Judge — November 12, 1927 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Editor, Norman Anthony Associate Editors, Richard J. Walsh, Phil Rosa, Jack Shuttleworth, Dramatic Editor, George Jean Nathan | | | A Presidential Year Begins low our industrial horizon. Mr. Gifford pointed out that while his stockholders expect reasonable regu- lar dividends, * mosphere of the old Union League in Phil- i ’ | Nu a | | adelphia is so thick with Republicanism that you | ‘earnings in excess of those require- ments must either be spent for the enlargement and can cut it as you can cut amelon. It's stud, improvement of the service furnished, or the rates ] stable and paddock for party wheel-horses. Little charged for the service must be reduced.” The | | wonder, then, that no President of the United States telephone company knows no czar. no chief stock | s ever appeared there without making some world- holder. no nepotism. It is a “hired man’s business” ; shaking declaration of policy. Calvin Coolidge, he the management is just working for 000 stock- | who is called The Bold, would naturally be as out- holders and for the whole public. spoken as his predecessors. Therefore the whole na- tion has stood on very tip-toe to hear what he would Give Prohibition a Chance say in his speech there this Thursday. Would he r you should be one of those few who sometimes } heroically and further spurn the nomi Or lose faith in the ultimate success of the Eigh- | would he bravely hint his support of a lesser candi- teenth Amendment. cast a sober eye on this brief | date? Or would he be courageously cryptic. so as history of other prohibitions (from the New York | to postpone factional squabbles and help the move- JJ’orld | | ment for uninstructed delegates. Massachusetts passed a law forbidding a man to \ | It’s all most thrilling. Just think! Only a year kiss his wife on Sunday. ' | left before the election, only six months before the Pope Urban VII excommunicated tobacco smokers. | nomination. How can any of us be expected to feel Horse racing was prohibited in England in 1647. | any interest any more in football games, the re-born Oliver Cromwell closed all theatres. | | | Ford ear, the opening of the opera season, the cock- Dancing was abolished in Zurich in 1500. | | | tail recipes in the revised “Here’s How,” in harvest Early New England made dice illegal. | moon, in new-made mince meat er in our winter It is well known that today no Bz flannels? Politics are so Noble, so Fasvinating, so . Significant that we shall have no time or attention Stater ever kisses his wife on Sunday, no Catholic smokes, there are no Derby Days and no theatres in Eng- henceforth for the petty details of mere living. land. The Swiss may yodel but they never, never - * « dance, and there is not a galloping domino east of the Hudson River. | rs of agitation, the C., B. & Q. has at nated the number thirteen from its passenger trains. Matter-of-fact officials thought the superstition was all nonsense. But the point was finally carried by a man who argued, “Anybody” AY who will cling to a foolish notion like that with such tenacity and for such a long time deserves to have his view preva Which is good commerce Our smartest hotels and soberest office buildings long ago abolished their thirteenth floors. The only attitude more futile than harboring a super- stition-is trying to cure it in other people. These great reforms all work out splendidly if — | you give ’em time. Let us have patience. * * * fear is bad.” says Bertrand Russell. “I should take the greatest pains to free children from the tyranny of fear, first by surrounding them with people who are not afraid. Fear is largely due to suggestion. I should not sack a school t unchastity, but I should sack her for being : 1 sense. of a mouse—a much graver crime.” Mice or no mice, it is possibly true that fear is the root of all evil in our school system. Children fear teachers, teachers fear superintendents, super- Anotuer milestone in the march of American intendents fear school boards, school boards fear business was set up when the president of the taxpayers, and taxpayers fear children—that is, they telephone company said flatly in a recent speech fear what children may do if not regimented. that “it would be contrary to sound policy for the Not until we open a new era of courage, self-re- | management to earn speculative or large profits.” liance and self-respect shall we discover what the Thanks to the increase of great enterprises widely human mind is really capable of doing. owned. the big-profit motive is steadily sinking be- R.J.W. * * * Ti i cin bit tssanennn nn act comicbooks.com