Judge — August 10, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Drama on the Grand Scale respect and expansion and Russia's need of access to an ice-free port, will go on long after the men who | Now prognostication about the Manchurian ; may now restrain them are dead. j crisis is worth a tinkl No precedent, eco nomic, diplomatic or military, can offer any “ gitdance, For wever ithe werldg Nulote hes « Amateuriana \ s conflict involved such unpredictable personalities, in Burrists judge recently had a great chance to | | dividual national. That's what makes it such settle this whole amateur:pro Business by court | | decision, and he muffed it. A_ picture of | First there is China, a nation lately awakened, ‘Tolley, formerly British amateur golf champio in whom is stored up the resentment of a century had been used to advertise chocolate. Fearing di ( during which stronger powers have trod and spat age to his amateur standing, Tolley brought suit. | upon her. In her new insolence she grabs a railway — Ffis picture in an advertisement implied that he had | , that belongs to Russia and kicks out the white men. taken money for endorsing the product advertised, i Second, we have in Russia rulers who say flatly, just like a professional! Far from being a profe | i “We shall not fight unless our country is invaded.” sional golfer, he testified, he was a stock broker, As ; The loss of the railway, though it involves millions, 4 | is not as great as the cost of a war and the loss of prestige in other quarters. “When we talk of peace we mean peace,” they say, “and when we condemned | the imperialist policy of forcign powers defending further evidence of simon purity, he said that he was a member of nineteen golf clubs. The sym-— | pathetic judge awarded him damages of one thousand pounds. Asked what he would do with the money, Paar Apres 5 & Tolley thought he might use it to pay his expenses — | | | } their interests in China by force we were sincere.” to come over and play in our amateur championship. | {i ' | Do they mean it? Perhaps not. But this is a new "Now, if. a stock broker can ive enough time to f sort of talk from a nation aggrieved. golf to belong to nineteen clubs and to win a cham- at | Third, in every chancellery in the world are jionship now and then, is he making his living by i statesinen with strangely troublesome consciences. Stock brokering or by golfing? Of course he doesn't They have just signed the pact to renounce war and take money for playing golf, but how many custom- | | made great ballyhoo about it. Forgetting a treaty ers orders docs he take as a result of playing golf? | | ten years old is one thing: tearing up one on which Not that we would condemn a man for using his | the ink is scarcely dry is another. Nations which skill in sport to make acquaintances, get publicity — | in other times might calculate that they had some and drum up trade. Practically every sportsman | thing to gain by a great war in the I st, now | dare not do less than their utmost to avert it. Fourth, at the head of cach of the two most power- ful nations is a man of peace. Hoover, the Quaker does it, to greater or less degree. But what possible | room does it leave for any rational line of demarca- tion between amateur and professional ? & and the humanitarian, and MacDonald, Premier of a : ; | labor government, could not sleep of nights if they Younger Generation Notes. No. 48 7 | let any impe ie pressure line them up for war. Ty Pleasant Hill, Missouri, a party of golden lads Finally, there hangs along the border that fringe and lasses drove out to the lake for an old-time of exiles, the “White Guards” who for twelve years fish fry. The boys caught the fish all right. But, have dreamed that the Soviets can be overthrown and says the local Times, “there wasn't a blooming they themselves, partisans of the old Czarist order, girl in the crowd who knew even the elemental rules | restored to citizenship and control. It is estimated of frying, so the affair a big bust until one of that 20,000 of these pathetic zealots, who mistake the boys threw all the fish back in the lake and their own discomfiture for patriotism, are massed dusted for town after a supply of hot dogs and rolls.” in China at the command of Semenov. Of all those Sure. Why not? We know nothing in the Revised involved, perhaps this handful comprises the only Rules of Modern Life which says that young girls 4 people who actually want to provoke an outbreak. have to know how to cook. ‘They have, in the phrase | i Most of the signs seem to point to a smoothing that comes too readily to mind, other fish to fry. . i 3 over. Not to a settlement, for China’s need of self- RJILW. La Comicbooks.com