Judge — August 26, 1922 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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» | EDITORIAL Editors Douglas H, Cooke Eliot Keen Waldron dN Willian) Morris Houghton Purely Sentimental T IS hard to say what would have become of us all during the trying season nearing its end without the encouraging reports from the White House every day that the Presi- dent was considering taking steps to bring the employers and ther to talk over the possibility. of agreemg on employees tog, a basis which might lead to negotiations that would end the strikes. Each morning the news contained this heartening item of the in the situation, As these lines are being written these bulletins of encouragement are still continuing, which makes us grieve in a way for what now President's interest one or both strikes, possibly before this appears in print. ‘The country will miss the matutinal fillip to its depressed spirits provided by the White House in the same degree that the former patient finally recovered from a siege of the black plague misses the kindly smile with which his nurse used to insert the ther- appears to be a prospect of carly settlement ¢ mometer under his tongue. tt A Word in Her Favor UDGE is inclined to agree with Mrs. Anna ¢ minister, educator, social worker and suffr: this to say to her sex: Women cannot have freee equality of rights, economic inde pendence and equal opportunity: of self-development with men and at the same time claim from men, as many women, Iam sorry to say, are rying to do to-day, the same kind of privileges that chivalrous and good-hearted men used to give to their mothers, sisters and: friends when those mothers, sisters and friends were absolutely dependent upon them. But Mrs. Spencer fails to add that the latest edition of arlin Spencer, gist, who has modern woman, the flapper, docs not chain these privileg which is what makes her a flapper. The poor girl (the flapper) is simply determined to assume the comradely as distinet from the traditionally dependent réle and is being a little self-conscious in the process. Her daughter, however, will have lost that. self-consciousness, and by that time the old-fashioned girl will be as extinct as the dodo and will be laughed at in retrospect like the hoop skirt. Meanwhile, the flapper ought rather to be commended for her courage than censured for her swagger. She's making the best of the kind of world dished out to her. sae Statesmanship man in NATOR BORAH is undoubtedly the biggest the United States Senate to-day. This may not be con- sidered a very high order of compliment, but it can be paid him with entire safety. And Idaho ought to be as proud of him as it should be ashamed of his colleague. Senator Borah, though he hails from the region of sheep ranches, neither seeks to pull the wool over the nation’s eyes nor does he permit it to narrow and becloud his own vision, which is concerned with profounder things. ‘Ther about him, unless it is that he is all wool The immediate inspiration for these to Balfour on the subject of foreign debt cancellation. vat need of Ameri in 1917, and of course her pl it was then. But in the meantime covery vd that is that in going to the resene of Eurc whether in) peace or war, she must drive her bargain first. This is nothing woolly and a yard wide. ks is his reply Europe in assistance to-day as she was is in as tis as important to us now as America has made a dis- tator Borah’s meaning when he says that before we indulge in debt cancellation there must be genuine signs of disarmament among our debtors: that before we extend the helping hand again we must know it is to some permanent purpose and not merely to prolong the present ruinous farce called pe: It sounds almost too simple, but such is statesmanship. ott A Clash of Ideals HIS nation has been treated recently to the spectacle of 10,000 Negroes in convention assembled cheering to the echo their Moses, who would lead the race out of the land of bondage to the Wide Open S| Africa: where men i Marcus Garvey, President General of the Universal ral LCES > men. ion, and incidentally Provisi gro Improvement. Asso President of Africa, is the man who has imbued his brothers and sisters with their vision of the promised land and even more emphatically promised dignity. If we were seriously inclined we might ask the reader to re- flect upon the contrast in leaders: pr Magnificent and Vociferous, and Major Moton, head « gee Institute, but another idea obtrudes. What apr all, can there be in an Africa where every black man compared with an America where every black man man, can be a bootlegger? ey Its a Long, Hard Sumner HE evil effects of a great war past prophesying. Prohibition, the Ku Klux Klan, rists, Irish dichards. a prohibitive tariff, the Agricultural Bloc, the ive come out of the war that was But perhaps its most half of us are glish di flapper—all these and more to make the world safe for democracy. grievous legacy is the discovery that morons; and not the discovery itself, which neither lifts us nor lowers us, but the use of it, by various ladies and gentle- about men with more or less benevolent designs upon us, as justifi- cation for their activities. Since so many of us (no names mentioned) have been found fo have the mentality of children it has become the fashion for self-appointed shepherds to assume more openly the conde- scension they have always felt: toward the victims of their benevolence and to seek to extend their guardianship. Thus John S. Sumner, who runs the Society for the Suppression of Vice in w York, has suggested a censorship (unofficial) of hook manuscripts before their publication. This is in line with his life-long campaign to constitute himself the arbiter of this country shall and shall not read. of what the peopl Pressed for a justification, he says: “The Government figures show that forty per cent. of adults and then there are children also The twenty per cent. are below standard mentally to be protected from incentives to vic of adult people who do not need any protection from their own impulses are inclined to be reckless in demanding freedom from all censorship and restraint.” So it was a war to make the world safe, not for democracy And we must all manage somehow to at all, but for morons. be happy under the eyes of our various keepers in one big asylum for the feeble-minded. comicbooks.com