Judge — October 1, 1927 — page 19: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

JUDGE SUDGING “te STARE by Mauro Gonzalez Tale of a Pipe Here is a banquet of the American Legion on board the Leviathan. There sits Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States. He carries a pack of human idiosyncrasies. They are fertile food for the public imagination. It seems to me that this world is going nuts about statesmen who give evidences of being plain people. Jimmie Walker is a regular fellow in spite of public office and the press busies itself with his Charlie Dawes says “Hell and Mar and there comes a warmth to the hearts of his countrymen who once in a while utter the equivalent. This nation expects an original label on its public figures. It’s surprising how much fruitful legend ean sprout from a funny pipe and a couple of sw words. That »s more discussion than any two planks in a party platform. Roosevelt showed his teeth and shook his fist in the air, Coolidge kept his mouth closed, and this Dawes fans the flame of public notice with a few draws at the embers of his famous pipe. Speakers are haranguing. Dawes suf- fers this necessary evil. Puffing at his pipe and looking out of the corner of his eye he seems to think, “Bunk!” He is natural and doesn’t seem conscious of the solemnity of the gathering. He continues to be a plain figure. He takes a sip from his cup and wipes the coffee from his lips with the back of his hand like an Ameri- can grandpa stroked beer foam from his nustache in the old days—and maybe still does in the new. Newton D. Baker is talking to the Legionaires. He is speaking lofty oratory about patriotism. All the while General Dawes is poking General Pershing in the ribs with his elbow. Pershing laughs at the wise crack. Dawes dr. another soothing gust of smoke from his pipe. The significance of the Legion’s pilgrimage to ance does not change his attitude. To all appear- ances he is having a quiet smoke on the porch of his Evanston home. Now Newton Baker is finished and picks up a pipe. Baker appears like a little boy who is aping papa Dawes. They are giving this (Continued on page 28) comicbooks.com