Judge — November 5, 1927 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Editor, Norman Anthony. Advice to the Young Rom your experience, Mr. Edison, what advice F would you give to the youth of today The foolish old question was asked of Thomas A. Edison during his recent radio interview. And he replied: “Youth does not take advice.” Correct. Youth is learning that only a weakling is addicted to advice, Years of training are needed before one can handle advice like a gentleman, know- ing when to take it and when to leave it alone. Some forms of advice are sweet, some sour or dry; some are poisonous, and some are idiosyncratic, good for certain people but bad for others. which has no kick at all, merely filling you up. There is advice which gives a pleasant glow if you take just one jigger, but knocks you cold if you get a snootful. Mixtures are treacherous; two men generously offer you their advice and either brand, if you take it straight, may make you the life of the party; but try to mix ’em and you'll go berkserk or rowdy or just plain maudlin. “And the worst of it is that everybody kids you by insisting that his par- ticular advice has been tested and is ninety proof. There is advice As an editorial page, we are professional pur- veyors of advice. We offer all kinds—pre-war and synthetic, home-brew and _re-distilled, bootleg and for medicinal use only. Naturally we don’t favor swearing off. No, our advice when offered advice, accept politely but in small experimental doses; seize the first opportunity to test it for your- self; return the courtesy by offering some of your own; never take any advice to excess, and form no daily habit. Flaming Indeed v takes all kinds of youth to make a generation. Any week’s newspapers will show you who some of them are. There’s the New York lad who had a radio send- ing station where he spent so much time that he broke his health, failed in his studies and got kicked out of two schools. The only way his father could stop him was to go to Washington and get the federal board to suspend his license for three months. There’s the college girl in Philadelphia who found a burglar in her parents’ house, held him at the point of a gun, sat down and lighted a cigarette, Awociate Editors, Richard J. Walsh, Phil Rosa, Jack Shuttleworth. Dramatic Editor, George Jean Nathan made him promise to go straight and gave him a hundred dollars and a suit of clothes. There’s the half-back who played his last game with a broken bone and never told, and the girl who walked into the October undertow and saved two drowning children. There's the _ fifteen-year-old evangelist and the twelve-year-old poet, and the cighteen-year-old| gunman. ‘There’s the under- graduate body that revolted en masse because it couldn't have automobiles on the campus, and there's a longer list of honor students than ever before. And there’s a whole flock of young followers of Lindbergh. Flaming youth, you si Flaming is right. * * * TT sere was in the newspapers recently an adver- tisement about overcoats for the football season which deserves quotation. “Why be the coldest living graduate?” it asked in the headline, and con- tinued, “It may be noble to die for Alma Mater. But it is foolish to freeze for her.” It is so rare for advertising to be intentionally funny that we violate commercial practice by this choice pie nnouncing that credit for © goes to A . Spalding and Bros. And we aren't bidding for their business when we print this, either. A Social Document ue physician of a large university gleefully re- counts a recent talk with a student. The young man came to him with lips badly swollen and in- flamed, evidently by some poison. diagnosis, the doctor finally asked, lately The night... . stic Groping for Kissed anybody youth admitted that he 1... . Last S, a good many times... . “Aha, lip- said the doctor. “Before I can treat this poison properly, you'll have to go to the girl you were kissing and find out just what brand of lipstick she uses.” “Oh, doctor,” cried the sufferer. “I can’t possibly do that.” “Why not?” “T don’t know her well enough to ask such a question!” This story has been shown by thorough tests to be extremely comical to all persons more than twenty- five years old. Younger people don’t think it’s funny at all. This fine distinction makes it a social document of some importance. R.J.W. 13 comicbooks.com