Judge — May 28, 1927 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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XOURSELF I do not agree with a werd that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say il.” Tolerance Dear Teva To ple 1 the people all the time is manifestly impossible. Yet you print letter after letter from dis- gruntled readers who have some trivial thing against the magazine— the movie criticisms—the wood cuts— Judge, Jr. or Judgette—W. M. H— ad infinitum. If you were to try to please even a few of these you would have no magazine left. The point is this. One doesn’t have to read all that one sees. No one forces you to do it. And what may bore you to death may give a lot of enjoyment to somebody else. De gustibus non disputandum est. For instance, M. H. bothers me. But other people write in and praise him highly. Therefore, I would not advocate his literary ‘execution. I don’t look at his editorials or criti- cisms, and I don’t have to think more about him. A preacher once said that, if he could give the Great American Peo- ple any one thing, he would chose the quality of tolerance. We, as a peo- ple, have none whatsoever, and of the places it most frequently shows your “Judge for Your- self” column. I return to my original point. If we don’t like something, let’s not read it. But, for heavens’ sake, let’s not inflict our likes and dislikes on the rest of the world, and at the same time tell the other fellow that he is a lot of hot air. In other words, let’s be tolerant. Sincerely, F. W. Wallingford, Connecticut April 8, 1927. Mr. Keedy, Please Note Sir Jv There was a time when I had an idea that West Virginia was a small state with just commonplace folk existing there. People with little wit and no imagination. But that idea was dispelled in the April 9th issue of your most admirable paper. Friend Harold 0. Keedy, Martins- burg, W. Vir. (there’s an abbrevi: tion I bet you don’t see often) has done the trick. Mr. Keedy is the gent who com- posed the crossword masterpiece i above dated issue. I've seen p and puzzles, but never before one like that. Say, Judge, just between you, me and Mr. Keedy let’s have some more puzzles like that one, huh, wha Guess T've said enough, so, Au revoir, Francis B. Kaylor, Jr. Hempstead, N. Y. April 8, 1927. —VOLTAIRE Admirable Columbus Dear Juvce: As a resident of Columbus, Ohio, I wish to take exception to the letter by a “Knight of the Road,” in your April 2nd issue, saying that Colum- bus is not a real city. I am proud to have lived in Colum- yi bus the past twelv ATS, n N. Y. City, where I was raised, cannot compare with Columbus in some re- spects, such as having the largest percentage of native-born Americans of any city of its size (90 per cent.) and our obedience to law. It is true that we make an attempt to obey the law here (Prohibition and otherwise) and even see that the en- forcement officers obey the law them- selves. Columbus is one of the livest capitol cities of the Nation, and we have ten thousand colle; students in Columb and if the “Knight of the Road” 1 truly looked us over, he would have been put to shame by the high average intelligence of the sinfully employed Columbusite. We have one of the finest and snappiest dressed police forces in the country. It is small but unbribed. Over one third of Columbus belongs to some church, As a physician I am proud of Columbus, of its police department, the hotels, the Elks Club, and the physicians, too, that did not bootleg to the Knight. If he wished to get a - white mule kick to justly blind him from seeing the glories of Nature, he could have gone to Canada or Kentue in a few hours, We are called the Convention City of the United States, and have the fifth highest building in the world, a hotel of a thousand rooms that even Mayor Jimmy Walker said was the finest in the world. Just a law-abiding Columbus medico, Ga. W. Keil Columbus, Ohio April 10, 19: Tue Novice Anyhow, now I know which is rev se. PATLER THWAND TANOHE PRINTING CO. INC. JAMAICA, No 8 comicbooks.com