Judge — December 3, 1927 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Editor, Norman Anthony. Agenda for the New Congress SpLenpip new Congress is met in Washington A nd the people rejoice. We are not among those who hold cheap the achievements of our legislators, nor do we share the harsh opinion, so often voiced, that the sooner Congress adjourns, the better for the country. We do think that there is in this land entirely too much stress on politics, too much disposition to put reliance or blame on political action instead of on private personal, industrial or co- operative effort. But there are many things that only Congress can do, and many more that past Congresses have done so thoroughly that only a Congress can undo them. Hence we make bold to set forth the following program of some things we wish for but do not expect from this present Congres 1. Repeal the Volstead act and leave prohibition enforcement to the discretion of the several States. 2. Repeal the Sherman act, to foster rather than discourage large business combinations, and provide for federal incorporation. 3. Cut down naval building, compel the with- drawal of our marines from Nicaragua and in general pull in our militarist and imperialist horns. 4. Make generous appropriation for flood relief and control, and put the details in the hands of engine without political bias or pork- barrel motives. Make generous appropriation for aids to agri- culture, commercial aviation, the Bureau of Standards, the warfare against insect pests and other activities of production, research and conservation. 6. Pass a new child labor amendment and extend the appropriations under the Sheppard- Towner Bill for the protection of maternity and infancy. 7. Pass the Norris amendment which would get rid of the biennial ‘‘short-session,” bring the new President and Congress into office soon after election and put an end to lame-duck legislation. There’s a modest program enough. If only one of these things is accomplished, we shall record a for- ward step in the struggle of democracy. Auociate Editors, Richard J. Walsh, Phil Rosa, Jack Shuttleworth. Dramatic Editor, George Jean Nathan Isn’t College Education Wonderful ? AFren two years of agitation against it, compulsory military training has been “reaffirmed in the curriculum” at the City College of New York, and a conscientiously objecting student has been fired for disrespect to the faculty. At Ohio State there’s a new course in ceramics and there will be a new degree, Bachelor of Ceramic Arts, because the potteries of Ohio are erying for trained men. In Chicago the chief of police is inciting the more sizable seniors to join the force when they leave the university. He points out that the pay ar—is better than many college graduates e At Grinnell the class in “Investments and Specu- lation” has raised a fund of $800 with which to play the market and check up on the professor's ideas. And soon they'll all be members of what we are wont to call, in fine phrase, “the fellowship of edu- cated men!" * * * B ooTH TarkINGTON announces that he is all through writing stories about young people. At the early age of fifty-eight he is ready to admit that he is “out of step.” If the wise creator of Penrod and Willie Baxter can no longer interpret the minds of boys and girls, what shall we think of those thou- sands of people, who have never had one-half his insight, sympathy and mastery of words, but still go on posing as Youth’s critics, prophets, oracles and mentors? The querulous intolerance of the older generation would be unbearable if it were not for the good-natured tolerance of the younger. * * * A Speciat smoking car for women h vided on one of the Pennsyly Railroad trains, as an experiment. The necessity for this will be appreciated by anyone who has ever sat in a smoker when some bold woman entered to have a cigarette, and has seen the men remove their pipes and cigars to gape and grin and growl. Mixed com pany in smoking cars is not yet practicable. It isn’t that men resent the invasion of their stronghold, or that they begrudge women the enjoyment of their own favorite weed. Either of those motives might be called human and reasonable. The plain truth is that most men still object to women smoking. It’s as simple and as silly aS that. R.J.W. s been pro- comicbooks.com