Judge — December 10, 1927 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Editor, Norman Anthony Speaking of Shopping MonG the multiplying signs of decency in busi A ness is the current policy against driving a hard bargain. A great motor company has issued instructions to its departments to pay prices that will leave the supply men a fair margin. A public utility corporation awarded a printing con- tract at a price several times that of the lowest bidder, because it figured the price to be reasonable and one that would insure a good job with a rea- sonable profit for the printer. The old slogan was “let the buyer beware.” The new slogan is “let the seller profit.” What has swung the pendulum? Competition, with its self- destructive esmanship became expert, in- tensive and constant. To protect themselves, larg: buyers built up a corps of purchasing specialists who became even more expert and scientifie than th salesmen. force. In recent years producers in the middle ranks have complained that they were being crowded to the wall by the close buying and manufacturers. Now there is an association of purchasing agents, representing 5.000 concerns who spend four billion do!lars for merchandise Is annually. Their secretary, W. L. poor of powerful retailers and raw Chand- business to be a party to 4 ction where either side is going to lose money.” There is no halo-hoisting about this, no_ holicr- than-thou rotarian rot. Just plain commercial sense. Stick a man today and he'll stick you tomorrow. Put him out of business and you'll have to whistle for your next shipment. Let him live and he'll help no you make more money. When it comes to the consumer—but that’s another story, not to be told above the din of the Christmas shopping season. A CHARMING girl of our acquaintance was intro- £% duced to a rising young scientist. Her line to ask him about his Career in Life, and he swal- lowed line, hook and sinker. In his fervor he beg to describe his experiments, mentioning ¢ only by their mysterious symbols. was n rtain acids Now it happened that in school the girl had been a wow in chemistry. Before she thought, she said “Oh, yes” and blurted out the full and proper names of his acids. His astonished stare brought her to her senses. “Oh,” she cried. “I don’t really know about such things. I'm really very ignorant. JUDGE Attciate Editors, Richard J. Walsh, Phil Rosa, Jack Shuttleworth. The idea scems to prevail that gentlemen. prefer boneheads. Lorine Pruette says in the Nation that the modern industrial world so impresses a man with his own insignificance that he his self seeks as wife a woman who will assure him of her own inferiority, the for the usually keeps a dog. The fair alumna hides her Phi Beta Kappa key as a badge The intelligent after a good discussion at her current events club, comes home to feign admiration for her husband’s political comment, which dates back to Roosevelt and Bryan. And mail-order advertisers lure men into the study of English g has to have esteem restored at home; therefore he same which drunkard purpose town of shame. woman ummar, French pronunciation and Ei- bert Hubbard’s serap book by: reminding them that they have just got to outshine their women-folks. No. 1 the stage of Car Younger Generation Notes. As eleven-year-old boy stood on < negie Hall the other evening. Behind him was massed the New York Symphony Orchestra, before him a vast audience of the world’s most sophisticated concert hounds. He had a three-quarter size fiddle. His fingers were so short that the concert master had to tune it for him. He was playing the most difficult In the middle of the end, the audience where w piece of violin music ever written. it, hand-clapping broke out. At cheered and stormed the stage, itself stood applauding. Th re hailing, not an infant prodigy, but an authentic genius. Next morn- ing the critics said that Yehudi Menuhin, at the age of eleven, is one of the few great violinists before the public today. He is also one of several million members of the Younger Generation. the orchestra * * * TT, set up a motion picture machine in the Pitts burgh zoo the other day and presented before an audience of monkeys. The find out whether the audience would w. the exciting adventures of the big gorilla who was the chief character in the screen story. They didn’t. They went right on with those pert activities which are daily routine in the monkey house. to look and some of them went to sleep. If any con clusion is to be drawn, it might well be that by this attitude toward not less but more a idea w simian They refused poor movie the monkeys showed intelligence than human beings. comicbooks.com