Judge — August 20, 1927 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Editor, Norman Anthony iate Editors, Richard J. Walsh, Telling Mr. Coolidge the Truth “wv is understood that the President feels the dis- content among the farmers of the Northwest has been greatly overestimated. ‘This is what he has been told by the procession of polit visited him, and since it fits in with a Coolidge view of ians who have a proper scheme of things he appears satisfied with the truth of these reports.” Thus a newspaper dispatch from Rapid City. Telling the boss what he likes to hear is a good game while it But sooner or later the truth Lately lasts. penetrates even the most guarded sanctum, there have been striking reports on the plight of the farmer from very’ sort that Mr. Coolidge instinctively trusts. The National Industrial Conference Board shows that from 1914 to 1925 the property taxes paid by farmers iner 236 per cent., while in this sources of the rsed ne same period the g only 100 per cent. The latest issue of The Index, published by the New York Trust Company, asserts that “the farmer does not receive anywhere for his labor and ful occupation.” ment of ss agricultural income increased near as adequate return fort as do others engaged in Figures compiled by the Depart griculture from the last census show that ‘it required the ri culture to secure the same proportion of the national labor of 2.5 male workers in income as one male worker in other lines of endeavor.” Senator Capper has told the President flatly that the new co-operative marketing bill docs not go far enough for genuine relief. For too long our public policy has slanted in favor of the business man and his wage workers. They are beginning to discern this, very late and slowly, but quite certainly, and now the essential decency of the American is asserting itself. The farmers no longer stand alone in demanding legislation that will be a great deal more than a political stop-gap. * * * It took seventeen years to arrange the World Con- ference on Faith and Order, now mecting at Lausanne. All important Christian churches, except the Roman Catholic, sent delegate: It is, therefore, as Bishop Brent says, “the most representative religious as- sembly that has been held since the division of the Church, centuries ago.” But how can the good bishop keep a straight face when he adds, “I believe the era of church controversy is over.” Even assum JUDGE Phil Rosa, Jack Shuttleworth, Dramatic ing that the Christian churches can get together, there will still be left outside some hundreds of mil lions of Buddhists, Mohammedans, Confucianists and devout adherents of other creeds. It would take seventeen times seventeen years to bring them all in and get them to agree to what is orthodoxy and what Meanwhile, perhaps the swiftest steadiest spiritual trend of our times is the rise of personal, individual standards of is heresy. and ight and wrong. Golf in Our Democracy Peete golf courses in this country now number more than two hundred. About half of these are in the Middle West. Chicago alone supports eight. The scandalous expense of private golf clubs near the larger cities is steadily compelling the construction of more courses on which people of small means ean pl But we still lag behind the British and the Scotch. In every British championship some work- ing man or cler' and def ruling class. or poor pedagogue comes through its handsomely one or more scions of the than three or four first-rate golfers have been developed on the public links. This is not so much due to public courses, as to the fact that most of those we are badly Over here not more a shortage of designed and sloppily maintained. are either too easy or too freakish to foster the kind of golf that wins on a championship layout. Good sportsmanship demands that the municipal authorities be educated not only to spend more money on golf courses, but to hire the best architects and greenskeepers for them. We should make the royal and ancient game both democratic and modern. * * * A fine case of hard-boiled injustice was recently summed up ina letter to the New York Times, thus: Stickanski was ‘robbed, He wanted a policeman, He could not find one promptly, so he asked a passer-by how he could get one. He was advised to pull a hook in a corner box. He had, unfortunat called the Fire De- partment. Like any obviously innocent. blunderer, he waited patiently for the “cop.” Came the firemen. Stick- anski was ar ed and haled before a magistrate. Said the Cour e dollars fine or two da, in the work- house.” ckanski: “I was robbed and h no money. trusted for a week for the aid the Court: ys.” Said Can I “Two ¢ Our courts are, on the whole, pretty decent. Which is all the more reason why, when we hear of oppres- sion like this, we ought to get mad and holler. R, IW: comicbooks.com