Judge — March 5, 1927 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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———] “1 do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Not a Success To “His Honor.” Dear Sm: I am afraid that your Poison Parade would not be a suc- cess. Drs. Straton, Norris, Bishop Manning and all the other so-called intolerants, Liberty-suppressers, fun- damentalists and modernists will be too busy building churches, schools, hospitals, orphanages, and the vari- ous kinds of benevolent institutions that tend to make this old world more enjoyable and comfortable for the great majority of us, to take time off to join your Poison Parade. And, since you invite it, allow me to suggest that you publish weekly, or as often as possible, a page, such as the one in the issue of January 22nd. Head it “Poison Page.” Sprinkle it liberally with cross-bones and skulls, quips and blurbs, and such other mis- information as you can think up about the prohibition question—do.'t bother about truth—Jupoe is a mag- azine of fun and fiction, it not? Such a page ought, in the course of a year, to save many lives. From such a page anyone, though a fool, ought to learn that it is dangerous to drink the booze that is now being offered on the market. Yours truly, Tom Hazlewood Okemah, Oklahoma January 26, 1927. “The Great Day” Editor Juvor. Dear Sm: It was with pleasure that I read your editorial, “The Great Day,” in yours of December 23. From your pungent, iconoclastic pen one might look for a protest against the rant and humbug of the age which has surrounded Christmas —once a period of joy, now a bore. Americans will commercialize any- thing. There is nothing sacred and secure. There is nothing, no thought too sacred, but what the giving part of commerce will assure it, and to use the cant, “Uplift it.” Of course, as you say, the Christ- mas spirit of today is a thing cleverly engineered by the department stores, and manufactures of Christmas Is. We almost all feel this, and know it, but sheep-like, do as we are told, follow the crowd, be inconvenienced and irritated, and submit to this in- tolerable nuisance. As for Bruce Burton, and others picturing the Founder of the Faith, in colors altogether modern, and quite a hundred per cent American, I am rather surprised that they have stopped short. —VOLTAIRE I fully expect to see Him described as a “successful salesman,” a scien- tific advertiser, and highest of all— the first who had the “complete bankers complex.” Robert S. Clulley Toronto, Canada December 29, 1927. Al Smith Please Note Editor Juner. I like your attitude on Prohibition. America needs to be educated to the evils of the Volstead law and you are doing a great work in that line. Keep it up. If the foulest fiends of the nethermost region of Hell had tried to devise something for the destruc- “Good gracious, what the “Well, it was the only way out of it, sir. tion of our country they could have hit upon nothing more effective than Prohibition. It used to be that Pro- hibition was “to save the drunkard,” but now it is being revealed that the purpose is to poison him. We can’t all agree on the same thing. You surmise in one of your editorials that the Ku Klux Klan would vote against Al Smith if he was the next Democratic candidate for president. Your conception of the Klan is all wrong, and if all Klansmen voted against Mr. Smith then he would be out of luck, for there are more of them than you think. For your information I will say that Klansmen are 100 per cent Americans and believe that “no religious qualification is necessary for the holding of public office.” Klans- men who are Democrats will hardly scratch their tickets to vote against Mr. Smith for the sole reason that he is Catholic. If he is a good man—and I believe he is the very best the Dem- ocratic party has—then you need not worry about the votes of those Klans- men who are Democrats. Yours, 8. A. Johnson Buckeye, Arizona January 10, 1927. teen Jere We ’ad to shorten the ’ot and cold water pipes.” —Lonpon Opinion EDWARD LANGER PRINTING CO., JAMAICA, N.Y. comicbooks.com