Judge — September 8, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE te Olympies . the te home and thank God we ot plunged into war. Just to get the record straight it may be well to sum am is marize a few al facts for those who were ob- fuseated by the extraordinarily stupid headlines in the American press during the games: While we did capture twenty-two first places, we did not all ev the usual hasis of ten points for first place, five points for win, | nts ring second and so on down to sixth place, the United States place. Poor old Germany was first. was in) second war-torn pibi- ly The prediction that a nation blessed with pr tion would outdo the wicked furriners, who lite live on wine and beer, didn't work out at all, Our inferiority is ascribed to guzzling ice ercam, hoofing it to to livin tting team, crazy for publicity but quite incapable of tak- trainin 122, riding in automobiles and generally One trainer said there were college boy cut-ups on the in soft luxury too many seriously. Nobody said that maybe our trouble was taking the whole thing too seriously. Only one or two hap- pened to think of the bare possibility that maybe we just weren't fast enough. One of these was Jack Ryder, who said, “We in the United States have swelled heads. We think we are the best but it has been proved that we are not the best. We are o} tion and there are fifty other nations in the worl: effect of such self-cri Considering the benefi cisms, if they will only spread, one might wish that the Olympics were held every week or so, But con sidering the amount of bad feeling displayed at Amsterdam it is probably just as well for world peace that there won't be another meeting until 1932, The Scouts Are All Right B Scour headquarters want us to correct: the misapprehension that scouts are being urged to try to stop women’s smokir The Cleveland Council t started the kidding. That resolution was couched in the queer dialect used by third-rate orators and fuzzy-minded business men, which sounds elegant and until try to discover its connection with the mental process. It's play-safe language. If anybody challenges any- thing, the speaker can always reply, “Oh, it doesn't passed the resolution th es over big you Lramatie E porge Jean Nathan say what you think it says.” The Cleveland resolu tion was provoked by a billboard it Hagrant, luring and seductive tice the girlhood of America to the habit now-appearing advertisement effort to of smokin "and cach scout was asked to “adopt as his daily good turn the creation of a sentiment disap proving of such unpatriotic efforts as the enticement of our girls and young women.” Nobody knows just what that Evidently we were wrong. in thinking the boys were supposed to go round snatch- ing cigarettes; perhaps they were only expected to throw mud on the naughty billboard or to stand ‘land order all females to. pass Anyhow, the national scout pudiated the whole id the purposes, pre Scout boy scouts to inter means, with uuthorities re- bsolute eyes as being foreign to scope of the Boy not intend to lead re in the private and personal concerns of individuals.” Of course. We never believed anything else of the movement as a whole. As We said befo: are splendid and scouting is great stuff, but too many tut-tutters the adult localities. Cleveland silliness w am, aim which and eS movement c, the scouts on committees in’ various s worth while because it resulted in some of them getting the spank- ing they deserved. Younger Generation Notes. O' R reference to the No. 35 youngsters at te, ninete New Ye rd for the hundred-meter back- recent Olympics omitted George K member of the Bos broke the world’s rec stroke swim, Another w York Olivero Catternich, eighteen years clerk at a steamship dock. The "Club ¢ swim old. her day ron a ship which was about to sail tried to icide by jumping into the harbor, Olivero dived from the pier and brought her in. It was forty- five feet from the pier to the water. “Tt wasn’t much of a dive,” said Olivera, “I dived sixty feet in Trieste before [came to the United States a year boy who can some is He is a a steerage comm 0. Perhaps the folks who complain about the useless. ness of the vounger generation will refuse to admit as evidence the deeds of a boy who has been here only a year or of of Kojac. But in our opinion there's not much ditfer- ence between them and the Cabots and the Perkins AW, inother who bears the queer name comicbooks.com