Judge — May 9, 1925 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Hibter, Norman Aptbony, te From the aphorisms of Father Knickerbuckner—The lush laughs at locksmiths. oe However, a town that « ay to live with Mayor Hylan and Bishop Manning ought to be allowed to drink in pzace. So This Is New York T° THE rest of the country, no doubt, New York seems a hard-boiled, sophisticated, cosmopolitan: metropolis. (It is often called even harsher names.) But that only argues a depth of naiveté on the part of the rest of the country that is probably without a parallel in history. New York is still merely a country town grown big. For proof of which take any one of its quaint, ingenuous cus- toms—for example, that of sending reporters down the bay to intercept distinguished foreign visitors with self- conscious questions. ey When Dean Inge approached these shores recently every paper in New York sent one, and some more than one, man to Quarantine to board his boat—“‘one of the largest groups of reporters and special writers who have gone down the bay this year to meet a distinguished visitor,” to quote the excited Times. They cornered him in the saloon—pardon us, lounge (second cabin, by the way)—and immediately, like a bevy of flappers about a lion at a pink tea, began importuning him to tell the world what he thought of Prohibition, of flappers, of the doctrine of the Virgin Birth, of liberalism, of anti-evolution legis- lation, of America’s place in world affairs, ete., ete. ‘Too often the victims of these Main Strect offensiv not only flabbergasted but flattered by them, and frayed into reaching for serious answers to the questions put. But the Gloomy Dean was quite equal to the ocea- sion, Of Prohibition he said that it gave him no concern: “LT shall be here only three weeks.” Asked whether civilization was dying at the top, he said: “I'm not so sure it: has been achieved yet.” Of liberalism) in the church: don't want to discuss liberalism in the church. Men get into trouble in New York for doing it.” To the question whether he thought th rn flappers any worse than their grandmothers, bi with a shrug “T don't know their grandmothers. But evidently he knows New York for the silly, pop eyed young vill: it is, notwithstanding its skyline, its gunmen, the Algonquin and Babe Ruth. * oa a m repli HE righteous are rejoicing bec the front pages of cight leading Eastern newspapers, made at the University of Pennsylvania, shows that much less space than formerly is being devoted to crime news use a recent survey of im, Williams Edgar Fisher, Philip Rosa, Dramatic £ But that may mean simply that erime, being such a com monplace nowadays. is no longer considered in the first categc Vas news. A Word of Caution “| [' MAN liberty: * said General Pershing on the ocea sion of the sesquicentennial of the Battle of Lexington, “is ours to maint by force if need be..." What does he mean, human liberty? One hundred and fifty years ago a handful of farmers bit the dust on Lexington Common rather than submit to certain minor import taxes and trade restrictions Presumably they knew the meaning of the term, human liberty. But the country they baptized with their blood, the country they helped to wrest from Great Britain that it might enjoy human liberty, has really less of it, now than any one of the white colonies of that same Great Britain—less drink, a Kar the teaching « foundland or The Genes under the circumstances he didn't d. must have had in mind was r independence—a very different artic Russia had and has national independence. Has she the other thing? The Minute Men at Lexington didn’t fight for national independence. They didn’t consider it seriously until a year later and then only asa means toan end. What they faced the Red Coats for on April 19, 17 was the other, the real thing. And they would have faced in the same spirit troops from Washington, if there had been a W ington, sent to foree down their throats noxious Federal restrictions for which they had no stomach. Imagine, for instance United States attorn lock their pothonses “Human liberty,” said Gene ral Pershing, maintain, by force if need be. rtainly than Canada, where a man can ican talk, and there are no laws to evolution; less than Australia or New- w Zealand or South Africa. 1 didn’t define human liberty. Perhaps But what he erty but national rbid t human ti . how they would have received a and his dry agents come to pad- “is ours Be careful how you choose your words, General. “4a a Dresipent Cooiince, in speaking to the Daughters of the American Revolution about the intrusion of the Government in business and private affairs, said the only way for the peopl the Government void the constant interposition of is for them dopt a correct course of action, to provide the proper standards of conduct by their own motion.” old George IIT might phrased it We MoI comicbooks.com