Judge — January 29, 1927 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Editor, Norman Anthony. Oil and Water T seems a shame to add another indiscretion to the I Mexico-Nicaragua mess, but doesn’t it simmer down to this, that the American Government is pursuing an imperialistic policy in Mexico and Central America for very definite reasons? One of these reasons is the Panama Canal. Another is Mexican oil. Both of these things are considered of such vital importance to the country in a military as well as a material way that the Amer- ican Government is sensitive to the slightest threat against its control of them, It cannot brook ascendancy in the nations that command the Canal by other than its own friends, no matter what the legal or technical rights of their rivals, and it cannot acquiesce in the alienation of the Mexican oil lands from its own nationals. In other words, in assessing the acts of your Govern- ment in Central America you, as an American, must first decide whether you would retain unimpaired the very obvious national advantages afforded by control of the Panama Canal and Me n oil, or would be willing to see them go by the board. For it is idle to assume that such treasures can be retained without imperialism. It is not only Russia that would delight in depriving us of them and thus checking the advance of capitalism, but every one of our capitalistic rivals. We either maintain our creatures in charge of this strategic strip of continent or they put in theirs. It is the old choice between power and saintliness, or, if you please, between might and right, and it isn’t any easier to make nationally than personally, or now than 1,900 years ago. st et et He SD r. KetirocG has chosen power, and so in similar circumstances has every one of his predecessors, even the pious Bryan. And if he knew how to put hi: choice upto the American people he'd have the vast majority of them behind him, for certainly a people nurtured on the Religion of Success can be in no mood for the great renun- ciation. It isn’t what Kellogg has been trying to do so much as the way he has gone about it and the reasons he has given that has brought all the blushes. The old gentleman, trembling with the hypocrisy of his upbringing and the awe of political expediency, has been playing with lies and subterfuges until he has become so entangled and ridiculous, and his country with him, that we can plainly hear the laughter of the gods. As Secretary of State he is an excellent e ponent of the Charleston. How the Countess Karolyi must be enjoying his performance! Associate Editors, William Morris Houghton, William Edgar Fisher, Phil Rosa, Jack Shuttleworth. Dramatic Editor, George Jean Nathan Onward, Christian Soldiers Se LONG ago that it embarrasses us to think of it, we 7 urged the officers of the Ku Klux Klan to get aboard the anti-evolution band wagon and grab the reins. we fear, it is too late, and our old friend, the Invisible Empire, with its romantic knight gowns and night hoods, with its hempen nooses and tar kettles, is doomed to wither in the shadow of the Supreme Kingdom. Hatreds, like all strong emotions, are hard to sustain, unless they are reciprocated with an equal ardor. Once the Klan had sold memberships to all whom it could induce to hate the Catholics or the negroes or the Jews, it should have sought out as quickly as might be a fresh source of social vitriol and have tapped it against the day, just ahead, when the old antipathies would seem as stale as old jokes. Its failure to do so was bound to result shortly in a wholesale defection of membership and the reduction to a mere trickle of the golden flood that once made even a dentist forsake his calling. Of all the patriot promoters of the late Klan only Edward Young Clarke seems to have understood this principle, or circumstances have conspired to permit him to take advantage of it. Euchred out of his grip on the Klan exchequer and unfrocked, as it were, he turns up now with a brand new brotherhood founded on a fresh hate and seemingly as vital as the Klan is moribund. The Supreme Kingdom, we learn, has established organiza- tions in sixteen states. It publishes an organ named “Dynamite.” It has John Roach Straton under a $30,000 contract as chief ballyboo in a national drive for 4,000,000 members, at from $12.50 to $1,000 each. gerous rival is Aimee Semple McPherson. Its only dan- Wig Wag W: quote from an editorial in the New York World: “Recently King George of England let it be known that he harbored an intense dislike for bobbed hair; and now, according to a dispatch, ladies of the court who had been indisereet enough to patronize a barber are wearing wigs until their hair grows again. Is there i man so dull that he does not know what that mean: It means that in the next six months we are going to see nothing but wigs, wigs and still more wigs...” We can’t believe it. What, American women accom- modate their appearance to the whim of a foreign king? Never! _ When have they shown any tendency to kow to royalty? W.M. H. comicbooks.com