Judge — June 4, 1927 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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“1 do not agree % your right to say it.” Terribly, Terribly Hurt! Editor Juve: I have been sorely hurt by the flippancy with which your callous readers received my previous com- munication. I was writing from the fullness of my heart. Is there any- thing inherently amusing about a tale of a drunken parent and his son who would remain untainted? I have been endeavoring to restrain myself from writing to you again, but we must turn the other cheek. Can anyone believe in the good- ness of God and slander Prohibition? And yet since the publication of my letter in your magazine I have been scoffed at by some of my acquaint- ances—I cannot call them friends. The world may not be ready for Vol- stead, but was it ready for any Great Prophet? Only last week I found myself, through no fault of mine, at a gin- sodden debauch, and they were using a copy of your book—“Here’s How!” I believe it is called. I had paused in my evening walk, as any Christian would, to help a poor sick young man from his automobile into a house. Upon entering this house I was greeted with cheers and actually embraced by a woman I had never met—it was only then that I realized that the young man I had helped not sick but drunk, drunk. I dashed a drink they had offered me upon the floor and tried to reason with them in their sin, but to what avail? ‘They would not believe that I was not joking. They handed me your book and asked me to read a text from it! Indignantly, Henry Sherman Santa Barbara, California Speaking of Prohibition Good Morning, Junce: Well, Old Top, you certainly must have a great amount of grit to read and then print in your column the wild gentleman as mpeter which ap- peared in the February 25 issue. As the quotation of your column stated, I too have the same feeling. I think it went as follows: “I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” With this as a foundation, I believe the gentleman in question is “All Wet.” I'll grant that he might have more years stretched out on the other end of “Prohibition Times” than I, but after that I’m on an even keel with him. I’m not what he might term an “Anti-Pro” but a free thinker and an ardent fan of Personal Liberty. As far as I can see, and most any other person who can observe and_ think ith a word that you say, but I x on ga COURSELF defend to the death —VOLTAIRE for himself, the 18th Amendment is the rankest and most degrading form of legislation that could be placed upon the statutes of this Liberty Loving Nation. It has turned the Statue of Libe into an immense they have 4 monkeys out of the Judges of our Highest Courts, Think of the Federal Judges who tried Earl Carroll because some- body took a bath in some liquor at his private party. Boy! + the Judges must have felt as dignified as a monkey trying to crack a brass peanut. As for betterment in living con- ditions, that’s more bunk. All the money the people might have saved = WV Ly ee Te a8 7 OA is spent on doctors because they took a drink of some of the good denatured alcohol the U. $. Government passed out for commercial purposes. ‘The only people that have an increase in th Bank Accounts are the Boot- leggers, Prohibition Politicians and their backers. r, I suggest you send Mr. Gilbert Trumpeter a pair of smoked glasses, for the evil that the 18th Amendment has brought upon this country makes him think it’s the sun- shine of Heaven. he it’s so ¢ and pure where he lives that he has gone “Snow Blind, In regard to his remark concerning the College gurgle, let me say that experience is the best teacher. I just finished a course in a College and it wasn’t a Correspondent Course either. If he can't look so high, just let him turn his Lamps on the High School Studes. Garra D. Lester, Jr. Blasdell, New York March 6, 1927 P. S.—T'd just as soon miss a good square meal as to miss Keep up your good work. To me you are as a Knight of Olde fighting the Dragon of Intolerance and Repres- sion, Au revoir. i R.J. BAILEY Community Sin GING The man who thought there was another verse. —Passinc Suow acon | EDWARD LANGER PRINTING U0., JAMAICA, Ne Vo comicbooks.com