Judge — January 28, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE pee me tF-F 3 = . Norman Asthoay An Amateur Is One Who Loves His Game Bi Jones has given back the $50,000 house that his friends in Atlanta gave to honor him for being the world’s greatest golfer. The gift was quite innocent and the golf association had de- cided that Bobby's amatcur standing would not be affected if he kept the house. But although he is not a rich man, he handed it back cheerfully, in order not to endanger the standards of the game, That was a fine act, and it’s too bad. The chief value of the affair is that it shows up again the mess we are in about amateurism, Not only is the rule so tricky that, as President Traylor says, “hairline decisions are required that no man can make properly.” Worse than that, all our think- ing about amateur and pro is muddled—by vestiges of old British notions of gentility, by the over- emphasis on technic which marks our current passion for sport, by the instinctive envy which those who can't play all the time feel toward those who ean make play their daily business, by the white light that modern publicity throws on a winner, by exhibitions for worthy and by the instinctive with which a nation looks commercialism, It is not impossible that fifty years hence the dis- tinction between amateur and professional will have disappeared, and nobody is wise enough to tell whether the loss would be greater than the gain. Meanwhile, we hail Bobby Jones as the amateur of amateurs—skilful, modest, honorable, generous and always in the game because he loves it. raw AUSES, scorn commercial upon Safe for Politocracy AMS the Senate has gravely rehearsed its annual farce of passing the Norris resolution for a con- stitutional amendment which would install each newly chosen President and Congress in January after election. As it is now, a new President is not seated for four months and Congress does not come in until more than a year after it has been elected, unless called in special session. In the meantime there occurs the “short session” in which the men who have been rejected by their constituents, the lame ducks, continue to legislate. For a hundred and fifty years there has been a realization of the ridiculousness of this system, which originated when we were an agricultural country, without telegraph or railways, and the men Aunciate Editory, Ricbard J. Walsh, Pull Rava, Jack Shuttleworth. Dramatic Editor, George Jean Nathao elected needed plenty of time to wind up their affairs and travel to Washington. But politicians love the lame ducks and the short session. Men who are no longer responsible to the voters can be manipulated, use they have their eyes on the soft jobs to which y may be appointed if they obey the party leaders. The short session, because it simply must expire on March fourth, lends a splendid atmosphere for log- rolling and the filibuster. Four times in the past five years the Senate has passed the Norris resolution and so passed the buck to the House, which invariably fails to vote on it at all. Thus is the nation kept safe for politocracy. Younger Generation Notes. No. 7 Some boys went skating on the Bronx River. The eight-year-old broke through the thin ice and was up to his neck. The ten-year-old erept after him and fell in too, the thirteen-year-old followed, and there all three of them were, unable to climb out and fast being overcome. Vincent Hawkins, fifteen years old, went in and fought chill water and crumbling ice until he had lifted them all to safety. The next day in a Brooklyn park John Kelly, nineteen years old, was riding along on his bicyc when he saw a runaway horse galloping down on some children who were crossing the road. He gave chase, leaped for the reins and was dragged fifty feet before he lost hold and collapsed. The horse was stopped. The boy got concussion of the brain. On those same two days there must have | throughout the country a hundred such incidents in the lives of the Younger Generation. * * * P= people are dreadfully shocked beeause Wil Rogers, on the night of the big Dodge Brothers hook-up, parodied Calvin Coolidge. Bad taste, they call it, to drag the President into an advertising stunt and make fun of him. The answer to which is “Heigh-ho.” ‘The only valid objection to. what ers did is that he told the radio audience that dge was speaking. In this so-called democracy. wz the president is all to the good. But kidding thirty million people who can’t use their check up their ears, and many of whom are so dumb that they don’t know a hoax when they hear it that’s not bad taste; it is lése-majesté eyes to comicbooks.com