Judge — October 12, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Applauding Temperance! letter from President Hoover was read W.C.T.U. 3,000 del and loud. But, loc here, what did that letter sa “Too many people have come to rely wholly upon the strong arm of the law to enforce abstinence,” and “the cause of temper- ance has its strong foundations in the conviction of the individual of the personal value to himself of temperance in all things.” Far be it from us to read implications into Presidential utterances. But it does seem as though the ladies were a bit hasty with their applause. He said nothing about the nobility of prohibition. He reminded them forcibly of the word which gave their organization its name, the word which a decade ago was gaining tremendous momentum, the benign word which they have forgotten in favor of an ugly one. official slogan is, “Eternal vigilance prohibition.” Or, to pars passion of the fanati believing in temperance, matters as minding somebody else’s business. E. forcing abstinence upon others by the strong arm of the law is neither temperate nor Christian. at the gates applauded long convention, the ion and themselves Their new is the price of shrase, intransigence is the They are far indeed from particularly about such You Can’t Be Sure Agmer ALLEN went on an adventurous voyage, last spring, with Rockwell Kent and Lucian Cary, Jr. In a thirty-three-foot vacht they sailed to ex- plore Greenland. It scemed foolhardy, and indeed they werecaughtina gale and wrecked ona rocky shore. But they escaped and no harm done. Allen returned and the other day in Tarrytown, N. Y., within a few miles of his home, he stepped off a bus and was struck and killed by a passing automobile. Sergeant York, that great warrior who in the Ar- gonne killed 29 Germans and captured 132 more, was recently invited to go to the military exposition by rplane. But he went by train because, he said, “I am a mother's boy. Mamma objects to my flying in rplanes and I don’t want her to worry. Another sergeant, John Latham, who got the Con- gressional Medal for gallantry “at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty” is now a florist. in Stamford, Connecticut. James Hepper. in his new book, “Medals of Honor,” tells how this hero, when he was with him recently, was afraid to 13 call up a testy customer and break the news that cer- tain flowers were not ready; and how his wife smil- ingly exclaimed, “Coward ! Life hereabouts is a pattern of incongruities, some grim and crucl, some gay and kindly, but all whims Nobody is wise cnough to say, li danger, and there safety.” Only the dolts are ever utterly positive about anything, especially courage! c Amateuriana sur Corn, the seventeen-year old tennis star, nds us a courteous protest against certain mment made about him on this page. We noted that he had been playing in tournaments and n matches all over Europe and America for year. If this can happen, we asked, what half the are amateur rules for? Mr. Coen’s reply he says, s spirited. “I would quit tennis, “before 1 would have the public think me to be what is known as a tennis bum He testifies that since he started in school at the age of five he has never made a mark lower than C and has never failed of promotion. He is, in fact, ahead of most “T entered the University of Kansas last fall at the age of 16 although many people ad- vised me to wait a year. My family had been want- ing to make a European trip for some time so we decided to drop school the second semester. Tennis was an important sidcline to a trip on which we saw things of intellectual value in fourteen countries. This in my opinion was of more value to my educa- tion than any five months in school. ... I have no intention of letting my tennis interfere with either my education or my life work.” Now that is a good letter and Mr. Coen is quite right and since he feels that we have been unjust to him, we apologize heartily. Our intent, however, was not to cast aspersions on him, but to use his case to point out the hopeless confusion of our amateur stand- ards. As he himself says, “Technically if tennis was strictly amateur, there would be no admission charged and no expenses paid.” He asserts, however, that he plays with a “real amateur spirit.” Of course he does. So does Bill den, who has been charged with professionalism time and time again. And for that matter most out-and-out professionals play with the spirit that we call “amateur.” The whole tangled web will never be set straight until we abolish cither gate receipts or pretenses of amateurism. RJLW,