Judge — January 10, 1925 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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ap Antbony The Crossword Souse Fads are one of our conspicuous ‘national vices. But the explanation of the crossword puzzle craze lies deeper. Like other peoples we crave the kind of dissipation that takes us out of ourselves and 1 worries and boredom of our squirrel-cage existence. But unlike most other peoples we rt to dissi for its own sake without @ pricking of conscience idea that we are wasting our time unless what we some tangible utilitarian value obsesses us. we make such a play of turning our luncheons into busi- ness conferences, our out-of-town “parties” into business conventions, our golf into. selling bee indoor and out, into self-improvement agencies. And that is why we have fallen so hard for the cross- word puzzle. sus forget the can't re |] our sports, It absorbs our minds, drugs our senses. brings us the peace and forgetfulness we erave, and at the same time we can kid ourselves that it inereases our voeab vt that it really does and improves our minds. these things any more than junketing to Montreal or Havana with the Nationa’ tion of Dried Fish Dealers or the Associated Manufacturers of Furniture improves our business. But there is just enough plausibility in the notion to make us quite comfortable while we wallow in the new lethe, Ain't we got fun? Assoc} Sitting Pretty In spite of such afflictions as the crossword puzzle craze this country plays in extraordinary luck. A few months ago we were on the verge of despair over agricul- ture and in danger of a granger revolt, when in the nick of time along comes a partial failure of crops almost everywhere but in our own back 1. Coincidentally the Dawes Plan is put in oper rope recovers her confiden Our wheat crop, therefore, is worth $400,000,000 more than it was last year, and all our crops $750,000,000 more. Consider that a bit of cheer for the New Year! We ought to rec the Statue of Liberty, this time to Lady Luck. It would be infinitely more appropriate nd is in a mood to buy our grains. What the Censor Seeks It is an old truism of sociology that man is a gregarious animal. It follows that he finds his most congenial com- pany among others like himself. That is why every blessed one of us is striving consciously or unconsciously to be like our fellows or to make them be like us. Censors are no exception to the rut Long the victims loped a morbid of repressed sex impulses, they {asoriate Editors, William Morris Honghtoa, William Edgar Fisher. Dramane Buitor, Jean S, ‘They see it allusion to sex. TL infuriates them that the rest of us able to be like sy insist that we shall become lke Interest mm smut read it, smell it im every shouldn't enjoy the same reaction. And usin this particular t that i noses for smut ar AML they are them: pressed. too. until Ito the p nial company. pe ir hy theirs things nt attain after is The Model City The advocates of a blue Sunday for the United States Wf the Jones bill. This bill will clamp down the lid on the District of Colum ure pressing in Congress for the pass bia, forbidding all business and entertainment, including Its sponsors consider it the first step along that well blazed trail that leads to a Constitutional amendment and national regulation. First a law victimizing the defenseless District: of Columbia, then a bill to force striet Sunday regulations on the Army and Navy, then one to take th life for our nd possessions. golf and the movies, on Sunday. 1 blue laws joy out of Next an . and finally on the nation as awhole. It is a program which the Anti-Saloon League perfected, and which is now standard for the national in- fliction of intoleranc d bigotry in whatever form, Pity the District of Columbia! Without representa tion or a voice of any kind in its own government, its citizens must sit by helplessly whether to throw it as a sop to the | unfortun assault on individual Si while Congress decides One would wp the pri of pital and model city of a free Republic. say it had to pay rather handsomely contaiming the « The Worst Is Yet to Come Jay, it may be, all our towns will be in much the plight as Washington. ‘I mayors and councilmen, but the police power will f Some sam y may continue to elect ve passed to the Federal Government and we shall be gov- ered exclusively by laws like the Volstead Act or the Jones Bill made in Congress. sibly then the Federal yverninent will a case of TP A few of our towns, self-gov perfeet Philadelphia, for instance, in importing Gen, Smedley D. Butler, has done her best to this end Recently Schenectady. N. Y.. applied to the War Depart- ment for a replica of General Butler to 1 Fortunately the Federal upply one police officers, as. she tau San Domit Wn approximation o! Ineost does in’ the Prince and s MH enjoyin . seem anxious to anticipate this add her polic vernment finds it can't every Tom, Dick WoW, wns. comicbooks.com