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

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JUD Editor, Norman Aatbooy This Queer Summertime World PLEASANT and effortless diversion is to perus« A the pages of any day's newspapers just for to see what is to be seen of the foibles of men. For example, every one of the items listed below ap peared in a single paper on a single day. he dance derby in Madison Square Garden is finally stopped by the health autho couples had danced for nearly three A woman on whose identifi 1 for burglary for seventer ars decides that she it have made a mistake and he is released. A Confederate veteran, more than a hundred years old, dies in Central America. He had left his native Jand immediately after the Civil War and never re- turned because he refused to live under Yankee rule. Jeanne the star of “Rain,” testifies that her hu Ted Coy, the Yale football hero, punched her in the face, A diplomat's wife, for divorce, says that her husband kept her home from a party by putting a chain and lock on the front gate. Immediately after the Democrats nominated Al Smith, wet, the federal agents of a Republican ad- ininistration raid the twenty most prominent night clubs along Broadway. “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” is announced as the Republican campa Thirty-eight American students en route to Buenos Aires to study in the university there, learn that it is closed for the season. The American Federation of Musicians is out to fight the movietone and the vitaphone bees contraptions will “debase the art of music Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., having failed as a tab- loid’ publisher, pledges to his creditors a million dollars he expects to get in legacies. A New York boy changes his name to please the unele who will leave him several million dollars. A six-year-old child accuses her foster parents of tying her hi er es after nine weeks. ation a man was sent to J use these nds together and hanging her up for an - day in a closet. In Brooklyn somebody threw an umbrella out of a window. It fell a S the electric light wires, the ribs made a short circuit, the wires burned out and fell to the street and a man who came along and picked them up was killed. A high school girl who got no ticket to the com- mencement exercises went round next day and pulled her who kept her out. the hair of the t Associate Editors, Riebard J. Walsh, Phil Rosa, Jack Shuttleworth Dramatic GE wr, George Jean Nathan A young man dived off Brooklyn Bridge, and be- cause nobody believed he had done it, he went back another day and did it again in the presence of wit | Nothing has been heard yet from the flagpole sit | ters and pie-eaters, and both Mayor ‘Thompson and Senator Hetlin are strangely silent; nevertheless the — | supply of queer people is holding up well and it looks like an interesting summer in spite of politics. * 7 * 's Association for th Suppression of Speech is ree iving large numbers of new recruits as a result of the agonies endured while listening to the recent conventions, the Fourth of July orate and the ba ureate addresses. It was to hear that Hoover plans a short and her silent campaign, and that after the acceptance speech he will have little to say until stember, But Dr Work, the national chairman, shattered our cheers by y od news Always there is somebody who has a speech ke, and as usual T guess we will have some thes in the interval.” That’s just the trouble Always there is somebody who has a speech to make and always there is some sort of interval in which he is allowed to make it. Not until we consumers. rise up and refuse to listen, even to the extreme of stay ing away from dinners ond starving to death, wi there be any perceptible progress toward our ideal of a dand in which no one shall ever be Vocal while — | Vertic Younger Generation Notes. No. 28 A the close of the school term fifty boys from two 4% public schools in New York City formally pre sented to the Park Department. fifty bird houses which they had made themselves. To encour: the robins and sparrows and to attract other varieties, cach of these bird houses was p up in a separate along Riverside Drive. More than that, each boy has undertaken to keep a sharp eye on the par ticular tree in which his own handiwork has been placed in order to see that the house doesn’t get lost or stolen, Given a fair chance, the sidewalks of the city can breed nature lovers as well as the meadows and the old swimnin’ hole. And this generation is capable of-a wider range of interests than any of its predecessors. tree —Rh. IW