Judge — October 28, 1922 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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Editora Douglas H, Cooke Eliot Keen J. A, Waldro William Morris Houghton EDITORIAL An Obligation UDGE, for one, ices that Great Britain won her point J at the Mudania conference. It is she and not the Turk who retains possession of the Straits while their permanent disposition is under discussion, which seems to insure their neutrality. “They shall not pass!” may be an old-fashioned slogan under the ban of all pacifists, but it has served the world once more most admirably in a crisis and, thanks to a compe- tent show of force, without further bloodshed. In the meantime it is America’s self-appointed task to solve the problem of relief in Asia Minor. Our fellow prohibitionists who touched a match to Smyrna and by other means have turned £00,000 helpless refugees over to charity have put us under a particular obligation. Our support of the Red Cross and the Near East Relief in this eme and generous. Let our motto be, icy should be immediate They shall not pass away! Pee The Canadian dollar has could have boozted it? sas All Hallows Eve WO time-worn facts about Halloween will come as sur- prises to most of us—one that Halloween is the evening before, not of, All Saints’ Day, which is November 1: the other that its observance comes down to us from the Druids. The Druids held their gre: stival and lighted bonfires in honor of Saman, the sun god, on or about November 1, to give thanks for the harvest. It was their belief that on the eve of this festival the sun god called together all the wicked souls condemned within the past twelve months to inhabit the bodies We suppose it was these souls that first bewitched ght of nights, adopting as their medium the jack o” lantern, but on this point our favorite cneyclopedia is less explicit. At any rate, on the Druidie ceremonies were engrafted some of the characteristics of the Roman festival of Pomona, the goddess of fruit and gardens, held at the same time, in which nuts and apples figured. Hence the bobbing for apples which must have been a much more difficult and exciting sport when everyone had a Roman nose. But there is something decidedly modern about the present widespread observance of Halloween in this country. Here fading from the consciousness of a race witness the was a festival fast which had said good-by to its bucolic past ignorance enlightenc Suddenly. its business possi- bilities grin witehlike before the mind's eye of a certain manu- facturer of paper novelties, and behold! we are all celebrating it once more, doing in our steam-heated flats and hall bedrooms all the quaint things handed down to us from our remote above. ancestry, in time to the wave of his baton. Juve can’t help feeling that the Druids and Mr. Denison had a great D-eal in common. 17 A Reprisal AN American ship remains American territory wherever it happens to find itself on this flea-bitten sphere, then, one would suppose, a foreign ship remains foreign terri- tory with the same disregard for locality—even within our own But that is reasoning like a No, it is true an American three-mile limit, for example. logician, not like a prohibitionist. ship remains American territory everywhere, but a foreign ile limit must relinquish its nationality if necessary, violate its own laws—to please Mr. Volstead. So Mr. Daugherty says. Heads, you win, Mr. Volstead: tails, they lose—so Mr. Daugherty says. Jupce wishes to condole first. of all with the American ship within our thre merchant’ marine whose future the Daugherty ruling. seriously threatens, and secondly with all ocean-going commerce com- pelled to touch at these arid shores. And while all this talk of reprisals is rife he wishes to make a suggestion, French and Italian skippers are compelled by law to supply their erews with wine at meals. Why don’t France and Italy, within their own three-mile limits, compel American skippers to make similar provision for their crews? What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, and he can promise them all the Ameri- can shipping their harbors will hold. Rad What the United States actually scems to be getting back to ts warmaley, tit Madam Senator IGHTY-SEVEN years ago, when Senator Rebecca L. Felton was born, slavery in her home State of Georgi seemed as well intrenched an institution as lynch law is to-da She was fifteen years old when the Civil War broke out, and a grown woman at its conclusion. Her carly maturity was passed amid the bitter strains of Reconstruction, and even now at an advanced age she continues to live in an atmos- phere of Klonclaves and Impx ‘leagles. When such a woman says, ss worry is the bane of American life,” she utters something almost heroic. Mrs. Felton is heralded as the first woman to become a member of the United States Senate. But there must be some mistake about this. From the ve beginning the Senate has been full of old women. Mrs. Felton is not the first member to be a woman but simply the first to be a flapper. Kultur Speaks I’ WE must have highbrows, the best pl for them is the lege campus where they may exercise their ultur harm- lessly. Let them besiege, pre-empt and otherwise monopo- lize Dartmouth, if that is President Hopkins’s wish. Let them die for dear old Rutgers—no one will seriously object.. But when the President of Colgate University, jealous of the Dartmouth press agent, comes along and proposes that, in addition to the divine right of all highbrows to go to college, we recognize their divine right to rule the country as well, it is time to protest. President Cutten’s specific suggestion, after denouncing our yas a fetich, and universal, or even manhood, suffrage an intelli democracy as a failure, is that we submit to Government by itsia, which, while it might be found clsewhere, is sure to He may not remember it, but per- be found in the colleges.” haps the most notorious example in history of rule by an intelligentsia was that of Prussia preceding the war. There was the late Pro- nd kultur was the the high priest of governmental policy fessor Treitschke, of Berlin University, popular rallying ¢ No such thing as manhood suffrage, to say nothing of universal suffrage, existed to disturb the grip of the highbrows. And finally, when they had brought on their World War, there was no such thing as common humanity to check their systematic atrocities in /ultur’s name. One of the best things about our demoeri is that it has taught our highbrows to know their place, with the possible exception of our college presidents. eS