Judge — February 3, 1923 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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ae v7 Editors Douglas H. Cooke Eliot Keen J. A, Waldron William Morris Houghton EDITORIAL George Is Mistaken HE Little Entente, it is reported, is now preparing in T mitation of the French to invade Hungary to collect reparations, and a conflagration in Central Europe is threatened. This, apparently, is only one of the complications to follow the French adventure. The Lithuanians have alre: taken advantage of French preoccupation in the Ruhr. The Russians are eagerly awaiting the signal from Germ: to show their teeth to Western Europe and the Turks make no secret of their truculence. One by one the outlying peoples seem to be slipping into the crater that Poincaré has dug, until it comes the turn of the United States as in the late war. Yet George Harvey has said that we are “damned well out of the whole mess.” This statement, for accuracy, resembles that other one of his that we went into the World War simply to save our own skins. ‘There isn’t even a Colonel of truth in what he has to say. More To Be Pitied . . . upaE, as his readers know, has supported the idea of a world economic conference in which the United States should discuss with our former associates in arms the whole‘devilish tangle of foreign debts and re] ions and help promote a practicable settlement. Not so long ago it appeared as if the State Department might actually take the initiative in suggesting such a conference, despite its declared hostility to the Borah resolution. Meanwhile, however, it has become involved in a perfect maze of contradictions, for which George Harvey is held responsible. Colonel Harvey, it will be remem- bered, comes originally from Vermont and evidently believes that the United States can remain as aloof from the world as Vermont does from the United States. In his case, we are tempted to say, the Green Mountains labored and brought forth a mouse. Jackie Points the Way J ACKIE CooGaN has signed a contract with the Metro for a cash bonus of $500,000 and 60 per cent. of the profits on the four pictures involved. ‘This should arouse the par- ents of the land to the economic possibilities in offspring. Americans of less than a century ago raised much larger families than is the style at present because father could use the boys on the farm and mother could keep the girls busy in the house. Immigration and other social adjustments have changed all this, but the point is that our forefathers, though they rated achild at far less than a thousandth part of what Jackie Coogan brings his parents, nevertheless considered that children paid. Granted that Jackie Coogans do not grow on every family tree. On the other hand, the capacity of the movies for juvenile employment hasn’t been scratched. If movie audiences retain their present character, we predict that more and more children will be encouraged to emulate Jackie. And if our boards of censorship have their way, it may be in the end that only chil- dren will be allowed to act for the screen, no adults being con- sidered pure enough. In any case here is a chance to become a prospector though married and hearth-bound. Even one minor movie réle will justify a large family. ‘The disappointments can be turned loose to swell the audiences. Fair Harvard uRING the war, you remember, President Wilson used to discriminate in his public utterances between the German people and their rulers, wishing the former god- speed in their strivings upward toward democracy. It is high time, we believe, that America took some such benevolent atti- tude toward Harvard University. President Lowell's original mistake lay in making residence in freshmen dormitories compulsory. Once get aboard that of logic which starts with the assumption that should be herded arbitrarily for their own good no telling into what tight places it will convey you. In the Harvard of Eliot’s day including freshmen, lived where he pleased and those who, for one reason or another, found their neighbors objectionable usually sought other quarters. In any case, they could hold no one in authority responsible for their predicament. ‘This may have had its dis- advantages, but it made practicable Harvard's cosmopolitan student body, its individualism and its tole President Lowell, shocked, as all true Puritans are always shocked, at particular tr some of the manifestations of self-determination, ended it. And one prohibition has led to another, while day by day, in every way, Harvard sinks Loweller and Loweller. For Fundamentalists ow that Mr. Bryan has achieved so much publicity and aroused so substantial a following in his crusade against evolution the time seems ripe to start a movement against the belief that the earth is round. Mr. Voliva, of Zion City, has more than once declared his contempt for this belief, if memory serves us. Can't he be induced to take the stump for legislation that will banish this pernicious doctrine from school curricul, The leader of a crusade against this fallacy (fostered by the unfortunate Columbus) would be free from the handicap under which Bill Bryan labors. He would not be attacking the notion that man is derived from the monkey while publicly demonstrating it in his own person. L. W. & B. mo Gompers has announced that organized labor will make S a nation-wide drive for light wines and bi Cheerio! s organized labor has already gone on record in favor of a soldiers’ bonus we may be pardoned for pointing out again that a definite proposal to pay the bonus from a tax on light wines and beer would gain countless adherents for both causes. Mr. Gompers said three years ago that Volstead prohibition had put this country on a hard liquor basis. Everyone knows now that he was right. He believes, and JupGe believes with him, that the return of light wines and beer would promote temperance and cripple the bootlegger. As against this opinion, however, we are reminded of William Howard Taft’s: “Tam not in favogof allowing light wines and beers to be sold under the Eighteenth Amendment. No such distinction as that between wine and beer on the one hand and spirituous liquors on the other is practicable as a police measure. Any such loophole would make the amendment a laughing-stock. We forget whether Mr. Taft already Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when he gave voice to this utterance, so we will waive the question of its propriety. One may be permitted to inquire, however, what the Chief Justice considers a laughing- stock (if the Eighteenth Amendment hasn’t convulsed him yet, he can’t be his old self), and what further demonstration he requires that the Volstead law, as a police measure, is a fatter graft than he ever was a Taft.