Judge — November 25, 1922 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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dyes J. A. Waldron William Morris Houghton Capt, Howard W. Angus, U.S.A EDITORIAL There’s a Word for It HOSIS, a Frenchman, has invented 1 (the darn thing escapes us) for that state of affairs which permits hody, social or physiological, to fee the parts of a He has very properly upon and destroy the wh this word to our political system here in the United States, Under great pressure Congress can be made to pass measure urgently demanded by the country as a whole. Defense Act of 1920 is an instance. But the more am is allowed to spend on himself the less there is for the pork barrel. So the moment the pressure is rel patriotic legislators covertly hamstring those responsible for putting such measures into 1. The National D se Act, which provides Regular Army, a National Guard, an Organized Reserve in skeleton form and for the means to train and co-ordinate these forces, embodies the first and only military poli by the United States. It was forced upon Con, bitter lessons of the World War, although it has been the obvious step to take ever sin the Revolution. President Harding has called it “an economical and democratic military policy thoroughly consistent with our national traditi To carry out its provisions, however, according to the of experts checked and rechecked, a Regular Army of 13,000 officers and 150,000 men is the absolute minimum necess: Therefore, Congress grants in the current year 12,000 offi and 125,000 men. Next year it may be And while the Army Plucking Board in Washington is ob ntly dismissing veteran V Pointers from the Kemal threatens again to start a world war and ratification of the Washington treaties appears more remote than ever, What « a small er adopted ess by the omplete shame it is we can’t think of that dodgasted word! In Behalf of Prohibition OT so long ago the Literary Digest conducted a nationwide N canvass of prohibition sentiment, which turned out wet. The result was repudiated by the firm of Wheeler, Vol- stead & Co, as unrepresentative and wholly inconclusive. A better and the only real indication of popular sentiment on this issue, said these gentlemen, knowing their hold on the office- seeker, was to be had on I "e Well, Election Day has come and gone and with it has passed into history the fact that in almost every instance where one of its contests turned on the question of prohibition the result was we By the time this appears in print very likely Mr. Wheeler in Volstead’s absence will have told us with much argument and many epithets for those who differ with him why even official ballots can tell us nothing ncerning prohibition sentiment. But the fact remains that victory is always better than explanations and perhaps for this reason the Anti-saloon League will take a tip from Jupce. Instead of spending its money during a campaign on speakers and prop. a and the intimidation of candidates, why not use it, in part at least, 19 to round up the hootlegger vote? These gentry are too busy as a rule to go to the polls, but they must control 5,000,000 votes the country ever and they know, or can be made to know, on what side their bread is buttered. Pry them loose from their absorbing occupation long enough to vote. But don’t pay them! We don’t want our bootleggers cor- rupted. As JupGr Predicted Jn wonders what the Republicans think now of their bargains with the Anti-Saloon League and the tariff hunters. He may be pardoned for referring to the pre- diction he printed just before Election Day that exactly what happened would come about. Frankly, though a Republican himself, the result pleased him. There is nothing in the out Republicans to weep over, n control both houses of Congress tinct from unwieldy, majoriti And they have two whole ars in which to redeem themselves before the country, after a lesson as unmistakable as it was salutary. Only, as a starter, let them establish about the capitol a three-mile limit within which Wayne B. Wheeler or Lucius N. Littauer or anyone else with a trace of the Anti-saloon League or the Tariff Lobby on his breath approaches at his’ per let them enjoin Daugherty from all further effort or utterance, and let them instruct Secretary Hughes to send his friend Newberry as Ambassador to the Island of Yap. Oh, yes, and as members of his embassy staff we recommend all those other Republicans bent on making the world safe for Democracy. of the recent elections for nally speaking. ‘They: still but with workable, as dis- Details Missing ROM the reverend gentleman who performed the cere- pony uniting the former Kaiser with his new consort, we learn that the bridegroom during the day “wore his war and other decorations.” That prelate is a poor reporter or he would have had the wit to particularize. What war medals does Wilhelm still cherish in exile? Does he wear those he awarded himself for the invasion of Belgium and France, or has he substituted a new set to commemorate his subsequent dash across the Dutch border? After all, the latter was the only operation in which he participated in person and deserves preferential treatment. And what were the “other decorations"? Did they include the Order of the Tin Can, first class, awarded by the Allied Associated Governments, and the button of the Amalga- mated Union of Stationary and Eccentric Woodchoppers? No court chaplain should ever again be intrusted with so important a story. Doorn him, anyhow. The First 100 Per Cent. Is the Hardest HE New York Chamber of Commerce has recommended the finger printing of every person in the United States to render difficult “the evasion of clever and dangerous aliens sent here for the purpose of spreading discontent among the unassimilated portions of our population.” To this Juoce wishes to add the further recomm tion that when we have all been “mu in this s hion and the national rogues’ gallery is complete the finger print records be stored on Bedloe’s Island at the base of the Statue of Libert Has it ever occurred to the 100 per cent. Americans who lently compose this New York chamber that perhaps an easier, more constitutional, more permanently tive manner of combatting the efforts of “clever and dangerous aliens” atent and hence assimilation among the is of our population? That possibly a like Canada’s which provides beforehand for rapid assim: modification of the Volstead law, repeal of repressive le rewell to Ku Kluxism and a few more similar reforms would render us immune to the Bolshevist bug? If not, far be it from us to disturb their simple faith in Prussianism. would be to spread unassimilated porti selective immigration policy