Judge — April 21, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Dae Wanted: A Pamphleteer ny is it that the oil scandal, though it gushes W iii and slimier than ever, does not seem to seep down into the conscience of the The petroleum industry still retains Sin clair in high place. ‘The moving picture industry still kow-tows to Hays. Republican politicians have th: impudence to try to spatter oil on Al Smith. Senator Borah, secking to raise a conscience fund for his di graced party, is snickered at. Martin Littleton, at this iate date, ealls the invest ars “'meddlesome Matties.” And the public indifference is appalling Can the same cap: of paroxysms of pride in the heroism of Lindbergh, bs incapable of a surge of anger over a great betrayal = We think not. he trouble is that no voice or pen has yet actually told them the tal Senator Walsh has done a titantic job of researc’ and analysis. Some correspondents who have watched him at the hearings fe¢l that he is not a keen prose one says that he is like a terrier who dashes hone, gets it and then drops it. Often he fails to ask the most obvious questions. Recently Senator Walsh, for the first time, wrote an article fitting together bit by bit, the evidence that he has gathered, For lack of swift, forceful state ment, the facts did not click, His turgid sentences: and meticulous detail destroyed all) the dramatic values. Almost all of the 700,000 readers of the Sun day New York Times, in whi must have quit before they learned what it was all country? people who we for s hi the article appear about. The more’s the pity, because there were buried in th ticle two terrific blasts of well-founded judg ment. Senator Walsh characterized the leasing of the naval oil reserves to Sinclair and Doheny as “the most stupendous piece of thievery known to our annals or, perhaps, to those of any other country. And of the Continental Trading Company deal Walsh said »ntemptible private steal, the pecula tions of trusted officers of great industrial houses, pil- fering from their own companies, robbing their awn stockholders, the share of the beodle coming to one of the freebooters serving in part as the price of the perfidy of a member of the President's Cabinet.” Such extreme statements would be meaningless, From ‘Tom 1 Heflin or a Robinson, coming from Walsh, with all his information, his conservatism, his efforts to be fair, they may be taken as literal truth. Enemies of the investigation keep talking about it JUDGE Asvociate Editors, Richard J. Walsh, Pbil Roea, Jack Shuttleworth Dramatic Editor, George Jean Nathan asa mere publicity stunt. The truth is that the pub: licity has been singularly inept. » evidence has never been sorted, simplified and correctly stressed What we need, and need sorely, isa pamphleteer who will get the shameful facts and write them in letters of flame and ice—for no partisan purpose w but to red atsoever, m the American people from apathy. * * * ancen is still killing its hundred thousand Ameri cans each year, It now holds fourth place in the list of causes of death. rt of the apparent increase is probably due to the fact that cancer di are now more often correctly recorded, whereas it was the old custom to deny the disease, even on death certifi senility. ‘This curious human instinet to blink the tragic truths is shown by the common remarks that there talk of cancer, that our fears are being worked upon. A prominent physician retorts that he never saw any- body die of cancer-phobia! ‘The important. reason for talking about cancer is that it is one disease that begins painlessly and yet must be discovered early if it is to be cured at all. Anybody who wants information can get it free by writing to the Ameri can Society for the Control of Cancer, 3+ East 75th Street, New York City. * * * tes, and call it heart disease o is too muc! Discussing the men tests applied to immigrants and others, the Foreign Langua, Information Service cites various questions the answers to which depend less on intelligence than on experience. For “What ix justice?” to that is, “It’s what you get when you go to court.” Presumably an immigrant, thinking of something that happened in the land of his birth, might: say justice is what you don't get in court. Possibly if he had happened to » coming to America, he might say the same thing. example The vorrect answer et into court sin No. 18 Y ane seniors, through their annual questionnaire, were asked to declare what living man_ they The largest number of votes was east for Lindbergh, of course, But what greatly admir able man got t next largest number of votes? None other th ay father.” Has this Generation got good taste and gumption, or has it not? Ask Dad. RW, Younger Generation Notes. most admire. comicbooks.com