Judge — May 5, 1923 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Editors H. Cooke t Keer EDITORIA Immigracious rk. Huspanp, Commissioner General of Immigration, » now receiving a better class of immigrants on the whole than h done in thirty-five years.” Judge Gary, on the other ] the opinion that the present immigration laws “are the worst “we a says that we expresses that ever happened to this country, economic: assume the kind of immigrants that Judge s the kind that will clamor for the privilege of working in his Such immigrants are very ry wants steel mills twelve hours a day y to be the sort that segregate themselves in squalid gn quarters, that remain ignorant of the English language and of American standards of living and are easy to hire and hard to organize—in short, hunkies. And. the immigration restrictions are preventing their arrival in sufficient numbers. But most of the rest of us, including Commissioner Hus- are interested in immigrants not for their value to Judge id his’stockholders, but for their value to Ameri hunkies. — Hence our belief that the present immigration laws, or the principles they embody, are the best things that ever happened to this country, socially. and surplus which Judge Gary quotes are any criterion, the United States Steel Corp., for all its lack of labor, is a very lively corp. Ugh! HERE is an old saying, by some French philosopher whose js we must look up some day, at “our intellects were given us to justify esi We think of it very often in appraising the sentiments of politicians. But it applies as well to other sorts of advocates, to spirituali band Gary We crave citizens, not Meanwhile, if the figures for its assets, earning: Arthur does in the personal survival of death, and be entrusted at the same time to examine impartially its. “manifestat In other words, no man can be both an evangelist and in the same cause—ask William Jennings Bryan. For this reason we cannot go the whole hog with Doyle, maybe not even half the hog. But to dismiss his “evi 1s all bunk would appear to » equally unintelligent. is a middle course, as Hore ren, who writes for the New York Times, has pointed out. And that is that some, if not all, of the spirit photographs, mic demonstrations, ete., which Sir Arthur cites to i ectoy prove his contention may be genuine phenomena, but also that they may be explained as due to natural laws rather than supernatural visitations. Such an attitude ought to appeal to the man with an open mind. In any ca , we would much rather take ectoplasm on faith than ever have to take hold of it. The Wages of Sin i PRoPoRTION to population and wealth Great Britain's in the World War were at least ten times as great Her sufferings since, soc economically, politically, have made ours appear like a light pox. Yet she has been able to move the fit the world back from New York to London, she | sacrifice: Sours. 000,600 and she has been able to make substantial reductions in tion to the advantage of all classes. How is this possible when she neither shuts out her com- petitors with a high protective tariff wall nor surrounds herself with a barbed wire hedge of political isolation, when she is without the aid of national prohibition or the Ku Klux Klan, or John S.Sumner or the Rev. Bowlby or laws against cigarettes or pool playing or evolution? Why, she has even set free all her polit prisoners, made a treaty with Russia and intro- duced her king to her labor leaders! Ts! Ts! Ts! Query HE same issue of the New York Globe (and similarly, we presume, of other daily papers) contained recently two news items whose relationship may hi aped the reader's attention. One reported that the former German Crown Prince was suffering from .a “progressive form. of nity. The prince has turned to religion for comfort in his soli- tude,” this dispatch from Wieringen said. “His exhausted servants are forced to listen for hours to revival services con- ducted by him on a wheezy organ... .” The other report was of local origin, that a large congreg tion in Calvary Baptist Church, New York—Dr. John Roach Straton’s church—had taken a pledge to abstain from theater- going, motion pictures, card playing, dancing and all forms of “worldly amusement.” This followed a sermon by a Canadian revivalist who had been helping Dr. Straton. “It is my profound conviction,” said this gentleman, among other things incurably immx the theater as an institution is hopelessly, , and that in many cases it is one of the devil's chosen instruments for leading people astray. No Christian should have any association with it.” Yet in this case there was no mention of insanity. Why? Dances and Dunces mie the congregation in Calvary Baptist Church was; taking) dhe pledge! just. deseribed’ av marathon dance, which had begun at. six-thirty the night before, was still in its early stages a few blocks away. Sub- sequently the surviving’ couples’ were forced’ by .police inter- ference to dance across the ferry to New Jersey, thence to dance back again to New York and Analy to Connecticut Here or f the young women involved established a world’s endurance record which stood for a few hours. The iustitution of the social dance has fallen upon evil s. The favorite dance steps have long since degenerated into. mere walks and toddles, even on occasion into the purely ative stand known as “parking.” And now comes this apparently to mark the final stage of a the six-day bicycle race supplies the neg marathon dance « popular pastime, just final chapter in bicycling. Yet ¢ There is only one ray of hope. If enough congregations can be induced to follow the lead of the Calvary Baptist and forswear the dance as sinful, then the old legend of its wicked- ived and it will become again the naughty ch man kills the thing he loves. ness may be re fad of yesteryear.