Judge — March 13, 1926 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Editor, Norman Anthony. Associate Edit Padlockitis ue Federal Government in the role of Aunty Every OP iitngprosrets from onemalevolent idiocy to another. Not content with ordering the deportation of the Countess Catheart because some years ago she violated her marriage vow, it now purposes to padlock from roof to cellar the Brevoort Hotel, in New York, because some one there has been violating the Volstead Act. All this, of course, may be part of a plot to make the law and the Gov- ernment as arbitrary and rid " ulous as possible. If so, may we congratulate the conspirators on their success? eee ee i1é Brevoort stands out among New York’s hotels as the oldest and most civilized, which means that for the yas a whole it is one of the most conspicuous and ished of the few remaining inns of a more tolerant and temperate day. Much of all that has been said in these columns of Mouquin’s restaurant, another of Buckner’s victims, can be said of the Brevoort. Famous for genera- tions for its cuisine and its wines, and also for its quaint conservatism and quiet, it has always attracted as guests those with the taste and cultivation to appreciate this combination. Its old registers are a gold mine of famous autographs, both American and European. Before and during the Civil War it reigned as the favorite hotel among Union officers. To-day any random list of its guests and diners would rey a startling proportion of names associated with the arts, and with gracious living. It is the kind of place to which on a summer's night a hansom cab or horse-drawn victoria naturally gravitates in this age of gasoline juggernauts and j For by late sundown the lower Avenue has almost emptied itself of its honking, hooting modern traffic and a bewildered old cab horse can hear there the cheerful clop, clop of his own hoofs on the warm asphalt. More to the point still, his driver can see in the mellow lights of the ancient hostelry a hint of subdued gayety and the kind of fares who most appreciate the gentle, leisurely transportation he has to sell. So almost any midsummer evening, unless Buck- ner’s ruling is made effective, you will still find them to- gether in their accustomed setting—the graceful old inn in its white dinner jacket and striped awnings, spilling its golden smile over the quiet street, and one or more horse-drawn surv mong the half dozen cabs halted at the curb basking in its radiance. It is a picture that lingers in the mind because it expresses something that has all but gone out of our lives, driven out by the bray saxophone on the one hand and the braying preacher on the other, something for which a good many of us have begun to yearn inexpressibly—temperance. setae A»? now the busy Buckner, in the name of Volstead, 4 would close the Brevoort. “Hotels, saloons, night clubs, speake: and_holes-in-the-wall must all stand equal before the law,” says this paladin of our liberties; “there can be no discrimination.” And yet within the month it was the Buckner himself who said that there could be no such thing as equality before the Volstead Law, that among the hordes of culprits, high and low, big and little, he had to use discrimination. What, then, is the re: the Brevoort? Is it a shrewd sadism that would inflict the maximum of pain upon a long-suffering public at one blow, or a thirst for the greatest amount of publicity with the least effort, or, as we hint above, the desire that Volsteadism be completely disgraced and discredited? We hopefully incline toward the last. But, oh, doctor, the cure is almost more than we can bear! explanation of his move against Communique R« ENT news from the evolution front contains these three significant items: No. 1. The Mississippi Legislature has passed a bill to forbid the teaching in State supported schools of the theory that man is descended, “or ascended,” from a lower order of animals. No.2. The Princeton University Press that two books dealing with the subject of evolution were the best sellers for the past year. One of these books, “Science and Heredit by Dr. Edwin Grant Conklin, chairman of the Princeton Biological Department, has now run through thirteen ed. }00 copi Edward Young Clarke, King Kleagle and main promoter and press agent of the Ku Klux Klan until ed, has started in Supreme Kingdom. the ob, is to make it hot after the Klan manner for evolution and presumably for evolutionists. Comment on these reports seems superfluous. announces ions to the tune o Atlanta a new order known as The membership fee is $10 and But we should like to remind our readers that some time ago we urged the Ku Klux Klan to mount the anti-evolution band wagon. This would have given their crusade of hate the fresh impetus it so badly needs. They can’t blame us if Mr. Clarke has beaten them to it and the Supreme Kingdom overtakes and blankets the Invisible Empire. (Funny how fond our only true Americans are of monarchical forms.) We M. H. comicbooks.com