Judge — November 27, 1926 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Fortune's Pel » MULCH may happen between now and 1928 that we refuse either to commit ourself to any candidate for President or to put much stock in the waxing specu- lation about this man’s chances or that man’ hope, will quiet. those This, we We haven't, f our readers who are contendi that we have already come out for AL Smith. though now that the Ku Klux Klan has opened a nation- wide camp inst him the temptation to do so is tt te we were a politician with an eye on the presidency in 1g we would consider it, nothing short of a miracle of good fortune should the Klan start two y us. The K object of national derision, Ts rs beforehand 1 to-day is an ‘tivities have made it contemptible; its ritual has made it ridiculous. Tn Indiana, the last of its political strongholds, Meredith Nicholson is asking why his S\ ate, while spending all the money it docs to educate and inform its people, should make itself known as a “land of boobs.” with 200,000 cf its sns willing of hating their nei ing a sheet. needu't despair. The thing won't last even in Indiana, now that it is identified there with the rule of the fra- o pay S10 a head for the privile; hbors and we: grant Stephenson. An organization might live down a reputation for vin- dictiveness and unprincipled conduct. Tt might: even But it can't do both. Two years from now the Klan will have no more adherents than Mah Jongg. though in the meantime it will have been doing Al Smith the inestimable service of identifying with its silence ridicule. discredited self the whole cause of intolerance. ae eee ee es A vert n Rune has been writing a series of articles for * A” the Republican New York Herald-Tribune entitled “AL Smith and the New South.” The first interview he quotes is that with the editor of a dry Virginia paper. AL Smith's ele id this editor, “would mean a ictory for tole: “Intolerance.” he went ¢ f the menacing facts in American life to-da he expressed concern over what he deseribed as the constitutional, un-American * disz V Tu- ility,” which would prevent a Catholic from becomiig President.” In con- centrating its che acteristic stream of vituperation against Al, the Klan will simply be making hundreds of thousands of votes for him among those who, like this Virginian editor, would rejoice to see the principle of tolerance vindicated in this land even at the expense of other principles which they consider important but less pressing. JUDGE Shuttleworth, Dramatic Editor, George Jean Nathan Dossinny Al's friends can persuade the Methodist Board of T Prohibition and Public Mor: join hands with the Klan. Some men are always hav- ing real causes for ‘Thanksgiving. perar Our Ox Is Gored Te South is suffering from a disastrous overproduction of cotton, which has fore 1 the price helow the cost of production. Tt faces a cut of $500,000,000 in its pur chasing power —with painful repercussions in the rest of the country—unless some agency. public or private. comes to the rescue, Not only must a means be found of holding off the market a substantial percentage of the present crop, but there must be something done to restrict the acreage of future crops. The situation is similar to that which faced the British rubber producers in th Indies a few years ago and led to those measures of | lection so passionately denounced by Herbert Hoover. What does our pious Government propose to do in the circumstances? Will it take its cue from Mr. Hoover's crusade and denounce every official attempt at valori tion as an outrageous interference with the economic law of supply and demand and a fraud on the ‘ign buyer of cotton? Not exactly. Already it has helped to finance, through the Federal intermediate credit agencies, a volun- tary pool which aims to take 4,000,000 bales of cotton off the market and hold them for two years if necessary. And it is looking on benignly while the governments of the various cotton States consider how they may limit cotton acreage by statut Personally, we sincerely hope that by governmental agency or otherwise the South arrives at as effective a means of valorization as the expor behalf of the British rubber plant tha lapse into the Hiram Johnson manner, if politicians dare start blushing. They Shall Not Pass! F it weren't for an oe duties adopted in But we also hope Mr. Hoover will have the grace to blush over his late sional foreign lady with rad leanings we should hardly know that the breath of life still animated the venerable Kellogg. But let such a one attempt to set foot on the sacred soil of the Land of Liberty and out of his box pops the lemon Seeretary ats full of vim and vinegar as a two-year-old. Wha in? Over his dead body! ss to argue with the old gentleman that the Countess Karolyi is not a Com- munist, and that Mme. Kollantay, who is, mer to cross the country on her way to Mexico. what he knows about wimmen! . let her Ht is use! wished No siree, W.M. HH. comicbooks.com.