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

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Wf JUDGE Editer, Norman Anthony An Issue at Last FORTNIGHT ago there seemed little chance A that this campaign would develop any single real issue. Specifically there seemed no hop of a clean cleavage on prohibition. after Hoover's acceptance speech, tl shadow-boxing. We spoke too soon. gaily stepped right off his party's platform and hopped on a wet plank of his own. Now there is actually a possibility that the election may turn on the one big issue that is in the minds of most people. The possibility is admittedly slim as yet. There is a large inert mass of realists who glumly assert that no- body can do anything to lighten the curse that has been laid on us. And it never pays in this country to count on a mere protest vote. Hoover apparently does not intend to be pushed much further over on the dry side. Moist Republicans are resolved to keep alive the idea that Republican modification is just as likely as Democratic, and much nicer. Dry Demo- crats in the West and South will be equally determined to obscure the issue, for the sake of the party and their spoils, Probably it is true that the only thing that can elect Smith is the rolling up, throughout the East, of a tremendous body of optimists who will be- lieve, rightly or wrongly, that it is possible not only to liberalize the Volstead Act but even to amend the Amendment, and that Al Smith is the bucko who can do it. Well, maybe The Age of Insects commonprace that doesn’t seem to get very far into our heads is the s it is by no means certain as yet whether man or the insects will inherit the earth. “This is not the age of man,” said Dr. L. O. Howard at the of entomology. a newcomer; entific assertion that ent congress “It is the age of the insects. Man is he is as yet an experiment.” Individu- ally we are all vaguely conscious of the terrific battle that the insects are putting up. Minor annoyances like mosquitoes and moths and flies and roaches get on our nerves. In our separate vocations and loca ties we mi > to fight desperately against the boll v apanese beetle, the corn borer or the locust. We know in general that different species are attacking our food, our clothing, the wooden structures that shelter us, our work animals, our water supply, even our persons and our health. But it is guerrilla warfare and not spectacular enough hs Ausociate Editors, Richard J, Waleb, Phil Roea, Jack Shuttleworth Dramatic Editor, George Jean Nathan to inflame public opinion. against quarantines, neglect our own particular jobs of local extermination, keep the public appropriations down to niggardly sums and pooh-pooh the danger. Not least important is the to be the generals in the gre As Dr. Howard urges, univ mol: In consequence, we rebel creation of more t war against the pests. sities should rank ento- a study of prime importance. xperts * * * D rcLARING that he doesn’t care much for swim- ming in fresh water (which is quite all right by us) Al Smith makes a bad blunder when he adds, “IT would sooner take nine holes of golf and a shower.” It is about time that men in high places stop propagating the idea that nine holes makes a golf game. Nothing less than eighteen holes is worthy of the name of golf. Cal Coolidge once put his foot in it by casting some aspersions on fishing as a fine art, and think of the amount of fishing he’s been forced to do ever since as atonement. The golf vote, if not bigger, is more influential than the angler v Smith had better drop some of these petty poli tivities and get busy playing complete rounds of golf, or three million knickered men will know the reason why. No. 36 Caso admission that most of the students who go to Yale are afte- social and athletic distir ction rather than genuine education was made in the recent report of the Student Council. The council asks the faculty to split the curriculum accordingly. Men who really want knowledge would have during their last two years a tutorial system giving them personal con- tact with the best structors, freedom from routine and a distinctive degree, meaning more than the ordi- y A. B. The plan docs not differ greatly from that already in operation at various colleges pursuing the honor system. What makes the document of spe- cial interest is that these young men boldly state that they are not afraid to criticize their elders. Ten , they point out, the undergraduate got sore about his courses, but thought that teacher probably knew best. Today he does not concede that cither age or official position or tradition entitles a bunch of professors to say what is best for youth. That real- ization is part of the glory of this generation. RILW. Younger Generation Notes. comicbooks.com