Judge — April 28, 1923 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Doug! aA William Morris Houghton William Edgar Fisher EDITORIAL Dr. Munyon Is Right is a k outs Loucnecr L some of the chara Ife is that first, and a politician afterwards. of the liberated regions he negotiated with Walter Rathenau, of Germany, the famous Wiesbaden agreement, which prom- ised to solve the problem of reconstruction in the devastated areas of France. This agreement might have rted the Ruhr invasion, but Loucheur lost his job, Rathenau was assassinated and the politicians controlled the situation. France has won in the Ruhr. The big German industrial interests realize that protracted resistance would be even more costly and futile; they recognize defeat and are maneuvering for terms. ‘The procedure is typical. ench financier-promoter with of the late E. H. Harriman. As minister terist Everywhere it is the big business man to whom governments turn in their extremity—in Russia, in Germany, in EF here, too, on occasion. For with all his-faults he is the natural leader in an industrial crisis, the only one who grasps the enormous complexity of that delicate ace; mechanism which we call modern civilization. In the reappearance of Loucheur, therefore, there is ground for the hope that the French industrial interests, represented by Loucheur, in their mood for conciliation will now bring about a practical consolidation of the victory. Ahem! nE Board of Overseers of Harvard University the policy of race discrimination instituted by Pre Lowell. remember that in our of February 3 we included Harvard alumnus, by the way) which cast well-merited aspersions upon Naturally, we feel highly gratified that what we To misquote y has reversed ent JupGe's readers ma. sue 1 editorial (written by this polic had to say should have borne fruit so promptly. Charles Jefferys (see Bartlett p. 611): Meek and Lowell Chief among the That's Harvard! What's in a Name ? are clinging to their maiden ORE women every day names after marriage. The Lucy Stone League, now about two years old, whose largely of married professional women, exists for the purpose of persuading them to do so. No doubt there is also a league somewhere to ridicule the wedding ring, to abolish the dutiful kiss, ete These protests are all a part of woman's gesture of emancipa To those who have survived the adoption by the sex of the vote, short skirts, bobbed hair and cigarettes they shouldn't bring insomnia. But George W. Wickersham, former Attorney the United States, thinks that “nothing more mistaken was pure and holy, membership — consists seneral of ever advocated” than this retention of the iden Why, George! A rose by any other name, you know. . . . “IT thank God,” he cries passionately, “that I was born in a generation whose women considered it a glory to take their husband's name.” But how much more glorious to take it or leave it alone. name. The Hen or the Egg Sn Borau believes that since we forbid murder and burglary we should forbid war, and he proposes, there- fore, that the nations get together and outlaw war. But, many intelligent men contend that war itself is not a crime any more than shooting a burglar entering your home or killing a man who threatens your life is a crime, that war is the result of a crime. For instance, if the German army had been permitted to march through Belgium and occupy Paris without resistance there would have been no war. War came resisted. To forbid war, they nee to crime. when Belgium and Fran reason, is to forbid res ‘The Senator wants the world to accept in the case of war the popular American notion that to stop an immemorial custom the only thing necessary is to pass a law forbidding it. Even when laws of this sort are backed by enforcement machin- ery they accomplish next to nothing, as we ought to know. But, compulsory submission of international differences to a World Court will at least insure the time necessary for public opinion to crystallize. Our next and essentis has the material on which to judge, and the definite oppor- tunity to assert itself. is to see that public opinion Nothing to Celebrate NTY-FIVE years ago New York became a city of five boroughs, annexing Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and taten Island. Mayor Hylan would like to make the anniversary the occasion for a $500,000 celebration. for reasons he has replied, “To boost New York City,” “To prove to the visitor that New York is the best city in the world to live in,” ete. other city in the land these would be con- sons, but in New York, at last accounts, the ens’ Union had obtained an injunction against the appro- priation of the city’s money for the purpose. New Yorkers seem to think that their city is too big for comfort as it is. Perhaps they also feel that the less said about New York, with Mayor Hylan in charge, the better. Pressed In almost an, idered cogent re The Demon Daylight was a kick in too much daylight, that the time one’s watch kept gainst city and turn whole States into armed camps. But, then, it would not have been supposed a few years ago that the refreshment one’s cellar kept would agitate a continent. *Way down East in Connecticut, where a “rotten borough” system permits the farmers in the Legislature to put it all over the city fellers, they have been considering a bill to make it a misdemeanor to show a clock or carry a watch which does not record the official standard time. W don’t happen to know what is or will be the fate of this legislation but we want to warn all visitors to the lovely hills and shores of Connecticut this summer to make it their business to find out, or be on their guard against strangers who ask them for the time of day. Maybe that not more than one-half of one per cent. deviation from Eastern andard Time will be a safe answer. I WOULD not have been supposed a few years ago that there would set. country