Judge — March 24, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Norman As jebard J. Walsh, Illegal Laws x a letter to the New York World, Mr. HN. G Lewis tells an aneedote which merits a special page in the s of prohibition: “For some years T had been getting hard cider from mountaineer, Lon, the Walking Oak of the § and one day when a news an old yline, er friend and [were fishing in a stream near Lon’s, that extended. tree trunk of humanity told me he had been obliged by law to stop selling hard cider. ‘But, he murmured in a voice that showered the orns down, “I can let vou © some fine moonshine.” Moonshine is illegal too,’ said my friend. Hell,” whispered Lon + we s gnother blast: rattled dry z n’t obeyvin’ no illegal laws. Any man who is a man-can be pushed just so far hy the duty of citizenship. Beyond that he must let his personal conscience be his guide. hards rail at this assertion of freedom, and attribute to it dire effects, Harry Sinclair's friends held that loyalty to a good fellow was a higher virtue than respect for the courts. Will Hays didn’t tell the investigators all he knew about the bonds given to him for the Republican campaign fund, because he wasn't asked directly. down coal strikers listie die- Private mine guards shoot and do not call it murder. Last week thousands of gentlemen swore to false income < returns, Tomorrow afternoon thousands of ladies in fine motor cars will sneak past the trate lights. Which is the big crime and which the peceadillo? It is no fair answer to say that there a © oso many ‘ 1 with them. The only answer is in the mountaincer's phrase providing for taxes, traffic regul ction of life and property and honest dealing have the respect of the vast majority of decent citizens. Even those who break tl validity. ‘The hibition laws have the contempt of millions. : do not represent the judgment and conscience of the community. are in effect illegal laws. And that we who flout them are thercby responsible for the cynicism of Harry Sinclair, the rebellion of youth, the corruption of elections and the vogue of the gunman, * * * Amores is on to combine Mother's Day and Father's Day. This happy marriage would re- sult i affair to bee: Parents’ Day. There seems to be a notion that the present scheme Laws it is sappy sophistry to. say an annua JUDGE ramatic Editor, George Jean Nathan of separate celebrations leads to family squabbles and that since Mother's Day has so much more of a wallop, father’s sensibilities are injured and he has use for neglecting his duty to the children, bout the sales of carnations, candy, cards Will the florists, the confectioners, the haberdashers, stand for this insidi They will not. They are pretty busy ri now planning for Sweetheart Day, which is expected to buck up volume in the June slump. But they will drop everything to defend the inspiring cause of filial devotion. Who says there isn’t sentimentin business ? Well, anyway, who says there isn’t business in sen- timent? a good cx But what and cravat stationers, th heresy Anachronists AS sunorous Halian in New Jersey laid in wait for f¥Bthe black-eyed girl he loved, stuck a gun in her face, dragued her into his car and sped away to the Police who saw her kicking and seratching gave chase and took her away from him. “LT wouldn't marry him if he was th earth,” she cried. marriage burenu, last man on Yet if she had married him, it might have turned ont very well, It did in the days of the cave men and the knights in armor, Another Italian, past middle age but full of zeal for physical culture, went out in front of City Hall in New York, clad only in bathing suit and sneakers, and rolled in the snow. He gave a lot of onlookers pleasure and did nobody any harm. But the cops arrested him. In these stodgy days of ours, the way of the anachronist is hard. Younger Generation Notes. No. 14. M mam Vax Warens, one of the wisest of writers {YE on the problems of youth, says in her book, “Parents on Probation,” that ninety-nine times out of a hundred the children wh rought to court as witnesses in cases of parental cruelty will insist upon going home. “The incurable loyalty of chil- dren to unworthy adults is often the despair of the social worker.” The traditional picture is that of the Indulgent Parent and the Spoiled Child. Our own notion has long been that a good deal of family trouble is due to the combination of Spoiled Parent and Indulgent Child. R.JW. comicbooks.com