIAM The Day We Celebrate ND so the midyear comes again and brings us the day A we celebrate. And a grand old day it is. And it was a rather nice piece of work we did nearly a century and a half ago when we showed George III and the British Tories how to make the world safe for democracy. And in these fleeting years the whole world has learned the lesson which the Tories found so hard. ‘The lesson was rather simple; it was that “all men are created free and equal” before the law. Of course, the free- dom did not mean the royal right to go around bedeviling organized society, nor did the equality consist in a guarantee that the man with one talent, mentally or spiritually should boss the man with five or ten. The “Intelligence Quotient” still marks human differences which the law cannot wipe out. And the man with the high I. Q. is going to rule the man with alow I.Q. But before the law both are free and equal. And they were not free and were vastly unequal before we started the trouble in Independence Hall. And about all the political progress the world has made in this nearlya centuryand a half is to arrange a world where brains actually count; count against caste, count against special privilege, count against tradition and environment. In making brains count we have had to give the man with low intelligence, say the professional criminal and the professional son-in-law, certain rights and privileges which he has not earned, and he is abusing his privileges more or less in crime and sloth and various unsocial ALLEN WHITE activities. But we are smart enough to overcome his malice and go ahead with the evolution of the race. So the day we celebrate is a grand old day, and what if the children do wake us up at four o'clock with their firecrackers? Those fire- crackers waked up a sleeping world once, and we should not grumble at the echo this morning. sas Robert Underwood Johnson, director of the Hall of Fame, announces that there will be no sez discrimination there. Grand news, that, for Belle Guinness and Lydia Pinkham. ABs The Queensbury Cloture HATEVER cloture the United States Senate may adopt temporarily for the consideration of the tariff bill will scarcely check the interminable and stupid flow of talk that passes for debate there. But there are signs of improvement. Within the past few weeks Senator Tom Watson has been emerging from the ash can of his past into a place as public benefactor. By his impetuous and yet exceedingly practical threat to punch the faces of opposing Senators, Senator Tom has done vastly more to bring the Senate to a businesslike brevity in its deliberations than any other Senator. Nothing pares off the verbosity from a Senator’s oratory so effectively as the knowledge that a feverish colleague stands ready to beat his ears down if he departs from the yea, yea and nay, nay of circumspect declaration. 16 comicbooks.com