Judge — September 22, 1923 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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| | pes liot Ke LAW William Morris Houghton William Edgar Fisher Fellow-citizens, beware of those coal substitutes. Remember that near beer. The Supreme Chance UpGE wishes to add his voice to the mighty chorus of J sympathy which has been spanning the Pacifie in the last three weeks of agony. But he has a word, too, that he would address on this occasion to the nurse among nations. The appalling disaster that has befallen Japan permits this country to be of vast service to an old friend with whom we have not always been on the best of terms. If it is conceivable that such a tragedy can have a redeeming feature, this is it. ‘There is a type of mind, amply represented in both countries, that sees humanity in air-tight compartments, each national group engaged with all the others in a mortal struggle for mastery. Publicists of this kidney soning with self-consciousness our relationship with Japan. Now we can, if we will, disabuse the Japanese mind of the notion that these imperialists represent the American point of view. What we need for this purpose, even more than the stunning size of our philanthropic offering, is a sincerity of sympathy which will demonstrate once for all that Americans recognize their com- mon humanity with the other peoples of the earth, suffer with ave been se them in their misfortunes, and desire for them happiness and prosperity as a part of the human heritage. So let us not forget, fellow-countrymen, to open our hearts as well as our purses, and both until they ache. The Easiest Way ' EDOUBTABLE Dr. Pease, who is the Wayne B.Wheeler, | William H. Anderson and Pussyfoot Johnson of the anti- tobacco movement rolled into one, has outlined to a N: York Times reporter some of his plans for a militant futur He is president, it appears, of the Non-Smokers’ Protective League, which already boasts 3,000 members. Among the more distinguished of these members, as listed by Dr. Pease, are Harvey W. Wiley, David Starr Jordan, Dr. J. H. Kellogg. of Battle Creek, and Professor Irving Fisher of Y (Where’s Luther Burbank?) These and their fellow-leaguers are about to bestir themselves to multiply their number. ‘When we feel that our organization is adequately prepared,” explained Dr. Pease, “we shall launch our campaign for legislation that will prohibit the growth, importation and sale of tobac This begins to look like business. We strongly advise all members in good standing of the Am-I-My-Brother’s-Keeper Club to join the Non-Smokers’ Protective League and help it put through its program. Such a course requires imagination and a little guile, but how much e¢ and more effective as a remedy than the more obvious method of opposing the tide of paternalism! The best antidote for prohibition is prohibition. Come on! Let’s send the smoke to join the fire water, and see what happens. ale. asier 19 Italy Ueber Alles HE SOUL of Fascismo stands naked to the world. It is revealed as an echo of the thing that we thought we had scotched for good on November 11, 1918. | Where- fore we would ask those Americans who have expressed their admiration of Mussolini to repe: ufter us a litany unwittingly All prepared by Clare Sheridan for just. such an occasion, together now: “I blinded myself to his ridiculous appe: and allowed strength and ure myself to be frankly impressed by his physic his attitude I took his Napoleonic imitations seriously; I did not realize that he was overdoing a ‘brow- beating’ pose.” Amen! of defiance. Clare Sheridan wrote this confession last winter, following an interview with Mussolini. “He is outspoken in his belief she also wrote. as examples of splendid violence the Ce: in war, in violence, in force,” “He even cites ure Borgia period in Italian history, when men murdered their own sons and brothers.” So we can readily imagine how he reveled in the news from Corfu! It was foreordained, of course, that a man who refused to abide by the rules of the game in domestic affairs would treat such rules in international affairs with equal contempt. But we are lucky the demonstration should have occurred so soon. Whatever Mussolini may do to the League of Nations, it is hard to believe that a world which has so lately ss 1 good-by to blood and iron will long endure its reappearance in the person of this clown; will long hesitate to show him the Doorn. Recommending a New Hobby Group of Americans in Constantinople decided recently A that the kind of immigrants sailing from that port for the United States was not the kind we wanted. So in true Ame 1 fashion they took the law into their own hands (or, in this instance, the absence of law), selected a few thou- sand of the kind of immigrants they considered right, chartered a ship and sent their hand-picked assortment on its way to monopolize the monthly quota at is Island. At least, they were preparing to do so when the Saturd+y Evening Post re- ceived the article which is the source of our information, and arried out their plans. We hope so. ns in a foreign port, with limited funds, and y to help them, can thus pack the monthly 1 country, what's to prevent a foreign doing likewise? What's to prevent foreign government from choosing for our future fellow-citize not the sort we want but the sort it wants to be rid of, crowding its subsidized liners with this material and speeding them to Ellis Island in time to prevent the admission here of the kind of human stock it prefers to keep? we assume they no official machine quota from a giv government. from Is it not easy for anyone with the most rudimentary knowledge of how European govern- ments operate, to believe that this very pre ss has been going on under our naive noses ever since our immig went into effect? The obvious remedy is to do our own picking of immigrants in their home lands and to do it officially. We are glad to learn that President Coolidge agrees with Secretary Davis in advo- cating such a course. ion restrictions But while waiting for Cong cur (and we may have to wait for years), won't some of our wealthier patriots study the example set by the American colony in Constantinople? ess to con- For the price of an old master any one of them might import a whole ship load of the kind of youngsters we need, to the exclusion of the other sort, and with much less chance of bei stung. comicbooks.com