Judge — March 10, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Editor, Norman Aptbony Primary Lessons Are Soonest Forgotten ust one year from now a new President will sit J in the White House. And next week comes the first of the primary elections that are supposed to guide the choice of nominees. The New Hamp- shire primaries, held on March 13th, are not sidered important. any primaries Only sevente con- Indeed, it is not yet proved that are important. n States hold primaries at all. If they all plumped for the same Republican candidate they would still give him less than half the delegates necessary to nominate. That would be a lot, of course, if it were taken as a clear mandate from the voters. But it is the politician's trade to thwart or twist the public will, If anything appears certain in politics today, it is that ah majority of plain Republicans believe that, Coolidge being out, Herbert Hoover ought to be president. But that mean that he will even be nominated. In the cute little brains of Republican delegates it is the primary lessons that are soonest forgotten. The thing that sticks is the post-graduate instruc- tion handed out by political professors, gathered at a late hour in that notorious smoky hotel bedroom, Remembering that a man named Harding got away with just such a nomination, even Willis the Windy ran't be blamed for thinking that he has a chan The only time it isn’t safe to wipe the prin figures off the slate is when there occurs the impossible conjunction of an overwhelming for one candidate with the opposing party. The may exist this year. not exist. doesn't really serious thre: first of these two conditions The second, it begins to appear. It still seems to be the idea that in order to be a Democrat a man must be a Protestant, and as Julian Harris says, if that idea prevails, “the Democratic party should and will be destroyed.” He superman is possible, says Dr. Oscar Riddle. All we need in order to learn how to breed finer folks is a staff consisting of morphologist, geneticist, physiologist, embryologist, bacteriologist, biochemist, chemist, physicist, pathologist and cthnologist. But—Dr. Riddle adds—the extent to which we can use our knowledge of proper mating will be rely limited by (a) demoe! ind (b) human Well, while we're gradually ridding ourselves of democracy, it’s hard to see how any n be done about silly old human nature. It's trne that nature, Arsociate Editors, Richard J. Walsh, Phil Resa, Jark Shuttleworth ic Editor, George Jean Natba’ human nature itself can be changed. All we require in order to do so is a staff consisting of —see list of ists, And if human nature just won't let the ists do their stuff—oh, it’s another vicious circle. Bs Inge he explains that he means rove. * . * » Suiaw is off again. He is saying that Dean Then natural man who a monster who has been Oxford so many of ithout Schools nd churches may mis-educate, but they certainly do not uneducate, ‘To imply that any person knows less after going even to a poor school than he knew before he went is false. And by so much it depresses the all-important movement toward better schools. After reveling for years in Sha mature wisdom, one is saddened and dismayed by his growing garrulity and sophistry. is a “dangerously uneducated man.” “not the has never been to school, but elaborately uneducated at Eton, Cambridge, and in the Chureh of England.” | Like Shaw’s recent remarks, this has pungeney ¥ point; its cleverness covers its emptiness. and colleges . « * A" hover we have never been one to think that the Prince of Wales, afoot or ahorseback. is the world’s elegantest: man, he nearly wins us with his animadversion upon the Boiled “has caused the whole human race But why doa job by halves? If he through and condemn the tailed and the absurdity of the distinction between the dinner jacket and “full dress,” we'll say that he's fit to be King of England. Shirt, which he says untold: misery. will now carry evening coat No. 12 an-cminent institution of scien Younger Generation Notes. Te Junior League, tific researeh, has made surveys of the current sty clusion is that Miss 1928 of cerise; hales her one of those nation-wide in young girls. The con k satin instead he blends her rouge more evenly; she in- furiously. She dances gracefully to muffled jazz and drinks liquor quite as much as her predecessor, but from a teacup rather than a flask. She is more refined and veils her frankness with artful politeness, takes life for granted and lives frankly and calmly—if not wisely.” But there’s one vital fact omitted. [tis this: that she knows that all generalizations about her genera ion are nothing but m: é RodILW. wears bla arettes withont puffin comicbooks.com