Judge — November 4, 1922 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Editors s H, Cooke Waldron Morris Houghton EDITORIAL Needed: A ' Tuesday we as a people shall be called upon to choose a new Congress. JupGe disagrees with Presi dent Har ric of the present body only to this extent, that he is inclined to think it is one of the worst anil accomplishment that ever! Major Operation resses in point of purpo: It has been herded hither and yon by vd the Tariff Lobby with hardly a ce, and meanwhile the only legisla- at establishin raced the Capitol, Anti-Saloon I mstructive character to its credit—t it has done its level best to disregard and nega- We could gi Congress, but) we on and say a lot more things about the Sixty-seventh won't because Secretary Weeks has already said them. half the price he paid for his seat would still have been badly cheated. What is the remedy? It is emphatically not a condition in Washington could be we Poor Newberry at Tf any » present. it Democratic Congress. than t would be a. politi between the Capitol and th White House, even if the Democrats had anything to offer, which they haven't. No, the best thing that could happen to the Administration, to the Republican party and to the country vag would be a drastic reduction of the present: unmanageable Republican majorities in both houses, leaving in each case a small margin made up of the more liberal members of the Asa matter of what JupGe expects as an outcome wish proves father to his thought he'll prosecute the loafer This sounds a bit surgical. tions, under the Mann act. The Most Unkindest Cut of All HAT'S the matter with Henry on reducing the price of his ears? hitherto shown a lively sympathy for the submerged sin his plant, embarked on rates, sympathized with Then why ‘current brutality to the existing owners of Fords, who It is inexplicable even. to ‘ord that he keeps He has always majority of his boosted w railroac rs to love his fellow-men. » up the bulk of human kind? his competitors. Lenin TIKOLAT LENIN has died or been assassinated. or deposed (which is the same thing), so many times in print that it is entirely possible a new v der’s attention. tter in his life. sion of his demise will intervene before this comes to the \t present writing, however, he was never | Oscar Cesare, the artist. who has just done his portrait from life for the York Times, reports from Moscow that Lenin radiates health, shows the same zest for his work that a starving man does for food—appears cordial, obliging and utterly without manner, though the autocrat of Russia in a de; beyond the dreams of any ezar in history. It is five years ago this month that Lenin came into power in Russia. And here he is now, back from his rest cure, com- sstored physically, and politically apparently more pletely nearly impregnable than ever, the idol of his countrymen, Let us admit that he is stained with their blood up to his armpits. that on his head rests the Fesponsibility for much of their that he principles. whic misery. is cheerfully compromised with his ically mistaken in the first place; sment, that of holding were yet his has been a superhuman achie together and dominating for five terrible years—literally, in spite of hell—the biggest politieal unit in’ the world. Tt is not a little thing to have humbly eating out of your hand, and starving to boot, the Bear that Walks like a Man. We are accustomed to looking on Lloyd G as the miracle man of polities (he has a chance now to demonstrate But he has kept his feet only one : Lenin and against buffets that compared with Which reminds us onee his dexterity). longer than Lenin's were like taps on the wrist. more that the grand duke that aspires to Lenin's job is named Cyril. Dispossessed OSSIBLY the reader will remember that old lament of the Pi: ‘Thad a home oneet, but an engine backed up and took it awa-ay!" It reminds us of the sitory estates of Dreamwold, Tdlehour, ef als. r Very names are reminiscent of Pullmans, and the first u know, up backs a creditor and takes them away: It is hard to sympathize with Mr. Tom Lawson in th our millionaires loss In the first place he would probably deprecate better than of Dreamwold, Such men love the game they pla And in the second sympathy their possessions, and he still has the former. place it is difficult to picture something called “Dreamwold” It sounds, and was, more like a hobby, a one- man country club, All such retreats of the rich deserve the fate of Idelhour, the late William K. Vanderbilt's place on Long Island, which has been turned into a real country club. Incidentally, it. too, recently went under the hammer. asa real home. May we suggest in the case of Dreamwold, unless we are too late, that Tom Lawson be made a life member? Robots HE Theater Guild in New York has opened the season with a strange, disturbing. preposterous play. imported Pragne—“R.U.R.” ‘These than the product. they Robots.” Briefly, robots are simplified, men and women manufactured on a quantity basis, like Fords, at at factory founded by their inventor, Rossum, on an island The time, of initials are no less for—*Rossum’s vastly from mystifying stand Univ artificial, a gr where you please. course, is the future. It is not our purpose here to discuss the merits of “R.ULR.” such tasks to the tender mere But “R.ULR staggering—with a me Edison, the « of as melodrama. We sof G Jean Nathan. is loaded * whatever its artistic fairly . whieh concerns us all. valuc unfortunately our wizards, recently touched upon it when he exp at the seeming likelihood that before long electricity would be doing everybody's work, leaving nothing for humanity to do That's about all the factory opera but sit by and watch. in most cases, does to-day. Robots are designed and built to be factory operatives. And as long as they lack everything that complic¢ give 100° per cent. satisfaction. ficient, less troublesome than human labor, tes human psychology the Vastly cheaper, they soon supplant the latter everywhere that drudgery is performed, even in the armies where they die with an efficiency of fuss beyond all praise. But then improvements are introduced in their manufacture. They acquire sensibilities and imaginations. And in one tre- 1 they turn on and destroy their creators. in all this are too close for com- more ¢ and lack mendous uphe The parable and prophecy fort. But we will leave the reader to puzzle out their exact ation while we go in search of a robot to write editorials. comicbooks.com