Judge — September 1, 1923 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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Editors Douglas H. Cooke Eliot Keen WV |. A. Waldron William Morris Houghton William Edgar Fisher The giraffe, we are informed, has no vocal chords. President Coolidge might appreciate such an animal as pet at the White House. E Pluribus Unum LL THOSE Minute Men of Volstead who fired the shout heard round the world—that New York under Al. Smith had seceded from the Union in repealing its prohibition enforcement act—owe an apology to Police Commissi Mr. Enright has his men to close every spe y in New York City before November 1. After that date, he has informed them, they will be held personally responsible for the violation of the Federal liquor law in their precincts. oner orderec In view of this action, how unfair it was of our Prohibi- tionists to believe that the New York police would no longer co-operate in the cause of half of one per cent. righteousness. In fact, how naive of them to believe that any police force anywhere would voluntarily relinquish its grip on the El Dorado of Volstead enforcement. Business as Usual During Alterations o Far the Bureau of the Census, in its compilation of mar- riage and divorce statistics for 1922, has completed the ight States. figures for eight of the fort These States show fewer marriages by 10,570 than in 1916, and 3,060 If this ratio holds for the whole United States we shall have a rather startling indication of the cost of feminism more divorces. Now, please control yourself, madam. We are not in the camp of those who have been telling woman her place is in the home. Considering that the institution of the home is her own idea and creation we hope we have a little more tact. Nevertheless, we feel compelled to point out that the attitude and disposition of the male toward matrimony and the home have undergone very little change in centuries. He has always accepted these twin institutions with good nature at the behest of his heart’s mistress, and he ma and provider to-day than formerly hand, has undergone a metamorphosis, socially, morally, in- tellectually. Hosts of women to-day consider other careers more attractive than matrimony. Many are finding their own wages plus alimony more remunerative, and flirtation plus bachelorhood more exciting. So the statistics we have quoted must be laid at woman’s door. s no worse a husband Woman, on the other little while to remind ourselves: is the real architect of our social It scems necessary. ev that the female of the spe structure. She it was who insisted in the first place that the keystone of the arch should be the protection and support afforded her by the male. If she has decided now that one or both of these are superfluous and tedious it is not. only boorish but silly for mere man to object. He should worry! Collar-a Morbus viet of the white collar fetish, who says he has never A yet cleared an income of $4,000 from his business and has not averaged $3,500, has written the Chicago Journal of Commerce a letter about it that has since obtained 4 national circulation. age young business or pr He thinks it impossible “for the aver- ssional man to keep his head above water on the present salaries as established,” and he asks: Does it pay to educate oneself, to marry, to attempt to establish and maintain a cultured American home, to raise children, to be an active member of one’s society, working for better conditions and re- lations among one’s fellow men, or is it, after all, better to admit that these things are of no value and, donning overalls and brogans, go out to learn a rough trade? The questions that tap at our keyboard are these: Why should education, marriage, culture, children, and public spirit be considered incompatible with manual labor? Which. re- quires more real culture and brains, dictating letters that begin, murs of the 12th inst. received and contents noted. In reply would say,” etc., or building a brick wall true to line and measurement? Does it make for more public spirit to be a bond salesman ringing doorbells than to be an iron worker busy on a beam five hundred fect nearer the clouds? As for acquiring a wife and children, it is the ability to wear a white but a brass collar that should influence one’s decision not Labor Day apor Day marks the social transition from summer to L autumn. It is the day the great barn-like summer hotels shut down and their great. balloon-like summer gossips shut up; the day the straw hat becomes a relic, the day mother and the girls either join, or begin planning to join, the old man who has been disgracing them back in the city. What the day has to do with labor, unless it is the labor of readjusting one’s point of view from a period of frivolity to one of frost, is not entirely clear. that on this day forty y to hold their parades, but The encyclopedia tells us ars ago the Knights of Labor used ny excuse is good enough for the necessary pause at the junction of the seasons. Every such junction has its holiday, masquerading under some thin disguise, sacred or profane. Thus Christmas, or the Holidays, or Christmas Week (known to the Romans as the Saturnalia) has marked the winter solstice since long before the Christian era. In New York and other centers of fashion it winds up the Season. After it, for some, comes Palm Beach, and for many others the Deluge (of bills). Easter, by one name or another, since the dawn of history has signified the beginning of spring. It is the festival that celebrates the marriage of the Sun God and Mother Earth, the day that presages fruitfulness and plenty of green vegetables after a winter of salt pork and canned beans. And finally, for us in this country, the Fourth of July starts off with appropriate ceremony the scason of one-piece bathing suits. So it will be seen that Labor Day falls very neatly into the comicbooks.com