Judge — June 1, 1929 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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The Foolish Feud ninceron and Harvard have been competing on Pi: golf course, apparently without bloodshed. By what cock-eyed k do this and still refuse to meet on diamond or gridiron? The utterly silly fact is that neither of these two fine colleges can belong to the Eastern baseball league beeause they are mad at each other, Of course it is no world-shaking m: collegiate ter, since inter- mes have become a mere commercialized side-line of college operations. But so long as inter- collegiate contests do survive, Harvard and Prince- ton are just making themselves ridiculous by keeping their feud going. Exhaustive and painful researches have convinced us that Harvard students are decent, honor: nd likable human beings. Similar close observation has n that Princeton students are also likable, hon- orable and decent. At neither college do they wear horns or forked tails, carry concealed weapons, show symptoms of leprosy or flaunt evil habits likely to be transmitted by contact on the athletic ficld. Why in the name of all the gods of brain and brawn can’t they bury the hatchet or the hokum or whatever it is that they've been hurling back and forth, and get together and play the game she Whose Tariff? EMN Hoover S nouncement was made that President Le ad no part in framing the Hawley tariff bill. How could anybody suppose that he had? In calling the special session he emphasized that he fa vored only “limited revision, Here we have a bill containing eighty-three thou- sand words. ery schedule is revised, with the single exception of that on tobacco, At least one- quarter of the existing rates have been revised upward. Representative Rainey can not be far wrong when he says that the bill will add three-quarters of a billion dollars to the cost of living in this country. If that be limited revision, what would they do if there were no limits? Only a Joe Grundy could say. Complaint may be futile by now. But we do want fecble squawk on behalf of that queer little waif, the Consumer. Hoover had no part in this tariff bill. The Tariff Commission and the experts had no genuine part in it. The Democrats in Congress had no part at all in it. Manufacturers to make one mor ind subservient congressmen signed on the d line. Some talk was made about the interests of the farmer as a producer, and there was the usual applesauce bout protecting the workingman. But nobody even thought it necessary to discuss, much less protect, the interests of the consumer who is go- ing to have to pay tl jacked-up prices. Once upon a time somebody suggested that there ought to be on the Tariff Commission one member designated to act as a representative of the consumer and that at all hearings on tariff rates he should be present to speak up for the consumer. But that was just a comical notion, The idea of a government offi- cial to look out for the consumer, particularly when a tariff is being made! Business is business. Financing Artists? HEADLINE caught our astonished eve: “PLAN 4% BIG FINANCING FOR UNITED ARTISTS. Bankers expected to offer $10,000,000 stock—Issue of #50,000,000 Is Considered.” Had Big Business sud- denly decided that painters, sculptors, etchers, are a good commercial investment, worthy of being Put Over in a Big W: Had the golden age of art arrived Alas! no. For, reading further, we learned that the reference was to a movie mer; But there is some satisfaction in learning that a good chunk of the ten millions will be used to buy out Charlie Chaplin, who has lately proved once more his title .to the name of artist by refusing to be persuaded to xo into the talkies. Younger Generation Notes. No. 47 T tere's a strike on in the textile mills of North Carolina. ‘The operatives want their work re- duced from fifty-five hours a weck to forty, and they it having been found difficult 1 family on $21 a week. The committee of who recently came north to raise funds for the : of § + whose on $10.80 a wee 1 Hampton, 17 years old. who has been work- » wage of $7.50. RJ. W. vars at an aver: comicbooks.com