Judge — December 15, 1923 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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= icon, Norman Anthony To the bootleqger the Ki is the Santa ghteenth Amendment Claus of the Constitution. Luck to sentence his erities to jail Craig’s HE auTHORITY of a ju | is in for a thorough airing, In the meantime it is a little hard to understand why the friends of Comptroller Craig, of New York, should have been so bent on keeping him from serving his term. What particular hardship is there, even for a commoner, in going to jail for sixty days with the full sympathy of the community? One is merely being compelled to take as it should be. a generous vacation at the problems, troublesome unday papers the State’s expense. The warden becomes a flattered host, ul servants. Knott callers, bills, German bands, even the $ be excluded. And the every waking moment. trusties turn perso! all may sweet sense of martyrdom. suffuses Add to all these advantages the major consideration, n, of the publicity involved and little wonder th ig has been displaying such splendid spirits, to the mystif fora Mr. politic Cr tion of the reporters. A martyr’s wreath entwined about the brow, A nation’s tears, a loaf of month About me, churning up th Ah, prison bars we S. t row country side— > parad To keep him out of jail will spoil his Christmas. “There Is Hope” ‘+k Brooks are not genry L. Mencken and Van W; H exactly the greatest pals we Ameri (When it comes to that we seem to prefer the daily com- panionship of Dr. Frank Crane and Eddie Guest.) But at least they est critics. Mr. Mencken has long ago concluded, with much plausible argument, that as a people » congenitally inferior. To this slight defect he attri- not only the wave of repression and intolerance from which we suffer to-day but our willingness to put up with it. But Mr. heartening explanation, for which we personally wish to thank him. ns boast. are our sev Brooks has come along recently with a more All those who were about to give up in despair and agree with Mr. Mencken may brief, all is not lost. now take a fresh grip. In Says Mr. Brooks in the Freeman: We are pli ainly suffering now from the inevitable effects of the racial intermixture of the last half century. The less a population has by nature in common the more it tends to impose upon itself a forced unity, the result being that national will and individual will come to be opposed to one another—a condition that is virtually bound to continue until the nation has really achieved the unity which, as a nation, it is driven to seek. In other words, the South ballyhoos for Prohibition because it thinks it is good for the negro, and the North because it would impose Anglo-Saxon notions of decorum and industry 19 on the aliens in its mills. We flirt with censorship for the same reason that a social worker takes up the Americanization of immigrants, and when we talk of putting Communists in jail it is always “foreigners” we have “Who can say,” asks Mr. Brooks process [that of achieving natio in mind. “how long a time the al ‘unity and, presumably, individual freedom] will require or whether it will ever reach its consummation?” We can say this: that the policy of restricting and selecting our immigrants will hasten it, tinue and even further accentuate this policy we shall deserve to be known as Mencken's morons, and unless as a nation we con- In Reserve onumpra Uxiverstry has a working capital now of C 000,000 and a student body approaching 30,000. The University of California, its rival in size, reports an en- ‘lass this year of 10,000, with students of chemistry and other popular subjects sitting 2,000 strong in one lecture hall. In other words, the manufacture of the higher lea definitely on a quantity basis. We are reminded that twenty years ago when the Harvard Stadium was still a thing of wonder President Eliot > erection of these huge expensive, permanent t of intercollegiate sport They could not foresee the » When these stadiums would be needed to accommodate the overflow from the classrooms. The Conn. School of Medicine had to be appropriate the wooden mutmeg State? But the “diploma mill” tering ning is and other thoughtful educators were deploring t} Such + made a vested int masonry amphitheaters. they felt and helped perpetuate its evils. now not far distant struc- tures, day, Pris couNTRY flooded with quack doctors, than that they should come from the late P. T. what more Connecticut, home of Barnum, the wonder grows that all these graduates of the taken the risk and the trouble of smuggling themselves into the ranks of orthodox medicine. To hear the doctors grieve, one would suppose that their patients had long since deserted them for the silver-tongued salvationists outside the profession. It is really rather reassuring that with all the competition from the chiros and the tyros there should still he found so many fakers anxious to be classed as M.D.’s. It will be time to mourn the passage of the medical profession when there are should have no more “diploma mills.” Hail and Farewell! k. Cook, no doubt, deserves his punishment, and pos- sibly even the hysterical denuneiation by the judge who sentenced him, though the us slightly: unsportsmantike circumstances. judge’s thunder seemed to and certainly superfluous in the But now that the Doctor's career appears at an end we can’t help acknowledging a sense of obligation to him as the most picturesque and daring faker of our time. Surely here was an ego out of the ordinary, gifted with an ambition to glitter on the beyond his talents to gratify or his « to curb, This ambition of his may have degenerated at the last to a mere vulgar desire for wealth, but in its prime it craved such imaginative triumphs as the conquest of Mt. McKinley and the discovery of the North Pole. Nothing mean or sordid about the hunger for such glories, and how close he came to making them his own! But though luck was against him, he carried the art of the charlatan to heights undreamed of by the ge » Doctor. King of Den- mark nor a d, Vt help feeling that his- tory is a little richer for your appearance. stage of life aracter crality of swindlers. 30od-bye Since we are neither the »bler in oil stocks we ce: icbooks.com