Judge — October 26, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Poneman frenneererse ‘ ; Thrift Up to Date ie National Thrift Exposition is being held this week in New York, It is the first ever. For a couple of centuries we have been too busy being thrifty to stop and have an exposition about it. But now that we have most of the world’s money and the highest standard of living ever known, we must get up a great show and do a lot of preaching about it. This is not because we have a passion for thrift. It is because we have a passion for nizations and exhibitions. If it wasn’t thrift, it would be bathing suits or soap sculpture or prize punkins. It is fair to say, however, that the managers of this show have been shrewd enough to recognize that thrift today doesn’t m it meant in grandpa’s time. Thrift is no longer saving pennies so that you'll always have tobacco in the old tobacco box. Nobody believes any more that the average person can put away enough out of the average weekly pay envelope to take care of his old age. Thrift today concerns itself with a knowledge of methods of in- vestment, with the avoidance of. bucket shops and blue-sky promoters, of loan sharks and hopeless in- debtedness. It is show up the fallacy of the old crack about the dollars taking care of themselves. Thrift now also concerns itself with wise expendi- ture. It is no accident that America, t n, is also the most extravagant. We nearer than any people ever did before to making a good living by taking in one another's washing. Most of us work hard and spend freely and then work harder so that we'll have more to spend. And that’s thrift too. richest © come Recognition on a Cash Basis BRreaxttios of Russia is a live issue The Manchurian row stirred it up. David Lawrence says the powers may have to resume diplomatic re tions “if for no other reason than to apply rest to the country that ca difficulty.” int be the source of so much The MacDonald government in England has already taken the fatal plunge. Our own ex- porters—two thousand of them—are doing more business with Russia than with any other country say “We are willing through ive and exceptional methods to secure all the trade with Russia we can. We are willing to take her tainted dollars in the channels of commerce. But we haven't the courage nor the vision to recognize Russia and to do our part in bringing Russia into the family of nations. I cannot myself understand upon what theory of morals or upon what theory of inter- national de ry we boast of trade and boast of commerce with a nation whom we are too good, too pharisaical, to associate with in international affairs. There is something in international affairs besides dollars and cents.” Quite correct, Senator, But we'll make a bet that recognition will have to come on a dollars and cents basis or not at all. Just now, the argument is, we're selling ‘em $100,000,000 worth of goods annually, without the aid of recognition, consuls or commercial tachés. Russians can’t be trusted to pay their bills, re told, so we have to go on Why bother about diplomatic rela will agree to settle the debts of the former C stop this awful propagands our capitalist structure recognition so that we could go after the tracts and concessions that will flow out of the thirty- three billion dollars they are going to spend on development in the next five years, r, and that would overthrow ght consider loans, con- “Radio Rowdies” “Ne person owning, occupying or having charge of IN ‘any building of preinises shall keep or thereon or therein any radio loud-speaker . . . which shall disturb the quiet or repose of any person therein or in the vicinity, to the detriment of the life or health of such person.” So reads the ordinance proposed in New York. Technically it would have to be adopted by the B of Health as a part of the sanitary co Andt the appropriate place for it. Loud speakers can be indeed an actual physical menace in their assault upon the nerves and brains of neighbors, particularly when half a dozen of them are audible at once, each receiving from a different station. But what we want to know is whether this ordinance is also intramural. Can father invoke it when mother insists on listenin, to a coloratura soprano? Can mother call a cop when father keeps the dials tuned in on the broadcast of a prize fight? And what rights have bridge players when the room resounds all evening long with bad R.J.W. 13 con books:com