Judge — March 23, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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‘ j , JUDGE Art Eeditor, Phil RY News of the Jungle mine putting this Jungle Number together, V V we ran through a newspaper to see what we could see. And ina single issue of one morn ing paper, this in what we found In the Bronx, New York, a druggist suddenly felt his throat gripped by a bandit. He in turn grabbed the bandit’s throat. Each reached up and took a bottle off the shelf and a went on to the crash of breaking glo andit said, “TI let you go if you keep quiet.” and the druggist re- plied, “AML right, but don’t take And the bandit ran At a convention in Peoria seven livestock dealers died from drinking poisoned liquor. In a crowded subway train a drunk suddenly stabbed a fellow strap-hanger. In Jersey City five hundred officers in plain clothes were out hunting for crooks, and two c ceeded in getting mixed up and killin: ch other. Ata city zoo a rare Chinese pheasant was let out to taste the spring-like air; four boys threw stones at him and nearly killed him. On the Albany Post Road, at the height of the Sunday afternoon traffic, a young man drew nm and without warning killed “a motoreyele cop, then held up a car for his getaway. An “economy administration” ended with Congress brin, the appropriations up to fifty millions more than the budget, the largest expenditure our govern ment has ever made in peace time. In our greatest indust at it is getting h by y me them sue- State it was announced rder and harder for a man over d the population of our alms- sd ten per cent since 1923 Almost in despair over the traffic tangle, New York city announced the completion of its plan for mechan- ical control; a robot, without touch of human hand. will turn on and off simultaneously the red and green lights at two thousand strect corners along two hun- dred and forty-two miles of streets, And the six-day bieycle race started at Madison Square Garden. Such, friends and countrymen, are some of the daily doings in this jungle that we call the U.S. AL * * . forty to get a houses has ine A.seevrerante job has been done by Arthur Pon sonby, a member of the British ‘alschood in Wartime arliament, in He has col- lected many lies that were circulated during the World War, has run them down and has shown “the fraud, hy sy and humbug on which all war rests.” In his summary he says flatly, “The thing cannot go on without the help of lies. If the truth were told from the outset there would be no reason and no will for war,” Bear this in mind when reading and passing judg- ment upon what the statesmen say during the curre discussion of disarmament. Oh, What Fun! rhed and they joked on the floor of the House while they passed the Jones bill. They cheered when its opponents were denied the chanc to debate. They admitted that it was badly drawn: that it had been jammed through committee without hearings although a petition signed by one-sixth of the members had pleaded for thorough discussion. The steam roller pounded along with all the gay of a calliope. And grinning in the the head of the Anti-Saloon League. Under the Jones bill any violator of the probibi- tion act can be fined $10,000 and sent to jail for five That is more severe than the penalty for kid- It is more severe than the penalty for white It suggests that after all there may be something in the wild propheey that we shall in time begin sending flask-toters to the electric chair. And yet, as Senator Bingham argued when he tried to put through the Sen: n amendment exempting first offenders, the stiffer the punishment. the it becomes to get convictions. WH hundred capital crimes in England judges found ways to let off culprits scot free. y allery above n there we and juries or several ars in New York and other large cities it has been an axiom that juries will not convict in liquor cases. The net effeet of the Jones bill m foster rather than to check lawless But then, the fanatic sections of the dry movement get their fun out of playing the comical game of en- forcement by pretense instead of by the rule of reason. Otherwise they would have driven through Congress the $300,000,000 appropriation that Com- missioner Doran says is necessary if Volsteadery is to be made really effective. They could do it. “But they won't, because they are shire wd enough to know that a joke can be carried too far. therefore be to JILW, comicbooks.com