Judge — August 11, 1923 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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~~ ‘aldron jam Morris Houghton William Edgar Fisher EDITORIAL The Poles and Their Pals HE DEAN of printers told us the other day about a man whom he had employed in his plant to open the big rolls of paper as they came from the mill. For fifteen yes this helot labored faithfully at his specialty and then, because the business and the plant had grown, he got an assistant. Never, said his employer, has anyone abused and tyrannized over a subordinate as that man did. He ordered hi: sistant about in stentorian tones, he cursed him roundly; he entered with such zest into the business of ¢ became a popular diversion at th = eniton, rs cising authority that it plant to watch him. A Frenchman writes in La Revue Contemporaine that Poland, for so long pitied as a martyr among nations, has now taken her place g:aong the oppressors. Little more than sixty per cent. of her population is made up of Poles, it seems (most of occupy government positions—Ed. note). The remaining forty per cent. is composed of “assistant” races that do the work, to the accompaniment of abuse and epithets that, expressed in good old Polish from a million throats, must sound like a drum-fire barrage. How grateful these subject peoples must be for the self-determination decreed them in the Versailles Treaty! whom He’s Really an Excellent Dramatist party of American professors and students, on a visit A to England to study social and economic questions, learned recently from) Mr. ard Shaw that Lincoln’s phrase, “government of the people, by the people, for the people,” expressed an imperfect ideal. One might as well contend, said he, that plays should be written of the people, by the people, for the people. Of the people and for the people, yes; but by playwrights. The business of making laws and governing a country, he insisted, required special faculties, too. George Ber And so he would have our governors chosen from a series of panels prepared by a “test committee.” Thus, pancl A would include all the men and women equipped to deal with foreign policy and finance; panel B those who could deal efficiently with home affairs; panel C those capable of handling municipal business, ete. And the electors should be told, “You are a free people, but you must select your President from panel A, and your Congressman from panel B, and your Mayor from panel C.” “If you could get such panels,” continued Mr. Shaw, y might have some sense.” indee at we esp But w ally would like to know is this: If such a test committee and panels were employed in selecting playwrights, does Mr. Shaw suppose he would ever have become eligible? Andyet,as a student of government he writes first-classplays. Alas, Alaska! ARLYLE’S remark about the Puritan, that he objected to bear-baiting not because it gave the bear pain but because it gave the spectators pleasure, illuminates a trait in human nature that is not confined to Puritans. It is just as strong, though it take a slightly altered direction, in the uncompromising Conservationist. The real bed rock reason why he opposes with such sound and fury all private exploitation of natural resources is not because it may waste the public heritage but because it brings the exploiters profit. Now, please do not misunderstand us. After the orgy of public waste for private gain lasting for more than a century that has exhausted so much of our natural wealth, the creed of conservation may well hav tion of our liberties preservation. become essenti: ul to the preserv what is left of them) and even to our self- But the trouble with this creed, as with others we might mention, is its present identification with fanaticism, and fanaticism is usually another word for jealousy. Maska is quite willing to confirm this. President Harding is coming back with the whole story of a great and rich territory gradually reverting to wilderness and the aborigines because every gesture toward the development of her resources by private initiative is met with the “Thou shalt not” of our hysterical Conservationists. What an extraordinary in this country iety of extremists we do breed and every dog-goned pup among them sprawled out in his own pet manger! Snuff | UTHER BurBANK, in an article entitled “Tobacco, Tomb- stones and Profits,” has regaled the readers of the Dearborn Independent with exactly the invective and statistics, aimed at ame type of tobacco, that used to be But we are more particu- larly interested in his suggestion that one reason the taking of snuff is not as common a form of the tobacco habit as chew- ing and smoking is because there are too many false teeth in America to make sneezing popular. employed against the demon rum. The prevalence of hay fever also may be a contributory cause. And there must be among us many who have both hay fever and false teeth. To them, doubtless, the mention of snuff is classed as an unfriendly act. But with such sufferers about, why is the Plant: Wizard wasting his time inveighing against tobacco when he might be ridding the world of pollen instead? mere The Test ou May have heard the story of the girl whose father was stone deaf (in which case please skip to the next paragraph). One the phonograph in the liv by themselves, vening she and her young man started ig-room and began to dance there As they were thus engaged the deaf parent happened to poke his head in the door and, seeing them, shot the suitor dead. W as it h seems to us to sum up as neatly and dramatically ran be done the case of modesty against the Modern Dance Undoubtedly the main idea in dancing is to express sex attraction. This being the valve for emotions whose imprisonment is unwholesome and I. But there is such a thing as a too literal inter- pretation of this idea for the good of the institution. After all, a great many people still find modesty a perfectly natural instinct which it is no more fun to suppress than any other natural instinct. Isn't this one reason, at least, why the Modern Dance is losing its devotees? c, dancing provides a safety anti-soc Try a few of its steps yourself some day—without music. comicbooks.com