Judge — August 11, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Editor, Norman Anthooy Bunkless Candidates rnnent Hoover has publicly refused to kiss H a baby publicly. And so far he hasn't been photographed in any costume except the same old double-breasted suits. AL Smith, when asked to po bricks, said, “Nothing doing. ‘T ture. Everybody knows [ can’t lay bricks. When a Cuban reporter questioned him Platt Amendment, Al asked frankly, “What's that?” and refused to discuss it on the ground, amazing for a politician, that he knew nothing about it. Hooray for two bunkless candidates! (We don't like to seem sceptical of our own enthusiasms, but we think it best to slip in this one rousing cl the for a picture laying t's a boloney pic- about the er before tance speeches come along.) f the small business man, with his none but business men are worthy to govern, judge and guide the affairs of the community, blares forth again in a letter recently given out by the Rotary Club of New York. A praiseworthy pur pose—pledging the Rotarians to do their duty as jurors—is spoiled by the smug assumption that only from such a class can the “right type of jurymen” be drawn, It seems that the Merchants Association sta- tistics show that only a seant one per cent of jurors turers and bankers, while more than twenty-eight per cent are clerks and s “Less fitted by expe nd edue: in judgment in the complicated cases of crime, fraud and civil contracts,” says Rotary, and “this latter class of jurymen, though they may be honest and well-meaning, are easily swayed by eloquence and sympathy.” Oh, flapdoodle! “Be businesslike. Take a business view of the matter. As one business man to another. A_ business ninistration. busi- ness church. A business relationship between man and wife, mother and daughter, friend and friend. Business romance. Business sentiment. — Business nobility. Business bosh. We don’t think much of the j but here and now we state t up in court, either asp! are business men, manu ion to sit y system or we get mixed intiff or defendant, we'll gladly take a jury composed of clerks and salesmen in preference to one composed of the average small- business executives. Associate Editors, Richard J. Walsb, Phil Rosa, Jack Shuttleworth Lramatic haitor, George Jean Nathan The Renegade Bree the blow to the pride of the Union 1 of Philadelphia when on chairman of the agen? of its members beeame Democratic ational Committer this club painfully in rs each candidate for membership to make » inviolable, austere, certain that he iy an all-wool, full-weight, t-black Republican. If ever in his life he voted for a Democratic candidate, anywhere, for any office, he's out be that. A man’s scutcheon may be slimy with oil, grimy with questional finger-prints, spattered with the mud that flies in those jovial Pennsylvania primaries but all these stains are as nothin eps to the indelible sear left by little cross once don a ballot opposite the vile name of a Demo re he even gets in. Honestly, it’s as silly as and hol Raskob has turned renegade and company, one thrown in his lot with Al Smith. Well, from a detached and philo sophical view the affair appears, though cruel, ex tremely salu For already one officer of the club has been fter a long breath and some teeth- clenching, to blurt out that @ man has a right to change his mind! It’s worth all that the cam costs in time and mon sion as that froma U just to wring such a conces- ion I guer, Younger Generation Notes. No. 31 “To wave discovered a genius,” says Gutzon Borg lum. A Duke University student hiked all the way from Durham to San Antonio to sce the great sculptor and ask fora learner's job, He arrived with thirty-five cents in his pocket and had to wait three days for an interview. It ended by his leaving two poems and a sketch which glum did not look until some time later. Then he saw that they had been di t once, he said, re by one who could “see into the soul of nature nd who ought to be able to carve his poetry in stone, Other artists in Mobile have al ready recognized the boy's talents and have given him instruction in drawing and modeling, while the American Mercury and other periodicals have pub lished some of his vers: take him under his wi Judy Rayford is still only nineteen years old, ROW, Now Borglum means te comicbooks.com