Judge — April 26, 1924 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Editors, Douglas H. Cooke Well, anyway, it’s nice out of Dawes. The Commoner Comes On One comforting sign that the Presidential eam- paign just opening is to be of the good old- fashioned sort is the reappearance of Bill Bryan with a fresh ballyhoo. What the circus is to spring, such is Dr. Bryan with his legislative liniments to sidential year. His ac or torchlight proce is as much a part of ns, or as the national conventions themselves with their dripping delegates and their bands blaring forth “Silver Threads Among the Gold.” Per- haps as Bill sings it, it is, “Silver Threads Among the Crosses of Gold.” Mr. Bryan has lately been heard from suggesting that the Government pay the campaign expenses of candids for office to save them and their parties from “obligating themselves to the predatory interests.” A. grand idea, espe- cially for candidates like Mr. Bryan to whom running for office is a form of recreation. But God help the taxpayer! ‘S Mr. A. B. See, Please Note ~ 2 Bd We quote from a recent issue of the ? New York World: “Hair bobbing is at the rate of 2,000 a day in Brooklyn. Barbers are on the verge of collapse, but must still wield the Feminine heads must be pushed into new sand millinery does not recognize puffs, bumps, coils and knobs. scissors. And yet only last spring the rumor spread that bobbed hair Was going out of fashion. Evidently we mistook a momentary lull in the advance of the tide for a permanent recession, as a good many people once thought that we were tiring of th horsel riage and would go back to the horse. not gone back to the horse nor is it probable that women will go back to hair. Undoubtedly the hat manufacturers have had a great deal to do with the acceleration of this revolution, Milliners insist that the bobbed haired woman is the average woman and those who stick to their more or less shining coils must have their hats made to order. But in fairness to the hat makers it should he recognized that the change v Women as a sex have entered industry and there seems to be some sort of affinity between a steady job and a haircut. A century ago when men were first adapting themselves to the industrial revolution the, process. ‘as inevitable, went through the same pruning Until Thomas Jefferson became President they wore their hair in long powdered queues tied at the end with a flowing ribbon, Jefferson set the fashion of a shorter queue as more becoming to a democratic people. Then came Madison “with a queue no bigger than a pipe stem, sir,” and it wasn’t 15 long before the whole blooming thing was cut off and man settled down to a life of dandruff and deferred haircuts. It will be the same with the women, we predict. The bob is a transitional stage between the “crowning glory” of their of their brothers and fathers. Al- ready they are having the backs of their heads close-cropped. Soon we shall be seeing their ears, and then maybe we shall even note their brains. mothers and the “shingle” A Good Place for Babies Those citizens of our common country who like to point the finger of scorn at »w York City may be interested to learn that in 1923 the rah of our civilization, city of sin, had the lowest infant death rate of all cities in the United States. A great many devout Americans no doubt will shed tears over this intelligence, on the ground that babies doomed to the corrupting influence of a town that idolizes Al Smith and tolerates Greenwich Village and laughs at William Jennings Bryan were better dead. But we can’t help feeling that even in New York a live baby is to be preferred to a dead wicked” city whose citizens make a great effort to save their babies’ lives is really better in the eyes of the Lord than a “righteous” one whose good people are somewhat less concerned. Sodom and Gomor- our abandoned one and that possibly a“ A famous quotation suggests itself: ‘Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” We are also reminded of Abou Ben Adhem, whose name led all the rest! Maybe the same holds true of New York City despite its open hostility to Volstead. Law and Order We have long suspected that there was something fundamentally phony about the expression, “law and order.” Frank nt issue of the New Republic, puts his finger on it when he and order in this country are mutually How simple and obvious, now that he has Simonds, in a rece remarks that law exclusive terms. said it! There is only one modification we would suggest in his dictum, It is statutory law that conflicts with order. Statutory law is to real law what paper money is to coin. Real law i represented by the common law and the Bill of Rights. It is founded on the customs and traditions of the race and sane- tioned by 95 per cent. of the community and promotes order as the gold standard promotes prosperity. And it may be that a certain amount of statutory law, based strictly on real law, necessary a suppl is as based on an But the United States supports one large and forty-eight smaller mills constantly grinding out statutory law (made by the mile and enforced with the foot), so that long ago our legislation paper basis. ment to real law as bank notes ample gold reserve are to coin. assed from a real to a strictly are swamped with paper statutes sroad are swamped with paper money: y we as some of the nation: - scan- dals, corruption from one end of the country to the other and not excluding the National Capital. The result. is chaos—raids, lynchings, murders, piracy, Some day, maybe, we'll do with our paper laws what the Russians have done with their rubles and the Germans with their marks—paper our walls with them—and get back to a basis of real law. Think what a pretty wall design the Volstead act would make, flanked, say, by the law against the transporta- tion of fight films, the two surmounted by a portrait of our former Attorney General and Chief Enforcement Officer!