Judge — December 1, 1923 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Editors las H. Cooke Pliot Keen J. A. Waldron William Morris Houghton William Edgar Fisher The ex-Crown Prince evidently confused Armistice Day with Old Home Week. Lloyd George’s Possible Mistake \ X Tuite Lloyd George was still flattering us to our faces with his picture of an America in which the warring aces of Europe commingled as peaceful neighbors, seventy-five thousand Klansmen were assembled at Dallas to enjoy, as the Freeman puts it, “what might be called a good hate.” At this klonvention the Imperial Wizard read out of \merican society all Catholics, Roman or Greek; all Jews and all Negroes. In other words he ¢ clared war on about forty per cent. of our population, including a majority of the races to which Lloyd George had reference. “After nearly two thousand years’ preaching of the re of amity,” Herbert Spencer once wrote to a correspondent, “the religion of enmity remains predominant, and Europe is peopled by two hundred million pagans, masquerading as Christians, who revile those who wish them to act on the principles they profess.” If the plans of the Imperial Wizard go forward as he hopes, this statement will soon apply with equal force to Americ Lloyd George will stand klontradicted. sity in its modern form,” according to Dr. . HE UNIV cholas Murray Butler, “is as yet only partially conscious of its place in civili and Alma Mater’s Answer ion and its mission.” Dr. Butler expressed this opinion at the ceremonies attend- ing the inauguration of Chancellor Hadley of Washington University, St. Louis. Curiously enough the next day, which was Armistice Day, there was announced from Washington, D.C, the creation and incorporation of the National Vigilance Committee. ‘This organization is sponsored by college and university presidents in all parts of the country; its main pur- pose is to fight the Ku Klux Klan. We can think of no better answer to Dr. Butler's challenge, and of no better method of observing Armistice Day. We hope the National Vigilance Committee will consider no armistice with the Klan until the latter resembl s Germany, y, only more so. “The university takes its place by the side of the Church the State as one of three fundamental institutions of modern civilization on its moral and spiritual side,” was another thing that Dr. Butler said about it. As the backbone of the National Vigilance Committee it takes its place by the side of the State but several jumps ahead of the Church. ‘The Church had its opportunity to discourage and defeat the Klan and all that it stood for. Instead the Church, or an influential section of it, fostered the Klan and by so much it has abdicated as a servant of civilization in favor of its daughter, the university. and 13 We shall see now which is to prevail in the United States, the mortar board or the hood, the doctor's robe or the night- gown. An Object Lesson , if weican believe the newspupers, HE STUDENTS at Vas: have burdened their honor system with a number of blue laws, against smoking, against the exhibition of bare knees on the campus, against the wearing of knicker- bockers in the dining-room, ete.—regulations with which an appreciable percentage of the girls are not in sympathy. These regulations are being violated and their violation en- dangers the whole structure of the honor system. so that some we publicly the advis So much ago the sophomores and juniors debated ability of abolishing it altogether, since the impracticability of its rigid enforcement wassundermining all discipline and the whole notion of honor. After the debate, however, the student body voted to retain the honor system, but with modifications. A com- mittee was appointed to give the matter study. At last accounts its report, divorcing the blue law regulations from the important rules and suggesting that public opinion be en- trusted to take care of the former, was awaiting adoption. What a pity we can’t rehabilitate the Constitution of the United States in this same enlightened manner. $393,000,000 \ K J waver’t before us for reference a copy of the plat- form adopted at the National Convention of the Republican Party in 1920, but if it doesn’t contain a plank or planks calling for rigid economy in governmental expenditure and a drastic reduction of the tax burden we'll agree to commit the entire document to memory and recite it in Greek to Mussolini. Why, then, the fury with which the politici Secretary Mellon's of tax reduction? have received program But this is hardly a sincere question because we already Secretary Mellon has naively assumed that he was appointed to office to carry out the fiscal pledges of his party, and his honest effort to do so has caught his hard-boiled party They had been advancing so confidently on the Treasury while the Secretary, whether consciously or not, held his fire. He obeyed the old injunction, “Don't shoot till you see the whites of their eyes,” and then he let them have it, not with words, after the manner of a politician, but with figures after the manner of a business man. dum bullets. know the answer, and so do you. associates completely by surprise. Figures to the average politician are dum- In congratulating the Secretary of the Treasury on this latest evidence of his single-minded desire to serve his country we don't wish it understood that we oppose the bonus. It is not true that the choice lies between the adoption of Mr. Mellon’s program and a bonus, unless a craven Congress so decrees. We might enjoy the entire redu m_ proposed the bonus—with a tax on light wines and beer, or with the tax proposed as a substitute for the tariff on sugar. Neither of these levies would add a penny to our expenditures. Indeed, as JupGE has been at pains to point out more than once, to legalize light wines and beer money in our pockets. and still pa and tax them would mean But the Anti-Saloon League goes berserk at mention of the one and Mr. Smoot grows apoplectic at thought of the other, and so Congress as a whole was quietly planning to say as little as possible about the reduction of taxes and to make us pay the bonus from the surplus—when Mr. Mellon uttered his figures. Who would have supposed that to publish a little sum in arithmetic could so confound a nation! comicbooks.com