Judge — June 16, 1923 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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Editors Douglas H. Cooke EDITORIAL ~The God of Ven gery in a New York court has found the producers of * “The God of Vengeance” guilty of pre- senting an immoral play. ince” actors and Two of these defendants have been fined, the rest receiving suspended sentences. And nearly every one we know has said “Amen!” Why? There are many who disagree with the verdict, who consider in direct contradiction of it that the play contains a strong moral lesson. Yet they acquiesce because it is a verdict derived not from above, not from some bureau of self- constituted mentors bent on dictating to the public what it shall or shall not see, but from below, from the public itself. wrding to the In the persons of a jury of their peers, chosen ly free-born immemorial custom of the land, the theoretic American people have seen and heard for themselves and rendered their decision. If all the current agony of struggle to maintain our liberties against the encroachments of the censors and the mentors and ainst the burglaries of the Sumners and the Bryans, reawakens in our s the bulwark of these » one denies that juries make mistakes, sometimes gl mistakes. But whether their verdicts are right or wrong they are the verdicts not of a bureaucracy or theocracy but of a_ self- governing community. God ble&s every little group of twelve men and true, the the meddlers, Fords and the Bowlbys and thi hearts an appreciation of the jury system liberties it will not have been in vai stupid things! T Benedictine weRE is an old Russian proverb, if we remember our ys that when a lover marries the mistress of his affections he shifts her from his arms to his back, leaving his arms free for other work even more pressin We cite this proverb in this month of mari pment of bridegrooms, who need publi Tolstoy correctly, which s: iages for the recognition So much is made of June brides and so encour: and encouragement. little of bridegrooms, whether June or jejune, that the latter may begin to suspect there is something to conceal about their end of the bargain. Yet even for bridegrooms marriage has its compensations. Almost every man soon or late encumbers his arms with asweetheart. If the first one disengages herself usually another takes her place, so that between certain ages, broadly speaking, his arms are rarely his own. This, of course, interferes with their main function, which is that of carving a fortune. Marri- age offers the only practicable remedy. 19 But it is extremely important that, having shifted one sweetheart from arms to back in the manner prescribed, he should refrain from filling the arms thus freed with another. No man, not even a Stillman, can tell where such a course Leeds. Don't s For June brides, we have been withholding our advice A to them until we could be sure it would be too late for them to follow it. It is identical with that given to his young women parishioners a while ago by a Baptist minister in Brooklyn. Said he: “Don’t marry a man “Whom you don’t know thoroughly “Whom you expect to reform “Who doesn’t respect womanhood “Who is unpopular with children and other men “Who can’t support you “Who hasn’t a sense of humor “Who has been wild “Don’t marry a man unless he is about the same age and has the same interests as yourself “Don't a man unless there both sides.” Or, to sum up, don’t marry a man. marry is intelligent love on Addenda N A LITTLE list of liberal measures passed by the New York I Legislature, which appeared on this page week before last, we forgot to include the law compelling the Ku Klux Klan to make public its membership. The fact that a King Kleagle of the Klan has already defied the State to enforce it shows how important a contribution it is to the cause of Liberty. If we were one of the legislators who had helped lay this egg we would be inclined to give three loud Klux. Buyers and Cellars nore it will be hot enough when the reader reaches this paragraph to make him grateful for a reminder Or cold enough so that he will welcome the Theat. In any case, six months from now most of us will have started our furnace fires again. This is as certain as anything can be in a world of which even the sun seems to be growing weary. It is far more certain, for in- stance, than it is that when we need it most we shall have enough coal to go round. This being the case, begin now to fill your bins with next Such foresight will hot only insure of winter. mention of artific’ winter's supply of coal. your own comfort but contribute to the welfare and convenience of your fellow-man. Not all of us realize, perhaps, that even in the absence of strikes there is a coal problem, a problem not of mining but of transportation. The railroads ¢ aking every effort to distribute the bulk of the coal needed next winter during the summer months, before the movement of crops begins with its perennial freight congestion. On, their success depends to a large extent. the comfort and tranquillity of the country, t annual movement of coal has to compete : with the crop movement, as it did last for when the greg for the right-of-w year, the result is almost bound to be a coal shortage or an agrarian revolt, or both. Each one of us, by ordering our coal now, can contribute to their success, can perform a patriotic service while consulting our own self-interest. One might call it doing our bituminous for our country, or, if you prefer, deserving at her hands an anthracitation. comicbooks.com