Judge — March 16, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Editor, Jack Shuttleworts Faitor, Phil Roma A Thought for Income Tax Day ss ne of the major catastrophes of history is im- O pending.” says Hallett Abend in a dispatch = from Peking to the New York Times, de seribing the famine in China, ‘Twenty million Chi ire starving or undernourish every day. 1. Thousands are dying Cannibalism has begun, Of the nine hundred thousand tons of food which are needed, only one per cent is at hand and only one-third is available. The rest must be transported from overseas, which will take weeks. Then it has to be carried into areas lying a hundred miles or more from the there are not enough trucks Always assuming that some to buy it in the first pla ailways, and ry it. money ly supplies the The blame, of course, is on the Chinese themselves, They have allowed floods and droughts and insect pests to overwhelm their lands! They have, in many places, planted cight-tenths of their poy pies instead rain, because nothing but opium would pay the high taxes demanded by th And the nationalist government, a is doing nothing for relief, or, worse than nothing, is playing politics with the lives of its people. The above is printed not with any foolish idea that the American public will do anything about it, or even cures very much, but just to offset any grum- bling to which you may feel inclined this week as you fill out and send in your income tax report. nere war lords. rding to reports, The Open Mind r' was Buddha who said: “Do not believe any thing on hearsay; do not believe traditions be- cause th are old and handed down through many generations; do not believe anything on ac- count of rumors or because people talk much about it; do not believe simply because the written testi- mony of some ancient ‘sage is shown thee; never ything because presumption is in its favor or because the custom of many years leads thee to rd it as true; do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Whatever, rccording to thine own experience and after thorough investigation, agrees with thy reason and is conducive to thine own weal and to that of all other living beings, that accept as truth, and live accordingly.” It is rather a shock to realize that this excellent advice was delivered 1 » hy one of the ieve any years Ausociate Editor, Richard J. Walsh world’s greatest teachers, and then to 1 see how far we are from following it standardization. s fear of not de and think. Not to mention the evil habit of agreeing with every editorial you read! ndication, radio sermons, and thinking as the neighbors do One Industry Asks No Tariff Boost I: must have been a shock to Mr. Grundy when the book publishers filed their brief declaring that they {n't want an increase in the tariff on books, and what's nore they were one industry that had never asked for protection by high schedules. Don't the publishers too much of a hand for this. competition of foreign publishers in our markets is insignificant. Ordinary books can be printed at less cost here than abroad. Such books as are imported come in small quantities and are usually sold by an American publisher with his own imprint inserted. Moreover, the publisher knows that it is to his advan tage to keep the price of books as low as possible. There are still millions of families in this country that have never learned to buy books except from the young man who is earning a colleg pl 1 th « education by nting his foot in their front doors. The cost of ks must be reduced, both in the production and distribution, Publishers are certainly not any holier than other business men, but by the nature of their work they may be able te further through a tariff wall, . # * I: been done! At Pasadena a man who had never in his life played golf went out to walk around with a couple of friends, At the fourteenth, « hun dred-yard mashie pitch, they let him take a shot for the tee. He holed out in one. has advised him not to try Presumably everybody again, never, never to take up the game, lest he never could recapture the first fine, careless rapture. For our part we hope he joins three country clubs, buys a set of twenty matched clubs, six four-piece suits of Harris tweed, twelve pair of plaid socks (with tassels), ten dozen dollar balls, and a sport roadster, then 1 on round and goes and jumps in the lake. At least that’s the way we feel about him after our first Ane W, of the season. R. comicbooks.com