Judge — September 14, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Making the Tariff Clear ow that the tariff debate is on at last, we deem N it our duty to tell our clientele all about it. Assiduously we have consulted the various oracle: nd this is what they tell us: The tariff is the most tedious of all subjects and this debate is going to be the most thrilling in a ives a tinker’s dam about the tariff except inkers themselves—that is, the politicians—and the whole country is so wrought up that the party leaders are worried sick. The bill will be kept continuously before Congress until disposed of and it will be held over until the e of the next election. he result will be good campaign material for the Democrats and it will be good campaign material for the Republicans. Hoover will veto the bill and he will also sign it cheerfully. So much being settled, we turned to our old friend, the Free List, to sce what the S Republicans had slipped over while we and the Democrats weren't looking. We now find on the free list the following, hitherto not mentioned he rough diamonds, waste rope, nux vomica, smelts, garbanzos, truffles, gobelin tapestries, grindstones, flue dust, sarsaparilla root, impure tea and bass fiddles made previous to 1800. There are many morc, but these are enough to show the meticulous care with which Congress is about this thing. Talk about experts! Where in Congress would you find men able to draw : fine distinctions between fish with fins removed and iridescent imitation solid pearl beads, between dolls containing cellulose with movable parts and sesame oil rendered unfit for food? Of course, this “limited” tariff revision. If they were really going out for a general over- hauling, 1 have some questions to ask, such as: Have we any foreign competition to fear in the pro- duction of second-grade hokum, adulterated with hooey and ma solely for rural distribution? What method of valuation should be used for speeches over two hours in length but having no weight and ing off no light? Should Joe Grundys be on the free list or have we enough already? And, finally, has any- body ever figured out anything that would give pro- tection to those humble, forlorn and wholly do- mestic products known as consumers? is only A Triumph of Idealism corrers to the Ss I of gue contrary notwithstanding, the ations looms bigger year by year. Witness the agenda of the tenth assembly now in session at Geneva. International control of epi- demies, cancer and malaria, of the traffic in opium and white slaves, studies of child welfare, tariffs, trusts, alcoholism, fuel supply, the purchasing power of gold, codification of international law, further plans for intellectual co-operation between the rs of all nations—these are but a few. By such activities, even if it had never made a move for disarmament or arbitration, the League become indispensable. And it has most effectively served the cause of world peace, as Dr. William E. Rappard “by the habits of international conversation and it has engendered among the statesmen of the world.” During the past year, 382 treaties between various nations have been deposited with the League and printed for all to read. Our own United States, though we hold aloof, has voluntarily sent to Geneva for publication the fourteen treaties negotia ted dur- ing the year. In total more than 2,000 tri now on file, If any secret allis been cooked up by old-style intrigue anywhere, they are outside the pale of law and custom, scraps of paper indeed, for which no people have any . tion to fight. F the phr has been t men jee nsmuted into a fact. Such is the power of words. The League, even after a short decade, stands already for the triumph of the idealism of Woodrow Wilson. Amateuriana Corn, Jn. of Kansas City, seventeen tennis player. During a n tournaments ches in thirteen different countries, k in the thick of the championship igns here. He may be having fun. But what we want to ask is this: If a boy can be trotted round the globe for half the year playing tennis in public, at an age at which other boys are either going to school or going to work, what if anything is the pur- pose of amateurism? years old, is a fine four months’ tour this year he played and exhibition n and now he is cam’ R.JLW.