Judge — August 12, 1922 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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EDITORIAL BY WILLIAM In Which We Say Good-by ITH this issue of JepGe the editorial page passes from the writer. whose name has been at the head of these columns for over cight months. a paper or magazine is like loving a wife, one has to be close to home to be successful, and as one wife is all a man can love successfully at one time, so one paper is about alla man can edit at one time, The difficulty with long distance editing is that every week matters of poliey come up whieh require conference. When the paper is published in New York and the editor lives 1,500 miles from New York, personal conference must be eliminated inevitable, helping to edit Jepce, and unsatisfactory results arc It has been a ge: but coherence and wisdom cannot success- joyous adventure. even at long fully be trar > they are born of intimacy, And so. 1 ine is so much like a home, the absentee must sacrifice his le But he with kindly memories and high hopes for the future prospe loving attention of daily communion a newspaper or mi + for it for its prosperity. of Junge. ttt flapper? The beauty sleeping sickness Pad Judge and the Home Fires HIS is the week when Jepgr | Home. This is our “Mz re just two kinds of happy homes ‘oes into the Great Ame 1 Bliss” those in whieh there number. and those in is an established autocracy, which there is a those in whieh they all know who is the working democracy boss. and those in which they know that no one is boss. has behind it tens of thousands The autocrat got his power by asserting it and backing up his. assertion autocracy Tt came out of the cave. The domestic Years of precedent. He backs it up to-day with force of one it. The autocrat of lady, and often But being boss requires the use of foi And if one party or with brute force kind or another, and many people lik Sometimes he i the home is of both sexes. she is a gentleman, not physical, but mental and spiritual. the other to the contract doesn’t like the use of force, blooey goes happiness! The democracy is a new thing in married bliss. It is a home founded upon a theory that questions are settled by debate, compromise, by And if the atal autocrat into. the home, there is. the devil to pay—also attorney's fees and possibly alimony for the And the trouble with married bliss is that you cannot tell offhand whether a marri by reason. stumbles democratic ge will be a free govern- Mt with a home rule parliament or a gaudy autocracy with m ukases and edicts and everything settled by the party of the first part. And the is that we may point out some of the distinguishing marks of reason for the “Married Bliss” number of Junge 1 democratic spirit walking into an autoc * to see the blithe mis autocrat breaking blindly inte It is tough to sec and it is tri the two married states. marital democ- y. So Junge, desiring to keep married people out of court, is publishing this number with the pitfalls of domestic in- felicity all plainly marked, so that we may make marria ttt Ford ix establishing a Ford plant in Mexico, another Ford plant in Russia, and so over the world. The Ford plant in Jerusalem should be an ice plant. ALLEN WHITE Some Needed Translations T SEEMS to be fashionable these days for writers of our writers in foreign language from) the Chinese “Lines from ‘Thought from Pink Portugue wcertain tang to the r set to produce translations of various unknown as, for instanc ranslations the Arabic.” or “Pal and the translations seem * or to give mmonplace. But ¢ overlooking hot our modern young poets and writers generally fertile field? the stories and poems of American writers of the last century What a stunning thing, for e with E. P. Roe’s he ‘Triumph of the Amy Lowell could Why does not some one translate into our modern forms? ample, Sherwood Anderson might do Barriers Burned Away.” done in the manner « Ki It would | Or if bring herself to give us a twentieth century American version of “The Day Is Done” or The Psalm of Lif Or if S ‘Teasdale could give us an understandable version of Kissed Me, fathers inn acceptable fashion. Howell's “The Rise of Silas Dreiser. and as a companion pice eat reading. we might revive the rhyme-bound ver: our An interlinear edition of Lapham.” done by Theodore “Hucklel antayana, would add to the wealth « Finn,” done our literature rry by Ge and bring to the twentieth century readers classics that now may b uted only by the antiquary who delves into apprec Carnegie libraries. What a fine thing copyrights upon American writers’ works would provide them it would be if the publishers holding the with aglossary and footnotes by our young critics. An edition of “Peck’s Bad Boy,” Bill Nye's led Hay and Forty Liars,” Peter Dunne’s “Mr. Dooley,” and Frank Stockton’s “The Cast- F Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine,.” ns by with notes, bibli the erudite and seasick young souls who compiled “Civilization in the United Stat would be nt could get for it—and more. ey worth anything that a book Here is a great mystery: Every man who thinks all women tote Kicking Cupid Out HE other day Magistrate Short, of New York, in fining couple of publics] declared that “the public not fit ed off another place from ers. parks and other public pla localities for love making.” And Cupid chee his list of rendezvous. The trysting place has wise denatured, leg m ‘sare radually been curtailed, and other- so that love can be procured only by boot- ng it. The front parlor was once the place for love- ing, and the sofa was the spot made and provided by But the sofa has the attic by the interior decorator and the parlor itself banished. statute for that purpose. een chucked into All the family assembles in the living-room, and if love finds y it must be under the white light of publicity. Once the single buggy with the lines tied around the whip f the divine fire. But the buggy has gated to the ash heap, and the double-seated buggy awa socket was the shrine been re! with its highly desirable back seat, which once held Cupid luxuriously upon its cushions—the double-seated buggy is gone, and now the parked limousine has been banned by a And about all that love ean do is to adve This is no way to treat crucl magistrate. tise in the papers for a lost paradise. the rising generation. A few more judicial decisions like Magistrate Short’s and the rising generation will be found only in the graveyard. st The annual mecting of the Bootleggers’ Union is pledged to light fines and jeers.