Judge — June 2, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Editor, Normaa Anthony Harmony and Apathy rH June, so they ver, and sweet girl graduates and the acht race and various fresh ble fruits and fabrics and—oh, yes—the nominatin conventions. » tell truth, the latter seem t interest of the lot. . come perfect di on the d we have con torchlight parade to the radio silenced by the twirl of a dial. ventions are pecu little more tha a long way from th spe that can be This time the con ly prosy because they look Tike ratification meeting: The kiek is andidate has such a Beyond that it appears, by all that’s wonderful, that each party is ng to put forward its best man, Not the “best fellow” in the spoilsman’s sense. Not the “best candidate” in the But actually the best man available on side for the office of President. — Should deadlock, stampede or 2 ALM. shenanigan deprive cither Smith or Hoover of the nomination now, there ought, by rights, to be r of public indignation that would scare the ans out of such senses ch party one lead that he can hardly be sto, machine sense cach any a re politic At the mony and apathy. they may have. moment both conventions seem set for har Once Smith and Hoover are run r, we shall be in for a campaign more ¢ 1912. Two able men will be engaged in a debate that won't insult the intelli- gence. Only the hidebound partisan. will be able honestly to declare in June how he is going to vote in November. Independents can sit tight and listen with equanimity. No doubt millions of votes will be swayed by the sheer force of argument and by the influences of personality and individ conviction. Just one feature isn really exciting, and th the two men on the prohibition issue. Maybe that's too much to hope for just yet. Unequivocal ste ments, wet or dry, would bust up the harmony, but oh, boy! what they would do to the apathy ! » the campaign ge between Noblesse Oblige Gaines from the fallen courts of Europe are re- ported to have formed in New York a club in which they may mingle with persons of tl A ir own rank and exchange tips on how: to a living. Associate Editors, Richard J. Walsh, Phil Rosa, Jack Shuttleworth Dramatic Beditor, ( They call it the is an Austrian who is Nobility Association duke; : a bus boy in a who is a nurse, a sod ‘The organizer include a scion of carl jerker, the keeper of a rooming a baroness who does needlework, two elderly countesses who for a time had to wash other people's dishes and scrub floors. ‘True, many of the names can not be found in the Almanach de Gotha, and foreign consulates, staffed by ss materialists, are skeptical fakery members royalty restaurant, an house Yet however much \ sineny en there is always pathos in the thought of noble folk, brought up to be decorative, nd high hat, and driven to hard and menial tasks. So few of them are really practical! Not more than a dozen have dis covered that the way for noble gents and make chandise there may gres, useless now ladies to in our democratic land is to mer titles. still cold creams and cigarettes that haven't been properly en dorsed. We Americans despise the trappings of aristocracy but we'll fall for anything that is hitched to a title, shop-worn though it be. ood money their There are many No. 22 farm in’ the mountains a youth put on his best overalls, said good-by to Younger Generation Notes. 1 scrubby Georgia O his widowed mother and his nine brothers and sisters and hiked awa He arrived at Berea, Kentucky pocket and not even a bundle, over the hills to find an education without a cent in his for the boots he wore were his only valuable possess It costs seventeen dollars, no more, no less, to enter Berea Coll but no student is ever turned away beeause he is too poor They found this lad a job where be nthe seventeen dollars, and he is now in the a par with ten-year-olds in the more He is twenty. cost of tuition, bi dentals for a year at Bere: object is education at the least: possible expense, re not allowed to wear silk and the boys are encouraged or too ignorant. urd, lodging and inci- is S146. Because the tobacco is forbidden, the girls : to wear overalls, students carned an xty-nine their expenses, hundred varned Almost all of them are of the pure and ancient American. stock stranded in the mountains by the pioncer tide. They, too, are of our Generat ROW. thousand cent of every) per two per Five comicbooks.com