Judge — July 14, 1923 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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Editors Douglas HL C H. Cooke liot_K Waldron William Morris Houghton William Edgar Fisher EDITORIAL A Lesson in Manners s LONG ago as April 5 the Angora government in A Turkey told Constantinople that it must go “dry.” But Constantinople is not dry yet, principally because the Turk has been willing to postpone the enforcement of prohibition there in deference to the Allied troops and foreign commissions still quartered in the city. He has even agreed that should he close up every other liquor dispensary he will still le: unmolested some two hundred resorts where liquor may be sold only to foreign soldiers. His instinctive hospi- tality forbids his making guests, suffer for his own beliefs. We commend the example he sets in what is known international comity to our own confiscators of ships’ liquor. It might not be such a bad idea to import a few Turks into this country to teach us how we can be both prohibitionists and gentlemen. however unwelcome guests, John and Meiklejohn E DON'T pretend to know the true inwardness of the controversy which has resulted in the res tion of President Meiklejohn of Amherst. But we'd like to bet we know as much about it as did the Rev. John Haynes Holmes when he wrote his immortal letter to those Amherst seniors who refused to accept their diplomas. As an expres- sion of super-sentimentality from one to whom martyrdom is evidently the only true romance we recommend the following paragraph in Mr. Holmes’s letter: “I would congratulate you . . . on standing by the bravest and freest spirit in the world of American education to-day, Alexander Meiklejohn, at the moment of his crucifixion.” Here is another passage from this remarkable letter: “To defy the counsels of the older generation, to act in a spirit of rebellion against constituted and respectable author- ity, is the first duty of youth.” Behold the radical pedant, to whom rebellion has become a “duty”! And finally: “I know of no test of right which is so nearly infallible as that of the minority.” As if most of the things to which Mr. Holmes objects in this world were not the products or the pets of militant: mi- norities—the capita em, war, religious orthodoxy, even the ousting of Dr. Meiklejohn itself. Dr. Meiklejohn may be the educational messiah pictured by scntimentalists of the Holmes stripe, but it is in the rdle of an educational pariah that he best satisfies their bleeding hearts. Jamming the Bud into Budget IFTY WOMEN, members of the Y. W. C. Free that a business girl can live “comfortably” in New York on $25 a week. To this end they have agreed to impose upon the: mnsel ves a budget prepared by “experts,” which is considered to account for every conceivable item of expense. Thus: board and room at home, $10 a week; lunch- cons, 50 cents each; clothing under twenty-nine different headings, $324.80 a yea Provision is even made for amuse- ments, § “self-improvement. 0, and insur- ance and $75 a year. We see nothing listed for powder, lipstick and rouge, nor for earrings, chewing gum or permanent waves; but perhaps these under. self- improvement. have set out to savings, come We have no doubt the majority of these worthy women will see their experiment through to the bitter end and then pro- claim it a success, even despite what we are going to say about it. And that is that the experts who are supervising their expenditures might as well have been brought up in an automat for all they know about comfort. much less than $ Dad remains sober heart. A business girl who earns 5 a week can live comfortably at home if nd indulgent and her young brother has a » other hand, “what about the girl who does not live : 2” queries a young woman of the editor of the World. “Where can she live comfortably for $10 a week?” Yes, and what about the girl who lives in a home where she couldn’t be comfortable on § 2 ally, what about the girl who lives within the confines of a rigid and meticulous budget anyway? If she fortable, then she ought to be psycho-analyzed, WNP writer in The Radio World has raised an interesting A question, to wit, how soon will the radio force upon mankind the adoption of a universal language? Mr. Shirt (the writer) asks us to imagine the confusion of tongues which would assail the ears of a radio fan in Central Europe had he anything like can be com- the number of broadeas choose messages from that we have. he points out, when, ng stations to But in five various radio authorities h “there will be one million radio outfits in the capable of receiving speech from Europe, Latin Ameri the Orient,” we shall be in much the same plight. Well, perhaps by that time the fad for bedtime stories will have passed. Which reminds us that Donald B. MacMillan, the explorer, has set forth in the Bowdoin for another sojourn in the Arctic, carrying with him a broadcasting apparatus and an expert tor who will broadcast five hundred words a week from XP (wireless North Pole). Presumably these words will be in English, but if only he will punctuate them with audible shivers he can talk in Eskimo and be universally understood and appreciated. ‘ars’ time, estimated, United States and Burglaress FRAIL little woman, twenty-six years old and weighing A not more than 105 pounds, was arrested in New York the other y as a burglar. We regret our inability to give her name because for us she is the Susan B. Anthony, the Dr. Mary Walker, of burglary. There may have been women burglars before her, only we don’t happen to have heard of them. Undoubtedly there will be women burglars to follow her, plenty of them. The march of feminism is all embracing. Besides, we can’t imagine the sex neglecting a profession in which its expert knowledge of house- hold goods and wearing apparel, and its long training in the quict search of father’s pockets, should give it such a distinct advantage. comicbooks.com