Judge — March 26, 1927 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Lditor, Norman Anthony a college “Drink ’er down, down, down!” paper comes out in favor of and better drinking, what is that a sign HEN more Offhand, we should say it was a sign of zn unwonted disposition on the part of its student readers to neglect the cup that cheers. The Isis, best known magazine at Oxford, has done just that. “Even yet, after many exhortations,” recent Isis editorial, “we have good reason to believe that not sufficient alcohol is consumed in this town. Drinking gallons of beer is not enough. Nobody ever secured alcohol poisoning or a gouty foot from beer. More wine and better wine should constantly be drunk at Oxford. Only thus shall we once mor that mellow, if slightly coarse, flavor which once characteristic of English civilization Imagine an undergraduate publication in one of our own universities making such a p! reads a attain was Imagine the undergraduates in one of our own universities re- quiring that such a plea be made! May we to the editors of the Isis that if they really see the consumption of alcohol increase at Oxford to be sure, it would probably not take the form of wine drinking—they agitate with all their might for « national prohibition law? cc a g PEG who think this editor frivolous lament are jal in the Isis embodies ignorantly mistaken. Most likely at Oxford in the matter of drinking is what went on over here in the decade just preceding the debacle of prohibition, namely, the young people are showing a progressive distaste for the old delights. It is the symptom of a profounder change that is occurring everywhere. Drinking for pleasure, except where speeded up under the exci process; what is going on tements of prohibition, is a leisurely it has a slow rhythm which invites relaxation, It fitted perfectly ion in which men accepted the status quo as something permanent and could afford to pause and dream. It fits very imperfectly into the rush and roar and nervous tension of the industri: 1 revolution. ‘The business of gulping and running ma have its devotees, but in the long run normal nervy: reject it, unless, as we have intimated, their owners are confronted with the challenge of prohibition. And not only does our present industrial age make demands on the nervous system that discourage drinking, but it provides powerful counter attractions. To begin with, there is the subconscious excitement demands quiet and consumes time. into a civilizs Associate Editors, William Morris Houghton, William Edgar Fisher, Phil Rosa, Jack Shuttleworth. Dramatic Editor, George Jean Nathan of a rapidly changing environment, with Lady Luck doing the Charleston to a jazz accompaniment. One has to be alert to watch her steps, and one wants to be. There are automobiles and airplanes and saxo phones and sex appeal and movies and tabloids, all of them in tune with the diapason of modern life, and all of them leaving less time for the old leisurely Lethe. gE might cite the recent W discontinue liquor ads tendency which the Isis deplores. An Englishman named Joad has just written a book entitled “The »bitt. Warren,” in which he makes a_ parallel lament, only he docs not use the consumption of liquor as measure of the alteration in English life. He instead, the spread of what he is pleased to consider the American ide: fond notion that the standards of an industrial age all originated over here. We need hardly point out that although the industrial revolution has probably cached a more advanced stage in this country than elsewhere, it was Mr. Joad’s own countrymen who gave it its initial impetus, and that if Eng’ ing her “mellow, if somewhat coarse, ardly sportsmanlike to blame her x Punch to as a confirmation of the decision of uses, it being his and is now it is flavor” neighbors. et toss Bt to return to the subject of liquor: it is an inter- esting commentary, isn’t it, that in a country which entertains comparatively few restrictions against the consumption of booze, drinking among students should seem to be on the decline, while in our own land it should have spread to include even high school children? which of our God send us the Anti- League? sins did 100% Americana We quote from the New York World: e Ku Klux Klan in Warren County, » has sold its hea aaqus arters, the Cornish Md anon in Belvidere Avenue, Washington, N. J., to. Harry retired dry goods merchant of that town. he sale was made by the Rev. Clark A. Schafer, pastor of three Methodist Episcopal churches in the neighborhood of Washington, acting for the Warren C holding company of the Klan in Warren County mansion cost $100,000. It was bought by the Klan in November, 19 for $20,000, but was sold for $12, Cohen, who will convert it into a ten-apartment house.” Apparently it is still true that the meek shall inherit the earth. W.M.H. Cohen, Corporation, comicbooks.com