Judge — June 30, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE blare of bra t of the gr z » The first act as at least amusing, thanks largely to the per- fection of the reporting by ra The big thrill this k will be to sit at home in fort and chuckle over the running story of the discomforts of those noble delegates sweltering in the ‘Texas heat. Comedy, we call it advisedly, using the term in the As defined by Aristotle, comedy us “actions of inferior interest,” which are ther painful nor destr Dryden. said, “Comedy presents us with the imperfections of human nature; tains us with what is monstrous and chi uses laughter in those who can judge of men and manners, by the lively representa- tion of their folly and corruption; the other produc the same effect in those who can judge of neither.” exact sense. ; the one I would be too strong a word for the campaign this year, for the calibre of the ndidates lends - ments of dignity which have sometimes been sadly lacking. Some disgruntled citizens will think it ought to be called tra but it can hardly be that beeause a Presidential clection cannot now matter very much in the lives of our people. A Wall Street man said recently, as reported by S. S. Fontaine, “It is an old- fashioned theory that the Republicans ean make pros- perity and the Democrats murder it. We've got to such a stage of growth that politics cannot interfere one ¥ the other with prosperity Hold fast to that thought. don’t let it get you, uproarious slogan, “Get out the dinned with the command, “V r but vote.” But Professor William B. Munro, a thor- ough-paced expert on government, wisely admonishes, To vote unintelligently is a greater disservice to the commonwealth than not to vote at all.” He says, at Enjoy the show, but Pretty soon we'll be he y way you like, come a good citi people stay away from the polls “because they no interest, or too little interest, in the issues or the candidates. of some interesting candidates—interesting bees of their personalities and abilities and not cause of their party connections. As government, the two major parties are showing up very badly, confessing their own impotence by avoid ing a real cleavage on vital issues, They simply push forward two men as individual champions to engage in single comb: Whichever wins, therefore, it ippears that the party system itself will be the actual loser. And that, too, is nothing to worry about. Cs Shining Sunday in June the pleasant town of Westwood, New Jersey, suddenly went dead First the police closed a movie house for giving a Sabbath, . * * show The movie man happened to he a J the Peace. Mad clean through, he determined to show what the good old blue laws could do when really pushed. He swore in deputies and turned them loose. They locked every drug store but one and completely dammed the flow of soda and ice cream, TI closed the garages. rolling through were stopped and the passengers forced to get out and foot it. Private motorists were held up; the Justice’s own wife was served with a summons for driving on Sunday. of all, realtors escorting their victims about town were overtaken and, figuratively, gagged. The Jus- tice was thinking about cutting off all telephone ser- vice by shutting dow the Erie The big buses Most cruel tyranny the exchange, and of tieing up railroad trains at the station, But the Mayor, who had gone to another town to sce a Sun y baseball game, returned in the nick of time, and started the wheels of civilization turning again. It was a splendid ruckus while it lasted. The Jus tice deserves our thanks for making a fool of himself in an excellent cause, showing up once more the silliness of prohibitory laws and moral by fiat. Younger Generation Notes. No. 26 A Soxas jumped into the water at Bay Ridge, New York, On the sei wall stood a crowd of men, watching her struggle Their yells brought fifteen-year-old Edward Bush running from his ball game on the sand-lot. He dived in, got the correct life saver's hold and swam with the half-drowned) woman, harshly the grown-ups who s ently bent on suicide hore Do not judge too yed on shouted for help, which was promptly a supplied by a mere boy. swim or ever had a carry by going to a Boy You have to take all these factors into account when you comp: the Older and the Younger Generation. Otherw you might be grossly unfair to the former. RW, shore and nd efficiently Perhaps none of them could parn the cross-chest