Judge — November 27, 1926 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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“AL Is Wise” Dear W.M.E od Gawsh, man, I couldn't believe my eyes when I read your last article on the editorial page of this week's issue. You mean to sit there in your chair and try to tell me that you think Al Smith should be the President of the United Stat Wow! I've been reading your magazine for the past three years or even more, haven't missed an sue, and even wrote one letter defending an editorial of yours that led forth an unsigned and very mussy missive from some bigoted spot-on-the-soil in’ Fort Worth, Tex., who assured me that I was one of those damned souls that w ul ing the heart and morale out of our coun- try, with my drinking. He didn’t give me his name or address, but asked me to let him know what I wanted to do about it. If he reads this, he'll know that I'd he glad to have a little chat with hin But—I'm getting away from the subject. Please, if you have any common sense, refrain from ballyhooing Al for President. ‘The country will never elect him, and you will only waste the efforts of the com- posing-room in setting up the forms. A wise man knows his limits. Al is wise, [ think. Governor of New York isn’t such abad job. Don't fail me now, and make me change to some other magazine. Might I also add that Arthur Rice's letter sure did sound good to me. Me- Cray’s letter, coming from Fair Harvard, was so much bilge, and the only reason that can see that you printed it was that you needed it to fill up space. I can give you clippings from a Mother Goose book that will go better with the readers than that stuff. Sincerely, Hollywood, Fla. S. A. Townsend september 17, 1926. |Ep. Note:—Cheer up! We haven't picked our candidate for President in 1928 yet.] The Cinema’s Sins Editor Jepae: Dear Sir: In your issue of Septem- her 25, Mr. Samuel H. Krone, of Brook- lyn, takes “W. M. H.” severely to task for saying that the movies are cheap and sill, Mr. Krone quotes the annual report of the Motion Picture Commission for 1925, as follows: “It (the movie) has a peculiar appeal to the illiterate, the moron, and the defec- tive.” ‘That, Mr. Editor, was the precise rea- son why I stopped going to the movies ten years ago, Truly, the movie has a peculiar appeal to the illiterate, the moron, and the defective, and not much of an appeal to anybody else—at least, to anybody elae of education, good sense and culture. Further, the movies are exceedingly hard on the eyes. Twenty years ago not one person in s hundred wore glasses; to-day the proportion is much nearer to one in ten, and, to make matters much worse, most of the damage is being done to the eyes of young people between ten and twenty years of a makes a rich harvest for the oculis' the optometrists, and they are keeping very quiet about the cause of all this eye trouble. ‘The newspapers also are keep- ing very mum on the subj as they cannot afford to interfere with the flow of movie advertising dollars into their strong boxes. Smith O'Brien St. Louis, Mo. September 27, 1926, The Science League W. MW Dear Sin the last pare “Little Boys Bh ber 11, you are alluding to the League of America; but from internal evidence I have a suspicion th If so, | think you are not quite With the general spirt of your editorial I am in the heartiest sympathy. But if I don't know whether in graph of your editorial, SS SINS SN SS you have not heard a “single peep” from us for two years, there are two reasons (1) you have not listened to the very energetic “peeps” outlined in the closed leaflet; and (2) no bird can peep very effectively when it is starving. The Science League was founded just two years ago, with an endowment fund of exactly nothing. Our membership, of nal and international scope, is of the it quality, but the quantity grows so slowly (due to lack of funds even to reach those who might be most interested) that we are still having to struggle merely to build an effective organization. For example, the officers have never yet drawn more than a third of their exceedingly nominal salaries. Task you asa personal favor to read our leaflet Carefully, and then see if ure “of the same opinion still"—if it was we whom meant. Our situation is in- deed an indictment of the college presi- dents and professors who have not joined the League, but it is hardly just to cast animadyversions on those who have. 1 happen to know, for example, that (though you are not a college president) you have been sent at least two of our leaflets. What have you done to help us fight the obscurantists? Cordially yours, Maynard Shipley, San Francisco, Cal. President September 14, 1926. Mother (reading fortunes)—I can see an ‘andsome dark man, wearing a bowler ‘at an’ spats Daughter—Yus, * wiv a bag full o’ money in ‘is ‘and. at the front door waiting for the rent. Humorist comicbooks.com