Judge — October 5, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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™ JUDGE Hail to MacDonald Wetve years ago Ramsay MacDonald was called “the most despised, the most discredited man in England.” Today he lands on our shores as the lead of the world’s greatest empire. He comes re- fleeting the added glory lately won at the Hague by his colleague, Philip Snowden, who during “the w was thrown out of Parliament as ap His cabinet includes George Lansbury, twice jailed for his radical activities, and Noel Buxton who was mobbed in 1918 as a “pro-German.”” It includes other men who as boys of nine or ten went to work in mills or mines. And of course Margaret Bondfield, the first woman ever to hold a portfolio. So far have we progressed that the United States, the est stronghold of capitalism, delights to leader of a Socialist government. Every- including lists them- ld was premier in 1924 he are not wreckers in any sense—not destroyers, but builders. The destruction we propose is the sort of destruction which takes place when a caterpillar becomes a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly; the same kind of destruction as went on inside feudalism when the industrial revo lution was being matured; the destruction which marked factory legislation, unemployment legislation, the invasion of municipal enterprise on the field of private enterprise. Our ‘destruction’ is merely that of replacing the worse with the better, and doing so scientifically and stage by stage.” After he left office, a year later, he declared, “The crudest form of diplomacy is that of revolutionary forcefulness, scrapped treaties, the clean sl Small States can indulge in it, and second-rate States play with it, but first-class powers cannot risk it. body selves. When ) “British said: Accordingly England has le: knew all the time, that these ‘wild men” are not so wild after all, Wickham Steed points out that “the Labor Party did not secure its relative majority in Parliament because it was Socialist, but because the people at lar mentally liberal at heart—made up their minds t hor would be likely to pursue the liberal policy they desire.” And, he says, “If England can look without dismay upon the advent of a Labor Government and upon the prospect that the servat may not regain any long lease of power for many a day, it is because the War welded the nation together and taught millions of men and women in all walks of life rned what she really that they were members of one and the same family.” As for ourselves, through this visit we ought to learn something that will do us much good. It is that a political faith far different from that which prevails here, one which has always been rejected fearfully, and the very name of it used to frighten boobies, is not by any means bent on overthrowing the foundation of socicty n breed great statesmen and can foster great achievements. The American Nomads He it is Moving Day again, with a whole lot of people all hared up and fagged out. Everybody knows that this semi-annual migration is stupid. It’s bad enough for one family to have to go house-hunt- ing, break up the old home and pile inte But when thousands do it all at one chaos of discomfort, a how cock-e tors, fur orgy which shows Truckmen, decors ire dealers, janitors, electricians, plumb- ers, as well as tenants and owncrs, suffer by it. Land- lords and real-estaters are chicfly to blame, and con- scious of that fact, they are making an earnest effec to break up the system by twelve-season year. In Chicago during the past year 100,000 leases have been written to expire on dates other than the first of October or the first of May. That's to the good. But of course the real trouble is that we are still a restless, pioneering race that would die if it had to s the motor car, good roads. that must shift men rapidly from one job to another over great distances, we the modern nomads. And Moving Day is but part of the price we pay. rasochistic d our ci tion is. neople put. What with d far-flung industries iss Usivense, selected at Galveston as the ulti- mate (up to now) in feminine pulchritude, had a sad time of it when she visited Ru- She is too thin. A crowd of several thousand gathered at the railway station when she arrived in Bucharest and jeered, shouting, “We want no slender beauty queens here!" Of course there was some sour grapes int the Rumanian candidate haying been a runner-up. But it is also true that the casterner likes ‘em plump, And we are seriously disturbed about the possible international complications when we read in a cable from Paris, “Slimness is the latest word from the Rue de la P: The waist must be wasplik in the late nine RSW, 13