Judge — December 9, 1922 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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Fdite Douglas H. € Boot By ke JOA. Wak’ William Morris How! EDITORIAL A Christmas Thought UDGE has had a good deal to say about the iniquity of the Fordney-McCumber tariff and the manufacturers It is only fair that he should pay who profiteer thereby. » to those mere his respects al ants and importers, enemies of the tariff, whose The sibility for the Fordne inquiry last summer, the results of which are contained in a G nt entitled, “Imported Merchandise and ss of this startling document » round, apparently, or most of them } Perhaps John vn privat rnate Committee on Finance, which shares respon- asure, instituted an prin’ got into | Sumner interdicted the book | ixious to suppress them. use it contains such obscene matter as the following: A marcel iron, imported from Germany at a total cost of 1/100 cen! arch i New York department 1,012 per cent ick. imported from Germany ata tol 10, was bought at another New York stor dvance of 1,636 per cent A string of amber beads, imported from Germany at a total was bought in still another New York store $4 per cent of cabbage sced, imported from 21/10 cents, was bought in a New 35 cents—an advance of 1,367 per cent 'y buttons, imported from Germany purchased in a New York st S88 per cent imported from. Fran ught ina New York depart advance of 737 per cent A pair of leat of went 2.50—an ad AN. quarter Denmark at a t York seed stor A card of 12 iv cost of 93/100 cent, an advan ta total re for 25 ta total cost of nt store for $150, 4 fr shoelaces, imported from England at a total cost of 364/100 cents, was bought froma New York shoe store for cents—an advance of cent A Swiss watch, imported at a t chased at a New York store re only a few of the items listed but th are representative. All involve York stores but u doubtedly they indicate what goes on the country ov: not only in imported merchandise. Rem were made in summer. What re t during the open season for Christm when the great annual killing is n only be It is safe to say that no Christmas tree is ever so gloriously trimmed as the patient Ameri these y pric un consumer, The Klan HERE is enough of resemblance between the Faseisti of It nd our own Ku Klux Klan to link the two in thoug! Both are organizations of intolerant vigil who, in th >of law and order, eagerly take the law into their own hands and do « But their dissimilarities are interesting. ‘The Fascisti, for example, are an open order openly arrived at. They have often fought pitched battles with their opponents ‘They have operated And they have sought and assumed the responsibilities of actual govern- whieh et some risk to themselves hy day as well as by night, and without masks. ling irresponsibly with private morals. have yet to hear also that they indulge in anything like . Kligraphs, Klonelaves or the other Klandestine ptrap that makes our Ku Klay tyranny as ridiculous as it is - Wa ment, instead of me cowardly. Evidently the 100 per cen v prefers a little dignity. What is the explanation of such a nomenclature, any way? Was the man who invented it afflicted with a cleft palate, or is Iy designed to promote the flow of saliva it deliber: Jupce would rather chew gum Fair, Ford and Forty O MORE wholesome and) stimu s counsel to the N young could be uttered by a rich man than that of whieh Henry Ford is the recent author: “Until he is forty aman should be gaining experience; he should be learning all “totry te articularly how to spend money... . De dl p words, mis safe with all that it ne, domestic comfort and complacency, se for co of the in the world, is worth all the penny-saved-is-a-penny-carned heads of youth. rt consider that play nears suceess, that to bec fair, fat and forty,” implies of st This, from on test men ulation, maxims ever hammered inte t Ah, Henry, if perched uy flivvers you can hurl the verbal bolt that will shatter th ness of our little world; if ye ch the gene tainted that the adventure of existence is somet! with the dash of a discoverer, not gingerly, and t making does not suffer by postponement, then your monument will be secure even in hearts that never thrilled to the song of nn your pinnacle of years and m jon yet une to he taken money four cylinders. tive me the man of forty,” and if he’s honest » “who has had lots of truthful his success is a experienc certainty. We call yours, sir Bonus and Beer stion that the n receive a bonus raised by It was an at the time that solution of the bonus prot it. By now the logie of it 1 I skull to such a and Hill, of Maryland, have in- OT sol ex-service Jepce put forth the su and beer. such a tax was the though few dared t penetrated the natior tatives Britten, of Chi troduced bills embodying it. Both bills, r, Would involve the wines and b wir gree that Represen- salization of light » no one really expects cither to receive from the present Congress, which is loon League. But in the Sixty-eighth 2 will have a better chance, 1 puts itself squarely behind serious consid, owned by the J thing along this lir f The American Leg Never was an organization of 7 Congress se part the combination, with a more gor; from a galling tyranny whil cash, which, as all veteran patriots k of getting it. There would be in such action tidbit of r . While half the members of the Legion were still in France, rifiees triots pre- 1S Opportunity to free their country raping their reward directly in av, is the only sure way a marvelous so much, following the victory for which they had s over on them the r prohibition engineers quietly slipy Amendment. No political trick was © asly and deliberately plann Never were eserving of gratitude and consideration more shabbily th by stay-at-homes for whom they had gone abroad knock these crafty killjoys as » served to us in the eenth romore and executed, ow is their chance t to die. cold as that ambrosia that used te Remember, Budd. dead days.