Judge — June 8, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE A Languishing Sport acityeara mild howl is raised about college base- ball stars who sign up for the big leagues before they graduate. professions college The suggestion is made that clubs ought to promise not to take or players until after commencement. trouble is that the training camp season opens just when spring is in the some and examinations a bugaboo, senior is beginning to wonder how make a living out in the great harsh world. agrcement of that kind would be worth a pop bottle. If it were really an important matter, the thing to do would be either to open the professio season late in June or to close the colle The truth is, of course, that nothing is of less im- portance. Only a few men are involved. And be- yond that, colle baseball is on the down grade anyway. We even hear it called a “mucker game,” which is snobbish and unjust. There is indeed some- thing vitally wrong about a sport in which it is noble to deceive the umpire if you can, But, after all. the real reason for the lack of interest in colle ball is the student's growing distaste for vicarious ex- ercise. Golf, tennis and many other individval or intra-mural competitions are so much better worth his time. Not to mention week-end parties. An elder generation, bred on pastures and sand- lots, laments the passing of the grand old national game. But the youngsters know whet they and they wisely refuse to pay much attention cither to petty scandals about their champions who turn pro, or to the perfection of their own batting eyes. ir, studies are becoming nd the fretful about, The New Threat Against Liberty The prohibitors are beginning on our | Bars out! diet! “Crime results from wrong mixtures in the stomach,” says Henry Ford. “Let the clergy teach the people what to eat. If people would learn to cat the things they should eat, there would be no need for hospitals, Jails and prisons would todo. Wh an the clergy the elimination of sickness, jails We've been expecting this. has been said, as a bitter joke, tha our food next. And now, in cold print, the ominous words stand before our eves—"Let the clergy teach people what to eat.” have less ve than That's precisely the ws teenth Amend- ment got its Clergy and the schools began teaching the dangers of too much alcohol, and pretty soon it got to be a religious dogma that you mustn't alcohol at all, Then it was rationalized as an cconomic and social issue; manufacturers like Ford took it up, and it was all over. Now we have long held that, on the whole, food Not only does fool- ting destroy health and shorten li It also creates those short-tempered dyspeptics who make miserable the lives of their relatives and employe Overeating muddles the minds of millions, resulting in blunders, neglects, wastes and misery. Lifelong indulgence at table brings on arterio-sclerosis and other ills which are characteristic of judges, generals, diplomats, senators and chairmen of boards of di- rectors. And these are the very men who are respon- sible for the wars, tyrannics and injustices that op- press the world. start. © any does far more harm than liquor. ish ¢ O! we could go on for pages de- veloping Mr, Ford's ease against food. But we dare not add fuel to the flames. The pro- hibitory passion knows no restraints. Once the clergy start teaching dict, they'll never stop till they have it in the Constitution, And after that. who knows what other pleasures now left within the narrow range of individual dis- cretion, will have to be regulated or prohibited! The Free List A. stoer-ieanren person, refusing to he depressed £% by the most depressing tariff bill in history, has gone through it and picked out in gay mood a list of things that will still be imported free of duty, and reports them in the «© York Times. They include: garlic, lifeboats, skeletons, altars, curling stones, fos- sils, leeches, animals for the zoo, turtles, licorice ro agates, palm-leaf fans, ice and spunk. And he one that he overlooked: “women’s unembroidered gloves knit on a warp knitting machin Isn't that making rather a fine point of i But come to think of it. it has always been the chivalrous tradition of banditry to let the victim of a hold-up keep a few things, ‘often valuable things, and quite capriciously selected. Far be it from us, as mere consumers, to complain of any little concession made to us in our hour of humiliation, ~comicbooks.com