Judge — April 23, 1927 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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Ls Wilson of Mississippi Dear Jvvcr: While you're out fighting bigotry in general, don't forget the Honorable T. Webber Wilson, Representative in Congress from the sovereign State of Mississippi. In case you don’t know—he just in- troduced a bill which would make it compulsory for every magazine to show a copy to a national board of censorship before being published. Failure to do so would result ina fine of $10,000 or imprisonment for not longer than ten years. You just got to give that boy a hand. Just before I close I'd like to stick in a word about Florida. For the time being, anyway, you can put a bet on the races openly or get a drink the same way. Yours with the best of luck, Walter Wallace Miami, Florida February 23, 1927. P, S.—All the girls down here wear two sets of garters—one to place and one to show. He Has His Favorites Dear Sir: I have been an earnest reader of Junce for quite some time and have also read the page devoted to readers’ communication thing I have against this last-named page is that the majority of your writers are prejudiced, biased and narrow as ne is, and that in some fairly narrow (prohibition). First of all, let me comment on George Jean Nathan. I started to read your magazine because he was on your staff, and, to be truthful, I still read it for that reason. George Jean is the best humorist on your staff. As to his merits as a critic I am unable to render an opinion. Judge, Jr., is fair. Just fair. He has somewhere gained the idea that the majority of the people in this country are interested in new recipes. I might add that I sort of like the older recipes. Gordon water, etc. are more or less surplus so far as | am concerned. Judgette reminds me of a sopho- more co-ed, with one cocktail on a blind date, and finds that she is out with the junior class presi W. M.'H. as a movie critic is wet. If he won't cease writing the reviews, will you kindly have him look over Nathan’s column? I think he is at- tempting to steal Nathan’s form, but I think his efforts are far from what is termed a success. W. M. H. writes good editorials. I may not agree with everything he says, but he has a right to say it. However, tell him not to advocate lawlessness. To repeal the Eighteenth Amendment is 0. K. ‘To break it is rebellion and to advocate or incite re- bellion is treason. I would not like to have the job of defending W. M. H. on such a charge. However, your magazine is worthy of praise. Permit me to congratulate you on your work and to assure you that I will buy your magazine each week and not write you any more letters. Yours very truly Lewis Keys Columbus, Ohio February 25, Samson’s Bet My dear Jvnce: Regarding “gambling,” asthe preachers call the most innocent risk- ing of anything in a game, and the Bible attitude towards it: would read the Bible itself, instead of taking some time-serving preacher's say-so about it, you would come to have more respect for it and_ its teaching. Samson was quite a Bible hero; but if you will read the fifteenth chapter of the Book of Judges (your own namesake), you will see where Sam- son bet THIRTY CHANGES OF RAIMENT; that is, thirty suits of clothes, with certain other gay sports of his day that they could not guess his riddle. The gay young sports were crooked, and double-crossed him, and so won the be And this dirty work, “the Sp Lord came upon him” to slay, and he sle Now, I have “gambled” all my life; but I never in my most extravagant moods bet thirty Suits of clothes, Ex- cept in the eyes of the preachers, who make a comfortable living out of it, playing a game for a prize, individual or collective, is not condemned in the Bible. ‘The preachers have left only two commandments out of the origi- nal, viz: the fourth and the seventh. They have no hesitation in themselves breaking the ninth: for they “bear false witness” not only against their neighbor, but against the Bible it- self, and so bring it into disrepute. Yours for truth and the Bible, M. D. Folin Detroit, Michi February 15, 1927. Judge Lindsey Knows Editor of Jvver. My pear Sin: I would like to thank rnor for the editorial in the issue of February 26th on Judge Lindsey. As a representative of what the Aunty- Everythings dub the “Younger Gen- eration,” I feel I'm qualified to si that Judge Lindsey knows what he's talking about. And it is a great re- lief to feel that he is not fighting alone in the cause of sanity. I can only hope that Juncr, the ma will be able to help him m on the adamantine intelligen dear little self-appointed sa want to throw in prison anyone who rouses their thoughts from their Rip Van Winkle nap and makes them rub the dust of decades from their eyes. Grer-r-r-r-r! Thank you! (Miss) Betty Kelling Wellesley College Wellesley, Mass., February 25, 1927. Lovar Girt-Frienp—Anyhow, W-waldemar, it’s n-no exer- tion to sh-shake c-cocktails in a F-f-ford. 32 EDWARD LANGER PRINTING CO., JAMAICA, No Ye comicbooks.com