Judge — January 6, 1923 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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‘ Keen J. A. Waldron William Morris Houghton EDITORIAL The Subsidy Subsides HERE is something a little pathetic about the fiasco of the | ship subsidy, as there is about every rebuff to sentiment. President Harding set his heart on an American mer- ant marine in some degree commensurate with our maritime importance and our war-time investment. The instinct of the builder in him took this form, as it did that of the Panama Canal in Roosevelt. No man sticks stubbornly by a project despite the obstacles in his path, the warnings of his friends and the plain logic of events, as Harding has by the ship subsidy, unless he has dreamed a dream or seen a vision But though he feels for you, Warren, JupGE cannot honestly share in your inevitable disappointment. Under the circum- a subsidy would be an indignity on the American tax- te for that Robot’s dulled sensibilities. introduction of the subsidy measure the Government had done almost everything in its power to dis courage our foreign trade and handicap American shipping. It had adopted a policy of isolation, beautifully calculated, as events have proved, to prolong and intensify European chaos and inability to buy our goo erection of a high tariff wall aga bid for the Anti-saloon League’s favor which ruled all liquor off American ships, whether carried for the accommodation of passengers or as commercial cargo. On top of this, to ask for 50,000,000 a year to support an American merchant marine sentiment— stance payer even too ac Preliminary to i argues an amount of cheek or a wealth of nal we insist upon the latter explanation—quite out of the ordi- nary even in this humorless age. Let’s give our merchant marine to Panama. We have all we can do to support Mr. Borah, Mr. McCumber and Mr. Wayne B. Wheeler. Laugh This Off uouGH the management of the Keith theaters has ruled ninst the prohib fi ion joke, the fates, which are in- itely more tolerant of human frailty and of old jests, ‘There was that decision of the keep injecting it into the news. Supreme Court, for example, which permits a prohibition vio- lator to be tried twice for the same offense. Here is another item, which a friend has brought to our attention: “The town of Cody, Wyo., has employed counsel to defend Harry L. Wiard, town marshal, who was shot recently by a Federal prohibition officer, when Wiard was arresting the latter on a charge of being intoxicated.” The reader will note that not only was the town marshal of Cody shot, but in addition he must needs be defended in court, for causing the prohibition officer’s arrest. No doubt the prohibition officer had been spending the Government's money to procure evidence, and his condition was evidence that he had succeeded. To be arrested for such success was naturally an outrage, prejudicial to further efforts on behalf of law and order; it justified the use of firearms. The predicament of Marshal Wiard should be a lesson to every officious constable who would interfere with a Federal prohibition officer in the ne} performance of his duty. Constables must remember that not only are enforcement officers the only ones among us privileged to drink, but also that they are actually paid to do so, with expenses thrown in, and the drunker they appear the more active they may be considered to be on the job. On second thought we would warn town marshals and others against any arrests whatever for drunkenness, lest the inebriate turn out to be a Federal prohibition officer with a gun. An Oversight MERICANS will rejoice that the adventurous Hinton in the S-C IT finally succeeded in flying from one America to the other. Through no fault of his own he consumed almost as many months on this trip as he did days in crossing the Atlantic. His latest achievement, therefore, stands as a monument not so much to ion as to perseveran There were compensations. On reaching Maranhao, Brazil, for instance, the little flying party was greeted by 50,000 frantically friendly and impatient fans who conducted them in triumph to the unveiling of a marble monument to Hinton and his Braz gator, Martins. Thus, by taking their time hopping from perch to perch across the Caribbean, Hinton and Martins had made the completion of this monu- ment possible in advance of their arrival and were able to taste the distinction, hitherto reserved for such ancient heroes as Clemenceau and our own Chauncey M. Depew, of looking on at the unveiling of their own effigies. To make the occasion complete, however, they should have had Mayor Hylan along to criticize the sculpture. Soviet vs. Santa oroTHY CANFIELD stirred a hornets’ nest of young in- D tellectuals by writing for the December Bookman her conviction that intolerance was a vice as prevalent among radicals as among reactionaries. She cited as one example the fierce scorn of the modern radical for “any form of ‘religion’ which involves a mystical sense of communion with a power greater than oursely As if deliberately to confirm her indictment along came the Soviet government of Russia with a crusade to banish Santa Claus. The Communist Youth League and the trade i ponsored a program to save Russian children from “this influence.” No angels were allowed mas trees “There shall be no influence of a religious cult whatsoever,” read the official announcement. Let us admit that the legend of St. Nicholas has been cheapened and commercialized until its principal function is to sentimentalize waste, self-indulgence and greed, and that the Christmas tree, with or without angels, belongs in the forest. (We seem to hear a mighty chorus of “Amen!” arising from the parents of the land.) Yet the intolerance that would eradicate Santa Claus and his attendant symbolism with a stroke of the official pen has undoubtedly given it all a new lease of life, beginning in Russia. Ask the moujiks who bought their angels from bootleggers. A la Coué s To the correction of children’s faults by their parents, writes Coué, “the latter should wait until the child is asleep and then one of them should enter his room with precaution, stop a yard from his bed, and repeat fifteen or twenty times in a murmur all the things he wishes to obtain from the child. . . . He should then retire as he came, taking great care not to awake the child.” In this way, Dr. Coué explains, the parent addresses him- self to the child’s non-resistant subconscious self and through it he may gradually incline the child in the direction desired. But the adult subconscious self is similarly open to and in need of suggestion. JupGe would greatly enjoy the privilege of tiptoing into the bedroom occupied by George Brinton McClellan Harvey and murmuring twenty times: “Modesty is the best policy.” 17