Judge — July 28, 1923 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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Editors Douglas H. Cooke ot een J. A. Waldron Wiliams Morris Hougbton William Edgar Fisher EDITORIAL The Duel H ENRY Forp’s latest project, to erect. at Dearborn, day and age could make. Mich as d . the world’s largest radio plant, appears to be net a bid for the presidency Yet we hardly expect to see the cost of it figured in later among his campaign expenses. It will be interesting from now on to watch the duel betweer the two great modern agencies of propaganda—the with Ford-for-President. doctrine, and- the motion pictures, which are controlled by his racial enemies, the Jews. “Whoever controls the motion picture industry,” says Thoma A. Edison, ‘controls the most powerful medium of influence over the people.” Well, as a man in this n radio, seasoned we shall see. But we mustn't forget that Edison Refuseers is stone deaf. : objections to communism more or less A forth by our saviors and defenders > listen in vain for the one most casily de- monstrable, the one to which picnickers every day of the season give added confirmation—namely, the utter disrespect of the public for common property. ‘The testimony of the park authorities in Brooklyn can be duplicated nationall xclaims, one of the supervisors of Prospect Park, who goes on to describe for publication the unlovely litter that defaces the lawns of this otherwise lovely park in the wake of the Sunday picnickers —crumpled balls of newspaper, candy boxes, crusts of bread, orange peel, banana skins, ete., ete. Yet the immigrant families who carry their boxes of lunch to the city parks are not our only nor our chief offenders. Countless automobile parties composed of native-born vandals are doing their best daily t they are pleased to call God “You should see the grounds Monday mornings,” make a dumping ground of what country. Say they: We'll cat a sitting on the ground, For nature we revere, And strew our rubbish all around To prove that we were here. It matters not at all to them whether the site of their picnic happens to be a public camping ground to which the community they are visiting has courteously bid them welcome or private property along the road. So long as it doesn’t belong exclusively to them they feel at liberty to pollute it. Whatever may be the other demerits of the communistic system, it is obvious that no people should adopt it who are also acquainted with bananas and hard-boiled eggs and shoe boxes, unless, of course, they happen also to be civilized. i9 Progress dye tariff or the sale of the German patents to the Chemical Foundation to be glad our dye industry is giving a good imitation of Babe Ruth. ing to the Tariff Commission, here last the United S O: doesn’t need to reach a judgment regarding the famous infant Accord- of the dyes actually consumed year cent. This means that for the first time in history we ar indus- trially independent of Europe. As we independence almost a century and a before entered the speaking) war, we ought now to be in a fair ¥ autonomous. ‘The that we ask every distinguished foreigner these what he thinks of us shows that we are a long way yet from the only independence that really matters. hieved our political ago and our financial independence we late (cuphemistically ay to becoming sul shores: uct, however, who touches But even our cultural independence may come in time. As Old Hank Mencken says, “On some dim to-morrow, perhaps, perchance, peradventure. .. .” Possibly, by reverting to Coué, we might even hasten it. Thus, “Dye by dye,” ete. Front! ew York has a new hotel. Situated in the heart of the theater district, displaying a big, bedizened lobby generously supplied with be-buttoned bellhops, it’ yet advertises 1,000 rooms with bath at from $9 to $14 a we The are small, “for men only, shares his bath usually with his neighbor in the room but the service is efficient, the and the hygi So much so that a bachelor friend in the belief that he need worry no more about the high cost of keeping clean though crowded. He stuck it out fora week, and then he quit his impeccable little cell with its cement floor and its snowy bed and its efficient shower for an old vermin-haunted studio under a hot roof. He but he content. ‘y, provides a blanket indictment of our entire cafeteria civilization. This new hotel, it appears, supplied him with everything but the privilege of making his room his own, that is to say of impressing upon its rigid) surfa personality, rates ranging rooms, to he sure, and one djoining, material comforts are complete one is perfect. of ours took a room there even pays more for his new accommodations, is And his reason is one which, we s something of his own that room to wel- nurses the foot. It is hard to express the importance of this lack in abstract terms, but no human being can endure for long a habitat which main- tains an uncompromising impersonality. Our spirits demand our daily environment yield in some degree to our med Even an oc something that would cause come and case his spirit as an old shoe ure. ional cockroach is better than nothing if we can recognize it as ours. S the Judge There’s a Difference amuEL D, Warriner, representing the anthracite oper- tors, has promised the United Mine Workers to abolish the twelve-hour day whenever the with miners effect—it on September 1. . representing the steel manufacturers, has prom- ised lent’ Harding to the twelve-hour whenever there shall occ uy a surplus of labor. That is to say, Mr. riner, face to f; union, accepts the eral decree that the cease other hand, new contract goes into is hope Py Presi abolish day with astrong twelve-hour day American industry. Gary, on the face to face only with the President of the United States, accepts it in princi Without any desire to spoil the President's midsummer outing we would remind that the Allies once upon a time accepted Mr. Wilson’s Points in principle. to disfigure him ourteen comicbooks.com